The Breakfast Club - This Is Your Problem too

Episode Date: May 29, 2020

Today on the show Dj Envy went live with his listeners and allowed them to vent about the injustice and police brutality that have been recently taking place in differenent states. Also, Mysonne gave a call in to the show , who has been on the front lines of the protests that have been happening in Minnesota and spoke on his experience and what to do next Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Had enough of this country? Ever dreamt about starting your own? I planted the flag. This is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. 55 gallons of water, 500 pounds of concrete. Or maybe not. No country willingly gives up their territory. Oh my God.

What is that? Bullets. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. We need help! That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast

Post Run High is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, what's up? This is Ramses Jha. 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 discuss social issues, especially those that affect black and brown people, but in a way that informs and empowers all 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. We're going to learn how to become better allies to each other. So join us each Saturday for Civic Cipher on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. It's on your radio right now. Do you know how to pop that coochie for a girl? There you go. It's the world's most dangerous morning show. Cut the cameras, I'm out of here. What kind of show is this? My son lives in City South. The Breakfast Club.

With DJ Envy. The captain of this bitch. With Angela Yee, the only one who can keep these guys in check. With Charlamagne Tha God. I'm a lovable asshole. And this is The Breakfast Club, bitches! Good morning, USA and Toronto! Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God.

We are The Breakfast Club, and it's Friday! Yes, it's Friday. Ah, man, I'm glad the weekend is here, but it's the same bull-ish going on. Well, if you don't know any updates, we'll give you updates of what's going on in Minneapolis. We'll also give you updates with the coronavirus. Now, this morning before, I should say last week before the Breakfast Club went on vacation, we taped a couple of interviews. One was pretty ricky. We're going to get that back on today. And there's a lot to talk about. We're going to open up the phone lines. A lot has happened. You know, the DA of Minneapolis, a prosecuting attorney, said they don't know if

there's enough information to necessarily prosecute the officers. That hit different when I heard that conference yesterday. So we'll talk about that. Also, they burned down the third precinct. Now, the third precinct is the precinct where both of the four cops were employed by. They burnt that whole precinct down. We'll talk about that as well. They've been rioting in Minneapolis and other states as well. People have been protesting. People have been arrested.

It seems like there's been more police brutality all over the country. And I'm tired of people saying this, and this is what I'm tired of. I'm tired of people saying, well, you know,

you don't get that mad when it's black on black crime or when it's black on black people fighting each other or when it's minorities going at each other. That's weak to me. And I'm going to tell you why. Yes, you're absolutely right. When black on black crime happens, we should be mad. But let's not change.

Let's not change the goal line. That's like when you get in an argument with your man or you get in an argument with your girl or your wife and you start talking about, well, putting up the toilet seat and then all of a sudden it's, well, you remember five years ago when you did this to me? No, we're not talking about what happened before. We're talking about this instant right now. We could talk about that later, but right now we're talking about this and how this is affecting us and what we've seen the last couple of days. So all the comments, oh, well, we don't know. We're not talking about that. We're talking about this specific instance. We're talking about how police continue, continue to disrespect us and kill us and kill unarmed us. But we'll talk about it more and get it off your chest. 800-585-1051.

If you want to get things off your chest, you can call us up right now. Phone lines are wide open. We're here. Charlemagne and Yee are on vacation. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlemagne the God. We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. Now, while all this is going on, well, everything's happening in the world right now. Donald Trump signs a new law targeting social media companies after allegedly Twitter started to fact-check them to see if what he was saying was right. So now with everything going on, this is what he signs today. Let's hear audio. My executive order calls for new regulations under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act

to make it that social media companies that engage in censoring or any political conduct will not be able to keep their liability shield. That's a big deal. They have a shield. They can do what they want. They have a shield. They're not going to have that shield. That's crazy. That's what he's thinking about in a time like this, making sure social media doesn't fact check him, huh? Well, in George Floyd's case, they're saying allegedly that he worked at the same club

as the officer that had the knee in his neck. Now, allegedly, George Floyd worked at a club doing security at night. And they're saying that the owner also allegedly said that this young individual, but this officer also worked at the same club. So I don't know if there was a previous or prior problem, but it just seems strange that he would do that to this man. And he had that have that that knee on his neck for that long for no reason that that just seems strange. Well, also, the attorney prosecuting attorney Mike Freeman said there's other evidence showing no wrong and believes George Floyd's killer might not be charged. Let's hear audio of that. And I think people will be hard for us to understand how you can't bring charges at least against the officer who had his knee on that man's

neck. It's a violation of my ethics to talk and evaluate evidence before we announce our charging decision. And I will not do that. I will say this, that that video is graphic and horrific and terrible and no person should do that. But my job in the end is to prove that he violated a criminal statute. Which I can't see why they can't prove that immediately. I mean, the man was, we all seen the video. He was lifeless. The man wasn't fighting back. He was screaming, I can't breathe.

He was screaming, my stomach hurts. There was no fight in that, man. You had his hands tied behind his back, handcuffed. What was he going to do? Karate kick you? What's the worst? Bite you? It was three of you guys on him. There was no reason for that. And lastly, protesters burnt down the third precinct last night in Minneapolis. That is the precinct employed, which employed the four officers that were involved in this case. So the third precinct was set on fire,

and they sent out warnings last night to please back away from the third precinct because they felt it was going to explode and blow up. But the third precinct was set on fire by protesters and burnt down. And that is your front page news. Now, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, call us up right now. Phone lines are wide open.

Let's talk about it. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired? Depressed? A little bit revolutionary?

Consider this. Start your own country. I planted the flag. I just kind of looked out of like, this is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. There kind of looked out of like, this is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. There are 55 gallons of water for 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it.

I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen of Ladonia. I'm Jackson I, King of Kaperburg. I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia. Be part of a great colonial tradition. Why can't I create my own country? My forefathers did that themselves. What could go wrong? No forefathers did that themselves.

What could go wrong? No country willingly gives up their territory. I was making a rocket with a black powder, you know, with explosive warhead. Oh, my God. What is that? Bullets. Bullet holes, yeah.

We need help! We still have the off-road portion to go. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. And we're losing daylight fast. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, guys. I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more.

After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast Post Run High is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. You know that rush of endorphins you feel after a great workout? Well, that's when the real magic happens. So if you love hearing real, inspiring stories from the people you know, follow, and admire, join me every week for Post Run High. It's where we take the conversation beyond the run

and get into the heart of it all. It's lighthearted, pretty crazy and very fun. Listen to post run high on the I heart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. So y'all, this is quest love. And I'm here to tell you about a new podcast I've been working on with the

story pirates and John Glickman called historical records. It's a family-friendly podcast. Yeah, you heard that right. A podcast for all ages. One you can listen to and enjoy with your kids starting on September 27th. I'm going to toss it over to the host of Historical Records, Nimany, to tell you all about it. Make sure you check it out.

Hey, y'all. Nimany here. I'm the host of a brand-new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. Historical Records brings history to life through hip-hop. Each episode is about a different inspiring figure from history. Like this one about Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old girl in Alabama who refused to give up her seat on the city bus nine whole months before Rosa Parks did the same thing. Check it. Did you know I wouldn't give up my seat? Nine months before Rosa, he was called a woman. Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records. Because in order to make history, you have to make some noise.

Listen to Historical Records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Wake up, wake up. Wake your ass up. This is your time to get it off your chest. Whether you're mad or blessed, we want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Hey, this is Chris. Hey, Chris, good morning, man.

Get it off your chest. Hey, man, I just wanted to talk about the whole killing thing, man. And I just want to let everybody know, like, this protesting, we've been doing this for, like, way too long. Nothing's going to happen from it. Everybody just want to do their little MLK protest instead of actually doing action. I believe in it, but I also believe in the Malcolm X fighting for a cause anymore. You know, I think we need an eye for our eyes to just protest and actually get a point across.

I'm pretty sure you've seen Donald Trump, what he just said, right? What part? The thugs? When he said the thugs are out there rioting and looting? Yeah, are they just going to come out shooting just because we're trying to get our point across on how we feel about how they're killing us for the past few years?

So I just think it's time to actually get an eye for our eyes, actually get a point across on how we feel about how they're killing us for the past few years. So I just think it's time to actually get an eye for an eye, actually get a point across to show them, like, stop doing it. And if you keep doing it, there's going to be precautions to it. You know, all cops aren't bad, right? And you know that all cops standing up saying that this individual was wrong. So, you know, so what do you propose that we do? Our community needs to go after the people that kills us. I'm not saying all cops are bad, but the ones that's crooked doing their stuff,

they need to go after those people. You know, it feels me out there, just like how it was back in the day, how, you know, the people used to protect the neighborhood against those crooked cops. It needs to be the exact same way. Go after those crooked cops. Now, I agree with you. I feel like we need to kind of make sure we protect and police

our own communities. But, you know what I mean? Go out and just hurt random people and hurt random police officers. I don't think it's the key. I don't think it's the way. I do feel you

and I do feel like sometimes they're pushing us not to do it the right way when they're saying we don't know if there's enough information or if there's enough proof because that's bullish.

But thank you for calling, brother. Hello, who's this? Camila. Good morning, mama. Good morning, you guys. I want to get some things off my chest this morning. I want to talk about the police, how they out here killing all black men,

and how scary it is, because I have three sons myself, and this is so scary that you don't know if your kid's going out to go to work come home, you don't know if your kid's gonna come home, it's just scary I don't, it's painful and it's hurtful it's very scary, like I said I have

two young boys, I have five kids and it's very scary, you know and watching it with them it makes me feel bad, it puts me in a feeling, in a situation where it's like, damn, can I really protect my son? Can I protect my child if my child is doing the right thing? Can I protect them? What do you tell your kids when they're asking these questions?

Like, why are the police doing this? You know, they don't know. I told them the truth. I got a 16-year-old. I mean, of course, the 6-year-old, I didn't tell, but, you know, the 16-year-old, absolutely, positively. I told him the truth. I got a 16-year-old. I mean, of course, the 6-year-old, I didn't tell. But the 16-year-old, absolutely, positively, I told him. I want him to see what's going on out there. So he knows when he is going out in the world.

He knows what he has to stand against. He knows what the real world is like. It's not all peaches and cream. He knows what he has to go against when he goes out there in that world each and every day. Every day. Absolutely. Thank you so much, man. Happy birthday world each and every day. Every day. Absolutely. Thank you so much, man. Thank you, guys.

You too, now. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired? Depressed? A little bit revolutionary?

Consider this. Start your own country. I planted the flag. I just kind of looked out of like, this is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy. There's 55 gallons of water, 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen of Laudonia. I'm Jackson I, King of Capraburg. I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia. Be part of a great colonial tradition. The Waikana tribe, my country, my forefathers did that themselves. What could go wrong? No country willingly gives up their territory.

I was making a racket with a black powder, you know, with explosive warhead. Oh my God. What is that? Bullets. Bullets. We need help! We need help! We still have the off-road portion to go.

Listen to Escape from Zakistan. And we're losing daylight fast. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, guys. I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast, Post Run High, is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys,

and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. You know that rush of endorphins you feel after a great workout? Well, that's when the real magic happens. So if you love hearing real, inspiring stories from the people you know, follow, and admire, join me every week for Post Run High.

It's where we take the conversation beyond the run and get into the heart of it all it's light-hearted pretty crazy and very fun listen to post run high on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts so y'all this is quest love and i'm here to tell you about a new podcast I've been working on with the Story Pirates and John Glickman called Historical Records. It's a family friendly podcast. Yeah, you heard that right. A podcast for all ages. One you can listen to and enjoy with your kids starting on September 27th. I'm going to toss it over to the host of Historical Records, Nimany, to tell you all about it. Make sure you check it out.

Hey, y'all. Nimany here. I'm the host of a brand new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. Historical Records brings history to life through hip-hop. Flash, slam, another one gone. Bash, bam, another one gone. The crack of the bat and another one gone. The tip of the cap, there's another one gone. Bash, bam, another one gone. The crack of the bat and another one gone. The tip of the cap, there's another one gone.

Each episode is about a different inspiring figure from history. Like this one about Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old girl in Alabama who refused to give up her seat on the city bus nine whole months before Rosa Parks did the same thing. Check it. And it began with me. Did you know, did you know? I wouldn't give up my seat. Nine months before Rosa, it was called a moment.

Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records. Because in order to make history, you have to make some noise. Listen to Historical Records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is your time to get it off your chest,

whether you're mad or blessed. You better have the same energy. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Hey, DJ Andy, good morning. Good morning, what's this? Hey, DJ Envy, good morning. Good morning, what's your name? This is PG, I'm from Minnesota. Good morning, mama.

Man, I just wanted to get out there, DJ Envy, that our city is hurting, first of all. Like, it's crazy here. And the police is just really starting some of the stuff. Like, they definitely starting some of the fires. We've discovered that. And they're trying to make it seem like we did it. And we're causing all these violence at these protests. And it's not even us starting.

My bad. They been pepper spraying us and doing all types of stuff. So they've been starting stuff to make it look bad. We can't ever just be out peacefully doing something. They gotta incite something and they make us look bad on TV like savages and thugs and stuff out there when really they're the thugs.

Absolutely. Well, you know, we love you and you guys, please be safe out there, man. Thank you. Although, you know, I think you and you guys, please be safe out there, man. You know, thank you. Although, you know, I think I'm like everybody. I want justice for George Floyd and I want these cops to be arrested. But I also want my people out there to be careful and be safe, you know. Absolutely. Me too. Me too.

I just want everyone to know like that's not it with the looting and all that. And because that's what they want to do. They want to show us looking bad on TV. They don't want us to see us on the good side and us being out there peacefully. We just want justice for this man. What happened to him was murder. And we want to see these four police officers brought in.

And that's really what we're wanting. And that's why all this stuff is happening because we're hurting. We're at our breaking point. Absolutely. Absolutely. Well, thank you for calling in. Please be safe out there.

Hello, who's this? Hi, this is Shai. Hey, Shai. Where are you calling from? I'm actually calling from Tenterville, North Carolina. Good morning. How are you feeling on this Friday?

You know, I honestly could be a lot better. I'm just being honest with you. I was writing and I was listening to you, and, you know, I think that you brought up a very good point about everyone bringing up the black-on-black crime and that having an issue. And, you know, you kind of made that a point, but then I kind of wanted to add to that.

It's not that we're so upset about the fact that, you know, it was more black on black. We should be more upset about that. I think that what we need to be more upset about is the fact that these police officers, what they're here for is they're here to protect and to serve. So that is what they were trained to do. If we look into it, and God forbid someone did bomb the police building, if they turned around and they looked into it,

and this man was trained to be able to build a bomb, is he not going to go to prison for that? So why would this man who was trained to be able to subdue a man and to kill a man with his bare hands, why should he be allowed to walk free from that? Yeah. I mean, that's a good point. I mean, I mean, when that

district attorney yesterday said he doesn't know if there's enough evidence, it just killed everything in me. Because before that, I had, you know, I really, and maybe this is me Because before that I really And maybe this is just dumb me I really had hope I said you know what

This guy will get prosecuted We all seen the video Now there was no Well the guy was fighting back Or the guy was No we all seen three officers Holding this man down You know and then

Which is another slap in the face, when they released one of the body footage, the body camera footage, when they took everything out, like what kind of body footage was that? You couldn't see anything. They blocked everything out. They didn't, you couldn't hear the voice.

That was just a slap in the face. That just shows like they have no respect, no, nothing for us nothing and when i when you really look into it you know they take advantage of the fact there's literally police officers that have their own uh that that literally are out there watching facebook and watching the post you don't even have to believe be a police officer anymore the crimes are solved right there and and people are admitting their guilt every day. And they are

taking these clips and they are literally going and they're prosecuting these people. I just don't understand how a video can just deter anyone from saying, that was absolutely 100% wrong. We have it on tape. Absolutely.

Absolutely. Well, thank you for calling, Mama, and you be safe and try to at least have a great weekend. Absolutely. Thank you so much. You have a great day. You just keep being positive out there. Thank you so much, Mama. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051.

If you need to vent, you can hit us up now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. This is your time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed. You better have the same energy. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this?

Good morning. Good morning, Nick. Good morning, Nick. How you doing? Get it off your chest, brother. I want to speak on this killing thing. Honestly, I feel like we're never going to be treated right. And the easiest way to get out of the process is to start taking the money and the power out of their pocket. Like, for instance, if we start saying that we're treated equal, we're not going to pay taxes.

It's going to hurt because they want the money. They want our energy, our time, our money. So once we start treating them and showing them like we don't care about their rules and what we want, they're going to have to respect what we want. Well, yeah, well, you know, the taxes thing would be difficult because then they'll start saying that we owe money in taxes and start trying to arrest us for not paying our taxes. But not shopping in stores and really holding our money and showing people that our money is just as valuable as anybody else's money, I agree with that. I mean, I think it's really going to, and this is going to sound crazy, but I really think it's going to have to get back to where we were years and years ago, where we had our own finances, our own banking systems, our own neighborhoods, our own schools, and start funding ourselves. The problem is, is we're so behind with money.

And I'll be honest with you, a lot of us don't have generational wealth. A lot of us are the first times to even start making money in our families. So we're so far behind with that. We'll be so far behind with technology and books and things like that. But that's what we're going to have to get to.

And I'm hoping that, you know, some of us with some money will be able to invest in our own and invest in our own community. And I'm not talking, you know, a million dollars if you make a million dollars a year or two million. There's some of us that are making billions as African Americans and multi

million. We have to start saying, you know, we have to be the lead and say, you know what? This is what we're going to do. And the same thing with the HBCUs, you know, we have all these great athletes that go to these other schools, whether it's Duke, whether it's Clemson, whether it's Syracuse, whether it's Georgetown. And we got to get to the point where you say, you know what, we're going to hold our own and our players going to have to go into our own schools, our own HBCUs. You know what that would do to an HBCU if a player like, you know, I don't know, like a Carmelo Anthony didn't go to Syracuse and he went to, you know, HBCU.

Or Allen Iverson didn't go to Georgetown and went to HBCU. Or let's say LeBron James would have did one year in the league and, you know, and went to an HBCU, went one year in college. Or even like Michael Jordan didn't go to you know and went to an HBCU one year in college or even like Michael Jordan didn't go to North Carolina went to an HBCU you know how that would affect an HBCU you know it would definitely bring more funding

and that's what I think we're going to have to start doing you're absolutely right outside of the fund sorry outside of the fund though I don't know if you recall a few weeks, I called them and I was talking about the each one teach one method. Yeah, it's good to have money, but if we teach each other how to grow our own crops, make our own clothing, build our own infrastructures, our own homes and properties and stuff like that, we get off the wheel that they have us on where they feel like they can control us. Once we get off that wheel and then start releasing ourselves, we can now work amongst each other to keep the peace and say,

hey, if you're not going to abide by this, look, we're going to turn you over to them folks that are going to do whatever they want with you. So you might want to play fair amongst our community. You know, we should keep that. And you know what, brother? That's why I push financial freedom so much., that's why I push financial freedom so much and that's why I push real estate so much and that's why I try to do my part to

having some of these financial advisors and these minorities up here talking about it because, you know, you look at our community and we rent, right? We in the projects, we rent, we rent. And a lot of us, even that we're renting, we're paying $1,000 to rent, $1,500 to rent.

And what people don't know is there's a lot of help out there. When I mean help, there's grants that'll help you with your down payments. There's grants to help you with your closing costs. So for a lot of times, the same money that we would pay in rent, we can pay and we can actually own something. We can have something. And people are like, well, what does that do? Well, what that does is that creates some type of generational wealth,

meaning when you die, when you pass away, you give something to your kids. And not just an apartment and the projects, but you give them something. You give them equity where they can start. And that's what we need to do. Everybody else, you know, when people die, they leave them with millions of dollars, leave them with hundreds of thousands of dollars. We don't have that because a lot of times we don't know. So we got to continue learning,

continue to understand and continue to stand by life, stand by that and make sure that we can pass on for our kids equity and not debt. We need that. We need that for our people. But thank you for calling in, brother. You have a great weekend, man. Hello, who's this? It's Joe. How's it going on? Joe, what's going But thank you for calling in, bro, and you have a great weekend, man. Hello, who's this? Hey, it's Joe. How's it going on?

Joe, what's going on? Where you calling from, bro? What do you hear? What do you say? I'm calling from Florida. Okay, Joe. What's up, man? Get it off your chest. Well, listen, I just want to thank you guys. Every morning I listen to you guys coming home from work, and I want to say what's going on with that George Floyd case. I'm a police officer myself, and

honestly, I'm shocked what I was watching. It was bad. And I know everybody I work with was saying the same exact thing. Honestly, man, this guy has got to go to jail, man. I mean, it's crazy. I don't know the whole case, and I don't want to jump to any conclusions, but

based on what it looks like, man, it don't look good. Let me ask you a question. Let's say anything else happened. What else could have happened? It's not like we've seen 10 seconds of the video. We've seen minutes of the video. I saw the whole thing. He's handcuffed.

Listen, the game rule is once the handcuffs are on, that's it. That's it. That's right. He can't do anything. Unless he's going to karate kick you. Exactly. You know, the guy's handcuffed, and, you know, I don't know his medical condition or anything like that. If he's combative with his feet, you get restraints on his feet. That's it.

You don't have to, I mean, kneel on his throat, you know. And that's what we need. We need more officers and police officers like you to stand up and say, yo, that's wrong. It is wrong. And, you know, another thing is I think we need to have an open dialogue because I worked all last night and I get all these people yelling at me. I don't know anything that's going on. Like, I'm not studying this case. I know what's going on, but I'm not. That ain't me.

I don't live in that state. I don't know nothing about what's going on up there. I should now, but... Yeah, but you know, the problem is this has been happening for a long time and people don't know who to take it out on. You know, people see Yeah, but you know, the problem is this has been happening for a long time, and people don't know who to take it out on. You know, people see what happened, and then for the district attorney to say, hey, we don't know if there's enough information,

it makes one bad apple feel like all the apples are bad. And that's how people are feeling like. It's feeling like police officers have been getting away with this for a long time and we don't know who to trust. Most officers are not speaking up, so we don't know who to trust. I'm not talking about telling nobody. I just think about going to work and helping out

the community the best I could and trying to come home in one piece. That's my goal every morning. If you're a good ally and you honestly are trying to help the people out there, we appreciate you, brother. Absolutely. We need an open dialogue, and we need to tell, like, that has absolutely atrocious what happened.

You know, this guy got murdered, essentially, on camera. Absolutely. But, like I said, I want to let them do their thing. I don't think every officer needs to get a death threat now. I mean, I'll tell you right now, I got like 10 of them last night. I'm like, what the hell's going on? Yeah, well, be careful out there and continue speaking up for what you believe in and what you know is right, brother.

We're all human. I'm a man just like you are. I put my pants on the same way you do. So that's how I'm looking at it. Well, thank you so much, bro. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's The Breakfast'm looking at it. Well, thank you so much, bro. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up now.

It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Man, man, man. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Anjali Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Anjali and Charlamagne on vacation. Let's get in some front page news.

Now, it's some crazy-ish. Now, shout to CNN. A CNN crew has been arrested while covering the Minneapolis protests, right? Live on television. It's the craziest thing I've ever seen. And you can tell that they really don't want people seeing what's going on. Now, let me break it down. I don't know if we have the audio.

John, I'm going to tell you when we get the audio. Now, the CNN crew is taping, and it's like, oh, they have action. They see the police officers running to arrest somebody else. He says, yeah, we have action right now. And then all of a sudden they surround the CNN host, right?

The CNN correspondent. His name is Omar Jimenez. And we got audio too when you're ready. We do have audio, right? So as they're surrounding him, he says, hey, I work for CNN. Would you like me to back up?

Where would you like me to go where I can possibly take? They say nothing to him. And then all of a sudden they arrest him. And I don't see him arrest the crew. I just see him arrest the minority. Maybe it's just me and I'm sensitive, but I don't see anybody else getting arrested on camera. Let's play the audio. We showed up at the fire department or with the fire department, I should say on

that building we showed you that was burning. This is among the state patrol unit that was advancing up the street, seeing and scattering the protesters at that point for people to clear the area. And so we walked away. I'm sorry. You're under arrest. Okay. Do you mind telling me why I'm under arrest, sir? Why am I under arrest, sir? I heard you. I'm here right now. Okay.

You are arrested and why by CNN? We told you before that we are with CNN. Right? So he was arrested. He was taken away. Now, before that, they surround him for like at least 30 seconds, and they're just looking at him. And he's saying, non-confrontational, politely,

hey, if there's a problem, where would you like me to stand? If you want me to move, where would you like me to move? This is all on camera. This is live. The police say nothing. He goes, if there is a problem, where would you like me to move? I will move. Then all of a sudden, you're under arrest.

And I only see them take him away. I don't see them take anybody else away. It's like they don't want to show what's going on. Because obviously, the brother was doing absolutely positively nothing. Oh, my God. Well, last night, they believe protests burned down the third precinct. Now, the third precinct is where the four officers were employed. They burnt that building completely down.

And this is just, this is just, I don't even know what to say. I honestly don't know what to say I honestly don't know what to say and your president I'll say your president when all this is going on he signs an order for social media because social media is check-facking everything that he's saying

can we have audio of that with everything that's going on this is what he's concerned about my executive order calls for new regulations under section 230 of the communications decency act to make it that social media companies that engage in censoring or any political conduct will not be able to keep their liability shield that's a big deal they have a shield they can do what they want they have a shield they're not going to have that shield yeah so that's what

he's concerned with that's what he's concerned with. That's what he's concerned. Now, also, the district attorney said he doesn't know if there's enough evidence to actually prosecute these four officers. Can we hear this stupid statement? And I think people will be hard pressed to understand how you can't bring charges, at least against the officer who had his knee on that man's neck. It's a violation of my ethics to talk and evaluate evidence before we announce our charging decision and I will not do that. I will say this that that video is graphic and horrific and terrible and no person should do that but my job in the end is to prove

that he violated a criminal statute. Does anybody else's heart hurt from that? I feel like my soul was taken away when I heard that. Like our lives mean nothing? It's not like this is a witness seen it or this is hearsay. We've seen the effing video. We've all seen it with our own eyes.

Oh, my gosh. And that's front page news. When we come back, My Son. Shout to My Son. My Son, of course, is a rapper. He's from the Bronx. He's an activist as well. He's on the front lines right now.

My Son and his team, shout out to Tamika Mallory, Linda Sarsar. They are the individuals that are on the front lines when everything happens. When something happens, they are there. They are out there protesting. They are out there organizing. And he is our eyes out there. And we're going to talk to him when we

come back. We're going to talk to my son. 800-585-1051. He's been out there for the last couple of days. He's been shot at by rubber bullets. He's been, you know, affected by tear gas when tear gas was thrown at him. He's been protesting at the officer's house that put the knee in George Floyd's neck. He protested outside of the district attorney's house. He's been protesting outside the police station.

So we're going to talk to my son when we come back. Don't move. 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.

Now, Charlamagne and Yee are on vacation, so I'm holding it down. And I got my brother, My Son, on the line. My Son, how's it going, bro? I'm blessed, King. How you doing, man? I'm doing pretty, so I'm holding it down. And I got my brother, Myson, on the line. Myson, how's it going, bro? I'm blessed, King. How you doing, man? I'm doing pretty good, man. So for people that don't know, you're out there on the front line. You've been out there protesting out in Minneapolis. So what are you seeing out there for people that don't know and want to know?

Because all we see is what the media puts on television. So what are you seeing out there? Thank you for having me, Envy. I've been here for the last three days. I want to say we got here on Tuesday. And it's definitely been a lot of protesting. And we've been pretty much to the site where the brother George Floyd was murdered at. We protested in front of the officer's home.

We protested at the DA's home. We protested at the precinct. So I've pretty much seen every aspect of the protest for the most part. You know, the media is trying to project as if it's just been some violent protest violent protests and yes there have been things but I want to tell you that most of those the violence or the violent nature of it because there's amongst the protesters there has been no violence you know there might be a little

disagreement here and there but for the most part, the protesters are angry with the system. And the police started, they have initiated violence by shooting rubber bullets off the police station. They've been throwing tear gas. They've been throwing all kinds of smoke bombs off the precinct. So that's from when I got here. So it's Tuesday. That's where i've seen

you know the negativity start sure there's been there's the angry people but there haven't been any weapons we haven't i haven't seen anybody shooting anything most of the times the protesters have their hands up i've seen officers point blank shooting protesters that's walking just like this, their hands up with rubber bullets, throwing tear gas into full crowds. You know, people are angry. You know, they're angry, man. You've seen the same thing we've seen. You know, the district attorney here,

to ignore that and then come back yesterday and say that he didn't see anything that was a crime. It's like a slap in the face. Most times people don't want to be here. It's a pandemic. You want to be home with your family. You want to make sure that you're safe.

The fact that we have to actually have to be out here to demand justice for something that the whole world seen was murder, you know, it's just disgusting, you know, it's really disgusting. Now, you know, people are reporting that they've seen police officers, and I don't know how true this is, but they've seen police breaking windows and starting fires. Have you seen any of that? They're saying that it's not necessarily the protesters. They said it starts from possibly the police breaking these windows and possibly the police starting these fires and then blaming it on the rioters.

Well, I mean, that's pretty much one of the tactics of this government. You know, they put agent provocateurs into the crowds of the protesters, and they create the most havoc, and then they blame it on the protesters so they can have reasons to unlock up, to harm, and do things to protesters. That's a strategy that's been used for years. You know, I've seen the video. I cannot confirm nor deny

if that is actually the officer who was doing that, but I'm just saying that that strategy is not anything new. As somebody who's been protesting for the last eight years, I've seen, I've heard, I've been a witness to the government and the system putting their spies into the crowds, and they be the ones who are actually the ones initiate any level of crime or violence. Now I've also seen video and you said you were protesting outside the officer's house. Now we've seen a video where it looked like there might have been

like a hundred officers outside surrounding his house. Was that true? That is definitely true. We were standing there, and there was a line of maybe started out with about 20, 30 officers, and then out of nowhere, another 80 of them came out of nowhere, and they just stood there with riot gear, full riot gear,

and, you know, just to intimidate the protesters. And it's sad. You know, it's just, this to intimidate the protesters. And it's sad. You know, it's just this whole situation is just sad. We're just looking at it. Most of these people are traumatized. We're dealing with a level of trauma, you know, that is beyond anything that I've seen. Like, I've seen, you know, I was really young when the Roxwires happened. And, you know,

I wasn't actually present at the Ferguson situation. But this is something that I've never seen. And I realized that we have reached a boiling point in America. You know, I think the victimization and, you know, disregard for Black lives, for black life has come to the point. And it's not just black people out here. There are probably more white people out here than there are black people, but they are united front. Everybody has come to the consensus that what is happening can't keep happening. And they don't care. You know, they are, they're not scared. They're taking

the tear gas and they're coming right back. Yesterday we were out there and before the precinct was burnt down, you know, the police, the police that came out because people were knocking on the precinct door and the police, you know, they had boarded everything up and most people thought that the police weren't inside.

And then, next thing you know, when they started to bang on the doors, the police came out on the roof and they started shooting bullets and they started throwing, you know, tear gas. And then the crowd dispersed because if you don't know anything about it, when they throw that tear gas, it spreads for blocks. It just starts to spread. So everybody's running, trying to clear their eyes, pouring milk in their eyes, doing whatever they have to do. And within another five or ten minutes, the protesters came right back.

You know, they just, they are fed up. You know, and the next thing I heard, the police station had been burned down. And we do not want violence. I say this a thousand times. Nobody's advocating for violence. Nobody's advocating for negativity. When I'm having these conversations with these young people from our communities and I'm saying, let's go about this.

Let's march. Let's protest. They look at me dead in my eyes and say they're tired of marching. You know, that we've been marching for hundreds of years, and they're still killing us in these streets. You know, and they're saying that the only thing that this government respects is loss of something, you know, and this is the mindset that they have. These are good people.

These are not criminals. These are not people that's in the street that's doing things like that. These are people who have done everything right. They've got jobs. They've got school. And they've reached a point where they say, you can't keep taking our lives, wanting us to be peaceful, quote, unquote. You know, when they say no justice, no peace, this is the no peace.

And nobody wants to hurt anybody. There hasn't been anybody hurt anybody. But they're saying this property and the capitalistic society that we live in is what's led to the disregard for black life you know these corporations who make billions of dollars

and you know and they fund these government officials and which fund our police system is the reason why that they disregard our life. So they don't see or care about these corporations or these businesses that they're burning down. And the police station symbolized is the biggest symbolization of what has disregarded our life so, so long. So when you see people celebrate the burning down of the precinct,

it's not about violence. It's not about wanting to harm anybody. It's the symbolization of something that was something in a government body that has harmed black people for so long actually being destroyed. All right, we got more with my son when we come back.

He's our eyes on the ground. He's on the front lines. He's out there protesting. He's just filling us in on what he sees out there, right? We'll talk to him more 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 kicking it with my son. He's in Minneapolis right now. He's on the front lines. He's telling us what he sees. And I mean, it's all good to see it through the media because the media could depict what they want to show, but he's there.

So my son. I get a lot of people and even seeing on my thing, and you do both. So you're a perfect person to answer this. People are saying, you know, how do we get so upset when other people kill us, when we kill ourselves all the time? And I think, you know think you'll be a perfect

person because you're on both sides. Kings can't kill, kings march. And you try to just advocate for people to just not be violent towards each other at all. So when people say that, you know, like, hey, we kill each other, what is your response to that, my son?

My response for that is, the one I want people to really understand is, when we kill each other, which is happening, where there is poverty, there will be violence. And those are just facts. If you change the realities of our communities, if you make sure that the people in our communities can eat and survive, the violence will disappear. But the government knows that, and that's why the poverty rate in the communities that we come from hasn't disappeared, because violence is a necessary component to the capitalist society that we live in.

They need violence so they can fill jails. They need violence. They need us to continue to kill each other. So that structure has been fair. What I say is, when we kill each other, which is by no means anything good for us to grow from, when that happens, Jay and JoJo are going to go to jail for the rest of their lives. You know, when they're caught, they're going to spend the rest of their lives. We're going to lose the person whose life they took

and the person who took their life. The police are not being held accountable. When we have to sit outside and witness on tape somebody, a man sit on a man's neck, you know, with no regard for his life to look you in the face in a camera

knowing that he's sitting on this and the man is telling you that he can't breathe. He's calling for his mother. When those things are happening and they can tell you that they don't see a crime, that right there is one of the biggest miscarriages of justice ever. And that is by the system and the structure that is supposed to protect and serve. If the people who are supposed to protect us are the ones killing us and they can't even be held accountable, then we don't have a chance. So when we compare the black on black crime, quote unquote, that they say, which is a myth, because most people, anybody, crime is committed by the people who

are closest to you. We don't say white on white crime because whites kill more whites than blacks kill blacks. That's a fact because the numbers tell you that. If you Google it and you look, more white people kill more white people than black because they are the majority in the world. So that's a fact. But we always want to give this, oh, but we kill ourselves. Yes, we kill ourselves. But we are going to be held accountable. What we are asking for in this moment is accountability.

If they would have locked those offices up and said, okay, they committed a crime, we would not be here. Why is the loss of life, the loss of black life, not as valuable as the loss of property in America? Why do they value property more than they value us? And that's something that we really have to ask. So when people say that to me, I say, I understand because I advocate for kings to stop killing kings. I want us to protect us. But I understand the reality also.

I understand if I can't change your reality, if I can't feed you, if I don't make the block, you believe that the block is the only way you're going to survive. So you have to fight your brother who is fighting for the same crumbs that you're fighting for. I can't change that reality. I know that the reality of me stopping the violence in our communities is going to be very low, and they know that as well. You know, if you look at hip-hop, if you look at hip-hop,

these same people that come from hip-hop that are now millionaires that go and they move to these nice areas and they peaceful and they support, and these people came from that violence. The minute that you change their circumstances, they ain't out there committing crimes. They're robbing about what they had to do. So that theory is something that we can't allow them to play on us

because most people who actually have gained some level of stature, who have got some money, they utilize these platforms. They want us to say, look, well, we kill each other. They want us to say that. And if you don't understand the dynamics of that, we utilize that and we weaponize that

against ourselves. You know, I heard, I didn't hear the exact words that I heard. It was Khalifa and then it was MAD and they said, oh, we shouldn't be doing this.

You know, I understand, but we can't be doing this to the communities and this stuff. And you can't tell people how to vent their anger, especially when you ain't never done anything. Sometimes you just got to be quiet. You have to be quiet because this is not your field.

You know, this is something people have been on the front lines of this for a long time. We've been preaching peace. We've been advocating for peace. And we've been doing it the right way. We've been going to school. And we've been preaching peace. We've been advocating for peace. And we've been doing it the right way. We've been going to school. And we've been telling these kids.

But at some point, at some point, the peace that you talk about and the peace that we talk about differentiates. There's a difference between it because we get to a point where you cannot, you can't keep kicking a dog before he bites you back. Right. All right, we got more with my son. When we come back, don't move. 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 kicking it with my son. Now, my son's out in Minneapolis right now. He's actually on the front line. So he's our eyes and ears. So for people out there that can't be out there,

that can't make it out there, that just want to help, what would you advise that they do? How can people help? You know, what I tell people is there's so many different entry points into this movement. You know, some people are on social media all day. Sometimes you have to lift the words that we speak on your social media. You know, that's a very big platform right now.

We realize, especially during this pandemic, that spreading the word through social media, especially through social distancing in these times, you know, that's a very big platform. So if you have a platform and you have a voice, utilize that to spread the message that we have. You know, show that you are aligned with, you know, with justice, that you are aligned with what it is that we're fighting for. And also, as you said, you can donate to organizations. If you see the people doing the work, you know, there are people like our organization, Until Freedom, that you can donate to. You know, we have a website.

We have an Instagram page. We have Cash App. As you said, we've been out here for the last five days, and it's expensive. You know, unfortunately, we came to Kentucky first with Breonna Taylor, the young lady who was shot eight times in her home by the police who did a no-knock raid and ran into her, didn't even run into her home.

They shot through her home, and we shot through the windows. After they kicked her door through, and her boyfriend shot one shot as a warning shot because he thought that he was being robbed. And he shot through this woman's home and shot her eight times. They shot over 30 shots. After they didn't even say,

hell, this is the police or anything. And they killed this woman. This was a good woman. She was an EMT worker. Nobody said a bad word. So we had to go there to protest for her. Then we drove down the block to Indianapolis, where a young man, Mikael Rose, was shot in front of his home

by an officer who was unarmed. You know, so then to hear on the way from there that this happened to George Floyd. So we didn't anticipate being away for over a week, having to drive. We drove from Indianapolis, a 10-hour ride. We had to come here, been here for the last four days. You got to pay hotel fees. You got to eat.

You got to survive. We got to take planes. Probably going to be here for an extended amount of time until all this blows over because it looks like, you know, the DA still hasn't seen evidence that it's criminal. So, you know, we want to be here to uplift the voice. We want to be on these front lines. We want to make sure that our voices are heard. You know, we want to continue to stand up and be on the front lines for people who can't. So, yes, we do need donations if it's possible. You know, there are so many different ways. I tell people, you have to utilize your,

you have to know what it is that you can do that can contribute. You know, there are so many different ways. I tell people, you have to utilize your, you have to know what it is that you can do that can contribute. You know, sometimes some people don't have them, but we have people who have donated $3 or $4 to us. And, you know, those $3 and $4 means so much to me because I know that you don't really have that. For you to give $3 and $4, that means that you really wanted to donate because you really want change. And unfortunately unfortunately these are the times we are in

so you know any donations that you give to our organization we definitely appreciate it and you know we're going to utilize it for the people and we and what we do also is when we're getting donations whatever city we go to there are grassroots organizations in the cities that we actually go to so So as a national organization, we come and we bring those resources and we donate to the grassroots organizations who've been doing the work in the cities. Like

right now, today we have a press conference, you know, and a lot of Stephen Jackson is going to be there, and a lot of different celebrities are going to come there to speak on behalf and demand justice here. And there's organizers who've been here.

Right. You know, who've been here for years before when Philando Castile was killed. And this is the same town that Philando Castile was killed in. You know, this is the same town a young Somali officer accidentally shot a white woman.

And he sentences this officer to 12 years. He was locked up, arrested, and he's doing 12 years in prison. So we know that they can charge officers for killing, so they just don't do it when it's us.

You know, those are ways that you can support us, man. Anything, but just do something. I see people online, you know, the thing that pisses me off, Envy, is when people are online telling me what I do doesn't matter. Or you shouldn't be. Nobody cares you need to be doing that. I tell them, why don't you do something?

Just do anything. I don't care what you do. And don't tell me to do something that you're not willing to do. Don't tell me to go out and shoot and do this and that. When you were at IAC, you just go out and said nothing. Absolutely. You know, so those— And we appreciate you.

So, you know, my son, you know, we got to go on right now. But I appreciate you so much, and we appreciate the fight. And thank you so much for checking in and being so real with it. Like, you are unapologetically the person that you are, and we're grateful, and we thank you. You know what I mean? We definitely do. And shout out to Tamika Mallory and Linda Siles, so I think they are out there with it. You are unapologetically the person that you are, and we're grateful and we thank you. You know what I mean? We definitely do. And shout out to Tamika Mallory and Linda Siles, so I think they are out there with you. And we appreciate all you guys, man. And thank you

so much. And we'll continue to push, and we'll continue to have your back. And thank you, brother. Thank you for always supporting us, Emory, man. And we're going to continue to fight until we can't fight no more. So, yes, until freedom. All right. Well, continue to check in and appreciate you, brother. Be safe out there. You more. So, yes, until freedom. All right. Well, continue to check in and appreciate you, brother. Be safe out there.

You too. Love, bro. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Now, Charlamagne and Yee are on vacation. I'm holding it down.

We're going to open up the phone lines when we come back. All right? Usually we do donk in the day here, but we're going to open up the phone lines. 800-585-1051 if you want to vent. A lot of stuff is going on. I'll give you some updates. So the district attorney said there might not be enough information to actually charge these four police officers.

Do we have the audio play, the audio, Dramos? I didn't tell Dramos the audio was playing, so we'll give him a second to pull it up. And I think people will be hard for us to understand how you can't bring charges, at least, against the officer who had his knee on that man's neck. It's a violation of my ethics to talk and evaluate evidence before we announce our charging decision.

And I will not do that. I will say this, that that video is graphic and horrific and terrible, and no person should do that. But my job in the end is to prove that he violated a criminal statute. And when I heard that yesterday, that, the killing of course hurt my heart. But that even, that damn near took my soul away. To just make it seem like, hey, we killed you and there's nothing you can do.

We're not even going to necessarily prosecute. That's what I took out of it You know then I see yesterday they released I guess one officer's body cam And the body cam was bull I mean everything was blocked out They pretty much blocked out what he was saying It was like why even release it There's nothing that you could get out of that body cam footage.

There was nothing that you could get out of it. Nothing that you can see, nothing that would make it more understanding. There was nothing. It was like, why even put it out? That was even more of a smack in the face. Well, last night, rioters burned down a third precinct in Minneapolis. That's the precinct that the four cops worked at. They burned down third precinct in Minneapolis. That's the precinct that the four cops worked at. They burned down the precinct.

Donald Trump sent in the National Guard. And what Donald Trump wrote on Instagram was just disrespectful. Like, this is what Donald Trump, your president, wrote. These thugs are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won't let it happen. Just spoke to the governor, Tim Walz, and told him that the military is with him all the way. Any difficulty, we will assume control. But when the looting starts, the shooting starts.

Thank you. What does that mean? I take it as it's open season, right? When the looting starts, the shooting starts. Is that what your president means by that? Let's open up the phone lines, man. 800-585-1051. We'd love to hear from you.

Just your thoughts, your opinions on everything that's going on phone lines are wide open 800-585-1051 it's the breakfast club good morning morning everybody it's dj envy angela yee charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club now um we're just taking your calls man a lot going on in minneapolis they burned down the third precinct yesterday. That was the precinct that the four officers worked at. This morning, CNN crew was arrested, which was crazy. They were arrested live on air. They were reporting, and, you know, the officers surrounded them. And the gentleman was like, all right, well, would you like me to move?

Where would you like me to go? You know, if I'm too close, where would you like me to go? They said nothing for about 20, 30 seconds flat, and then arrested him. He said, well, why am I getting arrested? He says, because you were told to move and you didn't. He asked on camera. Well, I heard he has been released. The whole crew, I didn't know the whole crew was actually arrested, but the whole crew was arrested and they have been released. All right. Let's go to the phone lines. Let's talk to the people. Hello, who's this? Denise? Hey, Denise.

Where you calling from? Georgia. Georgia. Good morning, Mama. Good morning. You know, it's sad. As a parent of two African-American males, and we see this happen again and again and again,

if we don't stand up for something, we'll accept anything. Right. Absolutely right. And what are you telling your boys? What are you telling your young kings? Because I have two, and I'm just being real and honest with them. I haven't shown my 6-year-old, but I show my 16-year-old boy and my 18-year-old daughter just so they see what's going on, so they know what to prepare when they go out every day in this world.

You're right. You know, my sons are grown. I have one in the military and one that is a police officer. And I tell them each and every day, I don't care where you are in the beginning of your life, you are an African American and you are a male. Amen. You've got to stand stronger than anybody else.

You've got to be smarter than anybody else. You gotta be smarter than anybody else. And you just gotta push through. But these days and times for you all at your age is different than when we were growing up. Yeah. Well, thank you so much. And I know you call from Georgia, so you better not be out

and about with coronavirus. And I know they opened up the state a little bit, but you better not be out and about. Oh, I'm not. You have a good day. Alright? You too. Have a great weekend. Hello, who's this? Hi, I'm Charlotte Johnson. Hey, Charlotte, where you calling from? I'm in Montgomery, Alabama.

How are you? Talk to me this morning. I'm doing well. How you feeling out there? What's on your mind? I'm feeling great. I just see you guys every morning and I just wanted to share a solution that I'm feeling great. I'm going to see you guys every morning. And I just wanted to share a solution that I came up with that I think that all black Americans can be involved in right now. You know, I sit back and I look at everything that's going on and I see the protests and I want to be there too. And I'm sure other black Americans would want to be there too, but everybody

can't get up and go protest. I came up with a solution that everyone can take advantage of. It's called no justice equals no shots. Every Friday and Saturday, I took that idea from Ahmaud Arbery's case. When it took us two months to find out about his incident, I took two days of shopping for that. And I think that Friday and Saturday would be a great day that black Americans can take advantage of that and we can shop with our own black businesses on those days.

I think taking our money out of the market is a way that we can get some solutions to these problems that we're having. Everybody is looking for a solution right now that makes sense. Along with the protests and so many other ways that you can address our racial injustices, we can also take our money back

out of the market too and that's something that everybody can participate in. I agree with you. I agree with you when we need to take our money back out in the market too. And that's something that everybody can participate in. Yeah. And you know, I agree with you. I agree with you when we need to hold our dollar. And I think we need to start buying and investing and empowering more of our own. I think we need to, you know, I've been big on the real estate to owning our own properties, investing in our own communities so we don't lose it.

So I agree with you a hundred percent, but you know, as businesses, we need to make sure that we have more black banks that can actually lend money. You know, the problem is, you know, I'm a guy that invests a lot. And a lot of times when I try to go to our own to get a lot of these loans, they just can't give it. They just don't have enough funds or enough leeway to actually give the loans that I would need to purchase. Like I purchased a school in New Jersey and I purchased properties and buildings and and I try to keep it for ourselves but a lot of times they don't and we have to make sure that we can go to ourselves you know we talk all this about financial freedom but if we

still have to you know borrow money from not our own it makes it difficult because now they're judging us they can tell us oh I'm gonna give you this money or I can't you know and we need to sure we, like you said, invest in our own. And thank you for calling. Okay, thank you. Hello, who's this? Yo, yo, everybody, this is Tyler, man, calling you from Chicago. What's going on? What's going on in the

Chi-town, brother? Oh, man, it's crazy out here, man. I mean, we're, I guess, starting the process of opening up, but everything is still shut down. I mean, it's, I guess, starting the process of opening up, but everything is still shut down. I mean, it's like people are not taking it serious, man. In my community in particular, we see my brothers and sisters not wearing a mask, you know, when they're just walking around outside. And it's really annoying.

And it's just, you know. I get what you're saying, right? But I put it to you like this, right? Because at first I was the same way. Oh, you can't go out. You can't do this. But you got to think about it like this, right? But I put it to you like this, right? Because at first I was the same way. Oh, you can't go out. You can't do this. But you got to think about it like this, right? People need money.

You know, they got to pay for rent. They got to pay for carnos. They got to pay for food. They got to pay for electricity, telephone, cable, water, and all that. And if I can't work and I can't go outside, I can't make the money to support my kids. You know, some people are lucky. They're still working now. They're still making money. Some people are lucky. They have savings.

But some people don't. You know, so it's like they gotta open up the country and I get it. You know, we gotta just be extra careful. We gotta move careful with masks. You gotta wipe everything down. We gotta make sure that we protect our immune system. So I understand, you know. This goes on and we open back up.

Now, you know, we're having our brothers getting killed out here. Just as we start to open up just a little bit. All this crap goes on and now it's just causing just mass chaos, man. It's absolutely ridiculous and I hate this. I hate seeing this. It's ridiculous.

I agree with you. I agree with you. And for myself, it's like, you know, how do we raise these kids? How do we raise our kids, you know? Can I possibly give the donkey a day for you, man, since Charlamagne is off? Sure. Go ahead, bro. I just wanted to give it out to Central Park, Karen's own, you know, Amy Cooper.

Definitely deserves donkey of the Day for how she mistreated Christian Cooper and absolutely just, you know, followed police reports you know, using his blackness as a crime and a weapon against him, knowing that that would be something that actually ultimately could hurt him, so she definitely deserves Donkey of the Day for that, I'm glad she was

fired, she was getting ready to e-haul somebody, but yeah man, that's absolutely, I'm glad she was fired and I'm glad they took her dog away fromhaw somebody. But yeah, man, that's that. I'm glad she was fired and I'm glad they took her dog away from her. But thank you for calling, brother. All right. I think Charlemagne will respect that donkey. I think he might have gave a donkey too, but I can't remember. But anyway, 800-585-1051.

We're just taking your calls, man. Just want to hear your thoughts. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now, Charlamagne and Yee are on vacation. I'm holding it down, so I'm taking your calls, man, just letting you guys speak, man. What's on your mind?

Let's talk. A lot going on. Hello, who's this? Good morning, Envy. This is Ann. Hey, where you calling from? South Carolina. Columbia. Alright. What's on your mind, mama? It's real heavy today. You know, like, I'm, like, really pissed off, to say the least. It's just exhausting being black nowadays.

Mm-hmm. And, I mean, I feel like we watch this man's life leave his body altogether. And for the DA to say that he has more evidence that's come in that doesn't support a criminal charge, it's just, it's like you're playing in our face at this point. Yeah. I mean, it's so difficult and so hard. And like when I say I feel like my soul was taken out of my body, it's I watched the man die and I,

and I'm upset that I watched it because that's something that's all on my, it's on my mind. I see that officer's face, that devil's face, just kneeling on his neck and just looking like, and what? And if you put your arm comfortably in your pocket like that, that person isn't resisting. And the fact that you have two other officers on the side of the SUV holding him down, like, what are we waiting for? It's like you guys are, they're pissing on our head

and telling us it's not right. That's exactly what they're doing. That's exactly what they're doing. That's exactly what they're doing. And like I said, it's, where do we go from here? It's like, it's no respect for life. Like, you kill us and then be like, oh, well, I don't think there's enough evidence. And we're sitting here looking like, bro, you don't see the same video we're watching? Is there a different video that maybe you got the wrong video?

They sent you the wrong video? Like, it just doesn't make sense. It doesn't. And the president, like, he just showed us how easy it is for him to sign an executive order if he's passionate enough about the subject matter. But it's kind of pathetic that you're more passionate about being fact-checked on social media versus being passionate about some sort of initiative to hold these police officers accountable.

Like, just terminate an employment. That's not enough. Is that crazy, though? Coronavirus, COVID-19, police brutality, all that going on in the world, and you're more concerned with them fact-checking you? Like, isn't that crazy? That's so narcissistic. Like, you're worried about somebody telling you that you're telling concerned with them fact-checking you? Like, isn't that crazy? That's so narcissistic.

Like, you're worried about somebody telling you that you're telling a lie? I just can't, man. Well, thank you so much, Mama, and try to have a great weekend. I will. You too. Stay safe. You too. Hello, who's this?

This is Crystal. Hey, Crystal, where you calling from? I'm calling from North Carolina. North Carolina. Let's speak. What's on your mind? Talk to me. How you feeling?

I just feel like I'm a mother of two boys, and I feel like they're already a threat, just being black and going out here in this world where people are going to kill you and go on to their family life. They're happy to just stay out here. Mm-hmm. It's really sad.

It is, man. And I feel like if George was a white man and that police officer was black, he would have already been a deer. Absolutely. Absolutely. And you tell your young kings, you got to be smarter.

You got to work harder. And when you achieve what you want to achieve, you make sure you bring a couple of brothers up with you. And that's why. But all we can do in the meantime is pray and just try to keep them away from the craziness out here.

Alright. Well, thank you for calling. You have a good week and kiss your young kings. Alright. Thank you. Alright. 800-585-1051. We're taking your calls, man. Just want to talk to you. How you feeling? You know, you seeing what's going on?

Now they're saying they might not have enough proof to charge these officers. Let's talk about it. 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.

If you just joined us, we're taking your calls. Charlamagne and Yee are on vacation, so we're just taking your calls, man. Just talking to the people out there. It's very sad. It's sad the fact that they said they don't know if there is enough proof to charge these cops. It's very sad when your president says, when they start looting, we start shooting. Well, let me get the proper quote because he's the type that'll definitely get me on

my taxes if I say something wrong. Alright, he says, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Doesn't that sound crazy? Let's go to the phone lines. Hello, who's this? Hello. Hey, what's your name, bro? Hey, what's good? It's B-Man Chunks, man, representing Scratchline ENT out of New York, man. I just wanted to say, man, I'm with Mice on and everybody, man, listen, violence is the enemy's trick, man. We cannot respond, the powers that be the permission to give the military come in and lay the smack down.

And all that's going to happen is innocence is going to die. You know, we have to think on a high level. It requires unity and sacrifice, not violence, man, because they already out here killing us. And we don't need no more of that. You know, yes, pressure busts pipes, and things is going to happen, but we need to let our intelligence override our emotions and not give in to the trick bag.

Absolutely. Absolutely. And how you holding up, King, man? How you holding up? I mean, to be honest with you, brother, I'm blessed. I'm taking this time to get back into my discipline, get back onto my, you know, self-growth and self-development. I do put motivational, inspirational speaks on Instagram, scratching my ENT, man, where I'm just promoting people to do right

and stay focused, man. You know, we are in a very traumatic time and we need each other. We're not going to make it with hate and violence. We're only going to make it with love and unity. All right. Well, thank you, brother. Be safe out there, too. Hello, who's this?

Hi, Envy. This is Lori. Hey, where you calling from, Lori? I'm calling from Detroit. Hey, what's up in the D? What's going on, man? That's one thing about this whole pandemic I miss, man. I miss Detroit.

I always have a lot of fun in Detroit, man. Detroit is like my second or third home, man. I love Detroit. Detroit is a great city, but Detroit should be out there professionally protesting. If that's even a word, professionally protesting. But I'm saying we do nothing. But what I'm saying is, these people, I'm embarrassed to be a white woman in this country today. I cry every day I watch the news.

I'm married to a black man. He's an intelligent man. He's so angry. I understand. He wants the players to be. I don't want them to be. They're tearing up their own people's property. They're not doing any good.

I was listening to your son. I was listening to you. He's been processing right for eight years. I know he's seen a lot. I know he's scared. I know you're scared for him. But it doesn't make, I know he's not out there putting players, but it doesn't make any better for young punks to be doing that.

They're hurting themselves. They're going to jail. Yeah, but you know what? And I'm not condoning what they're doing, but, you know, people are confused. People are lost. You know, they're not young punks. They're young, confused kids, and they're tired of being killed.

They're tired of their friends being killed. They're tired of trying to do things the right way, and they don't know what to do anymore. They're tired of being killed. They're tired of their friends being killed. They're tired of trying to do things the right way and they don't know what to do anymore. They're tired of getting pulled over just because they're black. They're tired of being patted down because they're black. They're tired

of being found guilty just because they're black. They're tired of white people saying, you know, they're tired of white people being able to say, hey, I'm going to call 911 right now and say that you're assaulting me. And they know that they might not never make it home. That's what they're tired of, you know. And I'm a white woman from the system. I'm an ex-convict. I've been discriminated against myself today for being that way. You know, I mean, there's so much discrimination in this world. I know we've got to stay on the topic of the black lives matter because they do.

I'm so sorry. I just want to say I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Well, thank you so much for checking in. And you said, you know, you feel disgraced that Detroit is not doing anything. You know, you can do something. You can organize and protest. You know, you have power.

You have privilege. You can do something, you know., you have power. You have privilege. You can do something, you know. You are very right. You are right. And I hope that you do, and I hope that you guys have a peaceful protest, and I hope that we do it in a positive way and the media and the lights stay on and we try to stop this. Thank you so much for calling, though.

You guys have a great radio station. I guess you guys, all three of you, have a great day. Thank you so much. Alright, now when we come back, the People's Choice Mix, 800-585-1051. I mean, I feel like it's only right to do a mix, a positive mix, and I'm talking

Tupac Changes, Fight the Power. You know those type of records. Let's get that on. Let me know what you want to hear. I got you. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ the power you know those type of records let's get that on let me know what you want to hear i got you as the breakfast club good morning morning everybody is dj envy angela yee charlamagne the guy we are the breakfast club we got a special guest on the line today my brother caesar what's up caesar what's going on bro good morning good morning good morning you up early today huh every day every day every day so all week long know, while I've been holding down a breakfast club, Angela and Charlemagne are on vacation. I just wanted to do some financial literacy to try to help people get to generational wealth. So the other day we had

Matt on and Matt was telling people how they can get grants to help them with their down payments and telling them about the low interest rates. And we had the credit dude call up, Jose, who was telling people about, you know, fixing their credit during this time and what they need to do. Now, with you, I wanted to talk to, you know, how you started, because a lot of people feel like to get into the real estate game, you need a lot of money. You know, a lot of people don't know that your dad was actually a taxi car, a taxi cab driver that you are locked up for a little bit. And when you got out, you didn't really have much money and you got into real estate. And this was kind of the time when you got into real estate, when everybody was running away, you jumped in. So let's talk about that a little bit, how you got into the

real estate game and how that time reminds you of this time. Well, when I first got, I got into real estate back in, I want to say, 08. So that's pretty much when everybody was running away from real estate. So it's kind of funny because right now a lot of people are scared to invest in real estate. Right. But it's not as serious as back then. Back then it was just a total crash, you know, like nobody wanted to invest. It was almost impossible to get a loan.

I had no money when I first started. You know, I had to borrow money for my first deal, sold our car, you know, Paul and Jen's engagement ring, got rid of my chain, you know, whatever we had to do to get that first deal going. And it was a time where banks weren't really lending. Even, you know, even to get a hard money loan back then, it was almost impossible if you didn't have a track record because everybody was losing money.

Right. hard money loan back then it was almost impossible if you didn't have a track record because everybody was losing money right and uh i just jumped in and i did my first deal i made 70 000 and i kept on going since then 14 years later now with your first deal how much did you pay for your first property back then it was a three family home and i believe i got it for yeah it was cheap, 50,000. 50,000, 50,000. But you actually lived in one of the units, correct? No. You didn't live in that unit? No, no.

I had, the first property I ever bought was a two family, right? Just like everybody else. I bought it at the height of the market. So I actually bought that property before I was going into prison. Because that's when Jen had come out pregnant. And we always said, you know, we want our own house.

So that was the crazy days when you had those state of loans back then. So just like everybody else, I messed up. I paid $400,000 for a house. My interest rate back then was 8%, which is crazy. When you think about that now, when rates are like 3% right now right now right but that's when i started it with an eight percent rate i couldn't afford the house that that i bought it was based on my credit and that was the first property that i bought and i ended up losing the house to foreclosure foreclosure and then once you figured it out you were able to buy a three-family house that had more equity for fifty

thousand dollars where it was able to help you make money. Yeah. Cause you know, like back then it was kind of crazy, man. You used to buy a house, right? Like the way things were set up, you buy a house today and you will refinance and cash out tomorrow. Right. Right. So I bought this house that wasn't worth what I was paying for it.

And it's funny cause then after I lost that house, it ended up selling. Somebody bought it as a foreclosure for like a buck 50. Wow. Wow. So we're talking this season, we're talking about his first deal. The reason I'm bringing everybody up to talk about generational wealth and getting into real estate is because this is a perfect time. I tell people they need to plan what to do outside of this pandemic when this pandemic is over. And right now, real estate, it looks like you can get a great deal right now in real estate. It's not too saturated. People are not bidding like crazy. So people can actually get a great property, two family or three family that might not be crazy in price depending where you're living or where you're looking, correct? Well, it all depends, man. You know, the last three months, things got a little bit slower, right?

Besides the fact that, you know, you can refinance and get a great rate. So things were a little slower, but I'm going to be honest with you. Things are picking up already, bro. Right. Like the market's getting busy already. Like, you know, you might still find a buyer that might be a little desperate and, you know, that they're still kind of worried about what's going to happen. And you could probably get a better deal.

But it's not going to be nothing crazy, man. Once the buyers come out in the next couple of weeks and everybody feels comfortable and buyer season finally starts, bro, it's going to go crazy. It's going to go crazier than last year because there's no inventory and rates are even lower. Right. You know, you're talking about last year, you were talking about a 3.75 rate which is still low as hell right the average back then right now you're talking about the way that the market's fluctuating you talk about 2.75 to you know 3% so that means on a 500,000 all a 500,000 not alone let's just say rate right why is he

talking you know just averaging out you talk talking about 1500 bucks that's a lot of money to pay for them up yet now also you know when we talk and they're talking about investing in real estate what's the first step people should take that's the first question all the time what is the first thing somebody should do when they want to purchase a property or invest in real estate the first thing you want to do is make sure you qualify, right? You got to make sure your credit's right, number one. Your credit has to be right. If you have bad credit, you're not going to get anywhere. You might be able to get a hard money loan.

Some lenders might let you slide with bad credit on a hard money loan. They used to a lot more, but right now, because of the pandemic, probably not. So your credit got to be tight. Then after your credit's tight, you got to make sure you're pre-approved and make sure you qualify for that house. Now, for most people out there that pre-approving means finding a lender that you go, you fill out the application form, you see that based off of your salary, based off of your credit, what you can pay for. And then from there, that's when you start going to look for the profits. And for people out there that maybe say,

you know what, I can't afford New York. I can't afford New Jersey. What's some areas that people can go to where property prices are a lot cheaper, but they might be able to get a great deal. Like, you know, we always talk about, you know, Detroit, where I was able to pick up properties

for 15 to 20,000, 25,000. Are there any other, you know, places like that, that people that you would advise people to check out? You know, I like Chicago. I think Chicago is a great market. I think Chicago is probably where Patterson or Newark or, you know, Jersey areas were about five, ten years ago. So you still have a great opportunity to go buy a three-family over there, multi-family, or even a flip.

It's a great market for flipping and to hold long-term. Compared to Detroit, I like it a little bit better right and i like it better than of course than ohio because the rents are higher so their rents are probably around a thousand dollars to 1200 which is pretty good so you know like when i first started you know i had to pull teeth to get a thousand dollars in a three-bedroom in my area in north jersey now we're getting almost eighteen hundred dollars so eventually rents go up so to be at that price point where their rents are already a thousand and twelve hundred is a is a great way to start you go over there you get a three family for let's say a hundred thousand you probably make about thirty six hundred four

thousand a month with a three percent rate your cash flowing like crazy okay so i i know chicago uh we say parts of atlantic city i think at Pittsburgh I was talking to Barbara Cochran earlier this week about Pittsburgh she was like if you go to Pittsburgh you might be a little too late because Pittsburgh was one of those markets like two years ago that you needed to touch so now this Sunday we're doing a webinar webinar where we're actually gonna be breaking down a lot of the stuff that we're talking about so many people have asked us to come to their cities, but of course we can't travel.

So hopefully we'll be traveling again soon. You see they're opening up Disney. Well, I know Universal already is opening up. They announced Disney already? They're opening up Disney, yep, next week. Oh, that's dope. Once they open up Disney, I think the world is a wrap. It's a wrap.

We just need one sport, either baseball to open back up or basketball, and that means we're good. That means we're good. But I appreciate you for calling in. And, again, if you want more information on the webinar that we're doing, we're going to be breaking all this down. We have a credit guide. We have a wholesaler. We have mortgage guys.

We're going to just be talking to you, trying to help people. Like I said, just think about it. Let's say if you're out there renting right now, you know, there's grants right now where they will actually give you the down payment for your house so the same amount of money that you're using to rent you can be used and you can actually own something and have equity in it so if you ever have a problem you can pull that equity out music for your colleges your kids college tuition you can use it for whatever you need you know so I'm just telling you just think about it look into it and good luck. And I appreciate you for checking in.

All right. No problem. These are Flippin' NJ. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Good morning. You know, thank you guys for joining us all week long. Shout to my son for checking in this morning. Shout to attorney son for checking in this morning. Shout to attorney Benjamin Crump. Shout to

Steven Jackson. Shout to all the listeners out there for calling in and checking in. We appreciate you, man. And just try to open up the phone lines for you guys out there, you know. You know, usually this is where Charlemagne does the positive note. But I just want to quote Martin Luther King Jr. this morning. You know, there comes a time

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