The Breakfast Club - INTERVIEW: Killer Mike Talks Grammys Sweep, The Power Of Black Women, Facing Criticism, Arrest + More

Episode Date: February 14, 2024

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on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Breakfast Club. Breakfast Club. It's very, very, very, very big. You guys are changing the entire scene. The culture of our... Well, y'all came alone. They might not have the news, but, you know, they're listening to The Breakfast Club. Who the GOAT? Let's go! DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, and Charlamagne Tha God.

Y'all are like a mega force. Breakfast Club, that's how we get our days started. Good morning, USA! Tuesday! Yes, it's Tuesday. Yes, it is. What's happening? How y'all feeling? Good, good, good, good, good. I'm acting like I just ain't running here. Yeah, you just hit it at the buzzer. Literally at the buzzer. Here in New York City, New York City, New Jersey area. It's true to everybody that listens to us all around the country,

but in the New York City, New Jersey area, we had a huge snowstorm. That's right, huge snowstorm. I don't know how huge it was. It was predicted to be huge. Correct. But, you know, it just looked kind of regular to me. Looked regular. Not too crazy. They closed schools in Jersey and New York City.

Yes. Some of the schools. So if you got kids, you know, definitely check and call your school or check the emails or all that other good stuff. My kids' schools are closed. Yeah, my kids' schools are closed too. You know, driving in was disgusting. It was horrible.

My wife asked me this morning, why are you going in? Why are you just on broadcast from home? And I'm like, you know what? I don't know. I threw you the layup last night. Didn't you see the layup I threw you? Yeah, but you know, we got guests coming by after the show. We got guests here today. It's Jess's born day

and you know, Jess is just getting started here on The Breakfast Club, so she doesn't have like the equipment, the setups that we do. You know, we got studios at the house and things of that nature, so it's just like, yo, the setups that we do. You know, we got studios at the house and things of that nature. So it's just like, yo, why not come in? I tried to throw a Charlamagne at Ali last night. I said, hey, Charla.

So are you broadcasting from the crib? Because I will, too. And I like being here. I like being in the studio. I enjoy, you know, coming to talk to the people every morning and serve the people of America every morning here on this black mothership we call The Breakfast Club. That's right. Yeah, yeah. So I'm happy to be here.

All right. Well, today we have Kingsley Ben-Adir. Now, I'm sure you don't know who he is. He's an actor that plays Bob Marley in the new One Love flick. Kills it, too, by the way. A lot of people know who this is. You know why? Why?

Because I had a lot of women yesterday hitting me. Talking about Kingsley was up there. Really? Yes, because he played Malcolm X in, I can't remember the name of the movie, something in Miami. He played One Night in Miami, I believe. One Night in Miami, yep. He played Malcolm X in that.

He played Barack Obama in something. He was in Secret Invasion. He played, I can't remember the villain's name in Secret Invasion. I'm sorry, guys. I'm 45 years old. I was born in 1978. I can't remember everything. We got it.

But yeah, a lot of people know who he is. Okay. A lot of women like Kingsley. Okay. So he'll be joining us. Happy birthday, Big Jess. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, Big Jess.

Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, Big Jess. Happy birthday, Big Jess. You're one. You're two. You're three. I mean, I had a 30 to that too Right

32 y'all What's up Jess Happy birthday Good morning Well we'll let Jess settle in And we got front page news Coming back

Tess and Figaro Be joining us So don't go anywhere It's the Breakfast Club Good morning Wow I've been listening to snooze For about a year

And some change 17 times a day On this radio Right During the Breakfast Club And Jess O'Leary Just put me on The snooze For about a year and some change. 17 times a day on this radio, right? During the Breakfast Club. And Jessa Larry's just put me on the snooze. Got me looking at snooze differently. You never listen to the lyrics?

It's the lyrics. She testified about how many people she killed and all that. Yeah, she killed somebody for you and all that. But I told you, because she has a wonderful disguising voice, like, so people can't, like, understand exactly what she's saying. She's very smart, but she confessed to a lot of crime. Like a baby murderer. Yeah.

Wow. Good morning, everybody. We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get into some front page news. Just started off. Super Bowl sets TV ratings record with 123.4 million viewers. Yes. No surprise there.

Yeah. So the longest Super Bowl game also will go down as the most watched program in television history. And no surprise there. It went into overtime. You got a dynasty like the Kansas City Chiefs. You got a storied franchise like the San Francisco 49ers. You got Usher at the halftime show. You got the Taylor Swift stuff swirling around.

There's a lot of elements that doesn't surprise me at all that they was the most watched thing in history. That's right. And then you got the whole Bronx for Ice Spice. The whole Bronx for Ice Spice. No. You're acting like it's legal cable in the Bronx. Definitely. They got flying sticks and all that type of thing.

Oh, my God. Well, let's jump right into Joel Osteen. Good morning, DJ Envy. Good morning, Charlamagne. And happy birthday to Jess. Thank you, beautiful. Happy birthday, baby. Yeah, let's get into some new details about

the Sunday shooting at Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church in Houston. Let's go to NBC News for the report and I'm going to give you some more information on the other side. Police identified the shooter as 36-year-old Genesee Yvonne Moreno and say she was carrying an AR-15 with the word Palestine written on it. Police said they also found anti-Semitic writings during a recent search warrant.

We have uncovered some items. We do have some anti-Semitic writings that we have uncovered during this process. But like I said, we are 24 hours into it investigators say a dispute between mud annual and her ex-husband's family some of whom are jewish may be related to the shooting now as as he mentioned and as we talked about yesterday one of these shootings happened you know there's details constantly unfolding so uh that was the latest as far as you know what happened with the shooting but i want to give you some more details on her background, her criminal history, as well as her documented mental illness. Take a listen to this and Joe Osteen. We also have his statement as well.

Law enforcement records show the shooter had at least six prior arrests since 2005, including unlawful carrying of a weapon, which she pleaded guilty to, evading arrest and assault on a public official, which she pleaded guilty to, evading arrest and assault on a public official, which she pleaded to a lesser charge. Moreno's neighbor, who didn't want to be identified, said she filed a restraining order against her in November. Four years I've been through hell. I have reported this, reported this, reported this, and it's gone on deaf ears. Nobody should have died. Nobody should have been hurt. This should have been handled years ago.

Police adding in 2016, authorities placed Moreno under an emergency detention order. We do believe that she does have a mental health history that is documented through us and through interviews with family members. We're devastated. I mean, we've been here 65 years and have somebody shooting in your church. But, you you know we don't understand why all these things happen but

we know god's in control damn so sad yeah yeah so um we'll continue to see again they said no motive has been determined at this point uh they'll continue to look into it they're also saying they don't know if they're going to document this as a hate crime or terrorism or uh how that's going to happen also i haven't seen an update on the little boy that was there remember there was a little boy yeah her son that was her right yeah uh-huh that was with him and he was in critical condition and as of right now this moment because you know things change every hour uh i have not seen uh you know an update on him so hoping uh that he is you know recovers from that as well all right well that is front page news what are we talking next hour test yeah make sure you tap in tax season is here you may qualify for more money and i want you to know about something that's going to happen on valentine's day if you

plan on ordering door dash or if you need an uber or lyft at the airport drivers in 10 cities are saying get somebody else to do it. So I'm going to tell you all about it at the top of the hour. Oh, boy. All right. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open.

Call us up right now. 800-585-1051. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Ray, Ray, Ray. Yo, Charlamagne. Envy, what up?

Are we live? This is your time to get it off your chest. I got an indoor pool, an outdoor pool. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. We can get on the phone right now. We can tell you what it is. Are we live? Hello, who's this?

This is Ivan from Charleston, South Carolina. 843, what's happening in the low country this morning? What's up, brother? Hey, what's up? Get it off your chest. I just wanted to give y'all a call to tell Jess happy birthday. Thank you. And happy birthday to myself.

Oh, happy birthday back to you, honey. Oh, yeah, no problem. Yes, sir. Blessings to you, brother. No problem. Blessings to you in the low country this morning. Hello, who's this? Yeah, it's DeAndre.

Hey, what's up, Dre? Get it off your chest. Yeah, man, I just wanted to say, man, me and my lady, we're expecting our first baby. Oh, God, it's our baby, man. Oh, congratulations. You sound, are you happy? I mean, yeah, I'm happy, but it's a little nervousness involved with it, too. Oh, yeah, you said your first baby.

Oh, yeah. Wow. Is she due tomorrow? Yep, due tomorrow. Wow. Did you build a crib and all that yet? A lot, baby. You b. Is she due tomorrow? Yep, due tomorrow. Wow. Did you build a crib and all that yet? A lot, baby. You vaccinated and all that?

Yeah, everything's set up. Just gotta, really, just waiting, man. Really, for real. I need you to be more excited than that. I know. He sounds very enthused. He's just nervous. I'm nervous, bro.

I'm nervous. But at least you, you're being honest about it. It's okay. You'll be fine. I like his calmness, though. You know, it's like the calm before the storm. You stay focused. You know what I mean? Yeah. Because if it happens in the next You know, it's like the calm before the storm. You stay focused. You know what I mean?

Because if it happens in the next 24 hours, it's going to be a life-changing experience for you. You're never going to look at your woman or her vagina to say, Jesus. Who you calling from? I'm calling from Charlotte. Okay. 704. Yes, sir.

And can I get one more thing off of y'all, Ramon? Go ahead, brother. I got a friend that runs like a Pelicans out here, and he's in danger of losing his store. He had to start a GoFundMe. If anybody can, his GoFundMe is Help Save My Store. It's organized by Shamar Lassant. Any help, that'll be greatly appreciated. All right, brother.

Okay, no problem. You say you're trying to save the Pelicans. Save the Pelicans, yes. I guess the organization we save is the birds. It's the birds? Inflation is kind of nice. It's like a snow cone store. Oh, okay.

So not real birds? I'm sorry. I think all your attention should be on tomorrow. Words. I mean, that's fact, but this is like my best friend. One of my best friends. He's more worried about the pelicans than his baby. So is it real pelicans? I ain't really worried about the pelicans.

It's a snow cone store. No, it's a store. Oh, so you care about the snow cones. I mean, I want to help my homeboy, too, if I can. You feel me? Man, yeah, I agree with Jess. Focus on your baby. Yeah, I promise.

Focus on your queen, kid. I'm lost. They're not real pelicans? No, no, it's the snow cones. That must be the name of the store. Yeah. Pelican Snow Cone Store. So save the cones.

I felt for him when he said the pelicans. I said, oh, man, they brother do a good thing saving the birds out there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. By the way, snow cones don't need no whole stove, by the way. All he needs is a little truck or something, a little stand. You don't need a whole stove for snow cones. He's so nervous. He worried about the pelicans.

Save the pelicans. What? Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. Call us now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

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

Hello, who's this? This is Sierra from Indianapolis. Hey, Sierra. Get it off your chest. Well, today is my birthday, and I just wanted to tell myself happy birthday and shout out to Jess.

Let her know happy birthday as well. Hey, happy birthday to you both. Happy birthday, my Aquarius twin. Thank you. Well, actually, we're triplets. I have a little brother who just turned 21 today. Wow.

Wow, we got a birthday on the same day. That's what's up. Happy birthday, little brother. We are 14 years apart. Let me look up Aquarius traits for women. Damn, you are very difficult to love. Okay, thank you so much, babe.

I appreciate you calling in. Loyal. She learns from her mistakes. Distracted. Friendly. Reluctant to follow rules. Visionary. Wow, Jess.

You rule this? Humanitarian. Creative. Intellectual. reluctance to follow rules visionary wow jess humanitarian intellectual she enjoys spontaneity independent detached emotionally reserved rebellious social butterfly what happened wow yes aquarius woman traits okay living in the truth all right get it off your chest 800-585-1051. Hello. Who's this? Yo, this your boy Captain from Huntsville, Alabama. What's up, Captain?

Get it off your chest. Hey, man. Okay. Quick question. Charlemagne. Charlemagne up? Yes, sir. What's up, King?

What's up, King? How you doing, Ms. Jess Laird? Good morning. Good morning. Quick question. Top five comedians. Top five three comedians? Yeah.

Which one? Top five or top three? Top three. Quick question. Top five comedians. Top five three comedians? Yeah. Which one? Top five or top three? Top three. Top three. Cat Williams, Dave Chappelle, Chris Tucker. This is all back in the day. Oh, okay. So the question is, how come there's never a female included in there?

What? That's what you're on. Why is there never a female included in the top because you said top three you said top five I could have told you another one

me but top three that's it say happy birthday first of all say happy birthday to me oh I'm sorry happy birthday

to you thank you so much he changed to Kanye I got one woman comedian in my top five. Who is it?

Joan Rivers. What's that? Oh, Joan Rivers. Yeah, if you're doing it all the time, Joan Rivers. She definitely was funny. Like, really, really funny. Well, I say Jess Hilarious, Mona, Don't Call Me White Girl. Shout out to you, girl.

And Adele Gibbons. Hey, Adele, yeah. Wow, all the time? Mona and Jess? Okay. All right, that's what it is. Thank you, brother. Get it off your chest.

Like you had a problem with it at first. No, I'm just saying. When somebody say top five all time, you think like the older ones. But if you say what's happening now. Yeah, absolutely. Martin Lawrence. Yeah. You named a bunch of old heads too.

I did. If you would have said top five, I would have put myself in there. Okay. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. We got Jess with the mess coming up? Yes, we do. Justin Bieber was supposed to perform with... Well, he was offered to perform with Usher.

Okay. He said, nigga, no. Oh my God. No, that is wrong. We'll get to that next. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God. Tell me what. I told you he was getting a little sick. The Breakfast Club. People forgot about colds now. Yeah, maybe. It's something going around. It's just germs. It's just cold. People forget about colds. They forget about flu. They forget about chlamydia.

Like, it ain't always COVID, y'all. Okay, come on. Let's get to Jess with the message. Yeah, let's get to Jess with the message. That news is real. This is real. Alarm, Jess, arrive on the road. Jess don't do no lying.

Jess is going to bring numbers. Jess with the message. On the Breakfast Club. I know they know the distance. Keep it a secret. Usher marries longtime girlfriend in Vegas. People exclusively reported that Usher married his longtime girlfriend, Jen, after his Super Bowl halftime show. The marriage certificate shows that Usher's mom was the witness.

The wedding was at the Vegas weddings in Terrace Gazebo or whatever. And then they didn't report it to the world, but a source had said that they confirmed it to their own little team and their own people or whatever. I didn't know that they had two kids together. I knew that Usher had kids, but I didn't even know that he had this longtime girlfriend until earlier last year. So this is actually... I didn't know that either. Yeah, I didn't know that. And you wouldn't think that with his performances and all of that stuff.

It's just entertainment, Jess. Okay think that with his performances and all of that stuff it's just entertainment Jess okay that's real cute and everything but and look and there's a song on his new album

called like he's still saying that he has a side girl that he messing with y'all need to get down with the album the album gives real tea okay

Usher gonna always have a side girl somewhere so good luck Jen damn I'm just saying because hey we ain't never known

him to be lying dropping a clues bomb for just saying because we ain't never known him to be lying. Dropping a clues bomb for Usher. Yeah. We don't even know to elaborate on truth, but we know that he don't be lying.

It's just entertainment. Okay. That's cute. Okay. More on Usher. Why Justin Bieber didn't participate in Usher's halftime show.

So fans expected to see Justin Bieber on the stage during Usher's halftime show a source told page six that usher offered for justin bieber to join the performance but bieber turned it down saying that he just wasn't feeling it they elaborated there's no bad blood between usher and justin just that justin wasn't up for it uh he wasn't he just wasn't feeling it what the hell was justin bieber gonna do with usher skate i know i don't remember them having songs together

but one of the producers no me they do have songs. No, he was the one that founded Justin Bieber. I know that. I know, but songs together, collaboratively, I don't remember them having songs. But if that's his artist, that's his artist. That's not technically his artist. He just helped discover Justin Bieber. I don't need you to be in Usher's set just because the man helped discover you.

Now, if Justin came out roller skating or something, you know, okay, oh, that's Justin Bieber. I thought he was signed to Usher in school, LeBron. I thought they had a company and they did it together. I don't know. It's just for domestic. And the news is real. So it don't have to be real.

But it is. So we don't know if there was like anything, you know, going on. But I just feel like Justin is just tired, wrapped up with music anyway. Like he's just performing and anything like or anything that has to do with music i just feel like he's tired of he just wants to be left alone with it he was saying this for the past few years so it could be something deeper it could be he's depressed it could be something that he just don't want to even address or whatever but like they

said there's no bad blood between him and um and usher's all he just rich and don't feel like working how about that how about that you know i'm saying retirement is not an age it's an income and i don't remember the last time he's actually looked happy the last time that we that we the little bit of times that we've seen him seen him in the last like year and a half he doesn't look happy so prayers up for him i hope he's okay you know but um chris brown reacted to uh usher's halftime performance it was just very subtle it was real quick. It was just an emoji, a flame emoji. Some people are speculating about Usher

and Chris Brown's relationship and what it's been like since the rumors since he allegedly got into an altercation in Vegas last year. Remember, they were trying to say, oh my God, he punched Usher. And ain't nobody ever confirmed more than I or whatever.

So he posted to a story on Instagram just a flame saying okay that was fire it could have been more what y'all wanted to do put an eggplant in some lips there you go why do you have to skip straight to that like what y'all wanted to do

a flame emoji and add Usher fire I would have wanted I don't know if Usher offered want him to do? Why you always go ahead with it, though? A flame emoji and add Usher fire. I'm not gonna lie. I would have wanted, I don't know if Usher offered for him to perform with him, but I would have wanted to see New Flame with Usher and Chris Brown. That was, like, one of the nicest songs or whatever. You don't remember that? No. New Flame.

I do remember that. They give me one only you. I don't want to see that at the Super Bowl, though. Oh, why? That's not what you want to see? Nah, Super Bowl, you want to see, like, the hits. Hits. What you want to see that at the Super Bowl though. Oh, why? That's not what you want to see? Nah, Super Bowl, you want to see like the hits. But you want to see

some people? No, I didn't. I want to see lovers and friends. I know, I know. I do too. I would have been fired. That's right. Okay, but Usher can skate,

dance, and all that. I mean, Chris Brown can skate, dance, and all that. So that would have been nice to see. So that's what y'all wanted Chris Brown and Justin Bieber to do. Y'all wanted them to be skaters

in Usher's performance. He was shut up. That's what I'm getting from this. That's what y'all wanted? At least Usher to do. Y'all wanted them to be skaters in Usher's performance. He was shut up. That's what I'm getting from this. That's what y'all wanted? At least Usher and Chris got songs together. You know what I'm saying? Okay. But it's okay.

Whatever, whatever, whatever. All right. Fans react to Shaq shooting his shot at Ice Spice after the Super Bowl. What? Right. Shaq posted a picture on his Instagram with Taylor Swift, Ice Spice, and a few other people. And the caption was, and Ice Spice is so damn fine. Thanks with Taylor Swift, Ice Spice, and a few other people. And the caption was, and Ice Spice is so damn fine.

Thanks, Taylor Swift. Shaq is 51. Ice Spice is 24. Shaq's oldest son, Sharif, is also 24. And I just, I just feel like, alright Shaq, relax sometimes. If we gonna tell Shana Sharpe to check, I mean

Shana Sharpe to chill, we gotta tell Shaq to chill up to check, I mean, Shannon show up to chill, we got to tell Shannon to chill. Oh, no, I agree. It's just a little strange. Like, come on. You was in the league for about as long as Ice Spice has been alive. Yeah. And you know what you mean?

Thanks, Taylor Swift. What do you want her to do? I don't know. Is he insinuating that he wanted Taylor to put him on with Ice Spice or what? He probably met her in Taylor's suite. Taylor's section? Yeah, Taylor's suite. That's what he probably should think. Oh, okay. Oh my gosh.

But either way, Ice Spice look like his granddaughter in front of him like... No, for real. That could be his granddaughter. That could be your granddaughter, Shaq. That's how you gotta look at these things, man. You gotta think about that. How old you say he was? 54. 54-year-old. That can't be his granddaughter, guys.

Why not? He's 30 years older than him. No, he's 51. I'm sorry. Shaq is 51. Why can't he have a 24 year old granddaughter at 51? No, she just looked like Super Young in front of him. Not granddaughter. Are you crazy? So you don't know no 50 year old? A 50 year old with a 24 year old

granddaughter? All I said. I know some 58 year olds with like a 21 22 year old granddaughter. All I said was the pose made her look like. I mean, she still pose like North in blue. Shut up. You know what I'm saying? She don't have a, yeah, yeah, yeah. With the lowest tongue sticking out the side, half the tongue, you know.

By the way, that's not a young grandma. If you 58 years old, 59 years old. You said 51 with a 24-year-old granddaughter? It's possible. No. No. No. I'm not the best at math, but if you give me a minute, I can figure this out. Figure it out.

While y'all figure that out, we're going to celebrate SZA. You think about it. We have to get a 21. There you go, 21. Shut up. She's trying to do jazz. We're going to celebrate SZA right now for SOS being the first album by a black woman to spend over a year in the top 10 of Billboard's 200 charts.

That is so lit. She posted this on her Instagram. And she said, thank you and happy Black History Month. Okay. So, shout out to SZA. She's been getting, like, really, really good accolades and all that stuff for, like, the passion. She's been doing her thing. If your daughter got pregnant at, like, 13, 14.

Oh, you're not going to let this go. It's possible. If your daughter got pregnant at like 13, 14, 15, it's possible for you to be 51, 54 years old with a 21-year-old. You're still going to go with this, huh? You're still going to go with this? No, it's a possibility. Somebody out there, do the math for me. Do the ghetto math for me.

Do the ghetto math. Figure this out. Okay, how can you be a 54-year-old granddaddy? 51! 51-year-old granddaddy with a 24-year-old granddaughter. Come on, somebody figure it out for me. It can happen. I just don't know how. And that is Jess with the Nets. Thank you, Jess. No problem. When we come

back, we got front page news and then Kingsley Benadier will be joining us. Them girls love him. Ladies love this man. Who, Kingsley? Yeah, Kingsley Benadier. They be like, hey, big head, but it be true because he got a big ass head. No, that was you. You said that. Yeah, you definitely said it like three times. He was all into his head. He was like, man, your head big.

Like, what size is your head? Like, what? You asked him what size his head was. That never happened. He ain't even been here yet, Jeff. I'm lying. We know he's here before. It's the Breakfast Club.

Come on in. You're checking out the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess Hilarious. Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get into some front page news.

What up, Tess? Good morning, DJ Envy. Good Good morning and happy birthday to Jess Hilarious and Charlamagne Tha Guy. Now let's jump right into these tax refunds. Yeah before I get to this you know Evie you love your free burger days. You know you like to pull up when McDonald's is giving free burgers. I wanted everybody to know today is National Pancake Day. So IHOP is offering free pancakes today and participating locations from 7 a.m to 7 p.m now the reason why i'm saying this is because it's also paired with their month-long fundraising campaign to fight food insecurity so if you go in and get your free stack your three stack make sure you donate a dollar every dollar you donate provides 10 meals for people facing hunger so it's your full insecurity yes you know like to help

people with food that's what they call it. You know, like to help people with food. That's what they call it now. You know, help people who are hungry basically. Oh, my son's going to be happy. He love him some pancakes. He love a lot. Yes. So thank you. You pulling up today? You think you're going to pull up to tell my mother to take them? I'm not going there. But I'm going to tell my mother to take them. Imagine Jess standing in line for

three pancakes. My ass no. Hey, a deal is a deal. Okay, I don't care what y'all say. Ain't nothing wrong with that. Three pancakes for free. It'd no. Hey, a deal is a deal. Yeah, that's right. What y'all say? Ain't nothing wrong with that. Three pancakes for free? It'd be no shame waiting in a long line to get you a little burger.

It'd be tricking you. You get there and you gotta download the app and you gotta order it on the app and it's just too much. Just give me my burgers. A rewards program. A rewards program.

Just give me my pancakes. I'm sure you gotta do the same with IHOP. I'm sure you gotta fill something up. You gotta do something. Well, if y'all go in, make sure y'all donate a dollar. But in more money news, I wanted folks to know about this because this is important. It's tax season.

Let's listen to Atlanta Fox 5 for the report on how you may get a larger refund. Check it out. Last year, we had some big numbers. $3,200 was the average refund from last year. Whether you get the same or more really depends upon how your income did over the last 12 months. If you saw a substantial raise in your paycheck, because a lot of people did, you'll probably get about the same. If your income stayed the same or only went up a little bit, then you actually could expect a higher refund because two things happen.

Number one is they adjusted up the standard deduction. They gave you more of those free deductions. And every year they adjust the tax tables for inflation. So if you're earning more, 7% or so, you're going to pay about the same amount. But if your income stayed about the same, expect a bigger refund this year. Tax refunds? What are those? Right. What is that? What are those? God bless everybody that's getting one. I hope

it's as big as the Super Bowl. I have no idea what a tax refund is. I haven't seen one since before my son was born. But I would say this is a big deal. You know, the IRS is expecting 128.7 million individual tax returns this year you know this is a big deal you know people be all of a sudden you know

getting back together with old loves you know waiting on their tax return I'm trying to get people you know I go just come around saying they kids yeah exactly family albums and all of it so this is important probably for a lot of our listeners so it will be a difference of about three to four hundred dollars increase and i want to do the story guys again because inflation you know we talk so much about inflation inflation inflation and so this is one of those way one of the things that they're showing that the irs has recognized that there's been inflation and this is kind of a way to make it even for those who are receiving a tax return yeah i have no problem with paying. I have a problem with not knowing where my tax dollars are going.

I wish that we individually could specifically say where we want our tax money to go. I want it to go to this initiative. I want it to go to this community program. If I knew exactly where my tax dollars were going, I would have no problem paying it. This money would just be disappearing. It's let me get that let me get that you don't know who that's going to I'm not with you I don't want to pay taxes

money I would rather not pay at all I think you know being a lot being that we're black I think you know that should be you know our former reparations if you you know, that should be, you know, our form of reparations. If you make over a certain amount of money, you shouldn't have to pay taxes. Oh, wow. I just feel all black people shouldn't have to pay taxes. Yeah, I'm with you. All black people. No, no, no, no, no, no.

If you make over a certain amount of money, you shouldn't have to pay taxes. If you don't make a certain amount of money, then you should be getting some form of reparations. You should be actually getting a check. If you make a certain amount of money, you shouldn't have to pay taxes. I'm with you. Charlemagne for president. Let's go.

I'm the same. I'm going. Yeah. Well, if you guys are interested in following that type of movement, go on Twitter and hashtag cut the check so people are actually advocating for that, Charlemagne. It's a great idea.

Maybe they'll listen. Now, some other stuff that people may need to be listening is Uber. Now, this is important because Valentine's Day, a lot of people may be ordering Door listening is uber now if you are this is important because valentine's day a lot of people may be ordering door dash you may be flying in uh to an airport i want to let you know uber lyft and door dash drivers plan to strike on valentine's day uh to talk about their lower pay and unsafe work conditions rideshare drivers united an independent union said that lyft and uber drivers will turn off their apps to protest the significant decrease in pay that they felt in the winter now the justice for app workers

coalition which represents more than 100 000 drivers issued a statement that we're sick of working 80 hours a week just to make ends meet being constantly scared for our safety and worrying about being deactivated with one click of a button the group says its members will not be taking rides to and from the airports in 10 cities on Valentine's Day. Here it is. Austin, Chicago, Hartford, Miami, Newark, Orlando, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Providence, and Tampa.

So if you're flying in, you usually take a lift. They say get somebody else to do it. Now DoorDash, they haven't said that they're looking at any particular cities, but they are included in this report as well. So if you're ordering food, you might be stuck like Chuck. You need a ride.

You better get somebody else. And Uber has downplayed this and said that they tried this protest before. And so they said basically, do you drivers? Because it didn't make a difference with us. They pretty much blew it off. But Lyft has said, yeah said do you we don't care they said we did alright

when y'all tried this last year but Lyft did say in an effort to address pay concerns they did promise

drivers will receive at least 70% of their money so what you guys think you think everybody should turn off the app

or make a bigger statement or what I mean Lyft is high as hell like all of that stuff is high like you know what I mean

to get around New York because I don't want to drive like I'll pay like $80 I mean, Lyft is high as hell. Like, all of that stuff is high. Both of them is high. Like, you know what I mean? To get around New York, because I don't want to drive. Like, I'll pay like $80 to go down the street. Like, what do you mean? Yeah, so this is what Lyft. I do understand. They don't get. And then I talk to a lot of Lyft drivers, too.

And they say no, that they don't really get a lot of their money. A lot of the. Everybody says that, yep. Yeah, I do notice that. What they don't do, another driver will. You know what I mean? but i do encourage the protest if they feel like they're not making no money but today is the day that people are going to be at home cooking anyway yeah restaurants yeah but sometimes people be ordered but sometimes people be ordered door dash pretending that they made the door that's the big thing on valentine's day though you don't think i was you know i was thinking about i was thinking about do people get snowed in on purpose

like we always have these convos about getting flued out, but when it snows, or it's supposed to be a terrible snowstorm somewhere, do you go and get snowed in on purpose with people? Yeah. Yeah, I used to like getting snowed in, especially if it was somebody I like. Really? Very much.

So what do you do? Do you act like you can't get a ride home? All the time. Like, oh my God, now what am I going to do? You know? I hope they say, no, just stay here. It's supposed it's supposed to be yeah oh yeah i ain't got hope now sometimes if you ugly you get stuck up to my house they like oh no i'm gonna shovel i'm gonna help you get out of here

i'm to drive you. Go wherever you want. There's still cabs and taxis out here for sure. I got all-wheel drive. I'll drive you home. Damn. All right. No, Jess, you need to upload that skit. Jess actually has a skit on pretending to be asleep.

I saw that skit you did. Oh, girl, yeah. When they try to sing home, and Jess pretends to be asleep. And they'll wake you up like, yeah, what you doing? You got to go. You got to go now. All right. Well, that is front page news. Thank you, what you doing? You gotta go. You gotta go now. All right. Well, that is front page news.

Thank you, Tiz. All right, peace. Make sure you follow at TeslaFiguro on all social media platforms and subscribe to the Scrape Shot No Chaser podcast on the Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network. All right. Now, when we come back, Kingsley Ben-Adir will be joining us. He plays Bob Marley in the new flick, One Love, and we're going to chop it up with him when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club.

Good morning. Thank you, Charlemagne, for not calling the brother dead. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlemagne the guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Man.

Kingsley Ben-Adir. Did I say that right? Yes, sir. Yes. He's playing Bob Marley in the new movie bob molly one love story which comes out valentine's day welcome nice to be here where your locks at where they're gone they're in a they're in a cupboard somewhere in the movie they took them off put them in a box okay locked them up whoever did that did a great job absolutely usually you see people with dreadlocks and they

look so stupid the fake dreadlocks morris morris Carla, man, they were prepping that from the same time when I started prepping. So it was like Morris is a dread specialist. And, you know, it's not even just the hair he did for me. All them boys who came from Jamaica, they're all Rasta. So he took out their dreads, you know, by hand. And he put them in like sacred boxes, stored them, and then re-did their, put new dreads in their hair to like suit the characters from the time. And then when the film was done,

he got their dreads and he put them back in. But for a lot of them, it was really emotional. And they was doing it for Bob because they love Bob and they're all connected to Bob, you know. A lot of them, a lot of the guys who were playing the band members are the children of the actual band members so they're all rust and they took out their hair for the film and then they put it back it was a lot you know it was um we mean took the hair out like they got it what do you

mean took it out so like Sheldon came with his own dreads real real hair real dread yeah yeah and then Morris took them out cut them out like picked them out and left hair there and then re-put dreads in and then at the end of the film he's taken out them dreads and then put their

original dreads back in so yeah the whole dreads thing was like that was one of the first conversations I had with Ziggy it was like yo

authenticity of of how Bob speaks you know has to be at the forefront of this. I can't get involved. And he was the same, you know. And also the hair. I was like, I ain't got nothing to do with it. But just make sure that if you need to put 10 million into the hair, then that's what we need to do. Absolutely.

So, you know, it was, yeah, the hair and the bob talk was tough. I'm a little slow, Kingsley. How the hell do you put the hair back in? I don't know. How do you take it out? I ain't got a clue. It's all types of YouTube tutorials on how to put some. We are not going to say it.

We're going to roll back like regular hair? How he do his hair. Because they would have to cut it out. He'd have to cut it out and then sew it back in? No, no, no, no. So locks, you'd comb them out. Yeah. Like you can comb them out. And they no so locks you you'd comb them out yeah like you can

comb it yeah you comb them out and then you people make the locks that i had last week last week the girl made them without a real hair these are faux locks so these from amazon like okay but you know i didn't know i didn't know it was a thing and i met them once their new hair had been put in so i only knew them with that hair. I only realized when I see them after that they had different dreads. But yeah, it was a whole, I don't know how we found him, Morris. Because he's like, you know, he's a one of a kind, you know, that was in the industry. You know, he came and he, and then he ended up just taking care of a lot of stuff.

You know, he was on set with us every day. I know he's working with Lashana now on all of our work. Well, salute to Morris. The British accent isn't that much different from the Jamaican accent, though, now that I'm hearing you talk right now. Is it because he spent so much time? I don't know.

I disagree. I feel like the black community in London, anyway, was a huge Caribbean culture. And I feel like a lot of Jamaican dialect has seeped into London culture. So, you know, the way we grew up talking was half Cockney, half Jamaican. That's kind of what the slang is in the UK. But the Patois really, for me, is a different language. You know, we could be in here with two guys from jamaica who have like

from somewhere i don't know and they could talk for five ten minutes and we wouldn't have a clue what they're saying yes and i found myself in that situation a bunch of times and i was like well this is a whole thing this is not something where i can just like take nine months and learn jamaican it just was never going to be one of those ones. So we had a whole operation in place made by Frederick Cassidy. And so it really did. I took months to kind of translate everything Bob was saying. So they put money and time into this film. Yeah, I was misinterpreting things Bob was saying.

Do you know what I mean? Misinterpreting what? I was misinterpreting things he was saying. I wasn't just not understanding. There was things that I thought I understood and then actually I get a Jamaican to come round to my house and help me translate and he's going, no, no, no, he's saying. I wasn't just not understanding. There was things that I thought I understood. And then actually, I get a Jamaican to come around to my house and help me translate. And he's going, no, no, no.

He's saying something else. Give us an example. In our farm where... Bob would say this thing when he's saying, in our farm where... In our farm where... You know, and he's saying,

in a form where... So it was just a connecting sentence. But little things like that in the middle of conversations throw you, you know? And like... In a form where... I mean, in a form where, you know and like i mean in a in a form where you know it's just like it's just a an expression that he and bob talked the way that bob

talked you know i mean so it's i still don't know what that meaning you said it three times in a form where yeah so would it be like from a standpoint of exactly right exactly and i was like without jamaicans there's no way that I was going to be able to translate something. I mean, and the list goes on. I mean, I had hundreds of pages of Bob talk where I'm like, I don't know what I don't know what he's saying. So would you say that was the most complicated part of the role? Yeah, for sure. For sure.

Obviously, the music I'm starting from scratch. But with the music, I was always like, I just get as far as I can get to you know And then you can do things with the camera and there's gonna be a lot of support there But I guess with the with the patois there was a moment where I thought oh Let me see how far I can get with this and then a few months in I was I was emailing tough Gong And we need a lot of help like I'm not gonna be able to just come in and willy-nilly patois. It's not one of them things there. And I'm like, just because I've grown up with Jamaicans,

it don't mean anything really. Like, the language. You could spend 10 years trying to prep Bob and still have a way to go. And Bob's coming from, he was born in the country, grew up in Trenchtown, and then traveled. So there's the patois, but then there's how Bob talked. And how Bob talked. no one talked like him. So, yeah, it was a journey, but there wasn't a day on set

where I wasn't surrounded by people who knew. So I felt good, like we were never going to move on unless it was right. And that was the one thing I felt like I can fully take care of. I can't take care of looking exactly like bob bob's five seven i'm six two you know there's so many physical differences between us and he's a genius he's a musical genius but his voice and how he spoke and the authenticity of that as like the whole culture's in the way that bob talks like the way that he speaks has to be reflected there's no

there can be no dumbing down of it like there's no whitewashing it you know and then let's let's let's do it how bob talks and then afterwards when you use a lot in post-production you can figure out how much people understand and how much they don't what made you audition for this at first i thought at first i was i thought there must have been a mistake of some sort you know just one of them auditions where i'm like i'm mixed so but it reached out to you i guess everyone mixed is auditioning for this and i was silly and so i'm mixed so but it reached out to you i guess everyone mixed is auditioning for this and i was silly and so i must have passed on it just thinking it was like a general you know hundreds of us doing it and then it just started coming back that the marley family

were involved which i didn't know and then i heard that ray had done king richard and i saw an early cut of it and i was like oh if the family are involved in this there's nothing to lose you know let me let me throw something out there and then at least we can have a conversation if they want but nothing to lose and then i auditioned and ziggy wanted to meet me so really it was it was really spending time with the family and understanding that they wanted to do a kind of tribute to their dad you know it was a kind of love letter to their dad and they wanted to share with the fans a side to bob that people don't necessarily know which is that he was a human being you know which was that he was a guy who went through a lot and

man struggled and so yeah i think they talk about his revolution a lot but you don't get to see what fueled him being a revolutionary yeah yeah no and that at this time with a film set like he was just going for a lot you know he had the weight of the world on his shoulders and i think yeah it was really the family like the family's involvement and an understanding that authenticity was really most important for them and for the studio and for me so you know i was just being in service to them all right we got more with kingsley benedet when we come back he's playing bob marley in the one love movie it comes out this valentine's day keep it locked mr breakfast club good morning what up y'all it's dj envy jess hilarious charlamagne the guy we are I'm back. He's playing Bob Marley in the One Love movie. It comes out this Valentine's Day. Keep it locked. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

What up, y'all? It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Kingsley Ben-Adair, who plays Bob Marley in the One Love flick. Charlamagne. The kids weren't upset about you playing the father? Like, none of them wanted to play the role? No.

They picked you. No. I think Skip auditioned to play the younger bob and it didn't work out it's the thing about casting you know so many stories and people's feelings you know get hurt and stuff but when you're on the inside you're like oh it's not the conspiracy that everyone thinks oh ziggy and i don't want to play their dad and they're older you got they needed to find someone to play bob between 33 and 36 years old that's pretty you know it can be tricky and so but no i don't i don't i don't know ziggy ziggy and the family they they approved it and so

i was like all right cool these lot of use lot that's what you lot want then you know i'm here to help did you ever want to quit because you said it was difficult with the hair difficult with the patois did you ever say you know what maybe the same for me yeah i did at what point very close to filming but then i was like if i pull out of this you know it's not just me it's all the money that's gone into pre-production and it's like if you want to work again i wouldn't advise doing that i did have i did have a moment a couple of weeks before we started i was just like boy a lot of people like there's a mountain to climb you know and all of the music and and the stems were coming in and songs were changing and i was like yeah just one day at a time it's just one day at a time and and really really what happened was we got to set and neville garrick's there who's bob's like close close friend who was with bob the whole time bob

was creating exodus and touring exodus neville was with him Neville was in the room with Bob writing down the songs when Bob was composing them and Neville was on stage all of them concerts and Neville was with me every day on set so I felt like if Neville didn't like something he's gonna tell me straight and he did a lot of times yeah so I just always felt if something's not right we've got the time to like stop and figure it out and really it's only this is just a tribute to Bob to try and find a little bit of his spirit and his essence. I feel like everyone involved knows that you can't copy Bob and you can't be Bob.

He's kind of too big in a way. So it was just, there was an understanding that this is just an interpretation of his vulnerability and his feeling and what, some of what he might've been going through at that time. And you know, just to celebrate him a little bit. me tell you something i'm happy that this movie is coming out on valentine's day because it's not just a story about bob it's a love story

between bob and rita man like that's what i liked about it how did you feel about that yeah i didn't really know i mean that sort of evolved as we were shooting yeah um lashana and i we were working seven months leading up to filming and i guess that's the thing with films you shoot three and a half four hours and then they cut it down to two so all the things that stay in and don't stay in and how they kind of tweak it and and kind of make it is you know it's over to them after you after you wrap but it's a it's a love story between them and but more that kind of unconditional love when you've known someone for that long and you've shared all that experience and the love that is expressed when you're not talking you know and when there's no words but yeah it is that we went to bob only growing up

as a kid did you know all the music and know everything about him was a lot of this you learned as filming like i learned everything about bob for the first time really i felt i felt like i knew him just because i've always known him. Known the music. I don't even know when I, I don't even know when I really first heard Bob because Bob's just always been in the house and Notting Hill Carnival

was a big thing growing up and I was getting Carnival from when I was like three, three, four years old. But once I started checking in, I was like, well, I really don't know anything about this guy

other than that I knew he's half white, you know, like he's mixed. That was it. Yeah. Like's half white you know like he's mixed that was it yeah like I didn't really understand like he's really from the ghetto like he really grew up in trench town and yeah there's a lot of sides to Bob so I say I found out everything for the first time through his friends and for his family I spent a lot of time with people who grew up with Bob before he was famous which was some of my most interesting conversations you know lego i spent time with him on orange street and in his studio just talking

about the old town but watching them remember bob like watching them remember him with such fondness and sadness and love you know it's really just trying to get the information i'm trying to get from them is like what was bob like when he was on his own what was bob like when he was like feeling down like what was bob like when he was having a rough day? The idea of him as an icon and all of that, they're the soundbites everyone wants to tell you. They want to tell you all the fun bits that you've seen and you've seen them in the documentary saying it.

But trying to understand his humanity a little bit. So you can lock into the role. Yeah, just so I can connect him as a human being and not like a hero. That's a given. Did you do all of the singing and the movie? I sung everything on set. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It was never the plan for me to sing in the film. We were always going to use Bob's stems because people want to listen to Bob. They don't want to listen to me. Right. And no one can sing like Bob. You can't sing like Bob because he's singing from such, it's so rough. But it's so from here It's actually his commitment to what he's saying that creates that energy as well as his tone and all of those things

So you can't really copy it as beautifully as all his sons can sing No one can actually get his match. So and he was an ordained messenger. Like I feel like he was divinely Appointed to be a messenger that's what his name meant right like nest of the messenger yeah and bob felt like he was in service you know he was in service to his majesty you know so he's singing for his life in a way you know it's it's about yeah it's about spreading the message and all of his songs you know when you clock all it when i started translating the lyrics of all of his songs i was like bro god is really in all of this absolutely all of his music jamming like all of his songs, I was like, bro, God is really in all of this.

Absolutely. All of his music, jamming, like all of them songs, he's talking about God, you know. It's really fascinating. But yeah, I sung everything because emotionally speaking, in the face, if you're not singing, I don't think, I didn't feel like I could pretend. But also that Bob woke up every day and wrote songs, I felt was like if i was playing a footballer and i never kicked the ball so i just wanted to learn to just understand what the feeling with the instrument is and the feeling of it you know and then in the room we did some acoustic stuff and

ziggy was supposed to come and dub it and he left my voice so there's a bit of me singing in the film which was never planned but i got i had months of singing lessons so i'm glad i was gonna ask you what level of expertise was your voice on before not great okay yeah at least you can admit that yeah no no no not great at all not great at all you gotta look after your instrument man those singers they gotta look after their voices you know it's like steaming and all of that stuff these past couple years you played like different characters though you you played uh brock obama malcolm x in one night in miami basketball canon a barbie movie basketball canon yeah how is that mentally to switch like that i don't find i don't find the switch in i feel like a problem no yeah for me

it's just more it's a it's a preparation thing and then five minutes before action i just need to concentrate and make sure I've done my homework and I know what I'm doing. Do you know what I mean? I don't feel... I think as well, just coming up as a working actor, you have to be ready

when you need to be ready. So there's not that luxury of I'm doing this role and now I've got six months to prepare on my own. It's like someone's dropped out. You've got two weeks to prep one night in Miami.

So you just have to get ready. You know, it's like you finish Secret Invasion on the 12th of March. You're starting Barbie on Monday. So you just, you know what I mean? You got to stay in Asia too. Thank you, bro. Yeah. Yeah, I enjoyed that.

I enjoyed playing that role because the reason why I took it, it wasn't because the writing was great at all. It has nothing to do with the writing. They just sent me two little teaser scenes one with samuel at the end and one with ben mendelsohn and i was like raw this guy really wants everyone to burn you know there's no i feel like he's gone in his mind he's gone like power hungry power hungry but also just like he's only gonna feel i don't think he feels anything other than when he sees other people experiencing the pain that he feels subconsciously or not so like he only feels alive when i see you in as much pain as i feel in myself and i was like i don't i've never been offered

that kind of role so i just have to take it regardless of what show it is or what it's in. But it's fun. It's fun to play that because you just got a bag of secrets, bag of dark secrets. All right, well, don't move. We got more with Kingsley Ben-Adair. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. We got with DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy.

We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Kingsley Ben-Adair. Charlamagne. What about the backlash that comes with being a British actor, getting to play american icons like president obama like malcolm mack even playing you know a jamaican icon like bob molly people do not like that people feel like y'all stealing all the roles yeah yeah i know i hear it again i feel like when you each casting situation is different so when it comes to opportunity the first question is, has everyone had an opportunity to audition? Has everyone who should had an opportunity to put their foot in the door where they get to put them best self forward? And where it just depends on the casting is that

each situation is different. So some people can't get their first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth choice, all busy, not available. Se seventh choice would be amazing he's not finishing the job till february when these films go when they get that green light there's a moment where they're trying to make it now they're not waiting for anyone so it's really becomes about availability when they came to me with bob i was like have you have you been on a worldwide search yes we have go on another one really make sure you know when it. Go on another one. Really make sure, you know, when it came. Why would you say that? Like, make sure it's not me.

Well, yeah, because you want to make sure you want to make sure. Yeah, exactly. You want to make sure I'm the best person. I'm not because I've been in that situation before. I couldn't get an audition for any of those London things like Kid O'Hood or Top Boy or any of that. The casting directors at home, they would never see me for that role because they see me like the Bridgerton guy. Whereas I'm like, no, no, no. That's how I grew up.

I just went to a drama school that knocked my accent out of me for eight years and I've just had to try and find it back. Some bullshit English institution that told us that we couldn't talk the way that we were supposed to talk. I think to talk about this as a whole becomes really difficult. I can to talk about this as a whole becomes really difficult.

I can only talk for the specific examples of the castings that I've been in. And I'll tell you straight, Andre Holland dropped out of One Night in Miami and Regina had two weeks to cast it. And then there was three of us. And then the guy who I was up against, he didn't have the experience to hold the film

in the way that I did because of his age. He would have been a 27-year-old Malcolm and it didn't make sense. They did not want to put me in that role. It was just because the film is about to go, they need to get it going, you know? And really, I can talk... Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired?

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is for the page turners, for those who listen to audiobooks while commuting or running errands, for those who find themselves seeking solace, wisdom, and refuge between the chapters. From thought-provoking novels to powerful poetry, we'll explore the stories that shape our culture. Together, we'll dissect classics and contemporary works while uncovering the stories of the brilliant writers behind them. Blacklit is here to amplify the voices of black writers and to bring their words to life. Listen to Blacklit on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Bob, and I can talk for that and that's it my i just gotta make sure that when i'm going in for something that my thing is who who have you seen

why are you coming to me you know and i think the family came to me because our first conversation was about the emotional vulnerability of bob that's it that's it no mimicry no impersonation no trying to like be him or copy him this is a this is a this is a love letter to your father so i'm gonna try and tap into his feeling a little bit and that's it just a little bit of his essence and i'm done it's okay to say you good it's okay to say i'm better than everybody else it's okay to say i get these roles because i'm a great i don't think that's true i don't think that's true okay i like i don't think that's true i just don't i don't think that's true i don't think that's true okay i like i don't think that's true i just don't i don't i don't well at least i don't see it like that um because you're only as good as the

work you put in on the day you're you're two seconds away from being really really bad if you switch off and that's the way that i go at everything is starting again you know it's not like i went into barbie with the same energy i went into Bob because it's about the work and it's about the craft that's just me maybe I need to chill out a little bit but I feel like a critic of yourself like you could seem to be even like you know hard on yourself about things you ever give yourself bad reviews yeah yeah no I'm learning I'm learning to be much kinder okay because it's you know you can just get tiring for yourself but yeah yeah I know I feel like it's the work and it's the experience you know for because it's, you know, it can just get tiring for yourself. But yeah, I know.

I feel like it's the work and it's the experience, you know, for me, it's about the experience of the shoot. The experience of making Bob was two years getting to know him with his friends and family before filming. Yeah. And even up until now, just spending time with the people who love him and knew him. Well, you did the work. Yeah.

So like, what a joy you know like regardless of the film and whatever happens with it for me that's two years of my life that's my life with them you know and i'll cherish that two years for me as well with work it's as much about the experience as well it's like when i see that secret invasion thing i was like yo this is 10 days with samuel jackson on set i'm taking the job just for that. Because I just want to be around him for 10 days. And it ended up being three, four months. And then I get to learn from him. What did he teach you?

What was the lesson that he taught you? Pro. Great cursor, too. Fantastic cursor. Loves cursing. And funny. And funny. But when he's on the floor, when we started doing some of those scenes,

when he gets excited and wants to turn it on it becomes really exciting because you're like sam can do it you know he's one of the greats i don't know i don't know how to summarize or word what i got from him but it was definitely like you know i really really enjoyed being around him and ben mendelsohn as well those two were the reasons why i took the job i was like i'm definitely gonna be able To learn something From these guys You know And Sam's very kind Like very very kind He's got so much time For like

Young people around He has a heightened Awareness of like I mean he's been famous For how long man He can't go anywhere But he still makes the time For everyone

Still And he Sam likes to do one take Or two takes You know one and done Sometimes I need eight or nine And he's there He's there You take as much time As you know, one and done. Sometimes I need eight or nine and he's there. He's there.

You take as much time as you need. I'm right here. And it'd be on his feet every time. And I love that because a lot of actors will go back to their trailer. They go home and they'll get their stand in to come in and act with you. Sam did not leave me once. Very patient. Yeah.

So I really appreciated that. And just funny. Funny. Did Ziggy really remember a lot of stuff because he was young then like like the scene i'm thinking about in particular was the shooting that happened the drive-by he remembered that yeah ziggy's got memories yeah ziggy's got memories and that bit of the airport at the end somehow when his dad come back i didn't understand that ziggy ziggy made it to the airport and no one knew how he got there at like nine years old. He heard his dad was coming and he found himself like...

Running in the crowd. Running in the crowd. And no one knows how he got there. He can't remember how he got there, but he was there. So it was about getting that moment in. And that really happened? Like Bob saw him in the... Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I believe so. That's why a lot of my conversations with Neville and with Tyrone and with Lego, like the guys who are Bob's age who remembering him like I would remember my pal you know they were really the stories about Bob's personality and it's feeling around the time you know all my information came through them as it related to that you read all the books and then you slide isn't and you can find in these books

really apart from timelines you know mmm butgo and and lenny lenny dread there's a guy called lenny dread who came over from st kitts when he was like 16 17 and he camped outside bob's mom's house in miami because he had a vision that he wanted to work for bob one day so he just went and stayed outside the house for weeks and bob was on tour and then bob came back one day and he told Bob that he had a dream that he wanted to work for. A man still works in the house today. Wow. And I spent three hours with him in Bob's mum house and he took me into, you know, Bob's room at the time. I swear they would have had all family birthdays and everything like that.

And I had a four hour conversation with him where he was telling me like what Bob was like and his energy. And I'd be wanting and then those were the things that I think i absorbed in some way you know from from those guys yeah lenny dread and desi and lego was great what about when uh bob was dealing with you know the cancer that ultimately took his life in the movie it's played in like a really nonchalant way you know you was telling the movie yo it's a real biopic. People don't know the story of Jeff, though. What are you talking about? Bob Marley's the icon. Everybody know around the world.

No, you don't know the story of Jeff. I don't. You don't know much. It's Bob Marley. Come on. Yeah, I don't think that. I don't give too much away because everybody knows that. But no, the movie is really good, man. I think you did a great job as Bob. I don't have anything I don't give too much away because everybody. Thank you. But no, the movie is really good, man. I think you did a great, great job as Bob. I don't have anything to reference it to.

You know what I mean? Because I didn't grow up in the era of Bob Marley. Yeah, no, no. I feel like you kept the essence you captured for sure. Thank you, bro. I appreciate it. I appreciate it. And everybody go out and check it out.

It comes out this Valentine's Day. A perfect Valentine's Day thing. It is. It's a love story, man. Between Rita and Bob. It really, it really is Kingsley we appreciate you for joining us

I'm so nice to be here man I'm a big fan of this show I've been watching you on YouTube all the time so I'm happy to be here thank you bro thank you guys it's the Breakfast Club

good morning nice alright well let's get to Just With The Mess Mike Epps and Shannon Sharp. All right. So during a recent interview, well, no, during a recent stand up, Mike Epps told some jokes about Shannon Sharp claiming that he asked Mike to be on Club Shay Shay. Play number one. Shannon Sharp called me trying to do an interview

i said no my dear i ain't doing no so you can sit across from me and look at my so yeah shannon sharp reacted to the footage of the stand-up on an episode of nightcap say my name again and i'm gonna put this i'm and i'm gonna release the dms because you're lying yeah you said i reached out to you to come on club shea shea and you a mofo lie now when i see you yeah i'm gonna see you i'm gonna see if you're about now mike f shared a video in response to Shannon Sharp's reaction. Now, wait a minute, wait a minute. Now, I know Shea Shea.

I don't know what growing up. Got a babe, babe, Shea Shea. But I know this grown man is not mad at me. So many people talk crazy about you. They was on Saturday Night Live talking about you, imitating you. But this just plays to, like, the fact. Remember you just told me last week, yo, you know, that's what you know they exaggerate yeah probably exaggerate yeah yeah but don't just lie on people because remember i told you i had a problem with a comedian line

on me you know what i'm saying on on a show you know what i'm saying i i just what am i lying about what was the lie that he asked him to be on the show. Like, he said that Shannon Sharp had asked him to be on the show. Okay. But if we've been following this, you know what I'm saying? We've been... I mean, when Cat Williams sat down with Shannon Sharp, Mike Epps, he wanted attention from that. You know what I mean?

Number four. This is what he said first. I did get a little jealous, man. Cat broke the internet and didn't say my name good or bad i need to press two say something about me in there man say something bad about me i don't care i got a special coming out i need to press you know and even though you know he say everything like he joking he was dead ass serious he did he wanted some attention on it.

And then other things that he just been saying. So, of course, he takes to the stage because Mike puts everything on the stage as a comedian should. But he just lied. People just got a problem with you lying on their name. And I understand the same thing. You know, you don't lie. Now, Shannon Sharpe said he could care less about all the gay things he said so that's been a rumor for the longest time whatever he yo he called he called that nigga madia i mean he said yo i ain't gonna sit up on that couch he asked

i just don't understand what all these grown-ass people doing like i don't need a shea shea versus day-day versus like and you know if you're in and that's that's the energy shannon gonna have to expect when you having those kind of conversations When you're having those kind of conversations When you're having those kind of conversations And it's stirring up this kind of controversy And you're giving your input a little bit in some of these conversations People are going to start coming at you People are going to clap back

That's just the game And they didn't hear what you said But keep it moving Yeah, okay Well, that's good But last night, late last night shannon sharp he did take to uh x which is what formerly known as twitter and and he said that they actually had a conversation and that they're going to have a deeper conversation because they're expected to

see each other at all-star week or whatever yep yep yep so they're that's coming up soon what mike epps is probably still pissed about is Shannon Sharp didn't say alright just come on my show and let's talk about it damn he did all that still ain't get on the show but they're gonna have

a conversation about it and I'm glad they spoke because it was going a little too far it was it was no more Mike Epps said I don't fight no more

if you know what I mean I don't fight you know it was gonna go there it's too much and All Stars in Indianapolis it's in Indianapolis and that is that's what mike said yes like mike didn't build a whole block there king of that place first of all but why everybody

acting like they 19 we grown and and and that's why i shout out the uh ocho single man he he definitely ocho was on there like trying to calm it down he was like little scrappy dude like yeah yeah i i don't know where you're going with this, but I'm with you. Like, he was being so funny. He was trying to make it funny out of you. He was trying to make it funny out of you. And trying to calm Shannon down. But Shannon was dead ass serious.

He was not with none of that. You know what I mean? Listen, man, our bones hurt when it rains. When you get to a certain age. Okay? They don't need to be having these issues whatsoever. Especially those big ones. Them big men.

That's what I'm telling you. And I think a lot of this has to do with social media. It's like being in high school. It's like you and a person might be having a conversation. Somebody go, oh, you want to let them talk to you like that? And that's the comments. They the commentators. Exactly.

Exactly. And not for nothing, Unc is pretty big. I ain't fighting Unc even. He is. I ain't fighting Unc. He is. No, I'm not. I don't care how old you are.

I'm not. But like Mike said, pew, pew, ain't no way. The conversation shouldn't even have got there. It shouldn't have got there. It shouldn't have. It shouldn't have. you how old you are i'm not like so like but like mike said it ain't no way the conversation shouldn't even have got it but you gotta understand when yeah when you're in a limelight like that you have a podcast as big as that so people want to talk about you but people still shouldn't lie that's my thing too tyrese blames breakup with zelly on songs about his ex tyrese is promoting his album beautiful pain which he was up here a couple months ago promoting and um what i found interesting was on a super bowl night he had posted this uh this trailer that he has um

and i think like he made it himself but he had posted it and um that was the first mistake by the way my lawyers my managers everybody's pissed i just released my double album today, but it's only available for 10 hours. 50 Cent, Cat Williams, Kanye, forgive me. I used you for clickbait. Watch the trailer. I actually got married to do it for the rest of my life. One day I woke up. Okay, so that's just a little snippet of the trailer.

But he posted it and then he deleted it. I want to delete it too. Yeah, but I think what it was is what he said. My team, everybody's mad at me for posting it. And I don't even think he had to apologize. Or he realized it's Super Bowl Sunday and nobody cares. Yeah, nobody cares. You know what I mean?

But even his team, his team got to care about him. So they just was probably like, yo, take that down. Nobody, like, no, come on. But it did still reach blogs the next day. He reposted it or whatever. Or he probably sent it to blogs. Either way. But it's out there.

Now, apparently his girlfriend left him because she's sick of him always talking about his ex, Samantha. You know? But it may be a publicity stunt. Maybe. Did y'all post it? Come on, Jess. It may be.

Did y'all support your brother? No, no, no. He's my brother. But I'm sorry. I can't keep posting everything somebody asks me to post. He ain't a brother. Because then I won't be just hilarious. He's a cousin.

What? He's a cousin. He ain't our brother. He's a cousin. Yeah, all right. Well. Yeah, Tyree's a cousin. He was your brother one time.

No, but he was my second cousin. He was a cousin. He's not your first cousin. Now he's second cousin. So he might be my boyfriend cousin. You're right. Yeah. He's Latino. Latino. He's a cousin. He's not even the first cousin. Now he's the second cousin. So he might be my boyfriend cousin. You're right. Yeah. He's Latino.

Latino. He's a primo. So yeah, that's cool. But yeah, it may be a publicity stunt. I don't think the girl is going anywhere. But this is all to download Beautiful Pain, which is a great album, y'all. So y'all need to download it. Yeah, Tyrese, you need to call me and let me put together your publicity stunts.

I could put together way better marketing than that, okay? Number one, there was no reason for you to put that out on Super Bowl Sunday. Nope. You got the Super Bowl. You got Kansas City Chiefs, San Francisco 49ers, Usher, Beyonce drop music

and a fire commercial, Taylor Swift, then Tyrese. One of those things does not belong. Dang. That's all I'm saying. And then he apologized

the 50 cent Kanye West. Why he apologized to him? Well, it was because in the beginning of the trailer, the video, to grab people's attention, he put up his middle finger like you know F y'all

you know what I mean like just for clickbait like so he apologized to them but I don't think they saw it or was worried about it anyway so it's okay is Beautiful Pain out

I believe so well congratulations to Tyrese on finally pushing out his Beautiful Pain album Tyrese.tv go there now hold me let me see if I'm reading

this verbatim hold on I never this is a DM he sent me see if I'm Reading this verbatim Hold on I never This is a DM he sent me I never asked Please post this on your IG And on your IG story Why are you

Why are you reading it Congratulations to Tyrese On finally pushing out His beautiful paint album Tyrese.tv Go there now He wrote that for you Yeah

He sent you that Don't ask like he Answered it to you too Oh my god Stop Did you post it Allegedly That's just what

The match on Bye Did y'all post it No Are we shouting them out Oh my God, stop. That's just what I'm going to show off. Bye. Did y'all post it? No. Are we shouting them out? Your magazine sent it to you? He definitely sent it to me. He don't like you no more.

He don't like me no more. He didn't send it to me. I wouldn't have sent it to you neither. I didn't get that one. You should play his record. Did he send a record? He took me out to group chat. No.

Let's do that. He said he don't like me. He said, I don't like people that act like they like me for the cameras, but they really don't like me behind closed doors. That's right. So he said, I don't know. Like, I don't deal with Envy no more. I don't blame him.

Yeah. He's Latino. Tito. Yeah, that's why y'all should be cool again. You should shut up, man. All right. You think LaMega's going to play his music? You think like the Spanish stations are going to play anything off Beautiful Fame?

Or Telemundo might play his trailer. Ooh, I like that. I like that. How you call him Tito? Tyrese, send us a record so we can play it, man. You stupid. Tito, send us a record. Tito Gibson, that's what he calls him.

That is just with the mess. All right. Now, when we come back, Sheldon, who you giving your donkey to? Man, four after the hour, we need Nina Denson to come to the front of the congregation. Who that is? She is a principal at Washington Elementary School in California. And humans going human. We'll talk.

All right, we'll get to that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Wake up. Wake up. You're locked into the Breakfast Club. I was donkey up the day. Made it.

Damn, the hee-haw, dude. It's time for donkey up the day. I ain't trying to be Donkey of the Day no more. They should be embarrassed by what they already did. I'm not making these people do these things. It's called Donkey of the Day, and it really caught me off guard. Damn, Solomon, who got the Donkey of the Day today? Well, Donkey of the Day for Tuesday, February 13th, Jess Hilarious' born day!

Goes to a principal at Washington Elementary School named Nina Denson. Now, Nina has been put on a leave of absence and rightfully so because humans just be human in man.

There is no doubt in my mind God looks at us sometimes as defective product because I just don't understand why folks be doing what they doing. Now, Nina is the principal.

The principal. Not a teacher. Not a guidance counselor. The principal of the not a teacher not a guidance counselor the principal of the whole damn school the person with the highest authority in the whole damn school and she was pretending to shoot kids and announcing they were dead during an active shooter lockdown drill i can't make this kind of stuff up let's go to ktla5 for the report please children and parents upset by what the school principal did during a lockdown drill. She proceeded to walk around the campus and pretend to shoot people she saw

using finger movements and banging on the window. From what I heard, one of the students was told, boom, you're dead. Children as young as four years old witnessed the ordeal, including Jennifer Chavez's first grade son. The one shocking, surprising thing he said as a six-year-old was, I'm just really glad none of my friends died. Now the principal at the school, Dr. Nina Denson, has been put on leave. The superintendent confirmed to KTLA that the drill did happen yesterday. And then staff members say the principal made an announcement

that seven children were dead. Oh oh my god can you imagine the trauma these children potentially could go through of just thinking oh my god my friend was killed or i was shot and told i died it was very upsetting my god in an era when america is averaging like two mass shootings a day dr nina denson thought this was a good idea uh i just you know try to hear things from both sides at certain points in my life. And it's L.A., so maybe Nina Denson is a method actor. Maybe she needs to get all the way in character,

even though it's just a lockdown drill. Maybe, I don't know. Maybe she had her own personal Tubi movie going on in her head. So, you know, in a lot of Tubi movies, they can't afford prop guns. So she was using her fingers like Beyonce does when she's in her country zone, like, pew-pew-pew-pew, pew, pew, pew, you know? I just don't understand how brains work anymore.

Okay, you're the principal of a school, Nina. If you had teachers in your school doing lesson plans in this way, you would fire them all. I repeat, if you had teachers in your school doing lesson plans in this way, you would fire them all. Imagine a chemistry teacher playing old Jeezy records to teach kids how to mix chemicals okay kids when you are manually mixing flakes with the soda what do you get when jay-z consumes uh drinks and smokes what concentrated chemical does he mix with his arm and hammer that just wouldn't work that just wouldn't work it wouldn't work no that's like to me a teacher showing sukiyanaFans page to teach them sex ed. Oh, okay.

I like that. I like what is going on. That's like referencing Kanye West, okay, to write up lesson plans around the Holocaust. Oh, my God. That's like you and Shannon show up teaching a speech class. Excuse me? With your list. Oh, that was a good one.

That was a good one. I like that one. And all the asses be... That was a good one. I like that one. Excuse me? Sorry. What else you got, Jeff? That's like good one. I like that one. I know the S's be... That was a good one. I like that one. Excuse me? Sorry. What else you got, Jeff?

That's like Webby. That's like Webby teaching kids how to be a healthcare professional. Oh, now that's a good one. Because remember when Webby was on Breakfast Club back in the day, and then we asked how he felt about healthcare in America? I don't really think nobody care, man. They say that's how the Obamacare works. Yes, because I asked him, what do you think about Obamacare? And he said, that was his answer. I don't think nobody care, Mike. They say that's how the Obamacare works. Honestly, a fantastic answer

because none of these elected officials truly care. the moral of the story is you can save yourself a lot of embarrassment by simply thinking before you act is this too hard a concept for humans to grasp in 2024 think before you act think twice before you speak and if that's too difficult then maybe just maybe the human experiment is a wrap and it's time to let ai take over at this rate they smarted in us anyway so we really don't have a choice. Please give Nina Denson the sweet sounds and the hammer tones. Oh, now you are the donkey of the day.

You are the donkey of the day. Yeehaw. And I think me and Shannon Sharp would make a great teachers for speech classes. day. Yee-haw. Yee-haw. I think me and Shannon Sharp would make a great teachers for speech classes because both of us get paid to talk. Say it again. You think y'all make a good teachers for speech classes?

Hold on. Students would really love our speech class. We get paid to talk. Yeah, I understand. Not to spit on everybody. There'd be some stinky kids our speech class. Okay? We get paid to talk. Yeah, I understand. Not to spit on everybody, though. There'd be some stinky kids leaving that class. Stinky kids, you stupid.

Lord. Oh, man. What? I have a question. Oh, my God. When y'all did fire drills and drills at the school, nobody ever took it serious, right? Y'all just ran out the class. Nobody ever cared.

We was playing. We was playing everything, right? Yeah. So now the principal makes it like, I don't want to say like a game, but like a game so the kids really take it serious. So they understand that if there's an active shooter, what to do. I'll tell you the problem with that. The problem with that is that. Because nobody takes a fire drill serious.

Everybody, ah, yeah, just tell you the problem with that. The problem with that is that... Because nobody takes a fire drill serious. Everybody, ah, yeah, just what I, just what I, but now if you actually make it seem like there is an active shooter, now the kids know what to look for, what to see. But here's the problem with that.

Especially with it going on so much. You're playing, right? You're playing, and you're not bringing the kids in on the joke. So your joke makes the trauma real, because you're joking, but to these kids,

it's real trauma, because these kids really think there's an active shooter. These kids really think their friends died. You can't just remove that trauma from the kids once they find out it's not. It was fake with a pointy finger. It don't matter. You told these kids that they were their friends were dead. So somebody told you that somebody you love was dead right now and let you hold on to that for 15, 20 minutes. That trauma that you would experience in that 15, 20 minutes't be real and you think it's just gonna automatically go

away and disappear after they tell you it's fake you'll be you'll be relieved but you'll still feel that trauma hey drill guys this is a drill yeah this is a drill we know drill is fake is real the drill no he didn't hold on what are you saying now didn't they say it was a drill i get what drill means fake yes but i don't think these kids were in on it. Because he told the kids that they're friends with dad and they believed it. From the pointy finger gun, pow, you're dead. Pow, you're dead. Pow, you're dead. And then the little boy did say, I'm just glad that none of my friends died.

Yeah, because they were really dead. Yeah, but so to his point, he was saying that the fire alarm, like, they didn't really die. Like, they're not really on they they know they're not really on fire so we used to like this would have been around a situation seven kids would have died yeah that's why you got to take it seriously i thought the kids weren't in on the joke i thought the kids weren't in on it maybe i'm confused here that's why i had to be did they when when the teacher said pow did they like uh like did they you know do a faint i get what you're saying i'm just saying that nobody takes these drills serious anyway yeah the only way to make people take them serious is to not tell them that it's a drill

okay so when you hit a fire drill when you're in school nobody ever takes it serious ah fire drill all right hey what i'm just yeah like nobody takes it serious they don't take it serious because they're being told because they usually know it's a fire drill like 11 25 today fire drill that's what i'm saying if you don't tell people it's a fire drill you don't tell them it's an active shooter drill that's the only way to make them take it serious yeah because that would that would actually be fun if it's a drill and you know that the

the uh principles the only drill that's fun is the tip drill bro oh my god what would you wanna see do the tip drill who to you

your lips dry as hell I know man what the hell what the hell you need some more water as much as I spit that's what I'm saying I don't know

laser true people with lips got are they allowed to have dry lips not at all not as much as I spit alright well that is the donkey of the day now when we come back today is Jess's birth I don't know. Ladies and gentlemen, people with lisps, are they allowed to have dry lips? Not at all. Not as much as lisps. All right. Well, that is the donkey of the day.

Now, when we come back, today is Jess's birthday. Yay. It's snowing in New York, New Jersey, and we're asking, who does Jess want to be? No, that's not the question. Why? Who does Jess want to be? That's not the question. What?

I wasn't saying Jess want to be. You were about to say who you want to be snowed in with. No, that's not the question. The question I was talking about earlier, I was saying, do women pretend to, you know, like do women go over guys' houses and pretend to be stuck there because they know it's about to be snow? Like, you know, we always hear these conversations about girls getting flewed out. But when you know it's about to be a snowstorm, right, and you might end up stuck somewhere, do you go to a guy's house to get snowed in on purpose? So is this a thing?

Is this a thing? Do you make sure that, oh, it's going to snow today, it's going to be a nasty rainstorm, it's going to be a twist, it's house to get snowed in is this a thing is this a thing do you make sure that oh it's gonna snow today it's gonna be a nasty rainstorm it's gonna be a twist it's gonna be a hurricane i want to go get snowed in on purpose exactly is that a thing snowed in on purpose by accident 585-1051 have you done that before jess yes i've definitely got snowed in i've gone to somebody's house when i know that it's supposed to be like six to eight inches the next day what about about that night, though? You know what I'm saying? You heard that?

You heard that? They got excited. Yeah, I got a little eight inches, you know. Okay, all right. All right. Let's open up the phone lines. 800-585-1051. Let's discuss.

This is The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. That ain't calling my phone. Tell her, tell her. Man, it's topic time call 800-585-1051 to join into the discussion with the breakfast club morning everybody it's dj and ventric 585-1051 ladies is this a thing where you know it's gonna be a storm whether it's rain a hurricane tornado whatever it may be to make sure that you are stuck at your man's house because i thought about it right because you know they always talk about girls getting flued out but i'm like damn do girls ever want to get snowed in like

when you know it's a snowstorm absolutely you go over the guy's house because you know you're gonna get stuck is that a thing jess yes it is a thing but you know what i gotta think because i remember this one year i got snowed in over somebody's house then it started being annoying and i really saw who they really were and i was like like, you know what? I want to go home. But then it was like six inches outside and I was like, dang.

How many inches was in the house though? That's, that's neither here or there. I'm just wondering, was it worth being there? It was, but then,

but then it's like, after that, it's like, ah, I don't want to leave now because like, now we not doing nothing. It sounds like you

on his number. No, I'm just saying, you just got to know, you got to know. You just got to know. Why do you'm just saying. You just got to know. You got to know. You just got to know. Why do you got to know? You just got to know.

Is it worth it? You know what I mean? It's annoying, but is it good? Is that so? Yeah, but that was the only thing that was good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But then, you know, other times it was good. But like that one time, I was like, oh, my God.

I wish the snow melt. Hello, who's this? Kiana. Hey? Kiana. Hey, Kiana, turn your radio down, mama. It's now. I just wanted to say just happy birthday as we are birthday plans. And yes, I have

started with someone unintentionally. Oh, so it was unintentional. Yes. How many days? Two days. Two days because I'm from up north near Chicago, so we get lake effect snow. Oh, wow. And it ended up being like almost a flood of snow. How was it, though?

So you didn't know the weather forecast? Didn't pay attention to it. Got off work and just went and did something. Don't believe this. She's a woman that is committed to her life. Yeah. Okay. You knew what you were doing.

No, it is the truth. Because with lake effect snow, like where I. No, it is the truth. Because with Lexi Pace Snow, like, where I'm from, Michigan City, it can come, like, well, it'll be on the news, like, one to two inches, and then it turns into a whole downpour, and everything just go left from there. So why you didn't want to be snowed in with him? It was supposed to be a snitchy week. Do what you do and go home. I feel you.

That's it. I feel you. I understand. All right. Thank you, Kiana. Hello, who's this? Hello, who's this? Kiara. Hey, it. I feel you. I understand. All right. Thank you, Kiana. Hello. Who's this? Kiara. Hey, Kiara.

Good morning. Good morning. Now, we're talking about being snowed in at somebody's house. That happen to you? Yes. Talk to us. I went there on purpose. You went there on purpose.

Okay. And was it worth it? How long were you snowed in? Like two days. Damn. How many inches was outside? We had a snowstorm. It was like 60 inches. 16? Dang, where you

from? Detroit. How many inches was in the house? Dang. She had a field day for 48 hours. I knew all the walls was coming down. Sorry for you, mom. Happy birthday, Jess. Thank you, baby.

Women are slick, boy boy the fact that they acting like they didn't know the forecast like they don't have tv like they don't have radio like they don't have internet y'all knew those snowstorms was coming y'all knew exactly what y'all was doing and y'all still committed to y'all lives yeah all these months and years later boy women something else she said she went there on purpose yo my thing is what if it could be like are you staying like after she got that nine is, what if a nigga be like, are you staying? Like, after she got that nine inches. Because what if you wanted to spread that nine throughout a couple people?

Damn. Oh, my God. 800-585-1051. We're talking about, there's a snowstorm in the New York, New Jersey area. And we're talking about being snowed in or tornado, hurricanes. Ladies, have you ever made it your business to go to your man's house? So you'd be stuck. That's the question.

Let's talk about it. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. If y'all talking about it, you know we talking about it. It's Topic Time. Call 800-585-1051 to join into the discussion

with The Breakfast Club. All right, we got somebody on the line. His name is Chris, and he said he wants to be snowed in with you. No, there's only one Chris that can be snowed in with Jess. Well, hello, who's this? Hello? Well, hello? Hey, baby, hey, baby, it's your man.

I wanted to call and say happy birthday. Thank you. I know it's a special day for you. I can't wait to see you. I'm so proud of you. I love that you're standing divine all the time. Oh, it's Chris. It's Chris. Woman, I can't wait to see

you later, and then I'm so excited for our little bundle of joy as well, baby. Little bundle of what? Little bundle of what? Little bundle of joy. We don't got to act clueless now. Yay! Jess Hilarious is pregnant!

Yes, he pregnant! Chris, congratulations, my brother. I definitely appreciate it. Congratulations, my brother. Jess Hilarious is pregnant. That's right. Yes. Yes, I am.

How many months? Can we ask? Yes, I am three months. So I'm 13 weeks, y'all. 13 weeks? Wow. Thank you, baby. I love you. Can we ask? Yes, I am three months. So I'm 13 weeks, y'all. 13 weeks? Wow. Thank you, baby. I love you.

I love you too, baby. Chris, Chris, you know what would be an amazing Valentine's Day gift? What? Let me know. An engagement ring. What's wrong with you? Shut up. An engagement ring would be an amazing Valentine's gift, Chris.

You don't know what that means, dude. Don't worry. Okay, say it loud. Stop playing with my Latino. Be safe out there, Chris. Congratulations again, brother. Yes, sir. Appreciate you. I love you, baby. Love you, too. I see you tonight. Love you, too, baby.

All right, man. You really got snowed in, huh? Period. Wow. No, ain't no period. Ain't no period for the no period ain't no period for the next six months ain't no period she more like got plowed

in Jesus Christ congratulations Jess thank you that's why you been in here all tired y'all can get off YouTube okay leaving comments

about Jess in there high Jess in there drunk Jess in there tired no no Jess just pregnant she is pregnant okay you'll say Jess was

zooted her first week I'm like no I did not get high and come in Jess was zooted Her first week I'm like No I did not get high And come in here Zooted on my first week No She was just in here Throwing up

Every damn moment A couple times A couple times Yes I said oh my god She's pregnant She'll have said Don't act like you didn't know that

You're about to go Ready to go toobie Yeah but Ready to go toobie He act better than you They'll say What's up with Jess Lurie You say huh

Now I forget that dumb stuff What's up with Jess Lurie She's pregnant I don't know we're trying to figure it out it got the job it did all right when It did. All right. When we come back, we got Jess with the mess. What are we talking about? I'm pregnant. You're saying all right. No, we are. All right.

We're talking about me being pregnant, but we also talking about some other stuff too. Okay. That's it. That's it? Yeah.

All right. Well, Jess Hilarious is pregnant. Congratulations. I'm so happy for you. This is baby number two. Yes. This is amazing.

All right. Jess with the mess is up next. The Breakfast Club. This is amazing. Just with the messes up next. The Breakfast Club. Stop the beat. Don't stop the beat. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, plus one, Charlamagne Tha Guy.

We are The Breakfast Club. Good morning! And I'm not the plus one. If you're just joining us, our good sister, Jess Hilarious, has announced that she is pregnant! Her baby daddy announced it. Chris, salute to Chris. Yes. So it's not just her born date, she is pregnant.

That's right. With a little bundle of joy as Chris said. How are you feeling? I feel good. I feel... Entirely. I feel good. I'm just trying to figure out what to eat and what not to eat right now. But like I'm... Are you craving anything?

No, I actually don't. No, I'm not craving anything but things that i was like and i don't like no more like what oh my god uh now latest i don't like candy no more i don't like oranges i don't like fruit but fruit is really good for you but i don't i don't like it anymore it makes me nauseous oranges apples all of that stuff i can't i'm just glad we don't gotta pretend you're not pregnant for the next six months I couldn't do this I know pretending for a couple of weeks for a rollout

is totally different I can't do that I know and your acting skills were trash by the way very much they worked you pregnant

yeah I was trying to play stupid my acting skills were top level I just wanted you to know that they were well let's get to

Jess with the mess let's go larsa pippen and marcus jordan breakup all right so i mean that's not really a big surprise to a lot of people as i was reading in the comments larsa pippen and marcus jordan have reportedly broken up fans noticed that larsa removed all the evidence of their relationship from her instagram page and then a source confirmed to page six that they are not together tension between them is allegedly the reason that they broke up the source claimed the tension stems from michael jordan publicly denouncing their relationship oh dang y'all single y'all straight up blocked it yeah they also claimed

that tension in michael's and scotty's relationship took a toll on marcus and lars's relationship oh so they blaming it on michael and scotty yeah they never had a they didn't have a good relationship y'all ain't got the history Michael and Scotty got either, by the way. They already knew that, though, before they got together. They were already aware of that. Michael and Scotty got rings.

Y'all have none. They ain't got none now. You know what I'm saying? Cut it out. She's probably working poor Marcus to death. Remember she said she had sex seven times a night

or something crazy? Tell me more, girl. Tell me more, girl. Tell me more about what's going on in them people's bedroom. Tell me, Roshanna. Yes, the tea is hot. Uh-uh. Uh-uh. Roshanna. Tell me more girl. Tell me more about what's going on in them people bedroom

The different source a different source that their breakup said that their breakup had nothing to do with family issues and that it was Just a result of personal growth. That was it But look she had posted something on her instagram and twitter that said um when you break up with somebody do your friends unfollow them too i thought that was i think i think that was funny i think we can come back to that that's that's i mean because i agree with that yeah y'all unfollow him unfollow him and even your family your mom still want to call somebody son and it ain't work out all that no no so i i agree with that you should unfollow them especially if i broke up with him callie and Keisha Cole exchanged words over a love sample. So Kelly released a new single called Bozo that samples love by Keisha Cole.

When Keisha Cole heard it, she shared a tweet about her song being sampled without permission. But she never put any names on it, though, because this was around the same time where Kanye was saying that people were denying his request to use samples as well he just said I don't think it's okay to samples people music without it being cleared uh stealing people's hard work isn't okay ever so many people have asked to sample love I should have cheated having sent and I never said yes yet uh when fans connected that she was referring to Kelly's song they started to comment on the situation and come for Kelly. Keisha tweeted that her problem was not with Kelly and that people shouldn't attack Kelly. So she said, no, it's not about baby girl. That's not her fault.

Don't go in on her. Young black women don't need to be torn down. So don't do that for real, for real. I love the FRFR for real, for real. But when Kelly posted a tweet of her own, it sparked up a back and forth between her and Keisha. She said Bozo was cleared, been cleared. Like, okay, little girl, chill. But Keisha came back and said, like I said, I never cleared it.

And like I said, I don't think it's your fault. Love you, wish you all the best in your career. Right? So then Kelly, yo, these young girls, these so funny and disrespectful at the same time. She said, Keisha, let's not act like a song can be distributed on every single major platform without it being cleared by you or your team your side dropped the ball thanks for thanks for the wishes same to you my love hashtag bozo now this is the original classic yeah always always and then um number one is cali song that's not hard i actually do like it it's a's dope. It's a nice skating song.

It's a nice song. That sounds dope. Yeah, and usually when these kids, I'm calling them kids because they're young, but obviously they love and respect the music, but usually when they do samples, it ends up being trash, but this one is actually,

and that's just my opinion, this one is actually okay. I do like it, but like she said. It's two different energies because Keisha is actually about love and Kylie is about having a good time. Yeah, her is like love. It's about fun. Yep, it's fun and it's you know what i'm saying so i do think it's a banger i hope that they can come to some type of understanding so did they clear the record or not

clearly they had to clear the record right well they had to i mean kelly claimed that it was clear but keisha said she didn't she didn't do it so i mean i don't know if she's the only one that owns it or she don't own it or not but she said said a lot of people have asked and she hasn't cleared any record of hers yet to be sampled. Clearly she's not the only owner. If you know the record can be cleared without her. Or maybe she doesn't own it. Or maybe she doesn't own it. That's another thing. And that's why Keisha was saying it's not her fault.

You know what I mean? So maybe we'll get more updates on this or information on this. But Kanye West made $19 million from Super Bowl ad. Kanye reportedly spent $7 million on getting a commercial slot during the Super Bowl. We have audio for that. Hey, y'all.

This is Jay. And this is my commercial. And since we spent all the money on the commercial spot, we actually didn't spend anybody on the actual commercial. But the idea is I want you to go to Yeezy.com, Y-E-E-Z-Y.com, and I'm going to write it at the bottom of the screen. Okay, so I didn't see this. That's actually brilliant. That is brilliant. Yeah, very brilliant.

Yeah, especially for his social platform. I mean, but he paid for the slot. And reports are showing that the investment paid off because Kanye reportedly made more than $19 million in sales. And I think it was also interesting that everything on his site was $20. And everybody paying attention to Usher and Beyonce and Ice Spice and Taylor Swift. And we missed out on a big Yeezy sale. Yeah, I didn't see the ad during the Super Bowl. I can't front that. That was great marketing from kanye great concept you know we spent all the money on the commercials we don't have money for the production budget

great concept but only kanye could do that though yeah artists have to know who they are and have to know what their brand is and kanye's brand is like borderline homeless so that makes that makes sense less is less less is more and yeah and what he also did too is there were people because he was selling those uh sock themed jiggies for like $200 so now he did something where if you bought it for $200 i think he's gonna send you your money back i believe yeah yeah yeah yeah and uh the site has the yeezy pods that they had uh yeah the yeezy pods the sock shoes clothes vultures merch all of that $20. I'm so mad I missed out on that. But you gonna wear them socks?

Huh? Huh? You gonna wear them socks? Some sock shoes? Yeah, I will, but I'm gonna put a shoe on. It's just stockings. But I'm gonna,

yeah, I'm gonna put a shoe on with it too, but I will wear those. If they was $20, yeah. It's just the same thing ballerinas wear. It's the stockings with the little slippers

at the bottom. You got a pair? No, no, no, but I seen them. Yeah, yeah. I'm still putting the shoe. I'm gonna put an Ugg on with them or something.

And what Kanye should have done is shout out Tyrese Beautiful Pain album. How come he ain't do that? How come he ain't put Tyrese album? Because Tyrese said FM. No. Happy birthday to you.

Oh my God, and it's my favorite color. Boom, boom. Happy birthday to you. When I push it? Happy birthday dear Jeff. Do the Stevie Wonder version. Happy birthday, dear Jess. Do the Stevie Wonder version. Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. They all know me because I'm the only one with my headphones on. They ain't got no headphones on. I'm sorry, guys. Happy birthday, Jess. Yes, like I said.

What is that cake? Put the cake there on the front. Make a wish. Make a wish. The cake is on fire. What the hell happened here, man? What the hell happened? What man? What the hell happened? What is wrong with you?

Y'all better blow that out. The cake is on fire itself. The cake is not supposed to do that. Y'all see, I don't know nothing about these newfangled cakes they got. They got a cake in here that if you set it on fire, when you set it on fire, it burns one picture. And then when it burns that picture, underneath it is another picture. I love it. I didn't know anything about that. Is that supposed to happen?

I don't want no fried cake now. Are you going to make a wish? Talk into the microphone, Jess. Yeah, sorry. I forgot I was at work. Yeah, I didn't know it was supposed to happen. I thought she was setting my cake on fire. I'm like, don't ever set my cake on fire. So it burns one picture, and then underneath it is another picture.

Yes, and it's a collage of pictures of my best outfits on here. Okay. Oh my goodness. Thank y'all so much. Happy birthday, Jess. Thank you. And she announced she's pregnant today. That's right. Oh, and these flowers are for my boyfriend, Chris. Oh. Those are from Chris? Let me read the card. Yes. Thank you. Can I read the card first? Hey, no. I'll read the card.

What's wrong with you? People's Choice mixes up next. It's the Breakfast Club. Come on in. You're checking out the Breakfast Club. Come on in. You're checking out the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God. It's Black History Month.

What we doing? Listen, man. Scoot to my guy, B-Dot. You know, every day during Black History Month, we put out a podcast called I Didn't Know, Maybe You Didn't Either on the Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network. And have you ever wondered why they always teach us about the same historical figures during Black History Month I don't know the answer to that but I know today BDOT is gonna tell you about a legendary Black History Month figure that I share a born day with June 29th the great Stokely Carmichael a controversial yet charismatic civil rights leader who

deserves way more recognition BDOT take it away I told my 11 year old daughter I said Ryan you know for Black History, they always teach you about the same black folks. George Washington Carver, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King. They never teach you about folks like Stokely Carmichael. And she said, who is Stokely Carmichael? Stokely Carmichael. He looked like young Dolph mixed with Gerard Carmichael, the very controversial and charismatic young civil rights leader. He pretty much popularized the phrase black power. He wasn't

the first to say it, but he did popularize it. He was born in Trinidad in 1941. His family moved to the Bronx when he was young, and he went to Howard University. And as a freshman, he was a freedom rider. And freedom riders pretty much were black and white activists who signed up to take trips down to the South on the weekends to get their asses beat by racist whites. With the optimism of equality and opportunity. He graduated from Howard in 1964. And by 1966, at the age of 24, he was the chairman of the SNCC. He replaced John Lewis. And we all know John Lewis.

Again, the SNCC. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, SNCC, the SNCC. That organization was formed in the Deep South again to organize African-American voters. But over time, Stoke got tired of the old head civil rights activists compromising with President Johnson and other white authorities. By the 27th time he was arrested, he said he was done with the nonviolent approach. He told a group of marchers in Greenwood Mississippi there's a 27th time I've been arrested and I ain't going to jail no more the only way we gonna stop them white men from whipping us is to take over we've been saying freedom for six years and ain't

got nothing what we're gonna start saying now is black power that was a phrase that MLK deemed unfortunate and would ask Stokely repeatedly to stop using it. He wouldn't. In 1966 to 67, he did a tour of colleges, giving militant speeches to black minds. Black leather jacket. Afro. Swagged out. He left the SNCC in 1967.

He did a brief stint with the Black Panther Party for self-defense before setting up shop in 1969 in guinea west africa joining the all african people's revolutionary party when he returned to the states to tour colleges in 1971 black folks that came to him screamed kill the pigs were disappointed as hell he had changed he changed his name to kwame ture and that was to recognize his two primary political mentors in 1998 stokely carmael, or Kwame Ture, lost his battle to cancer at his home in Africa. So whenever you see or hear the phrase black power, oh, he wasn't the first person to say it.

But Stokely Carmichael not only popularized it, but he turned it into a movement. And I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either. I salute to B. Dot. Salute to my guy B. Dot, man. And make sure you subscribe to the I didn't know, maybe you didn't either I didn't know Alright, salute to B. Dot Salute to my guy B. Dot, man And make sure you subscribe To the I Didn't Know

Maybe You Didn't Need It podcast On the Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network Every day during Black History Month We put out a new episode So go check that out Alright, when we come back We got the positive notice

To Breakfast Club Good morning Morning everybody It's DJ Envy Jess Hilarious Charlamagne the guy We are to Breakfast Club Again, happy birthday Jess And congrats Thank you On the baby If you haven't heard She is pregnant Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club again.

Happy birthday, Jess, and congrats on the baby. If you haven't heard, she is pregnant. So congrats, Jess. She is pregnant. Today is her born day. Jess is having a day. Tomorrow is Valentine's Day. Yes.

I'm sure Chris is making his way to New York to get snowed in with booze. To get snowed in, you know. I hope you got a coat. I do. I got, yes, my sister bought me a white fur. Okay. Yes, the same fur that Usher had on last night when he got married. I wore it two nights ago.

Yes. Does Chris have a coat? Chris, I'm sure he does. Okay. Why you want to know? What? I'm just making sure. Let him know it's cold up here and it's snowing.

You know, you know Mexicans really don't be getting that cold. Whoa. You are stupid. Damn. Leave us on a positive note. Well, first of all all i want to say okay i think today is a great day to tell you about my black country okay my black country is the next book coming out on my book imprint black privilege publishing it is written by the

great alice randall and it is a journey through country music's black past present and future since beyonce gonna have y'all walking around here in stirrups and cowboy hats and riding horses and square dancing by March. This is a great time to get up on all the, the history of black people in country music. So it comes out April 9th, 2024, but you can pre-order now wherever you buy books. Okay.

My black country by Alice Randall. Now the positive note is simply this. Don't let people who are not going anywhere. Take you with them. I repeat, Don't let people who are not going anywhere take you with them. I repeat, don't let people who are not going anywhere take you with them. Have a blessed day. Breakfast Club, bitches! You all finished or you all done? Had enough of this country?

Ever dreamt about starting your own? I planted the flag. This is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. 55 gallons of water, 500 pounds of concrete. Or maybe not. No country willingly gives up their territory.

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Hey, y'all. Nimminy here. I'm the host of a brand new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. Executive produced by Questlove, The Story Pirates, and John Glickman, Historical Records brings history to life through hip-hop. Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records. Listen to Historical Records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, 1974.

George Foreman was champion of the world. Ali was smart and he was handsome. The story behind the Rumble in the Jungle is like a Hollywood movie. But that is only half the story. There's also James Brown, Bill Withers, B.B. King, Miriam Akiba. All the biggest black artists on the planet. Together in Africa. It was a big deal.

Listen to Rumble, Ali, Foreman, and the Soul of 74 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. On Thanksgiving Day, 1999, five-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, was found off the coast of Florida. And the question was, should the boy go back to his father in Cuba? Mr. Gonzalez wanted to go home and he wanted to take his son with him. Or stay with his relatives in Miami? Imagine that your mother died trying to get you to freedom.

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