Same to me.
I wasn't looking for your secrets.
Morning better known as the People's Choice.
This sluto on my life skin brothers out there, it's just hilarious.
That's what the world.
I dont just don't do no more and.
Charlemagne don't get it. Everybody come to the breakfast club. I call this the hot seat yo yo lave breakfast cub. It's like being on America's front court.
Don't feel like my this, susins.
I never thought to me every time I go to the revers club, I have no company like a good morning.
Good morning Usa yo.
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Jess is on maternity to leave.
Good morning, Lonnie Monie.
Are you feeling?
I feel great?
How are you good? This fashion week? So I know this fashion week starts today, I know I'm gonna be out and about.
I was just thinking, like, maybe I'll take tonight off and then start tomorrow so I can I catch up from the week.
I literally was saying that this morning, because.
You know, of course fashion week happens every every year in the New York, New Jersey area, and it's always a bunch of parties.
There's always a bunch of fashion.
I don't really don't like that anymore, propab events, I know, but I figure Saidlawurenn's gonna be going becau. Lawreen's heavily into fashion.
I got paced. It's a whole week.
That's a whole week and stuff.
Yeah, I got paced myself. But I am gonna be out and about. So y'all got some stuff going on. Hit me, let me know what's going on.
All right, Charlamagne, I'll be here in the second. I'm sure he's running a little late. I'm sure this traffic something like that. But we got a big show today. We got a lot of people stepping up and joining us this morning. L LL cool Ja will be joining us. This new album, The Force is out today Queen's own, so we're gonna be kicking with LLL and then also Kevin Hart and Will Packer. They have a new uh, I guess it's a series. It's called Fight Night the Million Dollar Heights.
Now.
The first three episodes dropped yesterday.
The remaining five will be released one at a time every Thursday.
And Kevin was in here taking shots Y'allso, yeah, it's gonna be a good time.
Yes, yeah, it's gonna be a great time. It's gonna be a great So we're gonna kick with both of those. Now, did you watch the episode? Shah and not yet?
No, not yet, I haven't. I haven't got a chance to watch this hit. I'm gonna watch everything this weekend.
I'm trying to figure out how y'all watch TV, How y'all are parents, How y'all run these businesses?
Right?
Yesterday I was so tired, didn't want to make dinner. Y'all got to do homework, y'all gotta know what's going on. Like, y'all are real grown ups. I'm not there yet.
Well, we also have spouses that help us out a lot. Okay, so that's the most important thing. But I think it's time management. You know, you got to figure everything out. So it's like my daughter. I know I got to pick her up at a certain time, so I try to get as much as I can before I have to go pick her up. And then once I pick up my kids, I call it daddy daycare. It's daddy, let's do this Daddy, let's do that, Daddy. Let's do this, Daddy.
I want pizza. Dad, Let's play this. Daddy.
Let's get in the pulled Daddy. I got practice, Daddy. I need this, Daddy, I need that. Then you know, I got my older kids. That one goes to college, the other one's home. Daddy, got need this, Daddy, can you help me with that?
So it's daddy, dad kad.
Yeah, yesterday, if I had a kid yesterday, I was like, man, I might have to ship him somewhere. Yes, she's a week or two, Like, I just need sleep.
And then NFL came back. Did you watch the game last night? No, you're not.
Didn't watch the game. I saw I saw some of the things the points on Twitter. But the points, yeah, not the points like the actual So I mean, like the things that people were talking about.
Got you okay? All right? Yeah it was a great game. Kansas City Chiefs Baltimore Ravens. Uh.
You watched the game, right, you watched it to the end.
Did y'all see Taylor Swift? She was there.
That's that's all you cared about.
I mean, y'all asked us to if she was coming.
That's she was there.
This amazing game, the first game of the season, and that's what you asked if Taylor Swift.
I'm sure everyone in the stands was thinking the same thing.
Too, like is she here?
We're sure they weren't. I'm sure they were into the game. It's okay, Well, let's get the show crack and we got front page news. Morgan would be joining us. There's a lot to discuss it. Don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, oh, Rachel m kwan, Yes man, can we play some Richel mc kwan.
We got on a Friday.
Turn it up a little bit. It's the Breakfast Club. Come on the rest of peace, everybody. It's j n V Jess, Hilariy Charlamagne, the guy out of Breakfast Club, Lawrence feeling in for Jess and rest in peace to Richelmy kquan. I'm sure we'll get into it and the rooms in a little bit, but let's get in some front page news.
Good morning, Morgan, good morning.
It could be a good morning, but that definitely makes me feel some type of way.
That news for sure. Rip to richelmy Kwan, huge fan. But election day is less than two months away, so make sure you're registered to vote. Check out vote dot gov for more information on how to register and where your polling locations are in your area. Vice President Kamala Harris now she used her first visit to New Hampshire in years to make a promise to small business owners. During a campaign stop in Northampton yesterday, Harris said, if elected president, she'll work to create an economy where everyone can succeed. Harris also said small business owners are some of the country's hardest workers, and she pledged to help more small businesses so they can be profitable for generations to come. Let's hear more from VP Harris in New Hampshire.
And I've met so.
Many entrepreneurs across the country who take the incredible leap of faith that is required to start a small business. Folks who put their life savings on the line and work through the weekends and holidays. They aren't just building a business, They're pursuing a dream.
Yeah, so, Vice President Harris said, Well, she will head to Pittsburgh to get ready for next week's debate. Her running mate Tim Wallas will also be in Pennsylvania, where he will speak in Eerie tonight.
So we'll hear from him.
Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump he says his economic plan would bring down inflation. During a speech at the Economic Club in New York on Thursday that was yesterday, the Republican presidential candidate says domestic drilling will be the key. He also went after Vice President Kamala Harris's proposal to ban price gouging on groceries. Trump called the Democratic nominee a Marxist and comrade Kamala Harris. Let's hear more from former President Trump.
That means we're going down and getting guests from below two dollars a gallon bring down the price of everything from electricity rates to groceries, airfares, and housing costs. We have more liquid gold under our feet than any other country, including Russia and Saudi Arabia. Kamala launched a war on American energy and orchestrated a nation wrecking border invasion.
During his speech, he also endorsed the idea of forming a commission to audit government spending that could include a role for billionaire Elon Musk. Let's hear those comments from Trump.
I will create a Government Efficiency Commission task with conducting a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government. Elon, because he's not very busy, has agreed to head that task force.
Yeah, so the proposed commission would be.
Yeah, so the proposed commission would be responsible for auditing federal government spending.
It will all I also recommend new reforms. I'm not sure that Elon's the man for that job, but you know, hey, to each his own.
Yeah.
I mean it's interesting, man. This whole election is interesting because it's gonna be close coming November. I like how you know the vice president is hitting the ground and speaking to people in these batterground states. But I do feel like I think she does need to do more outreach and the press because I believe it's a lot of excitement within the party and then like that blue bubble, but she got to excite the folks outside of that bubble because I don't want this to be one of those elections where she went into the popular vote but loses the electoral college vote.
Right, makes sense?
Yeah, for she's going to do interviews, right, I've seen she's doing something with Ricky Smiley.
I thought she was doing something else. I see next week, so maybe she is getting out there.
I'm gonna come to the Breakfast Club.
Hey girl, all right, well that is front page news. Now get it off your chest. Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. If you need to vent, phone lines to wide open again. Eight hundred five eight five one oh five to one is the Breakfast Club.
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Hello, who's this?
What about DJ?
And Davante?
I just want to give a shout out to my wife on her way to work this morning, Shabria, And I'm getting for my kids from school right now.
You want that shot out to them? All right? Man, you have a great day. You don't say that. You wanna say kids names?
Uh?
DJ and Do and my wife named Shabria.
Shabria, Peace, DJ CK good morning all right, p rich Oni Kwan absolutely have a good one.
Brother.
Hello, who's this yo?
What's good?
Joe?
What up?
Get it off your chest? Joe yo?
Breakfast Club man, good barn. If you said y'all having me all, I just want to miss it. Everybody go out there and vote, you know, do y'all do y'all party when it comes to making sure that we have a democracy come twenty twenty eight. Man, I don't know if y'all remember at twenty twenty.
Eight, were just trying to make it to twenty twenty five. Oh you said twenty two, were trying to make it to twenty twenty five.
Brother, talking about.
If we if we make it happen in November, most definitely, we're gonna make it to twenty twenty eight.
So I just I just want people to remember that in twenty.
Twenty we had long lines for people to vote. We people have to wear mask, coach the distance.
And all of that.
We don't want to go back to that. So do y'all part? They should?
Uh, you know, we got a future to look forward to for our kids and drank kids.
All right?
Brother?
Hello, who's this?
Hey?
This is DJ?
What's up?
DJ? What's up? Getting off your chest?
No, Charlemagne, I'm right here, sir. How are you? I don't understand how you say your two a all day, but shalt weapons. I have multiple off fifteens and I think we need them.
Why do you tell me why you think we need a of fifteen?
Well, one if the same reality America is that are here, and if you banned them, you're banging them from legally owned law body citizens. So we know criminals do not follow gun laws.
So so like I said, like I said yesterday, the only reason you would have a gun like that is because you ready for war.
Yes, criminals have them. So if a criminal has them, I have them.
He's seeing the bad guys have those type of guns. So if I need to protect myself, I want to have the same type of guns a bad guns.
And to my neighbor, he was successfully able to throw a home invasion when three armed guys tried to evade his home. He picked up it there off fifteen and was able to handle them when they all was armed on camera. So I'm not going to pick up a handgun when three guys who are armed breaking my.
Hand I just think fifteens and too much power.
I think that assault weapon is too much power power for uh are you ail?
But everybody don't love to gain the community like y'all do.
I mean, gates don't matter nowadays. Hey, gates don't matter, especially if people got their all fifteen. So I'm not I'm not you know, I'm not against your point.
But if three guys, if you guys trying to break your house, you want to you wanna pick up a handgug, You're gonna be outgunned if I pick them my r I have a level playing field. That is, I have the opportunity to protect my family with superior firepower. I'm gonna have the superior fire.
That is the worst case scenario, And in that scenario, I do wish.
I'm glad that you got an a off fifteen, but you know, when those same guns are available for people to be able to pick them up and take them into public places and kill multiple people, we got to figure something out of what's.
The need to be one hundred more Charlemagne who mental health awareness? I think that's the mental health issue we have.
I agree with that too, But I mean two things can be true, right, Like I mean, don't you think we need more mental health resources and some commisance gun reform?
Yeah?
But sometimes at eighteen do you think somebody at eighteen, right, because you can get a rifle at eighteen someplaces, sixteen you can pick up an aar fifteen and sixteen years old. Do you think having that much power for a sixteen year old. An eighteen year old is good.
Yeah, but listen, know what he's saying. In what he's saying is true.
We do need more mental health resources, but also feel like we need some commonsance gun reforms.
So what I would ask you, my brother whatever had.
Young account for most of the man shootings in America, and they're putting switches on him.
So they all putting switch on to what's the So what's the what's the what do we do? What's the answer here?
Mental health? I mean, that's that's what it has to be fifteen out here in the United States from America. I think if you're banning them, you're only banning them from lawbody.
I think it's a combination. I don't disagree with you, but I think it's a combination of it too. But it is a complex issue. I mean it really, it really truly is.
Get it off your chest.
Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.
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This is your time to get it off your chest.
I got an indoor pool, outdoor pool.
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Hello, who's this.
Man?
Good morning guysbmitt it Sean Stone, what's up. It's been a minute, man, a minute.
For morning order.
Sean not a baby?
Baby's good man. You know, my son just went back to Maryland. You know, he was with me for three months in Florida, so he was able to bond with his sister. You know, we're just out of here, man, but I want to shout out uh to rich Oni Kwame man, rest in peace to him for him dying at thirty three. That's crazy, you know.
Man, thirty four thirty four, that's still crazy.
You know.
That's like. And so I was watching some videos out there.
Man.
I saw a fat Joe with a new video with Ruby Mark. I love you, crack, but I just want to tell you to put on a sports sprawl yo. And also, ain't Sam Rock? He came out with a new song, so I decided to check out his music video. I really don't understand why he got a white man in this video naked and he's straight. I guess Rihanna is not enough of him.
I don't know, so you just wake up and you just woke up angry at all.
Right, Yeah, he said, you know what, I'm gonna get this, say.
Something nice about somebody, Sean, say something about it's just weird to see these people.
And then also it's crazy Brent Fwhiz Club Premier and Trav and Blind Beauty we outside, that's trash sass music showing.
Man better than It's better than anything I've ever heard you doing. I'm being totally you can you could freestyle.
No, I'm not going freestyle on it, but I want you to just go to Sean Stone TV on I G and you can check out my song and you can see that my song it's called Vibe. It's way better than track.
It is not even are you a rapper or you like?
What do you do?
I do music?
I just I like to write music and I like to sing music. So I think my song is way better than his song. And it's crazy said it's not, and he never even listen.
To my song.
Sure have it, but I can guarantee it's better than you. I know that with a shadow out. I need nothing, I need no evidence to back that up. And I like the record the show now, Simone, who is a DJ.
She picked me outside. Ain't nobody tell her to do that?
Like that wasn't no party and they dropped it. I thought it was like I thought it was the city girls.
Honestly, Sean is such a hater you could you just hear it hate coming out as all this morning and that's why you ain't getting what you want?
Sean?
What did I tell y'all the other day? You got to clap for other people. If you can't clap for other people, nobody's gonna clap for you.
I know somebody who wakes up like angry and just like spewing like hate and bad vibes.
I think it's a common friend that we have in me.
Yeah.
Yeah, Like it felt very when I felt Sean Stone, it felt very familiar to the room.
He was the same. Oh yes, we'll tell your head dresses stop chexting you.
Earlier not to get the hate early in the morning.
Hey bo hello, it was this.
What's going on? Man?
Just the shout giving a shout out to all the teachers out there.
Man.
First, we set the school back at school.
Getting lots of glove to the kids.
Man, A positive success to school. Yeah, and shout out to the person Club Champily.
Thank you brother, have a good one man, get it off your chest. Drink five eight five one o five one. Now we got just with the Mess with la Laossa coming up.
Yes, we're gonna take some time to pay tribute to rachrony Kwan, talk about his influence. But also we're gonna get into I know a lot of people just want to know, you know, what happened and what was what's being reported around his passing.
So we're gonna get into all that this morning.
All right, we'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good Morning, the Breakfast Club owning Everybody.
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All right, guys, So yesterday news had begun to circulate I know, I was getting called stuff was hitting her that rich Homi Kwan rapper rich Onal m Kwan that passed away. And it was later confirmed that this did happen. So I spoke to a source close to the family who said that, you know, his family was devastated. They were trying to figure out yeah, like you know, like what happened why? And I know TMZ also confirmed the story with the same statement, and details later came out that basically he was home. I guess he was asleep on the couch. His girlfriend, who was the one who called nine one one, said that he was asleep. She put a blanket on him, left, took their kid to school, came back and realized that it never moved from the couch, which was kind of weird for him. So she went to check on him, and when she went to check on him, she didn't feel a heartbeat or anything like that. So she turned him over and then he was foaming at the mouth, which is when she calls nine one one, and there's a nine one one call out there that I am not going to play.
It was just hearing her in the call.
I just was like, man, I felt for her, I mean, you hear people in the background kind of coming and they're trying to figure out what's happening.
But why do we need to hear those now on one call released the general public, Like, what's the reason I don't need to?
I think it's an invasion of privacy.
I don't I think so on the police side, when it's not a situation like this, I think it goes to the same thing that like a body cam does, where there's like they want to make sure that there's like a transparency in how things are handled from start to finish. But also too, you can even like there are programs out there where even if it's not released to you, you can go and find a.
None one one call online. Anyone can go and do that.
Just yeah, like whatever, But man, I don't know this is this one caught me off guard because I feel like richeal me Kwan. You know, he's been out the way he says to himself. But there was a lot of people, you know, just sending there rest in pieces. I know one of the first artists I saw posts about it was Boosy and he talked about how he had just spoken to him and you know, can't believe what was happening. A little Kim posted about their relationship as well too, like just you know them having like a really great friendship. Quavo posted and there was a photo circulating of Quavo Kevin Lyle's take off Offset, and just looking at that photo, a lot of people were like, man, Atlanta, like we've lost.
So many good artists.
And then quav On Offset are not even speaking to each other, and you know, these people are the sounds of Atlanta.
Rach On y Kuan was also on that photo as well too.
Yesterday, well, I was about to say, and then after that happened, Quavo posted that him and Offset had a great conversation. He said it was, you know, a good convo with his bro and he put the infinity chain symbol in the prayer hands. So you know, I hate to see it happening through grief, but just to see that they're talking and they're there for each other, because you know, these guys all came up together, so I'm sure they have a relationship that none of us would ever understand. But there were also some things circulating online that I thought were pretty interesting, just some conversations that rach On MK Kwan had been having over the time, and he struggled with addiction for some time and again. His cause of death has not been confirmed, but there was a big conversation yesterday around you know, just some of the things that he had battled with while he was here.
Let's take a listen to him on my expert opinion.
I can't drop no music, my show, money down a dark cloud though, man Bro probably was the person I would definitely say that probably the lowest I was in my life. You gotta think, man, I went from here to hear fast. I blame myself and it's growth, not no, it was my fault was it was it drugs and for oh hell yeah, Man, I was on my leg every.
Day, gigked up, fights down, listen something Bro.
I felt like I couldn't do a show or a song without being on my before some type of way. We was doing so many shows. I couldn't stay up. So I knew some people like if I got started to keep you up, and most kept me up.
You know.
It was a s after that.
Yeah, so he I mean, he'd openly talked about his addiction, addictions and just the battle of being like you know, I feel like a lot of people felt like with Richon y KWin, like his music was a soundtrack of a part, certain part of your life.
And then he kind of took a step back, like he was going through label stuff.
He was going through stuff with like Thug, and you know, even to this day, there were still going through things. And there was recently an interview that he did where he talked about reconciling with young thug.
Let's take a listen to that.
And I heard you want to say screaming free Thugger.
Right.
Is there any chance that at some point in the future, either be unreleased music or whatnot, that we'll hear y'all on a song together again.
That I don't know, because we do have a lot of unres We do have a lot of music that hasn't been released.
But who knows.
The future holds first and foremost. It's free Thugle, It's free anybody. It's free Glueci, It's a it's a it's a testy situation. So I'm trying not to talk about it a lot. But I don't know what the future hole man. You know what I'm saying. I wouldn't have a conversation and then to start from there.
Okay, I like that answer.
Just thinking about Thug just you know, like a rich Game reunion potentially, right, and then now that not being able to happen, you know, that's a like.
Man, Well, I will say this.
I did listen to the to the novel one call, and I mean it was just disheartening. One of the things that I want to tell everybody out there is during the call, you know, the person on the call was trying to tell rich Onmy's girlfriend how to do CPR right, and was asking about a defibrillator. And I was thinking to myself, damn, if something happened to one of my kids and my family members, I don't know CPR, like I wouldn't know.
What to do.
And a normal person just doesn't have a defibrillator in their house. Like no, I know of it because I used to work on planes. And when I heard her act that, I'm like, that's like a normal question they asked.
But a briefing device, right, It's that gives you your heart your heart.
They're supposed to do chest compressions and then you hit with the defibrillator to kind of get the person back going if they but.
It made me, that's what I said.
But it made me order one. Yesterday, I ordered one on Amazon. Me and my wife ordered one on Amazon, and we scheduled ourselves to take classes just in case my wife ordered it. It wasn't that expensive, but my wife was expensive rich Dominican man.
I'm not Dominican. I'm black, but not being rich though. You hit anything away. That's crazy. But it made me take But you missing the point.
It just made me in the family take classes to schedule classes for CPR so.
We would learn how to do it. I'm not I don't even know what that is. I didn't know that. I would have never guessed that was the thing to do. The chest. I thought that was.
You've never been on a plane when there's been a medical emergency.
Nope, they got one up so soon as when you go to the bathrooms right on the right hand side, the fibrillator.
Yeah, normally it's like plane.
You want to stop thinking ofibrillator.
It's crazy.
Listen r ip to the young man rich On Kwan sending healing energy to his family. Thirty four years old is way too young to pass. When I tell y'all thirty at thirty four year life is just getting started. I pray all you young individuals get the opportunity to grow old. Man, you know, and then you think about it too many. To a lot of people, he's just an artist, But think about what exactly what he means his family.
That's what I'm saying, man.
I was I was told by the person that I was speaking to that his dad is so hard and close relationship.
His dad was his managers. Well, I think very close.
I'm just saying that to say people don't look at these artists as like human beings. It's like you got they got family, they got people.
That depend on them. That's all I think about.
When as soon as I hear situations like this, I don't think about nothing else other than damn his family, kids, I said, parents.
He's probably a human being for a lot of folks.
Yeah.
Now he's gone, him changing his life changed a lot of other people's lives. He's no longer here. That's what I'll be thinking about. And ay, do y'all really.
Got to post text message text messages in d MS from people after they pass, and it'd be messages don't have that don't have nothing to do with nothing. Do I really need to know that? Rich Homi Kwan DMS you back back in twenty fifteen?
Literally, why why do you'll do that?
Yesterday?
But I just talked to him August seventeenth, two thousand nineteen.
I seen that one too. I said, I'm like, yeah, like, yes man, we definitely rest in peace. I was making stuff up, No I seen I show you, Please show me that.
Yeah. It was like tore a message from twenty twenty out like he just doesn't.
It was a lot of little messages floating around yesterday for.
Why why do people do that? Why you gotta repost text messages and VM for what?
I don't know.
I don't know either. Just let people know you normal? All right?
Well again, sending healing energy to his family and rest in peace. And that is just with the mess with Lola la Rosa.
All right, can we play Richel mcqualm join me on the top of that.
Look you got some lifestyle or I know we played type away earlier lifestyle.
We'll get into that. It is the breakfast club, Good morning, wake up.
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It's j nd Jess hilarious, Charlamagne, the guy we are the breakfast Club Lon Laosa, filling in for Jess and let's get in some front page news.
What's up, Morgan. Yeah.
So Republican vice presidential candidate Ja d Vance. He spoke in Arizona yesterday about how families can alleviate some of the pressures of childcare costs. Let's hear more from Vance on childcare.
So, one of the ways that you might be able to relieve a little bit of pressure on people who are paying so much for daycare is make it so that that you know, maybe like grandma and grandpa wants to help out a little bit more, or maybe there's an ant or uncle that wants to help out a little bit more. If that happens, you relieve some of the pressure on all the resources that we're spending a daycare. Now you talk about just daycare, let's say you don't have somebody who can provide that extra set of hands.
What we've got to do is actually.
Empower people to get trained in the skills that they need for the twenty first century. We've got a lot of people who love kids, who would love to take care of kids, but they can't either because they don't have access to the education that they need.
Who the hell is he talking to? Okay, we've been doing that. I've been alive since nineteen hundred and seventy eight. Okay, that was always the way things were done. You know why, because we couldn't afford childcare.
Socket. So if grandma was home or I was home, please watch these kids all right now?
Is grandma got to have a life too, Aunt, you need to like too, That's right.
But Vance.
He also addressed the school shooting.
He called for tighter school security after the recent shooting in Georgia and said.
School shootings are a quote fact of life.
Vance went on to say schools must be prepared for shooting scenarios, telling the crowd, it is the reality that.
We live in. Let's hear more from Vance on the school shooting.
I don't like this.
I don't like to admit this.
I don't like that this is a fact of life.
But if you're if you are a psycho and.
You want to make headlines, you realize that our schools are soft targets and we have got a bolster security at our schools. You've got some states with very strict gun laws, and you've got some states that don't have strict gun laws at all.
And the states with strict gun laws, they have a lot of school shootings.
And the states without strict gun laws, some of them have school shootings too.
What some of that I agree with, you know what I'm saying, because even if there is some type of commisense gun reform path, which it won't be because too many of these senators are in the pockets that are NRA, even if there is some type of comments of the gun reform, even if there is you know, more mental health reason sources providing the people. I still think that they should be tight a security at these schools, like I truly believe that.
But the only thing, the other thing, that only other thing they can really do is have metal detectives at every school, right they should because they had two police officers there, so it wasn't like they weren't no police officers there.
So the only thing that they could possibly do is have metal detectives. But they detective mental.
Health professionals too.
To Charlot Magne's point, you know, mental health professionals could probably help if you know that somebody is going through something, and meanwhile, we knew, we knew that this this kid was actually being investigated. So if that's the thing, then maybe you know the school is looped in on those correspondents as well. Speaking of which, the father of the suspect in Wednesday school shooting, he is being arrested and charged with murder.
Let's hear from GBI.
That's the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announcing those charges and.
Coordination with the district attorney. With District Attorney Brad Smith, the GBI has arrested Colin Gray, aged fifty four, in connection to the shooting here at Appalachi High School. These charges from mister Gray knowingly allowing his son Colt, to possess a weapon.
Colin Gray is the dad.
He bought the gun as a gift for his son, and he told investigators that he bought an AR fifteen style rifle as a holiday present for his son back in December of twenty twenty three. Now that is the same year the boy was investigated for making school threats online. That was May of twenty twenty three when he made those threats. Now, Colin Gray has been charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second degree murder, and eight counts of cruelty to children. His son, fourteen year old Colt Gray, who carried out the shooting, was charged with four counts of felony murder and is set to appear in court this morning, where he will be charged as an adult. He's accused of killing two students and two teachers at Appalachi High School in winder which is located about fifty miles northeast of Atlanta, just west of Athens, Georgia. Nine others were also injured in that incident.
Very very sad. But if you said yesterday, the parents are going to be held responsible.
But this is the problem, right, there is no minimum age to possess a rifle in Georgia. There is no minimum age, So is it against the law. Yeah, I want to see the parents be arrested because I feel like the parents should have made sure it was locked up. But if there is no minimum age to possess a rifle in Georgia, what do you charge?
Like, what's the real charge? Because the kid could have a rifle in that state? Right, Maybe neglect?
I don't know, but you know I'll say this, man, it's no one way that this problem will be corrected. There's no one way the problem of mass shootings in America will be corrected. It's gonna take a lot of things over a long time. And it's all of these things we're talking about. Yes, you're gonna need more mental health resources. Yes, you need common sense gun reform. Yes, in some cases you gotta charge the parents. You know when these kids get access to these weapons, you know when they take them out the house, whatever it is.
And you're gonna need more security in schools.
It's gonna take all of that to stop this epidemic that is mass shootings in school and it's gonna take all of those efforts over a long period of time.
But when does this stuff like actually kicking Because this is the conversation every single time.
And then it's the thing is got to start. We haven't had all these things we're talking about having happened. There isn't common sense gunn reform, right, There isn't more mental health resources being provided, right, So all these things, there is no security in schools like it should be.
So all of these we got to get started.
And then not only that, Right, if the FBI was talking to this kid, right, and this kid was attending this school that my kid is attending. I think the parents should know. I think it should the parents the option to know and understand so they know what's going on. And if this kid is talking so crazy that the FBI is talking to him, I should have the right to be like, you know what, I don't want my kid to go to their school.
Did they not know?
I don't.
I have no idea if the parents knew or not, but the fact that that was happening and then I don't even think he should have been allowed back into is a regular school that fast, like a year later, after the FBI is in your home asking you about threats online?
Like I don't.
I don't think.
I read an article that said he was said he was crying for help, so somebody knew something.
Yeah, I just think all that happened too fast. It was like, oh, Okay, made a little mistake on a video game. Send them back to school, Like no.
No, nah, Yeah, definitely need to go to alternative school for for a little bit of time, you know, rehab rehabilitate them or us or something to that effect.
I'm not sure, but yeah, Like to your point, bring.
In all the resources the NFL kicked off yesterday, and of course, you know, the Ravens lost to the Chiefs twenty seven to twenty at Arrowhead Stadium. I'm a little salty, you know what I'm saying, But you know they can't keep beating us, so I'm gonna just put it to that. You know, that'st to twenty of twenty eight passes for two hundred ninety one yards, one touchdown and one interception. And of course, yeah yeah, they took on it. But NFL continues Week one. The Eagles are in Brazil to night to play the Packers, and of course Sunday Night Football or Sunday Football continues.
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Kevin Hart and Will Packer will be joining us the new series Fight Night. The Million Dollar Heights is out right now. They dropped three episodes yesterday and we're gonna talk.
To them when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club the Morning, The Breakfast Club.
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Everybody is d J n V, Jess hilarious, Charlamagne the God we are the Breakfast Club Jess is out today, Speculation and we got some special guests in the building.
Ladies and gentlemen. We have Will pack up what's happening? And we have kevinn Hart He's he's here. We have left Kevin Height.
So it's alloud for you.
So Kevin was supposed to be her ear tell you the irony.
It is right.
Kev's hungover right now.
But if you read the first chapter and Will Packer's books, you have a chapter called We're Gonna Die tonight right and.
It's essentially this story. This is what you were wororried about.
Will no on all seriously. So last night, you know we're doing promo and everything for Fight Night, rolling out all of the carpet of the carpets, so before the actual premiere we announced it. But I had to leave because I had to do Seth Myers and Seth Myers has a segment called Drinking with Seth. You go to a bar and Seth makes these drinks or whatever, and it's like, you know, for hour, and after two hours, you're drinking throughout the interview that and you know, I don't drink anything outside of my tequila at this point in my life, so you know, anything else, anything else, I'm very unfamiliar with. And Seys said, let's close it out with your tequila, but let's start it with everything. So he threw it all at me, like I'm talking. It's Jaegermeister and wild Turkey. I mean, we were brown, we were dark, but you can but you have to understand the beauty of good television. And it was a good conversation, great interview and while we're drinking for good reason behind the answers, and we finished it. What's the kill it? We went through a lot and I just don't remember the back half of the time. And that's why I didn't show up to the after party. I missed that, And this morning is six am. I would have been here. Bro, Why couldn't you.
Miss the after party after the garden that night? So y'all could have just got back to you know Atlanta.
We weren't drinking. That's why I want. Somebody's been.
Like, oh man, where's my jacket?
We weren't just out at a show.
The biggest movie of our career. Okay, where's your tampons?
Jesus Christ.
He books a show at Madison Square Guarden. He takes a comedy special in the middle of our movie. He booked it right, and so he left the show in the middle of it, right, biggest movies for Universe Studios.
He leaves.
But you know what he does, because this is the evil genius of Kevin Hart. He goes, hey, man, I gotta do this show. It's next week, you know. He tells me a week before, he goes, hey, you know what you and Tim story didn't. He's like, I got the jet, you know.
What, bring bring the wine. So my dumb ass, I'm like, you know what he brought. And you know what he said.
He said that way you can make sure that we get back on time, because I knew we had to shoot the next day.
So we're shooting one day.
He's gonna go do the show that night, and then we had to shoot the next morning on a location.
We can only get that day, He's like, come with in alabatic. So he's absolutely right.
Absolutely think I was a professional because the producer with me, You think I'm anna ask for they would be.
Kevin has an amazing show of massive square guard.
All the celebs come out afterwards were an after party that he did not tell me about. I'm in there with Carmelo, Anthony Fye, Bottles going oh, we dying tonight?
We turning up tonight? Why wars have power? Well, why are we gonna die in that?
This?
Well, we're gonna die to that means we're having a good time. You're choosing to die over life. How good of a time is that?
Last night?
I didn't say we're gonna die to night and I was like, oh, this is work.
But I was in that club and I saw my career flashing before my eyes because I realized there was no way we're gonna be able to get back in time. I had that moment because I'm sitting there looking at keV and I realized we're not gonna make it.
And keV looks at me, he goes, well, we tried, we tried.
That was it.
I looked at Kevin Hart and I realized that he had convinced me, the producer and director of the movie, to get on a jet with him, so that when Universal called and said, why are y'all over budget and not able to finish the movie? And they say, well, Kevin Hart, Will Packer and Tim's story, we're there.
So the producer went with them. It would be on me. I was complicit. I realized that was his evil plan all in along. You called him a diabolical rascal, spawn of Satan. That's true. I love him, But that's truer words never spoken, sir.
You and your listeners. What is a life without a great story? It's something that can't be talked about. It's untold. A life without stories is nothing. You need stories, good and the bad. He's about a great story. And by the way, that story did what amplified our relationship? And look at where we are now fight night. We're talking about something else that we're yet in business and we produced and developed together. Do we get here without that moment?
No?
We do not.
So why did you still want to be his friend after that? After you figured that out? You could have said, you know what, this relationship no longer happens.
You know what I'm saying, but you decided you need it, you need to envy.
I'm so afraid that if I leave Kevin Hart's like he'll just get closed.
Right did he just burn up on the spot? I just don't know what it's close to being over.
It's it is about you to that works so well because even like just here with you guys in person, it's like I could I could listen to this back and.
For fall each other's most frequent collaborations.
Kept done a ton of movies. I've done a ton of movies, TV projects. We haven't worked with anybody else more than we work with each other.
I'll give it. I'll give will of this on air, and half of it is because I'm still drunk, and drunk, by the way, often some of the best to quill it in the market. But it's just a time to let people know the smooth taste and it comes to understand what and why Grand Cormino is that and has been that, which is why I drink it at the level that I do. But it's not about that right now. It's not about the product. It's about the passion. Let's get to that and we'll toasted that after with Grand Cormino. But I would say this is about Will. I don't get to where I got in career or business without the information and relationship of Will Packer, you know what I mean. Like when it came to producing, and when it came to development, or it came to packaging, Will Packer is the guy that was the definition of what that was. So from the early days of think like a man, he was the producer that came to me and said, hey, I got this thing, I'm gonna do this thing, and I think you're the guy. And those are words words without action are just that. He put action behind the words. Everything he said he would do he did. He got the people he wrangled, wrangled the directors, the actors, the actresses, the producer partners, writers, etc. He can figured a way to formulate and activate And I was like, goddamn man, like how do you do that?
And he taught me.
Will taught me how to do it. And as I progressed, I never forgot who he was and what he was. So our relationship today is based off of never forget, like you don't you don't forget the real side of success attached to just care. He gave a about me, then he gives more about me. Now in return, I doubled down on my level of gift about him. So I don't want to win if I can't figure out away to win with my brother. The commitment that we made was, hey, man, let's figure out a way to continue. Although keV, you're doing and you have, but how do we still do? And I love the fact that we still are and we're committed to figure out more ways to do more. And what you're seeing today is a definition of what we want people to follow through with, Like we are no egos. We are help your brothers so he can help you. We are that and I think it's the best story in Hollywood if people were more privy to how deep and like in depth it actually is facts right, all right?
We got more with Kevin Hart and Will Packer when we come back, don't move.
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It's the ej NV, Jess, Hilarius, Charlamagne and the God. We are the Breakfast Club. Lawrence feeling in for Jess and we're still kicking it with Kevin Hart and Will Packer, Charlamagne. The Fight Night TV show, right, it shows these characters operating within a black world where they all hold power.
So to your point, keV, how effective has that concept been for you both in the world of Hollywood.
I think I think it hasn't been effective enough. And I think you know when you look at the ice Cuban Kevin Hart of it all and I heard the middle common denominator packering, all right, guys, let's do this, but let's make it. And QB come in and like, there's always a through line of connectivity, and that person has to be willing to go above and beyond. Fighty Night is the definition of going above and beyond? All right, keV? I got this idea. The idea came after I was supposed to do Uptown Saturday Night. Uptown Saturday Night is going to be me and Chadwick Boseman, Rest in peace to the legend himself. I had no idea. Well, I don't want to do this anymore. I can't do that without Childwick. That project is dead to me. Will had the actual rights, the original story, the true story. So Will came to me. I said, well, I can't do a comedy because of this. Can it be serious? Can we do it in a way to where it's like a lot deeper, raw real, he said, Kevin, absolutely, Hey, the podcast was points me to the podcast that he was a part of that understood, etc. All right, this is like real information now real knowledge will I'm gonna quit it because it's you. But let's make sure that we try to go above and beyond to package it correctly. How do we do a premium cultural like piece of IP that has the bandwidth to lift ever, and you can't do that with our big stars. To get big stars, you need real relationships. So the leverage of understanding that we both shared and that we had at the top of get the studio's commitment, get the studio to back and support, then go get the talent. I gotta be honest with you. My guy was a big part of all of that conversation, and I followed the lead of most and I think where we were collaborative was dope and the outcome was amazing talent configuration. And now an example of what the business should follow.
Through with that part is true.
I will tell you that, like Kevi's definitely reached a part in his career, a moment in his career where you know you've had success and it's like how do you grow, how do you work with people that you respect, and how do you build a machine that then empowers others. It's interesting in Charlottemagne you talked about like the world of Fight Night. Fight Night is really about a group of hustlers, dreamers, entrepreneurs.
Who were trying to take Atlanta and turn it into something.
It's back in nineteen seventy, right, Martin Luther King had just been shot a couple of years earlier. Atlanta was like seen as a small country town that you know, had a couple of civil rights folks, like people didn't know if it was gonna be the next Charlotte or Birmingham and nothing rowing those cities. But it definitely wasn't looked at on the level of like a global superpower or New York, Chicago, La.
You know, it was Atlanta and it was not respected.
But you had a group of folks, which is not unlike how Black Hollywood is right now, where you've got a group of dreamers trying to figure out how do we work together now. Of course in Fight Night, you got you know, a character who's Captain's character. He's a hustler, he's going, Yo, give me a shot, give me a chance. I can just turn Atlanta into something great.
Chicken Man, Chicken Man.
Weirdly, Sam Jackson, who plays the big gangster, the Black Godfather in the show, he actually also got a dream too, right, was a big gangsters running black mafia. His dream is saying, you know what, the white man has been holding me down for a very long time. If y'all get me a shot and an opportunity, I can take over Land. I could turn it Land into a black mecca. Oddly, even though like Cavin, Sam's characters are odds for most of the series, the reality is that they have the same kind of a dream. That's kind of how it is right now in terms of like folks like us in Hollywood in real life who are all trying to work together. Is the true that Samuel Jackson was really there.
Right there, dog, He was at more House.
I remember we were on a cold Sam at the start of with Sam said like, yo, he liked it, he would do it. We were on a call. We're going through the materials seeing with Sam said about the characters, sims, Yeah, man, y'all got to change a lot of this because more happened. Then, you know, I think we got the story, you know, because we you know, the podcast and everything, we got the real information.
I was there.
What do you mean by that?
He's very adamant about telling you where he was, what he knows. So the story of Fight Night got better. It got so much better as we went on.
How do you manage all these big personalities, Roger Samuel L. Jackson?
How do you do it?
That is the hardest part of the job as a producer, you know what I mean?
And in real talk, it's aesome when you got somebody like keV who gets it, who understands at the end of the day, with the bigger pictures.
But a lot of times I.
Don't care if it's you know, Hollywood music, you know, stock market, whatever it is.
People say, you say, how much do you argue with keV?
Though?
Because he seems like he's a lot.
Let me tell you something.
The least problem that you will ever have in any work environment, that's unproblematic.
He's a problem.
I mean.
The challenge with Kevin is that he will overdo things right.
He would do things like have a show a massive square garden at the same time that we have a big scene in our movie. Now, he's definitely the one. He's not He's not a moderation guy, you know what I mean. That's part of the cheese. That's why I'm here on the breakfast club. You're eating this this turkey saying which trying to get some grease in its cut.
It didn't burn you.
At least let it cool a little bit. Come on, animal, this is what I need? Is that what Hollywood? I can't take him.
You do the phenomenal job as chicken Man, but I can't take him serious and dramas because it just always seems like always.
Jokes can't tell you something real talk. Chicken man is his best word yet I'm telling you. You look at what he's doing with his eyes, and you know a lot of people, you know, it's known that comedians they pulled from pain, right, and that's how they deflect, and that's where a lot of the comedy comes from. Kevin no exception. But the reality is that when he said we got to do this as a drama, that was a big risk because people say, all right, fight not Kevin Hart starring there, let's go. I'm ready to laugh, like you said, Charlotte main, but the reality is that this is serious. Now you have moments of levity, but the tone make no mistake is dramatic.
Like it goes there.
You challenge yourself to do things outside of the comedy said, I just don't want this comedic role.
I want this serious role. Do you challenge yourself or do you just take roles that come?
None of it is a challenge. By the way, I'm developing the things that I do. Nothing is coming to me. I'm creating the things, or I'm a part of the process of how it gets to the final stages. I'm at that point. But I have no desire for the star of Kevin Hart to get bigger. That's so gone and done with. I'm more about the success of others, the success of the entity, the success of the brand, and more importantly, the success of what we represent and what we can look back and say we did. That's bigger now than a conversation of myself, I did it.
I'm done.
What else am I going to do at this point?
All right?
We got more with Kevin Hart and Will Packer when we come back. Is the breakfast club this morning?
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Was it hard to find someone to play Muhammad Ali? And did you ever consider Will Smith?
Come on, Willison, very challenging, right, And I think that you got to understand obviously that's an icon, he's been portrayed before. For us, it was about finding a newcomer that wouldn't pull you out because these other characters you didn't know. Nobody knew Chicken Man Kevin Hart's character, or Vivian to Roger's character, or Frank Moulton, you know Sam's character, but you know everybody knows Maham and Ali. So I think to have somebody in that role who you had some familiarity with and who you associated with something else would have pulled you out.
And we really wanted to immerse you even with these big stars.
We really wanted to take you to a time period right fifty years ago and really drop you in and be as authentic as possible.
And we've paid a lot of attention to the detail and the nuances to try to get this thing right. Right.
Yeah, come on, man, this cast and by the way, not just the big names that you know, like, Oh, Dexter, Dark Dexter, You're gonna be hearing a lot from him. There's some young gunners in this cast that you're gonna be hearing that. I predict you're gonna look back and go Yo. Remember when so and so went toe to told with with Kevin Hard and Sam Jackson.
Yes, Miles B. Bailey, Lloyd Harvey jumps in.
I think you have the future.
My wife said that. I was like, I don't think that's lad because you look so different, but.
I think you're you're seeing an amazing example of baton passing. You're you're looking at people that are established, have been established for so long, and Sam and Taraji and Terrence and Don and then you also have the second tear of talent that is a valuable piece of this puzzle where they're toe to toe with the big names and you don't blink an eye. You understand why everybody is there, and you respect the talent on screen, and you still respect the story. You're never taken outside of the story. So for that younger generation that we were able to on board, it's a great example of what we want to do. I want to be the example for the next generation, the bridge we want to be the example for global success four or the new star that popped on If we're part of those stories.
How dope is that?
Like that's the biggest side of the conversation of Once.
Reese, a Celast, Jalen Hall. These are names you're gonna.
Know, Lauren, Monique, and Lee Daniels just sit the deliverance. Yes, are we ever going to see a reconciliation with you and her? Because she I don't have I know that there's no problem looking sold No, but she has said that, like I know when she was doing club and they talked about it and she was talking about the phone call that happened from your team or whatever. Right, is there ever going to be a conversation that we hear you talk about? Where y'all to have another conversation about that.
And move forward.
I'll challenge your question with a better question.
Go ahead.
You ever hear me talk about anyone? Do you ever hear anything bad come from me? No, there's no problem between me and Monique, there never will be. There's no problem between me and anybody else. There's nothing to reconcile. There's no problem. So all these problems that have attached to Kevin Hart, they're one sided. I don't have a problem with anybody.
That people right to have a conflict. That's what it has to be.
Social media has us up to the point of what you hear is what you're forced to believe. You do not understand, Like the common ground for truth is always a conversation. If there ever is a conversation, do you're not forward facing in a public statement? Ever, I didn't say anything about what I did for Monique or my gestures, you never would have heard it. That's it's a one sided version or reason for and by the way, I've no rebuttal to it. I stand on the side of I'm unproblematic and if me and Moe want to do or could do or would do, we will. But that's a me and mo thing, like this new thing that people are like, let me tell you something, world, that's that's I want to be honest, I'm forty years old. By the way, team or not, it's not hard to find me, like, you know what my schedule is online?
So she hasn't hit you Since all of that stuff.
Me and Monique have had conversations and tho the me and Monique's conversations before and after. That's called adulting. I don't unadult So all of these new ways of conversation and finger pointing, it's very easy.
But you know, that's what I like about the movie Fighting that, right, because it seems like they show each character in the movie as a hero in their own story with a villain in somebody else's. Y.
Yeah.
Also super complicated narrative, which are my favorite kinds because you're protagonists, right, Your quote unquote heroes are very gray and are very flawed like in real life, and you're antagonists are people that you root for.
Those are my favorite kinds of narratives.
I love that because we all know the world is not black and white, right, and so you're absolutely right, it's about complex people at a complex time, and that's really what the show was.
There's not a bigger supporter for the movement of people doing good and Monique Lee Daniels reconciling that relationship. However, it happened, great dope for them, did a movie together after great story, Dope for them. I want to see more keep doing great. The conversation of anything else negative attached to a person's and their reservations and feelings. To me, I want to see nothing but good for all. Like I would love to see us all win. I would love to see us all at the table where we all can do. If it happens great. If it doesn't, I guess it wasn't meant to be. But you can't have a stance of negativity. Also like a real initiative to move forward, and like motivate, inspire, create or do whatever. You can't be both. So it's either like you're one or the other. And if you are a part of creativity, inspiration, collaboration, motivation, connectivity, then that has to be it. And whatever you gather along the way, and whoever you align yourself with along the way, well y'all all a part of the same story. If things fall apart through the duration of it wasn't me to be on that train. Some people miss a train, it's just life. Some people don't make it in time to catch the train. And the train that's going to go is going to go. Why do you think trains can't stop fast? They're moving. So either you're on the train, but you're not. And if you didn't catch the next train, that's life.
What makes it successful because you know, Hollywood and changed before it was blockbuster movies.
But now, I mean, there's so many other platforms to put your movie on. So what is successful for?
But you know, there's still quantitative metrics that they use to determine quantitative learn that at HBC.
Brother, just why is it?
Because reality is that you still have ways that you can determine how you know, how many people watched it, if the audience was into it, if they were engaged, and that stuff is important, and so that is definitely a part of what we do. Honestly though, right now it's about I just want people to feel stuff, you know what I mean. I want to feel like we're touching the culture, you know. I want to feel like whatever it is that we do, we don't have people feel like we wasted their time. That's that's the point that we have inclusion.
The big takeaway is for audience are very simple man. The first one, of course, is Fighting Night now now streaming on Peacock. Do yourself a service and us a favor, Go watch it. A very good show, an amazing story that I think should have been told a long time ago. But for the city of Atlanta that we all know in love. It's a great highlight of how Alanda got to be what it is now, understanding the early stages of it, understanding the origin for us all, especially people of color culture, we need to know. It's a great story.
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Series I can really get into and really get into the characters and follow it.
We're challenging you. Let this be a next series, and I want you to vote.
That's the last thing I was saying. I'll tell you to vote for, but we will be remiss. We didn't get on this platform and say that it's real. It's real and these are challenging time to make your voice heard one way or another, it matters.
You can tell you.
I'm voting for, no question. I appreciate that black man because we need more of us saying that that's right. But that's my choice. That's what I choose to do.
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So we had talked earlier about the NFL kickoff game and the Chiefs playing and all that kind of stuff. But on the back end, people got upset again at that game because the black national anthem was sung at the opening of the game in addition to the regular national anthem, which happens. You know, they've been playing the black national anthem. Let every voice and sing they.
Well, they had about to say, two black quarterbacks, but a black quarterback in a half.
But black quarterback in quarterbacks?
You say they got to give why y'alln't.
Haven want to acknowledge the people's other side. It's okay, okay, Jackson black and Patrick Mahomes is bi racial.
It's okay, guys, depending on how you grew up and you can celebrate that.
A black quarterback and a half starting the NFL game. That's big.
Yeah, So one point five black point five. So they brought out the national anthem, you know what I mean?
So did they do the whole thing?
Uh?
Like sing it? I'm sure they did what they were sposed to.
So Tasha Cobbs Leonard sung lift every voice and singing, then Coco Jones the national anthem. And my whole thing with this is it's like people are online upset and even the conversation we were having in a room, it's like a normal thing for people to be upset about this. But they've been doing this since twenty twenty after George Floyd. So at this point it's like, why do people get so upset when things change? But like on our side, when things change for us, we just got to like accept it and move on.
They just be mad. They don't know the words, that's all.
Maybe that's it.
Learned the song you'll love it.
They're calling it racist? What because it's a black national anthem?
Well, the reason we had to come up with a black national anthem because America was racist.
Black people can't be racist.
You only recognize this as three phases of human At one point.
Black people can't be racist. But yeah, so that happened there also. I mean I mentioned earlier that Taylor Swift was there. She was in versace in case she got scared.
Did you talk about Travis Kelsey looking like a whole cracker? I told you I ain't never seeing that white.
No, he'd been stopped all that he's been given the cop who turned the body cam off. I've been told you all that, Like, I don't know.
What it is like.
You look capital riot white, So you don't. You don't have miss screen save anymore.
He was never my screen save. I just thought the man was fine, But then he.
Was back to his native nature and I was like, whoa. When he was had his temson with the booty fade, he was your screen saving saving.
It wasn't Tims tie all the way up to the top though I don't remember. I think so, so that would have never been on the back of my screen.
Don't do me like that. Money don't change you. It just magnifies who you are.
He had money back when he was cute with Kayla.
Yeah, but now you got a hundred million dollar podcast deal. Now he's mat and white.
Now you get the bowl cuts, all right, y'all.
So Angel Reese, speaking of podcasts, Angel Reese just dropped the podcast. It's called unproduct An Unapologetically Angel, and this is something that she drops episodes on every single Thursday. She built this podcast because she just wanted to expand her business brand and you know, let people get to know her more outside of being an athlete. So the first episode dropped this week and she got into some things that have been trending around her.
In the news.
Uh.
She talked about the g Herbal situation. People thought that her Gi Herbal might have been dating each other.
Let's take a listen.
When I tell you, like, I can call you Herbo to this day, Like that's somebody that I can like if I ever need anything in Chicago. He told me from when I got drafted, if I ever did anything in Chicago, He'll make sure I'm straight.
And it wasn't even off, no like flirting or anything.
It was literally straight off, like I got you sis, like making sure that you straight because I'm new to the city.
Like cell as always very wholesome woman.
I am six three and I.
Think he is live ten I mean, you see me in the car kissing this man. So where'd y'all even get that from? That's somebody I can literally call like anytime.
That's like, bro.
The short staming was unnecessary, and Ghob was not short but short. The injuries that was unnecessarily.
No short King's over here, baby, because you got to think about it. When she put on her heels, that's not look like her son.
Don't want that very unnecessary, it's very triggering, is but I do want everybody to grow up. My greatest relationships. Don't let her.
Don't let her be sitting on like the the seat of any seat above him. Now she's looking down on him disrespect. At least we got jumped to it.
On the bed. Wow, cut it out. My greatest relationship talking about you? Huh you jumped to on your ain't nothing doing me?
Fact, my greatest relationship. You're swinging with women? Okay, My best friends in life are women. Why do people believe that just because a person of the opposite sex is with another person that the opposite sex, that they got to be.
Having something going on in this conversation last night, I feel like it's a very immature way of thinking to think that just because a man and a woman are friends, they have to have some sort of like attraction or whatever. Like I have friends like my brothers, shout out to Carmen and Jordans literally they're my brothers like that. It's like, oh, I would never even they would never even. Like that's like always the same way.
I think a bunch of women friends that but we don't even care. But yeah, we hear that all the time. G Herbo.
Though it kind of puts itself in a situation sometimes where like people are questioning his relationships is and then angelies. We don't really always know her situation. She's in and out of a different situation. She's new to the city, So seeing them randomly at night in the car together.
It's like whoa.
Like it wasn't no whoa. It meant nothing.
It meant nothing. But when I when I saw it, I was like, hold on, what's going on?
Yeah, meanwhile, two guys be together smelling like whole butt sex and y'all don't think nothing of it.
What they called me And all the time, don't nobody be coming at you and envy where you act? No, that's because where you act, where you smell why I can't be a wee. See what I'm saying, we.
We we we we we.
Too much.
But she also got into conversations around Caitlyn Clark and y'all know, anytime Caitlyn Clark and Angelies are in the same conversation, people go crazy. But she addressed some of the like rah rah around their whole situation. Let's take a listen.
Kaitlyn is an amazing player, and I've always thought she was amazing player.
We've been playing each other since high school.
So I think it's really just the fans that are like they right for her, and I respect that respectfully. I think there's a lot of racism when it comes to it, and I don't believe she stands on any of that. But when it comes to death threats, like I'm talking about people have come down to my address, no home, Like it's come down to that multiple occasions.
People have made AI pictures of me like naked.
It sucks to see that, and it's it's really hard that I have to go through that and now seeing other players even having to go through that. But like at the end of the day, it's a game that we do with love, but there is no hate, no hate. We're gonna play the same team one day. I'm sure they can't plan on the same team. I don't think they can play on the same team. Why she say that, I don't know, because they don't need to play.
It an Olympic team or something like that. I don't think they're playing the same spot in the w NBA.
Yeah, that would make sense.
But greatest culture war going to day. By the way, Kaitlyn Clarks versus ajured reason what people don't realize and the homie Carrie Champion pointed this out because she has a great podcast coming out called The Making of a Rivalry Caitlyn Clark Versus A injur Rees. It comes out September ninth on the Black Effect Heart Radio podcast network. But they need each other like that dynamic of Kaitlyn Park literally like Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. They came out of college the same year they had a rivalry and college injuries busted her ass in college. It's made it to the pros, It's bought casuals to the game with the w n b A. They need each other.
Why did you say? Why did she say that?
What you mean that they will be on the same team then playing on the same team because you know, because by the way, it's actually because of all the just thirs things up, it's like they need to battle each other.
Yeah, I say, because I want to see that.
All the back and forth is it's just it's happy competition.
It's good.
It's it's the energy. Like you know, I'm here for it.
But I want to say, she needs to get like registered to care because somebody pop up at your house.
That's a crazy That's no, you don't do that. You don't go to people's houses. That's insane. I agree, So stay safe. But yeah, check our podcasts. So every Thursday, that's it.
All right, Well that's just with the mess with Lauren de Rosa. All right now, Yes, we're giving that donkey two for after the Hour is Donkey of Today. I might call it audible though, let me think about it. We'll come back in a second. I want second to think about it.
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I never heard the donkey other day?
What is it?
Say it again? Charlam man, I'm a bunk. Yes, that's Charlotte Vane the same. That's true.
Okay, guys and gals, I apologize. I want to call it audible today. All right, I just want to tell y'all something real quick. LL cool J James Todd Smith Yes, released his fourteenth album today, The Force.
That's right.
This man is celebrating what's his name, James Tod Smith. I've never known that I hate young people. This man is celebrating Jesus wow. This man is celebrating forty years in hip hop. Okay, he hasn't put out an album in eleven years. And I know I usually do Donkey of to Day here, but I feel like today I need the preempt Donkey of today to give us more time to celebrate and speak to the icon living LL cool J, because he is here this album. That's right, and we really have to start celebrating folks for they are alive.
Correct. So let's get into our conversation with LL cool J. The fourth album out now Morning.
Everybody is the j n V Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy, We Are the Breakfast Club, Lauren the Rosa filling in for just just as on maternity leave and we got a special guest in the building.
Yes, indeed, icon of legend queens gets the money. LL cool J. What's going on? Baby? How you telling that a great man? LLLL always got action hero superhero energy when he walking in the room.
Yeah, good, fine, Yo, I mean that's w I feel like one right now. I mean this is like a good energy, you know what I'm saying? Like that, you know, year forty. You know what I'm saying That we having a you know, a conversation about my new album. That's a really unique position, you know what I'm saying. So it's like they've never been done before that.
Yeah, no, that's never been done, and it shows us that it's possible.
Right. Even more importantly, it just shows younger generation and new artists as they you know, are working on their careers and as they embarking, what's possible. You know what I'm saying, that we could continue to operate at a high level, you know what I'm saying and do things that are important culturally.
And I just I'm glad that I can set that example. I've just been being back on the road on these promo tours doing interviews.
How does it feel just to be be out here because you run it like a new artist, like you're doing everything you want it.
I'm like, you ain't tired. Nah, nah, I've been tied for thirty years. You kidding me? I work hard, but you know what it feels like.
It feels like, you know, in a lot of ways, I am a new artist, you know, because there's a day one audience that grew up with me, and then there's an audience that knows me for all of the other things I've done, but don't really aren't as familiar with my music when it comes to me, like directly drops some records. So it feels great, man, it feels fun. I'm just having a good time with it, you know what I'm saying. Like it's exciting to me, you know what I mean?
And I think you being back out here it shows people the reverence individuals have for you, because everybody got an ll story, like we had that love up here. Lobo was like he wanted to be a rapper until he heard you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, put the microphone down.
That's funny.
That's funny now, ed Man, I remember he was he was at my high schools security.
But I would say. What it does for me is it gives me reverence for the culture. You know what I'm saying. It makes me revere hip hop.
It makes me more excited about what's in store for hip hop, you know, and what's possible for hip hop. You know, so many amazing artists out here doing so many great things, and it's wonderful to be able to show them what's possible, you know what I'm saying. Like that for me is like the really exciting part of it because we're just so used to we've grown so accustomed to like writing people off after a certain amount of time. It's beautiful to be able to say no, you could continue. Doesn't mean and you don't have to pretend you're in year three when you're in year forty. You can actually be go ahead. Were you nervous about that?
Because you know, in hip hop it seems like definitely hip hop, they try to put you in a box, right yeah, where they're saying, even though you got music now, they'd be like, oh, well, you can't play on this station because he's more of an urban ac artist.
But with you, I haven't seen that. I've seen you. You know, you're on every station. It's not just the older quote unquote oldest station.
Yeah, well, you know what it is, man is you know, you have a responsibility as an artist sonically. You know, at the end of the day, it's about what they when they press play with her, they hear like, we could talk about Google, we could talk about Wikipedia.
Is, we can talk about your resume and your plaques on the wall.
All that's great, Awards, Hall of Fame, sounds great, But when they press play, it's like when you're on the basketball court, can you deliver? Right, it's you know, Lebron can still deliver and yeah he doesn't have to be in year five. He can be in year twenty one and deliver. So can ll sonically deliver? Like it's the idea of Lebron and sports, but it takes twice as long because it's art, so instead of twenty one years, it's forty. But the reality is it's the same idea of can you deliver on the court. So to answer that question, that's about the sonics. It's about making joints that you love and people can appreciate. You know what I'm saying. Everybody's not gonna love everything, but if you can create stuff that people appreciate.
You know what I mean. I'll go get it.
This album is dropping on Deaf Jam, which is where everything started for you a few years ago. I don't know where you were mentally about like just making music about music out but could you have planned this any better?
Like what's that feeling like? Kind of like the full circle moment?
Well, it's it's more than a full circle moment, right because I was the first artist on Death Chair, right, and we launched the label together, you know, rock head, Yeah you are.
And that's what I mean, is like you can't predict.
Stuff like that, you know, you can't.
You can't listen, listen, God is great And it's that type of timing, you know, being on death Jam, seeing the excitement in the building, seeing the excitement and all of the people's eyes that work at the company, you know, and even the support from Version of Republican. The way they all are rallying behind this project to make sure that it's seen and heard and gets an opportunity to be listened to by people is amazing.
It feels like winning, you know what I'm saying, in the best sense of the word, what.
Losing is like because you said, it feels like winning, but like I don't even.
Lost.
No, I haven't, but I and I hopefully I like to. I just wanted to keep my floyd on for the record. For the record, I'm not trying to talk tough because I want to go through a walk through somebody.
Real quick. I don't want to. Yeah, be careful because if you go wrong for you to, you know, don't you know, you might go viral, you know, like you know, to leave me alone. I ain't trying to play tough guy.
Now we're doing this. We're doing this project right. It's been eleven years. How did you attack it right?
Because you got eminem on it, you got Sweetie on it.
How did you attack it and say, you know what, I want to stick to who ll is, but I still want to keep it young doping and feeling good as well.
You know you know that that what you just said.
I didn't really think about young dope and feeling I thought about feeling good.
What I more thought about was what do I love and getting with Q Tip?
Q Tip is brilliant and q tip is a is a genius and he's very creative, and so the idea was just sonically doing something that moved the world and just made me respond, you know what I'm saying. And I didn't do like I didn't put Sweetie on the song because she's younger, or put them on a song. I put them on it because sonically they I felt they would sound good. We felt they would sound good on the songs, you know what I mean. So it was about the music. It wasn't about stunt casting. And then you know, like I said, man like stunt casting.
Yeah, you know what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying. Once of stunts, no question. Yeah, Well, well you know it's TV experience for sure. Right. So it's like I just wanted to do something that people would just vibele for.
Man.
You know, like when you listen to the whole record front to back, you know as a body, and I know we're going cherry pick, and I know people pick songs and they go through their process. I can't tell people how to consume the music, but you know, when you listen to it, you realize, like we did everything purposely. I really wanted to get some kids who had never had an opportunity and opportunity, so I got this kid Don Pablito from South Side Queens and shout out to him and uh Mad Squabbles from Philly and Jay Sam from Lafayette.
Louisiana and put them on the song so that they can have an opportunity.
You keep your end to that. I remember one time, but for the only how you found no guy. I remember one time here and you say your favorite rabbit at the moment was like belong with Yeah, yeah, yeah, he was funny. He was funny.
But I like a lot of different artists, like I listened to everything, you know, I was listening to the young Nudy today, the dag going up.
Then I was checking out.
I like the little dirt thing, but I like the core day and then you know, you could, you know, flip it all the way to I like some of what glow Rilla is doing, and you know some of them were hey all some of them records, you know, and I'm actually paying attention, you know what I'm saying. All right, we got more with ll cool J. When we come back, don't move. It's to Breakfast Club.
Good morning morning.
Everybody is DJ, Envy Jess, Hilarious, Charlamagne, the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club lon La Rosa is filling in for Jess and we're still kicking it with ll.
You know what I meant to ask.
I was watching I guess it came back up on social media. It was an interview with Jamie Fox. They were talking about, you know, y'all in y'all situation when y'all was shooting that movie.
I was just curious, he's laughing funny.
Now you got to clear up what actually happened, because he said it didn't happen that way, that you didnt knock him out.
But I wanted to know could that happen now? Because back then, if I feel like whatever Jamie says happened.
Is now what you really want to say? Because I saw your face, you digressed.
The bit, Yeah I did. Whatever Jamie says happened is with it. No disrespecting Jamie at all.
I know.
I'm just saying that that's my dude. When somebody says, now he knocked me out, he beat the.
That means.
Whatever Jamie said happened happened. That was a long time ago.
Then, you know, it just came back up. I wanted to know could that happen on movie sets now? Or is it too protected, because now it seems like if any little things human.
Resources, well you're going to human resources if you you know, if you if you get a hangnail and you express it wrong, I mean he triggered me, you know, so triggering everything's triggered back in the day, triggering with the trigger.
Now the trigger is like.
You know, you hail for you being hanging out, triggering exactly, cut it exactly.
You have blue on does I mean you hate red?
You know, like, you know, how does that affect the industry outside of of course to me too movement? But how does that affect because you got mind your business, you can't get your creative juices Like, no, you get your creative juices.
You better just keep make sure they don't get on nobody else. You got be real easy with the juices, bro, be easy with them juices, no doubt.
You know light here she said, you're the reason. Yeah, you're the reason she decided to put a new album. Oh work, this really said when she was here. Huh and you haven't put out album in ten years, so but you got new I'm coming out.
Called one on one. Yeah, why are you getting back into this crazy game? L ll challenged me. Really.
Yeah.
We did a fireside chat with him, and in the midst of it, you know, he says, I'm putting out new music. I was like, oh, that's crazy, he said, when you putting up music? And I was like, well, I don't know. He's like, stop being scared. I was like scared he said that, and I was like, Okay, I gotta get to it.
I love that define to still be inspiring on us. I love it. Man, Listen, you can't be scary.
Man.
It's always gonna be great acts. Of course, it's gonna be new artists. Of course, times are gonna change. Of course, there's gonna be generational changes that comes with the territory. But that's the opportunity.
For us to prove that we was born to do this. You know what I'm saying. You don't stop doing it because times changed. You know what I'm saying.
If you need your shorts to be a little longer on the court or a little shorter, they change the rules and the touch fouls, you learn the rules of the game and the new rules and then play better than everybody else.
You know what I'm saying. It's simple in the thought process. You know what I'm saying now.
Obviously executing it is not as easy, but it's simple when you make the decision.
You never got nervous because you were.
Probably one of the first artists that say, you know what, I'm gonna be very emotional on the record, right, I'm gonna say I need love, I want to round the way girl at the time when hip hop was so focused on I'm the best and what made you say? You know what, Now, I'm gonna go with the chicks over here. I'm gonna let youall do this. I'll be back, but I'm gonna have put the chicks right. Well, I'll put it to you like this. It's like a guy, you know, showing up to the projects to see a girl who does that say about him want to like the girl, and he could fight or he's.
Willing to risk it regardless of whatever. He's willing to risk it. Right.
So, me doing I Need Love on me doing these romance records, that's because I wasn't scared, not because I was soft. I wasn't scared. That's why I could do that. You under saying, I'm saying so like you got to like. Sometimes people they misconstrued It's like the guys that I meet, they'll be the nicest guys in the world. The toughest guys I know, and the toughest guys I've known growing up have been like some of the nicest guys. The most dangerous guys I've known have been some of the nicest guys.
Came up with killing oh Man, absolutely so.
So it's like with the with the with the music, it was it wasn't about trying to have an image. It was about what I want to do as an artist period. What do you want to say as an artist? What do you want to do as an artist? That's what I'm going to do.
You know.
Peer pressure makes me laugh. He's like really, it's like, yo, you do what you want to do. Man, Like I do what I want to do creatively, not what people say I'm supposed to do, right because with you know, a lot of times what people want, like right now, they're like, oh, you're supposed to sit down, like you have people like there on the internet, Oh, how can he have the whips and chairs and the and the this and that in the video because people are freaks and that really goes on, right And I know you I know you want to pretend that everybody's like having, you know, missionary with the sheep. But I got I got news for you. There's some freaky stuff going on out there, and I'm rapping about it.
Right.
I remember you pouring the chocolate syrup on the girl's bre cats like already big average avenue. He was all.
Absolutely bro absolutely wilding out, completely out of control.
Sounds like, yo, we need to sit right here for the.
Right got you Okay? I heard you? Yeah like that? You like that, don't you? Yeah?
Gotcha?
All right? Directors, Oh no, no, that.
Ain't even the wildest one. One of the wildest, one of the most subtle one was in the doing the video the way.
You bite the apple when you know that video? Yeah yeah, yeah yeah yo yo, But I love it, yo, you know what man?
I gotta tell you, man, I love doing funny stuff like that and ridiculous like I had jeans on in the Paradise video.
In the water. I know that that's right, Like, but what's funny is that. What's funny is people will point it do to you like I didn't know you do know how film that?
Right?
Like?
You do know that?
I know what I'm you know what I mean, Let's have it. Stuff became fashion. Like the one leg up.
I got that from the bike messengers in New York. Yeah, because the bike messengers be riding around. Think about it, they be in the city. They have their pants leg up because they don't want to get in in the chain of the bike.
I saw that one day. I pulled my joint up. I'm like, yo, this is a vibe. I start wearing my joint like.
Like that.
You know what I'm saying, Like, I love the idea of just having fun, not taking it too serious. But there's a time to be serious. The time to be serious is when you're going after your goals. The time to be serious is when you have dreams. The time to be serious is when you're dealing with frustration but you want to take it to the next level and fight through it.
But the other side of it is when.
I'm making music, I want to be silly and I want to do stuff that's ridiculous, and I want to do stuff that where we could laugh about it.
You know what I'm saying, Like, let's have some fun with it. Because grab the woman's leg and started playing the guitar. Absolutely bro absolutely. That was all me, all me, all me.
You know we got more with LL when we come back. Let's get into a mini Mix's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, morning everybody.
We are the Breakfast Club. It's still kicking it with LL. It's going on, baby.
How much did you lose to do this album because you had to put a lot of focus. I'm sure you put acting stuff to the back. I'm sure you put a lot of the other stuff to the back. How much did you lose to act?
I only gained.
I gained fulfillment, inspiration. I was able to take time out of my life to focus on the thing that I love the most. And when you put your energy into what you love and you truly believe you was born to do it, you never lose. There's no way to lose. I already like you see what I'm saying, because I love it. Dog, Okay, I'll give you an example. May he rest in power someone like fat Man's School. The joy that you bring the people through your music is incalculable. And look, I got money. I'm a wealthy guy. People really put a lot of emphasis on money, money, money, money, money and status, status, status, status, status, And I get it.
Image is important people, I get it.
But what people don't put enough value on is the joy of life and living well and having a good time and enjoying what you're doing, And that means something that's.
A different type of wealth.
If you can find that joy in your life and your career, and you can find that joy in other areas of your life, that's a true beautiful thing. So I didn't lose not then, Like all of the money comes, all of the fame and for all that stuff comes, but you still got to enjoy the.
Moment for the moment's sake. That's real, you know what I mean?
Going back to the fashion stuff the foovu had in the gap commercial, Yeah, what was your thought process behind that or was that even intentional?
Like what was the okay? So talk us through that decision to do that in that day.
I felt like we needed that exposure.
They needed that exposure, and you're a huge company and it's not gonna hurt you, and I'm gonna give you what you need, but you're gonna give me what I need and it's win win and nobody gets hurt. It ended up at that time taking Fuobuo to four hundred million a year.
And increased the audience by three hundred percent.
I mean, and that's what I'm supposed to do. You know, when you roll with somebody, you roll with people.
There was no pushback on the set from the Yeah there was there was.
They was like, oh, you know the hat and this. I said, no, I'm an owner, so I can clear it. Nobody gets hurt. And everybody's like, okay, absolutely, yeah, yeah, yeah, and I'm an owner and this is it and boom you were foot. Of course, I think I lived that.
I thought you just did it because you rocked with them.
I mean, of course with them. But I didn't know when you even just said that. I thought that was just you, like, because he was from Queen it was, and they was told me that because I was from Queiso. We was holding each other.
Let's talk to that.
So at what point did you become an owner in football? And why why haven't we heard more?
I didn't.
I never heard it.
Because well, what's funny is that I just didn't really talk about that because it wasn't important. So I don't need to tell you about my business life in order to impress you. Yes I invest, Yes I have different things I've done, but I like making music like I'm good with that.
I wanted to ask you about something you said on clubs because you got I don't know why, but you got so much flak for your death jam Mount Rushmore. Yeah, yeah, and I feel like nobody can debate you on that, except for Russell, except for Rick, except for Chuck D and maybe the other people on that you named. I just wanted to know why Slick Rick. I love Slick Grick, but I just wanted to know from you, why did you put them on there? Because they were just mad the whole list. Well, they were mad because they don't they don't understand. They want me to talk about skin and lips and hair, but they want me to ignore the bones.
You know what I'm saying. I gave them the bones of the label. They want to talk to me about cosmetics. But guess what, I don't care how you look. You can get fourteen bbl's thirty five lip injections, but if you don't have no bones, you're gonna be a pile of flesh over there on the floor. So that's the way I made That's how I built my Mount Rushmore. So when I said Bac Boys and myself in Public Enemy and Slick Rick. That's because that is the foundation and the bones of the company. I didn't say that they were the most famous. I didn't say they sold the most records. I didn't say any of that. But you wouldn't have any of that if you didn't have these people.
That was my point.
And when we talk about right, and I wanted to ask how much how much do you think Biggie and Jay contributed to people not taking writing it series because both of them said they didn't write.
And I saw you having a conversation on Sway about Big. Well look, look.
Well Big, Look, Biggie's my man and I love Big you know sometimes and look, everybody's different. Everybody's process is different. Right, Like some people they just you know, got a bunch of rhymes that they wrote at home and they just remember them and then they just got something for the beat. So you don't have to see me necessarily see me. Right, That doesn't mean I didn't write. What I'm not gonna do is say anything that will go against with somebody how someone wanted.
Their career to be laid out.
But I'll say this, ultimately, it's about the song period, whether you write it in your mind, whether you memorize it. The skill is not in how you get there. The skill is in how the song affects the world. So whether you write it on paper, a phone, in your head, that it doesn't matter. How does it affect people? Did the ball go in the basket? Like I've seen dudes write, and I've seen dudes, you know, come off the top. I mean whatever, you know what I'm saying, I don't. What I would say, though, is that these guys are legitimately talented enough, some of them to do that.
That doesn't mean you necessarily need to be doing that. You might need a pennit pad. You might want a pennant pad and do some editing. Ernest Heminghuay editing roll like it's all.
Right, and you was on the shop and you talk about one hundred three thousand saying he didn't want to rap again because he said he didn't have anything to wrap about it. Yeah, And so Andre responded to that and said, if you can, you should rap till you die. Of course he has things to say, but if he can't say it in a fresh, innovative.
Way, then it's not enough. For him to do it, and I respect that. I respect that, I respect that, and you know, in that sense, I would agree. That's what I look to do on my new record right like on the Force, like say it in a fresh, innovative way. He's talking about not repeating flow. Look, he's one of the greats. He's unbelievable. Like I'm thoroughly impressed with Andre And the only reason I even said anything is because.
I like him so much as an artist. I love to hear him again. I just mishearing the guy.
You know what I'm saying, Like I want to hear Outcasts, Like personally, I would love to hear an Outcasts album. I don't know about the world, but I would want to hear that. But I do respect his feelings and I cannot speak to his artistry.
You know what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying. You know what I mean. And the album is out today. It's called Force. We appreciate you for joining us, Hell appreciate you. The Breakfast Club.
Morning Everybody, It's the j Envy, Jess, Hilarie Charlamage, the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren l Rosse is filling in for Jess and it's time for Past the Auks.
DJ.
Hello, I guy, he was just out the country get from.
Yes, how was that?
Loved it?
Yes?
Love love everything about it. Rhapsody is an amazing performer, by the way, so happy I got.
To tour her.
Had a really great experience watching her live. People definitely need to go and see that. Like, if you j that's right, yeah, if you really like rap music, that's the type of show you want to be at. I love the fact that I can get off a good hip hop set like it's hard to do sometimes, but that was the demo.
Other countries they love hip hop. I feel like and respect hip hop a lot more than we do here.
They do.
They were throwing up the wood, they was wash pitting during her set like it was phenomenal.
I had a great time.
Make sure you guys get tickets to go see Rhapsody please on cry tour. She's coming to America after Europe.
But you're saying that you can't get your fire bow while mixed off here only don't play.
By the way I have ever done to you.
That's what I'm saying. So they appreciate I'm not talking about battle.
I'm talking about real hip hop.
Wait wait, I met like nineties hip hop like.
Him when I was six.
He was my favorite.
But that's not what I was playing. That's like a millennial warm up set.
But this was like I played old boy.
Yeah I can't.
Yeah, today we're playing is Victoria money to drop the new record with Usher called s OS, And it's definitely a certified vibe fire that's dope.
That's fire the Victoria. But it's gonna be a lot of women sing that song that don't need to.
Okay, well, I mean that happens now already, but shout out to Victoria Monday. She's having an amazing Your Jaguar two is still in heavy rotation for me, so I'm a fan.
Next I'm gonna get into this.
I know Big Sean's project dropped last week, but I didn't get to mention anything, but my favorite record on there is.
Who You Are, one of my favorite records off that album.
Yo.
Right.
I just always felt like Big Sean's stuff just doesn't get the that it needs, like it just came and wins.
I just think it came at a lot of times. Came last week. Okay, so there wasn't I just see what you just came out last week.
It should be more conversation. The songs are great and it's not Happening's right, that.
Is the era that we live in. Don't blame that on just Big Sean. Everything comes in goals nowadays. Sadly why I do not know, just just the way this generation moves.
News comes in goals, Music comes in goals. Y'all don't stick to nothing.
But with Sean, sh come and go I don't think he did that well. I think yeah, but that's like, I mean, a lot of people don't different.
When it comes to the Big Sean thing. I just don't think he's a media darling.
Okay.
I think Rap's album was great that she wasn't talked about in the news. Still one of the best albums that dropped this year. Big Sean's album dropped all right. It got talked about for a day and then it moved on.
I think he's right with.
Everything unless you're a media dollar, unless you're just one of the things that the blogs likes to pick up and talk about.
Yo, Travis Scott sold three hundred and sixty one thousand records last week.
Y'all ain't talking about it.
Yeah, but Travis Scott is like, like, what.
One of the biggest stars in the world.
Yeah, but I'm just he sold three hundred and sixty one thousand copies.
It was number two by six hundred albums. I think it was right. You mentioned it all week, laur I did exactly problem problem, the problem.
How are you gonna say, you guys blame himself for our generation? You're so old and angry.
Now I'm just telling you the truth is.
You know you know why, because be the change you want to see in the world. If you want things to laugh, if you want things to have stay in power.
Well you.
Past the talking about Big Sean's album, because it's a great album. To make sure you gots happened. That's why we're here talking about raf right. Make sure you get tickets to the police is a change, very all right? And then of course the Victoria Monet. But I'm gonna get into this new a sab Rocky feature in Jake called that everybody keeps talking about Ruby Rosary.
I thought he was going to play the Drake this part but this dra Yeah, but that that wasn't the part that he did.
Are you making that was at drake your cold better not no, no, no.
Not that cold a Rocky Rocky's record, even though y'all saw that Champagne Poppy posted like a picture of cold was like, thank you for inspiring us for all these years. I don't know what the sublomeno is that was after this record dropped, but cut the cut the lies words to the wise.
Who's in top five?
Your top five? I don't get fresh step jamburied Alive. I heard dog talking funny like it's family guy Caren for is like I'm marry or Bob made a promise to God. Got to strive when you married the mob? Top five Buried Alive, You got a record called buried Alive.
Look you thought you was about to eat That sounds like he just in the whole top five, but your top five.
But we know who he's shooting at.
I mean, but is on the record too, so it's obviously not the whole we.
Look, I don't know, I don't know.
I think you have to be making up generation.
I'm not just talking about y'all. It's just the whole cycle of people. Like the way people's minds work is just weird. Well, you said f your top five. So your top five was be Drake, Drake, Drake, Drake and Drake.
That's most people.
Eli.
Oh god, we got him right here in the office.
Look his hands up right now, all right past the come on yeah.
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Laura Laols is filling in for Es now we got a salute to ll cool J for joining us this morning.
Man, Salute to the good brother ll cool J. Also salute to Kevin Hart and Will Packer. You know, we didn't do Donkey to day to day because I wanted to properly celebrate LL cool J man his fourteenth album drop today, The Force of He's celebrating forty years in hip hop, forty years of death jam and so you know you just got to You gotta celebrate people while they're still hit man. You know, so we wanted to pay how much to the icon living in a real way. So salute to the good brother llll cool JA.
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My fourth annual Mental Wealth Expo is happening October twelfth at the Marriott Marquee in Times Square. Okay, man, it's going to be a day of mental health education and healing. If you've ever been to one of my mental health expos you know it's a free event. We have some of your favorite psychiatrists and therapists and you know mental health experts will all be there.
We got breakout.
Rooms the way you can go learn about different things like Black maternal health crisis. We actually have a breakout room called me Turnal that's addressing the complexities of the Black maternal health crisis. Doctor Alfie Breeland Noble will be there. Doctor Rita Walker will be there. Doctor j Barnett will be there. My good sister Angela Rai will be there. My good brother Jason Wilson, who wrote the fantastic book A Cry Like a Man, you know, he will be there as well. In fact, he will be there in conversation with Tyrese. You know, Tyresee was up here on Breakfast Club a couple of weeks ago, had a real vulnerable moment and he expressed that black men cry. So I can't wait to see them together discussing just the power of releasing. Doctor Shyan Bryant, who you've been seeing go viral over the last couple of weeks with her interview with Cam Newton Nick Cannis, she's on Basketball Wives. She'll be there as well, along with a whole host of other people. So MENTALWEALTHEXPO dot com. The event is free in open, in all ages, discussing so many different topics. Anxiety depression PTSD, Women's Mental Wellness Men's Mental Wellness pull up Man free event open to all ages October twelve. Go to Mental wealthfexbot dot com for more details.
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Good morning morning everybody.
It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilai Rich Charlamage the guy. We are the Breakfast Club, Lauring Roaster, feeling in for just now. Salute to one of our producers up here, Big.
Mac, Big Matt here, what up?
Mac?
You already know for those that you don't know outside of Wildingout, Breakfast Club out there on Wilding Out and we got the tour right now. It's the last lap tour, so this might be the final Wilding Out Tour. So we are saying that every year.
And then every year y'all go back.
Now this is the real you know, Nick got a lot of kids that he got to be a father versus you know, being on the road with us, So this might be the final lab Okay what they're saying. So I just wanted to let everybody know. You get your tickets at wilding Out Live Tour dot com.
We are in Orlando tomorrow. Okay, it's a kid Center.
Okay, Nick, if you no no, I said this is gonna be the last tour because I think he might be done with having been wilding Out Tomorrow keyd Center, and then right after the tour is over, then I'm going to Disney and I'm getting on a Small World because I.
Feel like.
They don't have because I feel like it's super biased that they should be big and small world.
It should just be something like you're gonna hurt the everybody on that, you're not gonna let you.
We're gonna figure that out all my big bags. We're going to the Wilding Out Tour, and then we're going to It's a Small World, and I hope it gets at the small World just stops all on says hey, it's called it's a small world, emphasis on small.
Well, we're gonna change that.
It's new change Big Back Lives Forever, Jesus, Fat Lives Matter.
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Check out Big Mac and or Land at the Wilding Out to all right, Charla Man, you've got a positive note.
I do, and it comes from doctor Wayne W. Dying Man, doctor Wayne W.
Dyer.
I love him. I love his books. You should read the power and intention if you have it. But doctor Waynem W. Dyer once said, you may have convinced yourself that giving is impossible because you have too little for yourself. If you are not generous when it is difficult, you will not be generous when it is easy. Generosity is a function of the heart, not the wallet. Remember that have a great day.
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