The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Suge Knight Starting Podcast From Prison, DJ Nyla Symone Talks New Wale, Maiya The Don New EP, Pass Da Aux RNB Live Tonight + More

Episode Date: October 20, 2023

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and it's just gonna get you in trouble. Everybody wake up! Good morning, USA. Wow. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, 45 years old. I was born in 1978. I've never heard nobody say that in reference to having a cold. A turtle in your throat? I ain't never heard that. Anybody in this room ever heard that one? I had a turtle in my mouth. A turtle in my throat. What's his name? Leonardo? Raphael? Donatello? Michelangelo?

Which one is it? One of them. One of them. I feel like I got something in my throat. Whoa, man. Shut up, man. God damn. I know it's Freaky Freaky Friday, but Lord have mercy. We know. Shut up. Okay. God damn. I know it's Freaky Freaky Friday, but Lord have mercy. We know. Shut up. Okay.

Shout out to all the students at Howard University. I was at Howard University last night. You know, I'm on my HBCU tour, so when I'm DJing, it was actually me and Clue. You know, you're yelling, and it feels like I'm coming down with something. Clue, as you're yelling all night, what'd you say? Just like old times, huh? Yo, why can't you stop, man? Just like old times. Hey, I'm here can't you stop, man? Just like old times.

Hey! I'm here to serve. We're here to serve, man. Happy Friday. Another day. The Breakfast Club is on your radio, man. Happy to serve the people, man. I feel blessed.

Black and highly favored. We got some special guests joining us today. We do. We have Ida Rodriguez, comedian. She has a new book. We're going to be kicking it with Ida Rodriguez. BT, can you see me holding up Ida's book? It's called Legitimate Kid.

It's a memoir. You know? Mm-hmm. Salute to Ida Rodriguez. BT, can you see me holding up Ida's book? It's called Legitimate Kid. It's a memoir, you know? Salute to Ida Rodriguez. Also, rapper Nick Grant will be joining us. Nick Grant, South Carolina's own. Walk the world, South Carolina. He's got a new album out called Sunday Dinner. And if you're not familiar with Nick Grant, you should be familiar with Nick Grant, because

he's one of the nicest lyricists out here on this planet today. That's right. So we can get it with both of them today. That's right. All right. Now, Friday, what you doing this weekend? My God, don't worry about what I'm doing this weekend, okay? And I don't want to do what you're doing this weekend either.

All right? Now, I'm just relaxing. The show just started, all right? I know. We'll get to what I'm doing this weekend later on, but it's really nothing, so it don't matter. Oh, is it a frog in my throat? I feel like I got a frog in my throat.

Now, I've heard that. That I've heard. Oh, you are so stupid. Frog, turtle. I mean, the way you set Hampton people back, the way you set Bejman back, like, you are really stupid. We love you, though. It's a frog in the throat.

It's a frog in the throat. I don't know why I said turtle, but it's a frog. Because you probably were watching the movie. Did you watch the movie? I did not. You think Raphael's cute? That's what it is. They remind me.

The Ninja Turtles remind you of me, you know? So that's why you probably feel this way. But let's get the show started. Tesla and Figaro's up next with Front Page News. You really kinky this morning. I don't know why you flirt with me already, but okay. You need to go do something about that frog in your throat. You know what I'm saying?

Do you want somebody to kiss that frog and turn it into a prince, so then it'll be a prince in your throat? What's wrong with you? Teslan Figaro's up next. Front page news. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Let's go.

Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha God. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. Good morning, Tease. Oh, good morning, DJ Envy. Good morning, Charlamagne Tha God. My voice is crazy.

Now, let's start start with some quick NFL. Last night, the Jaguars beat the Saints 31-24. Now, what are we jumping into? Yeah, let's talk about the 400 capital staffers. They're calling for a ceasefire. Muslim and Jewish congressional staffers signed a letter yesterday urging Congress to back a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the light of the anti-Jewish, anti-Muslim, and anti-Palestinian sentiment on the rise in the nation. Now,

the letter they wrote said that nationwide and in the Congress, the voices calling for de-escalation and peace have been drowned out by those beating the drums of war. As Muslims and Jews, we are tired of reliving generational fears of genocide and ethnic cleansing. It often feels like the conversations on capitol hill are completely divorced from the conversations people are having among their friends family and co-workers so they are asking for peace because obviously the u.s is making decisions without input you know from the american people and certainly i guess these staffers are seeing it from behind the scenes and they're saying you know enough is

enough now speaking of that president biden did address the nation last night about Ukraine and Israel and how the U.S. must continue to support. Let's take a listen to a few of his words. We can't let petty, partisan, angry politics get in the way of our responsibilities as a great nation. We cannot and will not let terrorists like Hamas and tyrants like Putin win. I refuse to let that happen. In moments like these, we have to remind, we have to remember who we are. We are the United States of America. The United States of America.

And there is nothing, nothing beyond our capacity if we do it together. Once again, man, do what you got to do for global stability, but take care of home first. It's terrible that we have money for war, but can't feed the poor here in America. What are they asking for? $100 billion in funding? They're requesting from Congress $100 billion while folks is over here starving, while folks is over here homeless? Like, why can't we take care of the basics here first? I thought we were in huge debt.

I thought we were borrowing money from countries and borrowing money from allies. So how do we have that money to actually give to them? I don't know. And it is where you can address the nation all you want. But I promise you, you know, the nation doesn't care about foreign policy or foreign politics the way they do about here at home. I can guarantee you that. American foreign policy priorities are not the priorities of the average

everyday American. I can guarantee you that. Yeah, and just just for clarity it's certainly more than that because it's 100 billion to israel and then yesterday the report was 100 million uh for uh that's going to for the relief in gaza so and it's way more than that and they asked for an eight billion dollar package they're putting together as well you know in congress uh for for this effort and then again not including what's already been in ukraine so the the numbers just keep adding up so it's certainly a lot of money that they're talking about and with that said uh in congress right now jim jordan who will be uh who they are saying is going to be the next speaker of the house in order to get more of this money out it's important to have a speaker

he goes up for a third vote today they continue to keep telling him we don't want you jim and jim is saying i'm going to keep on pushing the line and as a result of that a voicemail was left on the wife of a congressman's phone now they did not say who this wife was or who the congress person was they wanted to make sure they protected the identity but a very disturbing voicemail i got a few seconds of it. Check it out. Why is your husband such a pig? Why would he get on TV and make an ass of himself? Because he's a deep state prick. Because he doesn't represent the people. So what we're going to do is we're going to come follow you all over the place.

We're going to be up your ass. We are now Antifa. We're going to do what the left does. Because your f***ing husband gets on TV. Oh, the bad guys. So I'm going to vote for Kevin McCarthy, a piece of who everybody knows. And for his piece of talk about Americans who are actually fighting for Americans as the bad people, there's everything about him. So you your husband.

So listen, I'm putting all your information over the internet now everybody else is and you're gonna be molested like you can't ever imagine and again non-violently you must be a to marry a ugly mother like that damn how are you gonna end that by saying well not non-violently what the hell that sounds crazy where the hell they get the number from who number was that again they find it just like people have found found information left voicemails left you know did when you go against uh some of these folks you know in their position they they get pretty aggressive with trying to find your information it was even at one point i even had to take turn my website you know information off

people find numbers they leave voicemails send text messages i mean this this is this is how they get out they can't start six nine what was that old thing back in the day who said star six nine no call id not on the cell phone lord have mercy yeah but people like that should get locked up and that's that's regardless when you threaten people over the line and you threaten to put their information out their address their phone number where people can actually get hurt, that's a threat. And they should get arrested. Yeah. Like, remember that movie Minority Report where they arrest you for what you might do?

Yeah. If you make those kind of threats, they should charge you like you actually did the crime. Absolutely. Straight up. Well, I don't charge like you did the crime. Man, if you're going to go out of your way to get on the phone and do all of that, well, at least half. Yes. Let me get whatever they would give you for for doing the crime. Give them half for doing that phone call.

Yeah, because we know this really can happen because remember, this happened to Nancy Pelosi's husband. So, you know, the spouse of an elected official like this is a real thing. And the conversation for those who want to check it out, you go look at it on listen to it online. It's actually much worse. That was just a few seconds. He went on and on for a good minute. All right. Well, that is front page news. Now get it off your chest. Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open again. Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

This is your time to get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Yeah, what's up, Envy? What up, Trev? What's up, Sean? Peace, sis. What's happening?

I'm chilling, I'm chilling. Envy, first, I just want to tell you, because, you know, I've been to Howard University and woke up the next day feeling like I had something in my throat, too. So I just want to give you some advice. You have these, you know, throat numbing spray that you can use. You can spray it down your throat

and it's probably going to help you out a little bit. Shut up, Trav. Howard homecoming sucking something. Yo, shut up. I'm just saying, I mean, you know, he was at Howard homecoming. I know how I'll be. Encoming. I know how I'll be. Envy, I know how I'll be.

I ain't judging you. What you want, Trav? He want what you got last night that got your throat hurting. That's what he want. Yo, shut up, man. Yo, I just want to say one thing, man. Sean Stone,

that man is obsessed with me, right? And this man called, he called and telling Jeff all this stuff. I got one question for y'all. Envy and Sean, when y'all asked me a few months ago who I think would be the best fit right now, and I gave you my honest opinion, everything to the side, who did I pick? You said Jessica Robin Moore.

You said Jess. Okay. That's all I got. Thank y'all so much. Y'all have a good day. All right, Trav. That beef is real. Hello, Trav.

I just need to have sex already. The tension is crazy. They both need some numbers. crazy Yo what's good man It's Prince Creed from the 757 I want to talk about Peace guys I want to talk about these old politicians You know I don't know

Who watched the presidential Address the nation But is it me man That Biden was up there crying Like you know He was just that Biden was up there crying? Like, you know, he was just looking real dead up there, man. So, Charlamagne, I'm going to ask you a question, man. Yes, sir.

Any other Democrat run against him, man? Any other Democrat? I mean, there's people that's running against Biden now. You know, you got Marianne Williamson. You got Cornel West. You got Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He's not considered a Democrat no more. He's running as an independent. But, I mean, they're all running now. I don't think they got a – I mean, I don't know. Kennedy Jr. He's not considered a Democrat no more. He's running as an independent. But, I mean, they're all running now.

I don't think they got a – I mean, I don't know if they got a chance or not. I guess they got the chance that the people would give them, but the DNC not going to give them that right shot to win. But to answer you, yes, people can run against them. But it's not fair. Yeah, man, it's time for us to vote young, man, because I'm looking at this guy, man. He's really looking dead up there, bro.

But I'm independent anyway. I'm to vote young, man, because I'm looking at this guy, man. He's really looking dead up there, bro. But I'm independent anyway. I'm in the middle, man. I don't really, I vote for whatever's going to work for my community, man. But, and also to the point, huh? No, I was going to say, I do think it's a very fair question to ask nowadays. Is Joe Biden and Kamala Harris still a winning ticket? You know, I don't think, you know, all the other stuff might not be fair. Like when you make comments about the age or, you know know when they're getting on kamala saying she's a vice

president that doesn't do anything that might not be fair but it is fair to ask is joe biden and kamala harris still a winning ticket i don't know good point man good point and yo envy man look last time i said keep your head man let me correct it keep your head up my brother and i hope you feel better today you don't want you don't want your head, man. Let me correct it. Keep your head up, my brother. And I hope you feel better today. You don't want your head because your throat hurt, Envy. All right? He said, you know, we get it, okay? His throat hurts this morning.

You don't want the head. Oh, my goodness. All right. Thank you, brother. If you're just joining us, yeah, it feels like I have a frog in my throat. That's not what you said earlier. Earlier, you said it feel like you got a Ninja Turtle in your throat. That's what you said.

You said it feel like you got Donatello's staff down your throat. That's what you said. I'm at Howard Homecoming. So last night I was DJing and my voice is a little gone. But get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need the vent, hit us up now. It's The Breakfast Club.

Good morning. The Breakfast Club. It's a new day. This is your time to get it off your chest wake up whether you're mad or blessed it's time to get up and get something call up now 800-585-1051 we want to hear from you on the breakfast club hello who's this yo dj envy charlamagne of god what's going on gentlemen how we doing peace king who this what up, what up? Get it off your chest. It's Coach Davis, man. How's everything, fellas?

We bless, black and high in favor, Coach. Hey, man, listen. I was showing, man, I was listening to that, you know, that report that, you know, about the government, man. And, you know, I've always said this, you know, left wing, right wing, always part of the same bird, man. I don't care how you split it you understand i'm saying and these guys these people that's in power they really really really don't have the

american people uh heart at mind man and you know it's sad to say that but it is what it is but charlamagne i want to ask you this question, man. I'm an educated by profession, right? I'm on my way to work now. And I've had on my heart a couple books that I wanted to produce that I actually wrote. And I'm looking for a publishing company, and I understand

you have one. You know, I would like to know if you could send me some information on how I can get down with that and how it was the process behind it. Absolutely. I'm going to put you on hold, and our producer, Eddie, is going to get your information, and I'll give you the email. I'll connect you with my people.

Okay. And lastly, listen, Envy, my guy. Yes, sir. I'm praying for you, bro. You know what I'm saying? What's understood doesn't have to be spoken, but I'm praying for you, man. You know what I'm saying? I'm going to keep you in my prayers, bro, you and your family. spoken, but I'm praying for you, man, you know what I'm saying,

I'm gonna keep doing my prayers, bro, you and your family, you understand what I'm saying, because regardless of what it is, it's all about family, man, and I think you're a good dude that try to do the best for him, yourself, your family, and the community, man, so I'm praying for you, man, and lastly, I know it's kind of long, but lastly, you're the 28th of this month. Coney Island is going to make history. The Coney Island Thunders and Nobles season is popping off. Game at 5 o'clock on Saturday, the 28th at Kingsborough Community College. Hey, listen, people, if y'all would like to purchase tickets, go to CIDhunder.com. That's CIDhunder.com, man.

Gentlemen, I love y'all. Like, cook food to life, man. Y'all have a great day. Thank you, Black Man. Good luck, brother. All right, well, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. When we come back, we got your rumor report.

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We are The Breakfast Club. Nala's here. You know, she has passed the arcs in a couple of, uh, at 850. So we're going to be kicking with Nala, but she's going to join us for a little bit. And let's get to the rumors. Let's talk Young Blue. Rumor has it. Rumor has it. Call out her name or you gossiping or you chatty patty.

This is the rumor report. I mean, I guess we on the Breakfast Club. This is where the tea spills, right? Right. Now, Young Blue was arrested yesterday for allegedly attacking a woman. Now, this is an arrested yesterday for allegedly attacking a woman. Now, this is an incident at the center of an alleged custody dispute involving a 10 year old child. They said that officers responded to a 9-1-1 call from a woman on October 15th to their home. When deputies arrived, they said the woman told them that Young Blue had shown up at the residence unannounced with the intent to take the 10 year old child with him.

They said an argument ensued and allegedly he threw the woman to the ground. Now, Young Blue made a statement. He says, I'm off this Internet thing. I cherish women and I'm completely innocent. Just know this about to be one of the toughest times to be a fan of mine because I'm about to go into another bracket as owner and entrepreneur. And people hate, you know that. They hate on that.

So that's what happened with Young Blue while he was arrested yesterday. Damn. This is like the second fiasco he's had with women in the media within the past two months, I feel like. Sounds like he needs to sage. This is just a sage? Sounds like he needs to sage. But I like Young Blue.

I hope he figures that out. Yeah. Now, Suge Knight. Now, this is crazy. Suge Knight is starting a podcast from prison. We do not need podcast mics in prison. The last thing we need is podcast mics in prison. Podcast mics in prison is a recipe for disaster.

Let's listen to the trailer. More than $300 million. Death row with a possible recocation mine. People don't know about that stuff David Mays started the source on the new source for the U.S. The magazine is now a 10 million dollar a year publication Every time you turn around everybody want to spread some lines and some s**t. Any artist out there who want to be an artist and want to stay a star, don't want to have to worry about the executive producer

trying to be all in the video, all on the record. Come to Death Row. You have a prepaid call, son. Sure, nice. So this sounds like a well-produced, singular-focused podcast. This podcast is actually about an issue? Yeah, I guess they're going to be talking about everything.

He's going to be talking about everything that's going on with Death Row. He's going to be, they say, barking back at Snoop, Akon, and a host of other people. He's going to reply to some of the things that they've heard. So, yeah, this is actually on Breakbeat Media. So it is going to be coming out. They said five episodes are already shot. So we'll be seeing it soon.

I guess you've got a story to tell. I'm just saying, like, you don't want just random podcast mics floating around prison. Like, you do not want to hear a podcast called Guys We F'd

coming out of a male correctional facility. Nobody wants that. All right. Okay. And the only other way i would want podcast mics in prison is if you have some of these brothers and sisters telling stories about how they got there so maybe people don't make the same decisions that they made that would be good that could be interesting let me ask you a question doesn't that get you in

trouble like you're not supposed to have a podcast i'm sure mike's in jail or you're not supposed to be talking and then all of a sudden the podcast comes out doesn't that sound crazy time in jail i'd be all set a lot of people from jail have you getting in contact with me a lot of different ways so yes i don't know what the rules are but i will say i feel like a lot of podcasts these days already feel like jail talk it'd be nothing but her trauma story little day they did this back then i just like my goodness i'm over it it is it is something to what nyle is saying because you do have a lot of people on podcast kind of like just incriminating themselves right so these are the people who have have literally they're literally incarcerated for crime you know so once again i just feel like if they're

in there and they're telling us how they got there and maybe people don't make those same mistakes that could be cool if they teach you turn it into a teachable moment but other than that nah and lastly it seems like megan estallion and carl crawford uh you know carl crawford was the owner of the label she was signed to 1501 certified it seems like the beef is now over they parted ways everything seems fine so i know it's been three years of back and forth um but now they say that uh they have ended their relationship you know uh financially and i guess business wise uh so she is no longer on 1501 certified so i know she was looking for that so congratulations to her all right what i mean they bought her out like what happened like they didn't give no details no they're not giving no details they just say they amicably part ways uh and ended

three years of back and forth of swiping on social media so they were in court and everything right yeah in court and everything so maybe they agreed to maybe somebody bought it out maybe she'll you know he'll still get a percentage of whatever it is but she's no longer on 1501 certified i don't like stuff like that when you make when there's so much noise around a situation, we knew all the details going into it. So tell us all the details when things get cool. I was about to say, they ain't saying nothing. It kind of scares me.

But doing business with anybody from Texas like that honestly scares me. Damn! Why you shooting the whole Texas, Nyla? The whole Texas? Who owe you money in Texas? Nobody but music history in Texas. It's just like all those people intimidate me. Like who? I get what whole Texas. Just because the hip. Who owe you money in Texas? Nobody but music history in Texas. Like, all those people intimidate me. Like who?

Oh, I get what you say. You say what you've heard about some of the people in Texas. Yeah, like all they do. Not that they do bad business. You just hear intimidating things about them. Yes. Oh, I get what you say. Like, yeah.

The legend of J Prince is what you're talking about. J Prince, Mob Ties, all that. I get what you say. I want no beef, no problem, no parts. And once they get involved, like we said, we don't hear nothing. All we know is it's a done deal. I get what you're saying. Uh-uh.

I'm okay. So is the Texas, though. All right. Well, that is your rumor report. Now, when we come back, Teslin Figueroa will be joining us for front-page news. And you hear that, Charlamagne? That frog is coming out the throat.

I don't know what it was. Here, I got a copy of Jada Pinkett Smith's new new book if anybody wants it i got an i got a couple of these i'm just giving these out you just you just no i'm just i showed you this because it might scare that frog got your throat all right look look at this look at this all right when we come back we got front page news and don't forget, Ida Rodriguez will be joining us. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlemagne Tha God.

We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. The Jaguars beat the Saints last night, 31-24. And what up, Tiz? What's going on, DJ Envy, Charlemagne Tha God, Breakfast Club family? The hood whisperer, Ted Figaro. What's happening? What's what's good let's jump right into it let's talk about the murder rate yeah i wanted to try to do it's been such a heavy week guys i'm sure you agree with all of the war coverage i wanted to try to find something at least positive that we can talk about uh during

this hour and uh the murder rate fell six percent nationwide now depending on where you live if you feel that or not and obviously uh if you've experienced something tragic, this may not mean much. But for those who want to know what's happening with the murder rate, it has went down. The FBI issued their annual crime report and found that violent crime in the U.S. has decreased. The murder rate went down 6.1% in 2022. Again, they just released this report, you know, kind of doing the assessment from last year. Overall, violent crime dropped 1.7%, including a 6.1% decrease in murder and non-negligent manslaughter. And the murder rate also continues to fall this year after it jumped nearly 30% during the pandemic in 2020.

So in 2022, the rate for homicide was 6.3% offense of 6.3 homicide offenses per 100,000. This is down from 2021, which was a rate of 6.8% per 100,000 people. So property crime is on the rise, unfortunately, but the murder rate is down. I don't feel it. All I see is people get killed all the time. And what is it down from a million percent? Like, what is what is what is that? A million percent? Like, what does that say? I don't feel like that at all.

Yeah, I don't see that. All I see is people getting killed all the time. Especially on the papers, on the news. It seems like the murder rate has gone up. It feels like it. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Like I said, it's personal.

It's all going to come down. If you feel it or not, and that will affect folks at the voting booth. But me personally, losing a friend last month, lost one this month, funeral today actually. Hey, glad to hear that, sir. Absolutely. Yeah, thank you so much. So it just depends. Now, my friend today, shout out to him, if he was not murdered, I want to be clear about that.

But last month, friend was, and I think I mentioned that on the show, Esbon, who was murdered, unfortunately. So again, a lot is still happening for people having, you know, a personal connection. That's what it comes down to in politics. What do you feel personally? We can put the stats out. We can have the conversations. But at the end of the day, if people don't feel it, these stats mean nothing. But I still wanted to, you know, at least let you know what the FBI said.

Oh, no, I agree with you. I'm a person that I vote my own interest and if I don't vote my own interest, I will vote for things that I know will benefit others. To your point, I'm definitely all about interest when I vote. Let's talk about hitting that snooze button now.

Yeah, I wanted to know do you guys hit the snooze button in the morning? I'm sure you do. You got to get up early. We all hit that snooze button. There's a report that says it actually can benefit your brain. So I wanted to give you this information. Scientists at the Stockholm University found that snoozing may actually support the waking process of regular snoozers. Now, for years, they've called snoozers lazy and perhaps saying that they, you know, just don't want to get up and need to hurry up and get up.

But they have found that this actually helps the brain's ability to wake up properly 1732 individuals answer questions about their morning habits including if they hit the snooze button and they found that this allowed them to wake up easier they woke up quicker on their feet and a little bit more sharp when they had the snooze and the snooze uh that they the time that they looked at for the study was an extra 30 minutes so me personally i think i do like 10 or 15 depends on what coast i'm on west coast for sure because i'm up at like 1 a.m 2 a.m in the morning so i do like 15 minutes there central central time i do maybe 10 minutes in east coast i usually can kind of get right on up so yeah i wake up at 4 15 every morning i usually hit the snooze button it ain't that long though i think my snooze button might be like three four minutes you know what i want i want a custom customized alarm clock

like i want an alarm clock that when it goes off it claps and it's like rise king get up today is your day king like cheering you on like well you can't you could i guess you could i guess you could record that as audio and make that your audio you wake up your wife your wife you wake up your wife if that that goes off every day i mean it's the alarm gonna go off anyway so you know i just imagine how that is to start your day with that kind of like like somebody's celebrating you like yay he's up yay yes the world is yours i'll be honest the reason I don't have A snooze button Because I don't use the snooze

Is because the alarm Is so loud And usually one of the kids Is in our room For some reason One of the kids The baby One of them is in our room

One ends up in the room And you're trying to be so quiet Not to wake up the family When you're leaving in the morning So I don't even There's no snooze for me Yo your throat cleared up You just get up and meet him

It did clear up a little bit Yeah you stop crying Crying What the hell are you talking about? He was like a little white man crying. Look at him on that screen. Oh, God, I'm crying. What are you talking about? So you just jump right up then and hit the floor. I just jump right up and go, yep.

Well, thank you, Tez. Absolutely. Make sure you subscribe to Tezlyn Figaro's podcast, The Scrape Shot, No Chase, the podcast on the Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network and follow at Teslin Figaro on all social media platforms. That's right. And when we come back, Ida Rodriguez will be joining us.

We're going to kick it with Ida. She got a new book. What's the name of the book, y'all? Legitimate Kid. It is a memoir, man. You know Ida. She's a comedian. She's a director.

Ida does it all. So her book is really good. And it's really, you know, I don't want to say traumatic in a good way. But I will just say she's a person who has found a way to turn her trauma into treasure and lessons for us all. That's what I'll say. All right. And we'll get to that next. It's The Breakfast Club.

Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha God, Jess Hilarious, we are The Breakfast Club, and we got a special guest in the building. Yes indeed. We have Ida Rodriguez. I think I am the Latin person. Who we call now? Latin A, Latin X.

Latin X, right? I think I'm the Latin person that's been on the show the most. This is like my seventh time. Oh, Envy Dominican. I know. He's on the weekend. I'm on the weekend. Dominican.

I think you and Fat Joe. Me and Fat Joe. Well, maybe Fat Joe. Fat Joe. Fat Joe. Fat Joe been up here a lot. I mean, Fat Joe is Joey crack. You never not working either.

New book, Legitimate Kid. You know what? I was laughing because she said that books books are the new diss record yes yeah and it is so i'm dissing my mama and daddy in this really jesus that's right jesus i'm holding them accountable but i'm not never diss my my mom is my queen why do you call it legitimate kid uh because kids in the in the hood are evil and when I was little a kid told me I was a bastard because I didn't have my father's last name and I found out what it meant and then I was I felt less than and so I went on a journey to find my legitimacy and I want all the little kids that grow up in

the hood that hear this your daddy didn't sign your birth certificate that doesn't make you legitimate that that term comes from prostitution it has nothing to do with parental presence in your life it came to a bastard yeah that came being a legitimate came from them saying children that were born to prostitutes were not legitimate but then they weaponized that against people of color poor people and so i wanted to find out more about myself because it that affected the way i dealt with men you know my my life as a mom and all that stuff and so i wanted to i want everybody who reads that book to know that they are legitimate i know you said

something back to the boy though what was the joke back to the boy you had something for nah you know you you know my joke i was when i was a kid I was meek when I was little this didn't happen to like this was in elementary I didn't get gully till middle school okay peeping the pro wings too young to know what that is okay okay because my pay less that the poor people use yeah that was cool when you know we was kids oh wow that was food stamps you probably had them swagged out though yeah i did i cut i wore the flare legs nobody could see that it was pretty last year just tip you can see the tip sticking out but oh now talk about the journey of finding your dad and finding your history so you know what my uh i

went to the dominican republic i did the documentary that's on HBO. And my father, you know, when I met my father, my father asked me for money. And it was the first question. It was not the first question, but it was probably like the fourth. And it was very painful because I was I just met him. And, you know, I was really upset with him. I dissed him on stage. It was really, you know, he was he was DL. I was Monique. stage it was really you know he was he was DL I was Monique and it was I went in and then I decided to uh to really explore what that meant and my father lives

in the Dominican Republic he's been poor his whole life you know I was looking at it from my perspective I wanted I didn't want to hate him I just didn't want to I wanted to find love in my heart for him so I sat down and started exploring all of this stuff and I was like yo he is poor his child came from America the first you know fourth question you want to know about your daughter why she was about me not the first three questions first I know you know the first thing he asked me he asked me about my mom he me how my mom was doing he cried you know the first thing he asked me he asked me about my mom he asked me how my mom was doing um he cried you know he asked me about how you know how things were going for me you know he asked me about me but it was just i was getting ready to leave because i was only there for two

days and he gave me a hug and then he whispered in my ear i'm gonna need you to give me some money and i was devastated i left i didn't talk to him for a minute and um you know they had they had mics on me because we were recording a documentary we were in production and so all those people heard it and they were like ah they felt bad for me yeah did you give him money i did why did i know she did i know you're funny about how much was it uh i'm not gonna say that but you know i was paying him to go away at that moment i was like i'ma just because i know he's struggling but i was like this is it this is the cheapest amount of money that i'm gonna give away um and then i had to go do some work some inner work did you learn to give grace to your parents

or just realizing they were just human yes yeah my mom absolutely you know i who knows what my daughter and my son are gonna say about me when they you know you know what i mean like we all think we got it right you think that because you're not your parents and you're you're not struggling like your parents were that they had the best shoes they you don't you never know what what the kids are gonna say and so i learned my mom had her first kid when she was 14 and i didn't know that i found out when i was writing the book and that baby died and the father of the baby died playing russian roulette what so yes so that was all before i was even born she was a kid so i was like how i'm gonna sit here and judge my mother like i mean you know the traumas and stuff she was dealing with.

Yeah. I was born into it. And so, and it was generational. My grandmother had her first kid when she was 13. My mom was sexually abused at home. So she was trying to get out. You know what I mean? Like, I can't do that to her.

And even still with all of that, she raised four amazing kids. Like, none of us have ever been in trouble. We're all productive. Who does that that you know what I mean Ida walked in here was telling us about an interview she did with Gayle King oh man what did you say Gayle King said to you yeah she said girl you've been through some things you know what it's interesting though she read the book and I did an interview a couple of days ago with somebody who didn't read the book and when I walked in they were like girl your book's so funny and I was like oh my god see

I just respect people that were like you know I didn't read it so tell me about it but she was like you saw and I was like oh stop that type of book yo who was that who was that all right well you know when Jess and I walked in Jess and I walked in and Charlamagne was was looking at the book and he was very interested in the chapter that said pizza and penis yeah okay that was the one that he went straight to straight to pizza and penis because I wanted to know about Carlos I heard that was your uncle I want to know what was that with him we definitely talked about Carlos yeah yeah but he but he saw pizza and penis and he didn't even see pizza he just saw and penis that's not true and he was like i need to ask about this you need to get into it you know it's funny it's gail king was like i enjoyed this chapter the chapter is about um me getting sexually abused so it's not i feel stupid now no no no y'all thought y'all ate

with that one yeah shut up good all right go ahead you know it was i want people to be free like i want people who've been through the stuff i've been through to read this and say, I'm going to be all right. I didn't want, I don't want, I didn't want to do trauma porn. Like, it's not just, whoa, it's me. My life has been bad. It's every turn is me turning around and say, I'm going to turn this, I'm going to flip this into this. And this is how those things became jokes. All right, well, don't move.

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Charlamagne? Do you think a comedian can even have material without trauma? Yes. I think we have a spectrum of comedy and we need... Sinbad was not trauma-driven and we love Sinbad and undeniably one of the funniest. Shout to Sinbad too. Clean, yeah, he's healing.

He's healing well, yeah. Yeah, clean comedy. I do think so. We need especially people of color. We can't all be the color purple. We need some levity. We need to. We need, especially people of color. We can't all be the color purple. We need some levity. We need to have comedians who are lighthearted and do jokes about things. Everybody doesn't have to be deep. And, you know, that's pretentious.

I think some of us need, we need, we ain't have a carrot top. Like carrot top is a millionaire in Vegas. We've never had a comedian like that. That can just be you know why we always have to have the burden of walking around being the heaviness yeah but it's because we black and brown like it's a certain privilege that comes with being a character yeah but we need one we need somebody walking around with props just you know now talk to us about how junkies and prostitutes uh assisted your mom my mom, the person she was dating at the time, beat her.

She was pregnant, and he left her for dead in the park, in Central Park. She was nine months pregnant. And it was the junkies and the prostitutes that were around who took her to the hospital and saved her life. So my mother is not a respecter of persons. She lives that Bible life. Like, she feeds anybody. She's so wounded, but she'll never forget. She does not look down on anybody.

And so we were never allowed to do that. We could never make fun of somebody because, you know, whatever it was, she'd be like, don't do that. She will always say it was the prostitutes and the junkies. That's what they called them, not the people. She was like, those are the people who saved your brother's life and so we were raised to do this you know that's how we all are treat everybody with respect either when this becomes a movie or miniseries it's gonna be a dramedy or a horror movie what the hell uh no it's a dramedy i'm developing a tv show now no it's gonna be a dramedy we gotta laugh at we gotta laugh at it

how difficult was it to write this? It was hard as hell. How long did it take? Because I wrote my own book. There's no ghost writer. So the thing is, it took me two and a half years,

but I've been working on that book for seven years. But you don't, you know, like you say, you're going to write a book because you got the ideas and you got the stories. But when you start

writing them down and that publisher, that editor is like, I need 80,000 words. That that's right it becomes a whole different you like man i could just tell you when you write the story down it's two pages you're like that's it i got it but now you got to go in and you got a details and and it was um it was one of the hardest things i ever did one of the greatest lessons for me not to take anything for granted because you know authors these authors have been real snobby towards me like even people of color that I've been I've reached out to and I've been posting about their books and they all been kind of kind

of like kind of greasy with me and it's because I'm not I'm a comedian stepping into their world and they're like here goes another one they're gonna do a book and then they're gonna bounce and i was like no i've been writing my whole life my stand-up is writing my tv shows are writing you know this book is writing the movies i've written i'm a real writer i know and i don't need y'all validation because y'all goofy for that but i understand that you know they they do this all day long and then celebrities will come in do books they do the press and then they out they're like that's just one more come in do books they do the press and then they out they're like that's just one more notch on their belt they don't they don't really assume the role of author where i i could write a i could write books until i die like i would like to was

it good therapy or bad therapy because you have to relive a lot of the stuff i'm sure trauma that you had since a kid so sometimes you like you push it out of your brain so you don't have to think about it but when right when you're writing a book, you got to dive deep into it. It can't just be like two pages, like you said. It was traumatic to relive it, but I needed to do it so I could heal.

Like I needed to forgive so I can move on. Because you know what? That's the thing about forgiveness. It's for you, right? You think it's for the other person. I ain't forgiving them. What do they say?

You know, revenge is like drinking poison and hoping the enemy dies. I needed to forgive these people like all of them. My stepfather, the one who got his ass with on the bus stop for being racist. I needed to just let it go. And I want somebody else to read it and also let it go. Like your life can be so great when you forgive somebody. That doesn't mean you got to hang out with them. Right. You don't have to forget. I choose to forget.

But it just, it's freedom. I'm realizing forgiveness isn't linear though. No, it's not. Because you got to, you got to remind yourself

a calf forgave him. Yeah. You know? Yeah, you got to remind, and you got to accept it. Acceptance is probably one of the hardest things

we deal with. People always say, love yourself, love yourself. You can love yourself. Acceptance is where, the hardest things we deal with. People always say, love yourself, love yourself. You can love yourself. Acceptance is where we thrive, right? Being able to say, I'm okay with the fact that I'm never going to be a size two again. You know what I mean?

Like that is freedom for me. Yeah. Instead of, you know, love is beautiful, but love, what Tina Turner said, what's love got to do with it? I think acceptance has been the greatest journey for me. And yeah, I forgave no people. What did writing the book teach you about illegitimacy? You know, that illegitimacy and feeling that those feelings of not feeling invalidated are crippling for most people. We all battle with it, whether it's because you dark, dark skin or you don't speak English.

You got you got an accent you you're in a wheelchair like we all struggle with it they can give it a term for every single sector of it but the truth is is that we all battle with it and we cannot give it to somebody else to declare it for us we cannot that's my favorite scene and jerry mcguire was when regina king looked cuba gooding in the eye and said, we validate our worth. And that was like the most powerful thing I had seen at that age because I was much younger. You got to validate your own worth. In comedy, you know, people are always saying who they think is funny, who is great, who is.

You cannot let anybody else tell you who you are. Because if you let, if you give them the power to feed you, you give them the power to starve you. That validation has to come from within. I was going to ask, you know, one of the producers after reading the book was like, she has to hate all men. Like, damn, they're all men did her dirty in this book. So how do you feel about men after, you know, them going through the process of a lot of men that did you dirty? A lot of men that would foul to you. Well, if you read the

book then you would see that i adore my uncles my uncle carlos passed away um and my uncle raymond my uncles raised me my uncles together they were a transformer they all got together and they became the father that i needed and they used to be hustlers they were on the streets but they have always been my heroes um i love men so much i made a great one my son is an amazing human being amazing and um i don't hate men and i hate that the rhetoric like all of this stuff that goes on on social media with men and women it is so toxic and unnecessary it's just divide and conquer just keeps getting deeper and deeper in terms of what happens with our communities i I uphold men and I,

you know, I hold them accountable, but I hold women accountable too. You know, I'm not, I'm not basic. So I don't, I don't delve in that man.

Ain't, you know, it's some men that are trash. It's a bunch of women that are trash too. You know, it's a non-binary people that are trash. Yeah. Right.

So everybody gets it, you know, so I don't hate men. Yeah. All right. Well well don't move we got more with ida rodriguez when we come back it's the breakfast club good morning morning everybody it's dj envy charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club we're still kicking with ida rodriguez charlamagne i think another thing people will learn from like you know growing up

without your father's last name yeah how did you feel after your mom told you why i felt worse because she gave it to me so casually she She was so like cavalier about it. But it was because that was what she knew. She grew up. She didn't have her father's last name. You know, it was like, it just means you don't have your dad's last name. Like, it's all good. For me, it was a stamp that it made me a victim to.

I thought in my head, that means I'm going to get mistreated. People know my father is not around because my idea of a daddy was protection you know it provides yeah exactly you know you're very good you're you you you i don't know if you are in real life but on social media you're a great i am because you know people allow social media but you know what i'm saying you know people do it all for the you know but that my idea is the graham daddies you know FaceTime fathers. That's what I call them. FaceTime fathers. Man, I don't. They better be at IMSC because I have to put some people on. Right. I know some stories. But the thing was that I thought that because that's what I thought a father was, it made

me feel vulnerable. Like I was like, now anybody can do anything to me, you know, whatever. And it wasn't true. My grandmother was walking around with that gun, making sure that she protected us. Ida, man, your story is crazy. It is. Even having your mom as a whole. Oh, yeah, because you know what?

That's what kids would do when they see your mom. You know, in the hood, everything is fair game. When you're playing them dozens, those kids will be like, that's why your, your, your papi got cancer. Like it's, the kids are evil. You know,

it was wrong. It was crackhead son. Like you was a child, your daddy was a crackhead, your mom was a crackhead son, crackhead daughter. Yeah, that's how we process the pain.

That's how we deal with it. And when somebody said that mama, the, the, the creepiest thing about the whole thing was that the girl, the lady who said my mama was a hoe was the biggest hoe on the block like that's how you know and and she was talking about my mom because

we she thought that because her kids had the same father and we didn't that her she was better than my mom and i was like how sad now that i'm an adult i'm like what a sad existence that that's where you pop your collar not something you did positive in the world, but my kids got the same daddy and they got their father's last name. So I'm better than you. And I was like, nah, I was. That's when I started snapping. I was like, no, she is a hoe. Do you believe in people being hoes?

Well, you know, it depends on who you allow. I mean, I always told my daughter, you determine your hoe. Don't you let the streets do it. You know what your threshold is. If we start allowing, I mean, that's very patriarchal. That's where it's rooted in. And people, men get to call women hoes all day long and assess their value while they out there hoeing. That's right.

Spreading diseases, doing all kinds of stuff. Not all men, but y'all know what I'm talking about. So, yeah. So, I think that if you're gonna use hoes if let it be across the board but if you only you saying that hoes out too come up here and act like i'm pious like i'm some right you know we don't do that we've been calling people hoes too but we talk we we talk about dudes like we talk about women. Yeah.

We not just sitting here. You know, women love to do that too. Because women, they have socialized us to hate each other. So when we love to call other women, you know, I'm not like that. Yes, you are. You've had your moments. Yeah. Stop it.

Yeah. A guy be lying. Like, a guy be like, oh, she a hoe. And I be like, oh, you hit? No. So how do you know? Because my man told yeah my partner said yeah it's talked about yeah everybody needs to shut up the thing is that like

do you really care like honestly the thing about social media that has really been my management is always like you're really terrible at social media and i am but i'll say this like i'm always watching people like the people who are like, I'm letting the haters know. Nobody cares. The people who are like, I'll show them. Who you showing? The people will look at it.

They'll comment. They'll talk about it. Then they move on to the next thing. Because they're consuming it like Doritos. They don't care. You put so much effort into shutting your haters down. God bless James Hanna, brilliant comedian who passed away. He used to say, burritos they don't care you put so much effort into shutting your haters down yeah god bless james hannah brilliant comedian who passed away he used to say people of colors haters are their

imaginary friends because it was like they don't exist he was like it's it's you know we put so much we put so much weight on that yeah do you really care if someone i don't care who's a hoe like they talk about j-Lo all the time. And I'm like, how does that affect my food? How does that affect my mama? I don't give a damn. It's for a minute and then you move on. Just remember, when you are directing all that energy to the people who you really think you're shutting down, they don't care.

Nobody cares. that's right like now it's almost the holidays these memoirs cause problems oh yeah how did your family feel about you revealing so much in the book yeah i don't know um i think the only people who read the book so far my aunt and uncle the the normal ones that are in dc uh because a half of my family is in florida and the other half is in like the DC Virginia area and the DMV okay DMV

yeah they the normal ones so they're cool they alright I'm going to read I'm going to sit with my mom and go through the book because I want to make sure that my mom isn't

yeah I can't I don't I don't ever want to demonize her so I want her to understand where that came from and I'm going to read the back first with her

because you know I give her grace throughout the book but i want her to know that she's still the queen wow are you dreading that conversation um it needs to be had she still has to be accountable she was still my mom you know like i still did i still went through a lot of stuff in life you know as a kid and she should you know she's she said to me i'm so sorry for the things that i put you through i was i was a kid um but you know i think it's it's a necessary conversation for us to heal she needs to forgive her mother she's still holding on to things about my grandma and my grandmother's dead i'm like bro you gotta let it go like she's she's gone you know and you just you have to move on i don't think there's too many things that are more freeing than an apology from your parents.

I got it. I got it. That's why I say I apologize now as a father to my young kids. Because I know how I felt. They never hear that from a parent. You feel like might have did you dirty. Yeah. And amnesia.

Like my mom used to beat my ass. And now when I talk about it,'s like i never hit you and i'm like what this is revisionist history at its best she used to beat my i mean i i she she fractured my ankle i wrote a an air in there she did my mother was because my mom got hit with an extension cord me too so she felt like because she hit us with a belt that it wasn't as bad as the extension cord and it wasn't but i was like yo and i switched my grandma my grandmother ah we used to and so that's a that's a people of color thing in spanish it's called la varita and they'd be like and chico go get the go get your switch and that was there was no winning in that there

was not a switch that didn't hurt that didn't exist yeah you know jesus all right man the book is out right now make sure you get it joining us yes thank you for having me i appreciate y'all all right you got coming up item so i'm directing another special comedy special um i'm trying to direct as many women of color comedy special because i want them to get out marcella's did really well on hbo i'm doing one um with gina breon i'm shooting her special in december and i'm developing two tv shows because i uh i want to i want to not just work but i want to be surrounded by people who look like me sound like me you know people of color black people and i want to i want to put

some people to work there you go so I'm developing the shows right now and I'm getting ready to direct this special dope all right amazing congratulations thank you yes Ida Rodriguez go get legitimate kid right now and it's the breakfast club good morning salute to the goodness of Ida Rodriguez thank you for pulling up a legitimate kid a memoir is out right now make sure you go pick that up and we got donkey of the day coming up next man I'm gonna tell you about a pastor who is spreading more than the good gospel his name is pastor ralph d weston oh that d might stand for dirty he needs to come to the front of the congregation we would like to have a word with him this morning it's the breakfast club

damn the hee haw again it's time for Donkey of the Day I ain't trying to be Donkey of the Day no more They should be embarrassed by what they already did I'm not making these people do these things I called Donkey of the Day and it really caught me off guard Damn Solomon, who got the Donkey of the Day today? Donkey of the Day for Friday, October 19th Goes to a Houston pastor by the name of Ralph D. West.

And oh, that D might stand for dirty. See, most people go to church and they expect the pastor to lay hands on them. The laying on of hands is both a symbolic and formal method of invoking the Holy Spirit, mostly during baptisms and confirmations, healing services and blessings. Well, Pastor Ralph D. and oh oh that D might stand for dirty, was laying more than them holy hands on people in his congregation. Let's go to KPR CNBC 2 for the report,

please. Attorney Sean Murphy is speaking for his client, who a jury found contracted genital herpes from Reverend Ralph D. West II after meeting off Facebook. As seen here on the Church Without Walls website, he's listed as the Eldridge campus minister. The things that we look at for cases like these are essentially four things.

Is the defendant infected and how can we prove it? Did he know he was infected? How do we prove it and do we have evidence of that? Not only does Murphy say they were able to prove those facts, but also that Wes lied when asked about having herpes and that he gave it to his client after they had unprotected sex in March of 2018. She got an outbreak two or three days later when Amy got tested and from there, through the medical records, able to identify that he was the source of it, in part because she

hadn't been with anybody else. She had had a prior negative test. Murphy says subsequent conversations supported the claims. When she asks, you know, where did this come from? His response was his son's mother. He adds there were also emails between West and his client. Where she accuses him of knowing he had it, of giving it to her. You know, and there's other allegations about not caring about me that kind of thing rafael douglas west known as pastor ralph d and o to d definitely stands for disgusting see

most pastors have a spiritual gift a pastor is god gifted to develop relationships with others and then assume the responsibility for each member's spiritual welfare you would hope you would actually want you would pray that the pastor's spiritual gift is indeed a gift that keeps on giving but note i said spiritual gift not sexual the sexual gift that keeps on giving is herpes now i'm not here to herpes shame anyone okay i did some research and by research i meant googled and it said over 195 million people in america may have genital herpes so drop on the clues bombs for all our listeners out there with a bad case of the bubble nuts. OK, brothers, how y'all feel? Sisters, y'all all right. I see you out there dealing with that herpinator 1000.

All right. Drop on the clues bombs for all the ladies out there dealing with the herpinator 1000. OK, it's time for the herpinator. It's time for the herpinator. It's time for the herpinator. Now, I know that pastors love to do beneficial things for their congregations. See, Pastor Ralph D, and that D definitely stands for detestable, was doing what we call here at Hee Haw Missionary Baptist, preaching and skeeting, all right? Spending time with his cock, I mean flock, all right? Leading with love, but clearly no glove.

The man was out here sharing herpes instead of sharing the gospel do you know this man's church was called the church without walls i'm not making this up people you heard it in the news report it was called the church without walls i bet the woman that he probably shared herpes with wish she didn't have walls either okay because when that herpes gets inside said vagina where do you think it's gonna go huh don't act stupid with me now it hurts when you pee because you got sores all on your interior walls on your vulva too but definitely on those walls how convenient for you pastor to have a church without walls but the woman you infected doesn't have that luxury can i get a bump bump bump from the congregation please somebody out there right now dealing with a breakout,

and they understand exactly where I'm coming from. Now, I need to ask all my Christians with herpes one simple question. Do you have faith? Do you believe that you can be healed in Jesus' name? Do you stand in front of the mirror, genitals looking like an Oscar Maya olive loaf, and say, heal me in Jesus' name? Well, let me be the first to tell you all prayers to heal herpes go to jesus's spam folder all right jesus got much more pressing issues to deal with than the bumps in the alley all right your bumps in the alley can wait now this is what i find extremely

interesting about this story and it's something all god-fearing individuals can learn from all of this could have been avoided if all parties involved were actually living how the bible says you should live ain't that something if the pastor was simply living by the word of god he wouldn't be out here tithing and offering herpes to people in his church what's that saying uh sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God. You chose to do the will of the enemy of God. Now, they say no matter the decisions you've made, Jesus loves you and will forgive you. It's a beautiful thing.

But always remember, God forgives. Herpes don't. All right. You got to pay this woman $2.5 million. Do you know how much Valtrax you can buy with $2.5 million? More importantly, Pastor Ralph D. And the D definitely stands for this nigga. Do you know how much relief $2.5 million could provide to members of your church?

How many people in your church praying for a blessing and you out here spreading glitter? Yeah, herpes is glitter because a comedian named dimitri martin once said the thing about glitter is if you get it on you be prepared to have it on you forever because glitter doesn't go away glitter is the herpes of craft supplies so if glitter is the herpes of craft supplies then herpes is just glitter and that's what you was out here putting on people do you know when people ask to describe you in one word from now on that word is going to be herpes personally i think when you give someone herpes and you get charged for giving them herpes and you and you have to give them 2.5 million dollars or any type of settlement like

that you should have to walk around in public with a herp a herpaz belt okay from the makers of hermes you should have to wear a herpaz belt. Hear me out. Okay? Same concept, same look, same feel, same H. It's just covered in tiny little clusters of rubies all over the H to symbolize outbreaks. Okay? And that lets everybody know that it's time for the herpinator.

It's time for the herpinator. It's time for the herpinator. Please give Pastor Ralph D. West the sweet sounds and the hammer tones. Oh, now you are the donkey of the day. You are the donkey of the day. Yee-haw. Now, Charlamagne, I got to make one correction.

What? You said the D stands for this ica it's this nigga not this i said this no you didn't say this i mean you got a list but i can't understand what you're saying your throat messed up this morning now my toes is better now you can get with this or you can get with that okay all right well thank you when you got the kind of tongue i got anytime you say anything like this that it all sounds like i'm staying with a d it sounds like you're spitting too probably yeah all right well thank you charlamagne for that donkey today when we come back south

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Hey, this is Justin Richmond, host of the Broken Record Podcast. Every week, I or my co-host, Leah Rose, sit down with the artists you love to get unparalleled creative insight. Now we have a special series where we speak with the artists behind one of the most influential jazz labels of the 20th century, Blue Note Records. You'll hear from artists like nine-time Grammy award-winning Norah Jones, John Mellencamp and Madonna collaborator Michelle Indegiocello, and from the legendary Ron Carter, a former member of the Miles Davis Quintet, who's also played with Herbie Hancock, and on Gil Scott Heron's The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. Join us over at Broken Record to hear stories behind the legendary label listen on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts morning everybody it's dj envy charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club jess and

of course and we got a special guest in the building. His new album, Sunday Dinner, is available now. Ladies and gentlemen, Nick Grant. Nick Grant. What up, baby? What's up, y'all? Thank you for having me. I appreciate it. Apologies, man.

Please forgive me for sleeping on Sunday. Nah, it's all good. It's all good. You got to it. I just got to it, man. I really just got to it. One of the best rap albums of the year. Oh, man.

I got it right under Killer Mike by just a hair. Ooh. By just a hair by Killer Mike Michaels. Nick's like, all right, man. All right. I respect it. I respect it right under Killer Mike by Just a Hair by Just a Hair by Killer Mike Michael Nick's like alright man I respect it I respect it

but you know I feel like this is the best album of the year you think it's the best rap album of the year for sure why do you feel that way other than because it's you

just lyrically I think I'm like above a lot of people I just don't get that credit just because I don't have certain backing I don't have certain things that you know

or I might just be a threat to a lot of different MCs. You say that on the album. Yeah, for sure. For sure. So, yeah, that's just what I feel. Explain the title to us.

I'm not favoriting. Sunday Dinner is just basically me just growing up in my grandmother's crib. My mom and father had, like, addiction issues. And, you know, in their periods of, like, breaking up and trying to figure it out, I would go back to my grandmother's house. You know, she was a little older raising me, but it was like, yo, all right, I got three of like breaking up and trying to figure it out i would go back to my grandmother's house you know she was a little older raising me but it was like yo all right i got three rules school church sunday dinner you know and i'm just picking up all of these different personalities that i want to

become and yeah don't want to become it essentially everybody becomes you know an experience on the album so yeah now when you talk about rapping you talk about the way that you rap you don't really hear that nowadays right does that bother you deter you from, you talk about the way that you rap. You don't really hear that nowadays, right? Does that bother you, deter you from you spitting? Because, you know, you don't really hear that much. I used to be pissed off about it, but I feel like my purpose and my story is just a little different. You know, I feel like I'm meant to be in this era just because, maybe because it's lacking in this time. And that's my job to kind of carry on tradition in a way.

I used to be upset about it but it doesn't bother me I disagree with what Envy said only because when you look at the last decade

or so of hip hop the top three rappers are all lyricists you know what I mean and that's Cole Kendrick and Drake and then you still got your Wale's

and your Big Sean you know you had your Nipsey's you know you had like all those people Rhapsody, Snaps like I think all of those people are dope, you know? Yeah, for sure.

But I just think sometimes it's just a matter of time. I agree with that. I couldn't agree with that more. Have you, have you had your I made it moment yet? I think one of, I had a few moments that I'm like proud of. I think like touring with like Nas and Lauryn Hill was like a good one for me. Just the experience of it was like, it's dope. You said that on the album and I'm like, I missed when he was on tour with Lauryn Hill was a good one for me. Just the experience of it was dope. You said that on the album, and I'm like,

I missed when you was on tour with Lauryn Hill. What was the line you said you- Well, everybody missed that show. She was late. She definitely came. She had to do more songs. Yeah, yeah, perform the whole album. Jesus, we get her to come out.

What was the bar you said you used to? I used to watch Sister Act. My cousin passed away on a field trip, so I rapped about it on the album. I remember everybody, like, just going to see him. I didn't want to see him like that. This was, like, my best friend. So I was like, yo, I'm going to watch this movie. I'm going to sit here and watch this movie.

I'm 10 years old in the career watching this movie by myself. It kind of helped just get me through that moment, through that trauma. So, yeah, I remember telling her about it on the tour. Oh, wow. And she just kind of helped me in that trauma. So yeah, I remember telling her about it on the tour. Oh wow. And she just kind of helped me in that way. So I kind of felt like, you know, it was a perfect time. That was something I was running away from.

A lot of the stuff you hear on the album is like, a lot of just real life situations that I was running from. And I just finally had to like look in the mirror and be like, yo, it's time. So was it that moment on tour with Lauren, remembering yourself watching Sister Act that made you finally tour with Lauren, remembering yourself, watching Sister Act, that made you finally deal with the passing? Absolutely.

Absolutely. This is an album that I wanted to put out. I'm here to tell you, this is one of the albums I wanted to put out when I first came out. But I don't think I was mature enough to tell it the way that I'm telling it now. Oh, wow.

When I first came in, I was a wide-eyed child. But now I'm just in a place where I'm matured enough. I'm 35 enough I'm 35 now so it's like yeah okay hey you still look young that's so sweet you know what I mean was it growth or did you was it you do some work on yourself like absolutely therapy for sure for sure like you know you're not in control of anything for real you're under God's law and you got to find a way to fit into that and I had had to figure that out, and I just found the courage to tell the story. Even when you listen to the intro of the album, it's like my mom. My mom is like yelling at her boyfriend, and it's a way that I never wanted the world to see my mom.

So it's like, all right, that's the first step. The thing that I fear the most, got to open the album. You know what I'm saying? So God worked in a way to where it just fit fear the most, got to open the album. You know what I'm saying? So God worked in a way to where it just fit perfectly on the album and opened up the album. Do you have a favorite song on there? What song means the most to you? I love all the s***. Yeah, I like that.

What song makes you most emotional? Most emotional? I think it's the intro. The intro. Worrying about the classic? Yeah, worrying about the classic. Like, just talking about all of that stuff. I remember going to, like, my neighborhood, and I remember Amir pulled up one day and he was like, yo, ain't no windows on these buildings.

And the whole time I lived there, I never really noticed that because it was like normal to me. So those things, those little things on the album was like things that I was scared to face once again. And I kind of like just put it together and kind of got it right. That's a great record. And you say in the hook, you say, I'm trying to get my people right, but y'all worried about a classic.

Yeah. Explain that, because I got some thoughts. For me, it was like, yo, I'm going through different things. I'm maturing. I'm finding myself. I'm going through a whole bunch of stuff, just family-wise, career-wise as well. And while I'm going through these things,

you get people like, yo, when the album coming? When the album dropping? Did you buy the last album? So I'm going through these stuff like through these different things and that's what that's what inspired like the hook and i'm just like seeing people like you know not to be dark but i'm just seeing people die young and hearing about yo people that i saw growing up like leaving leaving us so um that was one of the things that i just wanted to address and it's like yo i got like real life issues and it's crazy because I feel like I made my best body of work

not trying to make my best body of work. Yeah. Because I would think getting your people right would be part of you making a classic record. Like if you make a classic record and it takes off, that's more money. For sure.

You know? So you kind of do got to focus on the album. Absolutely, you do. You do, but I feel like the kind of person I am, the kind of artist I am, you got to live life as well. Absolutely. You got to live life Absolutely, you do. You do, but I feel like the kind of person I am, the kind of artist I am, you got to live life as well. Absolutely.

You got to live life and, you know. Because that's what creates that class. I mean, I would imagine I'm not an artist, never been one, but I don't... Yes, you are a comedian.

Yeah, but I'm saying like in form of music. I mean, I can spit a little bit of buzz too, but you know, we're not going to get there. All right, wait. Ripping on any beat. It's like, nah.

But look, though, right? No, what I'm saying, I think you would have to go through, live life and go through your trying times, your challenges. That's what makes the classic. Nobody goes in the studio like, yo, I'm going to make a classic today. You don't know until the people tell you it's a classic. You got to be moved by the spirit, man. You got to be moved by something bigger than you.

And me, a lot of times, it's all about just carrying the integrity in there. I read something that Quincy Jones said. He's like, yo, when you think about money, while you're creating, God walks out of the room. So you got to keep that first. You got to keep the story. The story is the most important.

I feel like your story is a superpower. Definitely. I never really felt like that until this hour. All right, we got more with Nick Grant when we come back it's the breakfast club good morning morning everybody it's dj nv charlemagne the guy we are the breakfast club we're kicking in with nick grant charlemagne let's go to know your worth you know another great record is that something you have to tell yourself not constantly but it was something like like i felt like i have to like celebrate myself a little more because it's like work work work figure out my problems figure out the problems of the family figure out all this other just having so much on my shoulders so it was like you know yeah it's like

it then i when i wrote it i was like it was something about a black man just saying knowing your worth and yeah you know celebrating yourself and patting yourself on the back yeah the smallest thing because you can still celebrate the smallest thing in your journey. Because women say that often. You don't really hear men say that. Yeah, for sure. For sure. But that's the problem.

No, it ain't no little sassy. No, it ain't. You got to know your worth. Ain't nothing sassy about knowing your worth. There's nothing sassy about it. It's just that women, we like to say it a lot. And sometimes women say it and don't even know their worth. They just shout it because it's something to be said now but not knowing worth that's

for all human beings like you have to know I want to jump to the record heaven mmm wait a tweet will you get to eat from my DM sweet you know I'm like a huge fan it's we like the whole I always say like yo when I was growing up if I was on anybody it would have been Missy tweet yeah just that whole camp oh yeah just so innovative, so creative. Man, I just loved her voice. Southern Hummerbird is like a classic to me. So I just DM'd her.

She hit me back like, yo, you're incredible. I would love to. Oh, wow. Came by the studio. This black woman. Wow. You know, real black woman. Like, I ain't even finished a song.

One of them. I got to go. Right. So, yeah, nah. Good energy. Special person. I love Tweed. So what's the story you're trying to tell on Heaven? I ain't even finished a song One of them I gotta go Right For sure Right So yeah nah Good energy Special person I love Tweet So what's the story

You trying to tell on Heaven What you trying to convey The story on Heaven Is basically It's still in theme With the album It's still in line With the album

Even when I start With the first verse It's like damn You brave saying You never sold crack In a funny industry Where everything is an act You know

My whole story was like Man I would get in interviews And lie and say Act like this perfect person And I wasn't You know, my whole story was like, man, I would get in interviews and lie and say, act like this perfect person. And I wasn't. You know what I'm saying? Because I was afraid to see who I really was. You know, judge me. You know, but I think that was just a young thing.

I'm not perfect. I got a lot of things that I'm working on. And you know your worth. For sure. Yeah. For sure, 100%. Full circle. So is that why grandma said is with know your worth?

Because. Absolutely. It go hand in hand. Like the things your grandma told you. Absolutely. For sure. 100%. So is that why grandma said it's with Know Your Worth? Absolutely. Because it go hand in hand? Yeah, absolutely. For sure, a million percent. Even with my cousin in the beginning, like, get in the house. It's like certain things that trigger certain moments and trigger certain words. It kind of helps the album flow.

He doing his homework. Yeah. Doing his homework. Yeah, nah, for real. He over there saying, yo, this is one of the niggas I want you to know. He listen to every song on there. So tell me about Heaven. Like, yo, you know I ain't even listen to saying, yo, this is one of the niggas. Once you know, he listens to every song on there. So tell me about Heaven. Like, yo, you know I ain't even listen to that.

Yo, he was sitting there asking. Yo, we were finding lyrics. Like, so when you said, they'd be looking out on the block. Like, yo, for real. I don't know. Come on, yo. Are they putting pressure on you to put on for South Carolina? Oh, man, that's a good question.

I'm putting pressure on myself, really. It's a lot of people that still don't know I'm from South Carolina, even though I, that's a good question. I'm putting pressure on myself, really. It's a lot of people that still don't know I'm from South Carolina even though I waved the flag so heavily. And you influenced me with that in a way

like even with coming out, like, yo, you got a whole state to yourself, like. Yeah. You got to do that. And those, these are like my experiences.

Like, even when I went home, I shot a movie. It's always love. I shot a movie like a short comedy for the album. So, um, and just like the people and all the memories and all the different things you got a few people that's like man keep

you know repping the city right for south carolina you're the one nice that kind of that's kind of like a thing that keeps me going when i hear that with dope fiends theme for your parents yeah it was okay it was i threw a little bit of like you know stuff about the music industry and stuff that i was going through in Yeah, for sure. Because I'm sure you heard Mike's album. And he got the Something for Junkies. Something for Junkies, yeah. And he did that.

Basically, he was saying that there's no, I don't want to say celebratory way, but when people are addicted, it's actually an addiction. It's something that should be looked down upon. For sure. Absolutely. It's a disease. For me, it changed my life. I didn't see it that way at the time like i didn't see like my mom like i would be angry a lot of times because of the back and forth so it went on council blessings it's like yo i went to 13 schools about the age of 14 yeah

just because of just because my mom's addiction and yeah my dad trying to work it out and they arguing and you know as i grew older and kind of found myself I was like yo you know these people are still human and they got their own issues they got their own things that they're fighting and I had a better understanding of it so yeah who was you mad at on catch this fade man oh my god what number was that only gotta listen to three songs we on number 28 you know so how do we so who was you trying to fight on kansas i mean that's the one you you shot out eight four three on that told me yeah for sure for sure okay who was you mad at you thought about shooting at people and no i wasn't i was saying like put the guns down and fight what is happening see look to say, what is happening? See, look, y'all, see, look. But pop don't mean

I'm going to shoot you. What do you mean then? I'm going to punch you. Oh, I know, you said pop, pop, pop. I thought you had a gunshot. What'd he say? He said,

you try me, you're going to get popped. Yeah, pop, like I'm going to pop you in your mouth. I didn't think that. I was thinking shooting. You was like, oh.

Then you came back and said, which one of these is going to try to catch this fade? And even like, on the second verse, I talk about to catch this fight. Then you came back and said, which one of these is going to try to catch this fight? And even like on the second verse, I talk about like my first fight. Got you, got you. I'm just fighting somebody

and I went in the house crying and my dad was like, what the f*** are you crying? You won the fight. Why was you crying? It was my first one. I was like, damn. His first fight.

Oh, you had one of those dads like, if you come in the house and you crying, I'm going to make you go fight him again. Yeah, for sure. Wow. I don't know why I started crying. My feelings was hurt.

Yeah, that's your first fight. It don't matter what boy, girl, whatever, your first fight, and you feel like you lost. Hell no. You coming out was crying. And if you got a dad like him. Yeah. Oh, you was crying because you won?

Oh, no. I don't know what was up with you, y'all. What's up with you, y'all? Damn, you was crying because you beat him up. You didn't want to hurt him? It was like, now, if you would have lost, you whole time he was crying because you beat him up. You didn't want to hurt him. It was like, now if you would have lost, you wouldn't have been crying. Do you still cry when you get angry? No, no, no, no.

Okay, okay. That was a childhood thing. Yeah. That was like a once in a lifetime thing. Yeah, for sure. Another common theme throughout the album is you keep repeating that you're a threat to people. You feel like people look at you as a threat. Yeah, lyrically.

Yeah, lyrically. I think a lot of people stay away from me for sure was there any particular moments that made you realize like oh they really scared of me I've been on records

I won't name them names I've been on records with like people that y'all probably love and respect because the verse is better when it comes out I don't hear it

they taking it off the record I believe that happens that happens a lot to me what's up yo look at you nah yo nah nah hear any noise yeah the record I believe that happens a lot to me what song yo look at you know a lot of stuff yeah did you have a competition with the artist after that like why y'all took me oh no I was just like yeah I ain't you know we ain't built to like mm-hmm yeah I would have never did that I've been like you kill me you gotta write something else. Yeah. They wanted you

to be Nick Cannon. You like, nah, I'm Nick Grant. I really spit. I'm gonna be wilding out on y'all. I'm dead ass. Crazy. Alright, cool. Wasn't you with TDE at one point? It felt like it was a TDE Nick Grant thing happening at one point.

Yeah, it was. It was. I was working with Punch on some stuff. Just creative differences um he had a group and i just felt like that wasn't the direction i was going yeah um and i had i had to get this story out so yeah oh they wanted you to be in a group yeah we did i actually did a group project with him yeah it came out came out i don't remember that at all yeah i don't want to promote it because I ain't over there no more. Yeah, yeah. Well, Nick Grant, Sunday Dinner, man. Let's get into a record off the album, man. What you want to play?

What you want to play? Man, let's play Bravo. You want to play Bravo? Yeah. It's Nick Grant. Nick Grant, thank you for coming, brother. Nick Grant, it's The Breakfast Club. Yes, sir.

Thank you. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club, and it's time for Pass The Ox. What's up Nyla? What's up, Nala? What's up, guys? How are you? How was your trip? I seen you was in Italy. Yes, I went to Italy and then I went to Rome for my mom's birthday.

It was really, really amazing. But to top it off, when I got back, I ended up getting a call from Rhapsody. We opened up for Lauryn Hill last night at the Barclays Center. Did she come on time? No. Tell the truth. She was waiting around for a picture. Why do you always have to do that?

And midnight hit. No. She still wasn't on time. It was honestly pretty much on time. It was just backstage. There was just a lot going on. But then you know, Wyclef was there. Proz was there.

Oh, the Fugees came out? The Fugees was there. Did she perform? Oh, so you saw the performance? I didn't stay. I had to be here in the morning. So she was late is what you're saying? Yeah. It sounded likez was there. Oh, the Fugees came out? The Fugees was there. Did she perform? Oh, so you saw the performance? I didn't stay. I had to be here in the morning. So she was late, is what you're saying? Yeah.

She sounded like she was late. Why y'all always doing that? But let me tell you guys this, because me and Rhapsody have never performed together, and we didn't have time to do a rehearsal, so she literally text me the songs, text me the order, and our first time ever. Y'all killed it. Yeah, yeah. No, we bought it. So you're about to be Rhapsody Road DJ, that's what you're telling me?

I think that's coming. I feel that. I would really like that. I feel that in the works. Drop a bomb for Nyla. Drop a bomb for Nyla Simone. Salute to the good sister, Rhapsody. North Carolina's on.

Y'all know I love Rhapsody. I've been telling y'all, she's the best lyricist out here. And I've heard some new music that confirms what I've always believed. I can't wait to hear the new album. That's right. And honestly, I don't really enjoy being a tour DJ, but if I would have to sacrifice time for an artist, someone like Rhapsody is overly worth it.

Dope, dope, dope. Let's jump into the past all. Yeah, let's get into the music. This is me talking about real rappers rapping. Wale is back. I'm so excited. I love Wale. I know we just had the conversation last week or the week before

about like the top three and I feel like Wale should really be included in these conversations his pen is closed like no one's really rocking with his pen but

what I wanna hear it oh okay so let's get into his new joint called Max Julian alright for Lauren that's dope

and he just started with Def Jam too right they said he just did a deal with Def Jam so that's his first release oh Wale started with Def Jam too right they said he just did a deal with Def Jam so that's his first release oh Wale's on Def Jam now yes I had no idea

that's new to me he's back on Def Jam right I don't think he was ever on Def Jam I don't think he was ever on I think he was on like Interscope then he was on MMG

Epic yeah okay he moved around a lot I know I feel like okay anyway I had to google who Mac Julian was did y'all know who he was

no who's Mac Julian he's a American actor sculpt, and clothing designer who played in black's portation film, The Max. All right. In the 70s. And he's also from the DMV, from DC. Thank you for the history lesson.

Yes, of course. Next, we're going to take it to Carolina, South Carolina, to be specific, with an artist named Britton Rashore. And this record is called Goody Featuring Childish Major. He sampled on, what's that sample? Aaliyah Rockabole. Aaliyah, right?

Yeah, Aaliyah. Britton from, he white, right? Yes, he is. Okay. I was going to leave that part out and just let people judge his music. Oh, thank you, Charlamagne.

Great, great. I'm just giving context to it. I was trying to figure out if that's the same person I was thinking about. I heard of Britton before. Fire. I like it.

And then he just dropped a little three-pack EP. So if you want like bars, bars, he got that on there too. Luton, Britton, South Carolina. I think he's from the Metro. I think he's from 803. I think. I'm not sure. Don't let me lie.

I have no idea. But tap in. And then last but not least is Maya the Don. And she just dropped the EP called Hot Commodity. But my favorite record on there is Hella Scary. Oh, that's the name of the record, Hella Scary. Yeah.

I thought you said the record was Hella Scary. I was like, damn, what this gonna sound like? I was prepared to be terrified. Yo, you're silly. Damn. Yes, so Maya Dundon,

Hella Scary, Hot Commodity out now. Maya's really, really fire. Maya is a presence. You hear me? Like, Maya, I saw Maya at the BET Hip Hop Awards. She looked like

the president or something. Seriously, she's a prime minister or someplace. Like, she was in the backseat looking really bossed up.

That's true. She has big energy. She got real big energy. Salute to Maya the Don. Salute to Maya and also salute to Pastor Ox live. Going down tonight

is R&B night in Brooklyn. Okay, we had Cafe Ruzulu with it. Ryan Trey is hitting the stage. Leia and my girl Alex Vaughn. So it's going to be super, super dope. If you guys haven't already.

Dope, dope, dope. RSVP, download the playlist. Follow me on the gram at Nylah Simone. N-Y-L-A-S-Y-M-O-N-E-E. What them RSVPs looking like? Stacked. Crazy. Dope.

You need to get some sleep. Well, thank you, Nala. You're out waiting for Lauryn Hill. Thank you. You ain't got things to do. Shut up. Now, when we come back, we got the People's Choice Mix. Get your request in. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. Morning, everybody. It's

DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Now, again, shout to all the students at Howard University. Of course, I'm on my HBCU tour, so I'm still at Howard right now. Last night was the fashion show. Shout out to Lance Gross. Ran into him last night. Me and Clue was DJing.

And now today we'll be on the yard. So I can't wait to see you guys. And then next week, another HBCU. Just continue on my tour. What about you, Charla? I'm going to be home. Minding my own goddamn business. Okay? And if I am going somewhere, y'all know I What about you, Sharla? I'm going to be home, minding my own goddamn business. Okay.

And if I am going somewhere, y'all know I would never tell y'all until I get back. That's right. Okay. So I'm just happy that it's the weekend. That's right. That's right. All right. When we come back, we got the positive notes.

So don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just don't know what is going to come for you. Alicia Keys opens up about conquering doubt, learning to trust herself and leaning into her dreams. I think a lot of times we are built to doubt the possibilities for ourselves, for self-preservation and protection. It was literally that step by step. And so I discovered that that is how we get where we're going.

This increment of small, determined moments. Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love. I forgive myself. It's okay. Like grace. Have grace with yourself. You're trying your best. And you're going to figure out the rhythm of this thing.

Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast, Post Run High, is all about. It's a

chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. You know that rush of endorphins you feel after a great workout? Well, that's when the real magic happens. So if you love hearing real, inspiring stories from the people you know, follow, and admire, join me every week for Post Run High. It's where we take the conversation beyond the run and get into the heart of it all. It's lighthearted, pretty crazy, and very fun. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app,

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired, depressed, a little bit revolutionary? Consider this. Start your own country. I planted the flag. I just kind of looked out of like, this is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. There's 55 gallons of water, 500 pounds of concrete.

Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen of Ladonia. I'm Jackson the First, King of Kaperburg. I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia. Be part of a great colonial tradition. I'm Jackson I, King of Kaperburg. I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia. Be part of a great colonial tradition. The Waikana tried my country. My forefathers did that themselves.

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And we're losing daylight fast. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey there, my little creeps. It's your favorite ghost host, Teresa. And guess what? Haunting is back, dropping just in time for spooky season. Now I know you've probably been wandering the mortal plane, wondering when I'd be back to fill your ears with deliciously unsettling stories.

Well, wonder no more. Because we've got a ghoulishly good lineup ready for you. Let's just say things get a bit extra. We're talking spirits, demons, and the kind of supernatural chaos that'll make your spooky season complete. You know how much I love this time of year. It's the one time I'm actually on trend. So grab your pumpkin spice, dust off that Ouija board. Just don't call me unless it's urgent.

And tune in for new episodes every week. Remember, the veils are thin, the stories are spooky, and your favorite ghost host is back and badder than ever. Listen to Haunting on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, this is Justin Richmond, host of The Broken Record Podcast. Every week, I or my co-host, Leah Rose, sit down with the artists you love to get unparalleled creative insight. Now we have a special series where we speak with the artists behind one of the most influential jazz labels of the 20th century, Blue Note Records. nine-time Grammy award-winning Nora Jones, John Mellencamp and Madonna collaborator, Michelle Indegiocello,

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts morning everybody it's DJ NB Charlamagne Tha God we are the breakfast club uh we got a salute to Ida Rodriguez and Nick Grant for joining us and if you want to hear that full interview you can just check it out on the iHeartRadio app you can download it for free or you can check out breakfastclubonline.com and make sure you get uh ida rodriguez's book legitimate kid it's a memoir it's out right now and uh make sure you check out nick grant's whole album sunday dinner you know for all you folks that's always complaining about ain't no more lyrics it's in hip-hop man these kids don't be talking about nothing nick

grant is definitely somebody uh you should be checking out if you feel that way south carolina zone that's right all right you got a positive note yeah i do got a positive note but first i Definitely somebody you should be checking out if you feel that way. South Carolina's own Nick Grant. All right. You got a positive note? Yeah, I do got a positive note. But first, I want to tell people, make sure you go preorder my man Doug Melville's book, Invisible Generals. It tells the amazing true story of America's first black generals, Benjamin O. Davis Sr. and Jr., a father and son who helped integrate the American military and create the famous Tuskegee Airmen.

That is the next release off my book in print, Black Privilege Publishing with Shimon and Schuster. It'll be in stores November 7th, but you can order it, pre-order it now. All right. We're dropping it the week of Veterans Day and Visible Generals by my man, Doug Melville. So salute to my guy, my guy, Doug Melville. And the positive note is simply this, man. Be careful what you wish for others because it just might get to you, all right? To wish bad things for somebody else is actually like looking for something bad to happen to you because when you wish bad karma on somebody else,

you bring bad karma on yourself, okay? You are consuming and bringing in negative vibes into your life. Instead, be the person you wish they were. Be the person who brings only positive thoughts and good vibes into their own life. Because being negative yourself will only bring negative into your life. Don't poison yourself hoping somebody else will die.

All right? Have a great weekend. Breakfast club, bitches! You all finished or you all done? Hey, guys. I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast,

Post Run High, is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Had enough of this country? Ever dreamt about starting your own? I planted the flag. This is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. 55 gallons of water, 500 pounds of concrete.

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Hey, what's up? This is Ramses Jha. And I go by the name Q Ward. And we'd like you to join us each week for our show Civic Cipher. That's right. We discuss social issues, especially those that affect black and brown people, but in a way that informs and empowers all people.

We discuss everything from prejudice to politics to police violence. And we try to give you the tools to create positive change in your home, workplace and social circle. We're going to learn how to become better allies to each other. So join us each Saturday for Civic Cipher on the iHeartRadio app,

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Let's dive into the eerie unknown together. Sleep tight, if you can. Listen to Haunting on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, 1974. George Foreman was champion of the world. Ali was smart and he was handsome. The story behind The Rumble in the Jungle is like a Hollywood movie. But that is only half the story.

There's also James Brown, Bill Withers, B.B. King, Miriam Akiba. All the biggest black artists on the planet. Together in Africa. It was a big deal. Listen to Rumble, Ali, Foreman, and the Soul of 74 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.