The Breakfast Club - Michael Eric Dyson Interview + More

Episode Date: January 19, 2017

Thursday 1/19 - Today on the show Michael Eric Dyson joined us to discuss his new book, and gave his thought on Obama, Trump and the black community. Also, Angela gave some advice and straightened some listeners out for Ask Yee and Charlamagne awarded Batina Jackson for Donkey of the Day. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The Breakfast Club. With DJ Envy. The captain of this bitch. With Angela Yee, the only one who can keep these guys in check. With Charlamagne Tha God. I'm a lovable asshole. And this is The Breakfast Club, bitches! Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. Good morning, Angela Yee. Good morning, TJ and V. Charlamagne Tha God.

Peace to the planet. It's Thursday. Angela Yee got her expensive headphones on today. What? I see her. She got a dashiki on too. Not a dashiki. What do you call that?

I got what? What's that called? A shirt. It's called a shirt. No. Ain't that the special kind of shirt? No. It's not a special shirt. It's a kimono. No. There you go. This is not a kimono. A dashiki is if it's African. Yeah, that's? A shirt. It's called a shirt. No, ain't that the special kind of shirt? No, it's not a special shirt.

It's a kimono. There you go. This is not a kimono. A dashiki is if it's African. Yeah, that's a kimono. Let me see, stand up. It's a shirt. What is wrong with y'all?

That's not a kimono. Oh, no, that's the kimono that goes all the way down. This is just a shirt. You sure? A kimono's like that, but full length. Oh, okay, okay, okay. This is just a shirt. Gotcha.

People would call it a blouse. I thought you was repping your Asian heritage today. Well, a kimono would be Japanese. Oh, never mind. Listen, I'm ignorant. Don't blouse. It's an Asian. I did, right?

It's an Asian. Yeah, I thought I covered all my bases. But my heritage isn't Japanese. It wouldn't be a kimono. Oh. All right, you was almost right. Okay, I was close. You was almost right.

You still didn't see the new edition movie yet? Nah, I'm going to watch it this weekend. Mind you, it's three parts, though. Oh. They only sent me one part. No, they sent two. They sent another email. Check.

They sent two. Let me check. No, it's in one email. No, no, no. The first one, they only sent one, and then they sent another email, and it was two. Oh, the one that I have has both on it. Oh, man, it's amazing. Next week, when it comes out, it comes out next week, right?

Yeah, the 24th. Oh, you got to see it. Listen. I watched it with the kids last night. The kids were so into it, learning who New Edition was. It comes out next week, right? Yeah, the 24th. Oh, you got to see it. It's such, I watched it with the kids last night. The kids were so into it, learning who New Edition was. It was great. Hearing the songs and routines. You have a good time.

You'll sing along. Oh, man, it was amazing. By the way, you know how long I wanted to play Michael Bivens in a New Edition movie? Michael Bivens would tell you that himself. I'm talking about a decade or better. I was like, one day I'm going to play you in a New Edition biopic. Did they let you audition at least? No.

I aged out of the role. If you would have did that, I could have did Ronnie. No, you couldn't. Yes, I could. You're not tall enough to be Ronnie. I am tall enough to be Ronnie. You're too awful colored to be Ronnie. You could have been in ABC, though.

Yes, I could have. Stop it. No, shut up. I definitely could have played that. Another bad creation. That trilogy is... Listen, you just wait for it. The bar's biopic, and then you go audition for every role, young man. I'm definitely going to try that, too.

Okay. That one, I'll be sure. Christopher Williams, all that. I'll be sure. Christopher Williams ain't never getting a biopic. If they ever do a mint condition movie, you could be in something like that. If they do an Uptown Records biopic, Christopher Williams and I'll be sure I'll be in it. But they're not getting their own individual movies.

Oh, you could be genuine, perhaps. You definitely could be genuine. I could definitely be genuine. The TGT biopic, I could be Tyrese. Oh, who's our tank? You got to find us a tank. You got to find us a tank. That's it.

We got to find, I got to let my hands go a little bit, too. You gotta find us a tank. That's it. We gotta find, I gotta let my hands If they ever did a Sesame Street biopic, you guys could be Burt and Ernie. I always tell you that. We always go too far.

What? But it is dope. Like I said, I've seen it with my kids. My kids were asking so many questions. Like my kids are ready for the music industry.

They're like, well, why they didn't get paid? Why they weren't touring? Nobody was, why, why? My son said, why was the white guy ripping them off?

What is that thing they keep hands in to people? Oh, that was called a cassette tape. That's a cassette tape. That's a record. What's that black thing? Is that a plate? No, that's a record. That's a record.

Yeah, but it was amazing. I watched that all day long. What is that from MLBT? Next week, right? Next Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. And I'm going to watch it again, like you said, with social media so I can... Yeah, that's going to be really fun. There's so much that I didn't know about new edition

that's the point of it next Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday oh next Tuesday okay okay next Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday okay it starts off

with them fighting on stage and then it flashes back to how they got there they fought a lot but you gotta think when they got together

they were young boys that probably fight a lot anyway and they were together all the time and who knew short ass Michael Bivens

was such a hood gangster? All right, but let people see the movie. Goodness gracious, Mike Bivens? Mike, not only was Mike Bivens a gangster, Mike Bivens was one of the best music executives ever. Absolutely. People forget about Biv 10, the record label, Boyz II Men, Another Bad Creation.

Like, Mike was that guy. And had a wicked jump shot. All right, all right. And I wanted to play him in a biopic, but he gave it to Hakeem from Empire. And he did a way better job than you. But you can't really play basketball either, Charlamagne. I can learn to do all those things.

You can't play basketball. You can't sing. And you definitely can't dance. Stop telling me what I can't do, waffle-colored Negro. You beige people always want to keep dark-skinned brothers down. Don't tell me what I can't do. You can do anything. You put your heart.

Who are you? He can't do that. And mine too. You can't. You ain't going to stop the playing God and the white man God from me. But that's why you didn't get that part. All right. Well, Michael Eric Dyson will be joining us this morning.

Drop one of Clues Bomb's from one of my favorite brothers in the world. And F the Young Lady on Instagram. I posted Michael Eric Dyson's book last night. She was talking about, oh, you be on Jay-Z, D so much. You going to post a book that he read. Yeah, like I ain't never. Oh, my gosh. Yeah.

Like I've never. Michael Eric Dyson's never been on The Breakfast Club before, like I've never... Michael Eric Dyson's never been on The Breakfast Club before. I've never posted Michael Eric Dyson books before. Your dumb ass just heard of Michael Eric Dyson because of Jay-Z. Okay, and let's keep it real. Envy's the one that be on Jay-Z's D. That is a fact. That is a fact. Clearly she doesn't listen. Shout out to Hov. Is it time for a Hov

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It's DJ NG, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. That was Drake. Now let's get in some front page news. Now let's talk. Let's talk. Let's talk Obama's final press conference. Yeah, so Obama had his parting words and...

He's been having a lot of these, by the way. Well, this is his final press conference, news conference at the White House. He's like you at birthday parties, actually. I know. Well, you know, it is January. Shout out to all the Capricorns. But here is what he has to say about our new president that will be in office soon, Donald Trump. There are going to be certain elements of his temperament that will not serve him well unless he recognizes them and corrects them. When you're a candidate and you say something that is inaccurate or controversial, it has less impact than it does when you're president of the United States. Yeah, I was watching O'Reilly Factor last night, and Bill O'Reilly was talking about how he doesn't remember George W. Bush saying anything like that about Barack Obama when he was coming into the office,

even though he knew he had his issues with Barack. But the reason I felt like it was nothing wrong with what President Obama said because Donald Trump says all of these things publicly. We all know he has a terrible temperament. We see it on social media. We see it when he does his press conferences. So I had no problem with Barack expressing that disdain for that action, those actions publicly.

Right. And I think a lot of people feel that way. Absolutely. You know, I think the main thing is he's not trying to bash him. He's just saying, hey, when you're the president, you have to be held accountable. He's addressing what the world sees. Right.

And you have to allow press people to ask you questions, even if you don't like the questions that they're asking you. Yeah, we do that up here. They're going to challenge you, and that's part of being a president. You know, the funny thing is when we go do interviews or people ask us questions, they always say, is there anything I can't ask? And I always say no, because we're able to ask any artist whatever they want

and they can reply with whatever they want. We got to take it because that's what we dish. And you can always say, next question. I don't really want to discuss that right now. Correct. Not a problem. Mind your business. Mind your business. And President Barack Obama also feels like we'll have any type of president

in the future. We're going to have a woman president. We're going to have a Latino president. We'll have a Jewish president, a Hindu president. Who knows who we're going to have. I suspect we'll have a whole bunch of mixed up presidents at some point that nobody really knows what to call them.

I felt that way. I don't know if I feel that way now. It can still happen. I thought we was about to go have that trend of different kind of presidents, but we back the stale pale white male. We got another clip? Yeah, one last thing because a lot of people

are concerned about the future, but our President Barack Obama is saying don't you worry. I believe tragic things happen. I think there's evil in the world. But I think that at the end of the day if we work hard and if we're true to those things in us that the world gets a little better

each time. This is not just a matter of no drama Obama. This is what I really believe. At my core, I think we're going to be okay. We just have to fight for it. We have to work for it and not take it for granted. That's true. We've got to be the change we want to see in the world.

I don't see no reason not to be optimistic. I'm not going to wake up every morning and be pessimistic and say, oh, woe is me. The world's coming to an end. Like, no. Get out there and unite. I'll be at the Women's March, by the way, on Saturday in D.C. Yes. They said at this point it looks like there's going to be about 400,000 people going.

That's dope. I'm going to be in the area. I'm going to try to, I have a show out there, so I'm going to try to go by beforehand. Oh, you're going to be in D.C. also? Yeah. You doing something for inauguration? Well, not in D.C., but I'll be close to D.C. I'll be actually in Philly. Why not you DJing a Trump party on the low?

You DJing for Chrisette Michelle? No. You DJing a Trump party on the low, Red Boy? Wait a minute. I'm actually DJing Club Onyx in Philly, the strip club with 50 Cent. Okay. And I heard Trump's coming. Yeah, right.

We watching you. But I'll be about an hour, what, 15 away, I might say. Don't let us see you at inauguration. Be some DJ with a freaking mask on. Like, that ain't Danger Mouse. I know those movements anyway. That's DJ Envy. All right, well, that's front page.

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How old are you, first of all? I'm 33 years old. Okay. And I'm fine, too. Okay, so he has no sense? No patience at all. And I'm not at the women that he dated before he got me. Ah, okay, so somebody didn't whip him into shape.

No. I mean, you're dealing with a woman who is a PhD doctor. He works as a special agent. And he just has no damn sense, no patience. Doesn't know how to listen when we have an issue. Ain't nobody got time to be listening to your young ass who's 40 years old. How long have you guys been together?

We've been together for a few months. We're about to be apart if he continues on. Why he not listening to you? What are you talking about that he not listening? Listen. I'm not really talking about much. All I ask is, hey, you know, sometimes things come up.

Things come up and I'll be like, hey, babe, you know, call me. And he'll fall asleep all the time. This man loves his sleep. I need a little attention. I'm not mad at that. I'm going to be honest with you. But he needs, I need a little attention sometimes.

Do y'all live together? Yesterday? No, we don't live together. He doesn't pay bills here, sweetheart. Whoa. I'm going to be honest with you. You sound like a side chick, boo. You sound like a nice little young thing

that he's tapping while he go home to his wife. I'm a million percent not a side chick. I'm way too cute for that. I get most of his time. I get most of his time for sure. It does take you a while to get to the point. It does.

Yeah, it does. And he does give me a lot of his time, but he just, when it comes to conflict, he doesn't know how to kind of, you know, work things out. He just kind of shuts down a whole conversation. Yeah, he doesn't have any patience with you. Don't nobody want no conflict. Do you understand that it takes

my participation for it to be a conflict? Maybe if he's not participating in the conference, he doesn't want any. You don't know what level of conflict. It's a simple thing. Hey, babe, just give me a call. I got a lot going on. We don't want to talk to you either, boo. We don't want to talk to you. You might need to call back

or ask me. We don't have the patience to talk to you. Hello, who's this? This is Charlie Jr. from Duval County. We're going to all y'all going to do. Duval! In the building, baby. What's going on? Why you mad? Let me tell you. So, I'm at the store yesterday getting ready to check out, and I asked you later if they did military discount, and she

going to tell me, oh my God, why y'all always come here and ask for military discount? Why y'all just can't pay for it like everybody else? Damn, like your time in the military don't mean nothing. Hell, hell. You know what I'm saying? If they offer a discount,

I want it. She don't go to Popeye's and they do a $5 box. Like, nah, I'm going to pay for it regularly. There you go. There you go, Claire. That's a benefit that you get.

Exactly, man. I ain't never going back to that Dollar General, man. Hell. Now, let me ask you a question. You were in the military, right? You're just not using your daddy's military thing, right?

No, I'm still in. They know me. I'm the military's favorite comedian. What's the time of the night? I like Dollar General, but I like Family Dollar just a little bit better. You know, I like Family Dollar, too. You know what I'm saying? They all right, but they got better toilet tissue at Dollar General.

You ain't got no 99 cent store around you? Oh, no, man. I'm in Virginia right now. So I'm with you on 99 cent, baby. All right. Got you, got you. I'm in Virginia right now. So I'm with 99 cent place. Got you, got you. Tell them why you mad. 800-585-1051. If you're upset,

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Massage Envy is the Chick-fil-A of massage parlors, okay? It's an amazing place. I have a masseuse that comes to my house. Okay, baller. Whoa, there you go with all that rich dollars. You got money. All right. You got money.

Tell them why you mad. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. you you you you you you you you Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God, we are The Breakfast Club. Let's get to the rumors, let's talk Trump. It's about time. What's going on?

Rumor Report, Rumor Report. This is the Rumor Report. Talk to them. With Angela Yee on The Breakfast Club. So the news is that Chrisette Michelle is set to perform at Donald Trump's inauguration. Crickets. Now allegedly she's been

planning this for about a week but it's been a secret because her whole camp is scared of the criticism that she'll get once everybody found out which they have found out now. I saw Questlove tweeted out

that he would pay her to not perform at inauguration. I was looking at who is actually going to show up and perform, and it looks like some struggle. Who is it?

All right, so we see the Rockettes are going to be there. Toby Keith is going to be performing. Also, I see actually Chrisette Michelle was supposed to perform with singers Travis Green and Jonathan McReynolds and Ty Tribette. That's who she was on BET's Celebration of the Gospel with, but they turned it down. I don't know anybody you named this night except for the Rockettes and Toby Keith. And Rockettes is not even Christmas time. Sam Moore.

Never heard of him. He's an 81-year-old Motown singer. And Lee Greenwood. I don't know who that is. And also Bruce Springsteen's cover band, the B Street Band, was supposed to perform, but they actually withdrew because the real band for Bruce Springsteen actually had a problem

with that. So they just withdrew from that. Listen, you can tell the popularity This ain't gonna be a good party. You can tell the popularity of a person based off how people react to them, you know, like performing at Trump's inauguration. People like Chris Chet myself? Oh, I don't care. Y'all can have her. But do they get paid?

Yeah. Oh, if they get paid, Chris Chet might need the money. A little budget? Oh, but you know what? She might even use the stage to make a stand or protest something. Well, she said that she would perform as long as she could do an R&B set. You know what this inauguration reminds me of? Have y'all seen the movie Sing? When the little

whatever animal he was was looking for performers, looking for animals to perform to save his theater. That's what this movie is. How old are you, man? What do you mean Sing just came out? You got kids? You didn't take your kids to see Sing? How old am I? Like, the movie just ain't come out this year.

Shut up. Or last year. I didn't see Sing. All right. Me passed on that one. Well, they should do a cartoon about trying to find somebody to perform at an inauguration. That's what it feels like. It really feels like this.

All right. Chance the Rapper's little brother, Taylor Bennett, has finally said that he wants to live his truth. He said, my birthday is tomorrow. And moving into next year, I'd like to be more open about myself to help others that struggle with the same issues. He looks just like Chance, too. Show the picture again. The first picture. Oh, my goodness.

We're going to vote. Oh, my goodness. We're going to vote. That's his brother. I know they had put up a meme saying that his brother's name is Possibility. I don't know. That's funny. Why the Possibility? He said, growing up, I've always felt indifferent about my sexuality and being attracted to one sex,

and today I would like to openly come out to my fans. I do recognize myself as a bisexual male and do and have always openly supported the gay community and will keep doing so in 2017. Thank you. So he likes men and women. Yes, he's bisexual. Both. So it's a 50-50 chance that he could be with a man or a woman.

Correct. Right. Okay. Gotcha. Yeah, he could be with both at the same time. Okay. If he so chose. Hi, I'm Chance the Rapper.

This is my brother 50-50 Chance the Rapper. All right. And some celebrities are thanking our president, Barack Obama, as he gets ready to leave office. He free big me. Including Carmelo Anthony, Chance the Rapper, Donald Glover, and Usain Bolt. Here they are.

The big thing he gave was just hope. We jumped some barriers when Barack Obama got into the chair. President Barack Obama, to me, is the perfect introduction to hard work as a man. It was really nice to have a president who understood bravery. I really look

up to him and the fact that he was a fan also. He was a fan! He was a fan! It'll be cool to tell my grandkids about it. Yeah, first black president. I was there. Who was that crying saying, he's so fine?

Who was that? He's a fan, I think he said. Isn't that what he said? He's a fan. Oh. Yeah. Today is the series finale of Young Jeezy,

My President is Black. Yeah. I'm going to get that on in the mix today. Series finale. Finale. Fin, My President is Black. Yeah, I'm going to get that on in the mix today. Series finale. Finale. Finale. The song won't mean nothing.

I'm not saying it won't mean nothing. Well, hopefully we can bring it back in a couple of years. Well, four. Maybe. Unless there's some type of impeachment situation in it. What do you mean in a couple? You mean in four years, another black president will run? Could be four, could be eight, could be 12.

We'll see. But, you know, the song won't mean the same thing after tomorrow. All right, well, I'm in the Yee, and that is your Rumor Reports. All right, Miss Yee. Now, when we come back, we have Michael Eric Dyson joining us. Dropping a clues bomb for Michael Eric Dyson, damn it. And I want everybody to feel like they can participate in this conversation. Now, explain to the people who Michael Eric Dyson is for people who don't know.

Michael Eric Dyson is an author. He's a former professor at Princeton, I believe it was. You know, somebody hit me up on Instagram yesterday and they said, oh, Michael Eric Dyson again, huh? Another whitey hater on The Breakfast Club. He's not a whitey hater at all, okay? He's got a book out called Tis, We Can't Stop, A Sermon to White America.

And he just speaks his truth. That's it. He speaks on a bunch of different things. You may agree with some things, you may disagree with some things. But I think he's a very great brother and I think he's somebody that everybody should listen to.

Okay. That was Khaled for free. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God, We Are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. I really enjoy reading this young man's work.

Michael Eric Dyson is here. Oh, man. Young man. I love y'all. Young man. Young is about energy. Oh, Mike. Well, then I got it. Thank you, sir. I appreciate that. I mean, look, I gotta start with this. Yes, sir. Because I want to celebrate and congratulate what you did. See, we always dog people for the so-called negative, but we don't accentuate the positive.

You made a statement. You made an argument. You said publicly you were wrong. Not only did you acknowledge it, you went and did something about it, brought the people on, discussed it, and engaged it. That is human being of the first order. That's the first magnitude of masculinity and manhood. I just got to celebrate you, my man. Thank you.

Mike Eric, let's talk about when I made my tweet about women and women of color needing a platform like Tommy Lauren. And yes. I thought you were saying that we misunderstood you, what you meant. Here we go. Oh, God. I mean, it is. It's true. See what you just said, Mike?

See what I'm saying? That's all. I just want to, but I want to acknowledge the ability to be self-critical. That's what I'm saying. And that's so important. And that's what's missing in the world today. Absolutely. And then we did the same thing with Stop and Frisk.

I did. He said that he believed in Stop and Frisk after he had gotten shot at in his car. Almost murdered. Yeah. And then he said that he supported Stop and Frisk. And then he had to come back and say that he also missed it. It was an emotional decision. Of course it is.

Existential misery leads to you know political transformation so you know something happened to you on a personal level then you start thinking about it a woman loses a son in the war and all of a sudden she becomes a serious activist because that in that impacts you in a way it never did before you own a corvette you start looking at corvettes you own a mercedes you start looking at mercedes So it makes sense that what happens to you personally will impact what you think about the world. Let's talk about something that's affecting us all personally, which is the Trump presidency. Wow. That's still amazing to say that.

It is. What do we do in a post-Trump society? And I'm sure you address that in your new book. I do. We cannot stop a sermon to white people. Yes, sir. Sermon to white America. Yeah, you're right on it. I think, look, stop a sermon to white people. Yes, sir. Sermon to white America. Yeah, you're

right on it. I think, look, we got to be honest about who Trump is. See, first of all, white brothers and sisters, I don't want nobody telling me nothing about affirmative action no more. Because this dude done killed the game. Here's a guy who is radically incompetent, incapable of exercising the gravitas

that is the seriousness necessary to exercise that office. You ain't never had a public position as dog catcher, much less president of the United States of America. You challenged the legitimacy of one of the smartest presidents we've ever had in Barack Hussein Obama. And you, with your thin skin, can't even endure a critique from a person like John Lewis to say you're illegitimate.

And all of a sudden, this is the first toddler presidency. This is the first presidency where a childish mentality, where an infantile sensibility will prevail. But the fact is, he is the president. We have to acknowledge that. And I know we're going to get into this, so I'm going to jump into it right away. Yes. Love my man Steve Harvey.

Love Kanye. Love all the people i love jim brown and i love ray lewis look it ain't no problem i ain't got no problem with them going to talk to donald trump but understand as ti said how you're being positioned are you on the menu are you eating at the table who's playing who who's zooming who Sorry to go back to Aretha Franklin. The point is, I had to go old school for you, but the point is this, is that why is it, if we go to white folk and talk, are we going to talk to Miley Cyrus? We're going to talk to Mitch McConnell. We're going to deal with Britney Spears or John Boehner. So going to Steve Harvey is not in itself an intrinsic fault, but it becomes a fault in the light of you're avoiding John Lewis and dissing him.

You're avoiding Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton. You're avoiding the Congressional Black Caucus. You're avoiding people whose job it is to deal with the issues of public policy, of injustice, of democratic flow. Then you do an in-run around them and then go talk to a comedian and to a rapper and some football players. Dude, you're insulting us. First of all, as D.O. Hughley said, maybe that's how you see us. Maybe you reduce us to being entertainers and ballplayers, and you can't see that we are intellectuals and we are thinkers and politicians

and reflecting on the culture in which we live. So Donald Trump wants to avoid serious black heat with high intelligence to bring him to accountability, so he'd rather talk to somebody who will come out and say, oh, I had a good time meeting with him. And I ain't mad. Look, let me tell you what. 30 Rock, a year and a half ago, maybe almost two, I'm in 30 Rock, I just was on TV,

dogging Donald Trump. Elevators open up. You, you, you've been very hard on me. Donald Trump talking to you. Talking to me. Mike Larrick Dice. Talking to me. He says, you've been very tough on me, but I love you.

He says, if I had your pipes and your brains, I'd be president now. I said, oh, my God. He said, let's take a picture. You know how you do with the girls. You don't really dig. You don't want to be in the public. Let's take it on the side. So we go to the side.

Take it on the side. I'm just saying. I'm just saying. I don't want to be in public with you like that. See, I understood what Steve Harbin did. Because I don't want you to circulate this picture thinking I'm legitimating and justifying your presidential run. We take the picture.

He introduces me to all of his huge throng out there. This is Michael Eric Dyson, one of the greatest minds in our country. I understand his charisma. I understand his personal appeal. I'm sure individually Donald Trump is cool, but that has nothing to do with the way in which he is operating in American culture to give voice to some of the most racist sensibilities.

The xenophobia, that's just a big term that talks about you don't like foreigners and you don't like people coming into countries, immigrants. Some of the sexism, the predatory behavior. And here you are trying to grab a woman's kitty cat. And then you're trying to blame hip hop. That ain't I heard Biggie say that. Some say the X makes the sex spectacular. Make me look you from your back to your neck, then. Ex is a drug, though.

Come on. Well, well, but my point is, you know what I'm saying? We're not going to Cosby the show. But what I'm saying to you is, right, we don't drop no Mickeys. But he's also saying, in terms of the ex rated, and he's also saying saying if it's all right with you tonight, we're loving. That's securing consent. Donald Trump ain't asking nobody for consent. What he's trying to do out there is just grab it because he's a very famous figure.

I'm saying this is the sensibility of the president of the United States of America. So on every level, this guy is problematic. And we cannot, as people have been saying, normalize this. We can't accept it. Oh, well, he's the president. First of all, stop buying the lies. It's not a populist movement. He lost a popular election by nearly 3 million votes.

He's going in with one of the lowest approval ratings ever of any president elect of the United States of America. I think it's the lowest. It's one of the lowest. Yeah, one of the lowest. He's been in office 40 years, the lowest. What you are is an extremely lucky guy. And, again, the reason I said about affirmative action, affirmative action is a good thing, but I'm saying many of the white brothers and sisters who oppose it, well, it's about people who are incompetent.

You've got the most incompetent president, arguably, in the history of the world. Shut that noise up about affirmative action. That argument is dead. We see the compensatory mechanism of whiteness that refuses to acknowledge its own limits, its own fragility, its own vulnerability, and its own innocence, right? It plays those up and refuses to be accountable. So now you put in a bunch of billionaires. What they got to do with the white working class? People say this was a white working class movement this election.

Really? Because they ain't the only working class out there. We got a black working class and a brown working class. Ain't none of them voted for Donald Trump. I mean, very few of them. Some of the browns. Very few of them. Very few of them. Now, 13% of black men did vote for Donald Trump. Dude, what you on? What you doing? You know what that is? That's patriarchy. That's black machismo.

That's the inability to see a woman in control. Alright, we got more with author Michael Eric Dyson coming up. Keep it locked. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. That was Drake with One Dance.

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We have Michael Eric Dyson in the building. Now, Yee? I've heard, I know one person, a black man that voted for Donald Trump, and his rationale was because he's a businessman and I have businesses, and it would be better for me to have somebody

that knows how to make money. He's a capitalist, clearly. Yes, as president. I mean, if that's the case, you've got drug dealers on the corner. Let's have a drug dealer presidency. I mean, let's have a hustler presidency. He is a hustler to a degree.

I understand that, but how narrow is that? How self-involved and invested is that? The fact is, I don't want to cast dispersions against the person you're speaking of. I'm sure his business is thriving and booming. I'm sure he's huge. But the reality is that most people can't afford to vote for a president based upon merely their bottom line when the larger society is at stake. I bet that person you were talking to ain't richer than Warren Buffett. Nope.

I bet he ain't richer than Bill Gates. And both of those men said, I'm willing to pay taxes because I'm willing to see this society put on a better path than to really shore up my bottom line. I'd rather give my money to the society in which we live through taxes than see a guy come in who will be good for my business and yet mess up the country. So what do we do next? What do we do now that he's in office? I want to jump to that real quick.

I want to unpack some of the stuff he talked about with the people engaging Donald Trump. You mentioned the Congressional Black Caucus. You mentioned John Lucas. And that's one thing I said. If I was invited to meet Trump, I wouldn't go unless I bring the honorable minister, Louis Farrakhan, with me.

Right, right, right. Don't you think it's kind of Black America's fault because the people we put up on those pedestals as our leaders are the entertainers and the athletes, and those are the people you probably would want to meet with? Sure. I mean, it's our fault to a degree, but it's a vicious cycle. Those are the people that are allowed to go.

It's not like we, look, look at Hidden Figures. We got mathematicians. We got thinkers. These people have been out there for a minute. But the society doesn't see them, doesn't understand them, and guess what? We don't either. The point you're making is so brilliant. People act as if black people have some kind of

special radar that allows us to see differently than the larger society. To a certain degree, our own racial experiences condition us and make us see things from a different perspective, but we buy the hype too. We watching the same TV everybody else watching. We believe Negroes ain't doing X, Y, and Z too. We watching the same TV everybody else watching. We believe Negroes ain't doing X, Y, and Z too. We don't know

what we're doing. One of the greatest consequences of white supremacy is to convince black people not to study their own history. Not to know who we are. I'm 58 years old. There's some stuff I'm just now learning about black people. And I got a PhD from Princeton. I've been out here for a minute.

For instance, when you talk about the, look, I didn't know about the hidden figures. Did y'all? I didn't know that these black women were mathematicians at NASA. Did you? I ain't had no inkling. I'm a pretty smart dude. I ain't know nothing about that. I'm telling you

the variety of enterprise that black people have been involved in, the stuff we've done in wars and in foreign countries and with languages and I mean, the half ain't been variety of enterprise that black people have been involved in the stuff we've done in you know wars and in foreign countries and with languages and i mean the the half ain't been told so my point is let's be a little bit more humble and recognize that we have been miseducated misinformed ill educated and don't know much about what's going on and yes to a certain degree we have to be held accountable to that because if it's something about hip-hop and i ain't dogging it because you know jay-z posted yesterday about my book so i gotta show love to ho held accountable to that because if it's something about hip-hop and I ain't dogging it because, you know, Jay-Z posted yesterday

about my book, so I got to show love to Hova and to Rick Ross, Rosé, whatever. I know, I don't want to jump the gun in self-promotional materials, but since we're here, I'll say it. So the reality is that I'm not dissing anybody that's doing that kind of thing, but there is something deeper and more profound.

We just finished celebrating the birthday of a man named Martin Luther King Jr. who didn't live to be 40. He had no deep ends. He had no deep pockets. Well, he did because he was making something like $200,000 in 1963. Do you know how much money that is? He gave most of it away to the movement except maybe $6,000.

He kept $6,000 from that salary, making $200,000 back in 64. That's good money right now. Who was paying him? Speaking engagements. Okay, guys. He's talking every day going out. Then, he's getting $4,000 from being the co-pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta for an unprincipled sum of $10,000 with four kids

and a wife. He had to borrow money every year from his father to pay his taxes. Harry Belafonte put up the money for a $100,000 life insurance policy for each of his kids. This man is an American hero, arguably the greatest American who ever lived. That's why I hate when people like Kanye say things like, you have to have money to make change. No, you don't.

No! No, Martin Luther King Jr. had nothing, but he changed the world, Doc. He changed the world. Now I ain't mad at people trying to get money now as a consequence of what Dr. King did, because Dr. King, at the end of his life, was fighting against economic injustice. Never forget that he went to Memphis, Tennessee, to side with garbage workers in Memphis, Tennessee. So this man understood economic inequality and the necessity for black people to get theirs. But don't pretend as if your pocket's on swole,

you the best person in the world. If that's the case, Donald Trump would be the greatest man in the world. But he ain't. What do we do for the next four years? Do we turn our back and try to ignore it? Or how do, as African-American and black people, how do we attack this situation?

We do what we've always done when we ain't been in power. And that's been most of the time. See, we acting like Obama was the regular. No, that was the commercial. That wasn't the program see we acting like obama was the regular no no that was that was that was the commercial that wasn't the program right right we acting like we don't know what that is we have been out of power forever right so what do we do we do what we always do we go to church we pray to god we go to the temple we go to the synagogue we have a spiritual practice we understand not to fall for the okey-doke we don't allow our most esteemed and valued entertainers to represent us if they're doing stupid stuff.

We speak out against that. Look, we can even be critical of our president who's in office now. Even though he's going out, we're going to miss him for real, for real. But he wasn't perfect. And the inability of black people to even conjure a useful criticism of Obama is problematic. Because then if I was Trump, I'd be going like, look, you had a brother in there for eight years and he said, no, don't say nothing to me because I'm done. So the point is

that what we've got to do, Howard Thurman, and I talk about this in my book, a great mystic said, never reduce your life to the event you're facing right now.

He said, if you reduce your life to the event you're facing now, you're not going to see what's ahead of you. He said, our slave foreparents

were in cotton fields. They couldn't even imagine an Obama. But what they did was imagine a future different than where they are. Now, I happen to be an ordained Baptist minister. So hope, you know, we talk about faith as the what does it go? Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things

not seen. So the thing is that you hoping for some stuff you ain't seen yet, but you never reduce your life to what you're confronting now. Divorce, distress, disease, your baby mama ain't acting right, baby daddy ain't paying the rent on time. All that is real. It's a crisis, but don't reduce the complexity of your life and the beauty of what you are to what your event is. You are not who, you are not what you confront. You are bigger than that. So black people got to see, we, my pastor used to say this, we have already been through what we've come to. so if we done came to this and we've been through this

before it's like david what what was fighting in the bible you know you know the story about david and goliath here's the point the reason david was had so much swag is because he's like okay you big you a giant but i done killed some bears and stuff i don't kill some lions and stuff so when i call upon those useful memories of lion killing and bear killing, I can face this giant. So we got a giant in Donald Trump, but this is not the first giant we face. We have been through Jim Crow, Jane Crow. We have been through vicious downturns in the economy. We have been through lynching. We've been through where people spitting on us. We've been through white water founders and black water founders. Part of the problem is millennials and older black people don't even know our history,

so we don't know what we've been through to know what we're capable of achieving. We got more with Michael Eric Dyson coming up in minutes. Keep it locked. That was Ray Sherman with Black Beatles. Now, morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee,

Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We're talking to Michael Eric Dyson. Now, Charlamagne. Now, let me ask Mike about some of these bars. He might be spitting so hard. You got to listen to some of these bars because they're so good. Now, when you talked about black people, this is what I feel.

I was talking about this yesterday. We're going to have engagers and resistors for the next four years. We're going to have people who choose to engage with the Trump administration and try to make change there. We're going to have people who just resist and say, look, let's just come together ourselves. My problem is when the engagers and resistors start arguing amongst each other and we start pointing fingers and saying, oh, he ain together ourselves. That's right. My problem is when he engages and resists us, start arguing amongst each other, and we start pointing fingers and saying, oh, he ain't black, and he's an Uncle Tom musical. Yeah, I can't get with him.

We got to be on the same page together, especially if the end result is just the betterment of black people. That's a brilliant point. That's a brilliant point because, you know, when you're looking at a dog, you got somebody trying to come over the fence. You got a pack of dogs. One dog is barking at the person trying to come over the fence.

The rest of the dog's barking at the dog. And that's what you're talking about. You got a pack of dogs. One dog is barking at the person trying to come over the fence. The rest of the dogs barking at the dog. And that's what you're talking about. We got dogs barking at dogs as opposed to the real threat. And I'm not interested in calling somebody an Uncle Tom and, you know, Aunt Sally. I'm saying let's be serious and conscientious about doing the work we do. Everybody, everything ain't for everybody. Right. So your job is what you do. My job is what I do. But here's the point, though. Even if you choose, look, if Donald Trump invites you to go to the White House when he's president, go. If Donald Trump says come sit, if, if, you're going to go tell him the truth.

If you're going to kiss the ring, you're not really of service to us. And by the way, that was true for Obama, too. All the black people that went up in there and all you did was kiss the ring and kiss and get the fruit. And I was up in there one day. Tom Joyner sitting down there challenging me. I love Tom Joyner about the book I was writing on Obama. He said, you're going to write a book that could be critical of the president. And he said it could be critical of him.

And Obama sitting right across from me. And he said it could be critical of the president. and you could really because you're a famous black person You could really you could really mess this election of 2012 and I said first of all, I ain't even wrote the book yet So are you Nostradamus? And then I said well tell me how many books I'm a sale cuz I got kids to feed and then Obama jumped in He's fun. He said yeah, and he's sitting here eating my food and without missing a beat cuz I'm nasty with this microphone Yes, you are and these words words, I said, pay for it by my tax money. Oh!

Snap, son! And I said, given what I'm paying, I'm going to be here next week. So the thing is, and me and Obama then went on to have a disagreement. Very respectful, because I respect him. I'm so proud of him as the first black president. I got love for you. I've known Obama since 92. But I said, sir, I disagree with you. You think a rising tide lifts all boats. I think that when you go to the emergency ward, you don't just get medicine. It depends on what

you got. If you got a hangnail, you get aspirin. If you got diabetes, you get insulin. If you got cancer, you get chemotherapy. The medicine, like a public policy, should be targeted toward the ill. It is meant to relieve. So my point is, I respectfully disagree with that man. When I got invited to the White House, I can honestly say, I'm not on the ass-kissing mission. I'm on the respectfully

share my disagreement with you even as I love and embrace you and support you strategically. How does Donald Trump, you think, react to people respectfully disagreeing with him? Donald Trump can't even. I said it's a toddler presidency. You're mean, you're nasty, you throw your bottle and infamil,

you're crapping your diapers and then spread it around. He doesn't react at all in, I think, a reasonable and politic fashion to those who disagree with you. Dude, when you got numbers up in this game, you can afford to say something. Like Jay-Z said, when you 10 years in the game and you got these numbers, holler back. Until then, be quiet. John Lewis got numbers in this game. John Lewis was on the bloody Sunday.

March got his skull cracked. John Lewis was a freedom rider. You got pictures of him bleeding. And we got Donald Trump playing squash while my man was being squashed. So the reality is, is Donald Trump doesn't understand the basic fundamental condition of our black people. And for a black person, and if you are not familiar with this as an entertainer, don't go. The problem is we love fame so much, we think famous people got something more to say. They can be just as dumb, just as ill-informed, just as ignorant, just as illiterate, and God knows, subject to criticism. And they deserve the critique.

I'm not here to protect entertainers from being criticized when you're making money from dominant white supremacist capitalist American culture, and you now want to remain safely ensconced in your niche of protection, you need to feel the heat of black people asking questions. I'm not talking about Steve Harvey, whom I love and those other guys. But I'm saying if you go up in there, don't get yourself played. Don't allow yourself to become part of Donald Trump's commercial. What's your purpose? Now, if you've got a program for the inner city, if you could try to help people, Jim

Brown has been great. But Jim Brown has had some complicated relationships with women himself. Let's just be real. So we know what's going on there. So let's not try to be Pollyannish about this. The reality is at the end of the day, if you go up there and then start saying how great he is, that's how great he is as an individual. What does that have to do with how he treats black people en masse? That's the one problem I had with Steve.

It's like this guy has been spitting nasty rhetoric for 18 months. Longer than 18 months, by the way. Much longer than 18 months. During his presidential campaign. Denying Negroes access to your rental properties. And you have one meeting with him. And now he's great? Come on, dog.

You know, Jesus can change you in the twinkling of an eye. There's no question about that. But I ain't heard the come to Jesus moment. And I ain't heard the sermon. And I ain't heard the doors of the church open. And ain't got no, you know, contribution going on either. And the point you're making is so important. These figures, like I have to be, have to be held accountable.

So I am not against people being held accountable. But I don't want to rid nobody. But first of all, what's the time? I mean, you know, every one of us in here at some point. Man, they called Martin Luther King Jr. and Uncle Tom. Malcolm X called him a time. Malcolm X called him a time. Malcolm called him a time.

They called Rosa Parks a time. They called Jackie Robinson an Uncle Tom. And I love Malcolm X called him a Tom. Malcolm X called him a Tom. They called Rosa Parks a Tom. They called Jackie Robinson an Uncle Tom. And I love Malcolm X, but you up in Harlem to fight in Birmingham. Hell, I could. Harlem? That's where Negroes are. There's love. The fight is in Birmingham, sir.

That's where they're killing Negroes now. You go down there and you oppose them? As-salamu alaykum. And I love Malcolm X. Whatcolm x did is non-parade what malcolm x did in terms of reviving the black conscience and consciousness is incredible but stop the name calling because howard thurman said this you can go to atlantic ocean you can dip your glass in the atlantic ocean it may be full of the atlantic ocean it ain't all the atlantic ocean you may be full of the truth but you ain't got all the truth. We need each other.

Let's stop the name-calling, but let's up the ante and be responsible for what we do. All right. I got one question for you, Go. Why'd you dedicate your book to Solange, Beyonce, and Tina Nose? For several reasons. First of all, I love them. Right? I'm on the beehive. I call myself a Pinkett Smith Winfrey Nose Carter, sir.

Girl, I am hen-pecked. Girl, okay. I am hen-pecked like a big dog. What did you say, queen? Yes, ma'am. Give me my marching orders. I don't care. I love what Beyonce has done to leverage her authority as

the world's greatest entertainer in behalf of black people. Now, she does it as a global humanitarian for all kind of people. I'm not mad at that. But I'm saying she also understands that she doesn't have to sacrifice her own commitment to her own blackness in order to be a human being. That's number one. Number two, I love what Solange has done with her latest album.

I love that Afro-Bohemian avant-garde beauty that she represents intellectually and spiritually and willingness to engage people and not take no guff. And I love mama who shaped both of them both as an entrepreneur and as an entertainer uh you know the nurture of an entertainer and as a matriarch but let me tell you why i did it as well no disrespect to the kardashians but god dang it i'm tired if we're gonna celebrate i'm tired of women who are being celebrated without acknowledging the incredible durability, genius, and creativity of what black women have done. So I wanted to choose this trio

of transformative women to celebrate and uplift what they have done. Their commitment to our people, their commitment to our world, their humanitarian and entrepreneurial efforts, and their fundamental gut-bucket love unapologetically for the people from whose wombs they emerged your book about to shoot the number one because black women about to

make it go to i love y'all i did write a book called why i love black women i love all the women in the world i'm from the 70s that's how we did it but i wrote a book called why i love black women i think black women need to be celebrated and elevated i love hip-hop but i'm tired of the bitch hoeskies a slut hood rat, but I'm tired of the bitch, hoeskies, the slut, hood rat, chicken head. I'm tired of the demonization of women. I understand that you say that's the word you use because you choose to do it and don't get it twisted. Men in my generation use the same word. But we had the good enough sense not to go in public and celebrate our rhetorical pathology by demonizing the very woman whose wounds we have taken our life.

Start being respectful to black women. There you go. Tell them the name of the book again. Tis we cannot stop a sermon to white America. Alright, it's The Breakfast Club Michael Eric Dyson. The Breakfast Club. Morning everybody, it's

DJ MV. Relax with your beige ballads. There's nothing wrong with a beige ballad. How about you hang your beige ballads? It's Black History Month next week. All beige people must be silenced. I'm glad you said that because we're going to do a Black History Month story for a rumor report right now. It's new to Michael Eric Dyson, too, man. Thank you for coming. He's trending right now on Twitter.

His interview will be up in like five minutes. All right, let's get to the rumors. I got to read his book. Did you read it yet? Not yet. Listen up. It's just in. All the gossip.

Gossip. The rumor report. Gossip. Angela Yee. It's the rumor report. The Breakfast Club. All right, well, Nas, in celebration of Black History Month, is going to be doing a Black History Month exclusive collection. If you remember, he did his ugly Christmas sweaters in support of prison reform. Well, now he's doing this, and a portion of the proceeds will go to National Black Child Development Institute. They provide resources to black kids through publications, advocacy, and trainings related to early childhood care

and education. Now he's going to have inspirational dashikis with writings saying things like black don't crack and I'm black and I'm proud. He's going to do graphic tee sweatshirts and Malcolm X inspired hats. And he's also going to have pro-black versions of classic cartoon characters like Bart Simpson, Charlie Brown, and Malcolm X-inspired hats. And he's also going to have pro-black versions of classic cartoon characters like Bart Simpson, Charlie Brown, and the Pink Panther.

Okay. Gotta love it. Now, he had recently told the Huffington Post that he used to low-key cringe when Black History Month came around. He said it felt like a slap in the face with all the hell we catch daily, like a small reward for a dog's good behavior, then back to the kennel. But I'll take it. I'll take what I can get.

And that's all I need to go to new heights. Yeah, drop on a Clues Bond for now. Celebrate Black History Month, man. If there's ever a time to use every opportunity to teach. And Black History Month is a great opportunity to teach. Absolutely. Well, let's do some more positivity. Let's talk about Dwayne Johnson, a.k.a. The Rock.

Now, he actually gave an unsuspecting Army combat veteran and Purple Heart recipient a gift. Here's how it went down. So I heard you're a Dodgers fan. Oh, yeah, for sure. Like big time Dodgers fan? Oh, yeah. Oh, okay. Well, maybe you can go to a Dodgers game in your brand new 2018 Mustang.

Wow. What? That's you. Are you kidding me? No. No. What kind of joke is this? It's you.

Really? Why? Why? Because of everything you've done. And everything that the boys and girls who you served with have done. I don't deserve all this. You deserve more. The Rock sounded like he was proposing to a woman that don't deserve all this. You deserve more. The Rock sounded like he was proposing to a woman that don't want the ring. No, he got all choked up. You gotta watch the whole thing. It's really sweet. But that was a guy?

No, it was a female. Yeah, Marlene Rodriguez. So, shout out. I'm saying he got all choked up, as in The Rock. That was dope. She was like, why? Yeah, she's a U.S. veteran and it's the Ford's go-further award and she was talking about the tremendous toll the Army took on her. She said, I wanted to stay in, but I don't think it was going to happen

because I suffered severe traumatic brain injury. Well, good. I'm glad you did something for the veterans. I can't stand to see homeless veterans. That's like my pet peeve. You go off and fight for this country, and then you come home, now you're on the side of the street with a sign begging for change. That's just disrespectful. You know, so I know there was a guy at the DMV

when he served three tours, and I guess somebody stole his license and was using his name. So when he got back, his license was suspended. And he was like, I have to stand on line for two hours for this. And he was pissed off. He was like, I just served this country. Jesus Christ. I felt so bad for him.

I agree. I agree with him wholeheartedly. All right, here's some other good news. Tyson Beckford, he is going to be coming back for three more months at Chippendales in Vegas on the Strip. Now, they said that ticket sales broke records when he did a three-week guest appearance.

That was a couple years ago. I think that was in celebration of the movie Chocolate City. So now he's coming back. He'll be in more numbers, and he'll have several dances that are custom choreographed for him. And that's going to start March 30th, his residency for Chippendales. What?

We don't care! That's what. Why y'all so quiet? We don't care. We don't care. You sound jealous and like a hater. Jesus Christ. You sound like a hater.

Angela, y'all smiling in here, looking around the room. Why y'all got so quiet? Next story. Next story. Whatever. Y'all don't want to come? No. To go see Chipp so quiet? Next story. Next story. Whatever. Y'all don't want to come? No. To go see Chippendales and Tyson?

I'll pass. They didn't extend an invite to you guys? They asked me to be in the show, but I was like, no, I don't want to exploit my body like that.

No, no, no, you don't want to They asked me, they was like, yo, Charlamagne, we've been seeing you out here, you looking good, you know what I'm saying?

You want to be a black Chippendale? I was like, first of all, y'all don't got enough money for me, number one. Number two, I'm not exploiting my body like that.

Well, some lady is going to come out there and save Tyson and get him off that pole. Oh, man. Listen, it's going to be a fat woman festival. All right? Drop one of Clues bombs for the fat fella that will be that black Chippendales show. He looks like he's enjoying it, too. If you see pictures, if you have Revolt TV, you can see Tyson looks like he's having a great time. Listen, man, every woman

with a high calorie intake is going to be in there throwing them bottles. You stop hating, Charlamagne. What is the problem? Congratulations. Hope they got good food at wherever he's dancing at. Alright, an American crime story. You know they had a breakout hit with the OJ Simpson story. Well, now they're doing another story that they feel like

is going to be more ratings gold. And you know what scandal that is? What? A vast conspiracy. The real sex scandal that nearly brought down a president. Do you know what that is? The Monica Lewinsky affair. So that's going to be happening.

So the people versus OJ Simpson did so well. Now they're doing this when they're hoping that this is going to. I do not need to have four nights. How long? Four nights of fellatio. How long was that OJ special? It was about four nights. How many nights would you like to have? It to have four nights. How long? Four nights of fellatio. How long was that OJ special? It was about four nights. How many nights would you like to have?

It was like four weeks. Four weeks, five weeks. We don't need five weeks of fellatio, bro. Like, okay, the man got tomorrow's sex in the White House. Okay. I think it was a lot of controversy, though, around it. It wasn't just that. It was just all the other.

Where she came from, how she put in her free time. And all the other characters, Kenneth Starr, Linda Tripp, everybody else that was. Did anybody die because of that blowjob? No. Okay, so... Can you say that? What?

Die? What, too late? All right, well, anyway, that's your Rumor Report. I'm Angela Yee. Yeah. My goodness. I'm a child.

I'm a crazy guy. It's time for Donkey of the Day. Donkey of the Day, I'm Charlamagne. I'm a Democrat, so being Donkey of the Day. Donkey of the Day. I'm a Democrat, so being Donkey of the Day is a little bit of a mixed one. So like a donkey. Donkey of the Day. The Breakfast Club, bitches. Now, I've been called a lot in my 23 years, but Donkey of the Day is a new one.

Hello. Yes, Donkey of the Day for Thursday, January 19th goes to this 29-year-old queen named Bettina Jackson. Okay. Bettina Jackson is from Roseville, Michigan, and she is tired of spending holidays alone. She promised herself at the top of 2017 that last year was the last year she was going to be alone on the holidays. She moved into 2017 and said to herself, I'm going to have me a Valentine's Day this February, boo-boo. So she did what a lot of women

do nowadays when they want a man. She went online. I don't know which site it could have been. Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook, ChristianMingle.com. I don't know which site it was, but she went online looking for a bae, and she found her a 39-year-old man. Now, after just a couple of dates, I don't know how many a couple is.

Oh, my goodness. A couple is usually two. What envy? You looking at her picture on Revolt? Yeah. Police said. Not very attractive. Whoa.

It's just that her hair's messed up. Oh, no, eyebrows. Wow. Y'all look harsh. No, I said it's just that her hair's not done. Police said that Bettina asked the man to commit to a serious relationship after only a couple dates. Now, of course, the man said he wasn't willing to commit.

You know, slow down. Mind your speed. And it's only been a couple of dates, okay? I'm dating other people. No! No! I will not spend another holiday alone. You're going to be my Valentine.

I want a man. I know my worth. Did she say that? Are you making this up? It's me. I'm role be my Valentine. I want a man. I know my worth. Did she say that? Are you making this up? It's me. I'm role playing. I don't want to be someone's option. I want to be someone's priority.

Rob Hill Sr. said. Oh, boy. Well, the guy still said no. Okay. He's not ready to commit to a serious relationship. Well, this man made a grave mistake. After telling this young woman this, he didn't leave. Okay?

At that moment, he should have said he had something to do. Okay? Lie and say he was going to get something to eat, and then something came up. When a lonely, single, broken woman who wants a man puts that you need to commit to a relationship pressure on you, and you say no, man. It's like feeding a mogwai after midnight, okay? That mogwai gonna turn into a vicious, murderous gremlin, and this Bonita Jackson situation is no different.

Let's go to Local 4 Detroit for the report, please. Bettina Jackson appeared before a judge today crying and pleading to be released after she was charged with one count of assault with intent to murder. Police say Jackson stabbed the man multiple times in his back and neck with a steak knife at her apartment after the two had an argument because the victim wouldn't commit to Jackson. Jackson was given a $250,000 bond and she'll be back in court next week. As for the victim, he's been

released from the hospital and is expected to be okay. Bettina. I keep calling her Bettina. Let's just call her B. Jackson. B. Jackson! Stabbed this 39-year-old man because he wasn't willing to commit to a serious relationship. Stabbed him nine times with a steak knife in his back and neck, all because

he wasn't willing to commit. Now, this is the problem that I have. Women, if you are in the same single boat as Bettina and you're lonely and you want a man, you shouldn't stab a man when he tells you the truth about not wanting to be in a relationship. You shouldn't stab anyone ever, but if a man leads you on and he's smashing you, telling you that he loves you and wants to be with you, but he's just gassing you up for your vagina,

I can understand you stabbing him for that. It's still wrong, but a little more understandable, okay? Don't stab that man for keeping it real with you, but he's just gassing you up for your vagina. I can understand you stabbing him for that. It's still wrong, but a little more understandable, okay? Don't stab that man for keeping it real with you. What are us as men to do when we get in trouble for lying and in trouble for telling the truth? Now, Bettina Jackson is being held on a $250,000 bail, and she's claiming she stabbed a man in self-defense because he was physically and sexually assaulting her.

I'm not going to dismiss her claims, but when I hear her say that, I think of the quote, you stabbed me, then pretended you were the one who was bleeding. Okay, but Tina Jackson, I root for lonely women like yourself. I really do. I want you to find happiness. I want you to find a man, okay? But all you did was make the chances of that ever happening almost impossible. All right? Nobody is going to want the crazy chick from Michigan who stabbed the man she met on Tinder.

So, Patina, if you think you're lonely now, wait until you get bail. You're going to have to catfish yourself this February to get a valentine. Please give Patina Jackson the biggest hee-haw. I wish you the best. I really do. And she stabbed him in the back and the neck. So that means... My neck. My back. God bless her. God bless Bettina. God bless Bettina. I want her to win

out here in these streets. I want all lonely women to win. Don't resort to that. I know it gets frustrating. I know you get stressed out, okay? I know it's easy to become scorned and bitter, but Don't resort to that. I know it gets frustrating. I know you get stressed out, okay? I know it's easy to become scorned and bitter, but don't resort to stabbing a man just because he don't want to commit. Because maybe it's you. Alright. Maybe it's you.

In this situation, clearly it was her, right? This guy made the right decision, right? Right. Absolutely. He definitely should have left. He made the right decision. It's clearly you, Bettina. You're blocking your own blessings. Bettina, you deserve better. All right. Well, thank you for that donkey today, sir.

We are the Breakfast Club. It's time for Ask Yee. You got a question for Yee. You can call her right now. What line are we going to, Yee? Let's do line number six. Hello, who's this? Molly.

Hey, Molly. What's your question for Yee? So, like, my fiance and I moved up to Massachusetts, where I'm from. He's from Florida. And we did that partly because his parents treat him so badly. Like, they promised us that they would give us a house because his father flips houses. His mom is a real estate agent. And that never came through.

Even just like renting from them, not just like giving us the house. But then we move up here. And like on Christmas, he watches all of his sisters and brothers open thousands of dollars worth of Christmas presents on FaceTime. And they give him nothing. And he wanted to like go home and visit his family, but we don't really have the financial means to do so right now. But he's been away from home for a super long time, like eight months. And he's never lived outside of Florida before.

So he's sort of homesick. And so he texted his dad and said, Hey, would you mind like splitting the cost of airfare with me? And he received no response. But like his dad posts on Facebook and, you know, like he's What's the back story with his relationship with them that they treat him this way? Has it always been like this? So his dad went to jail when he was, I want to say, I think he was around like four or five. And then he was out of his life for a few years. And then he came back into his life and my fiance moved in with his father and his stepmom. I don't think that they got along super well back then,

but, like, he looks up to his dad so much, and he really wants to please his dad with everything that he does. So what's your question? My question is, is there something that I can say? Because it hurts him so much that he gets treated like the black sheep of the family. But I don't want to overstep my bounds, but at the same time... How do they treat you? Oh, like crap.

Like, at New Year's last year, not like a couple weeks ago, but over a year ago, they brought his ex-girlfriend, who works for his father's company, mind you. They brought her to New Year's and she was dressed in like this wicked short dress, high heels at this family event. You know what I mean? And they employ her and they try to get him and her back together. They're not respectful to either one of you or to your relationship, basically. Okay. Number one, this is their problem, not your problem.

So always keep that in mind. When people don't treat you the way that you deserve to be treated, it's not a reflection of you. It's a reflection on them. So make sure that with your fiancé, you are very supportive toward him. And you let him know how important and special he is in your life so that he never feels like it's him. Because a lot of times you feel like, what did I do wrong? What's wrong with me? But it's really some issues that they have within themselves right you know maybe they haven't ever seen a healthy relation maybe they have some jealousy towards

you guys having a healthy relationship with each other you know we don't know what it is their issue is but have you ever said has either one of you ever said anything like you know i don't understand is there an issue why do you guys act like this? Do you think that this is wrong that you've done this to us? No, I haven't because I don't know. I just feel like his stepmom is super fake and she tries to create drama.

There was a picture of my fiance and his best friend who's a female on Facebook and I didn't like it. So she just assumed that I had beef with his best friend, who's a female, on Facebook, and I didn't like it. So she just assumed that I had beef with his best friend, which is not true. I think she's a great girl. And she started telling people that I didn't like her. Right. They're like gossipy. And a lot of families are like that, by the way. They're very gossipy in the business. So it's not something that is unique to your situation. But I will say that you and your

husband have a united front, support each other, do what you got to do. And sometimes, you know, it's not, you don't pick your family. And sometimes there are issues, you can't let that drag down what you have going on for your own self-esteem and your own relationship. All you can do is point it out to them

and let them know when they're being petty. Let them know when they're doing things that are disrespectful towards you and point it out and keep it moving. And that's all you got to do. But you guys have to know when you go into it and you go into these family situations, just go in there knowing that you can't expect them to treat you the way that you deserve to be treated.

Thank you. All right. And never feel like it's anything that you've done wrong or anything that he's done wrong. Okay. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Good luck.

Bye. My name is DJ Envy Angela Yee. Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We're in the middle of Ask Yee. 800-585-1051. Hello, who's this? Hello.

Hey, what's your name? Courtney. Hey, Courtney, what's your question for you? I actually have a boyfriend and he's been asking me to delete people off of Facebook and I've been willing to do it, but the moment that I asked him to delete

a couple of people off of Facebook, he throws a tantrum. So I was wondering if I'm doing the right thing in deleting these people off of Facebook. Why does he want you to delete them off your Facebook? I don't understand. He says that the guys that I have on my Facebook, when they're in a relationship, they always tend to tell their girlfriends to block them off Facebook.

So I thought it was being petty and him wanting me to delete people off of Facebook just because his friends do it to him. Their whole thing sounds really petty. Because who are these people that you're asking me to delete people off of Facebook just because his friends do it to him. Their whole thing sounds really petty. Who are these people that you're asking him to delete? Are you doing that just because he's asking you to do it? No, I'm actually doing it because these girls that I want him to delete off of Facebook are girls that hit him up at like 9 o'clock, 10 o'clock at night, and they just talk about stupid stuff.

And he says, oh, we're just acquaintances. But I've seen a lot of messages on his phone. And I mean, we're just acquaintances. You don't talk to them every day about stupid stuff. The issue is that you guys don't trust each other. I guess I don't trust him. He says

he trusts me, but I personally don't trust him at all. Right. And that's more of the issue than this Facebook, because this Facebook thing is just complete nonsense. And, truthfully, he probably doesn't trust you because maybe he's doing something which you already think. So, am I doing the wrong thing and

deleting the people from Facebook just because he wants me to? Yeah. I mean, if that's not something that you want to do, it's not something that you should do. Okay. Unless you feel like, okay, I understand his point and it makes sense and I feel that I should do it too. You should do it because you want to, not just because he said

you should do it. If you feel like, okay, you know, for my relationship, I understand what he's saying and I agree with him. Then yes. But if he's not giving you that same respect. Yeah, he's not doing it for me. That's why I honestly thought he wasn't doing it for me because clearly he has to do something with these girls because

he's deleted other people off. He's deleted his ex-girlfriends without an issue. Right. But the moment I ask him to delete these two girls, it's an issue. Like, he'll stop talking to me. But honey, the bigger issue is that y'all just don't trust each other. Yeah, definitely. And that's the bigger issue that you guys need to really deal

with. Why don't you trust him? Do you really think he's cheating? I mean, it's hard because I've lived with him for so long. He always puts out the card like, oh, how can I cheat on you? We live together. You know all my moves. And he knows all my moves. But it's just kind of hard because I've heard stories from my best friend that she's always like, oh, you know, he's hitting me up.

He's hitting me up. He's wanting to do this. But when I confront him about it, he doesn't really, you know, he evades it. So it's not like I've ever called him in anything to say I don't. Wait, your best friend says that he's hitting her up. That sounds crazy. Yeah. She says that, oh, you know, he's been trying to hit me up and ask me out to go to lunch.

What? And when I ask him, yeah, when I ask him, he's like, oh, it's not like that. I ask a lot of people out to lunch. Yada, yada, yada. Yeah, no, he should definitely not be doing nothing like that, especially if it makes you uncomfortable. Yeah, he's definitely stopped. But I guess I'm doing wrong and telling him that he's cheating if I don't have no evidence. Right.

But if you feel like there's something going on and you don't trust him, like I said, that's something that y'all really have to deal with more than just a Facebook. Okay. I totally appreciate your advice. And by the way, hey, Charlamagne, I love you guys at MTV. I listen to you guys every morning. Thank you, mama. All right.

You guys got all my love. Bye. Thank you. Take care. I hope everything works out. All right. Ask E-800-585-1051 if you got a relationship question you can ask. Hey, good morning, everybody.

Hey. Hey, what's happening? That was Tory Lanez. It's the weekend already, right? No, it's not the weekend yet. Oh, okay. Pretty much. Today is, what, Thursday?

Yeah. It's technically the weekend. Morning, everybody. We are The Breakfast Club. If anybody that's listening for BET, Stephen Hill, you can send over the third part of the new edition trilogy, please. I've seen one and two. They sent it to me, but they told me not to share it with anybody. You lie.

Stephen Hill said, Shut your beige ass up and tune in next week like everybody else on BET. Who you think you are? Who the hell you think you are? Envy. That's who I think I am. Oh, please. Well, let's get to the rumors.

Let's talk with Seth and Michelle. Who you are. This is the Rumor Report with Angela Yee. Rumor has it. On Breakfast Club. So listen up. Well, we told you earlier in the rumors about Chrisette Michelle. She'll be performing at Donald Trump's inauguration.

And the other people that she was supposed to perform with all turned it down. So she'll be there. She said she wants to do an R&B set. She penned an open letter. She said, we can't be present if we're silent. My heart is broken for our country, for the hopes of our children, for the fights of those who came before us. I cry at the thought that black history, American history might be in vain.

This country has had great moments. God has shined his light upon us. And then she goes on to say, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, our lives begin to end the day we become silent about what matters. I am here representing you because this is what matters. That's what I said. Maybe she'll do some type of protest on the stage or say something on the stage, but like I

had the conversation with Mike Eric Dyson earlier, we're going to have engagers, we're going to have resistors. The resistors don't need to get mad at the engagers for engaging. We all need to be on the same page. As long as the cause is the betterment of black people, let people do whatever method they want to to get to that. I don't know. Hashtag no political genius.

That's how she ended it. We'll see what she does. And by the way, that whole inauguration was put together by Bustamoon. If you don't know who Bustamoon is and you haven't taken your children to see the movie sing, but if you've taken your children to see the movie sing, you know exactly what I'm talking about. That whole inauguration, all the talent there, Bustamoon, the koala

bear, put all that together. Alright, now Soulja Boy no longer has Floyd Mayweather training him. That fight's not gonna happen. And said that he hasn't been pleased with the whole way, the whole fight with Soulja Boy versus Chris Brown is about to go down. He said he's now taking matters into his own hands. He's gonna pay for everything. He said

I'm throwing the fight. These N-Wars taking too long. F this is going to pay for everything. He said, I'm throwing the fight. These N-Wars taking too long. F this ish. You need tickets. Hit me. I'm running the show. And so originally this was a Floyd Mayweather promotion, but he's saying it's just taking too long. So Floyd is going to do it himself.

He said he's going to give an interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live about the upcoming fight, his new tour and a TV show update. Floyd and Chris not even going to be mad. Not Floyd. Chris and Soulja Boy not even going to be mad at each other to want to fight in a couple months. That moment is past. I'm over it. Alright, Ed Sheeran has made history. He's the first artist ever

to debut two singles in the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100 at the same damn time. Shape of You and Castle on the Hill both debuted at number one and number six. That's my guy. He said it feels amazing to debut at number one in the U.S., especially after being away for so long.

So congratulations to him. Couldn't happen to a better person. Ed Sheeran's a great guy. Also, let's talk about Yam's Day with the passing of ASAP crew founder ASAP Yam's two years ago. They did have the whole ASAP. They had the Yam's Day. A lot of people showed up at Madison Square Garden

for the second annual celebration concert. The Weeknd came out, Kendrick Lamar, Young Thug, of course ASAP Rocky was on stage. So a lot of people went out to show their love and support. Sold out event. Rest in peace to ASAP Yam. Drop on the clues bombs for the ASAP mop. Rocky Ferg was happening.

Alright, now Lil Wayne. It does sound like he finally has some music really coming out. The Carter 5. The album's supposed to come out this year sometime now Lil Wayne, it does sound like he finally has some music really coming out, The Carter Five. The album's supposed to come out this year sometime. Lil Wayne Headquarters put up a little snippet of a song called Life of Mr. Carter. Check it out. What's the order? I know the same K as your sister called it. I'll be A-OK as long as my wife could cook a quarter. I'm tight-lipped, but I won't take for granted. All right, just in case you guys were wondering.

And this is bad news for Bobby Smurda's co-defendant. This is crazy. He actually got sentenced to 130 years. What's the point? Why are you playing, Judge? There's a reason. In September, Santino Baderick, who's 23 years old, was offered a plea deal of 15 years. What's the point? Why are you playing, Judge? There's a reason. In September, Santino Baderick, who's 23 years old, was offered a plea deal of 15 years. He turned that

down. His three co-defendants, including Bobby Schmurda, did take that deal. He didn't. And while he was in court, he told the judge, F yourself. He also told him to suck his D before he was ordered to jail. That's why he got ordered to jail. To jail.

And yes, they actually made him leave the court and they delivered that sentence while he was gone. That's why I got ordered three years. Alright. Okay. To jail. Okay. And yes, they actually made him leave the court and they delivered that sentence while he was gone. He was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder, possession of a weapon, and 20 other felonies. You just have to make smarter decisions, man. If you're in the courthouse and you're facing 15 years

and you don't want to take that plea, if you're bargaining, you don't tell the judge to suck your dick. I just don't think that's smart. He didn to take that plea. If you're bargaining, you don't tell the judge to suck your dick. I just don't think that's smart. The sad part about it. No, he didn't take the plea. Yeah, but he's bargaining for something else, right? He was hoping for something else.

Yeah, exactly. He was young. He's 23. So when he got locked up, when he was, what, two years ago, 21, he would have been out 32, 33. Still, though, we got to start being more realistic, though, like when you're a judge. Like, stop telling the judge to just be showing off.

187 years. Well, if you're a judge and somebody tells you to suck his penis... Just say forever! Just say forever! You don't gotta give me a number, what you playing for? Just say forever! And 21 Savage has signed two epic records. He confirmed that on the

Rap Radar podcast. And he said about L.A. Reid, he said he's black. He's probably the last black CEO. Why not? He'll understand me before's black. He's probably the last black CEO. Why not? He'll understand me before anyone else. He's the last black CEO? Well, Puff is black. Jay-Z is black.

Of a label, though, of a record label. Like that actually runs a record label every day. Who is going to be 100? Who do you know that's 187 years old? You still on that? I hate when judges do that. Where did you just come up with 187 though?

I'm just throwing a number out there. You tell somebody you give somebody 147 years and you're already 20 something you're going to be

160 plus when you get out like no, stop giving people false hope like that. Just say forever. What kind of hope is that? There's no hope for that. 17 years is hope.

You give me a number I'm going to count down. 130 years, I don't feel like I have hope. You give me a number I'm going to count down the days. There's no reason to, I'm going to count down. 130 years, I don't feel like I have hope. You give me a number, I'm going to count down the days. There's no reason to. I'm going to count down the days.

Paul McCartney is trying to get back the rights, his copyrights for a lot of the hits from the Beatles. Now remember, Michael Jackson actually controlled these songs

for some time. That was the falling out that Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney had. And then his estate actually sold it to Sony for $750 million last year. Paul McCartney had. And then his estate actually sold it to Sony for $750 million last year. Paul McCartney has tried numerous times to get confirmation that he can get the rights

back without a fight because he's supposed to get those rights back in 2018. But so far, he's been getting the runaround. So he wants to make sure that he gets those songs back by next year. And he gets it for free? Yeah, I guess he's supposed to get the rights back in 2018. I saw Michael bought them, though. And then his estate sold them to Sony for $750 million last year.

Sony ain't giving that back. Not that they spent $750. No way. I don't know nothing about that. That's going to be a fight. I don't care about them rich Negro problems. Well, yeah, but he has legal documents that he gets them back in 2018,

so they only have the copyright for a certain amount of time. All right, sir, Paul. All right, well, I'm Angela Yee, and that's your rumor report. All right, thank you, Ms. Yee. Shout out to our family at Revolt. We'll see you guys tomorrow. Had enough of this country?

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