The Breakfast Club - FULL SHOW: Tony Buzbee Denied Ability to Practice Law in Southern District of New York, NAACP Awards: Wayans Brothers Honored, Keke Palmer Wins Entertainer Of The Year + More

Episode Date: February 24, 2025

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or wherever you get your podcasts. Good morning USA! Yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo Jess Hilaris is out today. What up Lone La Rosa? Good morning y'all. Charlamagne the God. Peace to the planet, it's Monday! Good morning. How y'all feel out there? I feel blessed, black and highly favored. Happy to be here. Another day to serve our beautiful listeners What's happening? That's right. It's Monday morning back to the work week. How you feeling? How you feeling Laura? I feel good

You're right. Yeah, I'm great. I had a great weekend. Good weekend. Was that home with the family? Mm-hmm Watching the award shows. I watched the NAACP image Awards. I Didn't know I watched you know what do I turn it. Oh my god. You know what though? I turned it on. It came out on a Saturday. It should do it on a Sunday. Yeah, but I turned it on. When I turned it on, I caught, I literally turned it on when Vice President Kamala Harris

came to the stage to do her speech. And then it was another time I saw it. Gabrielle Union and Taraji P. Henson were introducing an award for BET. And Scott Mills came up there and accepted the award That's all I saw. No, I didn't see it. I had an old man moment this weekend You had an old man moment you old man I had a moment though. I was walking outside. It was a Friday And it was still cold and I slipped on the ice and boy

I was I was skating and dancing for at least 30 seconds and I was trying not to fall, trying not to fall. The next thing I know my feet went over my head, I was on my back and then I didn't just pop right up. It took me a second to get up. Like I had to think about it. I had to reevaluate life in that moment. Was this outside your house? Yes. So you got video? Of course.

Can we see it? No. That happened to me early in the winter too man, walking to the mailbox and I was on the phone too and you know it was so crazy. I was on the phone too And you know, it was so crazy I was on the phone and I fell and landed straight on my back didn't hit my head or anything like that and never got off the phone And the person that was on the I was on the phone. We never knew I fell or anything I just got up and kept it moving and it just lets you know that you know

Your your reaction to things is what makes you Embarrassed or not because if nobody's around and nobody sees it, did it happen? It's just you in the ground, knew you fell, and got. But it hurt so bad, like I fell on my back and my ass, right? And when I say I was hurt, like I was like upset. Was you in pain? So your ego was hurt. My ego was hurt and I was in pain too. I was in pain too. I ain't gonna lie, I was in pain. But then when I felt it, I kind of slid a little because it was ice.

It wasn't just like you felt it, you just got, I kind of like slid a little. It was funny to me, but you know, I had that moment. That black ice will make you racist. That black ice will be like, you know what, keep rolling back all the DEI initiatives, keep dismantling the EEOC. Whatever you got to do to stop blackness, do it because Lord have mercy, that black ice ain't no joke. You hear me? Yeah. It's getting warmer this week, this week so we gonna get rid of all the black ice.

How do we deport black ice? How do we deport black ice? Can we deport black ice? Huh? Is there a way? I don't know but yeah we got a special guest joining us we have defensive attorney Joe Takapena joining us that's ASAP Rocky's attorney he was also Donald J Trump's attorney Michael Jackson's attorney Alex Rodriguez Meek Mills YG Swiss Beats Neos just to name a few Foxy Browns attorney. He worked on Michael Jackson's case too back in the day with Johnny Cocker. That sure did yep so we're gonna be talking to him in a little bit and we got front page news don't go anywhere it's the Breakfast Club good morning. Morning everybody it's DJ NV Jess Hilarious

Shalemane the guy we are the breakfast club. Let's get in some front page news. Long LaRosa filling in for Jess. Good morning Morgan. Good morning DJ envy Charlemagne the God and Lauren LaRosa. Happy Monday. How y'all feeling good. Good Morgan.

Good. Good. All right y'all let's get into it. So topping the headlines, Elon Musk says all federal workers must report what they did last week or be dismissed. In a social media post, Musk said employees will receive an email requesting information about what they worked on in the last seven days. And any failure to respond to that email will be taken as a resignation. Now the move comes after President Trump said he'd like to see Musk be, quote, more aggressive in his efforts to slash the federal workforce. Now in the first month of Trump's presidency, thousands of federal employees have been fired.

The first of what officials say will be a wave of layoffs. Now speaking of layoffs, the Trump administration is set to put all civil servants employed by the USAID, the US Agency for International Development on administrative leave Monday at midnight, that's today, as well as cut 2,000 employees from that agency. A notice reviewed by The Hill shows that this maneuver is being called a reduction in force and was delivered from the office of the administrator. Hundreds of employees contracted to work with USAID were fired following that order. Hey, listen, salute to FBI Director Cash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard for telling their employees,

no, they not responding to Elon Musk's email, okay? Like, Elon Musk is not an elected official, he's not the president, you know, voters didn't vote for him. How is this immigrant from another country, you know, able to tell the government to do with their, able to tell the government what to do with their money and how is he able to tell government

officials, hey, you got to send me an email telling me what it is you do. I'm happy that they pushed back on Elon Musk this weekend. Cash would tell the new FBI director and Tulsi Gabbard, absolutely pushed back on him. I'm happy to hear that. People were still responding to the emails though. I got some friends that worked and I was with them when that email came out and they were gathering, like literally teams were calling each other. I'm some friends that work and I was with them when that email came out and they were gathering like literally teams were calling each other. I'm sure they were nervous and scared. Yeah they literally were so scared.

Homes and expenses and bills they got to make sure space. I'm sure they were nervous. It was like just a like cross your t dot your i type of thing. I'm sure. Absolutely and if you live in a DMV it ain't cheap I'm just telling you so yeah. But in another news President Trump says he will be he will not provide federal funding to states that don't comply with executive orders related to transgender women in sports. Now, speaking to governors at the White House, Trump's had an exchange with he had an exchange of words with Maine Governor Janet Mills on Friday over this executive order. Now, earlier this month, Trump did sign the executive order that banned transgender women from participating in women's sports. Trump and Maine Governor Janet Mills had a bit of an exchange which resulted in Trump telling her that he doesn't see a future in politics for her after her term ends.

Let's hear more from that exchange, Trump and Mills. Are you not going to comply with it? I'll comply with the state and federal law. Well, we are the federal law. Well, you better do it. You better do it because you're not going to get any federal funding at all if you don't. Your population doesn't want men playing in women's sports. So you better comply because otherwise you're not getting any federal funding.

Every state, good, I'll see you in court. I look forward to that. That should be a real easy one. And enjoy your life after governor because I don't think you'll be in elected politics. So if you couldn't hear, if you couldn't hear the main governor, main governor Janet Mills, what she was saying, she was basically saying telling Trump that she will see him in court and that she's going to continue to comply with federal laws and to which Trump said in the audio you heard, yeah I am the federal law. Why are folks still talking about trans athletes? Like that is a losing talking point. America's not with it and they keep making a micro or macro with that conversation. It impacts such

a small, small group of people, but it makes a whole lot of people think folks lack common sense. So why are they even having that conversation? And I can't believe it's states that still want to die on that hill. Like none of these states have a high percentage of trans athletes. So what do you, what's the issue? Maybe it's just protecting the overall arching issue of trans rights or, you know, you know, that's still a, that's still an ongoing thing. That's still a developing issue to, you know, I don't know the probability, but I'm sure it's a higher probability of most people don't want, you know, men playing in women's sports, especially if they have daughters that, you

know, practice and that I'm sure the probability is pretty high. It's just not a high percentage of trans athletes in the country period right so I know I know state to state it have to be even smaller you know I'm not sure maybe they like to you know they're just again getting ahead of the issue but to your point yeah I mean don't don't die on the hill y'all is so much more we could we could talk about but yeah speaking of which we'll talk more on at the seven o'clock hour it seems like my time is up we'll talk about the Ukraine and Russia situation seems like there's gonna be an update with that all right and

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John Hope Bryant Money & Wealth podcast available on the Black Effect I Heart Radio podcast network. Any way you listen to podcasts? Yes sir, but anyway, I was listening to the podcast and Charlamagne, yo ad popped up and I'm here in a new wig for Lauren LaRoe. Why are you always on Lauren's head, man? It's crazy.

Are you from Lauren's? Are you from Lauren's? Are you from the next new ad? I'm not always on Lauren's head. It's bad wigs that are always on Lauren's head and it's an ad for Amazon. And I'm just talking about products. Like I'm talking about products you can get at a discounted price on Amazon and I just, you know.

I don't even know why you would put my wig at a discounted price on Amazon because I don't want to sentence. Don't worry about it. Why you gotta be like that? Why you gotta be like that? You met Lauren all the time, man. It's crazy, Lauren, you gotta start shooting the back, baby.

All right? Thank you. So there's a promo running around with him talking about your wig and that you get it off of Amazon at a discounted price. You know what that sounds like to price. A defamation lawsuit. Defamation. It's crazy.

Listen, I win that case so easily when we go to court and they see your wig. Stop playing with my... You're like, Your Honor, look at this wig. We got mahogany in here now and she is that girl. Stop playing with her. Okay. Hello, who's this? Yo, ho. Hey, what up, man? It's Paul out of Houston, Texas. Stop playing with her. Okay. Hello. Who's this?

Hey Jamal, you called at the perfect time because somebody needs some confidence. Go Jamal. Oh gosh. Bad bad. I call Lauren LaRosa. Check your DMs. I'm in there baby girl. I'm single ready to mingle. I hope you are too. All right. He's single ready to mingle. What's your Instagram so she can see what you look like How old are you using phrases like single ready to mingle Get a baby No get him babe go ahead. No get him babe, now you're babe. Drake ain't lose nothing, Drake ain't lose nothing.

I know Drake lost a lot of sleep for the last year some change okay. No he didn't, no he didn't. I'm not arguing with you. All right well she's looking you up, you found it? She don't see it, you better. No what's the Instagram? F in what?

F in underscore bonds, E-O-N-D-S. F in underscore bonds. F and underscore bonds I can't see anything yes like private page he's a private page oh yeah genius he about to make it I'm private for you right now he about to make it on Friday 6 36 a.m. on Friday what he said he said when you gonna give up this single? Oh, hold on, you ain't gotta poop me out. You ain't gotta poop me out. He basically said when I'm coming home. Oh, when you coming home?

This might be your future husband that you putting this business under. My bad. Well, we'll see, we'll see. We gotta analyze you, make sure you not crazy. You calling the radio station telling me to check the DM? You know the listeners wanna hear what you had to say? You should just see it.

We gotta make sure you got a job and all that. All right, man. All right, man. I like the energy. I like the fact that he sent the message, but then he did a follow-up phone call just to make sure you received said message, and he's willing to put himself out there, over the air for everybody to express his desires

for you, Lord, I respect that. I don't like the single, Ready to Mingle. Like that seemed like he really our age. He does the electric slide for sure like he definitely does Without the class the electric slide is not an age thing you too should know the electric slide I do it I do it But y'all were doing it before they start doing that extra clap clap when they bend over that's a different agent Get it off your chest 800 585 105 one of you need to vent hit us up now it's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

The Breakfast Club This is your time to get it off your chest. Whether you're mad or blessed. You better have the same energy. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club Hello who's this? Hey DJ Nvy, this is L Boogie, yo. What's up L Boogie, yo? Get it off your chest. Hey, I need to wish my niece, Simone McKelvey, she works at the mayor's office in North New Jersey, a happy birthday on yesterday.

Come on, oh I forgot to hit cuz up until her happy birthday. That's your cousin for real? Oh damn, yo. I heard he say McKelvey, oh okay. Hey, they might not be here. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

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I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. on yesterday come on I forgot to hit cuz up until a happy birthday that's your cousin for real oh man yo I already say McKelvey okay they might not be up they went to the little Wayne concert at Charlotte last night oh okay okay yes you might not be up this morning but if she is happy belated birthday on yesterday and my son rest in peace, he'll be 37 on tomorrow. Hold on, it's Lawrence? It's Lawrence? Yes, it's so.

What's up, cuz? I finally got it in. I know, I'm sitting there listening like to like hold on who the hell is this? It's my cousin Lawrence man most corner stop can't lie to all day eight four three eight four three all day You know why you didn't say you was it first when you call? This is a real thing or no notice my Yes, it's beautiful. I'm so sorry. I wanna say good morning to you. You sound like Charlotte Cousin.

Good morning to Lauren, if she's there tell Lauren. This is Lauren, hey. See, she sound like Charlotte Cousin. All right man. No, this is my cousin cousin. This is my first cousin, my daddy's nephew. Okay, his parents are uncle and aunt, aunt Lottie and uncle Harris.

I don't know why he didn't call to say, hey, cuz, what's up, cuz? Hey, it's the Charlamagne's cousin. What's up, Lenora? Hey, I was, but I didn't know who I was gonna get on the line. Normally, I'm on the line at first, so that's why I just say, what up? So, yo, cuz, yo, El Boogie, tell us a Charlamagne story right right now. Good Charlamagne story that we don't know go. Oh I got nothing bad to say about my cousin. He he's repping he's repping eight four three eight Oh three all day every day and we go

We proud of him down here in the SD man. We we I mean this What can I say? I can't really say nothing bad. Oh, I wasn't asking bad. I just say any story, but okay Okay, all right. Well, thank you for calling it a boogie. I'm gonna hit you up later, cut. He not gonna hit you up, bud. All right, man. Thank y'all. You definitely. No, I. You not hitting him up. No, that's not true. I actually talked to them. Oh, okay. That's the side of the family. You talk to them. It's salute to my cousin, my cousin Jamal. It was his birthday yesterday too. Salute to Jamal. I forgot to call him yesterday for his birthday. I totally forgot. Well, happy birthday Happy birthday. Happy birthday. Uh, Simone. I swear I didn't even know that yesterday was her born that I was talking to her Oh last Wednesday, too. She hits it. She frequents a hash story in Newark quite often

She don't even want to use my employee discount family discount Well, get it off your chest 800 585 105 1 if you need the vent you can hit us up now. We got rumors on the way Yes, we do the NAACP image awards went down and Kerry Washington wanted to make sure she didn't fumble that Tyler Perry bag So we won't we won't talk about it. All right, we'll get to that. Next is the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club Morning everybody is DJ envy Jess hilarious Charlamagne the guy We are the Breakfast Club, Lauren LaRosa filling in for Jess, and let's get to Jess with the mess.

The news is real, whether it's Jess or Robin Moore, Jess don't do no lying. She don't spare nobody. Roll wide, Jess, roll wide, mess. On the Breakfast Club, she's a culture shift. With Lauren, Lauren LaRosa. I'm back. And I got the mess. On the breakfast club. So we are going to get to the NAACP image awards. But before we go there, I did want to take a moment. This happened on Friday after we were done our show. News broke that Miss Valetta Wallace, the mother of Biggie Smalls, had passed away. She died of natural causes on Friday morning. So I did want to take some time to just, you

know, send some love to her family, to Biggie's family, and send a rest in peace to her. Now- Definitely rest in peace to Miss Valetta Wallace. Yes. Yes. And when you talk about like, you know, Black legacy and Black family, we then can segue into the NAACP Image Awards because it was so much of that. Saturday night, the And when you talk about like, you know, black legacy and black family, we then can segue into the NAACP Image Awards because it was so much of that. Saturday night, the NAACP Image Awards went down.

It was hosted by Dion Cole. And like, I loved watching it because so many people showed up this year. So if you missed it, please go back and watch it on BET. So many people showed up this year. I wonder why they did it on a Saturday this year. I said the same thing, but then I was talking to Eddie one of our EP and he was saying a lot of times the BET Awards, like the different awards that they do are on Saturdays. I do feel like it should have been on a Sunday how like other award shows normally are, but

the SAG Awards also did come on yesterday as well. Okay. Like Jane Fonda had a moment or whatever. So maybe that's why they couldn't do, I don't know. But it was on a Saturday. Kiki Palmer won entertainer of the year. Outstanding voice over performance, Blue Ivy Carter and Mufasa. Outstanding actor in the motion picture, Martin Lawrence.

Outstanding actor in a drama series, Michael Rainey Jr. for Power Book 2, Ghost. And y'all know 50 was going off about that. I think everybody was excited for him. Yep. 50 said, I'm so happy for him. He's worked hard in this moment. The NAACP is really all we got.

We do bigger numbers than a lot of shows, but we don't get nominated because of diversity. Now, I did want to take a moment. I mentioned Kiki Palmer at the top of this and she won entertainer of the year. She kind of spoke to what 50 is saying as well. Let's take a listen to Kiki Palmer. I didn't think I was going to win because whoa, whoa, whoa. Girl, you killed that role.

You killed every role you do. I mean, your power, your vulnerability, your strength, you are exceptional. Obviously, Shannon, my hunky, hunky, you know, I love you, boogie. And Kendrick and Kevin, I mean, it's such an amazing category to be in with all these people. I just want to say it's so important that we all come here

together and celebrate one another with one another. You don't always have to ask to see that nobody table. Just make your own table with your folks. You know what I'm saying? And so while we continue to ask for more money, it's important that we remember that what we choose and what we deem as important is enough. Is it a committee for the NAACP Image Awards? Like do people vote? Like how do you win those

awards? How do they determine who wins those categories? That's normally how all award ceremonies are, but I don't know that to be fact. I can look it up for you, but I'm pretty sure that there is a committee of people who did Chloe do did Chloe do anything? I know she came here with them. Yep Chloe actually She presented Michael Rainey with his award came out with journey who is Jessie Smollett sister journey Smollett She looked amazing by the way, like she had on this silver dress. It was it was amazing It was fire. So basically they wasted my cousin's time. they had her going all around with them you know I'm saying to do promo for the NAACP awards and just had her present an award well I mean they must already had their host lady so no I don't remember seeing a Chloe Bailey

perform do the pre-carpet nothing everybody did the pre-car you mean I didn't see her hosting a carpet no okay. But again, there was a lot of, one thing I did see, which I thought was so brilliant, Kyla Pratt was on the carpet for BET, and her and Kiki Palmer had a moment, and it was so dope to see, like, just, you know, we watched them on TV our whole lives. I thought that that was really smart of BET as well, but I did not see Khloe hosting a carpet. Now, another person who was nominated, not nominated, but who was shown some love at the NAACP Image Awards was Dave Chappelle. He accepted the

President's Award. And he also talked about, you know, just how special these awards are. Let's take a listen. Each and every artist in here, every opportunity we get, every time we're on camera, on stage, we just keep chipping away at this monster of a machine. But tonight, man, tonight I feel invigorated because all my Netflix checks cleared. I don't know anybody any work. Right now, every time you see me, just know I'm only up there because I want to be right up there.

That's important to say. That's amazing. That's because he don't have to be nowhere that he doesn't want to be. So if he's there, it's because he wants to be there. 100%. Now the Wayans family, so Marlon, Damon, there was a ton of the Wayans family out at the NAACP Image Awards. They were inducted into the Hall of Fame and they spoke as well too.

And a lot of what they were talking about was like really just a big nod to their brother Keenan Wayans. Let's take a listen to the Wayans brothers. On May 5th, 1965, my brother Keenan Ivory and I watched young Richard Pryor make his television debut on the Ed Sullivan show. Richard was animated and hilarious with very clean comedy routine. While I was seeing a funny comedian, Keenan was seeing his future. Keenan told mom he's leaving college to go be a comedian. My mother said, a comedian? Boy, I've known you your whole life, you ain't never said nothing funny.

Needless to say, my family was over the moon. When Keenan first got his stand up appearance on Johnny Carson, we all watched on a black and white TV from that day on me as a child. I sat there and I was like, wow, you mean not only can you dream but you can make your dreams come true Man drop on the clues bombs for the Wayans family the Wayans family is a dynasty one of the greatest family dynasties We've ever seen in entertainment. Yes, I didn't see I you know, I did catch that part too I didn't see Keenan up there. I didn't see Keenan or Sean up there. No, I don't know I don't believe I saw Sean but I know Keenan wasn't there

Sean up there. No, I don't know. I don't believe I saw Sean, but I know Kenan wasn't there because they were when they were presenting the award, everything was like to him and they were talking about how they wouldn't literally wouldn't be there if it wasn't for him, but he wasn't there. But yeah, and that sister was there as well too. They also had Damon Wayans Jr. was there. They just I don't know they're just it's like generations of iconic legacy legacy, natural talent.

I love it. Yes. Now, another moment that happened last night, Kerry Washington was accepting an award for the 6888. And she gave a thank you speech and she thought she forgot a little something. Let's take a listen to her thank you speech as she accepted her award. I want to thank the fans. I want to thank my guests.

I want to thank my family, my husband, my children, my parents. I want to thank Netflix. I want to thank Tyler Perry and Nicole Ebert. I want to thank the fans. I want to thank my family, my husband, my children, my parents. I want to thank the fans. I want to thank my, yes. I want to thank my family, my husband, my children, my parents. I want to thank Netflix. I want to thank Tyler Perry and Nicole Yvonne. I want to thank our beautiful

award-winning best cast ensemble. And I want to most importantly thank the women of the 6888. The 855 women of the 6888 who proved to us how extraordinary black women are, how extraordinary we have always been. Now in this award, I want to say it was a big night for the 6888. They took home a few awards.

And right then and there, we were listening to her win Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture, but they also took home Out ensemble cast in a motion picture too. She thought that she forgot to thank Tyler Perry. You guys heard her think Tyler Perry. She came back out during someone else's segment to make sure she got it in. Let's take a listen to that. I did not think Tyler Perry. I did? You did! You about to get in there? Yes. That's funny. People were like, wait, you did, you got it. Tyler Perry reacted to this and he basically said, you know, he was moved to tears. He can honestly tell that, you know,

he didn't really know what he would be given in his life, but he knows he did something good and he's getting it back in return. People was like, she want to make sure she keep getting that Tyler Perry check. You're goddamn right. Tyler wrote three movies for her right after that. Right after she gave that other thank you. He wrote three more movies for her. Right.

I'm sure. And last but not least, VP or former VP Kamala Harris was there. She received the Chairman's Award. Let's take a listen to her. I thank everyone here for your tireless advocacy. The more better the merrier. Title of your podcast. All your old Brooklyn Nine-Nine friends are appearing on your favorite podcast, More Better. Don't miss Brooklyn Nine-Nine friends are appearing on your favorite podcast. More better! Don't miss Brooklyn Nine-Nine stars and show hosts Stephanie Beatriz and Melissa Fumero as they welcome their friends and former castmates back to laugh about old times and swap some

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what we must have today. What we are up against in this chapter in our American story, this chapter will be written not simply by whoever occupies the Oval Office, nor by the wealthiest among us, the American story will be written by you. Yeah, so last night was all a bunch of that. It felt I mean, not last time, sorry, Saturday night was a was a ball a bunch of what we just heard. It felt like a big hug, a big family reunion. They honor Quincy Jones and a lot of other people in memory as well, too.

They had like a little music segment for him. It was a fire show. Like I thought that this was a really great year production-wise for the Image Awards. And people popped out, the people popped out for them as well too. So that's dope. Well, salute to BET, salute to the NAACP Image Awards.

It was on BET, right? I saw it on TV one or something. There's a bunch of things. I watched it on BET's app. Yeah, so salute to BET and I'm glad. I'm glad people are showing up. I'm glad people are showing out and it's a great thing. I'll say the male artist Chris Brown. Gotta make sure I mention that for Jess. That's right. Yeah, it was a good night. You better start showing up to the NAACP Image Awards because you ain't gonna have nothing else in a minute. I'm telling you right now,

Negro. You better do exactly what Karen Washington did. She interrupted a live segment to bring Tyler Perry to tears. Give your people their flowers. And Sharla, didn't one of your podcasts win the NAACP award? Oh, Native Land. Oh yeah, yeah. Salute to the Native Land podcast. Dropping the clues, Bones for the Native Land podcast. Andrew Gilman, Tiffany Cross, they won, don't give me the line, but they won the NAACP Image Award. I was coming back on stage to make sure we shattered them. I know, that's right, Envy. And salute to Carrie Champion, the Naked Podcast.

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All right. When we come back, we got front page news. Then attorney Joe Takapina, he's the defense attorney in the ASAP Rocky case. He was defending ASAP Rocky. He also represented people like Donald J. Trump, Jackson a rod meat meal just to name a few He's gonna be joining us great conversation. It's the breakfast club. Good morning J envy just hilarious Charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club Lauren LaRosa filling in for Jess and let's get in some front-page news What's up in the Charlamagne and Lauren. Let's get back into it. OK, so the White House says that the Ukraine war could

end as soon as this week. That's good news, right? Speaking to reporters on Saturday, press secretary Caroline Levitt said the president is very confident he can get the deal done this week and they're focused on negotiations, a change in tone from last week where Trump suggested Ukraine is responsible for Russia's invasion. And then when Zelensky wondered why he wasn't asked to attend US-Russia peace talks in Saudi Arabia, Trump called Zelensky on social media a dictator without election. So on Friday, a reporter asked Trump if he thought Putin was a dictator. And here's what he had to say. I think that President Putin and President Zelensky are gonna have to get together because you know what we want to stop killing Millions of people I want to see a ceasefire and I want to get the deal done

I think we have a chance to get the deal done. So more on this Ukraine's below That was his answer to the Putin is a dictator question. Yes, it is. That was his answer to the That was his answer to the is Putin's dictate. So he just deflected. That's what he said. Yes, he did. He just didn't answer it. Okay. Pretty much.

So more on this Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky says he's ready to step down if it brings peace to his country. The Ukraine president made the offer at a news conference on Sunday saying if it is peace for Ukraine and you really want me to leave my post, I'm ready. Now he said he would be willingly, he would willingly trade his position for immediate NATO membership. So if Zelensky steps down, that means that Ukraine will then become a member of NATO. So we'll keep yeah, continue to watch that situation and see what happens with that.

Another presidential news, the president is supposed to be meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron later this week at the White House. Switching gears, a former Army Chief of Staff says President Trump's firing of the Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff is tremendously destabilizing to the U.S. military. General Charles Brown Jr. was fired on Friday night in a move critics say was an effort by Trump to get rid of the diversity initiatives in the U.S. military. Appearing on ABCs this week, retired General George Casey warned of the danger of sudden senior

personnel changes, especially those who lead our military. Let's take a listen to retired General George Casey's comments. When you remove so many senior leaders, especially without justifying and giving due cause,

it creates huge uncertainty in the ranks. That's extremely destabilizing at a time that's a lot going on domestically and a lot going on abroad. What do you guys think about that? I mean, it's interesting with these conversations, right? Because what I don't understand is if they are saying DEI means that a lot of people who lack experience are getting these positions, how are you firing actual experienced people but replacing them with people with less experience?

I'm not sure that they're even necessarily being yeah. Well, yeah, I guess they would be replaced but you know, how do you get? I just don't understand how you justify that. It's like how do you justify getting rid of you know him? It's it's it's interesting. I don't know. I don't think you can I really don't think you can justify it Even if you're saying it's for the purse if it's you know, it's a bigger thing and it's a matter of you know This this this tax cuts and all of these things. That's one of those That's one of those personnels that you can't justify cutting, you know, could find find it somewhere else by find a coin somewhere else guys When you general Charles Brown, that's it right? Like you just retired at this point. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, pretty much Yeah, I mean

Vacation, I guess I don't know but uh, all right Yeah, let me bring things home to you guys in New York. The drama does continue New York City Mayor Eric Adams federal corruption trial is officially being delayed indefinitely So a federal judge overseeing the case is considering a request by the Justice Department to drop the charges against Adams This is the first update on Adams case since the judge held a hearing on Wednesday. On Thursday, New York Governor Kathy Hockel announced that she's putting limits on his power rather than remove him from office. Now Hockel's decision comes after allegations

that Adams made a deal to cooperate with Trump's immigration policies in exchange for the Department of Justice order to drop the federal case against him. Now Hockel told CBS Face the Nation, she doesn't wanna undermine the will of the voters who elected Adams, despite the outrage over the Justice Department

ordering his corruption charges to be dismissed. She said she will resist any attempt by President Trump's administration to influence politics in New York City. Let's hear more from New York Governor Kathy Hokel. We are not allowing the Trump administration to interfere in the operations of our city. But I will always stand on the fact that we are a nation of laws and one individual, the

governor of New York should not use her voice and her will to override the will of the voters. We have an election in a few months for in a primary. I'm gonna let the voters decide but I'm also gonna be very cognizant. I need to keep an eye on this situation. So yeah. Didn't Eric Adams just recently sue Trump after all that? Didn't he sue him for like $80 million or something like that? Yes, the $80 million that I guess I want to say they took, it was already a part of the

New York budget, but it was taken. And yes, so Mayor Eric Adams is suing for that. There's not too many other updates outside of the fact that he has filed the lawsuit. But yeah. So Coco, she says she, she says she would rather allow this year's mayoral election to play out, which the primary election for you guys in New York is June 23rd, 2025. So I'm sorry, June 24th, primary election day in New York is June 24th. So you guys make sure you exercise

your right to vote. Critics say that this order is part of a quid pro quo for Adams' cooperation with the Trump administration on immigration. I really thought that we were gonna be kind of done with this story once Hokel said she was just gonna limit his power, but it does seem that it's a lot going on up there, so yeah, I will keep you posted.

So that's your front page news, I'm Morgan Wood. Follow me on social at Morgan Media. And for more news coverage, follow at black information network, download the free iHeartRadio app and visit BINnews.com. One more thing, guys, we are watching situation out of Rome in the Vatican, the Pope is in grave condition right now. So I'll keep you guys posted on that as well. All right. Thank you so much Morgan. Thank you. All right now if you pray for the Pope, you know Is that more powerful than the prayers he could do for himself? Oh I'm just asking I

Don't know. I don't know what that is for a page news I do have a question before we go into our next guest Charlemagne. Did you go to Red Lobster this weekend? I know you said you was gonna go I I did. I went Saturday. How was it? It was actually alright. I went there to get some Red Lobster to go. I had the lobster roll. The lobster roll was actually busted but I was high so I don't know. I'm being honest. I actually had two things. I got the lobster shrimp pasta with marinara sauce and I had the lobster roll and the lobster roll, I mean both of them was good but the lobster roll was really good because I ate that later when I was high Oh my god, okay. All right. I gotta try some this week. All right. Well, thank you again Morgan

Now when we come back attorney Joe Takapena will be joining us, you know him. He's a defense attorney for ASAP Rocky He also represented celebrities like Donald Trump Michael Jackson A-Rod Meek Mill YG Swiss Beats Foxy Brown Neo just to name a few. And we're gonna talk to him next. So don't go anywhere. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning everybody. It's DJ, Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy, we are The Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRosa filling in for Jess. We got a special guest in the building. ASAP Joe. He has represented Iran, MJ, Meek, the Washington Commanders, Donald Trump, Foxy Brown, neo-swiss beats and of course ASAP Rocky. Ladies and gentlemen we have attorney

Joe Tacopina. How you feeling this morning? Tired but really good, really good. It was a five-week war but I've never been happier. I mean those two people when I say those two people Rocky, Rihanna are just such great, but I've never been happier. And those two people, when I say those two people, Rocky Ray, Rihanna, are just such great people. I've gotten to know them over three years really well. I babysat for one of the kids one during her Super Bowl performance. Wow. They're just good people.

They're really, for real good people. You know, you just listed a bunch of people I've represented. Rocky stands out. Really? As a terrific guy, yeah, really. You know, it's interesting how people always, when we see these cases, they always wonder how the client is doing, right?

Like how is ASAP? But I would think it's just more mentally and emotionally draining for you as an attorney. You hit it, man. I mean, because look, obviously they have the stress of the unknown, right? What's going to happen. It was a lot for me. But of course, you know, they they suffer in a different way It was one day re Rihanna brought the babies to court and people thinking it was a ploy like some sort of maneuver to get

The jury to feel sympathy. The jury's not feeling simply they know he has a wife and kids She burned the court because that could have been the last time he'd seen his kids for a decade or more That's why she brought them and people like a prosecutor made a big deal of it in his summation which I thought was a fatal mistake quite frankly but. And what gave you the confidence that when they offered you that deal you said F that because the world was like he's facing 24. He's got six months. Six months. Which is three months. In community service. You're a black man in America. First thing I said I was like man why take the deal. I was thinking take the deal, and I'm thinking, I'm thinking LA, they gonna let him go in a day anyway,

cause the jails are overpopulated. So what gave you the confidence to be like, I mean, obviously you guys won, but you weren't scared and be like, well, maybe we should just take this deal. And whose idea was it? To not take the deal? Rocky and I had a one minute conversation, literally one minute.

Rocky, here's the offer, I don't wanna do it, what do you think? Let's go. Ooh, love that. So you didn't even think about it? Like you... We thought about for a second and then... but it required him to plead guilty to something he didn't do, right? Required him to say I'm guilty of a, you know, assault with a semi-automatic weapon. Seven years suspended sentence, right? Which means he's under the thumb for seven years. Five years probation. So if he crossed against the red, they could take take him back. Yeah it's six months which means three months but it was a career ender for him.

He'll lose deals and stuff. Gucci was gone I mean I've been dealing with Gucci for two years on this Gucci Puma you know all his shows he couldn't travel out of the country where he fell in a conviction. It was a life changer for him and more importantly he maintains his innocence from the minute I met him three years ago. Maintains his innocence so it was it was a you know it was really a quick decision. Yeah people like glad this guy has onions doing that kind of stuff right how do you do that but I also felt very confident. I know that there's like discovery so you get to see like what the other side has so that

helps you like craft your defense and stuff like that but at what point did you guys have everything like you knew everything up front or did were things added as things were going where like you ever got everything like you knew everything up front it were things added as things were going We're like you ever got nervous like mmm. They're trying to trick it is though. What about this? We forgot about this. We picked the jury They came with a ballistics report that had been done a year and a half ago They saw we just found this now if we missed it So I'm like are you kidding me right and like that kind of those games happen throughout the trial

But you know whatever I'm used to that kind of stuff and didn't face. I, I look, I knew we had a defense. My defense was to eviscerate this ASAP rally, this, this absolute pathological liar, and I eviscerate him in a way that, you know, I told this jury, I said, you guys had a front row seat, the history, because you just witnessed the worst witness in the history of American jurisprudence. Jesus. I mean, he imploded like, and by the way, you know, I'm considered, you know, top cross examiner.

Anyone could, you know, you could cross examine him. I mean really it was that, the guy was his own worst enemy. Have you ever met a man that couldn't rat right? That guy couldn't rat right. He cursed in a courtroom with a judge, jury he cursed to the jury he told the jury Yeah, I lied because I didn't want to answer this guy's question. I'm always annoying me. He said you annoying. Yeah Sorry, I don't mean to know I just want you 30 million dollars You want to leave you don't want to answer questions like he sued for 30 million dollars with a knuckle scrapes

This guy's a clown and and he's a liar. He's a mid liar. He's a mid a perjurer He lied at least to this jury 20 times and was caught committing perjury. I caught him in multiple, at one point during the summation I said, oh, this next one's my favorite. This is a perjury mini-series because he lied. It was like this series of lies about whether he shot a gun before November 6th, 2021. The day of the incident. Is it true that the police searched the area, didn't find no shell casings, but then all of a sudden he came with them? Stupid story

So he's claiming Rocky shot two pops and Rocky did shoot two from a prop gun Okay, a star pistol and this whole story as to why he had that but if he shot two shots from a real 9mm Ten minutes to seven cops came within ten minutes with searchlights those flashlights. They have body cam. Thank God They searched the exact spot where this incident happened seven cops 20 minutes that's 140 minutes of manpower and they're looking they find nothing nothing no evidence of a shooting no broken there's a parking lot right next to it no cars that would ding nothing he claims he comes back an hour 45 minutes later goes to the exact same spot the cops were searching bends down and finds the two shell cases I mean

So what happens now because I know you mentioned when you walked out the court you want them to pursue him for perjury charges Yeah, I want them to they should I'm a district attorney's office was and should be embarrassed by this guy I mean He absolutely played them like a fiddle we had a tape which he first by the way a tape of him and a mutual friend Of Rocky and Rellie's and he said that it was a recording and when he heard the beginning of the recording he realized what that was he was like oh that's fake get that away from me that's fake it's not my voice it's AI it's like that's fake it's AI so then I had to call the poor guy who made the recording in Wally because he Wally. So yeah that's from Paris he was in Paris this poor guy so

that's my voice that's Rellie's voice he said this point. So that's my voice. That's really his voice He said this stuff. I know nothing about this case But yes, I'm here authenticated tape and on the tape what what really saying is if he gives me 30 million I'll disappear to an island and they'll never find me the VA can never find me and they can't prosecute their case You know, it's like, you know, then this is his example not mine It's like, you know when you when your b**** and she files charges against you, if she doesn't show up, the case is way weaker. That's what he said on stand?

No, he said it on the phone call. On the phone call, yeah. So that's where his mind goes to. But his thought was, I'm gonna disappear to an island. The DA will never find me. So I stood behind the two district attorneys. I was like, so they'll never find him, like this. And they're just sitting there,

like, sleeking down in their chairs. I'm like like he tried to sell his criminal case for 30 million dollars. That's called extortion So he should be prosecuted for extortion. He admitted perjury He was caught other times committing perjury when he didn't admit it This guy's a one-man crime spree on the witness stand alone What about this civil suit that rally filed when everything first started moving? It was a it's a defamation suit against right you know it's a salt suiting tracking defamation shooting against you yes yeah there's two of them so do you got are you now want to submit to like file for dismissal look I'm you know

that case is running its course I'm dealing with it on my own with rocky rickety's salt case I mean that thing is on life support now obviously I can't imagine this guy ever wanted to get back on a Witness stand again. He can't withstand it. I mean he was again a horrible witness even there were people inside that courtroom You know who are there who were part of this process who said how do they proceed with this guy? It makes no sense And they did we had a prosecutor who was hell-bent on winning not doing justice hell-bent on winning when you have that it's a dangerous thing Because you know they have the weight of law enforcement behind them and and you know Prosecutors job and I used to be one is not solely to just secure conviction

To make sure you're doing right and when a witness Continuously lies on a witness stand and purges himself and you know that they are you know sometimes okay to take a step back and reevaluate All right, we have more with Joe Tocopino when we come back, you know, he's the defense attorney for ASAP Rocky He's represented celebrities like Donald J. Trump Michael Jackson a rod just to name a few and we'll talk to him next It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning. Everybody is DJ envy just hilarious. Charlamagne the guy We are the Breakfast Club Lauren LaRosa filling in for Jess and we're still kicking it with attorney Joe Takapina He's the defense attorney for ASAP Rocky. He also represented celebrities like Meek Mill, Swiss Beats, YG, Ne-Yo, Foxy Brown,

Michael Jackson, Donald J. Trump. Now Charlamagne? The celebrity help or hurt? And it's kind of a little layered question, but like, you know, I asked the celebrity help or hurt in cases like this because I know when you're a juror, they'll ask you questions about Rocky, but did they ask the jurors about Rihanna?

You know they were obsessed with I loved it. They were just so obsessed with Rihanna I didn't make her part of this case. She wasn't part of the case the jury knows who Rihanna is They know who she is compared, you know in relation to Rocky. They saw her there every day So I didn't need to inject her into the case to make it like we were playing on her Celebrity status on it quite fine. I don't think jurors were going to acquit him because, oh, he has Rihanna. So let's be damned with the evidence. Let's just acquit him.

But they were so obsessed with focusing on Rihanna. Oh, Rihanna, you have to treat everyone equally. It's because Rihanna's here. I was like, keep going, man. Just keep going. Keep reminding them that Rihanna's here and talk about her. Because if I did that, it would look like I was pandering. I don't think that mattered at all. I honestly don't. I mean I think

they looked at the evidence. I mean look if Relly turned out to be a great witness and I couldn't destroy him like I did. I don't think the jury would care that Rihanna was sitting there. The first couple days though of the child, she wasn't there but then she came that Wednesday I believe it was that Wednesday. Why wasn't she there those first couple days? Because the kids were in New York with her because the LFRs were still going. Okay. And they're very protective. She's a mother hen. You know she's really protective of those boys and the air quality was really bad. That first week of

that trial and my eyes were like we walked out of court. I was staying downtown LA from so I had a two-block walk to my hotel and it was it was pretty bad. You felt something, you smelled something. So I think it was an air quality issue and she kept the boys away and she doesn't go anywhere without those kids. So she wasn't gonna leave them in New York and come here. So, but she, yeah, we knew this was gonna be a long trial. Yeah.

So she made it. I was gonna ask, you know, when you take a case, do you have to believe the person? I have to believe in the person. Okay, okay. Break that down. Yep, so I don't prejudge anyone I'm not the judge during execution. All right

I've represented people who have probably done what they've been accused of doing but doesn't mean they're bad people and don't deserve Representation if we all had our worst 10 minutes of our lives captured on video or something like that I don't think we'd all be happy right? Mm-hmm If I love a person or think that really good people and they just made a mistake I could deal with that I'm not gonna suborn perjury, I'm not going to make up a story, but I'll help them get through it. And sometimes that means just mitigating the damage, right? Sometimes.

With Meek's case, for example, right? Meek committed a crime, he pled guilty to it, but this judge in Philly was obsessed with him and had him under probation for over 10 years. No one ever, he was a kid, he was a teenager when his crime was committed. Ten years later, he's still under probation for over 10 years. No one ever. He was a kid. He was a teenager when his crime was committed. 10 years later he's still in the probation. If he came to court with white socks, boom, two more years probation. She wanted him under his thumb. She wanted him to make a record about her. It's like there was an issue going on there. So it wasn't like we were saying Meek was innocent, but he served his sentence and he was being abused by the system. And the district attorney came around and agreed with us and eventually I got that dismissed we resolved the case and that judge was was

relocated to a civil park. You a legend Joe. Did you know that the Free McMill movement was going to be as big as it was when you signed on to that? Because it grew so insanely. That was crazy no because at first I didn't realize how big that was and how loved that guy was especially in Philly I mean he's like Rocky in Philly, right? And so I called Reverend Al, who I'm very close with, and the Reverend, I said, can you come to Philly with me and to visit him in jail and maybe make a stand here? This judge is really giving them the once over. And, you know, I think I need your help on this one. And Reverend said to me one thing, is he a good guy, Joe?

Am I going to embarrass or see the guys? No, no, Reverend, you will not get embarrassed here. It's worth it, he's a good guy. More importantly, he's getting run over by the system. And he has the wherewithal, he has a voice. That means 99% of the people in that system in Philly don't have that voice, don't have the wherewithal, and again, trampled on.

And it's true, they reformed that whole probation system in Philadelphia because of Meek in our case. It put a spotlight on it, you know? So it was an important case for a lot of reasons. So I take on these cases that I believe in. I've turned down a lot of cases, a lot of cases that could be lucrative or even very high profile. Harvey Weinstein was one. He'd try to hire me and I wouldn't.

Why not? Why not? I told you I think about having a bond with somebody yeah feeling like you know people but charge some horrific things but I liked I could tell this it was good inside the more I just had a good connection with them you feel that way no no did not really did not feel that with him real quick because that's interesting um you represented Donald Trump in the stormy Daniel's case was there ever even a chance are you winning that and the reason I asked that is because it was politicized you know is because it was politicized.

You know what I mean? It was politicized, it was all over the media. Everybody knew it was a target on Trump. Like they wanted to nail him. No doubt. That was not a case that would have been brought before anyone, and I mean that. Whatever your opinions are of Trump,

I'm talking about the defendant, that case would never have been brought if it were not him. It was a case of first impression. Think about it, it was a settlement of a personal matter, right? An alleged affair. Consensual. Nothing like, I don't know. But, you know, she was basically trying to get money from him to keep it quiet. He paid her. Whether it happened or didn't happen is irrelevant. He paid her some money. End of story. He didn't take a tax deduction on it. He didn't file it in his campaign thing. I mean,

he paid her personal money. Somehow they try and make that into a false filing in his own records. So because he put payment legal fees, whatever, in his internal records, this attorney charged him. When you take a step back, right, and I'm sure people have asked you a million and one times and you look at for example this Diddy case, would you do a lot of things different than his attorneys actually doing because it seems like they're already losing and it just doesn't make sense. What would you do a lot of things different than his attorneys actually doing? Because it seems like they're already losing and it just doesn't make sense. What would you do different? Well, I wouldn't go out in the press and make pronouncements that are later disproved quickly

because you sent the loose square ability. I mean, there's this whole thing like this stupid baby oil thing, right? Who cares, first of all, how many miles a baby lotion he had in his day house, right? But that became like this battle line and they went out and said, Oh, you know, he just bought him in bulk at Costco right down the block from his house. And that's why he has it. So big, no big deal. He bought baby lotion.

First of all, it's a thousand miles. Don't buy a thousand miles of baby lotion in bulk. But that was what he said. Of course, that then Costco then comes out with a statement. No, we've never sold baby lotion in our life. Jesus. We don't. Not one Costco store ever sold baby lotion. So, boom. Now it looks like somebody's lying. You don't need that kind of stuff Oh the Cassie video too and they came out strong before the video dropped that that was before you charged

Yeah, now look here's the thing with the Cassie video. That's horrible. It's cringe-worthy, right? You don't do that You don't put your hand on a woman. I don't care what the story is just I wouldn't anyway not how I grew up. What does that have to do with these non consensual freak-off things? What did that video have to do with that though? And I would say well and that's the one count of the trafficking she's the one person in the trafficking can like what does that video have to do okay maybe she should be charged with domestic violence in state court but what does that have to do with a non-conensual freak off where people are being alleged to have non-consensual sex because they're drugged up and they're being gangbanged or whatever?

I don't see why that video was so... Yeah, of course that video has been played and showed and people think like, oh, he's guilty, but he's guilty of what? Assault of a woman who was his girlfriend. That doesn't make him guilty of everything else now I don't know enough about the case. I was asked to take a look at the case as another case I said, I would not be interested really I just want to be no same reason connection is it's different a little bit I represent rock nation a lot of people in rock. I'm very close with Jane Desiree Perez

Who's most amazing like love them palm of a boss? Love amazing, you know, Jay Brown All those people are just like they really are special special people and they you know That's sort of family to me and you know, I don't think they they're sort of see how to I'm yeah I with p did I just want to throw that out there? No, no, no, no, everybody was saying I'm they were best like Jay When Jay said they weren't friends everybody was like, uh-uh. They were in pictures together When Jay said they weren't friends, everybody was like, uh-uh, they were in pictures together all the time.

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He's the attorney for ASAP Rocky He represented celebrities like Donald J. Trump Michael Jackson a rod meat mill just to name a few So we were asking you about did he earlier? Do you think he should have got a bail and you think he didn't get a bail? Yes, you should have got that I break that down because I said the same thing people thought I was crazy No, no, no what what he was willing first of all it was not a mistake I thought they made saying oh he'll have a break ankle bracelet and stay in this mansion in Miami Mm-hmm and monitor who comes in in a case in New York staying at a resort in Miami with a pool

It's not exactly but really something I would offer up to court what I would have said with a pool is not exactly really something I would offer up to a court what I would have said remember that guy DK asked that the French guy who was charged here with the hotel because the damage Strauss con his bail he got bail and the reason he got bail was he said I'll rent the place here in New York I will stay inside I'll have I'll pay for security I'll have a brace on that's a concession I think maybe if they had done that from the beginning that may have been something that happened You know, there's a presumption of innocence that we still have to not rip. You know, people have forgotten that in this country a lot He is innocent right now. He did he's innocent whatever you think of him or everything

You know the evidence would be no one's seen a minute of testimony yet He's presumed innocent until and unless the prosecution proves that case beyond reasonable doubt. They may do it one day, but not today. And keep someone in jail for a year awaiting trial. They have to either be a flight risk or a danger to the community or they've done something so horrific like a murder. Right? Where you know bail is not necessarily common. This is a case of having parties that got out of hand and there's allegations of sexual misconduct So for Diddy would you have advised him if you were if you were his attorney when Cassie first reached out to just She was my god just paid the money. Listen to me. That was a legal train wreck

What happened with Diddy because this all could have been avoided. He had that case Where with Cassie right and it was all about a civil case. There was no prosecutors involved, no FBI, nothing. They wanted a settlement and you know these lawyers said you know no, they were closed, no, but no and they said well we're gonna file a lawsuit if you don't give us a settlement and like you know go ahead then. Bad, bad move. But it was an avalanche that came around him and only reason it happened is because they didn't sell that case civilly Because if that casket case was settled and went away, I would have heard anything nothing There were no other people coming after did he and until that thing was filed, right?

But if so if you're gonna settle you settle before they file the lawsuit That's what you're settling for to prevent that public damage, right? But you don't let them file it and then sell the day later That's the worst of all worlds because then it's an admission and then bam. You worked on the Michael Jackson case. Is it true that Johnny Cochran told Michael Jackson once, don't settle with anybody because when you settle you become a piggy bank?

Yep. Why? Do you feel that way for all cases? Not for all cases. I think each case is different, right? You know, sometimes a settlement is a good thing. not because you did it or because you want admission but take Diddy as an example sometimes a settlement will save more money than you could ever imagine later and more heartache. He actually did it I'm talking

about people who could I've seen cases where people would settle just because they don't want the bad press and they don't want to end up spending a whole bunch of money in court for the next four or five years I've represented some very very famous people without case ever become public that have settled because It's not worth it people do settle all the time What's called a nuisance settlement just to make sure that they don't wind up on the front page of the New York Post TMZ and you know on the breakfast level Um, I just saw just now that is that Rocky was named the first ever creative director of Ray Ban Yeah, I remember after the case happened you talked about telling Gucci to hold off on the Gucci guilty

Which is an amazing scent by the way But for me when I heard you talk about that and I'm seeing this now I think about even though he was proven innocent were there people people who walked away in the midst of this? No, no. Everybody sitting, killing. I was dealing with all of them. I mean, I was on conference call, a conference called Gucci, Puma,

all these different brands who worked with Rocky, who wanted to know what was going on, giving them updates. And I would tell them, we're gonna win, we're gonna win, we're gonna win. But you gotta wait. Gucci Guilty was my biggest heart attack, because of all things to be called,

they'll call it Gucci Guilty. And they wanted to roll it out before Valentine's Day. And I'm like, it's the middle of the trial. I'm gonna be summing up on Valentine's Day. Can you do me a favor and just wait another week? They're like, it's Valentine's Day. I'm like, I don't care, they're called Gucci Not Guilty. How about that?

Put a little knot in there and then let it roll. But you can't go Gucci guilty So what they did was we compromised they put the ad out with Rocky in it hold the bottle cologne and there was no Gucci guilty was just the cologne and Rocky But if you looked at the bottle you gotta get real close it would say Gucci guilty on the bottle But they didn't put those big letters now. There's all the big letters now. I don't care right guys Oh, so that was nuts one of my favorite movies Devils advocate Keanu Reeves You know Al Pacino and you know in that movie Keanu Reeves played the character named Kevin and he's representing somebody but in the midst

Of representing him he realizes oh, remember dudes Have you ever been in a situation like that like in the midst of it? You like I mean, I think this mother actually did it Yeah Wasn't this case. I've tried 120 jury trials and so again, a chunk of those was the prosecutor. But there's been times where, you know, I believed in it since then. I saw some evidence halfway through. I was like, but you know, at that point you're just fighting. All you can do at that point is if they don't want to take a plea, you could just challenge the evidence, which is constitutionally what you have to do, right? Someone can be guilty but also be entitled

to a not guilty verdict and that sounds weird to people. But the reason that's true is because if the proof isn't there, if the prosecution has then met their burden to prove the case beyond reasonable doubt, the person's entitled to a not guilty verdict, the community's entitled to a not guilty verdict, the system is entitled to a not guilty verdict. You community is entitled to an not guilty verdict. The system is entitled to an not guilty verdict. You know, we're not a perfect system. But what you definitely want is we start cutting corners for people we know are guilty. Because that's Richard Jewell, that's what starts happening.

Oh, they're guilty, so, you know, constitutional safeguards, how we can cheat a little bit here and there. That's when innocent people start getting clipped. And that, to me, is the worst thing that could ever happen. When I'm representing people who are purely innocent, that is the worst thing for me. Because then I I'm representing people who are purely innocent, that's the worst thing for me. Because then I'm dealing with like a pressure

that is just enormous. And you know, if you don't win that case, you feel this burden for the rest of your life. If you know somebody's guilty and still represent them and win, isn't that a burden too though? No, no, because that means it's system work. That means it's system work.

That means the proof wasn't there. As long as I'm not suborning perjury, which I would never do. As long as I'm not suborning perjury, which I would never do. As long as I'm not making somebody say something that's not true. If someone's guilty and I think they're guilty but they were found not guilty, that means the proof wasn't there and we need that person to be found not guilty. Because it keeps the system strong. It keeps all of us safe. Again, lowering the standards for the ones we know are guilty. That's when innocent people start getting convicted. And that's bad. So I can live with that as long as the system

was put to the test and I've done my job. It is what it is. The worst thing is if you represent someone who's truly, truly innocent, you know they're truly innocent, and they're being either framed, set up, or for whatever reason, there's an agenda. You know, that's the stuff that you lose sleep over

because God forbid they're convicted. I mean, just like, how do you deal with that? How do you carry that with you for the rest of that? I mean, yeah, I would with you So what's I've not had that happen? I represent a lot of innocent truly innocent people They've all been vindicated thank God because if I had that happen that would be some of that would be very tough to go on With well, we we definitely gonna keep you numb because if we see any cases that we don't understand We might need to call to break some things down That's right.

Well, it's ASAP Joe, Joe Tacopino. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Let's get right to Jess with the Mess. You need to just real weapon. Macalaurius, Jessica Robin Moore. Jess don't do no lying. Don't do no lying.

Hey! She don't spell nobody. She don't spell nobody. Worldwide Jess, worldwide Mess. She don't spell nobody. On the Breakfast Club. She's a coach and she's with Lauren, Lauren'all. So attorney Busby, who is the attorney that has all of those civil suits against Diddy, he did have a civil suit in court that he amended to include Jay-Z, but

that was voluntarily dismissed a few weeks ago. Now, this over the weekend, I broke a story. If you guys are following me anywhere, Instagram, Twitter, at Lauren LaRosa, we break news and we are outside of the Breakfast Club. I broke a story that the Committee of Grievances, which is like an ethics committee, essentially, they have denied attorney Busby's right to practice within the Southern District of New York. Now, this is a huge problem because majority of the civil cases that he currently has on record against Diddy are in the Southern District of New York. So if he is not able to move forward with them, they would either, he would have to file to be able to come in on these cases pro hack vice

I will talk about what that means. Um, but it's a big issue now in response to this when the news broke Attorney Busby posted something to his Instagram and what he posted was that it was a Appellate division from something from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the state of New York And this basically says that he does have a right to practice or he has admission in the New York State Court, but it's basically a jurisdiction thing. But he does not have permission. His permission to practice within the Southern District of New York has been denied. Now, like I mentioned, it's a big issue. And because of that, the judge who's on a lot of those civil cases that he filed against Puff said to him,

hey, I think that you should try to right now come in on these cases against Sean Combs as ProHack VICE and I told you guys that I would let you know what that meant. So ProHack VICE is basically, so this is like on or for occasion. So basically it's like him saying, hey, I'm gonna be involved in these cases just solely

this one time, but there may be other local attorneys or whoever that have, you know, they're barting these jurisdictions to be able to move forward with this. Just because if not, it looks like because basically the committees, the committee who denied it, they were they were basically not upset. But what they leaned on was the fact that in a lot of the other cases before, the one that Jay-Z was involved in came to light that there was no admission process, I guess, properly done. He had still continued to do whatever he was doing without submitting these things. And he had submitted the one particularly for Jay-Z's case on January 29th.

So they're basically telling him, you're not following these easy rules and protocols, so you can't work here anymore. He's saying that this is not true and that you know he's crossed his teeth and dotted his eyes so he's gonna be fine moving forward. So how is it not true? How can he come out and say it's not true? Well what he specifically said is that he said he received many press inquiries over the weekend and he makes no efforts to respond but he'd rather make a one-time general statement and let various entities use the statement as they see fit. Over the past week, he's gotten multiple increase from friends and colleagues asking why he's not barred or why he's barred from practicing law in New York State and offering their assistance. He says that he wants to make it clear he's licensed

to practice law in New York. He's in good standing with the state bar and have always been although he prefers Texas. He's proud of the legal work that he's doing in New York and he called all of the reports clickbait. Now I will say when I released the story, it was from an actual document, a court document that was from the grievances committee. And what I think he's going to try and argue here is what he's going to have to do to reverse this if he can. I don't even know if that's possible. It just showed that there was some proof, I guess, of him submitting these admissions. But I think right now, in my opinion, I'm not an attorney. What he's doing is he's using technical terms to try and talk around the fact. The fact is that this committee is saying you didn't follow rules within the Southern

District of New York and that's a problem. And no, you cannot lead this. We need you to come in. So what happens to all the people that he has? So when did he do that? Do they have to go to another to another day to find another attorney? No, so what will happen if the from what I understand if the pro hack vice thing does happen he'll still be able to be involved but he just he'll be working with more local attorneys that are actually okay in that jurisdiction.

If not, I don't know what happens. I don't know how he litigates and if that does happen I have no idea what happens then. But yeah, so that back and forth is happening right now, but also too with Puff right now, over the weekend or this Monday, his team filed something that I thought was interesting. They filed, they're pushing back on the criminal side. They're saying that all of the evidence that the police,

the prosecutor's office gathered in those raids need to be suppressed. Suppressed would mean that you can't use it in court. And they're basically saying that the reason why this stuff should be suppressed is that in order to obtain the search warrants that they did, they're accusing the prosecutor's office of using witnesses that they basically knew weren't credible, witnesses that they knew basically didn't have like really good grounds to stand on. They talk about Cassie particularly in saying that they now have proof that everything that

the prosecutor's office said about her involvement on these tapes or whatever was consensual. So to use that to make it look anything but consensual to then get a search warrant is illegal and they're saying that if it isn't suppressed, they want to have a hearing to just look into the prosecutor's conduct of how they got the search warrant to get this information. So they're like, yo, we need to take a, and I think they're doing this because this other case just got dismissed on the other side. So they're probably gonna try leaning

into that. Well what happened to racism? Wasn't racism last week? Yeah racism last week this week it is that they violated his the way they got that they got the search warrant was incorrect. I mean he's gonna listen he's fighting for his life. He just recently had an attorney who backed off the case and said that you know I don't want to be involved. It's not the lead attorney, it's not Mark Agnifilio, it was a different guy, but he backed off and said he didn't want to be involved anymore. So I don't know what's happening.

What was that about? Did you check to see any sources about that, Lord? I wanted to know why did he back up off the case. They said that he was arguing with I guess the main attorney, like him and the main attorney didn't get along and they were seeing differently. That's what I read. So they're saying that there's been a power struggle. His name is Anthony Rico.

He says that there's been a power struggle going on between him and lead attorney Mark Agnifilio for several months and it finally came to a head. He said somebody got to be the top and somebody got to be the bottom. There you go. Oh my God. Somebody didn't want to be the bottom. That's right. So go you got to play your position.

You got no one to be winning the win. Now, what? I never heard that. That's right. So you got to play your position. You got to know when to bend, when to lend. Now, um. What? I never heard that. I know you heard that one Charlamagne. I ain't never heard that in my life, but I've heard them all. But I ain't never heard that. You got to know when to bend and when to lend. I like that though. I like it. You like that daddy. Look at you. You like that daddy. You can be the bender or the lender. God you need to relax. Party, party. What's wrong with you? But yeah, coming back to it though, I do want to say that this whole thing with attorney Busby we will be watching, because I'm very interested to see what will happen in this.

And again, I'm not an attorney, but from what it seems, the Southern District of New York is tied to him right now. Because he has the majority of the accusers. Yeah, he has over a hundred accusers civilly on the civil side. But again, remember- It's not looking good. He the the the amending filing with Jay Z that also had for Busby that also you know, has something to do with Diddy as well was voluntarily dismissed, which is a big like there's a question mark when that happens with no settlement. It's like, what are you

admitting to hear what's happening? I would love to hear what the criminal attorneys think of the civil attorneys and what I mean by that is when you're trying to fight a criminal case right and you know you're putting together a jury a lot of times not even a lot of time in this situation it feel like the civil cases are louder than his actual criminal case because they're more descriptive out of the box learning where we haven't heard nothing about the criminal side remember that we don't we don't we don't know who's on the tapes don't know what, like we still don't know a lot about that. But you know, and surprisingly, most times people wait, like most attorneys will wait to after the criminal

to start doing all the civil stuff, because they'll wait and see what evidence they have or what they can use. It's weird that it seems like they're trying to get that money sooner than later. But no, yes, that's true. But I just wonder what the criminal attorneys think of what's going on civilly and how that's affecting their criminal case. And I will say attorney Busby has been an attorney for some time. I'm not an attorney and I keep saying that

because when I tell y'all this is a very beginner mistake. So I am very interested to see how this plays out. This is a very beginner mistake. If he had just done this earlier, like put in the emissions and everything He was supposed to do we wouldn't even be here right now having this conversation So I am extremely interested to see how this plays out and it does not look good for those other civil suits if it doesn't Play out well in his favor. All right. All right. Well, that is just with the mess with Laura Rosa. Charlie bang

Yes, we give that donkey too man? Well, this morning we need the world's richest man Elon Musk to come to the front of the congregation. Would you like to have a word with him please? Alright, we'll get to that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Wake up. Wake up. You're locked into the Breakfast Club. You're trying to be a fake ass Charlamagne. Some donkey today just saw himself. Happy Marjory Charlamagne. I was ready for you. I never heard of Don Quijote the other day. What is it? Say it again, Charlemagne.

Yes. You are a donkey. Everything Charlemagne is saying is true. Yes, Don Quijote today for Monday, February 24th, goes to the richest man in the world Elon Musk now I don't know who people voted for in 2024 Okay Some of us voted for vice president Kamala Harris some people clearly voted for the 47th president of the United States of America Donald J Trump some people voted for the Green Party some people wrote in candidates But I know one person folks didn't vote for and that person is the richest man in the world, Elon Musk.

But for some reason, Elon Musk, who is an immigrant from South Africa, for some reason, this man is in control of how the government spends his money. Not only is he in control of how the government spends his money, he's the reason that over 12,000 federal workers have been fired as part of the Trump's administration's

broad effort to slash the federal workforce of 2.33 million people. How do you feel knowing that you are a federal worker who voted for Donald J. Trump and in his first 30 days you're out of a job? Elections do indeed have consequences and sadly because of a choice you made, you have to live unemployed with those consequences. It's amazing to me how they are just playing with people's lives though. You can't just cut people's jobs indiscriminately. Okay, for example, they fired hundreds of employees from the National Nuclear Security Administration. These are people who oversee the stockpile of nuclear weapons.

Okay, and then they realized wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, we need these people. Okay, they tried to rehire them because their dismissal could jeopardize national security. All right, Elon Musk and the Trump administration also fired employees who worked on the bird flu response. Okay, and they're trying to rehire them as well. It's a mess. And I personally don't understand how an administration can say they are America first, but they have a South African immigrant causing pain to so many Americans.

That is not what they voted for. But this weekend on X, of course, Elon Musk suggested that workers could lose their jobs if they didn't respond to an email blast from the Office of Personnel Management asking for a list of five things they did in the past week. I repeat, Elon Musk suggested that workers could lose their jobs if they didn't respond to an email blast from the Office of Personnel Management asking for a list of five things they did in the past week. I can't make this kind of stuff up. Let's go to NBC News for the report please.

What did you do last week? That's the question Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency team insist all federal workers must answer in an email. Musk adding on a social media platform X that failure to respond will be taken as a resignation. Three sources tell NBC News those emails were already being received by federal employees Saturday, asking them to send five bullet points of what they accomplished last week, but noting employees should not include classified information. The deadline for replying is set for Monday at 1159 p.m.

Now listen, I have to give credit to Tosie Gabbard and Cash Patel. Tosie is the US Director of National Intelligence and Cash Patel is the new FBI director and they joined a growing list of department heads who have told their employees to ignore the request from Elon Musk and Doge because yes why is anyone listening to him? Okay not just those two individuals though Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegsef and Department of Homeland Security Chief Kristi Noem they've all told employees to disregard okay disregard that email because at some point someone with some sense has to reject the oligarchy.

All right, the billionaires don't run America, working class people do. And if you are an official in the government, you work for working class people because trust and believe Americans will remember who caused them pain and there will be backlash at some point. Not to mention, I believe that someone needs to check Donald Trump's toupee to make sure there isn't one of Elon Musk's neural links devices in there. Okay, something isn't right. Alright, Elon has some sort of mind control over Donald Trump and every time Donald Trump

is in a press briefing, one simple question should come up and that question is who is the real president of the United States of America? Every time he's in a press briefing, when one of y'all get the opportunity to answer or to ask a question, y'all should ask that every single time, because we know who it is on paper. But who's really calling the shots? Elon and Trump are giving record label owner artist vibes. Okay, watching Elon, you know, stand next to Trump

is like watching Birdman stand next to Wayne back in the day. It's like watching Diddy stand next to Big back in the day. It's like watching Diddy stand next to Big back in the day. It's like watching Yohgadi and Gorilla now. No matter how hot the artist is, you can clearly see who's in charge. Now, here's the reason Elon Musk absolutely deserves this he-ha. Okay, this man said on yesterday

that he was just eager to see who had a post and two working neurons amid the claims that some government employees are barely working or checking their emails. Can you imagine if you worked in government and you are in charge of things that could put this country's national security at risk? You are in charge of containing diseases that could kill millions of people and you have an unelected immigrant from another country playing with you on a weekend. We have to start putting some things in perspective and one thing we need to put in perspective is we are post-america okay we are post

constitution this isn't about Republican or Democrat this is about democracy and no democracy and I don't know what the political solution is to this problem because we aren't dealing with the democracy that we once knew and until we the people identify and realize what game is actually being played at our expense, we will continue to lose. Please give the oligarch and chief Elon Musk the biggest he-huh. Alright. Well thank you for that donkey today.

Not so sad. Alright, well let's open up the phone lines. 800-585-1051. This will probably sit with Charlamagne well because we're talking a little bit of ugly. Now this conversation comes from a Glorilla lyricist. So we're asking 800-585-1051. Ladies, do you like your men with a little bit of ugly? You just heard Glorla say she do. You know, first of all, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Always remember that. Beauty is subjective. That's number one. There's nothing wrong with being medium ugly. Okay. I've been medium ugly my whole life and this worked very well for me. Well, let's open up the phone lines. 800-585-1051. Do you like your

man with a little bit of ugly? Love a medium ugly, a little smugly. You like smugly? You're not medium ugly though, you like well done ugly. Jesus. I just want you to know. Let's take your phone calls. Your mama don't even believe that. Tell the truth. Go ahead and tell the truth. Tell the truth. Tell the devil one time. What's your mama say? 800. Tell her what your mama say, Lord. 800-585-105-105.

Don't say nothing. We'll do it when we come back. Alright? Do you like your man with a little bit of ugly? We'll take your calls when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Pull out your, pull out your phone.

Call in right now. Call me. Add your opinion to the Breakfast Club topic. Break it down. 800-585-1051, The Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club. You started calling my phone. Until I made it.

It's topic time. Call 800-585-1051 to join in to the discussion with The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ, Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy, we are the Breakfast Club, Lorna Rosa filling in for Jess. Now if you're just joining us we're talking about this Glorilla line, alright Glorilla said this line and it was trending all weekend. So we're asking 800-585-1051 ladies do you like your man with a little bit of ugly now? Yes, you said yes. Yeah, I do they do I told y'all that before they adore you a different way You know what I'm saying?

Cuz it's like they still have that PTSD of being like their whole ugly self and then like they kind of got a little cute So they get a little play now So they know how to maneuver but they adore you cuz they just they happy to be there now right before break Charlamagne was talking that your your mother said that He was handsome. My mom said he was smart. Okay, so that says a lot. She complimented your brains Now what's your beauty now who in your family said your mom actually said I was smart and handsome first of all My mom smokes a lot of marijuana. Well, hold on. But who in your family said Charlamagne was my grandmother thinks that Charlamagne is the How old is my grandmother is eight should be 87 this year okay does she drive by herself yeah oh no my grandma is yeah she's wearing glasses yes

you know I'm fully aware that uh you know I am 90s rom-com fine so being that I am 90s rom-com fine I I represent for all the ball head, you know, Melanated Brothers who were in all those movies in the 90s and that there's a certain generation that appreciates that level of handsome. See Lauren, your generation don't use words like handsome no more. Nope. Y'all say fine. You know what I'm saying?

Like oh you my fine ass. Handsome, handsome is like the finest of cognacs, like the most vintage of cars. Like when you say something is handsome, that's a different level of beauty. And I represent for all the handsome brothers out there, the 90s rom-com fine brothers, okay? And I want to say something else. Some of y'all women media ugly too, but you don't know it. Okay?

But you know, actually you do know it. You know it when you go home and you take off that wig. You know it when you go home and you take off that wig. You know it when you go home and you take off that makeup. You know it when you wake up in the morning. Okay. I was fresh faced on Friday. Why are you shooting at these women this morning? Yeah, cause we know, I think he's trying to be funny.

What you talking to you? I'm not talking about you, Lauren. Oh, I know you're not. I'm just saying that a lot of women are medium ugly underneath it all. Okay. And some of you guys is more than medium ugly when y'all get that Beijing out your bed. Watch your mouth Let's go to the phone. I don't use Beijing. He don't got no face on zoom this morning His ugly face ain't on zoom. He was two-tone before. Hello. Who's this? Hi

Hey Rachel. Good morning. Good morning. Do you like it man with a little bit of ugly? I do I love my Good morning." Do you like it, man, with a little bit of ugly?" I do. I love my name Brooklyn Ugly." The more better the merrier. Title of your podcast. All your old Brooklyn Nine-Nine friends are appearing on your favorite podcast, More Better. Don't miss Brooklyn Nine-Nine stars and show hosts Stephanie Beatriz and Melissa Fumero

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All right, let's go to Taylor online six Taylor good morning Now Taylor, do you like your man with a little bit of ugly? I love my man with a little bit ugly Why is that? Like I just feel like men are supposed to be pretty like what are you? Why are you so pretty for what? I just feel like it's not manly to be pretty. We born like that. We can't we can't help ourselves You know what skeptic looks like yeah, he is gorgeous and he's very manly yeah, but he's just too pretty I don't like pretty Ugly man Taylor, give me an example of a medium ugly man, Taylor.

Taylor, give me an example. Well, I have an example of a medium ugly man. I mean, Duke Dennis is medium ugly for sure. I thought he wasn't that bad. I'm trying to think. He's very handsome, but he's just not pretty. You know, when you have pretty features, really symmetrical, there's no roughness or like, you know,

masculinity in your face. It's just real feminine and pretty and I don't like that. Let me think of another example of a medium ugly man. I feel like Gucci is medium ugly. Okay. Yeah. Gucci man, okay. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, like I feel like pop smoke was medium ugly. God bless him. RIP that man. Chris Brown is pretty. Too pretty for me. What's his name? Michael Yeeley is too pretty. I don't like this though because she called it to dark skin brothers Gucci and pop smoke medium ugly But she called it to red bones pretty I don't like that They beige I don't like that but listen, I let's switch it a little bit Um, I need to know who y'all think is medium ugly. NBA Young, I'm going through my music playlist because it's just easier to do

like when you have something to look at. I would say NBA Young boys medium ugly. Who else? A Boogie medium ugly. This is crazy. This is real crazy. But 800, 585. I'm judging women like this all week long 885-105-1.

Do you like your men with a little bit of ugly and who do you call medium ugly? Let's discuss this at the Breakfast Club good morning. If y'all talking about it, you know we talking about it. It's topic time. Call 800-585-1051 to join in to the discussion with the Breakfast Club. Morning everybody, it's D, E, J, N, V, Jess, Hilarious, Charlamagne, the guy, we are the Breakfast Club. Now, if you're just joining us, we're talking about this Glorilla line right here. This is where it came from. We're asking 800-585-1051, do you like a man with a little bit of ugly and who is a little bit of ugly to you

what meant a little bit ugly to you so we can have a scale so we can understand who you're talking about man they just broke my heart in here but what happened they brought a 50 they said 50 is on the medium ugly list but maybe that's why I think he's so attractive say the person who said it no let 50 see their Instagram 50 gonna be going at the Instagram all week. No, no, no, she's not pregnant But it works for him though, cuz he I mean the energy just gives what it needs again First of all beauty is subjective. Okay, like y'all y'all out here calling people medium ugly and some of these people that y'all call medium Ugly folks think is fine

Okay and some of these people that y'all call medium ugly, folks think is fine, okay? Yeah, no. And energy matters a lot more with men, like your aura and how you demand the room than your looks, in my opinion. Hello, who's this? Hi, this is Najee. Hey Najee, good morning. We're asking a couple of questions. Do you like your men with a little bit of ugly,

and who is medium ugly to you? I do like my men medium ugly. And what do you mean by who? Like, who? Like, if we wanna, like, how do you describe medium ugly. And what do you mean by who? Like who? Like if we want to, like, how do you describe medium ugly? Like, like describe it. Who is medium ugly to you? Yeah, what, what celebrity? What man?

I feel like that guy that, that Mufasa guy, I feel like he's medium ugly. I think he's too pretty, so he's ugly. Well, medium ugly. Jesus. Jesus. I kind of understand what you mean. It's hard to describe. Like he's like, it's like, okay, he's fine.

It's Mufasa. But like his features is a little you got to get a set of win. They got settled. He's medium ugly. Yeah. Shut your shut your ass up. He got ears. You ever know when to sit one out?

Can you not read the room? You got two women describing the man's looks and here you go. He got ears. He got ears. He got ears. He got ears. He got ears. He got ears.

He got ears. He got ears. He got ears to hear you go. He got ears. He's a got ears. He's a handsome brother. He just got ears That's I don't like shut your ass up Hello, who's this? Can we talk about who's medium gay? Indy's medium gay. Y'all well done in that side too. And you well done gay Hello, Kay. What's up Kay from Mississippi. Who's medium ugly to you? Man Big Mag just

asked me I told him Asap Rocky. Have you ever seen Asap Rocky in real life? Outside of photos and videos? I have not but Priyanka can do a little better. But you're not not love his love. I would challenge you to see him in real life and then come back in real life asap.

Photos and videos do him no justice. That man is gorgeous. Did she say Big Mac just text her? I'm trying to tell you, only because I used to be like, I don't really get the asap hype. Like he fly, but I didn't really get it. And then I seen him in person. I was like, oh, like he literally glistens.

Ooh, okay, then I heard that. I'm gonna take your word for itistens. Sorry Reed I know that shit mean I'm not you know I'm saying I'm just it's just a topic. Okay. Go Navy. Once again this is why I say it's all subjective because one the woman thought the woman on the phone thought he was medium ugly Lauren thought he fine. That's right. Oh my god ASAP is. Well something we just hung up on somebody but they were saying that to them all studs look medium ugly Then we talk about men I don't know About men, why would you bring it? You see what I'm saying studs next time y'all see envy out jump them cuz he bought y'all in this for no goddamn reason

And he missing it miss identified y'all Oh my God. Oh my God. Why would you hang up on that person? I wanted to hear what they had to say. What's the moral of the story? Come on y'all. The moral of the story is beauty is an eye of the beholder. Like it's all subjective.

That's the way I look at it. The moral of the story is some people well done and they don't know it. All right. Well, we got Jess with the mess coming up. I bet you would never show up without no wig on. The moral of the story is some people well done and they don't know it. Alright. Charlamagne. We got Jess with the mess coming up. I bet you will never show up without no wig on. And meek mill braids, like with just my braids under?

I bet you won't share. Oh you know what, I got a picture with you. Matter of fact, I'm going to post that today since you want to be sported. Are you going to post it when I wrap my hair with the photo shoot and how gorgeous I look? You go right ahead. You don't have a picture of me with my meek mill braids. I know you're a channel. I definitely got an all my life You don't have picture me with my meat mill braids. I know you got a I got a picture

You I definitely got an all my life. I had to fight picture you Even got a word about that. Nothing medium ugly about me. I mean It depends on cuz when we posted this before people was in my comments like she must not know she medium ugly and I'm like Hey, you know Not to me in real life don't play with me People in the comments is trying to be funny But yes, we do have just with the mess coming up Irv Gotti's brother Chris Gotti talked a bit more about Everybody's passing and what actually was you know, the reasoning behind his passing so we're gonna talk about that. All right

We'll get to that. Next is the breakfast club. Good morning the breakfast club Morning everybody is DJ envy Jess hilarious Charlamagne, the guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get to Jess with the mess. The news is real, whether it's the Hilarious, Jessica Robin Moore, Jess don't do no lying. She don't spare nobody. Worldwide Jess, worldwide mess. On The Breakfast Club. She's a coach of shit. With Lauren, Lauren LaRosa. I'm back. Okay, so Irv Gotti's brother Chris Gotti, he sat down on a platform called 2way. And on this platform, he talked with Dame Dash, who was also a special guest and it was a special

that they did on how to cope with stroke risk and diabetes and they did it in memory of Irv Gotti. Let's take a listen to what Chris Gotti had to say about Irv Gotti's passing. When was your brother diagnosed with diabetes? Wow, so he's 54. I believe he's diagnosed when he was in his 40s. But Irv doesn't go to the doctor. So that's why he's so late being diagnosed, right? And then when he was in his 40s. But Irv doesn't go to the doctor, so that's why he's so late being diagnosed, right? And then when he finally did go get a real physical and a checkup, he was like, you're diabetic. And he didn't believe it. Irv was type one. Actually started with type two, developed into type one. And when we talk about this topic, why

so dear and sensitive for me is I watched him suffer the last three years in his life. Sadly enough, he did go on his terms. He just didn't believe in and he was like, I'm going to go away. Basically, I wanted he ate a bunch of Chinese food while playing poker and had a massive hemorrhagic stroke, which is bleeding on the brain. Yeah, so hemorrhagicagic stroke by definition occurs when a blood vessel in the brain bursts and causes the bleeding as he mentioned. And I know some people have questions about the difference between type 1 and type 2 per what I see on Google. The difference is how the body processes the insulin and type 1 diabetes, the body's immune

system attacks and destroys the cells in the pancreas and that produce the insulin meaning it cannot make the insulin at all while type 2 diabetes go ahead no good well I'll take two dotted by type 2 diabetes the body still produces the insulin but the cells become resistant to its effects yeah I never heard of what did he say type 1 became 2 I never I don't know I do know some people were disputing that as well. I, listen, I don't know that. Yeah, I'm sure some doctors will correct him later. But man, the biggest takeaway

from what Chris Gotti said just now is that Irv Gotti didn't like to go to the doctor. Didn't go to the doctor, yeah. We get on this radio all the time and have been getting on this radio for years telling y'all, take y'all ass to the doctor. I don't care what it is. I done had prostate exams, colonoscopies, endoscopies, every single cardiovascular

test that you can think of, salute to Dr. Pullman, soren medical. You got to take your ass to the doctor. There's no way around it if you want to live. Yeah, and you're absolutely right. That's why we talk about it so much. I know a lot of y'all say y'all share a lot, but the reason we share so much is because we want you guys to go to the doctor. We want you comfortable and thinking that you can go to the doctor and call and talk to your people about it because we need to.

We need to make sure that we're checking up on each other, that we're going to our appointments, that we're checking our blood pressure, that we're making sure that we're checking our salts, our sugar levels, our heart and everything in between. We gotta make sure. And if you don't wanna do it for yourself and if you don't want to do it for yourself, do it for your family, do it for your kids, do it for your wife, do it for whoever's

in your family, you know what I mean? Yeah. I gotta have so many people die over things that, you know, that could possibly have been prevented if they just simply had went to the doctor. You know, and I know we make jokes about the prostate exam, but yes, go get a prostate exam. Like, go get a colonoscopy. Like like you put it like this if you like to laugh having stuff up your butt is always funny but at least you got something up your butt for a good reason. Okay. Great PSA.

But somebody might like it up for that reason another reason but anyway go ahead continue on. Yeah well shifting gears in places. Okay. Yeah, well, shifting gears in places. OK, Simon Gabbardia. I always say his last name wrong, but that is the estranged husband of Portia Williams, who appeared on Real Housewives of Atlanta with her. We found out over the weekend that he was actually detained by ICE. So he is currently being held in the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia.

Somebody called ICE on him? I don't know. Something happened. Something happened. And then came and got him. Now on him Something happened. No something happened. Yeah, and it came and got him now He's a Nigerian philanthropist and again you guys remember him because he was on the show with her He was at once married to the girl Fallon and he got with Portia That was a whole storyline and him and Portia have recently decided not to be together anymore And there were conversations around why she decided to you know, go through a divorce with him It was money conversations and she said that she just found out that he wasn't exactly

who he said he was in the beginning and she didn't want any parts of it. And now we're seeing this happen as well too. Now Portia spoke out not too long after this news hit and said, is disheartening to see my strange husband make choices that have led to this outcome. At this moment, my priority is moving forward with my family in the prayer hands. So well, yeah, if you look at it, you know, they said he migrated from Nigeria to the US in 82, but he overstayed his visa. So he was declared deportable in 19 what 85 and then they said he was arrested in 87 for

bank and credit card fraud. He is Nigerian and then he was arrested two additional times. So he was deported to Nigeria in 1992 1992 but then he came back a month later yeah and then he applied for citizenship in 2016 but he was denied by the US government because his previous status was unlawfully granted and from what the reports are this actually happened while he was reapplying for trying to figure out all the mess that Charlie we just talked about with this citizenship so he was on television knowing he wasn't supposed to be here trying to figure out all the mess that Charlamagne was just talking about with this edition of Shippin' Hoby. So he was on television knowing he wasn't supposed to be here?

Trying to figure out, maybe he- That's wild. Yeah, it seems to me like I think- It's like you're playing it in people's face. I think though- But Porsche fine though, man. So I can understand taking them to risk. I'm like, what does that have to do with ice?

She melt the ice? Like what the, I'm confused. I know, I can understand the risk that Simon was taking. I can understand it. It's kind of because he's a business owner here, he's making money, so maybe he thought that things would work out. But on the first time, he wasn't with Portia on the show the first time, he was with somebody else. I don't know. Who was it? Who was the other one? Valen. It was crazy. That was his first wife, right? Yeah, but she had a

smaller storyline on the show, but they tried to make her and Portia seem like they was home girls on the show, so then when Portia got with him, it was like, oh my God, I thought that was your friend, and she had to come out and be like, that was not my friend. We was just on the show but they tried to make her and Porsche seem like they was home girls on the show so then when Porsche got with him it was like oh my god I thought that was your friend and she had to come out and be like that was not my friend we was just on the show together. Wow. So what happened to his house? I just mean this in the most respectful way as a married man you know I can understand why he would take the risk of wearing matching pajamas with Porsche all over Instagram and be all over the reality shows with her I can understand why. Now he's sitting in that detention center just reminiscing on it, huh?

Well, that's all you got is your stories when you're locked up. So that's a great story to have. What happened to his house though? His house, his cars? Who gets there? Because he's no longer here. He does have, he has children and I'm assuming other family here. So maybe they'll figure it out. I don't know specifically. I thought Portia had the house. Portia don't got the house? I don't know her to have the house. I know she had one of the cars. They were going back

over for one of the cars. I'm not for sure who has what in that. They haven't, the divorce hasn't finalized yet with them either. They're still going through the process of that. But I did reach out to ICE to try and get some more information on what's about to happen. The ICE? You reached out to ICE? You can reach out to them. They have a media department. What number is that? It's an email. That's what. Man, give me the number, Lord. Don't give me the number. Don't you give me the number. I know somebody that might need to be investigated. Don't you give me the number.

You know, but they have departments in every state and you can reach out, especially if you're a media outlet, to obtain information for clarity. And that's what I did because I had a lot of questions like you guys did and as you see, I can't answer them yet. So when I can, I'll be back with that. Do they have a tip line though? Yo, shut up, man.

All right, y'all. Dang. You got one time, one more quick. Which should I go to? So much good stuff. Okay, so Wendy Williams, and you guys know that we've been keeping you up with Wendy Williams here at the Breakfast Club. Yesterday I broke an exclusive. I spoke to Wendy Williams and she says that she's back at square one fighting for her

life with next to nothing. So she's alleging that her guardian, Sabrina Morsi, has recently hired four high top notch attorneys to protect herself from Wendy Williams and also from Lifetime. So Wendy says this week she had to fire her current attorney, that was the black woman attorney that she was really excited about

because this person wasn't appointed by the court. But she said that she had to fire her because things were not working out and now she needs to assemble a legal team, so she's back at square one. She's saying that she might have to go through something called a linking hearing, which is something where they're able to see if she's capable of choosing her own lawyer. But the issue that she has with that is even if they allow her to choose her own attorney,

what I'm told is that the attorney will still be from a list of attorneys that the court selects and she doesn't want to do that. She wants to be able to choose her own attorney. She's very confused about why she has to do the Lincoln hearing. The Lincoln hearing is something that they use like, you know, when kids are in court and it's a custody battle and they're like, you know, they want to figure out where the kid wants to be. They use that same type of interview that a judge does, but with the conservatee, like

the person who's in a conservatorship. So she doesn't understand why she has to do that. She feels like she's proven that she's more than capable enough to make these decisions. And yeah, so now she's, you know, she's once you guys are know what's going on So she wanted us to let you guys know that she's trying to figure it out all over again attorney wise at this point All right All right. Well, thank you for that Jess with the mess Lauren. Thank you. You're welcome. All right when we come back We got the people's choice mix get your request. They don't go anywhere as the Breakfast Club. Good morning

Get your request in, don't go anywhere. It's The Breakfast Club, good morning. You're checking out The Breakfast Club. Morning everybody, it's DJ NV Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy, we are The Breakfast Club, Lauren LaRosa filling in for Jess in this Black History Month, what we doing? Man, listen, you know every day during Black History Month, my guy B.Dot puts out an episode of I Didn't Know,

Maybe You Didn't Neither on the Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network, and we're going to learn today about how Jasmine Evans got left off the kidney transplant list, not because she wasn't qualified, but because someone decided to play doctor based on stereotypes. Let's discuss.

I didn't know, maybe you didn't care. I didn't know, I didn't know, I didn't know, I didn't know. See, Jasmine needed a kidney transplant, something critical for her survival. But instead of being placed on the list like any qualified patient, she was left off. Why? Because of assumptions rooted in stereotypes

about black women. Now we've been discussing medical apartheid all season, and this is just another branch on that tree. The doctors didn't doubt her medical condition, they doubted her ability to comply with post-transplant care. Let that sink in. Despite meeting the necessary criteria, they judged her based on who they thought she was,

not who she actually is. They assumed she lacked support or discipline, assumptions tied to harmful narratives about our sisters. This is bigger than Jasmine though. Black women are at the heart of our community. They are our mothers, our sisters, our daughters, our partners. Yet many times they're often disregarded, disrespected, and dismissed. In healthcare, studies show they're less likely to receive proper pain management, less likely to be listened to, and more likely to face barriers to life-saving

treatments. Jasmine's story isn't an isolated case. It's a reflection of a system that undervalues black women's lives. But here's the thing, Jasmine didn't give up. She fought back. She raised her voice and exposed the bias that nearly robbed her of her future. After public pressure, she was finally placed on the kidney transplant list but that fight shouldn't have been necessary. Black women shouldn't have to battle every step of the way just to get what they deserve.

So fellas this is where we come in. Supporting black women isn't just about words it's about action. It's about showing up for them and standing beside them and speaking up when they're being wronged. It's about recognizing that their fight is our fight too. We know how much black women do for us. We know how much black women mean to us. They hold us down. They lift us up. They fight for us when nobody else will. And Jasmine's story is a reminder that we need to do the same for them. Let's honor their strength by making sure that the systems that failed them are held accountable. Let's be the men who stand in the gap, cause when black women thrive, you already know our entire community thrives.

Jasmine's fight ain't over and neither is ours, so let's commit to making this world safer, fairer and more just for the black women we love. Okay, bye. Alright, well happy Black History Month. Man, thank you B.Dot and make sure you subscribe to the I Didn't Know Maybe You Didn't Need the podcast on the Black Effect I Heart Radio podcast network available everywhere you listen to podcasts. Alright, when we come back we got the positive note and more so don't move it's the Breakfast Club.

Good morning everybody it's DJ NV Jess envy Jess hilarious Charlamagne the guy We are the Breakfast Club long the Rosa filling in for Jess and we got a salute to Joe Takapina That is a sap Rockies defense attorney He also represented people like our Donald J Trump Michael Jackson a rod Meek Mill just to name a few he stopped to check Out the full interview very insightful. So it's a very informative conversation, man I love talking to attorneys because I love just their thought process on things, you know? And it's interesting to hear somebody like Joe talk about

the cases he didn't choose to do, especially being that he's represented a lot of controversial cases. He don't sleep. Absolutely. So did Joe. Yeah, he need the documentary based on his life, too, by the way. I think so, too. All right Joe. Yeah, he need the documentary based on his life too, by the way I think so too. I don't know you got something. Yes. So in exactly two months

27 days and 14 hours we will be in a Dominican Republic. I'm hosting the HBCU black getting your body done No, why do you keep asking about getting my body as if there's time on my body? How you know I was great ask advice about me? What about if I? Yes, do you focus on them arms? Why do you keep you're right? You're absolutely right Lauren He'd been need to focus on his arms for years But I don't understand why you're concerned about what that young lady does with her body her body her choice Correct first of all not the way not now you mr. Your body

choice correct first of all not the way not now you mr. your body your choice attacking every piece of hair on this body or anything it's a wig it's not yours well I'm gonna be in DR y'all not get my body done but we are gonna have a good time I'm there for the Memorial Day getaways HBC you and black alumni weekend is six days five nights all-inc. I will be doing parties, day parties, night parties. We gonna eat, we gonna drink, we gonna have a great time. It's always a good time when I'm there. So make sure y'all pop out. Get your tickets now at MemorialDayGetaway.com and tell them Lauren LaRosa sent you at checkout.

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When you stress too much about things that you cannot change, it affects your mental and physical health. Overthinking and worrying make you feel anxious, tired, and even sick. Instead of focusing on things beyond your control, it's better to accept them and focus on what you can change. Letting go of unnecessary stress will help you stay happier and healthier. Y'all have a great day. Breakfast club, bitches! You want to finish or y'all done?

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