The Breakfast Club - The breakfast Club Best Of Episode(Bruce Bruce Interview, Crystal Renay & Tameka Raymond Interview, Rome & Jess Hilarious Interview, Why Small Talk Sucks - Topic)

Episode Date: July 3, 2024

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Because in order to make history, you have to make some noise. Listen to Historical Records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is a morning show for God's sake. DJ Envy. Better known as the People's Choice. This salutes all my light-skinned brothers out there. Jess Hilarious. Jess for the worldwide last. Jess don't do no lying. And Charlamagne Tha God.

Don't get it, don't. Everybody come to the Breakfast Club. I call this the hot seat. Y'all are live. Y'all are live. Breakfast Club. It's like being on America's front porch. Don't feel like my wrist touches.

I never thought it would be like that. Every time I go to the Breakfast Club, I know it's going to be like a feel like my wrist is like this. I never thought it would be like this. Every time I go to the Brev's Club, I know it's going to be like a good one. I'm getting high. Tonight, baby. This is your time to get it off your chest. Whether you're mad or blessed.

I hate the way that you walk, the way that you talk. I hate the way that you dress. Everything with me is blessed. Call up now. 800-585-1051. Not just me. I'm what the coach of Philly.

Hello, who's this? This is Henry from L.I. to CT, man. I just want to say I love y'all. Bless. Good morning. Jess, it's your beautiful last name. Wait for that baby to drop. Your name, I'm Henry.

Or her. Henry. I just wanted to give a Birthday shout out to my brother Jeremiah and my man PK They're universal twins They share the same birthday But I love y'all boys man And yo Charlamagne

I need a hat yo I don't know if we got any but I can send you a copy Of my new book Get Honest or Die Align Hey Les sign it please I got you Email him a book today Hello who's this Get honest or die lying If you can Hey Les Sign it please I got you Eddie Hold on I'm putting them all Email them a book today Hello who's this

It's Jhené Hey Jhené Good morning Get it off your chest Jhené I really feel like This Kendrick and Drake Beat was about to be The most historic moment

In hip hop That we've witnessed And the fans Social media Really ruined this beat Real fast Talk to me Talk to me more Let me hear Expound on that It really made these artists And the fans, social media, really ruined this beef real fast. Talk to me.

Talk to me more. Let me hear. Expound on that. It really made these artists get out of pocket and start acting like they normally don't. And Kendrick getting real emotional, kind of spirally. Drake really not moving like he should. Like, it just really, it really made the beef really nasty. Because the court of public opinion cannot look at these things objectively well i'm gonna tell you something i don't give a damn about the court of public opinion i enjoyed it i think it was the greatest rap feud of all time uh i think

that drake and kendrick both delivered with the music i don't see the problem i agree i love i love the fact that they gave us the music i love the fact that they came back so fast i love the fact that it just gave people something to talk about. Now, I mean, you could decide who you thought was the winner. Some people thought it was Kendrick. Some people thought it was Drake. But I think hip-hop really won. I mean, the amount of music we got, I just hope those brothers didn't take it too far where they want to hurt each other.

No, they did. You call me a pedophile. You say I'm a woman beater. You say my wife is pregnant, had a baby by my man. Yeah, you took it too far. You ain't going to never see them on stage in the future holding each other's hands up.

I remember how Nas and Jay came out and they did the whole I declare peace thing. That's not happening. No? No. Hell no. I never thought Jay

and Thing would do it though, either. Nah. I never thought Jay and Nas was totally different. I never thought I would see Jeezy and Gucci on the stage together.

I never thought I would see Jeezy and Gucci. I mean, yeah. You're right. With the Jeezy and Gucci on the stage together. I never thought I would see Jeezy and Gucci. I mean, yeah. You right. With the Jeezy and Gucci thing, you right. But are they cool? No, I wouldn't say that they're cool, but I think they can... Get some money and do the verses, but they not cool.

They could be on the same tour. They was still throwing crazy shots. But at one time, they could even be on the same stage with each other. By the way, that was 20 plus years later, too. So, at least, I think it was at least 20. So we got about 19 more years then? You got about 19 more years before you see something like that.

But I thoroughly enjoyed this battle. But stands are going to be stands too. I think the problem with hip hop is that it's not like sports. So you can't, you can't say who won. Everybody just wants to go with their, who their preference is.

Whether it's Drake or Kendrick, when it's a sport, it's a score. Yeah. You know? Hello, who's this? This is Keith. Keith, what's up? Get it's Drake or Kendrick. When it's a sport, it's a score. Yeah. You know? Hello, who's this? This is Keith. Keith, what's up?

Get it off your chest, Keith. Hey, man, I just wanted to give y'all my Mount Rushmore, get the views that you had on Breakfast Club. Okay, your Mount Rushmore of Breakfast Club interviews. All right, go. Anthony K. Williams. Okay. Amanda Steele.

Okay. D.L. Hughley. D.L. Hughley D.L. Hughley okay and my favorite Damon Dash those are your favorites out of 14 years them your favorite now listen the Damon Dash one might can go up there

I like those other ones but Mount Rushmore for interviews I respectfully disagree I love those interviews but Mount Rushmore nah not mount rushmore breakfast club interviews yeah i don't think so either that that oh that's mine you know i know y'all that's your opinion you're right that's your opinion well thank you keith hello who's this good morning how everybody's doing today how are you hey hey hey j. How are you, Ms. Beautiful? Ms. Beautiful.

Thank you. Hi. I wanted to get this off my chest. I have a small book club, and I read Charlemagne's book in one day. It is phenomenal. The new one? Oh, thank you. I mean, Charlemagne, we have thought about your book one and your book two,

but book three We're reading it in the month of July At my book club It is phenomenal you have evolved And I am so proud of you Thank you very much What's the name of your book club It's called Sisters and Family

Thank you Sisters and Family I appreciate y'all for reading my new book Get Honest and Die Lying Why Small Talk Sucks I really appreciate that thank you Thank you, sisters and family. I appreciate y'all for reading my new book, Get Honest, A Deadline, Why Small Talk Sucks. I really appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Chapter six should be a curriculum for all eighth graders going forward. I mean, we were discussing just chapter six. That should be a curriculum. DEI. Yes. DEI. Not that one, though. Not the DEI that people are thinking about.-E-I that people are thinking about.

Not the D-E-I that people are thinking about. Not diversity, equity, and inclusion. I'm talking about delusion, entitlement, and idiocracy. That chapter. Chapter six. Thank you very much. Now, everybody, I'm telling everybody, go hug a tree. I love your book.

I love that you have it, mom. Thank you for your book. Thank you very much. I really appreciate that. Make sure you go out there and get a copy of Get Honest or Die Lying Why Small Talk Sucks if you haven't already. Available everywhere you buy books now. All right.

Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, let's discuss. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Ray, Ray, Ray. Yo, Charlamagne. Yen jazzy what up are we live this is your time to get it off your chest i got an indoor pool an outdoor pool we want to hear from you on the breakfast club we can get on the phone right now he'll tell you what it is hello who's this hey this is trey out here in south carolina

what's going on man what's up trey what Trey? Trey, what up? What part of SCU calling from? Myrtle Beach. Hey, okay. Get it off your chest, Trey. Hey, man. So this traffic out here is crazy. No cursing. You can't effing curse, man.

Man, I'm sorry, man. Sorry, man. I want to know what y'all think about the traffic out here, man. South Carolina. We're not there. We're not in Myrtle Beach. Well, I know. Come again? We're not in Myrtle Beach. How do we know what the traffic out here, man. South Carolina. We're not there. We're not in Myrtle Beach. Well, I know. Come again?

We're not in Myrtle Beach. How do we know what the traffic is like? Well, what do y'all think about inflation? That's another thing. Holy crap. I tell you.

Can't stand it, by the way. Thank you, Trey. Can't stand it. Can't stand it. I got a baby. I got a baby, and I'll tell you what. I'm paying $45 for 25 diapers.

It is insane. It is. I'll be looking at menus and places and I'll be like, damn, I was in the hotel yesterday and I was like, $42? A hotel would be expensive. For a piece of salmon? A hotel would be expensive. And then it'd be like a $9 delivery fee.

And a taxi, it'd be a ton of money. I'd have to cut that $130. Yeah, no. Hello, who's this? Tia. Hey, Tia, good morning. Get it off your chest. Okay, so Char um, Charlamagne

You act like you don't like light skin, baby He don't I act like I what? Just for a song, come on And your little tail side the wagon That Kendrick Lamar song, come on It's a great record And you be going in on light skin, people

He don't like us And? He don't And I'm chocolate, so, I mean, yeah, I don't like that. So why you up here taking for beige people? He don't like us.

He got to love everybody. I do love everybody, but ain't nothing wrong with us keeping our foot on their beige necks. See, you a hater. Oh, my God. They bruise easily.

You can't do that. They bruise easily. Like bananas. You're right. You're right. T, you're not helping T. You're not helping the situation. But we're all stars. We're all stars. We love y'all, though. Let them breathe. Tia, you're not helping Tia. You're not helping the situation. The yellow bananas do do the work.

We know everybody. Have a good day. Tia, you didn't help the situation. Hello, who's this? Hey, what's up, Envy? What's up? What's your name, brother? Gerard from North Carolina, man.

Gerard, what up, man? Get it off your chest. Hey, why you always hit on the Cowboys, Envy? Because I'm a Giants fan. Show them, man. What's up, King? Peace, King. How you doing, brother? Yes, how you doing, beautiful the Cowboys, Envy? Because I'm a Giants fan. What's up, King? Peace, King. How you doing, brother? Yes, how you doing, beautiful?

I'm good, baby. Good morning. Hey, Envy, I still love you, though, man, even though you're a Cowboy hater. Hey, but... Super Bowl this year, remember that, all right? You say that every year. You already know. And since you're from North Carolina, how come you're not a Panthers fan, man? Nah, man. Nah, nah, nah.

How old are you, my brother? 37. Okay, I was born in 1978, so I'm 45. People don't understand, growing up in the Carolinas, South Carolina and North Carolina, we didn't have no football teams. And so most people that we knew were either, my daddy was a Dallas Cowboy fan, there's a lot of 49ers fans and Steelers fans as well in the Carolinas. So the Panthers didn't come around until later.

The Panthers came around in, I think, in 93, established in 93, 30 years ago. I'm already married to Cowboys by then. There you go, man. My daddy told me when they were playing the Steelers in the Super Bowl, man, you got to pull for the Cowboys and nobody else. That's right.

Y'all been abused your whole life, man. I think I'm in the finals, man. Have a good one. First of all Y'all been abused your whole life, man. I think I'm going to find us, man. Have a good one. First of all, we were not abused our whole lives. And the reason we weren't abused our whole lives

is because in the 90s we dominated, sir. Yes, but y'all don't remember the 90s. 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. Good morning, everybody. This is DJ TV. Jess Hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Club good morning the breakfast club hilarious all I mean the guy we are the breakfast club we got some special guests in the building from bold and bougie crystal Renee and Tamika Foster welcome ladies morning what a title yeah like, did all of y'all know each other before? Y'all started because it's Crystal, it's Tamika, it's Malaysia. It's Malay, Malay, and Princess.

Loft and Loft. I always mess it up. Baby Lofters. Sorry, Princess. My bad, boo. You know I love you. Sorry. Did y'all know each other?

Like, we all friends? I knew of Malaysia. We've been to some birthday parties together, but it was my first time meeting all the ladies yeah well princess and i were cool she tried to get me on housewives a few seasons and i don't know i thought it was going to be messy but i guess it's still messy where we are some type of way jumped out of the grease into the fire pan so what is bold and bougie about if we haven't seen it i mean i think all reality shows have the same premise. They follow the lives of each of the cast.

So they just follow us around each of our different lives. Like she owns a restaurant. I have a clothing business and I have books and this and that. And they follow us and then they have us come together and argue about shit we don't know that we're arguing about. The reality time. Why did you say? Why were you late to my event? Because I'd be like, because my name ain't on the

cake it's not my birthday like it's that kind of thing so why'd y'all decide to do it because if y'all knew it was gonna be beefing and you know what they're gonna put on tv they ain't gonna put the nice stuff they ain't gonna put your restaurant pack they ain't gonna put you they did they did a good job of showcasing our business and stuff like that but for myself i did it because like i'm getting back out here i'm you know single mom and so i'm getting to my bag period and that's it that's all that my only focus period so why didn't you you know how some wives they choose to keep the last name of the husband why didn't you keep the last name well he's not known as neil smith and those are my kids that's my kids last name so it was an easy decision yeah well i mean people

didn't know his name though he's not known and. Yeah, well, I mean, people did know his name, though. He's not known. That's not what they call him, but people do know his last name. Why you didn't keep Raymond? I still use Raymond. It's easier to use Raymond. But on social media, I dropped it because they would be on my page like, he got rid of you. He signed them papers.

You got to know him. But my kids have the same name. My passport. It's just so much to change that stuff. Yeah. Your credit cards, your bank accounts, your passport, your social security. Who got that kind of time? I don't got time to be in line and be like, social media want me to change my name.

Yeah. Only black community really trip off of that. Yeah. Think about it. We'd be mad. That's because they're fans of the artist. So they think that we took their husbands and it's just amazing. Well, congratulations on your restaurant

business, girl. Thank you for all. And the first episode of Bold and Bougie. You doing music? Girl, no. You rapping? No, that's something

I do for fun. You know, you've heard some of my stuff. I've heard some of yours. They played with that scene. They played hard with that. It was nasty work. So you're not taking it serious?

No, it's just something I do for fun to let off steam. Okay. you but you got a name and everything vvs what's up well eric better gave me that name so i mean why not ride with it vbs vbs you got your guys together jesus i thought she was about to really really drop something no no she made a single i got like a hella song. Yeah. Over 40 songs. Yeah. So that's something that you're never going to do? I don't think so.

I mean, I'm 37. I mean, you know. So? I don't want to be like a... Geriatric rapper. Yeah. I was freestyling on there too. I have so many things that are on my plate right now that music is just like, you know,

it's a slow build to making money. And I need the bag to come quicker than that. Does reality TV help or hurt, like, the overall brand of everything? So the reason why I even agreed to do it is because I have a clothing line, Eli Kish, and then, of course, my books. And so I was hoping, yeah, here I stand in white bras, and I have an animated book coming out soon. And so I was really hoping that it would really spotlight my businesses. And I think it did a little bit. It did a little bit.

I just think that they didn't get the, like, they want the drama of it. So, like, I had a fashion show, for example, and we had too much power running. So the generator, I mean, the lights went down for a second. They highlighted that five seconds of the lights going down like it was a, what happened? Did they not pay their bill? I'm like, come on. It was at an art gallery in Buckhead. It was fine.

And it was nice. But they made it seem like instead of showing the clothes and how beautiful the models were and all that, they didn't focus on any of that. It was a really nice show. It was a great show. And the clothes were banging, of course. So it hurt. It didn't hurt. It just didn't help.

It was like, damn, we put all that money into the fashion show and you know selecting the models and the makeup and the hair and you guys want to show the five seconds that the lights went out that yeah that's what you wanted to focus on could y'all ever like have meetings or is it like complaints or somewhere that y'all know like what about my text the group chat girl let me tell you this one with the group chat we get a we get a message every day and they are above 10. And it's 10 pages long. I don't read none of that. You don't read it? I love you. I love you.

I do not respond to the group chat. Take me out of it, please. I go off. I be giving whole dissertations about life. It's Tamika, the seven-minute voice note person? No, she don't do the voice notes. She will write you. You see, she likes to write.

I'm a writer. She will write chapters. But I think that it's all in. I'm a writer. She will write chapters. But I think that it's all in. I'm a moralized. I'm thinking. I'd be like check this out. We are bigger than this.

We're above this. I was like my brand is not that. You know what I mean? But I mean. I mean when you answer into something like that. You know what you're signing up for. So I think it's up to the individual. On how you conduct yourself. And how you handle yourself.

Like for me. I feel like it was a benefit to me. Because you know. I don't really speak out. I don't really do all for me, I feel like it was a benefit to me because, you know, I don't really speak out. I don't really do all that kind of stuff. So it was able to showcase like who I am as a person and my morals and my standards and how I am. So it worked out for me actually very well. Would y'all date celebrities again since your life is so out there?

Like they pick and part everything that you guys do. I think I want a man that sit behind a desk. I think I'm over it. Yeah. Just over it. The whole lifestyle. I'll take the forefront you sit in the back.

Would you date a bus driver? Oh. No. What? Why not? I don't know. I'd be just a decent person. I have three kids.

I'm a single mother and my bills, the salary does not cover my bills and I just, it's not for me. Then again, when you say, why his salary got to cover your bills? You should be able to cover your bills. I already I it's not for me then again say why his salary

gotta cover your bills you should be able to cover your bills I already know what the I want to ask you about your book uh here I stand interesting title because someone could say it's just a cliche term or one could say Usher also named his album here I stand that's right so why did you decide to name it here i think well here i stand you remember that was a time where people were really in love and you know uh having their first child and all kinds of stuff and um the album was dedicated to me if you read the credits and all that and i was very kind of instrumental in the album which kind of flopped so i guess that's that go there my my musical taste

i want to come back to that but anyway so no so here i stand because i i you know i've been through a lot and so it's about remaining in a beautiful state despite it all like life happens life is going to come at you things are going to have you're going to lose people you're going to lose love you're going to have heartbreak But you have to remain in a beautiful state. So things will happen. You have to come back to being positive and just in a good space. We got more with Crystal Smith and Tamika Raymond when we come back. They're on The Bold and the Bougie, a show on WE tv.

We'll talk to them more when we come back. It's 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 Crystal Smith and Tamika Raymond.

They're on the cast of Bold and Bougie. Now, I got a question. Crystal, did you ever key Ne-Yo's calls? Because it seems like you still got a little hurt. Like, you did something. No. Nothing. Nothing.

You ever hit his hats? Yo, you stupid. Oh, God. Stop. What in the world that was I tried to snatch his head off I got you now

just run with that I'm gonna storage you to this put them all in there no no I walked away peacefully because when you

when you fight and argue it's because you still want to be there and although I mean one of the hardest things to do is to walk away from somebody

you're still in love with but i love myself more and i knew that i was gonna go crazy if i chose to try to work it out and stay you know i'm saying and i'll always have love for him but it's it's different now you know so how are the kids yeah the kids are good you know they go and spend time with daddy. They love their father and they're good. So the co-parenting is? I let him be a father and I keep communication at a minimal just because I'm focused on rebuilding my life and what that means for me. So I don't want to surround myself with what the past was that could potentially put me in a place where I'm emotional and all those things. So I choose to just keep it separate. So there was no drunk nights like, hey, big head, nothing like that?

I ain't never spent the block. Hey, big head. But did he try? Okay. What'd you say? I didn't say what he said. What'd you say, Jess? I said, did he try?

Listen, I think at this point he knows that there's no coming back. So we're trying to figure out what co-parenting looks like for us because I just don't want to be around the situation. And, you know, all the respect, all the love to him and O'Shea, but I just, when somebody hurts you to a certain extent, I don't want to be in that environment. You know what I'm saying? Did y'all try therapy?

Did y'all try to make amends? Or you was done? You was like, there's no therapies? Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired, depressed, a little bit revolutionary? Consider this. Start your own country. I planted the flag.

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

I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia. Be part of a great colonial tradition. The Waikana tribe owned country. My forefathers did that themselves. What could go wrong? No country willingly gives up their territory. I was making a rocket with a black powder, you know, with explosive warheads. Oh my God.

What is that? Bullets. Bullets. We need help! We still have the off-road portion to go. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. And we're losing daylight fast. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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beyond the run and get into the heart of it all it's light-hearted pretty crazy and very fun listen to post run high on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts as a kid i really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just don't know what is going to come for you. Alicia Keys opens up about conquering doubt, learning to trust herself and leaning into her dreams. I think a lot of times we are built to doubt the possibilities for ourselves. For self-preservation and protection, it was literally that step by step. And so I discovered that that is how we get where we're going. This increment of small, determined moments. Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love. I forgive myself. It's okay.

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

This is Questlove, and I'm here to tell you about a new podcast I've been working on with the Story Pirates and John Glickman called Historical Records. It's a family-friendly podcast. Yeah, you heard that right. A podcast for all ages. One you can listen to and enjoy with your kids starting on September

27th. I'm going to toss it over to the host of Historical Records, Nimany, to tell you all about it. Make sure you check it out. Hey, y'all. Nimany here. I'm the host of a brand new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. Historical Records brings history to life through hip hop. Each episode is about a different inspiring figure from history. Like this one about Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old girl in Alabama who refused to give up her seat on the city bus nine whole months before Rosa Parks did the same thing.

Check it. And it began with me. Did you know, did you know? I wouldn't give up my seat. Nine months before Rosa, it was Claudette Goldman. Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records. Because in order to make history, you have to make some noise. Listen to Historical Records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Hey, everyone. This is Courtney Thorne-Smith, Laura Layton, and Daphne Zuniga. On July 8, 1992, apartment buildings with pools were never quite the same as Melrose Place was introduced to the world. It took drama and mayhem to an entirely new level. We are going to be reliving every hookup, every scandal, every backstab, blackmail and explosion and every single wig removal together. Secrets are revealed as we rewatch every moment with you. Special guests from back in the day will be dropping by. You know who they are. Sydney, Allison, and Joe are back together on Still the Place

with a trip down memory lane and back to Melrose Place. So listen to Still the Place on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. I filed the next day. Damn. You what? I filed the next day. Oh, damn.

After hearing that breakfast clip. Really? It wasn't the breakfast. It wasn't. Really? No. That is what prompted me to look around

how'd you get in his phone it was the same passcode all of his passcodes well he wasn't trying to hide anything see some of them

smart they put their phone out of their car yeah yeah she been around for a minute I be like

hold on where that other phone at so he was sleeping and you just pick up the phone and just yeah

no he was here he was doing another interview yes he was was sleeping and you just pick up the phone and just... Yeah. No, he was here. He was doing another interview. Yes, he was at the radio station. I was at the hotel. We was out in New York. You was scrolling down. So when he came back... Hold on.

Hold on, hold on, hold on. I was gone. He was gone. So by the time he got back to the hotel from the interview, you was on his head. I was gone. I know.

I didn't say anything. Oh, you left the... Oh, my God. And you didn't tell him nothing? You didn't tell him nothing? You just... No, I mean, he knew that his phone was gone. I know. I didn't say anything. Oh, you left the phone. Oh, my God. And you didn't tell him nothing? You didn't tell him nothing? You just... No, I mean, he knew that his phone was missing. And so he realized and, you know...

Oh, my God. You took the phone and left. Damn, took the phone. I am a black woman. I am not dumb. Look, yeah. You didn't screenshot everything. You just leave.

See, I would put it all back like nothing happened. Yeah. He didn't try to apologize or nothing. Like, he don't... I mean, of course he apologized. And, you know, he didn't want me to get a divorce or whatever. But he knows how I value myself and he knows when I'm not playing. And in that situation, I think he just knew there was no coming back. You know, so it is what it is.

I would love to know what he learned from that. We had a beautiful relationship, a beautiful marriage, a beautiful friendship. And I don't regret it. I don't take it back. And I'm appreciative to the love that we did have because a lot of people don't experience the love that I had. But that season is gone. That chapter is closed. How long were y'all together?

Almost 10 years. Damn. You're looking at damn. I wanted to ask you, because you said earlier here I stand flopped. And we were talking about Chance the Rapper and you know what happens when an artist makes an album

dedicated to his wife like Hear My Dear yeah and the album this album is whack the album was good though I thought it was great but I'm saying Here I Stand was a banging album

and let me tell you this I'm going to say this this is in defense of him really quick and I don't want to talk about his ass no more okay alright

enough on Usher. Okay. But here I stand was so solid because he was ahead of his time. He got married before anybody. This was before J&B. This was before Justin Timberlake. This was before. He was an outlier in trying to be mature and wear suits.

That suit and tie shit. We did that already. Sorry. No offense, JT. But you know what I mean? Like, we were trying to make him go to the next level.

The fans weren't ready for him to evolve and get to that level and then now it's cool. Everybody's married and see, we just were ahead of our time. Yeah.

We did it too soon. So, they were like, he married this old ass lady and she's whack and that's that and we hate him. And so,

Here I Stand wasn't received the way it should have been but it was solid songs on that album I don't mean it flop flop but it didn't do a million a million copies in first week like you know all the other albums is the goal for both of y'all because y'all have so much going on at the goal for both of y'all to get to a place where nobody asked you about them I say i want the world to know crystal or not for what is impossible you know what i'm saying what and that's what people always say you don't want people to ask you about him but you still have his last name but i'm still another i'm still my own you know what i mean diane von furstenberg is diane von furstenberg she was married to count von furstenberg

but she's still an amazing designer like this thing I just again it's our community it's us do you still do styling like that or not too much I have a clothing line called Eli Kish I will style certain artists

if they have certain people if they have a budget it's not even artists it's just if you have a budget and you can afford to pay me I'll style you are stylists a lost art now

like you don't really see them as like growing up in the 2000s you'd see stylists styling is a lost art because they're so it's oversaturated when people have taken the title you can work a gap for three days and then you're a stylist all you gotta do is have a lint roll in a trench coat you'd be like i'm a stylist to the stars i'm telling you girl that's an every roll in a trench that's all you need that's all you need you walk out say you're the top stylist i'd

be looking like that happens in every league listen people can get what two viral videos now they're a comedian yeah yeah you can you know you can get a podcast now you're a radio person now yeah yeah you can you know so i think it's oversaturation in every lane every lane it probably is huh yeah because you know why i'm not just not too much on our people but it's oversaturation in every lane. Every lane. It probably is, huh? Yeah. Because you know why? Not too much on our people, but it's low-hanging fruit. You don't see too many people fighting to be scientists or doctors or lawyers. You know what I'm saying? It requires a lot of work.

It requires work and reading, like actual reading. Like, read. Hello, read. If you would read. No, they want to do the easiest thing. Like, well, I'm a stylist. I love clothes. That's not how it works. Yeah. Watch out, read. If you would read. No, they want to do what's, you know, the easiest thing. Like, well, I'm a stylist. I love clothes. That's not how it works.

Yeah. Well, I saw lashes. Here, put them on. Yeah. Yeah, girl. That's right. All right. That's right.

Thank you, ladies, for joining us. Yeah, man. Make sure you scream bold and bougie on All Black right now. Go get Tamika, Tamika Raymond's book, Here I Stand. Here I Stand in a Beautiful State. That's right. That's right. It's Crystal Renee and Tamika Foster. It's The Breakfast, Here I Stand. Here I Stand in a Beautiful State. That's right. That's right. It's Crystal Renee and Tamika Foster. It's The Breakfast Club.

Good morning. Thank you. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ and VJ. I'm Jess O'Leary. Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Now, if you're just joining us, Charlamagne, his book is out today, Get Honest or Die Aligned.

Why Small Talk Sucks. Yes, my third book is out today. And this book is all about people who want to start being honest with themselves. Because if you're honest with yourself, you'll stop volunteering lies to other people. And it's just about how I hate small talk. That's right. Not just the literal form of like chit-chatter, but literally when people have nothing to really talk about. So they just make things up.

But also how we turn a bunch of micros into macros nowadays. So we make these small things big issues. And then when the big issues come across our desk, we don't deal with them at all. Don't even know how to talk about them. Right. Well, that is the question.

800-585-1051. Let's start with you, Jess. Small talk. How do you avoid it? How do you get out of it? I just walk away. Just walk away just walk away but I have a very like expressive face so people will know like they be knowing sometimes

like okay she don't want to talk like even at my party there's a lot of you know of course white people you know who work for our heart or probably not and then they were asking like yeah so like oh my god you know like just just talking and I just was like yeah and they were asking, like, yeah, so like, oh my God, you know, like just, just talking. And I just was like, yeah. And they were like, yeah, you probably don't care. You know, because it's all in your face, your disposition, how you express yourself. And then like some people I do just walk away from. Just walk away.

Jess is very good at avoiding small talk because not just her facial expressions. She'll just straight up tell you you're doing too much. And there's nothing wrong with that. I think that that is the type of boundary you should set when you don't want to have any meaningless conversation yeah i'm with jess i'll walk away i'll just i'll just walk i'll walk away i'm i'm that guy i'll just look i can't uh but there's times when you can't walk away right like when you're on a plane and you're sitting next to somebody right that's when you tell them but that's you know what i usually do in that situation i cough i just start coughing oh my

god and usually they don't want to talk to you at that point because they usually think you have COVID or something like that. So they just, they don't want to talk to you. Or I act like I'm falling asleep. When they're talking, I close my eyes. Like I start nodding off. Yeah. And then they'll be like, oh, you're tired.

Yes, I am. And that usually. That is crazy. I would never cough. But. What's wrong with your mouth though? Meaning like, why can't you just tell the person, hey man, I'm a little tired right now.

I want to get some sleep. Because sometimes that doesn't work. Sometimes that hurts my feelings. Because they just keep talking. though meaning like why can't you just tell the person hey man i'm a little tired right now i want to get some sleep because sometimes that doesn't work because they just keep talking but envy don't like hurting people's feelings too like he don't like that you can tell like he don't really like hurting people's feelings deliberately but i feel like being just like but i do it's not it won't be hurting nobody's feelings i'm being honest with you like yo i don't even want to talk right now you know that's why i got this first class seat so i can kick back chill i got a lot of things to do that's what is the title of the book get honest or die lying why are you lying to people that's silly now they think you got covid yes now i'm like can i move my seat

so what do you do, Charlamagne? Literally all the things that Jess said. I will tell somebody straight up, like, look, we don't have to do this right now. And this is honestly what the book is giving you permission to do. It's giving you permission to say, hey, we don't have to do this right now. We don't have to make meaningless conversation. And if you do want to have a conversation, I have topics in this book that you can discuss if you choose to. This book is literally like a card game almost. Like you can just draw, you know, different topics from it to talk about.

Because I'm not an expert at anything. I just give my thoughts on things and then, you know, we open up the floor for conversation just like we about to do right now with the phones. So when Shabby was all in your ear talking about Sexy Red's calf muscle, I don't even know how that came about. Why he got me all in his ear? Yeah, so how did you get out of it? I said, nigga, what?

And then he laughed. And he, you know, he was just taking a picture. Yeah. And then that was that. And then the song came on and he was trying, he started dancing.

I started dancing and he was like, chill the baby, the baby. I'm like, yo. Hit that big back dance? Yeah. That big back dance. All the big girls

be in the club doing this for no reason. Oh my God. It's the funniest thing ever, yo. And all big girls be in the club doing this for no reason. Oh my God. It's the funniest thing ever, yo. And all of this be jiggling. Just the top. Oh my goodness. Let's go to the phone lines. Jesus Christ. Hello. Who's this?

Hello. This is Tony. Hey, Tony. Good morning. Good morning. So we're asking. DJ Envy. Say it again. DJ Envy. Yes, sir. Good morning, man. Good morning, good morning. We're talking about small talk. How do you avoid small talk, Tony?

No eye contact. That's another good one, but people are still talking with no eye contact. I was going to say, niggas don't, I mean, people don't care, yo. They will. Just a how you doing and bye. That's it. Okay. Why do we have to do all that?

Like, why can't you just tell somebody Be honest I don't want to have this conversation right now I'm not in the mood I'm busy Like I'd rather be on my phone I'd rather be sitting here in silence Yeah

If we're going to talk about something Let's talk about this Like why do y'all got to do all that? Hello, who's this? Hey, this is Shamai Calling from North Carolina How you doing DJ? DJ here to be telling me to go out

That's hilarious What's up Shamai? Talk to us How you get out of small talk, DJ? DJ, good to be talking to you, guys. That's hilarious. What's up, Shamai? Talk to us. How you get out of small talk, brother? Listen, so this is what I do. So, you know, since I'm a journalist and a radio personality, and I have to talk to people that I don't know, I'm just like, okay, have a good day,

and just move away from the situation where I act like I have a phone call. So you just make excuses. Yeah, basically. But listen, Before you hang up Because I know You like to hang up on people I'm going to be in New York On the first week of June

And I would love to meet you guys Or to get a tour of the studio If that's possible Small talk Nah hang up I got a phone call I got a phone call I would just love to come tour the studio

I'm going to be in New York I respect I respect the ass You know I just It love to come to the studio. I'm going to be in New York. I respect the ask. It's a hell of a vetting process, though. What is the reason? He said he's a radio personality. I think Shamar's the gentleman that goes to college and you do radio for your college, right?

Yes. He calls all the time. Yes, I do. I really look up to you guys. You guys are my inspiration every time I do radio. I would just love to get some information and stuff from veterans in the game. Hold on, Shemar.

So we'll put you on hold. Hold on. We'll let Eddie, our producer, give you a thorough vetting. Okay? Okay. Yes. Not promising anything, but a thorough vetting. Just hold on. That's dope. Alright, it's the breakfast of the morning. Alright.

I ain't gonna get in now. He's going to get on now. He's going to close out for us. Hello. Who's this? It's Tarrio. What's happening? Tarrio, what's up?

Where you calling from? I'm calling from Jacksonville, and I ain't got nothing to do with the baseball team. You ain't got nothing to do with the baseball team. Okay. I'm glad you cleared that up, sir. Okay. Now, we're talking about small talk. How do you get rid of small talk, brother?

How do you get out of it? I can start small talk first, and I'm going to do that with this. Guess how you doing? I'm good, babe. How are you? Okay, hey, listen. I'm going to tell you, you're beautiful, and I want to give you two congratulations on becoming a member of the Breakfast Club and on your pregnancy.

No. Thank you so much. I appreciate you, King. Okay, that sounds great. But listen, this is how I get rid of small talk while I don't talk to you. We ain't talking about money. We don't have nothing to talk about.

If we ain't talking about how to come up, it ain't nothing to talk about, dog. So what we talking about? Damn. Those are good macro conversations. I'm not mad at that. Like I said, a lot of times we make a lot of micros, macros. I'm not mad at either one of those conversations.

Yeah. Yeah, but Charlemagne. Yes, sir. You sent me some books a long time ago. Let me get this new one, man, and autograph it for me. Man, if you ain't talking about money, ain't nothing to talk about. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying?

No, don't do it. Why you hop on it, man? You said you ain't talking about money. I sent him a book. You are crazy, bro. Crazy, yo. You just said if you not talking about money, I got to talk. But he was with the motto for the book, so he got to get a book.

What the hell is wrong with you, man? He was like, well, dude. Call back if you can, bro. I'll get you a copy of the book, man. My bad. I thought you said it ain't about money. Hang up. It was a joke. What's the moral of the story?

The moral of the story is my new book, Get Honest to Die Lying, Why Small Talk Sucks is available everywhere you buy books right now. And if you're in New York, in New Jersey, tomorrow I'll be at Barnes & Noble on 5th Avenue at 1pm and I'll be in the Barnes & Noble in Paramus at 5 p.m.

tomorrow. Great promo. The real moral of the story is do not engage in small talk. If you don't have to, you can be okay with not engaging in it and just telling people the truth. You don't have to sit there and talk

to them. You really don't. And if you want more on what Jester just said, my new book, Your Honor Could Die Lying, Why Small Talk Sucks, is available everywhere you buy books right now. Everything Jester said is absolutely positively true, and it's in this book.

All right. Latorio, my bad, bro. My bad. I thought he said hang up. I was going with the... I'm sorry, I got too excited. All right. We got Jester Dimas coming up.

What are we talking about? Oh my God. Emma Rose doubled down on why she supports Trump. Okay. And we'll get to that next. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ and V, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God.

We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. The legend, Bruce Bruce. What's crackin', baby? Welcome. How you feeling? Everything is good, man. Everything is good? Yeah. This is the first time Bruce Bruce has been on the show.

And I want to, you know, sometimes when somebody comes for the first time, I want to start from the beginning, right? Okay. Now, I know your story because I've been studying you, I've been following you. But for people that don't know, how did Bruce Bruce get get into comedy and I want you to explain your job before comedy well you know I used to be a chef I can cook like a mug and you know everywhere I go I used to always be funny so I hired this guy one time I was running a barbecue restaurant old guy and he said he used to watch me in the kitchen when I first start when he first started he's watching he said you need to go you need to go on stage and I ain't paying attention he said I'm gonna bring you something tomorrow he

brought me this album you know back in the day he had album he was a comedian but he was ex-nave he was an alcoholic he said don't waste your time on this job man you need to go on stage know what I did I quit because I had a family I was young man had three kids and man I went and started working for Frito-Lay potato chips selling potato chips and the whole time I'm selling potato chips and on the dock I'm just funny acting crazy so good old white dude so you know you need to go on stage I see you here every morning you're not a white guy you need to go on stage you're funny I look at comedians every Friday Saturday night you know and you're gonna stay and when I took that step man it was I knew that's why I should have been my whole entire life and what made me take that step I was going through a divorce and my ex-wife said you'd never make it why'd she tell

you that so i just looked at and say i see you on tv you know what i'm saying and it's been gone i've been doing it now 35 years now you also mentioned that you are only child only child your father left at the age of five yeah he was four was four or five. He was in the Air Force, and he was a medic in the Air Force, and he flew choppers and airplanes. And when he got out, he was an anesthesiologist. Now, was it important to mend that relationship before he passed, or did you? Yeah, I did. I did. Wow.

My mother said, I just wanted to know. I remember him. My mother said, what you looking for him for? You know, because they'd be mad, but my mother really ran him off. You know what I mean? What? She ran him off, and she was a monster, you know did your dad say that oh no i just i'm like man this dude is cool he was really cool you know but she's like i don't want to know

everything he tried to do she just knocked it down like but she was listening to her girlfriends that's why i try to tell all these young girls don't listen to no woman that ain't got no man. That's right. You understand what I'm saying? If you got a woman, if you got a girlfriend, you got a husband, she know how to treat her husband. But a woman that don't have a man, she can't tell you nothing. But he left, and he never, ever called us. Ever.

And my mother didn't even know she was divorced. He did a non-contested divorce because my mother just worked, come home, never went anywhere. So when she said, I think I'm going to get a divorce and when she went to do it so you're already divorced you're not contested you put it in the newspaper for 30 days you don't answer the ad bam you divorced i did not know he was already gone he was he was gone he was gone man i got married three more times i found it when i was like 40 years old so he knew who you were he knew exactly who i was he knew exactly who i look like no my exactly who I was. You look like? No, my son look like him, though. My baby boy looks just like him.

But it's funny how it dip over, you know what I'm saying? But I met with him, and we talked, and we stayed in touch. And he ended up passing away about 17 years ago. My mother passed away 14 years ago. Wow. Did you and your mom ever have to talk? Did you ever have to say to your mom, Mom, it was you? Yeah.

She said, you know, I was wrong. She said, I didn't care. She said, but I had another boyfriend. You know, my mom would fool mom fooled around see parents don't tell you they try to tell you do the right thing but they'll do the wrong thing in front of you you know i'm saying those old dudes used to go with name david you know had platform shoes with taps on remember platform he had taps on platform shoes he come up the steps how your mama doing and then he'll tell me, hey, come in, let me give you a few dollars. Go down and get you a Coca-Cola, you know, something like that. I know what he's going to do.

He's going to get us some tail, you know what I'm saying? He gets the potato chips. I'll run right out the house. You know, I know what he's going to do. I don't want no food, you know what I'm saying? But he was cool. He was cool to me. He treated me very nice.

But she had this one boyfriend she was crazy about. I don't know what's up with women with this one dude that they like and he ain't nothing i mean man he wasn't nothing man he dog my mom my man he was he was married she didn't know he's married damn he's over there he's over there every day every day eating yeah yeah god is a good god you know how to joke yeah god is a good god and let me tell you what happened when i was in high school four of us used to hang together and we saw him in his truck and my buddy said man that go you your mama boyfriend what's your mom i said no i said that's my mom boyfriend that's not my mom it was another lady so i got out the car looked at him and said hey you know i see you right he's oh hey how you doing played up come on my mom house i told my mother

seen him with another woman he looked looked me dead in the eye. He said, that was not, he did not see me. And my mother believed it. The reason she believed it because I didn't like him. So she just kind of figured

I made up a story about him and she let it go. But it took her girlfriend of hers to see him say, I saw that dude with another woman. You know what I'm saying? And it took her to tell me

she dated him like 16 years man damn and i don't tell you my mother i don't want to get married i don't want to get married okay you don't want to get married but this dude's already married so you can't marry this dude when she found out she was like she was toe up yeah i heard her and you said your uncle paul inspired you as far as comedy because he was the funniest person you know oh man he was funny okay he tell a lie everybody got to help him with this lie every lie he did did i tell him really yeah he told me paul ain't saying nothing everybody help with this lie but he was one of the best bakers in the world he he practically raised gladys knight back in the day and they used to call him the sweet bread man and gladys knight knew him his

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about Gladys all the time. But Gladys and I was really raised on the same street. The street was Chestnut Street. They changed to James P. Brawley. I was on 415. She was on like 785, something like that. Just right up the street, like two blocks up. Did you know her?

No, no. I was a little kid. But she lived there with her first husband. You know what I'm saying? But Gladys is a girl, though, man. Wow. How were you able to translate your funny to actually make a career of it? But somebody like Uncle Paul, who was funny, couldn't?

I don't know. Uncle Paul was just scared to go. He was scared. See, black people back in the day had the skill to do everything, but they were scared to do it. They had so much fear. See, like young kids now, they'd do it. They'd be like, I don't care, I'll do it.

So I just took it and ran with it. My uncle was one of the best bakers in the world. He went against bakers from France and Italy, you know, from England. And he beat them all out. You know what I mean? Then he went to, he had a cheesecake that he made that was one of the best cheesecakes in the world. And they tricked him out of it. And didn't have sense enough to get a lawyer and everything.

Gave him like $10,000. They clapped and he was all happy. But he stole his recipe. Yeah, when he could have got $100 million. You know what I'm saying? But just didn't have the sense and the knowledge to do that at the time oh you know i wanted to know as a child was bruce bruce big as a child no man i was a little bit he's calling me little bruce man i didn't i didn't get fat till i got married i don't know why i got married that's why all that kick your

uncle oh my god i wouldn't eat it man i was just a little bitty dude just running around just messing with everybody i was a little bitty kid, man. But when I got married, I got fat. You know, that's what happened to us as black men. We get complacent. We get complacent with jobs. We get a job, and let's just say germ motors. We make a little money. Oh, man, that's a good job.

I don't care nothing about a good job. It's about getting out there, getting it, because it's more than that than getting a good job. I ain't like that question, by the way. What you mean? I ain't like the question you ask. Wait. What you mean? I ain't like the question he asked you. Wait, what?

Was Bruce Bruce little as a child? Oh, that's right. Was he a big child? Nah, I wasn't no fat kid, man. That's what he wanted to say. He thought I was a big kid. He thought I just

couldn't clap my hands. Of course he was little as a child. He's a kid. Little fat kid couldn't clap his hands. Yeah, I'll clap my hands. Da-da-da-da-da. But no, man,

I was a little kid. Little cute joker, man, running around messing with everybody and you know we seem to lose focus and that's what happened you lose focus

you start eating crazy but now I'm back at it man I'm 62 years old man wow alright we got more with Bruce Bruce when we come back

don't move it's the Breakfast Club good morning EJ, NDS I lost my voice Jess Hilarious Charlamagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club

we're still kicking it with Bruce Bruce now I got a question. What's the most difficult city for you? Because you're on the road, what, five days a week,

four days a week, seven, I'm on the road, you know, every week. What's the toughest city for you? I'm going to be honest, I never had a tough city,

man. I've had some tough crowds when the comedy clubs hold these people hostage. You know, like, let's just say, first show is at 7.

Second show is supposed to start at 10. All right, they let the first show run over. These people come to the show at 10 o'clock are outside waiting. They're pissed. They're pissed, you know? So you got to really go to work to make them laugh, you know, or go and say something like this.

They say, y'all ever been at work and didn't want to be there? They be like, yeah. I say, that's the way I feel now. You know what I'm saying? So when you break the ice with them you got them once you you get them you got them but you got to run the clubs on time it's hard dealing with us as black people it's hard to deal with our black people man but the white clubs they be on it damn because they

realize the money they can make in a short length of time you know you didn't make me think about when it come to doing business with black people and white people. I love doing business with my people. Right. But I don't think we often look at it as business. No, we don't. It's almost like it should be a personal transaction. Right. It's always a hookup.

You want a discount. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because people call my manager and be like, me and Bruce go back 15. I don't even know this brother.

You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I met him at the gas station and you don't know me, bro. Maybe I come across like you do know me, but you don't even know this brother you know i'm saying yeah i met him at the gas station and uh you don't know me bro maybe i come across like you do know me but you don't know me they'll call and be like we discussed a deal and he said he would do it for this that's not true because i don't discuss money at all with anybody but they always think it's like a partner thing when it should just be business yeah do you remember your best show and you remember your worst show yeah man i can remember a lot of them but they people don't know it. I know it.

I can remember my first. I mean, I come off stage and tell a guy, I didn't like that show. Well, people thought it was great. But I'd be like, I didn't like that show. What was your worst show? Because they said, you don't write things down. It's just off the promotion. I come off the cuff.

One time I was in Houston, Texas. And I was doing this show. And I was joning everybody out. And this dude came up and joned me. And he was funny. His buddy said, man, go up there. Go up there go up you know you would go up there and join him he said I look like a pickle jar you know and I started like damn that's funny bro I said I'm gonna keep that you know he's telling me like a pickle jar I'm like oh my god that's funny but the crowd

loved it because I took it so well I didn't go off you know I exactly it was really funny when he said it and uh the best show i ever did was years and years and years ago is when bernie mack was red hot bernie mack was super hot and it's a it's a part of georgia called macon georgia and it's about an hour from atlanta and bernie was performing had a 5 000 seater and the feature didn't show up and the guy said hey man my feature didn't show can you come down and open up for bernie mack i said yes you know i had been in the game there about five years. I said, yes.

And I drove down there as quick as I could. And I was on stage. And I can remember Bernie Mac had his arm folded looking at me. He said, who's that dude right there? He said, it's Bruce. He said, he is funny. But Bernie went up and ripped it. And I worked with Bernie twice in my whole entire life.

And then I worked with him in Columbia, South Carolina one time. 803. That's it. But Bernie was a bad dude, man. And people don't realize, when he did I'm Not Scared of You on Def Jam, he made that up right then. Because everybody was coming up. They was having a hard time here in New York.

Def Jam, they was getting it to him. New York, they don't hold no punches. And Bernie said, man, I ain't scared of no mother. And he went up and did it. Him and Capri went together on it, and he ripped it to him. You know, New York, you don't hold no punches, you know. And Bernie said, man, I ain't scouting no mother. And he went up and did it. Him and Capri went together on it and he ripped it, man. Wow.

Bernie was a bad dude. Was that the funniest comedian you ever worked with? No, man. I know some funny comedians now. Like Tony Robbins is stupid funny. Tony makes me laugh.

You know who Tony Robbins is? Yes. Oh my God. Tony Robbins told me he used to date a girl and her breath was so bad it smelled like a horse's hiccups. So, who think of that?

Who think of a horse's hiccups? You know what I'm saying? He makes me laugh. Mike Epps. Mike Epps is one of the dudes I trained back in the day. Mike used to be on the road with me. Mike moved from Indiana to Atlanta. I used to take him on the road with me, and then he moved to New York.

And he called me one day and said, man, they want me to audition for Fridays. I said, what you waiting on? I said, looking for somebody like you and he called me a week later and said, I got the part. I said,

you're on your way, Day Day. That's my man. Now, we've seen Cat Williams pulled out his chopper a couple of months ago. He was firing at everybody.

What was your thoughts? Because, you know, a lot of that stuff was inside that became outside. Well, I think Cat just told

how he felt, man, and what's been going on in his life for real. And he just got fed up with it. You know, when people dog you out, let's just say this. I used to tell people I had a club in Atlanta. It's called Club 559. And I used to tell my securities, I said, listen, when you have an altercation with a guy,

be careful because they don't forget you. You don't be able to forget about them. So if you throw them out of the club, throw them on their head, and they be like, I'm not going to forget that. They won't forget you you don't be forgot about them so if you throw them out the club throw them on their head and they'd be like i'm not gonna forget that they won't forget you that's real but you be i forgot who that was and you had to go store with your woman shopping he run up on you you remember me you're like no you have to be careful so cat just went through some things stuff that he never forgot that was done to him and he's coming back retaliating and he just told it like it was.

I mean, there's a lot of different things you can take from that conversation. But the thing I took from it that I appreciated, it felt like it put black comedy in a new light. Yeah. Like people started paying attention to the OGs like yourself. Tony Robbins. I don't know. I just felt like it just shined,

earthquakeed, shined a light on the people who've been doing it. And people got to understand something about cat williams cat williams is not a dummy he is very smart he's very smart i don't know if y'all remember when he had altercation in

atlanta with one of the smith if you ever noticed if you ever noticed he never lost his composure he stood there and drunk his coffee and he was killing her the whole

time and he just cool like that he's very smart he's a smart guy how did you feel about all these artists mentioning you in their songs? I love it. Were you ever surprised? Did you hear before when you heard, let Bruce Bruce hit it? Oh, my God.

I just hate when dudes say it. You know what I'm saying? I be like, let Bruce Bruce hit it. Bro, bro, you shouldn't be saying that. Your girl should say it, but not me. Not you, bro. He said that on the text this morning. Oh, my goodness.

Did he? Because our producer was like, man, Bruce Bruce is already here. We were on the way in. Yeah. And so he goes, well, entertain him then. Let Bruce Bruce hit it. I was joking. It was a joke.

I forgive you. That's what he said. I forgive you. That's inside stuff, man. I just thought it was stupid. Yeah, but he felt we cool, so he just told me. And our producer told him that he was going to HR. I'm going to HR.

You're going to HR? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's going to be squeezing that breathing hot. Why did you do that? Why did you do that breathing hot. Why did you do that? Why did you do that? Why did you do that? And Biggie mentioned you in Hypnotize?

Yeah, yeah. When was the first time you heard? Did you have a relationship? Well, what happened, I was in Jacksonville, Florida. I'll never forget this. And I wanted to meet him so bad

because I was a fan of Biggie. You know? Man, he came in and I was on stage clowning. I was joining people. I mean, I asked the dude i said that shirt silk is like i said is it sick you're hiding it too much you know something like that he walked he said just do this fight because if you ever really pay attention to biggie he didn't

really smile that much you know i'm saying he just always had that look just nonchalant look he smiled on the video when he was on the boat when he was on the boat and he started smiling he said i'm gonna put you down for real and when i heard i'm like what what was the brooms like Just nonchalant. Look, he smiled on the video when he was on the boat. Remember he was on the boat and he started smiling? Yeah. He said, I'm going to put you down for real. And when I heard it, I'm like, what? What was the Bruce Bruce like? There was a, people were debating whether he. Yeah, well, didn't he say that?

Yeah. What was the line? It was like, Bruce Bruce who? Do something to us. Talk goes to us. Girls do us. Want to screw us. Who? Me, Poppy, and Puff.

It was just love. He showed me. He was a cool guy, man. And I actually saw him smile and laugh because I never saw him smile. He just always had this heart look. He read the fight, but he was really funny. He was fun to be around. So he told you he was going to put you out?

Yeah. Okay, so that's how you know it was going to be. Yeah. I listened to it over and over. I just kept going back. I just kept repeating it. I listened to it over and over. And that was love.

That was real love. All right, we got more with Bruce Bruce when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning. We are The Breakfast Club. Comedian Bruce Bruce is still here.

Charlamagne? Now, out of Def Comedy Jam, Showtime at the Apollo, and Comic View, which one had the most impact on you? Comic View. Def Jam first. Def Jam was the starting.

Come on now. We got to give it to Russell Simmons. I mean, big up for him. Def Jam was good, but when I did Comic View, see, Comic View started out out as coast to coast i don't know if y'all remember that they used to come out to your city and come to a club and film you and then take it back and dl was the the host and he's like look went all the way down to atlanta at a club called the comedy act theater and we seen this guy bruce br Bruce and they show me and I did the Coastal Code

when they first started but I never forget the year that I host. It was probably the best year for me that I have ever experienced in my life. They went from

10,000 10 million viewers to 20 million viewers when I host and it was great for me. It was good. I made some money. They gave me money

for wardrobe. That's why I dressed in all them suits because I thought I was a pimp. You know what I'm saying? I thought I was a straight up pimp. Why do you help so many comedians?

Comedians talk about that. You've helped so many comedians in their, in their career, in their life. What, what gives you the energy? Cause a lot of people be like, I ain't helping him cause he might get bigger than me.

But you, you talked about so many comedians. Oh my God. Yeah. But so many helped me. I never forget when I first, when I was in the comedy act theater in Atlanta and John Witherspoon came to Atlanta. And he looked at me.

He say, you got it. He said, you really got it. He say, I like you. So he started telling me what to do and what not to do. And he helped me, took me up on his wing. Rinaldo Ray did the same thing. He helped me on BET when he was my co-host. People don't realize that Rinaldo Ray was a college professor before he started doing comedy.

He was extremely smart. And he would tell me sometimes, he said, turn your body to the right a little bit when you tell that joke. It'll work better. And I'm like, how is that going to work better? And it worked better. And then the last of the Mohicans who really told me, he say, you won't have to find her and they will find you.

His name was Paul Mooney. Wow, the legend. Paul Mooney. He told me that. Rod legend Paul Mooney he told me that Rodney Winfield y'all remember Rodney Winfield mm-hmm got my man took me he's a lot of these jugglers don't like you just cause you're funny he says keep being funny you're gonna be alright you just call me do shows with him you know you know back in the day man somebody say man we got a show paying $300 I'm like let's go you know these new kids now you say man I got a show paying 300 i'm like let's go you know these new kids now you say man i got a show for you how much they paying hold it player hold it you ain't been

seen walking by tv much less on tv so what is you talking about how much they paying if i tell you about a show i'm gonna make sure you get paid just that's something you think social media helped to hurt comedy oh it helped it charlamagne i wish I had social media 35 years ago. Only thing we had was go in the city early, do radio, try to do TV to get people in there. Social media is a platform

that really helped a lot of young comedians now. Now, veteran comedians like myself, they get pissed because all the new young comedians are coming up faster i've been doing comedy for 25 years 30 years and he ain't been doing comedy for three months i tell them like

this if you can't beat them and they're winning so you might as well fall in the footsteps they are winning but that's why them young comedians feel like that's why they're asking how much right because they follow yeah but then the only thing about it charlamagne is when they do get booked only thing they got to say is what they did on social media that's right you got to bring out more than that that's right you know you got that seven minutes you got oh it's fine but what about this other 20 minutes they need you to do you can tell when a person is bombing because they'll start talking real positive you know we need to take care of these kids man you know hey man support these women man hey man these women need to support they need to take care of these kids, man. You know, hey, man, support these women, man.

Hey, man, these women need your support. They need your respect. They bombing like hell. Yeah. They trying to get positive. That's his favorite part of a comedy show. You know what it is? I like to see somebody try to dig themselves out of a hole when they bombing. Oh, my God.

If you see me laughing really hard, it's probably because you up there stinking. I remember seeing you because I watch you guys all the time. I remember seeing you on Ridiculousness, right? Chanel West Coast. You made her so mad. You was coming. You said, I never seen you on anything.

I never seen you rap with... I rap with Snoop. She got pissed. They went to commercial. I think it happened twice. Am I right? No, it was the one time. But do she rap?

Yeah, I think she did. Okay, okay. But I didn't know it, but I looked at you and I'm like, oh my God, she's pissed. She got pissed. She moved that hair back. It's a commercial. Commercial. And she came back.

She was more calm. Yeah, we're back here. She told me to piss her off. He said, I never seen you on nothing. I never seen you with Snoop. I never seen you too short. I never seen you. She was pissed.

I laughed so hard at that. That was so good. How big of a deal is it now for a comedian to have a special does it even matter well let me

you know it's funny you said that man specials are good I just got signed for a Netflix special and the reason I just took it I wasn't gonna do it

I was gonna do it myself like fit me make them buy you know what I'm saying but they offered it to me we're gonna do it we're gonna do it

I think around around August. Just shoot in Atlanta? No. No, no, no. We're going to go somewhere else. I want to go somewhere where somebody think I'm a superstar. You know what I'm saying? In Atlanta? No, I'm just average. What's up, Bruce? You see me in the grocery store. Bruce, what's happening? I go somewhere like Chicago

or Texas. Oh, my God! That's where I want to go. In Atlanta, it's my city. I love it. I still live there. And I had a place in LA for like 30 years. LA is just LA. They make you pay for the weather.

You know what I mean? Everything is just so high. It's just ridiculous. It is. I've got a couple more questions. There's a stigma about black comedians wearing dresses

to be funny or having to wear a dress to get to that next level. What's your thoughts on that? Well, you know, I'm going to be honest with you, man. I did. It's funny you said that i did a tv show that i take one time never came out it's called bruce bruce bounty hunters i was a bounty hunter i played a bounty hunter i played a preacher called reverend get money it was reverend get money and i played a mother named mother marshall which was crazy but mother marshall was a real

lady in my church that i mimic i copied off her and i also played um i did it in indianapolis and i did not feel comfortable in that dress you know what i'm saying at all and some people could do it some people if it worked for you it do it flip wilson did it when he did geraldine you know because flip wilson show was a variety show which i love because it wasn't a black show. It was a show for everybody. And that's what people got on the stage. But if they want to dress up in a dress, do your thing. You know, but it's not my thing.

Tyler Perry made it big. He's one of the best. But to me, I love Tyler Perry. But Joe is funnier than Tyler Perry. Than my deal. When he plays Joe. When he plays Joe. Joe is funny.

Joe is funny. Joe have an oxygen tank yep and smoking weed smoking weed coughing and I say thank you Jesus

you know what I'm saying so when he plays Joe Joe is the funniest dude that's just me I think you had living a lot with Joe too yeah I love my dear but Joe

Joe is funny to you oh my god Joe is funny and see back then when we used to see people in their dresses or even see like when they used to do people in their dresses, I even see like, when they used to do men on film on A Living Color,

it was just funny. Yeah, it was funny. I never thought nothing of it. Men on film was the thing. Remember when they talked about Moby Dick? Moby Dick. That gets two snaps and a kiss and a roundabout. You remember that?

Yeah, the twist, yeah. Yeah, the twist, yeah. Why do you have to say your name twice? Because my mommy used to call me twice. My mama said, if I call you the third time, I'm going to kill you. So my mother said, if I call you three times, you're going to die today.

And my mother was a little woman, about 140. I mean, she was just loving and knew how to make her way out of no way. Most mothers do. That's why it's always good when you do get successful and you start making money make sure you take care of your mom and one thing you got to realize it don't take much like you think it does that's right people think like well i gotta do it no your mama don't want that much she just want to make sure she's okay she's comfortable and she got a little money my mother last 20 years of her life i made sure she was straight

didn't pay no bills nothing But it didn't take much. But then when your family members found out about it, they started trying to use you too. You know, my mom going through something. Well, that's your mother. This one is mine. Well, there you have it. That's real. Well, there you have it.

It's Bruce Bruce. Yeah, we've been trying to get Bruce Bruce up here for a minute, man. Because, you know, I've always just respected you as a comedy legend, man. That's right, man. You are an icon, so salute to you, Bruce. Thank you for coming. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Everything that Charlamagne is saying is

true. Yes, donkey of the day goes to a woman named Erica D'Souza. No, let me say this over. Erica D'Souza Vietra Nunes. Okay, she is 42 years old and was arrested Tuesday. Now, mind you, she is in Brazil, but the hee-haw is global, and this hee-haw is warranted because about a month ago, I gave two Ohio women donkey of the day for doing something similar,

and by something similar, I mean using a dead body, a corpse, to get some money out the bank because Erica was arrested after taking her dead uncle to a bank to take out a loan. She must have done this in the afternoon because she clearly is not a morning person. Let's go to Fox 26 Houston for the report, please. Police say a 42-year-old woman named Erica DeSouza walked into a bank pushing the body of a dead man. It was in a wheelchair. Souza could be seen using the lifeless body like a puppet. She attempted to nod the guy's head

and make it appear as if he were signing approval for a $3,200 bank withdrawal. The man is dead. Employees didn't fall for the antics. They got suspicious when the man wasn't breathing and he happens to be pale. Sousa was arrested and now she's added to our batch of crazy ass criminals.

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. What news was that? Fox 26 Houston. I'm going to close bombs for Fox 26 Houston. Crazy ass Houston. Are you telling it like it is? There are so many reasons this is insane. Who's was that? Fox 26 Houston. I'm going to close mom's Fox 26 Houston. Crazy ass Houston. Okay. Are you telling it like it is?

Yeah. There are so many reasons this is insane. Number one, you don't take a dead person to a bank. Everyone knows that a corpse's favorite currency is crypto. Okay. But I'm broke. She took her 68-year-old dead uncle to a bank to get a loan of $3,250. Do you see the types of chances people are taking for what some folks would call small amounts of money? Okay, folks do not understand how bad a lot of people

are out here doing. $3,250 may be nothing to you, but $3,250 is a lot of other people's life savings. Now, the police chief said that the man was probably dead for a couple hours. Can you imagine someone dying, your uncle, your family member, and the first thing you think about is how to get some money for yourself? No regard for the life this man just lived. There is no way this man becomes her spirit guide. I refuse to be one of your ancestors you call on

when you need spiritual backing if this is how you treat my corpse after I'm gone. Furthermore, this has to be some sort of necrophilia. You all know what necrophilia is, right? It's a sexual attraction to corpses. I didn't know that. I wasn't looking that up. Yeah, aka the urge to crack a cold one open.

And whenever I hear stories of people doing anything with a corpse except for taking it to a funeral home to be laid to rest, then I think they're a weirdo. Okay, Erica, during an interview with police, told officers she routinely cared for her uncle who was also debilitated if that's the case if you was doing what you were supposed to be doing if he was treating this man right taking care of him then you should be in his will somewhere okay wills are a way for corpses to speak that's what you create your will for to be able to speak from the grave so that the still living can know what you want. That's why we call wills dead giveaways.

Furthermore, whenever I see cases like this, I believe they should investigate the cause of death because every single one of these cases is like finding a cartoonist dead in their home. It's very sketchy. OK, because if you will in my corpse to the bank to take money out, how do I know this person bringing the corpse to the bank didn't unalive me to make me a corpse? Now, this woman, Erica, is being charged with fraud and abuse of a corpse. And she should be because playing with corpses is not funny. OK, corpses are funny. They are dead serious. And it's a damn shame people don't respect the dead. But you know why people don't respect corpses? Because we don't respect the living. To me, these stories are prime examples of how we as humans don't truly respect each other.

Alive or dead. The bones of the fallen should be treated with respect and accorded the dignity that was their proper due. If only the living were also granted such grace. What a wonder our world would become. I got that from an inspirational reel. You know those reels that have the videos of the waterfalls and beautiful greenery with the flute playing? Got my attention, and I feel like it totally fit here. But the moral of the story is, if you want to play with corpses,

become a mortician or a funeral director. Jess Hilarious used to be one. I went to school to be a coroner slash mortician. And what happened? I didn't make it through. How many jobs did you have? He talked about you this morning at McDonald's. I had a lot of jobs, indeed.

Okay. Well, funeral directors and morticians, we need more of those because they are dying professions. Please give Eric Nunes the sweet sounds of the Hamilton's. You are the donkey of the day. You are the donkey of the day. Yee-haw. Would you like to know why our funeral director started a podcast? He wanted to talk about bodies of work. Boom!

Yeah, very much climbed up. Boom! I can't even believe it. Nah, that ain't it, y'all. Yeah, I can't even believe that you would even be really laughing at that. It's hilarious. You have any more? It's not.

Dying, like, what? A dying profession? People die every day so actually that's the reason why I wanted to be a mortician I was like you know what people ain't gonna ever stop you know dying

so like never what made you do that what made you say I want to be a mortician because every job that I kept getting fired from like from people

who are alive so you figured the dead couldn't fire you so it's like you know what yeah nope nope but the dead

will make you scared Joe and I watched too many movies and it's just like you believe what? Yeah. No, no, but the dead will make you scared, Joe. And I watched too many movies, and it's just like. You believe in ghosts and stuff like that. Yeah, I believe in a bunch of stuff. And I was like, mm-mm. You know why ghosts can't have babies? Why? Because they got Halloweenies.

Boo! That's what the ghost said. Boo! You know what? All right. All right. The Breakfast Club, good right. The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

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. Because today is National Co-Parenting Day. Yes. So we had to bring in a man who I feel like him and Jess have one of the best co-parenting relationships I've ever seen.

That's right. Rome is here. Rome is here. What's up, Rome? I got a trouble already, Rome, because of you. Why? What happened? Just saying.

I want to know who gave Rome some liquor this morning. And I was like, I ain't give it to him. I just told him where the bar was. You said help yourself. Help yourself. Yeah, that's fine. You said it was apple juice. And so I was about to take a sip and I was like, uh-uh. No, he was not.

You already knew it wasn't apple juice. I just ain't think you was going to pick the cup up. Okay. You and Jess have the best co-parenting situation I've ever witnessed. How did y'all get to this point, bro? She thinks she my mother first and foremost. Oh my God. But it took time.

I felt like when you take the feelings out of it and you realize that the child is the most important part of the relationship because it's still a relationship whether you're intimate or not you can do magical things magical things and i think that me being a dad that i was and that i am still today i wanted that i felt like if we wasn't gonna be together there was no need for us to beef we've created over time. Whereas now she's my best friend. She's my safe space. I feel like, you know, I can vent to her because sometimes, all the time, I need it.

But I feel like when I was pouring into these other women, they would use it against me. Whereas though now, now that she's pregnant, I don't really call her and say certain things because I know she's going through certain things mentally now. So, Jess is always in my safe space though. So, it's like she's always been a person

that I go to, I call, give me advice, some advice I don't take, but just to hear, but just to hear her give it to me, just to know that she care

because I don't really have nobody. How did y'all meet? How did you meet Jess and how did y'all start dating back then? Where did you see it and when was like, oh, this is somebody I want to holla at?

It's crazy because we grew up in the same. He's starting to smile. He's going back. No, because my mom, when my mom was alive, my mom died when I was 10. When my mom was alive, we went to the same church. My mom died. My father really took me away from everybody. So now it was like, fast forward, I'm like 17.

It's Facebook. And she came across my timeline. And I was like fast forward Mike 17 Facebook and She came across my timeline. I was like, okay, so I did a dot dot dot and I put a basketball emoji Mm-hmm. Are you guys you're the WNBA player? No, just shut up man Play with you, but she bit on it too. Okay. I think I was like I'm just coming to get my ball coming to get was mine So I said what the fuck is this? Why the basketball room? I need to know I seen it somewhere. What love and basketball? She bid on it too Okay I think I was like I'm just coming to get my ball Coming to get what's mine Something like that Yeah I said what the f*** is this Why the basketball room I need to know

I seen it somewhere What loving basketball No I seen somebody do that Like I don't know Where I seen it You put a basketball In the messages This is 11 years

12 years ago So I'm like I don't know I did it because I thought it was It was corny But I thought it was But it worked

It got attention What did you think Just when you saw the basketball I just said What the f*** is this Okay I don't know. I did it because I thought it was corny, but I thought it was, you know. But it worked. It got attention. What did you think, Jeff, when you saw the basketball? I just said, what the fuck is this? Okay. I just typed it back. And he was like, he said, it was my ball. It's my ball.

And I'm coming to get it. Or something like that. I'm coming to get what's mine. And I was like, oh, okay. What's up? I already knew what that was giving, what it was. It was. You want to bounce it? Okay, what's up?

But it worked. It worked. It worked. So y'all started talking. Where was y'all first date? What was your first, when you'all started talking where was y'all first date what was your first when you started first talking

what was your to be honest man Jessica did a lot I'ma say this before a lot of these young guys became Jody I was Jody

and our first date big date I'ma say it was Six Flags okay okay Six okay all right not doing it big but before that we did a lot of other things but after that it was we did a lot like she introduced me to a lot actually we both was the same age but she helped make me become got me to becoming a man yeah coming to man and then um yeah didn't boom now jess always

says that you are you were overprotective make sure she was good correct but she always said you can't fight oh my god no she never seen me fight oh i never had to we we fought i got that from she didn't say that of course i'm not gonna fight her bro oh it's crazy because i just got a picture uh from the window you busted mine. She busted your window? No, one window with her fist. What? What happened?

Oh, you can't be her then. If she could break a window from her fist, I wouldn't try to fight that. What happened, Rome? Rome had to take a sip thinking about that. That's triggering him. What happened? You want to know the real story? Yeah, of course.

All right. Jessica pull up. Mind you, we ain't together. Jessica pulls up. I had, we ain't together. Jessica pulls up. I had a girl in the house. So my brother, like, he come to the top of the steps, like, Jerome. Jessica at the door. I'm like, all right, here I come.

The nigga don't even wait for me to come. He let her in. He let her in. Oh, boy. Mind you, I walk right past him and his friends with the girl. Jessica get in. Come down the steps. But what did I see when I walked down the steps, Jerome? You didn't see.

So, this is just a story. At Ashton, I had a portable rocking bassinet. I could put it in the trunk, send it to her, bring it back. Ashton was in a portable rocking joint. Me and the girl was on the bed. I had on basketball shorts. She had on her uniform pants. No.

She going to say she's been saying this forever. Uniform pants? Was was in the military? She was the CO. This is a correctional officer. She's a correctional officer. So like she's sitting. She's facing me but her legs is like you know how that go. Jessica come down and say

she's going to say oh we was naked. We was not naked. If we was naked I'd have been going. It would have been happening. I don't get naked and sit up. Oh my gosh. She's never get naked and sit up. No. She had a shirt on. Very much. Oh, my gosh.

She's never going to tell a truth. Anyway, she banged the girl. You beat up the girl? No, she didn't beat up. She banged her. I just, like, popped her. She fell off. And I picked her up and walked up the stairs and threw her outside.

Rom, you could never lift me. No, you never. Y'all see what I'm saying? No. She never wants to admit the truth. So, hold on. Theo couldn't fight? No.

I don't know if she could fight or not, but I hit her one time and then she got up and then she put on her uniform and went and left. Went upstairs and she left. The truth is, I promise you, I wish it was iPhones and cameras. You started fighting. No.

I didn't fight you. And then my son was not in no portable nothing. He was on the floor on a blanket and the cat was looking at him like he wanted to eat him. She's a bold-faced liar. nothing he was on the floor on a blanket and the cat was looking at him like he wanted to eat him under the carpet so i would never lay my i wouldn't even lay on the floor y'all been arguing about this for 11 years she was drunk out of her mind and i'm trying to figure out why i'm just getting off of work you're a damn lie you did not just get off work you was fired at that time so no i got fired right after that i was working at mcdonald's that's when i was stealing i was the right overnight this is this is so much great love and then if i was drinking okay i was drinking on the job but i was at work so and then i came to get my son

and you did not come get your son because it was my weekend so what i was until monday from daycare why was you coming no he's gonna be nosy i didn't have to come to me she had a passenger with her if you come in and get your son in the cold yep she i don't like nicole either because she told you guys go home 11 years old man that's my god how did you break the window man she had a shit on her hand so you walked out see this car no, and punched the window? No. I threw her ass out. I shut the door.

You never, Jerome, you're not that strong. You was not that strong. Like, you did not throw me nowhere. Yeah, I'm going to tell you how I threw you. I had you, and it was the steps. You jazzy Jeff, though. Yeah, that, right there. He could never, ever, even right now, could not do that to me.

So why you hit the window, though? Why you hit the car? Because I was just really, really mad because he wouldn't give me my son. She's lying. He wouldn't give me my son. You called the police on me. Go on, try to say your stepmother did it. I didn't call. He wouldn't give me my son. You called the police on me. I didn't call the police.

You called the police on him? I didn't call the police. I don't know how the police. He sent me to jail. You went to jail? I went to jail at night. Pause, pause, pause. Listen, hold on.

I need everybody to hear this. Where I'm from, the jail is right there. Right around the corner. You're going to walk. It's two minutes. So you heard the commotion. They walked to us. I don't know how they came.

He called the police on me. And then when then when the police came i i was i just sat in my car i was mad i was like no i can't move here to get my son nicole nicole did tell me yo come on let's pull off he's not giving you the baby he's not giving you the baby i was like all right cool but i was mad so i didn't pull off police paddy wagon pulled up and got out and you was like she right there she right there how did i try to get you locked up when i'm the same one called trying to bail you out with no money i don't know why you ever thought you could bail somebody out with no money i ain't sleep that night you're trying to get out you ever been you ever went through a woman phone of course could you eat after that?

Yes. You could? Well, I couldn't. I'm comparing that to when she went to jail. I couldn't eat. I couldn't sleep. You know? You were sick.

I was sick. I didn't want her in jail. Why the f*** would I call the police? Yeah. All right. We got more with Rome. If you don't know who Rome is, of course, that's Jess Hilarious's baby daddy. And today is National co-parenting day

and we're having a conversation with Rome so don't go anywhere it's the breakfast club good morning morning everybody it's DJ Envy Jess Hilarious Charlemagne the guy we are the breakfast club we're still kicking it with Rome that is Jess's baby daddy today is national co-parenting day and they are excellent co-parenters and we're having a great conversation Charlemagne so now when you hear this story and you say to yourself why are they there on national co-parenters and we're having a great conversation. Charlamagne? So now, when you hear this story and you say to yourself, why are they there on National Co-Parent Day? Because they are like the best of friends now.

They just called you her brother. How do you feel about that? How did y'all get there? Do you look at her like your sister? Because you said mama. I was going to say, what you said, you created that. She's like my mother.

When we out of town and shit, she's like my mother. I ain't going to disclose too much, but she thinks she's my mother no i just know she likes to control like she know how i am though like me i'm a loner i think part of that controlling part is like she cares and sometimes especially when i'm under the influence i've done dumb ass so that's good that you know that you can admit that I've done dumbass I don't know if you're just assisting the back

mmhmm mmhmm everybody like you know everybody know but I hold myself accountable to that mind you

I ain't gonna say I learned from one mistake cause I done did a dumbass over and over again but I think in that aspect that's when the mother the mother with the V

come in but the brother calling me brother and sister honestly without the child, like, it's there. It's seen. Like, cameras on, cameras off.

Like, you can't fake this or make this shit up. Oh, yeah. Rome started that. Rome started calling me sis first. And then I started calling him bro. I, you know, I'm like, yeah, we do have, like, a sibling dynamic in some way, you know. He still confides in my mom.

He, like like my mom is our mother like it's not it ain't nothing crazy it's nothing intimate like seriously i always say this people be like yeah right i can literally walk past this and it i don't do this but i'm saying i can walk past this man naked and he does they be like girl what like i'm talking about seriously like how do y'all deal With each other's spouses Or each other's boyfriend Or girlfriend Like how do you deal

With his girl And how do you deal With Now wrong She told us You had 17 baby mamas Five Five

Okay I never told you He had no damn I thought you said Like everybody always Tries to I said five It's cool though

It's cool I get it I said five But This was Now this was The friction part Now we got over that

But this was The friction part Was I'm on my bend five. But this was the friction part. And we got over that. But the friction part was, I'm out of my business. I don't get in her shit. But the friction part was her getting into mine. But she's still a woman. I'm still a man. Yeah. So women tend to do that.

And this is not, no shame to women. I don't mean no disrespect by saying it. But I think women tend to do that. Especially a woman that care about you. She said that sometimes you make bad decisions. And she's there as your sister to make sure you good. Correct.

Regardless if it's life, relationship, or whatever. Correct. She said that on there. With me personally, I never really, like,

I talk to her about certain things, but I never really like my family to get into no intimate situation. Yeah. Because guess what?

Y'all can feel a way about this person however y'all want, whether it's negative or good. If I'm going to deal with this person, I'm going to deal with her.

Like, the female can smack shit out me yesterday. I might get over it and fuck them up. But it's like, that's how I was

always able to distinguish the two. Like, when Jessica would have men, when she come to me, I ain't never pillow talking or sneak dissing or nothing. Like, I don't really care. It ain't nothing to me like I don't know like I ain't never pillow talking or sneak dissing

or nothing like I don't really care for like it ain't nothing to have that I don't if you put it in that sense but when she come to me with her man

I tell her I ain't right but both of y'all gotta care though cause you gonna wanna know who around your son she gonna wanna know who around her son

I never did though yeah I never so in the beginning stage yeah don't have this my son right right

I grew out of that so now it's I trust my child mom enough to she won't bring no around my child right so I don't say oh don't have my son right i grew out of that so now it's i trust my child mom enough to she won't bring no around my child right so i don't say oh don't have this around my that's never been a problem what has been a problem was because envy me except for my last dog yeah my dog who's the dog my dog chris chris okay it's my dog it's my dog i ain't gonna hold you i think he's the i think like me honestly me and jess man like i think it's been times where a woman didn't like me and her

situation but guess what bye yeah more so and yeah it'll be more so on his end because it's much more of them um but the thing is yeah the thing is like i don't like when I, because I even tell him when he's doing wrong, too. Like, yo, don't treat her like that. This is not how, how, how are you going to introduce me to her? Now I got to know her, you know, and whether she had a kid or not, most of the time is the ones that have the kids. But it's like, yo, you got to do right or just be single. Like, don't keep hurting women in the process of trying to find what you're looking for i mean i know that's all a part of dating but when you have kids it's

different you know and then he'll be like oh that's why i don't like you to be getting into it you know and then i don't like he he attracts a lot of toxic women to like abusive relationships where women will put their hands on her. I'm like, what? Yeah, all right, you know, but he don't, he's like, no, but I might be f***ing with her tomorrow. What?

She just blacked her eye. What are you talking about? You know what I'm saying? Like, no, we not doing it, but. Claire, I never had a black eye. Okay, well, she bust your nose,

whatever. Women have put their hands on you and you be all right with it. And that's why, and that's why she's my dog Like I think she's the only one Really honestly

The one that get the f*** Under my skin Like a certain wordplay she use And I don't care what tone she use it in But to say that It's like I was really never taught how to love When I move my dad

I move my dad and my stepmom Which is my mom now Me and my mom have a great relationship That's my stepmom And my dad, I moved with my dad and my stepmom, which is my mom now. Me and my mom have a great relationship. That's my stepmom. And my dad was married, but my dad was cheating. Same. I know the story. My dad showing me that.

I'm thinking, cool. So even when I started dealing with women and stuff like that, multiple women and all that, my dad was like, yeah, son. Absolutely. And I'm thinking it's cool. like that multiple women and all that my dad was like yeah son absolutely and I'm thinking it's cool cause that's what you're being taught

that's what I'm seeing that's what I'm being taught and every man in my life that I looked at as a role model to me was the same way same so it's like

what you expect but the good thing is now it's like I'm old enough now and mind you I ain't perfect now I'm seeing it I'm trying to you, I ain't perfect now. I'm seeing it. I'm trying to, you know, change it.

But I've never was taught to love properly. So and I never my trust issues is up for my dad because I'm seeing what he's doing. But I'm seeing when it's done to him, his reactions like that. You were just doing this. How you gonna get mad? Right. So it's like every relationship. Is your country falling apart feeling

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tip i've went into i had an expiration date me i put an x-ray on myself i said she gonna get what i'm getting i'm gone so i never really gave a woman the the commitment not even commitment but i've never gave the woman a chance to really love me but even with the kids like even having kids with other women no i haven't and this is like i said no disrespect to my children moms a lot of my my children came out of vulnerability explain found on that and i'm explaining that so i will meet a woman who i may feel like she it's what i need another safe place or whatever the case may be but i'm already vulnerable from a previous relationship i have a child knowing i don't want to be with this woman but i feel like i'm forced to be with her because it's a child and i've done that you know multiple times multiple

times you needed a therapist not another baby mom correct yeah but at the time of need at the time of vulnerability you know women you know women can they be masked up but like i never really knew how to be alone like i feel like i gotta have somebody laying next to me because even before my mom died my mom used to sleep naked this is a back then thing how old were you when your mother passed? I was 10, but I was a mommy's boy. Did you ever really properly grieve?

So grieving, no. I never really grieved. All I did was, I thought it was going to help me by going to school for social work because that's what she was.

But I never really properly grieved. And that's a process now. I do want to get, you know, back in the gym. I do want to get a therapist, but I want everything else around me to be intact so that i could fully commit because if i ain't

fully committed it ain't gonna work all right we got more with rome if you don't know who rome is of course that's jess hilarious's baby daddy and today is national co-parenting day and we're having a conversation with rome so don't go anywhere. It's 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 Rome. That is Jess's baby daddy.

Today is National Co-Parenting Day. And they are excellent co-parenters. And we're having a great conversation. Charlamagne? How did y'all... That's the most... I don't want to say most y'all that's the most thing the most i don't say most important but one of the most important things how did y'all realize

we don't have feelings for each other no more like how did that just go away like y'all have y'all love each other but not in that way i got my answer you want to go first you can go first because i'm still thinking when i stopped caring about who she dealt with um when i wouldn't even like i wouldn't even care like how long did that take oh three years so like my action was like three yeah it was still like really um yeah it was like three years but at that but honestly that three years like i had called a big check so it was like you know i was almost half a million so it was like was like, the pain that I had, whatever the case may be, I would pay,

I would just buy it and block it out. But other than that, like... You ain't try to stunt on her a little bit? No, I never stunt. No, I never.

No, I never. I'm waiting for that. I never intentionally stunted on her. I never did that. Never. I did everything she possibly could

ask me to do. And she said on one of these shows, something about a BGE bill. And I'm going to address that. I never wanted to address it. That was on our show. That was on Co-Parents and Amber. I'm going to address that now.

What bill? That's an electric bill, right? So, I'm going to explain it. Her lights got cut off. You got a $500,000 check and you got a light? Listen, no. It wasn't right then and there. Okay.

But it's over time. Because mind you. So, mind you. Like, mind you. A lot of my plays, she helped me get a lot on the back end but in a time like i helped her whatever the case i didn't know she's moving with a man i didn't move with a man well she moved man in with her yeah yeah all right okay so he had you in the dark too no my business so i don't know that he not there. So, boom. So, here's my logic, and I'm going to say what I'm going to say to her after I explain it. My logic was, all right, man is in the house.

Boom. B.J. E. get cut off. So, she's like, well, Rome. I'm like, well, I'll take my son with me. But that wasn't me talking. That was the girlfriend I had talking. Oh, shit. You ain't tell me that.

I never told you that because as a woman, you ain't trying to hear that. And as a man, and you being me, I don't want to hear that. So I didn't want to tell you that because I'd have felt less of a man. Unball your fists, Jess. So, yeah. But that's what I understand. If somebody else is smacking their cheeks, you pay that bill. So the girlfriend was like.

You're living in that house. So the girlfriend was like. Don't talk about no house. So listen. so the girlfriend was like, so the girlfriend was like, don't talk about no house. So the girlfriend was like, I took a certain amount of money out of the bank. I did. She was with me. She like, why are you giving it to Jessica? I'm like, cause she need it.

And she like, I never said I'm here. Cause I never said the reason. I never said the reason. Yeah. Yeah. I never said the reason though. She said the reason. Yeah. Yeah. I never said the reason though. She was like, what exactly do she need?

Cause I know you ain't giving her no, she don't need a bag or nothing like that. I'm like, no, it's something else. She like, well, don't she got a living with her?

And mind you, I'm drinking at the time. You thinking the same thing? I'm like, you weren't even thinking that till she said it. I wasn't thinking it, but I'm drinking. And I'm like,

you know what? You're right. Why you ain't ask Jess though? Crazy. Why you didn't pick up the phone she said it. I wasn't thinking it, but I'm drinking. And I'm like, you know what? You're right. Why you ain't ask Jess, though? Crazy. Why you didn't pick up the phone and say, Jess, what's up with you? Because I was a young, emotional boy. Who had just ran into a bunch of money. And a bunch of bitches f***ing with that.

No, that's my s***. I'm hurt. My hurt young man got a lot of money. Everybody done f***ed me over. I got some money. I'm doing the f***ing one. Don't make myself happy. Yeah.

And that's how I'm f***ing broke. Everybody except me f***ed you over make myself happy. Yeah. And that's how I'm f***ing broke. Everybody except me f***ed you over. You feel me? Except her. So that was what I was like. And granted, right now,

on today, I'm going to say I truly, sincerely apologize for not taking care of you the way I should have. And I'm going to take my glasses off.

Yeah. Because for a long time, that me and it's like I never ever ever especially you I never ever ever ever meant to do that to you and it's like now that's why I even I work so hard today and just try to even just give you something but in due time let's come back I ain't you know i done made that back went broke again made it back went broke again but my biggest downfall the commons denominator was alcohol and women them two problems never allowed me to really reach my full potential right even when i seen a couple years ago you've seen it 2019 when i was single when i went moved

back by myself i ran that up up. Flourish. But, it be women holding me back, man. Ran into somebody. I'm sorry that I didn't do what I was supposed to do. And a lot of my, I was in your job, the one you done. I felt that was my duty.

But because I had certain people in my, in my ear that I thought had their best interest in me. But when that bag ran out, they left. Yeah.

I'm sorry. I'm not a sorry person. I apologize. Okay. I appreciate that. And listen i was not i was talking to an he moved in months after you think he was gonna move into a dog house you think i you think i wanted to see how i was living no and when you say i asked you like yo can you just get my um my lights on i'll pay you back that's when i was scamming and doing all that that got slow too so i'm like all right you was like no i take my son nobody's taking my kid not even his father like as long as ash wasn't scared of the dark we was good you

know what i'm saying like i still had candles we was playing we was doing all that we would stay outside that turned you up until until it went until it got dark and then we were going to house and hell he never asked me Why the lights ain't coming on It don't matter So as long as he was good I was good I just wanted to be able

To call your baby girl You know what I'm saying And just be like Yo get my lights back on for me And you should have But guess what That made you a demon And when I say demon

I say it in the best way That turns you up And I gotta tell Teach my kids Especially my oldest boy My 11 year old Bro like I don't want you To have to go through Something bad to learn a like I don't want you to have to go

through something bad to learn a lesson I don't think everybody should have to go through something bad to learn a lesson but in your case

I feel like yeah I put that battery in your back and no when that battery came in your back you ain't

you ain't treat me no way it took still a minute for us to create that bond but y'all have it now and i think y'all both should give each other some grace because y'all were dumb yeah correct yeah yeah and i always was a hurt young man so you're right but i love this story because it shows

the foundation and how y'all are now yeah and how y'all treat each other now you know i don't know you but the way she talks about you on the radio and and like you said she is a mother she protects you she holds you down I just love to see it yeah no sometimes I be telling her to stop talking about Rome like that he always do

but it's like why you be talking about Rome but I get it she don't mean no harm no she don't like I said man I wish a lot of other people

would take from us and that's why this shit gotta be on TV that's why y'all writing a book yeah book coming everything coming

book coming everything coming there you have it what do you think the most important thing that's why y'all writing a book yeah book coming everything coming yes everything coming there you have it the most important thing because i want y'all to save a lot of this but what's the most important thing it takes to co-parent if y'all just leave leave it on that because it's national co-parenting day yo i think i started off um communication like a lot of people be scared to hurt each other feelings and a lot of people be afraid to have uncomfortable conversations whether it's about kids um unhashed differences yeah whatever like one day me and rome just literally met up and just we just talked about everything that you know he felt like i did him wrong in certain situations and then he felt like like i will always try because he says

i'm controlling a lot and i do take that you know i'm saying i yeah i own that i do like i will always try because he says i'm controlling a lot and i do take that you know what i'm saying i yeah i own that i do like i was trying to control how he parents sometimes like how would how he would raise ash and all that type of stuff we just put everything on the table and just just was like all right you're moving forward because it's really about ash right and that's really like when we after that it was like no looking back it's like alright whatever cool piece of cake

I'm sure it's a discussion that'll continue on not even just amongst you know Jess and Rome but just amongst anybody out there dealing with

co-parenting issues but I think Rome you know Rome is talking to a lot of different issues that a lot of us men go through you know what I mean

so I'm happy that you was vulnerable this morning that's right you know what I mean and their book is coming soon via Black Privileged Publishing. Love you, y'all. Simon & Schuster.

Love you more, sis. All right. Well, it's Rome. Yes. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Just Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy.

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