FULL SHOW: Beyoncé Breaks Ulta Records with Cécred, Quinta Brunson Sparks Debate, Jay-Z Lawsuit Update + Keri Hilson & Larry Morrow Interview

Published Apr 9, 2025, 5:12 PM

Today on The Breakfast Club, Keri Hilson talks about returning to the spotlight, navigating public relationships, and the Beyoncé backlash. Plus, Larry Morrow joins us to discuss expanding his New Orleans restaurant empire, Caribbean cuisine, and maintaining work-life balance. We also asked listeners: Have you ever thought you were closer to a friend than you really were? And in ‘Donkey of the Day,’ Charlamagne calls out a teacher accused of stepping on a 6th grader’s back during a lockdown drill. Listen for more!

Good morning us say yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo Jess, hilarious, Good morning, charlamage the God peace.

To the planet. Yes, what day it is? Guess what day it is?

Oh?

Good morning. How y'all feel out there?

I feel blessed, black and holly favorite, happy to be here another day to serve about beautiful listeners.

That's right, it's Wednesday, hump day, mid little week. How you feeling, Jess, I'm feeling good.

I'm a little mad as somebody that I know yesterday who asked me crazy questions. So you know, I just had a baby and shout out to Marley. She's about to be eight months.

She don't look nothing like you. Excuse me nothing.

So what so what you know? How somebody catch up with? How the baby?

Ben?

Baby is great? Out of nowhere? Let me ask you a question. What would be your stance?

Like, what would you do if Marley felt like she grows up and she felt like she was born in the wrong bounce you.

May shut up? Shut the hell up, man, sat up one of my friends, they be sitting here. She was taking you.

Yeah, I swear.

So I was like, what, I don't want to know how you answer exactly? I would have said, I used to identify as your friend.

To me all of your yo, and it was I ain't seen this girl, it's so long, and she was just so happy.

Now I'm starting to think, I don't know what who are you?

Like?

You know what I'm saying.

And she's trying to conflate two narratives, like she knows she want to talk about the new baby, then she want to talk about old stuff.

Leave me alone, right exactly, like.

Damn might see her so long?

That was a second question that she asked. She didn't even ask like how's the baby doing or anything? She said, let me see the baby, took a picture and then she I mean, I showed her a picture, and then she's like, let me ask you a question, and then got into that.

I'm like, oh lord, I'm done.

I should have said, what would Trump do? That's what doing Trump?

Exactly? Oh my goodness, that's funny.

All right, Well, let's get the show crack. We got some special guests joining us today. Man, one of my favorite entrepreneurs will be.

Here, Larry Moreau now Larry Moreau. If you don't know, he is a huge entrepreneur out in New Orleans, Luisagana. He owns a bunch of businesses, a bunch of restaurants, a bunch of night clubs.

A good brother. But so Larry Morrow will be joining us.

If you touch down in New Orleans, they're gonna tell you, they're gonna direct you to about four or five spots. I guarantee you they are Larry's pots, More's, Moroe's Steakhouse, Mondays.

What else you got? Sun Chung?

That's hide and Seek, this treehouse, this, He's got a new spot, Morro Steak Mango Icy. So we're gonna kick it with Larry. And then also Kerry Hilson will be joining us.

Carry Hilson. We haven't seen her in a long time.

Fifteen years, fifteen years. Yes, she got a new project dropping called uh we need to Talk. It comes out of April eighteenth, I believe right, yes, and.

She's gonna be talking what kept her away for fifteen years. So Kerry Hilson will be joining us next hour. All right, Well, let's get the show crack and we got front page News. Morgan to be here it's the breakfast club.

Good morning morning.

Everybody's DJ Envy Jesse, Larry Is, Charlamagne the guy.

We are the breakfast club. Let's get in some front page news.

Good morning, Morgan starts there with your girl front based news.

Yeah.

Okay, morning y'all, Happy day feeling morning morning. See I got that Winnsday vibe. I'm here.

Okay, So the Supreme Court, let's get into it, y'all. The Supreme Court. Another big win for President Trump at the Supreme Court. He is well, excuse me. The Supreme Court is siding with President Trump over firings of thousands of federal workers.

The High Court rule tuesday that the.

Trump administration can proceed with the termination of sixteen thousand probationary employees. The workers were let go across six agencies and departments associated, of course, with the government, and the lower court had ruled that the workers would be in stated as illegal. Challenges proceeded, but the Supreme Court's ruling rescends that order. So all those people who were probationary employees terminated by all of those different agencies, Yes, that that will stand.

Why don't we keep acting like that?

Not?

Donald Trump's Court, Like, why do we keep backing?

Why why do people hold out hope and faith that the Supreme Court is going to do the right thing? When Donald Trump is he built that court.

Damn near he did.

He sure did a street conserve conservative majority, and he put three of those people on the court. They already gave him presidential immunity. I mean, like, what else what makes us think that the Supreme Court is ever going to do the right thing?

So let me ask you, Let me ask you, Morgan.

So all those people when they ask people to send an email back of the jobs that they were doing, and the people that said they weren't going to do it, and those are the people that's going to get let go.

If they are probationary, if they've been with the agency or whatever agency they were with, you know, beyond the probationary period, then that's a different case. But those probationary employees, the ones who pay pretty much were within the first ninety days of their job. Unfortunately, they will not be able to keep their jobs. Yeah, so I'm saying, yes, thousands of people will be impacted by that. In other political news, yesterday, on Tuesday, President Trump gave a keynote address at the Annual National Republican Congressional Committee, and he's standing on ten when it comes to tariffs.

Okay. In fact, he said, they're helping. Let's take a listen to President Trump.

Many countries have they've ripped us off left and right, but now it's hard to to do the ripping' That's okay. We're gonna make our country even stronger, stronger than it ever was. And I really think we're helped a lot by the tariff situation that's going on, which is a good situation, not a bit.

It's great.

It's gonna be legendary.

You watch legendary in a positive way.

I have to say.

He would want to say he thinks the war with the world is not one at all because the countries are coming to the US, adding that Japan has already on the way, not to mention the additional fifty percent tariffs on imported Chinese goods that were that went into effect at midnight as in hours ago and posting eight one hundred four percent tariff now and in case you missed it, China announced for retaliatory terariffs against the US, with Trump promising to raise duties against the country if they didn't remove the tariffs.

Now.

Trump also added that China if that until China is ready to deal, that is what's going to be. He added that he felt, excuse me, he felt what he calls legendary tariffs will help the GOP win mid ti terms in a thundering landslide.

Now, Press Secretary of white Now.

If the economy keep going away, that is going. It's always about the economy. So if he thinks that he's he's bugging unless he knows something that we don't know going the way it's going right now, No way, hoose not that the Democrats.

But no, no, but he claims, you know, it's gonna hurt a little bit and then things will ease up. But you know, Press Secretary CareLine love it, right, We all do. Right, She tout at the tariff, saying, the world is clearly responding to President Trump's approach.

We just talked about China's reaction.

But Levitt also noted that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nett and yeahoo, pledged to eliminate the US trade deficit with Israel. So let's take a listen to White House Press Secretary Caroline.

Lovitt, American economics surrender is over. President Trump is no longer going to allow American workers and companies to be ripped off at the hands of foolish trade practices that shipped away millions of high paying jobs and hollowed out commun unities across the country.

So Levit also added that seventy other countries have reached out to begin trade negotiations. Of course, meanwhile, Wall Street has seen three straight down sessions due to volatility caused by the terrorists before seeing a slight, slight gain yesterday.

So we'll see what happens in the market today.

Of course, all of this is because you know, he's like, hey, let's see who comes to the negotiating table. Let's see who starts to negotiate these trade deficits, these you know in trades. You know, China is like, nah, we're not rocking. Israel's like, okay, cool, we go and eliminate your debt. So let's see, we'll see what happens. We'll continue to watch the situation. At seven, we're going to talk about immigration. It continues the colorations.

Well, thank you Morgan, thank you everybody else, Get it off your chest. Eight hundred five eight five one oh five to one. If you need to vent phone line to wide open. Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one is the Breakfast Club.

Good morning the Breakfast Club. Please, this is your time to get it off your chest. Eight hundred five five one five to one. We want to hear from you on the breakfast.

Class and I want to get it off my chest first before we go to the phone call. This this is what happened yesterday.

And I don't know if you guys are aware of this in New Jersey, it may be some other states. Yesterday I let a car of mine to somebody so he can drive. He didn't know his license was suspended.

He had parking tickets. He paid the parking tickets, but it didn't go through the DMV. He got pulled over and got a ticket.

Did you know in the state of New Jersey, if you lend somebody your car and they have a suspended license, that you get a ticket to hell? No, Yes, I got a ticket yesterday because he had a suspended license, and it's not a ticket that you can pay.

I have to go to court, and if I don't go to court, I lose.

My license and I can get jail time with a thirty days because his license was suspended and he was driving my car.

I don't see that wrong with that. What do you mean?

No?

Do you know how sick of court? NBA is No, no, no dam But.

I don't see nothing wrong with that, because you know, lending somebody in your car, it may not seem like a big deal, but it is. And so if you loan somebody in your car, you should really make sure that they are legally able to drive that car. But he didn't know his license to spending. It's not like people know he had a parking ticket. It's like he didn't pay the part.

He actually paid the parking ticket, but it takes two days to register the DMV. It didn't register as a yet. And then also how close are you with him? Like you got to be closer if you just lend your cars.

Like you don't do that.

Okay, yeah, so he didn't, so he didn't know he drove your car.

That's like if you're letting the car to a family member and they ain't their license is suspended, they get pulled over, no accident, nothing.

Yeah, I mean I don't know, and then you get a ticket. You gotta go to court. You got to hire an attorney. It's crazy. Well, it doesn't make you think.

It does make you think about who you let loan your car, because you might let that person loan your card.

He might go rob a bank.

I'm serious, Like they might go commit a crime. So you really should think about that before you just say, hey, you're driving my car. Yeah, but it's a family member. Just like if just says you'll eat, let me ball your car. I got to drive up to the west side of the right back. I'm like, yeah, that happens my child. I can understand that I'm responsible for that my child just.

As my friend.

But no, but you said it a family member, that's my child. I can I can understand being responsible for that is wow, I got it.

Just the fact of the whole situation, Like you have to go to court.

You can't just paid.

You can't pay it.

You have to go to court because his license was suspended family members of I just say family, a close friend.

It's a close friend. So now I gotta stop letting Rome. My customers got let Rome.

In.

His license is suspended, you get it taken as well.

That's crazy.

I've never heard of anything like that. But that's what happened to me yesterday.

But hello, who's this Hey, good.

Morning, Good morning, going to coach David's everything Dad your chest? Hey listen, I you know, got some bad news last night. A member of my basketball community. Uh to come to a heart attack man, and you know he was just just retired man weeknd his retiredment. And it brought me back to uh something that you talked about. Charlottmagne a heart at a full bite scan with doctor.

Yeah the company.

So my man, doctor pullmans Soren medical man. I'm telling you go get that soaring heart scame man, let him go. He can look at your whole heart, look at your arteries. He does like a show you a three D rendering.

You can see all the blockages everything, and.

There's no age to go there like don't wait to your sixties.

I went, My wife went. I know, Charlamagne went, his wife went. Please. But you know it's also not just about the blockages, man.

The high blood pressure, the high cholesterol, stress, all that stuff can cause you to have heart attacks.

Bro.

I just want to get my condolence to my man g Knights and his family. Man for real, you know, you know, it's it's it's it's smartening the head. You know, we've just seen him. You know he was playing in the playoffs. Man, you know, it's just crazy.

How old was he?

You know?

Uh he was he was in this early fifty sixties.

Okay, man, man, that's young. I'm sorry that yeah, very young man.

But I appreciate your jumping.

Man.

All right, bro, going to bet you.

I love you too, Thank you bad get it.

Hold on, Ivy, Did you get a ticket or did you get cited?

No?

I got a ticket. Oh I've heard of people getting cited for No.

No, I have a ticket, like a ticket with my name on it because my name is on registration and assurance.

And then I have a court date where I have to go to court. And then when you google what the fine is.

It says you can lose your license or spend thirty days in prison, damn for lending somebody your car.

That's crazy.

Get it off your chest. Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one.

Hit us up right now. It's the Breakfast Club in the morning, the Breakfast Club. Ray right, ray yo, Charla mac yaf.

What up are we list?

This is your time to get it off your chest. I got an indoor pool. Outdoor pool. We want to hear from you on the breakfast club.

Get on the phone right now here, tell you what it is.

We lie Hello, who's this?

My name Anna?

What's up?

Get it off your chest?

So about to go to prison for five years, and I'm like, really sad about it.

Again.

The dude's about to go to jail and we are the greatest people level. My dude about to go to prison for five years, and I'm just like, really sad about it.

No, I did that like with a really situation.

So how old is he?

He's forty six.

I'm thirty two.

He's forty six. He's gonna be what did he do?

He got in a car accident and the person passed away, and because he had aquipment on history not of the same offense, but.

So healhcular homicide. Yeah, yes, what the ecular manslaughter? I think they call it, right, hcular homicide? Homicide?

Man, he said, who got in the car?

Web it's actually called regular driving death.

Oh no, see that's a different charge. Oh he killed somebody in the car.

Yeah, he only getting five years.

Was he speeding? Was he drunk? Or was his license suspended.

He was seating his son had got killed a week frior. He was driving and just kind of zoned out, just kept driving and bowed him the car.

Is he okay, it's fun, he's fine, he's great.

He actually walked away with like little scratches, but the lady passed away.

I mean, that's it's sad on both accounts, you know it is.

It's really sad. It's like a double whamman when guy life was like four to fifteen years.

But he got me out five Are you calling that ask? Because you know how soon she get you she get a boyfriend or what?

Hell?

Yo? She said love girl by no.

But he always tells me like, I'm not naive, you're young, you're beautiful, you be out like I know somebody might you and stuff like that, which is true, but I don't.

Want to know.

God, he'll be out of fifty one, you'll be what thirty six at the time, the thirty seven at the time.

That probably the last thing on his mind. He lost his son, he just killed somebody, know what I'm saying?

Like this man, right, I know, I know, but I mean we've been we've been living with the other for a minute. So it's not like we don't have no love for each other.

Yeah, and it'd be good.

You know, you answer his calls, go see him every now and then. But you know he can't take you with him to go do his bid either, because that's just gonna scratch him out more.

So, Yeah, you know, you can't use a vibrator for five years. You're not a stud.

You feel me, like, no, absolutely not. You feel me, And a lot of things can change in five years, like I might move or you know, something happened. I just like feel bad.

You know, it's kind of depressing him.

Feel bad about moving on with your life. I'm sorry, Like it's just yeah, and he wants you to move on.

So it's I don't think he wants he did. I thought she said that.

He was like you younger, do you he did?

He did?

He didn't say that.

You know what I'm saying.

He don't want to feel like he holding onto me, all right.

Like I'm holding up my life for him. But I'm like, just man, he loves me. I don't want to just start over.

Yeah, but yes you do at the end of the day.

So a little bit, a little bit, I'm gonna lie.

But but here being our praise, you keep them in yours too, and just you know.

Move on.

Thank you guys.

I love y'all.

I love you too.

All jokes aside.

So this is why men gotta really think about things before they doing, man, because those are the consequences of your actions that you don't think about. You got you a little one out here that you love and all of that. You know, you go, I gotta go do some time. They gonna be out here popping up for another.

Gool you already know, all right, get it off your chest eight hundred five eight five.

Little shimmy when you said that. Oh my goodness, we got the latest with Lauren coming up.

We do.

So y'all be acting like Beyonce can't sell products, but she just broke a record with in store sales for Sacred and we're gonna talk about it with your figarete.

That's her.

Okay, okay, okay, all right, we'll get to that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club, Good.

Morning, everybody. It's j N V.

Jesse hilarious charlamage the guy we are the Breakfast Club.

Good morning. Let's get to the latest with.

Laurie Lauren becoming a straight back.

She gets them somebody that knows somebody detail.

I'm a long girl that knows a little bit about everything, and she'd.

Be having the latest on you, The latest with Lauren la Rosa. Sometimes you have fact, sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have a little bit of everything. It's the latest on the Breakfast Club.

Talk to me, all righty y'all.

So for a long time there's been a conversation around Beyonce and just different product launches and things that she has tried to do, and people notably pointing out that, like you know, sales didn't weren't where they thought that they should be, or that they weren't successful. But now there are reports because Beyonce took her sacred hair Caroline to Alta that she she sold fourteen times first day projections versus what she did online and at Alta in store. So the CEO says, her name is Cassia, still says, so just our e commercells today alone have already doubled what we thought we would do in the entire week, and that has nothing to do with what they did in store. So a big blowout for her now this hair care line. When it first came out, people were like, first of all, with this, Beyonce know about hair care? And why is Beyonce telling us hair care product? But I think people forget that Miss Tina was doing hair for like thirty plus years and she grew up doing hair. Beyonce always talked about in documentaries she would do her own hair care on tour and things of that nature because it wasn't being kept up because she would have to keep changing wigs and different stuff. So I think people believe this a little bit more, especially because Beyonce now has begin posting the videos of her showing you her own hair. Yeah, she's trying to get more personal through this, so you know, just just congratulation.

What does know about hair care?

She got hair?

Even still they don't say that about Mayel and Camille Rose, like, you know, we just don't.

We don't even really know these people, you know. Well, I'm gonna speak for me.

I don't know Mayel and Kamil, But when I go in a hairstore, I'm not gonna be like, well, what does Kamila Rose know about hair?

Like?

I believe you because I know when people.

Exactly But I think nobody says, Kim Kardashi, what does she know about U underwear?

Whatever about MAP. You can say that about anything, right.

Well, I think that the reason why people did that is because with Rihanna and makeup, when Rihanna launched, we heard from her, We saw her applying the makeup, talking about it and all that stuff. When Skims launched with Kim, you see Kim and Skims all the time, behind the scenes making it. You know, Beyonce is a little bit more removed sometimes she's not the more connected to their fan basing to the people.

Yep, exactly.

And even though we don't know the women who own like the Mayels, well if you know, if you know, but yeah, I don't know them.

That's why that was an example the good products.

They good products, yeah they are. And I don't know who make pink oil, what the hell is.

I do know the family that makes pink pink moisture from Delaware. No, they're not from Delaware. But it's a black family though it's like it's like multiple generations. Their daughter, her name is I don't know her grand but her daughter, you.

Know.

They booked me for an event and I got to learn so much about them. The daughter, the grand daughter who's running right now. Her name is t she runs the like, don't laugh.

Just talking about that's the special oil.

He said, pink oil. You can tell he got black his daughter's using.

Yes, right, did he bring out that pink oil he really likes?

Yeah, all right, So moving on Quinton Quinton Brunton, who is the creator of ab Elementary, comedian actor, all that good stuff. So she sat down with Amy Poler. Amy Poler has a show and they talked about a bunch of different things.

It's called Good Hang.

With Amy, but one of the big podcast right now.

Yeah, and it's actually good.

Like they do a bunch of different stuff, Like they phone your friends so your friends can ask questions to you that am you might not would have known. So they had like people who been working with Quinca for years and who were around when she was just talking about Abba Elementary sending in questions. But one of the questions that they asked her that was like a big conversation. In this conversation, which I thought was good, which started to trend online as well too, was Quinta and what she knows about white people And she's like, I don't know them to take a listen to this.

Are you aware now the bon Jovi and John bon Jovi?

Are you aware that.

I don't know white people.

I know you, I know Tina Fey, I know I know white people in comedy. I don't I understand the name Phil Collins. I don't know what Phil Collins looked like. I don't know that he's different from.

Sorry to that man, that key, key moment, unbelievable was.

So on point.

I'm busy how I moved through life. I'm not crazy. It's crazy to be in a band called John is John bon Jovi?

Is being si.

She doesn't know his original names? Come on, was John bonji Jovi? The band name was bon Jovi, a sure version of his real name. So then he started going by John bon Jovi. But true fans know that it was bon ji Jovi.

You know, everything you just said sounds crazy. And the thing is, I'm supposed to know this, but then I'm supposed to deal with people who can't tell me. And Keithy Palmer a part.

Quentin divorced that white man. Now, she don't know none of y'all anymore.

Dropping the clue.

Would be proud but I guess that's why she asked cause she was married to a white guy for what four or five years?

No, she asked her because one of Quincy's homegirls, who's been in her life like way before Abbot Elementary said one day her and Quincy was just chilling and Quinto whispered to her for no reason because nobody was around. She just whispered and was like, yo, is John Bond Jovie up? Like like she was trying to figure out, like is this a person?

Is it a band?

Is it a valid question? I don't.

I didn't know, Yo, this this white explaining. I had no idea.

But also I do that on purpose sometimes just because of what she said, how she said people can't tell her and Keithy Palmer Park, I do that on purpose.

He was like, yeah, who's in the Beatles.

I'll be like Elton John Sting, you know, just to just to you know, call it a little k about that giant thing yesterday that we couldn't name one song.

You named the movie that was hilarious.

Well, but they also had a that's why I played Sondra bullet clip. I'm gonna just let y'all here, And then.

You'll get it, you know who I got mixed up for the longest time, not anymore. But there was no reason for me, as a young girl in Philadelphia to understand the difference between Sandra Bullock and Julia roberts There was no reason for me to know the difference.

You might have a little bit of face blindness.

I do.

Wow.

I know Sandra knows now because that's my girl. Of course I can tell you guys to part down. But when the growing up, sure, no reason for me to know that, sure, And when people are like you don't know.

No, I don't.

I didn't know Sandra bull looked like that growing up, but I definitely knew Julia robertson.

I swear to you, but by name or just bad it literally me as a kid, I thought.

I had to write the Sondra Julia Roberts on the back, just so I didn't mess it up in here, because of course I know them by face, but sometimes I didn't get the names.

Stop.

Julie has been in more movies that I actually like, like Pretty Women, The Oceans, Charlottes Web. I cant name The Ocean twelve, I can't name the.

Characters, but I can't just name the name. Sometimes I can't same congeniality. The third box this is this is so much.

I love both of them.

But when I was old enough to figure out, like when I was younger, I was like, they the same person.

I swear, But they are both too of my favorite white woman.

I like that.

I think you should get white people mistaken on purpose, because they do it to us, just for the chaoss, just for the confusion on their face.

Sometimes I just.

Got a headline.

Martin Luther King Junior paid the bill for Julia Roberts birth. Here's the backstory from MPR. Brandon just sent me this to.

Get out of here. Oh no, that is true. THO I heard that before that was something like that. I don't know if it's true for birth.

Really quick, rapping and wrapping up. According to m PR, the world is finally learning the fact that Julia Roberts birth was paid for by Martin Luther King Junr and Coretit Scott King. The connection between the two famis he wasn't a secret, but it resurfaced in a big way before Julia's birthday October twenty eighth a few years ago, because she interviewed about it.

I was gonna say, how old is Julia? I don't know what she is name. Her parents had no insurance and so they just I don't know. I'm looking through the article right now. I just got said to me. Okay, yeah, the birth. They paid for the birth. Okay, that's what's up.

Oh No, they were poor. They couldn't pay for the hospital. She was born in Georgia in nineteen sixty seven, and they ran a theater school and the writers and actors were workshopping. One day, cared A Scott called her mom and asked her kids could be a part of the school. So that's how the relationships go. Wo wow okay, And they became friends and helped us out, helped them out in the gym.

And she did an interview about that a few years ago.

Yep, that's what resurface. That's what NPR's quoting is that interview. So basically she had the cookout, all right, wow, that is.

No's your problem. No, I paid for your birth.

You willa come over here? Yeah, I didn't say she was burning potato, slid relaxed. We got a rip up. She gonna be cleaning up the house.

Oh my gosh, all right, we got front page news next, and then Kerry Hilson will be joining us.

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What's up, Morgan, Well, let's do it.

Okay, let's talk immigration and the IRS.

So the IRS is agreeing to help ICE find illegal immigrants by sharing.

Information with the agency.

Court documents show the IRS will provide the Department of Homeland Security with information for migrants who are either under federal investigation or are already facing deportation. Now, the IRS had worn the Trump administrations the plan to use it for excuse me, the IRS had worn the Trump administration the plan to use it for information could be illegal. So as a result, the acting IRS Commissioner is resigning. Multiple reports say Melanie Kraus is stepping down after the agency agreed to share illegal immigrants tax information with federal immigration agents. Now across as the third person to lead the agency since January. And remember she herself was just acting and Doug O'Donnell was acting commissioner as well until announcing his retirement last month.

So it looks like the I R. S Agency is looking for a new head.

While also, uh, you know, talking with ICE to find those illegal migrants and get the information on illegal micros.

So Morgan she stepped down because she was upset that the illegal immigrants.

Had to share their tax information that is alleged. Yes, yes, and.

Please why should the illegal immigrants be sharing their tax information?

No, I don't think that's the thing is it's it's they already share their tax information because you know, some of them are you know, filing taxes here as long as they're working. But matter, it's it's a matter of the the ICE crackdown now that you know, now that they've been well, well yeah, now it's it's it's a matter of ICE using that information to locate and find them, which.

You know, information to locate find us. Yeah.

But I guess what they're saying is is now, if you're an immigrant, in legal immigrant, you're not.

Gonna pay your taxes.

Why would you pay your taxes and try to do the right thing if they just gonna give the information to where you at pretty much in America?

Yeah, but if you if so if you pay you, if you pay your taxes, this gonna get you.

I guess my whole thing is like, you know, yeah, just I guess if you're gonna go through all that, you might well just go through the process of trying to be in a be in a legal citizen a lot of a lot.

Of but it takes time. It takes years, It could take years.

And they also say yesterday that they're opening up an ice office at Rightkers Island in the jail.

They're going to open up an office right then and there.

Why, I guess when people get arrested and they're not necessarily a citizen, take them right there.

Yeah.

But not only that, you know, there's because of that new Supreme Court ruling where you know you can't shift the migrants. Well basically you can get rid of the migrants, but there has to be a due process, you know, with that with that ruling. So maybe that's essentially what's happening with that Riker space, that they're going to have some due process before they get rid of them.

Room question, would you be an ice informant if the IRS give you tax breaks? A Diaris said, Hey, you don't got to pay taxes?

For a year.

But you've got to be an ice informant or you just like informant one, or they put your name out.

I don't know what.

You got to be an informant.

You got to point out, you got to tell people where you think there might be some illegal immigrant activity.

Gang members only. I don't know what it is, but would you though I would? All right?

So meanwhile, white house boarders are.

Tom Holman is highlighting the Trump administration's efforts to secure the southern border. On Tuesday, Tom Holman spoke to Arizona lawmakers before a special joint session at the state capitol in Phoenix. He said, when the job is done, the border will be more secure than it's ever been. Let's take a listen to those comments from borders are Tom Holman.

We're gonna get this job done with no apologies. When we're done, rather most secure border in the history of this nation. We're gonna make this country savor every criminal alien we arrest, every gang member, we arrest every TDA MS thirteen member we arrest the other country. This country much safer. This administration right now on power is going to have for the first time in history of this nation have total operational control over southern border under President Trump. It's going to happen. You take that to the bank.

You take that to the bank and cash that check.

Well, he went on to say more people have been arrested in the first two months of President Trump's second term compared to former President Biden's last year in office. He also added that he's happy, but not satisfied, and there's more work to be done. The address also focused on current border challenges and cooperation between federal and state government. Several state Democratic lawmakers walked out during that speech and protest. But I got one more story for y'all, Metta. You guys, everybody use this Instagram. Everybody uses Facebook, right, and it's use it as well as you know. The kids and the teens are starting to ask for pages and stuff like that. So Meta is Take is aiming to make Instagram safer four teens with new safeguards, so the tech company announced on Tuesday that teens under sixteen years old will not be able to use the live feature without their parents' permission. Instagram will also require parental permission to turn off the feature that blurs suspected.

Nudity in dms.

Meanwhile, Meta will offer teen accounts for Facebook and Messenger that provides similar protections, and the company said there are now fifty four million teams around the world with Instagram teen accounts since launching last year. So look at Mata trying to make an effort to keep the kids safe. I absolutely love.

That at all. And no, wait, before I want to ask.

You guys, I mean not to say like this, I'll put your kids out there, but your kids have Facebook or social media essentially or not necessarily fail.

But the kids kids don't have Facebook.

They do have social media, yeah TikTok, but and they do have Instagram where they connect with their friends from dance.

But I'm all over it. Pause.

Yeah, no, no, that's essentially what I'm asking you know, how do you regulate and how do you know stay on top of them with that and make sure that things are safe.

Now giving myself all over our kids social media.

We make sure you know who's following them their private they able to see certain things.

We're all over it.

And I have actions log ins. He's only on TikTok and on uh Instagram. B I have his logins.

I check his Internet history everything because he's a boy and he's pushing into that teenage you know space. So yeah, I'm all over them.

No, that's what it all. That's what it's all about.

I think, you know, sharing just what you guys are saying can help other parents, you know, navigate that space, because there are some parents who don't even use it themselves. Within their kids may come and say, hey, can I have an Instagram page? And but you don't know what you're getting yourself into. So to know that you guys are regulating your kids pages and also you know, keeping an eye on things.

You know.

Yeah, definitely, I knew I had to start going through his phone when he called me beloved, beloved, I didn't.

I went in there and yeah, but yeah, don't call people belove it.

You know you're not watching a bunch of no no, no, I know that's not who you watch it.

But he laughed like it might be a trend. That's what made me go in space, like to see if it's a trend, but it's not.

Just was like, can you close my door, beloved? And that was it. But when they start, no, Ron has never called me beloved.

Better than Baltimore dummy?

Right yeah, yeah, like yo, don't do that. What about bro, because these kids you broke? Yeah, he doesn't stop.

Calling me bro because he started, and I'm like, I'm not your brother. Don't do that.

Beloved he say King, You say Champ, King, King and Champ.

I never heard that man say belove it. That is crazy, Okay, got it?

All right?

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All right, all right, when we come back, Kerry Hilson will be joining us. Her new album, We Need to Talk, comes out April eighteenth.

It's the Breakfast Club, The Breakfast Club.

Want to have everybody's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy.

We are at the Breakfast Club Longer Rosa.

Is here and we got a special guest in the building.

Yes, indeed, Kerry Hilson. Welcome. How you feeling as.

It's been a long time since we've seen me back some new music?

Where you've been how many times. You don't heard that question. Since you've been making the rounds. Where you've been, where you've been a lot, I've been.

I've been around. I've been alive. Clearly, I've been doing movies. I had been doing making music, couldn't release it, but been around, definitely, been around, been released, been finding my happy. Contractual issues, you know that all over the freedom that's all over.

I'm free. I belong to myself.

It was an independent Yeah, oh wow, Okay.

Was that your choice? Yeah?

Wow, Like because really, because I'm not the same girl I was at twenty when I signed that contract, however old I was, it was around that early twenties. Like, I'm not that person anymore, and now I deserve a lot more say in my career and the decisions I make and the songs that I'm cutting and the and releasing, and you know, I just you deserve that control.

You've kind of outgrown things.

So people would think.

That as an artist, you're able to do what you want to do musically, but you're basically saying that's not necessarily true.

It was not the case for me. I was signed to a label and a sub label that had its own heads.

You know what I mean.

So, yeah, there were there were I released songs that I didn't really love. I had to record songs I didn't love. So even though I was known like as a songwriter, I was a new artist. So there are things that you kind of you got to play the politics game. And to me, that doesn't really go with art being political.

Why wouldn't they trust you, especially because of your.

Opinion, right, I mean, I think to a certain degree, But again it was just politics sometimes over my feelings, the statements I want to make the artists I see myself as. It was just like, no, but you have to we have to have a song by this producer because I've had this side conversation with that producer promised that song on your album basically, and no matter how the session turned out, we got to put this out. So it's like, you know, things like that can happen. And no, I didn't have to say because I wasn't distributing. I wasn't you know what I mean On that end of things.

When you think about Kerry Hillston, like you were everywhere in the late two thousands writing, you were your own artists, and then you took a step back. Was that intentional or was it the industry book kind of made you like, you know what, I don't want to be involved? Or did they push you out a little bit, like what was it?

No? It was definitely very intentional. I was actually going through quite a bit personally. I was really really depressed and at the height of my second album One Night Sam was out, Pretty Gold Rock was out, These are huge you know, Knock You Down was still even in rotation, you know what I mean? Like things were really really good, but I was really really low, really really bad. But it was personal for the most part, and some professional woes again, not having a say in decisions that are being made that I have to stand for and represent and that with whatever level of grace I could have for those.

Decisions being made for me.

Just you don't you don't always agree with who you do business with. Absolutely, but yeah, it was my choice for sure.

No, okay, And how did you get out of that phone? Because you went in depression? How did you get out of that depressure? Was it more writing? Was it family?

Was it?

All of it?

All of that and vacations and philanthropy and exercising and and like journaling, writing, you know, privately and for others spiritual retreats.

Yeah.

I went on what I call Eat, Pray Love.

Yeah.

So, and there were times where I would just say yes to shows that were in places that.

I wanted to visit, you know what I mean. Yeah, like otherwise I'm not performing like I want to go there. Yeah so yeah.

So with the album We Need to Talk, you have this digital series called We Need to Talk as well, and it's like you to you conversation. It's carry Hilson to or carry Lynn talking to Carry Hilston. Yeah, and you got very a versus me, you versus you. You got very indepth about a bunch of different things, relationship ship, you know, just coming back and doing this whole thing again, the press runs and all that different stuff. And now you've been out, you've been talking to some press. Is it what you expected it to be? Do you feel like people are like because it kind of seemed like you think you thought people were going to be out to get you and you wanted to protect yourself from that.

Coming back into it, I still think that she's very like skeptical.

I'm just cautious to you, it has.

Right because it wasn't this salacious. It wasn't quite this ugly or nasty or like you know, driven by negativity. It just wasn't that when I was, when I was last year sitting in this chair. So yeah, I'm freaking say, it was already exactly exactly and now it's just worse. So yes, that that fear is real. That is that is a dialogue that I have with myself daily. It's it's literally a prayer at night. It's just like, ah, And the struggle really is how authentic and truthful can I be when I don't feel safe, like when that is not intact, when your safety is not there, Just like in a relationship, you're not your most vulnerable when you don't feel safe, Like, no, you're not going to open up, you're not going to have these innermost feelings be expressed.

But it's part of what we do. So I have to find that even in the environment.

So when you talk about the depression and you talk about the spiritual journey, the spiritual healing, what did that chapter of your life teach you about purpose?

Mm?

It taught me how dangerous it is to step away from your purpose, to step out of your purpose and away from your gifts. But it also taught me on the flip side of that, that sometimes you have to do what is necessary to re engage with your purpose in a better way. And so both of those things happen for me, learning that it was necessary to pick it back up, but it was also necessary to be boundaried and not have it by any means at any cost, but to protect myself in certain ways.

So yeah, I learned a lot about purpose.

You have a song on the project we need to talk called weigh Me Down, And then I hear you talk about purpose and just stepping back into things. And I know there's different things that can weigh up and down. But were you ever worried that the weight that made you want to step away and take some time would make you forget or you know, just lose.

The passion for the purpose.

Yes, I was concerned with that, and it did happen. I lost passion for quite a while. It was really difficult to create. At times, my life was radio silent. I didn't listen to music, I didn't sing or hum in the shower like I did since I was yay high, like, I lost so much passion for it. But I realized that that was really it was also necessary talk about clean slate. That's what you know, me stepping away created the cleanest slate possible. And that's why it's so scary because I'm so freaking peaceful, Like life is calm, it's cool. I like, I like my friendships, I like my circles. I like the safety that I feel in daily life. And stepping back out into the spotlight, That's what the fear is really all about, is like, am I gonna lose how safe I feel? Am I gonna lose my peace, my sanity, my mental health? Am I going to be affected? It's you know, because it's the sleep deprivation, and you know, just not not just comments. I have a thick skin because I'm so much more self aware also of who I am, also what I'm here to do and what my gifts are with my weak strains and weaknesses. Like I'm very clear, so I don't think that they will ever cut me the same way, but it being there at all is just can spark a little fear.

Well, what puts you to come back out done?

Because I mean it's you're making music, making money from writing. You've wrote in so many records. I mean, I'm looking at your desography now, it's just so many records. What made you say, you know what?

I want to put that foot back out and go in the line of fire.

I felt I felt clogged. I felt burdened, clogged, stuck, And that would really sum it up. I felt like there I had more to more, to say, more to do because I know I say it in the Me Versus Me series.

Like I wasn't done. I sat down for a second, but I never felt done. I toyed with the idea like am I am?

I finished?

Do I ever want to do that again in that way? But the answer was yes, just my way. I have to have a certain level of control now over you know, my my image, my brand, my words, my my dialogue, it's just all the stuff. But yeah, I just felt like there was there is so much more and I never stopped creating. So I also know it's in the arsenal and my confidence was built back up and in recent years I just felt ready.

I felt ready.

We got more with Kerry Hilson when we come back. Her new album We Needed Talk comes out April eighteenth.

It's the Breakfast Club, good Morning.

One of everybody isj n Way, Jesse, Larry Is Charlamage the guy.

We are the breakfast Club law the Roses here as well.

We're still kicking it with Kerry Hilson Charlamagne.

You said you was getting over a heartbreak. Was that one of the reasons that you had.

To take it?

Yes?

Step back, Yes, I was in a relationship for eleven years. Such is a long time.

That was not search.

It was before search, ok yeah, right before oh Reba, No, it wasn't real. It was years in between a little bit.

Let him know he was a rebound. Surage. You are a rebound Okay. I don't know if you knew that, but you are.

It's not true.

And he's gonna look straight the camera too.

What he was.

Shake the camera.

It's crazy, straight to camera. He was not a rebound.

It was maybe three years after that eleven year relationship was over. I do believe in healing in between relationships. I do believe in that, so I'll be single for years in between relationships.

I think that's the one problem with being an artist is that nobody believes that y'all are real people, and so when you are going through real things, nobody will take that into consideration. It's more entertaining for them to be like the be Ive ran out of town, right.

That's way more entertaining. But also because I think when you're rich, like people are like they don't empathize with you. Sure they can know you're human, but they don't give they don't care because they're like, whatever, she's rich, she'll be fine.

It's like, Damn, I ain't got no heart, you know, I can't feel. I can't go through love and heart breaking like you know.

I think people don't realize how much noise that they throw it like gets to you or not, even if it doesn't break you, but like you see it, you can't not see it.

It's i'ntrolled and jumped before it was the thing.

But I was going to say because it wasn't jumped, Well, I was never jumped.

No one ever put their hands.

On carry like baby, don't play with me though? Right from Atlanta, Yeah, okay, it came out real quick. No, I think he's talking about the bee hot just all of the comments and stuff from the song leak and all that stuff, and now today at this point, are you looking like when you look back at that, Because and people will bring it up. So I'm sure you're kind of preparing yourself for that. How do you do You not even explain it, but like, how do you look back on that? What are your comments on it?

Now?

So far removed from it.

It's a regret. It's a regret, but not in the way that people would think, because that's a song that I actually didn't write. Those are not my words.

I was on tour.

Hold On One just wanted me to do a remix to turn me on. He had produced the record, and I wasn't because I was on tour with Lil Wayne. I wasn't able to like lay anything down. He had been on me for a couple of weeks about we got it, we need to do a remix, Okay, so I take off. It wasn't happening quick enough for him.

I take off.

We fly in and he had another writer in our camp at the time. He had her write this. But I come into the studio and he plays me this verse and I'm like, automatically, I'm like, I'm not saying that that was my position and.

That Shane, when you heard it, yeah, yeah you could, but you.

I didn't know really who it was about. But I mean, one could guess, and it just was I'm like, I'm an athlete, but I'm a finesse player. I'm not a nasty player. I'm not a dirty player. I don't even look at things like that. But we we disagree there, Polo and I, because he believes in kind of the shock jock mentality. He believes in kind of playing dirty. So I tried to find him on it and I began writing my own. That's what I did with my time there, but he I want to be careful with the word I use.

It was quite.

Forceful in an executive artist.

Yeah, in an executive artist way, only involving others and kind of threatening my career in a sense in a real sense, like you're not coming because my album wasn't out yet, so it was like, you're not coming out of you.

Don't do this.

The mistake that I made was not continuing to fight. But I was in tears. I was crying. I was adamant that I did not want to do that.

You were actually signed, Tolo.

I was signed to Polo and Timola Yep in a joint venture at Interscope Records.

Yep and I was young. I was super young. I felt I had no power.

I felt I had no choice, but I did record mine my version, which had nothing like that in it. It was on subject the song is about men, and it leaked like days after I did it. But he promised me that wouldn't happen.

So it leaked and that was that was that.

And I protected him. I protected the girl that wrote it, who went on to become famous. I protected everyone in the story. So I had to eat that. I had to eat that, and I am still eating it to this day because I'm getting asked about that fifteen However, many years, sixteen, seventeen years later.

It's like I've worn the scarlet letter.

Really, I'm sorry. But when you answer it once like it's done, people like actual answer. I think that makes it go.

Yeah.

I was going to say, I think this is the first time I've heard this I have before, But yeah, maybe you guys is a beautiful platform, a big one, and maybe hopefully this is the last time I need to talk about that.

But that is definitely a regret of not fighting even stronger. But I again, when your career is on the line and they make it, that be the way that you perceive the situation not perceived, but it was pretty clear.

But when you're that young, you're just.

Kind of like, maybe they know better than me.

Right, Well, I never felt like they were right. I never felt like they were right.

But because my authenticity said the entire time, can't this can't be the only way to become like I was already doing well, and in my eyes, although gained the popularity and the recognition the song. Okay, we had a lot of spins, but from that moment on, I was like, this ain't even my path anymore. I think he just went because they were partners. I think he just went along, but I didn't. I don't remember that we involved him, or that he was involved at all, because he didn't. He hadn't produced that record. But I wonder now I would love to ask him, like, what do you what did you think about that? What I do know is he went on to work with B and Jay and tour with him, and so did Polo, And I'm sitting there like wow. But but again, I protect I never I was trying to keep peace, also not wanting to put my career.

They were still my bosses.

I didn't want to put my career further into detriment, So, you know, I just didn't want to step in the anymore though, So I didn't want to hold no magazine with her on the I just was like shook. So whenever anybody brought it up, probably the last time we were here, like please, don't bring up Beyonce. It was probably that kind of environment because I was shook.

I was scared.

I was not of hurt, like I love her. I think she's incredible. She's one of the greatest artists of all time. I'm a fan, have always been. That's never been in question for me.

But now I just it's a name. I can't say, it's a magazine.

I can't hold it's a conversation I don't want to have publicly, just because I don't want to piss anybody off. I don't want to make things even more weird than they already were. I just wanted it to go away. I wanted it to go away. I wanted it off my scarlet letter, you know what I mean. I wanted to clean myself up and just have the career that I wanted to have, but I didn't.

Know how to do that.

I didn't know cleaning it up would mean that it just felt like a messier situation.

What did your team say when the backlash happened. Did they just step away and say you are your own now?

Or did they would have felt like what?

It felt like everyone went on to normal. See, and I'm the only one left. I'm being crucified. I'm being murdered. And I would say, Carrie the human was looking at Carrie Hillson the artist, like you deserve that. You should have fought harder. I understood it, I got it.

Give yourself grace.

Well, it's tough to do.

I've never felt like shooting anyone else down for their greatness made me greater. So I just felt like that was such an ungraceful mistake to make or to be forced to do, and to not stand up for myself.

That was the shame that I wore.

Was like, I should have fought harder, should have fought harder. I should have fought hard I should never have done it. I should never have recorded that.

I should have outed.

Them well before now I should have you know what I mean? And I still am protecting the writer because I feel like like she might have been doing what was she was told to do.

I hope that have you spoke to Beyonce or run into her because the industry is small it is.

We ran into each other at a at was it b T Awards and she introduced herself. She I didn't see her coming, but she came and her hand was out and she introduced. She was like, Hi, I'm b Or. She may have said her whole name, but it was some award show by the trailers, so backstage area, and she had introduced herself.

And I felt like, you know she was. That was a little bit of like, you know, I see you well.

I I've tod. I mean I've been I've only been around her a few times, but I've seen her.

Welcome high, I'm Beyonce, Like okay, I thought it was G.

No, no, no.

She did that to me in the club one time I met her, and then one time at the other radio station she comes out checking.

No I do.

I thought it was G. I thought it was real G.

I was like with that.

I like that.

I like that.

Why did you try to have a conversation?

We just wasn't the place I hoped to always have that be if you're out there, I love you. I would love to do that.

I would love to clear that up, because, like I said, I'm a fan, there's utmost respect for who she is as a songwriter, as a performer, as a woman, as a mom, Like, so much respect for her.

All right, well let's get into a Carrie Hillson minimix. It's the Breakfast Club, Good Morning, This Morning everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne to God, Laura Roast's head as well. We're still kicking it with Kerry Hillson. Her album We Need to Talk comes out April eighteenth.

Lauren if Polo, no, Like if they came back and said, hey, let's today, I don't know. If they tried to have a conversation like we're in a different space to me, yeah, to you, would you are you?

That conversation would be down ahab.

I think the conversation needs to be to y'all. That's I felt unprotected. I felt like abandoned. I think the conversation is to the public. I've forgiven him.

He's actually even has records on this album.

We have worked.

I can be around like I'm a really forgiving person. And again, I took full accountability all this time.

I just wore it. I ate it, I wore it, I lived it.

But before y'all worked, do you say we need to talk?

No, we were talking the entire time, Like I never I'm not a spiteful individual.

I don't harbor ill I would. I have said many times how.

I felt, you know what I mean, the whole while he to this day, he just the definition of gaslighting.

But I don't understand the working relationship then, because like hearing you talk about him, and I seems like some of you want to rataniously put yourself around.

Well, but he can never force me to do anything I don't believe in. Again, that's what I know about me, So I can be around someone and know that I'm in control of me. Now, you know what I mean, You'll never make the same exact mistake twice. I will never let that man coerce me to do anything ever again.

It is what it is.

But I will keep him at a certain distance in certain decision. He's a great producer.

He ain't gonna like it.

He's not gonna like it, but like it is my truth, and it's more important for me to be honest and truthful and authentic now, honestly, if that lifts part of the burden were fans and and for myself, I guess today.

It had to be said, you know, do you feel secure, Like, do you feel protected now?

Yeah?

Because I got me, I do.

And also this man right here, mister Jones, he's been with me my entire ride from album one at some point. Yeah, yeah, it's been that long, and he is he's literally my protector. He's I've never seen an artist manager dynamic quite like this, where I know, no matter even if you're even if you were trying to get me to do something that is against my better judgment, it ain't even gonna get past him. It's not even gonna get to me because he saw all that, he saw me pay for everything, he saw me.

He was with me, you know what I mean.

I'm sure he felt some of even as a manager, he probably felt some of the same feelings I felt about his own career, which is a thing I'm just realizing, like, yeah, he probably had some embarrassment shamee, you know, but we went through it all together and here we are still here.

Was it really I mean, I know personally you had it things. What was the industry really that bad? Like, was the beehive and all of it was that real, like when they were coming at you, that had anything to do with you taking the.

Step back that you took.

Yeah, that was the other side of it. So it was a heartbreaking that. Yeah, that's what I was saying in the beginning of our interview. Yes, it was that it was like me wearing the mistakes, but it wasn't necessarily Okay, no CDs were ever thrown at me. That would have been a totally different story because it would have gone very differently. Yeah, that was a rumor that they said that they threw Beyonce CDs at me on the street or something wherever they said that happened that had never happened.

It was online.

It was like the what did you call it, online jumping online troll. Yes, it was like no matter what I posted, the response was bees, no matter what I said, no matter what the caption was, no matter how beautiful I look, no matter what how why I'm on this carpet, no matter what.

It was like.

Just everywhere you know, online and interviews as well, Like it was like I couldn't do anything on my own without her name being mentioned, which yeah, it just I couldn't live it down. I just felt like I could everywhere I went. They're like, so Carrie, and I was just I was just freeze. I was just freeze. That's natural. And I'm like, I don't want to step in it. I don't want to say anything wrong. I don't want to say anything else wrong, Like, I don't want to step in it. So I'm just gonna be quiet. And eventually it came to I don't even want to show up anymore. I don't even want to go go anywhere. I don't want to do anything. I just don't want to do this anymore.

And was their industry backlash, Like, did people start fronting on you because they wanted to be in her good graces?

Probably it's fair to suggest that probably some of the people that I had been working with took that position, But I wouldn't know.

But if I would say, it's likely not.

The only person you should be protecting, now, was you right?

Right?

That's all I know nothing to nobody right.

That part, that part, And that's how I feel.

The only thing I owe anybody is me and to have the fresh start that I've been fighting for now, that's that's what I owe myself.

Well, let's get into a joint off the album. Let's get back to the music. What do you want to hear off the album?

I think all we can play is big, all right.

So let's get into it right now.

Talking about somebody they're talking about No, no, she got the Temptation story that comes out April twenty six on Lifetime.

Yes, right fame, Yes, April twenty sixth, and my album drops the eighteenth, so like a week.

Before that, and the telling them about the series on YouTube. I really want people to go watch you with the music and it's a background to.

You, Yes, and it kind of sums up the conversation we've had this morning, yep, and how I feel coming back in So that I think is the breast a great preface to hearing the music. So yes, it's on my YouTube page at carry Hilson. You'll see a series called Me versus Me six episodes. They're shorts, and the album is actually released in three parts. That's what I thought you were gonna say, But it's released in three parts, so you're I've been gone so long. I was like, I owe people more than just one EP or one album, So I'm releasing basically three three series of work, three series, three bodies of work inside of one album.

Oh I thought you was getting Michael Jackson all Mada go on with the nuns.

Yeah, so you'll see them grade out as they're there. But it's all one album, all called we Need to Talk and right now you're getting the love portion. So we're starting there. I'm telling a story. So what's really really neat the way I decided to do this drama.

After drama redemption? So you feel like there's unfinished business and music for you.

Basically, I do.

Happy because I just like that You've got to map out, you know, how you want to reintroduce yourself to this, to this new generation. Thank you.

It feels like it feels like you're getting through all of the things that you probably had to take. Might I had to take a step away to better understand what was happening, to better articulate how you felt in it.

Yes, feels like that.

Yeah, you're really wise. Oh girl, thank you, you're really She asked me, she had me crying yesterday, asking you.

Have some condoking questions.

Yeah, no, good, good crying crying isn't bad. But you made me feel which is not that normal to have to think that deeply. So I appreciate when I get to so and thank y'all because it's the same here.

Thank you for joining us, thank you for coming, because I know that that had to be difficult the first time, because I seen it in your face, like you didn't know what to expect.

You look at him, especially the short up guy over there.

Like carry always been good.

Yes, people don't be more scary though, Yes, because you're.

Such a wild card. You're like a landmine.

I don't do cocaine anymore. He never did a cocaine.

What's funny? Was in my head?

I was like, oh.

No, we could give him some greadest you have that issue, got a problem.

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All right, y'all.

So there is some more with Tony Buzzby in jay Z. So remember jay Z sued Tony Buzzbying his firm for defamation after the lawsuit was dropped with the woman who they claimed who claimed that jay Z and Diddy raped her, But she was thirteen years old back in two thousand exactly, and it was all it was. The case was dismissed. It cannot be brought up again. Now when it dropped, who were like, well, who behind the scenes went down for Buzzby to completely back off. Now Buzzby is coming out and basically saying that he wants jay Z's defamation lawsuit dismissed. So what do you What Buzzby is claiming is that him and jay Z's legal team struck a deal behind the scenes and that jay Z didn't hold up his part. But jay Z's attorney Spiro is saying that that is completely be us.

That did not happen. So Buzzby is claiming that jay Z used his.

Fame to bully this uh you know, this woman into dropping the case and that that there was I guess like emails exchanged between Buzzby's attorney for the firm and for himself and between jay Z's attorney, and in those emails they had agreed to certain things. One of the things that they had agreed to was that some of the sanctions or the penalties or consequences that jay Z's team was asking for Busby's team to have to like, uh, you know, endure because of certain things that they found were wrong, certain ways that he filed things, and you know, just things like that for them for them to back up off of that. And he's saying that because they didn't honor parts of this because remember that the audio clip that we had heard where the woman was on audio saying jay Z had nothing to do with this. They're saying that when jay Z's team continued to further investigate Buzzby and his firm and send investigators to do things like that audio, it violated disagreement. So now he's saying, you know what, this whole case should be dismissed because we only dropped our case in the beginning because of disagreement.

Now Spiro.

Spiro, who is jay Z Spirou, who is jay Z's attorney, says that that is completely bus He says that it's a total lie. What actually happened was Buzzby brought false claims, lost badly and was forced to dismiss quickly.

End of story.

Now, Spiro did acknowledge in court documents that he filed that attorney Buzby's attorney did reach out to him about dismissing the case with jay and wanted to us strike a deal. But Spiro says that he made it clear that jay Z would never settle the lawsuit or pay any money to resolve it, given the fact that the accusations were completely false. Sparrow also does acknowledge that they requested for him to why didn't I think this my stuff? Like that, that they requested for him to stop investigating, uh this woman doing things like you know, sending investigators and just looking into more details.

Trying to save his reputation.

Yeah, yep, yeah, I mean he's been trying to save his reputation on this from the beginning.

Remember sitting back.

And between this and all of this, the civil suits he had to drop for Diddy. Yes, it's like your your reputation and shambles. Yeah, you like an ambulance chasing lawyer.

To me, Spirou is saying, who is jay Z's attorney.

He's saying the fact that they thought that we said that we were going to back off investigating this when this was false and claim this against our client was completely false. That never happened, but there was Again the case was dismissed without I'm sorry, with prejudice, meaning it cannot be brought up again. But right now in court, that's the back and forth. Buzsbies like yo, I feel like this should be tossed out, was taken all away?

Yeah, I love this because hopefully there' stop attorney from doing this because you never know who's gonna fight, and Jay got the money to fight, and Jay got the money to protect his reputation.

I'm glad to see this day. They should investigate Buzzbe more. How many cases is buzzy be taken like this, these ambulance you know, chasing cases and ruin somebody's whole life and reputation, reputation.

That's right, and I mean it's weird they're still not backing down, like he's still claiming in this she was standing on her claims and she was willing to go forward, but she was bullied. I think they're trying to not think I know that that audio we heard. They're trying to explain what we heard on that audio. Basically, since she was bullied in this ans certain thing. So we'll be following this because the judges was to make a decision on what's going to happen. I believe the judge was asking to hear the audio again before they made a decision.

Like the full audio, how she was asked.

The questions boo, we don't believe you. You need more people, Okay, move.

On, all right, Well that was the latest with Lauren Charlamage, who even at Donka two man for.

After the Hour.

There's a three hundred and fifty pound teacher named Jason Rodgers who needs to come to the front of the congregation.

We would like to have a word with all of him. Okay, what does he teach? I don't know.

Doesn't sound like you said, all right, we'll get to it. Next is the Breakfast Clove, God Morning Wake.

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Okay, all right, Donkey today for Wednesday, April ninth, goes to a three hundred and fifty pounds teacher named Jason Rogers.

Now, I am not here to fat shame anyone this morn.

I wouldn't even be bringing this man's weight into this donkey if it was impertinent to the story.

In fact, and an effort not to fat shame Jason Rodgers.

I will say nice things like I believe Jason Rodgers has a six pack.

It's just hidden underneath a protective layer of fat.

Okay, the same women, the same way women have like protective handstyles like corn rolls.

And wigs, right, jests and twist.

Sometimes people get fat on purpose to protect the incredible physique they have underneath all that. Okay, fat people can unlock that hidden character in that video game anytime they want to. Okay, I am not here to fat shame anyone this morning. Fat people are in shape. Round Round is a shape anyway. Jason Rodgers was charged with malicious punishment of a child after he allegedly stepped on three students' backs during a lockdown drill.

Let's go to KBTXCBS three for the report.

Police An Underwood, Minnesota teacher is facing chargers after deputies were called to an area hospital for a report of an assault. Jason Rodgers discharged with one count of malicious punishment of a child and his on administrative leaf from the school district. Deputies were called to Lake Region Hospital for a reported assault at Underwood School. A sixth grader says that he was laying on his stomach during a lockdown drill when Rogers stepped on his back with both feet. Hold records indicate that Rogers weighs more than three hundred and fifty pounds, and Rogers admitted to stepping on three students who weren't cooperating during the drill. He has scheduled to be in courts on April eighth.

What I feel like I tell y'all this once a week, but please don't become a teacher if you truly don't care about kids.

Jason, you know you three hundred and fifty pounds. What the hell you doing stepping on those kids for you told police that you were frustrated they weren't taking the lockdown drill seriously.

Well, it was other ways to show him why they should take this seriously. What if those kids were frustrated you weren't taking your health seriously. What if they told you that you should be teaching history because just like history, you are heavy and full of life. Not to mention during a lockdown drill, they didn't need you to lock the door because your big ass was already blocking the entrance. Okay, don't even need a damn barricade. All we need you to do is stand.

In front of the door and create a human wall with built in snack storage. Okay.

I am not fat shaming, by the way, I'm just making observations, all right. Jason stepped on these students because he was frustrated with them. Well, what if they bought a scale for you to step on every day because they frustrated with your big bodied self. Not to mention, a lot of the kids were complaining that mister Rodgers assigned homework like he ordered fast food in bulk and with no shame. Mister Rogers, Fat mister Rogers, Fat mister Rogers is crazy. Okay, fat mister Rogers sat down to tie his shoes and it was considered a two part episode. Okay, fat mister Rodgers trolley didn't go to the land and make believe and went to the land of all you can eat. There is not a cardigan in America that could fit fat mister Rogers. Okay, fat mister Rodgers wouldn't wear a cardigan. He would wear a weighted blanket with button with buttons. Okay, fat mister Rogers. Cardigans weren't hand knit, they were engineered by SpaceX and they had the ability to whipstand body heat and snack crumbs. But I am not fat shaming. I am just making observations about a situation. See what's sad is kids trust in adults. Okay, you are a teacher. These kids' parents dropped them off every day to be in your care. So when I hear one of the children say, I did not know why mister Rogers did this, because mister Rodgers didn't say anything about it, didn't even try to correct them.

He's just sitting there.

All fat and frustrated, okay, portly and perturbed, dumpy and disturbed.

Didn't even tell the kids what the issue was.

And then if the kid described it, just stepped on him like he was a stepping stool. I bet money Jason Rodgers thinks more of the stepping stool than he does those kids, because I don't think Jason Rodgers would risk putting that three hundred and fifty pounds aweight on a stepping stool. Okay, he's three hundred and fifty pounds. This man is terrified of the word steps. Ask his fitbit all right. When the class heard the child yell out, they thought that mister Rogers had broke the child's back.

Man, it's not funny, man, this is what the report says.

It's Jesus. Won't you be my neighbor, my ass especially not on a plane. This is sad. I can't trust you to properly teach.

My kids, Jason Rodgers, lunchtime can't be you and the student's most favorite time of the day.

Pop tarch pop quizzes. What do you enjoy more? Mister Rogers, listen. The moral of the story is a quote from John C. Maxwell.

Students don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. I repeat, students don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. When students feel cared for, they are more likely to be engaged in the learning process and motivated to succeed. It's that simple. And one thing's for sure. Two things for certain. I know Jason wasn't no gym teacher. Please give Jason Rodgers the sweet signs of the Hamiltons.

Oh no, you are the.

Of the day.

Of the day. He How old are these kids? I think it's just sixth grade? Sixth grade? Yeah, so that's the whole classroom.

Really, if you think about it, at least take at least let me see, I would say at least five kids to be three.

Fifty in sixth grade. Kids be one hundred pounds this grade, maybe right, maybe in the eighty ninety, close to one hundred. So what should be like twelve thirteen years.

I don't know.

He might be a math teacher. How strong of those additions? Back to uphold that three? They weren't the mand they said.

The kid yelled out in pain and traumatized the whole class.

The class thought the kid's back was broke. Are you talking about?

I couldn't hold a three hundred and fifty pounds person stepping on my back. Could you imagine Mac, one of our producers, staying on your back?

You do realize that's the whole he today was about.

I'm just saying, but that's literally what I think my back would really do. Bro the fact that he shouldn't have been through. You shouldn't be standing on no kids back.

I was walking in.

I got a little nervous, all right. Well, thank you for that donkey today.

Sir, And just thank you for holding the camera you know, I like it, just just trying out of the jobs just in case around here.

Just.

All right, when we come back, Larry Morrow will be joining us. He's the owner of Morrow Hospitality Group. He owns several restaurants in Louisiana New Orleans area, a bunch of clubs, hiding Seak Treehouse, Morrow State one of the greatest entrepreneurs in the country, Mango, and we're gonna talk to him next.

It's the Breakfast Clugal Morning, the Breakfast Club. Everybody's DJ en Vy Jess. Larry is Charlamagne the God.

We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Friends to the room, Larry Morral.

Welcome back, sir, you, thank you, thank thanks for me.

How you doing.

I'm doing well, man.

How's everything with you?

Everything's good man, Just just working, just working now.

Larry a good brother man.

When I landed in New Orleans and literally everybody in their mama was like, you got to go to one of larry spots. You gotta go, you gotta go one of Larry's box. And guess what, Larry opening up another spot.

Spicy Mangay Mango yep, a New Orleans Caribbean fusion. So tell us about it and be something so spicy Mango. It's a new spot I'm opening up right there, and it's called Frenchman Street. So Frenchman is like Bourbon but more local live music versus strip clubs and bars like live music restaurants. And we will open them right at the forefront of it so a new concept. I'm opening up New Orleans Cribban fusion given like different vibes. You know, it'd be like one of one of New Orleans. You know we have Caribbean spots, but but we don't have that fusion to where you can get like that Ta Loon vibe.

You know, we're upbeat, good food, you know, good vibes.

You know this is a stupid question because you know there's twenty thirty restaurants that exist in a city at one time.

Do you ever feel like you're competing against yourself now? I think could all different concepts and different vibes. Like, if you want like more of a New Orleans sun cuisine, you go Tomorrows. If you want Asian fusion, you go to Sunschun. You want a steakhouse vibe, different ambiance, steakhouse is amazing, Yeah, totally different vibe, you go Tomorrow steak But if you want like more brunch outdoor type of vibe, you go to Monday. And Monday's are totally different, you know, spot than all of them. So when people ask me which one I like the best, Uh, it's kind of hard to say because they're all different. So they all offer different vibes, so if they're more similar, maybe I can say which one I like the best, but you know, depends.

On what I want.

Which one are you at the most?

At one point I was.

At Monday the most because that's what the office, you know, is. But right now I'm at Spicy Mango. I'm at Morrows cause we just you know, last year we bought the building and we're renovating, so we upstairs had Airbnb's gutted. It made it a kitchen, bar dining, private dining. So the expansion went from holding eighty five people to hold and maybe you know, close to two.

Hundred where you have a real Jamaicans in there sucking their teeth at you when people come in.

Right, we got a lot of people.

So it's actually our one our head chefs, you know, she's Jamaican. So yeah, we're definitely gonna have the real, authentic Caribbean vibes and fusion.

Now, also, you know you do this with your mom and your grandmother. Yes, so break that down.

I was working with your mom and your grandma because sometimes family business is not the best thing in the world.

Man.

Working with your mother and I love your mom and Grandma. I love them to death.

They always come out the kitchen to show love and say, you know, hello, So I love them.

Man.

It's crazy because work with my mom is definitely early on, Like We'll meet up at work and she still think I'm a son, but momy business partner. So it was a total different experience because we had to learn to work with each other. You know, we never work with each other in that capacity, so it was challenging.

You know.

It was times where we were just you know, it was tough for us to get along just because with mom and son and you know, partners and stuff.

So it was tough.

And me and my grandma, uh, you know, I opened up the spout that and I named it after her. It was like my me, you know, paying homage to just her journey, just everything she's done, you know, coming from a career to America and building that, you know, that that foundation for us to build on. It was kind of me giving her flowers while she can still smell them. So that's where sun chunk comes from. And you know, I open that up and you know, it's been cool. Of course, she wants things to be the way that she envisioned. And sometimes you know, it's not really the way that you can operate a business that does as much value as we do.

More like a mom and pop.

Yeah you can, but you know we're more of like high functioning. Yeah, you know, more of like a corporate setup. Now have hr have you know, marketing directors, just the whole team, you know, close to five hundred employees.

You got some nice studs working in Mondays too. I wanted to say, see some good studs. They some nice, handsome and pretty still, you know, because that's why.

You like doing Monday's a time.

Yeah, I haven't been yet, like like you food. I was like, yeah, no, I they don't have like studn muffins. That'd be dope.

You know, listen when they hear this, they're gonna be yes.

I love that.

Students already loved.

Yes, I'm magnet.

When you and your mom bump heads, like, how do you shift it from business to personal? You know, you bump heads and then you still got to go back to being.

Your mom's son.

Well, so of course it would affect personal, but it was more so when we first started to partner up, because we had to figure out how to operate with each other.

She wanted her way.

I wanted it in my way, and unfortunately, you can't have it both ways sometimes, you know, sometimes we gotta really decide on which way we're going.

So it's just us just just learning. And but it did affect personal at times.

Because if we're not talking at work, we're not talking you know, at home, or they'll affect our personal and it's a challenge. But you know, you got to be patient and you got to just really learn how to operate with you know, with family. You know, in amongst of just operating the business.

Was the super Bowl weekend everything you thought it was gonna be. Yeah, man, super Bowl was.

You know.

My whole thing was too. Just when I do put them, when I produce events, it's not just about making money, it's about showing up, showing up for the New Orleans as a whole. And you know, just when people come in New Orleans, like as y'all know, I like to show that Southern hospitality.

So I wanted to roll it out and you know, get it popping. So that's what I did.

You know, we had Travis Scott, Cardi, b Meek, Gilly Wilow, Glowrilla Glotto, fifty fifty end of not showing up because he has some something happy in coming down sexy, red highs and not and everybody was it was crazy all.

That different spots. Oh, I saw the party. Yeah, so I had three different venues.

I own a spot called Hide and Seek which is a club, a spot called Trios which is the club, and not running out, this venue called Empire, and some good friends of my own Onlonzo and Joey. So I did that, and you know, the whole goal was to just really you know, last time we had an opportunity like this was All Star in twenty seventeen. So when when something like this happens, I feel like it's a time to not just make money, but to really just have a great time. And uh, sure, everybody, how we do it in New Orleans or.

I was gonna ask.

You know, during COVID, a lot of restaurants that first did bad and then they picked back up. But then when the world opened back up, a lot of restaurants closed.

We see it.

PF Chains they had problems and Applebee's, TGF Fridays, Red Lobster. Even so, how is is the restaurant business as far as you and how are you you sustaining?

Well, it was one of those things where, uh, you know, COVID kind of slowed everybody down, and me coming out of COVID, uh, I was so motivated to do something, figure it out because I felt like it slowed everything down that I was doing. So opened up Treehouse and touring twenty one Memorial weekend, and you know, everybody wanted to be outside. So I'm making you know, the most one they ever made. And so I got a taste for like I had Marrows open, I opened up Treehouse, and I got a taste for them. Like I'm making this fast money, I wanted to reinvest it. So a lot of spots that were calling about to rent, they you know, they weren't available. But at one point, you know, everybody started calling me. And during COVID Man, I committed to like four locations, five locations because I opened up after treehots opened up five more locations, and you know, it kind of really just made me level up. You know, COVID made everybody fe like they had to do something to do more, and so you know, now, Spicy Mango, I'm finally getting to a point where we're about to open up due to just me not really understanding the industry and how much time and money it takes. But it was a grind and I'm glad I did it. It taught me a lot, but to commit to so much and not really have a full understanding of what's all required, you know, it's like.

You really rolling the dice.

So I'm blessed to just be at this point now where we're about to open up and you know, this is seven location, and we've been blessed to see a lot of success in the industry.

We got more with Larry Morrow. When we come back, don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good Morning Morning. Everybody is the j n V. Just Hilarry and Charlamagne the guy.

We are the Breakfast Club. It's still kicking with Larry Morrow. Morrow is the owner of Morow Hospitality. If you're ever in Louisiana, I'm sure you stop at one of his Spotsmuro Steak, Sun Chong, Had and Seek Treehouse, and he has a new restaurant, Spicy Mango.

Charlamagne, what's the ultimate goal for you?

Ultimate goal is, of course, it's to inspire the next generation of black you know, restaurant tours black hospitality because in this industry, it's not many people that look like us that I can go to and get advice from. I have a lot of friends who I talk to have great successful businesses and that's been great mentors to me, but it's not many people that I can talk to. So I think definitely inspiring the next generation of black culinary black hospitality, but also you know, growing something that like folks, just something for my family. You know, it's bigger than just the money. It's the legacy. It's about building something that can take care of me and my family. You know, not just this generation, but the next one.

You know, because somebody said to me, somebody I don't forgot who I talk to, this is like, yeah, we might connect with Moros the franchise And I'm like, franchise, Yeah, like why.

Would you leave Nong No?

Well well no, so on franchising.

Right I got a lot of people who call about franchising or just even companies that want to invest into what we're doing the Hospitality Group.

But right now it's like, you know, we're doubling down.

I actually had a conversation yesterday with a good friend who invested into a lot of different ventures and extremely successful, and he was just like, man, it's time to start taking you know, it's time to start raising money. Right you're doing extremely well, but imagine how big you can get if you do so. I'm conflicting on what we're what we're going to do, but the goal is to you know, become you know, one of the largest black hospitality groups in the country and not limited to you know, we just want to be able to inspire people through what we're doing.

I never knew I was gonna be in this industry, but to be in.

It and to do something with my moms, to have my family involved, it's a feeling less indescribable.

You know, is Atlanta in Houston next Houston? Most time spends time.

I've been living in Houston for like three and a half years.

You know, I got some homies out there who've kind of been a tremendous help, like a life. Those some guys in the industry, you know, hospitality industry that I really am. I in respect what they do, you know, because they've they've done it even prior to me getting into it. You know, I will see what they're doing. And that's one of the people that I can say that Junior Martin, Big Jay that I always really inspired.

By somebody who look like me.

You know, is the food gonna taste the same though it is?

You know, I'm like, I'll be there, my mam wad be there, and it's a forty five minute flight, right. You know, we're real. You know, it's all about just the structure that you have, like the chefs and just the systems that you have.

So you know, I ain't no about everything, man, so I may ensure that you know, we're on point with that.

When is Spicy Mango open?

So Spicy Mango is about about thirty or forty five days out, so sometime next morning May we'll be opening.

Soft.

Won't really do a grand opening, probably into June, closer to essence, so you know we're gonna take all time, yeah, just to kind of ease into it, not really like you know, broadcasting that we're open, but just open soft and get the kinks out just so that when we do fully open, you.

Know, we're prepare.

Yeah.

You always are very you know, you're you're the consummate businessman, always so professional.

What happened with you and the food reviewer?

Man? I can't.

Uh what happened, but it was a video of Larry interacting with a few reviewer and the food reviewer tried to well, he tried to take his phone.

You know, you try to take your phone.

Man, I don't remember what happened. I don't know what happened. Just throwing hand, no damn.

But now, honestly, uh man, just being a black man and successful young in a city where like New Orleans, I think in any city, Uh, you just running the issues at times, you know, like I'm outside majority like more than nine percent of people, and when you are, you know, things happen.

I mean, but you need.

Security though.

You know, I know I have security, but you know, it's like I like to be alone a lot of times. That's the issue. I like to be alone a lot of times.

So he don't know, I'm like this introvert extrovert to where I've been around so many people for so long that I enjoy being alone. So it's kind of like what I've morphed into over the years. It's because of it's so much in this industry. But now I just learned, like you know, just just sometimes things happen and there's never no hard feelings, but you know, at the end of the day, you know, when it comes to anything that is mine, I'm definitely protected, you know, by any means, so that sometimes unfortunate situations happen and ain't never intentional, but you know, it just happened.

And it's interesting that you say that you've been living in Houston the last few years, because I thought you were still living now.

But I'm never really there.

I'm never really there just because once I committed, I moved out there during IDA and that's when a storm hit New ors in twenty twenty one, the first year of everything really opened up, and I thought I was gonna be able to be out there more. But when I committed to all these restaurants, like, I couldn't go to Houston and spend all the time I wanted out there because I didn't know that it was going to require all this time and energy, and so you know, I ended up just keeping it just so I won't get so comfortable in New Orleans and decide not to take that next step, you know, so because I'm really looking forward to that next step in that next chapter, to where we expand, and I think, you know, I've done a great job of just doing what we're doing in New Orleans.

But now it's time it just really spread those wings.

All right, Well, we appreciate you for joining us if you're with because people in the comments were saying that that you needed to get out of New Orleans because they hate is so real for successful people.

You feel that way, man, Yeah, And my ogs told me you had a conversation yesterday, right, Canaan, Right, and he was just saying that like being a black man ain't easy, man, just no matter where you are, just being successful in black wherever you are, it's different. Because like I had a conversation with a front of mine as well. He looked different than me, successful, extremely wealthy, and I explained to him to say, you won't you know, you don't have the same problems that I have.

And I mean I have the same problems we have.

But you know, being black and successful in any city, especially a smaller city where it's not as big as in New York, right, I mean you can sometimes be a target, are just standing out, so you know, it's it's tough, but you know that's just wild.

Come with it.

You know, it's not something It made me realize that years and years ago I used to you know, I become more protective about what's mine and not so open about everything, you know. So because you start to just realize that, man, it just ain't the best just for everybody to know everything about what you got going on, what's happening. I'm already outside a lot, you know, I mean, just because I'm got my businesses and stuff.

So it's tough, but you know, it is what it is. It come with it.

Somebody gotta do it, somebody gotta do it.

Right, all right.

Well, if you're in New Orleans, definitely check out tell them the lineup of all the restaurants.

So come to New Orleans.

Check out Morrow's Monday Sun Chung, Morrow's Steak, Spicy Mango is opening up in about thirty or forty five days, and New Orleans Crib Infusion. You got to come to the Treehouse House. To come to the Treehouse, you gotta come to hide and seek, you know. So so far as seven locations will maybe open up more soon, just really depend on just really depend on a few different things.

But yeah, definitely plan on, you know, moving to Houston.

I love, man, what just said is true because it got it got the ambiyonce, but then it got just the dope ass submern food like and then Larry set me and my wife up because it was our anniversary that weekend.

We had a ball. Thank you very much.

I appreciate y'all. Thank y'all.

If you wont that life, that's one of the safest places to go to. You check out your treat house on Mondays is like I said.

You never know who's in that.

I'd been in the times when Nas was in the back cut in the corner chilling. I'd have been a time with fabers in there. Car to you it doesn't matter, but appreciate you for joining us.

Bro.

I appreciate y'all. Thank y'all.

It's Larry Moorrow. It's the Breakfast Club.

Good morning, The Breakfast clubby Girl.

Go get your tickets for the third Annual Black Effect Podcast Festival, happening Saturday, April twenty sixth in Atlanta, Georgia.

Were seventeen days away.

Right, seventeen days away from the third Annual Black Effect Podcast Festival at Pullman Yards in Atlanta, Tanking Jay Valentine be on that stage doing the R and B Money Podcast sorry, Jake Roberts will be on that stage doing her Woman of Ball podcast. Or go get your tickets at Black Effect dot Com Flash Podcast Festival.

It's gonna be told out.

No, no, no, I actually got it. I think I gotta be in Texas.

Oh, I'll read it.

I got my panel. I switched to I'm doing the creator's panel now. But are you going on panels only? Moderating a panel? This is my first Black Effect Festival. Congratulations Lolo, thank you girls.

Well, let's get to the latest with Laurie.

Lauren becoming a straight fast.

She gets them somebody that knows, somebody to detail.

I'm a home girl that knows a little bit about everything.

She'd be having the latest on this sound the latest with Lauren la Rose.

Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have a little bit of everything. It's the leaders on the breakfast clubs, Laura.

Oh my god, Oh Robert, some Dougs apartment in Houston have been burglarized. That these came in. They took jewelry, cash and more. He actually went online and talked about it.

Some thug did. Let's take a listen.

I tried to shoot to go see the cools and didn't want to miss the experience rugging my spot. Petty things hit a good leg man. They got me from my cherry over slipper working on it. I was trying to do a little quick turn around, go to the road the game and come back, and I got.

Kind of traffic trying to get back. I'm in the penthouse.

How did they get in the penthouses?

What I want to know?

The penthouse, you only can have a fall from my floor. I'm gonna get this assurance money. I don't buy me a car. I ain't buying no jerif you and I can't see how they didn't stand out in the crowd when you look at things while hens, I can't see how the build and missed.

This all mickey mind.

It's some inside, right, definitely some inside.

I like that because how you get past security up all the floors.

And he said in the video that they have or the images that they had, you could he said, they wouldn't blended with the crowd that live in the building where he lives.

I know exactly what he's talking about. As soon as he said that, I knew exactly what he was talking about. But they said they got him good. They said he got the good stuff too. He was chuck one those last that you pissed off, like they got me.

Yeah, they all going to jail, by.

The way, he said, they are.

Yeah, Penhouse, you're on video going to jail.

I'm sure he was ski masked up. You know when he was in the ski mask, you definitely looked like you were standing out.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, now that you say that, yeah, I doubt he had a ski mask on though.

Yeah.

He said that they had footage, so it's video they were. He said they didn't know that they were black dudes.

He said that he actually was at the game in saying antto on Monday night and he was like, it's just crazy how you can't be out nowhere because then people see you out and then the you know what I mean, they know to go on your spot.

So somebody knew he wasn't gonna be there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It was a three hour drive and he talked about getting caught in the traffic on his way back home, so they gave one more time. So yes, that story is developed developing. No arrest have been made as of now, but police do say that they are investigating.

So yeah, Lock them up, go get their ass throwing money to jail that do stuff like that.

To the Pointere said he didn't have assurance because he said the amount of the value of all the stuff that he had on the jury, he said because him like ten thousand a month, So he just didn't get it. He didn't have insurance on all this stuff.

So it's just so wack.

You break into somebody house people don't work hard for they you know, the items that they have, and that's what you go do.

VI a petty thief lock they ass up. I'm with you'll well.

In other news, Jonathan Majors he was on the Generation Iron podcast.

He was talking about the new movie that he has, Magazine Dreams.

Now.

This interview for context is from April second, but I thought that the conversation was good and I wanted to bring it in this room because we had actually kind of talked to him about this a bit, but it wasn't direct. For the first time that I've heard, he is acknowledging the fact that he knows that even though this performance was good, ain't no way he's winning an Oscar.

Let's take a listen.

As an actor, do you think about you know, well, what else can I get with this movie?

Right?

Meaning that like awards and things like this? Is that in your head or do you kind of like not even thinking about that? Think about it?

Why?

Things to think about? And I've got people on my team that can think about those things if they present themselves through the way that hit the press, the way I was draged, the things I thinks I've had to deal with and heal from and and all that.

That's that's completely that's it's a rap, you know.

I mean like like I appreciate the hustle, I appreciate the love, but I'm a part of the academy and I can tell you right now it's not gonna happen.

I love hearing people talk.

About it like whoa jayoa blah, yeah, because guess what it's out there now.

I want to talk too hard about it. But well I love that for the picture, absolutely, but I don't need it. It's gonna get me another job some place, yeah, but maybe not mm.

And you know what you actually did? How was going on? Yeah? You actually did tell him he would not win?

Uh?

What is it emmy for that?

I forget what we were? Yeah? You did?

You did tell him. But it was because afterwards I said.

All's fair. I said everything is fair. It was a fair world. You went to Oscar and here world fair exactly Jesus Christ let down with Lauren.

Yeah no, because I was really sitting in here after our interview with him and was just thinking, like, man, these things happen, some things, you know, the charges and all that were different than how they originally came out.

And you know, there's that whole conversation.

But what he did have to stand up and say, hey, I went and got you know, helpful or I'm taking accountability before he did. And still nobody's gonna care. Nobody's gonna care that this is good. Nobody's gonna care about that. And it's so messed up because if you mess up, you mess up. They don't care how big or how small, depending on who you are.

And unfortunately that's.

A stain that stays on you forever, which is messing with some people's eyes.

Yeah, he doesn't have the complexion for the protection because Roman Polanski won a Oscar and he has been wanted in the US for statutory rapa with thirteen year old girls since nineteen seventy eight.

Oh and he wanted Oscar do you went better.

Russell Brand, who just actually ate probably eight nine days ago, was being charged, is being charged with rape and sexual assault, is now going to be speaking at Florida's new college. He'll talk about cancel culture. So he's going to speak on censorship and free speech. While being interviewed. I knew college president Russell Richard kirk Quirkine during the speak engagement schedule for Saturday, April twelfth.

So you've been charged, but he's still able to speak at a college. Most colleges would have dead.

Johnathan Majors would have never.

Most colleges would have after being charged like that, most colleges, most colleges that would have been convicted.

Colleges say, because Johnathan Majors was, the charges came out, the videos came out, and things begin to drop before he ever went to court, and we actually knew what.

But once again, Jonathan don't have the complexion for the protection that want.

Even better, Donald Trump is the president. What are we talking?

Once again, Jonathan don't have a complexion protection you name it. But we did. All we did is name white people.

That's right.

Then we got to wrap up, which proves your points. Charlie right, doesn't have the complexion for the protection.

I was supposed to get await sometime.

Why complexion is You don't change the complexion. It just changed your believe, it changes.

Your gen all right, well, what's wrong with y'all?

And wrapping up, I want to say, we were supposed to get to Kenya Moore and uh, you know, uh Indy Cohen on his radio show talking about the photos that she showed on the episode and liking in them to revenge porn and ken you being upset about that, but we couldn't get to it here, So tune into the podcast The Late Latest with Lauren Rosa anywhere you listen to your podcast. I broke down the background on today's episode, but to uh the next episode now will be the Indie Cohen conversation and if that was right or wrong for him to sit and do?

Okay?

All right?

Now up next, we got the People's Choice mixed. Salute to Alicia Keys. Today marks the one year anniversary of her play being on broad Want to make sure you go get your doing something special tonight.

I was supposed to go, but I can't make it.

So Salute to Tanks salute to Alicia Keys.

But today is the one year anniversary, so you know how difficult it is to be on Broadway and to stay on Broadway. So make sure y'all go in support and for the mix, we're going to start off with some Alicia Keys records because of that.

Again, congratulations to Alicia Keys and whole staff. Over there, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, you're checking out the Breakfast Club.

Warning everybody is dj NV just hilarious. Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club reminding you guys. Next Tuesday, my second book comes.

Out, Real Life, Real Family.

The first, Real Life Real Love, was a national bestseller and Gia is going to be joining us next Tuesday.

I'm sure that's going to be interesting. Are you going to talk about you know, uh, life after the orgasms in this week?

You're an idiot now than the.

First book, and I talked about how no you wrote it I did. In the first book, we talked about how you didn't make his wife or gather for ten years.

This is triggering.

So if there a light at the end of the traumatized, yes, there's light at the end of the tunnel. Okay, yes, so yes, we will discuss our six kids in that.

Book, yes, because right, not about that?

What is it about orgasms now? Sir? Oh, that was when we were sixteen years old. Oh, but Gail will be here next week. Yes, we can talk about it all. Not ask that woman it's in the book as a journalist is not a journalist, sir clam, I have to ask.

All right, Well, salute to Larry Morrow for joining us this morning. And also Kerry Hilson is stopping through.

I'm not even I don't think y'all realized how good Larry Morose restaurants are amazing, whether it's the original Moros, we can go down there and get that good old fashioned New Orleans food or Moro Steakhouse. I was actually in New Orleans on my wife's me and my wife's anniversary last year, and I went to Moro Steakhouse.

Amazing, amazing spot.

Man.

As soon as you touched down the New Orleans people a gonna be saying, you're going to one of Larry spots. Right, You're going to one of Larry spots. He's really the unofficial man in New Orleans.

To be honest, And if you've been there, you've probably already been in one of his restaurants.

Didn't even know.

Even know yep.

So salute to Larry and salute to Kerry Hilson.

When we come back.

We got the positive note. It's the Breakfast Club morning. Everybody you seej NV, Jesseliri, Charlaman, the God, we are the Breakfast Club.

It's time to get out of here. Chelaman, you got a positive Nope, I do it.

But I want to tell people, first of all, go get your tickets for the third annual Black Effect Podcast Festival. We are seventeen days away. We will be in Atlanta at Pullman Yards. Some of your favorite podcasts are gonna be on that stage. Sarah Jakes, Roberts, Carrie Champion, Tanking, Jay Valentine with the R and B Money Podcast, just to name a few. The food Truck's gonna be there at the Black Effect Marketplace. Everything you love about the Black Effect Podcast Festival. Nissan's gonna have their pitch your podcast Activation. So if you love podcasting Kolture, if you want to know more about the business of podcasts, and or if you just want to come enjoy a day of great podcasts, that's where you need to be. The third annual Black Effect Podcast Festival. So go to Black Effect dot com Slash Podcast Festival to get your tickets.

Okay, okay.

Also, I will be in Orlando, Florida this weekend, y'all.

I have two shows on Friday at the Funnybone and two shows on Saturday at the Funnybone. Gets your tickets at Funnybone dot com or jess Hilarious official dot com. And will be doing meet and greet after the late show on Friday and after the late show on Saturday.

Can't wait to see y'all Orlando and stuff. Don't be doing crazy stuff like bringing your vibrators for just the sign. That's just ridiculous.

Who did that?

Who did you even think about doing?

It?

Happened?

No nobody ever.

And he told me that somebody was lying on my people's death.

He never told you that.

Bank because're not talking about My brother told me that the studs be bringing dill those for you to sign.

No, they bring me all, They bring me weed, they bring me all kinds of stuff, but no stud has ever bought me.

Yeah, why you said it is a clan.

When them giving them all to you?

Yeah, clown, don't bring that back on the plane that happened to in you one time, Remember that time, Yes you did, Angela.

You put a deal in your bag. No, it was the other way around.

You put a dial doo on Angela.

Ye bag, that's crazy. Why would you tell you?

And stuff like that come with that's crazy, that's crazy. This is when we first That's why Angelie left. Now you're malt.

She told you, yes, you know, you know what. Have noticed this. Do the best you can and tell you know better. Then when you know better, do better. Have a blessed day. Breakfast club pitches, don't finish for y'all.

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