The Breakfast Club - INTERVIEW: Master P On New Orleans' Resilience, Son's Basketball Debut, C-Murder Freedom, New Products + More

Episode Date: January 21, 2025

The Breakfast Club Sits Down With Master P To Discuss New Orleans' Resilience, Son's Basketball Debut, C-Murder Freedom, New Products. Listen For More!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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and our dear friends Mark and Craig Kilburger, we explore the personal journeys that shape extraordinary lives. Hark! And the This is my legacy. How you feeling, brother? Man, you know, we've been dealing with a lot in New Orleans, but we holding on. And so for the 14 people that lost their lives down there, we definitely praying for them and their families and the ones that got injured in this terrible tragedy, terrorist act that we had going on down there, man. I got in the studio with M Mia X and KLC produced a song with Trombone Shorty with Mack and Symphonic

and we made a song for the city and all the proceeds going to the families of the victims. So, and it's called New Orleans Keep Holdin' On and we holdin' on. You were front lines right away. So for people that, tell us how the city reacted right after, right? Because you know tell us how the city reacted right after, right? Because you know, we all know New Orleans is lively,

it's fun, it's a party town, there's so much food, there's so much going on, so tell us about the atmosphere now. I mean, you know what, we known for second lining in the middle of the street, the food and everything, and the parties, but I mean, we was hurt, man. We ain't never experienced nothing like that. But watching everybody come together and stick together

and stand strong, and we gotta stand up and show the world we not scared and we gonna bounce back. We resilient. Just like I gave you the hoodie. That hoodie tells it all. We resilient. Keep holding on. Yeah, we gonna keep holding on.

Some people were upset a little bit and felt like New Orleans should've shut down a little bit longer. What are your thoughts on that? Well, you're gonna always have opinions, man, with everything, but we gotta let God lead us on this journey. And so imagine if we didn't bounce back

and didn't stand up, then everybody be saying, man, why y'all holding y'all heads down? No, we gotta keep going. The ones that are alive, it's like anything else. For some way in your heart, you just gotta let God just keep you moving. And that's what it is for us. We just keep moving.

We gonna keep moving no matter what. We also praying for the ones that lost their lives in California in the fires, the ones that lost their houses. So, I mean, y'all had something in New York. Y'all had to keep going. They had something in Chicago, had something in Vegas. I mean, you know, we dealing with evil, but whatever they meant for evil,

God gonna turn it into good. And so, you know, that's the resilience with the city of New Orleans. I guess my thing is I'm always asking people, well, what was the other option? Like people were upset when they saw you walking down Bourbon Street right after. And I'm like, well, what's the other option? Well, what if I didn saw you walking down Bourbon Street right after. I'm like, what's the other option? Well what if I didn't show up?

Exactly. Think about it. I could have stayed in my mansion and stayed home and don't do nothing. But guess what? I'm not I'm not worried about what somebody got to think or say. I mean it's about love. The only way we overcome the hate is with love and we need more of us standing up doing what we got to do. And that's why I'm able to honor these 14 people. We got the NOLA Walk of Fame on February 6th, and I'm the first black man with real estate on Canal Street to have a NOLA Walk of Fame,

how they had the Hollywood Walk of Fame. So think about it. Not only we honoring Lil Wayne and Birdman and just so many greats, Trombone, Shorty, we got mere X. We honoring so many people, right? We honoring business people, but at the same time, I want to honor those 14 people and put a plaque with them

on Canal Street. So we'll never forget them. How do we, I'm sorry, there's one last question. Oh, go ahead. How do we stop that from happening again, right? Because if you put barricades up and you block people, that kinda kills the vibe of what it was, right? So is there a way to prevent that from happening again?

Man, we just gotta keep praying and doing the right thing because that could happen anywhere. I mean, the stuff that y'all had happen in New York, like you can't stop evil acts. Let's be honest. It's now we gotta deal with the mental illness. We've been talking about this. When you see signs of people not doing stuff right

or going a different direction in life, we have to do something about it. We have to talk to our people about it. We have to sit down. Some of these people need to get counseling. Some of these people need to get help. Some of these people need to get therapy. So, I mean, even when you look at the people

that's in the military, the people that are protecting us, like these are just regular people. And so you don't know when somebody gonna go left. But what we can do is, you know, that's why we create all these different organizations to mental illness is real. And so we have to take note when we see these type of things. What is Bourbon Street like today? Like right now? Like what's happening there? I mean, we had the Sugar Bowl game a couple weeks later, and that was sold out, and people still walking down Bourbon Street.

You still have business, people still have to survive. You got a lot of great restaurants down Bourbon Street, and I think that's what it is. We do have a lot of flowers and crosses and stuff out there for the victims that lost their lives, but at the same time, I mean, we gotta figure out some kind of way to come together. Now, I think putting the plaques up there

to remember the ones that we lost, I think that's gonna be the right thing to do. Because I think even when you keep passing by and you see that, it almost sends, you know, you kinda like keep reliving it. And so we got to get to a position, hopefully we get to that position by the Super Bowl to where we don't have to keep reliving that.

Right. And we could keep praying and moving on. I was gonna ask you, do you think it'll impact like the business down there and like the Super Bowl? Because a lot of the headlines, unfortunately to New Orleans, it focuses on how people felt like the city and like the police, they failed.

Like there were certain things that should have been in place and stuff like that. Do you think that they'll overcome that? I don't think the police feel because the police that took these terrorists out, I mean, I respect them because so many other people could have lost their lives. So I think we have a shortage of police. I think that even when you look at it in LA,

we had a shortage of fire people. So I think the country have to come together. We have to start, you know, because none of us really care. Think about it, everybody don't like the police until you need the police. And so now, I mean, it's time to pay them, the good ones, the ones that are doing the right thing.

And I feel like we need to come together, the good people, because it's bad in everything. It's bad people in radio. It's bad people in government. It's bad people in television. But we just have to acknowledge the good ones. Same thing we do in music or whatever. Like you got bad and good and everything.

So I think I wanna be able to celebrate the good ones. And also to your point earlier, like taking some of those resources and putting those resources back into the community so people have proper mental health care. Yes, yes. We need that because that's the one thing that's scary. People need to know they're not alone.

And if you find somebody, whether it's a family member or whatever, we need to hold those uncomfortable conversations. And so those things are gonna make a difference, especially like in our schools, with our young people, in our people that's constantly working, the people that's on the front line, because you never know, you could lose

that person like that. I wanted to ask, we haven't seen you in a couple of years, but you were one of the first to stand on HBCU athletics, right? Yes. And I remember when your son was going to college and you put your son into a HBCU,

people laughed, they said they couldn't make it, you wouldn't get TV time. Now to see how things have changed, how does that look for you? What's your thoughts on that? I mean, it looked good for me because, think about it, racism still exists, prejudice still exists in our country,

even though we getting farther and getting better, right? But there's still places that you could go that you still have to deal with this. The great thing about HBCUs is that this is our people, this is our culture. And that's why, you know, when I went and spoke at the graduation at Gramlin, and just seeing all the people and watching us evolve,

being able to now go to Gramlin and say, we're gonna do movies over there, you know? So it's like, we have more opportunities, but now we making sure that the facilities are better now. Because think about back in the day, the facilities wasn't that good. You said that was the biggest thing. They didn't have the facilities for the kids to recoup and retrain. We didn't have the doctors, we didn't have the right training. And now by us making that

noise we're starting to get some of those things. Shout out to Dion Sanders, I mean, for stepping up and going build his career at HBCU and y'all might see me real soon coaching basketball. I ain't gonna let y'all know it yet, but y'all gonna see. That'll be different. You got the sound jacks in that Delaware state. You got Mike Vick at Norfolk.

Pete coaching HBCU basketball team, that'd be hard. Yeah, I mean, you know what? I think that's why we can't be afraid to grow up and be able to follow whatever, you know, Pat Gulp put you on. And so I just feel like coaching, I coached Demar DeRose and I coached Lance Stevenson, I coached, I mean, so many great pro athletes,

Brandon Jennings, and now to be able to get to a college and understand how this NIL stuff work and be able to help our culture. You know? Okay, I'm sorry. Yeah, and that's what that's about for me because it's also about preparing the next generation. What's in the Miller jeans, man?

You see Silk Sun, he had LSU ball, and averaging 17 and five. Yeah. Yeah, no, it's good, man, because Silk Sun, he had LSU ball, an average of 17 and five. Yeah. Yeah, no, it's good, man, because Silk Sun at LSU, my son at Houston doing this thing, and they both freshmen. So, you know, but I told my son,

I say, education, don't rush it. You know, I mean, he had one of the top schools in the country in basketball. He averaged 30% in high school last year, and now, he told me, he said, Dad, when I get out, I want to be able to be one of the best players in the NBA. And I say, you know, I taught him that hard work to where

this kid was three years old. I went to Target and brought the little plastic hoop. And he just loved the game, like how Steph Curry loved the game. Wow. Is it a blueprint? Like do y'all say, look, if you do this, this and this, y'all gonna get the way y'all need to be?

Yeah, because think about it, right? So when you successful, you could give your kids everything and then they have that entitlement thing. But, you know, with my kids, they know that I didn't get his kid a car till he got in college. And so now he's on that path to build character. He put God first and he just wanna win. He wanna be great.

And so I just think y'all, even with Black History Month now, I love what you say about the HBCU, but even in hip hop, we don't have that, like we're doing the first hip hop Black History concert at the NJ Pac Center in Jersey on February 28th. So you can get your tickets now, go to Ticketmaster, or go to MasterPeeKonsert.com. But this is all about educating our culture,

educating our people. And we gonna turn up, Drew Hill will be there, the locks and MasterPeeK, so this is gonna be. A tie, it says camouflage. Camouflage, wear your camouflage, you know what I'm saying? So we won't represent. I wanted to ask you about Mayor Latoya Cantrell. How important is it to have a black mayor

in times like this? Man, it's so important, and she gets so much flack because she done been through it all, she just, but I love that, you know, they made me the ambassador of entertainment for the city of New Orleans and to have a black mayor, I support her because this woman had been through it all. But she loved the city of New Orleans

and matter of fact, I'm celebrating her. She's the first female mayor for New Orleans and we'll be able to celebrate her February 6th too. We're putting her plaque on Canal Street also. And you were very vocal with that, thinking that Lil Wayne should have been at the Super Bowl and you still believe that, hands down. You know what, that's over with now.

It's like I only wanna go back, but Lil Wayne is one of the greatest rappers alive and we got so many other greats. And I think doing Essence, I wanna celebrate Juvenile, Miss T, I want to celebrate Silk, I want to celebrate KLC, Man in Fresh. So, I mean, we- I feel like Mia don't get the credit she deserves.

Man, we celebrate Mia so big that, you know, she's the queen of the South when you talk about music. Like, she done opened the doors for so many women. I talked to Roxanne Shantator of the Day and her talk about music. Like she done opened the doors for so many women. I talked to Roxanne Shantada of the day and her and Mierge Titan. You know, Mierge is a real trailblazer and she don't have to get the flowers,

I tell you all the time, we gonna give her her fertilizer. Because fertilizer grow. I was at the High Boys reunion. Yeah. Lil Wayne, and you came out on stage and gave Wayne and you told him about the start that he's going to get on Canal Street and stuff like that. Like seeing you come out on the stage, knowing y'all history

for me, and I'm not even from New Orleans, but I was standing with people that were and they were like literally in tears just to see you guys on like, I mean, it's been years, but same record and like it's just all positivity. Yeah. When you got the phone call that that reunion was happening, how did you how did you react to that? And then what was the decision to honor him on that stage? Wayne on that stage?

I mean, he's the greatest rapper alive. And he's from New Orleans. So people don't realize, we all live right up the street from each other. So people don't really understand the history or know it, but you just think. And I think that's where we gotta stop creating these beeps and creating all this negativity.

You know, why we, I just drove down Fifth Ave and see all these stores y'all have out here. They all selling the same thing. I'm happy for them. I mean, I'm honoring Baby and Slim on Canal Street too. So it's a lot of love in our city. People don't realize that even though y'all don't see us together all the time and we grew up, you know, with different expectations, I

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Next week, we catch one of y'all that we gonna be fighting together. You know what I'm saying? That's just how it is. I know everything happens the way God wants it to happen, but you feel like there was missed opportunity back in the day for cash money and no limit not to do more together?

Now, because I feel now that we are grown, you know, everybody been on their own journey. And I think if we wouldn't have been on our own journey, it wouldn't be as big as it is now for both of us. I mean, we sold a hundred million records and they sold so many records too. So I mean, they got a lot of talent. Look at BG then got out, you know, hopefully my brother C get out, or Mystical get out. I mean, we gon' celebrate Soldier Slim on Canal Street for Essence.

Rest in peace. So, yeah, and so, you know, I mean, we have so much great talent down in there, I mean, just mention, getting in the studio with Trombone Shorty, he's one of the greats now. How is C-Murder doing? You said he'll possibly get it out. Is there some light to the case?

You know what, I mean, we just got to keep praying. He's been in there a long time and hopefully he get his day to be able to get back and get to functioning and doing what he need to do. But we just keep praying as a family. So that's why I tell people, you know, love your loved ones when they walk out that door because you never know when they're going to come back. And we experiencing this now in real time. It feel like there's always somebody

attaching themselves to these kids. It's like every year I get a call about, hey man, such and such, is which he murder and wants he murder to call in? I'm like, if I ain't hearing it from P or somebody. You know what I mean? And I think that's the problem, right? Because everybody want to try to get some shine

on people instead of just, you know what? Let God do what he gotta do. people instead of just, you know what, let God do what he gotta do and I feel like, you know, my brother is gonna be able to touch down and see the light and get back with his family, but we just gotta keep praying. How are y'all? Cause I know like a few years back,

there was like the back up of what you were see, murder and monocular. Short, I just told you, this my family. I would go to war for my brother. I don't even play behind that. We don't even have to get into that. We family, you got brothers and sisters if you do. All that stuff, that don't mean nothing.

My son, I'm going to war behind mine. I'm just letting you know. So all that stuff y'all see, don't believe, none of that stuff y'all see on the internet. And I done changed my life, but I will go in that water behind my family. As you should. I was gonna ask, you know, I hate to use the word regret,

but the one thing about your family, P, is you showed us everything, right? Showed us the good, the bad, the ugly. And a lot of times when black families weren't showing the positive side and what you did for your kids, do you regret it at all because it's like, you showed a good, but then it also comes with the bad?

You know what, but that's life. And we just gotta change with the times. I mean, think about it right now. Everybody afraid of AI. I'm not. Because you either gonna have to figure out how to work with it, we're gonna be successful. We're building family brands now. And so what's good, we don't have to sit back

and be afraid to say we're not a perfect family. You know, nobody has a perfect family because y'all all have been through something. Even everybody here on this show have been through something like, man, is y'all serious? But we gotta stop listening to click bait, you know, these headlines that say they never gonna tell you the truth, right?

So my thing is, long as you know the truth, and you know God, then you'll be good. Because my thing is, now I'm about kingdom building. I'm about doing the right thing, and about being a servant for our people and educating our people. I mean, we losing so many young people. I had Nipsey Hussle in eighth grade in my program.

So my program been around for over 25 years. He was in my program in eighth grade. And I told you guys this, right? He was trying to figure out how to sell records. He got up to like 200,000. When he died, all his records went triple platinum. The same songs. It ain't like nobody changed, nothing and stuff.

But I'm just saying, we gotta be here for each other while we're here. Let's not be great when it's too late, you know And so we all can create our own products and brands I tell people now it's like I created Miller family foods because when you look at Kellogg's when you look at Oh Gucci Versace and all this all these are family brands. How come we can't do it? Right, and so we it's time for us to change that. You think we hate all these? Oh, you said Nipsey was in your program in eighth grade?

Damn, I know he respected you high. When he said, no limit of the West, nigga, Percy Miller in the Platte. Yeah, eighth grade? So me and Janelle Langerstone, we created a program called Urban Bond that was in California. So my kids now, even though you see them now,

they in college doing what they doing, but they was playing for Cal Supreme that was right in that neighborhood. So my kids always played in the hood. They played in my program. They played with Oakland soldiers. So I got my start in the Bay. So I mean, I've been around California.

I've been around New Orleans. So we help inner city kids that's in some of the worst environments. I was gonna ask, you feel like a lot of times we hate on each other. The reason I ask that, right, is something happened with your son a month ago, right? All over the blogs. Yeah. Chargers would drop, I seen it on one blog.

You know what I mean? Because the thing about it, right? Does that bother you? Because you're like, damn, give me the same thing that you gave me before, give it back to me. To be honest with you, I don't worry about that you let God fight fight your battles, and he'd say whatever they meant for evil, God had turned it into good, right? But everybody know.

Guess what? If that was real, my son wouldn't have been able to keep playing. Couldn't be able to go back to school. He couldn't go back to school. So they made a headline, right? So you can't steal something that's out by the trash can for a month and a half in the snow, in the rain. This was some old things where these kids, they pick up, you know, you go to college, they pick up chairs that be out there by the dumps, they pick up all this stuff.

And then they put a price tag on it, say $1,500, something that was worth $100, right? That they give away, that they let the kids come take you. Everybody been to college. My son drove a $200,000 car. He got a multimillion dollar, I'm glad it happened because that let me know that we still live in a broken world. But if it didn't happen with my son being involved, y'all would have never knew.

Then you would have really been looking at these other kids like they did something. And I'm being honest, if that's the only thing my son ever did, I'll be a happy, proud dad. Just be honest, that don't even make no sense. But I told my son, I say, you're a businessman, what you wanna do? He say, we know what, dad?

They call me Hercules, we about to start making some Hercules refrigerators. That's what we gonna do. We about to make some Hercules refrigerators now and then we'll be able to give them to the kids in the HBCU, but that's what we're gonna do. We're about to make some Hercules refrigerators now, and then we'll be able to give them to the kids in the HBCU, but that's what happened, right? My son is in a school where it's not as many of us. That's in Utah.

But they wasn't after my son, they was after the coach. They have a black coach. Because think about it, imagine all the stuff that happened. I done seen a kid get killed at these schools, play basketball, they getting all kinds of stuff. They don't, half of this stuff, the craziest stuff that I done seen, they don't even report.

The coaches are go, man, hold up. Don't y'all come over here for my school. The campus police should have ran over there and did that. Like, don't you think? And then they ain't even mention none of the other people's names, just mention Master P. Son. Wait, it didn't start with campus police, it went straight to the police outside of the campus?

Yeah, so that's how we knew. Which is un-normal. Yeah, but that's how we knew they was after the coach. So it was targeting basically. Yeah, it was targeting. Yeah, because anytime something happens on campus, campus police shows up first. At my school, at your school, right?

Usually, yeah, absolutely. But that's why Black History Month is so important, and we should have that more than just February. And we need to educate our kids and our culture because we got to know that even though Martin Luther King lost his life for us, we still got a long way to go. And that's why I say the way we do it, we got to bridge the well gap. And that's why I constantly keep telling our people, let's go out here and create these products, create these brands, create our own stuff. And so it's gonna be the beyond, like you say, they never mentioned that, even a thing,

when y'all see the news, the crazy thing about it, that happened two months ago. And they put it out two months later, which was crazy to me. That was one of them headlines I saw and I'm like, yeah, when I saw it, so I'm like, he be stealing refrigerators. You don't need to steal no refrigerators.

But I think it's just the fact that he has to deal with that. But again, the way that you raise your kids, because they've been in there, you know, you ain't see my son say nothing about it. I love him because he humble, but he's successful. He's a man of God. And now he got so many great things, so many great opportunities.

We have so many big brands that we are dealing with and people see this. So I think some of the time you gotta let God fight some of them battles, especially when you know it's not real. Do you deal with like, I mean you're a parent, we all are parents, do you deal with like parental paranoia, having sons that are a certain age,

they in the light, they doing good, and you know what type of world we in? Bro, I'm just telling y'all, right, God do things for reasons, right? I could have got another phone call. That's true. That's true, man. And I'm like, I'm blessed.

I thank God I'm blessed and I'm happy, and I'm gonna keep doing the right thing, and I'm gonna keep being the best father that I could be. I'm not perfect, and I'm gonna keep loving my kids, and we gonna keep growing as a family. There you go. Whatever happened with the lawsuit with Walmart over the Snoop scene?

Man, think about it, right? Even that, Walmart put a big old thing, if this supposed to be Black History Month, they not even worried about diversity no more. It's that easy to do it. Oh yeah, D.I. is out here. People backing away from that in general. You know what I'm saying?

Nobody's talking about it, nobody's saying nothing and it's like, but you know, I'm doing what I gotta do. I'm standing up for my people. You guys have Ben Crump on the case with you, right? Yeah. And what you got there in front of you? What's that? Man, look, got that make them say un, Celsius.

I'm just letting y'all know. And P is a hustler for real. Make them say un. I didn't get a hoodie. Can I have one at all? This the only drink in the world that make you say un. That's Seltzer water. The only drink in the world that make you say uh. That's Selswater. The only drink in the world.

Is it Selswater or does it got liquor in it? THC. Oh, it got THC in it. I'm scared. And that make you say uh. It's only 5%. Okay. It's only 5%.

I'm nervous. No, I'm telling you, it's only 5%, that's the legal amount. Okay. That's it. She looking like oh. I know, but you know what? People are not drinking alcohol no more. People are not drinking alcohol no more. People are not drinking beer.

We the first at the table in the game, doing what we gotta do. Y'all see that make them say, uh, this is a whole, it's a game changer. Absolutely. And that's what I'm saying, we able to create our own brands. And that's what we doing.

That's the story now? I was gonna say, that's the story now? Yeah, you could get this, go to makeemsayuhm, M-A-K-E-E-M-S-A-Y-U-H-H.com, you know, for... How many products you got in the store? I got so many. You still got the noodles. We still got the Snoop cereal over there.

Then you had the noodles, when I was at TMZ, you brought us the noodles. And we tried those and they was good. Okay. Okay. Yeah, you do got a lot of stuff in stores. See that? But guess what?

Why we can't? I just said I walked down the street seeing all these stores and y'all gonna go in there. Each one of them stores y'all wanna go into. How come we can't do it? I was just sitting here thinking like why if, because I be buying ramen like once a month just keep it in the house. Why don't I buy it? Why you don't buy pea noodles? I literally just thought that's what I was thinking of when I stopped keep it in the house, why don't I buy it in the house? Why you don't buy a pea noodle?

I literally just thought, that's what I was thinking of when I stopped talking, I'm like, why don't I just buy his noodles? See that? Yeah. That's what we gotta support each other. So think about we spend trillions of dollars as black people, but we, we consumers.

That's right. And we buy other people products. And that's what we was talking about, right? Those companies that I talked about from Gucci to Versace to Kellogg's, those are family last names. And how come we can't do it? That's right. That's absolutely right.

How's your family in California with the oil fires and stuff? Is everybody good? Yeah, we hanging out. It came close. So I know that it's like 28% contained now in Palisades. So we was almost evacuated saying that if the winds keep blowing, it hit hidden hills.

So, and then Calabasas would be next. So we just, we keep praying and hopefully it's over soon. Yeah. Absolutely. Well, don't forget, P is gonna be out at February 28th. That's right. Proceed to support Team Hope, teamhopefoundation.org if you wanna go. Camouflage is the attire.

February 28th, Drew Hill, The Locks, Master P, and Friends is a benefit concert. And it's going down at the NJ Pack. We appreciate you for doing this, P. And you can go to teamhopefoundation.org to donate if you wanna help with the give back. Yeah, and then I wanna give a shout out to our restaurant that's down in California, Fishbone.

We're the first black owned franchise, seafood, and what they're doing there, bringing food out there to the people on the front line. Dope. And shout out to Fishbone. We're definitely making a difference and on the frontline feeding out people. Absolutely.

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