The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: ‘Sinners’ Sets Oscar Record, Nicki Minaj Settles Civil Case, Gervonta Davis Wanted by Police + LaTosha Brown & Chanceé Lundy Interview

Episode Date: January 23, 2026

Today on The Breakfast Club, LaTosha Brown & Chanceé Lundy talk National Mentorship Month, reclaiming girlhood, and healing. Plus, it’s Friday—so the people pick their own Donkeys, and a caller calls out Charlamagne for ‘pausing’ Jay-Z. Listen for more!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Just a Laurel. Good morning. Salomey Nagar. Peace to the plane. It is Friday. Yes. It's Friday. Damn it. How y'all feel out there? I feel blessed black and highly favored.

Happy to be here another day to serve our beautiful listeners. Good morning. Yes. You don't have to fake act happy because it's Friday. You should be happy every day. No, I'm happy because... I'm happy for every day. No, I'm happy.

I'm happy as Friday. It looks like we're going to be... We're going to get this huge storm on the East Coast and in the South. They're talking about 17 to 20 inches paws. To say up snow. Up snow. Yes, up snow. Because with you, people

never know. But I will say this, though. When you listen to the different meteorologists, you get so many different reports. Like, I've been seeing negative. Negative 40 don't even sound real. What the hell is going to be negative 40 degrees? Like, that don't even sound realistic.

That's saying the power outages. People are not going to have power. 200 million people are going to be impacted. Yeah. I also heard if you, it's going to be so cold outside. If you stand outside for more than nine seconds, you'll die. Oh, me nine minutes. In certain areas.

Not nine seconds. Nine seconds. Nine seconds. Nine minutes. Yeah. That's what they're saying. And people run into the grocery stores to try to get groceries. Yeah.

I think they're getting groceries for like, like, I don't know why paper towels go so fast. Because people got kids and then you ever had, you ever see one of your kids pull off like almost the whole road to dry their damn hands? You need that much paper towels? No, I'm saying that's how kids do it. People with kids, they're the ones that be needing all the paper towels because their kids don't know how to just pull off one slither. The best thing I only did was they cut the paper towels in half now so you get like a half of the paper towels. That's the best thing thing did. to do that before they did that.

No, they got for your mama. I think the reason that, you know, you see so many stores empty is because people just never know. So if you're telling me that I'm going to be out of pile for days, possibly a week, I'm just trying to, like, overstock on everything, which also don't make no sense, because if you ain't got no power,

you don't go cooking on that and stuff. A lot of the stuff you buy are going to spoil anyone. Yeah, it's true. So, yeah, we just, I'm planning out my weekend just in case we're all stuck in the house. Like, we're doing a movie on this night. We're doing a talent show on this night.

The kids are creating, you know, their own little talent show. y'all do all of that just to be stuck in the house I don't have no problem I like being in the house I don't plan to be stuck in the house I don't plan to be stuck in the house because if we're stuck on there Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday because everything is shut down

we just want to have fun we're going to take the best opportunity so I understand it is a lot of us yes it's a lot of us Madison's coming back home because she's like just to get she won't be stuck in the city I don't blame her

yeah she won't be stuck so yeah it's going to be an interesting weekend man and guess what fooling around and nothing happened no matter that damn thing okay inch of snow

you'd be like what the hell man I had to postpone my Birmingham show this weekend. Oh, you're not flying out now. No, because I would have to fly to Atlanta because there's no straight through flights to Birmingham. Right. So, yeah.

It's like an hour drive. You can even drive. It's not a long drive. No, no. You don't want to be anywhere down south when something like this happening. Yes. Because an inch of snow, an inch of ice

will shut down any state in the south. Yes. You don't even want to be down there. Post-perm. Postponed Birmingham. That is what this is a bit of? I postponed Birmingham, y'all. I like your post-firm era.

Shut up. Hey, yo, whatever. Yeah, and of course, you know, Lauren and myself was supposed to be in Charlotte, but that was post-perm too. Speaking of post-perm, too. Yeah, until March, I think March 15th is the new date. They just want to make sure everybody say it. Oh, we just talk about Lauren. Speaking of post-perm, talking about Lauren.

Our hand, yo, this thing is crazy. All right, well, let's get the show, Crackard. Today on the show, we have the executive director and founder of Southern Black Girls and Women. What's that Lord? Consortium. Yes, Latasha Brown and Chanche. Chanshay Chonche Lunday

They put me on to something that I didn't even realize I guess January is National Mentorship Month Okay And I don't think we discuss Why mentorship is very important enough You know what I mean? A mentorship at any age You know, not even just for young people Like I never think you're too old to have a mentor

And it is National Mentorship Month And that's what they're here to talk about this morning That's right So we're going to talk to them in a little bit All right everybody else Front Page News is next and you can start getting on the phone lines for get it off your chest

800-585-105-1. Let's start the show. Let's start back a little bit. Hey. Classic, rich boy. Throw some D's on that. The breakfast club, come on there. Morning, everybody.

It's DJ NV. Jess O'Larry. Sholomey and the guy, we are at a breakfast club. Dang, y'all. That was my favorite verse, man. Don't act like I did it. She looked at my game,

M-V-Y. I know, that wasn't me. The reason we played that is because every time I hit 30 for 30, I'd be thinking that throw some D's about to come up. Same. Same. Like, man, play those with these for once.

Well, let's get in some front page news. If you are stuck this weekend because of the weather, don't worry. Football are still going on. The Patriots are taking on the Broncos. Sunday at 3 p.m. And the Rams take on the Seahawks at 630 on Sunday. What's up, Mimi? Good morning, Envy.

How are y'allamine? How are y'all doing this morning? Hey, girl. Mimi don't look worried about no damn. No, not at all. She's in California. I know that's what I'm saying. I am in California.

And the high is like 67 today. So I'm not. Wow. I'm too loud. Yeah. All right, well, we start this morning in Minnesota, where protests inside a church has now led to arrest. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the arrest Thursday, saying Homeland Security and the FBI took three people into custody. Civil Rights Attorney Nakima Armstrong, St. Paul's school board member, Chantelle Allen, and activist William Kelly.

Now, prosecutors say the three are facing federal charges accused of conspiring to interfere with religious service, a federal offense that makes it illegal to obstruct or obstruct or. intimidate people while they're practicing their faith. And the protest, it took place inside City's church where organizers say they were calling for the resignation of the church's pastor, who also works as a senior ICE official. Now, before she was arrested, Armstrong telling news outlets that she did not disrupt service and said she and others joined the service before speaking out. Let's listen.

We did not rush into that church. We actually went and sat down and participated in the service. and after the pastor prayed, that is when I stood up and asked him a question and response to his prayer. And then I, and he responded to me. And then I proceeded to ask him about Pastor David Easterwood and how is it possible for him to serve as both a pastor and the director of ICE from Minnesota. And instead of responding to me, as soon as I said the name David Easterwood, the pastor says, shame, shame. And that is when I led us enchant justice for Renee Good and hands up don't shoot. I never knew in my life that was a charge that you go in and disrupt a church service.

I didn't know that either. And how come people who catch the Holy Ghost and run up and down the aisle don't get arrested for disrupting the church service? Because that's, oh my gosh, God is making them do that. What if I'm in the church protesting Satan and I start speaking in tongues and rebuking Satan? Is that a charge? That's disruption. I'm just trying to figure out what's disruption. God is leading.

When the spirit is leading, you know, that's not illegal. I didn't know that was a charge. Yeah, it's definitely, it's called the Face Act, and it also applies to abortion clinics too. What? What if I'm running there and say, stop! Don't do it. That's disrupted? Go to jail.

They get judged. I don't say, stop, don't kill my baby. Yeah, it's, you know, the Justice Department is using it clearly in this case. In a federal judge, they granted conditional release to Armstrong and Allen, but the Justice Department, they appealed that decision, and they remain in custody as of this morning. And the case is taken a term. online after the White House shared an edited photo of Armstrong's arrest, changing the original image to make it look like she was crying. The Post did not say the photo had been altered,

which sparked, of course, backlash and raised concerns about the government using manipulated images to make a point. And meanwhile, the judge also rejecting efforts to charge journalists Don Lemon, who was also inside of that church, his attorneys say the ruling confirms that his actions were protected by the First Amendment. You know, there's a note, legally, I mean, I guess it's unlawful because, you know, you just explained it to me me. But ethically is what I, would I run, would you run up in a church?

I don't know if I would run up in a church. You know what I mean? Because I think about the abortion clinics when you said that. I always see people protesting outside the abortion clinics. I never see nobody go inside. I would think you would give the church the same respect. I don't even know how to do that at times because I'm like, people are coming in there for a service. And people are just out there with, don't kill a baby.

Exactly. You're trying to be discreeting. Somebody playing usher. There goes my baby. as you walk out. All right. And really quick, there is a growing immigration crackdown in Minnesota and it's now putting a face on it. A five-year-old boy.

If you guys heard about this, his name is Liam Romas. Ramos. Yes, man. Ramos. Oh, yeah. Yes, yes, yes. So school officials say ICE agents, they detained Lamb yesterday with his father in their driveway after school pickup and they took the five-year-old with him. And his family, they said that they entered the United States legally in 2024.

They applied for asylum, and they're waiting for their case to be heard. His father has no criminal record, according to the family and their attorney, J.D. Vice President J.D. Vance. He is defending this detention, though, in arguing that federal agents were enforcing the law. Let's listen to what he had to say. Five-year-old was not arrested that his dad was an illegal alien. And then when they went to arrest his illegal alien father, the father ran. So the story is that ICE detained a five-year-old. year old, well, what are they supposed to do? Are they supposed to let a five-year-old child

freeze to death? Are they not supposed to arrest an illegal alien in the United States of America? Where did they take the five-year-old? They, but I'm sorry, Shalom? I said, what did they take to five-year-old? Well, that's what I'm getting to. The, the attorney, the family attorney said the boy and his father are now being held at a family detention center in Texas. His attorney said that they have not been able to speak directly with him. And of course, this incident is shaking local schools, right? The border. of the school board chair said that they held, they held a press conference yesterday, and they said that Liam is the fourth child in their district to be taken from immigration authorities.

Let's listen really quickly to what, as she had to say. And as I got out of my car and came around the corner, I heard, what are you doing? Don't take the child. There are people here that can take him. There was another adult who lived in the home that was there saying, I will take the child. I will take the child. Somebody else was yelling they saw that I was there and said, school is here. They can take the child.

you don't have to take them. The other picture that I'm sure you've seen, there's a little boy knocking at the door with an ICE agent looming over him. Are you accusing ICE of using children as big? Yes, I mean, that is very clear from the pictures, from the videos from firsthand accounts, I was there. This is what happened.

Yeah. And as this goes on, maybe you're asking how long this enforcement will go on, and they're just saying, who knows, there is no end to this as of right now. Yeah, I don't know what they expect adults to do. Like, you put in adults in very strange positions because I think most adults' natural reaction

is to protect a child. And in this world of, you know, Epstein files and, you know, Pizegate, if you just see a bunch of adults detaining a child and then just taking them away, like, I think you're going to have a very visceral reaction to that as an adult. Absolutely. All right, yeah, well, coming up at 7, a funding fight on Capitol Hill that could decide whether the government shuts down

and ICE is right in the center of it. We'll break that down next hour. All right. Everybody else, get it on. off your chest, 800-585-105-1. If you need to vent phone lines are wide open, call us up right now. It's the breakfast club. Good morning. This is your time to get it off your chest.

Whether you're mad or blessed. I hate the way that you walk, the way that you talk. I hate the way that you dress. Everything with me is blessed. Call up next. 800-585-1051. Not just me. I'm with the coach of feeling.

Hello, who's this? Hi, this is Shant. Hey, Shanty. Good morning. Where are you calling from? Good morning. From my start going away. Good morning.

Hi, Shanty, how are you? What's up? Good morning. Also, y'all, I don't understand. I love y'all so much. We love you more for loving us. We appreciate you, man.

Thank you. You have a Bluetooth or speaker. Can you take us off right fast? It's kind of hard to hear. I'm sorry. I was trying to listen out for when you guys. It might still e-off. I pull over, though.

Well, be careful. Be sure. You got to pull over for us. Yeah, okay. Can you do better now? Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. Good.

Okay, good morning. I'm just taking away like that for a lot of goodness. I listen to you all the time. But what I wanted to get off my chest this morning, it's not really getting it off my chest. I just wanted to encourage those who are outside today. I'm a single mother of three, and I'm outside, but I have a vehicle. And so it's really, really cold out here.

And so I just wanted to encourage everybody. It's been rough. Life has been really, really life is. I just can't see me get my hood in. But every morning that I get up and that I'm able to see the sunrise and stuff, I have to thank God because it's still a beautiful day in spite of us. That's right. All right.

All right is to do it, God. Absolutely. Yes, yes, definitely. And so it's hard. It's hard when you have to wipe your tears and then go to another location that your children are at. I haven't been in one place with my children. in six months. And this is all due to

leaving a toxic relationship and trying to rebuild myself and it's just thing like I kept on loose in my hoodie. But I'm keeping the face and I'm still in church and I'm still volunteering in church and even when I'm around the homeless community

I am encouraging because it won't always be like this. Are you homeless, man? Yes, sir. Are you living your car? Yes, sir With our kids With your kids

Yeah Do you have a cash app Maybe you can put your cash app out there And people that got a little extra change Can help you out a little bit Because the fact that you are homeless And you're still going to the church And you still help with people less

Definitely yep I take care of my grandparents One of them have Alzheimer's My mom just had surgery So I go and help her out I just I have a given spirit And I'm gonna keep on doing it Because that's what God bless me with

It's fight up That's right This is temporary. I'm trying not to cry about because this is so temporary. Absolutely it is, Mama. What's your cash up, man? Oh. Take it so.

It's okay. It is okay. We are a community that is here to serve, ma'am, and we're going to help you the best way we know how. It's clean with two-three. So Q-U-3-3-N. Hold on now. Q-U-3-3-N-M, Shanty, S-H-A-N-T-A-A-A-A-A-A-A. Shantysa Ferguson?

Yeah, that's me. You know how many, you know how many Ferguson's I got that are my cousins in the Monk's Corner, South Carolina? Slukeyele of Ferguson in Moss Corner, South Carolina. Definitely. But I just want to let y'all know that y'all encourage me every day. Y'all crack me up. Y'all give me a laugh for the day. and sometimes that's

y'all, y'all keep me from, y'all keep me here. You know, y'all keep me from leaving my babies and so keep doing what I do. Absolutely. And I just love hearing y'all. I just sent you something, Sean Tisha. Yeah, I'm sending you now.

Okay, thank you so much, but I just, yeah, I wanted to encourage everybody and stay warm, get into those warm and shell cousins, hospitals if y'all need to, and we got this. We got this. It won't always be like this. Hey, look at your cats.

Make sure you got it because if I send it to the wrong person, I'm on sending. Make sure you got it. Damn, you can't even do that. They got it. You can't. I said it. I got a full. That's not.

You can't. You can't understand? Not on cash. No, not. Nah, nah. Since when? The other day, they said, nah, they cut it off. You can't call, you can call in dispute.

You can try. Very difficult. You remember what I said the wrong person, like $5,000? Damn. You got you got, what? You remember? You really blessed somebody. 5,000.

Now, I got it back, though. Oh, damn. I called Cash App App. I was on the phone like I was. You got it, Shantisha? Yeah, thank you so much. No problem. Did you get both or just one?

Damn, I said no problem. Um, I don't. My subject said God got you. My subject says help. Help. So crazy. What's wrong with this man? Why is this?

Really? Um, thank you, Shantz. Thank you, Shantz. All right. We appreciate you. Thank you so much, man. God bless you. Thank you, guys.

I'm 20. I try to put a nice affirmation, God got you. His subject is help. Just help. If you want to help, Shanty. It's Q-U-3-3-N, the letter N, Shanty-N-S-H-A-N-T-I-E-8. We just sent a little bit of a change to definitely help her out. And you can, too, just, you know, just if you can.

If you want it, if that's on your heart, all right? That's right. Get it off your chest, 800. I hate 5-1-451. Help. Hello. Hello, who's this? Good morning.

Oh, my God. I got to live. This is Kelly from Jersey. Kelly from Jersey. What part of Jersey, Kelly? I didn't tell you that. Wow. I am.

What you do? What Kelly? I know? You want to run? No, because I'm what I'm about to stay. Okay. All right. All right.

All right. Go ahead. All right. So I want to get off my chest that I'm a little scared right now with these ice free. You know, I'm walking around. My whole thing both to $50 at my wallet. Now they're wilding in Jersey.

People don't realize how much ice be in Jersey. I'd be trying to tell folks. Ice be in Jersey a lot. Yo. That was in Patterson last week. They did. It was a hack and sack a couple days ago. Hackensack, yeah.

Newark the other day, yeah. Damn, you ain't telling me. That's crazy. I was making jokes about everything I was trying to tell me. Right in Jersey. I'm sorry, man. Continue. No, that's the first thing.

The second thing, I feel like we're about to go to another pandemic with this flu. I had just issues on Monday. I tried to call yesterday, but I couldn't get through. I don't want to apologize issues. That's bad. You had diarrhea is what you say? Your stomach.

I was right to say, what's the just issue? What are you talking about? You had diarrhea. Throwing up. Couldn't read a little bit. I had the stomach virus Monday. Now I got the flu this day, so I don't know what's happening. Damn.

But it's just pandemic. It's just like in the back of my mind. And I'm like, every time this man is in office, something bad happened. I will say that. I will say that they're saying that the flu cases are going down. I know a couple of weeks ago they were shooting up. They're saying now the flu cases are starting to go down. We've still been hearing about kids that have been getting the flu, having fevers for extended periods of time.

And still having that flu where your legs, you can't feel your legs. And it's crazy. I tell everybody, if your kids, as a fever for an extended period of time, if it's two days, take it to the emergency room. Just double check, triple check because that one two-year-old I put in the group check that actually passed away from flu is very scary. It is a very fierce flu going around. Yeah, so that's all I had to say. I hope you failed better.

I still need you to come to New Brunswick. I'll be there. You're from New Brunswick. Yeah, you're from New Brunswick. I live on the Alskirts. DJ Envy. DJ Envy, I live on the Alpskard. Why would you order to come to New Brunswick after everything you just described?

Y'all got ice, bad flu? Yep, you know my husband and my kids and all that. You know what I'm saying? My mother-in-law. He's a U.S. citizen now. He's married to me. American citizen now. But his mother not married to me.

She's taking care of my daughter. What's wrong with you? Why? You say it every day. Every day. I didn't say it was illegal. You always say that every day. Damn.

Oh my God. You guys are crazy. The music's been great lately. I just want to say that. He has nothing to do with it. Oh, now we have nothing to do it. But when music, you got a new music director. Our name is Sam.

But when the music sucks, I guess all me. We got a new music. Kelly, what's name with that rest of my group? Congratulations, Tim. Okay. What's the name of that rest of us? What's the name of that restaurant in New Brunswick? They got like the jazz band.

It's a black-owned restaurant. Oh, Deltas? Deltas, yes. I'm going to Deltas in the next couple of week. My daughter has a dance convention out there. I always go to Deltas when I'm out there. So salute to New Brunswick. All right.

Well, good morning. Thank you for all. I hope you felt bad. We appreciate you. Thank you. No problem. Get it off your chest. 800-585-105-105-1.

If you need to vent, hit us up now. We got the latest with Lauren coming up. Good morning, y'all. Yes, we do the Oscar nomination. So we talked a bit about it yesterday, but we're going to do a full breakdown because there's a lot of history, hopefully about to be made on that stage. Oh, all right.

We'll get to that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. You're talking, L.L. Cube. Yeah. I'm not dumbing myself down. I'm being myself. That source is much.

I'm the home brother that hosts 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. Where is she gone? The latest with Arnold Lewis. On the Breakfast Club.

L.L. Cubber. Talk to me. Lauren, cool, Bay. I just want to let you know. He looks you up and down and see what he could go. It's fine. What he can say about.

Yes, he does. You're right? You're good over there? We can't find nothing today. Hold on. Wait, sit still. Sit still. Wait.

Wait, wait. Hold on. Be quiet. Okay. I want to just check. Signs of stroke. You know you up there in age. You're looking good.

You're looking good. Kirkland has said that already. Sherry's up, but it said that already. It happens at your age. No, it happens. That's why you hear it so much. Okay.

Let's get on into the latest. You all right? Are you okay? Thank you. All right, so let's get to the Oscars. So yesterday we talked a bit about, because it was breaking as we were on air, the fact that sinners made Oscar nomination history.

They have set the record for the most nominations in the history of the Oscars now. To put it in context, they beat out the record prior to, which was 14 nominations. Titanic has held this record. Lala Lin and All About Eve have held this record. Ryan Cougler was nominated for Best Director,

and Best Screenplay. Michael B. Jordan, this is his first Oscar nomination for Best Actor. He talked about his mom being one of the first people that he called and talked to when he found out the news.

Miles Canton also nominated. Delroy Lindo, who a lot of people we've been having this conversation felt like should have gotten some Golden Globe love was also nominated. Let's take a listen

to Del Roe Lindo React. He spoke to AP about when he found out the news. Because I had adopted some part of a circle, a circumspect position about this because I did not know what would happen. It took a few beats for it to kind of sink in. As I was on the phone with my son, I saw that I had 179 texts.

So I knew something was up. And the totality of the excitement of my son, my gratitude hearing it from my son with the number of texts that were on my phone, I was able to kind of relax and enjoy the moment. Yeah, that's fire. And now Delroy Lindo is an amazing actor. We've seen him in Malcolm X. We've seen him in Crooklyn.

We've seen him in Clockers, of course, centers. So he's dope with his acting. It was actually one of my favorite breakfast club interviews. When he was up here and then Carrie Washington zoomed in, that was one of my favorite conversations. Well, yeah, and I wanted to mention because I didn't mention what he was up for. He's up for a best supporting actor for his performance in Ryan Coogler's centers that we were talking about.

Now, also making, you know, some conversation over at the Oscars. It's Tiana Taylor for her one battle after another nomination. Yes, ma'am. One back, she's nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. And one battle after another has 13 nominations. So they're all over as well. Leonardo DiCaprio, Best Actor. Now, one of the conversations that's happening is that the newcomer,

Chase Infinity, who plays Tiana Taylor's daughter in one battle after another, was not nominated. people feel like she should have been up for something as well. So there's a lot happening with the Oscars. And Tiana Taylor was on her way to SNL, rehearsal for SNL because she's doing SNL this Saturday here in New York City when she found out the news and her and her mom were on the phone and she spoke to an outlet about it.

Let's take a listen. I cried a few times when I first found out about the Oscar. I was like, then my mom was, I said, baby, you got stuff called down. So then I was like worried about her, trying to get her calm. And then it was just I'm on the elevator on my way up here. like just praying and you know praising God and just like really trying to process everything like wow I find this out now I'm on an elevator on my way up to host Saturday Night Live like this is really a dream come true especially in my hometown as a New York girl finding out I'm not made for Oscar in New York

when I'm on my way to Saturday Night Live is crazy I don't have enough words to even explain the feeling one thing I know for sure is that I am beyond grateful I am filled with so much gratitude. And I just, I don't take any of this lightly or for granted, you know? Like, I just feel so happy. Man, drop all the clues bonds with Tiana Taylor. Yeah. Because she's just proof that your trajectory is your trajectory.

It don't happen when people think it's going to happen for you. That don't happen when even you think it's going to happen for you. When God says it's going to happen, it's going to happen. And it's going to happen in things that you probably wasn't even expected. Everybody waiting for Tiana Taylor to, oh, when Tiana Taylor going to pop off in music, pop off of music, that girl got so many gifts. Yeah. You know what I'm saying?

So many gifts. And she's being rewarded for one of them right now. And salute to Hampton's own Ruthie Carter. I was going there next. She was also nominated for Best Costume Design. And she's actually making history with that nomination because she is now the most nominated Black woman in Oscars history with that nomination. Yes.

So shout out to Ruthie Carter for, you know, all the things that she's done. Okay. New Year, fresh start. And honestly, I'm starting with dinner. This year, I'm being smarter about where my energy goes. Dinner was taking way too much of it. I just signed up for Hello Fresh and they take fresh start to a whole new level. Fresh high quality ingredients delivered right to my door, locally sourced whenever possible. Everything pre-portioned, nothing wasted. Now I'm not dragging myself through weekend

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But what if the real work isn't physical at all? To kick off the new year, I sat down with Dr. Steve Polter, a psychologist with over 30 years' experience, helping men unpack shame, anxiety, and emotional pain they were never taught to name. In a powerful two-part conversation, we discuss why men aren't emotionally bulletproof, why shame hides in plain sight, and how real strength comes from listening to yourself and to others. Guys who are toxic, they're immature, or they've got something they just haven't resolved. Once that gets resolved, then there comes empathy as in compassion.

If you want this to be the year, you stop powering through pain and start understanding what's underneath. Listen to the mailroom on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite shows. Hey, what's up, y'all? This is Questlove recently. I had the opportunity to sit down with ASEF Rocky ahead of his album release. Don't be dumb. He reflects on his journey from his Harlem roots to global icon status, discovering the hip-hop origin of his name. The ledge was on the TV.

Raq Kim had the bucket hat can go during the apostles. Like, that's Raq Kim. That's who you named after. I just was like, I swear. Rocky offers a window into not only a boundary-breaking artist, but as a man committed to fusing creative ideas, community, and remaining unapologetically himself. Have you ever gotten roasted for any of your outfits?

For sure. Some people don't be getting a vision. Look, they could roast me, they could cook me, they could deep fried meat, they could saute, whatever they want. There's nobody who can be with my fashion sense and my taste is impeccable. I'm just like, I impress myself a lot. It's an amazing conversation. One, you definitely don't want to miss. So listen to the Questlove show on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

This season on Dear Chelsea with me, show. Kelsey Handler, we've got some incredible guests like Kumail Nanjiani. Let's start with your cat. How is she? She is not with us in. Okay, great, great, great way to start. So this is a great beginning and hopefully you'll be able to, I don't know, maybe you will cry. Amanda Seifred.

Life is so short. If you feel something like that, you have that fire in you for this experience. It's not for a guy. It's for the experience of being in love and like it's bigger than a guy. Elizabeth Olson. I love swimming naked so much. And I know you love taking pictures of yourself naked. I love to be naked.

I just want to be in my brown underwear all the time. Ross Matthews. You know what kids always say to me? Are you a boy or girl? Oh my God. That's so funny. I love it. So I'm always like, hi.

I try to butcher it up for kids, you know, so they're not confused. Yeah, but you're butching it up is basically like Doris Day. Right? No, I turn into Be Arthur. Listen to these episodes of Dear Chelsea on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I think Senators is very deserving. Dropping a clue behind for sinners

and all those historic nominations. But I'm not going to get too excited because I'm old enough to remember when color purple got nominated for 11 and didn't win nothing. They were nominated in 11 categories and didn't win none. Zero.

That's the big conversation around. We didn't talk about the old color purple right, not the new one. I'm old enough to remember, yeah. Oh, yeah. That new one definitely was not nominated for no 11. All right, that's what you're going to say. I don't remember that.

You see we did a thing to do it before he started. Damn, you know. That's crazy. Nothing. And that was, I just want you to know. I don't want to know. I don't want to know.

I think we got to wrap up. But also, wait, I wanted to mention two, speaking of stages in awards, I saw that Farrell and the clips yesterday. It was announced that they'll be performing at the Grammys. They'll be taking the stage as well, too, switching over to another word show. My cousin, period.

Yeah, this is about to be a... That's dope. I'm watching these, I mean, I watch all of the awards, but maybe you guys will watch them too now, Right, because there's a lot of us that's going to be there. You should go. I'm on my way to the grimace for sure. Here's my thing.

Stop acting like y'all don't care. Because we know you don't need these awards for validation. But we do like seeing our people win these awards. So don't be done. Don't get excited when they get nominated and when they perform or when they lose. I don't care about that stuff. No way. It's okay to care.

Because guess what? They're artists and they care. They're in the field. They want to be rewarded by these. institutions because these institutions give out rewards. It's like playing basketball and saying you don't want to win a championship. If you win the game, if you're in the league, you might as well try to win. Why not?

So, yes, I want to see Senna win a bunch of awards. I want to see Tiana Taylor win. I want to see the clips win. Yes, I do. Okay? And that's not because we need anybody's validation. Because if they're in the game, I want to see them win. As you say yesterday, just why not?

Yeah. Why not? Well, that is the latest with Lauren. Can I say something? No, we got to wrap up. Come on. No. Uh-uh, we gotta wrap up.

That is the latest with Lauren. When we come back, we got front page news. I'm acting like I don't care. Well, I just want to say that. Wrap up, envy. It's over. It's done. We don't know.

Because you look like a substitute teacher at the top. A professional house painter in the middle and your feet look like they got jury. Oh my God. Is that okay? Can I just say that? I'm shooting a new intro for the latest with Lauren the Rosa today. So you guys will see the outfit. The Brown Girl Grinding t-shirt, available at browngirl grinding.

We just brought the merch back. You see it, right? Sholomey, I can't understand. That's an all working woman, though. She got three jobs. She got three jobs. Three things right now. It's the breakfast.

12 morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. Just hilarious. Sholomey and the guy. We are the breakfast club. Let's get back at some front page news. So this weekend, we are supposed to be getting horrible weather, horrible storm.

But football will still be in place. Sunday, three o'clock. The Patriots take on the Broncos. And at 630, the Rams take on the Seahawks. What's up, Mimi? Good morning. MV, Jess Charlemagne, how y'all doing this morning? Hey, girl.

That's Black and Holly favorite. How will you, Mimi? Good. Thank you. All right, so we start this hour on Capitol Hill, where a fight over ICE funding is now tied directly to whether the government shuts down. So the House, they've already voted on it, lawmakers passed a major package of spending bills to keep the government funded through the end of September, and included in that package is funding for Immigrations and Custom Enforcement.

Now, that vote passed 220 to 207 with seven Democrats breaking party leadership to support the bill. Now, this was not just an ICE vote. It was part of a larger government spending package covering Homeland Security, FEMA, TSA, and other agencies. Now, most Democrats voted no, arguing ICE's enforcement tactics have gone too far and shouldn't be rewarded with more money. That includes Congresswoman Pamela Jayapal, who explained why she opposed the bill. Let's listen. This bill increases year-over-year funding to the Department of Homeland Security. It does not put in any necessary guardrails on the ice and border patrol lawlessness that we've been seeing. It doesn't have anything that keeps our community safe. And it doesn't rain in this rogue agency

that's been literally disregarding the rule of law for months now. It includes no accountability to stop these agents from killing people, from violating our constitutional rights. There's no assurances that the administration's even going to investigate the officers who commit acts of grave misconduct or kill people. I will not be complicit in Republicans' efforts to allow these ICE and border patrol agents to violate the law and the constitutional rights of people across this country, including U.S. citizens. You know what I would like to know, Mimi?

I mean, where is the money going? Like, ICE is the highest funded U.S. law enforcement agency, but they don't have standardized uniforms. They don't have marked vehicles. It doesn't seem like they have any advanced weaponry or technology. Like, where's the money going? That is a great question. was all packed into that big beautiful bill. The Democrats who voted yes say a shutdown would hurt disaster relief, airport security,

and federal workers, while ICE would continue operating anyway. So due to that funding that I just mentioned from the Big Beautiful Bill, and as you just said, Charlemagne, they got roughly $75 billion. Damn. Yes. And that doesn't even include the cameras. So they're asking for the funding, which would include, they say, those cameras to watch what ICE agents are doing right now. They're just using their cell phones and who knows where

that's going. But now, as we just said, the House voted. And so now the focus will shift to the Senate lawmakers there. They must act before January 30th to avoid another government shut down. So it seems like they move very primitive and look very primitive to be the highest funded U.S. law enforcement agency. Yeah. Yeah, for sure, for sure. So there's just, you know, there's no regulations around that. And so some, you know, A lot of the Democrats who voted with the Republicans. O7 Democrats are taking a lot of heat as well this morning for that vote. But we'll see what the Senate does.

I think they're expected to vote next week. So we'll see. All right. And switching gears for a second. Let's talk about hidden fees. So NB, let me ask you a question. When you book a hotel, do you want to see all the fees up front or be surprised with a bunch of extra charges when you're checking out? No, I like to see everything up front.

And I hate booking and they be like resort fee and this fee and town fee and this fee. and this fee and I'd be like, FFAR, F FOM fee, all that. It's a zillion one fees. And it'll be wintertime. Something like, nobody's going outside in the pool, but how are you going to charge me the towel? It's crazy.

But yeah, I hate it. I want to see it up front. Exactly. All right, so you are like most Americans who feel the exact same way. So starting next month, New York City is banning hidden hotel fees. That means hotels can no longer advertise

one price and then tackle on a mandatory resort destination or service fees at the checkout. And city officials say that if you don't see that fee up front, charging it later will be illegal. Hotels will also be required to clearly disclose things like credit card

holds and deposits in advance. The travelers aren't caught off guards when hundreds of thousands, or excuse me, not even hundreds of thousands, but hundreds of dollars suddenly get tied up on their credit card. And so this timing, though, it is no accident. New York is gearing up for a major tourism surge tied to the World Cup.

And Mayor Mondani, he is saying that those hidden fees, they only drive up costs and frustrate visitors. Let's listen to what he had to say. As we prepare to celebrate the World Cup in mere months, a tournament that has already started to become defined by exorbitant costs that threatened to price people out of the world's game, this will help lower costs and dissuade any business that's operating outside of the law from cheating these kinds of customers. Those who treat their customers fairly will not be affected. But to those who have long approached business as an opportunity to mistreat those who they serve, let today be a warning. If you do not change your practices, city government will change them for you. Yeah, so, and this rule is going to go beyond physically

the hotels just in New York. So any booking sites that's selling rooms in New York City must now show the full real price from the start, no matter where you're booking from. So bottom line, starting next month, what you see before you pay is what you should get no surprises. Yeah, people are going to come to New York and find out what we already know.

It's an expensive-ass city for no reason. No, they expected this is... Small-ass hotel room gonna be $2,000. They said they expected like 2, 3 million people to come for the World Cup just for that World Cup and they're saying that people are renting out their basements,

their extra rooms, their Airbnb and things because it was like prices are so expensive. People are looking to make a lot of money during that weekend because you could probably rent out your room usually. Let's say renting that room is like $500. Now during that time, $1,500. Because people want to go to that World Cup. Who the hell got a room to rent, though?

No, I mean, if you have a house, you can rent a room in your house or rent a basement in your house if you do have something. Man, y'all trust them strangers like that? No. They need extra dollars, so they're willing to give the chance. , willing to give that a chance. It's a lot of that going on. I'm willing to give that a chance. And just so you know, World Cup tickets, it'll be out of this. Crazy. Like, I don't even know who can afford it. Like, I don't even know how you can afford it. I really don't. Like, tickets, I think they were saying like $15,000 are going to be some of the cheapest tickets. It's going to be crazy. It's going to be crazy. The decrease in the price.

because when they see the day ain't selling like that, they might be discounted. I watch it on TV. Right. Exactly. All right, y'all. Well, that is your front page news.

I'm Mimi Brown. Follow me. I'm Mimi Brown TV. For more stories, follow the Black Information Network, download the free IHeartRadio app or visit BINNews.com. Thank you, Mimi.

Thank you, Mimi. Thank you, and listen, you know, today is Friday, so we do the people's donkeys. If you want to give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid, call us right now. 1-800-585-105-1,

and you can give somebody to biggest he-hawk. That's right. And when we come back, we have Latasha Brown and Chauncey, Executive Director and Founder of Southern Black Girls. They're going to be talking about mentorship. Yes, because January's National Mentorship Month, which I did not know. I didn't know that either. But they put me on to, and I thought that it was a very great conversation because mentorship is very, very, very important. Absolutely. We'll get to that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. Jess Alarious. Charlemagne de Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Loaulal Roos is here as well.

Yes, indeed. We got some special guests in the building. Now, January is National Mentorship Month. They got a month for everything. Everything. That is right. We have Latasha Brown and Sean C. Lundy. Did I say your name right? It's Chonsei.

Chonsei. Chonsei. They were telling me this chance at first because it's spelled Chance E, but it's Chonsei. Yeah, had an accent mark on Ler. And then I had to make sure that you wasn't Latosia. Well, you know, black people are out. Come on, man.

I just want to make sure. How are you ladies feeling? Good, good, real good. What's the importance of national mentorship, love. You want to start it off? Okay. So mentorship just is important in general because we all need guidance

and somebody to look up to. Like you said, we have a month for everything. But mentorship is important to me because sitting here is Latasha who I've known since I was 14 years old. So before there was an organization, there was anything and before I even had the term mentor,

she is someone that I found as a safe space. Like when I was in high school and I grew up in the 90s, and you know that's when a lot of people were getting in trouble drugs were out like a lot of things were happening within my household she was running a girls group and we met with her every week and she talked about leadership about empowerment and it became my place to go so that I didn't get in trouble like you know it so it just and so it's always I've always seen there's something important to pay it for so when there's no terminology I never called her my mentor until maybe 10

years ago I was like oh I guess that's what it was but it was like somebody who was looking out for me, looking out for other girls, using her own resources to take care of us. And us being a part of organizations just making sure that we had something to do. Like, it's that guidance that you're not getting necessarily at home and having somebody else to talk to, somebody to help guide you along the way and to bounce ideas off of. Because, you know, we can get inside our heads, especially when you're a teenager, about what you think is right. And you have somebody like, no, that's not right.

And, you know, you don't listen to your mama them all the time. So that somebody's like that kind of reinforces those things that, you know, maybe you should, take, make different decisions. And what did you mean? We were, this was in the early 90s. I was 24 years old. I didn't know what I was doing. What I knew? From Selma, Alabama.

So we were in Selma, Alabama. And it was the first, I met her is really interesting. When I met her, I immediately knew it was something special in her. She lived in a local housing, public housing community, not too far from where I was. And while I didn't really know all the things to do, I knew that I had. something to offer and I knew she had something to offer me. And so even when I'm thinking about mentorship, like all of us, I'm hoping that not only we mentoring somebody, but somebody's mentoring us too because I don't think that mentorship is just based on you being a young person.

I think that that's one phase of it, right? But every single generation is depositing wisdom and information or it should be in each other. When we get to the point that we don't listen to anybody else, like the oldest sisters are mentoring me, right? That from my relationship to how I move with my money to how I'm moving with myself. And so I say that because you can't even find a, you can't find a great person. I think about Oprah. She always talks about how Maya Angelou was her mentor, right?

So each of us, we need somebody pouring. And if there's any time that we need to build community, it's in this moment. I'm going to ask you, Latasha, who is your mentor? Because you everybody's mentor. Who is Latasha Brown's mentor? So, you know, there's a couple of sisters that have been in my life. There's one in particular that's coming up.

This is a sister named Barbara. Perkins, Dr. Barbara Perkins, who is, she's really like a spiritual, I just, like everything. I can, in some ways, she's like a sister friend. In some way, she's a mentor, but she's about 10 years older than I am, and she's been such a blessing in my life, because sometimes you can't see yourself. You need other people to help you see you, right? And be able to be corrected, because oftentimes we don't think love. We think love is somebody just making you feel good.

Yeah. Love is actually somebody correcting you, right? Even if you're thinking about your parents, but it was some sisters that might say back in the day, because, you know, back in the day we were showing it all, it might be that sister to say, well, baby, you might not need to go on the meeting, you know, with this skirt on. And on some level, at the time, I may have felt something around it, right? But I understood the wisdom. As I've gotten older, I've understood the wisdom in that. And so she's one, there's a sister down in Selma, Alabama, fire rose to Ray, who's an activist, who. who actually was a mentor to me

and has been and continued to be a mentor and inspiration for me. And then my family, I got some bad sisters from the South when I think of my 92-year-old aunt who raised me, El-A-May. So Ella Bay and all of these sisters, sometimes it's not just the ones

that are just pointing to you directly. Sometimes it's that sister at the church that said something to you that day that shifted your life. I know that there's this woman named Barbara Pitts who is a sister who is, in a 21st century. And one day we were doing this event and she kept saying,

y'all got to work smarter, not harder. It hurt my feeling so bad. I was like, but Ms. Pitts, we are working. We working. It's years later to this day. Like, that's my mantra. Like, I get it. And so I'm hoping, even the people that are listening now,

you need to snatch. We can't just be so selfish that it's about you pouring into just your child. You're responsible for your child, but we're responsible. Our community, if our community is going to flourish, like we've got to really be able to pour into other folks. So if God gave you a measure of wisdom, whatever extra you got, that extra you got is because somebody out there needs it.

And so I hope that we really realize, I know I am, not just because I had good parents or I had my family, there's so many sisters. Some of them, their names, it'll take me all day to say the names. Some of their names I don't know, right, that have poured in and helped shape me. And so that's really important. that's what we try to do with Southern black girls is about how we shape in this generation like this whole idea of black women

black women are the ones that are actually helping lead but you don't just pop up one day do you just and you're just a black woman there was a process you were a girl right and you grew up and there were women along the way that when you were out of order or when there are things that you did know that had to pour into you

and then sometimes we didn't have those we didn't have those in our families so as other sisters that might pull you and pour into you So we're trying to create that kind of around. Hold, I need her to expound on something. I just want to say thank you first. Because the first thing you said when you walked in here was, you know,

I prayed for your daughter when I heard of the story. I just want to say thank you. So many people have been coming up to me and saying they pray for my daughter. And I just want to say thank you. A lot of time we just, you know, we don't say thank you. You're welcome. And that love and that prayer was felt. And God put his hands over my baby girl.

So I just want to say thank you. You are absolutely welcome. And we saw when she got ready to go to school, baby. She was sharp. She was ready to get about that dog. I want to go back to something you said Because I thought it was so powerful man You said that love is correction

Love is correction Can you expand on this? Yeah, we think We've allowed these folks to feed us this space This idea that love is the thing That make you feel good Or love is the thing that's supposed to Align up

Make you feel like You're just cushioned At the end of the day Really if you really think about love Love is the thing love is correction. It says in the scriptures, I'm a person of faith that God corrects those that he love.

And really the people who, my best friends, right, my friends, including the sister who she said that I'm her mentor, she now mentors me. Like really, like when I am out of order,

when I am my mind, when I'm ready to go burn it down, right, or even sometimes when I'm just wrong, right, she actually brings, she allows me to be able to see myself and parts of myself that I can't see.

And so part of my growth and development is being able to be open for people to correct me. Because that's an aspect of love. And so we got to see that as the people that love you tell you the truth. The people that love you will pull you to the side to keep you from hurting yourself or hurting others. The folks that really love you ain't going to be down with your BS. Right? The folks that love you, you know, really are the ones that are going to help get you in alignment to the best. They want to see the best that you can be.

And part of that, a key part of that is really around correction. Y'all brought up a good point of it took you some time. You had to get to a certain point in your life where you were mature enough to understand the mentorship, like how to take it and how to apply it to your life, right? And I take it as like something you should go against. When you're talking to these younger girls, how do you talk them through, no, this mentorship is something that you need. You should be receptive to it because sometimes, you know, if you're in fight or flight mode, you don't. You know what's really interesting.

Those are the girls that I want. Those are the girls I always would, like the girl in the class that was, cutting up, I'm like, that's my leader right then. That's the sister that I want, right? And so part of it is, I don't know if I think that girls are going to wake up one day and say they want a mentor. There are some that do that, and I want them to do that. That's not necessarily how it played out a certain kind of way. I haven't met a child that don't want to be poured into. We got this whole idea that kids don't want to be listened to girls, boys, or whatever. I've not met a kid that don't want to be poured into. We just don't want to take, have the

discipline and the courage to actually figure out the rhythm of it. If I come at you a certain kind of way. If I'm paying attention to you, I should know that if I come at you a certain kind of way, you ain't going to listen to me, right? So I'm going to feed you what you eat. If you're going to come to me, if there's a certain that I've seen that you want attention, then there might be a way that I give you some individual attention. I'll pull this sister to the side that's cutting up in the classroom and be like, what's going on? Just talk to her or listen to her. And so I think sometimes we're so caught up in these structures of what they're supposed to look like that we forget that these young people oftentimes when they're acting

out, they're asking for help. They want some support. They want somebody to see them. And so I know I did. There are times that I cut up because I didn't know, I was frustrated. I didn't know what else to do. I might not have had anybody that I wanted to talk about at home. It may be something I was going

to, going through that I was embarrassed about. So I say that to say that I, you know, I do think that young people and particularly young women, and I'm hoping, for the kids, even young women, every woman should have them a mentor. I don't care if you 80 years So you need to have somebody each a knowledge base, like your institution knowledge base is person after person.

So every single human being, you should be thinking about who you are mentoring and who is mentoring you. Who's pouring into you and who are you pouring into? And so I'm with the girls that oftentimes is just really the gathering, like the gathering and building relationship. Like I'm not trying to put you in my mentor box. That's why some of them programs don't work because all they see in you is as a number. You're just another number in my program. Right. Instead of I actually see you as a person and I am using a and I'm creating a space for you to understand that if you want to be in relationship like we can be down. And so what we've seen is hundreds of girls. Like if y'all come to, y'all got to come to our black girl, our dream conference.

Like it's, listen, they need it. And they're actually open for it. We just, in our minds, we. I'll talk about them. He talked about us. Oh, y'all need to. Jess said what to say, Jeff? So I, come on. The girl that you were just describing, right, like the one that's cutting up in class. The one that talked too much? I was definitely her.

You know what I mean? I was funny. I was, you know, just always making a mockery of everything. But I did my work and everything. So I resonate with that part of it. Because I'm a leader. And I was told that by a lot of mentors in school and, like, nurses and teachers and things like that.

but I want to know is it ever do you ever have parents or moms that are like not receptive to what y'all do? Oh, absolutely. Let me just say in my process, I don't know if I had, I never was in a mentoring program

necessarily like that. My mother was unable to keep me. I wasn't raised by my mother. I actually was raised partly by my grandmother, my grandparents, my mother lived with us, but she had an illness. And then my, then I wound up staying with my aunt

as well. So I didn't have the traditional. And there was something in me that even though I always was safe, I wanted the Leave it the Beaver family. I wanted the mom of the day. You know what I mean. And I know some of y'all don't even know what I'm talking about. But so I think part of it, we're going to run.

Let me get one example of something that happened with Southern Black girls. We were doing, this is almost me. So when we were gathering before we started, we wound up doing focus groups all over. all 13 states. We work at 13 states. And so in one of the places we were in, we were in New Orleans. And there was a sister about 40 years old. We were doing focus groups with the kids.

With girls between the ages of like 12 and 16 or something. And we were asking questions. And one of the question was, what is a black girl's dream? What's your dream? Right. And so we're in this space. We're down in New Orleans and there's a sister in her 40s. She keep jumping in. She keep jumping in. So there's a, ah, she

disrupted the thing because it's for the kids. So I pulled her to the side. I pulled outside. I said, listen, sister. You know, we're trying to get with the kids and we're trying to get their dreams. And when you jump in, she said, I know, I know, I know. She said, I'm just so excited because I'm 40-some years old and ain't nobody ever asked me my dream. And so I'm like, just think of that, right?

Ain't nobody ever asked me that. And so I'm saying that because some of, even the way I work, I work ain't just about the girls. Y'all will be surprised. You'll be surprised that when we're having our work, you will. have 60-year-olds, 70-year-olds, we're telling black women reclaim your girlhood. Oftentimes, many of us, our girlhood was taken,

whether it's through sexual assault, whether it was you had to grow up too soon because your mom and your dad, folks had to go to work, whether you had to defend or fight for your family and take care of the other kids, your girlhood was taken from you. But it's still a part of you. So we're saying, reclaim that. So while we're working

with the girls, we're oftentimes working with, we have other activities for adults and parents, And sometimes it is. It is their parent that may not want their kids. But I'm telling you, baby, they come up in the space. We got them. You come up in the space.

We got you. Right. Not because the other thing is not because we're trying to trick you is because we see you too. And we see your little girl and we affirm your little girl that's in you. Because all of us got a some brokenness. All of us got that. That's the point in which we get broken as children. That's all adulthood is.

That's all adulthood. The majority of your adulthood is trying to fix it. You're trying to fix your inner child. Trying to fix your inner child. Yeah. And so our work is based on the inner child. Yeah, I tell people all the time, you can talk to somebody that's 85 years old and they'll start talking about what happened when they was 15.

That's right. They're like 15. I'm like, dang, but you don't live the whole like 60 years past that, you know, so. But that's it. And I think that one of the questions when you were asking about the parents, I think what it is sometimes is fear. It's fear and what they haven't been exposed to themselves. Like I work with young people sometimes, like taking them on trips. I started something because the Tasha shook me on trip.

I take girls on trips. And so. the most resistance I get sometimes is from parents I'm like you don't want your child to do this but it's because they haven't been they haven't seen they haven't been exposed and they're afraid and I get that but once they see and like you said once you

experience something then you know you want your child to be a part of it but I think that a lot of times it's also just the fear and what are you going to tell my child that I haven't told them you know and that's usually what it is because I always use the example from the movie lean on me you know a Morgan Freeman and remember there was a girl

I think I was Shanique or whatever it was a girl she had got pregnant or whatever. I mean, remember when they went to the house, the mom wasn't receptive of them trying to help her and everything. And she was explaining to her mom, but this is going to help me. And, you know, but when you look at the mom, at the end, everything calmed down and everything,

and she was able to receive the help. But the mom had never, ever experienced somebody really trying to help them or was ever exposed to somebody trying to change their life. Yes. And so a lot of times the parents can be the downfall of the kid. Like, you know what I mean? Like, I guess because they haven't lived out their childhood. Right.

And they did it. Things have been given to them like transaction. If somebody does this for me, then what are they going to want? Yeah. So I'm afraid to receive your help because you're going to want something for me and I can't pay it back. Or scared of the judgment. Or the judgment. Or the judgment.

Absolutely. First of, I love this conversation because mentorship is so important for men and women. But how do you mentor without projecting your own path onto someone? Oh, that's a great. That's an excellent point. That's an excellent point. That's why you get paid the big books. Yeah, that's why you get paid to big bucks.

That's a great point. You know, I think that there is, on some level we'd be real. We all do that. So let's just say that. Like, all of us do that on some level. But I think part of what I love the way that Chonsei and her team have been setting things up, you know, is that we create space for there to be peer-to-peer mentorship as well. So it can't just be top-down.

It's also you've got to create these other spaces. And you can talk about the ambassadors. Yes. Even with our youth ambassadors, like, they're least. and we give them space. So one, we give them space to make decisions. We have what we call a participatory grant-making model. We do trust-based philanthropy.

These are all the terms. But what it means is we build with community. So community is giving input into the decisions that we're making. And even with our young people, they actually tell us what they want. They tell us the path. Like we don't helicopter in and say, we think that young people need to see X, Y, Z. They tell us this is what's most important. Like, for example, this past weekend, they told us that I don't think we talked about mental health like this,

like this in the late 90s. We weren't talking about mental health in this way. But the girls, all we were hearing was that we need more support for mental health. We need more support.

So they guide that decision-making. So even as a mentor, it means listening to what people are saying the knees are, because I can't tell you to go down this path. I might give you some,

these are some of the infrastructure you might need, but I'm listening to what you need and how I can support it. There are some young girls who are some of our youth ambassadors. They were talking about in Mississippi that girls

really need mental health. They have set up now. They were empowered to set up their own we supplied them with resources a group therapy like now that they're going to be having group therapy they can supply with therapy so now they've set up their own magnolia

circle so they're going to have mental health and wellness but they saw such a need for mental health healing and in like different practices in Mississippi and most of the middle health a highlight for us is we partnered with Megan the Stallion so we did we partnered with her we've been working with her

foundation for the last how many years since 2020 since 2022 and we did a, we have what is called Black Girl Joy Challenge. Yeah, our Black Girl Joy Challenge is where we put money directly in the hands of girls. We give them $550 and say, how can you

spread joy to 10 of your family, members, of friends, and community? And these girls are doing some amazing work, and that's because we don't want them to see themselves as victims. We want to see them as generators of solutions. So you come up with your own program, what you want to do, particularly a young lady who won an award through Megan Estaglius, Pee and Thomas Foundation,

was Mila Henry. She came with mental health boxes, MH boxes that she passes out to other girls. Like we've seen girls come with affirmation boxes. There are some twins from Montgomery, Alabama, that started with us. They got our first Black Girl Joy Challenge in 2020. They were actually nominated,

I think, last year to be CNN in heroes because now Alabama has even passed legislation around in the period poverty. And there's so much stigma around menstruation. I probably say the word right. But there's so much stigma around it, but they found out that one in five girls miss a school because they don't have

sanitary supplies and so they started passing things out and then we actually gave them a bigger grant so they could do more in schools and then the state set up a fund so that this is in Alabama they set up a fund so that schools could apply to now have those supplies in schools so they're making a difference like mighty rivers of field drip by drip

y'all can give somebody $550 and they'd be like I ain't got no family this all me no you know the girls are coming like and it's been game changes because part of what happens is y'all really really how things happen it's not based on money, it's based on belief. If you're really honest, it's really based on belief.

And so when you start feeding and seeded, just think about it. Think about, it might be something real small, but think about the first person that's seeded into your vision. Like there's something about that that gave you an affirmation of what you could do. And so part for our work, our work is we really are, we're building, we try to build nations. We build it. We got nation builders. We're thinking about this thing differently if black women are going to be.

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So this is a great beginning and hopefully you'll be able to, I don't know, maybe you will cry. Amanda Seifred. Life is so short. If you feel something like that, you have that fire in you for this experience. It's not for a guy. It's for the experience of being in love and like it's bigger than a guy. Elizabeth Olson. I love swimming naked.

so much. And I know you love taking pictures of yourself naked. I love to be naked. I just want to be in my brown underwear all the time. Ross Matthews. You know what kids always say to me? Are you a boy or girl? Oh my God. That's so funny. I love it. So I'm always like, hi.

I try to butcher it up for kids, you know, so they're not confused. Yeah, but you're butching it up is basically like Doris Day. Right? No, I turn into be Arthur. Listen to these episodes of Dear Chelsea on the IHeart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, what's up, y'all?

This is Questlove recently. I had the opportunity to sit down with ASEAP Rocky ahead of his album release. Don't be dumb. He reflects on his journey from his Harlem roots to global icon status, discovering the hip-hop origin of his name. The ledge was on the TV.

Rakim had the bucket hat, can go during the past. I was like, that's Rakim. That's who you named after. I just was like, damn, that my fucking I got swag. Rocky offers a window into not only a boundary-breaking artist, but as a man committed to fusing creative ideas,

community, and remaining unapologetically himself. Have you ever gotten roasted for any of your outfits? For sure. Some people don't be getting to vision. Look, they could roast me, they could cook me, they could deep-fribe me, they can saute, whatever they want. It's nobody who can be with my fashion sense and my taste is impeccable.

I'm just like, I impress myself a lot. It's an amazing conversation. You definitely don't want to miss. So listen to the Questlove show on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. On the forefront, then how are we seeding and feeding and investing in them? You know, I got a phone call one day out of Sky Blue from Oprah Winfrey had found out about the work. And she called and said, she just wanted to know. She's like, tell me about your vision.

And she said it reminded her of what she did with the sisters in South Africa. we've had the vice president to call us about the work. Yeah, randomly. She dropped the money, though. Listen, now. Was she that a million last year? No, she was not the million last year.

But listen. It was not them. It wasn't them. It wasn't them, though. The vice is good, but come on. Yeah. Yeah, but I also think, and I think that there's a, I'm glad you raised that because it does open up another space.

Black folk, we got to take care of black insoling. institutions. Now we're just going to have to step up. In this moment, are we not seeing it? We shouldn't be depending on no federal funding. Don't people like we know what's going on. Right. Our kids should not be subject to the benevolence of white folks that ultimately even a duck got enough sense to take care of his ducklings. So ultimately we're giving money to Louie and all those other folks and I get it because I like the stuff. I like stuff like stuff like everybody else like stuff. Right. But we're supporting them to support their children. Right. And we're not supporting our own stuff. Our institutions got to be supported by us. So we love when we get them $25 hits, those $100 hits, those, yes, you can go and drop a million to Charlemagne. But the big bucks, that's why you make the big bucks. I know he does. That's my brother.

That's my brother. That's my brother. And I love his love for community. And we appreciate you because this platform is important. And so I think it's really important for us to lift. up, y'all, we got to get it together. We can't be the same. If other folks are shifting, then that

means we got to do a paradigm shift. And so if they're trying to build a nation that is rooted in racism, that ain't going to be rooted in white supremacy, we can't be down with that. You got a nation bill. We're a nation within a nation. And part of even what black folks did, just nine years after slavery,

we had founded hundreds of cities. We had built schools. These are people who had formerly been enslaved. So why are we not doing it at this level because we are actually now directing our resources in a way that's just consumerism. And I'm not saying this as a judgment. I'm saying this as a wake-up call. In this moment, I'm hoping that we understand, you know, and I ain't come on here to be political, but let me say this. I hope we understand that this moment ain't about Trump. Now, all that we can sit in and think

that this moment is about Trump and the Republicans, no, it ain't. This moment really is, in my opinion, this moment is really a hard reset for us to look at ourselves. What are we doing? like we created Trump every time you actually thought that you were better than somebody else that fed into that kind of energy every time you stepped over that homeless person that fed into that energy every time you believe that some people deserve food and other folks didn't you fed into that injury we created and fed this monster this monster of meanness and madness in this country right that will do anything for attention that would do anything to get money that would do anything to make himself be dominant that lives

and us too. And so part of if we want to see something different, then we're going to have to be different. So in this space as we deal with our kids, like I'll hear folks, and they'll say something, yeah, but these boys now, these boys do the same thing that boys did 50 years ago. They're doing it all right. These girls

are the same damn thing that you did. The bottom line, you're talking about the girl getting pregnant. Half of y'all you just didn't get caught. Like, at the end of the day, don't act like y'all weren't having sex. Right? So I'm saying that because there's a particular kind of way that we judge others to make ourselves feel bigger and better.

Ain't that's what's happening right now, that kind of consciousness? So I'm just hoping that with us, we actually bring love and power to the space and we create, we ain't got it perfect, we ain't got it all figured out right? But what I do know is I do know

that if we're coming to a process, if we're trying to create, even mentorship, we're calling it mentorship, but we hear this phrase that it takes a village to raise, a child, that's just pure truth. Right.

We just a village. We are another village. We provide resources. It's money, message, and movement building. That's what we do. Wow. We appreciate you for joining us. Tell us how they can donate one more time if they're listening.

You can go to southern black girls. That's right. Well, January is national mentorship, Muff. And thank you women for joining us. Appreciate our much. Thank you. Natasha will be back this year because the midterms is in November. Y'all know.

Like no black moods, Mattas on the ground. Sean Sey Lundy. Chonsei Lundy. Chonseil Lentany. And Latotia. Latasha, man. Listen, she got, shit, you know she. Let's get right to the latest with Lauren.

Hey, we're talking L.L. Cube. Yeah. I'm not dumbing myself. Damn. I'm being myself. I'm the homeguard that knows a little bit about everything and everything. One. Little brown girls look at you and go, I want to be.

Take me through that, take me through there. The latest with Lauren Lose. Take me through that. On the breakfast club. L.L. Cool, baby. Talk to me. All right, y'all, so Nikki Minaj in that $20 million mansion in L.A.

that was potentially going to have to be sold in order to pay a judgment, a default judgment that was won by a former bodyguard that alleges that Nikki Minaj's husband put some paws on him. He won 500. $100,000 by default because of

Nikki Minaj's team not adhering not showing up in this and she's not going to have to do it. Yesterday this gentleman's attorney, his name is Paul Sassau, showed up the court and we got an update that we were not expecting because Nikki Minaj last minute cleared that debt. Let's take a listen to

Paul. I'm sorry, let's take a listen to you should have. Say he doesn't have Paul. All right, well, we don't have Paul. But basically what Paul says is that they found out last minute that Nikki Minaj had satisfied the judgment so basically she cleared the $500,000 that was due, I think. And the reason why I said I think, I know she cleared it because he went into court and told the judge that.

But what is unclear, and I did reach out to Paul. What is unclear is whether she paid the full $500,000 amount or if she settled out for a larger, a lower amount in order to just be able to get this over with. So if the judgment was there, I don't think she could settle out. She might have been able to make payment plans, but she can't settle out. Once that number is there, you can't say, okay, well, let's make a cheaper price. she had to pay that $500,000 and y'all crazy to think she was going to lose her $20 million mansion. We knew she was and we said this when we reported it.

Yeah, we said this one of when she was going to pay. Yeah, you know, that's one of those things you do it at the last minute because you don't want to pay. You're like, nigga, here. I know it. Give you all pennies, all pennies and cards. I seen somebody do that one time and when they wrote the checkout, when they put what it was for,

they put blood money. Damn. Oh, I remember you told that story. I did? Yeah, you told us. Well, you told me. Oh, okay. Okay, but in other news as we move on.

So, Javonte Tank Davis, so there's been a, we've been kind of tracking it a little bit. I know I have been. I've been checking in with Miami Gardens PD almost every day to see if they've arranged anything with him turning himself in. And yesterday there were some reports that were circulating that the U.S. Marshals had gotten involved in this situation because he still has not, Jervante Tank Davis turned himself in. And I wanted to just clarify that reporting. I reached out just, I do it daily to figure out as he turns himself in. Miami Gardens Police Department couldn't tell me anything, but I did come across a source

who told me that number one, the U.S. Marshals had been involved from the beginning. We played the press conference that they had here when they announced, or had in Miami when they announced the arrest warrant, and they say it in that actual press conference. And that was back on the 14th. But a source did tell me that Dervante-Take Davis's attorneys are, they're trying to figure out this whole thing. They're having conversations with Miami Gardens PD, or they were up until a certain point. there was an arrangement.

He was supposed to turn himself in. They had figured it out with the attorneys, but it didn't happen. So now they're just waiting on the attorneys to call them to give an update of when it will happen. Why is the U.S. Marshals, though? I'm saying U.S. Marshals get involved when, like, it's a violent or high priority case. Like, why would this be a high priority case?

And is he on the run? Like, is he not turning himself in and they can't find him? So what I, this is, I'm going to give you the exact quote. So I was told police are still actively looking for him and waiting for his attorney to give them a call. And on wide, though, you. U.S. Marshals are involved, it's because from what police understand Durante Take Davis has a home

in Florida, but he doesn't live there full time. And they know that he lives other places. And a lot of times so if it's state to state, U.S. Marshals will get involved in case they have to extradite you to somewhere else. So that's why they were involved from the very beginning because he has different properties, different places, and they're not for sure where... But they're acting like he's on

a run like he's hiding. From what I understand is, I mean, he was on Instagram yesterday kind of combating some of these reports, so he ain't hiding too deep, right? He's very little, though, so it's easy to hide. I think it's just a thing. Technically, it makes sense, though, because, I mean, he would be considered a fugitive now.

Yeah, if he gets pulled over or anything like that. Fugitive apprehension, I guess. This sounds crazy. It sounds like he's on the run and they can't find him. I mean, technically, he is on the run right now. Not on the run. He's never turned himself in. He's not running.

Okay. No. Yeah. Well, he was on live yesterday, what was he saying? He wasn't on live. He had just posted to an instant story, just responded to a report. He was mad that people were reporting and having a conversation.

But in other news, Trace Songs is suing Kansas City cops over this like crowd incident that he has. So this incident is from a few years ago back in 2021. He was at the Chiefs and Buffalo Bill's game

and there was that video of him like fighting with or like I don't even know you call it a fight, but it was a physical altercation of some sort of Trace songs and security and some people in the stands. And they had actually tried to throw some things his way. So Tray Song claims that security guards and cops showed up when this video took place.

They failed to protect him from unruly aggressive and intoxicated attendees. And instead, they physically assaulted him, wrongfully arrested him, handcuffed, and detained him in jail. Tray Sons is alleging that he was charged with trespassing, resisting arrest, and assaulting a police officer, all of which were dismissed after a while. And so in his lawsuit, Tray Sons is saying because of the coverage of this, the way that it was portrayed, and the physical things he had to endure, he suffered physical injuries, emotional distress, damage to his professional

reputation and financial loss as a result of the incident. So he is also claiming that they used excessive force and wrongfully detained him and arrested him and he is coming back for vengeance. What the last time Trade Zone was put out a song? I told him he had a song with Ray Jay. He got some music. He got some music. He got some music. He got some

coming out. He did a song. Well, Ray J's in the video. He's not really like in the song, but there is like the song. He dropped a song with a new artist. It's some girl I saw it. I saw it. I ain't see Ray J. I mean, he's in a video. He's in a video. It was a month ago. We talked about everything else he does. I haven't heard a trade song in a long time.

I was like, yeah. I don't ever hear about Tray Zones but not music no one. It's a dope song. I thought it wasn't a bad song. The thing is, even if you know, you got all those legal situations happening, sometimes it can get offset by music, right? Because the media the media is only going to focus on what they get. Yeah. So you got to get them something else. No, the bad stuff, they're going

focus on the bad stuff. Yeah, and if you don't give them anything good at all, see the re... But he posted it. Like, he posts music that he got. It's just that nobody picks that up. I told you later. I'm about to look it up. I told you a month ago. I have an honest question for the room, right? If trade songs put out music... I swear, yo, for real. If Trit songs put out music

with all of this stuff that has been happening in the news, all these past, like years since his last biggest hit, would the music really overtake all of the head? The hit is good. A hit is going to take off regardless. I don't know. Seriously. Give him the fair shot at it. Hits, hits.

Like music hits. Like Tracy song hits. Oh, you're saying like music. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're going to say that's all. The hits going to overshadow the other hits. I don't know the exact date. I know it was before Rickett.

Like the physical hits. Yes. I told you it's called Litigan. Litigan? Yeah. Yeah, Litigan. It's featuring Feather, Ray J. Nia.

Yeah. It was seven months ago that he put it up. You just heard it a month ago? Yes. Okay. Just now. All right. And it's dope, too.

Really? Really? He'd be singing. He'd be singing? He'd be singing. Yeah. At the polls the what? He'd be singing.

He'd be singing. Jesus Christ. Y'all are that great advocates. Y'all are horrible for being an advocate for Trey. I was just reporting the news. As we wrap up, though, we're going to get into the Naomi Osaka conversation on the latest with Lauren the Rose of the podcast since we didn't get to do it here and have the conversation about black women in sports and apologies or not.

Because I don't think Naomi Osaka should apologize. should have apologized and we're going to talk about it on the podcast I don't know what happened. You know what happened. Yeah, me even. Well, I don't know if I talk. Listen to the latest with Lauren. That's why I'm plugging it.

Listen to the latest with Lauren the podcast. We didn't get into it here, but I'll get into it there. Yeah, maybe we could talk about an overtop. All right. Thank you. Yeah. So, even that donkey too. Man, far after the hour, you know, it's the people's donkey.

It's Friday. So you can call in 1-800-585-105-1 and give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid. All right. We'll also open up the phone lines, you know, the blizzard and this horrible snow, this horrible temperature weekend is supposed to be hitting the East Coast and South. And it's Friday, so you know what that means

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So good morning. Who's this? Butter from Harlem. Good morning. How are you, butter from Harlem? Who you want to get the biggest he-hawn to? I want to give it to unc. What on who I mean by unc is,

let's tell you, Charlamagne the guard. Okay. Ask me why. Why, because you a stud? Oh, my God. Yeah, I'm a stud. That's one. Every day I listen to this, I drive in the morning,

and you don't get great to Lauren La Rosa. Just, I love you. I love you, I love you too. He praises you way too much more than my girl, Lauren La Rosa. Like, he makes me feel a little weight when I'm driving. I kind of want to turn the left wheel. You think he praised me? She'd all like where he'd be coming about her.

She'd be trying me. And so I'll be letting her live, but then what, see? Don't she be trying to do her job, and you just be, like, fucking her. Like, come on. No, I'm sitting here, mine in my business, and she came at me, called me ball-headed and all kinds of stuff. And you're all right. And looking at her from across the room, and I'm not even seeing you.

What? I'm not supposed to look at her. She's doing her segment. I'm not supposed to look at her when she's talking. You tried to come from me because I'm a start because of my voice. Tell me, what's it's on us? No, I could just, I could smell the vagina on your breathful. over the fall. Oh, my God. I love you too. I've been feigning. I've been feigning the

call. Don't you go my girl, Laura Rota. Yes, I love you. I love you. He don't praise me. He just don't come at me like he comes at her. He don't praise me. Yeah, yeah. He'd be going easy. You took you like a little sis, but all-lawful are. Like, I love both of y'all. Y'all. Y'all doing your thing respectfully. Lauren be trying. So if she's going try, I'm going to get, I'm a, I'm a hit her out. Can I, you? You're the mediator. You be chilling. I'm nuts with you.

Can I say something to you? What you at right now? You're in Jersey Where you at? You're in New York, right? My high and mine. Yeah, talk to me. All right.

Go stock up on batteries. No, no, I'm just going to say go stock up on batteries because you know it's going to be a snowstorm and we're going to be stuck in the house. I'm going to talk my radio. Say that. Hey, yo. I love you. Appreciate you. All right.

Good morning. Who you want to get the biggest he hard to? Man, I want to give it to Mother Nature. Okay. Why? Because how you're going to be 40 degrees one day? in nine degrees and they say,

come on, lady. Listen, Mother Nade you can do what she wanted to do, man. But she needs to chill out. I ain't doing anything. You're right. We had her mercy, though.

Man, bro, might y'all be safe, man? We're gonna have a winter storm down here in Memphis. Oh, yeah, we bought that. I mean, we up here in New York, but it's gonna be worse for y'all just because, like, you know,

the South ain't equipped for none of that. I swear, man. Hey, when you ever went to the game station and all the damn chips gone, Damn. They're getting ready, man. Hey, they bought out of chips, the Uru and Nooros, the Skittles. The Uru's and Nooros.

You got something to roll up with, though, right? Hey, shh, I just did it. It's besides the point, Shal of Maine. People are what I'm saying, brother? It's beside the point. And weed is legal and damn there the whole country, man. You're going to be all right? Hey, Memphis.

Hey, Memphis. Hey, Memphis. I get it. I know, I know, I know. Be safe out there this weekend, brother. Oh, yeah. Man, I always, but y'all have a blessed one, man. Yes, sir.

Good morning. Who's this? Good morning. Mr. Show Money, Roselle, New Jersey. What's happening, my brother? What's up, Mr. Show Money? Who you want to get the biggest he-haw to? You.

Y-O-U. First of all, you're going to mess with a lot of big guests for the breakfast club. You violated my man, Hull. I don't even, I can't repeat the comment if you mean about Holes. Hove? But then also, yes, sir. You talk about J-Z. Z?

First of all, I'm a Pinkett Smith-Winthry-Nose Carter, okay? Yeah, whatever, fan. Listen, you violate. You're violating. Jay Z? Yes, sir. I forget the comedy was last week.

So that Holt says something. Yeah. Oh, when I gave him a pause because what he said was pauseworthy. Yeah, you don't pause, no, that's not. No, no, no, no, no, no, Mr. Showman, my name says on. He was having a conversation about not having a conversation about not having a pauseworthy. having yes men around you. So you was going to sit around him and looking.

No, you can't sit around home and hear something so egregious and not pause. Hove is not above you to pause. No, no, that was egregious. Listen, DJ Envy, when you can't land the whole interview, whenever he does an interview, this is why. You only interview Jay Z once in life unless you're Angie Martinez, okay? In the other days, about Envy putting words in your mouth. Like the way you said in was just crazy.

DJ's in no put words in my mouth. Yes. Come on, bro. NVB. In time about the donkey that day you gave to the lady that wanted to have money back for the money, I was in a husband died. Okay. And then you said, you know, do they have no put words in my mouth.

Yes, I don't like what people put words in my mouth. But don't say in like that, brother. Yo, what are you talking about? He's very zesty, Mr. Showmoney. It's very zesty. This is crazy He's not playing with you Can we play the Jay Z clip?

Can we have to be yet? No, we're not. I want to play the Jay Z clip so people know why that was Paul's work. It can be. Yes, sir. Did you call my man yet? I bought your merch

according to directing London, New Jersey. 9.088454-4-4- God damn. Don't be giving up the man number over the radio. It's tens of millions of people listening. That's a business number. You should have said, hold on,

and gave it to him off air, Mr. Show, money. That's his business number. Now ain't nobody going to be able to get through because everybody's just going to be flooding his line calling them for no damn reason. Because Mr. Show Money decided to broadcast the number to 10 million people. That's the biggest number.

That's good having it out of it. You know, yo, you're trying to me, bud. We don't all have $400 million. You know, hang up on Mr. Show Money. This guy's crazy. Have a good day, Mr. Show Money. All right. We do that donkey.

We do the people's donkey every Friday. Okay, $100, $5,085-105-1. You can call up and give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid, okay? Mr. Schumann just did throw him. He just everything he thought of. Joe Jay-Z, my man, the own this. You know, y'all in your mouth.

I love Hove. Hove is one of my, my, my entertainment inspirations. Why you glazing? Idles. Why you glazing? I don't care. J.Z. Clarence, A. Arsenio Hall, Pee-D. Green.

Those are my four entertainment inspirations. I love those brothers, okay? But you're not over. You're not above a pause. Okay, because that was crazy All right Hey yo You're in three days man

You ain't hitting it hard anymore You're not working out of you You're not you're not You're not attacking it the same way Bro like getting in there man No no I'll come with you No you got to leave all come with you I'll come with you

How much time you heard that Because this is that right He ain't missing apart Jesus Christ And that's the story friend. Nobody. First of all, I love Jay-Z.

I told you, I got four entertainment inspirations. Okay. Jay-Z, Clarence Ava, P.D. Green. Okay. And Arsenae O'Haw. Just Glaze? And by the way, I'm publishing Arceeo Hall's memoir.

It'll be out April 7th. Okay, but you can pre-order it right now what is called Arsenio a memoir and it's one of the best memoirs ever read in my life. I'm not saying that because I'm publishing it via Black Privile's Publishing. I'm saying that because it's true.

I would really love to meet that, brother. But nobody's above a pause. Especially when it's a stage. Okay. New Year, fresh start. And honestly, I'm starting with dinner. This year, I'm being smarter about where my energy goes, and dinner was taking way too much of it.

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Yo, y'all, y'all ever heard Jay Z say pause? Yes, he has the plus. Yeah, so how does he above the pause? I don't understand what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. That's what he was talking about. Like, AEO was that error. That's what started from.

Damn. Slute the whole. All right. Now, let's open up. the phone lines. It's Friday so you know what that means? It's Fricky, Fricky Friday! Why do you do it? Why do you move your hand like that when you do it? Shut up, man. Why use your hand like that?

Playing with the testes? Wow. Crazy. All right. So the question is 800, 5-8-5-105-1. Now, this week is supposed to be a huge snowstorm. The weather's supposed to be disgusting. And some of y'all trying to get snowed in with your best eater. Okay. God damn. So we're asking 800. But your best eater should be

your significant other, I would hope so. 5-8-5-101. Have you ever been snowed in with the wrong person. I'm stuck with the wrong person. That's a different conversation. Okay, because the best eat is the right person. But the wrong person, that's nasty work. Somebody on the chat just said that, you know, they were snowed in with somebody that had their feet steak.

What they said that, they said the, uh, um, bray. The mouth was fired. The mouth was fired. Yes. So that's what we're asking. 800, 585, 15, 151, what? What?

That's just crazy to say. Somebody was sneaky feet. Something's wrong with our life. We're opening up the phone lines 8005855-105-1. It's Friday so you know what that means. It's freaky, freaky Friday! And we're asking, of course, this weekend is going to be a huge snowstorm.

Have you ever been, I guess, snowed in with your best either? Snowden with the wrong person is the question. Let's start with you guys. Jess? All right, so I got... No, but you got a story. Go. I got Snowden while I was pregnant with Rome and I went through his phone.

Oh, damn. Yes. and found out Girl, that's the worst Yeah, it is the worst Because he couldn't go nowhere You know what I mean? But yeah, I got

I got snowed in Rome I went through his phone And I found out he was cheating on me With like six different girls Damn And you couldn't leave Yeah, no I'm beating Rome ass up and down the house

It was while I was pregnant Did not care What did I mean with kind of snow We had like What you mean what kind of snow How much? All right so it was like a blizzard Man, I don't know

I guess like two feet Like I couldn't go anywhere We couldn't go anywhere. And it's not like I drove anyway. I was catching a bus back and forth. And I was living with him, staying with him at the time. And, yo, I was whooping Rome ass. For me.

Rome was snowed in with the wrong person. Poor Rome. What you mean? I found out he was cheating on me. Oh. He literally told somebody I wasn't pregnant and I was. I'm like, yo, I am pregnant. Why you tell this girl I'm not?

Because he was trying to clap the cheese. That's crazy. You know the answer to that question. That happened to you too? No, I've only been snowed in so far with my old boo and my new boo. So you haven't been stuck with your boo and didn't work out right? Why are you looking like that? You got something you want to tell us.

Tell us. There's nothing I want to tell you guys. I'm looking forward to the snow weekend. Oh, okay. Charlemagne leave alone. Let's go to the phone line. I'm not. I don't know.

There's no need to even ask me an envious because, you know, we've been with the right people for 20 blood years. Have you ever had a situation in the snow where you were like, like y'all because you've got kids? like, where you're like, yo, I need to get out of here. Hell no. There's no other place I would rather know with the kids. Absolutely. I'm always outside with the kids in the snow.

There's not the other place I wrote to be in. Shut up. I saw somebody say on the chat, they were like, I'm going to be snowed in with these bad ass kids. I mean, you're going to be snowing with your kids. Those are your kids. Man, but when you got no limit soldiers, man,

you don't want to be snowed in. At least you can go outside. That's like parents would be like, what you're doing this weekend? I'm babysitting. Those are your kids. Now, I will say this. My kids don't know when to come in.

side, though. They're like, let's stay outside. Long and I'm cold because I got to stay outside with them. Come on, let's go inside. They're like, no, Dad, 30 more minutes. 30 more minutes, 45 minutes. I'm freezing. And get all 80, y'all be sick. Daddy's got to come inside, right? Oh, my God. Wow.

What's wrong with y'all? What's wrong with y'all? Wow. Who's this? This guy's crazy. You look, your eye contact is crazy. Hello? Can you take us all Bluetooth a speaker?

Yeah, I just said, Good morning, everybody. My name is everything shot. Everything's shot. You said everything's stud. Shah! I am a stud, but it's everything. We know.

All of your voice. All right. Tell us what happened with you. Who was you snowed in with? Straight guy. So, I don't know her name. I'm going back to 2005. I met her off the party line.

My greeting was like, I'm trying to get snowed in. You know what I mean? Living the suburbs of Philadelphia, trying to get snowed there for the weekend. And Shody came through. She was nice. The body, the face.

Everything was right. But she was a little crazy, yo. She locked me in my basement. Like, locked me. me in the basement. Damn. Yeah. Lock me in my basement.

I couldn't get out. My basement door had the type of lock, like a latch on it. Mm-hmm. From the outside. So in the basement, I couldn't get out. And she's just roaming around my house. And I literally had to call someone and wait for them to come here from Philly to come into my house to let me out my basement.

I was, he locked me in my basement. How many times you're going to tell this she locked you in your basement, ma'am? We get it. She locked you in your basement. Did you have a good time? Did you clap the cheeks? In the basement? Before the basement.

No. No. Well, I just want to... You never got there for. Damn. Well, listen, I just want to tell you, you know what I'm saying? I want to give you some studs survival tips this weekend. You know what I mean?

No, for real. Like, when you choose your boots... Some more power of tugs. No, I'm just saying. What they call you? Your power bottle. Your power bottle. Your power bottle.

I was just going to say... When you choose your boots, you know, choose something for survival, not ego. You know what I'm saying? Y'all studs be stylish. You know what I'm saying? My boot? Yeah, get some waterproof boots with some real traction just in case you need to go outside.

I have a ball here. I look like a whole dude. My name is Everything S-H-I on all social media. You can see what I look like. Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. I'm not going to look like you on lighter, to be honest. In our bitch press, telling me, in our bitch, and in our bitch, and in, and I'm in-and-th-30.

Hello? Okay. Okay. You said everything Sh-H-H-H-I, Instagram, Facebook, everything. Is everything S-H-H-E-S-E-E-E-G. H-I is acronym, but so happy inside. My TikTok is missed everything. That's crazy, but why?

Weight loss, trainer, entertainer, and fashion. She can shovel her own snow when it's all set in time. Oh, I do, too. Go clean your... That's right. You ain't tell us... You ain't tell us why the girl locked you in the basement. Was the strap dirty?

Like, what's up? Jesus. Like, why? Come on. Like, stop playing. No, my stuff was dirt. She never even, we never got there for us. Oh, wow. Here's the thing. I'm on social media.

I'm well known in the Philly area. I'm well known right here. It's a underscore in your Instagram name? Oh, I'm looking at you right now, I miss everything. You got horrible survival tips. I got some videos that got millions of views. I've been doing this over the years. They see me and they think they can get something from me.

I got poor. So surely he locked you in the basement. Did she rob you? Was anything missing? What's up? No, she was just all around my house chilling. It was her. And I'm bathing on the door like, yo, let me out.

Like, yo, what's what's what's doing? I'm moving around the house, open my head and everything. Why you ain't knocked the door down, Miss Binch 130? No, no, no, that wasn't happening. I couldn't do it to still door. It's a still door. I'm not that strong. And everything's shot out.

Oh, how you got a steel door? What the hell are you keeping down there? You do look like Charlotte, man. That's crazy. Let me see, let me see. That's crazy. Only lighter. No, you don't look like me.

Oh, wow. Yeah. Oh, hell. I like that. Everything underscore Shaddleman, you listened to you when you was around the corner on a Dominal Lane, 440 Dominole Way. Yeah, I was on 100.3 to beat out there. I love Philly, man.

Yes, I appreciate you, miss everything. Can I do the donkey of the day, too? Come on, ma'am. Nah, we did that already, but we appreciate you. I just, I just show, I just show, I just show, I just show, I just show, Charlemaine and you in the bikini that you got on your thing. Yo, I'd have liked your ass in the basement, too.

And find me in the red wig. Find me in the red wig. I look beautiful. I'm gorgeous as a woman. You are beautiful. You are a beautiful stud. Yeah, you're going in the basement. Jesus.

I didn't want to insult. I didn't know what her pronoun was. She said as a woman, though, so I don't know. I don't know. She's a woman. Okay. 800-5-805-10. Sorry, it took so long.

I don't know either rebirth of cool. I was thinking the same thing. Why she eating out a pot on Instagram, but hey, who I ain't. That's crazy. Yeah, because she, man, that's basement behavior. I love Studs, man. Who's all the Studs? Me and Drews are going to have to fight to see who loves Studs, well.

No, that you're going to love. Hello, who's this? This is Dee from Miami, but I live in Cleveland now. What's up, Dee? Talk to us, Dee. You ever been Snowden with the wrong person? So, not Snowden, but we had a hurricane, like, maybe 10-ish years ago, and my boyfriend at the time and his roommate had never been through a hurricane.

They're like, oh, we'll have a hurricane party. You come through. I'm like, okay, cool. So I was in my boyfriend, the dude, the roommate was, I think he met her the day before. They were hooking up and they were having the loudest animal sex with the dogs barking and everything in their bedroom. And we had no electricity so you could hear everything. It was more than. And they didn't sound like they knew what they were doing.

Such pressure for your boyfriend, man. I know, right? Wow. No, not my boyfriend. They did not know what they were doing. No, no, no, no. But that's what I mean. Such pressure for your boyfriend because in his mind he probably thinking like, damn,

I ain't making my shorty make that type of noise. You know, ain't no dog barking for me. I just went five minutes and they're still going three hours later. You know what I'm saying? She said they don't know what they're doing because of the same. Not at the time. Not at that time. But, you know, later when we were alone, you know, we got into it.

But, you know, we're respectable people. Got you. We are not having, you know, no electricity, you know, loud sets when other people are next door. Get it in. Y'all should have turned into a competition. Yeah, all right. Who can be louder? Come back.

No, I'm good. I will absolutely outperform them. It's okay. Talk that. Talk. Talk. Talk. I'm a lady for our outperformer.

But you know, that's the thing. I don't want it to be performative. You know what I'm saying? Like, if it ain't real, don't be just yelling and screaming for no damn reason. You know what I'm saying? Why? Hello, who's this?

Mommy. You sound like I'd be telling that girl help earlier. You can't be saying certain words. Certain words are mean discreet. Help? Mommy? Okay. So tell us, you've been stoning with the wrong person?

Mommy? Yeah. Well, in New York. I lived in New York. I never got a snowstorm with the wrong person because it also was planet with who I wanted to get a black thing with. So that was good. But now I live in Florida, and I got Hurricane in with someone,

and they were complete opposite of who I thought they were. So we were talking for a little while, like, guys always smelled good, like clean, clut, everything. Got snowstorm with him. We got a hurricane in for three days. He didn't shower, not one day. The water was hot up. There's still water.

Yeah. He thinks. So bad. There was no food. You're supposed to say, it's going to be a hurricane. I broke him so bad, but he didn't buy nothing. So I'm like, wait, bars it. He was not in a, no flux on, so the water came up, like, really close to his house. It was hard for me to leave. But luckily, because I was like, just in case, I have parked, like, a mile away in the medium. So as soon as the water resided, just a little bit, I mean, it would feel on my knees. I literally waited for him to go do something, get entertained.

I opened door quietly because I wanted to try to stop me. And I walked in that water for about a mile until I got to my car. Wait in the water. Why couldn't you just tell him to go take a shower? Especially for dinner. Why don't you go wash up? You told him you stink?

And he was like, I told him, I mean, I told him. He always just had a night. So I told him like, nice. And I was showering. And I was hoping that that would inspire him to go shower. Nah, y'all got to be, y'all got to just be honest with people. Sometimes people don't be smelling. yourself, man.

Go take a shower. You stink, bro. Like, yo, can you please go take a shower? You ain't watching a couple of days. You're starting to stink. That'll shame him and make him go take a shower, yo. Yeah. Listen, he's real so bad.

And then I was like, don't you want to? You're ready for a show? Yeah, now I'm a show later. And I'm like, what's going on? I go shower. Oh, that's so good. I felt like a new person.

But because it was just him and I, and again, we were just talking. I haven't seen him mad or anything. I don't know what can go off. And it was just him and I. I don't want to put myself in a dangerous situation. And so you swam all the way to your car. You swam all the way to your car.

Literally. Literally. I was like, I don't care. Because I knew my car was going to stay because I parked there in the medium. So even if there were to wear, it had to have gone real hard to not. So I was like, no, it doesn't matter. I literally, the water was all my, like, the level of my knee. I think when. You got to talk straight to people, especially when you snow, you stuck with them.

And I'm sure he probably wanted sexual favors and all that. You got to be honest with people. Be scraped with them. And now, and what's crazy is now his stinky ass is one of her bodies. Damn, man. That's crazy. No, he stung. She can just, it didn't count.

What's the ball of the... The ball of the... The ball of the story is you shouldn't be getting, you know, snowed in or stuck with the wrong person anyway, because you shouldn't be wasting your time or energy with the wrong people. But sometimes you don't know. Well, she could have knew he stunk. But, like, some character traits, you need to be with a person long enough to see him. Y'all should have known that already.

Yeah. At this point? I don't know. I snowed in with my sugar daddy before. And what was so good was like, he didn't, he didn't, nothing worked below his belt. So I didn't have to really do anything.

But I didn't plan to get stuck over there. I went over there to get some bread and it was already snowing. He was like, I cooked. I'm like, all right, I'm going to sit here and eat for this bread, you know. And because that was a bread for my car that he helped me put the down on. And so I ended up having to stay the night over there. But he didn't, he didn't need anything. You know what I mean?

he didn't work below. So sometimes people end up in there on accident. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. You're walking around naked all weekend

though. Absolutely. And I sure did. I don't want to see. When we come back, we got past the Aux Nala will be joining us so don't go anywhere

as the breakfast club good morning. Go. Go. Go. My DJ. Come spin, not co-spin.

What's up, Nila? What's up guys? Happy Friday. Niala. Nila, Nyla Simone, certified by.

Young Eric Andre. Young Eric Andre is crazy. Explain yourself. I don't even know what I said that. Now, he's going to be snowed in New York or where you going? Oh, no, I'm going home. You got it? Oh, yeah, I'll be my parent.

Okay. Yes. But, um. What we got? We got something good this week? Yeah, well, I'm going to start off because I know it's freaky Friday, so I want to do a little pallet plans with some gospel. This record is called On and On by Madison, Ryan Ward.

I don't know why I've really been drawn to these type of songs, but it's the vocals. It's the vocals and it's the message, but it's by Madison Ryan Ward featuring James Poysers. I love it, of course. What's her name? Madison Ryan Ward. Oh, I need to ride. I love it. Yeah, the vocals are great.

Very emotional record. She collapsed a lot with Lucre as well. I know she's an amazing vocalist. We said Madison Chord? Madison Ryan Ward. I'll send it to you. She sound dope. But, all right, next we're going to turn up and then we're going to get.

into some rap So next we got this Denzo Curry you saw that Denzo Curry formed the rap group with Tia Corinz A Sefer

y'all didn't see that BK the ruler what? Okay well they formed a rap group it's called the psych and they drop and they

they're dropping on a project March 6 one month after the falloff but they dropped their first record called Lit effect The falloff got to do anything

I'm just saying it's one month after the falloff the six I love a C5-Pof me I love it I love it I love it

I like that I think Denzel Curry is very underrated Yo, I love Dizzo Curry. No, Zell get busy. He's very underrated. Yeah, I think so, too. I just think he's in his own lane. Like, they're following his niche,

but I think that's what's cool about the group, because I think Ferg's following his niche. I think B.K. Ruhl is following his niche here, so them coming together. That was dope. I think that's really going to be a moment and it's good for the morale of hip-hop. But, all right, next we got this new

the baby record called Pop that he's been teasing it for a while. Ooh. It's finally out! The baby, my, man. I love the baby. Baby kids, don't know. You hate the baby? Never missed.

That was tough. That's a tough tune. Get everybody dancing again, man. You know what I'm saying? Grind a little bit on people. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah.

What I'm talking about, man. I'm on, man. I just put a basketball record and you want to take it back to that. You're right. You know. Grind on people a little bit. I got into, like grind on a little bit.

Not that's crazy. Like, somebody's charged. What I'm saying? On your jeans, meaning you, like you. Like, like, a guy. Like, like, a guy. It was crazy.

It was very much. You've done it before. You haven't? You a man. You got the same tool. I got, don't you? I got two more. I got two more. So this next one is Don Cannon and Walee James freestyle.

Yeah. I'm going to close, boss. Walee, man. Always. Tough. While Lale get busy, yo. And I feel like everything is a lot. It kind of came and went, and I don't like that.

You think so? A little bit. I'm gone. A little bit. I haven't heard anybody talk about it again. I haven't seen any singles. No, that Leon Thomas record, uh, kissing in the club. I hope so.

That goal that Go Pellie. That one still. going. Is it on radio? I hope so. Well, it's on radio at the other station. I don't know about this one.

Listen, what is it called? Watching us. Watching. Sima. You should program Waleh. Watching us. In the middle of my sim? No, because we got to keep

these dope projects going. We can't just allow these dope projects to just come and go. That's Wale and Leon. That was hard, man. Wait, the last one, and if we can't play it is cool, but Wiz Kid and Asake dropped a project.

Please let me hear it. They're wrapping you up, though. I love everything. Whiz Kid, so that's always gonna get me in a vibe. I love it. Simms said the record is actually in rotation. Oh, that's dope. See, Sim is on it. Sim say Walee and Leon Thomas is already in rotation.

Vah Fahmah! Nile's Ket was tough. Whiskey and the stockade tough. Don't they got an album coming out of something? That is. It's off the album. That was out? Yes, it dropped today. Also, your girl, R.A. Linux dropped today as well. But I need to sit and listen to it because I wasn't sure. But if you like what y'all heard, make sure you guys follow me online

at Naila Simone with the Y not an eye and then also make sure you guys RSVP I'm doing the J-Cole album listening party for the falloff at the Brooklyn Public Library so it's gonna be really dope that's the same place they have Book of Hope so we got some like installations planned but

I just... So you're doing it as a fan? It's just a fan list. Okay, dope, dope, dope. Yeah, yeah. Didn't Jay Cole say he don't read that much one time? I don't know. That's what's just so. I like this. The library is saying that's kind of great. I thought he was rapping. Thank you Nala. We got to go. All right. Thank you Nala. All right. We come back, we got the people's choice make we throw it back on a Friday. It's the breakfast club. Good morning.

Morning, everybody is FeeJ Envi. Just hilarious. Salomey and the guy. We are the breakfast club. Again, this weekend, we're expecting a storm on Sunday. They're saying that we could get up to 20 inches of snow. So you're clear. 20 inches of snow. So just be careful. Make sure you get all your food that you need

because it might get nasty. We might lose power and all those other things. So just make sure you got extra blankets. You got candles and those type of things like that. And you're safe out there. I also want to say, I'm watching so many people, you know, push back events for the weekend on the East Coast. I think the people that aren't pushing back events are very selfish and irresponsible. You know what I mean?

Like, there's nothing going on this weekend that's so important that, you know, you're going to put people in danger to a tent. You know, so stop thinking about yourself for a second and think about, you know, all the people that you could be putting in harm's way by having them out in this weather. Because it is unpredictable, right? Like it's saying that it might start on midnight on Saturday. But you don't know.

You don't know. It might start at 9 o'clock. Yeah, they should cancel everything. Everything. Saturday, evening, Sunday, you should cancel. You also got to remember that people got to travel. So even though it's an event Saturday, I still might have to drive an hour or two hours. You don't want people on the road.

So things should be canceled. Like my kids, my son's soccer, my daughter's cheerleading tournaments. You know what I'm saying? Basketball. My shows that I had in Hoover, Alabama. Like I'm in Alabama. Carolina this weekend because of it. You should cancel.

Do the right thing. Cancel these things. Keep people off the road. And some people got things for the weekend, but they canceling one. day of it. Like, no, cancel just push the whole thing back. Like, yeah. Like, come man, make some executive decisions, man. Be smart out here. No, you can't cancel the NFL. We're still

watching that. But, yeah. They're just snow ain't hitting none than them places and I don't think. Snow ain't hitting Colorado or Seattle? Oh, yeah. No. No, hell no. Salute to Latasha Brown and Chauncee Lundy, the executive directors of founder of Southern Black Girls. They have a mentorship where they

mentor young black women. I love that. Young Black girls as well. So salute to them for what they're doing. I'm actually going to try to get them to the family reunion thing we're doing. Just to talk to some of the young girls and actually bring some of the young girls in there to enjoy the festivities at that mall. Yeah, I mean, this month was January.

It was national mentorship month. Yes. And so I just thought that was a great conversation because mentorship is very important, very important. And one thing that I love that Latasha, you know, Brown said is that correction is love. I truly believe that. You know what I'm saying?

You don't love somebody if you're not willing to, you know, correct them or something they're doing wrong. That's right. All right. Well, you got a positive note, Shala? I do. This is for everybody who, sadly, may be stuck in the snow alone this weekend. You know what I mean? You may not have a significant other. You may not have a family. You might just find yourself by yourself. It's cool. Just remember, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer once said,

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