Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 2: Morning.
Speaker 3: Everybody is the j n V. Jess hilarious, Charlamagne the guy.
Speaker 3: We are the breakfast Club and all the roasts in
Speaker 3: the building as well. And we got some special guests
Speaker 3: in the building.
Speaker 1: Yes, indeed, we got some family.
Speaker 4: We got rocks and teas.
Speaker 5: This is people's childhood in here. Yes, Hampton Institute. This
Speaker 5: is all my family. I'm just joking.
Speaker 1: This is all my family.
Speaker 4: Got a j rocks and turns.
Speaker 6: Welcome guys, going on.
Speaker 4: One O six in park.
Speaker 3: You got our childhood, our adult life growing up.
Speaker 7: Definitely mine. I'm so excited happy. Does it feel like.
Speaker 8: Older than talking about my childhood?
Speaker 1: It was child children people that was on TV that
Speaker 1: two thousand.
Speaker 4: Okay, well, I was going.
Speaker 8: That happens all the time. You were in the store
Speaker 8: and people got walkers and the like. I grew up
Speaker 8: watching you.
Speaker 1: I was like you were grown like.
Speaker 9: That, especially because 'all were connected to some of our
Speaker 9: favorite artists and a lot of people saw them in
Speaker 9: different ways. For the first time. With you, guys, I
Speaker 9: skipped school to come. Remember y'all used to have the
Speaker 9: line where you would line up to get in it
Speaker 9: was like first time. First I skipp School in Delaware,
Speaker 9: got on the bus to New York to come and
Speaker 9: watch one six of the Park. You know, I got there,
Speaker 9: y'all wasn't even filming that day, crazy and I got
Speaker 9: home and got my.
Speaker 8: News.
Speaker 10: We were live every day.
Speaker 9: I didn't know as a kid, I didn't know that.
Speaker 9: I was like, oh my god, I'm going to one
Speaker 9: six apart.
Speaker 11: Like yeah, but y'all all celebrating twenty five years wow
Speaker 11: with a reunion had to be to you, Yes, what's
Speaker 11: that gonna look like?
Speaker 2: It's gonna be special, It's gonna beautiful. I don't think
Speaker 2: all four of us have been in the same room.
Speaker 12: Maybe Free couldn't make it. She really really wanted to
Speaker 12: be here, but she couldn't make it. I talked to her,
Speaker 12: and she sent her love to everybody, and she cannot
Speaker 12: wait to see everybody for the BET Awards this morning.
Speaker 1: You can't wait.
Speaker 2: So it's gonna be amazing. It's gonna be great.
Speaker 3: You can always say what ever was better, the Free
Speaker 3: and aj Era or the Roxy and Terrence j Era.
Speaker 4: I'm just just curious, what.
Speaker 1: Are you talking about?
Speaker 2: Free? Free was iconic.
Speaker 1: You got it all longer than us.
Speaker 13: Listen, you gotta so so in order to understand one
Speaker 13: O six you gotta understand technology and communication. Right, the
Speaker 13: world was changing from two thousand to twenty fourteen, all
Speaker 13: this new technology, you know, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and all
Speaker 13: of these things. Yeah, we're coming on the scene. And
Speaker 13: so one O six in Park was the global for
Speaker 13: all of this. Right when they started. If you needed
Speaker 13: to see the number one video in the world, you
Speaker 13: had to go to BET's one O six and part
Speaker 13: Now the New Artists one O six in part the
Speaker 13: Breaking Stories one on six and part Sports, Fashion, Technology,
Speaker 13: everything One on six and Park.
Speaker 12: Was the hub for and so we wouldn't be there,
Speaker 12: wouldn't be what we were without Free and AJ at
Speaker 12: the end of the day. So you know, we always
Speaker 12: tell them like they're the originals, they're the ogs, I
Speaker 12: don't you know. I think different generations grew up with
Speaker 12: different hosts, and so everybody likes to pick favorites. But
Speaker 12: when it comes to all of the hosts together, we
Speaker 12: just know that we're part of this amazing family that
Speaker 12: you know, was able to be such an influence on
Speaker 12: the culture that you know to this day. To be
Speaker 12: honest with you to this day, I still get more
Speaker 12: people that like are from the one O six and
Speaker 12: Park family that are now our A list celebrities and
Speaker 12: stars that come up here, you know, because of those
Speaker 12: connections from then that you know, they still they stick
Speaker 12: with you for so long. So we're just so appreciative
Speaker 12: of the foundation that we were able to come from
Speaker 12: and build.
Speaker 11: And there was no platform for black and brown people,
Speaker 11: like especially not a prime time when that was getting.
Speaker 4: Numbered at all.
Speaker 1: Yeah back then, and there was.
Speaker 8: It was crazy because we honestly didn't know what we
Speaker 8: were creating. You know, I was a club promoter. I
Speaker 8: was throwing parties where everyone come on.
Speaker 9: Yeh was Apparent criticized me about being out and he
Speaker 9: was like he never got a side.
Speaker 1: Time he was outside.
Speaker 8: I used that Wendy hosts, Oh my god, what is
Speaker 8: my Wednesday night at Cheetah?
Speaker 1: Kevin used to come remember before my time.
Speaker 4: That was actually taking at one of your clubs.
Speaker 1: That was not I was.
Speaker 3: That was the radio when Charlamade was sitting on the
Speaker 3: about the host this morning.
Speaker 14: You know, you were promoting.
Speaker 9: So you were promoters.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, New York was mine for a long time.
Speaker 9: And Okay, so from promoter here in New York to
Speaker 9: Park d Yeah.
Speaker 1: Because so what happened was BT was looking for a host.
Speaker 8: At the time, they already knew Free well Free was
Speaker 8: already picked and actually shout out to George Daniels. George
Speaker 8: Daniels George's music room. He introduced me to BT executives
Speaker 8: and I took them around and that's how it all happened.
Speaker 8: Took him a couple of the parties and then they
Speaker 8: had me auditioned and literally like three weeks later, I
Speaker 8: was on live television Green Crazy.
Speaker 4: How diff was it for you because you didn't have
Speaker 4: any history in that.
Speaker 8: No, not at all, not at all. I mean it
Speaker 8: was it was crazy. I mean you, I was got
Speaker 8: a lot of hate you had. I can't even remember
Speaker 8: their names. The morning shows were coming out after me,
Speaker 8: remember it.
Speaker 11: Was, but honestly had Predator.
Speaker 15: No.
Speaker 8: But honestly, I gotta give it up for Stephen Hill
Speaker 8: because he had my back. And then, long story short,
Speaker 8: the same dude that was talking out at mess I
Speaker 8: ended up running into him at the garden and he's.
Speaker 1: Like, well, you you know, what's all fun and games?
Speaker 1: Will you manage me?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 8: I was like, aren't you the same and what happened
Speaker 8: was BT to just put a big spend with them,
Speaker 8: but they were like they had a commercial to get
Speaker 8: me fired off the show radio.
Speaker 1: It was crazy, it was But anyway.
Speaker 4: I took care of that for you light work.
Speaker 8: No, but there's but to answer the question, to go
Speaker 8: back to this question, there's no competition, There's no. I
Speaker 8: mean honestly, these two people right here held it down
Speaker 8: for a longer time and with a lot of pressure
Speaker 8: on them. So to be able to do that and
Speaker 8: to hold it down with style and grace, gotta like
Speaker 8: take my head off.
Speaker 11: To them, not seamless defferientated and make the transition process.
Speaker 2: We were gone. So yeah, there.
Speaker 13: They were already gone and Julisa were super gracious and
Speaker 13: mad Links and everybody that was you know around at
Speaker 13: that time.
Speaker 2: We're gracious, but it was challenging.
Speaker 13: You know, we stepped into these iconic shoes with people
Speaker 13: that we grew up watching. So there was a lot
Speaker 13: of initial hate.
Speaker 10: And we came from.
Speaker 12: Nowhere because we were part of a new Face search,
Speaker 12: you know, a competition, you know, challenge. So it was
Speaker 12: like Ence and I really leaned on each other because
Speaker 12: we both knew that nobody understood what we were going
Speaker 12: through more than each other because we never had done
Speaker 12: television before. I came from a radio background and he
Speaker 12: did radio as well. But you know, like we want
Speaker 12: a contest to host the biggest show on a network,
Speaker 12: and that was a.
Speaker 13: Big had thousands of dollars of student debt to pay
Speaker 13: back from from North Carolina and tea and was sleeping
Speaker 13: on Fred's couch at the time down in his basement,
Speaker 13: and so we were sleeping in the car. We were
Speaker 13: just trying to hustle to make it and we just
Speaker 13: had this dream and ambition and so to see the
Speaker 13: show go to where it went and to be a part.
Speaker 2: You know, we were a part of all.
Speaker 13: These iconic moments, all of us, right from when Michael
Speaker 13: Jackson passed to when Barack was a senator, when Obama
Speaker 13: was a senator.
Speaker 2: You know, all of these.
Speaker 10: Yeah trying to make out.
Speaker 2: With and it became so anywhere we went with Aliyah,
Speaker 2: you know, Corey Bryant, like all these.
Speaker 16: Listen all of the blind Fury moments.
Speaker 1: China.
Speaker 9: I about to say what happened to Like, are y'all
Speaker 9: still watching those people who used to come through the
Speaker 9: Free freestyle Friday movement and like, like, what where are
Speaker 9: they att Jim?
Speaker 8: Like Jen, I've contacted him on on social media and stuff,
Speaker 8: and he's big in China.
Speaker 4: He had recently.
Speaker 13: You know a lot of these artists are still doing it.
Speaker 13: And then a lot of these you know people that
Speaker 13: will come on the show turns into DJ Khaled, you know,
Speaker 13: like it became a hub where different DJs, different music, personality,
Speaker 13: dance competitions that pros like everybody would just come to
Speaker 13: one O six when y'all.
Speaker 11: Left the show, A J to b T even tell y'all,
Speaker 11: did y'all find out on my space?
Speaker 1: Like she said, yeah.
Speaker 9: Because from what I read leaving the show was you
Speaker 9: there was behind the scenes, like you felt like creatively.
Speaker 7: It was online and stuff.
Speaker 9: It was creatively it was But why.
Speaker 8: Yeah, why it was time? I mean back, No, it
Speaker 8: was time. I'll just say that, or can I say,
Speaker 8: maybe there's a book coming out.
Speaker 9: I don't know, possibly we'll finally get the answer maybe.
Speaker 8: I mean, the answer was it was time for me personally,
Speaker 8: it was it was time. I made the decision honestly
Speaker 8: that evening it was my last contractual day, and yeah,
Speaker 8: I walked in the you know how to do the
Speaker 8: prep office. I walked in office, all the producers there.
Speaker 8: I was like, it's my last day. Whatever we're prepping,
Speaker 8: it ain't gonna work. And they thought I was playing
Speaker 8: because I played all the time, and that was actually
Speaker 8: my last day. And it was crazy because I still
Speaker 8: remember Mariah Carey shake it off. It was like the
Speaker 8: new joint of today and that's what I was like,
Speaker 8: I'm making the right decision.
Speaker 1: Did you in free playing?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 12: What can I say something real quick about free though,
Speaker 12: because you guys asked the question about the transition free
Speaker 12: Free has always been that the a girl's girl, and
Speaker 12: she reached out to me because she knew. She was like, okay, girl,
Speaker 12: there's the curse of the couch amazing and this is
Speaker 12: what's gonna happen, and this is what she's gonna go
Speaker 12: through and free handheld she she held my hand through
Speaker 12: a lot of stuff that went there. So so nobody
Speaker 12: get and and all of the girls we're all close,
Speaker 12: but like the women in one O six in Park
Speaker 12: have always kept in touch and like to this day,
Speaker 12: I mean, Julia and I just went on vacation. Kisha
Speaker 12: Chantey and I go to the same nail salon and
Speaker 12: you know see each other.
Speaker 10: Me and Free talk all the time.
Speaker 12: So just for for for for reference on that, like
Speaker 12: kudos to Free because she really really really looked out
Speaker 12: for all the girls and for us. She always calls
Speaker 12: us free angels. She's like, y'all are my girls. I'm like,
Speaker 12: all right, Free, but but you know, she just she
Speaker 12: really is a girl's girl and really really really looked out.
Speaker 12: I mean even to like who the best hair makeup
Speaker 12: person was, like those things that you don't know, you know,
Speaker 12: especially when you're not on TV, you don't know these things.
Speaker 10: So she yeah, shout out to how long did it take.
Speaker 1: Y'all to get chemistry?
Speaker 11: Like between y'all you and Free Agent, also between you
Speaker 11: and Terrence Rocks.
Speaker 10: Ours was kind of instant.
Speaker 12: Again, we came in through new faces, so we came
Speaker 12: in through a whole different Roxy was.
Speaker 13: Really easy to work with in that way though, you know,
Speaker 13: it was seamless. So and again it was that the
Speaker 13: world was just different and we were so hungry to
Speaker 13: just be able to pay our rents on time and
Speaker 13: just be able to you know.
Speaker 2: Do these interviews.
Speaker 13: And so yeah, we were having fun our life was changing.
Speaker 13: We were in our twenties. It was it was great.
Speaker 13: It was a great sign when I look back.
Speaker 10: At it, Yeah, it was fun.
Speaker 12: No, No, I like it was again like Terrence and
Speaker 12: I were a different situation because there they really didn't
Speaker 12: have to be a chemistry test. We were so happy
Speaker 12: to get the show and like I remember we had
Speaker 12: the phone call with Stephen and he was like, so
Speaker 12: y'all are the We're.
Speaker 10: Like wait what?
Speaker 12: And I had the worst audition process that whole week,
Speaker 12: Like it was terrible. So the fact that he even
Speaker 12: got to where where it was, but so you.
Speaker 16: Didn't even know you had You didn't even think that
Speaker 16: you had it after after auditioning, not at all.
Speaker 12: Well when we because it was like ten of us
Speaker 12: that didn't you face this? And then they picked five
Speaker 12: to stay on the network. So even to have made
Speaker 12: it to the five, I was just like what, like,
Speaker 12: you know, this is crazy a blessing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then grew up watching you know.
Speaker 10: You never thought. We didn't even know that that was
Speaker 10: up for grabs.
Speaker 12: We didn't know that they were looking for the new
Speaker 12: host of One of six. We had no idea Tiger
Speaker 12: and Julisa were.
Speaker 11: Doing the thing also when it was when it was you, Terrence, Alicia,
Speaker 11: Renee Lamore and Julsa, they just.
Speaker 10: Said Jalsa wasn't part of your faces.
Speaker 8: Shed big tigger right after us because they had to,
Speaker 8: like literally that next day they had to figure it
Speaker 8: out because I was not supposed to leave.
Speaker 10: Shaming.
Speaker 1: I don't remember shit, man, god bleck. One thing I
Speaker 1: got to say about both, but you in Free Chemistry.
Speaker 1: How did y'all develop it?
Speaker 8: It just I mean, it happened from the first time
Speaker 8: we did like a test interview till the first time
Speaker 8: we were on the show, I mean honestly, and then
Speaker 8: the first guest busting rhymes was it was, you know,
Speaker 8: it was a lot of fun. When it really clicked,
Speaker 8: I think honestly was they surprised us with Whitney and
Speaker 8: Bobby like we had we were doing a read and
Speaker 8: they had Whitney and Bobby walk out behind us without
Speaker 8: telling us. Wow, And it was it was crazy because
Speaker 8: Bobby's from Boston and Whitney's from Jersey, so it was
Speaker 8: like it was just like a crazy, amazing moment and
Speaker 8: it was just like, Okay, we're doing something because we
Speaker 8: didn't like it was it was crazy. We were up
Speaker 8: one hundred and six part and you know, if you've
Speaker 8: ever been in Metropolis studios, it's just it was different.
Speaker 11: I never felt like y'all was hosting the show, which
Speaker 11: was a good thing, you know.
Speaker 8: To me, I felt like I was hosting a party
Speaker 8: party every day for people at home.
Speaker 13: I went back, I watched your First Break on air,
Speaker 13: and it was good from the beginning.
Speaker 2: Like from the it was horrible. No no, no, the initial.
Speaker 13: Break at least it's on freeze ig page. It was
Speaker 13: like the show just had a thing about it. And
Speaker 13: like I said earlier, there was just a global connection
Speaker 13: that was happening at this time.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 13: You got kids from Japan, you got kids from London
Speaker 13: coming to Harlem coming to fifty seventh and tenth to
Speaker 13: see this show. And you know these stories from Delaware
Speaker 13: driving down. It was just all connecting. And then it
Speaker 13: birthed so many different things. So now when I meet
Speaker 13: you know, Speedy Mormon, or I'm sitting down with Pretty
Speaker 13: V and they're telling me, hey, we were watching you
Speaker 13: and Roxy growing up, or we were watching a j
Speaker 13: and Free, It's like it's so amazing that it's just
Speaker 13: transcended time and so many people have been able to,
Speaker 13: you know, build careers and do creative things and make
Speaker 13: money and feed their families, you know, off of this show.
Speaker 13: We had amazing producers, amazing people you know, behind the
Speaker 13: scenes working hard every day to make it happen, and
Speaker 13: we had the best fans in the world.
Speaker 2: That was the best part.
Speaker 4: Because Ros was his I remember, yeah, first guests like It's.
Speaker 1: Bust ronson.
Speaker 2: Jamie Fox, Janet Jackson.
Speaker 1: Jesus.
Speaker 4: I was.
Speaker 2: I was sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 13: I didn't have an apartment in New York yet, so
Speaker 13: I was still there homeless. When I interviewed Janet Jackson
Speaker 13: that day, and I remember, like me and Roxy we
Speaker 13: had our dressing rooms were right there. We was like
Speaker 13: we were just so nervous and and it just, you know,
Speaker 13: we still can't believe that.
Speaker 10: We're Everything happened so fast.
Speaker 12: We literally got the call and then it was like,
Speaker 12: you guys have to be in New York and like
Speaker 12: not even like two weeks move And I'm on radio
Speaker 12: in Chicago at the time, and I'm like, I got
Speaker 12: to move my whole entire life, like this is this
Speaker 12: is happening, and this is happening fast.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 12: I started doing I was doing my radio show from
Speaker 12: a studio at at the fifty seventh and eleven studios,
Speaker 12: so they gave me a radio room and so I
Speaker 12: was broadcast. I would do hair, makeup, go down, tape
Speaker 12: my midday show for Chicago, Go back up, do one
Speaker 12: oh six in part, go back down, tape more shows
Speaker 12: like I was pre taping a lot of shows, and
Speaker 12: then we would do and then so many things started
Speaker 12: happening in between one O six and Park. Then we
Speaker 12: had one O six in Park Radio, so we would
Speaker 12: tape that in between one o six tapings and stuff
Speaker 12: like that.
Speaker 10: So so yeah, they did.
Speaker 2: Exist.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, Well so when.
Speaker 2: We look at all four of you are are are.
Speaker 13: Doing such amazing things, and the diversification of your brands
Speaker 13: is it's phenomenal. At that stage, it wasn't like that.
Speaker 10: It wasn't like no, it was you.
Speaker 2: Remember the conversation, would you be started?
Speaker 1: I told you to diversify, do all the stuff?
Speaker 2: Yes she did, Yes she did.
Speaker 13: You were always very you know, gracious and very you
Speaker 13: know the way you pass the torch, you take like
Speaker 13: everybody like it was it was a lot of well.
Speaker 1: He took it to another level, absolutely.
Speaker 8: Honestly, because I remember the conversation privately, I've said this
Speaker 8: to you, and I'm saying it publicly like you literally
Speaker 8: took it to another level, and that is a beautiful
Speaker 8: thing because it opens up for so many people. And
Speaker 8: I know you, you know, you walk the street and people
Speaker 8: are like, I'm in I'm in news because of you,
Speaker 8: I'm in entertainment because of you. You know what that
Speaker 8: show did. Probably the craziest thing, and this actually happened
Speaker 8: more than once. I had a guy come up to
Speaker 8: me and literally almost break down in tears and say
Speaker 8: he's alive because of one O six D.
Speaker 1: He said.
Speaker 8: It was like he wanted to be inside to watch
Speaker 8: one O six and all of his friends were on
Speaker 8: the corner, and they shot up the corner and killed
Speaker 8: all of his friends. So literally every one of his
Speaker 8: friends died.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. He was like, I'm the only one alive. Wow.
Speaker 8: So just the impact of bringing kids inside from.
Speaker 1: The inn, you know, because the streets are crazy.
Speaker 9: At times about to sit down and watch it. I
Speaker 9: looked at a funny to take a hundred six hundred
Speaker 9: thousand views per episode on minimum. You guys were having
Speaker 9: during a Jane Free on one on six apart including
Speaker 9: according to Google, that's a lot of people sitting at
Speaker 9: one time, and.
Speaker 11: You had to watch it because it wasn't no internet,
Speaker 11: so there was.
Speaker 1: No social media. It was no Internet. There wasn't like
Speaker 1: you know, teams and all that stuff. Really was crazy.
Speaker 8: The commercial. I forget who made the commercial. I loved
Speaker 8: the members because the kids were dropping the back.
Speaker 16: So when I was in elementary school, we used to
Speaker 16: play They used to play it for us in the
Speaker 16: cafeteria on a projector like you know you hear like
Speaker 16: Jim would be everybody's favorite. No, lunch was everybody's favorite
Speaker 16: period because we used to watch One of Fun and
Speaker 16: eat our food. Well I never eat the food was trash,
Speaker 16: but one six o'clock was cater time, lunchtime every day.
Speaker 11: That explained so much about Baltimore.
Speaker 6: Listen in prison, you can't there was you could have
Speaker 6: me when it was like.
Speaker 4: We used to get crazy jail man. Well like that.
Speaker 10: Story, you don't get no more, you jealous, you don't
Speaker 10: get no more.
Speaker 17: Guy Drew, I Drew, and I got questions. I'm a crazy,
Speaker 17: honest story.
Speaker 8: I was at an event that believe was there Martha
Speaker 8: Stewart was there, I shouldn't be telling the story and
Speaker 8: on and I, you know, interviewed Martha on Extra a
Speaker 8: couple of times, and I was like, I know Martha,
Speaker 8: She's super cool. So I brought her over and I
Speaker 8: was like, definitely is Martha Stewart. And Martha was like,
Speaker 8: oh my god, I love bet. When I was locked up,
Speaker 8: that's all I can watch.
Speaker 2: Comic view.
Speaker 1: It was. It was. It was a hilarious moment.
Speaker 9: It was a y'all deal with because I was just
Speaker 9: saying before y'all came in after one or six apart,
Speaker 9: the only place I can think of it has those
Speaker 9: cultural moments that people remember good or bad is breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: But now now, but now.
Speaker 10: You guys really are like everybody.
Speaker 12: I was like, one of like the breakfast club is
Speaker 12: the is what you know right now?
Speaker 10: It was you guys just f y culture.
Speaker 8: Highlighting definitely highlighting us unfilteredly is something that I don't
Speaker 8: think America has a lot of right now, and you
Speaker 8: all do it in a great way.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Chemistry.
Speaker 10: No.
Speaker 9: I brought that up because I was saying, we now
Speaker 9: we got the internet, so it's like when moments happen here.
Speaker 9: It's super huge, y'all. It was happening on TV. But
Speaker 9: then like turning TV off, you go home? Or did
Speaker 9: you what? Or not?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 9: How did y'all handle those moments? Like I know there
Speaker 9: was like the webby thing that happened roxy Terance, you
Speaker 9: walking off stage rocks y'all here together now, we would
Speaker 9: love to hear about that as well.
Speaker 12: But Sash handling those protects me at all costs, And
Speaker 12: that's what I'm gonna say, And I'll protect him well
Speaker 12: at all costs. And I don't like, I don't like
Speaker 12: bringing up anything that was like, that's not what I
Speaker 12: want to remember from the show because that's not even
Speaker 12: worth our time.
Speaker 10: Right now.
Speaker 12: The show was more about celebration than it was about drama.
Speaker 12: So those three one hundred and sixty days or whatever,
Speaker 12: because we were a three sixty five show, you know,
Speaker 12: it was always there's always things that would happen. But
Speaker 12: if there's one thing that I could say about this
Speaker 12: man right here, is that he protected me, you know,
Speaker 12: at all costs.
Speaker 13: Listen, you know where it's such a celebration now, right
Speaker 13: and when when you bring up any of those things,
Speaker 13: it's all love, it's all love.
Speaker 12: There's no hate, and there's like there's no beef now
Speaker 12: like never was back then either beef.
Speaker 9: When I when I saw the report not well and
Speaker 9: looking at it now as a person that's doing this,
Speaker 9: and I saw the Webby thing, my first thought was,
Speaker 9: whatever happened, it had to be a protection thing on
Speaker 9: that on your own whatever part. And the reason why
Speaker 9: I brought it up is because I think people don't understand.
Speaker 9: Like you said, you were sleeping on the couch and
Speaker 9: you got the job you were working already on and boom,
Speaker 9: everything happened in real time. You just have to adjust
Speaker 9: to being in front of everybody and figuring that out.
Speaker 9: It adience in front of a yeah, live audience had
Speaker 9: to be tough. So when I'm seeing you know what
Speaker 9: I perceived as a protection thing and you kind of
Speaker 9: just said that in front of the world, I don't know,
Speaker 9: how did you guys mentally? How are you dealing with
Speaker 9: that at the time, because all the kids.
Speaker 13: Did, look, we'll pivot out, but listen for me, Rocks
Speaker 13: like it was, yeah, anything that had to do with Rocks,
Speaker 13: he was always protection things. But shout outs to Webby,
Speaker 13: it's love, man, this has been you know decades Worreld adults.
Speaker 13: We were growing up live on television daily, our level
Speaker 13: of emotional intelligence, our.
Speaker 2: Growth as human beings. What we were dealing with.
Speaker 13: It was we were literally growing up in front of
Speaker 13: everybody's eyes. So obviously we made mistakes. Obviously there's there's
Speaker 13: there's growing pains, there's things that we learned. But when
Speaker 13: we look back, it was this beautiful journey and time,
Speaker 13: this beautiful thing that we got to celebrate together. And
Speaker 13: when when Scott Mills and the team said, Hey, we
Speaker 13: want to celebrate twenty five years of one O six
Speaker 13: and Park this year at the b ET Awards.
Speaker 9: And we're going to pivot.
Speaker 2: Money talks.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 11: But I do remember when you walked off the stead
Speaker 11: you said it was a publicity stun yea, you know,
Speaker 11: because I don't want people to.
Speaker 1: Think that was a real thing about me and him.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Yeah, we were blurring the lines of reality. This is
Speaker 13: early reality TV, right, we were blurring the lines. Me
Speaker 13: and Roxy were sitting in Steven's office and was like,
Speaker 13: why don't we, you know, try this is a scripted
Speaker 13: thing we were coming up with. Creative people were talking
Speaker 13: about it like it was you know, right, so it
Speaker 13: was Yeah, me.
Speaker 2: And her have always been right here.
Speaker 12: It was never was never, ever, ever ever between me
Speaker 12: and even to this day, like protect him at all costs.
Speaker 2: You know, and we never hooked up.
Speaker 13: And the only reason why I bring that up is
Speaker 13: because Roxy is such a professional that you're such a professional.
Speaker 1: Let me let me, let me, let me say this.
Speaker 1: Someone said, let me say this before y'all.
Speaker 13: Well, you know what with women in it, about the way.
Speaker 14: He's handling the interview right now, she's.
Speaker 9: No, because that's the moment she wants to understand why
Speaker 9: you took it away from a real quick he threw
Speaker 9: it and he took it away.
Speaker 1: Go ahead and finished, Terrence. I know what you're saying.
Speaker 13: To be said, you know is the show was special
Speaker 13: and we're just so happy that we get to celebrate.
Speaker 1: It twenty.
Speaker 10: Twenty five years and people still want to come.
Speaker 1: People still talk about it.
Speaker 7: Every day, right, do you know? I'm one of them
Speaker 7: who want it back.
Speaker 16: But do y'all feel like, honestly it would be a
Speaker 16: success in today's digital like I do.
Speaker 8: And I bumped back against And it's crazy because the
Speaker 8: TV execs have arguments about it all the time. If
Speaker 8: a video show would still do well in a world
Speaker 8: where there's YouTube, and I honestly believe that it would,
Speaker 8: you know.
Speaker 1: But that's just my opinion.
Speaker 8: Video A lot of people like people because video free,
Speaker 8: but the conversations.
Speaker 4: And before you honestly could get videos then.
Speaker 8: No, no, no, but listen, it's above that because back then
Speaker 8: artists had to come and talk about their video, they
Speaker 8: had to come and talk about their music, and it
Speaker 8: was like segments to that, and I think that honestly
Speaker 8: improved the music. Like labels were like, we can't, we can't,
Speaker 8: we can't put this out because we gotta. They're gonna
Speaker 8: end up on the couch talking about this. If you
Speaker 8: think about some of the stuff that's out now, could
Speaker 8: I have three segments with an artist talking about what
Speaker 8: they're saying on that record. I think it improved music.
Speaker 8: But I think that's necessary and needed. I don't know
Speaker 8: if it's one o six in part, but it's a
Speaker 8: show that's needed.
Speaker 16: And then also on one of six in part, where
Speaker 16: people wasn't even really realizing. We were so excited about it,
Speaker 16: and I still would be, but they didn't even play
Speaker 16: the whole.
Speaker 4: Music video any.
Speaker 3: Twenty seconds rights it.
Speaker 16: Was about the segments that y'all had, the people y'all had,
Speaker 16: the energy between y'all, Like how y'all just made it even,
Speaker 16: like how y'all would show y'all audience sometimes and I'd
Speaker 16: be like, oh my gosh, I used I was cracking.
Speaker 7: On people a long time audience like it was so
Speaker 7: many things.
Speaker 8: We had some time when there was no audience members
Speaker 8: like we had sometimes we had a school upstairs Metropolis.
Speaker 8: We would literally pulled students down sometimes because we didn't.
Speaker 1: Have any audience.
Speaker 8: Like this is at the beginning, Like we would do
Speaker 8: a show and it'd be nobody in the audience, and
Speaker 8: they would do can tape of an audience before and
Speaker 8: we would have to have all the energy and we're
Speaker 8: talking to nobody.
Speaker 1: So it was there was a lot of things.
Speaker 7: That you don't even know.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the stories are crazy.
Speaker 11: How did it feel having at least at least for
Speaker 11: parents and Rocky? How did it feel having more fame
Speaker 11: than probably money, because I'm sure the Fames shot off
Speaker 11: faster than having actual bread in your pocket.
Speaker 13: Yeah, you know their their financial literacy wasn't a conversation
Speaker 13: of discussion. I didn't have a bunch of financial mentors
Speaker 13: at that stage of my life. So when you're when
Speaker 13: you're famous, right or people recognize you for what you're doing,
Speaker 13: because the famous is word I don't love to use.
Speaker 13: But you don't have the funds. Now you have imposter
Speaker 13: syndrome right now, you're trying to keep up. This is
Speaker 13: when the birth of a bottle service in the nightclubs
Speaker 13: popped off. So you're you know, you're you're trying to
Speaker 13: wear things, you're trying to buy you You're trying to
Speaker 13: do these things, but you don't have the means.
Speaker 4: To do it.
Speaker 1: It was back then.
Speaker 13: Yeah, there was a lot that was outside.
Speaker 2: There was.
Speaker 10: Going to your spots, no greenhouse.
Speaker 13: Yeah, but the money, I mean, you know, it was
Speaker 13: a I mean it was a cultural evolution.
Speaker 2: So it all, it all came really you know fast.
Speaker 3: The dop thing about I would say is not not
Speaker 3: your era. But we were all coming up. I feel
Speaker 3: like New York in the two thousand and two thousand
Speaker 3: and five twenty ten was a bunch of people coming
Speaker 3: up at the same time. So we all ran with
Speaker 3: each other, and I just thought that was dope. We
Speaker 3: all looked out for each other, we all cared about
Speaker 3: each other. We all moved in the same circle. So
Speaker 3: it's like watching y'all now, It's like it's like your
Speaker 3: brothers and sisters to me because we were all there,
Speaker 3: we were in fights, we were doing it like we.
Speaker 4: Did it all together. And thank god there was no cameras.
Speaker 4: Back in the table.
Speaker 1: Everybody fight me.
Speaker 2: I don't even remember what happened. I don't even remember
Speaker 2: what happened.
Speaker 11: I used to be on Wendy Show, and I used
Speaker 11: to be gunning Terrence and Roxy right, and so I
Speaker 11: was up there with Wendy.
Speaker 7: Being messy, just like your golf father.
Speaker 11: Trying to shake my head, and I said, I can't
Speaker 11: shake your hand because I know I'd be talking about
Speaker 11: you and that would be fake of me. Terrence sat down,
Speaker 11: you put his hat on the back because he said,
Speaker 11: you know what, yeah, I respect that, but it ain't me.
Speaker 1: Is that really? You want to put you in the
Speaker 1: face with what you're be saying about my co host?
Speaker 11: I was like, bouck you up in here, and then
Speaker 11: everybody was like, y'all go in the bathroom and talk.
Speaker 11: And that's what we did. You went to the bathroom
Speaker 11: and talk. But he was protecting Roy. He ain't even
Speaker 11: came what I was saying about him.
Speaker 15: Crazy will always be off right right before the fight, ya.
Speaker 11: Me and Terres never fought in the fight. Now, I
Speaker 11: would help Terrence when when you left.
Speaker 2: The room, it ended with a hug.
Speaker 13: I have so much respect for Charlemagne then and now
Speaker 13: what Charlemagne has done is incredible, And it was it
Speaker 13: was respect, and I think that started our friendship. It
Speaker 13: was like we had that moment and then we wrapped
Speaker 13: it up and it was so much respect after that
Speaker 13: and show together.
Speaker 1: Right Terce was he paying it?
Speaker 2: It was me Ball and Angeli the union.
Speaker 11: A lot of it was jealousy, though, I'd be honest,
Speaker 11: like I remember walking up to Terrence one time at
Speaker 11: the mission when I was in Harlement Mission Impossible and
Speaker 11: I had just got with Wendy, and I don't know
Speaker 11: why I wasn't appreciating my blessing at that time because
Speaker 11: I'm windy and I'm like, yo, one day, I'm gonna
Speaker 11: take your.
Speaker 2: Job for no reason.
Speaker 8: But honestly, that's speaking to no, no, no no, But that
Speaker 8: speaks to what I was going through back then. But
Speaker 8: I never like, just like you didn't know, I didn't know.
Speaker 8: I wasn't in the industry. There were a lot of
Speaker 8: people that wanted that television shot.
Speaker 1: So when we got it.
Speaker 8: When I said there was a lot of pressure on
Speaker 8: anyone who's in those shoes, there were a lot of
Speaker 8: people that wanted to be on television field, Like I
Speaker 8: did the work.
Speaker 2: I deserve, Yeah, you know, but I hadn't done the work.
Speaker 1: I was just hating.
Speaker 2: But I remember that. I remember that, and I but
Speaker 2: I didn't take it like that. Man.
Speaker 13: I when I saw you and looked in your eyes,
Speaker 13: I saw that there was a hunger there, and I
Speaker 13: saw that there was as an ambition there, and I
Speaker 13: just felt like, as black man, it wasn't our job
Speaker 13: to tear each other down.
Speaker 2: I'm happy that you're come.
Speaker 1: And get it, motherfucker.
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 4: I did.
Speaker 13: It was New York was competitive, and you know when
Speaker 13: we walked down the street, it was this is a
Speaker 13: different side of TJ.
Speaker 4: Because back then would get into it.
Speaker 7: Like, I can't imagine.
Speaker 9: You are your Greek to you Q, we're both okay.
Speaker 9: So even that when you got on once you came across
Speaker 9: the line, the HBCU connection and things and that, how
Speaker 9: did that help back then? Because it's so prep Like
Speaker 9: everybody talks about HBCUs and something now, but then when
Speaker 9: it wasn't as talked about. How was that connection then,
Speaker 9: knowing that you had.
Speaker 2: A bro it was.
Speaker 13: It was having Omega Soft Fi with my back was unbelievable,
Speaker 13: coming from a black college, coming from ant you know,
Speaker 13: being a member of Omega Soft five. And then the
Speaker 13: BRAS was like behind you know, supported Roxy too. So
Speaker 13: anytime we would do events, it would be all all
Speaker 13: of my line brothers would be there, show up, like
Speaker 13: we didn't have security back then.
Speaker 2: And so yeah, we we would we would be.
Speaker 13: Hosting on TV on a Friday, and then we would
Speaker 13: be you know in Detroit, New Orleans, Baltimore, Carolina, Carolinas, all.
Speaker 2: Over on the weekends.
Speaker 13: And it was the frat that was like moving around
Speaker 13: with us supporting from.
Speaker 1: Them to.
Speaker 9: You.
Speaker 12: But it's like that was another thing that was really
Speaker 12: special during during TJ and I time, Like again we
Speaker 12: came together totally new. Terrence had Fred and I had
Speaker 12: Chantelle and it was US four like and for those
Speaker 12: that know to this day, it's still US US, it's
Speaker 12: still US four. So yeah, we had an amazing We
Speaker 12: had to have an amazing friendship system, support system around
Speaker 12: because all of our friends, like to what. To MB's point,
Speaker 12: we were all doing this for the first time at
Speaker 12: the level that we was doing it at, Like like
Speaker 12: when we were DJing in Boston, it wasn't even like
Speaker 12: at the level of what we were growing at. And
Speaker 12: at that time in New York City and Charlomagne two.
Speaker 10: It was just different.
Speaker 12: We were all trying to really really get it and hustle,
Speaker 12: and there was no YouTube, Instagram, get found virally. You
Speaker 12: had to have talent. You had to have you had
Speaker 12: to know how to do the job, so.
Speaker 10: They don't have talent you And.
Speaker 11: Terrence was always so embracing while everybody else was hating.
Speaker 11: Like so it's like I met Terrence after we had
Speaker 11: that incident, I'm like, damn, he actually cool And me
Speaker 11: and Rocky ended up living in the same building.
Speaker 1: Roxy gives me a copy of The Alchemist.
Speaker 11: She embraces me like like, I'm like, hen, why the
Speaker 11: was that having hating on these people?
Speaker 9: Well, you're angry little.
Speaker 1: In the day.
Speaker 11: There's a lot of people to your point that was
Speaker 11: just hating and jealous, but they won't admitted. They might
Speaker 11: admit it now, but back then it's like, who are
Speaker 11: these people on TV? And I'm not just get them.
Speaker 9: Up under?
Speaker 4: Yeah that's what they call.
Speaker 2: Went down and.
Speaker 11: Free told me to tell y'all I love them deep
Speaker 11: and ain't nothing like being a part of the one
Speaker 11: O six fam alongside A J, Roxy, t J, Tigger,
Speaker 11: Ju Lisabout and Keisha. See y'all at the award show?
Speaker 1: You did?
Speaker 2: Yes, what are you doing that?
Speaker 1: She told me to keep asking a J where Free is?
Speaker 1: She said, No, I know she gets that. How many
Speaker 1: times you get asked? I get.
Speaker 4: Up times that all the time.
Speaker 8: It's just stuff times where he's gonna change give me
Speaker 8: in Africa like weirds treat, He's gonna.
Speaker 12: Change Free during free time, Free was Free, her her
Speaker 12: name and her she was like one of the most
Speaker 12: popular oh yeah, names of I don't know what list
Speaker 12: it was that came back in the world like three
Speaker 12: like Current.
Speaker 1: America, Freedom of King. The King magazine covered with Free
Speaker 1: on the front.
Speaker 10: Damn yeah, absolutely K magazine.
Speaker 1: Wow man, So your question the twenty fifth Oh so
Speaker 1: what are you guys doing?
Speaker 4: What are you guys doing for.
Speaker 2: Wards?
Speaker 4: What are you guys doing the BT Awards.
Speaker 2: To celebrate hosting the show?
Speaker 13: No, no, no, we are celebrating twenty five years of
Speaker 13: this landmark show, BT's one O six in Park. We
Speaker 13: have a lot of surprises, there's going to be a
Speaker 13: lot of special announcements, and it'll be the first time
Speaker 13: all the hosts are being coming back to be on
Speaker 13: stage together.
Speaker 2: It's going to be a beautiful reunion.
Speaker 13: And we're just we're so humbled, we're so appreciative of
Speaker 13: this time in our life to be able to celebrate
Speaker 13: this together. It's amazing. You know, I lost my dad
Speaker 13: about a year and a half ago, and thank you.
Speaker 13: And when I lost him, it just it really gave
Speaker 13: me perspective on time, you know, and when you have
Speaker 13: time to spend with the people that you love, and furthermore,
Speaker 13: when you have these celebrations where this is not just
Speaker 13: about us. This is about BT as a network. It's
Speaker 13: about the culture, it's about the fans, it's about all
Speaker 13: of you. Like one O six is everybody's show. Everybody
Speaker 13: voted on this show every day, right, This show means
Speaker 13: something to so many people, and so we're just excited
Speaker 13: that we get to all come together. And I can't
Speaker 13: wait for y'all to see the surprises and surprise performances.
Speaker 12: Man, we got some performances that it's.
Speaker 1: Really getting honored.
Speaker 8: Honestly, I gotta I gotta take my hat off because
Speaker 8: I was there from the beginning of BET to where
Speaker 8: it is now, and for BT to do this, I
Speaker 8: think it's it's pretty amazing, you know, to give tribute
Speaker 8: just to the whole franchise and a whole it says,
Speaker 8: It says a lot, and it's just like Terrence said,
Speaker 8: it's just an amazing thing.
Speaker 1: For that to be happening, I need a documentary documentary
Speaker 1: that in the works. In the works.
Speaker 9: So I want to talk categories. Yes, so best new
Speaker 9: Artists and album of the year categories. I want to
Speaker 9: talk about that right here on the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: It's easy call that's artist. It's not even close.
Speaker 4: That's new artist is Doughy. I agree she should be
Speaker 4: in the category, right, I do see her.
Speaker 2: List.
Speaker 9: So let's read who we are for the best. Y'all
Speaker 9: are welcome to take this. That's new artist we have?
Speaker 2: Uh what she?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 9: So the best new artist we have Eric already start
Speaker 9: artist Star, Biggest the Plug boss Man, d Lo, D Bills,
Speaker 9: Thank you D Bills. Leon Thomas October London, Shaboozie, Teddy Swims,
Speaker 9: and it says for one, is that uh for one
Speaker 9: of the group from New York?
Speaker 1: Not sure?
Speaker 13: You know, this is a tough category and so many
Speaker 13: of these artists have been around and and it's just
Speaker 13: so many talented people.
Speaker 2: Uh a lot of Yeah, Thomas is October London.
Speaker 10: Teddy Swims. My goodness, we have.
Speaker 1: Performing the Eagles won the super Bowl.
Speaker 7: Party Restar is another one.
Speaker 10: Love Iris Stars, So that's a that's a They're all there.
Speaker 10: It doesn't feel like.
Speaker 1: This is a politically.
Speaker 12: Here first on the breakfast, I don't even feel like
Speaker 12: it's artists because they've been killing it.
Speaker 1: So you would.
Speaker 3: I like Shaboozie. I think Saboozy has had a hell
Speaker 3: of a year. His record was big. He's performed that
Speaker 3: Country Awards and Crossover Awards added all him.
Speaker 4: I like Shaboozy. Teddy Swims, but black I love Teddy Swims.
Speaker 9: Tyn't feel like I it's Teddy Swims.
Speaker 18: Want to be upset that boozy you get the white
Speaker 18: guy Teddy if he had a good a good year,
Speaker 18: I love, I.
Speaker 1: Would do, I would do.
Speaker 9: You're going big extra plug?
Speaker 1: Pick one you like them all get I do like
Speaker 1: you so like big Plug, Like.
Speaker 9: What about album of the year, So we got some
Speaker 9: sexy songs for you Draking Party, next Door, eleven eleven
Speaker 9: Deluxe Es, Christie Brown, Alligator By Never Heal, Our Girl, Doci, Cowboy, Carter, Beyonce, Glorious, Glorrilla,
Speaker 9: gn X, Kendrick Lamar, hurry up tomorrow, the weekend, and
Speaker 9: we don't trust you future at Metro booming.
Speaker 4: Category is real good?
Speaker 9: Political is whoever doesn't give answer?
Speaker 1: It's only between two for me, only one for me. Yes,
Speaker 1: only want to answer for that one. What you already
Speaker 1: know g X, you had the best year, Kendrick Brown.
Speaker 2: For so many years, taking like.
Speaker 1: The best year.
Speaker 2: Than that you finished.
Speaker 13: But Beyonce's right, So that's that's my answer.
Speaker 9: I mean, Kendrick, he's on tour now, Kendrick or do Yeah.
Speaker 10: I did not stop listening to Kendrick's.
Speaker 2: Album, especially in this moment. I mean it's kind of like,
Speaker 2: but I.
Speaker 10: Loved Chris's album too, and not even lie to Chris.
Speaker 10: This is challenge.
Speaker 4: And like you can't switch.
Speaker 12: I would say this, I wish that there there are
Speaker 12: a lot of times and and I'm glad that I'm
Speaker 12: still able to cover carpets and still work in this industry.
Speaker 10: I tell like a lot.
Speaker 7: I told.
Speaker 12: I'm like, thank you, I told Gloral, I said, You're
Speaker 12: the kind of artist that makes me wish I was
Speaker 12: still on one O six in part because I would
Speaker 12: have had so much having you up there, because it
Speaker 12: would have been so some of the artists today, I
Speaker 12: wish we still had a platform like one O six.
Speaker 12: It would have been fun to at that time to
Speaker 12: interview them.
Speaker 6: It's too expressive, money, too expensive.
Speaker 10: Right now, music on TV.
Speaker 9: Who outside of Globla do you also think that about
Speaker 9: Let's see.
Speaker 12: A lot of like the afrobeats uh people right now,
Speaker 12: Like I love Burner, I love with you know, the Veto,
Speaker 12: Like I'm heavy in the afrobeats right now, Like I
Speaker 12: really love that whole movement. And so I would have
Speaker 12: loved to have had you know, them up there like Lizzo.
Speaker 7: We we didn't have to.
Speaker 10: We didn't give a chance to have a little up there.
Speaker 10: You know, there's so many artists and they Jesus, Lizzo.
Speaker 1: Enter that realm and we can talk about her like LUTHERU.
Speaker 1: But remember we had a game. We can't do that.
Speaker 2: Respect what that said.
Speaker 13: Early So one on six in part twenty five years,
Speaker 13: as we celebrate the Breakfast Club, celebrating.
Speaker 2: There's a sign that's celebrating.
Speaker 14: It's early.
Speaker 2: We're proud, we're excited.
Speaker 1: To be here.
Speaker 2: It's a beautiful moment. Get some champagne, let's do and
Speaker 2: get some flutes going.
Speaker 9: It's the part you told me and just was for us.
Speaker 10: I did it.
Speaker 2: I just I just said. This a lorn and chests
Speaker 2: moment we celebrated. We celebrate means June.
Speaker 8: Put out there starting the podcast finally out of the
Speaker 8: Park dot life out of the Park O U T
Speaker 8: T A uh T h g p A r K.
Speaker 1: Might not like what you do it. You're free to
Speaker 1: be announced, okay not you're free with free.
Speaker 7: Every episode is actually not here today.
Speaker 4: It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Good morning, wake up in the come morning, The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 2: MHM