The Breakfast Club - Gimme the Loot

Episode Date: July 10, 2019

Today on the show we had MSNBC host Jo Ann Reid stop by, who spoke about her new book, "The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American History." She also spoke about the Republican Party's fears of diversity and what America can learn from South Africa. Moreover, we  took callers for Ask Yee and Charlamagne tha God gave a Dunkin' Donuts manager Donkey of the Day for creating, and hiring, a fake employee and collecting the paychecks.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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What is that? Bullets. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. We need help! That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast

Post Run High is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just don't know what is going to come for you. Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love. I forgive myself. It's okay.

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It's time! It's time! It's time! It's time to wake up! DJing Angela Yeats and Charlamagne Tha God. The Breakfast Club, bitches. The voice of the culture. People watch The Breakfast Club for light news and really be tuned in. This is one of my favorite shows to do.

Just because y'all always keep it 100, y'all keep it real. They might not watch the news, but they're on Twitter. They're on Facebook. They're, you know, they're listening to The Breakfast Club. Get your ass up. Good yo, yo. This guy. It went from low to high. I can do amazing things with my voice. Oh, my goodness. Morning, Angelie.

Good morning, TJMV. Charlamagne Tha God. Peace to the planet. Guess what day it is. Guess what day it is. Hump Day. Yes, it's Wednesday, Hump Day. Middle of the week.

Yes, it is, man. I'm tired. You are. You just got back from vacation. I know, and I'm still tired. Yeah, me too. You know what it is? Because, you know, when you take a, uh, how many days off? Yeah, ten or something like that?

When you take, like, ten days off, including the weekend. Yeah, yeah, yeah, including the weekend. Then you get back, and you don't realize you gotta hit the ground running, because you got so much stuff to do. Correct. Yeah, so that's why I'm at home. Yeah, I needed an extra day just to relax, but it's all good. Yesterday, I took the family bowling. My family likes to bowl.

Like, I don't know what it is, but they really like to bowl. Maybe everybody's competitive. We compete. You know, we bowl for push-ups. We do all types of crazy stuff. So we bowled last night. I won again, of course. That's not what I want to talk about.

I want to talk about your son. Oh. Calling me suspect. Or calling us suspect. Yeah, so my son goes to camp every morning. He goes to football camp. Of course, football started in New Jersey. And yesterday we were on the radio and I was telling the story that, you know, I tell my wife everything.

Yesterday I drank some tea, intern got me tea up here. And it made my stomach bubble up. And I said, you know, it's my butt. There's something wrong with my butt. We don't have that clip at the ready? No. What is wrong with you guys? So Charlamagne says, wow,

you tell your wife about it, but not me? And my son heard that yesterday as we were riding in the car. I didn't say you tell, you know, you just tell me about your bubbling stomach. You tell me about your butt. Right. We're teammates. He said we're teammates and, you know, you didn't tell me about your butt. So yesterday my son, you know, was like, dad, you and

Charlamagne are mad sus. I said, what do you mean? He was like, I was listening this morning and he says, why don't you tell him about your butt problems? He was like, you and Charlamagne are mad sus. I said, what do you mean? He was like, I was listening this morning, and he says, why don't you tell him about your butt problems? He was like, you and Charlamagne talk a lot about butts. That is not true, little Logie. Stop. I was like, is that all you get from the show? Exactly. He was like, yes.

Very well-rounded show. He was like, yes, that's all I get from this show. It's a very well-balanced show. You cover a number of things. Yeah. All right? Yeah, well, great. Well, good morning, Logan, if you're on your way to camp this morning. We cover a number of things. Yeah. All right? Yeah, well, great. Well, good morning, Logan, if you're on your way to camp this morning.

We're not talking about butts yet. All right, well, today joining us, we have Joy Ann Reid. Yes, she has a great new book out called The Man Who Sold America. That's right. And you watch her on MSNBC on AM Joy. Yes, indeed. Yeah, so we'll be kicking it with her. And we got front-page news.

What are we talking about, Yee? We'll talk about Instagram. They have a new anti-bullying feature. Well, a couple of new anti-bullying features, and I'll be kicking it with her. And we got front page news. What are we talking about, Yee? We'll talk about Instagram. They have a new anti-bullying feature. Well, a couple of new anti-bullying features. And I'll tell you how those work. What, they're going to delete the whole app? That's the only way to prevent bullying on Instagram or any social media site. They have to delete their whole app.

All right. Well, we'll get into that next. Keep it locked. This is The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club.

Let's get into some front page news. Now, congratulations to the women's soccer team again. Today is the day they're going to have the ticker tape parade. I thought it was yesterday, but it's actually this morning at 9 a.m. So if you're around the Wall Street area in New York City, it's going to be mad traffic. They're closing mad blocks, but it's a huge celebration. All right. Now, let's talk about Instagram.

They have new anti-bullying features. So how are these going to work? Well, there's two features now that they have. One of them is called restrict. So you have to identify your personal bullies without banning them. And because I guess they found that when you ban your bully, it makes it even worse. And then you have to go see them in real life sometimes. You go to school with them.

So if that account is set as restricted, then you have the ability to review comments that the restricted account tries to post before you can approve it, delete it, or you can leave it in limbo. So only they can see that they tried to post onto your account. So the other one is a comment warning, which can detect offensive or borderline content that somebody is typing, and it prompts you to reconsider before you post. I think that's impossible. Our social media sites are set up for people to do what we call bullying.

I don't have the time or the energy to go through everybody in my comments that is doing what they would say is called bullying. Well, you wouldn't go through everyone. If there's somebody that you want to restrict, you can do that so that that particular person. But I don't have just one. I have thousands, like tens of thousands.

I'm sure we all do. Me too. Pay attention. Like, what are you talking about here? And so it's like what we call bullying is just people expressing their opinion, saying things that you don't agree with, saying things that you don't like, slandering you, lying on you.

But what can you do? That's the culture of social media. I think they're concerned a lot, too, about kids in school and having to actually go to school with somebody that is also bullying you on social media. And kids aren't getting off Instagram. Yeah, but guess what? That's the best way to prevent it. The best way to prevent it is to get off Instagram. Yeah, but guess what? That's the best way to prevent it. The best way to prevent it is to get off it. That's why I keep recommending that book, Digital Minimalism, by Cal Newport, because we've got to start treating social media like a tool

and not like another organ that exists in our body. It's not something that we have to do. Yeah, and, you know, I'm grateful my kids are not really on social media like that. Like, they really don't care about it. I think my son has three pictures up. Like, he doesn't really care. And I love the fact that they're not on it. They don't care about it.

They're not into it. They'd rather do things that, like, he doesn't really care. And I love the fact that they're not on it. They don't care about it. They're not into it. They'd rather do things that, like, bowl and football and basketball. And I love that. Like, we're all in verbally abusive relationships with our smartphones. And we don't have to be. All right. Now, Uber hasn't built something new. Uber Comfort.

So that's going to be in between Uber X Ride and Uber Black. So basically, you'll be paying a little bit more, 20% to 40% per ride. And you'll get a newer car, you'll get more legroom, you'll be able to set the temperature before you get picked up. You can request, of course, that quiet mode as well, and make sure you have a charger, all of those things. So that means

you'll get definitely like a better car. But it doesn't have to be Uber X or Uber Black. Alright, and also, let's talk about that guy we discussed yesterday, Christopher Cucor. If you want to be refreshed, let's talk about that guy we discussed yesterday, Christopher Cukor. If you want to be refreshed, he's the one who called the police on Wesley Michelle. Wesley Michelle is a black man because he said he was trespassing. Right.

Friend on the call box and have them come down. They don't have to do that. You can just walk away. I'm going to call the police. Oh, yes, yes, yes. Call the police. Sir, I'll hold the door here for you. That is okay. Nobody's asking you to hold the door. You can do whatever you want. Yeah, there's a trespasser in my building. Daddy, no.

Please go. Listen to your son. Daddy, go. It's the better. I agree with him, Daddy. I don't like this. Let's go. That's crazy.

Now, we told you yesterday Kukor is a YouTube executive. Well, he now has left his own statement on Medium. He wrote that he actually has a bad history. He said that his father was killed when he confronted a trespasser outside of his home. And he said, for my child's safety, my safety, and that of the building, I felt it was necessary to get help in this situation. Furthermore, I've encountered trespassers in my building and we've been robbed several times. This is not uncommon in San Francisco and the bad actors are all different colors.

I now realize that Wesley was reacting based on his unique history as well. Unfortunately, there is a terrible pattern of people calling the authorities regarding people of color for no other reason than their race. Now, Wesley Michelle, who's a software engineer, told CNN that this incident

mirrors the experience African Americans endure daily when we are questioned on whether we belong. I videotaped this incident to protect myself and to support my story so please get involved.

That statement makes no sense because if your father was killed by a trespasser, because he confronted the trespasser, that's all the more reason to call 911 in the comfort of your home

and not confront the person. He didn't seem like he felt threatened at all. He was standing here, his son was begging him to leave. No, he wasn't threatened. Knock it off. Your father confronted a trespasser and was killed.

That may be the case, but you did the exact same thing. Yeah. Like, what are you talking about? This was more like, my penis is bigger than yours. You have to leave from here. I'm not moving.

Like, if you're that scared and you're with your kid and you want to protect your kid, you keep it moving. What? See, you know what? See? Comparing male penises, it's only 6.05.

All right. Well, that is your front page, dude. All right. This guy is crazy. Starting off early, huh? Forget you, man. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051.

Good morning, Logan. If you need to vent this right now, 800-585-1051. Get it off your chest. Call us now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. This is your time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed.

You better have the same energy. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? What's up? The MVP from Atlanta. What's up? Envy this here from Atlanta. What's up, bro? Get it off your chest. What's up?

I mean, y'all had a good topic yesterday about the independent. And you got to realize, you got to actually study people like Yee. Like, she's not a submissive person. She got to look up the word independent. If you really look at her and y'all look at y'all, I can tell y'all had an argument yesterday. She's not submissive. She's never going to have kids.

She's 50 years old. So everything she wants to do is independent by herself. Independent means selfish, basically. I want everything to myself. I'm going to take care of it. Is that what independent means? So when you look up the definition of independent, it says selfish. Yeah, that's pretty much selfish.

Everything you want to do on your own. It's basically by yourself. That's selfish. I don't know if it's selfish. You're not the person that don't want to recreate. You're going to be 50 years old and you don't have no kids and no husband. Who's 50? And who defines themselves by having a husband and having kids? You think that's

the only way that you should live your life? People don't have other options? So Oprah doesn't have a husband and kids. Does that mean that she's selfish? You don't think your parents actually like you? You want to have kids and have a husband and have a Does that mean that she's selfish? You don't think your parents actually like you? You want to have kids and have a husband and have a family? Who are you to dictate how any woman should live their life? I'm not trying to tell you how you should live your life.

Yes, you are. You're trying to say that I'm selfish because I'm independent. You don't have no kids. You don't have no... You think that if I wanted to get married, I couldn't? Why are you not recreating? Why you don't have no kids. Why are you not recreating? Why you don't have no kids? Why am I not recreating?

Why are you stupid? Oh, man. So you think Oprah's selfish, too? Jesus Christ. I'm pretty sure she is. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. You sound stupid.

Hello, who's this? Recreating. What's up, bro? It's Melo from Long Island. What's up, bro? Get it off your chest. Nah, man. I'm just spreading positivity. You know, I'm just feeling great. I got a good job. I'm back in the gym. Recreate What's up bro Get it off your chest Thank you my brother Black men don't cheat

Black men don't cheat baby Thank you brother Hello who's this Yo what's up Envy Hey what's up Trav Hey Trav Don't be acting like that to me Envy I'm shady to you today

What you want Trav What's up Char Peacev? Hey, Trav. Don't be acting like that to me, Envy. I'm shady to you today. What you want, Trav? What's up, Char? Peace, sis. How you? How you? I'm doing good. I'm doing good. Listen, Charlamagne, let me ask you a question, right?

Yes, sir. If Post Malone was to come out and say that he don't care about black lives and he live in Beverly Hills and he ain't got nothing to do with Black Lives Matter and he got locked up in Sweden. He said he don't give a F about black people. Would you be like still going hard about trying to get him out of jail? How about going hard about trying to get A$AP Rocky out of jail, sir? I just asked you.

I said, would you go hard about getting him out of jail? Yeah, because Malcolm X once said, I'm for justice no matter who it is for or against. And you Negroes can't pick and choose when you stand up for injustice based off who you like and don't like. And yes, Rocky made those comments and they were some dumb ass comments. But I bet when he comes home, he will understand why you should and have to stand up for black people experiencing injustice. Because it doesn't matter if you live in Soho or Beverly Hills, if you rich, poor, you're black in America, you can end up in that situation anywhere in the world. And as Martin Luther King Jr. said, injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. That's the thing, though, that we can pick and choose who we decide to actually stand up for.

What that lets me know, you don't really care about injustice that happens to black people. You care about who you like and who you don't like. And Chad, this could be a good wake-up call for A$AP Rocky for him to be more involved. Honestly, if you can say that about Michael Brown and Ferguson, that you don't give an F about black men dying, this is not going to be a wake-up call for him. This is going to be that. I'm not defending those comments because they were dumb comments, but that was four years ago. And once again, I guarantee you, when he comes home, he will understand why you should and have to stand up for

black people experiencing injustice. If he doesn't, that's his dumb ass. But guess what? I'm still standing up for the injustice. I don't care about whether it's ASAP Rocky or not. Like Malcolm X said, I'm for justice no matter who it is for or against. Right is right and wrong is wrong. What happened to him is wrong. And that's the thing. We're

so quick to cancel somebody instead of having a conversation. He might not have ever dealt with any of that stuff, but you know what? He's dealt with it now. So he'll feel it and he'll understand it now. Hopefully. I think he fully understood what he was saying,

but all right, y'all. I just wanted to know. All right, Trav. I don't know. I hate when we do that. It's just like when that guy got killed by the police and they brought up comments like, oh, well, he disrespected black women on Twitter back in the day. What does that have to do with him getting killed by the police and they brought up comments like, oh, well, he disrespected black women on Twitter back in the day.

What does that have to do with him getting killed by the police? He was unarmed. He's still a black man who was killed at the hands of the police when he was unarmed. Right is right and wrong is wrong. Y'all for getting justice or it's about popularity contest. Which is it? 800-585-1051. Get it off your chest.

Hit us up now. It's The Breakfast Club good morning The Breakfast Club Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired? Depressed?

A little bit revolutionary? Consider this start your own country I planted the flag I just kind of looked out of like this is mine I own this

It's surprisingly easy There's 55 gallons of water 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen of Ladonia. I'm Jackson I, King of Kaperburg. I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia.

Be part of a great colonial tradition. The Waikana tried my country. My forefathers did that themselves. 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. Bullets. We need help! We still have the off-road portion to go. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. And we're losing daylight fast. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, guys.

I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast Post Run High is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. You know that rush of endorphins you feel after a great workout? Well, that's when the real magic happens. So if you love hearing real, inspiring stories from the people you know, follow, and admire, join me every week for Post Run High.

It's where we take the conversation beyond the run and get into the heart of it all. It's lighthearted, pretty crazy, and very fun. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just don't know what is going to come for you. Alicia Keys opens up about conquering doubt, learning to trust herself, and leaning into her dreams. I think a lot of times we are built to doubt the possibilities for ourselves,

for self-preservation and protection. It was literally that step by step. And so I discovered that that is how we get where we're going. This increment of small, determined moments. Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love. I forgive myself. It's okay.

Like grace. Have grace with yourself. You're trying your best and you're gonna figure out the rhythm of this thing. Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast. Peace and blessings, y'all. How y'all feeling? Port-A-Potty guy.

What's up, bro? I haven't heard from you in a long time. NV, NV, my name is Sean Stone, not Port-A-Potty guy, okay? Sean, what's up, man? He's a person. Where was you? Were you locked up in Sweden? No, sir.

I was not locked up like ASAP Rocky. That's crazy, though, because I watched that video, and I saw them people following the dude back and forth, even though the dude's saying, yo, go your way, and I'll go my way. So I don't know what's going on with that, you know what I mean? That's what I'm saying. Right is right and wrong is wrong. What happened to A$AP is wrong. Like, you know, if somebody's following you anywhere,

especially in a foreign country, you're going to feel threatened. If you defend yourself, you should not be sitting in a jail. Well, what's up, brother? I've just been working, brother. You know what I mean? I've just been working hard trying to take care of my son, and we're just out here, man, trying to do the right thing. How's the, brother? I've just been working, brother. You know what I mean? I've just been working hard trying to take care of my son. We're just out here, man, trying to do the right thing. How's the music going?

Hey, I enjoy you. I still do music, but I don't really do music like that. Right now, I'm just all about doing my truck driving. Driving, taking care of my speed. You know what I mean? How's your son? I think that's the best thing for you. My son is five years old.

He still asks me about that birthday party for Logan, too, all the time. Well, bring him by the car show this year. Bring him by the car show this year. Oh, I'll definitely do that, man. And everybody go follow Sean Stone, 876 on IG. And all everybody that's doing that ice cream challenge, licking ice cream, putting it back, y'all stupid. I hope y'all go to jail.

Your word is born in Sweden. Hello, who's this? Hey, it's, y'all stupid. I hope y'all go to jail. Your word is born in Sweden. Hello, who's this? Hey, it's Domingo from Seattle. Hey, Domingo, get it off your chest, bro. I got to get it off my chest. There's a fight, boxing match, July 20th. Pacquiao versus Thurman. All my black friends

are Filipino. They're saying that Manny Pacquiao is going to get smacked up by Thurman. I just had to get my chest off of saying that Manny Pacquiao's going to get smacked up by Thurman. I just had to get my chest off of that because I think Pacquiao's actually going to win. And is Charlamagne over there? I know he's a huge boxing fan. I'm right here, sir.

Keith Thurman used to be one of my favorite fighters. He's not as exciting as he once was, you know, especially after he got hurt. But I do think Keith Thurman beats Manny Pacquiao on July 20th. That's actually a good matchup. Knockout, Paul Brown, what's your opinion? I don't think it'll be a knockout, you know what I'm saying? But I think Keith Thurman will win that fight. I don't even think it'll be a stoppage, to be honest.

I think Keith Thurman might win on points. All my black friends are like, they're talking hell of it. Thurman might win on points. He keeps saying, all my black friends. We got it. We got black friends. We'll call it after the fight. I just think Keith Thurman is much younger. You know what I'm saying?

I think he's going to beat Manny Pacquiao on July 20th. That's what his black friends say. Hello, who's this? Tommy. What's your name? Tommy. Common. Tommy? Yeah, Tommy. Alright, Tommy. Get off your chest, bro. Man, I'm

tired of people licking the ice cream, man. Me too. I think we all are. I'm glad I don't eat ice cream. They gotta leave the ice cream alone. I like Blue Bill. Yo, they gotta make an example out of all these people. I saw the guy that was spitting in the Arizona iced tea. I seen that too, man.

Yo, I don't care if these people are really buying these products and then doing that because either way, they're still sending the wrong message. I really think that they should be arrested, yo, and punished severely to the fullest extent of the law. Hello, who's this? How you doing? This is Avery Washington.

What's up, bro? Get it off your chest. Wanted to call in to tell you why I'm blessed. I just celebrated 20 years of marriage with my beautiful queen. Nice. I'm a family advocate blessed with three beautiful daughters, and I'm also an author of a book called Letter to My Daughters, Poetic Affirmations of Love from My Father,

in which I want to send you and Charlemagne a copy, a couple copies, because I teach our daughters to embrace the love of God himself so they won't desperately seek love from man or anyone else. I would love to read it. It's a terrible, foul book. I appreciate it. I got three little girls. I'd love to read it.

I appreciate it. And also, I was blessed to co-author a book with Les Brown called Breakthrough this year, which came out June 1st. And in Breakthrough, my chapter is Connect With Your Soul. And it's my opinion that we all have any gifts that are inside of our souls, but we have to take time to connect with them. And once we

connect with our soul, we'll be able to connect with our passion and purpose in life. So I'm very blessed. I will do. I just need the address. And please connect with me at Arthur Avery Washington on Instagram, and you'll be able to see

everything that I'm doing for spreading positive love to our people. All right, hold on, all right? All right. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent,

you can hit us up. Nayee, we got rumors on the way? Yes, find out who said a man once cried after he had sex with her. That must have been amazing. Also, we'll talk about racism and we'll tell you what actress says that she recalled some racism that was directed at her baby. That could have been amazing or he could have caught something either or.

We'll find out next. Keep it locked. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. She's spilling the tea This is the Rumor Report with Angela Yee

on The Breakfast Club So Juice WRLD was on social media He said, I'ma leave that ish alone for good, watch me, I'm done with it Then he said, I got work to do a lot That's when his girlfriend said, please And he said, bae, I'm sorry I be tweaking. You put up with more than people know. I know I be

scaring you. F codeine, I'm done. I love you and I'm letting it be known publicly that ain't ish effing up the real love I found. Learn from this everyone. Addiction kills all, but you can overcome. Good for him. Tens of thousands of deaths from opioid overdose, I probably would quit too.

And I look at new lean users the way I look at crackheads. Like, you do know what that's going to do to you, right? Well, Ariana Grande, in the meantime, is on the cover of Vogue, and she's talking about making her Thank U, Next album. And she said that Jungle City Studios was right around the corner from her apartment, and she went there hoping to grieve for Mac Miller

while she was doing her music. And she said she doesn't even remember doing that album. She said her memories are blurry at best. She said, if I'm completely honest, I don't remember those months of my life because I was A, so drunk and B, so sad. She said the album made her realize she needed to stop dating and have alone time because she'd been going from relationship to relationship. She said, I think this is the first album and also the first year of my life where I'm realizing I can no longer put up spending time with myself just as me.

I've been booed up my entire adult life. I've always had someone to say goodnight to. So Thank U, Next was this moment of self-realization. That's interesting because she's been getting some money for a while since she was a kid. And she's always in a relationship. So when does she have time for herself? And she's always working.

All right. So, yeah, she talks about a lot of that. It's a good story if you want to read that whole entire interview. And she also talks about Mac Miller a lot and going to Coachella and how that always reminded her of him. She said, I was always a person who never went to festivals and never went out and had fun like that. But the first time I went was to see Malcolm perform.

And it was such an incredible experience. I went the second year as well. And I associate heavily was just kind of a mind of processing how much has happened in such a brief period. She also talks about the criticism that she got after Malcolm passed away. And she said they didn't see the years of work and fighting and trying or the love and exhaustion that tweet came from a place of complete defeat. And you have no idea how many times I warned him that would happen and fought that fight for how many years of our friendship, of our relationship. You have no idea.

So you're not allowed to pull that card because you don't effing know that's where that came from. So that's her whole situation. All right, Rolling Loud. They've announced that they have a New York and a Hong Kong festival coming. So the New York dates are going to be October 12th and 13th, and then Hong Kong is going to be October 19th to the 20th. So if you want to go to the New York show, those tickets go on sale on Friday. Where's it going to be at?

We're in New York, you know, Central Park or? It's going to be at Citi Field in Queens. Oh, okay. Where the Mets play. All right. All right, Adrienne Bailon, she talks about the time that she made a man cry after having sex. They were discussing men opening up after being intimate on The Real. And here's what she had to say.

The guy cried. Oh, you cried after. Or where they're so thankful, they're just like. They just overwhelmed with how much they love you or how they feel about you or how bomb you were. Like, they're just like, oh. That was amazing. Okay, stop bragging, Adrienne. They were having a whole discussion about it.

They were talking about crying and you know, Jenny Mai said she's never cried during sex. This guy get on social media and be like, the reason I was really crying is because I gave another woman her piece. I gotta stop being like this. I have to stop being this person. Because it was so amazing.

Kristen Davis was on Red Table Talk. You have to stop being this person. Because it was so amazing. All right. Now, Kristen Davis was on Red Table Talk. You know her from Sex and the City. And the topic was, should white people adopt black kids? And she has adopted a baby boy last year. She's 54 years old. And she adopted her daughter. She adopted a big boy last year.

And daughter Gemma is now seven. So here's what Kristen Davis had to say about experiencing racism when it comes to her having a black child and also not knowing what it feels like to be black no matter how hard she tries because she can't say, I know what that feels like. This is what I want to say from

a white person adopting. You absolutely do not fully understand. There's no doubt. There's no way you could. Right. Because you could understand that you live in white privilege, and that's a theory, and you could see things. Right.

But it's one thing to be watching it, you know, happening to other people. People. And it's another thing when it's your child. Yes. And you haven't personally been through it. It is. It's a big issue. It's something that I think about every day and every night.

It's going to sound crazy, but I never understood that. Even as a kid, you'd always see celebrities and a lot of white people adopt black babies and I never understood it as a kid. I was like, is it like a fad? Are we like a new bag? Give me a little black baby. I never understood it. I bet you it increased after the movie The Blind Side came out. They're like, I can raise me

a little NFL player. I'm telling you. And she's right. You can adopt black kids, but they can't adopt your white privilege. So, yeah. Right. I mean, and that's something

that she understands. She can't be like, I know what it feels like. I know what you're going through. So, all right. Well, I'm Angela Yee and that is your rumor report. All right.

Thank you, Miss Yee. Now, when we come back, we got front page news. What are we talking about, Yee? We are going to talk about our Brooklyn Nets because, you know, we got to do that

every time there's a story. All right. We'll get into that next. Keep it locked. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ MV, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God.

We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to front page news. What are we talking about, Yee? Let's talk about Kevin Durant. Now, according to the general manager for the Nets, he's saying that Kevin Durant first committed to playing for the Nets through Instagram. How? Well, I guess he made the announcement before

he made the announcement to Brooklyn. So he announced that he committed to Brooklyn on Instagram before he even met. I thought he had his own site or something like that. They were trying to launch

his own site, and he did it through there. That's what I thought. And he's been wanting to play with Kyrie Irving. What, he sent the Nets a DM or something? Like, I'm confused.

He announced he committed to Brooklyn on Instagram before he even met with the organization. So that's what the general manager, Sean Marks, had to say. You knew that wasn't going to happen. They wanted him anyway. They would have had to had some meetings prior. That's what I'm saying. You wouldn't just announce that on Instagram.

They're not going to say no. Everybody knew the Nets wanted to get Kevin Durant, and everybody knew that they were trying. What happened if I was trying to get somebody else? That don't sound right. I'm almost sure Kevin Durant met with the Brooklyn Nets before he announced it on Instagram because he would have to know if the Brooklyn Nets

are going to give him a max deal. Like, you wouldn't just announce that on Instagram. That doesn't make any sense. Like, come on, stop it. Well, this is what Sean Marks told reporters. Sean Marks is lying. We don't know if he's lying. Well, again, it does sound a little bit like that.

Or maybe he had a meeting with several teams, and then he committed via Instagram saying, this is where I'm going. They had to have a conversation beforehand. Yeah, but he met with them, clearly. Or maybe he met with his agent. Maybe they met with his agent. It's the same difference.

Or the agent met with the Nets. Yeah, but maybe not directly with him. Okay. All right, now, Ross Perot, the billionaire tycoon, he had two unsuccessful third-party presidential campaigns in the 90s. He passed away yesterday. He was a billionaire by his mid 50s after he sold a controlling interest in a data processing business that he founded to General Motors. He sold that for two point five billion dollars. And if you guys saw that HBO documentary on Bush, he blames Perot for his defeat and said that's the reason why Bill Clinton won. Ross Perot fell off stage, right?

It was like a big thing. He fell off the stage or something like that. That's what you know. I just remember that. He was speaking and fell off the stage. He used to get spoofed a lot, too, around that era. But I will say, that's one of those I thought he was dead already announcements.

Jeez. That's the first thing I thought. He was 89 years old and he had a five-month battle with leukemia. I thought he was dead already. I had no idea. All right. Rest in peace, Ross Perot.

Now, police are looking for 60 teenagers. I don't know if you saw this footage, but it looks crazy. You said 60? 60 teenagers. Oh, boy. They were seen looting a Walgreens in Philadelphia. It happened around 10 p.m. on the 4th of July. And if you see this video footage, man,

these kids are running into the store nonstop. And the thing that's stupid about it is they got away with a lot of things, the things that they stole, and they caused all kinds of damage. But there's cameras everywhere. So there's all different angles of the surveillance footage.

They have stills of some of the teenagers and all of that. So anybody with information, they're asking that you call the police at 215-686-TIPS. Did y'all not see when they see us? Why are you fools putting yourselves in this situation, huh?

I don't know what made them decide that that was a good idea, but all it takes is work. This looks crazy. There's girls, there's guys, everybody's just here. They just came bursting through those doors. All right, now y'all about to make the whole block hot for what?

And then when you get thrown under a jail, you're going to be screaming injustice, injustice, injustice. It's going to take one person to get caught. He's going to snitch on 59 people. Alright, now we discussed this story yesterday. We talked about Christopher Cukor. He's an executive at YouTube and he called the police because he says that there was a man who was trespassing at the

building. Now, Christopher Cukor is white and Wesley Michelle, who he called the alleged trespasser, is black. And he's also a software engineer. So Cukor was with his son and he called the police. Now we have the audio from when he was standing there and confronting him. Friend on the call box and have them come down. They don't have to do that.

You could just walk away. I'm going to call the police right now. Oh, yes, yes, yes. Call the police. Sir, I'll hold the door here for you while you call your friend. That is okay. Nobody's asking you to hold the door. You can do whatever you want. Yeah, there's a trespasser in my building.

Daddy, no. Please go. Listen to your son. Daddy, go. It's the better. I agree with him, Daddy. I don't like this. Let's go. Alright, well, Christopher Cukor has released a statement and he put it on Medium. He talked about what happened. He said,

I was leaving my building with my child to take him to a friend's house. And he said he noticed Wesley Michelle caught the door and entered the building without using the call box. So he said, I offered to hold the door open while he used the call box to contact his friend. He said that his father was murdered outside his home by a trespasser

who he confronted alone for my child's safety, my safety and that of the building. I felt it was necessary to get help in this situation. He said, I've encountered trespassers in my building and we've been robbed several times. So he said, I realized Wesley was reacting based on his unique history as well. Unfortunately, there is a terrible pattern of people calling the authorities regarding people of color for no other reason than their race. Chris Cuoco, shut the F up forever. If your father got killed confronting a trespasser, you clearly aren't traumatized

by that situation because you did the exact same thing and you did it with your son. Why did you make the same mistake that your father did and you did it with your son? If you was really threatened, if you was really scared, you'd have called 911 from the comfort of your own home. And you wouldn't have put your son in that type of

danger either, sir. Yeah, you would have went down the block. You wouldn't have been standing there arguing with this man. All right, well, I'm Angela Yee and that is your Front Page News. Charlamagne, did you see this video of the 60 kids running in Walgreens? This looks crazy. I'm not interested. Now, first of all, I ain't even gonna front. I never

hung out with 60 kids, so the fact that 60 kids... Well, it was the 4th of July, so I would assume they were all coming from somewhere. I got you. All I'm saying is those kids should have watched When They See Us. And the kid with the half black, half blonde hair, I'm coming for you first because it's easy to identify you. Those kids should have watched When They See Us and they would have known not to make that kind of mistake. Why are you with 59 other kids? I'm coming at you first.

I can identify you easily. And they got angles of them running through the door, inside the store. They got still shots of the kids. Just not a well-thought-out plan. And then when the police grab them and make an example out of them, they're going to be screaming that they're experiencing all types of injustice. But you put yourself in that situation by making that dumbass poor choice. Oh, my goodness.

All right, well, that's front page news. Now, when we come back from MSNBC, an author of the new book, The Man Who Sold America, Joy Ann Reid will be joining us. We'll kick it with her when we come back. So don't move. It's The Breakfast Club.

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It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We have a special guest in the building, host of MSNBC, Miss Joy Ann Reid. She's got a new book out, The Man Who Sold America, Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story. Why'd you title the book that?

You know, because I think that Donald Trump has been running a game on the United States really probably for 30, 40 years. And that game got him to be president of the United States. So I think it was kind of, it's about, Donald Trump's presidency isn't a normal presidency. It's a continuation of a very long scam. I mean, it's a long scam he's been running and it finally got him the office where he can make the most money,

because that's what he cares about. It's interesting, because people from his own team are talking about things that he's said and done, right? Like Cohen, who you talk about a lot in the book in the beginning. And it feels like he really is Teflon. Like, no matter what accusations, you know, of sexual assault and nasty things that he said about ish whole countries. It's like it just rolls off.

He can straight up lie about something and say he didn't say it. And then there's a recording of him saying it. And somehow it just keeps on pushing. Well, you know what? The reason that scams generally work and people kind of like to be sold. And I think that Donald Trump sold right. People like it. You say so.

Do you mean like sold him a dream? Yeah. OK. Yeah. And I think for his base, he's selling them the dream of getting back in America where they're on top. And for them, it doesn't matter what he does. He's saying, I'm going to put you back on top. And as long as you're telling people that, people are going to love him.

It doesn't matter what he does. They don't care about that because what they want is to be back on top. This room is what bothers them. Do you think he really wanted to be president, though? No. Or do you think it was just a scam to build more press, to make more money? It was marketing. And he said that he wanted to get the hotel in Russia.

And he felt like running for president was the ultimate marketing scheme. He had been trying to get a tower built in Moscow really since the 80s, since the late 1980s. Why Moscow? Why so important to Russia with him? He's obsessed with these Eastern European former Soviet countries. He's obsessed with Russia specifically. And it's not clear why that is, but he is. And he wanted to try to impress the government there

because you can't build anything there without the Kremlin's permission. So you got to have the leader of Russia's direct permission in order to build there. So he probably figured, listen, I'm going to run for president, puts me on a huge stage. It's going to give me stature.

They're going to think I'm important. They're going to give me my tower. And, you know, speaking to people who know him, knew the campaign, were part of it, they were pretty clear that he thought he would get on this big stage. His hotel rates would go up in D.C. He had just gotten this new hotel. And it was going to be the greatest marketing scheme ever. And then the thinking is, at least the reporting, the predominance of the reporting is,

then he was going to turn around and do like a Trump TV. Like turn it all into a big media thing. He didn't think he was going to be president. You said there's rumors that threat to Trump. Do you think hip-hop, black culture, is really a threat to Trump, the conservative party? It wasn't when he was using it in order to build that part of his stature.

So according to people who know Donald Trump, people I interviewed for the book, he liked hip-hop culture because he liked the aspect of it that talked, A, about money. He liked the aspect of it that talked about wealth. He liked the aspect of it that talked about, you know, doing for yourself and being an entrepreneur. He liked that. He doesn't necessarily like the people behind it, but he liked the idea.

So hip-hop kind of appealed to him, even though, at least according to Sam Nunberg and other people, he never listened to the music. He just liked the idea. The flashiness of it, too. He liked the flashiness of it, right, because it's like him. I mean, he lives in gold. He literally moved into gold. He's just like, I want to live inside gold.

So that's what his part is. Who does he have now for media now that he's not down with Fox News anymore? You know, I don't know. I mean, I don't think he needs it anymore. I honestly think Donald Trump is his own media at this point. As long as he's got social media, he's fine. As long as he's got social media, he doesn't really need any help. He speaks directly into the hearts of his base. The people who are supposed to live by the red parts of the Bible,

where you care about the poor, the sick, and the immigrant, they love him more than anybody else in this country because they're the most afraid of, you know, you look around this room, the diversity in this room, that's what America is becoming. That really scares a lot of people. They're frightened of a future in which white Christian men are the minority. Now, you know, white Christians are already the minority numerically, and they don't want to be in terms of power, in terms of resources,

in terms of the culture. They don't want to go into the minority status. They just don't want to. And Donald Trump is saying, I can stop it. He can't, but he's telling them he can. So that's the unraveling of the American story. Absolutely. Because the American story is supposed to be about all of these new immigrants that come in, make themselves a part of America and change America for the better and make the culture richer. They don't see it that way. They see the culture as having been the best when they were on top. And that happens for every group of immigrants. They come in, they listen to this story.

They're told about America being this land of the free and the brave and anyone who has an idea can make it. Okay, fine. We want that too. And the people who were on top say, but wait a minute, you know,

you trying to have what we have, that makes us unequal. And so that's what they fear. And Donald Trump is their leader. Are you ever nervous of doing this book? You nervous about backlash?

Nervous about having Donald Trump on your ass? No, because the reality is if youous about having Donald Trump on your ass? No, because the reality is, if you think about what Donald Trump wants to be versus what he is, like he wants to be Vladimir Putin, right? If Vladimir Putin doesn't like what you're saying, you go to prison, he can hurt you, right?

Donald Trump really can only actually accomplish what the broader Republican Party already wants. But you're already a target because you're black. You're already a target because you're a woman. You're already a target because you're a liberal. You're already a target because you're a liberal. You're already a target because you're on MSNBC. So why make yourself more of a target by doing this book? Because, you know, I did the book in part because I just wanted to make sure

I remember it all. You said you had two reasons for writing this book, right? One of them is to record everything. Yeah, just to record it and just so that there's a first draft of history that, you know, for me to remember all the things that have happened. And then I think so that people can get a realistic assessment of what this is, because I think that the myths about Trump, I mean, he's been telling myths about himself for 40 years

and people are starting to believe them, like this myth that it was the, you know, the broken, you know, man who had economic challenges that elected him. That's not even true. And he lies about everything, how he got his fortune, how much he's worth. How much he's worth. How much he's worth. Well, he's worth a lot now. I can tell you being president, he's making a lot of money being president, which is one of the lawsuits against him. You're not supposed to make money being president.

And he is. How was he making money now? Because I thought he had to get rid of the businesses and do all that stuff. So how was he making money? Everyone else did. I mean, you know, Jimmy Carter had to, you know, disinvest from his peanut farm when he became president. Everyone else did it. Trump just didn't. He's still making all of the money. Right. And every time, you know, for instance, all of these foreign leaders, they want to do business with Trump.

How do you do it? Check into Mar-a-Lago. You pay the fee. It's two hundred thousand dollars a year. He doubled the price when he became president of how much it is to be a member. And he's got his whole family working. All of them. They're all working. He's got them all working. Everyone's making money. I mean, he's trying to live the way Vladimir Putin lives, where everything that happens in Russia,

he gets a piece of that check. You don't think Trump was elected because of economic anxiety amongst poor white people? No. Really? The reality is, is I went through all the studies.

I sat there and read them all. And the reality is, to the extent that a white American had economic disadvantages, to the extent that they were broke, that produced one of two things. Either they don't vote because poor people don't vote, whether you're white or black. If you're poor, you don't vote. Or they voted for Hillary Clinton. So the most economically anxious white Americans voted for Hillary.

Donald Trump's voters were actually the most affluent out of all of the voters who voted in the Republican primary. He had the richest white voters, not the poorest. Yeah, it came out yesterday. I think Trump's approval rate is at 44% because people like what he's doing for the economy. Yeah, people like, well, people think their own economic situation is good. There's also a psychological thing. So even with the economic disadvantage piece of it, if you feel economically disadvantaged, but you think the reason you're economically disadvantaged is immigrants, you voted for Trump.

If you know that the reason you're economically disadvantaged is because the corporation you work for shipped your jobs overseas, you voted for Hillary. So even to the extent that you have economic problems, it's who you blame. So people who love the economy now think they're doing well. But there's even a psychological sort of aspect to that. If you like Trump, there were literally people who hated the Affordable Care Act and thought the Affordable Care Act was the worst thing that ever happened. The day that he was nominated, those same people turned around and said, oh, the health care situation is great. They have the same health

care. They think it's Trump care now, and they think it's great. So people have a psychological connection to him that will make them like something they used to hate because he's involved in it. All right, we have more with Joy Ann Reid. When we come back, don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club.

We're still kicking it with Joy Ann Reid from MSNBC. She also has a new book. It's called The Man Who Sold America. Yee. Have you spoken to Republicans who are upset about what Donald Trump is doing but won't come forward? Republicans are like the biggest leakers right now because they want people to know. I think they want for history people to know that they're not for it, but they don't want to put themselves

on the record. They're terrified of his base. I mean, if you think about the difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is the Democrats have a very diverse base. They have to please a lot of different kind of people, different races, different ages, different regions. And they go in on each other all the time. All the time because they all have slightly different interests. Republicans have

a very white, their base is basically white Christians. White Christian men who are so immoral, who lack empathy, it really reminds you of the slave masters

using scripture to keep the slaves oppressed. Well, people call it slave master religion, right? And if you think about the way that this country was formed, you had a bunch of

very rich men. I was thinking about it today. If you go from 1691 all the way to 1776, right? So that's slavery all the way from that period where all of your tax money from the enslavement of human beings, you had to pay that to the crown. But from 1776 all the way to 1913,

that's tax-free money. It's 173 years of tax-free income. The amount of wealth this country was able to build off of oppression is extraordinary. And it was tax-free until 1913. So if you think about the amount of wealth that this country has been able to build up on the backs of other people, that inequality has been built in. And what did they base it on? Christianity. They said, listen, the slaves had to submit. The earthly masses. God said to, right. right and then see in order to you know the people who owned slaves and had all that money they were a minority even among white people so they had to

say to the other white people well what can we give you cuz I can give you money we're not gonna give you you know wealth we're not gonna give you what we have but we'll give you whiteness that's your currency what we're gonna pay you with is whiteness meaning that you can be the lowest white man, but you're higher than the highest black man. And that's that the wages of of whiteness has been a huge part of the currency, including within Christian America. It's been a foundation of it. So the problem is we have that same kind of legacy even among Christians, and they're not letting it go. So what do you think about the whole reparations conversation? Because it sounds like they really do owe. But so the reality is, you know, the reparations conversation because it sounds like they really do owe. But so the reality is, you know, the reparations conversation

is about how do you equalize that? Because once you let me go, you took the gun off my head, I'm no longer having to build you the house. I still don't have anything. I don't have a house. And there were still a lot of things that were in place in the system to repress us. Right. From being able to own homes. Yeah. From having businesses. To even take

advantage of the New Deal, to take advantage of the GI Bill, all of these things that they did to prop up this huge middle class, you know, African Americans were basically kicked out of it and locked out of it. Even unions, you know, this great thing that made the middle class,

for the most part, you know, there were violent fights to keep black people out of unions. So we've had 400 years of being set back and now they're saying, but it's fair now. You're free. You had Obama.

It's even. As if they gave us Obama. As if we didn't vote for President Barack Obama. Exactly. That was a gift. So I think we got to have this conversation.

I got educated to something because of your Twitter, you and Angela Rye. The slave masters actually received reparations after they freed the slaves. They did. They did.

They paid them a reparation, particularly in D.C., around D.C., Virginia. They said, we're going to give you $300 per slave. So they got reparations them a reparation, particularly in D.C., around D.C., Virginia. They said, we're going to give you $300 per slave. So they got reparation. Jesus.

Now, if you could make a prediction for 2020. Yeah. What do you see happening? Right from where we are right now, what do you see happening? I would say that if you think about which constituency is the angriest, the hungriest, the most desirous of change, I would think it would be women. I think regardless of what the polls say, I think that the two women who are at the top right now, Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris, I think in a fundamental way, they are the front runners. I think it's highly likely that the nominee will be a woman. I think one of those two is probably the most likely.

But who knows, right? Anything could happen. Joe Biden has a lot of support. A lot of black folks support him. I don't understand why. I really don't understand why black people love Joe Biden so much. Other than bro-ism with President Barack Obama. Yeah.

I think part of it is that black voters are very conservative, small C. They just don't want to take chances. Barack Obama was the only time I've ever seen African-American voters take a chance. Black voters are very dispassionate. They're like, who can win? And I think you talk to a lot of particularly older black folks. They say only a white man can beat this white man. Jesus. And so they believe that the only way to

beat Trump is to give white America something. Give them Biden, who's also kind of a nostalgic candidate. He kind of goes back to the past, but it's sort of a more sort of positive past for a lot of people. He's a nostalgia like Trump is. But do you think Donald Trump will win the second term or no way? It's going to be hard to beat him.

I'm just going to be honest. It's going to be hard to beat him. We know Trump was an illegitimate president, though. We keep talking about he won as if there wasn't Russian interference. Yeah. I know.

Not only do we not talk about it, but we don't talk about specifically what did they do to interfere. A lot of what they did was they picked up the idea of voter suppression and took it global.

A lot of what, if you read the first half of the Mueller report, what they're talking about is the Russians digging in on our deepest, darkest problem. Our problem, racism, it goes all the way back

to the very beginning of the country, and it's always been the easiest way to get at us. So what did they do? They created all of these pretend black accounts. They went into black

social media accounts, and they said, Hillary, super predator, super predator, every day, every day. And they just hit on black. It was very much directed at us. And so a lot of what they were trying to do was get black people to suppress their own votes, to not vote. And it did work. Part of the reason Hillary lost was that voter suppression wasn't just about putting out her emails.

It was about putting out specific emails that would get particularly woke young black folk not to vote. And it worked. I feel like they're doing the same thing now to Senator Harris. A hundred percent. Now, what can America learn from South Africa? You have a chapter in the book called What Can America Learn from South Africa? Yeah, you know what? I feel like since we are already in minority rule, that's one thing that we can learn,

is that 10% of a country can forcibly rule over 90% of a country because they did that. Yes, they did. And so as we are already in a minority rule situation, we need to understand it can happen. But what South Africa is trying to do is to emerge out of that past to figure out how to allow

the majority to rule and still have peace. A lot of what Nelson Mandela had to do, he had to do because he was afraid the whole world would cut South Africa off. Remember, he was the warrior. He wasn't like, people think of him as kind of like a Muppet, you know, that he was this like really nice guy that just wanted love. No, he was like the warrior guy in the ANC. He was leading the armed wing of the ANC. So he was able to make peace because he was a warrior. But he decided to do it because they wanted South Africa to survive. And, you

know, unfortunately, sort of economic racism means that a black-owned country is going to have less access to the capital just like we would. You know, less access to the world banking system. So they had to sort of, they had to make peace. They had to do it. And he did a good job of it. But I think in South Africa, they also have done a good job

on something we haven't, which is just talking about race. You just talk to white, black people there, they're very blunt about race. They're very open about their past. We haven't gotten there yet, and we should learn to. America is terrified to have the conversation. 100%. And we can, like, if I'm talking about something and I use terms like white devil,

you know, or crack-ass cracker, and I'm talking about racists and bigots, they'll flip it on, why are you saying that as opposed to what I'm actually discussing? It's a weird country that was literally built on racism, only racism. The American system of enslavement was unique in the entire world, in the entire history. There's been slavery going all the way back to the biblical days, but there's never been a specifically race based slavery ever until the United States invented it. Like this country practically invented the idea of racism

itself, you know, and so we have to talk about racism. We have to learn to speak to one another without being afraid to, because this country was founded on it. It was enriched by, you think about the trillions of dollars in today's dollars that were built off of slavery and racism. We have to be able to have these conversations. Well, we appreciate you for joining us. Thank you so much. I appreciate y'all. Thank you. Thank you for having me on.. I appreciate y'all. Thank you. Thank you for having me on. Go pick up the book wherever you buy books. All right.

It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. It's DJ, MV, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. Good morning. What's happening? It's Wednesday. How your back feel?

You feel good? You did a little stretch this morning? Any breathing? Any meditation? You know what I'm saying? Read your daily affirmations yet? Huh? What have you done to make sure that you're mentally healthy

today? Talking to me? I'm talking to everybody out there. No, you're looking at me. I am looking at you. You stretch your back and you start looking at me. You never know what y'all are making sometimes. But anyway. I wouldn't ask you if you scratched your back. I would ask you if you needed me to come crack your back, Envy. Do you need me to come crack your back? That's what a brother would do for another brother. Do you need me to come crack your back?

No, my son already said what's up, alright? My son yesterday said what's up. Don't let your son ride with that, you know what I'm saying? Teach your son that it's okay for need me to come crack your back? No, my son already said what's up, all right? My son yesterday said what's up. Don't let your son ride with that, you know what I'm saying? Teach your son that it's okay for a man to hug him, okay, and tell him

that I love you and I value you and I appreciate you and I'll crack your back if you need your back cracked. Envy, I will kiss you in the mouth right now. No, I didn't say that.

See, that was not real. That flowed to the son. That was real. That was a Russian vibe. That was, we were hacked by the Russians just now. I never said that.

Ask me yesterday. I didn't say that. You were Charlamagne's sus. I didn't say that. Don't believe everything you hear out here in the media. Can you guys be on your best behavior? I'm trying.

My goddaughter is up here with me this weekend. That was Russian influence in the media. She's gonna be talking about me and Charlamagne's sus. If you saw me just now, you know good and well

my lips were not moving when that was said. I don't know. If you grew up on Chinese movies, that's how I looked just now. All right? Okay? Because I didn't say that. All right?

Yeah, we got rumors on the way. Yes, let's talk about Nicki Minaj. We told you about this concert she was supposed to do in Saudi Arabia. Well, there's an update. All right, we'll get into that next. Keep it locked. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

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Gossip. With Angela Yee. It's the Rumor Report. The Breakfast Club. I'll let y'all ready for some new Beyonce. She has curated a new album. It features international artists. It's called The Lion King, The Gift.

And it comes out July 19th. And we have Beyonce's song, Spirit. Rise up to the light in the sky. Watch the light lift your heart up. Burn your flame through the night. Oh, spirit. Watch the heavens open. Yeah, spirit. You guys excited? Open Yeah Spirit

You guys excited? Sounds Lion King-ish. It comes out July 19th. Should I go see it? I haven't seen the original. No. You should be allowed to go see it until you see the original.

Until you see the animated version, you should not be allowed to go see the live action version of Lion King. I think I'm going to go on July 19th. No. You better not. Why is everybody telling me no? You allowed to go see the live action version of Lion King. I think I'm going to go on July 19th. No. You better not. Why is everybody telling me no?

You got to go see the original. Why? It's only right. I saw A Star is Born. I didn't see the original of that. Lion King is a great movie. I hope they stay true to the theme of it

because that movie is really about, you know, black people in America if you really pay attention to it. All right. Well, you're going to hear that whole Beyonce song

Spirit After after rumors. Now let's talk about August Alsina. He has an update on what happened to him. He lost his ability to walk. It's interesting. I was in New Orleans, and I saw that he was supposed to be performing in this showcase, and then it never happened.

Well, he posted, Hi, guys, it's me being my most awesome, weirdly great self. I'm here with the Stitch. And to apologize for not being able to make the Essence Fest gig last night. I take my career and your time very seriously. And the fact that you guys show up for me endlessly means the world. I'm manned down right now and I figured I should share. My autoimmune disease is raging, but I'm fighting this thing and on my mission to shake back and be able to make it up to you.

I got so much music new to share with you and big love to give. So here's what he said. I woke up one day and wasn't able to walk. I couldn't feel my legs. My doctor ended up admitting me into the hospital and doing a bunch of tests and said I had some nerve damage going on throughout my whole body

that I have to, you know, go on a recovery process. Well, it's like my immune system just went on a vacation. So, just waiting on it to come on back and we can get together and, you know, they can do what they do, man.

I have no idea what he's saying, but it sounds like I'm getting charged 25 cents a minute to listen to him talk. He said his immune system went on vacation and he's waiting for it to come back. He can't walk right now. He has some nerve damage going on throughout his body. So he's trying to explain what it is. And he's talked about this before, but he hasn't said exactly what the disease is. But he did say that it's

a hereditary condition. Well, salute to the young King August Alsina. That's my guy. I check up on August from time to time. We check up on each other. That's my man. I haven't hit him in a while. I'm going to hit him today. I wish him the best. Alright, now Nicki Minaj, she was supposed to perform in Saudi Arabia and she has pulled out of that show, out of that concert. She made that announcement yesterday.

She said, after careful reflection, I have decided to no longer move forward with my scheduled concert at Jetta World Fest. While I want nothing more than to bring my show to fans in Saudi Arabia after better educating myself on the issues, I believe it's important for me to make clear my support for the rights of women, the LGBTQ community, and freedom of expression. So that concert was supposed to be on July 18th, but women in Saudi Arabia were only recently allowed to drive and attend sporting events in stadiums. And they still have gender segregation and same-sex relations is still outlawed there. So people were very upset when they found out she was supposed to perform, so now she's not. She also tweeted out, I performed in Jamaica before, and when I got off the stage,

I was surrounded by police with guns drawn. They were ready to take me to jail because they said I forgot to bleep a couple of curses. I could make one mistake and go to jail in a different country where women have no rights. And then people got upset because then they thought she was saying that people in Jamaica don't have rights, but she was saying no.

She was just giving an example of what happened to her, and she doesn't want to do anything wrong in Saudi Arabia because she's not aware of the rules there. And then she said free ASAP. Yes. Hashtag free ASAP. Free ASAP. Alright, well I'm Angela Yee, and that is your Rumor Report. Alright, thank you Miss Yee.

Charlemagne! Yes sir. Who you giving that down? Katoop. Alright man, salute to the great state of Florida. Y'all gave me a doozy today that I am thoroughly entertained by. And I'm actually kind of impressed at the same time. We need this young lady named, what's her name? She's a Florida woman. We'll talk about it for after that. All right.

We'll get into that next. Keep it locked. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Make sure you tell them to watch out for Florida, man. The craziest people in America come from the Bronx and all of Florida. Yes, you are a donkey. A Florida man attacked an ATM for a very strange reason.

It gave him too much money. Florida man is arrested after deputies say he rigged the door to his home in an attempt to electrocute his pregnant wife. Police arrested an Orlando man for attacking a flamingo. For the breakfast club, bitchy. Donkey of the day with Charlemagne the guy. I don't know why y'all keep letting him get y'all. Well, Donkey of the day

for Wednesday, July 10th goes to a young woman from Florida named Markeia Nelson. Now, you know what your Uncle Charla says at least twice a week on this radio. The craziest people in America come from the Bronx and all of Florida, and Florida stays up by 30 on the BX. Now, one thing about Florida, they got some first-class finesses.

Drop on the clues bombs for the first-class finesses in Florida, all right? Every season is scammer season in Florida, all right? And the City Girls are providing the soundtrack. JT is currently incarcerated for credit card fraud, so that tells you all you need to know. They are living their raps because art reflects life and in Florida, scamming is indeed life. Now, Markeia Nelson is clearly in the middle of her hot girl summer and you can't have a real hot girl summer

if you can't get no money, alright? You gotta get your coins. And Markeia was getting her money by being a manager at Dunkin' Donuts. Drop on the clues bombs for Dunkin' Donuts as I sit here sipping Starbucks. That's right. The home of the sausage, scrambled Dunkin' Donuts as I sit here sipping Starbucks. Mm-hmm. That's right. The home of the sausage,

scrambled Dunkin' Bowl. Markeia was a manager there and slinging those sweet sriracha bacon breakfast sandwiches wasn't cutting it. All right, can't have a real hot girl

summer hustling hot chocolate and hot coffee. All right, that money too slow for a city girl. Now, I Googled it. Yearly pay in Florida to be a manager

at Dunkin' Donuts is $28,958, which is 43% below the national average. Now, I'm dumb, so I don't know what those paychecks are like every week or every two weeks, and I know Florida don't got no state tax, but I can't get no big Birkin bag that holds five or six figures with that kind of salary. So when in Rome, you do what the Romans do.

When in Florida, you do what the scammers do. So what was Markeia Nelson's scam? What was her hustle? Let's go to WTVT Fox 13 for the report, please. Police say the manager of a Dunkin Donuts in Pinellas County made up an employee. Yeah, they say she clocked this worker in and out so that she could pocket the paychecks. And this ruse worked for about two months until word got around to the donut shop's owner. The store manager of this Dunkin' Donuts on Olmerton Road, Markeia Nelson, was arrested Monday morning. Investigators say Nelson was also keeping the phony worker's paychecks, pocketing more than $1,600. She said she needed for, quote, life expenses.

The 29-year-old could be facing other charges, including identity theft. She had the information of what she quote was a friend of hers. So the information for the person was an actual person. So far, Nelson has been charged with grand theft. According to online court records, it's a crime she's been arrested for numerous times before. Round of applause for the creativity, all right? That, ladies and gentlemen, is a scam I've never heard of before. Round of applause for the creativity. All right. That, ladies and gentlemen, is a scam I've never heard of before. Create a fake employee for Dunkin' Donuts? Wow.

That's better than creating an NBA player for 2K. That's kind of smart, man. Can you imagine how fire you can create a fake Dunkin' Donuts employee? Clean workstations, 99. All right. Brew and grind coffee, 99. Restock cups and food items, 99. Assist bakers, 99. Verbal communication skills. Ninety nine. Basic computer and math skills. Ninety there so you can collect the checks. I have so many questions. How does she cash these checks?

If she was getting these checks sent direct deposit to her friend, why would her friend hand over the cash? Is her friend an accomplice? Was she giving her friend a percentage? Who actually worked this fake employee's hours? Because days when that employee was supposed to work, somebody had to be there, right? I don't know how many employees work in Dunkin' Donuts at one time, but I feel like I've been in there and I've seen only one person busting down banana split frozen chocolate. So who was working this fake employee's hours? Now, Markeia was paying this fake employee

$8.65 an hour. She made a grand total of $1,610.84 after taxes, if you're wondering what's the net worth. Now, $1,610.84, you took a penitentiary chance for that. $1,610.84, you took a penitentiary chance for that. All right, $1,610.84. She's been charged with grand theft, and authorities could still charge her with identity theft

for using her friend's identity to create this fake employee. Grand theft in Florida, look that up, too. The bail bond is like $2,000 or greater. Identity fraud charge, going to make that bond go up. Then you're going to have to get a lawyer. The moral of the story is you're gonna have to spend way more money than you made to get out of this situation. Okay, my daddy would always tell me

trouble is easy to get into, but hard to get out of. And you're about to feel this firsthand. You took a penitentiary chance for pennies. All right, Florida girls, you have to ask yourself when faced with these kind of decisions, what would Trina do? All right, we know what JT and Young Miami would do decisions, what would Trina do? All right? We know what JT and Young Miami would do,

but what would Trina do? All right? I love the young Florida rappers, but you can't ask yourself, what would JT or Young Miami do in a situation like this? What would Trina do? Matter of fact, I'm not even going to disrespect JT and Young Miami like that.

I don't think they would take a penitentiary chance for pennies. They taking those kind of chances so they can be iced out. You taking those kind of chances for iced lattes and iced cappuccinos. It's a difference. Okay? I have nothing else to say about this situation except Florida, ladies and gentlemen. Florida. Please give Markeia Nelson the sweet sounds and the hammer tones.

Oh, now you are the donkey of the day. You are the donkey of the day. You are the donkey of the day. Yee-haw. All right. Well, thank you for that donkey of the day. Should have just sold weed. No. All right.

Now, when we come back. If you want to go to jail, if you want to get charged, you might as well do it if you want to do it. Right? when we come back. If you want to go to jail, if you want to get charged, you might as well, like, do it if you want to do it. Right? Ask Yee is next. 800-585-1051. If you need relationship advice or any type of advice, call Yee right now. She'll help you with your problems.

It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Get some real advice with Angela Yee. It's Ask Yee. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy with Angela Yee. It's Ask Yee. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club.

It's time for Ask Yee. We got Brian on the line. Brian, good morning. Good morning, good morning. What's up, bro? What's your question for Yee? So my question is, so I was dating this girl. So she was my ex.

This is like my ex from, from college. And you know, that was like my first real love and, uh, in love with our still good peoples. And like, we have kind of like gotten back cool again. Okay. Why did y'all stop dating? Like we stopped dating because we were just way too focused on ourselves. We wanted to focus on our careers, you know, get into like a, a better place in terms of

us as individuals and grow and our careers and all that good stuff. So, like, we just kind of split the relationship. However, there's this girl now that I've been talking to, and, like, you know, she's a good piece. She's a good piece. And I'm trying to figure out, like, which route I should go. I'm not really sure. But neither one of them is your girlfriend.

So the one I'm talking to now is my girlfriend. Okay, so you're in a relationship. She is my girlfriend. I'm in a relationship, yes. And you've gotten back in contact with your ex. What does your ex have going on? So she's, I mean, she's working. She's living.

Like, she's still trying to figure things out. But we're, like, in contact. You know, we talk on the phone and stuff like that every now and again. And, like, it's just a pretty good relationship. I can see that she's growing and getting to the woman that I would like to be with. But at the same time, that's my ex. I'm dealing with a girl that I am in love with now. If you were in love with her, you wouldn't still be talking to and communicating with your ex.

So you don't think you could be in love with two people at the same time? I think that that's disrespectful if you're lying. Are you lying to your girlfriend? No, not at all. So she knows you speak to your ex? She's known we've talked. Yes, she's known. She's not a fan, but she's not. Does she know that you have

feelings for her? I really haven't shared all that with her. I told her, like, you know, we've gone through some stuff, but you know, I don't think, like, she knows I have feelings for her? I really haven't shared all that with her. I told her, like, you know, we've gone through some stuff, but, you know, I don't think, like, she knows I have feelings for her. Because it sounds to me like you're not in love with your ex. It sounds to me like you're in love with the idea of her. She's growing into the person that you might want to be with, but you don't know that for sure.

Sounds like there's some nostalgia there, some unclosed, unfinished business, but if you're in love with the woman that you're with, I don't know why you would risk that for something that maybe. That's true. That's true. Why give up something that's guaranteed almost for a possibility?

That makes sense. Yeah, you don't even really know what's going on with her. And I know sometimes the grass is greener on the other side. We wonder what would've, could've, should've been.

But I feel like you need to focus on your girlfriend who you're in love with. Allegedly. 100%. Allegedly. 100%. Allegedly. 100%.

100%. Thank you, Yee. I appreciate it. All right. No problem. What's up, man? What's up? What's up, brother?

What's going on, y'all? Y'all be good, man. You too, brother. All right, now. All right. Ask Yee. 800-585-1051 if you need relationship advice or any type of advice. Call Yee now.

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Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're in the middle of Ask Yee. Hello, who's this? Hey, this is Shay. Hey, Shay. What's your question for you?

I've been having issues with my brother since we were kids and it's never really been good between us. It'll be okay, but then we'll argue and we won't talk for months. I just wanted to see her point of view on that. You know, it's interesting you say that

because I have an older brother and when we grew up, we didn't get along. And we actually didn't really start communicating with each other like that until way after college. Okay. You know, we're cool now, but I think for a large period of our life growing up, he was so different than I was. And he would always

tell on me on certain things that I did. Yes, that's what he does. Oh my God. How old are you, Shay? I'm 23, and he's six and a half years older than me, and he's still telling. Yeah, so that was the issue that I had with him. And then I did really petty things to him as well in retaliation,

and so it was always a back and forth of us not getting along. But I do feel like some things like that you kind of have to grow out of as you get older. Certain things will bring you guys closer together, grow out of as you get older. Certain things will bring you guys closer together. And that's what happened with me and my brother. And it probably wasn't until way after college, like a few years after that, he was doing his own thing. I'm doing my own thing. You know, we're both successful in our careers and we see each other at family functions. But now we are the two people that help each other. Do you have other siblings? No, we're just the best two.

That's how me and my brother are as well. And I know it makes my parents really happy that the two of us get along and look out for each other as much as we do. So I think it's baby steps. Sometimes it's hard to force those things. And so I would say that. And it's important for you guys to spend time together away from the rest of the family.

So if that means you all do some certain things to catch up with each other, maybe I do things like, you know, me and my brother will do things for our parents and our family members together as a joint effort. And that helps bring us closer together. But I wouldn't worry about it too much because I think a lot of siblings go through that. Yeah, my kids are going through it now. Yeah, just as me and my brother did. And it was something that we had to, as we got older, we overcame it. Okay. So just be open.

I just used to wish for a sister, but I guess that wouldn't be a bad thing. Stop it. But you're 23 years old. What is he telling? Everything. Envy everything. He, like, I mean, you know, I indulge in the cannabis life. You know what I'm saying?

Oh, so he told your mom you smoke weed? Yeah. So I pretty much legal everywhere now anyway. But I feel you, girl. I live in D.C. Like, come on, though.

You know what I do with my little kids? I mean, y'all can't do it. But I got a, I got a small T-shirt and I put them both in that one T-shirt and make them walk

around the house together. Yeah, that's not gonna happen for them. I mean, I maybe, look, see, look make them walk around the house together. Yeah, that's not going to happen for them. I mean, maybe look. See, here's a picture. No, that's not going to happen. She's too grown for that. Maybe a little too grown for that. It's harder to be anyway. But yeah, I think it's fine. I think a lot of siblings

go through that. Like I said, me and my brother, same exact situation and it's just something that we grew out of. Okay. That's kind of alright. That makes sense that everybody grew out of. Okay. Yeah, that's kind of all right. I just thought, you know, that makes sense that, like, you know, everybody goes through stuff like this. So now it don't make me feel so bad.

Y'all too old to be doing that, though. I ain't going to fight. No, don't say that. You're 23 years old. Me and my brother went through that until after we were. He's not calling your dad and mom right now telling on you, is he? Well, he can't. I'll tell on him, too. No, man, I wouldn't be surprised.

All right. Good luck, Shay. Yeah. Thank you. It'll be fine. All right. She's 23 years old. Her brother's 29. Good luck, Shay Yeah, it'll be fine Alright She's 23 years old My brother's 29

It took a long time for me and my brother to get along Goodness gracious Why would your parents care that you smoke weed at 20-something years old? Yeah, that shit didn't matter now I'd be like, yes, I do smoke weed And it's medical Alright Well, ASCII 805-851051

You got rumors on the way? Yes, let's talk about Kanye West and his Yeezy brand. You know he's on the cover of Forbes, and they're saying that he's going to make $1.5 billion in sales this year. All right, we'll get into that next. Keep it locked. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

The Breakfast Club, good morning. Good morning. Now, let's get to the rumors. Let's talk hove. This is The Rumor Report with Angela Yee. Rumor has it. On The Breakfast Club. Well, Jay-Z now has a partnership with a California-based cannabis company.

It's called Caliva. And what his role is, he said, anything I do, I want to do correctly and at the highest level. With all the potential in the cannabis industry, Caliva's expertise and ethos makes them the best partners for this endeavor. So he wants to increase the representation and participation of those with criminal records who aren't able to participate in that growing industry because they're prohibited from doing so. Yeah, I feel like Hov isn't doing anything nowadays that doesn't better the culture as a whole. And when you're walking in your purpose, it will reflect in everything you do on a personal and professional level. All right. Now, Aziz Ansari, in the meantime, it will reflect in everything you do on a personal and professional level. All right.

Now, Aziz Ansari, in the meantime, has done a new Netflix comedy special. It's called Aziz Ansari Right Now, and he addresses the issues that he had. Remember that sexual misconduct allegation that was lodged against him? Yeah, it was dropped, right? I mean, it wasn't a charge. Yeah, it wasn't a case, but she was saying that, you know, she went on a date with him, went back to his house. She was made to feel uncomfortable and do things that she wasn't comfortable with. And, you know, he did address it and he didn't know that she didn't want to do certain things.

And so here's what he had to say at the beginning of his comedy special. I felt so many things in the last year or so. There's times I felt scared. There's times I felt scared. There's times I felt humiliated. And ultimately, I just felt terrible that this person felt this way. And after a year or so, I just hoped it was a step forward. It moved things forward for me.

It made me think about it a lot. I hope I become a better person. And I know this isn't the most hilarious way to begin a comedy show. But it's important to me that you know how I feel about that whole thing before we share this night together. Refresh my memory. Didn't he bring her back to his crib? Right. He tried to sleep with her.

She said no, so they just chilled. Correct? I think they did engage in some type of physical activity, but it was unclear. It was like kind of a blurred line situation where she felt like she felt pressured to do certain things. But he didn't do it and they just chilled and watched TV the rest of the night, right? Yeah, they didn't have sex. Hey, man, where's the joke?

I need a punchline, okay? Well, this is how we started because it is the elephant in the room. Yeah, but turn it into a joke. We come from the era where Richard Pryor can joke about, you know, giving fellatio or smoking crack, being molested. Like, come on. Address that in the interview if you're going to address it like that. If you're going to do that on the stage,

you've got to turn that into some type of punchline. Well, I think the punchline was, I know this isn't the funniest way to start a comedy special, and that did break the ice. And it was a very, I mean, it was like, it wasn't even one minute of him addressing it, but I guess he wanted to make sure he put it out there first, addressed it first, and then do your special.

But what happened on that date was he did briefly perform oral sex on her, asked her to do the same thing to him, and she did it, but not for long. So that's what did end up happening. There was some type of contact. By the way, he's only reminding people of the situation, because he could have went out there and did a stand-up special. It could have been funny. Everybody could have laughed and joked, and people would have been forgotten about that.

I don't think people forgot about this. It was a big deal when it happened, and a lot of people referenced it just because it wasn't a clear-cut case like he was wrong. But I thought most people was on his side. That's what I saw. I think it's hard to say. It just brings up a discussion, basically. Some people felt like he pressured her, and he should have been able to tell

by her body language. Some people felt like, well, she could have just said no and left. You know, it just depends on how you look at it. So it's not a clear-cut case of he attacked her, something happened, but it was something that affected him and I'm sure he wanted to address it. Alright, Rihanna has now been accused of

cultural appropriation and that's because of the Harper's Bazaar China magazine cover. And she's wearing a gown. I don't know if you guys saw the picture. If you have Revolt TV, you can see it right now. But she was styled by all the whole entire cast of people that styled her and dressed her and everything were all Chinese. And people were saying, why is Kim not allowed to call her brand kimono?

Because it's cultural appropriation, yet Rihanna can do ish like this, just doesn't sit right with me. Then someone said, wait a minute, when Kendall Jenner was on the cover of a magazine with an afro,

people were screaming cultural appropriation, but when Rihanna dresses up like this, nobody says anything. It's art, it's glam. So she did tag everybody that participated in the cover. It was made for a Chinese audience

by Chinese creatives. So she can't wear anything that shows another culture that respects and... And the people that styled her, the photographer, the visual editors, everybody was Chinese. And it's the cover of Harper's Bazaar China. I'm confused with this world, man. I'm confused, man.

Like, come on. So if I put on some cowboy boots and cowboy Adam Cotrill appropriating them? Yes, yes. My God. What are you wearing on the bottom? Shut up. All right.

Kanye West, his Yeezy brand, is expected to make over $1.5 billion in sales by year's end. He said, I am a product guy at my core. He's on the cover of Forbes right now. And he said, to make products that make people feel an immense amount of joy and solve issues and problems in their life. That's the problem solving that I love to do. That way easy. Is that not cultural appropriation? Am I appropriating Chicago culture or Calabasas culture?

In addition to that, he also revealed that he's been working on a charitable contribution. And the twist is it's a Star Wars type of theme. What he's doing is creating replicas of Luke Skywalker's infamous home from the movie A New Hope. Now that's cultural appropriation. And he's going to build prefabricated structures with the same aesthetic. And the goal is to use them as low-income housing units. How is the Skywalkers going to feel about this? I don't know.

Just going to take my house and turn it into something that people that aren't aliens can live in? How dare you? All right. And moving on past that, Mariah Carey, she's saying in Cosmopolitan Magazine that she is kind of a prude, and that's because of the number of sexual partners she's had. She said, I've only been with five people in my life,

so I'm kind of a prude, honestly, compared to many others in the field. She didn't specify who those five people were, but... Why is she volunteering that kind of information? I don't know. Who woke up yesterday and said, you know what, I need to know how many bodies Mariah Carey has. She said that before.

Remember, she said I could count the amount of guys I've been with on one hand. Who cares? I don't know. What's the context of this conversation? The bottle cap. She did the bottle cap challenge. I thought it was pretty dope.

Did you see it? Yeah, I see it. It was pretty dope. Envy tried to do it. Instead of kicking it off, she did the high notes. And it flew right off. All right, I'm ready to go It was pretty dope. Envy tried to do it. Instead of kicking it off, she did the high nose. And it flew right off. All right, I'm ready to go.

That sounded awful. How did we segue from her body count to her doing the bottle catch? You just told me a whole bunch of useless Mariah Carey information. Nothing you said about

Mariah Carey, nothing Angelique said about Mariah Carey did anything for me just now. What about what she said about herself? What'd she say? In Cosmopolitan.

She's only been with five people in her whole life. I don't care. She's kind of a prude. I don't care. I just don't. And when you do something for yourself, you don't care. And if everybody knows who you slept with,

then something is wrong. All right. Well, that's your rumor report. All right. Revolt, we'll see you guys tomorrow. Everybody else, the People's Choice Mix is up next. Let me know what you want to hear. 800-585-1051. Get your request

in now and get your ass up. All right, it's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne the guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got to shout out Joy Ann Reeve for joining us this morning, of course, from MSNBC. And she has a new book, The Man Who Sold America

Out Right Now. Yeah, she did. Go pick that up. And I'm sitting here thinking about that Mariah Carey situation. What part? Where she just volunteered the fact that she's only slept with five people in her life. And she says she's approved for that. When did having a low body count become a bad thing? I don't know. Why does that make you approved because you've only been with five people?

Well, she calls herself that. It's not like anybody else. But that's strange. We live in a weird society. Like, when did having a low body count become a bad thing? Like, who cares?

If you slept with one person or five people or 50 or 100, why does that make you approved just because you've only slept with five people? Boy, society is weird nowadays. Very.

Very. And by the way, if your body count wasn't that low, you wouldn't be sharing that information. If you had a high body count, you wouldn't be in an interview saying, well, I slept with 500 people in my life. Goodness gracious. People are crazy.

All right. Well, when we come back, we got the positive note. Don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club.

All right, Charlamagne, you got a positive note? Yo, man, I just want to say that success is no accident. All right, that's my positive note for the day. Success is no accident. It's hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing. Breakfast Club, bitches! Y'all finished or y'all done?

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