Speaker 1: Pody allowed me to integrate, allow me to introduce myself,
Speaker 1: Angela and Charlomagne. The guys, y'all him a long way.
Speaker 1: I think that y'all have a certain amount of respect
Speaker 1: for you know what everybody else does, and yo are
Speaker 1: just the best of what y'all doing. This platform, the
Speaker 1: reach y'all have that you earned, make space for somebody
Speaker 1: like me. You guys have a direct line to the coaches.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm on the ready end on Dolomaine
Speaker 1: and Gay Empty. All I do is read about the
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club every morning. Good you guys are trending every
Speaker 1: you know, I dragged my ass out of that. I'm like, uh,
Speaker 1: what happened on the breakfast Club today? Get yours? Good
Speaker 1: morning Usa yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo
Speaker 1: yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo
Speaker 1: yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo Good morning Angela, yee,
Speaker 1: good money. He's amby Charlemagne, the god piece to the
Speaker 1: plan that is Tuesday. Yes, it's Tuesday, Yes it is.
Speaker 1: Man still feels grim and gloomy. Huh um. I mean
Speaker 1: I say grim and gloomy, but I'm gonna say heavy.
Speaker 1: You know, I think that still gloomy to me. It's
Speaker 1: still weighing heavy on people. You know, you wake up
Speaker 1: in the morning. I just gotta text from a partner
Speaker 1: of mine and you know, he's a father, and he
Speaker 1: said he just can't get over He said, he just
Speaker 1: can't get over that. That the fact that you know,
Speaker 1: Kobe passed with his daughter like that. You know, it's
Speaker 1: more and more details come out, it just makes you
Speaker 1: It just makes it to me feels even more worse.
Speaker 1: So or even worse I should say, yeah, And I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I think I think when you're a father,
Speaker 1: I think it's the the whole idea of you know,
Speaker 1: our job being able to protect and provide with being
Speaker 1: in a position with your daughter the way no matter what,
Speaker 1: there's nothing you could do to protect her in that situation.
Speaker 1: But listen, yeah, it's still investigating. But you just think
Speaker 1: about a lot of things that you I don't want
Speaker 1: to say you don't necessarily think about, but you might
Speaker 1: not think about as much like when you're gonna think
Speaker 1: about death, No, but when like you go on the plane,
Speaker 1: right and the pilot that has control of everybody's lives
Speaker 1: on that plane. Do you really Yeah, I've been telling
Speaker 1: you about it. Bus drivers, how when I walk on
Speaker 1: an airplane, I say hied to the pilot. When we land,
Speaker 1: I say, you know, thank you. I do that all
Speaker 1: the time. Ober drivers or lift drivers. You don't know
Speaker 1: who you know, Yes, I do that all the time.
Speaker 1: You got to be extra night thro those people because
Speaker 1: you don't know what they're going You don't know what
Speaker 1: they're going through. You don't know how the day ass you.
Speaker 1: You don't know the experience. You just you honestly don't know. Man.
Speaker 1: But I was heartbroken watching the husband of the basketball
Speaker 1: coach who died on that helicopter, Christina Mauser. Hole. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he called into the Today Show and that hurt me, Like,
Speaker 1: had to tell his kids, is that the one? Yes,
Speaker 1: he's got three small children. Yeah. I saw an interview
Speaker 1: he did that. He did an interview. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: Today Show. That was that was horrible. I don't know, man, Again,
Speaker 1: our condolences, and then I just don't like seeing people
Speaker 1: being negative in a time like this and having nasty
Speaker 1: negative things to say, Well, you better move off to
Speaker 1: this planet then. But that's what this planet is built on.
Speaker 1: That's why I've been hanging like, not going on social media,
Speaker 1: not looking at too much stuff, just because I think
Speaker 1: it's just very disheartening the way people are in this world.
Speaker 1: Some people you got, but you know what, I'm not
Speaker 1: even gonna say in this world, I'm gonna say on
Speaker 1: social media, I think that's a social media thing. I
Speaker 1: think a lot of that stuff is performative. I think
Speaker 1: people do that because they just know they're gonna get
Speaker 1: attention for it. Yeah, I just really do. I think
Speaker 1: they know they're gonna get retweets, they know they're gonna
Speaker 1: get likes, they know they're gonna get people adding them,
Speaker 1: they're gonna get written up in certain articles. Like I
Speaker 1: just think certain things you can't even give energy. Man,
Speaker 1: don't even get that. Don't even give that no energy. Well,
Speaker 1: Bishop td Jakes will be joining us, man, nobody I
Speaker 1: would want to talk to more other than probably the
Speaker 1: honor up minus the lowest prior con But I definitely
Speaker 1: was thinking about Bishop td Jakes the past couple of things. Man,
Speaker 1: that is a person I consider one of my spiritual advisors,
Speaker 1: and I'm glad he is joining us this morning. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, you know what in terms like this, if
Speaker 1: you have kids, this is usually when your kids just
Speaker 1: ask a lot of questions and a lot of questions
Speaker 1: I couldn't answer. You know. My daughter, you know, asked
Speaker 1: me yesterday. You know, hey, Dad, you know, if if
Speaker 1: you have free will, and we pray for God and
Speaker 1: we pray, you know, for for God and our blessings
Speaker 1: and pray for things, and you know, when you look
Speaker 1: at situations like this, you know, why couldn't you know,
Speaker 1: God put his hands in things and say, you know what,
Speaker 1: do this? Do that? And some of these I just
Speaker 1: don't have to answer for it. Yeah, that's true, you know,
Speaker 1: but I mean we we all do make choices as well,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like you can't I think
Speaker 1: sometimes we give God credit for choices that we make.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes there's just human error. Yeah you hope God,
Speaker 1: you know, helps you through it, but sometimes there's just
Speaker 1: human error. I you know, my guy, you know, I
Speaker 1: talked to my daughter and I was like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: said the same thing, and she was like, but if
Speaker 1: you know, if God is God, why I couldn't he
Speaker 1: even fix that human error? You know that those three
Speaker 1: young children on that plane that is a great question,
Speaker 1: and that's all I can say. I don't have an
Speaker 1: answer for it. That's that's I think. Sometimes we try
Speaker 1: to make sense of the senseless. And that's exactly what
Speaker 1: I said. Some things just are Yeah, it is what
Speaker 1: it is. That's the baby. Let's talk in the morning.
Speaker 1: Good night, all right, and also Steve Stott will be
Speaker 1: joining us this morning. Yes, he's got Kobe stories too.
Speaker 1: He actually signed Kobe Day's first record deal. Yeah, long
Speaker 1: relationship with Kobe Brown. All right, so we'll kick with
Speaker 1: both of them. Let's get the show cracking front page news.
Speaker 1: What we're talking about, Well, they were supposed to be
Speaker 1: a Lakers and Clippers game, and we'll give you information
Speaker 1: on what happened with that. Also, Lebron has spoken about Kobe,
Speaker 1: so we'll tell you what he had to say. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll get into that next keeping lot. This to Breakfast Club,
Speaker 1: good morning, wanting everybody as TJ Envy, Angela, Yee, Charlemagne
Speaker 1: the guy, we are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in
Speaker 1: some front page news. When we start with ge Well,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the NBA. They officially postponed the last
Speaker 1: night's Lakers versus Clippers game. Oh, Tonight's Lakers versus Clippers
Speaker 1: game that was supposed to be at the Staples Center
Speaker 1: out of respect for the Lakers organization after Kobe Bryant
Speaker 1: some time we passing, they said the game will be
Speaker 1: rescheduled at a later date. I'm gonna be honest with you,
Speaker 1: I thought that was gonna be something special tonight because
Speaker 1: when I saw that on the schedule, I was like, Damn,
Speaker 1: the Lakers and Clippers playing the night at the Stables Center.
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's gonna be special. Can you imagine the emotions?
Speaker 1: Though they probably didn't want to play, They probably haven't
Speaker 1: grieved yet. They just probably just need some time to
Speaker 1: just just get it all out. This system grieving as
Speaker 1: a process. But I was just thinking about, you know, Lebron,
Speaker 1: the show he might have put on it. It's all
Speaker 1: very selfish reasons. By the way. Kawhi Leonard, you know,
Speaker 1: he had a relationship with Kobe. He you know, trained
Speaker 1: at the Mamba Academy. Like the show he might have
Speaker 1: put on, Like, I don't know, I would have been
Speaker 1: special all right now. The Yukon Huskies women's basketball team.
Speaker 1: It's also honoring Gianna Gigi Prior to the game last
Speaker 1: night against Team USA, they had a number two jersey
Speaker 1: on the chair with the bouquet of flowers. Also, that's
Speaker 1: where she was determined to play. She wanted to go
Speaker 1: to Yukon, so they honored her as well. And they
Speaker 1: said that Kobe had also trademark Gigi's nickname Mambasita, so
Speaker 1: I guess he was getting ready for her to be
Speaker 1: a star as well. All right, now, out over one
Speaker 1: point four million fans have signed a petition they went
Speaker 1: the NBA to change the logo in order to honor
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant. So that logo has been the same since
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy one as an outline of Jerry West. So
Speaker 1: now they feel like this petition wants them to change
Speaker 1: that to be an outline of Kobe Bryant. I'm not
Speaker 1: mad at that, actually. I mean, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: even know what Jerry did to deserve that honor, But
Speaker 1: I don't think that's a bad idea at all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: people saying it's a great idea, but you know what
Speaker 1: happens when you know Michael Jordan, When Michael Jordan passes
Speaker 1: way down the line. Listen, God forbid, I don't think
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan would dies tragically with Kobe Bryant. That's right,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I think that's that's that's
Speaker 1: the honor, right, you know the fact that he died
Speaker 1: so tragically. I don't think that's gonna happen in Micho. Now.
Speaker 1: You can also watch Kobe's Oscar winning short film Dear
Speaker 1: Basketball online for free right now. It's five minutes and
Speaker 1: twenty two seconds and it won an Academy Award two
Speaker 1: years ago. It was the Best Animated Short Film. It
Speaker 1: was based on the poem that Kobe wrote for the
Speaker 1: players Tribute in his final season in the NBA to
Speaker 1: announce that it would be last season in the NBA.
Speaker 1: So if you want to check that out, you definitely
Speaker 1: can do that. Did I would out Jerry Westfield's about
Speaker 1: the NBA Local change. Has he said anything about it?
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I haven't seen because his word would
Speaker 1: go a long way because he's the logo right all right?
Speaker 1: An I told you earlier the husband Christina Mauser who
Speaker 1: also passed away and that helicopter crash, Matt Mauser was
Speaker 1: on the Today's Show. He called in and here's what
Speaker 1: he said. How difficult was that to tell them, let's see,
Speaker 1: I said, you know, it was the hardest to have
Speaker 1: ever done. A doubt, how you telling try out? Their
Speaker 1: mommies no longer with us? So he screamed, They yelled,
Speaker 1: and I just held him, let him scream, let him yell.
Speaker 1: I can't lie, and I was. I would always get
Speaker 1: nervous when she get on the helicopter. It's just something
Speaker 1: in my heart, heartbreaking. No man, no man wants to
Speaker 1: be in that position. No, no, no man deserves to
Speaker 1: be in that position. I pray for that man. I
Speaker 1: pray for that man. I pray for that man. I
Speaker 1: pray for that man's family. Absolutely, Lord, all right, and
Speaker 1: that's front page news. Also, if you're looking for a
Speaker 1: Kobe gear, Nike has pulled Kobe's gear off the shows.
Speaker 1: Why well, they're trying to figure out what to do
Speaker 1: moving forward. Yeah, for right now, they don't want people
Speaker 1: to resell for high numbers and things like that, so
Speaker 1: I guess maybe they're producing more so they don't have
Speaker 1: to deal with a resellers. But for right now they
Speaker 1: pulled it off the off the Nike dot com site.
Speaker 1: All right, get it off your chests. Eight hundred five
Speaker 1: eight five one oh five one. If you're upset and
Speaker 1: you need to vent phone lines to wide open the numbers.
Speaker 1: Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one is
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. The morning the Breakfast Club. It is
Speaker 1: your time to get it off your chests, whether you're
Speaker 1: man or blast, So you better have the same ant
Speaker 1: we want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello,
Speaker 1: who's this the steward man? What's up? Everything? What's up? Steward?
Speaker 1: Get it off your chests? Bro? You're a man? Scat
Speaker 1: what's up? Dollars? What's happening? First? I want to start
Speaker 1: up at n RP to Kobe and his daughters and
Speaker 1: every family. Man. It's sad, but that MSNBC reporter Alison
Speaker 1: Morris man, we got to stop for giving these people
Speaker 1: or the blatant disrespect that they do and hold them accountable.
Speaker 1: You know, that was breaking news and abact that she
Speaker 1: knews for us or not. She shouldn't be in that
Speaker 1: position if she can't do a job. See, I'm saying
Speaker 1: it made me really upset that she and I listened
Speaker 1: to the take like a hundred times already. She clearly
Speaker 1: said yeah, and I'm shocked at the progressive, liberal leaning
Speaker 1: network like MSNBC didn't at Leasta spin her. Well, that's
Speaker 1: a terrible time to make a mistake. And she covered
Speaker 1: her own ass bout making a quick statement and that
Speaker 1: was that you know what I I mean, you never heard
Speaker 1: about it again. We got to start holding these people accountable.
Speaker 1: Man censuries the disrespect dot com like Kobe was alleged,
Speaker 1: and to have her say that, like, people don't get it.
Speaker 1: To have her stake that about the Lakers and nations
Speaker 1: and nobody's like, you know, I I see people on
Speaker 1: social media defending her black people defender. She didn't say this,
Speaker 1: you did. Said I'm like, wait, will this telling the stuff? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we put it in HD bro bro. She definitely said hello,
Speaker 1: who's this? This is blind Beauty. Hey, blind Beauty, how
Speaker 1: you doing? Good morning you guys, Good morning getting blind Beauty.
Speaker 1: Blind Beauty did a song for me, and um, I
Speaker 1: just want to say thank you came out really really dope.
Speaker 1: Oh well you're welcome. Are we gonna hear it? But
Speaker 1: soon bit soon, bit soon be. We gotta clear some stuff.
Speaker 1: We gotta clear some stuff and make sure everything's clear. Yes,
Speaker 1: I wanted to talk to you this morning. Um. First
Speaker 1: of all, obviously rest in peace to Kobe. And then
Speaker 1: I just want to say thank you to you guys,
Speaker 1: because he would just think like, oh she gets through
Speaker 1: or chapped it through. But I've been calling forever or
Speaker 1: once up fun of time, Charlotte being told me I
Speaker 1: was trashed at music once upun of time. I did
Speaker 1: a poem, you know, and you guys like I've grown
Speaker 1: with you guys as an artist, as a writer, and
Speaker 1: it just really mean a lot. And Charlotte Magne, yes,
Speaker 1: Ma'm okay. You always talking about I see you real,
Speaker 1: I see you. I want you to see me on
Speaker 1: your feed and follow me eventually. Please. What's your what's
Speaker 1: your what's your feed? Your blind beauty on Instagram? Your
Speaker 1: blind beauty? Yes, I'm your blind beauty. Why? Ah, you
Speaker 1: are all right, I'm gonna give it. I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: it a follow. If I'm not interested after a week,
Speaker 1: i'm gonna stop following you. Okay, thank you? All right,
Speaker 1: you guys have all right? Hello? Who's this? Hey? This
Speaker 1: is Arlyn Remington's mommy. Hey Tarlyn, Okay, good morning. Hey.
Speaker 1: I called you guys when I first had him, like
Speaker 1: it was like November night and it was actually my
Speaker 1: birthday death day. Um, and Charlotte Magne wasn't at work,
Speaker 1: so I hope he's here today on time. How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm right here. What's happening? H Ten? I love you
Speaker 1: so much and my husband thank Me and my husband
Speaker 1: are super big fans. And Angela. Ye, hey, BJ and Babe.
Speaker 1: Good morning Ryan. I just want to give you guys
Speaker 1: an update. Baby really can't remember I coach you guys,
Speaker 1: he was almost ten pounds. I want to give you
Speaker 1: guys an update. He's still a big baby. I think
Speaker 1: he's hitting almost fifteen pounds now. He's almost three months.
Speaker 1: If you follow me on I know right, I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't believe he's growing the fast. Um. My Instagram
Speaker 1: is missus e Underscore TV because I know Angela was
Speaker 1: like I want to see a picture of him, So
Speaker 1: I've been posting daily updates with him. They grow up
Speaker 1: so fast. And yeah, I'm tired from holding him. I'm
Speaker 1: actually holding him right now. Yes, I am question. Is
Speaker 1: your baby getting fast shamed yet on social media? No
Speaker 1: he is not. He is not getting that shame. He's
Speaker 1: his dad is like sixty three. I'm like five nine.
Speaker 1: So here have a tall baby. Yeah, y'all big people
Speaker 1: baby hand. That's just like my uh my homegirl Debbie
Speaker 1: Brown and her husband Dwayne. Even when they used to
Speaker 1: be dating back in the day. I used to be like, boy,
Speaker 1: y'all gonna have some big babies. Get it on. His
Speaker 1: son is big. Oh my God, ready ready for the
Speaker 1: ready for the NFL. Right now, goodness Green, she's get
Speaker 1: it off your chest eight hundred five eight five one
Speaker 1: on five one. If you need to vent, hit us
Speaker 1: up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club,
Speaker 1: Wake up, wake up, Wake y'all your chime to get
Speaker 1: it off your chest, whether your man or blas, we
Speaker 1: want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello.
Speaker 1: Who's this? Hey Samy? Hey, good on to get it
Speaker 1: off your chest? Hey, good morning to do that. Envy,
Speaker 1: I'm calling. I'm responding to what you said earlier about
Speaker 1: your kids, when you were talking about um like, if
Speaker 1: God was God, how come he let that happen? Or
Speaker 1: how come you know how he allowed that had to happen.
Speaker 1: And I was just sitting her thinking, you know, we're
Speaker 1: all hurt by the incident with Kobe and his daughter
Speaker 1: and the rest um that happened with the helicopter incident. Oh,
Speaker 1: good morning Angela and Charlemagne by the way, morning the morning. Um,
Speaker 1: it's not. We have to realize that God allows certain
Speaker 1: things to happen. It ain't that he didn't stop it.
Speaker 1: He allows certain things to happen. And it could be
Speaker 1: that he's trying to get America's attention for some reason. Um,
Speaker 1: whatever that may be, you know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 1: it ain't that, you know, Um, he just can allow
Speaker 1: things to happen, not that he just has the power
Speaker 1: to stop it. He allows things to happen, you know,
Speaker 1: And he allows this to happen for whatever reason. Maybe
Speaker 1: he's trying to wait America up. You see what I mean.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, all I know is we all we
Speaker 1: all have free will, we all make choices and didn't
Speaker 1: as God's will. I think sometimes we give God credit
Speaker 1: for things that he's he doesn't have a he or
Speaker 1: she doesn't necessarily have a hand in. But I do
Speaker 1: know that if you believe in God, and you truly
Speaker 1: believe everything happens for a reason, you gotta take the
Speaker 1: soul called good with the soul called bad. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it's hard. It's hard to say that to a child.
Speaker 1: When a child praise every night for things that they
Speaker 1: want and being grateful to be here and then see
Speaker 1: things like this, you know, it's kind of like she
Speaker 1: feels like, you know, you pray for things, you know,
Speaker 1: and then this happened. So what are we actually praying for?
Speaker 1: You know? That's that's the way of thinking, and those
Speaker 1: those are things that you have to understand one day
Speaker 1: on her own, because I don't have the answers. You know.
Speaker 1: Another thing, I think we should start thinking about again,
Speaker 1: what's that? And I haven't been thinking about this for
Speaker 1: a while, even tho I grew up a Jehovah witnesses.
Speaker 1: You do got to start thinking about the afterlife. You do.
Speaker 1: Got to start thinking about you know, paradise. You do.
Speaker 1: Got to start thinking like, yo, maybe there is a
Speaker 1: place that's that's better, you know, than here, right, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? And maybe it was just their
Speaker 1: time to go there. I don't know. I don't know. Hello, Hello,
Speaker 1: who's this? Hey? What's up? Get it off your chest?
Speaker 1: Good morning? And name Jay? What's up? Bro? I don't
Speaker 1: want to say hi. Maybe I've been doing the work,
Speaker 1: going to therasybout liable to get over mynd and anxiety
Speaker 1: can get ribbed by my girlfriend. That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: But listened by his girlfriend. How she robbed you? Oh no,
Speaker 1: I was her or three cousins. Man, they pulled up
Speaker 1: on that can be very girlfriend and robbed you at
Speaker 1: gunpoint with her cousins, him and his mama. My bad,
Speaker 1: my bad ex girlfriend. I'm with my my new girlfriend.
Speaker 1: I was here going a year and a half. How
Speaker 1: long were you dating this woman that she set you
Speaker 1: up and robbed you? Man, it was about for two years.
Speaker 1: It was more of a it was more of a
Speaker 1: she was sought because I was moving on type thing.
Speaker 1: So she wanted to roll her stuff back, pulled up
Speaker 1: with a cousin. I thought we was just fighting. They
Speaker 1: pulled out a gun. You know. Wait, she came to
Speaker 1: get her own stuff back. No, she came to get
Speaker 1: like little gifts and and stuff. And the funny part
Speaker 1: is when the police arrested her, they brought all the
Speaker 1: stuff back. Wow. This is a tragic ending to a relationship.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I'm glad. I'm glad you went to do
Speaker 1: the work, brother, because you know that PTSD and that
Speaker 1: anxiety from such a traumatic situation can be a mother ever. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: it's been hard, man, but I've been and through it. Hey,
Speaker 1: real quick, shout to my brother Andrew. You listen to
Speaker 1: y'all all the time. Man, you're going to work right now.
Speaker 1: It's a little brother, Jake, Andrew. What's happening, So get
Speaker 1: it off your chests. Eight dread five A five one
Speaker 1: oh five one. If you need to vent, hit us
Speaker 1: up now now you've got rooms on the way. Yes,
Speaker 1: And the effects of Kobe Bryant. Find out what Ti
Speaker 1: had to say to his family and also what fifty
Speaker 1: cent says is not going to happen right now, all
Speaker 1: because of Kobe. All right, we'll get into that next.
Speaker 1: Keep a lock this to Breakfast Club come morning. The
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. It's just say, oh gosh, go report gys
Speaker 1: Angela into it's the rum of report Breakfast Club. All right. Now,
Speaker 1: let's talk about Terry Crews versus Gabrielle Union and America's
Speaker 1: Got Talent. If you guys recall, Gabrielle Union is not
Speaker 1: returning to Gabrielle. Gabrielle Union's not returning to America's Got
Speaker 1: Talent because she said it was sexist. There was racism
Speaker 1: there present, and Terry Crews responded about his own experience
Speaker 1: on the show, saying this, first of all, I can't
Speaker 1: speak for sexism because I'm not a woman, but I
Speaker 1: can't speak on behalf of any racism comments. That was
Speaker 1: never my experience on America's Got Talent. In fact, it
Speaker 1: was the most diverse place I have ever been in
Speaker 1: my twenty years of entertainment. When you look at what
Speaker 1: the allegations were about, it was given by an unnamed source.
Speaker 1: My thing is, you know, it's funny because I believe
Speaker 1: you should listen to women. You should always believe women.
Speaker 1: So I asked my wife. My wife said, well, if
Speaker 1: she hasn't made a statement, why would you, And I said,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna listen to her, all right. Well.
Speaker 1: Gabrielle Union then went on Twitter as people were tweeting
Speaker 1: her about that interview, and she said, truth telling, wanting
Speaker 1: change and having multiple witnesses who bravely came forward to
Speaker 1: let everyone know I didn't lie or exaggerate really exposes
Speaker 1: those who enthusiastically will throw you under the bus for
Speaker 1: getting quickly who stepped up for their truth. Now if
Speaker 1: you guys recall when Terry Crews had his own allegations
Speaker 1: saying that he was groped at a party by a
Speaker 1: high level Hollywood executive. Gabrielle Union had tweeted out, Terry
Speaker 1: Crews is a stand up guy. Literally one of the
Speaker 1: nicest people in our industry. He is honest, kind and
Speaker 1: true professional. I believe him and stand by him. Hashtag
Speaker 1: me too. So people did not like the fact that
Speaker 1: that happened. Now. Terry Crews then tweeted out, after the
Speaker 1: backlash he got from that interview, I'm a hog, you're
Speaker 1: a chicken. Just because you gave me eggs don't mean
Speaker 1: I owe you bacon wow ancient Flint Michigan proverb. Then
Speaker 1: he tweeted, there is only one woman on earth I
Speaker 1: have to please. Her name is Rebecca. Not my mother
Speaker 1: and my sister. My daughters are co workers. I will
Speaker 1: let their husband's boyfriend's partners take care of them. Rebecca
Speaker 1: gives me wings. Who's Rebecca his wife? His wife? Sure?
Speaker 1: So Terry only cares about his wife, not his mother,
Speaker 1: not his care about his daughters, his sisters, his homegirls,
Speaker 1: his aunt, his mom. The only woman you care about
Speaker 1: in your life's wife is crazy. That's the sad. The
Speaker 1: only person he has to please. Yeah, No, the only
Speaker 1: person he has to please. That's not that's not true.
Speaker 1: That's not true at all. No, especially your daughters. And
Speaker 1: if he thinks like that, I don't even know what
Speaker 1: type of man he is. You don't put your daughters
Speaker 1: in the number of people. What did you want to please?
Speaker 1: Her mother said, he'll let their husband's boyfriends and partners
Speaker 1: take care of that boy certain certain things that your
Speaker 1: husband and you know, your partners and your boyfriend's This
Speaker 1: is love that a father can provide that they can't
Speaker 1: at all. But if you don't have a husband's boyfriend
Speaker 1: or a partner, then what he's just floating around? And
Speaker 1: then I think Dad, even when Terry says, um, you
Speaker 1: should believe all women, if he feels like you should
Speaker 1: believe all women, and why would he undermine what Gabrielle said, right,
Speaker 1: especially because so many people were in agreeance with her
Speaker 1: and they even had to sit down with her about it.
Speaker 1: I think you should listen to all women, believe all proof.
Speaker 1: That's what I think all right now. Kanye West did
Speaker 1: a Sunday service paying tribute after the Grammys to Kobe Bryant.
Speaker 1: They said Kirk Franklin wasn't attendance. He delivered a short
Speaker 1: sermon about navigating the confusion and chaos after Kobe's passing,
Speaker 1: and Kanye was a huge Kobe Bryant fan, so that
Speaker 1: went down. In addition to that, fifty Cent said that
Speaker 1: he won't argue with anyone after Kobe Bryant's untimely passing.
Speaker 1: He went on Instagram and he shared a video of
Speaker 1: himself hugging Kobe at a basketball game between the Lakers
Speaker 1: and the Knicks. He said, I feel like I have
Speaker 1: to achieve what I went in life now after this,
Speaker 1: I have to focus. I'm not arguing with anyone anymore.
Speaker 1: I'll deal with it another way. If there's a problem, Wow,
Speaker 1: that's I don't like. I don't I don't like that option. Here,
Speaker 1: what's the other way? Fifty I need to know the
Speaker 1: other one. What's the other option? Oh? I didn't take
Speaker 1: anything negative from that man. He is going to have
Speaker 1: a conversation. Yeah, no, all right now. T I also
Speaker 1: posted his own message. He posted a caption of him
Speaker 1: and Tiny and he said, I love you missus h
Speaker 1: and he added her He said imperfections, misunderstandings and all.
Speaker 1: We've shared most of the happiest moments of our lives together.
Speaker 1: I know I've had my moments, but despite all my
Speaker 1: shortcomings and transgressions, the fact remains, you give me a
Speaker 1: thousand choices, and I choose you every time. I couldn't
Speaker 1: imagine living in a world without you, or leaving you
Speaker 1: in the kids to have to live without me. I'm
Speaker 1: determined to make you happy by any means necessary, like
Speaker 1: it or not, to love, cherished, protect, provide, and whatever
Speaker 1: the f else it takes. Forever there you go. You
Speaker 1: gotta love it, he said, and he you know his daughters.
Speaker 1: I love you girls more than my vocabulary will allow
Speaker 1: me to express. For his sons, he said, I'm so
Speaker 1: proud of each and every last one of you, guys,
Speaker 1: and so on and so forth. So everybody is now
Speaker 1: reflecting after this. Yeah, I mean, all of this is beautiful.
Speaker 1: We we gotta keep this energy long after Kobe and
Speaker 1: his daughter and all the other victims of this tragic
Speaker 1: accident are buried. You know what I'm saying, It's like
Speaker 1: a honeymoon phase people go through. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I want to call it a honeymoon phase. But it's
Speaker 1: like a phase people go through after things like this happened,
Speaker 1: and yeah, you know, but it's like, yeah, you gotta
Speaker 1: keep this energy all the time. We've been in constant
Speaker 1: remind a lot of people have been pushing the narrative,
Speaker 1: and I've been seeing a change in the last couple
Speaker 1: of years with family love and children loved. I love
Speaker 1: to see that. Dad's if you out there, make sure
Speaker 1: that you're good with your kids. Make sure you're good
Speaker 1: with your wife, make sure you're good with your parents. Man,
Speaker 1: make sure you're good with your daughters. All right, Now,
Speaker 1: don't be like Terry Cruz. Okay, it's other people his wife,
Speaker 1: but it's other people to please out here other than
Speaker 1: your wife's, especially your daughters. That's kind of all right,
Speaker 1: Juice World. When he passed away, he had two thousand
Speaker 1: unreleased songs, and so now they're talking about doing some
Speaker 1: new albums with him. Two thousand that now, that's a
Speaker 1: lot of work that he was putting in. So they
Speaker 1: do want to pay tribute with his unheard work, and
Speaker 1: they said there's several ideas floating around, including of course
Speaker 1: doing an album or a new music release. He was
Speaker 1: constantly recording. They said he didn't do anything besides to
Speaker 1: ride his dirt bike and make music. So guests, pretty
Speaker 1: soon we'll be hearing some of that. Now. I'm in
Speaker 1: a juice world. Got a top ten record right now
Speaker 1: on the Billboard Hot one hundred. It's called Godzilla. All right. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm Angela Yee and that is your rumor report. All right,
Speaker 1: thank you, miss she. Now we got front page who
Speaker 1: was coming up? What we're talking about? Yeah, let's get
Speaker 1: to what Lebron had to say about Kobe Bryant. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll get into that next. Keep a lock this to
Speaker 1: Breakfast club. Good morning. I'm the type of baby latim
Speaker 1: rappers to put in forty angel will tell them. So
Speaker 1: whoever they got ain't in the world. Morning. Everybody is
Speaker 1: DJ Envy, Angela Ye, Charlemagne de God. We are the
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. Good morning. Let's get too for patients. What
Speaker 1: we're talking about you, Well, let's talk about Lebron and
Speaker 1: what he had to say about Kobe. He has broken
Speaker 1: his silence. He posted on social media. I'm not ready,
Speaker 1: but here I go. Man. I'm sitting here trying to
Speaker 1: write something for this post. But every time I try,
Speaker 1: I begin crying again just thinking about you, niece, Gigi
Speaker 1: and the friendship, bond, brotherhood we had. I literally just
Speaker 1: heard your voice Sunday morning before I left Philly to
Speaker 1: head back to LA. Didn't think for one bit in
Speaker 1: a million years that would be the last conversation we'd have. WTF.
Speaker 1: I'm heartbroken and devastated my brother, man. I love you,
Speaker 1: big bro. My heart goes to Vanessa and the kids.
Speaker 1: I promise you I'll continue your legacy. Man, you mean
Speaker 1: so much to all of us here, especially Laker Nation,
Speaker 1: and it's my responsibility to put this ish on my
Speaker 1: back and keep it going. Please give me the strength
Speaker 1: from the heavens above and watch over me. I got
Speaker 1: us here. There's so much more I want to say,
Speaker 1: but just can't right now because I can't get through
Speaker 1: it until we meet again, my brother. Hashtag Mama for life,
Speaker 1: hashtag gig for life. So Luke to Lebron, you know, listen.
Speaker 1: If you aren't ready to say something, don't feel the
Speaker 1: need to because everybody else is on social media. Like
Speaker 1: I think, sometimes when it comes to digital grieving, people
Speaker 1: think because they don't see you post something on social media,
Speaker 1: you don't care you're not grieving. Yeah, and they be
Speaker 1: in your comments like, oh, you don't got nothing to
Speaker 1: say about Kobe, do't not to say about Coob. If
Speaker 1: you're not ready to say something on social media, you
Speaker 1: don't have to it. Social media is not real life,
Speaker 1: I agree, all right. In The NBA also put out
Speaker 1: a statement. The Commissioner Adam Silver said, the NBA family
Speaker 1: is devastated by the tragic passing of Kobe Bryant and
Speaker 1: his daughter Gianna. For twenty seasons, Kobe showed us what
Speaker 1: is possible when remarkable talent blends with an absolute devotion
Speaker 1: to winning. He was one of the most extraordinary players
Speaker 1: in the hit story of our game, with accomplishments that
Speaker 1: are legendary. But he will be remembered most for inspiring
Speaker 1: people around the world to pick up a basketball and
Speaker 1: compete to the very best of their ability. All right.
Speaker 1: The BBC, by the way, has apologized. They put out
Speaker 1: Lebron James video in a segment on Kobe's passing. Yeah
Speaker 1: see that yesterday. That was dumb, they said, for this
Speaker 1: human error, which fell below our usual standards. They did
Speaker 1: apologize the wild human error. I mean, somebody did not
Speaker 1: fact check that. Yeah, Kobe Bryant is a global icon.
Speaker 1: He's a superstar. You know, if if they mistaken guys
Speaker 1: like him for just other random black global icons superstars,
Speaker 1: we are were in trouble. Now all black global icons
Speaker 1: sports icons don't look alike BBC. All right, and over
Speaker 1: one point four million fans have signed a petition. They
Speaker 1: went to the NBA to change the logo to honor
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant. So they went to go ahead and change
Speaker 1: that logo that's been the same since nineteen seventy one,
Speaker 1: with an outline of Jerry West. That's been the NBA
Speaker 1: is efficient official emblem since back then, and they want
Speaker 1: to go ahead and put Kobe on that. And the
Speaker 1: picture they have looks amazing, by the way. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: not mad at that simply because you know, the Jerry
Speaker 1: West logo. I'm not sure the exact story, but I
Speaker 1: don't think there's really any science behind it other than
Speaker 1: it looked cool. Just look cool. Yeah, you know, Kobe
Speaker 1: looks cool and it means a lot. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: Kobe would be dope. And Kobe actually won five rings,
Speaker 1: Jerry West won none. If I'm mistaken, Is Jerry West
Speaker 1: ever want to work. I'm not sure. I know he
Speaker 1: went to the finals a bunch of time. I don't
Speaker 1: think you ever won it. And then somebody sit on
Speaker 1: on social media that they tried the Jordan logo years ago,
Speaker 1: but Jordan owns it and his actual company would lose millions.
Speaker 1: So that's three so why. I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: true or not, but I would love to see Kobe's logo.
Speaker 1: Kobe on that logo? All right, Well, Kobe will be
Speaker 1: honored with the Basketball Hall of Fame Class of twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: so he's part of that. Jerry West one one ring
Speaker 1: is a player and for as a general manager. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, that's commendable. What a general manager? Don't count?
Speaker 1: That's a player, Kobe one five. Look, I'm all for it.
Speaker 1: Let's change it. Unless I like the way that logo looks.
Speaker 1: I think that would be amazing. So, and the NBA
Speaker 1: has also postponed the Lakers versus Clippers game that was
Speaker 1: supposed to be tonight at the Staples Center. They said
Speaker 1: that decision was made out of respect for the Lakers organization,
Speaker 1: which is deeply grieving the tragic loss of Lakers legend
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant. His daughter Gianna, and seven other people in
Speaker 1: a helicopter crash. They said the game will be rescheduled
Speaker 1: at a later day. Selfishly, I was looking forward to
Speaker 1: that game because I saw that on the schedule, and
Speaker 1: I said, man, the universe is wild, the fact that
Speaker 1: the Clippers and the Lakers are playing. We're supposed to
Speaker 1: play tonight. I thought it was gonna be very special,
Speaker 1: you know. I was like, yo, Lebronic Kawhid gonna score
Speaker 1: eighty one point. Somebody gonna do something very Kobe yesque.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I thought so Selfishly, I was hoping
Speaker 1: that happened. I think they should cancel all Laker games
Speaker 1: until his funeral. Until after the funeral. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: when the funeral is, but I think they should cancel
Speaker 1: it until after that, you know, because it's the Lakers,
Speaker 1: their organization. I'm sure they're gonna have the funeral at
Speaker 1: the Staple Center, but I think they should just cancel
Speaker 1: to after let them grief. All right, Well that is
Speaker 1: your front page news. All right. Let me shout out
Speaker 1: my uncle, my uncle, Chief Jimmy Secredo. He's retiring after
Speaker 1: forty years of being a chief and working for the NYPD.
Speaker 1: In New York City. So I just want to say
Speaker 1: congratulations and a happy retirement. Gave me a lot of
Speaker 1: advice throughout the years and helped me out a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff, save my ass a couple of times. So
Speaker 1: I just want to say thank you, Uncle Jimmy. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm sure he needed and he needed your help, yeah
Speaker 1: many of times. Yes. All right, now, listen, we got
Speaker 1: one of my spiritual advisors coming in, someone who I
Speaker 1: love listening to, someone who I love talking to, building with. Um.
Speaker 1: There's really nobody that I would want to speak to
Speaker 1: more in this moment. Probably maybe a woman at the
Speaker 1: Lows for I can't definitely, but Bishop td Jakes for sure. Okay,
Speaker 1: yes he'll be here. All right, we'll kick it with
Speaker 1: Bishop td Jakes. Will we come back to help us
Speaker 1: make sense to some of this stuff? Or maybe he won't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Everybody
Speaker 1: is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the guy. We are
Speaker 1: to Breakfast Club. We got a special guests in the buildings. Indeed,
Speaker 1: TD Jakes, Bishop the Drip Jakes. I'm gonna tell you something.
Speaker 1: There's nobody I would rather talk to this morning, other
Speaker 1: than you thank you like like like hearts are heavy?
Speaker 1: You know why the tragic acts accident that happened to
Speaker 1: mister Kobe Bryant, his daughter and all the other folks
Speaker 1: on the plane. Hell, how do you make the helicopter?
Speaker 1: How do you make sense of that? Like? How could
Speaker 1: that have been God's plan? You don't make sense of it.
Speaker 1: You endure it, you survive it, you grieve, you go
Speaker 1: through the process. I think where we get in trouble,
Speaker 1: it's when we try to explain and understand things that
Speaker 1: are unexplainable. Right now, we got to survive it because
Speaker 1: our whole nation has taken a blow. The family and
Speaker 1: particular sports fans, other athletes are are grieving right now,
Speaker 1: and I think that to try to explain something like
Speaker 1: you know more than you know, we don't know. They're
Speaker 1: still investigating what happened, whether it's human error, there was
Speaker 1: the weather or the climate, all of those play a
Speaker 1: factor in it. We look for somebody to blame. How
Speaker 1: could God allow that to happen? Or this or that
Speaker 1: or the other. But right now, tragic things happen in
Speaker 1: life every day. But this is a person that we
Speaker 1: knew and loved and a part of our community. It's
Speaker 1: okay to be sad, it's okay to grieve, it's okay
Speaker 1: to go through those range of emotions anger and being
Speaker 1: upset and what have you. But at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, we're in a survival mode right now. Now,
Speaker 1: what do you tell somebody who's on a fence with
Speaker 1: religion and believing and they see something like this and
Speaker 1: they say, wow, you know, he had a thirteen year
Speaker 1: old that died, and there was other tweens on that
Speaker 1: plane that died. What do you tell that person for
Speaker 1: faith and how they can continue to believe. I think
Speaker 1: it is your faith that gets you through those unexplainable moments.
Speaker 1: And I think you'll have to realize it's terrible and
Speaker 1: as tragic as it was. We're grateful his wife wasn't
Speaker 1: on board. We're grateful the whole family wasn't on board.
Speaker 1: I look for things that are positive in the midst
Speaker 1: of the pain. Not denying the pain, but I look
Speaker 1: for things that are positive. As for trying to get
Speaker 1: somebody to believe who doesn't believe you, really, you really
Speaker 1: can't do that because God can't be explained, He must
Speaker 1: be revealed. And you have to have an open heart
Speaker 1: to allow that to happen in your life. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: if you believe God does everything for a reason, you
Speaker 1: can't only believe that when the positive things happen, right, Absolutely,
Speaker 1: because many times the positive things come out of the
Speaker 1: most horrific things in our lives. I mean, you look
Speaker 1: at your own life. Sometimes the worst tragedies brought you
Speaker 1: into an awareness or sensibility over years that if this
Speaker 1: hadn't happened, that hadn't happened. Time will judge the validity
Speaker 1: of the situation. Right now, we have to endure, and
Speaker 1: you still have to lift up the family members of
Speaker 1: who have lost somebody right now, and the daughters and
Speaker 1: his wife and all the family members of the other
Speaker 1: people who are on the helicopter too, and they lost
Speaker 1: somebody completely different from who we know. When you're famous,
Speaker 1: people know you from what you do, But your family
Speaker 1: knows you from who you are, and it's a much
Speaker 1: deeper loss. It's a greater kind of pain, and it's
Speaker 1: very difficult to get through. I listen to a sermon
Speaker 1: you gave on us Timber twenty second title keep it Moving,
Speaker 1: and it almost seems like keeping it moving after death
Speaker 1: seems insensitive. So how do you keep it moving? You
Speaker 1: have to keep it moving because life keeps moving, because
Speaker 1: bills keep moving, because illnesses keep moving, threats keep moving,
Speaker 1: problems don't stop because you're in pain. And so sometimes
Speaker 1: the therapy is in keeping it moving. But of course
Speaker 1: when you're the family, you have to shut down for
Speaker 1: a minute and breathe and recalibrate. And it may be
Speaker 1: over the next two years or twenty years. Let you
Speaker 1: feel that pain. My mother died in ninety nine, and
Speaker 1: if I think about it hard now, I'll get emotional.
Speaker 1: I mean because and I don't even want that to
Speaker 1: go away. I don't even want that to go away.
Speaker 1: Because sometimes the sadness validates the value of what you lost.
Speaker 1: It plain that a little more. With the sadness. The sadness,
Speaker 1: the greater the sadness, it's an indication that the greater
Speaker 1: the love. Some people don't feel sadness because they don't
Speaker 1: feel love. Then if you're a great lover, you have
Speaker 1: great pain when people leave your life. And to the
Speaker 1: degree that we miss and we feel that pain in
Speaker 1: that pain, in many ways is a tribute to the
Speaker 1: significance of that individual in your life. Are there times
Speaker 1: that you question your own faith? And is that a
Speaker 1: common thing for people to do, to just question. I
Speaker 1: used to answer that question and say no, and then
Speaker 1: I went through something and said you and I have
Speaker 1: to say yes. I have gone through those moments where
Speaker 1: I was in grief and wondered, you know, why did
Speaker 1: you allow this to happen. I was a little bit
Speaker 1: angry with God. I healed, I got over it, I
Speaker 1: was okay. But I have had those moments of challenge.
Speaker 1: We have to remember that faith does not mean the
Speaker 1: absence of doubt. Faith and doubt cohabitated in the same space.
Speaker 1: And to be completely honest about it, that faith is
Speaker 1: something we believe, but what we like to do is no.
Speaker 1: And you cannot know. You have to believe. That's the
Speaker 1: whole premise of being a believer is to believe that
Speaker 1: which you cannot see. And you have to do that
Speaker 1: in the presence of voices of doubt who are telling
Speaker 1: you it's not worth it. It's just like going to work.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you don't want to go, but there's another voice
Speaker 1: says you gotta go, and you're conflicted, and yet you
Speaker 1: keep it moving. And I think a lot of times
Speaker 1: people are trying to get out of the conflict. But
Speaker 1: the conflict is a part of life, and we're all
Speaker 1: conflicted from time to time, and yet we find a
Speaker 1: way to keep it moving. That's right. There was a
Speaker 1: time you said you thought about leaving the ministry. Yes,
Speaker 1: I've absolutely been there and went through when I first
Speaker 1: got in, especially National International ministry. All the things that
Speaker 1: come along with that are hard to manage, notoriety, interviews, bloggers,
Speaker 1: or last lastly reports. Mine was the Washington Post article
Speaker 1: and I wasn't used to that, and I come from
Speaker 1: West Virginia. I'm a country boy, and I thought, I
Speaker 1: don't I didn't sign up for this. I don't need that.
Speaker 1: But the reality is this one woman came into a
Speaker 1: book signing and changed my life. She had just gotten
Speaker 1: out the hospital. She'd had a tubal pregnancy and the
Speaker 1: baby was dead and she was living with a dead
Speaker 1: body body inside of her, so it almost killed her.
Speaker 1: She was very weak. She got out of the hospital
Speaker 1: against the doctor's request and came to me as if
Speaker 1: she knew what I was thinking, and said, it's for
Speaker 1: us that you do it, it's not for them. And
Speaker 1: when you go through moments of challenge and pain. You
Speaker 1: have to find purpose, and sometimes you forget why you
Speaker 1: do what you do and why you must endure or
Speaker 1: what you endure it. And she she moved me like
Speaker 1: in a major way. If it wasn't for that woman
Speaker 1: coming that day and talking to me, I don't know
Speaker 1: that I would have been in ministry. Now, Well, we'll
Speaker 1: do the Rightious always have to suffer. Everybody sufferers. Everybody sufferers.
Speaker 1: The emblem of Christianity is across. That's a big warning
Speaker 1: that if God's spared not his son, He's not going
Speaker 1: to spare you. Everybody goes through suffering, no matter how
Speaker 1: rich you are, no matter how poor year are, no
Speaker 1: matter how famous you are, no matter whether you're homeless
Speaker 1: or living in the mansion. We were all born and
Speaker 1: we are all going to die. Yeah. Death is not
Speaker 1: discriminated at all. Yeah, that's not discriminated. Would you want
Speaker 1: to know? Because that's we were talking about that this morning.
Speaker 1: I was saying that it's yesterday morning. It was the
Speaker 1: unexpectedness of death. I think that would you would you
Speaker 1: want to know? No? I wouldn't want to know. No,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to know. Some people feel differently about it,
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't want to know. I wanted to surprise me.
Speaker 1: I don't want to live waiting on a date to leave.
Speaker 1: I want to live every day to the fullest, not
Speaker 1: with the cloud hanging over my head about a date
Speaker 1: that could be twenty years off, for thirty years off,
Speaker 1: and then to adjust my life to dying. I'd rather
Speaker 1: build my life around living and let death find me
Speaker 1: whenever it does. All right, we got more with Bishop
Speaker 1: td Jakes. When we come back, don't move. It's the
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club, Good Morning Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne,
Speaker 1: the God. We are the Breakfast Club. Were still kicking
Speaker 1: it with Bishop td Jakes. What do you feel towards suicide?
Speaker 1: Because you hear so many different things with suicide. If
Speaker 1: you're suicide, you'll never make it to heaven. If you're suicide,
Speaker 1: God to look at you. What are your thoughts on suicide?
Speaker 1: So many kids are the first thing that popped into
Speaker 1: my mind when you said that, it's not whether you
Speaker 1: go to heaven or not. I think we should work
Speaker 1: harder to stop suicide. I think that suicide is epidemic,
Speaker 1: particularly amongst African American young people in a way that's reprehensible.
Speaker 1: One of the reasons that I started the foundation that
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about is because of mental health.
Speaker 1: And mental health is a huge issue in our community.
Speaker 1: And I think you have to understand that a lot
Speaker 1: of people who take their life, they really didn't take
Speaker 1: their life. The sickness did. So the person who we
Speaker 1: say committed suicide is as much a victim as if
Speaker 1: they were a victim of a homicide, because if you
Speaker 1: have emotional mental health issues, it affects your decisions and
Speaker 1: your judgment and your view of life. So to judge that,
Speaker 1: who am I I'm not God, So where they spend eternity,
Speaker 1: I'm not God. But I do think that the person
Speaker 1: is a victim, and I would think that if you're
Speaker 1: a victim, we just believe that they're in a better place.
Speaker 1: You're one of the first, you know, people at the
Speaker 1: cloth that actually embraced you know, therapy and you know,
Speaker 1: telling people to go out then you know, get help
Speaker 1: for them mental health because a lot of times we
Speaker 1: tell a lot of people take it to the church
Speaker 1: just pray about just pray about it, and we don't
Speaker 1: treat it like it's a sickness. We treat it like
Speaker 1: it's a spiritual issue and it's a health issue. And
Speaker 1: I think you'll have to differentiate one from another. Sure
Speaker 1: you're going to pray, but you also do everything you
Speaker 1: can do to be at the best that you can be.
Speaker 1: And I do think the prayers they are beauty, but
Speaker 1: it is not enough for a lot of people who
Speaker 1: have serious trauma that they've endured and they need to
Speaker 1: be able to talk, they need to be able to heal,
Speaker 1: and sometimes they have chemical imbalances. It causes them to
Speaker 1: be where they are. I got to teach her that says,
Speaker 1: I go to therapy and I pray, absolutely, do it all. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: I take blood pressure medicty to pray over it every day.
Speaker 1: Pray it works and let it work. Jesus, you announced
Speaker 1: planning to launch your own online Jake's Divinity School. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it has launched. It's up and running. It's everything that
Speaker 1: I'm doing now is about training the next generations. It's
Speaker 1: empowering them to accomplish their dreams, to reach their goals.
Speaker 1: I'm leveraging my relationships and academics, and I'm levering my
Speaker 1: relationships with corporate America to create a pipeline because a
Speaker 1: lot of us, the only pipeline we have to the
Speaker 1: world we want to be is the one we see
Speaker 1: on TV. But you'll never watch TV long enough to
Speaker 1: get there. So we have to stop watching our dreams
Speaker 1: and start creating a pathway where we can facilitate our dreams.
Speaker 1: I'll see more and more young people coming to church now,
Speaker 1: see that more? Or is it's slowing down a little bit?
Speaker 1: You know? That's a that's a great question. I think
Speaker 1: it varies from church to church and from region to region.
Speaker 1: I see a lot of young people who are really
Speaker 1: interested in faith. Many of them are coming to church.
Speaker 1: My demos are swinging younger and younger. Fifty percent of
Speaker 1: my church as millennials. So I'm seeing a huge interest
Speaker 1: in young people coming to church. But I also am
Speaker 1: seeing a deterioration of attendance because a lot of young
Speaker 1: people yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, And you want to
Speaker 1: watch what do you want to watch it? So we
Speaker 1: stream twenty four hours a day. We scream all week
Speaker 1: long because young people stay up at night and I
Speaker 1: often sleep late in the morning. Nothing like what doing
Speaker 1: your laundry watching Bishop TV? See what I'm saying I'm
Speaker 1: working out in the gym. Yeah, I do. I mean
Speaker 1: I arride in the morning. I put one of your
Speaker 1: storm as long. Was it from YouTube or was it
Speaker 1: the podcast? That's how I consume it. But I've been
Speaker 1: to part of house as well. Yes, your head. There's
Speaker 1: nothing like being a part of house. It's different. It
Speaker 1: is different being there from watching it on TV. You
Speaker 1: can get a perception on TV. But I think when
Speaker 1: I was here before, I talked about the difference between
Speaker 1: a picture and an ultrasound. When you actually go in it,
Speaker 1: you see it from a whole different perspective than when
Speaker 1: you're avoid your onluse. I feel like a college basketball game,
Speaker 1: I'm saying. It had that kind of energy like it
Speaker 1: like a college basketball Any impact from Kanye doing what
Speaker 1: he's been doing with his Sunday services, you know something,
Speaker 1: I'm thrill anybody who's out there who's doing something positive
Speaker 1: to help change the world, I'm thrilled about it. I
Speaker 1: just hope that while he's busy doing that, that somebody's
Speaker 1: taking care of him, because the problem with being talented
Speaker 1: and being gifted and being good intention is sometimes people
Speaker 1: are so excited about your gift that they take your
Speaker 1: gift and leave you behind. And I think it's very
Speaker 1: very important for him in order to remain stable and
Speaker 1: remain functional, that he's not so busy giving to us
Speaker 1: that nobody's giving to him. But I've seen the music.
Speaker 1: The music is hot. I've seen it performances. I think
Speaker 1: it's absolutely wonderful. But I want somebody there's a scription
Speaker 1: the Bible says, no man cared for my soul. I
Speaker 1: want us to care for his soul as much as
Speaker 1: we care for his music. I would definitely consider doing
Speaker 1: something like that. My focus, however, is everybody's hosting him,
Speaker 1: who's pastoring him? Yeah, you understand what I'm saying. And
Speaker 1: sometimes I don't want to be seen as a gig.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be seen as an opportunity. I
Speaker 1: want to be an year sometimes for people who don't
Speaker 1: have anybody to talk to. So I don't want to
Speaker 1: be in the crowd that reaching after him, trying to
Speaker 1: snatch his gift. I want to be the guy who's
Speaker 1: sitting over in the corner saying, hey, are you okay?
Speaker 1: How are you balanced? How are you emotionally? How are
Speaker 1: you mentally? Because we're seeing too many of our artists
Speaker 1: drift away, be killed, commit suicide. Nobody was investing into
Speaker 1: that mental right, well right, And you need somebody around
Speaker 1: you who doesn't just want you for what you do,
Speaker 1: to say are you okay? Think of the culture shock
Speaker 1: it is to go from being in the hood one
Speaker 1: moment to being a celebrity next moment, with no training,
Speaker 1: no preparation, no therapy, and all of a sudden you
Speaker 1: step into this world and you can't get out. Once
Speaker 1: you're famous, you can never be anonymous. So your success
Speaker 1: can become your prison. And so if you're going to
Speaker 1: realize that, and you're going to recognize that, we have
Speaker 1: to in our community have to be slow to join
Speaker 1: the bandwagon of stoning people who got into trouble. We
Speaker 1: have to be more on the side of the ambulance
Speaker 1: who rushes to the scene of the crime to see
Speaker 1: what we can do, because we are hurting too. We
Speaker 1: know that you are hurting, and we know how to
Speaker 1: speak the kind of language to get you back up on.
Speaker 1: I like to reduce people to their mistakes a lot
Speaker 1: of times, absolutely absolutely, while we make our own. And
Speaker 1: so we're all trying to figure out life in the
Speaker 1: moment you figure it out. It changes. You go through
Speaker 1: stages at different ages, and different ages bring on different challenges,
Speaker 1: and nobody gets it right every turn because every turn
Speaker 1: is a new experience and you're back to one again
Speaker 1: and you're learning again. As soon as you get used
Speaker 1: to having little kids, they're not little kids. As soon
Speaker 1: as you get used to having teenagers, they've left the house.
Speaker 1: And everything keeps changing on us all the time. You
Speaker 1: never get to be a master at your life because
Speaker 1: of courses keep changing. You know a ball all right, well,
Speaker 1: don't move. We got more with Bishop td Jakes when
Speaker 1: we come back as the Breakfast Club, Good morning pj
Speaker 1: Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the God we are. The Breakfast
Speaker 1: Club was still kicking it with Bishop td Jakes. When
Speaker 1: your people come to church, what are they looking for?
Speaker 1: You know, when my grandmother went to church, you wanted
Speaker 1: to hope, She wanted to make sure that her family
Speaker 1: was okay, and she had an opportunity. So what are
Speaker 1: people coming to church for now? Because it's different now
Speaker 1: my kids are online. They look for certain things. They
Speaker 1: have more questions and require more answers. So what are
Speaker 1: people looking for now when they come to church? You know,
Speaker 1: I think it varies from person to person. I think
Speaker 1: hope has a factor degree. And then like we're bleeding
Speaker 1: right now, we're talking about Kobe right now. It reminds
Speaker 1: us of how the brevity of life. It reminds us
Speaker 1: that we don't take time for ourselves. It reminds us
Speaker 1: that there is a life after this life. And so
Speaker 1: people start to think about faith differently. But I also
Speaker 1: think that people come to the Black Church differently than
Speaker 1: they do for other people who come to church. They
Speaker 1: look for our leaders to be involved in the community
Speaker 1: in some way. They look for our levels of quantifiable results.
Speaker 1: How does this help me right now, in the here
Speaker 1: and now, not the sweet by and by inspiration the inspiration.
Speaker 1: And there's one other thing I want to bring up
Speaker 1: that call these people to come to church. If you
Speaker 1: come to church consistently, church becomes a family. And for
Speaker 1: many of us, that's something we didn't have right I
Speaker 1: learned sometimes it's not so much about pastoring our young man,
Speaker 1: it's about fathering them. I got a few more questions,
Speaker 1: how long can you go without tipping the water, because
Speaker 1: even when I watch you sermons, never been answer that question. Incidentally,
Speaker 1: I don't know I can go a pretty good way.
Speaker 1: I don't think to go for the water. Yeah, when
Speaker 1: I get to speaking or teaching, the only thing I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about is what I'm doing. We had a discussion
Speaker 1: the other day about when you go into confession or
Speaker 1: right if they have a responsibility when say, someone commits
Speaker 1: a crime and they go and confess that. Now, if
Speaker 1: someone comes to you and they does something, and they've
Speaker 1: done something illegal and they tell you that, is that
Speaker 1: something that you feel a responsibility to report to the
Speaker 1: authorities or is that something that becomes this was a
Speaker 1: confidential conversation. Well, you have the same kind of privilege,
Speaker 1: said an attorney does when somebody comes and discloses something
Speaker 1: to you. And that's important because nobody's going to come
Speaker 1: talk to you about something if they feel like they're
Speaker 1: going to get reported. There are some exceptions to that, however,
Speaker 1: when it comes to child abuse, Yes, you are legally
Speaker 1: required that if you know it, you absolutely have to
Speaker 1: report it. There are other issues that are kind of
Speaker 1: on the borderline where you have to use your best judgment,
Speaker 1: but it has to be serious for you to violate
Speaker 1: the confidential herd. If I came to you and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna shoo Charlomagne tomorrow. That's serious. And the very fact
Speaker 1: that the very God wouldn't like that, and the very
Speaker 1: fact that the very fact that it's that it is,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to I have an obligation to prevent
Speaker 1: that from But if it was already done, yeah, then
Speaker 1: that's what and how long ago was it done? And
Speaker 1: what can be accomplished by exposing that? It's a judgment
Speaker 1: called Have you ever had to do that? I've done everything? Wow,
Speaker 1: And sometimes I have claimed my privilege as a clergyman
Speaker 1: not to testify in a trial. And that privilege is
Speaker 1: only held up in court if it is just you
Speaker 1: and me in the room. If one other person is
Speaker 1: in the room, or if somebody else was on the phone,
Speaker 1: it violates. I didn't lose that privilege and that ability
Speaker 1: not to speak about the issue. I heard you on
Speaker 1: over Super Soul Conversations, your latest one to transform your life,
Speaker 1: and you spoke about how to use transformational thinking and
Speaker 1: moving beyond your limiting beliefs. What does that look like
Speaker 1: to you? You know, everything is about a change your mind.
Speaker 1: If I change your economic status, but I don't change
Speaker 1: your mentality. Your status will fall back down to your mindset.
Speaker 1: Every change, weight, loss, health, changes, whatever it is, starts
Speaker 1: in the way you think. And until you begin to
Speaker 1: deal with the story you tell yourself and are willing
Speaker 1: to challenge your own truth, you can't really help a
Speaker 1: person to move forward when they hold to their old story.
Speaker 1: Well what about when you're not ready for that transformation?
Speaker 1: Because I was thinking this morning, how can transformational thinking
Speaker 1: help you in matters of grief? Because when you look
Speaker 1: at a situation like you know, the Brian family, her
Speaker 1: whole life has been transformed and she has to change
Speaker 1: the way she thinks moving forward. But she didn't ask
Speaker 1: for that. No, you didn't ask for it. Nobody wants
Speaker 1: that sort of thing to happen, and it takes time.
Speaker 1: You don't change your mind overnight about anything, whether it's
Speaker 1: a tragedy or whether it's a decision to go back
Speaker 1: to school. They're the feeling of misplacement. Anytime there's a change,
Speaker 1: a big change in your life, and give yourself time
Speaker 1: to adapt to that change and accept that change, and
Speaker 1: then figure out who am I now without Kobe in
Speaker 1: my life? Who am I now without this job? You
Speaker 1: can have a new year, all you want to, but
Speaker 1: until you have a new youth, having a new year
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. I want to tell you too, I finally
Speaker 1: got the worthy man. Really it hit me over the holidays,
Speaker 1: but I honestly just felt worthy of existing. It really did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember that conversation we had. Getting to worthy is
Speaker 1: difficult when you have been abused or traumatized, or be
Speaker 1: a little degraded, or have some issues in your past
Speaker 1: where you and if you don't get to worthy, you
Speaker 1: self sabotage. You can self sabotage opportunities because you say
Speaker 1: you want them, but then you sabotage them because you
Speaker 1: really don't feel worthy of them. The hardest thing in
Speaker 1: the world is to love somebody who doesn't love themselves,
Speaker 1: because they will reject your love. They'll cancel it out
Speaker 1: every time because they don't feel worthy of being of
Speaker 1: I don't believe that you could love me because I
Speaker 1: don't love me, so how could you love me? And
Speaker 1: that happens more times than not in relationships, in life
Speaker 1: and in business. And when I challenge you to get
Speaker 1: to worthy, it is getting to the place that you
Speaker 1: accept the good things that God has done in your
Speaker 1: life and settling in as them being your reality rather
Speaker 1: than living the trauma of where you came from. Absolutely, well,
Speaker 1: we appreciate you for joining us this morning. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: he's got the International Leadership Summit in Charlotte April thirty
Speaker 1: of the May second. Yeah, and I'm gonna invite you
Speaker 1: right on the heart, pulling up. I will really, man,
Speaker 1: I'm pulling up already, had Man, you don't make me
Speaker 1: crowd you. So I'm seriously enough if you would come,
Speaker 1: that would mean everything to me because when I'm this
Speaker 1: is the most amazing event I'm bringing together. I've got
Speaker 1: Denzel Washington coming, I've got Tyler Perry coming. I've got
Speaker 1: Dave Stewart coming. Dave Stewart, it's one of thirteen black
Speaker 1: billionaires in the world and he's also a believer, and
Speaker 1: he's going to be coming. We're gonna be having Christian speakers,
Speaker 1: pastors that are going to be speaking. We've got women
Speaker 1: who are CEOs and executives that are going to be
Speaker 1: mentoring the young women at The Leadership Conference is going
Speaker 1: to be in Charlotte at April twenty eighth through the
Speaker 1: thirty first, And it's just a conglomerate of a lot
Speaker 1: of different things because I don't want to just be
Speaker 1: inspirational and not transformational, because if I keep inspiring you
Speaker 1: and it doesn't happen, then you get tired of hearing
Speaker 1: that it's gonna be all right. So I want to
Speaker 1: put the elements in the room that cause us that
Speaker 1: it's gonna be all right to happen in your life.
Speaker 1: People who pull themselves up, people who fought back, people
Speaker 1: who want when you know better, you do better. And
Speaker 1: that's why I'm having the leadership conference were the mental
Speaker 1: health and I'm putting myself on it. Come right on, OK,
Speaker 1: I gotta see what day because you know, you know
Speaker 1: so many people heard you and I talk about when
Speaker 1: you did your book and the power of your book
Speaker 1: and the power of your story. It helped a lot
Speaker 1: of other people to begin to beginning to be able
Speaker 1: to talk. You're opening your mouth to speak about your
Speaker 1: life and about your childhood became a model for many
Speaker 1: other black men who don't talk enough. So I take
Speaker 1: you very seriously in that spot. I admire you very
Speaker 1: greatly for what you're doing and having the boldness to
Speaker 1: speak about that, and I look forward to doing a
Speaker 1: lot of things with you that I think it's very important,
Speaker 1: my brother Rae. It's Bishop td Jakes. Thank you for
Speaker 1: joining us again. It's been a real pleasure. Thanks for
Speaker 1: having me. It's the Breakfast Club, Morning Morning. Everybody is
Speaker 1: DJ MVY Angela Yee, Charlemagne the God. We are the
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club droving a clue box with Bishop td Jakes. Yes,
Speaker 1: I needed that word this morning. Only the only thing
Speaker 1: I'm mad we didn't close out in the prayer, you
Speaker 1: know what, and we usually do that in the prayer.
Speaker 1: May God damn it. We should say that miss in
Speaker 1: a prayer. May God knows my heart. God cares if
Speaker 1: you say damn it after his name. He might, yes, please,
Speaker 1: he might care about that too. But let's get to
Speaker 1: the rumors. Let's talk Shock. This is the rum of
Speaker 1: report Well. Shack opened up on his podcast The Big
Speaker 1: Podcast with Shock last night and he spoke on having
Speaker 1: a really tough time with losses, including the death of
Speaker 1: his sister as well as Kobe. I'm not doing well.
Speaker 1: I'm sick. I'm just getting over the death of my sister.
Speaker 1: And I haven't been sleeping after Asia's death because it's
Speaker 1: just you know, not thinking about just the good times,
Speaker 1: but thinking about the times when I could have did something,
Speaker 1: or could have did something different, or could have loved
Speaker 1: them more. And the same thing hit when I found
Speaker 1: out this news. I didn't do anything. I ever eating,
Speaker 1: I slept. I'm sick right now now. Her sister passed
Speaker 1: in October. She died from cancer. Here's more of what
Speaker 1: Shack got to say about his relationship with Kobe. Our
Speaker 1: relationship was that of brothers. When I saw Kobe and
Speaker 1: his daughters loved them, he saw my kids love them.
Speaker 1: If you look at my kids this Instagram. He talked
Speaker 1: to Sharif yesterday morning. He was checking in on your son,
Speaker 1: so not an hour before his death. So all the
Speaker 1: stuff that this document between us, it was never a dislike.
Speaker 1: It's just listen, this is what brothers do. I have
Speaker 1: a younger brother. We fight all the time. But guess what,
Speaker 1: I love them, and I love Kobe Bryant. I'm the
Speaker 1: first to say, hey, I got four rings, and I
Speaker 1: know I couldn't have got three without him, So I'm
Speaker 1: glad we became closer. But I just sit back and
Speaker 1: say what if? What if? And the only thing that
Speaker 1: saidened to me is he's not gonna be here when
Speaker 1: he walks into the Hall of Fame, said they actually
Speaker 1: won three NBA championships in a row together. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: saw an idiot yesterday say, finally y'all want to put
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant in the Hall of Fame. Dumbass. This is
Speaker 1: his first year of eligibility and he's a nominee this year,
Speaker 1: and he was gonna be a first ballot Hall of
Speaker 1: Famer anyway, foolish as all right, Well, Shaquille O'Neil's son, Sharif,
Speaker 1: actually had just spoken to Kobe that morning. Kobe had
Speaker 1: sent him a DM you good, fam, and Sharif responded, Yeah,
Speaker 1: just getting this work in, trying to figure out my
Speaker 1: next move. How you've been And that was in the morning, ya,
Speaker 1: all right. Now, in addition to that, Kobe was actually
Speaker 1: working on a kid's book, and the author of The
Speaker 1: Alchemist was actually the person working on with him, Paulo Koelo,
Speaker 1: and he revealed that he put up some dms where
Speaker 1: Kobe had actually sent to him, let's write that book together,
Speaker 1: and he responded anytime. And this was just last year.
Speaker 1: So now Koelo said he deleted the draft. He said
Speaker 1: it didn't make any sense to publish without him it
Speaker 1: wouldn't add anything to relevant to him or his family.
Speaker 1: That doesn't stop me from writing some day about things
Speaker 1: I learned from Kobe and how much of a larger
Speaker 1: than life person he was. But the children's book did
Speaker 1: not make sense anymore. Yeah, he put out the children's
Speaker 1: book last year. I forgot what I think it's called
Speaker 1: The Wizard the Ward the Wizard series that the with
Speaker 1: an large series or something like that. But The Alchemist
Speaker 1: is one of Kobe's favorite books, so even had recommended
Speaker 1: it to Kyrie Irving. Also, all right, now, speaking of books,
Speaker 1: let's talk about Oprah's book club, because people are upset
Speaker 1: about the novel that Oprah has chosen for her book club,
Speaker 1: and you know she does. She does her club on
Speaker 1: Apple right, and the book is called American Dirt by
Speaker 1: Jeanine Cummings. Now, a lot of people criticize there for
Speaker 1: having this book be the next book that she's featuring.
Speaker 1: And here's how Oprah responded. So when I first started
Speaker 1: to hear your comments opposing the selection, I was asking
Speaker 1: the question in earnest, like what is offensive. I've spent
Speaker 1: the past few days listening to members of the Latin
Speaker 1: Next community, and I hear them. So what I want
Speaker 1: to do is bring people together from all sides to
Speaker 1: talk about this book and who gets to publish what stories?
Speaker 1: All Right, The problem is it's a white woman who
Speaker 1: is writing about Mexican migrants and she got over a
Speaker 1: million dollars by the way to do this book. And
Speaker 1: the book is also going to be adapted into a movie.
Speaker 1: And so there's a lot of criticism because the Latin
Speaker 1: X people are not represented in the publishing world, and
Speaker 1: they certainly don't get those deals like that when they
Speaker 1: write about their own experiences. And they said, even in
Speaker 1: the book, there's a lot of things that aren't even true,
Speaker 1: like she calls her mom a boila and you know
Speaker 1: that's grandmother in Spanish, and just other certain things that
Speaker 1: she does in the book that are not authentic to
Speaker 1: the experience. So they have problems with that with American
Speaker 1: Dirt also, they said there's some plagiarism. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of similarities to other authors works. In particular, there's a
Speaker 1: similarity to author Aurea, who writes about and one of
Speaker 1: his characters in his book and it's a nonfiction book
Speaker 1: getting crushed by the tires of a garbage truck and
Speaker 1: she has a very similar scene in her novel as well.
Speaker 1: So basically, it's too much mayonnaise when it needs to
Speaker 1: be more goyas, which exactly, and Latinos make up only
Speaker 1: six percent of the literary industry according to a study
Speaker 1: on diversity, and the nation is close to twenty percent Latinos.
Speaker 1: What is the book actually about? Is it about the
Speaker 1: Latin X community. Yeah, it's a fictional novel and it's
Speaker 1: about Mexican migrants, something that she has not experienced. A
Speaker 1: lot of things they said aren't even factual that she
Speaker 1: writes about in the book, and she had a million
Speaker 1: dollars for it. Yeah, but you know, when you do
Speaker 1: a fictional book, you still want to be true to
Speaker 1: what the experience is like, like you're writing about places
Speaker 1: in Mexico that don't even exist anymore, or saying that
Speaker 1: you're putting sour cream on tacos industry, just certain things,
Speaker 1: calling the mom abuela when that really means grandmother. That. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not defending this Mannaid's flavored mail, but just to
Speaker 1: play white devil's advocate. If it's a fiction book, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you got to be actual and factual.
Speaker 1: I think it's just be actual to what the experience
Speaker 1: would be like if it really was in Mexico. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it's it's a fabricated but it's supposed to be. It's
Speaker 1: a it's a fictional book. But you know, like if
Speaker 1: somebody's writing about a Monk's Corner, you want them to
Speaker 1: actually name like real streets. You can't write about a
Speaker 1: real place. I'm gonna say the spaceships there. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say there's all types of things there because well it
Speaker 1: wasn't like that. It was. It was supposed to seem
Speaker 1: like it was real, because you could have a fictional book,
Speaker 1: you know, set in a real place with the stories.
Speaker 1: You know, it's fake, fake, it's not a sci fi
Speaker 1: or anything like about. Think about all of these books
Speaker 1: that have been written about New York, all these movies
Speaker 1: that have done about New York. I Am Legend is
Speaker 1: a fictional movie, but it was based in New York.
Speaker 1: Avengers if they fought here in New York when it
Speaker 1: was a fictional shut up, Yeah, I mean you can't.
Speaker 1: You can't do things like you can't do things like
Speaker 1: caul your mother abuela when Abella means grandmother in Spanish.
Speaker 1: That's just incorrect. You get it, okay? Well they also
Speaker 1: they also what if your mom is somebody's grandma but
Speaker 1: not yours. Yeah, don't confuse me this morning like my
Speaker 1: mama Grammy and I'll play with her sometimes like hey,
Speaker 1: what's up, Grammy? You know what I mean? You're saying,
Speaker 1: are you defending this now? I just said, well, I'm
Speaker 1: just telling you. I'm just telling you what the controversy
Speaker 1: is behind all of this though, and the outrage, and
Speaker 1: they actually did have to cancel There was a book
Speaker 1: signing that she was supposed to be doing. They actually
Speaker 1: had to cancel it because of all this controversy, uh
Speaker 1: surrounding it and people are upset that, Oprah, why don't
Speaker 1: you use one of these authors that write about authentic
Speaker 1: experiences that are actually Latin Latino that can tell those
Speaker 1: stories better? Can you see it? Only six percent? Yes? Wow?
Speaker 1: In the publishing world. All right, that is your room
Speaker 1: of report. I'm angela ye all right, thank you, miss ye.
Speaker 1: All right, Shanah, sorry, hearing that don't get you. I
Speaker 1: need Terry Crews to come to the front of the congregation.
Speaker 1: We like to have a world with him to bring
Speaker 1: this hog to slaughter. All right, he's gonna come to
Speaker 1: then coach to the congreg with no shirt on and
Speaker 1: we get to that next keeper lockedice to Breakfast Club
Speaker 1: goal morning morning. Everybody is steere mv Angela, yee, Charlemagne
Speaker 1: the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a
Speaker 1: special guest in the building this morning. We have Steve
Speaker 1: Stout here this morning morning. What do we even call
Speaker 1: Steve Stout? Now, I was gonna call him, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's entrepreneur, executive business, connecting the guy everything. I've been
Speaker 1: doing it for a while. I'll take it off. Played
Speaker 1: all the positions in the field now. You know. One
Speaker 1: of the reasons why we wanted to talk to you
Speaker 1: this morning is is I know that you had a
Speaker 1: close relationship with Kobe. I know you got him his
Speaker 1: first deals, first signed him his first record deal, and
Speaker 1: I think I first on the first time he came
Speaker 1: to New York. I remember seeing him at the Rocket Park.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if he was You're the one that
Speaker 1: we him into playing at the Rock at that time too, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: he um as a rookie. UM. I met him and
Speaker 1: he wanted to put out an album and he was
Speaker 1: actually part of a group and I signed a group
Speaker 1: over at Columbia UM track Masses. We signed him and
Speaker 1: we were just coming off of like Llo cool J
Speaker 1: and Will Smith and you know, we thought we could
Speaker 1: make this thing work. And who also was in the group.
Speaker 1: There's a guys from Philly Guys High School with UM
Speaker 1: and he stayed in New York, Man and he spent
Speaker 1: a lot of time with with NAS, with Foxy, like
Speaker 1: really trying to acclimate himself to UM, to what he
Speaker 1: was gonna you know, to do as a as an artist, Uh,
Speaker 1: to learn. And that's the thing that I got from him, Um,
Speaker 1: is that when he decided to do something, he went
Speaker 1: so all in envy. I mean, I've seen in my
Speaker 1: life maybe three four people with the work ethic that
Speaker 1: this man had, and it was just, I mean just
Speaker 1: beyond in anything. I mean just beyond um. You know.
Speaker 1: So anyhow, he came to New York and he lived
Speaker 1: at me for a month, UM while we were making
Speaker 1: that album and and and during that time we became
Speaker 1: really close friends. And we became friends and you know,
Speaker 1: last up until you know, his unfortunate passing. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: saw you uh to get his last game he ever played.
Speaker 1: He gave you a game, ball gave you. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: were the last game he played. And um, it's unfortunate, man,
Speaker 1: it's it's stuff. We lost. We lost a hero and
Speaker 1: he was now. The thing about it that's crazy was
Speaker 1: that he was now entering this comfortable state of giving
Speaker 1: away his magic, that sort the tips of the science.
Speaker 1: Like he was giving it away that special athletes, they'd
Speaker 1: come to see him and get coached up. But he
Speaker 1: but as a businessman, he started to give away a
Speaker 1: lot of those insights that would be helpful to all
Speaker 1: of us. Where were you when you heard the news?
Speaker 1: I was in the crib and I got the note. Um,
Speaker 1: and then you kind of want to believe that tmzs fake,
Speaker 1: and then you realize that TMZ hasn't been wrong in years, Like,
Speaker 1: it's not fake. They kill Wayne? They killed Wayne? They
Speaker 1: did Okay, look all right, well I did see that.
Speaker 1: I was like, when I wait for some other outlets
Speaker 1: to verify, to verify, well, you pray that it's wrong,
Speaker 1: and you you know, you also have a little Yeah,
Speaker 1: one eye opened with with TMZ. But that's how I
Speaker 1: first heard about it, and then I made phone calls. Um,
Speaker 1: we worked with the NBA and then you know, obviously
Speaker 1: through the NBA and um mutual friends, it was it
Speaker 1: was confirmed that it was real two months ago. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: it was a great He was really going into that
Speaker 1: that like hitting his stride as a businessman. He had
Speaker 1: it all set up, man, Um, you guy he leaves
Speaker 1: the game a year later wins an oscar. It's these
Speaker 1: are just crazy things, man, that he put out in
Speaker 1: the world. He and his daughter. I mean, first of all,
Speaker 1: God blessed the other families that were you know, lost
Speaker 1: ones on that on that helicopter. And his daughter, Um,
Speaker 1: I mean she was the next Hymn. I mean, she
Speaker 1: had that dedication and focus. He was proud. He was
Speaker 1: very outspoken about women's college basketball and the w NBA,
Speaker 1: and he was like, uh, the facto name and face
Speaker 1: behind um growing that sport. He believed in it, Um,
Speaker 1: and his daughter was gonna, you know, obviously go that route. Um.
Speaker 1: And just to know the poetic justice of it all,
Speaker 1: like this guy passed taking his daughter to a game, man,
Speaker 1: you know, like that's that's what he was doing. So
Speaker 1: it's tough, Um, and it it reminds you and we
Speaker 1: always get reminded I'm sure we all had these kinds
Speaker 1: of moments in our life that you gotta give people
Speaker 1: their flowers in their lives. You gotta tell me, and
Speaker 1: you gotta live every life. You live your life like
Speaker 1: you're not promised tomorrow. And you know, it's easy to
Speaker 1: forget that. It's very easy within um, the day to
Speaker 1: day of it all, um, and things that come thrown
Speaker 1: at you, to forget that you're not promised tomorrow. Does
Speaker 1: it make you question your own mortality? No way? Yeah? Always. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, at every at every funeral, every time there's
Speaker 1: a death, you think about you know, are you for
Speaker 1: me rather? Um? Am? I living my life the way
Speaker 1: I want to live it, am I. You know, if
Speaker 1: words were spoken about me, have I done enough to
Speaker 1: to deserve the words that I that I would once
Speaker 1: said about me? Depends who speaking? Al Right, Well I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not here. I would just say in general,
Speaker 1: you see all the people who have great positive things
Speaker 1: to say about their experiences and their relationships with Kobe,
Speaker 1: and I think that's the legacy everybody should want to
Speaker 1: leave behind. Look, that's that's that's that's the point of
Speaker 1: what we all doing this thing for, right You have.
Speaker 1: That's the whole point of having kids and um leaving
Speaker 1: a great example so that that multiplies generation after generation.
Speaker 1: So you would want to leave a mark on this
Speaker 1: earth and instill values in your family so that um,
Speaker 1: those learnings couldn't be uh multiplied, they could they could
Speaker 1: do something for generations. And I feel like I've always
Speaker 1: felt like this, that you we are all blessed and
Speaker 1: your job is to take full advantage of the opportunities
Speaker 1: that you have. I've always felt like I was. My
Speaker 1: dad taught me this, like no matter whether I was
Speaker 1: in the music business or a mechanic, Like, you got
Speaker 1: to really go as hard as you can at the
Speaker 1: thing that you're doing. It's like there's no reason not to.
Speaker 1: That's that's almost the privilege and the obligation to do that.
Speaker 1: And all the great people that I've ever had the
Speaker 1: privilege to be around, they've lived their life that way.
Speaker 1: They never got satisfied. They never And you'd be looking
Speaker 1: at me, you ever look at people who in the
Speaker 1: greatest shape, and you're like, you see them running every day,
Speaker 1: Like damn, I why they're already in great shape? Why
Speaker 1: that's how they're in great shape? Right? You see people
Speaker 1: who are successful in business or successful in life, You're like,
Speaker 1: why are they still going so hard? They don't even
Speaker 1: have an off switch. They don't even know what you're
Speaker 1: talking about. It's like a book mastering, like Robert Green,
Speaker 1: where he talks about mastering whatever it is that you
Speaker 1: want to do, and how many hours it took for
Speaker 1: certain people to master their arts and their or whatever
Speaker 1: it is that they want to be great at. Ever
Speaker 1: stop you you never stopped. If I've seen uh Damon
Speaker 1: on the show that the last the last last week
Speaker 1: or whatever, and he talked about how much you guys
Speaker 1: have evolved, you can't see it, but you don't even
Speaker 1: understand how super professional that you guys have evolved to
Speaker 1: over the last five years, seven years. But the evolution
Speaker 1: of what And it's because you come in every day
Speaker 1: and you care, and you guys are obviously a family,
Speaker 1: and you have committed to one another to care. So
Speaker 1: when you interview politicians or it doesn't make a difference
Speaker 1: who it is, you feel that you are each play
Speaker 1: yer role, you add to the subject, you get the
Speaker 1: most out of the interview. But I couldn't have said
Speaker 1: that five years ago, right, I respected, Yeah, that's what
Speaker 1: broke was about. All right, we got more with Steve
Speaker 1: Statt when we come back. Don't move as to breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Good morning morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne
Speaker 1: the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We're still sitting
Speaker 1: here with Steve Stout. Since you talk about working with
Speaker 1: the NBA United Masters, what is that deal to say
Speaker 1: you're providing the music. Oh, yeah, that's that's awesome. Not
Speaker 1: only did we so we were always working with the
Speaker 1: NBA on music, but now we did this relationship between
Speaker 1: Apple and the NBA and United Masses where we're basically
Speaker 1: creating the greatest playlist for independent artists. So Apple and
Speaker 1: the NBA are promoting these artists that are coming to
Speaker 1: United Masters to create the greatest playlists for independent artists.
Speaker 1: I don't want to think rap caviare but only for
Speaker 1: independent artists. And this is just another step forward, and
Speaker 1: you guys are seeing it for sure. The legacy record
Speaker 1: companies are slowly losing their hold on controlling talent. The
Speaker 1: thing that I learned, and you've learned this in your
Speaker 1: individual businesses, is back in the day, you had to
Speaker 1: go to a record company first, to find an audience,
Speaker 1: or you had to go to a radio station first
Speaker 1: to find an audience. Right in your business, you actually
Speaker 1: can find an audience before you find the radio. You
Speaker 1: can find the audience before you find the record company.
Speaker 1: So now you have the control. And that's all I've
Speaker 1: been saying for the last two years. But United Masses
Speaker 1: is like in the beginning it was fuzzy, like what
Speaker 1: is this to distribution company? What does that mean? Or
Speaker 1: what it means is if you found your audience before
Speaker 1: you had a record company, you have all the leverage.
Speaker 1: You don't have to work for them. In fact, they
Speaker 1: should license it from you. That's what a partnership is
Speaker 1: all about. A lot of what Damon has was saying
Speaker 1: back in the days. Pardon his delivery, but he was
Speaker 1: really talking about that, right, like, you already control our culture,
Speaker 1: controls the opportunity. We already can build the audience. So
Speaker 1: why do you need to then turn that over to
Speaker 1: somebody else to own when you could retain it and
Speaker 1: they can just license it. And that's that's been my
Speaker 1: with the record business. Not that the record business is wrong,
Speaker 1: but what used to be the way or the only way,
Speaker 1: it's no longer the way at all. We've been the
Speaker 1: launching pad for a few actes yet little tacker um,
Speaker 1: y'all see from the time NLA Shopper game. Here see
Speaker 1: what took man, And I've done this in broaddaylight. This
Speaker 1: this is broadday light, Like, oh my god, Steve stops
Speaker 1: putting his career in I know, I'm putting your intelligence
Speaker 1: on the line. Really think alike, like you guys are
Speaker 1: just you almost like when when the business moves your
Speaker 1: mentality the mindset to the fact that you guys conflict
Speaker 1: all that. Yes, y'all, I think hip hop has understood
Speaker 1: that really well right and often that's probably where um
Speaker 1: the similarities end, where the differences coming style, delivery, approach, um, consistency, persistence.
Speaker 1: I don't know, do you guys still have conversation just now,
Speaker 1: because I know he said you all had a conversation
Speaker 1: and said no, I mean, I've seen him at Kanye Stinging.
Speaker 1: I told him like you were a lot of things
Speaker 1: that you said you were right, but your delivery was
Speaker 1: off and the evolution of us as men um. I
Speaker 1: would probably had never told him that at thirty five,
Speaker 1: but I probably didn't realize that at thirty five, you know,
Speaker 1: but at you know, forty nine years old. I could
Speaker 1: easily tell him that, and it's no problem. I could.
Speaker 1: By the way, I have no problem with it with anybody. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm on the other side of it now. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: already Steve stout Man, I'm cool. How much longer did
Speaker 1: these legacy companies have because I can see all of
Speaker 1: these artists getting out there deals, Like you know, Meek
Speaker 1: mil got like one album left. I think he got
Speaker 1: like one album left. I think Drake might have what
Speaker 1: I went out and I can see all of them
Speaker 1: get out there. Drake, by the way, Drake, Drake is
Speaker 1: about to catch him bag? Really, oh god, from you
Speaker 1: might catch the biggest bat I got ever received from
Speaker 1: individual artists, from arts, from yeah, from from labels, from anybody.
Speaker 1: Maybe he may catch the biggest bag of recording artists
Speaker 1: ever received period upfront? What's the science behind that? When
Speaker 1: you do just creat Apple Exclusive, he's the biggest Well,
Speaker 1: he's if he if he decided to go to Apple Exclusive,
Speaker 1: if he decided to go to Apple and Spotify and
Speaker 1: own his rights going forward, they would pay him anything
Speaker 1: if if if, if Universal wants to keep him because
Speaker 1: the record companies, they're in this spot where um the
Speaker 1: biggest acts, the biggest artist the weekend post Malone, um
Speaker 1: sand your comments of uh Drake being the biggest, they
Speaker 1: have the best deals in their favor. So the record
Speaker 1: companies the biggest artists of the of the deals that
Speaker 1: they have the worst arrangement with, right, and those deals
Speaker 1: are bad. But they also say we got Drake that right,
Speaker 1: and they used that to sign other artists, so that
Speaker 1: paying a premium to keep those acts in. And if
Speaker 1: those acts start leaving because they're on short term deals,
Speaker 1: if those acts start leaving, that's when you will seek
Speaker 1: the whole thing flip over and somebody's gonna do it.
Speaker 1: Did you try to take a clue from Dame Dash?
Speaker 1: Is that story true? Yeah? Let me tell exactly what happened. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't be mad ascent because he don't you because
Speaker 1: that's not even because because what happened was what's funny
Speaker 1: is Dame say Clue, I'm gonna give you a deal.
Speaker 1: And six months went by and he had no deal,
Speaker 1: and then Clue asked me to manage him. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: there's nothing to manage. You have no deal. Could you
Speaker 1: help me with my deal. No follow up whatever. They
Speaker 1: must have been in the middle of the hindsight. They
Speaker 1: didn't get this man a contract. So now I'm sitting
Speaker 1: there at the top of Columbia Records and Clues like, well,
Speaker 1: I want to get my record. I'm like, well, then
Speaker 1: I'll give you a deal. That actually led to how
Speaker 1: Jay and I got close because we were sitting at
Speaker 1: the top of Sony. I'm sitting in my office at
Speaker 1: nine o'clock at night, I get the menacing phone call
Speaker 1: from jay Z and I said, great, let me tell
Speaker 1: you my address, and they come up before Yeah, and
Speaker 1: they came out to my office. Time time came, I think,
Speaker 1: and Clue was sitting there and Clues absolutely nervous. Um
Speaker 1: and I'm barefoot also TOPI was with time time, Dame, bigs,
Speaker 1: Jay this that they came came, Then they came. They
Speaker 1: the whole rocket Feller and by yourself and by myself
Speaker 1: literally barefoot. Why were you barefoot? Because I saw I
Speaker 1: work around. Man, I'm West Indian. Nice carpeted off, Yeah,
Speaker 1: nice carpeted office. That's just that's what you're supposed to say. Like, man,
Speaker 1: the carpet must have been playing, that's why. Uh So, Anyhow,
Speaker 1: they came in and um, I had made a joke
Speaker 1: something I talked about. Look, I don't care about no
Speaker 1: disrespect the clue, but I'm playing this game for a
Speaker 1: much larger thing, and if we're trying to buy big
Speaker 1: houses things, I can't be sitting around it like you
Speaker 1: guys didn't give him a deal. In fact, the deal
Speaker 1: got closed that night and then I said, Clue, you'll
Speaker 1: sign them, and I signed Kicker Prey and that's what
Speaker 1: we did. And I was like, but then Jay and
Speaker 1: I got close from that, I think they must the
Speaker 1: connection was like he just said come to his office.
Speaker 1: He was really buy himself in his office, and you know, Um,
Speaker 1: but the point is failess in that way. I'm terry
Speaker 1: fail us in that way, and I'm excited where this
Speaker 1: shopter right here is gonna take all of us Because
Speaker 1: a lot of times you start to think, man, this
Speaker 1: industry is fully matured. We're there already. You know, I
Speaker 1: used to think Miss pac Man was mainstream. The world
Speaker 1: of Warcraft is mainstream, right, Fortnite's mainstream. Miss pac Man
Speaker 1: was big. This is something else. We're still at Miss
Speaker 1: pac Man level hip hop culture. What we're all doing
Speaker 1: is still at Miss pac Man love, but we appreciate
Speaker 1: you for joining. I always like being up here, man.
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed coming up here and having a conversation.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, thank you, really proud of you guys,
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. It's Steve Stout. It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Good morning, yea, the Breakfast Club. Everybody is DJ Envy,
Speaker 1: Angela Year, Charlomagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Let's get to rumous talk fabulous, it's about report Angela
Speaker 1: Yee on the Breakfast Club. Yes, so, according to fab
Speaker 1: he was on Rock the Bells Radio and he talked
Speaker 1: about actually being cast on the Sopranos and filming and everything,
Speaker 1: and then he didn't even end up on the show.
Speaker 1: Here's what happened. I would like to tap into some
Speaker 1: acting and and do that as well. I think I
Speaker 1: was trying it when I was a little younger, but
Speaker 1: they used to tell me my face out of baby face,
Speaker 1: and I was like actually losing some roles because I
Speaker 1: wasn't looking old enough to play. I lost a role
Speaker 1: on the Sopranos back in the days, and they just
Speaker 1: said I just looked like I was seventeen eighteen next
Speaker 1: to the today's mob, like you tie your mom, guys,
Speaker 1: and I you know, they ended up using somebody else
Speaker 1: and I shot the shot it and everything, and they
Speaker 1: just like you just looked like a baby compared to them.
Speaker 1: That sucks that you went through all that work and
Speaker 1: then they decide that you just look too young. What
Speaker 1: I'm saying, how old had to be like in his
Speaker 1: early twenties room, Yeah and yeah, maybe late twenties. How
Speaker 1: long goes that? That was like thirteen years ago? There
Speaker 1: was fab dominican or right. I think he's half a half? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember. No people were coloring on sopranos like that.
Speaker 1: Correct me if I'm wrong. I don't remember. I don't recovery.
Speaker 1: Off the top of my head, I can't think of anybody. Now.
Speaker 1: It went black for the last episode, real last episode.
Speaker 1: All right, Now, let's talk about Kareem Hunt. He was
Speaker 1: driving down the freeway in this video for the of
Speaker 1: this that TMZ Sports got, and you know he plays
Speaker 1: for the Cleveland Browns. He's a running back with the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns. And he goes past an officer and the
Speaker 1: officer stops him, and the cop gets him out of
Speaker 1: the car, and here's what happens. I've been through a
Speaker 1: lot No, yeah, d yes does man, So you know
Speaker 1: about this stuff, right? Uh? Brother? So I hate to
Speaker 1: say this, but I mean you if anybody should should
Speaker 1: know that, like if you're trying to like stay good,
Speaker 1: stay go in the right path, had stuff this and
Speaker 1: know where to go. Yeah, man, it's not it's not not.
Speaker 1: I mean sorry, here's almost doing the right your traffic ticket.
Speaker 1: Then I'll just sees this stuff like that. I'm like
Speaker 1: one of the hugest Browns fans ever, right, and it's
Speaker 1: hard grating and HARKing Browns every single year. Like this
Speaker 1: the way to do it. Dude, you know what happened
Speaker 1: to me? I should be playing for a freaking super Bowl.
Speaker 1: And so he was pretty emotional a while he was
Speaker 1: talking to this police officer and the cop did let
Speaker 1: him off with just a speeding two get and sent
Speaker 1: him on his way. He took the weed from him,
Speaker 1: But she's that could have went left that office is
Speaker 1: gonna be suspended. I'm sure now because you think so,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, you let somebody go with an open open
Speaker 1: containing a liquor and weed and it's taped. But I
Speaker 1: wonder how that video footage got out. That's what I said.
Speaker 1: They must have released it. Does the police officer have
Speaker 1: to arrest you? I believe so you know your father's
Speaker 1: a cop, like, they're not obligated to do that. Don't
Speaker 1: Can't they use their judgment and not. My dad's been
Speaker 1: retired for like fifteen to twenty years because he did
Speaker 1: give him a ticket. Still, he just didn't give him.
Speaker 1: I'm not you know what, I'm not sure was there
Speaker 1: anybody else in the call with him. I know he
Speaker 1: was maybe don't let somebody else drive. But the open
Speaker 1: container liquors serious, I would assume maybe that's just a
Speaker 1: ticket in someplace. Maybe I don't know. In some places,
Speaker 1: open container might just be a ticket, all right. Jaden
Speaker 1: Smith is celebrating Tyler the Creators a Grammy win now.
Speaker 1: He posted, my boyfriend just won a Grammy and then
Speaker 1: Tyler responded, Hahi, you are crazy man, and Jaden responded,
Speaker 1: told everyone you can't deny it now. First of all,
Speaker 1: I think Jaden Smith is the Mahatma Gandhi of our generation.
Speaker 1: But that is how you talk to your holes. You know,
Speaker 1: when your holes put you on blasts on social media bla,
Speaker 1: that's my boyfriend, like ha ha, are you crazy? Are
Speaker 1: you wore you crazy? Girl? Like treating Jaden like one
Speaker 1: of the holes all right now, a judge has sentenced
Speaker 1: Gjelanni Mirage in court and Jelanni Mirages Nicki Minaj's brother.
Speaker 1: He was sentenced to twenty five years to life in
Speaker 1: prison following the guilty verdict and his child a rape
Speaker 1: trial so well earned him right. So they said that
Speaker 1: we hope that today's verdict will help the family in
Speaker 1: the healing process. I'm sure that has to be tough
Speaker 1: for the rest of the family to have to deal with,
Speaker 1: and for the family of the young girl. And listen
Speaker 1: to this, Megan Markel and Prince Harry. According to experts
Speaker 1: who actually booked for speaking engagements and book deals, they
Speaker 1: could get five hundred thousand dollars or more each to
Speaker 1: speak in front of people. So it looks like they're
Speaker 1: gonna do okay even after leaving the royal family. How
Speaker 1: much they get for hosting parties though probably about the
Speaker 1: same about ten stacks for they'll definitely getting more than
Speaker 1: ten stacks to host a party. Stop it. He should
Speaker 1: be out here in super Bowl weekend. I'm in Miami.
Speaker 1: We could book them somewhere. Mag It'll get more for
Speaker 1: Prince Harry. Let's get them in the office. We bring
Speaker 1: them the queens, the Queen's Club. We can about ten stacks.
Speaker 1: How old are they they still club age? Yes, so Megan,
Speaker 1: Megan will definitely get more over Prince Harry. Megan'll get
Speaker 1: about you think so fifteen for the walk through? Really? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Prince Prince, you can say I got the Prince walking through? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Follow she got on Instagram. That's a good question. Let
Speaker 1: me let me say we might be jumping out the window.
Speaker 1: You might be pricing or two highs. Let me follow
Speaker 1: his prince. They said if they went into joint speaking appearances,
Speaker 1: they would get about a million dollars each. Man. We
Speaker 1: talk about hosting parties, man, and then if they do
Speaker 1: like a VIP meet and greet, you know how much
Speaker 1: of those mate? How much? And if they have merch?
Speaker 1: I mean follow what she got on Instagram? She has
Speaker 1: four hundred and forty six thousand. I can't give a fifteen.
Speaker 1: I give about five stacks. That's it. Megan Marco gets
Speaker 1: five stacks for the walk through. She got four hundred
Speaker 1: and forty six dollars. But I thought they had a
Speaker 1: four period of time. Get they had to get rid
Speaker 1: of their social media. Are you sure that's her page
Speaker 1: not now? To producer say yeah, no, no, no, they
Speaker 1: had to do it. It's the Duke and Duchess of Sussex,
Speaker 1: so it's the at Sussex Royal. That's what they had
Speaker 1: to do. It's eleven point one million, eleven point one
Speaker 1: eleven point one million, So in the UK they'll get
Speaker 1: they can get top dollar for a walk through. Here
Speaker 1: in America five racks if they posted now they posted
Speaker 1: with eleven eleven million, five weeken ten. If you got
Speaker 1: to do it in the UK, I guarantee majority and follows.
Speaker 1: In the UK, you write, you write five racks, five
Speaker 1: racks for the walk through, the walk through, they'll definitely
Speaker 1: come on outside in a bottle for Prince Harry. Damn
Speaker 1: Harry to get a bottle bottle of hooka. We don't
Speaker 1: know who get a hookah for Harry. Yeah, lying, all right,
Speaker 1: well that is your rumor report. I'm an angely year
Speaker 1: all right, thank you, miss ye. Now when we come back,
Speaker 1: we got a couple of birthdays. We got to celebrate right.
Speaker 1: Shout out to rock him the god Rock chimis to
Speaker 1: the back him all. So Rick Raws, Ricky Rose, it's
Speaker 1: his birthday. And shout to Travis Jay Cole's birthday. I
Speaker 1: know Travis, somebody excited to hell. You know he had
Speaker 1: the cake. He's celebrating all that. So we will get
Speaker 1: a mixed on with all of those guys. So let
Speaker 1: me know your favorite joints from all of them. You
Speaker 1: know what. The mix is short, so it's gonna be
Speaker 1: real fast and shout to the vote. We see them all.
Speaker 1: It's a breakfast club. Ej Envy and Jula Yee, Charlomagne
Speaker 1: the guy. We are the breakfast club. We got a
Speaker 1: special guest in the building. Yes, indeed, Mayor of Atlantic City,
Speaker 1: Marty Smalls. Welcome, Sid, what's up, DJ Envy, Charlomagne and
Speaker 1: guy Marty King. Pleasure for me to be here now.
Speaker 1: Now for those people that don't know, you just became
Speaker 1: mayor at the end of two thousand and nineteen. Yes,
Speaker 1: the previous mayor was arrested for wire fraud. Because so
Speaker 1: let's talk about that. How you became the mayor of
Speaker 1: Atlantic City, well by law, um by Act of law.
Speaker 1: I was a city council president for the City of
Speaker 1: Atlantic City, and by statute, if something was to happen
Speaker 1: to the mayor, the city council president ascended the position automatically.
Speaker 1: So around five o'clock October third, I became the fishing mayor,
Speaker 1: were acting mayor of the City of Atlantic City. Then
Speaker 1: the next day we held the private swearing in ceremony
Speaker 1: and then a public press conference to announce me as
Speaker 1: a new mayor. And you know, it's not the traditional
Speaker 1: way to get the seat, but as I always said
Speaker 1: at the same time, it's an incredible opportunity. So then
Speaker 1: there was a couple more hurdles. We got support from
Speaker 1: the Atlantic City Democratic Committee thirty three to nothing, and
Speaker 1: that was the next step. And then it went to
Speaker 1: city council, who by unanimous vote selected me, and on
Speaker 1: October fifteenth, the acting title was removed and I'm to
Speaker 1: serve to the special election coming up in June, and
Speaker 1: then that will be for the balance of his term,
Speaker 1: and then next year is the full four year term.
Speaker 1: What did you think of him as a mayor before
Speaker 1: that situation? Now, but they say he sold eighty seven
Speaker 1: grand or something like that from a youth basketball team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's that's unfortunate. And I always stay
Speaker 1: above the fray and I wanted to let the legal
Speaker 1: process play out. As I stated oftentimes that was between
Speaker 1: him and the FBI and the world. So the final results,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it's his situation. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to kick the man while he's down, but I can
Speaker 1: only say that I'm ready to take Atlantic City to
Speaker 1: the next level and various levels. And with that, you know,
Speaker 1: Atlantic City's a gold minded people. And like I was
Speaker 1: telling Envy, we're fighting this change of government where retired
Speaker 1: North Jersey Senator Ray Lesniett, billionaire casino owner, Resorts Local
Speaker 1: fifty four, Bob mcdevin, who's the head of the casino unions,
Speaker 1: they are conspiring to overturn the City of Atlantic City's
Speaker 1: government because they can't control who's in charge. I've always
Speaker 1: been one that's been purely for the people, not for
Speaker 1: the problem brokers, and I'm always going to do its
Speaker 1: best for the City of Atlantic City. So they had
Speaker 1: a petition. We believe that the petition was defective. How
Speaker 1: they got the signatures. They played on people's motion When
Speaker 1: we had a spree of three murders in ten days,
Speaker 1: with two females getting killed. They said, if you want
Speaker 1: to stop Violet, sign this. When the Section natelist came out,
Speaker 1: if you want to get on a Section natelist, sign this.
Speaker 1: So it looks like we're headed for a battle on
Speaker 1: March thirty first to change the form of government, and
Speaker 1: we're just telling people to vote no. And if this
Speaker 1: can happen in Atlantic City, it can happen in any town.
Speaker 1: What did they trying to do with Atlantic City? They
Speaker 1: trying to control Atlantic City. So they see what they
Speaker 1: want to do with the casinos, the casinos, everything is
Speaker 1: tied to North Jersey casinos. And we already had an
Speaker 1: overwhelming referendum where the voters about eighty six percent rejected
Speaker 1: casinos in the North. So you question, why would someone
Speaker 1: from Elizabeth, New Jersey be interested in saying we need
Speaker 1: a better government for Atlantic City. So if the yes prevails,
Speaker 1: all ten elected officials, the nine council people, and myself
Speaker 1: are immediately gone. And who who would run Atlantic City?
Speaker 1: How it was all white people? Yes, it's it's definitely racist.
Speaker 1: And people that know me know that I speak my mind.
Speaker 1: This couldn't happen in any other town, Like I said,
Speaker 1: the state of New Jersey and the money that goes
Speaker 1: out of the city of Atlantic City to the tune
Speaker 1: of one hundred and fifty four point five million dollars
Speaker 1: that the residents of Atlantic City don't see. So all
Speaker 1: of those amenities and things that you get. So Charlottagne,
Speaker 1: you come to Atlantic City tomorrow right, and you stay
Speaker 1: to Monday. You stay at pick a casin a hard rock.
Speaker 1: You park your car, that's parking tax. You check into
Speaker 1: the room, that's hotel tax. You say I'm going to
Speaker 1: a concert that night, or buy a drink, that's that's
Speaker 1: the luxury tax. After the game, after the concert, you say, look,
Speaker 1: it's a West Coast basketball game. One, that's sports betting.
Speaker 1: When you do that three days in a row, the
Speaker 1: city of Atlantic City doesn't get a penny where the
Speaker 1: money goes to the State of New Jersey. And they
Speaker 1: wonder why because our casino industry in two thousand, fourteen
Speaker 1: five casinos, clothes and over ten thousand people lost jobs.
Speaker 1: And as they say, so goes Atlantic City, so goes
Speaker 1: to and so goes to state. When we were the
Speaker 1: Golden Goose, when we delivered five point two billion in
Speaker 1: casino revenue in two thousand and six. Everybody loved Atlantic City.
Speaker 1: Money was flowing, but all of a setment we had
Speaker 1: an economic downturn. Nobody's uh, you know, exempt from that.
Speaker 1: That's that's the country, that's the world. So all that
Speaker 1: money that comes into Atlantic City, the residents of Atlantic
Speaker 1: City gets none of that. They don't have to build
Speaker 1: nothing up the schools zero. We have no additional revenue streams.
Speaker 1: And that's why that's crazy. That's why Atlantic City looked
Speaker 1: like that outside of the casino area. Well, and you know,
Speaker 1: we're trying to change that. And that's why I'm here
Speaker 1: to data let everyone know that, um there is a
Speaker 1: beautiful city. There's some strong, resilient people. We're going to
Speaker 1: defeat this change of government and I'm going to carry
Speaker 1: out my my mission and vision to make the city
Speaker 1: of Atlantic City all that they can be by diversifying
Speaker 1: our offerings behind casino gaming. I mean, we have to
Speaker 1: do different things. We have to get housing. That's why
Speaker 1: you know, you know we bought you season everybody else.
Speaker 1: We're trying to leverage our relationships so that way we
Speaker 1: can rebuild our Raidibole base and becomes self sufficient and
Speaker 1: not rely on state funded and anything else. We are
Speaker 1: open for entertainment too, It's wide open. We are going
Speaker 1: to have an urban festival on the beach called Wave
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. I'm claiming it now. We're gonna have DJ
Speaker 1: Envy's car show, this ship or else. And and you know,
Speaker 1: the rumors of Atlantic City demise is greatly exaggerated. And
Speaker 1: you know our plan to lead the charge, bring like
Speaker 1: minded people to the city of Atlantic City and kind
Speaker 1: of change the climbing and the culture as we're doing
Speaker 1: in city Hall. And speaking of Shaquille O'Neil, he partnered
Speaker 1: with Borai on a two hundred and fifty luxury apartment
Speaker 1: unit in Atlantic City and it's eighty five percent sold
Speaker 1: out and it's not even a year plan. Well, we
Speaker 1: appreciate you for joining us, brother absolutely, Marty mayor Marty
Speaker 1: Small Senior, I have a presentation. This is the proclamation
Speaker 1: of the City of Atlantic City. It says, whereas The
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club is a syndicated radio show based in New
Speaker 1: York City that currently adds and over ninety radio markets
Speaker 1: around the country and is also televised on the result
Speaker 1: Revolt TV. Network. It says, whereas the Breakfast Club everyday,
Speaker 1: millions of listeners and viewers across the country turned into
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club for a thoroughly entertainment experience while gaining
Speaker 1: knowledge and insight. And whereas I, Marty Small, Senior, Mayor
Speaker 1: of the great City of Atlantic City, desired to recognize
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club and probably commend DJ Envy, Angela Yee
Speaker 1: and Charlemagne and God for that continued commitment to inform
Speaker 1: the public. And now therefore I hereby proclaim Tuesday, January
Speaker 1: twenty third as the Breakfast Club Day in the City
Speaker 1: of Atlantic City, and wish you continue Thursday January and
Speaker 1: I have another presentation. This says Key to the City
Speaker 1: a year. It says Key to the City of Atlantic City,
Speaker 1: presented to DJ Envy and appreciation for your outstanding efforts
Speaker 1: to market and promote Atlantic City. Mayor Marty Small Senior,
Speaker 1: you let's go, congratulations and open up any doing with
Speaker 1: this Chick fil A open on Sunday. And lastly, this
Speaker 1: is dope so but this one says City of Atlantic City,
Speaker 1: Key to the City, presented to Flipping NJ year season
Speaker 1: and appreciation for his outstanding efforts to promote and market
Speaker 1: the city of Atlantic City. Man Marty Small Senior, January
Speaker 1: twenty third, twenty twenty, he wants to notice that open
Speaker 1: ship on Sunday for Marty. We appreciate you for joining us, Man,
Speaker 1: I appreciate the opportunity and um, like I said, um,
Speaker 1: Atlantic City is all the way back. All right, Well
Speaker 1: it's the Breakfas Club. Good morning morning. Everybody is DJ
Speaker 1: Envy Angela Yee, Charlemagne the guy. We all the breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: I will shout to Mayor Marty Smalls for joining us.
Speaker 1: Hright now, you out in Miami, right, Yes, I'll be
Speaker 1: out here for a few days because I have a
Speaker 1: bunch of events happening. But today I am hosting the
Speaker 1: Giving Gracefully Awards honoring game changing philanthropic athletes and public figures.
Speaker 1: So I will be there at Noble Hotel in Miami
Speaker 1: Beach today doing those honors. All right, you get a
Speaker 1: positive note, Yes, the positive note is simply this. I
Speaker 1: feel like somebody is going to need this word today.
Speaker 1: In life, it's important to know when to stop arguing
Speaker 1: with people and simply let them be wrong.