The Breakfast Club - Kevin Hart Interview

Episode Date: November 22, 2021

Today on the show we had friend to the room Kevin Hart stop by where he spokea about he blueprint of the Black Business Mogul, cancel culture and new Series ‘True Story. Moreover we falshed back to when the queen Mary J. Blige stopped by and spoke on her music, growth and more. Also, we flashed back to when Charlamagne gave Donkey of the Day to a hospital clinic for doing the wrong surgery on a patient. And stayed tuned to listen to Berner stopping by and speaking about the Marijuana Industry, Educating People Through The 'Couch Locked Network' and more. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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

What is that? Bullets. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. We need help! 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, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast

Post Run High is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. 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 shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love. I forgive myself. It's okay.

Have grace with yourself. You're trying your best. And you're going to figure out the rhythm of this thing thing alicia keys like you've never heard her before listen to on purpose with jay shetty on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts this is your wake up call the breakfast club the show you love to hate. From the East to the West Coast. DJ Envy. Angela Yee.

Charlamagne Tha God. The realest show on the planet. This is why I respect this show, because this is a voice to society. Changing the game. You guys are the coveted morning show, but y'all earning it. Impacting the culture. They wake up in the morning and they want to hear that Breakfast Club. The world's most dangerous morning show. Pee in the mother, pee in the head.

Wake up, wake up. Wake your ass. This is your time to get it off your chest. Whether you're mad or blessed, we want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Hey, Breakfast Club. This is Prince out of Tuneo, Ohio. What's up, bro?

Peace, King. Get it off your chest, man. Hey, good to hear from you guys man. It was really nice that I really got through. I just want to say thank you to DJ Envy and DeLeGue. You guys always talk about real estate. I just bought my first house. Yay!

It's fantastic and I'm sitting here and I got my three month old baby with your name stung. Congratulations. I was looking at houses this morning when MB came in. That's great. Man, it's a really good feeling. Back-to-back, newborn baby in a new house. Man, I'm glad. Toast to you and to your family.

That's amazing. What those interest rates look like? What those interest rates look like, though? Two and a half, man. Oh, that's great. That's beautiful. Congratulations. So you put down, what, three and a half percent?

I got also a welcome home grant that everybody's into the state of Ohio covered $5,000 though I lost out of there without putting down any I tell everybody there's a million and one grants out there all you got to do your homework you have to pay PMI though right yeah all right yeah but you but still you ain't got it you had to put down no money that is a great congrats congrats congrats fantastic feeling man thank you guys again and also want to shout out charlamagne too thank you for your help with the mental health thank you king appreciate you brother thanks god if you can dm me because i want to um i want to find out about that grant so i can put people on to that grant.

So if you can, DM me. Welcome home in Ohio. All right, brother. Yep. Hello, who's this? Yo, what's up? This is Mike, man. Mike, what up?

Get it off your chest, Mike. What's up? What's up? Hey, I got to call and get this off my chest, man. It's kind of the topic that I was talking about yesterday with space. Hey, man, I got to tell y'all, man. man it's kind of the topic that i was talking about yesterday with space hey man i i i got to tell y'all man so the difference between surface earth and flat earth man we we got to get on this topic more we got oh boy so you believe in surface earth and flat earth what

is surface earth sir okay well you know the earth that they say you know the regular earth side that they say go on now with the one you live on. Yeah. Okay. A soul car live on. Okay, so if you say we live on that, Charlamagne, which I disagree on that, then how can you get, okay, if you was a Christian, which I'm not, but if you was a Christian, you was taught that on the sixth day, God made something that separated the heavens above and earth. So there would be something like a firmament, right? I don't believe everything in the Bible. But tell me, I need to know, before we even continue this conversation,

what do you think we're living on before we even continue? What are we living on right now? You want to hang up the phone. No, I don't. I asked you a question. Listen, I think we kind of live on something like it's kind of black, but we have like a dome on top of it. Okay.

We in a globe. Okay, no doubt. Yeah, I feel like we in a globe. But at the same time. Do you want to go to outer space? Do you think somebody shakes the globe every now and then to make it snow? Come on, man. I'm just asking a question.

What's wrong? No seriously Like How can Okay if you can If you can explain that Explain to me How can you see

How can you see Rainbow Rainbow It's always a reflection of something It's always a reflection of something That's what Rainbow Everybody knows

Everybody knows Rainbows are when angels are eating Lucky Charms. And the Lucky Charms bowl is reflecting off the dome. Okay? And that's what causes a rainbow. And sometimes you shake it, you get a rainbow. Well, he made a lot of good points this morning. Thanks for calling.

Have a good day, sir. Man, come on, y'all. What? I didn't discredit you at all. I just said you made a lot of good points. I'm with you. We live in a globe, bro. You gotta love our breakfast club. That's why you gotta go to space. That's why more people gotta go to space

so they can see that the Earth is not flat. I think he's in space. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051 if you need to vent or explain how the Earth, we live in a globe. Whatever it may be, call us. 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. You better have the same energy. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Hey, this is King Gemini. What's up? DJ Loose Bo King Gemini. What's up? DJ Loose Booty and Dr. Leonard and Angela Yam.

How y'all doing today? Dr. Leonard is fine. DJ Loose Booty is here. Angela Yam. How much you charge for your services, DJ Loose Booty? I don't know. You tell me, doctor. I think $6,900 is a good starting price for you.

Hey, you're right. Hey, yeah, I take care. All right. Have a good one. Have a good starting price for you. Hey, you're right. Hey, y'all take care. All right. Have a good one. Have a good one. Hello, who's this? Loose booty. Loose booty.

Loose booty. Hello, who's this? Y'all funny. So, my name is KJ the Blunt Man out of St. Augustine, Florida. I wanted to share a little bit of positivity this morning. Talk to me, Blunt Man. I definitely just wanted to say everybody give y'all family members a call and give them some motivation and inspiration this morning.

And while y'all at it, check out my new song, Empower, and my Empower clothing line at empowerclothingwithak.com. Okay. All right, King. Empower. Empower clothing with a K. It's lit. We worldwide.

We getting celebrities on it right now. Y'all don't want to miss out. Envy, I'll send you the song for It's lit. We worldwide. We getting celebrities on it right now. Y'all don't want to miss out. Envy, I'll send you the song for your IG message. I know you don't check it, but it's okay. Bluntman, I think you need to change the papers too, man.

All that tobacco gonna eventually catch up to you, brother. I don't smoke. So why they call you Bluntman? Because he's blunt. My last name. That's my last name.

Oh, your last name is Blunt. Okay. All right. We'll salute to you, King. Hello, who's this? Hello. Hey, what's your name, brother? Hey, yeah name is Blunt. Okay. All right. We'll salute to you, King. Hello, who's this? Hello. Hey, what's your name, brother? Hey, yeah, yeah, bro.

What's up, man? Hey, yo. Hey, yo. Good morning, y'all, man. I'm good to hear from y'all. I always listen to y'all, bro. I'm from Northern Jersey. Thank you, sir.

My name's Bill. Everybody know me from Bill, but I want to get off my chest because I've been... Uh-oh. You what? I've been drinking. I've been drinking. What'd you say, sir? Huh?

I was locked up in jail at the county correction facility. How long? I was for 15 months, and I was held for a robbery I had never committed. Due to the pandemic, when it dropped on me, I was forced to be able to take a ground Oh, God. It is. That's what they need to call it, the corruption facility,

because they're not trying to correct nothing. They ain't trying to correct ****. I would suppose, right, it's crazy because they ask for people to get help, actually. But actually, they ain't doing nothing about ****, man. They ain't doing about nothing, man. Yeah, they should have trades in there for y'all to learn, so when y'all come out, y'all can have some certified training. On another note, it's mad drugs and shit that's going on around the drug system. And they got a drug program with people who get off addiction

with taking Suboxone and all that shit. And the people ain't really seeking help for it. They using that shit. Sir, next time you... As a community, by being black, we all need to get it together. And we all need to change these systems because everybody corrupt corrupted around this I agree with you

that's why I wanted to get off my chest yes sir Bill fresh out he don't know that he can't not curse on the radio he been locked up for 15 months he pissed off he been listening to the podcast he been listening to all that cursing on podcast he don't know no better hello who's this

hey how's it going it's Fernando good morning get it off your chest He was listening to all that cursing on podcast. He don't know no better. Hello, who's this? Hey, how's it going? It's Fernando. Good morning. What's up, Fernando? Get it off your chest. Yes, sir. How's it going? I got a quick question for Charlamagne, man.

Yes, sir. I didn't ask you a question. I don't know if somebody ever asked you this, but who's your top three donkeys of all time? And will you ever consider giving a donkey a Hall of Fame? Yeah, I mean, at the end of the year year we do a top five donkeys of the year i don't i'm gonna be honest with you top donkeys of all time donald trump is definitely in the top three i mean i've given it to him more than anybody and um i'm gonna always put myself in the top three because i always say

you know when you give people the credit you got to give everybody the credit they deserve for being stupid including yourself. I don't know who the third one would be, though. Sounds fair. Sounds fair. Y'all want to close the brawl for the Breakfast Club? Thank you, King. Thank you, brother.

All right, have a good one. 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. Morning, everybody.

It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We got some special guests on the line. Yes, indeed. We have Taraji P. Henson and the birthday girl, Tracy J. Hey! Happy birthday, Queen Tracy. Happy birthday. Thank you, guys.

How are y'all, though? How are the both of y'all? good how you guys doing shaw i see you with the mental health uh mental wealth he's coming on up i'm excited to talk about that a little bit yeah this sunday uh world mental health day we're doing it at the marriott marquee time square from 11 to 4 a day of mental health education and healing tracy will be speaking on the black woman's panel we're happy to have you tracy thank you health education and healing. Tracy will be speaking on the Black Women's Panel. We're happy to have you, Tracy. Thank you very much. And congrats on the show. Thank you, Queen.

Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Thank you. And y'all coming back on Monday, October 11th with Peace of Mind. Yes. Yes, we gotta continue helping us all heal, you know. For people that don't know about it, break down what it is and so people will understand.

Peace of Mind is a talk show where we address different issues dealing with mental health where we will interview a celebrity because, you know, fans think that just because we are celebrities and we have money, somehow all of our problems go away.

So we show them that, yes, everyone is struggling. You are not alone, even celebrities. Then we interview a regular person, everyday civilian, who is suffering with the same maybe mental condition, whether it's social anxiety, whether it's depression, whether it's ADHD, we all have something, right? And so then we have the third segment of the show is where we bring a professional in, a psychiatrist, a clinician, a therapist to help us understand the topic we're talking about, to give us tools to know what to do

when we are feeling the way, or those who may be suffering or can identify with the subject matter that we're dealing with. So it's an educational show. It's a show where we laugh, we cry. And we're also trying to show that actually this is what a therapy session looks like. You know, you in a safe space, you talk about the things that are bugging you or that are keeping you down and you have a professional there to help guide you through it and you laugh you cry and it's really not as scary as you think absolutely I see some fascinating guests that you guys have on I saw the trailer for the new season and I was just in my head trying to figure out like Chloe Bailey I can imagine it's tough for her you know her and her

sister have separated their Instagram pages she's put out some amazing music and videos but then at the same time all these people are coming at her now because they're still picturing what she was like when she was younger and so i know things like that have to be difficult and sometimes people don't look at artists as human beings that have feelings too that part and i think that's another aspect of this show where they get to see some of their favorites be human because that's who we are at the end of the day you just millions just happen to get to see us go to work and

see what we do but at the end of the day we have feelings it's a real person behind all of the flashing lights how therapeutic has the show been for you you both for us it's like we're going to therapy every day. So it's been such a gift in that way where I don't have to go to my therapist as often as I used to because, you know, the show has sort of filled in that space for me. to talk about your own personal challenges, connect with others there

who might have the same challenges with you, and then have somebody there to stop all of our bantering back and forth and say, okay, that's nice. I hear you. You want to help each other, but here are the tools you need. And, you know, Taraji and I

have been going through this for 38 years, having these conversations. And sometimes what we have to say is helpful to each other. And sometimes it might not be. So to be able to step back and say, you my boo and we got each other. But let me go over here and talk to, you know, right. She's going to have a more objective point of view. You know, I was going to ask how difficult is it to get some of these people that you have that you're interviewing to open up? Is it very difficult? Because a lot of times some of

these people never spoke to a therapist before. So you guys might be the first time that they're really opening up. So is that difficult? No, we have a lot of guests come on and they talk about how comfortable they feel because we are both in therapy. We're not professionals, but we understand us. We understand our culture. We're not professionals, but we understand us. We understand our culture. We understand our people. And we know in order for any Black person to open up to anybody, they have to feel safe and they have to know who they're talking to is real. It's not like you're not fake.

You don't have no other objective. We're not a show where we're baiting for numbers. We don't push people to tears or things like everything on our show pretty much happens organically we of course set the questions up we make them feel very safe and they just open up because we're opening up you know yeah all right we got more with tracy jade and taraji p henson when we come back, don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. 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 are 55 gallons of water for 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen of Ladonia. I'm Jackson I, King of Capraburg. I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia. Be part of a great colonial tradition. Why can't I trade my 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 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, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast Post Run High is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. You know that rush of endorphins you feel after a great workout? Well, that's when the real magic happens so if you love hearing real inspiring stories from the people you know follow and admire join me every week for post run high it's where we take the conversation beyond the run and get into the heart of it all it's light-hearted pretty crazy and very fun listen to post run high on the iheart 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 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. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Tracy Jade and Taraji P. Henson. Now, Yee?

Now, when we're talking about this new season of Peace of Mind, right, were there some moments that you guys were, like like shocked by as well because i'm sure like you said people are comfortable they're coming in there knowing you're not trying to get an aha moment but you have some amazing guests this season so where there are times that you were like i can't believe this is happening g herbo sticks out in my mind um that young man i mean please watch this show watch his episode i hope so many young

brothers watch that episode because i'll never forget this my son you know loves rap music of course and when he started getting really getting into it but he was listening to the rappers coming out of chicago and i told you her about that just listening to his experience growing up around all that violence and um he said mom you know those the the rappers in chicago rap from a different sphere like i feel their pain i i'd be pumped i'd be i'd be pounding my chest because i can feel their pain he said and the sad part about it is that they're really superstars. But because of what they've been going through, they probably never reached that success because of their environment.

And this kid had never been to Chicago at this point. I wasn't shooting, filming cookie. This is what he felt through the music, through the messages. And then when I really sat down and got to know G Herbo, I understood exactly what my son meant by that. Thank God G Herbo made it out. But he talks about all the people. He said he could name, what, Tracy, about 100 of his colleagues

that he knows that have died. Yeah. It's troubling because his story is the norm for our kids. That part. So I'm watching New York right now, where they had the 21 kids under 18 who died by gun violence. Yeah. In Brooklyn and all over.

And that blueprint is traveling through every one of our cities right now. And it's scary as hell. Because they don't care. G. Harbaugh said out of his mouth, he didn't care if he lived or died. You're talking about children who have their whole lives to look forward to not giving a shit about anything.

I love G Herbo because he's 25 years old, man. And I wish that I had the tools and the resources and the information in regards to mental health at that young age. So I love the fact that he's so vocal about what he goes through. I love it too. I mean, I just, I have such a respect for that young man.

Like that to me was my most special episode because I just, I have a love for black men just so deep because I just understand our struggles as a people and what is put upon the black man and what you gotta always gotta be strong and this and that and the third and because I have a son I'm a mother you know, and just I saw so many men in my life that I love in this young man, my father, my son, all the men I love I chose to love I just, yeah, that episode is so important. He's so important. Yeah. And I think if we all, you know, those of us who are in a position to, if we all just took one young man, you see them walking down to the corner store, you see them not, you know, showing up places to the job interview, whatever, if we could all just take one. I know that sounds really like I don't know you know uh

a thought that is impossible like I don't have time or I'm scared or whatever it is but I you know I am looking in the eyes right now of a young he may be watching right now or not, but I love him so deeply. I'm willing to do anything to offer him just a moment of an opportunity. I don't know what he's missing. I don't know what his heart, he just lost his best friend. His best friend was murdered three nights ago.

And I know he's suffering. He's young. He's a teenager. And I can't give up on him. He's out in the streets. He's confused. The goddamn weed is going crazy. You know what it is.

They get hooked, all that crazy stuff. But I will not give up. This weed is something different. This weed ain't no herb. This ain't no herb. This ain't no reaper. This ain't no reaper. I don't know what they doing

with this s***, but it ain't right. It's messing our babies up, man. Pay attention to the weed. They're telling us you guys have to rap because you don't even smell the same. You know what? We need to change the narrative.

We are the seeds. We are the sticks. Teraj said you don't even smell the same. Teraj said she wanted organics. You don't want that GMO stuff. No. We need seeds. We need seeds and sticks.

Let's send you to Taraji. No. I'm a car snoop. Taraji, be here to be a presenter for joining us. Tracy J, thank you so much. Make sure y'all watch. We'll see you Sunday. Make sure y'all go to Facebook, watch, and check out Peace of Mind on Monday, October 11th. And check Tracy J out at the Mental Wealth Expo this Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square. It's free and open to the public. All right. Well, it's The Breakfast Club. Thank you for joining us. Thank you, Taraji. Thank you, Tracy. Love y'all so much, guys.

The Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. Now, I've been saying it for weeks, Charlamagne, that you can find anything and everything on TikTok. I hear you. I saw this video where some random person was in Central Park and overheard a group of people talking smack about a girl named Marissa, so he posted it, and this girl Marissa actually found out and reached

out to him. TikTok, you have to see it. Keep the Breakfast Club humble with Slander the Breakfast Club. Tell them be humble. Sit down. The truth hurt though. Hello, who's this? Hey, this is Arson Bucks.

What's going on? What's up, bro? Get it off. Slander the Breakfast Club. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I want to get on your boy Charlamagne. Your boy Charlamagne. Ever since he got his face changed, man, he's been disrespectful to everybody.

I think he needs to go back to the old him. He was, wait, ever since he got his face changed, man. He got disrespected. Everybody. I think he need to go back to the old him. He was... Wait, ever since he got his face changed... Excuse me? He was disrespectful before when his face was... That's right. Original. The old me was very much more disrespectful.

He got flyboy disrespectful after he got his face changed. Like, before, he was a little bit humble with it. That's an arrogant disrespect now. Yeah, yeah. Now it's like, I look good. Now I can talk s*** about you. So you think he looks good? Do you think I look s***, King? Come Yeah, yeah. Now it's like, I look good. Now I can talk about you. So you think he looks good?

Do you think I look good, King? Come on, King. She's my language. No. King. But if no one could dermatologist,

she should work wonders. You know. Dr. Natasha Sandy, I think you're telling me that I look good without wanting to tell me I look good.

This felt more like compliment the breakfast club. Do I look better? Be honest. Do I look better, King? King. King. Do I look better, King? You gotta ask your dermatologist. So what do you like best about him? Nothing.

I like Angela Yee. I like you. Don't try to switch it up. Goodbye, sir. Nah, if we're talking compliments, Angela Yee all day. Well, thank you, baby. You said you shot your shot with me first, so she's not interested. Hello, who's this? This is D. Hey, what's up?

Slender to Breakfast Club. What's going on, man? First of all, I want to say out there, y'all, thank y'all for chasing our dreams and everything. I listen to y'all every morning. Many blessings, D. Thank you. Thank you. No problem.

Second thing I want to say is this slander goes out to DJ Andrew. Why do you always smack after every sentence? He does? Let me hear. Oh, juicy mouth. After every sentence, yo. It's like you sound like a five-year-old girl talking. You know?

You know? You know? I never noticed that. Well, you don't know what I did last night. What makes my mouth so juicy? What? Envy, what was that? Did you just hear that?

You just took it to a whole unnecessary level. My gosh. Little Nas Envy? Do your thing, K. That ain't what I heard just now. That's what you wanted to hear. Hello, who's this? Oh, hey.

Okay, so I got something for all of y'all, really. But I'm going to light Charlamagne up first. All right, go. So, Charlamagne, I just feel bad for the college-educated people in the room because they're probably getting dumber and dumber by the day. Charlamagne, you need to go to college. You be saying some real stupid stuff. And I can only assume it's because you were so cute.

There's no child left behind. One of those kids that got passed through school their whole life. What. There's no child left behind. One of those kids that got passed through school their whole life. What? There's no child left behind. You can go to college, and I'm just like, you just need to go ahead and do it. And I'm not talking about one of those honorary degrees. You need to go sit in a classroom with college rules, and a mechanical pencil, and get you some education.

Well, I'm a New York Times bestselling author two times over. And I have an honorary degree from South Carolina State University. You don't need no honorary degree. You need a real degree. For what? I'm doing better than you? Hey! Go ahead, mama.

You be doing the rumors. Go ahead. He be hanging down. What else you got? rumors. Go ahead. He be hunting down. That slander hurts. What else you got? He up there, man. He mad because he know I'm right. But you be doing the rumors

and front page news, Charlamagne. You'll chime in and you'll ask something that she literally just stated. Because I want to know a better understanding. They teach you that in school, right? She'll say it again

and you'll be like, but why? Exactly. You're going to pause real long for a minute and then she'll say it again and you'll be like but why exactly pause real long for a minute and then she'll repeat what she just said which is literally the why that is no that is that is not true i want to know why i want to know why i want to know why what's wrong with asking why like i want to know what's the root of your trauma right now why are you so mad this is the sl mama, you have a good day.

See, that's the problem with you. I ain't done, MB. I ain't got to do it yet. I'm doing better than you. We auto. We don't know that. We don't know that. I don't know me. But anyway, MB, you told

all the stuff the other day about Kanye West and was really hyping up Drake and Drake came out with a really good album. And you're going to sit there talking about the only thing you was too long. But some of the people y'all be hyping up on this show are so trash. Why? Why do you think? Why?

Why? Why do I think they're trash? Okay, for example, y'all hype up Cardi B so much. Cardi, I'm so sick of her talking about her coochie i don't know if i could say that on the radio but i'm tired of hearing her talk about it okay i feel like i done been inside that thing on every single song but every time she drops anything y'all be like oh it's so amazing it's so good it's so wonderful you ain't never heard us do that come out with real lyrics and talking about different stuff. Who? Who?

Who? Who? Who? You see why follow up questions are good? Who are the artists that be dropping real lyrics? Tell me who. Just drop some real lyrics. Man, knock it off. I be on this radio talking about Rhapsody. You ain't scream a Rhapsody song yet. I like Rhapsody, but Rhapsody boring. See what I'm saying?

See what I'm saying? But you the college educated one, but you can't appreciate a Rhapsody boring. See what I'm saying? See what I'm saying? But you the college educated one, but you can't appreciate a Rhapsody. I like Rhapsody, but Rhapsody boring though. Okay, we didn't get to hear Rhapsody on the radio or nothing like that, but Drake is actually exciting. He is. I said I like this

album. I said it's kind of long. Let's combine everything that she's talking about. I'm not saying Charlamagne's and the Drake album was too long because he got ADHD. But DJ, if you went to college, you should be able to sit there and listen to it. You should be able to sit there. Your boyfriend think you're poom-poom born.

He wished that it was as exciting as Drake and Cardi B's box. They're slandering us. Alright, goodbye, mama. She didn't get to me. I didn't like that one. I heard a little bit. We're supposed to be able to take this live.

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The first thing you said, why these chairs don't raise? Why are these chairs so short? Because you bought the chairs, Kevin. That's right. And every time somebody comes in, they try to raise the chairs up. First thing I say is, well, Kevin Hart bought those chairs. He wants everybody to look short like him. Yeah, definitely. I f***ed up. I don't know a better way to say it. You didn't remember he bought these chairs?

No, he didn't. I didn't. He did, though. I didn't, but now that I did, I'm going to see if I can get you guys another set. You actually said, I remember you came in here one time and you was like, you know what I should have did? I should have put my name on the back of these chairs. Yeah, I'll do that.

I'll send another set. I'll send another set and put my name on the back, but I'll make sure they raise. What's going on, guys? Well, Kevin Hart, ladies and gentlemen. Yes, I'm here, man, in the building. How are you, brother? I can't complain, brother. Drinking milk, getting tall, same thing I say every time. So much on the table. So much Netflix, so much Audible, so much Chase Bank. Yes, sir.

Like, where do we start? We start with True Story? Yes, we need to start with True Story. Okay. Dropping November 24th. For those who? We start with True Story? Yes, we need to start with True Story. Okay. Dropping November 24th. For those who do not know, True Story is my new series that is about to drop on Netflix. Excited about it. Drama. Thriller. This is me in a way that you haven't seen me before.

By the way, I have baby walked you to this point. The Upside. That was my first step in the dramatic space. And after that, hit you with Fatherhood. That was a more drastic view at me in the world of drama. And then now, now we're touching the world of drama and thrillers. So myself, Wesley Snipes, Billy Zane, Theo Rossi. I mean, the cast is amazing.

So many talented people. But this is the real deal. People are going to be blown away by this. What's your story about? What is it about? It's a show that's wrapped around loyalty, trust, and it raises the question of how far would you go to protect the things that you worked hard for, right? Like, what is your limit as an individual, as a person?

How far can you be pushed before you feel like you have to push back or take a stance of uncertainty, right? Where you're making decisions that you didn't know that you were capable of making. It's loosely based off of the template of my life, the backdrop, the comedian,

the mogul. That's what the character is. But then it takes a shift into a darker world where you see that I'm not playing myself. The version of myself was just to get you interested. And then after you see, oh God, it's not Kevin,

it's some other. It takes a spin. But it's some dope story, these two brothers, and just a whirlwind of their relationship. You know, like, when you got an older brother, younger brother, there's kind of a thing where an older brother is in control, and he's really much in charge of that relationship

but then this thing happens when the younger brother surpasses an older brother in life in success there's a narrative and there's a feeling that comes with that and that conflict sometimes sometimes puts some real rocky water in that relationship and in this case that rocky water

is dark. What made you do a drama? Like what you wanted to challenge yourself Or was you you think people only thought you were funny now not challenging myself. I know I'm talented It's not about it's not about challenging me man, I like that was good the upside was really good Oh, thank you. I was really good. It was shades on on some rock star. What if I ever not one I've always early on I've always had on glasses. I always wear glass. Okay, so I'm trying to make it seem like I'm changing That's a little different very casual you got on an emerald. That's how you know Kev getting one. Kev, he ain't got no diamond. When he's diamonds around him, he got an emerald on.

These things, these are my signature chains. I've been wearing these forever. I've never seen you with an emerald on. Yeah, I mean, come on. What day have you seen me? There's different days. Wow. Did you get it from Zales?

No, what? What is that? What else do you have out of the Lucky Charms box? I know you probably got every single thing in diamonds. That's original. No, I ain't talking about that. I'm talking about for real. The emerald, the green clothes. Oh, look, that's how you think everybody's exactly the same. Exactly thing in diamonds that's original I ain't talking about that I'm talking about for real the emeralds the green clothes the purple heart no uh I'm I'm uh you know I like the I like the stone so the emerald the rubies the

sapphires the pink diamonds all that stuff I like I just like different dope but it's all like the signature heart with the k on it i'm getting a different type of money i don't think y'all realize that kevin i know you're talking about the true story and everything else but the evolution of kevin hart over the past decade has been incredible from just growing up man from no no no from stand-up comic yeah to the acting to now you can't you're just a mogul. I am very much in charge of my direction and my opportunity. I like the fact that I can control my narrative in the business and do the things that I want. So this ecosystem that now exists underneath the brand of Heartbeat

is one that produces television, film, radio, literature, animation, whether it be comedy, drama, it doesn't matter. It's all about what we feel is a great opportunity for us at this point, at this moment. So to his point when he said, why do you want to do drama? Why not? Why not go and develop something that's just different, that's outside the box that I can still find excitement in?

I don't want to get bored with the business in i don't want to get bored with the business i don't want to get bored with entertainment um i want to find excitement and showing up to work every day so that comes with the within the creative i like being a part of that process so uh that's where i am charlamagne you might be right what i'm looking at the last uh five interviews he did he didn't have glasses two years ago no glasses wait a minute tiffany didn't have glasses i took them off in the tiffany interview you gotta go way back you gotta go way back to see him wear glasses that money i can pull up right now that you're wrong that i can go to two that are back to back where i had glasses on tiffany's interview i took them off because i got mad so i took the glasses off oh okay the one before that when i had on uh the dark shades

where i had on like brown I had glasses on I took them off at a certain point when you guys get me hot Let's not distract from all this money you making because Here's the next announcement. I think we're gonna hear we're gonna hear heartbeat productions has partnered with somebody for a billion plus dollars the way we saw with Spring Hill and Reese Witherspoon's company. I feel like that's going to happen for Kevin Hart. What? I feel like that's none of your business.

It's going to be in the trades. You wait until it's in the trades. You wait until you see that in the trades. I don't know what you're talking about. Look, man, listen. Listen, here's what I will tell you. There is a blueprint that's been given, and that blueprint has been given by Oprah, by Tyler, by Hov. Shout out to my brother, Brian, Mav, over there at Spring Hill.

They're doing amazing things, man. But the blueprint is about ownership. The blueprint is about figuring out ways to control a narrative based on IP, IP ownership. We're not in this business to be worked for hires forever. You eventually want to be a partner. And what we're doing at our company, and I say our because I don't have employees, I have partners. My team, we've assembled an amazing foundation.

And within that, the goal and desire is to have tentacles, have have branches. And these branches provide opportunities, employment for so many. And, you know, I love the fact that we are a black owned company that is all about equal opportunity. So when you look under my hood, you see men, women, you see everything. We are representation of what the business should look like and be that equality that movement uh that portfolio is one of opportunity and future success for the next version of stars so those stars are entertainers those stars are execs those stars are creatives those stars are heads of you know what i mean like it it goes all across the board i've made mine i've i've gotten to where i've gotten this star not going to get no brighter.

It's about figuring out ways to help the next version. That's what Heartbeat is. That's what we're about. So, you know, I can't answer that question. I don't know what you're talking about. Well, when it comes out in the trades, I'm going to say, I told you so. Maybe you can, maybe you can't. I don't know.

I don't know. All right, we got more with Kevin Hart when we come back. 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 Kevin Hart.

Does Kevin slow down now? Because, Kevin, you're super successful. You got three kids. I see you. I got four kids. Four kids. You love hanging out with your babies. Just kill one of my babies off.

You love taking to the game. Jesus Christ. You love doing things with your kids. Do you slow down and be like, you know what? Now it's time to be a father and slow down on the works a little bit? You know what, man, I'm definitely, I'm trying to. I think I do need to go a little slower. You know, now that we're getting back to a place of old, we're getting back to life as we once knew it.

You know, there is a nice. But can you do that? Or are you like, you have to, are you addicted to it? No, I got a problem. But like I said a it's about the foundation it's about this thing and you know making sure the bricks are secure making sure they can't move and you know you start to ask yourself different questions i'm getting old i'm 42 so what am i doing it for what is it what is it about i've i've gotten to a place where i opened up a

door and that door had like 30 other doors i just start peeking in those doors so I know the different versions of success and I just want to tap into all of them if you look at the things that I've done right if you go comedy dramedy action adventure action comedy comedy drama drama filler docu-series documentary hosting animation author uh radio hosts podcast hosts like it's i'm tapping into every single outlet because what i realized that everybody should you can do it all if you want to there is no ceiling so i'm having fun and discovering how much more, you know, the world of venture and VC stocks and real estate, all of this. Like there's so much that you can do to occupy your time in your mind. And that's what I'm in love with. So I don't know. I don't know about slowing down.

I think removing myself from in front of the camera at some point, that'll be the priority. But the world of what's going on behind will probably be 10 times as much as what it was when I was in front. You know, your conversations have always been so interesting to me because you've always been so self-aware. And to hear you talk now saying things like, because I heard you on All the Smoke, and you were saying things like,

you won't always be considered the funniest or be the hottest at the moment. What about about that realization? I mean, that that's reality everything that goes up eventually comes down but when you come down you know you don't have to fall you can come down and be better than you were when you were up if you manage correctly it's not about being the best anymore you realize that that mindset pits people against each other. And I can't say it enough, man. You grow to f*** up. And when you evolve and

mature, the best thing that changes is just your mindset. My mindset is different. I operate differently. I'm not in the world of being bothered. I'm not in the world of care when it comes to other people's needs or want.

Are you going to do another season of Don't F*** This Up? I talked about it because the documentary was dope. It was honest. But it has to be when there's stuff to follow. I don't want it just to focus on my world of work and success. I don't feel like that's a good layer. I think you want to show how complex life is in general and that nobody is free from bullshit.

My next one will be based on my company, the company's growth, and the people within it, and how they're managing success from the thing we built. I don't want to be the focus. Yeah, that billion dollar episode's going to be crazy. Like when y'all sell for a billion? I don't know what, that's not, I didn't say

that. It's going to happen. I don't know what you're talking about didn't say that it's going to happen I don't know what you're talking about I'm putting it in the atmosphere it's going to happen maybe it's in the atmosphere I'm just looking at what I'm just saying I'm not I'm just looking around

I see what Rich Williamspoon did I see what Spring Hill did I'm like Heartbeat is absolutely next I saw a trade I saw an article it was like you know

Heartbeat's getting suitors people are sniffing around I saw it I read these things I read the trades well if you read it then maybe you saw I mean I don't know what's going on.

I don't know what to tell you here. Anything you regret about doing it on the docuseries? Anything you regret? Absolutely not. The docuseries, Don't F*** This Up, was dope because it showed how to find solution and problem. Right? And I think today, everybody's focused on problem. Everybody's focused on the argument.

Not many people are focused on the solution and a conversation to stop the argument. Now you had some big social media moments in the last couple of months. Don Cheadle's age. And me, you know, I'm 56 years old. Damn! I'm sorry. Cause it was a thought.

It was a thought and I blurted it out. I'm fine. I did not mean it that way. If we could play it back right now. Play it back. These are two different dams. Play it back in slow motion. There wasn't no. I said.

I said. There was no like. I said. Damn. No, you said the word damn. Oh, amazing. Real moment. Was it a real moment?

Goodness gracious. You can't fake that. Yeah, you can't fake that. You heard his heart. I watched that s*** a hundred times. Don's fine. Don is one of my closest friends. Don's fine.

No, for a second I saw it in his face. He was like. Don Cheeto and I are extremely close. I agree, but you still hurt his feelings. You hurt his feelings. I hurt his feelings. He thought I knew. I didn't know.

We can tell you didn't know. I didn't know. Damn, you are. Yeah, yeah. You don't throw that out there like that. He was clean shaven. He had a young look to him that day. He told me, I said, you got to a f***ing young look to him that day. He told me, I said, you got to be f***ing s***.

I didn't know that, Don. I know what you meant, but it just didn't come off like that. It didn't come off like that. Well, how do you think I felt? He caught me off guard. When you started explaining afterwards, that's what made it even more funny. He looked at me. I said, I didn't mean it like that.

He said, yes, you did. I said, no,'t mean it like that. He said, yes, you did. I said, no, no, I didn't. That's not how I did it. When you watch it, you'll see that that's not, that wasn't how I. How many times did you laugh at it after you saw it back? Well, when we did it, you don't realize it, but when people start cutting the shit up, you know, the internet is goddamn dangerous. They can do anything they want.

How awkward was it? Because they look uncomfortable. It wasn't awkward for me. I was that fine generation. I wasn't that old. It ain't for me. He didn't damn me. I damned him.

It was awkward for Don. All right, we got more with Kevin Hart when we come back. 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 Kevin Hart.

I also thought it was big that I don't know the comedian's name, so I apologize that he was tied up in something that was going on in your life and you forgave him. You talked about it, and what made you say, you know what, I'm going to be a bigger man and I'm going to forgive this situation and all that? I don't know which comedian you're talking about, but I can assume who. I can't remember his name. I'm very, once again, it's just where i'm at i don't have the

time for bs there's a lot of like who's funnier some of these comics take that and they they run with those narratives and they they get engulfed in that i don't care what got you there what got you at that level of not caring and say you know what google is net worth well i've never been you know though you gotta be honest i've never been the I'm better than guy I've never been the I do feel like you've been I'm outworked you guy I'm absolutely I am all day but I don't like the crabs in a barrel mentality I don't like the idea that there can only be one and it only lives in our culture you guys talking about that situation but I know what you're talking about respect him that was the same but the fact that you forgiving and that you can only be one and it only lives in our culture. I wasn't talking about that situation, but I

respect it. I was saying the fact that you're forgiving and that you can look over things is a step I haven't got to yet, but I love the fact that you're there. Why? What's your problem? Honestly? Yeah. What's your problem? Revenge. For what? I don't know.

Make me feel good. Make me feel warm and cuddly. Light-skinned s***, bro. Let him be light-skinned. But what does it do? After you get said revenge, then what? So when somebody tries to attack you for no reason, it almost feels like, why me? I don't do anything to nobody, you know? So it feels like, now I want you to die living.

But that's life. And in today's time, any narrative can be attached to anybody. Correct. Anything. Like, it's honestly sad how- It's different when it affects you, but now when it's something that could affect your family- But I'm telling you- That's different. But I'm saying no matter what, the reality of the world that we live in today, it's claim first, no proof, no real idea.

If said thing or said said verbal is is true at all i'm gonna take this you know for my for my brother dave i i did an interview and the reporter asked me he was like you know how do you feel about dave coming to your defense and i said why do you feel like he's coming to my defense why can't you see that he's just my friend? Especially when you know a person. If you really know him. Certain things you see, you're like, I know that's not him. Here's where me and Dave just laugh. The conversation attached to Dave's name is attached to him as if people know him.

The f***ed up reality about Dave Chappelle, this mother has everybody around him. He's to eat. Yeah. Like when I say everybody United Nations, I'm talking about everybody. So so like when the conversation attached to the LGBTQ plus community and it's attached with a negative narrative in association with Dave, you didn't really do your due diligence in looking at his world. Right. That community is really around him. Like his friends, like I'm talking close friends are part of that community. I'm talking people that Dave has embraced and has loved for years that are like, Dave,

that's not true. So the narrative once put on and once attached was spirals. That's the thing about today. So when you talk about revenge, you're in a never ending cycle of incomplete, buddy. Like that revenge ain't coming. Like the wind that you're looking for don't exist. So if you're not mature and cool enough just to chuck up deuces to the thing that you can't control and give a goddamn salute, you're going to be unhappy for a minute. It's bad to have that mindset, especially in today's time, as if you don't see it. And it's honestly not going to be corrected. of social media and the the idea of what cancel and cancel culture has become the thing that it was and what was necessary needed for the moments where you had to

use it it's now lost so it's now this other thing that's so much you gotta go mm-hmm people have lost sight of reality you we're destroying people's lives like we're saying... And nobody to exempt from it. It can happen to any and everybody. Everybody will get a turn. Do you understand? Like, we're now in a place where people,

we are going, f*** you, we are going to take everything from you now and walk away, and that is... When you walk away, do you understand that this person that just went through sad things,

we're saying, like, you now can't work ever again? What happened to the world of progression, understanding, apology, solution, growth? When do we skip that? Yeah, because humans always fail purity tests. I don't know why we act like we're so perfect. Absolutely. When did that happen, though? When did we all check into the perfect box?

You should deal with nuance, right? If you don't like a joke I said, you don't like something I said, say you don't like it. Tell me what I did wrong. But don't label me as a whole thing because of one bad statement or one bad joke. I'll go further, right? I'm aware of the changes that need to be made, especially with the conversation attached to respect. I think it's dope i think it is time we make sure we're treating each other not only fairly but with understanding and appreciation that your life may be filled with problems and obstacles that i'm not aware

of because my life is not the same because of that i need to understand that. I need to fall back. I need to respect that. In that same instance, we also all have a choice. You can support or not support. The thing that killed me the most is, you know, when you see all of the conversation that was trying to be attached to Dave's special. Well, you got an option to go on Netflix. You got an option to search, click, watch. I don't have to watch who I don't like. It's okay to not like or to not

f*** with. It's okay. And to have an opinion. It's okay. It's okay to be like, I don't like that. That joke isn't for me. It's okay. But there's now a thing of well, because I don't like it, y'all can and y'all shouldn't either. That's the part where it just gets difficult.

And by the way, guys, we're not going to please everybody. But the only thing you can do is try your best to educate, try your best to speak on things in a positive way so that people take the positive side with it. They understand it. I can say I understand a lot more now because of some of the conversations that I had. My mindset's a lot better. I can say that just on behalf of my brother, the thing that's up for me is that you don't know him. He's a good dude. That mother loves hard. When you talk about Ohio, he has built a goddamn community economy in a place where he is from to make the place better for the people. The people in Ohio are all different, black, white members of the community.

I'm talking. He put that on his back. He out there shaking hands. He's the mayor out there and he's doing it for the people. So when I see people speak on behalf of a man whose intentions are nothing but good and uplifting, it just makes you go, wow, that's where we are. And this is not to defend. I'm not defending. I'm not coming to Dave's aid.

I'm speaking truth of me just going, you don't know the guy. That's it. Let's talk about a couple more things before we get out of here. I don't know if this is a joke or not, but the comedy writes itself. Are you really playing Arnold for one night only on a different show? Jimmy Kimmel. Live on stage.

What you talking about, Willis? What you talking about, Willis? Yeah, I thought it was funny. I mean, it just looks funny on paper. It's just, I'd say, Jimmy has been doing this thing where they create these old TV shows and they do it live. And he was like, what do you think about Different Strokes? And I was like, it's one of the funniest shows ever.

He's like, what have we recreated? And he told me the people that he was thinking about, man. And when Damon Wayans was like, he wants to be Willis. And you can be Arnold. I said, it's genius. Hilarious. So, you know, you put your own take on it. But I'm going to be Arnold from different strokes.

That's funny. I'm going to grow a little fro out and everything. All right, we got more with Kevin Hart when we come back. It's the breakfast. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Kevin Hart.

Charlamagne? SPH, the company we have at Audible. Next year, we start rolling out projects. How are you feeling about that venture? And do you think people understand what it is we're doing they will and you know i think when you when you say it make sure you make people understand the initiative and reason behind it right like i think when people now say your name they speak of it in one tone but once again when you really know the person it's like you know he's got a different drive and initiative when you look at

the books and you read the books. Well, what is his real, what's his real one? Are you a part of the problem? Are you trying to be a part of the solution? The problem is the significant gap in our economy from black to white, right? Uh, the solution is being a part of the attempt to close that gap,

uh, bring people closer, bring things to them. This entity that we created, well, we saw a gap in a space of audio literature. And in this space, our culture hasn't been embracing the world of knowledge that's available here. So in this entity, well, how the can we deliver in a way that can be creative enough where our culture can come over and grab onto things that they didn't know existed. But we're going to create IP through audio. We can create experiences. We can create content and have it available. We can also bring in talent

to take a hold of previous content that may or may not even be known about. So in this space, I think that our opportunity to success is extremely high. And for the projects that we've already signed on to do, the original IPs that we're creating, the things that have existed that we're going to amplify

by attaching talent, I just think that the world of great is real. And I got to also give Audible credit for knowing where there is a void and for saying, we trust in you guys to create this entity. And rather than us trying to just control, let's partner, you know. So for a company of that magnitude to say, well, we're going to give you guys the money now, run a machine, create the company that you said you could do. We're trusting you to do that. And as your partner, how can we assist you?

This is the world of solution so when we're talking about the need for diversity inclusion when we're talking about making sure that the black voices and that the black portfolio within business is given a shot when you got companies like that that are on the proper side of the conversation by saying we understand and we want to help. That's a dope thing. You know, dude, I'm proud of you. I love the direction that you're going in.

And as a partner, I'm bringing value to his idea. He had a dope idea. All right. I'm on your train, brother. How can I help amplify? I got this whole machine over here. And to his credit, he has a world of people that he now is on the scene like Charlie got a team man It made me smile to get on conference calls and hear people speaking on his behalf

On his behalf with the vision that he has to help execute So I think the world is gonna definitely be shot and I think the world of audio originals and IP is growing SBH short black and handsome productions. I have two more questions. One of, Short Black Enhancing Productions. I have two more questions. One of y'all. Shut up. I mean, it's just a name. It's your problem.

It's your f***ing problem. You gotta get rid of this anger, man. Beige rage is what we call it. Beige rage. Two more questions. At this point in your career, who do you get the most game from? I tell you who people don't give enough credit to.

Tyler Perry is a machine. Yes. The business mind, the ability to really change the narrative in business and how deals are done and how they're made. The world of you can't do that doesn't exist for a man that finds ways to. I love to just watch the way he moves do you know a couple years ago real quick you know a couple years ago tyler said to me nobody ever taps him up for information he said it's only been two people he said you and uh

tiffany i think he said tiffany tyler perry is one of the smartest motherfuckers on the planet and he's not smart from a rocket scientist brilliant i have all the answers perspective he's smart from the side of why can't we do that tyler perry is a enterprise and i don't think people really give enough credit what credit is due in atlanta you know you got stages now that are owned by a black man right the crazy part is who do you think partners with this black man to do projects now the studios have to partner with tyler perry because they need to access his world of production and land of the tax breaks are insane to have the mindset to say i'm going to build here because people come here because of the tax breaks so So no matter what, they have to do business with me,

whether you want to or not. Marvel was using Tyler Perry's stages. Do you understand that? Yeah. I applaud him. I love him to death. Hov, I'm different in the world of VC because I've watched how Hov has moved.

That motherfucker has no problem with sitting down, talking to me, and sharing information. But more importantly, Hov J. Brown, the world of partnership when it comes to investing is not just about your money. It's about understanding how to make businesses grow. He grasps the concept. Shout out to Nas too.

Nas is another one that was into it for years and was quiet about it. These guys grasps the concept of I can bring value to a company and me bringing value to a company. If a company grows and they value to a company if a company grows and they exit oh my god I'm a part of that win so watching the way that my brothers move and I say brothers because that's what I mean that's information

that's cool we're all in school so my respect and admiration for the people that have given the blueprint and that don't hesitate to give the information I applaud it Oprah has given the blueprint for years don't hesitate to give the information. I applaud it. Oprah has given the blueprint for years. I don't think people really understand what all Oprah has going on. Like Oprah's got a network, a network. Like Oprah's got a full functioning network that has a full day of content each day of the week.

That's not small. Like you got a network. That means I can watch a show produced by and developed by underneath the brand of whether she's present there, not there. This machine is controlled and operated because of her vision and her want to create opportunities for, you know, I know I said those are the the black people and partners. But I got a shout out Mike Rubin. When you talk about partners, me and Mike Rubin right now, we're developing a fast food plant-based restaurant. Mike Rubin.

In Philly? We're global. We're developing a real chain. And I talked to Rubin, and Rubin said, Kev, if you like it and you want to do it, I'm going to partner with you. Here's what we're going to do. Here's what we're gonna do Here's how we're gonna access it and before I knew it Ruben had me in a room with all of the partners that he has

So, you know, I I guess folks in I get flowers I love to be involved in matter of fact I will show me because I think it's dope just what we're doing and once again just show how relationships work The audible side of it right when we get to the side of this thing living and this thing going, well, accessing people in their ears. Hey, audible. Maybe there's a world where you partner and you have. How can we promote market? Like, that's the world of relationships.

Venture VC. That's that's the space that I'm in. So remember, I was talking about the star being bright, me backing away. This is where my this is where my passion is now. This is my last question. I know you want to be a billionaire has the illuminati illuminati approached you about sacrificing anyone to make it happen all the time okay yeah according to the internet i've been in illuminati by the way i've never i still don't know what it is like what is it is it a is it a club what is it i know you're closer to me i don't know yet do you know exactly you don't know

that none of us know but if you want to sacrifice somebody you can sacrifice your partner this is what so what they say you're supposed to sacrifice somebody, you can sacrifice your partner. So what did they say? You're supposed to sacrifice? Sacrifice partner. What's the thing where they said people eating babies? What was that? That was Pizzagate, right? Pizzagate, okay.

I was in that, too. You was in Pizzagate? That's what they said. Oh, you, wow. They, wow. Wow. I was eating babies. You up there.

They think you like. So what is that? Wow. Illumina and Pizzagate, not the same thing. No, no, I don't think it's the same. It might be the same elite circles. Okay. Yeah, yeah.

But they eating babies, for sure. That's what they said, yeah. Yeah, they eating babies. This clip right here is going to probably, they're going to put this up, too, and don't think it's the same. It might be the same elite circles. Okay. Yeah, yeah. But they eating babies for sure. That's what they say, yeah. Yeah, they eating babies. This clip right here is going to probably, they're going to put this up too and say, see, they're doing it right in our face. How they put that on? Especially with your hand,

when you got the hand, that's the hand sign right there. What is this? I don't know, I'm just saying. I was about to say, f***. So the restaurant is going to be a baby-based restaurant,

so you're going to eat babies. No. What is it? Plant-based, man. Is it plant? Plant, not baby. Oh, I thought you said baby-based. Baby-based fast food place. Kevin Hart, it's always a pleasure. Always, man. It was plant? Plant, not baby. Oh, I thought you said baby base. Baby base, fast food place.

Kevin Hart, it's always a pleasure. Always, man. Always inspirational, always motivational. Always, man. You guys do it right. Look, I want to say a true story. It comes on Netflix, November 24th. All right, well, it's Kevin Hart.

It's Mogul, Kevin Hart. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. I've been saying it for weeks, Charlamagne, that you can find anything and everything on TikTok. I hear you.

I saw this video with some random person with a Central Park and overheard a group of people talking smack about a girl named Marissa. So he posted it, and this girl Marissa actually found out and reached out to him. TikTok, you have to see it. This don't be a donkey, because right now you want some real donkey shit.

It's time for Donkey of the Day. So if you ever feel I need to be a donkey, man, hit me with the heel. Did she get donkey today, please, Debbie? Absolutely. I have become donkey of the day. At the breakfast club, bitches. You're a donkey. Yes, donkey of the day goes to the Freistadt Clinic, okay?

The Freistadt Clinic, okay? The Freistadt Clinic is a hospital in Austria. And listen, let's be clear. Nobody likes going to the hospital. There's not a soul alive who wants to be in the hospital. If you're in the hospital for anything other than having a baby, that means something is wrong. Okay, we would all rather remain healthy, not have to have surgeries, etc. But that's just not reality.

The reality is we all have ailments we have medical conditions just like this 82 year old man in austria did okay see there was an 82 year old patient suffering from many illnesses uh some of which have affected his legs and those medical conditions affected uh both his legs in fact whatever was happening with uh one of his legs caused him to have to get one of his legs amputated. Just like Big Mama in the movie Soul Food. OK, that should be a pretty cut and dry procedure. Correct. Sidebar, speaking of dry as in dry aged meat, I've always wondered what do they do with body parts after they do these amputations?

You can't just throw a limb in the trash can, can you? In my mind, they selling this human flesh as food somewhere. Somebody in the world right now dining on some 82-year-old dry-aged human flesh, okay? Who needs to age beef when you can just eat an old human? If these body parts aren't being eaten, please tell me what's happening with them because inquiring minds, meaning me, would like to know. Now, as I told you, this 82-year-old suffered from a bunch of medical conditions, so doctors had to amputate his left leg. But in life, you must learn

to measure twice. So you only have to cut once, literally, especially if a surgery is involved. See, this guy had to get his left leg amputated. We all know where our left is, correct? That's where Beyonce told us to go. And you know where the right is, right? That's where conservatives are. So he needed his left leg amputated. But an error occurred. See, the hospital worker mistakenly put a preoperative mark on the wrong leg. So doctors were supposed to amputate the left leg above the knee and ended up cutting off the right leg above the knee. My leg! The right leg was the wrong leg, okay?

All right? The right leg instead of the left leg was amputated above the knee. My leg! The right leg was the wrong leg, okay? The right leg instead of the left leg was amputated above the knee. This is not a My Bad situation. My goodness. I came here to get my left leg removed because I had a medical condition and ended up getting the right leg removed only to still have to come back and get the correct one amputated? Oh no, Frystad Clinic, okay? You know, y'all getting sued. Y'all don't have a leg to stand on in this situation. They are wrong and have admitted such in a statement. A disastrous combination of circumstances led to the patient's right leg being amputated instead of his left.

That is an admission of guilt. I mean, damn, I'm 82. I can do one leg for the rest of my life. I mean, damn, at at that age I got one foot in the grave anyway but now I have nothing this is sad okay I can't stand human error that ruins someone else's life okay it's really hard to just stand by and watch something like this happen I just don't know what to do all I know is we can't stand for this and neither can that 82 year old man or his family. The clinic's medical director, Norbert Frisch, said we have to find out how this failure, this mistake could happen. I would like to apologize publicly here. Well, Norbert. OK, from where I stand, the clinic should be reviewing its standards. OK, poor guy. You don't know what he wanted to do with the rest of his life.

What if he wanted to try stand-up comedy, huh? Now what? When things like this happen, the hospital should be financially responsible to the family for the next few generations. Okay, free medical bills covered for all the family. The clinic does not have a leg up in this situation at all. They are wrong, period.

And they need to be some stand-up people and do the right thing by this 82-year-old man and his family. Please let Remy Ma give the Freistadt Clinic in Austria the biggest hee-haw. Hee-haw, hee-haw. You stupid mother******, you dumb. Do they have enough money to pay this family? No. No.

I'm telling you. No way in hell. Legs are priceless. I'm telling you. No way in hell. They say it costs an arm and a leg, but there's no price for a real leg come on man oh all right well thank you for that donkey of the day all right we got more coming up next with a breakfast club the breakfast club hey guys i'm kate max you might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with

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The queen, the icon, the legend. And we're celebrating her today. That's right. With all her flowers. Ladies and gentlemen, Mary J. Block. Hey. Hey, good morning. These are your flowers, by the way.

We just did one blocking shot. Thank you. And your balloons and your crown. Thank you. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. So my life documentary, what made you say, I want it, it's time to do it now? Well, I did it like two years ago.

I was on the royalty tour and it was the 25th anniversary of the My Life album and everybody was celebrating it. And I felt like, you know, it was time to do it then because it was the 25th and I never did it

and everybody was like, you should do it, you know? And I said, this is the right time because I can gather up all the testimonies and gather up all the love and the energy and shoot the documentary. We did in like two years. So this is just it was just time. Tell the man and I said earlier today that we cried watching it.

Yeah, I cried. I cried like three times, like three times. And I was like I was watching it for you. I could tell it was emotional. And I was wondering, like, you know, reliving making of the album did it stir up more happiness or trauma i look at this as like the other side like we on the other side of it now so we're not crying just because we're revisiting this and we're sad about it we're revisiting and we're sad because we had to see it but we're also crying because we're happy that we're on the other side. We got out on the other side. But, you know, it was painful having to go back and see all that stuff. Seeing Andre, too. Yeah.

You know, but it's okay now because I can do that because I'm strong enough to do that now. Were you happy Andre was there? I mean, I know you're happy, but isn't it a blessing that Andre was there to talk and to share his experiences and everything? Yeah, I was so happy that we got a chance to get him because nobody knew that he wasn't going to be here. So that was, man, to see him in a documentary made me cry. And you said you didn't know that you were you back then. And I think so many women, so many black women go through that when they're younger.

When you look back and you're like, I didn't know how special I was. Your fans knew. And they knew how much you touched them. And you helped people get through so many difficult times, but you didn't know the power that you had. Not at all. Not even a little bit. That's why I ran myself through

so many things. I went through drugs and alcohol and just treating myself so bad because I didn't know I was worthy of anything. I didn't know I was this person that I can truly say I deserve everything now, you know, because I give so much of my life and I work so hard on myself, you know, not anybody else on me mentally, spiritually, physically. So i didn't know i had this power and i didn't know i didn't know i just didn't know you know what i mean and um when you don't know who you are you can't treat yourself well you can't you're no good to anybody else you know so now i i feel like i

earned the right to say i'm good for something i'm good to someone and i'm good for everything because i earned it and i'm still earning it it it's not over I cried watching you um talk to your younger self and when you was watching the video like at what point did you know your inner child needed healing it was a it was a years and years of finding out I think 2016 was my like real you know what mary you have to really gather all of you up the young you to confuse you the the everything you just and just love all of you i can't say it came in 1994 and 1996 on to that it just it was a process of you gotta love you baby you older you confuse you great you clumsy you whatever it is you are alcoholic you whatever it is you have to to love you and and the child was was suffering

thinking everything was her fault and that's that's the one that was making me feel ashamed so I had to you know as an adult with all this confidence you know that I'm developing that's the one that I embraced the most because she got hurt the most when did you realize that you needed to change like what was the knock on the door the thing that says nah I need to figure this out now what in 2016 got you to that point well 2016 was terrible you know know, we all saw it go down in the world, what happened. When I got out of that horrible situation, I was like, I'm never going to allow myself to hurt like that again or anybody to hurt me like that again. I don't deserve that. And I don't deserve to treat myself like that.

So I think it was during the No More Drama album when I was like, I'm tired of feeling like this. It was an ongoing process of healing, getting better, getting stronger. But the actual day, I don't know the day, but the time was during the No More Drama album. It's when I said, I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling like this. I'm tired of feeling like I hate myself. I'm tired of feeling like I want to kill myself. I'm tired of feeling like I hate myself. I'm tired of feeling like I want to kill myself. I'm tired.

So it was a process of just still doing the same thing, but trying to be stronger, trying to be happy, trying to find some joy somewhere, somehow. And we soldiers and we strong and we from the hood and nothing embarrasses us easy. So it's like, what else you got? Well, it really touched me with seeing Puff also talking about how both of you were going through so much during that time just a lot of heartache and you guys were kids like we forget that when we look back at it you were so young when you put that album out going through so many different things so you guys leaned on each other a lot during that time

what were those conversations like with puff while you were doing the album? I mean, about his pain, you know, what he was going through. He never really got into detail with me about it. But I knew because I know I know him and I knew him and I knew what he was dealing with. But he was just, you know, like any man didn't want to discuss it with his little sister. Me, on the other hand, I was, you know, dying in public. So everybody knew what I was dealing with. But I didn't want to really tell him what I was dealing with because I didn't want him to kill somebody. So I just.

But he knew, though. He knew. And so, you know, he said, just put it in the records. Just put it in music. I was so mad when I seen KC do that interview. I was like. Oh, the international interview? Yes.

And then they asked you to, I mean, that has to be the worst. Like, honestly, I'm disgusted. It is disgusting, I'm not gonna lie.

Because as women, we look at it like, that's Mary, like, show some respect. Nah, I have to word up. That was Mary's damn J. Blige.

But like you said, at that time, you didn't even know. Exactly. It was embarrassing, but look how I was treating myself, you know?

I mean, I can't, I'm not taking the whole blame, but I had to take responsibility for me. This is what was lightening the load, you know, not pointing the finger. You did it. You did it. A lot of people did it, but I got to fix it, period. And you talk about forgiveness, too, on there. So what is the process of forgiveness like for you when it comes to all the things that you've been through? Like you said, you can't take all the responsibility.

Right. You just got to release people, just release them. And that's it. I can't be responsible for what you did. And I can't keep pointing my finger at you for what you did. All right, you did it. I don't never have to see you again. I don't never have to deal with you again. But I do have to deal with me every single day. And I'm not going to carry the poison of unforgiveness in my heart. You don't even know that i'm feeling this feeling like this all my life so i don't want to be stuck and dying every day you know every time you you get stuck in um unforgiveness and just get stuck it's like you're dying every day you're losing yourself again it's like ah i want to grow i want to i want more so you do forgive everybody but you just don't want to see it you

know just don't want to get like yeah do forgive everybody, but you just don't want to see it. You just don't want to make it like... Yeah. Forgiveness does not necessarily mean reconciliation. I don't need to reconcile. All you just need to know is that I forgive you, and please don't come over here. Because every day I have to remember that I forgive you. That's a process. We have to remember

that we forgave a person, because when you see them, you got to remember. That's right. What made you forgive them? Yes. I'm not going to forgive Faye. So what allowed you to say to all those people that hurt you

that you said, you know what? You hurt me. You might not even apologize but I forgive you. What allowed you to do that? Because I'm not there yet. I don't have any time

to waste on you, you know, me being mad at you. Like, I just, I don't care. Dealing with success. That's right. Yeah, I just got, I got to keep pushing. I got to keep moving like i just i don't care dealing with success that's right yeah i just got i gotta keep pushing i gotta keep moving and if you don't you're gonna you know you're just gonna be stuck and being stuck is the worst thing that can happen to you just stuck and you just so

many people just stuck in 1994 i don't i don't want to be stuck in 1994 i don't want to be stuck in 1994. I don't want to be stuck in 2020. I want to be already in 2021 thinking about the next thing, but I can't move if I'm still in 1994 pissed at you. Gotcha. I'll piss at yourself. That's why I love that scene where you was talking to your younger self because I was sitting there like, how do you forgive your younger self? How do you give your younger self that grace? And you talk to her with so much care. Because it's you. your child when i look at him like gosh he hurts so much she's been

through hell i love her i gotta and i look at the little girl pictures she's been through hell i gotta i gotta take care of her because she's me and if i don't take care of her she can get me hurt all right when we come back we got more with mary j blige let's get into a mary mini mix man mary's here it's the breakfast club good morning morning everybody it's dj envy angela yee shalami nagar we are the breakfast club we're still kicking it with mary j blige now what hit different was when you said you talked about all the things that you dealt with as a child and they were all horrible and nasty i wouldn't want that for anybody but then when you said there's more that i can't even talk about i was like what's the more because i mean you you said some things that are so horrible like i'm like you you were dealing with a lot and the fact

that you were able to climb out of it is is a blessing and who was there besides your sister to help you crawl out of those situations it was was just me, my mom, and my sister. Two women living in the hood. No male figure. I mean, it was hell. Just getting to the store. My mother going to work, leaving us with people she thinks she can trust.

And that's life. You know what I mean? And my mother's a soldier. And we just watched her and mimicked her. You know, during that interview, when you were watching your younger self, you said that you used to be mean, right? So I'm like, man. Never smile, she said. Never smile.

And you didn't like the interviewer. You said you must not have liked the interviewer that was doing it. No, I didn't. Okay. So what would make you not like somebody, and was that a reputation? Because you yourself said you were mean. Was it a reputation you had? Because I haven't heard Mary was mean, but you were going through a lot.

And sometimes people don't understand that. And I feel like even today when you interview these celebrities, you don't, people think it's a perfect life, but they also don't understand what goes on behind the scenes. And so was that something that hindered you in any way? Was it a reputation? It absolutely hindered me. And I had a reputation for being a bitch and being difficult

and not making it to interviews one time not making it to shows and I was doing all of that I was bad but my thing was I didn't trust anybody and it took me a long time to trust I still don't really trust people that much but then I was just on guard like straight out of the hood like please just don't say nothing stupid and it seemed like everyone that interviewed me was saying something stupid and asking the same stupid questions over and over again. But what I realized when I got older

is that that's their job. And I realized that I have to learn how to respect people's job, even if they're being stupid. Did you ever rectify that? Like go back and talk to people later in life? I did. I remember I had to go to the record label and just apologize to so

many people. And when I apologized to all those people, they were like, like they were holding their hearts like, like, it was like, thank you so much. And I was like, oh, my God. And I must have been a monster. And I don't even remember all the stuff I did. And they were coming up to me and telling me that I was cursing them out. And, you know, I remember some of it, but some people,

I was like, I don't even remember your face. I was just going off. That's because I didn't trust anybody. And I was on guard. How difficult was it? Because I, you know,

we were all in, in, in high school and we don't see how hard it took. We just knew Mary J. Blossom and all of a sudden Reminence was cool and then Real Love out the window. How long did it take for you to get going? Was it a long drive or was it just first single and it popped?

Well, the first thing I did was with Jeff Redd. Jeff Redd was already signed and I started singing background with him on some of his records and then I did the Apollo with him. If you look at the Apollo, that's me in the background

singing with Jeff Redd. And that was one of my moments. But I had to go back to Slow Mom after that. And after the Father MC video, I still had to go home. It was terrible. You probably was a star in the hood, though, when you came home.

Listen, to my friends, to the n****s that hated me, I had to fight. My family had to fight. We had to. It was rough. And I didn't realize what was. Now that I go back and think about it, I'm like, wow, we was really in the hood still while the records was charting.

Wow. It's crazy. I wondered what was going through your mind because, you know, you performed Anita Baker for Andre. And then you got the opportunity to perform with Anita Baker. What was going through your mind in that moment when you were performing with her what was wow what was what was that Mary telling little Mary I was just so happy that that Anita Baker existed because if it wasn't for Anita Baker I wouldn't be sitting here if it wasn't for that uh tape that I made a quote up in the rapture Andre wouldn't have came to my house so when I was singing with her on one stage

and I was about to cry every five minutes because that woman was my angel. But who knew that one of my favorite songs was going to get me the deal that I got. That's why you kept telling her to take it away because you were about to cry every time. And that's why she was like, don't cry because I was getting ready to just be a mess.

Do you realize how big you are for the culture and what you did for the culture? Do you step back and be like, damn, like. Does Mary J. Blige know who she is now? Yeah. Do you know who you are now? I do now. It took me a while. It took me.

2016 was the day I woke up and said, all right, I'm it. I earned it. Like, I went through hell to hell to hell to hell to hell to hell to hell. And 2016 was like, enough of this hell, man. So it took me a minute to learn how to receive, but I'm receiving it now. Since you now realize who you are and the impact you have on people, does it make you more intentional about your words? Yes, and it makes me know that it's a responsibility.

And I have to take all this with humility. I can't just take it like that. I had to take it with thank you and grace. Thank you so much. But, you know, when it's go time, I'm just a monster with it, you know, from performing, you know, to whatever I do, I give 100 percent. I can't think about what someone's thinking about me or what someone's not thinking about me i gotta just go is there ever a time where mary would do a versus because we talk about unbeatable artists right in my opinion you and hove i say it all the time there was just a rumor about tony braxton and they had to clear that up would you do a version you and hovebeatable. I don't know what a versus would do for me. I'm like, I'm me. Because it's not about you, it's about us.

It's a celebration. Yeah. It's definitely a celebration. It's a celebration. I don't know what a versus could do for Mary J. Plage right now, but right now,

it's not something that's on the top of my list. It's got to be extended 100 song verses. Yeah, nah. Nah, nah, nah. Because you got too many songs. I don't even know how could you narrow it down to 20.

You couldn't. Can't nobody f***ing marry Jiblaj in no verses. I say it all the time. It's not even close. Now you dedicated to Dr. Andre Harrell who you called dad. At what point did he become that father figure in your life? When I was in the music industry alone

with no father figure and he was there a lot like he was there to talk me out of my foolishness why are you doing this why are you doing drugs why are you doing alcohol like like i would hide from him because i didn't want him to see me you know in that condition because i knew he had something to say he'd just be giving me that look like like a father like i don't like this yeah I was hiding. I was hiding all the stuff I was doing from Puff. He didn't really know. Could you ever love again? Like being in love again with somebody? Would you ever have that trust with somebody again or no? Love is beautiful for the

moment. You know, I would never reject love, but marriage is something that I would reject right now. I can also tell you this by watching the doc, you have been doing a lot of healing work. Do you mind sharing what you've been doing? Just some self-help books, prayer, looking at myself real good, always checking myself. Like if something is bothering me about someone, why is something about you bothering me?

Just, you know, i have friends and people that are into self you know healing too that are teachers and stuff like that so i take information that makes sense to me from anywhere where i can get it you know like if you have a good word i'll take a good word you got a word i'll take a word from you because prayer just reveals to you you you know and sometimes the worst thing to look at is you but i'd rather see me acting ugly or see me needing whatever kind of help i need so i can know how to fix it and that's really it it's no it's no like oh you know i visited you know all the shrinks in the world with nothing nothing's wrong with that at all you know but i think the best

shrink is us like we just need to be able to look at ourselves and and say it's okay i know taraji been on you about going to therapy though no no like we don't we don't badge each other with stuff like that it's like when you ready i feel like that's a Capricorn thing too. Yeah, we don't get in the way. We like, look, I'm a Capricorn. You all right? You safe? You good? All right.

Call me up when something go wrong now. But we don't like, you need to, you need, because we don't want nobody you need to and us. We're not judgmental.

We like, dude. Little move, we got more with Mary J. Blige when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Mary J. Blige, when we come back, it's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Mary J. Blige.

Now, what about your instincts? You talk a lot about how you have really great instincts. Were there times that you feel like you should have followed your instincts and you didn't and you disregarded it? Every day, my love. Every day from 1994 for a long time. when I don't listen to my gut or my instincts disaster I mean like big disasters like I've had some big disasters that I didn't follow my what was the moment where you say okay god I finally hear you 2016 yeah okay okay okay what got

you into you know saying you know what I going to sit down and do a series. Like, you know, we've seen you in movies before, and usually that might be a short stint, and then you can go back on the road, and you do what you do. But now, like, you have to stay in one space. You have to film. Like, you know, last night you were filming to midnight.

Like, what made you say, I'm going to do this full time from right now? I do on power. On power, yeah. The character, I mean, I'm a power fan, been a power fan, so that's why I'm on the show right now. This character is so much fun, and it's very cathartic.

Like, I get to just blow people away that I always wanted to blow away in my mind and then forget about it when I get home. Right, right, right. And I get to do all types of just crazy stuff, you know. So the art is what makes you just say, you know, I'm going to stay makes you just say, you know, I'm going to stay up

and I'm going to do my job. So wait, when you're acting, you're picturing blowing away somebody else in real life? Well. Whatever works.

Whatever works. Well, method acting, you got to visit some dark places. So whatever, you have to, a real place,

if you got a real place whether it belonged to you or somebody else visit that place and make the character real i go back and visit horrible things that have happened in my life and i just do you have time for yourself though because it seems like that character is going to continue to go that character's not going anywhere it seems like it's getting spin-offs and all types of stuff do you have time for you know what mary time yeah i, I take that Mary time. I'd be exhausted, but I get the time I need. What did you learn about yourself after completing the My Life documentary?

Man, that I'm a really strong individual. Absolutely. Yeah. Goodness gracious. I mean, that documentary, you forget, and I don't want to say I forget, but you forget the influence when you start seeing the young girls and saying they look up to you and they respect you. They've been through the things that you've been through and how did that make you feel when you see because it was young girls that their mama had to be playing your music and how does that make you feel? Beautiful because then I didn't know anybody cared like I didn't know Alicia Keys cared. I didn't know nobody cared.

You know, I didn't know nobody cared. Like, I didn't know Alicia Keys cared. I didn't know nobody cared. You know? F***ing what? I didn't know nobody cared. You married Jay Blige. But see, I didn't know that then. Whoever was out, whoever was, you know, was doing and trying to be like Mary J. Blige, I was like, it didn't matter because I didn't matter.

I just, you understand what I'm saying? I get it. Even when rappers were saying... You were living your life and not understanding what you meant to other people. Because you were just trying to survive, like you said. Exactly. And make it through and do your job and work. And not even considering like these people are coming up. Because sometimes people will be coming up to you.

And it didn't even look like you comprehended like how exciting it was. Yeah, because I didn't know I deserved any of it. I didn't know I was supposed to be praised. I didn't know I was supposed to be praised. I didn't know I was supposed to be loved. So I didn't know anybody even cared. And you were dumbing yourself down, you said, in your own relationship. Yeah. Because you didn't want to shine too bright.

That's how you know. Yeah, I just, I didn't want, you know, just like in the hood, I just didn't want people messing with me. You know, you get too happy or you get too brave or too braggadocious you gotta fight somebody or you gotta you know this guy might start getting insecure because you think you're beautiful and so that's those are the things i had to lay down like excuse my french that i need to live i need to breathe i gotta take my time and my space for me the hell with y'all i suffered too much for y'all so that there's no more than so even back in the day when guys like jay would say i did songs with mary j blige my nigga like like he was saying that out of excitement that

didn't do nothing for you for a moment yeah yeah for a second and then i'll be back to you know what i mean it was like all right that's dope and what? Yeah. The end of the documentary is a new song. I never heard that song before, so I'm assuming it's new. It's new? Yeah, it's new with the documentary. Are you going to do a new album? Is that the process? Have you started working already? I'm already in the process. I'm already

there. Madison Square Garden, right? I was talking about this, right? First, I want to ask the room and then I want to ask you, Mary. Madison Square Garden sold out. You got one song to perform. What song do you want to hear Mary perform? For me? Either the title track to My Life. Okay, just one? Yeah, probably the title

track to My Life. That's a gospel record. That record's about God. Come on, Yee, just one record. Man, I can't say just one record. One record. Come on, Yee. Come on, Yee. I don't know. That's a hard... I have a lot of great memories. Come on, Yee. Come on, Yee. I don't know. That's a hard... We ain't got a tape tonight. Come on, one song.

I have a lot of great memories. It's like a soundtrack to my life. So there's some good memories, some bad ones too. Do I want to hear something that's like fun, that was a great memory, or do I want to hear something that was like painful? Mine is Love No More. Because I like painful memories.

That's my life because it helps me cry when I need a good cry. Now, what would you perform, Mary? I do like Be Happy, though. That'll always be like my song because I feel that. when I need a good cry. Now, what would you perform, Mary? I do like Be Happy, though. That'll always be my song because I feel that. Be Happy. One song.

Got to perform. One song sold out. What's the song you're performing? My Life. My Life. That's the one, man. I wonder even that about you. And you say, when you're feeling down, don't you ever fake it?

Is that why you were so closed off maybe back in the day in interviews? Because you didn't want to show you're such a straight shooter you didn't want to show people what you was really going through i didn't want people to see me cry i didn't want to see people to see me smile i don't want people to see anything that could lead to them thinking i'm soft in any way because i just didn't trust people with my emotions and my feelings. I just didn't trust them with that part of me. Because as soon as you open up, they pull a rug from under you, you bust your head on the floor. So, yeah, that's what that was about. My last question, because I can tell you're ready to go.

How would this whole more healed version of Mary J. Blige tell younger Mary how not to get in her way? Well, I always say if she could, if she can hear me, which I don't think she could, it's two different Marys. The younger Mary is not going to listen to nobody. So all the healed Mary definitely can't tell her what to do. But if she would listen, I would just say, stop being afraid of you. That that's you that big thing you're feeling that you're running from that's you all right ladies and gentlemen mary j mother blige congratulations on the documentary thank you guys we can't wait to hear more music no we i i i love you in a real

way like you you your music has been the soundtrack to my life in a real, real way. And even now as I'm older, I understand the music more. So a song like My Life Hits Different, a song like Be Happy when I'm, you know, dealing with some depression or something, it hits different. So just thank you for being you. Thank you. There's not too many artists that you could say their music has withstood the test of time. None of yours has. Thank you, guys.

I've received my flowers right now. Absolutely. Thank you. But can we have the song? Can we play the song right now? What song? The one on the documentary. No, that ain't that kind of song.

What's the one you want us to play? I don't have it, but when I have it, I want to hear it up here. And it's coming. It's coming. Well, it's Mary J. Blige. It's The Breakfast Club.

Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Your morning. The Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. Now, I've been saying it for weeks, Charlamagne, that you can find anything and everything on TikTok. I hear you. I saw this video where some random person was in Central Park and overheard a group of people talking smack about a girl named Marissa.

So he posted it, and this girl Marissa actually found out and reached out to him. TikTok, you have to see it. Morning, everybody, it's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest on the line. Berna! What's up, brother? Long time no see, my brother.

Now Berna, I would have to say, when we talk marijuana and cannabis, you were the first person I know that had their own marijuana cannabis line. Now, I don't know if it was legal or illegal back then, but you've been selling cookies for a long damn time. How long have you had the cookies? Man, you know, cookies probably been about like 12, 15 years. I've been in the gray market. We call it the gray market, the traditional market for about 20 years. So how did you get into selling marijuana

when it wasn't legal? I mean, it's legal everywhere now, especially, you know, medicinal. So how did you get into selling and how come you never got in trouble? Well, you know, I was blessed to be in the Bay Area, which is like one of the most liberal places in the world when it comes to bud.

But in 1996, they passed a law called proposition 215 where you were allowed to buy sell and grow medically and so there was a lot of loopholes in that law and so i just growing up just kind of came up around that you know i mean so i wasn't dumb doing i was stating that my dad just stayed in my lane and just learned the game and once it became wreck i was i was fully gamed up to go. You know, I like that story because a lot of people will tell you, oh, don't get a job. And that means you working for the man and just being an entrepreneur. But you actually learned a lot of the ins and outs of the marijuana business from having a job, working at a dispensary early on. And people don't understand the importance because then

it really prepared you to be able to start your own thing, right? Yeah. And that's what separates us from everyone else like as we roll out globally not just nationwide you know we got cookies israel we got puerto rico coming we got we got so many things on deck but we're providing an experience that like you can only learn hands-on you know to actually show the customer to be knowledgeable about it our experience comes with 20 years in our storefront so it's not like uh we just came for the money grab or just decide we want to just be, let's be a week. Yeah, let's just get it cracking. Like we actually put real time into it, you know? Does it bother you to see all these people now jumping into the business that before might've been condemning it? Nah, you know, at the end of the day, you got to adapt or change.

You got to know that people are going to come rushing in once it changes a little bit. I just I just feel good knowing that they're so far away from us and they don't have the pure intention. So it's going to show, you know what I mean? Like culturally and just where their hearts at with the bud, it's going to show that they're not really in it for the long run. So I feel good about it. Even some politicians that were so against it are now like trying to get in the business. That has to be so ironic. It's funny. It's funny to me. Another thing that you're doing, because obviously 420 got to have Burner on the show and you do have an event happening,

a pay-per-view comedy show. So can you talk about that? Yeah. You know, during, during Corona, just everyone was doing these concerts, like rapping on screen and like, I could never get myself to do it. I live, I feed off the energy in the crowd. So I was like, what can I do that we can bring into people's homes, but then stays true to what I like to do? I'm like comedy would be perfect. Everyone's doing live stream rap shows. It's cool. Don't get me wrong. But I as an artist cannot do it. I get the vibe from the crowd. So, you know, at the end of the day, I thought comedy would be great. No one's really done it. And we got a great lineup for y'all.

And it's going to be perfect to compliment the high on 420. People are going to laugh their ass off. Yeah, my boy Syphus Sounds is on it. Who, by the way, doesn't smoke but always looks high. If you look at Syphus Sounds. He always looks high. I thought he smoked for sure. Yeah.

Syphus Sounds, Bob Saget. You got Michael Blackson, Paul Rodriguez, and Lil Duval, Jeff Ross. It's going to be dope. Break down the different strains of weed and what people would use weed for, whether it's sativa, indica, or hybrid. Break that down because you're smoking in the morning. So what do you smoke in the morning?

You know, I smoke. So typically, people say sativa is more for like the mind, like a head high. Indica is more for like the body. But just like anything else, the human body is different. So Angela and I smoke an indica that kind of makes her mind kind of race a little bit. You might smoke a sativa that super puts you down. So it all depends on your body.

This morning I'm smoking something super strong to kind of wake the up because I was like, I got to get on camera. I got to get right. So, you know, I find what I like and burn it. But Bud does so much. And it's so good for you, bro. Like, I got to send both of you guys a new product. It's a mushroom CBD, CBM blend. And I like that.

It's incredible. Look, for the morning, we got clarity. It opens up your mind. It's like Adderall without your heart beating or feeling mani. And then we had the bedhead for night, which gives you the best rest. But the mushrooms is the next thing too. You're going to see your boy ahead of the game with mushroom is so good for your body, man. And so I got to send both the awesome caps. They're legal.

You won't get in trouble. Um, but they're, they're incredible for the morning and the night. Now I wanted to also talk to you about, I saw you discussing, and I really loved your response, right? Your store, one of your stores, they actually broke in and stole like a million dollars worth. And obviously people were protesting in the streets. And your response was, if you can just discuss that, because I know a lot of people who are store owners, when there were protests and their stores were getting damaged and looted, what did you have to say when that happened to you? Look, it sucks, obviously, but I understand why it happened.

I respect why it happened. It's part of the world, right? Like the world is in such an anguish state and they've killed multiple people on camera and keep rubbing it in our face and act like it's not a big deal. And so as a minority owner in any business, just being out here being racially profiled when I'm out and about, I understand 100% what was going on. So I told my guards to stand down. No one needs to die over this. This is just money.

I could bounce back real quick, but you cannot get that man's life back. Like that man's life was taken from him and it was televised and the whole world watched it. And so we were a part of what the world's reaction was we were in the way of the storm and so you can't get more you can't get mad when it rains right and so my whole thing was like dude i understand why it happened and i wasn't mad at all a bunch of people online talking to get super mad like that's how could you not understand where people's hearts were at when that happened that That was like it was it keeps happening. It's still happening.

Look what happened to the 13 year old boy in Chicago. So it's like at the end of the day, like, you know, I just I felt what the world was feeling. I understood it. And I and I just took it because it is what it is. You know what I mean? Like, how could you how could you trip on some money when someone just lost their father? It just doesn't work like that. And now we're waiting for the outcome of Derek Chauvin's trial. So that's going to, we'll see what happens after that. They're trying to prepare for that across the country too.

There's going to be some ****. If you kill somebody, your ass needs to go to jail. It's on camera. Like whether he had COVID or whether he was on drugs, whatever it was, that mother, his knee was on his neck for how long? It's on camera. You cannot say that that's justifiable. So I hope that they do the right thing in that. One more thing I wanted to ask though,

have you always had this entrepreneurship mindset? Because I saw you posting about the hotel and how your goal is to own a hotel one day. And then you have this network. Obviously you have cookies. So can you tell us where that mindset came from for you? No, my parents always told me don't work for nobody else. Start your own business, even if it doesn't work for you, just be your own boss. So that was installed in my head as a little kid. You know, my father had a Mexican restaurant. I've seen what he did growing up,

and it was never enough for us. Like, it's tough. You can only sell a burrito or taco for so much. So I was like, what can I do? And I just kind of followed my gut. I don't know what it was, but I've been working since I've been 12. I lied about my age, got my job, and started stacking my bread and flipping my bread. And, you know, that's just the way I am. Maybe it's the Bay Area. Bay Area is, you know, independent

blueprint central. We appreciate you for checking in. Yes. I'm going to stop by Cookies because I'll be in Detroit next week. Oh, man. Come by 8 Mile. We got you, sis. Hit me up. We got you. And obviously, hopefully Cookies New York soon, too. Woo. Thank you, Berna. We appreciate you for checking in.

All right, y'all. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. Now it's time to end on a positive note. You got a positive note, Charlamagne? Positive note is simply don't let the behaviors of others destroy your inner peace. Breakfast club, bitches!

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