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Just because y'all always keep it 100, y'all keep it real. But what better place than here? I think everybody should go on The Breakfast Club and start with that. Because y'all always keep it 100, y'all keep it real. But what better place than here? I think everybody should go on the breakfast club and start with that if you want to shake it up. Good morning, USA! Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo! Charlamagne Tha God! Peace to the planet, it's Thursday!

Yes, it's Thursday. Good morning. What's happening? How y'all feeling out there? I am blessed black and highly favored here for another day to serve. That is right. That is correct. Happy to be here, man. February 1st, today is my wife's birthday. Drop a bomb for my wife on time. Okay. Happy birthday, Gil. Today's also the first day of Black History Month.

It is also the first day of Black History Month. That's right, man. I don't know what that means. Okay. But day of Black History Month. It is also the first day of Black History Month. That's right, man. I don't know what that means. Okay? But it's Black History Month. Go learn something about black history. Okay? That is correct. What'd you do yesterday?

Anything? Yeah, I mean, regular stuff. Nothing to talk about this morning. But we do have a great guest this morning. That's right. Somebody who I see in my house all the time because, you know, if you've got young kids, you know, and you do allow them to watch YouTube, even though I've taken away their YouTube recently.

But you know about Tab Time, baby. That's right. Tabitha Brown will be joining us. That's right. She's got a new book out. Yes, called I Did a New Thing, 30 Days to Living Free. That's right. I mean, Tabitha, she's an entrepreneur,

like big mogul status out here, whether you realize it or not. So it's going to be great to have a conversation with her. Absolutely. Why'd you take the kids YouTube away? I didn't like some of the language

I was hearing because, you know, you can tell when your kids start to learn new words. And, you know, one of my daughters is really into like minecraft so she'll be watching those youtube videos of people playing minecraft playing

minecraft yeah i'm still confused the thing that people don't realize when people are uh when you're watching when they're watching those videos they're listening to other people talk so the person that's playing is talking so you know i just it's not like it's foul language it's just words that like like where you get that from right you know so i had i just it's not like it's foul language it's just words that like like where you get that from right you know so I had I wanted to pull back on it you had to do that with my son with uh fortnight yeah because they go into those rooms and although I watch over him as he plays some of the people that he plays with his same age uh are using words and terms that I'm like nah let's let's let's fall back and my And my thing also with the YouTube is like, yo, why watch people play Minecraft?

Learn to play it yourself. So if you are going to, when she does have the time to be with the technology, go play the video game. Go learn to play the actual game. No, I ask that too. What she's into now. Yeah, no, I ask that too. And the reason they do that, it is special boards.

There's special things that you can get. And a lot of times they actually follow them to see where those special things are, special skins are, whatever it may be. When we were playing Mario back in the day,

we just had to figure it out and it might take us a week to get past a board. Oh, that's not true. We wanted them codes. We wanted them codes. Once you learn them codes, that was the thing.

Once you start learning them codes for Contra. Now, mind you, this is big uncle talk right here. This is 1978. You still remember the code? Contra, up, up, down, left, right, left, right, B-A-B-A, select, start. I don't think that's it.

Yes, up, down, up, down, left, right, left, right, B-A-B-A, select, start. Okay. I think that's the code. That's the Contra code. Yeah, that's the Contra code. Yeah, but once you learn, that's what we used to worry about, learning them codes. That's right. Yeah.

I don't let my kids do too much technology. That's why I was watching the social media CEOs testifying in the Senate yesterday. That's what I was saying. Yeah, they were saying that. Boy, they was on their ass. They were saying that it's very addictive and kids shouldn't be on it the way that they on it. You've been saying that for the longest. I'm not going to lie.

I wasn't mad at some of the rhetoric that was being thrown at them. Especially when they were, like there was that one where they showed like the sexual abuse thing. Did you see that? If it's like images of child sexual abuse, they give you two options. And one option is it tells you, it warns you about it and you can watch it anyway. Then another one is more resources or something like that. Yeah, it was strange. I'm like, why don't they just have that block, period?

Yeah. Yeah, if you got kids, just make sure you stay on top of what they're doing with them phones and iPhones and computers and all that other stuff. Social media, YouTube, all that stuff. My kids ain't on social media at all, but YouTube is just as dangerous. Absolutely. All right, well, let's get the show cracking. We got front page news coming up. Tez and Figaro will be joining us.

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha God. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. Morning, Tez. Good morning, DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha news. Morning, Tess. Good morning, DJ Envy.

Charlemagne the God. Peace, Tess. Yeah. Just want to start off with some quick sports. Mark Gasol, he announced his retirement from basketball on Wednesday. He spent 13 years playing in the NBA, 20 years playing professional basketball overseas. So congratulations to Mark Gasol. All right.

Now let's talk about the social media CEOs testifying in the Senate. Charlamagne and I started talking about it a little bit. Yeah, you did. So this is what happened yesterday in Congress. So they said sexual predators, addictive features that you guys mentioned, suicide, eating disorders, unrealistic beauty standards, bullying. These are just some of the issues young people are dealing with on social media. I always like to say it's not just young people like adults are obviously, you know, affected as well. But this was about young people are dealing with on social media i always like to say it's not just young people like adults are obviously you know affected as well but this was about young people they said child advocates and lawmakers say that these companies are not doing doing enough to protect

them so wednesday which you guys talked about yesterday ceos of meta and tiktok x and other social media companies went before the senate judiciary judiciary committee to testify as lawmakers and parents grew increasingly concerned about the effects of social media on young people's lives. Now, the hearing began with recorded testimony from kids and parents who said that their children had been exploited on social media throughout the hour long of hours long events. Parents who lost their children to suicide silently held up pictures of their dead children. Now, the hearing began with recorded testimony from the kids, like I just mentioned, and a heated question and answer session with Metta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. They really had him on the ropes yesterday. Republican Missouri Senator Josh Hawley asked the Metta CEO if he personally compensated

any of the victims and their families for what they've been through. He also asked would he like to apologize to the families. Take a listen. So you didn't take any action. You didn't take any action. You didn't fire anybody. You haven't compensated a single victim. Let me ask you this. Let me ask you this. There's families of victims here today. Have you apologized to the victims? Would you like to do so now? Well, they're here. You're on national television. Would you like now to apologize to the victims who have been harmed by your product? Show them the pictures. Would you like to apologize for what you've done to these good people

i'm sorry for everything that you've all gone through it's terrible no one should have to go through the things that your families have have suffered and this is why we invest so much and are going to continue doing industry-leading efforts to make sure that no one has to go through the types of things that your families have had to suffer. Ah, man, I watched a lot of that hearing yesterday. I wasn't mad at it. I just wish some of those senators had the same energy for things like, you know, mass shootings, you know, gun control. Yeah, I was going to say that. I wish they had the same energy for things like, you know, poverty, because they was coming down on, you know, the yeah i was gonna say i wish they had the same energy for things like you know uh poverty because they was coming down on you know the social media ceos like they were the

scum of the earth so i think a lot of that is unfair though right and the reason i think a lot of it is unfair is they create these sites and i don't and maybe i don't know but i don't think they created these sites for evil for negativity they thought it would be a great space for my kids to talk to somebody's kids in florida now why people use these sites and how it's changed is effing horrible right but i don't think they built these platforms for it to be evil right for the intention well it wasn't the intention but they have been told repeatedly when you talk about the algorithms when you talk about you know all the whistleblowing that we've seen over the years particularly about facebook and how they have

been told that this is doing negative things and they just continue to do it you know for the money and for the advertising and Mark Zuckerberg said yesterday that he didn't think there was a link between mental health and negative outcomes on young people we know that not to be true we see that with grown people that there's a link between mental health and that so Democrat Senator Dick Durbin obviously disagreed let's listen to what he said right quick. With the touch of your finger, that smartphone that can entertain and inform you can become a back alley where the lives of your children are damaged and destroyed. These apps have changed the ways we live, work and play. But as investigations have detailed, social media and messaging apps have also given predators powerful new tools to sexually exploit children your carefully crafted algorithms can be more powerful force on the

lives of our children that even the most best intentioned parent that's right see but like you said why why don't they go at you know gun manufacturers the same and cigarette manufacturers the same way why don't they go at those people the same way that they went at these people? Yeah, I know they do it with cigarettes, but I wish they had the same energy. But there is no regulations on social media at all. These platforms are the biggest broadcast platforms, and they need to have the same FCC rules and regulations as other broadcast platforms. You can't just get on TV and radio and say whatever you want. I mean, you can, but it will be consequences and repercussions.

Not just for the broadcaster, but for the platform. We saw that with Fox News and the Dominion voting case recently. So I think what's going to change these platforms is when they are held liable because I believe at the moment they can't be sued. I don't think they can. And let me just tell you what they were, what the whole

thing was, the point of yesterday. They're trying to pass an act called the Kids Online Safety Act. Just so folks know, this bill will require online services like social media networks, video game sites, messaging apps to put reasonable measures to prevent harm like bullying and the self-harm and all this stuff. And it would also require them to turn on privacy and safety settings for default for kids under 18. It is bipartisan. Both Democrats and Republicans seem to agree, but we'll see if they'll pass the message. Let me ask you a question.

When do the parents take responsibility as well, right? Because you're allowing your kids to go on these sites. You're allowing your kids to play. You're not watching over your kids to make sure they're saying, like you said, you had to stop your daughter from playing on YouTube. And I stopped my son from playing certain things because I watched them. I make sure that there's certain words that can't be said. And if I hear those words, I stop it immediately.

Like when it's not one person's fault. No, it's not. It's not the parents fault. It's not the social media CEO. It's not. It's not one person's fault. That's my point. It's not.

Yeah. But then remember the whistleblowing guys in last year when remember when John Ty, the founder of Whistleblowing Act, they exposed Facebook for these algorithms that are specifically targeting kids. And you know how stuff pop up in your feed over and over and over and over and over. So there's been some accountability. DJ Envy does come down to the parents. A lot of parents don't know what their kids are doing. They just can't. You can't monitor everything. When you've been told that these algorithms that you're literally setting it up to only be able to swipe certain things and they keep popping up over and over and over.

That's kind of where it gets a little bit sticky. This is about bullying, though. This is about kids who have killed themselves because they were being bullied. That's just not necessary. That's not algorithms. No, but it's all. No, but it's all. It's all of that is what they're saying.

It's all of that. It's the bullying. It's the algorithms. It's the just like you just heard. Bullying and harmful content. That's right. We'll talk about it some more. And then we'll see you in about an hour, Tess?

Yes, sir. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, talk to us. The phone lines are wide open. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

Get it off. This is your time to get it off your chest. Keep calling. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. This is your time to get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? This is DJ Maniac from Long Island. DJ Maniac, what's happening, King?

What's happening? I wanted to thank you guys for being real, keeping it real about the social media situation. And, yeah, it's not one person's fault. It's not a social media fault. It is the parents' obligation. Everybody needs to get together. And I appreciate you guys bringing that to the public. Absolutely. Thank you.

I mean, it's just the truth. It is the truth. You're lying to yourself if you think social media is not impacting your kids. Absolutely. You're bugging. Positively. But like you said, it's just the truth i mean it is you're lying to yourself if you think social media not impacting your kids absolutely positively but like you said it's it's it's the kids you know sometimes it's not not the kids it's the parents it's the social media place it's a little bit of everybody and we all have to make sure that we play a part in making sure that we can stop it and and slow it down because cyber bullying is real these kids are influenced that's real so i think it's everybody. Mello!

Yo, Envy, what's the word, King? What's up, Mello? What's up, Uncle Shala? How y'all feeling? Mello, what's up, my brother? Man, so listen. Before I even get into this, I apologize to anybody I offend,

but respectfully, how is cyberbullying a thing when you can just turn your phone off or delete the app? Like, back in the days, like, if your mom touched your head, you had to defend your existence for the next two weeks at the lunch table. Like, and you're telling me you could, you have the option to walk away from your phone or turn your phone off

and you're still allowing it to get deleted? Yeah. That doesn't even make sense, bro. I tell you something, Mello. You know, I get what you're saying, but think about this, right? If you're a young kid who hasn't learned emotional intelligence yet, and you're getting online, it's one thing to have to deal with five or six kids at the lunch table.

You've got to deal with hundreds of people on social media, people that you don't even know, just going in on you over and over and over. Yeah, turn your phone off, but what if you've already experienced five minutes of it, 10 minutes of it, 15 minutes of it? Sometimes that's all it takes. I hear you on that, but you can just log out the app, and on top of that, where's the parents at?

Like, if you're not emotionally intelligent enough to be able to deal with that on social media, then you should not have one, and that's your parents' job. Why are you holding these social media companies accountable? I don't— What are the parents doing? But also, Mello, you got to think. Let's say you get into an incident at school. Like Charlamagne said, that incident is over

the next day. But now you got something that lingers. Like, you got a video that you got into a fight that you might have lost that stays online. Now you got a situation

you didn't notice. Your most embarrassing moment lives forever on social media. Lives forever. And why do we keep talking about the kids as if the adults aren't falling for this

more than anybody? Like, the adults show a lack of emotional intelligence more than the kids nowadays. These adults are the ones having the meltdowns on social media. Nah, that's a fear. Nah, you got me on that one. The adults, yeah, nah, they need to get dunkier today. Because, like, excuse me? Like, turn your phone off.

The children, I respect y'all. That was my bad. But the adults, yeah, nah, get them out of here. Yeah, social media is no joke. And I don't even think our brains are equipped, you know, to deal with the constant onslaught of criticism. You know, the constant onslaught of, you know, harassment. The constant onslaught of people saying negative things.

Like, it's just, it's disgusting. It's a lot. And that's why my daddy always told me, you're never as good as they say you are. You're never as bad as they say you are. So that's always been my mentality since I was young. So, you know, I'm kind of numb to it either way. But I can totally see how it can affect people psychologically.

Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Ray, Ray, Ray. Yo, Charlemagne.

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Hello, who's this? What's up, Envy? This is Kassan from Detroit. Good morning. Kassan, what up, though? Get it off your chest. Hey, Envy, I want to agree with you about people were saying that SZA was not the Mary J. Blige of today.

And she definitely is. I feel like the younger kids don't understand what you're saying. But she definitely is. If I listen to Mary J. Blige, I feel the same way I did when I was four. Like, her message came through. You know what I'm saying through her voice? I feel like SZA do the same way I did when I was four. Like, her message came through. You know what I'm saying to her? Boy, I feel like SZA do the same thing.

Yeah, I was just saying that based on what I see my assistant, my daughter, who, you know, was a lot younger than me, how they vibe and how they feel. SZA, you know, when we take trips and when we take whatever, they love SZA how I love Mary. That's all I was saying. I wasn't disrespecting SZA or Mary. But what up, though? Yeah, I agree. SZA, hey, SZA there. Peace, King. What's up, my brother? What's up, Charlamagne? Good morning. Hey, Charlamagne, I want to say this. I disagree with you. I understand what you're saying, but I disagree about the color purple thing. I feel like black people, when black

people support something, we go out and spend our money. I feel like we don't want to see a color purple. That's what it came out to be. Black people don't want to see that. We want to see something new. When Tyler Perry came out with Diarrhea of a Mad Black Woman and all that other stuff, nobody had to tell us to go. We went. Hey, black man, you know I literally said that verbatim yesterday?

I literally said we got to support with our dollars, but I also said I think one of the problems with color purple was nobody wanted to see a color purple remake. You did. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. that verbatim yesterday. I literally said we got to support with our dollars, but I also said I think one of the problems with Color Purple was nobody wanted to see a Color Purple remake. You did. Oh, okay, okay, okay. Okay, you right.

Hey, I want to shout out my best friend. First, I want to shout out all the black male nurses. I want to shout out my best friend, DeJuan Parker. He a black male nurse.

I want to shout out my brother, Charles Brooks. He a nurse, too. Shout out to my nephews, Dorian, DeJuan, Messiah, Roger, and my niece, Autumn. That's all black male nurses? No, the other ones is the kids. DeJuan and Charles, my brother Charles is school for nurses.

My friend DeJuan just became a nurse a year ago. Oh, okay. So, who told the black nurses out there? Black male nurses, I should say. For real, it's not a lot of them. It's not a lot of them it's not a lot of them all right thank you brother all right have a good day hello who's this hi my name is sophia hey sophia good morning get it off your chest yes i wanted um as solomay went out when you guys were interviewing nikki haley yes ma'am she made a comment about abortion, late-term abortion,

which is not true. Women don't have late-term abortion. I feel if we want to ask questions, we need to have a rebuttal to those answers because she just put misinformation out there. About late-term abortion? Yes. It does not happen. We asked her

her stance on abortion, and she said she's pro-life, but she wants a woman to be able to make her own choice about their own bodies, but she's just against late-term abortions. I think that's what she said, right? But I thought people define late-term abortion different. I thought a late-term

abortion sometimes describes when it's 15, 20 weeks, or even earlier. No. No no she has said that women have had abortions at eight months and that's not true so we have to do our homework when we are talking about this information you totally understand yes late-term abortion is referred to the third trimester abortion. I did agree with her take on abortion, though, because that's how I always feel. Like, you know, whether you pro-life or pro-choice, it's not up to you. It's up to the person that's carrying the child. Yeah, but when she said, we just need to clarify that, because she has said that before. Okay.

But, you know, looking it up now, it says, yes, late-term abortions are real and they happen every day. If you know, tell us. Tell us if you know something different. Well, that's what I'm saying. No, that's what I'm saying, that she has mentioned eight months. And that's what I'm saying. Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired?

Depressed? A little bit revolutionary? Consider this. Start your own country. I planted the flag and just kind of looked out of like, this is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. There are 55 gallons of water for 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's

doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen of Laudonia. I'm Jackson I, King of Capraburg. I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia. Be part of a great colonial tradition. The Waikana tribe own 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. Oh my God. What is that? Bullets. Bullet holes. We need help! We need help!

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm complaining about, so we needed to ask her to clarify because you have said eight months. She said eight months yesterday? Yes. I don't remember. Not yesterday, no. She has said it before. I don't remember her saying eight months yesterday. I don't remember her saying late term. No. She didn't say it yesterday, but she has said it before. Yeah, I don't remember her saying eight months yesterday. I remember her saying late term. No, she didn't say it yesterday, but she had said it before.

So how can we correct her on something she didn't say here? Well, I mean, that's what I'm saying. We're supposed to do our homework when we're going to innovate. Oh, I see what you're saying. You wanted me to ask her about her saying that. The eight months, yes. Yes. Oh, got you, got you, got you.

Okay, okay, okay. Because it says that 10,000 babies a year are, you know, they have late-term abortions. Yeah, I was confused a little bit because I was like, when did she say that? I hear her say nothing about no eight months up here, but I understand what you're saying. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open. When we come back, we got your rumor report.

We got to talk about Usher. Did you know he was supposed to be in a group with Pharrell and Jay-Z1-051. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open. When we come back, we got your rumor report. We got to talk about Usher. Did you know he was supposed to be in a group with Pharrell and Jay-Z? We'll discuss. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy.

We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get to the rumors. Let's talk Usher. Rumor has it. Rumor has it. Call out a name or you gossiping or you chatty patty. All right, I'm gossiping. This is the Rumor Report.

I mean, I guess we on the Breakfast Club. This is where the tea spills, right? Right. Now, Usher will perform at the Super Bowl, what, in nine, ten days? It's the Usher Bowl, okay? It ain't no damn other, other, other bowl, okay? I'm not even saying the name. It's the Usher Bowl.

You hear me? Well, he was doing an interview with club, at, ona shea with shannon sharp salute to shannon sharp and was talking about so many different things the super bowl his album and more but he also talked about uh who named him who nicknamed him the domestic terrorist is there a collab that someone asked you to be a part of and you didn't? And when it came out, you're like, damn. Yeah, you're going to hate me for this one. Jay-Z.

That's not the clip. That's the clip I would rather hear. No, we're going to hear that in a minute, too. But he talks about, it's a residency clip. This juncture of my life is just about having fun. You don't even care. No, it's not that I don't care. It's that I want you to know that I'm having fun.

And that is a part of me having fun being out in the audience amongst the fans and also to the people and feeling that energy I don't remember the last time that I've been to a show like that you know this arena gave me an opportunity to be able to be closer to my fans because I've been I haven't put out an album in almost six years right so now being able to reconnect in that way you know obviously it spun into something that became it gave me a new uh a new title yeah uh i think charlamagne the guy named me like the domestic terrorist i'm like bro i'm just this is a this is actually a usher show the bigger conversation outside of who gave him the name the domestic terrorist was the convo they was having

around that and basically was does Usher feel bad about serenading other people's women? Does he feel bad about the homes he may have ruined because of that Vegas residency? You go there with your girl, next thing you know Usher giving them flowers and singing

to them. Then you wonder why she humming There Goes My Baby for the next three days. Is that what happened to you? No, that's not what happened to me. Are you projecting, sir? No, not at all. But just, you know, putting it out there. Okay.

All right. Well, he also talks about a super group that he was supposed to be a part of. Is there a collab that someone asked you to be a part of and you didn't? And when it came out, you're like, damn. Yeah. You're going to hate me for this one. Jay-Z, Pharrell, Diddy. Damn, are you?

And me. We're supposed to be a group. Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, you're going to hate me for that. I know. Yeah. Why did you say no? I didn't say no.

You didn't say yeah? I didn't say yeah. You said yeah on the record, but you didn't say yeah. That's the one. I think that we just got caught up i think we all got caught up in a moment we was talking about him having secret meetings about it we were talking about music and how we gonna flip it and the business of it and somehow man we just got distracted you know what i'm saying and it never happened you know that's the one that i actually

wish would have happened that's one of those things that when you look at it on paper all the ingredients you know they look good separately but I don't know if they necessarily go together but if a chef tells me they can put it together you try it yeah I mean well not necessarily I don't know if I want it but I'll try it it would have been dope you you think about the success Pharrell has had with Usher the success Pharrell has had with Hov you put that all together where does it mix like Usher's the only singer, right? Yes, he sings. Pharrell's the producer. I guess Diddy would've produced as well. Diddy would've produced as well. He would've did Adlibs

and Jay would've did all the rapping. So it's an Usher and Jay-Z group then. With Pharrell doing the beats. And some hooks on occasion. And Pharrell could rap, yeah. I think it would've been dope. I think it would've been dope. Like I said, I would try it. All the ingredients look good separately. But I don't know if they all go together.

But I would try it. Yeah. Usher also talks about his album, Coming Home, which is going to be released Super Bowl day. So far on the album, Burner Boy, Summer Walker, 21 Savage, Lotto, The Dream, Her. Here's him talking about it. The new album, Coming Home, releases going to release on the same day as the super bowl that's not an accident is it no no no it was that was strategic you know paying tribute to the past you know being present here in las vegas what what a surprise right to

have an incredible residency run here a hundred shows i will have played by the end of november then to have the treat of being able to play the Super Bowl. You know, here you have this opportunity that is almost like a crescendo of what started off really in a pandemic. When I came to Las Vegas, it was quiet. Nobody was here, nothing was happening. People thought I was crazy for putting tickets on sales.

But to be honest, it was belief, belief that we would get back to the norm you know what i'm saying and in a time when the world just felt like upside down and here you have this grand opportunity to start this journey that now leads up to the super bowl for me listen man dropping the clues bombs for usher ring in the fourth let's celebrate usher okay once in a lifetime generational talent this is like his his ceremony, like a victory lap for an amazing, amazing career. A career that's far from over, okay? But we always talk about giving folks their flowers.

Correct. We talk about celebrating people. This is the time to do that. Usher put on an amazing residency in Vegas over the past year. If you got a chance to see it, you know what I'm talking about. And now he's doing the Super Bowl halftime show. Drop one of the clues bombs for Usher, man. We need more conversation around this.

Okay, more celebration around this. All right, this is one of our goats, one of our greats, finally receiving their flowers. Absolutely. And Usher's always gotten celebrated and he's always gotten his flowers. But this is one of those grand ceremonies right here.

Okay? No, absolutely. Okay? And a salute to Shannon Sharp for that interview as well. All right? And that is your Rumor Report. Now, when we come back, we got front page news. You got an Usher record?

You going to pull an Usher record up? Of course we got an Usher record. We got to pull it up. 25 years of Usher records. All right, we're going to pull one up. When you Google, Usher should have his own category in black radio stations. Okay? When you pull up Usher, a million songs should show up.

How many songs in there right now when you type Usher? It's a lot. A lot, exactly. What you want to hear? You want to hear Bad Girl? You want to hear Nice and Slow? You want to hear... See, my favorite, not my favorite, one of my favorite Usher records is Babu with Alicia Keys.

You know what I mean? That might be a little too... Slow. Yeah. Man, just give them the classic, man. It's 7 o'clock in the morning. Wake people up. That's nice and slow. No! Wake people up! Oh, I thought you were at 7 o'clock on the

dot in my drop-top cruise of the street. Alright. Could you just play Yeah and shut up? No. It's so predictable. Yeah, but that's the last record he plays at his residency. That's probably going to's the last record he plays at his residency. That's probably going to be the last record he does at the Super Bowl halftime show. All right, we'll do it.

Yeah, man. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, Front Page News is next. The Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club.

All right, it's time for some Front Page News. What up, Tiz? What's going on, DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy? Peace, T Breakfast Club. All right, it's time for some front page news. What up, Tiz? What's going on, DJ? I'm Charlamagne Tha Guy. Peace, Tiz. Now, let's jump right into it. Now, a man was arrested after a video post showed a severed head of his father. What the hell?

Yeah, this is wild. Wild, wild, wild. A Pennsylvania man has been charged after his father was found beheaded inside their family home Tuesday night in Middleton Township. Take a listen. 32-year-old Justin Moen of Levittown, Bucks County, and he stands accused of a truly unspeakable crime. He's accused of murdering and decapitating his own father, 68-year-old Michael Moen, a crime he allegedly videoed and then posted online.

I am very sad for the family. I'm very sad for the community, you know, and also for the people that knew him. By the time authorities got for the family. I'm very sad for the community, you know, and also for the people that knew him. By the time authorities got to the family home on Upper Orchard Drive a bit past 7 o'clock, the suspect had already left with his father's vehicle. Now, during this 14-minute long YouTube video, Mone titled it The Mone's Militia, called to arms for American patriots. He described his father as a federal worker in rails against the Biden administration and the border crisis and declared himself the new acting president under martial law. Now, so again, he referred to himself as a militia leader. He said that he was upset that his father was a federal employee for 20 years. Talked about, again, Joe Biden. And he was reading from a script.

The police did eventually find him by pinging his cell phone he was arrested without incident so this was a some political stuff going on with this as well that's that's just insane it's all insane it's the world we live in and i you know i can't be surprised by any of this stuff anymore man people commit crimes and for whatever reason they feel like they want to showcase them online but i'm telling you i know what it is it's projection when these people commit these heinous acts they got so much trauma they want to they want a trauma dump on everybody so they're sharing their heinous crime with the world because it's eating them up on the inside that's just projection but i'm glad that it makes it easier for the police to lock these people up but boy well what

about the political side? You know, him talking about America's coming bloody revolution and the mental, you know, again. That just lets me know he got some, he got mental health issues. Absolutely. That's what that is. That's just, that don't even, that rant don't even mean nothing. That's just gibberish after you commit a crime like that. After you do something like that, you settled ahead of your father and post it online.

That's just gibberish. Whatever's coming out of your mouth. That's just a rant. Obviously he has problems. But what do you do with a person like that you settled ahead of your father and posted online that's just gibberish whatever's coming out of your mouth that's just a rant obviously he has problems but what do you do with a person like that you definitely got to go deal with the consequences of his actions right but while he's in prison shouldn't he be getting some type of psychological treatment yeah for sure well it's amazing that they arrested him without incident that's what's amazing to me but i mean i just i just think it also went again i know we said it's just gibberish what he's saying is but some of these people he was a part of q anon he believed in the q he believed in these conspiracies these online things that are happening over and over and over and over

just kind of going back to what we talked about it's not just kids that are affected by online it's a lot of these conspiracies and people are tapping into this to people who are mentally ill you know i i you can't control it but i i think it's an it's noteworthy did he kill his father because of his father's political views did his father have a policy his father when he said his father was a federal worker and was a traitor before work because he worked for the government for 20 years that's what he said so that's the reason he killed him that was the motive that's what he said i mean i i don't you know again i don't know that's what but that's literally was that the motive the police that was the motive i'm asking that That's what it, but that's literally what he said. Was that the motive? Did the police say that was the motive?

I'm asking. That's what he said on the video. That's what he said. He said, that's the reason he did it. Yes. He said, my father's a traitor for working for the government for over 20 years. This guy was an anti-government. He talked about it for 14 minutes. He lifted his head up and showed it on YouTube and all of that.

That's insane. That is his, that is his motive. He's saying that is his motive he's saying that is his motive that his his father deserved to die because he was a traitor he should have never worked for the federal government the fact that that can even make it to youtube is insane yep but that's the problem like that's the problem there's no uh degree of difficulty to get on youtube like i and i don't think and you can't stop that you can't stop somebody from doing something like that i was gonna, how do you control it?

There's not enough people in the world to watch everybody's page to make sure that they can pull it in fat. You know what I mean? And you can't unsee it. No. So once you've witnessed it, once you've taken it in, it's there. It's in you. Mm-hmm.

All right. Well, that is front page news. Thank you, Taz. Absolutely. And make sure you follow at Teslan Figueroa on all social media platforms at Teslan Figueroa. And subscribe to this Great Shot Teslin Figaro on all social media platforms at Teslin Figaro. And subscribe to this Great Shot No Chaser podcast on the Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network. All right.

Now, when we come back, Tabitha Brown will be joining us. She has a new book. I did a new thing. 30 Days to Living Free. We're going to talk to her when we come back. So don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody.

It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Tab time. Who's celebrating her birthday next week. I am this weekend. This weekend. Yes.

Ladies and gentlemen, Tabitha Brown. Welcome. How are you? I'm amazing. If I was in the bed, I'd be two people. Hey. I love that hoodie. Thank you.

Freedom over code switching. What's that mean? Well, you know, I spent a very long time code switching and conforming. And that's not freedom and so i no longer live that way and so i always tell people honey we gotta choose freedom over code switch we're enough just as we are even if we from the country even if we from the south it's just a thing so i i promote that all the time there you go i feel like i know you because i told you like when i saw you over the summer i'm like my kids watched tabitha brown all the time

yeah on youtube and then you know my wife has the cookbooks the vegan cookbooks around the house like she was giving them out as gifts to people i love it thank you girl yeah we got to congratulate her on her emmy as well she just won an emmy thank you back in december congratulations thank you how did that feel it still feels surreal you know but i feel grateful to have one for just being myself. But something so powerful that it's for children. But it still feels like it didn't happen. It feels like a dream almost. But the crazy thing is there's another side of that that it feels completely normal.

It's a weird feeling. It's yours. Yeah, it feels like, oh, this is what God intended for my life. Absolutely. But the other side of it is like, did that really happen? How did the internet change your life? honey in every way um you know I was a I still am an actress but for a long time you know I was pursuing acting and nobody really knew me from you know acting and I started doing content doing you know videos not because I wanted to but I had a dream and God spoke to me and told me to start doing videos and I was like now I want to do that you know but I was also trying to live a life of obedience

I started and nobody was watching and I was like well God you told me to do this and ain't nobody ain't nobody showing up on these videos to watch why do you have me doing this and I started in August of 2017 doing videos and by December 30th one of my videos went viral which one it was a it was a TTLA I was eating a sandwich in my car because I was driving uber and because I was on disability for over a year because I was so sick and when I started feeling better after going vegan I started um driving uber and I was like you know what I had had a job before I didn't want to get stuck back in a nine-to-five so I told my husband I was like you know what I'm gonna go drive uber we live in LA I'm probably get discovered in my car in my mind

I'm thinking I'm gonna you know pick up a producer or director something I stopped by Whole Foods because I dropped somebody off I was like I'm gonna go ahead and get me a little breakfast and because I'm still a new vegan at that time and I got a sandwich and did a review on it because I was my videos when I first started I was just telling people I'm going vegan when I find new vegan options I'm just gonna share it by the time I got home that video had like 50 some thousand views and I was like wait a minute who watching this video so you was Keith Lee before Keith Lee listen I love that's my nephew um but the next morning had like over a hundred thousand views and I was like I told my husband I said I think I'm going viral and he was like what that mean

I was like I don't know uh and four days later, Whole Foods reached out. I was like, we saw your video because I got the sandwich from there and they wanted to partner with me. I became their brand ambassador and I've been on and do so many campaigns and it's been on ever since then. Now, why did you switch to vegan for people that don't know? So I got sick. So January of 2016, I woke up one morning and I had this headache in the back of my head

and I had a car accident in high school so I'm used to like waking up sometime and the back of my neck is tight and sometimes it goes into my head so I thought it was one of those episodes but this headache rested in the back of my head for a year and seven months wow and it started to you know affect my body and so I started to uh fall when I would walk um my all my as a woman all everything was all out of whack I just did not feel well so every time I went to the doctor they were doing so many tests they was doing MRIs trying to figure out what is wrong so they told me they was like we know it's something autoimmune that's attacking your body we just can't figure it out I lost my vision for a day it was a it was a really bad time for me. And I took every drug the doctor offered me. I was like a guinea pig because you are desperate to feel better.

And if anything, it probably made me worse. Nothing was working. And so my daughter came home from school one day. She was like, Mommy, we saw this documentary at school today. I think you should watch it. And I don't know if you know teenagers, honey, but it ain't every day they come home and tell you to watch a documentary. And so it was What the Health on Netflix. And so I was like, you know what? Let it ain't every day they come home and tell you to watch a documentary and so it was what the health on Netflix and so I was like you know what let's watch it together as a family so I watched it and when they started talking about not all diseases are hereditary sometimes you can eat the same thing in your family that will cause the same disease in your bloodline and so that was kind of like a light bulb moment for me my mama died at 51 of a rare disease ALS my daddy is now 72 but he's the oldest man

to ever live in my family people get sick at young ages in my family and they die at young ages in my family and the only thing i could think of that we had in common was how we ate now i wasn't a bad eater because i was in la but i wasn't eating to feel well i was eating to look a certain way which is it's also a sickness and so which made eating to look a certain way, which is also a sickness. Which means eating to look a certain way. So I'm not eating. The Hollywood image. Exactly. I wasn't eating to like, oh, let me put this in my body so I can be well.

I was like, oh, let me put this in my body so I don't gain weight. Gotcha. You understand? So, but I still wasn't, you know, a terrible eater. I haven't eaten red meat or pork since I was 15. And I was like, okay. And I'm allergic to dairy like most people. But I also also was like it's the only thing I haven't tried so I told my husband let's do like a 30-day vegan challenge your husband did it too so for 30 days and so on like day 10 the headache

I had every day for a year and seven months disappeared wow and I was like wait a minute I'm on to something and uh after that every day I started getting energy again because I had chronic fatigue and I had chronic panic attacks. Because when you sick and you know something is wrong, but the doctor said, well, we can't figure it out. It makes you have anxiety and depression. And so I started getting energy again because I would sleep all day, all night. Like I would just be exhausted all the time. And so energy started coming back. My head was feeling better. I was starting to feel like myself again and so that day when day 30 came I told my husband I was like this is gonna be my life you know I'm gonna go vegan he was like well tomorrow I'm gonna need

a piece of chicken tab like this is gonna be right and so but I always tell people that uh part because sometimes the journey that may change your life or save your life, you got to be willing to go on it alone. And so I was like, all right. And so I never look back. That's why. All right. We got more with Tabitha Brown. When we come back, don't move.

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha God. We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Tabitha Brown. Charlamagne. I got so many questions.

Number one, you said something earlier about God spoke to you. What does God sound like for me? Yeah. So I always tell people I get asked that a lot. Now, I am gifted in a different way than most people. So for me, I can hear like your voice. Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired? Depressed? A little bit revolutionary? Consider this. Start your own country. I planted the flag. I just kind of looked out of like, this is mine. I own this.

It's surprisingly easy. There are 55 gallons of water for 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen of Laudonia. I'm Jackson I, King of Capraburg. I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia. Be part of a great colonial tradition.

The Waikana tribe, my country, my forefathers did that themselves. What could go wrong? No country willingly gives up their territory. I was making a racket with a black powder, you know, with explosive warhead. Oh my God. What is that? Bullets. Bullets. We need help!

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So it's like a wind and it's a flutter, but you can hear sound in it. I can see it. I can dream it. I'm a seer, but in my dreams, like my dreams can speak to me and things come to pass uh so that's what it sounds like for me for most people who are always trying to figure out is this god speaking to me is this just my thoughts i would tell you that when you think of something you'll think of it and you may lose the thought later right may not even come back to you but when god is speaking to you when he's putting something inside of you it won't let you rest it'll keep coming back that's right and so that's how you can kind of decipher and then

sometimes he will use a voice that's familiar to you and when you gift it sometimes it do feel like you're crazy and other people think that as well. But now, of course, I know like, oh, no, this is just my gift and I don't hide it anymore. I don't stray away from it. I wrote about it in my first book because I wanted people to know like this is me. If you want to rock with Tab, honey, this is who I really am. I don't hide that part of me anymore. So when you when you say you have gifts, are you clairvoyant? Are you like a medium?

I call it I'm a seer, right? It's just, you know, that's a gift that god gave me i was born with it just in that way yeah my whole life i feel like we all have discernment we just don't all lean into it right but for me as a little girl would dream about people i've never met before and wake up and tell my mom and dad they're like oh i such and such and they'd be like that person been dead 20 years like you would never know that person right I can remember being at my grandfather's funeral but they're like you were 10 months old there's no way for you to remember that I don't know and I can't control it that's the thing it just happens like I can be talking to you and something can just appear that I can see

and it may be for you or it may be to protect me it just depends but I have no control over that I was going to ask you so you know north carolina uh-huh so now you pick up your family you moved to la yes how was that conversation with your husband and your child and let's let's just go to la a place we don't know you gotta find a new job even this good carolina yeah yeah it's crazy because at first my husband was like so in 98 i moved to californ California in pursuit of acting but I wasn't in LA and I was like in Orange County and uh I didn't tell my husband he was my boyfriend at the time like how bad it was I didn't tell nobody I was renting a room from somebody who was like taking

all my money but you know I'm like young like 19 I really want to get this dream out of me and I want to do something and so our plan was for him to move out a couple months later you know and then we would get our own place but when he moved out and saw how I was living he was like now this is crazy he's like you're working two jobs to survive you ain't nowhere near LA you're not pursuing acting he was like we need to move back to North Carolina so that we could save up money because it's cheaper he was like we could stay for one year then move back to LA so you can really pursue your dreams that one year turned into five years and a forgotten dream right until I had that experience that morning so when I told my husband after I worked that job for like a year I was like now it's time for us to move back to LA he was like nah I was like well listen I can I can go out there but like I can feel it calling me and I can

come back and forth he was like oh no we're not gonna do that I can imagine those arguments you gonna go where and leave me with this and I don't know what money I thought I had that I could be by coastal okay and go back and forth I don't know what I was thinking uh but we saved up like eight thousand dollars uh took us some months and we moved to LA and we first got there we was living in Baldwin Hills and my husband I mean we both from the same hometown you know we from Eden it's a very small town in North Carolina and our apartment i had flew out there to find our apartment because back then my husband used to be afraid to fly you know people from the country they'd be like i ain't getting on no plane you know so

i had went back and forth to find us a place and i had found a cute this this spot was cute to me right and but it did have the bars on the window because most of them do in la right so but we weren't used to that but i didn't tell him because in my mind, I thought it was nice. And it was. It did turn out to be nice. Was he able to bring his gun with him? Yeah. He did, actually.

Okay. You know what? He did. He did. He's from the Carolinas already, you know. He did. But when we got there, he was hot. He was like, what?

Because we were like right off Crenshaw. Jesus. Yeah. He was like, what? Hey, we got a door there I was like babe I didn't scoped it out this is a good area I promise you and because there was you know that was when the reality show Baldwin Hills was out remember then I said we live in Baldwin Hills it's just that we don't live in View Park but where we park we can see the view like I'm trying sell it. But he got used to it over time. But, you know, in the beginning, we was at odds for a while.

But, you know, we stayed there for five years and we loved it. Wow. One of the moments that we all saw that went viral was when you retired your husband. And, you know, Wendy Williams had made some statements about you. And the way you responded, you responded with such grace and such love. It was almost like a I hope you heal. Absolutely. Hope you heal with such grace and such love it was almost like i hope you heal absolutely you heal moment do you respond like that always in the in this season of my life yes yeah i mean the old tab probably would have had that get back spirit right but

uh she didn't even know me and and i don't know her other than knowing her from you know her career um but you can also tell when somebody is hurt. And we've all been through things that cause us to project and feel a certain way. But I'm not going to exhaust energy and give anybody control over me to anger me. Right. So, but also I just love people. Despite what anybody have to say about me. There's so many people now that hate me, that don't know me, but I love them.

It also makes me want to love harder in the world because people are hurting. Right. You know, a lot of people think that I'm fake because I'm nice and I'm like, I'm a I'm compassionate. I held my mama's hand while she died like I've seen death so many times like I have also almost lost my life why would I not be happy and joyful I'm still here that's right right so um it hurts my heart for other people when I know that they're just hurting and they don't mean any harm in a way that they they it's really they're trying to make themselves feel better. They're projecting. Right. They're projecting. And so the harm is really that they're doing it to themselves because they're not. Instead of projecting, you should be trying to heal yourself and get what you need to feel better.

But I don't know. Did you get a lot of flack for it? Because, you know, what it told me during that time is people don't understand love yeah right you love your husband i do you at you you're financially fine and you can make sure that he's okay you know and it doesn't matter if he's a man he's a woman or what he is you love me and you had the opportunity to retire man and men do it for women all the time so i didn't see it so did you get a lot of flack for it oh yeah i mean a lot of people had something to say about it, but that's their opinion. I don't care. That ain't my business. But I also realized that a lot of people don't understand partnership.

I've been with my husband 26 years. Amazing. More than half my life. Most people don't even understand that. How did he feel? He felt amazing but after what people don't know is i had been trying to retire my husband for like two years we had enough money he was like that money came to quit bae i don't want to do that to you no just in case yeah he was like nah i i know one plus one equal two we don't know because he also

has watched me in hollywood over 20 years not get jobs for six months or two years or whatever. He was like, we can't count on this new money, right? And so I was like, bae, I promise you, I got the amount of money that we have always said that we have this amount of money in the bank. Taxes been paid. We don't owe nobody that you would retire. He was like, all right, let me think about it. He took a leave first. He just was like, oh, I don't want that on your back. You know, even though he has a nonprofit, but it wasn't going to make that, you know, coming straight out.

He won't make the kind of money he was making before. And I was like, but now you can build it. Now you can do all the things you wanted to do, right? So it took him a while. But afterwards, now, listen, right now, what time is it? That baby might be on the golf course, okay? Listen, he worked with his kids three, four days a week, but he'd be on that golf course. He is feeling it now. He feels good about it. Absolutely.

All right, we got more with Tabitha Brown when we come back. So don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Tabitha Brown.

Charlamagne, let's talk about this book. I did a new thing. Your new book? Yes, absolutely. 30 Days to Living Free. What is Living Free to Tabitha Brown? Well, you know, freedom over code switching, right? We talked about that.

But Living Free is like taking the opportunity to do something, even if it scares you. Right. Just doing something new. Right. I started doing this challenge in 2014. I was really just in search of like getting to know myself better because I still was not free. And I would do something new, whether it be with my kids or by myself, and just to see how it would open my mind and how it would make me feel. And so I did that over the years. And I would always, you know, learn something new about myself. Like I discovered my love for hiking. And I was like, oh, shoot, I never would have thought that I would love hiking.

And then now it's something that I have continued to do over the years. And so I was like, if I do this again, I think I want to write a book. So last year I did it for 30 days and I journaled it and made it into a book and my hope was that other people want to you know live free and try new things and the other thing about freedom in order to like really go out and do something new that's the only way you're gonna know if you love something or you don't like it right you have to be willing to be like I don't care I just want to find out let me just see right so and it also could be something as simple as i'm gonna wear my hair different like right now i'm doing it you know my hair name is donna

so i'm doing while i'm on tour i'm making a new hairstyle every day you said his name is donna yeah her name donna like donna summers or oh it's just donna well i named after don king because Donna, well, I named her after Don King. It looks more put together than Don King. Today. Today. But she got her name because when I was, I did the big shopping when she was growing back. One night I was cooking live and it was like straight up in the top. I was like, why is that piece of hair, you know, sticking straight up looking like Don King?

I was like, I'm about to call her Donna and it stuck. It stuck. Yeah. I love that you dedicated your new book to you yeah why was that important to do because honey i'm the one who made the decision to choose myself that's right right and i made the decision to stop being afraid and to live my life my way and to try new things and the biggest thing i ever did for 30 days was go vegan. And it saved my life. And I was like, girl, this is for you to have. I pray that I forever and always do new things every day.

I want to do that for the rest of my life. I was going to ask, you know, so many people listening. Right. And how did you know not to give up? Right. Because I'm sure there's somebody listening right now that's been trying music for 10 years and it didn't work. And somebody that's trying acting, it didn't work. Somebody is trying to be in a chef chef somebody's trying to be an author somebody's

trying to do something online and creating videos and nobody's watching uh and they probably said i felt i got a sign yeah when do you tell them to say maybe that's not the sign and maybe to change or you know how do you tell somebody to continue to keep doing what they're doing because you could have gave up so many times yeah um i i would never really tell anybody to continue to keep doing what they're doing? Because you could have gave up so many times. Yeah. I would never really tell anybody to give up. Right. If you think God has given you a sign, then trust the signs. For me, it was always signs.

And that's confirmation. If it won't let you rest, if you try to give up and it won't let you. Those are the signs that we have to not ignore but also we have to kind of uh ignore the the noise of of people who tell you you can't um but also we have to be honest with ourselves if you are not really doing the work for the dream that you have is it really your dream that's right right because sometimes it might be a goal and the difference between a goal and a dream is a goal is something that you create a dream is deposited inside of you god does that you don't make up a dream it lives inside of you so be honest with yourself do you want it because you see somebody else with it uh do it look cool to you do you just want to make

money or is it something that won't let you rest now another chapter do something that breaks the rules but not the law oh so uh i tell people that all the time like you know some rules are set by us you know by people uh as well as laws right but i know your kids come back with you all the time mommy said break the rules that's not the law exactly exactly uh but i talk about this in the book that you know i got invited to uh a party you know and it was a strict dress code where they wanted you to wear black i don't like wearing black i am this is about as black as it get for me i love color it makes me happy when i wear like all black it makes me feel weird you think about funerals and all kinds yeah i don't know like even at funerals like in my family we wear a lot of colors or we wear white um but it just makes

me feel a little i don't know maybe sad and i realize if i do wear i gotta have like a pop of color in my lips or something i don't know but i was like i don't want to wear black to this thing i'm gonna i gotta figure something out so i found like uh i had this it was like a I don't want to wear black to this thing. I got to figure something out. So I found like I had this, it was like a blazer, but it was the background was black, but it had a bunch of colors and patterns on it. And I wore like some black bell-bottom pants. Got there and a lot of other people hadn't wore black. And so I was like, this is why we can break the rules sometimes.

You know, I could have said, okay, I'm going to wear all black and been uncomfortable all night. And then got there and been mad like, look at all the people. They ain't wearing what they said we're supposed to wear, right? So that's what I mean by that. Sometimes we can break the rules. Just don't break the law. So you ain't never going to fall in no dress code? If it's an all white party or nothing? She said she's going to wear white, but she's all black.

I mean, I will wear it, but it's going to have to have a little something that make me feel like Taya. Got you. You know, because I also want to go in and be myself, you know, so. Do something that requires you to face your losses. That's a powerful one. So, you know, I had a restaurant, right? And when I had my restaurant, it was a partnership. And we had a lot of problems

with the building and so because the kale my name is a restaurant in Chicago that I fell in love with so when he came to LA I was like oh I'll partner with you and open a restaurant with you I didn't know the restaurant business but this building gave us a lot of issues and so we ultimately had to um to close and so I was like oh man it felt like a loss to me because I had had you know so much happening people would come in I would people come from all over to just meet me at the restaurant and I wasn't there every day but on weekends or whenever I could I would go and just be there all day to make sure I got to see people when they came we ended up having to shut it down and I was like, really kind of hurt about,

you know, for a while. And I really couldn't talk about it because we were having legal problems with the, you know, the building owner. Cause it was a whole thing when it was time to do my taxes. Now I've been carrying this like,

man, I feel so bad about it. Um, I realized that the laws had really blessed me. I wasn't win, right? And so I was like, sometimes we got to look at the loss for what it is. Maybe it ain't a loss, you know, but also it opened up doors for me. Now I have, you know, my food and stuff at Target.

So I was like, it won't necessarily a loss. You know, we can't always look at them, you know, things like this. So it actually blessed me because I didn't have to pay as much. Let's flex a little bit, Tabitha. Let's run some of this stuff down now so you got deals with target who else come on no need to be humble in this moment you act like a rapper right now you know you got the tab time booming on youtube you got deals with target you got book deals what else uh i have my own seasoning okay yeah mccick Spice I have six of those Fridays with Tab and Chance I do have Fridays with Tab and Chance

I do Very Good Mondays where I bless small businesses every Monday of course I have my own merch that feel weird to just name everything I don't even you know I still do my actor thing you know i've um

launched a production company in a partnership with uh stephen love with maywood love media yeah i don't i don't know that was the brown back as she didn't talk to you forever new book i did a new thing we appreciate you for joining us thank you so much don't be a stranger absolutely should i end it how I end my video? Please. Okay, well, first of all, thank y'all for having me. I appreciate y'all. Thank y'all.

Y'all go on about y'all business, all right? Have the most amazing day. But even if you can't have a good one, don't you dare go messing up nobody else's end. God bless y'all. Love y'all. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. All right.

Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the rumors. First of all, salute to the breath of fresh air that is Tabitha Brown. Shout out to Tabitha Brown. Tabitha Brown. Absolutely.

North Carolina's own. Man, I had to find out what her morning routine was. I need to know how she sets her tone for the day. That's right. So much positive energy. Let's get to the rumors. Let's talk Shaq. Rumor has it.

Rumor has it. Call out a name or you gossiping or you chatty patty. I'm gossiping. This is the rumor report. I mean, I guess we on The Breakfast Club. This is where the tea spills, right? Right. All right.

Now, shout to Shaquille O'Neal. He has partnered up with Taddei. Now, Taddei started a campus, a school, a college. And Shaquille O'Neal wants to start investing in college to help students actually pay for school. He said if it wasn't for his scholarship, he doesn't know how he would have went to college. Is Shaq talking about it? What was it about campus that made you say, this is a worthwhile investment, not just for my money, but also for my time? I like to invest in things that are going to change people's lives, that are definitely going to change a person's life.

Everyone to be able to have access to world-class education is very important. When I first met Ty Day, he told me DFD. I was like, what does that mean? Debt-free degrees. You know, they're very, very affordable. And look, it's just a great thing. I'm going to be the guy that, you know, along with, you know, people like yourself were doing his interview. We're going to bring attention to this matter. You know,

a lot of people, and, you know, I was saying earlier, I don't know what it takes to go to junior college. Like, I wouldn't even went to college

if it weren't for my basketball scholarship. I know there's a lot of people that want to, you know, get into higher ed. They want to further their education, but a lot of things

throw them off. But he has invented, you know what I mean? You know, what he's been thinking about for a long time is very, very impressive. I love it. I didn't go to college, you know what I mean? You know, what he's been thinking about for a long time is very, very impressive. I love it. I didn't go to college, you know what I'm saying?

But I understand the importance of a college education but I don't think people should go broke for a college education, you know? And I'm a big proponent of, you know, trade school as well. But either way, a lot of people can't afford to do either one of these things. So I salute to Shaq for what he's doing.

Absolutely. It's one of the reasons I opened up a scholarship fund at South Carolina State University. Which, by the way, the deadline is February 16th, 2024. You can apply at bit.ly

slash Ford Family SCSU scholarship for all South Carolina State residents and seniors, sophomore and seniors at South Carolina State University. Now, if you're a big TikToker like Charlemagne is...

That's a goddamn lie. I don't know nothing about no TikTok. It's TikTok. Universal Music Group is threatening to pull their artists off of the TikTok platform. Now, this is over a contract dispute. Now, TikTok and Universal has been going back and forth. TikTok is basically saying, look, we made agreements with all these other labels and all these other places.

What's the problem with us? And Universal is saying universal saying nah there's a bunch of things that we we got to discuss we have to discuss you can't take out our artists off and use ai there's a couple of things that they want and they won't approve uh using the artists until these things are taken care of uh tiktok is saying you guys just want the money you guys are just saying you're an artist first agreement but clearly you guys just want the money. You guys are just saying you're an artist first agreement. But clearly, you guys just want more money and more situations and a more benefit role. And, you know, is your country falling apart, feeling tired, depressed, a little bit revolutionary? Consider this. Start your own country. I planted the flag and just kind of looked out of like, this is mine. I own this.

It's surprisingly easy. There are 55 gallons of water, 500 pounds of is mine i own this it's surprisingly easy there's 55 gallons of water 500 pounds of concrete everybody's doing it i am king ernest emmanuel i am the queen of ladonia i'm jackson i king of capraberg 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. Oh my God.

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My name is Manuel Delia. I am one of the hosts of Crooks Everywhere, a podcast that unhurts the plot to murder a one-woman Wikileaks. Daphne exposed the culture of crime and corruption that were turning her beloved country into a mafia state. And she paid the ultimate price. Listen to Crooks everywhere 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. We discuss everything from prejudice to politics to police violence, and we try to give you the tools to create positive change in your home, workplace, and social circle.

Exactly. Whether you're Black, Asian, White, Latinx, Indigenous, LGBTQIA+, you name it. If you stand with us, then we stand with you. Let's discuss the stories and conduct the interviews that will help us create a more empathetic, accountable, and equitable America. You are all our brothers and sisters,

and we're inviting you to join us for Civic Cipher each and every Saturday 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. Universal Music Group is saying, no, that's not the case. We want to protect our artists and protect our music so i don't believe that i believe that uh they're fighting over who can make the most money i don't think the artist is in that in that equation at all i think tiktok is like we want to make all the money universal is like we want to make all the money and i don't hear the

artist being mentioned in that and i'm shocked that they even said that at the end yeah looking out for the artists i don't believe that now their demands include protection against ai generated recordings online safety issues for user and higher conversation for its artists and songwriters that's what universal is asking for i'll tell you something else and this is just me talking i don't know anything about this you know i have no facts or proof to back this up okay it seems to me that most of these kids would rather be on tiktok more than record labels nowadays anyway because tiktok is breaking so many records tiktok breaks more records than uh labels do and that's that's what they've been saying that's what the labels are saying like tiktok is it's almost like a music platform where

people hear music and since they're playing music we got to protect our artists make sure they can't do ai generated things make sure that the compensation is better. Because you hear it all the time that somebody a stream or it'd be so many millions of downloads and they'll make twenty dollars. So they're trying to make sure that the artists are compensated and the labels. If I own my music, right, and I'm already getting paid off my music and I'm using TikTok as a distribution platform. Well, I'd rather be on TikTok and just getting people my music as opposed to signing to a label then letting the label put it on tiktok and then you gotta cut the label and cut the middleman out and go right to tiktok that's true that is true all right well that is your rumor report now charlamagne who are you giving your donkey to you know uh for

donkey of the day today i need some crowd participation okay the reason i need crowd participation i want to go to breakfast club court after Donkey of the Day, and I want to decide who is going to get Donkey of the Day. Will it be Starbucks? Okay, the place that so many of us love, you know, and we go there all the time for chestnut praline frappuccinos and peppermint mocha frappuccinos and peppermint white chocolate mochas and, yeah, dragonfly lemonade, dragon ball z lemonade no all of that type of stuff or will it be an employee who i think was unjustly fired from starbucks but we'll discuss okay we'll discuss all right we'll get to that next so don't move it's the breakfast club good morning the breakfast club your mornings will never be the same some donkey todays just saw themselves I've been watching you Charlamagne

I was ready for you I never heard of donkey the other day What is it? Say it again Charlamagne I'm a donkey You are a donkey Everything that Charlamagne Is saying is true

Yes donkey of the day for Wednesday February 1st, the first day of Black... No, so is it Thursday or Wednesday? Thursday, right? Don't care today for Thursday, February 1st, the first day of Black History Month. It's going to the people to decide.

Yes, our amazing Breakfast Club listeners, the millions of you who listen to us daily, you will get to decide today who gets the biggest hee-haw. You will get to decide who gets the credit they deserve for being stupid. I personally know who i feel in my heart should get it but i want y'all to hear the story and then we can discuss and i'll give the hee-haw later but donkey of the day today will go to either a starbucks in st louis right or a 20 year old former employee

of the starbucks in st louis michael harris see See, Michael Harris was fired from Starbucks in St. Louis, and he is currently suing the whole coffee chain, saying he was wrongfully terminated after he confronted robbers at the store. Oh, my God, no. Now, y'all know how I feel about that. These franchises ain't dying for you. Okay, somebody come in there and rob the store, let them have it. All right, it ain't yours.

They pull out a pistol here, man. You can have all the pistachio frappuccino blended beverages you want. Here, take the gift card to the counter. You want a couple dollars out the register, you can take that too. Just go on about your business. You nubbed and I ain't about to buck over no damn Starbucks or any fast food or retail chain for that matter. I'm making minimum wage. By the way, I don't care if you're a store manager making a salary.

I'm not dying over no white chocolate mocha frappuccino blended beverage okay now there is exceptions to the rule because sometimes you are not defending the star you have to defend yourself and if you ask me michael harris was in a position where he had to defend himself let's go to nbc5 on your side for the report please i thought i was gonna die that day they walked in announced that it was a robbery 20 year old michael harris was working the drive-thru here at the starbucks on south grand and midtown then they started going up to people and first seeing them for stuff and we started to fight back against them he says when the two men then demanded cash from the register he tried to open it he says one of the bad guys then hit him on the head with a gun. He tells me he felt emboldened to stand his ground,

especially when he realized the gun he had just been attacked with was fake. Trigger for it came busted off, and then that's when we noticed us and started to fight back. Not knowing if the crooks had another gun, Harris said he wanted to be careful. Eventually, one of the crooks took off. Harris and another co-worker were able to restrain the other until police could get there. Weeks after the situation, Harris says he got a call. They terminated me. Damn.

V, you can bring it in here. You can bring the chapstick in here. My lips so goddamn dry. First rule of nature is self-preservation. Okay, Michael Harris said he felt like he was gonna die that day thank you michael harris said he felt like he was gonna die that day michael harris got hit in the head with the fake gun so his blood was probably boiling okay he was probably enraged and then he realized the gun was fake because he noticed the trigger had fell off so he sprung into action now i don't know if he sprung

into action because he was trying to get his lick back for getting hit with the gun i don't know if he still felt like his life was in danger i don't know if he was defending starbucks i just know he was fired weeks later and never given a reason as to why now a lot of these franchises like starbucks have protocols in place to ensure things like this don't happen in fact starbucks said about this incident that all employees are expected to follow our carefully crafted protocols to ensure the safety of customers and partners during these situations.

Starbucks says in situations like this, our training and protocols guide our partners to comply and deescalate, not just for their safety, but for the safety of all in the store, the safety of our customers and partners. But guess what? The home of the caramel apple spice doesn't teach you.

What's the proper procedure when you got a gun to your head? What's the f***ing procedure when you got a gun at your head? Michael Harrison, his attorney, said Starbucks policy is unfair. Their statement, there is no way that an individual

can be faced with danger, attempted potential death for themselves or another, and then once they've been hit or down that they cannot defend themselves. Leonard agrees. Okay, you have to factor in human emotions to all of this. Michael is a young 20-year-old man who felt like his life was in danger. You can't be upset at him for fighting back when he thinks he's getting robbed at gunpoint and then he gets hit in the head with a gun. In fact, he shouldn't be fired.

He should be employed a month. He should be promoted to manager. Let him get unlimited sugar cookie almond milk frappuccinos. This man earned that and much more. I believe if Michael would have said he was fighting for the store and not himself, he probably would still be employed today. But I told you we're going to go to Breakfast Club Court. All right?

You heard the facts of the case. You've heard the situation. So who should get the biggest hee-haw here michael play the theme music yeah play let me get the buck there you go michael for not following store protocols even though his life was in danger are starbucks for allegedly firing michael for not following store protocols once again who should get the biggest hee-haw here michael for not following store protocols even though his life was in danger. Or Starbucks for allegedly firing Michael for not following store protocols, even though his life was in danger.

I don't usually agree with employees playing hero when stores they work at get robbed. But this was more than that. This was a man defending himself because he was working in a franchise that got robbed. There is a difference. Let's discuss. All right. Let's open up up the phone lines 800-585-1051 now the reason most store owners are don't want people to apprehend shoplifters is because they are not insured to risk their health physically all right so if something happens they don't want to be liable if you die they don't want to be liable but charlamagne said something very specific

the man was hit over the head with the gun. He was defending himself. So now it's not a robbery. This is an assault. And it's self-preservation. And I have to defend myself. First law of nature, self-preservation. He wasn't defending that store at that time.

He was defending that head. Pause. Pause. Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo. God, Mac, Mac, where's your whistle, Mac? Jesus Christ, Mac. Mac, come on, Mac. Mac, where's your whistle, Mac? Jesus Christ, Mac. Mac, come on, Mac. Where's the police when you need them?

That was disgusting. I don't even want to play that game. I'm going home. I've had enough. He got hit over there. No, no, no, bro. God damn. Lord have mercy.

Call us up now. Let's discuss. Why is your brain working that way? It's the Breakfast Club. Go on then. The Breakfast Club. That ain't calling my phone. Why is your brain working that way? It's the Breakfast Club. Right. The Breakfast Club. It's topic time. Call 800-585-1051 to join in to the discussion with the Breakfast Club.

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. If you're just joining us, Charlemagne is trying to decide if he should give Donkey of the Day to who? Well, here's the thing. Michael Harris, 20 years old, he was an employee of Starbucks, right? He got fired from Starbucks because people came in there to rob the store. Right.

One of the guys hit him over the head with the gun, and he realized that the gun was fake because he saw the trigger fall, but he defended himself. Correct. Right? So weeks later, Starbucks fired him. So now Michael Harris is suing Starbucks. Now, usually I am totally against people fighting, you know, robbers when they come in to rob the places that they work at. Because we know that none of these establishments, these chain retail stores, we know they ain't dying for you, so you shouldn't die for them. But this is a different case.

This man was not defending Starbucks. He was defending himself. The first law of nature is self-preservation. He got hit in the head with a gun. Once he realized the gun was fake, he went and made his move. Not mad at that. I don't think he should be fired. But it's not up to me.

It's up to the people. All right. I don't think he should be donkey today, but it's not up to me. It's up to the people. Hello, who's this? Hi, this is Leomi. Hey, Leomi. Good morning.

Good morning. Now, you heard the story. Do you think Michael should get donkey or Starbucks? Okay, I think it depends on, you know, what race is Michael. Because if he is, like, you know, of the top of the race, and he shouldn't have done it, and he shouldn't have minded his business, and he shouldn't have let it And he shouldn't have minded his business And he should have let whatever happen And fall on the floor

And just let the guy do what he was supposed to Now if he was black Starbucks owes him an apology And he needs his job back Period Queen That is ridiculous That is beyond ridiculous.

It's not about what his race was. Yes, it does. It's about right or wrong in this situation. Is he black or white, gentlemen? It doesn't matter. How about the people who robbed him was black? How about that? Oh.

I don't know either. If he was robbed and he was black? You riding with him. It don't matter about the race in this situation. You asked her her opinion and you said the people decide. First of all, she'd be disqualified from the jury. That's racist. That's number one.

She's racist. Yes. She'd be disqualified from the damn jury. Okay? Matter of fact, she is disqualified. Listen to her. Hello, who's this? Yo, what's up?

It's Cam, man. Calling out of Broward County, Florida. Cam, what's up? What's happening, my brother? Should Michael get donkey today or should Starbuck get donkey today? Listen, man, as much as I don't want to say it, I wish Broker get paid, man, but I'm going to keep it real. He messed up when he admitted that he realized the girl was fake. So you're saying there was no real threat at that point?

At that point, there was no real threat. Just like you were speaking on a few weeks ago when somebody got their back turned. There's no reason to fire no longer at that age. Well, listen, you've seen like a BB gun before. You know them BB guns that be looking real? They still got some weight to them. So I can still pistol whip you with that BB gun. And he got hit in the head with it.

Are you trying to sway the jury? No, I'm just saying. Yeah, like I said, man, I hope he get paid. I hope he get paid. But he should have left that little detail out, man. It just went all in. I thought it was real. I was a sense of my life.

But once you admit that you realized it was a fake gun, you know how the corporations don't play. They want you to be a computer, basically. They want you to take all the human emotion out of it. That's true. Let that slap over the head go. That's true. You know what I'm saying?

And get back to your job, basically. That's true. Hello, who's this? This is Charmaine. Hey, Charmaine. Good morning. Where you calling from? Good morning.

Dayton, Ohio. Dayton, Ohio. So who do you think should get donkey? Michael or Starbucks? Starbucks. Because they're not about to pay for that man's funeral, so he had to do what he had to do to keep his life. That's right.

Okay. Thank you, Charmaine. No problem, no. Okay, so currently we got one for Michael, one for Starbucks, and one disqualified juror because she made it about race, and I don't know why. 800-585-1051. When we come back, we're going to take some more calls. This is The Breakfast Club.

Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Char take some more calls. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. If you're just joining us, Charlamagne is trying to decide who he wants to give Donkey to. Is it Starbucks or Michael? What happened? Now, let me explain the situation.

Michael Harris was an employee at Starbucks in St. Louis. Some guys came in there to rob the Starbucks in St. Louis. One of the guys hit Michael in the head with a gun. Then Michael realized that the gun was fake because he saw the trigger fall off. So Michael decided to defend himself. He fought back against the robber, you know. And now, weeks later, Starbucks has fired him. And Michael believes he got fired because he didn't follow their protocol, which is to comply and de-escalate

in situations like that but i feel like the first law of nature is self-preservation you got to factor in human emotion somebody thinks that their life is about to be taken they get hit in the head with a gun i don't have a problem with the young man defending himself in that situation hello who's this this is malcolm malcolm what's up brother what's your thoughts malcolm who should get donkey should it be starbucks or michael listen i, Malcolm? Who should get donkey? Should it be Starbucks or Michael? Listen, I think both of them should get it, to be honest with you. Why? Okay, explain.

All right, listen. I used to manage restaurants, and I used to manage the Burger King. We got robbed. But I feel like Starbucks should be smart enough to know that he wasn't defending Starbucks at the time. He was defending himself. Starbucks, they need to know that right off the bat. So then why is he getting donkey?

Go ahead. He got to get donkey because he needs to know these dudes got guns drawn, who regardless if you think it's fake or not, you gotta take that loss because you don't know if they got another one or what's going on. You gotta just sit there and take that. I feel like they both gotta share this and they need to go somewhere and talk about it and both

of them just be donkey and just living their life like that. Okay. Hello, who's this? This is Kia and her daughter, Jake, calling for the donkey of the day. We right here. What's happening, Kia and her daughter? What's your daughter? You said Jake?

Jake. J-A-E-P. Jake. Oh, Jake. Okay. What's the ages? What's your daughter's age? She's nine.

Okay. So what do y'all think? What do you think, Jake? Thomas is the? She's nine. Okay. So what do y'all think? What do you think? Starbucks is the donkey of the day. Okay. All right. Now, Mama? I can't say anything because she told me I was the donkey of the day because I'm always

getting her to school late. Damn. Well, she's right. She's correct. Because you're probably stopping at Starbucks. You're probably stopping at Starbucks. You're stopping at Starbucks, aren't you? Aren't you?

Tell the truth. Only if I'm allowed to get her the matcha latte. Exactly. Thank you so much. Thank y'all. Have a good day. Have a great day at school. Hello, who's this?

What's going on, fellas? This is Ali G from Jacksonville, Florida. Hey, what's up, brother? Jacksonville, what's happening? What's your thought? Who should get done today? Michael or Starbucks, Florida. Hey, what's up, brother? Jacksonville, what's happening? What's your thought? Who should get dog food today? Michael or Starbucks? Hey, man, you got to go ahead and get that thing to Starbucks, man.

That man's scared for his life. And them people don't fuck with that pill thing. He see a moment, go ahead and get him to pack it up, man. They ain't got security or nothing. Get to Starbucks. Let him protect himself. Okay, okay. Thank you, brother.

All right, so far, that's three for Starbucks. Well, four if you do Kia and a daughter. Okay. Well, I got, all right. She didn't vote, brother. All right, so far, that's three for Starbucks. Well, four if you do Kia and a daughter. Okay. All right. She didn't vote, though. Mom didn't vote? Mom didn't vote. She said she didn't want to vote.

Okay. Because she get donkey today for being late. Okay. Hello, who's this? This is the last one. This is Destiny. Hey, Destiny. Good morning.

So who should get donkey today? Is it Starbucks or is it Michael? It's definitely going to be Starbucks because I get it. Places have policies and procedures set for a reason. However, if somebody's hitting me across the head with a gun and I notice that it's fake

and the pieces to it start to fall apart, obviously I'm going to take that opportunity to defend myself and those around me because things still could have went wrong. So I think he's bringing to action as he should and Starbucks definitely gets dunked the other day. Thank you. We took

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. We took 7 calls, right? 8 calls. One juror got disqualified because she made it about race, so that's 7. So we have 1, 2, 3, four for Starbucks.

One dude voted for Michael and Starbucks. Moral of the story is Starbucks is getting the donkey of the day. The first law of nature is self-preservation. That's right. First law of nature. And I feel like if he would have told them he was trying to defend the store, they probably wouldn't have done that to him. But even still, you still got to defend yourself.

First law of nature is self-preservation. i'm not mad at the brother all right so please uh uh let starbuck get the sweet sounds and the hammer tones oh now you are the donkey of the day you are the donkey of the day All right. Now, when we come back, we got your rumor report. Donald Glover, he's doing a reboot of Mr. and Mrs. Smith. And when he asked Brad Pitt for some advice, he kind of got, let's just say, curved. We'll talk about it when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

All right. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club let's get to the rumors let's talk donald glover rumor has it rumor rumor has it call out a name or you gossiping or you chatting i'm gossiping this is the rumor report i mean i guess we on the breakfast club this is where the tea spills right right all right. All right. Now, Donald Glover was on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. They're doing a reboot of Mr. and Mrs. Smith. You remember that movie with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie? I do now that you said it. It was a great movie.

Great, great, great movie. I don't think I ever watched it. You didn't see it? I remember the promos and stuff for it. Ah, it was a dope movie. They were a couple. They both worked for the feds. They didn't know they both worked for the feds.

And then they found out. And they was going to kill each other. And they decided to work it out. Dope movie. If you haven't. They both worked for the feds. They didn't know they both worked for the feds. And then they found out. And they was going to kill each other. And they decided to work it out. Dope movie. If you haven't seen it, definitely go see it. But they're doing a reboot on the movie. Donald Glover asked Brad Pitt some advice about the movie. And he got curved.

Did you talk to Brad Pitt at all? I did. You did? Yeah. But he didn't give me any real points. He kind of Brad Pitt-ed his way out of any real point he kind of brad pitted his way out of it he's just kind of like you know charmed his way he's like yeah you know you'll do great thanks brad you know like brad said i'll get later like the door yeah it makes you feel

yeah so who's miss smith in the movie uh miss smith is maya erskine i don't know who that is maya erskine is miss smith was she that is. Maya Erskine is Miss Smith. Was she black, white, with Dr. Umar proof? What is it? Is it a black Miss Smith? Did you just disqualify? Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired? Depressed? A little bit revolutionary? Consider this.

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Thank you, lady, for asking about race. That was ridiculous. That made no sense what she was asking. I'm just asking. Let me look it up. Thank you. are they actually married in the in the movie i just haven't seen the movie well in the old movie they are married okay this movie i'm assuming they would be married i don't know man well dr umar about to do a video about mr and mrs dr umar mr and mrs smith review is coming soon he's coming soon to an instagram totally against this jesus christ now hit boy you know hit boy producer uh he did uh iggas in Paris. He did Click Kanye West. He did Backseat Freestyle Kendrick Lamar and a host of others.

Bow Down for Beyonce, Flawless, Jealous, Haunted. Well, he talks about producers being underpaid. I want to empower the producer community because even looking at some of my OGs and legends that I might know, the average person might not even know who somebody that I know is an amazing human being and amazing talent. They don't even know who the is because the history of this is the face is the one who doing it. Like, I just chopped up a sample in front of you right now.

A like won't even see that process at all. Hear a song that whoever is rapping over it and be like, oh, Woopty Woop sampled that song, when it's really Hit-Boy sampled the. You know what I mean? They gon' just put it on the artists, and that's because it's like the face value, and it's just like producers get played, bro. I know other producers that's popping,

that's complaining about albums that dropped months ago that none of us got paid off of. These out here touring, making millions of dollars, bro, and we trying to beg the label to pay us a measly bulls**t ass fee. I really wish more people would follow the Nas and Hip Boy formula, right? Because that's a formula that, you know, a lot of us grew up on when it was like the Snoop Doggs and the Dr. Dre. Like one artist locked in with a producer for a whole project.

And what him and Nas did, you know, was incredible. Yeah. Incredible. He's a three-time Grammy winner. Salute to Hit-Boy for that. I think he's nominated for some Grammys this year, too, as well.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, because the Nas album was nominated. Yeah, I do like when producers lock in, but I also like when artists get

different producers, right? I like when Jay has the ability to work with Timbaland, Pharrell, Primo, and then he'll work with Dr. Dre, and then he'll work with Hit-Boy. I like the fact that they're able to work at different things.

But when they're together, locked in, it's just a more cohesive project most of the time. It is. You think about those Wu-Tang, RZA albums, those Death Row, Dr. Dre-produced albums. It's their sound. When they're locked in with one producer to me it's a more cohesive project and i will say with producers there was a time when producers were eating so much back in the uh the older timberland days and the swiss beats days like these producers were getting 250 a record 500 000 a record 150 000 a record back then it seemed like

it veered off a lot but back in the, they used to stick these artists up absolutely positively. Lastly, Candace Owens. She was on her podcast, the Candace Owens podcast, and she wanted to discuss a new record, and it was Ice Spice's Fart. Ice Spice recently released a song. It's called Think You the S*** Fart. Yeah, I'm sorry. That's the title of the song. It's called Think You the S*** Fart.

And if you're wondering whether or not it's a good song, what do you think? It's called Think You the S*** Fart. Yeah, I'm sorry. That's the title of the song. It's called Think You the Fart. And if you're wondering whether or not it's a good song, what do you think? It's called Think You the Fart. Now, I think we can all admit that we've fallen as a society. I mean, I wouldn't say that that was Mozart or Beethoven, but I'm not all of these mainstream media publications that routinely rush to defend this kind of music, similar to what they did with WAP, the most disgusting and filthiest lyrics I've ever read. Here is hotnewhiphop.com rushing to defend this. iSpice employs direct and unapologetic language to establish dominance over her peers, touching on the themes of wealth, physical appeal, and personal prowess.

What? I just want to live in a society where we can all acknowledge that a song that's entitled, Thank You, The S*** Fart, is in fact itself a s*** fart. Oh, my goodness. Hey, man. You know, it ain't for me, man. I'm 45 years old.

I was born in 1978. Okay? So I'll say it ain't for me. All right? I will say this. All right? I ain't saying nothing. Ice Spice is... Because it ain't for me. All right. I will say this. Right. I ain't saying nothing. Ice Spice is...

Because it ain't for me. I ain't got nothing to say about that young girl. Ice Spice is 23. She just turned 24 in January. She doing her thing. She young. She doing her thing. She's making the best possible art that she can.

And, you know, people are eating it up. Candace Owens is 34 years old. Of course, she's not going to get Ice Spice's fart. But there's a generation of kids that enjoy it. I hope nobody get an Ice Spice fart. I hope Ice Spice would have the coof to not fart around people. Well, they love the song Fart. The song is a catchy song.

The kids like the song. They do like the song. But listen, everybody's entitled to their opinion. Because you don't like it. That's just the truth of the matter. Neither do I, but I know that ain't for me. But as a DJ, I will play it in the club, and i will play it because it's what the people like boy how do you announce it when you're on the microphone of the party new ice price fart god damn it yeah candace no one's right we fall

into society y'all there's a great movie called idiocracy right and if you watch idiocracy there's a scene in the movie where like the i mean it's yeah there's a scene in the movie where the biggest movie of the moment is a movie called ass right and it's literally just a man's ass on the screen a pale white ass and the ass is just farting every now and then and everybody's laughing and dying their ass off that's what they said they said so when i said last week when we was playing fart every hour on the hour, I was like, it feels like we in a spoof. But that's what they were saying. Fart is funny to people, and that's why they like it.

It ain't for me. I was born in 1978. Okay, that's not for me. Big Sean did a record called Ass, Ass, Ass. Shut up. It's not the same. It's a difference between an ass and what comes out the ass. Okay.

Maybe she should have named it something else. Something cuter like Poot. Poot's the cuter. You know what I mean? Fart just sounds harsh. She says, you're not the ish. You're not even a poot. It could still have the same lyrics.

Maybe just a different title. You're not the ish. You're not even a poot. Maybe Breaking Wind. You're the ish. You're not even Breaking Wind? Backfiring. You're not the ish. You're not even Backfiring?

Maybe Gas. That's what it should have been called. Gas. You're not the ish. The're not even breaking wind? Backfiring. You're not the ish? You're not even backfiring? Maybe gas. That's what it should have been called. Gas. You're not the ish. The song should have been gas. No, I ain't say change the lyric. I'm just saying if you just change the title, you know, gas. You got to go all the way with it.

You got to be a different package. You're going to give me lyrics like that. Give me a package that's different. That's all. But I'm not here to critique her. She's a young girl, and she's making the best possible art that she can. It's not for me if you like fart that is on you do your thing okay i'm grown grown all right well thank you for that

rumor report we'll come back to people's choice mix let's go to breakfast local morning the breakfast club your mornings will never be the same all right it's black history month what we doing man today is the first day of Black History Month. And you know, during Black History Month, my man B-Dot, salute to B-Dot. He does a podcast called I Didn't Know, Maybe You Didn't Either. It comes out daily on the Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network. And today, I will be playing his first episode. And we're going to talk about the history of swimming pools in America.

We'll discuss when we come back. All right. We'll get to that next. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club.

It's Black History Month, the first day of Black History Month. First day of Black History Month, man, and I got to salute my guy, B-Dot. You know, every day during Black History Month, we have a podcast called I Didn't Know, Maybe You Didn't Either. It's a daily podcast hosted by B-Dot, where every day during Black History Month, have a podcast called i didn't know maybe you didn't either it's a daily podcast hosted by b dot where every day during black history month he will tell you some things about black history that you didn't know and today he's going to talk to you about swimming pools in the history of swimming pools in america let's go b dot yo what's happening welcome to season three of i didn't know maybe you you didn't either. I'm your host, B-Dot. This season, my goal is to connect the dots and show how some of the same atrocities we faced in the enslavement periods we experience today.

Like that white lady that poured a bottle of soda on the head of 11-year-old Jace Lee Urie in Greensboro, North Carolina last year. Did you hear about that? 62-year-old Kim Jennings. She approached 11-year-old Jace Lee Urie and his 8-year-old sister Jayla and poured soda on the top of his head for swimming in the apartment complex pool. After pouring soda on his head, she punched him in the face with the can and then proceeded to douse him with the remaining contents in the can of course once the video went viral she released an apology she was arrested on two counts of simple assault and the parents they filed a federal discrimination lawsuit they being represented by ben crump

jason keith and harry daniels so you know we're gonna get some results but historically black folks being mistreated by white folks at swimming pools has been heavily documented. White folks never wanted us at the swimming pools. Like first, late 19th and early 20th century. Pools were built in white neighborhoods only, and they were segregated by gender. Men and women couldn't be in the same pool. By the 1920s and 30s, it was a pool building spree all over the United States. Literally thousands and thousands of pools.

Some of them was bigger than football fields, but they were extremely segregated to the point where black folk would get violently beaten down just for trying to access the pools. And it was primarily for two reasons. One, racist assumptions that black people were dirtier than white people.

And two, gender integration. See, most whites didn't want black men in particular to have access to white women as such an intimate public space. Once desegregation hit in the 60s, we were introduced to white flight. Now, white flight is when white folks stopped going to the public pools

and built private pools, club pools, or just pools that they crib. And white flight is a real thing. It's been used to describe the phenomenon of when a neighborhood would become racially integrated. See, when a black family would move into a neighborhood that had been all white, large numbers of white families would move right on out. Look, pick a date, pick a story. Whether it was the 1957 swimming pool showdown in Monroe, North Carolina with the black folks versus the Klan.

That story is eloquently documented in the book Negroes with Guns. Or you can pick 1964 when James Brock dumped acid in the pool at the Monson Motor Lodge in St. Augustine, Florida, just to try to keep black folks from swimming in his pools. Or just last year in 2023 when Kim Jennings poured soda on and assaulted an 11-year-old black boy, Jace Lee Urie, in front of his 8-year-old sister, Jayla, in Greensboro, North Carolina. She says he was trespassing. We'll discuss how trespassing relates to them enslaved periods in episode 308. But the moral of the story is this.

58% of black kids can't swim. And there's been a historical hatred for black folks and swimming pools since the very first public swimming pool was built in boston massachusetts in 1868 and i didn't know maybe you didn't either all right well salute to b dot salute to b dot man make sure you subscribe to i didn't know maybe you didn't either on the black effect i heart radio podcast network available everywhere you listen to podcasts all right when we When we come back, we got the positive note. It's the Breakfast Club.

Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. I got to salute my wife today. It's her birthday today. So salute to Gia. Happy birthday, baby.

Happy birthday, Gia. And you got a positive note, Charla? I do. And it's a simple one, man. It's an oldie but goodie. Worry about your character, not your reputation. Because your character is who you are. Your reputation is who people think you are. Character over reputation all day, every day.

Breakfast club, bitches! You all finished or you all done? Had enough of this country? Ever dreamt about starting your own? I planted the flag. This is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. 55 gallons of water for 500 pounds of concrete. Or maybe not. No country willingly gives up their territory.

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