The Breakfast Club - U-God Interview and more

Episode Date: March 8, 2018

Thursday 3/8- Today on the show we had U- God stop by to speak on his new book "Raw", his relationship with Method Man and more. Also Charlamagne gave "Donkey of the Day" to lil Xan for saying that Tupac's music is boring and Angela helped out some of our listeners, especially our women today for Ask since it is International Women's Day.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Peace to the planet. It's Thursday. It's also International Women's Day. Happy International Women's Day, guys. Dropping the clues bombs for all the women. Does that mean like just the international women? Like women from other countries? It's a global celebration.

So it's celebrated internationally everywhere. Women all over the world. Oh, duh. Cultural, social the world. Oh, duh. Cultural, social, economic, political, everything. So that means like in Africa and Europe, they recognize International Women's Day, so they recognize the people here in America, too. Every woman. Everybody.

Got you. Listen, I'm an American, all right? Okay. I'm selfish, so I think of us first and then everybody else around the world. International holidays. When you say international, I just think of the 50 states, but I forget there's a whole world out here sometimes. Yeah, that would just be national.

I know. No, I'm just thinking of 50 states, but I forget it's a whole world out here sometimes. Yeah, that would just be national. I know. Yes, absolutely. I don't know about you guys, but we had a blizzard slash nor'easter slash snowstorm yesterday. Snow is trash, bro. I used to really like snow when I was a kid. And I mean, I guess kids still enjoy it. Like, my daughter loves when she don't got school. Like, she gets excited when they send the email, like, no school again tomorrow.

Yeah. And they want to go play out in the snow. I'm old, bro. My bones hurt when it's cold. I ain't got time for it. Well, yesterday it was we got two feet of snow by my crib. You guys live in the suburbs. I'm about 40 minutes from the city.

And it was disgusting. The power went out. The whole grid went out. So there's no power, no heat, no hot water, no nothing. So yesterday I had to light candles and the whole family, we had to sleep in one room together just so I know that everything was safe. That sounds fun.

And since I'm so scared, I always think like this is the time that the burglar would try it. So I sleep next to the hammer. What about the dog? And the dog. I got the dog and the hammer

just in case because I'm just nervous. I'm like, there's no power, there's no lights. I just, I get a little nervous. I'm going to be honest with you,

if a burglar breaks into your house during a blizzard, he deserves whatever he gets. Oh, he's going to get it. Because that's a committed, no, no, I get a little nervous. I'm going to be honest with you. If a burglar breaks into your house during a blizzard, he deserves whatever he gets. Oh, he's going to get it. Because that's a committed, no, no, I mean like as far as like prizes. Oh, possessions. Because that's a very committed burglar. You would have to commend his commitment to stealing.

Now with the kids there though, where do you put the gun? I know you want to put it in there. I have a case. It's like a lock case. So you have to put in, you have to use your fingerprints to actually open the case. Okay, I don't know anything about guns. Oh, no, no, no. I don't have a gun. But, you know, it makes, you have to use your fingerprints to actually open the case. Okay, I don't know anything about guns. Oh, no, no, no. But, you know, it makes me nervous.

And I had the dog right outside the room. So, I mean, everything was good. But it was two feet of snow. And in our area, when there's no lights, it's pitch black. You got anxiety like I do. You can't see nothing. Well, fortunately, I live in Brooklyn. So yesterday I went out and got a man and a teddy.

Went and got some food. Hung out with my girls. Brooklyn was still open? Yeah, everything was open. No problems. I didn't have to shovel a thing. There was no snow on my car this morning. Well, lucky you.

Because I woke up this morning and I was up to snow up to my knees. And all last night, because I guess like, you know, some kids in the neighborhood, some kids in the cul-de-sac. Some kids in the cul-de-sac. It's cul-de-sac. Cul-de-sac. Cul. Cul-de-sac. Some kids in the cul-de-sac decided to venture over to our part of the cul-de-sac. Some kids in the cul-de-sac. It's cul-de-sac. Cul-de-sac. Cul. Cul-de-sac. Some kids in the cul-de-sac

decided to venture over to our part of the cul-de-sac and I guess they put like, they made like this snow crane. Right. So I'm looking outside all night like, what the hell is that?

Like I thought somebody was just standing outside on the sidewalk. I'm calling my wife like, you see somebody standing there? You guys do have anxiety. She's like, that look like a bird.

And I'm like, oh, that's a snowman because the way they, it made it, it looked like a big flamingo. Oh. But I didn't know what it was. Your kids over there are creative.

I was thinking snow monsters. I be thinking all kind of wild stuff. But they got. Now's a great time to actually live in the city. Yeah. Not in the suburbs. Times like this. Because there's no snow anywhere.

I'd rather still live out there. They plow the streets immediately. I'd much rather live in the cul-de-sac. And thank God my neighbor actually. They plow the streets immediately. I'd much rather live in the cul-de-sacs. And thank God, my neighbor actually owns the plow company, so he makes sure that I'm plowed out first so that I can get to work

when it snows. So I was able to get out. Your neighbor plowing you out, drop on a Clues Bum for Envy's neighbor plowing him out. Oh, I like the energy he's setting this morning.

He did it pretty fast, too. He did it pretty fast. You must be tight. He did it pretty fast. He did it pretty fast. It was very fast, very easy to get out. All right. Okay, maybe not. Let's did it pretty fast. It was very fast, very easy to get out. All right.

Okay, maybe not. Let's get the show cracking. You, God, from the legendary Wu-Tang Clan. Let's put this in some context. Wu-Tang. Not easy enough. It's Throwback Thursday. It's Throwback Thursday.

You, God, has a book out called Raw. I had the privilege of reading this book last year. You read it too, right? Yes, I read the book as well. I got an advanced copy. I read it last year. Phenomenal book, but keep in mind, I am your Uncle Charla. I am an old head, and I grew up on Wu-Tang.

I'm damn near 40 and still want to get a Wu-Tang tattoo on my body. You better not. Well, I'm a big Wu-Tang fan, too. That was actually my first job working for Wu-Tang. I thought she said she already got tattoos. A lot of the stories that he tells in the books about Wu-Tang, I am familiar with, but there's a lot of backstory on how he ended up even joining the group and before Wu-Tang. Yes. I am familiar with, but there's a lot of backstory on how he ended up, you know, even joining the group and before Wu-Tang. That was really good.

It teaches you a lot about what it was like in Staten Island, Brooklyn. We'll talk to him about it all. Yeah, so kids, tell your parents that you gods are going to be on this morning. Call your uncles and your aunts, all right? Your moms and your dads. Tell them you gods are here this morning. What's your favorite three you god verses? Because I'm trying to put together this mini mix for when he gets here.

Oh, favorite three you gods. Slim doodle maker is trapped inside pajamas. Cherse Lagos is dope. Cherse Lagos, I got that one. Mystery of Chess Boxing. What's up, bro? I'm going to give it to you. Mystery of Chess Boxing.

That's Mystery of Chess Boxing. Mystery of Chess Boxing. You got to play his verse off SWV, Anything Remix. And what's my other favorite U-God verse? I guess you can go off Protect Your Neck. Okay. Yeah. All right, I got it.

All right. All right, well, let's get the show cracking. Front page news, what are we talking about, Yeezy? We are going to talk about who wants to donate $50 million to charity. Wow. Is that you? All right. Well, we'll get to that when we come back.

Keep it locked. This is The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning.

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Good morning. Good morning. We'll be right back. Hey, can I just, can we drop one of Kool's bombs for our cameraman in here? His name is Steven. We call him Steven the White Demon. Right. He's our Caucasian cameraman. If you ever hear some coughing or throat clearing, that's him. That's him.

Envy earlier was talking about how he was sleeping with his family last night and the power was out, so he was sleeping with the hammer. So as soon as the microphones go off, Steven goes, you know, man, Envy, you really should invest in a gun because I don't know what a hammer's going to do to protect your family. Try one of the clues for Steven. He has no clue.

He has no clue. He has no clue. He thinks we're just liberals who are just taking this gun control thing too far. Oh my goodness. Forget the guns we got hammers.

A hammer's helpful though. Hammers. Jesus Christ. Alright well let's get in some front page news. Now let's start off with a Powerball winner right?

Some positivity. Yes, a woman who won the Powerball jackpot that's worth nearly $560 million wants to give as much as $50 million to charity. That's dope. And she also wants to keep her identity private. Now, remember this story. She signed her ticket after the drawing, but later on learned that she could have shielded her identity

if she would have wrote the name of a trust when she signed that ticket. So she was upset because she wants to remain anonymous. So they're fighting that case right now. But in the meantime, they're saying that she gets $264 million. That's after taxes and everything. And they are planning to donate. They said they would give $150,000 to Girls Inc., $33,000 apiece to three chapters of N68 Hours of Hunger in the state. And they're saying she plans to do donations over the years between $25 and $50 million during her lifetime. But she doesn't want any accolades. She doesn't want credit. She just wants to do good things.

And she doesn't want her identity revealed. What a hoe she is. Because usually the people that win the Powerball is like 80-something-year-old people. She's unidentified right now. But I respect that, though. I mean, how much was the money? How much money was it? After taxes, she ended up at $264 million.

Yeah, $50 million of charity. That's great. That's absolutely positively good. But the problem is that she signed her name. And, of course, for the lottery, they like for their own press purposes to reveal the identity of the person. And so legally, they can do that. But she's fighting right now to be anonymous.

I wouldn't even care if I was anonymous. I used to think about that. I thought about that because of her situation. Would I care if I was anonymous? No. I'm going to tell you why. Because I'm going to change all my phone numbers anyway. So the only people that can be able to get in touch with me is my circle. And then the people who do get in touch with me to get some money, I got it.

I got it. I can lend it. The problem is that usually in situations like this, when people know you have a lot of money, then there's all kinds of extortion attempts, kidnapping of family members. They're trying to take your kids and all that. If I can afford shooters now, I definitely can

afford shooters when I get to a couple hundred million dollars. Don't say shooters. Say white men with suits on. Armed security with suits on. There you go. Okay, and they're prayer warriors, too. Don't get it twisted. My shooters are prayer warriors.

And again, today's International Women's Day, and what does that mean? It's a global celebration of the social, cultural, economic, and political achievements of women. This year's theme is hashtag time is now. That's for rural and urban activists transforming women's lives, know about the history, all of that.

So time is now is the theme for this year. Okay. Time Is Now. Time Is Now. Drop on the clues bombs for International Women's Day. All the women around the world. I heard of. I got two daughters at the house and a wife.

I got two daughters at the house as well. Should we celebrate today? Should we do something? Am I supposed to like bring balloons home or something like that? I brought my daughter to work today. Let them start celebrating now. Where's she at? I think she's in the back.

You done lost her? Wow. What a father you are. I don't know. She's 16. She ain't going to do far. You bought her to work just to lose her? Just to lose her?

She's around here somewhere. Could have lost her at the house. Right. She's around here. All right. Well, that's front page news. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051.

If you're upset, you need to vent, hit us up right now. Maybe you had a bad night and you just want to vent a little bit or you want to spread some positivity, you can tell them why you're blessed as well. But get it off your chest. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

It's the baby. A trapper baby. I rap what I own on my masters, baby. It's tragic, baby. I pull up and f*** the traffic, baby. A savage baby. I'm killing these Kloetanski, baby. You get the bag and fumble it.

I get the bag and flip it and tumble it. Straight off the lot, 300 cash. And the car came with a blunt in it. La mama a thot. And she got, and she gonna f*** a bag. Pull up to the spot. Living too fast. Dropping the dope in the stacks.

In Italy. Got too far. They DM me. Drive to top. When it's cold, but you feel the heat., they DM me. Drive to top when it's cold but you feel the heat. Be real with me. Keep it 100. Be real with me. Eat it up like it's a feast. They say the dope won't

flee. Let's go. This is your time to get it off your chest. Whether you're man or blessed. Say it with your chest. We want to hear from you on The Breakfast Club. So if you got something on your mind to get it off your chest. Whether you're man or flesh, 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? What's up, man? This is Reckless TV, man. How y'all doing? It's been a while.

What's up, bro? Get it off your chest. Hey, I just want to promote my page, Reckless TV, man. If you're a rapper or a singer, you want an outlet to get your music out, DM me or email me right now at RecklessTV, R-E-C-K-L-E-Z-Z-T-V, and I'll post your music on Friday. Let me tell you something.

I respect you because you didn't call up here with no gimmicks. Nope. You ain't tried no tricks. I need to promote. You got straight to the promo. I respect you. Hey, man, this business out here, man. I shout out to y'all, too, because I listened to Gary Vee

when y'all got up in here, and he inspired me to do all this. Gary Vaynerchuk, that's my guy. Well, that's nice. I shout out to y'all too because I listened to Gary Vee when y'all got up in here and he inspired me to do all this. Gary Vaynerchuk, that's my guy. Well, that's nice. That's good to hear. Hello, who's this? Destiny from the 843. 843, what's happening, Destiny? Get it off your chest, mama. I am blessed. Today is my 27th birthday.

Happy birthday! Thank you. I called y'all a few weeks ago because I was blessed and f***ed because I had gotten out of a toxic relationship, and I made it out of there, and my life is starting to look up. I finally got a state job, and the thing in my life is looking up and up. My kids are healthy. I'm healthy.

My mom's healthy. I'm blessed. Ah, things are looking up for you in South Carolina. There you go, Mama. And, you know, the good thing about getting out of a toxic relationship in South Carolina is you survived because you know we are the number one state for deaths at the hands of domestic violence. Yeah. Look at how much life gets better when she leave that zero.

Absolutely, Mama. I know, and I'm so glad I didn't listen to Charlamagne and get my family on him. Get your what? You told me to get my family on him. Oh, you still might have to after he hit his phone call. Oh, stop it. Nah, she's good. She's good. I'm not worried about that. All right on him. Oh, you still might have to after he hit his phone call. Oh, stop it. Nah, she's good. She's good now.

I'm not worried about that. All right, baby. Well, have a good one, mama. Keep it moving. What's wrong with getting your family to beat somebody up every now and then? She is the last in highly favored, and she'll be fine. Hello? Hey, who's this?

Oh, my God. My name's Ariel. I'm from Newark. Ariel, get it off your chest, mama. Oh, my God. I can't believe I'm talking to you guys. Oh, my God. Hi, hi.

Hi, DJ Andy. Hello. Hi, Charlamagne. Oh my God. Hi, hi, hi, DJ Envy. Hello. Hi, child of mine. I love you. I love you too, baby. I have your book. Thank you. I have your book.

I'm reading it. Yeah, and hi, hi. Oh my God. Hi, Angelique. Hi, Aria. Hi. Okay, so I'm blessed. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's why, you know, that's not why I called in this morning, though. I have, I'm in school. I only have, I want to ask you guys a question. Sure. I only have one spring break out of my four years of school. And I just want, my friend and I like really want to do something special. So we're driving down to, we're driving down south. Like we're going to Nashville, North Carolina, New Orleans, Dallas, Atlanta.

Um, we just don't know where to go. Like we don't have any places to go. Um, but we just wanted to know like if you if you guys, because you guys travel a lot. So we're thinking maybe we could ask you guys some really hot places to stop by and check out. Nashville is beautiful. Go to Charlotte, North Carolina. Drive down to Florida. Go to South Beach.

I think she wants places, though. Oh, you want places? Like what? Yeah, yeah. So we're going to Atlanta. We don't know any good places to eat, clubs to hit up. Like, you know, just, like, any, like, quick places you could think of. You should shout out your social media,

and then our people that are in those states can tell you where to go. Yeah, that's how I actually figure out where I should eat. I say, hey, I'm here. What's a good place to eat? Atlanta Club is SL Lounge. It's always a good club. Shout out to Ruggs. Now, as far as eating in Atlanta, what would you suggest?

Waffle House. Waffle House Ruggs. Now, as far as eating in Atlanta, what would you suggest? Waffle House. Waffle House, my goodness. Ruth Chris. Those are generic. Those are so generic. I know. I mean, you got Gladys Night Restaurant, right? 2 Chainz has a restaurant.

You could try 2 Chainz Restaurant, too. Oh, okay, okay. Cool, cool, cool. Oh, my God. And, you know, Ludacris has a restaurant in the airport in Atlanta. Chicken and Beer. Oh, yeah, I remember that. But tell everybody on Instagram or whatever so they can hit you up and tell you where

to go. Okay. I got you. But I just wanted to call out to you guys. But what's your Twitter or Instagram? We're going to let people know. Oh, my God. Okay.

Okay. It's underscore not a mermaid. That's it. Underscore not a mermaid. Underscore not a mermaid. All right. Please. Everybody go hit up underscore not a mermaid.

She want to know where all the best trap houses at down south. You know what I'm saying? Where can she get the best drugs? Okay, I found her right here. Okay. All right, hit her up. Tell her where she can go get something to eat, where she can party and all that good stuff.

All right, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Get it. Pick up the mother, mother phone and dial. This is your time to get it off your chest.

Whether you're mad or blessed. Say it with your chest. Hello, who's this? Yo, what's going on? Envy, what up? Charlamagne, what up, ye? What's up, brother? What's happening?

Who's this? It's Lorenzo from Brooklyn. Lorenzo, get it off your chest, bro. Hey, man. I just want to start off by saying that I'm blessed. I want to give a shout by saying that I'm blessed. I want to give a shout out to my family as well. Also, you know, I'm trying to give back to my community.

I come from Brownsville, section of Brooklyn. And I wanted to talk to y'all a little bit about how I could give back to my community. It's getting hot outside. No, it's not. It's cold as hell. It's going to get hot real soon. Summertime is coming up. I pray so.

Yeah, me too, man. I want to give away book bags to the parents, and I want to give away maybe like some basketballs to the kids, you know, something where they could, you know, give something back to them to where they could have something to do for the summertime. How do I go about doing that? You just do it. I do that every summer. I give away book bags. I got a non-profit called Third Eye Awareness, but you just gotta goddamn do it. I go out there and I buy

the book bags myself. I set up a location. I tell everybody where I'm gonna be at and I give out those book bags. And you can hit up, like, why don't you ask some of your friends as family members to join you? Word is born. It ain't hard to get. Listen, when you're giving away free stuff, it ain't hard to get people to pull up. Definitely not hard.

All right, man. So I'll probably pull up to maybe like a Salvation Army or something and stand outside the Salvation Army and give away something. I don't know if Salvation Army is the right one. You got social media, right? Yeah, definitely. Just go get to work and tell everybody

where you're going to be at, and they're going to pull up. Y'all said that Salvation Army not the best place? Nah, schools, community centers. Most people go to Salvation Army. They usually go to shop. They're buying things, and it's not necessarily people who need to. They're just, like, thrift store shopping. Oh, all right, man.

All right, man. All right, thanks, y'all. Pull up in the hood. Go to the people. Pull up in the community. Why don't you go to the neighborhood where you're from and put up some flyers and promote it that way? I mean, I still live in that neighborhood. Okay, so

even better. It's easy for me to do that. Right, put up some flyers, let everybody know. It's not the best thing in the world to do. Like, to give away free... Nobody gonna shoot you giving away free. Whoa, whoa, whoa. You said you're from Brownsville? Lorenzo, this is what you do. You might want to pick another neighborhood. Do y'all have a black party?

Lorenzo, y'all have a block party? No, not really like that. We have maybe like, you know, Brownsville Day that happens in like July. Okay, so now you have plenty of time. So you should get it ready for Brownsville Day. Get it started now. Get it together and do it on Brownsville Day.

That's a great story. Tell everybody you're going to be in front of the Pink House Projects. All right? That won't work. Hello. With a trunk full of goodies. Hello.

Hello. Hey, who's this? Hey, man. Look, good job, please. I'm still upset for this throwback Thursday about Monique coming up there trying to hit you with that TBN voice and that gray hair, and she had the bun, was all jet black, and she calling Charlemagne Leonard. Y'all just did a great job.

She was delusional. Just couldn't still prove that $13 million. I still ain't over it. I wanted to bring it back up for this throwback Thursday. It was two weeks ago, but all right. Hey, God bless Monique. I want all Monique supporters to go out there and support her. She's got a show in New York at the Apollo on May 12th.

It's on Groupon right now. It's not sold out. It's been out, but it's the Apollo on May 12th. It's on Groupon right now. It's not sold out. It's been out, but it's been on sale for a while. It is on Groupon. Go buy tickets. You know what I mean? Support her.

Like, stop talking to me about Monique and how much you like Monique if you're not going out there to support her. Support her. Go buy tickets to her show on May 12th

because she wouldn't be in this position that she's in if she had the leverage of her supporters. So go support her. Oh, wow. It is on Groupon. I don't be making stuff up.

I don't know why y'all want to think that I'm just a bad guy who makes things up. But no, yes, it is. So go support her. Put your money where your mouth is. Oh, wow. All right. Well, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051.

If you're upset, you need to hit us up right now. Yee, we got rumors on the way. Yes. Let's talk about a rapper who has been accused of rape. Now he is defending himself. We'll tell you what he has to say with his text messages with the woman. All right, we'll get into all that when we come back.

Keep it locked. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. This is The Rumor Report with Angela Yee. Rumor has it. On The Breakfast Club. So listen up.

Well, a woman has accused too Short of rape, and he's responding. We'll tell you what he had to say, but first, here is his explanation. The most we ever did was foreplay, and I don't know how you're going to take some foreplay incident and turn it into a crime or something. So, you know, consent is starting to be a very fine line, and I just feel like there's nothing that I would ever do that's not consensual. I'm pretty sure that these women are telling the God's honest truth, but there's a few out there who probably are trying to do the money grab. So I just feel like if those of you out there are lying, I mean, you're messing up the movement for everybody else. All right. Now the woman's name is Tiana Lewis, and she sued him

for allegedly sexually assaulting her multiple times between June and October of 2016. Now, too short of saying the whole thing is an extortion attempt. And she had to refile and put on a defamation claim as well. But he does have text messages between them that prove, he says, that she sexually pursued him and that they were dating and that there was no rape. Now, according to the text messages that he has, they say things like she talks about his big penis and the fact that she could see it through his pants. There's one that says, baby, I wish you were here right now. Just talking to you on the phone makes me wet, so on and so forth.

Oh, he's absolutely right. A lot of women are telling the truth. Some women are lying for money, but the ones that are lying for money, they won't mess up the movement because they'll just get weeded out. Right. But it's also not fair to men, and we have to think about it. It's not fair to men at all, no. And there definitely should be some type of repercussions if you aren't being truthful about something that happened to you.

I agree. The only problem with that whole situation is at least Too Short gets to go to court, and they got due process in court. There is no due process in the court of public opinion. Right. So these allegations and accusations ruin some guys. Right. All right, now Richard Pryor, his son,

wouldn't you expect his son to be really, really funny as well? No. Not necessarily. It never works that way. I mean, you know. It never works that way. If that was the case, Michael Jordan's son would be playing basketball right now in the league. Absolutely.

It never works that way. Maybe his dad passed down those genes to him. No, very rare you see that with somebody. Gerald Kelly comes up here. His sons are doing comedy. They're good, but, I mean, Gerald ain't even really got the way he need to be yet. But all I'm saying is that when you're great, it's very rare that your children agree that what you do, too.

Well, his son Mason Pryor was at the Apollo, and he was very nervous at first. Here he is. Man, I'm nervous. I can literally hear my dad up in heaven right now like, boy, you better not mess this up. He got a real bullable voice. Like you can tell by his voice. Is that a bullable voice?

Then it goes left. Oh boy. Everybody here in America knows the code. If you get caught cheating, you gotta cut your side thing loose. Donald Trump still on the phone at the White House talking to Russia. Hello? Hey, no. No, I want to talk to my man right now.

You go get my poot. Is that you, my poot? I love you so much. I love the way your name comes off my lips. Let's have some respect. Don't you mean have some respect? I love it.

Drop one of Clues bombs for the Apollo. I'm hurting. He look like a daddy looking up to say that for everything. That's going to be on tonight, guys, on Fox,

if you want to watch this. Oh, that's on TV? Yes. First of all, nothing I'd love to see more than seeing a comedian on stage bombing. God bless the Apollo

for always being the Apollo. You got to earn your keep. I don't care who your daddy is. If you're not funny, you're going to get these booze. You're not going to get better if people lying to you, giving you pity applause. Get these booze. You got to earn your keep. I don't care who your daddy is. If you're not funny, you're going to get these boos. You're not going to get better if people lying to you, giving you pity plos. Get these boos. You got to stay with it, though.

Every comedian gets booed. You got to stay with it. By the way, he probably killed himself by saying, I'm Richard Pryor's son. Absolutely. Because now you set a bar. You set expectations. And then when you say, have some respect. Yeah, I got respect.

I got respect enough for your daddy to get your ass off this thing because you're ruining his legacy. All right, guys. I'm Angela Yee, and that's your rumor. When you start getting booed, you say everything. What's your man say at the Garden that time? Damien Lemon. Oh, my God, Damien Lemon.

Yeah, what'd he say? He said, listen, man, this is East End. My grandma's sitting right there. My grandma came to this show. And what did they do? Boo! Doesn't matter. All right.

Thank you, Yee, for those rumor reports. Now, up next, U-God from the Wu-Tang Clan will be joining us, and we'll kick it with U-God when we come back. He has a new book. It's called Raw. When we come back, it's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. E.J., Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God.

We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. U-God. U-God. Peace, peace, peace, peace. Let's talk about some of this. But me and U-God go back. We were in acting class together.

When I was gearing up for my huge debut with Bokeem Woodbine, if you haven't seen it. Who else was in this acting class? It was Ugar was in the class. Jim Jones was in a couple of classes. Jaleesa was in the class. Who else was in that class? Terrence J was in a couple of classes

with us. Whatever happened with that? I'm just curious. I just wanted my little soulmate things that people don't know about me. I still got that in my monologues and all that stuff on the side. I got little things I bring out if I have to. Let's talk about this book. We learned a lot about you, God, from reading this book. Did you ever think you'd be the first person to

write a book for Wu-Tang? I may have the Wu manual, but... I'm not the first, but my biography, yeah, because I've been working on this for two and a half years. I was like deep into just writing, putting together and going out and getting people to ask me questions and reflecting it back

and just memories and thoughts and all that, you know, it took me like two and a half years. Let's take it back to the beginning when you started, before you got into the group Wu-Tang and you were a kid from Brooklyn. What got you into rap? Because I was reading something where they said that you used to get bullied all the time. They used to get wedgied and picked on, punched in the face.

Oh, man, the Avenue Crew. Back then, you know, when we was growing up, we had older people that used to terrorize the little youngsters. Right. You know, whether for our little monies or whatever, whatever, you know, whatever. So we had that. But music got into me when I was like, my uncle used to go to Harlem World. You know, he used to come back with these tapes. You know, Kumo D, The Battles and all that stuff.

So that was like my first little inklingization of that. Then my mother's boyfriend, he brought me a Curtis Blow tape. You know, that was back in those days too when Curtis Blow was big. And that was like the first gold record and all that. Then, you know, slowly but surely it just started getting kind of big in our little area in the black community. I'm really heavily influenced by Kane, you know, Rock Hill. Right. You know, Biz, and that's the stuff we grew

up on, going to Union Square and all that stuff back in those days, you know, Red Parrot and all that. One thing I found interesting about the book is, like, y'all kind of had gang culture, but it wasn't, like, what, you know, Bloods, Crips, but it was cliques. Yeah, it was, we was very, very cliquey growing up. It was, it was like, like, during the height of the crack era, it it was cliques. Yeah, we was very, very cliquey growing up. It was like

during the height of the crack era, it was buildings against buildings. You know what I'm saying? You had 260, you had 160, you know, and you had 35, the Trey Pound building. You had 55. Those were all separate little entities that, you know, everybody had their little zone.

When they got slow, they wanted to come to war against us down there because we was getting on them. It was just internal project B. But you were pretty good flowing through all the different neighborhoods. That's because my brother's father was from Stapleton. His family was a big family down in Stapleton. So I was able to go down to Stapleton. They didn't want to mess with the Best Brothers because they was maniacs.

They was terrorizers down there. So I was able to go down there. So I was able to meet up with Ghosts and, you know, RZA, Dorian, and Big Dan, all them crazy little juveniles, whatever, whatever. And then when I went to high school, I got more in tune with the West and New Brighton and all the other stuff, you know, all the people out there in them areas. So it made me able to octopus my arms out there, you know,

in places where people couldn't go. So I was basically known on Staten Island, island you know more than a lot of brothers was and you saw your first death when you were five yeah that was a crazy situation because it was um you know how it is in summertime windows is open and it's seeing park here you got this one strip that goes right down the middle and that's where everybody should come out you know when things just happen you should just everybody in the whole building used to just come out and see. It was like an event.

Right. And that was my first event seeing a lady just jump to her demise. Oh, a lady killed her? She committed suicide? Yeah, she jumped off the roof. You don't want to get

too much away from the book. Well, you said it, so I was just kidding. I didn't say what happened. It was crazy growing up in those days, man. How did the Wu-Tang form? Well, that's a crazy situation because we always was together in some form or fashion.

Right. You know, when Genius and RZA come to the Hill, they come to the Wu building. They come and see Steve. In front of the Wu building would be me, Meth, you know, Dad, Cap, we used to live in the building. So that was our little building. And Raze lived right in the building, so that was our little building, and Ray used to live right, the building across,

right next to it, but he had his gate, you know, him and Power had their gate, in the 225, so Ray had to go, and when he was hustling, he had to go all the way around,

drop his little bombs off, and come all the way back, whatever he was doing, you know what I'm saying, so, but when they used to come to the hill, we used to drop everything, and go in the back,

drink Ballantyne ale with me, Dirty, Genius, and RZA, we'd just go in the back, drink Balanchine Ale with me, Dirty, Genius, and RZA. We'd just go in the back and just start versing and just chilling. And, you know, that was our brothers back then. You and Meth really had a very special relationship, and you focused on that a lot. What I did like was you talk about being a team player in the book, and that's important for a lot of people, I think, in life in general because you knew, okay, Meth is be doing this street stuff he has all this talent and he's working really hard

for it so I'm gonna make sure he's good but I'm gonna keep doing what I'm doing because you felt like I have to take care of my brother him and dirty were like out of here mentally when it comes to writing rhymes and raps and all that so I had to I had to protect him because he was just he was just that dude and I always tell him like, you got something. Especially when he had an old lady, they used to scream out the window to him. This is a straight-up story. He'll tell you the same thing. This old lady, she was

an alcoholic, whatever, whatever, but she was a good woman. And she used to be out there with him like, sing for me, singer. Just sing for me. And she used to be telling that to Mef. She said, you're going to be a star. I used to be laughing at him like, yo, dog. She used to be crazy. But every time he used to be on the block meth she said you gonna be a star i used to be laughing at him like yo dog she used to be kidding but every time he'd be on the block she would open i want to sing for me sing and then meth started beating on his test you know doing his little

routine and stuff like that and they used to make her day you know and she was she was right how'd y'all initially get so close before you knew that like he had talent like that well me and meth i remember my first, like, running into Meth was in junior high school, 49. That was when New Edition was hot, and everybody was doing the Candy Girl. Candy Girl! Right, right, right. And Meth had a Gumby. You know, not a Gumby, he had a

Shag. The Shag. The Shag. And he was ill with the steps. He used to know all the steps of that. And so, I was like, you know, he was just an upbeat dude. Meth was never a downbeat dude. He was always upbeat. Not attracted to me, because I used to like upbeat like, you know, he was just an upbeat dude. Meff was never a downbeat dude. He was always upbeat. Not attracted to me because I used to like upbeat dudes. You know, being around all these little ugh, that wasn't my thing. You know what I mean?

I think dudes were mine and, you know, and just spirit. He had a good spirit. But you didn't totally keep Meff out the street, though. He eventually got into the game a little bit. No, Meff was hard for a minute. But it got to a point where he was getting too close to getting locked up so i was like yo nah we can't we can't do this because before he became a street dude meth was he wasn't really

street he was still going to work at the statue he was doing his thing but then after he lost his job i grabbed him up because his mom kicked him out the crib. He didn't know he had nowhere to go. So I was like, yo, come with me. And then we just started running around the streets, Batman and Robin. And at first, he had to get his bones up. He was getting into fights. He was carrying ratchets.

He was just running around. He didn't have no clientele. Getting high. Yeah, he was getting high. His fiends wouldn't talk to him. He couldn't get no sales. But like about two, three weeks, he was getting high. His fiends wouldn't talk to him. He couldn't get no sales. But like about, give him like about two, three weeks, he was running the whole block. He was shutting the whole block down.

Dudes was mad at him. He was trying to blow guns at him because he was getting all the money now. I could definitely say he came in and earned his stripes in there. So what made y'all give that up since y'all were doing so well at the time? Now, it sounded like we were doing well. Well, crap was big. What made y'all start selling crack? No.

Crap was big. Don't want to jail were doing well. Well, crap was big. We're going to make you stop selling crack. No. Crap was big. You've been in jail too many times. No, B, because it was... Because you don't hear a story where people give that up when they give up making money. No, B, it was hell. It took a lot. It kind of took RZA, you said, actually. Yeah, but he was already...

He grabbed meth. He had meth already in his stringer hole. But even with you, because you kept being in and out of jail, you were like, look, if you want to do this for real, you got to give that up. Yeah, he sat me down. I came in front.

He was like a mentor to me with that. You know what I mean? He was just basically told me now, like, yo, G, what you doing? You're out of the car,

dog. Every time you come home, you're going back in the can. I wasn't even home for like two weeks. I was going back up for six, eight months, six months, six months.

I was like, yo, man, I got tired the last time around. He just told me like, yo, just give me a year of your life. If it don't turn out, you can go back doing what you want to do.

Right. So I was like, you know what? I'm done. That was one of the reasons you weren't on a lot of Woo projects early. And that's stuff we used to wonder, like, man, why you got ain't on this like that? I lost my rhythm, too, and my focus wasn't there. You know, I wasn't really focused like that.

And I didn't get a chance to really get focused until we got out, got out the streets, started doing promotional tour and then we left that life alone completely. And then,

next thing you know, it just hit me like, okay, now I gotta, now I can focus on just this now. I mean, I had to worry about

ducking from the pole nine or, you know, weird dealing with all the weird elements that come along with the situation I was in. And that was that.

All right, we have more with you, God. When we come back, keep it locked. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club.

From the Wu-Tang Clan, you God is in the building. Yee. Yee, what made you decide it was time to write a book? Like, what sparked that in you? I was sitting one day. I was telling all these stories, you know, drunk high and telling people these stories. It was like, oh, they were dying. They were laughing.

Some dudes was like, yo, crying. I was like, yo, I was getting mad, you know, emotions out of people. I was like, the Domingo came to me and said, yo, dog, it's about that time for you to write this story, man. For real. It's too much. You got to just let it go. So I just sat down and I just started penning it and pen that time for you to write this story, man. For real. It's too much. You gotta just let it go. So I just sat down and I just started penning it. I had to get somebody

to go over my grandma, because I'm still a little rusty on my grandma. And we just put it together. It took me two and a half years. Did you talk to anybody? Did you talk to Mef? Because you tell a lot of stories in there about Mef. All these stories right here, he already knows. Got you, got you, got you.

I'm sure he knows. But does he want him out? Yeah. I ain't, I ain't, I ain't, I ain't, I ain't, you know, I ain't go. This means you could've said

that you didn't. Like when he was high off what? Was that dust? No, no, no, no. A fiend came through with a sheet of acid. I wasn't into that. And he took one.

It had skull and crossbones on it. I said, though, how you gonna take something from somebody you don't even know with some skull and crossbones? You must be crazy. So, you know, he was like, whatever. So he on it. I said, though, how you gonna take something from somebody you don't even know with some skull and crossbones? You must be crazy.

So, you know, he was like, whatever. So he takes it, and I leave him, because I had to go uptown. And I come back, he in the bushes. In the bushes. Stuck in the bushes. For hours. Now, mind you, I've been gone for like three, four hours.

And I come back, he in the same spot where I left him. So when I grabbed him, I grabbed him. I pulled him out of the bush. I said, yo, what are you doing? He took off. Started running. Took off.

Running. Ran around the corner to get some orange juice, some OJ, whatever he went to go get. So when I got back, I said, what's wrong with you? He said, you was right. I should have never took that. I should have never took that stuff. I was like, yo, dog, you crazy.

You know what I'm saying? These drugs, that's crazy. We know people that have taken things and have never been the same afterward. Like, you can't just take something and you don't know what it is because we know people personally who took this and that person has never recovered, never been the same person, never came back to who they were.

Yeah, his cheese slipped off his cracker. I know. I know people like that too, but for some reason, it didn't happen to certain people. Right. Some people were just, like, you know, into that stuff. I don't know. I wasn't into it. I never took acid until later on. He got me to take another one.

After that happened, he got you to take it? Yeah, like years later down the line, he caught me. After you saw what happened to him? Why? He caught me in Miami. He don't even want to get coached. He don't even want to get to suck me or stuff like that. He'd be like, yo, come on, man.

Come on, come on. Try this, man. You got to try this. So he'll just hit me. I took a little piece, put it on my tongue. That ain't nothing. Next thing I know, I'm ripping up the bathroom. Onyx was there.

I done spazzed on him. I went all crazy. They're tearing up houses, man. It's another story you tell in the book about ghosts tearing up Brett Ratner's house. Oh, man. That was a terrible situation. He the book about ghosts tearing up Brett Ratner's house. Oh, man. That was a terrible situation. He feels bad. I know he felt bad about it.

But he was toe up that night. He was toe back. I mean, like, we must have hit, like, a gallon of rum for dolo. Must have had about four blunts to the head. And we was just like, eh. We was just, you know. You ended up beefing with Leonardo DiCaprio. No, but he got out of the pocket

what'd he do he what happened was Tip was there Q-Tip Q-Tip he was there and

I guess he might have felt that we wasn't giving him we didn't really know him like that you know how it is we from the hood so we like we conversed with this little bit right here

right he was on the outskirts and he was like on the outside and I don't think you know Tip didn't even introduce him and pull him in and say, yo, this is Bozzy. Boom, boom, boom. So we was just giving him love.

And he just said something out of his pocket. I was like, huh? What'd you say? I was like, yo, listen, I don't care if you in the movies, bruh. And then, you know, it just got out of, you know, got raised for a minute. Then he calmed down for me. But I just looked at him differently. I was like, oh, you know what?

But then when I thought about it later, I said, you know what? He might have just wanted to be in the circle. That's all, you know. And how ironic. He almost bought that Wu-Tang album that Martin Squarely ended up buying. He was originally supposed to purchase that. Yeah. You know, later on, he came back to the studio, but I missed him that day.

And, you know, he came with meth. And, you know, he got a pass. You know, he's all good. He watches movies now? I've been watching. I'm a huge fan. I'm a huge fan of Leonardo DiCaprio. There's certain points where it seems like you feel like

your brothers kind of left you out there hanging by yourself, except for meth. Like in certain situations, you feel like they could have stepped it up some more. Well, you know what? Everybody handles tragedy a different way. As I got older, I had to understand that. I didn't know nothing had to understand that. You know, and

I didn't know nothing about therapy. Right. In the black community, we don't know nothing about therapy at all. You know, we self-medicate, we smoke, you know, to get rid of certain situations. So when my son got shot by straight bullets in the Jets, he was, you know,

he's family, so he didn't even count. But certain other brothers, you know, didn't really understand what I was going through, and I don't think they probably was going through any tragedy in their life yet to understand about tragedy, and that's basically what happened. Now, your son got shot, and what happened in that case? I know it was a straight bullet.

He lost a liver, I believe? He lost a kidney. A kidney. He dislocated two fingers. Damn. He died twice and came back. Now, what happened in that situation? Was he just out playing and mining and just a shooting happened?

What happened, my so-called babysitter at the time, because I was, it was my homegirl, it was one of my ex-workers, her name was Shishi. And she wasn't, that's when I stopped. So she was just babysitting my son. And her thing was, she used to like to bring my son around in the projects, you know, and just have him out there and take him for a walk.

So she was walking through Stapleton, and at the time, these fools was going to war with each other. And, you know, she didn't know, you know what I mean? And what happened, this is what I was told what happened. Shots rang out. Dude picked up my son and used him as a shield. A dude picked him up and used your son as a shield? Yeah.

And, you know, he was on some suckers, on some sucker, whatever. And that's what happened. How that, didn't that get you back in the game? Man, I was tore up for a while. Because that's the hardest part

because you know what you want to do, but you know what's best for you and your family. And you could have got the dude who used your son as a shield. I'm not even going to say nothing about that, Black. Because he was like this.

He got a little, I drank some blood blood was blood was tasted but anyway other than that you know it just was a situation where it's you know it just you know i'm still to this day dude still on something like scared you know paranoid and it should be and you actually did go to therapy which you brought up just now because you had a breakdown of source because you never, sometimes people don't address the things in their life that have affected them so much, you don't even realize that's what's

making you behave a certain way. One thing I learned, I talked about in this book, is mental situations, where if you have a whole lot of stress, and you don't have an outlet or something to talk about, your body will shift, and you will go one way and your

brain and go another and you you won't even know what happened they call it they call that a mental breakdown and that's what i found out what happened with me you know after i was talking to the therapist and he was like man boy you've been holding on to a lot of stuff jesus christ no wonder why you was in certain situation what happened to you so i was like okay so when i got it off my chest i started understanding more about you know the mental situation of you know I have PTSD post-traumatic stress disorder you know from all the drama and all that stuff. How often do you go? Well I stopped going and I just started you know once I came to a clear understanding of a certain situation you know because dude was

giving me for 200 hours a session. Mine's 150. I go every Friday at 3 o'clock. Oh, you're still going? Yes, sir. He just started. What made you go? Because, you know, back then, you weren't going to therapists. You weren't taking your kids to therapists. I didn't know. I didn't know there was a person

that you can go and talk to and talk about you know, psychologically stuff, psychology stuff. I didn't know nothing about that. That was like, it's like, you know, psychologically stuff, psychology stuff. I didn't know nothing about that. That was like, it's like, you know, it was amazing to me.

I was like, for real? You mean I can sit here and tell you my problems and you're going to analyze me and find out what my flaws is

and diagnose my situation? It's all right. Let me give you a shot. All right, we got more with you, God, when we come back. Let's get into

a Wu-Tang mini mix. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee-Tang mini-mix. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne the God, we are The Breakfast Club. You gods in the building, Charlamagne. One thing in the book that hurt my heart was the

fact that y'all aren't allowed to use the Wu-Tang logo. Yeah, that is a situation we're going through right now. We just have to pay to use it. Yeah, unfortunately, that's one of our situations that we, you know, as a business, we didn't realize how business situation we was in and how really, you know, how it really played out.

So, you know, I can't say we never going to be able to use it. But as of right now, we just found out some things that we know that kind of broke our heart. Yeah, but the nine members of the, the original nine of the Wu-Tang should be allowed to use it with no questions asked. Because y'all all built that W at the end of the day. I would love for you to be around a fly on the wall just to say that.

I'm glad you even broadcast that, put that in the air like that. Thank you very much. I mean, not even just that, but even with Wu-Wei. No, Power got his own thing. I don't mess with P cause Pete Pete put his money up in the beginning too you know but everybody did too

no I can't say that no Power Power when I got counted out for the count he came in

and rescued me ok cause out there in the book you said everybody put up like 40,000 no that was for Wu Ware yes I said Wu Ware oh yeah

that was for Wu Ware that was like that was our first like rock tour we went on Rage Against the Machine. We put up money to get him started. But before that, he was already running.

Power took a little bit of money that he had, and he made it big off what he had. We just added more to his capital so he could have an office and stuff like that and make it more corporate, I guess. What's your relationship with RZA now? Because in the book, I kind of made this crunch face like, damn, RZA, you doing your people like that? You know, I'm at the level of my life where I am not disgruntled about nothing no more.

I'm just more of this understanding of this business. And that's what it is. I'm not that same dude I once was, man. I'm not hot-headed. I don't have the anger problems I had no more. I just want some smooth-go-lucky, just trying to grow old, graceful stuff. But y'all have a brotherhood, though. Like Wu-Tang had principles and integrity and morals and values that helped raise us.

So how are y'all not doing that amongst each other? And when I'm saying this right now, you should have an understanding of where I'm at, where we at as a brotherhood. There are some things you've got to just let go and just figure out, you know, just figure it out. And don't let money, you know, mess up certain situations. Don't let certain things... Don't let cash rule everything around you. Yeah, you can't...

Cash rules, you know, the outside world, the physical and this material things that we need. And when money gives you, makes things easy, it doesn't make you love. You know, it doesn't give you love. Right. It doesn't give you happiness, you know what I mean? Only the people that you have around you do. But if I got a bowl of soup, my brother got half that bowl.

Yeah. Like, that's how it should be. Yeah, it's like that. It's still like that, you know. I'm pretty sure if I, you know, if I need something, I go see Rizzo. He's going to be like, yo, yeah, boom. I just ain't never had to ask him for nothing. Got you.

You know, I'm one of those brothers, I was always self-reliant. So I just kept how I was rocking. You also a real driving force to the claim. You talk about meth, but you pushed Ray Kwan as well. Oh, yeah, Ray. Ray was my brother, man. Me and Ray did a lot. You know, that was my party.

That was my party, dude. Me and him stayed in the square. We stayed partying, Latin quarters. You know, when it's time to go out, me and Ray was always together. You know what I mean? Between me, Ray, and John Mel, those two, you don't know John Mel,

but he was like, you know, our go-to guy to go out. And that was that, you know? You seem like y'all had like a competitive sibling rivalry, you and Ray. You even talk about how you smashed one of his chicks.

Well, he was, you know, that was on some whoo shit. And Brods is Brods, man. Wait, wait, wait. He's a smash my... He's a smash my... his chicks and you well he was you know that was on some and broads is broads man he's a smash my he's a smash my too man he's gonna smash my poo too yeah you know he he ain't no little i ain't no it's just what it was man how do you feel about uh martin screlly being ordered to turn over the two million dollar wu-ting up i don't even know this dude he's like a worm to me i don't know what to do i'm'm like, when I see this face, I'm like, huh? How did you get

my gangster? How did my gangster get in your hands like that? Are you guys in the middle of a lawsuit over that particular album now? I'm not in a lawsuit. I'm more or less, right now, I'm in a forensic audit. Okay. Trying to find out what's going on. What you're supposed to have

financially. Basically. Oh, because you never got broken off from that sale. Yeah. I want find out what's going on. What you're supposed to have financially. Basically. Oh, because you never got broken off from that sale. Yeah. I want to see what's going on. Gotcha. You can't know. It's not like the streets.

I run up on them. Ew, give me my money. No, I didn't like that. I got to get lawyers, y'all. Call his peoples up. Injunctions. You know, get them. And next you know,

they got him in a cobra clutch. Did y'all know y'all was going to do that with the album or you knew? No, we didn't even know. We didn't even know that was going to happen. You said they came and got separate verses.

Yeah, it was dudes. It was dudes, civil rings. It was real close to the group at one time. It was this little dominion, whatever, minion, whatever you want to call them. And he just said, got verses from here, here, here, here, here. And he put it together. And, you know, if you do it like that, it came out kind of chunky. And I'm on a song with Cher.

I didn't even know. Really? Yeah, me, Redman I'm on a song with Cher. I didn't even know. Really? Yeah, me, Redman, was on a song with Cher. On the album? Yeah. Did you hear it? No, I heard the, before it went out, after it was, no, all the verses together,

I heard it one time. After that, it was a wrap. I didn't see it, I didn't hear it no more. Wow. Man, I love reading this book. A lot of the scenes and stories that you told play out like a movie. Very vivid.

Yeah. Even when you missed out on Kim K. Very vivid. It was young. You almost had Kim K? Young, youngster, man. House of Blues. Now, we don't know if he really, he just got her number. You know, I ain't going to get,

Dec did some suckers. He scared her, he scared her. What did Dec do? Back then, we was kind of grimy. You know, get on the phone, somebody call him, you going to come over and give me some? I don't even know who he is. I ain't going over there with no crazies.

Oh, yeah. The whole, it ain't no fun if the homies can't have nothing. Yeah, but Deck was crazy. He was crazy back then. You know, he's a block dude, so, you know. But even just hearing how Cream took off for you guys, basically the performance and the money falling from the ceiling, and then you said the song went gold within hours of you guys performing Cream.

Yeah, and prior to that, we was on the beach worried about if we was going to make it or not, you know what I mean? And then we already had all the videos in the can, so when we dropped Cream on our city hall, the next day we got the record reports. We was like, what? Because we was already like 100, 200,000 sales with the test box and all the stuff

we put out. We was already at 200,000 sales, and as soon as we dropped that, this shit jumped to 500 and just kept going. That's amazing how an appearance on our city hall affected. That was the platform back then. That's why to this day, if he ever need, if he ever need anything,

anything, he just hit me, DM me, if he ever need anything, anything, he just hit me, DM me, get in contact with me, bro. You get anything, man. You get,

you know, from any brother, man. Any one of our brothers. Is that the reason you named the book Raw? Because that's kind of like the first word

that set it off for you on Mystery of Chess Box? Yeah, that and my life has just been straight from Bolivia, baby. It's uncut.

It's gone. You can't snip this without some cut on it. I remember the first Wu-Tang Omni described you as a psychopathic thinker. But after reading the book, I'm not sure if that's an accurate description. You know that torture? I invented the torture. Really? I was the one that invented the torture.

We used to play on the block because we didn't have nothing else better to do. We'd be sitting there waiting for customers, and we used to just think of crazy stuff to say, the things we were going to do to each other. Wow. And that's how Torsha came about. What a fun game. Amazing game.

We used to use it, right? We used to use it up there. Yeah, we used to do it on the radio. We used to think of all the crazy things. I will slice your cheeks and pour Crisco in your mouth. You know, Crisco in your mouth. I'll fry your feet in sirloin grease. You know, we just saying some funny stuff. Whoever can think of the most craziest, weirdest thing to do.

No, I know it sounds kind of crazy, but that's why he called me a psychopathic thinker because I came up with the craziest thing. Oh, okay, okay, okay. Because it always seemed like you, in the book, when I read the books, you always seemed like you understood what you were doing was wrong. You were very self-aware, and you understood how to make things better. Yes, always. But I don't get it twisted. I'm a funny dude. You're a funny dude. You was very self-aware, and you understood how to make things better. Yes, always. But I don't get it twisted. I'm a funny dude. You're a funny dude.

You should be a comedian. I don't know why you don't be a comedian. Because then I won't be funny no more. You know what I'm saying? When the expectation of being funny. You're right. You know what I mean? You're right.

You're right. They pressurize my cabin like that, too. As soon as I, yo, you got to do this, you got to do that, you got to do this. I'm like, wah, wah. Can't even get it up. I'm like, dang, man. Y', you gotta do that, you gotta do this. I'm like, can't even get it up. I'm like, dang, man,

y'all make it, y'all, it may be bad right now, you know? Do you feel like you've gotten everything you deserve out of the game? Man, I've been in the game

for a long time. I'm living, I'm breathing. I ain't in a coffin. I ain't in jail. My baby just went to college. Damn right, bro.

Word. I'll let you know. Make sure you pick up the book right now, and we appreciate you for joining us. Yeah, Venom in stores, too. March 30th. My papers. Gotta do that together. You gotta put that together.

You know, it's cross-collateralized. All right. As you guard, it's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee. Charlamagne Tha God.

We are The Breakfast Club. Good morning. That French still go hard out here in these streets. I like us adult contemporary hip-hop like that. I like that. Adult contemporary? Adult contemporary hip-hop. I mean, adult contemporary hip-hop is usually made by older artists,

but that's got an adult contemporary sound. I don't feel crazy two-stepping to that one. Okay, old man. All right, well, let's get to the rooms. Let's talk Kevin Love. It's about time. What's going on? Rumor Report.

Rumor Report. This is the Rumor Report. Talk to him. With Angela Yee on The Breakfast Club. Well, just last month, DeMar DeRozan from the Raptors talked about his lifelong battle with depression, and that did inspire Kevin Love to talk about his own mental health struggles. Now, this is from Players' Tribune.

Here's what Kevin Love had to say about realizing that he had some issues. I remember when I was two or three years in the league, I never heard of a pro athlete talking about mental health, and I didn't want to be the only one. But it's kind of strange when you think about it. In the NBA, you have trained professionals to fine-tune your life in so many areas. But none of those people could help me in the way I needed when I was lying on the floor struggling to breathe.

I'm just starting to do the hard work of getting to know myself. For 29 years, I've avoided that. So I did one seemingly little thing that turned out to be a big thing. The Cavs helped me find a therapist. Drop on the clues, Bones, for Kevin Love, damn it. Hey, man, them panic attacks and anxiety attacks is real. I go to therapy every Friday at 3 o'clock, baby. So he said on November 5th, right after halftime against the Hawks,

that's when he had a panic attack. He said he knew something was wrong almost right after tip-off. I was winded within the first few possessions. That was strange. And my game was just off. I played 15 minutes of the first half and made one basket and two free throws. So he said he felt his heart racing faster than usual. Then he was having trouble catching his breath.

He said everything was spinning. My brain was trying to climb out of my head. The air felt thick and heavy. My mouth was like chalk. And that's when he said that he just literally physically just couldn't reenter the game after they were in a huddle. So that's when he went back to the locker room and he was just lying on his back on the floor trying to get enough air to breathe. If you've ever had a panic attack or anxiety attack,

you know exactly what Kevin Love is talking about. It's funny, I've been suffering from those for years but never knew what it was until recently. And I go to therapy every Friday at 3 o'clock, baby. So why do you get there? What causes you to get to that place? Oh, all kinds of stuff. I got so many irrational fears.

Like, I think, you know, parental paranoia, you know. I mean, probably PTSD. Not Bigfoot anymore, right? I've never been afraid of Bigfoot. I'm never afraid of things that I think I'm supposed to be afraid of. Like, I'll go sasquatch hunting right now. It'd be, like, irrational fears. All right, well, he goes on to talk about going to see a therapist,

and he said telling a stranger about his grandmother who had passed away and he didn't get to see her as much as he'd like to in the last few years, he said that's what actually made him realize how much pain it still was causing him because he didn't even know. He said, I realized that what hurt most was not being able to say a proper goodbye, and he had buried those emotions since her passing and said to myself, I have to focus on basketball. I'll deal with it later.

Be a man. I love my therapist. My therapist would be like, this is confidential between us. But I'd be like, I know these stories, Faya. I know you're going home talking about me. He ended this all by saying that he wants to remind himself these days, everyone is going through something that we can't see. And he said, I want to write that again. Everyone is going through something that we can't see. And he said, I want to write that again. Everyone is going through something that we can't see.

Go to therapy, man. We love to work out and stuff and keep our body right. You got to keep your brain right, too. Every Friday at 3 o'clock, I'm in there. I'm looking forward to my appointment this week. God damn it. All right, Serena Williams, she is returning to tennis. It's actually going down today.

She posted, it's official. My comeback is here. I'll start playing tennis again professionally for the first time since giving birth to my daughter this whole month. I am playing tournaments in California and Florida, both my home states. Thursday, the day, that's today, the day I play my very first match marks International Women's Day.

That's today. My comeback could not have come on a better day, and I decided I wanted to do something different. So she said, I created my Serena gold-toned S-pin, which when I'm playing, you can wear it and show support, not only for me, but also for my charity, which supports the Yatunde Price Resource Center.

So Yatunde Price Resource Center. So when you see that, you know what it is. That's Serena Williams. That icon. She is. All right, DJ Khaled. He has an open letter to his son,

and he posted a video montage of home footage to go along with it. Here is DJ Khaled, and the name of his new album is Father of a Side, and he talks about why. Love turns bad to good, dark to light, losing to winning. Love can change everything. It's changed me, and I tell you how. We're all grateful for those who came before us. You know that I am.

Yes, little boy I got everything from my mother and father My family taught me how to tell right from wrong My family taught me how to be self-made My family taught me how to hustle Well, now I'm grateful for the ones who's coming after me My son, Asad Alright, then he goes

What's up, McAllen, man? What? That sound like a living will or something Like, what are you doing? He's just dedicating the album to his son Asahd. to the album, all right? I don't know if this is an intro to the album. Khaled sounded like he was leaving. Like he about to pull a wrinkle in time and just disappear in the universe and have a sod

come look for him. All right, here's some more of Khaled talking about his title of what he is and that means the most to him. My whole life I thought our parents give us our names.

Mine called me Khaled. But here's a major key. Our children give us the ultimate name, the greatest title, the highest honor. My son has given me my new name, Father of Assad. And today, that's what I'm naming my new album.

And so there you have it. That's him talking about why he named the album that and dedicating everything to his son and talking about how important it is to him. Well, congratulations, Khaled. Drop on the clues, Mom. It's a movie. All right.

God bless Callie. It's a little too deep for me right there. It ain't that deep. I don't know if I like woke Callie. I don't think I like woke Callie. He's excited to be a dad for the first time. Listen, man, I love it. Fatherhood is a beautiful thing.

I think it's really cute. All right. All right, well, I'm Angela Yee, and that is your Rumor Report. All right. Thank you, Miss Yee. Now, Charlemagne. Yes, sir. Who you giving that donkey to?

I was contemplating whether I even wanted to do this the past couple of days, but my spirit was moved this morning to do it. So it's the rapper named Lil Xan, I think his name is. He needs to come to the front of the congregation. I'd like to have a word with the young man. All right, we'll get into that when we come back. Keep it locked. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Donkey of the day.

Yeah, you dumbass. You get donkey of the day. Yeah, you dumbass. You are a donkey. It's time for donkey of the day. Donkey of the day, huh? I'm gonna fatten all that shit around your eyes. They want this man to throw them blows, man.

They wait for Charlemagne to tap them gloves. Let's go. They had to make a judgment of who was going to be on the donkey of the day. They chose you. This is a breakfast club, bitches. Who's donkey of the day today? Yes, donkey of the day for Thursday, March 8th, goes to a young 21-year-old rapper from Redlands, California,

named Lil Xan. I'm looking at his Wikipedia because I know nothing about this young man, and his Wikipedia said he is an American rapper of Mexican descent, and his stage name is derived from the name of the prescription drug Xanax. I don't do Xanax on no level. I suffer from anxiety, and I don't do Xanax. I don't want medication to deal with my anxiety. I would rather go to therapy every Friday 3 o'clock, baby.

No knock to anyone who is on Xanax for anxiety or reasons. Salute to y'all, but that's not my thing. Now, I highly doubt Lil Xan is on Xanax for anxiety or reasons. Salute to y'all, but that's not my thing. Now, I highly doubt Lil Xan is on Xanax for anxiety reasons. I'm sure he's using them for recreational reasons, but I think I remember seeing something once where he said he wasn't using Xanax anymore. I don't know how true that is. Naming yourself Lil Xanax is a hell of a commitment to that drug, all right? So if you are done with Xanax, you need to change your name, but let's get back to the matter at hand. Now, listen, I don't judge these young rappers. I honestly don't care what they are doing.

I just really don't. And I'm not one of those guys who acts like my generation is any better than this generation. Because in my era, we was celebrating the drug culture in the form of hustling. We had music that normalized crime and violence. We had music that objectified and degraded women. I'm not one of those your sin is greater than mine type of guys. I'm simply an energy person. And it's some young rappers I vibe with, some I don't, period.

And it's not about content either. You know, your Uncle Charlotte says in life you have to have the perfect balance of wretchedness and righteousness. So, you know, it's just energy. You know, it's just a vibe. You know, if I like the energy of it and the vibe of it and the sound of it, I rock to it. I like everything from Vic Mensa to 21 Savage, Vince Staples to Kodak Black.

I like Rhapsody to Migos, Tank, Big Sean, Kendrick, Partisan, Fontaine. There's plenty of young rappers I like out here. In fact, there's way too many to name right now. But guys like Lil Xan, they're just not one of them. Now, music is subjective. So if you like Lil Xan, good for you. Me personally, I don't give a damn about Lil Xan's music. I can't tell you if it's trash or not because I never bothered to listen.

You ever listen, Envy? No. You ever listen, Yee? No, I haven't heard it. Alright, so I'm gonna just take a wild shot in the dark and say it's trash. But that's not even an accurate assessment because I don't listen to his music. His music is not why he's getting donkey of the day so that doesn't matter. The reason he's getting donkey of the day is because Lil Xan

said Tupac Shakur's music is boring. Now, let me put this in context. OK, Lil Xan was on Revolt TV, drop on the clues bombs for Revolt TV. And they were doing something called a clout rating. So on a scale of one to ten, Lil Xan had to give rankings on the clout of certain rappers. OK, on a scale of one to ten, he had to rank the clout of Tupac. This is what Lil Xan ranked Tupac and said about his music. The born music. Play that.

Let me say that again. Lil Xan had to give rankings on the clout of certain rappers on a scale of 1 to 10. He had to rank the clout of Tupac. This is what Lil Xan ranked Tupac and said about his music. It was boring music. Maybe he never heard him. He gave him a two.

And he said his music was boring. Oh, my God. Okay. Dropping the clues bombs for a vote again. Oh, you got him. Oh, you got the little guy. Whoever did that interview, you got him. You put him in a corner, right?

Lil Xan gave Tupac a two on the clout ranking. I wonder if these kids know what the definition of clout is. I would think so, right? Since they're using the word so much, right? The definition of clout is influence or power. Without question, Tupac Chico is top three, if not the number

one most influential rapper of all time and it's not even close. If you ask me who the most influential rappers of all time are, it's not even close. If you ask me who the most influential rappers of all time are, just influence, I'm going to say Tupac. I'm going to say Kanye West. I'm going to say Jay-Z. That's my opinion, just my opinion.

But regardless of if you agree with me or not, you have to know that Tupac has more clout than any rapper dead or alive, okay? Lil Xan, Tupac has been dead longer than you've been alive. You are 21. He's been dead for 22 years. And for the past 22 years, Pac and Def is more famous, more influential, and more powerful than you are right now, alive.

Think about this, Lil Xan. You are being asked about a rapper that's been dead for 22 years. They ask you to rank the clout of a rapper that's been dead for 22 years, and you have the nerve to give him a two? Lil Xan, ask yourself this. Would they be asking another rapper about you 22 years from now? Probably not. You probably won't even be remembered unless, of course,

you die from a Xanax overdose, God forbid, and then you become a cautionary tale. But I promise you if that was to happen to you right now, you, Lil Xanax, you would trend on Twitter for a day, your family would care, and hip-hop would move on. Now, if you think Tupac's music is boring, I'm not mad at that. Music is subjective. I ain't mad at you.

You just snorted, man. Come on, man. You just had to get that one off. But listen, we can't allow these youngins to rewrite the narrative of icons in our culture. I personally have never heard anyone say Tupac's music is boring. I wasn't the biggest Tupac fan until after he died, but that's because I was a mob, deep, biggie kind of guy.

So when Pac started coming at them, I chose sides. But I listen to a lot of Pac now. You know why? Because a lot of things he was saying when he was your age, Lozan, are still relevant to this day. Lozan, will the music you are making now matter tomorrow? Will it matter the day after? Will it matter next week? Probably not.

Now, I could be wrong about you, okay? I could be wrong about all of this. You may be the next great rap icon. I highly doubt it, but in the process of you trying to achieve whatever you're trying to achieve, how about show some respect for the pioneers of the culture that made it possible for you to be trash? Seriously. A guy like Tupac died

for your rap sins. Okay? I'm serious. I look at Pac and Big's death as the ultimate hip-hop sacrifice. You know how people say if Pac and Big hadn't have died, the game would have been different? I believe that. Okay? A lot of different doors opened when those brothers passed. A lot of lanes opened. And a lot of people came

running through those doors and running through those lanes. Some were dope and some were whack, okay? But without, you know, Pac, Pac making the ultimate and final sacrifice, okay? Without that, I don't think he would be here, okay? He was the ultimate and final sacrifice, okay? The perfect without blemish sacrifice for your rap sins, Lozan.

Pac laid on the cross in order for you to be able to express yourself artistically. Pac made it possible for you to make a living being trash. And you got the nerve to say that a man like that has a two on the cloud scale? You have the nerve to say that man's music is boring? You don't strike me as a thinker, Lil Xan, okay? Most juvenile junkies aren't thinkers, and Tupac makes music for the thinking man. When you say you think Pac as a thinker, Little Xan. Okay, most juvenile junkies aren't thinkers,

and Tupac makes music for the thinking men. When you say you think Pac's music is boring, I think that you think Pac's music is boring for the same reason you probably thought school was boring, for the same reasons you probably think books are boring. I'm sure you think TED Talks are boring, too. I bet you think any place of worship is boring. Anything that remotely makes you think,

I'm sure you think is boring. Okay, but one day, little Zan, when you are completely sober, if you get to that point and you're a little older and a lot wiser, you're going to want to think and you're going to want to learn and you're going to gravitate towards things that teach you because the beauty of the truth is that it's the truth regardless of who believes it or not. And Tupac Shakur call regardless of if a juvenile junkie thinks his music is boring and gives him a two on the cloud scale is absolutely the truth.

Okay? Please give Lil Xan the biggest hee-haw. That's why I say the truth don't need no defense. Only witnesses. That's all. And the truth is the truth regardless of if you believe it or not. So let Lil Xan run around and tell his lies about Tupac having a two on the cloud scale and his music being boring.

We know that's not true. All right. All right. Thank you for that donkey today. Up next, ask Yee. 800-585-1051. If you got a question for Yee. Matter of fact, all women, well, I think all women

should call in this morning. Yeah, it's International Women's Day. International Women's Day. So let's get it going. It could be about anything. It could be about business. It could be about relationships. There you go. It could be about family, whatever. Alright, we'll get into all that when we come back. Keep it locked. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Hi, it's DJ

N.V. Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. Hi, it's DJ Envy Angela Yee. Charlamagne Tha God, we are The Breakfast Club. It's International Women's Day, and it's Ask Yee time. So we need all our females, our women, to call in right now. Hello, who's this? Hi. Don't want to give that out. Okay.

Hey, Anonymous, what's your question for Yee? My question is, I've been dating somebody for a few years now, and he's in the military and stuff. But when we first started, it was perfect. But he was able to try to get me out of my comfort zone, I would say, sexual-wise. And I've ended up doing some things that I normally actually wouldn't do. Okay. Did you enjoy it?

I did and I did not because it was against my morals and my values. I'm just curious, Anonymous, like what is against your morals and values? Threesomes and stuff like that. So I did that and at first, I mean, it was weird or whatever, but then I began to do things for know, required us to do stuff like that. And it was just for him, so I would do it just for him. Okay. Which, by the way, in a relationship is not a good idea to do something that you don't want to do just for the other person's pleasure.

Right. So, I mean, now it's getting to the point where, like, we, it's like, well, you knew who I was before, you know, before you met me and stuff like that. And you knew what I like. And it's gotten to the point where we used to talk about marriage and now we do not talk about it, like, anymore. And then it's always bringing up what he wants to do with some other female. And it's just kind of weird so um i'm just wondering i see the potential that's there but i'm just wondering is it even worth trying to because he's he said he says he loves me and things like that but it's just entirely too much when it comes down to women it's just too

many well is he real is he willing to sacrifice and not have these threesomes and do these things that you don't even get pleasure out of i don't't think so. And if he says that, then I think he'll go behind my back. So you don't trust that that will happen. When you've told him, I don't like doing this anymore and I don't want to, can you be with me and just me, what does he say? He'll say, yeah, but I know that's a lie. It's like I see the potential there. And I actually do think I love him.

But, I mean, not that I think I love him. I do think that he loves me, but it's just like maybe he was like exposed to something. And it's like you can't get out of it. And he's been in that for so long. That's what that's what brings him pleasure. And you were doing it. And now you're going to stop doing it. So you don't he probably doesn't even know if he could not do it anymore.

I think. Right. OK, so I think that the issue here and this is why I always tell people, if you really don't want to do something like that, not to do it. But you've done it, and you tried, and you attempted to see if you liked it. You didn't, but you kept on doing something you didn't like to do. And when you guys can't link up like that sexually, and you believe other people have to be involved to be in a relationship,

that's not a good feeling for your ego either. But it's almost like I invested so much time and energy and money. Girl, listen, let me explain. We can never look at relationships and look at it that way. I invested so much time and money and energy. It's supposed to be, is this somebody that I can trust who I want to be with? Because if not, you're going to end up wasting more time and more energy and more money. At least you learned something from the experience. Every single relationship we're ever in,

what we do walk away with, even if we don't end up with that person, is we do learn something from it. So that's never a reason to stay just because you feel like, well, I invested so much time, money, and energy. Okay? You don't want to keep on investing that. Like, how do you really, really let go?

It seems like that's what you want to do. I do, but then sometimes it feels like, okay, well, I've taught him a lot of things and stuff like that. What if he used what I put into him to someone else? So what? You're going to use what you learned from him with someone else, too. I didn't really learn much. Well, that's a problem, okay?

Because whoever you're with, you should definitely be learning from them just like they are learning from you. Sounds like this man maybe just isn't on your level and you're just comfortable with it and you're scared to be alone. But what you need to do is find somebody who's compatible with you, who cares about you and your wants and your desires and cares about what you don't want and what you don't desire and wants to make sure that you two can come together on those things.

That's important. You deserve better. Life with somebody else can't be just you doing what you need to do to please them. Right. Right. Right. You're right. You're right.

You're right. And things about it, I know that. And see, I know I grew up with a lot of guys. My family is predominantly men, but, you know. Well, listen, babe, I just want to say, do for you. He's been selfish all this time. Now you be selfish and do what you need to do for you to be happy because you don't sound like you're happy in this situation.

So I think perhaps this just might not be the right person for you if somebody doesn't care about how you feel. Right. All right, and don't worry about the time. We've all wasted time. We've all wasted energy. We've all wasted money. It'll all wasted energy. We've all wasted money. It'll come back 10 times better for you.

All right. I've tried to put energy. I've tried to do it. Where got you? It's hard. It's hard because I've broken it off so many times. But then I still find myself, like, retracting myself right back to him. Do what you need to do for you.

Be selfish. Do what you need to do for you. Nothing wrong with Do what you need to do for you. Nothing wrong with that. Okay? Okay, thanks. And check back in with me, please. Hey, this is a dangerous situation. I know a woman right now who is seeking spiritual counseling because she was having threesomes with other women in order to please her man, but she was raised in a real religious

household, and the Bible says homosexuality is wrong, so she hates the guy because she thinks he was the devil, and now she's conflicted about her spirituality, and she thinks she's sinned because she partaked in c**k to now she's conflicted about her spirituality and she thinks she's sinned because she partaked in c**t to c**t scissor action and she thinks she's not getting into heaven because she's gay and she blames the guy for making her gay. Oh, it's crazy. Yeah, you just in the bedroom, don't do

things that you don't want to do. Word. Like that's all. And if a man can't understand that, then that's not a comfortable situation. That's not the right person for you. Absolutely. Alright. ASCII, 805-85-1051. Hit us up right now. It's the Breakfast right person for you. Absolutely. All right. Ask Yee. 800-585-1051. Hit us up right now. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We're in the middle of Ask Yee. Hello, who's this? Aisha. Aisha, what's your question for Yee? So my question is, like, how do you coexist with the woman that's about to marry your daughter's father?

Mm-hmm. But you guys don't get along, I take it. No, we don't. And it's not totally on my part. I mean, she's listened to a lot of things that he has said about me and that she's taken them to be truth without getting to actually know me for herself. Right. And you and him obviously don't have a good relationship with each other, so that carries over.

Well, it's off and on. Like, sometimes we're good, and sometimes he act like he can't stand the ground I walk on. So, like, I don't know. How do you guys communicate when it comes to your child? Is it directly with each other? Sometimes in the beginning. First of all, our daughter is seven,

so in the beginning it was through his mom. I would relay a message to his mom. His mom would relay it to him. And then she would get back to me with whatever. But now she and I don't talk either. So now he and I are forced to communicate with each other. If we don't communicate, a lesson is something that absolutely has to be discussed between the two of us, Kasson and I. I just recommend this until,

because sometimes it takes a long time for things to smooth over and get better for people's emotions not to be so involved. I think what you need to do is communicate with him via text message as long as y'all can, and at least you just be chill and cool all the time and just be very, okay, hey, this is what I need. Hey, I need to pick her up. Are you picking her up at this time? Thank you.

Cordial, polite, and that's it and let gradually over time as that relationship as they keep doing their thing and you're doing your thing at some point things will perhaps get a little bit better but in the meantime for now just communicate just on a very cordial level and make sure you keep it that way so that you can communicate about your daughter with each other and nothing else. That's all you talk about. Don't mention his fiance. Don't mention anything else. Just strictly about.

I don't mention her, but this is what she did recently, which I thought was like a little pity. And this is her character all the time. So my daughter had a game a couple of weeks ago. Well, actually, it wasn't my daughter's game. It was my son's girlfriend's game. But we went to the basketball game, and it just so happened that the little girl that my

son dates was playing her father's team. So, of course, his fiance was sitting in the bleachers. And she said to my daughter's dad, well, Charlize passed by me five times and didn't speak. Like, she's a kid. If you felt like you wanted to interact with her, why didn't you

speak to her? Right. And why is he even telling you that? Because they're petty. And because I feel like that. She's always competing with my daughter for her dad's attention. Aisha, don't you feed into this pettiness. That's all I have to say. You can't control what they do, but you can control what you do.

Right. And for yourself, you got just be, just only communicate when you have to. Mind your business. Go about your business. If she says hello, how you doing? Keep her moving. You got a life. You got things to do. You above all of that. Right. People will drag you into, people will drag you into some

issues you don't even need to be into. You control yourself. Right. Don't get dragged into that. That's their whole purpose. Don't be miserable with them. Don't be beefing over nothing. Thank you so much. We appreciate it. You're get dragged into that. That's their whole purpose. Don't be miserable with them. Don't be beefing over nothing. Thank you so much. We appreciate it. You're welcome, Aisha.

All right. Ask E. 800-585-1051. Now, E, we got rumors on the way? Yes, we are going to talk about a brand new hip-hop council that is being formed. And we'll tell you some people that are on that board. You'll be excited. Okay, we'll get into that when we come back. Keep it locked.

This is The Breakfast Club. Good morning. DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. Let's get to the rumors. Let's talk OJ. She's spilling the tea. This is The Rumor Report with Angela Yee on The Breakfast Club.

So we were telling you all about these never-before-seen videos of O.J. Simpson. It's going to air on Sunday at 8 p.m. on Fox. And it's also about, it's such a weird scenario. There was this book, If I Did It, and the premise is hypothetically what he would have done if he was the person who killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. I think he should be arrested for that. I would look at that as a mission to guilt, to be honest. And here's some of that interview. It's Judith Regan, the book publisher, who's actually talking to him.

And he is hypothetically talking about the night of the murder. In the book, the hypothetical is... Charlie pulls up. Charlie came by and mentioned something about what was going on at her house. This guy, Charlie, shows up, the guy who I had recently become friends with. I don't know why he had been by Nicole's house, but it told me you wouldn't believe what's going on over there. And I remember

thinking, well, whatever's going on over there has got to stop. You can't use hypotheticals as a therapy session. Crazy. You got things you want to get off your chest that are eating you up, so you hypothetically speak on them. So you hypothetically confess. You can't do that. Alright, here's another part of the O.J. Simpson, The lost confession,

where he talks about still being angry at Nicole Simpson even while she was dead. If you're angry with somebody about whatever's going on in your life, when they die, it's not like that anger disappears. It's almost like I want to say, I told you, didn't I tell you? You know, whatever the hell was going on,

you know what I mean? So you still got those kind of feelings in you, you know, it's whatever the hell was going on, you know what I mean? Didn't I? So you still got those kind of feelings in you and you still are trying to deal with I'm not going to be able to say this to this person. I'm never going to be able to change this person's mind. I'm never going to have an effect on this person again. Nobody hears this man venting. Nobody hears this man confessing like this, but you can't do nothing about it. He was found guilty.

He could say whatever he wants. He was found not guilty. He could say whatever he wants. He was found not guilty. He could say whatever he wants. It's actual genius, but it's foul, but he could say what he wants. I just think he got things that he want to get off his chest. He's eating them alive, so he has to tell somebody. And that is a confession. You can't hypothetically confess to a crime.

He can confess. He was found not guilty. So if you get found not guilty, but then you come back and say you did do it. It's double jeopardy. You can't double jeopardy. Really? Yeah. You can't get re-tried for the same thing twice say you did do it. You can't double jeopardy. You can't double jeopardy. Really? Yeah. You can't get re-tried for the same thing twice.

I thought you'd get more money with double jeopardy. I'm thinking of jeopardy, jeopardy. You know what? You know what? I'm going to fight you right now. Don't mind me. Go ahead, you. All right.

Vince Staples. Now, I guess some people have been complaining about his recent live shows and criticizing him, so he has responded like this. On GoFundMe.com, you can decide to donate to the cause of $2 million, which will allow me to shut the f*** up forever, and you will never hear from me again. No songs, no interviews, no anything. If not, you can choose to let me do what the f*** I want to do

when I want to do it. Get off of my d*** or fund my lifestyle. The choice is yours. Dropping the clues bombs for Vince Staples. I was thinking about this last night. Charlamagne, you might be able to get this. Man, I'm so mad Vince ain't hit me and told me about this. First of all, there's a couple of rappers I talk to for no reason.

Vince Staples is one of them. We randomly talk all the time. And I'm mad he didn't tell me about this, because I definitely would have had my campaign going. Well, the GoFundMe, he said, for $2 million, I agree to do the following. Move to Palmdale, buy a Honda, year's supply of soups for the homies locked down. So all of those things, if you can go ahead to his GoFundMe.

Now, I don't know what Vince Staples' pockets are like, but $2 million is like, I would need $20 million. $20 million? $20 million, I'll walk away. I'll delete all my social media, quit radio, no more television. Because I'm just looking at like, you know, possible career earnings for the next few years. Give me $20, I'll walk away. All right. GoFundMe.

And let's talk about this, the Kennedy Center Honors. Now, we told you previously about LL Cool J. He's the first hip-hop artist ever inducted into the Kennedy Center Honors. That's an annual honor that they give to people in performing arts for their lifetime of contributions to American culture. Well, now the Kennedy Center has set up a Hip-Hop Culture Council. And on that Culture Council is Q-Tip, who is the Artistic Director of the Hip Hop Culture Council. He said the members are the embodiment of what we stand for and all that we aspire to achieve with the Hip Hop Culture Program.

Other people are Questlove, Robert Glasper, Grandmaster Kaz, Common, Jay Perrier, Pharrell Munch, Black Thought, Mimi Valdez, MC Light, LL Cool J, of course, 9th Wonder, Large Professor, all of these people, Fab Five, Freddie, are part of the founding members and the council now. So it's a beautiful thing. I love it, but it sounds a little up north biased. Where's the down south people on it? It's in D.C. Yeah, but where's the down south people on the council?

Like, where's the West Coast people on the council? All I hear is up north people. Where's 9th Wonder from? Oh, North Carolina. Okay, you're's the down south people on the council? Like, where's the west coast people on the council? All I hear is up north people. Where's 9th Wonder from? Oh, North Carolina. Okay, you're right. Still need some Atlanta representation, though, because Atlanta's so big in the culture. Where's the L.A. representation? Well, that's just some of the members. So there's just, you know, I'm sure they're still

going ahead and putting it all together. I like the idea, but it sounds a little up north-wise. Alright, well, I'm Angela Yee and that is your Rumor Report. Alright, Revolt, we'll see you guys tomorrow. Everybody else The People's Choice mixes up next. Get your request in. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Had enough of this country?

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