The Breakfast Club - INTERVIEW: Dee-1 Talks Upcoming Album ‘The Shift’, Faith & Righteousness, Podcasting, Yung Miami + More

Episode Date: September 15, 2026

Today on The Breakfast Club, Dee-1 Talks Upcoming Album ‘The Shift’, Faith & Righteousness, Podcasting, Yung Miami. Listen For More!  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We got a special guest in the building. My guy. Brother D1. Welcome. Man, I'm so happy to be here, man. How you feeling, Dee? Bro, I feel great, bro. This is a blessing.

I don't take stuff like this for granted, bro. Absolutely. Thank y'all for having me, bro. This is a pinnacle of being an artist, putting in work all these. years, when you make it to the breakfast club, it's an I made-it-moment. You've been out here, D-1. You've been outside making your rounds. The deep been outside.

The deep one been outside. Come on, man. I feel the impact that God is using me to make at this season of my life, bro. It feels great, too. It's not your first time. No, it's my second time up here. Okay, I thought the way you're talking was like the first time. Just been having gratefulness in the moment, though.

Oh, that's how humble I am. I don't take this for granted. You're right? I woke up this morning like, man, I'm going to go into breakfast club. Right. This is my second time formally on the show. But together, like we're being used to make impact. You know what I'm saying?

And I don't, like, I could be wasting my life right now. I could be using my gifts and talents to glorify negativity, foolishness, evil, sin. But I'm just like, dang, God, you allow me to elevate without compromising. That right there? I could brag on God all day for that to allow me to elevate without compromising. Come on, man. So many people elevate it and we want to celebrate the success.

But you compromise your morals to get there. That ain't nothing to brag on. You know, I was having a conversation with somebody the other day, and they were still doing, I would just say, F-ish, right? But they were praying to God to get them out that situation. And I was sitting there and I chuckled to myself a little bit. I was like, how you know you're still doing F-ish, but you're praying to God to get you out that situation.

Yeah. And I was like, I see that a lot. I don't think people understand. Like, you're still doing the F-ish, but you play, I don't think God's going to help you with the F-ish. That's called bootleg blessings. You heard me? They want bootleg blessings.

Because God not going to bless the F-ish. You hear me? That's the devil that's elevating you, my brother. You're praying to God, but no, no, you're elevating, but you're getting bootleg blessings because we are receivers by nature. As humans, we are receiving blessings all the time. You don't want to be a receiver from a deceiver. You feel me?

The devil is a deceiver. The devil is the king of lying to you, confusing you. And if you're trying to receive blessings from somebody that's deceiving you, that's bad. And then when you're saying, God, I'm thinking that this is you elevating me. Stop thanking God. for stuff, God ain't blessed. The devil elevated you. That's not real success.

But we still got time if you start to get the picture. It's best to do it now. If not, death's going to deal with you. People forget Satan got a kingdom too. Come on, man. We're looking at it. We're looking at Satan's kingdom. Like literally, right here.

That's why if you think that your heaven is here on earth, it's like, brother, you got life twisted. This is 70, 80, 90 years, whatever we get down here. This is so temporary. Eternity is forever. So you're spending your whole. whole life trying to go viral. Meanwhile, I'm trying to go eternal. And when I say go eternal, man, what seeds can I sow? What can I plant into the ground? What can I leave this world with my

gifts and talents that have eternal impact, man? I'm trying to make having more crowded because of my little brief time here. I do see, and let me ask you a question. Do you see that the work that you're doing? Do you see it changing people and changing all this? I'm starting to see it more and more are you seeing that as well? It's happening. Hey, bro. It's happening. It's happening. I see it, bro. I'm at Fat Joe's birthday party. Got a personal invite from Fat Joe. I've seen you there. Yeah, yeah. So, um, yeah, you ain't speak to me, but you saw me there. You were on the other side. You was on the other side. I was who I did.

And I got in and out. I got in and out. So I walk in the party. Fat Joe is on stage. Hot pink suit on, you hear me. On an epic Fat Joe rant talking. You know what I'm saying? Going off talking. He's in the middle of cursing. He was like, and now we ran up and we effed that motherfucker. And he's in the middle of cursing. He's like, oh, D1, the positive brother is here. Like, in the middle of the curse word, right? And he's like, come up on stage and say some positive shit for the people. You heard of it?

So he gave me the mic and at his party, I'm on stage like, uh, this wasn't planned, but, uh, okay, everybody, how y'all doing? Uh,

I just, you know, I gave a, I gave some D1 words of wisdom, you know what I'm saying, gave God glory, said what I said, and the people was rocking with it.

But just the way I feel embraced by the fat Joe's of the world, the Jeter Kisses of the world, the man, the breakfast clubs of the world. Now, there was a time where I always felt the resistance. You know what I'm saying? And that's why I say the shift is here.

Like the shift is here, bro. Like people are not really demons. When I was a little kid growing up, we was like, dang, these people are really murderers. These people are really killers. These people are really, you know, Pablo Escobar, and they got, you know, all these kilos of cocaine that they're actively pushing because they're rapping about it. Then you get older and you meet them. Man, that's just a father who's raising his kids living in a gated community. And he raps about that stuff.

Probably never did it, but even if he did do it, he's not currently living like that. Once you see that, you realize that people are looking for an escape route. But a lot of times they're being held down because of money and reputation. Those are the two things that's keeping our people enslaved inside the hip hop. They're afraid that, man, if I switch it up and if my current content reflects my real lifestyle now, I don't think the fans are going to appreciate that or approve of that. I had a convo with somebody at Fat Joe's birthday party. He's a legend.

I won't say his name out of respect, but he was like, first time meeting me, and that's what he pulled me to the side to talk about. Man, I want to do different, but my fans just want that old version of me, literally. So it's money and reputation. And I see that,

and instead of pouncing on that and making fun of people for that, I'm just like, oh, okay, let me figure out how I can make content, make music, and build relationships that help break through that wall. You know what I'm saying?

Because evil is not what we're fighting against anymore. These people are not demons. People not trying to go to hell. You know what I'm saying? People not trying to go to jail. That's why they hire lawyers to fight to hopefully get them acquitted. People are not demons. Our enemy is lukewarmness.

Our enemy is lukewarmness because people have become content with a lukewarm lifestyle. I'm going to give God the glory today, right? I'm going to get on Instagram and post something positive and righteous today. But then literally three days later, That same person or get online and got to post a video of them glorifying murder and selling dope and disrespecting women and whatnot. And it's seen as normal because people are, oh, yeah, you're a beast. You killed that verse. I remember that song.

I grew up on that. But I also love that God post that you did three days ago. That's a lukewarm lifestyle that we've become content with. And that's what we're fighting against, man. It's not overt evil that's taking place out here. Like think about it. It's not overt, obvious evil that's going on. It's just lukewarmness that we're fighting against.

And my thing is like, I encourage everybody. Surrender at all, man. Our time here is brief. Surrender at all to God. Just be like, God, how can I be of best use to you and to your kingdom? That doesn't mean you have to become a preacher or a pastor or a gospel singer or rapper instantly. No, not at all. But, man, you got so much more peace when you just say, God, I actually don't want the elevation if it ain't coming from you.

You know, D-1, you spend a lot of time, like, challenging rappers and challenging the culture to be more responsible with what they promote, right? Yeah. What responsibility do you think you have to make sure righteousness doesn't turn into self-righteousness? Righteousness doesn't turn into self-righteousness as long as you are relatable, as long as you are transparent about your flaws, and as long as you're authentic to where people see the process of you becoming who you are, not just the prize that you're promoting. So I'm on breakfast club today That's the prize y'all D1 made it here on breakfast club That's amazing

But every day they could go on social media And see the ups and downs Of what I go through And see the realities of like Yo, I'm flawed as well And I'm still trying to figure it out Sometimes I make mistakes That I got to be accountable for

You know what I mean? I think that's it bro Some people use righteousness as a weapon As a weapon to say Ah, I'm gonna make other people Feel so bad about their imperfections that now they got to come to me as the source for them, you know, getting better and getting

right. And it's like, nah, I'm actually not the source. I'm just throwing alley-oops to the ultimate source, to God. So I'm glad y'all are attracted to my anointing, you know what I'm saying? But I'm just as messed up as you are in a lot of ways. So that being said, let's both go to who's better for us. And that's how I love. I wonder, I wonder are people attracted to your anointing,

are they just responding to your criticism? Hmm The fans are attracted to my annoying I've been doing this for a long time Brother I got 14 albums out You know I'm a college professor I didn't tour this country And this world like so many times

The fans rocked with David Augustine Jr The human being right The artists at first It was like We actually don't want to be held accountable to anybody So that's why I would get resistance From a Rick Ross From a Jim John

from various people because they're like, who is this little dude from New Orleans? Like, we don't know him, and it seems like he's just trying to call us out publicly. And Stiles P actually helped me change my life because Stiles P said, young brother, I'm surprised you made it this far and nothing has happened to you physically, right?

Like we're taking such a bold stance in hip-hop. He said, moving forward, he said, I can tell that your heart is pure. He said, so instead of calling people out, you need to start calling people in. I got goosebumps right now. That's that difference between the self-righteousness and the anointing, in my opinion.

And listen, I took his advice. So that's why now I think the response has been different. That's why a Noriega, that's why a fat Joe, that's why a bird man, that's why other people behind the scenes hitting me up in confidence, but even publicly saying, yeah, we stamped this. Even if we're not fully living this, you hear what I mean? We stamped this message because it's,

It's better for our youth. And we care about them babies. So I just came out with a podcast. It's called The Shift, right? Just launched it. Right now, I'm two episodes in. I got Bun B on the first episode. That is a game-changing conversation.

Because Bun has lived all of that other life and has fully matured in a way that I'm like, and he don't mind speaking from both sides of the coin to me. That convoy was number one. The second one was with BG from New Orleans, right? Both of them are doing very well in terms of the episode. So go subscribe, watch the shift podcast. But the podcast gives me an opportunity to speak in a way that I can't do in a three-minute

song or in a 90-second social media clip. And that's what's happening right now. You're like, people are ready to embrace something different. And the more they get to know your heart and they don't just hear your criticism or your viral clip, then they're like, man, the dude might be on or something. You know what I love, though? And I respect you a lot. But you know what I respect even more?

When I see an artist like Fabio Forrin. Man. Because his career has been drill rap. Paid his bills from it, his jewelry, his cars, everything. And the fact that he was at his highest when it came to it and totally changed. Yeah. That's another level. And I know you was in the studio with him.

So I was talking to Fabio. Yeah, brother. I'm so proud of Fabio Forin. That's my brother in battle. You heard me? Everybody ain't got soldier in their DNA. Feel me? Everybody ain't got soldier in their DNA, meaning.

And this spiritual war that we're fighting down here. Some people are like, man, I got to sit on the sidelines. I ain't equipped for that. But with somebody like Favio, like you said, for him to say like, man, I'm in my prime. I'm doing my thing. And I'm ready to give it all to God, surrender at all. I'm like, oh, I just got to be a good teammate at this point. Because that's the type of brothers I want to do life with.

So we got in the studio. He's on my new album. Yeah, we got a joint together. It's crazy. We did two joints together as of now. And I was in the studio with Favio when he got saved. Explain that, break that down Yeah, so he had already

You know, been saying I'm making different type of music now I'm making music with, you know, more God-centered Da-da-da-da. But we were in the studio recording I had just left Fat Joe's birthday party That's the crazy thing Matter of fact, I had this same outfit on

So don't judge me But yeah, came back to the studio After Fat Joe's birthday party And me and Fabio recorded our second song together, right? And after I finished recording my verse Out in the hallway right outside the booth, me and a few other brothers from the camp, literally,

watch Fabio right there, pray to prayer to say, like, God, I surrender everything to you. I'm declaring Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior for the rest of my life. I just want to make you proud. Like, bro, I'm watching this happen, you know what I mean? So that when I get online and I see some people saying, man, he clout chasing, man, this is a state. How do you feel about that? Because personally, you're a part of his journey. You've seen it.

So when I saw 50 cent try to clown him online, once again, I'm in the mind. instead of, hey, I'm trying to turn all these brothers into teammates. You know, I ain't trying to be going at it, be at odds with nobody. But when I see 50 try to clown somebody like Fabio, who I consider a teammate and say, it's the wackest rapper on the East Coast. And he posts that with his big platform. Ah, ah, 50. I got to tell you something publicly now.

I got to respond publicly because I know that this is authentic. And if anything, Fifth, you're not no demon. You heard me? I pulled up like 20 pictures of him wearing crosses throughout his career. I pulled up his song, God gave me style. God, give me graves. Like, Fifth, you believe in God. You just ain't surrendered everything to God yet.

You feel me? So don't clown a brother that's doing what you haven't been able to do yet. And guess what, Fifth, I'm not even mad at you because we want you too. I'm trying to recruit, you heard me? Straight up. Everybody ain't got soldier in their DNA, but I got it in mind. Do you believe publicly calling somebody out actually changes them, or does it just sometimes make the person being corrected defensive?

That's a great point, brother. I feel like when messages are being promoted publicly, they deserve to be opposed publicly. That's all it boils down to. Man, because we got young impressionable kids, you heard me? I was a middle school teacher before I was D1. I know how much the babies is sitting there looking at social media. And if they see negativity promoted so much publicly that is normalized

and they don't ever see it opposed publicly, they're going to feel like, well, that must not be that bad. So now, man, we got to oppose the stuff publicly when sin, negativity, foolishness, evil is being promoted publicly. But there's a way to oppose it. And I think God has graced me with a boldness to oppose stuff, but with coming from, with a heart posture to where people are like, man, this dude don't hate me.

He hates the negativity and the evil that's working through me. And that's because my favorite Bible scripture is Ephesians 6 and 12. We ain't wrestling against flesh and blood. You're all right me? You're not my op. You're not my op. You're not my op. It's evil spirits and principalities.

That's what we're fighting against. So me knowing that, it's like, all right, I know how to walk that walk, man. I'm still from New Orleans. I still came up in a space to where it's like, boy, you'll get your dome knocked off by a dude that look like Steve Urkel on the surface. You know what I'm saying? So you got to respect everybody.

I'm glad you said what you said about styles because, you know, I was going to ask what if somebody corrected you about publicly that you initially resisted but they didn't realize they were right about. The reason I was going to ask you that is because accountability only really works if the person demanding it can receive it too. Yeah, bro. I'm constantly trying to figure out how. to refine my processes. You feel me? I get a lot of criticism from people. They criticize artists

that I choose to feature all my songs. They'd be like, D-1, why would you do a song with a fredo-bang? Because that was my middle school student. Why would I not? Why would you do a song with Boosie? You know what I'm saying? Why would you? Like, I hear that type of stuff. I hear people those are good questions, by the way, though. There are valid questions for sure. And that's my thing is I have to be accepting of the accountability that I have to be held to. So my thing is this. When I do songs with certain people, the game, you know, there's so many people I've collaborated with, man, exhibit, you know, this is all just on my upcoming album, the shift.

Man, when I'm doing these songs, I'm bringing them into my world. You feel me? That's the goal. Bring y'all into my world so you can showcase a different side of you than what you're typically showcasing when you get on these records. And that feels good. It feels like freedom. It feels like freedom to these brothers and sisters that are like,

Yo, yeah. The world thinks that I'm just some negative person because that's the reputation I garnered over the years. But I'm really not that person, but I don't know how to make the music feel authentic. I don't know how to make people accept it. So some people say, D, I stand next to you. And that makes me feel more comfortable.

You feel like a bridge. You have that conversation, or they already know. It's already assumed when they're doing it. I've had to. Great question, brother. Great question, brother. David Banner, earlier in my career, that's my brother.

You heard me? from Mississippi, I'm from New Orleans. He sent me a verse back that had some content on it that I was like, man, I can't do this, man. And I had to have that call. I had to make that call to him. And that was an awkward conversation, you hear me?

Because he looked at me as like, little bro. You feel me? How is little bro telling big bro, hey, man, I can't hear you saying this on the song. You know, I've had Lupe Fiasco. That's my brother. When me and Lupe did a song together, he was cursing on it at first, right?

And Lupe said he was testing me to see if I would have the goal. guts to tell him like, hey, bro, you can't curse, you know, all my songs. I would appreciate you not cursing, you know what I mean? Kevin Gates, my first ever album, I'm living in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, just graduated from LSU at the time. My album was called David and Goliath. I got my brother Kevin Gates to feature on it.

And this is my first album ever, so I get Gates to feature on the songs called I Hate Money, right? And Gates might have cursed 12 times in the verse. first, right? And I'm in the studio with Gates. And after, we a lot younger, neither one of us are successful at this point, you know, and I have that talk with him. And Gates looked at me in my eyes and said, brother, this is all I got for you right now because of what I'm going through internally. This is all I got for you. And guess what? First of all, I got goosebumps right now just saying that, remember in that convoy? And I said, brother, if that's all you got for me,

I say, I'm going to accept that. You hear what I'm going to accept that. And we're going to make this work. And I edited out every curse word in the verse, you know what I'm saying? But I let them keep it on there. And that's why to this day, me and Gates are like this. We got a brotherhood that could never be broken. Oh, let's stay here for a second. Yeah. What if telling the ugly truth requires ugly language? Like, can art be righteous without being clean? Yes. Boy, you're a smart dude, boy. That's a heck of a question. Can all be righteous without being clean? Yes. Me, I was a marketing major in college, though. So,

I just know that it's more accessible to a wider audience when it's clean. I see so many spaces that I'm in. I'm a United States hip-hop cultural ambassador. I'm, like I said, was a middle school teacher, now a college professor. I'd be performing in clubs, colleges, and churches. You feel me? And the only reason why I'm in some of these spaces is because they know D-1's content is all going to be clean. You feel me?

So, yes, art can be righteous even if some of the language is not right. righteous, even if there's some bad words, quote, unquote, in it, for sure. And I don't judge the person for those words. I just simply say, oh, if I'm getting on your song, when I featured on Boosey's album that just came out, Boosey is cursing in the song. You feel me? His artist, Spiffy Luciano, you hear me? Spiffy, they're cursing in the song.

But the theme, the message of the song is still something that I stand by. But I'm like, okay, I can't tell you. Let's edit all these curse words out on your song. But when Boosie hopped on my song, I don't know if y'all heard that song, we got called Gangster. That's the first song on my album. Boosey, man, shout out to Boosie. Because Boosey respected me so much that not only did he not cursing the verse, he didn't even, he edited half of his name out. Because at the end of the verse, he said, Boosey bad.

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or wherever you get your podcasts. Philosophy is of be real, be righteous, be relevant. Yes, sir. What happens when being real conflicts with being righteous? Because in that moment, he was being real. Yeah. Be real, be righteous, be relevant. And then sit it all at the altar before God.

That's the thing. Sometimes being real and being righteous do conflict. sometimes being relevant conflicts with being real. Sometimes being relevant conflicts with being righteous. These things will conflict, but we're operating at our peak when we're real, righteous, and relevant at the same time. You feel me?

So that's my thing is when they conflict with one another, it's like, okay, that means we have work to do internally. But a lot of times, like, when you get online, you talk about certain things, people might be in the midst of, like, trying to figure out how to get to all three at one time. Like, that might be all they got, like Kevin Gates said. I think about Young Miami to spend that record,

in that discourse and conversation around her song. Yeah. And I know you said like, okay, like when Uncle Luke and Trick Daddy defended her against Indyri, you were saying that like they were arguing back against the wrong thing because of, like, it's not women can't do this, it's the overall message in it. But there are people that listen to that song that might be in the midst of all that and they trying to figure it out and that's just where they are.

That's all they got right now. But what were your thoughts on that? I didn't hear of his thoughts on it. I'm totally opposed to that song by Young Miami. man. I know that that is not something that is the best reflection of who she is as a person. I know that God is not pleased with it. So if God love it, then I love it. If God don't like it, I don't like it. You know, I'm a hater. At the end of the day, I am a hate. I'm a big hater. I hate anything the devil loves. You feel me? When we have a song that's glorifying,

scamming, shoplifting, making it seem like this is cool to push this out there, that's not something that God is pleased with. I don't care what excuse somebody. to try to come up with. And if that's not the best of, if that's where they are currently, then cool, you could have kept that on your hard drive. Could have kept it on your hard drive. When we choose to publicly promote this stuff,

our music is going to outlive us. We still bumping Tupac 30 years later. You feel me? So whatever he chose to say at the time in that music, that is outliving his physical self. So that's why we got to be really careful what we choose to put out there. Do we believe in God or do we not?

If we believe in God, then we got to believe in the devil. If we believe in heaven, then how are we not going to believe in hell? So people want to act like, I literally heard young Miami saying, man, God blessing me, y'all. This is my summer. You know what I'm saying? I got the song of the summer. That's not God, sweetie. That's the devil elevating you.

And I just wish somebody loved you enough to tell you that. How do you explain Tupac? Huh? How do I explain Tupac? How do I explain Tupac? A 25-year-old man who was still coming into his own and who was still conflicted. and who was extremely popular, extremely pulled in different directions, extremely provocative, but was still trying to find himself.

I don't really have smoke for the younger generation. It's the OGs who should know better at this point. That's the ones that I feel like, brother. If we can't have accountability from the top, how can we expect it from the little dirks and the NBA young boys? When they got OGs that they look up to, they're still pushing the negativity. So is your smoke, because you brought up Young Miami, so I'm talking about being blessed, right?

But she's, I mean, she's young and she's figuring it out. Yeah. So is your smoke with her? No, it's not with her. It's with her mindset. It's with her mindset thinking that God is blessing that. And that's my thing. It's like, dang, once again, you're publicly pushing this.

So somebody has to, if y'all really watch the videos I made that were directed towards to spend that song in Young Miami, it was affirming her in so many ways in the beginning of the videos intentionally to let her know, you are not a devil, you're not a demon, sweetie, at all. But your mindset is something that a lot of us have been confused with, thinking just because it's elevating, that must be God. So maybe I just need to do more of that. And then I see she had her kids on stage with her recently performing it at a big show and would not.

Like, brother, this is not something that we should be celebrating. And I don't feel bad about standing on that because I don't hate young Miami as a person, you know. But what I do hate is when the older generation tries to affirm that stuff and they know better. And maybe they don't know better. Maybe trick daddy is not an OG. Maybe he's a DG, a disappointing grown-up.

Maybe that's what it is. So when I see you coming for India, IRE, like India, IRE was so sweet with her response. And so, all right, like, I'm just letting y'all know that I don't think that this is the best version of, you know, who we are. However she put it. And when the way I heard him talking to her, I felt like that was somebody talking to my mama or my A&T like that,

disrespectfully. So I'm just like, brother, there's a lot of people riding the fence in this industry and they're afraid to be bold and pick a side. My thing is like, man, let's pick a side. Pick a side. Ain't none of y'all trying to go to hell. So y'all ain't really no gangsters like y'all say y'all is. Ain't none of y'all trying to go to jail.

That's why y'all hire lawyers to try to get y'all acquitted. So if you're not really on demon time like that, then that lets me know, okay, you're not built like I'm built because I picked aside. I picked the side of God. I picked the side of righteousness. I still got to lead with love, but at least I picked a side. I guess for me, right, just feeling like, you know, I know God walks with me, right?

I guess what does love have to look like for the people you talking about to actually experience your criticism as love rather than condemnation? Most people are experiencing it as love rather than condemnation. And that's because the love has to look like, number one, being open to having relationships. right being open to it I'm not ever forcing a relationship or a conversation personally with anybody but I'm definitely open to it with all of these people right

that's number one number two it's saying I'm not perfect either like if you go on YouTube right now my most popular song with millions of views on the music video is literally called I'm not perfect because it's not me acting like I'm a holier than thou but it's just the overt glorification

of negativity then I'm like Lord have mercy come on man it can't come off his holier than now It can come across. I think it's like what he said earlier or Sholomey said earlier about condemning somebody, right? Mm-hmm.

The first reaction for most people when somebody goes at them publicly is defense, right? You don't necessarily open up your arms, right? Because the first thing you do is, why's he talking to me like that? Without even thinking, the first thing you do is you respond with negativity back at that person.

So I got a question for y'all. Why are we so comfortable criticizing Donald Trump publicly? Um, I don't... That silence is speaking value. No, I'm trying to understand. As black people, we constantly criticize Donald Trump publicly and we feel no we give no no second thought into it we feel like y'all because he's the

president of the United States of America and you know our taxpaying dollars go to the government and we know that what he's doing is directly impacting us as a society and it's like we voted that in like we didn't we didn't right that's what I'm saying but the country was there's people that actually voted him in like that's something that we can complain about it's like complaining like at a supervisor at a job. You know what I'm saying? I'm complaining. I'll go to this restaurant. I don't like the service. I'm complaining to this person, but I'm not going into the restaurant telling all the customers, man, y'all look stink. Y'all look dirty, man. Why am I sitting in this restaurant with y'all filthy motherfuckers, man? Yeah. I don't, no, no, watch this, though.

You didn't vote for Donald Trump, but you feel comfortable criticizing him, although he got elected, right? He got elected. Because he's still the president. He the president, but we feel comfortable saying I can still criticize him, though, right? Because I didn't vote for them. With that being said, when we got artists who have been elected by our communities because we've chosen to say, yo, this person, we're going to support their music. We're going to elevate their platform. We're following them. We buying their concert tickets, right? We're streaming their music. When these people become spokesmen and spokeswomen for our communities, do they not deserve to be held accountable at, on any level? Oh, 100%. Yeah. So that's all that's

happening is that people just don't want accountability. But I think when you come, when you talk about an elected official, I'm calling him out because of policies that he's implemented, right? I think it's different when you're calling somebody out morally because, like, who gets to define righteousness? Is it views? Is it Christianity? Is it scripture? Is it a community

standards? I have a question. When you talk about Tupac, right? I've heard you say that some of our, like, rap OGs are probably burning in him. Yeah. Right? That's hard. Hey, y'all want to sit there for a second? Please explain that and I'll get back to what I was talking about you. All right, all right, sweet. If we believe in God, do we believe

in the devil. If we believe in heaven, do we believe in hell? Absolutely. If we believe in Jesus, I heard you pray in the name of Jesus the other day, right? You believe in Jesus, right? Do you believe Jesus is a truth teller or a liar? A truth teller. So Jesus is the one who speaks about hell constantly in the Bible.

And Jesus says that he is God. And the only way to get to the father is through the son. So that being said, if we see that people clearly and overtly are living, living a life and pushing the opposite of everything that God stands for. And if they never even claim any allegiance to God to Jesus, any of that stuff, then according to Jesus, not D-1, according to Jesus, where are they going? Yeah, but you're basing that off highlights. Right.

No, I'm basing that on the Word of God. Listen, here's the thing, D-1, I don't know you. I know you as a person, right? But I don't know what you do throughout the day, all day, every day. I don't know the whole totality of your life. And it's the same thing with those brothers that you said are in hell. I don't know what their journey was with God. I don't know what their relationship.

What happened? What happened right before? I don't know what they be doing when they go home. That's the, right, right. So that's the, I love what we do this. Because in the Bible, there are so many stories about God, like, and not giving up on, or like, the prodigal son and, like, waiting and not giving up and all these things. And sometimes when I'm listening to you, it's like, it's either left or it's right. It's not that, like, people are here in the middle.

And maybe you're trying to figure out where you are and how you understand it. And you're fighting back and having to repent. So if the conversation is about heaven and hell, that's for people that are no longer living, right? People that are still here, man, we got to love on them and do life with them until we all take our last breath. But for people that are no longer here, like, there is no way that Charlemagne is not a Trump supporter, but we'll get on the radio every day and support Trump. I understand what you just said. Listen, that silence is loud. Listen, listen.

Listen, listen. Listen, listen. Watch it. There's no way that a person is. sitting here like, man, I love God, man. I love God. Like, I love God. I love Jesus specifically. And I'm trying to live every aspect of my life to push his word and his love, right? But every day, what I'm choosing to publicly push and promote is the exact opposite of. I'm pushing the glorification of murder,

drug dealing, disrespect, and with that. I don't agree with that because you got people in the church that are publicly these people for God and so righteous, but privately they are horrible and they are hell. And when you go see God and you go talk to who you're talking to, you're going to go to heaven or hell and you don't even know that. I didn't say that that's not true. But I'm saying if that's true, how is your point true too? They'll both true.

Two things could be true at the same time. But you can't critique people as if only one thing is true is my point. And that's how it sometimes can be. Y'all are like, y'all want me to go to the scripture to say people going to hell? I'm not saying people go to hell. I'm just saying how do what gets you there? Yeah, how do we know?

Like how can you say without a shadow of a doubt that that person is in hell? That person is in hell. I didn't say young Miami was going to hell. No, no. No. Don't make that the headline. Is young Miami going to hell because she may spend that? No, not, no, no, no.

But what if these rappers are doing this publicly? But behind the scenes, they're the most godfaring, please God, forgive me, blah, blah, blah. That's why they get on stage and say, thank you God and stuff like that. But their music may not reflect that. Not only that, you hear all the time. To the opposite point of Lauren said, because you can be the pastor. That's doing the worst. That's doing the godly stuff in public, but you got all the holes behind the scene.

Believe it. How many times you hear somebody that did not believe that? in God, their whole life, right? And right before they die, they wake up and they have the light and they say, I believe in God, I've seen them. Is that person go to hell? Because it's 60 years, 70 years on this earth. He didn't believe in God. He didn't pray to God.

But that one moment before he died, he got the light, because you hear it all the time and now all of a sudden they believe. Yeah. Does that person go to Jesus? That's an amazing question. I believe that person, if that act of repentance and accepting the Lord Jesus as they Lord and Savior right before they died, if that happened, I believe that person is going to heaven, right?

I believe that person was going to heaven, but they actually wasted their whole life leading a bunch of other people down the wrong path. But the question is if they're going to heaven and that's why. And that one artist that you said, that one artist that did all that, right before that artist dies, he had that wake up moment.

Say, say, y'all, say y'all, say y'all. I'm just asking. No, no, no, no. When I heard you say that, it did make me cringe, I'm like, damn, D-1, how do you know they didn't have? I'm going to tell y'all. I'm going to tell y'all. Listen, brother.

How many y'all ever been shot before? I never been shot. Never been shot. Thank God. Praise God. Praise God. Been shot out a couple times. Hit my car, but I have never been shot.

Hey, that bullet come quick. That bullet come quick. So if you ain't had that moment to the point where like, and I got a certain artist in mind when I say this. But I'm trying not to be that dude. I'm trying not to be that dude. If everything you was doing and living and publicly promoting up until that point was glorified, everything that the devil loves.

And then that bullet hit you, you heard me? And you ain't know that mother was fin to hit you. It wasn't a slow motion bullet. Da-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-you-gone. Oh, you think that person in heaven? You don't know because you don't know what he was doing in his life outside of what you saw. What exactly? What exactly?

Do you believe anybody is in hell? Yes, I believe people are there. Why? I don't know all the wide. I haven't checked the attendance record. I don't know. But what I'm saying is that I do think that there are, you know, I just think that the pool pit can happen in a lot of different places.

And I think when you talk to people who are trying to believe in religion or spirituality, faith, I know people try to separate those things. When you talk to them like it's either so black and white, it does the opposite of what I think we're supposed to be doing. So y'all know that so actually like what I don't want to happen is, like I get embraced by so many people and so much love that the people who don't embrace me or the negativity or whatever, do y'all realize that that is a loud minority? of people who feel away, right?

At this point. It happens that way with everything. Yeah, so watch this. So I don't want for a new person who's being introduced to D1 right now to think, I ain't even going to go listen to his music or watch his podcast because it just seemed like he said everybody going to hell and it seemed like nobody like him and they're so opposed to him. No, the reality

is that by the grace of God, I have had a way of being a bridge and infiltrating spaces with the same message to where people are embracing me. Norie got me on Drink Channel. talking like what I'm talking. Fat Joe. Memphis bleak. All this stuff.

It's to the point to where, like, the truth might hurt sometimes. What this brother said yesterday, I was on a plane. I had Wi-Fi. I was like, man, oh, I feel that. What you said about the N-word. Why are we trying to come up with all these justifications

to use a word that was meant to demean us? That's right. Thank you, bro. Like, thank you, bro. Thank you for that boldness. Take that message and apply mine with eternal implications. Why are we trying to come up with all these excuses for sin? Why are we trying to come up with all these excuses for negativity?

For stuff that's clearly overtly evil. This ain't people that got their own vices that they privately struggling with. We all got those. And we all deserve grace. We all deserve people to walk that walk with us. Cool. But we have got to a point as a culture. And specifically as black people, man.

It's called black protectionism. You hear me? My old college professor, Dr. Lenna Moore. He told me about that black black. Black protectionism, man, anything that's black, we try to find a way to justify it because we love our people so much. And Lord, have mercy, we love our people.

But I'm not going to love black people more than I love God, ever. Do you love black people more than you love God? I feel like black people are God. So white people and I love... When I look at my people, I see God in them. So what about when you see... When I see humans, when I see humans, I see God, but

I'm black, so I grew up around black people, I love my people. So when I see you, I see God. When I see Lauren, I see God. When I see envy, I see God. So I always try to carry myself. I try to always keep that in mind because I want to remember that always, because I'm not going to do God. I feel it. So when you see a version of us that's like, that's not reflecting the God in you, my brother. Absolutely. Absolutely. That part, your job is to love on that person. And to say, come on, young king, every time I talk to this man, every time we communicate, that man said, peace king, peace king. What's up, King? That stuff be making me feeling.

I'll be like, man, thank you, bro. Like, I feel affirmed. But there's affirmative love and there's transformative love, right? Shout out to Dr. Tricia Rose. Affirmative love is when you love somebody so much that all you want to do is affirm them and say nice things about them because you're genuinely

rooting for them. But that ain't as good as transformative love. Transformative love is, I'm going to affirm you when it's time to affirm you, but when it's time to correct you, when it's time to pour into you and say that ain't the best version of you, hey, I got to call that out. I got to say you do better. I guess I want to answer the question. I want you to answer the question I asked earlier.

Who gets to define righteousness? The word of God. Okay. Not D1. Not Shaliman. You know what I'm saying? The word of God. That's it, brother. What's more important to you? It's my last question. What's more important to you at this stage of your life? Being right or being useful? Being purposeful is more important. So it's neither one of those, honestly. Everything is about purpose and it's about fulfilling God's purpose for my life. If I care about being right, I could be right while doing wrong. That ain't fire. I could be useful while doing wrong.

You could be wrong about being right. I could be wrong about being right. I could be useful while doing negativity and evil. I'd rather be purposeful according to God's purpose for my life, man. So sometimes people say, is it A or B is G-O-D? Mm, all right. There you have it. My man, D-1.

Hey, let's get it to a joint. What you want to hear? I mean, yeah. I mean, we might as well play the song. First of all, my new album, The Shift, is dropping next month, October 12th. Y'all can pre-order it right now, so please go pre-order it on Bank Camp, name your own price. And my new podcast, The Shift, is out right now as well, man. Please go tuning.

This podcast changing the game. Shout out to all my guests I've been having on there. I would love to get y'all on there at some point. Straight up. That being said, let's get into this joint. Gangster Remix, D1, featuring Bousie. All right. D1, we appreciate you, brother, always.

Can you send us the clean version of the record? Shut up. I'm like, why what is this? We don't want to play. It's shut up, man. It's clean. It's the Breakfast Club. It's D1.

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