The Breakfast Club - The Breakfast Club Talks With Joey Badass, Ask Yee and More

Episode Date: August 18, 2022

Today on The Breakfast Club, rapper Joey Badass joins us! We have a great discussion with Joey about new music and all things healing from trauma. Later on Angela answers listeners personal advice questions during Ask Yee and Charlamagne gives us today's Donkey and Positive note. nSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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What the hell is wrong with you? What part of leaving don't you understand? Jesus Christ, she got her own show. I thought they said the fall. This is the second day in a row that I said Angela Yee and I didn't hear nothing back. Well, it's feeling like fall a little bit. Okay, but, you know, way up when Angela Yee starts this fall or whenever Angela wants it to. Maybe it started already.

We just didn't know. Nobody gave us the memo. You had to respond to two days in a row. Yeah, you're right. You're right. You are absolutely right. How was your night, though? Mine was pretty good.

You know, of course, my car show is this Saturday, so now it's the preparation where all these celebrity cars that I have, I actually have to go get their vehicles and drive their cars because I don't want nobody taking their cars. I mean, they're allowing me to have their, you know, expensive cars, and I don't want nobody to crash. I don't want nobody to do anything bad. So I'm driving around picking up Meek Mill's cars, Meek Mill's motorcycles, picking up Fabulous' cars, picking up Fat Joe's cars, Little Kim's cars,

and everybody's cars. So I had to actually pick them up, take them to the trailer, load them up, get them down to Atlantic City and all that. It's going to be a great event. I see Lynn and Trader Truth are already on the road. They got about 30 cars they're bringing from Houston. So if you see them brothers on the road, you pass by them on 95, blow them a horn, say what's up to them. Did you just say blow them?

A horn, blow the horn. Jesus Christ, I know that's a long ride and you probably want them to come here and relax, but damn, Envy. I said blow the horn. Blow the horn. And definitely, you know, pray for them. It's a long drive. It's about a 19-hour drive. So both of those brothers are in the cars with their vehicles.

So just, you know, pray for them. Make sure that they get here safe. You know it's competition, but we love those brothers and want to make sure those brothers get here safely. So shout out to Tracy. I wouldn't want that kind of responsibility. Well, I got to watch over all them people's cars. Oh, man.

That's what you got to do. I mean, we have insurance and all that. That's what you got to do if you're doing a car show. Yeah. I mean, you have insurance and all that. That's what you got to do if you're doing a car sale. Yeah, I mean, you have insurance and all that, and you want to put on a great show for the people because it is a family fun day. We want people to bring their kids and their mothers, their fathers, their grandparents.

It's a big family fun day where people can just enjoy life in a safe environment. So we encourage everybody to bring their family. Like the guy I called yesterday said his father was 92 when they were coming, and that's what we want. Like I said, my dad will be there. He's 80 this year. My small kids will be there.

It's a family fun day. I'm super-duper excited for it. What about you? You preparing for the show tomorrow? Well, today, I should say. Damn. Yeah. Tonight you can watch my late-night talk show, Hell of a Week,

1130 right after the Daily Show on Comedy Central. So I've definitely been preparing for that. But I'm just tired, bro. I can't do things that I used to do. If I do certain things at a certain time, it throws me all the way off. But you had sex last night as well? Yes, I did, actually. But we've been doing these intense workouts.

So we do these, you know, we do HIIT training during the week. Sleuth to my cousin, Tone. What up, Tone? Perm, perm, get you straight. So we do HIIT training during the week. But the thing about HIIT training, we did it, what's today, Thursday? We did something on Tuesday. And you'll be sore the next day.

But, boy, that next day is when it really hits you. And then you try to do, you know, a simple activity. Like walk up the stairs? Walk try to do, you know, a simple activity. Like walk up the stairs? Walk up the stairs, you know, and then do what married couples do. A little sexy poo? And then, you know, next thing you know, you done overslept out.

Yeah, it happens to people like that. It happens. Let me ask you one question before we start the show. 44 is no joke, bro. Before you start your show, I just want to know, what do you listen to? What gets you hyped? Do you listen to gospel music?

Do you listen to Hov? But right before you do your talk show, what gets you in the mood? Nothing. I meditate, and then we pray. And then, you know, Nyla is a DJ. Nyla Simone, she's our DJ. But, I mean, Nyla be playing stuff, but I be in my zone. I be meditating.

I be in my head. I be ready to go. I don't be thinking about the music. You don't be thinking my zone. I'll be meditating. I'll be in my head. I'll be ready to go. I'll be thinking about the music. You'll be thinking about me? All right, well, let's get the show cracking. Joey Badass will be joining us this morning. We're going to kick it with Joey Badass. Joey Badass' new album, 2000, is really good.

Like, phenomenal. I like it a lot. It's in my rap album of the year consideration. It's that good. And some good rap came out this year. I know some artists, I saw Tory Lanez saying that, you know, he don't like a lot of the music that came out this year, but some good albums came out this year.

Pusha T came out this year. Kendrick Lamar came out this year. There's somebody else I really like this year. Oh, that new Blackthorn and Danger Mouse just came out. But Joy Badass, Future came out out this year, but Badass, Joy Badass album is really dope. Really dope, so I can't wait to talk to her. Alright, yeah, you around?

Oh, Lord. She already told you, bro. I know, she told us it's over. You know it's officially over. Could you stop? Alright, so, LeBron James, he breaks NBA record. We'll tell you all about it at Open Mov us to breakfast. Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired? Depressed?

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B. Angela Yee Charlamagne Tha Guy we are the breakfast club let's get some front page news. Yee, you there? All right. Well, WNBA scores this playoff time. New York beat Chicago 98-91. And Vegas beat Phoenix 79-63.

All right. Salute to the Las Vegas Aces, man. Drop on the clues bombs for Big Asia Wilson. 803 zone. Okay. You know I got me a Las Vegas Aces Asia Wilson jersey, by the way. And also congratulations to LeBron James. He just signed a two-year $97 million extension, which includes a 15% trade kickoff.

Makes LeBron James the highest earning player in NBA history with $532 million in guaranteed money. I mean, he's been around for, what, 19 years? 20 years? He's been playing at a high level for those 19, 20 years. So, you know, he's not one of those people that you're going to see signing for the veterans minimum as he is a veteran. Nope. He's getting that guap. Yeah, he's up to Clutch Sports, Rich Paul,

and that whole team over there for getting that done. Now, a German man. Goodness gracious. You talk about bad luck. Now, he has tested positive for monkeypox, syphilis, and HIV. That's got to be like some type of historic award. What would you call that if you was gambling? If you was a gambling man, that's everything, right?

That's a trifecta. What do you call that? I'm not a poker player. That's got to be something. What do you call it? Three of a kind? I don't know. I honestly don't know.

Now, it's so bad that his nose is actually rotting off. How? I don't know. But there's a picture of him, I believe, on Shade Room, and you can actually see his nose just kind of like disintegrating. At first, they say doctors thought it was sunburned, and the man was sent

home, and he said a few more days, he said his nose began to turn black and like just almost rot off. So he got syphilis, monkeypox, COVID, and what else? HIV. No, you ain't say that. I didn't hear youilis, monkeypox, COVID, and what else? HIV. No, you ain't say that. I didn't hear you say that before.

Yes, I did. I said monkeypox, syphilis, and HIV. That's a straight flush, bro. So listen, did he get diagnosed with all of them at one time? I didn't ask him. I don't know. That's what I would like to know. Like, did he get diagnosed with all of this stuff at one time? Like, he just go to the doctor for a random checkup, and he's like, hey, man, I got some news for you, bro.

And hit him with all four. Three. Three. Monkeypox, syphilis, and HIV. I didn't add another one. I didn't say COVID. I thought you said monkeypox, syphilis, COVID, and HIV. I didn't say COVID.

You just threw COVID in there. No, I didn't need to say COVID early on now. I'm going to make it. I did say COVID. I think you did. My bad. I didn't mean to throw COVID on him. Just adding diseases.

He probably don't got nothing. No, I didn't mean it. He's got a cold. He did. My bad. I didn't mean to throw COVID on him. Just adding diseases. He probably don't got nothing. No, I didn't mean it. I got a cold. He don't got no cold. I didn't mean to throw COVID on him. But that is your- God bless that man, man. Where you from?

Germany. Yeah, keep him over there. Build a wall around him. Put him in masks. Put him in a hazmat suit. Don't let him leave where he is. Keep him right where he at. Keep him right where he at.

Geesh. All right. Well, that is your front page news. You got hit with that. I don't believe that. I got to see that to believe it. There's a picture on Shadom. Keep him right where he at. Geesh. All right. Well, that is your front page news. How you got hit with that? I don't believe that. I got to see that to believe it. There's a picture on Shadom. I'll send you the picture.

But that don't mean the story real. That story sound too wild to be real. You got hit with all four. Yeah. COVID, syphilis, monkey pox, and HIV. Well, you said four things first now. There's only three. He doesn't have COVID, right?

She said Hollywood a lot. She said Hollywood a lot, but it have COVID, right? She doesn't have COVID. She said Hollywood a lot, but it's coming from the New York Post. Jesus Christ. All right. Well, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. Maybe you're having a bad day, but your day can't be as bad as that German, man. So get it off your chest.

Don't even call up here if you're that German, man. We ain't got no good news for you. Nothing for you. Thoughts and prayers. Goodness gracious. 800-585-1051. Get it off your chest. It's The Breakfast Club.

Come on in. The Breakfast Club. Get it off your chest. Whether you're man or blessed. Say it with your chest. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. So if you got something on your mind, let it out. Hello, who's this?

Here. What's up, Envy? What's up, Trav? Hey, yee. Hey, Trav. up, Envy? What's up, Trav? Hey, yee. Hey, Trav. Oh, she's not there. Oh, God. What's up, sir?

Peace, sis. What's happening? Listen, I heard a story yesterday I was going to talk about. I heard Orlando Brown out here saying that Diddy gave him the oowash gowash, right? You didn't hear that? No. You mean that mouth? But why do y'all – doesn't Orlando Brown say that about everybody?

He definitely said, listen, I believe a lot of things about Diddy. I definitely believe he at first bottom. But I don't believe that he out here doing that to Orlando Brown. So Orlando Brown need to stop lying on Diddy. Like, he really need to stop lying on Diddy. I mean, I think Orlando Brown says a lot of things for entertainment purposes, and, you know, why not?

To be saying that a man did that to you. Yeah, I agree with you, but you're calling the radio station to talk about it, Trav, so you, you know, you watched it. It kind of worked, because we didn't talk about it. I didn't hear the story. I mean, hey, I saw it just like everybody else saw it. I didn't see it.

And there's one more thing, right? Prince was trying to bag me. Hey, man. Oh, hey, girl. What's up, Yeezy? What's up, sorry? He just came out of nowhere. We talking about Prince trying to bag me.

Oh, okay. Yo, shut up, man. That's what the gays do. The gays don't do too much talking. They just give you a little bit of a look. And then they just set you to bag them first. Like, we don't do too much talking. They just give you a little bit of a look. And then they just set you the bags on first. We don't do too much talking. Let me tell you something.

I don't think there was nothing gay about Prince. I think Prince was... Prince used to be with some of the most beautiful women, bro. Listen, Sharp. Most of the men I've talked to in my life have been with the most beautiful women. Touche. Okay. I don't believe you, Trav.

Them little dirty Delaware dudes you be messing with, they ain't been with no beautiful women. First of all, I don't believe you. I don't believe you, Trav. Them little dirty Delaware dudes you be messing with, they ain't been with no beautiful women. I ain't never messed with them. Them little dirty Delaware dudes you be messing with. You be all through Delaware. I heard about you, Trav. Jersey and Philly, maybe, but not no Delaware.

You be fishing in Delaware. I heard all about you, Trav. Bye, Charlemagne. Goodness gracious. Hello, who's this? Hey, what's up? What's up? This is Jody. Jody from South Carolina. Jody! What's happening? John Morant Country. Yeah, yeah,

yeah. What's up with y'all? How y'all doing? Good, good. Get it off your chest, Jody. You're highly favored, bro. I was so scared to even come on here just to say something, but I got to say this. What's up? Listen, I'm so blessed. I know things don't be going like how it's supposed to be going for a lot of people

this end of the third, but, yo, God don't give you too much that you can't handle and he don't do the bare minimum. So, yo, you just keep going, everything will be good. I'm sitting here at work in the parking lot right now. Okay. Damn. Okay. Thank you, brother. That's good, brother. I'm glad here at work in the parking lot right now. Okay. Damn. Okay. Thank you, brother.

That's good, brother. I'm glad you're appreciating your situation, man. And listen, I always want to call and talk to y'all. I appreciate everything that y'all are doing. Y'all keep it up. All right, brother. Thank you. Thank you, brother.

I appreciate you. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up right now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Let morning. The Breakfast Club. Let's get to the rumors.

Let's talk R. Kelly. Listen up. It's just in. All the gossip. Gossip. The Rumor Report. Gossip. With Angela Yee.

It's The Rumor Report. The Breakfast Club. Well, opening statements were yesterday in R. Kelly's federal trial on charges of child pornography and obstruction of justice. They are alleging that he had sex with minors on numerous occasions, recorded a lot of these assaults to VHS tape, and then also paid people who knew about the recordings to keep quiet when he did face criminal charges of child pornography in 2008. This was all said as jurors started the federal trial yesterday. So prosecutors said during opening statements that R. Kelly had a

dark side and kept a hidden world behind his fame and status and the victims were as young as 14 and they said they were multiple girls hundreds of times and so jurors are going to be shown video of R. Kelly allegedly having sex with a minor.

There's one woman that they expect will testify. They said that in this footage, he repeatedly referred to his goddaughter's 14-year-old anatomy. And they're expected to see parts of three videotapes with R. Kelly having sexual contact with his then 14-year-old goddaughter, Jane, over the course of the trial. So they said he was a Grammy-winning superstar who was also a serial predator who had sex hundreds of times with minors and went to extraordinary lengths to cover it up. So another videotape allegedly showing child porn won't be played because they said R. Kelly and his co-defendants, Darrell McDavid and Milton Brown, allegedly covered it up, but witnesses will still testify about it.

That's another thing, too. Like, you know, when they were saying R. Kelly's team didn't want people to watch the surviving R. Kelly doc. But what about the R. Kelly sex tape? That's been circulating for a couple of decades now. Right. Well, the girl allegedly seen in multiple child pornography tapes from the late 90s having sex with R. Kelly is they're saying going to be the star witness and testify and say that he had sex with her when she was 14, recorded some of their hundreds of sexual encounters. And those alleged encounters and those tapes were part of a 2008 Illinois child pornography trial in which R. Kelly was acquitted. If you guys recall when that happened after the witness declined to take the stand. Now she's nearly 40 years old and she's finally expected to testify.

You know, this is going to be, I mean, look, according to his attorney, she wants to know why Jane is coming forward now to testify that the tapes were of her. She said for the last 22 years, she has adamantly denied that it was her in that video before there was any criminal investigation. She denied it. She denied it repeatedly to prosecutors. She denied it to social workers, to police officers. She denied it under oath to a grand jury. I mean, listen, we know R. Kelly about to get sentenced crazy.

You got 30 years already, right? Mm-hmm. And the other trial, we know R. Kelly about to get sentenced crazy. You got 30 years already, right? Mm-hmm. And the other trial, right? Yep. He's already been sentenced to 30 years. Yeah, the precedence has been set. Right. All right.

Now, Jonah Hill says that he will not promote any upcoming films so he can prioritize his mental health. He said he has spent nearly 20 years experiencing anxiety attacks, which are exacerbated by media appearances and public facing events. So he released that in an open letter. And so he has a movie that he just finished directing. His second film is called Stutz, and it's about him, his therapist and mental health. It's a documentary.

So he said the whole purpose of making this film is to give therapy and the tools I've learned in therapy to a wide audience for private use through an entertaining film. Through this journey of self-discovery within the film, I have come to the understanding that I have spent nearly 20 years experiencing anxiety attacks. Drop one of Clues Bond for Jonah Hill, man. I love it.

Whenever I hear stories like Jonah Hill or even Adrian Broner the other day, I don't care what people got to say about it. Because if you don't understand anxiety and panic attacks, then you just simply don't understand. So to see them be like, you know what? I ain't going. Y'all been working with me for a long time.

Y'all see, sometimes Charlamagne just don't show up. And those be the reasons. And to be able to express that now in 2022 and not feel no shame for it, I love it. All right. And Meek Mill is issuing a $10 million challenge. And this is to music executives who said that his career was over. He tweeted out and he said, If you are a corporate person that work in the music business and ever predicted Meek is over,

I want to place a $10 million bet with you in contract. Label owners, A&R, CEOs, COOs, artists, I'm just finding out y'all was talking like that. Y'all said I was over at least five times, and I'm going to do it from an independent side, no major vibes to make effortless. This is not a joke. This is for people that fake call the shots in this music industry.

They really be washed and try to place their limits on you. I want you to believe it's never. Well, I would need more information before I take a bet like that, though, because I want to know what was considered over considered success. Yeah. Like, you know, yeah. Is it album sales? Is the number of tickets you can sell on the road? Is it your merch sales?

Like what is considered success nowadays in the music industry? You can't, you can't really tell. Like if you look at Meek's Dreaming Nightmares, right? That wasn't a single, but it was a record that everybody loved took off and it's probably in the music industry. You can't really tell. Like, if you look at Meek's Dreaming Nightmares, right? That wasn't a single, but it was a record that everybody loved, took off, and it's probably in the last... Cultural hit. Yeah, 15 years. It's the biggest record in the club to this day. Cultural hit.

Yeah, it's a hit. It's not a hit on the charts, but it's bigger than any record on the charts, in my opinion. And I mean, the industry is like sports, right? Like, folks talk about artists like sports teams. If you had seasons that were better than the seasons you are having now, folks might say, well, he doesn't sell like he used to. So that's where the he fell off talk probably comes from.

But I would just simply want to know what's considered success to Meek before somebody takes that bet, you know? All right. Well, that is your rumor report. I do have a question, right when you talk about anxiety like we're talking about uh adrian brona right and i get it he wasn't we don't know why he said his mental health wasn't right so he canceled the fight but now what happens to everybody else involved in that is just like f everybody else because you got people that paid for flights and

were flying to come see him you got promoters that put millions of dollars into this you got people that paid for flights and were flying to come see him. You got promoters that put millions of dollars into this. You got, you know, I'm sure they gave him a bag to start training. Like, so how does that work when you have it? I mean, because I get it, yeah, if you don't feel comfortable or your mental is not right, you can say, I don't want to do it. But how does that all play into everything else? Because you got people that, you know, spent their lives to come see him fight and all that. Did they find somebody else to fight to take his place?

Yes, they already did. They have somebody fighting this weekend. Figueroa is fighting. I forgot who stepped in to fight for Brona this weekend. Because if you're a Brona fan, you want to see Brona, though. You know what I mean? No disrespect to the other boxers. You want to see Brona.

You paid your money to see Brona. Or Jonah Hill, if he had something, you're paying to see Jonah Hill, not somebody else. It's just how does that work? And I get it. Well, he's just talking about interviews, Jonah Hill if he had something you're paying to see Jonah Hill that you know somebody else It's just how does that work and I get it, but he's just talking about interviews Jonah Hill. He's not you know All right. Hey, man, I get all of that. But yeah, sir. Sergi lipid nets is replacing Adrian Boner But I I don't think it matters, you know, I really don't I think in moments like that You have to be selfish because you know You push when you push through when you're dealing with like

panic attacks and anxiety it just makes it worse and nobody has to deal with that except for the person that's dealing with it so I would rather be selfish in moments like that sorry but do you show up for that person next time you know what I mean and I do believe that you gotta communicate that you're not doing something instead of just

not showing up but I mean it's easier to have those conversations now than it was. Yeah, it's easier to have those conversations now than it was five years ago. Definitely 10 years ago. You know what I mean? You couldn't say that. Oh, man, I'm having a panic attack. I'm having an anxiety attack.

People don't even understand what the hell you're talking about. No, you're right. But now, I think people understand a little bit more. What do you show up for them next time? You know what I mean? Depends how I feel. It depends. All right. Well, Front Page News I mean? Depends how I feel. It depends. Well, Front Page News is next. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

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All right, well, when you want to find something online, how do you look for it? Google. Google. Yes. But do you know what Gen Z does? They said nearly 40% of Gen Z members, those are people born from 97 to 2012, prefer to use TikTok for online searches. They don't have a long attention span.

They've said that several times. They want to get information really quickly and get to the meat of it really quickly and not have to sort it out. So now instead of Google, they're going on TikTok to look for information. How do we feel about this? I'm confused. How do we feel about this?

So if you want to search, let's say, I don't know, the White House, you could search the White House and TikTok's say, I don't know, the White House, you could search the White House in TikTok, and then you see a TikTok video of the White House come up? Yep. I feel like that ruins how your brain processes information. You know what I mean? I feel like that messes with your ability to have – it messes with your critical thinking skills.

That's what I think. I don't think anybody's doing any thinking actually because you're literally just letting people do all the thinking for you. They're doing all the research for you and you're just taking their word for it. How do you even know what they say is true? They also said that TikTok's use of video

is very appealing to Gen Z users. They get a more comprehensive search result. What if what's in those videos is misinformation, though? I just feel like it should be something else. Even when I Google, when Google cites me different sources, I'll go look at those

sources, whether it's books, any type of documentation. I just feel like just taking somebody's word for it in a video, that's not critical thinking at all. That's why I always say people wake up every day and they wait for social media to tell them what to feel about something now according to this report though gen z does look for lighter topics on tiktok so things like recipes fashion tips bar recommendations but when it comes to heavier

topics like covid or election information they'll go to google for that okay all right i respect that okay i respect that. Okay. I respect that. You're going in for the lighter topics. Cool. I get it. But for the heavier stuff, you got to do some research. You got to do a little research.

A lot of research, actually. All right. Now, a Florida court is saying a 16-year-old may be forced to have a baby even though she doesn't have parents and has told the court that she is not ready. So Florida may be forcing her to give birth after an appeals court ruled that she was not sufficiently mature enough to decide whether to terminate her pregnancy. So at the time, you know, she was 10 weeks pregnant and she was blocked from having an abortion without the consent of a parent or guardian. But she, they said, had not established by clear and convincing

evidence that she was sufficiently mature to decide whether to terminate her pregnancy having reviewed the record they did affirm the child court's decision under that law man what is going on in the world bro like that don't even sound real like i understand the law but there's no compassion or empathy whatsoever for this young girl and how can you say somebody's not much they're not mature enough to have an abortion but you think they're mature enough to have a baby at 16 that makes. Yeah, and so on her end, you know, she lives with a relative. She also has an appointed guardian. She also did enough research to gain an understanding about her medical options and their consequences. She's also pursuing a GED with involvement in a program designed to assist young women who have experienced trauma in their lives by providing educational support and counseling. She actually experienced

renewed trauma, the death of a friend, shortly before she decided to seek termination of her pregnancy. And so now she has in her petition, which she completed by hand, the teenager is sufficiently saying that she is mature enough to make that decision and she's not ready to have a baby. She doesn't have a job. She's still in school and the father is unable to assist her. How do you tell somebody, a teenager, that they're not mature enough to have an abortion but they are mature enough to have a baby? This don't make

no damn sense, man. Is this real life? It makes no sense. What? Oh my god. And her guardian, by the way, we said she has an appointed guardian, is fine with what she wants to do. And her caseworker was with her in court as well.

So don't know why they're saying she can't make this decision. I would think her wanting an abortion is because she realizes that, you know, she might not be mature enough to take care of this child right now. You know what I mean? Like she's not in a financial position. She's not in no position to take care of a baby. I think she, that's the reason for wanting to have the abortion. So to tell her she's not

mature enough to have an abortion, but force her to have the baby is even though she may not be mature enough to have the child is wild to me. Alright, well that is your Front Page News. Very wild. Alright. Now, when we come back, Joey Badass will be joining us. We're going to kick it with Joey Badass. Brooklyn. So don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Very wild. All right. Now, when we come back, Joey Badass will be joining us.

We're going to kick it with Joey Badass. So don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Rap album of the year category. It should be mentioned in that kind of conversation. That means a lot coming from you.

You know what I'm saying? I appreciate that. Definitely worked really hard on that. I'm super satisfied with the project. I feel like all of the feedback has been really good. Every time I see you, I feel like you should have grew up in the whole Vinaz era. Yeah. Even when I see you acting, I'm like, you are from that era.

Like, your whole embodiment fits that era. That's why I told him this morning, I was like, yo, I said, it's very New York, but still fresh. When I came out at the time, man and it was like nobody had seen what i was doing you know but for me it was kind of like a natural reaction to what was going on you know i'm saying circa 2010 2011 you know a lot of stuff on the radio was like young money dominant then they started going west coast with it you know i'm saying and um I just felt the need that New York needed something that like represented it again and yeah now it's just kind of part of my DNA that time I know that well you know I was a kid I hated

everything I hated literally everything I didn't want to talk to nobody I want to see nobody I had no type of gauge on really what was going on into the magnitude of how it was going why did it take so long why why 10 years between projects oh no i wasn't 10 years project it was five years i thought 99.99 came out well 99 10 years 10 years five years ago all american all american yeah i would make a better all right all right but five years is a long time too in this business why five years man it wasn't no specific reason like i this wasn't like i finished my last time like yeah i'm gonna take five years or not it just it just happened that way man you know i was experimenting trying to

find a new direction trying to figure out which way i wanted to go in addition i had my first kid you know my daughter she's four years old now started doing a lot of tv and film stuff started taking off so it was just really getting used to a new balance and then the pandemic set me back like i had a project but then when the pandemic started i got connected with myself in a different way you know and um it became a whole different thing you know so it's just it's kind of the way it lined up but i'll tell you like, I ain't never planning on going away for that long again. I was going to ask you, how did you get into acting,

for people that don't know? I was a theater student in high school. I went to Edward R. Murrow. I had, like, auditioned for a bunch of different drama, theater programs, because when I was coming up, when it was time for me to go to high school, like, I always was into music. But at the time, there was no programs to go to to work on my rap skills.

I'm a rapper. So my next best thing to me was film. They kicked me out after my sophomore year, though. For what? My attendance was just poor. I was one out of three black kids. And the great thing about that is I was one out of three black kids. It was me and the homie Sadiq who played Ghostface on Wu-Tang.

Wow. So it was dope, you know what I'm saying? Connecting back with him. Yeah, you know what I mean? Connecting back with him the whole full circle joint. Did you ever think you would lose your rap identity as Joey Badass playing Inspector Dick? Nah, I didn't think I was going to lose my rap identity, but that is a good question because I was always reluctant

about playing roles that were too close to who I am in real life. But when I got offered that, you know, it's Wu-Tang. Like, that's a big honor. And then Reza has been one of my mentors in this game for a long time. So I definitely wanted to come through for him. Like, I feel he's come through for me a lot of the times. But, you know, then I got power, and then I got on Viv, though for wu-tang tell me about the jay-z connection because you referenced that a couple of times on the album on make you feel and i might be paraphrasing here but you say peep game

like jay that's that's why he didn't sign me that's why he didn't sign us keep the game at bay like the 49ers jay is like an idol i read his Decoded, and that line was inspired by a piece of Decoded when he said he met with Russell Simmons for the first time. And he details experiences, him remembering sitting at that table and looking at them and thinking to himself, damn, I don't want to be signing these s***. I want to be these s***. You remember your first conversation with Jay? Your first sit down with him?

Yeah. Hell yeah. I was 17 years old. I was in Denver. He flew me back out to New York to meet with him yeah hell yeah i was 17 years old i was in denver he flew me back out to new york to meet with him and you know i was a funny little so i walked in and i'm like yes like whatever it is it was a dope experience man because at 17 years old i felt so limitless it was probably like when i was 15 or 16 like i visualized in my mind like i want to be signed to jay-z so when i was going up in that rock nation

building like a year or two later i'm like damn i could do anything i'm already in alignment with my idol anything is possible did he tell you why he didn't sign y'all it's funny like i always see him now, and I be wanting to have that conversation, but the time, I feel like the time never permits, like, where we at. But I be wanting to ask him that. I was so young at the time, and to me,

there was no reason to not sign to Jay-Z. Mm-hmm. But, you know, there was other factors involved and like that, so I'm not really sure what exactly happened. because based off the album it seems like y'all used to be up there a lot like skateboarding in front of the building well yeah they showed us a lot of love okay you know i'm saying they showed it to this day you know he looks out for me shows me a lot of love so it's just always been um more like three degrees

of separation you know and i like what you said about this being a reintroduction to joy badass because you do tell so much about yourself you talk about your uh cousin richie rich writing you writing your first rap yeah what kind of battery did that put in your back he just like really gave me structure you know what i'm saying like he taught me how to count bars and all like and then you know i had other older cousins who used to rap like that for a long time it was a running joke because when I was a kid I used to always tell them, yo, y'all need to bring me to the studio, boom, boom, boom. And then my blew up and I was like,

ah, y'all need to bring me to the studio. Do you remember writing your first rap? Nah, nah, but it must have been in like first grade. Cause that's when I was introduced to poetry and I identified it as like, I was like, oh, this is that Biggie doing. That's like what my brain said, you know what I mean? And then from there, I got into poetry,

but I would always do like rap style poems. But I remember the first time I spit that verse that my cousin wrote for me, for my moms, I was like nine years old, and was saying like, "'My name is Little J and I got the nine. "'You mess with me and I blow off your mind. They hating cause I be on

my grind and I always shine. Why you acting like you sell Glocks? Well, I put a pipe bomb in your mailbox. Some s*** like that, right? I'm nine years old. I don't even know what the f*** I'm gonna talk about for real. Nah, she even snatched me up. She was like, do you know what a nine is?

And then I was like, to me, I'm like, I'm nine, so it just sounded like that. Nine, you feel me? I'm like, nah. She was like, it's a gun, first of all. I was like, what? And then she gave me the realest advice. She was like, yo, look, if you want to do this, you could do that. But you just got to be true to yourself. And from there, I just kind of took that and ran with it she didn't say nothing about the

pipe bomb no i think she kind of figured out that it wasn't my words you know i'm saying somebody else was involved in that all right we got more with joey badass when we come back don't move it's the breakfast club good morning morning everybody it, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Joey Badass. Charlamagne? I love written in the stars, too. You mentioned your daughter earlier.

You said your daughter was your wake-up call. What did that wake-up call look like to you? Yeah, you know, I felt so obligated in earlier years in my career to take care of people to the point where a lot of the times it burned me out feeling like guilt survivors guilt and things of that nature but you know when my baby girl came it was like oh okay this is really the only person i'm responsible for you know what i'm saying and now that she's here it's different like if you can't respect that then you know we can't even be cool no more how's

your life changed how do you move differently now that you have a girl well yeah you know definitely more focused definitely more intention and everything that i do especially when it comes to you know spending and um you know i say it made me more patient it made me more gentle it made me more um willing to learn and listen how did it change your overall perspective of women definitely like you know from time to time i would have the thought like i wouldn't want my daughter to you know i'm saying being in a situation like that so it definitely kind of gives you a heightened state of awareness when it comes to that interaction but i mean i've always been a super respectful man anyway but like you know

with my baby girl in my life it definitely kind of shakes my mind in a way like let me try to be more like the version of the man that i would want my baby girl to grow up man you know deal with do you ever look at it like i was this way as a man and now i gotta change because i don't want my daughter to like that as a man yes and and no, because, you know, life is about growth. You know, nobody's going to come straight off of the tree like, boom, perfect. Like, nah, you got experience. And, you know, I don't want none of that to be hidden from my child. Like, I don't want her to ever view life as a thing where you can skip steps and still get by.

You know, we all got all types of childhood traumas that we couldn't even run from if we tried to that's right these are the things that affect us and you know i'm saying ultimately shape who we are you know i mean but as long as you know you got that growth mindset or as long as whoever she's with got that growth mindset then i got some patience you know I got some sympathy now in the baddest first of all you and you and Diddy seemed like I have a strong relationship absolutely how you and Diddy get so cool so close man I met Diddy 2016 coming out the Rihanna Met Gala after party mm-hmm

no no he was walking out I was walking in and you just like yo King I've been trying to connect with you for years like I was trying to sign you back in the day. And I'm like, this is old news to me. You know what I mean? This is the first time I'm meeting him. I'm like, wow, word, boom, boom, boom. And then that same week, I had Roland out in Miami. And then I ran into him again.

And then from there, it was just like, we was just road dogs. You know what I'm saying? Like, he would be going somewhere. Yo, Joey, I'm being in New York. Boom, pull up. And we just kind of developed that relationship like that. And it's like, I'm super grateful. You be two distant strangers too?

Yeah, exactly. It's because of me. You know what I mean? I got him on that project. I got him involved. I made a phone call. I'm super grateful for that relationship because me, I'm a sponge. So it's like, you bring me around to the right rooms and tables.

Like, I ain't taking that for granted. I'm connected. I'm networking. I'm, you know what I'm saying? I'm using the opportunity fruitfully, you know i'm saying i'm using the opportunity fruitfully you know i mean as it should be so the fact that he could identify that in me i'm very appreciative of that you know he did the intro and the outro on the outro he said something to the effect of um we got to bring that new york feeling back are those conversations that y'all

have and do you think that you can actually bring new york back if you live in some place like miami or la but you gotta be here yeah i think you gotta be here for sure because you gotta connect with the pulse of the city you know um what was the question the question was uh do y'all have those conversations about bringing the feeling back oh yeah you know yeah yeah me and puff we've spoken about that over the years like you know i'll play him some songs he's like yeah like this is the vibe this ain't the vibe well you should do this. You should go more here, you know. But that's usually the focus of the conversation.

You know what I'm saying? We always trying to stay in that essence. He still got air? 50 said Diddy don't got no air no more. 50 said Diddy ain't got no air no more? Yeah, that's what he said last week. That's a lie. That's a lie.

That's a lie, man. Puff, I feel like he always going to have air. Now, you can tell that you really been doing the work on yourself mentally, too. You know what I mean? Like, you go to therapy? I do. I do go to therapy. I started going to therapy back in 2020.

You know, as unfortunate as that pandemic was for a lot of people, you know what I'm saying? Like, I definitely don't want to be insensitive when I say this. But for me, I needed that. I didn't know stillness in my adult life. Like, I hit the ground running at 17 years old. I was still a kid. I didn't realize for about five, six years I didn't stop. You know what I mean?

So when I finally got that space and that time, it was like I just went real deep inside. You know what I mean? And I realized things that I needed. I was like, okay, I need need therapy you know what i mean like i need to be held accountable for my shortcomings i need those to be pointed out to me because i'm what you call a self-improvement junk like i'm committed and devoted to being a better version of myself every time i show up you could see the evolution in all the breakfast club interviews i think this is our third one. You know what I'm saying?

So I pride myself on that. You know, so therapy was definitely an outlet that I saw to bring me closer to a higher self-awareness and just state of being. What introduced you to it? How did you decide to do it?

What was that decision like? Well, you know, I've always been open-minded and I started to resonate with that idea that black people, therapy being so taboo to us. What it was is I was introduced to the concept of emotional intelligence. And that kind of blew my mind. That opened so many doors for me because I'm like, wow, like, we really wasn't taught this. How important it is to identify your own emotions in relation to the

people around you you know i'm saying like we might just wake up in a bad mood and you wearing that mood and now your household is feeling that mood and you don't even realize you just passed that mood on to your son now your son is in school with that mood and he passing that on to you know i'm saying like energy's energy is so contagious and once i kind of like realized that it started to open little pathways in my brain like damn even identifying with frustration as an emotion if you tell a black man you're being emotional that's like offensive but people don't realize that yo if, if you angry, if we having a conversation, you just screaming because you mad, you're in your emotion. You know what I'm saying?

People get emotionally hijacked every day, B. That's right. Every day, like blinded by emotion, blinded by rage. So I just kind of started on that path of understanding myself more because I grew up, I had like anger issues and stuff like that. It was hard to me to identify a lot of things that I was feeling. Did you figure out where that anger came from? Now that I think about it, looking at hindsight, I think a lot of it came from when my parents split.

Me not knowing how to process that and then manifesting to something else. Like me trying to find a reason for it elsewhere. You know what I mean? I came to that same realization in therapy. Like I didn't realize how much my parents' divorcing had impacted me and how angry I was at my pops for that. Word up. That s*** to do something to you, especially as a black man, you know what I mean?

Because now you got that separation from your father and it's like, you need your father as a black man, especially in this f***ing world. Did you ever have that conversation with your pops? Because, you know, one of the best things that helped me was having a conversation with my pops and realizing that he was going to therapy two and three times a week back in the day. He tried to kill himself back in the day.

He was on 10 to 12 different medications. It made me give him more grace because I realized, damn, he was somebody before he was my parent. Right. And, you know, he was just doing the best he could. But what he had. Yeah, you know, I have great conversations with my dad all of the time. And it's like I have my own interpretations of it because my understanding and his understanding is definitely different.

And it's like a generational difference. And I came to kind of grow and accept that because what fulfills me, what I appreciate, what I'm grateful for is that I can hear my old man's wisdom. You know what I mean? And it's like, it's up to me to interpret that however I see fit. But just being able to hear that, like, you know, I might feel a little bit more spiritually advanced than my dad, but I could never be more experienced than him. You know what I'm saying? And that alone just make me so grateful for any time we connect. You know what i'm saying and that alone just make me so grateful for any time we connect you know what i'm saying because i feel like there's a meeting of the minds

and you can learn from anybody all right we got more with joey badass when we come back don't move it's the breakfast club good morning morning everybody it's dj envy angela yee charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club we're still kicking it with joey badass charlamagne do you really meditate every day you say that on the album. You say you meditate every day. Nah, it's hard to meditate every day. Like, you know, that's more of like a manifestation. I would like to meditate every day. At a point I was,

you know, in the pandemic, for sure. But one thing I try to do is pray every day because I feel like it's a form of you know, meditation or just a form of being able to like program your thinking in the right way. How were you during the pandemic with everything going on? Because you were in New York during the pandemic.

I was in Jersey, yeah. You was in Jersey. So how were you during that time? Man, I was just to myself, bro. Like, I call it a time of internal retreat. You know, like, I was doing a lot of things. I was practicing celibacy. I was reading a lot of books, watching a lot of videos. I started cooking.

I was making salads. Did you say you were cooking and making salads? Well, yeah. Facts. I was making salads, B. I learned how to make salmon and all of that. My s*** was slapping, too. What did you see about it? Because I always say the pandemic, like you said earlier, made all of us be still for the first time.

A lot of us had to really be still for the first time and deal with ourselves couldn't run from our traumas or nothing what did you see that made you be like oh nah i gotta go do some work on myself i saw how much i was settling for the short end of the stick like you know i spent a lot of the the like the first half of my career really focused and obliged to taking care of other people and in that i put a lot of people before myself so in the pandemic it kind of put things in perspective to me it's like damn i got i did this one for that one that one for this one but what the do i have to show for myself and then that was a whole reset because then i came out the pandemic selfish but in the best

way possible because i've never been that person it is evident too like i'm glad you noticed that you said yo you look healthy like this is what i look like when i'm focused on myself did the pandemic finally give you the opportunity to grieve steez the right way it definitely gave me opportunities but um i don't i don. Is grieving, is it a complete process? I don't know if it's a complete process, but I was going to say, when I listen to Survivor's Guild, I feel like you have finally started processing his death. This is the first year where I definitely feel a little bit of peace. You know what I mean?

It's 10 years later. But just with Steezes, I'm still majorly grieving my cousin junior down june yeah how are you processing it like you know did it make you look at because i had a friend commit suicide in 2020 and when she did that it made me look at suicide differently it definitely brought me to a very dark place and you know me i'm very intuitive so something inside me told me because i remember coming from the funeral when me and CJ was on the way back, like, to the crib. And I remember telling him, like, yo, bro, we got to be strong for everybody else.

Because it's easy to fall right now. And I got pulled into that shit, even after saying it. Even after having that awareness and that understanding that I couldn't go there, I still got sucked into that., even after saying it. Even after having that awareness and that understanding that I couldn't go there, I still got sucked into that. You know what I mean? It brought me at a very low place. I was depressed. Like, I felt so many ways.

I'm like, damn, like, 17 years old. Like, I know so many people who are so much older than me, and they've never lost somebody this close to them. You know what I mean? It was just a lot of unsettling emotions and feelings and at the same time dealing with fame for the first time dealing with you know what i'm saying like the ills of that it was bugged that's natural though i'm sure your therapist told you that you gotta allow yourself to feel your feels like yeah all those feelings are natural and that's what i realized too like first of all i'm grateful

for the fact that i was able to put a lot of my trauma off because i was so busy because i don't know what i would have did with that idle time you know what i mean like i was highly depressed like i felt suicidal all of that you know what i mean like i was very convinced that i wasn't gonna live past 25 like at 17 18 i was very convinced of that i'm'm like, there's no way. Like I didn't see life after 25. Even when I turned 25, that was a mind f*** for me. Because I'm like, damn, I did not visualize life this far. And then right there, I drew

up a 20-year plan. Because you look at suicide differently. Because a lot of people, especially in New York, it's probably all over the world, but especially in New York, when growing up as a kid, when you think of suicide, the first thing that people think is you're soft or you're weak right but then when you start having those emotions and that feeling you are you realize it's far from that first of all it's weird to say this but like I think suicide is a incredibly brave thing it is no it is you have to have a lot of audacity

to do that to yourself you know what I'm saying and then it's like to withstand that pain or whichever way like you know like it's heavy but it's like there's nothing soft about that nothing at all you know what i'm saying like i remember when i was at that point i'm feeling low and like as low as i was feeling as convinced i was that like i didn't really want to live i couldn't find that courage to actually do it. My homegirl, Jazz, rest in peace, she did it in 2020, completed suicide. That's what they say to say, Shanti Doss.

But Jazz said she was so intentional and so calculated and so strategic that when she did it, in my mind, I processed it like she just knew it was her time to go. I've never had that feeling, like, it's time for me to exit, you know? But even if you go look at her Twitter, she was saying things like,

I wonder what my next life is going to be like and things like that. So something came over her where she knew, today is my day. Yeah, nah, Steez, it was the same way with Steez. You know what I'm saying? Like, he definitely was vocal about it leading up to it happening.

You know what I'm saying? And, like, when I, it was just, it was weird to it happening you know what i'm saying and like when it was just it was weird man it's weird that the deport buying that new porsche 911 did it really help your mental health that's what you say on that yeah a little bit you know i'm saying because sometimes you got to show yourself like what you can like achieve like it would it being a superficial item and a material thing to me it more represented me having a goal you know and me proving myself once again like anything is possible like that was my dream car and i could have got it for a long time but then one day i just decided y'all i'm gonna do it and yeah it really did something for my state of being my state of mind you know

i'm saying like i had to prove to myself like i know all i gotta do is be connected to the source but nah i need the push nah what i love about you joy man is like when you see a black man doing the work it does reflect in his life it reflects in the way he looks and reflect reflects in his career professionally he's probably your best body of work album wise you see what you're doing in hollywood so that's why man when i see when i see that and i hear you telling these stories about going to therapy and everything i'm like that's gonna convince so many more black men to go go do the work absolutely man it's like you know i always pride myself on being some type of role model because it's like with this position

i got with this stature with this platform it's like i got so many people listening and i feel like the least i could do is implant seeds that'll sprout like you know more opportunity for these people or just you know wisdom that'll transmute into the right directions for these people and stuff like that and also just making them not feel alone like i realized that like my most relatable work is my most vulnerable work and usually when i go there like a survivor's guilt or show me people relate to that more let's get into a joint after what you want to hear brother uh let's hear where i belong where i belong we appreciate you for joining us man keep growing my brother it's joey badass hey guys i'm kate max you might know me from my popular online series the running interview show where i run with celebrities athletes entrepreneurs and

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or wherever you get your podcasts. This is Ramses Ja. And I go by the name Q Ward. And we'd like you to join us each week for our show Civic Cipher. That's right. We're going to discuss social issues, especially those that affect black and brown people, but in a way that informs and empowers all people to hopefully create better allies. Think of it as a black show for non-black people. We discuss everything from prejudice to politics to police violence, and we try to give you the tools to create positive change in your home, workplace, and social circle. Exactly. Whether you're Black, Asian, White, Latinx, Indigenous, LGBTQIA+, you name it.

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Rumor has it. On the Breakfast rumor report with Angela. Well, Chris Brown went on social media yesterday. He went on his Instagram story and he asked people, do you think I've done enough to get a Hollywood star? So a lot of people responded thinking that he already had one, wondering why he would not have one. And the criteria for a star includes professional achievement, longevity in the category of five years or more, contributions to the community and the guarantee that the celebrity will attend the dedication ceremony if selected.

Yeah, absolutely. Chris Brown did so much for this culture. Absolutely. He deserved one. I'm surprised. You know, I didn't know Biggie didn't have one. I didn't know Notorious B.I.G. didn't have one. I don't know what the criteria is, but it just seems to me like it's something that I guess you get over time. Because I look at people that are getting them like Mary J. Blige just recently got one. Ashanti, Khaled just got one. Nipsey Hussle just got one recently. And we know Nipsey just got his, yeah.

It's a process to it. You have to submit for it. They just don't give it to you. You have to submit for it. Somebody on your team or a celebrity or somebody has to put your name, I guess, not in a hat, but they have to submit, and then you're nominated for it. Well, it seems like he meets the criteria.

Yeah, absolutely. I need to get all this real estate to keep putting all these stars down, though, because I done walked down that boulevard before. It don't seem like there's that many, that much block. Well, it's just different blocks, different areas. Like, some might be in front of this area, some might be in front of that area, but it's, you know, it's LA, so LA is huge.

They should do one in New York. I thought they should always do one in New York, too. I thought that would be dope, too. Be gum all over it. Alright, now, Triller has responded to Swiss Beats. Pigeon poo. It's all good. Rat poo. be gum all over it all right now trailer has responded to swiss beats yeah it'd be disgusting it's all good rat poo uh trailer has responded to swizz and timbaland's 28 million dollar lawsuit and so the statement was obtained by tmz and according to the statement trailer saying that both swizz and timbaland have already collected over 50 million dollars in cash and stock

after selling them their idea, but they're saying that they have to fulfill a versus quota. And that's what is resulting in the dispute. They said, this is not a feud over versus, but simply about earn out payments to Swizz and Tim. Swizz and Tim have personally been paid by Triller over 50 million in cash and stock to date, and they stand to benefit even more over time. In addition, they have annual obligations, which if met and no breach has occurred, entitles them to additional payments. Only one payment of $10 million is in question.

We do not believe they have met the thresholds for that payment yet, which include but are not limited to delivery of a set number of Versus events for 2022. We have been trying to resolve this amicably and this does not affect Versus operations or Triller's ownership of Versus if this does proceed affect versus operations or trillers ownership of versus if this does proceed in court we look forward to a judgment that weighs all the facts you know i saw

people yesterday saying um this is why you know swiss and tim you know should have kept it to themselves and they should have never went corporate blah blah no swiss and tim built something during covid and they sold it i'm not mad at them for getting that money, and I'm not mad at the artists that they put money in their pockets as well, too. So I think they succeeded, if you ask me. Now, T.I. is responding to Drew from the Chainsmokers, saying that he was punched in the face because he kissed T.I. on the cheek. If y'all recall, here's what happened.

We were on a vibe, and I was like, I gave him a kiss on the cheek. It was totally my fault. And he was like, don't do that. And I was like, okay. And he pushed me off, and I was like, all right, my bad. Dude, his friend goes, you need to get your boy. And I go, what the f- I don't even know what happened. And he punched me in the face, and I was like, okay, I'm sorry.

And he was like, all right, cool, we're good. It was the weirdest interaction ever because I'm sure he... You did the coolest thing ever and then you kissed T.I. First of all, T.I. is fully in the right here. I was feeling the vibes way too hard. And I kissed T.I. on the cheek. And he punched me in the face for it. All right, well, here's what T.I. had to say in response to Drew.

I love to chain smoke it, man. It made great music. It made great music. You know, I think the most important thing to take away is afterwards. We had a drink. We took a shot. And now, I mean, we moved on. You know, everybody left. Like I said, love to change moments.

Not to get no sugar though, you know what I'm saying? Not no, you know, uh-uh. Not to get no sugar. Uh-uh, nobody. Uh-uh, no. And still a fan. As a matter of fact, would love to have you guys on Expeditiously, you know what I'm saying, if you can find the time for us to sit down and chop it up, man.

I'd love to kick it with you. If y'all got some time on your hand, man, you know, let's, you know, let's catch up. Not to get no sugar, though. I'd love to change smokers. Just not enough to get no sugar, though. That's what I've been trying to tell you every morning. Would it be weird to you if some guy kissed you on the cheek? You said what?

Would it be weird to you? Like, would you react if a guy kissed you on the cheek? Somebody kissed Charlamagne tonight on the cheek. I said what? Would it be weird to you? Like, would you react if a guy kissed you on the cheek? Somebody kissed Charlamagne and I on the cheek. I haven't when it happened. No, like a week ago, somebody kissed me and Charlamagne on the cheek. Kevin Gates always greets you by kissing you on the cheek. Yeah, Kevin Gates always kisses us on the cheek.

You know, I got Italian homies that have kissed me on the cheek. I never thought anything of it, to be honest with you. Me neither. But if you're just kicking it at a club and whatever and then just out of nowhere, not like a greeting. What are you talking about? Like, just hey, like that? Yeah, don't be kissing me if you don't know me now.

The people I'm talking about actually knew me, so it's different. Yeah, he knew them, right? They was all hanging out. Oh, yeah, you're right. I don't know. I guess it just depends how you try to do it. It's just different. Like, when somebody gives you, like when Kevin Gates gives you a dap, he leans in. I mean, I guess I've been knowing him for a while, so I expect it, I guess. And he does it.

I don't think nothing of it. Yeah. One of the Italian homies do it. I don't think nothing of it. So how would you want somebody to kiss you on the cheek then, Charlamagne? I ain't giving you no idea. And by the way, nobody will ever kiss you on the cheek because they'll get black stuff all over their lips because of that Beijing you got in your beard.

I don't have Beijing in my beard, sir. Well, just for men, whatever the hell kind of diet is. Alright, get it right. That is your rumor report. You know what? Next time I say I'm going to kiss you on your forehead just because. You know that? You just want an excuse to kiss me on my forehead.

It is amazing to me that people wanted Swizz and Tim to keep doing verses for free. Like, keep it in the culture. That's what they were saying. But keep it in the culture to do what? Like, y'all just want to be entertained for free? Nah, that makes no sense.

But not only that, you know, they actually pay the artists now. Like, the artists, they put on a show. It's a production. So people have to get paid. Those lights, that venue, the artists performing for over an hour like that's not free they paid it and i think that's dope yo they built something on instagram during covid and sold it and you know according to trilla have walked away with 50 million dollars for something that they were doing on instagram for fun yeah now artists are getting getting paid like, I don't, you know, people are strange.

I don't know what people want from people no more. Who are you giving your donkey to? That's next. Four after the hour. Laurel Cinematic Arts and Creative Technologies needs to come to the front of the congregation. We'd like to have a word with them. All right. And then after that, ask Yee.

So if you need relationship advice or any type of advice, you can call Yee right now. 800-585-1051. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. When it's time to get with someone special, the best way to do it is with Magnum large-size condoms.

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between police and community. Yes, you are a donkey. The latest on that police killing of a black man. Now to new developments in the deadly spa shooting rampage. It was a really bad day for him and this is what he did. And so we are in a state of emergency.

Okay, white supremacist violence is and always has been the number one threat to our society. But I'm also very proud that my wife is white. The Breakfast Club, bitches! All right, Charlene, please tell me, why was I your donkey of the day? Well, donkey of the day for Thursday, August 18th, goes Deloro Cinematic Arts and Creative Technologies. That is a school that goes from kindergarten to eighth grade in West Hollywood, California, that according to their description,

provides children with rigorous and engaging learning experiences that promote individual expression through the cinematic arts and creative technologies. Sounds fun and entertaining, right? But hold up, wait a minute. The Los Angeles Times is reporting that they are getting sued by a black mother named roshanda pitch drop on the clues bombs for roshanda pitch okay roshanda has filed a lawsuit on behalf of her daughter after she discovered her elementary school created a cotton field to get students to identify with the real life experience of african-american slaves black people let's all collectively sigh i know i know we tired of people

playing with us the way they would never think to play with any other community uh in her suit rashonda pits alleges she dropped off her now 14 year old daughter when she caught a glimpse at what appeared to be a cotton field in the front of the school you know what her next three words were oh hell no okay word to maya from girlfriends all right golden brooks that's girlfriends fans still out here looking for closure okay we hate We hate how that amazing show ended, but let me stick to what we are here for. Roshanda uttered those three words, oh, hell no, and then she did what any black mother would do. She requested to speak to whoever's in charge.

In this case, it was the principal, Amy Diaz. The principal, Amy, was unable to speak to Roshanda, but Roshanda did get to speak to the assistant principal, Brian Winesniewski. I know I'm pronouncing that name all wrong and this fool tried to explain the rationale behind the project he said and this is all according to the la times i quote the class was reading the autobiography of frederick douglas and picking cotton was one of the experiences that he wrote about. Hold on, man. Let me take a sip of my water.

Because I, too, have read the autobiography of Frederick Douglass. In fact, the homie Ebony K. Williams bought me that as a gift once. Drop on the Clues Bounce for Ebony K. Williams. And there was a lot of other things Frederick Douglass wrote about. And the main takeaway to me from the book was having a belief in yourself, self-determination, courage, and above all else, educating yourself. Frederick Douglass spoke about how white slaveholders perpetuated slavery by keeping their slaves ignorant, okay?

Because you've got to think, at the time Frederick Douglass wrote this book, many people believed that slavery was a natural state of being. They just thought black people were naturally poor, broke, busted, and disgusted. But Frederick Douglass knew better. And that's why he went so hard to become literate. He believed education was the key to freedom. And all of this helped Frederick Douglass to escape bondage and transcend his circumstances to become one of the nation's most powerful voices.

Okay? Especially against human bondage. Why you ain't teach them kids that, huh? Why you didn't teach them kids, you know, that being an intellectual is not only their right, but an act of rebellion against the wicked system? No, you want these kids to think that all they're good for is to be a bunch of cotton-picking niggas.

You would never remind them of their greatness and their ability to overcome any white supremacist obstacle. OK, Rashawn, the pitch you have every right to be completely pissed off about the idea that the Laurel School would have your daughter and other children pick cotton as a school exercise to identify with the real life experiences of African-American slaves. When I tell you they would never, ever play with Jewish people like this. They would never set up a Nazi concentration camp to get people the real life experience of Jewish people during the Holocaust. It would never happen. So why do they feel so comfortable playing with us? Rashaun did sue in the Los Angeles Unified School District and Board of Education, claiming her daughter suffered emotional distress.

And I believe her because this situation has caused me emotional distress, too. I got gas right now. I've been farting ever since I heard this story. And you know I don't fart in my clothes. You know how difficult it is to do a radio show and in between breaks have to go in the bathroom just to pull my pants down and fart? Huh? Huh? Huh? Now, the suit claims the LAUSD seemingly acknowledged the project was discriminatory and harmful to the students. Wow, you think? You think? People say all the time,

Charlemagne, you make everything about race. No, Charlemagne just acknowledges racism. I would love to not have to talk about race, but how? How am I supposed to stop talking about race in a racist country, okay? Anybody who can hear this story and not say to themselves, yeah, that's effed up, simply either does not have a soul, or guess what? You're probably a racist too. Please let

Chelsea Handler give the Laurel Cinematic Arts and Creative Technology School the biggest hee-haw. Hee-haw! Hee-haw! hee-haw. That is way too much Dan Mayonnaise. Where my girl Kathy Griffin at? Please give this giant jar of mayo the biggest hee-haw. Hee-haw, hee-haw.

What about Christopher Rock? Does Christopher Rock want to chime in? Cracker ass cracker. I know you think it's so racist to call someone a cracker ass cracker. It is not in this case. It is descriptive. Anybody else got something to say?

Crackers! Y'all have a blessed day. My name is Lenard McKelvey. Charlamagne Tha God. Uncle Charla. All right. Well, thank you, Lenard. Up next, Ask Ye.

If you need relationship advice or any type of advice, hit Yee right now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Need relationship advice? Need personal advice? Just need real advice. Call up now for Ask Yee.

All right, Dre, what's good? Hey, what's going on, Yee? How you doing? I'm good. How are you? I'm good. I'm you? I'm good. I'm good. I'm blessed.

I wanted to ask you, would you find, like, if you had a boyfriend, you and your man ended up having a child, would you be offended if he asked for a DNA test before he signed the birth certificate? Would I be offended? Honestly, yes. But would I understand? Yes. So I would say I get it, but I would be offended.

And it probably would make me feel like, damn, that's how you look at me. But I understand it. Not necessarily. But would you look at it as a way to protect yourself? Because there's people out there, they don't have kids. You know what I'm saying? Because they thought it was real between the two and blah, blah, blah, try to build a family, then they go their separate ways

but still be in the life, but end up not being the child, you know what I'm saying, being the father of the child, so it's like not necessarily a security blanket. I can completely understand that, and in a way

I kind of feel like that should be something that gets done automatically. But I can also understand as a human being emotionally how that would make me feel. You know, so I'm not saying that you're wrong to do that. But I do think that somebody would take offense to that. Then you start thinking, is he doing something? Why does he think I'm doing something? Have I done something? Is there something wrong with our relationship?

And it may not be those things, but you definitely will think it and maybe act a little funny. No doubt, no doubt. Yeah. All right, well, thank you. No problem. Do what you got to do, though.

No doubt. Oh, yeah, most definitely. All right. All right, we got more ASCII when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Ye more ASCII when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy.

We are The Breakfast Club. We're still in the middle of ASCII. Hello, who's this? This is Peter. Hey, Peter. What's your question for ASCII? How you doing today? I'm doing well.

How are you? I'm doing well. What's up, Charlamagne? What's up? Peace, K. Yo, bro, like, to be real with y' y'all man y'all have uplifted my life that you because you guys told me like about like generational wealth and all of that i bought a house with my ex now and now i'm in this house by myself i just lost my job my ex seems like he's moving on and right right now, to be honest with you, the question I have is,

with me moving towards greatness, how can I stand firm in it? Because I have to look for a job. I'm single again. I don't know what to do. I'm, like what to do. I'm like really lost. Like, but I know I have a goal as far as my music and my writing and my producing skills. I just need to know, like, what do I do? What do I do in a moment where I just don't know what to do? Right. I think that sometimes we can think so much about

things that it causes us to not act as we're so busy thinking about all the problems that we have and things that we need to make happen instead of actually going out and making them happen and let me ask you this are you gonna be able to keep this house that you guys bought and is it only in your name it's only in my name because that's a plus. Yeah, and I mean, even though I lost my job last week, unemployment is like, I'm going to be able to handle my bills for some months. At least maybe a year. Well, that's a blessing.

That is a blessing. Because of y'all, because of you and DJ Envy, no offense, Charlamagne, but because of y'all talking about real estate, I worked my way into it. And now I'm just like, I'm stuck. I feel like I should have never gone into buying a house with somebody that I wasn't married to. All right, well, look, it's in your name. So y'all did not really buy a house together. It's yours. Number one. So it's not anything that has to be

split up. Now this is your responsibility. And like you said, you'll be able to take care of it. You just lost your job last week. So you can give yourself a moment and cut yourself some slack. I remember when I was on unemployment, I had been working forever, you know, since I was a teenager. And so I was like, OK, now I'm going to take a month or two to figure out what it is that I want to do next in my life and get myself back together. Fortunately, you can afford to do that, like you said, because you do have unemployment taking care of your bills for you. So give yourself a moment like you just lost your job last week. You know, you're out of a relationship. I had a really similar situation. That's the best time to take a risk and be really selfish too

right when you don't have to worry about somebody else it's just you and so now you can say okay now I can just go for whatever it is that I wanted to go for whatever whatever I was scared of whatever was holding me back now's the time to go for it. The slate is clear. Yo, you know what? I appreciate that because I just bought an iMac book, you know, install a live tour to it or whatever. And, like, I'm doing everything that I can right now in order to, you know, make sure I have a successful life. But it's hard. And I'm hearing what you're saying.

But it's's hard. And I'm hearing what you're saying, but it's really hard. Like, but I appreciate what you're saying to me. Peter, and give yourself some grace in a moment. You're a human being. You went through a lot of different things simultaneously. So I do feel like, yes, figure it out. Every day, give yourself some actionable things that you can do, whether it's getting back in contact with people that can be beneficial, whether it's you finding some job openings, whether it's you updating your resume.

Just every day, make sure you do something, but also give yourself a break. It's okay for you to have a moment where you got to take care of yourself mentally and not have to feel like, oh, my God, I lost my job. I have to be doing this. I'm single now. Now I have this house by myself. No, you have a house in your name and not the other person's name that you don't have to worry about getting someone off the house, paying them out, nothing like that. You have your bills that you know you can handle for now. And now you have a little bit of time to get it together and find out what it is that you need to do. And I also feel like it is hard to go through a breakup and also not be as busy,

right? Because then you spend so much time thinking about it. Maybe you're stalking his social media pages. What is this person doing? Give yourself some things to do, even if it's not a paid job. Give yourself some things to do that are important to you so that you're not just sitting around. I wanted to get. You know, maybe. I'm sorry.

I wanted to get. And I'm going to leave you alone. I'm going to let you finish off because I know how you guys are. But I know how you are. You're patient. That's why I can't wait for your radio show. But I love Charlamagne and DJ every day. They my dudes.

Love you, K. We'll all be on. So that'll be great. Eight hours of amazingness. Yeah, like, my thing is, yo, like, Charlamagne, I don't mean no harm, Angela. I gotta just shoot over and I appreciate your advice and I'm gonna take that advice.

Charlamagne, man. All right, well, check back in. Is there any way I can check back in? Yeah, just hit us up on the email. Breakfast Club AM and Gmail. I wasn't trying to cut you off, Angela. I wasn't trying to cut you off. I just wanted to let Charlamagne know

that at the end of the day, like, bro, I started listening to y'all in 2015, and I didn't like you. But I will say this. You made me love you. And I'm a black gay man who is not the average black gay man. And I know you appreciate the gay community, and I appreciate you for that, man. I love you too, my brother.

And I'm in therapy again because of you. That's amazing. I'm happy for you. Keep doing the work on yourself, King. Well, yeah, Peter, please check back in. I would love to hear an update in a couple of weeks. All right, that was ASCII 800-585-1051. Now we got rumors on the way? All right, that was ASCII, 800-585-1051. Now we got rumors on the way?

All right, and when we come back, Rick Ross responds to Wingstop labor violations. He will tell you what he said. All right, we'll get into that next. So don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

The Breakfast Club. It's about time. What's going on? Rumor Report. Rumor Report. This is The Rumor Report. Talk to Report. This is the Rumor Report. Talk to them. With Angela Yee on The Breakfast Club.

All right. Well, we talked about Rick Ross and some of the violations that he had, labor law violations at five Wingstop locations in Mississippi. And he has addressed taking accountability. Here's what he said. I'm going to take time to address something. When you run in the business, there will be mistakes. But as the biggest boss, you never make the same mistake twice.

You see, taking accountability when you're the biggest. And remember this, most successful people don't take stumbling as a setback, but actually a stepping stone to greater things. You hear me? So the Department of Labor Wage and our division revealed they collected over $100,000 in back wages, liquidated damages

and civil penalties. According to these reports, they were saying that employees had to illegally pay for training, uniform safety training, background checks and even cash register shortages. I mean, that's what we said yesterday is business. Like he got franchises, things like this going to happen.

You know, it's just magnified because it's Rick Ross. Like all these franchises we frequent all the time. You have no idea who owns them, but I guarantee you they'd be having these same kind of problems. But if it was a celebrity, every business problem they had would be magnified like they did with Ross' situation. All right. Now, Mary J. Blige was discussing the state of R&B with Diddy.

Now, Diddy had posted on social media who killed R&B. And then he was live with Mary J. Blige. And here's what Mary had to say. They want to call it popular music when Adele and Justin Timberlake get a hold to it so now it's popular music you know I'm saying but it's been popular music we've been having you know yeah no without a doubt so now what's happening I think is people are afraid to feel things you know it's so much desensitizing going on you know that's that's what I think is happening like people are just afraid to feel because they think they think it's going to kill them not it's just gonna it's just gonna

heal you that's a fact right mary with adela sam smith they do r&b and it doesn't get called that they call it pop music you know so you're not acknowledging uh the the genre of r&b when reality is hip-hop and r&b is pop music because pop is just short for popular we've been the most popular genres all right now nini leaks has gotten a brazilian butt lift the bbl and so she did that plus liposuction she put out a video announcing the news and apparently she was not a fan of the traditional BBL. She said they came up with a professional mini BBL. She said, I'm only

looking to fix my problem areas. So we called in a professional mini BBL and I love it. So I'm going to take you on this journey with me and Dr. Okoro to fix some of my problem areas and become perfectly you. Come follow me on this journey of liposuction 360 and professional mini BBL. Which one did you get, Charlamagne?

Did you get a mini Charlamagne or full? I don't need one, bro. It's all natural over here, baby. I'm organic, you know what I'm saying? And ever since I put my measurements out there, you and that little producer of ours named Taylor have been very jealous, okay? I am a natural 41, 36, 43. No disrespect to anybody who gets the BBLs and stuff,

but your Uncle Charlotte don't need one, okay? Why don't you talk about your cheek implants, though? I paid for them. They mine. You know he got cheek implants, right, E? Yeah, I heard about it. Yep. I think Kevin Hart pointed it out.

Kevin Hart did point that out. Your cheeks was never that full. You got a little fill in those cheeks. It's okay, though. Shut up. All right. Now, Friday actress Angela Means was upset. She did an interview with Comedy Hype, and she played Felicia in Friday.

So, you know, bye, Felicia. You know that part? Well, she doesn't understand, yeah, her character in the movie, how she was treated so badly here's what she had to say why was there so much hate for such an obviously beautiful woman kind you didn't hear her using any profanity why would they be so unkind to um you know a family member no one defend. And I've asked this question for 30 years. Why is it so easy for us to dismiss each other like that?

Even to this day, I'll see people saying, you know, bye, you dirty bitch, you f***ed up bitch, you dumb bitch. Not one time, not even the mother said, hey, it's Felicia. I wonder what's going on with her. That is a damn lie. That is a damn lie.

Her sister came to her defense at the end of the movie because Debo was putting hands on her and she ran down on Debo and told Debo, all these other people may be scared of you, but I'm not scared of you. That's how Debo and Craig got into the fight to begin with. What's up with people, man?

Well, she said she was publicly harassed after playing that role as well. It's a movie. And by the way, I wouldn't know if I saw her in the street. I'm sure she don't look like a crackhead in everyday life. She was playing a crackhead in the movie. Correct. That's the whole point. She was an annoying crackhead in everyday life. She was playing a crackhead in the movie. That's the whole point. She was an annoying crackhead.

She was an annoying crackhead who was always begging for things. That's why Craig would dismiss her like that and be like, bye, Felicia, because she was always begging for stuff. Come on, man. Oh, my God. Whatever. We're supposed to be fake outraged about this.

Y'all gonna be fake outreaching about this she's just sharing how she felt she actually was crying and everything during the interview it's a movie she's an actress it's a movie she was acting and once again Nia Long's character her sister did come to her defense at the end of the movie and nobody

treated Felicia bad in the movie she was a crackhead the role was that of an annoying crackhead the whole point was for her toicia bad in the movie. She was a crackhead. The role was that of an annoying crackhead. The whole point was for her to be dismissed throughout the movie. Man, I don't mind my business. These people are crazy. All right, well, the People's Choice Mix is up next. Get your request in.

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