The Breakfast Club - Holy Cow (Will Lucas interview)

Episode Date: May 20, 2021

Today on the show entrepuener and podcaster Will Lucas came in and discussed his podcast "Black Tech Green Money" AfroTech, Businesses Employing Technology, Crypto and more. Also, Charlamagne gave "Donkey of the Day" to therepublicans for voting against Capitol Riot commission and Angela helped some listeners out during "Ask Yee" Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Have grace with yourself. You're trying your best. And you're going to figure out the rhythm of this thing thing alicia keys like you've never heard her before listen to on purpose with jay shetty on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts wake up in the morning you gonna wake up in the morning i'm talking right now you're about to experience a morning show unlike any of us. Shout out to the Breakfast Club. I love to see y'all every morning.

What you guys are doing right now is the hub culture. The Breakfast Club is my morning sit. I need it and I love it so much. I feel like you're really not popping until you do the Breakfast Club. I've been waiting to come to y'all's show, man. I know you got to be a big time celebrity to be up in here. You got to be big time. DJ Enzi, Angela Yee, and Charlamagne Tha God.

It's the Breakfast Club, bitches. Break the f*** out. Good morning, Angela Yee. Okay. Jesus Christ. Charlamagne Tha God. Hold on. Try that again. Try that again. Say it to Yee again.

All right. No, I'm not doing the yo-yo-yo. Just say good morning again. Oh, Lord. That wasn't my fault, by the way. Let's let the beat drop. All right. All right.

Well, Oil Machine here. Good morning, Angela Yee. Good morning, DJ Envy. Oh, my goodness. Charlamagne Tha Guy. Peace to the planet. It's Thursday. What's happening?

What the hell happened this morning? What happened with Yee? You good? These headphones, I don't know. Well, first of all, you stole my headphones. So I have these headphones that have to be, like, charged up and plugged in right now. It's called live radio, man. That's all.

So, yes, that's all. That is true, though. That is the worst when you got the headphones that need to be charged up. I don't like those. I like the ones that you just plug in. Yeah, and the ones that you plug in that I have are amazing. They're really good headphones. Shut up. Give me back my headphones. It's COVID. I can't give it back to you. Yeah, I definitely don't want them.

They look a little worn out. So, hey, I wore them. Thursday. Well, good morning. I took my mom shopping yesterday for Mother's Day because I wasn't here on Mother's Day. Two weeks later? Well, yes.

She had to take off from work. She actually was working on Mother's Day, so I didn't bother coming home because she couldn't do anything. Okay. So, we planned a date that she took off from work

and, you know, spent the day with her. I took her shopping. We had fun. How much did you spend, though? Do you feel like saying? Macy's and JCPenney's was popping. No, no, you know what?

Don't say it. Don't say it. Where'd you get her? So we went to Woodbury Commons, which in New York is the outlets, right? That's where she went. You know, I was like, where do you want to go? We can go anywhere. So the only hard thing about shopping right now is you have to wait in line to go in stores.

Yeah. They only allow a certain amount of people in at a time. Damn, even still now? Yeah. Yes. And there'd be a long line out of all those stores. But the outlets are amazing. Let me tell y'all, at this outlet,

the Envy, they tell me they haven't seen you in a while. Yeah, because it's COVID. I've been outside. Aren't you traveling right now? Okay. Yeah, working, vacation, that's it. But other than that, I ain't going out. Nope, it's COVID. Right, so aren't you also vaccinated? I am vaccinated. That doesn't mean I ain't going out. Nope, it's COVID. Right. So, well, aren't you also vaccinated?

I am vaccinated. And you can still go out. I can't get it. You can go to restaurants. You can go to stores. Yeah, but I don't really go out like that. I just don't. I don't know about that vaccinated thing, bro. I don't know how that vaccinated thing is working.

I don't know if they're giving you a VIP treatment just because you're vaccinated. No. I'm saying for yourself to go out, part of the reason why you get vaccinated is that you feel a little bit safer in case you want to go somewhere. I do, but I still keep it to where I need to be or where I have to go. If I'm working, I'll go out. Vacation, I'll go out. But I'm just not randomly shopping.

Well, I took my mom shopping. That's what she wanted to do, so I took her shopping. Well, congratulations to Mama Yee for coming up yesterday. She did. She was very happy, so I love my mom. And that's fun to me. Like, instead of just buying her something, I wanted to spend the day with her. That's right.

That's cool. Take your mama to TJ Maxx and Marshalls and say it's all on me. TJ Maxx and Marshalls got some great deals. I don't know what the hell y'all got. Listen, I'm not mad at any type of deal. They have a Saks outlet there. They have a Fendi outlet. They have Gucci.

They have Versace. They have Claire, YSL, all that there. See, I don't go chasing designers. They got Dior. They ain't into it. Exactly. We talking about TJ Maxx and Marshalls. They got Prada.

No, no, no. Where was that place where Charlamagne bought his first pair of white jeans? Century 21. Century 21. Another great discount store. Yes. Drop on the clues box of Century 21, damn it. Charlamagne bought his first pair of white pants.

To this day, whenever I go shopping, the first place I go is always the sale rack. Before I try to buy anything. I hate buying things full price. Century 21 still open? Did they survive the pandemic? They actually are closed for now, but I think they might be coming back. Okay. All right.

Well, let's get the show cracking. Now, we got some guests joining us today. Will Lucas. Will Lucas. Will Lucas is an entrepreneur. He's a content creator. He's a brand manager for Afrotech. And he has a podcast called Black Tech Green Money where he talks brand strategy and finances and all of that type of good stuff.

So this will be a very informative interview for you this morning. If you want to know where you might want to invest some money and things of that nature, Will Lucas is your guy. All right, well, let's get the show cracking. Front page news, what are we talking about? Well, we are, of course, going to give a rest in peace to comedian Paul Mooney this morning. Damn. All right, well, we'll get into that.

And it's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Hey, morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. Where we starting, Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. Where we starting, Yee? NBA playoffs last night?

I watched a game and a half. I didn't see no playoffs. I watched the Grizzlies in San Antonio last night, and I watched the first half of the Warriors-Lakers. All right, well, the Grizzlies beat the Spurs 196, and the Lakers beat the Warriors 103 to 100. Great game, even though I didn't see the second half. It looked good on social media this morning.

All right. Now, comedian Paul Mooney has passed away at the age of 79. So sad. Rest in peace to Paul Mooney. And, of course, our condolences to his family and his close friends. He's best known for working with Richard Pryor. And according to his family, he died Wednesday morning at his home in Oakland. They said the paramedics tried unsuccessfully

to revive him after he was suffering from a heart attack. And they also said he's been suffering from dementia for some time and he was staying with a family member. We also know him, of course, for writing credits from Sanford and Son and Living Color. He was the head writer on The Richard Pryor show he wrote a few episodes of Pryor's Place you know him from the Chappelle show

he played Sam Cooke in the 1978 film The Buddy Holly Story Junebug and Spike Lee's Bamboozled and of course he was on the Chappelle show

as well hey man nothing better than being at a Paul Mooney show I've been to several in my life and watching people walk out

oh I love watching white people walk out because they can't handle Paul Mooney's truth. I've seen Paul Mooney at Caroline's. Yes. I've seen him at Caroline's as well. So many people, so many white people are... Hilarious. Hilarious. And he does not care. He does not care. And his book

Black is the New White, a very great read if you've never read it. We had Paul Mooney on The Breakfast Club back in 2011. How was it, 2001? Not 11. Yeah, 2011.

I was like, what? It's 2001. 2011, yeah. I was in South Carolina in 2001. 20 years ago.

Exactly. 2011. 2011. We never aired it. I still don't know why we didn't air it. I meant to watch it. I actually,

our producer sent it to me yesterday, but I didn't watch it. I'm going producer sent it to me yesterday but I didn't watch it. I think the audio wasn't that good either. I thought it was I don't know. It's like 30 minutes long. Yeah, 30 minutes long. Alright and supporters of Mikayla Miller are pushing back on

that suicide ruling for her as you recall. She is a teenager from Massachusetts whose death last month had people in a small town that she called home very confused about what happened. They are saying that she died by suicide, according to the medical examiner. But her mother wants to find out the truth. She said, the only thing I want out of all of this is to find the truth. The conclusion they made yesterday, as far as the suicide ruling, her mother said, is the conclusion they made the first day they walked into my house.

There is no difference, but I know the truth, and it's not what they say. It was a jogger that discovered Michaela's body in the woods near her apartment complex, and they are saying she died by asphyxiating herself. She was only 16 years old, a sophomore in high school. There was a belt around her neck, which they determined was not her belt, nor was it her mother's belt. The belt at the scene did not belong to her or her mom. She underwent an independent autopsy.

Those results were not made available. But Benjamin Crump, the attorney, said he expects results from the family's autopsy to be released sooner rather than later. But they did say earlier this month she was in an altercation on the afternoon prior to the discovery of her body. She had an altercation with two other teens, a male and a female. They scuffled at her apartment complex. There were five teens in total with her earlier that afternoon. And her mother had actually called and said that her daughter had been jumped,

that she did have a bloody lip, and then a jogger found her body steps away from her home. Well, if it wasn't her belt, can't they check the belt for DNA? We don't know the results of any of that yet, so... Oh, they did all of that, though? Yeah, they are still ruling that it was a suicide And of course her mom and close friends and family

Do not feel that they're investigating this And they feel a large part of it is The fact that she's a black woman And you know they're very quick to just say Okay she killed herself Instead of trying to really dig deeper Into what could have happened Yeah especially

Check the belt for DNA See whose DNA ends up on the belt. And she was also gay. And so they also feel like maybe her sexuality, her identity, also influenced investigators to just kind of write it off. Yikes. You're sending healing energy to, what's her last name? Mikayla Miller.

The Miller family. Absolutely. All right. Well, that is front page news. Get Miller family. Absolutely. Alright, well, that is front page news. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051 if you need to vent. Hit us up right now. Phone lines are wide open. 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 bit revolutionary? Consider this. Start your own country. I planted the flag. I just kind of looked out of like, this is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy.

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

My forefathers did that themselves. What could go wrong? No country willingly gives up their territory. I was making a rocket with a black powder, you know, with explosive warhead. Oh my God. What is that? Bullets. 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

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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 going to figure out the rhythm of this thing. Alicia Keys, I forgive myself. It's okay. Like, Grace. Have grace with yourself. You're trying your best. And you're going to figure out the rhythm of this thing. Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Wake up, wake up. Wake your ass up.

This is your time to get it off your chest. Whether you're mad or blessed, we want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? This is Antoine. Hey, Antoine. Get it off your chest, bro. I feel like on the radio, I'm going to piss y'all off. We have more of a responsibility to talk about common sense when we can pull those about the beat. In America, we don't have rights to black people.

So I don't like hearing them talking about our amendments to us or our God gives rights. If the top lady gets out of the car, get out of the car. A lot of times I see

a lot of hostility coming from the person being poured over. And I feel like we keep dying. So why don't you just get out of the car?

Why don't you just shut up? Why don't you just provide the information given? Because they're undefeated. A lot of times people do follow

instructions and it still goes left. I haven't seen that, Angela. I haven't seen that, if I'm honest. Philando Castile was following instructions. He was like, I have a registered gun. Hold on, hold on, hold on. A lot of times there's hostility coming from those people. He wasn't hostile.

Every time I'm looking, I can always see where we went wrong. Damn the cops. They ain't s***. They gonna do what they do. They gonna kill us. So my thing is just comply. What? I mean, my brother... I don't see nothing where we be right. My brother, I respect your...

Hey, my brother, I respect your opinion but I mean, when you look at people like Elijah McClain 23 years old, you know, and you look at people like Elijah McClain, 23 years old, you know, and you look at people like Philando Castile, that kind of proves you wrong. But I do, I'm upset that, you know, you've gotten to the point in your life where you're so defeated that you don't even feel like the Constitution

or the laws of the land apply to you. Somebody who gets pulled over a lot. I agree with that. Nah, but somebody get pulled over a lot, man Man you have the right To ask why you Pulling me over You just ain't

Gotta buckle down And be like okay You pull me over I'm gonna get out the car Put my hand No Why are you pulling me over I did nothing wrong

My registration is right My insurance is right My license is not But hear me out Hear me out Listen to this When they pull us over Right

We go through all of that And then we're the ones That end up dead Let the people who's Fighting to fight Fight to fight We don't of that, and then we're the ones that end up dead. Let the people who's fighting to fight, fight to fight. We don't have that right. We don't have the publicity to get. My brother, my brother, my brother, don't let these white supremacists beat you down so much

that you don't even feel like you a citizen in this country. I'm letting them beat me down. Yes, you are. I have to get home to my daughter. I have to get home to my wife. I get what you're saying. I want to get home to my family, too. But what's right is right. And I'm not going to just lay down on my knees while you just beat me over the head. No. I have to go. I get what you're saying. I want to get on with my family too, but what's right is right

and I'm not going to just lay down on my knees while you just beat me over the head. No, I want to know why you pulling me over and I'm pulling you over because I seen the air

freshening in your window. No, tell me why the you pulling me over. And by the way, by the way, King, I know because you're black. Exactly. But listen, King,

your way has not been proven correct against the law. Your way has not been proven correct. We've seen black people get killed every which way you try to handle it. Whether you comply, don't comply, walking away,

in handcuffs, on the ground. So your way... No, but I do tell my son that because I'm scared for my son. And my dad told me the same thing. I'm with you, but that don't mean that cop still may not violate just run That's just the truth

You can follow All the instructions You can still get killed You don't take care of that At that traffic stop You can't fight No case if you did You really think

You're right You just said We don't have no rights But you think we went in court Okay brother Have a good day Thank you Have a good day

But I understand What he's saying Because my dad used to Tell me that all the time. My dad would just be like, yo, shut the F up and make it home. You can't win on the street with that police officer, but at least when you make it home, you have an opportunity to win in court. My dad used to say the same thing. Yeah, I'm not telling him to curse cops out and fight cops. All I'm simply saying is you do have rights as a black person in this country.

You do. But as somebody that gets pulled over time no i want to know why you pulling me over i'm not just going to assume no why tell me why and then when you get an attitude i get added you know but you know why you ask those questions because you know that you have rights the constitution is supposed to work for all of us get it off your chest 800-585-1051 if you need to vent hit us up now it's the breakfast club good morning the breakfast club 885-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. This is your time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed.

You better have the same energy. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Mom, I just got through. Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, I'm freaking out. I'm an African American Female welder From Cincinnati, Ohio

I just wanted to Shout out my Instagram Oh you a welder? Wow Oh my gosh mom I'm talking to Charlamagne The guy

Charlamagne I love you I love you more queen Oh my gosh I'm about to cry My Instagram is Jordan underscore The welder Jordan No it is Jordan underscore the welder.

No, it's Jordan underscore the underscore welder. Jordan underscore the underscore welder. Well, listen, I want to talk to you about your welding. When did you go to trade school? How old were you when you went to trade school? I was 16 when I went to trade school. I was in high school. I went to Diamond Oak. What made in high school. I went to Diamond Oaks.

What made you want to be a welder? I just always like to step outside of the box, and I don't like to do girly things, so that's what I got into. No, I've been telling— Oh, go ahead. What did you say? I'm just so happy I did it because I don't know where I would be right now. I tell kids all the time, go learn a trade, man, and I think that

they should have uh I'm glad that you learned it young because everybody should at least know how to do something with their hands because you I bet you ain't been broke since she ain't say a lot now hello oh you have been oh never mind okay but you keep you keep a job I'm sure yeah Yeah. Yeah. Is it harder being a woman who's a welder? Yes, it is. I think it is because, you know, they just don't expect a lot from a female. Right. So you have to go in there and be serious about what you're doing. Well, how can people find you and hire you?

We want to make sure we promote you this morning. She just left her Instagram. One more time. It's Jordan, J-O-R-D-A-N underscore the underscore welder. If you guys like what you see, please follow me. I will do.

Alright, mama. You have a great day. I love you. I love you, Charlamagne. I love you more. I love you, DJ Envy. Thank you. Have a good morning, guys. Have a safe day at work. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, you can hit us up.

Now, we got rumors on the way, Ye? Yes, and let's talk about some new things that are happening. We have this Respect trailer that is finally out. Also, Jocelyn Hernandez says that she does not want to talk to that bitch. We'll tell you who she's discussing. And we'll talk about Nas and Sasha Jenkins' new programming. All right, we'll get into that next. Keep it locked.

It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Listen up. It's just in. All the gossip. Gossip. The Rumor Report.

Gossip. With Angela Yee. It's The Rumor Report. The Breakfast Club. It's Issa Rae. Crazy guy. I didn't hear what I heard. I heard Lisa Rae. No, you did not. You're the only person who heard that. I'm the only person who heard Issa Rae. Crazy guy. I heard Lisa Rae.

You're the only person who heard that. I'm the only person who heard Issa Rae. I thought Lisa Rae. Look, I'm on vacation. You and your wife watching Players Club is fine. Effie is clearly on vacation. I thought you said Lisa Rae. Well, congratulations to Issa Rae and to Lisa Rae. But Issa Rae, HBO Max

has announced a pair of new projects from her. Now, one of them is Project Greenlight. So what they have done is they actually have different incarnations of the show with different people producing it. So this is going to be Issa Rae. And this new take on the series will focus on the next generation of talented women filmmakers as they're given a shot at directing their first feature. So Issa Rae will appear in each episode she's executive producer she's giving mentorship to the filmmakers and that finished film will later premiere on HBO

max they also announced sweet life Los Angeles an unscripted series from Issa Rae that's set to launch this summer it's an honest and unique look at life in the heart of South Los Angeles for a group of young, ambitious black friends in their mid-20s. Hey, Issa's a G, man. Issa is quietly building an empire, and Issa empowers a lot of black folks, especially black women, whether you see it or not. So drop on Clues Bonce for Issa Rae. I think y'all told me Lisa Rae just to do that,

but y'all said Lisa Rae behind the scenes. I'm a fan of Issa Rae. Y'all are asses. Congratulations to her. I'm a huge fan of Issa Rae. Salute to Lisa Rae, too. Respect Lisa Rae behind the scenes. I'm a fan of Issa Rae. Y'all are asses. Congratulations to her. I'm a huge fan of Issa Rae. Salute to Lisa Rae, too. Respect Lisa Rae. Got the dead on purpose.

Go ahead. All right. Now, Aretha Franklin, that biopic Respect with Jennifer Hudson playing her, they have released the official trailer. So here it is. Singing is sacred, and you shouldn't do it just because somebody wants you to. What's most important is that you are treated with dignity and respect. Your special ring.

You have a talent they call genius. You better take a seat. Think about what you're trying to do to me. How old is she? She's 10, but her voice is going on 30, honey. Man, I can't wait to see that. That movie is actually going to come out on August 13th. I'm going to the theaters for that one.

Now, that's the one that's approved by the family with Jennifer Hudson, right? Yes. Aretha Franklin is aware of this. She wanted Jennifer Hudson to play her, so this will be great. And Jennifer Hudson does an amazing job on TV, on movies. Whenever I see those movies like that, I always think about Ray. Ray and What's Love Got to Do With It is the bar for me when it comes to those kind of movies. So I hope it does it justice.

Yeah, I love movies like that. And you know what other movies I like? The Doors, they had a really good one. Of course, Purple Rain, to me, is the epitome. All right, now, Jocelyn Hernandez, you'll recall when she was on Wendy, and things got a little bit heated on the show. Let's flash back to that. And when people come on your show, especially black culture,

you should be nicer to us, the ladies. You should give us our flowers while we're here, and you should tell us how proud you are of what we've done in the streets. Well, I'm not proud of all. Now, can we get back to the show at hand? Well, you have nothing to say about my failure. I just said what I said.

I don't apologize for anything. This is what I do. You only do it to the young, black, Spanish girls coming up. You don't do it to anybody else. It's true. Here's a flower. Come on.

All right. Well, Jocelyn Hernandez has done an interview with Entertainment Tonight, and whether or not she would have a discussion with Wendy or forgive her for what she said, here's what she said. You know, I think she wanted to talk to me like the first day that it happened.

And I was like, I don't want to talk to that B-I-T-C-H. I'm sick of her. When she threw the flowers at me, when she was being real disrespectful and not acknowledging the fact that when Latinas and black women sit on her couch, she comes out with a gun, right? But you don't give me my props, but you always want to compare me with people. And I think she does it to every person that's of color because she doesn't want nobody of color to be better than her. I wonder what reaction Jocelyn wanted from Wendy though. Like after Jocelyn said what she said to Wendy,

how did she want Wendy to reply? It seems like she had an expectation of how she expected Wendy to reply and didn't get it. So I wonder what she wanted her to say. I'm trying to do better. Yeah, is that what I was thinking? Like an apology? She wanted an apology, it seems like.

All right, now Wendy also, by the way, posted a picture of her feet and talked about the disorder that she has. It's called lymphedema and is characterized by an abnormal accumulation of lymph fluid in the tissues of an extremity or other body parts. So she said her doctor, Dr. Laurie, is the French lady who's helping me live with lymphedema. She scrubs and understands my disease is not curable, only manageable. Oh, yes, I'm wearing a sequin dress. Why not? Yeah, I saw those pictures. I think the reason they look like that is because Wendy already has,

like, a big foot. You know what I mean? So you put the disease on top of that. That's why it looks the way it looks. Yeah, it doesn't seem like she could ever wear any sneaker or high heels. Sure, it's got to be flip-flops or crocs. Or Uggs, right? Or Uggs, yeah.

Something comfortable because, jeez. All right. Well, I'm Angela Yee,. Something comfortable because, jeez. All right. Well, I'm Angela Yee, and that is your rumor report. All right. Thank you, Miss Yee. What are you thinking about? Why are you thinking like that, Charlamagne? Because I don't know why you put them pictures in the group chat last night.

I don't know if you've seen them. What pictures? The pictures of Wendy's feet. You was ignoring the whole group chat all day yesterday, honey. I was not on my phone. I have to get back to everybody, but I purposely spent the day with my mother, not on the phone. And I didn't know what they was. I was with my mom. I was not on my phone. I have to get back to everybody, but I purposely spent the day with my mother, not on the phone. And I didn't know what they was. I was like, what is this?

You know, you had to zoom in to see what this is. Like, what is this? Oh, it's our feet. Okay. My goodness. Alright, Front Page News next. What are we talking about? Well, let's talk about Ronald Green. He's a black man who died after a pursuit by Louisiana State Police back in 2019. And it looks like they have released

some of this video footage. Really difficult to watch. His family has filed a federal wrongful death suit in 2020. And we'll give you some information on what happened. It's definitely heartbreaking. Alright. Alright. We'll get to that next. And there's no positive news at all? Nothing positive? Nothing? Nothing at all? No?

We're trying to help people get justice too and bring attention to these things. Okay. You got to. All right. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

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We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get some front page news. Where we starting, Ye? Well, let's start with Ronald Green. He's a black man who died after being pursued by the Louisiana State Police. This happened back in 2019, and they have released some body camera video

to the Associated Press. There were three clips that were posted. They're just over two minutes in length. And the video says, by the way, the whole thing was 46 minutes long. So people have not seen this original video. We don't know what else is in these unpublished parts of the video.

But Ronald Green died after struggling with law enforcement. In the video, an officer approaches his vehicle with a weapon drawn and says, let me see your effing hands, MF-er. And that's when Green's car door is open. You can hear a taser, and Green is saying, okay, I'm sorry, I'm scared, officer, I'm scared, I'm your brother, I'm scared. As he's taken out of the vehicle.

In another video clip, they're forcing him onto the ground, and an officer says, taser, taser, and you can hear Green screaming. And then after being tased, he's moaning on the ground, being put in handcuffs. Another officer is kicking him. Then you hear another officer saying, I've got blood all over me. I hope this guy ain't got effing AIDS. Then he's left lying face down, moaning for more than nine minutes

while officers are using sanitizer wipes to wash blood off their hands and faces and uh you know then after that there was a struggle and all they said all this time by the way was that uh he died while in custody so there was no in the initial reports uh no story about any of these other things happening after he was arrested or taken into custody. This is why we have to keep pushing the line on the George Floyd Policing Act. Abolish qualified immunity. The only reason cops are doing this is because they can. It's really that simple.

Right. So two officers and he died on the way to the hospital. He was taken into custody after resisting arrest and a struggle with troopers. That's all the report said, by the way. I just wonder how you lose your humanity for people. As a human, I would think that you got to be some type of sociopath to treat other humans in that way. Someone's on the ground in handcuffs being tased. You're kicking them.

They're bleeding. You leave them on the floor. What else are you supposed to do? They're saying, I'm scared. He said, I'm your brother. I'm scared. That's what I'm saying. At what point does your human conscience kick in and say, all right, I'm doing too much?

Now, two officers involved in this incident were reprimanded that night. And one of the officers is on administrative leave because of a separate incident. The other got a 50-hour suspension. And a third officer died in a single vehicle crash in September. So the family has filed a wrongful death suit that was filed on May 6th last year saying that he was

brutalized. You know how that happened, Charlamagne, like you said? Because they look less than. That's when you see somebody and they look less than you. They don't put you on the same level as them. That's how they can do somebody like that. Okay, now a teacher in Idaho, the one who disarmed a sixth grader

after she opened fire at a school earlier this month, is speaking for the first time. Krista Knighting. She is a math teacher at Rigby Middle School, and she was preparing her students for their finals on the morning of May 6th when she heard a gunshot from down the hall. Now she said, I told my students we're going to leave. And here's what she said happened. It was a little girl and my brain couldn't quite grasp that. And

so I looked at her and I just quietly said, are you the shooter? And she just watched me and I just walked up to her and I put my hand over her hand and I just slowly pulled the gun out of her hand and she allowed me to. And then after I got the gun, I just pulled her into a hug. She must have been a little white girl. Now the sixth grade student actually wounded two students and one adult, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office. Was the shooter a little white girl? Yeah, a little girl with a gun shooting people, and they walk up to her to take the gun?

And when you think about Makaya Bryant, right, you're telling me that a math teacher can disarm a student with a gun? A math teacher, a student with a gun, but a trained cop can't disarm a young girl with a knife? Now, Kirsten Knighting also said that she held the girl after that. After a little while, the girl started talking to me, and I could just really tell she was very unhappy.

And I just kept hugging her and loving her and trying to let her know that we're going to get through this together. And so I looked at her, and I just said, he needs to put you in handcuffs. And she didn't respond. She just let him. And he was very gentle and very kind and he just went ahead and took her and put her in the the police car well salute to that teacher what's her name uh kristen knighting salute to kristen knighting you did a great job kristen she had to

know that young girl you i don't know i mean it's just wild that a math teacher can disarm a student with a gun but a trained cop couldn't disarm a young girl with a knife now she said when the police came she told the girl you know he's got to put you in handcuffs and she said the police officer was very gentle and very kind of course that's how i know guess what right she is well you know they don't release the names of the sixth grader. And the girl's name has not been released. All we know is that she lives in Idaho Falls. Where does the sixth grader get the gun from? You know what I mean?

Because parents are supposed to have your gun locked up. And at six years old, do you know how to take the safety off a gun? Yeah. You know how to use a gun? She was six years old? Nine years old. Oh, nine years old. You can start going to the range in most places at eight.

So, yeah, maybe. With a handgun? Yeah. You can go to the the range in most places at eight. With a handgun? Yeah. You can go to the firing range at eight. In sixth grade, are you nine years old? No, you should be like 11. I don't know math, man. I got more sixes than...

She wasn't a teenager. How you start quoting rap lyrics? You know that Jay-Z lyrics? Embers on vacation. Let's just move on. You know what Jay-Z lyrics where he goes, I got more...

What was it? He said, I got more sixes than third grade. I got more sixes than third. No, that wasn't it. Than third grade.

See, you try to do it too. All right, guys. That's your front page news. I don't know what's going on. I tried to figure it out from what Jay's lyrics was. That's from the R-O-C. All you have to do

is add five, okay? You start school normally when you're around five years old. Six plus five is 11. No, no, six is in first grade. No, it was first grade. Six is in first grade. Yeah, first grade. Six is in first grade, seven, eight, nine, so third. This is, you know what, we gotta get this together.

You're a Hampton alumni, I'm a doctor from South Carolina State. We have to get this together. Are you smarter than a sixth grader? That's how we do all out there. We know everything from Jay-Z lyrics. That is very true, but you were totally wrong. I got more sixes.

And then you had it wrong. I got more sixes in third grade. You didn't know it. I had to think about it. It's early. I know it was early. It takes Jay-Z lyrics for you guys to understand how old a child is. That is a shame.

No matter how we learn, as long as we learn, drop one of Kool-Aid bombs for Hov. As soon as I said it, you know exactly what I meant. Professor Sean Carter has taught us a lot. Definitely has. Alright, guys. When we come back, who's joining us, man? Somebody that is way smarter than everybody in this room.

His name is Will Lucas. Will Lucas is an entrepreneur. He has a podcast called everybody in this room. His name is Will Lucas. Will Lucas is an entrepreneur. He has a podcast called Black Tech Green Money. He's a marketing and production agent. He's a content creator. And he can tell you where you need to be putting your money over the next couple of years. So you're about to learn something. All right.

We'll talk to him next. Don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. The world's most dangerous morning show, The Breakfast Club. Charlemagne Tha God, Angela Yee. I don't know where DJ Envy ran off to, but, I mean,

this brother that we have in here today is right up Envy's alley because, you know, you got brothers like Envy and, you know, Ceaser and, you know, Earn Your Leisure and Wall Street Trapper and, you know, Angela Yee. They're all, you know, Earn Your Leisure and Wall Street Trapper and, you know, Angela Eve and they're all, you know, pushing economic empowerment and finances and investments and all of that good stuff. And the good brother, Will Lucas, is here. Yes, sir.

From the Black Tech Green Money podcast. Good morning, Will. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. Tell us a little bit about yourself, Will. Why should we listen to you in regards to finances? Hey, you know, brand manager Afrotech this is the world's biggest uh black tech platform and uh digital platform and conference in the world so i feel like i've been an entrepreneur

my whole life um i started off in the music business i did radio for 12 years actually wow i thought i was going to be an entrepreneur in the music business but i found my way um into entrepreneurship and technology very early in life. You have several media businesses, a content creator. So I feel like I got something to say, and I feel like I've done the work also. So you're cheating. That's why your podcast sounds so good. You got experience in the broadcasting field. You know, I feel like, look, Steve Jobs, as his quote said, you know, you can never connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards. So I feel like all the things

that I've done led me to this moment. Absolutely. How did you start investing? Because I always think that's interesting because I think about how I had to learn about investing and I feel like I started late in life. So I'm playing catch up, but it's fascinating to me and I wish I would have known what to do earlier and started earlier. Well, I would put it this way. I'm an investor into myself. And so I do own like a lot of investments. I have Ethereum, Bitcoin, the whole thing, but I'm an entrepreneur. And so I'm invested into my businesses more so than any other thing. I feel like, you know, the biggest investment you can make is into your own thing. Whether or not you put, you know, $10,000, $20,000 to some other company, a lot of times that money can serve you better when you put it into your own self, your own education and your own businesses.

And you take that leap. You learn more about the opportunity for wealth creation and building legacy and the thing that you want to do. Then you can learn sometimes, not all the time, but sometimes by investing in other things. Expand on that a little bit more, because, you know, when people think investments, that's what they think. You know, buy real estate, invest in stock, little bit more. Cause you know, when people think investments, that's what they think, you know, buy real estate, invest in stock, get some Bitcoin. But you said invest in yourself.

Absolutely. I mean, I feel like, you know, take the leap on yourself. There are so many people who have the conversation about if, if I had X, I would do Y.

I'm like, well just do Y and figure it out along the way. Just, just get in the game. So many people have ideas about things that they want to start businesses that they want to create and they feel like something is holding them back and at the end of the day is you holding yourself back you know you took a chance on yourself when you started your radio career you started you know it took a chance on yourself when you started your radio career in

your juice bar i feel like look there's opportunities out here for everyone and there's nothing that makes people who have done it more special than the people who have it other than they took and gambled on themselves. And I feel like more people, more of us specifically should take a gamble on ourselves because we have the keys. We have the number one black women have, particularly in the tech world, their startups fail at a lower rate than every other startup. Really? Black women's startups fail at a lower rate than every other startup. Really? Black women's startups fail at a lower rate than every other company. Why is that? Just because of the support they receive from each other?

No, it's because black women know how to do, know how to make it work. They're prepared. Black women, you know, have had to make it work. You know, it's in the DNA. And so I feel like, you know, if we figure out ways to encourage each other and create ecosystem to support each other, we can all win in this world. Wow. Yeah, because I always believe in taking an educated risk. Right. And I try to do whatever I can to make sure that my business is straight before.

Because sometimes I feel like people want you to invest in something, but they don't have it all together. And so they say, oh, I have this thing. Can you help me with it? I need some money to get it started. I'm like, OK, well, can I see a business plan or who else are your partners? How much have you invested in yourself? Like what is you doing? And a lot of times people don't have that together. So people will ask me, like, can you invest in this or partner with me on this? And I'll be like, well, OK, send me over a business plan so I can just check it out. And they never do it. Yeah. You know, so I'm the wrong person like advocate like strongly for business plans i do believe you need to have something documented i'm more like in in the camp

of like make a deck at least like a present make a powerpoint just show me a couple slides on what this is and then more than that go try to sell something if somebody buys what you're trying to do that's the best proof that there is that you know what you have can actually work in the marketplace and mike tyson as his call you know everybody has a plan till they get punched in the face so go try to sell it go try to sell it if you can get enough people to at least you know show me some sort of proof of concept that you have that people want what you're trying to create what was the first investment will lucas made in himself oh the radio because i i'm from toledo ohio you know so i feel like i wanted to be in the music business growing up and I figured I'm from Toledo.

So I'm like, what's the closest thing to the music business? So I met I was in high school and I met a program director at a teen summit. And I said, you know, look, my name is Will Lucas. I want to be in the radio. I want to be in the music business. I'm sorry. And he said, you know, best thing I can tell you to do is find an internship somewhere. And so he told me to come out to the station because there was a line of teens trying to talk to him and so i went out to the station like the next day and he said again he gave me this musician's friend catalog which has stuff i couldn't afford you know music equipment and he said again best thing i can tell you to do is find you know an internship somewhere so my internship started that day it's working for

free wow and so three days into my internship he put me on the air with him during the five o'clock traffic jam. He had the three to eight slot. I was on the air with him every day after that. After I would get out of school, I would go out to the radio station and be on the air working for free. Six months after that, they gave me my own Saturday night show. I was number one in the city on Saturday nights. Six months after that, he went to the morning show. They gave me his afternoon drive show. And so I just happened to find, I found something in me that was good at radio at the time.

And so that internship, I believe, so like a lot of teenagers today are looking for like paid internships. And I do believe like, you know, because some people take advantage of interns.

But I do believe there is value in working for free, at least if it gets you closer to your goal. Because sometimes it ain't just about the money. But if you can find a way to get closer to the thing, that's worth it. And it'll pay off. My dad taught me, you know, growing up, everybody pays in life.

Some people pay now. Some people pay later. Everybody pays. That's right. And so sometimes it ain't about the money. If it gets you closer, then take that leap into yourself. You have to understand opportunity when there's not a paycheck attached to it. Absolutely. You have to understand opportunity when there's not a paycheck attached to it. Absolutely. You have to recognize opportunity when there's not a paycheck attached to it. Yeah. We live in a world though where people

want that instant gratification. And I respect that. Again, there's some people who don't know how to treat interns. And so my internship was a working, like I actually got to work in the field. And so if you're just taking advantage of interns because you don't want to pay somebody else, then you're just a bad leader. But I feel like if you're giving people you know, taking advantage of interns because you don't want to pay somebody else, then you're just a bad leader. You know, but I feel like if you're giving people a real opportunity to get closer to their dreams, internships are for them. You know, internships are not just necessarily about the company getting free labor. It's about helping somebody else paying that forward to help somebody else get closer to their thing. That's right.

We got more with Will Lucas when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. E.J. Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Will Lucas, entrepreneur, content creator and more. Now, Charlamagne, I want to ask you about Bitcoin because you mentioned it earlier. I see crypto is taking a dive in the stock market today. Why is it super volatile? So number one, it's an unregulated currency, which is the value of it's an unregulated currency.

And so I feel like number one, if you and if you are like day trading Bitcoin, like you are gambling and you go into the casino every single day. And so I buy Bitcoin. I buy Ethereum religiously. I have like an auto buy like every week. I just put a certain amount of money towards those things. And I'm not looking to sell it anytime soon because I believe one day Bitcoin could hit like a real crazy number and so there are folks who are selling off right literally right now in this moment you know go ahead cuz you're gonna you gonna make it good for people like me and good investors who like okay I'm gonna buy those dips and I'll buy those crazy dips it was like a year ago it's like $3,000 a couple of weeks ago it's's eighty thousand dollars and so i'm like it will hit those

numbers again but if you're buying um particularly to like day trading those such a volatile currency you're playing casino every single day and that's not to me a wise investment strategy so even a dip in the day that don't mean nothing that's just the way that's just the way it's going that's just the way it's that's just the way it go i mean the entire market goes up and down but it's just more stable yeah um so it's the the dips aren't as the swings aren't as hard um but like with things like with bitcoin because it's such a new it's not really a currency because it's because it's so fresh um people don't know how to value it and so you those swings are going to be wild and crazy so i'm buying i'm going to hold it because i believe it could get to a specific number no matter what it does in the meantime yeah i'm

scared of it just because i don't quite understand it i was talking to my financial people about it and they was like you know same thing you just said it's not regulated but they do feel like crypto is here to stay we just don't know which one yeah for sure and so i'm like you know it's like building a portfolio like you don't put all your things in one brand you don't put all your you shouldn't put all of it into one coin and so again I've like when also I forgot about forgot about that when I have like coin aetherium and Bitcoin and I'm banking on my ultimate belief that I believe it's going to be humongous I don't know which one again but I'm not banking on what it says today I believe ultimately these

will be very valuable tokens. Absolutely. Is it too late? Because some people will say, well, you kind of missed the boat if you didn't invest earlier. What are your thoughts on that? It'll be even later tomorrow. You know, I'm like getting the game. You know, again, these you're seeing it swing.

The worst thing you can do is sit on the sideline and try to have a crystal ball. Nobody knows. The worst thing you can do is just sit back and wait. Just get in the game. What should we invest in that will probably make a comeback since the world is opening back up a little bit after the pandemic? Black people. You should invest in black people.

I'm with you on that. You should invest. Look, same thing I said about Bitcoin andereum like i believe ultimately black people win and so i'm like you know so i'm like invest in black people like we are the culture we the wave we talk about food we're talking about sports we're talking about dance we talk i mean invest in black people no i listen i agree with you um you know you everything you're saying, I agree with saying that you invest in yourself. But yes, invest in black people. That's what I love to do. I think that when

you pour into other people like you can't lose. You can't. I mean, look, you know, I was asking a VC on the podcast, Black Tech Green Money, wherever you get your podcast. But I was asking the VC like, you know, because black people run the culture, you know, we are we over index on Twitter.

We over index on Snapchat. We over index on TikTok. And we create those trending topics. Why is it if we create the culture, then why is it we get less fun? Like, why don't they just go to the source, but they invest instead in people who wear sandals in Patagonia or whatever. Like, why is it that those people get the money and the people who are actually creating the things and making them popular don't get it? And so that's the million dollar question. It's like, and so I believe, like, again, if you ultimately believe that black culture wins,

which we already do, so that's a foregone conclusion, then you should invest in black people. And so, like, the problem is, is not enough of us consider building technology tools and platforms as like a thing. Like so many of our kids know how to use TikTok. They don't realize that there's somebody on the other side building TikTok. And so my mission is to make sure that we have that representation. So we know that, OK, not only is this an app I'm downloading, but there's somebody on the other side getting a piece every time i open this up and so that's what my that's the that's the mission i'm on is it our fault because we're not necessarily in the fields or industries we may need to be in no i mean that's this number one this is why afrotech exists is is

to not only give us that representation of that there are black people really out here doing it like we are really out here making money in technology I mean I can talk about people you know tens of millions of dollars you know like the OG you know like my guy um who's like the Michael Jordan poster on my walls guy named Paul just like me this guy's you know dozens of patents you know super duper millionaire I mean this is a guy who you consider like tech people nerds like this guy walks around like Louboutins and you know he looked like envy you know like you know this he walks around looking like just super just super duper rich i'm like and so my mom i got into podcasting because

i had a white advisor to one of my startups asked me what would it take to get more black kids interested in tech and i said like they need to see like a black Mark Zuckerberg they need to see somebody who looks like them and is realizing success and at the end of that conversation I kicked myself some like we have super successful black people in tech we just don't know who they are and so I'm like I did all these years of radio I'm gonna go start a podcast and so it's still still in iTunes call of ten podcast because I was only gonna do ten episodes one of ten to up so it's called still in iTunes of 10 podcasts because I was only going to do 10 episodes, one of 10 to up. So it's called of 10 podcasts. And so I had like these super high profile in the tech in the tech sector, black people on my show. And I'm like, there's so many more of us out here who are really, really doing it. We just don't have enough representation. And that's changing now with things like Afro tech and black tech green money. Like Robert Refkin. Yeah.

I mean, like we really out here. We are really out here. And he's like one of the youngest black billionaires. Yes. You absolutely right. Yeah. And he's in the,

I forgot exactly what he does in the tech space, but I know it's tech. Yeah. I mean, so, but there are so many, there are so many, I mean,

they're black women. I mean, you've got like Jessica Matthews right here in Harlem. Like she's building a power company, like energy, sustainability. Like you should have just like Jessica is really the truth. Like if you ask her, she'll tell you she's like the mix of Bill Nye the Science Guy and Beyonce. Like she is really, really the truth. I mean, but you've got the you've got super successful black people in tech who are getting the bag, who are really making money.

And, you know, more of us need to show ourselves like we are really on the other side of these applications, on the other side of these solutions, making these things that people are using every day. We got more with Will Lucas 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 Will Lucas. He's the brand manager at Afro Tech, content creator, entrepreneur. He'll tell you and help you where you should be putting your money. Now, I have a question. When you talk apps and you talk tech, a lot of that is expensive.

How expensive is it to create your own app? And, you know, how do we get money for that? I know I love that you ask that question because, number one, tech is the the gold rush and you don't have to have the picks and shovels like you can literally go to your library and code an app on that computer like there are so many free applications that teach you both how to code and that you can use like these open source platforms that you don't have to have um you know the big you don't have to have down payments, you know, like you do have to have in to buy a mortgage. You don't have to have, you know, a U-Haul or a bulldozer to go build a thing. Like you can literally sit on a computer on a borrowed computer, upload that code to the cloud and any computer you go to, that same code will be there.

And then you can launch that application to the to whatever platform, whether it be iTunes, Google Play for free. And the biggest thing is knowing how to engage people is like learning how to code is one thing. The the real kicker in the people who are successful is not just people who know how to write code is also the people who can engage a team. And so if you can sell somebody to come along that road with you, whether that be if you're the coder and you're not the person who can go sell, but you can engage somebody who can who's got the mouthpiece and can be the front face of it, then you can win. If you are the front face and you got the mouth, but you got and you got an idea, but you got you need to then be able to engage somebody who can code. And so I feel like, you know, number one, there is a zero cost to entry, zero cost to entry in the tech world. And the upside can be unlimited. And also, like on top of that, like not everybody's trying to build a Google. Like if you are a barber, like my guys at Squire, like if you are a barber and you learn how to have a tech enabled platform to where you can scale you know as a small business you can win like where like like

i love talking about barbers because i'm like if you are a barber and you are not learning learning how to employ technology like where's the black borix like where's the black supercuts you know they they built a model that scales and And so, like, where are we in this world? And the way that we get there is by employing technology against those lifestyle sort of businesses. What way would you advise kids

that say, hey, I'm into tech, I'm watching The Breakfast Club, what school would you say they should go to or look forward to going to to learn more about tech? The University of YouTube. That's where you go don't say that i'm just being i agree with you but it's a lot of people on youtube giving out a lot of bad information too i'm like look number one if you learn how if you're trying to learn how to code it's the university of youtube period like and you got i mean then you've and you also have

number one shout out the university i'm a board member at the university so i got a shot them and we got nice computer like engineering programs but it's honestly the university of youtube i mean you if you want to learn how to code university of youtube you can learn python you can learn rails you can learn c sharp you can learn whatever it is you want to learn and there are people who are really good at teaching these things on these platforms and you know that's period point blank that's it well who are the people because what if there's a lot of there's a lot of programs too like black girls code is an amazing black girls code yeah shout out to shout out to kimberly from black girls code like number one like it's hard to say like you should listen to this person

versus that person because specifically people learn in different ways and so um some people are super visual learners like so i can do front-end development like i need to be able to refresh my screen and see the code i just wrote like but there are other people who are back-end developers who you don't see the work you don't see the result of their work on the front end of the device or the computer and so it's really depending on how you learn so i advise you go to youtube you search okay how to build an app. Then you can be a number one. You can build apps without code like there.

We are getting to a place in our society where you don't have to learn necessarily how to code. I'm blanking, but it's called apps without code. So if you just Google apps without code, it's a black girl who's running this program. And you can literally build and deploy apps to the different platforms without knowing how to code because the the interfaces today are such that you are you are accommodated with tools where you can literally build applications and into with integrated um other third-party softwares that is really like drag and drop sort of sort of situation what about the people uh on youtube who think that technology causes covid don't learn how to code from them i mean well i want to i want to add on to that to the new york public library because you know i'm an ambassador ambassador for them they also have free classes that absolutely how to code yeah so

there's a lot of places where you can get that information like you said youtube nice and easy you can go to the yeah there's so many different places i think facebook does a program also where you can come in and learn how to code so it's available and start your children and start your children as best you can early because number one is it's a it's about representation number one so you have have to show them what does the end result potentially look like. And so if you can expose your children to stories, to success stories, because, again, they want to be LeBron because they see LeBron. That's right. But if they want to be, you know, again, my daughter's Ariana Grande because they see Ariana Grande.

But if you can show your kids, you know, these again, Jessica Matthews, Kimberly from Black Girls Code, the Paul Judges of the World, like if you can show your kids these people, then they see people who look like them and are really, really doing it. It really just boils down to money. Like when you see somebody like Robert Smith and Robert Smith can pay 40 million

people, can pay 40 million dollars to the class of Morehouse, they're like oh, he got that kind of money? Now you start paying attention to what he does. Absolutely. And we need to highlight these stories, and I appreciate the work that you guys are doing here, highlighting these stories,

because this is super important, because the NBA is only going to get so big. There's only going to be so many spots on these teams. But it's an unlimited opportunity in this world of creating efficiencies that at scale which which is a byproduct of the technology where anybody with a good idea can employ technology to make that idea come become real and that people can be using all over the world and you can really change your life by using this. My last question. Why is the Black Tech Green Money podcast necessary? These are the conversations we have amongst ourselves. I'll say that these are these are the places where Black Tech Green Money is a place where those people who have done it,

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We are The Breakfast Club. Good morning. It's a Thursday. And let's get to these rumors. Let's go. This is The Rumor Report with Angela Yee. I'm a hazard. On The Breakfast Club. Let's go. This is the Rumor Report with Angela Yee. On Breakfast Club.

So for the Hollywood reporter, Billy Porter has decided to tell some very important parts of his story. He said that he is HIV positive. He also said the diagnosis came at one of his lowest points. He said it was 2007, the worst year of his life. And he was on the precipice of obscurity for about a decade or so. He said, by February, I had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

By March, I signed bankruptcy papers. And by June, I was diagnosed HIV positive. Now, here's what he had to say about going to trauma therapy. I started trauma therapy to begin the process of healing as opposed to how I had been navigating through the world up until that time. You know, my trauma served me. My story served me in terms of forward motion for a very long time. All right. He goes on to talk about how the diagnosis came about even. He said he had a pimple on his butt, and it got larger and larger and harder and harder,

and then it started to hurt. And one day he was like, I got to get this taken care of. So he said at the front desk, the queen at the front desk asked him, you want an HIV test? They only $10. And he said, yeah, it's time. And he was getting tested every six months, and he went got his pimple drained and then he got tested the doctor came back and told him he was positive so that that's an actual symptom of hiv like when you get

a no he said it was just a fluke that he had that and then he was in there they asked him do you want to get a test just because you're here you're here you had to clear that up because you made it seem like a pimple on the butt is a is a way that people could exactly what he said okay I've got knows often I was like huh okay pimples on you do maybe you need to make sure that you scrub and exfoliate your butt really doesn't get clogged up just like you exfoliate your butt. Really? So that it doesn't get clogged up. Just like you exfoliate your face. Yeah, you don't wash your butt well enough. Oh, yeah, yeah, because it's like hair bumps. So, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You want to get rid of that dead layer of skin so it can come out. Exfoliate your butt. Yeah, you don't use exfoliant on your whole body? I do on my face. No, just on my face. I got exfoliant on my face scrub. You get a nice scrub.

They have some good ones from Shea Moisture. Really? It has a nice scrub. Yeah, you should scrub your whole body. Yeah, try that, bro. Do that for the cheeks. Exfoliate the cheeks. Yeah.

All right, now he did let everybody around him know that he was HIV positive, but he couldn't bring himself to share it publicly. And he also was afraid to tell his mom at first. The manifestation of the shame was not being able to tell my mother. But my mother, having been through so much already, there was already so much of it in her life that she had to deal with because of my queerness that I just didn't want her to have to live through

their I told you so of it all. You know, I had made a pact with myself that I would let her die before I told her. Man. I mean, that'd have to be a tough one to reveal to the world. Like, you know how many people probably in, you know,llywood who are hiv positive but don't say anything like just think about in our lifetimes i can only think of three people that went public right i'm sure some others but man it's a lot of people who'll be keeping that to themselves so for billy to live his truth

in that way that had to be difficult right and like you said he did tell a lot of the people around him so everybody around him knew but he just never publicly told everyone. And here's what happened when he had his conversation with his mom. I haven't seen her in a while. Let me just call and talk to her. Not even two minutes in the conversation. She was like, what's wrong? Mother always knows.

And I said, nothing, nothing. And she's like, son, please tell me what's wrong. So I ripped the Band-Aaid off and i just told her and she said i love you i've always loved you that will never change damn wow and now now he's saying it's time to grow up and move on because shame is destructive and if not dealt with it can destroy everything in its path and he also talks about the advancements in medicine that have dramatically increased the quality of life for people with HIV. Yeah, I mean, he didn't know the world that, but I mean, in his position, if he wants to be an example, the others living with HIV, I understand.

And just living your truth is freeing, right? Yeah, and I commend him for that, man. I remember doing a panel about all the advancements they've made with HIV medicines and being on a panel with people who are HIV positive that have very productive lives for decades. So you can live with HIV and live a fruitful life. And so I do commend him for coming out and being able to say that. You know, we do HIV testing every year at the Juice Bar. And so it's always interesting to me because I get tested every year too when everyone comes in and does it.

And there have been people who have tested positive for HIV when they came in to do their test. But it is important that you know. On the spot? Yeah. See, I don't want to know that news on the spot. Not there.

Well, they don't tell me who it is or anything. It's private. They have counselors on hand and everything so that they can go ahead and start you in the process of making sure that you're, you know, eating what you're supposed to eat, making sure that you're taking the medicine, all of those things. It's important to know so you can have a healthy life. And, you know, when you see people like Billy Porter, it like removes the stigma of whatever you think, you know, living with HIV.

Same thing with Magic Johnson as well. Oh, absolutely. Same thing with Magic. And, you know, I'm always curious to, you know, Magic Johnson has HIV, is no longer detected in the system. Nobody ever says how. Is that true? I don't know if that's true. Yeah, he said it's no longer detected in the system.

He didn't say he didn't have it. He said it's not detected in his body. All the different cocktails of medication that you can take. Yeah, you can go on and be fine. All right. Well, that is your rumor report. All right. Now, Charlam your rumor report. All right. Now, Charlamagne, who are you giving that dog to?

We need 90% of the GOP who voted against this independent commission to investigate the Q on January 6th to come to the front of the congregation. Would you like to have a word with them, please? All right. We'll get into that next. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

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deadly spa shooting rampage and yesterday was a really bad day for him, and this is what he did. And so we are in a state of emergency. Okay, white supremacist violence is and always has been the number one threat to our society. But I'm also very proud that my wife is white. The Breakfast Club, bitches! All right, Sean Dean, please tell me, why was I your donkey of the day? Ha! Ha ha ha ha ha!

Donkey of the day for Thursday, May 20th goes to the 90 percent of Republicans who are battling against an independent commission. OK, on the attempted coup of this country on January 6th. I speak about the insurrection in this country as often as I can, because that is something we should never forget, especially when it doesn't seem like anyone is truly being held responsible. In my 42 years of existence on this planet, I have never seen a greater example of white privilege than what happened on January 6th. That was a textbook definition of a coup. OK, a sudden, violent and illegal seizure of power from a government. We talk about people being unpatriotic.

What's more unpatriotic than treason? OK, I said to you all months ago that Democrats, Republicansans you know any american black white puerto rican or asian if you truly care about this country you will never let them forget what happened on january 6th you will constantly remind folks of the domestic terrorists that stormed the capitol building and you would make sure every single member of vanilla isis and al cracker are held responsible for the act of treason they committed in this country but no y'all treating attempted coup in this country like it's just a bunch of kids wilding out at spring break like it was like it was a brunch that got a little rowdy what message did that send to the rest of the world that's the question i

have been asking myself since that attempted coup happened and i don't understand why it's not tv commercials billboards magazine ads that constantly remind folks of what Donald Trump and his rhetoric caused to happen in this country on January 6th. Any human being who truly gives a damn would be all for this independent commission on the insurrection. If you don't know what that commission is, it's simple. The agreement would set up an independent commission to investigate the failings that allowed a pro-Trump mob to overrun the Capitol. Why wouldn't anyone who claims to be a patriot, who claims to be America first, why wouldn't they want this? Why wouldn't they want this bill? Because this is why I mean, why wouldn't they want this independent commission? Because this independent commission will have people looking under the hood to see what's really going on and it would make folks take a

real deep look into the role the former celebrity and chief played in the coup and how he communicated with others in the gop that day and how he responded to rioters as they invaded the capital basically donald trump is nino brown the gop is the cmb and this independent commission to investigate the attempted coup. Well, they defaced. So, of course, the CMB or GOP would block an investigation because they know this is bigger than Nino Brown. And Trump got a list to prove it. And if he goes down, he's taking a lot of people with him. It's really that simple. So like most things, it passed the House, but probably won't pass the Senate. Would you like to hear what G money? I mean, I mean, Mitch McConnell had to say about this independent commission and why he doesn't support it. Listen, I've made the decision

to oppose the House Democrats slanted and unbalanced proposal for another commission to study the events of January the 6th. As everybody surely knows, I repeatedly made my views about the events of January the 6th very clear. So, Mr. President, it's not at all clear what new facts or additional investigation yet another commission could actually lay on top of existing efforts by law enforcement and Congress. Why does Mitch McConnell talk like he's got his jaw wired? Is that a consequence of having no lips? I mean, damn, he could be a ventriloquist.

I mean, he actually is because he speaks for the GOP and most of them are his puppets. But he said something in that statement that i haven't an answer to he he said it's not at all clear what new facts are additional investigation yet another commission could actually lay on top of existing efforts by law enforcement and congress well i'll tell you what a deeper investigation could find all the players players involved, including the politicians. And furthermore, you can't go deep enough on what happened on January 6th. Domestic terrorists stormed the Capitol and tried to overthrow the results of a presidential election. That's not normal anywhere, especially in America.

That's death by firing squad in some countries. I read a story in the Associated Press from July 27th, 1990, about 42 men, 42 convicted coup plotters who were executed by firing squad. OK, I think this happened in Nigeria. So when you see how history has shown us how other countries handle their attempted coups, it makes you wonder, why is America handling their attempted coup so lightly? I mean, lightly. You can't go deep enough on any investigation regarding January 6th. I'll tell you like a COVID tester told me when I asked,

how deep will he go? And he said until he feels resistance. Well, we're getting resistance now. Okay, from 90% of the GOP. But I say go deeper. Now, I have to commend the 35 Republicans who have joined Democrats to support the measure, but I'm not

giving you too much credit because it's a damn shame that we live in a country where we have to commend our politicians for doing the right thing. Okay? Especially in regards to domestic terrorism. Now, I don't trust too many politicians to be anything but politicians, but, you know, over the last few years, I've really got to know some politicians and some folks. Some

folks I dislike as humans. And this next person I'm about to play is one of them. This is just a morally sound human who happens to be white, who just wants to do the right thing. Okay, me and this guy have meditated together. We speak. I like this guy. And we need folks who speak truth to power, especially in politics.

Tim Ryan of Ohio, the floor is yours. I want to thank the gentleman from New York and the other Republicans who are supporting this and thank them for their bipartisanship to the other 90 percent of our friends on the other side of the aisle. Holy cow. Incoherence. No idea what you're talking about. Benghazi, you guys chased the former secretary of state all over the country, spent millions of dollars. We have people scaling the Capitol, hitting the Capitol police with lead pipes across the head and we can't get bipartisanship. What else has to happen in this country? This is a slap in the face to every rank-and-file

cop in the United States. If we're gonna take on China, if we're gonna rebuild the country, if we're gonna reverse climate change, we need two political parties in this country that are both living in reality, and you ain't one of them. Ooh, dropping the clothes bombs for Tim Ryan. But Tim, you got to start cursing, okay? You have to start cursing, Tim. That holy cow don't hit as hard as what you really wanted to see. Can you just play the holy cow part again?

Holy cow. Come on, man. Now listen, listen okay now this is what i need you to do what's wrong with holy cow if you're gonna say holy cow tim you're gonna have to really take it there i need you to put some of that real white sauce on it make it as caucasian as possible if you're gonna do it like this holy cow holy birthday cake. Holy rainbow. Holy Cinderella. Holy shrinkage. Gosh golly gee willa grisimity jippity doo. We have people scaling the Capitol, hitting the Capitol police with lead pipes across the head, and we can't get bipartisanship. That's right, Tim!

Okay? Tim asked a valid question, too. What else has to happen in this country? What else? What else? valid question too what else has to happen in this country what else what else well if you don't hold folks accountable for what happened on january 6th i'm talking everyone from politicians to the domestic terrorists we gonna find out and i don't think america is ready for the answer please give the 90 of the gop uh who are battling against the independent commission on the attempted coup on January 6th. The biggest hee-haw. All right.

All right. Well, thank you for that donkey of the day. Up next, Ask E.E. 800-585-1051. You need relationship advice or any type of advice, call E.E. now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

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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! 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 Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. It's time for Ask Yee. Hello, who's this? Hey, what's your question for you? I know I've called this here before. It's the only time I can get to. Quick question. My girlfriend's been through a lot. She's emotionally hard. What advice can you give me

so we can have a better relationship? Been through a lot with you or been through a lot outside of dealing with you? A lot in general. Okay, like what? I don't want to put her out like that, but basically a lot of betrayal, a lot of, you know, she was free to unappreciate things.

It's just a lot. And none of this has to do with you. This is all outside of you. Right. It was way before me, but it's like, I feel like she's taking it out on me now that we're together.

Well, I would say in a situation like that, it sounds like she needs to get some professional help. I agree. You know, and I would, if I were you, I would try to get some recommendations. And sometimes it's hard for people to say, okay, I'm going to go out and seek this and actually take those steps. But perhaps if you go with her, you guys can have some sessions together and then she can go alone.

And you can also do that virtually as well. I thank you so much. I really just want to thank you. I want to thank you virtually I want to thank you for everything I listen to you every day, especially on the show.

I really do appreciate you. I'm 28. Man, we appreciate you, King. Thank you, brother. Thank you. Thank you, brother.

I really appreciate you way more. And you know, make sure you keep on showing her support. Make sure you keep on showing your girlfriend support

and letting her know that she can always talk to you right and that you're not passing judgment on her ever and that you're going to be patient because love is patient right and if I could say one more thing I'm not going to hold y'all up if y'all can follow me on my Instagram

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I just learned a lot. I just learned how to repost reels on Instagram yesterday. I didn't even know you could do that. I'm serious. I just learned how to repost reels on Instagram yesterday. I didn't even know you could do that. I'm serious. That's awesome. I'm originally from New York, but I used to live in Columbia, South Carolina. 803.

Yeah, yeah. Shout out, shout out. I used to be in West Columbia. Oh, man, the Met. Yeah, I used to live in West Columbia. But you don't drive through West Columbia after duck when you're black? I live in Florida now. Don't start Charlemagne. Okay, I won't.

I won't. I live in Florida now, but you know how it is. Thank you all so much. I appreciate the platform. All right, King. All right, brother. Ask Yee. 800-585-1051.

If you need relationship advice, hit Yee now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Get some real advice with Angela Ye now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Get some real advice with Angela Ye. It's Ask Ye. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Ye, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club.

We're in the middle of Ask Ye. Hello. Who's this? Yo, Envy, what's good? This is your boy, Marley D, The Electrician. Good morning to The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, Ye. Good morning. Good morning, Charlamian. Good morning to the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, Yeet.

Good morning. Good morning, Charlamagne. Yo, so let me tell y'all something. I want to give y'all a big shout out, especially Yeet. Like about, let's say like a year and a half ago, maybe two years, I called the Breakfast Club. Had a little dilemma. I was at my job. I wanted to quit, right?

I asked Yeet for some advice. She was telling me if I think it was the right thing to do, I should do it, right? I asked Yee for some advice. She was telling me if I think it was the right thing to do, I should do it, right? I'd say like two weeks after that, my job let me go. Wow. Best thing that ever

happened to me, Yee. God's plan. My situation has been up since then. Again, my name is Marley D., the electrician. Let me plug my business.

I'm a black young man doing electrical work all throughout the five boroughs. We always need that definitely let people know how they can find you everybody know

Marley D the electrician on Instagram you can follow me I'm going to send y'all I'm going to send y'all my Instagram I'm going to follow Envy I'm going to follow Yee

you don't even follow us? I do follow y'all but I said I'm going to send y'all a DM okay alright we'll check for you y'all don't follow back though y'all don't follow back, though. Y'all don't follow back.

So follow the black business back, please. All right, good. I would appreciate it. Envy. Yes, sir. I'm on you, Envy. I need some work with you. No A's.

No Charlamagne Envy talk. This is a grown man. How does everyone know this? I need an opportunity. So I'm going to DM you, man. Again, it's Molly D, The Electrician. I also have a clothesline called Unique Threads. I want to get y'all some clothes, too, as well. All right, well, I'm glad everything DM you, man. Again, it's MollyDTheElectrician. I also have a clothesline called Unique Threads. I'm going to get y'all some clothes, too, as well.

All right, well, I'm glad everything worked out for you, even though you didn't quit. But, you know, guys said we got another plan for you. I love it when that happens. There you go, Molly. All right. Hello, who's this? Oh, my God.

This is Maria. Hey, Maria. Hey, Maria. Good morning. Oh, my God. Good morning. Oh, my gosh. Good morning. I cannot believe I actually got through to you guys. I've been through to you guys every single morning, and I know everybody says that, but I am, like, shaking.

Well, thank you. What's your question for you, Mama? So, I have the most, I would call him, is a friend with benefits. Uh-huh. But he's, like, in love, obsessed, in love, obsessed. And I keep trying to explain to him, like, it's just not that. Like, I don't like to like that. I like the things I do like, but I don't like the country.

And I'm just nervous about having to deal with somebody. Maria, I am so confused. You do not like this man, right? I know, I know. Why are you going out the country with him? Because it's been planned for a while. I don't want to waste, you know, the trip, his money, my time. It's all catered to me and everything.

I have a question. Do you care about him as a person? Yes, I do. I think he's a very sweet person. And I try to be very honest with him. Like, I tell him all these things, too. I just don't understand why he keeps... He probably thinks that, you know, you're doing these things,

you're spending time with him, you're going away with him. Eventually, you're going to break down and be in a relationship with him. But if you care about somebody and you know that's not your intention, you can't keep on leading them on like this. Everybody tells me that. I just thought I can't accept things.

I don't think you should. I mean, I feel like that is bad karma. I feel like you say you've been telling him, but your actions aren't saying that, right? And a lot of times we always tell people not to be delusional. And on his behalf, he should know, OK, she's telling me she doesn't want to be with me. She's not with me. But then you're going away with him.

Well, I almost didn't even go. I had to. He had to convince me to go. Yeah. It just feels like it's not it's really not nice. Honestly, Maria, if you care about somebody to do things like that. Would you want somebody to do that to you? Well, I wouldn't put myself in that position.

Exactly. But he has. And it feels like he's vulnerable. Maybe it's his self-esteem. But you are taking advantage. Okay. So, I know it's not what you wanted to hear But it's really not cool No I know

Because I've called I've called multiple days And even asked me Like what I should do With him In other situations If it happens that we're Supposed to be going out of the country

Yeah let him be able to find somebody Who cares about him The way he cares about them If it's not you Let him at least free up To be able to To put that work in With somebody who W about him the way he cares about them. If it's not you, let him at least free up to be able to put that work in with somebody who wants him also. Okay.

I mean, I did try to give him a chance and he's still hanging around, but... I know. I need to do... I know. I know you're going to go on this trip anyway, so the last piece of advice I'm going to give you is bring some friends on the trip also.

Okay. All right. There you go. Thank you. Y'all foul. All right. Askie, why we foul? You know, for doing stuff like that.

Not you, but people like that. That's foul. I feel bad for him. I don't even know him. Askie, 800-585-1051. Now, we got rumors on the way? Yes, and let's talk about Demi Lovato. We'll tell you what they had to say.

All right, we'll get into it next. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. I got what you need. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. What's going on?

Angela E. Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Good morning. He ain't got nothing on under that robe, and that breeze just blew. And we just said, You shut up, man. I was singing Chris Brown's song. All I heard was you say, I got what you need.

And then nobody with you. All right, King. Do your thing. All right, well, let's get to the rumors. Let's talk Demi Lovato. It's about time. What's going on? Rumor Report.

Rumor Report. This is the Rumor Report. Talk to them. With Angela Yee on The Breakfast Club. Well, Demi Lovato took to Twitter to let everybody know that she is changing their pronouns from she, her to they, them. She said, I've spent the majority of my life growing in front of all of you. You've seen the good, the bad, and everything in between. Not only has my life been a journey for myself, I was also living for those on the other side of the cameras. Today's a day I'm so happy to share more of my life with you all. I'm proud to let you know that I identify as non-binary and will officially be changing my pronouns to they, them, moving forward.

Here's what she said on Twitter. I want to take this moment to share something very personal with you over the past year and a half i've been doing some healing and self-reflective work and through this work i've had the revelation that i identify as non-binary with that said i'll officially be changing my pronouns to they them i feel that this best represents the fluidity i feel in my gender expression, and allows me to feel most authentic and true to the person I both know I am and still am discovering. Question.

No. No, you don't want to hear from you. No, but I thought they mean two or more people. That's what I thought too. I'm not going to lie. The pronoun thing did confuse me because I thought, I did think they and them were plural. I thought it means more than one.

And Khaled said they are haters. So what is it? Yeah, I thought they was more than one. And Khaled said they are haters. So what is it? Yeah, I thought they was two or more. Well, in this particular case, it's they, them for Demi because they doesn't want to be referred to as a he, him, or she, her. So it's they, them, you know, non-binary. Okay. And listen, if we slip up, I apologize.

I just want to put that out there, too. Because, you know, sometimes you're so used to saying something in a certain way that you might use the wrong pronoun. You know, the only time I've been catching myself over the past few years is when I'm talking about God. Because we have a tendency to say God and he. And it's just like I try to just say God as opposed to saying, you know, he blesses me. You know, I just try to say won't they do it? Won't they? Yes, they will. Won't he do it?

Yeah, that is true. Damn. Won't God do it? That's what I say. Won't God do it? Look at God. I don't know, man. I'm too stupid for all of this, to be honest. You are.

All right. And Russell Simmons and Kimora Lee. Russell Simmons is suing his ex-wife and accusing her of fraud. So according to The Blast, he has filed a lawsuit against Kimora and her husband, Tim, for allegedly siphoning some of his shares in the Celsius Energy Drink Company so they could use those shares as collateral to post bond for her husband, who is currently facing a series of federal charges. They calling you. They're telling me to pay my meter. All right. So prior to that incident,

Russell Simmons and Kimora and Tim had all invested tens of millions into Celsius, but now he's being charged with laundering money, so now he has to sue. Tim is being accused of laundering money, so Russell Simmons is now suing Kimora for using that money for his bond. Now, can you sue your ex-wife if y'all cool?

If y'all really friends? If y'all cool, though. If y'all really cool, y'all friends, y'all co-parenting kids. If you can't settle it, then you have to. That's a lot of money on the line. So, yes, I'm sure it feels disrespectful. Y'all want some good news? Sure.

All right. A$AP Rocky and Rihanna. He is saying that Rihanna is the love of his life. He said, my lady, so much better when you got the one. She amounts to probably like a million of the other ones. I think when you know, you know she's the one. And he's on the cover of GQ's June-July feature issue. Well, you know what to do, A$AP.

Be honest and say if you like it, put a ring on it, okay? And take her last name. I would be A$AP Fenty. You hear me? What? You wouldn't take Rihanna's last name? What? Please.

I'm A$AP Fenty. Rihanna Rocky hard, too, though. Is that A$AP's real last name? Please, I'm A$AP Fenty. Rihanna Rocky hard too though. Is that A$AP real last name? I'm sure that's not his last name. This guy is dumb. I told y'all I'm stupid. And they were also showing A$AP Rocky pictures of him and Rihanna on the red carpet. And here's what he said about one of the pictures of the two of them.

That's a fly photo because she look fire right there. She look sexy as f***. I love her braids. Oh, that's your favorite outfit of hers, right? I remember that. Yeah. You know why, though? She might have wore way better stuff.

It's just I was there in person to see it on her. She designed my tuxedo. That's a Fenty tuxedo with the Rick Owens shoes on. But nah, she designed it. I was all Fenty that day. I don't see that young king saying nothing wrong. All I hear him saying is the right things. Isn't that what he's supposed to be saying? Yes. Oh, okay.

Okay. Yeesh. That's Rihanna, bro. And I'm sure he means it. Alright, and another breakup news this time. Future, they're saying that he's taking a dig at Lori Harvey on a leaked snippet of a song with him and 402 Doug and here is that snippet.

Magic city I'm gonna tell you, stay hard with all I want. I couldn't even hear that. He said, tell Steve Harvey I don't want her. That audio sucks. It was leaked, so it is what it is. You could have just said that, Yee, because I couldn't understand anything they were saying.

Future ain't never got to worry about being on Family Feud now. After that. All right. Some rap. Well, that is your rumor report. All right. Thank you, Miss Yee. Now, when we come back,

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