The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Rick Ross Sent Remy Ma Cease and Desist for New Movie + Rajah Caruth Interview

Episode Date: March 19, 2026

Today on The Breakfast Club, Rajah Caruth talks the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series race, HBCU pride, authenticity, and Bubba Wallace. Plus, Charlamagne Tha God gives Donkey of the Day to Sen. Rand Paul after trading words with Sen. Mullin during a DHS nomination clash. Listen for more!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Good morning. Good morning. How you feeling? How you feeling, Jess? Good morning. Good. Yo, Coach Warren and Dr. Moore said they miss you. Oh, yeah?

To the gym yesterday. Word. Who, that's your trainers or something? Yeah, you know, we go to this, this, it's a different way of working out, but it's called Midtown BioHack. And they, um, dude, what's the, come on, envy help me. Explain the damn workout. You know, like, is, you're working out?

Yeah, no, but I don't really know, like, the proper terms for it's EMS. Like, you know, like, it's... EMS. EMS. So, like, electric... Emergency medical services? No. What?

What they do is they have these machines and, and they intensify your workout by adding these electrical, magnetic things to your body so that when you work out, it pushes your workout to the limit. So that's what they do. So if you work out one time, it's supposed to feel like working out three, three, four times during that one workout. Yeah, I don't believe it. And Envy used to go, like, twice a week. We used to both go. I was going, like, four times a week.

Okay. So really eight, technically, based on what they're telling you. Correct. But he stopped going. I know he got busier because of the girls' cheerleading. I mean, I'm like dance season. And, you know, you started working again like crazy. That's right.

You know, traveling. So I told him that she wasn't able, but they don't believe me. It was like, he got 20 minutes to come in here. But Coach Warren specifically told me to tell you that he miss you. Okay. And he bald now. He looked like Shug Night. Really?

Okay. He had headflage for us, but now he went bald. Jesus. Now ain't the time to stop working out. Spring right around the corner. By the way, I hate you folks that just start working out now to try to get ready for spring. You know what I'm saying? If you stay ready, you ain't got to get ready.

It never works out. If you stay ready, you ain't got to get ready, okay? Never works out. Okay. Yeah. But anyway, let's get the show crafting. Roger Caroof will be joined us. Finish the word.

Finish the word. It's not like you had a stroke. Yeah, because I was. Oh, my God. I was fighting his name. Get the show what? I was first started. I was fighting his name, though, because his name, I couldn't remember if it's Roger.

I don't know what you tried to say. But Roger Caruth will be joining us this morning. We're up in age now. We can't be sounding like we having strokes on there. So what I'm going to do? What am I doing? What am I doing? Give you the Heimlich. Give you the time.

Give you back. And then call EMS. That is not. Why he wants to come up behind me? When you're having a stroke? Like, you're not choking. They're the right. I can recognize the signs of stroke, okay?

And now all you young girls need to understand that, too. If you all you're dating these old men, you better be, you better know how to recognize the signs of the stroke. Well, Roger Caroof will be joining us. He's a NASCAR driver. He's racing this Saturday. We're going to talk to him about all the cool things the brother's doing. Young brothers, like 23 years old. He's 23, and he's racing in Darlington, South Carolina this Saturday.

That's right. So we're going to be chopping it up with him. And we've got front page news. Mimi will be joining us. Well, you're going to start to show it. Man, salute to my guy, Trapped Dickie. We got Trapped Dickie? Oh, no, what you got?

What you got? Oh, oh, okay, one of the two. All right, I do want to salute Traff Dickie because he signed with TDE. But, man, Jay Z just announced. Two concerts okay this summer at Yankee Stadium. That's right. Because he's celebrating 30 years of Reasonable Doubt and 25 years of the blueprint. That's right.

Damn. Yes. This is Can I Live from Reasonable Doubt. Come on, man. I love this. This is in our DNA right here. Jayze, we're from not performing to doing the roots to two shows of Yankee Stadium. Unks is out this summer.

And I think he's going to pop me in now some more, too. The Unks is out this summer. It's only two? Two shows he doing? So far? That's all you need. So far. And the Yankee Stadium holds, what, 60,000 people?

Oh, man. We outside this summer. You hear me? Oh, man, I'm going there this Saturday, this evening soccer. So let's do it. Oh, can I live? It's the breakfast club, good morning. HomeVinges assemble.

This summer we are outside, baby. Can I live? July 10th, July 11th, Yankee Stadium. Two nights only. Chase the performing reasonable doubt. You got to go to both. In the blueprint. You got to go to both.

You got to watch Reasonable Doubt album, and you got to go to the blueprint. That's one of them calls you make. yesterday, like, you know, I know I got to pay for private school and college this year, but, you know, let's go ahead and fix that up so I can, you know, make so I got some money for these two dates right here.

Let's fix that up. Let's hurry. How much of the tickets? If I got to go between private school and tickets, how much of the tickets? I'm a budgeter. So we got Jay-Z this summer and we got Mary J. Blige in Vegas, so don't ask me for nothing. Things is tight right now. Okay.

If I got a budget between private school and home tickets, there's a problem. Yes. Yes. Yes, life is about budgeting, sir. I don't know how much they are. I just know life is about budgeting, sir. I was thinking about gas for the week. I was going to say, what if he make them affordable, though?

What if he makes the tickets affordable? Hey, man, I don't know how y'all life is. I'm just telling you about my life, okay? I'm just telling you what I need the budget for. Okay. You're preparing for anything. I got to see Hove. I got to see New Edition and Mary this with this summer.

So I got a lot to play. All right. Good morning, Mimi. Good morning, NBee. How y'all doing this morning? You all this morning. Y'all listen to Hove in Alaska? that's so disjoking. I'm just joking. I'm just joking. I'm just joking. She's like, no.

I saw I sent me a video yesterday of all these dudes, these black dudes in Alaska. It's like, they say no black people in Alaska. It was very, very disrespectful. I just want to say that. Oh, my goodness. Anyway, so we start this morning with a heated confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill. As President Trump's pick to lead Homeland Security, he faced tough questions from both sides. I'm talking about Senator Mark Wayne Mullen. of Oklahoma. He is now the nominee to replace former DHS secretary, Christy Knoem, following a turbulent year for the agency growing criticism over its immigration enforcement. So during a tense hours-long hearing yesterday, Mullen defended his record and promised to restore trust, saying he would take a different approach and work more closely with local communities. Lawmakers, though, they pushed back Democrats. They pressed him on immigration raids, use of force, and the use of judicial warrants. Let's listen. ICE will no longer instruct agents to break into people's homes without a judicial warrant.

You're using the word break into people's houses very loosely. However, I have made it very clear to the staff that a judicial warrants will be used to go into houses and a place of businesses unless we're pursuing someone that enters in that place. I have not mixed words with that and I haven't changed my opinion about that. So right now they're using administrative warrants, which can be signed within a department. A judicial warrant has to be signed by a judge. And that's one of the restraints or one of the talking points that the Democrats have right now to end this partial government shutdown. So the hearing, though, it also turned personal. Senator Rand Paul also confronted Mullen over past comments where Mullen said that he understood a 2017 personal attack that left as Senator Rampal with multiple broken ribs.

Let's listen to that exchange. You told the media that I was a freaking snake and that you completely understood why I had been assaulted. And tell the world why you believe I deserve to be assaulted from behind, have six ribs broken and a damaged lung. Tell me to my face.

And while you're at it, explain to the American public why they should trust a man with anger issues. I simply addressed that I said I could understand because of the behavior you were having. I can understand why your neighbor, by the neighbor did what he did. And as far as me saying that, I invoke violence, I don't.

And you offer no apology today and no regrets. And I'm not apologizing for pointing out your character. Good. Good. So you're, you're jolly well fine, and you want the American public and the people up here to vote, that may or may not vote for you to know that you supported the felonious violent attack on me from behind. I did not say I supported it. No support it. No support. I understood it. Nobody should be attacked from behind. By the way, you know, God is still working on me. I don't, you know, I don't know any of these people. But I just. know that if you get beat up and I know you and somebody asked me why you got beat up and I

say because of the way you be talking you deserve it I know you you somebody should have been put hands on you like I kind of respect that right nobody should be assaulted from behind yeah well who are we talking about chill out chill out I know some people that deserve to get hands put on it I know some people right now I was just talking to my therapist about this I know some people right now that deserve to get hands put on oh I'm with you I saw a list Yes, that's what I'm saying. You guys are taking a very serious topic and making it very unsurious. So what happened was in 2017, Rand Paul was he was attacked by his neighbor.

They had some neighborly spats, grass growing your fences in the wrong area. Anyway, the neighbor attacked him while he was mowing his lawn. He broke six of his ribs. The neighbor ended up going to jail behind it. And so, yeah. I got to hear both sides. What? I need to hear why.

You just know, you cannot take somebody. I was cutting the grass. I need to know what Rand Paul had been doing to the neighbor up until that point. Yo. I don't know. I'm saying that it was justified. I'm cutting my grass. I'm on the lawnmower.

You come up behind me. You shouldn't have turned your back on me after you talk crazy. You're all. We have one more story. We have to get to, guys. All of this is coming as a Department of Homeland Security. It remains partially shut down. But the White House, they may be pushing forward some new ideas,

trying to make negotiations go forward. So in the letter to lawmakers on Tuesday, the administration outlined, what is willing to change in order to reach a deal with Democrats. So that means expanding body cameras for agents, limiting enforcement in places like schools, churches, and hospitals. But they are refusing to not do one key sticking point, which is to ban agents from wearing masks. They say agents would be able to identify themselves, but they will not keep agents from wearing masks. They say that that will only apply possibly, or not apply to, you know, they say that that would only apply to undercover cases.

So we'll see what happens with that. But meanwhile, Democrats, they've introduced several bills to fund the government, including TSA, FEMA, and the Coast Guard, while these negotiations could continue. And just yesterday, Senator Rafael Warnock, he pushed a bill that would immediately pay a TSA workers. Let's hear what he had to say really quickly about that. In terms of funding, ICE is now bigger than the United States Marines. And my Republican friends are saying to me, saying to my colleagues, that if you don't give this overgrown paramilitary force of mass agents jumping out of unmarked,

cars more money, we're going to leave TSA workers and others unpaid. I think that's patently unfair. I think we ought to fund the federal workers. We ought to fund FEMA, Coast Guard, all, we ought to fund homeland security while we have a principled argument about what is happening with ICE because what is happening there and what we're witnessing in this moment is unacceptable. Pay the TSA workers. I agree with Raphael. Warned. The fact, the fact we have to fight to get the TSA workers paid and the federal work is paid, but you know, the ice is is just getting a blank check does not sit right with me

in no way shit before. And that they're bigger than the Marines. Who knew that? I mean, that's crazy. Yeah, that's crazy. So Republicans said no, of course. They will not support anything that does not fund the entire department.

You think them TSA agents don't want to put hands on nobody right now? I know what they do. Absolutely. I really want to hear more about this Rampo's situation. And not just about Rampal, but y'all not going to sit here on this radio and act like y'all don't know people

who don't need some hands put on. And he's like 63, 64 years old right now. Damn. He was older. He don't even care. He don't even get up the same way. Somebody assaults you from the back. He ain't getting up like that.

Man, shut it. I don't want to talk to you. Come on, yo. Thank you, Mimi. We talk to you next hour. Okay, thank you. Everybody else. Get it off your chest.

800-585-105-105-1. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open. It's the breakfast club. Good morning. This is your time to get it off your chest. 800-585-10-1. We want to hear from you on the breakfast club. Hello, who's this?

What's up, man. It's Evan from Jacksonville. Evan, what's up? Duvo. What, what up, Evan? What's up, y'all? Man, listen. I got a Nissan center.

I just pay $45 for a tank of gas. Damn. Wow. How much gas cost a gallon in Jacksonville? It's $4. Lord, have mercy. That's crazy, man. It's Florida, too.

We usually got cheap gas. That means you ain't going to be able to buy an A for later, huh? Hey. Jesus. Man, I'm telling you it's like 35. degrees. It's supposed to feel like this down here. It's 35 degrees in Jacksonville? This morning right now, yes.

It's 35 degrees. I had ice on my car. I don't believe you. Wow. I think a lot. You know what I do regardless. I put $40 regardless, regardless the price of the gas. If it's $5 a gallon or if it's $2 a guy, I'm only putting $4 in. That's it.

That's what I get for me. Yeah, man. That's it. We have a good one, Evan. All right, y'all. I'm sorry. It says it's 45 degrees in Jacksonville right now. Nissan Central?

Uh, that usually, like, $23 to fill up your tank. I don't even think they make Centras anymore, do they? No, but I'm just saying, like, that car only takes, like, that in a Civic, take, like, $25, no more than 30 to fill up.

That's wild. What's up, Tom? Hey, good morning, good morning. I just want to say, you don't get off my best. Hey, DJ Envy, how can you never introduce yourself in the opening of the show?

Well, the way it's supposed to go, I say, good morning, USA, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. What's up, Jess? Just is supposed to say, What's up, Envy? and then we go shalom into God. But Jess just, she just do her, so we just let her go.

Okay, that's all I wanted to ask that. We have a good one, Tom. Thank you. You too, you too. How's going? They say the Centra's not discontinued. They say it's being redesigned for this year. Oh, okay.

Well, then maybe, all right. But what's the last time is out? It's coming back out this year. I haven't seen the Central's all the time. If it's been redesigned, they probably haven't sold any new ones because it's being redesigned. But, yeah. I haven't seen the Central.

Yeah, because you are snob. You don't see Centri's. I do cause. And I would see. I see all types of cars. I go to all types of shortcases and cars. If it ain't a spirit, you don't even see it. It got to be a GOSAR Phantom.

No, I see everything. Accords and civics and all the lakes and rivions and all up, but I've never seen. The Nissan Versa, they said, will be discontinued after the 2025 model year. And the Ultima is expected to be discontinued. No. That was the best. And the Titan got discontinued after 2024.

It should bring the Maximum back. The Maximus is not back. Maximo is fire. I know. That was the best. Why you keep saying these cars don't exist no more? I don't remember. I don't see them no more.

And then, Awesomema, so it was Maxima, then Osama. I love me, Osama. Oh, the Maximus has been discontinued. That's what I said. I don't see them anymore. Why? What? It was so hard.

What about the Nissan Z? Yeah, they brought the Z back for a couple years. They did, like, two years. They got it pulled up. Kashala? Yeah, they brought the Z back, but I don't think they made the Z anymore. I love the Z ago. I was like one of my little dream cars.

People wasn't buying it like that. A little red Nissan Z? Z. No, the current seventh generation Nissan Z has not been discontinued. It is available for the 25 and 26 model years. Period. But no might be driving the Zs no more. I'm going to get it.

I'm going to get one. Get it off your chest. 800585-105.15. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's the breakfast club. Good morning. Ray, Ray, Ray. Yo, Charlemagne.

Gizzy, what up? Are we live? This is your time to get it off your chest. I got an indoor pool. I want to hear from you on the breakfast club. We can get on the phone right now. We'll tell you what it is. We lie?

Hello, who's this? This is Jay. Hey, Jay. Good morning. How you doing this morning? Bless Black and Holly favorite. What's going on? So, Chalamay, I just want to agree with you.

I think you're right. Concerning, like, people need to have hands put on them. Yes, sir. It's not going to happen, though, but yeah, I agree, too. You know, we live in a society right now, though, like, you know, back in the 80s and 90s, you couldn't do what you do now.

Everybody's going to the Internet, they talk all their talk, but... Well, Jay, the reason is... That's right. you know, we pay people for their talk, right? When people talk crazy online and they're on these platforms, they get checks. So they talk crazy.

I don't have nothing to do with consequences and the repercussions. But the problem is now if I put my hands on you, now you sue me, now I've got to pay you again. And nothing has changed. It's been like that since the beginning of time. That dude who put hands on Rand Paul is in prison right now because he was willing to deal with the consequences of his accident. What were your therapist say?

About what? My therapist told me this week that, you know, if you love the challenge, then you have to love the challengers. Okay? Sure. But that means... Hey, Chartermane.

Yes, sir. When are you doing your next mental health, like, you know, session? Oh, October. You know, we do the Mental Wealth Expo every October 10th. So this year I think it is actually on October 10th. So I'll be doing the mental wealth. Okay.

That's not until the fall. The next thing we got coming up is the Black Effect Podcast Festival, Saturday, April 25th in Atlanta, Georgia at Pullman Yards. Okay, well, I'm never hearing around Jersey area, And so if you got anything going on in Jersey, I'm definitely going to be there. Oh, yes. We did the Mental Welf Expo last year in Newark,

and we're doing it again this year in Newark, New Jersey. So, yes, the mental wealth expo will be in Newark in the fall. Bet, I'll be there. Yes, sir. Have a good one, brother. And, you know, you asked me with my therapist. All right, peace, y'all. Peace.

It's really what with Malcolm X said. Michael X. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone. But if someone puts his hand on you, send them to the cemetery. Great. I don't think a therapist said that. I like it. Yeah, I think it is.

I said that was Malcolm X. I just told you who said it. I know, but so who do you listen to in that situation? Both. Both. You made anger. There's a lot of people that go through your head. It's a council when you're about to do that.

But don't act like sometimes people don't need to get hands put on this. That's true. Okay. I agree. I don't know about a cemetery, but, yes. Put hands on them. Sometimes. Well, anyway, get it off your chest.

8005-85-105-10. What's up, Lauren? Good morning, y'all. How you feel? I feel good. I like your earrings. Oh, thank you. Thank you.

A little name earring throwback. No, it says more. I know them airing. Yo, you're. I know the Lerring. No, these are like name earrings from high school. I know them earring back stink. You have them since.

What? That's what? I mean, that's wrong. In real jewelry, you clean it. Yes, I had these since like ninth grade. God, let me smell it. Ew. Ew.

Don't you do that. Don't you take that earring out. I clean my earring. Don't you take that earring now. We got the ladies coming up. Yes. Oh my God. Okay.

So, we've heard from. Cameron, May, Shine, I haven't got a car from somebody in Shines' camp last night, but now Brandy has spoken. So we're going to clear all of this up and move on. You better be talking about Afro man yesterday. I've been through an Afro man rapping around tonight. I got you. It's crazy how you just dismiss Brandi.

You really don't see Black women. No. No, maybe. I said Black women. You just dismissed the Black woman. To be fair, I think he was driving a lot yesterday and listening to a lot of that crazy audio. So it's just, you know, it's embedded. But I got you.

We're going to get into that today at some point, too. You said, I don't care what Brandi talking about. Yeah, I don't care. I just didn't care. I said just make sure we talk about affamintu. I just I didn't care about labor. See? I'm the Dominican.

I'm not Dominican. I'm black. That you appropriate. But salute to Afro-Man. Randy never come back in New York ever. All right. We'll get to that next is the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

Yeah. I'm not dumbing myself down. I'm being myself. Take me through that. I'm the home guy that knows a little bit about everything and everything. The little brown girls look at you and go, I want to be like you. Take me through that. Take me through that.

She's gone. The latest with Lauren Lose. Take me through that. On the breakfast club. L.L. Coolebe, talk to me. Before L.L. Kulbe gets to chat, and can we salute L.L.Cube, drop on the clues bombs for Lauren Lorosa. She's on the cover of Brown-style magazine.

Thank you. A hundred plus women in media you need to know. It says Lauren Lerosa's soft living with the brown girl who's always grinding. She's on the cover. She's on the cover. And I really wish that people would stop bringing Lauren Lerosa in the photo shoots. telling her play games a Twister. I don't know why I'd be making you

to torture your body in these ways. That was not... I love that pose. Thank you. I was trying to give... I wanted you to see the wang. Shout to Alexander Wang because they addressed me for this photo.

I don't know what the wang is, but this is... Sounds like he needed to be washed with this right here. Just tell them to stop making you look like you doing a twist or all of that. Shout out to Brownsstown magazine. And to tweet...

I love it. Congratulations. I love it. Congratulations. I loo to and her family. So Brownsaw Magazine is a black old magazine. It's a family that owns it who spent years in media. And this, I was going to say this episode, this issue of the magazine is special because

it is one of their like collectors' additions. It's their second one. So Vanessa Simmons has a special guest writer's segment in that magazine. Vanessa Simmons, yeah, Angela Simmons, sister. She's talking about, yeah, just finding out how to like do other things and just work. Like, what do you do outside of work? There's a lot of fire women in media, though, in that magazine. And literally they list 100 women in media.

But there's a lot of conversation about like black women and the totality of us, like outside of work, outside of the grind. So, congratulations. Then making you look like you on playing a game of Twister and having something in your teeth, this is a great cover. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. And y'all can. And people want to know where they can read the cover story.

It's at I ambrownstyle.com. You can also purchase physical copies there too. So I wanted to shock them out. Dope, dope, dope. All right, y'all. So let's get into the latest now. Okay. So we've been kind of in the midst.

of this like Shine, Cameron, Mace, and Ray J conversation because for those of you guys who do not remember, Shine went on Mace and Camerons. It is what it is show that they do with Treasure Wilson and talked about dating Brandy. Let's take a listen to the original comments

and then I'll talk to you guys about what Brandy had to say. Let's take a listen. What happened with Brandy and everything? You was dating Brandi at one time? Or y'all was just, how'd they go? He was the champion. He was the MVP. Right.

I was Kobe, no pun in Texas. because they said Kobe was a special friend of Brandy's as well, you know. But I had no idea, so what happened is we had a mutual friend who was a snitch. So I was so excited because this is my dream person. Talk about Brandy. Brandy. Right. Poor kid, Brooklyn, watching MTV, watching Moesha as a dream.

I'm like, man, but she was the no shot. Got that. Yeah. I had no idea though, because he was, he was special. Right. So he was running that playbook so discreetly, so. quietly I had no idea So after that

So Ray J has responded We played a lot of that yesterday He kind of went crazy Shine also posted To his Instagram a photo of Ray J Brandy and himself And the caption said I indeed Were not the one that hit it first

And he had Ray J's song I hit it first Over the photo Right Okay shine with the subtle shade And I think what he's trying to not even think I know because I spoke to a source in Shine's camp Is that Ray J has some like like who is ray jay to say you guys should not be talking about dating another woman

or what you're doing another woman because you made a whole song about it right so that's coming from shine's camp but brandy spoke out yesterday and she wanted to clear the error and brandy never speaks about anything she said in the late 90s i had a platonic friendship with rapper shine in an unfortunate turn of events that friendship is now being mischaracterized as we dated unequivocally we did not i'm not sure why an untrue narrative about a scope of what was a friendship more than years ago as being reshaped during this current during his current media interviews. People telling their version of my story is why I'm released in my

upcoming memoir phases. It's time to tell my truth and debunk many of the misnomer's that people think they know about my life. Additionally, I rarely release statements and typically ignore stories about me in the headlines even when they're false. But when I do decide to stand up for myself, I handle things on my own. While I love my brother Ray J, I don't condone

or support the messages he shared on social media and have not asked him to defend me in any form. Question. To the ladies in the room. Do women always have to defend their box like if a guy comes out and says y'all had a relationship do you have to confirm or deny that it was platonic or it was sexual

or can you just leave that quiet and if you do speak on it why you just ask you I feel like you don't have to but as you want to because it's like especially if you're saying that Brandy saying that this is something that didn't happen it's just like you don't want another body person relationship whatever thrown on you if that's not what happened especially

because the way that this conversation is going is she was dating Mace at one point and then now she's dating this other person so it makes her look like she's dealing with these two people at one time. And you just don't want people all in your business like that. Like, as a woman, like, you don't. But I think her deciding to speak on it is because it's like, Brandy rarely ever takes control of her narrative.

Like, she's always been, like, out the way. And you know what I mean? It's just not a good conversation you want to be in as a woman, to be honest. I don't care if it's one person, two person or three. Jeff? Yeah. Me, I don't really care about it. I don't think you have to debunk or, you know,

confirm or deny whether you slept with somebody who coming out saying that they slept with you. Unless it's a clown. Like if it's a clown, a crack kid, somebody that's like, no. What if he wasn't a crack game when you slept with him, but then, you know, life took a turn. Yeah, but why would you wait until you become a correct kid to say something? No, don't even. That's what happened.

That's what can happen. I don't talk about the highlights in my life. I think we all understand why she's defending herself coming out and saying it didn't happen because it would make her look crazy that she dated somebody in the same camp and she's saying it didn't happen. So get off my neck. That's what she's pretty much saying. He didn't say he dated her, did he?

He said that because remember even in a document, documentary she said to him you don't got no hits who you think you are that's so I actually have a bit of the documentary he doesn't specifically say Brandy's name let's hear it let's hear it okay go ahead a crush on her so when I came to the label it's like Kobe coming to the Lakers

and you know Shack is already there and then Kobe comes and he thinks you know out of high school it's all him with Mace you know he was seeing a girl I was seeing the same girl everybody knew he dated Brandy at some point Hey, that's not. That's not.

And so that caused like a whole thing, a bad boy. The second voice that you heard was DJ Clark Clark Kent. Rest and peace. But yeah, okay, so I spoke to a source in Shines Camp last night. And they called me, you know, upset. They're like, I don't understand why this is being portrayed as disrespect and blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, look, as a woman, anytime you speak on somebody or someone speaking on dealing with you, it's like, why, especially if it was 20 years ago. And I think the tone

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that we didn't need to be a part of, and it's Brandy. And then the internet runs with it. And the internet be like, Brandy a bop. Brandy was with this person. Yeah, it's just like, why. But, I mean, people may look at me like, I'm crazy. I didn't think it was disrespectful at all. Because what I got from it was just, um, Sean saying he had a crush on her.

Yeah. She was already saying me. Well, I'm saying. So, like, that's just what I thought. The person in Shines can't want to make it clear, uh, that that's what his, that's what, that's what Sharn's intentions are always when he speaks of Brandi to, that big her up, to give her flowers. he didn't mean to be disrespectful

and he no way would ever mean to come off as disrespectful but I did explain to them like why it would be taken that way and why should just be left alone and I honestly think that Brandy although because she never speaks on things like this

I think she did this because our brother blew it up like that and the way the things that he was saying about them was upset you know yeah yeah I get it but it's just like damn all right and Shines Camp is also Shines Camp is also saying too that he wouldn't lie about dating anybody

because she's mentioning that she didn't date him but at this point I think we just all learned a lesson here. Move on. Keep some conversations in a group chat. And also, too, this just has nothing to do with nothing. This is just the word of advice from your old Uncle Charlotte. I think there should be a statue of limitation on claiming bodies.

Okay, if it's 20 years old, it's inspired. It didn't count. It never happened. More than 20 years old, it never happened. Or a clown. Don't ever talk about the bodies you had before you got on drugs. Depends on the year. If I hit five years ago and got on crack five years later, I hit that.

What? The crackhead are you talking about. I hit that. I'm just saying. You're welcome. Yo. Thank you, Lauren. Just make you a different person.

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It's DJ NV. Just hilarious. Sholomey and the guy. We are to breakfast club. Let's get back to some front page news. What's up, Mimi? Good morning, you guys. How y'all doing this morning?

Good, Mimi. Yeah, girl. Good morning. So we start this hour with an update on Pam Bondi and the Jeffrey Epstein Files. So House Democrats, they walked out of a closed door briefing with Attorney General Pam Bondi yesterday, saying she would not commit to testifying under oath next month. Here is Congresswoman Summerlee. Let's listen. What we witnessed today was absolutely a farce. From the very beginning, A.G. Bondi has been obstructing justice. She has perched herself multiple times. And she has been withholding critical documents that would inform this investigation into

a pedophile into corruption, impossible, possibly quite deeper, because we do not know who was all involved. Today, what their attempt was to push this under the rug, do something off the record that they would not have to be accountable for. I like Somali, by the way, drop on a clue bomb for Somali. Somali about that action. Somali, she'd be in there attempting to get things done. I appreciate that. Absolutely. Lawmakers have already issued a subpoena ordering Bondi to answer questions about the Justice Department and how they handled those records, including concerns about redactions and transparency. Bondi says, though, she will follow the law, but did not confirm if she will appear. Let's listen to what she had to say after that hearing.

So under the Epstein Transparency Act, we had 30 days to redact and release under the law that was passed, three million documents. If you stack those up, that's the height of the Eiffel Tower. No other administration, under the Biden administration, they released zero documents. So we did our very best to comply with the law. See, that's my thing, though, with this whole administration, you know, who's going to hold Pam Bondi accountable when she doesn't follow the law? Exactly. Well, they're saying, the committee is saying that they will try and hold her in contempt,

which will, of course, set up a larger fight between Congress and the Justice Department if she does not agree to testify under oath. So this could escalate, and we will continue to follow the steps into what this could look like, as they do try and lock her down to get more answers from her. To your point, Charla, about, you know, the Epstein files. And now to a service that millions of Americans rely on every single day. I'm talking about the mail. So from prescriptions to paychecks, bills, packages, we all rely on the post office,

which delivers six days a week to nearly every actress in the country. But now there's growing concern about whether that level of service can continue. So testifying before Congress this week, the Postmaster General told lawmakers that the Postal Service is facing a financial crisis and could run out of cash very soon unless there are changes made. Let's listen. At our current rate, we'll be out of cash in less than 12 months. So in about a year from now, the Postal Service would be unable to deliver the mail. We're mandated by law to deliver to every address, more than 170 million of them, six days a week. If we're expected to deliver six days a week to every location, someone needs to pay for that.

At 78 cents, the U.S. first class stamp is the lowest in the industrialized world. If we were to change the stamp price to 90 to 95 cents, which is still less than half of the cost of foreign posts, that would largely solve our controllable loss. That's crazy. I mean, it's going to be sad to say, but I think they kind of should. Because nobody really uses the post office like we used to, right? Everything else we do is over the digital. Oh, you're digital.

So it's like, when do we really use? the post office and the post office does so many for so many people, but not so many people use it like we used to. And correct me if I'm wrong, maybe, but somebody told me a while, a long time ago that the post office isn't funded by tax dollars, right? It's not funded by tax dollars, but they were

trying to get Congress. That's what he was on Capitol Hill for, was trying to get money from Congress to make up the difference for what they need. Because what lawmakers are saying, they don't want to raise the stamp. What do you say? From 78 cents to somewhere around 90, 95 cents, they don't want to do that because in that

would fall back on the American people. So they were there asking Congress for money. And to your point, NB, a lot of people are switching to email auto pay, digital billing, which means less revenue for the postal service because that's how they make up their money, right? But it's also saving people money, right? If I don't have to pay that 78 cents to send out a bill, if I don't have to pay that 78 cents to, you know, write a letter or whatever I have to do, I can just do it, you know, through the internet. And it makes it a lot cheaper.

It saves a lot of time, too. But people still use the post office a lot. That's how people get the IRS checks. That's how they get their regular checks. Exactly. And in rural areas, that's how a lot of people still get their mail and their prescriptions. You know what I mean? And so if the agency does scale back, it would impact, you know, workers, jobs, hours, long-term benefits for, you know, retirement.

And people, I know for me personally, my dad, he retired from the post office. He worked there for 30 years and raised, like, three girls on, you know, a postal service salary. And so, you know, what does that look like for him and for our family? You know what I mean? So there's just lots of questions as this agency, if it were to shut down, what that would look like? So your daddy was the mailman? Did he, what do you used to work? He wasn't a mailman.

He was in the back. He worked kind of like as a sorter in the mail, in Alaska. Yeah. Yeah, so he was the guy that when you're going to the post office, he can never find your package, even though it's sitting right there. You got to ask him numerous times to please go get the package. Yeah. So he, yep, so that, you know, so this, so when I saw this story, it was just kind of personal because, you know, the challenge now. The challenge now is finding a solution that keeps the system running,

but without putting the burden on the American people to pay the difference, because we're already paying for so much, right? Did y'all have mail trucks or was it like snow plows? Yes, Jess. We had mail trucks. We had... But it was a plow on the front down. What did you say?

It was like a plow on a front? No. It was the regular mail truck like everywhere else. Let me show you this video with people in Alaska. Do not show that video. Let me say. I want to see that video. I was like, I'm so embarrassed.

That was the first question. I asked her when she was like, oh, I'm from her. I was like, okay, with the like, you know what I mean? Well, that's a, listen, Shar, send her the video, but still, I don't know those people. I don't know. Those people. Let me just stop. She was like, I'm in LA.

I'm in LA. Okay. And switching gears really quickly. So we're seeing a shift in how people are thinking about relationships. So more people are moving away from the traditional idea that love means living under the same roof. So new research, it shows that nearly 40% of people

say they rather not live with their partner even in a serious committed relationship. These people are hurt. Well, people say that having your own space can make a relationship stronger. You keep your independence, your routine, and you're choosing each other, not just the space, but everyone's not sold. Others say living apart can create distance, making it harder to stay connected, and build long-term commitment.

So I think the question is, can you really build a future with someone if you're not living under the same roof? I mean, you can build a future, but it's not going to, I mean, I don't know. It's just like, who in love would not want to be up under their partner? Like, not 24-7, but I can't imagine being committed, fully committed to somebody, and I'm not laying down with them every night, waking up to them every morning. You know, sharing experiences in the house. We cleaning up together.

I'm cooking dinner. You sitting down with me, watching a movie after, have some good sex and we go to sleep. You know, I'm just, what do you mean? What about kids? Like, go to your dad's house, but we're together. What? That's a little weird to me. But two weeks of all.

Yeah, well, it was a, it was a reason. and topic too really quickly on the Today Show. And Kiki Palmer was asked the same question. I think we have the audio of what she said. I just feel like, you know, Wuppie Goldberg said the best one. She was like, I don't want a better get my house. Wait, wait, wait. Time out. You're for real right. She's for real. She's for real. Mary even.

Mary even. So you're not going to live around the corner? On the corner would be great. I mean, the guest house, you know what I'm saying? We can be on the same, you know, land. But I'm over there and he's over there. At best, separate rooms. I think the guest house is for the sister wife.

You know what I'm saying? For everybody that's, you know, you know, into like the polygamous lifestyle like you might live with your you know main but then your other is in the guest house I think that's when it could work yeah I mean

that's the whole other topic I mean I mean there's a slim out here man yeah I mean if you don't live with your man and he's gonna have a sister wife living with him like that's what you're potentially risking if you live a part like I don't understand some people do do it and I don't see it

working for the majority Are we talking about polygamy or we're talking about the original I'm talking about the original topic. What's wrong with you? What's on your mind? But like Jess said, there's no way I'm going to have a committed relationship and I can't wake up next to my wife. That's what I'm saying. I can't see her all the time and we got to go to separate houses. That's what going to make her cheat and him cheat.

And that props. Polygamy. There we go. So if you end up like that, then you'll end up like Shala. Well, there ain't no, I'm sorry. You'll end up like what Shola just said. Got it. All right, y'all.

That is your front page news. I'm Mimi Brown. Follow me at Mimi Brown TV. And for more stories, follow the Black Information Network. Thanks, Mimi. Thank you. Thank you. Now, when we come back, Raja Karoof will be joining us.

He's a NASCAR driver, young brother, graduated from my HBCU, and we're going to talk to him next. All right, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envi. Just hilarious. Salameen de Guy.

We are the Breakfast Club. Lawn LaRose is here as well. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed. The brother, Raja Caruth. Welcome. Morning, morning. How you feeling?

Great. Thank you guys for having me on. Now, who is Raja Caruth for people that don't know. So, like you said, my name is Raja. I was born in Atlanta, but grew up in D.C., and I guess I'd do many things, but mainly currently, I race in NASCAR. So, but yeah, HBC graduate grew up in D.C. And racing at NASCAR's second highest level.

And how did you get into NASCAR? Like, what got you into it? I think it's, I want to say something. Your story is very ill because you used to drive the simulators. Yeah. You turned virtual racing into a real-life career. Yeah, have you all seen the Grand Tourism movie? Yep.

It's pretty much like to just 10 years, I guess, down the line. Coming from Caribbean parents, my dad's right here in the back, me and from St. Vincent. That's crazy because in Grand Turismo, his parents were Caribbean too. Yeah, exactly. So, yeah, like you said, Charlemagne, I grew up watching racing and was a big fan. But I mean, I played other sports. Like I played basketball, ran track, play soccer. But I always loved racing. And since I grew up in D.C., there wasn't any tracks or anything nearby. So I had to get it from racing online and learning how to drive from the computer. So you did, is that something you wanted to do? I know. The love came from just being on the sim.

No, the love came from like the cars movie watching races on TV. I once my first race at Richmond and when I was probably 12. So that's where the love really, really grew. And I mean, I'd watch everything I could about racing from like sports talk shows to people playing the games online. I just was a deep, deep fan of racing. Did you ever steal your father's car? No. I mean, I never drove.

So I was 15 years old. I mean, you could just take the metro or walk or get lime scooters. in DC. So, I mean, you don't really need to drive just like here. So what's your like day-to-day like at work? So like how does it as an NASCAR driver? So you go, you don't clock in like normal like, what is a normal day in the life of an NASCAR driver?

So basically for like we train like endurance athletes. So we'll have our you know, Mondays to Thursdays whenever we return from the previous race weekend. We'll have our pre and post race debriefs with our teams because I think compared to other sports racing is so different where the driver is

a key factor but also is the car. and the team and your pit crew so we have all our meetings with with our engineers our crew chiefs that are over the car development but also our pick crew members to analyze how they can improve how we can improve behind the wheel and how we can get the car better we have simulator training at our Chevy facility well with every manufacturer has a big kind of training facility where we have our simulators corporate offices all pretty much based in North Carolina and for us and me being at Chevy. I mean, we're there, I'm there Monday through Thursday.

We're training. We're on the simulators. We're having our meetings with our race teams. And that's kind of our week-to-week basis. And then we leave on Thursdays or Fridays to go travel to wherever we race. We were at Vegas last weekend. We're in Darlington, South Carolina this weekend. So yeah, it's a traveling circus for the whole year, pretty much. They call you very analytical and very composed. I'm a nerd. I mean, I know people like to use that word,

I like smart people. But how does that help you on the racetrack, I guess? I guess to be super calculated is the way that that helps. You have to obviously use your instincts, right? Because everything is happening within splits of a second, moving at hundreds of miles per hour with the wall being right next to you, other cars being right next to you, the wind being super turbulent. Yeah, you have to be super aware of what's going on. And I think it speaks to my personality, but also my preparation of just being that calculated and prepared for whatever.

situations may arise. So how close is the simulator to actually being on the track? I'd say it's pretty close, but it's, you can never replicate real life because there's weather, there's maybe a new bump that develops in a racetrack that you can't forecast. There's new rule changes every time. But what's great about the simulator is that the one we have at Chevrolet, it has our, literally every part and piece of the car is replicated on there to where we can drive and change whether it's a piece of the suspension, move a body panel a certain way.

to see if it'll work in real life and then nine times out of ten it's perfect for what we have to do at the racetrack so it's super super important and it's great practice for us drivers just to be able to get repetition on the corners it's kind of like tap dancing with how we're using the brake and the gas pedal and all the instruments in the car

salute to John Cohen he was a black race car owner he owns a team New York City race team is his team he was telling me how difficult it is to find members because he was like it's so detailed so breakdown You talked about the team how important everybody is from the pit crew and what they have to do. But if they mess up, that affects your time. And it's a whole race. Yeah.

So break that down because people only see the driver at most of the times. But if your crew ain't right, if this ain't right, if the guy you're talking to ain't right, to break that down of how detailed and how difficult that part is. Yeah, for sure. It's very similar to, I think, special teams in the NFL. I mean, every member of the team is important from our hollow driver that drives the equipment to the racetrack and making sure it gets their safe to our spotters. that are on top of the highest point on the track

and communicating with us drivers to our pick crew members like you mentioned. If one of our wheels aren't tight, then that's a day end or whether it's damaging the wheel or causing us to crash. Not to mention how important it is to have the car set up as close as it can be to be able to drive to the front. So our teams are super important.

And as much as the drivers to face, racing is as much of a team sport as anything because it's not just the one star person. It's the whole team that matters and helps to get the job done. How competitive is it? You know, we look at these movies, right? And we see these races and they're cutting each other off

and they're cursing each other out. And sometimes you see them fighting after. How competitive is it? And what's the respect level on the track? Like, sometimes they're not supposed to do that, but I just thought it is what it is. Yeah, I mean, there's definitely different etiquette. And then you kind of see the old guard of drivers

being different from the new guard of drivers. And it kind of speaks to people's personalities, right? where there's a certain situation where, hey, I'm going to do this to you because I know you would do it to me, whether it's throwing a block or putting somebody in a tight scenario. So it's just different etiquettes. Everybody's got different etiquettes. And I think what's cool about NASCAR is it's a contact sport where in other forms of racing, whether it's Formula One, Indy car, the racing etiquette is just different just because of. We should be contact sport. Contact means we touch in each other.

Yeah, it's normal. It's normal. It's normal. It's normal. If anything, you can at certain. tracks like Atlanta or Daytona, it's important to push somebody else because it gives yourself a better chance at winning. So there's levels to the contact that are required. Not every time because then you'll damage your car and it'll be slower. But it's important because it's just

the true etiquette of the racing of NASCAR that makes it super cool. So you know how like with basketball players like or football players, right, when you're training, you watch and tape, you kind of know what players do what. So you know what drivers, like they're little tricks. Exactly. Yeah. So we have like. like a GPS program that records every race and you can look at every car and see literally every lap of the race and see all right they decided to do this move here because of what they saw in front of them or what they felt in the car we can see how they're steering how they're braking how they're using the gas the literally the g forces that they're creating in the car it's um that's our

our way to study film it's just analyzing each race every practice every time trial session time trial session um that that's kind of the equivalent for it for us uh what's been the biggest challenge stepping into the um the NASCAR national spotlight honestly the regular track i would say for me it it's i'm a pretty introverted person so being comfortable with um being as approachable at the racetrack to fans was an adjustment for me um but honestly like in the sport like everybody's been cool uh for the most part like because i have the interest the passion and and the work to go with it like everybody's been super cool so um i definitely will say to to mention you mentioned before getting to this level,

it definitely was harder to get my foot in the door from A, not only starting so late, but coming from my background, that made it immensely more harder than it would be for... Maybe I shouldn't say that, because everybody's grind is different, but I think personally, like,

it was way harder to get in the door than it has been to kind of climb through the ladder. How did you get your foot in the door? How did you get your foot in the door? Yeah, so for me, I started racing on the simulator. I was 15 or 16, and I started to go to races and hand out business cards and say,

hey, I'm a young driver trying to make a name for myself racing online. NASCAR had a driver development program that I applied for in 2019, and they had a whole combine trial where it was not just how well you can drive. It's what your physicality is, how strong you are, how you handle press, how you handle your team communication, just seeing all the traits that are required to really be a successful driver. And I did well enough in that program in 2019 to come on and get developed through the kind of regional levels of NASCAR where we raced in parts of South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, just kind of getting the real sticks of it. And that's really how I got started.

So, and that was super hard just because I was coming from growing up in D.C. Where, I mean, I just, I was, it was normal to exist, right? And being in those places where I was not only a lot of times the youngest person, but the, youngest black person in the room where um i mean i moved from dc when i was 18 i was living in north carolina by myself while i was going to school at winston at the race shop at the track i was pretty much a lot of times the only person that looked like me so i think that was a definitely a challenge to get started but um it just really allowed me to get confident in my identity really my curvyian background my raising my education and that helped me really persevere let's talk about that right

you came through simulation like you said and you're a young black man do you ever feel like you're disrupting the culture of NASCAR or do you feel pressure to prove you belong in it? I think I'm definitely breaking the mold for sure. And I really have an appreciation for the teams that I'm at where they've seen me as not just as a not as I'm only here for a certain reason. They see me for not only my ability, but how I'm showing up and how I'm prepared to perform and taking the accountability and doing the work and really performing well when it matters the most. So when you walk in a garage, right, that historic. hasn't looked like you.

Are you thinking about winning races? Are you just trying to change narrative? I think they work hand-in-hand. I think the success on the track is going to help everything else. And I have such a deep appreciation for the sport of NASCAR in particular and racing as a whole that I know all the other stuff will come naturally as long as I keep the main thing, the main thing, which is trying to be the best driver that I can. You heard what he said?

Keep the main thing, the main thing. That's a jewel. A lot of you don't do that. You know what I mean? They try to do all the side quest. You got to keep the main thing, the main thing. I saw Bubba Wallace praise you for opening the season with three top 10 finishes while driving for two different teams. And we know that he's had like, you know, issues when it comes to race and different things within NASCAR.

What's your relationship like with Bubba? Yeah, that's a big bro. That's a big bro. I mean, literally from my first ever regional race, he's been there every step of the way. And that's super important to have somebody like that in your corner that's paying attention and knows kind of the cards you've been dealt. and it's been great to have him in my corner and I mean we, although we're at two, he's with Toyota, I'm with Chevrolet,

I mean, he's been there every step of the way for me. So that's big bro and it's been great because the things that he's had to endure, he's allowed it to wear for drivers like myself, like LeVar Scott that are in the wings and coming up that we don't have to deal with those certain things. And in that same vein, that's how Wendell Scott did it for him

and Willie T. Ribs and Bill Lester and all those before us. Is that car sponsorship thing, like, really that big of a deal? Because you said it's a big thing. I'm Chevy and he's Toyota. I mean, it's serious. It's serious because, I mean, the manufacturers are really what drive NASCAR at the end of the day where in other sports, right, there's the owners of the teams.

I think the owners of NASCAR are big deal as well, but so are the manufacturers. Because, I mean, those are the cars that we're driving at the end of the day. So that's a big role. They play a huge, huge role in our sport. You just which size? You got to be Chevy for life. I mean, I don't want to leave Chevy for sure. I mean, it's not uncommon for people to leave manufacturers,

and that can be because, hey, the team closed or they need a swap or they have a new guy that bumps an old guy out of the seat. So it's kind of more a case-by-case scenario, but what's different in NASCAR compared to other sports is that right in the NBA, the NFL, MLB, you have these annual drafts, and there's always a rotation of young talent in racing. There's only 40 guys at the cup level, and there's maybe one or two seats that turn over on an annual basis.

So there's just a lot of young drivers trying to come up through the ladder and very few spots to go into. So you have to set yourself apart, and that's why, for the most part, you don't see a young driver in the Cup series that is 18. You only see that every once in a while. Otherwise, you only see drivers make their first Cup stars when they're mid-20s, plus or minus, a few years, maybe even early, 30s just because of how there's not as much turnover at the top level. What's the biggest mental adjustment you had to make when the consequences from just being able to reset the game turning? I'm actually in a car and this is real life. That's a great question. Literally my second race, I hit the wall on the second lap.

And I was like, dang, this is not as easy as I thought it would be. I remember the first time I flipped, the first time I crashed somebody else or myself. But those experiences are like super important because those mistakes allow you not to make them again and those lessons are super important. So adjusting from the sim to real life, honestly, it wasn't too hard from the athletic standpoint because I had that background of playing other sports growing up. So I wasn't tired from a physical stance. It just was what immensely required to be aware of how the tire feels, how you feel in air and the spacing of being close to the wall or other people. I think that was the adjustment that I had to make as I, you know, grew my experience, racing regionally before going to the national level.

Now you said flipped over. What happened with that race? Okay. So that race, I was in a dirt race where it was a race for practice. And a lot of times, NASCAR drivers will go race on dirt, race go cars, race other forms of racing to really get better at what we do. And I was racing on dirt and somebody hit the wall and I try to avoid them and it's dirt so you like can't really stop. and I next thing I knew I was like barreling and it does that scary no it just hurt it wasn't scary yeah I mean no the thing is the thing about flipping is it's not the

flipping that is the issue is if when you stop abruptly or you land that's the part where people get hurt whether they land you know flat on the on the bottom of the yeah the impact and they'll have back injuries and stuff like that or have a just a sudden stop so if anything flipping isn't necessarily a bad thing it's just whenever you are abruptly stopped. So, um, didn't feel great,

but now I know. But how do you know know you're not going to die? Yeah. I mean, we have faith in, in our, our safety.

I mean, there's so many advancements that they've made over the last 25 years that make it aware, it's not a thing that, I mean, we don't take it for granted for sure,

but the cars are way safer than they used to be. I mean, our head and neck restraint systems are super good. I mean, we are, our seats are literally crafted to our,

our stature, our bodies. So, like we're literally not like locked in the seat but like pretty much memory foam to our body to make sure that we're not moving around a lot whenever we have those crashes and that was the worst thing that ever happened to like the worst accident that you've had well yeah so far yeah yeah I mean and crashes are honestly just a part of racing I mean you that's something you accept um because it's just part of what what we do I mean we're going so fast we're so close to each other there's bound to be incidents from the time and time I mean I crashed two weeks ago I mean it's it's normal You say so quickly. So when you're not racing and you're in your personal car, do people pull up to you and be like, let's race it because they know it's you? Honestly, no. But the thing is, I don't have like a super fast, like normal car.

I kind of call you guys. I have, well, I have a Chevy Traverse, but my, my front car is a Chevy SS 2017. And that car is nice because I can just keep it on, like, the tour, like easy gas mode. So it's not super loud. But I can, like, change the exhaust with a little dial in there to, like, to, like, you know. like, you know, open them up and have it be a little bit louder, but... You're not even allowed to drive nothing but Chevy, period. I mean, I'm sure you could, but I mean, I like you.

No, I know. I mean, I could, but I mean, I don't really want to. I like to like what I've got right now. It's like being signed to Jordan. Why would you wear other sneakers if you're signing in Jordan? Great point. Exactly. If somebody is like coming up and wants to be in your position with NASCAR, Canadian women are looking for more. More to themselves, their businesses, their elected leaders, and the world are at them.

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just kind of showcasing what makes them unique. I think it's the biggest thing that that works. There's so much uniqueness out there that I don't think that people need to try to follow directly what other drivers or what other people do. I think it's important to keep that identity and just be themselves at the end of the day. You know, there aren't a lot of black drivers at your level. Do you embrace that responsibility or do you wish you could ever just race without carrying that weight? It's not weight. I think it's a responsibility I cherish.

I think it's for me to have more people like us at the track is fun because I have that love for racing. And if I can share that to more of us, then I can be very proud of that. Well, I am proud to say that this weekend at the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Part series on Saturday, Araja will compete in a Black Effect podcast network rat. Sheppelin. Camaro. I can't wait to see Black Effect running around. You have a picture so we can see it?

I would love to see it. It's fine. I can't wait to see it. And you designed the rap with the brand? Oh, that's hard. It's real sleek. That's a very disruptive. Hell yeah.

Black and white. Yeah, black and black. Yeah. I like the black cars. Congratulations, man. I love that. Yeah, I appreciate you guys. Let me see if I can pull up.

I would love to see that. I got to say thank you. You know, I think for me, like, I met Chico last year, or actually a couple years ago, uh, from 85 South at Richmond. Oh, Chico, went to Winston-Salem. And, yeah, she went to Winston. And Dolly Bishop, the president of the Black Effect. Yeah, that's dope.

Yeah, so, yeah, I've definitely been familiar with you guys, and I'm super excited to showcase y'all this weekend. No, man, I love what you represent. Like, you know, even outside of just, you know, driving the car, just the fact that, you know, the way you carry yourself and just how smart you up. I just think that's real. I appreciate that, you know?

Yeah. But what does success look like for you beyond trophies? I think for me I've really learned, and this is something therapy has helped me with, is that to define success outside of the accolades and the stats on the track. So I think for me, if I can leave the sport whenever I'm done driving, which is hopefully a long time from now, not only better than it was when I got here,

but to where we have a renowned presence in the sport, then I can be proud of how, I guess that would be success for me. Because, of course, every driver, every athlete wants to be the best and be great at their profession from a, stats or achievement perspective, but there's more, I guess, out there than just getting those results

on the track. And they're still important because I think a lot of times without those results, you can't have the other things. But I would say the success for me is deeper than just getting the dubs on the track.

Well, good luck this weekend. We're going to be watching. Make sure you check it out. What channel is on? So how many of you? CW. CW. So definitely check it out.

Raja Carruth. Good luck. Thank you guys. Appreciate you for joining us this morning. If they want to follow you or anything when they do that at it. Yeah. My website, rogercruth.com or on my socials, Roger Cruth, underscore,

IG, Twitch, YouTube, the whole nine. If you go on Twitch, you'll watch me racing on my simulator or playing other games and stuff like that. And then otherwise, tune on the CWs pretty much every Saturday this year. Watch him race in that Black Effect podcast networked. Rap Chevy Camaro, number 32. There you go. You ain't going to be able to miss it. Nope, not at all.

This Saturday, at what time again? I think it's 5 or 5.30. 5 o'clock. Yeah, 5 o'clock. All right. It's Roger Carroof. It's the breakfast club. Good morning.

Roger Crouf. I'm no Raja. Roger, my bad. Roger Carroof. All right. Well, let's get to the latest with Lauren. Hey, remember, stop your talk, LL Coube. Yeah, I'm not dumbing myself down.

I'm being myself. That source is close. I'm the home guy that knows a little bit about everything and everything. Lauren. The little brown girls look at you and go, I want to be like you. Take me through that, take me through that. Where's she's going. The latest with Lauren knows.

Take me through that. through down. On the breakfast club. L.L. Cool baby. Talk to me. Real quick, I wanted to send congratulations to Tamara Hall. Her show was renewed for...

Hey. Yeah, another season. Congrats. Big Tam? Yeah. I mean, you know, all the daytime TV shakeups and all things that are happening. Just wanted to make sure we shot at her out and said,

congratulations for that because the shows are getting pushed out of here. Yeah, I salute to Tanger. I'm going to include moms in Tamara Hall because she always gives her the less fortunate great opportunities to appear on show. You calling me less fortunate? What you're talking about? What you're talking about? Yeah, because say what you mean and mean what you say? I've been on this show.

What are you about to say? I've been about that. Because he said it and looked over here. All right. And hopefully I go. We've all been on there. I hope Jess gets on there. You got a book coming out. Don't death do we parent. Period. I'm just saying, damn. All right, y'all. She looks out for the less fortunate.

Damn. Don't double down. Stop doubling. Stop doubling. All right, y'all. Moving on. I know y'all talked about this a bit in the opening of the show. I heard the Unks are back outside this summer.

Y'all are really excited because yesterday, J.Z, Rock Nation announced that Jay Z is going to be doing two shows on July 10th and July 11th at Yankee Stadium, celebrating the 30-year anniversary of reasonable doubt. Come on now. In the 25-year anniversary of the blueprint. If you don't talk like that, you're not invited. Shut up. Now, I wanted to make mention, because y'all were talking about earlier, just like tickets.

and all those things, right? So I saw yesterday that Lenny S, who we know, you know, is right there with Jay-Z all the time. He posted that 400-plus people text him about free tickets yesterday. And he wants to make it clear that he does not have any tickets. He's trying to figure out if he's going to have a ticket himself. Damn. Yeah, so that's already going to crazy.

Well, he's going to have a ticket, but don't call him because he ain't given away tickets. But you know why I brought this back up? Because, what, a month ago when I told you all, something was happening with Jay-Z, y'all thought I was crazy. You sure did. When he changed his name on the streaming services. You knew something was coming down to pipe blind and it came. Thank you.

Pause. Remember I told you guys that Jay-Z had changed his name across all the DSPs. He had changed it to... Oh, no. We didn't think he was crazy for, you know, thinking that the two dots over the why meant anything. I mean, that's how his name was. That's how his name was listed when Reasonable Without came out. And then he changed it because they wanted to, like, clean up the way that it was appearing places.

We all knew. Anyway. He was on a stop low. Thank you. I appreciate it. He was on. June 25th, 19. 96, baby.

I think I'll announce some more stuff, too. They are. I think they are. There's a lot. He has to do something in Brooklyn, so I just feel like he has to do something. There's been that rumor about whether or not he grabbed some dates at the barclay, but nothing has been

confirmed. So we'll keep watching. Now, and other things that we're watching, so yesterday this story broke. TMZ did an exclusive. They said that they received a cease and desist that Rick Ross sent Remy Ma. Now, this season is about a movie called the biggest boss, or that was called the biggest boss, and I'll explain why I say was, that will be releasing on Remy Ma's, the Remy Network, which is where she does like a bunch of different media.

Now, according to the letter, Rick Ross's attorneys say that the movie is confusing fans. It's making them think that Rick Ross has something to do with the movie. They're talking about the comments and stuff that were under the trailer that was posted on Instagram, that fans are confused, and the fact that his music was used in his show. trade name, the biggest boss. So they're demanding that the project be halted, right? Now, on face value, that sounds like that's fair, right? Now, I talked to Remy Ma' last night, and Remy Ma, she was kind of confused

because her team received the cease and desist, and before it even got to TMZ, before it even hit the media, everything was already taken care of because, you know, Remy's like, look, I'm in this business as well, I'm fair, it was an honest mistake that was made by somebody on her content team. The movie itself isn't even out. It was a trailer that was posted to promote the movie on Instagram that had, you know, the music and then it was called the biggest boss, but they had already changed

the name, took it down, the music and everything had been changed before the story even hit the media. So she's confused why it even had to get to media because her and Rick Ross have had a relationship for 20 plus years. I was going to ask you, was there any prior beef or like, what happened? No, not that she knows of. And she says that, you know, she reached out to Rick Ross to have a conversation about, you know, what happened and the fact that it even got as far as TMZ. And that I know of, as I checked in this morning, he had not returned her phone call.

So she's kind of confused why he didn't just pick up the phone and call her. But she said she made things right way before this hit the media because, you know, that wasn't their intent. She wasn't trying to be malicious. It was just an honest mistake. And it was corrected right away. And, you know, Remy is the owner of the network. So it's not like she personally put that movie together because it's user-generated content, right?

Yes, yes. User-generated content. And, you know, I think they're leaning into the fact that like that, The movie is about someone who was a CEO, and then he uses, like, those experiences to become a music artist, and then he goes on, he's setting people up and all these things in the movie, not Rick Ross. And she's like, I hope that that's not, you know, that's similar to your storyline. But, hey, you know what I mean? But it's not.

It's all the details that you just described by using or the music. That's his trademark, the biggest boss. I completely understand it from a business perspective. Yeah. There's little flips in that movie, too. Little flips in there. Red Cafes in there. Sasha DeValle is in it.

The Valle's in it. Yeah. Drop on a clue to mind for Sasha. That's the home. But, but yeah, I mean, Remy understood the business aspect of it, too. That's what she's saying. It's like, I got it. You could have just called me.

And for people that are wondering now, because, you know, now. So you spoke to Remy yesterday? Yeah, I spoke to Remy yesterday. Did you? No, she didn't press you. She did not. No, no, no. I reached out to her publicist, Earned, shot out to Earn Dukes.

Earned to Earned. What up? Yeah, and I was like, hey, I'm a bit confused about this because I, that I knew of, I thought Remy had a relationship with Rick Ross. Press you. Why did a cease and desist to be sent? So then he called me and was like, hey, can I put, you know, can I put, you know, can I put Remy on the phone and we talked. We had a conversation.

She didn't say nothing about you. She didn't impress me. We had a conversation. We had anything about your little reporting that you'd be doing up here. We did have my little. Wow. First, what he called me earlier? The less fortunate. Now was my little reporting.

And he called us to less fortunate. Anyway. Well, we did have a conversation about, you know, things just always being fair. But it wasn't, it's nothing that we're going to bring here because it was all positive energy. And Remy has the, uh, Her network. Oh, Remy got you studied. When she's stuttering.

No, she's by everything. She's like, I started. We know Rima a long time. I think. You got to compress yesterday. You got to compress. Me honest. No.

No, no, no. We're not going to bring that energy in here because Remy is out the way building her businesses, being a mogul she is. So you leave that or all that somewhere else. Remmy Miles. Press you. No.

BX. And if you guys are looking to get your content on a Remy Mide network, you can email Rush. Oh! Oh! Let me network. So we say it again.

I didn't hear it. You can email rush at romey network.com for if you want to, you know, submit movies. Because now, because of all this coverage, people are like, oh, I didn't even know that was happening. How can we get movies? Do that promo. Do that promo. That's right. Love you, Ramey.

After you hung up with Remy, did you feel like you needed to call Top Dog Lough? Hey, yo. I know. I know. I love Remy. We had a great conversation. Y'all are focused on the wrong things. And that's a part of the problem.

When people being focused on the wrong thing. That's what she said she crushed you. That's what she told you, huh? You know what? You learn fast, though. That's one thing about Laura, she learned. Are you dumb? I know she said that a couple times.

No, she did not. Are you dumb? Please. Ruby, good morning. What's a, Rennie? My. Come on, Rame. Good morning.

Good job. Presta. Good morning, Raleigh. All right. That's the latest. Happy birthday, Andy Smith. Happy birthday, boo-boo-boo. Oh, I'm about to say,

what birthday you're going to make sure that birthday right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. Well, that's the latest with Remi. I mean, Lauren, all right now. When we come back to... So, Solomon, you giving that donkey to somebody? Yeah, speaking of pressing.

Senator and Rand Paul need to come to the front of the congregation. We like to have a word with him. All right. We'll get to that next. You got a Remedy joint to play? Pull up some Remedy. I'll give you a second. 8005-85-105-1.

And then after that, of course, Just fix my mess. So if you're in... Lean back. You need any type of relationship issue or anything. You can call Jess right now. She'll fix all your problems. All you have a co-parentin issue.

you definitely call me up because I'm an experienced expert in that. All right, we'll get some rem you on. What you're looking at him? I'm scared of scared. I love playing with me. That's it happen to the best of us. Yes, it happens. Can I get a drug?

I use that donkey thing that you are, he on, he's on. It's time for donkey of the day. I got a donkey of the day to be hot. They're making the donkey of the day by the things that I said. Damn, shall am. Some donkey the days just saw themselves. It was you. What accountability are he taping? Yeah.

Put me off guard. I'm not making the super big thing. I'd have made don't you today. On the breakfast club. That'd be it said, I want to start off with this donkey right here. We up. Donkey today for Thursday, March 19th goes to Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky. Now, why am I giving Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky the biggest he hard this morning?

Well, because if you was listening to front page news this morning with Mimi Brown, and you heard her report the story about Senator Rand Paul. confronting Senator Mark Wayne Mullen at what has been called a heated DHS confirmation hearing. Now let me explain something. Senator Mark Wayne Mullen is a Republican from Oklahoma, and he appeared before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee for a confirmation hearing on his nomination to replace Homeland Security Secretary Christy Knoam. Now let me be the first to tell you.

I don't know anything about Senator Mark Wayne Mullen. So this donkey of today is coming strictly from what I saw in this hearing yesterday. Off top! Senator Rand Paul does not like Senator Mark Wayne Mullen. Okay, there is a clear disdain, there is a clear bias. There is nothing Senator Mark Wayne Mullen could have done or said in that hearing to get Senator Rampaw's, get Senator Rampal to vote for him. Okay, now I don't know if that's fair.

I would think you would have to be somewhat objective in these hearings, but it's impossible, okay? It's impossible, especially when we're talking about partisan politics. These folks going to rep their side, they're going to rep their set. Red going to bang on blue, blue going bang on red. But this is interesting because Senator Rand Paul is a Republican. And Republicans don't fall in love. They fall in line, but Rand Paul is not falling in line here. No, no, no.

He was letting it be known from the beginning. I don't F with you. Why? Because Senator Rand Paul. Once upon a time in 2017 got beat up. All right. His neighbor, a retired anesthesiologist named Renee Boucher, put hands on him. Okay, they had some dispute over yard waste and I don't know what words were exchanged.

But it's clear that Renee got to the point where he couldn't take it no more. He was fed up, so he beat Rand Paul up. Okay, left him with six broken ribs and a bruised lung. Let's go to local 12 news to hear that story. Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is speaking out about the moment his neighbor attacked him. Paul says violence caught him off guard. Dr. Renee Boucher assaulted Paul eight months ago at his home in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Now, Boucher recently pleaded guilty to assaulting the sitting senator back in November.

He says Paul kept leaving brush piles close to his property. Eventually, Bouchet said he got fed up and he ambushed Paul. He was running so hard that the two of us, by the time he hit me, probably carried 10 feet down the hill. I mean, this was an impact. My doctors have said that they've almost never seen six ribs broken in an assault. It's usually a car accident. Senator Paul says he never knew his neighbor was that upset about the brush piles. Judge Sennett is Boucher, 30 days in prison, but Paul is appealing to get that change at 21 months behind bars.

Boucher is counter-sewing Paul. wife and their homeowners association. Hey, keep your guard up at all times. Okay, Senator Rand Paul is holding a grudge, all right? He does not like the fact that Senator Mark Wayne Mullen once suggested he understood why the neighbor attacked Paul. Let's go to meet the press now for the report, please. We are following developments on Capitol Hill and a potential setback for the president's pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security. Senator Rand Paul, the Republican chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee,

announcing he will oppose fellow Senator Mark Wayne Mullen's nomination to be DHS Secretary when his committee votes tomorrow. Paul making that announcement after leading Mullen's confirmation hearing today, hearing that began with this heated exchange between the two. You told the media that I was a freaking snake and that you completely understood why I had been assaulted. Tell the world why you believe I deserve to be. be assaulted from behind, have six ribs broken and a damaged lung. Tell me to my face. And while you're at it, explain to the American public why they should trust a man with anger issues. I simply address

that I said I could understand because of the behavior you were having. I can understand why the neighbor did what he did. And as far as me saying that I invoke violence, I don't. And you offer no apology today and no regrets. And I'm not apologizing for pointing out your character. Good. So you're jolly, well, fine. And you want the American public. and the people up here to vote that may or may not vote for you to know that you supported the felonious violent attack on me from behind. I did not say I supported it. I said I understood it.

The felonious violent attack from behind. Don't you threaten envy with a good time. First of all, drop on the clues bond for Senator Markway Mulling. All right, now you know your uncle Shala is not smarter than the average bear. God is still working on me, okay? I was in therapy this week, literally talking to my therapist about people I want. When I say hurt, I don't necessarily mean physically. Just there's people out there I could easily destroy.

And as humans, we want to sometime, okay? But the reality is it's never really worth it. You got to let these devils be devils because it gives God the opportunity to show people how anointed you are. Okay, God is always waiting for the opportunity to show these demons why you shouldn't play with his children. But my ministry was not Renee Boucher's ministry. Renee decided he wanted to put hands and feet on Senator Ram Paul,

Senator Mark Wayne Mullen knows Rand Paul And in his mind Rand Paul deserved to get his ass kicked Okay, see Rand Paul you were trying to make Senator Markway Mullen look bad By bringing up the fact he said He understood why the neighbor attacked you well I don't think it made him look bad at all

Especially if he thinks you are somebody who needed to get beat up Why do we act like we all don't know someone Who deserves to get hands put on them Okay, look in my life I didn't put hands on people And I don't got hands put on me And I think pretty much for the most part, the times I got hands put on me, I deserved it. Okay, see, it's not up to you to determine whether or not someone kicks your ass.

Okay, don't get me wrong. There are random acts of violence. Okay, there are times when physical violence is not justified. But if you're a neighbor who is an anesthesiologist, okay, who you have probably had long time disputes with, the person who lives right next to you, if you and your neighbor are having what was called a long running landscape dispute over debris, That means your neighbor has thought about this. Okay, he really sat sitting over his frosted flakes and said to himself one day, I'm going to have to F this dude up. Okay, he did his jail math.

He probably calculated all the cost. How much is the lawyer? How much is the bail? He knew you were sitting, sending a Rampant. And he still said, nah, this is going to be worth it. Look, Rand Paul, I don't know you. You might be a great guy, but your neighbor didn't think so. And Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, who actually knows you didn't think so.

Hell, I bet if I pulled some other elected officials to decide, they would probably say, nah, he deserved to get his ass kicked. I've been wanting to do it myself for years. All I'm saying, sir, is we don't have time for this type of petty, okay? In a confirmation hearing, you can't lead with a personal grievance over policy. I don't want to see two guys with personal history settling scores on the national stage. Don't take it out on Senator Mullen Rand, Paul. Go get your get back with your neighbor Renee Boucher, okay?

That's who you really got smoke with. He's the one who broke 60 your ribs. Okay, gave you a felonist violent assault from the back. All right? Now, if you got an issue with Senator Mullen's temperament, fair, completely understand. If you feel like he's downplayed political violence so he might not be fit to run DHS, I overstand. But if you're mad because he don't like you and he thinks you are someone worthy or getting beat up, well, that's lame. Okay, raising concerns about endorsing or minimizing violence, valid.

But being upset because he thinks you should have got. and beat up, that's emotional, that's personal, that's petty. Please let Remmy Ma give Senator Rand Paul the biggest he-haw. He-ha, he-ha, you stupid motherfucker, are you dumb? That's why I always got to hear both sides. And I need to hear both sides. Yeah. All right.

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Morning everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess hilarious. Charlemagne de Guy. We are the breakfast club. It's time for Jess Fix My Mess. Hello, who's this? Hi, this is Ashley.

Hey, Ashley. What's your question for Jess? Hey, Jess. So I'm currently in... Hearing a little feedback. I'm sorry. I'm currently in a little bit. a in a strange relationship with my husband, right?

And so we have three children together. One is 11, one is nine, and one is six. Well, when he left the home, he was dating this girl, and she and I, we never got along. He's 44, and she's 28. And so he left, they started a relationship. That's fine. We're still getting married. Well, they recently broke up, and we just found out a couple of days ago,

they were now back together. And my son found out because they were sharing a screen. and he saw the text messages of their conversation. The problem that we're running into is that the children cannot stand this girl. And so I'm trying to figure out what's the best way to communicate to him that the relationship that he has with this girl is very toxic, and our children are devastated about their reconciliation. How old are you?

I'm 38. And how was your husband? 44. Oh, I thought you did. Somebody was 24 and 28. No, she was 28. She's 28. Oh, the girlfriend is 28.

Clock it. Okay. How, no, that's right. How are y'all still married? Let's just start there. Like, there's no, you guys aren't looking to get it. That's a great question. Why are you guys still married?

Yeah. The legalities of it, honestly. The paperwork. Cheaper to keeper type-ish? Or, like, what is it? I'm sorry, take him. It was like cheaper to keeper type-ish. Like, you know what I mean?

No, no, no. I think it's just honestly being lazy, not dragging ourselves to the poor house. Yeah. Because this just sounds crazy. The whole head. line of it. This is your husband, your husband's girlfriend, whom you have

a problem with, is actually affecting the co-parenting relationship, huh? For sure. That is crazy. She is a monster. Oh, okay, so they have a baby too? No, not at all, but the thing is, because of our relationship, our co-parenting relationship,

she likes to sometimes wear her ugly head and make comments and not particularly care for the dynamic that we have. Okay. And so, it makes it difficult for he and I to co-parent. Right. What is the dynamic? And I'm going to tell you why I feel like she's a little bitter. And she...

No, I got you. No, I mean, we're just... Honestly, we're cool. Like, I'm not one of those where you can't see your kids. Hey, you want to come over and see the kids. I run over to the score real quick while you at the house watching them. It's nothing like that. And when I say nothing, it's nothing like that. Okay, so y'all are not even attracted to each other anymore.

Y'all are just really... Damn. Like me and my son's dad. Like we're like brother and sister. We're family. Precisely. Okay. Okay.

So you guys are still married. That is a barrier that the girlfriend probably feel like can never be broken because not only are you taking accountability saying that it's being lazy, but it's also lazy on his side. Like, why won't you divorce your wife? Like, she's still your wife. So, yes, she has a problem with the dynamic because y'all could get back together at any moment because neither one of y'all are pressed to get a divorce. to go through with a divorce. So she's technically a mistress at the end of the day. Yeah.

You're like, yeah, that's our problem, not mine. Yeah, yeah. I mean, but I think the thing is, is that I'm so reluctant to call her that because it's not like I'm wanting the relationship back. Like, so quiet is kept, I'm happy for their relationship in terms of him being able to just go out and be free. But in terms of the type of individual that she is,

I just thought that he would have picked better cross. Okay, so those are your personal feelings about her, girl. They ain't got, look, let me ask you this. Is she disrespectful to your children? She has done some very questionable things with my children. Okay. Does she hurt them in any way? Insully, physically, emotionally, like, does she hurt them?

Has she put them in harm's way yet? Hmm. Because I, honest, I'm telling you, girl, I'm going to keep it all the way funky with you. I feel like the problems that you have with her wouldn't be the problems if y'all got an actual divorce. Because she's in a relationship where she doesn't feel like she fully has the man. And imagine her friend groups and her family members like, damn, you still mess with that Murray, man. He's saying getting back with his wife.

But, I mean, they're so cozy and they're cool and all that. But, you know, your boyfriend is still married to his baby mom, who he has an excellent dynamic with. I'm a little worried for you, sis. You know what I'm saying? Like, imagine that being in her head all day, every day. You know what I mean? I do believe that you would

if she was harming your kids girl you would sound totally different than what you sound right now I just I mean I think because I think there are levels to it I mean like harming when you think about harming like is she really is she slapping my kids across the face

absolutely yeah or disrespecting them verbally you know just even offending them or you know they're not safe with her or that you know they're dead answer this for me just fix this mess for me if your daughter was eight years old would you allow her to have acrylic nails Would I allow her to have what?

Acrylic nails. No, I would not. Not personally, no. That's not for me. Not for me either. Oh, okay, okay. So she basically took your baby to get her nails done and she's eight. You're picking up when I'm putting down.

I got you. All right. But you know what? Your baby girl probably wanted to get that done. Now that's not, I'm not saying, you know, and the girl is a little younger. She's 28. Y'all are in your 40s. You know what I'm saying?

And, you know, 38 and then 44, you know what I'm saying? She's younger. She's trying to appeal to the children because She is their stepmother, basically. Like she's in... Oh, just. Okay, but... You see, all right, right there.

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Hello. Yes. What's your question for Jess? I'm going to do some baby's father issues, and I just need to talk to come out before I stay on them again. Okay. No, oh, back. Okay, no. Stay home.

What happened? What's wrong? All right, so in December, for, like, almost a year, like, I was telling him and my sister, if I find out you're doing with each other, I'm going to break both of your job. So come August, me and my sister wound up getting in a fight because she said something like, oh, you would have to be there. get your relationship together or I will so I just snap out on her so she she came in the court press charges and all that I get out in December so I got parole to Philly so we all get in my car had to leave my three-roomed house and all that to come down to Philly we in a shelter and all that so this dude is just a heck the funny money so I'm like listen like I'm still trying to make it

work because you got a one your own daughter together and even though like you ain't like the best of the best but I still love you like we're going to have to make this work or you going to have to kick rock so um why he's just going to tell me earlier in a week because I just had a slight stroke. I was in a hospital and I was telling him like, can you come get your daughter? Because they're going to keep me for a couple days. No, no, no. Call your friend.

So when I came back to silly, I did link up one of my friends because, you know, he helped me with Peepard's wife putting gas in my car. My car was trashed in my out of prison. Like, he paid over at $2,000 trying to get a fixed. I got you. I got a friend that helps you. Yeah, you got a friend that helps you. Okay.

That's fine. Yeah. So now he's going to tell me, unless I die, I'm not going to help you with your daughter. and I'm this and I'm I need to be saved and all this or all this stuff but mind you, he's doing what he do and I don't say nothing about it because, you know, everybody got their flaws

and we are doing whatever we're doing. But I tell him, I don't want to be with you because every time you come over, you don't got no Pembroke's or no wife or nothing and I just had to get out the shelter because I got a 3-year-old too and a 14-year-old, but my 14-year-old

when I came back to the city, he would have dead right now. I see whenever I want, but we're back in silly, so why not? Like, go with your dad. I did 14 years. He can do the rise. Okay. So, mind you, no child support, you know, just doing it from the muscle.

Uh-huh. And I haven't had a job in, like, three years because where I was living at, they don't have daycare. So I was about to stay at home. I do hair. I do all of that. Like, so I'm going to try to do it. So this dude was living with me, eating my food stamps, doing all that's not cleaning up. Had a white girl in my house.

I had to wake up dinner. I break her neck. went over to some other girl house. It was a whole mess. It was a mess. So now he just keeps saying it. So now I got two good girlfriends and silly, like, they like my sisters. So now he's all texting them all this or other stuff.

So I'm like, yo, you being real messy because I'm one where I don't play around with my money, my kids or my man. So I tell my girlfriend's like, yo, like, if I'm not around, don't answer his phone calls because I don't want you all to be in the middle. And I go back because I think something. Because, you know, you're not telling me nothing. He's not telling me nothing. I'm going straight to what.

However, the story, you know, whatever, can't grow up in my head. I'm going to go wrong with that. But how dare you tell me I took care of you. You've been living off of me and telling me that you, you're not going to do nothing for your daughter because I don't want to be with you no more. And then he's going to come over like, yeah, I got something for her. He'll come over with a half a pang of wife, a big bottle, and a bag of dirty clothes. Oh, can I wash my clothes over here?

No, sir. Okay. All right. So you're not in the shelter. You do live in a place right now. Well, I just got out of the shelter like two weeks ago. my girlfriend let me move in my heart. Okay, so he came to your girlfriend house.

You know, your friend's house. Because this is a girlfriend that introduced us together like 14, 15 years ago. Okay. Yeah. Jesus, babe. Okay, so deep breath. Deep breath. All right.

Now, this is a lot. You're in a very toxic situation, you know, and you still, you're not over your sons. I mean, you're not over your baby daddy. He ain't over you either. That's just what it is. But it sounds like he needs, like he comes to you, for convenience and you've let him in a few times

and then he do his thing and then you go and do your thing too because it's both about it sounds like it's about get back for the both of y'all you know what I mean because y'all not over each other and y'all move you're operating out of feelings and y'all both ain't even stable enough to be acting like this with these kids like this is not cool you just told me you had a stroke you just got the hospital you've been to jail and back and then you broke a white girl's neck

like you know because he bought some of my I am I in a house in the heat. I did snap on him, but I didn't break her neck. Okay, well, something, something. This is a lot of toxicity. You're trying to raise three children, girl? No, yeah, you need to, y'all need to figure this out, but you, just for you first, because you can't control him, right?

And I didn't get his side. I'm only getting your side. You need to rid yourself of all of that toxicity. You can't deal with him. You can't. You're going to have another damn stroke. Thank God you're still here because you had a stroke. That's very serious.

Yeah, you need the deep breath and you need to focus on you and your children. Forget a man. Forget it. Forget it. Your home girl is nice enough to let you move with her. You're not in the shelter anymore. Thank God for that. You know, but your baby daddy or your friend sex or all of this should be the furthest away from your mind.

You got a one-year-old. You said she won. Your youngest is one. Yes. Too much. Too much going on. Too much going on. You should be focusing on working to save up to get out of your.

your home girl's house. Get your kids together. You got a 14-year-old. A son? Yes. He's with his dad. Yeah, when he came back, he said he wanted to go

because my one-year-old father was stealing from him and all of that while I was in prison. I didn't know until. Right, okay. But you see this, right? Because your kids got to grow up and who are going to look at you? They're going to look at you? Like, yeah, my mom let this happen.

She kept indulging in all this drama and stuff. And, you know, me and my siblings. That's what my first year old said. That's the, yes. You said, Mom, if you get back with him, you'll never see me again. And I was like, oh, no. This is your child, yes. And imagine what your one-year-old and your three-year-old,

if they could fathom what's going on and internalize what's going on. Imagine how they would feel. They're girls. You got girls. Like these children. Yeah, my one-year-old is a girl. Yeah, these children are looking at you, love. They are.

You got to get it together. You don't need to go back to jail. So leave the toxicity alone. It's not worth trying to get back at this. man. He's going to do what he's going to do. Let his bum ass be somewhere else. No, you can't come here and wash clothes. No, no. If he's not

trying to do right, don't involve yourself. Don't even try. Don't give him a chance. You feel a horny girl. Buy a rose. I don't care. Don't. You got kids looking after you. I mean, that you need to look after and they're looking up to you. You know, try to get yourself together and get your health in order.

You can't take care of nobody if you can't take care yourself. If you're not in shape for it. I'm serious. Grace, girl. Ladies, ladies men alone. Seriously. And my girlfriend, I see what now, she was saying that, like, no, he only on the top now. Calling him a text to him and seeing all this stuff because, because first, like,

last week he was like, let's make it work. And I was like, I don't know if I see that you taking care of your daughter, then I'll probably think about it. You get what I'm saying? But you see what I'm saying? You say, I don't know. No, you do know, because it's going to be a repeated cycle. You do know.

He ain't done out there in the street and you ain't done out there trying to get. get back at him. So look, just leave it alone. You just had a stroke. He ain't care. He wasn't there? No. All right. That's what I'm saying. Think about yourself. Don't think about him. Think about yourself. Think about your kids. Let him get itself together. I don't care if it take him 10 years. You need to work on yourself right now. I promise you you will feel much better if you focus on yourself. You got to love yourself. Sex, sex. Yeah, for real. Now pull back off because I know you pulled over somewhere. Yeah. Yeah.

Right, good luck, Mom. All right, girl. All right. Thank you, y'all. Y'all have a blessed one. You too. Just Fix My Mess. 8,500,000-105-1.

We got the latest with Lauren. When we come back so don't move, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Lauren becoming a straight thing. Tell her, lady. She gets them from somebody that knows somebody. She gets the details.

I'm a home girl that knows a little bit about everything. She'd be having the latest on this. The latest on this. The latest with Lauren La Rosa. Sometimes you have facts. Sometimes she has details. Sometimes she have a little bit everything. Well, it's the latest.

Brought to you by Top Dog Law On the Breakfast Club Talk to me All right So last night I went to a private Like intimate event with GZ He was announcing

Or is announcing We're announcing the fact that He is doing a second run of his residency So the last one he did Was all about the celebration of TM 101 But this one will be his completely Like all of his catalog So it'll be in Vegas still

It's still a black tie affair But this is called The Legend of the Snowman It's at Planet Hollywood The debut date is May 1st. But one of the things that I learned, I got to speak to him backstage, was that did y'all know that he funded this whole residency out of his own pocket?

I didn't know. Like 100%. It's very expensive. Yes, I couldn't believe it. I'm like, really expensive. Let's take a listen to GZ talking about funding the residency. Well, the fight was actually getting someone who understood the vision.

To be honest with you, like the orchestral space is still not sold on culture. Because when you think about What we do, you don't necessarily align that with an orchestra or black tie and things like that. Like the first show we did with an orchestra was not easy. So did you fund this on your own? Absolutely. Everything.

100% by yourself? I mean, it's just, you know, everybody don't see the vision, like, every time. You know, and people, you know, we start talking about money. Like, everybody don't want to take those risks, you know, because you can win, you can lose. I'm a bet on myself at all times. But I've done that my whole career, by the way. Fending my own records, paying for them, getting reimbursed by the label after the fact. And if it doesn't do well, sometimes they won't reimburse you.

That's a lot of money. So I asked you to ask him how much it was, and I know he wouldn't tell you, but I Google last night. So the sphere in Vegas, just the sphere, that big sphere, is about $1 million to $10 million production cost. A smaller venue where most of these artists is about $250,000 just for production costs. No, no, he wasn't at the spear. I was just telling them because people know what the spear is.

A regular venue is about $250,000. Well, I mean, at the end of the audio, and I'll have this interview in full on my YouTube channel, Lauren La Rosa TV I did, I try to give a range. I'm like, let's start at six figures at least, and then the, you know, the team cut me off there.

Like, all right, let's end the interview here. But yeah, I mean, he's coming out of the pocket pretty heavy for this. I tried to get GZ in South Carolina a couple times. They act like, my money ain't no good. You know what he wasn't good enough? You guys $100 million. Could you stop?

Whoa. Last thing I'll say on this is they told me that he does something called a four wall deal, which is like, and his listing like contracts is like a four wall. What you guys know about is when you go into venues and you basically take all the financial risk yourself

so then all of the return comes your way as well too and then you get to control everything. Take your pricing, marketing, production, all that stuff. So I was amazed. I'm like no major touring companies. Oh, no. And then sitting in front of the camera. Oh, my goodness of people to see you.

And the return is always great because I look beautiful every day. Period. It's not about you. Continue on. You looked at me. Continue on. Let's keep going. Okay.

Speaking of return. Afro men. Oh man, I'm waiting for this one. So you guys know Afro men. He's known for the song because I got high-lil- Yeah. Whoa. So he's known for that song.

He won a defamation lawsuit yesterday this week against seven Ohio sheriff's deputies. So what happened was back in 2020, they raided his home. So the police said that they had a warrant and they got a phone call and said that, you know, someone had been kidnapped and was in his home that there were drugs.

So they ran in and they found nothing. So when they found nothing, there was no charges press, right? But in the midst of this, he alleges they caused damage to his home, they broke his door down. And after he got all his stuff back, you know,

they like take evidence or whatever, he counted his money, he said there was $400 missing. Well, not only that, they cut the cameras off allegedly during the raid. So they cut the cameras off, so you couldn't see what they were doing in the house

and there's no reason to cut the cameras off. They cut his cameras off. They cut his surveillance cameras. Well, there were some cameras because he did use some surveillance footage in some of the, songs that he released about this event and that's where some of the defamation came from

so the police basically alleged that because he went on and made music videos and songs about the raid and using that security footage to mock the raid they experienced a bunch of harassments their kids were being harassed and made the cry at school and just

a ton of different things were happening they wanted four million dollars in damages and the judge said no we are not awarding this he's going in on these officers so crazy he called one humpback he called one receding headline, quote on fat, said one's wife was knocking them off, giving them brains. He's going crazy.

So wait, so they're in their feelings. Oh, are they? They were in court and, you know, it's on camera. So a lot of the audio and the video from the court is now going viral because it was just funny hearing and recount some of the things that they were called. Let's take a listen to some of the court audio. Sean, you were called Officer Poundcake by Mr. Foreman?

Multiple times. You were all these hundreds of poundcakes that work from different people. Is it true that Mr. Foreman called you a hunchback? Yes. And specifically compared you to Quasimodo? Yes. So you were called a couple names by Mr. Foreman, one of those being Beatle Bailey. Yes, sir.

Does anyone believe you're Beatle Bailey? Probably not. That's a drawn cartoon. Beal Bailey is a cartoon that's in a newspaper. Sure. Been there for years. So that would be an exaggeration. And when they call you a son of a b***, that would be an opinion?

I assume that would be an opinion? Because there's no way we can prove whether you're something the . She's been done for years. I'm sorry. I am sorry about your mother. Did y'all hear that? The mom was dead. His mom is dad in a lawyer laugh?

When is Afro-Man going to sue for the illegal raid? Because I feel like Afro-Man is owed some money after being accused of being a part of a drug and kidnapping investigation and having these police run up in his house for no reason and even to have to go through this whole trial. I mean, there's got to be pain. It's got to be suffering. Got to be emotional distress. Like, he's been through so much.

When is he going to get paid? And he said, too, he was like, you know, it's kind of crazy how y'all trying to call me out for these songs. When I made this music to recoup the damages, like y'all broke my doors down, y'all did so much. I made this to recoup. But a judge sided with them. I don't know we got a rap now.

I just don't want it to be distracted by the fact that it was an illegal rate. Right. It was an illegal. And there was a warrant and said he was part of a drug and kidnapping investigation. That is, that's defamation. You know what I mean? Labeling me as a kidnappers? Was they saying he was sexually

assaulted women or I'm making this part of? I just saw the trafficking. Either way, to have those type of things stuck to your name in this era? And they're not sure. And when that rate went down, it was such a big deal, too. I remember when the story broke, it was everywhere. So, yeah. So that's a man needs to be compensated

for his pain. You know what? He might have a call guys. Top dog law. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. Listen, any accident, big or small? Call Top Dog Law. Oh, and happy birthday, Bruce Willis. He is 71 today. y'all. That's one of my favorite actors. Happy birthday, Bruce Will. Hey, Carlos

King, you need to work on getting Afro Man. That's a Black and Black Impact Podcast Festival. I'd like to see you interview Afro. Yeah, I would love to see that too. That's a Black Effect Podcast Festival. All right. Now, when we come back, of course, we've got the mix. We're going to start off with some Jay-Z, because it's going to be a whole summer. So let's start off with some hope. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV.

Just hilarious. Salomey and the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now is Women's History Month. Yes. And who we're reping today. All right. Cool. So, I don't really have a for today, but I am honoring the misunderstood lost character, Felicia from the movie Friday. She was

literally the lost girl in the community just seeking a connection in a community, right? And everybody always like, oh, she was a Craig issue, but we never seen her do no drugs. I just think she was just a lost dirty little girl in the hood, just trying to make a connection. She probably didn't have any family, more than likely, and

if you really, really think about it, she is responsible for Craig moving out the hood into a better situation. ask me how how show how

because right when she was dealing with Debo the hood bully he was dealing with her on the low and that night she was in the house

he thought she stole from him but she really didn't steal nothing so he got up he beat her ass right and so she would tell her sister because y'all know her sister was near long that was

Craig girlfriend right well he was trying to get her but when when she told her sister her sister stepped to him and then he's Flapped the hell out of her. She flew down the street.

And then Dibbo jumped up in this, I mean, Craig jumped up in Dbo face like, yo, that's a female, right? And then they started fighting in the Tessling and all that. If it wasn't for the fight, if he didn't go back in the house and try to get that gun and come back out, if it wasn't for that,

if it wasn't for Felicia, he would have never moved to the Rancho Cucamonga to be with his uncle and aunt. He, like, she saved Craig's life in a way. She did. It was all because of her because if he would have, if she would have never,

he would have never, if she would have never spent the night with Debo and he thought that, um, she stole from him. Oh, Craig would have never had to fight him because he slept, because he slapped me along.

That was all, Felicia, Felicia is the reason that Craig made it out the hood. I do think there's a lot of layers to Felicia's character, but people who say, uh, Felicia wasn't smoking,

Cracking Friday, never seen a Friday. And I've seen her say that in Vlad TV interviews. What? But there's, There's a scene where Smokey literally goes. He sees Devo with Felicia. He goes, damn, Debo smoking crack too?

Yeah, yeah, but that's what I'm saying? We never saw her. You ever, listen, you have, you grew up in a hood and on the dirt roads. You ever see somebody that looked like a crackhead, but you never seen them do crack. But you always just see them. They dirty. I don't think I've never seen any of the crack heads that we knew what crackheads do crack. I never seen the cracker do crack.

It's like you ain't ever seen two cats having sex, but you see the kittens. I understand that. But just because somebody looked like they don't crack them in me all. They could just be dirty, disheveled. We see people like that around here all the time. said Debo on Crack 2. Okay. He said, damn,

Debo on Crack 2. You're missing the point. Felicia is the reason that he had a better life, that Craig moved out the hood and had a better life. And we see his better life in next Friday. But you know who they don't show having a better life? Felicia.

Okay. Well, you know or no. No, they didn't show it. I'm going to say you're not going to know what the future holds. But I will say this. It's a lot of Felicia's out there. You make women not even want to be women. What are you talking about?

That's what? Wow. Wow. I know what you're doing. This is the sin of the trick you've been doing all women's history month, okay? What are we talking about? No, I'm not trying to make women want to be men. I know what you're doing.

I know what you're doing. I know what you're doing. All right. I want to salute to Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone magazine. I was out with, out at South by Southwest with them. We were doing kind of like the night life. So after the night life, when you leave the club or you leave the comedy show or you want to go get a late night someplace to eat.

We were talking about some of my favorite restaurants around the country, whether it was Morrose in New Orleans or it was Hugh in Chicago or it was Uptown Taste of Seafood in Harlem. We just talked about some of my favorite spots around the country. And we went through like breakdown. What's the best thing to get, whether it's wings, whether it's, I mean, like tasting seafood has some of the best shrimp and Marlis has some dope steak. What about the bottom diner? I heard you like to go there after being. Ew, for real. You heard about that?

No, I talked about Chelsea diner, though, in the city where, you need your pancakes. Not the bottom diner? I never heard of the bottom down. I never heard of the bottom. Oh, my God. That's your bounce on. Before you were in there ordering the peach mimosa. I've never,

I've never heard of that. You never heard of that? I've never heard of it. Or the Hollis food shop where you can get your Hollis heroes or your chopped cheese. That's right. So, salute to the Rolling Stone. I really appreciate it.

We had a great time in South by Southwest, an amazing conversation. Now, also, Roger Caroof. My guy. He's going to be racing this Sunday to NASCAR driver. He's racing. Saturday. Saturday.

with the Black Effect wrapped car, and I can't wait to see that car. That's going to be amazing. That's dope. Yeah. He's racing Saturday at 5.30 in Darlington. It airs on the CW. And yes, you know, the Black Effect podcast network.

We sponsored his number 32 Chevrolet Camaro this Saturday. So when you're watching the CW, you're going to be seeing that black effect go around and around and around that track. When's race season over, you know? I don't know when race season is over. But one thing that we're working on is having the race season. simulator at the Black Effect Podcast Festival. So, you know, the same race simulator

that, you know, somebody like Raja learned on and it got him into NASCAR, we're going to have a Black Effect race simulator at the Black Effect podcast. Please. Please fell out when Ray Season over, because salute to John, he's another, a black owner of a NASCAR. I was able to get his car for some of my

car shows so kids could see it, and I would love to get that Black Effect car for a car show if race season's over. I would love to get that for some of the car shows. Let's figure it out. Figure it out. That would be dope. But you got a positive note? I do, but that's what I remind everybody since we're talking about Black Effect.

April 25th, the Black Effect Podcast Festival happens in Atlanta, Georgia at Pullman Yards. Tickets are on sale right now. Norie and DJEFN will be doing drink champs on that stage. Mona will be doing Don't Call Me White Girl on that stage. Devante Kyle and Big Ice Cup Cat, they'll be doing the Grits and Eggs podcast. Club 520 Podcast will be there with Jeff Teague,

Carlos King with Reality with the King, and keep it positive, sweetie. with Crystal Renee Haslett. She'll be there as well, man. So go get your tickets right now, black effect.com slash podcast festival, and we'll see you on April 25th. Now, the positive note is this.

You know I talk to you all about gratitude, right? Being grateful saying thank you. The reason I want gratitude to always be your attitude is for a simple reason. Gratitude turns what we have into enough. Some of y'all don't feel like you have enough because you're too busy worried about what you don't got instead of being grateful for what you do have.

So gratitude turns what we have into enough. So I always have a gratitude, an attitude of gratitude. Okay? Have a great day. Breakfast club, bitches. We don't finish or y'all done. Boat up. Wake you up.

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