The Breakfast Club - The Breakfast Club Best Of Episode(Nick Cannon Interview, Black Thought Interview, E-40 Interview, Asking For A DNA Test Wrong?)

Episode Date: January 2, 2024

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Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast, Post Run High, is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Jenny Garth, Jana Kramer, Amy Robach, and TJ Holmes

bring you I Do Part Two, a one-of-a-kind experiment in podcasting to help you find love again. Hey, I'm Jana Kramer. I'm Jenny Garth. Hi, everyone. I'm Amy Robach. And I'm TJ Holmes. And we are, well, not necessarily relationship experts. If you're ready to dive back into the dating pool and find lasting love, we want to help.

Listen to I do part two on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Hey, everyone. This is Courtney Thorne-Smith, Laura Layton, and Daphne Zuniga. On July 8th, 1992, apartment buildings with pools were never quite the same as Melrose Place was introduced to the world. We are going to be reliving every hookup, every scandal, and every single wig removal together. So listen to Still the Place on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Hey y'all, Nimany here. I'm the host of a brand new history podcast for kids and families called

Historical Records. Executive produced by Questlove, The Story Pirates, and John Glickman, Historical Records brings history to life through hip-hop. Flash, slam, another one gone. Bash, bam, another one gone. The crack of the bat and another one gone. The tip of the cap, there's another one gone.

Each episode is about a different, inspiring figure from history. Like this one about Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old girl in Alabama who refused to give up her seat on the city bus nine whole months before Rosa Parks did the same thing. Check it. Did you know, did you know, I wouldn't give up my seat. Nine months before Rosa, it was called a moment. Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records. Because in order to make history, you have to make some noise. Listen to Historical Records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, 1974. George Foreman was champion of the world. Ali was smart and he was handsome. The story behind the Rumble in the Jungle is like a Hollywood movie. But that is only half the story. There's also James Brown, Bill Withers, B.B. King, Miriam Akiba. All the biggest black artists on the planet. Together in Africa.

It was a big deal. Listen to Rumble, Ali, Foreman, and the Soul of 74 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Wake up, wake up, wake up! You guys really are like the hip-hop early morning late night talk show breakfast club is the most powerful popular urban radio show live from the black mothership in new york city it's dj envy and charlemagne to god it's different you know i'm saying like y'all know what y'all talking about thank you y'all be blessed i love y'all collectively known y'all talking about. Thank you, y'all. Be blessed, love. I love y'all.

Collectively known as Breakfast Club, bitches. I'm always nervous when I do the Breakfast Club because sometimes you say stuff and it's just going to get you in trouble. Everybody wait. Ray, Ray, Ray. Yo, Charlamagne. Lindsey, 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. We'll tell you what it is. We made it. We live. Hello, who's this? Hello.

Yo, yo, what up, DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha God, and the beautiful lady that y'all got up there. My name is Ayanna from San Antonio, Countdown City, New Texas. What up, Ayanna? Get it off your chest. First of all, I want to say thank you for giving us knowledge for investing. And Uncle Charlotte for all the information he gives me on mental health. That's put me in a good position that I'm in now. That's great.

What I want to get off my chest is I'm tired of this job. I'm a truck driver. And I'm tired of this job because I've been working for like a year trying to get my raise. I finally get my raise and then they cut my hours. So I'm like out here struggling, but we're going to make it work. All right. You in that truck now, brother? Nah, I'm not in the truck right now.

I actually just got off, but I wish I was so I could blow the horn for you. You know what I mean? There you go. But I wanted to know, y'all, if I can get like a signed copy of y'all's book. Yeah, of course. I got you. I don't have any more of mine up here right now, i do have a state of emergency by tamika mallory and anita kopax by shallow waters those are both my off my book in print black privilege publishing i'll send you

though so for sure for sure and if y'all can sign it for me i already got six when i just would appreciate it yeah we'll get them out to you hold on okay hello who's this this is is Kayla from Atlanta. Hey, Kayla from the ATL. Get it off your chest, mama. This one is for Sean Levine. Hi. I just want to thank a huge, huge Natalie Dunn for the way she talked about you on her live that day. I've been waiting a minute to talk about this because I didn't like it. She can't compete where she cannot compare what you have done for your community and

for your people is on a whole other level. And she could never even compare to you. And it really makes me mad. Well, thank you. I just, you know, I'm just happy to be here. Thank you. God is good all the time. Thank you very much.

Absolutely. DJ Envy, don't sweat that shit that you say about you. I'm f***ing with you, hard body. All right. Thank you, Kayla. Thank you, Kayla. Y'all have a good one. Appreciate you, Kayla.

All righty, Kayla. You got to love Kayla, right? Get it off your chest. Hello? This Tootie from Detroit. Hey, Tootie. What up, doe? Hey, yeah.

So I wanted to get off my chest about this money, this government always come out. They running out of. How is that possible when all they have to do is keep making more money? Like, and then when they say they owe who do they owe like how do you owe something like i'm thinking it's gonna be sitting in a room somewhere if everybody give all the money back i don't know what you're talking about this morning man what are you talking about exactly she said how can we owe money when we could just print money the deficit is going up and up like when i was in middle school they just say we all owe your kids

oh how we all owe something that we ain't borrowed yet or who are you borrowing it from oh you mean like america's in debt the u.s oh yeah like who is they borrowing this money from i have no idea that's not my that's not my uh that's not my lane i don't know what you're talking i don't know i know the u.s i know the u.s government i know the u.. government spends more money than it generates. So that's why the national debt keeps rising. Yes, that's what I mean. How can the national debt? So who are we supposed to pay all this money back to?

Let's say everybody paid all the money back. Where's the money going to be at? Where's the money going to be at? Yeah, in a bank, in a room, or where's it going to be at? Who gives permission to like how they get? Oh, yeah, and another thing, this is what I really want to say about the Constitution. It's something with the U.S. Treasury Department. I think it needs to be rewritten. Why don't you go to the Constitution?

I think the Constitution needs 55 new people to write it over. I agree with that. That I agree with. Yes. And that was back in 17-whatever time. It's like, it's new people and new colors of people we need.

55. Now, how can we get a petition going on to do that now i definitely agree with that i definitely think the constitution needs to be updated tremendously get it off your chest 800-585-1051 if you need to vent phone lines are wide open it's the breakfast club good morning the breakfast club it's a new day this is your time to get it off your chest Whether you're mad or blessed It's time to get up and get something Call up now 800-585-1051

We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club Hello, who's this? This is Too Tall from Detroit Too Tall from Detroit How tall are you, Too Tall? Yes, sir, what's going on? Charlotte, what's going on? DJ M

What's your actual height, Too Tall? Yeah, how tall are you? Man, I'm 6'8", man You know what's going on? DJ M. What's your actual height, 2'2"? Yeah, how tall are you? Man, I'm 6'8", man. You know what I'm saying? So he's standing tall around this spot. Okay, 6'8". And you can't play no basketball, huh? Man, sure, I played when I was younger, man.

But everybody asked me, why you don't play basketball? I'm like, man, I'm getting ripped some other way. I don't got to run a basketball court. Nah, you just telling the truth. I'm trash. I'm tall and trash on the basketball court. It's okay. Yeah, for sure, man.

But y'all want to get off my chest, man. I don't know what the world coming to, man. Messing with Cash Money, Drake, and Birdman, and all that. Drewski, and especially BG, man. BG a legend. If people tell me he looks investy and stuff, I don't know what the world coming to, man. They better leave Cash Money Records over there alone, man, for them boys to get on that New Orleans, Magnolia, Third World

type stuff, you know what I mean? Well, Drewski's playing, bro. Those are skits and sketches. He just, he's a comedian. Man, you think Birdman taking it like that because Birdman is still, he ain't playing. Man, Birdman is in on the joke. Yes, Birdman is in on the joke. Everybody forget when Birdman and Drewski did that Instagram

live together. Birdman is clearly in on the joke, bro. Ah, man, all right. That went over my head. What did BG do, man? What's up with him? What's up? Why don't you talk about my man BG, man? He's a gangster, man.

A living legend. They better put some respect on his name, man. When you say they, you do realize you're just talking about a bunch of random commenters on the internet, right? Man, bro, no comments on the internet, the online stuff. You know, people taking it wrong with it, man. You know what I'm saying? BG just come out, he got kids and family

and all that stuff online. Come on, he's nasty. Man, he's a gangster, man. I don't know if he's young. Bro, you gotta stop looking into these Instagram commenters, bro. I cannot wait until y'all just put the phones down and stop worrying about what a bunch of strangers who don't know y'all say about y'all.

I'm sure BG don't care about people with no face talking about him. That man just came home. He's just happy to be home. He's celebrating with his family. He about to get in the studio, get to some more music. I don't think he cares.

Salute to BG. Hey, one more thing. Hey, Charlotte, have you ever made up with little mama man for calling her and you started stepping up? Jesus Christ. Man, y'all, listen, little mama has been on Breakfast Club like five times since then.

That's 13 years ago, man. Like, literally. All right, man. Yes. That's good, brother. That's good, man. Well, man, it's a pleasure being on here with y'all. It's hard to keep through to y'all, man.

Y'all need some more lines or something, man. Damn. It's hard, brother. But thank you for calling and checking in, brother. All right, brother. All right, have a good one, man. Y'all have a blessed lines or something, man. Damn. It's hard, bro. But thank you for calling and checking in, brother. All right, brother. All right, have a good one, man. Y'all have a blessed day. You know what?

There's two things that people always say. They be like, yo, what's up with Charlamagne and Lil Mama? And I'm like, Lil Mama's been on the show several times after that. People always say, what's up with you and DJ Drama? I'm like, Drama's been on the show many times after that. But you know why, though? Because the way the internet moves it's like even though that happened 13 years ago

if you never saw it say you just saw it yesterday it's new to you. You know what I mean? You don't realize that was 13 years ago. Yeah. The internet has

these little moments in time where these frozen moments these moments are suspended in time. Right. And so to us we know the context it was 13 years ago but somebody might just see it and be like oh that happened yesterday. Right. You know? That in time. Right. And so to us, we know the context. It was 13 years ago, but somebody might just see it

and be like, oh, that happened yesterday. Right. You know, that's it. I get it. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast

Club. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed. The brother Black Thought. Welcome back. Yeah, man. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. How you feeling? Legendary Black Thought. I'm great. I'm great. I feel great this morning, man. You put out an amazing book.

Thank you, brother. Called The Upcycled Self. The Upcycled Self. Uncycled Self. No, Upcycled Self. The Upcycled Self. Upcycled Self. Yeah, yeah, yes, sir.

What does that title mean? You know, essentially it's about, you know, putting those parts of ourselves, of our past, you know what I'm saying, that are no longer going to serve us or no longer going to serve us in the same way to a different use, you know what I'm saying, to a better use. Right? So that's what it's about, really. It's a self-help memoir of sorts yeah the art of becoming who we are i always wonder why did it take us so long to discover who we actually are i mean you know it's a it's a process you know what i mean um it's it's valleys

and peaks and i think it's uh you know you you you arrive at an understanding of who you are you know uh over time so it's really no shortcut you know what i'm saying it's uh it's a lot of people that think you can go from a to z but you got to go b c d e f g first and it teaches you too that you know everything parallel. Like there's really nothing behind you. Absolutely. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah.

And this book is about that, too. It's about, you know, accepting the present. You know what I mean? And just, you know, living, being more intentional about your presence. So, yeah, that's where I'm at with it. Did you get a chance to deal with. Hey, guys, I'm mad with it. Did you get a chance to deal with it? Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show,

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It's your favorite ghost host, Teresa. And guess what? Haunting is back, dropping just in time for spooky season. Now I know you've probably been wandering the mortal plane, wondering when I'd be back to fill your ears with deliciously unsettling stories. Well, wonder no more, because we've got a ghoulishly good lineup ready for you.

Let's just say things get a bit extra. We're talking spirits, demons, and the kind of supernatural chaos that'll make your spooky season complete. You know how much I love this time of year. It's the one time I'm actually on trend. So grab your pumpkin spice, dust off that Ouija board. Just don't call me unless it's urgent. And tune in for new episodes every week. Remember, the veils are thin, the stories are spooky, and your favorite ghost host

is back and badder than ever. Listen to Haunting on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. So y'all, this is Questlove, and I'm here to tell you about a new podcast I've been working on with the Story Pirates and John Glickman called Historical Records. It's a family-friendly podcast. Yeah, you heard that right. A podcast for all ages. One you can listen to and enjoy with your kids starting on September 27th. I'm going to toss it over to the host of Historical Records,

Nimany, to tell you all about it. Make sure you check it out. Hey, y'all. Nimany here. I'm the host of a brand new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. Historical Records brings history to life through hip-hop. Flash, slam, another one gone. Bash, bam, another one gone. The crack of the bat and another one gone. 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 called a moment. Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records. Because in order to make history, you have to make some noise. Listen to Historical Records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Jenny Garth, Jana Kramer, Amy Robach, and TJ Holmes bring you I Do Part 2, a one-of-a-kind experiment in podcasting to help you find love again.

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Hi, I'm Dani Shapiro, host of the hit podcast, Family Secrets. How would you feel if when you met your biological father for the first time, he didn't even say hello? And how would you feel if your doctor advised you to keep your life-altering medical procedure a secret from everyone? And what if your past itself was a secret and the time had suddenly come to share that past with your child? These are just a few of the powerful and profound questions

we'll be asking on our 11th season of Family Secrets. Some of you have been with us since season one, and others are just tuning in. Whatever the case, and wherever you are, thank you for being part of our Family Secrets family, where every week we explore the secrets that are kept from us, the secrets we keep from others, and the secrets we keep from ourselves. Listen to Season 11 of Family Secrets on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All the trauma before you put it in this book, or was it some of it was releasing that trauma by writing this book? Yeah, a lot of the trauma, you know, it was addressed during the process, you know, and that's what made it, you know, just like this was my therapy. It was really, you know, a cathartic sort of experience and more so than I'd expected.

I mean, you know, you know your history, right? Right. But when it's laid out there, you know what I mean, when you have it on the cue cards and, you know what I mean mean and you're reading it you know in a linear sort of way I mean it just hits different man it hits differently and there was something that my co-author Jasmine Martin was able to to employ like a tool she was able to use during this process that um it really hit me hard when I was reading one of the final drafts of the book and it was um you know she was able to speak as there's an aside section where you hear

you know my mother like you hear my mother's perspective and the way she was able to you know just to approximate my mother's perspective in her voice and that's what really really hit me hard in the process did you have a question your faith as a kid growing up because you talk about so much death in your life and yeah all the stuff that you've been through did you ever say you know what does this really exist is there really a a god or whoever you believe did you ever question your faith at all i did yeah there's definitely been times you know when uh you i i'll question my my faith uh you know or or, I mean, just on the existential tip, you know what I mean? Like, if there's a God, you know, how could all of this, you know, loss and trauma and

death, you know, exist? Some of the stuff that I write about, how is the world this ugly if you made it in your image? You know what I'm saying? That's one of my bars from a song called Dear God. But, yeah, to answer your question, definitely. How did you get that back? And the reason I ask is if you don't know when you read the book, you'll find out that you lost your father at a young age.

You lost your mom at a young age as well. Both are murdered. Yeah, yeah. Murder victim. So how did you get that faith back? Through the arts. Visual art, which was my gateway into music. And that's what really saved my life.

You know what I'm saying? It was a game changer that I would have been on. I was already on it. I was on that path. And, you know, me meeting Questlove when I did, which, you know, I talk about in the book. And just getting on that musical trajectory of the arts is what really saved me. I know you was a baby when your father was tragically murdered. But you was a teenager when your mother was. Were murdered but you was a teenager when your mother was were you able to process that pain in the moment or was that something that you dealt with

as you got older yeah i think it's something that i'm still dealing with uh i definitely was not able to process it in the moment um you know no matter no matter how hard i tried right you know i wanted to feel all the emotion that you you know you expect you would expect one to feel all the emotion that you would expect one to feel when you experience that sort of loss. But, I mean, for me, it took forever before I was even able to shed a tear about my mother's murder. And I think it's just because it was so many layers of callous and scar tissue to sort of work through. And that's what this book is about. It's about that armor that, you know, at one point in time, it might serve as a defense mechanism.

It might, you know, protect you. But as we move through life and you get into different spaces, you start to interact with different people and, you know, now you're in these different dynamics. They no longer serve us in the same way. What about vengeance and revenge? Like, how do you ultimately let that go? I mean it did you yeah yeah i'm not feel i definitely

feel like i have um it's uh that's that was just a wise move i think i i definitely came to to to understand um as a young person when i was still a teenager that uh you know holding on to uh to to to negative energy in that way um you know, it's as detrimental to, you know, the beholder as it is to whoever you're trying to project it upon. So, yeah, I've never really sat with, you know, the whole vengeance in that way. You know what I mean?

As far, like, in my dad's case, it was never a saw of murder. But in my mom's case, it was never a solved murder. But in my mom's case, you know, they apprehended someone shortly after. And, you know, we went through the trial and everything. And, you know, he received a sentence. And then there was a mistrial of it all. And we had to sit through it again. So I sat through, actually, through my mother's murder trial twice.

Damn. You know, but in that, you know, once it was done, it was something that I had to let go of, you know what I mean, in order for me to be able to move forward. And you still had love for Philly regardless of everything that happened. Yeah. Because that got to be tough, too. Absolutely.

Yeah, I absolutely have love, you know, for Philadelphia. That's the place that made me. But, you know, it's also, it's one of those, you know, it can make you, it can break you, you know what it's also, it's one of those, you know, it can make you, it can break you. You know what I mean? And it's the city of brotherly love. That love has always been a tough love, you know? All right, we got more with Black Thought.

When we come back, don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Black Thought. Charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club we're still kicking

it with black thought charlamagne i was gonna ask with with the roots when you guys created the roots when did y'all start making money and the reason i asked is because it was new yeah like when when the roots came out it was something that hip-hop hasn't seen on that platform or respected on that platform yeah so when did the roots finally break through and was like nah this is hip-hop's bad i want to say um around 2006 or so was it hard to always you know break into a market sell it to a promoter because i just remember the roots so early on and just like this is just so different and sometimes in hip-hop different is hard to break through it was very hard for us it was um you know

super difficult to what because we we didn't really look or sound or feel like any anything else that was that was happening so it was a lot of uh you know we always had to prove ourselves right and um and you know i mean it took so long for us to to even break even financially um and that's something that just came over time uh you know just paying those dues on the road. You know what I'm saying? Like you start at one point touring and then you're able to sort of get your stock up just through when you keep coming back. You know what I mean?

So we were able to sort of build on that relevance. And it was wild. It was like when we finally hit a point, you know, 06, 07, you know, where we felt like, yeah, you know, all of these years of 200 plus days on the road started to pay off. That's when there was a whole seismic shift in the way people started to receive, people were receiving music and concert tickets and all that thing. We went through a revolution with streaming

and that whole thing. And then that's when the Tonight Show opportunity presented itself, and that's thing. So, and then that's when the Tonight Show opportunity presented itself. And that's what made it make sense. It was like, you know, we had just reached, finally reached, we hit a stride. And everything was changing, you know. So, yeah, in that uncertainty, you know, the consistency of the day job and that platform that it would represent, you know, it looked really good.

Was there a particular moment was it was it jay-z using y'all a lot or like was it a particular moment that caused that shift um you know when we started to make some bread yeah i mean it was and get recognized by enough to where the tonight show was like yo i want that to be not well you know yeah and i think it was just over time man you know we um you know we been around for, I mean, blessed enough to have been around for such a long time that, you know, a good example is, you know, there's a festival that takes place in Denmark, in Copenhagen every year. It's called Ross Guild. And, you know, we started playing at Ross Guild before we were even, you know, allowed on the actual festival grounds.

Like, we were, you know, two tents, you know, out on the main strip, right? And, you know, we worked our way up from, you know, the outskirts to the tent, you know, right on the borderline to, you know, third and fourth stages. Until we came back and we were able to headline, you know, with, it was the Roots and Bruce Springsteen co-headlined it. That's dope. You know, but yeah, that was over, you know what I'm saying, many years. And it's like, Ross Gilda isn't the, like, we've done that around the world, you know what I mean?

Just because we've been able to keep up appearances. So, yeah, I guess we just paid our dues, you know? Yeah, and then once we got, you know once we got into late night and we started doing that thing, it definitely represented a change in our career where we haven't been able to tour in that same way. So, yeah, everything that we had done up until that point, it's just been a blessing. And this is the sort of thing where we probably had taken it for granted and thought we'd be able to do it forever. But, you know, here we are. And now, yeah, it's just more of a blessing and just a greater opportunity when we do get to go out and still touch the fans in that way.

Now, when you decided to write about the altercation you had with Questlove back in the 90s, did you have to ask him if you could speak on that? No, I didn't have to ask him because he had written about it in one of his books before. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. And it's the sort of thing that, you know, like, that's my brother, so, I mean, I know if it's good or not, you know? And also, that's a, it's like, to me, those are the best relationships. Oh, yeah. If you can have, if you can fight and then get over it.

Yeah. Hey, man. That's family. Absolutely. And, you know, it really takes, it takes love for somebody to get you that upset, right? You know what I mean? Only my loved ones have ever really been able to get me that riled up, right? So there's something in that.

But, yeah, you know, we were all kids at that point. Yeah. You know, now I'm an adult, so I would have dealt with that situation in a completely different way. How long did y'all not speak? I mean, we lived together. Maybe we didn't speak for the train ride home, but it's like, you know, once we got back to the flat,

you had to talk. Right, right, right. There's no escaping it. And how was that? That had to be uncomfortable, awkward, or was it like, bro? Yeah, it was definitely,

you know, it was awkward, it was uncomfortable. You know, it was the sort of thing that I would laugh about, you know, almost most immediately.

Like, that's just where I come from. And the name Black Thought. Yeah yeah what exactly did that derive from it it derived from you know my time as a visual artist and you know just dealing with paints and you know just the color palette I realized that you know so much more went into you know arriving at the color black than one would think. There's so many different nuances and colors, other colors that go into arriving at the color black. So that's sort of what it began as.

And over time, it's evolved into something that has taken far greater meaning, both, I guess, to me and to, you know, to people who support me. So, yeah, at the time, I didn't think, you know, I wasn't thinking of Black Thought as the concept of a people. You know what I'm saying? But that's sort of what it's come to mean. Absolutely. Yeah. Well, man, Black Thought's book, man.

That's right. The Upcycled Self. The Upcycled Self. Yes, yes, yes. We appreciate you for joining us. What do you want people to get out of this book? yeah well man black thoughts book man that's right the upcycled self upcycled self yes we appreciate you for joining us and what do you want people to get out of this book if they were if they can get one thing out of it what do you want them to get out of this book um you know if if one person is able to see themselves and you know better understand themselves or better understand you know their path their their lived experience if this is going to be you know an entree into

someone else being able to start to work through their stuff and you know shed some of those layers of of armor that are no longer useful you know what i mean um those layers of of callus and and scar tissue then uh yeah then it's it's a win and i've already you know experienced that you know i've already had some of those conversations so i feel this book has already been helpful all right you're gonna get nominated for a Grammy this year I did I got a couple days ago congratulations black thought the older album yeah I know acapella not even with a beat Wow just the voice love it bars Wow yeah yeah love love letter to hip-hop yeah how did that feel um it

feels awesome it feels awesome and I don't know solo yeah in that moment i didn't really realize it until you know my homies started telling me like yeah you know it's wild like this is you know your first grammy nomination you know i mean like outside of the roots and then um another homie hit me was like yo it'll be wild if you win this joint like that's the flex you ain't even need music you know i was like yeah i started yeah i sat with it like all right yeah you wrote some bars for that just to get just get over there yes sir yes sir do you still i don't want to say need it but do you do you like that type of validation i do i do i i still appreciate that that that sort of validation you know what i mean um that's not you know what i do it for but um it definitely uh yeah i mean it feels it's great to be recognized you know i mean absolutely well it's black thought we appreciate you pick up his book

the upcycled self and it's the breakfast club good morning it's topic time call 800-585-1051 to join in to the discussion with The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Now, if you're just joining us, we're talking about a situation that comes out of Blueface and Krishan's relationship. Now, Blueface allegedly took a DNA test secretly, and it proved that he is not the father of their child. So we're asking, is it disrespectful to ask for a DNA test?

And is it even more disrespectful to secretly do one? And you got to say, we don't know for sure if that DNA test and what he said is real. Yeah, that's what I said literally. Yeah, so, I mean, he's saying he took it and it's not his, but we don't know for sure. It don't even matter about them. No. Yeah, let's talk about the situation. Yeah, so that is the question. So how would you feel if you were dating somebody, you were pregnant, and a dude got a DNA test and you didn't know? about them no yeah let's let's talk about the situation yeah so that is the question so how

would you feel if if you were dating somebody you were pregnant and a dude got a dna test and you didn't know how serious are we like locked in or we just like having fun does it matter yeah yes it does matter if we just having fun and like we are honest about the fact that we're dating other people and that happened i would have to respect it i would want you to be able to just know me and trust me but i'll have to respect it because we are obviously dealing with other people and I would expect you to get a DNA test that'd be the first thing I'd do if it was just a girl that I was out here having fun with and she got pregnant the first thing I'm going to do is say let's get a DNA test but even if you're in a relationship and you feel possibly that baby is not yours you

wouldn't tell the person because that ruins the whole relationship. That ruins the trust. That ruins everything. But you might want to know, right? Because what's the first thing usually a guy's mama say? That baby don't look like you. If the baby say, that baby don't look like you. But you also know too as a guy what you're doing and how often you're doing it

and how locked in y'all are. So like sometimes- Yeah, but we don't know how often the woman is doing it and how much, you know, they could be doing it. If y'all are under each other all the time though, like- That don't mean- Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. you might know me from my popular online series the running interview show where i run with celebrities athletes entrepreneurs and more after those runs the

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where every week we explore the secrets that are kept from us, the secrets we keep from others, and the secrets we keep from ourselves. Listen to Season 11 of Family Secrets on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Really? No. Women are like cats. Men are like dogs. See, men, when they go out there and cheat they they do it in the open in front of everybody like you

Be driving you out you driving down the road you then pass the yard and seeing two dogs stuck together You ain't never seen two cats having sex with each other That's why men are like dogs women are like cats smarter, so I don't think it's disrespectful no sneakier I don't think it's disrespectful. You know to go do what uh, you know, Blueface did. You know, you can't tell people trust their intuition, trust their gut, and then when they do, tell them they're being disrespectful. Because if a man sneaks and does it, and he's right about not being the father, being mad at him for sneaking and getting a DNA test, that's just a deflection. That's true.

But even if the woman really thought that he was the father? Yes. But, like, it's not like she's pinning a kid on you she just really thought you were the father did you put the other uh options on the table yeah you should have put the other option did you put the other option on the table you didn't say it could be hey i slept with another person yeah i said that in the beginning i said if we're just having fun and i'm sleeping with no but what if you're not just having fun with you and what if you're in a relationship but you did creep off well then that's messed up of course that's messed up

so you can't be mad at a person for having some intuition and feeling like they should go get a DNA test. Not at all. Hello, who's this? Hello, hey, this is Jayla. Hey, Jayla, good morning. Talk to us. What's your thoughts?

So I don't think it's disrespectful at all to ask for a DNA test. It is disrespectful to get one behind the parents' back, but you can just straight up ask for one. And if they deny the dad getting a DNA test, then, you know, they can take them on to court. I think you got to protect your peace, man. I get what you're saying.

But, you know, asking for a DNA test is going to start a whole other argument. A whole beef in the household. Correct. So I would much rather, let me go do this on my own. But if you do it on your own and then the kid is not yours and you decide to stay, do you then have to have a conversation about the fact that you snuck? Like, it's a whole thing. No, no, because the reason you snuck was true, regardless of what happened.

But you decide to stay. It doesn't matter, but you lie. You're not going to say nothing to the woman? I would be, I mean, I'm not saying that that can't happen, but I think it's very rare to find a man who snuck and did a DNA test, found out the kid wasn't his, and said, I'm just going to keep this to myself. I don't know. It's cold. People need heat in a hot bed. You stupid. D! Yes, yes.

D, what's your thoughts, D? This happened to me. My thoughts is it's not disrespectful to ask for a DNA test, but it's disrespectful as hell. Excuse my language, but it's disrespectful to go behind my back and swap my child without me knowing. Very disrespectful. I feel like whether we messing around or not, and I say it's your baby and you believe it,

then go for it. If you don't believe it, that's going to get attached. Like, you can't stop him. Be real. Well, technically. Like, the fact to go behind somebody's back is just teaching you to sell. Well, technically, I'm not just swabbing your child. I'm swabbing my child. Because it's still our child until I find out it's not.

Right, but what is the actual problem with doing it with me around as well? Because I don't want to go through the beef. You know good and well, you're not going to take that well if a man comes to you and be like... I'm going to put you out. I'm going to throw your clothes on. No, you're not. You're only going to go through the beef if I comes to you and be like, I'm going to put you out. I'm going to throw your clothes on. No, you're not. You're only going to go through the beef if I find out the child is not mine. But if the child is ours, I ain't going to never see you.

It ain't going to be no issue. It is. It is. Come on. What's the problem with just staying right here? I don't feel like this baby is mine. You know what the problem is. He's looking a little like that other.

He look like that other. That's the problem. That's why I'm going to contest. That would make it even worse. If you say that to me, you better be ready for it. Let's say unless your kid's old enough and they be like, Mommy, why did Daddy put that Q-tip in my mouth today? Then now you in trouble.

Now you in trouble. There is no woman on earth that's going to take that well. No. A man coming to her saying, I don't think this baby is mine. Can we get a DNA test? And he look like the other one? Come on, man. The only way a woman takes that well is if y'all not not in a relationship if y'all was just sleeping around

with each other and you know they were still it was really fast it was gonna be fine no i don't think so it's like she can't you can't really be mad about it but you still would be like damn if she said the child is yours and you're like well i want to get a test if we're just sleeping around if we don't have no relationship if we don't know each other I don't think that's a issue. You got to be practical and you cannot be upset but in an inside and in her group chat

she's going to be like y'all know he asked me for a date. She's going to feel a little way a little bit. Hello who's this? Hello this is Rachel. Hey Rachel. Talk to us.

What's your thoughts? So I'm big on telling everybody like get a DNA test. Get a DNA test. It's mama's baby daddy's baby. So whether y'all together, no matter what's going on,

a DNA test should be had. Nobody should have to sneak into it because it should already be something that's discussed. And that's something you should talk about before you even have a kid with a person. I want to make sure there's my baby. I'm going to get a DNA test. Yeah, you know, I just thought about something too.

Like, you know, if you go to a woman and you ask for a DNA test, if she knows that it's a possibility the baby may not be hers, she probably would get highly, highly upset.

Because you only... It's two things going to happen. You're going to get highly upset because you know the baby may not be his or you're going to get highly upset because he asked you. But if he asks you and you know it's his, you're probably probably just gonna be just sitting back waiting to give him that little schmuck like now what but that's why he was so

I was like please can you get a dna test like I tried a lot to him and everything like it's a possibility I don't know why would you do that why would you do that? Why would you do that to him? Why would you do that to that man? So you play too much. You want me to hate you. No, I'm going to tell you why I did it, though. My baby daddy is from the country in South Carolina. What part? And he feels as if he don't have to do anything because it's not proof that it's his. What part of South Carolina are you from?

Monk's Corner. He's from Dillon. Oh, okay. Yeah, that's country, country. So he feel like he don't got to do nothing without proof. So when I was putting him on child support, I'm like, just get a DNA test. Just get one. Just get one.

You know, child support, they ask you, like, do you want to get one? He would not get one. And he finally confessed, like, I already knew it was mine. I ain't had no doubt about it. I'm like, you still should have got one Just For your security Like that black and white paper

Would have made you feel a whole lot better That's right But you would not get one But I feel like everybody should get one I got five brothers I be telling my brothers all the time You don't know what these women do That's right

Even married people y'all think should do women do? That's right. Even married people, y'all think should do this as well too? No. No, not married people. If you're just in a relationship with somebody and y'all not committed

or if y'all just sleeping around, yeah. I want that peace in my life. I don't want to have to go through this. I think any time you have any intuition,

any inkling that it may not be yours, get a DNA test. I agree. You got that feeling for a reason. Hello, who's this? Yo, what's up? Gerard. Hey, what's up, Gerard? Talk to us, brother. Man, I used to work

with a guy, right? He found out his daughter was a hill wind. He was like, where you going? She said, she stood up to him and said, I'm going to see my daddy. And he was like, what? So, you have to get a DNA test I heard in Memphis from the mandatory DNA test once the woman have the baby huh they're gonna have a DNA test

goodbye sir goodbye what the hell is that I don't know Jesus Christ what's the moral of the story the moral of the story is what I said earlier if you have any you know inkling or you know your instincts are telling you eh it may not be yours what's wrong with getting a dna test moral can also be just pull out what are you talking about don't get pregnant by somebody that's gonna have to question you you will get pregnant soon if you go in with the pullout message just that why why what i'm just saying we i want you to get on this radio sometimes and defy Delaware stereotypes we call it dirty Delaware

and all you do every time you get the opportunity to guest host on Breakfast Club is reinforce the dirty Delaware stereotype and it feels even dirtier coming from a woman they're not using condoms if the person is potentially pregnant so you're not going to use them dirty Delaware I thought it was just the guys a woman they're not using condoms if the person is potentially pregnant so you're not going to use them they're delaware guys oh don't be like that don't don't with that disgust i don't like

that all right it's the breakfast club good morning the breakfast club morning everybody it's dj nv charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Our special guest host, Chris Kalen, is here. What's up? And we got some special guests in the building. Our guy, Nick Cannon is here. Yes. With our special guest, Klondike Blonde.

We got a future superstar in the building. Nice to see you all. Yeah. I know. But we've seen him, but he hasn't been here. But he's been doing every damn thing out there. Yeah. How you been, brother? I mean, I'm good, man.

I'm excited about, you know, obviously here to talk about the new show that we're launching on BETVH1. But just working, man. You know how it goes. Just the grinds. Doing my morning show thing, too. So that's probably why I really ain't been able to be up here. Speaking of future superstars, how do you feel about your son being a better rapper than you? Ah, that's amazing.

Yesterday we played his verse. We played his eight bars. He was going in. Who do you think? I don't want none of my whack sauce to get on him. He doing all right. I'm calling back. Now, somebody said he over the goose right for you.

Yeah, he should. Nah, my son is amazing, man. And like seeing like the, you know, when I'm young, kids really got the natural swag like I'll be He be putting me up on the new game and stuff and the dope thing is he's a rapper But he's also a producer too So he's really into that space of like making beats and DJing and gaming and all that stuff if he wants to do that I see he really got it. He y'all see him rocking them stages doing it every night on tour with his mom

So that's pressure though, right? Because he's Nick Cannon's dad, Mariah Cannon's mom. See, there's no pressure of being Nick Cannon's... You're still a superstar. No, no, I'm just like... Now being Mariah's daughter in singing. Yes, true. That's the pressure. So that's why even with Monroe, we got her doing things like...

I taught her how to play guitar. We still work. I want her to have other aspects. She really wants to be an actress, too. She's talking about she wants to go to the Yale Drama School and make sure, like, if she really gets, like, she's taking it seriously. She's already talking about, you know, getting her degree in theater at Yale. So, like, just trying to, you know, as a father,

trying to really guide them in a direction. We never pushed it on them, but the fact that now they're really starting to embrace it as they get into the teenage world, really want to cultivate it. I'm proud of them, man. Dope. Now you do a skit with one of your

child's moms. Yes. A lot. Yeah. Any other child's mom be like, why you do so many skits with her?

Well, it's interesting because like, I mean, everybody kind of got their lane. So like, on my morning show, The Daily Cannon,

I have, you know, one of the mothers of my children. She's in radio. She's DJ Abby De La Rosa. So that's kind of her space. So our social commentary and daily conversation, that's her lane. Bri is on Selling Sunset and kind of like a social media guru and stuff.

So that's her lane. And everybody even behind the scenes, some of them have foundations and we do a lot of philanthropic work. You'll see that. Some are literally like doctors and writing op-eds and thesis so you'll be able like the people that i specifically the mothers of my children that i have in my life i try to cultivate whatever it is that they're into and even kind of goes all the way back to the business of like future superstars like i feel like i'm in that season i'm in my era of just helping others and kind of amplifying whatever it is that they got going and sometimes

it just happened to be my baby mama yeah that, it has always been your thing, though. I mean, you too. You don't get enough credit for all that you do, helping people and putting them on and allowing them to shine. So I feel like we're kind of those guys that get to say, all right, if we see something in somebody, we can kind of put the mechanisms around them and allow them to do their thing.

All praise is to God. There it is. Now, Klondike Blonde, how are you, ma'am'am i'm doing good right how are you i'm blessed black and highly favorite now where did the concept of future superstars come from nick and why klondike blonde why did why her specifically i mean if you some to go she's to go uh she she her vibe is punk rock rap like and if you saw her episode that actually just aired you know uh this week is really these people have compelling stories if we remember what vh1 was always about was like we saw the behind the music and it was really like

telling the story sometimes you know it was a retrospective story but now it's like these are the origin stories so this is like before the music this is in her journey man i mean everything that she's gone through in life uh from you know there's a lot of tragedy there's a lot of things where her music helps with her anxiety and to be able to kind of create your own genre we went on this tour and i just wanted to highlight and tell the stories of these people that are just more than musicians because we didn't we don't have that no more we don't have other than platforms like y'all have but we came up with vh1 behind the music and you know uh 106 in park and all that so i feel like we can now still be those curators to help this next generation because i just got frustrated as somebody who

has a label and has artists and like yo what happened to that promo run what happened to putting people on on the road coming into radio stations playing they saw them meeting pds and shaking hands kissing babies all of that type of stuff. And we did that. I started the tour with Live Nation. And then I put the cameras on it. And now we got a tour, a TV show. They on the cover of Vibe magazine.

So now this is like that starter kit of like, all right, the way XXL has the freshman cover. But now we got the cover of the magazine. We got the tour. We got the TV show. So if you see one of these acts, we got the tour, we got the TV show, so if you see one of these acts, they literally gonna become, you know,

the next superstar. What you just said is why I feel like it's hard to build superstars nowadays. One, you don't, everything is so microwavable,

you know what I mean? Everybody want it, want it now, and then when they don't want it no more, they on to the next thing. But if you know someone's story,

if you know what she went through, if you know, you know, her relationship, you know, with her family and the things that, you know, how close she is with, you know someone's story, if you know what she went through, if you know, you know, her relationship, you know, with her family and the things that, you know, how close she is with, you know, her brother was one of her biggest fans and had a tragic accident. And now she's doing it for her brother. If you know that the songs that, you know, why she has all the tattoos is connected to growing up in a trap house and a mom and dad being teenagers. Like when you know that about somebody, when you hear their music, you're like, okay, I'm connected now.

And I feel like this generation of kids, they're figuring it out through their phones and social media, but it's never amplified. You never get to see it at a level where, you know, hopefully we're doing with future superstars. So, like, what you being from Raleigh, North Carolina,

the South, how did you get discovered? Because it seems like no one really looks for us down South. Exactly. Especially in the Carolina. Right. Right. So the thing is, I did move to Cali when I was 12. Okay. So, but this was in the Bay Area. Even in the Bay Area, I couldn't really like get my name out there like I wanted to. So as soon as I turned 18, I moved to Atlanta. Because I knew like growing up, I knew that was the spot like to be like to get discovered and to pop off your career. So that's really how I got discovered in Atlanta. What about the name, Klondike Blonde? Honestly, it came out of my ass one day.

I was really high. What? Yeah. It came out of your ass one day? Okay. What'd you say? Ice cream? Too many Klondike bars?

Yeah, right? Out of nowhere. I had just cut my hair and bleached it blonde. And I was about to upload my first song. I'm looking in the mirror high as hell. And I'm like like i'm not finna upload this song under my government name So, I don't know. It just came to me. I was like klondike blonde. This is it So I really I uploaded this song. I put the name is klondike blonde and it just stuck. Hey guys I'm kate max You might know me from my popular online series the running interview Interview Show, where I run with celebrities,

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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. Nimminy here. I'm the host of a brand new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. Historical Records brings history to life through hip hop. Flash, slam, another one gone. Bash, bam, another one gone. The crack of the bat and another one

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on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Where did you find it though, Nick? I mean, well, honestly, it's, you know, she's kind of truncating

her story a little bit, but she was on the grind for a minute and actually had a song that went super viral. A lot of people already, her drip record went crazy, like 20, 30 million strings.

And I heard, like my kids were singing it off million strings and I heard like my kids was singing it off of TikTok and I'm like one of them annoying ass songs like I'm back

on my drip Annoying I mean I just know about it like I see my kids singing it like what is this damn song

and they're like and you gotta make sure it's not something inappropriate yeah and it's like oh this joint is crazy and then through

our connection you know through Frisco Chuck and the Bay and everything she they uh who runs incredible music was like yo this is this is that record and then we met her and knowing that she was already moving as i was like yo this she's a superstar like when she walked in the room like that's a star right there and then from there i was putting together the future superstar tour and we're like yo we could probably make this work and you know me i'm always thinking tv shows movies products and all that and she embodied everything that we was trying to put together with that that young energy fact that she already had something that was popping

and really just wanted to cultivate like yo when you see somebody i was like all right we're gonna tweak it like this we're gonna take all that viral sensation and put something on it. And I was like, yo, she's a rock star. So we've been going with this punk rock rap movement that she created. Do you feel like you had your I made it moment yet? I feel like I accomplished everything I said I was going to do as a kid. But being here and seeing that, like, I accomplished those things, I still see that I have way further to go. So I don't think in my head that, like, I'm where exactly where I need to be.

But you're definitely on the right track. But I'm on the right track. Yeah, you're definitely on the right track. We almost there, for sure. All right, we got more with Nick Cannon and Klondike Blonde when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

All right, welcome back. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Nick Cannon and Klondike Blonde. Now, we taped this interview yesterday, so Chris Kalen was here. Charlamagne?

Why did you just focus on music, though, with Future Superstars, Nick? I think we're going to, I mean, that's just the first show that I rolled out. You're going to see a lot more stuff. I mean, obviously in the space of, you know, comedy is where, you know, we get off really well. And, you know, platforms like Wild N' Out has birthed so many stars. So I don't, I have that place where i can implement social media stars and and even comedians and actors because while and out is going to continue to go and do do what it needs to do so i feel like i have that lane and again part of the music thing for me was

people didn't know that i was there's a lot of people like nick cannon does music and then then so the fact is like see this mother over here when i even just the word music Like before I was rapper Right Now music Now I was like This Music is something Every project

All of my successful projects Charlamagne Have music in them And I'm a music You need to do a good gospel song With Kim Burrell No With Kiki Shears

Kiki Shears I'm sorry Even though I was lying I lied I just was like You know what Iars. Kiki Shears. I'm sorry. Even though it's her. I was lying. I lied. I just was like, you know what? I'm not going to do them like that. I'm not even talking about being a f***ing artist.

That's what I get for lying? So, like, Mad Singer, America's Got Talent. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. All music-based stuff. Wildin' Out. And I say this all the time. I make all the music on Wildin' Out. But it's just like

people just, they see the aspect of like drumline, like everything that I do has a musical vibration to it, it's just that, you know, for whatever reason, because of my like this, the narrative is that I haven't been successful. That has nothing to do with me Nick. You're the culprit! It's you! By the way, I only say rap, I don say rap i don't know no no he just said music you see how the comedian will make that's right i'll take the rap clip back like but now

it's like that now i'm not now i'm not successful in music like people don't know those things though but that's why that's the whole purpose of future superstar and stuff like we joking we friends and like that but it really is educating people to the space of like yo i've been a music executive for over 20 years but do you think you overworking we know you had uh health issues before yeah but you it don't seem like you slow down it seemed like that made you work harder it gave me more i mean the clock started ticking faster like it gave me like yo i really had to get serious in that sense of like yo all right let's it's bandwidth more than anything it's like all right I got a lot to do.

God ain't done with me. He's blessed me with the opportunity to have gone through some real shit and now it's like, alright, now let's get your health together. Let's lock in and really focus and make the most of your time. So every day that I wake up healthy and don't hurt, it's like, I got to get to it. That's the blessing in itself. Did you really think the end was near?

Hell yeah! Especially during that time, it got dark during 2012 even like 2016 because i didn't know and i couldn't get the right so every time i got one thing right like i get a a blood clot here a pulmonary embolism i couldn't like my lungs like so once i got to this space of like all right i figured out you know how to stay healthy and how to stay alive then it's like that's the this space of like, all right, I figured out, you know, how to stay healthy and how to stay alive. Then it's like that's the constant reminder of like, you got to do something with this. You got to turn your pain into purpose. And for me, that became helping others.

Like, and, you know, you go through this, this spiritual transition of like, all the things that feed me are probably not the best for me. But when I'm feeding others, that's when I feel the healthiest. That's when I feel the, the drive to do. So now I live in that space. I'm like, all right, what can I do to,

to make the world a better place? What can I do to, to lend a hand to the next artist? And you know, that's, you know, that's that, that's that healthy journey for me to where it gives me that drive.

Cause I don't feel like I'm busy. I don't feel like I'm doing too much. I feel like, yo, this is my calling. This is where I'm supposed to go with it. So, you know, hopefully, however many more years I got left, I'll keep rocking. Was that the reason you started having so many kids? People say that. I don't know.

Like, if I took the spiritual aspect. I think you might have said it in an interview or joked around. I was joking. I said it here. interview or joked around. I probably said it here. But if I'm being serious, it wasn't like I set out to do it. It probably got to that space of I value being a father.

I value life. So I was never against the concept. And if we want to have deeper conversations about what I talk about in therapy and even as men, it's like there are those times and we've been, you know, I've call it access to access. I have the ability to to do my thing. And a lot of others probably I could I could have stopped, you know, and or even not had the children.

But I was welcoming the idea of it and was never against it. People say, or people's opinions about me is none of my business. And, and if anything, I take that, that low frequency energy and shifted to where it's like, I keep talking because I'm doing the work.

How are you? Wait a minute. Hold on. Is it low frequency energy? If people say, Nick, why don't you wear condoms? Who told you I don't wear condoms, Charlamagne?

Well, the condoms you use in the suit. You need the suit. You use the condoms, you need the suit. But how do you handle Christmas? I mean, I joke, all I'm saying,

Nick, and everything, but it's really structured in a way to where those, I kind of take that week and turn it into Christmas week. Okay. You know, and there is, because I'm traveling and flying, like I'm trying to be everybody. And even Thanksgiving was the same way.

I was in five, six different Thanksgivings at a time. Because it's my mom's house. It's my grandmother's house. What did you say? 20 minutes, 30 minutes? I mean, how long is dinner? You ain't got to be here that long. Y'all play spades. I'm out to grandmother's house. What did he say? 20 minutes? 30 minutes? I mean, how long is dinner? Y'all play spades.

I'm out to the next house. Do you eat? I mean, I take... Everybody, you know, everybody cook different. So, like... I'll take one thing from every house and by the time you get to the last house,

you got the whole list. My white baby mama, I'm not really eating that potato salad. Oh, my God. It's the difference between pumpkin pie and sweet potato pie. Now, one of your baby moms, Bree, she said,

how you juggle your 12 kids for the holidays is your problem. I don't see it as a problem. I think she was saying, like, it is, but I don't involve her. But I feel like the baby moms got to make it easy for you too, right? They do. And that's why, like I said, I give them credit to where, like, even in the process of, like, they say this is what we want and it's everything from christmas pictures to sled riding the pictures with santa or experiences like i make sure that every kid who wants to do

something or we have certain things set up we make time to go do it so i'm all over the damn place but it's fun i mean y'all see my ig you see me like we f***ing having a ball like you know how much money i spend at disneyland a year we can imagine a lot i got six so i i kind of know what the crazy thing is because i used to host christmas morning at disneyland right and so i used to get that disney bag like it was like and it was there were perks so all of that stuff was free it's no longer free it's no longer free now. It's no longer free. And I had two kids then. So to be 12, and every birthday, Chris, I'm literally at Disneyland at least once a month. And to move around Disney, I'm probably spending $200,000 a year at Disneyland.

Sheesh. At Disneyland. Because you got to pay for the chaperone. You got all of that. But first of all, Disneyland is expensive to have all the rent up top. Like, if you're trying to stay

in the hotel, now it's not how it used to be. Like, you got to make reservations and stuff like that. So, I'm spending $200,000 a year at Disneyland.

They need to give you like a membership or something. I used to be an employee. That's what I'm saying. I used to, I'm like, Mickey,

can you hook me up? Can I get my job back? That's my job I need back. But does any woman that you had a child with, did they feel like they were going to stop you from doing it and you were going to be the one? Did y'all ever have that conversation? I mean, the women in my life are so amazing. They are elevated in the sense that they never tried to change me. They knew what it was.

And it wasn't like it was just a process because all of them started off as true companions and i look at them now it's like those are the people i talk to like that's my circle that's who i that's who i go to when i'm having issues because the world a lot of times is against us so like we gotta stick together in a sense of like i gotta protect them and they gotta protect me even not to generalize them as a group but just individually. Those are the people that I go to when I'm depressed, when I'm up relationship or not. All right. We got more with Nick Cannon and Klondike Blonde when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

Hi, welcome back. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Nick Cannon and Klondike Blonde. Now, we taped this interview yesterday. So Chris Kalen was here. And I got a question. Does Nick want to get married?

Do you see marriage in the future? No, I'll never get married. Never again? Absolutely not. I mean, because last time I got, I used my words incorrectly. Last time we was having a conversation, I'll be forgetting the mics is on and shit.

And I said it was a Eurocentric concept. What I really meant is the colonial aspect of marriage. It's a business. And I've been in that business before. I don't want to be in that business no more. It's so much paperwork. I don't want the government to be involved with my love life. I shouldn't have to have a legal document or a contract to let someone know how much I care for them. Now I want to be their protector and their provider. It's kind of like the child support system. If you take care of your children,

there's no need for paperwork. Because I want my kids to have everything that I own. I don't want them to go without at all. I want them to live an abundant life. So I don't need the government to tell me the minimum that I need to pay because I'm going to give them the maximum. So same thing with love and marriage. i f**k with you for life i don't need to be

binded by a contract or a ring and therefore that's in the way those contracts are designed that's from a roman catholicism approach of how we do it there's ways to have unions and covenants and marriages through so many other philosophies in life. Specifically, you know, in our African community from the diaspora,

they do it differently. And, you know, I'm learning and understanding those processes, but I know you go over to the continent,

it ain't about contracts. It ain't about paperwork and rings. It's like, nah, this is my wife. This is my wife. And however that moves around. So so the concept of the american society marriage i'll never do that again but who's to say i can't find a life partner that i'm i'm a rock i'm you know like i'm we in that

state where it's like by the time i'm in my 60s i want to be on the islands or top of a mountain in tibet somewhere With somebody I can rock with Forever So I'm looking at it like that Kevin Lyles actually told me A long time ago He said I can't tell you To get married

But I can tell you You should always have somebody To share your experiences with Yeah I f*** with that heavy Like that I can see myself doing that And then the fact like

People are like Aren't you worried About getting lonely Like I got 12 kids Ain't never gonna be lonely Somebody coming over. But even with that, that's scary too, though, right? Because I read something where it said you spend 70% of all the time

you're ever going to spend with your kids between 1 and 18. That's crazy. And when you think about it, that's probably true. How many times have you probably seen your parents as you become an adult and you're out in the world trying to figure things out? And then even when you think about like the time that they spend at school and sports and stuff

like there's other people are with your children throughout the day more than you are and I'm learning that too because I'm trying to be present at all of these games and you know

I'm picking them up from school and knowing the teachers and spending time at the recitals and it's like I want them to at least see my presence there because I know

there's going to be a time where I'm on a film set for two months there's going to be a time where I'm on tour over here so I want them to at least see my presence there because I know there's going to be a time where I'm on a film set for two months. There's going to be time where I'm on tour over here. So I want them to see me every free time that I can. Because when you think about the person with the average person with a nine to five from 8 a.m. to 3 a.m., they are under the supervision of a completely different adult. And then even by the time you get to work, you tired, they tired, you might get to see your kids, what, from six to eight?

And then y'all sleep, and then again, so the average, because with my therapist, we've done the math on it, the average time that a parent spends with their kids a day is less than three hours.

And then when you think about it, that's why weekends are so important that's why vacations are so important because that's when they really get to know you and that's when you really get to it's all it's about the qualitative approach and it's really about creating as many core memories in that amount of time that you possibly have. When your therapist talks about average parent he ain't talking about you right? No! Cause clearly, but that's what to me I'm trying to go above and beyond when it comes to that parenting aspect. Because I'm trying to create the best core memories as possible. Because core memories can be in a positive light or in a negative light.

So, you know, I don't never, and that's all about keeping your word. That's all about managing expectations. Because if I tell my kids something, I'm going to make sure I do it. And, you know, obviously I have a strong support team that helped me accomplish a lot of that. But again, you know, as, as, as important as it is to sit back and analyze these things through therapy. Uh, and I mean, Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, the running interview show where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs,

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you are thank you for being part of our family secrets family where every week we explore the secrets that are kept from us the secrets we keep from others and the secrets we keep from ourselves listen to season 11 of family secrets on the iHeartRadio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. You know this very well. It's like, you're constantly trying to grow.

You're constantly trying to figure out how can I be a better dad considering the circumstance. I saw them ask Eddie Murphy, too, to give you some advice. Did you see that?

I love it. I was waiting for the advice. He gave absolutely nothing. No, no. He's like, I ain't got anybody to help me.

Yeah, I broke in. Oh, he said, I love Eddie Murphy. I passed Eddie quick, too, because he was... I look up to the Eddie Murphys, to the Bob Marleys, to the Muhammad Ali's, to the Dr. Sabes, to all these people who have giant families and providing for them all. And all of their... When you talk to anybody in Muhammad Ali's camp, anybody in the Marley family, anybody, they love their father so much. And they like, man, my father was amazing like that.

I hope and pray people look at me the way my children look at me the way that Eddie's children look at him. I hope and pray that, you know, the way that people admire Muhammad Ali is the father that he was like. That's hopefully, you know 10-15 years from now my children are saying those type of things about me yeah well we appreciate you for joining us Nick Cannon and Klondike Blonde next door like what was it what is it a project drop in like what is it we are working on a lot of records right now within the punk rock rap little genre she in that vibe that that little Uzy that juice world like she's like that whole

festival vibe so she you know you're gonna see her do a lot a lot of shows and like yeah she got the tatted up record out right now that streaming going crazy okay you know the the tattoo world is a real world that she's embraced and living and like all her punk rock rap music is going is gonna go up so she's one of those artists that stream. Like, again, that was one of the issues why I created it. Like, you heard the song. You heard the song on TikTok. You know it, but you never see the person.

Now we're going to turn her into the superstar that she needs to be in, you know, allow her fans to kind of touch her in a way that, you know, hopefully we take it to that level. Who's all on Incredible? I know Justina Valentine. Hitman Hollow. Hitman Hollow.

Yeah, yeah. Those are, I mean, there's a plethora of acts that we're working with. And again, I don't like to be like, all on incredible i know justina valentine hitman holla blonde hitman holla yeah those those are i mean there's a plethora of acts that we're working with and again i don't like to be like oh you're signed to incredible but these are the people from the artists that you see on you know even people like dc young fly is amazing artist it's just that we gotta line it up for when it's time to focus on his music because he's doing so many other things. So the artists that we're focusing on at the moment is Klondike, Hitman, and Justina are the ones that you're going to see within the next 60 days dropping. And, you know, we got a lot.

Season two of Future Superstars is going to be a whole other run. Season two, you got to come to Charleston. We do. And find some talent. Seriously. 100%. I mean, you got to Carolina. I wish you could hear some awesome things.

You know, we are Carolina right here That's right That's some Carolina squad over here That's right I'll be there tomorrow My grandmother just turned 104 Oh she turned 104 That's a blessing

Yeah Shout out to Kareem Cannon Happy birthday So Wow That's a blessing Absolutely And Kannapolis, North Carolina

Kannapolis What's that next to Concord Charlotte Charlotte Yeah Alright well it's the Breakfast Club It's Nick Cannon Klondike Blonde Thank y'all is North Carolina. Kannapolis? What's that next to? Concord? Charlotte? Okay, got you, got you, got you. Yeah. All right.

Well, it's the Breakfast Club. It's Nick Cannon, Klondike Blonde. Thank y'all. Let's go. It's time for Donkey of the Day. So if you ever feel I need to be a donkey, man,

hit me with the heel. Did she get donkey in the name, please, dummy? Absolutely. I have become donkey of the day. It's the Breakfast Club, bitches. You're a donkey.

Mic on red. there you go donkey of the day goes to a man in fort myers florida named kevin now what does your uncle charlotte always say about the great state of florida say it with me people the craziest people in america come from the bronx and all of florida and today's donkey of the day is no different now i don't know if this man's name is actually Kevin but that's what he said his name was and I don't know if that's really his name because this man made some other claims that make me feel like I don't know if we could believe anything that comes out of his mouth and because this man is just running around saying things that we don't know if we can believe we the people need to get this man off the street and get him some help now I know what you're saying I know what you're saying. I know what you're saying. Charlemagne, since when do you want to get people from Florida some help? Well,

that should let you know the severity of the level of donkey we are dealing with. Would you like to know what Kevin's claims were? Let's go to NBC2 for the report, please. Here at the McCaslin household on Shadley Road, it was all but a typical Thursday evening. We were eating dinner with myself and my two daughters and we heard a noise at the door. Oh, but nobody was knocking. Instead, this random man was inviting himself in for a bite to eat. Brian got up from the table and found this guy standing right in his living room. He was in. He was in the house. He started telling me that he was a ghost and that I shouldn't be able to see him. That's right. thought he was a ghost he was shocked that I could see him thought he was walking around and

that nobody could see Brian is barely able to believe what he's seeing I could tell his behavior was not normal who knows what this person might do you know if they had a chance to think after causing this scene inside this guy who claims his name is Kevin came running outside to where a crew was cutting down a tree he hopped up in one of their trucks and locked himself inside so at this point this man barged into brian's home he thinks he's a ghost and now he's locked inside a tree cruise truck i think it's all wild after coaxing the man for a while the tree trimmers were finally able to get him out where he then took off wearing nothing but his bathing suit let me tell you something man uh if you come to my house with a bathing suit no shoes or anything else on and i'm

in there eating with my daughters and you are advancing into my house you get into my house and you claim to be a ghost i promise i'm gonna make your claim come true that's right you may not have been a ghost when you entered but you shall be a ghost when you leave okay f you die slow my four four make sure all your kids don't grow look man here's the thing i know this man is probably dealing with some form of mental illness but in that moment when someone invades the peace that is your house you in there with your kids the first law of nature is self-preservation i gotta protect me and mine and at this point i don't know what your angle is but if you're coming in talking about you a ghost i don't have no choice but to defend myself because you might be trying

to make me one okay i don't know if you're a friendly ghost or a demon we don't know if you casper or freddie krueger slime or samara morgan from the ring you're breaking somebody's house talking about you a ghost then you deserve to get sent to your maker and become the ghost of christmas past they said he was wearing nothing but a bathing suit no shoes or anything else hmm you know another way to look at it that's not a ghost that's a crackhead okay maybe meth all right maybe bath salts maybe fenty beauty by fenty i mean fentanyl all i'm saying is i know drug head behavior when i hear it this man was fiending for a hit so he was doing what drug heads do breaking and entering and stealing stuff looking to make money to get his next hit see what happened is he didn't expect for these people to be home

and i have to commend the father here because he knows rule number one when dealing with a full blown crackhead okay you must remain calm all right it's like if you saw a bear or ladies when you see that guy you left on read claudia you can you understand that right you just just remain calm yeah that's right but the moment kevin realized he wasn't invisible and could be seen that's when he knew maybe just maybe he probably was still high okay yes this man was clearly still under the influence because whenever i'm high you can't tell me i don't have superpowers like invisibility or mind reading but that's a whole other topic now i agree that we need to find this man some help all right but first we have to find him so they are asking if you have any information that might help investigators you can submit an anonymous tip to swfl crimestoppers our call 1-800-780-TIPS but i am a person who loves to see things from

both sides and i've lived long enough to know to always be skeptical but listen. So Kevin says he's a ghost. As I take a step back, I think to myself, what if we are the ones tripping? What if he's not a crackhead and he is indeed a ghost? Who you going to call? That's all I'm saying. Who you going to call?

That's right. Maybe he identifies as a ghost. Maybe's all I'm saying. Who you gonna call? That's right. Maybe he identifies as a ghost. Maybe he identifies as a ghost. Satisfactual. Absolutely right. That's right. You know what? You're absolutely right.

Please give this man who identifies as a ghost, Kevin, the biggest hee-haw. All right. And we can't deny him. If he wants to identify as a ghost ghost who are we to say he can't be a ghost what does it end up i don't know that's a good question that's a good question well thank you for that donkey of the day the breakfast club good morning everybody it's dj nv charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. The legendary E-40.

What's happening? Welcome back. Right on. Man, you know what I've been wondering, E-40. Do you cook for Thanksgiving or do you let somebody else do it? My mother-in-law, my father-in-law, my wife, and my son, Iron Skillet Master. Do you take the break on Thanksgiving? On Thanksgiving, I take the break.

Why? I provide all of the beverages. Okay, okay, okay. Mm-hmm. Well, why do you take a back break on Thanksgiving? On Thanksgiving, I take the break. I provide all of the beverages. Okay, okay, okay. Mm-hmm. Well, why do you take a backseat on Thanksgiving? They cook better than me, bro. Really? Yeah.

I go crazy, but, you know, when it comes to Thanksgiving foods, like, you know, dressing. My mother-in-law make these, you know, the yams over at Ruth Chris? Yeah. The sweet potato casserole. With the marshmallow in it? She do better than she. It has, what is it, walnuts? Is it walnuts on there, pecan?

She do it better than that. Like, she do it better than the Ruth Chris sweet potato casserole. Damn. Yeah, so stuff like that. Wifey do potato salad and all that and chicken spaghettis. Not your normal chicken spaghetti. We'll talk about all that. I'm hungry right now talking about all the damn food. Because you think it's red sauce, but it's not. It's not red normal chicken spaghetti. We're talking about all that. I'm hungry right now.

I'm talking about all the damn food. Because you think it's rare sauce, but it's not. It's not rare sauce? Nah. You can't give out the secret ingredient? I can't. Because I'm a co-packet. It's already in motion like the ocean.

Okay, okay. We got going with the spoon in the book. You and Snoop are on the cover. So you and Snoop did this together. Can Snoop cook? Snoop can cook. He got his little, you know what I'm saying, his little oo-wickles. Now what does he cook? I think he like to do fried chicken and stuff like that, you know.

I'm just all over the place like space with mine. I'm liable to do you know, some orange ruffy or something with some pan seared orange ruffy with some almonds and some butter and some white wines. I saw you do that the other day.

I saw you do a mozzarella stuffed turkey meatloaf. Yeah, it go crazy. I don't even eat cheese, but I'm like, man, I would have to taste some of that. It's delicious, brother. Yes. Where do you even come up with these combinations? Where do you get these recipes and ideas from? Just being greedy.

Just being greedy straight up. I've been cooking for many moons. I used to work at this restaurant in Benicia, California called the Common Ounce Restaurant. I started off working in the kitchen, washing dishes in the pantry. Next thing you know, a guy by the name of Lewis, he was the main chef there. And this place was like a, to me me it was like a michelin star restaurant a lot of rich people go there but it was they wasn't giving out michelin stars at that time but if they was that definitely would have been it because dude taught me how to make orange uh i told you about orange roughy um chicken

gordon bleu um escargot you understand me um london london broil you know just all kind of just elegant stuff you know and so uh but you know along with magazine street you know top ramen noodles with eggs and stuff like that you understand me i just go crazy i just do it what i feel tastes best you know i love making oxtails and a power pressure cooker oxtails uh short ribs instant gumbo things of that nature this is interesting because you know i i've wondered where the because i love watching you i've been telling you this for years i love watching you on instagram and seeing you cook so your family you come from a family of cooks and you worked in a restaurant absolutely wow yeah are you surprised with the receptiveness that you get

from the cooking because i almost seem like it like I see more people loving more the cooking than some of the music at times. Hey, you know, people love music, but they love food more than music, I think. Period. Don't you think so? When you wake up in the morning, you trying to hear music or you want to eat? Kind of both. You know what I'm saying? You feel me?

Yeah, they kind of go hand in hand a little bit. So, you know, in 2014, yeah you kind of get it kind of go hand in hand a little bit so you know i told in 2014 um i had got a power pressure cooker so that's when i started making all the meals and stuff like that and then you know what i'm saying uh me and be legit got a song where we be legit said uh the goon with the spoon you know what i'm saying and we said on a couple of songs and whatnot and um i was like you know what what? I start hashtagging Goon with a Spoon. And then I told my boy, Cousin Feek, to have his guy go make the logo. So he went and made the logo.

And so I feel like you know how you got McDonald's and you got Arby's and you got Jack in the Box and so on and so forth. You know, those logos, they're subliminally in your head. That's what I wanted to do when I got the vector. I put the vector on every post that to do when i got the vector i put a the vector on um on every post that i did when i made the when i did the cooking so you would always see going with the spoon down at the bottom right hand corner and so i knew what i was doing because i knew i was going to go into co-packing so now the going with the spoon is just not just me just on instagram i'm a it's a brand like i co-pack like i got going with the spoon ice cream six different

flavors i got going with the spoon sausages chicken teriyaki pineapple um philly chicken cheese steak and mild beef and hot beef um i got going with spoon burritos you understand me and many more to come so now we got the book and snoop dog was like he say uh nephew come on man listen well i'm you know he call you by his nephew, but he, man, let's go. Let's do something, man. Cause he was already in the, um, he already got his own book. It's a bestseller too. And, um, so he had the outlet and I was like, you know, it's only right.

I, you know, I don't have no pride problem. You know, that's the problem with people. They got pride. You know what I'm saying? Put your pride to the side. You know what I mean? I'm like, what better person got pride. You know what I'm saying? Put your pride to the side. You know what I mean? I'm like, what better person to put it out on the platform? It's everywhere now, so it's out now.

That's right. The gun with the spoon. And the gun with the spoon, it'd be legit wasn't talking about cooking. It's a double entendre. But it's a good way to turn a so-called negative into a positive. That's right. So check games. So I feel like, you know how when you play basketball, a lot of people, like say, for instance,

when we got McCaffrey on our team, the 49ers, my cousin, your Dallas Cowboy boy friend. Smart man. Yeah, he was like. Hard man. For real? You think so? He was like, you know, we talk big Bronco to each other, and I ain't talking about Denver Broncos. That's just a phrase I said. And he was like, oh, for real? You think so? He was like, you know, we talk big Bronco to each other, and I ain't talking about Denver Broncos.

That's just a phrase I said. And he was like, I ain't going to lie. McCaffrey a dog, right? So the dog is not a dog in a bad way. That's right. You know what I'm saying? That's just like being a beast. So, you know, why I can't be a goon with a spoon cut?

That's right. Yeah. That's right. Now, you did mention basketball. Can we talk Warriors a little bit you want to talk warriors draymond green just just you know grab the poor light-skinned brother out his damn near out his shoes man what you want me to say what you want you're talking to me you know i'm not going to go against draymond first and foremost he's sharpening the porcupine spine that's right and heerves everything. And most of the time when he say, rewind the tape,

when they call some bad stuff on him, he right most of the time. So I'm just rocking with Draymond because when he react on something, I take his opinion. I know I'm rocking with Draymond. Most of the time he's real. He's holding out his team, and he should. That is my favorite NBA player. He doesn't let nobody do nothing to none of his team.

That's right, especially team, and he should. That is my favorite NBA player. And he doesn't let nobody do nothing to none of his team. That's right, especially playing stuff. Absolutely. And you don't win championships without a Draymond Green type player. A tough player, yeah. Absolutely. Protected. Because was Rodman, Rodman was a fool with it, huh? Was he?

Rodman was a fool with it. He was a fool with it. Yeah, Rodman was a fool with it. Oakley, yeah. They was with it. You need enforcers. The Pistons back then, they were fools with it. Absolutely. Now, there was an incident that happened in Sacramentocers. The Pistons back then, they were fools with it. Absolutely.

Now, there was an incident that happened in Sacramento when you were out at the playoff game. What happened during that time? Man, I was just being me, man. I was just sitting courtside like I always do. I just so happened to go to Sacramento. I just did a successful bottle sign in the Total Wine with all my liquor brands.

Line was wrapped around the building. I know Sacramento loved me dearly. And just a heckler in the background and um you know just was drunk or whatever and i just i just was like told me to sit down i was out what i'm at the basketball front row you like behind me like three rows up or whatever you can't tell you new to this i've been doing this since moby dick was a goldfish you dig and so she was like told me to sit down again and i looked back and i didn't cuss her out or nothing i said hey and they said you know the security came and we just put it this way man we got it straight because i know that sacramento loves me i know sacramento king fans love me and the owner got big love for me i'm

matter of fact i'll be at the gold one center around what december december got a big show there so they own that building so we rocking okay all right we got more with e40 when we come back so don't move it's the breakfast club good morning morning everybody it's dj nv charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club we're kicking it with e40 charlamagne i know i know you're here to talk about your 27th solo album, Rule of Thumb, but you know, we can't... It's way more than that. I don't know why they keep putting 27. It's not 27.

How many is it? It's more than that. 30-something. Damn. Jesus. Because you got to put my EPs up in that thing. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, my solo EPs.

Mr. Flamboyant came out in 1989. Do you count the compilations too? No, no compilations. I ain't counting the compilations or the albums with the click. Damn. Damn. Yeah. I've been doing this since Comrade Defraud was a polywog. But you know, a couple weeks ago, November 9th, 1993, federal album dropped.

It really was 1992. We used to put it up a year. When you talk about independent, we was the real independent. Okay real independent okay like you understand me i'm talking about using city hall records as our main hub and uh music people we didn't have a big distribution deal you know until like 94 when jive records and every label that and that did rap music they had a big bid and wore on me and uh they wanted you know they wanted me stick with the records they wanted us you know and uh i went ahead and went with jive but now they they put the um we used to always put it up a year because it would take some time to get to other states and

when it did get to other states we wanted to soak in we didn't want them to think the album the album or the ep is old that was just our method my uncle saint charles i'm sure y'all heard me speak of uncle saint charles that's my mother's brother blood so you know everybody say uncle this uncle that's my that's my bloodline and he you know helped you know what i'm saying uh the boy master p and many of us you know what i mean from the beginning because master p used to be out there with us in the bay Area in Richmond, California. So P seeing how I was doing it, he was doing his thing too, but he wasn't doing

it on the level that he was doing it once he got to St. Charles and then he just took it to big heights. And that's my brother right now to this day. So it's been 31 years since Federal then? Yeah, 1992. Dang. What does your mind go when you think about that?

It was going to start off as an EP because that's what we was doing when we did solo stuff back then. And I just had too much gas. And I was like, man, you know what I'm saying? Let me just go in and add some more songs to it and make it an album. And that's the mind frame. I had a lot to say. Being fresh from the soil. And way ahead of my time.

Do you remember the impact it had? Yeah. It woke the game up. Yeah. I'm way ahead of my time do you remember the impact it had yeah woke the game up yeah I'm the dopest bro only only suckers and clowns can't see it you know what I'm saying I'm I'm above I'm I'm beyond what they think you know you go back and listen to all my old stuff you listen to my new slaps right now rule of thumb you understand I'm the epitome of mob music I've been in every era from the you understand me the black fist in the air with the you know with the with the african medallion and in late 80s to you understand to the mob music era to the g-funk to the south music with cash money and and and a born mjg and all all these cats you understand me? Master P. I'm the

Hyphy movement. I'm just everything all in one. You think with them celebrating 50 years of hip-hop, they celebrated you the right way? Yeah, I was part of a lot of it. I was part of all. They invited me to pretty much everything. Everything. You think they celebrated the beta right way?

I think they reached out to me and Short was there. And they reached out to um you know hammer hammer already said he he you know a lot of them reached out to him people didn't know that but you know hammer chose to do what hammer do he he'd og i got nothing but love for him you know hammer wasn't even tripping i don't know why but i didn't ask him but that's my big bro you know what's interesting when you say about how you've been able to transcend through every genre, it's because your flow and rhymes have always been so unorthodox, they don't fit a time period anyway.

Absolutely. There's no time limit. That's real, bro. And nobody can bite it. Nobody. I don't even know what I'm going to do when I get in a vocal booth. I don't know what pattern I'm going to do. I don't know none of that.

I just do it. I'm a professional beat picker, and I know I'm ahead of my time. You know, because I like to do things that's innovating. I like to do what everybody else don't. Even my slaps, I like them to be up-tempo. I like them to be slow. I do it all. So I love to talk about, you know, the hard times, the struggle,

climb up the ladder, trying to climb up the ladder and climb up and, you know, get over the fence of the ghetto. You know what I'm saying um that's what we all that's we all work hard for us to you know provide our family with uh you know with a better life mm-hmm what's it just we eat 40 that did federal and e40 that they rule with them the difference between a for the idea federal and the e4 that did rule of thumb is now I the things I would have said back then i think things out you know what i mean like back then i was just a young hard-headed mannish little dude you know

what i'm saying just just spitting what i spit now i'm more of a uh i'm more of a teacher you know and when i did talk about like trigger play and sliding and you know i'm saying and all that whole spinning the block and all that stuff it was it was never um like glorifying it was never glorifying it was I'm a storyteller I'm a poet I'm you know I got a verbal paintbrush I paint pictures with my lyrics so that's one thing I've always did and I talk about the consequences and repercussions about the situation a lot of cats don't you know what I mean if you do this this could happen you can lose a loved one you know they go take it out on somebody else you know i'm saying this this is how this thing goes i spit all that

you know we had uh coco jones up here one time and she was talking about the one of the first times she ran into you you remember i saw i saw what's right so i go up to him and i was like oh my gosh like you had just seen my cover my seen my freestyle of your thing, even Bob, on Wildin' Out. Uh-oh. And he was like, yeah, yeah. Busta Rhymes wasn't at the Rhyme Nation. Listen, listen, listen. I was like, remember?

I was like, because I feel like I'm running and I feel like I got to get away. Get away. You know? And he was like, that's good, Shawty. That's good. I was like, all right. I walk away and I'm talking to my manager. I said, Busta Rhymes.

Who was that? He doesn't have friends anymore. My manager goes, girl, that's E-40. No. I was like, oh, no. I don't remember, bro. All right. I don't.

I know what you're talking about, but I don't remember. And I wasn't drunk. She said at the Roc Nation, right? Roc Nation, but she said she walked up to you, and she just started rapping Busta Rhymes. I wasn't drunk she said at the Roc Nation Roc Nation brunch she said she walked up to you and she just started rapping Busta Rhymes I don't cuz she cuz I seen her saying something about um she said I said shorty was a shorty I don't even you didn't even in my vocabulary basically yeah that's basically for 40 water dating in my I say some way slicker than that so you know maybe she was just i don't know maybe she thought i was somebody else i don't know because me and buster we got we rap different

we two are the most creative rappers on earth and you know maybe she thought that or something but we don't look alike or nothing you know but that's my guy you know um but i don't recall that but hey it is what it is it's you know everybody don't know me. Because I've been around, like I say, ever since, you know, Yogi Bear was a teddy bear. You know, the late 80s. You feel me? And so, you know, maybe she didn't know me really. You know, I don't get offended. It's gravity.

Now, I got to ask. These one-liners that you have, 40, do you write them down? Because you have a one-liner for everything. If you have to count how many one-liners you do, it has to be thousands a day. I just got memory like a spelling bee. See? You see what I'm saying? You don't write them down or nothing?

I just log it in. I heard porcupine spawn. I heard something like a tadpole this morning. I said, he was young as a mustache. I've been hearing so spawn. I heard something like a tadpole this morning. I said, he was young as a mustache. I've been hearing so many. I got plenty. If you sit down with me, man, you'll hear a whole bunch of stuff. It just come out natural like an afro.

We appreciate you for joining us. Always a pleasure, man. The Spoon the Book is out right now. The Ruler Thumb will be out. The album Ruler the Thumb is out right now. Yeah. 23 slaps. Back to back.

Stop playing with water. E-40. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's EJ, MV, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club.

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