The Breakfast Club - The breakfast Club Best Of Episode( Usher Interview, Jermaine Dupri Interview, Tee Grizley Interview, Russell Fletcher Interview, Jess Fix My Mess)

Episode Date: April 4, 2024

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We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Yo, good morning, guys. I'm Brian, man. Peace and blessings, man. I'm here. I'm in here. Get it off your chest.

Yo, man. I was stuck in the elevator for a whole hour, man. And the main reason we're doing it, man, is to really wake up earlier, man, I was stuck in the elevator for a whole hour, man. And the main thing to be done is really wake up earlier, man, because I felt like my life was over, man. I made so much promises regarding this elevator, man. Yo, look at my mother, man. I'm wishing for my worst enemy, man. No windows, no escape.

I'm thinking about Bruce Willis. And Die Hard. I'm pressing the buttons. I'm trying to Die Hard. I'm thinking, I'm pressing the buttons. I'm kicking, I'm trying to punch codes. I'm doing everything. I'm like,

you know what, let me pick. Yo, I ain't gonna lie. I had a little reception, but not too much. I was playing Marvin Sapp. Never would have made it.

Damn. Where were you? The only reason why I got out, the only reason why I got out was because the Spams dude, he kept pressing the button downstairs, and he kept kicking the door, and all of a sudden, the only reason why I got out because of the Spams dude, he kept pressing the button downstairs and he kept kicking the door and then all of a sudden it opened but it was a half of the floor

and then it popped up and then I got out. And I'm just telling everybody right now, man, I don't know if I think I'm going to get elevated again. You think it's a lawsuit? I don't know if it's a lawsuit but I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy because I got a daughter

who has a very unhealthy fear of elevators. Oh, it's like the rules of clothing, man. Like, you just feel like... I feel like I was in one of those Titanic submarines, man. But that's a whole different story. But anyway, look. We're in the Bronx of Brooklyn.

Bronx of Brooklyn. You know it's the Bronx, bro. Of course it's the Bronx. You know. Come on, man. Everything broken in the Bronx. Damn. Everything's crazy, man.

Have a blessed day. I'm glad that you got out of that situation I'm telling you my 8 year old is definitely afraid of elevators I don't know what she watched She saw somebody get stuck on an elevator But lord have mercy She do not like elevators at all In no way shape or form

Hello who's this Hi this is Crystal from South Florida Hey Crystal get it off your chest Yes I woke up early this morning to tell you guys this. Um, so, my nephew attends Bethune-Cookman College,

and he told me he's taking African-American Studies, and they have a white professor. She just gave them a group project to do called Escape

from the Plantation, and she wants them to pretend to be a slave, and she wants them to not know how to swim, not know how to read and write, how they would maneuver, trying to escape like the Underground Railroad. She wants them to be like,

oh, one of you try to be a slave and try to escape and get your foot cut off. And another one of you, I want you to be like a mom with a whole bunch of kids that's like illiterate. And I want one of you guys to be a house worker. Tell your son to tell the teacher that he want to be Nat Turner, okay? And they want to do a slave rebellion, starting with her, right then and now.

Jesus. Okay, let's see how she want to play that game. They're like, some of the kids in his class, like, I guess they're green behind the ears. So they're like, oh my God, this sounds so cool. But with him, he's like, it doesn't sit right. And I'm like, what do y'all want to do about it? Because personally, me, I'm born in the 80s.

I'm born in the 80s. I definitely would have went to the dean about that. How old is he? Yeah, how old is he? He is 18. He's in college? Wow. Yeah.

Oh, I thought she said elementary school. Yeah, well, hey. No, no, he's in college. He's at Bethune-Cookman College. Oh, okay. Nat Turner, Slave Rebellion. Okay, 1831. That's what we need to take it back to.

Okay? Stono Rebellion. Charleston, South Carolina, 1739. That's what we need to take it back to, okay? Hello, who's this? Yo, this is Chris from Polk County, Florida. Chris from Florida. What up?

Get it off your chest, bro. Hey, man, I want to say congratulations to Jess. You know what I'm saying? Welcome to the club. Yes, indeed. Thank you, honey. Yeah, yeah. I got to keep it real now. I wasn't going for you at first, but...

We ain't ask you all that. I like you now. I like you now. You know what I'm saying? Y'all good. I like that. We you at first, but you didn't grow on me. I like you now. I like you now. Y'all good. I like that. I like what y'all got going, though. I'm just keeping it real. You got to keep it real. Sometimes you do, but you know I don't give a damn what you didn't like before

as long as you like me now. Sometimes you just don't got to say how you felt before if you feel a different way now. Thank you. I can respect that. Have a good one, Chris. Nope. Alright. Bye. That's crazy chris is usually love you bye hello good morning breakfast club what's up dj mv charlamagne what's going on hi honey how are you good morning i'm good good morning it's kasan from detroit jess i was just calling i wanted to say to you, my great-grandma used to tell me,

you could be anything you want to be in life as long as you put your mind to it. And I want you to know that I see so much success for you, Jess Hilarious. I wish you the best. I'm glad I was able to talk to you on your first day, Jess. You really making it. I see so much more for you, and God bless you, okay? Thank you so much, babe. I appreciate that.

Oh, she just getting started. Have a good one, Kazan. Big Jeff's hilarious. Superstar. 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. 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? Envy, what's up, Envy? What's up, Trav?

Charlemagne, Charlemagne. Peace, what up, sis? How you? I'm doing good, I'm doing good. What's up, Trav? Hey, Trav. Can I tell y'all how I've been giggling at Envy all weekend? Because Envy is so crazy.

What happened? So, I don't know if y'all know, Envy's on this show with Tammy Roman. Oh. I think it's Cheaters. Is that what it's called, Envy? It's called Unfaithful.

Unfaithful. Shout out to Tammy. So, there's this episode that is dropped. Shout out to Big Sexy. Actually, Big Sexy's actually

on one of my songs I'm about to drop. I love Big Sexy. Shout out to him. He has an episode. Say it again, baby. I said I love Big Sexy. Oh, shout out. He has an episode. Say it again, baby. I said I love Big Sexy. Oh, shout out to Big Sexy.

So Envy has this episode where Envy was following him around and he's like, busting his boyfriend. So Envy. Hmm? When somebody, Envy's talking to the girl and she's telling him over and over again, yeah, he's bisexual. I didn't know he was bisexual. I ain't never met you met a bisexual man before.

The first thing Envy says when he talks is, oh, so you didn't know he was gay? It's Envy. You cannot be gay and like women. Okay? You're bisexual. This guy's so stupid. Okay.

If you like women, you cannot be gay. All right? Well, you're 50% gay. You're gay. You're still gay, but all right. No, you're not gay. Okay. If you like, but all right. No, you're not gay. Okay. If you like a woman

at all, you're a fascist, you have a vagina, you are bisexual. Gay men do not like a vagina. Yeah, that's true, but you're still

half a homosexual. No, you're bisexual. Yeah, you're crossing departments. You're crossing departments. Bye. Okay. Bisexual means two, right?

I don't know. I thought bisexual was gay. Bisexual means both. But it's both. Both. So you 50% have a homosexual. Would you say you gay and straight? No.

Yes. That's gas. Gay and straight. Gay and straight. You gas. You gas. All right, Trav. Thank you. Oh. You gas. All right, Trav. Thank you, Trav.

Thank you, Trav. But the definition of bisexual is sexually or romantically attracted to both men and women are to more than one sex or gender. And that's why it's called bisexual, not gay. I get it. But you, I mean, technically, you are gay and straight. Oh, my God. Technically.

I just asked a question. I just wanted to know. All right. Hello, who's this? Hey, this QT. What's going on? What's up, brother? Get it off your chest.

Man, I just wanted to say shout out to all the truck drivers out there. Man, everybody that's driving out on the road, be safe, man. Okay. Yeah, shout out to y'all. I love y'all so very much. Be safe. You in your truck, bro? Thank you.

Yes, sir. There you go. Hey. Yes, sir. Have a good one. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need the vent, hit us up now.

It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are 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. Yes, indeed.

Tee Grizzly. What up, bro? What up, Grizzly? What's the deal, man? How you feeling, brother? Feeling good. Feeling great, man. All that.

Look good. I'm glad you put down the joysticks a little bit to start rapping again. You was really making that much money on video games? Yeah, man. Wasn't no words about it. Damn i mean still auto yeah yeah okay yeah it's it's crazy because before i was a rapper i was a gamer i feel like we all was you know i'm saying just growing up playing a game so just like music is something i put a lot of passion into how do you make a career that though like that's what i'll always be honestly i had to be coached through it because when i first started playing like online i was just meeting different people who was already doing

it they kind of taught me how to do it and it just took off i'm surprised at the numbers that games make so is this is it gambling or is it tournaments or how does it work no it's just it's just you build a community in the audience you know i'm saying and they they paying to subscribe to your content yeah Yeah, streaming. Can that translate into record sales? I wonder. Yeah, if you do it right, for sure. So if I drop an album and I'm in GTA and I have a listening party,

I'm like, all of us got to play it at the same time on our own and come back and give our feedback on the songs and stuff like that. Then you get everybody engaged and everybody streaming it. What platform is that? Because, I mean, I'm sure, messing with the the labels because once that's played in a twitch or played in one of those streaming platforms that gotta be a spin right because it's yeah yeah yeah for sure twitch youtube is the yeah it's a spin for sure because i'm getting everybody to do it on their own you feel me instead of me just listening to it for y'all and y'all hearing it with me

that's only one stream you feel me what's the most you ever made if you don't mind us asking because your diamonds are shining brother i appreciate it it was a lot i don't i don't know it was a lot more than six figures yeah yeah it was a lot how do regular kids get to do that i'm not trying to figure out and that's what what game that's playing gta gta yeah oh so you're ready for gta6 then yeah yeah yeah super ready for GTA 6 then? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Super ready for that, for sure. It took them long enough, but shout out to Rockstar and my people. Now, tease Coney Island. You're not from New York. No.

So why is it called tease Coney Island? You know what's crazy? I don't ever have to have this conversation in the Midwest. You feel me? Because you don't know Coney Island from New York. No, so look. So Coney Island, now y'all got y'all bodegas, right? Yeah.

We got them in Detroit too, but it's just called Coney Island. So it's a bunch of different Coney Islands. You know what I'm saying? If you from them areas, you got your own Coney. So it's like a dog, a little convenience store. Like a diner. Okay, okay, okay. You know what I'm saying?

Where you get food. What's the significance of that to you? For me, growing up, you feel me? I ain't always, like, have a home-cooked meal, and I never ate out. You know what I'm saying? Stuff like that. So I scrape up on a couple dollars. I know i go to the coney and get some good food you know i'm saying a lot of it but not that much money you know can you take a woman there would

she be fine going to coney island for sure okay okay yeah definitely you know they bougie nowadays yeah coney ain't bad though i took my wife to coney island before have you invested in one that's why you call it tease coney island um oh yeah. Have you invested in one? That's why you call it T's Coney Island? Yeah, I invested in one in my area. Okay, okay. Yeah. Smart. The one I grew up walking to, like, before school type, you know?

How'd you approach him? Like, yo, man, I want to buy a part of the business. No, like, I want to be a part of this. Like, this Coney right here is significant, you know what I'm saying, to me and my upbringing. You know what I'm saying? So, I just want to be a part of it. You feel me? They was rocking with is significant you know i'm saying to me and my upbringing you know i'm saying so i just want to be a part of it you feel me they was rocking with me you know first day out was your biggest record right did you ever think that you would beat the success of first day out because it's it's a club staple yeah radio record yeah but you did it yeah so did you ever think that you would beat that man i that's one song i can say, like, I performed that song. The reaction is like it came out yesterday.

You feel me? Yeah. My goal in life, you know what I'm saying, when it comes to, like, chasing my dreams with this music, it was never to outdo anything. It was to get that in the first place. You know what I'm saying? So I'm just happy to have that, you know what I'm saying, and continue to let that be the car that drive the other content that i put out did that song put pressure on you like because you know you came out the gay jay-z tweeting about it like they put pressure on you to keep making that level of music no because i don't see i don't look at it i don't look at it

like that i look at it as the blessing that it is and i'm just grateful for it if anything else come then it come if not that i'm grateful for it. If anything else come, then it come. If not, then I'm grateful for it because it saved and changed my life to this day. We got a big record

moving right now. I Don't Give a F with Chris Brown and Mariah Thee Sciences. How'd that come about? How y'all link up? Number one record, by the way, too.

Number one. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Congrats. Definitely, definitely. Thank you. So I rock with Chris Brown. I had one chance in my career. We was in L.A. chilling at his crib.

And we was in the studio just cooking and throwing around ideas. And we had came up with that one. And we knew we needed a female on it. You know what I'm saying? And my wife had put me hip to Mariah the Scientist. And I've been a fan ever since. So I had shot it to her. And she loved it.

Killed it. Did her thing. After that, we went number one. You got a couple records with Chris Brown on the project. What's y'all energy like? I mean, bro just a genuine dude. You know what I'm saying? Our energy, a lot of times when we kick it, it don't even be about music.

You know what I'm saying? We just kick it. Like how we talking right now, we just be chopping it up. Now, you got married pretty young. Most people say that's pretty young, especially in this industry, 28 years old. How did you know she was the one? You mentioned her twice because I know you love. We've seen all 28 years old. How did you know she was the one? You mentioned her twice. I know you.

I know you love. We've seen all the wedding photos. How did you know she was the one? It is no such thing as somebody being the one. You know, you just thought social media with that. It's no such thing as somebody being the one man. Is this this takes effort? It got to be something you want to do.

You got to be the one. You know what I'm saying? You got to be the one one i want to do it because they not they don't propose you do you feel me this this got to be something you want there's got to be something you want to do there's got to be something that you're willing to stick with no matter what and there's got to be something you make a choice to put effort into you feel me i agree with that you i agree with that but she still got to be special enough for you to say, this is what I want to spend the rest of my life with. Yeah, for sure.

For sure. I mean, everybody's special. You feel me? There's nobody out here that's not special in their own way. I don't know about her. I ain't never had none. Go ahead. I ain't never had none.

But I like your take on that, though. Like, you got to be the one. You got to, you know, because a lot of men always put it on a woman yeah like you know she she she was the one and she wasn't it but you're talking about the other side of it yeah I appreciate that we don't we don't hear that yeah ever so no for sure for sure you got it you gotta want it you gotta want it definitely when did you realize what made you want to do it at that particular moment in that particular time so this always been a dream of mine I always knew i was gonna do this you know i'm saying because the household i grew up in was it was a lot of dysfunction you know and i knew that's not what

i wanted i know i wanted to have a two-parent household because that's what i wish i had you know i'm saying i knew i wanted to be married and carry myself a certain way because that's what i wish i saw coming up so growing up for me was a kind of like a lot of what not to do and that made me want to do this that's breaking generational crushes my brother they say if you come from a broken home make sure a broken home don't come from you yeah yeah yeah all right we got more with T Grizzly when we come back don't move it's the Breakfast Club good morning the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Tee Grizzley. And how are you dealing with all your trauma? With all, because PNB Rock was a close friend and your manager that passed. Like, how are you dealing with that trauma? Yeah, so I do a lot of healing things.

You know what I'm saying? Love to hear that. Yeah, I do a lot of healing things for sure. A couple people I want to just shout out with that. My sister, Tiara. We do certain things that kind of heal traumas. You know, like sit down with certain medicines and just get that stuff, release all that stuff. What'd you do? DMT, shrooms, ayahuasca? that stuff would you do dmt shrooms ayahuasca ayahuasca oh you did yeah tell us about that experience

man was powerful man yeah it was super powerful yeah it's it's it's something in us right that already knows what to do with the medicine once it's inside you and it does exactly what it's supposed to do you know i'm saying and it just works perfectly you know i'm saying the medicine is perfect for you it's kind of like a facial recognition on your phone once you get inside your body and it just unlock things you feel me and the thing about it is once it teach once you learn what it teaches you or once it show you whatever you need to see because it works for everybody individually different ways it's on you to remember this stuff did you did you detox beforehand and like because you set your intention and all of that yeah yeah for sure no we did it was very ceremonial how we did it you know i'm saying like it was a room that we was in you

couldn't even bring certain technology devices in here you um couldn't even step in here if you was in a certain frequency like be super positive when you step in this room we want to keep this energy a certain way did you poop and vomit on yourself as well they said that's that's you know that's that's that's what the duck flower i ain't did that one yet i'm a little intimidated it's different kinds different types to do yeah yeah yeah who turned you on to it who turned me on to it my wife turned me on to it really yeah yeah which way you know but she on to it? Who turned me on to it? My wife turned me on to it. Really? Yeah, yeah. And she had done it before you? No, but she knew about it.

All right. And she was like, we should do this together. Did it make you anxious? No, it ain't made me anxious at all. It just made me like, it just woke me up to a lot of stuff. It woke me up to not only how powerful we are, but how certain things shouldn't even bother us and how great life can be once you see it a certain way. Did you see God?

Yeah. Everybody that does this tell me they saw God. Yeah, for sure. A thousand percent. What did it look like? It was just light. That's what somebody else told me. The exact same thing.

It was just light, bro. Yeah. And you did it where? Because a lot of people go overseas. You did it in California? I did it in DR. Oh, wow. Wow, wow, wow wow wow did the guy speak to you yeah it's crazy because when it's when when when he spoke i didn't i couldn't hear it and it was like i it was an angel and i asked like why i

can't hear what he's saying it was like because his voice is too powerful like you you couldn't handle hearing that oh you was talking to the shaman? No, I was talking to the other figure, entity that I saw that was there with me. So it was another figure with you while you were talking to him? Yeah, that took me up to God. Like, let's go see him. You know what I'm saying? And you were having conversations like this while you were?

Yeah, because I'm a person who asks a lot of questions. So I'm asking a lot of questions. Like, where we going? Yeah, what's that? You know what I'm saying? People tell me when you do it, you don't feel like high. It's like you're fully aware

of where you are, but you're fully aware you're someplace else. Because it's not high. It's not high. It's like, imagine you going into a body of water.

You know what I'm saying? And your purpose of going here is to come out with some jewels, some knowledge. You know what I'm saying? So you're not getting high. I know. You really can't wait now.

Exactly. For me, like four. Word. But for everybody, everybody it's different though one thing about ayahuasca it's it's it's not gonna let you go until it's ready to let you go like you're gonna get everything you need to get damn yeah you're not in no type of control you did it for multiple days or just that we did two two days yeah two days when you come down is it like a okay you know it's just like done like yeah you know you out of it really yeah you know you out of it can you do it again oh this is a one-time thing this is something you only do once no you do it again you do it again but this is nothing that you this is not something that you do like like i do shrooms all the time this is

not something that you just do like that no no no no no yes it ain't it ain't no you do recreational you yeah you're not even to want to do a recreation. Right. Because it's like that was deep. You know what I'm saying? You're going to face some stuff like that was powerful. You know what I'm saying? But see what the psilocybin, like the shrooms and stuff like that.

What that do. I feel like that's like a heart medicine. It just make you like happy and make you you able to smile at things and stuff like that. Yeah. But like even with my experience on, you know, the psilocybin, I've had like come to moments as things and stuff like that yeah but like even with my experience on you know the side of Simon I've had like come to moments as well even with that so I would like to do ayahuasca I just don't feel like it's the time for me yet because like uh to Charlamagne's point you got you'll know when you have to do it I'm excited to do it now I hear but I I've had like

some of the things that you're talking about. I've had that with shrooms. Like I've been on shrooms and I've been my mother. I've been my grandmother who's passed. I've been my little sister. I've been my dad. And I could see generations and generations before me, like stuff like that. Yeah. And that's only on shrooms.

So I can only imagine how the Aya is. Yeah, no, that's deep. That's deep. Even with Aya, they say you go through generations of people. And you can heal, like, generational traumas through the medicine. Yeah. Yeah. You did therapy, too?

Like, any just regular therapy, sitting down with a psychiatrist or therapist? No, I ain't did that. I ain't did that. So everything has been plant-based for you? Yeah. That's dope, man. That's dope. Now, I'm just, last question.

So when you do go through the ceremony are you sitting down are you laying down are you sitting in you know so for me they made me sit up like sit down and um for the women that was in the room they laid down they gave me the option to lay down though have you have you wanted that to reflect in your music in any way yet it hasn't yet because i it ain't really the create the creativity and music and that hasn't bridged it for me a lot of people tell me when they do it you know the things that they experience you may not want to share you know they tell you to write it down in a journal but you probably wouldn't want to share that with the world just yet maybe yeah yeah yeah i mean i i ain't really it wasn't really nothing that was worth sharing and one

thing i learned like like how you say like people wouldn't want to share certain things because they ashamed of it shame was a big lesson when i was under the medicine you know i'm saying because just growing up i always cared about like what people think and all that one thing that the medicine taught me is like it's nothing to ever be ashamed of because anything about you you didn't ask for it but it's perfect for you so you should never feel shame did you see anybody that passed away did you see your manager did you see PMB at the time um I didn't see them too but I did see some other people who passed away though for sure damn Wow I'm now I was that was good though because he gave some healing tips but

you know me but once again you got to do it when it calls you that's right that's not something you just say oh I need to go out there and heal like no when it calls you to it and you got brought to it by people that you trust and love

so that's a whole different ballgame yeah for sure well the album Coney Island Tease Coney Island is out right now and we appreciate you

for joining us it's been a long time I know you're supposed to come here a couple of times but thank you for joining us brother yeah man I appreciate

y'all for having me congrats on the number one record again. Thank you. The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Let's get it. You're checking out The Breakfast Club.

It's the real deal. Help me. Help me. Oh, my God. I'm all up in your mess. I'm going to fix it. Fix it. Fix my mess.

Fix it. Fix it. Jess going to fix your mess because my advice is real. We're in the middle of Jess Fix My Mess And we have Michelle on the line Michelle good morning Hey what's your question for Jess Okay so I'm really trying to figure out What I should do I'm so confused

I'm married currently But I've been separated since February of this year But I have been Seeing this guy since December Of last year The person that i'm seeing he actually has somebody but i've met her so i'm kind of trying to decide what i should do it's like now my husband's trying to come back but i'm trying to keep him away you sound like will and

jay god damn you sound like will and jay could you shut up i. Okay. I know it's a lot. It's okay. Okay. So you basically, okay. Oh, wow. So you have a husband that you're trying to keep away. Cause you want to date your boyfriend who has somebody else. Yeah. But my,

yeah. Yeah. Right. Girl, write a book. Tell it all. I'm in college. So I'm going to school so I'm going to school.

I'm about to graduate. So being that I was in college, I had to basically stop working because it was so demanding. It's like my husband, he kind of started entertaining other people. Okay. Like he didn't come home. He'll be spending like nights out with just other people. My boyfriend, he's been there since day one financially,

I mean mentally, everything. He's been there. Is he younger than you? No, they're both older than me. Girlfriend, I mean you have a husband. Okay, so did your husband ever tell you, like, alright, this is what I'm going to do?

Or did he just start cheating and you found out about it and instead of leaving, you just got a boyfriend? How did that work? Like, are y'all open with each other to tell each other? Look, like, is you and your husband, is it an open relationship? I was willing to be open, but he wasn't. Okay, so he wanted to be able to do what he wanted to do and you still had to be the devoted wife, committed.

Pretty much. But once I kind of sensed that he was going what he was doing, I kind of started doing what I wanted to do, too. Instead of leaving. And I got caught because of my cash app. Like, he caught me because of cash app. He caught you because of cash app? Yes. He went through my cash app.

Okay. So why don't you just get a divorce? I mean, I'm working on that. I'm working on that. I'm fine with that. Okay. And then you're... So my graduation's coming up, and I want my boyfriend to come

because he's been there. But then it's like my husband feel like he should be there too. Jesus. God damn. Jesus. I'm going to have a birth. It's going to be a... It's going to be a fight in the too. Jesus. God damn. Jesus. God have mercy.

Oh, this is going to be a fight in the park. Okay, so I think, look, invite them both. That's what I think. I think, look, you can't tell a boyfriend stay home. He been your boyfriend. He been paying bills. He been feeding you financially, you know, sexually and all of that. And then here go your husband on the side who also got his, you know, his reservations like, look, I need to be there because I need to see you graduate.

I say invite both of them and tell both of them what they up against. Period. Uh-uh. It's going to be exciting. I have people charging. I can't. Uh-uh. Okay, so what you going to do, boo?

I don't know. I don't know who I should invite. That's why I was there. No, and I can't. Uh-uh. Okay, so what you gonna do, boo? I don't know. I don't know who I should invite to fly with me. I should get out and kill me. No, and I say both. You need to invite both. Talk to your husband. Look, my boyfriend gonna be there. And then talk to your boyfriend.

Look, my husband's gonna be there. He ain't gonna not show up. So it is what it is. Y'all gonna have to just sit, come together and support me together and then y'all can fight it out after I walk across that stage.

But that's it. I know your pH balance all off. I know it is. No, no, no. When's the last time you had sex with your husband? It's actually been like three weeks ago. Okay. Okay, your boyfriend.

But it's not like that. Like, he's staying in a whole other state now. He came down to see the kids. We kind of did what we did. Yeah, so see, but you feel bad or you don't? I do feel bad about it. Yeah, because I know that's your husband, that's the father of your children, but he live in a whole other state.

He going back to doing what he doing, and you just go back. I feel bad for your boyfriend. I don't feel go back that. I feel bad for your boyfriend. I don't feel bad for you. I feel bad for your boyfriend. Love that. I mean, he got somebody. He go home to somebody.

He got somebody too. Everybody got somebody. Everybody got somebody. Get off my phone. Everybody got bacterial vaginosis. Everybody. I know she said the boyfriend had somebody too. Yeah,

everybody got somebody. So why can't polygamy just be a thing? If everybody doing that and everybody know about it, why can't everybody just be one big happy family? You know why? Because polygamy is not the best way to do things. Polygamy is just, I don't care, it's just damaged people from different relationships,

people with baggage from different relationships who trying to make it work, who can't stop cheating. That's what polygamy is in my opinion and sorry but I know the polygamy community gonna be

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But, you know, we have some new content for you because Usher checked in with us to talk about all things Super Bowl and his marriage, his new tour, and we're going to get into that conversation right now on the World's Most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club. Ursa! That wild man over there, what's

going on with you? I know the domestic terrorist ain't calling nobody a wild man. Jess Hilarious is here too, Usher. You know she's the new official third co-host of The Breakfast Club. What's up, Jess? With all the mess, how you doing? I just got this job and you ain't even come in here you ain't been here since 2017 i know man i need to come up there to hear here to be more her and endures

congratulations on everything though my brother an amazing super bowl performance uh new album is out right now yes um and you are a domestic terrorist you did it again you're a menace to society why were you so handsy why were you so handsy with miss alicia keys sir uh no listen it's it's it's not any way in in any shape form or fashion that unfortunately you gave me the handle but um no man it was a celebration man we had an amazing time at the super bowl most watched super bowl of all time yeah of all time with more people watched that than uh the apollo 11 landed man i'm like blown away since 1990 1969 you know there's not been a a greater viewing uh than than what happened on super bowl sunday so i'm really happy about that man and

you've been a superstar for a long, long time. So what does something like the Super Bowl do for you? When you perform in front of that many people on that stage, is there another level? I don't know. It's pretty hard to beat that one. And it's going to be pretty hard to beat that number. So, man, I'm just really happy, blessed.

You know, I worked really hard in Las Vegas to tell a story about my culture, where I come from, and being able to share that with the rest of the world was really a monumental moment in my career and my life. I've said many times, I turned Vegas to Atlanta, where I was able to introduce the entire world to what Atlanta is and turn the world to Atlanta for that moment, for those 15 minutes. So I'm just really happy that everything happened the way that it did. I'm happy that Jay-Z and Des reached out to me to do it. I'm happy that Hamish shot it the way that he did.

Happy that Akamon Jones and Hamish worked together and Baz, the people who put all of it together to look like it was i'm happy to have my choreographers and dancers and you know contortionists and tumblers little john um ludicrous alicia keys her will i am everybody came through and um and was able to be a part of it you know because it's a 30 it's a 30 year plus you know celebration for me absolutely and it was hard as hell to put all of those 30 years into 15 minutes but I did it and I was able to introduce people to you know the culture of the past you think about everything that Vegas has offered over the last two years to me but everything that it represented in the past you noticed the wardrobe and the fact that I kind of took people through what I would consider a past present and future experience just in time for me to launch my tour.

But it was real deliberate, like the wardrobe was selected to make you remember how glamorous we were in those times and how, you know, going into, you know, segregated casinos and being able to not, you know, brighten eyes with normal people in those times. It was like a thing of pride being taken in that time. So that was part of my storytelling. Like, you know, I really wanted to honor all of the people who had had anything to do with us being in Las Vegas from the beginning of what Las Vegas's experience was for our black experience, bringing HBCUs into the conversation. Kappas came out, stepped with me, skate culture, all of those things. It was a past, present, future conversation there. And then you end your night getting married. Yeah. Congratulations. Oh my God. What made you do it that night? What made you get married that night? You know, just to put, you know, an incredible ending on this chapter of Las Vegas. We talked about it.

We, I might propose to her, uh, last year and she'd been wearing that ring and I ain't want to be that guy who just, you know, just continue to hold on forever to the ring. But,

um, you know, we talked about the best time to do it. Obviously, uh, around the time we started getting ready for Superbowl, I was going back to Las Vegas. It was like,

damn, I got to play Las Vegas, do these shows, then go get ready for Super Bowl. And let's do a wedding. I was like, that's just too much pressure. What if we do a drive-thru just for our kids and our immediate family? Yeah. You know, Vegas style. You know, how Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley did it.

You know what I'm saying? So it's like, yo, let's go get officiated by an Elvis impersonator and make it fun. You know, you got all the pressures that come with getting married. You got to, you know, get your gown together. Make sure everybody's accommodated. Get the food. Make sure you're spending hundreds of thousands, millions of dollars on this moment that really is about the union of two people and the love of your family. So I was happy to have her family there

my family there my kids there and we did it we did it without any pressure and finishing the super bowl was the hardest part and then getting dressed to get there but then in time to make it to the after party and we went and you know kicked it with snoop and uh and dr dre and my flippers party but it was it was cool man it was It was wonderful. You know, Usher, regardless of your reputation as Mr. Don't Leave Your Girl Around Me, you're a family man. You like being married. I'm plural.

Damn! See what I'm saying? Terrorist. You see what I'm saying? Minutes. What was the importance... Some people think I guess I'm just plural. What was the importance of paying tribute to michael jackson

and your performance because i don't know if people see what you don't realize is that there's so many gems that you have yet to unlock so you only call one okay you call michael did you catch marvin did you catch the back leg uh pop for james brown did you catch that one i think i called marvin when you were shirtless no that was teddy p see you got it okay okay okay okay that was bobby brown and teddy p uh i gave a little bit of luther vandross in there uh the piano moment was roberta flack and uh donnie hathaway you you missing them you gotta give us some of these easter eggs now so what please what what was the i'm delivering in all things that i do when I bring the culture of what I am

and what has made me who I am everywhere I go, even right now. You don't even realize it's happening right now. Look behind him. Look behind him. Look behind him. I see the picture. I see the picture. So you saw the Michael.

What was the Teddy P Bobby Brown tribute? Well, I mean, coming out of my shirt was obviously a Bobby Brown moment. Teddy P was the tank top and just, you know, coming out of my shirt was obviously a Bobby Brown moment. Teddy P was the was the tank top and just, you know, just Cronin and being able to have that that moment. All of it is who I am. But in what I've done and who I am, I recognize all of the people that have really paved the way. Far too often, man, do we just forget about the people that really made it happen that was a little bit it was it was it was some ron eisley in there it was it was gap band in there it was you didn't catch the gap band and and earth under fire you didn't get that part no man yeah it's all of them was there man and then jackson five was there you heard that one can you feel it yeah i um i we would do that you feel it? Yeah. I, um, we would debate.

You didn't catch the zap one? I gotta go back and watch it. If you go back, it's an entire education that's happening right in front of your eyes. I just think we was all blown away from everything. It was like a party and it was like a, it was, it was amazing. It was so much. It was what we do, baby. That's how we get out when we get out.

We debated about it. A lot of people said I was being a prisoner at the moment, but I'm just talking about our first watch. My initial reaction was, that's the best Super Bowl halftime performance I've ever seen. And so then the next day, I went through them. And even with it, I'm like, I don't see how you can't say this isn't the best.

For me, the top five is you, Michael Jackson, Beyonce, the first, well, I think it was the first Beyonce when she bought Destiny's Child out. Yeah, in 2013. And Dr. Dre and Snoop. I appreciate that, Kane. We got more with Usher coming up, so don't go anywhere. It's the world's most dangerous morning show, The Breakfast Club. Yep, it's the world's most dangerous morning show, The Breakfast Club. Charlamagne Tha God here.

Jess Hilarious is here. And Usher checked in with us, man, to talk all things Super Bowl and his marriage and all of that good stuff. His new album. That's right. Coming home. So let's talk to Usher right now on The Breakfast Club. Why didn't things work out with Justin Bieber? You know what?

They did work out with Justin. I honor and recognize that my brother, I think that it might have been the fact that he was just wanting to tell a different story right now. I understand that, but we did have a brief conversation

and we're going to do something else in the future, but no love lost or anything like that. I think that it's a lot of pressure for the Super Bowl, obviously, for me to put together a show. So I reached out to everybody. Justin wasn't the only person that I actually spoke to about doing the Super Bowl. But the moment was maybe for later.

He's going to play the Super Bowl. I'll go ahead and give you that in the future. I profess that over his life and over his time because he has a career that deserves it. But it just didn't happen, but that doesn't mean it's not going to. Was Chris Brown ever up for consideration? That was another rumor out there. No, I did not reach out to Chris Brown. Okay.

Is there anybody else? There was a rumor that you and Chris had a little kerfuffle. No. Was that ever real? It's all good, man. You know, it's actually, you know, always going to be something that you're going to hear. There ain't no issues between me and that man. We good.

Okay. Is there anyone else you wanted on stage with you, but things didn't work out? I can't give you all of that, Chalamet. I wish I could, but I can't give you that exclusive. If you hear it, by the way, I will confirm it, but I will not. I'm not going to tell you everybody I reached out to. I reached out to some hitters. I was curating what would be one of the greatest Super Bowls of all time. And it actually turned into that because of who I reached out to. I felt like her.

She is an amazing artist, but even more amazing guitarist. And I wanted the world to see her as the rock star or rock and soul star she is. And Alicia, obviously, I reached out to because we had my boo, and I wanted the world to see her as the glamorous star that she was. I dreamt her vision, and I always saw this flowing huge dress that would go over

the entire stadium. I was like, I just got this very... I'm just real specific about handling our icons the way that they need to be handled. And we need to do that more often. We can get into the mess, Jess, and we can absolutely get into the mess, the God. You know what I'm saying?

But, yo, we got to handle our icons the right way. We got to make sure we lift them up on God. You understand what I'm saying? Yes. I had a very important. But the way that Jay reached out, hold on, I want to say this. The way that Jay reached out because he understood, yo, this is a very input the way that jay reached out hold on i'll say it's the way that jay reached out because he understood yo this is a moment for the culture we have to preserve our icons in the same way don't let the mess bring our icons down because we don't get them back

and we don't get a chance like we all human and we all go through things and we all want to experience things but we gotta handle our icons the right way you know the rock stars they handle each other the right way i agree you know they do we don't we don't get caught up in the boy and we shouldn't let's stop that let's let's let's lift our icons up let's make certain that we keep them preserved high at the highest place in the best wardrobe on the biggest stage in the biggest wardrobe, on the biggest stage, in the biggest moment, being seen, because they'll surely forget about us. Yeah. And if you help them,

and if you help them forget about us, they'll do it quicker. You know, you know, so I just want to say, I apologize, but you said, Whoa,

what? I said, I apologize. What you apologizing for? What you done say? For helping out the mess, because he talking to us. He's very intentional. He's very intentional about the stuff that he's saying, and he keeps saying mess and

just, and I understand. So I apologize, Usher. But did you know Jermaine Dupri was going to wear that? Yeah, y'all didn't keep Jermaine Dupri in the highest of prestige. Absolutely we didn't. No, Jermaine knew exactly what he was wearing and you know what? He should because that's his story. And that's what's dope.

The reality is the first time we saw Michael in glittery socks, we laughed. The first time we saw Prince with his cheeks out, we all laughed and we thought that shit was funny until it became his moment. That's his moment. We're just looking at it. That's true. But it's cool. Y'all look at it however you want. I see something that's going to we're just looking at it that's true but it's cool y'all look at it however you

want i see something that's gonna continue to grow okay it's all about how you look at life man it's how you look at it yeah no i'll tell you just know just know this just know that you definitely have the influence to determine how people choose to look at things right so frame in the right direction because our icons matter. And that's why I said Usher Raymond is an icon who should always be treated as such. I'm telling you, me and the Dream had this convo. And I don't know why it just stuck with me that night when the Dream said it. I'm like, yo, the Dream is right.

We have to celebrate the legends that we have now. I really think it's because y'all still here. It's not just that. Sure as technology becomes obsolete you know you could assume that music and the spirituality that's inside of it will too but it won't it'll always be there but why not celebrate the people not just what they made let's celebrate them and let's make them feel love because they gave something they dedicated they made you feel something they made you fall in love. They made you happy.

They made you smile. They gave you energy. They gave you something that you needed in that moment. So why not continue to lift them up? That's why at every show you see me bringing the artists that I know have been influential to my stage. I ain't hiding them. I'm not trying to make them look bad. I'm like, no, let's make them look great.

Let's continue to lift our own people up. Let's lift each other up. Let's continue to lift our own people up. Let's lift each other up. Let's continue to push each other up. Jess, you know I stay on. You're like, do it better. Come on, do it better. Yes, lift me up then, Usher. I got you. I'm going to keep pushing you. I'm going to make you great.

You know what I'm saying? I want you to be great. That's it. That's all I want. I want greatness for our people. I want our people to make certain that we know we are great. Absolutely. You know what I'm saying? You know, Usher, have you seen some of your old moments, like when you was on stage with Nicki Minaj and you was headbutting her ass?

Why was you so unhinged? Yeah, absolutely. Why was you so unhinged in that moment, Usher? Yo, by the way, that was Jamaican culture. See, you got to go to Jamaica. You know what I'm saying? That was just a moment that was fun. And by the way, it was me playing my bass,

so I would have probably bumped my shoulder or my hand. You know what I'm saying? But I had my bass in my hand, so I was playing, so I just kind of bopped off her body a little bit. If you go back and look at the video, you'll understand because I did it there the first time. That was a little bit of Jamaican culture. Oh, no, it was on beat and everything.

It was on beat. I was like, damn. I think I was reaching a bit when I smacked her, though. I shouldn't have smacked her, but I shouldn't have did that. See, you got to lift her up, man. You can't do that. No. I mean, I was lifting.

And I always wondered, too, what was your reaction to the Boondocks episode about you, man? Because that keeps coming up. That's been coming up all week, too. Yeah. Yeah, I hate Regina about that and then they you know they they crazy it was it's funny but i guess there's that's the truth of the other side of what what happens that's the usher effect i guess i don't know most talked about man ever that is who you are yeah but yeah i appreciate that but hey in in no way, anything that was done there should have been viewed as bad or in any way perverted or anything like that. No, it was literally about, you know, having fun because of a song that me and Alicia made many years ago and we celebrate it because of the legacy of it

and no disrespect to anybody or anything like that have you and Swiss and Alicia shared a laugh about it all of me absolutely you laughed about it it's crazy how people pick that they handle it's all about how you present things man but it's all love one of my shout out shout out to the Dean collection y'all get out to Brooklyn and check out the check out the Dean Collection this year we got more with Usher coming up

so don't go anywhere it's the world's most dangerous morning show The Breakfast Club yep it's the world's most dangerous morning show The Breakfast Club Charlamagne Tha God here

Jess Hilarious is here and Usher checked in with us man to talk all things Super Bowl and his marriage and all of that good stuff his new album that's right

coming home so let's talk to Usher right now on The Breakfast Club. Tell us about your Black Love in Atlanta TV show. Oh, it's coming. I think that we as artists, there's a price that we all have to pay in entering this industry. And most of the time, we either sell off our publishing or either we don't retain it because it's not an option to or either we don't value it because it doesn't have value in theory but what the value becomes is something that people have already recognized a story a song storytelling is something that i've always done

so what i did is i've taken the songs of the of the masters that i don't own and i reframed them into now something that is a narrative piece that you'll be able to see. So you already know what the story is and you know what the crescendo of the story is. But here's just another way of you flipping, you know, a hustler. You know what I'm saying? If you want to call it a hustle. But the reality is I own the idea, but I don't necessarily own the IP. So why not go after some other portion of it to use it just to story to

it how does it make sense it makes all sense how does it feel to have coming home speaking and how does it feel to have coming home on your own label that's amazing um you know i'm really uh hoping that it continues to pave the way and show you know artists who have been in this industry for you know 30 plus years that no matter, you know, how long you may be in it, you know, keep going, keep going, keep striving, find great partnerships. Cause it's really a result of having an amazing partnership with LA and also to Larry Jackson that makes it what it is. But, you know, 30 years after signing my first deal and having now come back as an independent artist and having the type of reaction to my music, I don't take that lightly.

I do appreciate the love. I do appreciate the fact that people, you know, they're gravitating towards the music that they're interested in it, uh, that they, that it connects with their lives as it has connected to mine. Uh, and it, and I'm just, it is just the next chapter and installation of my life. Ruin is one of my favorite songs off the album. Oh, my God. You knew I was going to say that because I'm the one that put you on with the song.

Asha, anyway, I love Ruin with Phils. And I was going to ask you, it is one of my favorite songs, but it is the one that I do my makeup to every morning. What was that about? I'm giving you a whole book of yous and douche. I love your ouche. Thank you. Who inspired that song?

Am I Usher or Usher? Which one? Usher. No, he's not Usher. He's just Usher. It's Usher. That's it. I want to know who inspired Ruin.

Life inspired Ruin. Life inspired Ruin. You know, the idea that, you know, we can be in relationships that, you know, can change your perspective. You know, you can open yourself up, you know, especially for men. You know what I'm saying? It's like, you know how hard it is to get my heart to open. And then when it does, you know, this one, it killed me. It pushed me back. It made me look at every woman differently yeah until i met my daughter and then she ruined me in a different way because i'm she

she's like spoiled and all the things that she should be at her three-year-old as a three-nager um she um she ruined me but you know before that the song ideally is about when you're in a relationship with somebody who you know you you try to you try to get it right and then you just can't and it's like you just you don't look at it you don't look at any relationship the same because of that one until you meet um the one who who replaces that love in your heart that's why i shot the video the way that i did yes and that is i bet you see the video is it's a really really nice visual i really love it yeah the completion of that is is the joy the joy that my wife gave me and giving me my first daughter you know i love my

boys don't get me wrong but every man who has a daughter, he understands what I'm saying when I say that daughters change you. I got four. They replace them. They replace a love that you can't explain. That's right. When you talk about relationships, Usher, and you talk, I saw when you talk about being in toxic relationships throughout your life. Can you admit to yourself that you might have been toxic once at some point? Absolutely. OK. Absolutely. You know uh and and it's obviously in the music to say so but i think that we all are a product of what experiences we had as kids and what our idea of love is and what we you know we perceive to actually be healthy love that might not necessarily be uh access is is something that all, you know, people do have, but you know,

is it better to have a ton when you really, you know, should really love yourself first, you know, all of those. I mean, I was taught to be a player, you know what I'm saying?

I, Hey, play it from the Himalayas. You know what I'm saying? I was, I was killing them, you know what I'm saying? But,

um, and he looked, you know, he's a menace, man. This man is a menace, man. Yeah. You know what I'm saying?

And probably turned down more than I could ever choose to say. But I'm saying, like, to be real, toxic is something that I think we all got to individually work through. And I did. I did it, you know, in a matter of about five to six years of my life. Things changed because I changed because at my 40, my 40th year changed my perspective and it made me want something more.

It made me want to love myself more. It made me want to be a better person, hopefully for my children so that they didn't have to be toxic in their lives. But I think that all of it is, you know, kind of, you know, living and learning. That's interesting you say that because I feel like when you made that change and we didn't even know you made that change. That's when it seemed like you started to get your flowers in a real way.

That's when things started to shift, like the residency and everything started around that time so that says a lot you did the work on yourself and it came back to you in life yeah we all can we all should and uh part of it is is wanting to uh that belief and uh unwavering commitment to what you believe in your mind no matter what life is presenting you or what people may say about you, that doesn't matter. What you feel about you matters. What I say I am is what matters. I'm a ruler in my own mind. I'm a king and I am building a kingdom in my own mind. And that is all that matters. No matter what may be said, no matter what anyone could choose to say, what I say matters, what I say goes in my life. And I am the architect of my own destiny. You know what I'm saying? And that's just something you gotta,

you gotta remember. You gotta, you gotta remind yourself of that every day young man, remind yourself of that every day, young lady, that you are as great as you say you are. And if you believe it, it will be. Perfect way to end, man. Usher, make sure y'all go get the Coming Home album. Make sure you go check out Usher when he hits the road this year.

Yes, because I'm definitely going. Jess, I'll see you out there. You coming to B-More, you coming to Atlanta. We playing four in Brooklyn, just so y'all know. So y'all get over there. Well, I got to come to Baltimore. I really got gotta come in there I gotta

You gonna bring me up on the stage I'm just saying DC, Baltimore, Atlanta I mean Houston Austin Miami But I'm from Baltimore

I gotta go I gotta go to the You gonna bring me on stage So I can say Love you Or do Or do I got you

Alright It's Usher Raymond y'all Thank you for checking in my brother thank you you bringing your husband with you I surely am

I am I'll be married by then yes I'm gonna bring him with me he wanna make sure you bring your husband so he can have

something extra special spicy done to you that's what that's what he wants no he gonna lift me up he said he's gonna keep pushing me

literally it's Usher Raymondmond it's the breakfast club wake up wake up you're locked into the breakfast club it's time for donkey of the day donkeys of the day i'm a democrat so being donkey of the day is a little bit of a mixed like so like a donkey keyhole okay the practice club bitches now i've been called a lot in my 23 years but donkey of the day is a new one yes donkey of the day goes to a former where the music at eddie okay now we talking goes to a former target worker from virginia named bazin bear i think that's his name uh who has been sentenced to a whole century in prison,

100 years. I have no idea why judges be playing with people like that. Like, what is the point? Just sentence me to forever, okay? Just sentence me to for all of eternity. Matter of fact, just let me ask the judge a question. Judge, am I ever getting out? And the judge can simply say no, period, okay?

Anything sounds better than 100 years. My brain can't even process that. If a judge gives simply say no, period. Okay, anything sounds better than 100 years. My brain can't even process that. If a judge gives you 100 years, you should automatically be granted permission to run and swan dive over the desk at that judge. Okay, that's when you're supposed to make those kinds of leaps. But once again, as I tell y'all every other day, life is about choices. Okay, destiny is not a matter of chance. It's a matter of choice. And Buzin Burr made a very poor choice.

Now, today's donkey of the day is a teachable moment because so many people have been faced with the challenge that Buzin was faced with. So many people every day who listen to The Breakfast Club have had to deal with what Buzin has had to deal with. OK, but I bet you handled it better than he did. What are you talking about, Uncle Charlo? Well, let's go to ABC7 News. ABC7 News on your side for the report, please. New at four, a judge is sentencing an Alexandria man to 100 years in prison after he killed his co-worker in a Target parking lot in Bailey's Crossroads. Back in 2021, 25-year-old Basin Berry killed Hernan Levia. During the trial, prosecutors argued that Berry planned the murder after his co-worker took his lunch from the office fridge.

Days later, Barry attacked the victim and stabbed him several times after the work shift. Barry pleaded guilty to first degree murder in October. Lunch, bro. You killed someone because they stole your lunch out of the fridge at work because they stole your food out of the refrigerator i understand sometimes life is about principle okay i get it he thought you were soft you had to show him otherwise but now what you killed someone over lunch only to go to prison and end up being someone's snack. And you're a paver because what else do you have to do over the next 100 years? And he's only 25.

Little young tender. Okay, I'm telling you, people are sick out here. All right, folks need psychiatric help. So many people that are walking amongst us need to be under somebody's care. They need to be medicated. I don't know what this man was dealing with. I don't know what he was going through. But whatever it was, this situation puts them over the edge.

OK, you don't just go zero to 60 over a sandwich. All right. This must have been a meal his grandmother or mother cooked and he bought the leftovers with him to work. This had to be some sort of comfort food like this food had to have some sentimental value. OK, he had to be something that this man was looking forward to and you had the audacity to steal it eat it and then just just come back to work like it's all good caused the man to snap okay i can't believe i have to say this but i don't care how disgruntled you are there is not a chicken salad anywhere on this planet that's good enough to take somebody's life

and get a century in prison i don't even know if he was eating chicken salad but wouldn't it be ironic if he did all of this for a tall salad only to end up in prison tossing salads for the next 100 yes listen to me though man it's a lot of things that's interesting to me about this story but one that stands out is he thought about this when you read the report he thought about this it's a premeditated murder he didn't look in the fridge and see his lunch was stolen he went home okay and said uh well he didn't just look in the fridge and see his lunch was stolen and then you know um confront the man right there he went home and said he spent the next few days plotting his revenge think about

that he went home for three days and plotted his revenge and this is why things like meditation is so important uh breathing exercises having someone to talk to you mean to tell me over the course of three days he couldn't let go of the fact that his tuna sandwich got stolen his homemade pizza a peanut butter jelly sandwich got took and he couldn't shake that off this man had severe anger issues that he never got the help for and that is the moral of the story anger resembles fire and like the fire if you keep feeding it it will get stronger and harm you if you stop feeding anger with your attention it will fade away three days this man held this for three days not one of those days did he have lunch one lunch after the

lunch that got stolen will remind him that lunch goes on he was moving like he only had one lunch to live and that's not how lunch works listen we must be willing to let go of the lunch we planned so as to have the lunch that is waiting for us not you Bay's and no no no the lunch that is waiting for you right now is two mixed grain sandwiches one roast beef relish and salad our tomato mayo and salad one egg mayonnaise and salad and one serving of fresh fruit that's what's waiting for you for the next hundred years dinner gonna go crazy though one maybe two blue vein sausages that beef whistle you gotta blow on because it may be too hot

okay christ you don't even want to see that custard launcher for dessert okay please give um bazin bear the biggest hee-haw Crazy where are we living in y'all mr. Breakfast Club good morning the breakfast club Morning everybody is DJ envy Jess hilarious Charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club We got a special guest in the building. The legendary. Jermaine Dupri. Yeah, yeah.

What's happening? What up, JD? What's going on? Now, let's talk about Freaknik, this Freaknik documentary. Yeah. Now, when making this documentary, you had tons of ladies and men scared that they were going to see their pictures, their asses on the screen, but it was well done. It wasn't done in a disrespectful way. It was a...

So, explain to this documentary how it came out yeah well i mean it came about i think luke was trying to do this initially and then they started having conversations about it and luke said you know he can't do it if i wasn't involved and then when they came to talk to me about it i said the same thing to them i'm like well i wouldn't do this if luke wasn't involved and they like well we got luke so do we got you and i'm like yeah so it went from there and then it just kind of just started moving pretty fast and then i just wanted to make sure that the story was told from all perspectives because the people that was concerned about the ass is showing and all of that they don't understand how young i was when freak nick was actually popping so my perspective of freak nick wasn't that perspective i ain't see all that

because i wasn't able to get into the clubs and all of this type of stuff. My perspective was I was part of the street traffic. I was out in the streets. I was dancing outside the cars. I was on Peachtree. That was a part of Freak Nick. I saw other people. Luke got a different story than other people.

It was just really important for me to make sure that we made you see everybody's different perspective. How much did y'all have to water the dock down because of this lame-ass cancel culture era that we're in? None. Because, I mean, I feel like ultimately what people don't understand is this is black culture. Are you embarrassed by our culture? Like, are you embarrassed that you went to the HBCU and this is how y'all act? Word. If that's how you feel, then you should just change the color of your skin.

Because that's life in Atlanta. We got four. You know what I mean? Everywhere else got one. Y'all got Hampton and one. We have four of them. So if you put all of that energy in one place, it's just what black culture is. How did 21 Savage get to be a part of it? I know that this was

y'all era, you and Uncle Luke, but how did it hook up with 21? Well, 21, he been doing his birthday party and the theme of his birthday party is freak naked for the past couple of years so at first i was like no but then you know he live in atlanta he from well i mean you know he's not from atlanta but he's from basically from atlanta so if you're from atlanta you've felt the repercussions of something from freak nick at some point it's crazy because um you know going to hampton of course freaknik created so many different gatherings,

right? Philly Greek, Fourth of July in Virginia, Jones Beach in New York City. It all started from Freaknik. But I just thought it was a party that was created just for people to wild out. That's what I thought it was. When you were in college, that's what you think it was. But the fact that it was created for students that didn't have any money was something. You want to break that down? Because I thought it was created for a whole different reason well i mean that's what i'm saying a lot of people i didn't go to college so i can't you

know i mean i didn't know that either so the that person that's watching this that's probably me that didn't go to college uh that don't know nothing about that lifestyle you don't understand that these kids that come from dc or new york or wherever they come they go all the way to atlanta you think that they they got money to just fly back home on spring break and just well back then we didn't fly back we would drive exactly that's what i'm saying so it's like even that's another thing that that this documentary shows of how unmanual we are as people unmanual yeah unmanual because we are as people because you guys used to drive. Now, when you think you're going to see four girls from New York get in a car and drive to Atlanta just to have fun? No way.

Spirit Airlines. Never. $90. You know what I'm saying? So it just shows you that type of stuff. And then like, you know, so you should see that freak niggas like, oh, these were some kids that couldn't go home. They didn't know what their spring break was going to be like. should see that freak nick is like oh these were some kids that couldn't go home they they they didn't know what their spring break was gonna be like they watching all these white kids go to go

to um they told me they told the beach and all this and they got money but these kids are stuck in atlanta they got no money so they threw a picnic that turned into freak nick that's a that's an american black history story well people weren't afraid to be broke back then. Yeah, well, I mean, you have no choice. You have no choice to be afraid. But no, nowadays, people can front, right? So everybody can pretend

to be something that they're not. You can pretend to have more than you got. Nobody wants to admit they don't got it. I mean, but they still be frontin' too. They just, you know,

they, I mean, well, yeah, you know, I be seeing these girls go to Tulum and I'm sure they sharing rooms. Yeah. I'm sure. But you know, back then it didn't matter. Like, back then, you know and I'm sure they sharing rooms you know Philly Greek or 4th of July in Virginia and it'd be seven of us in the room and nobody thought about anything wasn't we broke and be like oh you got the floor you got

the I you take your quick shout but that's what it was yeah it's all hanging out his brothers it didn't matter that's why I thought it was for me that's why as we got into it that's why i was like this has to come out because people we don't see this in black culture we just keep trying to make it seem like everybody got money and everybody do this and i know it was a time when none of that mattered right and i thought i like when jaylen rose was talking about how he got to freak nick he took his cousin car or something and it was just like as long as I get a car, I'm out. We getting to Freaknik. And it was the same thing with me.

When I was, well, 16, when I had just got my first car, my first car was a Velari. A two-door Velari. Probably listening don't even know what that is. But it was an ugly-ass car that looked like a Pacer mixed with something else, right? And I didn't care what the car looked like. I just was able to drive around atlanta while this was happening and that's all that's ultimately what your the goal was can you get into the freak nick can you get in the traffic if you're sitting at home and you can't get it

that's when you mad but if you have a car that's what all that's all it was about it's crazy how how they're how they easily cancel black events right but you look at daytona beach you look at Daytona Beach, you look at Miami Spring Break, you look at where the white kids go for their spring break and they wild out, they get drunk, they fight and all types of stuff. But those events never get canceled. It seemed like they tried to tame it, but they just totally canceled Freaknik,

which is crazy. I mean, they had to because it was bad. I mean, it got to a point, and I'm not talking about the misconduct with the guys and the girls. I'm talking about just the traffic and how the city was dealing with it. Because ultimately, these guys that was at their school, they started something. They never talked to the people in the city.

So the city had no idea what was actually happening. When it got out of control, they just started trying to control it the best way they could. But they weren't even talking to the dc metro club right so it's like at that point it's like frankenstein you know created a monster and y'all can't control this you got the only thing you can do is shut it down at least for a second and try to see if y'all can figure out how to make it work did it ever come back no i know we tried a couple years ago no i i don't think think, I mean, I think it could come back, you know, if people really, really sit down and figure out how to make it into Essence Fest, because that's basically what it should

have become. It should have become the Essence Fest of Atlanta, right? But the traffic part of it, that was the s***. Most of the people who go to Essence Fest now probably used to go to Freaknik. They do. I'm sure. They did. 100%.

All them black people was at Freaknik. Yeah. You just got to define a name, because when people hear the to Freaknik. They do, I'm sure. They did. 100%. All them black people was at Freaknik. You just got to define a name because when people hear the name Freaknik, they think it's going to be a... Yeah, but I'm saying we can get past that. We got slutty vegan now. Yeah. For real. And we got slut wall.

I just think it's too much cameras now. Yeah. That's another thing. I think that's the other thing. That's the only thing I would say. If you go to Freaknik now, you got to put your phone away because you'll miss the girls dancing on cars like the fact that you was driving down the street and you were looking for everything is how you saw freak nick if somebody down there doing this you're gonna miss everything so that's

another thing you gotta you know and maybe the hype of it and people saying it might make people want to see it but i just think people are so like attached to their phones and they think everything is more important than their phone as opposed to seeing what's happening outside and how come nobody ever focuses on some of the women that went down there because they wanted to have a good time like they wanted to go out there and be loose and wild and liberated because of Freaknik. Yeah, we talk about that. We let the girls talk about that. The show that they was grabbing the dudes, you know, and all that type of stuff.

It went both ways. It was going both ways. All right, we got more with Jermaine Dupri when we come back. 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 Jermaine Dupri. Charlamagne? Do you think Uncle Luke's music helped or hurt Freaknik? It helped. Between Uncle Luke and Social Death Base All Stars, that's the soundtrack of Freaknik. You know what I mean? And it was like, I also think now with Miami shutting down, spring break and all that, it's the music. Nothing's making you dance, right? Nothing's and all that. It's the music.

Nothing's making you dance, right? Nothing's making you jump on top of the cars. You see people doing it, but they're doing it to music that don't really have that vibration, right? At Freaknik, the girls was dancing so hard, and the guys was dancing so hard, you ain't had time to be worrying about nobody besides, like, the energy level was just too high, right? And I just think the loop music, like I said the social death base all started the music was

making you dance in a different space and it made you think about you was like this and it wasn't you don't have time to be like hey no no we you know i mean we ain't come down here for that we came down here to see these girls let's go see these girls it's almost like the mentality of a man when he goes to the strip club. Right? I go to the strip club every week. You go to the strip club, guys don't come in the strip club looking for n****s.

Right. They come in the strip club to see the girls. Right? That was the mentality of Freak Nick. And for some reason, that's kind of lost

in the space that we live in now. N****s want to go see what other n****s wearing. Well, speaking of that, if Freak Nick... Speaking of that, if Freak Nick did come back today, would you wear the Boss Baby outfit you wore at the Super Bowl? Boss Baby outfit? Yes.

What was the inspiration behind that outfit, J.D.? First of all, I had on a tuxedo with shorts. Very similar to what I have on today. I have on a tie, a regular suit shirt, and I got on a tuxedo with shorts. Very similar to what I have on today. I have on a tie, a regular suit shirt, and I got on shorts. The very boys to men. Yeah.

I mean, everything. And it's Vegas, right? You know what I'm saying? It's a Super Bowl. It's the biggest event in the world. I could have went up there with a starter jacket and a starter hat. How regular is that, though? I'm just saying, I think sometimes people't realize like i'm in the entertainment business and i'm getting ready to do the biggest show of usher's

life not and my life i guess you want to say we're going on the biggest stage in the world and i should be wearing a baseball cap and some looking like a regular ass in the streets nah nah i mean that's that was the thought behind it right so it was more or less like a regular ass in the streets? Nah. Nah. I mean, that was the thought behind it, right? So it was more or less like a while ago, like, and we started this thing called the Ocean 7, right? And it was me, Usher, Jontae, B. Cox. We used to go to Vegas and we got dressed. And we'd be dressed up.

So I wanted to actually have a piece of that in what we was doing. You know, we in Vegas. Like, you don't go to Usher's show. I seen you at Usher's show. You was dressed that you know we in vegas like you don't go to usher show i seen you at usher show you was dressed you and you know i mean you don't go to vegas with your fubu on you just don't do that like you did it to get people talking basically no i didn't do it to get people talking i didn't even think nobody was gonna pay no attention to it i had on a tuxedo with a tie and a regular shirt the socks threw people off well that's it they were talking about they weren't they didn't care about the tux.

They were talking about the socks. Once again, the socks, I understand why I keep saying something about the socks because they do look like, I guess, what they say, the Bobby socks. But they don't have nothing to do with that. They don't look nothing

like that once you get up on the socks. Like I said, it's just, I don't know. it's my man's line right first of all that's another thing pharrell's my man he ain't y'all's man right y'all don't know this so in support of my homeboy line i mean i wasn't even thinking about it you know it just happened but i mean listen i put my first group out in 1992 i was was trending in 2024. Yeah. Y'all can say whatever the f*** you want to say. Still got number one records. What did Usher's Super Bowl halftime performance mean to you?

Everything. As the architect, really the architect of Usher, if we being honest. Yeah, everything. It means everything. Because when we made My Way, the discussion that he and I had making that record was that he wanted to get to that space. And once he got to that space he wanted people to realize he did it his way that's how that whole album came about so for me to be in

that seat and watch it go from my way to this i probably was the most proud and then at the same time i mean you know he did six of my songs on my own super bowl it's like you know it's not a bunch of executives crazy they had six of their songs performed on Superbowl. I argue with somebody up here the other day when, when they heard

confessions, right? A younger person. And they were like, yeah, he wrote confess. I was like, you know,

confession was about Jermaine Dupri. That Jermaine Dupri wrote that. That's factual. Yeah. Okay. So,

yeah. So I mean, I wrote, you make me wanna, I wrote my way. I wrote nice and slow. I wrote confessions. I wrote,

you got it bad. I wrote my boo. I wrote all these songs. I mean, you know, people be like breaking it down when they, when they talk about it, they wrote confessions i wrote you got it bad i wrote my boo i wrote all these songs i mean you know people be like breaking it down when they when they talk about it they say confessions but nice and slow all these songs i wrote you know i mean like so it's just the story of confessions i think took over and it was like i i was that guy i was the person that was in that position but it happened right when he broke up with chili so people just assumed that he wrote that he was writing it about chili yeah but that was your story yeah for something yeah and i mean we even when writing it i didn't think about i wouldn't even think about

that you know you just go to the studio you write songs it's not even about i mean sometimes you have a motive behind it but we was trying to just follow up i will i know i was i was trying to follow up you got it back it just came off 8701 and was a big album so it was like what y'all gonna do this time is usher the biggest jewel in your crown mariah carey song of the decade yeah that man the patient was a monster i don't know i mean he's definitely well let me say this rolling stone said that confessions is the r&b the number one r&b record of this 21st century, right? Or 20th century, whatever it is, 21st century. So, I mean, if that's a true statement, then I guess so.

I mean, that's a big record. That's a big statement. Do you think Atlanta as a whole is getting documented properly? No. That's why, another reason why I want to make sure that this documentary gets the stage that it's on. Shout out to Hulu disney uh mass appeal for actually allowing us to finally tell our story at on on this stage because this is the first story from the south that's ever been told and when i say that i said that south by southwest

and people was like what and i'm like what what's what's a what's an atlanta story that you know what's a southern story that you know you're from the south what stories do we have that you know. What's a Southern story that you know? You from the South. What stories do we have that people know about the South? ATL is not a story of the South rising the culture of hip-hop. This is the first time that we get a story about our culture and how Outkast popped. Why you know so-so death. Oh, damn. Why Luke said Bankhead and Scarred. What was the reason for that like you

ain't never wondered like he from miami he talking about bankhead bounce like why he was saying that freak nick you know i'm saying that and this is the first time that like i said the south gets set that look hollywood never felt like our stories was important if freak nick never happened would atlanta music blow up as fast as it did no because what's that little thing with the, you know, when you put the little roach trap down and the roaches get in there and they go back to their house. Rain?

Yeah, but I'm not saying it's a rain, but it's a little trap that they show on TV. They bring the food back to their house. And they take the food back to their house. That's what Freaknik was for the South. People from Virginia, people from New York,

people from Baltimore, people from D.C., people from everywhere came to Atlanta. The DJs in Atlanta was playing bass music. So, so, they York, people from Baltimore, people from D.C., people from everywhere came to Atlanta. The DJs in Atlanta was playing bass music. Social Death, Bass All Stars, Luke Skywalker, blah, blah, blah, blah. Kids went back to their hoods saying, yo, we was in Atlanta. This is the new shit they playing in Atlanta.

What is this shit that we was doing in Freaknickle? Somebody saw the video. That's why the music spread that way, right? That's why it spread in so many places, because these people took it back home as if they had discovered some new thing that wasn't happening in a house in neighborhoods and at that point if 500 people go back to Virginia with their same mentality and they spread then Virginia starts sounding like Atlanta right or Whatever that's you know, so no it wouldn't i think freak nick was definitely our mixtape you know i mean freak nick was our mixtape that made people say oh it's going on down there it's

some you know i mean so that's definitely yeah we i don't know what would have happened if we you know it would have been a slower pace all right we got more with jd when we come back it's the breakfast club good morning the breakfast club yep we're back we are the breakfast club envy jess hilarious and charlamagne the guy we're still kicking it with jermaine dupree he's here i got a question how bad was it when the labels it seemed like you know watching the doc i seen uh craig mack performing i seen biggie performing how bad was it when the label started touching freak nick did it commercialize it and make it worse or not at all no it was all good the concerts actually was was helping because all these black people in the park smoking weed drinking doing whatever they want to

do because if nobody was governing this right it was just you know y'all want to go do go ahead that's how the city was open to it and now you're about to turn around and do the magic city docuseries right yeah magic city and american fantasy yeah what's that about i mean we know what it's about yeah uh but it's also the same thing it's a story about magic city that i don't think people know like the story of magic city is so much more deeper than just a strip club right and and how magic figured out a way to make this one club a worldwide situation you know me and then people always keep saying like why is drake involved because drake is from a different country and he wants to come to a little bitty strip club in atlanta that's crazy i don't even know how you're supposed to think about that because i'm

not from a different country but i'm saying to be in a different country we we in the united states i don't want to go to i heard nothing about about nothing in Canada that make me want to fly there on a Monday and be a part of it, right? This place is that crazy that has made people in Toronto want to come to Atlanta on Monday. I think you have to hear about this. So it's just, like I said, it's just highlighting things that have happened in the South that we haven't had an opportunity. So what helped elevate the Atlanta music scene more, Freaknik or Magic City? Freaknik. Really?

Yeah. Okay. Because you always hear about records breaking in Magic City. And that was after the fact. By the way, that's me saying that. That was something that I talked about. Once again, like I said, you got to remember, I wasn't in the clubs in 80, 82, 83, 84. I couldn't get in no clubs.

So I wasn't even making music in 84 but and so even in 92 when crisscross came out i still i was only 19 i still couldn't even get into magic city so that period where i felt like the strip club became the mixtape was a later 90s activity before that freak nick was running the show i saw you with uh i think it was with gail king and carrie champion and all them. You were talking about how if a woman couldn't understand you being in the script club, she wasn't the woman for you. Yeah, 100%. So that was a deal breaker off the top.

100%. Really? Yeah, because I'm saying like, I'm going to use you, Jess, as an example. If me and Jess was talking and she came to Atlanta and I said, we're going to Magic City tonight. And she was like, well, you know, I don't really f*** no strip clubs. At that point, you have broke our synergy. You flew to Atlanta to stay at my house while I go party with my homeboys. Now, when I go.

You got a really nice house, J.D., I'm sure. But I'm saying, when I go to the strip club, as a woman, her mind's going to start doing this. I asked you to come with me so that your mind wouldn't do that. But you want to stay at home and wait until I get back. Good point. And then come back possibly smelling like the strip club. All these questions. And then we're going to have a beef.

You f***ed it up from the jump. Or I f***ed by allowing you to just stay at home. I should have just made you come. So I'm just saying, ultimately, if this is part of your life this is part of my life so you got to know that that's happening that's gonna happen yeah it's interesting because when i was dating janet i tried to not take her i was gonna have you you had janet jackson and madison 100 but i i fought it for the longest i wasn't in the space mindset that i'm in right now because i didn't i wasn't paying attention to it like the way i'm telling you yeah i was thinking like oh if i take

her in and one of them girls gonna tap me on my shoulder that i done been with and she gonna know and i was thinking about all the bullshit yeah nah you if this what you do what you did in your past is your past i'm with you now let me see what's happening why you want to go there every monday that's what her question was did she understand after she went why you wanted to be there every Monday yeah of course

now when does JD get to tell his story and go through it so people can understand what you did what you produced the artists you've broken and talent that you created

I mean I think the Freaknik doc helps that helps me get into that space because for the longest the South has been ignored it's just what it is and I for the longest, the South has been ignored. It's just what it is.

And I'm part of that cloth that's been ignored. You got to think, at 19, I put out my first group that everybody knows. I wrote and produced every line and every beat in the music. And they first single, a top 100 single, right? How about Criss Cross? Criss Cross. If that was sports like football or basketball they'd call me a freak of nature right but the fact that it was the south they treated us like we weren't even hip-hop like that's some gimmick so then it made people ignore

the fact that i'm the person who ushered in young people rapping if it wasn't for them as a young person you wouldn't even know that it was possible that you could have a record deal who else has come out since bow wow that you know bow i was the only other person that did it and i put them out so i'm just saying it's the stories have been ignored so somebody you know at least we get one story and we got two stories hopefully that you know from that it'll it'll it'll get into that space so you can actually see it and then people won't have this misconception about what they have about me and you know when people talk about you too jd they got to talk about the fact that mace thanks you

for being the first person to pay him his worth you introduced biggie you know to atlanta in a lot of ways and so who so who knows how that inspired him and jay-z with with money ain't a thing yeah was it was an introduction to the South in a lot of ways. So you got to get credit for that, too. Yeah. I mean, but that's what I'm saying. It's like, like I said, it's been ignored. That's all you can do.

Like I said, if I was in New York, I'd be the king. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 100%. I mean, even like today, you don't know a person. Y'all don't have a person that can come up here this year that had his first number one record in 1992 and got a record that's number one today. You won't see nobody else come up here to this station this year. Damn.

No, that's actually true. You won't. No. Not this year. I mean, I probably won't have it next year either. But I'm saying, no. My first number one record was in 1992. I have the number one R&B record in the country today.

You relaunched at Social Def? Yeah. As far as label? What artists do you have? Are you looking for artists? I know you gotta go. But are you looking for artists and are you putting the sign back up in Atlanta that says... Yeah, I'm putting the sign back up. I don't know if I'm supposed to say this. But anyway, I'm going to say it anyway. You know, BMF comes

to Atlanta. Are they in Atlanta right now? You'll see in the BMF series that the sign goes back up. And at that point, when that happened, I was like, okay, you know, as many as watch this, I'm going to have to put this sign back up. You know what I mean? So, no, we're going to put it back up. On an artist's tip, I'm looking for new artists. It's just my, you know, that's what I wanted.

I wanted a space for me to continue to keep putting out new artists. I love putting out new artists. I'm not scared to put out new artists, and I don't think nobody else could do it better than me. When you paid Mase what he was worth, did you do that just to upstate Diddy? No. You know, when I pay people, I don't know that I'm paying them more than, you know, I don't have that conversation.

I just go after what I want. So if I wanted, you know, when I signed Harlem World, I wanted to make the deal because Mase kept telling everybody in every interview that he did that he came to Atlanta to meet with me. Right? So I actually felt like I f***ed up. Right? So I felt like when I missed Mase and he out here killing it. So I'm like, you know what? Let's make this deal.

And he told me what he wanted to do. And I didn't think about it twice. I just was like, let's do the deal. I didn't know I was giving him more money than he was. I never knew that. Well, there you have it. Ladies and gentlemen, it's Jermaine Dupri. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Freaknik this Thursday. Appreciate you, brother. Congratulations, Money Long. Let me say this because she might be watching. Congratulations, Money Long. Number one record. It's an R&B song. No rap. Number one urban record in the country. There you go. this because she might be watching congratulations money long number one record it's a r b song no rap number one urban record in the country there you go it's jermaine dupree yeah it's the

breakfast club good morning you're checking out the breakfast club good morning everybody it's dj envy jess hilarious charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club we got a special guest in the building we got the brother russell fletcher. Welcome, brother. It's a pleasure. Happy to be here this morning. Founder of Mishka Premium Vodka. Yes. And I just found a master distiller. Yeah. I am the master distiller.

Master distiller of Mishka Premium Vodka. The company's name is This Life Forever. Something that I've held on to for a very long time. It's been kind of my thing as far as just the way of life and also just being able to make sure that I can just promote good values, community-based. We are alcohol-driven,

but we make award-winning spirits and we try to figure out the best ways to be able to give back to the community and work in the community. Well, congrats on, they say you're the most awarded black-owned spirits brand in the country. That is a fact. Break that down. What's those awards look like? Well, congrats on, they say you're the most awarded black-owned spirits brand in the country?

That is a fact. Break that down. What's those awards look like? So, the oldest wine and spirits competition in the world is the San Francisco World Spirits Competition. Okay. We're the only black-owned spirit with a double goal. Double goal this one, gold this one, multiple silvers with these. So, you know, and we just continue to get better.

So, you know, you take a brand like something that's more famous, you know, like an Uncle Nearest. Uncle Nearest, they've won multiple awards. They are one of the top, you know, awarded whiskeys. But at the same time, we've been getting awards since 2016 when i first actually dropped mishka honey what is it about the honey flavor i keep hearing about that honey flavor that's the one in the middle yes let me see it yeah honey flavor what about this one that makes it stand out um there's no honey flavored um vodka on the market that has stood the test of time

but that right there is the product that I created first. I didn't want to just go all the way on the Tito's model, so I went with something that was exclusive to me first. And that's been the hit. That's our flagship. And then we bought out... Then I went to the Unflavor, which is also gluten-free and kosher.

And then I went to Cranberry, and now in the spring and the summer, we'll be releasing Mango and Passionfruit. And you hooked up with the NBA too, right? And the 76ers? Yes, 76ers. I've done multiple spots with the 76ers. It looks like Via Aramark will be programming in Wells Fargo Center, coming for the next

season that'll be coming, which will be pretty cool. Again, relationships, doing good in the community. We do a bunch of, just a bunch of stuff. You know, I sit on every single board, diversity board. I just try to just do the best thing that I can possibly do from the community standpoint. Now, is it profitable? Oh, yeah.

Like I said, you know, it just like uh owning your masters and being an independent you know um so instead of my margins getting chopped out i own distribution and as a company we own distribution not only in pennsylvania but we also own distribution in uh in new jersey question so why was it so difficult for diddy then when he had his own tequila and it seems like he couldn't get distribution he couldn't do it himself he was we seen videos of him going liquor store to liquor store and it seemed like stores really didn't want the product right because there was no distribution connected to it why is it so difficult for people to get their foot in the door especially with him because you figure like with him it wouldn't be a problem

because he's diddy and this was before the as you said car crash right um so we're legitimately less than one percent of the market right just being minorities right we're legitimately one less than one percent of the market so uh again it's the difference between what baggage you're carrying right versus okay here's a story of quality right here's what our lineage is here's who our star face is and that's got to be the way people get connected um i'm not saying you know that obviously you know that people didn't want to be connected to diddy but there's the the diddy angle and then there's the product angle it's you and you got to be able to have that separate um i always believe that if you're going to take the product angle it's you and you got to be able to have that separate um i

always believe that if you're going to take the product just because of the fact that i've got a celebrity how many times are you going to buy that after the fact you know proposed quality it's always about the the you know the value proposition got you and and you're uh you're you're connected with like music fest too music fest so we we are now, so Music Fest is, we need you to come out there since you're coming to Allentown. So we connected with Music Fest roughly about two, three years ago, became a small sponsor, blew it out of the water. The next year, we removed another Vodka sponsor that was there, got them out of there. Then it was us and Jack Danes for the main stage. And then this year we'll be with a partner. I don't think that we can say exclusive legally, but we are the partner that's programming all of the vodka for North and Southside.

Music Fest does 1.3 million people a year, which is an excellent opportunity, obviously, to get Liquid to Lips. That's been our motto. We want to be able to get liquid to lips in order to be able for people we feel like we can win hands down all the way around by doing that. We appreciate it. Hold on, you got a partnership with Lehigh Valley Children's Hospital. Yes. How the hell does that work? So... But they're not giving the kids a chance. Okay.

But we are basically trading the sales for cocktails and it's going back into our local children's hospital. So that's a blessing. Well, man, how do we support Mishka? I mean, look, we've got multiple ways. Our website is MishkaPremiumVodka.com.

We're still, again, like I said, we kind of gave a public offering just to be able to get folks like us involved, but also at the same time, at Drink Mishka is our handles across social media so all those things are good ways to be able to kind of plug in and play for us all right well we appreciate you for joining us russell fletcher yes sir founder of mishka premium vodka thank you brother thank you i appreciate you guys it's the breakfast club good morning everybody it's dj envy just hilarious charlamagne the guy

we are the breakfast club it's time for a positive note what we got it is really simple man uh Breakfast Club, good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Just Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. It's time for Positive Note. What we got? It is really simple, man. For everybody out there that's always on social media, trying to curate the perfect image, putting a filter on everything, I just want to tell y'all,

y'all be so worried about image, you need to clean up your spirit. Okay? Some of y'all need to clean up your spirit. Go do some damn work on yourself. I'm not out here pushing for therapy just because. Y'all need to clean up your spirit go do some damn work on yourself i'm not out here you know pushing for therapy just because y'all need to go out here and find a therapist y'all need to find a spiritual leader y'all need to just really clean up your spirit because your

spirit is disgusting and nasty have a blessed day breakfast club bitches y'all finished or y'all done