The Breakfast Club - Throw Back Thursday with Charlie Wilson
Episode Date: February 20, 2020Today on the show for Throwback Thursday we had Charlie Wilson stop by where he opened up about his sobriety, "Gab Band" origins and more. Also, Charlamagne gave "Donkey of the Day" to Michael Bloombe...rg research team after it showed Bloomberg was not prepared for the questions in the recent debate and Angela helped some listeners out during "Ask Yee". Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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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. As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just
don't know what is going to come for you. Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the
power of love. I forgive myself. It's okay.
Have grace with yourself.
You're trying your best.
And you're going to figure out the rhythm of this thing.
Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before.
Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty 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 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. I can't believe you guys are the best.
Collectively known as Breakfast Club, bitches.
Good morning, Angela Yee. Good morning, D-T-M-B. Charlamagne Tha God.
Peace to the planet.
It's Thursday.
Yay.
You didn't sell that.
I don't need to sell it.
It's Thursday, nigga.
You didn't sell that.
It's the fourth day of the week.
It's going to be Thursday long after we gone.
You don't care.
The hell I got to sell Thursday for?
Everybody named Mama know it's Thursday.
That's the date.
You didn't sell that one to me.
Thursday, February 20th, 2020.
All right.
It is Thursday.
That's right.
Usually you get a little, it's Thursday.
It was like Thursday.
Don't tell me how to use my voice.
Well, happy Thursday.
I'm just telling you, it's Thursday.
All right.
Well, it is Thursday.
And you know who's going to be joining us this morning?
Charlie Wilson.
Oh, yes.
Yes.
Throwback Thursday.
Yes.
I don't know if you can call Charlie Wilson Throwback, though.
He's so...
He's very current.
He's so fresh and so now.
He's legendary.
He's legendary.
I guess he's got a lot of longevity and history, too.
Right.
From the Gap Band, which is Throwback, to Charlie Wilson now.
That's right.
So, you're going to kick it with Charlie Wilson for Throwback Thursday?
Yes, indeed.
I know I'm tired today.
Did y'all watch the debates?
Of course I watched the debates. I was at this gala I had to host last night for the University Thursday. Yes, indeed. I know, I'm tired today. Did y'all watch the debates? Of course I watched the debates.
I was at this gala I had to host last night
for the University of the West Indies.
So I missed it, but I saw some of the highlights.
You seen some of the highlights?
On social media.
Now after the debate,
Blumbito, is he out of here?
Is it a wrap for him?
No.
Of course not.
Absolutely not.
You see, this morning I was watching the news
and saw one of his ads.
He had a bunch of black guys in the ad.
What were they doing?
They were supporting him.
Getting arrested?
Oh. No.
Well, I mean, the problem with Bloomberg
is he's just not good at conveying his BS
like the rest of those white folks on that stage.
That's all.
The rest of them just know how to convey
their BS a little bit better
because there's no way in hell
if I'm Mike Bloomberg,
I'm taking any flack about stopping Frist
from Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders
when Joe Biden wrote the 94 crime bill
and Bernie Sanders
voted for it.
Well, he did say
that everybody had
some questionable things
that they'd done in the past.
There would be nobody
left on stage
if they were to call
all that out.
More than questionable.
That's what I'm saying.
Like his prep team
failed him miserably
because I'm not taking
shots from them.
I'm not taking shots
about women either
because it's not like
Bernie Sanders' campaign
didn't get sued
for discrimination and racial discrimination and women
on his team had to sign NDAs just last year.
They was calling Joe Biden the creepy Uncle
Joe and women were coming out about him and his
inappropriate behavior. I wasn't taking none of that
if I was Mayor Bloomberg. But also when people
come at you like that, when a woman,
Elizabeth Warren, is coming at you, you can't just
pass the buck on, well, he did this.
I'm not talking about Elizabeth Warren. I'm talking about
the fact that when she was coming at Michael Warren. I'm talking about the fact... On your stuff. When she was coming at...
No, when she was coming
at Michael Bloomberg.
I'm talking about
Biden and Bernie
coming at Mike, too.
I said I'm not taking
no flack from them.
I would have took shots
at all of them.
But, you know,
I could tell he wasn't
well-prepared because
he was like,
yeah, you know,
I told a joke
and people were
uncomfortable about the joke.
I'm like...
It's the truth, though.
Listen, I'm not saying
that's the truth
because I don't know
what happened,
but that's what he's saying.
All I'm saying is... Just'm saying is just last year,
just last year Biden had women saying that he made them feel uncomfortable
and he was doing inappropriate stuff and they called his behavior uncomfortable.
I would not be taking none of that from Joe Biden at all.
Did anybody else have women sign NDAs?
Yes, Bernie's camp.
I can tell you.
Never mind
I don't know if that's public information
I don't know if that is either
Now also, we gotta send a rest in peace to Pop Smoke
Pop Smoke was killed yesterday morning
Right when we were getting off air
We reported the news
So rest in peace and condolences to his family
That was very, very sad
We will have more of that in front page news as well.
All right.
All right.
And what are we talking about next?
I'm sure everything y'all just talked about.
Yeah, there you go.
All right.
Let's get the show cracking.
Let's go.
D.J.
M.V.
Angela Yee.
Charlamagne Tha God.
We are the Breakfast Club.
Let's get in some front page news.
Lots to talk about.
Where we starting, Yee?
Well, we can talk about the Democratic debates that happened yesterday.
And Bloomberg had this was his first debate wasn't going so well for him.
A lot of the things that he had to address were sexism, misogynistic behavior at his company.
Also having people, women sign nondisclosure agreements, his opposition to Obamacare, his support for stop and frisk policing, offensive remarks, not releasing his tax returns.
Here is what Bloomberg had to say about the hostile workplace for women.
Former employees have claimed that your company was a hostile workplace for women.
When you were confronted about it, you admitted making sexually suggestive remarks, saying, quote, that's the way I grew up.
I have no tolerance for the kind of behavior that the Me Too movement has exposed.
And anybody that does anything wrong in our company, we investigate it.
And if it's appropriate, they're gone that day.
Hmm. All right.
Well, a lot of people thought Elizabeth Warren was very strong last night. And she from Bloomberg talking to him about his NDAs and he definitely seemed baffled.
He has gotten some number of women to sign nondisclosure agreements, both for sexual harassment and for gender discrimination in the workplace.
So, Mr. Mayor, are you willing to release all of those women from those nondisclosure agreements so we can hear their side of the story?
We have a very few nondisclosure agreements.
How many is that?
None of them accuse me of doing anything other than maybe they didn't like the joke I told.
And let me just and let me point out there's agreements between two parties that wanted to keep it quiet.
And that's up to them. They signed those agreements and we'll live with it.
I'm not comfortable with the fact that he doesn't own the fact that he did anything wrong.
He should fire his whole prep team, number one, because he just wasn't prepared for the questions that he knew he would be asked.
But I mean, he did he did admit he made inappropriate jokes. That's what he's being accused of.
He said jokes they didn't like. OK.
You know, that's not not even saying I do admit I made inappropriate jokes, but it accused of. He said jokes they didn't like. Okay. You know, that's not even saying
I do admit I made inappropriate jokes,
but it's just I made some jokes
they didn't like.
In other words,
maybe they're too sensitive.
But here's some more
of what he had to say about the NDA.
So wait, when you say a deception,
I just want to be clear.
Some is how many?
And when you say they signed them
and they wanted them,
if they wish now to speak out and tell their side of the story about what it is they allege, that's now OK with you?
You're releasing them on television tonight?
Senator?
Is that right?
Elizabeth Warren was very strong.
I just don't like the hypocrisy of Joe Biden, the hypocrisy of Bernie Sanders.
Bloomberg should have checked Biden and Bernie
on the 94 crime bill.
He should have just talked about all the money.
When he was talking that money talk,
he sounded like Birdman up there.
He should have talked about the 200 inner cities
he's giving money to.
He should have talked about his black agenda,
the Greenwood Initiative.
I don't know.
His prep team failed him horribly.
All right, and rest in peace again to Pop Smoke.
They are investigating still.
They're saying that his death was not a robbery gone wrong,
that it was targeted.
And they have surveillance video that supports that.
They have people who have seen that surveillance video footage,
and that was in Hollywood Hills.
They said four men were approaching the house around 4.30 a.m.
They sneak around the back,
and then they walk back up the side of the home to the front and you can see somebody walk in the back door there was
no camera on that back door the next time you see that man he's exiting through the front door of
the house at first people thought it was a robbery because earlier that day pops milk had posted a
photo and there were some gifts one of them had his home address on it. And the reason why they're saying that's not a home invasion robbery
is because they say that the person who was inside the house
did not take anything.
So given that he actually shot someone,
they said he didn't have time to grab any items and take anything.
So they don't feel it was a robbery.
They feel it was targeted.
I don't know anything about Pop Smoke.
Rest in peace to him.
I don't know what he was into, so I don't understand why somebody would want. They feel it was targeted. I don't know anything about Pop Smoke. Rest in peace to him. I don't know what he was into,
so I don't understand why somebody would want to target him in that way.
Was it just some jealousy, envy, hate?
Like, what was it?
I don't know.
I honestly don't know.
I don't think any of us know.
I honestly don't know.
I mean, I think he had a bright future.
I mean, his records were climbing the charts.
I thought he was a great artist.
Every time I seen him, he was nothing but respectful and nice.
I mean, it's just a sad thing, regardless of what it is.
If it was a robbery for some jewelry or whatever it was,
it's just a sad situation.
I just know it's sad if you come out of the hood of Brooklyn.
Where are you from?
Like, Canarsie or somewhere, right?
Canarsie, Brooklyn, yeah.
You come out of Brooklyn only to move to Hollywood Hills,
and your life is supposed to be on the up and up,
and then that happens?
Jesus Christ.
All right.
Well, again, our condolences to Pop Smoke's family, to Pop
Smoke's friends. Really tragic. Y'all keep back
in like age, not a blessing. I see
you out there, you know, you're all young, you're all fly,
you're all fresh. Trust me. When you
start hearing more and more stories like this, you start to
appreciate them birthdays, bro.
Stop lying about your age, goddammit. Okay, I'm
every bit of 41 and I want to be every bit of
71 and 81 and 91. Age is
a goddamn blessing and don't let nobody
tell you different.
Yeah, rest in peace
to that young man
and condolences to his family.
That man ain't get to see 21.
Can you imagine that?
No.
If you didn't get to see 21,
you wouldn't be who you are.
If I didn't get to see 21,
I wouldn't be who I am.
21?
You know how young 21 is?
Well, young man was 20 years old.
So sad, man.
He ain't get to see,
he ain't get to be old enough
to buy a drink legally.
Yep, somebody took that man's life.
All right, well, that is front page news.
And hopefully they catch those people, by the way,
those four people that were involved in this.
Get it off your chest.
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If you need to vent, hit us up now.
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Hello, who's this?
Yo, it's Zay from the Carolinas.
Zay, what's the matter, bro?
Zay from the Carolinas. Why you sound like you're hosting The Quiet Storm?
What's the matter?
To be real with your envy, I kind of just lied to the girls so I could get through to y'all.
I told her something about my girl got pregnant, but really, I'm just calling trying to get into a CIAA party y'all got.
I keep hearing about that CIAA party.
You're about to jinx yourself.
When is the CIAA party?
CIAA weekend, man.
We do it every Saturday.
We do it every Saturday of CIAA.
I didn't ask you that, sir.
I asked you when the date is.
Clearly, you don't know.
Okay, next Saturday.
Not this Saturday.
Next Saturday.
What time?
It's the 28th.
It's a day party and a night party.
Yes, he knows.
My homegirl asked me about that yesterday.
Okay, so why don't you want to pay to get in?
To be real with you, I've been trying to go to y'all parties every year.
I'm from Charlotte, but I'm not trying to be like one of these other black teens in Queens.
I got rent to pay. I ain't trying to stunt when I don't got it. I'm going to be honest with you. You'm from Charlotte, but I'm not trying to be like one of these other black teens in Queens. I got rent to pay.
I ain't trying to stunt when I don't got it.
You should stay home, bro.
I hate to discourage you from coming to our party, but if you got rent to pay, you need to stay your ass home.
You're going to be thirsty. The first is going to be right after that.
The first is like that Monday or Tuesday.
How are you going to pay for drinks and all that? You should just stay home, bro.
If you make it in, I'll buy you a drink.
But see, here's the thing, y'all.
I've been reading this book about mental health that you got.
Ha ha.
Let them know.
I'm trying to blow all my money in, you know what I mean?
Did you read the chapter about how I don't be in the clubs and stuff?
Did you read the chapter about how five or six years ago I made a conscious decision not to be in the clubs?
Did you read that chapter?
I ain't got that part.
Yeah, yeah.
Go read that chapter.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't think you should go broke.
Water would be like $3, $4, man. Just stay home. But I'm sure that he. Yeah. Yeah. If you ain't got, I don't think you should go, bro, because water would be like
three, four dollars, man.
You know,
just stay home.
But I'm sure
that he should be able
to come out.
I'm not saying it like that.
Last year, C-I-A-A.
I'm just saying your pockets
ain't like that,
so ain't no need for you
to be there.
You know what I'm saying?
I appreciate that.
I'll tell you what, though.
I will reach out to my guy, Chris,
and...
Hold on.
Let's get his name.
We're going to put you on the list.
See if he'll let you in
for five dollars.
Oh, with that giggle, we got to charge you $10.
With that giggle, nah, B.
He was good into that giggle, man.
That little giggle, nah.
Hello, who's this?
Hey, man, it's Javi.
Javi, what up?
Get it off your chest.
Yeah, man.
Yo, I'm just so sad to hear the fact about Pop Smoke, man.
I'm really just sending my condolences to his family. Yeah, man.
Yeah, that's terrible.
Mm-hmm. man. My daughter's a big pop, smokes fan, you know what I mean? She sit here, man,
like, not to make it any kind of funny,
but her favorite part about that man is
his ad-libs, how he growl.
Yeah. Yeah, man.
She sit here and be growling, man.
It's just so sad, man. It hurt her heart.
And it's like, man, she didn't even know
him, you know? Right. And it hurt him, so
I only know how his family really feel about the situation,
man. My condolences to everybody, man. I just hate seeing a young black man gunned down Right.
I just hate seeing a young black man gunned down for no goddamn reason.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, there's never a valid reason to do anything like that, bro.
Absolutely.
I don't even know how a person can wake up this morning knowing they just took somebody's life,
took them away from their family, and just go on about their day.
You just going to eat your cereal this morning like everything cool?
Mm.
Get it off your chest.
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Hello, who's this? Yo, this is Reckless
TV, man. How y'all doing? What's up, bro? What's going
on? Man, this is Reckless TV from
Instagram, and I just want to know y'all's opinion
because bye-bye on the shade room and everybody
reposted it. And shout out to my guy,
Critics of the Coach. I thank Charlamagne. You follow him
on IG, too? Yeah, that's my guy, Chris, man.
That's my dude from Virginia, man. He dope.
Yeah, man. That's my guy, man. What's
y'all opinion? Who had the better movies? Just awful opinion. Not facts. Not, you Virginia, man. He dope. Yeah, man, that's my guy, man. What's y'all opinion? Who had the better movie?
Just awful opinion,
not facts,
not, you know, sales.
Bow Wow or Nick Cannon?
Which movie?
Just do it.
You got to go on my page,
Reckless TV,
or Critics of the Culture,
you'll see the meme.
Or you can go to Shade Room
and you'll see the meme.
Yeah, I saw...
Did Bow Wow weigh in on that?
Bow Wow said it was him,
of course.
I mean, Like Mike was a big movie, but Drumline was a big movie.
I'm thinking Drumline, man.
Yeah, Drumline is one that I like.
I mean, I can't speak for anything else.
Bow Wow had another movie I liked.
Like Mike was dope.
But it was with Teyana Taylor when she kept going,
Bye, man.
But I don't think it was in Drumline.
Lottery ticket.
And also, before y'all hang up on me, go follow Reckless TV
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Hello, who's this? Wow.
We said it seven times, man.
We said it seven times.
We get it.
Salute to Critics of the Culture, though. My guy, Chris.
Me and Chris just wrote a comic for Marvel together, man.
That's dope. Yo, what up, bro?
Yo, what's good? This is Terry's brother from Chicago.
Hey, what's up, bro? You a comedian?
Yeah, and you know what? I got
hands down the greatest
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and all you got to do is just go on there,
just type in my name, Perrys Radliff, P-A-R-E-S.
Hello, who's this?
Why do you keep hanging up on people?
Yo, that's disrespectful. Stop doing that.
Don't nobody hang up on you when you're promoting Flippin' New Jersey.
I don't promote. I do it on my Instagram.
Well, whatever. Don't do that.
I do it on my Instagram.
Let them people get their stuff off.
My Instagram. Let the man get it off. That's not your Instagram. You don't promote. I do it on my Instagram. Well, whatever. Don't do that. I do it on my Instagram. Let them people get their stuff off. My Instagram. Let the
man get it off. That's not your Instagram. You don't
own that app. Hello. What if the
owner of Instagram cuts you off every time you say
flipping the jersey and post it, Caesar?
Hi. How are you?
Caesar loves a lot of weight.
He can fit in the box now. You see there's a lot
going on up here. They're not even letting you talk.
Hello. Good morning, Teresa. I'm just calling from
Barbados. I already won. Big up my girl Rihanna. Today is her birthday. you talk. Hello, good morning, Teresa. I'm calling from Barbados. I already want
my girl Rihanna.
Today is her birthday.
Happy birthday, Rihanna.
Happy birthday.
Blessings.
Today and forever.
Okay.
All right.
Have a good one.
You ain't hang up on Rihanna.
Why you ain't hang up on her
and shouting out
Rihanna birthday?
Because she done
shouting out
business 17 times.
Shout out to the
Beijing Queen, Rihanna.
How do we know
happy birthday, Rihanna
on our website?
DiscusyNy.com.
Shut up. Hello? Hello.
Hey, Natasha, good morning.
Get it off your chest.
I would like to give a shout out to Mr. Seafood.
It's the best seafood in South
Carolina straight out of Monk's Corner.
Another shout out. Mr. Seafood.
You want to hear talk, Envy?
They have a location in Columbia,
South Carolina. Opened one up in Viewsburg. And they have one location in Columbia, South Carolina, opening one up in Viewsburg,
and they have one located in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Oh, you're talking about Kevin, Kevin Scott.
Yes, sir.
Yeah, salute to Kevin Scott.
I've never been there, but I keep hearing about it.
Salute to Kevin, my man, Keith.
I'm on his corner, 843, all day.
And if you guys would go to their Facebook page,
it's Mr. Seafood, number one.
They're on Instagram and Facebook and like their stuff. That would be awesome. I've Facebook page, Mr. Seafood, number one, they're on Instagram and Facebook
and like their stuff.
That would be awesome.
I've never been to Mr. Seafood.
I went there when I was home this weekend in Monce Corner.
On a Monday, I went to Atlanta Seafood.
That's why I had Mayor Pete at a couple weeks ago.
We need to do a segment called Advertise Segment
where people just call up and they can just advertise.
Just advertise whatever they want to advertise.
Well, I don't think we should do that.
That's what this turned into.
I thought it was getting off their chest. If they had a problem or a situation they just wanted to freely Well, I don't think we should do that. That's what this turned into. I thought it was getting off their chest if they had
a problem or a situation they just wanted to freely
discuss. I respect it. I thought that's what it was about.
I get tired of y'all calling up here talking about nonsense.
Shout your businesses out. Take advantage
of these white men's airwaves. Who abouts with those segment calls? Shout your businesses
out. When people get a chance, they can just shout this stuff out.
I thought it was a segment if somebody's going through
something, they want to spread some positivity,
they just had a birthday. The sales team downstairs
will have a fit
if we ever said, hey, free advertising
for five minutes, okay? Hello, who's this?
Yeah, this is Kevin. Kevin, what up?
Get it off your chest, bro. How you doing? Good morning,
y'all. I'm a big fan of y'all.
DJ, I wanted to ask you,
I'm currently homeless right now, but I just wanted to know
if you own any property in Virginia
that I can rent. I currently
don't own any properties in Virginia, sir. I'm. I currently don't own any properties in Virginia, sir.
I'm so sorry.
Do you have a house in Virginia?
Do I have a house in Virginia?
No.
Okay.
I do not.
I do not own a house in Virginia.
Hey, Charlamagne, I'm a big fan, too.
My girl's a big fan of you.
Her name's Ramona.
I just wanted to shout her out real quick, too.
Tell Ramona I said peace, and I appreciate her.
She met you like a couple of months ago at the airport.
She went to DCA.
All she was talking about was you
when she came home. Oh, I respect that, man.
Thank you, my brother. Tell her I said thank you very much.
And to you, I'm a big fan, too. Thank you.
You listen to lip service all the time. I appreciate
it. Learn something on there. Try something
new. Thank you, brother. Hello, who's this?
James from Brooklyn. Hey, what's up, bro?
Get off your chest.
Hey, how you doing? First of all,
I don't appreciate how Charlemagne on this Black History Month
came at you with that N-word this morning.
I don't appreciate it.
He didn't check himself.
Yeah, he called me a n***a real hard, right?
That was a hard n***a.
That's so disrespectful, brother.
So I can't.
He's so smart and intelligent, that individual.
How he used that terminology, that's very disrespectful.
Can I do it after Black History Month?
Listen, homie,
I don't want to talk to you, child of man, anyway.
Did you just n***a please me?
The Wade-Wade situation.
If you don't intervene in something that someone expressed, how you
going to get to the bottom of the situation? We understand it's a bad
situation, but you know what? That's his son.
But we have to intervene in it for the fact
that he's a celebrity, and
this is what we do. No, you don't. No, you don't.
No, you don't.
You don't have to intervene on that man's life.
You don't have to intervene on that man's life.
That ain't your child.
Is anybody intervening with you and how you raise your kids?
No, I understand what you're saying, Shala, man.
But if it's out there in the public, you say things about it.
It's not right what Bootsy said.
It's not your favorite part of the time. But you intervene in certain things, you say things about it. It's not right what Bush has said at the same present time, but
you intervene in certain things, man,
and express yourself. I don't think you're using the right
word. Maybe just say comment. I don't think
intervene is the right word. Right, comment.
That's proper. That's proper. That's most proper.
Yeah, exactly. God bless you all.
Hey, you done?
All right, Tyler, man. I appreciate you.
Goodness, man. That is crazy, man.agne. I appreciate you. Goodness gracious.
Y'all are crazy, man.
Get it off your chest.
800-585-1051.
If you need to vent, hit us up now.
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Good morning.
Eve, we got rumors on the way?
Yes, we are going to be talking about a brand that's relaunching.
There was some port up here.
I know Charlamagne bought some of this brand,
so maybe he wants to support this relaunch.
Also, every time a festival seems like it might not go well, it gets compared to the Fyre Festival.
We'll tell you what festival is getting that treatment now.
Damn it, man.
All right, Mr. Breakfast Club, good morning.
This is the Rumor Report with Angela Yee.
Rumor has it.
On the Breakfast Club.
So listen up.
So Oprah interviewed Tracee Ellis Ross over the weekend at Dallas' American Airlines Center,
and that's for her 2020 Vision Tour that she's been doing with Weight Watchers.
She was at the Barclays, too, prior to that.
And amongst the things they discussed was Tracy Ellis Ross being 47 years old and not married.
I, like many of us, was taught to grow up dreaming of my wedding, not of my life.
And also, waiting to be chosen.
Well, here's the thing.
I'm the chooser.
And I can choose to get married if I want to, but in the meantime, I am choicefully single.
Happily, gloriously single.
And I do wish there were more examples.
So many people ask the question
have you ever thought about having children my child gave my life meaning I'm like are you saying
my life is not meaningful now Oprah of course is not married to Stedman either and she always talks
about that and how she hasn't wanted to get married to Stedman just by her own choice all
right now other things that Tracy Ellis Ross discussed was the fact that she can sing, but she never really wanted to sing because, of course, her mom is Diana Ross.
About eight, nine months ago, a year ago, I guess it is now, a movie came along to sing.
I said yes.
Can you tell how hard it is for me to talk about this?
I'm sweating right now, first of all.
And you said yes, even though you were scared. Can you tell how hard it is for me to talk about this? I'm sweating right now, first of all.
And you said yes, even though you were scared. Even though I was terrified.
Even though I'd never sang publicly.
Even though every time, this makes me cry,
every time there was a moment to sing with other people,
I would make it funny.
Because that way people wouldn't listen with your Diana Ross' kid ear.
I don't even get mad at the young people that's in this room and in this studio.
I just realize that they're young. Because when I hear things like, I didn't know Tracee Ellis Ross was Diana Ross' kid year. I don't even get mad at the young people that's in this room and in this studio. I just realize that they're young.
Because when I hear things like, I didn't know Tracee Ellis Ross was Diana Ross' daughter.
You said that?
That's what you were saying?
I knew.
You didn't know that for real?
I had no idea.
He's 20.
Well, he's young.
He's 20.
How old are you, Dramos?
I'm not 20.
I had no idea.
I knew.
All right.
Well, the name of the movie that she's in where she's singing is called The High Note
and it's coming out in May.
Goodness gracious.
It's the first time she's ever sang publicly.
And she also discusses singing for her mom, Diana Ross, for the first time.
I'm not supposed to sound like my mom.
I'm never supposed, I'm not even supposed to be her.
I can't fill her shoes.
No one can fill her shoes.
So I got her in the car and the the first note happened, and she, like, pushed my arm.
And then she turned to me, and her face was covered in tears.
And she said, finally.
I'm going to tell you something, though.
Yeah, I wouldn't want to be a singer either if my mother was Diana Ross.
Because, you know, the bar is set so high.
Absolutely.
You know what I mean?
And Tracee Ellis Ross, she actually achieved great success
just going her own lane through acting.
Right, but she can sing, so that's pretty dope
though, that she's doing it now.
Alright, LeVar Ball has announced that
Big Baller Brand is relaunching
back and better than ever.
If you see his post, it says
Big Baller Brand is back. The wait is over.
10% discount on every item.
You all knew it was just a matter of time. We are just getting started. Thank you to our Big Baller Brand is back. The wait is over. 10% discount on every item. You all knew it was just a matter of time.
We are just getting started. Thank you
to our Big Baller Brand fans for your
support. Drop on the clues, my fellow ball ball.
Why y'all laughing at me?
What y'all hating on that man for?
I think it's going to do well. You got to think his son
is in New Orleans, balling.
His next son is going to be top three.
Top three in the draft.
They saying number one.
I don't know why y'all,
first of all,
I don't know why y'all
laughing at a person
that's starting a business.
Who's laughing?
Steve, the cameraman.
Oh, I was like,
who is laughing?
Yeah, so I just want to
simply say that sometimes,
you know,
I would rather,
you know,
execute and fail
than fail to execute.
How many people in this room
that were laughing
have even started a business?
I don't know who is,
I said just Steve. John Moss put his hand up. John Moss started a business? I don't know who it was. So just Steve.
John Moss put his hand up.
John Moss.
He has started a business.
Okay, good job.
No, but I think that company's going to do very well.
Well, just FYI, if you look on the website, you can see LiAngelo and LaVar on the homepage.
And there's 48 new items that are being offered.
So if you want to do that, there's women's clothing on there.
There's also a youth line as well.
There's t-shirts for kids that say I will be a big baller
when I grow up. I'm definitely buying me some. I bought
some slides last time
they had the big baller brand stuff out there
because I support black business. Alright and there's a
festival called Lovers and Friends coming to LA
and there was some drama behind
this but apparently this festival is
created by Snoop and the producers
of Coachella, Lovers and Friends
and it has a stacked lineup.
Lauryn Hill, Usher, Ludacris,
Lil Jon, TLC, Jhene Aiko,
Summer Walker, Meg Thee Stallion,
Sean Paul, Nelly T, Payne,
Brandi, Monica, SWV,
Ja Rule, Fat Joe, so many people,
Foxy, Trina, Eve, Genuine,
Twista, Cameron.
This is going to be crazy.
Amory, Tweet, Mario, 112.
And only thing is that there were some people
that were on this that said
that they're not really on the show.
For instance, Mason Twista both denied
they were taking part,
but then Twista doubled back and said,
locked and loaded, playing all the hits you dig.
After first saying he knew nothing of it.
Lil' Kim said the same thing.
Lil' Kim, yes, said the same thing,
but sources inside her camp say
she is on board and she will be there.
There was some miscommunication. Yeah, she reposted and is on board and she will be there. There was some miscommunication.
Yeah, she reposted and said, yeah, I will be there.
Right.
So apparently, I guess maybe, you know, management might not tell the artists what's happening.
And then they see this and they had no idea.
Who knows?
But it is happening.
So we'll see.
I'm happy for Snoop too.
At first people were saying like, is this like the Fyre Festival?
But now we have more details.
No, I'm happy for Snoop too.
Whatever I can do to support Uncle Snoop, he got it.
All right.
Well, I'm Angela Yee, and that is your rumor report.
All right.
Thank you, Miss Yee.
Now, front page news when we come back, what are we talking about?
Yes, we are going to talk about Andrew Yang.
What's he doing now that he's dropped out of the presidential race?
We'll tell you he's got a job already.
All right.
We'll get into that next.
Keep it locked.
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Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God.
We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get some front page news.
Where we starting with Yee?
Well, yesterday was the debate, the Democratic debate in Las Vegas.
Of course, everybody was coming for Bloomberg. This was his first time on the stage.
Some of the things that were discussed about him, they were talking about him spending all that money and hiding behind his TV ads, according
to Klobuchar.
Joe Biden talked about him opposing Obamacare.
Bernie Sanders attacked his support for stop and frisk policing.
And Pete Buttigieg called him a billionaire who thinks that money ought to be the root
of all power.
In addition to that barrage, Amy Klobuchar and Buttigieg had a back and forth about her forgetting the name of the president of Mexico.
Here's what happened.
I don't think that that momentary forgetfulness actually reflects what I know about Mexico and how much I care about it.
And I first want to say greetings to President López Obrador.
But you're staking your candidacy on your Washington experience.
You're on the committee that oversees border security.
You're on the committee that does trade.
You're literally part of the committee that's overseeing these things.
And we're not able to speak to literally the first thing about the politics of the country to ourselves.
Are you trying to say that I'm dumb?
See, it don't get no more white woman than that.
Amy Klobuchar is what happens when a white woman
gets three infinity stones.
Like, she straight up put words in Mayor Pete's mouth.
I've seen that kind of energy before.
You walk by a white woman minding your business.
Did you just whistle at me?
Next thing you know, you're getting attacked
by a bunch of white men beating up.
You know what I mean?
Like, no, that was terrible.
Why would she do that?
She went too far.
Well, Elizabeth Warren
came to her defense
and said, it's not right.
I understand she forgot a name.
It happens.
It happens to everyone
on this stage.
What's not right?
And then Joe Biden said,
I'm the only one
who knows this man
and met with him
referring to Mexico's president.
But you didn't say his name, Joe.
Okay?
He probably couldn't remember
his name either in that moment.
He, oh yeah, he didn't.
Amy Klobuchar definitely
reminded me of Pete of why he would never be attracted to a woman on that stage last night.
All right, the NFL is reportedly considering adding two more playoff teams as part of the new CBA.
They're saying that they could do that, and I guess, what's the reason for that?
They've been talking about this for quite some time.
They said add two more teams, one from each conference,
to postseason play starting next season.
So would that be no wild card?
It would still be a wild card, but they'll just add one more.
They'll add one more from the NFC, one more from the AFC.
So just another week of playing?
Is that what they're pretty much saying?
Bringing some more money?
That would be like the wild, wild card.
The wilder card, would you call it?
I guess that's just another week of football.
Wild, wild card.
The 17-game regular season. That could work. Wild, wild card. The wilder card. What do you call it? I guess it's another week of football. Wild, wild card. 17 game regular season.
Ooh, that could work.
Wild, wild card.
You know what I mean?
All right.
Andrew Yang has a new job now that he's no longer in this Democratic race for president.
And now he is joining CNN as a political commentator.
What'd you guys think?
I saw him last night.
I think that's a genius move.
Andrew Yang has a great social media following.
Every time he's on TV, he seems to trend. And he's got a POV that people like. I think it's a great,. Andrew Yang has a great social media following. Every time he's on TV, he seems to trend.
And he's got a POV that people like.
I think it's a great, great choice from CNN's part.
Well, he tweeted out, I'm excited to join CNN to help shed light on the election and the candidates' experiences.
Learned a lot these past months, and I'm glad to contribute to the public discussion.
I think that'll add a lot.
All right.
Well, I'm Angela Yee, and that is your Front Page News.
All right.
Thank you, Ms. Yee.
Now, when we come back, we have
a legend and OG that's going to be joining
us. It's Throwback Thursday and we have
Charlie Wilson here. The OG.
OG, lead singer of the Gap
Band. He's done songs with
Snoop, with Kanye,
with so many different people. He has a new single out right now
with Bruno Mars. Bruno Mars produced it.
So we're going to kick it with Charlie Wilson. All right.
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Morning, everybody.
It's DJ, MV, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy.
We are The Breakfast Club.
We got a special guest in the building.
A whole legend.
God damn it.
Charlie Wilson.
That's right.
Welcome, sir.
Uncle Charlie's here.
Thank you, man.
Uncle Charlie.
What's up, my brother?
God damn it. Man, I hope I look good. A whole legend. Thank you, man. Uncle Charlie. What's up, my brother? God damn it.
Man, I hope I look good.
A whole legend.
Thank you, man.
Not a quarter, not a half.
A whole legend.
A whole legend.
Yeah.
I'm still whole.
I've been through a lot of shit.
I can't believe I'm still put together.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's been rough through my life, but I'm good.
Man, I can't wait till I...
I hope I look as good as you when I'm...
What you, 67?
67.
Yeah, man.
God damn, Charlie. This last week I turned... Happy birthday as good as you when I'm what you 67. Yeah, man
Last week I turned happy birthday
You know
If you just you know, if you start getting ball, just sprinkle some of that s*** on there.
Be done with it.
Sprinkle what?
Give us the secret.
What you sprinkling on there?
Topics, if you need it.
Topics, Mickey?
Man, you can make a new hairline.
I might get out in front right now with sprinkling something on your hair.
Oh, no, I don't want that.
No, no, no.
Emby got that.
I definitely don't want that.
Mine is real.
No, it's not.
It's natural.
All berries and juices.
Berries and juices.
There you go.
It's transplanted from the back of his head to the back.
Now, how do you have so much energy at 67?
I've seen you perform in Bermuda.
Aruba. It was Aruba. Aruba. And you killed it.
And I was like, how does he still have all that energy?
Man, I didn't get a chance to finish doing
what I was doing when I was
in my 30s, and I was just pissed off
about that for so many years, and so I don't know how
to perform one way, and that's just that way.
What do you mean you say you didn't get to finish?
Well, I mean, You know, everything just turned
sour and so I didn't get a chance to really
finish and get where I was trying to go at that time.
And so when I
asked God for what I needed and what I
wanted in life, when he gave me the
opportunity to go get that again,
I just went hard. I've just been going hard ever since.
And everybody's like, how in the hell are you
doing what you're doing? It's because
I'm ready to do it the right way this time.
Was it bad business deals?
Man, I was just high.
You was high.
You was f***ing drugged.
I was drugged out.
Thugged out everything you want to say.
I ended up sleeping under parked cars and parked trucks.
And when I got up, asked God, can I get me, send me somebody to help me get out here.
And I was going, went to a liquor store. But when I get me, send me somebody to help me get out here. And I was going,
went to a liquor store.
But when I came out, I seen my cousin.
And we used to get high together.
But she was your color.
And she was yellow.
She was your color.
But when we was getting high,
her skin was black patchy marks everywhere.
Yeah, that discoloration.
Yeah, so, you know.
No, for real. That used to happen to me when I used to drink a lot. Yeah. Get themy marks everywhere. Yeah, that discoloration. Yeah, so you know. No, for real. That used to happen to me
when I used to drink a lot. Yeah. Get them dog marks
everywhere. So when I seen her,
she was high yell. I said,
damn, cuz, get me hit. She's like,
cuz. I saw them tears rolling.
I said, what's wrong with you? She said, you dying.
I said, no, I'm not. I didn't weigh
about 115 pounds.
Yes, you are, cuz. You gotta come on out
of this. I was like, come on, cuz.
What you talking about? I said, you look good.
I've been sober for three years.
I said, three years? It's been that long?
She said, where you been? I said, I've been
out here. Where was your family
at that time? Your brothers?
Your parents? You just were...
My mom, they lived
in Oklahoma, so I was in Los Angeles
on the streets. But, you know, you don't want to go on the mama with that, man. You know, so I was in Los Angeles on the streets.
But, you know, you don't want to go on the mama with that, man.
You know, you're a crackhead.
You got to do it yourself.
And so when I saw her, she said, I've been sober for three years.
She said, let me just take you to the rehab where I went, and I'm teaching out there.
So I promised I would let her do it, and I've been sober ever since.
That was God sending an angel to the church.
That's 25 years ago.
Wow.
With no relapses and none of that, no turnarounds.
Was it the industry that turned you out?
Because I always heard a rumor that Total Experience Records
used to pay their artists in cocaine.
That's what I used to hear.
They used to pay their artists in cocaine.
No, he didn't do that.
But it could have been a better situation for me.
But I handed my situation over to basically like family members.
Taking care of everybody else before you take care of yourself.
Yeah.
And so I was left with nothing.
Man.
So that took you into like a depression maybe?
Well, yeah.
I mean, you know, and in the streets, you know, it was always gangsters, pimps, and dope dealers.
And so they all just took care of whatever I needed.
They would just give it to me.
Because everybody knew you.
Yeah, so it wasn't like I spent all my money on it.
Because I never had to spend no money on no drugs.
You know, it just ended up taking me out the game, period.
Damn.
But you was a crackhead crackhead.
Oh, man.
I snorted, but after a while, man, I had a hole in my nose.
Wow.
Damn.
Really?
You burned a hole in your nose?
Oh, yeah.
That's when the **** was good.
That was their raw and cut ****.
So when they chopping their bag up, it was just a hunk.
Yeah.
Goodness gracious.
There you go.
They used to make you sing for it or nothing?
I ain't doing that kind of work.
What do you think I am?
I'm just saying, you're not in here.
No, I ain't doing that.
You think he's catered?
Hell no, I ain't finna do that.
No, man.
Come on, do one of them hoo-wees for me, mother******.
Hoo-wee.
You want me to do this?
You know what I'm saying?
No, I ain't do that ****.
But it was like, where you been, Charlie?
I would always say, I've been in the studio all night, man.
He said, come on in here, man.
Take a shower or something.
You don't look that good.
Here, I got some **** on the table in there for you.
Go take a shower and then leave when you want to.
Just lock the door.
And it'd be like that.
Man.
But I was sleeping on the side of the building, behind the bushes, or sleeping under the U-Haul
trucks that was in the parking lot.
What about your old music industry friends?
They didn't...
Man, come on, man.
Nobody want to **** with you when you're looking like that.
What about your brothers?
Because they were in the group with you in the Gap Band.
Let's go back.
Let's tell the history of Charlie Wilson.
People who don't know.
I'm sure there's some youngins that might not know.
Legendary group, the Gap Band.
Now, how did you get your start in the music industry?
And for people that don't know who Charlie Wilson is, let's talk about that.
Well, first of all, I was a young buck.
Me and my friends, we played music.
So before teenage years, we had a band.
And we called ourselves the GT, Carver GTs or something like that.
We were young, about 12 years old.
So we used to play in the YMCA on Wednesdays for the classmates.
And like about after a month, it was just like, it was more teachers than students.
Because see, we played like grown people.
We was 12 years old.
Right.
And so I became first name basis
with the teachers. And so, you know, women,
you know what happened after that.
You know, I'm 12.
That female teacher's probably about 22.
I'm already living a grown life
sort of like. You knocking off the teachers
at that age? That's sick. Come on, man.
I mean, listen, that's called, we know that,
we know now that's molestation. Yeah, that's what it is. But, man. I mean, listen, that's called, we know now that's molestation.
Yeah, that's what it is.
But back then...
I mean, you didn't know.
You didn't know
the thing that was
going to be that,
you know, whatever.
Started for me
at eight years old
with a 20-something-year-old one.
Yeah, I mean, it's like,
you know,
I was hanging out
with grown people, though.
What's the teacher's name?
Let's meet Tua real quick.
What's her name?
No.
So how did the
Gap Band get created?
So I was
That band that we had
We got a little old
We started playing Happy Hours
Two years later
We were about 14 or 15
And then the place is packed
And so this band was across the street
My oldest brother was in that band
And they was like
Man who's across the street?
They said your little brother over there man
He over there turning it out
And so he's like
Man you need to get out
of this band.
And I was like,
no, I don't.
He said,
yes, you do.
I'm going to tell
mama you in here then.
I'm going to tell
mama you in here
playing.
He said,
you over at
Dino's house,
you know,
sleeping,
you know,
staying all night
with each other
on the weekends.
I was like,
hey.
I said,
yeah,
we back and forth
with mama's over
his house,
back at our house.
He said,
no,
you've been playing here because I've been hearing about it. He said, no, you've been playing here, because I've been hearing
about it. I said, anyway, long story
short, after we got to high
school, I decided, you know, he was
like, man, you got to get out this band, man.
Come get in this band while I'm in. I was like,
and we was getting ready to graduate. We were trying
to figure out what college we was going to. Everybody was going to
different colleges, and I said, okay.
His band was already called The Gap Band? It wasn't The Gap Band
at that time, but it was like, we ended up
calling it that. The Greenwood, Archer,
and Pine Street Band. Alright, we got more
with Charlie Wilson when we come back. He's
an OG, a legend in the game.
He has a new single out right now,
and we're going to talk to him some more when we come back. It's The Breakfast
Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody.
It's DJ Envy, Angela
Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast
Club. We're still kicking it with OG legend Charlie Wilson.
You might know him from the group The Gap Band.
Charlamagne?
I was going to ask you what's the cultural significance of the group name The Gap Band.
I was going to ask you what does that mean?
Greenwood, Archer, and Pine Street Band.
And that's what it was.
Greenwood was where Black Wall Street was.
All rich black people, multimillionaires, had their own bus companies, had their own grocery stores, had their own black owned banks.
That's right.
Everything there.
And then the white man came and blew it all up.
Burned it up.
Because this black dude and this white chick was having sex, going with each other.
But that was really just in the 20s.
And they was in the same building, they come
down the elevator together and open up
on that ground floor and all them white people
was there, so she come out screaming.
You rate me? Well, she just come out screaming,
so they just grabbed him and dragged him, so,
cause they like, you know you ain't supposed to be in no elevator
with no white woman. So they couldn't say
that they had been doing anything,
so they just beat him and
then they started burning things.
And then they started, the police was knocking on doors,
and if black people answered the door, they'd shoot them, kill them, yeah.
So they're trying to wipe out all of North Tulsa.
That's such an important story that I feel like still hasn't been told the right way.
I think people need to see that.
They kind of flirted with it in the HBO show, The Watchmen.
But it's like, yo, people need to see that,
because black people have built these great communities
but they've been snatched away from us.
Absolutely.
The white community was really mad
at this black community
because they had everything,
didn't need anything,
they didn't have to come out of that community for nothing.
And they was mad because
the black people wouldn't go
and work for them anymore because they had it all. nothing. And they was mad because the black people wouldn't go and
work for them anymore.
They had it all. Is that story told in Tulsa a lot?
Because I always wondered what was taught to kids growing up
in Tulsa to teach them the importance of
having their own. Basically,
it was not supposed to be
talked about at all. So the people,
the blacks that lived long said,
don't ever bring that up. Ever.
Because if the white police officers, if you said bring that up. Ever. Because if the
white police officers, if you said, tell me
what happened, and if they started talking
about what happened, then they'd just kill them.
Wow. Yeah. What has kept the
Gabban from being seen as one of the upper
echelon groups in R&D, you think?
You're a product of
your environment, your association with people.
See, if you, let me just say this, if you're
a known pimp, or if you're
a known drug dealer, and you go
get these kids over here, and you're trying
to promote them, then nobody's going to hardly mess
with you. Or if you're gangbanging, nobody
want to be bothered with that. So,
probably not going to push you over here with it.
It's going to be like, no, I don't want
to have nothing to do with that. This dude's crazy.
Never know what he's going to do.
So, we just,
we did it the best way
we could do.
Do you know how big
We Can Make It Alright
was for DJ?
Oh, yeah.
You know,
that was my wedding song.
Really?
Yeah.
We Can Make It Alright.
The acapella.
Yeah.
We've had a shout
of trouble.
Many more
than others.
Well,
who else told me that?
With a little love and understanding.
Woo!
We can climb, climb in the mountains.
But as long as it's you and me, girl.
Man, that's God, man.
There is nothing he can do.
That's not God.
That's the absence of God.
When you sing, that's God.
That's God. First night we kiss. That's the absence of God. When you sing, that's God. That's God.
First night we kiss.
That's my guy.
I knew it would work forever.
I'm about to call my wife right now.
No, no, he really will, too.
Next thing you know.
Damn.
How many times do people call you to do private singing things for Valentine's and stuff?
Oh, man.
They call a lot, but they don't have enough.
They don't have enough.
They don't have enough money.
No, they don't have enough.
So we just kindly just turn them down. My manager over there, he don't have enough. They don't have enough. They don't have enough money. No, they don't have enough. So we just kindly
just turn them down.
Basically,
my manager over there,
he don't say,
you don't have enough money.
He say,
I'm sorry,
we're busy right now.
We can't do it.
There's got to be
at least one person
that paid Charlie Wilson
to come sing for him.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, I did go.
Yeah.
I've done it.
Who?
Magic.
I played for Magic Johnson.
Yeah.
I played for the Kardashians.
Chris.
Chris Jenner. Michael Jordan. Just played for the Kardashians. Chris. Chris Jenner.
Michael Jordan.
Just at the house.
No, no.
He had his function.
Yeah.
But you know, Magic Johnson is a big fan.
I'm a big fan.
Michael Jordan is a big fan.
I'm a big fan of his.
And so it was like, it's different.
Right.
I was in the car.
They parked in front of a store.
And two chicks got up. My wife was in the car. They parked in front of the store. And two chicks got up.
My wife was in the store.
And I was playing one of my songs I had been working on.
And it had just came out.
So I was listening to that to see if how I can remix it.
I was just listening in the car.
So she got up.
She said, she opened up the door and let her sister out.
And she closed up.
She looked over there.
And I turned the music up.
She said, hey, who are you?
Why are you playing that
so many times?
I said,
I'm trying to make sure
I learn my lyrics.
Yeah, right.
Like you some damn
Charlie Wilson.
You ain't no goddamn
Charlie Wilson.
Wow.
So,
I said,
no.
I said,
I am.
I am,
but she said,
man,
you know what?
She said,
well, where your wife at? I said, she in there. She's like, yeah, no. I said, I am. I am. But she said, man, you know what? She said, well, where your wife at?
I said, she in there.
She said, yeah, right.
And then her sister came out screaming with my wife.
And I said, that my wife here?
And she said, yes, she's still screaming.
And then she said, I'm getting married.
My daddy got the money.
Trust me.
I just got you to play for my wedding.
But at that time, I was like, you know what?
I'm not going to turn into the damn wedding singer, that's for sure.
You ain't do it.
You do it, boy.
Mitch for something or something like that.
You got the money.
Yeah.
That's what I'm saying.
You didn't do it.
You got the money, huh?
You didn't do it.
Man, I wrote it down.
And by that time, my manager done booked some shows.
And we booked by then.
Yeah.
How do you decide who you want to work with?
Because a lot of these artists now want to work with Charlie Wilson so badly.
Obviously, you know, you and Bruno Mars,
Tyler, the creator.
Yes.
We know you have a great relationship with Snoop.
But how do you decide?
Because I'm sure there's artists that are doing really well,
putting up those numbers,
but it has to go on brand with what it is that you do too.
They call, I've seen a few of is that you do, too. They called.
I seen a few of them at the Grammy Awards.
I was getting up at the same time,
the superstar rapper and his superstar wife.
He's like, damn, I'm standing in front of Charlie Wilson.
God damn, man.
Can I get some of that?
You know, just like a verse or a hook.
I was like, yeah, man.
It don't matter.
You and your wife can come on.
We can do it.
But I can't oblige everybody, you know, because I'm so busy.
You're talking about Jay-Z and Beyonce, right?
You're trying to guess, and I ain't going to tell you that.
You're talking about superstar rapping and superstar way.
There's a bunch of them out there.
I was going to go with Kanye.
Oh, Kanye, maybe?
There's a bunch of them.
I've always worked with Kanye, but I'm just saying it could be.
Yeah, you know what I'm saying? I wouldn't have said. I would always worked with Kanye, but I'm just saying, it could be, yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
I wouldn't ever say it.
I would love to work
with Offset and Cardi B.
Don't play.
Offset, Cardi,
make that happen now.
Come on now.
Yeah, so it's...
Cardi got an album
coming out soon.
She sure does.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I got one coming out soon, too.
Your album, there we go.
You know what I'm saying?
I know you probably
had that little problem doing what you do when sometimes you try to go on the road with somebody what I'm saying? I know you probably had that little problem
doing what you do
when sometimes you try
to go on the road
with somebody.
I treat you right,
give you the number
you're looking for.
You know what I'm saying?
Because me and you
are going to set
the building on fire.
All right, we got more
with Charlie Wilson
when we come back.
Now, if you don't know
about Charlie Wilson,
you might know some
of his classic records.
So we're going to do
a mini mix.
All right?
It's going to be some records
that you heard and be like, oh, that was Charlie Wilson? Yes, that's what we're going to do right now mix. All right? It's going to be some records that you heard and be like,
oh, that was Charlie Wilson?
Yes, that's what we're going to do right now.
Your favorite Charlie Wilson joins us at the Breakfast Club.
Good morning.
That was a Charlie Wilson mini mix.
The OG, the legend is here for Throwback Thursday.
Charlie Wilson's in the building.
Charlamagne?
Didn't Snoop almost make you relapse one time?
I heard a story about that.
He was in the studio smoking weed.
No, no, I wasn't a weed smoker anyway.
Snoop Dogg couldn't make me relapse. It was your wife that was like, we ain't doing that. He was in the studio smoking weed. No, no. I wasn't a weed smoker anyway. Snoop Dogg couldn't make me relapse.
It was your wife that was like, we ain't doing that.
I wanted to do some work with Snoop. It was the first
time I had seen him since he said he saw me.
And she put an A before S.
Anything. So a Snoop.
A Snoop? A Snoop.
So they was all
smoking. Tupac. Everybody was in there smoking.
And so Snoop came
and man, they was like fired up. She's like,
Snoop, I'm sorry.
Could you put that out?
He was like,
excuse me?
She said, you gotta put that out. My husband
can't come in there with you smoking out.
He said, what?
She said, I'm gonna take him home then.
He said, no, no, no, no.
That's okay. She said, he's clean and sober.
That must have been like my first year or second year.
You should have seen him putting it out, man.
He said, man, y'all can put that shit out.
I don't care coming in here if y'all put that shit out.
So everybody put it out.
I went in there and did the songs.
What year was this?
96, 97.
Tupac wasn't there in 97, man.
96?
Yeah, he died in 96, late 96. Yeah, wasn't there in 97, then. 96? Yeah, he died in 96,
late 96.
Yeah, 96.
It was somewhere in there.
Yeah.
And did you know she was doing that
or did she just...
No, she didn't care
if I knew or not.
She just straight tell him.
She tell all them gangsters
and all them
death row gangsters and that.
Y'all got to put that out.
I'm not going to let him
come in here.
So they was like,
oh, the old world.
One time I went to Snoop's house
and I made him
stop smoking for a year. Really?
Yeah, remember he said he quit smoking?
I took him into his own kitchen and had
a conversation with him that he didn't like and then
he just sit there and just said, with them frowns
a little bit, I said, you gotta
stop, man. You gotta stop.
He said, for real? I was like, hey, man.
You got a wife in there and you got them little ones
in there, you gotta stop. And so he's like, okay. So he was like, hey, man, got a wife in there, and you got them little ones in there, you got to stop.
And so he's like, okay.
So he went up, got in there, come back with a box, shoe box.
He had something in there, dumped it in the trash can.
Damn.
And dumped it.
I said, go get the rest of it.
He went in there and got some other ones, dumped it.
And so I said, I know you got something here, but that's okay.
I just want you to throw it all away.
So I went home, and a week later, I talked to his wife, and she said, I know you got something here, but that's okay. I just want you to throw it all away. So I went home, and a week later,
I talked to his wife, and she said,
Uncle Charlie, what'd you say to Snoop?
I said, why?
He ain't smoked nothing since you left.
As a matter of fact, he's throwing everything out.
And he lasted about a year.
What did you say to him? What did you say to him to make him stop?
Well, I just basically was just saying, hey, man,
you know, you got family.
Family's more important than this shit right here, you know.
And so we just got to just put a curve on it and let's just go and do the right thing.
You know, I'm doing the right thing.
You should do the right thing.
Let's just do it and take care of family, take care of your life, take care of your health.
You know, write some great music and let's just go.
And he says, that sounds good to me.
And that's what he did.
You got Kanye to turn to God, too, right?
I heard that you told Kanye to turn to God first.
Man, I have been talking to him for so long about just life and God and the self.
Because everybody used to look at me like, because, man, I go testify.
I testify on my shows.
That's right.
And get to shouting right there.
After that, have 18,000 people shouting with me.
You know, and then go right in the outstand and after that or something.
But, you know, you got to But you got to pass it on.
Some people are having problems and you know it.
So you think you're the reason Kanye turned to God in that way?
Well, I'm not going to claim that, but you know what I'm saying?
I used to talk to him a lot about that.
I got to talk to all of my superstar nephews, I call them.
It's like, hey, man, come on, we got to do this right thing.
And, you know, I said, you know me.
I don't care nothing about this thing
you got going up in here.
Don't nobody take this picture.
Don't nobody, you know, I brought,
I got my phone.
I got my phone.
Hell, I ain't finna put my phone nowhere.
You don't know how to use that phone.
The flip up?
Stop.
What's wrong about that?
The Captain Kirk flipper?
That's what I got.
They said, there ain't no smart phone.
I said, it's a smart...
What the fuck's going on?
It's okay, I'm good, Charlie.
I was the smart one with the phone, so we're good.
I love the way you talk about your wife.
You said that you weren't even living until you met her?
You just was existing?
Man, I was existing.
I met her in the rehab.
When I got to that rehab, I was in bad shape.
So I had a little something in my pocket.
I was trying to hit it for a week.
Then she knocked on the door.
I said, how you doing, ma'am?
She's like, you need to participate more in these classes.
You know, you falling asleep now.
She said, I know why you're falling asleep, because you're detoxing.
Your body's detoxing.
But you got to participate.
You got to find these tools for the rest of your life.
So she said, what you going to do when you get out of here?
Then I broke down.
I was like, I don't have nowhere to go.
And she said, well, you don't have, what do you mean you don't have nowhere to go?
I said, I don't have nowhere to go.
I'm homeless.
She was like, homeless?
You don't have nowhere?
I said, no, man.
So she said, Wednesday, I'm going to take you to look for you a place to live.
So Wednesday came
and she got me a pass.
I got in her car and she took me
for a place and it was
three car garage, house
upstairs, downstairs, I think four or five bedrooms
or something like that. Next day
we went and she found the furniture
and filled the whole place up with furniture.
How'd you pay for this house?
Hold on, man.
I ain't got a dime.
So she put the furniture in and I said, okay, what about the car?
She was like, I ain't giving you no car because, you know, your subcar is going to take you to the drug house, the dope house, the liquor store.
So I said, well, I can't be in here by myself, man.
And she's like, I don't know what you're looking at me. So I said, well, I can't be in here by myself, man.
And she's like, I don't know what you're looking at me for.
I don't know you like that.
I was like, well, it sure would be nice if you would stay here with me.
You ain't say it like that.
I did.
I was kind of calm.
I, you know, I was trying to, I'm trying to sneak up on her.
That's that old school deal.
You sure you ain't singing to her?
No, no, I hadn't sang yet.
But she didn't even know who I am. She don't know nothing about no R&B music at that time anyway.
So she paid for the house and the furniture?
She bought it all.
She paid for it all.
Long story short, I did talk her into staying there.
She said, she kept saying, I don't know you like that.
But anyway, one day I said, ma'am, I'm going to tell you something about me.
If I leave out this house by myself going somewhere, only being in this rehab for only 28 days,
I'm telling you now, I'm going to die out there.
It won't be another chance for me.
So she moved in with me.
And she told me one day, she said, we'll be in here one year.
And I guarantee you, after this one year is up, you're going to buy your own house.
I was like, s***, how's that?
She said, you'll see, come on.
We was in that house one year, and the spirit said, get in the car.
We started driving.
She said, where are you going?
I was all up in Sand Canyon.
This is where these big mansion houses is.
And she was like, why are you looking at these big houses like this?
It's just me and you.
Why do you want it?
And I couldn't answer the question.
I started driving again and found this neighborhood
and the spirit told me to pull up in the house,
the main house where they do the business.
So I went in there
and the lady said, how y'all doing? Come on in.
And I said, well, the spirit told me to come here.
She said, okay, sit on down.
I was looking around. I said,
this is kind of nice, man. And so
this couple came in. He said, yeah, can I relook? And the lady said, I'm kind of nice, man. And so this couple came in.
He said, yeah, can I have a look?
And the lady said, I'm sorry, y'all.
This house is sold.
And then when they left, I said, why you didn't tell me it was sold?
She said, you said the spirit told you to come here, right?
She said, this is your house.
Wow.
And from there, we got the house and went to try to close.
And my wife had a check, and they didn't accept it. So the lady came out.
Charlie, where's your faith?
Here, take these keys.
I'll pay that for you.
And she paid it. What lady?
The lady that was working at that
place. Yeah, she paid it.
And my wife said, I'll give you the money
tomorrow, the next day, whatever it was.
But she paid it, didn't know who I was, didn't know who my wife was.
But that was just God, the blessing of God just gave, put this woman in front of us.
And we got that house, and I stayed there a few years.
We decorated the backyard and the swimming pool.
You got away with women, man.
You was 12, you were teaching.
You went to the rehab, ended up with a wife.
Got a free house for a woman.
Can't take you nowhere.
Charlie got to go, guys.
What you mean Charlie got to go?
He has to go.
God damn.
Well, introduce your record right now.
Introduce the record.
Let's play the record right now.
My name is Charlie Wilson.
My new single is called Forever Valentine, produced by Bruno Mars, Stereotypes, and D-Mal.
Man, you can't get no better than that. Come on.
I know you do church at your show.
I think you should leave us with a prayer.
I think it's only right.
Unless you want to sing a gospel song.
Father, we thank you for
another day. We thank you for your mercy and your grace.
We thank you for your son, Jesus Christ,
who died for our sins on the cross. Father, I ask you
to bless each soul in this room.
Every person in this room, Father, we ask you to bless each soul in this room, every person in this room, Father.
We ask you to continue to bless, touch them as they go, Father.
Keep us all safe and sound as we travel.
We thank you for the Breakfast Club
and each person that's a part of this organization.
We love you, Lord, and we give you all the glory and all the praise
and all the honor goes to you, Father.
All these blessings we ask in Jesus' name be done.
Thank God.
Amen.
Amen.
Charlie Wilson.
We're going to get us some free houses now.
That's right.
That's right.
And women everywhere we go.
You're blessed and highly favored.
You said it.
Charlie Wilson.
Amen.
Y'all something else?
Y'all give me a start on something.
Had me talking for an hour on one spot.
We'll be right.
Oh, baby.
All right.
All right, Gary.
Charlie Wilson.
We ain't here jamming.
I was stepping.
All right.
Anyway, morning, everybody. That is not stepping what you just did. I was stepping. All right. Anyway, morning, everybody.
That is not stepping what you just did.
I was doing my Detroit step.
You did a shimmy.
I'm going to learn that Detroit step.
Whatever that Detroit playing step they be doing.
In the club.
That's so fly, man.
I got to learn that, man.
Shout out to Jay Neely and my whole Detroit fam.
I'm going to learn that for the next party.
All right.
Well, let's get to the rumors.
Let's talk Dwyane Wade.
Somebody film that.
It's about time.
What's going on? Rumor report. Rumor report's get to the rumors. Let's talk Dwayne Wade. Somebody film this. It's about time. What's going on?
Rumor Report.
Rumor Report.
This is the Rumor Report.
Talk to them.
With Angela Yee on The Breakfast Club.
Well, Dwayne Wade was on Watch What Happens Live, and a fan asked what he and Gabrielle
Union learned about being transgender from the cast of Pose.
Here is what Dwayne Wade said.
The lesson that my wife and I learned
is, first of all, we got information. We didn't have a lot of information and we reached out
about pronouns. We wanted to make sure that we didn't get it wrong. So we reached out about
the pronouns and making sure that we said the right things. Yeah, so you got to make sure because
a lot of people aren't sure what to say. Even yesterday, obviously now she's identifying as a young lady.
So you want to make sure you say she.
Correct.
Because even though their daughter was born and identified at first as they identified her as a boy,
now she's identifying as a girl.
So you have to say she.
Right.
People were mad at me.
Like, don't go, that's not a boy.
She, she.
But that's what she identifies as. That's what Dwayne Wade says. My daughter, she. Gabrielle mad at me. Like, don't go like that. But that's what she identifies as.
That's what Dwayne Wade says. My daughter, she Gabrielle Union. People have a problem with that.
I mean, I respect those wishes. Absolutely. If she identifies as she and Dwayne Wade says that that's his daughter, that's what we call him.
All right. Now, LeBron has announced his first children's book is called I Promise.
It's part of a two book contract that he has with HarperCollins.
He said, books have the ability
to teach, inspire, and bring people together.
That's why these books and the
opportunity to get children and parents reading together
means so much to me.
Most importantly, we wanted to make sure
these stories are ones that every single kid can see
themselves in. I Promise is powerful
in that way, and I can't wait for people to
read it. That's dope. You know how much I love reading
and I talk about it all the time. I'm an
ambassador for the New York Public Library.
And I was looking around my house. I actually had to get
two new bookshelves because I have so many books
at home. And I was like, this is amazing
because books look like artwork to me.
That's how many books I have in my house.
I was going to ask, after you read the books, what do you do with them? You just put them on the shelf?
Yeah, put them on the shelf. Sometimes I give them away. We also have a library in the juice bar. I was in there yesterday. A lot of books read the books. What do you do with them? You just put them on the shelf? Yeah, put them on the shelf. Sometimes I give them away.
We also have
a library in the juice bar.
I was in there yesterday. A lot of books in the juice bar.
A lot of them are courtesy
of you, Envy.
I notice that a lot of them are missing
at times, but that's fine.
I'm going to keep on replenishing the books.
Alright, now the reboot of Making the
Band is on the way and they have revealed
the panel of judges.
And guess who is going to be judges?
Who?
Diddy's sons, Quincy Brown, Christian, and Justin Combs,
along with Laurieann Gibson.
So they're all going to be joining the franchise.
That makes sense.
I mean, they're younger.
They know what's happening now,
and Puff can find that young talent and make them stars.
I think that makes sense.
Well, that casting tour is going down now in Atlanta,
February 28th to the 29th, Houston, March 2nd to the 8th,
Charlotte, March 13th to the 14th, and New York City,
March 21st to the 22nd.
And Diddy and all the judges will make appearances through that tour.
Yeah, and it gives them money.
That way they ain't got to ask daddy for money.
You're getting paid.
You ain't got to worry about me no more.
Keep the money in the family.
All right, I'm Angela Yee, and that is your Rumor Report.
All right, thank you, Miss Yee.
You're welcome.
When we come back, Charlemagne Donkey of the day.
So don't move.
It's The Breakfast Club.
Good morning.
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Feeling tired?
Depressed?
A little bit revolutionary?
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I planted the flag.
I just kind of looked out of like, this is mine.
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It's surprisingly easy.
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The Waikana tried my country.
My forefathers did that themselves.
What could go wrong?
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As a kid, I really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just don't know what is going to come for you.
Alicia Keys opens up about conquering doubt, learning to trust
herself and leaning into her dreams. I think a lot of times we are built to doubt the possibilities
for ourselves. For self-preservation and protection, it was literally that step by step.
And so I discovered that that is how we get where we're going.
This increment of small, determined moments.
Alicia shares her wisdom on growth, gratitude, and the power of love.
I forgive myself.
It's okay.
Like grace.
Have grace with yourself.
You're trying your best.
And you're going to figure out the rhythm of this thing.
Alicia Keys, like you've never heard her before.
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It's time for Donkey of the Day.
Donkeys of the Day, I'm John LeMay.
I'm a Democrat, so being Donkey of the Day
is a little bit of a mix-up.
So like a donkey, he hung.
Donkey of the Day. a little bit of a mix up. So like a donkey. Donkey of the day.
The practice club, bitches.
Now I've been called a lot in my 23 years, but donkey of the day is a new one.
Donkey of the day for Thursday, February 20th goes to former three-time mayor Mike Bloomberg.
I think this is Mike's second time getting it within the past week.
But it's not just Mike Bloomberg today.
It's whoever the hell his prep team was for last night's debate.
If you have been paying attention over the past week, one, you know Mike Bloomberg was making his debut on the debate stage last night.
And you also know that every single Democrat on that stage was going to come at him, and rightfully so.
Okay, Matt Bloomberg has a history of overseeing one of the most racist pieces of legislation in American history with stop and frisk.
He also has a history of making wild comments about women,
and he had to know that these shots were coming at him last night,
but yet he wasn't prepared.
Now, I know Mike Bloomberg has no problem dropping that bag.
I would think he would hire the best debate prep team he could find,
but clearly that wasn't the case because he got smoked on everything.
Alright? Now, we all know Mike Bloomberg
is worth like
$60 plus billion. So he clearly
gets the bag, flips it,
and tumbles it. But when it comes to the debate questions,
he got the bag and fumbled it.
Badly. Okay, Mike and his debate
team, y'all know the stop and frisk question
was coming. And it's the best answer
you could come up with. Let's hear it. If I go back and look at my time in office, the one thing that I'm
really worried about, embarrassed about, was how it turned out with stop and frisk.
When I got into office, I thought that my first responsibility was to give people the right to live. And we
started, we adopted a policy which had been in place. What happened, however, was it got out
of control. And when we discovered, I discovered that we were doing many, many, too many stop and
frisks. We cut 95% of it out. The reason the stop and frisk change is because barack obama sent moderators to
see what was going on when we sent them there to say this practice has to stop the mayor thought
it was a terrible idea we send them there the policy was abhorrent and it was in fact a violation
of every right people have if i was mayor bloom okay, or if I was on his debate team,
I would have said to him,
when the question of stopping Frist comes up,
just simply say, I messed up.
In fact, I might have cursed and said, I effed up.
Just like most of us on this stage have
when it comes to legislation
that disproportionately discriminates
against black and brown people.
I messed up, it was wrong.
And I will spend every dime I got
trying to fix the damage I created.
And you know nobody on this stage got more dimes
than me. Then I would have pivoted to Joe
Biden and said, I messed up with
stop and frisk the same way you messed up with
the 94 crime bill. And then I would have turned to
Bernie Sanders and said, you voted for
that terrible policy called the 94
crime bill. Joe, can you
admit the 94 crime bill was terrible
and led to the mass incarceration of so many black
and brown people all over America?
Then drop the mic and watch Biden look
how you looked when Elizabeth Warren
was checking your ass all night,
Mike Bloomberg. Mike Bloomberg knew that
they were going to come at him over his history of
comments to women. And this
is the answer he came up with. And oh, he
got pressed by Elizabeth Warren so bad. Let's hear it.
Former employees have claimed that your company was a hostile workplace for women.
When you were confronted about it, you admitted making sexually suggestive remarks, saying, quote, that's the way I grew up.
I have no tolerance for the kind of behavior that the Me Too movement has exposed.
And anybody that does anything wrong in our company, we investigate
it, and if it's appropriate, they're gone that day.
The mayor has to stand on his record. He has gotten some number of women to sign
non-disclosure agreements, both for sexual harassment and for gender discrimination in
the workplace. So, Mr. Mayor, are you willing to release all of those women from those non-disclosure
agreements so we can hear their side of the story? We have a very few non-disclosure agreements.
How many? Let me finish. How many is that? None of them accused me of doing anything other than
maybe they didn't like the joke I told. And let me just, and let me, yeah.
He was accused of making inappropriate jokes, saying overly sexual things.
I get it.
Only thing you can do in that situation is apologize.
And you had to know the women on that stage were going to slam you hard for that.
And rightfully so.
No need to get defensive about it.
Just state the facts.
Apologize for what you feel you said wrong and keep it moving.
But the problem I have is the hypocrisy from Democrats in regards to Bloomberg
because we can't act like aides on Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign team
didn't make accusations of sexism and sexual harassment against the campaign.
Bernie's campaign manager even admitted that there had been a failure.
And Bernie promised that the same thing wouldn't happen in 2020.
We can't act like as if Sanders' aides didn't request a meeting with Senator Sanders
to discuss the issue of sexual violence and sexual harassment during the 2016 campaign.
If you can hold Bloomberg accountable for what happens at his businesses,
then hold Bernie accountable for what happened during his 2016 campaign.
Bloomberg's prep team, why didn't you have him prepared
with those clapbacks?
The information is out there
for anybody to find.
And Joe Biden,
just last year,
they were calling him
Creepy Uncle Joe.
We forgot about Lucy Flores
and Amy Lappos
and other women who accused
Joe Biden of inappropriate behavior.
Remember all those stories last year,
Joe Biden touching women inappropriately
and invading their personal space?
Why didn't Mike Bloomberg's team prepare
him with all that smoke? You can't
vilify me if you got the same dirt that I do.
You ever heard that saying, don't judge
me because I sin, because you
sin too? This, what you saw last
night, is the political version of that. And that's
why I hate politics, because of the hypocrisy
and nobody is honest. If they were being honest,
then all of them would put their BS on the table
and address it all.
But since Bloomberg isn't considered a real Democrat,
they jump him for the same issues
that people on that stage are accused of.
Look, I think everybody's history on everything is fair game,
but the key word is fair.
I want everybody to get pressed,
and I want everyone to get questioned,
and Mike Bloomberg had the lane to do that last night
based off how he knew folks were
going to come at him, and he failed. Mike,
fire your prep team.
It's some folks on social media you can
hire that's better than whoever you got
now. Bloomberg could have talked about the 200
inner cities he's giving money to. He could
have talked about his Greenwood Initiative, which is
his black agenda to bring economic justice
to black America. The guy's got a plan
to create a million new black homeowners,
100,000 new black-owned businesses in the next decade.
He wants to invest $70 billion in the country's most, you know,
poor and disenfranchised neighborhoods.
But none of that came up because he's too busy defending himself against things
his rivals on that stage are also accused of.
The moral of the story is politics suck.
And I don't know how the Democratic Party got here.
OK, the candidates after President Obama were supposed to get blacker, browner, younger and smarter.
Instead, we got old white men on stage arguing about how many heart stints they have had over the years.
The one area maybe the mayor Bloomberg and I share, you have two stents as well. 25 years ago.
Please give Mike Bloomberg and whoever prepped him for the debates last night the biggest E-R.
All right.
Yes, indeed.
Well, thank you for that dog here today.
Uh-huh.
Up next is Ask Yee.
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If you need relationship advice or any type of advice, call Yee right now.
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Eat the bread.
Morning, everybody.
It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God.
We are The Breakfast Club.
It's time for Ask Yee.
Hello, who's this?
This is Carmella.
Hey, Carmella.
Where you calling from?
From Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Oh, from Wisconsin?
Right, Milwaukee?
Yes.
All right.
What's your question for Yee?
Okay, so basically, my husband and I were separated for like two years.
And he had a baby, but we decided to work things out after that right okay so even
though we're working it out do you want us to move in together back in together i don't think i want
to move back in with him because uh so our state offers a lot of grants to buy a home and i'm buying
a duplex well i'm in the process i didn't pick the house up or anything, but I want him to do the same thing. And I feel
like until we are ready,
ready to be back together, we should be in
separate households. But all of my friends are
telling me I shouldn't do that.
Well, listen, when it comes to what you think
and what your friends think, you should go with your own
gut instinct because I think one of
the issues that we have a lot of times
is our friends want to weigh in on things
and tell us what they think we should do. A lot times you know what it is right you have your own instincts your
instincts are telling you don't get myself intertwined like this until I'm sure and we're
100% ready right because it's so hard when you guys have to separate and move back out again and
so if what you need is to feel more security because clearly you know he has a whole nother
baby outside the marriage.
You guys were already separated.
You're not 1000% back in yet.
I think if you feel like I'm not ready, you're not ready.
And that's just what it is.
Nobody can force that on you and nobody should tell you that you should be.
I agree.
You're right.
So they can tell you what they want to do it, too.
And I'm just kind of like, I don't think that's a good idea.
I want him in his own house.
Especially while he's trying to start bonding with the other kid.
I kind of don't want to...
I want to be away from that right now.
Yeah, you're not ready for that.
And there's nothing wrong.
You are not wrong.
Yeah.
Okay, thank you so much.
No problem, Carmela.
We got to trust ourselves sometimes.
Ask Yee.
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If you need relationship advice, call Yee right now.
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Get some real advice with Angela Yee.
It's Ask Yee.
Morning, everybody.
It's DJ MV, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy.
We are the Breakfast Club.
We're in the middle of Ask Yee. Hello, who's this? Yo, this is Dee calling from Atlanta, Georgia. What Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're in the middle of Ask Yee.
Hello, who's this?
Yo, this is D calling from Atlanta, Georgia.
What's up, bro?
What's your question for Yee?
My question for Yee is, man, I got a woman, I mean, my wife, right?
And we out here working at a chicken plant, and you know how that goes.
She have a male chicken plant.
How does that go?
How does that go?
What do y'all do at the chicken plant?
We just cut out chickens.
Okay.
And she got a dude that keeps checking them, and I check him.
You know, I'm trying to figure out how can I go about that without losing my job.
Check a guy because he's checking your wife?
Or taking your chicken.
Yeah.
What are you talking about, Envy?
I don't know.
Just butt out.
Ask Yee.
All right.
So does she like him?
She told him to butt out, but I think it's a particularly strong going on,
because she's been hiding her phone from me.
Okay, so you think that your wife and this guy at your job that you both work at
are communicating with each other, and she's hiding her phone from you.
This is unusual behavior.
Right.
Okay.
Are you eating chicken right now, man?
We can barely hear you.
Well, okay, So there you go.
Now, when you confronted your wife about this and asked her, what's her response?
She stutters.
Like Joe said, stuttering.
And she's never acted like this before.
So your gut instinct is telling you there's something happening there.
Exactly.
So I just want to know how should I go about this.
I thought 10 years would be something to live for, but
10 years can go down the drain if she's not acting right. Okay, well, number one, let's
not jump out the window because we don't know that anything has happened, right? You just
have a feeling. She's hiding her phone. She's nervous. Maybe she has a little crush on this
guy also, and he has a crush on her, right? Right. But we don't know that that means it
has led to anything. Have you ever had a crush on anybody while you've
been with your wife?
Well, yeah. Up to here
and up. Okay.
And I think in relationships, when you've been with
somebody a long time, maybe that does happen
now. Whether or not you act on it or do
anything is a whole nother story.
So is she giving you any indication that
she doesn't want to be with you or that she might
do something? Is she missing at periods of time?
No, she'll go up in the room because normally, you know, we do it together.
But now, lately, it's been very distant.
All right.
Well, I think it's important for you to keep those lines of communication open.
And when I say that, it's not about accusing somebody.
You have to tell her how her behavior is making you feel.
I would have a real heart-to-heart with her and say, look, we've been together for so long. I feel like I
know you extremely well. And I've never had these feelings before. I don't know what it is, but
something's off and it's not making me feel good about our relationship. So I just want you to feel
like you can be open and honest with me. I love you. Whatever is going on, I just want to know so that we can figure out how we can work through this together.
And see what she has to say about that.
And tell her specifically what it is that she's doing that's bothering you.
And how she can move forward to fix those things so that she'll be more comfortable.
And tell her that you don't really want her communicating with this guy at work.
Tell her that it makes you feel uncomfortable.
And because you guys are together, she should respect that.
You've never asked her to do anything like that before, right?
Right.
And let her know that if she was in the same position, same situation,
you would hope that she could come to you and express her feelings as well
and see how she reacts to that.
All right. I really appreciate y'all.
Okay. I wish y'all luck, man.
You eat a lot of chicken?
I do. I love KFC. All right. All I wish y'all luck, man. You eat a lot of chicken? I do.
I love KFC.
All right.
All right.
Well, thank you so much.
Good luck with that.
I hope you guys work things out.
All right, brother.
All right.
I haven't had KFC in a minute.
Me too.
I feel like there's not even as many KFCs around as there used to be.
No, there's a lot of KFC, but I just prefer Chick-fil-A, I guess.
And you like Popeye's.
And I like Popeye's, yep.
All right.
Have you ever flirted
with another woman?
No.
Damn, never in the whole 20 years?
Yeah, I mean, of course.
You just said no.
I mean, not recently.
I'm not your wife asking.
You saw how fast he responded.
That's how you know
when a guy is lying.
His instinct is just
to deny, deny, deny.
Absolutely.
That's it.
Yes, but nah.
I mean, I haven't in a long time.
I mean, I have before.
He stuttered
It wasn't right
Has Gia ever flirted
Flirting is flirting wrong
Yes
Like
It's not right
It depends on how far it is
Like how can
Sometimes it's just
Innocent
Like what type of flirt
I don't know
I mean
Like what
Like you might
Let's see
Do a little too much giggling
Or you know
You do the light touch
On the arm All the little touch on the arm, all the
little things that are like physical. All the stuff that
Dramos does to me, I bought out.
Touches me on my arm and giggles all the time.
Now you're flirting with me right now. Stop flirting with me,
Dramos. Okay, so yes. Yes.
Alright.
See, what kind of laugh was that?
I know Gia be tripping you up
all the time. I don't do nothing wrong.
You know you messed up. You know you messed up, right? Anyway, ask Gia. 800- you up all the time. I don't do nothing wrong. You know you messed up.
Anyway, Ask Gia, 805-85-1051.
You got rumors on the way?
Yes.
Let's talk about a possible billion-dollar deal that could be happening in the world of sports.
All right, we'll get into that next.
Keep it locked.
It's The Breakfast Club.
Good morning.
She's spilling the tea.
This is The Rumor Report with Angela Yee on The Breakfast Club.
Well, looks like Bob Arum might be talking about selling Top Ring.
That is his company.
And you guys know he's one of boxing's most powerful men.
He's 88 years old now.
And he's talking about doing that.
He's organized fights with Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, Oscar De La Hoya, Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao.
And if he does manage to sell this, they said it would be the most high profile acquisition in combat sports,
if not all sports, since the MMA firm UFC was sold for over $4 billion back in 2016.
So some of the athletes they have under contract right now include Terrence Crawford, Tyson Fury,
and they also have footage that they lease.
So that's footage of Muhammad Ali in his prime and other fight material as well.
So they are looking to sell that.
And they've been in talks with Hollywood talent agency Endeavor with the NASDAQ telecoms firm Liberty Global and OTT, the subscription streaming sports DAZN.
OK, that could happen. That'd be dope.
That'd be big. That's going to be billions of dollars.
And they also did, I think, a seven
year deal with ESPN as well.
So all of that is happening.
So imagine that. They own this
whole huge fight library. He said
they have maybe 10,000 great, great fights.
And you can actually use those
like if people want to use it in a movie, they have to
lose it. Yeah, people always go back to those footage.
So that would be amazing.
They'll make a lot of money off of royalties and stuff.
You know what else too?
They own a lot of real estate
and all of that real estate that they own is debt-free,
no mortgages or anything.
They own multiple buildings outright in Vegas
and they also own a gym near the Strip as well.
So all of those things would be a big deal
for whoever acquires top rank.
All right. Now let's discuss Joe Button. as well. So all of those things would be a big deal for whoever acquires Tom Rankin.
Alright, now let's discuss Joe Button.
Kalani was not happy with him
critiquing her after
her song that she did
after she broke up with YG, the Valentine's
Day shameful song. Now it all started with
him talking about listening to the song
that Kalani and YG put out together
on Valentine's Day called
Conclusions. I feel like I've been
hoodwinked. I hated it on the first listen
and then by the second listen, I
loved it. I was with this new
image of YG being in love.
So Kehlani put a record out
and the record is called
Valentine's Day.
She's shameful. She really wants
us to know how much of a piece of
YG is, but she's
hiding behind the thin veil of
I'm not telling you guys who I'm talking
about. Somebody explain the woman's brain to me.
You was immature three days ago?
Well, she posted, Joe Button is a joke.
And then he said, we love you.
It's jokes. Feel better. And she said,
the amount of misinformation and lies
and lameness in this episode about me and you
use my face is, LOL, gotta love it.
But I thought all R&B music
was based off of how you felt and not
necessarily said, you know, who you were singing
at when you go back and you listen to Mary J. Blige
or Faith Evans or any
other R&B singer. You don't know
necessarily who they were talking about. You just know the
emotion, I thought. Well, he then posted
I'm about sick of you artists. Never a peep
through years of praise, but want to jump out of windows when you hear something you don't like. Newsflash, I'm about sick of you artists. Never a peep through years of praise.
But I want to jump out of windows when you hear something you don't like.
News flash, I am not friends with you.
End words.
Well, he knows that.
He's an artist.
He knows when people say nice stuff, it always just flies over your head.
But when they say something nasty and disgusting, you want to bite back.
Okay, and let me just quote the great Erykah Badu.
Keep in mind that I'm an artist.
And I'm sensitive about my ish.
Exactly.
So keep that in mind.
All right. Now, Joe Button is all over the place because he also
has Tahereh and Sin Santana
going through it over him. They're
both his exes at this point and
people didn't like this confrontation
between Tahereh and Sin.
What does that
mean? Everybody in relationship has exes and there's
this one ex that. Being that her and Joe
was together for so long.
Joey and I still connect.
We have a history and we just vibe, right?
Y'all just vibe.
Oh, I don't have to lie to you, honey.
I don't respect this as a woman.
You have literally been in my shoes minus the obvious.
And you still step into me with this energy.
You look tired.
Can't get the up.
I hate to see them two like that. I know both of them. They both good people. I just hate to see them two like that.
I know both of them.
They both good people.
I just hate to see them going back and forth and arguing.
Is it true that everybody has the ex?
What you mean?
Like that one ex, like Tahiri said, I'm the ex.
I don't know.
Do you have the ex?
No.
Like, I don't even know what that means. Let me shut up.
I ran into...
Never mind, stop.
You do not know. No, I don't even know what that means. Let me shut up. I ran into... Never mind, just stop.
You do not know any of my exes. No, I know he's not the ex, because you...
Never mind.
All right.
I don't know what's going on here.
But I'm Angela Yee, and that is your Rumor Report.
I think we talked about that story on the air, but I just don't want to break it up.
Oh.
You know who I'm talking about then, huh?
No.
But, I don't think...
Have you ever met my ex-boyfriend?
Look, I have guys that I dated. Okay, so... And then I huh? No. But, I don't think, have you ever met my ex-boyfriend? Look,
I have guys that I dated.
Okay, so.
And then I have an ex.
And that's somebody
that I was with for like years.
This was somebody
you dated then.
Okay.
It's not relevant.
Poor guy, man.
All right.
Happy birthday, Riri.
Let's get into the mix.
Yes, let's do that.
We're going to start
with some Riri.
Revolt, we'll see you tomorrow.
Hold on now.
What Rihanna songs are about to happen in this mix?
Because I know everybody wants to chime in and say their favorite Rihanna song.
Well, hit me up right now.
Add DJ.
What's your favorite?
First of all.
What's your favorite?
I just want to see.
Are you going to start with my favorite Rihanna song?
What's your favorite?
Oh, my God.
So many.
Diamond.
That's right.
It's the breakfast.
That's not my favorite. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ. Diamond, that's right. All right, it's the Breakfast Club. That's not my favorite.
Good morning, everybody.
It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy.
We are the Breakfast Club.
It's Black History Month, so what we doing?
Yes, Sidney Poitier, you know, he won an Academy Award for Best Actor.
He was the first black actor to win that award and was also nominated a second time.
So we just want to celebrate Sidney Poitier this morning.
The Breakfast Club presents a new Black History Month legend.
I remember being in Mississippi,
not believing what I was told was possible for colored people at the time.
I just didn't believe it.
And so the fact that you have been able to become what you have become in life,
a part of that is that you didn't believe the dogma.
You didn't believe what people said was possible for a black man.
Well, from the very beginning, I didn't believe that.
Yeah, that's what I mean.
When I arrived in Florida, everywhere I turned, that's what was being said to me. But you see, before I got to Florida, I had had the opportunity through my mother and my dad
to have set some kind of foundation as to who I was. And I was not what I was required to be
in Florida. I was not that. I couldn't be that. I was taught that I had basic rights as a human being.
I was taught that I was someone.
I knew we had no money.
Still, I was taught that I was someone.
We had no electricity and no running water.
Still, I was taught that I was someone.
I had very little education.
A year and a half, in fact, was all the schooling I was exposed to.
Still, I knew that I was someone.
And that was another new Black History Month legend, courtesy of The Breakfast Club.
All right, a legend.
More than a legend.
Mm-hmm.
All right, well, when we come back, positive notes, so don't move.
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Good morning, everybody.
It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God.
We are the Breakfast Club.
Now, last night, Yee, I know you were out at your awards dinner.
Yes, it's the American Foundation for the University of the West Indies,
raising money for the scholarships for our students to go to the University of the West Indies.
I know we like to go to these islands and frequent them,
but let's make sure we contribute to the students who live there that actually want to attend university.
So shout out to everybody who came out and donated,
and of course to the students who were in attendance
to talk about how much these scholarships mean to them.
All right, and Charlemagne,
you're actually going to be playing out in the D, right?
Yes, I'm headed to Detroit.
I'm going to Detroit.
I'm going to be spending the day in Detroit.
I'm doing a little field trip in Detroit, man.
Salute to WJLB.
I got with WJLB because, of course, we come on WJLB every morning.
And I'll be at Inception.
Inception is this mental health gym that, you know, myself and my man Bushman,
we frequent, and, you know, they got float therapy and brain training and
Magnusphere.
It's just a great way to disconnect.
If you're looking for stillness, if you're looking for a way to empty your brain, Inception definitely has it.
So I'm doing a field trip, man.
I got 10 listeners that are going to meet me at Inception in Farmington, Michigan today.
And, you know, we're just going to be still.
All right.
All right.
You know, I always tell you all, invest in your mental health.
This is my way of investing in people's mental health for them.
So I'll see you all in a few.
All right.
Well, enjoy the D.
Now you got a positive note?
Yes, I have a positive note, you kinky young beige man, you.
All right.
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Hey guys, I'm Kate Max.
You might know me from my popular online series,
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