The Breakfast Club - Raphael Saadiq to Mike Epps Interview and More

Episode Date: June 28, 2019

Today on the show we had 90s legend Raphael Saadiq stop by for the first time, where he spoke about  the history of Toni Toni Toni, writing for other artist and more. Also, we had comedian Mike Epps stop by where he spoke about marriage, new Netflix special and more. Moreover, we flashed back to the time Charlamagne gave "Donkey of the Day" to the middle school students who served their bodily fluids on crapes to their teacher.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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

What is that? Bullets. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. We need help! That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast

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on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, come to the Breakfast Club. I call Mr. Hot Seat. Y'all are wild. Y'all are wild. Can I live? You are out of control. I can't even deal with you. Y'all are so petty. Why are y'all so petty? The world's most dangerous morning show. DJ Envy.

Captain of this bitch. Angela Yee. I stay in everybody's business, but in a good way. Charlamagne Tha God. The ruler rubbing you the wrong way. The Breakfast Club. Made for everybody. Good morning, USA!

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, Good morning, Angela Yee. Good morning, D.J.M.V. Charlamagne the guy. Peace to the planet. It is Friday, yo, yo, yo. Good morning, Angelique. Good morning, DJ Envy. Charlamagne Tha God. Peace to the planet.

It's Friday. Yes, it's Friday. Why am I here so early? It's not 6.05. Well, you are here on time, sir. No, my contract says 6.05. Technically, I'm early. Okay, 6.05.

Well, today is going to be a great day because we got two special guests joining us. Yes, we got the OG Mike Epps. You know Mike Epps is our guy. He's got a stand-up special on Netflix called It's Only One Mike, and it truly is only one Mike. Isn't that right, Andy?

Shut up. And also, Mike just got married, by the way. Black men don't cheat. And also, Raphael Sadiq will be joining us. The legend, okay? Ask your aunts,

ask your uncles, ask your mommy and your daddy about Tony, Tony, Tony. Ask them about Lucy Pearl. You may not even recognize the name Raphael Sadiq. It may not be top of the mind awareness to you like it is to us. But boy, when you hear songs like Feels Good, when you hear songs like Whatever You Like, when you hear songs like If I Ain't Had No Luke.

Anniversary. Come on now. We're going to get a mix on, too. So if you never heard none of that music or you're not familiar, we're going to put you on to it this morning. Raphael Sadiq, man, the legend. Just consider it a flashback Friday. Absolutely. Keep it locked. Of course,

if you want to get things off your chest, 800-585-1051 if you need to vent. Whatever you need to do, call us up right now. Phone lines are wide open. Get it off your chest. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. It's your time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed. You better have the same energy. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

Hello, who's this? Angel. Angel, good morning. Yes. Me and my daughter listen to you guys every morning. We deliver newspapers. Okay. Hey, I want to thank you and your daughter for having no taste.

We really appreciate you. Stop it. Where you calling from? From Bethany Beach right now. What's on the cover of the paper today? Delaware? Yes, Delaware. What's on the cover of the paper today?

A whale looking thing. A whale looking thing. How old is your daughter? Why is she working with you so early? My daughter is one and a half, and I go back to the whole child thing. I trust her body with her. Oh, got you, got you. So you bring her out with you. And can't quite afford a sitter yet. Nope.

I know. Me and my husband both work. We got 4K. Your arm must be amazing. I tried to throw a paper one time across the street. I couldn't do it. You could throw the papers from the car and hit the front stoop? Yeah, you gotta have a good arm to especially be able to throw across the car.

Okay. A nice flick of the wrist. There you go. Well, thank you for listening, Mama. Yeah, I just wanted to say, you know, everybody has bad days, but you gotta think somebody else has it worse than you, so always be positive. There you go. Thank you, Mama. Have a good day. You too. Joey, what's up, Joey? Hey,

what's going on, DJ Envy? What's up, bro? Give him up your chest. What you, mama. Have a good day. You too. Joey, what's up, Joey? Hey, what's going on, DJ Envy? What's up, bro? Give him up your chest. What up, King? Hey, man. And Angela. Hey, what up, Ang? Damn, hello. I just want to call, man, and say, hey, man, y'all doing y'all the best radio in Detroit right now, man. Well, thank

you, sir. Appreciate that, bro. You're welcome, man. Hey, Envy. Yep. Hey, man, I your you and you're doing your your house thing man y'all need to do some stuff in the small city in highland park man okay highland park we got you all right aisha yes hey get it off your chest mama all right so i have somebody that's going to be staying with me and it was like last week or something the last time i came there or two weeks ago. And they just have this stuff in my house.

And I was wondering, like, when they come in and get this stuff, they keep saying they're coming to get it. This stuff is, like, all over the place. Oh, man. I don't know what to do. Is it a guy? It's a female. Oh. I'll get some boxes and pack all that stuff up and have it right by the door.

That's what I want to do. You should. I want to bring it to a school or something. And also, I want to do. You should. I want to take her to school or something. It's like, and also, I'm missing something at my house too. And I'm like,

Oh, hell no. She's trying to avoid me. Or she's trying to avoid me because she, I don't know. What are you missing? Huh? What are you missing?

My little daughter's book bag. It's a little cute mini-mouth book bag and I haven't seen it since she was there. Or maybe it's just a mess and it's somewhere in the house. I try looking.

I look everywhere and stuff. And I don't know. And I don't know what to do. Like, help me out with that. I'm going to try to figure it out. She told you, put the stuff in a box. I would pack all that stuff up. I can't stand having clutter everywhere.

I would pack everything up in some boxes and be like, your stuff is here in some boxes. Let me know what you want me to do. You got, I would give her two weeks. Two weeks to get this shit out. No, I'd give her one week. Hey, what's your name, bro? Yo, yo, it's Ronnell from Pondell.

Ronnell, get it off your chest. Ronnell from Pondell. Did you try to make that rhyme? Nah, I didn't. Hey, Uncle Charlie, man, I'm trying to get a copy of your book, too, by the way. Listen, there's bookstores all through the world. Who's his homeless?

This guy, who's his homeless? You got Barnes & Noble's. You got Books A Million. You got Amazon. All right, well, when I get my first check, I'm going to definitely go copy.

Which book you want? I want the first one, man. I want the first one. I want Black Privilege. You want Black Privilege? I'm going to send you Black Privilege. I'll send you a copy

of Shook One, too, but I heard you homeless. So where am I sending it to? He was homeless. He just got his first job. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was in the streets, you know what I'm saying,

and I turned my whole life around. You feel me? Sobered up, got my job, relocated from Cali to Texas, so I'm just blessed. I'm going to put you on hold. I'm going to mail you a copy of both books, you know what I mean? Okay.

Hey, one more question. Hey, is he there? Yeah, he's here. I'm right here. Hey, look, I know it's been a minute already since that happened, but congratulations on your little Gracie and all that, you know. Why do I say little Gracie? Gracie's a huge accomplishment.

Hey, if I like that, you know what I'm saying. Okay, I didn't mean to downplay it, but, yeah, you know, you be doing your thing. And I listen to all y'all, all y'all other podcasts, Brilliant Idiots, Live Service, and KC Crew. Thank you. We appreciate you. And shout out to Thea Mitchum. She's our boss up here at iHeart.

She's on the cover here at iHeart. She's on the cover of the Radio Inc., the most influential women in radio magazines. That's right. One of the biggest issues for them of the year. Shout out to Coach Thea. Drop on the clues bombs for Coach Thea. Y'all may not know what Radio Inc. is, but it's a big radio industry magazine.

So that is a great look for Thea. And I made it in here for most influential on-air hosts and personalities. He made it in there too? Mm-hmm. Congrats and personalities. Oh, you made it in there, too? Mm-hmm. Congrats. And she went to the real H-U, by the way. Hampton. They call Thea, what do they call Thea on the front of that?

The Fireball. Yep, Fireball. Jesus Christ. All right, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

The Breakfast Club. Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired? Depressed? A little bit revolutionary? Consider this. Start your own country. I planted the flag. I just kind of looked out of like, this is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. There's 55 gallons of water, 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen of Laudonia. I'm Jackson I, King of Kaperburg. I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia.

Be part of a great colonial tradition. The Waikana tribe owned country. My forefathers did that themselves. What could go wrong? No country willingly gives up their territory. I was making a rocket with a black powder, you know, with explosive warhead. Oh my God. What is that? Bullets. Bullets. We need help! We still have the off-road portion to go.

Listen to Escape from Zakistan. And we're losing daylight fast. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. That's what my podcast, Post Run High, is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. You know that rush of endorphins you feel after a great workout? Well, that's when the real magic happens. So if you love hearing real, inspiring stories from the people you know, follow, and admire, join me every week for Post Run High. It's where we take the conversation beyond the run and get into the heart of it all. It's lighthearted, pretty crazy, and very fun.

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

And so I discovered that that is how we get where we're going. This increment of small, determined moments. Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love. I forgive myself. It's okay. Like, grace. Have grace with yourself.

You're trying your best. And you're gonna figure out the rhythm of this thing. Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

or wherever you get your podcasts. Toe time. How's everybody? It's toe time. All right. What's up, bro? Get it off your chest, man. So listen, my thinking is if Angela E had a sitcom, she'd need a theme song. And it would sound like this. Look at me, I'm Angela E. I couldn't find a good man if you all paid me. Maybe it's because my hair is a mess. Or Charlamagne wears my only dress.

It's me and Jolie. I like that, my dear. I feel like that was kind of stupid. No, it wasn't. That was dumb, man. That was so stupid. That was so dumb, man. It's really stupid.

My hair is a mess. Charlamagne wears my only dress. That's the only point you like. Charlamagne wears my only dress. That's the only point you like. Hello, who's this? That's all it takes. Hello?

Hello, it's Rachel. Hey, Rachel. Get it off your chest. I was calling to say I am so blessed this morning. My new interactive children's book is climbing the charts on Amazon. Okay, congratulations. What's the name? What's the name of the book?

It's called Amber's Magical Savings Box. It teaches kids about earning and saving money, giving those millionaires a head start on their road to financial freedom. How is it interactive? That's dope. Well, the kids have to write their financial dreams and goals inside the back of the book. They follow Amber as she earns

money for this magical toy she wants to buy and they have to walk along with her in this journey. Alright, that's good. Teaching kids the value of how to save and spend. What's the name of the book again? I'm going to look it up. Amber's Magical Savings Box.

It's in honor of my niece, Amber, we lost at the age of three. So it's for ages three to eight-year-olds just to get them started. It's a few that can do savings journals in the back of it and everything. Okay. Thank you, Mama. All right. I like that. Thank you.

All righty. You know what? The other day a lady called and was like her son was addicted to Fortnite and she couldn't get her son off Fortnite. You know, these kids are making money off of Fortnite. I don't know if that lady knows, but she should guide her son into making money off of it. My son is into Twitch and he does tutorials on Fortnite and they pay him to do it. I still think it's some type of social engineering that's intellectually making these kids stupid, though.

They can't spend all their time on video games. All their time on video games, of course not, but some of these kids are on there. Like, my son does it about, what, an hour a day, an hour and a half a day? Will he be able to make a living off that when he's 30 or 40, though? A lot of kids are.

Yeah, actually, you know what is great is that a lot of kids are learning how to do things in the tech world just because they know how to use these games, but you just have to help them take it a step further, whether it's learning how to code, create their own apps. You're right. If you can help guide them to how that can help them make money and they're interested in something, you got to figure out how to cultivate that. Don't let them be hypnotized by that video game all day and just spend their time twiddling their thumbs, literally. There's a kid named Ninja who's making like $300,000, $400,000 a month off of Twitch and Fortnite.

I've heard of Ninja, and I'd like to know how many other Ninjas out there. There's a bunch of them. There's a lot of them kids out there like that. They might not be making that much, but there's definitely kids out there making money. Absolutely. I know when I was that age, I wasn't making money doing anything. So if you could figure it out and help. The problem is I think that as the older generation,

we don't understand some of the things that these kids are doing, and we got to be more involved in figuring it out. Yes, and can you make a career out of that? That's what I want to know. You can. Yeah, you absolutely can. I don't know some of the things that these kids are doing. And we got to be more involved in like figuring it out. Yes. And can you make a career out of that? That's what I want. You can. Yeah, you absolutely can. I don't know.

Let's see. No, you can't. I got to talk to somebody 40 years old. This is the same thing. That's been doing it. When I was doing the mixtapes, they was like, well, you can't make money off of mixtapes. Well. Maybe they don't do mixtapes no more.

But I, but you. See what I'm saying? But you transcended to what's going on. What you said is right. Like it got to elevate to something else. And I'm sure it will you transcend it to what's going on. What you said is right. To this, to that, to this, to that. It's got to elevate to something else. And I'm sure it will because these kids are doing it. They done went from YouTube to this. But it's important for you to watch what's happening because the whole world, the tech right now,

that's what's going to be the money for the future. It's happening right now. So we got to figure out how we can help guide them and even put them in programs and teach them how to do things that can actually make them be economically viable with it. Hello, who's this? I'm Steven Taylor. Hey, Steven. Get it off your chest.

I want to tell you I'm blessed today. Okay. Why are you blessed, brother? Today is my birthday and I'm on my way to the Bahamas right now. All right. Happy birthday. Oh, that's dope. I just went to the Bahamas.

I hope you got a girl and no condoms. All right. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

Keep The Breakfast Club humbled with Slander The Breakfast Club. Hate me if you want to, love me if you want to, but just use your common sense. Be humble. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. It's time for Slander The Breakfast Club.

Hi. We have Mike on the line. Mike, what's up? What's up? What's up? It's Mike from Florida. You know, I ain't going to say where. Just know I'm from Florida.

That's my first Slander. All right. I'm coming right at Charlamagne. I'm coming at the man whose head looks like the last milk dug at the bottom of the box. You know what I'm saying? I'm coming at Charlamagne first looks like the last milk duds at the bottom of the box. You know what I'm saying? I'm coming at Charlamagne first, man, with them raccoons. I don't get to sleep.

All right. Well, I love the fact that you compared me to a milk dud because that means you want to put my head in your mouth. Woo! Y'all getting kinky. You can't just hang up on him when I say something like that. I need to hit a shock and awe in his voice after he hears me say things like that. My goodness. Okay, let me get that.

Cullen. Hey, what's going on? Hey, who you want to slander, bro? I want to slander Miss Angela Yee. Okay. Hey, Angela, I want to tell you that you're very pretty first and you're very smart. However, you giving opinions on movies and shows is null and void until you go see The Lion King. Nobody wants to hear that.

I tried to. I put on The Lion King and I fell asleep immediately as soon as it started on the plane. What the hell is wrong with you? But I'm going to go watch the remake. No. You got to see the original first. You got to watch the original.

No, I'm going to watch the remake first. I don't think nobody should be able to see the remake if they've never seen the original. I agree with you. You're not slandering me. This is let Cullen slander me. Thank you, Cullen.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Jolanda. Oh, hi Cullen. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Jolanda. Oh, hi. I got through. Finally, this is my third time. They hang up on me

every time I call. We better talk fast. Okay, but, DJ Kibby, I'm calling to slander you. You're so sensitive. You have to stop being sensitive. Charlamagne always says

you're a sensitive, beige-colored negro. Stop being so sensitive. That sounded awful. You're hurting my feelings right now. I'm sorry, DJ Amy. Also, I want to shout out my LinkedIn page because... No! Hell no!

Hell no! Hell no! Wow, that's so sensitive. She can't shout out her LinkedIn? Tweet me. I'll retweet it for you, Yolanda. Hello. Hello. Hey, what's your name, mama?

Angela. Hey, Angela. I was almost like Angela Yee. That's how people always mess up my name. Angela Yee. No, I don't play that. I don't play that. It's four syllables.

Angela. Yeah, that's it. It's like Angela Yee. Okay, Angela Yee. Whatever. Now, who do you want to stand up? Salome. Hi, Salome. Hi.

Salome, he be acting like an auntie, man. Like an old, not even old, like in her mid-40s. You know what I'm saying? Somebody still got their sex drive nasty. Always got something nasty to say. It was like little mustaches. Little mustaches. He always starting stuff with a dust around. Smell like Glover's main grease or something. Just always starting stuff. Like dust around smell like gloves baby grease or something just

always starting stuff like stop smoke a cigarette okay he'd be looking like an auntie sometimes too fyi i can't i can't smoke no cigarettes till you run to the store and get your auntie a pack now bring me back my new port shorts okay and he got them auntie hips okay man listen like great he got the justice and everything, though. You got to watch him. He be sitting over there making those faces with his hands. Watch his hands. He be doing those stuff.

Very judgmental. All right. Very judgmental Auntie status. All right. Thank you. All right. Slam to the Breakfast Club. 800-585-1051.

If you want to slam to the Breakfast Club, hit us now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club, hit us now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Keep The Breakfast Club humble with Slander The Breakfast Club. Tell them be humble. Sit down. The truth hurts.

Don't. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. It's time for Slam to the Breakfast Club. Hi. We have Mike on the line. Mike, what's up? What's up? What's up? It's Mike from Florida. You know, I ain't gonna say where. Just know I'm

from Florida. That's my first Slam to. I'm coming right at Charlamagne. I'm coming at the man whose head looks like the last milk duds at the bottom of the box. You know what I'm saying? I'm coming at Charlamagne first, man, with them raccoons. I don't get sleep.

All right. Well, I love the fact that you compared me to a milk dud because that means you want to put my head in your mouth. Woo! Y'all getting kinky. You can't just hang up on him when I say something like that. I need to hit a shock and awe in his voice after he hears me say things like that.

My goodness. Okay, let me get that. Hello, who's this? Neo. Neo, slam to the breakfast club. Yo, Charlemagne, why you calling Envy Dominican, man? What's wrong with Dominican? Nothing.

Nothing's wrong with Dominican. Envy is Dominican. He won't claim his heritage. I'm not Dominican. See what I'm saying? What's wrong with Dominican, man? Shout out to all my Dominicans out there, man. Oh, now they're your Dominicans.

I said shout out to all my Dominicans. Yeah, I'm not Dominican. Envy is Dominican. Ask him where his daddy from. Where your dad from, Envy? Not Dominican Republic my Dominicans. Yeah, I'm not Dominican, but I... Envy is Dominican. Ask him where his daddy from. Where your dad from, Envy? Not Dominican Republic. Dominica. Dominica.

Oh, my God, y'all. It's Dominica. Yo, shout out to y'all, man. I appreciate y'all for what y'all do, man. This is Slender to Breakfast Club. We ain't got time for this appreciation, sir. Matt, what up, Matt? Yo, what up, man?

I just think it's crazy how I've been listening to y'all for years, could never get through until the slander time. I'm going to be honest with you. I'm going to be honest with you. Because you're Dominican. That's right. I'm not Dominican. You're Dominican.

And don't be calling up here sounding like somebody's corn girlfriend. You are Dominican. You didn't hear Charlamagne? You are Dominican. You are Dominican. I'm not Dominican. Come on, dude. Why won't you claim your heritage?

But Charlamagne's my Dominican in my last year. Oh, now that you're Dominican? I'm not Dominican, though. Yo won't you claim your heritage? But shout out to my Dominicans in my last year. Oh, now they're your Dominicans? Y'all not Dominican, though. Yo, Charlamagne, Angela, I really love all of y'all, man. Guys, this is slander to Breakfast Club. But I'm not Dominican. All right, all right, I'm a slander, I'm a slander.

You too much, FB. Too light-skinned. Too Dominican, too everything. Now I'm too light-skinned, I'm too, you know what? Goodbye, man. You are Dominican. Why won't you claim it? We need brown representation on this show.

We need brown and gay representation. You check both boxes. Shut up, man. You check one of those boxes, and you far from Dominican. Kane. Hey, what's going on? Envy, man. How you doing, brother?

What's up, bro? Who you want to slander? Man, I got to have Charlemagne Tha God, but Angelia, how you doing this morning, bitch? I'm doing great. How are you, honey? Ah, man, I can't complain. I can't complain. But Charlemagne Tha God, but Angelina, how you doing this morning, bitch? I'm doing great. How are you, honey? Ah, man, I can't complain. I can't complain. But Charlemagne Tha God, how you doing, brother? I'm blessed black and highly favored.

How you doing, King? That's what I'm talking about, man. Listen, man, I'm a Florida boy. I love being from Florida, and I just got to have you for a second, man. It just seems like you always have something to say about us down here in Florida in regards to the crazy things that's associated with what happened at the high up. He was just in Florida. He was just in Florida. That's good.

Probably for Rural Aloud and everything. No. Definitely not. What's the Rural Aloud? I was in Orlando for my daughter's Chilean competition, and I was at Disney and Animal Kingdom the past five days. Would you like to know some of the things I saw while I was down there? I saw a grandmother get arrested at Disney for having CBD oil.

CBD oil is good for your joints and your muscles. They took this old lady to jail, put her in handcuffs for having CBD oil. I also saw somebody try to get into Disney with a 9mm pistol with two cartridges, and he goes, oh, I forgot. So don't tell me about Florida being crazy. Now I'm going to tell you the other crazy thing I saw in Florida. He was visiting from South Carolina, too, though. That's no.

No. And salute to the young lady who walked up to me and said, is you Charlemagne the God? And I said no. And then she yelled at her friend, I told you that wasn't him, and walked off. Well, you said no. Well, she believes you. Thank you, brother. Don't tell me about Florida being crazy.

I love Florida, but it's crazy down there. Slam to the Breakfast Club. 800-585-1051. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Hey, everybody. It's DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are the Breakfast Club.

Now, when we come back, Raphael Sadiq will be joining us. He's done soundtracks for many of people's lives, from Anniversary to Ask a View. It's a flashback Friday, so we're going to get that on next. So don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Breakfast Club. We got a whole legend in the building. A whole legend. A whole legend. Raphael Sadiq.

What's up? What's up, my brother? What's good, bro? How are you, sir? Man, I'm excellent. New album out? After eight years. No, it comes out August 23rd. The single came out a couple weeks ago. What made you want to put out an album after eight years? No, it comes out August 23rd. The single came out a couple weeks ago. What made you want to put out an album after eight years? I got a studio.

You was doing other stuff in that studio. You was writing, producing. Yeah, you know, I love music, bro. After a while, you work for other people, and then people keep asking, are you doing another record? And I keep saying, yeah, it's almost done. And it's never almost done.

And then one day, I just got tired of saying, it's almost done. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I said, you want to never almost done and then one day I just got tired of saying, it's almost done. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I said, you know what, put out a record. Who did you work with on this album or did you do everything yourself? I did a lot of it myself, but I worked with Brooke DeLue. She's from J. Davey. Back in the day,

Daniel Watts did like a little spoken word piece. He was in Hamilton and just Nat King Cole piece. He's a dope artist. Mostly it was me, man. It's just me playing everything and singing and just... What inspires you now?

Does music inspire you now? Man, I love traveling. You know what I'm saying? Oh, that's rich man talk there. That's when you just got money just to go around the world and see it. Nah, not really.

My tour take me there. Okay. So if you do a record, you get to go out and, you know, play for these different countries, taste the grapefruit. You get paid to work. You get paid to work. You could just go to a city like, you know, I'm going to play today and then I'm going to take.

My dream is to go somewhere. I want to play at a certain place. I go play one day and I vacation for three days. Right. That makes sense. So Jimmy Lee is the name of the album. Jimmy Lee is the name of the record. It's about my brother.

My brother was like one of my best friends, actually. I was sort of like the mistake child, my mother said, my dad said. The mistake child? Jesus Christ. Yeah, my dad and mom was real hard. They was like, my dad always told me, boy, you know. Very blunt. My dad always told me, boy, we smile and say, you know he's a mistake, right?

You was a mistake. That's a great mistake, though. That's a good mistake. I gave your mama $300 to go get rid of you, and then she went the safe way and spent the money. That's a true story. Did he really say that? Yeah. That's true?

It's true. Damn it, man. You know how different the world would be without you? Damn it, man. Oh. I'm being honest. Like, at least, even just for those of us who listen to music. Wow.

That's a hurtful thing to say, though. No, no, my dad is, like, the funniest dude in the world. That's crazy. Are you still cool with him? He passed away two years ago, almost two years ago. That never made you feel a way, though? No, he could smile. You've seen my dad smile. I funniest dude in the world. Are you still cool with him? He passed away two years ago. And never made you feel a way, though? No, he can smile. You've seen my dad smile.

I don't give a shit. Why would he tell you that? There's no reason to tell your dad that. He already had eight kids. You know, I was like, even Dwayne, my brother, and the Tonys, he's from another mother. We don't have the same mother. But he didn't write Anniversary. Nah, he wrote whatever you want.

Oh, okay, okay. He's a beast. Dwayne's a beast. Dwayne's a beast. He was my teacher, you know? He was like my Michael Jordan growing up. So, like, I'm in it because of him. He sort of taught me how to play instruments.

Now, somebody, I was told that this new album is inspired by your brother's journey of struggling with addiction. My brother was a heroin addict. He sort of, like, since I knew my mother was from Louisiana, they came to Chicago. Half of my family was in Chicago and the rest there in the Bay.

My brother was on heroin as soon as he came from Louisiana and made it to Oakland. He was struggling. He actually OD'd in a garage. My other brother between me and Dwayne, I think he might have been like 19. I was struggling. He actually OD'd in a garage. My other brother, between me and Dwayne, I think he might have been like 19. I was 17. He murdered himself. He shot himself in the head in my dad's house because he couldn't quit. And we had a pretty prideful type of family. I call them the Black Kennedys because they just thought they was better

than everybody else sometimes. It wasn't really like that. But I just think he felt bad and he just took himself out. Four of your brothers passed, right? Three and one sister. Wow. And, you know, so a lot of drug abuse. I've seen a lot, you know, and it just dawned on me, this dude would, like, you know, drop me off in, like, pit bulls

and, you know, put it in my backyard. I wake up, I got a pit bull, and then, you know, I'm like, oh, man, cool, I got a dog. But he he's like everybody you know when you when you become a smoker in a hood you have a different name you could be a respectful man but then they start you know you'd be like what's up smokies yeah junkie j yeah you know like you know so I didn't I never looked down on my brother like that so he was always in my life he was uh in and out of prison um and you never you never did with the dabbler drugs at all no i didn't ever smoke a joint till i was 32. really

yeah no i like that lunch money man i was had to have my french fries was it because you saw the effects of it on other people yeah and when you see your sister coming to house and she's going to get a loaf of bread at 12 12 o'clock at night and we got like four loaves of bread on top of the refrigerator. You know, I've seen so many examples that I just didn't want to be a part of it. So why did your brother specifically inspire this album? This record, because I was making records. I made this song called So Ready. And it's about a guy that's, the whole neighborhood loves him,

but he goes off, he binges, and he comes back, you know, four days later, and everybody loves him. His wife stands behind him no matter what. And I saw this character, and it reminded me of my brother, who people look down on him, but I just always revered him as this, you know, my brother. He in prison. You know, when your brother in prison, when you're a kid, you think he's a celebrity until you go there, and he can't come home with you. You know, you're like, oh, you're not a celebrity. You're in jail but I always looked up to him because he was sending these uh these woods sculptures he would do in

prison so and when I just thought about I would love to have all of my brothers and sisters sitting like it's some bar have happy hour drinking a beer and just talking mm-hmm and I was thinking I don't really had that he can't really uh he can't really watch this his son, and my uncle took care of his son. He played football and basketball in Virginia. And then he came to the Bay, and then we took care of him. So I took care of his son, helped him out, you know, put his son in a good school so he could play basketball.

Of course, he didn't want to go to that school. It was like Jesuit. He was like, I don't want to go there. There ain't no girls. And I'm like, bro, the girls are across the street to other schools. But anyway, that's JJ. His son is like one of my, I call him my best friend because, you know, I had to like watch him from a kid.

He lost his mom and his father to the same thing. So just. Did you ever think that you could do anything to help him or try to? Because I know it's hard on you too when you're trying to help somebody and it's like you're. My brother didn't want help. He just wanted money. My brother told me one day.

He was funny. He came over. He would always, you know. Whenever somebody in your family is on drugs, there's always a guy to come in the car. And my brother was always the passenger. Either he needed to get the car operator fixed. He hadn't had a license ever in his life. Or he saved some lady.

She gave him a car. And then the biggest one was like one day I said, come back in about 30 minutes and I'll give you the money. And he said, he started crying. That was weird, never seen that before. And I'm like, well, what's wrong? He's like, the doctor said, you know, he gave me a week or two to live. But yeah, he had AIDS, right, from needles.

Your brother? My brother, Jimmy. And he said, the doctor gave me a two to live. He had AIDS, right, from needles. Your brother? My brother, Jimmy. And he said, the doctor gave me a week to live. And I just looked at him like, wow, you would take it that far? He lived about 14, 15 years after that. My brother just wanted money. He was funny. We all know him like that, dude.

He was crying. I already knew it was like, really? I just said I'm going to the bank in five minutes and I'll be right back. He was a funny dude. But, you know, giving him money, that was kind of like helping him in a way, right? So that had to be a struggle, right? The rehab was, if he met you, if he was living and he saw me talking to you right now, if he ran into you somewhere, you was in Oakland,

he'd be like, Charlemagne, God, you know my brother, right? Hey, let me hold $20. He'll get back to you. That's Jimmy Lee. Everybody loved him. So the song I wrote, So Ready, I wrote it of this couple in Brooklyn was dancing to a song I have called, on InstaVintage, called Sky Can You Feel Me. So they were dancing to this song and I was like I'm gonna write a song about these people dancing and it's called so ready and it's about the lady just hanging with her man almost like I don't know Samuel Jackson's story

you know verbatim but I heard he had some issues when he was younger and his wife's still by him yeah my record is more forgiving the person that accidentally stepped into a chemical that they didn't know that was going to take over the rest of their life we got more with rafael sadiq when we come back don't move it's the breakfast club good morning everybody is dj mv angela yee charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club we're still kicking it with rafael sadiq not a group tony tony tony yeah yeah none of y'all are named Tony. None of us. So how did y'all get the name of the group? Dwayne. Dwayne used to put this perm in his hair called a curly kid.

It's a relaxer. And he already had really, like, fine hair. Dwayne was a pretty boy in the band. Always had, like, you know, always had a lot of women around him. He a party guy. So he used to slick his hair down, part it, have it coming his way. When everybody had, like, these jerry curls, he didn't. He was just, like, like a Billy Dee type.

Pretty Tony. Pretty Tony. So Dwayne said if he would go to school on the first day, his name is Dwayne, but his teacher would call him Tony. And his hair was so done that they would say it three times. He was Italian, like Tony, Tony, Tony. That's how he came up with the name. That's how he came up with the name?

100%. So it was a joke. We were laughing about it, and then we played at a wedding reception. Because in the beginning, we weren't like an R&B band. We were trying to be the police, the black police. But the black industry, they held that. We didn't want that. And so we just played at this wedding reception.

And we didn't have a name. It was our manager and his brother turned around like, what's the name of the group? And we didn't have a name of the group. And we just laughed and said, Tony, Tony, Tony. And then when he said, ladies and gentlemen, Tony, Tony, Tony, we looked at each other like, damn. That's it.

Whatever that is sounded right. And that was probably in Englewood. Did y'all know that y'all was making such timeless music? Well, Charlamagne, we just knew classic people. We grew up listening to Earth, Wind & Fire. The Isley Brothers, we loved them. You guys love Eric B and Rakim. That's how I saw Philly Bailey and the Delphonics and the Stylistics.

So that was the bar. That was the bar. The bar was really high. We really shouldn't even be in the business, unquote, to who we really love. We never made That's the Way of the World. That's my goal, to who we really love. I mean, we never made That's the Way of the World. That's my goal to make a song like that. See, that's tough to say,

though, because for our generation, yeah, anniversary is that. Whatever you want is that. Feels good is that. Just me and you. Just me and you is that. Just me and you.

Like, I mean, you saying that, but that's in the same vein to me. No, no, it's definitely in the same vein, but I'm glad my bar is out.

I'm glad I think I haven't done it. Mm-hmm. You know what I mean? Someone said, just me and you, you were on tour with New Edition. Yeah. And that song, you actually were talking about New Edition. No, I'm just...

Originally. No, I'm actually... I wasn't... I'm a huge New Edition fan, but... What do you mean, New Edition? What do you mean, talk about New Edition? Don't worry about... She's talking about just me and you,

and I say, don't worry about... You know, don't worry about Ricky. Oh, yeah. They said When I say Don't worry about You know Don't worry about Ricky Oh yeah They said that actually They said they thought That was a diss When it was him

No it wasn't a diss Yeah it was No they thought it was No it was It was just Maybe I'm making that up I don't remember that But you can easily think that

But what happened was I'm just Sometime a lazy lyric Lyric writer And I just I knew all their names It was in front of you I just said Robbie Yeah I said their. It was in front of you.

I just said. Robbie, Robbie. Yeah, I said their name, and whoever caught on to it, you know, no additional, I'm a huge fan of it. Who was the person that you got that from, and you was like, man, I might be on to something? In the beginning, it was, well, once we started making records, it was definitely Earth, Wind, and Fire. Definitely Prince. You know, I played with Prince when I was like 19 years old.

So that's my first ever, you know, gig on the road. That's a great first gig on the road. Yeah, right out of high school. It's amazing that these beautiful songs. Elton John. Elton John. Oh, word, word. You know what I mean?

Mick Jagger. You know, just people you play with that play with people that you love. Like, I love Mick Jagger, but I also love Holland Wolfe. And that's how they got started because of, you know, Muddy Waters, you know. So you said this album was therapeutic, right, for you? Yes.

So what was that other music you was making back in the day? Because you've been had to pain. You've been seeing your struggles. So was the music always an outlet for you? Yeah, I think I was, I guess I was running from all of, like, you know, my sister, all the death. When my sister was a, my sister was the smartest girl in our family, you know. Graduated on a ton of property just doing it. And she could sing.

She sang blues. So one day she's talking to my mom. My mom get off the phone and she gets in the car. She's about to roll out the driveway. Cops chase the kid. Boom. Gives her permanent brain damage. We have to pull her off the machine.

And I'm in the studio singing to Never Ends in Southern California. Wow. Right? So I came back and watched my mom and my dad. They're just shaking. We in the hospital and she's in the chapel. So they pull in the plug. I go talk to my mom.

I can't. I can't even really talk. I leave and go back and finish recording the vocals to whatever it is in California. So I guess it was therapy. I just started looking at music. That's why when I hear all these beefs with people, like rap groups and everybody and everybody being all hard, I'm like, I was singing the most beautiful love songs and all this stuff would happen to me, but I wouldn't be out like, you know, my like bro that ain't nobody's like yo you could still

be you through all this you know tragic I mean my first funeral was my my sister boy friend killed my brother when I was seven the first funeral everyone to you know they call my name and how to get in his limousine I hated limousines forever when we made it I just never they said you want this limousine. I hated limousines forever. When we made it, I just never, they said, you want a limousine or a van? I'll be like, van! You know, because you're seven years old and you've only seen your brother for a certain amount of years, and my brother was

a straight-up gangster, you know, top hat, quarter-length, black, black burner, 67 Cougar, just a straight you know, thug, but just a singer, a showman. My brother sang country music. So he'd be in the hood, but then he'd go across the bridge

and go watch Charlie Pryde sing. That makes a lot of sense, though, because people don't realize the dope-ass stories that are in country music. So you probably got that storytelling ability from listening to that, maybe. I want my records to outlive me. Do you ever try to outdo yourself?

Like, outdo those classic records? Or do you just say, you know what, I'm just going to make records? Because the amount of hits that you have and the amount of records that you can still play right now in the club, that people still dance to and still love, do you ever try to outdo that? Yeah, sometimes. The way I do it, I call myself a point guard, right, because I know when to dish the ball. So, like, if I really want to pass it up, maybe I could, you know, pass the ball to D'Angelo

and then do Lady and Untitled for him. And then he could take it a little bit further. You know what I mean? So that's what I like to do. I like to work with other artists. Oh, Solange, you did Cranes in the Sky, right? That's a phenomenal song. Erykah Badu.

Yeah, and that's a different route, you know. I love that. You can let Solange go around this way, and that song's that, you know, cranes in the sky is just sitting in my... Love of my life. The music was just sitting around for eight years. I did that like eight years ago. Okay, you're showing off now.

How did you hear that, though? Because it was sitting there eight years, so it was one of those things like, I got something eight years ago that I didn't. Yeah, she came by, and I pulled the song out for her to write to it for me. I had already sang a different melody. It was similar to that one. And I gave it to her, and she said, I'm going to write to it.

I hadn't heard from her in like two, three years, whatever. She called back and said, can I get it without the vocal on it? I didn't really. I couldn't even find it, the files. I couldn't find the files. And a friend of mine had a copy of it, but it was just an instrumental. So what she has is just off of a CD. It was on a CD?

A CD. That's a CD, so there was no way to separate it. She just sang over the top of it. So when you make something from the heart, like I said, I've been making music for myself. I never made music to be like, I want to get this radio station, this, that. I just followed those blockers, those Maurice White's Babyface and Jimmy Tint Jam and all these people. And I just let them block.

And when I see a hole, I run through it. You got to have that. All right. We got more with Raphael Sadiq when we come back. Let's get into a Raphael Sadiq mini mix. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee,

Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Raphael Sadiq. Were you hesitant to go solo? Because after leaving Tony, Tony, Tony, and then you started Lucy Pearl, and of course you did your solo stuff, but was it something that you wanted to do, or were you like,

I'd rather be in a group? I'm a band guy. I like bands. That's why when I left the Tonys, I immediately called, you know, Shahid, you know, Ali Shahid, and I grabbed on. It's just fun. To me, it's funner being in a band,

but after that, it didn't work. Why didn't that work? It's like three years. Lucy Pearl, you were part of something else too, though, right? No, just... Just Lucy Pearl and Tony, Tony, Tony? And the Tonys, yeah. Why didn't Lucy why didn't that work it's like three years like lucy pearl something else too though right no just uh just lucy brown tony tony tony in the tonys okay why didn't lucy pearl work well don was sort of uh yeah sort of what a diva well that's what they called themselves but i mean she she wasn't involved and she wanted to do a solo act she wanted to be a solo act she left them to do a solo act and then we sort of came along and said can we use you for a involved and she wanted to do a solo act. She wanted to be a solo act. She left them to do a solo act. And then we sort of came along and said, can we use you for a minute?

And then she sort of lent us her talent. But then she said, now it's time for me to go solo. But it was like six months into like, I want to dance tonight. That was quick. Have you forgiven her for that? Yes, I've grown up to be a great adult. And, you know, I forgive everybody these days. Why'd you call Suzy then?

Nah, you can't. i'm not into that like you know i wanted to be what it was all the time you know i heard that you guys can't do tony tony tony because someone else owns the name my brother owns the name dwayne that's no that's not why we didn't do it i just i didn't want to be looked at like a temptation like i can only do one thing you know what i mean so i was like and nobody looks at you like that oh no you don't now i just said i felt like it was more i had to do you know um as an artist so it was so much building in me and i was learning myself at the same time that i could make records that people actually actually listen to me sing because i didn't want to be a singer i was a bass player i didn't want to i

never want to be a front guy and sing but once i started writing and producing um i just felt like i needed to go out and grow a little bit work with some different people and we just grew differently me my brother I love my brother to death we had we had issues a little bit but we we got a little bit of money and you get a little bit of money people just have different friends you have your set of five friends I have my set of two and and other people you people get married Tim got married and then you know people have different ideas and my whole thing was at the time I wasn't smart enough to like be able to corral them together and say like look man let's stay together and let's make this records I know

y'all think that I'm I'm the singer I can go solo any day and I didn't know how to do that, so I just, that's what they believed. So I just went home, and after we did this VH1 show, I just came home and sat my suitcase down on the piano, and I just never called nobody back ever again. But see, I think they probably knew that was going to happen eventually, and they probably was dreading that day. So it's like you did it and just confirmed all of their suspicions and anxiety to begin with. Yeah, no, but I had a lot of reasons.

You know, like I said, we all grew different. The money got funny. The executives got weird. And, you know, people were telling me, I'm going to kill you and put a horse head in your bed. What? It got really weird. Who said that to you?

Ed Eckstein. Ed Eckstein? Yeah, he was the president of Polygram at the time. Oh, my God. He's going to kill you and put a horse head in your bed? Yeah, but we're friends now. We're friends. You're friends now?

Yeah, we're friends. I think he just watched a couple Mafia movies and he didn't know how horse head in your bed? Yeah, but we're friends now. We're friends. You're friends now? Yeah, we're friends. I think he just watched a couple Mafia movies, and he didn't know I was from the East Bay, and I was like, boy, is you serious? You better tell me you're serious or not. I called him laughing on his machine. If you're serious now, let me know. But why, though?

Why did he want to do that to you? I think because he felt like... He's breaking the group up? He thought I was going to break... I never wanted to leave. Never. Never never never ever that put that on my eyes i never wanted to leave um but they started you know they actually called stokely from inconditioned and asked him to be the new lead singer to tony what who did that ed ed did he also took the guitar player that we had who was a friend of mine while put in the group just to play he called him and they told the other guys won't you just take him and and they called

stokely stokely called me and said bro what's going on bro i was like bro whatever going on what whatever's going on with your situation and meant trust me it can't be it can't be nowhere near as bad as this now was that so that just never happened what would make him think that he could just remove you and plug somebody else in and the public was going to be accepting of that man i have the slightest idea anniversary and just me and you what was the mind frame what were you thinking when you wrote those records who was the lady that had you so open? I wasn't writing about a person. That's impossible.

You don't write a song like Anniversary without having somebody have a music. I don't believe you. I refuse to believe you. No, not at that time. There had to be somebody in Anniversary, somebody you wanted. That just sounded good.

Y'all always wanted something. But like I said, I have a vivid imagination, so I can look at anybody's situation. It's almost like a freestyle, like an an MC you can just know everybody's situation mm-hmm just me and you John Singleton came to me and said for what a justice no boys in the hood he came to me and said there's a kneel long and this kid are gonna be in the locker room make it out I need a song for it I never saw the clip he just told me what it was and And then I wrote Just Me and You.

So that was my first solo. You just disrespect Cuba Gooden? I guess he deserves it right now. Cuba, yeah. My bad. My bad, Cuba. No, no, no. He's not being along with his kid. I'm speaking how John, that's what John said. John called him just a kid. Damn. He was just a kid at the time.

At the time. We got it, we got it. No, now he's... He deserves it right now. Yeah, so I wrote this song at my mom's house in this room and I forgot the hook to the song. So I changed

it all and this girl came over. I let her hear the song. She heard it back then. She said, what happened? You changed it. I said, I forgot it. And she sang me the hook. That's how I remembered it and when I put the record out Ed Eckstein told John Singleton that it couldn't say Raphael Wiggins my name was Wiggins at the time and I said why not he just said it has to say Tony Tony Tony so that was my first solo record then he didn't ask of you it said the same thing and I told NASA I changed my name to Sadiq at that time.

Wow. I told John that you couldn't put it in a movie if it doesn't say Raphael Sadiq. And he called Ed. He called Business Affairs and said, hey, this record is going to say Raphael Sadiq. Did y'all make money? Or did y'all have a new edition TLC situation? No, no, no. Well, our first situation, no, we didn't make money. No, we were driving

all our homies cars, you know. No, we didn't have money. Not, we were driving all our homies cars, you know. No, we didn't have money. Not in the beginning, not the first album. The second album. First album had what? Feels Good? No, no, no, no, no. The first album had Lil' Walter on it.

That was it. Hey, Lil' Walter. There you go. Hey, Lil' Walter. That's what we called it. Yeah, there you go. That was the first single. Wow.

My record's always been talking about somebody getting murdered. You know what I mean? Yeah. You ever feel bad for the other Tonys, though? Well, they tour. They've been touring for... The band's been going strong since... I left in 97.

Right, they still go on the road. They've been touring for... The lead singer that was in the group was in there longer than I was. But anyway, no. Don't nobody remember his voice? No disrespect to him. But people don't... That signature voice with Tony, Tony, Tony belongs to you. Oh, yeah. He was a nobody, for sure. But anyway, no. Don't nobody remember his voice? No disrespect to him, but people don't, that signature voice

with Tony, Tony, Tony belongs to you. Oh yeah, he was a nobody for sure. Oh my God. But I'm saying, I'm saying when it, he was a nobody.

I mean, yeah, fancy yancy, on love. But yeah, I'm saying when it comes to me, this radio personality told me on radio that he went to see the Tonys

and he was, to his surprise, he didn't miss me. Really? That's disrespectful. He said it a few times. That person's not on radio that he went to see the Tonys and he was, to his surprise, he didn't miss me. Really? That's disrespectful. He said it a few times. That person's not on the radio anymore, is he? Yeah, he's still on the radio.

Who was it? I don't want to say his name. This definitely wasn't an opening. Tom Joyner. Okay. What? He was retiring this year. Yeah, he said it like a lot. Why would he say that?

He's a huge... He had a problem with you? No, no, I don't think so. I think he's a huge Tonys fan. He just loves the music. He be on that Yak too now. Yeah, okay. He said it about like three times on the radio.

I'm on the phone like, damn, is he like... I thought he was kind of going on me too, so I just said, well, Tom, the reason why you didn't miss me, because I wrote all of it. You're never going to miss me. I'm always there. That's a good stat. What's the importance of the other two? Because I think people will see them and think that there's no importance.

What's the importance of them? Okay, I'll tell you about each one. Okay. Tim a little lazy, but he's the most talented one in the group. He wrote It Never Ends in Southern California. He put the music on a cassette tape, took off with some girl,

dropped it off to the room, and I played it, and it was... Boom. Da-da-da-da-da-da. Boom. Da-da-da-da-da-da. Boom-da-da-da-da-da. Da-da-da-da-da-da. The whole thing... Shut up, shut up. You're recording it. You're recording it. and it was The whole thing

Yes Yeah, and I'm sitting there listening to it like it just kept going for a long time didn't change it So it was a way too long before once the other part and then that's when I found out I could produce I Shorten it and made it happen faster. But really, that's what I did. He brought the whole entire song. So that's Tim. And then I wrote the verses. And then Dwayne wrote,

Now we may be cold on the East Coast. And he didn't get no credit for it either, Dwayne. He got me back on um whatever you want so he wrote him and tim and carl wrote it but i wrote girl you know i can provide whatever you need call 62 21 35 so we had a meeting and him and tim came in a meeting and told me yeah you didn't write on uh whatever you I'm like, but that's my phone number. Y'all motherf***er calling me all the time tonight. I'm like, I wrote it. But I sent my phone number.

That's my phone number. That's the first phone that I had. And that's me singing it. I produced it. They never, ever gave me nothing to sing in life. No Tony's album. That's for you. Nobody never told me what to sing. I sang what I had. And that's me singing it. I produced it. They never, ever gave me nothing to sing in life. No Tony's album. Nobody never told me what to sing.

I sang what I was told. They watching this right now saying, he lying. Oh, they know, know, know, know. They know. But that's me singing about him. Just as sure as my name is Dwayne. Oh, Dwayne.

Dwayne. What you thought he was saying? Tony! No. This whole time, I thought he was saying just as sure as, name is Tony. That's Dwayne's favorite part.

I love to watch how Dwayne lights up. When you say that, if you ever want to make Dwayne light up, all you gotta do is say, just to show his mind, name is Dwayne. He'll be like this already. Did y'all know he was saying Dwayne? I did not. I thought he was saying Tony! No, that's Dwayne.

That's DWP. Dwayne Patrice Wiggins. Wow. So in order to get that energy, y'all do have to be together. I did not. I thought he was saying Tony. No, that's Dwayne. That's DWP. Dwayne Patrice Wiggins. So in order to get that energy, y'all do have to be together. In order for us to get that, I mean, you can't go back in time, but to get that Tony, Tony, Tony energy, y'all have to be together, kind of.

Nah, I saw my new album. That energy's there. I'm excited for Jimmy Lee now. I feel like a Tony, Tony, Tony biopic would be fire. Yeah, it could. I feel like it's a lot we don't know. Or a Raphael Sadiq one, really. That whole journey.

Oh, no. The story's still going. I definitely want to do something. It's a lot of stories that need to be told. You know what I mean? Mm-hmm. But I want everybody to really, even though I say this record,

Jimmy Lee, is about my brother, it's not a downer. It's sort of like an uplifting record. Now, you know, you might be dancing and your two-step and be like, damn, you know, and might be dancing and you're two-stepping and be like, damn, you know, and you hear something a little like, wow, but I'm really excited about the record.

All right, well, Raphael, Sadiq, we appreciate you for joining us. Def. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired, depressed, a little bit revolutionary?

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this don't be a donkey because right now you want some real donkey it's time for donkey of the day so if you ever feel I need to be a donkey, man, hit me with the heel. Did she get donkey in the name, please, Debbie? Absolutely. I have become donkey of the day. At the breakfast club, bitches. You're a donkey.

Yes, Donkey of the Day goes to a group of middle school students in Ohio, okay? The school is called Hyatt Middle School. It's located in Powell. I think I pronounced that right, Powell. Of course, no names have been released in regards to this situation because these middle school kids are just that, kids. And let the record show, I was a badass little kid around 7th or 8th grade is when I really started being disruptive.

Most of my disruptions came in the form of pranks. I was all about the joke. I wanted to laugh. I would get that laugh regardless of who I had to embarrass to get it. Now, my teachers used to be on the receiving end of a lot of this disruptive energy I was giving out. Oh, we used to terrorize teachers. I want to tell you some

stories, but y'all so sensitive nowadays, y'all might try to get me punished for things I did in seventh and eighth grade, okay? That's why I write books though, and you can go get my New York Times bestseller, Black Privilege, to read all about my old wild out days. Now, I will say, I'll tell you one, and you know, I have seen bodily secretions used as props in a prank, okay?

I have a cousin who once told a teacher, you have something on your nose. The teacher said, what? And he said, it's right there. And she said, where? And he, with defecation on his finger, proceeded to say, right there, and smear a little poop pate under her nose

where her mustache would be. That looked disgusting, bro. Listen, in seventh grade, I thought that was hilarious. At 40, I do think it's disgusting. And I often ask myself, what the hell was wrong with us? And I'm bringing that up because when I saw this story this morning in the New York Post, I had to think in seventh or eighth grade, would I have done something like this?

The answer for me would be no. Would my friends or family have done something like this? Well, I just told you what he did with a little diaper gravy to a teacher. So it's possible. But I want you all to think back to seventh or eighth grade, put yourself in this mindset, and ask yourself, would you have done what these kids at Hyatt Middle School in Ohio allegedly did? Let's go to WBNSCBS 10 for the report, please. A disturbing allegation against middle school students.

Tonight, an investigation is underway into whether they put bodily fluids on food fed to their teachers. The alleged assaults happened Thursday in a global gourmet class at Hyatt's Middle School. Olentangy School says it was during a student cooking competition that students allegedly contaminated food they were serving to teachers who were judging the contest. More specifically, students are alleged to have put urine and or semen onto crepes fed to teachers. According to information received by the Delaware County Sheriff's Office, a video of some portion of the acts was circulating Thursday. School administrators learned of the alleged act and contacted police. Tonight, the Sheriff's office is actively investigating but has not yet filed charges. The charge that could apply is felony

assault because it was committed at school and against a teacher. That's right. You heard correctly. These kids put a little two-ball throat cream into some crepes. All right. First of all, I wouldn't have done this in middle school because I didn't ejaculate until at least 10th grade. All right. I didn't have sex and masturbate until high school. So I wouldn't have known how to produce that man shot or on command if I tried. All right. Number one, kids, if you did this, why would you record it? All right. Nobody, nobody would have known it was any nut butter in the crepes if you didn't record it. Now, the authorities are working with school officials and conducting lab tests to see if it was indeed the cream of some young guy in the crepes.

All right. OK, I have nothing else to say about this donkey of the day. OK, because donkey of the day is all about giving people the credit they deserve for being stupid. And I think we can all agree putting a little penis pudding in the teacher's crepes is indeed stupid. All right. Please give these kids at Hyatt's Middle School the biggest hee-haw. Also, keep in mind the lawyer for one of the students said to use caution before reaching any conclusions.

That's disgusting. And I agree with that. Alright? This could be a misunderstanding or there might be a lotion called caution. And reaching a conclusion is slang for letting off that pecker snot. All right? You kids. You guys are disgusting, bro.

Listen, them kids in Ohio better be lucky they're not in Alabama. All right? Fooling around to go to jail for dumping all those babies down the drain. All right? Okay? So you would put your finger in your poop to put it on your teacher? Never mind. All right.

Well, you should spit on a toilet paper and wipe your butt. Yes, you should spit on a toilet paper and wipe your butt. Yes, you should do. And according to Dr. Oz, those crepes are perfectly fine because the bacteria from cooking the crepes, the heat kills all the bacteria in the semen. Oh, my gosh. All right. According to Dr. Oz. All right, Charlamagne, thank you for that donkey of the day. When we come back, Mike Epps will be joining us.

Mike Epps has a new special that's coming out. Also, he just got married. So we'll kick it with Mike Epps. When we come back, don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Yeah, it's the world's most dangerous morning show, The Breakfast Club.

Charlamagne Tha God, Angela Yee. I don't know where you're at. Detroit? He's in Detroit. Okay. We got my man in here, Mike Epps. Mike Epps, what's happening, brother? Man, you got it.

What's up, Charlamagne? What's up, Angela? Why you not on your honeymoon? Yeah, first before, let's say congratulations before you even do that. Congratulations to you, Mike Epps. That's a big deal. You got married and you had to stand up, come out, all like in the same way. Yeah, yeah, that was

a double-double. Yeah, I'm happy, man. I'm proud. I met me a beautiful young lady, man, and you know, we happy, man. We doing our thing. You know, we work together. I tell everybody they got to find them a good partner to make this life work. There you go. Kevin Lawson said that a long time ago.

He said, I'm not going to tell you to get married, but I'm going to tell you to find somebody to share your life experiences with. That's right. Somebody you can do it with. Why you not on your honeymoon? I'm going. I'm going. I had to work a little bit.

I got some, you know, my special came out. Yeah. Right after. Right after. The wedding. So I got to put the money back. You still got to promote? That was the time until you had the BET Awards and you had your special come out and you

got married. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, you know, I got a couple things going on. So, you know, I'm always trying to promote and keep myself out there as much as I can. I got plenty of time to honeymoon. We've been honeymooning the whole time. Yeah. We've been on a million trips, man.

So tell us about the wedding because I saw some pictures from there. And so we saw Snoop Dogg was there. Yeah. We saw Cedric the Entertainer was there. No, not Cedric. Uh-uh. Not Cedric. T.I.

Uh-huh. And a couple other people. You don't know who was there? I mean, you know, I know them two. Tommy Davidson was there and a couple of my comedian friends. Which one of your cousins

look like Cedric the Entertainer? I thought I saw that. I saw it written somewhere because you guys haven't released official pictures. That was this one guy named Silky. Oh, Silky. Oh, he do a little aesthetic for real?

Yeah, a little bit. Okay, I saw people saying he was there. Yeah. So let's talk about the wedding. So did you have a big wedding? We haven't seen like official, official. I had a nice wedding. We had a wedding.

We got married in Newport Beach in L.A. at this hotel. It was actually a hotel that Chance the Rapper got married at. And it was beautiful. It overlooked the water. I had my mama there and a hundred cousins from Indiana. She's from Chicago. She had the whole west side of Chicago there. So it was just fun, man.

It was a real event. I like doing stuff like that because people usually wait until you die and all want to pile up. Weddings are kind of like fun ceremonies that you get to have while you're living. How involved were you in the planning? Because I know a lot of times I've heard from my friends that are married, the guys usually just be like, you handle everything. I'm going to show up.

How involved were you? Not involved at all. Just cut the check. Man, that's it. I was sitting there watching her going, stressing out and I'm like, oh man, that's what I do to you. Man, that's it. I was sitting there watching her going, stressing out, and I'm like, oh, man, that's what I do to you? Man, the house was full of glitter. You know, I got four or five girls, man, and they just, hey, man, them women, when they get together, it's a real production.

You got five girls, man? Yeah. Boy, you was a hoe. I got three. You know? Yeah. Man, you was a hoe. You a junior hoe. Yep, yep? Yeah. Boy, you was a hoe. I got three. You know? Yeah. Man, you was a hoe. You a junior hoe. You five.

You a baby hoe. So you ain't got no sons at all? Man, my mother, that's what was crazy. When we was at our wedding, I had all my bridesmen together, and they were all my brothers. Groomsmen. Yeah, groomsmen. I got eight brothers. Yeah.

Yeah, I got eight brothers, so people was like, damn, where you get all my brothers. I got eight brothers. Yeah. I got eight brothers. So people was like, damn, where you get all them brothers? I was sitting there looking at my poor mama. She was so mad she had all them sons. So now I got all girls. It flipped for her. And girls take care of you for the rest of your life. You ain't going to never end up in no home.

Boy, I'm telling you. That's why I tell brothers. I be seeing all the brothers taking pictures with their matching clothes with their sons. I'm like, that little dude ain't gonna take care of you when you get grown. You're gonna get ice cream. Take you to get some butter pecan. What made you want to get married again so fast?

So fast? That wasn't fast. I thought you just got divorced. Five years ago. Oh, you gotta keep up with me a little bit more. I don't care about that kind of stuff. No, no, no. It looked fast though. It did look fast. Yeah, it looked fast, but you know,

I like to be married. I don't like being single. I like to come home to some structure, you know what I mean? Some food, a little something. Somebody to share my, you know, my day with. I can't date a whole bunch of women. All my single friends stressed out.

I look at them and I'll be like, man, you ain't got nothing to go home to. Boy, I'm telling you. You're in and out of different girls' houses, staying on time. That life is stressful, man. Antibiotics and all that. That's enough, man.

You lucky you got a good hairline, too. I saw that. I was watching your special. You do look a little mature, Mike. I ain't gonna front you. Only one, Mike. You look a little mature, man. You got a lot hairline, too. I saw that. I was watching your special. You do look a little mature, Mike. I ain't gonna lie. Only one Mike. You look a little mature, man. You got a lot of jokes about feeling older, but you still have a good hairline. You don't look old at all, my brother.

Nah, man. I'm 50 years old. God damn, for real? Yeah. Congratulations, man. My man. Is that Beijing? Uh, yeah, it's a little something.

You can't have Beijing jokes now and then have Beijing. No, I don't put Beijing on. I got a little marker that I'm really going to brand for men, for real. Because when I put the Beijing, it blows me up. It messes my skin up. Oh, no, I've seen that. What was that dude, that comedian from Detroit? I saw him at J. Wells.

Yes. His whole head got swollen. Like to burn his head off. I put it on my chin one time and my chin swelled up. And it got pussy. Oh, man. So you tried the Beijing once. Tried the Beijing.

So now I got like a little crayon that I just take and put on there. But I can go wipe it off. Yeah, I think I'm going to use that in a minute. Does that get on the white pillowcases? No, no, no. This dry up. That's what I'm telling you.

I'm about to sell this. The old players going to love this little marker I got. And you just draw it on yourself? Just put a little tap on it, but it don't wear off. All right, we got more with Mike Epps. When we come back, don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We're kicking it with Mike Epps. Charlamagne. So who had a stink that you... A stink? Yeah, and you...

That made you come up with that joke. I don't want to tell the joke. Oh, man, you know, back in the day when I just was living in a hood, sometimes I didn't wake up in the morning. I mean, I didn't brush my teeth in the morning. I'd wake up and get in the car and go straight over a girl's house and wake her up. She'd wake up and get in the car and go straight over to a girl's house

and wake her up. She'd be asleep and suck her t***. So it was based off your experience. And the breath would be stinking. Yeah. No, that's real. Because you're giving advice to the young guys. Like, look, man.

Yeah, brush your teeth, man. That goes for women, too, though. We don't like to wake up in the morning and roll over and then you want us to perform oral sex and we haven't brushed our teeth yet. I don't care. That's not fun. I ain't gonna kiss you. Then you're out there

having sex with somebody like you. It's good. But they say you really love somebody when you can have sex before you brush your teeth. Yeah, you do.

Mm-hmm. I mean, it depends on who you're in the bed with. Now, if you're in the bed with a girl that got an undone root canal. Lord have mercy. Lord.

Lord have mercy. Garbage truck juice. How do you tell a girl that got an undone root canal. Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy. Garbage truck juice. How do you tell a woman that, man? Set up the appointment and tell her I'm going to the dentist, but I ain't gonna make it that day, but I set you one up. You gotta say it like you involved in it, too. You gotta be like, when's the last time you been to the dentist?

Oh, no, I can't say that. You can't. Look, my uncle's a dentist, so I can do that. I don't think there's anything wrong with a woman doing that to a man, though. Yeah. You know what I'm saying?

A little fixer-upper. I would tell you. Yeah, man. I've seen a lot of people get fixed up, man. You ever been fixed up? No, I've used somebody to fix me up.

What you mean? Like, you know, back in the day when I was young, man, and I, you know, when I was 17, 18 years old, a lot of older women liked me. Like, my auntie's friends and stuff that had good jobs. We had secret relationships, you know what I mean?

They would buy me stuff like that, and people didn't know where I was getting it, but I knew, you know. Like, what kind of stuff? Sweaters. You know what I mean? Shit like that. I even got a car out of one of my auntie's friends. You had a car? Yeah, I was.

It depends. What kind of car was it? It was a Delta 88. You know, I'm from the Midwest, so that's like a Cadillac. You know, Park Avenue, 98. You thought you was selling dope? Yeah, they thought I was hustling. You out there selling your shit.

Slanging it. And not even brushing his damn teeth. Slanging it, man. That happens in the hood all the time, though. It's always an older woman messing with a younger man. Yeah. Most guys in the hood, first sexual experiences with an older woman. Straight up.

I was eight and the woman was 20-something. What? Now, that's illegal. I mean, it happens. You lying like hell. I ain't lying. Eight? Eight. I was eight years old, man. My cousin was twenty-something. What? Now that's illegal. I mean, it happens. You lying like hell. I ain't lying. Eight? Eight. I was eight years old, man, my cousin's ex-wife. Where is she at now? She's still around. The only reason

I made her stop is because she got a jerry curl and I ain't like to smell that. I'm dead serious. Stop laughing at my molestation, man. He's been in therapy, though, to find out how it's affecting him. Is that right? Yeah. That's what I'm doing. He ain't want to laugh at it.

You ain't got to go to therapy for that, man. You ain't hear everybody try to sound concerned. Is that right? Because that sounds crazy as hell, man. You still going through that, man? This is something I talk about now. That's why I be looking at the news sometime and they be showing some of them

teachers that touch them kids and the teachers be cute. And I be like, man, they wasn't doing that when I was a kid. No, not at all. Because I wouldn't have told nobody when these cute teachers touched me. That's what they tell you. They tell you, don't say nothing.

Don't say nothing. I won't do it no more. That's confusing to a young man. I mean, if you're a young teenager, 13, 14 years old, you know, it's going down. You know, it's different for girls, you know. But a little boy is fast anyway. That's what we think, though.

First of all, you're a sick individual as a woman, as a grown-up. You are. You can't even look at a 13 or 14-year-old and be like. Well, what about me? But I get what Mike's saying. You don't think like that when you're a little boy. I was 14 smoking cigarettes. Me too.

Hit a little powdery now. I was wild at 14. So, come on. S***. You smoking in the blunt or you just sniffed it? Put it on the tip of a cigarette and we called them woodies. I hit the woody and get on the bike and jump out the bike. I'd be funny.

I'd be like, what? This is crazy. Hell, look what I did. I'm right out of the corner of the garage. Me and my buddy Fess up. Rest in peace. Hold on. So they thought you was normal.

You out there high as a mother. I was high as hell. 14, 15. You know what I mean? But, hey, I love it. That was a good high though. I smoked the, I smoked, no, for real. I smoked coke in a blunt by accident.

I was like, man, I was waiting for somebody to do this to me again by accident. No, you ain't walked in. That was a good high though, Mike. You'd have been a different Charlemagne, man. He was only eight when it happened. Nah, I was like 16, 17. I smoked that blunt, that woolly. We used to call it woolly. Y'all call it woody? The woodies, man. He was only eight when it happened. Nah, I was like 16, 17. We used to call it Wooly. Y'all call it Woody? The Woodys, man. We called them

Primos. They called them all kind of crazy shit. Are you paying attention to what's going on with all these people that want to run for president in 2020? Do you care about any of that? Are you looking at anybody? Not really. I don't care nothing about that. All this shit. I stopped keeping up with politics

after Ronald Reagan was gone. What? That's a long time ago. So you missed the whole Obama... That whole Obama s*** you missed. You said you missed him on your special now. Yeah, yeah, Obama. I did miss Obama.

I love Obama, but I still think Obama was a... That was the one American treat that they wanted to give black people because they got tired of us screaming about it'll never be a black president. So they gave us one for a couple years while they figured out who they was going to use next. And you see who's in office now. So you think they rocked us to sleep for each year? They did.

They did. And now the older I'm getting, I'm realizing ain't none of them worth shit. Yeah. The Democrats is dirtier than the, they all of them is dirty. All of them dirty. You know what I mean?

So I'm like, I don't know who to vote for. Nobody can be voting off character when it comes to a politician. Right. All of them lying. And they street dudes too.

They be cutting each other's tires and shooting at each other and all kind of shit. They don't, man. Yeah, they do. The real politicians in the ghetto that be running for Senate and all that shit, yeah, they will set you up

and put a candy bar in your gas tank, all kind of weird shit. Candy bar in the gas tank? Or fuck somebody's car straight up. For real? Yeah. You done did that before, man? A hundred times.

No, man. Hell yeah. What, Snickers? Twix? Payday. Yeah. Payday. Them. Payday. The motherfucking peanuts and Carmel getting caught up in that motherfucking

gas line. It's a wrap man. The car won't crank? Hell no. It'll ride for a minute but boy it'll start smoke. What's the point of doing that? Let's f*** somebody's car up. You have a lot of cars, though.

How many cars do you have? I got about 20 cars. Dang. Nobody ever f***ed your car up? Oh, yeah. I done had all kind of bricks thrown through the window and scratched. What a life. You ain't got five girls, man.

You know you done got a car. Hell, yeah. That's how it is. When you done mess with a lot of girls, you got a lot of experiences. I done woke up with a girl sitting on the side of the bed taking medication. I'm like, well, I don't know. What kind of medication is that? Keep me calm.

I'm like, oh, Lord. This bitch is on Prozac. What advice you going to give to your daughters, man, when they get older? Would you want your daughter to date a man like you? Depending what age, right? Yeah, depending on what the Mike I ain't. Which phase of Mike? Yeah, this Mike here.

20-year-old Mike, 30-year-old Mike, 40-year-old Mike. Oh, hell no. With a young Mike, hell no. And that's why I tell them, if you bring somebody in the house like me, I'm going to kick his ass. You know the type. You can look at him. Yeah, you bringing me in the house.

But that's usually what daughters going to look for, their daddy. I think about that, though. Like, say she bring somebody like you home, bring somebody like me home, young us. Yeah. We evolved, though. You know what I'm saying?

Yeah. Do you let him stick around? You let him stick around with that guy? Right, right, right, right, right, right. No. No? Do I let him stick around? Yeah, would you let him? I mean, it's all about the character., right, right, right, right. No. No? Do I let him stick with him? Yeah, would you let him?

I mean, it's all about the character. You know, you can meet a person. I know he a knucklehead, but I like him. You know, he got some potential. Yeah. And then some of them, you like, oh, God. This little boy don't like you. And you can't tell him don't hang out with him,

because my wife's dad did that to me. I don't want you around that McKelvey boy 22 years later. That made him, yeah. What he saying now? Oh, he good. That's my man. Drink cognac together and everything. He can't do nothing about it now.

Wow. He won't come on the show and everything. No, he won't come on the show. Bring me on your show. All right, now don't move. We got more with Mike Epps when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We're kicking it with Mike Epps. Charlamagne. Now, salute to Snoop. Snoop skipped the BET Awards to come to your wedding.

I love that s*** for that s***. Did you think about that before y'all? He won an award, too. He did. Yeah, he best gospel album. Wow. He beat Kirk Franklin. Snoop won the best gospel song too. He did. Yeah, he best gospel album. Wow. Snoop won the best gospel song. Be Kirk Franklin, Mary Mary.

That's probably why his ass was at my face. He said, yeah, this is a perfect time to skip a part of this. I'm watching that. I'm like, what the hell is Snoop doing gospel album? They were like, they were like Snoop Dogg. Kirk Franklin, he beat. Did you think about that when you planned the wedding? No, you was like, man, it's BET Awards Sunday.

I know some of my friends got to go to the awards. No, we planned the wedding. We wasn't thinking about BET. I'm being honest with you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it just happened to fall on the same day, you know, which was cool, man. But I had my mother there, which was, man, my mother's 75, 76. She never come to see me.

You know, and that's the thing. That's another thing, too. When you meet a good woman, it bring all the people out your family that been looking at you crazy. They be like, oh, you are all right. I'm like, oh, I had to go get this beautiful woman for y'all to think I'm all right.

It's a good representation, though. It is. It is. Yup. T.I. left the award to come to your wedding, too. In a helicopter. Damn. That's a friend, man. That's a fly right there. Yeah, representation, though. It is. It is. Yup. T.I. left the award to come to your wedding, too. In a helicopter. Damn. That's a friend, man. That's a fly right there, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Ooh, man. They're my partners. I love them, man. I love them for that, you know, because I don't really have a lot of industry friends. The ones that I do have, they real guys, you know? And we just have real relationships like that. We ain't out here proving everybody we friends, either. Did you do a bachelor party? Because that's so fake, you know? And we just have real relationships like that. We don't have we ain't out here proving everybody we friends either. Yeah. Did you do a bachelor party?

Because that's so fake, you know what I mean? Did you do a bachelor party? Yeah, well, I had a bachelor party. Well, we just went to a strip club. We ain't set up nothing. A couple of older guys who never get to go to a strip club, my uncles and stuff, they was so... Yeah, nephew. And they fall in love with them girls.

I'm like, hey, man, that girl said that to everybody. My uncle told me, man, she told me how she felt. I said, man, that's her line. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Them girls are making, yeah, you be a fella in love with her. I done seen some dudes be in a strip club with a girl and get a girl, there's big money and stuff, and get up and go to the restroom and come back and the girl's sitting with somebody else and the dude's like, she just took all my money.

It's like, that's her job. She did a good job. She in love with your ass, man. No, she just keeping you occupied so you can spend, spend, spend. So what's your next passion project? Well, I got a movie coming out with Eddie Murphy. I got a chance to work with the king, you know what I mean, called Dolomite. When that's dropping?

August. And then you did The Last Black Man in San Francisco too, right? Last Black Man in San Francisco, which I think is going to win some awards. Really, really good movie about gentrification. And that's what the movie's about. It's about like, damn. Yeah. Which is something that we already knew. You know, if you were black,

especially growing up in the crack era, you know, and you see all these guys selling drugs in these neighborhoods and not realizing that them houses was $5 a piece that you were selling crack out of, costs half a million dollars now. Some of them houses, I better joke, I was like, some of them houses

are haunted and the white people don't know it. They moving these houses and some drug dealer got killed in one of them bedrooms and the kid can't sleep because it's a dude with a troop jacket on and a cane going floating as a ghost.

Write that down. That's a movie. The Haunted Trap House. The Haunted Trap House. Man. Nigga with a gold rope on. He got all 90s clothes. That's where his nigga died at.

All them white people that's gentrifying these neighborhoods, y'all don't know what y'all on. They really don't. Man. They don't know what y'all on. They really don't. Man. They don't know who died in them houses. God damn. They go to do construction

and tear the wall down. There's 50,000 of brown old money in there. Cocaine money in the wall. And the ghosts come back if you want it back. And the ghosts come out. Look at my new clothing line.

It's called Renegade. I don't know if that's a joke or not. That's real. No, that's real. Okay. That was a hell of a segue. You just said, f*** it. You started talking about this trap house, and then you said, look at my new clothing line.

I thought you were talking about what the ghost was saying. Where you get all the Renegade at? Well, Renegade is a clothing line that I started with a partner of mine named London. Renegade is, you know, it's a clothing line that I want to start this. You know, renegade... It's a clothing line you started.

Yeah, we all know what renegade is. Disruptors. Yeah, people that just do what they gonna do, how they wanna do it. I'm a renegade. Yeah. What made you that way, though?

Like, to really just not wanna be this industry person? You know, a lot of people have relationships in the industry and people that they might not necessarily, they're associates. And they hang out and they do things, but you've never been that way. The industry is high school. And I was not good in high school.

The Hollywood remind me of a lunchroom, man. You remember how you walk in the lunchroom and they got a popular table over there? They got a table with some badass a**es that don't nobody like. They dirty. Then they got another table with kids that don't talk to nobody. That's quiet. Nerds.

That's what Hollywood is. And I ain't never sat in there in one of the tables. I might sit at the dirty table. I've been sitting at the dirty boy table forever. That's where all the good jokes at. That's where it's fun at. That's where it's fun at. Yeah's where it's fun at, yeah. But it hurts because, you know, when it's time for ceremonies

and spelling bees and shit, that's how the business is. You know, a group of kids that get honor roll. Spelling bees. People that went honor roll and shit, they look at kids that's in special ed like, y'all ain't shitting. Oh, man.

So the special ed kids like, okay, I'm robbing you after school because you acting better than me. I done did both.

I done been on both sides. I done made an honor roll. Not me. And when I started getting bad, failing them standardized tests and they put me right in them special ed class.

He was in right there. I done did both. Fitted in with both of them. Yeah, so that's what renegade is. I'm a renegade. Well, listen, only one Mike is on Netflix right now.

My man Mike Epps. Take it out. I appreciate y'all. You would die laughing because I had it playing in here. Everybody was cracking up. We wasn't even doing work. Now, I was mad I had to search it last night, though. I went to the stand-up.

They had the 2015 one on. That's some high school shit. That's we in high school. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I ain't one of the honor roll students in Hollywood, but the people like me. There you go. And I tell kids all the time,

it's okay if you just got $2. F*** him. He got $100, but they pinched him on his ass for the $100. Licked his neck. They did all kind of s*** for that $100 he got. You got the two in your pocket. Grabbed his s*** in front of his wife. They did all kind of s*** for that honey he got. You got the two in your pocket. Grabbed the s*** in front of his wife. They did all kind of shaking his ass on Instagram.

They did all kind of weird. They sold everything for that honey. You know what I'm saying? I'm still hanging out with the dudes, the $100. Hey. Yeah, yeah, yeah. My man, Epsi, Mike Epsi's The Breakfast Club. Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired? Depressed, a little bit revolutionary?

Consider this. Start your own country. I planted the flag. I just kind of looked out of like, this is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. There's 55 gallons of water for 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen of Laudonia. I'm Jackson I, King of Kaperburg.

I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia. Be part of a great colonial tradition. The Waikana tried my country. My forefathers did that themselves. What could go wrong? No country willingly gives up their territory. I was making a rocket with a black powder, you know, with explosive warheads. Oh my God. What is that?

Bullets. Bullets. We need help! We still have the off-road portion to go. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. And we're losing daylight fast. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, guys. I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series,

The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast, Post Run High, is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together.

You know that rush of endorphins you feel after a great workout? Well, that's when the real magic happens. So if you love hearing real, inspiring stories from the people you know, follow, and admire, join me every week for Post Run High. It's where we take the conversation beyond the run and get into the heart of it all. It's lighthearted, pretty crazy, and very fun. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just don't know what is going to come for you. Alicia Keys opens up about conquering doubt, learning to trust herself, and leaning into her dreams. I think a lot of times we are built to doubt the possibilities for ourselves.

For self-preservation and protection, it was literally that step by step. And so I discovered that that is how we get where we're going. This increment of small, determined moments. Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love. Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. It's not officially Friday until you hear...

It's Friday! It's Friday! It's Friday! There's a stranger in my bed. There's a pounding in my head. Glitter all over the room. Pink flamingos in the pool. I smell like a mini bar.

DJs passed out in the yard. Barbies on the barbecue. Is this a a mini bar. DJ's passed out in the yard. Barbie's on the barbecue. Is this a hickey or a bruise? Pictures of last night and hit up online. I'm screwed. What you say? Oh well. It's a blacked out blur

but I'm pretty sure it's rude. Damn. Last Friday night. Yeah we danced on tabletops and we took too many shots. Think we kissed but I Damn. We're streaking in the park, see me dipping in the dark. Been at a menage a trois last Friday night. Yeah, I think we broke the law. I always say we're gonna stop. Oh, whoa, oh, whoa. It's Friday night.

Hey, what we do? Do it all again. I love you by yourself. I love you by yourself. I love you by myself. I got you, I got you. All right, here we go. Watch the harmony.

Do it all again. Oh, no direction is back, I got you. All right, here we go. Watch the harmony. Do it all again. Oh, no direction is back, baby. Yes. Trying to connect the dots. Come on. Don't know what to tell my boss. Hey, think the city towed my car. Hey, chandelier is on the floor.

Hey, ripped my favorite party dress. Ow. Warrant's out for my arrest. Hey, think I need a ginger ale. That was such an epic fail. Pictures of last night. Hey, didn't hit up online. Hey, I I need a ginger ale. That was such an epic fail. Pictures of last night. Didn't hit up on mine. I'm screwed.

What you say? Oh, well. It's a blacked out blur. But I'm pretty sure it grows. Damn. Last Friday night. Yeah, we danced on tabletops. And we took too many shots.

Think we kissed, but I forgot Last Friday night We went streaking free And got kicked out of the bar So we hit the boulevard Last Friday night We went streaking in the park Steamy dipping in the dark

Can't add a menage a trois Last Friday night Yeah, I think we broke the law Always say we're gonna stop Oh, whoa, oh, whoa It's Friday night Do it what? Do it all again

You hear that harmony? You hear that harmony? It's Friday night Watch this one. Do it all again No direction Greatest boy band ever That's us.

Get low. T-G-I-F T-G-I-F T-G-I-F T-G-I-F T-G-I-F T-G-I-F T-G-I-F T-G

It's Friday. It's Friday. It's Friday. It's Friday! It's Friday! It's Friday! It's Friday! It's Friday! It's Friday! It's Friday! It's Friday!

It's Friday! It's Friday! It's Friday! It's Friday! It's Friday! Friday! Friday! Friday!

Friday! Now, I'm going to be honest with you. What? I didn't sing that with too much conviction. And the reason I didn't sing it with too much conviction is because I'm still disappointed that Katy Perry fronted on us and gave us that little Petty ass phone call she did told us that she was gonna come to the Breakfast Club But then when she came to I heart she went to Elvis Duran and she went to KTU my people's Cuddy Cuddy and Cat Cubby And Carol. Yeah, but they didn't come to the Breakfast Club

Okay, even though she had the Migos on a single and Katy Perry on a single Yeah, so you want to use hip-hop culture to look cool, but not actually come invest some time into the actual culture. So, you know, I didn't really sing that with too much conviction. You didn't. Now, how many kids you got, 17? I got five. Five kids. Five kids.

Okay, I got two. So you got some Kidz Bop CDs, right? I got a bunch of Kidz Bop CDs. Now, it's a record on a Kidz Bop CD that's an oldie but goodie. Right. It always makes me feel really good. And I would love to sing that song in here with you this morning. And I would love for the people out there listening, if you got kids and you know this record,

I would like for you to sing along with us, okay? You ready? Are you ready? No, no, no. You got to start it over. Let it build up. All right. All right.

There you go. You like build up? All right. Oh, man. This song just makes me feel good on a Friday. It's an oldie but goodie. Yes. If you know this record, I want you to sing along.

I go by the name of Charlamagne Tha God. I'm DJ Envy. And together we are no direction. Yes. But this is one direction. Ha! And if you know the words, I want you to sing. Maybe it's the way she walks.

Come on. Straight into my heart and she walks. Come on. Straight into my heart and stole it. Come on. Through the doors and past the cars. Come on. Just like she already owned it. Now, bop your head. I said, can you give it back to me?

I'll give it back. And she said, never in your wildest dreams. And what we do. And we danced all night To the best song ever We do it every night Now I can't remember How it goes but I know

That I won't forget her Cause we danced all night To the best song ever I think it went oh, oh, oh I think it went yeah, yeah, yeah I think it goes oh, oh It oh. I think it went yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it goes oh. It's not over. It's not over.

Said her name was Georgia Rose. And her daddy was a dentist. Dr. Rubenstein. Said I had a dirty mouth. 52 Savage. But she kicks me like she makes it. I say, can I take you home with me? She said, never in your wildest dreams Bounce, bounce

And we danced all night to the best song ever We knew every line, now I can't remember How it goes, but I know that I won't forget her Cause we danced all night to the best song ever I think it went oh, oh, oh I think it went yeah, yeah, yeah I think it goes oh, oh, oh Now everybody whisper, everybody whisper

You know, I know, you know I remember you and I know You know, I know, you remember Hey, you know, I I know you know I know you remember Hey and hello, I know you know I remember you and I know you know I know you remember How we danced How we what? How we what on a Friday? How we danced How we did what with the breakfast club on Friday?

Pelvic thrust, pelvic thrust How we danced all night to the best song ever We knew every line. Now I can't remember how it goes. But I know that I won't forget her. We danced all night to the best song ever. I think it went oh, oh, oh. I think it went yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think it goes oh. That voice is bad. Salute to all the fathers with kids and kids bop CDs, god damn it. All oh. Woo. That voice is bad. Salute to all the fathers with kids and kids bop CDs, god damn it. All right, positive note up next is the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club.

All right, now you guys have a great weekend. Shout out to everybody that picked up tickets to my car show again. I so appreciate it. September 7th is the date and also, uh, Charlemagne, you got a positive note? Yeah, man, I just want to say it doesn't matter where you are. You are nowhere compared to where you can go.

You just gotta believe that you can get there and understand that your life does not get better by chance. It gets better by change. Had enough of this country? Ever dreamt about starting your own? And understand that your life does not get better by chance. It gets better by change. Breakfast club, bitches! 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 runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast, Post Run High, is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Hi, I'm Dani Shapiro, host of the hit podcast, Family Secrets. How would you feel if when you met your biological father for the first time, he didn't even say hello? And what if your past itself was a secret and the time had suddenly come to share that past with your child? These are just a few of the powerful and profound questions we'll be asking on our 11th season of Family Secrets. Listen to season 11 of Family Secrets on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.