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Speaker 1: to the listeners, all the listeners out there. Well, Thursday,
Speaker 1: Good morning to you. What's happenings? You guys had a
Speaker 1: great night and a good morning. If you woke up
Speaker 1: earlier this morning, you know. I'm on. My wife has
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Speaker 1: name it. I happened to I just happened to catch
Speaker 1: the president on yesterday. You heard the president bowing down. Now,
Speaker 1: I just happened to catch him. Yester, you saw, you
Speaker 1: saw how you know the voting rights legislation did not
Speaker 1: get passed through the Senate as expected? As expected? Why
Speaker 1: because Manasion in cinema said, hell no, I don't want
Speaker 1: to hear all of that conversation about I don't want
Speaker 1: to hear that conversation about Republicans no more. Because at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, when you have two people
Speaker 1: on your team who are supposed to be for the people, right,
Speaker 1: the Democrats, and they won't get in line, it's on them.
Speaker 1: Well we'll talk about that during Front Patients. It's been
Speaker 1: a year though since Biden's been in office, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: his first year, his first ship. Well, today will be
Speaker 1: grand open, their grand closing. They're gonna lose the midterms
Speaker 1: this year when they lose the midterms this year, He's
Speaker 1: definitely not gonna be able to get nothing done, grand opening,
Speaker 1: grand closing, one term president, So rap give it that people,
Speaker 1: So fu it's not getting no better. So I'm gonna say,
Speaker 1: I look at I'm a little I'm a little confused
Speaker 1: with it. Like you know, if we all let's just say,
Speaker 1: I just put it in simple terms, right, we all bloods, Right,
Speaker 1: we're all supposed to rock with each other. That's that's it, right,
Speaker 1: It's really that's it. But that's what they told us.
Speaker 1: We don't rock with the crips, right, so we all bloods,
Speaker 1: we ride with each other. And that's what they told
Speaker 1: us and said, hey, if we get to Senate and
Speaker 1: we got the White House, we'll get things done. That's
Speaker 1: why they went so hard to flip Georgia Philips is
Speaker 1: what happened. Joe Man and Joe Manson and Christen Cinema
Speaker 1: are dinos Democrats in name only. Remember when the Trump
Speaker 1: called the Arizona jail for legislators rhinos. Yes, a couple
Speaker 1: last week the Republican name only, That's what manoning in
Speaker 1: Cinema are democrats in name on. They ain't riding for
Speaker 1: the tay ride with the team at right, All right, well,
Speaker 1: not even a little bit, but I don't know. Well,
Speaker 1: we definitely wouldn't have voting rights to legislation if Republicans
Speaker 1: were if Donald Trump was the president now either right,
Speaker 1: we noticed though, right? No, no, no, they would have
Speaker 1: passed the voting rate legislation. It would just been some bs.
Speaker 1: They everybody passed vote suppression laws and what eighteen states?
Speaker 1: Thirty different voter suppression laws in eighteen state, so it
Speaker 1: would have been hard to vote regardless, it sounds like
Speaker 1: we need more Democrats in the Senate. Sure, that's what
Speaker 1: it is, so that it wouldn't rest on two people. Sure,
Speaker 1: All right, Well we'll talk about that more in Front
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Speaker 1: next hour, right, all right, so we got Front Page
Speaker 1: News next, don't move, it's to Breakfast Club, Go Morning Morning.
Speaker 1: Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy we
Speaker 1: are to breakfast clubliskin some front page news. All right,
Speaker 1: A lot to talk about. What we're starting easy, Well,
Speaker 1: let's start with the Senate last night. They did feel
Speaker 1: the chance to feel ab us the rule that would
Speaker 1: allow voting rights legislations to pass with a simple majority.
Speaker 1: It would have required fifty one votes to pass, but
Speaker 1: did not have the support of all Democrats as we know.
Speaker 1: And so here is what Kamala Harris has to say
Speaker 1: about voting legislation. I am here to make a very
Speaker 1: strong statement that this is whatever proference tonight comes the
Speaker 1: outcome of this vote, the President and I are not
Speaker 1: going to give up on this issue. This is fundamental
Speaker 1: charge democracy and it is non negotiable. Well, let's see
Speaker 1: if Democrats challenge the seats of Joe Mansion and Kristen Cinema.
Speaker 1: All right, if they're not on your team and they've
Speaker 1: showed you that, then I would expect you to run
Speaker 1: some other Democrats against them and challenge them. If not,
Speaker 1: y'all all in it together in Cinema and Mansion are
Speaker 1: just to fall gods and gal Well, here's what Joe
Speaker 1: Biden had to say on voting rights legislation. I've had
Speaker 1: their back. I've had their back my entire career. I've
Speaker 1: never not had their back. Life started on the voting
Speaker 1: righteous She's long, long and good. This would got be
Speaker 1: involved in politicstion in first place. Now the Senator and
Speaker 1: mansion has some criticism about people telling him what he
Speaker 1: needs to do. The rule book means that the rules
Speaker 1: changes are done on the basis of broad body partisan consensus,
Speaker 1: not imposed on the minority by raw majority power, no
Speaker 1: matter who's in power. Now, my colleagues propose a sidestep
Speaker 1: this process. They would use the nuclear option to override
Speaker 1: a rule that we have used ourselves but now seem
Speaker 1: to find unacceptable. We're going to break the rules to
Speaker 1: change the rules and make up new rules as we
Speaker 1: go along. Invite them ourselves to future majority to just
Speaker 1: regard the rule book of will No rule of the
Speaker 1: Senate can withstand the act of a willful majority. Let
Speaker 1: this change happen in this way in the Senate will
Speaker 1: be a body without rules. Now, that's in regards to
Speaker 1: getting rid of the filibuster, because Senate Majority leader Chuck
Speaker 1: Schumer said Democrats would carve out to the filibuster rules
Speaker 1: to pass voting rights legislation by replacing that sixty vote
Speaker 1: the threshold needed to break a filibuster with an old
Speaker 1: fashioned talking filibusters. They just don't care about black people
Speaker 1: voting people. That's all because if you can't get rid
Speaker 1: of the filibuster, philibuster, car about something in the philibuster
Speaker 1: to preserve the cornerstone of democracy, voting rights is because
Speaker 1: your voting rights aren't threatened, you don't care if black
Speaker 1: people can vote. No, he just said he with us.
Speaker 1: He said he just got to come out and see
Speaker 1: us more. That was Joe Biden. Yeah, well, here's what
Speaker 1: Joe Biden has to say about things that he has
Speaker 1: and he did a solo news conference ahead of his
Speaker 1: one year mark in office. Yet a whole bunch of nothing.
Speaker 1: Here's what he said. You're spending package voting rights legislation.
Speaker 1: They're not going anywhere. So that's true. Is there anything
Speaker 1: that you are confident you can get signed into law
Speaker 1: before the midterm elections. Yes, I'm confident we can get
Speaker 1: pieces big chunks of the bill back Better Law signed
Speaker 1: to the law. And I'm confident that we can take
Speaker 1: the case to the American people that the people they
Speaker 1: should be voting for her going to oversee whether your
Speaker 1: elections in fact are legit or not, should not be
Speaker 1: those who are being put up by the Republicans to
Speaker 1: determine that they're gonna be able to change the outcome
Speaker 1: the election. I think the best, the most important thing
Speaker 1: to do is try to inform, not educate, inform the
Speaker 1: public of what's at stake and start terms. Yesterday, he
Speaker 1: said the twenty twenty two midterm elections, if they don't
Speaker 1: get some voting rights passed, will probably be illegitimate, that's
Speaker 1: what he said, right, or they'll probably be you know, interference, duh.
Speaker 1: So that would be all the more reason to try
Speaker 1: to get some voting right legislation pass all right. Well,
Speaker 1: we have more of that in the next hour on
Speaker 1: front page new And I also want to say man
Speaker 1: salute to Joe Madison and all the pastors who are
Speaker 1: on a hunger strike until voter rights for pass Please
Speaker 1: go eat all right, Please, voting rights legislation died on
Speaker 1: the Senate floor last night. But you don't have to
Speaker 1: please go eat all right. I'm begging y'all to God,
Speaker 1: didn't have a meal this morning. I'll send y'all cash,
Speaker 1: have money if you need it. Man, please don't starve yourself.
Speaker 1: No more waiting on these politicians to do the right
Speaker 1: thing because they not. Please all right, Joe Madison, please
Speaker 1: go have a meal, please, sir? All right, get it
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Speaker 1: What's up? Brother? Get it off your chest? Yeah? A
Speaker 1: couple about to vote it right. The best thing we
Speaker 1: can do is get our ducks in the road and
Speaker 1: just go ahead and just start voting. However it is
Speaker 1: they need us to vote for that way, we want
Speaker 1: to hold up stuff back. What do you mean so
Speaker 1: they're trying to stop us from voting? Right, So the
Speaker 1: best thing we can do is whatever it is they
Speaker 1: want us to comply to comply to it, and that's
Speaker 1: why we can win the election. And what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: What's gonna happen? Then, did you tell that's what I'm
Speaker 1: trying as what I'm trying to tell y'all. This is
Speaker 1: the same listen. Democrats were in the same play, same
Speaker 1: play every single time during the presidential election. It was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we get the White House, we get to send it.
Speaker 1: Change your happen. They got the White House, they got
Speaker 1: to send it. Nothing's happening. Hello, who's this? Oh? Good morning? Um?
Speaker 1: This is evlent Um speaking. Good morning to you, Um,
Speaker 1: dj Envy Solomon God and miss Eve good morning, Um,
Speaker 1: good morning. Well, I just wanted to get this off
Speaker 1: my chest concerning the voting Right bill that just um
Speaker 1: died under Senate floor. Yes, ma'am, n um. This politicians
Speaker 1: they are just playing games. And we citizens, we need
Speaker 1: to get educated. We need to know what we need
Speaker 1: to do. We need to vote the people out. That's
Speaker 1: our job, right. We need to do our research and
Speaker 1: we need to vote them out. And democrats all this
Speaker 1: political politicians say, so called democrats, they need to have
Speaker 1: a clear understanding that they need to do what they
Speaker 1: need to do. Republicans they do whenever, whenever it's their turn,
Speaker 1: they make things happen. That's rights in fall in line.
Speaker 1: So Democrats they need to get their house in order.
Speaker 1: I don't understand why they keep playing games and having
Speaker 1: this argument back and forth. Get your out in order. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's the problem. Did you see yesterday when they asked
Speaker 1: Joe Biden did he even reach out to any Republicans
Speaker 1: about voting rights? And he was like no, I didn't
Speaker 1: get a chance too because I was too busy trying
Speaker 1: to get people on my own team to get a board.
Speaker 1: And see, that's the problem right there. This is a
Speaker 1: guy that has been in the Senate for over thirty
Speaker 1: something years. It knows how to talk to Republicans. But
Speaker 1: if it's houses not in order, how can he reach
Speaker 1: out to the other guy in the Republicans they say, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: come along. He can't do that. It doesn't even make
Speaker 1: any sense because the first thing that we're telling me, oh, botowing,
Speaker 1: miss submissive president, we still have two nitors that is
Speaker 1: olding out, why are you talking? Why are you talking
Speaker 1: to us? So that's number one and number two, I'll
Speaker 1: understand why Democrats can't just get in line. Just get
Speaker 1: in line, do what you need to do. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: make things dropping. Yeah, and imagine the cinema don't want
Speaker 1: to get in line? How come democrats don't challenge for
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Speaker 1: heart in any way, shape or form. And I love
Speaker 1: to see people do things that somebody can't hate on.
Speaker 1: And if they do, if they do say something negative
Speaker 1: about it, then yeah, just know you a hate if
Speaker 1: you say something negative about that. All right now, trade
Speaker 1: the truth prayers to him. He was involved in a
Speaker 1: car accident and hospitalized as a result of the incident.
Speaker 1: He shared all of this on Instagram. Yes a couple
Speaker 1: of days ago. He said, one thing after another. Devil
Speaker 1: couldn't stop me if he wanted to. And the evil
Speaker 1: certain people who try to pray evil on me, tell him,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna look at that ish and walk it down
Speaker 1: on the hospital back to it out of the hospital,
Speaker 1: back to it, God sent it, slew to my God.
Speaker 1: Trade true. I hit him my body and know that.
Speaker 1: You know, Trade one of those people you always wonder
Speaker 1: who does the go to guy go to? Like he's
Speaker 1: always providing relief for so many people along, you know,
Speaker 1: with mister Rogers and the whole relief gang. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, who's who's there for Trade when he when
Speaker 1: he needs to shout the trade, shout to mister Rogers
Speaker 1: and Trade man. All right. And then there's a rumored
Speaker 1: new Celebrity Big Brother cast, so a lot of people
Speaker 1: talking about this. Shout out to Baller and Learn. I
Speaker 1: saw them post this all. So some of the people
Speaker 1: that could be on Celebrity Big Brother. What they're saying
Speaker 1: lamar odom Nini, Neo, Tiffany Pollard, Shicari Richardson. I mean,
Speaker 1: this sounds like a nice house, a cety. It was
Speaker 1: a spinoff of the regular show Big Brother where they're
Speaker 1: constantly under surveillance in the house, and then they did
Speaker 1: a Celebrity Big Brother. So it's yeah, and there's always
Speaker 1: cameras everywhere. Okay, so there's always kind all kinds of
Speaker 1: drama on there, but it's a social experiment. They take
Speaker 1: you out of normal society, put you in the house,
Speaker 1: and it's all different people with different backgrounds, different beliefs,
Speaker 1: and you have to avoid being eliminated. So you're all
Speaker 1: fighting to win a grand prize. That grand prize is
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. All right, Well that
Speaker 1: is your room of reports. All right, we got Front
Speaker 1: page news next. What we're talking about, Yes, and let's
Speaker 1: get more into Joe Biden and the press conference he
Speaker 1: had today is one year since he's been president. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning,
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Speaker 1: is DJ be Angela Ye, Charlomagne the guy we ought
Speaker 1: to Breakfast Club. Let's get into front page news. When
Speaker 1: we started, well, yesterday Joe Biden had a solo news conference.
Speaker 1: We played some of it during the first front page
Speaker 1: news break. Now, let's talk more about what he had
Speaker 1: to say, and one thing he discussed was being realistic
Speaker 1: and about his planning needs to be out there. American
Speaker 1: people overwhelmingly agree with me on prescription drugs. They overwhelmingly
Speaker 1: agree with me on the cost of education, they overwhelmingly
Speaker 1: agree with me on early education. They're overwhelming go on
Speaker 1: the list on childcare. And so we just have to
Speaker 1: make the case what we're for and what the other
Speaker 1: team's not for. And one of the things that I
Speaker 1: think is we're going to have to do is just
Speaker 1: make the case. I don't think there's anything unrealistic about
Speaker 1: we're asking. I'm not trying to I'm not asking for
Speaker 1: castles in the sky. I'm asking for practical things the
Speaker 1: American people I'm asking for for a long time. What
Speaker 1: is he talking about? He also says he didn't over promise.
Speaker 1: He said I had probably outperformed what anybody happened. What
Speaker 1: I want to know, what is he talking about? Who
Speaker 1: is he talking to? He's the president. Why do you
Speaker 1: sound like he's on the campaign trail. You're the president,
Speaker 1: You're in charge now. He also went to Twitter and
Speaker 1: said in our first year in office, we created six
Speaker 1: point four million jobs. That's the biggest year of job
Speaker 1: creation in American history. In perspective, though a lot of
Speaker 1: people were out of work because of COVID and a
Speaker 1: lot of businesses we're not in so you should have
Speaker 1: the biggest job creation in American history because there were
Speaker 1: so many jobs lost. A lot of people were resigned
Speaker 1: too because of COVID. And then he also tweeted out,
Speaker 1: in our first year, we achieved a record number of
Speaker 1: jobs created, a record dropping the unemployment rate, a record
Speaker 1: dropping unemployment claims. We're getting America back to work, the
Speaker 1: record dropping unemployment claim because a lot of people resigned.
Speaker 1: A lot of people realize that they can make money
Speaker 1: doing a lot of other things, and so they decided
Speaker 1: to be entrepreneurs. Resignation absolutely right now. He decided to
Speaker 1: be entrepreneurs, and they quit their jobs. Another thing he
Speaker 1: talked about was his next term, stating, I'm going to
Speaker 1: do differently. Number One, I'm gonna go out and talk
Speaker 1: to the public. Number two, I'm also going to be
Speaker 1: out there seeking the more advice of experts outside from
Speaker 1: academia to editorial writers, to think tanks, and I'm bringing
Speaker 1: them in. And the third thing, I'm gonna be doing
Speaker 1: a lot more of. I'm going to be deeply involved
Speaker 1: in the offices off your elections to go out and
Speaker 1: make the case in plain, simple language as to what
Speaker 1: it is we've done, what we want to do, and
Speaker 1: why we think it's important. There is no next term,
Speaker 1: President Biden, You're gonna move the midtterms this year. When
Speaker 1: you lose the midterms and the Republics and Republicans get
Speaker 1: control of the Health and the Senate, you damn ain't
Speaker 1: gonna be able to get nothing done. You can't get
Speaker 1: nothing done now, So you damn shin't' getting that done.
Speaker 1: In one question on twenty twenty four ambitions, he did
Speaker 1: say that Vice President Kamala Harris would be his running mates.
Speaker 1: It was a two hour press conference that he had.
Speaker 1: And another thing he discussed was giving away four hundred
Speaker 1: million and ninety five mass that's all going to start
Speaker 1: next week two. So they did stockpile all of these masks,
Speaker 1: and they have more than seven hundred and fifty million
Speaker 1: of them on hand. You know, it's been hard for
Speaker 1: people to find those in ninety five masks, they said,
Speaker 1: those are the ones that offer the most protection. So
Speaker 1: they are going to make those available for free to
Speaker 1: US residents starting next week. What I don't understand is
Speaker 1: it vote and rights legislation hasn't passed, and they have
Speaker 1: made it hard for black people to vote all over
Speaker 1: the country, and Biden hasn't gotten any of his campaign
Speaker 1: promises done for black people. How and why is he
Speaker 1: expecting black people to vote for him in the next election.
Speaker 1: How is he already talking about another term? What he say?
Speaker 1: You don't think that's arrogant? Yeah, but what do he
Speaker 1: say to you if you don't vote for me, you
Speaker 1: ain't black? That's still his mindset. No, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 1: He's still he still think y'all nigga gonna go out there. Well,
Speaker 1: they asked him about his ambitions for twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: so that's why he addressed it. He was questioned about it. Listen,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna vote because you know that's just and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell everybody else to get out there and vote
Speaker 1: and don't let them suppress your vote. There I am.
Speaker 1: I'm telling everybody, y'all need to get out there and vote.
Speaker 1: I want everyone to exercise their right. I'm going to
Speaker 1: vote because I'm trying to take away from us because
Speaker 1: of the power that we have. Yeah, but even when
Speaker 1: we do vote, they get in and don't do anything.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna vote because I'm a taxpaying American citizen.
Speaker 1: But for anybody out there who feels like they don't
Speaker 1: want to, I understand why. But you, I mean, you
Speaker 1: still have to have top people feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't like you, don't you know what because a
Speaker 1: lot of people tell me you vote right, They don't
Speaker 1: want to vote for about it? They don't feel Biden
Speaker 1: represents them, but they don't want to vote Republicans. So
Speaker 1: what do they do? No, they feel like these people
Speaker 1: don't getting anything. Not voting for that people are feeling
Speaker 1: like they're not getting anything done. When you know what
Speaker 1: I hate is the fact that we're always putting pressure
Speaker 1: on the voters to get things done. When we're gonna
Speaker 1: put pressure on them to get things done. They running
Speaker 1: around here saying, oh, you got to vote like democracy
Speaker 1: depends on it. When y'all gonna govern like democracy depends
Speaker 1: on it. Why do we always got to have the
Speaker 1: sense of urgency? Why not them should be I think
Speaker 1: it should be both. I think that if you don't vote,
Speaker 1: then we got hard on people who who say things like, man,
Speaker 1: I don't want to vote because I don't feel like
Speaker 1: nothing's getting done. Then we do the people who are
Speaker 1: actually in positions of power right now, you know, not
Speaker 1: doing anything. Not Dowers. He's still on the campaign trailing.
Speaker 1: He's the president. You also have to look at your
Speaker 1: local elections though, I agree with that, so you have
Speaker 1: to get out vote. You're not just voting for the president.
Speaker 1: And it's mid terms. I agree with that. You have
Speaker 1: to get out there and vote. And I would never
Speaker 1: encourage people not to or tell them you feel discouraged.
Speaker 1: You have to do your part. You feel discouraged, because
Speaker 1: that's your part, and your part is awesome. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can feel discouraged, but don't not discouraged. That's what
Speaker 1: democracy is about. Democracy is about challenging these elected officials.
Speaker 1: The marcacy is telling them that we don't feel good
Speaker 1: about what's going on. What you mean and get out
Speaker 1: there and speak, and you have to make sure that
Speaker 1: your vote. You vote for people that you feel like
Speaker 1: represent you and then put the pressure on them. And
Speaker 1: it is important too for us to also strategize come
Speaker 1: together and make sure that we make demands and make
Speaker 1: sure our voices are heard. But if you're not voting,
Speaker 1: they don't care about you. If you're not voting, it's
Speaker 1: the same most on. They don't care about this. When
Speaker 1: we do vote, I have some local officials who I
Speaker 1: really local. Yes, I'm hyperlocal. I'm hyperlocal. I agree with that.
Speaker 1: So that's all about voting. So so you mean vote
Speaker 1: vote on a local talking about mid terms right now? Right?
Speaker 1: Midterms coming up? I thought we were talking about him
Speaker 1: saying setting up. I thought he's his next turn in
Speaker 1: between twenty four. That's what I thought we were talking about.
Speaker 1: We're talking about both though, I mean midterms. That what's
Speaker 1: coming up next? All right, and that is your front page.
Speaker 1: Like I said, you know, I don't see how he plans,
Speaker 1: you know, to winning the mid terms. I really don't
Speaker 1: when when when voter rights legislation hasn't been passed, they're
Speaker 1: making it hard for black people to vote, and he
Speaker 1: hasn't gotten any of his campaign promises done to black people.
Speaker 1: I don't know how they checks a high vote, the
Speaker 1: black turnout. They're making it high press to vote because
Speaker 1: of how important voting is. So don't be discouraged and
Speaker 1: not vote because that's what they want you to do.
Speaker 1: That as a form of voter suppression when they tell
Speaker 1: you know those is a form of vote depression. When
Speaker 1: you got people in power who promise things and they
Speaker 1: don't get those things done, that's a form of voter
Speaker 1: suppression too, because it discourages voters. Did not come out, Ladies, ladies, ladies,
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Later. The problem now when we
Speaker 1: come back, shock us and Goal will be joining us.
Speaker 1: So right, New York Times best selling. Of course, he's
Speaker 1: the author of writing My Wrongs, and he has a
Speaker 1: new book, let Us to the Sons of Society, a fall,
Speaker 1: this invitation to love, honesty and freedom. We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: to him next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club, a breakfast club. Your morning's will never be
Speaker 1: the same morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlemagne,
Speaker 1: the guy we are the Breakfast Club. We got a
Speaker 1: special guest in the building. Yes, indeed he's back, the
Speaker 1: brother Shaka and Man. Thank y'all so much for having me.
Speaker 1: I'm excited to be here. Welcome back. Brother. First of all,
Speaker 1: how were you doing with COVID and and everything that's
Speaker 1: been going on in this crazy world. I'm blessed just
Speaker 1: you know, taking it one day at a time. You know,
Speaker 1: I think I got a very unique experience that kind
Speaker 1: of prepared me for these isolated moments. So I've been
Speaker 1: good man, just really taking opportunity to be more creative,
Speaker 1: more thoughtful about life, more present with the people in
Speaker 1: my life, and taking it one step at the time.
Speaker 1: But I'm ready for it to be over, to get
Speaker 1: back to living freely. I don't think the world as
Speaker 1: we know it's never gonna be the same. Because Shaka
Speaker 1: was here before, he was talking about his book Any
Speaker 1: of My Wrongs, and now he has another, Yes, Letters
Speaker 1: to the Sense of Society. And when you reference COVID
Speaker 1: and isolation, I saw you were talking about how when
Speaker 1: you were locked up in seven years you spent in
Speaker 1: solitary confinement and the comparison to COVID. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I think it's very different. But I think
Speaker 1: one of the things, and I actually talk about it
Speaker 1: in the book, that similar is the kind of disoriented
Speaker 1: effect of not knowing when something is going to end
Speaker 1: or normalize. And people was like, well, how would you
Speaker 1: compare that those two things. But when I was in solitary,
Speaker 1: my senses was indeterminate, so they never told me when
Speaker 1: I was getting out. And I think the same thing
Speaker 1: as kind of happened early. Always was like, oh, we'll
Speaker 1: be done with this in a couple of months, we'll
Speaker 1: be done maybe six months, and you know, we're almost
Speaker 1: two years later and we still don't know. So it
Speaker 1: just kind of makes it hard for you to put
Speaker 1: your feet onside ground. And I wanted to be sensitive
Speaker 1: to the reality that people were facing with so that
Speaker 1: people can get themselves grace and understand that it's a
Speaker 1: real thing. It's not something then that they're matching and
Speaker 1: as difficult. It really is difficult. That makes perfect sense
Speaker 1: to me, Like it sounds like the perfect analogy. Yeah. Absolutely, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, but I guess if you've never been in
Speaker 1: solitary confinements, yeah, I mean, this is not quite solitary.
Speaker 1: You know, we still can get real food and all
Speaker 1: those things. But I think psychologically what happens, and I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, you talk a lot about mental health, which
Speaker 1: I really respect, but mentally what goes on is the
Speaker 1: most important. Pardon you know, I tell people all the time,
Speaker 1: like I got free from prison mentally before I ever
Speaker 1: walked out of prison, and it's one of the reasons
Speaker 1: I'm able to do some of the things that I
Speaker 1: do now because that recognition that the worst prison will
Speaker 1: ever be in as our mind was something I was
Speaker 1: able to acknowledge early on in my incarceration, and that
Speaker 1: helped me get through a book. Yeah, Letters to the
Speaker 1: Sons of Society, A father's invitation of love, honesty, and freedom.
Speaker 1: What does that mean? I mean, you know, as as
Speaker 1: a dad, I've had two very unique experience, which is
Speaker 1: crazy when you think about it. Yes, it's it's wild. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when I was arrested, my oldest son's mom was still
Speaker 1: pregnant with him, so he was born like six months
Speaker 1: after mind carceration, and so I only experienced fatherhood with
Speaker 1: him through my dad bringing my son to visit me,
Speaker 1: you know. And so basically I kind of made up
Speaker 1: this narrative about being a good dad and being a
Speaker 1: prison dad because I was able to write letters and
Speaker 1: get phone calls, but I wasn't able to really spend
Speaker 1: the time that's necessary to nurture a child through the world.
Speaker 1: And you know, now I had this wonderful experience of
Speaker 1: raising my now ten year old son, say cool, he's
Speaker 1: a young entrepreneur, he's creative, very intelligent, and it's dramatically different,
Speaker 1: you know, But I'm also different too as a man,
Speaker 1: Like I'm a grown man. When I went to prison,
Speaker 1: I was a nineteen year old kid, and so you know,
Speaker 1: this book really is a reflection of those experiences, but
Speaker 1: it's actually a little bit deeper. You know, I mentor
Speaker 1: young people all over the country. You know, you go
Speaker 1: through what I've been through with prison, where I spent
Speaker 1: nineteen years of my life, and most of the guys
Speaker 1: I spent time with were kids, and so for me,
Speaker 1: you know, working with young men across the country, I'm like,
Speaker 1: this is the book I want to write. So I
Speaker 1: start off like letters to my hip hop songs, letter
Speaker 1: to my young entrepreneurial sons. And then I realized between
Speaker 1: all the young men that I get a chance to
Speaker 1: mentor existed my two sons, and I felt that intimacy
Speaker 1: would come through more if I just wrote directly to
Speaker 1: them about life and what I've experienced, but also what
Speaker 1: I whispered them and dealt with some of the issues
Speaker 1: that were faced with What is your oldest son. How
Speaker 1: is your relationship with him? Because you know him being
Speaker 1: the older now he's looking at you and your younger
Speaker 1: son right now, and how the fact that you could
Speaker 1: be there and that you are at his games and
Speaker 1: you are helping him with his homework and all those things.
Speaker 1: But I mean, I'm sure he feels like, damn, I wasn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't have that part of my dad. So how
Speaker 1: is your relationship? I mean it's very complex. You know,
Speaker 1: my oldest son is now thirty years old. And when
Speaker 1: I came home and I talked about it, one of
Speaker 1: the one of the most impactful chapters I think that
Speaker 1: people really going to resonate is to first resonate with
Speaker 1: is the first chapter, because it really explains the complexity
Speaker 1: of coming home to a young man and trying to
Speaker 1: insert my life and myself into his life as his dad.
Speaker 1: And really I came home as a mentor, Yo, this
Speaker 1: is how we're gonna do it. We're gonna make these
Speaker 1: things happen. And yeah, and it wasn't fair to him,
Speaker 1: you know, it wasn't fair for me to come home
Speaker 1: because the story I had was contracted to the reality
Speaker 1: of being in prison. And so it's been it's been
Speaker 1: a very difficult. It's probably been the most complex part
Speaker 1: of my life and the hardest thing I've ever had
Speaker 1: to confront as a man. And that's where the honesty
Speaker 1: and then the title comes from, is as dads, oftentimes
Speaker 1: we're not honest, whether it's honest about the things that
Speaker 1: are positive or honest about our shortcomings. And I really
Speaker 1: wanted to create space for fathers to really have honest discussions,
Speaker 1: especially when we think about what's happening with black males
Speaker 1: in our communities. Well as you talk about what you
Speaker 1: did do when you came home, and your son obviously
Speaker 1: felt like, well, you can't just come and change my
Speaker 1: life and tell me what to do now because you
Speaker 1: haven't been present as a father. So a lot of
Speaker 1: people have had to deal with that when they get
Speaker 1: out of jail because we don't even think about that, right,
Speaker 1: what is that relationship? Like? Can I just step back
Speaker 1: in nineteen years later as a dad and tell you
Speaker 1: how to do things when you've been doing things your
Speaker 1: own way? So what advice do you have forefathers out
Speaker 1: there who are trying to get back into their children's life.
Speaker 1: My advice is always to take the you know, the
Speaker 1: guidance of a child, because you know, we owe them.
Speaker 1: They don't know us anything, and I think it's really
Speaker 1: important to be patient, to give yourself grace, but also
Speaker 1: to acknowledge that you know it was your decisions that
Speaker 1: took you out of their life and not their decision
Speaker 1: to not be present. And so what I've tried to
Speaker 1: do is just be patient and be you know, allow
Speaker 1: him to kind of set the tone for our engagement
Speaker 1: with no expected outcomes. And I've really detached my ego
Speaker 1: from parenting, not just with him, but also with my
Speaker 1: youngest son. And what about with the mom too, because
Speaker 1: that's also an issue because now you want to make
Speaker 1: sure that you have this time. And if you know
Speaker 1: at first your son isn't comfortable or certain things are
Speaker 1: going on, because we've had people call up here with
Speaker 1: issues like that, Well, you know, the mom is has
Speaker 1: a new boyfriend, she's moved on, she's done this, and
Speaker 1: I need this to happen for me with my son
Speaker 1: and she's not helping with the relationship. How did that
Speaker 1: dynamic work? I mean, I think that one was a
Speaker 1: little bit more complex because my dad really stepped in
Speaker 1: and kind of filled the gap. So to speak. So
Speaker 1: he and my oldest son's mom, they kind of had
Speaker 1: almost like a parent child relationship. You know. He stepped in,
Speaker 1: you know, as as my dad is just incredible. He's
Speaker 1: a really incredible human being, and so he kind of
Speaker 1: raised her. You know. So by the time I came home,
Speaker 1: my son was grown, so we didn't have to have
Speaker 1: as much engagement, but there were moments, you know, And
Speaker 1: again I talked about it in that first chapter where
Speaker 1: I had to reach out to her like, Hey, this
Speaker 1: is what's happening with me and him. And I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to go back to the old way that I
Speaker 1: was living, but I will if, you know, if I
Speaker 1: get pushed to that point. And so just being able
Speaker 1: to have that understanding what her was really important. Health. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was super triggered. We had a we had a
Speaker 1: very intense moment. Someone wasn't going down the right path
Speaker 1: and use it well. Now we got into like a
Speaker 1: real conflict, and it happens often, you know, especially with
Speaker 1: guys coming home from the joint, Like i'ven't been in
Speaker 1: the joint, on the yard, thugging it out, going through
Speaker 1: all the violent realities of that and that experience and
Speaker 1: what I didn't account for is I hadn't healed from
Speaker 1: that PTSD, And so there was a moment when me
Speaker 1: and my son got into a conflict and he physically
Speaker 1: threatened me, and I told his mom, like, you know,
Speaker 1: you need to holly him because otherwise I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: him over here and leave him in his field. And
Speaker 1: something actually happened where we thought. That's what went down
Speaker 1: with my son, And that's what I talked about in
Speaker 1: that first chapter. All right, we got more. We shot
Speaker 1: us and goal when we come back, don't move. It's
Speaker 1: to Breakfast Club. Good morning, every envy angela yee. Charlemagne,
Speaker 1: the guy we are the Breakfas Club was still kicking
Speaker 1: it with Shatkus and Gore. You know, he's a New
Speaker 1: York Times bestselling author for writing My Wrongs and has
Speaker 1: a new book called Letters to the Sons of Society,
Speaker 1: A Father's Invitation to love, honesty, and freedom. Charlemagne, how
Speaker 1: long did it take you to get out of that
Speaker 1: survival mode of fighting? Like I got to protect myself
Speaker 1: at all time. I wanted to take you to get
Speaker 1: out of it. Actually, that that experience with my son
Speaker 1: was the first time I had really really realized that
Speaker 1: I hadn't fully processed all that out of my system,
Speaker 1: you know, when I was when I did that last
Speaker 1: stretch in solitary, I just came out focused on life
Speaker 1: at the prison, and I didn't First of all, I
Speaker 1: didn't know if I was ever getting out, but I
Speaker 1: had wrote down all the things I wanted to manifest
Speaker 1: in my life, because I believe you attracted your life
Speaker 1: what you think about the most, and so I started
Speaker 1: living my life in that way. But it's still the
Speaker 1: big yard, and I still was who I am on
Speaker 1: the yard, so I had to navigate that first. And
Speaker 1: I was fortunately, you know, like I had reached that
Speaker 1: status or respect where I didn't have to deal with
Speaker 1: all the conflicts. But it also set me up for
Speaker 1: the reality of what happens when you get home and
Speaker 1: nobody cares about your transformation when you're in the hood.
Speaker 1: Nobody cares that you're thinking about peaceful resolution as opposed
Speaker 1: to taking it back to the block. And so after
Speaker 1: that experience with my son, I really was like, I
Speaker 1: actually need therapy to really process like what I've been
Speaker 1: through because a lot of it was being covered up
Speaker 1: with achievements. Right I got out I was successful relatively
Speaker 1: early on. You know, I've achieved, you know, probably an
Speaker 1: exceptional level of success in pretty much all the endeavors
Speaker 1: I set out to do, and that covered up what
Speaker 1: was actually the reality is that I was in prison
Speaker 1: for nineteen years. I was in solitary. Nobody leaves that
Speaker 1: place without scars. And it doesn't matter if you've been
Speaker 1: in there for one day or ten days or ten years.
Speaker 1: That place scars you in a way that shows up
Speaker 1: in different areas of your life later on, and you're
Speaker 1: retelling those stories over and over again, like you said
Speaker 1: in interviews, and talking about the book and reliving it
Speaker 1: all the time. Yeah. Absolutely. You know, when when writing
Speaker 1: My Wrongs came out, you know, I was on tour,
Speaker 1: I was doing all the things I had, you know,
Speaker 1: the conversation with Oprah and you know, all the things
Speaker 1: that come with promoting a product. But then I also
Speaker 1: was a sought after speaker. I had to did a
Speaker 1: ted talking like twenty fourteen and from their universities in schools,
Speaker 1: and so I'm just constantly talking about what I actually
Speaker 1: went to prison for, which was murdered, and I had
Speaker 1: never reconciled that, you know, And so I found myself
Speaker 1: in this in this real dark space, and it kind
Speaker 1: of culminated with me driving down the wrong side of
Speaker 1: expressway drunk one night and I was like, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: about to throw it all away, and that's when all
Speaker 1: the things that started coming back, like, yo, you you've
Speaker 1: been traumatizing a way that you haven't been honest about
Speaker 1: because who the hell talks about PTSD, posting cars, rady.
Speaker 1: We're just happy to get out, celebrate, had the parties,
Speaker 1: get back to living, or you know, this dream be concocted,
Speaker 1: But the reality is a lot of us come home
Speaker 1: deeply scarred. And it's really you know, you think about
Speaker 1: those stories of somebody coming out and then they can
Speaker 1: create or commit a heinous act of violence. We're like, see,
Speaker 1: we should have left for men. But the reality is
Speaker 1: we have to ensure that people are getting the therapeutic
Speaker 1: treatment so that they can't come home healthy and hole.
Speaker 1: Because you could you tell people how important it is
Speaker 1: for folks who have done you know, a lot of
Speaker 1: prison time to get mental health treatment. Cause always say
Speaker 1: they call these facilities correction facilities, but you're not correcting nothing.
Speaker 1: In order for a person to get out and not
Speaker 1: just operate out of that survival mentality. They need help,
Speaker 1: you know, And we have to destigmatize what mental health
Speaker 1: treatment looks like, especially for black males. It's not a
Speaker 1: weak thing. It's not something that makes you a suck
Speaker 1: or you solve. It's really healthy to be able to
Speaker 1: process the things that you're thinking about in a way
Speaker 1: that isn't harmful to your community, is harmless to your family.
Speaker 1: And you know, when you come out of a environment
Speaker 1: that violent, you've been infected by that, you know your
Speaker 1: own edge. Like I mean, my first part of my incarceration,
Speaker 1: I was at the Myxican informatory is called the Gladiator
Speaker 1: of the school. You know, my first week, my first
Speaker 1: actual day in prison, a guy gets stabbed in the
Speaker 1: neck and he keep it moving. I'm like, okay, well,
Speaker 1: this is what it is. This is where we're at.
Speaker 1: This is the land of the lions and the lambs.
Speaker 1: And you make a choice early on, and like that
Speaker 1: doesn't leave just because you walk out of prison, Like
Speaker 1: it doesn't leave just because you get parole. Those realities
Speaker 1: are still there, and so you know, I think it's
Speaker 1: it's exceptionally important for anybody who's been through that to get,
Speaker 1: you know, psychological evaluation first of all of their mental
Speaker 1: health treatment. You know you said something earlier that you know,
Speaker 1: when your son was older, you figured that you would
Speaker 1: have to fall back for a little bit, right. I
Speaker 1: have two sons, and what made me really think about
Speaker 1: that is, you know, as a kid, when your dad
Speaker 1: tells you to do something like, you're mad, like why
Speaker 1: is he making me do this? Right? Then when you
Speaker 1: get older, you understand why, you know. But you know
Speaker 1: what scares me sometimes is, you know, thank god I
Speaker 1: went the right way where I didn't have to I
Speaker 1: didn't have to learn. He was telling me no. So
Speaker 1: hard does that ever scare you with your kids? You know?
Speaker 1: I mean, because, yeah, you have to fall back. You
Speaker 1: gotta let your son learn on his own, and one
Speaker 1: day he'll get to the age of black. I understand
Speaker 1: what my dad was doing, but it's always that fear
Speaker 1: of what if he goes the wrong way? You know,
Speaker 1: what if he goes that takes that wrong turn, or
Speaker 1: does that stupid thing. You know, he might not get
Speaker 1: that grace, that empathy. Yeah, I think you know. The
Speaker 1: way that I've approached parenting is I honestly have egoist
Speaker 1: parenting because I realized that whatever outcomes my son you know,
Speaker 1: has in life, those will be based on choices that
Speaker 1: he made. So my response will be, as his dad
Speaker 1: is to set up all the resources necessary, the guiding principles,
Speaker 1: but ultimately he's gonna have to choose. And I based
Speaker 1: that on you know, my experience with my dad and
Speaker 1: knowing that my dad, you know, wanted the best for me,
Speaker 1: and he wanted the best for all of his kids.
Speaker 1: But there are things that I transpired in my live
Speaker 1: life that my dad didn't even understand how to help
Speaker 1: me process, which led to me running away, led to
Speaker 1: me getting caught up in the streets. And you know,
Speaker 1: one of the one of the things that was really
Speaker 1: important with me and my dad was for me letting
Speaker 1: him know that he wasn't responsible for the decisions I
Speaker 1: made that led to me being in prison, and that
Speaker 1: was a liberating moment for both of us. And so
Speaker 1: with my son, I just do egoists parenting, Like, you know,
Speaker 1: I provide the resource of the opportunities, and ultimately he's
Speaker 1: going to have to make the decisions. And like I
Speaker 1: don't have any ego attest as outcomes. Why why is
Speaker 1: the relationship with our fathers so complicated, because that's that's
Speaker 1: the one thing, you know, for me, even when I
Speaker 1: started going to therapy for anxiety and depression realizing all
Speaker 1: these father issues I had. Why Why is that so
Speaker 1: complicated that relationship? You know, I think there's a few
Speaker 1: things that has happened, specifically with black Man. For one,
Speaker 1: our narrative has been shrunken to us only being capable
Speaker 1: of providers, and if there was any struggle with provision,
Speaker 1: then that's a direct attack on manhood, and any other
Speaker 1: male figure is a threat to that, you know. With
Speaker 1: my dad, my dad, when he met my mom, she
Speaker 1: had three children. He is just out of the Air
Speaker 1: Force twenty one years old, so he went straight into
Speaker 1: provision mode. And then they had three more children. And
Speaker 1: I have a deeper appreciation now as I have one son,
Speaker 1: to just realize how hard it is to be a provider.
Speaker 1: But I think because that narrative has been so limiting,
Speaker 1: it hasn't allowed us the opportunities to have real meaningful conversations.
Speaker 1: And what happened with me and my dad is probably
Speaker 1: about you know, four or five years into my car's ration,
Speaker 1: I started really maturing and we were able to just
Speaker 1: have deep, meaningful conversation. It was all through letters, which
Speaker 1: is the inspiration of the book. And these are actually
Speaker 1: my daddy, my dad. I'm like my daddy, my daddy's letters.
Speaker 1: These are actually his letters on the book because I
Speaker 1: really wanted to honor how he showed up in that
Speaker 1: meaningful way. But you know, I think that the more
Speaker 1: honest we are with what our emotional needs are, but
Speaker 1: also with our ability a teacher to provide beyond, you know,
Speaker 1: finances and discipline. I think the more we open up
Speaker 1: those conversations, the better relationships become between our fathers and son.
Speaker 1: All right, well the movie got more with Shaka to goal.
Speaker 1: When we come back as the Breakfast Club, God Morning
Speaker 1: and I don't want to morning. Everybody is DJ Envy
Speaker 1: and Ngul Yee Charlemagne the guy we are the Breakfast
Speaker 1: Club were still kicking it with Shakas and Gore. You know,
Speaker 1: he's a New York Times bestselling author for writing My
Speaker 1: Wrongs and has a new book called Let Us to
Speaker 1: the Sons of Society, A Father's Invitation to love, honesty
Speaker 1: and freedom. Yee Chaka, can you talk about how instrumental
Speaker 1: your father's support was for you while you were in prison,
Speaker 1: because imagine not even having that, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: my dad was my primary supporter. We don't we don't
Speaker 1: hear that story. You know. For nineteen years, my dad
Speaker 1: came to see me at prisons all over Michigan. I
Speaker 1: think the farthest I've ever been away was about twelve hours,
Speaker 1: and he and my stepmom and they would travel up
Speaker 1: to see me. You know, he wrote me consistently. I
Speaker 1: still have all this letters. Um. You know, he took
Speaker 1: those phone calls. You know, he you know, was present
Speaker 1: with the real conversations. You know, there was a lot
Speaker 1: of hurt that we both shared. You know, there was
Speaker 1: a lot of areas of life where I felt, you know,
Speaker 1: he hadn't stood up, you know, the way that I
Speaker 1: thought he could have to protect us and make sure
Speaker 1: we were good when it came to things that was
Speaker 1: difficult in the household. And he was just man enough
Speaker 1: to listen and to give us a perspective and to
Speaker 1: give me a perspective, and we were able to talk.
Speaker 1: And so, you know, I celebrate him and everything that
Speaker 1: I do. You know, that's my guy. The proudest part
Speaker 1: of this book is just having his words like to
Speaker 1: my son on there, you know, um, And because I
Speaker 1: think dads deserved their flowers, you know, and they deserve
Speaker 1: more than the big piece of chicken. What did you
Speaker 1: learn about your relationship with your father? You know from
Speaker 1: from the letters he sent you while you in prison? Man,
Speaker 1: you know, I learned that I had broke his heart,
Speaker 1: you know, and that was that was crushing to me.
Speaker 1: Like I was an honor rolled scholarship student, I was smart,
Speaker 1: very charismatic, like all the things you know, you were
Speaker 1: wanted a child, and I really learned that I broke
Speaker 1: his heart, and that was the hardest thing for me
Speaker 1: to navigate, you know. As I've matured into a man,
Speaker 1: and especially as I've grown into a dad, and you know,
Speaker 1: I think about moments with my son where I'm watching him,
Speaker 1: you know, navigate life, and you know, I'm thinking of
Speaker 1: all the promise that he has, you know, and I
Speaker 1: think about my dad and what that experience was like
Speaker 1: for him to watch his first biological son in an
Speaker 1: environment where he couldn't protect, he couldn't help, he couldn't
Speaker 1: do anything other than listen. And I remember this one
Speaker 1: moment when when I was in solitary, I wrote this
Speaker 1: letter home, and I told my dad. You know, I
Speaker 1: was in solitary for a SOLAN officer, and you know,
Speaker 1: I told my dad, I said, you know, these people
Speaker 1: said I'm never getting out of prison. And they said
Speaker 1: I'm never getting out of solitary. And I believed it
Speaker 1: because my neighbor across me had been a solitary for
Speaker 1: twenty years. My neighbor next door had been a solitary
Speaker 1: for ten years. And I told my dad, I was like, man,
Speaker 1: you know, I really just want you to go on
Speaker 1: with your life and take care of Jay and you know,
Speaker 1: take care of family, and I'll figure this out in here,
Speaker 1: you know. And my dad wrote me back, he was like,
Speaker 1: I'd never leave your side, you know. And so I,
Speaker 1: you know, as as a man, as a dad, now
Speaker 1: I understand exactly what that meant, you know, And I
Speaker 1: understand how heartbreaking it was for him to have to
Speaker 1: be in a situation where the only thing he had
Speaker 1: was the letters that he could send me to nurture
Speaker 1: me and support me. And I read those letters over
Speaker 1: and over. Man, doing my toughest moments, I would just
Speaker 1: go back to those letters and read him. So when
Speaker 1: when you when you went to prison. Did he feel
Speaker 1: like he failed? Oh? Absolutely, it was. It was heart broke.
Speaker 1: He felt like it was his his faut. He felt
Speaker 1: like there was something that he didn't do or something
Speaker 1: that he missed. And I think, you know, all of
Speaker 1: us as parents played Monday Monday Monday Morning quarterback where
Speaker 1: we kind of go back like, you know, oh, if
Speaker 1: I would have did this, the outcome would have been
Speaker 1: doing um. But you know, we had a moment and
Speaker 1: I think it was nineteen ninety five, and this probably
Speaker 1: was the hardest visit I've ever been on with my dad.
Speaker 1: I was in solitary for something different at that time,
Speaker 1: and they had me shackled up, like the handcuffs on
Speaker 1: but also the shackles on my feet, and I'm literally
Speaker 1: walking up to the windom. I see my dad looking
Speaker 1: at me, and I see him trying to hold it together,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But it's hardest breaking. Like
Speaker 1: I'm literally like shackled up, like I just got off
Speaker 1: you know, a ship, you know what I'm saying, that
Speaker 1: that held our ancestors in slavery, you know, and you know,
Speaker 1: just watching him process that and try to figure out
Speaker 1: how to bring me a sense of piece, you know,
Speaker 1: the little jokes, the little conversation, you know, so that
Speaker 1: doing it was doing that visit that we had the
Speaker 1: conversation where he thought he was responsible and I was like,
Speaker 1: I was like, nah, Like you know, there was a
Speaker 1: series of things that happened, like I was dealing with PTSD,
Speaker 1: I got shot seventeen months before I ended up shooting
Speaker 1: and taking somebody's life. What about the art of writing,
Speaker 1: because you said your dad still writes letters to this day.
Speaker 1: What would you say to people, because it's not something
Speaker 1: that people do too often, but it means so much.
Speaker 1: I think it's one of the greatest forms of communication,
Speaker 1: you know. I think the intimacy that's required for you
Speaker 1: to really sit and be present and think about what
Speaker 1: you want to share with another human being, it's just
Speaker 1: so powerful, you know, because it allows you to reflect deeply.
Speaker 1: And you know when I when I first came up
Speaker 1: with ideas I mentioned, I was thinking about writing like
Speaker 1: all the sons I've encountered. But when I sat down
Speaker 1: and I started writing, you know, I saw the faces
Speaker 1: of my boys, you know, I heard their voices, and
Speaker 1: I thought about little mannerisms and you know, the beauty
Speaker 1: of who they are, you know, I closed the end
Speaker 1: of it, you know, the book out with one of
Speaker 1: the passage I think is one of the most beautiful,
Speaker 1: and it just talks about how the swagger of their
Speaker 1: you know, their nature and how they walk to earth,
Speaker 1: you know. And I think it's so important for black boys,
Speaker 1: especially in these times, to really hear that from their dads,
Speaker 1: you know, and from other men, and that we have
Speaker 1: to firmed them and lift them up. And so that
Speaker 1: that intimacy of writing um, you know, it was really refreshing,
Speaker 1: you know, and it was actually healing for me as well,
Speaker 1: because what I realized is that we always here we
Speaker 1: have to change the narrative around black men, and I
Speaker 1: don't believe that to be true. I think we just
Speaker 1: have to expand the narrative to include all of who
Speaker 1: we are, like not just not just our negative moments.
Speaker 1: You know. One of my mentors, Trabian Shorters, he always
Speaker 1: talks about how we have to start asset framing each
Speaker 1: other and thinking about what is the most positive aspects
Speaker 1: of us. And in my experience, like all my friends
Speaker 1: are dope dads, you know, the friends I talked about
Speaker 1: in the book, my guy Fame, I think i'd tell
Speaker 1: y'all he came to your car. So he brought that
Speaker 1: big red caprice. Uh. My guy Calvin, who I met,
Speaker 1: my best friend I met in prison. He was yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: My guy Calvin, who did twenty four years for crime
Speaker 1: he didn't commit. Uh, you know, he's been out now.
Speaker 1: So these are these are my guys. They're like dope
Speaker 1: as you know, my brothers, my cousins. So I'm used
Speaker 1: to seeing men who show up, and so I just
Speaker 1: think we had to expand a narrative and clue all
Speaker 1: of us because if you think about this, right, what
Speaker 1: if my story would have stopped at nineteen ninety one,
Speaker 1: You know, I wouldn't be one of the only C
Speaker 1: suite tech execs in Silicone Valley. I wouldn't be one
Speaker 1: of the only formally incarcerating investors, a best selling author,
Speaker 1: you know, a dad community builder like I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: been none of these things of my narrative would have
Speaker 1: stopped back when people was okay with defining me from
Speaker 1: that moment. You know, I've lived tons of life in
Speaker 1: the eleven years i've been out, you know, and so
Speaker 1: my narrative has expanded and I've been able to contribute
Speaker 1: in a real way. And so I think we have
Speaker 1: to just expand a narrative for black men and especially
Speaker 1: amongst each other, like seeing each other as more than
Speaker 1: what we've accomplished, you know, seeing a humanity of who
Speaker 1: we are and all we're capable of. And so that's
Speaker 1: what you know, I really wanted to present in the book.
Speaker 1: Shocker led us to the son of society, invitation to love, honesty,
Speaker 1: and freedom. We appreciate you for man, appreciate you all. Man,
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Speaker 1: it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, all right, morning, everybody
Speaker 1: is DJ R Angela, Ye, Charlomagne the guy. We are
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Speaker 1: you know what you shoot like the album got slept
Speaker 1: on because it was an incredible album. I did. I
Speaker 1: really like it. I was definitely vibing to it in
Speaker 1: the car, like it just came and went. Like people
Speaker 1: didn't really gravitate towards that project the way they should
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Speaker 1: He's been doing a lot with David Gretman. I know
Speaker 1: they get that hotel in Miami, so he's he's doing
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Speaker 1: been anywhere in a minute, all right now. Antonio Brown
Speaker 1: was on the I Am Athlete Show with x NBA
Speaker 1: starting Nick Young and former first round NFL draft pick
Speaker 1: Jared Odrick, and they talked about his future in the
Speaker 1: league and whether or not he has any regrets about
Speaker 1: how he ended things with the Buccaneers. Here's what he
Speaker 1: had to say about his mental health, because he said
Speaker 1: a lot of fans and experts have been referring to
Speaker 1: him as quote crazy. Everyone in the world got different
Speaker 1: former reactions or what happened to him, and it's all
Speaker 1: based upon where are you from, how you feel, and
Speaker 1: no one only gonna know that regards of who you is.
Speaker 1: The thing with football players, mental health and CT is
Speaker 1: this these guys are willing to do whatever it takes
Speaker 1: to make some obligator game. But they're in the midst
Speaker 1: of those games, they're being mistreated. It's a lot of facts,
Speaker 1: stuff that went on that may not been handled right.
Speaker 1: And then you and then you started your career on
Speaker 1: a high. If we all players and we all saying
Speaker 1: we care about mental health, why every time something happened
Speaker 1: bad or how song react, Oh he's craziest song. Wrong
Speaker 1: with his mental health. It's not wrong my mental health. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think it's because a lot of folks are still
Speaker 1: just learning about CT. So whenever they see, you know,
Speaker 1: any actions that they made, Deem is crazy, they already
Speaker 1: automatically assuming just because he's a football player, you know,
Speaker 1: something's wrong with him and in that regard. And people
Speaker 1: also don't know what goes on behind the scenes, so
Speaker 1: all they see is what happened. They don't know what
Speaker 1: led up to it. Like he said, yeah, and that's
Speaker 1: how I feel through When I saw him on the sidelines,
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, he looked like he just made a choice.
Speaker 1: To me, he didn't like he was having no mental breakdown.
Speaker 1: He just made a choice. I was just waiting to
Speaker 1: see what he had to say about it later before
Speaker 1: you pass judgment. He was out all right now. Fat
Speaker 1: Joe was also on the Iromathlete podcast and he was
Speaker 1: talking about basically fake friends and getting rid of them
Speaker 1: and what his plan was. So we had fifty guys
Speaker 1: with me, We all had the same Cabillac truck, we
Speaker 1: all had changed. Everybody go to jail a bellam, I
Speaker 1: pay for the lawyer. This, this, this, that one time
Speaker 1: I said, all fifty of them together. We was at
Speaker 1: the Rich Carlton in Puerto Rico, and I say, you listen, man,
Speaker 1: she ain't the same. I ain't got it. And I
Speaker 1: had it when I was checking out. Of the fifty
Speaker 1: guys that was dead, only six of them saying, Yo,
Speaker 1: if your dad broke, I'll be with you man, no
Speaker 1: matter why. Every day those are six guys that's still
Speaker 1: with me. Now. So God put that in my head
Speaker 1: and say, yo, try these dudes, man, See they really
Speaker 1: with you. They wasn't really with me all right. In
Speaker 1: addition to that, he was talking about jay Z and
Speaker 1: the lyrics from Feeling It, the hardest lyric in hip
Speaker 1: hop jay Z's first album, when he said something something
Speaker 1: and we will be each other's crutches. So the point
Speaker 1: is this, everybody want to be the guy everybody look
Speaker 1: up to. There's no real strength in that. The strength
Speaker 1: is everybody eating. So if one of us falls, we
Speaker 1: can left him up. Whether your friend is a barber,
Speaker 1: we want them to be the best barber in the world.
Speaker 1: We need to be the best so that when we
Speaker 1: need each other, somebody's dead for right all then, And
Speaker 1: that's the true power, the people power. Joe is absolutely right.
Speaker 1: But Joe, you can't something something that scripture. Well here's
Speaker 1: you can't do that. If everybody in your click is rich,
Speaker 1: your click is rugged, we have it for you. Ring
Speaker 1: your click is rug nobody because everyone will be scrut
Speaker 1: I hope you boost choose to listen. Bus these are
Speaker 1: the rules I follow with my life. You gotta love it.
Speaker 1: Come on, Joe, you can't Joe ain't talking about large money. Joe,
Speaker 1: you can't something something scripture? What's the point that's scripture? Joe?
Speaker 1: All right, Well, in the next hour will tell you
Speaker 1: more about what fat Joe had to say. One of
Speaker 1: the things that he discussed is who, no matter what,
Speaker 1: is his favorite rapper? Can we play that jay Z song?
Speaker 1: Can we pull that out right fast? You do what
Speaker 1: you want to do? All right, let's do what what's
Speaker 1: your name? Give him? Come on? Can you find it?
Speaker 1: Kind of questions to play no music, So let's tease
Speaker 1: the donkey. Who you when you don't get to come on? Right?
Speaker 1: You got President Joe Biden, Joe Mansion, and Kristen Cinema,
Speaker 1: President Biden, President Mansion and vice President Cinema all getting
Speaker 1: dunkey to day this morning. There's no feeling it. We
Speaker 1: ain't got a damn well, come on, permission you look back.
Speaker 1: You better to ask for forgiving us informission. Yeah, come on,
Speaker 1: I guess we're not feeling it. No, I guess their
Speaker 1: crews not rugged nod well, we fell guys definitely felt
Speaker 1: this before. Damn it man. Now really I'm trying to know.
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Speaker 1: problems in this country between police and community. Yes, you
Speaker 1: are a donkey to the latest on that police killing
Speaker 1: of a black man. Not a new developments in the
Speaker 1: deathly spashooting rampage. Yes, it was a really bad day
Speaker 1: for him and this is what he did, and so
Speaker 1: we are in a state of emergency. Okay. White supremacist
Speaker 1: violence is always have been the number one threat to outside.
Speaker 1: But I'm also very proud that my wife was white
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Speaker 1: for Thursday, January twenty feth go to the forty sixth
Speaker 1: President of the United States of America, Joe Biden, as
Speaker 1: well as Arizona Senator Kursten Cinema and West Virginia Senator
Speaker 1: Joe Mansion. These three are collectively responsible for the deaf
Speaker 1: of the Democratic Party as we know it. Okay, Joe
Speaker 1: Biden and other Democrats love to run around and say
Speaker 1: we have to go out there and vote like democracy
Speaker 1: depends on it. People are asking if we are witnessing
Speaker 1: the death of democracy in America. Will guess what if
Speaker 1: it is, which I believe it is. For some of us.
Speaker 1: These three are to blame, simple as that. Okay, if
Speaker 1: you haven't heard, last night, Democrats came up short on
Speaker 1: a last ditch held Mary type of effort to advance
Speaker 1: the voting rights bill. Let me tell you something. You
Speaker 1: all know that your uncle Charlotte is a diehard Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboy fan. Okay, and I shut up. And I really
Speaker 1: thought that Sunday night, watching my Dallas Cowboys down twenty
Speaker 1: three seventeen with fourteen seconds left in the game and
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott running a draw play from the forty one
Speaker 1: yard line instead of maybe getting one of possibly two
Speaker 1: shots at the end zone off, I thought that was
Speaker 1: gonna be the dumbest finish I would see this week.
Speaker 1: But President Biden said, hold my prove juice. All right now,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep this as simple as possible. Since the
Speaker 1: last summer nineteen states have enacted thirty three laws that
Speaker 1: will make it hard for Americans to vote by Americans,
Speaker 1: I mean negas, all right, the Blacks, all right. All
Speaker 1: these geop sponted state laws will suppress turnout by minority voters.
Speaker 1: This is an old tune, ladies and gentlemen, I write
Speaker 1: voter suppression by the GOP against black people is the
Speaker 1: greatest hit, all right, a golden od kids, trust me,
Speaker 1: it would break off screaming records. It is the ed
Speaker 1: sharing shape of view of American politics. All Right. President
Speaker 1: Biden knew that going in and after the attempted coore
Speaker 1: of this country on January six, that should have been
Speaker 1: his first order of business, protecting voting rights. I've told
Speaker 1: y'all so many different times on this here, radio and
Speaker 1: on other platforms, on TV and everything else. There's three
Speaker 1: or four things Joe Biden had to do to protect democracy. Okay,
Speaker 1: this morning, I'll give you three. One. Prosecute everyone involved
Speaker 1: in the attempted cool of this country to the highest
Speaker 1: extent of the law, not just the members of Vanilla
Speaker 1: Isis who stormed the Capitol, but the members of Congress
Speaker 1: who helped him to get rid of the filibusters. So
Speaker 1: you can properly govern in three protect voting rights. Voting rights.
Speaker 1: But guess what, none of those things have happened. Okay.
Speaker 1: I never understood why anyone thought it would. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you have the GEOP passing, you know, the thirty
Speaker 1: three laws in nineteen states and support a voter suppression,
Speaker 1: why would anyone in their right mind think that you
Speaker 1: could work with any of those people to pass voter
Speaker 1: rights legislation. It makes no sense. Republican politicians are the
Speaker 1: epitome of unity and group operation. They fall in line
Speaker 1: with each other, and if one doesn't fall in line,
Speaker 1: they get the business okay. Last week on NPR, Donald
Speaker 1: Trump called Mitch McConnell a loser and blamed him for
Speaker 1: the GOP senators who won't go along with his claims
Speaker 1: that the election was stolen. Last week, he also caught
Speaker 1: out Arizona Republican officials for accepting the twenty twenty election
Speaker 1: results and called them rhinos Republicans in name only. Why
Speaker 1: did Trump do that because those individuals blocked his agenda
Speaker 1: kept him from getting done what he wanted to get done.
Speaker 1: That's what you should do when people in your own
Speaker 1: party are blocking your agenda. Now we all know Trump
Speaker 1: is doing that for self serving reasons. So if you
Speaker 1: can call out people in your party for self serving
Speaker 1: reasons and everyone is fine with it, then why can't
Speaker 1: President Biden call out Joe Mann and Kristen Cinema for
Speaker 1: blocking his agenda when them blocking his agenda is actually
Speaker 1: hurting the American people. Okay, if you ask me, it's
Speaker 1: because he don't care Black people. Voting is simply not
Speaker 1: a priority for Biden, matching our cinema, simple as that
Speaker 1: this should have been a priority. He had to notice
Speaker 1: day would come, but he didn't care. Why. My man
Speaker 1: Sean King said it best on Instagram last night, because
Speaker 1: Joe Biden has never known to day in his life
Speaker 1: what it means to have his voting rights threatened. All right,
Speaker 1: does a matter of white privilege for Biden. He failed
Speaker 1: to give this issue the true energy and priority that
Speaker 1: it deserved because he simply can't relate. Same with Cinema
Speaker 1: in Mansion, they have never experienced their voting rights threatened,
Speaker 1: and they don't need you negroes to win elections, so
Speaker 1: why should they care, well, Mansion in Cinema, why should
Speaker 1: they care? Biden needs to care. By the way, we
Speaker 1: knew that jig was in when last year GOP legislators
Speaker 1: praised Mansion and Cinema for not getting Ridy to fill
Speaker 1: abuster because without that they would be dead meat. Let
Speaker 1: me play this for you again. I played it for
Speaker 1: you a few times last year, but now that y'all
Speaker 1: might be paying a little bit more attention. This is
Speaker 1: GOP legislators praising Joe Mansion and Cinema but basically being
Speaker 1: on their side. This was last year. Listen. Fortunately for
Speaker 1: us to filibuster still in effect in the Senate. Without that,
Speaker 1: he would be dead me. But thank goodness for Cinema
Speaker 1: and Joe Mansion. Yeah, I just really thank you for
Speaker 1: saying for the country. You know, all of you in
Speaker 1: the shroom, people at home on zoom. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you right now, if you want to do one thing
Speaker 1: to keep the republic aflow. Called Joe Mansion's office, called
Speaker 1: Curson Cinemas on Cristin Cinema's office, be polite. He's like, Hi,
Speaker 1: I'm here to talk to us Senator Joe Mansin and
Speaker 1: thank him. We're keeping the filibuster attacked. Mmmm. Those are
Speaker 1: GOP legislators. Didn't even when they were being recorded, all right.
Speaker 1: Joe Biden gave a statement yesterday after the failed vote
Speaker 1: to change the filibuster. He said, let me reach some
Speaker 1: of it. He said, I am profoundly disappointed that the
Speaker 1: Senate has failed to stand up for our democracy. I
Speaker 1: am disappointed, but I am not deterred. We will continue
Speaker 1: to advance necessary legis slation and push for Senate procedural
Speaker 1: changes that will protect the fundamental right to vote. End quote.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's because he's old or maybe
Speaker 1: he really doesn't care, but I never hear the sense
Speaker 1: of urgency. It's literally always more urgency for us to
Speaker 1: go out there and vote than it is for elected
Speaker 1: officials to protect voting rights. All you're about to hear
Speaker 1: for the next however, many months before the midterms, is
Speaker 1: how we have to have the largest voter turnout in
Speaker 1: the history of the midterms in order to protect democracy.
Speaker 1: How we have to vote like democracy depends on it,
Speaker 1: but they never ever govern like democracy depends on it.
Speaker 1: You are gonna hear you have to go out there
Speaker 1: and vote, because if votes didn't matter, why are they
Speaker 1: fighting so hard to take them from you? Yes, that
Speaker 1: is true, but you know what else matters when you're
Speaker 1: an elected official getting things done. When you're an elected
Speaker 1: official who keeps campaign promises, you want me to get
Speaker 1: up and fight through all these various voter suppression efforts,
Speaker 1: in some cases literally fight to keep an administration in
Speaker 1: that had done what they said they were going to do,
Speaker 1: not keeping campaign promises as a form of voter suppression. Okay,
Speaker 1: now let me tell you something. I'm gonna vote in
Speaker 1: the midterms and the presidential election. I don't know who
Speaker 1: I'm voting for. I don't even know what I'm voting
Speaker 1: for yet, but I'm going to vote. Okay, But if
Speaker 1: you don't want to, I understand. And for all the
Speaker 1: folks out there who are going to push people to vote,
Speaker 1: like actively go out there and campaign for folks, what
Speaker 1: are you going to tell them? That's what I want
Speaker 1: to know. What are you gonna tell them? The Biden
Speaker 1: administration has armed you with nothing. Ten thousand for student
Speaker 1: loans that didn't happen. George Floyd Policing Act didn't happen,
Speaker 1: Bill Back Better didn't happen. Okay, voting rights didn't happen.
Speaker 1: All right, I know it's even a year, but none
Speaker 1: of those things have happened. But voting rights, the cornerstone
Speaker 1: of our democracy, didn't happen. And it's because the real
Speaker 1: leaders of this country, Joe Mansion and Christen Cinema Democrats, allegedly,
Speaker 1: it's because they are false flagging. And since they are
Speaker 1: false flagging, are the Democrats gonna attempt to run them
Speaker 1: off the set. Are they going to run someone to
Speaker 1: challenge Joe mansion seat? What about christin cinema? I don't
Speaker 1: even know how that works, but I know when someone
Speaker 1: not really in your gang and they fall flagging you,
Speaker 1: let it be known. In all right, they won't even
Speaker 1: let it be known. They won't even call them out
Speaker 1: on how they help blocking progress because Democrats are willing
Speaker 1: to try every political strategy except honesty and courage. The
Speaker 1: moral of the story is, and I really need to
Speaker 1: take a drink of water before I say this, because
Speaker 1: it's really been on my mind. The moral of the
Speaker 1: story is what I really want to say on this
Speaker 1: radio this morning. This is Nad McKelvey, Charlomagne and God talking.
Speaker 1: I just want Joe Madison to eat. Joe Madison is
Speaker 1: a radio personality on Serious XM, and him and some
Speaker 1: pastors they went on a hunger scrack until voting rights
Speaker 1: was passed in Congress. I need you all to go
Speaker 1: get some shrimp and gritch right now. Okay, Joe Madison
Speaker 1: hasn't eaten in like sixty plus days, no solid foods
Speaker 1: until Congress passes voting rights. That's what Joe Madison said,
Speaker 1: Joe is time to eat. I don't know that brother,
Speaker 1: don't think I ever met him. But when I saw
Speaker 1: him on MSNBC over the holidays and I saw him
Speaker 1: saying he was on a hunger scrike until they passed
Speaker 1: bolting rights in Congress, first thing I thought was, Man,
Speaker 1: those white folks don't care if you starve. Okay. Oh
Speaker 1: it was around the holidays when I saw him too,
Speaker 1: I said, damn, this is a hard time to not eat.
Speaker 1: And he's he's staking he's not eating on whether voting
Speaker 1: rights get passed. Listen, I applaud y'all faith in these people.
Speaker 1: But that Democrat diet, that fash is fast. It isn't healthy.
Speaker 1: So please go eat, brother Joe Madison, and all the
Speaker 1: pastors who went on a hunger scrick and tell volting
Speaker 1: rights pass, please go eat. Get a big meal this morning,
Speaker 1: some scrimping grits, all right, maybe some corn, beef, hash
Speaker 1: and eggs. Okay. I've really been thinking about y'all. I
Speaker 1: promised you last night. That was the first thing on
Speaker 1: my mind. I was in a few group chats telling
Speaker 1: folks that know y'all to please tell those brothers to
Speaker 1: go eat. I would even cash at them some change
Speaker 1: for some breakfast or some lunch this morning, because voting rights,
Speaker 1: legislation and democracy may have died on the Senate floor
Speaker 1: last night, but we can't let y'all die from starvation.
Speaker 1: Two all right, so please let remy ma give President
Speaker 1: Joe Biden, Senator Christen Cinema, and Senator Joe Manchin the
Speaker 1: biggest he had. He ha he ha, you stupid mother?
Speaker 1: Are you dumb? I'm sure this won't be the last
Speaker 1: movie discussing this, but but for real, Joe Madison, please
Speaker 1: go eat my brother. Please. It's Kanye running again and
Speaker 1: shut up? All right? Up next, asking Ye. And that's
Speaker 1: why these things happen. That's why they make movies like
Speaker 1: don't look up. Okay, but nigga like you curious of Kanye?
Speaker 1: You know what? You know what? You know what? Nigga,
Speaker 1: you don't deserve vote right or no food? Give me
Speaker 1: all your Chinese food after all, give me everything everything
Speaker 1: over the path it okay? Ask no shrimp fried rice
Speaker 1: all right? No man, no egg rolls, no nothing, all right?
Speaker 1: Up next is ask ye. If you need relationship advice,
Speaker 1: any type, if advice, call ye right now, it's a
Speaker 1: breakfast club. Good morning, what what what? What? What you
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Speaker 1: All up now for asking eight hundred and five eight
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Speaker 1: Need personal advice, just need real advice? Hall up now
Speaker 1: for asking. Morning everybody in stej Envy, Angela, Yee, Charlomagne,
Speaker 1: the guy. We are the breakfast club. It's time for asking. Hello.
Speaker 1: Who's this this Joe Detroit? How's it going? And what
Speaker 1: I've done? Man? What's your question for? Easy? Yeah? Quick questions.
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm thinking this girl and she pretty much
Speaker 1: gave me the ultimatum, like, look, and we don't. If
Speaker 1: I can't move in, we can't be together no more?
Speaker 1: So what should I do? Should I? Should? I stand
Speaker 1: the situation? I mean, I want to be with it,
Speaker 1: but it's like that you don't want to move in.
Speaker 1: That's just moving too fast to me, you know. But
Speaker 1: if she gives you an ultimatum and it's not something
Speaker 1: you want to do, you have to say no. How
Speaker 1: long you've been dating it though, about a year and now? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And that doesn't matter though, because if you don't want
Speaker 1: to move in with somebody, and she gives you an ultimatum,
Speaker 1: I saying, I can't be with you unless we move
Speaker 1: in together. You can't compromise that. I mean, that's a
Speaker 1: big deal sharing space, and I think that you know
Speaker 1: what's the next move after that? If you're not ready,
Speaker 1: you can't let somebody force you into something. Yeah. See,
Speaker 1: I'm coming through in the same way. Like it was
Speaker 1: like one of those things. The first time she's going
Speaker 1: to my house. I woke up, she's going through all
Speaker 1: my stuff? Like what she was like, this is what
Speaker 1: I do. She's like, look, you know date needs. This
Speaker 1: is what I'm going through your stuff. We gotta live
Speaker 1: together otherwise I'll find another dude to replace you. I'm like, wow,
Speaker 1: well it sounds like she needs a place to stay.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. I appreciate that. Yeah, and imagine somebody
Speaker 1: even telling you that that sounds awful to tell you, Oh,
Speaker 1: if you don't let me move in with you, I'll
Speaker 1: find somebody else who will. That's not the type of
Speaker 1: relationship you want to be in. Actually, I thought it
Speaker 1: was one of those situations where she was just, you know,
Speaker 1: basically playing hard to get or just I don't even know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that sounds like some red flags. And let me tell
Speaker 1: you something. If you're moving with somebody who you don't
Speaker 1: want to be with, you can't even find peace at home.
Speaker 1: Imagine you don't even feel like coming home. She's going
Speaker 1: through your stuff and she's questioning everything that you do.
Speaker 1: That's you know, home is like your peace you're having.
Speaker 1: You don't even want to have to deal with that.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. I appreciate the advice much. Love y'all,
Speaker 1: much love y'all, y'all have a good morning. All right, half,
Speaker 1: I'm being single. Ask ye eight hundred five eight five
Speaker 1: one o five one if you need any type of
Speaker 1: advice calling now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna keep for real some real advice with Angela yet
Speaker 1: ask ye morning. Everybody is DJ Envy and Angela Yee,
Speaker 1: Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We're in
Speaker 1: the middle of ask yee. Hello. Who's this Hey? My
Speaker 1: name is James, James. What's up? What's your question for? Easy? Hey? Man?
Speaker 1: First of all, I just want to say, man, I
Speaker 1: really really love you guys. You guys, do I listen
Speaker 1: to you? Guys all the time, every day. But UM,
Speaker 1: basically I just need some advice from going through some
Speaker 1: relationship troubles with my girl. UM start on the New year,
Speaker 1: she told me that she's feeling depressed and she doesn't
Speaker 1: want to be together. She feels like she needs to
Speaker 1: be by herself. And it's just really hard for me
Speaker 1: because I feel the complete opposite. I really love this
Speaker 1: woman and I devoted my whole life to her, and
Speaker 1: I really thought she wasn't gonna be I was going
Speaker 1: to spend the rest of my life with. So I
Speaker 1: just need help getting through this man, Because well, if
Speaker 1: you love her and she's expressed to you that she's depressed,
Speaker 1: then you have to support how she is, if you
Speaker 1: really love and care about her. Um, have you seen
Speaker 1: the signs of depression that she's talking about. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't like I see that. Sometimes it feels like
Speaker 1: she struggles with what she's going on right now in life,
Speaker 1: Like like she just doesn't know the career that she's doing,
Speaker 1: if it's going off right, if if everything that we did,
Speaker 1: I guess we rushed into everything. We're both young. She's
Speaker 1: twenty six, I'm twenty thirty, Like I don't know it's
Speaker 1: that please into a role of everything. But like I
Speaker 1: understand what you're saying, Like, you know, I have to
Speaker 1: support her, but it's still hard when I genuinely don't
Speaker 1: want to be away from her and I love her,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, And you know that's hard. And the
Speaker 1: best thing that you can do though is be patient.
Speaker 1: Right if it's meant to be and if you love
Speaker 1: her and she does truly love you, we have to
Speaker 1: be able to stand as individuals before we can be
Speaker 1: in a successful relationship. And so I think for her,
Speaker 1: she needs to build herself up and do what she
Speaker 1: needs to do. All you can do is offer her
Speaker 1: your support and help. And when I mean help, I
Speaker 1: mean like maybe directed to some resources that you feel
Speaker 1: like might be good. Let her know that you care
Speaker 1: about her, whatever decision that it is that she makes.
Speaker 1: Let her know that you're there for her. You can
Speaker 1: be a friend right now, you know, like you said,
Speaker 1: and you agree that you feel like you rushed into things. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I mean under the circumstances that we were in. You know,
Speaker 1: I agree, like she had just gotten out of a
Speaker 1: bad relationship, right and her, and yeah, I feel like
Speaker 1: that could play a role into everything. Yeah, so she's
Speaker 1: not completely healed from that. Is she getting some type
Speaker 1: of help? Um, honestly, I don't. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't think so, just because she's always so busy. She's
Speaker 1: in she's in r ND school, trying to get her
Speaker 1: r end. She's currently in open so she works all
Speaker 1: night overnight, and then in the morning she's at school
Speaker 1: and then she has to sleep, you know at some point,
Speaker 1: right well, any nice gestures that you can do for her,
Speaker 1: whether that's like sending her a breakfast or you know,
Speaker 1: just little nice things, maybe writing her nice messages, letting
Speaker 1: her know, but without being too pushy, because she has
Speaker 1: expressed to you she's going through something. She's told you
Speaker 1: that she needs space, so you should respect that. But
Speaker 1: you can also, at the same time try to be
Speaker 1: supportive as a friend, because if you care about her,
Speaker 1: you care about her health and well being as well. No, yeah,
Speaker 1: I understand, Thank you, I appreciate it. Okay, I want
Speaker 1: to say it again. I really, I really love you guys.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for everything you do. I really
Speaker 1: appreciate it. And Charlotte Maine man, you're the man and
Speaker 1: I love looking to you. Guys. Thank you, all right,
Speaker 1: thank you. He seems like a sweet guy. Ask ye
Speaker 1: eight hundred five five one or five one? Now you
Speaker 1: got rumors on the way. And speaking of love machine Gun,
Speaker 1: Kelly talks about the ring that he designed for Megan Fox,
Speaker 1: her engagement ring and she can't take it off without
Speaker 1: hurting herself. All right, we'll get into that nextus to Breakfast.
Speaker 1: It's about this angela need the breakfast club. All right. Well,
Speaker 1: Fat Joe, like we were talking about earlier, was on
Speaker 1: the I Am Athlete podcast. He was talking about getting
Speaker 1: rid of fake friends by pretending to be Brooke. He
Speaker 1: was also discussing the feeling a lyrics from jay Z
Speaker 1: and another thing he said is his favorite rapper is Yea,
Speaker 1: No matter what, Kanye is my favorite rapper in the world.
Speaker 1: I love him to death. What you mean he's your
Speaker 1: favorite rapper? He's my favorite rapper? Why you keep he
Speaker 1: been my favorite rapper? So but what I'm saying to
Speaker 1: you is and I won't turn my back on him
Speaker 1: no matter what he doing? Right Kanye the allway, he's
Speaker 1: a genius. He's incredible and off. Okay, a lot of
Speaker 1: people were cool with they they don't vote like us.
Speaker 1: So they don't. They don't agree with everything, but we
Speaker 1: got with him. He made Jesus walks Jesus. I never
Speaker 1: heard fad Juley Kanye is his favorite rapper's and that
Speaker 1: was on Brandon Marshall's podcast. Right, what's the name of
Speaker 1: the podcast? I am athlete. I've heard fra Ju Nas
Speaker 1: is his favorite rapper. M all right, Well, speaking of Nas,
Speaker 1: Nas has invested in African mobile games publisher carry First
Speaker 1: in a financing round, raising twenty million dollars. So he's
Speaker 1: joining other people in this investment. You know, he's been
Speaker 1: doing some amazing investments and so that hit. That's with
Speaker 1: his his venture capital firm, Queen's Bread Venture Partners. He's
Speaker 1: also invested in Dropbox, Left, rob My Head, coin Base,
Speaker 1: and things like that. So shout out to bomb for Nazil.
Speaker 1: That's amazing, right. I think that does encourage other people too,
Speaker 1: because it is really your way to get it rich
Speaker 1: is to invest in these tech companies. And I know
Speaker 1: you may not be able to get in on that
Speaker 1: ground floor, but we've been talking so much about stocks
Speaker 1: and investments, so this is just one example of things
Speaker 1: that are possible. Now. One thing Evan, you just saw
Speaker 1: was TI and you said he was doing stand up comedy.
Speaker 1: I've seen something the Jasmine Brand posted that. They said
Speaker 1: t I was doing a stand up comedy last night.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I didn't hear it or just seen
Speaker 1: enough thought it was interesting. Oh yeah, So that's not
Speaker 1: an easy thing to do, though, We've seen a lot
Speaker 1: of people hit that stage. So what I want to
Speaker 1: do is do we have the audio because this is
Speaker 1: something that just got posted on the Jasmine brand a
Speaker 1: few months ago. Back. No, it's no audio. A few
Speaker 1: minutes ago you met. Oh yeah, a few minutes ago.
Speaker 1: So they said he just added stand up to his
Speaker 1: resume and he's just getting started, so that should be
Speaker 1: something interesting to see now. Bobby Schmirder was on million
Speaker 1: dollars worth of Game and they had a welcome home
Speaker 1: party for him. I know y'all saw this audio. Seemed
Speaker 1: like he was having an amazing time dancing with Gillian Willow,
Speaker 1: he fell off the couch and everything. But he also
Speaker 1: talked about the first thing that he did when he
Speaker 1: came home, how was your welcoming home? Was? It? Was
Speaker 1: it like we're gonna be hunted like ten bitches that
Speaker 1: but like t after like six mines the jet, like
Speaker 1: two bitches smoked. Well, you just came home eating rolla
Speaker 1: right on the jet. Six years bro, six years from
Speaker 1: ain't nobody coming, Ain't nobody doing a half a decade
Speaker 1: and not come home eating? No. I think there's a
Speaker 1: bitch minimum. I don't know. I think it's like a
Speaker 1: two bitch minimum. You gotta stop believing. Want to clue
Speaker 1: bum and dollars worth? That looked like a fun interview. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right now. Taja posted this woman named Taja Riley
Speaker 1: and she was talking about the super Bowl halftime show.
Speaker 1: She posted a message that she had received and it says, hello, Taja,
Speaker 1: my husband told me that the Super Bowl is recruiting
Speaker 1: volunteers to dance for no pay. I also heard that
Speaker 1: production of the super Bowl halftime performance reached out asking
Speaker 1: if they had any dances on their roster who would
Speaker 1: be interested in volunteering and performing for no pay. I'm
Speaker 1: surprised that Black La actually considered an email their roster
Speaker 1: of the super Bowl situation. They should have said no,
Speaker 1: especially because black was originally the main agency with an
Speaker 1: audition invite for Fatima and Adrian is paid dancers we
Speaker 1: saw the clothes call on their Instagram. This is all
Speaker 1: bad now. Riley posted this on her page. Agent said,
Speaker 1: I'm sure I don't have to explain, but the super
Speaker 1: Bowl is the most profitable global sporting event on any
Speaker 1: given year. Why be cheap, especially on such an incredibly
Speaker 1: important performance honoring and showcasing African American talent? What do
Speaker 1: you guys think about that? With the super Bowl asking
Speaker 1: for people to just basically volunteer to dance for the
Speaker 1: halftime show and not paying the dancers. I mean they
Speaker 1: can ask for whatever they want. You ain't got to
Speaker 1: do it. Yeah, they should pay to people though. You know,
Speaker 1: it's interesting, right, like because it's an opportunity, and if
Speaker 1: you're like an up and coming dance troop, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, you might take advantage of that opportunity.
Speaker 1: Alien's eyes on you. It's kind of it's an investment
Speaker 1: in yourself. I'm not mad at it, you know, listen
Speaker 1: as I get it. It's business, right, so you always
Speaker 1: gonna try to get somebody hit too something for free.
Speaker 1: But it is an opportunity, right. You can pay them
Speaker 1: a little something though, because as much money as they make,
Speaker 1: at least a day raid, But do they make that
Speaker 1: transportation If doctor Drake face for his own seting, I
Speaker 1: thought the artists pay for their own sets and everybody
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about that how much the super Bowl makes,
Speaker 1: but they're there. I think traditionally the super Bowl pays
Speaker 1: for your production and all of that, but they don't
Speaker 1: pay the artists because you get streams and you get
Speaker 1: all kinds of promotion from that. I thought we read
Speaker 1: something he said he's paying for his own But traditionally
Speaker 1: what they do is they do pay for the poet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: super Bowl don't care about that. They don't give it
Speaker 1: that budget, whatever that budget is, and the rest is
Speaker 1: on that game. Listen. I'm a starting believing and recognize
Speaker 1: an opportunity when it's not a paycheck attached to it. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I wish they were offering some money,
Speaker 1: but if they're not, I don't know if that would
Speaker 1: keep me from doing it. Just depends on, you know,
Speaker 1: how much visibility I want. I guess y'all do less
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