Speaker 1: Allow me to introduce myself, Angel and Charlomagne. The guy, Well,
Speaker 1: y'all look him a long way. I think that y'all
Speaker 1: have a certain amount of respect for you know what
Speaker 1: everybody else does, and y'all are just the best of
Speaker 1: what y'all doing this platform to reach y'all hat that
Speaker 1: you earned make space for somebody like me. You guys
Speaker 1: have a direct line to the coaches. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I'm on the red end on dolamine and all I
Speaker 1: do is read about the Breakfast Club every morning. Good
Speaker 1: you guys are trending every you know. I dragged my
Speaker 1: ass out of that. I'm like, uh, what happened on
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club to that? Yeah? My bad started over
Speaker 1: my bad. I just try this again. Mike fell on
Speaker 1: the floor pretty much. Good morning, USA, A fam, Hey,
Speaker 1: good morning, It's Thursday. Good morning guys. Who Jolomne. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure all right? Yeo? Hello? Hello? What's going on
Speaker 1: over there? I don't know what's going on? Even know
Speaker 1: what that was? What you do yesterday? Anything fun? Me? Yesterday?
Speaker 1: I worked, I had to do my Lift Service podcast,
Speaker 1: and then I had a coffee Uplifts people meeting, and
Speaker 1: then I was just depressed yesterday after the Brianna Taylor
Speaker 1: after the results were in. Yeah, in court. It was
Speaker 1: very depressing, very depressing. A lot to talk about today
Speaker 1: and shout out to Toronto, Toronto. Now, why don't want
Speaker 1: to see anybody else? Will revolt? I don't see. Can
Speaker 1: you hear me either? Oh? Okay, good morning, good morning?
Speaker 1: What's going on? Little test going on? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I guess we got a show to do. Oh you
Speaker 1: mean like I don't Yeah, what happened? Man? I don't know. Man,
Speaker 1: My sister ain't never all the way correct. I'm tired
Speaker 1: of being here, tired of being Uh. I told you
Speaker 1: that's what tired is doing. I can't take it no more.
Speaker 1: Look at I had to wait and see if the
Speaker 1: Wi fi works. Can't do nothing without your wi fi?
Speaker 1: Feel like a damn robot. Yeah, well, let's get the
Speaker 1: show cracking front page news. What we're talking about. Well,
Speaker 1: of course we are going to talk about Brianna Taylor
Speaker 1: this morning and how she still hasn't received justice. Will
Speaker 1: tell you what's going on in Louisville. Will tell you
Speaker 1: people's responses uh to the grand jury's indictment of former
Speaker 1: Louisville police officer A. Brake Hankinson will tell you what
Speaker 1: that indictment means and what's going on with the other officers.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll get into that next. Keep a lot
Speaker 1: this to this club. Good morning morning. Everybody is dj
Speaker 1: Envy Angela, Ye, Charlomagne the guy. We all to breakfast club.
Speaker 1: Let's getting some front page news. What we're starting you Well,
Speaker 1: let's start, of course with Brianna Taylor and a Kentucky
Speaker 1: grand jury did indict former Louisville police officer Brett Hankinson
Speaker 1: that was on three counts of wanton endangerment in the
Speaker 1: first degree, and neither he nor the other two officers
Speaker 1: who were involved in that encounter were charged in her death. So,
Speaker 1: just to be clear, none of the charges that Brett
Speaker 1: Hankinson faced have anything to do with killing Brianna Taylor.
Speaker 1: This all has to do with the bullets that penetrated
Speaker 1: the wall of the residence and entered a neighboring apartment
Speaker 1: that was occupied by a child, a man, and a
Speaker 1: pregnant woman. So Brianna Taylor, there's no charges regarding her killing. Now,
Speaker 1: even when you know, even when you know that you
Speaker 1: know it's not gonna no justice is gonna be served.
Speaker 1: It doesn't doesn't hurt any less, I'll tell you that.
Speaker 1: And you could tell just by the way they were
Speaker 1: setting up Louisville and shutting down the courts and making
Speaker 1: sure everything was protected, they knew what was coming down yesterday.
Speaker 1: Now Here is the Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, at
Speaker 1: a news conference following the Grand Jerry's announcements where he
Speaker 1: talked about the no knock. Evidence shows that officers both
Speaker 1: knocked and announced their presence at the apartment. The officers
Speaker 1: statements about their announcement are corroborated by an independent witness
Speaker 1: who was near in a proximity to Apartment four. In
Speaker 1: other words, the warrant was not served as a no
Speaker 1: knock warrant. What officers were unable to get anyone to
Speaker 1: answer or open the door to Apartment four. Decision was
Speaker 1: made to breach the door. But the boyfriend is not
Speaker 1: The boyfriends not considered. The witness wasn't the boyfriend was
Speaker 1: in the Kenneth walking Kenneth Kenneth. If Kenneth says, if
Speaker 1: Kenneth says nobody knocked, his word doesn't mean anything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know what bothers me is is who signed
Speaker 1: off on that warrd? Like, who was the one that
Speaker 1: sent him to the wrong house. Who's the one that
Speaker 1: didn't know that the gentleman was already in custody. Who
Speaker 1: signed off on that, who allowed him to go into
Speaker 1: that house? That's that's what That's why I don't like.
Speaker 1: I don't know how he's not charged. That person's not
Speaker 1: charged because he made a mistake. It was It's clearly
Speaker 1: a mistake. It was clearly he was. It was clearly
Speaker 1: they didn't do the product work. No, they didn't send
Speaker 1: him to the wrong house. He was. He was signed
Speaker 1: off on a search one for Rihanna's department. They didn't
Speaker 1: do it something to the wrong house. Wasn't the guy?
Speaker 1: He was already in custody. He was already in custody.
Speaker 1: So a little communication, all right. Now Here is a
Speaker 1: Kentucky Attorney General, Daniel Cameron, talking about the investigation. He
Speaker 1: says it was fair and so the length of the
Speaker 1: investigation was a reflection of how important it was that
Speaker 1: we got this right. We didn't want to rush it,
Speaker 1: and we did not. These are prosecutors and investigators who
Speaker 1: don't care about political distinctions, don't care about influence in
Speaker 1: any particular regard. What they care about is the truth,
Speaker 1: and we presented that to the grand jury, all right.
Speaker 1: He also talks about the claims to injustice to the
Speaker 1: black community. He responds to those claims, what do you
Speaker 1: say to people who say, this is just another example
Speaker 1: of the black community not getting full of justice. I
Speaker 1: certainly understand the pain that has been brought about by
Speaker 1: the tragic loss of miss Taylor. I understand that as
Speaker 1: an attorney general who is responsible for all one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty counties in terms of being the chief legal officer,
Speaker 1: I understand that I understand that as a black man,
Speaker 1: how painful this is, which is why it was so
Speaker 1: incredibly important for make sure that we did everything we
Speaker 1: possibly could to uncover every fact. Here's the thing for me, man,
Speaker 1: when officers, you know, I guess, make a mistake, I'm
Speaker 1: putting mistaken air quotes. When you are a victim of
Speaker 1: mild practice, like you know, Brianna Taylor was, what's the
Speaker 1: punishment for the officers if it's not an arrest? What
Speaker 1: is it if I'm make a mistake here on the radio.
Speaker 1: There's some type of consequences, Like what are the consequences
Speaker 1: they like they still get to keep their job. They
Speaker 1: don't get suspended without pay, Like what happens? Like nothing?
Speaker 1: Just a life is gone and it's just whatever. And
Speaker 1: I want to skip ahead to Donald Trump now because
Speaker 1: everybody was talking about his quote response, and here's what
Speaker 1: he had to say. His message to the black community.
Speaker 1: What is your message to the black community who believed
Speaker 1: that perhaps justice was not served? Well, my messages that
Speaker 1: I love the black community and I've done more for
Speaker 1: the black community than any other president with a possible
Speaker 1: exception of Abraham Lincoln. And I mean, man, I don't
Speaker 1: know enough about it. I heard the decision was just made.
Speaker 1: We've been together here and so we haven't discussed it.
Speaker 1: But after I see what the decision is, I will
Speaker 1: have a commentary. Okay. Wow. And here he is talking
Speaker 1: about the Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, who you just heard,
Speaker 1: and he thinks he's great, really brilliant. Kentucky Attorney General
Speaker 1: Daniel Cameron is doing a fantastic job. I think he's
Speaker 1: a star. All right. That is your president, and that
Speaker 1: is your front page news. All right, get it off
Speaker 1: your chest. Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one.
Speaker 1: If you need to vent four lines of wide open.
Speaker 1: This up right now is the Breakfast Club. Good morning,
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. I'm telling, I'm telling what's doing. This
Speaker 1: is your time to get it off your chest, whether
Speaker 1: you're mad or blessed. Eight hundred five eight five one
Speaker 1: oh five one. We want to hear from you on
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? It's really I got
Speaker 1: gonna get it off, man. I just I just want
Speaker 1: a man coming on this brown a Taylor situation, man,
Speaker 1: like once an endangerment, it's to basically the same thing
Speaker 1: as reckless murder. I mean, just reckless shooting. Right, So
Speaker 1: if you're shooting recklessly and you kill somebody, how to hell,
Speaker 1: that's not a reckless murder, man. I mean, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm so sticking tired of this, bro. Like, we're
Speaker 1: not asking for nothing, bro, We're just asking to be
Speaker 1: treated like regular people. I'm sorry, I apologize like we
Speaker 1: just asked me. You don't gotta you don't gotta apologize,
Speaker 1: my brother, you don't gotta folo job, bron man. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I have a little girl, bro,
Speaker 1: you know and not gonna. I got two balls and
Speaker 1: a little girl, man, and I'd be sad for them
Speaker 1: in And I don't know how. I don't know how
Speaker 1: do you put them in a position, you know, for
Speaker 1: you to brutalize my kids and you expect me just
Speaker 1: to spit them. That's not like, man, That's not right, man,
Speaker 1: bron Man. And it's hard man. I s what a guy.
Speaker 1: I understand, man. I know you just say you have
Speaker 1: good white people out there and not honors the guy,
Speaker 1: but the But to be so hard, I don't know
Speaker 1: when you going older bird. My girl was in a
Speaker 1: sleeper and I did m worried. Don't that's real. It's
Speaker 1: not right man, And I'm just I'm just hold the
Speaker 1: blisses of all. I'll be upon feminly man. You know,
Speaker 1: appreciate you, King, Love you King? Hello? Who's this are you? Guys? Um?
Speaker 1: I would like to pick it off, um, Angeline Charlomagne,
Speaker 1: I would like to pick it off my chest. I
Speaker 1: have one daughter just graduated from Spellman last year. The
Speaker 1: hurt that I feel for her mother is just unbearable.
Speaker 1: And at this point in time, they're asking for us.
Speaker 1: And I don't promote violence, but I honestly feel like
Speaker 1: it's just something to my child, you kill her. I
Speaker 1: think you get to list how am I supposed to
Speaker 1: John's Earth without my daughter? So I want a Maratha
Speaker 1: to know how they're creating the Christ Turners, the new
Speaker 1: Nat Turners by consistently giving us in justice when it
Speaker 1: comes to the school system, when it comes to the
Speaker 1: criminal system, like at this point, they're leaving us no
Speaker 1: choice but to protect ourselves. And I agree with Charlomagne, um,
Speaker 1: it is time that we get our own guns because
Speaker 1: it's going to go down, not the president that's saying
Speaker 1: he's not going to leave office. As if people stug
Speaker 1: when it's confidentially, Um, we have to stand up. We
Speaker 1: have to be strong. And I again I feel so
Speaker 1: bad for Starna Taylor's MoMA, considering I have one daughter,
Speaker 1: and I'm telling you, if he hid anything to my baby,
Speaker 1: your kid will not be able to live in Your
Speaker 1: mom's not gonna be able to live it. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: but this is what we are they're asking us to.
Speaker 1: They're now I'm telling us, you have no choice, you
Speaker 1: get no justice. So the only justice that I see
Speaker 1: is if we saw it raising up like Nats in
Speaker 1: the system turns in this blob because they're not going
Speaker 1: to give it to us. Top of the day, guys.
Speaker 1: You that's the best thing I thought about was to
Speaker 1: make up Palmer Brianna Taylor's There's so much love and
Speaker 1: prayers out to her because this is such a difficult
Speaker 1: time to have to go through this. Yeah. Absolutely, And America,
Speaker 1: this is the energy that you're creating because you're not
Speaker 1: you know, you're simply not giving folks no justice and
Speaker 1: you're leaving folks no choice. All right, And every black person,
Speaker 1: every black person in America absolutely needs to own a
Speaker 1: legal firearm. That is a form of self care. Every
Speaker 1: black person in America needs to own a legal firearm
Speaker 1: that is a form of self care when you are
Speaker 1: black in this country. Get it off your chest. Eight
Speaker 1: hundred five eight five one oh five one. If you
Speaker 1: need to vent, hit us up now with the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Good morning, the Breakfast Club. This is your time to
Speaker 1: get it off your chest. Whether you're man here from
Speaker 1: you on the Breakfast Club. You got something on your
Speaker 1: mont Hello, who's this? Good morning? Hatred should get it
Speaker 1: off your chest? Hi, good morning, guys. I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: stop by thing Bless you guys on the beautiful day.
Speaker 1: Bless you too, Queen. I just want to talk about
Speaker 1: this situation with Brianna Taylor. It's just very disheart and
Speaker 1: as a black mom, it's just so disappointed to see
Speaker 1: that her mom is not going to get justice for
Speaker 1: her daughter. And it's just like, we don't have no
Speaker 1: trust in our system. We're raising kids and very hard time.
Speaker 1: It's like you don't know which way to turn. You
Speaker 1: don't know what to tell your children about what's going on,
Speaker 1: especially if they're young. It's very hard to sit down
Speaker 1: and have these hard conversations with them. But us as
Speaker 1: the black community needs to have these hard conversations. We
Speaker 1: need to expand and let our black children know that
Speaker 1: the way they're being treated and the things that are
Speaker 1: happening to them are not okay and it's not right.
Speaker 1: It's because, you know, I feel like none of us
Speaker 1: were surprised by the verdict, but a lot of us
Speaker 1: did still feel disappointed, and we also kind of was like, okay,
Speaker 1: maybe this time, maybe this time. Absolutely, I didn't think
Speaker 1: that none of us were surprised. I didn't have anything,
Speaker 1: but I still I still was praying for the family.
Speaker 1: And hoping that something good would come out of all this.
Speaker 1: You know, there were people who were very active in Louisville,
Speaker 1: occupying Louisville and protesting, and a lot of things were happening.
Speaker 1: The twelve million dollars sentlement, you feel like, Okay, maybe
Speaker 1: they do realize something. Maybe this is an indication that
Speaker 1: there will be some justice following that. And once again nothing.
Speaker 1: I didn't think that all week on this radio all
Speaker 1: week or then't no justice gonna be served in no way,
Speaker 1: shape or form. And I really don't understand how people
Speaker 1: can use this to tell us to vote, Like, these
Speaker 1: types of injustices happen under democrats too, doesn't matter who's
Speaker 1: in office locally nationally, We've been watching police and damn
Speaker 1: there everyone else get away with these type of injustice
Speaker 1: towards black people forever. So how was voting going to
Speaker 1: help that? Somebody got to explain that one to me too, Like,
Speaker 1: I just don't think using in a moment like this
Speaker 1: to say we'll go vote like it's been happening under
Speaker 1: every administrat happens locally, happened nationally. How is voting gonna
Speaker 1: change the way white people perceive black people in America.
Speaker 1: Please tell me that get it off your chest. Eight
Speaker 1: hundred five eight five one o five one. Now we
Speaker 1: got rumors on the way. Yes, and we'll talk more
Speaker 1: about Brianna Taylor because we just have to do that
Speaker 1: this morning. And we'll tell you what some people have
Speaker 1: been saying. We'll read you some of Lebron's tweets as well.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Good morning, the Breakfast Club Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy,
Speaker 1: Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the guy. We are to Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Let's get to the rumors. Let's tell Brianna Taylor, she's
Speaker 1: filling the team. This is the rumor report with Angela
Speaker 1: Yee on the Breakfast Club. Yes, and because we don't
Speaker 1: have enough front page news, I want to make sure
Speaker 1: we address Brianna Taylor all morning. Attorney Ben Crump hosted
Speaker 1: Jefferson Grand County Jerry and DT's former officer Brett Hankinson
Speaker 1: with three counts of wanton endangerment and first degree for
Speaker 1: bullets that went into other apartments, but nothing for the
Speaker 1: murder of Brianna Taylor. This is outrageous and offensive. If
Speaker 1: Bret Hankinson's behavior was wanton endangerment to people in neighboring apartments,
Speaker 1: then it should have been wanting endangerment in Brianna Taylor's
Speaker 1: apartment too. In fact, it should have been wanted murder.
Speaker 1: Joe Biden tweeted out, even amidst the profound grief and anger,
Speaker 1: today's decision generated. Violence is never and can never be
Speaker 1: the answer. Those who engage in it must be held accountable.
Speaker 1: Jill and I are keeping the officers shot tonight in
Speaker 1: Louisville and our prayers. We wished them both the swift
Speaker 1: and full recovery because, as you know, there were two
Speaker 1: officers who were shot yesterday during the protests. Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: tweeted out tonight, I'm thinking of Brianna Taylor's family, who
Speaker 1: was still grieving the loss of a daughter and sister.
Speaker 1: We must never stop speaking Brianna's name as we work
Speaker 1: to reform our justice system, including overhauling no knock warrents.
Speaker 1: She goes on to say, Joe Biden and I are
Speaker 1: keeping the police officers who were shot in Louisville in
Speaker 1: our hearts, wishing them a swift and speedy recovery. Violence
Speaker 1: is not the answer, and we must find a way
Speaker 1: to express our grief, anger, and demands in ways that
Speaker 1: reflect the world we wish to see. Bernie Sanders tweeted
Speaker 1: out Brianna Taylor's life matter. The result is a disgrace
Speaker 1: and an abdication of justice. Our criminal justice system is racist.
Speaker 1: The time for fundamental change is now. Colin Kaepernick tweeted
Speaker 1: out the white supremacist institution of policing that stole Brianna
Speaker 1: Taylor's life from us must be abolished for the safety
Speaker 1: and well being of our people. And Lebron said, I've
Speaker 1: been lost for words today. I'm devastated, hurt, sad, mad.
Speaker 1: We want justice for Brianna, Yet justice was met for
Speaker 1: her neighbor's apartment walls and not her beautiful life. Was
Speaker 1: I surprised that the verdict absolutely not, but damn it,
Speaker 1: I was and still am hurt and heavy hearted. I
Speaker 1: said my love to Brianna's mother, family and friends. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. The most disrespected person on earth is the
Speaker 1: black woman. I promise you I'll do my best to
Speaker 1: change this as much as I can, and even more.
Speaker 1: Love to you queens all over this country and beyond.
Speaker 1: So Those are just some of the tweets that was
Speaker 1: sent out yesterday. All right now, Chance the Rapper is
Speaker 1: telling people to vote for whoever your mom is voting for.
Speaker 1: He said this a couple of days ago, and people
Speaker 1: went in on him on Twitter, and he said, ask
Speaker 1: your mom who to vote for? Vote for who she say.
Speaker 1: Your mom had been through a lot, Ask them and
Speaker 1: trust them. What do y'all think about that? I'll be
Speaker 1: honest with ya. I mean, you vote for you woman.
Speaker 1: My mom got some good choices, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Ain't never is anohing wrong to go with mama's opinion,
Speaker 1: especially if you don't necessarily know about politics and you
Speaker 1: haven't been paying attention. I don't have a problem with that.
Speaker 1: I don't know who your mom's mama good money. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it depends on who your mom is. I would say.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, you encourage people really to vote
Speaker 1: for whoever you want to vote for. It might be
Speaker 1: different than which but they were going in on him,
Speaker 1: and then they went on him for this. He was
Speaker 1: talking about Justin Bieber's new album and here here's what
Speaker 1: he had to say. This album is really some of
Speaker 1: the best music I've made. Would you agree this is
Speaker 1: no cap at all. I said, some of the best
Speaker 1: music I've ever heard period. It reminds me of when
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson made Off the Wall. Everybody that's listening, I
Speaker 1: am merging it right now. I promise you it is
Speaker 1: literally groundbreaking music. So of course the headline was Chance
Speaker 1: the Rapper says that Justin Bieber's album is like Michael
Speaker 1: Jackson's Off the Wall. But Chance the Rapper was quick
Speaker 1: to point out he was saying it reminds me of
Speaker 1: don't do that. Don't do that, Chance. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Just say the music is fired. Just say
Speaker 1: the music is dope. Don't compare it to anything. And
Speaker 1: if you're going to compare it to something, please don't
Speaker 1: compare it to Michael Jackson Off the Wall, because now
Speaker 1: I am hoping to hear something as good as Off
Speaker 1: the Wall. But it's not even about how the record sounds.
Speaker 1: It's about how the music makes you feel. Off the
Speaker 1: Wall gives us a feeling, and it's a feeling that
Speaker 1: is unmatched because we can all remember what we were
Speaker 1: doing as kids when we first heard Off the Wall,
Speaker 1: and we've all got different moments, you know, hearing Off
Speaker 1: the wall throughout the years that music Justin Bie was
Speaker 1: putting out doesn't have that kind of cachier behind the chests.
Speaker 1: I don't do that to him, okay. And Michelle Obama
Speaker 1: was on Conan O'Brien and she was talking about the
Speaker 1: beginning of the pan demic, how things were really cool.
Speaker 1: They were organized with the girls. They would just have
Speaker 1: all kinds of a little fun things and watercolor paintings,
Speaker 1: and they learned how to play spades. But then she said,
Speaker 1: things went left, and now towards the end of the pandemic,
Speaker 1: everybody's kind of sick, and the kids are sick of
Speaker 1: being around them. Listen to this. We've kind of had
Speaker 1: phases of COVID. There was sort of the early stages
Speaker 1: where we were all excited to be together and we
Speaker 1: were being all organized. That went away, and it started
Speaker 1: as the first our kids down a little sick of us.
Speaker 1: I will say, in the beginning of this, I was
Speaker 1: a lot more gung ho about being productive about things
Speaker 1: in my home. And since then things have fallen apart.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, I'm Angela Yee and that is your
Speaker 1: rumor report. All right, thank you, miss ye. Now when
Speaker 1: we come back front page news. What we're talking about,
Speaker 1: you know what we're talking about. We got to talk
Speaker 1: more about, Brianna Taylor. I want to discuss this verdict
Speaker 1: that came down and you know, just people being really
Speaker 1: disappointed and what's happening in Louisville and what's happening all
Speaker 1: over the United States. They were protests here in Brooklyn
Speaker 1: yesterday that we're at the Barclays and we'll discuss the aftermath.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club.
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Speaker 1: the guy. We all the Breakfast Club. Let's get in
Speaker 1: some front page news. The last night it sports the
Speaker 1: heat beat of the Celtics. They lead the series three
Speaker 1: one one one twelve, one oh nine. Let's get right
Speaker 1: into it easy. Yes. Brianna Taylor, Kentucky Grand Jerry and
Speaker 1: died in former Louisville police officer Brett Higginson, but there
Speaker 1: were no charges brought up on the other two officers
Speaker 1: involved in the encounter that killed Brianna Taylor. So the
Speaker 1: charges against Hankinson are basically he's facing a maximum of
Speaker 1: five years in jail, and it specifically states that, under
Speaker 1: circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to human life, he wantonly shot
Speaker 1: a gun into the apartment. So this has nothing to
Speaker 1: do with Brianna Taylor getting killed. This has to do
Speaker 1: with him shooting and the bullets penetrating a wall of
Speaker 1: the residents entering a neighboring apartment that occupied. So not
Speaker 1: even the person who was killed in her own home
Speaker 1: while she was sleeping in bed. These charges are for
Speaker 1: a neighboring apartment where no one was injured. That's crazy,
Speaker 1: all right. Now, Let's listen to the Kentucky Attorney General
Speaker 1: Cameron is talking about these charges in talking about homicide
Speaker 1: being considered. Did the prenury ever consider the charges of
Speaker 1: manslaughter reckless homicide? I will get into the specifics again
Speaker 1: of the proceedings themselves are secret, but what I will
Speaker 1: say is that our team walked in through every homicide offense,
Speaker 1: and it also presented all of the information that was
Speaker 1: available to the grand jury, and then the grand jury
Speaker 1: was ultimately the one that made the decision about indicting
Speaker 1: Detective Hankinson. I don't see how you don't at least
Speaker 1: get a manslaughter charge, Like like doctors commitmental practice. There's
Speaker 1: consequences I say something on this radio, you know, even
Speaker 1: if it's by accident that I didn't mean to, there's
Speaker 1: consequences to it. Like how is there no consequences killing
Speaker 1: a young woman in her apartment while she's sleeping. Of course,
Speaker 1: once this happened, there was a protests across the United States,
Speaker 1: and in Louisville there were actually two police officers who
Speaker 1: were shot during the protests. Shortly before the curfew began,
Speaker 1: there were reports of gunfire near one of the marches.
Speaker 1: Two of the responding officers were shot. They have non
Speaker 1: life threatening wounds, and there is a suspect in custody.
Speaker 1: The way that a lot of people feel right now,
Speaker 1: they should be happy that it's not more. And what
Speaker 1: do you expect, seriously, like, you know, if there's if
Speaker 1: there's no if there's no order, you know, what I mean,
Speaker 1: because people don't feel like there's getting getting justice. That's
Speaker 1: the justice system fault, the so called justices. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: we can't. People can't run around to start shooting random people.
Speaker 1: That's the whole point. People and people. That's what we're
Speaker 1: trying to tell. The political that's what that's what we're
Speaker 1: trying to tell the police officers point. But we just
Speaker 1: can't start shooting random people back all right, listen, I
Speaker 1: agree with you, but what do you expect, Like, I mean, seriously,
Speaker 1: how do you keep putting this kind of energy y'all
Speaker 1: keep not giving people justice and then expect people not
Speaker 1: to be upset. I'm not gonna tell somebody how they
Speaker 1: should express their pain. People are hurt. Hurt, people hurt people,
Speaker 1: People are upset, people are angry, people are venting, people
Speaker 1: are frustrated. People the end of day wrote now. Donald
Speaker 1: Trump tweeted out praying for the two police officers that
Speaker 1: were shot tonight in Louisville, Kentucky. The federal government stan
Speaker 1: behind you and it is ready to help. And then
Speaker 1: he also said law and order, but he didn't say
Speaker 1: nothing about prays to the family of or nothing, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like Come on, man, nobody needs
Speaker 1: to be hurting anybody at a time like this, all
Speaker 1: right now. Donald Trump also was questioned during a press
Speaker 1: conference yesterday about whether he will leave the White House
Speaker 1: peacefully if he loses the election, and here's what happened.
Speaker 1: Will you commit to making sure that there is a
Speaker 1: peaceful transfer poll of power after the election? Cool, We're
Speaker 1: gonna have to see what happens. You know that I've
Speaker 1: been complaining very strongly about the ballots and the ballots
Speaker 1: or a disaster and that, but people are rioting. Do
Speaker 1: you commit to making sure that there's a peaceful want
Speaker 1: to get rid of the ballots and you'll have a
Speaker 1: very trans We'll have a very peaceful there won't be
Speaker 1: a transfer. Frankly, there'll be a continuation. I mean, I've
Speaker 1: been telling y'all. I've been telling y'all on his radio
Speaker 1: for about a year and a half that the fastest
Speaker 1: in the White House was not leaving that man. Who's
Speaker 1: going to retain power through voter suppression. They're going to voters,
Speaker 1: especially in inner cities. They're gonna suppress mail in voting.
Speaker 1: You already see them suppressing registration roles. They're gonna limit
Speaker 1: physical polling locations, especially in areas with a high black population.
Speaker 1: The man is telling you he's not leaving peacefully, and
Speaker 1: he's telling you just throw away the absentee ballots, don't
Speaker 1: count the ballots, that we won't have to worry about
Speaker 1: whether or not there'll be a peaceful transition of power.
Speaker 1: By the way, he benefits from the chaos, all of
Speaker 1: this recklessness in the screech right now, everything out of order.
Speaker 1: Now he can really say, oh, I'm the law nor
Speaker 1: the president. I'm going to maintain order. Now. You actually
Speaker 1: caused the chaos by not giving Americans what they deserve,
Speaker 1: which is justice in a situation like Brianna Taylor. But
Speaker 1: he's gonna benefit from it because now they're gonna run
Speaker 1: these images on Fox News over and over and over.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be in Donald Trump added Donald Trump commercial
Speaker 1: saying oh, this is Joe Biden's America. No, this is
Speaker 1: just America, period, and it's gonna be America. As long
Speaker 1: as this crooked system is in place. He doesn't need
Speaker 1: to be reformed, it needs to be overhauled. Since Ruth
Speaker 1: Bader Ginsburg died, they said there was a surge in
Speaker 1: voter register. They said that vote dot org saw more
Speaker 1: than forty thousand new voter registrations on Saturday and Satnday,
Speaker 1: which is a sixty eight percent increase from the prior weekend.
Speaker 1: That's good. Once again, I really don't understand how you
Speaker 1: how you use this situation to tell people to vote,
Speaker 1: because these type of injustices happen under Democrats too, doesn't
Speaker 1: matter who's in office locally. Naturally, we've been watching police
Speaker 1: and damn there everybody else get away with these type
Speaker 1: of injustice towards the black people forever. So you got
Speaker 1: to explain to me how voting is going to change.
Speaker 1: In most places, you vote for your attorney general, and
Speaker 1: you vote for local officials, and then you have to
Speaker 1: hold them accountable. It's not just voting but also being involved.
Speaker 1: And so it is important who you vote for, hopefully
Speaker 1: your governor, who might appoint the attorney general in some states.
Speaker 1: Some states you vote for your attorney general. So it
Speaker 1: is important to make sure you tell people to vote
Speaker 1: because who you want to represent you and I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that that person has to be a Democrat or
Speaker 1: a Republican, but at least know who you're voting for
Speaker 1: and who has your edge. Absolutely, yeah, we should an
Speaker 1: register vote and people should be voting, not just for
Speaker 1: the presidency, like you said, for all places, for mayors,
Speaker 1: for district attorneys for like, yeah, absolutely, we should be so.
Speaker 1: Throughout the history of America, how can we always see
Speaker 1: this this this type of scenario played out over and
Speaker 1: over and over and over again. A lot of times,
Speaker 1: I don't think don't vote. A lot of we do
Speaker 1: need more people to register to vote and to participate
Speaker 1: in the process. And we also need more people to
Speaker 1: be encouraged to run for these offices. A lot of
Speaker 1: times you don't even know who's our local offices, Like like,
Speaker 1: I think, be honest, a lot of times we don't
Speaker 1: know who's in our local offices, you know. I mean
Speaker 1: we need to start we need to start doing ours.
Speaker 1: And I think we need people that are in these
Speaker 1: local offices that are willing to overhaul the system, not
Speaker 1: reform it, because this system is not for us. When
Speaker 1: they do when when they defined justice for all, black
Speaker 1: people were not included. And that's why encourage people to
Speaker 1: run for office. And if you know somebody who you
Speaker 1: think would being an incredible mayor or chief of a
Speaker 1: city police Department, encourage them to run for our office.
Speaker 1: Let them know that you'll support them and strategize. It's
Speaker 1: not just always the processes. These are our candidates, but
Speaker 1: maybe you know people who you think that person would
Speaker 1: be a great candidate. Be involved. All right, a lot
Speaker 1: of your front page news. Now when we come back,
Speaker 1: the author of Open Mike, Mike Hill, will be joining us.
Speaker 1: All right. You've probably seen him on Fox Sports and
Speaker 1: the host of other platforms, but he'll be joining us
Speaker 1: next an. He's engaged to Cynthia Bailey on Real Housewives
Speaker 1: of Atlanta, so we'll see him, we'll talk to him.
Speaker 1: Next is to Breakfast Club. Go Morning, the Breakfast Club Morning.
Speaker 1: Everybody's dh Envy Angela yee, Charlomagne the guy we are
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest on the
Speaker 1: line right now, the author of Open Mike, which is
Speaker 1: available right now, Mike Hill. Ladies and gentlemen, all right,
Speaker 1: what's up, King, how's it go? That's black and Holly Favor. Yes, yes, yes, hey, yeah,
Speaker 1: I see you. Thank you for representing many appreciate that.
Speaker 1: What's up, Mike, man, I'm you know, reading this book.
Speaker 1: I'm like you've really come a long way I have.
Speaker 1: I had to. You know, people are gonna look at
Speaker 1: a lot of transgressions that I had in my life,
Speaker 1: but hopefully they look at the transformation the things I
Speaker 1: went through in my life, seeing domestic violence, growing up,
Speaker 1: finding out that my stepfather was a contracted killer, going
Speaker 1: through my marriages and all this stuff that I went
Speaker 1: through when I was at ESPN Fast Sports. That led
Speaker 1: me to actually where I am right now when it
Speaker 1: comes to being involved with the lady on with right now.
Speaker 1: So it's been a journey, but I'm happy I took
Speaker 1: that journey in Alabama. Correct. Yeah, I was born in
Speaker 1: the Bronx. I'm always going to be a New York dude,
Speaker 1: but Alabama was where my roots are. You know, that's
Speaker 1: where my former two years of my life. So I
Speaker 1: called myself a kind of a country boy, kind of
Speaker 1: like Charlemagne and Monk's Corner down in South Carolina, the
Speaker 1: same kind of background and whatnot. But you know, it
Speaker 1: was it was. It was kind of crazy for me
Speaker 1: because you know, people think you grew up in the Bronx,
Speaker 1: that's where you're going to find a lot of trouble whatnot.
Speaker 1: But I found more trouble when I was in Alabama,
Speaker 1: because you gotta understand, when I grew up down there,
Speaker 1: it was the start of the crack era, and so
Speaker 1: a lot of the country boys down there was doing
Speaker 1: a lot of crazy stuff, and a lot of my
Speaker 1: friends got caught up in a lot of the drugs whatnot.
Speaker 1: One of my best friends got killed in the drive
Speaker 1: by shooting. One of my other friends was you know,
Speaker 1: on roeryp In twenty seven years of his life in
Speaker 1: prison and all that type of stuff. So a lot
Speaker 1: of the things that they grew up with I grew
Speaker 1: up with. I just had some of the better decisions.
Speaker 1: I had some people in my life to kind of
Speaker 1: put me on the right track. Or I could have
Speaker 1: been doing the same thing that they're doing right now
Speaker 1: or what they were doing. You know, Mike, you did
Speaker 1: something that I did, and I think all men eventually
Speaker 1: have to be intentional about doing. You went and you
Speaker 1: you started doing the work on yourself to get some
Speaker 1: healing and some wholeness. When were you able to identify
Speaker 1: that you had traumas you needed to deal with and
Speaker 1: and and that you needed to go get help. You know,
Speaker 1: it's crazy, is it wasn't until I actually started writing
Speaker 1: this book. This book was my therapy. I didn't even
Speaker 1: realize that I had so many traumas and pains and
Speaker 1: anger and depression that was built up inside me until
Speaker 1: I started writing this book. Then it became my therapy.
Speaker 1: I just know that at the age of forty seven,
Speaker 1: when I started writing this book, that I see him
Speaker 1: on the outside that I was happy. I was living
Speaker 1: a great life. My job was wonderful, you know. I
Speaker 1: was telling everybody I was happy, the happies I had
Speaker 1: ever been in my life, professionally and personally. But I
Speaker 1: would find myself at home just crying uncontrollably for no
Speaker 1: reason whatsoever. I'd be on the road with the clippers
Speaker 1: when I was working with them, and I would just have,
Speaker 1: you know, just tears was coming out of my eyes
Speaker 1: for whatever reason. And something told me I needed to
Speaker 1: write this book. So when I started writing this book,
Speaker 1: it felt like I was regurgitating. It just felt like
Speaker 1: everything started coming out of me at once, and I
Speaker 1: realized that I had all this stuff, all this trauma
Speaker 1: and all this pain that I had suppressed for so
Speaker 1: many years. And I think that's what we do as
Speaker 1: black men, you know, we suppressed those the anger and
Speaker 1: all that depression and all that pain, and I had
Speaker 1: to let it go. When I finally was able to
Speaker 1: let it go, I always called that like my surgery.
Speaker 1: And when I had the surgery, of course, you know
Speaker 1: how it is that I got to be real abilitation
Speaker 1: after the surgery, and that was when my therapy came in.
Speaker 1: So I realized that, you know, for forty seven years,
Speaker 1: I was a boy acting like a man, and it
Speaker 1: wasn't until I actually wrote this book that I stepped
Speaker 1: into my manhood. And now I'm still kind of continuing
Speaker 1: that journey. Yeah, it's interesting when you put everything together
Speaker 1: all at once because obviously, you know, as long as
Speaker 1: you've been on this earth, we're reading this book, and
Speaker 1: then we're going through all these experiences that you went through.
Speaker 1: You know, you're joined the military, which that was something
Speaker 1: about you. I didn't even know, you know, prior to
Speaker 1: meeting you, and that's quite an experience already. And then
Speaker 1: you got married at a pretty young age, just and
Speaker 1: it was kind of for selfish reasons, right, Yeah, everything
Speaker 1: was for selfish reasons for me growing up, you know,
Speaker 1: like I didn't know I didn't have any male role
Speaker 1: models in my life. I didn't know how I lived
Speaker 1: my life. I just had to kind of go day
Speaker 1: by day seeing other people doing what they were doing,
Speaker 1: and I figured out they could do it, I could
Speaker 1: do it somebody at my age whatnot. And then getting
Speaker 1: married at an early age because I saw one of
Speaker 1: my best friends in the military who was married with
Speaker 1: a kid and he was making more money. So all
Speaker 1: the other stuff that I went through, it was because
Speaker 1: I saw other people doing or whatnot, and I didn't
Speaker 1: have the right people in my life. Page basically kind
Speaker 1: of guide me along the way, giving me that guidance
Speaker 1: that I need. And that's why I wanted to put
Speaker 1: this out there, because if you can find yourself a
Speaker 1: positive male role model or just a positive role model period,
Speaker 1: somebody that can take you under their wings would not
Speaker 1: give you the direction to give you some of the
Speaker 1: advice that I never received when I was younger. I
Speaker 1: hope that you can understand and look at my life
Speaker 1: and say, you know what he made some of the
Speaker 1: mistakes that I'm still making right now, and I can
Speaker 1: go and get the health and the therapy of Charlemagne
Speaker 1: we was talking about that I need, so that you
Speaker 1: can turn your life around at an earlier age and
Speaker 1: stop affecting your life, because when you affect your life,
Speaker 1: you also affect the others around you too. And that's
Speaker 1: what people don't realize, is that you're not only hurting yourself,
Speaker 1: but you're hurting a lot of the other trips that
Speaker 1: are living. Yep, a contract and your stepdad was a
Speaker 1: contract to kill them. Yeah, yeah, I found How did
Speaker 1: you find that out? Yeah? I found that out when
Speaker 1: I came back from the military. I was just saying
Speaker 1: it out with him. I knew we had done some
Speaker 1: things in the past whatnot. Obviously when I was in
Speaker 1: the middle of here, there was a story I wrote
Speaker 1: about when I got a call when I was in
Speaker 1: the Philippines and he got he had killed somebody and
Speaker 1: they came and raided at the house. Whatever. I'maware around
Speaker 1: the world, I can't do anything about it whatnot. He
Speaker 1: got off on that because of self defense, so they say,
Speaker 1: but everybody kind of know what the real story was,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you. And then when I got home,
Speaker 1: he was kind of at his lower's point, and my
Speaker 1: mom had left him, and I'm sitting on the porch
Speaker 1: and I'm basically trying to save this man, and I'm
Speaker 1: talking to him and he's telling me all the things
Speaker 1: that he had done, and he just basically kind of
Speaker 1: infested and then followed up talking to a lot of
Speaker 1: his friends whatever. I found out all that type of
Speaker 1: stuff was true. But you know, even my dad, my stepdad,
Speaker 1: I don't want to kind of come down on him
Speaker 1: or whatever. He was a loving man, cared about me.
Speaker 1: He took me. I got his last name because he
Speaker 1: adopted me when I was fifteen years old, and he
Speaker 1: loved me. He just had issues. So this is the
Speaker 1: main things I want to get people to understand about
Speaker 1: this book is that we as black men need help
Speaker 1: and we can't be afraid to ask for that help.
Speaker 1: You know, it's okay to the emotion when so kay
Speaker 1: To cries, It's okay to say, you know what, my
Speaker 1: life right now ain't it ain't. It ain't going to
Speaker 1: where it's supposed to go. So I need somebody to
Speaker 1: reach out to and understand, and somebody to reach back
Speaker 1: to me to give me the help that I needed.
Speaker 1: So I wish that my father would have gotten the
Speaker 1: help that he needed at an earlier age. Somebody would
Speaker 1: have pulled him in and basically told him, you know what,
Speaker 1: the path you're going down right now isn't gonna lead
Speaker 1: you anywhere. It's gonna lead you to devastation, destruction. You're
Speaker 1: gonna hurt a lot of people around you, just like
Speaker 1: he did. And maybe he would have worked out okay,
Speaker 1: but unfortunately it didn't because he spent the last nine
Speaker 1: years of his life in prison for murder for hire.
Speaker 1: And you'll see why. And it was a terrible story
Speaker 1: why he did that too as well. All right, we
Speaker 1: got more with Mike Hill when we come back, don't move.
Speaker 1: It's to Breakfast Club. Good morning morning. Everybody is DJ
Speaker 1: Envy Angela yee. Charlomagne, the guy we all to Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: We're kicking him with Mike kill. Charlemagne, did you receive
Speaker 1: any backlash from anybody when you decided to go to therapy?
Speaker 1: Because you know, every if you if you go on
Speaker 1: YouTube right now, you see it's all Charlomagne talks about
Speaker 1: his mental health and going to therapy. Every thing isn't
Speaker 1: about therapy. You know, I don't give, I don't care,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, it's my life, you know, And
Speaker 1: y'all understand ch'arallo man I got I got to be
Speaker 1: honest with you. Reading your book actually helped me out
Speaker 1: a lot too, because when I see you use your
Speaker 1: platform and basically admit that you had some mental health
Speaker 1: issues or whatnot, and that you aren't afraid to go
Speaker 1: and get the help that you needed, that was huge
Speaker 1: to use your platform that way. And I encourage anybody
Speaker 1: with a platform, don't care if you got ten followers,
Speaker 1: you got ten million followers. If you know you need
Speaker 1: some kind of health in any kind of way, please
Speaker 1: ask for so the people that do come out and
Speaker 1: basically say, you know, oh you emotional when you're crying,
Speaker 1: you you know, calling your little names what I want
Speaker 1: to call you, whatever, I don't care. I'm at a
Speaker 1: point in my life where my mind, my life, and
Speaker 1: the people around me matter more than anything in the world.
Speaker 1: So if you don't want to get the help that
Speaker 1: you need and you want to kind of dog me
Speaker 1: out for it, I pray for you, and I pray
Speaker 1: that you get the help, because I think when you
Speaker 1: do do things like that, when you troll or you
Speaker 1: trying to throw some kind of hate or disparaging remarks,
Speaker 1: that somebody that's trying to get mental health. Those are
Speaker 1: the main ones that actually needed. So are here to
Speaker 1: help you out. I'm here to make you a better person.
Speaker 1: So all I can do is use my platform and
Speaker 1: use whatever NOTORID y'all have to basically set myself as
Speaker 1: an example and hopefully somebody can follow suit. Now, Mike,
Speaker 1: I got to ask you a couple of questions because
Speaker 1: you were very transparent about some things in this book. Okay, So,
Speaker 1: and I know that wasn't easy because there's some stories
Speaker 1: that you told that I'm like, wow, so there's something
Speaker 1: in here that you said because you said when somebody
Speaker 1: asked you doing a Q and A, maybe you'll answer
Speaker 1: that question. So let's ask you that question right now.
Speaker 1: There was an incident with your ex wife, Camille, where
Speaker 1: you stayed out all night. She was trying to call you,
Speaker 1: and you told her you were in the hospital. You
Speaker 1: know how men lie, Either they're in the hospital or
Speaker 1: they got arrested. That's how they excuse things. And she
Speaker 1: couldn't reach you. You actually because you told her that
Speaker 1: you actually checked into the hospital and intended to have
Speaker 1: an asthma attack. And then you fax there's some proof
Speaker 1: over but you had to change the time and everything
Speaker 1: that you checked in. Now you said, I bet you
Speaker 1: want to know where I really was. Maybe I'll answer
Speaker 1: this as part of a Q and A after the
Speaker 1: book comes out, if someone brings it up, but we're
Speaker 1: bringing it up here. Where were you that night when
Speaker 1: you told your ex that you were in the hospital. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's supposed to be my girl. Man, I've been loving
Speaker 1: That's okay, I get it. I'm glad you read that part.
Speaker 1: You know. And this was before we were actually married,
Speaker 1: So I was actually still technically single, but you know, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: but in a relationship. Oh yeah, I was across the
Speaker 1: street hanging out with somebody I shouldn't have been hanging
Speaker 1: out with whatnot. And when I got back home, my
Speaker 1: phone was ringing off the hook. My ex was like
Speaker 1: a detective. She was one of those women like if
Speaker 1: you were missing for like five minutes, she was gonna
Speaker 1: call you or whatever. And when I got back home,
Speaker 1: I had like twelve missed calls and thirteen messages. To
Speaker 1: be quite honest with you, so I was, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was doing dirt. I was doing a lot. But because
Speaker 1: I liked her enough and we had gotten that deep
Speaker 1: into the relationship. I went to the extent of acting
Speaker 1: like I was thick, which once again I am not
Speaker 1: proud of acting like acting like I was in the hospital,
Speaker 1: like I had just gone to the hospital or whatever,
Speaker 1: and that I had to go to the emergency room.
Speaker 1: And she said, prove it, so you had to go.
Speaker 1: It's how you know you really care? That is that
Speaker 1: effective when a woman is on you like that, when
Speaker 1: you know that you had a tendency you know previously
Speaker 1: to stray right? Does that work when women are constantly
Speaker 1: on you? And like, havn't you check in? You think
Speaker 1: that's an effective way? Nah? It not for me. It
Speaker 1: because the person i'm were right now and like I've
Speaker 1: gotten past all that stuff that I used to do
Speaker 1: them my life. That's Cynthia. Yes, Cynthia and I finally
Speaker 1: settled down, and I'm I want to do it the
Speaker 1: right way. Like I said, I stepped into my manhood.
Speaker 1: But for me, when I want to do right and
Speaker 1: when I've told you about my pasts, like obviously everybody
Speaker 1: knows about my past, and I just want you to
Speaker 1: give me an opportunity. I don't need you on top
Speaker 1: of me all the time, you know, basically, telling me,
Speaker 1: you know, or asking where I am whatnot, checking my DMS,
Speaker 1: checking my phone and things like that. I think for me,
Speaker 1: for my personality, I think that pushes me away. I
Speaker 1: can understand why somebody would do it. But if you
Speaker 1: say you trust me, trust me, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: give me an opportunity to prove that I'm doing something wrong.
Speaker 1: Now if you give you a reason for you not
Speaker 1: to trust me, then I understand being on probation or
Speaker 1: being checked up on. But you know, I need a wife.
Speaker 1: I need somebody that's gonna be with me. I don't
Speaker 1: need a CEO. I don't need I don't need a
Speaker 1: correction officer. I don't need that, you know so. And
Speaker 1: I definitely don't need a parole officer because you know what,
Speaker 1: I've never gone to your prison, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So I'm coming out. I'm not on probation for you.
Speaker 1: We're supposed to being in a relationship. Just trust me
Speaker 1: like you said you are. I'm not gonna lie. I
Speaker 1: think I kind of need to see you just a
Speaker 1: little bit, you know what I'm saying. Little, I don't
Speaker 1: need a little bit of direction, that's all. That's it.
Speaker 1: Nothing crazy. Well, if you know that, I mean, but
Speaker 1: it is. If you know that, that's that's cool. You know,
Speaker 1: I understanding. You know, if you got a woman that's
Speaker 1: you know, doesn't mind checking up on you and your
Speaker 1: mind showing her where you've been, that's fine. But here's
Speaker 1: the thing. What I've learned also is that it is
Speaker 1: also our job to make sure that they are secure.
Speaker 1: So if I don't want to feel like that, Bob
Speaker 1: or ten minutes or whatnot, I am the type of
Speaker 1: person that you know what, let me get on the phone.
Speaker 1: If I'm hanging out with there's a woman with me,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna FaceTime my girl and let her know who
Speaker 1: I'm hanging out with, how many people I'm hanging out with,
Speaker 1: and I don't leave out details. That's the growth that
Speaker 1: I've had over the years. Now. Like that said, I
Speaker 1: was doing my dirt back in the day, the infidelities
Speaker 1: or whatever. I admit all that. You know, that's just
Speaker 1: you know, me drawing up. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I'll come a long way and now I want to
Speaker 1: make my girl secure as possible. Yeah, we don't want
Speaker 1: to feel we don't want to feel that way. We
Speaker 1: don't want to feel like I gotta chat, make sure
Speaker 1: he checks in. Where is he. I don't want to
Speaker 1: call my man and be like, Okay, he's not answering
Speaker 1: the phone. He must be doing something. I want to
Speaker 1: call him. And if he doesn't answer, but hey, hit
Speaker 1: me when you get this and feel comfortable. Yeah. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, if I'm at work, or if
Speaker 1: I tell you I'm on an interview and I don't
Speaker 1: answer the phone right away because I'm on the air,
Speaker 1: I'm doing television, I'm doing a radio show, and you
Speaker 1: kind of know that, and you're blowing me up, and
Speaker 1: you blow me up five or six times, and I
Speaker 1: finally answering the first thing. You say, what f you've been? What?
Speaker 1: You know? React tota way because you know what, I'm
Speaker 1: doing my job. I'm not doing somebody else. So you
Speaker 1: got to give me a little bit of leeway. That's all,
Speaker 1: you know. Men, we don't even know our habits. Man.
Speaker 1: I remember back in the day when I used to
Speaker 1: be used to have my in the dirt. My wife
Speaker 1: would always say to me, when I know you're when
Speaker 1: I know you're messing around with a woman? Is women
Speaker 1: that I don't know, meaning like like all a lot
Speaker 1: of my most of my all my female friends, she knows,
Speaker 1: so she's never met her. I've never introduced her to
Speaker 1: introduce her to the person. Yeah yeah, yeah, But see,
Speaker 1: I think that's important. So I got a lot of
Speaker 1: female friends, the majority of my friends and females. I
Speaker 1: just always got along better with females that than me.
Speaker 1: That I'm out there, you know, being them down or whatnot,
Speaker 1: just means that we got a ton of friends with her.
Speaker 1: They look at me like an uncle, they look at
Speaker 1: me like a big brother. I give them advice a
Speaker 1: lot of times. But one thing that's for sure. If
Speaker 1: I got a female friend, my fiance Cynthia has that
Speaker 1: female friend as well. If I'm hanging out with her,
Speaker 1: she knows I'm hanging out with it. So once again
Speaker 1: that pons were part of just making your g feel secure,
Speaker 1: especially if you have that pass, because you want to
Speaker 1: make sure that you build up that trust whatnot. And
Speaker 1: a lot of times some people do it, and I'll
Speaker 1: be honest with you, some people do it because they
Speaker 1: want to. You know, they might have somebody still doing
Speaker 1: dirt or whatever. But I'm at a point in my life,
Speaker 1: like I said, I've done all this stuff. Man, I
Speaker 1: don't don't judge me for the transgressions, look at me
Speaker 1: for my transformation. I've grown up and I realized all
Speaker 1: the mistakes I made in the past on lead those
Speaker 1: in the past because I want to have a black
Speaker 1: future with somebody I can grow with. I have a
Speaker 1: don't move. We got more with Mike Kill when we
Speaker 1: come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning morning. Everybody
Speaker 1: is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. We're kicking it with Mike Kill. Charlomagne,
Speaker 1: your fiance said, you probably never would have proposed and
Speaker 1: she wouldn't have said yes if you didn't get the
Speaker 1: help you needed. So so what traumas do you think
Speaker 1: we're holding you back from being the man you are now? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I was. I didn't trust anybody. I mean, there was
Speaker 1: something that happened to me, and you read the book.
Speaker 1: There was something that happened to me. I was fifteen
Speaker 1: years old with a young lady and a lot of
Speaker 1: people's like man, you held on to that for thirty years, yes,
Speaker 1: told me, and you understand we as men sometime hold
Speaker 1: on to traumas for a long period of time. And
Speaker 1: because when you told her you loved her and she
Speaker 1: didn't say it back, that yeah, tell me that that
Speaker 1: was it? I mean like she and she well, she
Speaker 1: did not only did she not say it back, she
Speaker 1: looked at me like I was freaking crazy, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? And that else, the first time I
Speaker 1: told a woman that I loved her and she tells me,
Speaker 1: she looks at me and like, let's go. And then
Speaker 1: two days later she's with somebody else who happened to
Speaker 1: actually be a friend of mine or whatnot. And I
Speaker 1: didn't even realize we had broken up. I felt that
Speaker 1: her pain and and I didn't want to feel that again.
Speaker 1: So for a long time, I could not trust women,
Speaker 1: and after a while, I couldn't trust myself. So until
Speaker 1: I started loving myself, I could never fall in love
Speaker 1: with another woman. I could love somebody. I loved the
Speaker 1: women that I married before, the mother of my children.
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, but there's a difference in loving
Speaker 1: somebody and falling in love. I could never completely fall
Speaker 1: in love because I couldn't trust them. But more importantly,
Speaker 1: I couldn't trus myself until I actually wrote this book. Mike,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry giving away some spoilers also, but I just
Speaker 1: want to there's a lot to this book, so I
Speaker 1: just I do want to, you know, give away little
Speaker 1: bits and pieces, but I think that is important. You know,
Speaker 1: she's fifteen years old, I love you, and she's you
Speaker 1: know at that age. Was there anybody to tool us?
Speaker 1: Was there people to talk to him during that time
Speaker 1: when you said I love you and she didn't say
Speaker 1: it back. Was anybody even saying, let you know what,
Speaker 1: let me because we don't have these conversations. We're just
Speaker 1: starting to have these conversations now. But was there anybody
Speaker 1: that you could speak with? You just talked through them?
Speaker 1: Mike saying, she looked at me like she farted in
Speaker 1: my mouth. Yeah, she looked at me like, yeah, like
Speaker 1: I farted, like I farted in her mouth. Like that's old.
Speaker 1: Charlemaine heard he was. I heard everything. I'm like, how
Speaker 1: do you mean how you talk over that? Like I
Speaker 1: didn't hear that. That was the reaction, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? So when you imagine the first time you
Speaker 1: pure in the way I described it, man, I felt
Speaker 1: like I was in the moment, like Luke. I don't
Speaker 1: even know who was playing in the background, but it
Speaker 1: was just like this was like something out of a
Speaker 1: love story. I'm like, you know of what looking at her.
Speaker 1: She's beautiful, she's two years old. She's a saying y'am
Speaker 1: the sophomore and like, I love you. I did it
Speaker 1: just like that real school right there. I mean that's
Speaker 1: where I said, I read a real school. And she
Speaker 1: looked at me like, so I remember that now he
Speaker 1: ain't or whatever. So, like you said, there was nobody
Speaker 1: for me to talk to. There was nobody I could
Speaker 1: go to. My biological father wasn't around my stepfather. I
Speaker 1: couldn't talk to him about loving anybody because I never
Speaker 1: saw him love my mom. I never saw them. I
Speaker 1: never saw love in a household. So I didn't have
Speaker 1: anybody that was a positive male role model that could
Speaker 1: actually talk to about that. And if I talk to him,
Speaker 1: they would say things like emptem holes. Seriously, man, you
Speaker 1: you ain't supposed to love him anyway. That's exactly what
Speaker 1: end that I got, Mike. I swear I was about
Speaker 1: to say that to you. What's interesting about that? And
Speaker 1: she broke your heart? And when the other options are
Speaker 1: bitches ain't beholds in tricks, money over holes. When the
Speaker 1: option is disrespect you adopt that, Yeah, exactly, that's what
Speaker 1: you see growing up as a kid. It man. And
Speaker 1: so that's why I once again, I wanted people to
Speaker 1: see my pain and see the things that I've gone
Speaker 1: through in my life, a lot of things, like Angela
Speaker 1: just said, some embarrassing moments that you know, it's hard
Speaker 1: for me to talk about or whatever at the same time,
Speaker 1: but I wanted to put that out there because if
Speaker 1: you can heal from my pain, then then that's my journey.
Speaker 1: Then that's what I'm supposed to be doing on this earth.
Speaker 1: That's my purpose in life. One more teas I want
Speaker 1: to give it. I'm not gonna give this theory because
Speaker 1: I want to make sure everybody reads this book. You're
Speaker 1: gonna love this, Charlottagne. There was even an incident that
Speaker 1: you talk about where you got hit on the face
Speaker 1: or in the head with a penis why Charlemagne gonna
Speaker 1: love that? That That that happened to you too, Charlemagne, But
Speaker 1: explain mic ahead. So that's the tease. When I was
Speaker 1: starting my broadcasting career and I was an intern and
Speaker 1: we was just say, we was in a tight locker room.
Speaker 1: I was holding the microphone talking to somebody while I
Speaker 1: was on my knees because the locker room was real tight,
Speaker 1: and when I turned around, let's just say, I turned
Speaker 1: around and another microphone hit me on my forehead right there,
Speaker 1: because you know, because the players were so close to
Speaker 1: each other. And the guy said, well, I'm sorry, excuse me.
Speaker 1: You know me so but you know, yeah, that that
Speaker 1: that was a really thank you answer. I appreciate you,
Speaker 1: but that was that wasn't want for me to say too,
Speaker 1: because that was part of my broadcasting career. That was
Speaker 1: my introduction. I probably was. I was about to quit. You. Hey,
Speaker 1: you won't be the first person to start a broadcasting
Speaker 1: career because they got it on their head. So what
Speaker 1: do you saff He says, I'm sorry, what do you say?
Speaker 1: All right? Get up? I mean you know this well
Speaker 1: he was. He was a superstar in the NBA. All
Speaker 1: I can do is like was was damn at least
Speaker 1: it was his? All right? Who were talking about? We
Speaker 1: talking about? He wouldn't say that. I'm pretty sure he en.
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of faith has been slapped by
Speaker 1: that pigs. I'm been saying, a superstar or scribe man?
Speaker 1: Is it a hull of things? He's a Hall of Famer, obviously,
Speaker 1: I'll leave it at that. Yeah, all of thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But you know, Mike, what you're doing with your book
Speaker 1: is a great man, because we have to create space
Speaker 1: for each other to discuss our brokenness and discuss our
Speaker 1: traumas without being canceled. You know, yes, the person you
Speaker 1: probably heard people and you know, we got to create
Speaker 1: these spaces to have these conversations. We have to give
Speaker 1: each other the grace you want God to give us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I appreciate you guys giving me the platform to
Speaker 1: be able to talk about that because, like you said,
Speaker 1: Charlo Man, I appreciate you using your platform to basically
Speaker 1: get that word out that we can't be ashamed. We
Speaker 1: gotta stop manning up. If we continue to man up,
Speaker 1: soon or later, it's gonna be manned down. Man, I
Speaker 1: mean six feet down, because I keep telling people, had
Speaker 1: I not written this book, I would be dead right now.
Speaker 1: Think about this as black people, every single person in
Speaker 1: this country has had to deal with some kind of trauma.
Speaker 1: We're dealing with trauma right now. Basically, when you're afraid
Speaker 1: to get in your car get stopped by the police,
Speaker 1: that's trauma. That's paint. Feel free to talk about that
Speaker 1: type of stuff and not be ashamed of it, because
Speaker 1: being a man is admitting that you have problems and
Speaker 1: you need help with those problems. And that's why I'm
Speaker 1: here for man, That's what I'm gonna trying to do.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep on using my platform for that regard.
Speaker 1: Another takeaway from this book is a lot of people
Speaker 1: see you as a successful Mike Hill now, but they
Speaker 1: don't know how long it took for you to get there,
Speaker 1: and all the trials and tribulations that you had to have,
Speaker 1: even getting fired, having to dumb yourself down to be
Speaker 1: on a network and not show your real personality, feeling betrayal,
Speaker 1: all of those things at work, and how hard it
Speaker 1: is to just keep going when things aren't working out.
Speaker 1: And I think that's a really huge valuable takeaway for people.
Speaker 1: It's not an overnight thing. Yeah, I appreciate you saying that,
Speaker 1: because part of the book is about my professional growth
Speaker 1: and my development and things like you said that I
Speaker 1: had to go through and having to basically I lost myself,
Speaker 1: I mean, to get a dream job at ESPN and
Speaker 1: then basically be told you know at one time that
Speaker 1: I was being too ghetto, you know, and run of
Speaker 1: the reasons why I wasn't moving up being too ghetto.
Speaker 1: And you know, I was talking about NVY the other
Speaker 1: day when Ivy came out and he was talking about
Speaker 1: what somebody at a network basically told him that he
Speaker 1: wasn't black enough. So I've been that that guy that
Speaker 1: in a lot of places that I've been. I've been
Speaker 1: too black for some people. I've been too ghetto so
Speaker 1: to speak to some people, and I've been too white
Speaker 1: for other people. I've been corny or whatnot. So I'm
Speaker 1: kind of in between, and it's kind of hard. So
Speaker 1: once you realize who you are and you step into
Speaker 1: who you are and you don't care what other people think,
Speaker 1: it's so liberating. But going through what I went through
Speaker 1: in my life, being fired, like you said, for whatever reasons,
Speaker 1: I got fired and you'll see it in the book
Speaker 1: or whatever, the ups and downs at ESPN, and been
Speaker 1: losing my personality and losing who I was. Can't look
Speaker 1: myself in a mirror and realize that I lost who
Speaker 1: Mike kill was. I mean, that was tough and I
Speaker 1: finally got that back. So you'll see the transgressions and
Speaker 1: the transformation that I had with my professional career as well.
Speaker 1: Absolutely appreciate you brother for checking in. Man, we really
Speaker 1: do it. Definitely showing the bookie, Michael. We'll be doing
Speaker 1: Angela Gue's book Club, the Well Read book Club, so
Speaker 1: I appreciate you for that. We'll be announcing that date shortly.
Speaker 1: I got one more question though, because I know you've
Speaker 1: been doing the work on yourself, so your ego isn't
Speaker 1: as fragile as it used to be. But when you
Speaker 1: saw the headline a couple of weeks ago that your
Speaker 1: fiance says she's been having horrible quarantine sex with you,
Speaker 1: how did that? How did that? How did that hit
Speaker 1: for you? You know it didn't. It didn't affect you
Speaker 1: whatsoever because I know what I'm doing in the bedroom
Speaker 1: for us, so I know I know I'm putting it down. Dog.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, hey, bro, the reviews the okay, to
Speaker 1: be quite honest with you, so late. You know how
Speaker 1: clickbait is it if you're read. Yeah, that's not what
Speaker 1: she was saying. He was talking. She was talking about
Speaker 1: more the circumstance, the environment. R Yeah, because our kids
Speaker 1: were in the house, so man, she couldn't you know
Speaker 1: she couldn't get a scream on man, my girl, like
Speaker 1: you know, you know, you come a long way from
Speaker 1: from the beginning of this book when you were hunting
Speaker 1: and releasing just from that, so grat's on that great?
Speaker 1: All right, Well, thank you for joining us. Just Mike
Speaker 1: killed us the Breakfast Club in the morning. So Breakfast Club,
Speaker 1: your morning's will never be the same morning. Everybody is
Speaker 1: DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne, guy, we all the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Let's get to the rumors. Let's talk Mariah carry listen,
Speaker 1: oh Gosh reports Breakfast Club. Well, Mariah did a sit
Speaker 1: down with Oprah and this is all about her new book.
Speaker 1: She did an interview for the Oprah Conversation and she
Speaker 1: talked about some of the stories that she is sharing
Speaker 1: in her memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey, that is
Speaker 1: coming out on September twenty ninth. It's a lot going
Speaker 1: on September twenty ninth. By the way, that's the first
Speaker 1: debates between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. It's awesome my
Speaker 1: brother's birthday. And she discussed as many things, including growing
Speaker 1: up by racial and what that experience was like. It
Speaker 1: wasn't that I didn't like my hair when it was behaving,
Speaker 1: but as I grew up a little bit, it went
Speaker 1: from baby hair to like matted, unruly hair that nobody
Speaker 1: was combing through or understanding that you can't have a
Speaker 1: little girl running around with matt in her head. Feel
Speaker 1: like I was hated on by certain people in my
Speaker 1: family for having the lighter hair, and but then if
Speaker 1: they only realized, like, no, actually, I have like matted
Speaker 1: hair which is frizzy and curly, and like it could
Speaker 1: look good if we had some conditioner. So your mother,
Speaker 1: did you know what to do with it? And many
Speaker 1: times she just let it go. She also discusses dating
Speaker 1: Derk Jeter and how that helped her get over her
Speaker 1: relationship and get out of her relationship with Tammy Motola.
Speaker 1: He was a catalyst that helped me get out of
Speaker 1: that relationship, and I think that it was beautiful and
Speaker 1: his family was a healthy family, and they changed my
Speaker 1: viewpoint that, oh, it's because of the biracial situation that
Speaker 1: my family so screwed up, as opposed to it's them,
Speaker 1: you know. And yes, those things did play a huge
Speaker 1: part in their dysfunction, but it was healthy for me
Speaker 1: to see a functional family that basically kind of looked
Speaker 1: like mine but didn't feel like mine. And then she
Speaker 1: talked about her twins, the kids, and how they help her.
Speaker 1: They helped to heal me every day, every time we
Speaker 1: have a moment that feels real and authentic and genuine,
Speaker 1: and it's them loving me unconditionally. The only other time
Speaker 1: my fably got it, got it. You know, I am
Speaker 1: actually interested in reading Mariah Carry's book. I really am. Yeah,
Speaker 1: ever since the time Mariah Carry came into the Breakfast
Speaker 1: Club studios and she was in full diva mode and
Speaker 1: she had her own lighting team and she made us
Speaker 1: turn our lights down and set hers up. And when
Speaker 1: we said to her, well, you're not going to be
Speaker 1: able to see us, she said, that's the point, darling.
Speaker 1: I've always liked her. I like people who are unapologetically themselves,
Speaker 1: even if themselves is a total diva. Now it isn't
Speaker 1: DJs one. Mariah is DJ also. Yes, he just such
Speaker 1: one belongs to Windy Williams. And now you must not
Speaker 1: know how this works. See, okay, how does this work?
Speaker 1: Wendy has a leash around sus one, all right, okay,
Speaker 1: until that leash is off, he belongs to Wendy. That's
Speaker 1: how this works. Suss Will realized that what he tries,
Speaker 1: he's getting all the money. All right, Well better he
Speaker 1: better hope Maria and Wendy have a good relationship. Because
Speaker 1: Maria don't come to Wendy's show to promote that book.
Speaker 1: Wendy will be quick to say, f Mariah and sus
Speaker 1: you better not go on the road with her. Wow,
Speaker 1: So is that how it works? Is that how you
Speaker 1: sat on her lap? She has a leash on you.
Speaker 1: And that's right. You see that little talk, sit down,
Speaker 1: come down, sit down, tame puppet all right now. John
Speaker 1: Legend says that he and Chrissy t can go to therapy,
Speaker 1: and he also said that therapy and communication are some
Speaker 1: of the factors that has helped their marriage. Last he said,
Speaker 1: it sounds obvious, but being with someone you really care about,
Speaker 1: respect and enjoy being around. I think that's the crucial
Speaker 1: foundation than communicating, being concern are listening to your partner
Speaker 1: and making sure their needs are met. And we go
Speaker 1: to therapy sometimes. I think every couple who's been together
Speaker 1: for a long time could use time to talk with
Speaker 1: the third party to help with whatever concerns they have
Speaker 1: and this was with Cosmopolitan UK. I agree with you.
Speaker 1: I'll go to therapy with your other half. I've been
Speaker 1: in therapy before. I've been before a long time ago.
Speaker 1: But we still this people that we speak with when
Speaker 1: we have conversations or is this a disagreement, but nah,
Speaker 1: I mean we have a you know, you know what
Speaker 1: helps us a lot, not be honest, taping the podcast
Speaker 1: with each other. Yep. That podcast does everything because every
Speaker 1: week we talk about what's going on in all relationship
Speaker 1: or things that happen, and we just sit down and
Speaker 1: talk to each other. There's no arguments, it's just discussion
Speaker 1: and communication. So that podcast helps a lot. I love it.
Speaker 1: I do want to add a couple of therapy to
Speaker 1: the repertoire. I mean I've been before, and you know
Speaker 1: I go individually every week, but yeah, I think a
Speaker 1: couple of therapy is great. Felicia Rashad has joined social media.
Speaker 1: She put up a video and told her fans that
Speaker 1: she's there. I told my sister Debbie, there are so
Speaker 1: many Twitter, Facebook, Instagram accounts with my name already on it.
Speaker 1: Why should I do this? She said, yeah, this, but
Speaker 1: they're not the real you. So this is the real
Speaker 1: me talking to the real you, and I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to posting about things that matter. Was the video upside down?
Speaker 1: She added together it was good. Why would you try
Speaker 1: to play her like that? Let me saying all right,
Speaker 1: she said, good morning. I want to give a shout
Speaker 1: out to our young people who are navigating education via
Speaker 1: the virtual classroom and to the teachers, parents, grandparents, family
Speaker 1: members and friends who are helping them to do it.
Speaker 1: Bless you all. So she posted that message also, I'll
Speaker 1: follow Felicia Rashod is a beautiful woman. By the way,
Speaker 1: her Throwback Thursday talented fire shut up man. Today, I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, today is the Felicia rashow to day too.
Speaker 1: Shine you hear me? I bet you right now if
Speaker 1: she throws them about five or six good throwback Thursday
Speaker 1: pictures her few crack a million followers to hey, telling
Speaker 1: you see what she's up to, because as soon as
Speaker 1: she posted that she had like forty thousand right away,
Speaker 1: she has, oh fifty nine thousand right now. Okay, throw
Speaker 1: Back Thursday, I'm telling you it's your time to shine,
Speaker 1: mister shot All right, Well, I'm Angela Yee and that
Speaker 1: is your rumor report. It's all right, thank you, miss
Speaker 1: ye Charlemagne. We're giving that donkey too. I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: Donkey to Day to the Jefferson County grand Jury an
Speaker 1: Attorney Daniel Cameron. I'm gonna be honest with y'all. Have
Speaker 1: no answers for y'all this morning. Um, I just feel
Speaker 1: like Vinton. All right, we'll get into that next keeping
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Speaker 1: It's time for Donkey of the Day. Being dunky of
Speaker 1: the day, a little bit of a mc keell, but
Speaker 1: like a dope other day. Now I've been called a
Speaker 1: lot of my twenty three years that Donkey of the
Speaker 1: day is a new wife. Donkey Today for Thursday, September
Speaker 1: twenty fourth goes to the Jefferson County Grand Jury and
Speaker 1: Attorney Daniel Cameron in Kentucky. Whoever else was responsible for
Speaker 1: making sure for ensuring that justice was not served in
Speaker 1: the shooting death of Brianna Taylor. Is Donkey is for
Speaker 1: you too, if you haven't heard a Jefferson County grand
Speaker 1: jury wednesday and died in One of the officers, Brett Hankinson,
Speaker 1: on three counts of first degree wanton endangerment because jurist
Speaker 1: said several bullets he fired inside Taylor's apartment. In March thirteenth,
Speaker 1: went into a neighboring apartment where a pregnant woman, a man,
Speaker 1: and a child were home, but neither him nor Sergeant
Speaker 1: Jonathan matten Lee our detective Miles cost Growth were charged
Speaker 1: with killing Brianna Taylor, an unarmed black woman. Look, I
Speaker 1: wasn't expecting any type of justice. This is America, Okay.
Speaker 1: When justice is served, I'm shocked, pleasantly, surprised, joyful even
Speaker 1: which is why because we should never celebrate people for
Speaker 1: doing what they're supposed to do. But when justice isn't served,
Speaker 1: I honestly don't know what I am. Each case is different,
Speaker 1: each case feels different. I was talking to my dear
Speaker 1: sister Angela Ry last night and I told her I
Speaker 1: just feel bad, Okay, I feel humanly helpless because at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, as a black man in America.
Speaker 1: I just want to win, that's all we want, you know.
Speaker 1: And winning to me isn't being the richest, it's not
Speaker 1: being the most successful. Winning to me is just being free.
Speaker 1: What does that mean? I don't know. Winning to me
Speaker 1: is just simply receiving liberty, equality, and justice. You know,
Speaker 1: those democratic values they tell us about. Those three words
Speaker 1: is supposed to represent basic values of democratic political systems.
Speaker 1: At the bare minimum, a human in this country should
Speaker 1: be able to get liberty, equal quality, and justice. But
Speaker 1: we know that's not the case when you're black. All right.
Speaker 1: Democratic values are supposed to support the belief that an
Speaker 1: orderly society can exist in which freedom is preserved. But
Speaker 1: order and freedom must be balanced. Right, So when you
Speaker 1: see all this civil unrest in the street right now,
Speaker 1: after verdicts like Brianna Taylor happened, and people are acting
Speaker 1: out of order, it's because there's no balance, all right.
Speaker 1: Order and freedom must be balanced. There will never be
Speaker 1: ordered when a people are not free. And it's hard
Speaker 1: to feel truly free when you don't feel protected, when
Speaker 1: you know, at any moment in this country your human
Speaker 1: rights can be violated. So we keep talking about our
Speaker 1: civil rights being violated. Let me tell y'all something. In
Speaker 1: order for one to respect our civil rights, they have
Speaker 1: to respect our human rights, which is my right to
Speaker 1: simply live. Okay, what does this country say? What does
Speaker 1: this country say? I think it's my right to life
Speaker 1: and liberty that bs. This country says everyone is entitled
Speaker 1: to these rights without discrimination. Where That's why I don't
Speaker 1: feel that way. I'm a black man. If it wasn't
Speaker 1: for my faith in a higher power in my right
Speaker 1: to bear arms, I would never feel safe in this country.
Speaker 1: And that's what I mean when I say I want
Speaker 1: black people to win. A win to me, is us
Speaker 1: as black people feeling protected. Okay, hard to feel like
Speaker 1: that when you live in the United States of anxiety. Okay.
Speaker 1: I want black people to feel like we matter. I
Speaker 1: want us to be able to deal with our generational
Speaker 1: traumas in heal. But we are not ever able to
Speaker 1: do that because we keep getting retraumatized over and over
Speaker 1: in this country. This country will always remind us that
Speaker 1: black lives simply don't matter. I got a beautiful black wife,
Speaker 1: three beautiful black daughters. I am a black man. I
Speaker 1: just you know, think about it today we matter about
Speaker 1: Brianna Taylor. We're still mad about George Floyd. You got
Speaker 1: Ahmad Aubrey, but all those names are interchangeable with Sandra Blain,
Speaker 1: Walter Scott, Treyvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Natasha mckenne, Philando cast
Speaker 1: still could be you like, it's just too much. And
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know, November look I play
Speaker 1: into but police politicians, don't politicize black pain that scared
Speaker 1: me in the voting because these injustices happen under Democrats too.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what party is in power, because once again,
Speaker 1: this isn't about civil rights, it's about human rights, and
Speaker 1: white people in this country have always looked at black
Speaker 1: folks as subhuman. So does it matter who's in office
Speaker 1: locally nationally when we've been watching police and damn there
Speaker 1: everyone else get away with these types of injustice towards
Speaker 1: black people forever. Once again, I'm voting, but don't politicize
Speaker 1: black pain that scared me to vote. Don't tell me
Speaker 1: how the justice system needs to be reformed. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: because that system was never designed to provide equal justice
Speaker 1: across the board. Okay, when they say justice for all,
Speaker 1: they were not talking about black folks. Bernie Sanders hit
Speaker 1: it on the head yesterday when he said in a tweet,
Speaker 1: Rihanna Taylor's life mattered. This result is a disgrace and
Speaker 1: an abdication of justice. Our criminal justice system is racing. Okay,
Speaker 1: the time for fundamental changes now. Keywords and that our
Speaker 1: criminal justice system is racist. There is no reforming or
Speaker 1: racist system. Okay, you got to overhaul the whole thing
Speaker 1: from top to bottom. Throw it out. The criminal justice
Speaker 1: system in America is defective. Product, take it off the
Speaker 1: assembly line. Let's build something new because this is not working.
Speaker 1: I don't have the answers, Okay, I'm just telling you
Speaker 1: how I feel. I hate when I hear politicians get
Speaker 1: asked about these situations and the first thing they say
Speaker 1: is make sure you protest peacefully. We don't need any violence.
Speaker 1: How about tell that to the cops, tell them the
Speaker 1: police peacefully, Tell them we don't need any more violence.
Speaker 1: Help show improve through actions and deeds, and hold them
Speaker 1: accountable when situations like Brianna Taylor happened, and maybe they
Speaker 1: will slow down on violence. What are the consequences to
Speaker 1: their actions. They don't lose their pensions, they don't go
Speaker 1: to prison. What will ensure that situations like Brianna Taylor,
Speaker 1: George Floyd and insert black name here don't happen again?
Speaker 1: All right? These politicians have it more smoke for protesters
Speaker 1: than they do the police. You have more smoke for
Speaker 1: the people in pain than the people causing the pain.
Speaker 1: These politicians love acknowledging the effect, but not the cause.
Speaker 1: Is sickness, man, he really is. And I don't know
Speaker 1: what to do. I don't know what to say. I
Speaker 1: have faith in God, Okay. I go to therapy to
Speaker 1: avoid going crazy. And I think every black person in
Speaker 1: America should own a legal firearm and you should know
Speaker 1: how to use it. That's all I got, Black people,
Speaker 1: That's all I got. If y'all got some great ideas,
Speaker 1: I'm all ears. But at this moment, today, right now,
Speaker 1: I got nothing, just like Brianna Taylor's family got nothing
Speaker 1: in regards to justice. And if there's no justice, there's
Speaker 1: no peace in the streets. Okay. And that's the way
Speaker 1: karma works in America, Almighty America. No one and I
Speaker 1: mean no one can escape the law karma. Please let
Speaker 1: remy Ma give the Jefferson County Grand Jury an attorney
Speaker 1: Daniel Cameron, the biggest he haw he haw, he haw.
Speaker 1: You stupid mother? Are you dumb? All right? I'm well,
Speaker 1: thank you for that, donkey, or today I wish I
Speaker 1: didn't have to do it. Now when we come back,
Speaker 1: let's open up the phone lines. Eight hundred five eight
Speaker 1: five one oh five one. What you want to Usually yeah,
Speaker 1: he does ask you here, right, yeah, this is normally
Speaker 1: where I would do ask you. But today I want
Speaker 1: the women to call after Brianna Taylor's family still has
Speaker 1: not gotten justice. They have not gotten justice for Brianna Taylor.
Speaker 1: I want to hear what your thoughts are as women,
Speaker 1: as black women here in the United States. Please call
Speaker 1: up and let's just vent and get it off I
Speaker 1: guess get it off our chest. Today we want to
Speaker 1: hear from you. All right, eight hundred five eight five
Speaker 1: one oh five one, call us now, women, it's the
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club morning. Everybody is
Speaker 1: DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We all the
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. Now usually we do ask eye here whatever
Speaker 1: and that's going on. We just want to open up
Speaker 1: the phone lines and speak to everybody, speak to definitely
Speaker 1: you women, you mothers, you sisters, you man. We want
Speaker 1: to speak to black women in particular because black women's
Speaker 1: experience has been really different in this country and around
Speaker 1: the world when it comes to police brutality, when it
Speaker 1: comes to feminism, when it comes to our rights, when
Speaker 1: it comes to being respected, and it's a continuing issue
Speaker 1: and we see this right now with Brianna Taylor and
Speaker 1: no justice for her family. She was killed by police
Speaker 1: officers and there were no charges based off of her
Speaker 1: getting killed. So we want to talk to black women
Speaker 1: and talk about how you feel. As you know, the
Speaker 1: most famous quote, the most disrespected person in America is
Speaker 1: the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is
Speaker 1: the black woman. The most neglected person in America is
Speaker 1: the black woman. And you can see that when it
Speaker 1: comes to finance is what women get paid. Women get
Speaker 1: make eighty two cents for every dollar that a white
Speaker 1: man makes, but black women may sixty two cents still
Speaker 1: in the United States for every dollar that a white
Speaker 1: man makes. So we're always still at the bottom of everything.
Speaker 1: And I want to get people. I want to get
Speaker 1: black women to call and talk about how you're feeling
Speaker 1: this morning. Black women also face police brutality, sexual assault
Speaker 1: at a higher rate than white women. So I just
Speaker 1: want to get your your thoughts this morning. Hello, who's
Speaker 1: this Hello? My name is Kia from Jersey. I just
Speaker 1: want to know where is face to be a black
Speaker 1: female in this country because from a young age where
Speaker 1: it's hard. You know, you're not safe around your family,
Speaker 1: You're not safe in your neighborhood. Growing up, you know
Speaker 1: you gotta be safe, Like it's one way, be safe, safe, safe,
Speaker 1: But where's that police? Because now we're at a point
Speaker 1: where you can't even be too sleep in bed. That
Speaker 1: is scary, Like I'm feel afraid for black men, like
Speaker 1: the police and everything I so annoying, But it's us too.
Speaker 1: Where's that place? Where's that place of safety? It's not happening,
Speaker 1: it's non existing. And I replied, it's disgusting that the
Speaker 1: outcome of this piece. It's disgusting. It's disgusting, and I
Speaker 1: just want to know how long it's gonna lie. And
Speaker 1: you know, black women show up for everybody else too,
Speaker 1: everybody we don't we get talked about. But where is
Speaker 1: a place of safety for a black female? And I'm
Speaker 1: not anywhere? Yeah, Um, I agree with everything that that
Speaker 1: everybody is saying, But I think we're all in the
Speaker 1: same boat it comes to racism in America. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a system that's against black people. It was never
Speaker 1: designed for black people. And we are all in this together,
Speaker 1: and that's what I think we all need to understand.
Speaker 1: You know that there was a black man in that
Speaker 1: house with her who actually defended her and his residence,
Speaker 1: and I'm shocked that he's alive. And that's the situation
Speaker 1: that as a black man, I pray I'm never in
Speaker 1: NV I know, you pray you're never in it, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like, we never, even though we
Speaker 1: will defend our families, we don't ever want to be
Speaker 1: in that situation. You know. Let's go to another We
Speaker 1: do want to talk about black women in particular. This morning.
Speaker 1: They have a whole organization called Say Her Name that
Speaker 1: started because there's so many black women that were killed
Speaker 1: by police officers and people don't talk about it as much. Well,
Speaker 1: let's go to another cola. Hello, who's this. My name
Speaker 1: is Sonny. Hey, Sonny, what are you calling from. I'm
Speaker 1: calling from the New Jersey area, but I'm born and
Speaker 1: raised in the NLC I'm a bronx red girl. All right,
Speaker 1: let's talk about it. What are your thoughts, mama, Well,
Speaker 1: my thoughts are you know, I'm a black woman, I
Speaker 1: have a black son, I have a black daughter. We
Speaker 1: have a Taylor could have been could have been my daughter. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm a professional. I grew up, you know, in hard times.
Speaker 1: I've overcome a lot. But I just feel like as
Speaker 1: being a professional, as being a mother, I always have
Speaker 1: to I always have to have that guard up. I
Speaker 1: always have to go the extra mouth. It's exhausting. And
Speaker 1: then just to just to come to be the revelation
Speaker 1: that it's just not enough, It's just not enough. My
Speaker 1: heart goes out to Brianna Taylor's family just, you know,
Speaker 1: just the thought that your child's life does not matter
Speaker 1: in a country that you help built. Right, Well, thank
Speaker 1: you for calling, Mamma. Eight hundred five eight five one
Speaker 1: oh five one phone line to wide open call us.
Speaker 1: Now it's the Breakfast Club, Goal Morning Morning. Everybody is
Speaker 1: DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagnicay. We are the Breakfast Usually
Speaker 1: this is where we do ask ye, but today we're
Speaker 1: doing things a little different, right, Yes, today we have
Speaker 1: black women We want you to call in and just
Speaker 1: tell us your thoughts. You know, we talk about black
Speaker 1: women being neglected, being disrespected in this country, even financially.
Speaker 1: The Crown Act just recently is about to go to
Speaker 1: the Senate now, and even our hair being and I
Speaker 1: know it might be something that some people might think
Speaker 1: of as small, but being discriminated again because of how
Speaker 1: your hair is warned so much that we had to
Speaker 1: pass a Crown Act or work on getting something like
Speaker 1: that passed. Um. So it's just so many different things. Um.
Speaker 1: More than eighty percent of black women are heads of
Speaker 1: their household too in the United States, and I wanted
Speaker 1: to point that out as well. So the fact that
Speaker 1: we make sixty two cents on the dollar in comparison
Speaker 1: to white men but still have to be the heads
Speaker 1: of households, Imagine what that does for an entire family.
Speaker 1: So we want to get your thoughts on what's going
Speaker 1: on here. All right, Well, let's go to the phone
Speaker 1: on Hello. Who's this Hey? This is Nicole, Hey, Nicole,
Speaker 1: what are you calling from? Nicole? Hey, I'm actually falling
Speaker 1: from Kentucky. How are you all? I'm blessed black and
Speaker 1: Holly favorite, how are you? How's it out there? What's
Speaker 1: the energy? Like right now it's morning time, so it's
Speaker 1: the energy. You know, it's kind of still I'm definitely
Speaker 1: like hurt. Like I was playing before Heath and came
Speaker 1: out and said it because it's kind of like, you know,
Speaker 1: everybody pretty much knew, you know, once they took the settlement.
Speaker 1: But um, you know they're still protesting. They you know,
Speaker 1: of course they want them charged, but you know, it's
Speaker 1: just it's very sad. And I just wanted to also
Speaker 1: say that I do agree with Lebron James tweaked because
Speaker 1: it is hard for a black woman. It's like we
Speaker 1: have to go out in the world and fight the
Speaker 1: world and you know, try to make it and be successful.
Speaker 1: You gotta so called fake you to you make it,
Speaker 1: and then you come in at home. You gotta have
Speaker 1: peace in your home. Makes you got peace at home.
Speaker 1: So you know, it's just really hard and if we
Speaker 1: just stick together, you know. But um, right now, like
Speaker 1: I said, they're everything's like kind of people. We gotta
Speaker 1: nine o'clock curfew for the next couple of days. Um,
Speaker 1: And I mean that's pretty much it at the moment.
Speaker 1: I can say that. So day Yep, it's pretty fat. Yes,
Speaker 1: it is all right. Well, thank you mama. How let
Speaker 1: us go to another line. Hello, who's this Hi? This
Speaker 1: is India, India, good morning, talk to us now this morning.
Speaker 1: It's emotionally dreaming. I found myself to my daughter, good morning.
Speaker 1: Did you just you You never know what a hole
Speaker 1: it is going to fool you over that day? Um,
Speaker 1: our life is let's have in a life. I guess um.
Speaker 1: I mean granted being for the safety of the family.
Speaker 1: You know that was behind the will. But at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, I knew what was going to happen. Um.
Speaker 1: I have a family member who you know, she kind
Speaker 1: of sort of works within the um ga here um
Speaker 1: in North Carolina, and you know, we talk about it
Speaker 1: every day. I have a friend who's been the healthcare field,
Speaker 1: so she deals with ancients with mental health, and you know,
Speaker 1: we were into trying to talk about it every day.
Speaker 1: I'm low key in education, so it's like, as a
Speaker 1: black woman, like what what more can we do? This?
Speaker 1: This is really drained. It's just really drenking. We just
Speaker 1: need them. And I have my way to work now,
Speaker 1: I work with kids. I meant to out here. I'm
Speaker 1: on my way to work. Now I have to get
Speaker 1: ready to put the smile on my face for parents.
Speaker 1: But I am trying imagine, imagine what Angelie said just now.
Speaker 1: It's very important. It is about support. And I just
Speaker 1: don't want black women to feel like they're alone, because
Speaker 1: that could Brianna Taylor. That could be our wife, our daughter,
Speaker 1: or still mother. Things like this, Yep, when things like
Speaker 1: this happened to Brianna Taylor and impacts us all there
Speaker 1: is no Black women have it worse when it comes
Speaker 1: to racism. Black men have it worse when it comes
Speaker 1: to racism. We have a whole system against us, a
Speaker 1: whole system oppressing us, a whole system that isn't providing
Speaker 1: justice for any of us. So I don't want systems
Speaker 1: to feel like they're alone. Because for every Brianna Taylor,
Speaker 1: thats a George Floyd, for every Sandra bland As, a
Speaker 1: Filando cast deal, for every Natasha mckinned as the Tamir Rice.
Speaker 1: So yes, I want this is defense, get it off
Speaker 1: their chest. But I need everyone to know black people
Speaker 1: we are in this together. The system is against us,
Speaker 1: and while y'are fighting, we as black men are here
Speaker 1: to defend y'all, because I'm gonna die by mind. And
Speaker 1: I don't think America understands the position they are putting
Speaker 1: us in as black people. I really don't think they
Speaker 1: get it, all right. And I want to recommend a
Speaker 1: book that I just started reading. It's called Invisible No
Speaker 1: More Please. Violence against Black Women and Women of Color
Speaker 1: is by Andrew or Richie, So just to get some
Speaker 1: more insight into the history of what's going on in
Speaker 1: our country. And yeah, that's just the support that we
Speaker 1: need for people to pay attention when it's black women. Also,
Speaker 1: all right, we got rooms on the way. What we're
Speaker 1: talking about, Yes, and let's talk about Kanye West. You know,
Speaker 1: he's been calling out these labels and he got called
Speaker 1: out as well. So here's what he said he's about
Speaker 1: to do for good music artists. All right, we'll get
Speaker 1: into that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. This is the Ruble Report with Angela, Yes Breast.
Speaker 1: So Kanye West has promised to return his fifty percent
Speaker 1: share of all good music Artists masters, and he actually
Speaker 1: challenged Universal to do the same. He said, I'm giving
Speaker 1: all good music artists back the fifty percent share. I
Speaker 1: have of their masters. Now, let's have Universal match me.
Speaker 1: If Kanye doesn't fall through with that, then we know
Speaker 1: he's full of it because he didn't tell people that
Speaker 1: he owned the masters to his good music artists when
Speaker 1: he initially went on his rant. So all good music
Speaker 1: artists need to save that tweet. Not sure, it's not
Speaker 1: sure it's good in the court of law, but save
Speaker 1: it anyway. Well, he's been talking so crazy, he has
Speaker 1: to stay on staying on his word right now. Big
Speaker 1: Sear responded, Big Searan responded, thank you, This would help
Speaker 1: so much, and Designer said thanks, and he put the
Speaker 1: one hundred emoji. I hate knowing what I know, but
Speaker 1: I wish Kanye West would tell people the whole truth.
Speaker 1: Like he's not telling folks that he renegotiated with def
Speaker 1: Jam Universal four times and chose the money over his
Speaker 1: masters every time. He's also not telling people that he
Speaker 1: owns the masters the Jesus and every album after that
Speaker 1: he's talking about slavery is a choice. No, signing those
Speaker 1: record contracts he signed is a choice. That was really it.
Speaker 1: He also tweeted out, I'm not releasing nothing on Gap
Speaker 1: till I'm on the board, and he said, I'm wearing
Speaker 1: Jordan's till I'm on the board of Adidas. I was
Speaker 1: confused with that. You have your own sneakers. It's not
Speaker 1: like you have a part now. You have your own sneaker.
Speaker 1: You're not an in door serve Adidas. You have your
Speaker 1: own Adidas, and you want to wear Jordan maybe just
Speaker 1: like George Better. I don't know, or at least he's
Speaker 1: wearing another black man sneak. And I just want the
Speaker 1: record to show that I sit on the board of
Speaker 1: the Black Effect podcast network and network, and I am
Speaker 1: a majority owner of with iHeartRadio. But you know, those
Speaker 1: type of things have to be negotiated beforehand. But what
Speaker 1: do I know? All right now, Ed Sharon, As you know,
Speaker 1: it is being sued and that is for using Marvin
Speaker 1: Gays Let's get it on for his twenty fourteen song
Speaker 1: Thinking out Loud using the harmony, melody and rhythmic components.
Speaker 1: So I want to play both songs and I want
Speaker 1: to hear if you think that this is official. So honey,
Speaker 1: nah take man timing off of the F stop sounds
Speaker 1: very similar. Oh, I can definitely hear some some what
Speaker 1: do you call it an interpolation? That you could definitely
Speaker 1: have some Marvin Gaye is shit in it. So so
Speaker 1: what are they doing on this norm Well, at Sharon's
Speaker 1: at Sharon is responding to the lawsuit, and he responded
Speaker 1: when it first was filed. He said that the core
Speaker 1: progressions and drum patterns were extremely commonplace in the public
Speaker 1: domain and unprotectable. All right, Well, the song Let's Get
Speaker 1: It On was actually co written by Ted Towns, and
Speaker 1: so it's the Towns in the state that is seeking
Speaker 1: songwriting credit and they want a portion of the revenue
Speaker 1: from the song. Now, Townsend family did file this lawsuit
Speaker 1: against Sharon back in twenty sixteen, and a couple of
Speaker 1: days ago, Ed Townsend's daughter, Catherine Townsend just spoke out
Speaker 1: about this, and she said, theft and bullying has been
Speaker 1: the only priority of the record label's agenda. It stopped today,
Speaker 1: Sony Atlantic and all the rest of them. We're coming
Speaker 1: for our forty acres in the mule plus an interest
Speaker 1: and know that we're not going to be silent. It
Speaker 1: don't stop till my casket dropped. Yeah. Ed is a
Speaker 1: great guy. He's not a vulture, he's not a thief.
Speaker 1: So I'm sure Ed would rectify that situation if if
Speaker 1: there is indeed a problem, all right now, Academics says
Speaker 1: he had a conversation with Quavo and Offset, and that's
Speaker 1: after he was saying that the megos fell off. And
Speaker 1: here's what he had to say about their conversation. I
Speaker 1: spoke to off Set your suit to my man off Set,
Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna lie yo. I want to really
Speaker 1: give him credit for being mad or reasonable and understanding
Speaker 1: and saying, hey, yo, listen. I listened to the segment
Speaker 1: and I felt you were saying something that we needed
Speaker 1: to hear. He literally said, I want you to expound
Speaker 1: on those things. And we had like about thirty minute
Speaker 1: conversation where for the most part he was listening. He
Speaker 1: was like yeah. He asked me what feels different, what
Speaker 1: looks different? Why? Why do you think this is happening?
Speaker 1: And for him, it was about gaining information, all right,
Speaker 1: y'all nothing to worry about there, y'all putting too much
Speaker 1: pressure on artists. Man Mego's been around for damn near
Speaker 1: a decade. They have changed hip hop, you know, like
Speaker 1: like you're not gonna be that red hot artist every year.
Speaker 1: You can only hope to be consistent. And I would
Speaker 1: think the Megals were consistent. They they put out solo
Speaker 1: albums last year. Could just have like a clout with
Speaker 1: Cardi B last year, Like I don't. I don't just
Speaker 1: say that they fell off. They had. They haven't fell
Speaker 1: off now, they haven't fell off. And they stayed consistent.
Speaker 1: They stay in the clubs, they stay in their lane,
Speaker 1: they stay on the radio. They all consistent. Plus there's
Speaker 1: a COVID year. We don't know what artists would have
Speaker 1: been doing, you know, if they weren't sitting at home.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm saying, like, I don't, I think y'all
Speaker 1: putting too much pressure on folks man. All right, And
Speaker 1: Kodak Black is asking Donald Term for help. He wants
Speaker 1: him to commute his prison sentence. His attorneys sent a
Speaker 1: petition to Trump and they're asking to cut Kodak a
Speaker 1: little bit of a break. And so they said that
Speaker 1: Kodak was sentence forty six months behind bars in his
Speaker 1: federal guncase. They said they average sentence for that is
Speaker 1: eighteen months. So they're just asking for some help. And
Speaker 1: actually called that Black's attorney was a contestant on The
Speaker 1: Apprentice Away back in two thousand and five. Trump probably
Speaker 1: like black commute blacks all the time. We've commute blacks
Speaker 1: through the first step back. I'm not commuting anymore blacks.
Speaker 1: All right, Well I'm Angela Yee and that is your
Speaker 1: rumor reports. All right, shout to revote. We'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Everybody else to People's Choice mixes up. Next, it's the
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club, Good morning morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee,
Speaker 1: Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Then we
Speaker 1: got a shout to Mike Hill for joining us this morning. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Michael Hell his book Open Mic, and he is pretty
Speaker 1: honest on there. He says some things in that book
Speaker 1: that I was like, Wow, Mike, I can't believe you
Speaker 1: would like this. But I love all black people, especially
Speaker 1: black men, holding themselves accountable for any of our past bs.
Speaker 1: And I think that we have to create safe spaces
Speaker 1: for black men to be able to express their brokenness
Speaker 1: without being a quote unquote canceled whatever that means. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: when we come back, we got the positive notes, so
Speaker 1: don't move. It's to Breakfast Club, Good morning, j Envy,
Speaker 1: Angela Yee, charlom I mean the guy we are the
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Speaker 1: It is simply this man. I know all of us
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