The Breakfast Club - The Breakfast Club Best Of Episode ( Bishop TD Jakes Interview, Cedric The Entertainer Interview, Swizz Beats Interview, 4 Days Work Week?)

Episode Date: December 25, 2023

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

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

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. As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just don't know what is going to come for you. Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love. I forgive myself. It's okay.

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

Jenny Garth, Jana Kramer, Amy Robach, and TJ Holmes bring you I Do Part 2, a one-of-a-kind experiment in podcasting to help you find love again hey i'm janna kramer i'm jenny garth hi everyone i'm amy robock and i'm tj holmes and we are well not necessarily relationship experts if you're ready to dive back into the dating pool and find lasting love we want to help listen to i do part two on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

Hey, everyone. This is Courtney Thorne-Smith, Laura Layton, and Daphne Zuniga. On July 8th, 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. Wake your ass up. The Breakfast Club is on.

Wake up! The Breakfast Club, Envy, and Charlamagne, the voice of the culture. You think I'm gonna come here when this shit ain't hot? See, y'all are charlamagne the voice of the culture you think i'm gonna come here when this ain't hot see y'all different y'all the culture it's different you know i'm saying like y'all know what y'all talking about this is probably becoming the most prominent form for hip-hop being here next to all of you guys it's really big perspective the breakfast club bitches wake up yo charlamagne what up are we live this is your time to get it off your chest i got an indoor pool an outdoor pool we want to hear from you on the breakfast

club we can get on the phone right now he'll tell you what it is hello who's this yo yo this marcus from tampa florida marcus from tamp Florida. What up? Get it off your chest, brother. Hey, real quick. Charlemagne, you gotta take it easy on Florida, my guy. You always coming for us, but you never talk about the Bronx. You say the craziest people come from Florida and the Bronx, but I

haven't heard you say anything about the Bronx in a good, good little minute. The segment's always dedicated to us. What's going on, man? That's because Florida always outshines everybody when it comes to having the craziest stories. Like right now, I haven't even looked at my donkeys yet, but automatically I'm looking at some headlines.

Florida woman skips $160 Walmart bill, claims security guard tried to holler at her. Florida man punches, spits on customer in wheelchair at McDonald's after heated argument. Florida man fatally stabs brother's pal after nobody shared weed with him. What you want me to do, man? What you want me to do?

You want to know the answer to that? Everybody moving here. All these people coming from different parts of the region and the world. This is a retirement state. I mean, we got no taxes. The weather's great. It's a tourist attraction. Everybody started coming here. It's the world. This is a retirement state. I mean, we got no taxes. The weather's great. It's a tourist attraction. Everybody started

coming here. It's the water. Oh, man. Come on. Most of these people ain't never committed a crime till they get to Florida. Then they drink some of that goddamn Florida water, and then they turn in the gunplay. Goodbye, Marcus. Goodbye, Marcus. Hello, who's this?

Yo, this is Chris. Chris, what up? Get it off your chest, Chris. Hey, what's up, man? I just want to say Goodbye Marcus Hello who's this Yo this Chris Chris what up Get it off your chest Chris Hey what's up man I just wanna say Uh uh uh Yeah Charlemagne 843 what's happening

I'm right here my brother Hey I wanna tell you man I'm disappointed in you man You were an infant Really cut I feel like I hear all this great talk This week

You know shout out to OVO Eli Lil 40 Tub All them guys. But what about Rod Wave? Y'all ain't say nothing about Rod Wave when he dropped. You right.

Rod Wave went number one. You know what I'm saying? Rod Wave selling out arenas. You right. By himself. He headlining. But I don't hear nothing about Rod Wave. You absolutely right.

You right. I read on Billboard now, he's the second artist behind Taylor Swift to get number one consecutively, 2021, 22, and 23. You're right. But no talk about Rod Wave. You're absolutely right. Salute to Rod Wave. We got to change that now.

We got to change that. Well, you're doing it right now. When you write, you write, though. Salute to Rod Wave and that nostalgia album. Rod Wave definitely doing his thing. Yeah, y'all got to start playing. I know that y'all got the system. Y'all play what y'all got to start playing. I know that y'all got the system. Y'all play what y'all got to play this and that.

But at least talk about Rod. Man, Rod from Florida. I'm from Florida. We represent Florida, man, the South. And Charlamagne, I just expected more from you from the South. You're absolutely right. That's right. Blame it, Charlamagne.

Rod Wave and Nick Grant dropped a real great project. We should be playing. We should get Fight the Feeling some spins on the radio. That's off the Nost the nostalgia album You're absolutely right I'm not going to sit here And tell you that you're wrong Hello, who's this? Morning, morning guys

It's Walker from Toronto Hey Walker from Toronto Get it off your chest, brother I just want to say It's much more easier To spread negative energy Than positive energy Yes it is

And Jada Pinkett book Is an awesome read Yes it is Man, I cried in it. I laughed in it. And I feel her pain. And I just want to send healing energy to her and her family. And I just want to say you guys keep doing a good job.

One of the things, as soon as you read the book, the first thing you say to yourself is, oh, everybody's having the wrong conversations here. Hello, who's this? Hey, good morning, DJ Envy. Charlamagne Tha God, Miss Lauren Lawson. Good morning. Good morning, brother.

I just wanted to get off my chest. I love the Breakfast Club so much. The whole staff, Red, Taylor, Ovio, Eli, all the crew. Y'all doing an amazing job. I love y'all. But Lauren, why you so obsessed with horoscopes? With what? Horoscopes.

Because, what's your sign? Lauren LaBoi. What's your sign? Lauren LaBoi. What's your sign? Let's get into why you felt attacked. What's your sign? Sagittarius.

Oh, well, yeah, I understand you. Then I'm a Sag too. And people are always calling you toxic. I'm not going to say you toxic. No, I'm asking you. I'm you, sir, not me. Oh, me? No, I've never been called toxic you toxic. It's just like. No, I'm asking you. I'm you, sir. Not me. Oh, me?

No, I've never been called toxic. Oh, that's a lie. You're sad. But I don't know. I think that it just says a lot about people. Yeah, I don't think it does. I think it applies to everybody kind of generally. All right, Ma.

Well, you have a great morning. Don't be toxic. Me day. It's me day. Oh, me day. I'm sorry, me day. I thought it was Ma. All right, Amy.

Me day. Get it off your chest chest 800-585-1051 if you need to vent hit us up now it's the breakfast club good morning the breakfast club it's a new day this is your time to get it off your chest wait wake up whether you're mad or blessed it's time to get up and get something call Call up now. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? What's up? This is Nick from Ohio. What's going on, fellas? Nick, what up? Get it off your chest. All right, man. I just want to make sure I ain't tripping. All right. So my baby mom, she got six kids, right? I got my older kids by her. Her other baby father in jail so i go get my son he's 14 he has

sports good kid i pay child support all that she be mad because i'll be getting them and he don't want to be over there with them and the other kids and stuff she told him he got to come home and struggle with them and my treatment ain't that something yes i mean i mean that's her son she wants a son but i mean if you got better environment a better way of doing things she should let him stay with you. I don't see a problem with that. Yeah. You are his dad.

I take him to school every morning. I take him to school every morning. And I take her other kids to school every morning as well. Are you the type of parent that brings your son to McDonald's and don't bring the other kids to McDonald's, though? No, I buy them all food. I put food in their house. I go to the grocery store, go buy $300, $400 worth of groceries,

go put them in their house, all of that. If store, go buy $300, $400 worth of groceries, go put them in their house. All that. If your baby mama called up here now, would she confirm this story or deny this story? On my kids, she would confirm it. Oh, okay. Well, hopefully y'all can work it out.

You got to get all the kids' stuff for Christmas. That's a lot of money. You ain't got to do all that now. No, I'm just saying. You can't come in the house with one gift. No, you cannot. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't No, I'm just saying. You can't come in the house with one gift. Yes, you can. No, you cannot. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't tripping. I just feel like that's unfair.

What's the point of having a dad if you can't chill with his dad or take the opportunity to get away? I'm going to be honest with you now. The crazy part is she might not even remember you buying all those groceries, but she'll remember you not buying the Christmas gifts. So sometimes you got to prove a point. Don't buy the other kid's Christmas gifts. Buy your child a Christmas gift. Please don't listen

to that advice. I'm serious. They gonna beat your kid up. But I wouldn't do that anyway because my son the oldest, so I be trying to lead by example. You know, I love who he loves, so I try to lead by example. He got his other brothers. Their dad is incarcerated, so I try to look out for

them too, you know, as much as I can So I try to look out for them too, you know, as much as I can. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? I try to look out for them too. But it's like, when he over there, he miss practice, he misses games,

all that. When he with me, he go to practice every day, he go to his games every day, he do good. He tell me that I can't get no peace over there. You know what I'm saying? No peace?

Or pizza? Peace. I thought he said pizza too. I thought he said pizza too. Okay. Yeah, he like, I can't get no pizza. I can't go to sleep. He got to clean up after them.

They're not his kids. You know what I'm saying? Well, you sound like a good man, sir. Just keep fighting the good fight, brother. That's right. I love it. All right, all right, all right. He wanted more, but all right, brother.

I don't know what else to tell you, man. We're praying for you. We're praying for you. We're praying for you. Thoughts and prayers, man. Hello, who's this? Man, he's trying to lighten our seat. Pepsi Joe, good morning, Breakfast Club.

Pepsi Joe, what up? Who is this? Pepsi Joe. Oh, I thought it was Dingo. Pepsi Joe, Pepsi Joe. I just want everybody to hug their father. I recently lost my father for cancer right before Thanksgiving, and it hurts. It does.

So if you're listening, thank you, Charlamagne. If you're listening, please hug your father, man. Love your father, man. I was thinking about my daddy last night because I was riding in the car, and that Luther Vandross song came on. That's you. Yo, Luther hits. Luther hits, man.

When you lose your father, Luther hits. And if you lost your father, you know. Dance with my father. Slaps. Oh, yeah. I was just thinking about that song, but I didn't want to say it because I don't want to make you sad. Yes, exactly. I'm sorry we lost again, bro. I appreciate it. Everybody, happy Friday. I was just thinking about that song But I didn't want to say it Because I don't want to make you sad Exactly

I appreciate it Everybody Happy Friday Salute to my pops man Salute to Cowboy out there In Moscona, South Carolina Kid Phil What's happening?

Love you Love you dad Salute to Butch My pops man Yesterday was my mom and dad's 55th anniversary Oh that's amazing That's what's up

So salute to mom and pops Yesterday What you getting? Blue Chew You ain't seen pops No Blue Chew Pops got Blue Chew That's what's up So I salute the mom and pops yesterday What you get them? Blue Chew? You ain't send pops no Blue Chew? Pops got Blue Chew Blue Chew and a Blue Tooth When you get to a certain age Pops good

What's Blue Chew? Don't worry about it Find out by 20 years 20, 25 You look on the counter and be like What's this baby? Blue Chews You want that baby a good time They'll find out in about 20 years, 20, 25. In about 30 years, you'll find out. They'll find out. You'll look on the counter and be like, what's this, baby? Blue shoes. Okay.

No, you want that, baby, a good time. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. 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 are 55 gallons of water, 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel.

I am the Queen of Ladonia. I'm Jackson the First, King of Kaperburg. I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia. Be part of a great colonial tradition. Why can't I trade my own country? My forefathers did that themselves. What could go wrong? No country willingly gives up their territory.

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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

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Alicia Keys opens up about conquering doubt, learning to trust herself and leaning into her dreams. I think a lot of times we are built to doubt the possibilities for ourselves, for self-preservation and protection. it was literally that step by step. And so I discovered that that is how we get where we're going. This increment of small, determined moments. Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love. I forgive myself. It's okay. Like grace. Have grace with yourself. You're trying your best and you're going to figure out the rhythm of this thing. Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before.

Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Jenny Garth, Jana Kramer, Amy Robach, and TJ Holmes bring you I Do Part Two, a one-of-a- kind experiment in podcasting to help you find love again. If you didn't get it right the first time, it's time to try, try again, as they guide you through this podcast experiment in dating. Hey, I'm Jana Kramer. As they say, those that cannot do, teach. Actually, I think I finally got it right. So take the failures I've had the second or even third or whatever, maybe the fourth time around. I'm Jenny Garth.

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finally, we want to help. Listen to I Do Part 2 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to 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. Niminy here. I'm the host of a brand new history podcast

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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 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. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha God.

We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. The legend. Cedric the Entertainer. Welcome, brother. What's up? Good morning. Good morning, man. How y'all doing? We bless Black and Holly favorite. How you feeling, man? Oh, man. It's been a good day man we you know we open up the books doing well so i'm excited man always great to be in the city it was so much going on it was a lot i was trying to you know how you keep trying to go home and everybody call you like hey man just stop through

here come through here come through here pop out they got a birthday party last night yeah how many outfits you bring what you said because you stayed clean i stayed clean. I had to be very specific on this, but I think I brought about six outfits. And then I only wore four of them. So I go home with two outfits that I could just finish the week out with. Oh, I'm still fresh. Six outfits for how many days, though?

Three days. Jesus Christ. Yeah, but you're appearing on TV and stuff, so you don't really know. I wore that all day, and then if I go out at night, I don't want people to go, like, I saw you this morning. That was the night you got the same shirt on. Like, maybe, but you know what I mean?

Gotcha. I don't have to do it like, girls really have to change a lot. You know what I mean? But, you know, guys, we're not really required to flip outfits that much, but nowadays it is a fashion world right there mike i don't want to see what the drip is yeah they see you all the time yeah exactly yeah but you got the flipping boxcars book out man and i love that you flexing different creative muscles writing fiction novels yeah talk to us about flipping boxcars what made you want to write

a fiction novel you know what you know i was you know really hearing stories about my grandfather but you know he had passed before i was even born so you know like we'll hear things about our relatives and then you start to get the lore of the family story and that's what i did like i started to like really fictionalize what his life was like and so you know he was uh these were real things you know that i heard from my mother and my uncles that you was a businessman. He was like the de facto mayor of the black side of town, this little small town. But at night, he was a bootlegger and a gambler and a hustler, and he was always being creative. And so I just kind of put those two worlds together to show them being like this loving father and husband. And then he had to go and do what he had to do to make you know make his dreams come true so he gets caught up in a caper it's like a crime caper where he's got to

take this boot that liquor from a train so that's the boxcar trains and then he does the dice with the two sixes there's a boxcars too so that's why he flipping boxcars but that's the most important thing about the book right the dynamic because that is the black struggle in a lot of ways the fact that yeah i'm a family man and i'm trying to do all of this for my family but i gotta go out there and get it by any means necessary sometimes don't make me a bad person that's right i mean we all you know especially black men we kind of always relegated to that i mean even when we think about the people like make it in the music business or whatever most of them have that other past where they was like street dudes, but we never saw them as that way. Like we just appreciate that they great artists and,

and they did what they got to do. And so you think about post world war two pre civil rights, you know, black man, that's what I love. The story is that he had traveled, he'd been in the world. And then you come back to a pre civil rights America.

You just can't be put back in the same box. You know, once you you left you can't tell me i can't come through the front door bro i've been living in france for six months you know i've been doing this we've been fighting in the war for the whole country you don't tell me i gotta go through the back like i don't you know so these kind of guys they had that will to want to want to be great without but being relegated to the racism of the time you know and did you write this during the pandemic because where do you have time and when do you have time to write a book yeah yeah that's when it got that's when it started for sure it took like two years that we did that in uh yeah we started it in late 2019 and then you know went through all the drafts and

then you know then you time it out when you want to release it what gave you the idea to do it because it's like between comedy at the time writing acting and everything that you were doing when did you say you know what it's time for book was it sitting at home doing nothing was like yeah i got i got something to do yeah you know the thing was is that you know like i've been developing tv shows for we've been producing a lot of shows my shows the johnson on bounce and so i was developing this as a TV idea when I first started and so you know when you started thinking about like then we had the opportunity to write a book and I was like oh that

would be so much more fun to have that long form develop the characters out not to think about it in episodic ways where you gotta like end the episode and then take you to the next here I just introduce you to the characters let the world live and then hopefully you to the next. Here, I just introduce you to the characters, let the world live, and then hopefully people love it. Like, even the way I ended it, it's got like three cliffhangers.

It's definitely a cliffhanger. So it's like, you know, you definitely want people to be like, what happened to the story? So, you know, I'm loving it. I liken it to Walter Mosley. You know, the Easy Rollins characters, the devil in the blue dress. I love that world, and that's what we, you know,

I just kind of try to emulate that feel. That what it was when it comes to storytelling for you what's the best way to tell a story stand-up movies tv or writing fictional novel you know i mean this book was really a great experience i had never really you know done a fictional novel and i mean the idea and what it took and the way it turned out in my opinion i like love this book i love the process i love telling people you know about it even when i did the audio book that's when i really recognized like damn this book dope like i was because i had to you know hear it back for the first time myself and then uh last night over in newark these kids they took an excerpt and and acted it out like on stage that also brought it to life that was something

very unique like they made a stage play out of a out of excerpt about the book so you know i i want i think i want to do stuff like that when i'm as i'm promoting it to get people to understand like what the book is really all about so we ain't got great readers no anymore people love their audio books you know which is dope i think but i definitely want to encourage people to go and read this and check it out it's a cool adventure tells a great story you follow it characters are rich it's interesting all right we got more with cedric the entertainer when we come back don't move it's the breakfast club good morning hey everybody it's dj nv charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club we're still kicking it with cedric the entertainer his new book flipping box cars is out right now

charlamagne you say you don't gamble, right? So was it a bad experience you had rolling dice back in the day? Oh, man. You know what? Most of the time, it's a bad experience. Like, most of the time, it's just like, you know, hey, here you go. Here's some money. You know, you get to play for a little bit. I had some

great rolls. You know, you start playing with gamblers and you recognize, like, oh, I can't even keep up. Like, you know what I'm sayinglers and you recognize like, oh, I can't even keep up. Like, you know what I'm saying? You go in there like, I can't play like that. But it was just one of these things that for me, the odds

and put my money on something that felt like I'm just waiting on a whim. You know, I do that on the lottery tickets when it's a bid and that's it. I'm going to do that $20 at a time. That's right. And if I hit a billion, then I'm good.

But if I don't, then it's $20. But I'm not you ready to throw five grand on the on the craps table that's not me man how many names did you have to change to protect the guilty in this book oh man a lot a lot i definitely check i kept i kept my grandfather and then pretty much and my grandmother's name but then everybody else i kind of changed you know and especially you like other relatives that, you know, in there. I even like changed who they were because I have other relatives in here that are represented, but that's not what their personalities were.

I just needed to change and get some texture and make characters feel different. But, you know, even the character that plays his brother-in-law in real life, they was two peas in a pod and so but i couldn't make they would have felt like the same person in the book so i made him something totally different nice family gonna be coming to you asking you for money like of course you wrote this about granddaddy yeah you never met him cedric with him you know i mean it's one of these things that's funny it's funny that yeah but it is like it is a family thing luckily for me like my sister was rocking with me the whole time and she's like that protector of me like if anybody come for me my

sister gonna hold it down she's like nah school back you know so but normally it says you know this was a creative process this was something me having an idea it's not about the family per se it's a story but it was like this was an opportunity that i had and so i'll try to take care of people though like my uncle who helped me like a lot and make sure that he gets you know get some stuff off this book my sister and people who like really helped me i'm you know i i think that that's uh you know it's only fair to make sure that they get you know know that they love getting knowledge and this is not just acknowledging the book, but, you know, monetarily, too. But you know how to say no, because you've been getting money.

Yeah, no, you've been doing well for a long time. Yeah, I definitely know how to say no. Like, I could say no. Like, I go past no. No. That's what is emphatic. You're like, oh, OK, but let me. No, you know, but but definitely, you know, like it is one of those things where, you know, I used to have like a whole fund for the family.

It was a very specific number. Every year you put it in there. That's what's over there. How much was it, if you don't mind? 25 grand every year. But people can get it, you know, like they would, but they have to deal with my sister. So like you had to figure it out. Oh, that's smart.

But 25 grand, whatever it is, you can call there. You can qualify for it. And not all it was. Well, I mean. You late for your car, though. Yeah, it wasn't, you know, I ain't going for the nonsense. Like, I want to go to Beyonce's head. You know, let me get $900.

Not getting in for that. But, you know, you late. You need school money. You got this. You got to. You got to. You're going to lose the house. You know, you can come in and get that, but you know, you late, you need school money, you got this, you got, you got, you gonna lose the house, you know,

you can come in and get that money, like some of it. Not all of, not one person get all of it either. When did it stop? I don't even remember,

man, but I just, one day, I just wasn't getting it. It was just over. He's like, I ain't doing this no more. Yeah,

I was just like, I'm good. People heard one too many no's and they knew not to ask you no more. Well, you know, I think, you know,

I think it started getting to the point where people wanted the bigger checks. Some people just come in and literally felt like the whole 25 was theirs. You get certain relatives that they closer to you, and they just come and they don't even want to be in the group no more. They're like, yo, I got my own 25. You do that for them, but pay for my house. They see you growing. They be like, I see you growing you like you see the new trucks right Wait for you to office up. That's crazy. They ain't even that much.

They ain't even that much. I put the tires on there and stuff. My car just broke down too. That's wild. Kids got to walk to school. That's crazy. I pray for you. They're going to work it, man.

Well, Settler to Entertainer's new book, Flipping Box Cars, is out right now. Make sure you pick it up. We appreciate you for joining us, brother. Always, man. Well, Cedric the Entertainer's new book, Flipping Box Cards, is out right now. Make sure you pick it up. We appreciate you for joining us, brother. Always, man. Much love, y'all. It's Cedric the Entertainer. It's The Breakfast Club.

Good morning. Uh-huh. 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 are 55 gallons of water for 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen of Laudonia.

I'm Jackson I, King of Capriburg. I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia. Be part of a great colonial tradition. Why can't I trade 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 need help! We still have the off-road portion to go. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. And we're losing daylight fast.

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Alicia Keys opens up about conquering doubt, learning to trust herself and leaning into her dreams. I think a lot of times we are built to doubt the possibilities for ourselves. For self-preservation and protection, it was literally that step by step. And so I discovered that that is how we get where we're going. This increment of small, determined moments. Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love. I forgive myself. It's okay.

Like grace. Have grace with yourself. You're trying your best. And you're going to figure out the rhythm of this thing. Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Jenny Garth, Jana Kramer, Amy Robach, and TJ Holmes

bring you I Do Part 2, a one-of-a-kind experiment in podcasting to help you find love again. If you didn't get it right the first time, it's time to try, try again as they guide you through this podcast experiment in dating. Hey, I'm Jana Kramer. As they say, those that cannot do, teach. Actually, I think I finally got it right. So take the failures I've had the second or even third

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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. Flash, slam, another one gone. Bash, bam, another one gone. The crack of the bat and another one gone.

The tip of the cap is 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 called a moment. 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, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got our co-host, Jason Lee.

And if you're just joining us, we're talking about the four-day work week. Now, they're saying that a four-day work week actually is better for workers. They said it's better for productivity. It's better for health. It's even better for finances. So we're asking, would you want to do

a four-day work week but that does mean you would have to work 10 hours a day i don't like four days i'm not mad at that i would do my 10 hours a day and get off friday saturday and sunday baby you we all love what we do so you're always working when you're not here you're working you're where your wife's work we're always working so So this generation wants an excuse to be at home, period. I think it'll make people more productive. Like, for example, I don't do Mondays well. Like, I really don't even get in my groove until Tuesday. Even here at The Breakfast Club, there's certain things we don't do on Monday or try not to do, like interviews after the show, right?

Nor do we like doing interviews on Friday after the show because we'd be ready to get out of here. Yesterday, Sunday, I'm at my daughter's cheerleading competition all weekend. Drove back three and a half hours from Rhode Island. Although I love coming in here because the energy in this studio is fantastic this year. I mean, I haven't had to light my stage once, but I would still rather not have to talk until tomorrow. But what changed this year that you have to burn your stage? It's not the hours. It's the studio, the energy.

That's all. See, I would say the same. I just flew back in Sunday. And yes, I need a kickstart. You know what I mean? I need Tuesday. That's what I'm saying. I want to start on Tuesday.

Monday is kind of tough. That's why even with interviews on Monday, you're kind of down a little bit. Now, to Jason's point, I love everything that I do. And there's multiple businesses that I have my hand in. So I guess when I say I would need a four-day work week it's just from radio I don't want to get up at six o'clock in the morning to do radio on a Monday morning but you've been doing it for all these years and that's why you guys are in the radio hall of fame that's right and that's how I know I need a four-day work week because I've been doing it so long that's how I know either either

Monday or Friday gotta go bro you see but that's thing. Even when I miss a day, I miss it, though. I'm not gonna sit here and lie. When we off, I'll be like, damn. I still get up the same time. My body gets me up. I ain't gonna tell that lie, man. Nah? It depends what's going on.

I enjoy my time off. I'm gonna tell y'all that right now. I enjoy my time off. The Breakfast Club is endorsing this ridiculousness. I've notified my entire staff. I will relocate Hollywood Unlocked to Dominican Republic or somewhere else. Y'all can't take a day off, though,

because y'all are a blog. I don't even know. Do we call y'all a blog? No, they try, but no. We're a media company. You're a media company. 24-7. You're a media company that's 24-7.

Who are we a media company? Sort of. Shut up. Let's go to the phone line. Sort of. Hello, who's this? Michelle, good morning. Hey? Michelle, good morning. Hey, Michelle, good morning.

Talk to us. Four-day work week? All right. I've done the four-day work week. I did it when I used to work for C-Mobile, but it was a little different. We did it for 10 hours a day. But I loved it. I loved having three days off.

Damn, I'm telling you. What days did you have off? Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Oh, that's perfect. That's perfect. So Thursday when your day is over, you can just bounce if you need to. Yeah, and it really wasn't that late. It was like 2 to 10. So you can still go out.

You can still do things. You kind of slept in a little bit. Now I have kids, so it's a little different, but... I'm not gonna lie. I'd rather have the Monday. Only reason I'd rather have the Monday is because Friday you get off work, so you got all day Friday to do whatever you want to do. All day Saturday and all day Sunday. I'd rather have the Monday. Only reason I'd rather have the Monday is because Friday you get off work, so you got all day Friday to do whatever you want to do, all day Saturday and all day Sunday. I'd rather that than have the Friday off.

I'd rather take the Friday off. Thursday you get out of work. When you get out of work, then you can dip on Thursday night. Now you got the full day Friday, full day Saturday, come back Sunday. Flying back from places on a Sunday night to have to work on Monday morning, they ain't never hit, bro. You know what I'm saying? I'd be needing that Monday to recover sometimes.

And I guess it also depends on what your career is. If you have to go into something physically, then I can understand it probably being something you don't want to do. Hello, who's this? It's Troy. Hey, Troy, what's going on? Good morning. Listening to y'all every day, man.

Love y'all show. Appreciate you, brother. We're talking about the four-day work week. What's your opinion? Oh, I'm all about it. We do that right now where I'm at. Where you at? Down here in the South Carolina.

Where you at in South Carolina? Collin, Motor Beach. And where you work at? Did you got a four-day work week? We do underground utility work. Oh, okay. But you work Monday through Thursday. You work a lot then.

Yeah, Monday through Thursday, 10 hours a day. See, I'm not mad at that. I don't like the 10-hour-a-day thing. Because at least Friday you get to do what you need to do. Yeah, man, it ain't bad. Go by before you know it. For real? It's only extra two hours.

Maybe that is worth it. Nice break, you know? Yeah, maybe that is worth it to have an extra day off. I know a lot of medical people do it sometimes. They do, like, the shifts, and then they take a certain amount of days off. Yeah, and I think you get two breaks and an hour lunch, too. So it kind of goes, yeah, pretty fast. But I still don't like this conversation. get two breaks and an hour lunch, too. So it kind of goes pretty fast. But I still don't like this conversation.

You don't get an hour lunch when you're working 9 to 5? No, I think you get 30 minutes. What the hell is going on? We don't get lunch up here. Well, I mean, because we're here for breakfast, duh. Oh, yeah. Jesus Christ. You are a genius.

It's the middle of the day I am. Thank you. Hello, who's this? You couldn't be Scottie Pippen. Hey, this is Joe. I'm from North Carolina, 2-6. What's up, brother? We're talking a four-day work week.

Could you do it? Yeah, yeah. I did it, man, about 20 years ago, man. I worked for this spot. I worked for 40 and 8. Where did you work? What did you have to do? Well, it was a place called Crumple Plastic Pikes.

I had this little spot called Roseboro, man. North Carolina. It made pipes. That's all we did. Jesus. You know what I mean? So Friday, Saturday, you was tired as hell. You was recovering.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. There you did. Jesus. You know what I mean? So Friday, Saturday, you was tired as hell. You was recovering. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I wish, like Charlamagne said, it's a Friday because Monday,

you know what I mean? You can recover on that day for real, for real. I'm telling you, man, think about when you've been out all weekend,

like say on Sunday, especially when the summertime hitting is day party season and you've been drinking. You need that day to recover on a Monday. You want to go hit the sauna. You want to go hit the gym. You want to go hit the gym.

Do you go to day parties? No. You don't go nowhere. But even if it ain't a day party, you might just be drinking somewhere. You might just be out enjoying a barbecue, a cookout. You need that Monday to get all that out your system so you're back on Tuesday. Get you a good IV. Seven to seven.

Your whole life is just at work. I couldn't do it. Chantel, good morning. Hi, good morning. This is Chantel from Richmond, Virginia. Hey, Chantel. Hey, y'all. I love y'all so much. I definitely

agree with the four-day work week. I work in dialysis and it's always been working a 12-hour shift in which you do have a good, healthy work-life balance. But recently, I definitely stepped down to three days a week

in which I'm off on Mondays. I'm actually home right now. So it is definitely a good way of living. And like you said, Charlamagne, when you just said that if you went out or something on the weekend and you have that Monday to recover, it really helps you out a lot. You said a three-day work week. How much helps you out a lot three-day work week how like

how much do you work for a three-day work week so i'll put in like a 12-hour shift and i do have another i have a business like i run my own business so i definitely try to balance out you know working still having to work but also pushing my business so yeah can you do a three-day work week no that's and that's part time because it's 3 12 so 36 hours yeah nah there's countries that have already adopted this by the way denmark norway germany the netherlands iceland cambodia i'll tell you some places in the u.s that's all the places hollywood a lot will not be real but what's the moral of this story the moral of the story is man i think the story is, man, I think it'll increase productivity. It'll make people feel, you know, like they're getting more bang for their buck.

I really feel that way. The moral of the story is find you a career that you're in love with so that way it doesn't feel like work and just work your ass off. Absolutely. You still need a break. You need that time off sometimes just for your mental and emotional health sometimes, man. I need that time away. I just have sex four times a day. You'll be good. Now, that's ridiculous.

That's ridiculous. Would you rather work five days a week or sex four times a day? What happened now? Say that again. Would I rather have what? Would you rather work five days a week or sex four times a day? Five days a week. Nobody got time to be having sex no four times a day.

Jesus. This is The Breakfast Club Good morning The Breakfast Club Good morning everybody It's DJ Envy Charlamagne Tha Guy We are The Breakfast Club We got our guest host

Jess Hilarious with us Yes indeed And we got a special guest In the building The legend TD Jakes Yes Welcome back

It's good to be back Thanks for having me you got a new book out disruptive thinking yeah what is disruptive thinking my brother disruptive thinking is the willingness that you need to be able to disrupt the way that you look at life because you understand that mindsets control assets and i know when i say assets i'm not just talking about wealth i'm talking about relationships i'm talking about wellness i'm talking about your perspectives on life have to be disrupted in order to go to the next level. Some people are willing to do that, and some people are not.

They just stay where it's safe and play in the safety zone. Other people color outside of the lines. In the book, I talk about how to handle both groups of people, how to manage people who are disruptors and how to support people that are disruptors. I have a friend, she passed away, and her saying used to be, you can be great or you can be safe, but you can't be both. Exactly. That's perfectly said. That's exactly what the book is about and what it costs to cross those lines, what it costs to be innovative. If you go in the library, there are no books about ordinary.

There are only books about innovative, creative, people who crossed lines, broke boundaries, created things, went, pushed it to the limit. And there's a price to be paid. And I talk about it in the book for disruptive thinking. But this is a disruptive time we're living in. And we're trying to go back to normal. And normal isn't there anymore, it's not there anymore. So if we're not willing to disrupt what we call normal and embrace change, then we're going to be left behind as a people or as an individual. Now, when you say disruptive thinking, can you be disruptive against the church and it still be OK? Can disruptive thinking go against the church as well if there's questions or comments or anything like that you can't control the way people think

about anything it doesn't make it right because that's the way you think about it see anytime you have a generic statement like the church it's like black people you know we're not a monolith so whenever people say i have ideas about the church, I think, what is the church? Because, you know, I don't like black people. It's that kind of ignorance. I don't like white people. I have an issue with, you know, you're talking about millions and millions of people with different ideas within the church. So, you know, maybe you don't like your experience with it.

You know, that's totally different from your experience with God. OK, let's go to that. Right. And then secondly, is no excuse to indict all churches because you had an experience with one or two. And one bad one, yeah. It's like saying all black men are no good or all, you know. So I don't say anything to them. I let them go through whatever they got to go through.

Now, I will say the one bad thing about the pandemic, right, is now you can watch church on television. I ain't gonna lie now, Bishop. Sunday morning, I'll be like, nope, kids getting to bed. I'm definitely bedside Baptist. I love the Potter House. I'm always doing that on Sunday morning.

I got my eggs, my bacon, my waffles, my orange juice, and we all in the room together. I'm sorry. I can't. No, I cannot. I cannot get it just watching it on TV. It doesn't do. And not that it's, I don't know. I just don't get the same.

I don't get it. I don't receive it the same. It is not quite the same, but I think that's an amazing picture he just drew of him and his family watching on screen together. There's nothing wrong with that. I don't care about that. But I do understand you too because anytime you're actually in the room, the room has a certain energy and a certain element and the dog isn't barking and somebody's not ringing the doorbell and you're not scrolling through your phone and you don't have those

distractions. Of course, it's going to be more intense. But I meet people where they are. Whether they want to watch it on TV, whether they want to stream it, whether they want to go, any time you feed your soul, you're going to be a little bit better.

Just a little bit less stressed out, a little bit less worried, a little less intense. That can't hurt you. Listen, there's nothing like experiencing the Potter House house in person but i love it on sunday morning i'm glad y'all scream live on youtube every time yeah i'm grateful we i think you'd be hard-pressed to find anybody that draws more people on sunday morning in a stream than we do and we were able to survive covid much better than i didn't know what that was going to be like.

Yeah. It was very scary. But we survived with our doors closed because we had the technology to be able to reach a broader audience. I think that when Jesus said go into all the world, he didn't necessarily mean we had to go by camel. Yeah. We could go by technology.

We could go by streaming. We can go by television. We go by radio. And then they come up with something else, we'll be on that too. But it's about meeting people where they are. So what about all these new pastors in these new churches? Like, they might curse doing their sermons, or they do, like, you know, I don't want to say gimmicky,

but they do stunts on stage. Gimmicky. In order to get attention. Would you call that disruption, or what would you call that? You know, every leader has his audience. It's not the way that I would do it. Why must we divide further when we're already a minority? I don't want to expend energy fighting another brother, even if he's not doing it the way I would do it.

I would rather spend my energy trying to propel our community forward. So really, when you start talking about disruptive thinking, it's born out of me thinking somebody ought to do something. Somebody ought to do something. Somebody ought to do something. And then someone said to me, why aren't you somebody? And the truth of the matter is we keep saying somebody, and it really ought to be everybody. Yeah. So disrupting our thinking, building

communities, started a real estate development corporation. We started building communities, closing food deserts, drawing up plans to go across the United States. All those things they say the church don't do?

Yeah, and all the things that the white church doesn't have to do. The black church is expected to do everything. Not the white church. They're expected to preach the gospel and go home. The black church is expected to be an activist, a civil rights leader, a counselor, supposed to have a food pantry, supposed to have everything going, supposed to know how to do everything. Pastors don't have to do that. They don't even talk about white pastors like, oh, that white pastor got a mega church. Right.

That white pastor making money. That white pastor doing business. You don't never hear that in regards to the white pastors. But they always crucify the black pastors. But it's because we have been pitted against each other the whole throughout history. And unity is what is needed. Now, we're not going to agree about everything. That's the beautiful thing about this country.

That's okay. But there are some common things that we need, and I want to solve those common things. Everybody needs to breathe. We need clean air. We need clean water. We need to access healthy foods. We've got more liquor stores in our communities

than we do grocery stores. Payday loans instead of financial literacy. We're standing right on the edge of the greatest transference of wealth in the history of this country from one generation into another. But our community is going to lag woefully behind. Only 42% of African-Americans own a house. 73% of Caucasians own a house. I think it's about 50% of Latinos why is

that important because you can't pass on your apartment to your children correct okay so they're gonna start a ground level zero why do we not have it not access to credit under hard underpaid we white families median income is ten times higher than ours. Knowledge. Can't get the loans. Knowledge. School loans. Debt. All of these things are issues that we need to address. That's not really the church's

job. Yeah. But it has fallen onto our plate. We got more with Bishop T.D. Jakes when we come back. Don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired? Depressed? A little bit revolutionary? Consider this. Start your own country.

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

I'm Jackson I, King of Capraburg. I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia. Be part of a great colonial tradition. The Waikana tribe 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 need help! We still have the off-road portion to go. Listen to Escape from Zakistan.

And we're losing daylight fast. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast, Post Run High, is all

about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories their journeys and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together you know that rush of endorphins you feel after a great workout well that's when the real magic happens so if you love hearing real inspiring stories from the people you know follow and admire join me every week for Post Run High. It's where we take the conversation beyond the run and get into the heart of it all. It's lighthearted, pretty crazy, and very fun. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just

don't know what is going to come for you. Alicia Keys opens up about conquering doubt, learning to trust herself and leaning into her dreams. I think a lot of times we are built to doubt the possibilities for ourselves, for self-preservation and protection, it was literally that step by step. And so I discovered that that is how we get where we're going. This increment of small, determined moments. Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love. I forgive myself. It's okay. Like grace.

Have grace with yourself. You're trying your best. And you're going to figure out the rhythm of this thing. Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Jenny Garth, Jana Kramer, Amy Robach, and TJ Holmes bring you I Do Part Two,

a one-of-a-kind experiment in podcasting to help you find love again. If you didn't get it right the first time, it's time to try, try again as they guide you through this podcast experiment in dating. Hey, I'm Jana Kramer. As they say, those that cannot do, teach. Actually, I think I finally got it right,

so take the failures I've had the second or even third or whatever, maybe the fourth time around. I'm Jenny Garth. 29 years ago, Kelly Taylor said these words, I choose me. She made her choice. She chose herself. When it comes to love, choose you first. Hi, everyone. I'm Amy Robach. And I'm TJ Holmes. And we are, well, not necessarily relationship experts. If you're ready to dive back into the dating pool and find lasting love, finally, we want to help. Listen to I Do Part Two on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

So, 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. Flash, slam, another one gone. Bash, bam, another one gone. The crack of the bat and another one gone. 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. Hey everybody, it's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. Jess Hilarious is here. And we're still kicking it with Bishop T.D. Jakes.

We were just having a conversation about, you know, people who work at blue collar jobs and how necessary they were. And we were saying exactly what you were saying. There is nothing wrong with working a blue collar job or doing this or doing that. But also realizing that you can do something on the side. You can create that streaming company or that podcast or whatever you want to do that by that, that, you know, multi-unit and rented out. You can do it on the side you can do more than one job and i think people were stuck with you know this job is only for these people and i'm like that's not at all we all have a start from someplace exactly that's

a kind of disruptive thinking uh they created the show correct okay this is disruptive thinking and the fact that you can do it on the radio and you can do it on TV simultaneously. The fact that you think in a multifaceted way is disruptive thinking. That's what got you here. That's what got me here. I didn't get here because I'm black. I didn't get here because I'm a man. I didn't get here because I'm a preacher.

I got here because I'm innovative and creative and diverse and different and unique. As is Marvin Winans. As is Bishop Sapp, as is everybody is unique. What are we doing with our uniqueness? So we're at an inflection point. The projections are by 2050,

African-Americans' median income is going to be at zero. If we don't make a quick turn, we're going to have a world full of trouble as artificial intelligence replaces us. Man. And it's a serious conversation. So disruptive thinking is as much a warning as it is a clarion call that the ideas you've had on the back burner that you're waiting on enough money to capitalize. Take them off the back burner. Form partnerships. Build alliances. Go. that you're waiting on enough money to capitalize. Take them off the back burner.

Form partnerships. Build alliances. Go. Because if you don't go now, you're not going to get there. The child that you're raising that looks rambunctious could be disruptive, could be creative, could be a leader. Sometimes we punish kids down into submission and teach them to feel like a slave. Sit down. Do what i told you to do

because i said so all of that kind of stuff you sound just like me because i said so we're not teaching our children to think so disruptive thinking is about the unique gift god gave us with the brain before we had a laptop. This is a computer. This is our draft. The problem is we're not programming this computer with good stuff, with smart stuff, with stuff that's intimidating, that makes you walk into a room and feel shy to speak up. That's a good room to be in. So as a parent, being a disruptor is allowing your kids to be disruptors, allowing your children to discover who they are and looking closely at them to guide them toward things that they're good at, that they can excel at. And I got on the phone and I called a friend of mine who works for Dallas Broadway. And I said, I've got a grandson in town. Would you consider at least interviewing him for a job?

What am I doing? I'm putting him in the field of his dreams. See, everybody ain't got the grandfather like you. Yeah, that's true. My son told my father he wanted to be a football player. My father don't know no football players. He can't call up Ray Lewis. But you know something? If you're really gifted, somebody's going to see it.

Somebody's going to see it if you're really gifted. And you have to put yourself out there. If you don't know, I didn't have a me either. My father died when I was 16. My grandfather was murdered by white racists in Mississippi when he was 22. So didn't have, didn't have, didn't have, didn't have, didn't have. Powdered eggs, powdered milk. Okay.

I grew up on the rags of life, but my mother knew how to make a quilt out of them. And she was bad. She was strong. She was resourceful. She was creative. My father got sick when I was 10. He died when I was 16. So I didn't grow up with any silver spoons anywhere.

So you disrupted your whole family's lineage. Totally. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Totally, totally, totally. And took them with me. So what got you in the ministry, right? What happened to your grandfather? What happened to your father?

A lot of people would say they wouldn't believe because of this. There's so many negative outcomes that happen in their life. But it seemed like it totally made the opposite for you that's a great question pain drove me to him not from him thirst makes you go to water hunger makes you go get up and eat so i used the void to find my heavenly father because i missed my earthly father you know you said that you don't want any of your kids to be your successor but man how does it feel seeing Sarah following your footsteps I don't want them to feel like they have to be my successor she's become a spiritual leader and oh she's she's I

have no words for for what she is she the the thing that's amazing about Sarah is Sarah will rock that stage till it comes unglued and walk off of the stage like it wasn't her. I swear, she comes home like nothing happened. And she'll get some chicken and put it in a brown paper bag and start shaking it up and frying chicken and not even discuss it. But when she aims, she aims from such a pure place, pure and also from a place of deep passion to help people. And it's just amazing to watch.

Yeah, I love watching it, but I love all of my kids. What I meant by my statement is I didn't want to pressure my children to be something they weren't. You know, I love a chapter in the book of being married to a disruptor.

I'm married and be married just one day, maybe. It's coming. It's coming. I feel it. Let us pray. Dear God. He's coming. Pastor, it's coming. I feel it. Let us pray. Put your hand on it. Dear God. Dear God. He's coming on a hundred.

He's coming on a hundred. Uh-uh. That's what I'm saying. Not a hundred. Right. Can you have a successful marriage to a person who's a disruptor? Oh, absolutely. Okay.

You just both can't be disruptive at the same time. Somebody's got to support. Somebody's got to be disruptive. Somebody's got to stabilize the Somebody's got to be disruptive. Somebody's got to stabilize the home while somebody's moving forward. You have to have each other's back. I saw you on Dr. Phil. I want to stay on the marriage thing for a minute.

I saw you on Dr. Phil talking about the fundamental core of marriage. Could you explain to people what that fundamental core of marriage is? I think instead of running up interviewing men for marriage or women for marriage, like you're hunting down a turkey in November, which nobody wants to be shot. Listen, Jess.

Okay. Let's be friends because the core of any great relationship, my son is sitting behind me. He's my son, but we're friends. We're friends. My wife is also my friend so as the romantic moments uh ebb and subside and rise and fall through different seasons and stages of your life if at the core you respect each other and you are for me we can survive the turbulence because we have core values all right we got more with bishop gd jakes it's the breakfast

but that don't mean that I can't wish you better We ain't good, good, but we still good Who knew it'd be like this? Usually my exes turn to enemies But this is different Cause we done got closer now that you ain't with me All that love that we have Ain't no way we gon' forget that

In your family, love me like I'm family You know where you stand with me So when they ask, tell them Right one, wrong time Can't say, we didn't think right But you always been a real one Even though we ain't together It was real love

And maybe it's still love I hate that we make it to forever Probably ain't getting back together But that don't mean that I can't wish you better We ain't good, good, but we still good All the plans you made for me to be your missus All the stacks that you danced with don't be a lit It don't go forgotten

But we're happier apart than locked in Don't smoke with me, I promise, boy, don't do drama It didn't work, but I hope you find another I wish you peace, I wish you good sex and good sleep Find a girl of your dreams Cause I'll sleep well at night Knowing this ain't meant to be I want, I want time

And say, we didn't try All good things come to an end So let's just learn the lesson And find love in again I hate that we ain't make it to forever Probably ain't getting back together But that don't mean that I can't wish you better We ain't good, good, but we still good No matter who you with, I wanna see you happy It didn't work out, but that don't mean you should attack me We enjoyed the five-star meals, but you was with me for the Zaxby Holding me down from the start

I used to be broke, I was ashy I hate we done tied or not, but that's how life go You always would say that I might blow Got rich and I pay for your lipo I know the person you is, that's why I still wanna be friends If you wanna open up a new salon, I still help pay for the wigs And I help with the lease You know I ain't never been cheap Relationships don't always last

But let's not turn it to beef I'll come through from time to time And have you grabbin' them sheets That's if you want to I'm just playin', girl, stop smackin' your teeth I hate that we didn't make it to forever you know holly ain't getting back together but that don't mean that i can't wish you better good good but we still good i realize that i can be your lover let's just keep it honest and we're still kicking it with Bishop T.D. Jakes. You know, a lot of people feel that, and I know your son is a lot older, that your child shouldn't be your friend.

And people say that all the time. My child's not my friend. Yeah. How do you feel about that? When he was a boy, I wouldn't have said that. But he's a grown man. He's 42 years old. Dang.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. that but he's a grown man he's 42 years old yeah yeah yeah y'all should talk but anyway i don't know but uh you know baby forget everything okay that's about being your friend yeah yeah so when your children are grown, the relationships become more friends. Because then you can talk to them about what really happened, who you really are, what really stopped you, what keeps you up at night. But when he was a little boy, I was his father, period.

Blank, point blank, stop, boom stop boom no go to bed now what are you up doing parenting is a job it's a job and I think we have babies but don't take the job of parenting parenting is a job it's work and it's a

life long job but as they get older you start reaping a harvest back in terms of loyalty and love. And Warren Buffett said something I think is really true. No matter how much money you make in life, if when you get ready

to die, those that you love the most are not gathered around your bed, then you are poor. There will be no U-Hauls behind hearses. There will only be mourning families if you're wise enough to protect that. And you have to protect that at all costs.

Because at the end of the day, it doesn't matter what you tweet about me. Because if I get sick, you're not going to wipe my mouth. You're not going to set me up in the bed or change my clothes. So why should I put so much energy into you at the expense of putting energy into him? You understand? So I have five children, okay?

And as you go through life and you build relationships, they got to see us struggle. They got to see us happy. They got to see us sad. They got to see us mad. Guess what you're learning? Conflict resolution. You're learning that you can be angry and not shoot somebody.

That you can be angry and still come in and have dinner. I can be disappointed with you and still cook for you. We are not demonstrating the complexities of relationships. Not only is it affecting our personal lives, but business is built on relationships. You know, Sarah, she spoke at my Mental Wealth Expo last year, and she actually apologized on behalf of the black church. And she said, I think it would be remiss of us to not acknowledge that there have been moments in black church,

because that's the only church she's been in, a black church, where she's not allowed to bring the truth of who you are into space. What do you think about that? I think it's a great statement. I think it's a wonderful, wonderful thing to do. But really, again, the black church is not a monolith and they're not all the same there are black churches that teach for and against everything what we have to do is stop throwing rocks and find what church works for you yeah okay what are you where are you called where are you where do you feel comfortable is it blue jeans and tennis shoes and T-shirts and that's what you want?

Do you want a minister that's in blue jeans and skinny jeans and you like that relaxed atmosphere? Good. Go for it. Do you want to sing Hillsong-type music? Good. There are churches like that. Do you want a more disciplined, traditional, old-school church?

There are churches like that. i don't think that matters jesus didn't die for style yeah he died for souls so when you start talking about uh the black church i think it's important that you understand the church is built on black people and and our doctrine and our theology should be consistent with scriptures of which none of us have mastered and all of us are pursuing but we're not there yet just as she was thought going more of communion actually served real wine what no she said to kill it no. He can feel when the spirit is lined. So don't be coming to me like that. Don't be acting like that.

You never said that. Thank you. I love you guys. I love people like us. Tequila? No, no. They're not done. I got it.

I got it. They're not done. Can you talk about the Wells Fargo situation? I see you got a 10-year partnership. Yeah. I'm excited about it. You talk about the Wells Fargo situation. I see you got a 10 year partnership. Yeah, I'm excited about it. I'm excited about it because there's some things that I'm doing around the country with our real estate ventures company that it gave me another tool to do them with. I've been building communities.

I described some of them earlier. Wells Fargo came to the table along with others. This is money to put in infrastructure, sewers, drains, water lines, housing, to build those houses. Then that contractor that builds those houses will buy those houses and sell it to a community within the covenants of what we have described for them to work here. So Wells Fargo, a billion dollars worth of capital over 10 years. It's a lot of money. Yeah, it's a lot of money. It's a lot of money.

In his words, it was historical. At least a billion dollars from Wells Fargo is pointed straight at us, for us, by us, to us. And to me, that's an exciting thing. What's more exciting than the money, and it's not like they gave it to me. Let me clear that up. They didn't give it to me. They didn exciting thing what's more exciting than the money and it's not like they gave it to me let me clear that up they didn't give it to me they didn't give it to my church my church didn't get a billion dollars you know my suit it didn't come from west fargo let's stop all the ignorant things that we think and get down to what a billion dollars means

to mothers who are single mothers and want to own homes so that her daughter will be safe, what it means to seniors who've worked for years, what it means for the fact that you can't afford to live in the city that you work in all around America. It's not just Dallas. It's not just New York. It's everywhere. It's Detroit. It's everywhere. So this will give us an opportunity, mixed income. So you will have us an opportunity, mixed income. So you will have a certain amount that's below fair market value, below what we call AMI, area median income, sometimes 60% below, sometimes more, to provide that housing mixed in with other people who can afford fair market value or can afford more elaborate. You have to focus on what you believe God gave you to do, the assignment that God gave you to do.

Be what you were created to be and be strong enough in your disruptive thinking to withstand the distraction of those who heckle you and do nothing while they criticize your something. Exactly. When was the last time you had to call somebody the N-word, Bishop? Like you just lost it. You know what I'm saying?

I'm going to plead the fifth on that. I'm not going there with you today, okay? We are not going to do that. Disruptive thinking is on sale today. There's stories all over the country. Pick up a copy and talk to me on Instagram. Tell me what you think. Ask me questions.

Hit me up on Facebook. Let me hear from you and let me know. Let's go through the book together. It's audio. It's also written. I'm really proud of it. Can you end in a prayer a bit? Are you going to let me pray? Absolutely.

Come on, bow your head, please. First of all. All right. When I leave, y'all go catch it from her. Father,

I thank you for the massive privilege of allowing me to pray for not only the people in this room and their careers and their lives and their walk with you, but all the people who are listening right now in the middle of all this turbulence and tests and trials and shaking of economy and inflation and all the things that worry us. I speak peace in the middle of fear. I speak confidence in the middle of distress. I preach hope right now. I thank you, Lord, that this day is going to be richer and better because we had this moment together. Bless those that are sick that are listening, those that are hurt, those that are broken, those that are distraught, those that are wrestling with mental health.

Be made well. In the name of Christ our King. Amen. Amen. Amen. Well, there you have it. It's Bishop T.D. Jakes. Bishop T.D. Jakes.

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to make some noise. Listen to Historical Records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. We'll be the same. Make sure you tell them to watch out for Florida, man. The craziest people in

America come from the Bronx and all of Florida. Yes, you are a donkey. A Florida man attacked an ATM for a very strange reason. It gave him too much money. Florida man is arrested after deputies say he rigged the door to his home in an attempt to electrocute his pregnant wife. Police arrested an Orlando man for attacking a flamingo. The Breakfast Club, bitch. Donkey of the day with Charlamagne Tha God.

I don't know why y'all calling that bitch y'all like this. Yeah, Donkey of the Day goes to a Florida woman named Shana Hudson. Shana is 39 years old and hails from the great state of Florida. What does your Uncle Charla always tell you about the great state of Florida? The craziest people in America come from the Bronx and all of Florida, and today is no exception. This is the season, okay? The holidays holidays the most wonderful time of the year but it's a season full of financial pressure and i want to be the first to tell you to release that pressure be for real

with everybody in your life about your financial situation act your wage if you don't got it then you don't got it and if you keep that mentality you won't end up doing anything nefarious to get it because that's what happened to shana see shana decided that even though she could afford to get her kids presents for christmas she decided those presents she already had they just weren't enough shana wanted more so she came up with what folks are calling a grinch-like plot to get it let's go to nbc2 news for the report please tvs under the sheets, fishing poles on a pile of clothes, and nestled behind the dryer, a basket full of bath and body works.

Lee County deputies checking their list and counting it twice, finding nearly every single item Shanna Hudson originally claimed was stolen from the Lehigh Acres home. Monday night, she wouldn't explain why. I first met Hudson on November 20th. That evening, she told me someone broke into her home through a back window, swiping away thousands of dollars of gifts that she just bought for her kids. Ate fish and poles.

They took some clothes. I bought clothes for my five kids. All of it gone. Her story then? Christmas is ruined. I wanted my kids to have a decent Christmas, but now they don't have Christmas at all because some thief came and stole our. Turn yourself in and bring us back our stuff.

So me and my kids could have a good Christmas. They didn't need to turn themselves in because deputies say Hudson had them the entire time. An anonymous tipster leading deputies to a relative's home Monday evening and then to Hudson's house where they arrested her. They is you. They need to turn themselves in in it was her the whole time what's that saying oh when you have a tangled weave you will practice to deceive or something

like that shana didn't have to do any of this she already had presents okay the reported stolen items she hid at another family member's home there are people out there right now who can't afford to even buy presents at all. Okay, to lie about what happened to you, Shana, and take advantage of a system that is in place to help the less fortunate because there was some people who showed up for her. Salute to the Lehigh Acres American Legion and the Sheriff's Office Shop with a Cop.

They came through in the clutch when they saw you know her story they raised money and was able to you know uh get her present so they did what they were supposed to do they just did it for the wrong person what's bad about situations like this is you potentially make it harder for the next person because they're gonna be even more strict and maybe even you know hesitant to help folks because of what shana did to them not to mention this is a prime example of this generation not being okay with not having and not being appreciative of whatever it is they do have it's really that simple shana already had presents for her kids you heard all the things that they listed fishing poles and televisions but that wasn't enough because i guarantee you

she was already thinking about how this is going to look on social media christmas morning she was thinking about the look in her mind it wasn't enough what she had wasn't enough that's why greed isn't a financial issue it's a heart issue what does that mean okay it implies that greed is not solely about accumulating wealth and material possessions but rather a reflection of one's inner values desires and mindset and. And Shana, your mindset, at least in this moment, was just devious. And you can't even see it because greed makes you blind. And you probably don't even realize you did something stupid because greed makes you foolish. And I'm glad they are using the term Grinch like to describe Shana because there are two types of holiday spirits. Those of us who are just filled with gratitude and loving the holiday season.

And then there are those who are mad that everybody else is happy because they're not happy and they want to find a way to steal someone's joy and most of the time folks aren't happy is because they simply don't have what they want during the holidays if you don't have it just accept it be thankful for what you do have even if that's just life okay and please don't think of evil ways to take what's not yours, like Shana did. Please give Shana Hudson the sweet sounds and the hammer tones. Oh, now you are the donkey of the day. You are the donkey of the day. Yee-haw.

What's wrong with fishing poles for Christmas? Why the kids just couldn't get what they already had? Exactly. Especially when you live in Florida. People like Shayna scared me, though. Because you're going to get on TV talking about you need to turn yourself in, knowing damn well it's you. People like that scared the hell out of me.

It's one thing to commit the crime. But when you get on television and tell somebody they need to turn themselves in knowing you talking about yourself you need to be committed man all right you need to be committed well thank you for that donkey today sir the breakfast club good morning everybody it's e.j. nv charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club now last week we got a chance to chop it up with swiss beats and his son, Nazia. Oh, man, and it was so good because it was for our annual Change for Change. I got to salute to Amazon. Amazon's Black Business Initiative is dedicated to helping build sustainable growth for black-owned businesses

by explicitly targeting barriers to access, opportunity, and advancement. And you can visit the Buy Black store on Amazon this holiday season for products from black-owned businesses of all sizes, including small businesses, man. And they helped us last week all throughout our change for change because they were taking care of people's holiday wish lists, as well as a nice event we did here last week where they gave everybody who came to the event $1,000. So thank you to Amazon. All right, well, let's jump into our interview with Swiss Beats and his son, Nasir. So, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to be kicking it with Swiss Beats and his son Nasir. So ladies and gentlemen, we're going to be kicking it with Swiss Beats

and his son Nasir Dean. Zone, zone, zone, zah, zah, zah. What is you feeding him, man? My God. What are you like, 6'3", 6'4"? 6'4", 6'5". Damn. Now Swiss, is this your son that played

soccer and then stopped? No. That's my little brother, Kazi. That's your little brother, Kazi. Everybody in the house is your little something, man. That's a fact. Fair enough. Now, as we approach the holidays, what does this time of year mean to you, Swiss? Oh, man, holiday times is definitely family time.

Definitely times to, you know, see how other people are doing. Because I notice, like, during the holiday times, I see a lot of pressure come on people of what they can do and what they can't do. And I just want to, you know, I just want people to find their balance. Absolutely. When do you find the time for a lot of the stuff that you're doing? Because you're producing, you do verses, you're traveling, you have kids. When do you find the time to continue to create and do all these amazing things?

um Everything I do is under the umbrella of creativity. So like I make the time and I need to stay busy that's the key is like to stay busy because I don't feel I started yet to be honest. I feel like I'm just now starting although I've done a lot of things I feel like I'm just now starting to them.'ve done a lot of things, I feel like I'm just now starting because I actually know what I'm doing now. Oh, explain that. Expand on that. You know what you're doing now.

Yeah, because when I started, I was a teenager and things was happening and moving so fast. So you don't really know what you're doing at that age. You're just having fun. Now that I still have fun. But now that that's passed, you got time to say okay let me change different things let me set different goals I went back to school to to you know three years to know what I'm actually doing instead of just doing what people are telling me that I'm doing or believing what somebody's telling me I'm doing instead of really knowing what I'm doing it's a

big difference what's your favorite holiday memory? Is it New York and the Bronx? Is it now? What's your favorite holiday memory? It's all of them, technically. We have fun as a family. We have a big family. We have fun.

We tell jokes. You know, we play pranks. We play a lot of games, Uno. We're very competitive with the ping pong Uno Monopoly Who wins on Monopoly All the time Monopoly will start An argument in my house

That lasts three days In my crib Yeah Same Who wins Yeah Alicia's very good She's very strategic

Egypt Egypt's very good Yes Egypt My little brother Egypt He's like He's like the Monopoly man He's like

Daddy Warbucks Like he's a He lovesopoly man. He's like Daddy Warbucks. He loves money. He loves money. He gets it from mom and dad. He loves just counting the paper. No, he's addicted to money. I'm telling you. Really?

Serious. Yeah. And I said, what's your expectations for the holidays? Because your dad's been doing very well for a very long time. So do you even have any wants? I just want everyone to tune in to Drive, what we just made. Okay. And I want everyone to just really cherish this time with their family.

Like, that's what I want. I don't really have a lot of physical needs this year. I have spiritual needs. I have family needs. And I want people to really just just cherish this time with their loved ones right now because the state of the world is in right now is just really we need that that's real now let's talk about the show drive right now drive is a car show that comes out most people don't know that any time before i purchase a car i call swizz and then when i get the car i facetime swizz so if a facetime comes up, Swizz will be in the bed sleeping.

And he'll wake up, what did you get now, Envy? What did you get? Like, we're so excited for cars. Let's talk about drive and what made you want to do this show, Drive. Well, growing up in the Bronx, looking at cars passing in the hood that I couldn't afford, that's my car, this is my car. I eventually got my first car was the Nissan Z300 twin turbo. I paid what, six thousand for it at the time. And ever since then, I've just been into cars and collecting and ended up doing car shows. So when this opportunity came, I just was like, man, like, you know,

I have a chance to not just do a car show, but do a show that doesn't exist in the car space, which is travel, community, family, father and son. You know, you don't really get to see father and son bonds from our community. That's positive. So I thought that that was a plus. And we wanted to educate people and not just show bling cars, not just putting million-dollar cars up, but really showing the everyday person how they make magic as well, which I think is phenomenal. What's it like working with each other?

Who, my little brother? We have so much fun. It's not even funny. We don't really have perfect synthesis. We don't know how to work with each other very, very well. I was going to ask, you know what? You guys went to different markets. So you've seen the car culture in New York, the car culture in Houston and California.

What was your favorite car culture and why? I love Japan. Japan. Japan is definitely one of my favorite episodes because the architecture the culture there they're like 500 years ahead of us right so every single every single uh thing that they do there they're so masterful with it so when we went to go see the drifting uh and we went to actually go drift with the tokyo drifters of the drift champion never again we just saw how crazy, like, skillful they were for us to put our lives

in their hands and for them to actually, you know, be able to handle that. You know, they were good. When you say 500 years into the future,

like, what do you mean? Like, you know, America's a young continent. Like, Asia is five, is way older

and culturally and, and, well, I'm talking about the technology of the cars. Historically. Oh, no, no, we're not flying'm talking about the technology of the car. Historically. Oh, no, no, we're not flying. You're about to make him go deep on you.

But in terms of them being masterful at every single thing they do, whether it's making a drink, cutting ice, designing, doing anime, comic books, sketches, architecture, painting, clothes, we go there for inspiration. So being over there to go into the depth of their culture was like, that was definitely one of my favorite episodes. And you'll see why. I will salute the Swiss Beats and the Sun Naseer.

When we come back, we got more of the Swiss Beats. Don't move at the breakfast. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Now, last week, we got a chance to chop it up with Swiss Beats and his son, Nasir. Oh, man, and it was so good because it was for our annual Change for Change. I got to salute to Amazon all throughout our Change for Change because they were taking care of people's holiday wish lists,

as well as a nice event we did here last week where they gave everybody who came to the event $1,000. So thank you to Amazon. All right, well, let's jump into our interview with Swiss Beats and his son, Nasir. Who's your favorite road trip partner, Swiss? Nasir or DMX? Because we always hear about the stories of you and X in the car. That's legendary. That's a hard one.

I love you, but I got to say DMX. I love you, too. For a lot of other reasons. You know, X was very animated. Nas is laid back. He can get animated when he wants to. But I would get to hear stories from X that I never heard before when we're in the car. Like the last car ride we drove, I went to go visit him in upstate New York and he wanted to go see Scarface in Boston. And he's like, yo, you know, Scarface is in Boston tonight. I said, okay, shout out to Scarface.

You know, I just drove like two hours to go where he was at in the first place. And this one I had the 720. My client, so it's a sports car. And I used to always bring the cars up so X could drive them around when I visit him.

And he's like hinting again, I want to go see Scarface. I'm like, you want to go, you want me to take you to see Scarface? I just drove two hours. And he never really asked me for things like that. So I can tell that it was something that he really wanted to do. So we get in the car, we

go five hours to see Scarface. Wow. And the whole time. Five hours in a little ass car. There wasn't no big escalade. It's a little car. Like his arm and their arms were touching the whole ride. Yeah, my ass still hurt from that driving. Right?

And so we're driving and he's playing old school music, old school music. And then he stops the music and he asked me to record him, which he never does. And he just like gave me his life story like like I never heard it before And um, that was our last drive, but it was it was epic. Wow. You still have you of course you have me Absolutely. Yes. Yes And uh, and we went on stage and he rocked with Scarface all night Is it time for a DMX documentary a true DMX movie? Um Went on stage and he rocked with Scarface all night. Is it time for a DMX documentary, a true DMX movie?

It's always time to witness greatness. But I feel that it just has to be. Me personally, I just wanted to be shot and directed to the standard of what he gave us. He gave us timeless moments. He gave us his life, literally. And so I feel that, you know, a lot of people have been pitching documentaries and movies, but they don't, you know, it needs to have the right care.

I want it to be the biggest thing in the world for him. Nas, did you learn anything about your dad that you didn't know? No? After working on this series, taking these long road trips? A thousand percent. I learned that he doesn't go as fast as you think he would, having the fast, very fast cars. He actually is pretty reserved now. He really picks what he wants to do. He picks how fast he wants to go he picks how fast he wants to go he picks if he wants to get in the monster truck he picks if he wants to go drifting like he has that

uh that situational discernment now i feel like that's pretty good discernment i like that i was gonna ask you know with all the artists that your dad worked with who did you enjoy listening to and talking to the most? I have two Because I haven't really I haven't sat down with the person I'm about to tell you Like on a personal personal note But Lil Wayne is definitely One of my favorite artists ever

And that my dad has collabed with as well Pharrell Pharrell Yeah I remember being a kid And like his energy Just lit up the room And he He had such a

Great spirit I could feel I remember that feeling Till this day Now you said Pharrell Now this is Your dad's pressure Now Busta

A couple of Probably about a month ago Said he's doing an album Where Pharrell Timbaland And Swiss Beats are the EPs. How? How does that happen? You know, Busta is somebody that don't back down easy.

You can't tell him no. And he signed us up for his project. And we just said, OK, let's do it. And he came and he's like, you know, you, Tim, Pharrell, y'all my producers for the project. I'm like, okay. No, the executive producers. Okay. And then, I don't know, like somehow we actually all got into a space which is a photo of us on this boat.

And I'm sitting there, I'm like, yo, he really manifested this. Like, we didn't even plan to be on that boat at that time. It's not like, okay, let's have an executive producer boat ride. Like, we just all ended up sitting there, and I'm looking around like, okay, I hate the universe. Okay, I guess we're doing it. Is it done? Is it almost done?

It's done, and it needs to come out now. You know, because Busta will hold on to the album for 30 summers. Forever. Right? This might be a stupid question. He named after naz right yeah okay yeah it's not like his god father or something i just i just no my mom's from queen his mother loved naz so you know i was kind of conflicted in a way but you know what i'm saying but But then I was like, I love Nas too.

All right. All right, well, salute to Swizz Beatz and his son Nasir. And when we come back, we got more with Swizz Beatz. So don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody.

It's DJ and DJ. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Swiss Beats and Nasir. You know everybody always asks about Versus, man. What's up with Versus? Big things, big things. You know, I'm happy that me and Tim was able to take the time to understand our company. Because when we launched it, it was during the pandemic.

Things was happening like we never got no rest you know like we was helping everybody else um feel better and have something to go to other than the negative uh news and energy at that time but we didn't take time for ourself and um so things went fast and um we own the we own the company 100 again um which is super, and we got some big announcements coming. I wonder if it's something, I mean, I know it's something artists still want to do, but you know, during the pandemic, it was more pure, because it was just about the music. Now there's so much business and red tape

involved. Yeah, and naturally when something gets big like that, that happens, but you know, verses, and I tell people because I hear people on the shows and when when you bring up verses they're like oh i don't want to and it's it's not a battle show it's a show where two artists uh celebrating each other with their hits now if you want to make it a battle i'm not gonna say hey don't talk tough to this guy? You you make it a battle or you can make it a love fest

You know like there's been many verses that has been smooth and and loving but with the hip-hop is just the ego You know how it's competitive bro. You put the locks and dip set on stage. Yeah, that's what I'm saying everybody I think a lot of people thought dip set was gonna take that one away. I know Many people thought that the dipipset was going to. And then it was Jada. Yeah, you got the right hat on. So what was the biggest versus for you as far as coaching? Would that be the biggest?

Yeah, that and Gucci Mane. Jeezy. Absolutely. Jeezy. Yeah, those two because that's where versus do it. You know, it took two guys that really went to war to the point of no return. And Versus gave them an outlet to, you know, send a different message out there to the youth today because they're not who they was 15 years ago. But there's no outlets that can let you as a man, as you know, stand on how you feel and move past from it.

And this is why, you know, if I stopped Versus today, I would be fine because we won already. Like, it did what it needed to do, but it needs to do more. Because Versus, the people's streams go up 700%. People sell out their tours. It's so, we call it the versus effect and the artists get so much from versus

and so all the artists out there who's listening to this, please stop trying to charge us more than you ever made on your show show us the love that you show those other outlets that you don't get nothing from it and so that was the thing that was like the hardest thing was hearing the artist trying to overdo it

for no reason i gotta ask because there's there's been a lot of rumors about some verses that were well hopefully will still get done did you just say yes or no i don't want to say yes or no did he or jermaine dupree is that going to happen he just said he don't want to say i know but i'm asking anyway but the reason see because i'm'm going to ask anyway. But the reason, see, because I'm not scared to answer the question, by the way. But what happens is this clip right here

gets played back to me and it's like, yo, I didn't really want to confirm that yet, blah, blah, blah. And I have to deal with this offline and say, yo,

they asked me a question. Y'all went out there and did a promo run and y'all went out there and said y'all wanted to do it. All I did was confirm what y'all said. Yeah, but that me a question. Y'all went out there and did a promo run, and y'all went out there and said y'all wanted to do it. All I did was confirm what y'all said. Yeah, but that was a different time. But the Versus documentary has been, we've been shooting a documentary since the beginning of Versus.

So Lena Waithe is the director. Y'all going to see all of this when I'm telling you. I take for it. Yeah. We appreciate you guys for joining us ride with drive

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the whole thing it's a zone absolutely but we appreciate you guys for joining us make some noise for Swiss Beats and Nasir Dean y'all Episodes will be dropping simultaneously so you can binge watch the whole thing. It's a zone. Absolutely. But we appreciate you guys for joining us. Make some noise for Swizz Beatz and Nasir Dean, y'all. Zah, zah, zah. I've never seen an audience like this. This is amazing.

Nah, they do these nice little events from time to time. It's not little at all. I heard y'all doing some big things today. This is cool. Yeah, so this is Change for Change where we give back to people. And what people did this time is they put a wish list of things that they needed for the holidays. And shout to Amazon. They provided their wish list for a lot of people.

Okay. So, like, even today, since you guys are here, I think we should do something special. Charlemagne, what you think? I'm all for it. Now, for everybody that came here. That's what we're here for. Yeah. Now, for everybody who put in a wish list and came here put your hands up

One time and then you bought a person with you, right? Right. So for you guys today, we're gonna give everybody that signed up $1,000. That's right Hold up we sign up back What do we do that? But not only that, people that you came with, we're going to give $1,000 too. That's right. See?

One of y'all didn't want to come. See? One of y'all had to get begged to come here, and now look. This is the big money show. This is the big money show. So we appreciate you guys for coming. We got a lot of cool stuff for you as well. And just say thank you guys for rocking with us and riding with us. And thank you to Amazon, man. Thank you for Amazon. We really appreciate you guys for coming. We got a lot of cool stuff for you as well. And just say thank you guys for rocking with us and riding with us. And thank you to Amazon, man.

Thank you for Amazon. We really appreciate you guys. We couldn't do none of this without Amazon. So thank you very much. So ladies and gentlemen, Nassir, Swiss Beats, we are The Breakfast Club. Peace. Zone, zone. Yeah.

Once again, thank you to Swiss Beats and Nassir. And salute to Amazon, man, and their Black Business Initiative. The Black Business Initiative is dedicated to helping build sustainable growth for black-owned businesses by explicitly targeting barriers to access, opportunity, and advancement. Visit the Buy Black store on Amazon this holiday season for products from black-owned businesses of all sizes, including small businesses. All right, when we come back, we got more best of.

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