The Breakfast Club - Rep for Reparations (Erika Alexander and Whitney Dow)

Episode Date: February 18, 2021

Today on the show we had Erika Alexander and Dow from The Reparations: The Big Payback Podcast where they spoke about reparations, social justice and their new podcast. Also, Charlamagne gave "Donkey of the Day" to the mayor of Texas , Tim Boyd for his comments about the citizens affected by the cold and Angela helped some listeners out during "Ask Yee" with one listener having a hard time leaving a 8 year relationship after ongoing cheating. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.

Hey y'all, Nimany here. I'm the host of a brand new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. Executive produced by Questlove, The Story Pirates, and John Glickman, Historical Records brings history to life through hip-hop. Flash, slam, another one gone. Bash, bam, another one gone. The crack of the bat and another one gone. The tip of the cap, there's another one gone. Each episode is about a different inspiring figure from history.

Like this one about Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old girl in Alabama who refused to give up her seat on the city bus nine whole months before Rosa Parks did the same thing. Check it. And it began with me. Did you know, did you know? I wouldn't give up my seat. Nine months before Rosa, it was Claudette Colvin. Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records.

Because in order to make history, you have to make some noise. Listen to Historical Records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, everyone. This is Courtney Thorne-Smith, Laura Layton, and Daphne Zuniga. On July 8, 1992, apartment buildings with pools were never quite the same as Melrose Place was introduced to the world. We are going to be reliving every hookup, every scandal, and every single wig removal together. So listen to Still the Place on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. into morning show unlike it is. Shout out to the Breakfast Club. I love to see y'all every morning. What you guys are doing right now

is the hub culture. The Breakfast Club is my morning sit. I need it and I love it so much. I feel like you're really not popping until you do

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Angela Yee, and Charlamagne Tha God. The Breakfast Club, bitches. Break the f*** up. 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, 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, morning. Yeah, we all decided to broadcast from home today because it's supposed to be another winter storm hitting the tri-state area. For everybody that listens to us everywhere across the country, we're in New York, of course. New York,

New Jersey area. It's supposed to be another 10 inches today. Yeah, it's supposed to be supposed to start already, but it didn't start as of yet, so I decided to, you know, keep my ass home just in case so I'm not stuck in the city. It's at 11 a.m. Yeah, 11 a.m. now. Yeah, 11 a.m. 11 a.m. now. Yeah. Yeah. 11 a.m. Which would be our

commute home. Right. They're still having a lot of emergencies in Texas. This is ridiculous. I don't know what they're going to do there. That's crazy that they just shut off people's power. People are icing their own houses right now. People are leaving and having to try to find somewhere to go.

Sleeping in their cars. Listen, the South is cars. Mm-hmm. Listen, the South is not prepared for winter storms. You know what I mean? Like, I'm from South Carolina, so I remember when one inch of snow literally would shut

the whole state down. So I can only imagine what's happening in Texas right now. Right. And let me shout out Stacy Lynch. Stacy Lynch is, she's running for city council in New York City District 7.

I actually went to Hampton University with her dad is a prominent political figure in New York City Help David Dinkins become mayor and and help many others So she decided to I think she was working in DC something and she decided to resign and come back and want to help her community So yesterday she had her first fundraiser to start. Amazing person. She's an attorney. Like I said, she graduated from Hampton. She was my big sister. Anytime you go to college, Charlemagne, I don't know if you had the same thing, but when you go to HBCU, they give you like a big sister, a big brother to help you around campus, to make sure you know, you know, what to do, where you go to the laundry, what not to do, the ins and outs of the university.

And she was one of my big sisters and she's running. So, you know, we did a fundraiser for her last night. I DJed and had a bunch of Hampton people on there to start raising money. The person that she's going against, I don't remember his name. I just know he's a white man and the district is around the Harlem area. So she, her and her dad been living in Harlem all her life. So check out Stacey Lynch if you're in New York City for City Council. She's really, really dope, really, really bright

and really, really wants to give back to the community and helping with education and all those other things. So shout out to Stacey Lynch. And me and her used to go back and forth. You're going to laugh

playing spades. So in between classes, her room was like two rooms up above for mine. So her and her roommate and me and Gia would go and play spades in between classes. But she's really, really dope. So check out Stacey Lynch. and Gia will go and play spades in between classes.

But she's really, really dope. So check out Stacey. Why don't we do that instead of going to classes? I said in between classes. Why you say people going live? That's an HBCU. Yeah.

I remember one time I was at the crib and my mom went to South Carolina State. We was at the crib playing spades. And I said something and my mom was like,

you think I don't know how to play spades? I went to an HBCU. God damn right. God damn right. One of my friends actually how to play spades? I went to an HBCU. You're goddamn right. Goddamn right. One of my friends actually had to do another semester because she used to miss class all the time because she would be playing spades. Is that your friend that went to Hampton with me? No, she went to college with me.

Oh, she went to college with you. Okay. You said one of your friends, you didn't say. What school? Congrats to all of y'all who learned how to play spades in college at a nice HBCU. I learned how to play spades in the county a nice HBCU. I learned how to play spades in the county jail. What did y'all play for?

Because, you know, in college we play for things. What did you play for in the county jail? What did y'all play for? We didn't play for nothing. We played the path of time. That's what we played. Bro, we won't judge you. Do what you gotta do. It is what it is. Alright. Let's get the show cracking. Front page That's what we played. Bro, we won't judge you. Do what you got to do. It is what it is.

All right. Let's get the show cracking. Front page news, what are we talking about? Well, let's talk about student loan forgiveness. Now, Joe Biden has rejected a $50,000 student loan forgiveness plan. And we'll tell you about the backlash. All right. We'll get into all that when we come back.

And Erica Alexander and Whitney Dow will be joining us so we'll kick it with them as well it's the Breakfast Club good morning let's get in some front page news where we starting ye well let's start with this student loan forgiveness because I know that's something that's front and center on a lot of people's minds if you've gone to college if you have kids that have went to college and now you have these student loans that are weighing on you. So during Joe Biden's town hall on Tuesday, he did again address student loan forgiveness and say that he's not willing to forgive $50,000. Here's what he said. We need student loan forgiveness beyond the potential $10,000 your administration has proposed. We need at least a $50,000 minimum.

I will not make that happen, but everyone should be able to go to community college for free. And I think any family making under $125,000, whose kids go to a state university they get into, that should be free as well. And the thing I do in terms of student debt that's accumulated is provide for changing the existing system now for debt forgiveness. If you engage in volunteer activity. I agree. I wonder why they just don't pay off everybody's student loan debt. Like I saw they get student loan debt in America is one point seven trillion dollars.

Like we watched them give damn near four trillion dollars out last year. Those corporations get trillions of dollars the millionaires and billionaires who already got it get get trillions of dollars when they need a bailout why not take care of the student loan debt why not wipe that off the wipe that off does it matter if the person is making like a lot of money or if their family has a lot of money should that be forgiven because that's another proposal that's come up no i think it's a certain amount of money. If you make up to $125,000, then yes. But if you make above that, then I think it's proportionate.

There's all kinds of different things. But I think you got to raise that too. Across the board. Because it depends where you live. Because if you make $125,000 in New York, you're still not doing that well because everything in New York and the prices of rent and everything is so expensive. Or if you make that in LA, the price is expensive. But I think that they should. If you make a certain

amount, maybe $175 for both family members, I think that they should take care of your college. Absolutely. Now, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez... I was going to say the backlash comes from this, though. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said, who cares what school someone went to? Entire

generations of working class kids were encouraged to go into more debt under the guise of elitism. That is wrong. Nowhere does it say we must trade off early childhood education for student loan forgiveness. We can have both.

Yeah, I don't see why everybody can't get paid off because like I said, you got these corporations, these millionaires, these billionaires who receive trillion dollar bailouts and they got it.

That's true. Do the same for the kids. One point seven trillion in student loan debt. Wipe that off for these kids. Give them a head start in life. Don't let them start in debt. Here's what else Joe Biden had to say. I do think that in this moment of economic pain and strain that we should be eliminating interest on the debts that are accumulated, number one. And number two, I'm prepared to write off the $10,000 debt, but not 50. Would $10,000 help? I'm sure it would help, right? It would help. But we know when kids have like $100,000, $25,000 a year, and it's $100,000, that $10,000 is still170,000. Yeah, that's $25,000 a year and it's $100,000. That $10,000, you still owe $90,000.

You know, like you said, they find all this other money for everything else. They find this money to bail out people, to help the airplane, the airline industry. Yeah, help these kids out as well. I just remember how crippling student loans were for me, knowing that when I first graduated, having to pay those and get a job and pay my bills and, you you know have to pay for eating every day it used to stretch everything and i had to keep getting deferments just just just just wipe it off for the kids and if he's saying that community college should be free which uh which

which he's saying if you're already saying that should happen then everybody that went to community college at least they should get their student loans wiped off right since you're already gonna make it free anyway i look at that as the same way as decriminalizing marijuana. Once you decriminalize marijuana, or if you want to decriminalize marijuana, you got to let everybody out of jail who's in there for nonviolent drug offenses, weed offenses. All right. Well, that is your

front page news. All right. Thank you, Miss Yee. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open. 800-585-1051. It's The to vent, phone lines are wide open. 800-585-1051. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. I'm darling.

I'm darling. Hey, what you doing, man? I'm darling. I'm calling. This is your time to get it off your chest. Whether you're mad or blessed. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? This is Tisha from Texas.

How y'all doing? Hey, Tisha. Hey, Tisha from Texas. How you doing out there with all that weather? How are you holding up, Tisha? Yeah. What's going on? Okay, so I'm calling to tell y'all, I know you're in New York and it's so different

and you're used to cold. Texas, we're in a situation. It's been bad since Sunday on Valentine's Day. People are without water. People are without power. And then when they have water, the water gets off because the pipes are frozen and then they burst. It is a mess here. And I just saw pictures that Ted Cruz is on the Cancun.

Why would you? Wow. Even if it's not affecting you at your house why don't you be here to say hey you know we're going to get this together we're on this stupid other power grid no one has power here i have it you know a few people have it but it's still bad it is horrible here and i just need more people to get the word out that it is horrible in Texas. It's like a hurricane or something hit us. It's horrible. Yeah, I've seen something where there was an animal frozen to a gate

that just had froze. They've never seen temperatures like that. And I've seen roofs caved in and all that. Yeah, water everywhere. I've seen frozen ceiling fans with icicles coming off of it. Coming down. Toilets that are overflown. It's icicles everywhere.

And then we're having to boil water. People are putting snow in their tubs just so they can have water. The wood is out. You know, people bought up all the wood. People are outside chopping down trees. Like, it's bad. And I know y'all don't maybe see that on the news, but it is very, very bad. And, of course, there's a neighborhood called Highland

Park. I've seen that. They have not lost a lick of power. Because they're turning it off, right? They're trying to do like rolling power and they're turning off power so they can, I don't know what they're doing. That's what they said and then those rolling were supposed to be only like

45 minute intervals or whatever. But some people have been without for hours, 36 hours, 48 hours. Some people have been out since Sunday. And you know, the hotels, they're gouging prices at the hotels. And then some hotels, they don't have power either. It is absolutely horrible. And you can't get out and go to grandma's house or auntie's house because the roads are slick with ice. Let me ask you a question, Tisha.

When was the last time y'all had a winter storm like this in Texas? 72, they say. 36 years or something like that. It's been a long, long time. And right now, 675,000 people are still without power. This is crazy.

You're right, it is. The governor is like, well, you know, we just had to enroll. Yeah, yours. I'm like, I'm so sick of this. Why are we even on a separate deal? El Paso is not on a separate grid and they're doing fine. That's horrible. That is horrible.

That is. Well, thank you for calling us up and giving us the update from the ground there. We appreciate that and we'll make sure we keep on bringing light to the situation. I don't know what we can do, but keep on bringing attention to it. Absolutely. Stay safe. You know, you can't do anything and pray for the people that are out there working to get power back on because they're cold, too.

Absolutely. Well, thank you for checking in. Y'all have a wonderful day. And I love the Breakfast Club. Bye. We love you back. All right. We're praying for her, man. That is crazy. Thank y'all. Have a wonderful day. You too. I love The Breakfast Club. Bye. We love you back. All right. We're praying for her, man.

That is crazy. 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. Let's go.

This is your time to get it off your chest. Whether you're mad or blessed. Say it with your chest. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. So if you got something on your mind, let it out. Hello, who's this? Yo, this is Big Mike from Harlem. Big Mike from Harlem.

Big Mike from Harlem. Yeah, yeah. I just want to get off my chest that, yo, we finally did what we had to do. We got Biden in the office. But now he ain't talking about defunding the police. But he don't want to help the kids. Like, what's going on? He never was talking about defunding the police. Even on the campaign trail, he didn't believe about defunding the police, but he don't want to help the kids. Like, what's going on? He never was talking about defunding the police.

Even on the campaign trail, he didn't believe in defunding the police. All this work and they found the money to do all this stuff, but you can't help the kids with the tuition. I agree. As he's in office right now, that I believe. I agree. Yeah, I'm with you too, bro. I don't know, man. I don't know.

We got to figure something out. We got to start. I don't know. We got to start protesting again, I think. We got to fight. We got to figure something out. We got to start. I don't know. We got to start protesting again, I think. We got to keep pushing the line. Like, you know, democracy works well after we elect who we want to put in the White House. You know what I mean? We got to keep pressure.

Keep pressure on them. That's all. Because they still got to win. I'm just saying, they still got to win in 2022. They still got to win in 2024. So I keep telling, you know, people in that administration, especially when it comes to when i send it to harris vice president harris any future political aspirations you got depend on what happens right now so y'all better get it right absolutely but thank you brother man we do what we had to do can i give a shout out okay i want to give a shout out to our gb big dipper

boss man horse better streaming everywhere okay i don't know what you just said he said big shout out a consolation he shouted out a consolation Constellation. He shouted out to Constellation, the Big Dipper. He shouted out Horse from the Bravehearts. My goodness. Hello, who's this? Hey, it's Mitra.

How y'all doing? Good morning. Hey. So I was just listening to you guys talk about the student loan debt. So they're not even touching private student loan debt either.

So even if you don't have over $50,000 in student loan debt or $10,000 in a public student, they're not covering that either. So we need to bring that up as well. I don't even know what that is. What's private student loan debt?

Well, when you go to a private, when you get a private lender, they're not covering that. Oh, okay. They only cover what, Sally Mae, right? Yeah, they're not doing navient navient is a private student loan lender yeah so i done seen those notices in the mail yeah so for some people

like sally may will only give you a certain amount when you see that envelope and then you got to go somewhere else to get some more money like i had to do the same for for hampton so i had two you see that envelope you're like i'm not even opening that. Y'all, let me tell you, they sent me a Valentine's Day card. No, they did not. Yes! I was like, are y'all crazy? That's disrespectful now. Go ahead, Mama.

She's six years old. Chloe, happy birthday, boo. Mommy loves you. Daddy loves you. We all love you. All right. Well, have a good one to me, too. Happy birthday.

Okay? One day people are going gonna realize that the government i don't care who it is republican or democrat they don't care about anyone but the rich and the elite they will take care of each other everybody else we on our own absolutely well get it off your chest 800-585-1051 if you need to vent you can hit us up right now now we got rumors on the way yes and we had reported earlier and gave given our condolences to nik Minaj and her family after her father was killed in a hit and run. Well, now the driver has surrendered to the cops. All right. We'll get into that next. Keep it locked. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

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Make sure you check it out. Hey, y'all. Nimany here. I'm the host of a brand-new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. Historical Records brings history to life through hip-hop. Flash, slam, another one gone. Bash, bam, another one gone. The crack of the bat and another one gone. hip-hop. Each episode is about a different inspiring figure from history, like this one

about Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old girl in Alabama who refused to give up her seat on the city bus nine whole months before Rosa Parks did the same thing. Check it. And it began with me Did you know, did you know I wouldn't give up my seat Nine months before Rosa It was called a moment Get the kids in your life

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This is the Rumor Report with Angela Yee. Rumor has it. On The Breakfast Club. So listen up. Well, the driver who was wanted for hitting Nicki Minaj's father with a car in a hit and run has turned himself in. As you know, Nicki Minaj's father passed away again. Condolences to Nicki and her family. But police did arrest 70-year-old Charles Polovich.

Damn. That's sad because he's older than Nikki's father. He's been arraigned and charged with two felonies, leaving the scene of an incident involving death of a person and tampering with or suppressing physical evidence. They said if he didn't lose the crime, he wouldn't have got charged at all. If he didn't leave the scene of the accident. Yep. Damn. According to reports, he exited his vehicle, stood over Nikki Minaj's dad, Robert Mirage, asked if he was OK, walked and returned to his vehicle and then fled the scene. I mean, what was the response when he asked her after? Was he OK? Why would you just leave the scene like that?

Condolences go to Nicki's family. And I'm sure that, you know, that 70 year old man conscious was eating him alive. That's why he probably turned himself in. But it's just a tragic situation all the way around. Right. And then they said, and this is how you know he knew he did something crazy. He actually drove home avoiding intersections and he hit his vehicle in the detached garage at his residence.

Absolutely. Because I'm sure when he asked, you know, Nicky's father, was he OK? Probably was no response. All he could look and see visibly that you know that brother wasn't okay and i mean but if he'd have called the police it might have saved his life you know i mean even if they were absolutely you know resuscitate him or whatever but he definitely should have called the police might have might have saved that man nobody wants to deal with the consequences of their actions sometimes i'll be thinking it's just a young

thing but clearly it's not. Like, damn. Alright, now Quavo has a new show coming to YouTube this summer, and this is with content that's being rolled out from the YouTube Black Voices Fund. And so he'll be going to local basketball courts around the country and linking up with NBA stars who live in the area

and teaching viewers about the role that basketball courts play in the local community at large and also important historical moments. It's called Supreme Courts and it's his own idea, by the way. It was his brainchild. That's dope. He loves basketball

also. And by the way, Culture 3 will be out soon. FYI, they had already announced that. Now the Gorilla Glue girl, Tessica Brown, her GoFundMe is under investigation. So she can't take out any of the money. She ended up getting $23,000 in that GoFundMe. She said they won't release it to her because many people have called and said it was a fraudulent account. Every time you look at it, it says it's under investigation.

So I guess people are not believing her or I don't know what's going on, but she can't get that money that was in that GoFundMe. So would you say her GoFundMe is a sticky situation right now? Shut up. Well, she wanted to actually donate to the doctor who helped her hair and helped her get the gorilla glue out. She wanted to donate 20,000 to his charity. And that was what she was planning to do with the money. And she said the rest of the cash she wants to use for families in her parish, who she personally knows have been struggling. She wants people to know it was not a social media stunt, as some believe. Oh, there's a quote.

The quote is clever is getting out of a sticky situation. Wise is not getting into a sticky situation. Sounds like this whole situation is sticky with Jessica Brown all the way around. It's interesting that there were so many copycats after. Stupid people. All right. Rowdy Rebel says Bobby Schmurder will be out in less than a week. So we hope

this is not another false alarm, but they are saying he wrote on Instagram six days yesterday. So hopefully that means he'll be coming home like for real in a few days. I thought his mother said February too. So I'm hoping he is coming home like a for real in a few days i thought his mother said february too so i'm hoping he is coming home in the next couple of days that'll be dope yeah i'll be feeling bad not bad but i get like uh anxiety when i see you know people post stuff like that because you know a brother like bobby's murder he'll be home in six

days he's gonna come home to a lot of love and a lot of fanfare you got haters in jail you got people that be jealous and envious in jail, you know, and try to disrupt something just because they know their brother coming home. So I'll be wondering sometimes if it's even good to put that out there.

All right. SZA is giving fans an update on some new music. Now she was on an interview with CBS this morning talking about her climate justice initiative. She's partnered with

American Forest and Tazo. It's called Tree Corps. And she's giving fans some information about what's happening. Here's what she said. New music is literally on the way. I haven't slept. I'm coming directly from the studio right now. It is 5 a.m. I left the studio at like 3.30

and I'm here with y'all. So music is on the way. I'm looking forward to a new SZA album. You know, that last album was amazing. Now, she also talked about her own mental health. Nope. Oh, okay. Maybe not.

All right. Well, that is your rumor report. I'm Angela Yee. All right. Thank you, Miss Yee. Now we got front page news next. What are we talking about? Yes.

And so, you know, when that vaccine comes, now, Envy, I know you're taking it as soon as possible, as soon as your turn. But NBA players are very hesitant to promote these vaccines. And we'll give you some more information. All right. We'll get into that next. Keep it locked. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

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Call 800-GENERAL or visit thegeneral.com. Some restrictions apply. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. morning everybody it's dj nv angela yee charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club let's get in some front page news all my tennis fans uh naomi osaka beat serena in australian open semifinals yesterday so So Naomi Osaka beat Serena. Also, I was saying the equivalent of that. I was telling Dramos this earlier. The equivalent of that is like if Patrick Mahomes had beat Tom Brady in the Super Bowl. Correct. Absolutely.

Well, US Open is considered, I guess, I think the Super Bowl of everything. But yes, similar to that. And also, you see that they imploded Trump Tower out in Atlantic City. Yeah, so everybody gathered around applauding the shout to the mayor, Marty Smalls. He wanted us to come broadcast out. He was like, why don't you come broadcast out there? I was like, no, I'm good. Stay away from that. I'm pretty good. But what else we talk about?

Easy Rush Limbaugh died. He was 70 years old. He announced that he was battling advanced lung cancer about a year ago and things took a turn for the worse recently. He missed some shows and his wife Catherine announced the news on his radio show yesterday morning. Yeah, I saw that. 70 years old, died of lung cancer. I don't want to go out that way and I don't want nobody that

I love to go out that way. I saw people celebrating the fact that he passed away yesterday and I didn't understand that because I just don't want that kind of energy back on me. 70 years old, died of lung cancer? Nah, no way. I don't want that.

Yeah. I didn't see too much sympathy from our community when it came to Rush Limbaugh. Which is great. To me, it's not even about Rush. It's just about the situation. Sometimes you got to look at somebody and say, would I want that to happen to me? Or would I want that to happen to somebody I love?

That's like, no. Because that can, by the way, that can happen to anybody. I would I want that to happen to somebody I love? That's like, no. Because that can, by the way, that can happen to anybody. I just say quiet. That's one of those situations. If you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all. Just mind my business. That could happen to you. You can get lung cancer.

Your mom can get lung cancer. Your dad, people close to you, people that you love. It's just like, no, absolutely not. You know, but sometimes when you do certain things and then, you know, yeah, I do be thinking about that. Like when you die, you want to leave a positive mark on the world. Well, if you heard if you heard a community and you heard somebody, somebody is affected by your words. Like you said, for every action is a reaction.

It is what it is. That's not a reaction. People are reacting to how they feel. You know, I mean, they celebrate. All I'm saying is lung cancer is something that's out of all of our control. Which is true. of reaction. People are reacting to how they feel. If they celebrate people. All I'm saying is lung cancer is something that's out of all of our control. Which is true. That's what I'm saying. A lot of top NBA players are hesitant

to promote coronavirus vaccines. They've been trying to get them because there's not a lot of trust when it comes to vaccines in the United States. The NBA has reached out to the agents of many of the league's elite players. They wanted to try to get some PSAs going to promote the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine. But not too many players are excited about being on the front lines of telling people

to go get vaccinated. And sources are saying there's a number of factors that contribute to many players' reluctance to participate participate which includes some of them don't want to take it themselves they're not too certain about that they don't want to advocate its use for others and also they don't want to extend favors to a league amidst the largely unpopular plans for all-star so for all of them i don't know why they act like the distrust players they act like the distrust is is not warranted it's absolutely warranted. The medical system in this country has been historically racist. We have every reason not to trust this country when it comes to the vaccine. And like I've always said, they have not put any remedies for any other virus in the Black

community, whether it's been poverty, poor schools, police brutality. They don't care about us any other time. But now all of a sudden, it's like, hey, y'all need to get this vaccine first like but i would say they they're not just giving it to the black community they're giving it to everybody doctors health care workers teachers making everybody do it though very true but let's not act like there's not a real push for to get it in the black community like a lot of black people aren't running running commercials on black radio tyler perry got bt special it. Like, they're really making a real push. They've asked me to be on

coronavirus vaccine task forces to try to get Black people to take it. I told them the same thing I just said. Yeah, me too, but it's also a lot of Black people have underlying conditions, and we have diabetes. We have other things that affect us, and that can kill us from having COVID. Very true. All that is true. And the fact that such a small

percentage of Black people aren't getting the vaccine, that is going to, you know, being that it's effective, which is what we are hoping, that is going to be a disadvantage for us yet again. All that is true. But my point stands. The trust, the distrust is warranted. We have every reason not to trust this country when it comes to that vaccine. Because it's even worse if none of us get vaccinated and then now we can't move around,

we can't do anything, and then we're the only ones getting sick. It's not our fault. It's not our fault. We don't trust them. Vice President Kamala Harris has stressed that teachers should be given priority for getting COVID-19 vaccinations. And she wouldn't say if she thinks that's what should be the prerequisite for reopening schools. Teachers should be a priority along with other frontline workers, and we're going to make them a priority. I believe that 22 states, I believe, have prioritized teachers in terms of vaccinations.

But if they're not vaccinated, is it safe for them? Well, I think that we have to decide if we can put in place safe measures. This is why, and it's so important, we pass the American Rescue Plan. The American Rescue Plan is a plan that is about getting our schools back open. Right, and Dr. Fauci is saying, Dr. Fauci was very clear. He doesn't think it should be a requirement for every teacher to reopen schools. Listen to this. I think if you were going to say that every single teacher needs to be vaccinated before you get back to school, I believe, quite frankly, Tony,

that that's a non-workable situation. I think teachers should absolutely be priority among those who we consider essential personnel. But you don't want to essentially have nobody in school until all the teachers get vaccinated. I mean, that makes sense, right? I don't want to essentially have nobody in school until all the teachers get vaccinated. I mean, that makes sense, right? I don't know. I mean, the problem with having teachers,

well, teachers, I think, should be vaccinated. You know what I mean? Because if you have all these students there and these students come in and a teacher could have it and the students bring it back home to their parents and their parents bring it to their grandparents. So, yeah, I think teachers absolutely should have to be vaccinated to teach in school. I agree. Maybe I heard Dr. Fauci yeah, I think teachers absolutely should have to have to be vaccinated to teach in school.

I agree. Maybe I heard Dr. Fauci wrong. I thought that's what he said. I agree. I think teachers should be vaccinated because, you know, they say that I guess younger students can't, you know, get it,

but they still get passed it to the teachers. But I'm like, yo, let the teachers get vaccinated. Teachers are at risk, right? Usually won't have as bad symptoms i actually spoke to a professor the other day who got covid from one of her students in the classroom and then they shut the whole school down yeah all right well she's vaccinated why aren't teachers considered essential

workers shouldn't they be uh some places i think that they're doing it in certain places they are and so some states are saying that yes they are frontline workers and some aren't. So states are making decisions individually about who will be on the list that gets vaccinated first. All right. And that is your front page news. All right. Thank you, Miss Yee. Now, when we come back, we have Erica Alexander join us and Whitney Dow. They have a podcast. What's the name of the podcast, Charlamagne? Well, you know, it's Black History Month. Yeah, it's Black History Month. And Black History Month is all about teaching and learning, you know, all things Black. And one conversation that's been happening for a long time in this country, in the Black community, is reparations.

And yes, the podcast is called The Big Payback. It launches today on the Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network. And it's brought to you by Color Farm Media, hosted by Erica Alexander and Whitney Dow. So they'll be joining us next. So we'll kick it with them next. So don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

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What's up, y'all? This is Questlove, and I'm here to tell you about a new podcast I've been working on with the Story Pirates and John Glickman called Historical Records. It's a family-friendly podcast. Yeah, you heard that right. A podcast for all ages. One you can listen to and enjoy with your kids starting on September 27th. I'm going to toss it over to the host of Historical Records, Nimany, to tell you all about it. Make sure you check it out. Each episode is about a different inspiring figure from history. Like this one about Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old girl in Alabama who refused to give up her seat on the city bus nine whole months before Rosa Parks did the same thing. Check it. Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records.

Because in order to make history, you have to make some noise. Listen to Historical Records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got some special guests on the line. We have Erica Alexander, who's been here several times. Welcome back, sister. And we also have Whitney Dow. Good morning, sir. Thanks for having me. What's up, Whitney? What's up, Queen Erica? They're here to talk about reparations now and never, the Big Payback podcast.

Yes. How about that? How about that? It's time has come. It's time has come. And we're happy to do it, actually. It's been a really good conversation, but also a great education, not only to the history of America, but also the history of African-Americans in America and the all the injustices from slavery. It's actually overwhelming. I can hear people saying, what makes you and Whitney qualified to discuss reparation? And how did you get this podcast started? Oh, sure. OK, we'll do both. I'll answer a second one, Indy. We were working on a documentary, and it was about reparations. And obviously, you start to get some of the stars of reparation, the people that have

been pioneers, people that are in it, and really qualified experts. And then something extraordinary happened. There was an older woman in Evanston, Illinois. Her name is Robin Ruth Simmons. And she passed the first reparations bill in American history in the 400th year, meaning last year, 2019, or I guess the year before last, and did something that no one had ever done. So they called her the Rosa Parks of Reparations, and we started following her. We'd already been starting to follow HR 40 and its sort of turgid move through Congress with Sheila Jackson Lee as she inherited it from John Conyers. But why am I qualified? I'm Black. I'm African American. I think that qualifies me to say a little bit about reparations because I think I'm owed it.

And the other thing is that I think I'm a person who's curious enough to know that this is an important issue and I wanted to look at it from um a greater point of view and um the black effect said yeah we'll do it so there you go and whitney why why you well you know first of all i'm white so i guess i'm qualified to pay it right so that's the first one right but the second thing i've been making films about race and difference always with a cross race with partners and the more i started like making films and projects about it i always felt like there was this big conversation left out like what is white people's role in it i know it's changed a lot in the last few years and so as i started digging into it and started really digging into all the

all the different ways that race was impacting the country i really come to the point where just believe that a the racial division in this country is the thing that's was impacting the country, I really come to the point where I just believe that, A, the racial division in this country is the thing that's driving all the divisions. And the fact that we've never had a reconciliation in this country is driving all the divisions, economic divisions, political divisions, social divisions. And that until we deal with that, we're not going to be able to deal with anything. Now, do you guys think we'll ever see reparations in our lifetime? Honestly? You know what? Here's the problem. For 30 years, they've been trying to have a discussion about

reparations, not trying to give it to us. That's what H.R. 40 is. It's named after famously the 40 acres in the mule. But it's the House of Representation has this bill in front of them, and they can't even bring it in to discuss it. And this is among people who a lot of them want it. So I don't know if we're going to actually get reparations. There have been pockets. But I think that Robin Rue Simmons might have something of a blueprint because people are starting to talk about it locally. So maybe that's the way it comes in. Can we talk about that blueprint? Because when you hear reparations, everyone has a different opinion on what reparations actually looks like. And I know you guys are exploring that on the podcast,

but from your own personal opinions, what do you think is the best way that reparations should happen? Money. I'm saying cash is king. That's me. Check plus. Yeah, check, exactly.

But by the way, that's the conversation of why the conversation or discussing it or the analysis and the diagnosis of it is so important. Because a lot of people think that it's just about a check or it's only about a check or, you know, and that's so crude. It's kind of grotesque. The problem is, is there's a pain and suffering of all these people. Millions and millions of Africans died. And we were we denied citizenship.

We were denied all sorts of Africans died. And we denied citizenship. We were denied all sorts of restitution. They did experimentation on us, Tuskegee, mass incarceration. These are all plagues among us. So should it just be a check? No. Should it be a check? I absolutely believe it should, because I think that money is power. Now, Envy, you talk a lot about real estate. You talk about ownership. And part of owning it, I think, for white people is paying and having, you know, to come and do it but i do think that money should be a part of it because i think that that's how americans and most people human beings weigh value i'm afraid to give people just money though because if you give people just money with no financial competency no financial literacy he's gonna give it right back to the white man

yeah call somebody call killer mike he's trying to teach us how to spin it on. Well, you know, Whitney, do you think that you're going to get it right back? I'm hoping. No. All right, now you're going to take the N out of your name. You're going to take the N out of your name and start calling you Whitey Down. You got to talk fast.

That would be the first one. But it's something that you asked, is it just money? And I think actually, I mean, because I, you know, I taught, Eric and I have that's you know you asked you is it just money and i think actually i mean because i you know i taught eric and i have this you know i'm i'm here to save white people too because i feel that like it's not just about the money but i sort of lay like that's like the baseline responsibility but i think one when you ask me is it going to happen one of the big things that has to happen one reason why why reparations hasn't happened, it's going to force white Americans to reimagine their own story. And that's the existential threat,

to get white people to say, accept their history, accept their legacy of being part of this white supremacist structure. That's why people are storming the Capitol, not because they're thinking that they think that somehow the election was stolen, but they're being told that, hey, the bill bills come due. This is the reality of the world.

And it's a and for someone I did this project called the Whiteness Project, where I talked to 300 white people being white. It's an existential threat. Like to accept that means I'm not who I think I am. All right. We got more with Erica Alexander and Whitney Dow from the Big Payback podcast. So don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody.

It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Erica Alexander and Whitney Dow from the Big Payback podcast. Charlamagne. One thing that intrigues me about this podcast, the Big Payback, is Whitney's perspective. So I want to hear from both of y'all. You know, Erica, you start. Why was it important to include the perspective of a white male in this conversation? Because it's their debt and it may not be the debt that they say, oh, I know.

So this is the conversation that most people say or they say, I wasn't there. My ancestors did it, but I wasn't there. Why should I pay it? I said, well, you know, you can't say that to victims of Hiroshima, that, you know, they're deformed babies that come out years and years and years after that bomb was dropped and the original victims are dead, that they're not ongoing disfigurement. And so to me, the disfigured position of African-Americans is because of the historical precedent of race and slavery in America. So you talk about redlining, you talk about loans and how it's not only difficult to get a decent loan, but also the discrimination, the prejudice behind it. You talk about the women that go missing all the time and nobody looks for them. They'll launch a huge thing for white

women, but not for black people and black women. It goes on and on and on how many disparities that we are vulnerable to. So it's white people's debt. They should pay it, but it's America's debt. They don't have to worry about paying. Let the federal government pay it because that's their debt. They're the ones who paid it to the Japanese. They're the ones who started to, now they'll officially call reparations to the Native Americans, millions of acres of land, billions of dollars. It's their debt and it's our debt as Americans to make sure that African-American

descendants are considered and more properly this huge apology has to do with an acknowledgement that they've done something to a specific population in America. But who apologized? Is it their president? Is it, you know, who do we get this apology from? We've had a couple.

There's already been an apology, right? And I think the Senate voted for apology, but they said, let's just be clear. This apology can't be used for reparations. I mean, there's like, you know, it wasn't a true apology. But I do think it's the federal government created the system. The federal government created all the structures to, like, impress black people. It's the federal government responsibility to make that better. But I want to answer something you said, you know, Charlotte, about why white people. And it's like it is our debt.

And it's like it's our responsibility to clean it up. It's like when your kids mess up, you make them clean it up. And I really feel that it's that until white people acknowledge that they can't really my role, my job, there's lots of black voices out there, but I want to create white ears who can hear them. And I feel like sometimes I can be the interpreter is that, you know, how it is like white people and black people speak. They don't hear them. They don't want to hear them. And so they pretend they can't hear them. But you know, someone like me perhaps can be the interpreter and allow them to come to the project like this, come to the podcast with open minds and hear it differently than if it were just Erica. Absolutely. How do you determine who gets reparations?

Because I see that argument also going on. And that's an interesting one for me. So who determines that? What if, you know, you're mixed, like just so many different things about reparations. So how do you determine that? Well, I know I gets it. You know, I get it. I know that by the way, if you look at Ados and some of the leaders in that movement, they believe that it should solely be descendants of African-American slaves. Now,

it's hard to determine who that is right now, but I think it's pretty clear. You know, let me put it to you like this. Obama don't gets it. OK, I don't think Kamala gets it. You know, if you really start to look at where they come from, she might have to ask for restitution from Jamaica. Maybe go to, you know, her mother's East Indian. Obviously, Obama is from Kenya and his mother is Kenzian. But Michelle Obama gets it. Her children gets it because they have the blood of slaves running through them from her side. I think that one of those things that we get hung up on is who gets it. But the truth is, America gets it. Because what happens is when you start to really compensate African Americans and it goes inside of their community, it lifts all those

people. Poor whites are in this conversation partly because of the um historical uh damage done to african-americans but you know we shouldn't look obviously angela yee you're mixed and you know somebody might look at envy and say look how light he is he don't get it but he's about his light skin yeah i get it yeah i don't know. She's 50-50, but I'm on it. Indy's Dominican. I ain't Dominican. He's Afro-Latino. I ain't Dominican.

Oh, really? Well, I don't know if you get it. You might have to, you know, throw some dice, brother. Look, I don't know. But I just believe that it's a conversation about that. We got to find the people. But I think that overall, we can figure out where to put that money in those programs. Erica and Whitney, can we achieve true equality in America without reparations of some form? I don't think so. I mean, it's because reparations is about it means repair, right? Repairs the relationship. And I don't think you can have true equality until you really until you acknowledge you're wrong. You repair that relationship. But then it's also the question shall i mean is what is true equality sometimes i get to the point it's like do you actually need that do you mean do you just take it you know what i'm saying like what is what does that actually mean to to to to achieve true equality does that mean that we're all colorblind

we have this it's hard to understand the question i worked a lot in haiti and there was always like is haiti going to change is haiti going to change? Like change to what? Jamaica? The Bahamas? Like, what do you think? Have you been to Haiti? Like, what do you want it to be? In some ways, it's a really cool place because it's not totally owned by the cruise industry and it's kind of this unique spot in the world. So it's hard to know what actually true equality means yeah i always say i don't even know if we can ever achieve civil rights in this country because it's not civil rights that i think the problem is i think it's human rights they just don't look at black people as as humans how can we ever deal with the civil aspect of it if we don't even deal with our

regular human right true you know reverend barbara calls this or mark this time period as the third reconstruction. So I think that means this is the time to rebuild America's foundation as it should have been built since reconstruction. And he knows that's not possible without looking at the moral and monetary obligation, as he calls it, toward the least of these. And he doesn't just stop at African-Americans. He includes poor whites. He includes people of color. He includes this because of the continuation of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King's Poor People's Campaign, which talked about fusion politics, uniting marginalized communities.

But that recipe includes the advancement and the implementation of reparation toward the descendants of enslaved Africans. And I believe like climate change, we talk about climate change, it's an urgent call. We need to save the planet for human beings. But I believe this is our last chance to create America for all Americans, not just as it was meant to be, meaning the founders meant it to be for white American men,

but as it should be. Do you and Whitney bump heads on certain things? Will we hear that on the podcast? You know, Angela, it's about usually about emotion. I get emotional about things. I cry very easily because I realized that there's a lot of anger that I have suppressed. I'm frustrated. You know, so many people would ask me, am I the angry black woman? And I used to say no. I used to be offended. And I realized I'm so freaking angry. I don't know what to do. I'm angry a lot of the times. And so it comes out in these conversations. I didn't understand what my mother was talking about, what she always talked about, white people, white people. She was angry because she couldn't get past their barriers. And she was so deserving. She worked so hard.

Again, I always say my parents were orphans. They had no help in a familiar way. They had to do it with just bearing down, willfully determination, try to get education. And she couldn't get a job after she got her master's, one semester's from a doctorate. And she was 50 years old. So I look at Whitney. He's a Columbia, he's a professor from Columbia. He's got a beautiful family. And I don't think he shouldn't have those things. I'm happy for him. I'm also mad that he has those things. I work hard,

but it's not hard enough to get past my skin color or gender. Certainly not my skin color. And so, yes, we bump heads because I'd sometimes, I'll be honest, take out on him what I can't take out on the world. As you should. Thank you, Whitey Dow.

I thought you were in my corner, Charlamagne here. Did you just call him White down yes yes do you feel like that i do that with me because we we do argue we've had you know look we're kind of working together for a couple of years i think what's interesting about is that you can have like shared goals for doing different motivations and we're trying to get to the same destination so we're locked in this we're locked in mission but we kind of have different missions we have different roads that we're traveling along it but look it's complicated because we live in different realities and so yeah we you know i think that that going into it

i i when i first met eric i was like i was very skeptical i don't know if i want to work with this woman she's a actress movie star i star, da, da, da, da. I'm like, this guy, documentary filmmaker, works in the basement. I don't know if this is a good deal. And I said, Erica, I don't know if this is going to work. She said, Whitney, you think I survived in Hollywood for 30 years without knowing how to handle white people like you? I was like, okay.

I was like, I can work with that. Well, the Big Payback podcast, check it out right that. The Big Payback Podcast. Check it out right now. Erica Alexander, Whitney Dow. Thank you for joining us this morning. The Big Payback Reparations Now and Never. It's available on the Black Effect iHeartRadio Podcast Network. I'm blessed to be able to assist in getting this conversation out there.

And committing to the journey. And thank you and congratulations to y'all for being in the Hall of Fame. Hey. Killer. All right. Thank you, Erica. Thank you, guys. Thank you, Whitney.

All right, P. Bye. 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 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 Ladonia. I'm Jackson I, King of Capraburg. I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia.

Be part of a great colonial tradition. Why can't I create my own country? My forefathers did that themselves. What could go wrong? No country willingly gives up their territory. I was making a rocket with a black powder, you know, with explosive warhead. Oh my God. What is that? Bullets. Bullets. We need help! We 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. What's up, y'all? This is Questlove, and I'm here to tell you about a new podcast I've been working on with the Story Pirates and John Glickman called Historical Records. It's a family-friendly podcast. Yeah, you heard that right.

A podcast for all ages. One you can listen to and enjoy with your kids starting on September 27th. I'm going to toss it over to the host of Historical Records, Nimany, to tell you all about it. Make sure you check it out. Hey, y'all. Nimany here. I'm the host of a brand-new history podcast

for kids and families called Historical Records. Historical Records brings history to life through hip-hop. Each episode is about a different inspiring figure from history. Like this one about Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old girl in Alabama who refused to give up her seat on the city bus nine whole months before Rosa Parks did the same thing. Check it. Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records.

Because in order to make history, you have to make some noise. Listen to Historical Records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. It's about time. What's going on? Rumor Report. Rumor Report.

This is the Rumor Report. Talk to them. With Angela Yee on The Breakfast Club. So Dr. Dre's estranged wife, Nicole Young, has filed documents. She wants the court to let her get access to their marital home because she has some personal belongings there. And get this, she's saying that she's observed several different women posting photos and videos inside the house, and some of them might be wearing her stuff. Can you imagine that you are separated and then you see videos of people wearing your Chanel slides or whatever it

is that you, some of the belongings that you left. She also says that she has a closet with 20 fur coats in a cedar and temperature controlled environment. And she wants to go and get those because if he packs up her stuff and puts it in storage, that would be catastrophic for her furs. They have to remain in that temperature controlled closet.

Rich people problems. Exactly. People wear furs in LA though? Is it that cold? Probably sometimes, I guess at night. And you know how the temperature drops at night i guess she just has no fur travels listen man you just said it's rich people problems right rich people do rich things if i want to wear fur in 70 degree weather let me wear my fur in 70 degree weather okay all right hey it's cold out it's 60 degrees let me put my fur on and callie all right well april jones who people are saying the rumor is that she's been dating dr jay because they were photographed out together going to dinner uh she recently did an interview and she

was talking to madame noir and she was talking about why she was on love and hip-hop she said the whole situation with me and oh on Love & Hip Hop was completely controlled, as far as Omarion. She said, I never even wanted to do freaking reality TV. His management thought it would be good for him to show who he was and his life because there were gay rumors.

So to show he was in a relationship with a woman and having kids and all that, they thought it would be great. If you love somebody, you're going to do it, but I just felt very controlled. I wasn't really myself. On top of that,

I was pregnant both times, so I was really not myself. And when I came out of that relationship, which was fully effing controlled and it was a lot going on, I was like, oh my God, I totally lost myself in that. Managers and publicists come up with the most stupid ideas. You know what I mean? Because sometimes you just got to let people believe what they believe. Let them think what they think. If you're not gay, who who cares if you're not gay and you know you're not gay who cares right but she stayed on the show after that so you know she's saying it was controlled and she didn't want to do it and tell them I don't know go ahead you man shut all right Donald Glover has signed an eight-figure deal with Amazon Studios so they're saying he

has left the Disney-owned FX for Amazon Studios. They're saying he secured that deal, which includes a Prime Video channel that will highlight his work, as well as other curated content. So they have not yet confirmed the details at Amazon Studios. But insiders are saying he'll executive produce a number of projects under that deal, including a potential series called Hive. That's dope. What does that mean for Atlanta? I'm sure Atlanta's probably going to stay on FX.

Under contract for that, so it's not going to affect Atlanta. That's been renewed for two more seasons, so he'll figure, you know, I'm sure that's carved out for him to finish his contract deal that he has with FX for Atlanta, but they do expect that Atlanta will resume in the upcoming months with season three, perhaps premiering later this year.

Look at him, man. That's amazing. That's great. All right. Meek Mill, people are upset about his lyrics. It's a song with Lil Baby that he has, and he references Kobe Bryant, and not in a positive manner. Listen to this.

And if I ever like him going out with my chopper, it'd be another Kobe. he has and he references Kobe Bryant and not in a positive manner. Listen to this. So what he says, if I ever lack, I'm going out with my chopper like Kobe. He said, if I ever lack, I'm going out with my chopper like Kobe. With my chopper like Kobe? He said if I ever lack, I'm going out with my chopper. It be another Kobe-ish. I can tell they ain't never know me. That's what he said.

He's talking about the gun, actually. What do you call that, a double entendre? Is that a double entendre? Yeah, the chopper and the chopper. That hurt my heart because I just thought about how his wife would feel and daughters and people close to him. Like making a joke about, I mean, a pun in music about the Chapa and Kobe. It's painful.

I mean, yeah, it is. But, you know, and I thought the line was whack and distasteful, but it's rap music. Like since the beginning of time, rappers have been saying wild ass, you know, stuff like that. You know, I guess it adds to the shock value of hip hop. But, you know, personally, I know I would be standing on really shaky moral ground to criticize me too much, especially with the stuff we let slide on the regular. Like, yes, Kobe was beloved. So that's probably why it hit home. The accident was tragic.

And personally, I don't see why people play with folks deaf like that. But it hit home. The accident was tragic. And personally, I don't see why people play with folks deaf like that, but it's, it's rap. I just think about Vanessa Bryant. And she's even said like, I can't, please do not post any tributes about cause like she's been asking people, please don't post this.

Please don't do that. We're still grieving. True. But what about, what about a line? Like when Eminem says, uh, when,

when the concert, the bombing happened at the Ariana Grande concert. And he said, I'm contemplating yelling bombs away on the game like I'm outside an Ariana Grande concert. People died in that. Yeah. People were telling me about that. When Eminem said that line. Yeah. And people were outraged about that.

People have been doing it for a long time. I mean, there's lines with Hov doing it. There's lines with, like you said, Eminem doing it. I'm sure Fab might have said a line something similar when talking about something like that I've heard Columbine lines I think you also have to know when you do something

like that you know it is going to affect people and people are going to have an issue with it I mean in your head you have to say if I say this I know there's going to be some backlash there's no question absolutely Lil Wayne said I beat the boom boom up like I'm going to tell. Like, this has happened so many times. And he took that out and apologized.

Yeah, I just feel like I would be standing on really shaky moral ground to criticize me. Because it'd be hypocrisy. Because it's so much stuff that we let slide on the regular. All right. Now, Therabody. Have you guys ever used that Theragun? No. It's like a massage gun.

Yeah. Yeah, I use that. I bought one for Logan because he plays football, but yeah. All right. Well, in their latest round of investing, Therabody is a company that makes Theragun. They got a lot of support from more than 100 names in sports, business, culture, and entertainment. People like Kevin Durant, Rihanna, Russell Wilson, Sierra, all of these people have now invested in Therabody. They said

Therabody is at the forefront of incredible opportunities in the wellness space. And we look forward to seeing what else they're going to accomplish. So they tripled its overall revenue since 2017. The company has 126 patents globally and another 138 pending. And they have their products in approximately 10,000 stores around the world. A lot of support there. All right. Well, that is your rumor report. All right. Thank you, Ms. Yee.

Charlamagne, who are you giving that donkey to? Oh, man. We need a Texas mayor named Tim Boyd to come to the front of the congregation. Like, this ain't rap. You know what I'm saying? The wild, distasteful stuff that Tim Boyd said, this ain't rap. We'll talk about it for after the hour. All right.

We'll get you that next. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. It's time for Donkey of the Day. Donkeys of the Day at Charlemagne. I'm a Democrat, so being Donkey of the day is a little bit of a mixed question. So like a donkey, keyhole, donkey of the day. The practice club, bitches.

Now, I've been called a lot in my 23 years that donkey of the day is a new one. Yes, donkey of the day for Thursday, February 18th goes to Texas Mayor Tim Boyd. Tim Boyd is, or should I say was, the mayor of Colorado City. Before I tell you what he did, let me tell you the backstory. We all are in our own worlds here on this planet, so some of us may not be familiar with what's going on in Texas right now, but a deadly and record-breaking winter storm has left much of the state without power this week. I saw the good brother, Trader Truth, truth. I saw him post that people are sleeping in cars and dying due to carbon monoxide poisoning. And Trey pointed out something that is clearly ringing true because Trey said, and I quote,

the problem for us is the people who in positions of power in Texas felt the money was more important. How to F government and politicians allow this and allow ERCOT to F us over. ERCOT is the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. By the way, they operate the electric grid for 75 percent of the state, from what I read. Now, people in Texas have gone without power for our food for three days, says Trey. So. Really serious situation happening in Texas. I mean, prayers up for everybody in Texas. Who do people turn to in times like this? Who helps folks in situations like this?

Because the Avengers are fictional characters. So is the Justice League. I would love for one to create an alternate reality in Texas right now where they are not being hit with a winter storm. But that's not reality. OK, this isn't a Marvel Disney Plus TV show. In times like this, the people that are supposed to help are the elected officials, the public servants we put into office to protect, provide, and serve our communities. So we think. I literally said to you in the 6 a.m. hour in regards to Joe Biden not wanting to cancel student loan debt, that I don't care if it's Republican or Democrat. They don't care about helping anyone except the rich and elite. Okay. That always comes first in this country. These corporations will get bailouts, but the people will starve. It never fails. And this situation in Texas is no different.

Keep in mind what I said about Texas. Okay. Keep in mind what Trey said about Texas. Deadly winter storm. Trader Truth said elders and babies are dying from carbon monoxide poisoning because they have to sleep in their cars. Folks haven't eaten or had power in three days, says Trader Truth. And the mayor of Colorado City, Texas, Tim Boyd, the mayor, had this to say. Let's go to KRBC NBC 9 for the report, please. The strong will survive and the weak will perish. Harsh words from Colorado City Mayor Tim Boyd as residents continue to fight the cold. Mitchell County Judge Mark Merrill says the area has been struggling to keep water and some

electricity on since Monday. And as many in the county look for help, Colorado City's mayor says don't look to him. Quoting, it's not the local government's responsibility to support you during trying times like this sink or swim it's your choice colorado city's mayor has resigned but others say the city is still working to step up and keep residents warm during the storm i'm gonna be honest with you that news report didn't uh you know uh do it didn't give what Tim Boyd wrote any real justice. They really watered what he said down. Let me read it for you, okay? This is Tim Boyd verbatim, raw. I'm not putting no sauce on this. I will read you Tim Boyd's whole statement in full. Let me hurt some feelings while I have a minute. No one owes you or your family anything, nor is it the local government's responsibility

to support you during trying times like this. Sink or swim, it's your choice. The city and county, along with power providers or any other service, owes you nothing in capital letters. I'm sick and tired of people looking for a damn handout with an exclamation mark. If you don't have electricity, you step up and come up with a game plan to keep your family warm and safe. If you have no water, you deal without and think outside of the box to survive and supply water to your family. If you are sitting at home in the cold because you have no power and are sitting there waiting for someone to come rescue you because you're lazy, it's a direct result of your raising. Only the strong will survive and the

weak will perish. Folks, God has given us the tools to support ourselves in times like this. This is sadly a product of a socialist government where they feed people to believe that the few will work and others will become dependent for handouts. Am I sorry that you have been dealing without electricity and water? Yes, I can't tell, Tim, but I'll be damned if I'm going to provide for anyone that is capable of doing it themselves. We have lost sight of those in need and those that take advantage of the system and mesh them into one group. Bottom line, quit crying and looking for a handout. Get off your ass and take care of your own family. End quote. Tim Boyd, I need you to shut the F up forever. All all right these are the folks who are in

who are in leadership positions in america how can you say power providers or any other service owes the people nothing of course they do they owe the people power and good service that's what they pay for every month you know what happens if a regular everyday citizen tells the power company i owe you nothing the power company, I owe you nothing. The power company will say, oh, word. And they will cut off that person's policy. The reason this mayor thinks the power company doesn't owe the people anything is because he knows the people need the power companies more than the companies need the people. The people have no choice but to have power. And the man knows this. And that's why he's flexing on his constituents in this manner. The mayor said he's sick and tired of people looking for a handout. Sir, this weather storm, this winter storm is an act of God.

Folks are in distress. They need help. If my house is on fire and I call the fire department to come put it out, that's not me asking for a handout. That's me as a taxpaying citizen utilizing resources that I help pay for. For you to tell those residents in Texas, if you don't have electricity, you don't have water, to come up with a different game plan to keep your family warm and safe, to think outside of the box, to survive. Tim Boyd, tell me your plan. I bet you got water. I bet you got electricity. I bet you got food. Meanwhile, you on Facebook talking down on the people you're supposed to be serving, sounding like you're quoting the hook of Ha by Juvenile. You told the residents of Texas, you know what it is. You make nothing out of something. You handle your business. Don't be crying and suffering. If you don't get your

human jaw and Hellman's head ass up out of here, I hate when people chastise folks for problems that the people they chastise and didn't create. You call these people lazy as if they created this snowstorm, as if they put themselves in these positions. You blame their present condition on the way they were raised? Okay, you might be right, because a lot of these people weren't born privileged. They were raised in the poverty. They were raised poor and disenfranchised. And because of socioeconomic conditions of this country, they just simply haven't been able to rise because of good old boys like Tim Boyd, systemically keeping their foot on folks' necks. That is the American way, ladies and gentlemen. Okay, the American way is to systemically oppress and marginalize folks. And then when the most vulnerable among us is exposed by situations like this, situations that are out of their control,

the people in positions of power victim blame instead of taking accountability. What you and your piss poor administration, Tim Boyd, is clearly not doing now. Of course, the post was deleted. Tim received backlash. So he gave us the mandatory fake apology after things like this happened. Let me read it. I would never want to hurt the elderly or anyone that is in true need of help to be left to fend for themselves. I was only making the statement that those folks that are too lazy to get up and fend for themselves, but are capable, should not be dealt a handout. I apologize for the wording and some of the phrases that were used. Once again, Tim, shut the F up forever.

It's an act of God. You do realize that an act of God can bring anyone to their knees, rich, poor, black, white. It doesn't matter. Tim, you and your family could be in that position one day, just like that. Snap of Thanos' thumb, okay? Earthquakes, hurricanes, blizzards, they don't give a damn about your financial status. They will take your home right out. And then what? We're going to tell you to get it how you live, just like you did those families in their time of need. Now, Tim Boyd has resigned, which I'm shocked about. Usually the privileged leaders among us just say to hell with y'all. I said what I said, but he resigned

and his wife got fired for his comments. See, knowing when to open your mouth and when to keep it shut is valuable wisdom tim you should have kept the lid on the mayonnaise jar aka your mouth all right please let chelsea handler give tim boyd the biggest hee-haw hee-haw hee-haw that is way too much dan mayonnaise all right people Thank you for that dunk here today. All right. Up next, Ask Yee. 800-585-1051. If you need relationship advice or any type of advice, call Yee right now. Phone lines are wide open.

It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Come on, mom. Need relationship advice? Need personal advice? Just need need real advice call up now for ask ye morning everybody it's dj envy angela ye charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club it's time for ask ye hello who's this hi it's chantelle hey chantelle what's your question for you um i've been with my boyfriend now for eight years.

We have two children together. And like any young couple, we've been off and on. You know, we've had our problems. But more recently, with this last love child we made, we were doing good. Everything I needed was being, you know, met, communication Communication our goals was in line and being out of nowhere back in September. I went through his phone and Think that he was entertaining females on social media through master. Yes Really, you know just doing the most like one girl was begging her to cut him back on. I was just confused.

Like, what did she cut you off of? But anyway, we talked about it. Nothing was physical, and that's why I was, like, willing to move on. Nothing I came across made it seem like he was getting down with anybody. So I was like, okay. I forgave him. We talked about it, and I told him there. I said, you know, I'm not going to keep going through this.

I'm too old. I got too much going on to be going. I feel like this is childish. If that's where you want to be, leave me alone. You know, so that was in September. Out of nowhere, here we go, February 15th. He passed out drunk. I go through his phone.

And now he's being sneaky about it. He's actually still conversating with these females, but he's deleting it. And the only reason I caught it is because he screen recorded it to show his friends. Wow, that's embarrassing. Ain't it? This is crazy because I want to say a few things here. You guys have been off and on. It probably feels like to him, y'all will go through it, but you're always going to be back together with him so he can kind of do him because you ain't going nowhere.

It's been eight years. You had two kids together, so he's not concerned about that at all. Secondly, all his friends know what he's doing. That's embarrassing. Now you got to be around them. I got to see you. You got to be. And you always think, oh, his friends is laughing at me because they know what he's doing behind my back they know he don't even take me seriously family right so

everybody knows so now you feel like boo boo the fool yeah all right listen he loved me and he it's nothing but i guess my question is is him flirting i mean to me it's it's heartbreaking i'm not willing to put up with it, but is that now what 2021 is about? It is not, and there is no way you should be excusing his behavior as just flirting or this is what 2021 is about. Don't let him convince

you that, okay? Because that is dead wrong. He's out here seeking validation, and who knows if this will lead to something physical, because if not, what's the point of him even doing that? Does he feel like it makes him feel attractive? Is it good for his ego? What is it that you feel like, am I not doing what he needs me to do for this relationship to work?

And it's completely disrespectful. Yeah. So, I just think that, you know, y'all have been through a lot. Like you said, you've been off and on. Y'all have been together for eight years. And he's still not taking it seriously. What do you need to do for yourself? Because don't you want to be in a relationship

where you're not going through someone's phone? Where you don't even have to think like that? Exactly. Yes, I do. And I've never been that type. I've never been the jealous type. I've never been the go-to-the-phone type. He never even gave me any clues that I had to do that. It was really like, oh, just on a humble.

I just don't know something, you know? And then I became that person. Yeah, and I do think when you realize you're not who you are in a relationship, then that means things aren't going well. When I'm acting out of character and I'm like, why am I feeling jealous? Why am I feeling like I got to go through this phone? Why am I feeling insecure? That's not a good sign. So he needs to get some help. He needs to do, you need to decide what it

is you have to tell him he needs to do. And in the meantime, I feel like you have to realize that we are not in a committed relationship until you can fulfill these goals. And I just can't see it working until he does what he needs to do. And you feel more comfortable and that's going to take time. Is he willing to step up to the plate to do that though is the question. So you need to figure out what I have to tell him. Well, tell him what it is specifically that he needs to do to make you feel comfortable. And if that means making his account private, if that means that you have access to his account so you can see what he's doing, whatever it is that you need, don't let him tell you no. And if he's not willing to do those things, then he's not willing to save your relationship.

Okay. Thank you. All right. You're welcome, girl. I wish you so much luck. I do hope things work out for you guys, but he has to make the most effort right now because you can't trust him. And once that trust is broken, no one wants to live in a relationship where they're always second-guessing everything. When he leaves the house, who is he on the phone with?

Why is his phone turned upside down? I mean, he's always in his phone, always glued in his hand and his face. And anytime I kind of look over, he don't, you know, basketball, some sports related. It's just real convenient, you know? Right. All right. Well, sounds like you a good woman, but you can't keep holding down somebody that's doing things like that and embarrassing you and being disrespectful. Yeah. Thank you. You're welcome. Good luck. All right. Ask Yee. 800-585-1051. If you need relationship advice, hit Yee right now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Get some real advice with Angela Ye yee it's ask yee morning everybody it's dj

envy angela yee charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club we're in the middle of ask yee hello who's this yo this mo from the bronx what's up okay what's up yo so what's your question for you? So basically I got I got a dog pregnant And I want to know like Man, do I stay with her or do I go? You got a woman pregnant And you don't know if you should stay with her Do you want to be with her? I mean, she a good girl, whatever

But she used to be around So I don't know what I want to do So you're trying to say in the past she's got a lot of bodies, but that bothers you now? I mean, you feel me? I ain't planning to get her pregnant, but it happens. Alright, let's take the

pregnancy out of this. Is this somebody that you would want to be with? No, not really. Why not? Cause it's like, you feel me? I'm 24. I'm living. Okay, so you're just not ready to be in a relationship. It has nothing to do with her past.

You just said she's a good girl, but she's been around. You feel me? I'm from the Bronx. You feel me? So her rep means a lot. So what she did, what about you? Have you been around? You feel me?

But that's a double standard of life. I feel like, you know, you're supposed to get around, you know Like, I don't know So you're saying it's okay for you But it's not okay for her It's definitely okay for me I'm a guy It's like, f*** for a woman

Is what, I don't know What I'm supposed to do That don't sound ridiculous to you? So you could do whatever you want In the past But when she was single and mingling That's an issue now Even though it's in her past, but when she was single and mingling, that's an issue now, even though it's in her past. And you said she's a good girl.

I mean... You know, if you're real confident in yourself and secure in who you are, it should not matter what anybody thinks about your girl. True, true, but no. I understand. I understand. I'm here for advice. I'm listening. So if you want to be with this woman or you want to at least give the relationship a chance, then you do that

because you said she's a good girl. Don't let what other people might think about your girl bother you. It should only matter what you think about your girl. And if you say she's good now, if she treats you well, if she's great to you.

Man, you got her pregnant pregnant take care of your responsibilities you can't take the pregnancy out of this and you better be a good father because that child did not have to be here it's not about that he's asking if he should be with her that is what it's about

it's about taking care of that child you can take care of your child and not be together you don't have to be with somebody just because you guys have a baby but you told him take the pregnancy out of it

you can't in this situation that's the most important thing in this situation what I'm saying is if his question is does he want to be with somebody just because you guys have but you told him take the you told him take the pregnancy out of it you can't in this situation that's the most important thing what i'm saying is if his question is does he want to be with her or not you're not you don't stay with somebody just because they're pregnant you can still be a father and he knows responsibilities but what i'm saying is if you want to be with her it's not about whether she's pregnant that you want to be with her it's about whether or not you want to be with her yes still be a father still handle your responsibilities, but you're not forced to be with someone. I'm a hustler, you feel me?

You know, some people look down on that. She's not on the same type of time as I'm on, you know what I mean? I'll be having a coach and father and certain shit. I'm confused.

Yeah, I'm lost. Are you hustling as a street hustler or you just hustle like you get money? I mean, yeah, I'm getting money both ways, both ways. Okay. And I'm sure people judge you for that, right? Yeah, but, you know, I live in a Bronx. It's like, I don't know. There's no judging once you get a buddy

it's like dang at least you get a daughter you gotta take care of your kid regardless you gotta take care of your kid regardless you have to have

a relationship with the mom whether you wanna be with her or not you have to have a great relationship for your child you lay down with that woman

and things happen and now you gotta be a man man up I'm so sorry the first thing is of course are you planning you are planning to take care of your child, right?

That wasn't the question. I mean, yeah, of course I take care of my child. I take care of my B.M. I'm the one who pay everything. You know, I pay the bills and put the food on the table and all that. You just don't know if you want to wife her. It's crazy. I can't believe that girl.

All you need to do is make sure that she has a safe pregnancy. Just be good and be there for her throughout her pregnancy so the baby is safe and healthy. And you can work on your relationship and decide. You don't got to make that decision right now as far as whether you guys are co-parenting or in a relationship. But I think, you know, just handle your responsibilities as a father. And then you guys will decide in time but don't judge her based off of her past her past is you know it's cliche but your past is what makes you who you are today she wouldn't be the person that she is right now that you say is a good girl

if she hadn't done the things that she would have done in her past and lived her life and you add it to her body count you know she had a lot of bodies before you slept with her. You got her pregnant. Take care of your responsibilities. She's spilling the tea. This is the Rumor Report with Angela Yee on The Breakfast Club. Well, Tammy Roman posted a video of herself, and she's very emotional. She's in Atlanta working.

She said her house in Texas is destroyed. Here's what she had to say. I'm sitting in my trailer, just trying to keep it together because I know I got to go and perform today. Like everything is okay. Everything I've been working so hard for, be here. My children just ripped away in an instant. And I know everybody is going through something. But I just wanted to offer prayers up for you and your situation. That's hard. Yeah, so you can watch her full statement on Instagram. Now, Kanye, according to reports, is not doing well amidst his split from Kim Kardashian.

So some people thought they would get back together, but it looks like it's not happening. A source told People Magazine he's anxious and very sad. He knows the marriage is over and there's nothing that can be done right now. He also knows what he is losing in Kim. She has defended him privately to her family. She has stood beside him at a time where a few wives would have done that. There is very little hope of reconciliation.

It would have to be a miracle, but Kanye does believe in miracles. It was like the source is the Kardashians. Yeah, it definitely seems like the source is the Kardashians. But I would say it is no matter what happens in anybody's family, especially your wife, it doesn't matter what happened that that hurts you. That'll put you in an adult place if you ever think about losing your family or losing your wife. So I get it. I understand completely. Yeah, that's your that's your wife.

That's the mother of your kids. It's like, you know, who wants to live like that? You know what I mean? Who wants to live without a without a wife by their side? Got to go see your kids on weekends. Come on, man. The same insider said Kim doesn't want to hurt him. She just knows she can't be married to him anymore. He's very aware that she's been a good wife. He still loves her very much, but he understands.

I wonder if Chris knows we can see her. Chris, we can see you. We can see you, Chris. Okay? Now, another source, I don't know if it's the same source, told E! News exclusively that while Kim and Kanye's relationship may be nearing its end, their kids do remain the top priority and that he can see his children whenever he wants. And they said she's moving on and having a lot of fun at this stage in her life. She feels like she is already divorced and they are at a standstill currently and neither of them are pushing to make their split official. At this point in time, there's no rush for paperwork to be finalized.

Okay, Chris just passed the phone to Kim. That was Kim just now. So Chris passed the phone to Kim, and then Kim started whispering and said that second part. Okay, we got it. All these sources telling all these different mainstream outlets. All right, LeBron says he wants to create an album. He said on social media, my love for music is insane. I think I'm going to do an album.

Oh, no, I won't be rapping or anything like that. I'm not crazy. I know what I'm great at. But I tell you one thing, I do have so many friends that can. Thinking out loud. Yeah, that'd be dope. I think that'd be dope. We put together a complicate, I was going to say complication, a compilation album.

A complicated album. Who would all do it? Who would all do it? Who would all do it during the nba season all the odyssey supports i think that'd be dope all right now nikki jam when he was on the breakfast club he was excited to talk about his wedding he was planning to get married uh to his fiance and you know they uh got engaged on valentine's day last year well and here he is on the breakfast club talking about uh his upcoming wedding.

Where's the wedding going to be? We're thinking about Malibu and L.A. You know what I'm saying? So y'all invite if y'all want to go. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I mean, if y'all want to go. You know what I'm saying? I'm just being, I know Charlamagne's not going to go over there.

Like, I ain't going over there. I know that wedding's going to be amazing. I like a good wedding. All right. Well, now he's single. A year later, I guess it's not happening anymore.

He said in an interview that they're no longer together. He said the situation of the pandemic, of quarantine, affected the situation a bit. And the truth is it just didn't work out.

There are a lot of things involved, different culture, languages, many little things that at the end it just didn't work out. So, oh, and I'm excited for this. Regina King

is going to produce and star as Shirley Chisholm in a biopic that's directed by John Ridley. I am so excited because I feel like we all need to see Shirley Chisholm's story on that big screen. And so now it's going to happen. And there are several different projects focused on her. She was the first black woman in the Senate, and she also had launched a 1972 presidential campaign, which was historical at that time. And now they're doing a movie on her. So that's going to be really dope. All of them.

But, um, Shirley Chisholm, I think is so amazing. And she's from Brooklyn. So, yeah, you got,

you got to get it right. You know what I'm saying? Because, you know, Judas and the black Messiah hit hard. So when you do those types of films on, you know, great black icons,

you got to get them right. Well, the film is being produced based on the life story rights through an exclusive agreement with the Chisholm estate. Also, though, because the bar I hold it to, I hold it to, you know, the autobiography and Malcolm X. I hold it to do this in the Black Messiah. Like those are the bars I hold, you know, movies like that, too. So. All right. All right. Well, that is your rumor report. Now, our revolt will see you tomorrow

everybody else the people's choice mixes up next today is dr dre's birthday and joelle santana's birthday so we're going to get some of that on during the mix so don't move it's the breakfast club good morning morning everybody it's dj envy angela yee charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club now it's black history month we repping today Charlemagne man today I want to honor and celebrate a man who's become a friend of mine I'm glad to be able to call him an OG I'm talking about none other than Dr. Claude Anderson earlier in the show we had Erica Alexander and Whitney Dow on to talk about their podcast that just launched today called the big payback it's on the Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network, available everywhere you listen to podcasts now. And the conversation is about what Black people are owed economically in this country. And yesterday,

we had Rashad and Troy on from the Earn Your Leisure podcast talking about financial literacy and the Black community, financial empowerment, because financial freedom might be our only hope. Okay. And Dr. Claude Anderson has been on the forefront of that conversation forever. If you've never read Powernomics, his book, you need to because he describes black economic empowerment as building a proverbial structure with multiple floors. Let's listen to when he was on The Breakfast Club breaking it down. The Breakfast Club presents a new Black History Month legend. This is my power dynamics plan. I'm giving you the power dynamics plan now.

One, I gave you about the social construct. Second thing I want you to do is demand that there be a permanent office for Native Black affairs established in the White House, which means any issue that goes down, you got a peace person sitting there where the president is, like a sort of dictating what your needs are and what kind of, what your resources needs are. That's the second thing. The third thing I want you to be able to demand that right now that we have, I have a power dynamics plan for setting up jobs in the United States for black folk. I want them to build a Southern high-speed rail system in the South that would run from Atlanta, Georgia to Dallas, Texas.

It'll run at 150 miles an hour, take you from Atlanta, Georgia to Dallas, Texas. And when you build businesses around those centers, this is for the black folk because that's called a southern black belt running from the east coast to the west coast. The fourth thing I want you to do is also tell them to now, before they start bringing in more immigrants in this country, tell them to require Congress, that Congress do an examination of the negative impact that immigration has on Black folk. Nobody ever makes that point. The only people that's damaged and injured by immigrants coming into this country is Black folk. And the next point is this, that I want you to establish a focusing on the reparations for black folk in the country. And the question they keep asking the whites, where is the money going to?

It should be set up in what we call I would call regional distribution banks where black folk can borrow that money to start businesses in the major black urban areas in the United States. Every major black city, you should get about five or six of them should have a reparations bank there that's what i want now for reparations funds and don't be worried about how much money will each black person get no i want to put into a special revolve a revolving loan fund where blacks can borrow that money and be able to start businesses in in those areas urban areas and that was another new black history month legend, courtesy of The Breakfast Club. That's right. Once again, go grab Powernomics, man, his book, if you've never read it. That is a great Black History Month read, man. Salute to Dr. Claude Anderson. I love that brother dearly. All right. Now, when we come back, we got the positive notes, so don't move. It's The Breakfast

Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Yes. And you know Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Yes, and you know, as Black History Month continues, we are having the first ever iHeartRadio Living Black event. It's all taking place this Saturday at 6 p.m. Eastern. It'll feature performances from today's biggest hip-hop, R&B, and gospel artists. That includes Arati Rich, 21 Savage, Jhene Aiko, Kirk Franklin, and more. It's also produced by My Girl Emmy and Grammy award winning producer, Ricky Hughes.

They'll be showcasing once in a lifetime performances and making for a powerful audio and visual celebration of the black experience featuring artists, actors, creators, and black leaders who have shaped culture. So make sure you tune in to I heart radio living black show this Saturday at 6.

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