The Breakfast Club - This is America But Let's Show Some Balance

Episode Date: May 7, 2018

Monday 5/7 - Today on the show we had family to the show Styles P, where he spoke on his 9th studio album, Black Love show he has with his wife, and more. Also, Donald Glover dropped a new music video "This is America" and his visuals had everyone talking, but what did they stand for? So we opened up the phone lines to see how our listeners interpreted the video. Moreover, Charlamagne gave "Donkey of the Day" to a man that robbed a bank, goes to prison, gets out, just to rob the same bank the next day.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Yes, it's Monday. Back to the work week. Tonight is Hollywood's Halloween, right? The Met Gala. It's the Met Gala. Met Gala's right. Yeah, it's Hollywood's Halloween tonight. That's when they all dress up and have a trick-or-treat party. Mm-hmm.

Anybody have a great weekend? I was reading an article about that, about how it's so stressful for people to go to the Met Gala, and a lot of people aren't going this year. Why is it stressful? They all rich and can afford nice outfits. I guess it's hard to find nice outfits. Some people get them tailored, made.

What it is is with Anna Wintour, who is editor-in-chief of Vogue for such a long time, I guess she has to personally approve every single person that comes. If you're bringing a guest, you have to approve that person. And then she does the whole seating arrangements. And then she also, as far as the red carpet, there's like a whole order of when you're allowed to go on the red carpet. So she picks and chooses who goes when, and certain people get,

and it's just very stressful when you go. So it's just one big mean girl party, basically. Exactly. That's what it seems like. Well, I hope you guys had a great weekend. I had a wonderful weekend. I started off in Kentucky to the Kentucky Derby. I just had to do shows, parties. I didn't actually go to the Kentucky Derby. None of y'all

Negroes did, except for Diddy. Diddy, I see Bobby Brown there. Bobby Brown was there. Wait till you hear this front page news story about the Kentucky Derby. But I took my son to his first baseball game, my four-year-old, Jackson. We went to see the Yankees play. And then I took him to a car show. He loves car shows.

So Sunday there was a bunch of car shows going on in Jersey. So I just drove to a bunch of car shows. And he was very excited. So my weekend was very busy. What about you guys' weekends? I did a panel called Shattered Glass, and that was for the women's satin shattered backward Jordans that came out. So that was fun.

And then I got sick, and I was sick all day Saturday. I didn't leave the house. I was laid in the bed all day, and I'm finally feeling a little better. Sickness in the morning or just regular sickness? Regular sickness. I think somebody who works here was sick for a few days. And I think I got some of those germs. Because I had the same things.

I got a really bad sore throat. I was fatigued. I couldn't get out of the bed. What about you, Charlamagne? Y'all all sound like y'all had a vent for weekends. I did nothing. I watched Dear White People all weekend. That's what I was doing.

I was at home, binging Netflix, watching Dear White People, minding my goddamn business. It's liberal with that. That's what I was doing. I was at home, binging Netflix, watching dear white people minding my goddamn business. It's liberal with that. And shout out to Donald Glover because he put out that video over the weekend as well as doing Saturday Night Live

and it was amazing. I definitely watched that video. We had some discussions about that video. I thought visually it was a great piece of art, but I got questions. Oh, Lord.

I got questions. You know what I'm saying? But that's what art is supposed to do, right? It's supposed to make you think. It's supposed to make you ask questions. Absolutely. Think outside the box.

Yeah, everybody's got all these different meanings of what they thought the video was. I felt like he should have had a white man shooting all the black people who were enjoying themselves, having a good time. I didn't like the optics of a black man doing it, but we can talk. We can discuss. Okay. I thought he was supposed to be America when he said this is America. You can't. You're black.

We'll talk about it some more, I'm sure, in the rumors coming up. But we got front page news. What are we talking about? We are going to. Let's talk about the Kentucky Derby. Now, I know y'all think there wasn't no black people at the Kentucky Derby, but we'll tell you a great story about what happened over the weekend. All right.

And Styles P will be joining us this morning. So don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get some front page news. Now, NBA recap playoffs. Game four, Warriors beat the Pelicans 1-18-92.

What the heck is that? Also, the Rockets beat the Jazz 187. Now, tonight, the Celtics play the Sixers and the Cavs play the Raptors. Now, where do you want to start, Ye? Let's start with the Kentucky Derby. A woman from Austin, Texas, actually bet $18 at the Kentucky Derby and won $1.2 million. She did this pick five wager, and she picked justified to win the Kentucky Derby, but she also selected the winners of all four races that led up to the main event, so all five of them, and she won $1.2 million.

Wow. So congratulations to her. She doesn't want to be identified, but there's pictures of her. And yes, she is a black woman. Does she know the horses or was it a guess? She said she actually did study it. She studied it? Okay. Yeah. And was able to make decisions, but she said even that's never a short shot anyway. So

she was able to pick all five winners. Well, congrats to her. Have you ever, I know you probably went to horse racing before, haven't you? I ain't never been to no goddamn horse race. Why the hell would I want to go to a horse race? I thought maybe I had. What about you, Yee? Never. Oh, it's fun. It's a lot of fun.

You got to pick trifecta, who comes in first, second, or third, who comes in first or second, or the winner. It's a lot of odds. It's a lot of fun. I did it when I went to college when I went to Hampton. It's probably really fun when you win, too. I ain't win that much. I've been to a pit bull fight.

You ever been to one of those? Nope. Great. Should be an Olympic sport. All right. Now let's talk about Donald Trump. Now, he was speaking at an NRA convention in Dallas, and he had this to say about the result of Kanye West praising him.

African-American unemployment has reached another all-time in history record low. Kanye West must have some power because you probably saw. I doubled my African-American poll numbers. We went from 11 to 22 in one week. Thank you, Kanye. By the way, that's not even a real data. Like you can go look on CNN media and they have a headline how Trump's false claim about African-American support happened. Like he's just making up statistics. Yeah, it says that the 11% boost is based on polling only black men for what it's worth. Yeah, and they polled less than 200 black men, and they were selected. The people that they polled were actually selected.

Now, Donald Trump is also making some threats on what he has to do in order for this country to be great. Here's what he had to say. We are fixing and building walls now, but we need much more money. We're doing the job right. We're going to do the job. And we may have to close up our country to get this straight because we either have a country or we don't.

And you can't allow people to pour into our country. We have to have borders. If you don't have borders, you don't have a country. We either have a country or we don't. What are you talking about? I'm so confused. What, we just all on a big plot of land here? Pretty much. What does that mean? We're just all on a big plot of land here? Pretty much.

What does that mean? We're just all on a big plot of land in various regions? We either have a country or we don't? Now, I got to give you guys this update on the E. coli contaminated romaine lettuce. Still, so far, one person has died now. That's the first fatality. An unidentified person in California and a total of 121 people in 25 states have been sick. So just make sure you stay away from romaine lettuce right now.

E. coli confuses me because we tell people to stay away from romaine lettuce, but then we encourage ass eating. So what is it? Is it the lettuce or the dookie on the lettuce? The dookie on the lettuce. That's causing people to die. It's the dookie on the lettuce. What about the dookie in people's buttholes when people are eating ass out here?

I don't encourage you to do that. There's a lot of people that was in contact with buttholes this week. Well, it shouldn't be dirty buttholes. It should be clean buttholes. You shouldn't be eating that. Hey, man, a coli is on everything, whether y'all want to believe it or not. Okay? All right, well, that bacteria normally lives in the intestines of animals,

which includes cows and pigs. Maybe it's the combination of a coli and lettuce. Maybe it's animal feces. Maybe it's animal feces. That is very true. This is disgusting. Why are we talking about this Monday morning?

Now, that's the taste test we need to have. Remember back in the day how they used to have taste tests with Coke and Pepsi? Let's have a cow's butthole and a human butthole. What's wrong with you?

Eat one, eat the other and see which causes you to get sick. Come on. Goodness gracious. All right. Great. That's front page news.

Is butts always on your mind? Like, is that the first thing on your mind? She bought her a coli. Where does the coli come out of? What is the coli? Where does the coli derive from? Get it off your chest.

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We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. So you better have the same energy. Hello, who's this? Yo, what up? This is Mike from Brooklyn. Mike, what's up, bro? Get it off your chest. Man, I really got nothing to get off my chest today, man. Just want to wish everybody a good day. You know what I mean?

It's Monday, so nobody piss me off yet. Give it some time. That's a fact. You know, I just want to wish everybody a good day. I mean, I listen to y'all every morning. Support y'all 100%, man. And also, I want to give a shout out to my wife, man. Jenny, I love you, baby.

You should have did that one first, bro. All right, we love you. I love you too, Jenny. Hello, who's this? Hey, DJ Henry, this is Steve. Steve, what's up, bro? Get it off your chest. Man, I'm just trying to give a quick shout out to my lady. We were talking over this weekend about she's from Brooklyn. She's a Brooklyn teacher. Shout out to the PS20 people. We had a conversation and they need a lot of help with the educational forum for

the kids. And I just wanted to raise an awareness for them so that they could get the necessary help so that they can help teach our kids because our kids are the future. How do we help them? What do you suggest, sir? Having that conversation with them, of course, money is always an issue,

and they're not getting that support. A lot of other schools in New York is getting the back ends with money or funding or companies helping them out. But they, in particular, are not getting that amount of help and are teaching our kids that most of these schools refuse. Okay. Sounds like you need to go back to school. No, no, they just had a conversation.

That's all he said. He didn't figure out a solution yet. He just had a conversation. He's not even articulating what he's trying to say. Hello, who's this? This is Freddie from Battle Creek, Michigan. Freddie, man, you mad at American Idol? Why are you mad at American Idol, Freddie?

Man, look, man, I ain't watched it since the Ruben Stutter Fantasia. That's a long time ago. I know. I seen they was doing the Prince covers last night, so I turned it on. Man, I had to turn it off. They did Prince Bug last night. Why would you even watch American Idol, man? It's all about the four.

The four is popping. I think you'd enjoy the four with Diddy and the guy that don't eat no poom-poom, DJ Khaled and Megan Trainor. That's a good show. Hello, who's this? Hey, this is Chandler from Columbus, Ohio. How are y'all doing this morning? Share the lid.

What's popping, brother? Get it off your chest. Quick thing. You've got a beautiful family, DJ Yenvy, but y'all after looking at that baseball picture, y'all definitely Dominican. We are not Dominican. Watching baseball.

I need all three of y'all to stop talking about Southwest. Ain't nothing wrong with Southwest. You get peanuts. You get all the juice you want. All the pop. And you get free bags. You get peanuts. You don't get a seat, though.

You got to fight for a seat. Clearly, you work for Southwest. And you might get sucked out of the window. No, I don't. Clearly, you work for Southwest. As long as you check in 24 hours before the fight go off, you good. You get a good seat. How long you been working there, sir? Oh, my goodness. Nah, I don't. Clearly you work for software. As long as you check in 24 hours before the flight go off, you good. You get a good seat.

How long you been working there, sir? Oh, my goodness. Nah, man. I thought you still had to scramble for your seat. Look, you got letters. You got to go, you got to,

A, B, C, D. Did he say that you got to... Yeah, as long as you, as long as, if you before B through, B30 through 61, you good. B30 through 61.

Did he just say, did he just say you got to show up to the airport 24 hours in advance to get a good seat? He said check in. He said you got to check in. Oh, I'm like, what the hell? He said, yeah, you might be good. BB31 through B60.

Show up 24 hours in advance. You get a great seat on the Southwest flight. My goodness. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. You need to vent. Hit us now. It's The Breakfast Club.

Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Wake up. Wake up. Hit us now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Wake up. Wake up. With your ass. 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. Jay, what up?

What's going on, Morning Club? Good morning. It's called The Breakfast Club. Good morning, mama. What's up? Get it off your chest. I'm sorry. I'm just so distraught right now.

Yeah, so I just got a couple things to get off my chest. Hey, I got a problem. You know, we're fighting this epidemic against heroin, but there's a new epidemic on the rise, and no one is talking about it. What's that? It's the Fortnite epidemic. Oh, yeah, yeah.

The video game? He's addicted. Okay, what video game? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's addicted. Okay, what about it? He needs an intervention. Well, you got to take his game away. You got to take his game system away. Take the kid's phone away, too. He's an awesome kid.

He has only had one seat all school year. So, you know, I don't know that it warrants me taking it away. Because, you know, I'm just wondering'm just wondering what are parents doing out here with their children who are addicted to Fortnite? Why are we acting like this is anything new? We didn't grow up being addicted to Nintendo and Sega Genesis

and PlayStation and Xbox. All you got to do is limit his time on it. Yeah, he'll get over to Fortnite. Let me ask you a question. Is he doing his homework? Yeah, he always does his homework. Is he out playing? Is he out doing sports, basketball?

He's an athlete, starting quarterback for his football team. All you got to do is limit his time. That's all. Tell him, look, you got a certain amount of hours in the week to be able to play your little fortnight. But it's all so new, so it's fresh. So all the kids are doing it. Their friends are doing it.

They're talking to each other on the phones while they're playing. Let him have his time. How old is he? He is 13. Oh, give him some time. In a minute, he'll be liking Poom Poom anyway. He'll be bored of it in a little bit. Let him have that time.

As long as he's not messing up in school or he's not going out to practice, let him have his little time. That's like you watching your stories. And in a minute, it'll be all about girls. I got one more. What do you do? Like, I've raised two boys. This is my second boy.

And so they get girlfriends, and then you have to pay for them to take their girlfriends out on dates. You have to pay for the birthday gifts, the Valentine's Day gifts. I feel like I'm dating little girls because I'm always the one having to put out the cost for these gifts. Well, are they getting him presents as well when he has his birthday and all of that? Yeah, probably, yes. Okay, so... Yes, he did get a nice little birthday gift. So why don't you just make him do chores around the house and pay him for the chores? Yeah, you gotta

work for that. My kids get a little money when they watch their siblings or when they do stuff around the house, you give them a little bread for doing different things. Let him buy his own gift. Yeah, unfortunately, the thing he's doing the most these days is paying his own gift. Yeah, unfortunately, the thing he's doing the most these days is paying for a night. Baby, all you gotta do,

listen, all you gotta do is tell your sons if they can't pay for no **** themselves, they don't deserve none. He should be what and pooping right now. Alicia raising him

to be a respectful man. There you go. I say, you guys have a great day. Breakfast Club. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. We got rumors on the way. I mean, let's talk about Childish Gambino, a.k.a. Donald Glover,

and the new songs that he debuted. In particular, This Is America, as well as his appearance on Saturday Night Live. All right, we'll get into all that when we come back. Keep it locked. This is The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody.

It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the rumors. Let's get into Donald Glover. Wow. This is the rumor report with Angela Yee. Rumor has it. On the Breakfast Club.

I was going to say Childish Gambino and then I was going to say Donald Glover. If you want to get into him, just say you want to get into him. That's how you want to do your Monday. Let's go. Well, it was a big weekend for Donald Glover as he was on Saturday Night Live, but also put out two new songs and a new video for This Is America that was very viral.

Now, when he was on Saturday Night Live with the opening monologue, he also talks about how he actually got turned down. Check it out. It truly is an honor to be hosting SNL, you know, instead of just auditioning for it, which I did twice. That's not a joke. I'm just still pissed. All right, so I'm sure they wish they would have had Donald Glover on

because he did have some very memorable skits over the weekend. Now, he, in addition, well, let's start off with the skit that he did with Kanye West. Well, not with Kanye West, but of Kanye West. Now, it's a rendition of the movie A Quiet Place, which is a horror film. And in it, Donald Glover is reading Kanye's controversial tweets. But every time they talk, someone gets taken away. Check it out. Don't let the monsters hear us.

We have to be quiet. You guys. Shh. Kanye just tweeted. David, shh. He said he would have voted for Trump. Wait, seriously? When? Guys, don't talk unless it's absolutely necessary.

The monsters can't see us, but they can hear us. And if we're too loud, we'll all be killed. Kanye has to have everything on Trump's side. He signed the hat, y'all. Oh, come on, Kanye. Hey, that Kanye place sketch was brilliant.

Flawless. Kanye place. Flawless, high-level messaging. We have all these imminent threats to our lives around us, but we also distracted by social media. Instead of us talking about what's important, we focused on the BS. That was brilliant,

especially if you've seen the movie The Quiet Place. All right, now, Kanye tweeted, and he put crying, laughing faces, and fire emojis alongside of that video sketch. So I guess he thought it was funny as well. Now, another skit they did was the Migos going to therapy. Check it out. Turn it up, turn it up, turn it up. We in the club and we turn it up.

Pinky wear $250,000. Double that up in my mouth. Show that she bad, lock up my swag. Put she got all of that. T! Get in that cash, haters be mad. Fiddles, we stay with that bag. T!

In the morning with some bitches and I'm smiling. But we gotta put it up if we wanna stay shining. We go to therapy. Therapy. Therapy. Therapy. Therapy. Therapy.

Woo! Angela. Angela. Angela. Angela. Twice a week we go to Angela. Hey! Drop on a Clues bomb for therapy, damn it.

That sounded good I love it I love the fact that they are promoting therapy I just like how the universe is working right now Because it's all these conversations about therapy And it's mental health awareness month I love it But you gotta watch the whole Migos skit

Because that was really funny too With them in therapy Alright So Donald Glover also put out This is America He performed that And he also performed another song on Saturday Night Live He debuted two new songs Saturday and This is America And he did a put out This Is America. He performed that and he also performed another song on Saturday Night Live. He debuted two new songs, Saturday and This Is America.

And he did a video for This Is America and that went viral. Check out some of that song. This is America. Don't got you slipping up. Look how I'm living up. Police be tripping up. Yeah, this is America. Guns in my area.

I got the strap. I gotta carry them. Yeah, yeah, I'ma go into this. Yeah, yeah, this is guerrilla. Yeah, yeah, I'ma go get the bag. Yeah, yeah, or I'ma get the pad. Yeah, yeah, I'm so cold like that. I'm so dope like that.

We gon' go like that. Tough tune, tough tune. Dope song, dope video. And you know it has ad-libs from 21 Savage, Black Boy JB Slim, Jimmy Quavo, and Young Thug as well. Well, I can't wait to talk to the listening audience about this video, because I thought visually it was great.

Reminded me of that old X to the Z video, what you see is what you get. Y'all remember that? Yeah, I remember that. But when I first saw the video, it didn't make me feel good. It didn't. I just think he should have had a white man shooting all the black people who were enjoying themselves, having a good time.

I didn't like the optics of him, a black man, doing it. It felt like he was reinforcing the negative stereotypes of black men being violent in the narrative of black-on-black crime. Especially if you're saying this is America over and over. Let's show some balance because no black people shooting down church folks with an AK-47. The mass shooting problem is largely white men with the AK-47. So just show me the whole totality of America. That's interesting because I didn't really look at it that way. And I know a lot of people had different interpretations of the video.

But I looked at it as he was representing America and when he did shoot down, which was reminiscent of what happened in Charleston, South Carolina. Which hit home because that's my birthplace. Right. And that was such a... That to me was the most powerful moment in the whole entire video.

But I didn't even look at it like it was a black man doing it. I just looked at it like. It was America. He was representing America. A white person. That's how I seen it. That's why to me it didn't matter

that it was him or that it was a black man. It was what it represented because we all know what happened in actuality. And I didn't like him shooting down all the black people but at the end

running from all the white people. Let the choppers sing on Vanilla Ice's one time now. All right. Let the choppers sing on vanilla ice this one time. All right, but we'll talk more about that, obviously, this morning. A lot of different perspectives. One of my friends told me that, you know, it represented we as black people getting paid off killing each other. And then America ultimately turns on us. Are we so busy singing and dancing while so many of us are getting killed in the street by each other?

But it's hard. You know, it's several different ways. And I feel like, yeah, there were different interpretations he wanted us to have. Absolutely. All that dancing and singing, it's a distraction from what's going on around us. And we're so busy paying attention to that. We don't see what's happening in the background, which was in the video, what happened in the background in the video. And I like how the guns.

White horses walking past, scissors in the video. And I like how the guns got bigger. Treated so well. Like it started with a nine, then an AK-47, then ultimately got taken away. That was dope symbolization. Very provocative visual, man. And I'm going to play the full version.

I'm going to start the mix-up with the full version later on if you haven't heard it. Okay, well, I'm Angela Yee and that is your Rumor Report. And we should discuss with the listeners this morning. We are.

Yeah. I'd love to hear different interpretations of the video. So definitely go see it if you haven't seen it yet because we'll talk about it in the 8 o'clock hour.

But up next, Styles P will be joining us. So don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club.

We got a special guest in the building, Styles P. How you doing today, man? Everything's good. We was in here talking about, I saw a tweet Styles posted. He said, middle-aged fat is hard to get rid of. It's not about, it's where it's at. Yeah, it's like it just goes in one spot when you're middle. What do you call it?

Love handles. Yeah, around the stomach. Yeah, exactly. I don't really mind a little front pouch. Like, if you don't got love handles. It's like, that's a little character. Like, you know, you still get away with your frame. It's so good, but the love handles. It's just it sucks Oh, yeah, the front pass they caught at the baller belly

So people like fresh we ain't got to like good. I never had a six-pack I ain't gonna lie to you. I could get a nice for though. Well, I get a nice four pack Yeah, I get a four. It's funny that I played Jada for that Yeah, I actually blame kiss for that because he said, gangsters don't die, they get chubby and move to Miami. So I always thought it was cool to have a little stomach.

Yeah, it is. It's character. I think that men are judged differently than women when it comes to putting on weight, too. I mean...

They are because we don't even think of guys as being as self-conscious about it as we are because for us, you know, it's a big deal. We gain weight. The first thing people say,

oh, she's pregnant or... But when you're middle- age and you're a male and your back hurt and you start like grinding when you're bending down and you got to start checking that it go it could go all the way downhill from here i said yo you know i hurt my shoulder like i hurt i hurt my shoulder i got a little arthritis in it too that's why you gotta make sure you stretch if you work out. I'm missing cartilage, so I stopped working out. I just started slacking. Then I really like, I'm like three months later, I'm a middle-aged man. I'm like almost

an average citizen if I don't pull it back together. But your diet is still dope though. Yeah, my diet is dope, but that's what keep me looking regular. I'm talking about feeling. A big part of working out is a lot of people looks definitely, but you want to wake up feeling great. You want to wake up, be at your best,

feel great, be thankful to the creator that you are, and just come up with that good energy because you don't know what the day brings. Well, you have a new album out and I'm like, okay, so. G-Hose. The ninth studio album. And life seems like it's really good for you because, you know, obviously, I speak to you.

I see you on the gram. You're traveling. Black love thing is happening. So I'm like, there's no way he could be thugging on this album. I was. I mean, I think I bring balance. You know what I mean? I think as an artist, you always, sometimes, especially when you become a businessman or you start dibbling, dabbling into other things, you get older and you get more mature.

You think about what you say more. Like when I was young, I was just more free with my art. But then sometimes you just want to feel free with your art. This one I particularly said, called it G-Host because I felt like I was going to be a host to the gangsters and the gentlemen on this one. Like, you know what I mean? Like, I was just hosting some authentic hip hop. And I kind of wanted to talk. It's a little, I think it's an album for the old, the young, the conscious, the gangster.

And just like somebody who, I guess, appreciates lyricism. Obviously, I know you way better now than I did, like, years ago. Yeah. But you really are a gangster and a gentleman. Yeah. Like, that is the truest way to define your personality. I think most rappers, one, are nerds to the most part. And then most of them were raised right to some degree.

Like, you know what I'm saying? I think the streets always... I think that was one thing I was blessed. That's what helped me along with the Juice game. I always, from the game, from the jump, wanted people to know I'm saying? I think the streets always, I think that was one thing I was blessed. That's what helped me along with the juice game. I always, from the game, from the jump, wanted people to know I'm a gentleman. I'm not all street. I'm not all thug. Like, I was raised right.

My mom, my parents did a good job. Just streets take you another way sometimes. But I think that's important, especially in our society. Like, we was taught to say, please, thank you, hold doors. Absolutely. Pick up bags for neighbors. And just try to just all around be courteous. That's what my grandma would say, man doesn't take you where money won't. Yeah.

You know what I mean? I feel like you always trying to find balance in life. It's like you're on a constant quest for balance. That's my daily, that's my daily questions for balance and peace. Right. Daily, like daily, daily. Because a dude told me this, Shout out to Season Vegan in Harlem. But a worker told me one day, and it stuck with me years ago.

He told me balance is never straight. The act of being balanced is. When you're balanced, you're straight. So I'm always working on my balance. Like, you know, because I'm not up, I'm not down. And when you think you're all the way up, something's going to bring you down. When you think you're all the way down, something's going to bring you up. When you think you're all the way down, something's going to bring you up. So I just try to appreciate it both, try to learn how to work with it all on my daily thing.

And the day I am balanced, I'm going to spread the message. I'm going to let people know how I got it. You won't hear from me again, most likely. What do you think you're looking for, though? Like, what's the balance you're looking for? I think just me, just a quest to really find out inner peace without really thinking about every, like, I'm greedy in a sense. Like, I like nice things. I like to spend money.

I like to live life fast. But also, on the flip side, I like to live life slow and kind of appreciate nature just the human body the human mind energy all right and but at the same time you know you i'm a rapper i like nice things i'm a street dude so i like nice things so sometimes i think it's hard to do both sometimes just being honest with within well for me all right within myself sometimes it's like all right oh i want to be a multi--million upon my french i want to be like i just want to be a multi millionaire get this billion but then the other part is like we know we got to feed the community

and that's the most important part so sometimes you got to balance out within yourself all right can i make them both work can i do both if, which one is more important? Like, you know what I'm saying? So I think that's my constant quest because I really want to, I think my partner over here too, your partner, my partner, and work, I think what we have, and shout out for our brand, just period,

as far as Juices for Life, I think what we have is something, for me, is something that's bigger than any of us and what we're even trying to do. I feel like just later on in the future, it's going to be crazy. And that's like we're the new GE for health.

Because I feel like the one thing where the world needs to go is just kind of look at what are we doing for people? Let's get this bread. That got to be the daily quest. But what are we doing for people? You know what I'm saying? Just a little bit of that from a little bit of everybody, we'd be cool. Now, I agree with you because people will ask me, like, what would you say is one of your biggest achievements?

And I would say having to be involved with the juice bar in Brooklyn is because you get to really see people every single day that are affected by you having something in the community that is benefiting them and making them feel better about just their bodies and the changes that they're making. It's beautiful. Because, like, even with E being in it, what she brings to the table were women.

Like, because what we do is going to require a whole family to be in it. Because when you feel good, because, one, like we say, I can't say everybody, but I'm greedy and I definitely love money and like to be involved in business. But you can't enjoy it without family or you can't enjoy anything without pretty much good

health. And then you can't spread or people don't spread money as much as you can spread good health. And that lasts longer so it's kind of easier. And you don't, I guess, won't feel as horrible about it and bad because you know, it's free.

It's a free thing to spread something positive. And there's a lot of balance in there when you see the people that come in. Yeah, there's a lot of balance. It's like a lot of balance. So even that, that's overwhelming to be like, wow, I have white people that love me. Cops love us. Cops love me. We have a Mormon crowd. It's just bugged out to just see, and they know what we're there for

and what we're doing, and they know it's about the family. It's just taking care of yourself, taking care of your family, taking care of your community. And we're about balance. Because I think the one thing that happens with the health thing, and I think that's like you think you can't be hip, hip-hop, cool, pop, whatever, and do it. Like, no, we ain't gurus.

We ain't saying judging you. We saying live your life, but just throw a little balance in it and just try to take care of your people. That's just the main focus. All right, we got more with Styles P. When we come back, keep it locked. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club style peas in the building. Yee. You said you miss your wife. I see you guys are doing Black Love. Yes, sir.

Shout out to Black Love. Shout out to the OWN Network. That comes out next week or something. It debuts. What is that? Yeah, next week. You never seen that series, Black Love? I think it's the second season of it.

It's the second season. Yeah. It's on OWN. It's a really, really dope show. It's about Black Love, I think it's the second season of it. It's the second season. Yeah. It's on its own. It's a really, really dope show. It's about black love. Like Viola Davis was on season one. It's just about couples and their trials and tribulations. D.L. Hughley's on this season.

Just building up black love. Yeah, I think Kirk Franklin's on. Grant Hill. And Tamiya. Tamiya. It's actually really dope. A real, real dope show. I'm surprised they called us because we wasn't yet.

I didn't think we was that typical. But they do, they try to take all different types of, and it's not all famous couples Yeah, that's what's so dope. Yeah. That's what's so dope. I was like, oh, they want some G. How was that? Because when I look at your tweets, I'm like, okay, I know Styles still got a slight timbre.

Definitely. People can be annoying. No, they was really cool. I think I watched, you know what was funny? Before they called us, I watched season one with my wife. Just like the show was on, it was dope, and then it came about. So that was kind of crazy. It was like, I think how the show is, it's more to try to help out young black couples.

And I think the producers of the show shout out to Tommy and Kobe I think they was focusing in on how black people besides Obama it's like if you're not Obama there's no such thing as black love and I think that was they driving for us to make sure they show what's happening in the black community so it's a very incredible

show it's really dope proud to be on it what about when you wanted to be left alone, though? And the cameras were on. No, it was cool. You know, it was like therapy. It was like a therapy session. And a learning thing, because it's like you're talking to somebody young.

They want to know something. And then you kind of got to tell your story, too, and tell on yourself and be real. Because you're kind of trying to be informative to the young couples. Because it's a lot of struggles when you... I'm married, but I don't say everybody has to be married. I'm a front... Because I don't even know who invented marriage, to be honest. I know I'm African by nature.

I don't think we got married back then. But I think it's a beautiful... I got married because my wife wanted to, and I didn't want my son to think he was a bastard growing up or get with a woman you don't want to man it was just certain things and what my pops told me so i think just being on the show for me was just pretty dope just for you know say hey it's cool it's cool to be from the hood and Be married You wanna grow old Like you know When you in the streets And you young I don't care what game it is

Ball Hustling Music And all that You definitely You know Wanna Do your thing

And have your fun But you don't wanna grow old And alone And never have companionship Or be used Or not Unless you really wanna do that Like unless that's your choice

But like For me I'm old fashioned I kind of you know I'm weird I don't know if the average person could really deal with me or be able to take my ways on how I'm about so it's kind of like I've been with this woman I know cares for me

genuinely the jerk part of me the ignorant part like you know what I mean you need if you need somebody to better yourself I'm somebody you need somebody to better yourself, I'm somebody who needs somebody to better yourself. I like the tweet that you put out. You said, you the tree hugger that'll beat you with the branch. Definitely.

Definitely. Because I think tree huggers get the wrong. You know, I think tree huggers and plant-based people and those who's living a healthy lifestyle who feel like, I want to be normal and not be judged. Like, people go, yo, you're a vegan and everything. I go, no. I wear leather. Still. So, yo, you're vegan and everything. I go, no. I wear leather. Still.

You know what I mean? And then, not to be funny, but somebody like me, I would love to work with Peter one day. I would explain it to my man one day. I'd say, I love Peter. I overstand their cause. I dig what it's about. You know what I mean?

But somebody where I'm from will never understand Peter's message because they're too worried about what they got to tell a kid when they go outside. Absolutely. So I said, like, imagine if Peter hired people like us to, you know, from where we from so they could be able to go out. Here's what's happening here. Here's what's happening here. Here's how we bridge the gap. Because if you want to take care of beings, you got to start taking care of human beings.

Then we can take care of all beings. Then human beings can understand we need to take care of all beings. Sometimes it seems like animals have more rights than we do. Yeah, because I look at Peter, I get sad because I love what they're doing. I follow them. I follow their tweets, everything. So sometimes as a brown man,

I sit and look at Peter, not mad at them or nothing. I'm like, damn, the animals is holding it. Like, they got animals. You cross an animal if you want. You know what I mean? Right. And then you also look and be like, I also be like, damn, with the power Peter had, I wish they knew some of the social issues.

Like that I have and post them on the page. Right, right. And that we have and post them on the page. that we have and post them on the page. So people could be as passionate about those. Yeah, so now we could be like, all right, Peter care about us. Let's see what they talking about. That's a great idea.

Like, you know what I'm saying? They should hire me. I think big companies have to start, big corporations, also we as the people have to make them take responsibility. They should want to take responsibility. And we as small-time hood folk have to take responsibility on learning how to

better ourselves as a community. 100%. And I think it should be outreach on both sides. It should be outreach on both sides. Because then it's like, why, you know, because when you think about it, if you're a poor white man, I'm sorry. Your kids are screwed over too. They eating like crap too. It's over.

You're right in the same boat. So, you know, I think it's just kind of on that note. So that's how I go about my everyday life. This is your ninth studio album, right? Did I count that right? I have the slightest idea, to be honest. I don't know if I'm counting mixtapes or not. When people ask me that, I really...

There's EPs, there's mixtapes. I call a lot of things. I think it's nine. Yeah, it's probably nine. I don't... Yeah, whatever. Yes, just say yes. It's my most recent one, and it's the most dope one.

It's the most effective one. And I did an EP a couple weeks ago, too, if y'all know about that, called The Nickelback EP. Yeah, pretty, pretty, I'm proud, though, of both of those two because my son produced on that. Really? Yeah, on both of those. He produced Curb the Lames on G-Hose.

Okay. And he produced You Know on Nickelback How many beats he had to play for you before you picked some? Oh, he has a whole ton of beats I tell him I'll ever play anything with a Don't ever, like Don't ever, ever, son, ever That's not authentic hip-hop?

Yeah, like, so I mean, my son teaches me a lot, though I think that's the good thing about him He'll be 20 this month. He taught me years ago and I told somebody yesterday on a thing. My son told me one day

and it was so, made hip-hop so understandable for me. I told you, he told me, Yagva Generation, five side to side. My generation,

up and down. Kind of, it was like crystal clear. That's interesting. That's the difference between us. I was like, you're right.

You know? I gotta say they got that from 3-6 though. Definitely. Remember 3-6 had the whole song side to side. Definitely. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, you know. Do you feel like you're getting better with time? I believe so. Alright, I think so too. I believe so. I've always wanted to do that and I think I'm accomplishing it. You know what I mean? I'm getting more mature. Sometimes I'm not as aggressive

As I want to be Oh s*** Yeah nah I really have a far I have a far left mind dog Like I think if I really Go leftist like then Come on ain't you the guy

Who sell fruits and berries Like carrots and kale and stuff You said don't let the fame Get to your head Because a gun to your head Could possibly blow the fame right out of it. Stay humble, my friend. That's pretty left. That's a fact.

It's harsh, but it's that. I want to ask you now. Is that a fact? 100%. Or not a fact? 100%. Sometimes you got to give the lesson in the harshest form. You got to say it like...

Because the average hood rap dude, let's say it's a hood rap dude who was reading that. He's young. He's crazy. He's not humble. And his manager might be telling him that I'm in the way. It's not getting across. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you don't calm down, somebody might blow your brains out.

Blow your brains out. You got to get it right across. And that's how I know you're a writer because you ended it. Stay humble, my friend. He brought it right back to the point. All right, we got more with Styles P when we come back. Matter of fact, let's get into his new single, Heat of the Night. It's the Breakfast Club.

Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are the Breakfast Club. Styles P is here. So Styles P, I've known you for quite some time. And one thing people would be surprised to know is that you are very frugal and that you, like me,

shop at the outlets all the time. I'm frugal and I'm free with it. Because I go shopping places and they'll be like, oh, Stiles P and his wife were just in here and I'm like, damn.

That's her. I didn't say she was frugal. I'm frugal. She's not frugal at all. You say you like nice things, though. Yeah, I do, but I don't mind not getting it or waiting until it's on sale or just like, I'm like, you know things, though. Yeah, I do, but I don't mind not getting it or waiting until it's on sale.

All right. Or just, like, I'm like, you know, like, say if it's something I like that's really expensive and I just kind of want it, I got to think about if I'm going to get it or not. Like, you know what I'm saying? I got to really sit down and think, do I, who, like, sometimes, like, I say to myself, I'm going to be honest with you. I'm about to style on these niggas. I did that a thing.

I said, I'm about to just go to the deal and style on these niggas. I was high. I was by myself. I said, what niggas, P? Like, style like all that. Like, I didn't know who I was talking about. I was talking to myself, too. Like, I didn't really know who I was talking about.

You go to the studio. I'm going to pull up to the juice bar. Juice bar. Studio. Back bar. Studio. Back home. Like, who am I styling on? You know what I mean?

So it's like, I think just being from, because I was poor. I think when you're poor and you're from the hood and I truly am, I come from gods, kings,

and queens. So I do have that, you know, I like to look great and feel good and I was poor before. But sometimes you got to think, like, to look great and feel good and I was poor before but sometimes you gotta think like, is that really worth it? Because

I also live next to a bunch of millionaires. I remember being the poorest dude in the building. I probably was. I had to be. And they told me I tipped the best. And I was like, I'm bugging. Like, what? There's a hockey team owner, NBA dude, dude who created

the building, this and that. But then I also learned they don't care about how nobody's like, they walk around with it. My man, he would wear the same jeans. I think he had three pair of jeans, maybe three Nike windbreakers, three sneakers. And he did that day by day, week by week, week by week. Then I see him, yo, like, yo, Mike, where you going? I'm about to get on a jet. Go ahead, bring the whole family.

He's bringing his whole family on his family jet. Man, I'm spending wrong. I think we tip because we understand the struggle. We have more of an appreciation because we tip. Because I know I tip really well, too. I think we understand the struggle. We know these people work hard. I feel like we right here anyway.

So if I was doing that, I would want to get a good tip. And so I'm gonna give you a good tip because I understand it more. Do you ever go back and watch like your old videos and like kind of rate yourself

and be like, all right. I had to be like, I better keep eating plants. Go back, watch the old videos and be like, I gotta keep eating

plants. And why did I have on parachute clothes? Like damn, they have to be parachute. They have a straight path. I looked at something the implants. And why did I have on parachute clothes? Like, damn, they didn't have to be parachute. They was straight parachute. I looked at something the other day. I could have fit like a half army in one pants. Nah, for real.

Baggy shit was whack, yo. When we look back, it's like baggy clothes was whack. I'm not a fan of tight things. I'm a fan of a slim fit. I'm against tight jeans. Like, I feel offended if I go to the store and they go skinny jeans. I'd be like, hell no. Slim fit.

Like, I'm elder. I don't do skinny jeans. I do slim fit. Like, you know what I mean? If I got to wiggle to get in them, I got to do any of that. That's awkward for me. I like doing it. I'm old.

Like, you know what I mean? I think the new generation, that's why I say sometimes, I don't knock y'all, but just some things I can't do. I don't want to wiggle in a jean, I don't knock out, but just some things I can't do. I don't want to wiggle in a jean. I don't want to extend my arm and take a meal. I don't even want to picture

you wiggling in a jean. Yeah, you don't want to see me do this neither. Look, imagine me doing this. Jumping up and down to put your jeans on. Look, kid, I got it. Look, bro, we doing like that.

All that certain things I can't do. Also, I'm sure you go back and listen to your old music and watch those videos and think about like, okay. Yeah, I mean, one thing I appreciate is being able to be in music for that long. And it still sounds dope.

We're so young, like, you know what I'm saying? And to come in a game and be on Bad Boy. Like, we came in a game and got on Bad Boy and we was from Yonkers. Like, to us, that's like a story within itself. Nobody never say Yonkers. To us, that's like a story within itself. Nobody never say Yonkers. It was a shout in the south. And then we just took it and we came with an aggression and we still had 20 years later.

Well, 20-something years later. We was having a great debate, man, that started on our group chat. Me, Hovane, B.Dot, Kaz, and Rob Markman. I knew this was coming. I love you, B-Dot. Don't worry about it. It's all good, B-Dot.

You do to your opinion. And everybody thought I was dissing Mase, but I wasn't. I was just saying the Bad Boy label was so competitive at that time. I just thought lyrically he was like the fifth or sixth guy. And then B-Dot jumped out the window. Yeah, he did. And said Mase was nicer than Styles. Let me get something clear.

Me and my, I'm gonna tell y'all something. I don't really say this too often. Listen. My two partners are my equals. We're one. So we're one. Other than that, I only feel personally, besides like Rakim King, Koozzy Rap, and all

that, for my era, only Big is nicer than me that's it that's how i feel you're entitled your feelings but as an mc i rip i get busy i am the mc's mc like you know what i'm saying i'm the mc the mc's love i don't i'm not i'm not gonna sell a bunch of records i'm not gonna be the poppinest i'm the flashiest. I'm not even the best at the flashy stuff, but when it comes to street, lyricism, mixed with consciousness, and that lane is nobody

better than me. Nobody. Because you can't really find somebody who can go, yo, make a dope song with Tyleb, then make a dope song with Rick Ross. Respect my lyricism, man. You know what I wanted to ask you about? One of the most underrated freestyles is you, Mr. Lox and Big on to ask you about? One of the most underrated freestyles is you, Mr. Lox and Big on Funkmaster Flex 60 Minutes of Funk Vol. 2

over the Cream instrumental. Yeah, that was crazy. That is like an amazing freestyle. Did y'all do that together? Yeah, definitely. In the studio? Yeah. Wow.

That was amazing. That's like an art form that's lost, too. A lot of people send the verse to each other. Yeah. And it's not like people be in the studio together like that. Yeah, I think it's really great when you're actually in the studio because the vibes is more, the vibes and the energy is there a little more. With the producer and the...

With the producer and the thing. So you got a little more feeling and bouncing off the energy. The competitiveness is a little more. I think maybe that's a big reason why people aren't so competitive. They're not in the same room making everything all the time. So you don't feel that edge. Because back in the 90s, you're walking in, you're saying,

yeah, what's up to everybody? You're cool, it's respectful. But it's almost like you could feel attention in the room. You could feel attention going to lay a clue mixtape. You know what I'm saying? You see the mob and them the room. You can feel the tension going to lay a clue mixtape. Like, you know what I'm saying? You see, you see the mob and them over here. You see these rappers

from over there, from Brooklyn over there. You see there, and it's more like, all right, yeah, we're going to like these joints. We're going to like these blunts and we are going to get busy

in this s***. I think that competitive, I think that's what made the 90s really, like, edgy. Like, diss each other on, mumble diss each other, man. Screw it, man. Stop mumble dissing, man.

I need a mumble diss rapper, man. My man Styles PG host is out right now. Out right now. Go get it, please. It's The Breakfast Club. Yes. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody.

It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Let's get to the rumors. Let's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Let's get to the rumors. Let's talk R. Kelly. It's about time. What's going on?

Rumor report. Rumor report. This is The Rumor Report. Talk to them. With Angela Yee on The Breakfast Club. Well, I read this whole article, so you don't have to. Two more women have come forward

with R. Kelly's sex abuse allegations. Now, this is on BuzzFeed, and they have detailed their stories. One woman is named Lizette Martinez, and another woman has not been identified. Her name is just, quote, N, and she's still there, I guess, with R. Kelly now. Now, Lizette says she was approached when she was only 17 years old by R. Kelly. She met him at Aventura Mall, and he was fully aware that she was underage because the age of consent in Florida is 18. But he still took her virginity. Now, she said he hit on her on five different occasions.

And she also, now the other woman, mother is speaking out in this story. So the other woman who's not identified, it's her mom that's speaking out. And she's not identifying herself to protect the other woman who's not identified, it's her mom that's speaking out, and she's not identifying herself to protect the other children that she has. But she said, being silent is not the answer. It's time. She said, I want my child home. She said she hasn't spoken to her daughter in three months

and believes that she's in trouble. She said, I don't know what hold he has on her, but her last words to me was, don't ever give up on me. Wow. The thing is, I don't know if any of these women are telling the truth, but I have no reason not to believe them based on R. Kelly's history. You know what I mean?

Yep. Right. So the younger girl, the young girl N that's still living with R. Kelly, she actually met R. Kelly and he offered her a job as his personal assistant. And her mom was very wary of it. But she told her mom, that's in his past, that stuff. You always tell me to give people a chance. So she said, I said, okay.

And she became his assistant. All through that time, her being his assistant, she still lived at home. But then years later, she announced that she was moving to Atlanta with R. Kelly, and she was about 22 or 23 at the time, so she couldn't really tell her. She couldn't. She was a grown-up. Man, flush R. Kelly down the

toilet. Delete R. Kelly out your inbox. R. Kelly's just gone. Like, y'all like to cancel. Y'all always canceling the wrong people. Cancel R. Kelly. Get him all the way out of here. They're trying. The hashtag mute R. Kelly campaign is going on,

and they have managed to get a couple of his shows canceled. And I see people boycotting his music. Like, Tom Joyner said he boycotted his music. But I just want to say, Tom Joyner's retiring, ladies and gentlemen. All right? Tom Joyner's on his way out. Not to mention, Tom Joyner's been playing R. Kelly for the past 20 Tom Joyner's on his way out. Not to mention, Tom Joyner's been playing R. Kelly for the past 20 years. Don't wait till you're

about to retire to get rid of R. Kelly's music. I don't understand the whole thing of she's 20 years old, I can't do nothing about it. I'm going to go... 22 or 23, how many? I'm going to grab my daughter at any age. Like, there's no age. My dad will grab me right now, if he asks me. Oh, you got to find her, though. I'll find her. She's locked in some dungeon somewhere. She hasn't seen her in a couple of years. Crawling around on her

knees. You know what I'm saying? With a leash on. Singing Fiesta. And then really, what can you do when you leave the house to go to work or do whatever you have to do? You can't have her with you 24-7. So she decides to pick up and leave again. What can you do? Once my kid, always my kid.

What can you do, though? I do something. A lot of parents might feel like that. But, I mean, unless you have them with you chained to you 24-7, kids are going to do what they're going to do. That's a problem. R. Kelly ain't never got his ass kicked. Now, R. Kelly... Ain't nobody uncle, nobody father.

Nobody father? R. Kelly's management team has released a statement. R. Kelly has close friendships with a number of women who are strong, independent, happy, well-cared for, and free to come and go as they please. And 15. We deny the many dark descriptions put forth by instigators and liars

who have their own agenda for seeking profit and fame. All of the women targeted by the current media onslaught are legal adults of sound mind and body with their own free will. Law enforcement officials in Atlanta and Chicago previously have made wellness visits to check on the women in question and have found nothing to cause alarm. Everybody who's still supporting R. Kelly at this point, still trying to cover for R. Kelly, anybody that's on his team,

y'all all going to hell. And I don't even believe in hell, okay? But y'all going somewhere. They going somewhere. Something ain't going to be right in y'all life trying to protect that maniac. Okay, Avengers Infinity War has already made $1 billion. It only took 11 days.

You hear that interview? For that movie to make it. I didn't know. I don't watch this movie. $1 billion. That beats out the previous record by Star Wars, The Force Awakens, which made it to the one billion dollar mark in 12 days.

So everybody, Infinity War. You hear that, Envy? You hear that? Everybody who thought the Marvel Cinematic Universe, all the black people who thought the Marvel Cinematic Universe just started popping because of Black Panther. And the movie still hasn't opened in China, so it's going to make even more when that happens. Well, I've seen Black Panther.

I didn't see this one. Okay. Well, I just want y'all to know something. R. Kelly dies at the end of Infinity War, okay? All right, I'm Angela Gay, and that is your rumor report. All right, thank you, Missy. Chalamet!

Yes. We were giving that donkey a two. Oh, man. Donkey of the day today is going to a brother named Markeko Sonny Lewis. Now, this is a very prime example of why we really do need prison reform, man. Actual, legitimate prison reform.

We'll talk about it for after the hour. All right, that happens next. Keep it locked. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. It's time for Donkey of the Day. Donkeys of the Day, X, y'all are made. I'm a Democrat, so being Donkey of the Day

is a little bit of a mixed question. So like a donkey of the day. The Breakfast Club, bitches. A little bit of a mixed question. So like a donkey. Mike is on. He has a donkey of the day. Nice. Breakfast club, bitches. Now, I've been called a lot in my 23 years, but donkey of the day is a new one. It's on. What's wrong with you this morning? Shut up.

Let me do my job. Donkey of the day for Monday, March 7th goes to a 40-year-old brother named Marquico Sonny Lewis. Now, Marquico is from Cleveland, ladies and gentlemen, and he just got out of prison. Markeko served 30 months in prison after pleading guilty to robbing a bank in November of 2015. He was released April 11th. But on this past Tuesday, he was indicted on a single count of bank robbery. Yes, Markeko came home and robbed a bank again.

Now, I know what you're thinking, Charlemagne. That's light. Banks get robbed every day, B. Markeko is a career bank robber. If that's the life he chose, so be it, okay? I would agree. But these bank robberies are like no other bank robberies you have seen before. Markeko is very familiar with the bank he got indicted for robbing. The reason

Markeko is familiar with it is not because he has an account there, not because he has a relative who works there, not because it's a bank in his town that he's been to a million times. The reason he's very familiar with this bank is because it's the exact same bank that he robbed back in 2015. You heard me right. Markeko Sonny Lewis was indicted on Tuesday for robbing a bank,

and that bank was the same exact bank he went to prison for robbing in 2015. Now, this is why I don't care if it's midterms, presidential elections, local elections, I don't care if they Democrat, Republican, Independent, if they not talking about prison reform, then I'm not interested, okay? If prisons are supposed to be correctional facilities, then let's implement things in prison that actually correct people, all right? This man did 30 months in jail. He should have been able to get a higher education and learn a trade and get some spirituality in him while he was in there. And the trade he learned, he should have been able to get a higher education and learn a trade and get some spirituality in him while he was in there. And the trade he learned, he should have been able to get him hired somewhere when he came home.

And this is proof that prison isn't working. Okay, we need a more effective penal system. But the reality is they have no reason to rehabilitate prisoners because in the words of the God, Chris Rock, the money isn't in the cure. The money is in the treatment. Why would I want you to get properly rehabilitated when I have invested in a private prison and I need to fill them? Okay, it's big business, baby. I would encourage all of you that when you are voting in the midterms this year, if the candidate you are voting for isn't talking about prison reform,

then maybe we don't need to talk about that candidate. Okay? Because if we aren't trying to reform criminals, all they're going to do is come home, return to a life of crime, and probably harm you or someone you love. When you don't properly rehabilitate someone, stories like Markeko happen. All right? They end up returning back to a life of crime or returning back to the scene of the crime, literally.

Please let Remy Ma give Markeko Sonny Lewis the biggest hee-haw. Hee-haw, hee-haw. You stupid mother-----. Are you dumb? I mean, Jesus Christ, pick another bank. Now, I kind of feel like I might be crazy, but it's a little brilliant. You're crazy. Why?

Because no one would anticipate you would go back and rob the same exact bank. It didn't work. It didn't work. If he was just a little more careful. A little more careful? You know how they say lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place? It's kind of like going back and doing the same thing Because who would anticipate That you would actually go back To the same exact place

Where you committed the crime before Please don't listen to me I'm just saying This is like having sex I'm not saying you should But I'm saying This is like having sex Shooting the girls club up

And then going down immediately And start giving her aura What's wrong with that okay that that is not the same you know what because how do you put that together I don't know yeah I don't know why that's like saying but I don't see anything wrong what I have to do it like you if he shot the club up and then say it came back the next day and shot the club up again I would understand but you gonna go no shot the club. And then immediately go down there and start giving her oral. It's your stuff.

Where's Mama Dead? Immediately go down there and start. It's like backwash. What? Yeah, I'm not having this conversation. I learned too much about Angelina in three minutes. This is disgusting. I'm uncomfortable.

Now I know why Khaled don't eat Pum Pum. This is ridiculous. All right. Well, thank you for that donkey of the day. Now, 800-585-1051. Let's talk Donald Glover. Of course, he released his video over the weekend.

This is America. Let's play the record, too. All right, we got the record clean? We'll play it when we come back. We'll play it when you're playing now? Can we got time to play now? All right, we'll play it now, and we want to know

what did you interpret from the video? Yes, what did you interpret from the video? 800. They should have put it at the end of the video. No white people were harmed in the making of this video.

All right, we'll play when we come back. We'll play when we come back. 800-585-1051. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. That was Childish Gambino with This Is America.

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Now we're talking about the video. He just released it over the weekend.

Very powerful. Went viral. We just want to know how did you interpret this video? Ooh, first of all, oh, go ahead. Y'all want to go? I'll start with you, Yee. What did you think, Yee? I looked at it as he was representing what America is, which is we get distracted by things like dancing, and those are the videos and things that go viral, because you can see there was a part with the cell phones, too, which he references also. But there's

bigger things happening in this world that get brushed under the rug in the background because we're so distracted by all the entertainment that we see before us. I took it as that as well. I took it as he was being quote unquote America with the choir singing and him being so joyful and so soulful and so

happy. Which was also representative of the Charleston, South Carolina shooting in the church. And then him shooting the choir, it made it seem like he was America representing the shooting of America. And also, I took it the same way as you did as far as, you know, we're so distracted from the dancing and everything that's going on we forget about the big problems. And I think that was the whole concept of him running from the problems at the end. And also with the guns being treated better than

the people. They make sure they put a special cloth for the gun. If someone comes and whist it away, we care more about guns and gun laws and people being able to have guns than we do about the people that are getting killed. Yeah, I mean, listen, I don't think either one of y'all are wrong. I thought visually it was great. It reminded me of that old X to the Z video, what you see is what you get. But when I first saw the video, it did not make me feel good. You know, I think he should have had a white man shooting all the black people who are enjoying themselves, having a good time.

I didn't like the optics of him as a black man doing it. It felt like he was reinforcing the negative stereotype of black men being violent in the narrative of black-on-black crime. Especially if you're saying this is America over and over. Like, let's show some balance. Because no black people shooting down church folks with an AK-47, all right? The mass shooting problem is largely white men with the AK-47s. So show me the whole totality of America. And I definitely didn't like him shooting down all the black people.

But at the end, running from all the white people. Let that chopper sing on Vanilla Ice's one time. And, you know, I kind of thought the point of it being him was that he was the person that was entertaining because it was his song. So I guess he was carrying out all the different acts. I just don't think that most of America is smart enough to get that, especially white America because we as black people, we can look at the deeper meaning. But if you're a white and you're watching

that video, all you see is a bunch of N-words shooting a bunch of N-words. That's what it does look like from the outside because when I first seen it and I didn't hear the music and I seen it on, I was like, what the hell is he doing? Exactly. But let's go to the phone lines. Now let this guy talk. Hello. Hi, what the hell is he doing? Exactly. Well, let's go to the phone lines. Now, let this guy talk. Hello. Hi, how are you?

Hey, mama. Now, how did you interpret the video? Now, first of all, I got to say, I had to watch that video a million times because it is so intriguing and it's so mesmerizing. And he's just so artistic and just like, you know, blowing my mind. And when I saw the video, for me, it just stated exactly what is going on. It's just like all these serious things are going on in America, people dying, you know what I mean? But yet we're focusing on, you know, the wrong things.

You know, like how he's dancing, and it's just like all this killing and everything is happening, but nobody is really putting focus on that. But we're worried about, like, you know, the latest dances and all this kind of stuff. And weren't you so entertained by his dancing, too, while you were watching it? Like, okay, look at Chopped and Scared Bino go. Yes, like, not only did he dance, he killed it. Oh, he was killing it.

He was dancing like a bad bitch now. No, he was getting it. I was like, I didn't know Donald Glover could do all that. I was like, look, you ain't got to have a six-pack to take your shirt off anymore, either. Hello, who's this? he was getting it. I was like, I didn't know Donald Glover could do all that. I was like, you ain't got to have a six pack to take your shirt off anymore either. Hello, who's this? What? Damn it. Sorry.

Hello? Now, how did you interpret the video? Okay. I love Donald Glover. I love Childish Gambino, but that video disturbed me, especially when he gunned down the choir. I wasn't expecting that. I love his art and everything, but we see so much black pain in real life

that I don't really want to see it in my music videos and my entertainment. I agree with you. I just wish you would have had a white man shoot down the choir because ain't no black people going up in no church with no AK-47. That is a white mass shootings being done by white people with an AK-47. Exactly, and I, the mass shootings being done by white people with the AK-47.

Exactly. And I 100% agree with you, Charlamagne, because I immediately thought of Dilla Roof, but guess what? I also looked at the comments underneath that YouTube video and a lot of white people

are taking it as black-on-black violence. That's what I'm telling you. I told you. I'm telling you, white people aren't going to see the deeper meaning. White people are going to see it

and all they're going to see is the narrative of black-on-black crime. Or they might see it and choose not to. No see is the narrative of black-on-black crime. Or they might see it and choose not to. No, but that's exactly what it's supposed to mean. When I first seen it,

it was on Instagram. It was a snippet and I didn't hear the music and I'm watching. I'm like, why would he shoot another and then I had to watch it again and watch the full version.

They know what it's supposed to mean. They're just choosing to see it. But see, my problem is why show them what it's supposed to mean? Why not give it to them plain in sight? Why not let a white person gun down the choir?

Like, I don't understand. And then running from the white people at the end. Like, what are we protecting? What are we afraid of? 800-585-1051. How did you interpret the video? Call us now. It's The Breakfast Club.

Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Now, if you just joined us, we're talking Donald Glover's new video. This is America. And how did you interpret the video? That's what we're asking. Hello, who's this? This is Serge. Hey, Serge.

How did you interpret the video, bro? I interpret it the same way America sees America. Pretty much the government sees us colored people and minorities. Nothing more than just a profit margin. So, what's the point? It's the white people's life. They can. Explain a little bit more, please. It's pretty much, like, like beginning of the video he's gentleman sits out playing all crystal video he turns a black guy and it for me he comes

up she combined head that's a pretty much everyone the higher position I want to do it wipe us out and then make sure they have a perfect society that they dream of pretty much and I raised perfect world only one shade mmm so was Donald Trump doing the bidding of the white man? And that's why at the end of the video, the white man was chasing him down because he was the last left to kill? Hello? Are he supposed to be Kanye West? What? Hello?

Hello? You know what, now for nothing, the first time I see the video, I thought that was Kanye West who got shot the first one because I couldn't hear him. Why? I don't know. Hello? Good morning, mama. Good morning, can you guys hear me? Yeah, you can. Roll your window up or something. It's a little breezy. I don't know. Hello. Good morning, mama. Good morning. Can you guys hear me? Yeah, you can. I'm sorry.

Roll your window up or something. I'm sorry. It's a little breezy. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm about to wreck my car. Oh, my goodness. Okay.

I honestly believe that, you know, after everything that Kanye said this past week, that Childish Gambino is the rapper that we should be rooting for. I mean, watching the video, I was so proud. And it was lit, just like the dancing, everything. It was just a lit video and a video that I feel like we could be proud of. When he gunned down the first guy and then shot the entire black choir and nothing happened to him after that, you know, that really, that really spoke to me, you know, and until he lit up that blunt, that's when people wanted to start chasing him, you know, and that really spoke to me, you know, and until he lit up that blunt, that's when people wanted to start chasing him, you know, and that really resonated with me, you know, because people do all kinds of crazy stuff, you know, but when they want to smoke a little weed or do a little bit ofino as a black beacon of hope just yet. Why not? Because he has he definitely has a white woman. Does he? He definitely has a white woman. He has two kids. And don't forget about that poem he wrote a few years ago saying he

wish he was white now. Come on now everybody slow down. Pump your brakes. You're absolutely right Charlamagne but still after everything that Kanye put, after all of the defending that I had to, you know, defend my people and my place of work and every, you know, everywhere else this past week, you know,

I get to go back and show this video. The video was lit, you know, and I'm actually proud of it. It's something that I could be proud of. Don't you go in there

and show the white people a video of a black man killing a bunch of black people. Don't you, that's for us. Thank you, Mama. Stop. Hello, who's this?

Hi, my name is Kelly. I'm from Indiana. Hey, Kelly from Indiana. Don't you, that's for us. Thank you, mama. Stop. Hello, who's this? Hi, my name is Kelly. I'm from Indiana. Hey, Kelly from Indiana. How did you interpret the video? When I was watching the video, I had to watch it several times to, I guess, understand what he was talking about. But in me personally,

when I first watched the video, I was just focusing on him dancing and not what was going on in the background. Exactly. Watching or rewatch it. And that's when, to me, that was the message, that we get easily distracted by pop culture

and not paying attention to the important messages. What's really funny is I was talking to my mom the other day about this actual issue, about the Kanye situation, and everyone was talking about Kanye, but people aren't paying attention to that, that Trump is still getting investigated, what's going on in Puerto Rico. We just totally forgot about them.

Wag the dog, baby. That's why I love Donald Glover's skit on SNL, the Kanye plays. That was genius. That was very genius. And the other thing, too, that people that are tweeting this morning that I noticed in the background,

but the pale white horse, everybody should go read that book, Behold the Pale White Horse. But the pale horse in the background followed by the police car, that was dope symbolism. Whatever the hell I'm trying to say. But the pale horse in the background followed by the police car, that was dope symbolism. Whatever the hell I'm trying to say. And then you see even the part where the kids are on their cell phones

and he says that's a celly, that part, because you know how they've been mistaking cell phones for guns? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's in there too. Listen, man, like I said, I thought it was visually great. I just wish you would have had a white man shooting all the black people, especially in the choir, you know, because I didn't like the optics of him as a black man

doing it. I just feel like he was reinforcing the negative stereotype of black men being violent and the narrative of black-on-black crime. And we all know that no black people shooting down church folks with an AK-47. The mass shooting problem is largely white men with the AK-47s. So I just wish he would have showed me the whole totality of America. And I definitely

didn't like him shooting down all the black people and then running from a mob of white people. Let that chopper fly on Vanilla Ice this one time. Well, check out the video if you haven't seen it. It's very interesting. A bunch of different jewels. Very provocative. Now, you got rumors on the way? Hold on. Moral of the story. I thought you did the whole moral of the story. No, the moral of the story. That wasn't the moral?

No, art is completely subjective. Okay, it's up to the viewer to judge whether or not it has merit. And to interpret it how you want to. Exactly. We all see different things. And that's why I think it's a to the viewer to judge whether or not it has merit. And to interpret it how you want to. Exactly. We all see different things. And that's why I think it's a great piece of art. All right. Now we are about to talk about Jada Pinkett Smith.

She has a new show coming, and she's going to be talking to Will Smith's ex-wife, amongst some other people, one woman who she had beef with, and we didn't even know it for years. All right, we'll get into all that when we come back. Keep it locked. This is The Breakfast Club. Good morning. It's time.

She's spilling the tea. This is The Rumor Report with Angela Yee on The Breakfast Club. Well, today is a day Jada Pinkett Smith has her new show coming out. It's going to be on Facebook Watch. It's an original show which features her mom and her daughter, Willow. It's called Red Table Talk. Now, the project, she said, has been an intense journey toward my healing and my need for more authenticity from within myself. This is the year of growth for me as I take terrifying steps toward my personal

freedom through experiences and discussions with my mother and daughter. Now, she talks to Will Smith's first wife, Cherie Fletcher, and here's what they said. My entry point to motherhood was co-mothering with Will's ex-wife Cherie. This is the first time I'm sitting down to talk about our journey. I called back and I happened to say, quote, bitch, you living in the house I picked out. You said, it's my house now. I want you to know, Will Smith let me have it. But they

always been good, though. I think I heard Will say she comes by the house. They do family barbecues. I don't know about always. If you listen to what they had to say, they weren't always good. I'm very interested in watching this show simply because I want to see how a talk show works on a platform like Facebook. And not to mention I'm a Pinkett Smith Winfrey knows Carter, so you know I'm all in. Well, she said, I came to Facebook Watch because the discussions and process can continue even after the airing of an episode.

So it's every Wednesday. She said after the Monday airings of Red Table Talk, I'll be having Facebook Live conversations where we can engage in the process of growth together in real time. Now, in addition, she also squashes some beef that she had with Gabrielle Union, who even knew this beef was happening. Who knew? Here's what she had to say. I have a really touching episode with Gabrielle Union where

we have kind of a, we haven't really been on the best of terms for 17 years and we have a reconciliation. We couldn't even remember why. I just want everybody out there to know that if you're beefing with somebody and nobody knows y'all beefing, it's not really beef. Right. Well, it was for

17 years. You can keep that to yourself. That's a personal problem that y'all two have amongst each other. Y'all are really private for not letting anyone know that. Absolutely. Come on, man. Now, G-Eazy has broken his silence over recently getting arrested. He posted, Grateful and blessed to be free and safe.

Happy to be in Copenhagen tonight doing what I love most. Embarrassed and apologetic beyond words about the incident. But above all, I'm so effing grateful they let me go. Craziest experience of my life. Awful night with a lot of bad luck and some even worse decisions. But like I said, I'm grateful as F to be a free man back on tour performing for the fans. All you do is sniff a little cocaine. Well, that is against the law. And there was also a fight. He got into a physical altercation.

That's usually what cocaine leads you to do. Alright, Khloe Kardashian. Looks like her and Tristan Thompson are back together again. They were spotted out to eat together, and according to close friends and Us Weekly, they said that they are fully back together, and she's a lot less upset about what he did to her than everyone else is.

Khloe feels like the world is against Tristan. No one in the world is supporting Tristan and she's still in love with him. Well, the truth to the matter is, you know, what's the girl's name? Khloe. They got another season to shoot. Okay, I can't let you go just yet. I gotta get some camera time out of

your black ass. And she was at the playoffs, but what was crazy is that the girl he cheated with was sitting in those playoff tickets before she was, when I guess Chloe was having a baby. Family and friends section. Your side chick can be your friend, duh. All right, Kodak Black is writing a book in jail. He tweeted, I'm excited about this book I'm writing. I'm ready for the world to read it.

So we don't know any more details about it, but we can assume that it has to do with Kodak Black's life, which has been a little bit crazy so far. And I got to say congratulations to Jordan Sparks and her husband, Dana Isaiah. They actually welcomed their first child, Dana Isaiah Thomas Jr., according to People Magazine. Also, Tia Marie and Corey Hardrick welcomed a baby girl as well. So congratulations to them.

They already have a six-year-old son, so now they have a little girl added to their family. Salute to them. And congratulations to Nicki Minaj. She put out two videos over the weekend. Also, Chun-Li and Barbie Tings. The two visuals for those songs came out as well over the weekend. And I'd just like, for the record, to say that they ain't America.

All right? My goodness. All right. Thank you, Yee, for that't America. All right? My goodness. All right. Thank you, Yee, for that rumor report. Up next, the People's Choice Mix. Let me know what you want to hear. Revolt, we'll see you tomorrow. Everybody else, we're going to start off with This is America.

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