WEBVTT - Flash Back Lil Duval Interview and More 0:00:00.600 --> 0:00:04.920 Wake up in the morning. You wake up. I'm talking right. 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:07.640 I know you're about to experience a morning showing like 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:11.920 any of the club. What you guys are doing right now. 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:15.319 It's the Hub culture. Breakfast Club is my morning sick. 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:18.079 I need it and I love it. Something you feel 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:20.840 like you're really not popping until you do the Breakfast 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:23.880 Club and waiting come to y'all, show man. I know 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:25.720 you gotta be a big time celebrity. Be up and 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:27.080 here you gotta be You gotta be a big time 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:30.800 Djen Angela ye and Charlotta magine the guy the breakfast 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:36.960 club bitches, wake up, wake up, wake ya. This is 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:40.280 your time to get it off your chest? Is it 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:41.879 your man or blast? We want to hear from you 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:45.440 on the Breakfast Club Ashley. Good morning, Ashley, Good morning. 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:48.519 How you feeling ash I'm feeling pretty good. How are you? 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:51.080 I'm doing pretty well. Hi? Just playing to get it 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:54.279 off my chest? Hi? What's up? Ashley? Get it off 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:57.920 your chest? Okay. I'm a South Carolina teacher. Keep hearing 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:00.840 a little beach and right now about two thousand teachers 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:03.560 are coming from across the state um to me at 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:06.600 the state capitol to kind of rally for better reforms 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:10.280 for our public schools, such as like smaller class size 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:13.640 is more funny for the students right now? Um, yeah, 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:15.759 there's a lot of funding for the seadents, but they're 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:18.640 not spending at all for the students. So there's a 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:22.200 lot of issues within the public education system. I also 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:24.520 have a big issue of the fact that teachers don't 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:28.960 get maternity leave in South Carolina. Wow. Yeah, so we're 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:31.600 gonna been forced to use our sick days and personal days. Um, 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:33.840 if you have enough to stay stuff, that's great, But 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:36.120 you're like me, that's only about twelve days that I 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:39.720 might have great crazy my presidency. Um, and after that 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:42.520 I'll be forced to go without pay, which is I'm 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:44.640 already kind of talking because I already worked a couple 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:47.120 of extra jobs to take care of myself, let alone 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:50.480 myself and a child. So listen, my mom is a 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:53.240 teacher in South Carolina. Well she was, she's retired now 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:55.760 she still does substitute stuff though she had five kids. 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:57.520 Are you telling me that she never had maternity leave? 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:00.280 I know, I mean I never thought that. I let. Yeah, 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:02.840 they don't get maternity lead, so that's something that that's pain. 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:05.120 But did you have all your in the summer. I'm 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:07.400 just curious, Well, a lot of oh me and my 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:10.320 me and one of my brothers June. So you know, 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:12.080 if she was lucky with that. But you know, if 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:14.400 it's not a planned pregnancy, then you don't plant it 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:17.359 for the summertime, right, Yeah, you know you're kind of slow. 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:20.440 I do have a fund me up to try to 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:23.760 help me out with my fraternity league. Talk to you know, 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:27.680 gofund me dot com slash South Carolina teacher gets no 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:30.400 maternity league. If y'all can just check that out and 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:34.920 slash anything. Yeah, go fund me dot com SATs South 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:37.919 Carolina teacher gets no maternity What about all other teachers? Though? 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:41.160 Why are you the only one raising money for maternity leaves? Listen, 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:43.760 people are right now, when people are you know, I'm 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:47.200 gonna be using up a day for my fraternity league. Actually, 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:49.920 you know, go to the Statehouse and a lot of 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.760 people for the sc for ED group have mentioned, hey, 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:54.200 you know what, if you want to make a go 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:57.440 fund me, I'll donate to it. Um. So I just 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:59.840 decided to do that, and you try to keep calling 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:01.240 you guys to see if I can get some more 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:04.040 attention to it. But yeah, we're getting coverage from CNN 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:06.920 and all over the place, so I really wanted to 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:10.520 bring away that's this huge issue in Times Carolina, all 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:13.959 the teachers in South Carolina. Man, Hello, who's this Sean 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:20.640 work for Connecticut? Man? What's up? Get it off your chest? Bro? Man. Yeah, 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:25.440 I gotta work this morning. I'm working this weather every day. Man, 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:28.639 I'm a metal man, so this is just another regular day, 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:32.040 no rain all that. How would you know what I 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:34.240 always wanted to what is good enough to tip the 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:36.680 mail man during Christmas? Man? I never know what what 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:39.680 do people usually tip you? Bro? Oh? But I mean 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:41.880 I've worked mostly in the hood, so you know what 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:44.560 I mean. I get like we more than just money. 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:48.160 Sometimes I get like weak weed. You get some weed, 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:55.480 don't lie, man, That's that's a regular day man. Okay, 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:57.080 I didn't know you're a woted to tip your mail man. 0:03:57.160 --> 0:04:01.160 That's the thing. Yeah, you're supposed to tip the mail man. Man. 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:04.480 Mean they you usually get like dunkee doing the cards 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:07.200 and all that you supposed to the mail man. Ain't 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:09.720 get no dunking card in the hood. To stop lying 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:12.320 to me. Now, let me ask you one other question. 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:14.400 You have a delivered the package you know with some smoke? 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:17.000 You said, what you have a delivered the package you 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:20.800 knew with some smoke or some work or some word 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:28.440 deliver drug lan exactly mat some work, some smoke deliver 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:33.440 you smoke some work now a some real Some people 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:37.680 asked like to um deliver like like credit cards or 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:41.279 debit cards or like gift cards that were like giffies. Yeah. 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:45.000 Yeah for scammers. Yeah, some scammers. I got off for 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:49.239 that a lot people. Okay, how you with it? No? 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:51.520 I don't know. Try to get them a stitch on himself. Yeat? 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:55.000 All right, thank you brother. Be safe out there. If 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:57.040 you've been down there with all the young boys and 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.719 you're trying to talk hip now you have deliver from smoke? 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:04.279 Is he talking about it? Get it off your chess 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:07.000 eight hundred five eight five one o five one if 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:08.440 you need to VN hit this up right now. Was 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:13.240 the breakfast club? Wake up, wake up? Wait your time 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:16.919 to get it off your chest, your man or blass. 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:19.880 We want to hear from you on a breakfast class. Hello, 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:22.560 who's this? Hi? Good morning me? Say well, I'm hey 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:27.560 hey say Salem, good morning you guys. My anxiety is 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:29.920 on like one thousand. I need help and I need advice. 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:32.880 Talk to me. Okay, So this past weekend, I lost 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:34.960 my driver's license, and you know you need your driver's 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:38.640 license to do basically live. How'd you do that? I'll 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:40.360 get them all and I let my best friends two 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:41.719 year old play with it. But you know it's not 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:43.640 even the two years old. It's my fault. It's really 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:46.120 my fault. Um. So, yeah, I lost my driver's license. 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:48.400 So now you know I have a warrant or whatever. 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:49.640 So I don't know what to do. I'm scared to 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:52.040 step in the DMV. And then Dallas right now is 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:54.239 doing like this round out. They're just trying to catch 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:57.520 everybody with warrants from your job to your house this month. 0:05:57.800 --> 0:05:59.159 And I don't know what to do because I'm scared. 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:01.359 You get like I don't know what to do. I 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:02.880 think you should just see in check and see if 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:04.680 you got a warrant. You can run. What the warrant? 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:07.719 I definitely do. What are the warrants for? It's like 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:11.200 traffic violations, nothing major, you know, go pay your tickets. Oh, 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:13.159 that's not a problem. I'm gonna do that. I'm definitely 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:15.320 gonna do that. But don't you they the rescue right 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:18.800 there on the dam traffic our white cameraman, Steve Stephen, 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:20.520 the White Demon. He said, you can go. You should 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:23.159 go online and do it. I don't think you could 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:24.520 do it online. I think you gotta go in there. 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:26.479 What are you going to take that out sale for 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:28.120 the next couple of days. Yeah, I'm thinking about it. 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:30.719 Ay told my man today, I got to speak up. 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:33.800 So yeah, hold down. I guess ahead to take that out. 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:35.000 You know what I'm saying. Make sure you got some 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:37.560 makeup on for your muck shout. You're pretty girl. But 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:39.160 I think you could pay your funds. You can pay 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:41.200 your funds online. Go to DMV dot com. I think 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:43.320 you can pay your funds online. That's what I'm thinking. 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:45.960 Every if I just starteen, like right now, just start 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:48.400 doing a payment plane when they I don't think you 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:49.800 could do a payment plan. I think you gotta pay 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:52.560 and fully get your license back. How about you? Old No, 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:55.000 I mean I probably like a good twelve hundred, I'll 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:59.960 just pay that, but twelve around Salem, I'm gonna do so. 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:01.760 I'm for you right now. Okay, oh here you go. 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:06.000 He let's listen, I'm gonna afraid you get the money 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:07.960 that you need. I'm anna pray that you get the 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:14.480 money you need to pay off. Okay, you fare you're 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:16.800 a clown. I'm a go and sell them. Yea, you're 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:21.560 a foul man, how man, pray for there? You are 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:25.000 a faun man. For you are foul illo. Who's this? 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:29.560 What's your name? What's the matter of tam awre? You 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:32.760 whispering you? Okay, No, I'm not wis right. I actually 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:36.760 just woke up. But no, I just woke up. I 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:39.600 gotta look at your earlier in the morning. Okay, good 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:42.360 money watching us a revolt? Yes, dropping it from his 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:46.800 mind for revolt man and your chess. First of all, 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:51.320 good morning. I'm calling to say I'm blessed today and 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:57.320 I love all y'all, especially DJ Enry and Charlemagne. Charlemagne, 0:07:57.320 --> 0:08:02.320 you're so funny. Thank you, baby. You're welcome. Anything else? Yeah, 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:07.720 I'm still with friend, Yes, you are still with I 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:09.320 think you're trying to turn this home. You know it's 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:11.520 not doing a good job. I'm touching my nipple a 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:17.960 little bit at Nope, I'm a faithful black man. Anything else, Yeah, Um, 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:19.800 I want to know, what do y'all think about the 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:24.160 property taxes going up three times? Property taxes went up 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:30.480 three times? Where I don't hear about that? What they're 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:34.880 charging everybody for property taxes going up three times? Where 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:41.319 you're getting this information? I don't know about that. I've 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:47.200 actually heard the opposite. Really where you calling from Cleveland? Oh, 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:49.400 they're charging y'all. They're charging y'all more money to live 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:55.240 in Cleveland. Now, yeah, Lebron left him. I'm gonna be 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:56.880 honest with you. They should be paying y'all to stay 0:08:56.920 --> 0:09:00.840 in Cleveland. That's true. That's you know what I'm saying. 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:05.000 Until they rebuild the calves. I have a blessed day book. 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:07.640 I have a good one, all right. Salute to Cleveland's 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:12.280 appreciate and everybody who listens to us on don't get 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:14.360 me the line, come on find it, don't get me 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:17.800 to lie. All right, here go right here. W A 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:20.920 K S X one and w A K S F 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:23.160 two ninety six five The Real one oh six one, 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:25.680 Cleveland's real hip popping on. That's right, slut to everybody 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:28.480 who listens us on Real one O six one in Cleveland. 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:32.480 This is the breakfast club morning. Everybody is DJ Envy 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:35.560 Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the breakfast Club. 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:38.360 We got a special guest in the building, Humble the Poet. 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:41.040 Thank you so much for having me. Welcome, sir. I've 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:43.240 read two great books this year. I've read more than 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:45.640 two books, but my two favorite books are Digital Minimalism 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:48.520 in this book right here, called Unlearned by my man 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:50.760 Humble the Poet. You know why because when I saw 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:52.280 the title little book, I said, that is what I'm 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:54.280 doing at this point in my life more so than 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:58.360 anything unlearning. So what's more important? Learning or unlearning? Humble? 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:01.520 It's definitely unlearning. I think at this point, you know, 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.120 there's not really a generation gap. There's just people who 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:06.199 are open to new ideas and people who are not 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:09.120 open to new ideas. Oh. If you're not open to 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:11.640 new ideas, uh, you know, the only way you can 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:13.439 do that is to let go of old ideas. So 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:16.199 some stuff that mattered when we were teenagers doesn't matter 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:18.200 no more. We had to let that go. Not only 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:21.160 does it not matter, it just don't serve us anymore. Yeah, exactly. 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:22.800 I mean again, a lot of us grew up in 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.400 challenging neighborhoods. A lot of us grew up in challenging situations. 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:28.079 You get certain strategies, you put up certain guards, and 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:30.400 it made sense back then, and then you come into 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:32.880 a whole different world and it doesn't matter anymore. And 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:36.400 now it's just holding you back. Yes, life is the 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:39.280 obstacles straight up. But let's let's let's let's bring it back. 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:41.400 Let's let's find out who Humble the poet is. Yes, 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:44.280 where you from, what you do, because when they google you, 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:46.520 it's more than just a book, it is you wrap 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.240 it as well. Who you are. I get real busy. 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:52.000 I'm from the beautiful city of Toronto, born and raised, 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:54.559 and I was an elementary school teacher. And I was 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:57.560 working as a school teacher and I discovered spoken word poetry, 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:00.240 saw someone perform and fell in love with it. It 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:02.040 was a great way to meet girls. I can do this, 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:06.360 so I'm performing, doing it for fun. From that transition 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:08.880 into music, you know, just put a beat on the back, 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:10.920 started rapping on that. I fell in love with lyricism, 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:12.720 was doing that, but just doing it for fun. Never 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:14.599 thought never saw no one looking like me doing it, 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:16.000 so I never thought I could do it on a 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:18.160 bigger level. So you do all this while you still 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:19.840 being at the teacher, while I'm the teacher, because I'm 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:21.640 just doing this, putting stuff on you, putting lyrics videos 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:23.360 on YouTube, not even showing my face. At this point, 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:25.040 I didn't even have the confidence to do that. So 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:27.439 your students had no idea that their teacher, and the 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:29.920 first couple of years no, and then eventually they figured 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:31.520 it out as I got a little bit more and 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:34.280 more popular in the city and I started putting out 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:36.280 music videos, kind of learning the game. And then about 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:38.040 probably a couple of years into it, then like the 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:40.040 students knew and they'd be like, misster sing, we see 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:42.439 you swearing on the internet, and our parents saw you 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:45.360 on TV and everything. So but everyone was cool with it. 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:47.199 You know. I grew up in the neighborhood that was 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:50.160 all hip hop as well, and from there, you know, 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:52.559 I fell in love with the lifestyle. And teachers in 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:54.599 Canada at least we get paid in the summer, so 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:57.240 I suspend my summers just being a wild artist, knowing 0:11:57.280 --> 0:11:59.440 falling out, balling out no one. I had money coming 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:01.640 in from teach job, and I fell in love with it. 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:03.719 Was fell in love with the life. You know, I'm 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:05.679 hanging out with people who are nickel and diamond, trying 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:07.880 to make it all happen just through rap. And I 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:09.319 had a little bit of a cushion with me. But 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:12.600 at the end of twenty ten, I met some dudes 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:13.920 that were like, Yo, we can get you a deal 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:15.320 and this will pay you more than you get as 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:17.560 a teacher. And you know, without thinking about it, because 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:19.520 I was just in love with the idea, I left 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:22.640 everything and I got into into music. And it took 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:27.840 me about a year to realize that this deal wasn't happening. Yeah, exactly. 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:31.160 And that's the thing, you know, as as jay Z says, 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:33.640 the loss and the loss is a lesson, and that's 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:35.439 exactly what happened. I learned from it. So it took 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:37.040 me about a year to figure it out. And by 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:39.440 then I was like living off credit cards, living off 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:41.240 line a credit barrowing money. I was like eighty grand 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:42.960 in debt. I had no way to make, no money, 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:45.760 and I was just feeling sorry for myself, and you know, 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:47.920 taking muscle relaxes and a whole bunch of other stuff 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:51.120 and just lying in bed, avoiding everybody. And then after 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:53.360 about two weeks. It was. It was actually Jay Cole 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:55.079 Dollar in the Dream Part three where he goes, you 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:57.400 know you're gonna let this turn, let you turn bitter 0:12:57.480 --> 0:12:59.319 and cold, or you're gonna flip this dollar turn into 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:01.760 a dream. And it's probably that two weeks of rest 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:03.800 as well. But I got up and I just like snapped, 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:05.920 and I was just like, I have to do something. 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:09.760 And step one was take responsibility. Stop feeling story for yourself. 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:12.680 Stop blaming other people. You're not a victim. You always 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:15.080 the only way you have power is when you find 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:18.079 the responsibility in the story where you could have done 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:21.520 something different and where I had control. So I control 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:23.520 in terms of who I trusted. I control in terms 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:26.080 of was I listening to somebody's words which sounded nice, 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:28.960 was it paying attention to their actions because actions scream, 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.679 words whisper. And it took me about four years to 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:34.520 get my ass out of debt, and it came from 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:37.280 selling everything I had, moving back with my mom and dad, 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:40.640 doing the struggling artist's life that I was avoiding for 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:43.880 so long, booking my own shows, fifty people in a 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:46.880 room at the same time, I just kept writing. When 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:48.920 my studio guys stopped picking up the phone because he 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:51.199 was having his own domestic issues. I was like, I 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:54.000 don't know what to do. And then my friend Lily 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.040 Lily Sing. She's like, figure out what you can do 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:58.719 by yourself, and I'm like, I can write. You'll just 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:00.679 start writing. So I just kept writing, and I was 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:02.679 really getting upset at all, like the Tumbler quotes and 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:05.040 all these motivational quotes I was reading because nothing in 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:07.600 there was practical. It was just like, you know, everything 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:09.559 will work out, just believe, just have faith. And I 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:11.280 was like, am I going to pay my mortgage with 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:14.640 your motivational quotes? I needed to focus on something way 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:16.719 more pragmatic. And when she was like, focused on what 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:18.559 you can do by yourself, I just started writing and 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:22.120 posting up on my Facebook back then, and people were like, yo, 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:24.480 you're telling me my story. You know it sounds like 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:25.920 you live in my head. And people like you should 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:27.000 write a book, and I was like, I don't know 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:29.560 how to do that either, And then I learned about crowdfunding. 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:31.920 Then I actually crowdfunded this book. All right. We got 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:34.160 more with Humble of Pope. When we come back, Don't Move. 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:38.480 It's the Breakfast Club go Morning Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:41.560 Angela Yee. Charlemagne, the guy we are to Breakfast Club 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:43.720 was still kicking it with a humble a poet. Now, 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:46.040 what did your mom say about you? Going from a 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:49.360 teacher to new rapper and offer? So they saw that 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:51.880 I was working and they were supportive. But when I 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:53.400 had to come back kind of, you know, with my 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:55.480 head down, tail between my legs a little bit broken, 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:57.080 there was a lot of I told you so, But 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:59.040 I had to eat that because it wasn't like it 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:01.120 wasn't my fault. You know, I had to own that. 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:02.840 You have to own the consequences of what you do. 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:04.800 So I owned it, and I just had to kind 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:06.720 of start from zero and build myself back up and 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:09.840 just learning different people's stories. You know. A big one 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:13.480 for me was the fiftieth Law. You quote fifty in 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:16.520 this book a lot a word from fifty center. I 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:19.520 wonder why fifty meant so much to you at that point. 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:22.200 It was probably just because I picked up the fiftieth 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:23.640 Law and I just spent a lot of time reading 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:25.720 that and I love that book as an amazing book, 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:26.920 and a lot of it had to do was just 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:30.960 fear fear and also the idea that listen opportunity. You know, 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:34.640 being an opportunity opportunistic person does not mean a negative thing. 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:37.440 It means you're finding opportunity in every situation. So like 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:39.800 when this man got shot nine times, he figured out 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:41.360 a way to turn that into a marketing ploy. He 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:43.480 figured out a way to sell off that. He you know, 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:45.560 he turned himself into an eight figure guy off that 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:48.760 and really understanding that there is no good and bad. 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:50.560 I was thinking real simple back then, like this is 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:52.600 good news, this is bad news, this is a good person, 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:55.240 this is a bad person, and he really that book 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:57.280 really helped me see the gray and really start to 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:00.440 realize that, hey, in every situation, if I stopped judging 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:03.320 it and spend more time understanding it, a lot more 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:05.840 is going to come from that. And once I understood situations, 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:09.160 I found more opportunities. And now it's like everything as 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:10.920 I said, you know, back to jay z a lossing 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:13.240 the loss as a lesson and you start picking up 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:16.160 all the different jewels and gems when people speak. I mean, 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:18.840 I've learned so much from breakfast club interviews, anything from 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:22.200 like jay Z's last interview from you know, Russ giving 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:24.720 you the blueprint from Nipsey's interview learning about scared, the 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:28.320 scarcity mindset, and the scarcity principles. It's just you can 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:31.280 learn from everybody. Everybody is your teacher when you have 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:34.400 an open mind, even crackheage, even crackheads, if you learn 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:36.360 from that, I want to talk about some of your lessons. Man. 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:39.680 You say expectations are a bigger enemy to our happiness 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:42.600 than our circumstances. It's found on that a little bit. Yeah, 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:45.320 so when we're unhappy, it's when the picture in our 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:47.440 head doesn't match the picture in front of us. But 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:49.760 the problem is we focus on what's happening in front 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:51.600 of us, which we don't have a lot of control over. 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:54.760 So for me it became listen, if you're not happy, 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:57.560 and you feel helpless, and you're out and things are 0:16:57.560 --> 0:16:59.800 out of control, focus on what's in your power. And 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:02.640 then number one thing in our power, that's always in 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:05.359 our power is we can control our expectations. We can 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:08.200 control our attitude, and we can control our effort. People 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:10.360 can't take that away from us. You say, you say 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:12.600 it's healthy to have a bunch of emotions occupying your 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:14.359 heart as long as you clean up afterwards, So how 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:17.000 would you best advise somebody to clean up their emotions? 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:19.359 So the analogy that I read that was best is like, 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:21.639 you know, all your emotions are important, and you're kind 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:23.720 of the hotel room. So every day a new emotion 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:26.760 checks in, and sometimes the emotions leave the rooms spick 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:29.119 and span, spotless, and you're grateful to have them. In 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:31.359 other rooms just trash it like a rock star, and 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:33.440 you own the hotel and it's your job just to 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:35.119 clean up and get ready for the next guests. So 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:39.080 you know, every every emotion exists for a reason, Like 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:43.679 pain is important. Pain tells us things, you know, Regret 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:45.879 is important, it tells us something, It tells us to hey, 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:48.720 revisit that memory until you learn something from it. If 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:50.720 you haven't learned nothing from it, we're gonna keep poking 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:54.200 at you until you do. So often we have this idea, 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:56.159 and I think we got it from TV, you know, 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:59.480 or movies or religion, that you know you can live 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:02.160 half ever after you know you hit this certain level, 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:04.240 now you can just live out your life happy. But 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:07.800 there's no such thing as everlasting happiness. There's always going 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:10.280 to be challenges, there's always gonna be bullshit. There's always 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:12.360 no matter who you are, no matter how much money 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:14.840 you've got, is always going to be there. Some of 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:17.119 us are going to be fortunate enough to choose those problems. 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:18.680 Some of us are going to be fortunate enough to 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:21.240 be in a situation where those problems are exciting and 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:23.800 those challenges are there, but they're not going anywhere. So 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:26.560 let go of that promise that you can be happy, 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:28.760