The Breakfast Club - The Breakfast Club BEST OF - 2 Chainz Interview & Jess Hilarious Gives Co-Parenting Advice To Callers

Episode Date: April 9, 2026

Best of 2026 - 2 Chainz Interview, And Jess Hilarious Gives Co-Parenting Advice To Callers. Recorded 2026. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Drake can't lose nothing. Drake can't lose nothing, all right? I know Drake lost a lot of sleep for the last year and some change, okay? No, he didn't. No, he didn't. I'm not arguing with you. All right. Well, she's looking at you.

You found it. I don't know. She don't see it. No, what's the Instagram? F and what? FN underscore bond, B, B, O and D.S. F and, yeah. I can't see anything.

He has, like. It's a private page. Oh, he's a private page. Oh, yeah. Hold on. Yeah, genius. He's about to make it unprivate for you right now. He's about to make it unprofit.

You're doing. You DM on Friday. 6.36 a.m. on Friday what he said? He said, when you're going to give up this single? Hold on. You ain't got to poop me out there. He basically said when I'm coming home. Oh, when you're coming home?

This might be your future husband and you're putting this business out there. My bad. Well, we'll see. We'll see. We've got to analyze you. You call on the radio station telling me to check the DM. You know the listeners want to hear what you had to say. You should just see it in a job and all that.

All right, man. I like the energy. I like the fact that he sent the message, but then he did a follow-up phone call just to make sure you received said message, and he's willing to put himself out there over the air for everybody to express his desires for you, Lord. I respect that.

I don't like the single ready to mingle. Like, that seems like he rarely our age. He does the electric slide for sure. He definitely does electric slide. First of all, the electric slide is not an age thing. You too should know the electric slide if you are black. I do it. I do it, but y'all be doing it before they start doing that extra clap-clat when they bend over.

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Yo, Charlemagne. Izzy, what up? Are we live? This is your time to get it off your chest. I got an indoor pool. I want to hear from you on the breakfast club. We can get on the phone right now. We'll tell you what it is.

We live? Hello, who's this? This is this? I'm calling out of Pennsylvania. What's up, Damon from Pennsylvania? You get it off your chest, Damon. Good morning to y'all, DJ Envy, Shalamee, and Jess Hilarious. Good morning.

Beam Damon. I just want to give a shout out for my kids. Braden. His kids. I just want to give a shout out to my kids. Jaylon, Braden, Man, and Maya, Faith Man. Salute to those beautiful children, man. Thank you.

I appreciate it. Have a good one. You too. All right now. Hello, who's this? Hey, how's it going? Don. Don, what up?

Get it off your chest, Dawn. First morning, I want to say good morning, y'all. Good morning, Dawn. Good morning, morning. I'm from Florida. And I just want to get off my chest that, you know, it's been hard lately, trying to be happy. And I used to have a lot of suicidal thoughts and a lot of depression going on. And I had to confront it recently before it got worse.

And honestly, it's been a great journey. that I've ever since confronting it and I just want to tell everybody, you know, just take that first step. Don't wallow in your depression and anger. Talk to somebody. Don't matter who it is. Just talk to somebody.

I totally agree. Did you talk to a therapist or pastor? Who did you speak about it? I did have a therapist for a little bit, but it just wasn't, for me, it wasn't working. I didn't think we're getting anywhere. So I had to talk to a mentor of mine, a spiritual mentor.

that I have. Okay. And she actually gave me some clarity. You know, I got both, brother. I got a therapy and I got a spiritual leader. You know, sometimes you just got to find a mentally competent therapist. I mean, therapy, therapy isn't for everybody. But, you know, I think you should probably give it another shot.

Just try to find somebody who's culturally competent, man. That actually, that you don't got to explain things to. Yeah. I agree with that. I just, I didn't feel like wanted to, I don't want to go searching anymore down that route. I wanted to go back to the route, which is, He's dealing with my spirituality. I love that.

You know, I believe in God and therapy. That's what I say all the time. Yeah. All right, brother. Well, I'm glad you're doing better, brother. And if you look at you, if you want to, if you ever want to give therapy another shot, go to Mental Wealthallions.org, man.

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Joining us We're talking about A call that called in Yesterday During get it off your chest She was a big stud And she was mad That her girlfriend

I don't like how you said That Don't disrespect the stud community Like that About some He was a big Stud

I know she was a big Like big Like big Like big Like big Like big Like big Like big stuff about?

Oh, big energy. Big energy. Oh, okay. Like, she was a big stunt. Like Big D energy. Yeah, yeah. I give what you saying. She had big,

energy, is what you're saying. Oh, what I would say. Big Deldo energy. Damn, I like that. I like that. I like that. You like that. You like that.

I like that. It's like somebody getting electrocuted when she pulled that thing out. Damn. Y'all might as well say. Damn, nothing. You went too far. See, oh, my God.

Now when I say, I believe her. You always got to go to. Yeah, yeah. Play too much. All right. Let listen to the call. So I have a girlfriend that I've been with for a year and a half.

We live together. We got a cat. You know real lesbian. Yes. Yes. Three cats in the house. Talk to us. So she's a nurse.

She's telling me a few months ago she started getting close with some girl at work. The girl is her work wife. I tell her to nip it in the bud. She don't do it. Then I go through her phone on Christmas Day. I see her texting with the girl and the girl's talking like, what you wear in, I can't wait to seize type shit. Today we had a big fight.

She turned her location off and she left the crib. I drag her through her ear pods, my dude. Wow. She has the Shorty's house. Yo, damn. Crazy. I pulled up to the crib. I said, come outside.

She said, you in the wrong place, I'm not here. I knock on the front door. I'm not here. They told me they're going to pull the top, and I'm like, nah, fuck you all, you know. All right, so we're asking 800, 585, 105. One, do you mind if your significant other has a house, I said a house, work wife, a work husband? Now, I want the record to show.

What? A normal show would have just said, do you mind if your significant other has a work wife or work husband? Actually, the stud lesbian aspect of it has nothing to do with any of it. But that's what the conversation is starting from. But that's what the conversation is starting to do it. It really did. I like that call.

And there's an interesting story, too. It was an interesting story. But that's where the call came from. She said she doesn't want her wife to have her girlfriend to have that. Yeah. So let's start with you. Would you mind if Chris had a workwife? Yes.

I absolutely would mind. Like, I don't think the label is going too far when you see wife and husband. Why you just can't have a work friend, you know what I'm saying? Or a coworker that you're really cool with. Like, why does it have to be? Why does the term have to be work wife, work husband? I don't think it's appropriate. I don't like it.

Now, a lot of times it is platonic. You know what I mean? but a lot of times it's not. Right. So, and you never know. I want you, nah, nah. Either we all friends or we not friends. Yeah, like, no.

Uh-uh. Solomon? Yeah, I don't like it. I don't like the term. Like, like, just said, like you shouldn't be calling nobody else your husband. You shouldn't be calling nobody else your wife. You know, those are like sacred titles.

You know what I mean? Those are titles that you earn. And, you know, you can't just be calling nobody your work, husband, work, wife. And to me, like, it's set, it applies other connotations. Yes. You know what I'm saying? Like, why do it?

is that got to be your work husband, a work wife. You know what I mean? No, I don't like that. I don't like that. I don't like that. I don't like that was funny. Me and Envy do it. Yeah.

I'd be like, that's my work husband, but that's just as a joke. Exactly. And then y'all wives know each other, you know, y'all wives know y'all. He played too much, though. He played too much. When we play, when we outside of work,

he's still playing. I don't want to play. But that's because the streets, no. The streets know, no, no, no, not, no, no, the streets know you my work bottom. You're actually my work bottom, She has the way I look at you. What?

Uh-uh. What's he fun? So you're going to... Hello, who's this? Peace. It's J.R. from Brooklyn. J.R. from Brooklyn. What's up?

Talk to us, J.R. What's your thoughts? What's going on? My thoughts is, ain't no work wives. Ain't no work husbands, you know what I mean? Because, you know, soon as you get a little attitude with me, should go to work, talk about, you know, oh, he's not doing me right. Next thing you know, a shoulder to cry on becoming meet the rick on.

I ain't with that. You right? You right. That's right. And I ain't going front, man. Something happened on my algorithm one day where I clicked on one video, and then I just went down a whole thing of videos where it's these girls talking about, this is how you take care of your friend.

And it's like girls giving guys his... Oh, hell no, no, no. That's what I'm saying. I'm not sure you got to work from home. Matter of fact, Amazon got to leave a package on the steps. Don't even ring the bell. Damn. Thank you, brother.

Hello, who's this? Hey, this. No, though. Hey, that all the chores, man. Nardo, what's up, talk to us? What's your thoughts? Hey, man, good morning to y'all, man. I listen to y'all in the morning.

I want to start that out. Thank you, morning. Yes, sir. But, yeah, I think these days now, being in a relationship, when you with a person and they're at a job site and they see this work for 9, 10, 12 hours out of the day, you know, they tend to go on lunch dates and, you know, that's going to happen.

And I think, you know, you just got to either accept it or leave it. Because really, that's what goes on. Do you have a work wife, bro? No, I drive trucks, brother. I just started my own business. Cool little Express, man. Okay. You got to work a lot, Lizard?

Hey. Try I have a, no, no. I know. I heard that laugh. Hey, most definitely don't. Is that one rest stop on the route you be going, do you got some men? You'll leave that man alone. Goodbye, no.

He's a dope. Hello, who's this? Don't Dion. Dion, what's up, brother? Talk to us. What's your thoughts? All right, good morning. First of all of y'all, everything you y'all do.

I think y'all are amazing. Thank you, ma'am. We appreciate you, man. Thank you. But another thing, I think the girl was insane for telling her girlfriend, she got a work wife. Yeah. I think that you got to keep that to yourself. I'll have plenty of workwives that didn't lead to nothing at all.

But I ain't like I told my grader. Like, I just kept it to me. We just getting coffee and doing stuff like that. We ain't doing nothing crazy. Now, that's the thing. The reason why I thought it was. It wasn't crazy that she told her girlfriend that she had a workwife. What made it crazy is that you really effing with your workwife.

Like, y'all getting intimate, y'all, y'all flirting and dealing with each other. She went in the phone, saw messages, and she was cheating on her girlfriend with her workwife. That's where it went wrong. It got crazy. That's a whole other conversation. I was working with specifically. Hey, you know what I'm saying? Now, you can't even tell you to yourself.

She is, you always home for that. I can't ever go back for that. Now, Dion, answer the real way, right? Have you ever flirted with your work wife? I mean, of course. That's why it's my workwife. But it ain't up to happen. No, but see, you shouldn't be flirting.

You know your wife would not allow you to be flirting. Would you tell your wife you was flirting with your workwife? Of course not. Okay. That's why you don't say nothing. That's why you don't say nothing. No, you don't, listen, my rule is you don't do nothing. You can't tell your wife about it.

If you can't tell your wife about it, you know you ain't got no business doing it. Now, if you're just joining us, this conversation actually came from a woman who called yesterday during Get It Off Your Chess. Let's listen to the call. So I have a girlfriend that I've been with for a year and a half. We live together. We got a cat. You know real lesbian. Yes.

Yes. Okay. Three cats in the house. Talk to us. So she's a nurse. She's telling me a few months ago she started getting close with some girl at work. The girl is her work wife. I tell her to nip it in the bud.

She don't do it. Then I go through her phone on Christmas Day. I see her texting with the girl and the girl's talking like, what you're wearing, I can't wait to see you type shit. Today we had a big fight. She turned her location off and she left the crib. I drag her through her ear pods, my dude. Wow.

He has the Shorty's house. Yo, damn. Crazy. I pulled up to the crib. I said, come outside. She said, you in the wrong place. I'm not here. I knock on the front door.

I'm not here. They told me they're going to pull the top and I'm like, no. y'all, you know. So we're asking 800, 585105.1. Do you mind if your significant other has a work husband or workwife? Hello, who's this? Hey, this juicy. Hey, juicy.

She definitely somebody right way. You fat? I'm just, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, how tall are you? Oh, my goodness. Stop. I'm 5'3. How much you weigh? 200 pounds.

But I'm juicy. So, baby, okay, ask for the question. answer. Answer the question, Mom. I'm sorry. Are you somebody's workwife?

She is. Oh, I'm somebody who caught my work wife. Happy, I want to say. Yeah, so my husband

worked somewhere, right? We used to work together. I quit. So I found like some placements that didn't work out so, you know,

because I know how the work wife and stuff is. My husband's on drive. I was taking him the work, and at the same time I was taking him the work. The work wife, she got a husband, too. But I didn't know this at the time because she just started.

So when I was leaving, I see her husband, like, me mugging the mess out of my mind. So I wanted to be like, what's up? Why are you looking at him like that? Like, because, like, it was something that didn't sit right with me. So I made a middle note of it. So the next time I went, she wasn't with her husband, but she was by her stuff.

So she was looking at, my car in my school, I got real dark shit. So you can't see in there. I can see her. She can't see me. So she's just looking, ugly as hell as the car.

I'm like, damn stuff. Hold on now. What kind of car do you have, first of all? What kind of car do you have? It was big as a truck. I'm running good. It's a BMW.

It's a, for tint and windows. But it's small. It's a six, X-6, that's a big one. That's a big car. She was like, as she got in there. It's a truck. It's a big truck. It's considered an issue.

It's a truck. Okay, okay, got you. He wanted to make sure it wasn't the one series. Go ahead, go. So, okay, so long story short, fast forward, the way she looked at me, I said, oh, I said, let me go through this phone because I go through the phone

like maybe every six or seven months, depending on how I feel. Like, I just go through the phone. I normally don't be fine or nothing. But, so I just, go right to her. Is this the same? I caught it the same day.

Only thing I'm mad because I want to see how far I was going to go. Because I feel like I stopped it because I crashed out lightweight because when I went through the phone and went through their messages, first it was like regular little work stuff. So then I started saying emo. He

kind of corny, so I know that's his way I flirt. So like, but he don't talk a lot. So she's going to send a picture. She said three pictures. and they were like sexy pictures, but she's weak. She, she, she, they would make some sexy pictures. Something about some, uh, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am,

ma'am, ma'am, I need to tell you something that they don't tell you at dinner. Stop. Well, you're going too long. You, you, could you get to the point, please? I can't make a long story short. Yeah, and you say you want to make a long story short and you keep going. Okay, so, okay, so I tried to. She don't work there no more.

I beat the shod in him out of his sleep because. I told him to do this. I told him to do this. The thing was he tried to be sneaking and ain't tell me like, oh, he ain't tell me, you know what I caught. If he would have been like, oh, man, now she's buying back on what you told me to do. All the reason I told him to work with her so she can work for him and he don't have to, so he can still be on the clock. I don't like any of this. You opened up the door, you know what I mean?

And I don't know why you opened up Pandora's box like that. I do not know why you did that. That's why she sent something. But you're going to beat him up for telling him to do something that you told him to him. He flirted. Then she said he went too far and then you beat him up. What size was the girl? Man, I'm old enough to be her mom and that's her thing.

She's like, ain't too 50, bitch. But if we stand next to each other, you will be trying to figure out who 50. Like, you know, she's, you know, she's hard. My thing is that he didn't tell me what she did. Like, I expect everything that she did that she was going to do. Okay. But I had to go through the phone and find that he said he was lying about it. That he's like, no.

Like, what are you lying for? I don't know. I don't know. Because you just is messy too. You caused a lie to this mess. You told that man to flirt with that woman and there's no limit to flirting. Did you say, did you give him a limit? Right, but he was supposed to tell.

Yeah, the limit was like if she bite back, you let me know. Like, uh, and then, when he didn't. And then when I asked him, like, I, like, I. I tried to wake him up, but he, I tried to wake him up, but he tried to fake sleep when I had that phone in his face. I end up FaceTime to her. Well, Mom, you have a face. It was a lot. You are so messy, juicy.

Yeah, so messy. I mean, so juicy. I mean, so juicy. I'm glad I didn't tell you all my real name, but yeah, okay. Hey, Jess. Hey, my daughter did your name when you was in Cleveland, so hey. Hey, yeah. Also, that wanted your real name.

So you picked the song by Biggie Smalls on purpose. Wow. Wow. You're an idiot. She's an idiot. You're at a car and boy. Matter of fact. I know she didn't.

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Charlemagne de Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lawlerosa is here as well. We got a special guest in the building. Yes indeed. Two Chains. What's up? What's up, how are you feeling?

How are y'all doing? Good morning. You and the family came ready to be cool. Listen. You were just waiting on your little... No, yo, I'm just saying... Because I watched the other interview, you couldn't get one in, right? He was so serious the whole time.

So, you know... It's hard, y'all. I rock with your foolishness. Thank you. I mean, yeah, we were... We just left an AAU circuit with my son. And then we was in Cincinnati, and they said, it was going to be cold there, but it wasn't freezing.

But when we came to New York, it was cold. Today's the only day, too, because the rest of the week we're getting like 60, 70 degrees. So today is the only day you can wear that. God bless you. Because it's cold. It's cold. It's cold. It's cold. It's cold. It's cold. New book, The Voice in My Head is God. I want to ask, what was the intention behind the outfit

this morning? Because in the very me inside the Louis Store chapter, you say every outfit has an intention. What's the energy other than it was cold? That's the energy today. And it's like, where can you wear, like, the hat And, you know, I can't get this off in Atlanta, so this would be the place. And I don't live in Canada, so this would be the place. The voice in your head said, get that off.

So you're going to rock this shit. I tell you, man. The voice in my head is God. New book that's out today. Make sure you go get it if you haven't got it yet. Why was it the time to write this book? I just think that success without reflection is just noise. You know what I'm saying?

Success without giving back is noise. So I'm feeling successful. I think when you live, long enough to experience scars when you've won enough to have the wisdom, you know, then it's time to write a book, in my personal opinion. So growth, maturation, me, you know, talking about God in this book through my personal experiences, you know, I just felt like after you do, for me, I've done the albums, I've shot my short film, and I'm just ready to take more creative risk.

And so this doesn't feel like a risk because I feel like this could motivate someone This could help someone It's not generic, it's not cliche I hadn't seen any other artists Talk about, you know Intuition in the book space So just someone

The biggest thing Everybody takes a different part of what they feel That they get out of the book, right? For myself is your relationship with your dad And the reason I say that is I have six kids and I'm always very intentional what I say to my kids, right? Because there's a line between being a dad

and it is a line with being a human being, right? And I'll explain. So with that relationship with your dad, was there, I know your dad moved in with you, was those tough conversations to have from the start him being incarcerated to even at one time when, you know, when you got into that incident in Alabama

and your dad said, well, go get a gun and go handle it yourself? You know, how were those conversations had? Because I'm sure you wouldn't tell, your kids that same thing or would you that's a good question you know we've all i think everybody in here have lived through different eras and you know i'm from the boys don't cry error you know i'm saying i'm from the that that's weak that's soft my dad would say numerous amount of times that he don't think a woman could raise a man but he he wouldn't be there you know what i'm saying and i turned out to be i mean i can't change oil changed

tires and stuff like that. You know what I'm saying? Like somebody might consider some man stuff. But I've cut the grass and done stuff like that as y'all know recently. So I mean, when I think about it's like he wasn't there to teach me certain things that a man should know. And I learned a lot of things on my own. And, you know, he was my first hero. He's my first somebody you look up to whether he was incarcerated or just me hearing stories about him and me just realizing that that DNA is inside of me. So what I passed that on, I think I broke that that way of thinking, I think it stopped with me, you know.

I'm not lenient to why I'm like, man, you can cry anytime you won't, but if my son needs to cry about something that's bothering him or hurting, I'm not like getting all over him about it. So I think it's just timing and where we are in life right now.

I don't know how you are with your kids, but I'm a little bit more sensitive to my kids. Of course. And my father was to me because he wanted me to be tough. He didn't. I hear stories my aunts tell me like, If I would cry, he didn't want nobody to pick me up. I don't have, like, it's some baby pictures, but, like, all my baby pictures, I'm sitting somewhere, my mom beside me.

She's not, like, holding me. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, one of the pictures I remember is, like, at a beach, I'm sitting on the hood of a car. I'm like, not even one. And my mom got on a bathing suit, she's right beside me. But it's not really like a picture of someone coddling or anything. But, I mean, I'm okay with that. What did you learn about your own feelings throughout the whole experience with your dad?

So being able to spend time with him and him moving. with you to his passing because you talk about it very stoically at first and then you talk up and then you we actually get to hear you talk about finally being able to cry and being able to like kind of get in tune with yourself a bit well his last few years like I like I talk about in the book he's getting out of prison and uh you know he's in his late 60s you know what I'm saying like I don't know he might have been 70 something so when I go get him you know that's when I had a conversation about man you ought to move with me like this is just crazy at this point you know what I'm saying? And the last time he did time, he was probably two or three years, but I just felt like it was time.

I had my first child, and I had a house. And so, you know, I remember stopping and getting him, he wanted a suit. And then I remember stopping at Verizon, he wanted a phone. And he had some money. He had a little money put up, you know, somewhere. And we just talked. And he said that he would, you know, he would, you know, think about it. And he ended up eventually just, you know, staying with me, which was really cool.

It was like we started building that relationship. You know, I was so fond of him from a distance because, you know, when I was young, we got separated. So just being in the same house, me learning his little crazy ways and his sarcasm and everything. And so, you know, after he started getting sick, I was going, I was starting it like, this was like 2012. My dad died in 2012. My first album came out of 2012. I was just so hot at the time. And so Keisha would tell me like, man, you know, your dad didn't eat the day or you need to do something.

She just told me, you know what I mean? and he was somebody that didn't want nobody and know he was sick. He's like such a man. He don't want you to know he's going through nothing, which is ridiculous. And he went to the hospital one night, you know what I'm saying? I ended up going up there with him.

I end up staying with him. I got to like, I just stayed with him for like a week or two. You know what I mean? And I have shows that I end up counseling, but I had this one particular show in Savannah, which is like, I don't know, a couple hours from Atlanta.

And I'm talking to him. And I'm like, I got this show in Atlanta. You're going to be cool tonight. Like, yeah, yeah, I'm going to be cool. And then he says, you know, dope, man. my role model. I had a song called

Dope Man, my role model on my mixtape. So he's so sarcastic. I'm like, bro, you're straight. You know what I'm saying? He gives me a fist bump and says,

do it big, Epps. That's our last name. I said, okay, cool. I go to Savannah. I don't even get the room. I come back.

When I come back here on this breathing thing, I see him, like boom, but I see him, he's like looking at me. I feel like he's looking at me. You know what I mean?

Why he on this breathing thing? And he keeps trying to take the tube by his throat, and they keep saying, like, If he takes that out, he could die. That part was crazy. You know what I'm saying?

So if he take that out, he can die. Now, rewind this, I just got my part from prison. So they're saying the only way that he cannot take it out is if they handcuff him to the bed. You know what I'm saying? So I say, okay, handcuffed. And then I get to thinking, like, something is telling me, like, he don't want to be handcuffed no more. You know what I'm saying? So he handcuffed to the bed.

He's looking at me in his, you know, his breathing. And I said, all right, man, take the handcuffs off. Take it off, man. He don't want to be handcuffed. But soon with the handcuffs come out, he'd come to try to take the, and they tell me, if he take it out, it could scratch his, yeah, sobbing his barns. And so, I swear to you, I do that four times.

Okay, put the handcuffs back on. Take the handcuffs back off. Put the handcuffs back on. And it's like, he's just, he's not looking straight home, looking to the side like this, you know what I mean? So I try to hold his hands myself personally. Like, you know what I'm saying? No, chill, you know what I'm saying?

Just chill, chill, chill, chill. He keeps, you know, and then, you know, a couple days after that, or not even a day after that, you know what I'm saying? The beep started going off. You know what I'm saying? By me standing with them and the nurses, I'm able to run, go get the nurse. You know what I'm saying? Check it out. And they, same thing, four times.

Boom, boom. They hit them. Bring them back. They walk out of the room. Man, look, man, don't you be doing it? Run out again. Boom, won't do that. The fourth time.

Now, they put me out of the room, so I'm looking through the little. a little window. And so the fourth time, the lady come out, and she says, you know, I lost my father too. If he come back now, he'll be brained. We already broke two ribs. You just got to let it go. And I was like, that's easier said than done because he just told me,

not only did he tell me to do it big, he told me before I went to Savannah, I'm not going to die no time soon. It came out of his mouth, and he ain't never told him that a lot. So I'm like, what happened from the time I went to Savannah came back? But anyway, that's something that I wouldn't say, haunted or traumatized me. I know you're big on therapy or whatever.

And like this book is my therapy. Like certain things I do is my therapy. I hadn't actually sat down with someone. And I'm not against people who do or who have. But is it traumatic seeing your father pass? It could be, yeah. But then like a few years later, I had a son who reminds me so much of like how he moves and his sarcasm as well.

I got two questions based on what you just said. Did relive in that for the book make you cry again? Because you said that was the first time you remember crying. Man, I cried so hard when that happened. But not when I was doing it in the book. Because I'm just, I didn't, I didn't cry while writing the book. I think because I've relived that so many times. It wasn't like I buried it and then just brought it back up.

Like I relive my pops passing in front of me. You know, I've done that a few times. I think we, and then also I see now me talking about it, it just becomes easier to talk about it. And when you keep stuff, bopping or whatever. And when you said, when Halo was born. In the book, I got to see the picture.

I just got to see the picture. You said there was a- You got the picture. Yeah, but I don't be showing it. I can show you, though. I don't want to see the picture. You said it was a picture of your father. The alarm went off in the house.

All right, so don't even tell the story. Let's just show you about it. It's hard to discuss this book because there's so much that you want people to read and see for themselves. Oh, he just gave away a whole chapter. I know. Yeah. He said, but it was worth it.

So this picture. All right. Well, explain what we are. All right. So this is, my son. HALO was born 10, 14, 15, right? Me and Keisha was in the hospital, and my mom and my two daughters was at home,

and they were in our room in the master bedroom. The alarm went off at home while HALO was coming. The alarm went off. Same time. So while Keisha having HALO, the alarm going off, and my mom is asking me, what's the past word to tell the alarm people? Because it's saying motion in the house or whatever.

Now, my mom's on the phone saying, I swear, and I'm looking at the cameras and I don't see anything coming into the house. I don't see the doors. I'm looking at all the doors. Mom said, I hadn't left the room. So I don't know why the motion is going off. I tell her the cold, it goes off. We have Halo.

We come home. All right. We're getting our alarm updated. And then Keisha looks at her email. And when you have motion, it takes pictures. It takes snapshots of what the motion is. Okay. when we looked at the motion,

you can see, you can see somebody. You know what I'm saying? And it was my father. Now, my father left in 2012. This was 2015. You can see an image. So, people that I'm close to,

a couple of my friends, I'm close to, I'm showing a picture. I'm like, who are there? And that's part right there. And I'm like, look at the date. Like, my friends begin big old chill, goosebumps or whatever,

you know what I'm saying? My father used to walk around the house, like, with his shirt off, he was in good shape to be 70. Like, he wasn't, like, fat and sloppy. He was in the army. So he had something.

But I'm gonna find, and so another thing about this, this is my personal opinion. He's so sarcastic that when I used to try to show people, I could not find a picture. So I gave the picture to Keisha. I said Keisha, when I try to show people, it makes me sound like, I'm crazy. I don't have a picture of Keith from the boat on. So we go to Florida one time. I'm not even looking back there. I know she knows I'm talking about.

I go to Florida one time. I only got the picture somewhere I can't find it. What happened in Florida with Keisha? You remember? She said, whatever. Did she don't want to be? Anyway, her phone fell in, we was, she probably don't remember this, but she does remember this when I said this,

but we was on a boat, we got off a boat, and then her phone down there fell in the water. And when her phone fell in the water, I said, damn, I said, damn, I don't think about the context. I'm like, this is my proof. This is my proof that goes surreal or whatever, you know what I mean, boom, okay? So I get to looking, because I know exactly when the date was, I know when Halo was born.

I pull up the picture again. So now I got it. So I give it to my cousin. I'm always with. He's outside. I gave it a cat. I'm like, cat,

you keep this picture. Boom. So this is crazy. So I go over to the Yeh house, right? And I'm telling him the same story. I'm like, bro, this has happened to me.

I'm trying to tell him what happened. And this is, man, you know, I'm the coolest player in the world, man. It's like fooled around. It's like lemonade,

you know what I'm saying? So I can't find a picture. So I say, cat, cat with my tongue. Come in. Man, give me the picture of Pops, so I could show. Why, he giving me the picture, bro, I would knock over a big thing of lemonade everywhere on every, but like, you know what I'm such a player.

I ain't never done nothing like that, you know what I'm saying? In my mind, I'm like, this is how my dad is. He's like, being on some joking. He got me looking crazy here. I don't waste lemonade on everybody at the table. This ain't even nothing I do, you know what I mean? But anyway, that's another story. Let me find a picture.

All right, here, let me go right here. Let me see. I email myself. What cat at? And why he's looking at the picture? Why is looking up the picture? If you order the book on two chains.com, you have a chance to win courtside.

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It's a whole experience. I do have this little side note, this disclaimer. Women, I'm going to be smelling good. I'm going to be looking good. If you have a crazy man at home, articulate that to him, man, I'm not going to be talking through the whole game. Right. We can talk, but I'm going to really be watching the game.

I hope a rapper win. I hope somebody trying to make it a rap. Listen, and trying to like. You got a picture. I hope somebody that's sitting next to you sing all your songs the whole time. Can you get that picture? Because you know, I'm trying to show them and you know what's going on. Oh, you got to see something in the picture.

Oh, wow. That's a whole person. Yes. I thought it was going to be like not. It's so clear. That's how he used to walk around his shirt up. Wow. That's him walking through the kitchen. Wow.

So I know you're saying the book, too, that you feel like until you had your son, your dad hadn't, like, crossed over to the other side? That's my assumption, right? Well, this is my mom. My mom is super, super spiritual, right? So she was probably like, you know, he, like, he'd probably come to fuck with me before he, you know what I mean? Probably coming over that to fuck with me.

You know what I mean? That's how she kicked a lot before he left. But. So the voices that you were hearing there, because I know you have been hearing voices in your head and hearing God for a long time, do you know which ones might have been your dad? because he was there with you or it was the God connection that you have, you hear in God during that time? So this experience right here, when this happened,

this would have been 2015. I'm not even sure if I was fully committed to just giving the voice, it's credit for my success. Now, that's why I say, when he asks me when it's time to write the book, it's like I've lived and had enough experience and trial and error with listening, not listening, through fear, moving through ego to let you know, like this voice, they gotta be God. The reason I call it the voice of God, because the voice would be like my intuition.

It'll be my, my alignment, you know what I'm saying? That's what the voice, but when I say God, I know everybody's not into God, but I had to give the credit to somebody higher to myself. You know what I'm saying? For this superpower, whatever the hell. Like, for me, I got a real picture of my dad three years after he passed. Like, this is not something. And I don't, it's my first time ever, ever, talking about it, feeling comfortable, talking about it, showing somebody that I feel like is, understands like a deeper meaning of like spirits and everything like, because I don't fully understand.

My father, you know, you see, they'd be like people come to you in dreams. People, you know, do stuff like that. I can't say that he did that, you know what I'm saying? But I can tell you that I do have a divine guidance in me. that helps me make decisions, whether it's business decisions, relationship decisions, whatever it is,

and it's a voice that could probably be too noisy to certain people, but I welcome that voice. So this book is, I put this book together to help somebody and to motivate somebody to shut down the outside noise. And this is also for anybody who's ever said, like something told me,

like something told me to get this job, or where this hat or whatever, Whatever it is. It's like, it's that something told me thing. You know what I'm saying? It's that. Or something told me don't go to this place and this happen. Something told me don't whatever it is.

You know, and we've all said when we missed the flight, well, that's God trying to. Maybe I wasn't supposed to get on it. You know what I mean? So why can't that inner dialogue be that? Why, why, they say God is inside of you and why can't your blessings come from within on how you are on the surface? You're a positive person on the surface and your blessings come from within. This is my experience. This is my opinion.

If that voice in your head told you to walk away from rap tomorrow, would you listen? That's a great question because I love rap music so much. And I feel like if you know I love it, he wouldn't do, he wouldn't do that. You know what I'm saying? I love it. And one of the things I love about it is that I still have good ideas. Whether for me or anybody else, I, when I say ideas, not just in rap, but after the rap, the marketing, the title, the fine. shades like I'm in the like even this right here this is a black artist named

the Reese he's dope man he's just like he's not with a gallery anything the Reese Walker I found him online he does this little like pastel though this is art it's like he drew he drew this of me this isn't not a pitch he drew this whole thing and I just like I just like I don't know curating dope stuff so and we still do that without rap if God said two jane I want you to put If I heard them as clear as you saying it, yeah, I probably would because I feel like he got something bigger for me. And so he wants me to probably start going to sleep at night, getting up early or something like that, which I haven't done. Since my father passed, I sleep in the daytime.

I don't even sleep at night. You're writing books now. You got the podcast. Me and Halo podcast. Let's see y'all check that out. What do you do at night then? If you, like, what are you doing? You just.

I said, like, what are you doing? You're not sleeping. You know, you just out. Do I sleep at night, y'all? No. what time I go to sleep six seven I go to

Halo like we're just Call ball Hey he was like He was annoyed He was like I got kids I got kids When they're saying

Yell it out It is what it is What it is Well Halo told me We was retiring This year I think he said on a podcast Like we had to let it go

Or something For some He moved on man Yeah yeah Yeah Yeah but I go to sleep Around six Six or seven

and then I get up around. What time I get up? 12-1. Is that because of your music artist's life? Because a lot of artists are like that too, where they're up on that. I've been doing that ever since the kids, and all of me.

Okay. Harmony 13. What are you doing? Are you thinking? Like, are you writing? Are you in a studio? I'm in a studio space. And I'm doing something ambitious

to help my career go further. And that is the time when all the noise is shut off for me. All the people that I love, should be in the bed sleep I don't receive phone calls that late nobody called me saying they need I can actually concentrate on the task at hand whatever that is and those are my hours that I can just lock in from probably 12 to 6 or something like that I started working at night around 11 to 12 from 12 to 6 is

really just really really my time really me time I don't have to worry about you know what I'm saying I mean of course I worry about people but it's just really my time I don't have anything else on my mind but me and the task at hand and that's therapeutic for you. That's so therapy. I wouldn't know what to do. Like, like, Keisha hates when I'm at home that in those times because she's trying to sleep.

Yeah. And I'm... Moving around up and... Man, just the other day, I was just doing the most craziest stuff, man, because I had to be up at 7, so I'm like, man, do I go to sleep or do I just stay up to 7? So I'm trying to figure it out. She's like, what's you doing at home? This ain't though. She's looking

at me. I'm staying out the window like Malcolm X. I'm just looking at the one. And I'm saying stuff like this. I really need some asphalt so I can, I'm just looking at stuff at the house. I'm just looking at the driveway. I need to do this roundabout over. I'm looking at the tennis court. We've got the light out there on the court.

I'm looking. I'm like, man, we should use this more often. We just, but my mind and my, like, I'm not sleepy. I'm not tired. I'm not yawning because my body's trained. I'm almost like a newborn. I'm trained to sleep from like seven to five. I mean, I'm sorry, five hours.

seven to 12. I'm trying to sleep like that long. But the longest, like, literally since 20 or 12th of my pop died, I hadn't really slept in night. Well, the book is out today. Make sure you the voice. This is the book, man.

The voice in my head is God. Are you looking at this? This is dope. There's a handsome picture on the back as well. And then, look, if you open this up, this is something to talk to. I know you got to. Something told me.

So I'm going to challenge y'all. Look, go to two chains, book.com. Enter the sweepstakes. It's sitting next to me at the horse game. You have to March 11th, do that. But this right here, tell me, what does something tell you? Something told you

give me a lot. To wear that hat. To wear that hat. Something told me the way of the hat. So what, I'm saying, so you was playing your stuff, tell me how that went. So I woke up. Under this is crazy, though. So that, yeah, because I was going to wake up early and do my little, you know, my little curling joint, but I ain't have enough time.

Because I was going over questions for my book, you know what I'm saying? Because I started press this week. So I got up, I ain't have enough time for that. So I was like, you know what? I'm going to I'm going to wear my hat to go with my My mom and jumpsuit I mean you got other hats though Hell yeah

What made you get put that one on? I don't know like the bunny is I want to go with the Lord suit And go with the you know the body suit I just got these new nightgies I know they cool you and got to You cordoned this part of your coordination Okay

I just like this My dog Give me an example Something told you I told me that today I'm gonna learn how to ski today Something told you like You just sitting up like man

You know what it is My son snowboards And I took them to on the mountain the other day. And I felt bad because I couldn't go with him on the mountain because I don't know how to snowboard a ski. So I was like, you know what? I'm going to learn how to ski so next time we go, I can get on that mountain. Some good father, son,

to get. Absolutely. Yeah? Something told me I need to go back home this weekend, spend more time with my family. I love that. Something told me that two chains had an amazing book that he needed to get published. And that's why you're in on it. That's right. My daughter. So wait.

Black and fat. Hold on. You knew you wanted to write a book, but did you go to him and say, hey, it's time? How did that happen? No, he just knew I'm a successful black dude, so he tried to cap in on my success because he knows I'm a winner. Why else would you feel?

No, because he'd be having his little things going on his mind too. Two chains is the plug. I wouldn't have crystal franchises if it wasn't for. Oh, yes. We'll talk about that up here. And people don't talk enough about you and your involvement in the crystal franchises. Man, my involvement in the culture is crazy.

You know what I'm saying? I am the Pinterest. I am the mood boy for a lot of stuff going on. I'm humble and quieter sometimes. A lot of the times, but I can see how. how what my influence has done for even my whole city. Like, man,

listen, ESCO and the ESCO franchise 10 years. I owned the dirt five years before I started running the business on the vertical. Candy land. There's no other person, my age, my demographic that owns a adult entertainment. To get a permit to be nude

and have alcohol is they stopped issuing those in 1993. You have to buy those for an extremely high price from somebody who sets it. A lot of the, even the G-League team being connected to the Atlanta Hawks, you know what I'm saying, even having an association with that. It's just a lot of things that I see that I try to open up, like in this book and let my peers know, like, this is what's going on. And this is how I'm even making these business decisions based off like, of course I have a lawyer, I have management, but I got this voice going on with me too. And but I do have, you know, the crystal situation.

Shout to Jonathan. Just shout out to everybody that I became partners with. I think collaborating is a good thing, not only in music, but in business too. And my secret to that is finding someone that's passionate in whatever you're trying to do and collaborate with. And then you can have success in the field. So I said to say that the person I'm collaborating with at Esco, they're passionate about the hospitality space. They don't have a special seasoning or sauce. It's bigger than that.

You got to know this space. The person that I'm in the strip club business is passionate about that business. So it's just and Jonathan is passionate about crystals and this man is passionate about giving back to our community. So that's how a lot of things live.

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Okay, salute to every black man out there who still has a hairline. All right, God bless you all. I remember those days of having one. And what bothers me the most is I feel like. I got cheated because back in the day, I got my wig pushed back by a whack barber. Okay, you know one of those barbers trying to get that line sharp, but in the process of them trying to get it sharp, they just keep pushing your hairline back further and further.

Okay, I really feel like that got me started on the path to baldness. Okay, that barber snatched my edges, all right? My hairline never fully recovered from the barber pushing my hairline back, okay? Every black man out there knows the pain of getting your hairline pushed back, And then finally at some point, you just say, F it, cut it all off. Okay, we were forced to go bald because a barber pushed our hairlines back, all right? Hashtag tragic. Now, Darius did something that a lot of men dream about doing when their hairline gets pushed back.

And that's something is violence. What do you mean, violence, Uncle Charlotte? Well, let's go to Local 10 News for the report, please. Darius Davis is in jail once again after police spent a few days looking for him following a violent encounter at a barbershop. Security video from that day shows Davis walking back into square biz with a gun and threatening the owner Samuel Wilson. Wilson says this was all over an issue with Davis's hairline. The barber says he's been doing Davis's hair for a while and never had an issue before. He wasn't a man until he had that person in his hair.

Slap me in the head with it choke me out. You got it. In the video, you can see Davis force Wilson to the couch and hit him with the gun. Newly obtained arrest forms for Davis show police took him into custody a few days later after a traffic stop. The 48-year-old was booked into jail before appearing in bond court over the weekend multiple times. I did not think he was going to come around here and come back. I thought we might have fist the cuff, but I didn't think he was going to come back with a firearm. I told him, man, have a good day.

The Davis is facing several charges. The judge set his bond at about $35,000. dollars has since posted it. First of all, before we continue the story, I want to say salute to all the barbers out there. Dropping the clues bombs for every barber that can hear my voice. Barbers are pillars in the black community. My brothers, when you really put it in perspective, there aren't too many people more important to the black community. Some of y'all don't go to church, but you go to a barbers shop at least twice a week.

So the barber more important than your pastor. Some of y'all see your barber more than you see your doctor, which is a good thing because I guess you're healthy. But once again, your barber is more important to you than your doctor. Hell, some folks wouldn't even want to go to the doctor without a haircut. All right? The moral of the story is we're going to stop acting like barbers aren't a part of our circle of life. For me, a spiritual leaders, therapists, barbers, doctor, dermatologist, personal trainer. Okay, what is the moral of the story?

The moral of the story is barber should be given the utmost respect at all times. Unless. And there isn't unless. Unless they are a terrible barber. Okay. No barber deserves violence unless, of course, they are terrible. But even if they are terrible, even if there's a barber malpractice, they don't deserve to get a gun pulled on them, all right? There's levels to violence. Don't

like your fade, then ask for a fade. All right? But pulling a gun, that's too much, all right? Actually asking for a fist fight or fisticups is too much, okay? You can just say he sucks. That's worse than actually pulling a gun on someone or fighting them because nobody wants to be the barber in the shop that nobody goes to. That is one of the most lonely men in the world. You hear me? Okay, and they always fat because they have nothing else to do but sit there and eat while everybody else on their feet all day because they got actual clients. All right? Now, for the record, most people wouldn't react to having their headline pushback in this way, but you always have to know who you're playing with. Darius is a convicted felon, all right, and he is a known violent offender.

He had an armed robbery charge in 93 and 98 and burglary with assault in 98. He did prison time from 99 to 2004 and from 2006 to 2017. So clearly, Darius about all that action. Okay, so anything can set him off. And I don't think people understand what not having a hairline does to some men. It can trigger violence, all right? Some men don't have their head for a baldy. And the thought of them having to get one is infuriating.

I thank God he gave me the kind of skull that looks cool with a baldie, okay? Because everyone can't do it, and they know it. Everybody doesn't want to wear the man unit. Okay, everybody doesn't want to do the painting on hairlines, but they also know how ridiculous they could look with a baldy. Think about, you know, how we had to get used to seeing Steve Harvey with a baldy. Took some time for us to adjust, right? Right?

Remember Miguel? Army singer Miguel when he first came out with a baldy looked ridiculous. Okay? LeBron James couldn't have a baldy, okay? I could tell by his head shape. Yet another reason he will never be Michael Jordan, okay? Who are some other people who look ridiculous with a baldty, Jess? What do you think?

Cynthia Arriva. Damn. Okay, first of all, I'm talking about men, Jess. What the hell? Cynthia Arriva. All right. Anyway, I don't know how you've been asked you. The moral of the stories.

When the only thing sharper than the clippers is your temple, trim the attitude. Not the argument. Okay. Please give Darius Davis the sweet sounds of the hamletones. You are the donkey. of the day you all the day

of the day yehaw. Yes indeed. That's crazy. Oh, Miguel head was crazy. He looked ridiculous. Go back and look at Miguel when he first came out with a ball head.

And he did it in the reverse. Usually people start with him and then go ball with him. Miguel started off ball. Go back and look. Y'all don't remember Miguel when he first came out. Definitely.

It was definitely. You don't remember, Miguel, when you first came out and he had the ball head? Yeah. That was different. That was all I wanted you, Miguel. You're playing the doing. He had hair by doing. Yeah, yeah, no, that was the...

Yeah, that's when he was born. Oh, wow. Yeah, you see. Getting real eggy around with it. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Yeah. Wow.

All right. All right. Well, thank you for that donkey today, sir. Yeah, you said one too many. dams when looking at a man. Great. You looked at that man. You looked at Miguel for 30 seconds and said seven dams.

They ain't need no seven dams. Because there's a bunch of different pictures. All right. Anyway, thank you for that donkey today, sir. Yes, ma. Yes, man. Guys crazy. Morning, everybody.

It's DJ NV. Just hilarious. Salomey and the guy. We are the breakfast club. Now we got Danny on the line. Danny is trying to get back with his ex. This baby mom. It's a co-parenting issue.

Of course, Jess has a new book that comes out April 28th. Yes. And you can pre-order it right now. Right now. To death, do we parents? Danny, what's up? Good morning. What's up, man?

Calling for Miami. What's going on, guys? What's your question? So I've been having this with my baby mama. I was with her for like six years on and off. I was with a breakup because of her decisions. So she spit up with me now because she said she's trying to find herself. She's trying to be happy and all that stuff.

All she's really doing is going out. forcing herself with the club, forcing herself with the gym. And I get it, you know? You got to do stuff to be happy, but I just don't know. I don't know what you do. I want to get back with her, but that's not making you want to get back with her. Okay, so y'all not together right now, but you want to get back with her. And she is saying to you, she wants to get back with you too.

But she's a little bit of a party animal. She's not saying she must get back. Right now, she says at the moment she doesn't want to get back together. She says she doesn't? Yeah. Okay. So you can't, y'all can't. If she's saying that she doesn't want to get her.

get back together. What is she blaming that on? She said she's trying to find herself, you said? Because you're going in and out. I can't really hear you. Correct. Hold on. Because it's noisy and your background a little bit.

Yeah, sorry. Can you hear me better now? Yeah, I can hear you better now. So you said that she's basically trying to find herself. She's trying to be happy by herself, right? Correct. Correct. And from your standpoint, you see it as just her going out, partying, not really doing

anything with her life, I guess, to better herself? Like, you just see her as a party animal. Correct. Yeah, like I'm paying child support. I'm trying to be there as much as I can for my kids, but she doesn't really make it easy for me. How doesn't she make it easy for you? Because now this is a new problem. So like every time I want to go see them, it's always like, oh, no, I'm doing something or we're not home and stuff like that. And I ask her to send me pictures and call me on FaceTime to see the kids. And she just, she kind of blows me off and doesn't even answer me. When's the last time you saw your kids? Well, I just had them last weekend. Obviously when it's my weekend, I get to see them, but this weekend is the last time I saw him.

Okay, so you all have a system set up where you see the kids every other weekend? Correct. Okay. And have you ever missed a weekend on her account? Never missed the weekend. Okay. So what it sounds like is you do want to get back with her, but she is not interested in a relationship with you right now. Yeah.

And you're kind of projecting that onto you co-parenting with her. Now, she's not obligated to get back. with you, okay? I know it may... Yeah, I know it hurts. You know what I'm saying? But it could be what you see her doing out in the clubs and all that. That could really be her outlet. Like, has she

was she like that before? That's the thing she wasn't like that before. Right. So that's the thing, you know, because she was in a relationship and she was focused on being faithful and, you know, what have you. But, you know, how old is she? She's 26. How old are you? 26 is well. Okay. Yeah, so she's in her 20s. You know, let her go out

and let her have fun. If she's not putting your kids in any danger if she's not putting herself in any danger you know what i mean like to be taken away from the kids or anything like that she's not um you know i think she's fine i think it's fine let her live her life i just think you're going through the motions of rejection a little bit she doesn't want to be with you but you want to be with her um i why did y'all break up i'm sorry so basically just because she said she wasn't happy with herself and she felt like we were roommates i was the one providing I was going to working and stuff. And this always happens around the same time of the month.

I mean, at the same time of the year. About the six years, she hasn't been unfaithful. We always break up because of, you know, she wants to go do herself. But then she comes crying back and, you know, I always take her back because I want to be with my family. Yeah. It just sounds like, you know, she got some growing up to do, you know, and you may have some growing up to do too because I know you're not perfect either, you know. Yeah, absolutely.

I think, how many kids y'all got to? Yeah, I think she's just going through a phase right now. Let her do that. Like you said, this happens every year or whatever. Do you take her back? It's no infidelity, nothing there. It's just, y'all got to sit down and come to a resolve about it, you know? Because obviously the kids are okay.

It sounds like the kids are okay. Y'all just need to figure out how to move forward amicably, like two adults that's willing to raise the children together with no drama, you know? and you can't do that if you feel like she's playing games with your heart because she wants you sometimes and sometimes she don't and she can't do that if you are pressuring her to be in a relationship with her. You know what I'm saying? So y'all just got to sit down and figure that out.

But y'all both are young. 26 is not old at all. Y'all got a few more years until y'all actually do grow all the way up. But this is not the worst. It's not the worst. You know, she just don't want you right now, gang. I'm sorry. No, I mean, at this point, I've accepted it.

I got to do myself and just be there for my kids as much as I can. Absolutely. That's what you got to do. And if she's not keeping them from you, I mean, a little FaceTime here and there, she's missing it or whatever. Is she not responding? She don't send you pitches. That's okay to you. It's all right.

You know, you never miss a weekend. Keep on doing what you're doing. She may try to come back, but you've got to put those boundaries in place too. You need boundaries in place too. Like, look, you're not going to keep playing with me until you really figure out if this is what you want, you know, you do to work on yourself, you come back, if I'm still here, because I'm not, it's not going to be here waiting like your dormant. You know what I'm saying? Like, you really got to implement that into the conversations without being rude, you know?

Yeah, 100%. Good luck, bro. Good luck. I appreciate it. Hello, who's this? Hey, this, Chantel from Columbia, South Carolina. Hey, what's up? Hey, there, girl. How are you? Hi, Jess. I love you. And, yeah, Shalameen, what's good? Love you, you, you love you, girl. What's your question for Jess? Okay, so it's not the usual co-parenting situation because I'm a single mom, four kids, three baby daddy, I already got it through my head that do have a choice of taking care of kids or not.

Yeah. So, okay, now I'm with my family. You know, sometimes I live in my own place. Sometimes I'm all short, I have to move back in with my grandma and my mom. So when I go back home, I'm having an issue kind of co-parenting with my village. I understand I have to respect my mom and my grandma because they were going to be. They raise me and they know more than I do. But when it comes to my kids, these are my kids.

So if I tell my daughter no, then she runs to my mama or my grandma and they say, yeah, I'm looking like, what the world? Do I not matter? Do my discipline not matter? I'm just getting looked over because you're in my house. Right, right. Yeah, but these my kids, though. But these my kids, I carried them for nine much. I'm trying to raise them, you know what I'm saying?

But they always say that their way is better because they older than me. They know me. But I don't want to raise my kids like how I was raised. Like, my mom was kind of strict. So I'm kind of more lenient. Like, I don't really whip my kids and that like that. But I know when I was coming up, my mama, when she got mad or I did something wrong, she's those shoes at me or whatever.

But she's not doing that to my kids. Yeah. You know, it's different. It's different. When I was younger, it was the same way. I ain't never get no damn shoe throwing at me. But, you know, my parents, they weren't. that abusive but no um my dad never ever laid a finger on me and my mom it was a certain sternness

in her voice that would just make me like get my act together real quick like i was straightened up and get it together but i it was a different level of discipline um when i was younger as opposed to now my mom let my daughter run wild even when i had my son he's 13 now but when he was a baby my mother let him get away with things that i could have never gotten away with as a kid so all right So that's one thing there. Okay. But you're saying she's more lenient. Your mom and your grandmother are more lenient with your babies.

Yeah, well, all four of them. Like, well, I only got it five months. But even with my two-year-old, like, he want to eat ice cream all day. And I say no. They'll give it to him. So I'm trying to figure out how I can cope him better with my village without being disrespectful to my grandma and my mama. Right. So it is no way that you can do that, especially if they're not receptive to just casual

conversation to you just a directive. If they don't take you serious and they can't respect you as a mother, then yes, there's no way that you can say it without force. You know what I'm saying? There's no way. Now listen, real quick, you live with them or they live with you?

I live with them. Like, it's my mama house. My grandma, she's older. So, you know, when you get older, you move back in with your kids so they can help take care of you, whatever. But I have fallen, I got laid off for my job and I got four kids, so I'm in the process of trying to find a new job. I can get back on my feet again.

So now I live with them, with my kids. Have you ever tried to just sit down and talk to them, though? Have you ever tried to just sit at mom and grandma? I love y'all to death. Yes, I do. But these are my kids, and I want my kids to be raised a certain way, like how I want to raise them. I don't want them. Tell them what you just told me.

I don't want to raise my kids the way y'all raised me. And I'm not trying to be disrespectful. But it said we're living in different times now. We living in different days. I want an, and because this is what they're going to try to throw it. at you. I know, and I know they are because you said they used to throw shoes and shit at you. Listen, I know

they're going to come at you to this. Well, if the father was in the goddamn life, then we wouldn't have to take care of your four children. They're going to say that. I mean, they are, but I mean, my baby dad, they say something like they have a choice, like, one live in a different states. The other two, they live

in a city, guys live in, but and your mother and your grandmother going to say, we got a choice too, and we can kick your ass out. Oh, you're going to let us raise these kids the only way we know and the way we want to. You know what I'm saying? Complaining in somebody's house is insane. Yeah, and although I do understand.

I do understand, but you're in your mama house and your mama got away of raising them kids. And there's nothing you can do it. And like I say all the time. But I pay for everything. It don't matter. It don't matter. You in their house. That's you in their house. That's their house.

And you're paying for everything because it is five of y'all. It's four kids. Four kids? Yep, she got four kids. And her mother and her grandmother. Oh, hell no. It's her village. helps her take care of them. It's a bit now.

Yeah. Native village leaders unfortunately so, you know, they lead in that village. Even though you are paying to stay there, you're paying for everything, you're paying your way, you're paying the way of you and your full kids. You know, that's a lot. But I will encourage you and tell

you that you're on the right thinking path, and you are right where you say guys don't, they do have a choice. We don't. They do have a choice. And sometimes that's, it's not right, but they do have a choice and whether or not they're going to step up and be a father.

That's just what it is. But yeah, you've got to get on your feet and get out of their home. Can I say one thing? What do you want? What do you want? What do you want? Condoms. Absolutely. Oh, I got my two sides. I got my two sides after that fourth one because, no. I got two under two. Get them clipped and burned because ties come loose. Yes.

They come loose. Oh, man. Well, Jess, I have talked to you before you told me to hit you up in your DM for a follow-up, but this is a different part, but yeah, I just want to say that. I'm still with the dude, though, unfortunately. You with a dude? You got full kids and you live with your mother and your grandmother

and you ain't living with the dude? Because the last time you told me to let him go. So why you didn't love him? Because he's my baby father and I love him. Everybody don't need to break up. Some people need to work through it. Look at I V and Charlemagne. I want to have long-lasting

marriages like them, you know what I'm saying? But if I give up on everybody, then who I'm going to have that way? Your mother and your grandmother is dealing with the girl, if you don't get up my damn phone. That's why some people you can't even have. I love you, too. Pre-order the book. Condoms. Condoms.

Goddam. God damn. That is crazy. You're going to bring four kids into my house and to tell me how I'm going to help you raise them kids? And you still with this. And you just said that he don't do nothing for these kids. And baby daddy's got a choice. And you're still shacking up with the n-

That is crazy. That's why I would throw a damn shoe at it. That's why I'm loving her grandmother's treat her like that. All right. Just fix my mess. 800585105.1. And don't be bringing me and Charlamina into your mess now. Don't be, don't be, I'm charmeda.

Don't be bringing that stuff back to me. Oh, yeah, but she said, see, enviant show them. No, no. But look, even when y'all was, y'all was always taking care of your damn kids. Right. So don't, yeah, don't bring them. Don't bring me into your mess. Lord.

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He alleged he was a victim of flat down. That may or may not have been political. That may have been about sex. Listen to Roershack, murder at City Hall, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your We're in the middle of Jess Fix My Mess. And now we're doing some co-parents questions.

Don't forget. Her new book comes out April 28th. Did y'all order it yet? Did y'all order it yet? Go pre-order it right now. Chat. Did you all you order it? Hello, who's this?

Mariah. Mariah, Mariah. What's your question for Jess? Good morning. Good morning, Jess. Good morning, Shalaman. Good morning, DJ. And V.

My question for Jess is, how do I co-parent with the father of my child without coming off mean or rude? when he wants to have small talk when it's not about our child. Mm-hmm. Okay. You still want them cheeks. Yeah, yeah.

So what is the small talk consist of? Like, what is it? Because small talk ain't that bad unless y'all really don't like each other. It's not that I don't like him, but it's like, let's stick to the program. Like, the program is us co-parenting and doing the best we can for our child. You just want to strictly co-parenting. You don't want no small talk. You don't even want him to say, oh, you look nice today.

But you didn't even want to say, You don't want him to say, how's your mother? You don't want him to say nothing like that. It's just, I don't want him to say none of that, just. It annoys it so bad. What did he do? And it's like, he didn't do nothing. It's just like, I don't know.

I just don't, I don't have time. I don't care for the small talk. I don't have time and I don't care for it. I got you. I got you. But it's something you ain't telling me. You said he ain't do nothing. But this man, oh, my God.

Was he a one night stand? that ended up. Okay. I'm going to say that he had one night stand, but I liked him. We like each other. When I end up being pregnant, I got pregnant in kind of a tough time. My grandmother was, like, on the verge of passing away. Okay.

She ended passing away while I was pregnant. I'm sorry about that. Long story short, he didn't stick around. Like, he didn't, like, like, the pregnancy just was, like, not, I just, I don't know. Your pregnancy had a bad experience with pregnancy. You didn't feel all the butterflies You didn't have like he wasn't there Yeah

You didn't have anybody to go through that way Right turn out Right turn out We got somebody pregnant in too much before he got leased like Okay Okay So it's just like Yeah

I don't care I get it So that's why I say you can't be telling me He ain't do nothing And yes you are still hurt from How old is the baby? She's one year ago

She's time one on January 22nd Oh, Lord, Sticky Booty, Shmoody Booty. Okay, yes. Well, have you belated birthday, little mama? But, yeah, so that's what it was. I knew you was lying, girl. You don't want to talk to that man because that man did not talk to you. It's not that I'm lying.

I'm just saying, like, I don't care for the baby. Like, he'll be like, yeah, I'm doing good, though. I'm doing good. And I'd be like, well, I was like, are you, am I supposed to ask you how are you doing? He was like, I mean, it would be nice. But I'm like. And then what you want to say is, it would have. have been nice if you were with me for that nine months, I carried your daughter, but you weren't.

And I needed you. Not only was I pregnant with your child, because I can't get pregnant by myself, I was losing my grandmother, who ended up passing away while I was pregnant. So I was very hormonal. I was stressed out. I was depressed. I was sad. And my pregnancy was not happy at all. My pregnancy was not easy at all. Right? For sure. I told him that, though. I let him know, like, I didn't, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, Pregnancy was not what I expected it to be. Nothing like I wanted it to be. Yeah.

And what did he say when you told him that? He didn't say nothing. Not even an apology, not even trying to, you know, because he can't turn back the hands of time. You know, you can't go backward. But only thing you can do is show different actions going forward and show that, like, he needs to take accountability. He hasn't taken accountability, is what you're saying?

He doesn't say, like, I understand. He's trying to do better. That's what he's saying. I'm trying. I'm trying to be better. better. You're just still hurt from that. You're just still hurt for that. It's just like, I just want my child,

I grew up without a father. Yeah. I don't want her to put that void that I grew up feeling. Yeah. So it's like, I'm done with the, like, the whole little butterfly thing, and it's over. Like, that's been over. Like, when I had her, and I was in, like, when I was pregnant almost by myself

the whole nine months and I had her, and I was left in the hospital by myself for those three days, Yes. Oh, my God. You were even in the hospital by yourself the whole three days when you, so he didn't come. I mean, he came that first day. Yeah, he came that first day when I had her and stuff, but he didn't stay. Yeah, that's what it is.

Yeah, I get it. You're still holding on to that. And it's not, it hasn't even been that long ago. Your baby, y'all baby just turned one. So I totally do understand it. There's nothing wrong with keeping it short because you can't control with him. You can't control him trying to keep having small talk. can only control yourself. Do not respond unless it's only about the child, but you can't make

him only speak to you about your baby girl. That's what it is. You just have to be on your big, your big ignore game. You got to, I say, you got to act like you don't see those text messages. You can't block him because he still is an active father. Am I right? Yeah. So that's all he need to be. That's all he needs to be for you. Just don't respond unless it's about your child. And hopefully you're able to let that hurt go later. You know what I'm saying? Because it is Still very recent. It is very recent. And I would be crazy to tell you to get over that shit right now.

You can't do that. And that's hurt. You know, you lost your people too. So, yeah, just still allow for him to being your daughter's life, being your daughter's life, be a good dad. But you don't have to respond to anything else that he says. Even if he calls you, you don't have to respond to anything else unless it is about your child. And that's it. Don't even, don't act like...

The most of the time I don't, it's just like, I try not to come off mean or rude. So I'm like, I'm like, dang, is he not getting it that I literally just wanted, I just want to be cordial enough for us to... But that's the thing. You don't have to be rude about it. You don't have to be rude.

You can just say respectfully, we're not going there. Yep. So for baby Angelica, I mean, I know it's not your daughter name, but, you know, just for baby, Angelica, like, just let's just keep it here. The name is Amaya.

Amaya. For Amaya. Maya, yes, we can talk about Amaya, all things Amaya, but respectfully, I have nothing else to say thank you, enjoy your day. It's nothing wrong with just being straight to the point, boom, he'll get it,

he'll eventually fall off of that, and if you don't, that's on him, you know? Right. It's okay. You can only, you can only control you, boo. It's all right. You're right. Yeah. Thank you, no problem. No problem, baby. I commend her for being strong. That's a lot.

All right. Just fix my mess. 800 585, 105.1. Once again, don't forget, make sure you pre-order Jess's new book. So, Def, Dewey Parent, comes out April 28th. You can pre-order right now. And salute to Starbucks. You know, if you listen to the Breakfast Club or watch the Breakfast Club, you know that I usually have a refresher in the morning. That's just my thing. I don't drink coffee, but I do enjoy the Mingle Dragon Fruit refresher. And that's something that I drink every day. But now they got a twist to it. They have an energy refresher where they give you a little cafe. in that Starbucks refresher. So whether you like the strawberry assayi,

the pink drink, the dragon drink, or my favorite, the mango dragon fruit, it just adds a little bit of caffeine. Now, sometimes, I'm not going to lie, I need any type of drink to deal with Lauren Rosa. Don't do that to me, because I don't say nothing about when you get in here and be all energized up and start dancing around the room, like an old pop-off.

Well, I dance regardless, because I can dance. I actually taught my kids how to dance, hello. But these drinks are new. So if you're out and about, whether you're in the morning or your afternoon, and you need a lot, a little uplift, definitely check out Starbucks and check out their brand new energy refreshes.

So I have one in my hand. I know you have one. Yes, cheers. All right. Positive, no, Charlemagne. Somebody named Icy Veen or Big Lex said, Charlamine, Jess Better had told you I said hi and that I love you. Yes. Oh, my God. Yes. Alexis from there, she said, yo, she love you.

You, her guy, like, I'm talking about, like, yes. From Milwaukee? Yes. What's your start? Yes. Oh, okay. Big Lex, like, just want to let you know, yo, she love you to death out here. We'll salute to all the studs. Yeah, she represented for y'all.

Sure. Positive note. Positive note is simply this. Stop hating yourself for everything you aren't and start loving yourself for everything that you are. Have a great day. Breakfast club, bitches! You don't finish or y'all done?

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