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Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning. Everybody is
Speaker 1: DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We all to
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Yes,
Speaker 1: and have doctor Lakeisha home and welcome. Thank you, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for having me. I've been so excited
Speaker 1: to get here. And before we start, I really want
Speaker 1: to tell you our congratulations on everything that you're doing. Oh,
Speaker 1: thank you very much, thank you so much. So you
Speaker 1: have the founder and CEO of the Village Market. I
Speaker 1: am headquartered in the amazing city of Atlanta. I founded
Speaker 1: the Village Market to accelerate black entrepreneurs in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: What is it exactly? The Village Market is a company
Speaker 1: that focuses on creating marketplaces, creating campaigns, and I also
Speaker 1: have a retail store at punt City Market in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: But the purpose is upward mobility. I believe that cooperative
Speaker 1: economics in a real way should be tangible, like that
Speaker 1: of like that of Tulsa, and that's what I've created
Speaker 1: with the Village Market. How did you get into that?
Speaker 1: Which started you with that? You know? As an interesting career,
Speaker 1: I was a teacher for years. Um, I taught in
Speaker 1: the Mississippi Delta something from Mississippi. Enough not enough, clear,
Speaker 1: not enough. But let me tell you. My first salary
Speaker 1: in two thousand and four was twenty seven thousand dollars. Y'all.
Speaker 1: I thought I was rich though I was only twenty
Speaker 1: two years old. But when you understand that, now, that's
Speaker 1: not even a livable wage. But I was teaching in Missisippi,
Speaker 1: Mississippi Dela twenty seven thousand dollars a year. Now, of
Speaker 1: course you can cross state lines. Texas does pretty well.
Speaker 1: Of course New York does well. In California does extremely
Speaker 1: well for teachers, but well compared to what thought. If
Speaker 1: we if we're compared and it to Mississippi, then it
Speaker 1: looks like teachers are being paid. But I don't think
Speaker 1: teachers are paid enough. I love what you said about
Speaker 1: group economics being tangible. Isn't that up to us though?
Speaker 1: To make it tangible? Oh? Absolutely, absolutely, it's up to us.
Speaker 1: Everything is up to us. Right, So we have an
Speaker 1: urgency at this time. Either we're going to be the answer,
Speaker 1: we're going to be the problem. And tangible means that
Speaker 1: we can open businesses that's cooperative that. When I opened
Speaker 1: the Village Market, it wasn't just me. I'm the founder
Speaker 1: of that, but now I represent thousands of businesses in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Outside of Atlanta. My retail store that I told you
Speaker 1: all about, the Village Retail, I gave over forty businesses
Speaker 1: the first opportunity in mainstream real estate in Atlanta. So
Speaker 1: that's a cooperative retail store. That's an incubator. So being
Speaker 1: on the shelves that people can actually shot from you.
Speaker 1: And so that's what it means for it to be tangible.
Speaker 1: I love accelerators. I have my own. I love incubators.
Speaker 1: I have my own, but there should be something at
Speaker 1: the end of that. Again, I'm a former teacher. Experience
Speaker 1: is the best teacher. I want to put entrepreneurs in
Speaker 1: a place, but you can be in front of your
Speaker 1: customer where you can make some real money. Now, how
Speaker 1: can black businesses receive more funding for their businesses. I
Speaker 1: know it's very difficult a lot of times to get
Speaker 1: money and to raise money. So how can they do that?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna name some people that's doing it again. Yes,
Speaker 1: tangible again. Collab Capital is based in Atlanta. New Voice
Speaker 1: is fun. I think they're based here in New York.
Speaker 1: Fearless Fun Airing is doing a great job. But these
Speaker 1: are three funds, and no, there's more funds out there,
Speaker 1: but these funds are being led by black folks. Is
Speaker 1: it easy to get the money though? No, absolutely, it's
Speaker 1: not easy to get the money. Absolutely not. I mean again,
Speaker 1: it's not easy to get the money. But what has
Speaker 1: been easy for black folk? You know either if we know,
Speaker 1: the odds are there, but it takes some fearless people
Speaker 1: who are persistent enough and who wants to agitate the
Speaker 1: system to make sure that we get the money that
Speaker 1: we need. I saw this stat and it kind of
Speaker 1: blew me away because when you think of Atlanta, you
Speaker 1: think that's like the black business mecca, right, But according
Speaker 1: to Prosperity Now, Atlanta's black businesses of value that fifty
Speaker 1: eight thousand, eighty five dollars compared to the Latin next
Speaker 1: businesses that over four hundred and fifty thousand, and white
Speaker 1: businesses that over six hundred and fifty thous. I don't
Speaker 1: even want to call that a gap. That's just no,
Speaker 1: that no, that is disrespectful to why Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: because this country is built on capitalism, so anytime that
Speaker 1: there is probably anytime that there is well, there is
Speaker 1: a desperation of poverty. And that's be it Atlanta, be
Speaker 1: it Mississippi, be it in La. You're gonna always see
Speaker 1: this gap. Now, what I do know that's true about Atlanta.
Speaker 1: If there's a city where black people can have up mobility,
Speaker 1: Atlanta as a city for it. But when you see
Speaker 1: a pervasive wealth gap like that, we can't stay in
Speaker 1: our bubble of saying that it is the Black Melca.
Speaker 1: It's the city that can't be the Black Mecca because
Speaker 1: we also lead the entry one of the leading cities
Speaker 1: in a country that has the most black millionaires. And
Speaker 1: also the generating of black businesses are now growing from
Speaker 1: that fifty thousand to getting closer that seven seventy five
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand. But what that means when you get
Speaker 1: to a place where you're making some real cash, it
Speaker 1: means you can hire folks. Now you also talk about
Speaker 1: you know, I'm reading the same studies that said approximately
Speaker 1: twenty eight days money stays in the Asian communities, nineteen
Speaker 1: days in Jewish community, seventeen days in white communities, and
Speaker 1: just six hours in Black communities. Why is that can
Speaker 1: we start with anything? Is that the reason why for
Speaker 1: commercial real estate? Yes? Right, So when when these developers
Speaker 1: are coming into cities, we're not controlling what's being open.
Speaker 1: We don't own the land. Again, it's anytime there as
Speaker 1: well there's poverty, but anytime there is where we're in
Speaker 1: a place of constant the leasing and not owning, we
Speaker 1: have no truth say so what's going to be open
Speaker 1: in those communities? But the circulation of the dollar is
Speaker 1: I mean overt racism Again, you think about Tulsa, Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: when it was true that our dollars circulated in our communities.
Speaker 1: But what happened up with mobility when we produced so many,
Speaker 1: so many black millionaires, when so many black businesses were
Speaker 1: being funded from insurance to teachers, to the dude that
Speaker 1: cut your lawn, to the guy that shaped up your
Speaker 1: beer were all black folks. We were winning during that time.
Speaker 1: And then bombs were dropped on us and this black
Speaker 1: city was burned down and there was no way even
Speaker 1: though there was insurance there, they wouldn't even grant at
Speaker 1: their insurance claims. So what happens in this country when
Speaker 1: black people began to accelerate? Then literally the airess knocked
Speaker 1: out of us, and we were pushed down further than
Speaker 1: where we were before we started. So that is why
Speaker 1: that number is persistent. It was created to be that way.
Speaker 1: But we have to know that that number is there.
Speaker 1: But we can't wait on other people to shop from us.
Speaker 1: There's enough black people in this country to shop from
Speaker 1: black people. But I do know that it's also amazing
Speaker 1: that other people are shopping from black folks too. All Right,
Speaker 1: we got more with doctor Lakeisha Holman when we come
Speaker 1: back as the Breakfast Club. Good Morning, the Breakfast Club
Speaker 1: Morning everybody is DJ Envy and Jela Yee. Charlomagne, the
Speaker 1: guy we all the Breakfast Club was still kicking it
Speaker 1: with Doctor Lakeisha Harmon Charlomagne. You feel that black people
Speaker 1: supporting black businesses as you're growing, Oh, absolutely, I think
Speaker 1: it's growing. What is really shifting, rather than growing, it
Speaker 1: is that our consciousness is shifting. I think we're in
Speaker 1: a very special time. I wrote a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: ago that I believe that we're in our renaissance because
Speaker 1: when it's things are desperately bad, there's also something that's
Speaker 1: pervasively really good. And you hear more people now not
Speaker 1: just talking about buying black, but you see entrepreneurs on
Speaker 1: the cover of magazines. When did that happen? Right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: when did that happen? And we're talking about people getting
Speaker 1: their evaluations, we're talking about companies being acquired. I look
Speaker 1: at what happened with the gathering spy in Greenwood. Shout
Speaker 1: out to my friends Ryan and TK and what they
Speaker 1: did that is black collaboration. But I think, though, we
Speaker 1: have to make sure that in our consciousness that buying black,
Speaker 1: hiring black, referring black is a part of our lifestyle
Speaker 1: and having grace And the reason I say having graces,
Speaker 1: it's so funny. We talked about it all the time.
Speaker 1: How many times you go to McDonald's and they mess
Speaker 1: up your order or you go in order that the
Speaker 1: ice cream machine ain't working. But if you go to
Speaker 1: a black business and they mess up one time, you
Speaker 1: ready to go on Instagram and say I'm never coming back.
Speaker 1: Like people have to understand there has to be a
Speaker 1: learning curve as well, because this is new to a
Speaker 1: lot of us, especially when when these businesses come. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you think and grace is my words on
Speaker 1: halfy set that you see how big got smiled that's
Speaker 1: my word for the year. I think that's the that's
Speaker 1: the word for our generation that we must have with
Speaker 1: black businesses, but we should have overall, even if you're
Speaker 1: a business or not, but just ask the humanity of
Speaker 1: black people together. Now is what is Our Village United?
Speaker 1: That's my nonprofit. Again, when you start a business, then
Speaker 1: you think of like five more. I started a lunch
Speaker 1: our Village United actually in twenty seventeen, but I didn't
Speaker 1: get it going until the pandemic when so many sole
Speaker 1: proprietors were applying for pppee loans and didn't get it.
Speaker 1: It kept me up at night and I said, I
Speaker 1: need to create an incubator that's just for senior operators,
Speaker 1: but that person that is just them. And so Our
Speaker 1: Village United focuses on a twelve week incubator. We graduated
Speaker 1: our hundred businesses since the pandemic about two to three
Speaker 1: weeks ago. But we provide full services for twelve weeks
Speaker 1: to entrepreneurs and then they graduate into our incubator program,
Speaker 1: which means you're a part of the village now, but
Speaker 1: from CPA services and we all know the tax season
Speaker 1: just ended. We make sure that they're in front and center.
Speaker 1: We also make sure one of the things that I experienced,
Speaker 1: especially as my company began to boom, my anxiety spiked.
Speaker 1: I found myself being more anxious than I ever experienced.
Speaker 1: And I made sure that our village unit it was
Speaker 1: paired with mental health services. So every entrepreneur that's a
Speaker 1: part of the village is then paired with doctor Jeor Beckford.
Speaker 1: Shout out for her, who is our licensed therapist on
Speaker 1: our staff who works with these entrepreneurs and focus groups
Speaker 1: and also one on one, because I don't want us
Speaker 1: to have the wealth without the health. Yeah, Sarah jas
Speaker 1: Roberts said, because I asked her about that. You know
Speaker 1: when how come whenever you achieve something new or go
Speaker 1: to a new level, your anxiety starts to go crazy.
Speaker 1: And she said, because you're experiencing something new, absolutely, And
Speaker 1: that's that's just how I embraced, Like, oh, like, it's
Speaker 1: not because I feel like that's when this anxiety is expected.
Speaker 1: You know, it's when the anxiety is not expected that
Speaker 1: calls you to have the panic attacks. But when you're
Speaker 1: trying something new, doing something new, yeah, you should feel
Speaker 1: that way slightly. Yeah, And if you're the first one
Speaker 1: in your family. There's a lot of guilt around that
Speaker 1: you're the person that got out. I'm from Mississippi. I'm
Speaker 1: one of the few people in my family, if not
Speaker 1: the only person at least on my mother's side who's deceased,
Speaker 1: who is doing the things that I'm doing. And there's
Speaker 1: a level of pressure to make sure that I'm looking
Speaker 1: out for my little cousins, that everywhere I go that
Speaker 1: I'm talking about Mississippi, I'm talking about Marx in Basville
Speaker 1: and crowd of Mississippi and in very affirming ways, because
Speaker 1: I know right now I have the mic in the
Speaker 1: responsibility that when you have the mic, how you talk
Speaker 1: about your people, how you talk about your experiences. We
Speaker 1: see that you looked up with Michael Jordan brand, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: and invested in the ovuya and tell us how you
Speaker 1: partnered with him. You know that blew my mind. I
Speaker 1: am I personally think that Michael Jordan is the best
Speaker 1: basketball player to have ever played. You'd be right. I
Speaker 1: think I'll write to y'all agree. Okay, So, when the
Speaker 1: Jordan Brand announced that they would be funding I think
Speaker 1: thirteen organizations, we put our name in a hat. I
Speaker 1: didn't know what was going to happen. But I knew
Speaker 1: that my team and my team is incredible. I know
Speaker 1: that we're sharp, and so Michael Jordan. We found out
Speaker 1: last year that we were one of the thirteen organizations
Speaker 1: in the country that is funded by Michael Jordan. And
Speaker 1: what they're doing is they get us money to do
Speaker 1: what we do well. They didn't ask us to change
Speaker 1: our programming. Is what you asked me earlier, Like you
Speaker 1: need the money to be able to scale in the
Speaker 1: Jordan Foundation, say here's the money. Y'all go ahead and
Speaker 1: do what you're doing and make sure you stay true
Speaker 1: to your your core values with some of the next
Speaker 1: business moves you got planned our partner. When you visit Atlanta,
Speaker 1: make sure you stop by the Village Retail. But when
Speaker 1: you all come right behind Plunt City Market is the
Speaker 1: belt Line and that is that is currently two million
Speaker 1: people frequent this place. Now because of that, the search
Speaker 1: and commercial rents have gone up. It is almost unaffordable
Speaker 1: to open a business there, especially if you black. I
Speaker 1: partner with Atlanta belt Line and the Candida Fund to
Speaker 1: open six more black businesses on the belt Line, So
Speaker 1: that is putting six businesses in front of two million
Speaker 1: annual customers. That that's average is about three hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty thousand people per month that they're going to be
Speaker 1: in front of. So we've got the funding the open
Speaker 1: these businesses, to build them out fully, to get the
Speaker 1: new technical assistance support. And when you all visit Atlanta
Speaker 1: hopefully in July, you'll be able to walk on the
Speaker 1: belt Line with your family, but also shot from black
Speaker 1: businesses down to you and shout to Mississippi my roommate
Speaker 1: in college with the Mississippi laval tumps and shout the LaVar.
Speaker 1: Lavard is a good man. You know you want to
Speaker 1: do it, am I thank you for joining us, doctor
Speaker 1: Lakeisha home. And how can people get in touch with
Speaker 1: you if they want to get in touch with you? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: especially for entrepreneurs, if you want to get in contact
Speaker 1: with us, it's the Village market dot com. If you
Speaker 1: want to open a business and you or you have
Speaker 1: a business product facing you want to be in a
Speaker 1: retail store, that's beautiful retail store. That's the Village Retail
Speaker 1: dot Com. And those who are going to be an
Speaker 1: Essence Festival, I'm very happy they would working to curate
Speaker 1: the marketplace stage. So we partner with Essence, So I
Speaker 1: hope to see y'all there this summer. But Village Market
Speaker 1: dot com on all platforms. If you want to keep
Speaker 1: up with me, I do a tweet every now and
Speaker 1: then and then post it on Instagram. It's doctor Keith Homan.
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Speaker 1: Everybody is stage envy. Angela yee, Charlomne the guy we
Speaker 1: are the Breakfast Club. If you just joined us this Friday,
Speaker 1: so you know what that means, it's freaky freaky freaky Friday.
Speaker 1: And on this fine Friday, we're asking a simple question.
Speaker 1: It comes from a Nick Cannon's daytime talk show salutar
Speaker 1: good brother. Nick Cannon um Nick Cannon calls himself a pickologist.
Speaker 1: All right. He has several different lays that he likes,
Speaker 1: several different ways that he likes his pickles. Let's listen.
Speaker 1: So next we got the pickles, and the pickles are
Speaker 1: having a big moment for call me Nicole Pickle. I'm
Speaker 1: a pickologist like pickles. Yeah, I like that. I'm about
Speaker 1: the pickles. I'm with this, You're with this. So the
Speaker 1: first thing we got here is the snickle. Do you
Speaker 1: know what this snickle? I'm all about a snicker and
Speaker 1: put it in the middle of a pickle. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: might be the snickle eating champion. I get this on
Speaker 1: my radio show. So we're asking eight hundred five eight five,
Speaker 1: one to five, one simple question. How do you like
Speaker 1: your pickle? How do you like your pickles? How do
Speaker 1: you like your pickles? Let's start with you. I honestly
Speaker 1: don't like pickles. You don't like pickles. I don't like pickles.
Speaker 1: I don't like it Like it's something about that pickle
Speaker 1: that that's between the meat and the buns. I just
Speaker 1: don't like. So you don't like your pickles? Sweet? Nope?
Speaker 1: Do you like your pickles sour? Nope. Do you like
Speaker 1: kosher pickles, nope? Do you like jerking pickles? Nope? See,
Speaker 1: some people are scared of jerking pickles because they're because
Speaker 1: they're small and bumpy and bumps on a pickle are scary.
Speaker 1: Like what is that? Okay? I personally like my pickles
Speaker 1: on hamburgers and sandwiches. I enjoy my pickles in between
Speaker 1: the bun. Okay I do I do. I like them
Speaker 1: with some meat and then I like the pickles on
Speaker 1: top of the meat and then the bun. You like
Speaker 1: thick pickles a thin pickle, I like them thin. I
Speaker 1: like the squirt to catch up on it and squirt
Speaker 1: demandaise on it worked. The mustard on it, oh so tasty.
Speaker 1: But about long or short? Um? I prefer mine sliced,
Speaker 1: you know. But if I have to eat a pickle,
Speaker 1: if I have to like put one in my mouth,
Speaker 1: I prefer the big refrigerator joints, you know, like when
Speaker 1: you walk into the store and you could buy one
Speaker 1: for a quarter, the big joint, big, big yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah man, I love it. Okay. Hello, who's this?
Speaker 1: Good morning? This is DJ King Cannon out of DC
Speaker 1: it's freaky freaky Friday. Good morning shot man, Good morning piece,
Speaker 1: King Cannon. How do you like your pickles? King? Simple questions?
Speaker 1: Oh man, people talk spicy deal pickle in my mouth?
Speaker 1: Drop one of the clues bobs for its spicy deal
Speaker 1: pickle and King Cannon's mouth spicy be in the mouth.
Speaker 1: You got a bite it hard too? Yeah? How many
Speaker 1: bites does it take you? About? Six? Right? Sister, it's riding? Hello?
Speaker 1: Who's this? Hey? Hey, good morning portion? How are you?
Speaker 1: How do you like your pickle? Portion? So I like
Speaker 1: my pickle ranch or with hot talks? Yo? That's that
Speaker 1: sounds like an ill combination. I never thought about it.
Speaker 1: It is, but I've also had a pickle with peanut butter.
Speaker 1: And now I see and I'm talking to me, I'm
Speaker 1: not talking to your portion. Now to pickle with the
Speaker 1: ranch on the end of it. I can see you
Speaker 1: can see the ranch, the white stuff on there with
Speaker 1: the pickle with the peanut butter on the end. That
Speaker 1: sounds like jail. That sounds like jail food. That's that's
Speaker 1: I ain't messed with back. That sounds like jail food.
Speaker 1: I ain't mess with jail. Hello, who's this? This is
Speaker 1: Cash calling from field. Hey, Cash, good morning Cash. How
Speaker 1: does Jersey like that? Pickles? Firm and wet, firm and wet? Okay, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: and my pickles name is? I mean, huh? You name
Speaker 1: all your pickles? Yeah? Yeah, I mean that's a good question.
Speaker 1: Do you normally name your pickles? I don't know, but
Speaker 1: I have one particular pickle that I love. Now, I
Speaker 1: know that my Bologni has a first name. A lot
Speaker 1: of people name that belog. I've never heard somebody named
Speaker 1: the pickles as a first day. Oh that's right after right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I did not. I never. I didn't know pickles have name,
Speaker 1: pickles have names. Let me google this, okay, pickles, my pickles.
Speaker 1: My pickle has a first name, wowow and his name's
Speaker 1: a man A mean or mean? Did your pickles have
Speaker 1: batteries as well? Now I'm gonna tell you something. I
Speaker 1: google names of pickles. I google names of pickles. All
Speaker 1: I got was play Kosher sour bread and butter, Hungarian Polish,
Speaker 1: a German lion, a kool aid. I don't see no,
Speaker 1: I mean on him. Yeah that's pickle. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: will you enjoy your pickle on this freaky Friday mother. Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't any and feel free to share. Send up some
Speaker 1: of mean pickles. I haven't had that plant to pickles. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: you don't want to that's right, that's you don't want that. No, okay,
Speaker 1: setting up, thank you, I don't want it. That sounds
Speaker 1: like you got peanut butter on it? End up? Hello?
Speaker 1: Who's this? Traves? Trav Trap? Good morning? Trap? Trap? How
Speaker 1: you doing my brother, y'all? I want to tell you
Speaker 1: how it like this? How it like my pickles? How
Speaker 1: do you like your pickles? Trap? Let's go trap? How
Speaker 1: do you like your pickles? Roll up around it? Right?
Speaker 1: And then you wrap the fruit roll up around it?
Speaker 1: And I like to eat it off like that. Well
Speaker 1: that's what Nick said. Nick said he likes to put
Speaker 1: fruit roll up around his pickle too. How does that taste?
Speaker 1: What is it? What's the sensation in your mouth? Like?
Speaker 1: It's like it's like it's really really sweet. It's sweet
Speaker 1: with a little bit of bitterness to it. How hard
Speaker 1: do you have to bite into it? Though? Because I
Speaker 1: would think that the fruit roll up cause it's a
Speaker 1: little bit more resistance with the teeth. Okay, chalk that
Speaker 1: to biting you know we're talking about peenis right? No
Speaker 1: pickle trap? What is wrong with What is wrong with you?
Speaker 1: Where did you go? You need to get your mind
Speaker 1: out of the gutter? I just can't. I don't know
Speaker 1: what's going on? This is a family show. What how
Speaker 1: dare y'all? Who wouldever? What is wrong with people? I
Speaker 1: do know? My god? All right? What's the little story? Brother?
Speaker 1: The story is? I mean, however you choose to eat
Speaker 1: your pickles this weekend? Man? You know it's on you.
Speaker 1: Whatever flows your boat. You know. The only thing I
Speaker 1: like my my my pickles on is on hamburgers and sandwiches.
Speaker 1: That's it. And plane. I'll take a I'll take a
Speaker 1: plane pickle. I hold it in my hand. Yeah, one hand,
Speaker 1: one hand, right to your mouth. Okay, then't think you
Speaker 1: said again you don't like bumps? Okay? What what? What color?
Speaker 1: Because it's like a dark one or a light one? Okay?
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Speaker 1: Morning everybody is DJ Envy, Angel Charlomagne, the guy. We
Speaker 1: all to breakfast club. We got some special guests joining
Speaker 1: us this morning. We have Rathshida and Kirk good Martin.
Speaker 1: Good morning. How y'all feeling this morning? Last complain whatever
Speaker 1: we knew we was coming here with y'all, So I
Speaker 1: was like, boy, you gotta be on point before we
Speaker 1: get into Rashida. Now, before you walk to here. Kirk
Speaker 1: Envy has some things that he wanted to ask you
Speaker 1: about because it's something he's been struggling with. And we
Speaker 1: see your hair flowing. Oh he said, they said your
Speaker 1: hair flourishing. Oh they got you trying to get to already.
Speaker 1: Body say that you know what? Everybody like, yo, what
Speaker 1: Kurk did you is here? I keep my hair cut
Speaker 1: low and when we fasted for this year last year, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't cut my hair. We didn't like, we don't
Speaker 1: eat sweets, we don't eat drunk. And I just then
Speaker 1: I started doing all my green screens with hair, and
Speaker 1: I I'm like lace, look at my hair. That's all
Speaker 1: you come fully our new business helping guys like envy,
Speaker 1: but when they're trying to tell you what's going on.
Speaker 1: But yes, so congratulations on the new show, Rashida. Everybody
Speaker 1: knows you for being an entrepreneur already, but I think
Speaker 1: it's great to see the behind the scenes things and
Speaker 1: some of them, some of the advice that you can
Speaker 1: give people, like the restaurant business. Yes, that's a tough
Speaker 1: business to be in, you know, right, So let's talk
Speaker 1: about that because you do have an episode and I
Speaker 1: saw Andy and and DC were on there with you
Speaker 1: guys because they open their restaurants. So if you were
Speaker 1: going to tell somebody that wanted to get into business,
Speaker 1: a lot of times people would discourage you from that
Speaker 1: one in particulars, what would you tell somebody that's like,
Speaker 1: I have an idea, I really want to start this restaurant.
Speaker 1: What are some things you would say you need to
Speaker 1: do well. First off, I would tell them try to
Speaker 1: learn every single aspect about the business, because that business
Speaker 1: is extremely difficult. It's you know, a lot of micromanaging.
Speaker 1: You know, the profit margins can be narrow, and you know,
Speaker 1: I just feel like with the restaurant industry, it's so competitive,
Speaker 1: it's so many restaurants. I would say, you know, have
Speaker 1: a concept, have something that we need, Have something that
Speaker 1: you know that you can put out there. That's a
Speaker 1: little bit different because it's every corner. Every time you
Speaker 1: turn around, it's somebody doing it. Every week I look
Speaker 1: up and somebody's you know, got a new spot and
Speaker 1: doing something new. So at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: I'll be honest with people because I'm super transparent, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, listen, if you ain't gonna be whole, wholeheartedly
Speaker 1: into this, don't waste your time at all, not one minute,
Speaker 1: because you will lose a lot of money and a
Speaker 1: lot of time doing this because it's not an easy game.
Speaker 1: What made you jump into the restaurant business. It was
Speaker 1: on our vision. Yeah, it's like one of the things
Speaker 1: we had to cross out. I really wanted like a
Speaker 1: twin peaks type of thing and thing kind of sports
Speaker 1: barried slash, loungey type of vibe, and I thought that
Speaker 1: it was like more lucrative. I was thinking liquor license
Speaker 1: a lot of money. I was just thinking of the income,
Speaker 1: not knowing the responsibility behind it. So at this point
Speaker 1: when we got into it, we had already brought the building,
Speaker 1: purchased the building behind it, build it out, and once
Speaker 1: we got into it, we had so much invested it
Speaker 1: was like no turning back at this point. One other
Speaker 1: thing I would tell people about the restaurant industry is
Speaker 1: when you do get into it and you hire staff,
Speaker 1: you got to understand the importance of customer service because
Speaker 1: those people are what people look at your business as
Speaker 1: and that right there, if they plan, then people gonna envy.
Speaker 1: Restaurant is bull is whack? You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And it's like that's super important. So when you have
Speaker 1: a business that depends on other people to be on point,
Speaker 1: you need to make sure that you're training your team properly.
Speaker 1: And the first year I would say it was a
Speaker 1: little rough, it's gotten a lot better. People, you know,
Speaker 1: give you praises, and you know you can't please everybody.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, it's something to happen,
Speaker 1: it's something good. But for us too, it was the
Speaker 1: real estate. Like they're building one of the largest developments
Speaker 1: in the United States is happening right on the corner.
Speaker 1: So it's a It was a real estate play for
Speaker 1: us as well. It just wasn't the business. But we
Speaker 1: always try to put something in the real estate that
Speaker 1: we buy, so we're not spending our own money. How
Speaker 1: do you decide whether it's a lease or to buy. Honestly,
Speaker 1: we pretty much buy. We lease in the malls because
Speaker 1: I have the Pressed in the gallery in Houston, and
Speaker 1: then PRESSED in Atlanta and Phipps. So that's a lease
Speaker 1: obviously for you have those reasons, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But we normally like to purchase. We I have another
Speaker 1: Press location and that is our own standalone building and
Speaker 1: it's on fourteen Street in midtown Atlanta. Everybody pull up,
Speaker 1: But um, that building we purchased. And we try to
Speaker 1: do this thing now to where you know, when holidays
Speaker 1: and birthdays and all that stuff come around, we'll do
Speaker 1: less of the well, I won't say cars. That's a
Speaker 1: whole other conversation for y'all. But but we try to
Speaker 1: purchase like real estate, you know, we normally try to
Speaker 1: do that for each other for you know, anniversary's, birthdays
Speaker 1: and a little fun stuff like that. The cars are
Speaker 1: winning now nowadays, nothing about you really can I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give you that. I'm gonna give you that. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give It's a lot that's up right now. But it's
Speaker 1: a big difference. I agree and see the differences. You
Speaker 1: could talk about the bags, but you're not going to
Speaker 1: get rid of them, so it's not in the views now.
Speaker 1: That's now you're you're very very You're right about that
Speaker 1: because I normally get kind of like classics, so I'd
Speaker 1: be like, I ain't selling my bag. I still this is,
Speaker 1: this is, this is for a long and we have
Speaker 1: this discussion all the time. We talk about the cars.
Speaker 1: I mean, like you that he got this is the thing.
Speaker 1: I literally just said the other somebody like coach k
Speaker 1: he wanted to grab one. He grabbed my M three
Speaker 1: and I got rid of another car and I took
Speaker 1: that money and this brought the years. But I got
Speaker 1: rid of two of my cards, right and like when
Speaker 1: we was buying the property, I was like, I'm not
Speaker 1: going in my savings. I got rid of another two
Speaker 1: of my cars. That's just like I give him that.
Speaker 1: I give him that. I ain't tripping. So the cars
Speaker 1: get you up right now. But when that thing ain't
Speaker 1: go the other direction, and they started never going, and
Speaker 1: some of them never either break even or depreciate, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be in that ass. I think that doesn't let
Speaker 1: you know that. What about firing people? How do you
Speaker 1: handle that? Thirty yeah one to coach man six figures? Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's clearly yeah, it makes sense. Okay, so you can't
Speaker 1: be mad at that car. I'm not I'm not mad
Speaker 1: eighty five. I brought it late thousand. I paid fifteen
Speaker 1: thousand from you got early early. They've been trying to
Speaker 1: buy it. I'm gonna let it go soon. But I
Speaker 1: love that car, drive it still. I promised coach if
Speaker 1: I got rid of it, I would let them get it. Now.
Speaker 1: How do you fire people? Fire as? Really? Because? What? Okay?
Speaker 1: Go ahead? Okay? Most people eliminate theirself. It's usually a
Speaker 1: holiday coming up, or it's hot outside, and they got
Speaker 1: I g and they got an excuse, and they say
Speaker 1: they was not feeling good. But then they on I partying.
Speaker 1: You know, they come with this excuse and we'd be like,
Speaker 1: come on now, yeah, but but you know what the
Speaker 1: bad thing about being a celebrity or owning the business,
Speaker 1: right you fired somebody, what's the first thing they're gonna say.
Speaker 1: They're gonna search the social media? They do she to
Speaker 1: fired me because Kirk was looking at me. Oh well,
Speaker 1: we haven't had that one. But what I will say
Speaker 1: is like he is very true. A lot of people
Speaker 1: eliminate themselves, like we are strictly by the but we
Speaker 1: write you up, three strikes, you out. You know, no call,
Speaker 1: no show, it's over with for you. Like it's just
Speaker 1: the real deal. And a lot of times, you know,
Speaker 1: nobody's really dedicated to the job industry. Right now, you know,
Speaker 1: we're in the Great Resignation. There's eleven point five million
Speaker 1: jobs that people walked away from. So it's a it's
Speaker 1: a different ball game now. I would say this Rashida
Speaker 1: is the one that's like them. Then they say she's
Speaker 1: the mean one. I'm the nice he's the nice guy,
Speaker 1: and I'm bad cop. He good cars. So what I
Speaker 1: always do when when somebody's mess it up, I always
Speaker 1: tell a look they don't did this, this, and this.
Speaker 1: I like to try to keep a good face. Car,
Speaker 1: So I'd be like, just wait until they do the
Speaker 1: next thing, and then you got all three what I
Speaker 1: tell you. I'd be like, and that's gonna be give
Speaker 1: a two weeks, and then it happens and then and
Speaker 1: then you don't have no problems because they know they
Speaker 1: messed up. They really set themselves up. And everybody who's
Speaker 1: great workers, they're not going nowhere because we take care
Speaker 1: of them like any problems, any even you know, things
Speaker 1: happen if they come to us with an issue. We
Speaker 1: try to make sure we can help people and you know,
Speaker 1: just try to let them know where, appreciate them because
Speaker 1: it's hard incentives, you know, make sure you know people could.
Speaker 1: This is what always happens, right with our business. Then
Speaker 1: somebody does get fired and then they try to tell
Speaker 1: you everything that everybody else did. Everybody else is doing. Yes,
Speaker 1: everybody's covering for each other because they're hanging out and
Speaker 1: they're friends with each other. Yeah, all right, we still
Speaker 1: got more with Rashida and Kirks don't move. It's the
Speaker 1: breakfast club the morning morning, everybody is DJ Envy and
Speaker 1: Jul yee. Charlomagne, the guy we are the Breakfast Club
Speaker 1: was still kicking it with Kirk and Rashida. Now loving
Speaker 1: hip hop. You guys were a loving hip hop and
Speaker 1: your relationship was so open on there. Yeah, you don't
Speaker 1: really see that too much with people actually making it through.
Speaker 1: If you look at some of these shows, how would
Speaker 1: you say that you guys just TV. Like any TV
Speaker 1: couple that been going through anything, you don't see them
Speaker 1: make it. How long you've been married twenty one years? Okay,
Speaker 1: together twenty seven? You and your wife have been through
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff. As correct what you're saying, because
Speaker 1: to you, Um, I've definitely had my share of messing up.
Speaker 1: But you know what, I won't just blame myself. It
Speaker 1: was a point in time where we kind of we
Speaker 1: tie to each other, you know, we were thinking where
Speaker 1: we're gonna go separate. So I mean, I feel like
Speaker 1: I've contribute the most that people seeing you know. But
Speaker 1: true because the reason I said that, it's on television.
Speaker 1: So some things you're able to deal with privately. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's hardly everybody. Everybody grant Page, somebody got to
Speaker 1: listen here, a friend, I think they know you family member,
Speaker 1: they think they know you. Yeah, so how do you
Speaker 1: deal with it? You know, it comes to point in
Speaker 1: time where you know, you just got to like tune
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff out, and it can be really
Speaker 1: really difficult, Like when him and I went through our
Speaker 1: situations and stuff like that, Like I really just had
Speaker 1: to like shut down, you know, because it's like you know,
Speaker 1: with family, with friends, everybody has an opinion, and at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, it was between me and
Speaker 1: what God has for me in my life and our relationship.
Speaker 1: And I had to realize that. That was one of
Speaker 1: my biggest learning lessons during that time, was just really
Speaker 1: understanding who I am and maneuvering and doing what I
Speaker 1: felt like was right because a lot of people try
Speaker 1: to steer you in the direction that they want you
Speaker 1: to go in. First of all, a lot of people
Speaker 1: haven't even been in a twenty one year marriage or
Speaker 1: ours will be twenty three, twenty yeah in December, Um,
Speaker 1: so you know, they don't understand the levels of the relationship,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. But you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: difficult just living your life out everybody seeing it. You know,
Speaker 1: people they talk about this thing still like it just
Speaker 1: happened yesterday. It's been last six years because something that
Speaker 1: happened six seven years ago that you dealt with and
Speaker 1: then let's say you post a picture on your on
Speaker 1: your whatever social media never stops, and then you'll be
Speaker 1: right right exactly still talk about it. Yeah, he seem
Speaker 1: like I ain't messing with it today. You know what
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, Actually, yeah, you said first. The
Speaker 1: first thing I was gonna say was we can laugh
Speaker 1: about a lot of stuff because there's certain comments that
Speaker 1: we will never forget. Like like maybe about three or
Speaker 1: four years ago, we were at this restaurant, Houston's eating
Speaker 1: and Kirk had did a video of his brownie um
Speaker 1: that he had for dessert, and the girls was on
Speaker 1: there like I hope you choking die that brownie. I
Speaker 1: hope that ice cream get you get a brain freeze
Speaker 1: and can't thank you no more like the going hey, y'all, Like,
Speaker 1: but we can laugh at it, you know now, But
Speaker 1: you know back you like them, you want them to die.
Speaker 1: When they do that, you end up being more defensive. Yeah,
Speaker 1: instead of you being like, yeah, I hope you do
Speaker 1: choke and die, You're like, okay, now, I don't want
Speaker 1: to kill. Those days are like they'll never go away.
Speaker 1: But I will say this, and I hate to just
Speaker 1: be honest about it. Me being and putting my relationship
Speaker 1: on broadway, it changed the whole aspect of this relationships period.
Speaker 1: Like I had a lot of guys coming to me
Speaker 1: and be like, yo, you helped me save my marriage.
Speaker 1: I went back home, we got back together, and you know,
Speaker 1: we would even be doing Rashida was still performing. We
Speaker 1: would be at shows and it'd be like guys in
Speaker 1: Florida with the dreads coming at me and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm looking like what they're like, Yo, they come up
Speaker 1: and dap you up, like yo, I love you man.
Speaker 1: You put it out there and it really made me
Speaker 1: really understand, like, dang, our relationship really like help a
Speaker 1: lot of people. Like it was like other people too,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean being positive business now because
Speaker 1: now yelling business with each other, I'm sure you think
Speaker 1: one way, he thinks another way. So who wins in that? Okay?
Speaker 1: So we have always been in business together since the
Speaker 1: very beginning of time. That's actually I think we were
Speaker 1: in business before we was even in a relationship. You know,
Speaker 1: Mat you managed the group that actually signed them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was actually looking to sign my first group, so
Speaker 1: I had signed them as a group first, and time
Speaker 1: came around and somebody had said something about Rashida and
Speaker 1: something me and then we went up like each other
Speaker 1: yea years later and there, yeah here, But I think
Speaker 1: we do a pretty good job. Like we have our
Speaker 1: days where you know, we're back and forth and we
Speaker 1: tussle because everything that we have is a partnership, all
Speaker 1: of the clothing stores, the restaurants, the music, everything that
Speaker 1: we do. So you know, we have our days, but
Speaker 1: we learned over the years that it's like, okay, shut
Speaker 1: it down and let's have us time. You mad about that,
Speaker 1: we'll get over that and let's keep it moving. So
Speaker 1: as a couple, how do y'all keep your money? Is
Speaker 1: it everything together? Is it one pot? Okay? You go. Wait,
Speaker 1: first of all, how y'all do y'all money? I don't
Speaker 1: got that? But you know the reason it is, like
Speaker 1: I said, I've been with gifts since she was fifteen.
Speaker 1: I was sixteen. She was making more money to me
Speaker 1: when we started off, and which has always been one right,
Speaker 1: So can she spend whatever she wants. I can't spend
Speaker 1: whatever I want. We have to. Okay, y'all have limitations, right, hey, babe,
Speaker 1: this morning, right, we talked about if she wants to
Speaker 1: buy a bag to get Babs bag, Like we have conversations.
Speaker 1: Everything in the house still to this. Okay, let's just
Speaker 1: latest thing out now. No, let me say, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna confess, ladies. Do y'all sneak stuff in the house? Okay,
Speaker 1: yes we do. Let me tell you why I sometimes
Speaker 1: sneak because I have to hear a lecture about bro
Speaker 1: I do fashion for a living, so I'm going to
Speaker 1: go get FINDI Sachi. You think the new release gonna
Speaker 1: come out and I'm not gonna have It's like I said,
Speaker 1: look a certain way because I don't want to hear
Speaker 1: it because I look at what she is. She's stylish,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna go to her store because she knows
Speaker 1: how to dress and tell mix up fashion. You gotta
Speaker 1: have the hotness a part of her branding. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Five thousand dollars six thousand dollars. Shoes could be a
Speaker 1: couple of thousand dollars. You only wear it books. It's aspirational.
Speaker 1: But why let's say he boughs a car that cars
Speaker 1: twenty thous he could drive that car for years down
Speaker 1: to love. So you spend money on stuff that you
Speaker 1: wear once one shot and then it's going. It goes
Speaker 1: to the back end closet. You never wear it to
Speaker 1: get you want to get into friends, or you resell it.
Speaker 1: I do Rashida's closet at my stores business, and I'd
Speaker 1: sell it all for a load, but hell type, y'all
Speaker 1: gotta keep it a thoulout. Them cars come with the
Speaker 1: insurance that's a rear current bill every month. So that's
Speaker 1: a headache because we have fifteen or twenty insurance policies
Speaker 1: on cars and you you're one person. You don't drive
Speaker 1: half of those cars anyway, So I'm not tripping on that.
Speaker 1: But yes, I have to have my fashion, and that's
Speaker 1: the reason why sometimes I might sneak it in the
Speaker 1: house because I don't want to hear your mouth. So
Speaker 1: all our businesses have their own account. They aren't checking
Speaker 1: in savings, and all the money that comes in we
Speaker 1: equally split down the middle. So when I buy my car,
Speaker 1: it's my money. When she buy her clothes, it is
Speaker 1: her money. But when we know we're about to buy
Speaker 1: a property, whatever I dislike us to be up on
Speaker 1: each other's level. So I ain't got to put more
Speaker 1: or she ain't got to put more on. But if
Speaker 1: my savings is higher than his, he gets anxiety. And yes,
Speaker 1: we have our own personal savings, personal check. I just
Speaker 1: can't let her beat me. I don't know why still
Speaker 1: literally gonna sell a car if my savings. No, It's
Speaker 1: what I've always thought. People used to say, how does
Speaker 1: it feel if the lady because sometimes people think Rashida
Speaker 1: is you know, they look at Kirk and think Rashida. No. No,
Speaker 1: I invested my money into Rashida. I don't never talk
Speaker 1: about it because it's all listen, we're a team. It's
Speaker 1: I understand she is the brand. Like you can hate
Speaker 1: me and love her. It doesn't matter the money comes
Speaker 1: into the house. I hate to say it, but you know,
Speaker 1: but at the end of the day, if she's ahead
Speaker 1: of me, I don't like the feeling. So I really
Speaker 1: feel like the guys that used to talk about the
Speaker 1: woman that had more money. I guess that would have
Speaker 1: probably been mening you feel a way. Yeah, I've never
Speaker 1: had that happening before. Like, so I don't like it.
Speaker 1: So I'll just make sure, I just keep my joint up.
Speaker 1: Movie got more with Rashida and Kirk. When we come back,
Speaker 1: it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning morning. Everybody is DJ
Speaker 1: Envy and Ngulu Yee Charlomagne the god we are. The
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club was still kicking it with Kirk and Rashida.
Speaker 1: Appreciate that. Now. We also saw that you were in
Speaker 1: the hospital and it was a dehydration. So what was
Speaker 1: going on? Girl? Look, I was having a regular day
Speaker 1: like this, busy, going on about my business, running around.
Speaker 1: So that evening specifically, we had called all of our
Speaker 1: kids and was like, hey, let's just meet up and
Speaker 1: have like some dinner together. And all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: all I know is I woke up on the floor.
Speaker 1: We laid out. We were standing and talking to she
Speaker 1: like froze like we were talking and she was like hey.
Speaker 1: We were looking like are you joking? Are you gonna answer?
Speaker 1: And then she just was like bite her teeth and
Speaker 1: we was like, oh it got real real quick, and
Speaker 1: then yeah, we laid you down. So anyway, long story short,
Speaker 1: they called the ambulance and all that. First of all,
Speaker 1: let me just throw this in the corner real quick.
Speaker 1: Everybody's family need to take some type of chorus, because
Speaker 1: when I tell you, any even know what to do. Yo.
Speaker 1: We was looking back at the footage when I tell you,
Speaker 1: folks was going in different directions. My daughters on the
Speaker 1: phone talking to nine one one. She didn't hung up
Speaker 1: on them. You know, they come in if you hang
Speaker 1: up on them. He's saying one thing. My son he tripping.
Speaker 1: He's like, where's the keys, We're gonna take it to
Speaker 1: the hospital. He didn't have the keys. Keys. Kay had
Speaker 1: the keys in his pocket because I'm like, We're about
Speaker 1: to go to the hospital, so I'm looking for my
Speaker 1: car keys. My son picked them up, so we all
Speaker 1: going crazy. Then my oldest son he like, give us
Speaker 1: some head, blowing them mouth. I'm like up drinking water
Speaker 1: about blowing my mouth. It was. It was a mess, yo,
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna be honest. I hate to say this,
Speaker 1: but they were like blowing some trees. So I think
Speaker 1: everybody was like just a different world. Yes, So it
Speaker 1: was like okay, But on a serious note, it really
Speaker 1: was a big eye opener for me for real, because
Speaker 1: nothing like that has ever really happened to me before.
Speaker 1: And by the time I got to the hospital, and
Speaker 1: they gave me fluids and he was like, what do
Speaker 1: you do? You know, what do you do? Are you stressed?
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, I got like a hell of
Speaker 1: businesses and I'm trying to you know, run an empire
Speaker 1: and be a mom and a wife and you know,
Speaker 1: it's a lot. And I was actually getting ready to
Speaker 1: start the Boss Move show and we you know, film
Speaker 1: and love and hip hop and it was just a
Speaker 1: lot going on, you know, and he's like, you know,
Speaker 1: you're you're you're really dehydrated, You're stressed out, you know,
Speaker 1: And it made me realize how real that is. And
Speaker 1: it changed my mindset as far as like making sure
Speaker 1: because we're so hands on with everything, it comes a
Speaker 1: point in time where you have to delegate and you
Speaker 1: just have to like sit down. And that's what you know,
Speaker 1: took us to making sure we take more time, you know,
Speaker 1: to like do stuff and to chill and to take
Speaker 1: out that time and just unplug social media, unplug, you know, work,
Speaker 1: unplug and just you know, yeah, part of Boss Mools
Speaker 1: is taking care of yourself too. It is because you
Speaker 1: can't be a good boss if you, you know, are dehydrated,
Speaker 1: if you're exhausted, we're stressed out and all of those things.
Speaker 1: That's so true. And I learned she takes a pressure phill. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I got high blood presure and it does. And
Speaker 1: but I all we drink is water, we you know,
Speaker 1: because we pretty much don't drink juice and sodas and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. So I'm a lot of times we're
Speaker 1: thinking we're drinking enough in a lot and we're not.
Speaker 1: So that's another thing that we talk about on Boss
Speaker 1: Moves too, as far as even just like the sea moss,
Speaker 1: the elderberry and exercising and trying to take care of
Speaker 1: ourselves because as African Americans, we got high blood pressure.
Speaker 1: You know, we got a lot of things that we
Speaker 1: deal with, you know that we kind of pushed to
Speaker 1: the side and don't really take serious. But believe me,
Speaker 1: it can really really affect you. Yeah. Sometimes I forget
Speaker 1: to eat because you're working all day, yes, and by
Speaker 1: the time it's like seven o'clock and now you're like, damn,
Speaker 1: I didn't even eat anything today because I've been so
Speaker 1: busy trying to hit and you have like a stupid
Speaker 1: migraine or you're starving yourself, and that's not a good
Speaker 1: way to lose nor weight either. Eating at seven o'clock
Speaker 1: in the evening. Yeah, I mean sounds, but it's so busy,
Speaker 1: like you'd be like, oh, I had I'm doing that
Speaker 1: and you didn't mean to not eat yeah, and then
Speaker 1: you realize, dam I didn't even eat anything. Yeah. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I have to choose between if I want to go
Speaker 1: to sleep or if I want to eat. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: what does the show come on? When can they see
Speaker 1: the show? Okay? So the show is out now, it's available, Okay.
Speaker 1: So you can watch short episodes on YouTube and that's
Speaker 1: Rashida Boss Moves, and then the extended versions are on
Speaker 1: Filo and filos a streaming app. It has like sixty
Speaker 1: channels of like you can get that instead of cable.
Speaker 1: You can get that. Subscribe to file Ye, subscribe to Filo.
Speaker 1: It's twenty five dollars a month, so it's the cheapest one.
Speaker 1: And not only do you get like regular channels like
Speaker 1: bt MTV and all that, VAH one and all that,
Speaker 1: but you also can watch movies and it's like unlimited DVR,
Speaker 1: but you can get the whole the whole episodes and
Speaker 1: it's twelve episodes total, and you can subscribe for twenty
Speaker 1: five dollars. We get a seven day free try and
Speaker 1: you get the real and we get to see your
Speaker 1: real estate moves too. Yes, he wasn't place in the Bahamas. Yes,
Speaker 1: we're actually going out there next week. We've got to
Speaker 1: go next week. My birthdays May twenty five. Shout out
Speaker 1: all the geminize. Currently I'm really not. I'm like, I
Speaker 1: think that guy. I think the males. Yeah, but envy yes. Property.
Speaker 1: So we are in the process of getting survey and
Speaker 1: topo on some land. It took us like seventeen years
Speaker 1: to get this damn twenty acres that we got. I'm
Speaker 1: leaning more towards trying to figure out to do a JV,
Speaker 1: which I don't want to build the subdivision ourself. I
Speaker 1: want to get with a developer and he come with
Speaker 1: the joints. We got the land and let's make this bad.
Speaker 1: So that's one of our newer ventures. It's just trying
Speaker 1: to figure out, you know, exactly what we were just
Speaker 1: the right. But I was looking at the big check.
Speaker 1: The big check is the developing. Absolutely, if you're on
Speaker 1: the building and they got to pay you tenants, if
Speaker 1: you do tendant to, if you sell the divisions either
Speaker 1: either or because we got a spot in Jersey that's nine,
Speaker 1: it's ninety units, and we got a seventy unit one
Speaker 1: and they do well. Really yeah, that's good money. See yeah,
Speaker 1: really well. But it's just, you know, it's a lot
Speaker 1: of headaches. You gotta have a property manager somebody. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I have three properties in Brooklyn. I just don't want
Speaker 1: to Detroit. I still have another one there. I just
Speaker 1: am closing next week on one of State New York.
Speaker 1: And then I have one in Miami that it's not
Speaker 1: all the way built yet, but I already reserved it
Speaker 1: and put my payment. We were just talking about Miami possibility.
Speaker 1: It's high I got it before that though, before I
Speaker 1: made the way to the That's what about Detroit. I've
Speaker 1: heard y'all talk about Detroit a lot. I have a
Speaker 1: hair start Detroit, Okay, private label extence also yes, yes,
Speaker 1: And so I have one of Detroit. And then and
Speaker 1: I had three properties in Detroit. I sold two of
Speaker 1: them and I kept one. But it did really well well.
Speaker 1: We got in early. I picking it up for I
Speaker 1: was able. I got one for a thousand dollars. Bang.
Speaker 1: But I will say if I do something somewhere. I
Speaker 1: like to be involved in the community. That's why I
Speaker 1: like to do things and Detroit and be involved and
Speaker 1: make sure I know like the local politicians and business owners,
Speaker 1: because I never want to go somewhere and just buy
Speaker 1: something and flip it. Like I like to go places
Speaker 1: that I care about. Milwaukee is another good area. Milwaukee
Speaker 1: is good. Milwaukee confront homes homes you ain't going ahead,
Speaker 1: I'm not Chicago. Chicago's good to write. Where they're building
Speaker 1: the Barack Obama or library right around that, that's good too.
Speaker 1: That's what we've been picking up a lot of stuff. Well,
Speaker 1: I love to see it, and I love to see
Speaker 1: you guys. Then weathered all kinds of storms and to
Speaker 1: see how successful you are as a couple. See my
Speaker 1: girl making her boss. You know, that's important for people
Speaker 1: to be able to see what you're doing. I know
Speaker 1: your mom was an entrepreneur also, Yes, and so that's
Speaker 1: important for like other people who look up to you
Speaker 1: to see that, for you kids to see that. Yes,
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. And one thing I did want us
Speaker 1: to really be able to connect with with the show.
Speaker 1: It's just being real about like business and talking about
Speaker 1: because some people. They showed a glitzy, glam sometimes cap
Speaker 1: of what's going on, but yeah, don't show the nasty
Speaker 1: side or just be real or like, we made so
Speaker 1: many mistakes which have built us, but now we're in
Speaker 1: a situation to where we can help other people and
Speaker 1: prevent them from making those mistakes or following on their face.
Speaker 1: You know, it's good for you to follow in your
Speaker 1: face because you do learn, but if you can, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe not bust your dome so hard because you know
Speaker 1: you've been informed by somebody who's been through it. Then
Speaker 1: you know, that's what we really wanted to accomplish with
Speaker 1: UM with Boss Mos, just something new, change the narrative
Speaker 1: and just kind of educate as much as we can.
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Speaker 1: them watchall for Florida. The craziest people in America come
Speaker 1: from the Bronx and all of Yes, you are a
Speaker 1: donkey A Florida man at tap and atm for a
Speaker 1: very strange reason. It gave him too much money. Florida
Speaker 1: man is arrested after definitely say he driggs the door
Speaker 1: to his home and an attempt to electric hit his
Speaker 1: curtent wife. Police arrested in Orlando man for talking a
Speaker 1: Flaminia the Breakfast Club bitchy Donkey of the Day with
Speaker 1: Charlom HAINEA god. I don't know why y'all keeping him
Speaker 1: get you elected. Yes, Donkey of the Day goes to
Speaker 1: a Miami man named William Carroll. First of all, what
Speaker 1: did Yankashalla always say about the great state of Florida.
Speaker 1: The craziest people in America come from the Bronx and
Speaker 1: all of Florida. That is a fact. But one thing
Speaker 1: I don't do enough is salute the great city of
Speaker 1: my Ami dropped on the clues bombs for Miami three
Speaker 1: oh five, one of the greatest places on the planet.
Speaker 1: We don't discuss Miami enough. I know y'all like to
Speaker 1: go down there for the weather and the beaches, in
Speaker 1: the liking, okay, in the nightlife, But Miami has contributed
Speaker 1: so much to the culture of hip hop. Drop on
Speaker 1: the Clues bombs for Uncle Luke and the two Life
Speaker 1: pro top five rap group of all time. Uncle lucas
Speaker 1: a whole legend and should always be respected as such.
Speaker 1: Y'all wouldn't have parental advisory stickers on albums if it
Speaker 1: wasn't for Uncle Luke. Uncle Luke, you know, was considered obscene, okay,
Speaker 1: and went against Congress to fight for the First Amendment
Speaker 1: artists freedom of speech. He really fought for that, okay.
Speaker 1: America labeled him explicit, which led to the mandatory parental
Speaker 1: advisory sticker you see on music now with offensive content. Okay.
Speaker 1: That impact at all musical genres, by the way, not
Speaker 1: just hip hop, all right. He fought for the right
Speaker 1: the town big booty holes, you ain't nothing but a
Speaker 1: hoochie mama, you hear me. He fought for the right
Speaker 1: to tell Asian women all around the world me so hardy,
Speaker 1: Uncle Lukeuke, you hear me. Uncle Luke fought for the
Speaker 1: right to tell you that Cap D is coming and
Speaker 1: at some point after he comes, you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: put your hands up high, your ass down low, and
Speaker 1: drop that pom pomp to the full. Whoa, that's right,
Speaker 1: I still got tim knees. You hear what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: That was a good arrow. Don't play no more? Okay,
Speaker 1: say who play no more? That was a good error.
Speaker 1: Have we all grown now? Yes? Do we all realize
Speaker 1: that you know the music was misogynistic and sexist? Yes?
Speaker 1: But can we all admit that problematic music slapped him? Okay?
Speaker 1: And it wouldn't be the same without the toxics. And
Speaker 1: you are a liar if you say you hear that
Speaker 1: music now and it doesn't make you feel good. Okay,
Speaker 1: drop on the clues bombs for Uncle Luke. All right,
Speaker 1: I still listen to I want a rock right now?
Speaker 1: I literally mean right now, Like that's my joint. Okay,
Speaker 1: This man, Uncle Luke, had us screaming the color of
Speaker 1: thesis for no damn reason, Okay, proudly screaming out what
Speaker 1: the color of thesis was, just because some of y'all
Speaker 1: dudho might be green, okay, sometimes might even be a
Speaker 1: little hint of red, depending on if you got hemorrhoids.
Speaker 1: How much fun you had in the bedroom the night before.
Speaker 1: But it's universally known that doodoo is brown because of
Speaker 1: the legend named Luther Campbell. And that's why we are
Speaker 1: gathered here to day, ladies and gentlemen, to discuss doodoo. Okay. See,
Speaker 1: William Carroll is a robber who is currently facing charges
Speaker 1: of armed robbery and battery. See a woman was walking
Speaker 1: her dog in Miami's Edgewater neighborhood. She was picking up
Speaker 1: her dog's poop when William Carroll pulled up with a knife.
Speaker 1: No need to listen to me because I need to
Speaker 1: catch my breath anyway. Okay, let's go to NBC six
Speaker 1: South order for the report. Please. What's supposed to be
Speaker 1: a quick dog walk Monday night turned into a violent attack.
Speaker 1: Police say a woman was attacked and robbed on her
Speaker 1: way back home after walking her dog. She stopped on
Speaker 1: the stairs to her condo to pick up the dog's
Speaker 1: waist when a man allegedly came from behind with a
Speaker 1: knife and strangled her, then allegedly stole her backpack and wallet.
Speaker 1: Police caught Carol a few blocks away, out of breath,
Speaker 1: and they say with the victim's credit cards nearby. He
Speaker 1: told detectives he didn't do it, but police say he
Speaker 1: didn't realize he was wearing one of the biggest pieces
Speaker 1: of evidence, which came from the dog. Literally, the police
Speaker 1: report states a brownish stain was seen on the defended shirt,
Speaker 1: matching the dog poop from the scene. William Carroll is
Speaker 1: in jail because number one, he's a robber, with number
Speaker 1: two because of doodoo. All right, this woman had to
Speaker 1: wear with dollar maybe you know, just in her fighting
Speaker 1: a little, she got enough doodoo on him for cops
Speaker 1: to notice he had a dog poop stain on his shirt.
Speaker 1: First of all, you're not just about to blend in
Speaker 1: when you got dudo one, Okay, even if the clothes
Speaker 1: you're wearing are indeed a doodoo brown color, the smell,
Speaker 1: my gee. Okay, the older we've all had dog poop
Speaker 1: on our shoe at some point in life. You can't
Speaker 1: escape that funky ass fragrance. All right. Think about the
Speaker 1: time you had to take a cleaning doodoo off your
Speaker 1: shoes in life. So imagine walking around with it on
Speaker 1: your shirt. You throw the whole shirt away. Clearly, William
Speaker 1: sixty two years old robbing folks at knife point couldn't
Speaker 1: afford to throw his shirt away, but the fact you
Speaker 1: just decided to go to the Cultural Institution knowing his
Speaker 1: pizza Hut with Doodoo on your shirt. Sir, respect yourself,
Speaker 1: but also respect the home of the Bucket program. You
Speaker 1: can't just walk up in pizza hut with Doodoo on
Speaker 1: your shirt and get you a personal pampie and keep
Speaker 1: it moving. And furthermore, how stink are you on a
Speaker 1: regular basis that you don't even notice you got doodoo
Speaker 1: on your shirt. Not only did he have doodoo on
Speaker 1: his shirt, the officers found the victim's belongings and the knife,
Speaker 1: so it's an opening shut case. Now, William Carroll is
Speaker 1: currently in the Turner Goldfield Night Correctional Center. All your
Speaker 1: brothers in that facility who are listening to the Breakfast
Speaker 1: Club this morning, you're listening to Charlomagne and God delivered
Speaker 1: this donkey of the day. If you don't see that
Speaker 1: man William Carroll and say, don't stop pop that bussy,
Speaker 1: let me see you do do Brown. If y'are not
Speaker 1: calling that man Dudu Brown for the rest of his life,
Speaker 1: for the rest of his stay in that facility, then
Speaker 1: y'all have collectively failed Miami Dade County. I'm not saying harassed, man,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying his life, y'all. Entertainment, okay, y'all, just
Speaker 1: trying to kill some time behind those walls, and him
Speaker 1: ended up there because one he made the poor choice
Speaker 1: to robbin still and two because of Doo Doo. It's
Speaker 1: just too much comedy goal to not let the jokes fly.
Speaker 1: Please give William Carle aka dood Brown the biggest he hull.
Speaker 1: I'm tied man a little bit, and you're sweating a
Speaker 1: little bit. Let that goddamn Let that damn uh, that's that.
Speaker 1: That's God fly one more time, though, Go go go
Speaker 1: get low. I don't get low Lo. Megan not bad,
Speaker 1: you know. I'm glad. You know, y'all. Just admit, y'all.
Speaker 1: Y'all here judging these kids, y'all, but y'all here trying
Speaker 1: to act. So look, judging these kids for the content
Speaker 1: of their music. And we grew up on okay, in
Speaker 1: the Oxygen bro our error was so toxic and so problematic,
Speaker 1: but so damn fun. Okay, all right, do you even
Speaker 1: have those classic tunes without the toxicity? Huh, drink some water.
Speaker 1: I'm fine, Yeah, all right, Okay, don't take coming out.
Speaker 1: I am fine. You hear me, all right, I am
Speaker 1: forty three with the knees of a forty one year old.
Speaker 1: Look like you need a little book, Look like you
Speaker 1: need a little bang. Gag? What did pop that bussy?
Speaker 1: You know? So who've been gay? The Breakfast Club? Hey?
Speaker 1: What the breakfast Club? Your morning's will never be the
Speaker 1: same morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy.
Speaker 1: We are the Breakfast Club. We got some special guests
Speaker 1: joining us today to the new host of your MTV raps.
Speaker 1: We have conceded in DJ Diamond Cuts plus May twenty four.
Speaker 1: How y'all feeling, man? Good? Good you blessed Black and
Speaker 1: Holly favor nice. I feel good. Thank you for actually
Speaker 1: no problem. How y'all feel about bringing this iconic showback
Speaker 1: man your MTV raps. It's exciting, got a lot of
Speaker 1: weight on our shoulders. But you know it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a's gonna be a good look for sure thing. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's always scared to like tap into something that's like
Speaker 1: that sacred, but I mean I think you know what
Speaker 1: I mean for the new for like the new lane
Speaker 1: and the generation, It's fire. What was the process like
Speaker 1: for you guys to even become the host? Um? We actually,
Speaker 1: you know, it's crazy because I was actually advocating for
Speaker 1: the joint to come back forever. I can't mentioned yo, yo, yo,
Speaker 1: gotta come back and gotta come back. They're like yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. And then when he finally hit me, yo,
Speaker 1: we're bringing it back and we want us the host.
Speaker 1: That's just how they hit me. And then to get
Speaker 1: her I had to do like a zoom meeting with
Speaker 1: like a whole bunch of DJs. But in the chemistry
Speaker 1: that me and me and her head were just crazy
Speaker 1: and they said, Yo, we want to see nobody else.
Speaker 1: This is it. Did y'all know each other before? No,
Speaker 1: the first time was meeting on Zoom. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: it and we just click you see it conceded on
Speaker 1: a meeting with two though. Yeah, no, you know it's crazy.
Speaker 1: I didn't remember when we was in the car and
Speaker 1: I was like, yo, that's Yosteno will even the set,
Speaker 1: and she was just like, yo, you the mean ball.
Speaker 1: I was like, I was yo, crazy. Yeah. I didn't
Speaker 1: know they incorporate that for any of the promost they
Speaker 1: help to no no, come on, I mean, well, at
Speaker 1: least we don't know yet because there's still a lot
Speaker 1: of episodes that wet even see. Yeah, and doctor J F. Freddie,
Speaker 1: any of them consult to reach out to you guys. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if they did to like you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, the like the higher ups, but to us, no,
Speaker 1: at least not yet. But hopefully we do them some
Speaker 1: some justice, I mean, and hopefully. Yeah, what are some
Speaker 1: things from the original that y'all are bringing back? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we have the we have the love of performances,
Speaker 1: so we have that, and we have ciphers and of
Speaker 1: course you know, we have you know, just like to
Speaker 1: sit down talking just like we're doing now, so you know,
Speaker 1: it's still gonna be that same vibe, but just you know,
Speaker 1: just like a new wage twist on it. And were
Speaker 1: shown a lot of love to up and coming artists
Speaker 1: as well. What is coaching nowadays? Because when I think
Speaker 1: about you MTV Rapps, I think about like that was
Speaker 1: a show that you used to go to to see
Speaker 1: the culture. But it's like, what is the culture now?
Speaker 1: That's a good question. So the culture that is, I
Speaker 1: would say it's mixed. I mean, because you have the
Speaker 1: interview that you have Instagram rappers, right, and that's or
Speaker 1: like SoundCloud rappers, but then you have you know, the
Speaker 1: main artist. So I think it's just like a melting pop.
Speaker 1: But you have real gangsters now, I mean you have
Speaker 1: real gangster, you have real you have snitches, you have
Speaker 1: you have everything. I mean. So I think the culture
Speaker 1: just I mean basically just became to whatever you like,
Speaker 1: whatever you wanted to be. Yeah. Wow, I feel I
Speaker 1: feel like rappers just the culture is evolving and we're
Speaker 1: just evolving with it, you know what I mean. And
Speaker 1: I think with the show, it's cool because we're adding
Speaker 1: a new twist to a legendary, you know, a legendary
Speaker 1: show with new artists and a new look. And like
Speaker 1: I said, when I watched it, some of the performances,
Speaker 1: I felt like I was watching an award show. Honestly,
Speaker 1: this is the way the production was. So it's just
Speaker 1: like a new twist on something that was definitely legendary
Speaker 1: and still is legendary to the day. So it feels
Speaker 1: like the music is five percent of the culture now.
Speaker 1: It's like every day we wake up, we're talking about
Speaker 1: things that don't have nothing to do with going to
Speaker 1: going to jail and yeah, fighting and now, mon't get
Speaker 1: me wrong, it's artists that are doing it. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: not talking about their music. Yeah, we're just talking about
Speaker 1: their lifestyle. Yeah. Things you straight away from talking about
Speaker 1: sometimes like you're like, Okay, this person's beeping with this
Speaker 1: person or this happened, and you're like, you know, way,
Speaker 1: I don't want to feed into that. Or do you
Speaker 1: feel like I'm a report on it because people are
Speaker 1: talking about it. Well, me personally, I would stay away
Speaker 1: from it. I mean, because that's something we really do
Speaker 1: not need. I mean, and that's just like stirring the pot.
Speaker 1: We're not we're done, but they're gonna talk about it.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about it. I mean if if if
Speaker 1: if if the artists won't want to say it, I mean,
Speaker 1: if you feel free. But I don't want to be
Speaker 1: the one to like, I mean, poking the bed and
Speaker 1: I mean somebody to get get hurt. And we're already
Speaker 1: losing way. Weigh up too many people, so you need
Speaker 1: none of that. Yeah, it was on the first episode.
Speaker 1: The first episode is Freddie Gibs shout out to Gary, Indiana.
Speaker 1: Freddie Gibs, he just got he's always in some gonna
Speaker 1: be honest, I mean so, but I really liked Freddie
Speaker 1: Gibbs as a person. I don't know what how this happens.
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, he's so cool. Why does this keep
Speaker 1: not his thing? When you watch it, you can see
Speaker 1: what happens. He talks anything, anything, He does not care.
Speaker 1: You mentioned it was like yo and just go crazy.
Speaker 1: So wait a minute, And who did he talk about
Speaker 1: it in the first episode? I say it, they got
Speaker 1: all right, so they gotta watch it. He definitely definitely
Speaker 1: talks crazy about some people a lot. He just he
Speaker 1: just god, Freddy, Yeah, listen in hindsight, did he talk
Speaker 1: crazy about the Butchers? No? Okay, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: he did not know. Everybody's like h and that sometimes.
Speaker 1: So how many episodes are y'all bank in advance? Well
Speaker 1: we did eight this one, so we did eight. We
Speaker 1: knocked him out and like, yeah, week a week. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a week. So I think we was there
Speaker 1: like in a total probably or like four days. I
Speaker 1: think we did like two days. So yeah, we did
Speaker 1: long days, long days. That's amazing. I saw your India
Speaker 1: gram page, like it looks really dope. I told you.
Speaker 1: It look like an award showing. It looks like the production,
Speaker 1: the layout of the set is. I walked in there,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, I didn't expect this. It was crazy.
Speaker 1: I didn't new segments that you guys introduced besides using um,
Speaker 1: some from the past. No, no, we really kept it,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, really traditional, really I mean
Speaker 1: um and we do take a lot of trips. Like
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, I'm bugging, I'm lying. There is
Speaker 1: a segment on their call Yo on the Block and
Speaker 1: where I basically visit all the iconic spots mentioned like
Speaker 1: in like hip hop songs, I mean solo like West
Speaker 1: West Streets. All right, I'll say one of them. I'll
Speaker 1: say one, but it's a lot. The one that I'm
Speaker 1: saying is not on the first episode, so it's by
Speaker 1: sixties stay three yah exactly. Yeah. So I'm we pulled
Speaker 1: up on Jagger spot, so I mean that was dope.
Speaker 1: So that that was I was one, but we got
Speaker 1: like five. So it's ill. Do you feel like you're
Speaker 1: finally getting your just dude diamond cuts because people don't know,
Speaker 1: like even when it comes to feeling you like you
Speaker 1: discovered a little oozy bro a little Yeah. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: um didn't know that, did No, I don't really talk.
Speaker 1: The only time I spoke about it was up here
Speaker 1: and that was the last time I spoke about it.
Speaker 1: And I'm saying it again. Yeah yeah, no, yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel like I feel like, yeah, I felt like this
Speaker 1: is um. I feel like people are starting to really
Speaker 1: take notes. I've been doing my thing for a minute
Speaker 1: and I felt like I was always kind of pushed
Speaker 1: to the bag, you know, people overlooked me. So it
Speaker 1: finally feels good to have you know, these type of
Speaker 1: amazing opportunities um to happen and you know, just kind
Speaker 1: of continue to push it out. You know that. I'm
Speaker 1: you know, I'm bored for real, you know what I'm saying. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got my song out. Yeah, I got a new
Speaker 1: song out. Um. I love making club music so um
Speaker 1: So people that knew me, they knew that. But yeah,
Speaker 1: like I'm just I'm working. I never stopped working, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I wake up early, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, and just get to work every single day,
Speaker 1: like go to sleep late. Yeah. Yeah. We spoke shout
Speaker 1: to my friend um Sean Tay. She was with him
Speaker 1: and she faced time me wow, And I say, girl,
Speaker 1: what if I had my scar for you know, I
Speaker 1: got my best friends? She faced on me and Oozy
Speaker 1: was like right there on on a on the phone,
Speaker 1: and what could we do? We still started talking and
Speaker 1: everything kind of just it was like nothing had ever
Speaker 1: happened and everything is pretty cool. And I've been speaking
Speaker 1: to him. We spoke a few times, we text and
Speaker 1: we faced on each other from time to time. So yeah,
Speaker 1: not to like navigate that any of you nothing, but yo,
Speaker 1: I just want to know how did it happened? Like
Speaker 1: how did how did you like find him? Oh? Oh
Speaker 1: my god, you gotta watch the you gotta go. That's
Speaker 1: where everybody. So I spend a whole bunch of time
Speaker 1: talking about that again. But yeah, we um, we're cool,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I spoke to this drama
Speaker 1: and every everything's all good. We got more with DJ
Speaker 1: Diamond Cuts and Conceited. When we come back, it's the
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. Good morning, Pording everybody in cdj Envy, Angela, Yee,
Speaker 1: Charlemagne the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We're kicking
Speaker 1: in with the new host of your on TV RAPS,
Speaker 1: Conceited and DJ Diamond Cuts Charlemagne. Who's the next person
Speaker 1: out of Philly. Who That's a good question. I got
Speaker 1: a lot of people that I like. Um Defum Sloan Um.
Speaker 1: I like is another artist name of Late Banks uh,
Speaker 1: little mook young k. It's a lot of artists in
Speaker 1: the city right now. It's all just depends on who's
Speaker 1: gonna get their first record to kind of take them
Speaker 1: out of there. But it's a lot of artists popping
Speaker 1: in the city right now. It's an artist I like that.
Speaker 1: I think the name is a little muck, little mook K.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, a little movie. Yeah, shouts a
Speaker 1: little movie him and his man. I forgot his name,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, yeah yeah. Shouts to all him Philly doing
Speaker 1: anything like you know what I mean. He killing it
Speaker 1: right now on TikTok with the club music and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. For everybody's doing the challenges and everything. So
Speaker 1: it's lit. The city is lit right now. I'm just
Speaker 1: waiting for like their first artist to kind of like
Speaker 1: really take off. And shouts to Mecca too. Shot got
Speaker 1: a big shout out to mcmunroe. So it's a lot
Speaker 1: of artists. I was gonna say, you're from Brooklyn, right yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yea from Brooklyn, you like from Brooklyn right now? And
Speaker 1: five of course he's kind of on already. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I mean, but still he's on. But he just he's
Speaker 1: really like my favorite Brooklyn artists right now, Um twenty
Speaker 1: two g's I like Dusty Locane, I like, um, We're
Speaker 1: be Love from He's from the Bronx, from the Bronx. Um.
Speaker 1: I mean that's really who I really listen listen to
Speaker 1: the most. Really have you ever written songs? Because no,
Speaker 1: not Realtyle, I'm not like a rapper rapper. I was
Speaker 1: just a battle rapper. We're gonna see you do some freestyle.
Speaker 1: I was some battling on your MTV raps that we're
Speaker 1: gonna see. No, no, but no, but I am. I
Speaker 1: do hop in one of the ciphers. Okay, so say
Speaker 1: so what I mean you all gonna see see you all,
Speaker 1: y'all gonna see see some balls. Of course. See that
Speaker 1: makes sense though, because I mean Ticker used to do
Speaker 1: that on Rap City since for a host to jump in,
Speaker 1: and so you only did it once, Yeah you're scared. No, No,
Speaker 1: I mean we only did a site. We only did
Speaker 1: a site for like three times. So we don't have
Speaker 1: the one who was who was the artist? We had
Speaker 1: Simba t Baby Tait. Uh what is that dude's name? Man?
Speaker 1: I feel bad and even saying David, I know it's
Speaker 1: David something. I don't know his last name, but he
Speaker 1: was fighting. It was actually because it was like fifty
Speaker 1: of them. And and honestly, I know a lot of
Speaker 1: people think that we see we didn't really see the
Speaker 1: episode yet, so it's not like, I mean, we don't
Speaker 1: really really really know it edited together. No, so we
Speaker 1: canna be watching for the first time, y'all exactly together.
Speaker 1: I had to just impact your day jobs, you know, conceded.
Speaker 1: You know, one of yours is wilding out down the
Speaker 1: cuts of course Power ninety nine and Philly. How did
Speaker 1: that affect the day job? It really didn't because like
Speaker 1: we taped everything like a week um and then we
Speaker 1: had like little promos. Everything really took like two weeks. Honestly,
Speaker 1: maybe like a week and alf Um radio. You know,
Speaker 1: we do that everywhere, you know what I mean, I
Speaker 1: mean in my hotel room, mixing it up seriously, like
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, you know how you know
Speaker 1: how it is, So it didn't really take up you
Speaker 1: know much time at all for me? Yeah, at all.
Speaker 1: I mean the same because that's MTV, so what I
Speaker 1: mean they made sure that the schedules were just right
Speaker 1: for me. Yeah, it was all m Yeah. Yeah. It's
Speaker 1: interesting right because it feels like when you do radio nowadays,
Speaker 1: you can't just do radio anymore. No, like you have
Speaker 1: to be multi media yep, or you're gonna be broke.
Speaker 1: I'm saying right, yeah, right now. And I got a radio,
Speaker 1: was like, oh that I had enough to live in
Speaker 1: section eight because you have a daughter, right, so your
Speaker 1: son DJ's he does. He likes to play around. He
Speaker 1: likes the press buttons and play around with the turntables.
Speaker 1: He ramps a lot, He raps a lot. He likes
Speaker 1: to make a lot of songs. He records on his
Speaker 1: on his iPad, his phone. Um, so yeah, he definitely
Speaker 1: got the cheat code at home too. Yeah he did.
Speaker 1: He Yeah. I want him to like really pay attention,
Speaker 1: but he don't. It's all right, it is. He a
Speaker 1: celebrity at school, he got Yeah, he always took about
Speaker 1: with something he's done. We went to the DJ at
Speaker 1: the White House, but the Easter egg roll and he
Speaker 1: whole school news. Yeah, the East egg roll what they do,
Speaker 1: like the Easter egg roll for the kids. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: something that Yo. Gotti was there right, No really, yeah,
Speaker 1: what's different? They rolled the egg and you gotta pick
Speaker 1: it up with the game. But it was it was
Speaker 1: cool this year. It was about education, that's what they
Speaker 1: called so clever. Y'all should have recorded that for the
Speaker 1: show for real facts. That was fun. What other guests
Speaker 1: we got on the show this season, Mulatto, Mulatto just
Speaker 1: now big, Big Lotto, the biggest. We got Trina, legendary Trina.
Speaker 1: We got t Grizzly. We got Ji d um Oh,
Speaker 1: which was one of my one of my favorites. We
Speaker 1: got those. We got the hip hop directors. We had
Speaker 1: Chris Robinson and his son and Cole and Cole Bennett.
Speaker 1: So that was that was fire to me for all
Speaker 1: of everybody out there that loves collectibles. We had Hebrew
Speaker 1: Bradley here Chicago. Yeah, Hebrew Bradley was uh steth free,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. He pulled up Hebrew. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So it's it's a listen. It's more than just music,
Speaker 1: like you said, it's culture, lifestyle, you know, Vegan. We
Speaker 1: dig into everything hip hop pretty much everything. Is it
Speaker 1: gonna be timely? Like what do you mean, like like
Speaker 1: say Kindergarbum came out? Will y'all beyond that week that
Speaker 1: Kinder Gotbum dropped? Though? So the plan is to change
Speaker 1: it to weekly now now, I mean so hopefully? Yeah? Yeah, So,
Speaker 1: I mean that's definitely the angle that we're really trying
Speaker 1: to try to go because you know, something new was
Speaker 1: happening in hip hop daily, so I mean we're trying
Speaker 1: to at least, you know, make it weekly so we
Speaker 1: can have like the latest and greatest for you. So, right,
Speaker 1: so everybody got to start watching May twenty fourth, yep,
Speaker 1: May twenty fourth on Paramount Plus. I mean it once
Speaker 1: a week that they put it out or do you
Speaker 1: can you stream them all at once? Once a week?
Speaker 1: You can once a week yet and right now, like
Speaker 1: they're playing like the most fifty iconic original episode, So
Speaker 1: I mean, get that and you're good just bingeing that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: to just watch the movement's gonna be lit. Did y'all
Speaker 1: grow up watching your MTV raps like I did? I did?
Speaker 1: I mean not tremendously, but that was like episodes of
Speaker 1: definitely because I had like I'm I'm the youngest. I
Speaker 1: have older brothers, sisters, so it was definitely on on
Speaker 1: my crib for sure. I had to do a lot
Speaker 1: of my on a YouTube, like you know, recapping and
Speaker 1: watching a lot of us so long ago. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I I just YouTube was like where I went to
Speaker 1: kind of like watch the you know, the older episodes
Speaker 1: they had been. But definitely, for sure, we definitely watched it. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I love it. I loved the nostalgia or bringing something
Speaker 1: that was so important to culture back and giving it
Speaker 1: this two thousand and twenty two fields. Thank you, Thank you,
Speaker 1: And make sure everybody watches it because it's going to
Speaker 1: be important because we want this to be a weekly show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to make sure that it could want to
Speaker 1: make it a yearly show. Yes, yea. And I mean
Speaker 1: y'all y'all on a long, great list of hosts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: five five Freddy. Now, I mean what I'm really hoping,
Speaker 1: I mean, so shout out to and now I mean
Speaker 1: Dre in fact, that we could do an episode all together.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm open. I mean, that's what I would
Speaker 1: hope to set that out there. Why not? Why not?
Speaker 1: It's conceded in DJ Diamond Cuts your MTV raps from
Speaker 1: is on Paramount Plus on May twenty four. Thank y'all
Speaker 1: for joining us. I thank you. Angela ye ye. It's
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club, The Breakfast Club, won't everybody's DJ Envy
Speaker 1: Angela yee. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: We got a special guest in the building, Mama glow
Speaker 1: I Slatham Thomas, welcome back. I've seen you last time
Speaker 1: you were here. I couldn't remember. I had to go
Speaker 1: do something for TV. Yeah, and you had your book
Speaker 1: coming out. It's doing really well. Yes, it's doing great.
Speaker 1: Good to see you. How's everything? Everything is so good.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad to see y'all. Two. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for having me always just let me come up here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know tomorrow is the big DULA Expo. Yes, but
Speaker 1: it's so excited to people with the DULA expoys. Soldula
Speaker 1: Expo is the first and only event of its kind
Speaker 1: that centers Duela's caregivers, families and lifting up up policy
Speaker 1: changes and ships that we can make to have like
Speaker 1: better maternal health outcomes. But it's also a festival, so
Speaker 1: there's live music. There's a lot of brands activating in
Speaker 1: this place where you can just kick it, chill, rest there,
Speaker 1: there's food. It's just a place for a community to
Speaker 1: come together. And we're really excited because we have a
Speaker 1: lot of support from local officials. We have the Brooklyn
Speaker 1: Borough President, Antonio Ray Knows, So who's going to come
Speaker 1: and do some opening remarks, and he's leading up the
Speaker 1: maternal health task for us, and so he's really also
Speaker 1: committed to improve maternal health and making Brooklyn the safest
Speaker 1: place to give birth in New York. So we're happy
Speaker 1: to have him. And we have the public Advocate Money
Speaker 1: Williams will be there to making some remarks. You'll be there,
Speaker 1: I will be there. I'm in conversation, Well, what's the
Speaker 1: brother out, Charles John, Paul John. Yeah, which we're excited
Speaker 1: about because you know, I think it's so important to
Speaker 1: center fathers in this conversation. You know, a lot of us,
Speaker 1: you know, including myself, are in a position to sort
Speaker 1: of speak from the lens of being a woman and
Speaker 1: being impacted, you know, and having family members impacted and
Speaker 1: obviously friends by the maternal health crisis. But you know,
Speaker 1: we never really get to hear fathers in a certain light,
Speaker 1: and so I'm really interested for this conversation that y'all
Speaker 1: have that can not only shed light on the lens
Speaker 1: of fatherhood, but also sort of you know, what fathers
Speaker 1: are doing, and specifically what Charles has done in terms
Speaker 1: of impacting on legislation to improve maternal health. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: first heard of Charles story. I think I was watching
Speaker 1: I think it was on CN if I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 1: they did a story on him because sadly he lost
Speaker 1: his wife during during childbirth. Yeah, and it was unfortunate
Speaker 1: because they were inside the hospital and she was let
Speaker 1: to bleed for ten hours internally after routine C section.
Speaker 1: And so he's now in a civil rights lawsuit with
Speaker 1: Cedar Sinai, which is a huge deal because the lawsuit
Speaker 1: is actually directed towards medical racism. So it'll be it'll
Speaker 1: set a precedence, you know, if he's able to win
Speaker 1: this case. Wow, I want to ask you, I know
Speaker 1: your piano you pay promoting this, But when you've seen
Speaker 1: all of the mass hysteria about the shortage of formula, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's really interesting. I saw something that said that
Speaker 1: people were gauging folks on um on like eBay selling
Speaker 1: formula for like three hundred dollars. Serious, yeah, and so
Speaker 1: it's interesting at the um Doula EXFO. We actually have
Speaker 1: a company called Bobby, which is a formula company that
Speaker 1: does a European style formula UM which is important because
Speaker 1: American formula is actually like not regulating in the way
Speaker 1: that your regulates theirs, and so they have better safety.
Speaker 1: It's called Bobby b O b B I. E Yes,
Speaker 1: I heard you know what we you know, we have
Speaker 1: a five month old and somebody was telling us about it,
Speaker 1: and they were saying that over there, the formulas are
Speaker 1: a lot better. Yeah, like they're regulated, they're richer and
Speaker 1: ingredients there. Yes, and so to happen, lots of people
Speaker 1: ship them, right, and so Bobby being American made made
Speaker 1: by moms, you know people and also scientists, obviously we
Speaker 1: got to get you some you know, if you guys
Speaker 1: were needing formula, because um, they're just committed and their
Speaker 1: whole thing is, you know, creating a product, but understanding
Speaker 1: that you know, breast milk is obviously the gold standard
Speaker 1: for infant nutrition, right, we know that, but not everybody
Speaker 1: gets to breastfeed, and about three quarters of women end
Speaker 1: up using formula at some point. So it's important to
Speaker 1: have an option that makes sense for people. So I'm
Speaker 1: all four people having access um. Bobby's amazing. They donated
Speaker 1: a thousand cans of formula to the Mamola Foundation for
Speaker 1: us to make sure that people have access to formula,
Speaker 1: so we're really happy to be partner with them. We'll
Speaker 1: have a conversation actually about this crisis what it means
Speaker 1: for people at the DULA Expo two and if people
Speaker 1: can't come, they can they can live stream it also,
Speaker 1: we have it on the Mamola Facebook will be live
Speaker 1: streaming Saturday's events as well. But I'm glad y'all having
Speaker 1: that conversation because I saw the argument this week and
Speaker 1: I was like, why does everything have to turn into
Speaker 1: an argument online? But it's like because I think somebody said,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't forget who it was, Bett Miller,
Speaker 1: and she just basically was like, y'all should be breastfeeding.
Speaker 1: Breastfeeding in anyway. Yeah, I mean, I think it's it's
Speaker 1: interesting because we all know that that's the that's the
Speaker 1: best way to feed our babies. We understand that, right,
Speaker 1: like you have to create this birth village around yourself,
Speaker 1: but not everybody has access to that. So yes, it's
Speaker 1: it's it's cheap, it's free, it's the right temperature. When
Speaker 1: you do the breast and milk right, it comes out
Speaker 1: the temperature it needs to be. It has all the
Speaker 1: nutrients of baby needs, and we advocate for that, but
Speaker 1: we have to also understand there are social factors and
Speaker 1: also a health factors some people have. You know. One
Speaker 1: of the things that I love about Bobby for instances,
Speaker 1: they actually donate formula to women who have had mastectomies
Speaker 1: who haven't been able to breastfeed because of cancer. Right,
Speaker 1: and so you know there's reasons for why people can't
Speaker 1: do it. And instead of judging, because it's really not
Speaker 1: the time to judge, babies need to be fed. So
Speaker 1: the goal is to make sure babies are fed. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: That's why you got to go to the Dulex photomon
Speaker 1: information again and how they could if they can't make
Speaker 1: it out, they could live stream. Yeah. So UM you
Speaker 1: should come to join us in Brooklyn twenty five kent Um.
Speaker 1: It's in Williams or Brooklyn. Really easy to get to. UM.
Speaker 1: It is from ten to six on Saturday and on
Speaker 1: live stream. It's on Facebook at Mama glow on you know, mama,
Speaker 1: go Facebook platform for UM the DULA Expo. You'll see
Speaker 1: it there. You can just join the live stream or
Speaker 1: it's set a little alert and m and the live
Speaker 1: stream will start from like eleven am onward. And then
Speaker 1: we're excited. I mean, the conversations are gonna be amazing.
Speaker 1: We have a live performance from Lion Babe, who will
Speaker 1: be talking, you know, about her birth experience. She also
Speaker 1: used DULAS but then she's also gonna do give us
Speaker 1: a nice special performance. So it's gonna be really exciting.
Speaker 1: So just come through. And if somebody's coming from the
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. You know, I know a lot of folks
Speaker 1: in our community would like to come, and I know
Speaker 1: folks have been impacted by COVID and you know, money
Speaker 1: is type for folks. So if you guys want to come,
Speaker 1: if you're listening, if you're a local in the Tristate area,
Speaker 1: you can use the code the Breakfast Club and then
Speaker 1: that'll get you free entry into the expo and we'd
Speaker 1: love to have you come. Oh wow, what's the website again? Today?
Speaker 1: Don't know that DULA xpo dot com and the code
Speaker 1: to register would be the Breakfast Club at checkout and
Speaker 1: if somebody out there is considering a duela and you
Speaker 1: know they have a lot of questions, why would you
Speaker 1: encourage them to come to the expo. Yeah, so this
Speaker 1: is a space where you'll be able to meet dulas
Speaker 1: and care providers. You'll be able to meet organizations that
Speaker 1: are actually impacting on policy, like the March of Dimes.
Speaker 1: They're having a listening lounge and they'll be doing a
Speaker 1: policy driven conversation in the beginning of the day. But
Speaker 1: they have a lounge where you can come and share
Speaker 1: your the experience that you had in your birth or
Speaker 1: what you're hoping for. You can talk to duelas and
Speaker 1: other care providers. You can talk to people if you're
Speaker 1: on your fertility journey. There's a company, Ovia Health, which
Speaker 1: we're excited about. We'll do a whole kind of like
Speaker 1: fertility like myths and truths so you can understand like
Speaker 1: how to optimize fertility. There's all kinds of things along
Speaker 1: the pre and postnatal continuum in terms of conversations that
Speaker 1: we're excited about. But it's just going to be amazing.
Speaker 1: And also Karen Parsons, who y'all know from Fresh Prince
Speaker 1: she's she's our MC, so you know she also is
Speaker 1: a big supporter of Hillary. Okay, Hillary Banks is also
Speaker 1: one of our mcs. So it's just gonna be a
Speaker 1: fun day. So just come through. If you have children.
Speaker 1: We have a play area. I'm most excited about this
Speaker 1: because I wish I could go play the whole day.
Speaker 1: But there's an incredible um company founded by two fathers
Speaker 1: called Lalo and they make all this amazing like play
Speaker 1: furniture for kids. So we have an incredible play space.
Speaker 1: It'll be like school, but the kids can play. We
Speaker 1: have playto we have activities to give them. The location again,
Speaker 1: twenty five kent Um, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, doula Expo dot com
Speaker 1: to get tickets. We can't wait to see y'all. And
Speaker 1: giftbags are gonna be crazy, so don't miss it. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: thank you for joining us again and get out there.
Speaker 1: This weekend is supposed to beautiful this weekend, so see
Speaker 1: ye out there. That's a Saturday from ten to six pm, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: And we appreciate you, could you. I appreciate y'all, Thank
Speaker 1: you so much. It's Latham Thomas. It's the Breakfast Club
Speaker 1: good morning. Now, um, Charlomagne, you got a positive note? Hey,
Speaker 1: I do have a positive note. Man. I know this
Speaker 1: is just gonna fall on deaf ears in this social
Speaker 1: media era that we live in, but I just want
Speaker 1: to tell y'all, if you didn't see it with your
Speaker 1: own eyes, are here with your own ears. Don't invent
Speaker 1: it with your small mind and share it with your
Speaker 1: big ass mouth. Okay, okay, breakfast club, y'all. Finish it, y'all,
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