Speaker 1: Up in the morning. You the morning I'm talking right,
Speaker 1: and if you're about to experience a morning showing like
Speaker 1: any club, what you guys are doing right now, that's
Speaker 1: the hub culture. Baktist Club is my morning spit. I
Speaker 1: need it and I love it. Something you like, You're
Speaker 1: really not popping until you do the Bactist Club. The
Speaker 1: waiting come to y'all show man. I know you gotta
Speaker 1: be a big time celebrity to be up in here.
Speaker 1: You gotta be you gotta be big time Atli and Charlotte.
Speaker 1: Ain't the guy to breakfast club? Bitches? Did your time
Speaker 1: to get it off your chests? Whether you're man or
Speaker 1: blast so so you better have the same industry we
Speaker 1: want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello,
Speaker 1: who's this Elijah from Raley Alija? Get it off your chest? Yo?
Speaker 1: Why is it kids don't want to go to HBC schools.
Speaker 1: I think because of publicity they get no shot on
Speaker 1: esp agin. First of all, what's the HBC school HBCU?
Speaker 1: You mean, bro? I know what you meant, see Hugh Charlemagne,
Speaker 1: the gods smartest you forgot to you. I didn't know
Speaker 1: what you talking about whatever, But like, look, you don't
Speaker 1: see some colord of state on they don't get games.
Speaker 1: Espnuld play game. I agree, I agree with you, I
Speaker 1: definitely agree. Agree. It's up to you know what, though,
Speaker 1: it's up to those those those superstar athletes from those states.
Speaker 1: Somebody's gonna have to make the sacrifice to say, you
Speaker 1: know what, White Ice is not colder, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go to an HBCU. I'm gonna take my talents to
Speaker 1: an HBCU. That's the only way they're gonna start getting
Speaker 1: A couple of them are doing. The young lady that
Speaker 1: went to baseball and another brother went to Howard he
Speaker 1: plays basketball. So there's a couple of them doing it though. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but still put the most kids want to shine. They
Speaker 1: want to they want school so they can get the
Speaker 1: complicity to see a household thing. But they don't get that.
Speaker 1: So I feel like ESPN should take the additiative to
Speaker 1: have a game. They just ad TUUM schools so they
Speaker 1: could get some kind of shot, because it's not that's
Speaker 1: the reason one of them want to go. You're right, well,
Speaker 1: I agree with you, BT or revote, Maybe BT or
Speaker 1: revote you start d them games. I don't know how
Speaker 1: that works. I don't know how that works with TV contracts,
Speaker 1: but I do think it's I do agree with you, sir,
Speaker 1: Thank you brother. Hello, who's this? I said? What I'm
Speaker 1: getting off your chest? I just want to get off
Speaker 1: my test off on Pattison? And it's not for none
Speaker 1: of the good looking people to do here. There's nothing
Speaker 1: to do in Patterson. No, not for the looking people.
Speaker 1: Not for the good looking people. Jerseys open. What are
Speaker 1: you talking about about Patterson? I want something about it?
Speaker 1: You mean, like you said, the good looking people, looking people.
Speaker 1: I can think of a million things for good looking
Speaker 1: people to do in Patterson. Number one is get robbed.
Speaker 1: Oh nod tonight. There's a lot of restaurants open in Patterson.
Speaker 1: I go to Oili, Poole and spots already. Okay, So
Speaker 1: what else you want to do is coronavirus? Like if
Speaker 1: we're in the pandemic, read a book, you work. I'm
Speaker 1: saying after, I'm are you boring to raid in Patterson? Sir?
Speaker 1: H how old are you? I'm through? Man? See what
Speaker 1: you should have done is you should have got you
Speaker 1: some good education and you should have done good in
Speaker 1: high school, so you could have went off to college.
Speaker 1: I did, Oh you went to college. Yeah, you went
Speaker 1: to school at college. Oh, okay, leave Patterson. It's okay
Speaker 1: to leave Patterson. Hello, who's this? You know? What's king
Speaker 1: in radway? South Carolina staff crew to that? What's get
Speaker 1: it off your chest? I I just can't round to
Speaker 1: take what's up with dollar? Man? I want to bless.
Speaker 1: I wanted to put in my freestyle report that time
Speaker 1: with y'all. Oh, I swear you wasther from South Carolina.
Speaker 1: Always shut this down. But go ahead, the head brother,
Speaker 1: go ahead. I life did the same way. Sometimes I
Speaker 1: feel like I way go up to the same day
Speaker 1: trying to make a living man. I'm trying to make
Speaker 1: it out. I'm trying to make sure that my family dow.
Speaker 1: So we spitching that. So every day I hustled. Y'all
Speaker 1: pay to guard day watching me in the streets, and
Speaker 1: somebody would try to play man wady, so I keep
Speaker 1: my breaking low. Y'all give me your bag. You got down.
Speaker 1: You gotta slow that down, my South Carolina bredren. You're
Speaker 1: going too fast, like what you're gonna? What's up? You're
Speaker 1: wrapping like your life depends on it. Drum. That's disrespectful drum.
Speaker 1: I was drum, drum, that's disrespectful. Don't hang up on
Speaker 1: my soft Carolina breaks back. It's all him now. Now
Speaker 1: you guys know, Envy's back and it's all him. Wow.
Speaker 1: He was like, Envy's back and it's all him. Wow. Goodness,
Speaker 1: damn Jesus Christ. Get it off your chest. Eight hundred
Speaker 1: five eight five one oh five one. If you need
Speaker 1: to vet, hit us up now with the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Good morning. I'm I'm telling you if this is your
Speaker 1: time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad
Speaker 1: or blessed. Eight hundred five eighty five one oh five one.
Speaker 1: We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello,
Speaker 1: who's this? Okay? Good morning? Three lest Tita, how dj
Speaker 1: v hay what I'm good morning? How are you? I'm fine?
Speaker 1: Thank you. Last time I called Charlomagne, you wasn't there,
Speaker 1: but I'm glad to hear your voice. I had a
Speaker 1: question for you, Charlomagne. Yes, man, why are you always
Speaker 1: why are you all always yawning in the microphone like that?
Speaker 1: Like why do you do that? Why do you do that? Y'all? Simple?
Speaker 1: Ye don't tell me because I'm tired because I wake
Speaker 1: up early in the morning. Don't tell me that, uh duh,
Speaker 1: it's sick something in the morning. No, you're not. You're
Speaker 1: not still yawning white. You're not still yawning wiping coal
Speaker 1: out your eye and six something in the morning. So
Speaker 1: you went mute, don't know, abody want to hear all that.
Speaker 1: That's just to me. That's like somebody yawning right next
Speaker 1: to me in my ear. I was like, damn, sorry,
Speaker 1: what are you doing right now? You're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: because if you're oh, I don't really know. Well, you're
Speaker 1: gonna hate to know that. I passed gas too sometime.
Speaker 1: Not in my clothes though, oh not. Yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 1: go to the bathroom, you pull your hands down right
Speaker 1: well anyway, thank you. Oh one more thing, one more thing.
Speaker 1: Elijah McClean, Sandra Bland, Brianna Sailor. Let's do that right
Speaker 1: out like that. Hello, who's that? Just about to yawn
Speaker 1: before she said that, By the way, Hello, who's this? Hello? Hey?
Speaker 1: What's your name? Bro? Hello? Money making Mitch? How you're
Speaker 1: doing with money making? Mitch? You ain't making no money
Speaker 1: right now? You ain't making no money in a recession.
Speaker 1: You crazy cut it out, Charlomagne guard, how you making money?
Speaker 1: Tell me how you making money by giving proper advice
Speaker 1: on how people should should be really cleaning the house.
Speaker 1: That's enough money for me to educate these people you're finessing.
Speaker 1: Of course, Um, if you really, really really want to
Speaker 1: kill as coronavirus or to all hospitals and everybody's home,
Speaker 1: just start from sterilization room. Start from the bathroom, then
Speaker 1: work your way out. Everything you use in the bathroom
Speaker 1: you should use around the whole apartment. Every hospital that's scared,
Speaker 1: they have training. Wee. Sterility is important. So if you
Speaker 1: just expand your sterilization apartment and make the whole hospital
Speaker 1: strel then everything, every item, every equipment, every instrument can
Speaker 1: actually be used properly. All these money making Mitch, Let
Speaker 1: me ask you a question, will actually paying for this
Speaker 1: advice of cleaning the bathroom clean your bathroom? Actually? I agree,
Speaker 1: I agree that you have to do sterilization, but you
Speaker 1: do know that it's transmitted from person to person right exactly,
Speaker 1: But it depends on how many people are in your house,
Speaker 1: and do you have a team that's doing sterilization. This
Speaker 1: is a family, this isn't people from next door to
Speaker 1: my house. How are you making many of this? Yeah? Many?
Speaker 1: Or you're talking about financial money. I don't need financial money.
Speaker 1: I don't need know financers. I'm fine. Financial money is
Speaker 1: but yeah, my money is there. But financially I'm fine.
Speaker 1: But the other money is the other important money. That's
Speaker 1: is information. Knowledge is poss knowledge is currency. You mean
Speaker 1: you know so that so that right there alone, I'm
Speaker 1: saving lives by telling people. I saw it in the military.
Speaker 1: Seventeen years as a medical officer, I've done I've done
Speaker 1: the all forms of surgery. I've been in so many
Speaker 1: different situations and we treat every patient. Now this is
Speaker 1: the coronavirus. We treat every patient as if they were HIZ.
Speaker 1: Now we have to treat every patients. I just they
Speaker 1: have HIV, corona um and all these other symptoms. That's
Speaker 1: that's that's that's pretty dope because now you have to
Speaker 1: stay on top of sterility to arrest of your life.
Speaker 1: You understand this is no waking call. What thank you
Speaker 1: brother for calling man? We really don't understand. But you know,
Speaker 1: to each you're talking about that type of money. You're
Speaker 1: talking about financial money. What other money is there? I'm
Speaker 1: he he made, he made currency, that's all. What was this,
Speaker 1: Mike Man, Mike Man, what I'm getting about? Mike Man?
Speaker 1: I was man all this stuff? Man, Uh, you don't
Speaker 1: really man, years this man, you waited five years to
Speaker 1: tell us that. No. I waited five years, y'all. Man,
Speaker 1: I've been calling for five years straight. Man, So what
Speaker 1: are you going to say? No, Man, just shout out
Speaker 1: the boys of our bust In Corporated. Man, we on
Speaker 1: our wead work very better. Man. Ain't matter. I'm happy
Speaker 1: to be alive. There you go, Okay, happy to be here.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Man, get it off your chess eight
Speaker 1: hundred five eight five one oh five one. If you
Speaker 1: need to vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning. Everybody's DJ Envy Angela yee,
Speaker 1: Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got
Speaker 1: a special guest on the line this morning. Yes, the
Speaker 1: new senior advisor to the President elect. That's right, Cedric Richmond.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, brother, Good morning everybody. How y'all doing, blessed
Speaker 1: Black and Holly Favor. Congratulations on being named Senior Advisor
Speaker 1: to the President. Man to tell people what that position means,
Speaker 1: because they didn't they didn't even know what coach hair was. Wait,
Speaker 1: what does that mean? This is the first time. It's
Speaker 1: not a free position on the Biden campaign. I can
Speaker 1: tell you that. Let me just it will be Director
Speaker 1: of Public Engagement, which means I'll engage in interact with
Speaker 1: everybody from the civil rights community, to the LGBTQ community,
Speaker 1: to Black Lives Matter, to the Latino community. And I'll
Speaker 1: be in the White House as a senior advisor to
Speaker 1: the President for him to bounce stuff off, to have
Speaker 1: him put in decisions. And sometimes you know, it's that
Speaker 1: question is who's at the table? It's my expectation to
Speaker 1: be at the table. Do you get a chance to
Speaker 1: breathe and say, yes, we finally made it, We finally
Speaker 1: did it because it was a long fight, and the
Speaker 1: fight continue for a minute, or do it now you
Speaker 1: look at it and say, Okay, now we got a
Speaker 1: whole lot more to do. Well, we have a lot
Speaker 1: of work to do. This president has left chaos and
Speaker 1: confusion all across the country, especially a raging pandemic. But
Speaker 1: we you know, I don't have to tell you all.
Speaker 1: You know, we have a lot of work to do.
Speaker 1: When you start talking about systematic racism, when you start
Speaker 1: talking about addressing poverty, when you start talking about addressing
Speaker 1: climate change, and you start talking about addressing police reform,
Speaker 1: criminal justice reform, all of those things we've talked about.
Speaker 1: Now it becomes the time to put up a shut
Speaker 1: up and so we have work to do. And that's
Speaker 1: the part that is the awesome task. I saw you
Speaker 1: said that this was the hardest decision you've had to
Speaker 1: make in your life. So what were your reservation? Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, I haven't had a boss in twenty
Speaker 1: one years except the people who put me in office.
Speaker 1: And the other part was making sure that you know
Speaker 1: it's meaningful. And Charlomagne, I will tell you that between
Speaker 1: you and DL, because both of you all on interviews
Speaker 1: asked me the same question at some point, which was
Speaker 1: who do we hold accountable if things go around or
Speaker 1: we don't live up to expectations, And the real question was, well,
Speaker 1: if I don't go in, then I'm cheating people of
Speaker 1: that voice, of all of the people I'm convinced to
Speaker 1: be a part of this movement. And then you know,
Speaker 1: it was just to uproot your family and moved to DC. Look,
Speaker 1: I like DC, but New Orleans is the best city
Speaker 1: in the country, and so all of those factors went in.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, it's something I
Speaker 1: had to do. Was it hard to leave your congressional seat. Absolutely?
Speaker 1: I mean, first of all, I just got reelected. It's
Speaker 1: been six elections going into my eleventh Assistant to the Whip,
Speaker 1: which is a leadership position in the House, and the
Speaker 1: more seniority you get, the more you can help your district.
Speaker 1: But in this broken government that we have now, with
Speaker 1: the Senate controlled by Republicans or could be controlled by Republicans,
Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell's just going to continue to block everything that's
Speaker 1: important us, like the George Floyd Policing Act, which he's blocking,
Speaker 1: and are the Voting Rights Extension which he's blocking. So
Speaker 1: part of it is, you know, there's more than one
Speaker 1: way to skin a cat, and so if we can't
Speaker 1: get it done legislatively, let's go into executive branch and
Speaker 1: see what we can get done there. Who you think
Speaker 1: should get that seat? Your old seat? Oh, look, there's
Speaker 1: a number of qualified people who are running, and I
Speaker 1: will look at him, I'll talk to each and every
Speaker 1: one of them, and I'll probably make a recommendation to
Speaker 1: the voters. But it's important to keep someone who will
Speaker 1: put the constituents over ambition or anything like that. So
Speaker 1: and look, everybody that's running has a track record, so
Speaker 1: voters will be able to judge them. How are you
Speaker 1: navigating through Donald Trump not trying to help with this
Speaker 1: transition phase? What are you guys able to do to
Speaker 1: get around that? Well, the good news is Joe Biden
Speaker 1: has been in the White House before and so there's
Speaker 1: some institutional knowledge there. But it's a hindrance. And the
Speaker 1: sad part about it is it puts Americans at jeopardy.
Speaker 1: So if we're talking about having a cohesive rollout of
Speaker 1: the vaccines, if they're ready, it would be nice to
Speaker 1: know where they are, what's their plan, so that we
Speaker 1: could come in or adjust their plan and have our
Speaker 1: own plan ready. But you need to know those type
Speaker 1: of things, especially on national defense and security briefings. One
Speaker 1: of the glaring items in the nine to eleven report
Speaker 1: was that because it wasn't a smooth transition, there were
Speaker 1: gaps and the terrorists were able to exploit those gaps.
Speaker 1: So those are the things you don't want to happen.
Speaker 1: But there are a number of people who used to
Speaker 1: be in the Trump administration that is volunteering information. And
Speaker 1: so we're doing the best we can with what we got.
Speaker 1: But I don't think that's adequate, and we know it's
Speaker 1: not adequate for the American people. So we just, you know,
Speaker 1: hopefully expect to temper tance from the stop and we
Speaker 1: can get to transition and get ready for one of
Speaker 1: peaceful transition, but to a moving presidency coming up. And
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask, is there any way to forcefully
Speaker 1: do that by law? You know the fact that these
Speaker 1: laws or all these states to come in and say
Speaker 1: you know now that you did leave, that you did lose.
Speaker 1: Is any way to forcefully say no, we need this information.
Speaker 1: You have to or you go to jail. Is that possible?
Speaker 1: Or know that doesn't happen like that? But there's some
Speaker 1: legal routes you can take. But I'll just tell you
Speaker 1: from my time in Congress, when Donald Trump tells its
Speaker 1: cabinet secretaries and not to cooperate with committee investigations, to
Speaker 1: ignore our subpoenas, we hold them in contempt, and then
Speaker 1: nothing still happens. This is a lawless punch that is
Speaker 1: in the White House right now, and you know, without
Speaker 1: Donald Trump freeing them up, I expect them to continue
Speaker 1: to be a problem. However, I do think at some
Speaker 1: point Donald Trump is going to realize that it's bigger
Speaker 1: than him for the first time. I think he will
Speaker 1: understand that this is not all about him, or he'll
Speaker 1: just take his ball and go home and say, you know,
Speaker 1: if y'all want Sleepy Joe, take Sleepy Joe. Y'all all
Speaker 1: want me back in four years. So I'm taking my
Speaker 1: ball and going home. Whatever it looks like, it just
Speaker 1: needs to happen so that we can get on with
Speaker 1: the business of transition and preparing to run the greatest
Speaker 1: country on Earth. We got more with Cedric Richmond. When
Speaker 1: we come back, don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good Morning,
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee. Chalomagne,
Speaker 1: the guy we are the Breakfast Club was still kicking
Speaker 1: it with Cedric Richmond. Charlomagne, Cedric, are you ready for
Speaker 1: all the smoke that's gonna come you away? Though? Because
Speaker 1: I posted you on my Instagram yesterday a couple of
Speaker 1: days ago, congratulating you, and immediately people started coming with
Speaker 1: all types of you know, rhetoric whose climate advocates and
Speaker 1: leaders who fight against toxicare pollution sin that he's terrible
Speaker 1: for the environment because he got tied to the oil
Speaker 1: and gas industry. But what do you say to that. Look,
Speaker 1: I understand their concern. They also have to understand that
Speaker 1: in my congressional district we have hundreds of thousands of
Speaker 1: jobs tied to people showing up working every day anywhere
Speaker 1: from hotels to all in gas to refineries. And that's
Speaker 1: just the district that I represent. But what I would
Speaker 1: just tell them is that they all applaud Don mckeachen
Speaker 1: as being one of the leaders on environmental justice. Well,
Speaker 1: when we were deciding to put our climate plan together,
Speaker 1: it was me that called Don mckeachen, who's a difference
Speaker 1: in mine, and said, Hey, we want the best environmental
Speaker 1: justice plan that we can find, and we want you
Speaker 1: at the table when I want you involved. So I
Speaker 1: know the damage that's going on out there, and I
Speaker 1: think we have assembled the team to put it together.
Speaker 1: And we had a robust climate change plan. And by
Speaker 1: the way, Joe Biden and its climate plan won the presidency.
Speaker 1: Nobody else did. Yeah, but then that's why they were
Speaker 1: kind of upset too, because they said that you raked
Speaker 1: in big money from the fossil fuel industry and voted
Speaker 1: to help oil and gas companies. Is that true? No,
Speaker 1: that's not true. Now, I did receive contributions from the
Speaker 1: oil and gas company. They're businesses in my district, and
Speaker 1: just because you write a check doesn't mean you only
Speaker 1: And at some point the activists are gonna have to
Speaker 1: understand that. Man, you're the third politician I heard say that,
Speaker 1: and it makes perfect sense to me, Like you can,
Speaker 1: you know, have somebody donate to your campaign, But as
Speaker 1: long as you're still serving the interest of the people
Speaker 1: and not, then what's the problem. Environmentalists have also donated
Speaker 1: to my campaign, So look, I just think that it's
Speaker 1: it's a distraction. And when you know people are out
Speaker 1: there just trying to get it done, we should come together,
Speaker 1: especially when you win an election, and the fact that
Speaker 1: Democrats are fighting after we win makes absolutely no sense.
Speaker 1: We should be at the table figuring out where we
Speaker 1: go from here. And I think that's what Joe Biden
Speaker 1: wants to do. So look, Sunrise and all the environmental groups.
Speaker 1: I'm going to reach out to them and make sure
Speaker 1: that they understand that this is the Biden Climate plan,
Speaker 1: this is the agenda we're going to embark on them.
Speaker 1: So let's take people out of it, focus on the plan.
Speaker 1: And so I forgot who said it. It It might have
Speaker 1: been King, but I heard Obama repeated before it's not
Speaker 1: about the man, it's about the plan. And I believe
Speaker 1: in Joe Biden's climate plan and his environmental justice plan.
Speaker 1: I was going to ask, how do you undo the
Speaker 1: damage done by the president now and his constituents who
Speaker 1: are saying that there's voter fraud and this whole election
Speaker 1: was rigged, and there's a lot of people who don't
Speaker 1: believe in the system. So how do you undo that damage? Well?
Speaker 1: One first five, making sure we get to January twentieth
Speaker 1: and watch him leave the White House and watch Joe
Speaker 1: Biden go into the White House, because I think what
Speaker 1: we've seen over the campaign is that Joe Biden people
Speaker 1: believe him, and he can restore trust in government, the
Speaker 1: election system. The Trumpsters out there that believe that somebody
Speaker 1: stole the election, they're going to believe that no matter
Speaker 1: what I mean. They created the term alternative facts, and
Speaker 1: people believe it. Unfortunately, he has a percentage of the
Speaker 1: population that will believe whatever he says. He says the
Speaker 1: news media's line, and they believe it. So it's upon
Speaker 1: us once we take office, to make sure we restore
Speaker 1: people's faith in governments, restore the faith in the election system.
Speaker 1: You have republican governor's, Republican Secretary of States like in
Speaker 1: Georgia saying we had a recount, Joe Biden's the winner.
Speaker 1: The election was fair, there was no fraud, and those
Speaker 1: people who are going to choose to believe the alternative
Speaker 1: facts are just going to believe that. Now, how can
Speaker 1: we help you and Senator Harris and everybody in the
Speaker 1: White House keep those promises for black people? How can
Speaker 1: we help on the ground. Well, I think you have
Speaker 1: to keep raising issues. We don't get a pass because
Speaker 1: one and I think that that's important, and I think
Speaker 1: I said it on this show before, Charlotte Mane. But
Speaker 1: I try to give you the thirty second of it.
Speaker 1: When Jesse Jackson, John Lewis and Martin Luther King and
Speaker 1: all those people, not Martin, but when the civil rights
Speaker 1: leaders went into visit London, Johnson after the passage of
Speaker 1: the Civil Rights Act that told him they needed a
Speaker 1: voting Rights Act. He said, I can't do it. They said, no,
Speaker 1: you have to do it. He said, I want to
Speaker 1: do it, but I don't have the political capital are
Speaker 1: the will of the people to do it. So help
Speaker 1: me by when you leave this room, make me do it.
Speaker 1: Go create the environment out there, create the demand for
Speaker 1: that change that will help me usher it in. So
Speaker 1: to the extent that people are still talking about Black
Speaker 1: Lives Matter movement, whether it helped or hurt, Black Lives
Speaker 1: Matter movement is a partner in the struggle for progress
Speaker 1: in this country, and we recognize that. We applaud them,
Speaker 1: and the more that they push, the more that we're
Speaker 1: able to do. And so that's what we need from
Speaker 1: you too. I mean, we have to make sure that
Speaker 1: our people are engaged. And if that means our people
Speaker 1: are engaged enough to the point where they are criticizing
Speaker 1: our action or in action, well that's just a consequence
Speaker 1: of it. But it moves the needle forward. So just
Speaker 1: keep doing what you're doing, being an honest voice, plane spoken,
Speaker 1: keeping it real, however, you know, being woke, however we
Speaker 1: describe it or have what the young people say it.
Speaker 1: That's what we need from you, and so young people
Speaker 1: need the truth and the real truth. And the more
Speaker 1: it incentivises them to be a part of the process,
Speaker 1: I think that is very very important. You know, you know,
Speaker 1: and I know you're part of the administration, But on
Speaker 1: a scale of one to let's say, the Civil Rights
Speaker 1: Act of nineteen sixty four, do you have faith in
Speaker 1: the Biden Harris administration to really make transformative change for
Speaker 1: the black community. Absolutely, you know. The hindrance is the
Speaker 1: fact that we did not pick up the Senate yet,
Speaker 1: and hopefully we can pick up those two seats in Georgia.
Speaker 1: We need the people in order to just really show up.
Speaker 1: But the will is there, and you know, my grandmother
Speaker 1: used to say, whether there's the will, there's a way,
Speaker 1: And so I believe that both of them want to
Speaker 1: be very transformative and leave a legacy bigger and better
Speaker 1: than the sixty four Civil Rights Act, sixty five Voting
Speaker 1: Rights Act. And part of what we want to do
Speaker 1: is to extend that Voting Rights Act, which has lapsed
Speaker 1: since the Supreme Court decision that gutted it. But by
Speaker 1: the way, I just want to also throw in there
Speaker 1: that you know, Vice President Biden did break a barrier
Speaker 1: or and show some courage and the ability to think
Speaker 1: out of the box and take chances by picking not
Speaker 1: only the first woman, but the first black woman to
Speaker 1: be a vice president candidate on a major ticket. And
Speaker 1: by the way, at the end of the day, as
Speaker 1: I look at this, I don't think there's another ticket
Speaker 1: that would have beat Donald Trump as close as this
Speaker 1: election was. I think Senator Harris was a part of
Speaker 1: the ticket. And I think Joe's authenticity and people knowing
Speaker 1: him is what earned him the title of president elected
Speaker 1: soon to be forty six president of the United States.
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I just you know, I just
Speaker 1: want more than the symbolism at this point. That's all,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Oh look, I agree with you.
Speaker 1: I would just say, if you want to see what
Speaker 1: somebody's going to do in the future, just look at
Speaker 1: their past actions. And I think that that should at
Speaker 1: least earn, you know, a sense of you know, good will.
Speaker 1: Not saying that that good will should last in perpetuity,
Speaker 1: but I think it's it sets the tone for what
Speaker 1: type of administration this wants to be. And I would
Speaker 1: just tell you, as talking to President elect Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: It is very clear that he wants to empower and
Speaker 1: do more for the African American community and any president
Speaker 1: before him. And you know there are other issues he
Speaker 1: wants to have that legacy on, but he is very
Speaker 1: set on making sure that you know, uh lift every
Speaker 1: voice agenda, it's actually implemented. Well, we're gonna be on
Speaker 1: his ass, so don't change your number. Okay, alright, Cedric,
Speaker 1: we appreciate you for checking in. Man and call and call.
Speaker 1: You can call Life to you back now, Patty, Cedric Richmond,
Speaker 1: It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, Thank you brother. It's
Speaker 1: topic time on the phone. Call eight hundred five eight
Speaker 1: five one oh five one to join it to the
Speaker 1: discussion with the Breakfast Club. Talk about it morning. Everybody
Speaker 1: is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Now. If you're just joining us,
Speaker 1: we're asking eight hundred five eight five one o five one,
Speaker 1: would you date yourself? That is the question. Yes, it
Speaker 1: came from a tweet that you put up, not a
Speaker 1: tweet from what I came up. I would talk about
Speaker 1: It's not true. I was talking about it on my podcast.
Speaker 1: Did you. Oh gosh V posted this morning flashback Friday.
Speaker 1: They shout to this beautiful woman at dj envy. I
Speaker 1: woke up for the first time and she wasn't laying
Speaker 1: next to me. I don't know what Envy's going through,
Speaker 1: but um now, I never forget Envy did have sex
Speaker 1: with himself previously. Oh yeah, the nine and a half
Speaker 1: inch deal though. True, true, true, but that's just I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know if he's that big, but
Speaker 1: it was. You know, that's just sex though. Would you
Speaker 1: date yourself though? I'm going to as well. What happened
Speaker 1: was I texted, I put it on Instagram a picture
Speaker 1: of my wife, and I said she wasn't laying next
Speaker 1: to me. My wife doesn't have a Twitter, so it
Speaker 1: goes on Twitter automatically, and because she doesn't have a Twitter,
Speaker 1: they just put my name at dj envy. That's what
Speaker 1: it is. You can go to Instagram and see the post,
Speaker 1: but anyway, it doesn't automatically. It does well mind when
Speaker 1: I hit Instagram and automatically does Twitter as well. Um,
Speaker 1: but like I was saying on my podcast, we were
Speaker 1: talking about would you date yourself? You know, looking at yourself? Now,
Speaker 1: would you date yourself. Let me ask you, Charlotta Magne.
Speaker 1: I know that you're small. You're tiny, you have a
Speaker 1: lot of cute insecurities, different colors on your face. Would
Speaker 1: you date yourself? Bro? First of all, I don't talk
Speaker 1: about the old version of me, a little messy bottom yourself. Listen,
Speaker 1: the old version of me that led with ego. No,
Speaker 1: this version of me that leads with soul. Yes, that's
Speaker 1: because I have done the work on myself, you know,
Speaker 1: through therapy and having a Sacred Purpose coach. I practice
Speaker 1: mindfulness in a real way. And the greatest compliment that
Speaker 1: I received nowadays is people tell me how much I evolved.
Speaker 1: So when I look back at the old me and
Speaker 1: listen to things I used to say, things I used
Speaker 1: to do, I didn't love myself. I didn't love myself
Speaker 1: like I thought I did. I was a hurt individual
Speaker 1: and hurt people, hurt people, and I led with my
Speaker 1: trauma in a lot of situations. But I went on
Speaker 1: a journey of healing and I'm still healing in a
Speaker 1: lot of ways. But I know that I'm connected to
Speaker 1: this great universe that God built, and God built me
Speaker 1: to be a part of it. So I feel whole.
Speaker 1: So this whole version of me. Yes, I would date
Speaker 1: this whole version of me. That's that's I'm not a
Speaker 1: broken human with a wounded go anymore. So yes I would.
Speaker 1: I would date this version of me. I am a catch.
Speaker 1: All right, you're not a catch. But I said the
Speaker 1: same thing. You know, before I had an ego, I
Speaker 1: was insecure. No, I wouldn't have dated me, and I
Speaker 1: thank god get stayed with me. Now, yeah, I'm a
Speaker 1: different individual. I have changed, I have evolved, and I
Speaker 1: continue to evolve. Now what about you? Ye oh absolutely,
Speaker 1: I think I've been an amazing myself. I think I'm
Speaker 1: an amazing girlfriend. All my ex boyfriends love me. I
Speaker 1: don't have any of those issues. I think I've made
Speaker 1: poor decisions when it comes to the men that I
Speaker 1: did it. But no, I'm a very like, nice, accommodating person.
Speaker 1: Are you feeling yourself? What about the boy you got,
Speaker 1: the boyfriend you got beat up? What about the boyfriend
Speaker 1: who left at the game when he was y'all were
Speaker 1: sitting in row three hundred and then you moved to
Speaker 1: the to the court with jay Z. Yeah, what about
Speaker 1: that boy person? That's the same guy. I believe well
Speaker 1: number one. Okay, he still wanted to date me after that,
Speaker 1: and I still was very nice to him, but he
Speaker 1: was not my boyfriend. Went out a few times. It
Speaker 1: wasn't that serious, but you know, I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: think he was a good guy. I like that. Get
Speaker 1: what you're saying. You're saying, she want him? No, that's
Speaker 1: what it sounds like. He is the woman that all
Speaker 1: her exits still want to be with, but him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that I do. I do believe that I'm
Speaker 1: a good girlfriend because I'm the type of person that
Speaker 1: I do like everything for you that I can. I
Speaker 1: always do like special surprises. You know, I'm really amazing
Speaker 1: in bed. So yeah, I think, Oh, are you feeling yourself?
Speaker 1: Feeling myself? Feeling myself? All right, let's go to the
Speaker 1: phone line eight hundred five five one five one, Hello,
Speaker 1: who's this d sha A d shu? The morning we're
Speaker 1: asking would you date yourself? Mama? Um? I would have
Speaker 1: to say I would agree with or agree with you
Speaker 1: DJ like old me, No, I wouldn't. Like I was
Speaker 1: like super like aggressive and it was like hard for
Speaker 1: me to kind of let people in and I didn't
Speaker 1: really care about people feelings but it really took me
Speaker 1: to kind of like grow up and realize that not
Speaker 1: everything is about you, and so like now I would
Speaker 1: date myself. I would actually marry myself. But you know,
Speaker 1: old me most definitely naw, no, it's very important what
Speaker 1: you just said. You said that, um you said, uh
Speaker 1: that you would you say you you wouldn't date yourself
Speaker 1: because of what It's something you said that made me
Speaker 1: think about you were leading with ego. Oh I was
Speaker 1: very like self centered, and I wouldn't go in. Yes,
Speaker 1: you were leading with ego and not your soul. That's
Speaker 1: what that is about. That's what that's about. And I
Speaker 1: wouldn't even give a person like a chance to even
Speaker 1: like I was just very fanned office when it comes.
Speaker 1: Like I always kind of was scared of love, like
Speaker 1: just seeing it. How how what I seen what love
Speaker 1: was growing up, So I was always scared to even
Speaker 1: deal with that. But as I got older, I realized
Speaker 1: that you know, it's it's you know, love and relationship
Speaker 1: and stuff. It's how you make it and it's typically
Speaker 1: if you put like a good foot forwarding, you'll get
Speaker 1: something back in return. So like I look at things
Speaker 1: like that now, so I feel like, yeah, I'm most
Speaker 1: definitely good date myself. Now, continue to do the work
Speaker 1: on yourself. Thank you, mama. Hello, who's this? This is
Speaker 1: try Hey Troy, good morning, Good morning. How you doing man?
Speaker 1: Thank you for taking my call, y'all. I got a
Speaker 1: serious question and no one has been able to answer
Speaker 1: for I'm ex I'm ex military, retired military, and you
Speaker 1: know I don't like to talk about a president, so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna use that term that man always here, that
Speaker 1: man says I've done more for African Americans than any
Speaker 1: other president and you didn't like me on what he
Speaker 1: did us? No, I can't, but that's not what we're
Speaker 1: discussing right now. Could you were just asking what I
Speaker 1: would you date? Would you date yourself? Brother? Looking at
Speaker 1: yourself now, would you date yourself? Man? Oh? So so
Speaker 1: I'm too. He can't even stay on topic. Yeah, hello, Hey,
Speaker 1: God damn y'all made him look in the mirror and
Speaker 1: he hung up on himself like this crisis Christ. He
Speaker 1: answered that he wouldn't date himself, so matter of factty
Speaker 1: I wanted He's like, oh no, no, no way, Hello,
Speaker 1: who's this is this Denise Booth? Hey, we're asking would
Speaker 1: you date yourself, Mamma one thousand percent. I was married
Speaker 1: to Antonio Tarber the fourth time, like head weight up
Speaker 1: in the world, not still with the guys you were.
Speaker 1: You were married to Antonio Tarbar and you stuck up
Speaker 1: for me, mister Charlottamagne. I did have to tell me
Speaker 1: what happened. You were um on the Wendy Williams Show
Speaker 1: at the time, and UM Superhead was feeling an interview
Speaker 1: and I had got so mad at her. You were
Speaker 1: just like, why is you putting her name in the book?
Speaker 1: Why are you putting her in a book? And I
Speaker 1: never even read the book, and I thought my own
Speaker 1: book it is called Everything That Glitters. It's on Denise S.
Speaker 1: Booth author dot com and it just came out. And
Speaker 1: I really think women need to know that we give
Speaker 1: men so much more power and women have the strength
Speaker 1: beyond we could ever reimagine. Like I do agree black
Speaker 1: women of the strong species. I was just watching Antonio
Speaker 1: Tarba on Rocky bow Bowler like yesterday, it was on
Speaker 1: MTV two or something, and my book that I was
Speaker 1: just about Rocky bat Bowl as well. I was his
Speaker 1: wife at that time. He was rocking about bowls wife
Speaker 1: while he was filming the movie right, No, I was
Speaker 1: when he was superstar, Charlaine, isn't too early for him?
Speaker 1: Why you did it? And investor stallone and to say, NBA,
Speaker 1: I actually I helped at rehab. You know, rehab? That
Speaker 1: kind of crazy. She's talking about the club. Many connections.
Speaker 1: We stop right now. Why was it being rehab? I
Speaker 1: always thought he was on drugs? Tell me, man, you
Speaker 1: know him, You should ask him. I was there, he
Speaker 1: was having Are you in rehab? He might have liked
Speaker 1: getting you know, situated you How do you have fun
Speaker 1: in rehab? Stop talking about rehab? Somebody rehab the club
Speaker 1: by DJ. I don't know what you're talking about, but
Speaker 1: I'm hoping you're talking about rehab the club. I've never
Speaker 1: been to any other rehab. Is this in the book
Speaker 1: as well? It was? It was at a nightclub. It
Speaker 1: was on me at the day party? And what year
Speaker 1: was this? What ye got my birthday? And no date?
Speaker 1: It was like the Royal Day weekend. They hired you
Speaker 1: to DJ? Yeah year, I want to say maybe three
Speaker 1: years ago it was they definitely, they definitely were trying
Speaker 1: to make it a thing. All right, Well, thank you
Speaker 1: for calling Mama, what's the moral of the story, guys.
Speaker 1: The moral of the story is be someone you would date.
Speaker 1: That's all. Be somebody that leads with soul and not ego.
Speaker 1: The person that leads with soul is the person you
Speaker 1: want to date. The person that leads with ego. Run
Speaker 1: all right, keep a lot. This to Breakfast Club. Good morning,
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club ordering everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee,
Speaker 1: Charlomine the guy we are the Breakfast Club. He got
Speaker 1: special guests in the building. Indeed, we have Tamika Mallory
Speaker 1: and my soul reading untell Freedom. Yes, Yes, And today
Speaker 1: is a big day because y'all launching the Street Politician
Speaker 1: podcast on Black Effect I Heeart Radio. That's right, that's right,
Speaker 1: that is true. Thank you so much, Lenar for the
Speaker 1: opportunity to be a part of your new endeavor with
Speaker 1: the Black Effect Network. UM, it feels really good to
Speaker 1: be in a place where you can be as black
Speaker 1: as you want to. Because that's right. Why do y'all
Speaker 1: call yourself screet politicians? UM? I think with me, we
Speaker 1: we decided that that there was a disconnect from the
Speaker 1: streets in politics, you know, coming from communities modualized communities,
Speaker 1: black culture, hip hop culture. A lot of us in
Speaker 1: our community don't feel connected to politics, and you know,
Speaker 1: and me and Tamika being on the forefront the civil
Speaker 1: rights and advocacy work that we do, we understand that
Speaker 1: disconnect and we feel like we know how to translate
Speaker 1: from the streets to the suits, as we say, you know,
Speaker 1: So we wanted to create a show, you know, a
Speaker 1: platform where we talked about hip hop culture, when we
Speaker 1: talked about how it integrates and intertwines with politics and
Speaker 1: how everybody definitely has a role and can play a role.
Speaker 1: You know. I remember going to a club and DJ
Speaker 1: self see me, and then when I started doing advocacy,
Speaker 1: were in the strip club and he was like, what
Speaker 1: you're doing here? I say, the same thing you're doing
Speaker 1: here watching the strip but he's like, naw, you ain't
Speaker 1: supposed to be a here, you know you do. I'm like, nah,
Speaker 1: that's and then that's the disconnect, y'all think, because we
Speaker 1: actually on the front lines and we do work for
Speaker 1: civil rights and we fight for the rights of our
Speaker 1: people that were not for the culture, and we're not
Speaker 1: actually the same people like you. So that makes people
Speaker 1: feel like they don't have an intersection into this work.
Speaker 1: So you know, our platform is showing that intersection, showing
Speaker 1: how you can of hip hop culture. You can like
Speaker 1: the Strip Club, you can like Cardi B. And you
Speaker 1: can still go and do a meeting with Jesse Jackson's
Speaker 1: and sit down, you know what, Revernard shopping and be
Speaker 1: in at the table doing civil rights work. So when
Speaker 1: you only interview people on that have your same views,
Speaker 1: or let's say, for the podcast, when you talk with
Speaker 1: somebody like a little Wayne or even like a little Pip,
Speaker 1: I mean a little Pump or you know, like when
Speaker 1: you have conversations with people that don't necessarily a view
Speaker 1: or have the same views as you, I mean I
Speaker 1: will to me and we always we agree with each other,
Speaker 1: we don't age with each other. So that's that's what
Speaker 1: our podcast was pretty much, Beach. We got a lot
Speaker 1: of different views. We share the same you know, the
Speaker 1: same passion for the movement, but we definitely have different views.
Speaker 1: And sometimes on the show, you know, we get into debates.
Speaker 1: So I definitely want to bring somebody up that has
Speaker 1: a different point of view than me and try to
Speaker 1: get to understand them. Now you can't I can bring
Speaker 1: you up when you have a different point of view, right,
Speaker 1: But I can't morally conflict. I don't even want to
Speaker 1: give a platform to somebody that I'm morally conflict and
Speaker 1: understand that you getting on my platform is elevating your
Speaker 1: voice to a more standard that doesn't coincide with minds.
Speaker 1: Now that's something different. So like at Takasi sixty nine,
Speaker 1: if we want to talk about this documentary that's out
Speaker 1: that's never gonna happen, what about what are your thought
Speaker 1: to people that don't necessarily agree with your views? You know? Well,
Speaker 1: like I said, Mike Sonna, not have conflict. And you know,
Speaker 1: we've been doing street politicians for a while, but now
Speaker 1: we have a bigger platform with this podcast. And I
Speaker 1: think this election cycle has sort of helped us see
Speaker 1: where we align more than we used to think we
Speaker 1: did because we used to argue about everything. But as
Speaker 1: the election played out and we really got to understand
Speaker 1: the trauma of our communities, I think we've begin to
Speaker 1: have conversations where we're kind just trying to see out
Speaker 1: of eyes. So that's one part of it. I have
Speaker 1: no problem with talking to people that I don't necessarily
Speaker 1: agree with. However, I think my songs sentiments are so
Speaker 1: true that I'm not trying to elevate people and provide,
Speaker 1: you know, false narratives to our community, because it's just
Speaker 1: too serious right now, Like we just have so much
Speaker 1: that's at stake and we cannot be sitting up playing
Speaker 1: around or had, you know, joking around with people's lives,
Speaker 1: because when young people, particularly hear points of views, sometimes
Speaker 1: they can take the wrong things from certain people just
Speaker 1: because of the packaging, and they begin to apply those
Speaker 1: things to their real lives. And we can't afford to
Speaker 1: do that at this moment. And I think the other
Speaker 1: reason why I wanted it to be called street Politicians
Speaker 1: is because people think you're similar to what my song
Speaker 1: was saying, that we live in a bubble that we
Speaker 1: don't understand, like what's going on in the world. How
Speaker 1: do we deal with the relational issues in our community
Speaker 1: as well? Because it's politics in a marriage and you know,
Speaker 1: trying to get married, trying to fall in love, it's
Speaker 1: politics and everything that we do in our lives, and
Speaker 1: I think we have a way of being able to
Speaker 1: show people the connection. What do you think about people
Speaker 1: having views like supporting or Donald Trump, right, and We
Speaker 1: saw some hip hop artists come forward and show their
Speaker 1: support for him, but other people will say, okay, well,
Speaker 1: everybody's allowed to have a different opinion. We shouldn't discredit
Speaker 1: people just because of who they're voting for. What are
Speaker 1: your thoughts on that they should have that opinion somewhere else?
Speaker 1: Because I'm just you know, like I said, I can't
Speaker 1: I can't even really be in conversation with individuals who
Speaker 1: are trying to help me understand why Donald Trump is
Speaker 1: good for our people, knowing that this man has literally
Speaker 1: been a disaster that killed two hundred and forty thousand individuals.
Speaker 1: But certainly I'm not trying to have you know, Charlotmagne's
Speaker 1: friend and Killer Mike's friend Campus Owens on my show. Well,
Speaker 1: I would have conversations with Waka Flock or fifty or
Speaker 1: you know, or a little pumba one them who said
Speaker 1: that they support, break down what they're saying and give
Speaker 1: them an understanding of what they're doing, because a lot
Speaker 1: of them don't have they don't even have knowledge of
Speaker 1: what they're talking about, and they're going along with you know,
Speaker 1: forced narratives that being put on the internet, and that
Speaker 1: they're hearing and they don't have Like little Wayne doesn't
Speaker 1: know what the platinum plan is. He just looked at
Speaker 1: somebody told him it made sense. He probably has no
Speaker 1: idea what he's saying. So when you sit down and
Speaker 1: you really have a conversation with them and you break
Speaker 1: it down from beginning to end, I believe that we
Speaker 1: can come to some level of understanding and really educating people.
Speaker 1: You're posted about Angel left and tweeted out about the Millionmagamarks,
Speaker 1: where she was supporting it and saying it was good
Speaker 1: until some end, whereas came and ruined everything. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know. Well. And then the week before that, I
Speaker 1: was on TMC and she wrote underneath someone posted the
Speaker 1: video of me being on the show, and she wrote
Speaker 1: on in the comments that black women know how to
Speaker 1: do everything except keep their babies in their roomb or
Speaker 1: something like that. And so I wrote, because you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes the petty it comes over me and I can't
Speaker 1: help it. I try to fight it, but in this
Speaker 1: particular situation, I just couldn't help it. And I sent
Speaker 1: it to Charlemagne and said, and don't tell me to
Speaker 1: delete it, because I'm not. She lost her election by
Speaker 1: seventy plus percent in Atlanta, she just bring oh see,
Speaker 1: well exactly exactly. So she ran for Congressman Congressman John
Speaker 1: Lewis to c and people think that black folks are stupid,
Speaker 1: Like those people weren't just voting for Congressman Lewis because
Speaker 1: you know, they just were like robots. They were voting
Speaker 1: for him because they believed in something. They had a
Speaker 1: connection to his work. So when you come in as
Speaker 1: a person who's talking about carrying Donald Trump's message, there
Speaker 1: is no way, shape or form that folks are going
Speaker 1: to support that. And so they slapped her down and
Speaker 1: I had to write on my page, I thought somebody
Speaker 1: who lost the election by seventy not, like, how are
Speaker 1: you talking about me? And you need to go figure
Speaker 1: out where you went wrong this thing. So, no, we're
Speaker 1: not gonna get it because I you know, I probably
Speaker 1: get into arguments and be looking crazy and then y'all
Speaker 1: will be texting me, this is not you, miss Nalary.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't want to hear that. They don't
Speaker 1: realize that it really is that really is you? All Right?
Speaker 1: We got more with Tamika Mallory and Mason don't move.
Speaker 1: It's the breakfast cloak of Morning Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy,
Speaker 1: Angela Yee, Sharlomagne the guy. We are the breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: We have Tamika, Mallory and Mason in the building. Ye Now,
Speaker 1: when we do look at everything that's going on in
Speaker 1: hip hop right now, and there's been you know a
Speaker 1: lot of unfortunate incidents that have happened in the past
Speaker 1: a few weeks. What it can be done? Because I
Speaker 1: you know, you have to come from a place where
Speaker 1: you're not preaching and trying to tell people what to do,
Speaker 1: but what can be done. I think for me, I
Speaker 1: think that's where you know, I played a role in
Speaker 1: just the movement in general. It's coming from hip hop
Speaker 1: being incarcerated, being in the streets, understanding the dynamics of
Speaker 1: the streets, and being able to speak to them, not
Speaker 1: like you said, don't preach to them, but let them
Speaker 1: understand the realities of what come with that life. You know,
Speaker 1: every day I'm dealing with young kids and mentor young kids.
Speaker 1: I have an organization and quote raising kings and which
Speaker 1: that's what we do. We sit down and talk to
Speaker 1: at risk youth and have conversations with them and explain
Speaker 1: to them what a real right to passage is and
Speaker 1: what manhood really looks like. I think what happened with
Speaker 1: this hip hop culture is we start identifying the wrong
Speaker 1: things with manhood and what quote unquote real was, you know,
Speaker 1: and we would misled. So there has to be a
Speaker 1: real conversation. People have to be honest and say, Yo,
Speaker 1: that's just not real. It's nothing real about you killing
Speaker 1: your brother's nothing real about you beefing with somebody that
Speaker 1: you don't even know when you willing to take his life.
Speaker 1: That's not real. I don't know who told you that.
Speaker 1: Anybody who's telling you that is live. We got to
Speaker 1: be able to call that out and make some make
Speaker 1: being unified and make loving each other. What's in again?
Speaker 1: What's trending? You know? We create what cool is? We
Speaker 1: create the trends. I think we also have to understand
Speaker 1: that this pandemic has made people hungry for real, Like
Speaker 1: it's a different situation. We're going back to the eighties
Speaker 1: and the nineties. When people are hungry, people start and
Speaker 1: how to figure it out. Because the stimulus money has
Speaker 1: ran out, they busy, you know, debated and by the way,
Speaker 1: even if you give people another twelve hundred dollars or whatever.
Speaker 1: It's not enough money for folks to really survive and thrive.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna see more and more violence. And that's why,
Speaker 1: you know, everybody goes crazy about this whole defund the
Speaker 1: police topic. But it's important that we understand what defund
Speaker 1: and the police will give us the opportunity to do,
Speaker 1: and that is to be able to refund our communities,
Speaker 1: as Mason said, and to put some moneys into the
Speaker 1: things that we need in terms of housing, in terms
Speaker 1: of food, and Louisville can Kentucky. There is only one
Speaker 1: supermarket in the entire town, and when there were protests happening,
Speaker 1: that Kroger closed down and so people were unable to
Speaker 1: get real food. These are like real, live issues that's
Speaker 1: happening in cities across this country and urban communities, which
Speaker 1: creates violent situations. So we're going to see more of
Speaker 1: it until we come to a place where we stop putting. Because,
Speaker 1: by the way, the police officers who we came up
Speaker 1: against many times in Louisville at the protests, oh, they
Speaker 1: got the best equipment. They liked the apple of police department.
Speaker 1: They have all of this militarized equipment and yet there
Speaker 1: are no mental health services and many of the people
Speaker 1: who are protesting for Brianna Taylor every single day are
Speaker 1: folks that don't have real housing. So we have to
Speaker 1: be able to find balance so that we can take
Speaker 1: guns out of people's hands and give them the opportunities.
Speaker 1: Tim Goa, why do you think Democrats get the messaging
Speaker 1: of funding the police all wrong? I think Democrats are
Speaker 1: scared of everybody except the people who are the base
Speaker 1: of their party. I think that's the problem. I think
Speaker 1: that they that they are. And it depends on which
Speaker 1: Democrats you're talking about, because if you think about some
Speaker 1: of the older, more established and some of the younger
Speaker 1: but people who lean towards the older, more establishment politics
Speaker 1: of the Democratic Party, and then you think about the
Speaker 1: il han Omars and others Alexandria Cassio, they have no
Speaker 1: problem saying defund the police. And that tells you that
Speaker 1: there are two different mindsets that is happening within the party.
Speaker 1: And by the way, many of the individuals who are
Speaker 1: afraid to use language like defund have been losing their elections.
Speaker 1: But that's a that's a whole different story. Now what
Speaker 1: about You know a lot of people feel like Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: as far as the presidency was just as were especially
Speaker 1: black people, was just as worse as Donald Trump. What
Speaker 1: do you say to those people because some peop but
Speaker 1: they're no different the drop but they no different. Listen,
Speaker 1: those people right there, those people right there right are
Speaker 1: ignoring immediate imminent danger as we see. Does Joe Biden
Speaker 1: have racism, Yes he does. He's a racist. I don't
Speaker 1: believe that any seventy year old white man doesn't have
Speaker 1: a level of racism and uneducated in racial sensitivity and
Speaker 1: understanding certain things. And that's something that Joe Biden is
Speaker 1: definitely guilty, guilty of. But there's an intentional white supremacist
Speaker 1: racist mentality that Donald Trump exudes, he activates every time
Speaker 1: he speaks and is purposely done. So when we look
Speaker 1: at those two things, we we compare to ninety four
Speaker 1: crack bill, I mean the ninety four crime bill and
Speaker 1: a mandatory minimum citizen, and we talk about those things,
Speaker 1: we have to realize that those were twenty plus years.
Speaker 1: But in two thousand and twenty, there is a president
Speaker 1: right now who is out here doing the exact same
Speaker 1: thing that somebody was doing twenty plush years ago and
Speaker 1: planning to further that activity. There's one who might want
Speaker 1: to make amends for that activity that he did twenty
Speaker 1: years ago. Yeah, what I tell people is Joe Biden
Speaker 1: has implemented legislation that has ruined way more Black people
Speaker 1: than anything Trump is implemented. Yet, if Trump would have
Speaker 1: stayed in that White House, he was already rolling back
Speaker 1: the war on drugs, mass and causation, all of that.
Speaker 1: That first step back was an illusion. But you know,
Speaker 1: but I think that when you you know, the whole
Speaker 1: idea of the two men being a light yep, I
Speaker 1: think that it is probably true that they have some similarities.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to argue with that, but I do
Speaker 1: know that one of them decided to bring a black
Speaker 1: woman along and the other one. Every black woman that's
Speaker 1: been around has been disrespected and treated like trash. Damn Well,
Speaker 1: we are our own responsibility too, because once you left
Speaker 1: the president, it's not just okay, let's wait and hope
Speaker 1: he does what we need them to do for us.
Speaker 1: That just means that we have to make sure we
Speaker 1: keep our foots on their next to make sure what
Speaker 1: we need to get done for our community. And that's
Speaker 1: our responsibility as well. And that's why that's why I
Speaker 1: got hoped right now, because because of the people like
Speaker 1: to me getting my son being on the ground. But
Speaker 1: that's what we did with Obama. We had a party.
Speaker 1: We went to the Christmas parties because I was there
Speaker 1: and I was siland I was taking I was in
Speaker 1: the White House several times. The party was a big, big,
Speaker 1: big deal. When you got that invitation to the Christmas party,
Speaker 1: you was, You was in the You was in the
Speaker 1: cool crowd. You know what I'm saying. And I was saying,
Speaker 1: we cannot allow uh the line dancing to go on
Speaker 1: Memorial Weekend in May and forget about the work that
Speaker 1: has to happen. So what demand do you think need
Speaker 1: to be placed on the Biden Harris administration. I think
Speaker 1: we need to I'm sorry, I think we absolutely need
Speaker 1: to go back to UH said task force and begin
Speaker 1: to look into these departments. I think also they need
Speaker 1: to instruct their FBI and you know, and and the
Speaker 1: Department of Justice. Rather forget the FBI, they need to
Speaker 1: instruct the Department of Justice to look into some of
Speaker 1: these real serious cases like Brianna Taylor. All Right, we
Speaker 1: got more with Tamika, Mallory and Mason don't move. It's
Speaker 1: the breakfast cloakal Morning Morning. Everybody's Angela, Charlemagne the guy.
Speaker 1: We are the breakfast Club. We have Tamika, Mallory and
Speaker 1: Myson in the building. Charlemagne. Now, you know what I
Speaker 1: wanted to ask, y'all? When when when do you turn
Speaker 1: people off? Like? Because going back to Angela and Kansas, right,
Speaker 1: because in their mind they feel like they are liberating
Speaker 1: black people. What what would you tell them about liberating
Speaker 1: black people? What do you think they're doing wrong? Who
Speaker 1: are you talking about? Like your cousins, Tamika, those are
Speaker 1: her cousins. I listen. I love you know, I actually
Speaker 1: like Candice as as a person. I've had conversations with her.
Speaker 1: Um we sat on the panel together. I wasn't feeling well.
Speaker 1: She was really you know, concerned about that. We had
Speaker 1: a good conversation. But you know, people work for folks.
Speaker 1: People be trying to get them checks like that's really
Speaker 1: it's nothing more you can say. You know, I think
Speaker 1: an Angela's standing situation. You're thinking, you know, she was
Speaker 1: pardon and we get that, and it was a good
Speaker 1: thing that her story is strong. We know that her
Speaker 1: story is solid. I love her story. That's why I
Speaker 1: was attracted to her. But then as you begin to
Speaker 1: dig deeper into these people who follow Trump, many of
Speaker 1: it it's like cult like behavior, you know. And and
Speaker 1: I've been saying over and over again, Yes, on one hand,
Speaker 1: we could see some benefit to any administration. There's nobody
Speaker 1: that's going to come into office and you just say, oh,
Speaker 1: they did nothing. They just totally did nothing at all.
Speaker 1: Everybody just because of the way the government works. There's
Speaker 1: going to be some pushing pull, there'll be some benefits,
Speaker 1: but overall, it's like looking at Trump and it's my
Speaker 1: same argument. But ice cube, it's my same argument with
Speaker 1: fifty cent it's the same argument I have, where all
Speaker 1: all of them on one side. You might be able
Speaker 1: to get you a nice house, a nice car, you
Speaker 1: can get you a diamond ring, but when you get home,
Speaker 1: the man is going to beat you and bloody your
Speaker 1: eyes and choke you and damn near killing you. So
Speaker 1: these things can't be dealt with separately. They have to
Speaker 1: be looked at as an entire pie. If you're going
Speaker 1: into the administration and you're working with them to get
Speaker 1: some economic relief, but then on the streets, they're allowing
Speaker 1: police departments across the nation to beat up on those
Speaker 1: of us who are fighting for our rights. Those conversations
Speaker 1: can't can't happen in isolation. They have to happen at
Speaker 1: the same time. And I know I'm probably talking too much,
Speaker 1: but I have to say this. It was my same thing,
Speaker 1: you know, I was. I was real careful, an ice
Speaker 1: cute thing because I have learned to try my best
Speaker 1: not to fight with black people in public as much
Speaker 1: as possible. I've been working on that, especially with black men,
Speaker 1: because there have been moments when I've had some real
Speaker 1: knockdown draft house with black men in public, and it
Speaker 1: has hurt other black men that I loved. Especially as
Speaker 1: a black woman. I know that our power is so
Speaker 1: strong that we have to be careful when and how
Speaker 1: we use our words. And my son doesn't enough for
Speaker 1: both of us, So I just let him be one
Speaker 1: to go out and argue with people all day. And
Speaker 1: the situation where Ice Cuba took me a while, I
Speaker 1: watched and as I grow it, rather than me speaking
Speaker 1: on it publicly. At first, I sat back and I watched,
Speaker 1: and he tweeted something the other day. That helped me
Speaker 1: realize that I wasn't wrong for feeling that the way
Speaker 1: in which they approached the situation with what he was
Speaker 1: trying to do, which I think was a good thing,
Speaker 1: but the way in which they approached it, I already
Speaker 1: knew that it wasn't I didn't agree with it. He
Speaker 1: tweeted a list of names of individuals that he talked to,
Speaker 1: and he was saying, don't try to tell me that
Speaker 1: I didn't speak to real people before putting together my plan,
Speaker 1: and it was not one black woman listed, not one.
Speaker 1: And I knew right then that if you had the
Speaker 1: right black woman like Alicia Garza at the table to
Speaker 1: be a part of the conversation, she would have said,
Speaker 1: here's the direction that I think we need to take
Speaker 1: with our people so that we can mitigate any potential
Speaker 1: harm in this particular election process. She also would have
Speaker 1: been able to bring forth other things aside from it.
Speaker 1: I know that maternity death is a major problem that
Speaker 1: seems to be the only real substantive thing in his
Speaker 1: plan that has to do with black women. If you
Speaker 1: don't have a strong black woman at the table, and
Speaker 1: it doesn't have to be Tomka Mallory but whoever it
Speaker 1: is that is able to help advise what you're doing,
Speaker 1: your plan is already going in the wrong direction. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's crazy coming from Q too, because I saw when
Speaker 1: Roland tried to connect Cube and Alicia, so it's not
Speaker 1: like he doesn't know Alicia exists. Right before I sit
Speaker 1: down and I'm gonna have a conversation with somebody who's
Speaker 1: been a sworn enemy to me, you have to show
Speaker 1: me some level of change. You have to make receipt,
Speaker 1: show me olive branch. Before I'm able to endorse you
Speaker 1: to sit down with you and have a conversation, I
Speaker 1: have to see that you're willing to do something to change.
Speaker 1: Absolutely right. Well, thank y'all so much o this this morning.
Speaker 1: Congratulations on everything that you guys have gone on and
Speaker 1: definitely loving appreciate y'all so much. So listen Screet Politicians
Speaker 1: podcast out right now on Black Effect. iHeartRadio every Wednesday,
Speaker 1: y'all safe, Le's gonna be a donkey because right now
Speaker 1: you want some real It's time for Donkey of the Day.
Speaker 1: So if we ever feel I need to be a
Speaker 1: donkey man, did she getting the name? Please tell me
Speaker 1: I had become donkey of the Day to Practice club
Speaker 1: Bitch You Donkey to day goes to the editor at
Speaker 1: large and co anchor of Yahoo Finances The First Trade
Speaker 1: Live Morning Show, Brian Brian Brian Brian Brian Brian. I
Speaker 1: will never call someone ignorant, okay for what they don't know,
Speaker 1: but I will call you ignorant if you're not willing
Speaker 1: to learn. Now. I read aheadline from you yesterday that
Speaker 1: I had to put on my Instagram page because it
Speaker 1: was so completely culturally clueless that it was disgusting. You
Speaker 1: can go look at it for yourself my Instagram and
Speaker 1: see to God cetch g o D. It's one of
Speaker 1: those moments where you realize why diversity matters so much,
Speaker 1: because when you have the large reach out of Yahoo
Speaker 1: Finance does and you put out this type of misinformation,
Speaker 1: it's just straight up erasure, straight up not acknowledging what
Speaker 1: culturally someone has done. I wouldn't go so far as
Speaker 1: to say this is a colonizer's way of seeing the world,
Speaker 1: because when you are a white privileged male, you have
Speaker 1: cultural blind spots because you don't have to pay attention
Speaker 1: to everybody else and everything you do see that's a
Speaker 1: first for you. Since you are an almighty all knowing
Speaker 1: white man, must be a first for everyone else. Right,
Speaker 1: In this case, it's not about a first. It's about
Speaker 1: something that has been a staple in black hip hop
Speaker 1: New York culture for years. Okay, what am I talking about,
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. I'm talking about Timberland. No, not the
Speaker 1: legendary producer and one of the architects of the Versus Battle.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about tims classic weak colored double souls only
Speaker 1: six inch premium waterproof, waterproof hiking boots that most of
Speaker 1: us have never hiked in in our lives. Have you
Speaker 1: ever hiked in a pair of boots? Envy paar talans?
Speaker 1: Have you ever hiked in a pair of Timberlance. I've
Speaker 1: never hiked a period. Okay, Now, I don't know if
Speaker 1: y'all saw what Senator Kamala Harris, Senator and vice presidential
Speaker 1: nominee Kamala Harris, she visited firefighters and towards the scene
Speaker 1: of the California Wildflowers in Fresno wildfires in Fresno yesterday,
Speaker 1: and when she stepped off the private jet, she made
Speaker 1: culturally clueless people of all racist golden nuts. Okay, let
Speaker 1: me read you some of these tweets about Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: and her TIMS and I put Tims in air quotes. BT,
Speaker 1: the network that told Envy that he wasn't black enough,
Speaker 1: posted the video of Senator Harris getting off the private
Speaker 1: jet with the caption stepping off the jet with the
Speaker 1: wheat Tims, hurry up and register the vote. Hashtag Kamala Harris,
Speaker 1: hashtag vote. I'm disappointed and whoever wrote that tweet from BT,
Speaker 1: because y'all should know better, and I'll tell you why
Speaker 1: in a second. A young lady name at Lady Nina
Speaker 1: said how you roll up to save the country? Hashtag
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris hashtag Tims. Aj del Gatto tweeted out, is
Speaker 1: she wearing Tims on the campaign trail? And that swagger?
Speaker 1: The ultimate cool girl? Sarah Pearl on Twitter said she
Speaker 1: wears TIMS two and Karen John Pierre from the Biden
Speaker 1: campaign posted the video of Kamala getting off the jet
Speaker 1: and she simply put the TAMS now. Brian Shazi, I
Speaker 1: need you to be paying attention right now, because, like
Speaker 1: I said, it's not what you don't know that makes
Speaker 1: you ignorant, it's what you are not willing to learn.
Speaker 1: See after all that excitement people had over Senator Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris wearing tims and I still have tims and air quotes.
Speaker 1: Brian wrote an article for Yahoo Finance. The headline of
Speaker 1: that article said, Kamala Harris may have made Timberland boots
Speaker 1: cool again. I repeat, Brian. Sazi Edita, a large for
Speaker 1: Yahoo Finance, wrote an article that said, sendaor Kamala Harris,
Speaker 1: who I love, by the way, may have made Timberland
Speaker 1: cool again. Wow. I've been reading all these articles about
Speaker 1: New York being dead, but this headline is really taking
Speaker 1: the Big Apple disrespect to another level. Since when have
Speaker 1: Tim's not been cool? Okay, Brian, I know you're the
Speaker 1: editor at large at Yahoo Finance, but it has to
Speaker 1: be at least one person of the culture who works
Speaker 1: at Yahoo Finance who is looking at this headline to
Speaker 1: didn't discuss and it's complaining about the fact that y'all
Speaker 1: don't know what the hell y'all talking about in regards
Speaker 1: the culture up there at Yahoo Finance. Brian, we live
Speaker 1: in a world now where you can really treat our
Speaker 1: culture like a safari based on who you follow on
Speaker 1: social media. If you follow people from you know, a
Speaker 1: various okay, cultures. If you follow people various coaches, you
Speaker 1: will see how disgusted people who know culture were over
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris's tims. Don't listen to the political liberal crowd,
Speaker 1: white all black because they had coach really coolers too.
Speaker 1: That's why they don't know how to communicate their messaging
Speaker 1: to the American people. That is why there is a
Speaker 1: disconnect now, okay in Senator Kamala Harris's tim's proven. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's go look at the other side of Twitter, shall we?
Speaker 1: My man master Age master asans from Brooklyn, right. Master
Speaker 1: As said, and I quote, those are not tims, even
Speaker 1: if Timberland made those shoes, I as a native New
Speaker 1: York and much repeat, those are not tims. No need
Speaker 1: for master Ash to explain if you know, you know.
Speaker 1: Randy C. Millett posted a meme of Djus and Merrill
Speaker 1: saying f out of here with the caption Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: had on the wrong tims A brother name at NFL.
Speaker 1: Molik on Twitter said, I'm really dying laughing still at them.
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris tims. He too put tims in air quotes
Speaker 1: and the fact that so many people from outside the
Speaker 1: culture are celebrating them joints as a relating point. Not
Speaker 1: knowing all Tims ain't good Tims. That right there sums
Speaker 1: up today's donkey of the day. In a tweet, Brian
Speaker 1: Sazzi of Yahoo Finance wrote a whole article saying Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris may have made Tims cool again, as if Tims
Speaker 1: have ever been anything less than cool. Brian wrote in
Speaker 1: his article, what better validation of Timberland's ruggedness mixed with
Speaker 1: comfort than Senator Harris's entire day in them. Don't talk
Speaker 1: to me about comfort and ruggedness of Timberlands if you
Speaker 1: have not found a way to wear them year round
Speaker 1: like my brother wax on my man is biscuit. Until
Speaker 1: you've worn Tims on the beach like wax and it's
Speaker 1: biscuit and Jesus from Jesus and Marrow, don't tell me
Speaker 1: about ruggedness mixed with comfort? Okay? Brian Sazo said, what
Speaker 1: better signal to shoppers that Tims could be cool again?
Speaker 1: Maybe not early nineties cool, but cool now that Harris
Speaker 1: is wearing a sneaker like version of the iconic footwear.
Speaker 1: That right there is the problem Brian sneaker like version
Speaker 1: of Tim's. We don't do that. Okay, just go read
Speaker 1: under my comments on the Graham all right, sim Ur
Speaker 1: sim here at iHeart says it looks like she has
Speaker 1: on the single soul Tim's blasphemy. Rocky Thunder said those
Speaker 1: the Burlington coat factory butters. Willie d from Nick Ghetto
Speaker 1: Boys said, in reference to you, Brian, his mama should
Speaker 1: be embarrassed and his daddy should have pulled out no
Speaker 1: mo talk, my man. Eugene, who works at the NAACP said,
Speaker 1: and I quote, if we weren't fighting forty five, she
Speaker 1: would have lost my vote on the lace up alone.
Speaker 1: Poor Senator Kamala Harris was cutting off all circulation to
Speaker 1: her ankles. The way she had those boots tied, like
Speaker 1: she really had them tied, like she was going to
Speaker 1: work on somebody's construction site. The moral of the story
Speaker 1: is Tim's have always been cool, Brian. In fact, Jimmy
Speaker 1: Choue released the Collaborate Tims this week, real tims, the
Speaker 1: six inch week premium joints, not whatever Senator Harris had on.
Speaker 1: And that's not her fault. But clearly she don't have
Speaker 1: anyone around her to tell her what Tim's the rock
Speaker 1: and how to rock him. If you're watching us on
Speaker 1: Revote TV, please please Revote put up this picture of aoc. Okay,
Speaker 1: do you see that picture of Aoc up on the screen.
Speaker 1: That's her with Jesus and Merrill. That's the kind of
Speaker 1: Tims you rock, and that is how you rock them. Okay,
Speaker 1: that was last year. I believe right. I think that
Speaker 1: was last year. You know why she had those on
Speaker 1: last year, Brian, because Tims have always been cool. Please
Speaker 1: let Chelsea Handler give Brian Shazzy of Yahoo Finance the
Speaker 1: biggest he hare hee haw hee haw. That is way
Speaker 1: too much, Dan maynne is. So let's send the Senator
Speaker 1: Harris the right pair of Tims and Jimmy Chou. If
Speaker 1: y'all want to send us a pair for Senator Harris,
Speaker 1: hit us up because I'll get Sena to Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: sizes and we're gonna get her the right pair of Tims. Mina,
Speaker 1: we gotta keep your aunt right, Maya. We gotta keep
Speaker 1: your sister right. Okay, Yeah, he's all right. Tims are
Speaker 1: kind of dope. Keep it lock. We have more coming
Speaker 1: up next. It's the Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club. You're
Speaker 1: checking out the world's most dangerous morning show. Morning Everybody
Speaker 1: is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomne the guy We all
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. You got a special guest on the line.
Speaker 1: Introduced her right, Debbie Brown, Chief Impact Officer at Chopra Global,
Speaker 1: Passionate advocate for Women of Color and Wellness master, well
Speaker 1: being educator Mariah Harry and the faith asked person it
Speaker 1: was good, but it took a left. Debbie Brown going,
Speaker 1: Oh good morny family. You guys are congratulations first and
Speaker 1: foremost on being legends and making history with the Radio
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. Oh, thank you, thank you, and congratulations
Speaker 1: see you for all of the important work that you've
Speaker 1: been doing. Thank you, thank you. How you holding up
Speaker 1: during the pandemic. How was that for you? You know
Speaker 1: what I gotta say, wildly challenging off top, but it's
Speaker 1: been probably one of the best years of my life.
Speaker 1: Really well, you know, I really deepened my spiritual journey.
Speaker 1: I was already on this path and I was, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of diligently doing the work, and then this gave
Speaker 1: me opportunity to kind of deepen some of that healing,
Speaker 1: to understand ways in which to help other people heal.
Speaker 1: And you know, this time it I feel like it's
Speaker 1: been challenging for quite a lot of people because so
Speaker 1: many are meeting themselves for the first time, you know,
Speaker 1: spending that much time with themselves and being in their thoughts.
Speaker 1: But if you let it, it can be so beautiful.
Speaker 1: You get to the root of anything that was holding
Speaker 1: you back. You have the chance to cultivate a really deep,
Speaker 1: beautiful internal relationship with self. There's just a there's a
Speaker 1: lot of opportunity to it. Well, let's talk about your
Speaker 1: journey and how this became your calling. Yes, well, y'all know,
Speaker 1: I started a radio born and raised in La You know,
Speaker 1: the thing that led me to radio was I was
Speaker 1: so deeply curious about storytelling, curious about myself, curious about
Speaker 1: the world. Like radio is one of the most sacred,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, art forms, like you get to share
Speaker 1: space in someone's mind, and I loved for so long.
Speaker 1: But then when I started my journey, I just found
Speaker 1: that I was really called to study metaphysics, I was
Speaker 1: really called to study trauma, and I kind of just
Speaker 1: found myself not easily being able to stay up on
Speaker 1: current events or you know, really wanting to just talk
Speaker 1: about some other things. And so I pivoted and I
Speaker 1: went into the self care, wellness mindfulness world, which I
Speaker 1: did it kind of before the big bang hit on
Speaker 1: social media of wellness, and so it was very uncharted territory.
Speaker 1: I didn't know if I made the right choice for
Speaker 1: a long time, but I stuck with it and I felt,
Speaker 1: you know, I just feel like my calling is to
Speaker 1: help people heal. You know, we throw these terms around that.
Speaker 1: We say, you know, mental health, we say mindfulness, we
Speaker 1: say wellness, we say healing. What is all of that
Speaker 1: to you? And in particular mindfulness, what is that to you?
Speaker 1: So mindfulness is it's really rooted in a slowing down
Speaker 1: kind of you know, the very simplified term would be
Speaker 1: to be mindful, to have things kind of top of mind,
Speaker 1: to have a set of intention that's and planted, and
Speaker 1: that's the way you're navigating your spiritual values in the world.
Speaker 1: But what I think it is more clearly, and I
Speaker 1: think a lot of the conversation around healing, it's like
Speaker 1: mental health here, mindfulness wellness here, and it's like you
Speaker 1: have to have both, and they have to be integrated.
Speaker 1: For you to really live the fullest life possible, you
Speaker 1: have to do some of that deeper trauma healing, which
Speaker 1: mental health is so great for. Talk therapy, somatic therapy
Speaker 1: is so beautiful for but you also need that peace
Speaker 1: that makes it real for you and not just stuck
Speaker 1: in your brain, not just intellectualizing it. It has to
Speaker 1: come down to your heart so that you can actually
Speaker 1: embody and live it. Why do mental health and mindfulness
Speaker 1: go hand in hand? You think, well, you have to
Speaker 1: have integration, so you have to have the mind, body
Speaker 1: soul connection to have the full experience of being a
Speaker 1: whole human being. And a lot of times when we
Speaker 1: just focus on the mental health point, which is just
Speaker 1: incredibly important, but when we just focus on that, you're
Speaker 1: missing so many other opportunities to love yourself, to get
Speaker 1: to know yourself. You know, part of the reason we're
Speaker 1: so disconnected from ourselves is because we feel foreign in
Speaker 1: our own bodies, especially if you're a person of color.
Speaker 1: You know, you were trained through systemic racism, through years
Speaker 1: of ancestral trauma to not really feel safe in your
Speaker 1: own body, and so self care is really such a
Speaker 1: radical form of revolution for us as people of color,
Speaker 1: to really be able to sit inside yourself and enjoy
Speaker 1: where you're spending that time, to be able to even
Speaker 1: touch yourself, to love your body, you know, to feel yourself.
Speaker 1: It's so so important, and I think so many people
Speaker 1: don't realize how rare that is, especially depending on your circumstance.
Speaker 1: You know, even to hold eye contact with another person
Speaker 1: and so sacred and intimate, and so many people have
Speaker 1: a real challenge being able to do that because of
Speaker 1: how they experience themselves. What was the turning point for
Speaker 1: you that that got you, that got you really into it?
Speaker 1: Was it something that you've seen, Was it some trauma
Speaker 1: that happened to you. Was it a fringe trauma? Like
Speaker 1: what got you so into it? When I started really
Speaker 1: investigating myself, looking back at my history, looking back at
Speaker 1: my experiences, and seeing what I thought they meant about me,
Speaker 1: So much of the things that happened to us when
Speaker 1: we're children, even if they're not major, you perceived major traumas,
Speaker 1: they plant these seeds of how we grow to feel
Speaker 1: about ourselves and how we grow to see the world.
Speaker 1: And so when I started really investigating, like why do
Speaker 1: I think this way? Why do I feel that way.
Speaker 1: Why do I experience like a charge in my chest
Speaker 1: or an anxiety when this happens and you slowly start
Speaker 1: peeling back the layers, and before you know it, it's
Speaker 1: like this memory as a three year old of misinterpreting
Speaker 1: something that happened, that planted a seed that you built
Speaker 1: upon and built upon and built upon, and before you
Speaker 1: knew it, you know, you were in a space where
Speaker 1: maybe you didn't really care about yourself, or you didn't
Speaker 1: think you were worth it or worthy. Really all the
Speaker 1: human experiences is remembering your wholeness. But people when of
Speaker 1: guests didded on a spiritual journey but don't know where
Speaker 1: to begin, what would you tell them would be one
Speaker 1: of the first steps. Oh man, You know, one of
Speaker 1: the first steps is just really setting the intention to
Speaker 1: become more and to be better. There's so much power
Speaker 1: in planning the seat of intention, and you can do
Speaker 1: that with affirmations, you know, depending especially on your cultural
Speaker 1: belief system, there is so much so many family systems
Speaker 1: that really restrict your ability to connect to yourself, and
Speaker 1: so many belief systems that tell you you have to
Speaker 1: have a middleman to get to the divine, to get
Speaker 1: to God. But God resides in all of us, like
Speaker 1: our ability to grow and transcend is always there, you know.
Speaker 1: And I think in the mindfulness world, whatever you like
Speaker 1: to call your higher power, if you believe in one,
Speaker 1: it's really just saying I'm ready to become more. Show
Speaker 1: me how, or something I love saying to myself is God,
Speaker 1: please show me the deeper truth of who I am.
Speaker 1: And then I disconnect from whatever that answer is, and
Speaker 1: I let the answers just slowly show up, and the
Speaker 1: right teachers or the right readings or the right conversations
Speaker 1: just begin to populate your life in a really delicious way.
Speaker 1: Cannegative energy attract prosit of energy death? No? Impossible? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's impossible, you know. It's the energetic exchange is such
Speaker 1: a deeply powerful and sacred experience. And when you're rooted
Speaker 1: in negativity, we're each we're each the co creators of
Speaker 1: our life. So we're in co creation with divine power
Speaker 1: or whatever you like to call that higher power to
Speaker 1: really manifest the life of your highest vision. When we
Speaker 1: hold onto those seeds of negativity, or we consider ourselves
Speaker 1: to be stuck or unworthy of more, which typically if
Speaker 1: you're negative it's because you've given up a belief that
Speaker 1: you can have more or that you deserve more, and
Speaker 1: when you give into that mindframe, it doesn't allow any
Speaker 1: cracks in your wounds for the light to get through.
Speaker 1: So it's really hard from that space to be able
Speaker 1: to attract positivity, which is not to say you won't
Speaker 1: encounter some, but you just may not be able to
Speaker 1: recognize it when it shows up. Keep it lock. We
Speaker 1: have more coming up next. It's the Breakfast Club Morning.
Speaker 1: Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela, Ye, Chage guy. We all
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. Now, let's talk about this podcast. How
Speaker 1: do you give out gems in this podcast? Droppings a lot? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm really connected to Jessey mystifying the journey. Um.
Speaker 1: I talk about thinking like my own musings, observations I'm
Speaker 1: having about the world, observations I'm having about myself as
Speaker 1: I do the work. I have guests on. You know,
Speaker 1: I had Charlemagne on the show talking about really unpacking
Speaker 1: his journey. I would love to have you, Envy. I
Speaker 1: would love to have you Angela. So note to self,
Speaker 1: stunt on them real quick. Well, we were just on
Speaker 1: a little vacation in Mexico. But that's neither at your
Speaker 1: house right, at your all Right, you're trying to get
Speaker 1: me robbed at this, I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: Um No. But so in this season, so it's really
Speaker 1: talking to people about their journeys because so many people
Speaker 1: think they can't approach this work because they don't have
Speaker 1: this ideal thing happening, or they they haven't reached this
Speaker 1: level of success. So oh, of course it's easy for you.
Speaker 1: And it's really about getting into like the cellular level
Speaker 1: of like how did that switch start happening and how
Speaker 1: did you start allowing yourself to see the world differently
Speaker 1: and to shift? And in this season, I'm really excited
Speaker 1: because we're deep diving into a lot of metaphysics. I
Speaker 1: have incredible guests coming on the show, people doing deep
Speaker 1: work and decolonizing the mental health field, joy and pleasure work,
Speaker 1: really bringing pleasure to the forefront as a way to
Speaker 1: help women heal using orgasms to manifest. We talk about
Speaker 1: that on the show that what yeah, yeah, we're getting there.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of facets to this wellness.
Speaker 1: It's not just meditation. There's so many healing modalities and
Speaker 1: so many tools to be on this journey, and so
Speaker 1: this season I'm really trying to unpack it. So for
Speaker 1: people that are like, oh, I can't meditate, there's no way,
Speaker 1: or oh that looks weird. This looks weird. I'm really
Speaker 1: looking to present so many different entry points for this path.
Speaker 1: How did you break through with Shamagne? I mean, because
Speaker 1: you know we talk, I mean, I mean with being honest.
Speaker 1: You know, Shallemagne in a long time, and you know
Speaker 1: how he was, you know, hurt people, hurt people, to
Speaker 1: make fun of people all the time. You know, how
Speaker 1: did you get him out of that way? He's changed
Speaker 1: a little bit where you know, I'm seeing him, you know,
Speaker 1: walking outside with his bad toes, you know, hugging days
Speaker 1: and things like that, Like how did you get him
Speaker 1: to that part? Well, Charlemagne has divine light on him,
Speaker 1: so I think that has always been in his card
Speaker 1: since he was born to live this really beautifully big life.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, it's like Charlemagne gets all the
Speaker 1: credit for that. He's done the work. You know, he's
Speaker 1: deep dived into himself, and I think that it's so
Speaker 1: hard to look at yourself for real. You know, we
Speaker 1: get so caught in this idea of shame, or this
Speaker 1: idea of what we don't deserve, or this idea that
Speaker 1: past decisions that we've made have to define what the
Speaker 1: rest of our life is going to look like, especially
Speaker 1: with council culture. And I think it's so important that,
Speaker 1: you know, we allow people the room to stretch and
Speaker 1: to grow, like as a society, we can only expand
Speaker 1: as the highest level of consciousness that we possess. He's
Speaker 1: super woke now. Now when I see Charlemagne hugging a
Speaker 1: tree and holding a tree and walking a around in
Speaker 1: the grass, was ugly told you did not have a
Speaker 1: pedicule number two that was called grounding, sir, Okay, I
Speaker 1: was centering myself be hug insures too, So why is
Speaker 1: that important to tell them why grounding is important? We
Speaker 1: have to get anchored, you know. So when we're on
Speaker 1: earth and we're experiencing this human experience as spiritual beings,
Speaker 1: we have to ground We have to remember to get centered.
Speaker 1: And a great mechanism to do that is connecting with
Speaker 1: nature and really being able to behold the functions of
Speaker 1: the world and behold God's beauty and God's grace, and
Speaker 1: it's so important to do breathwork. It's so important to
Speaker 1: plant your feet in soil, to plant your feet in
Speaker 1: the ground, to get restored, to experience sunshine on your
Speaker 1: skin and really hold space, to be mindful in those moments,
Speaker 1: and to experience all the little joys that come with it.
Speaker 1: You know, Devi is so important. You know, she's one
Speaker 1: of the most important people in my life. But the
Speaker 1: reason I feel you're so important to the coach it
Speaker 1: is because you are hip hop you know, I'm saying,
Speaker 1: watching you grow from Tupac the DPOC has been one
Speaker 1: of the greatest joys in my life. And I want
Speaker 1: to ask you, like, what what did Tupac do to
Speaker 1: open up your third eye? Uh? You know, the thing
Speaker 1: that I thought that I always connected to so deeply
Speaker 1: with Tupac was how multifaceted he was and how awake
Speaker 1: he was at such a young age. You know, we
Speaker 1: forget and obviously are there problematic lyrics. Was there some
Speaker 1: problematic behavior, one hundred percent, But most of what we
Speaker 1: saw of Pak was him twenty four and under and
Speaker 1: the fact that he was able to showcase the array
Speaker 1: of human emotions and human experiences I always connected to.
Speaker 1: You know, I've always, always, since I was a little girl,
Speaker 1: been fascinated by transformation. You know, Pac said it so well,
Speaker 1: he he and figures, these really archetypal figures like him,
Speaker 1: like Oprah. You know, they sparked the They spark that
Speaker 1: thing in your brain that lets you know you can
Speaker 1: have more, you can think more, you can be more. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know, for for us all I think, because
Speaker 1: we all know dev on our you know, on a
Speaker 1: different type of level for different purposes. But I've always
Speaker 1: trusted you, So I trust in this. Oh, Angela, thank you.
Speaker 1: Me and Angela used to be in the streets. I
Speaker 1: want to bring it up, you know. But yeah, Earl
Speaker 1: trips to Miami and the streets in LA and New York. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to talk about your book real quick. I
Speaker 1: want to talk about Crystal Bliss, because you know Crystal Bliss.
Speaker 1: I wanted what did it benefits of gyms and crystals?
Speaker 1: Dev sends me, Jim, she sends me crystals. I buried
Speaker 1: something that tree you saw me hugging. I buried something
Speaker 1: at the root of that What did it benefits of
Speaker 1: gyms and crystals? Yeah, crystals are such a beautiful accompaniment.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think there's so much education around
Speaker 1: mindfulness that has to happen for the bipop community because
Speaker 1: it's so much of it is misunderstood or people were
Speaker 1: giving given false narratives through different systems of belief of
Speaker 1: what to stay away from. But people don't really even know,
Speaker 1: you know, what these things are or what they do.
Speaker 1: And I think crystals are such a beautiful accompaniment to
Speaker 1: whatever work that you're doing. They harness so much beautiful
Speaker 1: energetic power. And it's believed that you know, crystals, different crystals.
Speaker 1: There's hundreds, you know, sometimes into the thousands, even though
Speaker 1: those aren't readily available, but there's so many to choose from,
Speaker 1: and they all emanate energy. You get upset when you
Speaker 1: see people who seem to be like, you know, using
Speaker 1: it's like performative wellness. You know, they're selling crystals there,
Speaker 1: they're practicing, they're teaching mindfulness and like, but they really
Speaker 1: haven't done the work. Yeah, I think, you know, I
Speaker 1: wanted to say, I get upset about it. I think
Speaker 1: it's dangerous for the people that are perhaps spending money
Speaker 1: or buying into things with someone who just isn't ready
Speaker 1: to teach yet. I think we all possess the ability
Speaker 1: to be teachers and guides for other people based on
Speaker 1: the work that we do. But this is the era
Speaker 1: of the expert, right, Like, this is the era where
Speaker 1: everybody is marketing themselves and selling themselves, and so I
Speaker 1: just think it's important that if you do feel called
Speaker 1: to be in this field, you do the work. When
Speaker 1: you do this trauma work, it's so sacred. You don't
Speaker 1: want to open people up to this raw space and
Speaker 1: then not have the tools to help them navigate through it.
Speaker 1: Debi Dad Dropping Gym's podcast will be out today everywhere
Speaker 1: that you listen to podcast via the Black Effect. iHeartRadio
Speaker 1: podcast network. Dev you know I love you with all
Speaker 1: my heart. I love you so much and everybody, if
Speaker 1: you want to meditate with me every day, download the
Speaker 1: choper app. I lead daily meditation seven days a week. There.
Speaker 1: I love you, guys, Love you too. Morning. Everybody is
Speaker 1: DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the Guy. We are the
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. Now, um, it's time to end on a
Speaker 1: positive note. You have a positive no positive note. It
Speaker 1: simply don't let the behaviors of others destroy your inner piece.
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club, you don't finish it, y'all dumb.