WEBVTT - Morris Day Interview and more 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:06.440 Time to wake up Chicken, Stanci League and Charlotte Mean 0:00:06.519 --> 0:00:09.840 the Doctor to practice club Bitches the voice of the culture. 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:13.080 People watch The Breakfast Club for like news to really 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:15.200 be tuned in. It's one of my favorite shows to 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:17.960 do just because y'all always keep you one honey, y'all 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:19.880 keep it real. They might not watch the news, but 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:22.640 they're on Twitter, they're on Facebook, they're you know, they're 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:26.640 listening to The Breakfast Brother, Get your ass, wake up, 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:30.120 wake up, wake y'all. This is your time to get 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:33.680 it off your chest. Whether you're man or blass, we 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:36.520 want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello, 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:40.279 Who's this? That was so letter? Chicken areaway South Carolina 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:44.240 staff crew to act? What's happening? Get it off your chest? 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:47.000 I just came around and take one settle dollar man. 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:48.519 I want to blasch. I want to really quit my 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:51.800 freestyle recrow next time with y'all. Uh, I swear you 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:53.760 brother from South Carolina. I always shut this down, but 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:57.160 go ahead the head brother go ahead changes out of 0:00:57.320 --> 0:00:59.480 if I liked it the same way. Sometimes I feel 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:01.320 like I wait to the same day trying to make 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:02.800 a giving man. I'm trying to make it out. I'm 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:04.840 trying to make sure that my favorite. So we spitching that. 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:07.080 So every day I hustled, y'all pay the guard day 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:09.080 watching me in the streets, and somebody will try to 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:15.319 play man watch right, so I break down. You gotta 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:18.440 slow that down, my South Carolina bredren, you're going too fast, 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:21.120 like what you're gonna? What's up? You're wrapping like your 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:27.080 life depends on it. Drum, that's disrespectful. Dry I was drum. Drum, 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:30.440 that's disrespectful. Don't hang up on my South Carolina back 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:35.640 is all him now, no Envies back and it's all him. Wow, Dad, 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:39.840 he was like Envies back and it's all him. Wow. 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:46.200 Goodness that damn Jesus Christ. Hello, who's this? Hey? This 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:49.520 is Jessica. Hey Jessica, get it off your chance, Jessica. Well, 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:52.280 what's up? What's up? Good morning guys. So I'm in Schausa, 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:56.480 South Carolina. Three Yeah, all day, but I still got 0:01:56.480 --> 0:02:00.480 my nine one seven over heard, so I'm gonna for driver. 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:03.680 So I was on Folly Beach and my phone plays 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:06.560 music automatically, like I play a playlist. So this on commercials, 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:09.640 I like the nigga fe comfortable no, no offense, but 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:13.240 for Caucasian people got into my car and I had 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:15.640 to take them twenty eight minutes away. It was cool. 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:20.079 We were driving rock them played track music, then played 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:25.240 fall Out Boy, then played I had a range of music. Lady, Guy, Guy, 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:27.880 And as soon as Beyonce Brown skinned Girl came on 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.119 the lady in the back, I heard them whispering amongst themselves, 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:34.200 like who's gonna say it? Finally somebody was brave enough 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:35.880 to come up and say it. It was excuse me, 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:38.440 could you turn that song off? It's offending me? And 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:42.359 I was like, what that song offending you? And she said, well, 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:45.200 it's all about like black girls. I'm not black. I 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:47.240 don't relate to that. I was like, so something that 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:50.760 I'm breddy Madskin is offending you. So what did I do? 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:53.760 I started the whole playlist off that dogs on. He 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.320 got all the black power music for all twenty in music. 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:02.440 Everybody stepped from this situation, didn't look at it objectively. 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:05.320 Oh boy, you're an uber driver, correct, And when you're 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:07.880 an uber driver, you're playing music because you want people 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:10.920 to feel comfortable. Correct. They don't feel comfortable about the song. 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:13.440 You don't gotta get offended. Bike. She can't relate. She's 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:16.000 the panels Man's flavoring mammal. Yeah, but it's not that 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:18.400 type of song. It's it's not like saying, you know, 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:20.920 f white people. That's not that. She's just upset that 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:23.639 she don't have that tan. That's all. Well, she goes, 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:26.200 I'm just mad that all this trap music played. We 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:28.800 don't hurt drug dealing music. We don't hurt wip, we 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:31.280 don't hurt everything. You didn't get offended about nothing because 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:34.760 she no drug dealers. She knows drug dealers, that she 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:37.880 uses drugs. She might have she got, she might might 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:40.960 me white as her Okay, oh my goodness, she just 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:45.480 can't relate. What kind of what kind of ratings did 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:49.280 you give her? Oh? No, listen, I gave her the 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:51.440 same rating I usually give everybody else, because she didn't 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:53.960 rate me no less because she fos. But after she 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:56.520 said it all right, because mine, if you heard the 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:58.520 music that I was playing around, I was playing corn 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:01.120 fall out boy, I was playing all this other stuff 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:03.800 in rotation. If anybody know what that music is, even 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:06.400 know that it was diverse, and and I think you 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:08.600 missed a good opportunity to teach to though, because you 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:10.040 could have just told her like, look, this is an 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:14.040 old to to to melan him. All right, well hello, 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:20.320 who's this? Hey? How's it going? Then? Good morning? Yes, 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:22.799 I was going. I got a quick question for Charlot 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:25.800 man Man. Yes, sir, I ask you a question. I 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:28.479 don't know if somebody ever asked you this, But who's 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:30.920 your top three donkeys of all the time and what 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:34.800 you're considered consider giving donkey a donkey Hall of fame? 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:36.880 Oh yeah, I mean at the end of the year 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:38.880 we do a top five Donkeys of the year. I 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:40.880 don't I'm gonna be honest with you. Top donkeys of 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.960 all time? Donald Trump is definitely in the top three. 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.480 I mean I've given it to him more than anybody. 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:49.400 And um, I'm gonna always put myself in the top 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:51.040 three because I always say, you know, when you give 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:52.960 people the credit, you gotta give everybody to credit they 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:56.000 deserve for being stupid, including yourself. I don't know who 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:59.520 the third one would be though, sounds first sound y'all 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:03.680 want to clude wrong from the breakfast club? However, going 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:08.120 did your time to get it off your chests, whether 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:10.080 you're man or blast so so you better have the 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:11.920 same minutry we want to hear from you on the 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:16.800 breakfast club. Hello, who's this Jeremy, Hey, Jeremy, get it 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:22.080 off your chest? Hey, what's going on? Eddie? Charlomagne, Tokyo, 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:25.839 this is crazy because I never get through. Um. I 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:29.479 just want to shout out. You know, I'm Biden and 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:32.640 Kamalas are winning. I want to shout out my roommate Eddie, 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.719 and I just want to tell everyone have a nice day. Um. 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:39.239 And I got your book, Charlomagne. I got the audio 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:43.279 version of Black Privilege, and then I have than copy 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:47.000 the other one. Man, Um, and I hope you guys 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:50.560 all have a nice day. Shot. Shout after your roommate 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:55.120 Eddie too. Man Oh, he's gonna love that in college together. 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:59.680 Nah we um were I'm twenty eight, he's twenty nine. 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:03.360 I'm ana count it. He's an anti salesman. Okay, okay, 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:14.960 y'all love his roommates. Roommate rocks just a place, not 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:17.800 being love, bro. I'm just asking questions, That's all he 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.039 was trying to. He would try to buck. That's the 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:24.960 reason why you scenario. And I was asking questions. They 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:29.520 definitely just asking question. I got shot out and Eddie, damn, 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:34.520 I say, what was happening? All right? Bro? He never 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:36.800 wants to get through again. I know, right. This guy 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:43.200 got fantasies over there, y'all love Hello. Who's this hey, Rochelle, 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:45.400 get it off your chest. I just wanted to shout 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:48.480 up my amazing boyfriend. You're gonna say. His name is 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:54.200 his name, Rochelle, name Toddy Todd. Good morning. That was 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:56.480 nice to you, Rochelle. What did he do that? What 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:58.560 did he do yesterday that made you feel that way? 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:00.480 I'm gonna shot him out, numb one under reader, he 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:03.360 had to do something well every day. He always makes 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:06.400 sure that I have breakfast, and you make sure I 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:12.360 have lunch. We worked together, See go a long way. 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:17.800 I'm telling you, man, that's right. All my brothers give 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:19.680 you a woman, some pop tarts in the morning, some lunch, 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:22.280 a bus for lunch, and it'll go a long way. Salute. 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:24.960 What are you gonna do for him to show how 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:30.720 thankful you are? On pockets every morning? Coffee? Yeah, amazing. 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.600 Every morning he gets a fresh cup of coffee. Amazing. 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:37.560 See it's the little things, man, Shut up, that's it. Yeah, 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:41.800 she appreciates it, he appreciates it. They love each other. Oh, yes, 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:44.880 of course. All right, well you have a good morning. Hello. 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:50.480 Who's this yo? Yo's up? Man? DC? Do you see 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:59.880 what's what's suburb um? You know, I just want to 0:07:59.880 --> 0:08:03.480 say I'm trying to keep together y'all, and I'm not 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:10.880 having a good day. You know, my uh lost my 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:17.800 dad on Friday. You know, hold off, I'm strong. Okay, 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:21.760 your time, Okay, I got there. I don't want to 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:28.800 waste somebody's fun. Please take your time. Great guy, it's great, 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:36.079 stand up man, veteran fucking devil storm Persian golf. You know, 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:40.559 just get a guy, god fearing guy. Married to my 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:45.280 mom for thirty years. That's all day's ever known since 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:49.080 they were fourteen years old. You know, that love real. 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:54.120 You know it's real. I don't know what to say, 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:56.719 but I just want y'all to look it's like it. 0:08:56.880 --> 0:09:01.280 Since they're doing challenges, dude, this challenge old. If you 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:04.040 next song you see your dad, just hold him for 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:08.959 sixty ste hold them for sixty don't let go, Howard, 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:12.640 no matter how awkward it gets, just holding real tight 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:17.880 sixty seconds because you just never know. You know, my dad, 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:23.240 I would have been fifty years old next month. But 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:25.280 I don't want I don't want to keep you. I 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:26.800 don't want to keep you all man, but you know, 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:29.520 just stay up. I listened to y'all. It's my first 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:31.480 day back. I worked. I know I might be going 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:37.360 to work too soon, but things need to get paid. Listen, 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:39.240 I'm gonna tell you something. I know. I know your father. 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:42.280 I know your father was a good man because I 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:44.640 can I can tell by the impact he had. He 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:48.520 had on his son, man, because would have he wouldn't 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:52.240 impacted everybody. He was just that guy. You know. I 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:57.840 want to say, just alright, pe Dwayne Foster, Man, Dwayne Foster. 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:01.680 That's the thing, Okay, rest in peace and listen. Don't 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:03.720 be afraid to cry and let it out. It's fine. 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:05.679 You don't have to be strong like that. It's okay, 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:10.120 that's right. You told about myself right now, work, you know. 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:13.880 But I'm just you know, my mom called me, so 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:18.040 let me call y'all lady. I love y'all. Man, all right, brother, 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:21.760 and by the way, my brothers, tids don't don't make 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:25.440 you weak. Is just mean that you care. That's right, 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:30.200 you can and so yeah, that's right. You just tars 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:33.199 are just uh. I guess what you would call weakness 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:35.719 leaving the body. But I don't think it's weak at all. 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:38.640 It just means you care. Eight hundreds five eight five 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:40.600 one o five one. Get it off your chest. It's 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:44.959 the Breakfast Club, Go morning. What's up, y'alls? Angela, you 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:48.040 wishing you and your family the very best sut holiday 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:50.720 season from all of us here at their breakfast Club, 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:58.160 the Breakfast Club Morning. Everybody is Steen Jay Envy Angela Yee, 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:00.559 Charlomagne the guy we all the breakfasts Club. You have 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:05.319 a special guest in the build. In the building, I 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:09.679 was gonna say the beautiful we have a long here 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:14.000 Nia long. I said, you got to your own day 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:17.080 in New York from the mayor. Also, oh my, you guys. 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:20.600 I cried about that for like a week. Yeah, congratulation. 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.319 That was like the biggest honor. And I was so 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:26.920 blown away, honestly, because you don't expect, like I have 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:29.760 my own day August twenty seven. Yes, you feel the 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:31.320 pressure to have to do something on that day now, 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:33.640 like in New York, like an event to come here 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:36.480 every year on that day and talk to you. That's 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:40.240 what I can yeah, we can do that. Let's do 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:42.400 it there, we can do that. Coming up. I know 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:46.640 it is, how are you though, I'm okay. I lost 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:50.000 my father condolescently. Thank you. He was a great man 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:53.280 and it's it's it's amazing. I learned more about him 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:57.800 by being in Trenton, in Trenton, New Jersey for a week, 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:01.640 just putting the whole thing together than I ever knew. 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:04.319 And he was such an icon in the community and 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:07.160 did so much for so many of those kids living 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:09.360 down there, So I was I was really proud of 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:11.680 him though. He was a poet, right, he's a poet. Yeah, 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:15.800 he's a poet, a writer, a photographer, like a real 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:19.880 just a renaissance man, love jazz music and good food. 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:22.520 And he was really like Lorenz Tate and Love Jones, 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:25.520 but older. But I felt the school, trent And High 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:28.760 School did a beautiful tribute to my father. I could 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:31.040 not stop crying. I was just saying, this is amazing, 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:36.240 because sometimes what a person can't do for their own children, 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:39.000 they do for the world. And I'm okay with that. 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.280 If that meant that I had to share him, well, 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:44.160 I think that's because parents, they learned more than they 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:48.640 as they grow so when they was raising us. Yeah, 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:51.240 I was thinking about that. I was thinking, I said, mommy. 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:53.360 I looked at my mother during the service. I said, Mommy, 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:56.280 you were twenty two years old when you had me. 0:12:56.720 --> 0:13:00.120 Right now, two day anything, I forgive you for every thing, 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:02.280 because I couldn't have done it at twenty two, twenty two, 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:04.320 I was in the club. That's been a heavy conversation 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:06.120 with my therapist the past couple of weeks. What's that 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:09.440 that whole conversation about forgiving your parents, Well, my father 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:11.559 in particular, because they only to do the best that 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:13.840 they could because they didn't know any better when they 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:17.800 were younger. You have to really do it for yourself. 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:22.800 It's if you, if you commit that healing to with yourself, 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:27.600 it will honestly change the way you experience your own life. 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:29.719 Because I think for a lot of years I was 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:33.000 I was disappointed and angry, and I wanted, you know, 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:36.120 my dad to like read me a bedtime story and 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:38.640 be there and do all of the things that a 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:42.200 daddy is supposed to do. And I think my father 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:46.440 had a very old school way of approaching life because 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:52.400 black people are raised to survive, that's right, and my 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:55.680 mother and my grandmother coming from the Islands, they had 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:59.679 a different philosophy. So had my parents stayed together, I 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:01.839 have still been an actress. But I don't think it 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:05.240 would have happened as quickly as it did in my life, 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:06.920 and I don't think I would have been a part 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:10.319 of the era that really helped to define black cinema. 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:12.719 When I look at my life and I'm going to 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:18.240 be fifty. This fifty, you guys, I get to do 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:22.520 whatever I want to. I can't wait. We got we 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:24.560 gotta upgrade the turn black crack. It's got to be 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:28.680 talking about fifty. Wow, I can't believe it. But my 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:30.760 point is is when you get to this age, it's 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:33.560 a beautiful time in my life because I can actually 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:37.400 put everything into perspective and now it all makes sense, 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:41.600 and I feel more free and alive than I have 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:46.680 in the last ten years because I have understanding, and 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:50.600 I've forgiven myself for not forgiving people sooner in my 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:52.920 own life, or forgiving my father for things that he 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:56.560 was unable to do. And it's a good thing to do. 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:58.920 Don't we have the luxury of healing His generation, like 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:01.240 de generation, has little late healing. The fact that you 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:04.920 just said, I've taught spoken to my therapist about certain things. 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:08.000 Black people were not saying that fifteen twenty years ago. 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:10.840 We were like, we didn't because because there was this, 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:13.160 you know, the idea was if you go to therapy, 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:15.480 there's something really wrong with you. But the reality that 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:17.840 you're crazy, And the reality is is we have so 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:21.800 much information coming at us. You need to be able 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:25.760 to sit down and organize your life and your thoughts, 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:28.160 all right, and if you don't do that, you will 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:32.560 be in a constant state of you'll have anxiety. Yeah, yeah, 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:34.400 all right, we got more with Nia Long. When we 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:36.520 come back, don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Come on, 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:46.120 Rudolph the Red Nose out and if you ever saw him, 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:52.760 Breakfast Club. We all the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:56.080 it with Nia Long actress. Ye. So, Nia, how is 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:59.880 your experience producing for the first time? Like when you said, yeah, 0:15:59.880 --> 0:16:04.920 I cast it a more? Did I say it? Like? 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:09.840 Because I've seen you talking about how you see all 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:12.440 these white men getting rich off of movies that you're 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:15.120 in and now look at you producing. Is that the 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:17.040 inspiration for that? And what was it like being on 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:21.440 the other side It was difficult at times because I 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:25.080 was very specific and deliberate about certain things. And and 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:30.480 to your point, the crew was white, the director was white, 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:33.840 the producer was white, and they were lovely because they 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.840 allowed me to correct things that needed to be corrected. 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:42.440 But it's still frustrating that you have to over explain yourself. 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:46.280 I kept feeling like I needed to apologize for wanting 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:50.720 to change something. But why aren't I apologizing? Right, You're 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:52.720 trying to make this the best movie you possibly can make. 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:55.480 It a benefits everybody, and that's also being a woman 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:59.320 in a position of power where there's all men around you. 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:02.440 I was literally like they were literally like three women 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:05.720 on that side, and I never backed down. I was like, Nope, 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:08.480 you need to change that. Nope, don't like that angle, Nope, 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:10.480 move the camera, nope. You see that a lot like 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:11.800 if you know, if that's a guy, and they'll say 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:13.640 that guy's being a boss, but if it's a woman, 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:16.040 they'll be like, oh, she alone has a history of 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:19.359 deva behavior. Yeah, for sure. Because when I started in 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:23.080 this business, you weren't supposed to say anything except thank you, 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:27.040 And I was like thank you, but I wasn't even 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:29.800 aware I was just being myself. I just don't think 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:33.080 that you need to behave in any situation. I think 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:35.600 you need to grow and learn. Do you feel your 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:38.560 evolution as a woman is shown for your characters? M 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:42.080 not in Rock Sand Rock Sand. I don't know that lady. 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:46.680 She's not a part of me. I do know that lady, 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:48.920 but but I had to know that woman and have 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:51.359 some experience. Look, we live right down the street from 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:53.959 the projects when I lived in Brooklyn to understand how 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:58.000 to play her, right, I do think so. I mean 0:17:58.040 --> 0:17:59.800 I'd like to do more. I'd like to have more 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:04.760 diversity in my portfolio. You haven't played your dream roal yet, right, 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:08.440 I don't think so. I think it's also like the 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:13.480 body of work is what makes me proud, right since 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:15.920 an impact to this day and age, Thank you, and 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:19.920 I'm still doing it. But after every job, I'm like, Okay, 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:22.600 what's that the last one? What's happening next? And it 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:25.560 never is. Still got a lot in the pipeline to 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:27.800 the young actress right now. That's that's watching this and 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:30.320 wishing to be you one day or like you one day. 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:35.600 Authenticity don't change based on what you see, change based 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:37.440 on what you know you need to do to better 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:40.480 yourself because I think a lot of times young artists 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:42.840 come and they steal a little bit of this, and 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:44.840 they steal a little bit of that. But if you 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:50.080 really start from your authentic self, all the embellishments will 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:53.560 come through your experiences, and that's what creates and grows 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:57.280 the artists. When we did Love Jones, Everyone's like, oh 0:18:57.359 --> 0:19:00.920 my god, this is like the modern Dame. And I 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:03.760 was like, okay, but that isn't that what art is. 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:07.320 You take from the past and you recreated, and you 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:10.439 are to be inspired by the thing that came before 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:12.680 you and the thing that's in front of you. What 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:14.280 do you think was different about blacks in them in 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:18.080 the nineties? Though? That's lacking now because black films don't 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:20.440 have that feeling. I'm sorry it is, they just don't. 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:22.960 There's no Boys in the Hood, there's no Love Jones. Is. 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:26.720 It don't have that same energy. I know, I don't know. 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:29.480 Boys in the Hood was a great story. Love Jones 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:31.960 was a great story. But in Society was a great story. 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:34.760 And he's the stories just be wacke man. Look, here's 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:36.879 the thing. I think, you know, when you have a 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:40.560 person like John Singleton rusted his soul and when he died, 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:44.480 that broke my heart. Right, he discovered me. He created 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:47.000 a lane for people to even care about my name. 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:50.399 And so losing him and then losing my father, and 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:52.440 I was like god like and they were kind of 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:54.880 like the same kind of dude. You know, I don't 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:57.640 know that they make them like that anymore. I don't 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:03.520 know that they make men and that are so aware 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:09.960 of the black struggle, so savvy to make change and 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:14.359 then make art. So you got to produce more. You 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:22.000 have to produce and I will, guys, I will thank you. 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:24.680 That was a beautiful interview the Breakfast Club. It's miss 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:33.280 Niel Long, It's topic times. The phone called eight hundred 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:35.040 five eight five one five one to join it to 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:38.520 the discussion with the Breakfast Club. Talk about it morning. 0:20:38.560 --> 0:20:42.639 Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlemagne the Gay, We 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:46.240 are the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Now, today is National 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:48.399 past gas Day. We're just having some fun with it. 0:20:48.480 --> 0:20:50.719 So we're asking eight hundred five eight five one oh 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:54.120 five one, do you have an embarrassing or crazy passing 0:20:54.200 --> 0:20:58.119 gas or farting story? Now our board, our dramas. He 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:01.639 just said when he first started working here, he let 0:21:01.720 --> 0:21:04.800 one loose and it was horribly it smelled. Let drum 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:07.080 tell his own story. Put the mic on his beard. Okay, 0:21:08.080 --> 0:21:09.880 it was like my first week working with you guys, 0:21:09.920 --> 0:21:12.440 and you know, my stone was a little upset. You're 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:14.560 trying to make a good impression. I was trying fired. 0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:16.680 I was hoping no noticed. But then of course somebody 0:21:16.720 --> 0:21:18.399 made a comment about it, and you guys mind the air. 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:20.159 You blamed the other producer, Eddie for it, and you 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:22.960 know I was, I was near You know what I'm saying. 0:21:23.000 --> 0:21:24.840 I wanted to have a bad impression my first weekend. 0:21:24.920 --> 0:21:30.040 Now you're a liar. Hey, I'm sorry. Sorry, Now what 0:21:30.119 --> 0:21:32.439 about you? Well, we just heard about Charlomagne story him 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:35.040 and Curry at the list. Here's the thing. I don't 0:21:35.080 --> 0:21:37.600 have these problems with embarrassing fart stories because I don't 0:21:37.600 --> 0:21:39.159 fight in my clothes. And the reason I don't fight 0:21:39.240 --> 0:21:41.159 in my clothes because the last time I farted in 0:21:41.240 --> 0:21:43.119 my clothes was around two thousand and three. Two thousand 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:45.080 and fourtis when I was living in Columbia, South Carolina, 0:21:45.080 --> 0:21:47.400 working a hot one on three nine. My now wife 0:21:47.440 --> 0:21:49.639 was going to the University of South Carolina. The night 0:21:49.720 --> 0:21:52.159 before I went to this Jamaica spot called Cool Runnings. 0:21:52.800 --> 0:21:56.159 I was dropping her off at her dorm and I 0:21:56.320 --> 0:21:58.280 wanted to run upstairs and use her bathroom, but I 0:21:58.280 --> 0:21:59.520 could tell it was gonna be like one of those 0:21:59.520 --> 0:22:03.320 really irassing, like nasty, disgusting, blow up the bathroom type things. 0:22:03.600 --> 0:22:05.639 So I tried to make it back home and I 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:06.720 got to the light and I was like, I'm a 0:22:06.840 --> 0:22:09.080 fart a little bit, just to ease off the pressure. 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:11.040 He's chansing off the stomach. And when I let that 0:22:11.080 --> 0:22:13.720 little fart out, I felt some warmness and like some 0:22:13.840 --> 0:22:16.920 liquidy stuff going down like the back of my leg 0:22:17.000 --> 0:22:18.399 and my cheeks. And that wasn't a little, that was 0:22:18.440 --> 0:22:19.760