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Episode Date: May 14, 2024

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DJ Envy. Envy playing my record, I made it. Jess Hilarion. Jess be with me. She don't spell nobody. Charlamagne Tha God. What made you think the liking of Controversial Questions would take this far? I like this show.

Thanks, Breakfast Club. Good morning, USA. Yes. Good morning. Hey, Fresh Face. Hello. How are you? I'm good. How y'all feel out there? I'm good. I'm good. How you feeling, Jess? You took a day off yesterday, got a chance to relax? Yes, I did. Did you relax and chill? I did.

Good. That's all I did. Good, good, good. Somebody said to me yesterday, they said, how pregnant is Jess? Is she pregnant, pregnant? I'm like, what's she saying? I mean, is six months pregnant, pregnant? Yes, yes.

She's pregnant, pregnant. That's if I ask you how pregnant I am. I know. How pregnant is Jess? Yes, I'm definitely pregnant, pregnant. P yes she's pregnant pregnant that's if i ask you how pregnant i am how pregnant is yes i'm definitely pregnant pregnant pregnant pregnant but you're feeling good yes okay i saw you out at the uh scrimp of a woman festival yes strength yes with the same difference i'm from south carolina i saw you with uh taraji p henson and tasha Smith. Mary J. Blige. Angie Martinez. Brave. Be More Brave. It was amazing just to be in a room with all of those women and just soak up all of the knowledge that they have for self-care, fashion, mental health.

It was entrepreneurship. They had a lot of dope panels. Method Man and Lorenz Tate was in the building. The cast of some of the Power Universe people it was dope it was a really really dope venue they had a lot of photo ops

Mary and Pepsi the dead thing yeah and you hosted it yes I started the text I'm glad I watched the whole video

because I was like you ain't even meet Mary J. Block oh my god yeah that was closer to the end she's such a clown she did though

she did yeah absolutely why was you writing hate I don't know you ain't even me I't know you didn't even hear her you wasn't even

there boy hey girl damn salute to everybody graduating yesterday my daughter

it has the rolling loud of graduations it's three days of graduation so yesterday was her school's

graduation which is they break the NYU breaks down each to each school business school this school that school so yesterday was her school's graduation, which is they break the NYU breaks down each to each school, business school, this school, that school. So yesterday was her school's graduation. And the way that they did it was they made the kids walk with their cap and gowns in their hands to walk in the building to make sure they didn't have anything pro-Palestine, I guess, pro-Israel, you know, to protest.

So they did that. And then what they did was they used chat GPT to actually say the kids' names because's so many kids names i guess they didn't want to mess up the names yeah so you walk up to it and a scanner scans your qr code and then it says madison taylor casey and then she walks across and then the next one would be like it was mad asian kids so yeah we're gonna do the asian names and then it would do the ethnic names and ChatGPT never got it wrong because I was thinking if I had to do those names I would be killing

those names. They would hate you so bad. That's why I've been mispronouncing things on purpose for years just because I knew that they was going to

come with ChatGPT one day and it wouldn't even matter. Okay, Mr. Clairvoyant. That's right. Clairvoyant Avon. That's my name. Okay. Yeah, so today is

day two of the Roller Louds of graduation and then day three is Yankee Stadium. Yeah, so today is day two of the Rolling Louds of graduation and then day three is Yankee Stadium. So, I'm telling my daughter like, you already got your diploma. That was the most important one. You ain't gotta go. It's gonna rain soon. She going. Yeah, she gonna go. Alright, well let's

get the show cracking. We got front page news. Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Michael Cohen. That was his attorney. Well, he was on the stand talking about all the alleged money that he gave to Stormy Daniels. We'll discuss when we come back. So don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Alaria, Charlamagne Tha God. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. Last night in sports, Celtics beat the Cavaliers 109-102, and the Thunder beat the Mavericks 196. Boston leads the series 3-1, and the series is tied 2-2. That Mavs-Thunder game was great. You say that for it?

No. Oh. I just could tell by my group chat that it was great. Oh. Yeah, when I woke up this morning, they was talking about it. It was like, that Mavs-Thunder game, though. And I was like, oh, okay. So that Mavs-Thunder game, though.

Oh, my goodness. Didn't see it. Well, tonight the Knicks takes on Indiana at 8 p.m. And the WNBA begins tonight. Of course, people are talking about Indiana and Connecticut. That game is 7.30 p.m. A lot of people want to see Kaitlin Clark. And as I told you guys yesterday, usually attendance for those games are around 3,000 people.

Now they're expecting over 10,000 people in this opening game. Yeah, I mean, the only reason that game is on TV is because of Caitlyn Clark. Now, Michael Cohen was testifying yesterday. He's going to testify again in the Donald Trump trial. And just like we thought, they talked about a lot of what Trump was allegedly doing. The star witness testified that he went to work for Trump in 2006 as his fixer. His salary $375,000 a year. He loved his job. It was fantastic and amazing experience. He said Trump warned him right before he announced he was running for president. Be prepared. There's going to be a

lot of women coming forward. Sure enough, one month before the 2016 election, Stormy Daniels came looking for a deal and Cohen says Trump was incensed, telling him, This is a disaster, a total disaster. Women will hate me. Guys will think it's cool, but this is going to be a disaster for the campaign. But Cohen says Trump wasn't concerned that Melania might leave him. Don't worry. How long do you think I'll be on the market for? Not long, Trump allegedly replied.

The former president came to court today with his largest entourage yet, including two U.S. senators, J.D. Vance of Ohio and Tommy Tuberville of Alabama. This trial is rigged. It's dishonest. It's a disgrace to New York. I mean, he put the presidency before his marriage. Okay, he's running for president. I mean, when you put your priorities in order. He said, how long are we going to be single for? You're running for president.

I mean, you're running for president of the United States of America. Jesus. I kind of understand a little bit. Now, also, this is crazy. An Alabama man who told a police officer, get your ass out of the way after getting a ticket, now either has to do jail time or has to write an apology letter to the officer. Now, this is in Alabama. Judge Nicholas Bull ordered Burks to apologize to the officer who gave him a speeding ticket last December.

That's in addition to the $200 fine Burks shelled out this week. He believes that making Burks say I'm sorry to the officer and Burks admits he used one bad word violates his right to free speech. According to the federal cases, what has to happen is those words that he uses or someone uses has to incite violence. That's not the case in this situation. Harrison adds that Supreme Court cases support his interpretation of the law profanity laced

language does not violate the law as for Burks he stands firm in the belief that he was not wrong for what he said but I told my mom I probably just gonna go there and she they don't actually give me some time from not 10 days or 30 days whatever they want to give me for not writing an apology letter because i'm not writing an apology letter i don't think now is really i don't think it's necessary so what he gonna go to jail 30 days i don't know bro if the news anchors in your town sound like that and the sheriff in your town if they sound like this i don't think i want to be in no jail cell with them for 30 days just i mean could you imagine some of the things yeah could you imagine some of the things this I don't think I want to be in no jail cell with them for 30 days yeah

could you imagine some of the things we said at the police officer when I get some tickets and they pulled us over no I don't I don't talk crazy to pull I used to well that's what you're the son of a cop now I used to they used to pull me over for no reason and you're the son of a cop that doesn't mean anything yes a lot I ain't a daughter of a cop or son of a cop, and I be talking crazy. I used to talk so reckless. But not to them, but like, you know, when you're in your car. Oh, yeah, exactly. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I ain't going to talk to them crazy.

And then every, yeah, no. I used to be so disrespectful. I used to be stupid. Because you're the son of a cop. I used to be stupid. It's the sense of privilege that comes with that. It was, as you're doing nothing, you get pulled over for doing nothing. License and registration is usually because I was driving a nice car.

And I used to be, wow. Like like wow disrespectful as you get a little old even like this is stupid and then when you were younger you was much much lighter so exactly and let me get out of here billy let me hold this memo up okay just to remind you okay if you're reading this you can't say the n-word no more okay so between that between your skin complexion the nice car you was driving and being the son of a cop you was talking crazy to them police officers we don't have that luxury but he said ass and got to do 30 days oh yeah i wouldn't have said that if i was in this passenger seat i'd be like man you get his chokin just come on yeah that's what i'd have been saying

okay all right well call it what you want but you know at the end of the day we got to survive out here and i agree now and things like that i was stupid back then things like that decrease your Okay. All right. Call it what you want, but at the end of the day, we got to survive out here. I agree now. And things like that. I was stupid back then. Things like that decrease your rate of survival. You're right. You're right. All right.

Well, that is front page news. I remember one time I got pulled over and I had my dad on the phone. Exactly. And I was arguing with the cop. I was arguing with the cop. My dad was just yelling, shut up. Shut the F up. Shut up.

And I got a ticket. And he was like, just get the ticket and go home. You can't beat the police in the street. Just shut up. And that's an officer. Your dad, what was his position? He was a detective. Exactly.

That's him telling you that. Oh, yes. That's common sense. Shut up. You can relate to that white lady who we reported. No, I can't relate to any white lady. I cannot relate to any white lady. The one who thought she was above the law. She was like. No, I can't relate to any white lady. I cannot relate to any white lady. The one who thought

she was above the law. She was like, whatever. I can't relate to any white woman. I'm definitely Paul Karen. So do you know who my dad is? Nah, that didn't matter. I'm just a police officer.

But back in New York, they used to pull people over for no reason. Yeah. It was stupid. A lot of places, you're right. Yeah. All right, get it off your chest.

800-585-1051. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open. Again, 800-585-1051. Get it off your chest. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. It's a new day.

This is your time to get it off your chest. Wake up. Whether you're mad or blessed. It's time to get up and get something. Call up now. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this?

Yo, MD, what's the word? It's Mello. You know the vibe. Mello, what's the vibe? What's up? Yo, Jess, how you feeling? Uncle Charlotte, how you feeling? Peace, Mello.

What's up, King? How you? First and foremost, I got a shout out to my boy, Dray The Dancer. It's his birthday. Not sure if you know him, but he go crazy on YouTube. He go crazy on TikTok. And I want to say happy birthday to my guy. That's really my brother.

What kind of dancing? I'm not going to hold you. Huh? He does like, you know, he does all the TikTok trends. He kind of put them in motion. I'm not going to go loud at you. Okay. You go crazy.

Charlamagne was hoping he was going to say like a stripper or something. That's not what I was hoping at all. In no way, shape, or form. We know Charlamagne a little sassy. We know he was hoping for that. That's not what I was hoping he was going to say, like, a stripper or something. That's not what I was hoping at all. Ain't no way she ain't before. We know Charlamagne a little sassy. We know he was hoping for that. That's not what I was hoping. It's okay. But, nah, I'm not going to lie to you.

Yo, Jeff, how you feeling today? I'm here to shoot my shot. I'm not even going to play with you. We're going to treat this like it's wilding out. Let me holler. There's a ball in that basket already, sir. I don't know if you know. Listen here.

You said there's a ball in that basket. Now, watch this. I bet any amount of bread when she filed her taxes, she put up single. I bet bread. Did you put I have a man on your taxes or did you put single? You can't put I have a man on your taxes. Leave a married single. I put single on there.

Okay, so if you can't tell the government you're single and telling me something different, like what was that? Can't let no talk that talk. I know that's right. I'm going to tell Nicky to call you. Put you up on Wild N' Out, shorty. That was nice. That was nice.

You know the vibe? But you struck out, though. I'm going to take that and roll with it. Happy anniversary. No, I'm no... He mine now. Happy anniversary. He said you happy...

Thank you, Mello. Goodbye, Mello. Peace, Mello, my man. I'm going to fall with you. Goodbye, man. Hello, who's this? Envy, what's up, life skin? What's up, Trav?

Yo, how you doing? What's up, Jeff? What's up, baby? I'm doing good. I'm doing good. Charlemagne, what's up, Char? Peace, Trav. What up, sis?

I just wanted to call and tell you, Char, you was looking good. You was looking good in your video, Char. Looking like Morris Bessnut, baby. Tell me more. Tell me more. Morris Bessnut, okay. He was looking like Morris Bessnut, baby. Tell me more. Tell me more. Morris Bestnut, okay. He was looking like Morris Bestnut, baby. I turned that video on.

I ain't never seen skin glowing in a black and white video, Shaw. He was looking good. Let's go. Uh-uh. But also, I want to say I'll be dropping, you know, something about the hit. I do got a hit song, bro, called Where the Niggas. It's Ashley Sampling. Yeah, it's Ashley Sampling. Official big sexy.

He did his little thing on it for me. Y'all know I love you. Yeah, I got a little bop. Ain't gonna lie to you. Char, where the niggas at, Char? I have no idea, sir. But please tell me where so I can stay away from that area. All up in his DM.

He dropped that video. Hurry up. All up in his DM and he dropped that video. Hurry up. All right, Trav. Bye, y'all. Salute the big sexy. Yo, how big sexy jumps Ohio? Listen,

and always lands the landing. Always the landing. It never, never looks like it hurts enough and he be getting up there. Yes, he does.

That is the question y'all should be asking. Does big sexy have a traffic guard? Why is that little highway he be walking down always clear? Why that little intersection always clear? Because he does. That is the question y'all should be asking. Does Big Sexy have a traffic guard? Why is that little highway he be walking down always clear? Why that little intersection always clear? Because he wait. He wait.

Salute to Big Sexy. Yes. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's The Breakfast Club. Come on. The Breakfast Club.

This is your time to get it off your chest. Breakfast Club. Break it up. This is your time to get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? What's good, man? This is Prince Creed from 757. What's up, 757?

Hampton, Virginia Road. Hampton Roads, Virginia Beach. What up, Norfolk? No doubt, no doubt, no doubt, no doubt. First, I want to shout out the class of 2024 NSU. My first daughter, she graduated, man. NSU, NSU, NSU. If you don't hate, God bless. I love Norfolk.

Shout out to Norfolk State. I know you do, my brother. I know you do. Listen, man, I want to ask a quick question. Charlamagne, you there, man? Yes, sir. I know you do, my brother. I know you do. Listen, man, I want to ask a quick question. Charlamagne, you there, my brother? Yes, sir. I'm right here. Brother, I'm trying to get, I was trying to get my book published with the company you went, man, and y'all not

never taking submissions, man. I got this new book about untreated PTSD and mental health. Kids growing up in the projects called Once Upon a Time in the Projects, The Lost and Found. I mean, I would have taken a bit of good, once upon a time in the projects, the lost and found. I mean, I would have figured it would have been a good. I self-published, though, man.

But I want to know how can I submit to the company you with, bro? What? I'm with Simon & Schuster. I got my own company, Black Privileged Publishing, with Simon & Schuster. But you can send me the manuscript. I know. I got the book out. I want to mail you a copy.

I want to mail the whole cast a copy of the book. I'm not, man. All right. We're going to put you on hold. First of all, what's the name got the book out. I want to mail you a copy. I want to mail the whole cast a copy. I know, man. All right, we're going to put you on hold. First of all, what's the name of the book? Tell people the name of the book. The name of the book is called Once Upon a Time in the Project, The Lost and Found. You know, I devoted PTSD for a lot of the things that I've seen growing up in the project. You know me, I love PTSD.

I talk about Mary J. Blige. I talk about all the project kids, bro. Okay, hold on, brother. Okay, they're going to put you on hold. My new book comes out May 21st, too, man. Next week. Next week, May 21st, my new book, Get Honest and Die Lying, Why Small Talk Sucks, will be available everywhere you buy books.

You can pre-order it now. Keef, what up, Keef? What's up, man? How y'all doing? What's up, brother? Get it off your chest. Hey, man, I just wanted to shout out my mother-in-law, who just celebrated 16 years of motherhood.

All her children and two brothers are still here. I'm counting for her. That's beautiful, mother-in-law. That's amazing. Yeah. I just want to say y'all are doing a great job. I've been listening for a long time. DJ Indy, Salome Nagar, and Desi,

a great, great, great selection for the group. Thank you, honey. Keith, you have a good one. Say your mother-in-law's name, man. Oh, it's Faith, Faith Johnson. Faith Johnson. Hey, I was just wondering if I could get your advice on something because y'all are awkward. Yes, sir.

Hey, if somebody went on a public storm like Masterclass and tried to call out a certain part of your book to discount it, what would be your response? If somebody went on a platform like Masterclass and tried to discredit the book, how do they try to discredit it? By saying they don't like it or they don't like the information in it? No, I wrote a math book, and this guy came on to discount the book by coming up with an analogy to discount the theory that I came up with. Well, I don't know.

It's different when it comes to math problems, I guess. But I guess you just got to show why your theory is actual and factual. If he's trying to say it's not, you got to show why it is. Yeah, his name is Terrence ******. He's on Masterclass. 20 minutes into the thing, he talks about it. But I think he's hot in math. Matisse is going to talk about that.

Well, thank God for the promotion. He promoted your book. Yeah. So people will go out there and they're going to pick it up to see if he's going to talk about that. Well, thank God for the promotion. He promoted your book. Yeah. So people will go out there and they're going to pick it up to see if, you know, he's right or you're right. Yep. And no art. No matter what the art is, people are going to have critics. So I think that's good.

That blows you up. That gives you more exposure. Yep. Well, he didn't say the back of the book. He just said the subtitle to my book. But that was just what it was. Okay. Well, you have a good one, brother. Stay blessed.

I appreciate it, y'all. Y'all do a great day. Thank you. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. We got Jess with the mess coming up. Yes. It's high reason to run off stage. I'm going to tell y'all why. Oh, boy. We'll get into that next. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

Morning, everybody. It's the EJ NV Jess Hilarious. Y'all are meeting the guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's D.E.J. N.V. Jess Hilarious. Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get to the mess. News is real.

Web is real. The Lions just arrived. The Moore just don't do no lie. Just don't do no lie. She don't scare nobody. She don't scare nobody. Worldwide Jess. Worldwide mess.

On The Breakfast Club She's a culture shift She was able to get y'all to see something And understand something That nobody could get you to see It's time to set it all Was that a remix with Chris Brown? A Millie?

Featured Chris Brown? I thought so Yeah, that was whole Chris Brown Oh my god, I had no idea You never heard Chris Brown on that record? No That record's 18 years old I did not know that.

He sounded like he was a ride-a-beat, too. Okay, anyway. All right. Tyrese runs out of the show. So, over the weekend, he was performing in Georgia. And the video of the performance is making its rounds. I did see it. Have y'all saw it?

Yes. It is hilarious to me. While he was on stage performing, my favorites, how you gonna act like that? Someone came on stage and whispered in his ear. And shortly after he hopped off stage while while still singing and started to make a run for it and you can literally hear him leaving the stage playing First of all, in the middle of the second verse, the second verse is my favorite. He told the crowd he loved him and he abruptly ended the show. According to TMZ, Tyrese ran off stage because someone showed up to serve him legal papers.

So that was a little whisper in the ear. He's reportedly being served in connection to a lawsuit that stemmed from one of his more recent interviews on The Breakfast Club. Thanks to us. Play number two. I really wanted you to come in and do an interview. And let's unpack and have the conversation that we've never had. And I don't want to do it in the capacity of The Breakfast Club. Come to the crib.

Let's Barbara Walters this shit. So what happened? Do it right. Yeah, so what happened? Smart. Brian Barber, who I hired, I was able to get blessed by confirming Charlemagne. I flew him out. This shit does the fucking interview.

This shit has taken the fucking footage and refused to give it back. Then I found out he did it to Big Boy, did it to Dallas, Austin, did it to a couple niggas. So I don't care hey guys i'm kate max you might know me from my popular online series the running interview show where i run with celebrities athletes entrepreneurs and more after those runs the conversations keep going that's what my podcast post run high is all about it's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. You know that rush of endorphins you feel after a great workout?

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I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia. Be part of a great colonial tradition. The Waikana tried my country. My forefathers did that themselves. What could go wrong? No country willingly gives up their territory. I was making a rocket with a black powder, you know, with explosive warhead.

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And we're losing daylight fast. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just don't know what is going to come for you. Alicia Keys opens up about conquering doubt, learning to trust herself and leaning into her dreams. I think a lot of times we are built to doubt the possibilities for ourselves. For self-preservation and protection, it was literally that step by step. And so I discovered that that is how we get where we're going. This increment of small, determined moments. Alicia shares her wisdom on growth,

gratitude, and the power of love. I forgive myself. It's okay. Like grace. Have grace with yourself. You're trying your best and you're going to figure out the rhythm of this thing.

Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. On Thanksgiving Day, 1999, a five-year-old boy floated alone in the ocean.

He had lost his mother trying to reach Florida from Cuba. He looked like a little angel. I mean, he looked so fresh. And his name, Elian Gonzalez, will make headlines everywhere. Elian Gonzalez. Elian Gonzalez. Elian. Elian. Elian Gonzalez, will make headlines everywhere. Elian Gonzalez. Elian Gonzalez. Elian.

Elian. Elian Gonzalez. At the heart of the story is a young boy and the question of who he belongs with. His father in Cuba. Mr. Gonzalez wanted to go home and he wanted to take his son with him. Or his relatives in Miami. Imagine that your mother died trying to get you to freedom. At the heart of it all is still this painful family separation. Something that as a

Cuban, I know all too well. Listen to Chess Peace, the Elian Gonzalez story, as part of the My Cultura podcast network, available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, what's up? This is Ramses Jha. And I go by the name Q Ward. And we'd like you to join us each week for our show Civic Cipher. That's right. We're going to discuss social issues, especially those that affect black and brown people, but in a way that informs and empowers all people to hopefully create better allies. Think of it as a black show for non-black people.

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With myself, Ramses Jha, Q Ward, and some of the greatest minds in America. Listen to Civic Cipher every Saturday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. AFC, this is interview. Yeah, that was a one-on-one. I had a one-on-one conversation with Tyrese. I don't even remember what year that was, but I flew down to Atlanta. No, he flew you down there.

And you spent the night. I didn't spend the night. He flew you in. I flew down to Atlanta. And when I flew down there, I don't remember him paying. Maybe he did pay for my flight. I don't remember. Yeah, I'm pretty sure he did.

Yeah, we flew down to Atlanta, and we had a great conversation. And Brian Barber did direct it, but I guess Brian owned the footage. Yeah, well, he's facing a $10 million defamation lawsuit filed by Brian. And he claims, Brian Barber claims that Tyrese falsely stated that he kept Tyrese's footage from an interview that he did with you

he kept so he still has it allegedly and that's what he said and Brian said that has messed up his career it was very damaging so

yeah Brian been wanting to come up here and have that conversation he been wanting to tell the story maybe he still does is he in New York

or where is he Atlanta yeah yeah fly him in fly him up so he can he got his own money he's been wanting to tell the story maybe he still does is he in New York or where is he? Atlanta fly him in fly him up he got his own money I'm sure I've never seen Tyrese do anything like that outside of Fast and Furious though that was incredible the way he jumped off the stage and running out to that's my time

I've only seen him do that on Fast and Furious that's my time by the way don't that make you look guilty though? what? the run from the process server like that on Fast and Furious. That's my time. By the way, don't that make you look guilty though? What? Like dodging. To run from the process server like that? He said right here

on the interview, what was his last words? He said, I don't care if you hear this. Yeah, I want him to hear this interview. He heard it. He heard it.

And he's like, uh-uh. You got to stand on business all the way through, Tyrese. I would have gave the mic though to one of my fans so they could finish it

because that was, the next line was, girl, I know that we've been going through some things. That would have gave the mic though to one of my fans so they could finish it because that was the next line was girl I know that we've been going through some things that's the best part. That's my time. How about play it off better?

You only had three songs left. Three songs left. Last song you go into the crowd you act like you're serenading people and then you just walk out and you're gone.

Like why make it so obvious? But the thing is even when you walk because you're walking out the front door now right? Yes. Is his car in the front door now, right? Yes. Is his car in the front door now? It don't matter.

He can Uber. Or maybe security's like, I'll meet you in the front. Yeah. You got three minutes. He could have played that off way better. Yeah, that man walked up on that stage like, yo, somebody see this interview. And he was like, oh, okay. Straight jump, Dave's out.

All right, I'm coming out. I'm coming out there, y'all. Ran right up the ramp. But by by the way Why wouldn't his security And stuff handle that Better as well Because if the process Server comes in It's not like the process

Server can walk out On stage and serve him So why pull Tyrese To the side And even whisper They should have been Talking to the process The thing you did

Look a little small It looked like a bit smaller Like you know Like one of those Lounges or nightclubs Or whatever And I don't know Tyrese doing lounges

Oh my gosh Please don't That's crazy Tyrese doing big He ain't doing lounges He nightclubs or whatever. And I don't know. Tyrese doing lounges? Oh my gosh. Please don't. That's crazy. Tyrese doing big. He ain't doing lounges. He was probably doing like a little karaoke event. Oh, shoot.

But you know what? The processor got to hand it to him. So if Tyrese just walks out with his head down, he could have just walked out. He should have just performed the last song, serenaded the crowd, and just creeped out. This man said Tyrese doing lounges. You said Tyrese doing lounges. No, she said Tyrese doing karaoke. it appeared to be like a little lounge exactly yeah it just looked like a little karaoke party like oh my gosh Tyrese doing karaoke

it's probably like a for charity you know he loves the kids your daddy would do charity no don't play with my father don't play with my father that is Justin Musks cause y'all done took up my time. I don't got time for this. You know Jessica Daddy do the best karaoke. Yes, he does. King karaoke at Baltimore.

My father got Mr. Kevin's Magic Music. That's his thing. He wanted to come up here and do songs like that. No. So he gonna do karaoke? That's what he do. That Tyrese show was his show. That was not.

That was not his show. Tyrese was not. That was not his show. Tyrese was doing karaoke at Jeff's daddy's show. He got some balls for y'all later. Alright, when we come back we got front page news. We'll tell you what's going on

in that Baltimore Bridge that fell out. You know, they were supposed to rebuild it. We'll tell you what happened with that. And also, the top 10 best cities to start

a career in 2024. Yes. We'll tell you what those cities are when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. You're checking out The Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy.

We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. All right. Last night, NBA, the Cavaliers lost to the Celtics 109-102. The Thunder beat the Mavericks 196. All right. Now, they tie that series with the Thunder and Mavericks. And Boston leads 3-1. The Knicks play tonight at 8 p.m.

Also, the WNBA starts tonight. And Indiana plays. Now, they're saying that usually they averaged 3,000 last year. And they're expecting to average over 10,000 this year. Which is great for the WNBA. 10,000 what? People. At the games? At the games. That's what's up. Now, Biden

trails Trump in the battleground states. They're saying President Biden is trailing Donald Trump in five of the six key battleground states. Now, this is a new polling from the New York Times, Siena College, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. I'm sick of having this conversation because every time I had this conversation, people get upset with me.

But I asked this simple question last October, November. Simple question. Is the Biden Harris ticket a winnable ticket? I don't know why that is such a controversial question to ask. It's just a simple question. But when you ask it, people get upset. They do. Because at this point, there's no other choice. There's no other choice. But even back then, that's why we were saying things like maybe it would be in Biden's best interest or in the best interest of the Democratic Party for him to step aside. But people

get mad when you say that, too. I think people feel like it's too late now. That can't happen. So now they're saying, you know, everybody got to support. It's too late now. People have been saying this. This isn't a new conversation. People were saying this way back when. I'm saying this last year sometime. But you got to deal with it.

You got to play with the cards you've been dealt now. Yeah. Well, a couple of months ago, of course, we remember that Baltimore Bridge did fell out. And so many people were injured and killed. And crew members, well, they finally got the last piece out so they can actually start rebuilding. That was the moment the crews set off explosives to break apart that 600-ton steel beam that was still on top of the Dali cargo ship. And remember, that ship's been stuck there ever since when the ship hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge

back in late March overnight. Dude, this is f***ing bad. Like, there is no bridge. Like, there is no bridge. That is new video we're getting in body cam from the night that it happened, from Maryland's Department of Natural Resources. The shock, did you hear that in that first responder's voice? The collapse killed the six construction workers who had been filling potholes on the bridge last night. Just last week, crews recovered the body of the final missing victim,

which is why they moved forward with the demolition today. Well, that's good. That's crazy. Yeah. That's good. Building that up. I know. But it's just so crazy. When you hear the story, even for the first time, it's like, dang, like it's no bridge.

You drove home, what, this weekend? Last weekend? Saturday. And it's very difficult, right? They just go a different way, yeah. Traffic is crazy, like going into White Marsh Marsh and Prairie Hall and yeah because you hit East County before you get to the actual city and yeah definitely now your boo is a truck driver what does he say about the traffic getting there because I know it has to be difficult for trucks because you can't go certain routes yeah it's different it's it's like a different route it's like a like a 45 minute to like two hours depending on the traffic like that because they have to go around now

and then take a lot of city routes. So they got to charge more because I'm sure it's more gas, more in tolls and all that. Definitely tolls. Big tolls. And those trucks aren't supposed to go down

certain roads. Nope, because some of them have height restrictions and stuff like that. So yeah, it's just calculating routes and all that stuff.

And lastly, it's talking to the 10 top best cities to start a career in 2024 number one korean what though you just said a career i guess start a career uh number one atlanta georgia korean what too many people it says this year's best city to start a career in atlanta georg, which comes in the first of professional opportunities and seventh for quality of life. Number two, Orlando, Florida. Number three, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Number four, Tampa, Florida. Number five, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Number six, Portland, Maine. Number seven, Charleston, South Carolina. You already know 843 was happening. We out here. Career and what? Career and what?

That was number two already now. Number eight, Austin, Texas. Number nine, Miami, Florida. And number 10, Knoxville, Tennessee. happening we out here career and what career number eight Austin Texas number nine Miami Florida and number ten Knoxville Tennessee on the bottom of the list in 182nd is New York said it making it the worst thing for starting a career you ain't gotta tell me listen I've had a great career in New York City but that's my point career and what what are you going to these places to do okay that matters yeah well i kind of knew number one would be atlanta i mean like you can move down there and do anything yeah yeah

whether it's legal illegal whatever you will make a killing so yeah all right well that is front page news now let's open up the phone lines 800-585-1051 uh this brother or this father i should say talks about an incident that happened with his daughter he said his daughter was being bullied he tried to do everything to stop the bullying he said he sent letters he talked to the he went to the school he talked to the other parents but it never stopped so the father decided to beat up the girl's father but not only beat up the girl's father jumped the girl's father let's hear audio and then we'll take your calls when we come back to the seven-year-old girl

who had to watch me and my brothers jump her daddy after school i'm sorry i know that was probably a traumatizing experience for you but we kept asking you to stop bullying my daughter and you wouldn't listen we sent letters home we even had a meeting with you and your parents and you wouldn't listen so now you know your actions have consequences and since you too young to receive those consequences you had to watch your daddy take those consequences. Get some therapy. You'll be all right. A lot of y'all keep asking why I didn't fight this man one-on-one and why I got my brothers to jump him in front of his seven-year-old daughter.

And the answer is simple. Life is not fair. You get jumped by responsibilities every day. So I wanted to make sure she saw what it looked like when a fight is not fair and you don't have no choice but to let somebody jump you so she could get the concept of what she was doing sometimes kids learn from what they see and not what they hear so i wanted it to be a visual experience okay i'm out here doing the lord's work okay god is pleased with me whether or not y'all are he didn't get arrested yet no say i don't is is no video because i actually saw that and i was looking for the

video i know that father who got beat up his maid is oh ain't nobody handle camera let's open up the phone i feel sorry i feel sorry that the system failed all those individuals because he went through the proper procedures he said he went to the school made complaints. He said he had conversations with the parent. He even sat down with them. With the parent. And then, you know, the sad part about it is this all depends on the behavior of a young child who really does not know any better. Correct.

Right? So all of this is because a 7-year-old or 8-year-old just simply cannot control him or herself. Right. But do you really expect them to at that age? No. cannot control him him or herself right but do you really expect him to at that age no but it gets to a point as parents sometimes we have to be parents right yeah i know somebody says well yeah that's what they get but what happened if that father would have pulled out his firearm and shot the other person oh my god that's what i'm saying you know i mean because it wasn't a

one-on-one fight y'all came to jump me yeah Let's say I shot him and he died. Now that's in front of your daughter. Now let's say you gotta go to jail. That's in front of your daughter. Yeah, as much as I say on this radio, you know, you mess with my child, I'm gonna beat the parent up. There is a better way to handle this whole situation. Absolutely. Let's open up the phone lines.

800-585-1051. Was this father right? He went through the proper procedure. He called. He emailed. He sent letters. He met with father right? He went through the proper procedure. He called. He emailed. He sent letters. He met with the principal. He met with the other parents. The bullying didn't stop, and he decided to jump the father.

Was he right for that? Let's discuss. 800-585-1051. We'll take your calls when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody.

It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. If you're just joining us, we're talking about a father who had an issue with a bully. So what happened was his 7-year-old daughter was being bullied by another 7-year-old girl. And he tried to do everything to stop it. Now, this is all allegedly because this is what we're hearing online. But he allegedly sent letters. He allegedly everything to stop it. Now, this is all allegedly because this is what we're hearing online. But he allegedly sent letters. He allegedly spoke to the principal.

He allegedly met with the other girl's parents. But the bullying never stopped. So he decided to beat up the girl's father. But not only just beat him up, jumped him. Him and his brother went and jumped the father. So we're asking 800-585-1051. We are in Breakfast Club Court right now. What are your thoughts?

We'll start with you, Jess. I mean, I was like kind of against what he did until he explained it. I mean, I don't, I really don't see a lot wrong with that, especially since he did take proper precaution in the beginning. Yeah, there are certainly other ways he could have handled it.

He could have fought the guy one-on-one. I mean, he could have proceeded to have more meetings and, and you know but that's his little girl being traumatized at the end of the day from a bully so yeah her her uncle's had to come through but we always talk about for every action is reaction right and you know let's say he spoke to his daughter let's say his daughter was just a bad kid and you know he he tried to do what's right because you know kids gonna be kids regardless yeah and now you come to my house or you come to beat me up let's say i got my fire on with me now your daddy dead or let's say you fight me and i get the upper hand now your daddy's dead or he's hurt or you beat me up now your daddy's in jail uh is it worth it i don't think so yeah you know that's the hypothetical

we're dealing with this morning the reality is him and his brother won that fight. Yeah. And the other part of the reality is it may not be over. That's my point. Now it might not be over. Now you beat me up. Now I need my get back. Now I got to call my cousins.

And then your daughter still got to come to school. My kid got to go to school. We just don't know what. But not only that, you don't want your father to take it too far. But like, oh, now you jump me?

And when I see your daughter, I'll slap your daughter. You never know how far it goes. You be jumping out the window with the wildest. This is not jumping out the window. The judge would definitely say, stop trying to sway the jury, Mr. Attorney. I'm just saying. You just be making stuff up.

We all jumping out the window. No, deal with the reality of the situation. Exactly. You don't know. Deal with the reality. Was he right for what happened? In my opinion, no. But I am the same person that says says if you mess with my child i'm gonna beat your parent up so i do understand him he loves his child he wants the bullying of his child to stop

so that pain his child is feeling that hurt his child is feeling he projected that onto the parent of the child that was bullying his child that was sad about this situation is that all these actions are being determined by a child, meaning he jumped the parent because the child doesn't know any better and kept bullying his kid. If that man has gone through all the proper procedures, if he went to the school, if he had conversations with the parent,

if he made complaints, and all that didn't make the child stop bullying the other child, I'm not sure the jumping will either. I'm not sure him beating up the... It might make it worse. It'll make it worse because the parent that got jumped is now extremely angry at his child. So imagine what he's projecting onto his child now.

But not only that, like you said, now my daughter's going to be like, oh, y'all hit my dad? Oh, now I'm going to beat you up even worse every day in school. Yeah. I don't believe that's going to be the case. Okay. I don't know if that will be the case.

But I do fear for that little girl because yeah that pain that her daddy experienced getting beat up by them two men he may project on to her just out of anger like yelling at her screaming at her this is your fault blah blah i can mess up a little seven eight year old child absolutely well i mean seeing your daddy get beat up but jump it could mess up you, too. We got Victor on the line. Victor, good morning. Good morning.

How you doing? Hey, how you doing, MB? How you doing, Victor? How's everything, man? Hey, I'm Dominican Victor in Miami. I'm with A.J. Good morning, my beautiful princess. Good morning.

Thank you. I love you, too, baby. Chala, man. You's a man, too, man. Thank you for your books, man. They teach me a lot man i got a new one coming out next week may 21st get on us a dial line watch small talk sucks awesome hey listen i'm with that guy i had a same similar situation with a guy

baker my little baby girl was four years old man there was a boy picking on her she didn't want to go to daycare man and. And she loved that place. I spoke to the director. I spoke to the teacher. And nothing was being done until I saw the photo outside. He gave me a smirk and a smile like he didn't care. What he said was, boys act that way. I smacked him one time with the backhand with the knuckles, man. I couldn't hold back, man. Guess what? Everything stopped, man. Sometimes to defend your kids, man, it results in violence, man,

which is bad. But that's the only way. I went through the proper channels and nothing got fixed until I challenged him. That's it. That was five years ago. He used to look at me and walk the other way, man. I commend that guy, man. Okay. Thank you.

Thank you. The Dominican turns Howard, man. Hey, man. Hello, who's this? Yo, this is DP from South Carolina. Hey, DP, what's up, man? Talk to us. What's happening, brother? What's happening, brother? First of all, I want to say good morning to the three of you. Good morning.

Second of all, I saw the video of the guy that was explaining Second of all, second of all, I saw the video of the guy that was explaining. For one, that dude was too big. If you and your brother have to jump in somebody,

that means you don't have no hands. For one. For two, that's hurting a man's pride. Beating on him in front of his child,

now you have to deal with the consequences of what happened after him. My whole thing is, if my child was to actually be bullying your child, we're going to sit down as parents and talk this out. If it goes further than that, my child is not leaving your child alone,

that's my place to reprimand my child and me to handle that. But as far as you putting your hands on me at the school, in front of my daughter, and you have multiple people with you whatever happens it happens. Now, what can I do to you? You come with us on your cell.

That's true. And that's what I was saying. Did you see the other parent? I didn't see the other parent. Okay. I didn't see a video of the other parent. For one,

see how I looked at it as a man, I'm not going to record nothing like that. I'm going to incriminate myself. Oh yeah, I just jumped on this guy. I'm going to jump on this guy.

Jess said something that's a good point. What's that? What if this dude was a big dude? Yeah. We ain't see no other parent. Because he said that the guy who was recording, the one who beat the other parent up is too big. But do you know what the other kid,

I mean, the other kid's parent looked like? That's true. You know, we don't know because there was no video. Yeah. 800-585-1051 if you're just joining us we're talking about uh a gentleman who was uh mad that his daughter was getting bullied he he did everything possible let's let's hear the audio to a seven-year-old girl who had to watch me and my brothers jump her daddy after school i'm sorry i know that was probably a traumatizing experience for you but we kept asking you to stop

bullying my daughter and you wouldn't listen. We sent letters home. We even had a meeting with you and your parents and you wouldn't listen. So now you know your actions have consequences. And since you're too young to receive those consequences, you had to watch your daddy take those consequences. Get some therapy. You'll be all right. A lot of y'all keep asking why I didn't fight this man one-on-one.

And why I got my brothers to jump him in front of his seven-year-old daughter. And the answer is simple. Life is not fair. You get jumped by responsibilities every day. So I wanted to make sure she saw what it looked like when a fight is not fair and you don't have no choice but to let somebody jump you. So she could get the concept of what she was doing. Sometimes kids learn from what they see and not what they hear. So I wanted it to be a visual experience, okay?

I'm out here doing the Lord's work, okay? God is pleased with me whether or not y'all are. So we're asking 800-585-1051. What are your thoughts? Let's discuss. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy.

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We sent letters home. We even had a meeting with you and your parents and you wouldn't listen. So now you know your actions have consequences. And since you too young to receive those consequences, you had to watch your daddy take those consequences. Get some therapy. You'll be all right. A lot of y'all keep asking why I didn't fight this man one-on-one and why I got my brothers to jump him in front of his seven-year-old daughter.

And the answer is simple. Life is not fair. You get jumped by responsibilities every day. So I wanted to make sure she saw what it looked like when a fight is not fair and you don't have no choice but to let somebody jump you. So we're asking 800-585-1051 what are your thoughts we have ashley on the line ashley good morning good morning hey ashley what are your thoughts my thoughts is i think that we have to always advocate for our kids and if we've done all

that we can and we've went through all the the correct avenues the the principal having a meeting with the parents it's it's almost like said, some kids just need that visualization. And yeah, I understand it could have went totally wrong. He could have pulled out a gun and knife. It could have got real bad for him. But at the same time, we cannot ever stop advocating for our kids. And what do you do at that point? You have to stand up for your child.

Yeah, I mean, I'm not going to say he's wrong. Like, well, you know, I'm not going to say he was right either i'm not gonna say he's wrong like well you know i'm not gonna say he was right either i'll just say that i can understand the situation but i wonder did they try a conversation between the parents with the kids yeah like did they have a conversation with us as parents and the kids there and explain to each other why they need why they why she need to stop bullying the child he was wrong he was wrong he was wrong they shouldn't have jumped that man he was wrong i'm not gonna say that i wouldn't have done it that but it's wrong it's wrong it's absolutely positively wrong as adults we're supposed to try to handle things

as adult situations as parents and that's wrong and i'm not gonna say that i wouldn't did it but it's wrong i would have to look back at myself and be like i shouldn't do that i understand him i'm not gonna say it's right i'm not gonna say it's wrong i would just say if in my personal opinion i don't think it's right but i understand understand him but i just feel like there was too there's still too many other uh things that you could have probably utilized other than just going to jump the guy with your brother like that's great brothers oh it was brothers yeah he said me and my brothers damn jesus yeah hello who's this hi it's nalisha hey nalisha good morning hi i'm from new york but i just moved to south carolina what part um i live in somerville oh what a beautiful life you're living yes traveling to god my mom

actually met you at enterprise oh she worked she was working at Enterprise at the airport? Yeah. What's your thoughts, Mama? So, my thought on this is I feel like I disagree. And I feel like I disagree with what he said because he's trying to show his daughter and stand up for his daughter for getting bullied.

But here you are contradicting yourself and you're going to beat up the father. You're basically bullying. You're showing your child that, yeah, I'm trying to stick up for you, and you're going to beat up the father. You're basically bullying. You're showing your child that, yeah, I'm trying to stick up for you, but it's okay to bully. So I think I disagree with it. I don't think you should have beat up the father because he's basically contradicting what he's trying to stand up for. And I just sit here wondering, like, you know, when everything is based on the thoughts and the actions of a 7 or eight year old child right like if he's gone through everything already talk to the principal talk to the parent and the kids still ain't

learning what makes him what makes them think the kid's gonna learn from this well what do you do what is a better what what what do you do then i feel like honestly you don't have to it doesn't have to lead to violence you can honestly speak because kids are kids i haven't said i have a five-year-old so kids are going to do that to each other but it's up to a certain extent so you can have a conversation with the parent you can sit down and talk to the parent you know what i'm saying but going and beating up the parent and showing the kids that let's just leave this to violence that's not making any situation better you're basically contradicting what you're trying to teach them about bullying right and he talked

about his child seeing things could you imagine now your daughter's home and the police come to your house and arrest you and put you in cuffs in front of your daughter that's embarrassing i feel sorry too for the child who was doing the bullying as well because i'm telling you that father is highly upset at her right now. Of course. And there's no telling what he's saying to her right now. And the mama. Right.

You get this from your mama. Your mama don't listen either. Cabin, tell your mama to sit her dumb ass down forever, too. She won't sit her dumb ass down either. Hello, who's this? Hi, this is Janaya from Atlanta. Hey, Janaya. What's your thoughts, mama?

Good morning, everyone. My thoughts are, I actually just experienced something like this with my own son. And I can understand both sides of the coin. However, like you all were stating, there's a thin line between trying to do what you need to do for your child, following the governmental officials and doing everything that you need to do in that regard but that situation could have turned out really really bad i actually worked for the government so i've been able to see both sides of that how they're those families could have not had a history of any violence at all and one split second could have ended everything oh some seven-year-old

right absolutely like yeah he didn't think that one through because if i'm gonna go jump somebody that's the first thing i'm thinking like y'all i want to just do got a gun yeah you know you have to you have to start thinking like that because look at the times that we live in like people don't care split second decisions and you're in jail for the rest of your life that's right but what you think you're going to show teach rest of your life. That's right. For what? You think you're going to teach your daughter them a lesson and now your daughter going to end up at a funeral.

That's right. Absolutely, and that's a conversation like, I understand that they sat down to talk to the parents, but in that instance, we gonna have to keep talking. Something else is gonna have to give. Somebody's gonna have to get suspended. You know, there needs to be some extra measures in place. And like I said, I understand that because in my situation,

my son was threatened to be killed by a middle schooler in a situation he had nothing to do with. And I saw red. I'm not going to lie. My government job went out the window. But I was like, I have to think this through because this could truly, genuinely be bad. Yeah, I think that as a parent, when you got a child in school, when your child comes to you and he tells you or she tells you that, you know, her and another child may be having problems. If you have access to the parent, I think you should talk to the parent immediately. Yeah, absolutely.

Like immediately, because that stuff can escalate so fast. We've all been in high school before. You know how those little petty disagreements and petty arguments can turn into physical altercations, especially nowadays in this era? So I feel like parents need to be intervening immediately, immediately, immediately. Like one of the young ladies said, I don't know if it was her just now, you can never do enough talking. Right. Yeah, she definitely said that. All right. So I guess that's the moral?

I mean, the moral of the story is, yeah. Like, I don't think you can ever do enough talking. Like, I think it should take a lot before it ever gets to this type of violence. Absolutely. Yeah, no, it should. And this wasn't even the kind of violence that started because we was having a conversation and it escalated into an argument. And you said something foul.

No. No, you said, you came to line me up. Yeah. You came with the homies to jump me in front of my daughter. Yeah. Yeah, I wonder how he caught him, too. Because if I see y'all outside, I ain't opening the door. And if I'm opening the door, I got to protect myself.

I thought this happened at school. They went to his house? That's what they meant. It seemed like. I don't think they jumped him at school. They said after school. Yeah, I thought it was after school. I hope they didn't jump him in front of the school.

And then he tells on himself. Absolutely. He tells on himself. Absolutely. The cops say they don't need a statement you just you gave them the state is true i don't know if it was it didn't say location he just said he said after school jesus all right well we got just with the mess coming up what we talking about 50 cent and meek mill are going back and forth i don't even know how

this happened and then soldier boy and his little two sons oh my god all right we'll get to that next is the breakfast club good morning morning everybody is dj nv jess hilarious charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club yes we are man how y'all feeling out there we got a young lady coming in uh later on in the show her name is shaniqua golden she has a book out called a black girl in the middle essays on allegedly figuring it all out right yeah i like uh i like shan Shanique was writing a lot and her book just dropped so we're going to talk to her later on in the show. That's right.

And I got my new book, my third book actually, Get Honest or Die Lying, Why Small Talk Sucks. It comes out May 21st, next week. Yeah, so I'll be out in these book tour streets, man.

I'll be in New York on May 22nd at the Barnes & Noble on 5th Avenue at 1 p.m. And I'll be in Paramus, New Jersey at the Barnes & Noble at 5 p.m. on May 22nd. So I'll see y'all there. And Philly, I'll see you on May 23rd. I'll be at Green Street Friends School

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and get tickets to come see me discuss my new book, Get Honest or Die Line, Why Small Talk Sucks. And we'll be doing book signers and all of that stuff, too. Yeah, and absolutely shout to all the students that are graduating, too. Yesterday was my daughter's graduation. So, salute to all the college graduates, all the high school graduates. Drop a bomb for them. Isn't it crazy that the news doesn't report on the graduations as much as they should?

Like, you know, you're having all of these conversations about colleges, but a lot of this stuff is about the college protests. Wouldn't it be cool to see some positive news as well? Yeah. You know what I mean? It would be. You know? I think so. Like some of these kids have really busted their ass, you know, the last four years.

So, you know, throw some celebration energy their way. Yeah. Yesterday she graduated, or one of the graduations this is like the rolling ladder graduations it's like this event today event tomorrow but it was just dope it was peaceful it was it was so many parents so many families just proud of their kids and proud of their family members so again salute to all the graduates congratulations on all that that y'all have been cured yes all right when we come back we got just with the mess so don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club.

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Okay, so Meek vs. 50 Cent So yesterday, Envy, you did a good job, boo You reported 50 and King Kong's having a little bit of static or whatever Did you feel good reading? I read well. Okay. I read very well. Thank you.

Okay. You're welcome. King Combs had dropped a record to defend Diddy and the family name. In the record, he took some shots at 50 Cent. Although, I don't really get the diss. I don't get it either. I'm glad you said that. They were making me feel crazy.

I ain't hear the shots either. Yeah. It's just like, yeah, he was saying, and it was a little confusing because what he said, well, you can just play it. Because wasn't Diddy before 50? Yes Yeah So I don't know I didn't take that as a diss either

Yeah, right But on another part of the song He said something else That 50 had a problem with Knock them walls down Like when them fettie boys Ran them both for our crib Too bad they ain't know

We bought the one next door Cause that's the one they made That was stupid Oh my gosh Son That was dumb. Yeah, son, sit down. What are you doing?

What are you doing? Thanks for the crime. Like, what? Again. You missed us, feds. Everything was in the other house. What? What are you doing?

What is wrong with him, y'all? Oh, he's... Anyway. When responding to the record, 50 shared a clip of the song with the caption, and now why would you say some ish like that

when you know the feds are investigating? Is you stupid or is you dumb? Of record, 50 shared a clip of the song with the caption. Now, why would you say some ish like that when you know the fans are investigating? Is you stupid or is you dumb? Of course, 50 said that. Meek put himself into the story when he added, when he decided to answer 50 Cent's question. 50 Cent was not talking to you. But now we know how when Meek Mill get upset, how he start typing, no punctuation marks. So basically, he was saying, like, you put it out there. That could have flew under the basically he was saying like you put it out there that could have flew under the radar yo like but you put it out there he called 50 cent like the

feds or whatever so and then he said your own son hates your guts i'm so grateful to be on the island with my son um on his birthday when you literally just was saying you couldn't talk to your son for his birthday stop bringing up people kids all right so 50 cent responded to that with an instagram caption that said you sold 6 000 copies on your last project you should not be on a vacation hey stop bringing up people kids all right so 50 cent responded to that with an instagram caption that said you sold 6 000 copies on your last project you should not be on a vacation you're still chasing the dream or embracing the nightmare standing by your man now that i respect hey yo 50 is crazy so of course that sent mcmill up in a frenzy and he said my last project sold 90 000 first week expensive pain ross did that last CD for fun

to let me out of my contract because we rich and have some type of history. It's different, LOL. I don't even know how Cuban was talking to you. Your swag is extremely whack. But as usual, 50 didn't take any of it seriously and responded just like 50 would.

He shared a throwback video of Meek Freestyling about having good wiener. Huh? In the video, yeah. It was the video. You've seen the video before. When Meek said something about giving a sex. You see when Diddy whipped that neck around like, uh-uh.

Oh, when Diddy got excited? Oh, yeah, yeah. You've seen that video. While Meek was screaming on the mic about having good wiener. And, yeah. He looked at him a little suspiciously or whatever so with that video 50 added the caption i commend you for being a strong supportive woman for your man meek stay by his side and together you guys may have a good life god bless why can't everybody

just get along i we're talking about 50 cent that's true we are talking about 50 cent and then he wasn't even talking to me and meek Meek should have minded his business in that situation. And I saw Meek kept saying that, you know, Christian is a little boy. Christian's 26 years old. Yeah, he's still a grown man. That's a grown-ass man. He's younger than them. But that's a 26-year-old grown man.

So we all make choices. Personally, I think the record that Ken Combs put out, that was a poor choice. Yeah. I think it was a poor choice yeah yeah i think it was a poor choice see the thing with meek which bothers me about meek when when drake was going at me crazy and the world was going at me none of these people he's standing up for stood up for him no nobody stood up for me and meek was there on the island by himself yeah and now he's you know he's trying he's standing up for for ken combs he's standing up for diddy he's standing up for these people

because i guess they're his friends but how do we know Diddy ain't slapped Drake over Meek? Yeah, we won't find out stuff until years later. Exactly. No, that wasn't the situation. But nobody spoke about Meek publicly. Yeah, nobody came to his defense. When everybody was on his neck.

And that's sad because nobody's going to do it now. Mm-hmm. Crazy. Soulja Boy joined in, though. 50 Cent. He joined 50 and trolling Meek. So Soulja Boy took a shot at

meek mill on twitter after me tweeted about him in a response to a post from some guy named cardo so the guy cardo said don't grow up trying to be soldier boy boy is an idiot so meek mill said soldier if you oh no i'm not gonna read this so basically he's saying that you always talk about you going shoot at somebody like you know you're going to have smoke with somebody when you see them but what happens when they shoot at you then that's self-defense that's a great point yeah yeah absolutely but it was unwarranted because you know basically he just took that shot and soldier wasn't talking to him but soldier responded to meek man was said didn't itty i mean didn't Diddy do something to you?

I can't say this. What did he say? Let me see. He said, didn't Diddy give you wiener? Oh, in the booty. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jesus Christ.

Yep. And Meek did not respond. I wish there was no Wi-Fi on that island that Meek is at. Yeah. When I'm on vacation, you know what I'm saying, and I'm on the island, I got my phone in the safe or somewhere. I'm not going nowhere near my phone. There is no need for me to be intervening in all of these situations.

There is no need for me to intervene in 50 King Kong. No need for me to intervene with Soulja Boy. Why are you not enjoying the rum punch on the island? And I got my own situation that I've been battling. And, you know, when everybody's quiet, it goes away. So now everybody's coming at you. But you know, the one part about the song, King Kong's song, he said, I dare one of y'all to say no ditty.

Please don't dare to say something that you know we still gonna say. That's what I said. And they gonna say what you did. When you walking into the club, they gonna say it. When you walking out the club, they gonna say it. Just to antagonize you. When you walking down the street, they gonna say it. When you walking, they gonna say it regardless.

That's what I understand. They're going to do that just to antagonize you. Yep, now. They not scared of you. And by the way, even if they were scared of you, they would still do it. Absolutely. These people don't care. You're just an extra in their reality show.

Everybody walking around with their phones. They see King Kong. Watch this. Watch this. Because they want to go viral. And they're willing to deal with whatever comes with that. It's a good rival. It's a good rival.

I just seen that happen with Drake. I seen Drake walking out of a restaurant. They were screaming at him about something that Kendrick said. Yeah. And he had his headphones. He was like, I know your headphones ain't even plugged in. Like, people will do it. They don't care.

They're going to be getting in fights all summer. They don't care. They're going to hear OVO and A Minor all summer long. Yes. Oh, my God. And then he gave a new meaning to fan. Yes. Fre, my God. And then he gave a new meaning to fan. Yes. Freaky ass thing.

By the way, everybody in OVO should just stay in Toronto and Turks for the summer. And please don't go to Cali. He was in Cali. He was in Cali, I think, leaving the restaurant. You see what I'm saying? He was screaming. And he had the headphones. He was like, I know your headphones ain't plugged in.

But I'm like, they're going to do that all summer long. All this for a bunch of nothing. And by the way, 50 was mind headphones ain't plugged in. But I'm like, they're going to do that all summer long. All this for a bunch of nothing. Mind your business. And by the way, 50 was minding his business too. Yeah. I don't think the record King Cone put out was a diss, but the blogs do. And that's the headline they ran with it. And 50 Cent is going to react like 50 Cent.

Exactly. But 50 and Diddy got their own beef for whatever reasons. Like, I don't know where it stems from. I don't know where it's going. But leave them alone. 50 is the type of person, he has no limit. He's going to keep going. And don't care and laughing's going, but leave them alone. 50 is the type of person he has no limit. He gonna keep going. And don't care and laughing.

50 don't want no beef with Diddy. Nobody wants no beef with Diddy. Everybody wants Diddy to keep his meat to himself. Oh my God. Keep all your meat to yourself, please. That's how we're in this situation now. Okay.

Oh boy. That's just what I'm not sure. I don't got time for this. Well, who you giving your donkey to? Boy, after the hour, we need the Ozark Police Department in Alabama to come to the front of the congregation. We'd like to have a word with them, please. All right. We'll get to that next.

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he uses or someone uses has to incite violence. That's not the case in this situation. Harrison adds that Supreme Court cases support his interpretation of the law. Profanity-laced language does not violate the law. As for Burks, he stands firm in the belief that he was not wrong for what he said. I told my mom I was probably just going to go up there and see if they're going to actually give me some time for not 10 days or 30 days, whatever they want to give me, for not writing an apology letter because I'm not writing an apology letter. I don't think now is really, I don't think it's necessary. All right. When the judge talks like this, you're going to go to jail if you don't do what the judge tell you to do.

Now, look, it's tough being a black man in America and having to deal with law enforcement. Because the reality is, in our minds, every encounter with police officers, we're just trying to survive. And in the case of Reginald Burks, personally, I'm not cursing at the police officer. I totally understand and respect the power dynamics in that situation. When we out in the field, out in the streets, as much as we want to say these officers work for us, they don't. OK, they technically do because we are taxpaying citizens. But a lot of them don't act like it. And I am fully aware that I am dealing with a human who has the same pride and oftentimes wounded ego as anyone else.

These police officers are human and some of them are narcissists high conflict personalities kids who were bullied in school and now they got a badge and they want to do the bullying okay i'm not saying this is all police officers i'm just simply saying that i know there are plenty of people like the ones i'm describing in those uniforms and guess what i don't have time to determine who is who and what is what i just want to get home so if i'm reginald burke and the cop gets in front of my car and doesn't move and the cop tells me to go around, I'm going to probably just go around. If I move at all. Because once again, in my mind, the way my anxiety is set up, he's standing in front of my car telling me to go around. But what if he decides to say nope?

He tried to hit me with his car and then he pulls out his gun and lights my ass up. That's the type of stuff we got to think about one thing i'm not doing is insulting or agitizing antagonizing somebody with a gun especially someone who is authorized to use that weapon if they simply feel threatened so either i would have took my chances and just drove around like the officer told me to do or i would have just sat there and told the officer straight up look i'm a little scared right now because of the way you are acting so i would rather sit here until you decide to move out the way but one thing i would not do is tell the police officer and this is what reginald said

allegedly get your ass out the way so i can take my kids to school that's why y'all underpaid because y'all act dumb that right there isn't gonna do anything for anyone but cause problems but reginald did what he was supposed to do he went to court last month prepared to plead guilty paid the fine which was 211 22 cents but the judge told him he should write an apology to the officer for allegedly having cursed at him write the letter or serve 30 days in jail this is all ego if you ask me and this is exactly why you don't play with the law enforcement in the first place okay you want me to stand at a chalkboard like bart simpson and write out repeatedly i will not curse the officer i will not curse the officer i will not curse the officer now we all know judges have discretion in sentencing and can include things like requiring a defendant to apologize but does

this punishment fit the crime i would say no 30 days in jail if I don't write a letter apologizing to this officer for telling him to move his ass out the way? You gotta charge me with disorderly conduct or something. You can't go from a $200 fine to me having to serve 30 days in jail if I don't write a letter of an apology? One of the roots of all evil is abuse of power. Please understand that. Please give the Ozark Police Department in Alabama the biggest hee-haw. I think this is abuse of power.

All right. We should go to breakfast on court again. What part you want to talk about? You want to talk about the fact that he said he's not writing a letter? Yes. Or is this abuse of power? Well, I mean, it's all the same. So I'd like to hear from the people.

If it was you in this situation, would you write the letter apologizing to the police officer or go potentially do 30 days in jail? If it, where is this in Alabama? Alabama. No, I'm, I'm saying, I'm sorry. Want some food? Let me take you to dinner. Like, I don't know. I'm not going to jail then. If it was in Baltimore, no. Yeah, I'm saying I'm sorry. Want some food? Let me take you to dinner. Like, I don't. No, I'm not going to jail then.

If it was in Baltimore, no. Yeah, I'm not going. I'm going to do my little 30 in Baltimore. I'll write that letter. I ain't going to jail for 30 days. I'm not going to their jail. Them Southern jails. Yeah.

They ain't going to set me up in their jail. They ain't going to be mad I didn't write the letter. I wouldn't want to go to jail anywhere for 30 days for something like this. But think about it. Let's say you don't write the letter. Now they mad you didn't write the letter. Now you're going in their jail. Now I got to make an example of you, boy.

Now they got to make an example of you. Boy, you're going to listen, boy. That's right. All right. You're going to learn. Your kind going to learn to listen, boy. That's right. Okay.

Next thing you know, you're in the shower, taking a shower. Yeah. And then what? Why? Why? Why? Tell me. Tell me more.

All right. Well, let's look at the phone. All right. All right. All right. 585-1051. That's how you know you in the shower. Why you got to go to the shower as soon as you get there? Damn, man.

800-585-1051. What are your thoughts? Let's discuss. It's The Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club. It's topic time call 800-585-1051 to join into the discussion with the breakfast club morning everybody it's dj envy just hilarious charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club now if you're just joining us charlamagne gave donkey today to who? I gave donkey today to the Ozark Police Department in Alabama, man. They are telling a guy named Reginald Burke, who already paid his fine and everything. Because he cursed out a police officer, he told the police officer to get his ass out the way.

Because the officer was standing in front of his car. They're telling him that he has to either write a letter apologizing or do 30 days in jail. So we're asking 800-585-1051. What would you do? Would you write the letter or would you spend 30 days in jail. So we're asking 800-585-1051. What would you do? Would you write the letter, or would you spend 30 days in jail? Jess? Like I said, it depends on location. See, I already know everybody in Baltimore jail.

So I'm like, okay, cool. Like 30 days is fine. But them southern states? Alabama. No, I'm not. I'm writing a letter. I'm taking him to dinner. And I'll even offer to do community service oh

yeah i'd write the letter too man because you know we always on defense out here in these streets so it's like number one i wouldn't have cursed out the officer in the first place just because i know officers abuse power people in law enforcement abuse power the justice system abuses power and right now this is the case of that as well because you got a judge telling this man who's already paid his fine and everything that if he does not, if he does not write an apology letter, he got to spend 30 days in jail. That's whack. Not only am I writing a letter, I'm going to chat GPT the letter. It's going to be dumb long.

It's going to be like I'm going to make a proper letter. Yeah. I'm no way. I got kids. I'm not missing my kids for 30 days over this stupid. Nope. Not me. Keisha.

Yes. Hey, good morning, Keisha. Hello, Keisha. Yes! Good morning, girl. Good morning. Keisha, you writing that letter or you gonna do 30 days? Being as though I have kids, I'm gonna write the letter, but I promise you, on newborn Jesus,

I was going to jail, and it's not about time. It's more so I'm a grown woman what I look like writing an apology letter. I haven't been in school In how long And I'm about to write A letter to who The ancestor in my ear Wouldn't allow me to

I'm sorry That's on baby Jesus To stay out of jail That's on baby Jesus Yes Keisha from Brooklyn Keisha from Brooklyn I'm telling you

Yeah none of them I don't believe you Keisha You ain't going to do 30 days in the tombs Or 30 days in the rikers You ain't doing that I don't believe you I promise you,

the ancestors in my ears would not allow me to write that letter at this age. She might have been there already, so she kind of knows about the tombs. I'm not Bart Simpson. Alright, thank you. Jesus. Hello, who's this? Hi, this is Whitney from Dayton. Hey, Whitney from Dayton. How are y'all? Good.

You taking the 30 days or you going to jail? I'm not going to lie. If I had to make the decision right then and there, I'm going to have to do them 30 days. Because I'm already little. And I hate when people try to little girl me. I don't care who you are. So, yes, I'm going to end up having to do them 30 days.

I'm sorry. But if they gave me some time to think about it, then I might write the letter. I ain't going to lie. Yeah, don't wait to think about it when you in jail for them 30 days. I'm sorry, but if they gave you some time to think about it, then I might write the letter. I ain't gonna lie. Don't wait to think about it when you're in jail for them 30 days and Big Bertha's on your face. It's all fun and games

to have Big Bertha on your face and you sitting under her. I should have wrote that letter. I know, that's what I'm saying. If I got away, if you give me a couple days to think about it, then I might write that letter. I might do. I'm really, really, really, I don't know how many words it's got to be,

but I'm like, I'm really, really, really, really, a whole bunch of the same words. But if I had to think about it right then and there, I'm sorry, but I'm doing the 30 days because I just can't, I just cannot bow down like that. All right, you tough. Okay, thank you. I don't think that's bowing down.

I think that's just the judge Telling you to do something And you You know And then yo It's just the stuff It's not It's like What they said

What he said Wasn't even that bad That's what I think He's so mad All I said was Get your ass out the way I ain't call you this I ain't call you that

I ain't make no threat I ain't It's crazy But that's why you stay out Them police Wait That's exactly what I'm talking about That's why you don't talk crazy to them because you know they can do stuff like this.

Hello, who's this? This is Chris. Hey, Chris. Good morning. Good morning. How are you? I'm doing well. Well, awesome.

I think that I would have definitely written the letter, but it would have Kevin Harted the heck out of the letter. I am so sorry for telling you to move your stupid three mother... They never said that the letter had to be a certain way. If not going that extent, I would have wrote a letter that said, my bad.

They're going to give you 90 days. I can tell you, they're going to give you 90 days. She got a point, though. She said, they tell you what to say. She said, dear whoever, my bad my bad that's it i'm sorry mr officer that you don't know how to listen i'm sorry mr officer that i had to ask you two times to move out the way you still didn't move out the way i'm sorry mr officer that you only make twenty thousand dollars a year i'm sorry now you get 90 days i'm just saying now

you get 90 you can't give me more i'm apologizingizing. Judge can do what he wants, obviously. In this case, he does what he wants. 800-585-1051. If you're just joining us, we're asking. Now, Charlamagne gave Duncan the data. Who's Charlamagne? The Ozark Police Department in Alabama, man, because they're making this brother named Reginald Burks.

He's going to write a letter apologizing to an officer for telling the officer to move his ass out of the way or go do 30 days in jail. All right, so we're asking, what would you do? Would you write the letter or are you going to jail? Let's discuss. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Tell her.

Tell her. Made it. 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 DJ Envy, Just Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club.

Now, if you're just joining us, Charlamagne gave Duncan a day to who? The Ozark Police Department in Alabama, man, because they're making a brother named Reginald Burks either write a letter. The judge is making him write a letter apologizing to an officer because he told the officer to move his ass out the way or go do 30 days in jail. All right. We have Donye. Is that your name, Donye? Yes, Donye.

Hey, Donye. Good morning. What would you do, Donye? I'm writing the letter because I cannot stay in jail. I went to jail for three days, and it's not worth it. Just write the letter, type it in AI, make it sound good, and leave it at that. That's it. What'd you go to jail for? Sounds like you got's not worth it. Just write the letter, type it in AI, make it sound good, and leave it at that. That's it.

What'd you go to jail for? It sounds like you got arrested on a Friday and had to spend the weekend. Exactly, yes. I went to jail for disorderly conduct. I had a bad run in the police, so that was that. It was my first week in college, and I lost my mind, but I got it together. I learned my lesson. Never going back.

Okay. Hello, who's this? Hey, this is Kevin and Raina from the D. Hey, Kevin and Raina. Now we're asking, would you write that letter or are you going to jail? Man, hell no. Don't say that. Hell no what?

I'm in Bay State. Only because I'm in Bay State. But if I was here in the D, no, I would not write it. I'd take their 30 days and then I'm going to sue them up. I'm going to be honest with you, man. You know what I'm learning from this? Black people don't make good decisions, man.

And this is something that I've known for a while, but this is stupid. Like, write the letter, apologize, stay your ass at home. 30 days in jail, why? How about you?

What do y'all think jail is? Like, what do y'all think? Do you think it's just going to be easy in there? Anything can happen. It's not a community center. It's not a community center. Anything can happen behind those walls in 30 days. You're going to let your pride and your ego cause you to go to jail for 30 days instead of just writing a letter?

Do you not have a job? Do you not have kids? I've got a job, but still, you've got to take the ego out of everything. We can't allow things like that to continue to happen. I might have let it. I'm sorry that your ass is underpaid, and I'm sorry that the judge thought this was going to go the way it was going to go.

I'm going to apologize the way that I was going to apologize to the government. So guess what? I'll take that 30. Dang. I can't do that, though. That's crazy. What are you worried about? I'm not going to take that 30. Damn. I can't do that, though. That's crazy. What are you working at? I'm not going to say that on the radio.

Why can't you say that on the radio? Because he can take 30 days. Just come back. I can take care of it for a fact. All right, congratulations. And that's another thing. Like you said, now you got a job, right? So now for 30 days, somebody else is going to take your job?

Even if I fire you. Even if you're an entrepreneur and you own your own business you know how much a 30 day setback will cost you? Like come on bro. Stop it. Cut it out. First of all, all y'all lying anyway. Ain't none of y'all going to jail.

There's much snitching be going on in our community. I don't think y'all going to write a letter. Get the hell out of here. But what's the moral of the story? The moral of the story is we clearly make poor decisions based off these phone calls. And it's disgusting to me.

Alright? The moral is we should always be trying our best to do what we got to do to survive write the damn letter so you can stay on these streets all right well when we come back we got just with the mess what we talking about you look so pretty without makeup thank you you are glowing thank you got that pregnancy nose you got the little jewel in your teeth that you got at the mary j blige scrimmable woman concert summit yes i do what are we talking about okay so medical student pushed the guy that who was pushed in the lake he came to his uh friend's defense really yes wow he's like they're not racist even though i go to push me no never i mean i mean what okay. Well, we'll give you some updates.

Jess and Larry told us about this story about a week ago, right? Yes. Okay. And we'll get some updates on this. So he's saying they're not racist? Yeah. After they pushed him in the leg and just let him? Yes.

Stay there? Yeah. And almost die? Yep. Came to their defense. Took a picture with the girl that pushed him and she was smiling hard as hell in the picture. All right. We'll talk about that next.

Don't move. It's the Breakfast Talk. Good morning. Yo, you still got abs, yo. Yeah, period. She drew them on. She drew them on. How you got a belly with abs?

Period. I don't know. You gotta see. That's impressive. You working out? Yeah, well, I was working out before I got pregnant. No. Period.

Salute to my people at Carviva Wellness, too, man. What's up? What's up, Angela at Carviva Wellness? Shout to them. And we gotta congratulate Kendrick. Kendrick went? What's up, Angela at Carviva Wellness? Shout out to them. And we got to congratulate Kendrick. Kendrick went number one. Yes, not like us went number one. Oh, absolutely.

Yes, I did see that. And Euphoria was number three. Four, three? Okay. And Drake had one up there. Family Matters was up there. And Like That was up there. Yeah.

So, I mean, listen, man. Great ending to an epic rap feud. That's right. Yes. All right. Well, let's get to jess with the mess on the breakfast club she's a coach of shit she was able to get y'all to see something and understand something that nobody could get you to see it's time to set it on okay so remember the the medical student who i told y'all about right he was at a lake with

his friends and he was the only black friend out of a group of white friends um and he was a medical student um aspiring medical student his friends pushed him in the water they knew he couldn't swim and none of them tried to help him. He was struggling. He was in there, in the water for 10 minutes. That's crazy. Yeah, before a stranger rescued him.

None of his friends. A stranger rescued him. His friends originally claimed that he had fell in the water, but the girl who did it eventually admitted to pushing him in. He was declared brain dead and in critical condition

and could have died. That's crazy. Yeah. He ended up making a miraculous recovery thank god and now he's speaking on the incident so if i do want to thank everybody for their support and like all the prayers and everybody getting back to me and as far as anything racially motivated that's completely false i really treat those arrested anything wrong i really don't think anyone did anything intentionally on me i knew it was gonna happen and kind of thought maybe like I was just, the water wouldn't be as deep. I would kind of get like hit the ground, get my footing up and come back up and grab the pier.

Just kind of stand up there. So, and then the water ended up being deeper than we thought. It ended up being a lot colder than we thought. Relief, I felt. I was very like emotional because it's been three weeks since I've seen any of them. We're a pretty tight-knit group. Oh, a pretty tight-knit group. Yeah, that's BS to me.

Excuse me? Because they know he couldn't swim. That's what you said before. Why didn't they know he couldn't swim? Because he black? No, she said it. She reported it before. Yeah, his friends knew he couldn't swim. Yeah, and because he black. I mean, they probably knew because he was black. They probably said that. i'm just saying but they are white so i know at least i'm not

saying all white people can swim but at least one of them especially the one that pushed him they probably all could swim if they were on a lake i'm sure they could probably swim but the problem is when they push him and they knew that he couldn't get back up nobody said i'm gonna help him but that's me that's my point i don't know if his friends are racist but they are terrible friends that's the kind of example that's the kind of example as a parent you use to tell your child see i told you them people wasn't your damn friend i told you them folks wasn't your damn friend you fell in that damn water and ain't none of them rushed to help you yep and look his aunt and his uncle was on the news and they seemed very much like um like yeah like they were offended they were upset about

the friends and he get on here like no it wasn't racially driven like any you know it's it wasn't anything like that i knew it was gonna happen oh you did so you thought you were aquaman like what i don't know if it was racially driven i just know that they're terrible friends i don't even know like they're just terrible friends yes like yeah I don't know if it's racist. He said he was emotional because it's been three weeks since he's seen them. They're not your friends. He got to be in some type of chokehold. They're not his friends. And it's hard for kids to accept that.

I tell my oldest daughter that all the time. It's like, yo, all of these people you think are your friends right now, there might be one if you're lucky that's your friend 10 years from now your friend is the guy who saved you babe he don't even know you that's a stranger that's somebody i wouldn't befriend yeah i want to know you're you're a person of good character i would like to get to know you yes let's be friends i would be emotional because i almost died um and he was declared brain dead that's that's. You know what I'm saying? That's when you realized who was you. Now that I didn't see my white friends who was waving at me when I was like, come, come get me, help me.

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that's it that's it anyway uh academics claims drake lied about feeding kendrick false information so charlene you charlene the goddess you said this first okay so i just want to give you credit before you know before i give anybody else credit because he was actually saying this but over the the weekend, academics went live on his channel, Rumble channel, and gave his insight on a Drake and Kendrick beef. I think Drake did knew that they were stolen. I don't know if he's like trying to reverse psychology saying, well, now I know it's stolen. I know what you have. I'm going to play off of it. That's one.

But number two, when Drake says he like he set it up, I'm taking that to be this 11-year-old daughter thing. Because from everybody I've talked to, including Drake, we don't even know where this came from. And Kendrick said it so definitively in what was supposed to be his biggest song, which was supposed to be the biggest expose. I believe that the 11-year-old child by drake was probably either fed to kendrick planted i don't know how i'm gonna be honest i don't know how so to your point um he theorized that drake knew he was being portrayed and tried to pull a reverse psychology stunt on the heart part six to save face and these are the lyrics we plotted for a weekend and we fed you the information a daughter that's 11

years old i bet he takes it we thought about giving a fake name or a destination but you so thirsty you're not concerned with investigation instead you went f in his studio it's a celebration i mean you know that half a negro lying and the reason you know that he was lying because if he did set kendrick up he would have documented it he would have saw all of that in the in in a video if he for all the stuff you saw him recording family matters video you don't think he would record him setting up you know this picture that I'm about to take of all of these items yeah of course he was I was giving him some time I thought maybe he did because he said it but yeah it doesn't seem like but then he also said I said recently they said Kendrick did the same

thing what do you do the same thing that he fed Drake some information or something like that I don't know I don't know. I don't know. I don't care. It's over now, though. It's over. I mean, nobody cares when your team loses. When your team loses, now you don't want to watch the sport no more, right?

You over it now, huh? None of them are my team, though. Oh, please. Oh, no. Shut up, boy. You are. How they out? None of them are my team. You are a beige raider.

I told you. I like Kendrick and I like Drake. I love just the. You part of the beige brigade. I am not. I don't have an OVO tattoo on my team. You are a beige raider. I told you, I like Kendrick and I like Drake. I love just the... You part of the beige brigade. I am not. I don't have an OVO tattoo on my ass. I do not. What?

No, but you definitely was like big gunning for him. Like, no. This is so sad. Like, no. He did give him the information. That's tight. I'm going to be honest with you. I did not.

I need to see your ass. Because I don't know why you just volunteered that information for no reason. I don't got an OVO tattoo on my ass. Who said you did? Who said that? But it's you wanting to say, listen. I don't have time, y'all. I can't.

I'll tell you what my dad told me last night. I told you. What did your dad call us, man? He called us the 90s gay sluts? Let's keep good question. Last night, my dad, we were at the table, and my wife asked my dad, I don't even know how we got into the conversation.

She was like, so if your son was gay, how would you take it? He goes, I'd be fine with it. And she was like, really? He was like, yeah. I turn on the radio, him and Charlamagne gay every morning, so what's the difference?

But he was serious. I'm saying what you said in the chat. No, don't say that. All right. The mix is up next. My pops is 80 years old. He uses some terms that we can't say. He doesn't take the same testing things we have to watch.

He from back in the day. He from back in the day, back in the day. All right. It's The Breakfast Club. Come on. The Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. Morning, everybody. It's the Breakfast Club. No, it's not. It's the Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. Morning, everybody.

It's DJ Envy, Just Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club, and we got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed. We have Shaniqua Golding. Welcome. Good morning. How are you feeling? Good morning, Queen Golding.

How are you? I feel good. Thank you guys for having me. She's got a new book out, A Black Girl in the Middle, Essays on Allegedly Figuring It All Out. I love that title. Thank you. What inspired that title? Oh, because I don't know what I'm doing.

Okay. If that makes sense. This book is 12 chapters. A large portion of it is me chronicling the things I did did in my 20s experiences i had in my 20s how i reacted in my 20s and with my soon to be 40 year old mind kind of bringing it all to an end closure sometimes there are some chapters where i still don't even know where i land and there are two incidents that uh took place uh in the pandemic but mostly it's a look back on who i was where i was and hopefully where i will be so you know in the middle of it all i love that because so many people

act like they're experts about things but you know we're not really experts on anything we just have experiences yes and sometimes those experiences can help you know people yes we should be willing to share those yes yes yes were you worried about expressing too much in the book like in the daddy girls chapter did you care how you portrayed him at all or how he would feel about that chapter? So when I was writing this book, the comment section in my mind was off. Great. I was just writing. Daddy's Girl is a chapter about my father, my absentee father.

And it's going to sound horrible to say, like, I don't care what he thinks. But this is more so like me speaking about his absence. And I'm allowed to talk about the people who hurt me, even if you're my father. Have you spoke since? I have not spoken to my father in like I've had my locks for six years, maybe 10. Is that because you don't want that relationship or it just never connected? OK, so before he abandoned me, he abandoned my mother. I can tell my business.

You abandoned me. I will not tell why he abandoned her you know what i'm saying it's a large part of that i've tried but it didn't work you know yearning for someone doesn't feel good and you two are active fathers in your children's life i know you have four kids i know you have six dear god but um it's a lot when you want someone who doesn't want you romantically familiar i had to accept that that it wasn't just it just wasn't going to happen now i'm not comparing or anything but when i speak to a lot of women a lot of times when they don't have a dad in their life it affects them affects their relationships it affects how they work it

affects how they look at men have you had the same feeling when it comes to men in relationships and and god always up because you never know how has that been through your life with your dad not being there so my dad was not in my life but my mother thankfully dated a really great guy shout out to Greg and he was very consistent throughout my life no one can feel the whole of your father not being there but he was a really good guy for me growing up as far as uh men are concerned i've dated some good dudes i've also not dated some good dudes does it affect me i'm sure it does because the first real pain i've ever had in my life came from a man and i think and i don't you know correct me if i'm wrong you guys have daughters i think within the black community we raise black girls to be like vibranium because black men men in general know that you will receive

pain from another man and i think that's really um i think that's something that needs to be unpacked you know uh we were talking about olympic but oh okay heard of olympic but olympic but is where women are losing weight in their stomachs but also in their asses okay so they're depressed so yeah so it's a side effect of olympic and you know you made me think of the bbl chapter where you say not having a big butt ignited something sour inside of you why did not having a big butt that's so much no but that that's what i wrote um okay so i am my family's jamaican and everyone in my family is all i come from a family of women just shapely women beautiful women, gorgeous women.

And that's what I saw growing up. So I figured. You saw big rear ends. I saw beautiful women who were shapely. Oh, that's what you said about the BBL. Yes, I saw beautiful women who were very shapely, who were very gorgeous. And that was just not me. I was very tall, athletic, and I was just like, why can't I be beautiful in this way?

It was not nice. It wasn't a good feeling. Now, no one in my family made fun of me. No one in my family tried to play me, but it was just like, you start to see how you're different in a very early way. Growing up, there was definitely like more of a spectrum. Like now you gotta be fine.

You gotta be bad. You gotta be sexy. Like growing up, you could be cute. You could be, you know what I'm like? You could be cute. Around the way girl. You could be around the way like ll's coined that phrase right yeah you could definitely be that girl and still be able to pull the the dude you also say in the book we talking to uh shaniqua golden her new book a black girl in the middle essays on allegedly figuring it all out now in the book you also talk about a black girl math what is black

girl mapping and can we learn it black girl girl math is a quick calculation that black women have to do when they are met with racism. When they are met with condescension. And sometimes the reaction can just be an eye roller. And sometimes the reaction is a full-blown cuss out. But it's the quick, how do I address this situation? And some black women, they choose not to address it. Just go on about their day, depending on the setting of where you are. Should I say anything?

How do I say something? Because when you are a black woman, having any kind of emotion outside of that's okay, is considered bad. Because of the angry black woman stereotype? Because of the angry black woman stereotype. Because of the fact that we are the mules of the world. The fact that we must bear everyone else's ish. So it is, yeah, it's the math that we sometimes have to do.

That's why I like the Jagged Little Pill chapter. Because you talk about being both terrified of your anger and propelled by it. I say it all the time. If you meet a person, a black woman, and you label them an angry black woman, there's probably a legitimate reason why they're angry. Doesn't your therapist say you should feel your feels? My therapist does say I'm going to feel my feels. So Jagged Little Pill chapter seven is about is about anger. Because I have not been in situations where I have seen two people with opposing viewpoints respectfully disagree, feelings not get hurt, things not being said that you can't take back.

I've also before I could even articulate it, I've also been someone who was like, if you could do that and or say that, then you don't really have much to lose. So me expressing my anger to you, is it going to really benefit this situation? Confrontation is not something that I feel like I'm good at because I've been the recipient of many emotional misdemeanors and felonies. And I don't think people have conflict resolution skills. They just want to disrespect. They want to tear you down. They want to make fun of you. And if I use better discernment and picked people who were sincerely interested

in my point of view or getting to a common ground, then I think I might be better with anger. Why should people get this book? If you had to leave our listeners with one reason to go out there and get a black girl in the middle essays on allegedly figuring it all out what would it be i want black women to feel reflected and represented and i want non-black people to understand that we are just as nuanced when you are uh black in this country it often feels like you have to be barack and michelle or jay and

beyonce you have to get shot nine times you know like the tuesdays of life the tuesdays of emotions that's not something that we're allowed to um play in that that that ground and i feel like my book does that well the new book a black girl in the middle s is on allegedly figuring it all out right now we appreciate you for joining us tell them how to follow you and all that stuff too because shaniqua is you know her book is fantastic but she's just a phenomenal writer, period. So if you follow her on Instagram like I do, you're going to get a lot of gems. Oh, thank you so much. And I want to say thank you so much for having your book come out next week.

Give me just that. You know, like if it came out or just that, I appreciate that. So I'm on Golding, girl617, G-O-L-D-I-N-G, girl617. I'm on Twitter, X, Threads, and Instagram. Thank you so much. All right. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. How you feeling, Jess? Pregnant. I'm so tired, y'all. You don't look tired. Thanks.

I just said that so y'all can say that. But no, I know I am really tired. But I'm not too tired to come to Charlotte this weekend, y'all can say that but no I know I am really tired but I'm not too tired to come to Charlotte this weekend y'all listen pull up on me

at the Charlotte Comedy Zone we got two shows this Friday on the 17th and then two shows this Saturday on the 17th y'all I haven't been there

in like 15 months so yeah well a year almost a year and a half so y'all get y'all tickets at justaluriusofficial.com or cltcomedy.com. I'll see y'all this weekend.

And I hope that you get some of that Jasmine's food truck chicken. I ain't gonna lie. I hope so, too. You've been talking about this chicken for two weeks. Yeah, I just want to know. Because I can't have none right now because I'm on a little diet. But you know, I need to know. When can you?

You've been on a diet since, like, I've known you. Well. I'm like, no, he keep on saying right now. What are you talking about? I don't know. Maybe, I don't know. Maybe, maybe, I don't know. Maybe after the summer. When your wife says it's okay to start eating fried food. Exactly.

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