The Breakfast Club - The Breakfast Club BEST OF - Queens of R&B - Kehlani, Chloe Bailey, Marsha Ambrosius + More

Episode Date: December 27, 2024

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People, my people, what's up? This is Quetzalove. Man, I cannot believe we're already wrapping up another season of Quetzalove Supreme. Man, we've got some amazing guests lined up to close out the season, but I don't want any of you guys to miss all the incredible conversations we've had so far. I mean, we talked to A. Marie, Johnny Marr, E, Jonathan Scheer, Billy Porter, and so many more. Look, if you haven't heard these episodes yet, hey, now's your chance. You got to check them out. Listen to Questlove Supreme on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey everyone, it's John also known as Dr. John Paul. And I'm Jordan or Joe Ho. And we are the Black Fat Film Podcast.

A podcast where all the intersections of identity are celebrated. Oh, chat. This year we have had some of our favorite people on including Kid Fury, T.S. Madison, Amber Ruffin from the Amber and Lacey Show, Angela Carras and more. Make sure you listen to the Black Fat Fam podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast or whatever you get your podcast girl. Oh, I know that's right. Good morning USA! Yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo

Yo! Jess Hilarious! Good morning! It's Friday! Yes, and today's Friday show is the Queens of R&B. Some of the most amazing vocalists that you'll ever hear, like Chloe, she'll be joining us as Charlamagne's cousin, also Marsha Ambrosius and Kalani. They'll all be joining us this morning because today's show is all about the

queens of R&B and you know what it is it's the Breakfast Club happy holidays wake up wake up this is your time to get it off your chest whether you're mad or blessed we want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club hello who's this? oh my god did I get through? oh my god who's this? oh my gosh this is Amanda from Virginia Oh My god, this is Amanda from Virginia What up Amanda get off your chest? Okay, so like I just quit my teaching job I'm gonna try not to cry

Really hard for me to to give up and everything after six years. And I'm scared right now because I have no idea what I'm supposed to do or anything like that. And I just turned 28 and I feel like I'm failing at life. So I need some advice. You are not failing at life, man. You know, one of my affirmations this morning was embrace everything that happens to you. And you know, being that you're 28,

you'll realize this as you get older. Everything is just part of a process you got to trust your instincts your instincts told you that you didn't want to teach no more right right I was having panic attacks and everything it's just speaking is not what it used to be at all and so I love the kids. You still love the profession, but I just felt so undervalued and unappreciated. Like it was just, it was hard. So right now I'm up because I'm about to go into the car and hopefully I'll make a little something. I still, I figured this out.

I didn't have to get that off my chest. That's what you should do. My mom is a public school teacher. I was a public school teacher. So I understand. I think that y'all are very underpaid, undervalued and underappreciated. So thank you for your service as a teacher. But now you just got to pray and see what God is going to lead you next. Because he's, he's, God is definitely telling you that

you should be doing something else. You just got to, you probably already know what it is. You probably just scared to do it right now. Right. Yeah. You already know what it is, don't you? Can I put my cash up? You said what? Can I put my cash up out there? That's not what that is. That is not what God wants you to do. What else God got for you? Tell me what else

God is telling you to do before we get to the cash app. Go Instacart so that's all I got at the moment. One step at a time. Go ahead then. Go ahead. Go ahead with your cash app. I'd rather cash app than OnlyFans. Go ahead, mama. There you go.

See? All right. It's $1,900 Amanda, capital A, M-A-N-D, N-I-C, nine six. Hold on. Now say it again. A-M-A-N-D-A. Yes. N-I-N-I-C-9-6. Hold on, now say it again. A-M-A-N-D-A. Yes, N-I-C-9-6.

N-I-C-9-6. Oh, Amanda Nick 96. Amanda Chandler, that's you? Yes. You look like a school teacher. Aw. You gonna put something in her Cash App? Yeah, I just sent her a little something.

Oh, there you go. I just sent you, cause I love school teachers, man. I think school teachers, like I said, I think y'all are undervalued and underappreciated. We trust our kids with y'all every day and we live in a messed up society because y'all should be making six figures a year just because of what y'all gotta deal with,

to be honest with you, so. Yeah, all right, it's coming out here. Now you know I wanna go into the mental health field. Doing a complete career switch, so I'm just hoping it all works out. I'm gonna pray on it and thank you guys for the advice. And I really appreciate you guys taking my call. I listen to you guys every morning.

I appreciate it. You got what I sent you? It said it went through. Yes, it did. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. All right. No problem.

Have a good one. 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 your time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed.

So you both have the same energy. We wanna hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? This is Sakina, oh my God, I can't believe I got through. Hey, what's up, Sakina? Get it off your chest. Yes! What? Bracelet! What's up, Sakina? I am black.

We know, we know, we know. We know. Okay, okay. So my birthday is on Monday, so I'm excited about that. Early born day. Happy birthday, how cool. Thank you. That's his style. What you doing for your birthday? Honestly, I don't know. I'm just happy to be alive.

How old you gonna be? How old you turning Monday? 37. Hey, okay. We'll enjoy your birthday, mama. Yeah. And where you calling from? Thank you, thank you, thank you so much.

Brooklyn. Oh, Brooklyn. Okay. We'll enjoy the birthday. Yeah, man. Happy Early Born Day. It's the holiday season. Thank you so much.

You got a lot of reasons to celebrate. It's the holiday season. It's your born day. You got a lot of reasons to celebrate It's the holiday season. It's your born day you alive Congratulations. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you guys Hello Yeah, you are. What's up, man? How you gonna call the radio and ask him to be on the radio? Nah, I'm trying to make it go, what up? Peace, King. What's happening? Why you so, why you so, why you so amped? Yo, what's up? That's how you doing?

What's up, baby? What's up? Nah, this is crazy. Okay, get to it. Anyway, yo, here, I just want to shout out my son. He about to turn 10. We're from PA. Heading to Philly. We're gonna go to Florida for his birthday on Monday. Okay. Shout out to Philly, we gonna go to Florida for his birthday on Monday. Okay.

Found him out, my fiance. Okay. Congratulations, brother. We all going out in Florida. What town? Oh, we just gonna go to Orlando, kissing me. Take him to the little universe, we'll have a little day.

I love Orlando. Make sure you go to the Lickin' when you go to Orlando, man. Sleuthe my guy, E-Class. So good. I'm in there. All right. Yo, that's crazy though. I'm trying to call y'all. I got in there. All right. It's crazy though.

I'm trying to call y'all. I got in there. That's crazy. Why don't you say your people's names? Why you know why you on the radio? Your son, your fiance? All right. Yeah, my son Calvin Rodriguez.

I'm asked I'm not calling him a junior, but anyway, Eliana Rodriguez. Shout out to the whole family. Okay. All right, man. You have a good one. Be safe out there. All right. Thanks, yo.

Peace. Peace. Get it off your chest. I'm Tyler Rodriguez. Yo, shout out to the whole family. OK, man. You have a good one. Be safe out there, all right? Yo, thanks, yo. Peace. Peace. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051.

If you need the vent, hit us up now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ NV Charlemagne the Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got Nyla hanging with us this morning.

Yes, yes. And we have a special guest who Charlemagne claims to be the best. And we have a special guest who Charlemagne claims to be the best. And we have a special guest who Charlemagne claims to be the best. And we have a special guest who Charlemagne claims to be the best. And we have a special guest who Charlemagne claims to be the best. And we have a special guest who Charlemagne claims to be the best. And we have a special guest who Charlemagne claims to be the best. And we have a special guest who Charlemagne the guy we are the breakfast club. We got Naila hanging with us this morning And we have a special guest who Charlamagne claims is a family I don't know why you keep saying this And we say this all the time because when we announced that your album came out

He didn't even know your album came out and I forced him to make a buyout That is not true Oh cuz That is not true Chloe Bailey ladies and gentlemen And we played the song I played the Missy record and Chris Brown record that morning But I had to make him download the record. He didn't even know that's not That's right. You said you bought it. You bought it, right? We don't download me, but you said you bought it

Listen in pieces is out right now. Okay, did you buy it? All right, did all your people online? Complaining making noise by it? I streamed it. Okay. How you feeling this morning? I feel great. I'm so happy. Like the past two days, I've been feeling like great, to be honest.

The week and a half, like before it was like a little rocky, but TOR kind of been getting me out the funk because the shows have been amazing. They've all been sold out and everyone's singing every lyric to every song. So I'm like, the love is real in real life. So I've been feeling good. Why were you in the funk?

I know you wasn't letting these digital d***heads on the internet get to you. Well, I mean like, we're all human. So of course some things are gonna bother you. And I think when you put so much time and effort into the art of everything, and it's really a conceptual album. I executive produced it.

I produced on 12 out of the 14 songs on there. I had a lot of incredible, amazing talent on the project. So I was just like, it's okay. Come at me, bro. So I'm ready for what's next, to be honest. What's the title mean, In Pieces? Yes, so In Pieces, it's kind of like a double entendre. So In Pieces represents the pieces of my heart

that has been left broken from life situations, relationships, things like that. People stabbing you in the back. And then it also means what's left in pieces is the box that people try to put me in on who they think Chloe is. And, you know, I just have to speak for myself and break through it. That's what it means. It's like the simp side and then the place of power side. It has to be difficult. Because people see you grow up. So it's like they see you as this young girl.

So now when you break it out into your own, it has to be difficult for your fans, I guess, right? Maybe, maybe not. I'm really proud of my sister and I because we've been branching out on our own successfully and people are getting to like know who we are individually. And I'm so blessed that I grew up with her in life so we could go through everything together.

And it came to a point where we were so dependent on one another, like we were Siamese twins. So what forced us apart was her going to London to shoot Little Mermaid and, you know, me being in LA, and especially with the pandemic, the travel restrictions going to another country was crazy. So as stressful as it was for the both of us, we both had separation anxiety. It like forced us to figure out, okay, who's Chloe? Who's Holly? So now when we come back together, it's going to be even stronger because now we also have a great sense of self.

Did y'all recognize the growth in each other, you and Holly, like when y'all finally did get back together, did she see growth in you? Did you see growth in her? Yes. The crazy thing is growing up, it was me who was afraid to speak up. So like she would be the one speaking up for me and like she's the Aries like yes she's the like don't mess with her and it would always be me like oh my gosh I like I don't like confrontation things like that and so because of that I had to force myself to

speak up for myself because I didn't have my sister right there doing it for me so now I'm very independent and very vocal and I say what I mean and I mean what I say. And she's recognized that. She's like, well, you're like a completely different person. I'm so proud of her because she's confident in who she is as an individual as well. Like we both were missing that and now we both found it.

So it's like, we're stronger. Did that change cause you missed your sister or was it a relationship that made you change? Was it writing your music that made you change? What was that change? That's a great question. I think it was a combination of everything. I think it got to a point where I realized if I don't fight for myself then I'm just

going to be left in the dust and if I don't speak up for what I want and speak up for who I am as a human being then like it's just going to fall on deaf ears and closed mouths don't get fed. So, throughout the music, I was finding my strength because I was saying things that I was afraid to say or speak up to certain individuals. And then from there, it just grew from that. It was like, it just kept growing and growing

and now it can't really stop. I feel like growing up as women, we're taught to not be so vocal. So now that you are being vocal, do you feel like growing up as women, we're taught to like not be so vocal. So now that you are being vocal, do you feel like you're being a b****? You're like, do you feel like, like you have to turn on a new version of yourself? Absolutely not. It's not about what you say, but how you say it. You can command a room without having to bark so loud.

And as long as you believe in what you're saying and you don't change in that for anybody people will respect you. Was was Pray Away based on a true story? Yes so I wrote that song with my girl Jossie and I kept seeing her like three four times that week at every event and I'm all about signs like I I don't feel there are any coincidences in life and I was like so the final place I saw her. I was going to say right now, there's going to be a dude that's going to find out everything. This is a sign! This is a sign! A sign that you crazy. But I was like, okay, so we passed each other going to the ladies room at the studio.

And I was like, I got back in my session. I said, so I texted her, I was like, can you come in here? And she played me a few demos and it was the skeleton of Pray It Away. It was originally called Church. I was like, I'm in love with this because I loved how open it was. It was completely raw and honest. And for me, I've always learned to just be the bigger person and turn the other cheek. And it's like, sometimes you do want to get down and dirty and get on that person same level, but I will never give anyone that power over me. So it's like, you know, I'm a pray it away. So it was quite easy to

finish out the song because there has been people who have tried me and I love it I really do. When was the last time you really wanted a person hurt because that's what the song is about you wanted a person hurt but didn't have to pray it away. I think the last time I felt like I wanted somebody grew in five days. She grew in five days. She said, I've been growing. How long? Five days. Okay. All right. Yup.

When you say hurt though, you don't really mean hurt. You just mean like you want them to feel how you feel. Yes. Okay. Like, but the thing is we never have to do the work. Like karma speaks for itself. That's true. You know?

So never give someone power to get you out of your character. That's what I like. But you've never been like, or you don't believe in like, spite, like I gotta get my get back. No. I don't. Because I don't want it to come back to me in turn. So I just let them dig themselves in a ditch.

We got more with Chloe Bailey. When we come back, don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ, Envy, Charlamagne, the guy. We are The Breakfast Club, we have

Nala Simone here, we still kicking it with Chloe Bailey, Nala. So you talked about stepping into your sexuality on the album and obviously we've been seeing it in the music videos and stuff like that but Swarm, that clip that was trending on Twitter, people were making it sound like I'm getting calls like, did you see, did you see? I'm like no, I guess I'm gonna look at it and then I look and I'm like it's really not that bad it's two seconds yeah it's really not that yeah well for all but that's like ten minutes man y'all don't ever think about us I know right never think about us because

God is good lessons are flowing I'm an actress as well what I love about acting is that I'm not Chloe Whenever I'm playing that certain character and shout out to Donald Glover, Janine neighbors, Dominique fishback and Damson Like we had the best time and when I was shooting on that set, I fell more in love with acting I barely wore makeup everything was shot on film in music You win and thrive off of being this image of perfection or whatnot. You get clowned for messing up or tripping or falling on stage or looking a hot mess on the carpet.

But with acting, that's where the beauty is with all of the flaws and the imperfections and things like that. So I fell in love with the script. Now I totally didn't even connect, oh, I have to do a sex scene. I've never done a sex scene before and I was like, okay. Well, I'm not the focus of the scene it's really about the shock value of Dre and Khalid watching each other and like you see the obsession between the sisters form at the beginning But the awkward shooting no

You see me for two seconds in the mirror and And, and you did not see t**k. You did not even see crack. You saw everything, you saw everything that you see from me on stage. Like let's keep it real. Did you have to call, like when you told your dad, hey dad, this is the scene or you know, how was that conversation? Cause a dad's still gonna be a dad. My daughter's 21 and I don't care. For sure.

Still a dad. Yeah, I feel like dads will always look at their little girls like they're still little and that's totally fine. One thing I will say about my parents is that they know this is our job. So what was the call? You called that, hey dad, hi baby, how you feeling? I just finished shooting. What did you shoot?

Go. Okay, so it wasn't about the shoot. It was about when I first got it and when the agents will call and be like, hey, congrats, da da da da. And after I got it, I think my dad read the script and be like it congrats and after I got it I think my dad read the script and he's like oh okay like yeah no it was just me I had to hop on a flight right after I bet you the internet doesn't realize how much more money they make you because a two-second scene caused them to lose their mind like that all that's gonna make other people say oh we gotta get

Chloe in our movie yeah we gotta get Chloe on a TV show gotta get Chloe endorsement deal mm-hmm I like how you were saying see she said it's working when you say like acting you can be imperfect and the music has to be perfect why can't you bring the imperfections to the music cuz I think like like what's dope about Cardi B is that you can hear she's from the Bronx, you know what I mean? And like the Spanglish she uses sometimes. Like, why can't it be both? Well, I do do both, but that's what people ridicule me for being imperfect, not

being the type of image they want me to be. People say they want certain things and then when you do it, that's what they used to pick on you. The weirdest thing is when people say things like, she don't know who she is, she's not being herself, you don't know her. Thank you. You don't even know her. I'm sure they'd like me if they'd meet me. I'm a really nice person. I wanted to ask, you're on a Seoul Out Tour.

Yeah. Does that mean that you're not going to be a special guest or that you are going to be a special guest on somebody else's tour coming up? Well I'm definitely going to be open to be honest. I'm definitely going to see the show for sure. And it's been exciting like seeing what I've been doing for myself. Like I've never headlined a solo tour ever. SIS and I never got to do it for ungodly hour because we were in the midst of a pandemic.

So I really didn't know what to expect going into it. Like when I announced it, even before the album dropped, I was a little nervous, like would people want to come? Things like that. Every night I'm like telling my godmum and my team, I'm like, what do you see out there? Like people out there, like for some reason, it doesn't click that people are there to see me. And it's sold out. And I think when you're constantly used to people telling you otherwise, a part of you as

much as you don't want to begins to believe it. But then when I step out on that stage, and I see it, and I hear it, it's not like people are just watching me being quiet, like they're singing the words back to me, they're giving me that energy and that love. You can't fake that. You can't buy that and make up numbers. You can't do that with that. That's real. So as long as I'm connecting with the ones who love me and I'm doing what makes me happy, that's really all the f*** that matters. It's also okay to have your people say, don't ask me no f***ing Beyonce questions. I love Beyonce when I'm my own entity.

Right? Because I mean, I'm sure Kelly, Michelle, everybody's gone through that, that is stood next to that great person we call Beyonce. It's okay. Tell them don't ask you no Beyonce questions. Yeah, I mean she is Beyonce. Everybody wants to know about her. So I'm just like, cool. Like I don't really look much into it. Are you gonna be opening up for her? Say exactly what he said. Don't ask no questions about Beyonce. One good time.

She's my family. I don't have a family. One good time. Let's practice. Chloe. Are you gonna be opening up for Beyonce? I plead the fifth. No, say don't ask no questions. Okay, okay. No, no, no, no, no, I, practice. Are you gonna be opening up for Beyonce? I plead the fifth. No, say don't ask me. No. Okay, okay. Go ahead, go ahead.

No, no, no, no, no, I'm nice. Okay. And you're my family. I don't ask, I ask. Now I do cuss. Are you gonna be opening up for Beyonce? I don't know. I'll put you.

No, you're really coming to Kansas. You're really definitely gonna take that clip though and be like, don't ask me no questions about Beyonce. That was gonna go everywhere. No, that would be great. Now, with all the critique you get from being a music artist... And by the way, guys, she said she didn't know. She didn't say no. She just said she not said anything.

All right, we heard you. Just put it out there. With all the critique you get from being a music artist, does it make you just wanna stay in acting? Because of the freedom that you're getting acting? That's a really great question. In this past week, that crossed my mind a few times. And I got over it like two, three

days ago. Really? Yeah. And I was like, when people make you doubt, and especially as creatives, we already doubt everything we do. So you begin to think like, oh, well, maybe this isn't for me, but then I would be going against the exact reason why God put me here. So why like, pray it away. Never lessen yourself to

please somebody else. And that's an everything. Chloe Bailey, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us. Thank you guys. I love you all always. And it's the Breakfast Club is Chloe Bailey. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed. We have Marsha Ambrose. Welcome back. What's happening? Hi guys. How are you feeling? How are you feeling Marsha? Seven, eight years. Eight, nine years. It's been a long time. Crazy.

How you feeling? I'm great, how are you? Doing well. Let's blacken out. 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.

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I mean, you got so many classics to me. Late Nights, Early Mornings, Friends and Lovers, Naila you've done it again with Casablanca You heard it. Yes They gave it to you. I feel it's such a vulnerable feeling when people would like have it now Like not real. This is all a dream Well congrats. Thank you So I heard it was your mom that actually got you to link back up with Dr. Dre. You know what she did in true Scouser fashion, the Liverpoolian that she is, she hit me up

and said, Scouser means you were born and raised in Liverpool. Liverpoolian, right? So I'm born Liverpool, born and raised. So my mom calls me, me mom calls me and says, oh Marcia, have you spoke to him? I am Dr Dre. I don't even think she referred to him as Dr Dre. She just said Dre, like I was supposed to know who that was. And I'm like, no mum, I haven't spoke to Dre lately.

And I was like, all right, I'll call him up. So this is around about the end of 2020, December. So I give him a call, say, what's up? We reconnect. He's like, I'm working on a couple of things. I'll send you a couple of ideas. So we started shooting ideas back and forth. What would then be the GTA video game?

But I didn't know that that's what was being worked on. Dre is just like, let's just work. You never know what's gonna happen. So we're going back and forth and couple of weeks go by. And the top of 2021, he had a brain aneurysm. I was on the treadmill when I found that out, like looked at my phone and, you know, it popped up, whatever news outlet. And it was like, what?

I just talked to him like less than 24 hours ago and made all the calls, found out everything was okay and stable. 24 hours after that, he called me said, look, Marsh, I'm cool. I'm in recovery, but I want to get back to work. So I'm going to get you out to LA and let's just figure some things out. So he in the hospital bed called you like, look, we got to get back to work. All I know was like plugged up on the way back. I said, okay, Dr. Dre, whatever you say. And within a couple of weeks, I was in LA most of that year, 2021.

And the creation of Casa Blanco happened a couple of months after that. So it was really all the GTA stuff. And then I told Dre that I was overdoing this artist thing, Nailah's mother's now. And I just want to chill. Like I just want to produce and write. I've never been a pick me I want to be in front of the camera. No, I was done. chill. Like, I just want to produce and write. I've never been a pick me. I want to be in front of the cap. No, I was done. And he said, yeah, no. Oh, you were done with music?

Yeah. Really? Well, being an artist. Being an artist. Yeah, being an artist. I was always going to create. But the whole being the artist thing, I was like, I've done everything that I could possibly do on this bucket

list that I tried to create for myself. I've surpassed my bucket list. My actual list. my bucket list my bucket list. I'm just curious get signed win a Grammy lose some Grammys I don't know like work with my favorite artists like regular stuff, but my actual things I didn't write all work with Michael Jackson work with Prince work with Stevie work with Michael Jackson, work with Prince, work with Stevie, work with Dr. Dre. I didn't write those things out loud, but I wanted those things and I've achieved that. By now, this is 24 years in for me. So I'm like, ah, what's next? I'm on my Quincy Jones mission. I like the pedestal you put hip hop on, on this album, because just musically it just shows how much of a classic musical art form hip hophop is. The fact you can go from, that's Tenuesi records like from the 40s right?

Yeah. The fact you can go from Nat to Nas. To 90s. Right and it blends seamlessly. Perfectly. It doesn't, a lot of things that we did on this album shouldn't make sense. Like I truly believe we will be in the Guinness Book of World Records for how many things we sampled and the way that we sampled them.

So no, Wu Tang, Duke Ellington and Michael Jackson aren't supposed to fuse, but on Thrill Her, they did, you know. So it's, yeah, it was a wild ride, but one of the most amazing experiences I've ever had, not only recording it, just the entire process. Even getting to this point, even it taking so long to get a release date for it to be available. Like the entire thing has just been, no one's done this before.

You talk about inspiration, right? And Shalime say how you inspire so many people, but you must have inspired Dr. Dre as well because we haven't heard music from Dr. Dre. We haven't seen him executive produce things. We've only heard rumors and like, it's almost like a tease. Nothing ever comes out.

You hear Dr. Dre executive produce such, such album, but you never hear this project. He recently said this in a bit, in an interview. He recently did and said, and I absolutely believe this, he may have only released 5% of the music that he's ever recorded. And now working with him as extensively as I did released five percent of the music that How did you how are you one of the few people to actually get your album up? Did you ever think it wasn't gonna happen?

I'm the only. Yeah you are. The only. There's not one person. Damn. Before or after, I don't even think this happens again, that has an entire project solely produced and mixed by Dr. Dre. How did I do it?

Not clear. I know that I did it. I know that this is something that he'd never done. And I feel like that that was the driving force for it to be something new. He could have just did a hip hop record. It could have just been a soul R&B. It's none of those things. It's something so specific, so different, but so familiar. And I feel like we were both going through a similar situation. It was he had a health scare, I had a health scare, the pandemic is happening.

It felt like the end of the earth during that time. So it felt desperate in a way it felt if we don't do this and this world ends tomorrow, what's the mark that we actually leave on planet Earth and musically, like you said, I've done things that you know, a Marsha Ambrosius album is this specific thing. If I had to leave it all on the floor and put up my triple double and win a chip, that's this album. If it was all said and done like okay, apocalyptic world that we're now in because of the pandemic and many other things, it was that it was out of desperation and feeling like I could have lost my life. Dre could have lost his. We didn't.

We survived these things. We're now post COVID. How do we navigate through this and what does that sound like? And that's why and how this happened. So yeah, Dre being inspired by me, I'm inspired by him. It just took off. That was what the title means. So Casablanca, I initially, within a week of recording

what we knew this was gonna be after Tunisian Nights, he threw out some album titles, a couple of which were things like I Sing or I Sing Motherf**k. And I was like, Dre, we need an actual title. Like, what is this? It was like, we need an actual title like what is this was like I mean you sing so I'm like no right that these to be a title I what is this thing so I was in a spoiled circumstance where I'm driving through the Beverly Hills like just Hollywood Hills every day to the destination to

record and it felt very vintage Hollywood like the lights the lamps it was glitz glamour red carpets the whole nine and I felt underdressed for the studio every time I got there based on what we were creating so it was strings it was a symphony but it painted these pictures and I was like no it feels like a place it feels like Casablanca and it was like, no, it feels like a place. It feels like Casablanca. And it was like, mm, okay, Casablanca. It's a Bena, it's that Dre. So it's a little bit more gangster than that.

It's like Casablanco, like Griselda Blanco. So the fusion of that very vintage, jazz, Hollywood feel meets hip hop is how Casablanco became what it was what it is hi we got more with Marsha Ambrose's when we come back is the breakfast club good morning morning everybody is DJ envy Jess hilarious Charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club is still kicking it with Marsha Ambrose's Charlamagne and all you make it feels like it's soundtracks to make love to

of course like nothing more nothing less why is that I have no clue it's just in tracks to make love to. It's a gift. What about a one-night stand? Music too good to have a one-night stand too? Well that was the point. My one-night stand is now 10 years long. Okay. And I'm saying so I definitely lent from other experiences and wild drunk nights over the course of, you know, Grammy open bar, you know, it gets very ridiculous. So yeah, those one nights, they're a part of that song too. But ultimately, it's that one night that could be your forever. You shouldn't have one night stands. Why not? Exactly. I don't know where it's gonna go. Like everything is a one night stand.

You think about it. So we've all done it. It's whether or not it lasted or it didn't. But you shouldn't be, ooh, I'd never do that. If I didn't do it, 10 years later and a seven year old, maybe that doesn't happen if I don't just, you know what I mean? Like if I don't say hey.

I wanna ask too, I wanna go back to what you said. You said the health scare and your child. How did that change your life with the health care and your child? Because I guess if the baby was six, seven years old, it happened right before COVID. So you pretty much raised the baby during COVID. It's just COVID babies are different. Oh, they different. It's ridiculous. Like, but for me, how it how it all changed. It changed all of us, you

know, being in a dark place, I don't think there's anything that could bring you out of that. And that was terrifying during the pandemic. And I'm pretty sure for anybody where you're like, not even your kid could bring you know, my mother, my father, my brother, like close friends couldn't write your way up. This is what Casa Blanco ended up being. I didn't think I'd see this moment at one point. So to get here and to be happy and to be in a space that I'm in is just wow. Wow. Is that where the song, I guess, Self Care Wrong Right might come from?

But even that is a song to make love to. Yeah. What's the wrong right part of it though? Like, what does that mean? Who's wrong? Self Care Wrong right was? Initially those were two separate songs and the self-care was I needed to do me Figuratively and literally so by the time we got to wrong right

It's me inviting that person then into my space and it's giving me good like you so hood like Please don't go it's that you're so wrong right now for even trying to let me let my guard down because I was so cool with just letting me do me and then here comes this mmm this this fine dark chocolate sweat me off my feet and let me put my guard down and I'm a Leo and that's hard for me to do. So when it happens, it's both terrifying, but the fear and a lioness comes out in aggression and anger and a lot of sexual appetite that is anyone that knows that knows.

And yeah, that was the you're so wrong right now where did y'all meet where did you meet your husband on tour on tour yes how did that go down because you were you talking about him you just you started your mouth started salivating and you just started you started getting hot together you turning envy on because you say i'm thinking about the song wrong right i'm I mean, in be thinking about your man getting turned on. I was like, chill. Chill out. I'm just saying, she was just so excited. I'm just asking, where did they meet?

That's where the music came from. That's love is love. I'm gonna be thinking about my wife, alright? It's fine. No, we met on tour 10 years ago. And I saw him, it's 10 years later I said you know when you know you know you keep like all the movies that you see that's corny like it never

happened yes it did it was I seen him and he had a red fitted on and I was like who is that and I approached him like yo wassup and we got to talking and we haven't stopped talking You need to write a book called one nice day Because there's so many people who think you got to make make the man wait 30 days or 60 days or 90 days There's so many formulas to it Maybe don't just follow your intuition Because it all depends on what type of person you are like Like there are people that are, I've never been, I'm not approaching unless I know it's

for sure. I don't know, there's many formulas to it. So even if I did write a book, I'm going with what worked for me. I'm not giving you the manual to how this works out. Like, ooh, you too can find your 10 years later. Like, I'm not giving it as game like that. I'm saying if you saw what it was that you wanted and you didn't make your move, that's on you. Because then you'll sit there and ponder and be like, well, what if I just

said something? What if I just approached by the time that I did and it was what it was? And I knew that it was more than just that one night in Philadelphia, that one night in Chicago, that one night in Virginia, that one night in LA, now it's many nights, now it's all you want to move in? Sure, moved in together and then it's oh you want to go back to the UK for Christmas with me, meet my whole family? Sure. And then by April, we were pregnant. Wow. Is that serious?

I can't. That sounds ridiculous when I say I'm... No, it doesn't. No, when I say ridiculous, it's like that's the timeline, you know? And we were both very short. And the album is very like 1990 now. Like how do you have such a nostalgic feeling but keep it fresh? Any hip hop connoisseur or R&B head, 90s is just... It's unmatched. nostalgic feeling but keep it fresh.

that the world were doing then but making it now it's because that was timeless. I was gonna ask you know you talk about Dr. Dre only releasing 5% of the music that he actually made how much music did y'all make and had it what was the process of trickling it down from the amount of songs you made to this 11? You know what's crazy we made about 12 or 13 songs. Really? And knew when it was time to start? And knew when it like evenly like if you had to get rid of one or the other. Right, right, right. It's definitely that one though and one of them we couldn't clear, like, get, nah. Damn.

Nah. One of them. So I was like, okay, we can't clear that one. We have an album and Dre in the creative process has like a whiteboard on the wall. We'll write the titles for each song. And we just looked at it and was like, that's it. We're done.

So between end of April, 2021 and end of May, we were completely redone, done with recorded vocally. I recorded everything, written everything. We took a couple of weeks off and reconvened and Dre said 27 piece orchestra. So we were at Gower Studios, Eric Gore fame did the string arrangements and we were in with the orchestra listening to them go crazy on this album that we created which was already doing what it was gonna do this symphony just took it to another place like didn't even make any sense so by the time that's happened it's just timeless in that way. All right we got more with Marsha Ambrose when we come back. Let's get into her new joint. It's called Thriller. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning everybody it's DJ, Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club.

That was Thriller, Marsha Ambrose. Her album comes out next Friday. What's happening? I was watching the R&B Money podcast. Shout out to Tink, and you made a comment, I guess you were joking. I don't know if you were joking or not, talking about you throw a Stevie Wonder really can see. Now- And people took it as they were mad at you for a little bit. Mad at me how?

I don't know. Because if you're a Stevie Wonder fan, what I said was he can see if you listen to the music to be one of the most prolific descriptive songwriters of our time, how can he not? And maybe not in the way that you believe that that is, but his pen game makes you visualize us with actual sight, visualize everything he was saying. That's a gift. That's what I said. Yes, he can see because there's no way he says I never dreamed you'd leave in summer and I

literally see the summer day he's referring to. That's not fair. Mary wants to be a superwoman and I know who Mary looks like. I've already made that character. The song plays and I see it Stevie. More than any songwriter I believe on planet Earth has made me see a song the way Stevie does. That's what I said. I said what I like I said. That's why I said. I get what you're saying. He might be blind but he got vision. There's a difference. Speaking of vision, to use that song on Casablanca, I remember Dre actually, he might, Dre was nervous about using the Stevie record or like asking him like, yo, let's hit Stevie and see what he thinks. I'm like, okay, crazy. But yeah, we got to use visions on Casablanca with Stevie's blessing and this fake bucket lifts I

keep making up like I'll check that one off you know. Is Stevie FaceTime? Zoom? What did he do? I want to say it was a phone call that I had and Dre had We're just gonna let that one do this. Cool. What? You caught it, you caught it. As long as you caught it. Absolutely. You caught it smooth too. I love it. You caught it smooth. FaceTime, not any FaceTime.

I love it. Cool. I've got a couple more questions. MJ Coachable? What? Yes. I'm wanted to be. Like I had a spoiled experience.

I was just getting to, you know, Atlanta, then get to Philly, get signed by the end of that year. Now I'm in the studio within less than a year of the time it took me to get to the States. Then worked with Michael Jackson because he's had this demo. And we were here in New York, Hit Factory. Michael Jackson was there in the studio two hours before call time, just warming up his vocal. He was that guy. Like he was great because he worked unlike any other and Mike was just the king for all

reasons. Now you also mentioned Flowetry. Fans were always wondering, will Flowetry ever do an album together again or that chapter your life is over? Who knows? No chapters are closed. And I think, rewinding to what you said about when I met my husband, I did a Flowetry tour 2015-2016 and that's when I met him and then got pregnant the following

year on the other tour. So it was like a back to back, hey, reunion, it's all love. And yeah, who knows? Now also, I seen Amanda Seals was on Club Shae Shae and talks about, she said that she thinks you wanted her to quit Flowetry. Was that true? The loaded question quit Flowetry is very vague What was happening with Amanda Seals and this is what, because I want to spend a lot of time in this This is like a quick bit. When did we last do the Breakfast Club? This is like 7 years ago. Now it came up. Yeah, so initially the first thing I said about Amanda Seals is sorry and it was she

was put in a position that she shouldn't have been in in the first place. The label and management are trying to reestablish what that was and it just didn't work. So by the time we've put all of these things into action, we've rehearsed a show and you've given it to the public, everyone has gone, oh nah, and there's nothing I can do about that part. And this is also 17 years ago, three weeks of a summer tour, we may have done like 15 or 16 shows and it just didn't work out. And that was the end of that really.

But we've had nothing but for me we'd had nothing but positive interactions thereafter like I saw her 2013 took pictures together we reminisced and she'd been texting me throughout the years after that nothing but positive vibes so I'm in a good space right now 17 years later so for whatever she believes that was I don't think publicly we can do this combative what you said this happened or I said this happened I know exactly what happened on my end but you know it's kind of 17 years ago I've done all this healing between now and then I'm not the

same like 17 years ago 2007 I'm still talking to Michael Jackson at that point I've still got prints on speed dial like I was still very much Grammy winning Grammy nominated me that was in a position to Do what I wanted to do at that point moving forward and here we are 17 years later and I'm still moving on and moving forward and Casablanca with Dr. Dre's about to drop and just in a different space, you know? On the song Greedy, it makes me wonder, does your husband ever hear certain lyrics and

be like you talking about us? Because you say, it's never enough to love you, same old lame old, ain't no way I'm ever going to take that s***. I'm giving you everything and just the things I get. Don't play that s***. Even if it was, Greedy during that time and even during the creative process of Casablanca, my husband and I had a conversation about where I was at mentally to create the actual. Basically, he said I didn't have to be married, Marsh, and come from that space.

And I understood what he said when he said that, because the love songs are different. If I'm attached to the relationship I'm in and having to kind of skirt around what that looks like, those songs sound like Don't Wake the Baby or Just Like Old Times and they're different. With this, it was you need to stretch that pen and write from a space of You doing you and what does that sound like so by the time I got to greedy I was angry at the world like it's never enough to love anyone or anything and then be satisfied in a way that

You feel like you put your a hundred in and they only claim it's 30%. So I could give you the moon and it's like, well, where the sun at? Like it's the moon family. You know? And I feel like greedy. I was talking about everyone. It wasn't even just about him. It was everyone and everything playing this tug of war of if you're not next to me You feel as though you're missing out on something that you only gain by being with me or taking something From me. I'm like, what was the end game? Well, I what exactly do you want because you're really upset like you've mad as you know around me like that greedy Fantastic album comes out next Friday and 28th. Oh my goodness when you say it out loud. It's real. That's right next Friday. Oh

man Listen, what do you want to hear off that? What do I want to hear might be wet wet? Let's do it All right, we'll get that on. Thank you so much for joining us the album Casablanca comes out next Friday. You guys can check that out and we appreciate you for spending it with us today. Thank you so much for having me There you go. It's Marsha Ambrose's. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning It's Donkey of the Day and I deserve it You need to know what you need to tell them I am

You have the voice Tell them Tell them It's time for Donkey of the Day It's a read but you're so good at it You're trying to be a fake ass Charlemagne. You only want Charlemagne to go. Damn Charlemagne, who you give a ducky of the day to now?

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on including Kid Fury, T.S. Madison, Amber Ruffin from the Amber and Lacey show, Angela Carras and more. Make sure you listen to the Black Fat Femme podcast on the iHeartRadio app, other podcasts or whatever you get your podcast girl. Oh, I know that's right. Red uh donkey today goes to a 35 year old man named Roshan Shah Wali. No Roshan Shawal Ajaywani. I don't know if I pronounced this man's name right but let's get to the story. Roshan is likely headed for trial according to LA County

Superior Court records because he was arrested on October 18th. What was Roshan arrested for? Well he was arrested because he was accused of trying to steal a hash brown at gunpoint from a McDonald's. I because he was accused of trying to steal a hash brown at gunpoint from a McDonald's. I repeat, he was accused of trying to steal a hash brown at gunpoint from a McDonald's. Not even with a real gun, a replica pistol. Y'all think I be lying, but you can look this up. The victim reported that Rashawn arrived at the third window in the drive-thru line and

demanded a third hash brownown after ordering two. Okay? Big back behavior. The employee of the McDonald's let the suspect know that he only paid for two and the suspect Rashawn told the McDonald's employee, don't you F with me, while using the employee's name from his name tag. So let's just paint the picture. If the guy's name that worked at McDonald's was Calvin, Rashawn kept saying, don't you

F with me Calvin. Well clearly he thought Calvin was still laughing with him so he, Rashawn, or Rashoon went to his vehicle, pulled out a firearm, the fake gun, a prosthetic pistol if you will, a silicone scrap, a GMO gat. He pointed this impossible piece, this Beyond biscuit at the employee and said, these hashbrowns ain't dying for you He didn't really say that but in my mind that's how he was bringing it Okay But he did point the firearm at the victim's chest and the McDonald's employees said he gave up the third hash brown

Because he was in fear of his life you think and can you believe? Rashaan had a wife Investigators identified the SUV that he was driving and it was registered in his wife's name a wife. Investigators identified the SUV that he was driving and it was registered in his wife's name. Alright they served the search one on their home and the victim positively identified Rashawn out of a lineup and deputies found a black Glock 19 style compressed air-fired pistol during their search of the Canyon County home. This man had a house, the SUV and a wife and he robbing people for hash browns.

Now he's facing two to five years in prison. The judge denied a motion by Rashawn's counsel. They wanted a mental health diversion for him, citing the aggravating and mitigation factors. I don't even know what that means, but I do believe Rashawn is dealing with some type of mental health issues because you don't flip out like that

over no damn hash brown. A hash brown? And you already had two? Okay, over no damn hash brown. A hash brown? And you already had two? Okay, robbing a McDonald's for a hash brown is like sticking up a Starbucks for a free Wi-Fi code. Okay, it's like robbing a 7-Eleven for a free Slurpee refill. If you are going to commit a crime, at least steal something that doesn't cost less than your bus fare at home and you ain't even need a bus fare because you have an SUV.

Okay, who the hell wants to spend two to five years in prison because they committed grand theft breakfast? All right? Nobody in prison gonna take you serious. Your celly ask you what you in for and you say stealing hash browns then your celly turns to you and says your ass brown. Okay, that's when things can get tricky.

All right, robbing McDonald's for a hash brown? How hungry do you have to be to risk five to 10 years for a dollar menu item? Okay now there's a part of me that respects the basicness of it all though. Okay Rashawn walked into a McDonald's with a GMO Gat and what did he demand? Not the hotcakes, not a sausage biscuit. Okay by the way McDonald's is 2024. Can we get chicken sausage biscuits? Turkey sausage biscuits? Please no pork on my fork. But he didn't want either. Rashawn didn't want any of that, he wanted a hash brown. You gotta respect the simplicity, forget what's in the cash register. He wanted that fried potato,

okay? Who knew you could turn Big Mac breakfast cravings into a felony? Now, I have the president of the Fat Lives Matter Committee, we don't have the wobble in there, do we? I like whenever he walks in like I want the wobble to play. Big Mac is here. You know anything concerning food Big Mac wants to weigh in because you know he can break the scale. Mac the floor is yours. I hate short people man. I hate short people all the time. But I had to speak on this one because as the president I knew you was gonna shame this man and that's because you always looking at it from the skinny committee. Talk to me. You're not looking at it from the other side of it. Okay.

First off do you know how much hash browns are these days? How much? $3.49. For one hash brown? For one? I don't believe that. They changed it now huh? Thank you. So he didn't rob McDonald's for a hash brown. He paid for three, because hash browns used to be a dollar. 3.49. Look, look, do your research. You see that? Yes. Jesus Christ. Y'all not part of it.

I get the emails all the time every time they change it. Damn. So he ain't robbed that. I used to pay a dollar for it. So technically, when he got his receipt, saw $3, he said, oh, wait a minute. I didn't pay for three hashbrowns i only got two let me pull up let me get that other one that wouldn't make no sense because he bought two so in that way that'd be like almost seven dollars until he saw his receipt said oh they charged me for three i gotta go back around let me get

that third one technically if you see seven dollars that'd be they would charge them for like seven or eight based off the logic you use right but he's probably was getting frustrated because you know the gas price is high too so he's like I'm not gonna keep moving around. That's why he pulled the gun out. I'm more mad that he kept the gun for the cops to find him than he is about doing the hash brown thing. Please give Rashawn, Rashawn, I'll I'll a Juwani the biggest he-huh. Okay? I'll I'll a Juwani the biggest he huh? Okay No, no Rashad and Dr. Wadaway, don't, no, I'm taking the donkey back.

Don't you, no, you do, you do God's work, sir. Mac, you're still standing here like you in line at the cookout. Okay? Why you still here? Alright, your plate is full. Don't be mad because you got to sit at the kids' table. Damn, you don't think McDonald's should get a little bit after? The hash browns being $3.19? Yes, and then they don't sell it all day like some of the other breakfast items.

So he was probably like, damn, I only got like 30 minutes. Let me swing back around real quick. And then would you say Charles or Chuck there? Everybody try to be a hero. Calvin. Calvin, everybody try to be a hero when they work the fast food. Just give it a damn hash brown. You know there's headlines about this

three dollars for a single McDonald's hash brown. Yeah. That's crazy. Customers are fed up and pushing back. You're welcome. This is on KTVU. February 2024 on Haskell.com. That is crazy. Yeah. I can put y'all on the email chain if y'all want. No I'm good. You sure? Yeah I'm good. It's easy. No I'm all right. Bigbacksn gmail.com. All right. Well, thank you for that donkey today, sir breakfast club Nvjess hilarious. I mean the guy we are the breakfast club. We got a special guest in the building. Yes indeed Kalani Thanks for having me. How you feeling? I feel good I think the last time we did this we might have been on the phone of zoom call So it's cool to be in person. Yeah, it was zoom. How's your spirit? How's your energy? I'm super good I'm like probably the best I've ever been amazing. Yeah, I think just life is really cool

I think I made something I'm stoked about my fans are stoked I got to do all these cool signings and see all of them a person and just like be back in the swing of things So I'm good. They say you're a gym rap. They said you up at 6 o'clock this morning in the gym They say every morning. Oh, They might have lied about this morning I was dead sleep this morning. Okay, but yeah, I'm up. I'm always about my fitness stuff. I'm super healthy and the healthiest I've also ever been so I will say you know Listen to your new album and just seeing you over the last few much several months talking I did the confidence in a sense of self that you have now

that you didn't have years ago. Yeah, for sure. Why is that? I mean, I think it's been a long mental health journey. I think it's been a lot of contributing factors, new motherhood, different angles of being publicly aligned with certain things or publicly misaligned. They're just not stepping into myself.

I'm 29, I'll be 30 next year. I'm growing up in a real way. So like I know how to prioritize and take care of myself differently now. Why did you name the album Crash? So essentially a crash is the height and the peak of a moment. It isn't like the anxiety that comes before

and it isn't like the overthinking that comes after. It's just this like, excuse me, clusterfuck. It's just this thing that happens. And I knew this album wasn't gonna make sense to most people. I knew that it would be something that you either loved or that you hated and that kinda just is a crash. And that's kinda been the reception is some people hate it,

some people love it, some people think it's my worst and some people think it's my best and I think that's really cool. It's a little bit of everything. It's a little bit of a high. It's a crash, it's really a crash. It's a little bit of everything. Yeah. It's a little bit of a high. It's a crash. It's really a crash. It's a little bit of everything.

Yeah. Was that what you wanted to do? You know, I didn't start wanting to do that. I started as myself titled, and I went on this mission to finally make the Kehlani album, because I haven't done that yet. And we started going to all these different cities, and we got all these Airbnbs in different places.

And it just kind of grew into this thing that resembled, I feel like me as a person, I feel like I've always been kind of this thing that doesn't make sense to everyone. They can't figure out like who I am, what I am, what my story is, how it's been all of these things, like can't figure me out in whatever kind of way, how I look versus how what kind of music I make, how I sound. Once it started taking its own life, I was like, oh, okay, it's just me as an album. What is the self-titled Kalani album supposed to be like because you said it was supposed to be a Kalani album

What was that supposed to? Well that album to me is more rooted in the core things that shaped why I sing I feel like the Kalani album will be much more referencing like my actual core musical references It'll probably be a lot more R&B But this album really reflected all the things that I listened to, that I grew up listening to, but didn't necessarily shape my identity as an artist, but reflect like, you know, worldly where I'm at. So basically we're still getting K-Lani out.

Absolutely, that'll probably be my next album probably. Yeah. Lose My Wife is such a toxic record. It is so toxic, K-Lani. Like why would you make those choices and decisions knowing that it could cost you your wife? Oh, you know, it's not a true story. I just wanted, they saw.

That's what you tell them? No, it's true, it's true. So, in my head, Crash is the story of this anti-hero version of myself that goes to Vegas and has this crazy run in Vegas and ends with that lament of like, oh, this is Crash instantly. And it's almost like the come down song of like, all this has crashed instantly. And it's almost like the come down song of like,

oh, these are the decisions that I've made and like, this is what happened. So it's more of like a sonic story and an ending to the story than a true story that I needed to smack on there. It kind of feels like the hungover song. It kind of feels like the next day you're like, ah. This is your shadow side.

Exactly. Gotcha. But when I hear songs like After Hours or like Better Not or Tears, it does feel like you're longing for a stable relationship. Does it? A little bit. Yeah. Yeah. I mean I think everybody wants love. Everybody wants stable love and we all just have different journeys through it, you know. Yeah. How has motherhood been? Oh it's the best. Through this journey. It's the best. She's five. I can't believe it. Oh baby Yeah, and that is a whole

That's a whole other thing. I got one. I'm literally like I'll make the day seem so fun I'm like we're going to the aquarium and we're going here. We're going here and then she's like no Kind of just want to stay in the house and play I'm like jeez What are we gonna do the other day? I took her to the park and she was like I'm just letting you guys know I'm not playing with any of those kids and I was like I respect it But maybe we should try that she did and she tried and she made some friends and she's in school So like she has friends. She's still got musical interest. I heard you say one time she had some she's on the album She's on deep. She actually sounds so good that you can't really tell that is her except for her tone is obviously

Sounds a lot younger than mine, but she's singing her ass. Do you want her an industry? Wow, I want her to do whatever she wants to do if that means industry sure if that means she wants my help sure if That means she doesn't want my help sure if that means she wants to be a brain surgeon or rocket scientist. Let's do that It's her world. I'm just here. Yeah, is the industry good for kids? I mean you're somebody who came in the industry as young, right? I think that there's pros and cons on both sides. One, I didn't have access to the proper mental wellness type of regimen or care.

To have grown up in it the way that I did, and we're seeing the effects of people who, you know, adults now and all these stories are coming out about them being like child stars are coming out young And on the flip side, I feel like people now have access to that but there's it's also a different demon fame now It's completely different. It's why I don't really post my daughter. I don't there's too many creeps I don't ever heard it ever look back and be like I actually didn't consent to any of this I didn't give any permission we already get embarrassed when our parents play home videos for our friends when they come over like if I'm just

Subjecting my child to her home video her freaking growing up home videos being widely known all over the internet She goes up one day and it's like I didn't get to tell you if I wanted that or not You know, that's not me as a parent. So yeah any more babies I would love to have more babies whatever God wants to bless me with I receive can we talk about the record what I want? Yeah, I want to look better than me you're reading it so serious so excited to read that seems on that record seems like you're torn between wanting to be spoiled but also feeling comfortable being the one who spoils yeah okay okay I'm definitely like I fluctuate. Absolutely. I think I'm more of a giver than a receiver of like spoiling

I think that's just my nature. Um, but I it's just a classic song about naming all the things that I want I don't think any of them are even cohesive I think they're just like here's a list of all the all my dream things that I want But if you're having a wild weekend in Vegas, why would you lie to a woman like that? Why would you make her feel like she's so special? Isn't that what you do in Vegas? Doesn't Vegas make you? No, not like that.

But I'm saying, is Vegas not some adult Disneyland of all your vices and you don't talk about it when you get home? Actually, I have a tiny residency in Vegas. Thank you. I have a show. Thank you. I have a show at the end of next month and in August. That's what I do in Vegas. Because even on the song Vegas, maybe I'm tripping it didn't sound like you was actually in Vegas. You just said what we do is like Vegas. Exactly. I made a couple songs. Actually, I made part of what I want in Vegas. I made part of Sucion Vegas. I mean, actually I made most of Sucion Vegas and a part of Groove Theory in Vegas, but the song Vegas I made in Los Angeles. Okay.

And then nobody go to Vegas to fall in love. Like they go to creep, have fun, you know? But that's why you ain't gotta lie to the person. Who said I'm lying? I don't know what I got going on. Well, that's a lie. Gas them up, Kaylani. Right, we don't know. Right, hello? The record's Sucion. Sucion, doesn't that mean, isn't that Spanish slang? Sushia.

But dirty, right? He said Sushi. It's Sushia. It's Sushia. Sushia? Sushia. Sushia. No, it's just Sushia.

There we go. He's a lesbian. OK. And that's dirty, right? Yeah. Dirty girl. Here we go. There we go.

Bilingual. Is that what the record symbolizes? Yeah. And dirty. Basically. OK. I mean, Young Nico's verse is crazy if it's translated. And Jill Scott is freaky Auntie Maxx, extreme Lord.

Freaky Auntie Maxx. She is the freak lord, honestly, the original freak. So I had to tap her in. Yeah. Yeah, that was an honor. All right, we got more with Kalani. When we come back, don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

Morning, everybody. It's DJ, Envy, Jess, Hilarious, Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Kalani when we come back don't move it's the Breakfast Club good morning. Morning everybody it's DJ, Envy, Jess, Hilarious, Charlamagne, the guy we are the Breakfast Club we're still kicking it with Kalani. Jess? I noticed that you don't have a lot of features yeah is that intentional? No I tried to get more features there was a couple things that were going on different time things and not necessarily being aligned at the time different people not aligning with me and just things not making sense. But the ones that did stick around for me and really, you know, held me down. I'm super appreciative and they killed it. Yeah. Now after hours, were you surprised of how fast I took off, especially on social media?

Crazy. Yeah. So it was like a huge dance and Yeah, honestly, I have to give a lot of credit to Darius Hickman, who's an incredible dancer and he was in the after hours video and he left rehearsal for one of the for the after hours video and went home and just like made this little dance on tik-tok and it just like it took it on When I think it's such a testament to how powerful would like dance is and how like dancers are like DJs I think I really break songs like it's I give him all the credit for that cuz it's crazy Did you know who Lumi D was before him? Yeah, okay, of course

Are you disrespect her like that? Now you also mentioned that this album isn't rooted in your personal experiences are our relationships like your previous album Are you saying that just so you don't get in trouble and people be like, Dan Kalani so toxic? No, I think I think anytime a running. He wants you to be a pimp so bad. So bad. You know, what's so funny is I think people would be surprised if they sat down with me

to actually ask and inquire about my experiences because they might look one way but it's so many different scenarios that lead to why my love life looks the way it does and so many that you'd be surprised who's what's happened with this and what's happened with this and it's just it's my business and it's my world and where i'm pretty much in good standing with anybody ever so like running through these chicks is extreme you do really want me to be a pimp, but you know, maybe I'll just start embodying it. Maybe I'll just live in it. Maybe I'll just accept it. Yeah.

Does that bother you people in your regular business, not just your music business all the time? No, I think it comes with the territory. At one time you didn't feel like that. Oh my God, I hated it so bad, but I also, I have been, again, your mental health journey and your journey in a being a public-facing person Those have to be in lockstep like those if you are ever having poor mental health

There are so many times I could say I've been at a table with y'all and been in the worst states of my life And I was like, okay that interview is gonna be whatever and times I've been like I'm actually not doing interviews this year because all of this Absolutely, but I've also was not in a positive space to even be able to walk in a room and like hold that granted. I think the interview at the time that caused things like that. Was it my favorite experience with someone? No.

But I also at multiple times in my career just have not been just aligned with where I needed to be to be able to show up in that way. So now I can hold that you could probably say anything to me and I'd be like alright cool. I'm a huge mental health advocate so what got you to that place where you are now? You know and I mean I know it's a journey I know it's ups I know it's downs but what got you to this? Yeah. Honestly I'm gonna use this moment to be really transparent and to really advocate for people you know getting psychiatric care and I psychiatric care. And I got a

psychiatrist and I got a proper diagnosis after what felt like years of getting soft diagnosis and misdiagnosis is and I'm able to get medicated help and it keeps my mood stable and I'm here and it keeps me like I would absolutely recommend it to anybody that feels like they need it because it's not something that anybody needs to shame or like be nervous about and it's probably the best thing I've ever done for Myself for sure what got you there? Cuz most people like you said they feel like they can't talk about it I can't discuss it they can't get to help cuz they don't want to be shamed especially a celebrity you feel like Somebody will see me do this that never what got you to the point was like F this I need to get help

You know, I was medicated when I was a kid and I remember not Having the most proper experience with it just because I was really young and like, you're in school and like every kid has ADHD and like is hyperactive and you know. At what age were you first met a kid, do you remember? I had to be in like the third grade maybe.

On Ritalin? On Ritalin. And it really messed with my personality. And my mom was like, yeah, no, like you can't be a zombie. Like I'll take hyperactive, turnt up, you know, over like whatever this zombie, you know. And then on top of that still, I just remained with the psychiatrist.

And then I, you know, went into teenage hood and I didn't have that anymore. And then I became an adult and just like, my experiences in the music industry and the amount of like PTSD that that causes paired with, you you know all your childhood trauma and like all these things you kind of get to a point where you're like alright I'm not an expert like I can't keep being the one to dictate this or to supplement

or like to to try to fix it I used to smoke a lot of weed can't do it won't do it. So you don't smoke anymore? Oh I haven't been a smoker in five years. Wow. People bring me weed all the time and I'm like, dang. That's the old me. What about indigo? Indigo kind of calms your anxiety.

Sativa makes you have panic attacks. You know, it was because I got pregnant and I couldn't. And then I went to a throat doctor and he was like, oh, you don't want to sing for the rest of your life the way your **** looks. Because I was smoking backwards. I was smoking blunt. And I just, I couldn't do it anymore. And I'm just, I got to a point where I was like, okay, I'm doing all the things that I can smoking backwards. I was smoking blunts and it just I couldn't do it anymore And I'm just I got to a point where I was okay. I'm doing all the things that I can possibly do I'm going to the gym. I'm developing good hobbies not going out

I'm not doing this and I'm still struggling. It's at a point where I need to call You know, I need to ask for help. I keep hearing you talk about your fitness journey Yeah, and but then they say recently you were body shamed on You know, it was an interesting body shame because what it was was the accusations that I got ab etching but girl Yeah, it's really interesting the thing is I have diastasis right that and a hernia from being pregnant So my muscles are split down the middle So I have I have this space right here and this I have like a lump because it's my intestine, it's a hernia and it kind of looks like an extra ab randomly above my belly button. Everybody was like that's

the proof. And then they were like yes proof because she's not super muscly anywhere else but just her core. And one if you go back like genetically I have my dad is super buff like I'm damn you're built like my father and then I've always kind of had right And I've always had abs and then upon like just really training my core to like make up for the fact that I my muscles aren't Connected and I have to get my core together to be able to do anything. That's the center of everything I have to go a little hard on that I honestly thought it was hilarious and then people people just being like, is that a man? And I was like, do you want me to be?

Jesus. Would you like me to be? But what I love is like, you didn't get mad and like go get online and start going crazy back and forth. It doesn't do anything. I used to do that a lot. And then you just realize like, there's crazy shit every day.

Like people talk about some new shit the next day. I remember when the internet used to destroy me like it you What I remember the other day maybe last week somebody might have tweeted like oh like y'all don't call Kehlani dirty And she has tattoos and someone said oh you must be new here and everybody was like yeah because 2016 to 2018 that was it everybody was calling me ugly dirty Everything and I used to be, what? I was f**ked up about it, like consistently. And then I just got to a point where I was like, well life kind of goes on and like I know myself and like there are people that

know me and love me deeply and care about me and like- You know you wash? Right, hello. Yes. If you guys would like to come to my house for a week and double check if I shower twice a day and the levels of aftercare like that's on you guys but you know you don't how you can't prove those things to people people who already want to be like that are gonna be like that regardless. I will don't move we got more with Kalani when we come back it's the Breakfast Club good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning everybody is DJ Envy Jess Hilaria, Charlamagne the Guy, we are The Breakfast

Club, we're still kicking it with Kalani, Charlamagne. Now how did your record label, and I guess just the industry period, react to your advocacy for Palestine? You know I think we're in a kind of a loop for so long of like what's safe to speak about and what's not safe to speak about, especially with the powers that be being so powerful and that running so deep. Obviously my music came out and obviously I'm super supportive so absolutely no problem from my record label. I have experienced a lot of pushback, I've experienced a lot of loss, I've experienced a lot of things that were promised and set up for this rollout and album

to happen that were supposed to be a lot of firsts. Really? Yeah, magazines and these things and those have brand deals and opportunities that we're sad to lose but at the end of the day, I don't regret doing something that I can go to sleep at night. I can go to sleep knowing that what I learned to be as an artist, I'm aligned with because I grew up fully understanding the role of art in liberation. Sup 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 27. I'm going to toss it over to the host of Historical Records, Nimini, to tell you all about it. Make sure you check it out. Hey, y'all, Nimini 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. 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! Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records. Because in order to make history, you have to make some noise. Listen to historical records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, everyone, it's John, also known as Dr. John Paul.

And I'm Jordan or Joe Ho. And we are the BlackFatFilm Podcast. A podcast where all the intersections of identity are celebrated. Oh chat, this year we have had some of our favorite people on including Kid Fury, T.S. Madison, Amber Ruffin from the Amber and Lacey Show, Angela Carrasso and more. Make sure you listen to the BlackFatFilm Podcast on the iHeartRadio app? I have a podcast or whatever you get your podcast girl. Oh, I know that's right. And that's not to place myself in alignment with, you know, those artists and those revolutionary

acts, but that's to say, like, I understood what it meant to not be silent, even if I never put it with the song in the video, even if just me speaking out, I always knew what it meant to have a platform and that responsibility in that way. And like, I can go to sleep knowing that like I don't, I can look myself in the video even if just me speaking out I always knew what it meant to have a platform and that responsibility in that way and like I can go to sleep knowing that like I don't I can look myself in the mirror you know and know that I did I did the right thing. Do these magazines and stuff tell your

people why they say you always are advocacy of Palestine? Those are really big buildings with a lot of people involved so it always makes its way back. You also mentioned that your advocacy for Palestine caused a lot of artists to ignore your request for collaboration. So I was talking very fast on a live, very caffeinated early in the morning

and I wasn't able to like really elaborate on that. There are a lot of more people involved on artist teams than just the artists. And it also wasn't every single feature. There were certain people who didn't get it back in time or it wasn't aligned with like the timing of their album. I didn't mean every single artist, but there were artists that I did reach to

and someone on the team was like, we don't for her. Or they said this and then another thing made its way to me or like a nut. Like things you we know, we know things travel. We know people have conversations and those people have conversations and people were respectful enough to not, you know, text me back and say, girl, you want my Zionist, you know, things like that. But I wasn't able to really elaborate that when I and I would never, I would never sit here and name names because it's not about that.

It's more about how insidious the industries are and that we can be so afraid to lose what we've built because so many of us have come from nothing to where we have this scarcity mindset of like, I have to protect what I have going on so hard that I will do anything to stay in that world to protect it because I have to keep feeding my family. I have to keep, you know, building my legacy. I have to do that. I don't want to chance that. And it's sad because that thing that does get dangled in front of our faces when it

comes to really important political matters that people don't align with. It's sad. It's unfortunate. And I don't I'm not mad at anyone. I'm not holding anything against anyone. I was definitely on that live like, yeah and by the way let me tell y'all about that. But I definitely have those moments where I'm like, they're up. But typically I'm a longer thinker and I have more to the thought and it was just unfortunate. And you raised over a half a million dollars for Gaza, Sudan and the continent. Yeah. Do you think money

is the only way people can help absolutely not I think in every single issue The idea is that you're supposed to listen to the requests of the people at the core of the issue You're supposed to abide by the request of the most oppressed and they have asked us to literally speak Like that's the thing about this whole like social media doesn't do anything speaking doesn't do anything awareness doesn't do anything But those there are people in Congo who are just saying, make our stories heard. There are people in Sudan who go, just speak about us.

They're not talking about us on the news. They're not talking about us in these magazines. They're not talking about us anywhere. But you guys are. Gaza opened the door for people to even be aware of Congo and Sudan on a global scale, because those issues have preceded this genocide.

Those genocides have been have been happening. Those famines that extreme like displacement, those have already been existing and Gaza has opened up the world to Haiti to Yemen to all of these places as that all this is going on. So the least we can do is share things here and there and you don't have to have money But if you do you should put it where your mouth is for sure. I was gonna ask absolutely Yeah, you are a West Coast girl and girl. Yeah, what you think about? I haven't publicly rooted for anyone. Have you not seen me at the club? Oh, you can seen me at the club? I heard you humming earlier in the hall. You could hear me through the soundproof door. Oh, okay. You see how what they're trying to pin on me in Israel? It's amazing. I very

much respect both artists. Drake actually named my album. It was good until it wasn't. He showed me a lot of love over time, like publicly, privately. He named that album? He did. We were having a conversation and I told him what I wanted to name it and then he was like no what's going on in life and I told him and he was like and I was like yeah I was honestly was good until it wasn't he was like if you don't use it as your album title I am and I was like okay right you're right then it is a very Drake album title I think it came down to if I'm on some West Coast I'm from the West like I know I know with how important this unity is of all of us and I know how imperative this

Representation of us is like I love Kendrick I've that's the only artists I've ever stood in a line and like waited to get something signed for when I was in high school Like it's soundtrack to my life. So I have no like personal Entrances in anything. I'm just as a fan of the music entrances in anything I'm just as a fan of the music West Big West West West West West West West Just musically though Yeah just musically I mean we have to respect what we saw We saw it

It didn't make it fun of us beige people ever since though Oh my god hilarious So listen when you sing not like us do you feel bad cause it's so catchy I have had moments where I was like in the club and I seen that it's a club thing and I was like damn This is crazy but I also remember every single big diss track in history being able to be played for massive groups of people gathering and It being a thing that everybody is like I was too young for like the ether era But like everybody talks about it and they're like this was like this. This is in a club every night though Either wasn't in the yeah, I mean back-to-back was in the club back back back was in the club. Yeah, so as it's errors its moments

Honestly, I'm not in hip-hop so I can't speak to the sport of it But like it's a sport I guess you have a tech drink like yo, man You did your thing let me be ashamed about it was all good No, I feel like he has real people around him who hold them down and I feel like it's taking that moment to be like Hey, by the way Let me make sure you know I support you. Yeah, he's got his folks. Damn.

You mentioned a tour. Are we getting a crash tour? Absolutely. I made this album two tours specifically. There were so many sounds where I was like, this is going to be so fun to sing. It's going to be so fun to dance to. It's going to be so fun to play with a band. So absolutely. Well, I think for me touring is the epicenter of my like my career to the point where sometimes you don't even see

You can't even really tell what's going on with the music streaming and charting wise people are like what and then you come to The tour and it's these huge venues and people are like I actually had no idea because when I look at how it's doing over there and it's just a classic example for me of like impact versus you know numbers and my shows are huge my shows are a blast everybody has a great time everybody feels safe everybody has fun like that is what's important to me so we're gonna do it again for sure. That's what's up because by then I would have had my baby and I can get big high. You miss it? Very much. Okay. I'm not like you girl, I'm gonna smoke.

Enjoy. But not backwards though. I need two people. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, I'm trying to I'm starting to get off the backwards movement with all the friends. Take care of yourselves. You don't like no plant-based medicines? Um, I like CBD a lot. I like mushrooms. I ate a lot of mushrooms making this album. You might could tell there's some trippiness on here Yeah, yeah, well the album crash is out now. Yeah, what you want to hear don't say after hours We play that already so what you want besides that play deep deep one thing. That's a fun one deep All right Let's get into deep right now make sure you pick up the album if you haven't got it already and congratulations on everything

The fact that you're just happy. You just look happy. That's the most important thing. I'm happy that you are in a place of peace. Thank you. I'm super happy. Well, it's Kalani, ladies and gentlemen. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ N.V. Just Hilarious. Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We have a special guest in the building today. She's part of our family, part of the Breakfast Club family, of course. That's right. If you've ever been up here to the Breakfast Club over the last 15 years, at some point you saw this woman.

Miss Anita, that's right. Miss Anita, she held down the front desk. How long, Miss Anita? 18 years. 18 years. 18 wonderful years. She's that happy face that you see when you walk in the door. If you're sad, if you're upset, she's going to give you that boost of energy. That great hug. That great hug in the morning.

Ladies and gentlemen, and she has a new book, Hip Hop Time Capsule, out right now. Ladies and gentlemen, how do you pronounce your last name? Scipio. Miss Anita Scipio. Actually, the book will be out next Friday on Amazon, and I'm really, really excited about it. It's called Hip Hop Time Capsule, Document Your Personal Journey. You see what happens when you retire? Yeah! You got time to do? Yeah! I had plenty of time to do a lot of stuff.

So this is one of two books that I'll be doing. It's going to be doing a series. But for right now this has 100 questions for people to document their experience, their love, and their knowledge of hip hop. So their prompt questions, I feel I went to the 50th anniversary of hip hop in Yankee Stadium and I saw people there all ages with their hip hop gear from 70 to 15. It looked like everybody and I said each one of those people have a story about what hip hophop means to them Yeah, of course And I didn't see anything on Amazon that has prompt questions that invite people to tell their stories So I said, okay, I invited my brother DJ Sipio. Charlamagne, you know That's right, Luther Sipio

He was born and raised in New York City and then moved to South Carolina and he's killing it down there and I Invite him. I said come and help me get these questions together so we can get people to tell their personal journey about hip-hop. I added 50 trivia questions and answers and then 50 quotes from the biggest legends in hip hop that are positive and timeless. So 20 years from now you can go back and find a quote that's going to still resonate with you. And then my brother and I, we documented, we answered the very questions that we're asking of others. So in doing so, we're telling our story as well. And then to top it off, if we mention a song or a point in history that was very important to us We have a QR code that you could put your phone right up to the book and you're there

I was interactive if I talk about salt and pepper and how much a particular song meant to the culture Salt and pepper song is gonna be there Wow And so we kind of do the work for people who are trying to learn about hip-hop and who love hip-hop So I'm we're very proud Yes, it was a long hard time coming, but I'm sitting on the breakfast club right now I don't even know what to do it myself. I'm so grateful Well, you said 18 years so you ran into a bunch of celebrities a bunch of guests a bunch of family members Who are some of your favorites and why? Snoop Dogg. He ain't trying to smoke with you right? He ain't trying

to smoke with you right? Well he was going to offer me a nip. He said he would give me a nip. Charlamagne you melt in the breakfast club. You ask him, you going to give Miss Anita a nip? He said yeah I'll give her a nip. What's a nip? What's a nip? Oh like a little piece. Every a little smoke. Okay. Every time Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa got off the elevator, all you see is a puff of smoke and then they would just appear. So I love Snoop Dogg but as so many other artists and legends that I love so much. And so that I go into more detail in hip hop time capsule the next chapter where I have all of my pictures with them and I tell personal stories about each of them. So you're going to find some stories in this one.

But in the next book it's a more detailed story of our bond and the mutual respect and love that we have for each other. for each other. As a matter of fact, when you see the pictures, you can tell that there's a real bond there. I talk about DMX and how he came on his birthday and he was sipping some Hennessy. Oh, that was that day? Yeah. And he, he, he came over. He said, Auntie, anytime you hear my name, I want you to pray for me. And I said that I would anytime you hear my name, see my face. So I said, I will do that. So he left about an hour, about a half an hour later, I go down to lunch, DMX is down there by the hot dog stand.

You want a hot dog? He's offering people hot dogs and people like, what? DMX was buying people hot dogs. So I mean- I remember that's when you got drunk and you ate up all the hot dogs and he started throwing up. Yeah, he was told off.

Okay, so I have great stories. I have some stories in here, but the main focus of this book is for people to document their own journey. You know, I mean, at a time when, you know, other people can lay claim to certain aspects of hip hop, I just want to be documented what people have gone through, what it means to them and you're going to learn a whole lot about hip hop in the interim. So Ms. Anita, one of those people who reminds you that whatever you're doing, just be the best at it. That's right. That's right. That's right. I love, you know, what Dr. King said, even if you're a

street sweeper, you know, be the best at it. know do it do it right be proud of what you do so when I was tired I was looking for a purpose I'm like God I need something to focus on and it was that experience at the hip-hop 50th anniversary and it came to me like that that all of those people those hundreds of thousands of people sitting in those seats have a story of why they are there. And so, hip hop time capsule, document your personal journey. That was the impetus to do the book. Now you have a strong bond with a comedian that people might not know. Doesn't really have a big name, real local.

Why'd you plan? Oh, yeah, doesn't really have a big name real local He flewed me out twice, okay? He invited me to go to Donnell land. I think that was in August. I can't remember right off the top of my head. Put me in the best hotel. It was a wonderful experience. So much love. People of all ethnic backgrounds just loving each other, having the most awesome time.

Then he flew me back out again for the 4th of July. Then I'm hanging around with Dave Chappelle and his wife Elaine with Common and it was just beautiful. He just shows me so much love. He had a car sent for me to go to his comedy show in New Jersey He was hysterical absolutely hysterical nobody ever He was hysterical he's a funny guy So, yeah, I loved Darnell he

You know, he took me away from YouTube I said come on and I felt like a celebrity again You know what I'm saying? It just felt so good. Is he in the book at all? Oh, heck yeah. OK. Definitely. So are you, Shalana. You in the end. So are you, Jess. Me?

Of course. You're in the book. Of course. Yes. And my son over there is in the book too. Absolutely. Nick? Nick is in the book.

I couldn't tell my I Heart story without you guys. How could I do that? So I mean, holy cow, I'm on the breakfast call. Yeah. Well, tell them where they can get the book. Hip Hop Time Capsule. That's right. Hip Hop Time Capsule, document your personal journey.

It's going to be on Amazon this Friday. And I hope you'll all go out and get a copy. It'll make a great Christmas gift. And like I said, me and my brother, DJ Siphyo, we put this together. And we hope you enjoy it. We got to send one to Will Smith for you, too. Absolutely. gift and like I said me and my brother DJ Scipio we put this together and we hope you enjoy it. We gotta send one to Will Smith for you too. Absolutely I'm gonna make a bunch of copies and make sure that everybody gets it. There's a lot

a lot of celebrities named in this book and I want them all to have copies so I'm gonna work that out as soon as I can. We appreciate you for joining us. Happy Holidays to you all and I love you all. Thank you. Bless you all'm missing you. We appreciate you for joining us. Happy holidays. Thank you so much for having me. Happy holidays to you all. And I love you all. Thank you mama. Bless you all and thank you again. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning everybody. It's D, E, J, N, V. Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Uh Charlamagne, you got a positive note? Listen, the positive note is simply this man. Uh, I want you to remember this this weekend.

The only limits you have are the limits you believe you have People my people what's up, this is course love man. I cannot believe we're already wrapping up another season of course love supreme Man, we've got some amazing guests lined up to close out the season But you know I don't want any of you guys to miss all the incredible conversations we've had so far. I mean we talked to A. Marie, Johnny Marr, E. Jonathan Schechter, Billy Porter and so many more. Look if you haven't heard these episodes yet, hey now's your chance. You gotta check them out. Listen to Questlove Supreme on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. ["Questlove Supreme"] Hey everyone, it's John, also known as Dr. John Paul.

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