The Breakfast Club - INTERVIEW: Tamela & David Mann Talk New Album; Live Breathe Fight, Marriage, Faith & God + More

Episode Date: October 24, 2024

The Breakfast Club Sits Down With Tamela & David Mann To Discus New Album Live Breathe Fight, Marriage, And Faith & God. Listen For More!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Jess is on maternity leave. So Lauren La Rosa is filling in and we got some special guests in the building. We have Tamela and David Mann. Welcome. What up, though? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Good morning. Good morning. Now, just in case y'all wondering why I'm here, I walked in the door and she's, sit down.

Yes, ma'am, I'm in your house. I'll sit down and do the interview. Because Miss Man is here to promote her new album, Live, Breathe, Fight. But, I mean, y'all have been doing things together forever. Y'all even know life without each other? No, and I don't want to either. We got married at 21, so we've been married 36 years. Wow.

That's a long time. No separations. I like to say that. There you go. We worked through it. Did y'all know as soon as y'all saw each other? She did, because I was that kind of guy. No.

Whatever. Whatever. No, we did not. No, we were just friends. Okay. We were just friends. But it wasn't long after, though, that I knew, but I wouldn't let him know that I felt like he was the one. I felt like he was the one, but I was like, I don't know,

because, you know, David had a little play in him. So when did you realize? When did I realize? It was probably, it was fairly some months, because we started singing together early. So it was some months, and David started protecting me, even like with the other guys, because I was the only girl in the group, us singing.

And he was always like, y'all don't harsh play with her. We had a singing group, like, so y'all know. Me, Kirk Franklin, and another guy, Darryl Blair. So Kirk Franklin and I have been friends for like 40-something years. Yeah, we was 15 when I met. We all went to school together. We met him. So it's just, but I just felt like if it works out, I said,

I really like this dude. I'll just see. Watch his playaways. And it did. His plays played away. She actually busted me one time with a couple other girls that I was with. I was just looking. I didn't bust you. You busted yourself.

They threw me a surprise birthday party. Both girls? No. Well, we were all just friends. You know how you invite people to, okay, we're going to do this. They should have told me. And we meeting at this house. They should have told me.

We meeting at this house. But he brought somebody with him. So we didn't know that he was going to bring somebody. But it was just people that we all knew. And so happened a couple of them that knew. And then his new piece, I guess he had. Wow. Wait a minute. How you going to throw me them that knew and then his new piece i guess he had this is like 19 you know we like 19 years old at the time so you know that was this is about tamela man live breeze

30 years later he's still nervous i didn't want to know how She didn't breathe through this. He getting nervous now. He getting nervous now. 30 years later, he's still nervous. I just want to know how much did your cup run up over with women, David? How much? I was doing a little much. That's why I wouldn't, for real, that's why I wouldn't hook up with her. Because she was my friend, and I knew once I started that, that was it. She wasn't going nowhere. Nope.

Then once I said I do, I am, I will. All right. And here I am. How did you know? I want brothers to know. How did you know this is the one I'm gonna put all my play away to the side. This is what I want to be with for the rest of my life. She was just different. You know, she she just wasn't the same. She was somebody I could call when I was in trouble. I had to wash dishes and stuff. I'd call her and talk, wash dishes. What you doing? I'm sitting here washing dishes.

What you doing? and so it was just we would just have that conversation just about everything like she knew about she actually knew my baby mom and them before me so she knew about all of them everybody so when i decided okay let me cut this out i start calling hey you may want to come and get this last little old hit because I'm about to get into something for life. And boom, that's it. Wow. That's beautiful. Hold on. 36 years.

Don't that sound crazy? So you told the girl, come get one last little hit. I thought we was going to get past it. That sounds crazy. Man, you crazy, man. No, but I just knew for real. She just had something different. And, you know, we can say it's different, but, you know, me being a believer,

I know it was the anointing that she had on her that was different. So I couldn't, I wasn't going to be able to play her. And then I knew she was going to be famous, so I got her pregnant and trapped her. You did not know that. You did not know that. But it's really been a wonderful ride, y'all. That's right. Marriage can work.

I mean, it takes work. That's right. Marriage can work. I mean, it takes work. That's right. But we really enjoy each other's company, and I like him. We like each other. We're not just in love, but we really like and love each other. Hanging out, doing nothing is fun to us. And you know, sometimes that's the problem getting some of the interviews like this is because, you know, they've pitched us to do interviews as a couple.

I said, wait a minute, has he cheated on her? No, he's not cheating on her. Does he have something else going on? Anybody addicted to something? No. They come to y'all with that? Yeah. It's like you can't get an interview if you're doing good. You know, it's like the world thrives off of the negative.

It's like the positive that people, and that it can work, and talking about family, and trying to hold family together. I mean, because, you know, it's just... Somebody put online the other day, they can't be that happy. They fake. Yeah.

That's fake. People say that all the time. Yeah. They say that all the time. And the reason is because they're not happy in their life. So they can't see how you guys are not happy. I was going to ask, so what do you tell young couples? Because you said something.

You said you've been together that long. No separation. And never separation, right? Me and my wife, we've been married 23 years, been together 31. No separations, right? We work through everything, good, bad, ugly, whatever. So what do you tell young couples? We took divorce off the table.

And the thing is, is to sometimes you got to just separate. And for instance, in the house to just gather your thoughts versus like throwing venom, like at the heat of the moment sometimes you just have to back up okay let's take a minute and digest what's happening versus so you won't say pierce i say piercing things i've been saying that since the beginning because you can say stuff when you're angry and then you can't you can't take them words back because no matter if somebody say i'm sorry and and I forgive you. But in the back of your head, you never try to resolve issues in the middle of a battle. Right. I mean, you just let it calm down a little bit.

Just cool it off a little bit. When you're trying to resolve stuff in the middle of war, it gets a little hard because, you know, early on, like she say, just I I'm quick with quick with my mouth, quick with my tongue. So I would just say piercing stuff and I just started to see how man this is devastating this woman it's crushing her so you know I just start building her up what's the worst battle that you guys got into that you remember that it was just nasty and you was going at her neck she was going at your

neck okay so like we talk which one you gonna say which one the knock at the door yes the knock at the door uh oh knock at the door. Yes. The knock at the door. Uh-oh. Knock at the door. Who showed up at the door? Yeah, who showed up at the crib?

Imagine this. Imagine she's at work, you at the house, and the constable knock on the door and say, hey, here you go. Here are the papers. You've been served. You've been served. I say, served with what? Oh, you have a baby.

I'm like, what? I got a new, yeah. And so she comes home and is like, hey, how y'all day been? your day been I'm good how long y'all were married at this time married five years by this time so before I got married I one of them last come by the last little hit yeah and so imagine her coming home and say hey how's your day oh my day was good what you do today oh I got us another baby oh that's how you said it no I did not I rehearsed it like okay it took him some time to get it out okay I rehearsed it because on the way home okay I'm gonna tell her like this so you know you remember no I can't say it that way so you know So you know the time. I just tried to rehearse it.

So finally I had to come and say, dear, you know, I might have a child that, you know, that I had. And the thing is, is he had two. He had two, he said from a previous argument. That's what he calls it. So, but they, you know, two

different ladies. The best things that ever happened to my two daughters. The best thing ever happened. So it's like, I told him, I said, okay, now I accepted the one. Because I was there when she was born because we was best friends. She was at the hospital the day my child was born. I went to the hospital when she was born. The whole 21 hours, y'all, I'll sit there. But as he came and said this to me about the other young lady, which I knew about the other young lady,

and I knew that they had been intimate. I knew they had a thing going and all of that but for how it was presented it's like it was just it was rough for me to take you know i was like i don't know because the chick you know god bless her we're in a better place now but then she was rough to deal with right you had to put holy hands on her i didn't put no holy hands on you know i had words, but not even to. They don't do that. They air this stuff. Don't put me out there like that. Somebody may come try me.

But I'm licensed. There you go. How about that? The holy bullets. The holy bullets. So how did you get through it? But I just, you know what? We talked about it, and David really pulled me.

Before we got there, it got really bad because she was like, I can't deal with this, I'm out. And I shared with her, like, look, it's me and you against everything else. That's the breakdown he gave you. It's me and you against everything else because I know that this is a hard situation to swallow. I know I put us in a bad situation. I tell my kids now, I say, say look i put y'all in a bad

situation because now you got to go over to your mom's house for christmas okay i'm gonna have thanksgiving i say that's a hard place to put kids and i say i take full responsibility i mean that my my two daughters best thing ever happened you see them now i went to get the the blood test you know how you go in to do the test and i I was going to go in and do a test. And, you know, the first thing, baby, probably ain't mine. That baby ain't mine. So by now she's five. And I walk in the place and I look down at this little face.

I was like, Shane, we ain't got to take no blood. Her face is exactly like mine. I was like, no. I said, dear, we got to just do it. Now you got to tell Motherport what she said to you. Oh, yeah. You gonna give me a check? You gonna give me that check? That was the baby's thing.

Oh, my God. But it was parents. It was both of us as parents that put that kid in that bad situation. And our relationship, my relationship with her is like, man, I just love both of them. So you had no clue to the knock at the door.

Right. You know, there was murmurs, you know, but I wasn't sure. Of course, I wasn't going to volunteer. Yeah, like bring another one on. But I mean, it's just. So if the knock at the door never happened, you would have just like, the murmurs just would have been there? Like you never wanted to know?

I don't know. I don't know if I was even mature enough to say yes on that got you you know that's the whole deal is maturity it's the honesty it's like if you didn't because like i said we knew that they had been involved right it's like but it's a possibility and you saw the baby but to me she looked like him and she looked like her so it's like she was a great mixture of the two but when david told me the resolve for me um dj was that it's he did the the spark thing he said it's us and then it's them it's everybody he said so you never have to worry about me choosing you over them because it's us first and then them so that gave me a reassurance and that's that's everything that's key it's everything i wouldn't have to be

fighting to just have a just have my place. Right. Because I knew that I had the papers, but still, you don't want to be worrying with someone else over just stuff that's even outside of your home. How did you block out the noise, right? Because I'm sure you had friends and girlfriends leave him. He's this, that. But no one really honestly did come to me like that. Because the thing is, is we were in a small community a lot

of us we were yeah we was church kids we was in church singing and all this kind of stuff so all of us did know each other and knew that they had been what they did what is that you know doing what you did oh you know being involved so yeah so but if people didn't really they knew me as a person and they knew her as a person. So it's like she had her reputation. I had mine. And it's like no one really never stepped to me and said anything crazy like that. But they was willing to defend me.

Now, mind you, when we wrote this book and I put the chapter, the knock at the door at it. Girl, he was cheating on you all the time. It's like, do the math. Read the book. Just go read the book. You know, girl, and girl he was cheating on you all the time it's like do the math read the book just go read the book you know girl i knew he was cheating it's like you just gotta read and just follow but that's how we live in and we breathe and we fight through all through all the things you know 36 years later we're still building we're still living because we just believe that heaven is our destiny you know we're breathing every breath with purpose we believe that we have a call we have a purpose to do what we do even to inspire people that follow us in relationships i mean this is like you said everybody wanting us to do this together lauren they do and they expect to see us it's like when

you see one it's like okay what your husband you out here by yourself no he's here it's like he just stepped because trust me i've been trying to lay in the cut while we've been doing this promo tour and the same thank you i was like we fighting together we're doing this together i really can't i mean i don't see y'all apart y'all are really tag team back again every time we see you it just feels complete when y'all are together and if and that's that's the i love the completion of it because he completes me and my prayer is like like, Lord, please give us more time. Give us more time together. And it's like, I don't know if I can do life without him, without God, without him.

It's so beautiful. You're going to make me tear up. But it's the truth, though, because it's like it is really a completion. David pushed me into this. I mean, he helped me to get to this point as an artist. He helped develop me as an artist. And it's like even when it comes to, like, interviews, y'all, this man, with us being the same age, but he's walked me through life.

It makes me almost in tears right now because it's like I'm really grateful. I'm really grateful and I'm thankful for you. And I really appreciate just having the opportunity, you know, to even to be, you know, to be transparent and to even show people our lives. It's not a joke. It's really serious that he's my friend, and we really have a good time together.

But we don't base it off of the things. And a lot of times I think in our life, especially in our culture, we build things like it has to be about the gifts and what we're doing for each other and what we're going and what we drive. And we've never based off going and what we drive and it is now we enjoy each other just sitting at home on the couch that was an understatement we were broken and broke but i think that's what's missing a lot of times like even when i look at my wife or charlamagne looks at his wife we came up from the bottom yes we didn't have anything it was just love it wasn't about a check it wasn't about

a dollar expensive to us was Red Lobster. That's right. Behind dining, baby. That was my favorite restaurant. Y'all like Red Lobster? That was a special occasion. I sold crack, too, though. Oh, you did?

Back in the day? A little bit. A little bit. I was too scared. Too scared. I was around it, but was too scared to do that. Is that what got y'all to get into shape? Because you said you wanted to live.

You wanted more time. Is that what made y'all say, you know what? Let's get into this. I had said you wanted to live. You wanted more time. Is that what made y'all say, you know what, let's get into this? I had a whole diabetes scare and all this stuff. And we was just like, man, we got to do something. I can't leave her here by herself. It's just too much going on. Just seeing the craziness.

And I'm just like, I can't leave her here by herself. I got to get myself together. And so that's what we're doing. We're just a work in progress. Y'all look good, man. Thank you. Working from the inside out. I think the importance of this record and doing it is mentally,

working coming from a mental space, coming from building a body, doing differently, making better decisions for the body, and that thing is like so we can be here longer together. And I was telling you off air, thank you so much for what you're doing in this mental health space. Thank you, brother. It means a lot to me as a black man and somebody who's expected to make the world feel good. And I was like I share what I was embarrassed to come out with my story of depression and making it.

And to hear stories like yours and you're talking and just putting it in the forefront. It makes people like me say, say good i can share mine without being embarrassed because i was embarrassed really i mean like but why embarrassment though because people expect me every time to come out and perform you gotta be funny you gotta be funny you gotta be you mr brown you make the world laugh like she said i grew up i'm a family like okay so people expect that and so they don't know in the background you dying, literally dying and drowning. And so when people like you come out and, you know, make it known, hey, it's cool. I have a therapist and I have Jesus.

That's right. And so, you know, I just want to commend you. But even all of y'all, it's just all of y'all lives what y'all give. I think it's important that all of us bring what we bring to the table. I feel like this pie is big enough for all of us to have a piece, to share it. We can help somebody. I mean, one of our messages is how to get to somebody.

I mean, my God. I mean, it's like with the platforms that we have, we should be able to help encourage somebody from any walk of life. I just feel like we're sent here not just for us. We're sent here to help all walks of life. So what's the message in this album? This is to live breathe and fight even though you're facing the things you're facing the songs excuse me on here's talking about carry on even though that you've dealt with mental health or different different things in your family or whatever your issues

may be we have to carry on we deserve to win after you've done and been through the mess and the upbringings that we've came out of. We deserve to win. You deserve to have some nice things. You deserve to have a smile on your face to be in a good relationship. You're going to find somebody. I've been watching you. I've been talking to the screen. Leave her alone.

She don't pray though. She don't pray about it. She don't pray. Leave her alone, man. He don't know. He don't know. I'm watching every day. She don't know my body. She don't know my body. She was kind of like you early on. She was a player player for the Himalayas. That is not true.

That is not true. But all the men have caught on to what she's been doing and been checking her. That's right. Because of the radio. I see it. Trust me. I'm with you. If you've been watching, you know.

I did not start out player player. I was deeply involved. Wait a minute. You messed up. You said I didn't start out player player. I didn't. I mean, once you get I wasn't a player. I'm single. I'm just meeting people, you know. And now

She kicks the same game to the same guys and they figured it out. To the fact that two gentlemen said you need to fix yourself. You need to get therapy to come back around. Two of them told us you need to heal. First of all. Two men told us you need to heal, Tamela. One of them only lasted to the Sunday after homecoming. Because you need to get there first of all two men told us you need to heal tamla don't one of them only lasted to the sunday after homecoming oh because you needed to heal no because he don't get me started a lot of it be deflecting and cap and the language she uses she be calling

these guys things like eaters y'all know about that no we don't we don't not My best eater. Okay, what's that? I'm not the body? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. I don't say that. I don't say that. Got him in the phone.

Got him labeled in the phone, eater. That is not true. Eater two, best eater. That is not true. I would never do that. Let's pray. But I think we should. I'm down to pray.

But when you're looking at being found, I think we have to make a list of what we're wanting in a relationship. And then you become the list. I have a list. Talk that talk. I have a list. So we become the list. And just like one of the songs is called Big Facts.

It's my fun song. But it's like looking in the mirror, examining yourself, fixing yourself so when he finds you, you're ready. It's like you're making ready. It's not like you're just sitting. When he finds her, what does he find? He finds a good thing. You find favor.

We bring the favor. Women don't realize that when a man finds you and connects with you, you are the favor to the relationship. And favor goes way beyond money. That's right. So it's like you want to be it's like i don't understand it but it's like i found these things out later in life that i have value that i have i have a purpose and again a call y'all got tam over here ministering to me

first of all don't say lauren needed because a lot of what they don't understand she's got problems you don understand. She's got problems. She don't receive it. No, no, no, no, no. I don't receive it from him. I receive it from you. She text a man a scripture Proverbs 1821. Talk about a life and death are in the power of the tongue. True.

That's true. I did not send that to you. I did not send that to you. Yes, you did. Okay, wait a minute. Did you send that? No. I would never send scripture talk about power.

Because why would y'all play in front of God face like that? No. I would never send scriptures talking about Proverbs. Because why would y'all play in front of God's face like that? Okay. I would never send a Proverb talking about my best eater. My pastor would have your tongue. Help me, Lord. Help us, Lord.

See, that was too easy of a joke. She just laid it out there. I heard it. That's why. Don't you get it. But don't take that. Will you? Just know what you want. and it's okay to have

standards and it but you said that you've realized later in life about your value right yes you but it takes time for you to get to a certain point where you feel like okay now i'm ready to answer back into things yes i just feel like some men don't understand when you're taking that time that doesn't mean that you're lonely or without it's just you know you need that time I stepped away from something see that's the healing process when y'all said for taking her time

for healing that's the healing process right there so she is in the process of being healed so y'all just have to it's her way are you still dating

while you're healing she was at G-Hole this weekend so honestly what's that what's G-Hole I didn't know I was scratching my face

we just ate at home I got eaters I be with the hoes What's that? What's G-H-O-L-D? I didn't know it was right in my face. We 58 and old. I got eaters. I be with the hoes. I'm so sorry for them, y'all. That's okay. I brought y'all into this and I did not know it was this old. It's okay.

But as long as you know. Yeah, I know. And I know these guys are G-H-O-L-D. Y'all stop teasing her. Thank you. Why you gonna come here and try to mama somebody? Because I'm this old.

I'm this old. I'm the oldest in here. I'm 58. I did take time before I started dating. I took a lot of time because it was a long relationship that I was in. And then I got back outside and now here come these two. I see God working on it. God is working on it. You know, hand on me

is one of my titles. Hand on me. God need to have hands around the throat. What? The way he got his foot on my neck. He need to choke on it. What? But I have a song on this called Power.

It's talking about the power of God. You should listen to it. It's a good one. The power is really just talking about how the Lord just maneuvers and how his power just happens over things and just how he just holds us i mean it's just amazing how god just really protects us when we don't know that we being protected we think we out here doing it ourselves but the lord is really shielding us so it's just it's just really a blessing to be able to bring good you know my hope is that it's good music and people can be healed

and have inspiration from it i was gonna ask about ask about, Lord, I trust you, right? Because, you know, to what you're speaking about now, you say, when the sun's not shining down on me, when the chaos is overwhelming my peace, when my life is spinning out of control, when I lose my grip and I start to let go, Lord, I trust you. How hard is it to put your trust in God when things aren't going well? When you don't see no light at the end of the tunnel. It can be hard to me.

That's when I have a real good cry. I just get in my car a lot because my car to me, it's like I can get away from everything and don't have to hear anything. It's like that, but in my closet. It's like a prayer closet and in my car. But it's like because God, it's like I don't understand what's happening right now. This last year and a half of things coming to me, like I can't believe that i'm

in this situation i can't believe that i'm having to fight just to prove who i am and i and i thought i was doing that but it's like okay lord i trust you i trust that you're gonna handle it and then that's when the song too came for me uh working for me that the lord just gave me a stamp of approval you may not see me at work but i'm working in your behalf that he's working for me, working for me, that the Lord just gave me a stamp of approval. You may not see me at work, but I'm working in your behalf, that he's working for me. Bless you. Thank you.

So it's just, I just take comfort in knowing that he is my guide and he is my help. He's my present help in the time of storm. Even when I don't see and nobody else is around, he's there and I can go to him and I ain't got to worry about him, my business being in the street. That's why testimony is so important though right because i like to hear other people's stories and what they've been through and what they're overcoming of it that's right overcoming that was your last album overcoming overcoming sure was overcoming and that's the thing is and the lord has allowed me to finish the work even to the extent of even with my body i finally

found i reached the goal of like even the weight loss that I was trying to do. So, but to even spiritually become a writer, like I wrote on, it's like I gave direction on every song on this album. So it's like things that I'm proving to myself and showing like, Lord, you know, I wrote the plan down and I'm following through with the plan. Working for me, that was your 11th number one, right? Yes. You broke the record of all time number one? In gospel music. Wow! Congratulations. With her mentor, her and Kirk.

We're tied for number one. We're tied. I mean, you don't see this stuff coming. You hope people gonna like the music and enjoy it, but it's like, when it happened, I don't even look at the charts y'all they have they tell me she never know working for me you lean into the country music this yeah so i know and i know kirk franklin is known for dibbling dabbling different beats and sounds

and stuff like that have you thought about like what you know it would be like for you to do other styles or bringing other styles like the r&b or like anything secular, but making it gospel, kind of how he does it. Well, I kind of have some balance that's close to, I would say, maybe R&B. I've had a little. R&B. R&B. And we did do a love project, Us Against the World, that I did, like I have a song that's called Feels.

I sing a song that's called Feel Like. It's really a straight R&B song. We didn't push it, but I think it would have really did well. But I just didn't want people to think that I was trying to do R&B music, that I still wanted to stay in my genre. Because I feel like, again, like I said earlier, we all have a part to play. And really she was afraid of what people were going to say. I was worried about what people were going to say.

I did. I was. I was very fearful. And it wasn't like I was fighting them, but I was dragging my feet. It's like, I feel like if I can hear whatever, I can sing whatever. You know, like when you say the country music, it's like, I'm country. Y'all hear it in my, just how I talk. But I know about the chickens and the hogs. You know, I was raised actually in the country. So it's like those things to me, it's like I've been stretched.

And people just don't, I think once you hear, a lot of times we only listen to people's single that they have out, but we really don't go listen to the body of work. And even with the love project we did, she was afraid of what people were going to think. I'm in the studio. I got my chest hairs out.

I got my sunshade. I'm doing my best R&B. Oh, you was ready. What? I mean, let the lights down. Pull the lights down. I had my shades on. I was doing my, ooh, yeah.

And she was like, just have. I said, that is not how you sing. But then I realized she was afraid of what the church crowd was going to, you know, think of her. But once I thought about it, it's like I'm singing to the love of my life. I'm singing to him. I'm not singing for y'all per se. I mean, thank God for everybody, but I was singing to him.

And the song is, you make me feel like I'm on top of the world. And it's the truth. He does. So it's like when you hear this song, it's like it just brings it all to life of like me talking straight to him or him, you know, feeling like when he touched me,

it's just, he still give me goosebumps. So it's like, babe, don't do that. Don't do that right now. Don't do that right now. What was wrong with that? Y'all married.

Why can't two married people have that? It's true, but it's just the society that we live in. It's like our people, we can be judgmental. We can be the most loving, but we also can be the most judgmental when it comes to Christian people. I don't understand that about Christianity. I have no idea.

I'm not judging one of the first things they teach. It's not. And I love being on this side, but I don't know why we're like that. I have no idea. But it does have to be a separation, though, y'all. It's just, you know, this just has to be. I wouldn't come and look for you to do certain things just like you probably wouldn't expect for me to do certain things.

And it's not judgmental. It's just like what you've represented. just that's just kind of like like what your parents it's like sometimes even some key like our kids like to talk about sex they don't want us to talk about sex but we have sex so it's like but it's just like we know we make love people we do and people don't want to hear certain things from certain people so it's not i don't think all of it is i would say judging it's just you just um i might start saying what would jesus do could you see him just pull back on on one yes he wouldn't smoke the weed yeah yeah burning bush burning bush was to bring a message did you say I'm going to push you off the page

his father created marijuana the burning bush was not for him smoking no the bush was being burnt to show as a sacrifice this was a magic question they ain't sacrificing the bush that I'm talking about no they cooking greens God creates everything for a purpose

God created marijuana but it wasn't for us to be, like, joyous. It was for us to be healing. Now, I do believe there is a medical purpose. It's healing. It's for healing. It's not for us to just be like, what up? I'm going to go get one for you.

And I'm just in my clap. Because I got people. This young man, I ain't going to mention his name. But he said, my man, I love your album. And when I'm there, man, I'm going straight to church. It's like, but he had. He's going to his garage and listen to Tambla, man. He had.

He said, man, I had the best church. I said, come on. You almost said his name. I said, come on now. He said, but it's true, though. He said, I just have better church when I'm done smoking. So he get high, he listen to your album and go to church? He is going to listen to the churchiest of our church from.

You got to meet people where they at. I think Jesus is getting high with all of his disciples. I love him. I sit in time to him on the phone. I mean, I take time with people because it's like once you really get to know me, I really am a mama mama and I'm an auntie auntie. So it's like, and I'm for everybody. You know, I love to cook for everybody.

So Mama Man's Kitchen is another thing that I'm doing. But it's just, I just love people. And I just love, I just feel like I should be able, we should be able to rap and talk about everything. Y'all don't think Jesus got high? I don't. I'm going to push you out of that seat. Why do you think all them people thought he was walking on water?

You know I don't cuss, but nigga, nah. He turned the water into wine. So that's the alcohol. I don't cuss, but I do say nigga. He turned the fish in the bread. He mowed the plot of, so that's the alcohol. I don't cuss, but I do say niff. And then he turned the fish in the bread. He multiplied it for everybody. That's the munchies. That's the munchies.

Man, I don't know, man. That is the munchies. I see why you always on him. Come on. Come on, Lauren. Get this. I'm with you. This is your time.

You know what I'm doing? I'm allowing him to jump off the cliff on his own, and we're just going to watch him go down. Jesus know my heart. Mm-hmm. he working on me still that's what I was gonna say he work he know my heart and he working on me still

help me lord live breathe and fight y'all live breathe and fight he just sitting there like I can't believe some of the stuff he say keep living keep breathing

because sometimes he talks so like you be telling him he talk too much no no no he says it so aggressive and with so much force that you think

it's true right he's been up here for 15 years talking about the burning bush was dead jesus was smoking a burning bush so there's a lot of people out there listening that thing jesus was smoking real believer like you really you know the word you know that Bush was not there for him. What do we call God? The Most High. What's wrong with you? He is the Most High. Come on now. You see something?

You see something to thrill him? You better give him reference. There's people out there that agree and listen to him. They do. And that's misleading. And you stop that. That's the mom of me. You quit that.

I'm sorry, God. God, if I did anything wrong. You know my heart, God. Back to the album before all of us get struck Let me leave Let me leave in the building Can we play some records Off this album

Please What you wanna hear right now Laura what you wanna hear Deserve to win Deserve to win Is my new single Yes You wanna hear that

Deserve to win You deserve to win Matter of fact Let's play both Cause I don't know If I might go to hell After what I just said So let's play both

Just in case Wait he said what Let's play both Let's do working for me And deserve to win, Lauren. Matter of fact, let's play both, because I don't know if I might go to hell after what I just said. So let's play both just in case. Wait, he said what? Let's play both. Oh. Let's do working for me and deserve to win. Don't try to bring God on in here double time now. Now you see it double. You were just smoking with God.

Now you're in the air double. Yeah, all right. I told you you were going to pull up that clip by yourself. Ain't I? Won't he do it? Won't he do it? He's working for us tonight. Yes, this is it. Oh, man. We got to say a prayer before we get up out of here. Father God, we thank you for this day. Won't he do it Won't he do it He's working for us tonight Yes Today

We gotta say a prayer Before we get up out of here Father God We thank you for this day We thank you for this opportunity To be before your people We ask you just bless us Lord God Bring inspiration

Understanding To all of us God In every area that we need And touch those That are having Problems for us In their minds Lord God To just bring

And lift every weight Off of us, oh God. We just give you glory for this opportunity. Thank you for the Breakfast Club. Thank you for what they bring for our people. And we give you glory for everything that you're doing. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen.

Amen. We appreciate you for joining us. Always a pleasure, man. Thank you so much. Thank y'all. Pick up the album out right now, Live, Breathe, Fight. And remember-

Keep living, keep breathing, keep fighting, y'all. God did not smoke the burning bush. He did not. That's not it. It was for a sacrifice. Come on, get out of there. It's the Breakfast Club. Get out of there. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Wake that ass up in the morning.

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