The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: The Breakfast Club Reacts To J. Cole's 'The Fall Off’ + DaBaby, Pastor Michael Todd & Natalie Todd Interview

Episode Date: February 6, 2026

Today on The Breakfast Club, DaBaby talks gratitude, processing trauma, giving advice to the youth, and his new album. Pastor Michael Todd & Natalie Todd also join us to discuss Relationship Goals, therapy and healing, and Druski’s ‘Mega Church’ skit. Plus, it’s Friday, so we opened the phone lines for callers to deliver the People’s Donkey. Listen for more!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I feel blessed black and highly favored. We're happy to be here. Another day to serve our beautiful listeners. Good morning. Just hilarious. I absolutely love your sweatshirt. Thank you. You know that's why I got it.

That is amazing. Yes, this is the same. Hurry and something and picture that's hanging up in his house as soon as you walk in the foyer. It's bigger than anything in his house. So, yes. And then the bag. Look at the back. Okay.

That's fine. What brand is that you know? No, one of my fans made it for me. That's all. I love that. Black History Mom. Black History Month. That's tough.

That is dope. You know that's a little Duval cousin. too. Who, Harriet Tubman? Harry Tubman? Yeah. You know she's from Baltimore? I ain't know that.

Yeah, she's from Baltimore. Oh, no, I didn't know that. I didn't know that? I didn't know. I didn't know. I never thought about where Harry Tubman was from. Yep.

Tell BDak. So we can tell the people. Tell BDuffin. Yes, it is Black History Month. Salute to everybody. Of course, you know, this weekend at Dreammore. I'm doing our family reunion.

It's a free event all weekend long. Well, I should say 11 a.m. On Saturday to 7 p.m. It's going to be a host of things. There's going to be our panels. There's going to be discussions, performances. We're going to be double dutching it. The double-dutch crew bringing teaching kids how to do double-dutch.

They're going to be doing expungement, so teaching people how to get things off of their record. Oh, that's cool. Their record. Well, you can't do that on your own. You got to need. No, it's panels. There's panels.

There's different panels. There's different panels where they're going to be talking, there's going to be an HBCE panel talking about HBCU schools. Ferry Wapp is going to be talking about being in an industry with a disability. and how that has affected him. Zetti Will is going to be, of course, he's a young kid. He's doing amazing out there. He's going to be talking about how he went from the stream of life to an artist.

I think what you're doing is amazing, but will you be explaining why, as a Dominican, you're doing this during Black History Month? When it is also Dominican Heritage Month as well, why aren't you doing anything for your people? Oh, it is. I'm not Dominican, I am Black. So it's a free event.

So come on out, it's 11 to 7. I got some dance classes, some black-owned dance schools. They'll be dancing. My kids are actually be dancing. So if you wanted to see the, you know, the snippet I posted online, they'll be doing the full dance. There's going to be a lot of fun, man. It's going to be a huge family reunion, black own vendors.

What kind of dances they're going to be doing, Bichita? What's it called, Red, Bichata? Bichata. Bichata? No, Brooklyn is doing Tina Turner and I can't remember the young ladies. London is doing the young lady, the young black girl that spoke at the poem, I did the poem at Joe Biden's inauguration. I can't think of her name. Can't think of a young lady's name.

But she did a poem and my daughter does a dance to it. she competes to that that poem. So it's going to be a lot of fun. This cultural appropriation is crazy. What? You need to put up your 23 and me African ancestry results before you start to do this stuff like that.

This don't even feel right, okay? I'm not mad. This is crazy to me. I'm not talking to me. Now today on the show from the Carolinas, the baby will be joining us. My guy, 704. Baby has a new album called Be More Grateful.

We'll talk to the baby. That's right. Hey, one on tour, y'all. Make some noise. Woo. Oh, my God. Come on. Let's do it.

show up for y'all. They made noise. People listening in the car. You made noise. I didn't know you wanted the room to make noise. Yeah, because I'm excited. I'm excited to see him back on the stage. That's my guy, man.

Salute to the baby. And Pastor Michael Todd and Natalie Todd will be joining us. You know the movie Relationship Goals that Mephton and Kelly Rowland star in. It's based off Pastor Todd's book. That's right. Relationship Goals, How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex. So he'll be here to talk about that.

Also, furthermore, I want to tell y'all, don't call up here with no J-Cole reviews. That album came out five hours. It's a hour and 41 minutes long. Of course, stay stable. So it ain't no way. You can't dive into it. You can't dive into it.

It gets too soon. I woke up this morning, nine and I was going to text me, you listening? I look at the time, it was 1204. What make you think your unc is up at 1204? Listen to the J-Coh? Or any rap music.

Like, how dare you disrespect me like that? I drove in listening to it and I couldn't get past. It was eight songs. I got eight nine songs because you don't have to because you don't have much time. Yeah. Well, it's 12. The first track is 12.

Well, 12 songs. I finished the first 12. I listen to the first one too. But I don't want to hear no reviews. I'm not giving no reviews. How can you give a review and you only heard half the project? Yeah. I'm sure a trap that calls.

I'm sure he heard it. His fans have heard it. They stayed up and listened. Absolutely. I don't want to hear them either because they still got a little, uh, never mind. Stop it. I know, I know. Stop it.

Be nice. I started to say a word. I couldn't even think of a pleasant word to say. But don't think it. We're going to play something off the album right now. This is who the F is you? I like this. He samples mob deep, drop a gym on.

Drop a gym on. Yes, he does. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Front page news is next. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. J.N.V. J.

Salarious. Shalame, the guy we are the breakfast club. That was off of Jay Cole's fall off. Once again, no calling here with no reviews. That album just came out five hours ago. And it's an hour in 41 minutes. I only got to listen to disc one. I don't want here.

None of y'all reviews yet because y'all ain't even give it a chance to sit. Okay. Drive, call. Give it a weekend. They're so excited. They don't care. Give it a weekend, man, before you jump out the window

with your reviews. All right. Well, let's get in some front page news. This Sunday, Super Bowl Sunday. All right, the game is at 6.30, Seahawks versus the Patriots. 6.30 is game time. Eastern time. They're playing in Levi Stadium on the West Coast in the Bay Area.

So we'll see who you got. Who you got? Patriots. Shala. I don't give a damn. It's another year. My Cowboys is not in it. I can get less.

You should be used to it by now. I got bad bunny. That's who I got. Go ahead, Bad Bunny. Patriots. Bad Bunny going to win the Super Bowl. That's the real battle. Bad Bunny versus Ice.

Yeah. That's going to be the real battle. Who's going to win that battle? Who's going to win that? Mimi, what's up, Mimi? Good morning. I have the Seahawks. It's close to Alaska.

So Seattle, Alaska. There's nothing close to Alaska. So is that the team that everybody in Alaska likes? Like, they all go for the Seahawks. That's exactly the team that everybody. Yep. So we'll see what happens. Go, Seahawks.

How are you, Mimi? Mimi's been in Minnesota. All week on the ground doing investigative journalism boots on the ground in Minnesota. What happened there, Mimi? Yes, I have been on the ground in Minnesota all week long. I spoke to a lot of different people, but this morning we're going to play some of the interviews from some of the people that I spoke to, including Attorney General Keith Ellison. I sat down with him one-on-one. He's also running for re-election.

We went to a few polling places. And so I want to play you some of what we spoke about. I spent the last several days, as I said, with him. And I began by asking him about the pressure this operation is placing on the city. I'm talking about Operation Metro Surge and how it's stretching resources and forcing local agencies to respond in ways they weren't prepared for. Let's listen to that answer. They're costing our state money. They're hurting our economy.

And so I sued over this. If you take Camp Pam Bondi's letter, she wrote a letter to our governor saying, turn over these items including your voter information and maybe things can go back, the chaos can end. And we're like, okay, so this is what this is all about. I am in litigation with the Department of Justice on every item she demanded from us. Basically what the federal government is saying,

what they cannot get through a court, what they're not legally entitled to receive from a court, they're just going to stick a gun in our face and say hand it over. Damn. That's what's going on. And I know your listeners are like, oh, come on, Keith, you being dramatic. No, they're not just dropping one gun in our face.

They're dropping 3,500 guns in our face. So I say to anybody across America, they may not be gangster in your neighborhood right now, but they will be because Trump and them gave them in the big ugly bill this summer, $75 billion plus another $10 with no guard rails. Yeah, with no gar rolls. So also from there, we talked about accountability, specifically whether the state has any legal pathway to pursue action after the death of Renee Good and Alex Pready. I know a lot of people have been asking what can the state do. And he wanted you guys to know it's limited, but here's what he had to say.

I think the federal government is engaged in a cover up. And I don't say that lightly. So if you talk about the Renee Good matter, they refuse the state of investigators access to the scene. They thereby trampled the scene and undermined it. Then they took possession of things like bullet casings, the gun and the car. The president, vice president, and the secretary of Homeland Security exonerate Jonathan Ross and call the victim a domestic terrorist. What can you conclude other than they do not want anyone, including the state, to get to the truth?

Look, as a prosecutor, I'm not at liberty to say everything that we're doing. But I can tell your audience this. There is no statute of limitations on murder. Number two, there is no absolute immunity for federal agents who commit crimes in a state. State authorities can prosecute anyone who commits a crime in the state, including federal authorities. So basically, when they get back in power at a federal level, there will be consequences and repercussion. Pretty much. That's exactly what he's saying.

And we also went over a broader concern. whether the administration's actions are crossing constitutional lines, the freedom of press, and what ordinary people can do if they believe that those freedoms are under pressure. Let's listen to that. If they don't have to deal with rule of law and they don't have to deal with elections and they don't have to deal with the Constitution and Trump doesn't have to deal with any court system or Congress. And this is what we call dictatorship authoritarianism. And I'm a little worried that we're not quite coming to grips with what it is that we're

facing. And even if we do accept that's what we're facing, we need to be much more aggressive encountering that. And how do we do that, though? Well, I think the free independent media at Breakfast Club is very important. You can't do anything about that which you don't know anything about. And so, you know, you guys over there at Breakfast Club doing a great service by just making sure people know what's happening. So that is critical. That's why all of us got to be real nervous about what happened to Don Lemon and to Georgia Ford. And which is why it made me, I got to tell you, I think it took a lot of guts for you to come to Minnesota, walk around, ask people some questions. You know, you're a threat because Trump wants everybody to believe that Minnesota is just full of bad people doing

bad things. It is the federal government that has created unsafe circumstances in Minnesota. Attorney General Keith Ellison speaking quite plain. Drop on a clue bump. That's right. I love that. Yeah, I know exactly what we're facing. It is authoritarian strategy. strategy. You know, it is, it is leaning heavy on fascism, but I just feel like we should be doing more except talking about it. You know what I mean? More like what, though? I don't know. That's my point.

Well, that's what I asked him. You did? That's what I asked him. You know, he said, get out the message. And he also said, of course, protest peacefully and, you know, and keep telling people what's going on until, you know, basically those power switched. But he said they are collecting evidence. They are doing what they can do from the state point

of view and, you know, the time will come. He said they haven't forgotten. still, no matter what people think they're still doing their own investigation. All right. Great job, Mimi. Yes, Mimi. Did you text? We have more. Did you text Jess when you got home?

You know, I did. She was very concerned. Okay. She was very concerned. Yeah, yeah. We have more at seven. We also, we're going to hear from Georgia Fort and Dr. Nakima Levy Armstrong. She was the organizer of that church protest. We'll talk about that in the next hour. All right.

Everybody else, get it off your chest. 800-585-105-1. If you need to vent, the number again, 1-800-5-105. No Jay-Cole reviews. The album just came out five hours ago. Come on, Tray. And it's almost two hours long.

Don't get you, the first person. Don't do it. Don't do it. It's the first person on the line. It's the breakfast club. Good morning. This is your time to get it off your chest.

Whether you're mad or blessed. I hate the way that you walk, the way that you talk. I hate the way that you dress. Everything with me is blessed. Call up next. 800-5-85-105-1. Not just me.

I'm with the coach of Philly. Hello, who's this? This is fantastic. Happy Friday. Hey, Texas. Now, I'm reading something, Tish. It says you bought a portable bidet? Yes, I did.

And it has changed my life. Like, I love a regular bidet, but the portable one gets all in the front and the crevice. It's just great. Hold on, school with me on that. She's a portable bag. You carry it with you?

Like, how does it work? Yeah, I got it on Amazon, and you unpack it, and, you know, it has a couple of little debt that you put together. USB charge. The key. He is warm water. Oh, my God.

So you got to put your own water in it? Yes, yes. So, you know, like if you're traveling and you're at a hotel or whether that may not have one, or if you're at home in a bathroom, one of your little bathrooms that you may have that may not have one, you just kind of, you know, unscrew the bottom, put the warm water in there and it has two buttons. One is like a regular one, and the other one is a high button. I'm not a lot. I might do that because, you know, when I be here at work, man, and I use the bathroom here,

I'd be feeling so poor. You know what I'm saying? Okay, well, this is ideal for you. What? That's because you take all your clothes off. Yeah, but once you use a bidet, it's like it's hard to go back after you got the bag. That's right. You cannot go back.

It's like the best thing. But you got to carry that with you all day long? I don't care. It's worth it because I want to ask. But it comes in a pack. It's not big at all. Right, it probably comes in a pack. I don't know about that one.

Nah, man. It's either that. No, I'm telling you it's really envy. If you try it, you'll be like, Fisher from Texas was right, man. So let me ask you a question. So the part that shoots water up your butt, right? You got to put it on the toilet seat, or do you hold it?

Nah, you're thinking about something? I'm looking at, are you talking about like the little travel portable badees, right? Yes, part of it, yes, the travel portable badee. I'm looking at it now. I think I might do that. How do you shoot it up? Like, so what do you set it up? So it shoots up your butt.

It's a button, Andy. You put it, it's two pieces. You put it together. You put the water in there. You put it together. And there's a button. You can tilt it. It's like handheld, like a wand almost.

Yeah, it's like, you know, when you're playing basketball, when they squirt the Gatorade, it's like that. Expensive, but it has been a game changer. And for women that is that time a month and you're, like, not at home, it'll get everything for you. I literally was about to ask you how much was it? It's cheap. I got that talking.

$10. Yeah. I see I think I want that talking for $26. Okay. Yeah. Thank you, Tisha. Okay. I'm telling y'all.

I love y'all. And you know what? It's going to be 80 degrees here today. Oh, yeah. So jealous. She in Texas. Dallas, Texas. Dallas, yes.

All right, Tish. God bless you. Okay, bye. I'm trying to do my cars out there next year. I'm trying to do it this shit, but it's difficult to get you. Yes, I want you to come in. We need you here. Yeah, I'm trying to.

I'm going to figure it out. Me and Bebe going to figure it out. Who the hell is Babebe? DJ Baby, baby, baby. I'm like, what about you? I'm like, what you're calling June, Babebe? No, man, Babebe to DJ. Who's the Hollywood one, baby.

Hello, who's this? Yo, is it show up from the Bronx. Showing from the Bronx. What's up? Good morning. Good morning. I know what I'm going to say. A lot of people are not doing life.

Okay. But I'm being honest. All right. People being mad at ice is crazy to me. I think it's crazy that we got people out here really fighting for illegals to be in our country. And I know they are not bad. I get that. But there are some here that, I mean, by the line is, if you're not here legally, you're not supposed to be here.

So the fact that all slow Biden was there was there anybody that's come and dance in They was literally on video, like, celebrating coming into this country illegally. I think that's crazy to me. So anybody's fighting for illegal. I will never understand their mind frame because they're coming into our neighborhood. They're taking our jobs, regardless of what people think. I can speak from experience. They're coming and taking our job.

They're coming in our space. So a lot of people have to defend them, they ain't getting in communities on homes and houses and places where they're not dealing with these illegal. But I'm sorry. I support ICE. I hope they support it as many of their parents because it's crazy how they came and going to country. Could I offer a... So I know it's not a proper opinion, but I told it to say how anybody support that. Can I offer a different perspective?

Okay. I don't think that's the conversation. I think that, you know, we all know we need border security. People do need to be in this country legally, but I think the problem that folks are having with ICE is when you see ICE doing unconstitutional things, when you see ICE, you know, killing people like Alicia Good in the street or Alex Purdy in the street are, you know, coming into your house without a warrant. I think that is what people are concerned about. I don't think people are concerned about, you know, actual border security and removing illegals from this country, the actual criminals. I don't think people have a problem with that.

Well, take it a step further. Sean, how many friends do you have that from Caribbean descent or Spanish descent? A lot. A lot. A lot of those friends, and you know a lot of those friends nine times out of ten, their parents weren't born here in America. You know that, right? I mean, like, a lot.

One of my closest friends I worked, he came from Cuba illegally. He went to go and carnival and all that. So I have to talk for them. I grew up with people that are not from here. So ICE just don't grab Mexicans and people from, I don't know, Africa. They don't even care. They don't care. If you're not born here, they grab you.

So some of your friends that you grew up with, some of your friend's parents, ICE is grabbing anybody that wasn't born in this country, sir. But if they get ins checked and then they found it to be okay, then that's fine. Why are we fighting the people? They hold. Once again, y'all are missing the whole point. We just don't want law enforcement violating our civil liberties. That's what that is.

Like, we want ICE to do their job. Yes, we need border security. We want people to be in this country legally. We just don't want law enforcement violating our constitutional rights. All right. When we get it off your chest. Now, let's get to the latest with Laura. Chicken Little.

What's up? Fallhorn, leghorn. What did you ask for when you walked in? I'm just curious. No, I just was there for a wash, a touch up and a curl. And Q was like, let's try. You know what? Jermaine Jackson.

Shut up. That's the Q said. He said, let's try some styles. You never do styles. I was like, I like it. And then he started, I was like, not really sure. And I was like, we'll give it a day and we'll just see.

I text them at 613 and said, I don't think this is the one. I like it, though. No, I'm going to tell you why I like it. Because your energy gives chicken little. You always act like the sky is falling. So why not have a cock and dude? Oh, my God. I like it.

I like it. Just don't rule the window down when you drive it because it's going to fly right off. No, this is not a too bad thing. The tracks that are in here are in here. In here, baby, they ain't going to where. This ain't giving that. Was it a big baby, the boxer? Remember you just here that?

That's a too big. That's like a lace front. This ain't that. This is my hair with hair in between. You said, I'm going to give us some chicken little and some Jermaine Jackson. I like it. It's given Monica. I feel like he said something about Holly Berry.

You, shut up. I don't know like he said something about Hallie Barry. Mimi, why are you bracing itself? Because I feel like I need to jump in, but I'm through the computer. Oh, I thought it was my hair. What you think, Mimi? No, girl. No, Mimi, like it.

What do you take, Mimi? I love it. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate you. Anything you love, I don't like. I don't. I love it.

We're going to report on. Because we cannot spend the whole day about my hair. We've only got two segments today. You came in here like this. I don't like it. Okay? I don't like it. All right, on the day that Jemaine Cole dropped the album called fall off.

You just said, you know what? Give me until 7 a.m. Is Jemaine. All right, we got the ladies with Laura coming up what we talk about. We're going to talk about J. as much as we can. Y'all got through the whole project? No, I heard y'all doesn't work.

No, only for us that one. Every time you join around, I just be wanting to sing A.A. I'm leaving. We'll be back when you're called. I'm going to be Michael. You be the name. Just you, Tito.

I got to go, y'all. I got to go, y'all. I'm going to be Marley. God. Damn. We're going to be Marley. I know that's right. I know.

It's a breakfast. Good morning, y'all. Yeah. I'm not dumbing myself. Damning myself. I'm being myself. That's tough. I'm the homeguard that knows a little bit about everything and everything.

Little brown girls look at you and go, I want to be like you. Take me through that, take me through that. Where's she gone? The latest with Narno knows. Take me through that. On the breakfast club. L.L. Cool back. Talk to me.

Okay, y'all. So the fall off is here. So this is Jay Cole's eighth album. It's supposed to be his last. And he keeps, you know, letting us know that. And to be honest with y'all, I mean, okay. I know you ain't got no J. Cole review. album is an hour in 41 minutes.

Let me finish talking. I am three songs short of listening to The Fool, but I do feel like this is something to listen to a couple times before you can do like an accurate review. Absolutely. But so far, my first thought in getting through that far is I understand why he doesn't want to be a part of this stuff anymore.

Right. Because I feel like, so Jay Cole, when he dropped the track list, because he's been writing letters to the fans explaining certain things. So in the letter that he wrote when he dropped the track list, he talks about how some of these songs are older. And like he had like this whole wall. of like magazines right and he talks about his hip-hop inspirations and like 50 cent m&m common uh rizzo like all these people right all people who never ran from a rap beef um but in the in the

on the project he starts out on disc uh 29 notes i heard i think was you say you got through this 29 right the first that's the first one yes on the first disc he's like you can tell it's like younger him and he's growing up through things but he's idolizing so much stuff and by the time i got that he was just paying homage to uh fairville i actually He's from... He's from a Fadville. Yes. But he's speaking from a now perspective.

Yes and no, because he goes back into times where like he's in the clubs, hollering at girls and like just different things. He's at letouts, like things that he wouldn't be doing now, but also him visiting now to as J. Cole. And kind of the irony of I was here and I wanted to do all this stuff. And now I'm back. And the way that you guys look at me and the things that I thought I was going to be able to do, I can't even really fully achieve it.

But it's just like... It's just like the heroes that I looked up to. So I grabbed some songs that I felt like were worth, you know, at least playing on the... the radio but I do think you have to listen to this a few times but I get it if I was J. Cole I would leave y'all alone too. Think pieces with no thought because the album came out at midnight. Yeah I didn't get what you got from.

What did you get? What did you get? I got that he went back to Fayetteville and some of the things that he's seen that gave inspiration is just not there anymore but he was talking as a now. That's what I got from it and then he talks about different situations like you know how people switched up on him like the letter that you know which is like the one love letter from Nause where three of his people is writing him notes and he's talking about the you know how people changed up on him and how people are still in this corner so that's how I took it as now what's that one song he's that song uh bunch road blues he's like I'm riding through the streets I grew up in yeah now but I think I think again I think everything is open for interpretation I definitely think you got to listen to this a couple times but there is also so I have less listen to uh bombs in theville I just I love how he leaned in the fairville though yeah I have no opinion in this project because

I just heard the first disc. And I haven't heard it at all. It's a hour and 41 minutes. And even when you listen, you're going to have to go behind him. And that one seems like he's talking to his younger self. He didn't make mistakes. Look at these kids. These kids are proof that you are doing well.

That's what that seemed like. Yeah. He FaceTimed his younger self in that song to have a conversation with itself. And even in that song, I feel like, and this is why I talked about the younger him. I feel like there was something that I think he thought he would cure by becoming like this big rapper. And at times, it feels like he has done. And at times it feels like he hasn't. It's a music video?

No, he says it. He says that he faces off and his song. I don't listen. I want to get in before we have to wrap up the 39 intro. So this is the song that starts off the second half of the project. I know one thing. I want to know who the rapper is in Fayerville that be dissing Cole. Because our first listen, Cole had a lot of smoke for him.

And I know whoever that is got something ready to go right now. That's a song where it's calling him a punk bee. Because Cole said he wanted to fade and everything. Yeah. Like, leave your gun at home. I think it's poor thing Is it poor thing? I don't remember

Yeah he's called whoever it is He called him a punk B He Yeah he's going in But yes It's definitely something That you have to take a couple listens to

So there'll be more that comes from it We don't need no thing pieces with no thought They've already started He's spitting though You can't take the fact that that boy Can spit Now you talked about You talked about his beat

Selection How did you feel about So far What you've heard about the beat selection here I like Um I like some of it But some of it

I still feel like Say what you said I still feel like No I'm saying I like some of it, but I still feel like Cole needs A&R guidance sometimes. Like, everybody had A&R guidance. Jay-Z had A&R guidance. Biggie had A&R guidance.

Like, sometimes what you like, the people might not like. And that's why I like Cole's freestyles because it's over beats that's out and I can enjoy the beats and enjoy the lyricism. He tried, though. He tried a lot with, like, you know, samples and leaning back into other. He tried, I think. That's why I like, who the F is you. Yes. He sampled my deep drop a gem along.

Yeah. But I will say this. I don't have no opinion, man. This album is an hour and, 41 minutes. I only listen to the first disco, whatever you call. You know what you call them now. The first part of the project. Part one. Just say part one. It's two hours

that album came out at midnight. How everybody got so many reviews and so many deep analysis? Dumb fans was up at 11 Oh no. They were ready. They were ready. Yes. We got to wrap up. But in the next hour we are going to we're going to get into some family things because the Glorilla family drama is continuing. And her sister has sat down with TMZ and she says

they need $2,500. Oh, there's no update on Gun 3? What was the name? Oh, we going to get there too. There was a whole press conference yesterday that I sat here for an hour and watched. We are definitely going to get to that as well. You need a T-shirt that says eat more chicken. You need to back up from that mic and just stop spitting. I don't know.

Jesus Christ. All right. It's the breakfast clock. Good morning. Morning everybody. It's DJ NV. Just hilarious. Shalameen the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. Now this Sunday is Super Bowl Sunday. The game is at 630 Eastern Time. The Seattle Seahawks versus the Patriots. I want the Patriots to win. I mean, it's

East Coast thing. I just, you know... I don't care who wins, but I think the Seahawks are going to win. The Seahawks are just a much better team. I don't believe in Drake May like that, but, you know, I'm also a hater. Yes, you are. Yes, you are. So listen, I want you all to know, I told y'all last hour, Mimi Brown

was actually in Minnesota, boots on the ground, you know, talking to people like Attorney General Keith Ellison, and you also spoke to Georgia Fort, right, Mimi? I did. I did. I spoke with Georgia Fort. She was arrested as part of that protest as a She was covering the event.

She went to the protest as a journalist. And I wanted to speak to her about it. You know, she's an independent journalist. And she says that what happened to her is a growing attack on the free press. Now, Fort, she's an Emmy Award winning reporter. She's based in the Twin Cities. She was indicted after covering that protest. And now she faces charges tied to conspiracy and interference with religious freedom.

Now, she's maintaining, of course, that she was a journalist, not a participant. But the Trump administration argues that the church is a sacred place. and that neither the protesters nor members of the press should have gone inside to cover that demonstration. So I asked her directly what was her response to that? Let's listen. No one in the world would be able to even have this discourse if journalists weren't there documented. So I think that the need to protect the press is more critical now than ever before. tell you why. The Lighthouse published an AI-generated image of one of the people who's being charged in this case, Nikima Lilii-Astrawn. It showed her darker than what she is in

real life, and it showed her crying hysterically. So what world, what America do you want to live in? Do you want to live in the one where the facts are up for debate, where they can be manipulated? Do you want to live in a world where we're disillusioned? Mm. Can I ask a question? Are people coming to her aid in regards to, like, legal fees? Because I think about stuff like that because when you get arrested with a public figure like Don Lemon, like, you know, he gets a lot of the attention and a lot of people tend to want to help him.

That's true. Don got money. You know what I'm saying? I don't know Georgia Ford's financial situation, but I know she ain't got bred like Don. Yeah, I think, you know, she's a mother. She's an independent journalist. And I know she has a link on her Instagram, I believe, where you can donate just to her independent journalism. Okay.

I'm pretty sure you can go there and also donate to her fund to raise money for her legal fees. I believe everybody who is involved in this needs that extra help right now. They're facing some really, really serious charges. And then going back to what she said, she was arguing that if the press had not been inside that church, that we wouldn't even know what was happening or what had happened, you know? That's true. The two do go hand in hand as a journalist. You do have your First Amendment right.

And so that was her argument. So whichever one you align with, there is, you know, that will play out in court, but there is a First Amendment right. And so, and that is what her argument is, what her argument is, what Don Lemon's argument is. And, you know, we already know what the Trump administration and their take is on that. And another person that we were able to sit down with while in Minneapolis was Dr. Nakima Levy Armstrong. And she's the civil rights attorney and the organizer behind the protests at CD. Church. That's the one that led to the multiple arrests that Georgia was just speaking of right now. So as of right now, there have been at least nine arrested. I also spoke with another

protester at the church. I will not say her name because she has not been arrested yet. But she said that she expects that to come any day now. But we met in a private location for safety reasons. Dr. Amshan said that she's been receiving all kinds of death threats and different attacks, yeah, on her life. And so she said what's happening, though, in Minnesota, right? now is bigger than one protest. I asked her why she believes that ICE is in Minnesota in the first place and what she thinks is driving this federal presence. Let's listen to that. Well, I think that they're here in part because we're ground zero, right? From God's perspective and knowing that in all of these years, we have built up the ability to resist, to fight.

We're one of the most well-organized communities in the country. So that's the spiritual aspect of it. And we are the last line of defense before this comes. country is thrown into complete authoritarianism and fascism. On a practical level, we're here because Governor Waltz ran as Kamala Harris' running mate when she ran for president, and he was vice president. He called Republicans weird. He called out the Trump administration, and he did a lot of tough talking on the campaign trail.

So I believe that this is in part retaliation for our governor stepping out and seeking a position of higher office and having to contend directly with Donald Trump. and J.D. Van. I also believe the fact that Donald Trump and Ilhan Omar have sparred many times over the years and he's made it clear that he thinks she's garbage. He's called the Somali community

garbage and so there was a perfect storm. Yeah. And so she talked a lot about, you know, just Minneapolis or Minnesota itself just being a place that they're primed for organizing because we saw what happened with George Floyd.

But she also brought up something that I didn't know or that it clicked when she said it about the Dred Scott case. We can take it all the way back there. And a lot of the, you know, Philando Castile and the, was Dante Wright. Like, just they have been doing this for a long time. And so she makes the case about not only are they fighting eyes, but they're also fighting civil rights. And so let's listen to that.

We're the first city in the country that has been able to center civil rights and racial justice as a connection to this issue. regarding ICE. And we said as black organizers, had the governor listened and arrested the ICE agent who killed Renee Good, Alex Prady might still be alive.

Had they listened and started holding ICE agents accountable when they violated Minnesota law and arrested them, investigated them, Alex Prattie might still be alive. We held press conferences as black organizers saying this is what the governor can do,

this is what the sheriff can do, this is what the sheriff can do, This is what the mayor can do. This is what the Minneapolis police chief can do. This is what the attorney general can do. This is what the county attorney can do. They all have power for people. They can send officers to arrest ICE agents who violate Minnesota law.

I know they know who killed Alicia Good. And I guess they know who killed Alex Purdy because they put them on administrative leave, but they never put their names out, right? They never put the name out. So we know who killed Alicia Good. It's been widely reported, right? Jonathan Ross, we know who killed him. We also know that he's been moved outside of Minnesota.

At first, he went active duty someplace else, but then I think now he's on administrative leave. The names for who killed Alex Pretti, we do know it's two guys. There have been some circulation on social media, but I don't think that anyone has come out and, you know, confirm that. Yeah, so it's irresponsible to say it

because I don't think that we actually know that those are the two people. But nevertheless, you know, Dr. Amshanji made, you know, a point that have they investigated them, perhaps, you know, Pruddy may still be alive. I did reach out to the mayor's office. I did reach out to the governor's office, but I did not hear back. But I, you know, she, that those were her points of view and points that she wanted to make. And I finally, I asked her lastly about that AI altered image that was posted by the White House. That's something that Georgia Fort also spoke to. And she wanted people to know that not only was that unacceptable,

that that should be also a warning for other people. Let's listen to that. And so our families came to pick us up from the jail. And then when I got home, that's when I saw, or when I got to a friend's house, because I didn't go home right away. That's when I saw the doctor AI image of me. And so the White House, the highest office in the land,

did that to me as a black woman, simply because I stood up for just, in our humanity. And they lied to the public, you know, through this photo. They manipulated what really happened. So if you can't believe an image from the White House, what can you believe? Yeah. So she maintains that at the church protest, it was a peaceful protest and that church leaders

and officials, though, they say that it crossed the line. And she's currently fighting those charges. And again, she does also have a go fund me if you do want to donate to her legal fund. And, yeah, so that is my coverage of, Minneapolis. Great job, maybe. I think it's Renee Good. I kept saying Alicia Good because I got a friend name of Lisa Good.

But how did you feel, Mimi, when you was, you know, you had to go meet that young, that young woman in like private because she didn't want to meet publicly. Were you scared? I'm not going to lie. It was very, very scary. But you know what? It reminded me of, you know, what our civil rights leaders probably had to go through back in the day to organize, you know what I mean?

And all the things. It just, it felt like, I'll tell you what, being in Minneapolis, I understand. I understand because it's not just black people. It's also white people. It's also, I learned there's a Hmong community, which is Southeast Asian. You know, they are all just coming together.

They are making sure that their neighbors are taking care of. And they said to me, it's like, we don't bring the fight, but if you bring it to us, we will fight you back, right? And so they are out, they're protesting at the Whipple Building every single day. They see ice. They are blowing whistles. They're alerting their neighbors.

And they're just doing everything to make sure that They keep their community safe. And so I get it now. I get why Renee Good was out there. And I get why Alex Pready was out there. I understand. Wow. Great job, Mimi.

Great investigative journalism. Yes, yes. Thank you, Mimi. Thank you. Well, that's your front page news. I'm Mimi Brown. Follow me at Mimi Brown TV. For more stories, follow the Black Information Network.

Download the free IHeartRadio app or visit BINNews.com. All right. When we come back, the baby will be joining us. We're going to kick it with the baby. His new album. Be More Grateful is out today. Now, Shala, what you want to do for the donkey today? Oh, you know, every Friday we do the People's Donkey.

So you can call right now, 1-800-5-105-1, and you can give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid, okay? All you can go to the I-Hard radio app and go to the talkback feature and leave a message as well. But it's the People's Donkey. So whoever you want to give the biggest he-hardtool call right now. All right. We'll go.

All right, and the baby will be up next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. Jess Salarion. Shalameen de Guy. We are the Breakfast Club.

Long La Rose is here. as well. We got a special guest in the building. And this album is out right now. Be more grateful. Ladies and gentlemen the baby. Baby. What's up, man? It's always a pleasure. I'm blessed, man. I'm in a season of gratitude. Way more grateful.

I want you know, I like what I just saw, by the way. Not for sure, come on. We're talking about that. You went to stay in to me. It's like, what we do. Come on, man. Come on. Come on.

Yeah. Man. Look. You know. Hey. Look. Look. Look. We're talking about.

I ain't anybody about to get stuck. Don't let's all to do that. I'm going to wait to like 17 minutes in to get started. I didn't have been started, man. I went right over, man. Well, how are you feeling? How's everything, man? And I'm blessed, bro.

I'm blessed, you know what I'm saying? And I feel like, you know, the way I'm feeling is showing it's reflected in the project. I just dropped me, you know what I'm saying? I'm in a season of gratitude. I'm in a great place, bro. You know what I'm saying? If we go back and just, you know, we revisit the conversations the last few times we've met, like, you'll see it, you know what I'm saying?

Like, I'm just, I'm in a grace, bro. You know, there's a particular moment that made you realize you wasn't being grateful enough? Or you just... It was a moment that lasted about four years. You feel me? So, you know, but it's beautiful to get on the other side of that shit, man. It's beautiful, you know what I'm saying? So that's why I met with it right now.

It wasn't no particular moment. Like, it wasn't no pivotal. It was several, you know what I'm saying, moments that I could identify as that. But, you know, it takes time. It's all the part of just, you know, life of itself, you know what I'm saying? And growth, you know, you gotta stand across the street. from yourself sometimes and look at what's going on. Stand across the street, see how big your house really is.

What you know what, right? Yeah. With the mind frame for this album, right, listening to the album, the one thing I always say about the baby is I don't think people respect you as a lyricist as you, as they should. Yeah, they got me fucked up. Listening to the album, I'm like, Jesus Christ. No, no. Cussing up a storm.

Now, listening to the album, man, you, I mean, I love to hear you spit. And I love the songs as a DJ because I love to play the records in the club. Yeah. But I love when you rap and rapping. No, for sure. Because that reminds me back in the day when we used to go to Charlotte and see you out there passing our CDs. Come on. Come on.

Was that intentional? They rocked. It was super intentional. You know what I'm saying? I ain't shy away from it. I won't even say shy away from it because I ain't never been, you know, I ain't ever been shy about getting in front of a microphone and just rapping like I actually love doing that. But I ain't dumb it down or try to, you know, let me make a hit or satisfy. You get what I'm saying?

A particular audience. Like, it was real important to me with this project to like make sure that I wanted to reestablish. You know what I'm saying? My audience, you get what I'm saying? And, like, you know, it was real important that this shit checked all the boxes and really shows you, you know what I'm saying? Like, what I could do

and really put this on display. Because before, you know, how I make a club record. I'll make a bang. I know how to do that. I know how to blow it up. I know how to do all that. But that's something everybody can do.

You get what I'm saying? Like, when it comes to just, that raw talent, that raw lyricism, like, getting in front of a microphone, just rapping, not all them extra instruments in the beat, open that bitch up and let me just give me a blank canvas and let me paint.

Like, I definitely, like, I know, I understand, like, I'm one of the best in this shit right now at doing this shit. So I ain't shy away from it. I made sure I got, like, eight, nine records on there. I almost made a full-blown, what they call them? Conscious album. You get what I'm saying? But I'm like, nah, like, nah, still, you know, it's layers to me. You know what I'm saying?

I'm like, a onion. It's layers to me. So I got to make sure, you know, I showcase each and every last one of them. And you got a few with them. You got a few, bounce that ass shit, you know what I'm saying? But then you got records like Mike Check. Yeah. Those like, when you went off on that, were you more excited to do those kind of records?

I was because the other ones, I mean, I didn't have been there. Everybody know I can, you know, I can make them shake some ass. Everybody know I can turn the party up. But the other ones, I was definitely, I was super excited to really do them and, you know, and really I want to leave my beach list after they hit that, you know what I'm saying? I want to come to New York. And the New York, niggas, like, you get what I'm saying? Like, I want that.

You know what I'm saying? I want, because I'm getting that type of, you know, that, like, the, the n-the-knit is really the real lyricist, the hip-hop. Yeah, I ain't tripping on that, but, you know, they give me my flowers. They give me my flowers, you get what I'm saying? But, like, it's up to me, like, I'm, my way of doing shit more, like, disruptive. Like, I kick doors down. Like, I blitz, you get what I'm saying?

So the same way I did that with the, with the energy and the other type of music, like, I never, you know, I never gave myself, like, a run where I, like, just, just really like just whoop their ass with that lyricism and that's what I'm on you know what I mean like you said you want to when you come to New York you want the New York to be like

but New York f***ing me though so it's everywhere envy he listened to the shit and he was happy about those those more conscious records on him 100% you know so no with the evolution I always feel like when people evolve and try to

do what's right I feel like they get tested more do you feel like with you that happens Uh No, I mean Not just lyricists I'm just me Yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah I got all my test early And passed I graduated early When it come to that type I don't, you know Yeah I just leave me alone

That's fine I was watching Just keep doing it And I'm watching the game Just keep doing it And I'm like the most If somebody call you out And I'm like

And I'm saying I'm screaming to the My phone I'm like please I'm like Don't do it Please Please

Please Please They got nothing that But I was like I wonder if that happens more often Like people test him because he's a nicer No That name and that was like the first time

And that's why it kind of threw me off And you know if you watch the video And I wasn't on no serious type time Like I wasn't really the security guards They worked for the spectrum center It was leaving the Hornets game Or whatever But he like got his hands on much

Like he holding me back So it make it look like I'm you know what I'm saying But I wasn't chirping I just wanted to look the n-in' eyes Who said I'm like me take That's my name I don't like wearing shades too. I just started wearing shades.

I only like the prod of ones. Prada, y'all need to send me something for that. I only like the proud of ones, you know what I'm saying? But I had to just take them off. Like, who the fuck is it? Because you're right here at the end of the day. So I just wanted to look at them and just, you know what I'm saying? But by the time I took the shades off and turned around and told him,

I'm like, bro, watch out. I'm not, I'm not the security guard, you know, and looked up at me. I'm sorry. I'm like, man. Just wanted your attention. Yeah, that's a young shit that trolls, these little nits of these little that's doing. But see, a lot of them, they ain't even, like, he don't even know, like, he posted it.

But, like, he don't know, like, you know, like, when that type of shit would have got you a different reaction for me. Like, he was probably in, like, middle school somewhere or some shit. So he probably don't know. He may know the way he apologized real quick, but it's like, he don't know. Like, okay, he posted it. I didn't already, boom, clicked on his TikTok. You in Charlotte. I know what school.

I know exactly where you at. And if I want to come do something to you, maybe. make somebody do something to you. It's like, bro, it's nothing to it. You get what I'm saying? But, you know, that's like little troll.

You know what I mean? Like, I wouldn't even post the little n-uh, don't even know to take the part of the video out where he got scared and apologized. I'm like, this little green is, he's just happy that I even gave him a moment.

You feel me? And it's like, you know, like, that's a prime example of, like, you know, with growth and shit and just understanding, like, what's going on. Like, I'm way more, you know, calculated when they come

like, how I respond to shit. Like, like, that I want me. You gotta be close enough to me for me to even, you know what I'm saying? Like, I wouldn't get that shit, no. I wouldn't get that shit. Even if he wasn't, if he would have been, you know, the way we can cross past. Like, I wouldn't. I know a threat when I see a threat. Do you feel like the coach that allows black men room for redemption or they just demand apologies? I'm shtly, man, just like everything else back in the day, we got to go get this shit.

You know what I'm saying? Like, you know, the coach are going to allow what you, what you get up out of it at the end of the day, you know? They ain't allowed us to do none of this shit. We had to go do this. Everybody in here, you know what I'm saying? It ain't just, it would never just know, huh, you know? And everybody in here to have been battle tested within whatever lane at the end. You get what I'm saying? Like, that's what's going to come with it.

So, you know, I'm really not only like in a season of gratitude, but like, well, I guess it took me to be in a season of accountability prior to that. That's kind of like more so where I was last time I came to see y'all. You know what I'm saying. I feel like that comes first, you know, just identifying, you know, what mistakes you made and how you could have did it better. and then, you know, you got to make the adjustments move accordingly. And when you get on the other side of it, okay, then, you know, you get to,

you get to be like where I'm at with it right now in this headspace. So, you know, I don't really feel entitled for nobody to take it easy on me. The coach, you're the business, none of that shit, you know. And when you do, you know, just to put up on game, like when you do, you know, fall into like that sense of entitlement or feeling like, I'm a little bit of something, you ain't doing nothing, but distracting yourself from what you're just supposed to do. Coming off of your four-year hiatus, would you say making this album was more therapeutic?

A thousand percent. A thousand percent, especially when I do it the way I did it. Like, I can say making music is therapeutic, period. You know, certain music make you feel good. But once their song go off, okay, it's back to reality. It's going to hit it, you know, they can talk to anybody that's going through whatever. It don't matter what, it's, you know, everybody feeling different at every single moment of the day. It's a song on this, on this damn track list for everybody in this world.

you get what I'm saying? It don't got nothing. They got everything. You know, they got everything and they're happy and they feel good. They got that thing and ain't at peace with themselves. It's something on there for everybody. So I wanted to make sure that it wasn't only therapeutic for me, but therapeutic for the listeners, you know what I'm saying?

Like some shit that really, really, you know, tap into them emotions and something to make you feel some type of way. Like, that's what I'm on. You mentioned therapy? I think there wasn't what about me. Are you actively doing therapy? So I did it. I'm finishing up my documentary.

It should end up coming out this year. That's going to be like must-see TV too. It's going to be like a dog your series. It's going to be multiple parts of it. When the way that I approached it, like I sat down and did and did therapy. I started my, this is, I had did therapy at all last time. I saw you. I had it.

I never in my life. You know what I'm saying? And I filmed it. I filmed it. So I got, I filmed it for a week straight. I did therapy. I did five therapy. sessions, I believe. All of them, like, two to three, I was long, you know what I'm saying?

But I didn't meet the therapist and nothing. Like, I found the good one. I got recommendations. I found the good one or whatever. I had the camera crew go in and set the lighting up. I had my people's talk to him after that. I didn't even know who this was when I walked in the room to come do it because I wanted to be organic. Like, I'm not doing this to, I had already handled all the, you know, like sign off on me being able to use your voice and document or all that type of, because I don't, I wanted that part out the way. You know what I'm saying? the business part, legal part, whatever you call it, because they're really not even allowed to do that.

See what I'm saying? Like, by law, they're not allowed to do that. Unless, you know what I'm saying? Like, giving permission to do it over there. So he was big on that. Like, nah, you got to, hell nah. Like, you got to say that you're okay with this happening because it's, you know,

it's against, like, you know, the rules and shit come with his profession. But when I walked in, I ain't even know who he was, so I'm getting ready to go talk to the camera. Like, I have to tell him, but I was, he told me which one was the therapist and I go over. I greet him. We sat down and got straight to it.

Charlemagne, I know you real big in the mental health space. By the third day, and he can't talk about no music. To like the last day, you know what I'm saying? About the third day, man, it's not,

you know, I'm on that bitch crying for like 20 minutes straight. Yeah, I ain't never, you know, because I'm, even when it come to like, you know. What was the breakthrough? Oh, man. It really, it piled up on me. I ain't going to lie, like, because he, like, he know what he doing.

I recommend it to anybody. you know what I'm saying like I can't even like he he he rocked me to sleep and he figured me out bro I can't lie like I don't because you know me like from interrogations and all this I'd have been questioned by homicide detectives everything like I didn't you know like like and didn't even lawyer up you know what I'm saying in certain situations do I answer one thing wrong like I wouldn't have never been able to sit right here ever you know what I'm saying like so I when it come to like okay somebody being intentional with with talking to me and like trying to get something out of me.

Like I kind of, I feel like I'm better or I'm more equipped to navigate through this type of shit, you know what I'm saying, than most people. You know what I'm saying? Like, I ain't just going to sit there. I kind of know, okay, this is why this is asking me this or whatever. Unless I got, you know, respect for my, like, when I sit down with y'all, I don't sit down like that. Like, I ain't thinking, okay, what this, what's her angle?

What's his angle? What's his angle? What's his angle when you're talking to me? I just talk, you know what I'm saying? Because I got respect for you. I feel like y'all got respect for me in my mind, you know what I'm saying? so it's different. But with certain

like everybody else, though, it's like I'm kind of, you know, I'm gonna control the conversation. Like, you know what I'm saying? More than anything. And nah, he's talking about, he's asking that I've never been asked before. You get what I'm saying?

So I'm when the n*** had me, that third day, when they n***, and then I'm crying and still talking. I'm like, what the fuck going on? I'm like, what type of is this? And he's still, why I'm crying, just this and it's okay. And steady asking me,

I'm like, what the f***? It's in there, you know, like my partner, just working on a documentary with me. Like he had part of my in-house production team or whatever. When I got done and got up, and walked back around like the curtains that we had in there, but we had all the production set up at

and the monitors, all that. And the shit is recording the audio, listening to the audio all that. Them s couldn't even look at me like they, because they're hearing my story. Like they didn't heard, you know, days and day. Like, without him, they're hearing shit. They never even knew about me. And he's been knowing me for 10 years, 15 years by now.

I come around the corner in there. He's like, bro, just go ahead and go home. Brom a rapper, everything. I'm like, you crying to it? Nah, for real. So that's going to be adding that component to it, right?

And like the making, like, because it really didn't turn into a mental health piece, you get what I'm saying? But it also got all that other violence. You know what I'm saying? Controversy.

All this shit they make because the shit must see TV. You get what I'm saying? The messy shit, this and there, they got the money, it got the glitter the gold,

it got the struggle, got the success. But it's, it's all the skeleton of it, the meat and potatoes of it is, is mental health. You know what I'm saying? It's a healing piece to it.

Absolutely. The title of it, it should have told a therapist. I'm glad you had some time just to be still the last four years, though, because I think you always had a lot of, you know, trauma that you never got the process. Yeah. I mean, you know, stuff before you even got in the game. Right. And I think people always forget that that moment when you get, you got the number one record in the country,

you get a call that your pops no longer. Exactly. You got to just keep moving. You got to keep going. And that's what I did. And the song I got out, it's this shit. I'm going on. It's fun shit.

It's packing the mail. It's gone. So I got the whole world turn. Yeah. Okay, cool. The hustle and just the schedule being so busy in the type of year I had 2019, that allowed me to cope with that. I get the care of the name.

You know what I'm saying? For my pops, I name my second album, Kurt. You know what I'm saying? In honor of them or whatever. That goes number one. I'm doing all that. I'm checking all the boxes. VETT award.

I grew up on that shit. That was my Grammy. You get what I'm saying? Best new artist, all this. I'm breaking all these records. doing all this shit, right? Then I go with a rock star in the heat of COVID. Number one, record,

Billboard, Hot 100, number one for like eight weeks straight, but I can't move around and keep myself busy or whatever. But this is okay, another, this is as high as you can go as the artist. You get what I'm saying? I got the top streaming song in the world. My brother commits suicide. You know what I'm saying? So it was never, you know, coming in, it was already,

you know, did I probably needed to heal from or whatever. And then, you know, I lost my pops, my brother, you get what I'm saying, and then, okay, soon as the world open back up from that, you got the whole council coach, it ain't never been a season for me, you know, it took, yeah, it took that whole four years. I ain't even realized it was four years since I dropped the album until I really put it out and seen the date on this one and the date. I say, damn, four years, like, that's crazy.

Yeah, your fans knew. Yeah, no, for sure, they knew. They're like, what you're doing? You know what I'm saying? And shout out for them for not letting me settle with, like, how I approached it. They ain't never let me come play the small game, but I had to find my love for this shit again. you know and figure it out like when I do something I like to do it I like to put my heart into it and I just wouldn't in a space you know my heart wasn't full enough to to empty it out into you know what I'm

I'm saying well got you back though because on paper low you said you didn't even want to make music no yeah yeah and then I say I'll be damn I let them make me soft be damn I let them make me quit them devil still can't stand the way I stand in here and make these hits really I mean more than anything my kids you know what I'm saying because you know while I'm while I'm looking at myself knowing knowing I can be so much better, they still looking at me like I'm the best thing in the world. You know what I'm saying? So I credit it all to my kids, man, my family, my youngest, my nephew, all them to them. I'm a walking superhero, you know what I'm saying, in real life form.

You know, and I look at them the same way. Like, they're amazing, you know what I'm saying? Every last one of them, like, they're amazing in their own way. And I ain't just saying it because they're my kids. Like, people who, they're not their kids. Like, other people, like, see, like, the way my kids is set up. And they, like, damn, like, they mind blowing. You know what I'm saying?

They love you to that. No, for sure. I love them too. Like, that's my whole world right there. My kids is, they don't play by me. And they don't mind let shit know, God damn. Not play by me. Now, clear this shit.

Clear this shit. Is that that text to Kanye? Yeah, for sure. You see, I named it. I named the song, clear this. You like, what we name it when I did it. My engineer, I said, clear the shit. That's what we name it.

You get what I'm saying. And I kind of put, you know, I kind of challenged them to clear. I asked them to clear it in the song. You know what I'm saying? but ain't going to have no choice when Kanye cleared it like I manifested it

I spoke to shit to existence you know what I'm saying and he cleared that shit I didn't he cleared that shit I wasn't even when I do samples I try not to even like fall in love

I don't like to get married to the idea of even having it on the project because I know how they go and I hate falling in love with a song and this shit around can't get cleared

because I know that's one of them I know that's a classic like you know what I'm saying I know that's Kanye like era for real for real like you know what I was listening to that shit I don't know I probably

what in high school or something you know I'm saying none of the back I said when this shit dropped probably in like ninth grade when that shit dropped so now shots out to him he cleared that shit

you had a good relationship though yeah yeah yeah I f*** with brother one of the most you know artistically like like that man a whole another animal brand man a genius you know what I'm saying

some of the wild this you ever seen while being with Kanye in the studio you know I see some wild shit somebody was texting why they music was playing man Damn Oh he was

That you ass-ass Now I got caught him, man What's going with you? That flashed the fuck out He did, bro He flashed the fuck out He told everybody Everybody get the fuck out

Everybody, everybody Get out y'all texting while my mama album Playing and flashed on everybody It was about 50 more than Include with me Everybody got their ass up And got out to except for me

I sit right there just like this whole time While he got them Cussing at everybody I'm just looking at everybody I'm just looking dead at him. Like, he looked over at me. He looked the way he kept cussing everybody else up. They walked in the other room.

Shut out to the car. Yeah. Did he make everybody wear robes? He acted like he don't know. Like, he didn't even... I don't know what the hell he made his do. I ain't, I ain't with no robe. No, not you.

Of course not. Why, in the studio, why he was listening... Oh, nah, I ain't nobody had no robe on in the studio. Not when I was there. Not when I was there. Not a robe. I don't know. I just heard a rope.

Yeah, nah. Nah, not why I was there. He ain't made sweat robes, man. But that man, you know, he's on a whole other level when they come to, you know, creativity and just, it's admirable, you know what I'm saying? Like, he got so many different things in one room and, you know, he feed off of them.

But, like, just like everything else, that shit comes with a lot. So, you know, hopefully he, you know, get back to where he need to be. You know what I'm saying? So who's this album for, right? Is it for the fans, the critics? Are you...

The critics. It ain't for them. It's for everybody. I ain't gonna lie. Like, it's, you know, it's for. for everybody, but for me and the fans more than anything. Like, you know what I'm saying? For the fans more than anything.

I gave the album to myself prior to releasing the shit, you know what I'm saying? So it's for the audience. Like, I'm real big right now all the way around the board. Like, not even just with the music, like, even with what I do, like press wise, everything. Like, I've been like, nah, ain't doing that. Ain't doing that. Like, I'm doing, I only want to do shit is really connecting, like, to the audience. Like, I'm back on that.

Like, the importance of really connecting to the audience. audience because at the end of the day like that's what that's what got them get the you know what I'm saying get the ball moving like that's what it's about at the end of the day anything can go any type of way long as you connected with your audience so I'm real big on making sure I don't I don't get in the space to where you know I leave room between me and the mrs it really matter the moh my music really impact who it's for who lives are change you know what I'm saying so it's it's a thousand percent you know what I'm saying for the audience and it feel great to myself by the way so I take that too and the critics

yeah y'all got it too you know what i'm saying it is it's not gonna stop though i'm on what i was on when i came in i'm really ready to the bomb again but yeah this this one of the you care about uh you care about having hits or having peace of mind peace of mind now and then the hits gonna come if i got peace of mind the hits coming yeah you know what i'm saying like just like a record like pop that thing like that's like the last one i recorded on the album i really already had the album done but it needed one of them like it needed that you know what i'm saying like i was looking for one of them but i wasn't trying to force it you know and like even on that record like I ain't like I could have approached it several different

ways you know what I'm saying and I found myself just on some shit like just letting this flow I'm she got the world in the hands I'm just vibing you know what I'm saying I ain't even adly I ain't doing nothing nothing too crazy nothing too major and that's how that's how the hits come you get what I'm saying just organic when you just you know when you allow it to happen the shit you know what I'm saying when I was listening to the project I'm listening and I'm listening and I'm hearing you go through these songs and I'm like now tell me if I'm wrong you're speaking to somebody, whoever this girl is, she's been holding you down through a lot of, like, you trying to figure your life out.

No, I'm speaking to you. I'm speaking to whoever the, listening to that. That's why you're not speaking. No, like I'm, you know, like I got, like you got, and remember this, you know, I ain't made a project in four years. And then even this I've been putting out, it's more, you know, I'm making a song for a certain. Okay, let me make this hit.

This going, you know, this, okay, people into this type of shit right now, whatever. Okay, boom, let me do that. Let me go get the money. Let me do this. This is, this is like half a decade. of energy and experiences and, you know what I'm saying? Storytelling and all these shit.

So, you know, it's really more than anything. Like, it's teaching you how to love me. It's teaching you how to deal with a shit like me. Like, that's what it is. You know, I seen somebody comment on that shit when I posted that particular song this morning. I posted a clip where I'm just rapping it live. And my fuck was like, like, their perspective,

like, it was a great take on what the song was. It wasn't even something I would have came up with on my own because I'm just making the music at the end of the day. But, yeah, they like, this is kind of like a, you know, a guy. book on you like teaching somebody like how to love you and type of man you is and you know and how to you know what's important to you and and how you would like to keep their mind at peace so it's overall you know it's as much it's for whoever they connect with you know i ain't i

write no love letter than nobody in particular yeah well there we have we appreciate you for joining us brother i appreciate y'all having me bro yeah time it's always a pleasure to be in the room with y'all you know i mean whether it's here or there or everywhere it's the breakfast club It's the baby. That's right. Well, let's get right to the latest with Lauren. Lauren becoming a straight fat. Tell her, lady. She gets them from somebody that knows somebody. She gets the details.

I'm the home girl that knows a little bit about everything. She'd be having the latest on this. The latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have a little bit of everything. Well, it's the latest. Brought to you by Talk Dog Law. On the Breakfast Club.

Talk to me. Yeah, all right. Chuck and Chucko. Are you going to sue whoever gave you that haircut? I don't think you should. I love it. Top Dogglaw is the best in the business, so we'll figure that out later. I love your haircuts. But first, let's get to the...

I do, too. Let's get to the latest. They're lying. Yesterday, y'all, the family beefing up here about the haircuts, but Gloria and her sister, y'all, they took over the internet for the last 48 hours. I hate it. So, Gloria's sister, Scarface Woods, is calling Gloria out, and she's saying that Glorilla does not provide for her family the right way.

She actually sat down with TMZ yesterday to talk more about this. Let's take a listen to Glorla Sister with TMZ. Why does she owe it to you to support you and to support the family beyond what she wants to do? It's her money, right? Because don't go on no interviews, talk about our struggle. You want to do that? That's not right.

You don't know what I'm saying? Talk about struggles and struggling with it. It's not one sibling. You got nine other siblings. She got from money, she got plenty other than Mephy's. Yeah, other than Memphis. she's getting money to. I got two siblings staying down there in Atlanta with her

that she street them like housemaids. Y'all keep on making, painting this picture like she's just a good person, an upright person. She's not. Let's say she has $2 million. How much of that does she owe to you and the rest of the family of that $2,500 a piece? How much?

$2,500. What? What kind of math is this? What kind of math is this? Oh, my God. So this was like in the middle of the back of four. Her sister is, I mean, she is a character for sure. Glorla had actually posted in response to some of the earlier videos that her sister had posted.

And she posted a screenshot from her mom. And the text message says, thank you so very much. Really didn't want to ask because you already do so much for us. I thank you so very much for all that you do. I don't take it for granted at all. I love and appreciate you. Her mom basically telling her,

thank you for doing so much for me because the sister's claiming that, you know, the car, the house, all the things that we've seen didn't actually happen. Now, their back and forth has, you know, definitely sparked some viral moments. I grabbed some more audio of Gloria's sister. Let's take a listen to one of the funny moments of Scarface. You know how embarrassing it is to be at the club, motherfuck. That's closer, they're closer, and I walk outside to a Malibu Bich. Y'all don't know how embarrassing that is.

I sit here and flies. Like, yeah, this is my other car. You know what I'm saying? The other one in the garage and cordova. Yeah. She ain't obligated. She ain't obligated. A roach.

Here's the thing. When you have someone in your family or someone that's close to you in a position, find a way to bring value to the situation. You know what I'm saying? Instead of, you know, big enough of stuff, tell her what it is you would like to do in her world. You know what I mean? I don't know, be an assistant. Do hell.

Like, be a driver. I don't figure something out. And I feel like it's a lot of them. So I think if there. If there was something that Glow felt like could be done or maybe she's even tried, we don't know all of the ends of this either. Like, you know, I don't think, from what I've seen,

and how I've seen Glow talk about her family, from what I've actually seen, I've seen her with her family, like different places when she posts different places. I thought that things were good and she was doing what she needed to do. She could make that decision herself, though, like, hey, go do this, go do that.

And she hasn't. So there's an obvious reason why. Or create a business, but let me ask you two guys here because you both have siblings. Do you have that same problem in your family where siblings feel like it's old to them? Like, it should happen for them?

No. I don't. No. I love my little brother to death, but I tell them all the time, don't nobody owe you nothing, including me. Now, other family members, yes. And I've even created jobs, like you said, a driver, my god sister, she was my driver before, you know, because she wasn't just begging me for money.

She was like, yo, can you put me in position to make something? Like, is there anything I can do for you? Can I help? Can I be your assistant? You know, so I provided that. I mean, I created a job of a driver like years ago for her to do that. You know, but yeah, I've had family members. and even friends who feel like they're...

I'm obligated to give them... They're not your real friends, if that's the case. I've never have friends to that. But I think the question is, like, how much is too much? Like, when is it? Because you want to help your family, but at a certain point, it's okay to say no. And, like, this shouldn't happen.

My family, I don't have no family members that would ever do anything like this. Oh, and by the way, when I see stuff like that, you are showing me exactly why Glow don't have you around. That's what I'm saying. I would have made that decision a long time ago. I think she, I mean, this is a lot. So, yeah, there's a lot going on with that still.

And if that male, B'allibu run good. Baby, driving to the wheels fall off. You're at me. Yeah. She's more $2,500. So you burning bridges, getting online,

throwing your sister under the bus for $2500. And also, too, she was confusing me because, you know, I've been around a Gala a couple of times. When I interviewed her, my out-of-context series, she had her brother with her. And her brother was like,

y'all, I read your books when I was in prison. I know people that have been in the studio with her that said that she's brought her siblings with her before, too. So it might not be all her siblings. It might be just. It's like 10 of them. You know what?

want to get on social media and black put you on blast. We know who our people are. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, you know. I know. My family would never. Well, as we wrap up, you know, speaking of things on the internet, 50 Cent dropped a new DoorDash commercial yesterday. That is very

entertaining. Let's take a listen. It's come to my attention that everyone's calling me a troll. Some have said even king of trolls. First of all, I'm flatter. But I'm dumb with all that. I would never do a deal with DoorDash. And quite literally deliver beef. One million.

of people are watching. I mean, who would do something like that? Delivering quality beef? That's more of a art than science. Don't want to be too obvious. It's all about timing. And I'm always on time. Oh, they sell combs.

What a coincidence? No matter what kind of beef you have going on this weekend, remember DoorDash delivers. And you know what goes great with beef? A bottle of this beautiful brass and coniag. Age four years or 50 months. Who's keeping count? Oh, man.

You got it? I love it. The calls, the four years, 50 months. The writing. The cooking puffs. The writing. Yeah, I don't do beef because, you know, my cholesterol, so I take statin. Colossil.

Okay. I don't know where you said cholesterol. Shut up. I like chicken. All right. Bless your heart. All right. Yeah.

And I didn't even get to get the Guthrie update in here for you. There was a press conference yesterday. You know, keep putting the internet lady name. I know. Guthrie. It's just hard to sit here. Guthrie. But yesterday in the press conference.

Yesterday in the press conference. they told us some details that I did cover in the latest with Lauren the Rose of the podcast as we rap. Thanks to Top Dog Law. I might need y'all Top Dog Law because I have someone in here that I know.

There's somewhere I'm a slipping ball today. She looked like the whole farm. We are getting out of the segment right now. Okay, the University of South Carolina mascot. Okay. Any accident, bigger, small, called Top Dog Law. I think I'm going to call them today because for sure. No, no, you?

Thank you. You? You? You? What? Me. What? In her.

Okay. That's what this is this morning. He got a chill. Oh, my God. This is over. Why are we said? You know what? Today, I think we should poke.

Because people don't know what we're talking about. And I don't think it's for it. My hair. It's on Netflix if you're listening. So you can see my hair. But she's still so pretty. I like it. Thank you, Jess.

I like it. You ain't say that. I can't believe. I can't believe. I can't believe. I can't. No, not my hair. You didn't be like, but you still look so gorgeous.

I can't believe anything you said. I would never say that. I can't believe everything. Like, you know, forget it. Donkey today, what we doing? Four after the hour, man. It's the people's donkey because it's Friday. So you can call up right now

and give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid. 1-800-585-105-1. It's the world's most dangerous morning to show the breakfast. Before we go, we're going to get on another J-Cold joint. What's the Day-Cold joint where he speaks like he's Biggie and Pop. What-If? We have What-if?

No, we don't have what-if. We have some clips. Well, I thought we had the whole What-if. We'll get on on J-Code Records. morning long. It's the breakfast club. Good morning. It's your time to nominate a donkey of your own. Remember not? That's how they choose. Call in now. 800-585-1051. Donkey today for Friday, February 6, man. You know what we do on Fridays. It is the people's donkey.

So you can call in right now and give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid. 1-800-5-105-1. Who's this? He's down 30. You said Dow? like the computer. Oh, Del. What's happening, Del? Who you want to get the biggest E-Haw 2?

Oh, Leon, and figure an extra one. Dang. Okay, why? Because y'all had a gas up saying that you're hired a new director for the music, and it's the same music over and over. I'm tired of hearing that fold your clothes. I get it.

Leon Thomas, Tommy here, and then it's like, y'all should do, like, every day do some different kind of music. Well, we try here at the beach. Breakfast Club. You are correct. Sim is the new music director. I don't think that she has her hands on the music yet, but what do you want to hear? Let me give you a request. What you want to hear, brother?

I called that two days ago to hear some Boyo music. You turned it spicy. Oh, that's you. You said some boyish music. Biyon. That's what he just said. Bion, because he's Dominican. If he knows what he is, he told me Dehan him, he hasn't some songs. He ain't checked them to be in.

You did. I get much of doggy and say to believe in that. So you DM envy some bouillon? Hey, yo. What you mean? I just ask the question. See, that's why I don't like to call up here and talk to you. But he did.

Hey, yeah. I'm five twice and get all out. All right, I'm going to ask him me about the bouillon, man, and see what he can do for you. Yeah, man. Oh, can boyon. Yeah, I want him to give you some bouillon, man. Good morning.

Who's this? Hi, this is Jamie. I'm calling here from Philly. Hey, Jamie from Philly. Who you want to get the biggest he haul to? So I'm giving the biggest he haul to. to Netflix for removing the Michelle Obama's documentary becoming from the adults list to the kids list

and they also removed the ranking after the masses started streaming this movie, this documentary the same weekend that our current First Lady's documentary came out. Now, hold on now, and I'm not defending Netflix, you know, even though we're on Netflix, what I saw was Michelle Obama's becoming surges on Netflix. And yesterday when I turned Netflix on, the check and make sure breakfast club content was out there. They had the Michelle Obama becoming thing going across my screen.

Yeah, but we, so we began streaming her documentary last weekend, and it went ranked from number eight, and then it went up to number six. And then the next day, it was removed, and it was placed in the kids section as top rank number four. Then once you try to type in the name of the movie title in the search bar, it wasn't coming up at all. So we began calling Netflix and by the masses to

report this change, and we're waiting for them to put it back in the top 10 ranking. The only thing Netflix did was just put it in the most watch category. It's no longer ranked to the top 10 where we had it in the top 6th. So

there's a hashtag right now on all of the socials for hashtag cancel Netflix. They have until 7 p.m. tonight. to put her back into the top 10 ranking before the masses begin to cancel. Yeah, I think, once again, I think that y'all might be overreacting because I saw that the documentary rose 13,000 percent of views. And like I said, when I turned on my Netflix yesterday,

they had a big, you know how they'd be having the movies floating across the screen and the TV shows floating across, floating across screen? They had Michelle Obama floating across my screen yesterday. Right, but was she ranked? Did she have a ranking? Oh, I didn't even look. You have a number. Yeah, I didn't look for the ranking.

She doesn't. She doesn't, yeah. They just have her up there as the most watched, but she no longer has a ranking. She's not the top 10 ranked. Well, listen, keep doing whatever it is y'all doing. But Michelle Obama movie has definitely surged on Netflix. They're killing in the readings. Good morning.

Who's this? Hey, this Chris. This Chris reports. I want to get a talk of the thing to myself because I got shots of work because I ain't put gas in my tie. I mean, I didn't put gas in my car I had to put I had to put I'm sorry, I had to put

A in my car and I was late to work and I got fired when I was supposed to do it last night Oh see I was already ready I was like you know what you do deserve donkey today for putting gas in your tire I don't know why you would do that That don't make no sense

But you mean But you know what though Something like a flat tire you can't do anything about that I was going to say that was a rookie mistake But it's really not because those are like those things that happened in the morning that you can't even account for, you know? Yeah, and I was going to do it last night, but I forgot to didn't. I didn't.

Oh, wait a minute. So you know you needed air and you're tired, but you decided not to do it last night? Yes. Oh, rookie mistake, bro. Yes, you deserve the biggest thing. Yeah, I get the big donkey. That's right. That's right.

You're rummy my donkey. He-ha, he-ha. You stupid, motherfucker. Are you dumb? Yeah, that was a big, that's a rookie mistake. You know if you need gas or something done the night. before you got to do it if you work early in the morning, man? Yeah, I know. I know.

That was a dumb mistake. So give me the rimmy mom one. I want the record. I want the rim of my one. I got you. That's right. Have a great day, sir. All right.

Good morning. Who's this? Good morning, brother Charlotte. Man, this is your boy. Mr. Show Money out of Roselle, New Jersey. What up, Mr. Show Money? Who do you want to get the biggest he-hawk to?

I'm calling on these bitch-ass callers that we complain about regular getting through. You don't want to get up in the morning and put the work in to get on the line and get past Envy and get on the breakfast club to say your feast, that's on you. When we're trying to spread out of all these people calling. Let's let's show you, bitch-ass up. Dang. Get up. Put the work in.

Get on the phone. Dial and start dialing and do what you got to do. sometimes I got to call 70 times before I get through but guess what as my family I want to get due I want to holler

so I get put that working we appreciate you Mr. Show money that's right pitching because you can't get through we appreciate you running where my man did you envy at I'm here sir sugar cookie right here

you ain't called my man yet by the way put that out there bro I'm working on all of the merge done Bro, I'm going through Alibaba first. History of my mom doing the Guatemala thing. You're doing your, you know, you got all this going on. You ain't caught my man. Yeah, put that out.

But you know, I got love for you. I got love for you, brother. I love them yellow boys. You got a damn. Pete Smith to show money. That sounds crazy. I like that made me uncomfortable. You know what I'm saying?

If you're going to flirt, like, be a little bit more, you know, gentle with it. You know what I mean? I love him, yellow boys. That's crazy. Yeah, that sounds like. All right, man. That is the donkey of the donkey of the day.

We do it. The People's Donkey every Friday. You can call 1-800-585-105-1 and give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid. All right. Now, when we come back, we have Pastor Michael Todd and Pastor Natalie Todd joining us. We'll talk to them next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. Just hilarious. Shalameen de Guy. We are the Breakfast Club.

Longer Rose is here as well. We got some special guests in the building. Yes, indeed. New movie out. Relationship goals. We have Pastor Michael and Pastor Natalie Todd in the building. Good morning. What's going on, family. Y'all good today? Now y'all feeling. Congratulations.

Hey, thank you, man. This is an awesome moment, a crazy moment. A moment that I didn't know was going to happen, but God did. And so to be here, last night we went to Times Square and saw a billboard of relationship goals. Wild. Like, wild in the middle of the street. And, matter of fact, the book came out during the pandemic.

The first time we did an interview. you was in 2020 when couldn't tour couldn't do nothing the book came out and went number one new york times bestseller for 13 weeks congratulations six years later now it's a movie starring kelly rolling we got one third of destiny's children one ninth of wutang clan and uh partner with my brother devon franklin so we're just excited to be in this moment right now congratulations couple yeah so beautiful thank you you know it's like you said it started as a book What made this story feel necessary to tell in film form right now? Well, the truth of the matter is started as a sermon series.

I was just trying to help people around me. Man, people are dealing with a lot of toxic relationships, a lot of hurt and pain around relationships. A lot of people escaping in relationships that they don't even want to be with those people, but it's a good time for just a moment to get their mind off of what's really going on. And so I was like, man, how can we help? So I just did it as something to help. Yeah. What you said?

I think the sermon series started. started because of our relationship. And honestly, our good friends was like, you need to do a series about relationships. Because we've been together since we're 15 years old. We went through a lot. I mean, if you can imagine being with somebody through their evolution from a 14-year-old boy all the way to a grown man, there's a lot of evolution that happens in there that you have to let go and allow them to grow. Myself included, but he did do more wrong than I did.

All right. I don't know. What did he do, Natalie? What are wrong? He lost his mind. He lost his mind when he was 14, 15. No, no, no. It was like 18, 19.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. 21. No, I just basically, we took a break because I was, it was super. I mean, when you're 15 years old, you can't do nothing but be in love, but then ask your mom in them for a ride. So, you know what I'm saying? So we're going through the motion starts getting more serious as I'm graduating high school,

about to go to college. And she's like, yo, what are we doing? And most women mature way faster than men. You know, so we was kind of talking about marriage. And I was like, I don't have a credit score. So I was like, hold on, let's take a pause. And I just wanted to take a break for a second just to figure out who I was, what I wanted to do, all that of stuff.

Well, when I took a break, I seen cheeks and rest and people. And I got distracted. Listen, you ain't got to explain to the quiet. You already know. And so what ended up happening was I didn't want to be with any of those people. I wanted to be with her, but I didn't have discipline in my life. I didn't have structure. I didn't have character.

I didn't have integrity. We didn't have mentors. We didn't have any of that. And so it was like, so both of us got with other people. We hurt each other. We did a whole bunch of stuff and then we realized like, yo. You had to try to win me back. What does that happen when you break up with someone?

And then all of a sudden the other guy comes in and he's like kind of feeling like those little voids. It caught me in a weak moment, you know? And he was the complete opposite of what Mike was. Complete opposite. Actually, Mike actually did. It was whack. Oh, Mike. Let me just say, that wasn't godly.

That wasn't good at me. No, that is godly. It was wild. What? Not at the time. In the moment, though, it felt like this is what I was waiting for. I just wish he could have done it. And then someone else is there seeming like a prize.

You know what I'm saying? And it feels like, okay, that might be the answer. And they kind of swoop in. And I feel like, honestly, if you have a guy that doesn't have the best intentions, they pick up on that, like, hero. kind of thing in the moment and you know kind of play down the other dude and I would never blah blah blah blah blah

all that relationship wasn't a response to just the trauma of you know not being with Mike no more. Absolutely that's what I mean like if you've been a woman and you like had a man cheat on you or leave you or whatever like there is definite hurt there is definite you know you're you know

comparing yourself and judging yourself on the other girl if you find out who that is and all those like natural things just being human you feel so if you get someone else to come in and feeling like they're feeling that void, which is actually not a place for a man to feel at all. It's me. But at the time, you know, I'm young. So, and there's no, I had, we had nobody that was like another adult who had went further in relationships and had a healthy relationship to speak into that with. Yeah, there was no place for me to bounce off the thought. So we had to figure all this out on our own. And it was

honestly 10 years of him putting drops back of trust into the bucket because you lose it in buckets. That trust is gone. But it's built back in drops. And that is a hard concept to get when you're 20-something years old or whatever, especially as a man. It's like, you know, you get that thing. A lot of people quit. And a lot of people quit.

Yeah, you don't need my codes. If you trust me, like, you don't need my codes. You don't need my, like, you're insecure, blah, blah, blah. And that's dumb. Because I messed up. And I had to be the person to do the work on the inside of me. And so I had a revelation. And God really challenged me to become the man that I want.

wanted my daughters to marry. Yeah. And that was my wake-up call. Like, it's like, what type of man would you want your daughters to marry? And I tried to become that. We didn't have kids at the time, but I knew one day we would. And so I started doing all the things. And his genuine relationship with God.

Yeah. And I actually shut myself in the room. And I was like, Lord, I'm not coming out this room until you give me an answer. And this is, swear to Jesus. This was, I have never experienced this. then to this degree he literally like felt it in my like soul like

he's going to change he's going to honor you he's going to treat you like a rare jewel and the crazy thing is once we got back together years later he literally said those words to be and I was like God you are this is just wild so relationship goals is y'all's story

so the movie is not our story but it's got a lot of um the book it's a red It's a lot of, yeah, it's a lot of things that happen to us in relationship because everybody deals with this. Right. In some way or another. No matter who you are, what language you speak.

It doesn't matter. Everybody is meant for love, is meant for connection, is meant to be together with somebody. And you're trying to find that person, but a lot of people won't do the work that it takes because it doesn't just click in like Legos. And that's what I had to see before I came back. Before I entertained anything, I had to see that the work was actually happening. and I had to know I think the biggest guide was knowing that that work that he was doing or the changing how he was evolving

wasn't solely because of me because I'm human. I'm going to mess up I'm not going to hit every mark that a man would want me to have and so when I knew that his measuring gauge was higher than me that gave me a lot of security to know that like at the end of the day

I know I can pray to God and that's going to switch that whole man up because his heart is actually devoted to him you know you know you know I saw your I saw your reply to druski skit about mega church past and you said it was hilarious but it was a distraction from what you should really be focused on yeah can you respond on the the craziest thing is people don't realize that our word for the year which usually we always have one at the beginning of the year was forward and that was before the thing even happened forward and so if you can imagine what you would give advice to someone and that you're trying

to encourage them in hard times to move forward. What are words that you would say? So what are we encouraging our congregation about the word that we are saying is the word for the year? That's what he was addressing. And it threw. And so some of the things that was said was like he was talking about our word for the year. And it wasn't no reply. Believe me, in our real life, like I said.

Well, you brought up the photo, though. Well, you brought up, but you brought up the photo. And you mentioned the Rosary So I think So what ended up happening Yeah we're not Acting like we didn't hear it We don't go around anything

I get what you're saying Yeah We're going through it And so my church is a church All over the world I don't We're in Tulsa Oklahoma But we literally have members

Of our church all over the world So if something happens With the extent That that happened I'm going to Let them know That we're Hey I'm we good

You framed it as a a parody of a broader critique of misplaced priorities within completely. And so I think that there was some truth in it holistically. Which every, any person that goes to church and lives in church we've been making jokes like this for years.

They're nothing new or whatever, but there is definite truth. But the link to me was something that I was a little taken back by because we have done things in our ministry intentionally to not be in that. We don't have an offering time at our church. And you know what? We don't pass

buckets. You won't hype our ministry or yourself up or whatever. But for me, y'all, there is so much money. Our church has given, and like I said, the top of the year, word of the year. And then we also give statistics for the year prior to the church. So they know like finances where we gave to, how much, how many salvations, all this. And even in our local news, don't nobody come to say like your ministry has given over $36 million away to other ministries and other organizations. Don't nobody come and cover like you gave how much did we get to the survivors of the We bought every survivor of the living was living Tulsa race massacre we gave them 200,000 which would have been the medium age of their house that got burnt down and we gave it to

Nobody covering that. Yeah, ain't no more than Tulsa the city hasn't done anything so so again again we have me and Natalie been pastor's 11 years. In 11 years, our church was started in the hood of Tulsa, and we didn't have anything. And God bless us to help people. And my burden was that we are going to give back to the community. And if you check the records, we have given away over $36 million in 11 years. And he ain't going to say, I only said it because she said. I know. And you ain't going to say, you know, that we personally hire auditors to come to come audit us. Because Excellence is not just what you see.

It's how you handle business behind this. Because we know a spot's like. You're like, he ain't going to say it, but I will. Hey, I'm saying. Like, we are in the spotlight. We ain't dumb. Like, auditors come. And when I tell you, our friends and the people that we hired, they ain't

playing no games. You know what I'm saying? Like, things was tight and right. We had to even change how we gave. Because if we're giving houses just a way to the widow or, you know, there's a way you got to go about that and a way you can't. or whatever for good things. We had to learn that the hard way.

We had to learn that there was a way to give because at the beginning of our ministry when we started to bless, the Bible says to bless the orphans and the widows. We bought people houses. Like $250,000 house like this woman. And then we found out, hey, there's better ways to do this.

Dealing with big money, there's the way the IRS wants you to do that to give money away. So I say all that today, all that to say is that I wasn't offended by the Drewski thing because you could only be offended when it applies to you.

And so I thought it was, hilarious when I saw it. I was actually off a social media the whole time. I've been on a 21 day prayer and fasting and I actually did it. So I didn't even know what was going on and people's told me like you're like, you're good? I was like, good. Yes, but at the same time, let's put two and two together y'all. People are going to tell him what is going on. So to say like, well, you say you wouldn't have social media. Well, you said, it's like there's other human beings in the world that can tell you what's happening. But I do think there are broader conversations that have to be had, not just in the church, but outside the church of the way that we do things.

And I think that at the end of the day, critique with the right heart makes everybody better. And so in my mind, like, if there's anything that I can be better at, I'm, again, the whole journey is progression, not perfection. I'm going to get better. The next time we come up here, we're going to be better than we was this time. And so that consistency in him is what made me stay. And I tell people his consistency is what I'm. I think him for the most. Hold on now. Don't start up here.

Your consistency to change and to be better for me and our kids and for the people that you lead, that is what makes me proud to stand next to you. No matter what, because our real life, I tell you all the time, is amazing, is blessed, is actual goals. Those are the things that people actually do aspire. At the end of their lives, all these great men and women, one of the number one things they say on their deathbed is, I wish I would have put more time. into my marriage and my children. And I told him, I said,

that's not going to be our story. That's not going to be our story. And that is the number one thing that he prayed before he came, became a pastor with all these older saints around him when he was about to get, he prayed that he would not lose his family.

And I never will. Let's close this out on the prayer. Relationship goals available right now on Prime Video. Pastor Michael, Pastor Natalie, not Todd. Let's lend this on a prayer, please. Okay, so let me say this for our pray. they made relationship goals number six on Amazon Prime in 24 hours.

I heard you overhead it did number one. So I hope it's from your mouth to God's ears. It might be number one by the time it's there. Hey, hey, y'all, if we want to keep getting good, positive, positive, hopeful, black stories told, we got to support.

They don't care none about opinions. They care about numbers. And so even if y'all have a watch party, I just want to say on the breakfast club, everybody stream it on their phone. Like, turn it down. It's numbers. It's all about numbers.

I mean, we gotta be smart, y'all, because this is not a step just for us or Devon Franklin or kept. This is a step for all of us to be able to make impact in big ways. And so I'm grateful for that. And this is what we're gonna do. We're gonna pray that everybody wins in relationships. So God, me and Natalie, we come here with Charlemagne, Lauren, DJ, Envy, Father God, and Jess, and we're asking that you would make all of us better in relationships.

God, I'm asking that every marriage, every single, season, every situation ship, everything, Father, God, that is hurting or hard right now, I thank you that you would speak into it and bring hope, life, and transformation. Today, Father, for the person who feels lonely, I thank you that you would be a comforter. Father, for the person who feels forgotten, I thank you, Father, that you're sending right relationships into their life. And God, for the person who's in a relationship and they don't know if it needs to end or not, would you send them confirmation, God, I thank you that you would use this platform to bring people ultimately closer to you because you should be everybody's number one relationship goal.

Bless this station, bless these people, bless all of their families. And I thank you, Father God, for all you're doing in our lives. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. Amen. We love you. We love y'all. Good morning. It's time for Pastor Oaks.

Go. Oh my God. I'm a DJ. Big Nile, Nile, Nile Simone. Study Brewster. What is study Brewster? It's crazy. Study Bruce is crazy.

I don't know what she's talking about. First of all, don't hate on my 85 South tour jacket. You know I was a big. Salute to my guy, the 85 South show. Yep, yep, yep. So, okay, but let's get into the music. As you know, today is the day that the fall off dropped. So we're going to start with Coles 2-6.

It's cool. Yes. I only heard the first disc. That was the first one. That was the intro. Yeah, that was in the first one. I like it. Is that the first intro or the second song?

That's the second song. How do you like J-Cole album? I know you're a J-Cole stand. There's just to the whole thing. There's no way you can have a review. That album is an hour and 41 minutes. I got to say, I didn't get the chance to listen to the full thing because I was DJing.

But I did like play first verses, go to the next, play first verse and go to the next. So out of just me skimming while I was DJ and I did like that record, safety. Safety's dope. And then I like the burning blue. When he's driving down to burn or something road. Something with Tim.

But this is. Exactly why you don't do reviews when an album comes out at midnight and it's two hours long. Everybody relax. Safety's dope. Yeah. And it's a very lengthy, a lot of storytelling. It was a lot to try to digest at the club. It was like, oh, this ain't the scene for it. But either way, you know, I'm having this album listening party at the Brooklyn Public Library for everybody who wants to listen so we can, you know, do a deeper dive and listen to the project.

But more new music. I usually start with the R&B. But I was just excited, so I got distracted. But Sasha Kebill dropped this fire-ass record. this week. It's called Healing. Fire. I love it. Fire. You know, I love it.

Fire. Okay, good. Yes. And Elamay also dropped her project today. I didn't get a chance to listen to it, so I'm going to highlight a record next week. But Brent Fias announced that he's going to be dropping his project next week on the 13th. And executive produced by Raphael Sadek. That's fire.

Nuts. Shout out to Brent Fires. That's my Maryland brother. Yeah, salute to the DMV, but he dropped one single off of it, and it's called Have to. That's Brett singing? Yeah. Did he put, like, something on his voice? He'd be doing that sometimes.

I didn't go get a girl. I don't know. I don't know. This is executive produced by Raphao Sadiq. Let's trust, you know, the legends in their good hands. It's also like, you got to trust nothing. Your boy, Jay Cole said he wanted to get in the studio with some of these legends so he can help them. You see, I ain't listed album.

Huh? I know. Y'all ain't listed album. It's the last song on the first disc, exactly. Well, I told you I was DJ. I couldn't. It was a lot of storytelling to try to digest in the club. I'm not saying I have a problem with that record.

I'm just saying I didn't know what the hell was going on. Well, he did that. He did that on his last project, larger than life. So what is it like the divine feminine and sacred masculine? Like, what do you know? I don't know if it's like that. I think it's probably more like when Cole does kill Edward, where he just uses a deeper voice effect on it.

I don't know. I don't know. Let's have him on the breakfast club so we can find out. How about that? Brandon's welcome anytime. I also would like to say Chad Hugo is producing on that project as well, so I think that's cool. That's dope.

But my last record is from Trap Dickie and Kee Glock called Down South. Let's go Trap. I like that. Hartsville, South Carolina's own. My guy trapped Dickie. He got one. That's been out for a couple weeks. That's dope.

He got one with Key Glock. Salute to Trap Dickie. Damn. Well, if you guys like those records, make sure you guys follow me at Nylasemone, N-L-L-A-S-Y-M-O-N-E-E on Instagram. Check out CertifyVybiby.com. It's in my bio. I got a playlist with all these songs on there.

Plus, more. We're currently doing, like, feature artists cover in the playlist. So Planet Gizz us doing it. Their album is also fire. We sprinkle it into the, playlist but definitely check it out and then tonight i'll see you guys at the brooklyn public's library is it going to be a silent listener party no you're stupid all right it's the breakfast club good morning the mix is up next it's valentize day what you're doing i know it's is very uh things are very expensive

and you might not have a lot of money so we came up with this idea called the boo baskets now the boo baskets are a bunch of small things in a basket that your spouse will love right so let's just say i was getting one for let's say charlemagne right no i was get him like a fragrance, some cozy lounge wear. No thank you. Skin care. You know, maybe a rose,

something like that that's comfy for him. Some comfy socks, some candles, things like that. You know what I mean? I don't need you to do any of that. And you can do that for your boot as well. And Mayexis makes it easy to pull us together in one stop, whether it's fragrance, beauty, cozy layers, candles, accessories,

even the basket itself. So you can build something meaningful right now without overthinking or waiting. on shipping. You better be giving me something back too. I'm gonna get you the same thing that I got you last year for Valentine's Day. What? Not a goddamn thing. Okay? But humbug. All right. Now is Black History Month what we're getting into today?

Listen, man, salute to my guy, BDOT. You know, every day during Black History Month, BDOT does a podcast called I didn't know maybe you didn't either on the Black Effect Podcast Network. And today he's going to tell you about the man who invented the color TV and he didn't even have one or receive any compensation for it. Let's discuss. The man who invented color TV didn't even own one. Welcome back, No. It All's, to another episode of the most anticipated podcast on the Black Effect Podcast Network, especially in February, entitled, I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either. I'm your host, BDOT. And my cash app is B.DOT TV, if anybody's feeling generous.

To kick off today's episode, we will start as we always do with three. of the most useless facts you'll never need never, not a day in life. Your first useless fact, color televisions. They didn't become widespread until the 1960s, a full decade after the technology existed. Your second useless fact, the core technology that made color TV stable and affordable, was invented decades earlier. And your third useless fact, the black man who helped make it possible couldn't even afford a color television himself.

Speaking of color televisions, we just moved our son to his honors dorm because he finished his first semester with a 3.78 GPA. And you would think with a GPA that he would be smart. At least I did. Until after unloading his car, we realized that he had laid his flat screen television in the bottom of his trunk. And then packed his drawers and shoes and clothes and snacks on top of the television in the trunk. And of course, we had to go over three huge speed bumps to get to the honors dorm. Moral of the story is, Isaiah needs a new television.

But my question to you is, do you know who made color TVs possible? Because I didn't. I didn't know. All right, let's talk about color television. When we think about it, we think about family rooms, Super Bowls,

sitcoms, cartoons, culture. What we don't think about is the man who made it possible. Otis Frank Boykin. Otis Boykin. He was an electrical engineer and an inventor whose work on electrical resistors and signal control devices made television

signals, especially color signals, stable, affordable, and reliable. Now let me break it down to you like a five-year-old. Before Boykin's improvements, televisions was OD expensive. Only the rich people had them. They were unstable. The signals were jumping all over the place. And, of course, they were overheat. I mean legit fire hazards in your living room.

They was inconsistent in signal quality, watching one of your first. favorite shows was like watching through a migraine. Color TV wasn't just about adding color. It needed precise control of electrical currents. You couldn't just paint the signal rainbow and call it a day. Boykin invented a wire precision resistor that improved signal clarity. It reduced interference. It lowered production costs.

And the best part, it didn't catch a damn house on fire. And that last one was very important. But the components he designed wasn't just for televisions. It was for radios, computers. pacemakers yeah the thing to keep your heart beating and military missile guidance systems this man's work is keeping me all alive and protecting the country how we never knew his name now here's the part that makes the episode hurt a little despite holding 26 patents and revolutionizing consumer electronics oh this boy can never own the color tv not because he didn't believe in it not because

he didn't want one but because the wealth that was generated from his inventions he didn't see none of that money. His designs was licensed. His components were mass produced. Companies got rich, rich. He got recognition late and not nearly enough compensation. See, this is the other side of innovation in America. Black inventors build a future, but don't always get to live comfortably in it.

And Carter G. Woodson warned us about this a hundred years ago. If you don't document who built what, somebody else will claim it. If you don't control the narrative, someone else will rewrite it. And if you don't own the means of production, you just produce something for someone else's means. So every time you watch a color screen, whether it's your TV, your phone, your tablet, that laptop you're pretending to work on right now. Just remember a black man helped make that possible, even if he never got to sit back and enjoy it himself. And I didn't know.

Maybe you didn't either. Now, I got to tell you about Macy's. Macy got a lot of new things that's going on. The new coach bag, right, can go exactly with Laurence here, right? I can see it. The coach bag, they got the little slouch, boom. Why it looked like cheap leather? Damn.

Now, YSL got the berry-crush fragrances, if that's what you're into. Now, you can also get a heart-shaped lacrusee. Yeah, that is the cooking stuff, right? My wife loves that. They also have, like, a heart rope-frame necklace, like a little necklace. It's 10-carragal. It's crazy expensive, but there's dope things that you can get at Macy's. All right?

So Macy's is the destination for getting everything you need for Valentine's Day. So get to your local Macy's this Valentine's Day. And of course, Valentine's Day is on the 14th of February. Love is Love. Now, Jess, you said you have a fact that we don't know. Absolutely. Did y'all know that the banana, the real banana fruit, went extinct between 1950 and 1960? Yes, I did because of the Panama disease.

Oh, my God. That's what they were there. Okay. Okay. All right. But I'm just saying, I'm just saying a lot of people don't know this. Just because you know something or you know something does not mean the whole world knows it. Yes.

The Panama disease was a fungus and it wiped out plantations of bananas. Oh, my God. Yes. And the crops were destroyed. That's why you never see monkeys with bananas no more. When the last time you seen a monkey with a banana? It's been a while. It's been a while.

I was white and racist. I can make a great joke right now. But I won't. Wow. Wow. So the ones that you're eating, the bananas that y'all are eating, including this one, is genetically modified. They make these in a lab. I didn't know none of that, Jess.

You just got me to ask you. Thank you so much. I don't know how you know. Because they don't teach this in Delaware. I read. What did you read? Like, what did you randomly read that told you about the original banana? I don't know.

I don't know something you read up. I might have been on a snapple bottle or something. No, no, no. No. Yes. We learned in school. I didn't learn that. I was born in 1978.

So 1960 was not that far. Oh, you saw it happen. Wow. No, I didn't see it happen. Oh, because you was right after. I know you ain't talking. Okay, first of all, did you know that hens? You know, you want to know some fun facts about hens?

Tell me. Tell me. No, no. Tell us. I went to time. Me neither. Just thank you, because I really didn't know that. All right.

So when y'all eating them, just know that they're not real. Now, I don't know how bad they all for you. I'll hear that fact for you next week, but they're not real. Bananas are good for you. Potassium. Yeah, potassium is good for you. Mm-hmm. I'm just saying they made in the lab, y'all.

Yeah, bananas? Yes, scientists make bananas. They're genetically modified. These aren't from the tree. They're all bananas from trees. In Jamaica, but not here. What? You're so damn dumb.

What is you talking about? Yes, I've seen a banana tree in Jamaica, so we know that they're not extinct over there. I'm not messing with. Don't argue. Don't argue. I'm just, I'm real. See how you looking? They don't need to know.

I do know. I'm just like, what are you talking about? Okay. All right. It's Black History, Muff. You guys will be getting facts like the one Just just gave you out at the American Dream Mall this weekend. Absolutely positively free.

Bring the family out. We're going to be hosting a bunch of panels. Artists will be pulling up to speak. I know Fetty Wap is coming. Honey Baby. Who else? Zetty will. It's a bunch of different panels.

We're going to be talking to Fetty about being in the industry with having a disability. We're going to be talking to Honey Baby, how she came. We're going to have a father's panel, an HBCU panel. We're going to be teaching kids how to double-dutch performance. It's going to be a lot going on.

They're going to be a lot. They're going to be a lot. Uh-huh. That's nice. I'm a black dad's panel. Black dad's panel? I love that. So we're going to, like I said, a what panel? A black dad's panel. So you ain't on it. This, y'all really going to keep letting this Dominican do this and not say nothing. And he just gets more egregious every day.

You know what I'm saying? Every day. What are you doing? Let's tell them what you're doing. As a Dominican man, what are you doing? I'm not Dominican. And you know what's Dominican heritage month right now. Every day you add something.

Black. So I'm going to be hosting. Lauren's going to be hosting with me. the first half of it. Why do you say black so hard? Girl, we say it like you're not black. Exactly. We're going to be,

we actually have these young kids that are going to be hosting the first part of it where they're going to be hosting their own panels about streaming and getting into the things that they're doing so we're going to have the young kids doing panels as well. It's going to be fun. So it's free, bring the family out and there's going to be a bunch of vendors out there

that are black-owned businesses that I'd be selling some stuff. What? The station is also posting the event. I just want you to know that this photo of you is a little spicy. see. It looks horrible. I don't know why they picked that photo. It looks stupid. There's so many other photos that look a lot better. I know one thing.

That hat you wearing in that photo. Please bring for Lauren to wear tomorrow in case you don't get the speak you today. But I like it though. I like the hair. Lloyd. She got a go back to him. Oh wow. Somebody just said some racist on the chat. It's a white person. Yeah, probably. He said, well, I'm not going to see what he said. He just said, I just seen them. No, my. All right. But you got a positive note?

I do, man. And it's black history month. So today's positive note. It comes from the great Martin Luther King Jr., man. And Martin Luther King, once said the ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Y'all have a great day.

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