The Breakfast Club - Its All About Growth ( Omar Epps and Charles Murray)

Episode Date: March 31, 2022

Today on the show we had Omar Epps and Charles Murray stop by, and speak on the progression of black cinema, Mental Health Themes, and their new film "The Devil You Know". Aftewards, Charlamagne gave "Donkey of the Day" to a sociology teacher for bullying a student for refusing to participate in the pledge of allegiance. Also, since Angela is away, it was time for Ask C and E where Envy and Charlamagne try to give their best advice to our listeners, and they had one listener who doesnt know how to leave a guy becaue of his "good good" in the bedroom. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Definitely Thursday. I'm tired today now. I'm going to let y'all know. Okay, between all that dancing I was doing here yesterday and a good arm workout yesterday, I'm tired this morning. Oh, boy. A little muscles, a little exhausted, but I'll be all right. We're going to make it, God damn it.

All right. Okay? Yes, well, it is Thursday. Besides working out, what else did you do yesterday? Anything entertaining? Anything fun? Anything at all?, what else did you do yesterday? Anything entertaining? Anything fun? Anything at all? What was yesterday? Wednesday, man.

Today's Thursday. Yesterday was Wednesday, man. It's all a blur, man. I don't remember doing anything entertaining. You know what I did yesterday? After we worked out, I rolled my wife to pick up the kids from school. That was fun. That was it.

It was fun. You know what I'm saying? Like right when you finish a good workout and this is you and the wife together and you're talking and going to pick up your kids. Yeah. That's life. Yeah. What you want me to say?

Yeah. I was in the club tossing it up. No. You didn't even say that anymore. I didn't say that at all. You're not. My kids picked up my kids yesterday from school and, you know, it was Subway Day. For some reason, they wanted Subway.

Damn, man. Why you say it? Our cameraman said gross. some reason they wanted subway damn and why you say my cameraman say gross what's wrong with subway I haven't had subway in a while but I'm not gonna ever diss nothing that I grew up on now my kids went to subway yesterday so I took them to subway and they got their subway sandwiches they were so excited to go to subway that's dope man daddy got a foot long in the morning kids get a foot long later that's what's wrong with you what I didn't say nothing, man. I didn't even say nothing, man. This guy's crazy, man.

This guy's crazy. This guy's crazy. I didn't even say nothing. Who? We got anybody on the show today? Omar Epps and Charles Murray will be joining us. Hey, Omar and Charles got a movie coming out this weekend called The Devil You Know. The Devil You Know.

It's in theaters tomorrow, actually. So they'll be here to talk all about that. That's black Hollywood royalty right there. Absolutely. You know what I mean? Omar Epps and Charles Murray. If you don't know who Charles Murray is, look up shows like Sons of Anarchy. Luke Cage.

Look up shows like Luke Cage. Look up shows like Marvel's The Inhumans. It's a bunch of stuff. That's the stuff I watch. But he's had his hand in a little bit of everything. Absolutely. You know Omar Epsi goes back from Juice to, you know, the Power Book now to Loving Basketball. Oh, come on, man.

So many. The Wood. Yeah, he's been in so many different things. The Wood. Mm-hmm. Why you say The Wood twice? That's the name of his movie, man. I heard you the first time.

I said it twice? No, I didn't. This guy is crazy. This guy be making up stuff for no reason, man. You're starting early. Come on, man. What do we got on front page news? Disney releasing more gay characters.

We'll tell you about it when we come back. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha. Ha, grow up. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God.

We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. Now, after an eight-year wait, some sports at first, the U.S. men's national team secured a spot Wednesday in the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Was that soccer? Yeah, this is soccer. This is football. Anybody big in here?

Soccer, is that big? No? What do you mean it's soccer big? Soccer is huge. No, no. The fact that the U.S. team finally made the World Cup, I don't even know what the World in soccer? Is that big? No? What do you mean it's soccer big? Soccer is huge. No, no. The fact that the U.S. team finally made the World Cup. I don't even know what the World Cup means. Is that a playoff? It's like the Super Bowl of soccer, right? Is that the Super Bowl? Yeah.

I don't know. I don't watch soccer. I mean, I don't know. Ain't it like the Super Bowl of soccer? Oh, it's a tournament. It's a tournament, so it's not one game. Yeah, so it's like the playoffs, I guess. All I know is football, okay?

Football. It's the biggest sport in the world. Absolutely. So, in the future, FIFA is a big video game. Yeah. Based off. Soccer. It's big.

It's big. Yeah. Okay. All right, now Bruce Arians resigns as Buccaneers head coach. Todd Bowles will be taking his place. Dropping the clues, Bob, for Todd Bowles. Okay. Black man get a promotion.

Head coach of the Bucs. Tom Brady coming back. All right? See if he can lead them the Bucs. Tom Brady coming back. All right. See if he can lead them to a Super Bowl. Now, Disney talks. You know I don't root for it because I got my Dallas Cowboys, man. That's messed up. But you went to Buffalo to do good.

Not against my Cowboys. If the Cowboys ain't in the way, sure. The Cowboys are trash. But Disney execs said they want more gay characters. I'm here as a mother of two queer children, actually, one transgender child and one pansexual child. I feel a responsibility to speak not just for myself, but for them. We have many, many, many LGBTQIA characters in our stories, and yet we don't have enough leads um and narratives in which gay characters just just get to be characters um and and not have to be about gay stories

isn't that a contradiction if you say you know you want gay characters just to be characters but then you say you want more gay characters because the truth of the matter is how would I know these characters are gay? The only way you can show that they're gay is if you're doing something sexual, right? Unless you're doing some stereotypical stuff. You know? I didn't know if Goofy was gay growing up.

Right. Or Mickey Mouse or Minnie Mouse. Anybody. How would we know now? So you can't say them, but... Well, you don't know their relationship. Right. You know what I'm saying? You don't know what else was going on in the house. They might have had an open relationship.

They might have been polyamorous, polynesian sauce. You don't know. You're right. You don't know what Mickey and Minnie had going on. All I'm simply saying is how are we supposed to know characters are gay if you don't tell us? I don't know. It's not like it's different when it's like, you know, race or something.

You can see. Now, you can see the representation. When it's gender, you know, race or something. You can see. Now, you can see the representation. When it's gender, you can see the representation. How do you know when somebody is, you know, LGBTQ Disney Plus? I didn't think anything about Bert and Ernie. That's not Disney, sir. Oh.

But they were definitely gay. Why do you say that? Okay. That is one I can see. Why? Why? How? I just can see that one.

That's right. There was an energy together. That rubber ducky. Oh, my goodness. Now, just can see that one. That's right. They was an energy together. That rubber ducky. Oh my goodness. Now mortgage rates. Replace one vowel and ducky. Mortgage rates are rising faster than they ever did. So if you're looking to purchase a home or thinking about it,

rates are rising. At one time, rates were as low as 2.9. Now they are 4.8. And lastly, Camden. This was pretty horrible. This morning, theyden, this was pretty horrible. This morning, they're saying we investigated a possible contamination of milk at their early childhood development center. It was determined that a substance found in the cartons of milk was a sanitizer. Now, the sanitizer runs through the vending machines prior to the milk.

Unfortunately, many cartons were filled with the sanitizer and a bunch of students, two dozen students had to be rushed to the hospital after drinking this milk. I'm so confused. So wait a minute. What happened? The sanitizer was what? I guess in these machines, when they run the machines, they clean the machines out first and they have, I guess, some type of sanitizing solution that goes to the machines to clean the machines. But I guess the sanitizing solution wasn't all the way through. So when they started putting the milk back into the cartons, some of the milk cartons also had the sanitizer in it as well. And it made two dozen students sick. I can't believe they're still serving kids milk.

Milk isn't necessarily good for you. Okay. People say it's one of the top sources of saturated fat in the American diet. It contributes to heart disease and type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer's. It's like, why are we still drinking milk? I drink almond milk, though. I have no idea. Well, that is your front page news. And I'm lactose intolerant,

by the way. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051 if you need to vent. Phone lines are wide open. 800-585-1051. Get it off your chest. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Hey, guys.

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Whether you're mad or blessed, we want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? What's going on, Andy? What up, what up? What up, Trav? What's up, Sean? Yeah, I miss you.

I know you're not there, but I just want you to know I miss you. But y'all, can I tell y'all something? I'm a little upset, y'all. Why are you upset? So, I was talking to this guy, right? Mind you, we was hanging out the other day. And we've been talking for like a good, like almost a month, right?

And do y'all know this man tried to scam me yesterday? How'd he try to scam you? What'd he do? Like, he, so, like, when he woke up, right, it was like 7 o'clock in the morning, he said he was going to my other room so he can play the PS5, right?

Oh, you hit? You hit Trav? You can listen, you can listen real quick, Sean. So, something in my spirit literally was like, literally was like, yo, where's your wallet?

So, I got up and I checked my, I checked my plan as well, and I said, you know what, maybe I left it in the other room. So, I didn't want to go in there right away. So he went to the bathroom i went inside the room i opened my wallet i'm a creature of habit i know how i put my card and i had so he had my unemployment card sitting on top of my my ebt card sitting on top of my regular bank card and i never put my cards like that how you get some ass and you want unemployment and ebt you don't deserve nothing you How you get some ass and you want unemployment and EBT? You don't deserve nothing.

You need to get a job. It sounds like struggle. Okay, Trav. All right. You need a job, Trav. All right. I'm trying to listen. I have charges.

Well, salute to that man. I know that struggle D you gave him was good. That was struggle, but go ahead. He took a picture of my card. Which one? He took a picture of my bank card and my unemployment card and my EGC card. What's the problem? He want to make sure

he got to know who you are. No, he was trying to scam and try to keep my card. Well, that mean your D was whacked. If he did that, that mean he had to get something out the deal. Okay? You gave him that trash ass D. You gave him that trash ass D and you ain't got no job? I

got to get something out of this situation, Trav. Listen, Envy. Yep. I just dropped a single, right? Can I send it to you so you can put it in your mix? It's really, really dope. Send it to me. Please play Trav's single, man.

Trav need it. I hope you got it on streaming services, Trav. I do. It's on streaming services, but I have the clean version. All right. Well, send it over. I'm sending you healing energy, Trav. I'm sending you healing energy, man.

Lord have mercy. Trav, he put his unemployment card on top of his EBT card. God damn. That struggle. Hello, who's this? Yo, this is Dominique from Duval. Duval. What's up, Dominique?

Good morning, Solomon. Good morning, Evan. Peace, King. I want to give a shout out to my wife. I should get ready to go on labor, man. I hope she don't go on labor while I'm out here on the road truck driving, man. Oh, man. I want to give a shout-out to my wife. I should get ready to go on labor, man. I hope she don't go on labor while I'm out here on the road truck driving, man. Oh, man. How far are you from home?

About 35, 45 minutes. I ain't too far. All right. Well, get your ass home, man. Is this baby number one? Number four. Number four? Oh, man.

Okay. Number four comes fast. We just had four last year. Me and my wife had number four last year. Four don't play. Congratulations. Congratulations. That's a big flip.

Yeah. Once you go on labor for number four, it's on, King. Well, hurry up. Hurry your ass up. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Also, Solomon, I want to get one of your books, man. I got you. I'm going to send you what I got left up here. I got Anita Kopach's Shallow Waters. I'm going to send that up here for you. I think your wife will enjoy that

after she has the baby and she's laying up in the hospital. Something to read, you know? Yes, sir. Most definitely. Y'all have a wonderful, blessed day. Put them on hold. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up now.

It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. This is your time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed. So you better have the same energy. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this?

Hey, yeah, this is Fred from Illyria. Hey, what's up? Get it off your chest. Hey, man, yeah, good morning to y'all. First off, real quick, first time caller, long time listener. Love yourself, guys. Thank you, sir. Absolutely, but I'm 20 years old, and I used to be a real social person. I'm the youngest of seven, big family. You know what I mean?

But this generation is real weird, man. And I'm having a hard time really vibing and jiving with anybody at all. I hope you ain't calling up here for no advice because I'm the most I'm very antisocial, especially after COVID. My anxiety kicking. I don't want to be around nobody. Absolutely. That's why I mainly wanted to ask you, man, do you ever get a time where you might feel like, you know what I mean, you need to go out, you need to talk to people, whether that be family, friends. I mean, I know you are surrounded by a lot of people, you know, at home, but is there any time that you feel like you need to go in and get something out like that? No. You got a lot of friends, though, that come by the crib and all that, don't you?

I got a nice small circle of friends, and I got my therapist, and I got my wife. I'm good. Yeah, I think the same. Like, I got a circle of people that, and that's it. I think my circle is about less than, I know it's less than 10. It might be 7. But, yeah, I just stay with my circle. Yeah, I do go out, and I go out with my circle.

But when I'm out, I'm in and out. It's usually business. But, no, I got a strong team around me. That's right. The way my anxiety set up. Chess me, guys me, and all that. The way my anxiety set up and after COVID, like us being in the house quarantined,

I just don't be around a bunch of random people all the time no more. Hello, who's this? Jeremiah Smith. What's up, bro? Get off your chest. Man, I just don't understand how kids get automatically guns and shooting themselves. Like a 3-year-old, don't understand how kids get automatically guns and shooting themselves. Like a three-year-old, 14-year-old playing with guns and shooting themselves is ridiculous.

I understand 14, but three is wild. Yeah, I mean, I guess a lot of times parents don't put the guns up or hide the guns. But, you know, a lot of times, you know, what parents do sometimes is they put the guns where they can grab it if there's an incident in the house. But a lot of times they don't think about their child or their children grabbing that gun, you know? Yeah, that was very scary. What story are you referencing in particular? That didn't come out of nowhere. What you talking about?

It's the old shooting stuff. Really? Yeah, well, they didn't knock with a regular gun, AR-15. Huh? How? Yeah. Where? Where is this story at?

It's on, if you look it up, you'll find it on WMC. I know that gun got a safety, so that's even scarier. I mean, I know most guns do have safeties as a security thing where, you know, and if you have a Glock, you know, usually you have to actually cock that Glock to be able to use it, which is, I guess, a form of safety. But, I mean, parents should know that they should have some type of safety lockbox that, you know, even if there's one with the fingerprints now, you can

put your thumbprint on it to open it up fast or whatever it may be. But you gotta be very, very careful with those kids and guns because, you know, kids see guns, they look on TV, they think it's funny, they think it's cool, and, you know. I'm looking at it right now. How does a three-year-old even lift up an AR-15? Jesus Christ. My'm looking at it right now. How does a three year old even lift up an AR-15? Jesus

Christ. My goodness. Get it off your chest. 800-585- 105-1. Now when we come back we got rumors on the way. Two queens of this hip hop ting were out and about last night shooting videos. We'll tell you about it. So don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Listen up.

It's just in. All the gossip. The rumor report. Gossip. With Angela Yee. It's the rumor report. The Breakfast Club. Now, I just thought this was dope because I'm excited to hear some new music.

Yesterday in New York City, we had both the queens actually recording videos. Nicki Minaj was recording her single with uh five year foreign out in the city and so was cardi b she was recording her single with key uh k flock out in the city as well i just thought it was dope i just thought it was two queens they're getting back to music they're shooting videos i didn't think nothing of it oh god bless uh bardi and nikki minaj they look like they was in the trenches they were i'm sure they had the proper security around them as they should have. I'm sure. And I still don't want to see them in that type of element, though,

strictly for safety reasons. But I was just shooting a video. I know. But when I saw it, I was like, Jesus Christ. You know, I hope they got the right people around. Yeah, I'm sure they did. I know Nicky did. I know Cardi did.

But then I guess the trolls started saying that Cardi B was copying Nicky. You know what's crazy, though? What's that? I bet you both of them, Nicky and Cardi, were safer in the trenches than they would have been at the Oscars this week. Okay? Because we ain't had no incidences of violence at either one of those videos.

We've been talking about an incident of violence at the Oscars all week long. So salute to them. Well, both Nikki and Cardi B are from New York, and they know how to touch the town. And Cardi B has a zillion and one BX dudes, and Nikki got a zillion and one Queens dudes, so I'm sure they were safe. But then they started trolling Cardi and said the only reason that Cardi B has a zillion and one BX dudes, and Nicki got a zillion and one Queens dudes, so I'm sure they were safe. But then they started trolling Cardi and said the only reason that Cardi was out recording

her video was because Nicki was. I didn't see none of this. The producer just told me, so Cardi B actually responded. I be trying to be nice. I be trying to keep peaceful, but y'all not going to keep playing me. Let me say something. February 25th, that's when K-Flock manager sent me. All right, cool.

Y'all see that, right? All right. Y'all be acting like I be moving on people's timing. I move on Cardi B timing, all right? Now y'all see the dates right here. Let me make it really nice and clear for you. Now y'all say that it's March 15th, right? Now here's Cardi vocals.

That's a little rough, all right? That's March 15th. At the end of the day, Cardi B was working. Cardi B was rehearsing for a movie. Cardi B was doing Facebook. Cardi B even had to go to Europe for a deal. Like what? Barty, stop explaining yourself to people.

Okay? The internet cannot have a hold on your brain in that way. I wish I would explain myself to a bunch of folks that don't know me. All right, Barty, they are committed to misunderstanding you. They are committed to not liking you. Why are you explaining yourself to them? Stop! Well, I'm just happy they're both back recording and shooting videos.

In the same way, you know, Cardi moves on her own time. Don't give them people none of your time. You know the truth. You know the truth. Like, who cares what they think? They're going to talk anyway. Absolutely. Now, Blac Chyna? They're going to talk anyway. Absolutely. Now, Black China, she was in the news yesterday. She posted on Twitter,

Yesterday, I had to give up three of my cars. My reasons, morals, beliefs, being a single mother, no support, I'm a mama. And she posted, single, no support, child support. Then she put, practice and gratitude. Well, Tiger responded, I pay $40,000 a year for my son's school, and he lives with me Monday through Saturday. Why would I pay child support? Laugh out loud.

Ooh, City Boys up 700 points for that one. That was a nice one. Rob Kardashian posted, I pay $37,000 a year for my daughter's school. I handle every single medical expense. I pay for all of her activities, and I have my daughter from Tuesday to Saturday. Why would I pay child support? City Boy's up another 700 points. That's 1,400 points in the checkmate right there.

Tiger responded, how you pay 3,000 less than me? Let me know the plug. Get on the phone, Kings. Get on the phone with each other and let's talk about it. Let's discuss the best route to pay less money when it comes to your children.

Okay? But at least stay there for these children. There you go. Did she reply in any way? She did not respond. Hey, man. Hey. Hey, I don't see nothing wrong with that conversation.

I don't see nothing wrong. She spoke, you know, what was her truth, and they spoke theirs. Okay? May the best truth win. There you go. Now, shout out to Maino. You know, Maino has the Kitchen Talk podcast. It was just picked up on Fox. So. Hey, salute the best truth win. There you go. Now, shout out to Maino. You know, Maino has the Kitchen Talk podcast. It was just picked up on Fox.

So. Hey, salute to Maino. All right. So he has, that begins on April 4th. He has Angie Martinez, Fat Joe, Remy Ma, DJ Envy. That guy. Oh, yeah. That's going to be a great episode.

And they're all going to be on the program this year. So congratulations and shout out to Maino on his Fox Soul deal. Hold on. So did they license the content that he already put out? Or this is new shows? I didn't sign off on anything, but I guess it's the content that he put out already. You gonna sign off.

Yeah, Maino's the homie. Yeah. Maino slaps. Maino wouldn't slap me, but I'm sure Chris Rock said the same thing. He probably wouldn't slap you now because of all that Beijing you got on your back. Yo, shut up, man. I wouldn't want, you know, at least a lot of evidence. Shut up. Slap you on the face.

Now I got to do fingerprints. Yo, shut up. And lastly, now Bruce Willis is stepping away from acting for a little bit after. Am I saying this right? How do you pronounce this? Say it loud. Let me see. It's a brain condition.

Pass it over here. Pass it over here. It sounds like aphasia, but I'm not sure. Let me give it a try. Where is it at? Top. Put your glasses on. No, it looks like a Disney character. I can't pronounce it. That's a definite. Let's try. Spell it for the people. Alright. A-P-H-A-S-I-A.

Yep. Aphasia. Aphasia. I think it's aphasia. I know her, too. You know her? Yeah. Well, aphasia is when you have the difficulty of speaking and comprehending. That's horrible, man. Man, Bruce Willis is 67 you have the difficulty of speaking and comprehending. That's horrible, man. Man, Bruce Willis is 67. That's young.

67 is young nowadays. You know what I'm saying? I don't want to start losing my memory ever, but definitely not at 67. They said you start getting these when someone uses gibberish or can only speak in short spurts. So he's stepping away for a little bit. And they said this usually happens due to an injury of the brain. Damn, man. So what, he had like some brain trauma at some point in his life?

They don't know. And when they say injury of the brain, was it a recent injury or something that happened to him before? Like, I want to know more about it. They're not saying. They said the diagnosis is confirmed with MRI or CT scans. And he's stepping away for a little bit. I don't know why I thought that was a form of dementia. I don't know.

I mean, I guess when I just saw what the conditions were. It is a form of dementia. Oh, it is a form of dementia. Okay, okay. But you said dementia's not caused by brain injuries, is it? I'm just telling you what they tell me. I mean, I don't know. I'm just asking.

I really, I'm not a doctor. I'm not an expert. Well, it can be. Like, my mother-in-law had dementia, and she got hers from a car accident. Got you. Somebody ran into the back of her car, and, you know and when she went to

the hospital and whatever, they had to fix her back, but that's how hers started from that car accident. Man, that's horrible, man. Definitely sending healing energy to Bruce Willis. Alright, well that is your rumor report. Now when we come back, we got front page news. Joe Biden, he's going to try to help

you guys with the gas. He's going to release some barrels, so we'll explain that and break that down when we come back. Joe Biden, he's going to try to help you guys with the gas. He's going to release some barrels, so we'll explain that and break that down when we come back. Now, also, today is, I hate to say anniversary, but it is the anniversary of Nipsey's passing. Yeah, one time for the late, great Nipsey Hussle, man. Sending healing energy to his team

and his whole family. It has been three years since he's transitioned. That's right. And we miss his energy physically, but we will forever feel it spiritually. That's right. So let's his energy physically, but we will forever feel it spiritually. That's right. So let's get on to Nipsey Joy. Come on, man. What are we going to play?

What are we going to play? Let's do Victory Lap. Oh, classic record. This is the first song off the Victory Lap album. Classic record right here. All right. It's The Breakfast Club. Come on in.

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Love that record right there. Find your purpose or you're wasting air. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get into front page news. Now, with gas prices hitting a record high, a lot of states are taking off the gas tax to lower the taxes, meaning to lower the prices a little bit.

But now Biden is considering releasing a record amount of oil from the U.S. reserves. They have 600 million barrels of crude oil stored in underground caverns in Louisiana and Texas. Nigga, crack open the emergency supply. You over here hiding things, Biden? What they're saying is they're going to hopefully start releasing around a million barrels per day. What's cracking, cuz? You've been out here spending $7 a gallon on gas and you've been hiding the stash?

600 million barrels. You've been hiding the stash? You got a stash and you ain't tell us? Ain't tell nobody. What's up, man? Come on, lower these gas prices. That's ridiculous. And then what if he tells people that but then doesn't do it? Nah, he's going to start doing it. I mean, gas prices are ridiculous now.

Absolutely. $8.97 a gallon. I made that up, but it might as well be. No, it's $6 in some places. Now, Putin feels the Russian military misled him. It's a nasty name. Putin. Putin says, first they said they're going to start pulling back,

but the bombs keep dropping in Ukraine. They also believe that Russian military units are taking a beating It says first they said they're going to start pulling back, but the bombs keep dropping in Ukraine. They also believe that Russian military units are taking a beating and that Russian militaries is not as strong as Putin believed they were. If Mr. Putin is being kept in the dark by his ministry of defense, when he does learn the truth, when he actually begins to realize how badly his military is doing in Ukraine, you don't know what kind of reaction that's going to cause in him. They say he's getting his ass handed and doesn't know what to do. I know Ukraine's so mad at Will Smith. Do they even know the Oscars happened? Are they wondering why things got so quiet for them this week?

Yeah, because there's no internet social media over there. Yeah, they don't even know. They're wondering why nobody from the U.S. responded this week. It's more pressing issues. Okay. All right. Will Smith and Chris Rock got into it at the Oscars. All right. We'll get back to you this weekend. They can't hear us.

They can't hear us. No. Now the governor of Arizona, it looks like he signs a couple of new bills. One is restricting abortions, a 15-week abortion, restricting trans athletes, and also requiring voters to prove citizenship. So now 200,000 people, it will affect those people because a lot of them don't have the next the necessary proof of citizenship.

So a lot of those people will not be able to vote in the next presidential election. That's not the only state that did that. There was 19 other states that did that already. Was it 19? I think 19 other states did that already. It's been 19 other states that have implemented voter suppression laws. Right. And meanwhile, the John Lewis Voting Rights Act

is still sitting on the table. Meanwhile, you know, their course of action is going to be to tell us to go out there and vote in large numbers. We're going to need

the largest voter turnout in American history in the midterms, you know, to fight voter suppression. No, how about, you know, fight voter suppression through legislation? How about that? And they believe the trans athlete bill was after swimmer Leah Thomas,

who won an individual title at NCAA Women's Division I Swimming and Diving Championship last week. They believe she was first on the men's team. And when she was on the men's team, they believe he was 462. And when she swam on the women's team, she was number one. Now, what's that bill again? It just bans trans women from competing in women's sports? Yeah.

Not mad at that one. We can debate it. I'm not mad at that one at all. Alright, well that is your front page news. Now, when we come back, who's joining us? Omar Epps. Omar Epps and Charles Murray.

Okay, they got a new movie coming out this weekend called The Devil You Know. It's in theaters tomorrow, actually. All right, you know Omar Epps from a host of movies, from the Power Book series to Juice to Love and Basketball. And Charles Murray, he directed Luke Cage, Son of Anarchy. He was a producer on Luke Cage, a son of anarchy. He was a producer on Luke Cage, sons of anarchy. A lot of stuff.

Yeah. So we'll talk to them both when we come back. So don't move. It's the breakfast club. Good morning. The breakfast club. Hey guys, I'm Kate Max.

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We got the good brother Omar Epps. Yes, indeed. And now we have director and writer Charles Murray as well. Charles, what up, King? Thank you, thank you, thank you. They are executive producing and starring in the upcoming movie The Devil You Know. Yeah.

What's that about? I think it's a beautiful piece that Charles constructed, wrote and directed. It's a film about family, brotherhood, morality, redemption, and it's intentionally told through the lens of our blackness.

How did the idea for the movie come about? 20, 30 years ago, just watching my family and thinking that these people would be good for like a movie or something like that and then the conversation about snitching came up so if i was to do a movie about snitching it would normally go somebody snitches and then your friend tries to stop you and i was like well what would that dynamic be if it was the family that had to like deal with it oh you mean like somebody in the family snitch yeah yeah yeah

did it happen to you was that the situation no no no i mean you know but i come from gary indiana you know which was the murder capital of the united states for 10 years so you know there was a whole lot of you don't tell on anybody you don don't do this, you don't do that. And I'm like, yeah, but what if they did something heinous? And the fact that that was always a big conversation was interesting to me and what would lead somebody to do it. What are your thoughts on snitching individually? We start with you, Charles. You know, it's, it's a case by case, you know, I feel like anybody who draws a hard line, you got to think about what if that was your family that something had happened too but if it's my brother i'm gonna

have a lot of thoughts about it you know it runs deep in our community because it really goes back to slavery and us trying to look out for each other and we handle and police our own you know what i'm saying but where we are now i know it's the whole conversation in the culture about is if it's a civilian or this that and the other it's like yeah it's i think everything is relative to the circumstance nobody knows that's what's exciting about this film is it's exploring this theme of what do you do in that moment nobody knows what they're gonna do until they're faced with it you know what i'm saying so obviously like, yeah, if you in the street game and da-da-da-da-da, yeah, there's rules that apply. So that's the easy part. But if you rob Ms. Johnson up

the block and these young cats out here, you know, they got to tone it down a bit. You knock over the head, she's a 70-year-old lady, and somebody saw what you expected to be. Yeah, I'm all about crime prevention. That's what I call it. You know what I'm saying? I don't even know why civilians have that conversation. Like, what does it matter if I see something even know why civilians have that conversation. What does it matter

if I see something and I say something? I should say something. Like you said, if I see an old lady get knocked upside the head, if I don't intervene myself, if I see the dude running up the block and the cops come and say, you see somebody, you're goddamn right. I saw somebody. He went that way. He was wearing such and such. Especially because you don't want the cops to stop

at you. That's what I was going to say. To be fair, I think there's a lot of confusion amongst the culture and the community because there's been instances of innocent people trying to do the right thing, and police go with them. I remember seeing somebody get hit by a car on Queens Boulevard, and I called police, and the way they harassed me made me feel like I did the accident.

What were you driving? Where were you leaving? I'm like, none of that matters. I just seen a brother get hit like get him an ambulance and because of that now if i see somebody else get hit will i call the police because the way that he harassed me came in my crib and all that i'm like i'd have to say take a second to think about when i helped that person when i called the police for that person again you know i mean so it is what it is and then the complicated matters his character is the black sheep of the family right and somebody who's done jail time and has come is recently out of rehab was still in rehab actually yeah and so he has been the problematic issue in the family so they've surrounded him and then that's put on

him to decide whether he needs to do it or not so what do you find the time to do all of these movies man you're always doing a movie doing a show like when do you find the time to do all of these movies, man? You're always doing a movie, doing a show. Like, when do you find the time, bro? I would throw that back on you. When do you find the time to do what you do? It's dedication.

We got this one shot at this thing we know is life. And this is what we here to do. And for me, the thing that drives me is the power of imagery. I finally understand it now. After 30 years of this career,

the power of imagery is everlasting. It's going to outlast me, but it can impact the future generations. I'm shocked that you say you just realized the power of imagery because I think about all the movies I've seen Omar Epps in growing up have influenced me in some way.

Impact, yeah. I went and got a 38 snub-nosed pistol because of Juice. You know what I mean? But I'm just saying. That was an awesome one. Of course. Only from him, right? I'll say another one.

People might get mad at this, but the wood. The grab-the-butt game. What? Where you going with this? I'm just saying. This guy always goes left. I'm just saying. Those were things we saw in movies that influenced us.

No, that was in athletics. That was in the 70s. Right. God. The wood. You don't remember the wood? I do. When they was like, I bet you won't grab a butt.

I dare you to grab a butt. Oh, okay. I get it. What y'all thought I was talking about? I'll never know it because you always go somewhere left. I know who's calling the wood, but damn. No, no, no. But you know what?

But think about this. I did juice when I was 17 years old. Damn. Everything that was happening was surreal to me. So I'm not thinking in those moments, oh, 30 years from now, people still going to be talking about this. And watching it. You know who probably did think that was Tupac. He was only two years older than me.

You know what I'm saying? But he was just plugged in in a way of everything that we're doing as artists is going to outlive us. But I was going to say, I was working with your wife in the movie. Because you said, and that's because it's your wife, your daughter did music for the movie too. Yeah, so my wife, this is her first film. But she's been putting in the work too. She's been training with the great Tasha Smith. And it just came about organically as we were as we were trying to figure out well who could

be good for this one day Charles calls me like you know be good for this role I'm like who he's like your wife I was like damn I should have thought of that you know and then even with the music thing because we did it on a shoestring budget so you know we would be having conversations and I was just like you know we're gonna do about about music and which scenes you want songs in and stuff like that. And he was like, because my daughter Kamari, my youngest daughter, she's an aspiring singer-songwriter.

And he was like, we'll figure something out. Just let them cook something up. So her and my wife went and cooked up something fire. She has two songs in the movie. Yeah. From an actor's perspective,

she plays your sister-in-law in the movie. Sister-in-law, yeah. That's a different dynamic from wife. So how did that change when you're acting? How do you adjust? For me, there was no adjustment. It was more about, you know, making her feel comfortable. And that was one of the other things.

And Charles is a big part of that in terms of creating an environment on set, not only with the cast, but with the crew. In a professional aspect I was you know hands-off like that's his job you know I would see things like we're doing certain scenes but I'm like I ain't trying to have an argument when we rap you know you could do this Betty nah I just you know I just said was like that's not my job yes I saw on the Today Show with holding Jenna you said that taking breaking up off the table helped your marriage.

Expound on that. It's as simple as that. Like when you take breaking up off the table, it changes the whole dynamic of how you deal with conflict. It's not about the happy times. It's about when the turbulence is there. And for me, it really impacted me, like because you don't have that card to pull out no more. You know what i mean so it's this argument conflict misunderstanding whatever it is you you're handling handling it in a way and where well we're gonna be together after this where i feel like in a lot of relationships the pacing of it is you could always just like i'm out it is challenging

but i think it's been great for us because you just handle things with care. Even if I'm right, you know, about whatever. But it's all trivial, right? We have a beautiful family. We have so much to be thankful for. Let's lean into that. I also operate from my aspect, God forbid, but if something were to happen to me, I want her to be good. You know what I'm saying?

Obviously, I want my kids to be good, but it's just like, I kind of moved from that aspect, too. We're supposed to go through these trials and tribulations. That's a part of life, but when you get a partner that's willing to walk through that fire with you and still love you, that's a blessing from God. Alright, we got more with Omar Epps and director Charles Murray, so don't

move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Omar Epps and director Charles Murray. This year is the 30-year anniversary of Juice. Now, with all these remakes, would you ever think about doing that over? You see where the segway is going?

They're really good at what they're doing. Answer the man's question. Nah, I think you could you know there is one film that I've done which I won't say now but that I definitely I could see it and we're trying to put that together but love basketball

that's another one low hanging I can see it me and Gina Prince Blackwood who wrote and directed that we actually had a conversation about that. And we both agreed that there's like certain songs you just don't touch, right? Like Reasons. It's one of those songs you just don't cover. Don't make a remake.

Just leave it alone. You know? And saying it's humbling. You see what I'm saying? But just leave it alone. And I think Juice is just one of those films that you just leave it alone. I mean, the easy, it's just low-hanging fruit like and no disrespect to juice but nah I mean you could do a new generation version you could be like oh Bishop had a baby nobody ever knew about and it's like

it's all too easy it's just like let's keep progressing because we have so many more stories to tell you know I'll impact uh on my TV talk show last season. I unpacked Juice from a mental health perspective because the older I got, I realized how many people in that movie were actually dealing with mental health issues.

You know what I mean? And then I read somewhere that Bishop actually, in another version, he committed suicide. It wasn't that he committed suicide. It was, does Q drop him intentionally off the roof

or as we had it in the film he slipped out of his grasp which i thought was a more powerful ending and they talk and they talk about you know throughout the whole movie they talk about pock being crazy pock being crazy yeah and they talk about his father being crazy and then rodames makes mention to he got violated in jail so he might have been dealing with those type of issues and it's just like it was so much different underlying things we didn't see in Juice at the time. And that's why I think it's such a beautiful piece because you're just planting those seeds. And the reason loving basketball would be great is simply because it did end almost like you could go anywhere with that.

Y'all got a family now. People love you and Sanai's chemistry on screen. Y'all might got a couple of kids that play basketball. Yeah, but see, that's the easy way to go. You would have to break that up like they're not together. You know what I mean? They got a kid and how does that work? I don't know. It's just, you're right. There's so many

different ways to go with it. So let's just leave it alone. Going back to what you were saying about mental health, if you think about that run of films, Juice, Boys in the Hood, Minister Society, if you look at all of those movies, they were in distress. That's right. Minister Society. That's right. If you look at all of those movies, they were in distress. That's right.

You know, they had to normalize in that. So I think you could say that era of filmmaking for black folks was about surviving what was going on around them. You know, so I think that's a really dope idea. Man, that's interesting you say that, Charles. It's like we were looking at those movies as just culture. But what we did was turn our trauma into culture and at the time i didn't even look at that as trauma yeah because if you think about the bronx where hip-hop comes from yeah buildings being torn down music being taken out of the schools that trauma became hip-hop you know so i think that there's a whole arc of emotional trauma moving through our art.

You know, I think that most of it has been about us finding a way to find normal. I fly a lot. Now I'm noticing I'm seeing more and more of black movies on planes. Love and basketball juice. How important is having a good attorney when you're doing it? Because you have to get residuals and all that when the movies pop up on planes and all that. Has to. Or not.

Or not. That's really all you need in this business is a good attorney. So, you know, obviously at this point, I know how to read a contract myself. But, you know, the law game is its own verbiage and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But I'm always like, well, what about this? Oh, nobody ever asked for that. Well, let's say, I mean, the worst they can say is no you know what i mean and at this point in my career it's like i'm solely about ownership i have to have a piece of it i don't have to own the whole

thing but you know if something happens to me this gotta go to my kids and their kids and so forth and so on and it's really difficult to do in hollywood it's way easier to do with music like with charles we've had these discussions like this man if you look at his resume everybody should know who he is but the thing is he speaks the truth in certain rooms and he makes them uncomfortable so when we had the opportunity to before the opportunity came when we were just talking about it i was like yo i'm in with you we in the trenches and we're gonna get this done and i think it sucks that it took us this long but i believe in divine order and divine poetry so when the timing was right i guess the universe opened up like yo it's time for y'all to deliver this film what's more fulfilling is it more fulfilling to get a big budget movie made or

to do something like this you know you invest in your own money hiring your own people what's more fulfilling well it depends on how big the bag is no i mean listen it's a balance right it's a balance of both because the thing that comes with quote-unquote ownership is greater responsibility for me at this point was more fulfilling i understand that it's not about me it's just having something that will go on so like envy just said when he watching these movies on the plane they're selling those ips that i don't get a piece of that sale residuals come from the union and residuals go down the longer the thing is playing so you might see a check for 15 to make you mad like this the paper costs more to print you know but that ownership piece when

they're like oh we're gonna make a deal with delta to have it in for the first quarter for 25 million dollars who has points on the back end they're gonna get a piece you see what i'm saying sometimes hey if they come with a huge bag take that back like everybody doing these netflix deals there's a reason when they be like here's 100 million dollars like yeah let me tally this up it's gonna take a long time for me to try to make something like that you know they're gonna own everything and that's also why a lot of the younger creatives are not going there. Well digital has ebbed it out too because when you think about music the introduction of the four track was what changed how people had to look at musicians because now you can make it sell it out of the back of your car you

don't have to go through the system. I don't have to go to a studio anymore right? Exactly so now with the advent of digital on this side, you're going to have more people because if you think about what he was talking about, you think of juice, love, and basketball. That path was narrow. But now with digital,

you get Issa Rae, you get Lena Waithe, you get Justin Simien because you can make a movie off of this now and you don't have to go through the system. The system has to come to you.

So you can have more ownership. And I think that's the thing that's more important when you think about a big budget versus something small and intimate is that you have ownership. My first movie I made for $300,000. Things never said. Omari's in it.

Shinola Hampton's in it. That movie belongs to my oldest child. Wow. My second movie, Cold Hard Truth, Dorian Missick, Simone Missick, that belongs to my youngest daughter. Wow. They're in my trust for them.

So having that sort of control is way more important than having somebody throw a big budget at you so that you eventually do work for them. With all the movies that you did, what was so hard?

Because it's not like you're a new director. You have history. You have hits. You have movies and sitcoms and things on the board that have made

a lot of money. Why was it so difficult to get this one done? Blackness. I thought you was going to point at me. No, I mean, you know, because there's still the belief that African-American dramas don't sell. The narrative of the studio system is we're going to tell you one thing.

And when it changes, we're not going to tell you that it changed. Right. So when the narrative is set, people like to stick to the narrative. The narrative for us is black folks don't go see X. They don't talk about that. We've been conditioned to only want to see X and that's why they put only X out. And when you come along and say, Hey, I want to break that narrative. They go, what's wrong with you? Don't do that. We had money for it earlier, but we didn't have enough. And I was like, I'm not pushing that needle. I'm not pushing it forward. I'm not pushing that button to make it until we get a budget. That's at least ample enough that we can afford this person and that person, you know? so going into rooms a lot of times and

saying, like he was talking about the contracts. Guys, I read the contracts. I study this stuff. I know exactly why Soderbergh makes movies for $5 million. I know why Jason Blum makes movies for $1 million to $2 million. Give us the same thing. Either you're giving us profit,

you're giving us money, you're giving us ownership, but you're going to have to give us something. You're going to have to respect what this is. So when I have these conversations, they go, he's a difficult person. Because he knows. Yeah. He's educated. Yeah.

Correct. No one educated in this ground here. You know, I mean, and listen, a lot of the support that I've had has come from the majority culture. But they also go, well, here's a lane. Don't you want to stay in this lane? I go, no. It's about progression. You know, so when I see Puff with Revolt or how Jay had titles or, you know what I'm saying,

even what you guys are doing, it all leads to the distribution point. That's what we got to own. We was taught you got to get manufacturing. You got to press up your own CDs and all of that type of stuff. Not thinking about where you're going to sell it at. And you got the masterpiece. And we got people who are legendary

and moving the two shorts, like, you know, moving out the trunk. But now when we dealing with this, we still dealing with their platforms. You know what I'm saying? When we going to get behind ourselves and have our own platform. But I think digital changes that, right?

Because I didn't know you guys until YouTube came into existence. I watch you all the time. That's how I met Claude Anderson. That's why I bought his book. And so when you think of the dream situation, you have to widen the dream. You have to say, I need to get to my audience. I need to create my audience. However that comes about.

And I'm going to celebrate the fact that I actually get to get my story out. How did that work for you, Charles? You know, you talk about Luke Cage, but you also was a part of the Inhumans and Sons of Anarchy. These are big, big...

Sons of Anarchy became such a big franchise, but these are other two already big titles in the comic world. How did that work for you? Like, as far as, like, I guess back-end and things like that. Well, not because I was a player. I was a cog in the wheel. But that's what made me sit down at my kitchen table and say to my wife,

we're making this film when I made things never said, because at the end of the day, you can learn this business or you can create for this business. And so I decided to learn it. All right. Well, don't move. We have more with Omar Epps and Charles Murray.

When we come back, it's the breakfast club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the breakfast club. We're still kicking it with Omar Epps, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy.

We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Omar Epps and director Charles Murray. Charlamagne? I want to ask you both a question. You know, this is black Hollywood royalty. What are your thoughts on the Will Smith-Chris Rock authentication from a black Hollywood perspective and just a black male perspective? I'm going to keep it simple.

Like, I got respect for both of those men, and I think that they'll work that out behind closed doors. And it was just, you know, some moment. We're human beings. We're spiritual beings having a human experience. Sometimes things happen. Do you ever look at yourself and say, what would I do in that situation? I mean, we all do.

You know, it is what it is. And blessings to both of them and both of their families. What about you, Charles? I think a great lesson can be learned from it. You know, going back to what you were saying about mental health. Will is unpacked a lot this year, more than he ever has. And like finally came out of the perfect image. And I think maybe if this had been a year ago, he wouldn't have done that.

It can be a cautionary tale because this business is all about making you feel like you're one of one. The problem that comes with that is that you remove yourself from yourself and you can't recognize things that are coming and then it happens and you're like left with in the aftermath but i think you can look at that moment and learn from it that you might not want to work on being

perfect you might want to work on being you oh yeah and hold you said something really deep real quick that i wanted to jump on is when you say this business makes you feel like you're one of one and that's such a true true statement one of the biggest problems is that we don't work with each other we're like there's a piece of cheese in the middle of a labyrinth and all the rats is going to scurry in to get the cheese and you get the little piece and try to drag it you know i mean and take it over there instead of working together so when we talking about what you do for a living what you do for a living what we do for a living what

we do for a living if he didn't believe in me and i didn't believe in him this film would have never got made we as an energy force were able to attract the other pieces that's what we got to start doing you know what i mean so we could stop complaining about the system this is why i agree with um i forget we said it but when tyler perry said you worrying about having a seat at their table we got to build our own table i'm all for that we're afraid to fail together that's right but what we worried about is succeeding together it's like you know we're gonna make this investment it's all a chance at the end of the day but you'll you want to fail with them but you won't you don't want to fail with your own. And the other thing too is, let's not forget

that Tom Cruise audio from Mission Impossible 7, where he had a Mel Christian Bale. Mel Gibson. But you also have to understand that that spotlight is bright. Nobody's going to

protect you if they think they can make money off of you. They'll protect they think they can make money off of you. They'll protect you from yourself to make money off of you. But are they really looking at your heart and your soul and saying, hey, that's more important than the dollar amount you're putting in my account? That doesn't happen that often in this business. That's why we have so many suicides and alcoholic deaths and drug deaths and things like things like that and they move on so i think that when we talk about our businesses you know music whatever is creative again it comes back to understanding mental health that comes back to understanding they will push the narrative forward as long as it brings them cheese. And what he's talking about looking out for each other is very important

because once you get in those camps, guess what you become? One of one. You're the only black dude or you're the only black woman or you're the only black non-binary person. You kind of go, yeah, but this is what I have to do to get to. No, you don't. but you don't know that because you keep following that narrative wow a lot of gems today make sure y'all go watch the devil you know man comes out this friday and we appreciate you guys for joining us and giving us

some gems in that jewelry this morning thank you for having us thank you and wait wait it's in theaters amc theaters exclusively shout out to a sister named Nicole Denson Randolph, who is in charge of inclusivity. She was the one who got behind this. And I mean, she's a friend of mine. We were assistants together. And this is what we're talking about, is that you spread the wealth by spreading yourself to people who you can help and they can help you it's what the main culture has done in these creative businesses from the beginning they just change their last name sometimes you don't know that you don't know that

you know like people are always surprised when they find out that Nick Cage is Francis Ford Coppola. But that family thing matters to them. That connectivity matters. And we got to get more toward that. Instead of looking that way, we got to look this way. Absolutely. Shout out to Keisha and Kamari on that note. Let us know how we can fund the screening or something, man.

Let's do that for this Friday. Just fund the screening. can fund the screening or something man let's do that for this Friday just fund the screening just fund the screening it's done give me the joints I'll send you the list of theaters and you can see

yeah for sure yeah let's do it absolutely alright well it's Omar Epsis Charles Murray I appreciate it appreciate y'all

thank you bro thank you thank you both is your country falling apart feeling tired depressed a little bit revolutionary

consider this start your own country. I planted the flag. I just kind of looked out of like, this is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. There's 55 gallons of water, 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it.

I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen of Ladonia. I'm Jackson the First, King of Kaperburg. I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia. Be part of a great colonial tradition. Why can't I trade my own country? My forefathers did that themselves.

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

We need help! We still have the off-road portion to go. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. And we're losing daylight fast. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs,

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Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just don't know what is going to come for you. Alicia Keys opens up about conquering doubt, learning to trust herself and leaning into her dreams. I think a lot of times we are built to doubt the possibilities for ourselves. For self-preservation and protection, It was literally that step by step. And so I discovered that that is how we get where we're going.

This increment of small, determined moments. Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love. I forgive myself. It's okay. Like grace. Have grace with yourself. You're trying your best. And you're going to figure out the rhythm of love. I forgive myself. It's okay. Like, Grace. Have grace with yourself. You're trying your best. And you're gonna figure out the rhythm of this thing.

Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. My daughter loves this song. Word? Yes. Okay, okay. This and Bruno. Oh, my gosh. I can't. I. Yes. Okay, okay. This and Bruno.

Oh, my gosh. I can't. I'm in the car with them. They have to hear this. And who the hell is Bruno? Oh, we don't talk about Bruno for the love of Bruno? Oh, my goodness. I'd be saying that song all wrong.

I just know it's Bruno. It is Bruno. And Kanto. Drop on a Clues Bomb for Encanto. Kanto. Is it Kanto or Kanto? Whatever it is, Encanto has been a great distraction for the past month and some change. All right, if you want to sit down and, you know, let some kids just be amongst themselves for a while, turn on that damn Encanto.

Absolutely. Encanto. All right, well, let's get to the rumors. This is the Rumor Report with Angela Yee. Rumor has it. On The Breakfast Club. All right. You tired of this Will Smith and Chris Rock stuff yet?

No, because we're really starting to discuss the things that we should be discussing in regards to the Chris Rock-Will Smith situation. Go. Well, Wanda Sykes, she was sitting down with Ellen DeGeneres on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, and she spoke about her feelings.

You know, we were the host, right? So we were the, this is our house. We're inviting you in. We're hosting. We're keeping, we're going to take care of y'all tonight. Make sure you have a good time. And no one has apologized to us. And we worked really hard to put that show together.

And as soon as I walked up to him, the first thing he said was, I'm so sorry. And I'm like, why are you apologizing? He's like like it was supposed to be your night it was supposed you and Amy and Regina y'all were doing such a great job I'm so sorry this is now going to be about this because that's I mean that's who Chris is yeah she also talks about uh how she felt after seeing it and I just felt so awful for my friend, you know, Chris. And it was sickening. It was absolutely, I physically felt ill.

And I'm still a little traumatized by it. Me too. You know, that's interesting, right? Because everybody's traumas show up different. And I saw people upset that, you know, I think Amy Schumer and Wanda said they are traumatized by this situation. What does traumatize mean? Like when people say that, what does that mean? That when they go on stage now they're nervous because somebody might slap them?

I feel like, you know, because they're performers. But we've seen this before though, right? Not on this level though. So when you see somebody like a Will Smith get up and smack somebody like a Chris Rock at the Oscars, that means it could be on site anywhere if it happens there. So I can see how in the back of their mind they may think people may run up on stage and smack them. So I can see how that could be a little traumatic for performers, for stand-up comics. She has some more to say.

For them to let him stay in that room and enjoy the rest of the show and accept his award, I was like, how gross is this? This is just the wrong message, you know? Like, you assault somebody, you get escorted out the building. Yeah, they say that they tried to escort Will out, but Will said no, he wasn't leaving. I don't believe that. I think that's a damn lie. I think that the Academy is just trying

to save face right now. I don't believe that. Because if they asked that man to leave the building and he didn't leave the building, they would have had security coming and escort him out the building. Exactly. Then again, maybe not because it was a live show on TV.

They knew what they wanted. They didn't want that man to leave. They knew that he was about to win the best actor. They knew that everybody was going to tune in. They knew they'd probably get a spike in ratings when he gave his acceptance speech, which they did. I don't believe they asked that man to leave. Well, yesterday, Chris Rock performed out in Boston.

It was a sold out show. And he addresses a little bit of what went down. I don't have a bunch of s*** about what happened. I had a whole show I broke before this weekend. And I'm still kind of processing what happened. So at some point, I'm talking to him. And I'm going to be serious. It's going to be funny.

I'm going to tell some jokes. He said he got a standing ovation before he even came out, right? Yeah serious. It'll be funny. F*** you, man. I'm the other side of the show. He said he got a standing ovation before he even came out, right? Yeah, before he even came out. You know, I mean, I get what he said. He said, I wrote a whole show for this whole tour. So, you know, this is something that he's still processing. I'm sure. That's a whole other special right there.

Absolutely. I'm glad that the crowd poured into Chris the way they did, though, because I'm sure he needed it. You know, and I've'all all week, you don't know what childhood trauma was triggered from Chris being humiliated like that. I love Will Smith, but Will is clearly in pain. He's hurting. And he projected that on Chris. Now Chris has to carry that on top of what he was already dealing with. And Chris has already told us he's been in therapy multiple times a week dealing with the trauma of being bullied his whole life. So I'm glad he felt that love last night.

Well, not only that. Now, what's going to happen was happen is probably going to be a problem on a lot of these shows is there was a heckler shouting Will Smith's name and the heckler was escorted out of the building. Everybody want to be a comedian. Why didn't the five fingers say to the face? You're just yelling that from the crowd over and over. It's stupid. So Chris

Rock asked when he was escorting the guy out, is this how this tour is going to go? Yes. And the bad thing about it, those tickets aren't cheap so you pay for tickets to heckle Chris Rock and get thrown out. What if the heckler refuses to leave?

Oh, they're going to throw his ass out. Exactly. That's how you know the Academy line. They're going to throw his ass out. Chris Rock is going to stop the show and throw his ass out.

I wonder how Chris feels on stage now. You know what I mean? Because people don't, like trauma is just an emotional response to a terrible event. That's it.

Right. So I wonder how he feels on stage now. Like, you know. And are people going to try to be funny and act like they're walking up to the stage every time he's on stage now? He better not. You see what Wiz Khalifa said. Wiz Khalifa said, you jump on stage with a lot of performance, you're going to get shot.

Well, that's what armed security is for. That's what armed security is for. All right. Well, that is your rumor report. Now, Charlamagne, who you giving that down? four after the hour man uh first of all i want to salute this young lady who's way smarter than i was in high school because i feel like now i could have got a bag after seeing what she did but uh there's a teacher in texas named benji arnold who needs to come to the front of the congregation we'd like to have a word with him okay because he don't know how to mind his business when that goddamn pledgeledge of Allegiance comes on, okay? We'll talk about it.

All of us couldn't stand. I grew up a Jehovah Witness, alright? We'll talk about it for after the hour. Alright, we'll get to that next. And also, of course, we're celebrating the life of Nipsey Hussle. Man. This is the three-year anniversary of his passing. He transitioned three years ago today and, you know, we miss him

physically, but we forever feel him spiritually, man. Salute to my guy Nipsey Hussle. Salute to his whole, but we forever feel him spiritually, man. Salute to my guy, Nipsey Hussle. Salute to his whole team. Salute to his family, everybody. Let's get into another joint. Blue Laces 2. See, now you're playing some joints.

Now you're acting like you know music. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. I hate you. The Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. Peace to the planet. Charlemagne the God here with news from One Of.

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Now to new developments in the deadly spa shooting rampage. Yesterday was a really bad day for him and this is what he did. And so we are in a state of emergency. Okay, white supremacist violence is and always has been the number one threat to our society. But I'm also very proud that my wife is white. The Breakfast Club, bitches! Alright, Charlene, please tell me, why was I your donkey of the day? Well, donkey of the day for Friday, March 31st goes to a sociology teacher named Benji Arnold.

Okay, Benji Arnold is a sociology teacher at a Texas high school, and he's a prime example of a person using their position of power to harm people. See, Benji is a proud American. All right, nothing wrong with that. Okay, he's a proud, patriotic human, and he doesn't like when people don't stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. Now, listen, I grew up Jehovah's Witness. Okay, dropping the clues bombs for all the Jehovah Witnesses out there.

OK, field service forever. I ain't going to no damn field service. So listen, we never pledged allegiance to the flag, but we stood for it. OK, why didn't Jehovah Witnesses pledge their allegiance? Because they believe their allegiance belongs to God's kingdom, which they view as an actual government. OK, they refrain from saluting the flag of any country or singing nationalistic songs, which they believe are forms of worship. But. They do stand out of respect, we stand out of respect. OK, man. Hey, here's the thing. When someone doesn't stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, mind your business.

OK, you don't know what that person has going on. It could be religious reasons. It could be physical reasons. That's what happened to my father, okay, on 9-11-2013. All right, dropping the clues bombs for my pops. All right, Larry. Club Cowboy, Kiffield, South Carolina. What's happening? Cowboys versus New York Jets. MetLife Stadium.

All right, my father's minding his business. Had an injury that prohibited him from standing. And, you know, also, he grew up Jehovah Witness, too. He was a Jehovah Witness when I was younger he got his fellowship that's another story but if he could have he would have stood during the anthem out of respect he just wouldn't have pledged well it was an older Marine sitting near him and when my father's wife tried to go to the bathroom later that Marine didn't forget and he wouldn't move out the way so she could you know get out of

the aisle to go to the restroom simply because they didn't stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. So that was his get back. Right. Needless to say, a little kerfuffle ensued. And my father tased him. OK, the moral of the story. Mind your damn business when people not standing, not pledging, whatever it is, OK, because you don't know what the situation could be. And since Benji Arnold didn't mind his business, a young student in high school won $90,000. It wasn't for a religious reason though. She ain't even have no injury. Let's go to ABC 13 Eyewitness News for the report, please. Attorneys say a years-long legal case tied to the Pledge of Allegiance at Klein Oak

High School has come to an end. Jeffrey Blackwell is litigation counsel for the civil rights group American Atheist and an attorney for the plaintiff. He says the Klein Oak case was about a student identified in court records as M.O. sitting out or declining to participate in the Pledge of Allegiance at school. She spoke back in 2017. I also believe that we live in a country where there isn't justice and freedom for all. And so I'm not going to stand for a pledge that says there is when there really isn't. The student's mother filed a lawsuit against the school district and several staffers, accusing several of them of retaliation and discrimination as a result of the student's stance.

Blackwell says the defendants were dismissed from the suit over time except for one teacher, Benji Arnold, who agreed to settle the case. American Atheist says the Texas Association of School Boards, a risk pool, paid $90,000 to resolve the case. Man, that was actually KPRC 2 News with that report. But drop on the clues bombs for that young queen, man. She's in high school. Wow.

High school thinking like that? There's a part of me that's jealous, OK? Because this is the second person I know who got a nice chunk of change because they were harassed by someone who couldn't mind their business simply when a person chose not to pledge allegiance to the flag and the republic for which it stands. OK, I got to salute that young queen who even had the wherewithal to file this lawsuit, because I know for a fact in high school, my dumb ass would have just been in the principal's office for refusing to do something like that. And I wouldn't even have realized I was being harassed because I would have just accepted the fact this guy is a teacher. So he has the authority to press me. But I don't have to do a like that. And I wouldn't even have realized I was being harassed because I would have just accepted the fact this guy

is a teacher, so he has the authority to press me. But I don't have to do a damn thing that I don't want to do, but I wouldn't have thought to sue. Listen to this queen's reasoning again, listen. I also believe that we live in a country where there isn't justice and freedom for all, and so I'm not going to stand for a pledge that says there is when there really isn't.

Woo! He didn't release her name, that's why I'm not saying her name, but you know as a teacher, Benji, okay, Benji, instead of attempting to force and bully kids into saying one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all, how about ask them

why she feels that she lives in a country where there isn't justice and freedom for all. I guarantee you'll learn something, Benji. Okay, I know Texas is like a country all to itself't justice and freedom for all. I guarantee you'll learn something, Benji. Okay, I know Texas is like a country all to itself, but the reality is this young student is right, and that's why you have people out here simply trying to keep America honest. That's what she's doing. Okay, she's not asking for anything more than what has been promised,

which is liberty and justice for all. Okay, one nation is true. This is one nation, but indivisible is a lie. Okay, because indivisible means unable to be divided or separated. Negro, please. All right. We've been divided and separated from the start. All right. They need to replace indivisible with invisible because from the start you have not seen certain groups. OK, if you did. All right. You didn't see us in our totality. That's what the whole three fifths compromise was. Clearly, if you couldn't see us in our wholeness, then parts of us were invisible.

So let's replace indivisible with invisible invisible is how so many people feel in this country because white people with privilege don't see the plights of other people so when a person says they refuse to pledge allegiance because they feel like they live in a country where there isn't justice and freedom for all uh liberty for all and they're not gonna stand for a pledge until there is then how about as an educator, you figure out ways to help us get there instead of continuing the marginalization that currently has that young woman feeling the way she feels in the first place.

Okay? Kathy Griffin, please. Please give this giant jar of mayo the biggest hee-haw. And Chelsea Handler, you want to get in on Benjiana? Hee-haw biggest hee-haw. And Chelsea Handler, you want to get in on Benjiano? Hee-haw, hee-haw. That is way too much Dan Mayonnaise. There's really no reason to play a game of guess what race it is because it is Texas. And I mean, Benjiano.

It don't get whiter than that. Like, look how white this man is. He could be on a piece of currency. He could be on a dollar, a $5 bill, a $20 bill. This is white, white. This is wooden teeth white. Come on, man. This is wooden teeth white, okay?

This is the slaves ain't ate in three days, who cares white? Am I lying? He's white. This is white, white. Jesus Christ, man. This is the man. When people talk about the man, the man holding you back. This is the man. When people talk about the man, the man holding you back. This is the man. This right here could be a picture of the man.

This is what the man looks like. If you've never seen what the man looks like, this is what the man looks like. This is a day I miss being on Revolt TV just because I want y'all to see what the man looks like. All right. All right. Well, up next, ask C&E. If you need relationship advice or any type of advice, call C&E right now. And I just want to say salute to all the Jehovah Witnesses out there.

Okay? If any of y'all have ever felt harassed or forced to pledge allegiance, you might be entitled to compensation. Okay? Okay. All right. All right. Ask C&E. 800-58.

When you were a Jehovah Witness, did you go ring people's doorbells? I damn sure was out in field service on Saturdays. Absolutely. So what would make you stop ringing the doorbells? Because sometimes we close the shades, we turn off the lights, but... Honestly, I don't remember doorbells back then. We just was knocking on doors. We was going to trailer parks and stuff like that.

I grew up in a single-wide trailer, so I don't remember ringing doorbells. I remember knocking on doors. But yes, I definitely did field service on Saturdays. Okay. When I was a Jehovah's Witness. All right. Well, Ask C&E is next. 800-585-1051.

It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. It's that time again! Ask Charlamagne and DJ Envy anything. Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up. It's time to Ask C&E. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, pick it up, bro. It's time to ask C&E. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy.

We are The Breakfast Club. It's time to ask C&E. If you need relationship advice or any type of advice, you can hit us. Hello, who's this? It's Terrence down here in Newport News. How y'all doing? What's happening? 757.

What up, Terrence? What up, man? I got a question for y'all. Y'all married just like I am. I got a question for you. Yes, sir. After this Chris Rock and Will Smith thing, I want to know, is it possible for a wife or a girlfriend to feel comfortable and safe that you go protect her if she witness you

not protect yourself? Well, what does protecting yourself look like, King? Tell me what that looks like to you, and I'll tell you what it looks like to me. I'm in an old generation where your father tell you the worst thing a man can do to disrespect you is smack. I'd rather you punch looks like to me. I'm in an old generation where your father tell you the worst thing a man can do to disrespect you is smack. I'd rather you punch me than smack me. And now you can't even argue with your wife

because you get loud where the first thing she's going to say is, don't break bad with me or you ain't break bad when you smack the taste out your mouth. You got to live with that now. That's terrible. Yeah, that's not what

protecting a woman to me is. Or protecting a woman to me is making sure that you're doing the work on yourself to show up to be the man that you need to be. Like, are you in therapy? Do you know how to properly deal with your emotions? You know what I mean?

You're absolutely right. But just think if you go somewhere and somebody get loud, you think you're going to feel comfortable because you're going to protect her. Yeah, I think it's a different situation. Will Smith and Chris Rock were actually friends. I mean, they worked with movies together. They knew of each other. That was one of the biggest stages.

So I don't think you could compare that to if we just in the street and somebody comes up to me and smacks me in front of my daughter or my wife. So I think it's two totally different situations. Hey, also, it is too, King. Now, what if you're a person who can't control their emotions and you're dealing with a lot of hurt and you're dealing with a lot of pain, so whenever somebody pops off, even if it's something light, you react in that way and you're just out smacking people or punching people

and then that person decides to pull a gun out and then kills you, blows your mother effing brains out. That's not protecting. Right. Well, it's not going to end in life. He's been successful all his life. He smiled at everything. You got to expect him to go off sooner or later because he could never be himself.

He only got to be that image. That is true. Sooner or later, he's going to come out sooner or later, and I think that's all that happened. And I love both of them, brother, and I appreciate y'all. I love both of them too, man, and I want both of them to continue on their journey of healing. Hello, who's this?

Yo, what up, what up, what up? It's Ali. All right, what's your question for C&E? I got a question. My first question is for Charlamagne. Yo, Charlamagne, up, what up? It's Ali. All right, what's your question for C&E? I got a question. My first question is for Charlamagne. Yo, Charlamagne, how come every time you're giving out the donkey of the day, you got the days wrong? Today is Thursday the 31st, not Friday the 31st.

What did I say? Friday the 31st. I might have some type of burger, man. I don't know. Some kind of burger? What's the burger? Asperger? Yeah.

I thought the day was Asperger? Yeah. I thought the day was Thursday, March 31st. I said Friday? I don't know why I do that. I'm going to be honest. I see people say that all the time on the YouTube comments. I don't even realize I be saying it. He ain't got an iPhone that tells him the date. He does it all the time. Your uncle getting old, bro.

What's up, bro? I'm 43 now. What's your other question, brother? Yo, Evie, I got a problem, man. I'm trying to see, man. Like, how can I... I got an 80% and I got a 20%. I'm trying to see how can I get my 80, my 80, John. Trying to see how she can give me 100.

I'm tired of running... You should know nothing about this, Envy. I don't know what he's talking about. You should know nothing about this. You shouldn't even understand this math he's talking. I don't understand none of this, this. What are you talking about? You shouldn't even understand this math he's talking. I don't understand none of this math. What are you talking about? You a happily married man, a faithful black man.

What are you talking about? He is. A faithful black man. I'll tell you this. I'll tell you this, King. I know math. I'm going with the 80 all day, every day. I'm the 80, and I'm trying to go with the 80 all day, every day,

but the 20 keep calling. How can I stop? You're an idiot. You wouldn't take 20% of your paycheck, would you? If your boss came to you right now and said, I'm going to give you 80% of your paycheck or 20% of your paycheck, which one are you taking? Come on, now.

That's an easy question. So it should be easy in this situation, too. Get off my damn phone. Calling us talking about math. We don't know. We faithful black men. I got 80 and a 20. I don't know. What are you talking about? I don't know about that damn math. 80, 20. What is that? I know 100 damn phone. What's wrong with you? Calling us talking about math. We don't know. We faithful black men. I got 80 and a 20. I don't know.

What are you talking about? I don't know about that damn math. 80, 20. What is that? I know 100. Exactly. 100% faithful to our wives. I don't know what this man talking about.

80, 20. Y'all may ask. All right. Ask C&E. 800-585-1051. If you got questions for C&E, call us up right now. It's the Breakfast Club. Hey.

Ask C&E. 800-585-1051. If you need relationship advice or any type of advice, you can call us right now. Now, Solomon, before you get into what you said, a couple of people called and had a question about your knees. My knees? Wanted to know how your knees were. My knees are fine. What you talking about? Yesterday, you were dancing.

Remember, you dropped it. Bro, don't play with me. I'm a stent, man. I was a stallion before there was stallions out here. What you talking about? I grew up in the

Uncle Luke era. You hear me? Oh my God. All right. Before y'all was doing twerking and everything else, we was out here with the 69 boys, okay?

All right. Tootsie rolling. All right. Butterflying. What you talking about with how unk knees? Unk knees built for this. It's in me, not on me.

What the hell is wrong with y'all? It's in you now. Why y'all out y'all damn mind asking me about my knees? Please. Now listen, Omar Epps and Charles Murray was here last hour.

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people in America come from the Bronx and all of Florida. Don't worry about that. Don't worry about that. Don't worry about that. You'll be fine. Alright, when we come back, we got more Ask C&E, relationship advice, any type of advice, call us now. That's The Breakfast Club. It's that time again! Ask Charlamagne and DJ Envy anything. Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up. It's time to ask C&E.

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We're in the middle of C&E. Hello, who's this? Hi, this is Denise. Hey, good morning. What's your question for C&E?

Hi, C&E. Oh, my God. What's your question for CNE? Hi, CNE. Oh, my God. Now, I need y'all to be super serious. I know y'all joke around a lot. We serious. We're always serious. Come on. All right. So, I met this guy in LA. I live in the East Coast. I'm not going to say just in case he's listening.

I live on the East Coast. Okay. That's what it is at that point. In the beginning, I mean, this guy is super nice. We communicate really good. We click. We have a lot of things in common. And I didn't want to like him because he's on the West Coast, but, you know, I had a conversation with him and I was like, listen, you're really likable.

What are we doing here? He didn't answer me when I asked him that question. He kind of got quiet. So I kind of shut the whole situation down. And I was like, you know what? You're a cool person. But, you know, I'm here. You're there.

Let's talk about our lives. So he called me yesterday and he was cleaning for the relationship. He was like, what are you doing? He was like, I don't care if you're in New Jersey. He was saying all the right things. He was like, it's not that I'm not interested. I want to let you know now that I'm interested. I'm busy. But let me let you. now that I'm interested. I'm busy,

but let me let you. And he also told me I need to be calling him, but I felt like I'm following his lead. What does he do? What does he do for a living? He's an entrepreneur. He's in the fashion industry as well as the music industry. I mean, I always feel like you can always make time for somebody you care about and you love. I mean, it

ain't nothing to make a quick phone call or a quick text or a quick little something just to tell you I'm thinking about you. I always feel that. Like, if you really want something, you really love it, you're really thinking about it, it ain't nothing to make a little time for that throughout the day, in my opinion. Yeah, I agree. I mean, he said everything yesterday to try to say what we were trying to build. He was like, listen. He said I actually hurt his feelings because he felt like I gave up on him. And I don't think that he was finessing me,

but I was like, you know what? Again, I'm here, you're there. I don't want, and he's really likable. I think you need to make sure that man ain't got a whole other family in LA. Absolutely. That's what I think you need to do. Because, I mean, we all work a lot.

I work a lot. Charlamagne works a lot. But we still find time throughout the day just to call. I call my wife just to tell her I'm thinking about her. I work a lot. Charlamagne works a lot. But we still find time throughout the day just to call. I call my wife just to tell her I'm thinking about her. Or I call my kids just to check up on them. And I got a zillion and one jobs, and Charlamagne does as well. But if you really love somebody, you really care, you find that time.

Unless he can't because he's with his other family. That's right. And he can't necessarily get away. And if that man is with his other family, you need to leave that man and you need to leave that lady husband alone. Oh, no. That's not... Charlamagne, don't play with me. What? What? I'm just asking. I'm just saying

hypothetically. I don't know. But you do need to find out if you got a whole other situation going on, because Envy is right. You know, we make time for what we want to make time for. There's no reason in 2022 to not be able to keep constant communication. FaceTimes, Zooms, something. Yeah, you should start FaceTiming

in wild times. FaceTime early in the morning to see if he's in bed by himself. FaceTiming at night. That's right. Just wild times just to see. And if you don't answer on all the times, you know what it is. That's right. If you don't answer, stop interrupting that man's family time. Yo, shut up. Have a good one. Thank you, guys.

I'm so happy that you were serious with me. We are. We're always serious. Why people think we're not serious? I don't know. Hello, who's this? Hey, what's up? This is Sierra from Toledo. Toledo. What's your question for C&E? I'm just trying to figure out how my man, he treats me so

good, but he can't stop cheating. And I'm just not sure what it is. Don't laugh, man. It's not paid. It's not funny because it hurts. How many times did you catch him cheating on you? It's not funny. At least ten times. Whoa! Whoa!

In eight years? Are y'all married? In two years. We're not married, but we live together. My G. My G. My G. So he got five years. He's averaging five cheats a year. Correct. That's what you're telling us right now? Yeah, like, come on.

How old are you? I'm 28. How old is this man? He's 29. Why can't you let him go? Tell me. After 10 cheats in two years. You got to let him go because he understands you won't leave,

so he's going to keep doing it to you until you change your behavior. I need to hear how good the penis is, though. What? Come on, tell me. What? I mean, it's amazing. I know. That's all it is.

That's the only thing. Got you going crazy out here. You out here d***matized. You're not telling me why he cheating. Because you're allowing it, honestly. If you decide you won't take it anymore and you're out, then he will understand it. But the fact that you keep forgiving him and allowing him to come back in the house.

Envy, stop. That's the truth. No, it's not. This man has been with 10 different girls in two years. She's just one of them. You're not even really his girlfriend, boo. Don't say that. He lives with her.

No, he don't. He do? Shut up, man. You ain't live with me. It's probably because he a homeless sexual. All right? He probably ain't got no other place to be. All right?

Homeless sexual? Okay. He probably ain't got no other place to be. All right. Okay. He probably ain't got no other place to be. All right. Why would he be living with you? When does he have time to cheat if he lives with you? Exactly. When I go to work.

He don't even got a job? No, but I know him. This man's penis is amazing. Come on, mama. He doesn't have a job. You live with you. This man's penis is incredible. You pay his cell phone bill.

It gets to the point where you just got to say enough is enough. He do pay the bills. I will say that. He's a drug dealer? The bills are paid. Is he a drug dealer? It's a possibility. You're going to jail and you're going to have a heartbreak.

No, you got to let go because you don't want to be in a predicament where he brings you home something that you don't necessarily want. Like herpes, gonorrhea. Conspiracy charges. Conspiracy charges. It's enough for nothing. And he keeps doing it because you just won't leave. And he understands that he'll say sorry and you'll stay. Now to the point where you just got to be like, you got to do what's best for you, sis.

It's the best penis you ever had in your life? Why you keep asking her? Choco Man, I'm weak. what's best for you, sis. It's the best penis you ever had in your life? Why you keep asking her? I'm weak. You weak? Damn. God damn. Does it at least give you good conversation to go along with it? It do be.

It's just like a fairy tale. And then pop. Damn. Man, salute to that king, man. You know what? Don't salute to that king. Mama, you know what you got to do. That king.

I remember when I was a young toxic. Stop it. Okay. Lord have mercy. You know what you got to do? You hear me? No, she don't hear you. She ain't trying to hear you.

It's Thursday, Friday tomorrow. Text him right now. Tell him you're not going to do this anymore. He what? He trying to grab my phone right now. Let me talk to this King boy. Come on. I want to talk to you.

Peace King. How you doing, brother? What's up? You're wilding, bro. You're wild. He's grabbing my phone. He's grabbing my phone right now. Let me talk to this King boy. Come on. I want to talk to you. Yo. Peace, King. How you doing, brother? What's up, big guy? You wildin', bro. You wildin'. Yeah, why you out here playing with that girl's emotions, man? I ain't playing with her, but every female need to understand they play too, and there will be less confusion and arguments, I think.

I think she would respect you more if you had a job, King. You know what I'm saying? You got a job. No, she said he don't got a job. It's not a legal job. I'm a barber. Oh, you're a barber? Oh, okay.

Do you have your license? That ain't funny. Do you have your license? He ain't got his license. If you don't got your license, it's still an illegal job. Bro, she caught you 10 times in two years. So there's a couple of times she ain't catch you, bro. Come on now.

If she a good woman, you got to chill the F out. You living with her, your clothes couple of times she ain't catch you, bro. Come on now. If she a good woman, you gotta chill the F out. You living with her, your clothes is dead, you gotta chill out, bro. Do you like her? Yeah, she aight. Oh! Girl, if you don't kick that n***a out your car right now! Right now! Right now! Pull over and drop him off!

Get out! We just joking. We don't want nothing toxic. Y'all handle this later on. We've been working on it. Wow. Alright. Well, I don't know what to tell somebody like that. When a person is dematized in that way,

okay, and the man done cheated ten times in two years, she'll come around one day. One day she'll realize. But you don't want to be the guy that does it one last time and you lose her and then three years down the line you'll be like, that was the best thing I ever had.

I lost it. Or what? He could one day evolve and become the man that she has always wanted him to be. It has happened to the worst of us. All right. I am living proof. No, I never had no five.

I never had no 10 in two years. That's just ridiculous. That's just nasty. Yes. All right. All right. It's disgusting. 10 in two years?

You're just out here wilding. You don't care nothing about your penis. You're out here 10 in time. 10 in two years in this era? No, he got caught with 10, so it might have been 20. Whoa. Whoa.

In this era? No, no. Anybody got time for that it might have been 20. Whoa. Whoa. In this era? No, no. Ain't nobody got time for that. No, no, no. You get chlamydia, computer viruses, all types of stuff. You ain't got time for that. Computer viruses? You don't want your penis to get hacked.

All right. Well, let's get to the rumors. Let's talk Soulja Boy. It's about time. What's going on? Rumor report. Rumor report. This is the rumor report.

Talk talk. With Angela Yee on The Breakfast Club. Well, Soulja Boy turns into Big Draco. He wants to know why Lil Durk, why the Migos ain't returning his calls. Why are you yelling? I don't know. I wanted to get my Soulja Boy's voice. I'm always doing a song with a s*** before they get signed.

Then once these n****s get famous, I can't even get a song from these n****s no more. But when y'all n****s was in the hood and ain even get a song from these n****s no more. That's crazy. But when y'all n****s was in the hood, and ain't nobody know who the f*** y'all was, I was doing songs with y'all n****s. Chief Keef, Lil Durk, Migos, Famous Dex. Only n****s I did a song with, nah, was Richie Keef. N****s ain't real. I'm still having this s***.

Still have emotion. Really don't need no song with you n****s. All n****s gotta do is look up Soulja Boy and Lil Durk either. This man, first mixtape. I'm talking about nobody knew who Lil Durk was. Nah, niggas. Get a record deal. Where the fuck my feature back at, niggas?

Don't play with Big Draco. Why Soulja Boy always sound like he giving closing arguments and everything? You know what I mean? And I just say guilty. Guilty to everybody he just named. Okay? All right. You should to everybody he just named. Okay? All right. You should return the favor, though.

If Soldier did look out for y'all in that way, you know, before y'all got popular, you should return the favor later on in life. You should. But if you don't, you know, it is what it is. But you should. All right. Now, Issa Rae, there was rumors that Issa Rae is pregnant. Why did he say that? I don't know.

Well, she responded. She says, I am not pregnant. F you very much. Let a bitch eat, drink, and be merry. That's one of the worst things you can say to a woman, man. Tell a woman, you know, when you're expecting and she ain't even pregnant. I learned my lesson. I did that one time.

We was on a plane and a radio personality was on there with me. And I was like, yo, congratulations. You know what I'm saying? She said, for what? I said, you're pregnant. She was like, I ain't pregnant. I said, oh. All jokes aside, it's so disrespectful, and I mean this in a real way.

It's just like saying fat bitch. What? It's that disrespectful. I'm serious. That's the equivalent. Taylor, am I lying? If somebody walked in and be like, damn, you pregnant? That's disrespectful, right?

That's just like calling a woman a fat B, right? I'm telling you. That's disrespectful, right? That's just like calling a woman a fat B, right? I'm telling you. That's disrespectful, yo. Well, I didn't know what this one, this one just, no. Let me see. Let me see. Let me see. Let me see.

No, let me see. It was just a bad transition. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. See, I'm glad. See, that's growth right there. That's growth. Even though I got to show the people the headline, at least on the camera. But just to know what we did not, we decided not to discuss after that segue.

Should I show? Yes. We didn't do it. We didn't do it. Don't do it. You know what? I'm not going to do it. No, I'm not going to do it.

I'm not going to put the energy out there. All right, nope. Whoa. Whoa, that would have been a hell of a segue. Whoa. Boy, they would have thought you was being a real asshole on this radio this morning. You hear me? Whoa.

Okay. All right. Well, that is your rumor report. Damn. Nope. Nope. Not doing that one. You just want to say what it is, though?

Nope. I do not. The context? Nope. Nope. All right. People's Choice mixes up next. Nope. I got therapy today. 5 o'clock. It's the type of stuff we discuss at therapy. I thought you Nope. Nope. All right. People's Choice mixes up next. Nope.

I got therapy today. 5 a.m. It's the type of stuff we discuss in therapy. I thought you had therapy on Friday. No, I got it today, actually. 800. This is stuff we discuss in therapy. I'm not doing that.

All right. 800-585-1022. I want to, though. I want to, too, but I ain't doing it. I ain't messing with you. But I'm going to get my laugh soon as this. No, I'm not. I'm not even going to laugh at this.

800. Taylor, come here. You saw this? You saw it? Okay. 800. Nick, you saw what we didn't? Come here.

Okay. You want to see what we didn't talk about? We didn't talk about it. Okay. 800-585-105. One of the People's Choice mixes up next. We're going to start it off with Nipsey. The Breakfast Club.

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It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlemagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. Now we got a shout-out to Omar Epps for joining us this morning. Yeah, salute to the good brother Omar Epps and Charles Murray. And also Charles Murray for stopping through with him. Yeah, they got a movie coming out this weekend called The Devil You Know. And NB and I, we have a theater for you to go see it at. You know what I'm saying?

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Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Now, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Now, Charlamagne, you got a positive note? I do have a positive note, man. You know, today is the three year. It's been three years since our good brother Nipsey Hussle, you know, transitioned.

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