The Breakfast Club - Laila Ali interview and Breakfast Club Addresses Backlash

Episode Date: January 23, 2018

Tuesday 1/23- Today on the show we had the daughter of boxing legend Muhammed Ali, Laila Ali where she spoke about her new cook book, going to a juvenile detention center when she was younger, her father and more. Also, after the Amara Le Negra interview from Love and Hip Hop Miami went viral, The Breakfast Club addressed the backlash that came from it. Afterwards we switched gears and turned the attention to the listeners for their chance to shoot their shot at a crush, and this time Maury should have been in the building as well!  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I'm with it. The world's most dangerous morning show. Breakfast Club, bitches. Good morning, Angela Yee. Good morning, DJ Envy. Charlamagne Tha God. Good morning. What's today? Peace to the planet. Peace to the planet. It's Tuesday. Yes, it's Tuesday. What's happening?

Hey, salute to everybody who came out to the Foot Locker on 34th Street in Times Square yesterday. I was out there. I did a one-on-one interview with the founders of FUBU. Okay. One-on-four. Because there's four of them. Four of them. Yeah, they got the new Puma collaboration.

Okay. So they got this, I think it's called the Puma Suede 50. They also have a FUBU Mobile store in Brooklyn. That's what they were saying yesterday. It's actually right next to Mango Seed and Zerai Lee, which is where I always go eat. I see that picture all the time, but I didn't think it really existed. Yeah, it's right next door. And they said that they're opening up a FUBU hotel.

You can't tell me you wouldn't stay in a For Us, Buy Us hotel. Absolutely. That would be phenomenal. That's still one of the greatest acronyms ever. Absolutely. And it means a lot in this era. So salute to the founders of FUBU. Drop on a Clues bomb for them, damn it.

Shout out to Lil' Logan. Yesterday he had a couple of basketball games. And for the last six months, he wasn't playing ball like himself. I don't know what it was. I don't know what was on his mind. He had to shake it off. But he's back looking like him.

He dropped 30 yesterday. I wasn't mad at him, boy. That boy is back to balling. So shout't know what it was. I don't know what was on his mind. He had to shake it off, but he's back looking like him. He dropped 30 yesterday. I wasn't mad at him, boy. That boy is back to balling. So shout out to Lil' Logan. And I finished El Chapo. I finished El Chapo. El Chapo's an amazing show. I know you guys don't watch it, but you gotta watch El Chapo one time. It's pretty good. That's really good. I tried to watch the first season.

No, I tried to watch some of the... What was it? You know, I'm thinking of Pablo. Hey, man. You're thinking Narcos. All drug dealers look alike to me, man. I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm sorry. I watch some of it. What was it? You know, I'm thinking of Pablo. Narcos? You're thinking Narcos? Yeah, I'm like, what's going on here? All drug dealers look alike to me, man. I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm sorry. I can't help it.

Don't have the drug dealers upset with you for saying that, please. The drug dealers going to be outside protesting me with signs. They're going to be online asking to get me canceled. Not good. Well, yesterday I was at the Juice Bar. We actually just put a library there, which is exciting to me. I got a nice bookshelf. So I've been trying to fill up the bookshelf with all kinds of books and things for people to read.

So I was over there yesterday spending the day at our other little side hustle. That's right. Okay. Well, speaking of books, somebody will be here promoting a book today. That's right. Layla Ali will be joining us. Yes, that is royalty to me. That is the daughter of Muhammad Ali.

Okay. Give a round of applause for Layla Ali. You're right, bro. Come on with you. Show some respect. So we round of applause for Layla Ali. You're right, bro. Come on with you. Show some respect. So we'll kick it with Layla Ali in a little bit. And then shoot your shot. We haven't done that in the new year, have we?

Nope. Nope. So we're going to set somebody up for shoot your shot. If you don't know what shoot your shot is, that's if you see somebody that you want to holler at. Maybe one of your coworkers. Maybe somebody you've seen on the train or bus and you want to holler at them.

We'll help you do that. We'll put you live on the air. It's kind of a safe space. It's a safe space. You know, we live in the whole Me Too, Time's Up moment, and, you know, people don't really know how to talk to each other anymore, especially men when it comes to women. So we kind of create a safe space for a man to safely holler at a woman.

Okay. All right. So we'll do that as well. All right, let's get the show cracking. Front page news, what are we talking about? Well, the shutdown is over. We'll tell you what happened after this three-day deadlock and what's coming for the future. Okay, we'll get into all that when we come back.

Keep it locked. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Never been a sport. Door, jump, pull up. Whoop, whoop. Jumping, knocking. Court, court, court.

Good morning, everybody. It's DJ, MV, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. Hey. All right, well, let's get into some front page news. Now, is the government still shut down yet? No, they have actually signed a bill ending that shutdown for now, and that is going to be funds until February 8th.

So they have until February 8th to figure out what's going to happen in the future. Of course, one of the big issues is what's going to happen with the Dreamers who are here in this country, so they have to figure out a fix for DACA. Listen, man, they might as well let this ride out till March, alright? Don't be interrupting Black History Month with y'all little government shutdowns and stuff. We got a lot going on next month. We got Black Panther movie coming out. But it's really important for people who aren't sure if they're going to be able

to stay in this country or not. Families being torn apart. It's a huge deal to make sure that we can fix whatever needs to be fixed to make sure they can stay in this country. So that's what the government shutdown is about? Well, Democrats want a fix to what's happening with DACA, and the Republicans have no solution for that. And so right now it's in limbo because what's keeping them,

the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, it's going to expire in March, and they haven't come up with a solution. Oh, so the government is shut down because they haven't come up with a solution about what to do with the DREAMers? That's what the Democrats want them to come up with that. So the reason why they haven't voted up with a solution about what to do with the Dreamers. That's what the Democrats want them to come up with that. So the reason why they haven't voted to get the funding going is because they want the Republicans to come to the table and say, all right, we're going to fix this, we're going to do this. It's kind of a bartering.

All too complicated for me. All right, well, let's talk about this Hawaii governor. How'd he mess up? The Hawaii governor actually, did you guys see what happened when they were saying that there was a missile coming? Yes. It was a false emergency missile alert that people got on their cell phones. Now, the governor, the problem was he couldn't access his Twitter account because he was locked out and didn't know his password.

So the reason why he couldn't inform the public that they would not die in that ballistic missile attack was because, you know, he forgot his password. Something we all do. Yeah, I've been there before, but I ain't the governor where I got to tell people chill out, though. You don't have to tell people there's no missile attack. I call up my assistant and be like, what's my password again? But I ain't have to tell him that there was no missile coming. He probably had to send to his email a new password and reset. Y'all don't see the problem with this?

I keep telling y'all that some War of the Worlds, some Orson Welles War of the Worlds type of stuff is going to happen because everything is at the touch of a button. All it takes is one false alarm like that to cause absolute panic. And then I can't get on Twitter to let people know there was a false alarm. Come on, man. Come on, man. All right, you want to do this fake news story? What I was going to talk about was TBS and CNN. According to a black employee there, Wanda Bird,

she says she's worked there for 13 years. She says she's a mid-level manager, but she said she was passed over for a promotion to a black employee there, Wanda Bird, she says she's worked there for 13 years. She says she's a mid-level manager, but she said she was passed over for a promotion to a senior level position. And that job went to a less skilled and qualified white man. She's saying that black people have to work three times as hard to get ahead at TBS and CNN. And she also is saying that nobody of color has the title of senior VP or higher. So they are actually promoted at a significantly lower rate than the white people that work there. And also most black employees in certain divisions are less powerful and have non-revenue generating jobs. So she said she's not only suing for herself. She wants to make this a class action suit to make sure that other people benefit from this.

Okay. All right. Well, that's front page news. Now get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you're upset, you need to vent, hit us up right now. Maybe you're pissed off. Maybe you had a bad night, bad morning.

Or if you just want to tell them why you're blessed, hit us up right now. 800-585-1051. 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. Breakfast Club. Pick up the mother, mother phone and dial. This is your time to get it off your chest. Whether you're mad or blessed.

Say it with your chest. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. So you better have the same energy. Hello, who's this? Jerry, what up? Get it off your chest, bro. I want to know where this African Latino comes from. You said what?

I've never heard Afro-Latina. I've never heard it before in my life. You know the crazy part about this? I didn't understand it either about Afro-Latina. I've never heard it before in my life. You know the crazy part about this? I didn't understand it either about Afro-Latina. I thought it was when I first heard it, I thought it was African-American

and a Latino. That's what I really thought it was. I did too. And then when you ask somebody, they seem like you should know and they

get upset when you ask questions about it. So bro, I don't know. Do you know? We did have Dasha Polanco up here who explained it before, prior to this.

Yeah, I mean it's a lot of different conversations. I did a whole podcast with Vanessa Markle, and I can't pronounce her name. Vanessa Markle and another young lady, I think Mara. And they explained it as well.

Yeah, so it's been explained up here. So explain it. No one walks around calling themselves that. Oh, by the way, I talked to Liza Alonzo yesterday. He says he hates that term, because he says he just likes to be referred to as black, which also confuses me, but I'll let him explain that when he comes up here.

There's no one in the face of God who claims that that's what they are. No one calls themselves that. Well, apparently some people do. I'm Latina. Amarila Negres is an African descent, but she's Latin. The moral of the story is

everybody don't know everything. And that's why we sit around and we have conversations and we try to educate each other. Period. It's as simple as that. I don't know why people act like it's so crazy for someone to say

I've never heard the term Afro-Latino. We've definitely heard it up here because we discussed it up here. Even though I still don't understand it to this day, I'm still a little bit confused by it because everybody has a different explanation. Everybody feels a different way about it. No, you're of African descent, but you're Latino.

So she's a Latina from the Dominican Republic, but her ancestors came over from Africa, just like we have ancestors that came here from Africa. I thought it was the dark-skinned Latinos who called themselves Latinos. No, it's not. See, he still doesn't understand. Yeah.

Hello, who's this? Hey, this is Erwin. Hey, what's up, man? Get it off your chest, bro. Hey, man, I'm black and I'm feeling good. And I just wanted to spread some love to y'all, man. I like how y'all doing and everything. I listen to y'all every morning.

All right. Thank you for having no taste, sir. No, stop it, man. You got a baby on the way, too, they said? Who's that? Yeah, I got a baby on the way. They said. Well, congratulations on that baby on the way, man.

Is that going to be a little Leo baby? I don't know. I wish it was a Sagittarius. Well, that's not going to happen. Well, have a good one. Make sure your baby moms and your girl is okay. Can y'all have a live show? Can y'all have a live show for us so we can come up there and meet y'all or something?

We've done a lot of live shows in different cities. Oh, I need to find out. I couldn't find none, you know? I need to come see y'all. Where you from? I'm from Delaware. All right. Well, we're not doing a show in Delaware.

I could drive up to New York or Delaware. Yeah, we're not. I mean, I could drive up to New York or something. That ain't a problem. All right, next, we'll try to get a live showing for you so people can come out

and meet us and do some stuff live in front of people. All right, I mean, because y'all got a lot of wisdom. I know Charlamagne got a lot of wisdom.

Man, I don't know nothing. I don't know a goddamn thing. And there's nothing wrong with that. All right, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you're upset, you need to vent, hit us now And there's nothing wrong with that. Alright. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you're upset, you need to vent, hit us now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

Wake up, wake up. With 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? This is Brittany. Hey, good morning, mama.

Get it off your chest. Oh, I'm mad. And I want everyone to know because yesterday I went into BMW to pick up my car because all five series have recall. So when I go in, they sit in there and they was like, oh, okay, what are you here for? I was like, I'm here to pick up my loan car. So after I get there, the man was like, oh, all we have are enterprise cars and Chevy. But the point that makes me so upset is that it was free.

Cartesian women walked in and they was picking out the loan cars that they want. Whereas he's going to hand me a key to something as if I don't deserve it. And I'm here to tell them that just because someone is young and black doesn't necessarily mean that they're stupid. Not enough to call corporate on you and let them know this is how you're treated. Well, you better do that. You better call corporate. You better send corporate an email. That used to happen to me back in the day when you go to the dealership and they'd be like,

there's no more loaner cars and they give you like a little, the smallest Toyota they could possibly find. Yeah, that used to happen. But I would raise, send, and I would curse and kick and yell. And they usually give you your car, but definitely write a letter, send an email, or corporate. Which reminds me, I'm having a really serious issue with my car. When I start my car, it automatically goes into neutral sometimes. Like, when I pull off, it just switches into neutral. Yeah, you better take that car, right?

I know. I'm going to take it in this week. All right. I don't know what the hell y'all talking about this morning. You got rumors on the way, Yee? Yes, let's talk about Bill Cosby. He's back to work. I'm going to tell you what it is that he just did.

Alright, we'll get into all that when we come back. Keep it locked. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Good morning to you guys. It's a happy, wonderful, glorious

Tuesday. If you don't shut your beige ass up. See, don't call me... Shut your beige ass up. Don't call me beige. Alright, all cheerful on glorious Tuesday. If you don't shut your beige ass up. See, don't call me beige. Shut your beige ass up. Don't call me beige. All right, all cheerful on a Tuesday morning for no goddamn reason. Do not call me beige. You better hush. You're very passionate.

You better hush. Do not call me beige. MV yelled out a little while ago, I'm not black, I'm Jose. No, I can't. I did not. Don't call me beige anymore. I'm not playing with you. Waffle-colored Negro.

You know what? Let's get to the rumors. We're talking Nick Cannon. It's about time. What's going on? Rumor Report. Rumor Report. This is the Rumor Report.

Talk to him. With Angela Yee on The Breakfast Club. Well, Nick Cannon is paying his respect to the ladies, and he put out a three-song EP called Singing with Dreamgirls. Nick Cannon? Yes. So he actually picked some of his favorite songs from SZA, Kehlani, and Her. And here is The Weeknd, sung by Nick Cannon.

I am her man and her man and her man and her man too. I am her man and her man, hers and her man too. I am her man and her man, hers and her man. Tuesday and Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, keep all my bitches satisfied. Oh lord. Fart on this, please. Fart.

Fart all over it. Nick, stop. Fart all over this record, Nick. Stop, man. Stop, man. Nick, let the women shine, my brother. All right? We don't need you remixing their songs. Turn them into struggle records. He really covered them.

We don't need you covering their songs, turning them into struggle records, and calling them bitches on the record. I love Nick Cannon. I hate to say bitches. Exactly. Come on, man. In the middle of the Time's Up Me Too movement.

Why Nick Cannon keep doing this? Why all Nick Cannon music on Wild N' Out sound better than it do when he actually go in the studio and actually takes time making records? Why'd you play that? Because I thought it was interesting. My goodness Christ. And we're promoting Nick Cannon's new three-song EP. Nobody want that. All right, Bill Cosby is doing some stand-up.

Yesterday he did a live comedy set, and he was in Philly alongside the Tony Williams Jazz Quartet. Now, most of what he said focused on him struggling with blindness, and he didn't really talk about his upcoming trial or anything like that. Here is what yesterday sounded like. I have a daughter, very intelligent young lady. She said, watch it, watch it, watch it, watch it. My wife, who loves me, does not want me to walk into anything.

Why isn't these grown people getting up? I can understand if it was a baby. Why are people laughing? Because I ain't hearing nothing funny. Maybe the audio is just bad, but it didn't sound funny. That's not the audio. It's what really happened. Bill Cosby has no idea he was on that stage.

Bill sounded like he drugged himself, and now he's incoherent. Bill sounded deaf, not blunt. Well, I don't know what happened at the restaurant. I don't know who was there or if it was a pop-up of him just showing up and performing, but he was back on stage. All right, and Top Dog Entertainment, TDE, have announced that they are doing a championship tour. That's going to be with Kendrick Lamar. I don't know if you guys saw this.

Scissors, Schoolboy Q, Jay Rock, Sir Lance Skywalker, Abso, all of that. It all starts on May 4th. I actually got the picture. We had Sir up here who was signed to TDE of his mom with Michael Jackson back in the day because Sir's mom used to do backup for Michael Jackson. Right. Or drop on the Clues Bones for Top Dog Entertainment. That's going to be an amazing show. When you can keep it in the family like that and y'all just go out on the road and get that money, why not?

You got two of the biggest artists in the game in Kendrick Lamar and SZA. Why not? That's going to be amazing. Go get all the money. Keep it in the family. All right. Well, I'm Angela Yee, and that's your Rumor Report. All right.

When we come back, we have Layla Ali in the building. She's a boxing champion. She's also written a couple of books. So we'll kick it with her. She's the daughter of royalty, black royalty, Muhammad Ali. That's right. So we'll kick it with Layla. When we come back, don't move. Ali. That's right. So we'll kick it with Layla.

When we come back, don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. N.V. Angelou, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, sir. It's Layla Ali.

What's up? Welcome. Thank you so much. She's got a new book, Food for Life. And this is exciting for me because I'm actually always doing my best to try to eat healthier. And cooking at home is really part of eating healthier, too. Definitely is. I've been cooking since I was like 9 or 10 years old.

So a lot of people are like, oh, you went from boxing to cooking. It's like, no, actually, I went from cooking to boxing and back to cooking. So I'm really passionate about encouraging others to live a healthy lifestyle. And I just learned that you have a juice bar, which I think is amazing. Juices for Life in Brooklyn. Yes. Juices for Life? Juices for Life.

Look at that. Look how similar the names are because, you know, people don't realize that the food that you put into your body actually turns into the cells that turn into the organs, your brain, your heart, all those things. But we don't think about food that way. We just think about being hungry

and getting our grub on. And that's why a lot of people are sick with chronic illnesses and diseases and they don't realize that we can actually take control of our health, especially in communities of color. You know, so what I try to do is take the recipes that I've been cooking for many, many years, perfected them, and then also just made them as nutritious as possible.

So you got your greens, you got your gumbo, you got your fried chicken, but oven fried chicken, you know, so you get all the flavor along with the nutrition. So you're supposed to eat to live, not live to eat. Exactly. That's what they always say. But we want to enjoy food. Right. So he says how to eat. Exactly. That's what they always say. Elijah Muhammad. But we want to enjoy food. Right. How to eat to live.

Exactly. Exactly. But I mean, we want to be able to enjoy food, too. Right. Because I mean, come on. Food is like when you think about family, having good times. How many times do we go out and say, let's go have a meal together. Let's go break bread together.

So it needs to be good as well. What did you learn first? Because you say you started cooking young. So what did you learn first? How to throw the right hook or how to cook? Oh, well, that one's hard. No, probably cooking because I was younger.

I was like nine or 10. I wasn't fighting at that point yet. Then I got a little older before I started doing my little street fighting and things and kind of went down the wrong road.

But cooking for me, my mom didn't really cook a lot. Like a lot of people don't. So I love to eat. And when my parents were married, we had a cook. But then when my parents divorced, I had to divorce the cook also. The cook was gone. The cook was gone. I was like, no, not had a cook. But then when my parents divorced, I had to divorce the cook also.

The cook was gone. I was like, no, not to eat it. Come on, no more monkey bread and stewed chicken and greens. Even when you was with Pops? Yeah, but I'm saying, but I live with my mom. So I actually did a lot of cooking for myself.

And the first things I did was, you know, eggs, spaghetti, things like that. I called my grandma a lot on the phone. My family's from Louisiana, Creole. So I thought, Grandma, how do you make gumbo? You know, she would tell me how to make the roux over the phone and all that. And I perfected it over the years. Your dad didn't want you to be a boxer either. You had to kind of sneak. Put it like this. I did it in secrecy to first find out if it's something that I actually could do. I knew I wanted to do it. I knew I liked to fight. But I knew that, you know,

there was a lot of weight carrying the last name and there would be a lot of attention on me. I definitely didn't want to embarrass my family, myself, or my father. So I took the time

to go to the gym and I was training and I lost about 30 pounds in the process. And I was telling everybody, oh, I'm just working out. But I knew in my mind I really wanted

to become a boxer. And then it got around once I got to sparring, dropped a couple guys in the gym. It got around like, wait, hold up. Wait, what's she trying to do? Now, she has some punching power, too. So then my dad came in town. I was like, so are you going to be boxing?

I was like, yeah, Dad. And then he tried to talk me out of it indirectly. He's like, what you going to do if you get knocked out? You know, the whole world's watching. What you going to do if this happens, if that happens? I was like, I'm going to handle it, Dad. And then he finally told me what was really on his mind he's like it's not for women it's too hard i was a baby girl right so i understand looking back and i was like you have a right to your

opinion dad but this is what i'm gonna do so was he at your first fight he was my first fight yes he wasn't my first fight and it only lasted 54 seconds and i was mad as heck why you mad that you knocked him out i was mad because after all that training you know you want a real fight you want a real fight and You want a real fight. And I was like, you know, my adrenaline was going. And when you're like leading up to the fight, you're like your butterflies in your stomach. Not nervous, but butterflies like you're ready to go. And then when you're in there, that adrenaline rush is happening.

You love every moment of it. As soon as the fight's over, you're like, damn, I want to do it again. And when you go back into training, you go, why do I put myself through this? It's like a cycle. Got you. So, yeah. Now you mentioned street fighting. Why was you getting into street fighting?

Well, put it like this. I have a little bit of attitude about myself through this. It's like a cycle. Now you mentioned street fighting. Why was you getting into street fighting? Well, put it like this. I have a little bit of attitude about myself. I'm very confident. Kids can take that. Muhammad Ali's daughter. I always had the name brand stuff, all that. People can be, they're going to look at you a certain way, act a certain way. I never backed down from a fight. I have sisters that never got in trouble

but me, I was like, what? What's the problem? I was not afraid to get down in the dirt, you know what I'm saying, and get back up, dust myself off. So I got in a few fights and got transferred to a few schools, had a little bit of a challenge. You were a bad kid. I was bad. I like to say that.

I was bad. I ended up at juvenile hall at one point. Wow. Yeah, I ended up at juvenile hall three months. So not just a little bit of time. That's a big deal. Yeah, it wasn't just overnight. You broke somebody's jaw or something?

Well, no. Just being bad. Not listening, not doing good in school. But I don't regret it because it actually helped turn me into the person that I am now. Even with me looking the way that I look, people thought, oh, you're just trying to live off your father's name or whatever. And I was like, I've been a fighter since y'all just don't know. It's really in my heart to do. I love it. That's the one thing I love to do. Your kids a fighter since y'all just don't know. It's really in my heart to do. Like, I love it. Like, that's the one

thing I love to do. Your kids are scared of you. They don't mess around. No, no, no. It's so funny because they, oh, trust me, you just see my Sydney. She's like, I'm afraid she's going to try to be a fighter. But no, they're not. I'm also, you know, I mean, I'm a wife. I'm a mom. I'm very loving to my family, my friends. I don't go around

trying to beat people up. What did your parents say when you was in juvenile hall? What did they say? Yeah. They were like, we hope you're going to learn and listen now. That's a good friend. Yeah, it was good. My mom, of course, was hard for her to see. But at the same time, she was like, maybe now she's finally going to listen.

You know, she's finally going to listen. It's interesting because having a famous father had the reverse effect. It actually probably made things a little harder for you with people giving you a difficult time. Having my father? Yeah. You know, I don't complain about that because I don't know anything different. So, I mean, having Muhammad Ali as a father has been just amazing. Just the pride that I have having that same blood running through my veins.

And even with my boxing career, it was hard in the sense that I never had that period of being able to really learn. I learned in the ring, like with the lights on. You know what I'm saying? And everybody fought me 10 times harder. You know, even though women's boxing was a certain level and 168 pounds, to be honest with you, that's not where most of the talent is just because there's just not a lot of girls there. But everyone I fought fought me 10 times harder because it was their moment.

You know what I mean? So I had to be prepared. And I had trainers like Roger Mayweather, Floyd Mayweather, Buddy McGirt, you know. So I had the best of the best. And then with the genes and the DNA, that's why I kind of retired from boxing at a certain point. Because I was just like, there's really nothing left for me here. And I've gone on to host shows. I host a show now, by the way, called Homemade Simple.

On OWN. On OWN, yeah. So it's fun. And now I'm getting to do some of the other things. I got that fight out of me, out of my system. Now I can go back to decorating and cooking. And I'm cooking recipes out of the book. So it's amazing. This is interesting to me because I just assumed Muhammad Ali taught you how to throw them hands. You know what? He didn't. And, you know, but what's crazy is, is that when he finally, he supported me from the

beginning, but when he finally came to me one time after a fight and said, I want to talk to you. And I was like, what is it? You know, he's real serious and he almost had tears in his eyes and he said, you know, I was wrong. He's like, women can fight. You can fight. And then he was just like, you know, you move around like me. You jab, you gotta got a jab like me. You know, not exactly like him, but I'm saying you see a lot of similarities because we're built kind of the same as our

body structure and the quickness and all those things. So then it's kind of like, I was like that. You know, he never had a boy that was going to box. In fact, he never wanted any of us to. I'm the youngest of nine and I'm the only boxer in the family, his last girl. But my father and I, I'm the one out of all the kids. It was like, I don't want to be Muslim. I don't want to do this. I don't want to do that. So we always kind of butt heads together, but he has a certain tremendous amount of respect at the same time because I'm a chip off the old, was it block? That was difficult for him when you told him you didn't want to be raised Muslim.

It was very difficult. Look at all that he'd been through. But at the same time, I told him it's not in my heart to do. He had to respect that. It was hard. Were you the only one out of the nine kids that said that? Yeah, pretty much. What was it?

Did you love Ham that much? No. But what I didn't understand, though, I was like, well, I'm going to go to hell if I eat pork. I was like, I just can't. I don't understand that though, I was like, well, I'm going to go to hell if I eat pork. I was like, I just can't. I don't understand that. I can be a good person. So, you know, but again, you know, what was in his heart to do, he did. And what was in my heart to do, I did.

So it was great. Yeah, we have more with Layla Ali when we come back. Don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. My name is DJ Envy Angela Yee. Shalom and Nega. We are The Breakfast Club. We have Layla Ali in the building. Now, would you get back in the ring? This is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God.

We are The Breakfast Club. We have Layla Ali in the building. Now, would you get back in the ring? Money right, Layla there. Really? You still training? You still training? I stay training.

Got you, got you. Yeah, I got a little baby six-pack right now. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I have a heavy bag hanging in my... You know, I just turned 40. Wow. Can you believe it? No. I know. I just turned 40. Wow. Can you believe it?

No. Amazing. I just turned 40. I can't believe it either. But at the same time, because I think of my healthy lifestyle, the fact that I train all the time, you know, I can pretty much do anything I wanted to. But, you know, I don't think there's anyone there for me right now that would actually give me a good challenge.

How did you and your husband argue? Because you can't, you know, usually you can say something slick, but with you, you can't say that slickness. It's funny because my husband, thank God, this husband, I'm on my second marriage, does not have a slick mouth. The first one did. He didn't have a slick mouth. No, he don't have a slick mouth. Now, me, on the other hand,

sometimes he's like, hold up now. Because I'm a little, I can get aggressive sometimes when it comes to things that I'm passionate about with the kids. No, we're going to do this. He's like, hold on, you need to calm down. I would have never. No, but the thing is, I would never have married a man that I felt like I could overpower or that would feel overpowered by me. My husband played football.

So he's an athlete. He's big. He's strong. He's not intimidated by me at all. Two pounds of pressure to that jaw. No, but I'm just saying. We don't ever. The times I do get mad because Curtis hardly ever gets me heated.

Because I actually get hot. Like, you know, when you really get mad, you get heated. And they could be joking with me and grab me. I'm like, babe. Like, when I'm mad, I'm like, don't do that. Because I don't even want to have that feeling towards you. I don't want to get hot. Like, I don't even want to feel that way towards you.

Did you ever, when your father first came to you and said he didn't want you to fight because you were a woman, did you think that was sexism or just a father looking out for his daughter? It's both with my dad. It was both. He didn't feel it was both. It's just both. That's all I can say. So I had to prove to him two things.

Not only as a woman could I do it, and I didn't understand because we're taught to protect women. Right. He knows now that I'm looking back and I think about all that my father went through with his career, you know, not going to war and all those things, everything that he went through. Right. That was all intertwined in me saying that I want to become a boxer. All the blood and the sweat and everything that happens in the gym is all men is grimy in there. He didn't just want me around that. All the shady people you have to deal with in the business of boxing. So it's just like, you know, all of that kind of comes. And then and then just down to just, I don't want

you, because he's Muslim, in a sports bra and shorts bouncing around the ring. He'd be like, they hit you in your breasts. What you gonna do? Just stuff like that. Women have babies. That was his saying. See, you're not meant to fight. You're not meant to get... I was like, yeah, but dad, we wear chest protection just like you wear a cup. I kind of cornered him.

And that's when he was just like, oh, I just don't want you to do it. You retired. You was undefeated, right, I just don't want you to do it. You retired. You was undefeated, right? Yep. 24-0, 21 knockouts. Why did they label you as the baddest woman on the planet the way they did, like, Rousey when she was running through people? You think it's because of different sports?

You might be able to think of a couple reasons for that. White and stuff like that? Possibly. I think it's easier. I mean, I think it's kind of known now it's a little easier, you know, when you have a certain color skin. But, I mean, you have to think. Like, Muhammad Ali's daughter, people call little easier, you know, when you have a certain color skin. But, I mean, you have to think, like Muhammad Ali's daughter, people call me pretty, you know, say that I had everything that it take, but I still wasn't able to get to a certain level because of, you know, just for certain reasons.

So, but I mean, I'm not somebody who sits back and complains about things. You know, I think everything happens in due time. You got Clarissa Shields now, who's an Olympic champion. She's a young black girl, came out of Flint, Michigan, lived a hard life, went through a lot. She went to the Olympics, won twice. Women's boxing wasn't in the Olympics when I fought. She actually fights at the weight class

I fought in and she's doing great. I mean, you know, it's still not what I would have wanted. I would have wanted more because I have a big picture in my mind, but for her that's great, you know, and I think that women's boxing is getting some good attention. So it's wonderful. I remember you said the best in the world don't get beat.

You still feel that way? No, no, no. I said that? Yeah. I thought in reference to Ronda Rousey. Oh, no, no, no, no. I might have said something similar to that, but you don't get beat the way she got beat. Yeah, yeah.

Okay. Yeah. I would say that, you know, Ronda Rousey was a very good fighter. I never took anything away from her because she did, but she had some flaws and they just got, you know ronda rousey was a very good fighter i never took anything away from her because she she did she did but she had some flaws and they just got you know but i would never you know to just get 100 percent taken advantage of in the ring and it just looked like a little rag doll in the ring that would never happen then it happened again yeah and then she just gave up yeah i think it's hard when you've been in your mind you're the best ever and and you really

believe that and you think that you're perfect and then you find that you're not people go through these deep depressions i mean george it happened to george foreman when my dad beat him he went through a deep depression and then he kind of went into hiding and then he came out a whole different person so they overcome some things i've seen some people go through that not on no one saw but me but some of the girls i fought went through that because they believed all the hype oh she's nothing she's just ali's daughter and you know then they get beat by me you know know what I mean? And then they had to come to some realizations and things like that. But

you can get beat. But it's who you get beat by and how you get beat. Muhammad Ali, he's the greatest of all time. He got beat. But it's how he bounced back. Yeah. And it was later in his career. He wasn't in his prime anymore. All those different types of things. So it's like you have to look at it like that. Like people get beat by Floyd Mayweather and people go, well, it's Floyd Mayweather.

Right? What do you think of Floyd? I know you mentioned your dad's the well, it's Floyd Mayweather, right? What do you think of Floyd? I know you mentioned your dad's the greatest of all time. Some people say Floyd is. What do you think about Floyd? Floyd says he's the best ever, and he is a very good boxer, and I can see why he would think that about himself, and I think you should think that about yourself. When you think about Muhammad Ali, though,

we're talking about the greatest of all time. First of all, a lot of people call himself the GOAT. I know one thing. My father would have never came behind anyone else and called himself the GOAT. He was the original GOAT. You know, he made up that term and he lived it inside and outside of the ring. So I think that that's why some people are like, how could you? You know, but Floyd talking about just boxing, you know, that comes down to just in a matter of opinion, you know, because Floyd technically can do some really cool things in the ring.

But he learned a lot of that he may not realize from Muhammad Ali, who was faster than Floyd at a heavyweight. That's what's crazy. My dad was a heavyweight doing the things that he was doing before anybody was doing it. So it really doesn't matter to me because I really don't get into that conversation when it comes to boxing because it's a matter of opinion. You think that person's best, you think that person's bad.

Well, who cares? I always said I want to be the best in my weight class. You know, I never was like, I'm the number one boxer female ever. But I'll tell you what, ain't nobody ever going to whoop me. I can say that. Call it what you want to. Call it what you want to, Charlemagne. How does it make you feel that America celebrates your father so much now,

but when he was alive, he was a public enemy. At one time, right? Yeah. It's amazing. I mean, I understand why. I understand, as we all know, the history of this country. And when he was at his prime talking, you know, and uplifting people, making African-American people love themselves and actually could change the world, then he was more of a threat. Then when he got sick, he was quiet. People felt like he was no longer a threat then it was like they loved

Muhammad Ali so you know but he was a controversial person at one time and he grew and he changed a certain you know even within himself with through his religion and what he would say about certain people then he ended up loving all people you know and feeling that all people were equal because he went around the world and touched people and met people of all different religions and colors and saw how we were all connected. So my father was almost like like an angel. Like I'm telling you, the energy. Have you ever met him and been around?

Unfortunately, no. You didn't? No. I met him one time, but it was way later. It was at a Russell Simmons event when he had his philanthropic event that he did every year for the holidays. So many people. I mean, obviously people every day mention my dad and tell me the stories. And I still am amazed at how many people he's actually

met by people like, I met him at the airport. He picked me up when I was a kid. And as a kid, we used to roll around in this Rolls Royce, all of us. We'd go down Wilshire Boulevard in LA. He'd give out money. He'd shake hands. He'd be there for two and three. It was annoying as a kid. We'd be there for two and three

hours everywhere we went. But he loved people. And that's one thing. And my dad, which I love about him, is that he was so, even though he was confident and brash and all those things, he was a humble person. He loved people. He never acted like he was better than anybody else or tried to floss his money in people's face and say, I got this and I got these clothes and I'm better than you.

So that's what trips me out now about people when they make it, when they try to look down upon other people. That's what irritates me. More with Layla Ali when we come back. His notorious B.I.G. is Big Papa. Morning, everybody. It's D.J. N.V.

Angela Yee. Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We have Layla Ali in the building. Charlamagne. I read that he used to interview you and your sisters. Oh, yeah. What would he ask, though?

Oh, my God. He'd ask us all kinds of stuff. Just the things parents ask their kids. What do you want to be when you grow up? You know, just different little questions. And he kept tapes. He would record us. Wow.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. My sister has them. My sister, Hannah, she gets her hands on everything. So Hannah has the tapes. But just listening to him. And what's a real treat for me is not listening to myself, but listening to my dad when he was talking, you know, because as I got old enough to really ask him the questions that

I would want to ask him, he couldn't really speak clearly anymore. So that was the thing, you know, so, but you could always see, communicate with him through his eyes. So, but yeah, that's, that was. Was he trying to prepare you for what was to come maybe? Uh, probably, you know, probably. I mean, he taught, he, even not through the video, I mean, through the recordings, he was always preparing us for what to come.

My dad sat us down and we had so many lectures. That's all he used to do, is talk to us about religion, talk to us about what's going on in the world, talk to us about, you know, teaching us how the world was going to be unfair to us. And unfortunately, a lot of black parents have to have that conversation with their kids. I'm thinking about now, when am I going to have this conversation with my kids? Six and nine. But they're starting to know the difference between color now. And, you know, especially with President Trump and all these

different things that are going on. And they're just like, huh? And now I have to start explaining to them, you know, but without them feeling less than because I believe that when you learn about slavery and all those things in school as a kid, sometimes it gives you an inferiority. Because you don't understand. It's like, they have more than me. You know, you must be better. You know, all those things. But why were we treated?

So you have to try to figure out a way to teach them. Because you can't not teach them because it's going to hit them in the face at some point. But without giving them that complex. You know, my daughter said to me the other day, we were going to sleep. And she said, Mom, you know, I wish my skin was this color. And she pointed to the light side of her hand. The underside hand i said and that's when i was like oh damn like body blow six years six years old i was like well why you know and she's like well because i feel like you know jesus's skin was that color and you know all these different things right so i was

just like okay that lie size is like you know it's just it's like what do you say you know so i i know what i said but i'm just saying it starts so young absolutely so know, it's just, it's like, what do you say? You know, so I know what I said, but I'm just saying it starts so young. Absolutely. So, you know, it's just one more thing. So my dad, to answer your question, I think definitely instilled that in us at a young age. So we are very aware. But I, in my life, try to be very inclusive of everybody because the more I think we separate ourselves and define, like, I don't go around saying I'm a black woman and I'm this and I'm that because I feel like you can see that I'm a black woman.

You can see that I'm confident. You can see that I'm powerful. You can see that I can do anything that I want to do. And I have, you know, people who appreciate me of all shades and colors. So that's what I want to see us start looking at more of the ways that we're alike than we are different. But at the same time, you got to keep your eyes open

and woke and be, you know, realistic about the way the world is. How old were you when he first told you that the white man was the devil? Oh my God. He actually didn't tell us that at that age, but he did used to tell us because I don't remember timing wise if he had, cause he changed that. He was, he used to think that, but he said, you know, how come everything good is white and everything bad is black, you know, like angel food cake, you know, and devil cake. Devil's food cake. And then he'd kind of do the comparisons. Snow is white and this is this. And we'd be like, oh yeah.

You got some deep conversations. I can imagine. I'm like, I'm only seven or eight. That's so funny. If your daughter wanted to box, would you be supportive of that? I would definitely try to do what my dad did probably and encourage her to do other things,

you know, but I would support her because I understand that that's what you got to do. Your kids are going to, you know, they don't belong to us. They just come through us. And just like I did with my mom, you know, she was always

very supportive of me, but she tells me now that her heart dropped. She was like, oh God, not again. You know, because sitting on, it's hardest for the people who love and care about you sitting on the side watching. Is she sitting with your dad and everything? Oh my God, yeah, with people that you love. because sitting on, it's hardest for the people who love and care about you, sitting on the side watching.

Is she sitting with your dad? Yeah, oh my God. Yeah, with people that you love. And it was, I think it was even harder for him because he was going there against heavyweights and you could, you know, one punch can kill you. And I was always the stronger one in my fights. But yeah, Sidney has a lot of fight in her though. My son, I'm not really worried about because he just doesn't seem like he has that temperament.

But you never know. That'll be the one to turn that corner. I know. I'm scared. What if he wants to play football? He's talking about that now. I had never had to deal with it. But now he's like, Daddy, I want to play football.

I'm like, oh, man, because I was going to let him. You know, I was like, he doesn't want to play football. So I'm talking about football. But now all of a sudden he's like, can we go throw the ball? Can we do that? He's playing football. I'm like, he's a big, strong boy, too. My son is nine.

He's 110 pounds. He's already wearing size 14. He's about 5 feet. He's bigger than you, Charlamagne. Yeah, Charlamagne. Watch out, Charlamagne. He's 9. He's a big kid. We're big people. I weigh

200 pounds. No, you don't. I swear to God. No way. I weigh 200 pounds. Right now? Right now, today. 198. Wow. 200 pounds. 200 pounds is good. Because I'm tall. I'm 5'11". I got big hands. Have you noticed? Yes.

Look how big my hands are. I got big feet. You made that fist out of a yike. I got big feet. I got a big head. I'm a big... I do. But it fits my body.

But we took a picture side by side, but my head's bigger than yours. All of you. But I'm just saying, I'm proud of these things. I took a picture with you at Dr. Oz. Yeah, I know. But I'm saying, look at it. Watch my... I know. It looks like Shaq and Kevin Hart with you at Dr. Oz. Yeah, I know, but I'm saying, look at it. Watch my head. It looks like Shaq and Kevin Hart.

You better watch your mouth. You better watch your... I mean, in a good way. All right, I'm just making sure. Okay, no, but I'm just saying, I'm proud of my size. It's how God made me, you know? It all made sense when I got in that ring. But I'm just saying, we're physically big people.

I look smaller than I actually am. I think a nine-year-old is bigger than Charlamagne. That is crazy. They're bigger than me. They're a joke. They're the same size. They're the same size. My daughter Sydney's pretty big, too.

Let me ask you this. They always tell men before they fight, right, you can't have sex for a certain amount of time. Do they tell women that also? That's just kind of like a thing in boxing, you know? And it's more, I would say, for me, it would be more mental. You know what I mean? You don't want to have those kind of feelings. Like, I'm in straight up fight mode. Like, you can imagine if you knew you were going

to fight somebody on a certain day at a certain time, you know who it is, you know this is going to happen. It's not like a street fight. So you want to be like in real beast mode. So I'm talking about when it comes to, was it going to kill me if I had some ice cream before the fight? No. But mentally, I'm going to feel like I didn't do everything that I need to do because my confidence came from preparation. You know what I'm saying?

So I wouldn't even want to. Is that what you call sex? Ice cream? No. No, no, no. I'm sorry. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no.

No. Okay. So no, I would not have sex. I don't even want sex. I'm talking about when it comes to fighting. Like, I don't want to have, you don't want to be in that feminine mode. I want to fuck somebody up mode. You know what I mean?

Excuse my French. How long do you train for? Like 10 weeks before a fight. But no, no, you're not going to go that long now. But I'm talking about maybe like two weeks leading up to the fight. That's when you would just be like, I'm not really feeling it. Well, we appreciate you for joining us. Thank you.

Food for life. And thank you for stopping by. Yes, and get the detox. I'm going to try one. Well, we appreciate you for joining us. Layla Ali right now. Food for life. Yep. And thank you for stopping by. Yes, and get the detox. I'm going to try one of these recipes this weekend. They can do my detox and come get your drinks. How do you get the detox? You buy the book?

Well, you can go to laylalafreedetox.com, and all the information is there. And it's on all of my profiles on social media and everything. And that's the only way you can get the detox, though. It's not in the book. You got to get the book, and then you can download the detox for free. And it's all on that link I said said, when does the show come on? The show Homemade Simple comes on every Saturday at 9 a.m. And also it re-airs again on Oprah's Super Soul Sunday at 1 on Sundays.

Yep. So twice. All right. It's The Breakfast Club. It's Layla Ali. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Shola Mina.

God, we are The Breakfast Club. Let's get to the rumors. Let's talk Amara La Negra. It's time. She's spilling the tea. This is The Rumor Report with Angela Yee on The Breakfast Club. Well, yesterday, Amara La Negra from Love & Hip Hop was on The Breakfast Club. And a lot of things happened after this interview.

She discussed in particular being an Afro-Latina who's of a darker complexion and how difficult it's been for her in this business. Here are some of what she had to say. The struggle is very similar. Obviously, they'll always pick the lighter. They'll always pick the ones that look like I said before, like J-Lo's and Chiquitas and stuff before they look at us. Who cares if you're talented? Who cares if you're educated?

You know, you're always going to be the last option. And that's just a symbol of beauty. I don't see that. Like, I guess I'm uptown a lot. I'm in New York. But you don't see it where? I don't even see it in Hollywood no more. I feel like times have changed a lot.

Okay, but the same thing I go back to. For the most part, I'm coming from the Latin market into the American, and this is the struggles that we have. Right, you can say you don't. You sure it's not in your mind? It's not because you can. Yeah, but that's love and hip-hop. That's a storyline.

And who the f*** is young Hollywood? But it's a truth. But it's a truth. Yeah, but it's a true storyline. Like, it's not even. We didn't have to fake it because it's the truth. All right. Well, after that, Laz and Charlamagne had a conversation on social media.

We actually had a conversation on the phone, but it started on social media. Well, this is what we saw. You my guy. This is Laz Alonzo. You my guy, but to question colorism in Latin America because Cardi B made it is like questioning it in America because Will Smith did. The problem exists. Turn on Telemundo, Univision, or look for any black women, Latin female artists on any Latin awards. You won't find them.

The problem is worse in Latin America than it is here. By the way, Lazlo Lanzo called me yesterday to say my bad because he only saw the 60 second clip. And then once he saw the whole interview, he called me to have a conversation about the whole thing. Because I did not say anything about, I did not use Cardi B to dismiss colorism in Latin America. Do you know how crazy that sounds? Well, here is what she said about Cardi B with Mara La Negra. And even with what happened now,

being able to use my voice to actually make a change, and just in case y'all didn't know, this is happening to us over here. Because people focus on what's happening in this part of the world, but kind of forget over here there's more people and it's great for all the little girls that can look up to you because who did you look up to when you were a little girl when i was little i used to look up to celia cruz she was the only afro latina that made it like worldwide she was like our michael jackson the new generation that's coming up doesn't have anybody so i just feel like it's my place to make that difference to tell you, you know what?

Don't ever feel as if you need to change who you are or the way that you look in order to succeed. That clip had nothing to do with Cardi B. More on Cardi B

in the next one. Yeah, just a clip. That's all I'm saying. Here it is. What is Cardi B? Cardi B is Dominican and I think she's mixed with or something.

She's mixed with something else. I'm trying to explain her. Cardi, teeth was messed up. She came from the script club. She's so-called ratchet and ghetto as hell. Now she's America's darling.

America's darling. But she was our darling before America. So it's like, well... Okay, so at the end of the day... We like Cardi. We like her. Yes, but she popped up

in the American, not the Latin market. You guys don't even know that in the Latin market. The Latin market is accepting her. Do you think that she's lighter than you, too? Why you look at me like that?

I'm confused. It's kind of... I think the confusion with that right there was the simple fact that we were discussing the entertainment industry and she was discussing Afro-Latino. I didn't know she was talking about dark-skinned Afro-Latinos in that moment. I thought she was just talking about Afro-Latinos prospering in the industry, period. That's why I said Cardi B.

Well, the thing that bothers me about the whole thing is I was listening to people sometimes, and when we were asking questions, people were like, oh, how could you ask that? Because I really don't know. I don't watch Telemundo. I don't watch Univision. But you're Spanish. Don't start that. No, listen, I am not. And that's another

thing. I'm not Spanish. I'm not black, I'm Jose. Don't listen to Charlamagne. Charlamagne jokes and says I'm Latino, I'm Puerto Rican, I'm Dominican, I'm everything. I'm Cuban. No, I am not. I'm actually all black. I'm not accused of being Cuban. I'm accused of being Latino and a beige bitch. Back to the rumor report. Cardi B's sister, Hennessy, posted

a message. I like her. She's obviously beautiful. This is the same message my sister's been trying to spread for a while, but it doesn't count because she's not so dark. So what I don't like is that they asked her if she feels that Cardi made it because she's lighter skin and she made a face basically insinuating yes. People F for Cardi because feels that Cardi made it because she's lighter skin and she made a face basically insinuating yes. People F for Cardi because of who she is, not because she's light skin.

I think that's what Charlamagne was trying to say. A girl from her same country with the same hair and braids from the hood that had to become a stripper because it was hard for her to find a job because of her hair and color. People like her because she doesn't sugarcoat. That's why people like her, not because she's light skin. Listen, man, I don't care if y'all mad. If I don't understand something, I'm going to ask questions, period. Absolutely. And not once did we dismiss colorism or dismiss our struggle.

I was just trying to understand what the struggle is. And the only thing I pushed back on was colorism in the entertainment industry because I see women of color of all shades popping right now, especially over the past year. That's it. Right, and she was discussing her own personal experiences, auditioning for things and being told she could play the role of a prostitute. And it was a conversation

and all those issues got conflated and it I don't know. But God bless Amara. Hopefully this is a learning experience for everyone and everybody's learning what the term Afro-Latina means. I'm trying, but I'm dumb, okay? I didn't graduate. I didn't go to college. I'm Angela Yee and that's your Rumor Report.

Alright. Now, Mr. My Afro-Latino co-host, could you I didn't go to college. I'm Angela Yee, and that's your rumor report. All right. All right. All right. Now, Mr. My Afro-Latino co-host, could you please set me up, please? I'm not Afro-Latino. You were yesterday when you was taking that heat. I was all types of things. They called me.

I was like, I'm not Puerto Rican. I'm black. Jose, tell me. Set me up, please. I can't even make fun of you because if I call you something black, then I get in trouble. Why do you want to call me something black?

Because you always call me light-skinned and khaki-colored. I don't. I call you beige. I take it offensive. Well, whatever, you beige bitch. Set me up, please. You black. Hold on, hold on.

Y'all, stop. That's enough. You guys are taking it too far. You called him a beige bitch. That's my name for you, Charlene. He just called me black and you said nothing. You are black. You guys are taking it too far. You called him a beige bitch. That's my name for you, Charlene. He just called me black and you said nothing. You are black. You know what?

I'm not messing with you. I'm not messing with you. You know what? Everybody stop. Why'd you have to repeat beige bitch? You didn't have to repeat that. Like, you wanted to get that off. Salute to Nori, man.

Nori just texted me and said, I'm Latino. What does that mean? What's up, man? Who you giving your donkey to? A Hawaiian. What? Text that to me. How on Hawaii to come to the front of the congregation,

God damn it. A Hawaiian about to get this work supported. Nori texted me too and said, I'm Latino. What is up with you? You know what, man? Is he Afro-Latino? I don't know. I don't know.

All right. Donkey of the day next. Get donkey of the day. Yeah, you dumb ass. You get donkey of the day. Yeah, you dumb ass. You are a donkey. It's time for Donkey of the Day. Donkey of the Day, huh?

I'm going to fatten all that shit around your eyes. They want this man to throw them blows, man. They wait for Charlamagne to tap them gloves. Let's go. You have to make a judgment of who was going to be on the Donkey of the Day. They chose you. This is a breakfast club, bitches. Who's Donkey of the day. They chose you. I know she is. To the breakfast club, bitchy. Who's donkey of the day today?

Yes, donkey of the day for Tuesday, January 23rd goes to the governor of Hawaii, Governor David Ige. Now, if you remember a couple weeks ago, Hawaiians and tourists in Hawaii thought they were going to die. All right, the reason they thought they was going to die was because emergency alerts went off all through the island. Now, you know how you be sitting around sometime and your phone give you an Amber Rose

alert or a flood warning alert, stuff like that. Imagine minding your business in Hawaii and you get a text message that reads, ballistic missile threat inbound to Hawaii. Seek immediate shelter. This is not a drill. Well, that's what happened. But by the good graces of God, it was a false alarm. And Governor

David Ige explained to the people what happened. Let's hear it. This morning, an error was made and a false alarm was sent to cell phones and to TV and radio. We investigated, and as soon as we became aware that it was an error, we took action to send the notification that it was a false alarm. An error was made in emergency management. It was a procedure that occurs at the change of shift where they go through to make sure that the system is working

and an employee pushed the wrong button. He pushed the wrong button. I am telling you that one day soon we are all going to find ourselves in an Orson Welles, War of the Worlds situation. Kids, if you don find ourselves in an Orson Welles War of the Worlds situation. Kids, if you don't know what Orson Welles War of the Worlds is, then do your Googles. Siri is your friend. Ask her. But I'll give you a quick summary. It was a radio drama, a story told on a radio show in the form of a news bulletin.

And it started off with the reports of an explosion on Mars, then an unusual object falling on the ground somewhere in Jersey, and then Martians emerging from the objects, and an alien invasion happened here in America. Now, in the days following the War of the Worlds, widespread outrage happened the same way y'all get fake outrage now over things on social media. It was just like that because a lot of people didn't realize

that it was a radio bit. Now, it was 1938 when this happened, okay, and radio was everything, sort of like social media is everything now for all you digital D-heads. But in the era we live in where leaders of the free world are all over social media and other political figures are all over social media, all it takes is one good hacking of someone's account to post something that could send the world into a frenzy. Think about the anxiety attacks, possible heart attacks, possible suicides

that possibly could have happened in Hawaii because someone hit the wrong button. Imagine me having a heart attack and dying because you hit the wrong button, okay? A lot of things you can hit the wrong button on. You can hit the wrong button on your phone. You can hit the wrong button on the elevator. But you can't hit the wrong button for the emergency alert that tells you that a ballistic missile threat is inbound.

You don't get in heaven making mistakes like that. But it's more to the story. Governor David Ige made another confession to the Honolulu Star advertiser. See, I know they sent out an emergency alert clearing up the mistake and telling people there is no missile threat or danger to the state of Hawaii. Repeat false alarm. But in a time like that, I want to hear more from my leader. All right, Governor David Ige.

I want you to hold a press conference and make a statement, which he did, which I expected, but Governor David Ige made a confession. See, the governor of Hawaii wanted to inform the public that they would not die in a ballistic missile attack, but he says he forgot his Twitter password. Governor David Ige said, and I quote, that I have to confess that I don't know

my Twitter account logons and the passwords, so certainly that's one of the changes that I've made. I've been putting that on my phone so that we can access the social media directly. Personally, I don't want any presidents, governors, mayors, any of those type of people on social media. The room for error is too high. You know how we complain about fights breaking out or shootouts breaking out or random acts of violence happening? And instead of people calling 911, they pull their phone out to record. That's how I feel about this situation.

If it's an emergency, I don't want my leaders in government running the social media. Why? Because I don't know if I can believe everything I see on social media. And just like you can cause widespread panic with one false social media post, you can also cause me to not take an emergency serious because it's on social media. By the time I determine if this post is real or not, I may be dead. So all leaders in government, please don't go chasing tweets and Instagram posts. Stick to the press conferences in the state of the unions that you're used to.

Please give Governor David E. Gay the biggest hee-haw, please. He could have kept that to himself. All right. Nobody needed to know that, you know, your first thought once you found out that the ballistic missile threat wasn't real was to run to Twitter and tell everybody. By the way, I forget my passwords all the time. All the time. If it wasn't for my assistant, I forget it all the time. I have to ask my wife and my assistant because I forget it all the time.

And I hate when I change my password and then you can't change it back to a password you used in the last year or something similar and then I have to make up something completely new and different. Your wife got all your passwords? I feel this pain. Your wife has all your passwords? Yeah. Drop on the clues bombs for this faithful man right here. What about the one for the phone? Is that the only one you heard? Yes.

What about the one for the phone she doesn't know you have? I don't have a phone that she doesn't have. Wow. See what Angelia just did I'm kidding Angelia just posted an emergency alert You know what I mean? That's what she just did

She just caused a missile to come inbound to you for no reason That's right I'm kidding, Gia I promise, I'm kidding And this is how I back this down I don't have any other phone Wow It's so real in my house

My wife's eyes can open up my phone. How about that? That's how real it is in my house. Nigga, how rich are you? What kind of phone you got to where eyes can open up a phone? It's an iPhone. Yeah, the iPhone X. You put it to your face, it opens you.

That's how you unlock the phone with the iPhone X, but your face recognition. Yeah. But your eyes have to be open. He said, what kind of money you got? It's an iPhone, bro. This is actually current technology, Charlie. It's going to upgrade.

No, I don't have an iPhone X. My phone is not X yet. It's still little. Don't you got the upgrade? Y'all ain't black. Y'all don't understand that reference. Don't worry about it. It'll hit you later.

It'll hit you later. I'm black. It'll hit you later. No, I'm black, though. You're beige. I'm not having no colorism conversation with y'all beige Negroes. There you go. All right, when we come back, shoot your shot.

All right, if you want to holler at anybody, somebody, it doesn't matter, a co-worker, somebody you've met, and you wanted a little help, you need some help. In a respectful manner, please. In a respectful manner, yes. The Breakfast Club will help you. We'll do it when we come back. Shoot your shot.

It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club. Are you ready? It's time to shoot your shot. It's time to shoot your shot. With The Breakfast Club.

You just need one chance. Don't mess it up. Mess it up. Mess it up. Mess it up. And we got Dan on the line. Dan, what's up, bro? Hey.

Hey, Dan. We're doing shoot your shot now. Now, tell us your story. What's your situation, bro? Well, recently, I had a girlfriend. We found out she was pregnant. You know, it's kind of like that story. What's your situation, bro? Well, recently, I had a girlfriend. We found out she was pregnant. You know, it's kind of like that story everybody, you know, a lot of people are used to. I got cold

feet and, you know, I took a walk. I left. You left your pregnant girlfriend? That was lame, bro. Yeah. I realize that now. Why did you leave your pregnant girlfriend? I'm disgusted by you that was whack so you were planning to not take care of your kid or you just didn't want to be

with her it was more or less i just need a little time to kind of clear my head a bit but i i talked to friends and family you know i got a good support system and you know i i knew i had to be in the child's life you know i was gone for three months, which is way too long for, you know. I ain't going to lie, you're sounding like a sucker right now, my brother. That's pretty awful because she could have been so stressed out. That could really have harmed the baby. I don't want you back in my life when you wasn't with me for the tough times, baby. You wait until I push this baby out to try to come back around?

I'm embarrassed enough. Honestly, I am. So did you ever see the baby out to try to come back around? I'm embarrassed enough. Honestly, I am. So did you ever see the baby? Have you ever seen the baby? For three, well, here's the thing. For three months, I didn't hear nothing. I didn't get contacted. I didn't get no phone calls.

You think? I wouldn't have called you punk ass either. Well, you left. Yeah, you did leave. You walked right out, bro. Which, you're right. I probably deserved it. But I found it weird that I didn't get contacted at all.

Why would I contact you when you left me high and dry? You walked out. Can you imagine how that makes a woman feel, bro? Seriously, she's pregnant, and she's like, yo, I'm pregnant, and then you just ghost on her. She already got her hormones going crazy. Yeah, that's lame. After thinking about it, I know I was wrong.

That's why I wanted to make up for whatever I missed out on. What do you think is going to happen this morning, sir? Seriously, what do you want us to do? If you guys can help me out, I want to come back. I want to put everything behind us and got to be in this child's life. It has to happen. I do agree that a child needs both his parents, but as far as you and her being together, I can't co-sign that.

I just can't do it. That would be ideal, but as far as you and her being together, I can't co-sign that. I just can't do it. That would be ideal, but however it goes, I need to be in the child's life. Okay. Well, let's call her. What's her name? Her name is Shay. Alright, we're going to call Shay when we come back and you better do a lot of begging.

You better do a lot of apologizing. I don't know if I would trust you if I was her. I wouldn't take her back if I was you. Take him back. Take him back. Yeah, I wouldn't take him back if I was you. You know what I mean. I wouldn't take you back, you bum. But I do agree you need to be in a child's life, though. Good luck.

We'll do it when we come back. Hold on, all right? Thank you. I will give her a call when we come back. Keep it locked. It's the Breakfast Club. It's Shoot Your Shot. DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God.

We are the Breakfast Club. We're in the middle of Shoot Your Shot. We have Dan on the line. And Dan's about to call Shay. Hello? Hi, Shay. Hello. Yes?

Shay, it's Dan. I know it is. I haven't heard from you, and, you know, I just want you to know that I cleared my head about a lot of stuff, talked to some friends and family, and I need, it has to, I have to be in the child's life. I can't go any longer without you contacting me. Okay, hold up. First of all, you haven't spoken to me in three months. I called you so many times, and after you ignored me and treated me like I'm that shit,

I stopped talking to you. I stopped calling. I stopped trying. But honestly, it's too late. Like, that shit just sailed a long time ago. Look, between me and you, that's fine. But I got to be in our child's life. Well, that's another conversation we would have had months ago if you weren't avoiding me.

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And I'm glad the baby's not his. God is good all the time. Shay, you're not saying this just because you're angry, are you? No, no. Oh, my God. I cannot believe I got the whole Breakfast Club in my life. Good all the time. Shay, you're not saying this just because you're angry, are you? No, no. Oh, my God. I cannot believe I got the whole breakfast club in my life. Tell me about the glory of God, baby.

Tell me how good God is. Go ahead. Tell us. Why is it not his? Well, God is really good. God is amazing because it turns out that the baby's daddy was somebody else, and he and I are in a relationship right now and he's amazing. So did you get a test and everything though to make sure?

Yeah, we did. I am going to overlook your harsh ways because this is what God wanted for you. I am proud of you, Shay. Tell that sucker, hang up the phone. Don't ever call you. Lose your number. Y'all ain't got no reason to be together. Now Dan, Dan, I'dall ain't got no reason to be together.

Dan, I'd like to hear what Dan has to say about this now, Dan. Do you feel like this is karma? This is exactly why I got cold feet when I found out you're pregnant. Don't try to act hard now, Dan. Don't try to flip the script now, Dan. We never asked Dan why he just walked away, Dan.

Maybe that was the reason. I got scared, but also this is exactly why Try to flip the script now, Dan. We never asked Dan why he just walked away, Dan. And maybe that was the reason. Was that the reason, Dan? I got scared. But also, this is exactly why I was nervous about having a child with her. Because I could never get a great gift out of her. Oh, Dan, your energy changed. Your energy changed. A little while ago, I wanted to be with the kid.

I wanted to be back with her. Now, all of a sudden, this is why you didn't want to do such and such. Kiss my ass, Dan. And kiss Shay's ass. And kiss the little baby's ass, too, and kiss the real daddy's ass as well. Dan might have dodged the bullet. Maybe that was the reason why Dan walked out, because she thought Shay was cheating on him.

You don't know. Well, you know what? He wouldn't have been stressed out for all these months if he would have just kept in contact and known what really happened. Exactly. This is messy. But it seems like everybody wins. Everybody should be happy, it seems like it.

Congratulations, Shay. Thank you so much. And listen, that new man you with, the real baby daddy, his penis is huge, isn't it? What? Why you want to know? He's blowing your back out better than Dan ever could, isn't he? Why you want to know? All right.

Well, thank you, guys. Appreciate it. Don't cry, Dan. Dan going to cry in the car. He going to cry in the car. He going to cry in the car. Goodbye. Goodness gracious. That was Shoot Your Shot. Rumors on the way. It's the, Dan. Dan gonna cry in the car. He gonna cry in the car. He gonna cry in the car. Goodbye. Goodness gracious.

That was Shoot Your Shot. Rumors on the way. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Listen up. It's just in. All the gossip. Gossip.

The Rumor Report. Gossip. With Angela Yee. It's the Rumor Report. The Breakfast Club. Now, Too Short is being sued, and that's for sexually assaulting a woman, Tiana Lewis, allegedly. Now, according to Too Short, he spoke to TMZ, and he said this whole thing is a money grab. Check out his side of the story.

It can only be extortion. It's not anything else. They want money. For a while there, I thought it was something other, but now I know for a fact it's all about money. So my only choice is to countersue for slander and get a restraining order and anything else to just get this out of my life you know this was an artist i want to do a sign we were supposed to work together and we started to but then when it didn't become a full fledged thing where you can you can work with us my producers my studio and my label then it was like you raped me do you have to he has to prove that he's being distorted, though, right?

Yeah, I'm sure he can somehow, some way, and I love that. Yeah, if somebody false claims, count us in. Well, we're not sure, but, you know, he's saying that he has evidence, so right now it's just until we find out what happened, he is saying that it's not true, and I would hope that he has some evidence. Here's what else he had to say. The most we ever did was foreplay,

and I don't know how you're going to take some foreplay incident and turn it into a crime or something. So, you know, consent is starting to be a very fine line. And I just feel like there's nothing that I would ever do that's not consensual. I'm pretty sure that these women are telling the God's honest truth. But there's a few out there who probably are trying to do the money grab. So I just feel like if those of you out there are lying, I mean, you're messing up the movement for everybody else. Yeah, I mean, that is the conversation that men should be having with women.

I got this. What what what is the blueprint for all these single guys out here that still running the street? What is the blueprint to avoid sexual assault, sexual harassment, rape charges? Right. So what is the blueprint? We'll see what's acceptable. It's not acceptable. What's too far? What's not too far? We'll see what ends up happening with this whole case. Now, congratulations to Laverne Cox. She is the first trans woman ever on the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine. Now, she said trans women deserve to be loved out in the open and in the light.

Let go of fear and live a fun, fearless life. If I can do it, you can do it. As a black transgender woman, I've often been kept a secret by the men I've dated. So when my ex-boyfriend introduced me to his dad and invited me to spend Hanukkah with him and his family, it was the most special thing ever. Don't drop one of Clues' bombs for Laverne Cox.

When the hell is Orange is the new black new season coming back? I don't know, but she's on the cover of the Say Yes to Love issue. So that issue is going to explore the need for visibility with regards to Love issue. So that issue is going to explore the need for visibility with regards to various forms of gender identity and sexuality. So congratulations to her, first ever trans woman on the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine.

Now, another collab mixtape for Domingos, and this time it's Takeoff and Lil Yachty. They have a project coming out together, and Lil Yachty announced it on Instagram Live, and here is what he posted. I guess somewhat of a preview of what's going to be on this mixtape. All right. So that's going to be coming out. I love the fact that they just keep all the money in their family.

And the Culture 2 album, the Migos album, is coming out January 26th. I saw Quavo say that Takeoff is the best member of the Migos. I saw that too. And I've been said that as far as lyrics are concerned. I like Quavo and I like Offset, but Takeoff actually be spitting if you pay attention to what he's saying. Alright, now Peter Gunz,

as you know, he and Amina Butterfly are getting divorced. And he said in an exclusive interview with Bossip, he said, we got married on the shakiest grounds ever. When the wedding was over, she went home and I was living with someone. The way we got married, how do we expect for something like that to last?

He said their divorce is uncontested and the two already have worked things out like child support and custody of their two young daughters. Once they both sign, all that's left to do is have a judge okay everything. So apparently he said that Amina is dope. She's a dream person in your life.

It's just not meant for us to be married. I admire the mother she is to my kids and the loyalty she has for me. He also is not planning to get back together with Tara, his longtime on and off partner. And he said he's basically dating, but not either one of them. All right. Well, I'm Angela Lee, and that's your rumor report. I'm trying to get these Oscar nominations because, you know, they were announcing them live.

I believe Tiffany Haddish is there announcing as well. You got them? Any of them? All right. So they've been refreshing these for Best Picture. The nominations, Get Out was nominated. Okay. Call Me By Your Name, Phantom Thread, Darkest Hour, Dunkirk, The Shape of Water, Lady Bird, The Post, Three Billboards, Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

Oh, they say Mary J. Blige got an Oscar nomination. Drop on the Clues bombs for Mary J. Blige. That's dope. What's she nominated for? I don't know. This is all happening. Natina from Def Jam just texted me that. Right now.

Let me see. I'm trying to find. Oh, Mary J. Blige, actress in a supporting role. She got nominated. Octavia Spencer got nominated for The, Mary J. Blige, actress in a supporting role. She got nominated. Octavia Spencer got nominated for The Shape of Water. Did Tiffany Haddish get nominated? Let's see. This is all just happening.

I don't see Tiffany Haddish on here, but I don't know. Well, we'll tell you after the mix. After the mix, I'm sure we can fill you guys in some more. This is breaking news to see, but congratulations to Mary J. Blige. Shout out to Mary. Octavia Spencer for getting nominated as well. Jordan Peele got nominated for Best Director for Get Out. Okay.

Which is huge. Denzel got nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Roman J. Israel Esquire. Mm-hmm. All right. We'll keep it coming. We'll keep it coming. We'll keep it coming.

All right, Revolt, we'll see you guys tomorrow. Everybody else, the People's Choice Mix is up next. Let me know what you want to hear. We will for you and the rest of them after the mix. Revolt, we'll see you guys tomorrow. Everybody else, the People's Choice Mix is up next. Let me know what you want to hear. We'll get you a request in. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. 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. 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

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