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Episode Date: April 1, 2024

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Breakfast Club. God damn it. The Breakfast Club. With that ass up on the Breakfast Club. Tell her. Made it. You can't say Breakfast Club without being Breakfast Club. You're like this rare air.

You got platforms and partners all over the place because your demand is so high people want to be in business with the record but i don't think white people know how popular you guys are dj envy just hilarious charlemagne the guy you guys really are like the hip-hop early morning late night talk show yeah i know what y'all talking about this is your time to get it off your chest keep calling 800-585-1051 we want to hear from you on the breakfast club hello who's this good morning it's brock hey bro good morning get it off your chest where you calling from um calling from ocala florida. We'll get it off your chest, mom. What's up? Tired of being the chauffeur, running everybody around.

Fiance, friends, kids, my kids. Right now, currently 6, 12 in the morning and going 80 miles an hour on damn highway. Are you Uber or are you just... Just to turn around and go... Are you Uber? Just a mom. Stay at home mom. Always running everybody around.

If it ain't Walmart, it's school. If it ain't school, it's someone a mom. Stay at home mom. Always running everybody around. If it ain't Walmart, it's school. If it ain't school, it's someone's job. I don't ever get to sit down. Damn. Well, we appreciate your service, man. How many kids do you have, mom? I have two, but I take care of four. Hey, well, that's what it is.

Two girls, two boys, three, three, or four, four, six, and seven. Well, we appreciate your service, and you should look at the blessing that, you know, you're not in a position where you have to actually go to a job. You're a beautiful housewife, and you're holding it down for the family. She got a job. Thank you so much. That job is driving the kids around. I do, and I don't ever clock out.

That's right. 28, 28, 8. I know that's right. Well, enjoy them kids because they get old fast and they forget about you. Oh,

they do. They do. And I just want to shout out to Jess real quick. I just want to tell you how much I love you, girl. You are the reason

why I listen to this radio station every morning. Thank you so much. You're welcome. You guys are the closest I've ever been to anybody famous. Yay!

What's your call? What's your call? What's your call number? Florida Florida, okay Well, have a good one, mama I call every morning I call and I finally got through So thank you so much Good morning

I hope everyone Have a great day Bless You too, baby Hello, who's this? Hi, good morning This is Roxanne Hey, Roxanne

Where you calling from? I'm calling from Queens All right Get it off your chest, mama Hey, I want to know why when I pay taxes, my kid that's over 17 is not considered a defendant, and I can't get those big tax credits everybody else gets for those kids under 17,

when if they're 20, you have to pay child support for them up until they're 25 if they're in college. And for FASTA, for financial aid, they're still considered a dependent in my house. Hey, well, when you find out, let me know, okay? And pass the plug, all right?

She's going to write the kids off. Yeah, you can. Look, ask those people running for office. Like, these places, next time they're up there. I definitely will. Okay. Well, these choices, next time they up there. I definitely will. Okay.

Well, thank you, mama. Thank you. That's right. Tax season is here. We do have to figure... Never mind. What? I was just about to say, man,

we do have to figure something out with taxes, man. Like, it don't make no sense how much money that we have to pay in taxes, especially when these billionaires don't be getting taxed a goddamn thing.

Nothing. Okay? Like, it don't make no sense. We do have to figure that part of the game out. Okay? When they talk about restructuring certain systems and organizations in this country. Yeah, let's start with the IRS. Let's figure something else out.

Hi, good morning IRS. I don't know what he's talking about. We're good over here. I'm talking about wanting to pay less money in taxes. Okay? Clearly I'm paying more than my fair share. Me too, sir. I would like to pay less money in taxes. Okay? Clearly, I'm paying more than my fair share. Me too, sir. I would like to pay less. We all would. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent,

hit us up now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Get it off. This is your time to get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? This is Dee. Hey, Dee, good morning.

Good morning. I need to talk to my fellow list here. What's up, Dee? How you doing, Dee? Yes. How you doing? Now, Charlotte, big brother almighty, what does the Luxury Size community do to you? The who community? The Luxury Size community, a.k.a. the big bag.

Oh, luxury size. I like that. Oh, I love that, too. We was talking about what word should we use to describe people that are heavy say. Instead of big bag. I like luxury size. Our size is the luxury because we choose food instead of drugs and bullying. But what we do to you?

Nothing. Listen, here's the thing. I didn't even know when Jess Alaris was telling that story, I didn't even know the woman was a part of the big back community. I just said it sounded like big back behavior. She is a luxury size sister, but here's the thing. I know more slim chicks that ain't got played than us. They don't discriminate.

And then on top of that, he was paying her bills. He was paying her bills? Usually it's the other way around. Usually it's the big back paying the bills. He was paying the bills. Listen, is big back really offensive? And I don't like luxury. I love the luxury side. I like luxury side. But luxury

just means expensive, don't it? Don't mean big. It's a pleasure right now. Food is expensive. It's a luxury right now. Yeah, expensive. It's a luxury right now. Yeah, luxury means bigger. Usually. Oh, yeah. In a sense.

In a sense. Yeah, luxury is big. I like big. I think big back is true. Come on, Charlie. You're a mental health advocate. You can't put that narrative out there like we just all dead. That's not the case.

Well, you're right. But I just said in that case, it did sound like big back behavior. And I was right. So is it a stereotype if it's true? I didn't know know she was big they just don't like the term big back but see but luxury means extravagant living it means opulence i like extravagant too extravagant size no it's not extravagant just means oh my god all that sounds big though luxurious premium premium yeah premium size premium all that sounds. You gonna call them 93 octane? Premium back.

Premium back. Extravagant back. I love premium back. Premium back is good. Jesus Christ. Hello, who's this? Kerry. Hey, Kerry. Good morning.

I'd like to say Jess is doing a great job. I don't know what happened, but those comments got her working good, man. She's doing a good job. She was totally doing a good job. What comments? No, I mean she's doing good. She's doing good now. Jess Hilarious is her. She's been her. She's doing a good job. Thank you, honey. No, I mean she's doing good. She's doing good now. Jess Hilarious is her. She's been her.

She's relaxed. You just can't say Jess is doing a damn thing. You ain't got to go to, she's doing her thing now. She's killing it. And she's killing it. I appreciate you, Carrie. Thank you so much. All right. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051.

If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got some special guests in the building. Yes, indeed. We got little brother here. Absolutely. Bonte, Big Pooh. How y'all brothers feeling, man?

Oh, man. Good, man. We alive. That's all you can ask for nowadays, right? That's it. Wake up. That's it. Thankful, thankful. They got the new documentary, Made a Lord Watch, The Little Brothers Story.

Why that title? I mean, first, we started this when we were making the album, Made a Lord Watch. 2018. 2018. So this was kind of like to bring an end to that era, and it just made sense. Yeah, it just really made sense, like, thinking about everything that we kind of like to bring into that era um and it just made sense yeah it just really made sense like thinking about everything that we kind of went through and survived the lord had to be

watching over us there was no explanation yeah i mean so uh nah man that was just kind of felt just felt like a conclusion of that chapter and um yeah five years in the making man so it's out now on youtube so you got to college and you guys met each other so talk about that process how you guys met i know a lot of this is actually how you guys met and what attracted you guys together and then you started this rap group that became underground legends man it was uh it was very organic uh i met poo well first i met uh ninth we met uh i think i mean we met first 98 i was, first I met 9th. We met, I think we met first in 98. Yeah, we met in 98. Yeah, in 98.

So, yeah, we met through a mutual friend. 9th was on campus, and we was moving in the dorm. We saw each other just in the dorm. And over Source Magazine, we started chopping it up. All this is in the doc, but long story short, we basically just kind of started you know working together this was at a time when you know it was at the time this is like 98 so this is when no limit is like killing everything in the south especially up yeah so

hbcu no limit at like the ghetto d album drop my freshman year that was all you heard in every room like we was bumping that non-stop nobody made crack like this listen what man we ran ghetto dope so but so everybody was pumping that so if you were a kid that was into like raucous or soundbomb like you know meeting someone else that was into that that was kind of rare you know i mean so when you met somebody that was on that same wavelength it's like oh i found my people so we just kind of linked up and just started making records and when people are out there when he said ruckus ruckus record you got to tell them because ruckus was the label that you know uh i would say miracle miracle spiritual umbilical they were called backpack rappers that type of thing he can't help it I just want to

break down because they said ruckus somebody might not know what ruckus ruckus is it was you know it was very much

they were like it was an underground label but it was you know I mean most quality you know it was like

pretty much Eminem was on rocket soundbomb yeah he was on soundbomb so they were just putting out amazing stuff that we really enjoyed

and so we just kind of started making records put some stuff up on the internet and yeah and that's what your sound

is like today for those who don't know how would you describe your sound today like now it's not the same it's not the same but it's still us

it's still us it's weird it's like our sound has evolved musically but it's still us it's still us it's weird it's like it our sound has evolved musically but it still sound like little brother yeah like when i had um after my last album came out uh maylo watch and then we just put out two singles last october october uh with uh wish me well and glory glory september september september my bad and uh one of the biggest compliments we got was that somebody said yo i can make a lb playlist from y'all stuff 20 years ago to now and it sounds like y'all

haven't missed the beat i can't tell that it's dated it doesn't sound it still sounds timeless and that was something i think we always strive for so that's if i had described it i would just say it's timeless but you guys also came out in in an era where the DJ and the producer was part of the group, right? Yeah, yeah. Whether it was, of course, Run DMC, JMSJ, Fresh Prince and Jazzy Jeff, Salt Pepper Spinderella. Damn, he ain't that old. Gangstar. But Gangstar.

Gangstar, yeah. GK. Right. And 9th Wonder was part of Little Brother in the beginning. Yeah, yeah. He's not here now, so what's the relationship with 9th Wonder? Is there no more relationship? There's no more relationship, but there's no, I mean, we talk about it in the doc,

but no, we're just separate entities, you know what I'm saying? We came in the game together, but we're Little Brother, he's 9th Wonder, and we're just separate entity that we coexist peacefully, you know what I mean? And that's just what it is. Why didn't you participate in the doc, though? Because, I mean, this is the little brother's story. That's a question for him. Yeah.

The story is told, you know, but like I would like to have heard his perspective of it now as well. Did y'all reach out to him? We absolutely, yeah. We reached out, you know what I'm saying? Made it clear that, you know, it wasn't, this wasn't going to be a hit piece.

We wasn't coming for nobody next. We know we're just telling our story in just a beautiful, honest way. And he just shows not to participate. And that's his right right to i feel like y'all set him up nice especially when you first told the early story about uh i forgot what album it was but it was an album i think it was produced by dj premier and he was like yo that's what i want to be and one of y'all encouraged him like yo you can be that absolutely absolutely yeah man we were always i mean we coming up i mean you gotta keep in mind like dude we like 19 20 years old you know i'm saying like i mean we

you know we're just trying to figure out let alone trying to figure out how to be artists figure out how to be men yeah you know i mean like so you know trying to figure out all that stuff at the same time i mean man it's you know it's it's tough so um but yeah but we tried to tell the story just as honestly as we could. But we can't speak for another person. We can only tell our experience. So he chose not to, and that's his right. You see evolution in it.

I mean, you see dark-skinned Leonard in there. Absolutely. You see Leonard with a hairline. When I see that, I'm like, that sounds like something, but that man got hair. He was showing everybody. He was like, look, I was like, oh my like something, but that man got hair. He was showing everybody. He was like, look, I was like, oh, my God, he look like one of the kids from Lean On Me. Oh, wow. Crazy.

Mr. Clark, Mr. Clark, some kids with my hair gray. I said, what? What year was that? 02, 03? Nah, that was a mystery show. That was 05. 05. Yeah.

It was 05. I remember that was 05. That was the only, we talked about it briefly on QLS. But, yeah, that was the only interview that I missed because when we had to do that, that run. I think your son. Yeah, that was when my son was born. Yeah, his son was born. So, it was just me and Knife on that run. Every time I see that, I think about it because I wasn't as polished as I am now to do interviews.

None of us were. I was struggling. It'm work there that was that was fun that was that was blast from the past. That was 05. Yeah, it was 05. It was 05. So when 9th Wonder got the call from Hov to work with him and Hov started doing production, do you think that production area kind of dismantled the group a lot? Absolutely not.

Nah, nah, man. Nah, man. Like, we was happy. We was excited for him. You know what I mean? Like, we got to go to baseline and hear it before it came out, sitting there with Ho and all that but nah we was we knew what that's a big opportunity it's jay-z you know i mean like come on yeah man you want stuff for your team like you want you know if you you know studying hip-hop most of the big producers they get their starting groups so we just saw it

as just a natural progression you know i mean so yeah it was amazing just to know that you know one of your homies can make a beat on his laptop and it ends up with jay-z rapping over i mean it was like oh my god like what all right we got more with little brother when we come back so don't move it's the breakfast club good morning 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

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podcasts. The Breakfast Club. Everybody, we're still kicking it with Little Brothers, DJ, Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God. They're in the building. Jess. How important is, like, awards to you? Like, because you guys you guys are very very very stern on who y'all are yeah and like you said earlier you don't know who you are is conducive to some shit like this or you know especially nowadays and the thirst and you know versus hunger so how important are award shows and like getting awards to artists like you man i was i'll go first i was nominated

my other group the foreign exchange r&b group we were nominated for a grammy in 2010 and i had opportunity to go to the grammys and really see what that experience was and i think having that experience just showed me like yeah it's kind of a racket basically i'm just keeping it a band i mean it was you know it was great to be honored but again this is just the behind the scenes stuff that people don't get you know i mean you know when you go to these shows first and foremost you know at least at that time you know you you still gotta buy tickets you still gotta pay for like this don't come with a check at all you can get out there and you can try to make something shake on your own if you want to do like I know the roots they do their Grammy jam session every year

whatever so if you want to kind of do that you can but generally speaking just as a nominee like everything is on you so this is you know you gotta pay to go to the Grammys if you're nominated? Yeah. They pay for your flight. They give you tickets. They give you like a ticket, but you get two tickets. You get tickets for use at a time. Then they give you some discount tickets. Right. So it's like, so if it's me and you, if me and him is Grammy nominated, it's like, okay, y'all get free tickets to the show, but anyone you want to bring.

Gotta pay. Y'all gotta pay. And we'll let you get it for half off, but you still gotta pay. How much is it? Half off, still like a hundred dollars or something. Oh, no dollars or something oh no no no not at the time when i did it oh well i know when when i don't know what it is when dreamville was nominated and luke went he got a ticket i think doe got a ticket and i think any extra tickets would have been like a hundred dollars or something it might have been more i don't remember

i know that it was tickets even for the BET Awards at some point. Like, you had to pay. I remember I wanted to go one year, and I had to pay. It was like $340 or something like that. I didn't pay. $340. Yes, so we might have been getting a super duper discount. At the time when I went, at the time when we went, the tickets for the Grammys,

and again, this is 2010, so I don't know what it is now. But, yeah, it was 2010. Like, tickets for the Grammys, $ this is 2010 so you know I don't know what it is now but yeah it's 2010 like tickets for the Grammys $1,200 a piece oh and so in order for us to go you know I mean we me and Nick uh Nicola my partner shouts to him we went and so our tickets were free but then everyone when that was like we brought you know family everybody that was $600 a pop you know I'm saying so that's $1,200 on tickets then you got you know hotels flights like you know you gotta buy clothes everything we had to pay like a pr person you know i'm saying um to like what can you talk about to walk you to red carpet to talk up your nomination and

everything and you know and i've never like we never talked about it you know it was something that we didn't just have time to get into the doc but like man after i came back from the grammys i had to take out like a person alone i'm like god damn i done spent by damn eight thousand dollars like this you know i'm saying um and so so for me so to your original question with the awards i think that in just in my experience it was i was glad i got to see it but ultimately i'm just like nah i don't yeah i. Yeah, I'm good. I don't care. It plays to image. It plays to image.

Yeah. And I mean, listen, it's all, you know, to be nominated for a Grammy, like to be, you know, amongst, you know, to sit amongst, you know, be in that room and see it like I'm watching the show. And it's like Kenny G is like standing right there, like same hair, like same everything. And that's another thing, too, with the Grammys, dude, specifically, like same everything. And that's another thing too with the Grammys dudes specifically, like y'all watch it on TV at home and it's that shit

like three hours. You know what I'm saying? It's not three hours. It's longer. It's longer. And with no, and it ain't no at the time

when we went, the Staples Center was like closing down. So like, they have like the pre-Grammy brunch before and you know, you get a little food whatever

and then they take you over to the main hall to the grammy ceremony and all the vendors in the staples center they shutting down so it's no food for hours it was like one dude we caught that had like the little uh he had like some candy and he had like you know little snicker bars and damn m&ms so we bought like a couple like a bag of M&Ms and some Snickers We sitting in that goddamn taking the M&Ms passing us now and I'm like this supposed to be music greatest night You know even got their M&Ms in the Staples Center. No fool. Not when we were I'm just saying I'm sorry about my never been to the Grammys, but I've been to a BET hip-hop Awards That was about damn record. That was about five hours.

And I was like, hell no. No, no food. We went, I walked out. I left though. We were supposed to present. It was taking too long, man. I had to go. Oh my God.

He really left. We were supposed to present. He was like, I'm giving y'all 10 minutes. I'm like, he ain't gonna leave. He was there all day. I'm like, he ain't gonna leave. Nah, that's real. He ain't gonna leave.

I'm like, I'm not beat for none of that stuff. No, man. And I mean, like for me, you know, yeah, it'd be cool to be nominated for a Grammy. I ain't never been nominated. But at the end of the day, I can't be somewhere too long and not just say what I need to say. So I just don't go to places where I'm going to be there a long time. You might have to say something. I might have to say something. It might have to say something.

Let me tell you the truth. And they're learning, kind of learning what all this is. You know what I mean? It's a campaign. It's a campaign. It's not a meritocracy. And that was, I guess, the thing for me once I saw that. It was really, you know, it's super political.

It's super, you know, who you know. It's a lot of those things but you know for for me all i cared about was just making the music and you know if my music is standing up against somebody you know just judging on the basis of the music once you're getting all this other it's just like again it was educational it's like oh okay i know that's what it is now all right cool i'm good on it what I mean? And that's the thing I want to make clear. It's not that we don't care. Yeah.

We just understand what it is and what it's going to take if you want to make that run. It's like running for president. You know what I mean? Yeah. Will we ever get a Fonte, Poole, 9th Wonder reunion?

Nah. Damn. Damn. I didn't even think about it. It was like maybe. There was a possibility in a couple of years. Nah.

Why? They're acting like they don't know. They don't understand. They don't know think about it. It was like, maybe. There was a possibility. It's been a couple years. Just, nah. Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?

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Yeah It's just That's just not What it's gonna be You know Little Brothers Fonte and Poo And 9th Wonder

Is 9th Wonder And you know We wish him all the best And you know Whatever All his endeavors And we gonna keep doing us And that's just what it is

Anyways Beyonce What's up with Michelle And Kelly and Farrah? They might do a Destiny Child review. They might not. Come on, fam. Beyonce be like, no. Not with all them names.

She said Farrah. But it's not the same, though, because Destiny's Child, we got like, it felt like we got closure with that. I don't feel like we got closure with Little Brother. The documentary is closure. He's a no, Charlamagne. The documentary is all you're going to listen to. Sometimes we're not afforded the closure we want.

Damn. I know, I'm a girl with closure. You get the closure you get. Well, definitely check out the documentary. Well, it's Little Brother. Thank y'all for having us, man. Thank you. And just congratulations.

Thank you so much. I love the Baltimore. I was hearing the tears. I was like, yes. It's so beautiful. So, nah, congratulations. It's so much. I love the Baltimore. I was hearing the tattoo. You did? I was like, yes. Thank you so much. So, nah, congratulations. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

You're checking out the Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now, if you just joined us, we're talking about Charlamagne giving out in Atlanta, of all places, this weekend. Yes. So, what happened in Atlanta this weekend?

One of my friends called me and told me that he was creeping at a cheer convention and I was like uh uh that's because his family is there. He has you know a 15 year old and a wife. He was like a wife? Oh he was low key giving because I spoke to him and he was very much you know trying low key give like flirt with him. That's what he was insinuating. And he was like when I told him that he had a wife

he was so disappointed. He was like see that these married men be giving mixed signals. What mixed signals? Just because you nice to a human? It seems like you do this because we have a young lady on the phone, or maybe a man. I don't want to. Let me see. And he or she says she met Charlamagne before, and it was similar.

Hello? Hello. Hello. Good morning. Hi. Good morning. Please tell us. What's your name, mama i'm sharon oh sharon um yes um so i want to just briefly just talk about an interaction that i had with charlamagne and charlamagne this is going to be a compliment to you okay so i took

my kids my daughter at that time was in her early 20s. My son was an 11-year-old. And you were at an event. I can't remember the event. And we stood on your book signing. We stood on your online to get the book signed. And you took the time with each one of my children and myself to speak to us, look directly in our eyes and engage. So I can see how people can interpret that as flirting.

But it really, to me, came across as being very sincere. And my kids remember that to this day. They remember meeting you. Well, that's beautiful. You thought I was flirting with your kids. Oh, my God. Wow. That's what she said.

Well, my daughter is cute, and she was in her 20s. So I'm watching her voice and feel. Thank you very much. Thank you. So just talking to people and saying hi and treating people like humans. No, so you gazed into his eyes and was like, okay, how you doing? I try to connect with people. If you take the time to come to my book signing, purchase a book and stand online, why wouldn't I have a moment with you?

Oh, no, no. I'm talking about the moment in Atlanta. I don't even remember this dude you're talking about. I bet you don't. Hello, who's this? Yo, what's up? This is B. What's up, B? What's up, B? You got an incident with Sean? What's up? I'm flirting about the moment in Atlanta. I don't even remember this dude you talking about. I bet you don't. Hello, who's this? Yo, what's up? This is B. What's up, B?

What's up, B? You got an incident with Charlotte flirting with you two? Nah, nah. I'm just saying, like, I get what he's saying, though.

It's almost like you gotta go out of your way, you know what I'm saying, to, like, as far as, if you just, like, talking to a gay person tonight to a gay person because if you too nice

then that gaydar go off and they feel like, like, it's giving. to a gay person, you're too nice to a gay person because if you're too nice, then that gaydar go off and they feel like it's giving. So, you know, I'm kind of with Charlamagne in that regard. Yeah, I don't understand why I got to be giving just because I was nice to you.

Zalo, who's this? Yo, Peace. It's Finesse Peace. Grand Riser and everybody, man. Finesse Peace. Don't say Grand Riser. We not biscuits. Oh, Grand Beginners.

Grand Beginners. All right, so we're talking about Charlamagne and what he did this weekend. You know, we're trying to figure the difference between complimenting somebody and somebody flirting. What's your thoughts, bro? I feel flirting. Flirting is a different exchange of energy. As far as when it comes with a woman who's going to acknowledge you, she's going to give you that mindful note.

Like, yo, listen, I'm looking at you. I'm observing you you and this is what i want but at the end of the day if you don't read the signs you don't read it like i said like it's an energy exchange if you don't accept that energy exchange then you ain't gonna find nothing else in that a compliment is just uh i mean it's just like yo you looking good that's it nothing more nothing less i don't need your number i don't need your instagram i don't need nothing you just made me feel good about myself today. Thank you. You know what I mean? I don't have

a problem saying, yo, brother, those are nice sneakers or how you doing? You got a beautiful smile. You know what I mean? Like I said, just keep it moving. I don't try to get to know you after that. Wait, wait, wait. No, wait, wait, wait. Like I'm telling a brother that he got a beautiful smile.

Keep it moving. So if a dude comes up to you and says, yo, bro, you got a beautiful smile, that's not flirting? No. No, it's not. Because I'm very comfortable with who I am as a man. I mean, I'm a father at the end of the day. If you felt comfortable saying that to me, then you have a good soul in you, bro. I mean, and I look at you as having a good soul at the end of the day because a lot of people can't get up and say, well, that's gay.

If you're comfortable with what you do, then you don't got to worry about being gay or not, bro. And you can tell a man he look good. Like, brother, you look good. You know, like you see somebody and if they looking hot, skin looking right. I would love for

an older guy, for my son to look dapper. Yo, you look kind of dapper, young man. That's the same compliment. Don't look at it in no different way. You're just saying it in a different mindset. Okay, so let me ask you a question. I was going to ask you a question. You and your boyfriend, right? Y'all out and about.

And the dude coming to him be like, hey, you. That's a beautiful smile. That's not going to be like, yo, what? That's not like a, yo. like a like hey you got a beautiful smile yeah the hey the pause then the you like no first of all it's how you don't but don't ever hate you my man and then be like that's you got a beautiful smile don't hate you if you lead with hey you that's gay okay hey you okay you got a beautiful smile that's gay yeah but when do you

say you have a beautiful smile that's not all right so look let me ask you a question so say you at the barbershop, right? I'm at the barbershop. And you sitting in the chair and your barber just finished lining up your face and everything. Painting it on. Yeah, yeah. Shut up, guys. I'm listening to you.

And then he, and then, you know, you look in the mirror. He give you the mirror for the finishing product. And he like, yo, you got a beautiful smile, Envy. What you going to do? He lick his lips like that? No, he just looking at you eye to eye. Yo,

you got a beautiful smile, Indy. I'ma feel funny, right? Because I'ma tell you why. Because his crotch is usually near your arm when he's cutting your hair.

Yup, and they in your face. And they in your face. You're overly gay in this. Like, there's no reason to make this dis-gay. Like,

there was no, like, who's thinking like that? Like, that's a gay brain. Oh my God. I'm serious. It's a gay brain.

His crotch, his crotch, who's thinking like that? Yo, Ray, if gay brain. Oh, my God. I'm serious. It's a gay brain. It's crotch. Who's thinking like that? Yo, Ray, if a man come up to you and be like, yo, you got a beautiful smile, how you feeling? I'm going to think it's a little gay. See? Yeah. And that's real. No, real don't be doing all that stuff.

No. I compliment men on their teeth. Like, if guys come up here and we doing interviews, I like to see brothers that have either went to get the veneers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's veneers, not veneers. It's veneers, not veneers. I like to see brothers that have either went to get the veneers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's veneers. Not veneers. Not veneers.

It's veneers. Not veneers. I like to see that people taking care of their mouth. Yeah. But I'm not like, oh, you got a pretty mouth. I'm like, yo, now you got nice teeth. Like, oh, you got. Yeah.

What's wrong with that? Yeah, you just throw five of your phone and he has a nice mouth. Yeah, you did. I said he had nice teeth. Well, he's all okay. He got nice teeth. He did tell Kingsley he liked his head. Who?

Yeah. Kingsley. Kingsley. The one that played Bob Marley. Bob Marley. Who turned into Bob Marley right before us. Yeah, you said he got a nice big head. Yeah. He did say that. He was like, yo, you got a nice ear. You did tell Kingsley you liked his head. Who? Kingsley. Kingsley. The one that played Bob Marley. Who turned into Bob Marley right before us. Yeah, you said

you got a nice big head. You did say that. He was like, you got a nice big head. That never happened. Yes, you did. What's the moral of the story? The moral of the story

is your man was lying. Okay? Oh my God. Ain't nobody was flirting with him. He is not lying to me. I said hello. I don't even remember

being nice to him. Maybe he took it the wrong way. He took it the wrong way, but you definitely, it's something about you. You be walking up, you know, you probably had on your boots. Nah, he was probably had on his boots. But he be assaulting his mouth, though.

He be assaulting his own mouth, though. Yeah, yeah. I don't know, because Charlamagne got a little swag. Y'all got to see him outside his chair. And he be walking up all swaggy, and the guy turned around. He was like, oh my God, you Charlamagne? He was like, yeah, yeah, what's up? How you doing?

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The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Tab time. Who's celebrating her birthday next week. I am this weekend.

This weekend. Wow. Yes. Ladies and gentlemen, Tabitha Brown. Welcome. How are you? I'm amazing. If I was in the any better i'd be two people i love that hoodie thank you freedom over code switching what's that mean well you know i

spent a very long time code switching and conforming and that's not freedom and so i no longer live that way and so i always tell people honey we gotta choose freedom over code switch we're enough just as we are even if we from the country the country. Even if we're from the South. It's just a thing. So I promote that all the time. There you go. I feel like I know you. Because I told you when I saw you over the summer.

I'm like, my kids watch Tabitha Brown all the time on YouTube. And then my wife has the cookbooks. The vegan cookbooks around the house. She was giving them out as gifts to people. I love it. Thank you, girl. We got to congratulate her on her Emmy as well. She just won an Emmy.

Thank you. Back in December. Congratulations. Thank you thank you how did that feel it still feels surreal you know but i feel grateful to have one for just like being myself right but something so powerful that is for children but i i it still feels like it didn't happen it feels like a dream almost but the crazy thing is there's another side of that that it feels completely normal it's a it's a weird feeling it's yours yeah it feels like oh this is what God intended for my life absolutely but the other side of it's like did that really happen so but yeah how did the internet change your life shoot honey in every way um you know I was a I still am an actress but for a long time you know I was pursuing acting and nobody really knew me from you know acting and I a long time, you know, I was pursuing acting and nobody really knew me from, you know, acting. And I started doing content, doing, you know, videos, not because I wanted to, but I had a dream and God spoke to me and told me to start doing videos.

And I was like, no, I want to do that, you know. But I was also trying to live a life of obedience. I started and nobody was watching. And I was like, well, God, you told me to do this. And ain't nobody ain't nobody showing up on these videos to watch why do you have me doing this um and I started in August of 2017 doing videos and by December 30th one of my videos went viral which one it was uh it was a TTLA I was eating a sandwich in my car because I was driving uber and uh because I was on disability for over a year because I was so sick and when i started feeling better after going vegan i started um driving uber and i was like you know what i had

had a job before i didn't want to get stuck back in a nine-to-five so i told my husband i was like you know what i'm gonna go drive uber we live in la i'm probably get discovered in my car in my mind i'm thinking i'm gonna you know pick up a producer or director or something i stopped by whole foods because i dropped somebody off and said i'm gonna go ahead and get me a little breakfast and because i'm still a new vegan at that time. And I got a sandwich and did a review on it because my videos, when I first started, I was just telling people I'm going vegan. When I find new vegan options, I'm just going to share it. By the time I got home, that video had like 50-some thousand views.

And I was like, wait a minute, who's watching this video? So you was Keith Lee before Keith Lee? Listen, that's my nephew. But the next morning, it had like over 100,000 views. And I was like, I told my husband, I said, I think I'm going viral. And he was like, what that mean? I was like, I don't know. And four days later, Whole Foods reached out.

I was like, we saw your video because I got the sandwich from there. And they wanted to partner with me. I became their brand ambassador. Wow. I've been on so many campaigns, and it's been on ever since then. Now, why did you switch to vegan for people that don't know? So, I got sick. So, January of 2016, I woke up one morning, and I had this headache in the back of my head.

And I had a car accident in high school, so I'm used to waking up sometime, and the back of my neck is tight, and sometimes it goes into my head. So, I thought it was one of those episodes. But this headache rested in the back of my head for a year and seven months. Wow. And it started to, you know, affect my body. And so I started to fall when I would walk. As a woman, everything was all out of whack. I just did not feel well.

So every time I went to the doctor, they were doing so many tests. They were doing MRIs, trying to figure out what is wrong. So they so they told me they was like we know it's something autoimmune that's attacking your body we just can't figure it out I lost my vision for a day it was a it was a really bad time for me and I took every drug the doctor offered me I was like a guinea pig because you are desperate to feel better and if anything it probably made me worse nothing was working and so my daughter came home from school one day and she was like, Mommy, we saw this documentary at school today. I think you should watch it. And I don't know if you know teenagers, honey, but it ain't every day they come home and tell you to watch a documentary. And so it was What the Health on Netflix. And so I was like, you know what? Let's watch it together as a family.

So I watched it when they started talking about not all diseases are hereditary. Sometimes you can eat the same thing in your family that will cause the same disease in your bloodline. And so that was kind of like a light bulb moment for me. My mama died at 51 of a rare disease, ALS. My daddy is now 72, but he's the oldest man to ever live in my family. People get sick at young ages in my family and they die at young ages in my family. And the only thing I could think of that we had in common was how we ate now I wasn't a bad eater because I was in LA but I wasn't eating to feel well I was eating to look a certain way which isn't

it's also a sickness mmm and so we need to eat in a look a certain way so I'm not Hollywood image exactly I wasn't eating to like oh let me put this in my body so I can be well I was all let me put this in my body so I don't gain weight gotcha you understand so um so but I still was it you know a terrible oh, let me put this in my body so I can be well. I was like, oh, let me put this in my body so I don't gain weight. Gotcha. You understand? But I still wasn't a terrible eater. I haven't eaten red meat or pork since I was 15. And I was like, okay.

And I'm allergic to dairy like most people. But I also was like, it's the only thing I haven't tried. So I told my husband, let's do like a 30-day vegan challenge. Your husband did it too? For 30 days. And so on like day 10 the headache i had every day for a year and seven months disappeared wow and i was like wait a minute i'm on to something and uh after that every day i started getting energy again because i had chronic fatigue

and i had chronic uh panic attacks because when you're sick and you know something is wrong but the doctor said well we can't figure it out it makes you have anxiety and depression and so I started getting energy again because I would sleep all day all night like I would just be exhausted all the time and so energy started coming back my head you know was feeling better I was starting to feel like myself again and so that day when day 30 came I told my husband I was like this is gonna be my life you know I'm gonna go vegan he was like well this is going to be my life. I'm going to go vegan. He was like, well, tomorrow I'm going to need a piece of chicken tab. Like, this is going to be... But I always tell people that part because sometimes the journey that may change your life

or save your life, you got to be willing to go on it alone. And so I was like, all right. And so I never looked back. That's why. All right, we got more with Tabitha Brown. When we come back, don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Tabitha brown when we come back don't move it's the breakfast club good morning morning everybody it's dj envy jess hilarious charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club we're still kicking with tabitha brown charlamagne i got so many questions number one you said something earlier about god spoke to you what does god sound like for me yeah so i always tell people i get asked that a lot now um i am gifted in a different way than most people. So for me, I can hear like your voice. I can hear sometimes it sounds like a flutter, like a hummingbird would be close to my ear. So it's like a wind and it's a flutter, but you can hear sound in it um I can see it I can dream it I'm a seer but in my dreams like my dreams can speak to me and things come to pass um so that's what it sounds like for me for most people who are always trying to figure out is this God speaking to me is this just my thoughts I would tell you that when you think of something you'll think of it and you may lose the thought later right may not

even come back to you but when God is speaking to you when he's putting something inside of you it won't let you rest it'll keep coming back and so that's how you can kind of decipher and then sometimes he will use a voice that's familiar to you um and when you gift it sometimes it do feel like you're crazy and other people think that as well but now of course i know like oh no this is just my gift and i don't hide it anymore i don't stray away from it i wrote about in my first book because i wanted people to know like this is me if you want to rock with tab honey this is who i really am i don't hide that part of me anymore so wow when you when you say you have gifts are you are you clairvoyant are you like a medium do you i call it i'm a seer right

um it's just you know that's a gift that god gave me i was born with it it's been that way yeah my whole life i feel like we all have discernment we just don't all lean into it right but for me as a little girl would dream about people i've never met before and wake up and tell my mom and dad they're like oh i such and such and they'd be like that person been dead 20 years like you would never know that person right I can remember being at my grandfather's funeral but they're like you were 10 months old there's no way for you to remember that I don't know and I can't control it that's the thing it just happens like I can be talking to you and something can just appear that I can see and it may be for you or it may be to protect me it just depends but I have no control over that

I was gonna ask you so you know north carolina uh-huh so now you pick up your family you moved to la yes how was that conversation with your husband and your child and let's let's just go to la a place we don't know you gotta find a new job even this good carolina yeah yes it's crazy because at first my husband's like so in 98 i moved to california in pursuit of acting but i wasn't in la and husband was like, so in 98, I moved to California in pursuit of acting. But I wasn't in L.A. And I was like in Orange County. And I didn't tell my husband.

He was my boyfriend at the time. Like how bad it was. I didn't tell nobody. I was renting a room from somebody who was like taking all my money. But, you know, I'm like young, like 19. I really want to get this dream out of me. And I want to do something. And so our plan was for him to move out a couple months later, you know, we would get our own place but when he moved out and saw how I was living he was

like now this is crazy he's like you're working two jobs to survive you ain't nowhere near LA you're not pursuing acting he was like we need to move back to North Carolina so that we could save up money because it's cheaper he was like we could stay for one year then move back to LA so you can really pursue your dreams that one year turned into five years and a forgotten dream right until I had that experience that morning so when I told my husband after I worked that job for like a year I was like now it's time for us to move back to LA he was like nah I was like well listen I can I can go out there but like I can feel it calling me and I can come back and forth he was like oh no we're not gonna do that I can imagine those arguments you gonna go

where and leave me with this and I don't know what money I thought I had that I could be bi-coastal okay and go back and forth I don't know what I was thinking uh but we saved up like eight thousand dollars uh took us some months and we moved to LA and we first got there we was living in Baldwin Hills and my husband I mean we both from the same hometown you know we from Eden it's a very small town in North Carolina and our apartment i had flew out there to find our apartment because back then my husband used to be afraid to fly you know people from the country they'd be like i ain't getting on no plane you know so i had went back and forth to find us a place and i had found a cute this this spot was cute to me

right and but it did have the bars on the window because most of them do in la right so but we weren't used to that but i didn't tell him because in my mind, I thought it was nice. And it was. It did turn out to be nice. Was he able to bring his gun with him? Yeah. He did, actually. Okay.

You know what? He did. He did. He's from the Carolinas already, you know. He did. But when we got there, he was hot. He was like, what? And we was like right off Crenshaw.

Jesus. Yeah. He was like, what? Hey, we got a door there. I was like, what because we were like right off crenshaw he was yeah he was like what hey we got a door there i was like babe i didn't scoped it out this is a good area i promise you and because there was you know that was when the uh reality show ball one hills was out remember that i said we live in ball one hills it's just that we don't live in view park but where we park we can see the view like i i'm trying to sell it but he got used to it over time but you know in the beginning we was a little we was at odds for a while but you know we stayed

there for five years and we loved it wow one of the moments that uh we all saw that went viral was when you retired your husband and you know wendy williams had made some statements about you and the way you responded you responded with such grace and such love it was almost like i hope you heal absolutely you heal moment do you respond like that always in the in this season of my life yes yeah i mean the old tab probably would have had that get back spirit right but uh she didn't even know me and and i don't know her other than knowing her from you know her career um but you can also tell when somebody is hurt. And we've all been through things that cause us to project and feel a certain way.

But I'm not going to exhaust energy and give anybody control over me to anger me. Right. So, but also I just love people despite what anybody have to say about me. There's so many people now that hate me, that don't know me, but I love them. It also makes me want to love harder in the world because people are hurting. Right. You know, a lot of people think that I'm fake because I'm nice and I'm like, I'm a I'm compassionate. I've held my mama's hand while she died. Like I've seen death so many times like

I have also almost lost my life why would I not be happy and joyful I'm still here that's right right so um it hurts my heart for other people when I know that they're just hurting and they don't mean any harm in a way that they they is really they're trying to make themselves feel better. They're projecting. Right. They're projecting. And so the harm is really they're doing it to themselves because they're not. Instead of projecting, you should be trying to heal yourself and get what you need to feel better. But I don't know. Did you get a lot of flack for it? Because, you know, what it told me during that time is people don't understand love yeah right you love your husband you're financially fine and you can make sure that he's okay you know and it doesn't matter if he's a man he's a woman or what he is you love him and you had the opportunity

to retire man and men do it for women all the time so I didn't see it so did you get a lot of flack for it oh yeah I mean a lot of people had something to say about it but that's their opinion i don't i don't care that ain't my business um but i also uh realized that a lot of people don't understand uh partnership right i've been with my husband 26 years amazing uh more than half my life right most people don't even understand that how did he feel he felt he felt amazing but after what people don't know is I had been trying to retire my husband for like two years we had enough money he was like that money came to quit bae I don't want to do that to you no just in case yeah he was like nah I know one plus one equal two we don't know because

he also has watched me in Hollywood over 20 years, not get jobs for six months or two years. 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 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?

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I think a lot of times we are built to doubt the possibilities for ourselves. For self-preservation and protection, it was literally that step by step. And so I discovered that that is how we get where we're going. This increment of small, determined moments. Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love.

I forgive myself. It's okay. Like grace. Have grace with yourself. You're trying your best and you're gonna figure out the rhythm of this thing. Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty

on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired, depressed, a little bit revolutionary? Consider this. Start your own country. I planted the flag. I just kind of looked out of like, this is mine. I own this.

It's surprisingly easy. There's 55 gallons of water for 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen of Laudonia. I'm Jackson I, King of Capraburg. I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia. Be part of a great colonial tradition.

The Waikana tried my country. My forefathers did that themselves. What could go wrong? No country willingly gives up their territory. I was making a rocket with a black powder, you know, with explosive warhead. Oh my God. What is that? Bullets. Bullets. We need help. We still have the off-road portion to go. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. And we're losing daylight fast. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, James Brown, B.B. King, Miriam Akiba. I shook up the world. James Brown said, say it loud. And Akiba said, I'm black and I'm proud. Black boxing stars and black music royalty together in the heart of Zaire, Africa. Three days of music and then the boxing event. What was going on in the world at the time made this fight as important that anything else is going on on the planet. My grandfather laid on the ropes and let George Foreman basically just punch himself out.

Welcome to Rumble, the story of a world in transformation. The 60s and prior to that, you couldn't call a person black. And how we arrived at this peak moment. I don't have to be what you want me to be. We all came from the continent of Africa. Listen to Rumble, Ali, Foreman, and the soul of 74 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. That's right. We're going to discuss social issues, especially those that affect black and brown people, but in a way that informs and empowers all people to hopefully create better allies. Think of it as a black show for non-black people. We discuss everything from prejudice to politics to police violence.

And we try to give you the tools to create positive change in your home, workplace and social circle. Exactly. Whether you're black, Asian, white, Latinx, indigenous, LGBTQIA+, you name it. If you stand with us, then we stand with you. Let's discuss the stories and conduct the interviews that will help us create a more empathetic, accountable, and equitable America. You are all our brothers and sisters, and we're inviting you to join us for Civic Cipher each and every Saturday with myself, Ramses Jha, Q Ward and some of the greatest minds in America. Listen to Civic Cipher every Saturday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast. Or whatever. He was like, we can't we can't count on this new money. Right. And so I was like, babe, I promise you, I got the amount of money that we have always said that we have this amount of money in the bank.

Taxes been paid. We don't owe nobody that you will retire. He was like, all right, let me think about it. He took a leave first. He just was like, oh, I don't want that on your back. You know, even though he has a nonprofit, but it wasn't going to make that, you know, coming straight out. He won't make the kind of money he was making before. And I was like, but now you can build it. Now you can do all the things you wanted to do. Right?

So, uh, it took him a while, but afterwards now, listen, right now, what time is that? They might be on the golf course.

Okay. Listen, he worked with his kids three, four days a week, but he'd be on that golf course. He is, he is feeling it now. He's feeling good about it.

Absolutely. All right. We got more with Tabitha Brown. When we come back. Beyonce, she's getting an innovative award at the iHeartRadio Awards tonight. So let's get into a mini-mix. It's the Breakfast Program. Morning, everybody.

It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Tabitha Brown. Charlamagne, let's talk about this book. I did a new thing. Your new book. Yes, absolutely. 30 Days to Living Free.

What is living free to tabitha brown well you know freedom over code switching right we talked about that but living free is like taking an opportunity to do something even if it scares you right just doing something new right i started doing this challenge in 2014 i was really just in search of like getting to know myself better because i still was not free. And I would do something new, whether it be with my kids or by myself, and just to see how it would open my mind and how it would make me feel. And so I did that over the years. And I would always, you know, learn something new about myself.

Like I discovered my love for hiking. And I was like, oh, shoot, I never would have thought that I would love hiking. And then now it's something that I have continued to do over the years. And so I was like, if I do this again, I think I want to write a book. So last year I did it for 30 days and I journaled it and made it into a book. And my hope was that other people want to, you know, live free and try new things. And the other thing about freedom in order to like really go out and do something new that's the only way you're gonna know if you love something or you don't like it

right you have to be willing to be like i don't care i just want to find out let me just see right so and it also could be something as simple as i'm gonna wear my hair different like right now i'm doing it you know my hair name is donna so i'm doing while i'm on tour i'm doing a, you know, my hair name is Donna. So I'm doing, while I'm on tour, I'm making a new hairstyle every day. You said his name is Donna? Yeah, her name Donna. Like Donna Summers or? Oh, it's just Donna. Well, I named her after Don King.

It looks more put together than Don King. Today. Today. But she got her name because when I was, I did the big shopping when she was growing back. One night I was cooking live. And it was like straight up in the top. I was like, why is that piece of hair, you know, sticking straight up looking like Don King? I was like, I'm about to call her Donna and it stuck.

It stuck. Yeah. I love that you dedicated your new book to you. Yeah. Why was that important to do? Because, honey, I'm the one who made the decision to choose myself. That's right. Right.

And I made the decision to stop being afraid and to live my life my way and to try new things and the biggest thing I ever did for 30 days was go vegan and it saved my life and I was like girl this for you to have I prayed that I forever and always do new things every day I want to do that for the rest of my life I was gonna ask you know so many people listening right and how did you know not to give up right because I'm sure there's somebody listening right now that's been trying music for 10 years and it didn't work and somebody that's trying acting it didn't work somebody's trying to be in a chef somebody's trying to be an author somebody's trying to do something online and creating videos and nobody's watching and they probably said I felt I got a sign.

Yeah. When do you tell them to say maybe that's not the sign and maybe to change? Or, you know, how do you tell somebody to continue to keep doing what they're doing? Because you could have gave up so many times. Yeah. I would never really tell anybody to give up. Right. If you think God has given you a sign, then trust the signs. For me, it was always signs. And that's confirmation. If it won't let you rest, if you try to give up and it won't let you, those are the signs that we have to not ignore. But also we have to kind of ignore the noise of people who tell you you can't. But also we have to be honest with ourselves if you are not really doing the work or the dream that you have is it really your dream that's right right because

sometimes it might be a goal and the difference between a goal and a dream is a goal is something that you create a dream is deposited inside of you god does that you don't make up a dream it lives inside of you so be honest with yourself do you want does that you don't make up a dream it lives inside of you so be honest with yourself do you want it because you see somebody else with it uh it would look cool to you do you just want to make money or is it something that won't let you rest now another chapter do something that breaks the rules but not the law oh so uh i tell people that all the time like you know some rules are set by us you know by people uh as well as laws right but i know your kids come back with you all the time mommy said break the rules that's not the law exactly exactly uh but i talk about this in the

book that you know i got invited to uh a party you know and it was a strict dress code where they wanted you to wear black I don't like wearing black I am this is about as black as it get for me I love color it makes me happy when I wear like all black it makes me feel weird I think about funerals and all kinds yeah I don't know like even at funerals like in my family we wear a lot of colors or we wear white um but it just makes me feel a little I don't know maybe sad and I realize if I do wear it I gotta have like a pop of color in my lips or something I don't know but I was like I don't want to wear black to this thing I'm gonna I gotta figure something out so I found like uh I had this it was like a blazer but it was the background was black but it had a bunch of colors and patterns on it and I wore like some black bell-bottom pants. Got there, and a lot of other people hadn't wore black.

And so I was like, this is why we can break the rules sometimes. You know, I could have said, okay, I'm going to wear all black and been uncomfortable all night, and then got there and been mad like, look at all the people. They ain't wearing what they said we're supposed to wear, right? So that's what I mean by that. Sometimes we can break the rules, just don't break the law. So you ain't never going to follow no dress code?

If it's an all-white party or nothing? I will, yeah. She said she's going to wear white, but she's all black. I mean, I will wear it, but it's going to have to have a little something that make me feel like Taya. You know, because I also want to go

and be myself, you know? Do something that requires you to face your losses. That's a powerful one. So, you know? So do, do something that requires you to face your losses. Oh, that's a powerful one. So, um, when I, you know,

I had a restaurant, right? And when I had my restaurant, it was a partnership. And, um, we had a lot of problems with the building. And so,

cause the, the kale, my name is a restaurant in Chicago that I fell in love with. So when he came to LA, I was like, Oh, I partnered with you and open a restaurant with you you I didn't know the restaurant business but this building gave us a lot of issues and so we ultimately had to um to close and so I was like oh man

it felt like a loss to me because I had had you know so much happening people would come in I would people come from all over to just meet me at the restaurant and I wasn't there every day but on weekends or whenever I could I would go and just be there all day to make sure I got to see people when they came we ended up having to shut it down and I was like really kind of hurt about you know for a while and I really couldn't talk about it because we were having legal problems with the you know the building owner because it was a whole thing when it was time to do my taxes now I've been carrying this like, man, I feel so bad about it. I realized that the loss had really blessed me.

It was a win. It was a win, right? And so I was like, sometimes we got to look at the loss for what it is. Maybe it ain't a loss, you know, but also it opened up doors for me. Now I have, you know, my food and stuff at Target. So I was like, it won ain't a loss you know but also it opened up doors for me now i have you know my food and stuff at target so i was like it won't necessarily a loss you know we can't look always look at them you know things like this so it actually blessed me because i ain't have to pay as much let's flex a little bit let's run some of this stuff down now so you got deals with target who else come on no need to be humble in this moment you act like a rapper right now you know

you got the tab time booming on YouTube. I do. You got deals with Target. You got book deals. What else? I have my own seasoning. Okay, yes. McCormick Spice.

I have six of those. Fridays with Tab and Chance. I do have Fridays with Tab and Chance. I do Very Good Mondays where I bless small businesses every Monday. Of course, I have my own merch. That feel weird to just name everything. What do you write? You want to rap to me?

I don't even, you know, I still do my active thing. You know, I've launched a production company in a partnership with Steven Love with Made With Love Media. Yeah, I don't know. That was the Brown Mac. I can see they see they talk to you forever new book i did a new thing we appreciate you for joining us thank you so much don't be a stranger absolutely should i end it how i end my video

okay well this is the first part thank y'all for having me i appreciate y'all thank y'all y'all going about your business all right have the most amazing day but even if you can't have a good one don't you dare go messing up nobody else's hand. God bless y'all. Love y'all. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Damn, the hee-haw again.

It's time for Donkey of the Day. I ain't trying to be Donkey of the Day no more. They should be embarrassed by what they already did. I'm not making these people do these things. It's called Donkey of the Day, and it really caught me off guard. Damn, Charlamagne. Who got the Donkey of the Day today? really caught me off guard damn solomon who got the donkey of the day today well just hilarious donkey of the day goes to a 32 year old woman named courtney l davis

courtney faces felony charges of possession of stolen property fraud criminal mischief burglary residential entry obstruction of justice and false informing all during women's history month not only is courtney facing charges but she got her husband caught up too. Yes, her husband is facing charges of residential entry and possession of stolen property. Why? Because this woman was lying for no devil damn reason. Now, there's a lot of things women lie to men about. Okay, there's a lot of things I've heard women lie to men about.

But this is a new one. Okay? Okay, this is a new one. All right? Kourtney lied to her husband about purchasing a home and she got arrested after trying to move into a house she never purchased okay let me break this down for you it's a lot of information okay uh i'm reading this from news channel 8 on your side court documents revealed an indiana man thought he

and his wife were moving into a brand new home after going through the real estate process and being handed the keys to a house. What her husband didn't know was that his wife faked all the financial documents, submitted to the realtors, and then broke into the home, smashed open the lockbox, and told her husband they were new homeowners. Why? What is the point of a woman faking anything? There's a woman in this building who i overheard having a conversation with jess hilarious earlier saying that she once told a man she orgasmed three times what's the point

what's the point of lying imagine lying to a chef that you fool when you really hungry as hell and he's willing and able to cook for you you just got to tell him what you want and how you want it huh simple listen listen to this according court documents, police officers from the Eden Police Department were called out to a home on North Chestnut Street at 6.38 p.m. on February 16th after the property owner claimed to have spotted a U-Haul truck outside the home. The owner told police no one was supposed to be at the home, which was vacant and for sale. Officers arrived to the scene to find a couple moving into the house, unloading boxes and brandishing keys to the front door.

Courtney told her husband that she and him had purchased the home and had been given the keys by their realtor, who took them out the lockbox after the sale was finalized and handed them over to the new homeowners. Courtney even showed police screenshots of paperwork that showed they had purchased the home. Big lies, okay? But the story didn't match what the property owner told police. According to the property owner's realtor, the sale of the house was never finalized due to payment never being received. A deeper dive uncovered that not only had the couple not submitted their payment,

but the forms handed over to the realtor had been fraudulent. The realtor said they noticed something was off with the forms due to grammatical errors, such as stating, contact you at, instead of contact us at. The police reached out to the couple's realtor, who allegedly handed the pair of keys from the house's lockbox to the couple, only to learn that that too was a lie. The realtor said the sale hadn't been completed and told police she did not hand over the keys from the lockbox.

Police ended up discovering that the lockbox had been smashed open and the pieces hidden inside a drawer in the house. When the couple was confronted about their crimes, Courtney told police that her husband had been left in the dark about the fraud. He hadn't been aware of the fraudulent statements or the truth behind the lockbox. Then Courtney did what most women do when they get caught red-handed. She just started spilling her guts and she confessed that she broke into the home prior to the couple moving in. She said she climbed through windows, unlocked all the doors, and smashed open the lockbox before her husband arrived to move that stuff in.

Also, for good measure, the tow truck driven by her husband was reported stolen. Courtney said she let her husband drive this truck because she couldn't drive stick. Come to find out, the truck hadn't been purchased. Okay? It had been purchased, but with a bad check. Her husband didn't know about that either. He had no idea the truck was purchased with a bad check. How long did Courtney Davis think these lies were going to last?

She was willing to move all her stuff into a house she knows she didn't own, as if it would be on the market forever. This has to be a violation of marriage vows. There is no way on God's green earth or any of her other planets that i'm supposed to stay with a woman who lies like this a lie can destroy a relationship in a second but it can take a lifetime to rebuild the trust and i only got one of those so i'm not wasting it on you i hope courtney's husband feels the same please give courtney l davis the biggest hee-haw now jess hilarious what regardless of what social media says you are a woman a beautiful woman the biggest hee-haw. Now, Jess Hilarious.

What? Regardless of what social media says, you are a woman. A beautiful woman. Absolutely. Why he play with you? What's the top three lies you ever told? To a man.

To anybody, but yeah, to a man. No, to a man. For real. Okay, so the top one, and I even told Chris this. I don't know. It's just something about you

I don't usually have sex Like when I first date We all do that Don't be looking at me like that Oh my god no Yes oh my god yes And look And he

And I'm pregnant now And we happy And yeah Does Chris know this Or he just hearing it For the first time He ain't listening today Cause he got a lot going on

Okay alright So yeah What's number two Oh my god I remember this one time I lied about being In the hospital So a nigga could call me back So, yeah. What's number two? Oh, my God. I remember this one time I lied about being in the hospital so a nigga could call me back. He wasn't trying to call me back. Call me back. I'm going to die.

I told London. Like, London. Call him and tell him, yeah, like, I'm in the hospital. You know, I'm having anxiety attacks. 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 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. 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 owned country. My forefathers did that themselves. What could go wrong? No country willingly gives up their territory. I was making a racket 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. Oh my God. What is that? Bullets. Bullets. We need help. We still have the off-road portion to go. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. And we're losing daylight fast.

That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Muhammad Ali. George Foreman. James Brown. B.B. King. Miriam Akiba. I shook up the world. James Brown said, say it loud.

And the kid said, I'm black and I'm proud. Black boxing stars and black music royalty together in the heart of Zaire, Africa. Three days of music and then the boxing event. What was going on in the world at the time made this fight as important that anything else is going on on the planet. My grandfather laid on the ropes and let George Foreman basically just punch himself out. Welcome to Rumble, the story of a world in transformation. The 60s and prior to that, you couldn't call a person black. And how we arrived at this peak moment. We all came from the continent of Africa. Listen to Rumble, Ali, Foreman, and-old boy floated alone in the ocean.

He had lost his mother trying to reach Florida from Cuba. He looked like a little angel. I mean, he looked so fresh. And his name, Elian Gonzalez, will make headlines everywhere. Elian Gonzalez. Elian. Elian. Elian. Elian. Elian. Elian Gonzalez. Elian. Elian. Elian. Elian. Elian.

Elian Gonzalez. At the heart of the story is a young boy and the question of who he belongs with. His father in Cuba. Mr. Gonzalez wanted to go home and he wanted to take his son with him. Or his relatives in Miami. Imagine that your mother died

trying to get you to freedom. At the heart of it all is still this painful family separation. Something that as a Cuban, I know all too well. Listen to Chess Peace, the Elian Gonzalez story, as part of the My Cultura podcast network,

available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Anxiety issues. I'm having anxiety attacks. So you can call me back. Did he call you? No, he still didn't call me.

But that was a lie. Yes, it was a lie. So you lied about not having sex on the first date. You lied about being in the hospital. What's the third one? And this one time I was trying to cheat on my ex-boyfriend. And I told somebody I broke up with him who wouldn't deal with me because I had a boyfriend. I I told somebody I broke up with him who didn't, who wouldn't deal with me

because I had a boyfriend. I lied and said I broke up with him just so I could deal with the guy. Is that Chico from earlier? Yeah, it is. But I hadn't,

but understanding something, this is before Chico took his head off. This was before a lot of things. Like, I hadn't seen Chico head. Like, I literally, he had fished you?

Yeah, he had fished me. Like, yeah. And so, but he was already my friend. So I was like, thank God that he dodged me. Because I was like, Jesus Christ. If I gave him some, and imagine if I walked in that room and he took that hat off.

Like, yeah, what's up? I would have ran for it. Yo, I can't do this. I would have quit wilding out and everything. There's no way. No. Between Courtney Davis and Jess Elias, I think, brothers, you should just turn to your woman and give her a little pinch under the arm

just in case but Courtney do sound like a strong back woman she moved everything in this is a strong back she climbed through the windows she smashed the lockbox she stole a truck

she strong that's a strong back liar right there. But listen. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest on the line, on the Zoom, on the whatever you want to call it.

Ludacris, ladies and gentlemen. What up, Luda? What up, my family? What's going on? Luda is hosting the iHeartRadio Music Awards on Aprilil 1st that is not an april fool's joke it's actually happening i was gonna say that same thing but you beat me to it so it's all yes i cannot wait to do this it's my first time hosting the iHeart has been a minute since i hosted something but you know i'm a big kid i'm gonna have a lot of fun we're gonna bring a lot of energy not an

april fool's joke whatsoever because I like to joke around a lot too, but this ain't no game. It's no game. Is Fear Factor the last thing you hosted? No, I think the Billboard Awards if I'm not mistaken. The Billboard Awards three years in a row as a matter of fact. Now, did you have more fun at the Super Bowl or when you

performed in Atlanta when you was hanging from the ceiling sliding all the way down? Which one did you have more fun? Envy, that's a hard question. But, you know, when I was sliding down, when I was rappelling down in the Dome, it wasn't over 100 million people around the world watching me. That was just kind of a certain amount. I would have to say the Super Bowl, man,

because that was just one of those moments in time where I was nervous for my for my friend this boy was on roller skates and all type of stuff and we know that he practices these things but that was it was a little different man and uh i just felt the energy from around the world on that day a little bit more than i felt on that rappelling down from the georgia dome do you ever get nervous and i know you you perform every weekend and you've done these shows like that one time the biggest stage and you forget a word or you stutter or did you did that ever cross your mind at all you know so you know what little john asked me that before we went on and i'm gonna say something that probably no artist probably ever says absolutely bro i get nervous all the time the moment you stop getting nervous is the moment that you don't care and you

know who told me that? May he rest in peace. DMX said that to me, man. And I took that to heart ever since. I'm always nervous right before I hit stage because I care so much. But as soon as I hit that stage, as soon as my voice comes on that mic, all the nervousness goes out the way. But always, always nervous. You know, Luda, we're on Zoom.

But, you know, I can see who's on the Zoom. And I see the good brother Shaka zulu on the zoom man it's it's incredible to see men especially black men have such a long healthy relationship like like like y'all have what does it mean to still have shaka in your life after you know especially after what he just went through man listen shaka is is my mentor i don't know if y'all saw when I received my Hollywood Walk of Fame, man, but it occurred to me at that moment that Shaka and his brother Jeff are like the fathers that I've had since my father passed away, man. And I started breaking down in tears.

So I can say a lot of things, but I hope that makes you understand how much it is, how much it means to me to have someone like Shaka in my life, man, as a mentor, as a guide, as a friend, as a figure that just continues to keep me on my best behavior and keep me on my toes, man, 100%. We've been in the game over two decades and been rocking with each other, no contract. It was a handshake, and it's been like that ever since.

And that started at radio, right? Hot 107.9? Yes, 100%. Wow. And it was about 97.5 at the time. So, man, it's a radio family thing, man. And like we said, this was in Atlanta. We just sold this to BET, by the way, this whole story.

So, man, it's for all the radio people. Has it got the official green light? I know you got the BET Plus series. Has it got the official green light? We got the official green light? I know you got the BET Plus series. Have they got the official green light? We got the official green light, man. I'm going to do everybody proud. Have you picked who's playing you, who's playing Shaka, who's playing Jeff, who's playing a young Lala maybe?

I don't know. Not yet, but we ain't got to that stage yet. But we're taking all suggestions. We know you're out there producing stuff too. So, man, give us your list. We got to figure this out. We got to match the right people. You know what I mean mean it's got to be as real as possible that's right you know it's funny i i i got my new book coming out and i wrote about you in the book because i

was a young intern at the time but i remember when you was at z93 jams in charleston and even though even though what's your fantasy was popping you came in and ran your own board and i was yes and i'll never forget that like you were doing the interview but you're like now let Even though What's Your Fantasy was popping, you came in and ran your own board. What? Yes, and I'll never forget that. You were doing the interview, but you were like, nah, let me run the board. And I'll never forget that. Bro, that's crazy. I'll never forget that.

And by the way, you know I don't just say this, man, because I follow y'all on social media. But your first book is an amazing piece of art and a piece of work. And I'm proud of you because I know this ain't your this is like your third or fourth one so man congratulations on that i can't wait to read it now especially now knowing that i'm in the damn thing bro all right we got more with ludacris when we come back of course he's hosting the iheart radio awards let's get to a mini mix is the breakfast club good morning morning everybody is dj envy jess larry charlemagne the guy we are the breakfast club we're still kicking with ludacris and i gotta ask you know you're a lyricist and and you will bite back anybody that mentions your name we seen it with kat williams but now that you're seeing the uh the shots going back and forth with these these

lyricists do you enjoy it because you feel like hip-hop got a little too everybody's too cool with each other listen i don't care where hip-hop is here little too, everybody's too cool with each other. Listen, I don't care where hip-hop is. I enjoy any time people are coming at each other's necks, like, in the right way. I absolutely love what's going on. Like, I was just saying that we're witnessing, you know, you just talked about the Super Bowl. Super Bowl's all about who wants it the most. We just, we witnessing March Madness live about who wants it the most, that competitive. We witnessing history with LeBron James doing amazing historic things.

And everybody always talks about who's the greatest and who's the best. And there's debates. I love it. Hip-hop is of no exception. I love in hip-hop when people just try to prove to each other. And you got the best of the best. And, you know, I'm loving what's going on. I can't wait to see how this plays out well luda what you saying that you know nelly was on the shop and he said that his era of rap was

the toughest and most competitive like so that was your era too gotta be in that yeah mx j m wayne 50 and luda he said that you know you actually said your name if i'm not mistaken yeah do you agree with that i can't be at all mad at that statement because I was just on Drink Champs and I was literally talking about how, you know, I went to the award shows and the Grammys, obviously, year after year after year. For the first decade, I mean,

I'm over here outselling a lot of these artists and I'm losing. And what I mean by that is I was up against DMX, I was up against Jay-Z, I was up against Eminem in these categories every single time. And I just, you know, I had to keep my head held high. And, you know, after about a decade or so, I finally started winning.

But, yes, I would say in terms of competition, in terms of going at each other, in terms of subliminals flying, in terms of direct lyrics flying. It was just extremely competitive. Now, I'm sure anybody in their era is going to say that's the toughest era, but I can't be mad at that statement. I feel the same way. How important is family and your wife to you in keeping that bond fresh, spicy, and new? Like I seen recently when you gave her, I'm not sure what holiday it was.

I think it was i think it was a birthday or christmas when you made her do obstacle courses to get a bag and she had the she couldn't climb but how how how important is that for you in your relationship it's extremely important to keep stuff fresh man you can't do the same things over and over again you got to keep that's that's just one thing that's in my nature though man i love constantly uh just you know i love constantly trying new things especially when it comes to exciting my wife you know what i mean so i think it was valentine's day again that you're talking about and yeah i made her do a little obstacle course i hate doing the same thing over and over he made her do obstacles i don't think nobody could do. He made her climb rock walls after climbing rock walls.

Like, you made her do a lot. I'm sitting there like, damn, Lou. Well, he hosted Fear Factor, so that's on brand. That's on brand. I'm an innovator, man. I got to innovate in all walks of my life. One question I got to ask you before you go. Was Cat Williams ever really offered your role in Fast and Furious?

No, he never. He never. Not that I know of. You said, was he offered a role? Yeah, he never. He never. I don't. Not that I know of. You said, was he offered a role? Yeah, because he said, if I'm not mistaken, I could be misquoting this. I thought he said on Club Shea Shea, they offered him the role, but he didn't take it because he wasn't willing to do the compromising things that they needed.

Allegedly. Allegedly. Yeah, yeah. And to answer your question, I wouldn't be the right person to ask that question question i have no idea if he was offered a role in the fast or not i do know that i saw him at rick ross's crib uh some years back and everything was perfectly fine but he's a comedian you know he tells jokes so it is what it is so you didn't take you didn't take offense to nothing even when he was saying things like oh you know it's about seven people with ugly light-skinned wives. If you do this and you do that, you get an ugly light-skinned wife in movie roles.

Salamayne, it was so laughable what he said that I was, to me, I was just like I couldn't believe what he was saying. You know what I mean? I took it as laughable because he's a comedian, and that's why I kind of responded with some laughable stuff. Absolutely. Could you beat him in a foot race? You know what? That's a comedian, and that's why I kind of responded with some laughable stuff. Absolutely. Could you beat him in a foot race? You know what?

That's a good question. That's a great question. I don't know. We'd have to see, because he is fast out there, for sure. Well, tonight, April 1st, Ludacris hosts the iHeartRadio Music Awards, and we got to get you up here in person. I know you're running around doing your thing, but next time you're in New York, you got to stop.

Yeah, it's going to be on Fox tonight. Absolutely. I'll see y'all at the awards show, man. All love. Appreciate y'all. It's Ludacris. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

Appreciate you, brother. Appreciate y'all. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. It's time for a positive note. What we got?

I do, man. I have a positive note, and it's really simple. Normalize talking highly about yourself. All right? No small talk to self, okay? Normalize talking highly about yourself. You deserve it. Breakfast Club, bitches!

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