The Breakfast Club - Trae The Truth interview and John Cohen interview

Episode Date: February 18, 2022

Today on the show we had friend to the room Trae the Truth stop by, who spoke about his fight for fatherhood, his car accident, NFTs, new music and more. They also had John Cohen who spoke about owning a NASCAR team, Diversity In The Sport, Racing Etiquette and more. And Charlamagne gave "Donkey of the Day" to a Louisiana teacher for serving semen-filled cupcakes to her class. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast, Post Run High, is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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 Zaka Stan. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-A-S-T-A-N 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. I'm figuring it out. Voice of Reason, The Solid, Hold It Down, The Beige Rage, and The Agitator.

The Breakfast Club. Everyone just kept telling me to prep for this. One word to describe The Breakfast Club would be black. Impacting the culture. People watch The Breakfast Club for, like, news and really be tuned in, man. I don't even know what to call The Breakfast Club. It's like brunch. Envy, ye, and Charlemagne.

Wake that ass up, get out of bed, and listen to The Breakfast Club. I'm waking up. Good morning, USA. It's Friday! Yes, it's Friday. Good morning and three-day weekend. How are you? How are you feeling? I'm excited. I feel great. Oh, my goodness. I feel great as well. I'm out in

Cleveland for NBA All-Star. I flew out here yesterday. The weather is disgusting. It's snowy. It's nasty. It's rainy. But I'm here. We're going to have a good time this weekend. So I'm in Cleveland for All-Star.

Nice. How's it feeling? Oh, you got the Versus tonight, too. You got a DJ for that Versus. Yeah, I'm doing a bunch of things. I'm doing something for Pepsi earlier for the kids. We go into a couple of schools and giving back. We pop it up at some schools to give back to the kids. Then tonight

is a versus. So the versus tonight is going to be a little different. It's not like your usual hip-hop or R&B versus. It's Allen Iverson versus Tracy McGrady. They're going to be versing about their highlights. Both legends in this NBA game, so they're going to be versing about their favorite highlights.

I don't know what it's called. They're versus against their... They're vers against their... Their versising. Yeah, versising. You know, Iverson is my favorite NBA player, and Iverson has so many highlights, crossovers. They say Iverson is below the rim, and they say Tracy McGrady is above the rim. So I'm excited about that.

I'm going to be DJing for that tonight. So you can check that out, of course, on Versus TV and a host of other platforms. But I'm excited about that today. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. Yeah. Yo, yo. Good morning, USA. Your three-day weekend started already, huh?

You damn right. It's a three-day weekend, right? Yes, it is. Monday's President's Day. We got President's Day on Monday. I cannot wait. What does President's Day even mean? It's the day to celebrate the presidents of the United States of America.

Oh, is that what it is? All the presidents? All the founding fathers. Yeah. I didn't even know what it was for. It's definitely all the presidents, but I thought it was the founding fathers. Right? I have no idea.

I guess. I thought it was Lincoln or something, his birthday. I don't know. I have no idea what it is. Me neither. Who cares? We get a day off. That's all that matters.

This is a great weekend, man. It's a great weekend because that supply chain chaos has had things backed up for a long time. And about a year ago. Oh, you getting a couch? My wife ordered a new couch, and that couch came yesterday. Oh, wow. So that's where I will be all weekend. Club couch, baby.

Okay? Oh, my God. I was laying on that thing yesterday. I didn't want to move. I can't wait. Let's hurry up and get this show over so I can get God. I was laying on that thing yesterday. I didn't want to move. I can't wait. Let's hurry up and get this show over so I can get back home. You're going to go back on that damn couch. I've been hearing so many horror stories about people that order furniture and can't get their orders in.

It took us about a year. It's been about a year. Yeah, mine took about a year and about seven months, a year and eight months to get all my furniture. I'm talking everything. Chairs, side tables, you name it. Lights. That's right. We got everything finally.

You know what's funny? I ordered some furniture and thank God it hasn't come yet because my house is still not renovated to move into. So I'm praying that it doesn't come anytime soon. So the kid yesterday, this is not a kid-friendly couch. All right? Y'all been on the floor the past year? Get back on the floor. We tell the kids the same thing.

Keep your ass off this couch. Your crayons and all that off the couch. But the funny thing is, he and I ordered from the same spot. Tell the kids the same thing. Keep your ass off this couch, your crayons and all that off the couch. But the funny thing is, Ye and I ordered from the same spot. It was overseas, and it was very costly to get it back. So when I was buying the furniture, I was like, can you just throw my stuff in Ye's container and let her pay for it? I'm not trying to get mine anytime soon. Yeah, y'all fancy.

We ain't been doing nothing like that. It's like Ye containers fell. I think we got off from Ikea or someplace like that. We ain't fancy like that. That's a lie. It wouldn't take no year and a half for no damn Ikea. Yeah, at allkea or someplace like that. We ain't fancy like that. That's a lie. It wouldn't take no year and a half for no damn Ikea.

Yeah, at all. It's like they're in the warehouse already. Yes. Liar. I'm not lying. Liar, liar, pencil liar. My ex-boyfriend

worked at Ikea. Trust me, I know everything about Ikea. Yeah, you're a liar. You're a liar. I'm just telling you. And you gotta put it together yourself.

I don't think y'all know the Ikea that I know. We do. We definitely do. It took a long time. It's been a year and some change. God damn, you're a liar. Y'all talking about containers and overseas. I don't know nothing about that life I know. We do. We definitely do. It took a long time. It's been a year and some change. God damn, you're lying.

Y'all talking about containers and overseas. I don't know nothing about that life. You are a liar. God damn, Akia. I don't know nothing about that life. And they get their stuff overseas, too. Let's get the show cracking. John Cohen will be joining us this morning.

John Cohen is a brother. He's from Newark. He's one of the few, I think he might be the only one, that owns his own NASCAR. So he's racing this weekend at the Daytona 500. They just qualified yesterday. And he's going to be joining us. He's going to tell us how he got into the sport, how he got into the game.

He's a dude from Newark that has some dreams, and he's making it happen. So shout out to John Cohen. We'll be kicking it with him. And then our brother from Houston, H-Town, Trey the Truth, will be joining us. Trey's not banned on this radio station. No, he's not banned on this station. So he'll be here this morning. So we're going to talk to Trader Truth about his new project and his daughter.

You know, last time he came up there, I believe his daughter was with him. And now he hasn't seen his daughter in months. I saw him posting about that. I felt really bad. That's terrible to not be able to see your child. Yeah, so we'll talk to him about all that. All right, and let's get the show cracking. Front page news, what are we talking about?

Well, we are going to be talking about Omicron and all these variants. And they're saying now there's something that spreads even faster than the Omicron coronavirus variant. Just when they tell everybody to take their mask off? Right. Come on, man. Oh, my goodness. All right, we'll get into that next. It's The Breakfast Club.

Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlam Oh, my goodness. All right, we'll get into that next. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. That way we starting easy. All right, well, the CDC wants to give people a break from wearing masks as the pandemic has been improving.

They currently recommend that people wear masks in indoor public places regardless of their vaccination status. Nearly every county in the U.S. has high transmission right now, but people are required by federal law. You've got to wear masks on planes, buses, trains, and other forms of public transportation. But states have started easing public health measures as

new infections from the Omicron variant have been declining rapidly from their peak levels in January. New York and California have dropped mask mandates for businesses. New Jersey has also gotten rid of mask requirements for schools as well. And vaccine requirements are also being lifted across America as COVID cases are going down. But now they are saying there is a sub variant of Omicron that is on the rise. And they said it is spreading faster than Omicron

and it may also cause more severe disease. And it appears capable of thwarting some of the key weapons against COVID-19. According to new research, they're saying it can cause serious illness and it says it can escape the immunity created by vaccines. A booster shot does restore protection,

which makes illness after infection about 74% less likely. They still haven't figured this thing out, huh? Another variant. How does any of that make sense, though? Take off your mask. We're getting rid of vaccine mandates in certain places, but there's another variant that's spreading faster, and it can make people sick.

They're also saying that labs have to take an extra step and sequence the virus to find this variant. So they have to find a method to detect it specifically. That would be the first thing a lot of countries need to do. It's called stealth Omicron. That's what they're calling it now, BA2, stealth Omicron, because it doesn't show up on PCR tests as an S gene target failure the way that Omicron does. So they got to make sure they can even identify it.

Does this make sense to you? Anything that we just heard makes sense to any of y'all? I mean, it does a little bit, because we've been saying all the time, we got to live with it. We can't let it hurt us. We have to get back to normal. But that don't mean take your mask off. That don't mean, you know, stop the vaccine mandates. If you're trying to

stop it and stop it from mutating and becoming another variant, shouldn't you maybe keep that on a little longer? And we're seeing across the world and other places where like Denmark, China, that it's still spreading crazy because they got rid of their mandates too fast.

Denmark was the first major country to lift their last COVID-19 restrictions and declare the pandemic over. And now they're saying that they're having an issue with cases on the rise there. So they said since then Denmark has continued to record more COVID cases per capita than nearly anywhere else in the world. And COVID hospitalizations and deaths have shot up by about a third. By the way, I don't care either way.

I'm just telling you that, you know, this is a mixed messaging. And they clearly haven't figured out how to message this thing properly yet. Now, if they want us to just go live with it, cool, say that. That's what I think it is. I think it's a point where they just live with it. I'd rather them say that. This is going to be like the flu. And that's what they're doing. They're like, hey, if you get it, you get it.

Hopefully you got your vaccine. If not, you're on your own. That's what it seems like. I would rather them say that. Because it hasn't made no sense in the past two years, but whatever. All right. Well, that is your front page news. All right. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up right now.

Phone lines are wide open. Again, 800-585-1051. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Let's go. This is your time to get it off your chest. Whether you're man or black.

Say it with your chest. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. So if you got something on your mind to get it off your chest. Whether you're man or black. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. So if you got something on your mind, let it out. Hello, who's this? Yo, this is Cash, man. What's up? Cash. What up?

Get it off your chest, brother. Yeah, hey, man. I heard y'all talking the other day about NASCAR owners. And, like, y'all been talking about that for the last week or two or whatever, y'all left out Jordan, man. Y'all remember Jordan had a team NASCAR 23? No, I don't remember that. I do. I remember he used to have one.

I don't know if he has it anymore, though. It was. I don't know if he got it anymore. But, I mean, we were talking about black people owning NASCAR cars or teams or whatever the case may be. And y'all left out Jordan, man. I was sitting here on my way home like, damn, they left out Jordan. Well, thank you for the information, my brother.

I remember Jordan used to have one. I don't think he has one currently, though, but I do remember Jordan had one. And Charlamagne, Angela Yee, and Envy, man, I appreciate y'all every single day that I go home. I make sure I tune in when I do my long 14-hour shift at this medical facility. When y'all talk about COVID and all that stuff, I'm the person that sends out the COVID test,

stuff like that. Clinical trials are for the biggest clinical trial company in North America. Okay, salute to you, King. That's important. Thank y'all. Appreciate y'all so much. Peace, King. Hello, who's this? Hey, this is Mike from

Brooklyn, New York. I'm in the country right now. What's up, brother? Get it off your chest. See, I just want to say, man, first of all, I want to say thank y'all all for doing a good show. You, Charlamagne, and you, Envy as well. My cousin was on your first mixtape from back in the day. Okay.

His name was Shahid. He was living on your block. Yeah, I know Shah in the day. Okay. His name was Shahid. He was from on your block. Yeah, I know Shahid lives overseas now. I still speak to Shahid. Yeah, he's here in the Philippines. In the Philippines. Yeah, I still speak to Shahid. Yeah, man.

Good thing. I just want to say, your show is great. I just want to say a couple things about the vaccines and the maskers. We all have a nose, throat, and mouth doctor when we have to go to the doctor. We all got to come out of the air, mouth, and nose if the mask is actually going to work. And if you can breathe through the mask, it's really not going to work because you can smell anything in the back and whatever the particles that people sneeze or go through, it goes through the mask regardless. We just got to do a better thing with keeping up our

immune system with vegetables and plant-based foods so we can do better in life overall. That's why I think they're trying to push us too. Okay, thank you for calling, my brother. I'm ready to show again, man. Alright, man. Have a good one. I don't have a problem with healthy diet advice.

That's right. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Wake up, wake up. Wake your ass up.

This is your time to get it off your chest. Whether you're mad or blessed, we want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? Hey, what's happening, DJ? It's me, they calling. Hey, what's up, brother? Get it off your chest. Hi, I got a shout out to Dr. McKelvey and everything he's doing with the Kettin' Heart

in the Audible series. How you doing, sir? Thank you, King. I appreciate that. Hi, I just have to shout out Angelina in the lip service. One of the first podcasts, you know, I ever listened to. Y'all wild. Okay,

thank you. Appreciate it. I guess. Thank you, brother. And, A.V., I met you at your car show and I got a picture with you.

I was so awkward on my phone, but you stood there and, you know, like, still took that picture and I appreciate that.

Now, I appreciate you for coming to the car show. Did you bring some family with you, your kids, your girl, or some peoples? I ain't got no kids. car show. Did you bring some family with you, your kids, your girl, or some peoples?

I ain't got no kids. No kids. You know, shout out to you, Envy and Charlamagne with the new babies and everything that's going on in y'all life.

Yes, indeed. I'll see you at the next car show, brother. Hey, for sure. Hey, y'all have a good one. You too. He was nice. He shouted out each one of us

and gave us some props. I appreciate that. That's nice. Thank you, bro. Good morning. Hello. Who's this? one of us and gave us some props. I appreciate that. That's nice. Thank you, bro. Good morning. Hello. Who's this? What's your name?

This is Jordan. Good morning, Breakfast Club. He's Jordan. You just celebrated your birthday yesterday. It's my birthday yesterday. I'm just joking. Go ahead. Oh, I was like, I wish it was.

Okay. I want to give a shout out to my boyfriend. I love you. Okay. And I want everybody, Breakfast Club family, please follow his Instagram. His name is Boom underscore Payroll. Boom underscore Payroll? Yes.

Okay, let me see who this guy is. It's Charlamagne, girl. I'm right here. How are you, queen? I love you. Oh, my gosh. You reposted me to your story. I got your hoodie, and I got your book, Black Privilege.

Thank you. I appreciate that. I appreciate you so much. Can you go like some of my pictures, please? What's the Instagram again? Huss's queen underscore Jordan 513. Queen underscore Jordan. That's my old page.

He love his girl. He posted, he said, the one and only woman in my life that satisfy me and cherish me and really cares about me. Thanks for being there for me since we've been together, baby. I love you. Aw. I love that.

Yes, period. You hold that down. Actually, let me ask, can you follow his Instagram, Charlamagne? What is it? It's Boom. Boom, shaka-laka, boom. Now, mama, I'm not gonna lie.

He posted that in 2020. It's two years now. He ain't posted nothing since. Okay, okay, I'm not going to lie. He posted that in 2020. It's two years now. He ain't posted nothing since. I know, but he still loves me. He needs to start posting more. He's about to. Yeah, he only has like six posts, and three of them are her. Yeah.

Did you follow him? Now, how long do I have to follow him now? This don't look interesting. This don't. Come on. Give him a chance. He got to post more. He ain't posted in two years. He got't look interesting. Come on. Give him a chance. He ain't posted in two years. He gotta be dedicated. I actually like his

style. I'm glad. I wish I didn't post in two years. I'm glad he not on social media like that. Will you at least follow him for like a month? I'm gonna pray on it. Let's see what he does. I'm gonna pray on it. He only got seven pictures, ma. It's like this ain't, you know.

Bye, Jordan. This ain't doing it for me, Jordan. Damn it, man. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1054. These are babies, too. They kids. We got rumors on the way.

She's like 21. Yes, and let's talk about Spotify. We'll tell you what Ava DuVernay has done. Also, how much they paid for Joe Rogan's podcast. Previously, we thought it was $100 million,

but it looks like that deal was actually worth a different number. A whole lot more. She's like 22. 22, I think. That's her age. She has a picture

of her 18th birthday. All right, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. Rumors on the way. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

Hey, guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my

podcast, Post Run High, is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories, their journeys, and the thoughts that arise once we've hit the pavement together. You know that rush of endorphins you feel after a great workout? Well, that's when the real magic happens. So if you love hearing real inspiring stories from the people you know, follow, and admire, join me every week for Post Run High. It's where we take the conversation beyond the run and get into the heart of it all. It's lighthearted, pretty crazy, and very fun. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Is your country falling apart? Feeling tired? Depressed? A little bit revolutionary? Consider this. Start your own country. I planted the flag. I just kind of looked out of like, this is mine. I own this. It's surprisingly easy.

55 gallons of water, 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am 55 gallons of water for 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen of Ladonia. I'm Jackson I, King of Kaperburg. I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia. Be part of a great colonial tradition. The Waikana tried my country.

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

We need help! We still have the off-road portion to go. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. And we're losing daylight fast. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-istan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. She's spilling the tea. This is the Rumor Report with Angela Yee on The Breakfast Club. All right, well, Ava DuVernay's Array Company has pulled out of their Spotify first look deal.

And so they actually had unveiled their multi-year agreement. They were going to promote inclusive storytelling and produce exclusive scripted and unscripted series. That deal was announced back in January of 2021. Now they are pulling out of that deal.

From what I hear from people who have production companies over there, it's just very hard to get things done. A lot of red tape you have to go through. Way too many people got to sign off, and no creative wants to be a part of that. It's the same reason the Obamas are talking about leaving. Nobody wants to feel stifled when they are creating. All right, well, they did have one show that they had announced,

but that show still hasn't happened, so it looks like nothing's going to happen there. And then for Joe Rogan, people were saying that he had done a $100 million deal with Spotify. But now the reports are that Spotify actually paid him $200 million. And that was for over three and a half years. So that was for the exclusive streaming rights to the Joe Rogan experience, according to a report by the New York Times that came out on Thursday. Yeah, I read that story in the New York Times and I didn't understand it because that information was always out there.

Like maybe because I pay attention to stuff like that, but when the deal was first announced, it was that it was like 200-plus opportunity to make more in bonuses. Right, they announced their exclusive deal a little under two years ago in May of 2020, but they did not reveal the value of the content. And then Joe Rogan released his first show

on that streaming service on September 1st of 2020. And then later on that year, he was exclusive to Spotify. Yeah, I mean, Joe Rogan as a podcast is an anomaly, though. Like, it's literally the biggest podcast in the world, audio and video wise. When it was on YouTube, it was, you know, popping. So, you know, Spotify paid for his audio and video. Now, as far as Spotify making money, they said podcast advertising accounts for 13% of their total revenue of 2021. And they had lost money for years.

They finally became profitable for the first time in history in 2019. But then the next year, it lost the equivalent of about $2.2 million every day. So those are just some numbers for you. All right. Now, Michael Rubin's Fanatics and Jay-Z and Lil Baby, Meek Mill, Maverick Carter,

and several other people have now purchased Mitchell & Ness. That's dope. So they're saying that it's an iconic brand with a limitless future. According to Michael Rubin's statement, he said, I'm incredibly excited for Fanatics to partner with this incredible group of innovative

owners to build upon the company's already strong business that has kept the brand culturally relevant for more than 100 years. How much did they pay for it? $250 million. That seems low, don't it? For Mitchell & Ness? I don't know if they bought it outright or a percentage of it, but I would say this.

I do pray that they you know, there's a lot of it, but I would say this. I do pray that they, you know, there's a lot of people that really connected Mitchell and Ness with the industry, with the athletes. And one of the gentlemen's name was Ruben. He was the one that he had the marketing genius to take it just outside of the old, you know, jerseys and just the old things that they used to do and actually give it to artists, give it to Wale, give it to Fabulous, give it to athletes, your Jordans, your Iversons and your Shacks, and give the jerseys to them so they can wear. And that's what really brought the company back. And I hope that they take care of that gentleman. I know he

has, I think, a restaurant out in Philly or a food truck out in Philly, Reuben. So they should take care of Reuben. Well, their brand was acquired from Juggernaut Capital Partners, and 75% of ownership is going to Fanatics. The 25% is for the other involved parties. Oh, can I get a better deal on my hats now? Mitchell and Ness does the Black Effect hats. You know, salute my guy Trent over there. So can I get a better deal on the hats? Well, Mitchell and Ness is still going to operate

as a separate entity within Fanatics. Oh, okay. So I guess whoever you deal with. And J. Cole has done a Dreamer, NBA, Mitchell and Ness authentic throwback jerseys collection too, by the way. So that's available also right now. It's the Dreamers takes on the designs of 16 different

NBA team jerseys. So the brand's logo replaces the name of the teams, but it has the same style and color combinations of like the Chicago Bulls, the Phoenix Suns, the Lakers, Boston Celtics, so on and so forth. I rock with Mitchell & Ness. Like I said, they make the black effect hats. And actually, those jerseys dropped today at noon.

If you want to get those. And salute to my guy Emery, too. He actually put that play together. Vegas Jones. Dropping a clothes bomb for Vegas Jones one time, man. Not sure if you guys saw this, but Matthew Stafford and his wife Kelly and their Los Angeles Rams are covering the medical expenses. And that is for a photographer.

She actually suffered an injury. She fell off the stage during the rally portion of the Super Bowl victory festivities that happened on Wednesday. Kelly Smiley is her name. She's a photo editor for the NFL, NHL, and NBA. She was stepping backwards to take a picture of Matthew Stafford and his wife, and she fell off the stage. If you saw the video of this, he just walked away when it happened. And then we don't know if he walked back over there. But people were upset that Matthew Stafford didn't try to help or anything. And the Staffords have since released a statement. They said they will take care of all of her hospital bills. They said

we've been in communication with Kelly Smiley since yesterday's incident and we are sorry for what happened. As we told Kelly, we will be covering all her hospital bills and replacing her cameras. We wish her a speedy recovery. And there was also a GoFundMe and they said they were asking for $30,000 to help get her back on her feet. Those donations are now over $45,000, but she did fracture her spine. Let me ask you a question.

I saw some of that video, right? There was a lot of people around. Why did people only get upset with Matthew Stafford because he didn't help? I don't know. Maybe because in the video she was taking the picture. I don't know. That makes zero sense to me. And we also don't know what happened after the camera stopped rolling because it cuts away after that.

So we don't know if he walked back over. I saw a video yesterday of a man pretending to be blind and he fell. And the two black people ran away from him. Because they didn't watch the video. Or whatever. No, they thought he was falling. Yeah, they thought he was falling. So they ran away from him. Because they didn't watch no video of something. Yeah, well, he did that flip. Or whatever. No, they thought he was falling. Yeah, they thought he was falling. So they ran away, too.

So, I mean, what do you expect somebody like Matthew Stafford to do in that situation? It was a lot of people around. Like, I don't get it. Like, we'd be so obsessed with celebrity,

and it's like, this celebrity didn't help me. It was mad people around. A lot of people didn't help. I agree. Well, we don't know if anybody did help. I'm sure somebody did.

But why is Matthew Stafford getting the blame for this, by the way? All right. Well, that is your rumor report. It makes zero sense to me. All right. Well, when we come back, we got front page news. What are we talking about, Yeezy? Well, let's talk about Charlamagne's Cowboys.

They actually had to pay $2.4 million. And we'll tell you why. They need to be paying me. That's what the Cowboys need to be doing. We'll get into that next. This is The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

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Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Let's get in some front page news. Where we start, Yeezy? Well, the Dallas Cowboys had to pay $2.4 million quietly to some cheerleaders who accused an executive, the Cowboys' former senior vice president, Richard,

how do you say his last name, Dollarimple? Dollarimple? I have no idea. They're saying that he slipped into their dressing room at the AT&T Stadium in 2015 and was basically taking images with his phone. According to ESPN, one of the accusing cheerleaders said she spotted him behind a partial wall with his iPhone extended toward to ESPN, one of the accusing cheerleaders said she spotted him

behind a partial wall with his iPhone extended toward them as they were changing their clothes. And then he got into the dressing room using a back entrance and his security key card. So that settlement was reached back in May of 2016

after the cheerleaders went to the team's human resources department and then they hired attorneys. And then that's when that settlement was made. Get your money? Mm-hmm. Sound like they deserve it to me. that's when that settlement was made. Get your money? Mm-hmm.

Sound like they deserve it to me. Can you imagine that, an executive at the place where you work, taking pictures of you while you're getting undressed? Get your money. I'm thinking about suing the Cowboys for compensation. Mm-mm. Now, Envy, you're in Cleveland, and I see there's some bad weather, but it is All-Star weekend.

What's going on out there? It's disgusting. When I landed, first of all, it's freezing in Cleveland right now, and it was snowing all night. So the roads are a little nasty, and the weather is cold, but they're saying that they're expecting a huge number of people to come to Cleveland this weekend. So we'll see.

For everybody traveling, I know I just got back from Atlanta last night. I had a lot of flight delays. So for people, I know it's an extended weekend. Just make sure you check your flights and see what's going on. All right. Now, a Brooklyn Street gang has been charged with taking more than $4.3 million in pandemic relief benefits. What they did, they used stolen identities and they filed 1,000 fraudulent pandemic unemployment claims, according to prosecutors. 11 members of the Wu gang were accused of filing more than $20 million in false benefit applications.

About a fifth of those were approved. The rest of them were not approved. And so they said the gang was ultimately caught in part because they were posting a lot of pictures and videos online. They were flashing gang signs, piles of cash, standing in front of luxury cars, including Lamborghinis and Benzes. So whose fault is that? It's their fault for committing the crime, and it's their fault for incriminating themselves via social media by showing everybody what they were doing.

Right? Ten of the 11 men, who are all 23 years old or younger, were taken into custody yesterday. They could not be reached for comment. It was not clear if they have yet retained attorneys, but they also had a song a music video on YouTube it's called Trapping Lord have mercy

and some of the lyrics are unemployment got us working a lot and so investigators are saying that is partly a reference to the fraud scheme

remember they don't want those lyrics we saw this big push to make sure that lyrics can't be used against you in court but in some situations you just dumb as hell

that's dumb as hell and that's what we said that's why like even if you're going you know you're fighting for rappers lyrics not to be used against you in court. Yeah, but in some situations, you're just dumb as hell. That's dumb as hell, and that's what we said. That's why, like, even if you're going, you know, you're fighting for rappers' lyrics not to be used in court. In situations like that, how can they not be? That's just stupid. Now, let me ask you a question. How old are those brothers?

You said what? How old are they? They all are either 23 or younger. Now, think about it like this. To fill out those applications, those applications are long, and you got to get a lot of information. Them brothers are smart. Just imagine if they used that smartness for good.

Well, they got a hold of the names, the birthdays, the social security numbers of 800 people, and then they use those names to submit nearly 1,000 claims to the New York State's Department of Labor for unemployment benefits. And also, when you hear Eric Adams say things he wanted to ban drill rap, that's what I said

the other day. Like, sometimes you're saving people from themselves because, you know, number one, they're not smart enough

to not commit the crimes in the first place, but then when they commit the crimes, they get on social media and they incriminate themselves. I'm about to look up

this song, Trappin' though, on YouTube. But all 11 men have been charged with conspiracy to commit access, device fraud,

and aggravated identity theft. How can you feel sorry for them in any way, shape, or form? They earned every bit of jail time that they're about to get. They did. Every bit. All right, well, that is your front page. Why do they even think this is legal? That's the strange thing that bugs me.

There was a time when we was growing up, at least we knew we were actually committing crimes. These people act like what they're doing is actually legal. But I'm wondering if they're thinking, well, maybe the police don't listen to this type of music or the police ain't going to follow me. It's rappers' fault. All these rappers that have been lying all these years about the crimes they was committing. All the real criminals said, well, you know what? Maybe we can just rap since they're rapping about a life that we really living. And if they can get away with it, we can get away with it, too.

The difference is they was lying. Okay? If I was a cop, right? And you was a cop, Charlamagne. You a cop. Wouldn't the first place... Envy, you was.

You are a cop, Envy. If the way with the first place you would look, wouldn't it be Instagram? Wouldn't it be social media? You tell us. At this point, yes.

It would be the first place. I don't even got to Northern Investigation. I don't even got to leave my house. I got to leave my crib. That's it. Just go right to Instagram. Just go right to social crib. That's it. Just go right to Instagram.

Click on my phone. That's it. Google. Give me an avatar of a woman with a BBL and follow all the rappers. Okay? Be in their DMs like, ooh, you doing it, boy. What else you got? Ooh, I'm trying to find this song.

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It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. That's right. Tray the truth. Yeah, I don't consider myself a guest. Nah, you feel me? He finally took a break from helping everybody else to put out some music.

You know what I mean? He finally took a break to get back to the rap, huh, Trey? Yeah, man. I got so much music sitting up over 2,000 unreleased records. I got to do something with it, man. Got to put them out. Start putting them out. United Streets of America out right now.

I was going to ask you, when I walked in there, I was telling you about, you know, I'm doing a car show in Houston. The first car show this year is going to be in Houston. Father's Day weekend.

You said, I'm fighting to be a father now. What's going on with that case? You know, because we see you with your children all the time. So what's happening with that one? That's just a frustrating situation

in itself. One, because, you know, that's my only daughter. She's been up here before, yeah. Yeah, you know, they know. That's why She's been up here before, yeah. Yeah, you know, I didn't know.

That's why I didn't understand. I was like, well, when did that happen? When did that disconnect happen? Yeah,

that's the thing. It never, the relationship with me and my child never happens. It just becomes when people get involved in between.

I'm a natural fighter in general, so for me to be dealing with what I'm dealing with with my daughter and make you feel weak in a sense because it's like, with what I'm dealing with with my daughter, it make you feel weak in a sense because it's like, man, like, I don't play by my kids. But

it's been going on, it's going on four months I ain't seen my daughter, man. Four months? First it started off quote-unquote money inconvenience. But I mean, you know, I do what I'm supposed to do. I do my child's support and my child don't need for nothing. My child got basically her own house. She got everything she need when she come to Texas. I do my child's support and my child don't need for nothing. My child got basically her own house. She got everything

she need when she come to Texas. Then next it goes to oh, it's COVID around. COVID not going nowhere. And how is everybody else getting to see my child but me? And I'm her flesh and blood father. So it just become irritating, man. Let's get to FaceTime or speak to her

through the phone or? Whenever they want to answer. Yeah, I saw you post that video recently Where they weren't answering for like four days That's a whole bunch more that ain't even posted Oh wow But you know I'm going to tell you why I do that In a lot of cases With fathers and kids

When some of these kids get older They tend to question Why you didn't fight for me Or why you didn't fight as hard for me and um two things one i needed to be documented so my daughter know don't ever think it was a day that went by that i wasn't thinking of fighting for you and also to give the fire fuel to some of these other parents need man because believe it or not more people can relate to that than anything and not just only fathers.

There's some mothers that's in situations of fathers, but you know, it's a frustrating situation, man, and I feel like regardless if I care to get along with you or I don't, anything, even if we never say one word to each other, it shouldn't affect me being able to be the father

I need to be. I get up and fly to L.A. every month. I sit at that airport all day, excited, waiting to see my daughter jump back on the plane. Baby, true. To come spend time, you know what I'm saying? I know that because I follow you

and I see you all the time going to do that. At the beginning of the phases in court, the judge that we had then, he enabled the situation. He was letting a lot of stuff slide, go to where they got comfortable. And now I show up to LA and I'll be at the airport

and my daughter never show up and I have to fly back by myself. And it's so crazy. Everybody knows me for this. So the workers there, the flight attendants, they be just as heartbroken because they be expecting her to come.

And when they see me coming back by myself, I got to take that walk of shame, which I'm not tripping because I'm still going to fly out there to go try and get my daughter. But it's just like, it's just a heartbreaking situation in general. So question, when you go, you know, and just to say the first time that happened, what did you think was going on when you was like, well, they not bringing her? Like, is she not showing up? Man, only because you're my brother, being honest.

That was a different type of anger I had. You know what I'm saying? I ended up talking to my little sister, my lawyer, they like, come back. Because, you know, their first mind is the he's going to leave this airport, he's going to go get his baby one way or the other. And in my mind, I feel that's what I'm supposed to do. But I

also, I've grown to the point, I'm real smart. I have to strategize a different type way because all it takes is one time. Like right now, they got so much stuff stacked against them and they ain't been held accountable for it. But one little thing for me stripped me from everything, from truth, and I can't gamble. You know, man, I'm one of the strongest people ever. My kids is my weakness. What is the attorney saying? Have you been to court? Because I know courts usually don't favor the father. You know, man, I'm one of the strongest people ever. My kids is my weakness.

What is the attorney saying? Have you been to court? Because I know courts usually don't favor the father. So it's a crazy situation because I've been trying to go to court since December, man. And with the COVID, it's so backed up. Like right now, I believe I have a court date in less than a week. And we had to keep fighting for that because it was saying there was a court date that was going to come March sometime. It's like, man, that's going on four months.

That's 120 days without, I don't even know how my daughter smell at this point. You got to realize kids can grow in a matter of a month. And so in four months, bro, it's like, I don't, you know what I'm saying? And I feel like my biggest fear is it can affect our bond. You know what I'm saying? Like I got a song I'm like my biggest fear is it can affect our bond you know I'm saying like I got a song I'm gonna put out Friday just me venting call I hope it don't change

you cuz that's my biggest feel like right now she'll call and whenever she do call on the iPad you know we'll talk sometimes she really I know I don't miss you no I don't love you what as mad as I would be it's just like she don't know no better right now because everybody yeah I feel like she know the relationship we got and I know once I get in the vicinity to get my baby I'm good you know what I'm saying

yeah I definitely know my daughter ain't never did that you gotta realize I ain't never I've never whooped none of my kids every child I'm the father that they run behind because they know I'm going to give them whatever they want. And I'm going to move mountains for them. You know what I'm saying? I think one of the frustrativeness parts of it was talking to her.

And at one point you hear her say, Daddy, I want to come home. Not in, she's not in a crying way. She just said said in the normal just her you know because kids express they sell but soon as she said i catch it but i want to make sure i caught it right so i'm like hey what you say and she look up and she look at me and she's not saying i say no no look at me i say what you said and she won't say nothing so then she started she had a lollipop she She started moving her arm around it. Signs of nervous, you know what I'm saying?

Like she did something like she in trouble at this point. That's a different type that make you feel some type way. Cause it's like, and I asked her for at least two, three minutes straight. She would never say it again. You know what I'm saying? I feel like that can be that for me on the outside. I can't speak for everybody.

I feel like that could be damaging because now my child's scared to express herself freely. You know what I'm saying? I'm the type, man, I don't care who it is. You say what you want to say. And if they got a problem, your daddy coming. But it's just a hard situation because, again, I haven't got to. Like, I'm flying Sunday. And pray she show up to the airport.

If she don't show up to the airport, I got to take it on the chin, come back because I can't jeopardize to be set up to where I got to get walked out of her life. So you flying because that's your visitation time? Yeah. So all this is on paperwork. I'm supposed like it's, that's the crazy thing. The paperwork is already there.

You bucking the system now. I ain't do my part on the paperwork, man. The people that are hungry. Lock you up. I pay child support. If my child support ain't paid the paperwork, man. Them people are the homies. Lock you up. I pay child support. If my child support ain't paid on time, guess what? They coming to get you. They coming to get me.

So it's like, it's a messed up situation. I'm paying child support and I can't tell you nothing about what's going on with my child. I can see why you put the ski mask back on now, Dre. Now I see why you got the ski mask back on. Think about it like this. He ain't speak to his daughter in four months. He goes to the airport every time for his daughter. Doesn't get up, but continues to go back.

Yeah, I'm not going to stop going. Some days I may get mad. I may call 12 times in a row. I know my daughter had an iPad, but I don't call every single day no more because I feel like that's starting to take its toll on me. You know what I'm saying? Because now you get frustrated.

Like you ain't returning the call. You ain't doing none of that. So now, you know i'm saying because now you get frustrated like like you ain't returning the car you ain't doing none of that so now you know i i call but i make sure i document when i call so at least if nobody else know a matter truth and know hey don't think i wouldn't you know i'm saying so in a situation like that if you didn't do what you were supposed to do they would lock you up they would put liens on your property. They would garnish your wages. So what happens if the mother doesn't do what she's supposed to do? Does the same thing happen on the other side? Well, it haven't.

You know what I'm saying? So we got a new judge now. I go to court Tuesday. I can only hope this judge do right by that because this is a court order we both signed. And you bugging the system. Like, I'm going to do it. Not only that, I just got served. So not only are they now the Biden by the court order in Texas, now they serving me saying, well, I don't even want to deal with that no more.

I want to make sure residency is in California right now. So they just, they bucking in every way. But I got to sit back and wait and see what they do with them. All right, we got more with Trader Truth when we come back. Don't move. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy and Angela Yee. Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Trader

Truth. Charlamagne? Let's shift gears a little bit. Shout out Baby Truth. Baby Truth. I mean, this news ain't no better, but you was in a car accident. You got hospitalized because of the incident. How'd that recover? I got hospitalized, but I didn't have to stay down the crazy thing i was good i was on my feet as everything was normal man that had to be adrenaline because a day or so later everything started falling apart i got a knee brace on when you walked in i saw you moving

a little slow yeah man they had because they had me on crutches because my knee was dislocated. You know what I'm saying? What happened in the accident for people that don't know? This is so crazy. I was at the airport all day in L.A. waiting to get through. No, man. Never showed up. I ended up having to fly back here.

And when I flew back, ESTG and Kodak was at a place called Camp. And I just wanted to pull up up scream at them for a few and as I'm leaving to go to the house somebody hit me and the whole Maybach spent and then it went up on two wheel the crazy thing I feel like everything was in slow motion that my first time it was just being in the wreck but when it went up on two wheels you know when you know something hit you you brace I was just being in the wreck. But when it went up on two wheels, you know, when you know something hits you, you brace. I was just prepared, thinking we finna start tumbling,

but God said different. It came back down, and I was good to walk away until I got to that hospital. It was like, yeah. I know you were thinking, man, if I would've picked up my daughter like I was supposed to,

I wouldn't have been out tonight. I'd been out. Definitely wouldn't have been out. I'd have been at home, out the way. Yeah. Damn. Damn.

The new album, United Streets of America. What made you take it back to the streets in that way? I mean, you're always in the street, but, you know, in this way. The scheme-ass way. Because the thing is, man, you never forget where you come from or what's in you. That's always going to be in me. You know, it's embedded in me to the death. But what I did was, you know, I'm a natural big homie.

So the reason it's called True Season for everything that I had going on. If y'all look at the last year, I had so many accomplishments that you know where I come from. The stuff that ain't supposed to happen for me like that. The billboard. Yeah. From having my own Hot Wheel to everything.

And it was like, you know, God showing signs that this is my season. So, of course, I always get back. So what I did was I said, I'm going to do the tape. I'm going to do them by states. So the first one is the Michigan edition. All the homies who remind me of me, some may have a bigger buzz, some may have the smallest of the small.

It doesn't matter. So you got a bunch of songs with Ice Will Vezo. Yeah, that's my little brother. So Ice Will'sezo. Yeah, that's my little brother. Slutty Vezo. So Ice Will's on a whole bunch. That's a solid brother right there, man. Slutty Vezo. Yeah, yeah, definitely.

And I'm pretty sure he'll tell you the same. You know, that's my little brother, man. Shout out to him. And, you know, I stand behind everything he got going on. Everybody a part of the tape. You know, Babyface Ray. Shout out to him. You know, his project going right now

baby money just signed with qc you got peasy um snapdog payroll giovanni east side egg roll what else we got on that uh louis ray if i'm forgetting somebody to correct me because yeah peasy snap then only two from houston is nephew Nico and my brother J-Tone, which J-Tone project come out this Friday too, you know what I'm saying? I felt like that was something important for me. Next up is Houston, you know what I'm saying? I'm getting that one together, then

it's either going to be Georgia or California. You've been around for 20 plus years. Easily. I'm going another 20. How do you think hip hop has evolved since you started? I think it grows and elevates all the time because somebody was just talking to me about just black culture in general and kids.

And it's like, just think of the generation that may have came after us. They were starting to be advanced. But now you have some of these kids that's one thirdthird of their age doing things that we still probably haven't accomplished. So with that being said, in the industry, man, I always tip my hat to them because that's why I embrace so many.

Because people be like, man, you did with the younger artists, the old artists. I'm just one of the people that I embrace. But it's like you have to think, giving credit where credit is due. If it wasn't for some of these younger artists, some people wouldn't know about what going viral is. Because some of the younger artists actually showed me with me being banned, right? They showed me you still can figure out ways to sell out shows,

sell records, and do everything else without having to even focus on that side of the globe. So I definitely think the industry is only getting more and more advanced. Does that band even still matter to you? It don't matter to me no more. It's there. But it don't matter to me no more, man. It doesn't stop you for anything you do in the city or with your projects? I think the fight I got in me and the fire I got in me, it ain't going to stop.

Because now, as a brand, you ain't going to find them bigger than me when you come that way. Because whether it be the music, whether it be the business, whether it be the front line fighting for the people, whether it be the community side to where, y'all know I got my own sports league. I got Four Corners Boxing Gym, the ice cream shop I have with my partner, Roger, that employs special needs. I have so many different things, let alone bump box.

We got licensed to UFC, NFL, soccer, baseball. So it's so many different things that we got going on. It's just like, I just love to hustle, though. We don't talk about Bone Box enough, man. I don't think people realize that's your

company. They see these big radios everywhere. You see them at the games. You say you're a Super Bowl. You know, but it's like... Outside the breakfast club. It's ours right there. You know, it's so crazy. I just looked at y'all got the original. That was when we first started, man. You know, the crazy thing is there's only one

and there's three of us, so we can't take it home, we just gotta leave it but i like it there though i mean it's been there for years it's like absolutely but it's like i don't think people realize that's trade of troops company we started that company we were worth probably eighty thousand dollars man and that was for us that's a lot because you know it's a company now they appraise us close to a hundred million right now wow now i mean stuff like that you got to celebrate because it's like, you know, there's so much to you. And, you know, a lot of times when people, we wait till people transition and start talking about everything that they doing. And everybody knows what you do in the community. Everybody knows the music, but they don't know how great a businessman you are.

I got, man, I'm always trying to think of different things. But my biggest, like I said, my biggest is to open this emergency children's shelter. And at this point, I'm going to try and get to a point where I can open up some type of school or real community center just for some of the youth. And lately, I've been getting real in tune with mental health. So, of course, I'm just being real with you. When people used to bring that to us, we used to think, hey, they only talking about crazy people. You know what I'm saying? But

90% of us really do be going through that. Like me, I get in my phase sometimes, I may want to just sleep or stay in my room, just not be bothering. And that's a form of that, you know what I'm saying? Because you can look at it as depression, you can look at it as me getting away from everybody. So I think a lot of people don't really understand.

All of us probably have, and we just have to know how to embrace it and how to deal with it. So I'm definitely diving into that to start trying to figure out how to help some of the little homies, you know what I'm saying? Man, if you need somebody to talk to, let me know. Vezo, I sent him out to this place called Inception in Farmington Michigan him and Chico went out there and like that

opened up his eyes to a lot of the trauma that he hadn't been been dealing with so he's been he's been investing in his mental wealth lately I gotta commend you for even being able to get somebody to go do that I think the hardest part is just accepting it you know what I'm saying?

I don't think, honestly, I don't think I'm prepared to go sit down and talk with nobody. I think I'm just used to dealing with my idea with it. But you don't have to, though, Trey. That's the point. You go and pack some of this stuff. You know what I mean? And you'd be surprised. Like, man, the stuff we went through ain't normal.

You done been shot. You know what I'm saying? You got a long list. You got a long list of traumas that you probably haven't never dealt with. You know?

And you just been suppressing. I guess the reason I be cool because my music is just a form. As long as I can do that, I lay that out there. You know what I'm saying?

So I've always been cool with that. But me and you talk off record and we'll figure it out. Take that next step, definitely. Well, let's get into a joint.

What you want to hear, Trey? Whatever you want to play, man. Let's play Shake Em Off then. You want to play Shake Em Off? We can do that too, man. Shake Em Off. Shake Em Off featuring Babyface.

I can't wait to the Georgia project too. I need to hear you and Tip back together. I need to hear you and Duvall. You and Duvall in a minute.

He's crazy ass. He all in the music. And me and him, so me and Duvall, we be having conversations. We have just real life conversations. And I gotta salute him

because you know when my niece Lyric died, he came to support me. He was there. Actually, he performed at the funeral. We got real history, so shout out to him.

But one thing I will say, I always get on his ass though because he don't feel to nothing and I be telling him sometimes, bro, like, no. He don't feel to nothing. And I be telling him sometimes, bro, like, no. He don't care.

And what's trade day this year? Yeah. So it's July 22nd. I don't even know if y'all know. So they gave me two trade days now.

So it's July 22nd and the 24th. It was so much going on last trade day nobody realized. They just made July 24th trade day. Oh, wow, wow, wow.

So it's the 22nd and the 24th for trade-in. All right. Well, we appreciate you for joining us, brother. Trade the truth. Yeah, yeah, for sure. You know you need us. We here for you. Always.

I appreciate y'all for having me, man. All right. Well, let's trade the truth. Trade the truth. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Listen up. It's just in.

All the gossip. Gossip. The Rumor Report. Gossip. With Angela Yee. It's the Rumor Report. The Breakfast Club. All right, well, Pusha T was recently on 360 with Speedy Mormon.

Who's our guy, Speedy? Yes, and one of the things that he talked about was posting his contract. Now, a lot of people were saying, oh, he's off good music, and he's on good terms with Kanye, though, because they've never not been on good terms but he did say that his next full length will complete his record contract with Def Jam and the label has been great but here's what he said about posting that contract and people speculating I posted a contract and you know people were like oh my god he's leaving good

oh he's leaving Def Jam or whatever but actually the contract was yay signing over my profits from my back catalog and the profits for this album as well. Just straight to me. Real one. Yeah. So it wasn't it wasn't anything bad. It was like it didn't say like, oh, I ain't messing. You just like, no, look, you just take the money. Oh, you know.

OK, that's honorable. Right. He said, he also said that there's no album that's better than mine this year. And so it's going to be

dropping sometime in the next two to three months. And half of it is produced by Kanye. The other half is produced by the Neptunes. I mean, it's very early to say that,

but from what I've heard, I can see why he would say that. Yeah, I can see that. I can see why he would say that. The production is can see that. I can see why he would say that. Production is going to be on 10, so you know that. Here's what he also had to say about Drake and Kanye making up and his own issues during that time period. Ye and him squash any interest in looking past what was

and looking forward to what's to come? Oh, I've already looked past that. I don't looked past that. I don't look towards that anymore. Not looking towards it, but is there a chance bygones will be bygones? Oh, bygones are bygones. As far as I see.

I mean, you know, and I think that's really good that they did squash it. That works really good for them. Did you know that that was happening? Because it took everyone else by surprise because it happened very quickly. Of course. He just told me, and I told him that might be good for you.

That might be good for you. I love King Push, man. Shout out to Pusha T. Very diplomatic, Pusha. Very diplomatic. You're not going to catch me. Very sarcastic. Very diplomatic.

Good job, too, Speedy. Drop one of the clues bombs for me, man. My guy, Speedy. Speedy be out here cooking. All right. Now, Kanye West has announced that Donatoo will be released exclusively on his Stem Player. He posted Donatoo will only be available on my own platform, not on Apple, Amazon, Spotify, or YouTube.

Today, artists get just 12% of the money the industry makes. It's time to free music from this oppressive system. It's time to take control and build our own. Go to StemPlayer.com now to order. And he also put out this snippet. Why you so scared of somebody find out? I am a flex. I am the sun.

Don't put your mind down. I am the best. You at the top. I am the best. You at the top. They're going blind now. You're the best. I got the best. Born on a blind night. Blind night. Blind, blind, blind, blind. All right.

And he's also going to be putting that out, as you know, on Tuesday, February 22nd. That was a song? That's what he posted with the announcement. I can't get jiggy to that one. Yeah, I got to hear more because that ain't going to make me sign up to the stem cell program. What is it called? Stem Players. Stem Players.

I thought he still has a distribution deal through Def Jam. Listen, I don't know how he's doing this, but maybe it is still on Def Jam, but it's on the stem player. So they'll get paid off for that. I can't get jiggy to that one. That ain't the one. That wasn't the one to push me to a new platform. All right, well, he's also going to be performing that day in Miami, FYI. Miss Cleo.

If you guys don't know who Miss Cleo is, she's from the 90s, and she was an infomercial psychic. Legend. Call me now. Here it is. Don't you really want to know? Okay, I was wondering who the father of my baby was. Legend. All right, let's take a the father of my baby was. Legend. All right, let's take a look.

The Miss Cleo DNA test. I'm solely searching for the father of your baby. The cards can reveal things that you will never see by yourself. Call me now for your free tarot reading. They're doing a documentary on Miss Cleo. They said that she bought in over a billion dollars in paper call sales

for the Psychic Readers Network. You have no idea how excited I am to see this. I cannot wait to see this. And I didn't even know I needed this until I saw that they announced that they were doing

a Miss Cleo documentary. And that's exactly what I wanted to know. How much money did Miss Cleo make? I don't think she made all the money, though. You don't think so?

No, I think it was somebody else. Yeah, she was on the Psychic Friends Network, so they hired her to actually do those commercials. She was a worker, but man, could you imagine a person that owned that network? Because Carla Baddow is classic.

It's crazy, too, because they got an episode where she talks about this documentary coming out in 2022. Yo, shut up. What? All right, now, rumor has it, Wendy Williams is getting close again to her ex-husband, Kevin Hunter. So, not sure how true or not

this is, but there's an article on Radar Online that says Wendy has no one in her life but Kevin. She never had close friends and hasn't spoken with her staff in months after her mom died. Wendy didn't even have a family. All she has is Kevin and the son they share together, so he's back in her life again out of necessity.

He might not have treated her right in the past, but when he was in her life, none of this crazy stuff happened. He would never have allowed her bank to freeze her assets and would have made sure Wendy went to work each day. So those are the reports. We have yet to see evidence of this, but that is according to Radar Online.

And Atlanta, Donald Glover's show Atlanta is coming to an end after. And Atlanta, Donald Glover's show Atlanta, is coming to an end after its fourth season. Donald Glover spoke at the Television Critics Association's winter press tour and explained, death is natural. I feel like when the conditions are right for something, they happen. And when the conditions aren't right, they don't happen.

I don't feel any longevity because then things start to get weird. The story was always supposed to be what it was and the story, it really was us. Everybody in that writer's room, everybody on set, it really was what we were going through and what we talked about. I think it ends perfectly. I respect that.

And the reason I respect that is because that lets you know that he's doing it just for the art. That means that he had a beginning, a middle, and an end. And he knows exactly the story he wanted to tell and how he wanted to end it. I respect that. Because a lot of times people stick around too long just for the money. All right, and last but not least,

congratulations to everybody involved with the show Harlem. They have been renewed for a second season from Amazon Studios. Shout out to everybody there. This is Tracy Oliver's comedy. It has been renewed. That's dope. I can't wait to watch. Drop on the Clues bombs for Tracy Oliver

and Macy Good and everybody over there involved in Harlem. Grace Byers. Yes, everybody that's on that show. Really, really dope. I haven't watched it yet. I need to check it out. My wife watched it. It's really good. My wife there involved in Harlem. Grace Byers. Yes, everybody that's on that show. So really, really dope. I haven't watched it yet. I need to check it out. It's really good. Yeah, my wife said it's good. Alright, and that is your rumor report. The comedy I'm on right now is Abbott Elementary. Lord have mercy, Abbott Elementary. It's so funny.

I was watching Abbott Elementary last night. I gotta watch that. Oh, it's hilarious. Alright. Well, who are you giving your donkey to? Oh, man. Four after the hour. Cynthia Perkins, 36 years old. She needs to come to the front of the congregation. We like to have a word with her. Only thing I'm going to say to y'all is sperm-filled cupcakes.

Let's talk about it. We'll discuss. Oh, my goodness. All right. We'll get to that next. It's the breakfast club. My mouth ain't watering. Breakfast club.

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It's the donkey of the day. You can see donkey, donkey. I'm going to be born today. It's that day. It's that time for the donkey of the day for Friday, February 18th goes to 36-year-old Cynthia Perkins. I don't know what's going on in the world anymore. I truly don't. This isn't the earth that I grew up

in okay nothing makes sense and I'm blaming it all on repressive uh regimentation okay I'm telling you the human mind in this era has been altered and is being controlled by a certain psychological technique and I really think that technique is stemming from social media okay I don't care what anyone says in the future we are all going to see the impact of the smartphone on the human brain all right smartphones make for dumb people sick people okay social media has brainwashed us it has reduced our ability to think critically it is it has reduced our ability to think independently has changed our attitudes values and beliefs because i don't know why for the life of me somebody would believe they have to put sperm in cupcakes and serve it to kids.

You heard me right. Cynthia Perkins, or Pervy Perkins, what they call her, was out here putting cuckoo spit in the cupcakes. All right. Human custard in cupcakes. It is daddy sauce in the ding-dongs, people. All right. After hearing this story,

you might never look at a delicious hostess chocolate cupcake the same ever again. Hell, all the orange-flavored ones. All right? After hearing this story, you might never look at a delicious hostess chocolate cupcake the same ever again. Hell, all the orange-flavored ones are a Twinkie. Anything with a cream filling, you're going to look at and wonder if it's man-child or inside. All right? You will never look at anything with cream filling the same ever again. Let's go to WBRZ ABC2 for the report, please.

In a shocking development, Perkins agreed to a plea deal, admitting her involvement in a child rape. But her defense says the real monster in this case is yet to be tried. SHOCKING DEVELOPMENT. PERKINS AGREED TO A PLEA DEAL, ADMITTING HER INVOLVEMENT IN A CHILD RAPE. BUT HER DEFENSE SAYS THE REAL MONSTER IN THIS CASE IS YET TO BE TRIED. rape and one count of mingling of substances. Originally facing more than 70 counts, the Attorney General's office agreeing to cut that down only if she agreed to testify against her ex-husband Dennis Perkins. The couple are accused of filming and raping a child as well as feeding treats tainted with Dennis's semen to her students back in 2019. What the hell kind of sick-ass satanic ritual is happening here? I have so many questions, and one of those questions is, who discovered there was clam sauce in the cupcakes? And I know these types of people have always existed.

We've heard of some of these types of sex crimes, but what is the point of putting your husband's semen in cupcakes? What kind of sick-ass fetish is that? Peanut butter prick juice cupcakes?, vanilla slong jelly-filled cupcakes. You're about to do 41 years because your husband put his sperm in Little Debbie's to give to Little Debbie. Not just Lil' Debbie, Lil' Bill, Lil' Wayne, Lil'

John. Not the rappers, the kids, the students in this junior high school that your wife used to work at. By the way, Cynthia was a teacher. A teacher! And cynthia was a teacher a teacher and her husband was a deputy at the livington parish sheriff's office these are the people we are trusting with our children these are the people we are trusting to protect and serve these are supposed to be the leaders in our community and you wonder why people don't know where the hell they're going

because they don't know because we don't know who we really following. Okay? We doomed. Alright? Please give Cynthia Perkins and her ex-husband Dennis Perkins the biggest hee-haw. This is... I don't even know, bro. Mothers need to whip her ass. Could you imagine your child

eating one of them sperm cupcakes? I mean, that's just on, and that's on top of all the other sex crimes that her and her husband was doing. And this is a teacher, and her husband was a deputy sheriff. Like, these are the people that we following? That these people in that community

was supposed to be following? That's crazy. You never know who you're really following. Just like when you eat at certain people's house, you never know what you're really swallowing. Be careful, okay? They out there putting, you know, nizzle drizzling and nut butter in the cupcakes, all right? Like, come on, man.

Like, this is some sick-ass satanic ritual type of stuff. Like, what is happening in the world? My goodness, all right. Well, thank you for that donkey of the day. We hear stories about people eating kids. Now they got them eating their kids. Pizza gate, cupcake gate. What is happening out here in these streets?

Alright. Well, when we come back, we have John Cohen joining us. Now, John Cohen is a minority that owns his own NASCAR racing team. I just called it New York Racing Team. It's not too many minorities that own NASCAR's racing team, but he owns one. He's from Newark, New Jersey. It's not too many minorities that own NASCAR racing team,

but he owns one. He's from Newark, New Jersey. He's going to tell you how he came up, how he came up, how he purchased the team and how he just recently qualified to race in the Daytona 500, which happens this weekend.

It's pretty big. Not too many minorities that have their own racing team. I think he's the only one I said, I think they said Jordan, but I don't even know if Jordan has his own team still, but we'll talk to John when we come back. Good brother. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. 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.

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There's 55 gallons of water for 500 pounds of concrete. Everybody's doing it. I am King Ernest Emmanuel. I am the Queen of Ladonia. I'm Jackson I, King of Kaperburg. I am the Supreme Leader of the Grand Republic of Mentonia. Be part of a great colonial tradition. Why can't I trade my own country? My forefathers did that themselves.

What could go wrong? No country willingly gives up their territory. Well, why can't I trade my own country? My forefathers did that themselves. What could go wrong? No country willingly gives up their territory. I was making a rocket with a black powder, you know, with explosive warhead. Oh my God. What is that? Bullets. Bullets.

We need help! We still have the off-road portion to go. Listen to Escape from Zakistan. And we're losing daylight fast. That's Escape from Z-A-Q-a-stan on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Now we got a special guest joining us. Yes, indeed. Black History Month, the brother John Cohen. Welcome, brother.

I appreciate you guys having me. Appreciate you. Yes, indeed. clothing and I felt like I wanted to do something different so I was into racing from Newark you know um that was a big racing drag racing and just growing I just want to do something different so um I got with some guys down in North Carolina built my team and now I'm in the cup series from there so NASCAR is not I always looked at NASCAR as a good old boys club you know what I mean so even to be an owner was it hard was the process hard especially when I started because I was the only one when i first started besides brad doherty but he was a part owner of a team that had um traditionally um people that was already in the sport so for me started out by myself it was my everybody thought i was crazy i'm a former cavalier brad doherty yeah okay yeah so he was pretty much the only other black owner there at the time you know and

he he helped me a lot with different situations when i asked him about stuff he was definitely one of the people i could reach out to and talk to but besides that at the time it was nobody else represented especially from the inner city like i was what got you into nascar like you know you're from newark i'm from new york we don't ever see nascar the only thing we've seen for nascar was back in the day when you have the m&m jackets or the shell racing jackets so what got you were you watching NASCAR as a kid or were you into it so I went to Granville State University right and then I got homesick so I transferred to Delaware State for a little while and at Delaware State Dover um raceway is right across the street so like one of my first semesters there I walked

across the street and saw a race and I was like it's crazy you know but at the time we was always I was into motorcycles drag racing so once I felt like I can catch that lane into NASCAR I just jumped right on it and do you just buy a car and say NASCAR is it like sports where you have to get a franchise like how does it so when I first started it was it was just you know building your own cars you know and and um with respect to NASCAR specs but now we have a charter system where if you come in you have to buy a charter you know and I um with respect to nascar specs but now we have a charter system where if you come in you have to buy a charter you know and i i wasn't one of the you know uh the grandfather teams actually get a charter so i'm working on that now so i run as an open team what are the duties of a nascar owner uh just make sure pick the right driver start with that then

sponsorship which is the biggest play in nascar and then just building a team around at pit crews if you notice now in NASCAR most of the pit crew members are black and you know that's due you know um the diversity department with Phil Horton and Dion Rocco Williams they came in you know created a whole base for athletes coming from other sports coming pit crew so my thing and now for me for being in NASCAR I want to bring more engineers and and um crew chiefs of color into NASCAR. We don't have any. So I work with the Urban Racing School of Philadelphia. It's a STEM program I'm doing.

I'm trying to build kids from there up into the higher parts of NASCAR. We don't represent anything when it comes to the smart side of NASCAR. And when I say that, the smarts are the engineer and the crew chiefs. Because those guys make a lot of money. Some crew chiefs make a million dollars a year at NASCAR. Wow. that to sponsor the engineer and the crew chiefs because those guys make a lot of money some crew chiefs make a million dollars a year in nascar wow so you have to handle everything from nascar traveling bringing the nascar from state to state handling the pit crew you have to pay for all that so how do you get your investment back how do you get your money back um it comes from like just like football you know we get paid for the race from the tv rights and sponsorship but for me

sponsorship is the hardest thing to deal with because a lot of times when you talk to brands, like, have you won yet? And I'll be like, no, I haven't won yet. So they're like, well, when you win, you know, we'll jump on.

But it takes money to win. Like, you just can't win without. And I feel like me being African-American and being the only fully minority-owned team in the highest level of NASCAR, I feel like a lot of companies

I should be representing a lot more different than what I'm getting from them. Describe your experience as a black owner in a white male dominated sport. So a lot of times me being an owner, like a lot of these fans, even black fans and white fans don't know who I am because my last name is Cohen. So they don't put that as black. And then two, you know, when you walk around, they don't realize that you're owner so a lot of times I had incidents that I'd be at the track and I see two white owners going one way and I go that same way and then security stopped me and tell me I can't go that way and I saw my past like I'm owner you're like

no you still got to go that way and I'd be in a big argument you know I have to call NASCAR security and this is not like NASCAR's this is so it's NASCAR security then it's track security. So a lot of the tracks be people from them areas that they see black people. They're not really, especially when I first started. It's gotten a lot better now. It's just NASCAR. NASCAR has really transformed in the last couple years

to how they look in bringing other people into the sport. Now, have you won a race yet? And how does it work? Does first prize get this amount of money? Second prize, please get this amount of money second prize please get this amount of money third prize yeah so for example if you win a daytona 500 which is the 20th um you win 1.8 million dollars to win that race the last place if you finish is uh 300 000 so you get paid regardless so you're in that race yes okay yeah well i have to qualify him but yeah i'm in that race has ascon made much of an outreach to black black black communities um they have recently in in a couple years i mean they i mean really didn't have that

base but after honestly after george floyd and everything happened and the incident with uh bubba kind of put the news hanging yeah it came over outlet of so brandon thompson he's he runs a um diversity and inclusion of nascar, so he actually reaches out to different people. We raced in L.A. this weekend, so they had Ice Cube perform. They had Pitbull. Also, Jemele Hill there. They're bringing different people out. Oh, yeah, I saw that on Instagram, Jemele.

Yeah, they're bringing different people out to show NASCAR is just not a good old sport anymore. They're trying to bring more people. I don't know why black and brown people are not into it because we like cars. Love cars. You know what I mean? Love cars. Love speed. You know what I mean? Love cars. Love speed. Look at Envy.

Exactly. I was also going to ask, when it comes to getting some of these people to endorse you and to sponsor you, how difficult is it? Because, I mean, we see all these companies. We see M&M's give money. We see gas stations give money. We see car companies give money. We see beverage companies give money. How difficult is it to get get that money it's difficult i mean it's difficult one dealing with you know

cmos trying to get them to get on board and honestly for me it's more difficult dealing with black cmos and you know i because they did the first thing they think is like oh it's not sexy enough for me like i for me like we made the kby sexy. So, like, if we can do anything, you know, black people make anything sexy. And we put our mind to it. So, it's just them looking at it a different light. Everything, I feel like everybody jumps onto the same thing. Like, traditionally, when somebody made headphones, everybody made headphones. When somebody came out of vodka, everybody came out of vodka.

So, I feel like I'm doing something totally different, something totally new. It's all black-owned. It's all I run the team. It's not like I need somebody else to understand what's going on in the sport. NASCAR respects me in that light. So for me, I just don't understand why most companies won't see what I'm doing more. You know, I'm trying to say this respectfully. It's because a lot of those companies are d*** riders.

You know what I mean? 1,000%. And they got to see what everybody else thinks of something before they jump on one thousand percent yeah and that's the word and that's the problem with most of society until they see it like like this man got monster yesterday watch how many brands jump on his car show yeah you know what i mean it's just it's just how it is it's like they don't nobody wants to jump on board until two call today actually what about early yeah which is crazy yeah but nobody wants to jump on board until somebody else does. You know, it's just like a girl. They don't want

to be with you unless you're with a fly girl. It's just crazy. Alright, we got more with John Cohen when we come back. He's the owner of the New York Racing Team, and congratulations to him. They just made the Daytona 500 race that happens this weekend. Alright, so more when we come back. It's The Breakfast Club.

Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it in with John Cohen. He's the owner of a NASCAR team, New York racing team that made the Daily Total 500 this weekend, so he will be racing. Charlamagne?

What do you think a NASCAR can be doing to make, you know, make them more appealing to, like, black people, brown people? I mean, going to inner cities. That's my whole thing. So me, right now, I'm trying to build a truck that I'll bring, like, if I race in L.A., bring the truck to Compton, teach kids STEM, and then bring them to the track and show them what they learned in that truck

equates to what we have in the track. Because everybody thinks just, you know, like, racing is just jumping in the car and going. There's a to it you know and i you know it's just it's just so much stuff like i see kids that i grew up with you know that honestly in jersey you know the stolen car thing was big in the 90s they think they can drive a car and they can't it's not the same you know i tell most people my first burnout i seen was in the hood. Wow. You know what I mean? It wasn't at a racetrack. So you got to understand the equivalent of going from the streets to driving and racing is totally different. NASCAR needs to bring more people of color from the inner city into the tracks. And then from there, it'll be a big fan base.

How do people survive those wrecks on NASCAR, man? Cars are safe. Really? Yeah. I mean, they put a lot of time. I mean, I would say those cars are safer than any other Formula 1 Indy. Clearly. Yeah, clearly.

Because, I mean, ever since Dale Hart Sr. died, they really put a lot in. Because, I mean, when a legend dies like that, they change everything and make sure that never happens again. Where do you see the sport in NASCAR in 10 years? I see it a lot different. I see it where it's going to be more of an electric hybrid type car

so they bring more fan base. I mean, if you see how Formula One is doing, they're bringing more races into America right now. So that'll just equate to us bringing more fans. They just need to make it more sexy. And they did it this weekend at L.A. Coliseum. It was really sexy. It was a good event.

But, you know. Did you see a lot of us out there, a lot of black people out there? I saw a lot of us out there. Really? In fact, I saw some kids I didn't even know they had my hats on. Really? And I was like, it kind of took me back to see black kids wearing my hat. I've seen kids in my neighborhood, but not at the track.

I didn't even know where they got it from. I know they ordered offline, but it was just shocking to me to see it. It was surreal. Yeah, I saw Jamel and her husband were filming from, I guess, the suite or wherever they was at. Yeah, yeah. And how many cars do you guys have? Because like he said, if a car gets into an accident and the car crashes, how many cars do y'all have? And what's the price of those cars?

So for us, we allow seven, we allow seven cars in our garage. And where's your garage? It's in Concord, North Carolina. Okay. Yeah, that's where all

the NASCAR is. So we allow seven cars, each car is about $400,000 to build. How much does it cost to advertise on the car? Like if I wanted a logo on the car,

how much is that? Some teams get $800,000. Mine is about $450,000 in race. But I mean, you look at it like, so the Super Bowl commercial is 30 seconds, and they're paying $7 million right now for the Super Bowl. We out there for 36 weekends, multiple hours out the weekend. So for $450,000 a race is cheap because we get the same viewership.

So NASCAR is not regional. So when you watch football, you're in that area. You're watching the Eagles. You not regional so when you watch football you in that area you watching the eagles you're watching giants you live in that area and we watch nascar everybody's watching one race so it's almost like the equivalent to watching the superboy each weekend so that's why the values are that much higher when it comes to nascar what it takes for us to race now i'm not into nascar right i'm gonna get more into it now because i want to support you how do they line up and how do they set up? Is it lined up like everybody next to each other? Is it singular line up and is it based

off ranking? How does that happen? You qualify on Friday or Saturday and whoever's the fastest on time, that's how you line up. And it depends on the track. So some have single file where you all go around. Single file. You line up and some is double. It'd be like one, two,

three, four. That that way and how nasty does it get in nascar because i'm sure when i'm watching when i do watch some of those races sometimes they be cutting each other off hard like like how nasty does it get and is there any type of etiquette to driving it's just like road rage on the street i mean these guys be friends when they start and at the end they be fighting so it's definitely they you know certain drivers have certain etiquette, and they try to, you know, give that next driver leeway, and then some drivers just don't care.

Like, if I was a driver, I just wouldn't care. I wouldn't want to be friends, but, I mean, that's the way each, those guys like to be friends, so. All right. Yeah. All right. How can people support your race team? Can they donate to your race team?

Can they support the race team? Is it just by clothes or hats and jackets? How can they help? Because there's a lot of people that's listening that says hey you know i would love to support a black man's car team i mean for me that's called for me just talk about it you know talk to you know if you know somebody that's you know talking about it it just gets out there more like you said once once people see it then they you know want to jump on board it's more of a like people just don't look at us being cool you know and that And that's the worst thing to think because if you're too late, then you'll be like, oh.

We'll keep pushing, man. We'll keep pushing. We appreciate you joining us, man. And thank you for stopping through, man. You got the hats? I got some gifts for you. Okay, let's see. This is Envy's.

I don't think you should go somewhere without brand. Let's show some of the merch. Okay, NY Racing. Go to nyracenteam.com. That's right. Well, John Cohen, we appreciate you. And make sure you continue to support New York Racing, NY Racing. And we're going to get you.

You're coming to the car shows this year, right? Yeah, I'm there. Okay. I mean, I wish you guys could see it, man. The kids love it. They bring the pit crew out. They change the tires in less than 10 seconds. They have the kids changing tires, using the devices and the machines.

And the kids I've never seen. It's one of the biggest things at the car shows. I just want to say thank you for bringing the guys out and the fellas and shout to the pit crew because they're always out there and they just hang with the kids and show the kids a lot of love. So it's John Cohen. It's The Breakfast Club.

Good morning. Yes, sir. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. I just want the world to know that today I'm out of retirement, man. I'm back on my video, Vixen-ish.

I'm in the new video, Queen Naja and Big Sean. It's called Hate Our Love. So when it's released today, you can definitely check it out. Are you sagging? Screech want to know. I might have my shirt off. Are you acting? I didn't say your shirt.

I said, are you sagging your pants? I'm so worried about my buns for, bro? Why? What's your role? What's your role? You just got to see. Just know that, you know, I'm stepping out my usual character, you know what I mean? Shirt off.

So I did a bunch of push-ups. So it's really dope, really sexy. You'll see. I think it releases this afternoon. I respect it, man. I respect it. I think we should see more men titties in 2022. Yo, shut up, man. I respect it. I think we should see more men titties in 2022.

You got them. Shut up. Let them nipples hang, Andy. Let's get to the rumors. Let's talk new music. This is the Rumor Report with Angela Yee. All right, it's Friday. So you know what that means.

Some new music. Big Crit, Digital Roses Don't Die. And here's one song off of his album called Boring. Sounds good, right? Big Crit gets busy. Big Crit's so underrated, man. I'm going to listen to that today. I'm going to have to listen to Big Crit on the 85 South Show this week.

I think he's on the 85 South Show this week, too. All right. Now, Sada Baby has Bardi Air Bounty 3 out. And here is Miles DeRozan. All right. Shout out to Sada Baby from Detroit. I got gang them with me in my band. Bitch, I came in to put a lame nigga on his ass. I got that thang on me with the beam on the heat. All right, shout out to Sada Baby from Detroit. Also, Currency and The Alchemist. Continuous is out today.

We love Currency. We got to get him up here sometime soon. And here is Half Moon Morning. This is the list of session four. And while we're still in here rhyming, I can tell. This project will be received well. I can smell and I ain't gonna smoke that bullshit that you trying to sell. Shout the currency, man. He got Boldy James on here, Babyface Ray, Havoc, Wiz Khalifa, Styles P, Larry June. So shout out to him.

Listen, Sook Sonic got a new single out today, Love's Train. Ooh. out today, Love's Train. Okay. What sample is that? I don't know what sample that is. That's an old song. My mom used to clean the crib to that original. What sample is that, Eddie? LTD.

LTD? I think, yeah. Hmm. All right, so those are just some examples of some new songs. There's a lot of stuff out today. Lucky Day featuring Lil Durk. They have a single called N.W.A. Nego and Kid Cudi have Wanted Bag.

Gunna has Bankin' On Me. That came out February 14th. Jack Harlow, Nail Tech. And by the way, you saw Jack Harlow was shooting his shot at Young Miami. Somebody asked him in his 10 questions on Instagram, who do you love? And he added Young Miami on that. We tripping.

That's the cover. That ain't even a sample. As I said, they remade that song. They remade it. Love Train. Yeah. By Confunction. All right.

And Jack Harlow is officially a New Balance ambassador as well. All right. Monique sat down with- You forgot about the Lobby Boys? Your brother, your best friend. Oh my gosh. It's not in... You forgot about the Lobby Boys? Your brother, your best friend. Oh my gosh, it's not in the show prep. The Lobby Boys is out today? They're single.

They released it today. Maino and Jim Jones. You made me feel like they had a whole album out. No, I don't get the albums out yet. All right, what's the Lobby Boys' new song? I think it's Lobby Boy Anthem. Let me see. Is it on here?

Nope, they didn't. All right. How you gonna not shout out Maino and Jim Jones? All right, well, shout out to Maino and Jim Jones, the Lobby Boys. All it on here? Nope, they didn't. All right. How you going to not shout out Maino and Jim Jones? All right, well, shout out to Maino and Jim Jones, the lobby boys. All right, and Monique sat down on Turned Out with T.S. Madison. That's her new Fox Soul show. And some of the things she talked about is her history with Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey and, you know, saying that a lot of people were mad at her.

And here's what she had to say about not hating Oprah. People will ask me, do you dislike or are you, do you hate Oprah and Tyler and Lee? No. Let me be clear. I love those people. We love those people. My husband and I love, they're our brothers and sisters. And as my husband always say, Mama, we ain't calling nobody out. We simply calling them up to say, listen, let's make our community better by making it right. All right. You know, that drama all goes back to Tyler Perry and Oprah were executive producers of Lee Daniels film Precious, which Monique starred in. That's where all of their issues started. And she also goes on to talk about Tyler Perry. And here's what she had to say. I think Tyler Perry had said that he wanted an apology from Monique. Now, when Al Sharpton heard the tape, because he heard it, he said, that man is wrong and you're like my daughter.

So I'm going to have to call him up. Kevin Hart heard the tape. He said, Mo, I called him and he said, he don't want to revisit it. Our mutual friend, when I explained what was really going down, she was like, I'm not with that. Let me call him. And she called him. And he said, I don't want to revisit that. Then he called back while we were on the phone, and he said, no, I changed my mind.

I will meet with Monique, but not with her husband. And then she has to apologize to me and Oprah Winfrey for saying that we had anything to do with ruining her career. Now she goes on to say that when black women speak up and speak out, it goes unheard most times. Here's what she had to say. Oftentimes when it comes to a black woman speaking up and speaking out, it goes unheard until she dies.

Then once she dies, then we go back and say, well, she was right and let's make a movie about it. See, I can give you their names, Eartha Kitt. I can give you their names, Hazel Scott. All of those women took a stand and all of those women left here heartbroken, unhealthy, looking at a community saying, y'all know I'm right, but why won't anybody say anything? Now, she did say she's still in the midst of her lawsuit against Netflix. And so she is still speaking up and standing up unapologetically and fearlessly. I hope one day they all figure it out. Tyler and Monique and Oprah.

At least get on the same accord. All right, well, that is your rumor report. And salute to T.S. Madison, too. That was on a T.S. Madison show, right? Turned out on Fox 2. Salute to T.S. Madison. Okay. All right, and happy birthday to Dr. Dre.

Today is Dr. Dre's birthday. He is 77 years old today. Dr. Dre is now 77. I hope he's Dr. Dre today. He's like Dre's birthday. He is 77 years old today. Dr. Dre is now 77. How old is Dr. Dre today? He's like 57 or something like that. You sure? Let me see. He's 57 years old today.

Okay, I'm 20 years old. I'm early. Shut up, man. Dr. Dre is 57. We're going to do a Dr. Dre mix. Let me know your favorite Dre joint, and let's get into it. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

The Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same. February 21st comes the highly anticipated new CW series, All-American Homecoming. Rising tennis star Simone Hicks begins her new life at Brinkston University, where black excellence is a way of life. Don't miss All-American Homecoming, premiering Monday, February 21st on The CW. E.J. Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha Guy, we are The Breakfast Club. It's Black History Month, so what we doing? Well, you know, every day during Black History Month,

the Black Effect iHeartRadio Podcast Network is dropping a daily podcast called I Didn't Know, Maybe You Didn't Either, hosted by my guy B-Dot. And today, B-Dot tells us where did the term Jim Crow come from, okay? Find out right now. We in my neck of the woods, baby. East side of Greensboro. A&T, right there. Downtown, right there.

This is where I grew up at, baby. Welcome to Greensboro, North Carolina. I'm familiar with the Jim Crow laws. And I'm familiar with the Jim Crow South, where black people and white people couldn't talk to each other, couldn't eat together, couldn't drink together, couldn't sleep together, couldn't do nothing. They did used to sneak in some hanky-panky time though from time to time. Oh, hanky-panky, don't tell massa that we're getting the hanky-panky on.

Now it all came from that Plessy versus Ferguson case down in Louisiana, where they said that black people and white people shouldn't share the same carts. And then all of America said, yo, we agree. Black people and white people should have separate carts. They should be separate, but equal, which is the dumbest thing ever. However, here we are. Who I wasn't familiar with is Thomas Price. In the 1830s, Thomas Price, he ran the minstrel shows. And in those minstrel shows, he'd go straight blackface. And he would be dumb with it and dumbfounded and just paint black people as the most imbecilic person he could think of. His stage name was Jim Crow. And over the years, Jim Crow became a derogatory term for black folks. Jim Crow is the equivalent to the word. The Jim Crow laws were the laws.

Jim Crow always sounded like a name that would own slaves, right? Jim Crow was a derogatory slang term for the derogatory slang term for black folks. And I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either. I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either. I didn't know. All right, well, happy Black History Month to everybody out there. That's right, and make sure you download

I Didn't Know, Maybe You Didn't Either every day during Black History Month on the Black Effect iHeartRadio Podcast Network, available everywhere you listen to podcasts. All right, well, when we come back, we got the positive notice, The Breakfast Club, good morning. Morning, everybody.

It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are the Breakfast Club. It's time to get up out of here. Now, shout to everybody out in Cleveland. I'm in Cleveland all weekend long tonight. First, I'm doing something with Versus. They're doing a Versus. Allen Iverson versus Tracy McGrady. I will be providing the soundtrack for that. So I'm excited about that. And then tonight I'm at the vault to welcome the Cleveland party. And then Saturday, me and Bootsy Badass,

we will be at a day party. So I'm excited. I'm excited for you. I'm also excited that this weekend I'll be spending the weekend on club couch. About a year ago. My wife ordered a couch from Ikea, and because of the supply chain chaos, it took a year to get here. And that couch came yesterday, man, and I laid on that couch,

and I did not want to get up, and I cannot wait to spend the weekend on that couch. I will be on that couch catching up on Avid Elementary, catching up on Force. Haven't watched Force yet. The show starring Joseph Sikora as Tommy. What else I got to catch up on? I just started watching that. What else I got to catch up on? Something else somebody told me.

Oh, Tinda Swindler. Oh, yeah. Inventing Anna. Inventing Anna. I got to watch both those when I get back. Yeah, that's a good one. I don't know if I'm in the Inventing Anna. I'll check it out, though.

Depends if I get through everything else. All right, well, leave us on a positive note, then. Listen, man, the positive note is simply this. What they hate in you is missing in them. Keep shining. Breakfast Club, bitches! Y'all finished or y'all done? 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.

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