WEBVTT - Swizz Beatz intervew and more 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.880 W w PR FM HD one, New york I heart 0:00:03.960 --> 0:00:10.840 radio station. DJ v Angel and Charlotte ain't the congratulate 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:12.640 you Hall of famers, So I need to be in 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:16.920 the presence Radio Loyalty, the world's most ding this morning 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:20.279 show for breakfast clubs. It's a big deal. I think 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:22.560 that y'all have a certain amount of respect for you 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:25.599 know what everybody else does, and y'all are just the 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:28.000 best of what y'all do. We love y'all, man, thank 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:32.279 you for being the people's champs, the greatest, all three 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:41.040 of y'all. Good morning USA. All right, good morning everybody. 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:44.839 Hope everybody's doing well. It's Friday's Memorial Weekend. It starts 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:47.800 today and today we got some special guests joining us. 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:51.720 We have Swiss Beats joining us. Of course, DMX's album 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:53.400 came out today, so we're gonna be chopping it up 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:55.840 with Swiss Beats, find out the process of making the 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:58.800 album and playing some joints of DMX's album, so we're 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:01.160 gonna be talking to Swiss in a little bit. Also 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:04.880 from the Real Housewives of Potamic we have Robin Dixon 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:07.479 and Giselle Bryant joining us, so we'll kick it with damn. 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:10.199 All right, they have a new podcast on the Black 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:12.320 Effect Networks, so we're gonna be kicking with them as well. 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:14.640 So let's get the show cracking. It's the Breakfast Club. 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:21.320 Good morning. I'm telling I'm telling you if this is 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:23.319 your time to get it off your chest, whether you're 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:27.039 mad or blessed. Eight five five one, we want to 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:31.000 hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello. Who's this yo? 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:35.400 This is your boy telling tell out of Pittsburgh. Morning, Morning, 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:41.200 morning with something. Man, I'm telling the morning ain't not baby. Hey, 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:44.440 hey man, I just signed out my neighbor. All six 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:48.760 of our kids got a d d them all six 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:57.840 of them, all different days. Mean you got me sitting 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:01.120 thinking like I've never heard that in my life. Yes, 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:04.800 thirty one, all six kids got addn that That check 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:08.359 gonna be crazy, I mean, but this is just want 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:11.239 to tell y'all good morning. Man. Let's right now, y'all 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:13.799 gotta keeping on my clurg in the morning and keeps 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:15.799 doing what they're doing. I'll call y'all back next week. 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:22.120 All right, Okay, all right, brother different daddies. Hello, who's this? 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:30.080 This is an Elitia Jacksonville. Already listen y'all. A question 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:33.040 for y'all, and I just want to hear your opinion 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:37.280 about this. It's amazing how white people could call black 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:40.400 people the heir words. It's not a big deal. Black 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:43.880 people could call white people crocker, ass crocker, it's not 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:47.240 a big deal. But when somebody speak their opinion about 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:51.639 the lgd T community, it's a big upro And that's 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:54.919 just somethingbody speaking their opinion about that. I'm just trying 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:57.640 to see what's the big uprow If everybody held their opinion, 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:00.399 let him speak their opinion. If that's what they want 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:03.799 to do, let them do that. They should embrace that's 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:06.200 what they are, and it's cool. It shouldn't be a 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:08.680 big dramatic art rock And I just want to hear 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:10.679 your opinion about that from both of y'all. Well, what 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:15.000 white people say the N word, It is an uproar, definitely, Yeah, 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:18.760 it is an uproar. Not really, it is definitely have 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:22.000 gotten side and that LG it's not the WRO like 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:26.040 the LTP community. What the hell is the LTB that 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:28.519 that that cable package you just talked about, it is 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:30.520 way worse than the basic one. Now, the basic one, 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:34.680 it's LGBT. I don't know what why you just go, oh, well, well, 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:36.960 I don't know the alphabets, man, But I don't want 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:39.720 to hear y'all opinion about that. I want to like 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:42.000 when boost is saying this car man, it was a 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:45.680 big off law when whoever saying it thing What really 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:48.880 got me when Wendy Williams had apologize for what she said. 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:51.360 It's like, come on, man, you can't have an opinion 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:53.280 about that. Well, listen, here's the truth to the matter. 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:54.720 You got to know who you're FFing with. You know 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:56.720 what I'm saying. You slap somebody in the face, they 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:58.680 might slap you back and slap somebody else in the face. 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:00.280 They might punch you and knock you out. You slap 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:01.680 somebody else in the face, they might pull out a 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:03.560 gun to shoot you. You gotta know what you're dealing 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:06.760 with that and be ready to deal with them. Yeah. 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:08.960 I just don't get the man. Everybody should have their 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:11.520 own opinion. It shouldn't be a big a big deal 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:13.840 about it. If that's what they choose to do, that 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:16.800 that's on them. Let them in porson and move on. 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:19.360 So listen, why are you calling? Why is this the 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:21.680 first thing on your mind in the morning. Though, No, 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:23.840 it's no, I just can't know. Yes it is, Yes 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:28.200 it is, Yes it is a good one. But why 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:30.680 does it matter how other people live their lives anyway? 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:32.800 If it doesn't affect you, if you're not part of 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:37.160 the LGBTQ plus community, and like, why does it bother you? Hello? 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:40.920 Who's this? What's up? Bro? Get it off your chests? Yeah? 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:42.480 What I had to get out of my chest? Man. 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:44.560 I feel like a lot of people like seeing back 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:47.520 waiting for the government to do things instead of realize 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:50.080 what we can do ourselves. Like I ain't had nothing 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:52.960 a couple of years ago for bout the pandemic doing 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:56.120 it and then it won't really an issue with me. 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:59.240 You know. I started driving trust for a company, bought 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:02.640 the trust off of Facebook up owner operator. I'm here 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:05.719 fourteen dollars in a week. It's so much stuff people 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:08.120 can do out here, you know better theyself because I'm 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:10.520 trying to break a generation or curse. Well, families are 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:14.360 growing up in apartments in our own and homes because 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:18.040 it's phone broke up. But I agree with him, you 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:20.160 know what I mean. I mean, we definitely should push 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:22.680 our government and push our you know, national and local 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:24.440 government to do things for us, but we definitely got 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:26.400 to do for ourselves too. Word to the honorable or 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:29.400 Loijah Muhammad, what he said. What he said is also right. 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:31.040 I know a lot of people want to be rappers, 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:35.159 they want to be uh DJs, they want to be producers, 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:38.320 they want to be athletes, they want to get only fans. 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:40.840 There's a lot of other businesses that people can do, 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:44.320 and driving trucks is a major business. They make a 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:47.039 lot of money, so really really look into it, because 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:49.400 you think about it, one thing that didn't stop on 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:52.720 that road was those trucks, whether they were delivering food, 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:56.159 whether they were delivering toilet paper and paper towels. Those 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:59.080 roads stay full with those trucks. So people still had 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:01.200 those jobs with them truck. Yeah, And that's why I 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:03.240 always tell brothers, man, you go out there and learn 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:05.200 a trade, you know what I mean, Because there's certain 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:07.839 things that just never ever ever gonna stop. You're gonna 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:10.000 always need an electrician, You're gonna always need a plumber, 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:12.240 you know what I mean. And those people, those brothers 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:15.559 make good money. Since this make good money. Absolutely, Hello, 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:18.839 what's this? You know? What's up? Envious? Mellow? How y'all 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:24.080 feeling mellow? What's popping? What's going on? Y'all? Mellow? Your 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:27.320 phone is trahe it's gabbage. Your phone has been garbage 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:29.040 for at least seven of the ten years that we've 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:31.360 been here on the Breakfast Club. Get it off your chest. 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:33.840 Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one. If 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:35.280 you need to vent, hit us up now. It's the 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:41.800 Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Wait that ass 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:44.560 up in the morning. Check out this Breakfast Club. We 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:47.080 want and shout to myself. I want to shout to 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:49.400 myself today. I letna tell you today it's a seventeen 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:52.480 year anniversary of my album that I released, Drop a Bomb, 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:56.560 seventeen years since I dropped my debut album, The Block Party. 0:06:56.760 --> 0:07:00.760 It had jay z d Man. That's fun. I don't 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:05.240 think nobody can, but you. I do care. As you 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:08.039 don't even care because you didn't somebody posted you got 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:09.760 on Instagram and tag you. That's not you. You don't 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:13.200 even know that. But I'm a posting now taking you 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:15.680 back back back with the classic while we walk. It's 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:19.920 the Breakfast Club was a podcast Power one O five 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:24.400 one back You're checking out the world's most dangerous morning show. 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:26.559 Less than three minutes. We're taking your calls eight hundred 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:28.360 and five A five one oh five one. Get it 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:30.800 off your chest. If you're upset you need to vent 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:32.640 or if you want to spread some positive vibes, call 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:36.840 us now. It's the breakfast Club. Good morning. Don't want 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:41.280 to eat off my plate. Don't want to eat off 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:46.160 me when I have my visions, couldn't see I'm off 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:50.960 the butter. Don't want me. I love it. Only one 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:57.000 people on. That's gonna make me so. He asked, How 0:07:57.080 --> 0:08:00.880 I get that I'm too busy in this money kind 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:03.440 of shut my daddy, let me down with the po 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:10.440 man better you might buster before anoxy, get that letter 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:18.560 to play. Yeah, And I'm like, yeah, everybody, I can't 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.600 trust nobody. I mean, read your party. Don't buy me 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:27.400 to no party. In that it's so cool. They asked, 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:32.720 how I get that muster baby, you must only baby, 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:38.120 I'm off the better I'm only don't gonna make me. 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:41.080 I love it. Only one people around, it's gonna make 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:46.040 me better In that it's so They asked, how I 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:49.000 get that you've been cutting me out, You've been stuck 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:51.400 in the clouds. I get your money through the penny. 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:55.240 When you just gotta wake up, wake ya, your time 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:59.280 to get it off your chat man blast. We want 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:03.200 to hear from you on it. Hello. Who's this Hey? 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:06.600 This is Jessica. Hey Jessica, get it off, Jessica. Well, 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:09.440 what's up? What's up? Good morning guys. So I'm in Shawston, 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:13.600 South Carolina. Three yeah, all day, but I still got 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:17.600 my nine one seven numb heard so I'm a nuper driver. 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:20.800 So I was on Folly Beach and my phone plays 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:23.640 music automatically, like I played a playlist, so there's no commercials. 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:26.760 I like the niggas so comfortable, no no offense, but 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:30.360 for Caucasian people got into my car and I had 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:32.760 to take them twenty eight minutes away. It was cool, 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:37.160 we were driving, wanted them, played track music, then played 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:41.200 fall Out Boys. I'm played. I had to arrange the music. 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:44.400 Lady Guy Guy, And as soon as Beyonce Brown Skinned 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:46.880 Girl came one the lady in the back, I heard 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:50.319 the whispering among themselves, like Who's gonna say it? Finally 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:52.079 somebody was braving up to come up and say it. 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:54.560 It was excuse me, could you turn that song off 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:57.400 it's offending me. And I was like, what that song 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:00.559 offending you? And she said, well, it's all about like 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:03.079 black girls. I'm not black. I don't relate to that. 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:06.120 I was like, so something that bratty might again is 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.480 offending you. So what did I do? I thought of 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:11.400 the whole playlist off that dog. She got all the 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:14.880 black power music for all twenty music. No, wait a minute, 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:19.520 everybody stepped back from this situation, didn't look at it objectively. 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.480 Oh boy, you're an uber driver. Correct, And when you're 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:25.000 an uber driver, you're playing music because you want people 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:28.040 to feel comfortable. Correct, they don't feel comfortable about the song, 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:30.560 you don't gotta get offended. Bite she can't relate. She's 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:33.400 a man's flavoring mammal. Yeah, but it's not that type 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:35.760 of song. It's it's not like saying, you know, f 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:38.360 white people. That's not that's just upset that she don't 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:41.199 have that tan. That's all. Well, she goes, I'm just 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:43.760 mad that all this trap music played. We don't hurt 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:46.160 drug deal of music. We don't her wip, we don't 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:48.640 hurt everything. You didn't get offended about nothing because she's 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:52.640 no drug dealers she knows drug dealers, and she uses drugs. 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:55.440 She might have she got, she might might mean white 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:59.560 as her Okay, oh my goodness, she just can't relate. Girl, 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:02.679 she's kind of rating. What kind of rating did you 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:06.400 give her? Oh? No, I listen. I gave her the 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:08.600 same rating I usually give everybody else. Because she didn't 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:11.040 rat me no less because she gets but after she 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:14.040 said it, because mine, if you heard the music that 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:16.600 I was playing around, I was playing corns, fall out boy, 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.080 I was playing all this other stuff in rotation. If 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:21.319 anybody know what that music is, even know that it 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:23.840 was diverse and get off. And I think you missed 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:25.920 a good opportunity to teach to though, because you could 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:27.440 have just told her like, look, this is an old 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:32.559 to to to melan it all right, well, hello, who's this? Hey? 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:37.600 How's it going for? Then? Though? Good morning? Yes, sir, 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:40.040 I was going I got a quick question for Charlotte 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:42.920 man Man. Yes, sir, I asked you a question. I 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:45.480 don't know if somebody ever asked you this, but who 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:48.040 was your top three donkeys of all time? And what 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:51.960 you're considered consider giving donkey a donkey Hall of Fame? 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:54.000 Oh yeah, I mean at the end of the year, 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:56.000 we do a top five Donkeys of the year. I 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:57.959 don't I'm gonna be honest with you, top donkeys of 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:01.000 all time. Donald Trump is definitely in the top three. 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:03.439 I mean I've given it to him more than anybody. 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.480 And um, I'm gonna always put myself in the top 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:08.160 three because I always say, you know, when you give 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:10.080 people the credit, you gotta give everybody to credit they 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:13.080 deserve for being stupid, including yourself. I don't know who 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:16.800 the third one would be. There sounds first y'all want 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:20.360 to clue Braun from the Breakfast Club. All right, we'll 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:22.800 go on, get it off your chest eight hundred five 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:24.640 eight five one on five one. If you need to vent, 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:26.480 hit us up. Now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:34.200 the Breakfast Club winning. Everybody is tj Envy, Angela Yee, 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:36.719 Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now. You 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:38.800 have some special guests joining us this morning, and I'm 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:41.200 not going to tell your names up. Don't even try 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:44.920 let them introduce themselves, please please. My name is Malati 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:48.640 Bhana Mescoll from Denver, Colorado, UM and originally from t 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.679 Gray in Ethiopia. What's up? Everyone. My name's on dam 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:53.959 get Vic Jorgets from money Earning Mount Vernon, New York. 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:56.440 My family comes from Erica. And you know I got 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:59.120 I got a call from my man Alex down in Atlanta, 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:02.760 AG and you know, he was really concerned about this 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:06.160 civil war that's happening in his homeland of v Fiopius. 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:09.119 So can you can you tell us more about that? Yeah? Absolutely? 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:13.439 What's happening in a nutshell is we are in on 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:16.280 day two hundred and two of a genocide into Gray, 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:22.120 the northernmost region of Ethiopia. There is the humanitarian crisis. 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:24.640 There is something that everyone should be worried about. I mean, 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:28.640 the women are being gang raped by soldiers. There is 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:31.960 more than five million people are at risk for starvation. 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:34.760 I mean there's a crisis on a level that is 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:36.640 not getting the attention that it should be. Why do 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:38.679 you think it's nuggeting attention? Is it should because this 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:40.800 is you know earlier today was really the first time 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.600 I dove into it other than here in the weekend 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.520 in people donating so much money, Yeah, for sure. I 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:48.640 mean I think when it comes to issues on the 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:51.080 African content, a lot of times it really gets pushed 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:55.560 to the side when I see what's been happening honestly 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:57.839 over the last couple of decades, just in Africa in general, 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:01.000 if it doesn't conform to what we think here in 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:03.320 the West in terms of like typical conflicts like black 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:06.440 versus white, so apartheid South Africa. If you're thinking in Libya, 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:08.000 maybe you had heard of that there was like slave 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:10.400 camps happening. We can understand that and connected that when 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:13.880 we're thinking about the history of slavery within the African gasper. 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:15.840 But a lot of times when it comes to um 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:18.959 conflicts where you know you're looking at it and it's 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:21.480 black people and black people, again, there are different ethnic 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:23.960 groups that are involved. And again i'm Eric Trein Alex 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:26.800 actually Erictran as well. His wife is from from tigray Um. 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:29.320 There are different forces involved at play here. It can 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:31.280 be complicated. But also the Western media just doesn't really 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:33.440 pay attention when and give it the attention that it 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:36.560 deserves when it's a serious situation. Well, and don't forget, 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:39.240 there was a complete communication blackout. So what this Prime 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:41.840 Minister of Ethiopia is doing, he's doing it in the dark, 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:44.280 so people don't know. Wow, so the information is just 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:48.400 now getting out. So y'all, have y'all even gotten in 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:51.440 touch with your families briefly? There's some parts of the 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:53.280 city where they turn the phones on for a short 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:55.120 amount of time and then they're off again. But the 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:57.960 majority of my family's from the countryside. So the people 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:00.440 in the city, I mean, I personally have lost five 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:04.960 family members in seven months. Wow, right, I mean it's horrific. 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.480 And I you know, on the Aeratran context, we have 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.640 a country that is really just a really repressive government, 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:13.280 a government where when we're speaking on those phone calls, 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:16.920 through viber connections, whatever it is, you know, people can't 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:19.760 even tell their honest feelings about what's going on because 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:22.200 they're fearful that there's going to be repression or reprisals 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:25.120 against them. And obviously, again the context is different on 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:26.880 the Airy transide from what's going on in to grab 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:30.040 because aera trans they are conscripted soldiers being forced into 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:32.240 to Gri and there have been a lot of abuses. 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:34.320 But again you can't even really get full information through 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:36.720 some of those channels because again people can't speak openly. 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:39.320 So breakdown, why why is it so much turmoil? And 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:41.480 so much fighting and so much war and everything that 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:45.640 you just say why, Well, the simple answer is it's 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:48.160 a power grab. It's a power grab. So Ethiopia has 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:51.080 a decentralized form of government right now, and the current 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:53.400 prime minister, who was never elected by the way he 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:55.760 was appointed, was supposed to have an election and he's 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:58.960 canceled at four times now. So at this point we 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:00.560 don't even know when the election it's going to happen. 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:03.000 Who's overseeing him. There's nobody overseeing him to say, hey, 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:05.560 you can't do that. That's a great question. There's nobody 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:09.160 overseeing him, nobody. He's changed the whole system of politics 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:12.880 in Ethiopia, where instead of having these independent bodies that 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:16.080 come together, ethnic groups that come together to decide on things, 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:18.160 he's changed that. So it's more of a unitarian system. 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:21.680 There's one political party now. So it's um, you're right, 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:24.240 I mean, who here you would impeach your president? Right? 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:26.600 We don't have that option. What would what would it 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:32.160 take to get peace? That's too broad a question. I 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:34.840 don't think there will ever be peace with the Sciosopha 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:37.960 workI in Eritrea and aviahmad in Ethiopia. I think at 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:40.400 this point those people have to go. There's no way 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:42.360 to have peace with them in power. Well, yeah, I 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:44.640 mean Martin Luther King has a quote, it's pieces not 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:47.080 the apence of Ford's the presence of justice. So not 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:49.280 only do we have war that's going on now, but 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:52.560 for decades in aery Trea there hasn't been justice. I mean, 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:55.600 that's the most painful thing. What Airtrian soldiers are doing 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:57.720 to grind women. This war is being played out on 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:00.480 the bodies of women and girls period, and they're doing 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:02.840 things like putting hot rods up a woman's vagina to 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:06.879 burn her internal reproductive organs. And it's not one story. 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:09.760 We're hearing this story from many women, and that's just 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:11.399 the tip of the iceberg. Because we still don't have 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:16.000 access to the people. Why why emphasis on sexual violence, 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:17.960 Like what is that to them? That's a good question, 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:20.920 that's a good question. I don't know. I think, you know, well, 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:22.159 first of all, there are two things. I think. The 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:25.080 first thing is that again, many of the forces that 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:28.800 are sort of operating in that region are operating lawlessly, 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:31.080 you know, like there is no one sort of overseeing 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:34.160 what's happening. There aren't the sort of journalists, the journalists 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:36.639 or the media availability to able to communicate what's happening 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:39.760 in a rapid fashion. And then at the same time, 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:41.640 like you know, there are issues in terms of like identity, 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:43.520 like when you're thinking about the sexual violence, like this 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:46.800 is deeper than just you know, like murder or something 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:48.760 like that. Like you're you're trying to make You're trying 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:50.960 to strike fear into the hearts of an entire group 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:53.720 of people. And that has been what's really really disturbing 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:55.960 about this this conflict. And one thing is clear is 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:58.560 this sexual violence. It's not undisciplined soldiers. This is a 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:01.360 directive to go in and attack the women, make sure 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:03.919 they can't reproduce. I mean, it's it's a directive from 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:05.919 the top, and that's what makes it scary. All Right, 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:07.920 we got more when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:15.119 Good morning, the Breakfast Club Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:18.000 Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the guy we are the Breakfast Club 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:21.199 were still kicking it within endom Charlomagne as far as 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:24.080 you know as the Biden administration tried to get involved. Yeah, 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:25.719 I mean recently over the last couple of days. There 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:28.560 have been more statements coming out. They just yesterday there 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:32.000 was a visa band that was put out on you know, 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:35.480 sort of all sides involved in the conflict, but really 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:37.480 they relate to the game. I mean, we're going on 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:40.600 now seven months of what's happening. I mean, don't forget 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:42.639 Trump was the one who was in office when this started, 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:45.320 so Biden hasn't had a full seven months to really 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:47.040 address this, you know what I mean. Trump wasn't going 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:48.760 to do anything. He didn't care, he had nothing to 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:52.120 gain from it. Trump was transactional. So I would say, 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:53.920 you know, Biden's team, they've done a lot in a 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:55.760 short amount of time. I mean they've sent a special 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:58.680 envoy to the Horn of Africa. They you know, as 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:00.840 soon as he came back, when Free Feltman came back, 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:03.600 within twenty four hours, you had Senate Resolution ninety seven 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:06.280 was passed, the UN passed, you know, the Right to 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:09.760 Protect Act. So I think a lot has happened undervited. 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:12.240 I mean it's not fast enough. We're talking about at 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:14.960 least one hundred and fifty thousand people have been killed, 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:17.560 at least if you multiply, I mean, if you divide 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:19.240 that by two hundred and two days. It's like one 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:21.160 hundred and seventy five people a day or so, I'm sorry, 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:22.840 seven hundred people a day. So it's a lot of 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:25.960 people who are dying. So it's not fast enough. It's 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:29.240 just not fast enough. We're all losing our families. But 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:31.560 hopefully with the sanctions that have been announced, something's going 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:34.280 to change. And listen, the issue of Airtryan soldiers being 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:37.560 into Gray. We can't I can't stress that enough. Think 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:39.280 about this. We're in New York right now. If the 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:42.040 federal government had an issue in New York and invited 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:45.200 Canada in to bomb New York, that's outrageous, right, That's 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:48.320 unheard of, and you wouldn't even imagine that outside New 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:52.159 York exactly exactly. That's literally what's happening into Gray right now. 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:54.479 So and to me, I mean, to Gray is an 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:57.720 important place you think about, like from a spiritual perspective, 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:02.440 to gray. Christianity argue Lee started in Ethiopia into gray. 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:06.080 Islam was saved, muhammad followers were saved into gray. The 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:09.160 oldest mosque in Africa is into gray. The oldest known 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:13.320