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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning Usa yo yo yo yo yo yo yo
yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo
yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo
yo yo.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yo jes hilarious morning, Charlamagne God, Peace to the planet
is Monday.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Good morning. How y'all feel out there? I feel blest,
black and holly favored. Happy to be here another day
to serve our beautiful listeners. What's happening?

Speaker 4 (00:20):
What's up? Just how you feeling? What's up?

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Yo?

Speaker 4 (00:23):
The full day at the airport, yo, so.

Speaker 5 (00:25):
It was yo indifferent airport show is listen. I literally
was like, yo, is it even worth it to fly
these days? It is so much going on? And then
I thought it was literally only what e w R Jersey? No,
my brother DESI, who will enough of me?

Speaker 6 (00:38):
Right?

Speaker 5 (00:38):
He flew back to Baltimore, but he got stuck in
Charlotte like it was and it wasn't even weather.

Speaker 7 (00:44):
Yo.

Speaker 5 (00:44):
I don't know what happened, but we uh I caught
the flight from Phoenix to uh e w R right,
But they told us that WR was having like air
traffic problems. Yeah, I mean York, So we had to
go to Detroit. We circled around Chicago eight times. And
then we went we went back to Detroit because Detroit

(01:05):
wasn't ready for us to land, and then we had
to go back to Chicago. I didn't get home until
like one thirty in the morning, Like, it's what are
you looking like?

Speaker 8 (01:11):
You want to land for you?

Speaker 4 (01:12):
Because it's funny to me?

Speaker 8 (01:13):
No, what the hell?

Speaker 9 (01:14):
Why is it funny?

Speaker 4 (01:15):
I told you first of all, I told you don't
fly to k I know.

Speaker 5 (01:18):
But Phoenix did had flights like to I mean, h
JFK Lacguardia didn't have flights to Phoenix show.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
I always fly to JFK Laguardy. That's the New York
air ports, and I always fly the first thing leaving,
so six in the morning and on that flight back, yeah,
and I hate that.

Speaker 5 (01:32):
I was like, Yo, I'll text y'all to let y'all
know y'all like I'm He was like, yeah, I landed
this morning, so I'm good.

Speaker 9 (01:37):
Like, ain't nobody as you?

Speaker 8 (01:39):
Was you good?

Speaker 4 (01:39):
Why was your show? The show was great? Yah?

Speaker 5 (01:41):
One of my fans proposed to his girlfriend at the
end of the show. So shout out to Will and
Jada the Arizona Yeah names.

Speaker 8 (01:49):
Well on Shorty named Jada.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
So wow, you can do about flight, delady, though.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
I mean, honestly, you should look at it as some
type of gift from God, really, because the reality is
you don't know what's protecting you, protecting you, right, that's right.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
That's right.

Speaker 10 (02:01):
Now.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
I've seen you at the fight, Scharlamagne. I wasn't at
the fight. He was at the fight.

Speaker 8 (02:05):
Was crazy. What you go to a fight?

Speaker 5 (02:07):
We have inviteds used to so many things that you
go to a little fight and the boy got knocked out.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Like Bob didn't go down and invite me to nothing
like with the Torono fight.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
Went to her fight.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Oh yeah, I went to the Toronto Taylor fight. Oh okay,
but I wasn't really there. But it was a great fight,
you know what I'm saying. Let me tell you something
about Puerto Ricans in New York City.

Speaker 4 (02:22):
What's that there is?

Speaker 3 (02:24):
I've been to the Garden for a lot of different things.
I've been to the Garden for comedy shows. I've been
to the Garden for concerts. I've been to the Garden
for other fights. There is nothing like Puerto Ricans in
the Garden when one of their owners fight.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
Yeah you hear me?

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Oh yeah, Oh my God, nothing's crazy Puerto Ricans.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
Have you been a Mexican fight?

Speaker 11 (02:40):
Is that?

Speaker 3 (02:40):
Is that what bad Bunny concerts feel like?

Speaker 4 (02:42):
I want to go Tis Times twenty how when.

Speaker 8 (02:46):
They lost though, like they was.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
Still they were still the people it was. It was
another young lady that Puerto Rican on the fight too.
I can't remember her name. You remember her name right?

Speaker 4 (02:55):
Hey?

Speaker 3 (02:55):
It was Toronto. It's Torono and somebody else I can't remember.
But the Irish was in there, heavy two. Irish was
in that and I'm Irish.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Mexicans usually support their fighters like crazy too. Yes, if
he's Irish, Irish kid, that's.

Speaker 4 (03:13):
Don't talk about the front page. It was a salute.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
I was in Charlotte this week and I loved Charlotte.
They had the n w A c P convention. While
I was out there, I was I wasn't I wasn't
doing that. I was doing the party. But I seen
Effie Williams K Williams. I seen her and of course
she said she just spoke. So I was like, yo,
are you coming home?

Speaker 4 (03:32):
She was like, yeah, I'm gonna come up.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
She just had her baby, so gradually a baby and
you know, raising the baby and the baby going to school.
She said that they teaching the baby two languages. So
salute to Ebany k Wade who saw Superman this weekend.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
That's what my son Okay, got his hand up.

Speaker 5 (03:46):
My son loved it. He said it was a lot
of action, it was lit. It was dope, really him
and my husband and they thought it was dope. I
don't watch Superman, so.

Speaker 4 (03:53):
I can go all right, we'll get into all that.
I'm not a DC fan either, but Superman was good,
all right.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Rich Dennis will be joining us this morning. He's him
in the CEO of Essence. Uh he he has he
he has a bunch of band brands. But we're gonna
be talking about Heavy Essence and the Essence Music Festival
that went down last weekend. Some people weren't happy. There
was a lot to talk about online and he's gonna
break that all down this morning. And we got front
page news and don't go anywhere.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
It's the Breakfast Club. God morning warning.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Everybody's DJ Envy Jess Hilarious, Charlamage the guy.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front
page news now.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Some quick sports. It was heavy boxing over the weekend. Now,
Charlaman and you went to the Serrano fight.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
How was that fight? Yeah, the Toronal Taylor fight. It
was a good fight. I mean it wasn't.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
I wouldn't say it's one of their best. Is probably
the third best fight of the three fights that they've had.
But yeah, the end of the energy in the garden
was what I was tripping off. And then Porto Ricans
had it rocking. The Irish people had it rocking too,
but then Porto Ricans had the garden rocking on the Friday.

Speaker 4 (04:46):
Night and then Saturday nights.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
She cast Stevenson he won, and Edgar Bolanga, who was
up here last week, he lost.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
Dropping the clues bombs she cost she called looked fantastic.
Sure did, okay?

Speaker 3 (04:57):
You know everybody that says she call likes the run.
She cost the than that ring, and you know, staying
in the senate of the ring and went and got busy.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Stevens and Edgar Belonga he was here last week during
the press conference. Remember he said he had a surprise
for Yeah, what was it. He was throwing panties and
singles at him. Why, Yeah, he was throwing panties and
singles at Oscar de la Joya.

Speaker 5 (05:17):
But he did all that was the big surprise and
then you got beat up.

Speaker 4 (05:21):
Yeah, he lost.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
Homie from the UK had a surprise for him and
it was a one two punch, all right. Who belonga though?
But yeah, yeah, for sure, if you talked that crazy,
you gotta.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
Go in there back. Oh yeah, he got his ass kick.
Oh my god, that was ass kicking.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
It was what's up, buggain?

Speaker 12 (05:38):
Hey, Hey, hey, hey, how we feeling on the Monday?

Speaker 8 (05:41):
Okay, hold the top, what's up?

Speaker 13 (05:43):
You know?

Speaker 14 (05:45):
Okay, let's get into it. So first off front page,
let's coick up where we left off last week. President
Trump traveled to Kerrville, Texas on Friday for a first
and look at the flooding devastation. He and First Lady
Milania Trump met with officials, local officials, first responders, and
families of the impacted by the flooding. Now, the President
spoke about the lives lost. Let's take a listen to
his comments in Texas.

Speaker 15 (06:06):
All the beautiful souls and we're filled with grief and devastation.

Speaker 4 (06:10):
It is the loss of life.

Speaker 8 (06:13):
And unfortunately they're still looking.

Speaker 14 (06:16):
And meanwhile, crews in Central Texas have recently suspended the
search for flood victims as heavy rain continues to slam
the region, causing more flooding. The National Weather Service says
heavy thunderstorms move through the Hill Country region devastated by
the catastrophic flooding last week. Cities city officials and Curville
issued evacuation orders for some areas near the Guadalupe River,

(06:38):
calling it a dangerous and life threatening situation. Nearly one
hundred and thirty people are dead and over one hundred
and sixty still remain unaccounted for following that deadly July
fourth flooding event. Now, this of course brings a lot
of talk about the status of FEMA under this administration,
especially following this event in Texas. Now, Homeland Security Secretary
Christy Noam says President Trump does not want to dismantle FEMA,

(07:01):
but rather rework it. She made those comments in NBC's
Meet the Press, where while speaking to NBC's Meet the Press,
Nome says the President wants to wants the agency to
be better implemented. Let's take or listen to her comments
in part from that interview.

Speaker 16 (07:15):
I think he wants it to be remade so that
it's an agency that is new in how it deploys
in supports states. The President recognizes that FEMA should not
exist the way that it always has been. It needs
to be redeployed in a new way.

Speaker 14 (07:28):
Of course, Trump has been critical of FEMA in the past,
but has praised the agency's efforts amid the devastating floods
in central Texas.

Speaker 12 (07:36):
Norm also dis miss claims that.

Speaker 14 (07:37):
A rule change delayed FEMA's response in Texas as absolutely false.
Any thoughts on that guy snow and if case you
missed it, just a other natural disasters. Over the weekend,
the Grand Canyon was on fire. Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs
is calling for an investigation into a white sage wildfire.

Speaker 12 (07:57):
At the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.

Speaker 14 (07:59):
The dragon brought fire has consumed five thousand acres since
lightning started the flames on Independence Day. It also burned
dozens of structures, including a historic Grand Canyon Lodge that
originally opened in nineteen thirty seven. The facility is the
only lodging inside of the park at Northrim. Hobbs said
what has happened demands intense oversight and scrutiny into federal

(08:19):
government emergency response, which goes back to what no one
was saying about FEMA and all of you know whether
or not those resources are readily available just in case,
you know, something happens. And going back to the Grand
Canyon Park, officials noted that North Rim residents and staff
were evacuated before the fire rapidly spread. So we're dealing
with some national disasters here. You guys want to keep

(08:41):
your eyes on a swivel. Make sure you pay attention
to your weather forecast, and you know what's going on
around you.

Speaker 12 (08:47):
That's your front page news at six am.

Speaker 14 (08:49):
At seven am, we'll talk about this assassination attempt into
Donald Trump. It's been a year since Butler, Pennsylvania.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
So stick around all right, everybody else, get it off
your chest. Eight hundred and five five one oh five one.
If you need to vent, phone lines a wide open again.
Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one, call
us up right now, get it off your chest.

Speaker 8 (09:08):
It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

Speaker 4 (09:14):
From Is it your time to get it off your chest?
Way up, whether you're mad or black, time to get
up and get some call up now. Eight hundred five
eight five one oh five one. We want to hear
from you on the breakfast club. Hello, who's this?

Speaker 17 (09:28):
Her?

Speaker 7 (09:28):
Just shre from Texas, But I'm calling from Paris.

Speaker 4 (09:31):
Friend, Paris friends, it's all the way from Paris.

Speaker 7 (09:37):
Yes, I went to the fifty cent and married J
Blige concert last night. I just happened to be here,
so I went to the concert and.

Speaker 4 (09:45):
It'll be you are right.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
It against busy yes here, oh Fidy, Yeah, no he
has he has a lot of hits that you forget about,
but Jesus, he has a lot of records.

Speaker 7 (09:54):
Yes, it was hit after hit after hits. Mary did great.
She did a wonderful job as well. But I was
so excited to.

Speaker 10 (10:02):
See everybody other Parisians, like really getting into fifty I.

Speaker 7 (10:07):
Know, y'all hear the ambulance girls by me right now?

Speaker 4 (10:09):
Can I ask you a question? Did Mary act like
she wanted to be there?

Speaker 7 (10:13):
She did, she did, and she even gave us a
little French she said, Mercy, well cool, and then she
you know, she.

Speaker 12 (10:19):
Did a lot of we weed.

Speaker 7 (10:20):
She did really good.

Speaker 8 (10:24):
Yeah, yes, that's.

Speaker 7 (10:26):
What it is. She tied over in America because she
really did a really good job. And if it was busy,
the graphics, everything was nice, but I just couldn't believe
how everybody was singing all the words and dancing a
little off beat, but they were dancing.

Speaker 18 (10:42):
And having a good time.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
You forget how many records fifth God, unless you go
to the show and it's just not just like album cuts,
street records and everybody knows every record. It's pretty dope.
If you haven't been to see a fifty concert, definitely
check it out.

Speaker 7 (10:54):
It was really good.

Speaker 17 (10:55):
Now, Jesse, when are you coming to Dallas?

Speaker 19 (10:57):
I live in Dallas and you coming.

Speaker 7 (11:01):
Then you had that operation and all this stuff.

Speaker 8 (11:03):
So when you're coming, damn.

Speaker 7 (11:07):
Because I mean because when you got sick and you
had to cancel some shows, walk up in like Gallas.

Speaker 5 (11:13):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't even know ya.

Speaker 7 (11:17):
And I think you rescheduled and I had the ticket.

Speaker 18 (11:19):
I just had to lift it.

Speaker 8 (11:20):
Up yet so I will be there.

Speaker 5 (11:22):
Go on my website, yes, because I don't know off
the back of my off the top of my head
right now, I'm sorry, but yeah, I did reschedule all
the shows that I had to cancel, right.

Speaker 7 (11:31):
And I saw Big Mac last month he was in Dallas.

Speaker 19 (11:35):
I saw here you really funny and it's medium sized
mac now.

Speaker 7 (11:38):
But he was really good now, So I support y'all.
I love y'all. I loved the breakfast club I got
of me.

Speaker 3 (11:42):
If I'm calling for parents, love you want to be
safe out there?

Speaker 9 (11:46):
Right?

Speaker 7 (11:46):
Okay? Thank you guy?

Speaker 9 (11:48):
Hello? Who's this?

Speaker 7 (11:50):
Hi?

Speaker 11 (11:50):
It's the Stacy.

Speaker 3 (11:51):
How are y'all say?

Speaker 4 (11:54):
You speak? You coming to Virginia for the call show?

Speaker 3 (11:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 18 (11:57):
I'm coming.

Speaker 20 (11:57):
Yeah, I'm coming.

Speaker 18 (11:59):
But no, I didn't seak in you. I don't know nothing.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
I mean.

Speaker 11 (12:04):
I'm sorry, Yeah, I'm sorry. My mind is just crazy
right now. But yes, I'm coming dj MV. I'll be
there early. I just want to get it off my
chest real quick. Every time I don't listen to the show,
which is once in a blue moon, somebody always got
something to say.

Speaker 20 (12:19):
Okay, so I need to.

Speaker 18 (12:20):
Get it off my chest.

Speaker 11 (12:21):
Trap called in Friday and he was like, how he
want to address the new queen. When I heard that,
I almost died.

Speaker 18 (12:29):
First off, I never said anything bad.

Speaker 11 (12:31):
About trip, so he needs to relax, Like, did I
say anything bad?

Speaker 18 (12:38):
All I said was don't pull me girl.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
No, you didn't say nothing. But the reality is y'all
gave people are very caddy, very caddy, Okay, I've seen it. Listen,
I've seen it throughout the whole LGBTQ community.

Speaker 4 (12:55):
If there's a.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
Gay person up here that's getting a lot of light.

Speaker 4 (12:58):
Then there's another gay person that's mad at him.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
If it's a trans person that's up here getting a
lot of light, then it's another trans person that matter.

Speaker 4 (13:04):
Y'all.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
Just a caddy community. It is what it is.

Speaker 11 (13:06):
They are just the caddy community. I'm represented f in
the lgbt so I don't do all that caddy stuff.
Like I'm about my money, I'm about my businesses. The
last time I'm gonna speak on it. He may refer
to himself as a girl, I'm still a god.

Speaker 8 (13:25):
I love that.

Speaker 4 (13:26):
I love any of that. Thanks, what's up, and.

Speaker 11 (13:29):
Y'all have a good day. DJ m VY.

Speaker 18 (13:31):
I am getting so ready for the cost you out
of the board, Matt.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
I'm so excited.

Speaker 18 (13:36):
But okay, y'all have a good day.

Speaker 4 (13:37):
Fight you say all that with the get it off
your chest eight hundred.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
Five eight five one O five one. If you need
to hit us up now, it's the Breakfast Club.

Speaker 8 (13:47):
Good morning on pop up at that carshaw the Breakfast Club.

Speaker 4 (13:56):
This is your time to get it off your chest
eight hundred five five one o five one. We want
to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this?

Speaker 10 (14:05):
And it was cracking his dudie his doogie in Chicago?

Speaker 4 (14:08):
What's up making it off your chest?

Speaker 17 (14:10):
Hey, charlam Man, he's by the way.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
Good morning everybody, Good morning, my guy.

Speaker 4 (14:15):
How are you all right?

Speaker 10 (14:17):
I just want to correct you because you keep shouting
that Milwaukee wrong. It's you one hundred points something.

Speaker 4 (14:22):
What I'll be saying one hundred point three one hundred
point three, Oh my bad. Don't correct me now, and
you ain't correct me no other times I didn't hear it. Now,
I'd be saying that all the time. I get me
walking down because because you don't know, I didn't know. Okay.
As soon as he said, I was like, oh, it.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
Is one hundred point seven to be one hundred point seven.
That's the first station to syndicate the Breakfast Club.

Speaker 5 (14:44):
And I love Milwaukee because I will be there this
weekend at the Milwaukee Improps. I'll get your tickets. Good
segment with Sarah on the phone, uh emprov But also.

Speaker 10 (14:52):
But I also wanted to say they also had a
tragedy out there over the weekend. O. G. Tweedy was
a victim of violence and and the city is hurting,
and I need this to be here, called the action
right now because the city of Milwaukee is small enough
where they can get some communities unit together and slow
down this violence. Because we've lost the biggest plug out

(15:13):
there and that's just devastating. That's the tragedy. Who's going
to put the city on now? We need to tighten
up for real.

Speaker 4 (15:19):
Damn that's hard, said, Yeah, so yeah.

Speaker 10 (15:22):
I got to shout out to uh the one hundered
Milwaukee tighten up. And also shout out to Reggie Brown,
my former mentor and knew them from Chicago to Milwaukee
and all of that.

Speaker 4 (15:33):
Oh my guys, Milwaukee most step saluted. Reggie saluted Bailey.
I mean Bailey, not dere no more.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
But you know, she was the PD that was there
when they put us on in the mornings and at
one hundred point seven, so we got mad.

Speaker 10 (15:45):
I was there, Yeah, I was there in two thousand
and two thousand and one with Doug Banks or if
he's a Dug base, shout out he's not there. I
know we all keep going to go on appreciate it.

Speaker 13 (15:57):
Man.

Speaker 8 (15:58):
Milwaukee.

Speaker 5 (15:59):
Just also one of the little boy, one of that
little kids just got like snatched up or whatever. But
they did find him, so I did in Milwaukee. So yeah,
they been having a time.

Speaker 14 (16:09):
Man.

Speaker 4 (16:09):
Hello, who's this yo envy?

Speaker 3 (16:11):
You know?

Speaker 18 (16:11):
The boxes mellow?

Speaker 17 (16:12):
What the word broll?

Speaker 4 (16:15):
Yo?

Speaker 11 (16:15):
Life is amazing?

Speaker 3 (16:16):
It is what it should be out you're doing, Jess,
uncle's all that cool baby all right.

Speaker 18 (16:22):
So I gotta get this off my chest. And I'm
the perfect person to talk about this. So we gotta
start shaming these men for getting their body done like
these bad bitches.

Speaker 7 (16:33):
M M.

Speaker 20 (16:33):
I'm proud of it, bro, like because let's let's.

Speaker 4 (16:36):
The record show.

Speaker 18 (16:37):
I'm on the record talking about the BBOs doing booty,
booty and baby legs. Honible mentioned the chigod you're thinking
of the judges between me and the NYPD.

Speaker 5 (16:46):
Word but like, booty and baby legs is a bar mellow.

Speaker 18 (16:50):
That's funny, yep, I'm telling you, But hit me out.
You can't be out here with the stomach of John
Students and the chest of Coiler Ray. I don't mention,
but Drake, stop it, bro say.

Speaker 4 (17:02):
Some names, say some names.

Speaker 8 (17:04):
Just said one.

Speaker 18 (17:05):
I put it Drake Frenchman Canna who I don't know.
I don't know what I feel like his stomach used
to be his head. I don't know.

Speaker 14 (17:15):
Not doing it.

Speaker 4 (17:16):
I don't know if it's fake or not, but it
do look stupid. Oh it's.

Speaker 18 (17:21):
Three hundred pounds, bro, like you now on the call
two hundred. I've really been with y'all.

Speaker 7 (17:27):
Like you feel me like, nah, you gonna work it out,
like you know what I mean.

Speaker 18 (17:31):
I'm somewhere between Dad body and Dean back Gin. I
used to be a bag of thirty launder, you know
what I mean.

Speaker 10 (17:39):
Don't make no mistake.

Speaker 4 (17:41):
I agree.

Speaker 3 (17:41):
I feel like the abs are going through what bbls
went through, Like BBL used to look really, really stupid
and then they got better over time. That's how abs
on men will probably look in the future.

Speaker 4 (17:53):
I understand that.

Speaker 18 (17:53):
But at the same time, as a man, you should
not be wanting it laid on the table unto all
and then get up act like you put in the work.

Speaker 8 (18:03):
I'm not with that, notall, but thank you.

Speaker 4 (18:05):
Mellow, all right, mellow.

Speaker 8 (18:08):
Get it off your chest. Eight hundred and five eighty five,
one on five one.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
I went down, Mellow, feels about people who you know,
do the Olympic or get you know, have to you know,
do surgery to lose all that way, especially when they big.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
I should have asked him that men with cheek fellers,
you got cheak feelers anything damn cheek cheek fillings, cheak feelings.

Speaker 11 (18:25):
Think to.

Speaker 3 (18:28):
Cheek feelings.

Speaker 4 (18:30):
He yo, look like fillers. I remember when you got
them and then not?

Speaker 8 (18:38):
They think my face think is crazy?

Speaker 19 (18:43):
People, Lauren come up, Yes we do envy with the cheeks. No,
but Travis Scott dropped jack boys too. People were trying
to figure out she was gonna come back and push
your tea to.

Speaker 9 (18:54):
We wanna talk about it.

Speaker 4 (18:55):
We'll get to that next.

Speaker 8 (18:56):
It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

Speaker 4 (19:02):
Morning. Everybody is the j n V.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
Jess, Hilarry Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.
Let's get to the latest with Laurien.

Speaker 8 (19:08):
Lauren be coming a straight fast.

Speaker 4 (19:11):
She gets them somebody that knows somebody detail.

Speaker 9 (19:14):
I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything,
and she'd.

Speaker 4 (19:18):
Be having the latest on this. The latest with Laurence
la Rosa.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
Sometimes you have fact, sometimes you have details. Sometimes you
have a little bit of everything.

Speaker 4 (19:26):
It's the latest on the Breakfast Club.

Speaker 9 (19:28):
Talk to me, all right, y'all.

Speaker 19 (19:30):
So there's been a lot of clips Talk and jack
Boys two, which is Travis Scott's album, dropped over the weekend,
and people were wondering if he was going to respond
at all to push your t who has been having
a lot of conversation about him own the music and
in the interviews.

Speaker 4 (19:43):
I never wanted that. I wanted to cross my mind.

Speaker 19 (19:48):
I think people were wondering if he was going to respond,
especially because it was rumored that Travis Scott originally was
suposed to drop on the same day as the clip,
and then Clips and then it pushed to Saturday.

Speaker 8 (19:56):
I ain't even know that.

Speaker 9 (19:57):
Yeah, so let's take a listen to Travis scott response.

Speaker 4 (20:02):
Man, I swear to he's on to your kids. You
know my wife's film.

Speaker 8 (20:06):
They just walked through real Me.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah, Blue bol Gotta, I'm dodging TMZ, I'm pushing t's
now my phone on.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
D N D Y.

Speaker 9 (20:16):
Yeah. So that was the attempt to respond came and went, uh,
at Joe, I.

Speaker 8 (20:21):
Don't know what you mean.

Speaker 4 (20:22):
I don't have no idea what talking about. Yeah, I
don't know, did justin Bieber respond? So that real?

Speaker 19 (20:29):
There was a there was a supposed to be offensive
page that posted something, but I don't know if that
was real.

Speaker 4 (20:34):
Okay, it's fun to what to who clips.

Speaker 19 (20:37):
Basically because he was basically saying something about, like, my
album is the only album you're supposed worry about this
week because he drops swag when everybody was kind of
like having clips conversations and trying to put theirself in
a conversation.

Speaker 4 (20:47):
But go ahead, try two different demographics.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
Hell yeah, like the clips and just like saying somebody
as old is not a disc okay, because getting old
is the goal.

Speaker 4 (20:55):
You should want to live as long as possible.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
And when you're getting better with age the way malice
and push your t off, that's that's not at this
You should hope you still sound that good at fifty
plus in late forties, yeah, like fifty two and I
think pushes with forty four or something like that, but
like forty eight, forty is hey.

Speaker 8 (21:14):
Ain't that much younger than male's he look good?

Speaker 4 (21:16):
They both get busy too well.

Speaker 19 (21:18):
According to Drake, it doesn't matter how old you are
and if you get busy or not because if you're
not in London, you're not a good rapper.

Speaker 9 (21:24):
So Drake was in London.

Speaker 19 (21:26):
He did the Wireless Bessy did three days at the festival,
which amazing, like Brady is Drake, but he was on
stage and he says something that got people a little
bit upset.

Speaker 9 (21:34):
Take a listen when I was.

Speaker 21 (21:35):
Talking about my love from Love and London rappers the best,
the best risist in the world, Mark I was, nobody
says nobody can outrap loved it.

Speaker 15 (21:48):
Nobody, no disrespect to, no disrespect of our country, but
nobody can out rap London rappers.

Speaker 4 (21:55):
This is the best level.

Speaker 22 (21:57):
This is what I aspire.

Speaker 4 (21:58):
I was gravy about. That is London. Don't even believe that, right,
that's why London.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
But Nah, he didn't.

Speaker 4 (22:08):
He didn't even have to volunteer that lie.

Speaker 3 (22:10):
Like Drake, you just sold out three days at Wireldless
Festival history that he did different songs every nightfferent day.
They was already eating out the palm of your hand.
You didn't have to lie like that, Like that was
just crazy. You already had him on you side.

Speaker 8 (22:25):
Did he bring out any London artists?

Speaker 19 (22:30):
Yeah, people started circulating like a screenshot of I guess
Drake had listed like his top five rappers at one point,
no one from London. According to the screenshot, it was
hol Wayne Young, Tony Andre three thousand baby, So of course, yeah,
people were having a conversation about that.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
But then he just got caught in the moment on stage,
and yes, what it was either that of Kendrick kicked
his ass so much.

Speaker 4 (22:51):
He hate all American rappers. I hate y'all, stick all
of y'all.

Speaker 3 (22:56):
The way, he probably got caught somebody beating you up
so much that you don't want to play with nobody
from that country.

Speaker 4 (23:04):
Everybody from the.

Speaker 9 (23:05):
Old coming out just keeping it Compton.

Speaker 4 (23:08):
They got better rappers than Compton rappers.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
I don't agree with that either, but you know, that
would have made more sense Kendrick came up, wouldn't, but
I would have understood it, more understood the more.

Speaker 19 (23:18):
M I Yet that would have made no sense at all, though,
But Kendrick came up at the wireless best Drake. Fans
wanted to have a conversation with Drake about Kendrick.

Speaker 9 (23:25):
Let's take a listen.

Speaker 21 (23:27):
This is the best opportunity I've ever been given.

Speaker 13 (23:30):
Three nights in a row three.

Speaker 21 (23:32):
Nights, headlining three different sets, three different voves.

Speaker 4 (23:37):
Do you name another artist that can do it and
bring him up here?

Speaker 15 (23:39):
We can class down anybody's no one.

Speaker 4 (23:43):
I'm here for nobody only Drake. Drake, you know what
grabbed me a shot? I'll drinks to that.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
Oh so he was a drunk, That's why he said
that stupid stuff about the UK rappers versus American rapper.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
But Drake is one of the I would say, one
of the only rappers that can do a different vibe
every night because he can do the Afro B vibe.

Speaker 4 (24:05):
He can get the R and B vibe one night
and the vibe. It's not too many artists that can do.
Sure he just said that though.

Speaker 3 (24:10):
Yeah, so why take away from all of that by
saying something stupid and duffecating on the same people who
helped you get to where you are.

Speaker 4 (24:17):
But that's essentially what you did.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
I mean, it's one thing to have an opinion, and
you can have that opinion that you think UK rappers
are better, but we just know that's not true. And
to one of y'all just said, they named it said
he named the top top name no London rappers like, come.

Speaker 4 (24:30):
On, you're not here because of London rappers.

Speaker 19 (24:33):
I don't know if I ever just played a I mean,
I'm not from London, but I don't know if I've
ever just played a London rapper enough to be able
to argue this.

Speaker 9 (24:39):
But people were really arguing about this over over the weekend.

Speaker 8 (24:41):
They were really like.

Speaker 19 (24:45):
Him, I just don't know their music enough, and I
didn't know so many people did. I felt so out
of the loop. I'm like, oh, I don't know y'all
were paying attention that much, like okay, But also on stage,
there was a moment where Drake was performing and he
was performing NonStop and during the l we had the audio,
but it's not going to sound good, so I just
explained it. During NonStop he switches his line, so he says,

(25:06):
how I go from six to twenty three?

Speaker 9 (25:08):
No Lebron.

Speaker 19 (25:09):
Of course, he's hurt still about the Lebron pop out situation,
but over the weekend fans also brought up the fact
that they noticed that he.

Speaker 9 (25:16):
Covered it.

Speaker 8 (25:18):
Really nice. Mans no more that time, I said, listen,
look at how I said. Somebody said, yo.

Speaker 5 (25:24):
Drake and strip of Decisions Decisions Yo, he got he
got that man said it covid he got it sad covert.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (25:31):
So apparently Drake went and covered up the Lebron James
tattoo and replaced it with a tattoo honoring shy guilt.

Speaker 4 (25:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (25:39):
Yeah, I'd always say his less thing wrong. H Yeah, Yes,
I thought that was crazy.

Speaker 8 (25:43):
I got got the tattoo covet.

Speaker 9 (25:45):
I thought that was I know that's your friend, Envy, but.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
You have none of the people my friends. But I
will say that I thought it was weird when he
got a tattoo.

Speaker 4 (25:53):
Of a man, look like anyway he should have never gotten.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
Thought that was like I understand if you some people
look at the idols like they might, you know, tattooed
Bob or tattoo Michael Jackson or pray.

Speaker 4 (26:07):
But unless you my mom my, Pops, my wife, I'm
not Does.

Speaker 3 (26:12):
Drake have anybody from Canada on his body? Does he
have anybody that he actually came up with like his
actual friends?

Speaker 4 (26:19):
Yes, like.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
Get a tattooed Chops, she get a tattooed people that
you shouting out all the time, do you have tattoos
of them on you? I don't trust anybody whose friends
are all industry celebrity, and you loved him so much that.

Speaker 4 (26:33):
You get in their tattoos chops.

Speaker 9 (26:34):
Not industry celebrity though, But you said all industry celebrities.

Speaker 3 (26:42):
I said, I don't trust anyone whose friends are all celebrities.
That's why I asked if he have anybody from Toronto
on his body and get a tattooed, because that's his
actual man.

Speaker 9 (26:50):
Lauren, I missed it. I missed it. I missed it.
I missed it.

Speaker 8 (26:54):
But that's crazy. I remember I covered up my beef
my name. I think you drink.

Speaker 9 (27:02):
Reminded me of that. Like every baby mom, I'm like, yo,
this is crazy.

Speaker 4 (27:06):
You want him off you.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
You should have never got him on you know what
I'm saying. Like Savana should be.

Speaker 4 (27:14):
Like, what's wrong with you? I'm the only one right,
Ronnie don't even got a tattooed his daddy.

Speaker 8 (27:19):
I don't think he should straight.

Speaker 4 (27:24):
Getting the tattoo is crazy. That is the latest. But
you shop. But like I said, I want to know,
does he have any of his actual friends on his body?
I mean there's probably people who idolizes, right put his
idols on his on his body?

Speaker 3 (27:37):
Anybody from London tattooed on his body and London Rappers
tattooed on you do your drake. He got this guy man,
it's like he's been on a mission to prove Kendrick
Grave for the passion.

Speaker 7 (27:48):
Like that.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
Let me show you how culturally clueless. I can't wait
to join the Lucas. Jump on all y'all asses to
join it. Coming with something I know you can. Gonna
have a video for it and off gosh.

Speaker 4 (28:00):
Who short film It was my can't wait all.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
Right when we come back, we got front page news
and then from Essen, CEO of Essence, Rich Dennis will
be joining us. There's been a lot of conversation about
the Essence Music Festival the last week and people weren't
happy and it was a lot of discrepancies. He's gonna
break all that down this morning too, right, so don't move.
It's to Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Your
mornings will never be the same.

Speaker 4 (28:24):
Mourning everybody is tj Envy just hilarious.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
Charlamagne the guy, we are the Breakfast Club. Let's get
in some front page news now quick sports Serranto.

Speaker 3 (28:34):
Charlamague went to her fight over the week and how
was her fight?

Speaker 4 (28:36):
Oh, it's Toronald Taylor fight. I mean it was good.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
It's probably the least exciting of all of the three
times that they fought, but it was I mean it
was a good fight.

Speaker 4 (28:42):
You know, Toronto lost. It wasn't a good weekend for
Puerto Ricans and boxing.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
Yeah, Edgar Belonga loss as well, absolutely, but Charkaos Stevenson
didn't win.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
Driving the Club Stevenson, he looked great. I was a
little nervous for him, just a little bit, because I'm like, Chicole,
you don't have to prove nothing to these people. Like
these people will be saying that you like to run,
blah blah blah. You don't have to prove anything to them, Like,
we know you're a great defensive fighter, right, so go
out there and showcase that.

Speaker 4 (29:08):
And he did.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
But he also went in there and mixed it up
as well, so you know, he looked great. Sokos Stevens.

Speaker 4 (29:13):
That's right. What's up, Morgan?

Speaker 6 (29:14):
Hey?

Speaker 14 (29:14):
I hey, So it's been a year since the assassination
attempt on president or then presidential candidate. He was a
presidential candidate at the time, Donald Trump and Butler Pennsylvania
while speaking over while speaking to over fifteen thousand rally
goers at the Butler Farm showground. Shot ranked shots rang out,
fired by a would be assassin on a nearby rooftop. Now,

(29:36):
Trump had just happened to turn his head to reference
a chart and the bullet whizzed by his ear and
grazed his ear. Now, let's take a listen to the
audio from that attempt on President Trump's life. Just a
disclaimer that this audio could be difficult for some to
listen to.

Speaker 15 (29:51):
If you want to really see something that said, take
a look at what happened.

Speaker 8 (29:55):
Over well, Resident Peace. That a guy actually got killed.

Speaker 12 (30:07):
Yes, the father who lost his life, the volunteer firefighter.
Absolutely so Trump was left with a bloody ear.

Speaker 14 (30:13):
Of course, there was that, as you mentioned, Jess a
volunteer firefighter who was killed in that incident, and three
others were wounded. The gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was killed
by Secret Service agents during that as well. Now here
we are a year later, in President Trump says he
is satisfied with the investigation that went into his attempted
assassination at that rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Let's take a

(30:34):
listen to the president's comments on Fox News They're.

Speaker 6 (30:36):
Very talented, very capable. They had a bad day, and
I think I'll admit that had a rough day. But
they briefed me and I'm satisfied with it. To other
one mistakes made and that you know, shouldn't have happened.

Speaker 12 (30:49):
So Trump told Fox News he's been briefed by multiple
agencies and although he's acknowledged the Secret Service breakdowns, he
still has the utmost respect for the agency and trust
in his agents. Recently, six Secret Service agents on his
detail were suspended for that incident. Following that incident tm SO.

Speaker 14 (31:08):
Meanwhile, on the topic of immigration and ice, Borderzar Tom
Holman is speaking out after a federal judge in LA
halted immigration raids in the city of LA and Los Angeles.
Now appearing on CNN State of the Union home and
said the judge is overstepping their authority. Let's take a listen.

Speaker 12 (31:24):
I don't think any federal judge can dictate immigration policy.

Speaker 17 (31:28):
That's a matter for congressman, for the President, and I
know Department of Justice is going to litigate this. We
won't take it to the pills card.

Speaker 12 (31:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (31:34):
So the order bars agents from relying on race, language,
spoken type of work, or location when detaining suspects, saying
you need a little more than that.

Speaker 12 (31:44):
Attorneys with Public.

Speaker 14 (31:46):
Counsel and the ACLU argued recent ice operations in the
Los Angeles area amounted to racial profiling and speaking of immigration,
Democratic lawmakers touring Florida's Alligator Alcatraz detention facility on Saturday
say the conditions are inhumane. Now, this Alligator Alcatraz facility
is located what many say is kind of like in

(32:08):
a swamp area, and it's just not the best place
for any facility to be in. Representative Maxwell Frost said
that had this to say afterward, and also fellow Florida
Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz also noted how the detainees are
packed into cages, often nearly three dozen at a time.
Let's take a listen to Florida Representatives Maxwell Frost and

(32:31):
Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
We saw people, of course yelling for help. We even
heard in the background someone yell I'm an American citizen.
They started chanting leave it dot, freedom, liberty.

Speaker 3 (32:44):
They are essentially packed into cages wall to.

Speaker 23 (32:48):
Wall humans thirty two detainees per cage.

Speaker 14 (32:53):
So the lawmaker said they had intended to visit the
site unannounced and believed a controlled thirty minute tour was
a ran after the state became aware of their plans.
Wasserman Schultz says Florida Governor Ronde Santus could have picked
anywhere in the state to build a detention center and
had it built in one of the.

Speaker 12 (33:10):
Worst possible spots.

Speaker 14 (33:11):
So yeah, it looks like we will continue to watch
out and see what's going on with ice and immigration
events across the country, whether it be in Florida or
whether it be in LA and California. So I'll keep
you guys posted as to what's going on with that.

Speaker 8 (33:28):
But that's your front page.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
Well, you know, you know, I want to say I
think that liberal media should never stop asking questions about
the Epstein List. Okay, liberal media should treat the Epstein
list the way Republicans treated the transgender.

Speaker 4 (33:40):
And sports issue, like they never let it go.

Speaker 3 (33:42):
Like liberal media should never ever stop talking about it
because it's the only thing that can build a bridge.

Speaker 4 (33:46):
Between them in the MAGA base that so many of
them have been trying to get.

Speaker 3 (33:51):
All right, forget them, corny ass podcast Gavin Newsoen was
doing when you're trying to talk to both sides. Nothing
brings people together like conspiracy theories, and it's one thing
or one conspiracy Republican the Democrats can agree on. There
is a cover up happening with the Epstein List, and
liberal media should never ever stop talking about it. They
should never stop asking questions about it. Don't let them

(34:12):
flood his own and make you forget about that issue.
Could I heard you talking about a whole lot of
Trump this morning?

Speaker 4 (34:17):
All right, we'll bring that up.

Speaker 14 (34:19):
All right, Well, let's get into it real quick. I
will talk about Trump and the Epstein List. So President
Trump claims that he is still confident and Deputy FBI
Director Dan Bongino, despite recent internal fighting over handling of
the files related to Jeffrey Epstein.

Speaker 12 (34:33):
Trump was asked on Sunday if Bongino.

Speaker 14 (34:35):
Was still in his position and if the pair recently spoke,
to which Trump said Bongino and him spoke on Sunday
and that he was in good shape. On Friday, multiple
news outlets reported that Bongino was debating whether to resign
from his position. The dj and FBI issued a joint
memo last week looking to counter claims about Epstein's long

(34:56):
promoted about Epstein, long promoted by conservative media figures now
including Bongino and FBI A director Cash Fattel. Now, the
memo said Epstein did not have a client list, even
though Attorney General Pam Bondi said earlier this year it
was on her desk for review.

Speaker 12 (35:13):
So to your point, but I'm watching the situation.

Speaker 14 (35:15):
I try not to, you know, give y'all too much
without having everything, or at least a lot of it.
You've got the conspiracy theories going, but you know, you
want to get all the facts.

Speaker 4 (35:25):
And Trump also defended PM Bondi.

Speaker 3 (35:27):
Pambondi is the one that looked like she lied the
most because she said that Epstein list was on her desk.

Speaker 4 (35:34):
Exist now and.

Speaker 3 (35:35):
Trump posted this weekend that it's the democrats fault. The
Democrats made up this lie in this room.

Speaker 4 (35:41):
No they didn't.

Speaker 3 (35:43):
That's why I said liberal media should should never stop
asking questions about the Epstein list treated the way MAGA
treated the transgender sports issue.

Speaker 14 (35:53):
Yeah, but yeah, I'm watching trust and believe I'm watching
paying attention. But that's okay, you welcome, but that's your
front page news. I'm Morgan would follow me on socials
at Morgan Media. For more news coverage, follow ad Black
Information Network, download the free iHeartRadio app, and visit us
at bi N news dot com.

Speaker 12 (36:10):
Thank y'all have a great week.

Speaker 8 (36:11):
The right Monday.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
Now when we come back to chairman and CEO of
Essence Ventures, Essence Music Festival, we're talking everything Essence. When
we come back, they don't go anywhere. It's to Breakfast
Club The Morning, the Breakfast Club.

Speaker 4 (36:26):
Good morning.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
Everybody is DJ env Jesse, Larry Chelamagne, the guy we
are the Breakfast Club. Lon La Rosa is here as well,
and we got a special guest in the building.

Speaker 4 (36:36):
He has so many titles. Well, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 3 (36:38):
Richard, I'm gon say you's the executive chairman of Sundown
Group of Companies.

Speaker 4 (36:43):
That's right, we have rich Dennis. It is a group
of companies. Tell me some of the companies. Good morning,
good morning, good morning. Talk to you should know what
every couple of years. No, I only do this like
once every two years, explain myself to you.

Speaker 13 (36:57):
But so Sundown Group of come and these consist of
Sundown Media Group and Media and Technology Group. So that's Essence.
Refinery twenty nine, Afropunk Beauty Con and a few other
media assets, Sundial Financial, which is new voices fun in

(37:18):
which we invest in in businesses, one of the largest
investors in black owned businesses and people of color.

Speaker 4 (37:28):
And then the consumer we have sun Now consumers.

Speaker 13 (37:31):
So some of you guys know us for the brands
that we've built like Shade Moisture and then and Heritage
and Madam C. J.

Speaker 4 (37:39):
Walker and now some of the newer brand like Alafia
and some of those things.

Speaker 13 (37:43):
So we we we play across the economic landscape of culture.

Speaker 3 (37:51):
And also if I'm not minatake, you said africon, I
mean Afro Afro punk, apropunk, okay, and a beauty con Listen,
he said, Okay, I'm just.

Speaker 4 (38:00):
Making sure man.

Speaker 3 (38:01):
I'm the reasoning I want to stress that is because
you said you got to come in here every couple
of years to explain yourself. But I want people to
know who you are, and I want them to know
how important you are to a lot not just you
know yourself, but to a lot of other black companies
than Black.

Speaker 4 (38:14):
Absolutely.

Speaker 13 (38:15):
Yeah, yeah, I mean we've invested in probably at this point,
well over one hundred black businesses. One of the last
times I was here now one of the last times
with the time before the last time, I came in
here and we're talking about me selling Shae Oisture, and
I said to you guys, I'm selling this company because

(38:36):
I am going to unlock wealth that's never been seen
in our community before.

Speaker 4 (38:40):
I'm going to invest that wealth back in our community.
And you did it. I did that right. Six years later,
seven years later, Not only have we done that, we've.

Speaker 13 (38:49):
Now had four or five exits that have delivered more
than a billion dollars back into black families in this country.

Speaker 4 (38:57):
So very very proud of the journey that we're on.

Speaker 13 (39:00):
And uh, but every once in a while, you know,
we don't get it one hundred percent right.

Speaker 4 (39:05):
But what we do do is come back and fix
it and get it one hundred percent right. So that's
and I do want to say it's very important.

Speaker 3 (39:13):
What you do and have done is so important and
even more important now when you see all these DEI
initiatives getting rolled back, when you see these fundings, when
you see this funding for these black organizations and black
companies getting cut. All we gonna have is us that's
to invest back in each other.

Speaker 4 (39:29):
That's it. That's it.

Speaker 13 (39:30):
You know, and and part of that is if you
don't create wealth, we don't have us to invest back
in each other, right, then we're constantly needing to have
other people support us to I mean, look, you know,
we've got changes in healthcare coming, right, We've got changes
in our abilities to get an education.

Speaker 4 (39:54):
It's going to cost it.

Speaker 13 (39:54):
We're going to have fewer opportunities and higher costs.

Speaker 7 (39:58):
Right.

Speaker 13 (39:59):
The only thing that we can control is our economic destiny,
and so I'm fiercely protective of that because if we
don't have that, we've got we've got nothing. And to
do that, we've got to build big businesses.

Speaker 4 (40:15):
We've got to.

Speaker 13 (40:16):
Build infrastructure to support those businesses.

Speaker 4 (40:19):
And we've got to train up people so that they
can run those businesses. Right, all things that we all know.

Speaker 13 (40:25):
Are missing from our community infrastructure today. So we've got
a lot of work to do, and we're here to
do the work now.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
Of course, trendon on the last couple of days was
the Essence Festival yep thirty first Essence Festival. Some people
were upset, some people were mad about timing. Some people
said it wasn't as packed as it usually is.

Speaker 4 (40:45):
They were mad that target was a sponsor.

Speaker 2 (40:47):
So I know you're here today to break some of
that down. So, yeah, what happened I guess Essence Festival.

Speaker 4 (40:53):
Wee can.

Speaker 13 (40:54):
So, first of all, a lot of the criticism is warranted,
a lot of it is not right. There's always an
explanation for things that go wrong, and people are always
excited to take credit for things that go right.

Speaker 4 (41:09):
Right. My job is to balance that all out, right.

Speaker 13 (41:14):
So we have an incredible team that's running Essence Festival.
They have built something that when you look at it,
if you look at the scale of what it is today,
that competes against the best in the world, right, without
the resources of the best in the world, right, and
without the access that the best in the world has, right.

(41:35):
So I'm extremely proud of that team. I'm also proud
of the fact that they took risks that we don't
normally get to take in order to build something better,
and some of those risks worked out exceptionally well. Like
you go into the convention center, extraordinary, right. We had

(41:55):
problems in production with the mics that happens seems to
happen more in the super dome or in domes rather,
but we had problems there those problems will be addressed
because they are easily addressable. There's reasons for why that
happened at some point. We can get into that if
you want to. But look, we had over forty acts

(42:19):
over the three day weekend in the Superdome. Right, best
talent in the world, and they deserve the best acoustics,
they deserve the best production, and we'll give that to them.
We've given that to them for thirty years. This thirty
first year, we didn't do as good a job as
we normally do, and next year we'll do a better

(42:42):
job than we've ever done because we've learned what the
issues were.

Speaker 4 (42:45):
So why would Lauren Hill so late? She said it
wasn't her fault. Absolutely was not her fault, She says.

Speaker 3 (42:51):
She thanks y'all for actually stepping up and saying it
wasn't a fair Well, our job is to protect black women.

Speaker 13 (42:56):
We're not gonna sit here and say, hey, you know,
because she's taking the heat for we're going to be
quiet because that's just not that's not what we are,
that's not what essence it's about, that's not what we're building.
There were there were production issues with the audio video
system that caused the delay in her performance. We own that, right,

(43:17):
those delays were primarily because we've been very aggressive in
as I said earlier, our job is to develop the
infrastructure that drives black businesses, right, So we also want
to make sure that we're investing in the local businesses
in New Orleans, right. And so our partner, our production partner,

(43:42):
from our mandate and my team's directive, which which again
we're very proud that we're able to do this. You know,
one of the things that that that that is also
satisfying but scary, is that there are no more black
festivals around, right. We're about the only independent one left, right.

(44:04):
And so what that means is that the people that
get to produce these festivals fewer and fewer and fewer
of them have the resources and the access and the
ability to run these large festivals because they're not getting
those opportunities.

Speaker 4 (44:19):
Right. I said to my team a year ago, is
we need to go out and find the.

Speaker 13 (44:24):
Types of partners that we can develop and grow so
that they have the opportunities to do these right. We
probably should have been a little bit more thoughtful in
the execution of that, but at the end of the day,
I'm proud of the fact that they took the risk right.
Next year we will have a local, well trained, well

(44:45):
developed partner in that area because we got the experience
we had this year.

Speaker 3 (44:51):
Y'all doesn't have the right production team to pull off
a concert of that scale base for the sound. Yes, however,
our job is to train them up. It's not their fault, right,
it's our fault. Rest assured that will not happen again.

Speaker 4 (45:06):
The Roses here as well.

Speaker 2 (45:07):
We're still kicking it with the chairman and CEO of Essence,
Rich Dennis Lauren.

Speaker 19 (45:12):
I was gonna ask you the production group company that
you're talking about, is that separate from the Solomon Group company,
because there was articles about them working with you guys,
and people throwing a lot of blame on the Solomon
Group people too.

Speaker 13 (45:21):
Yeah, you know, at the end of the day, it's
not any of our partner's fault. It is our fault
because we hire them, we pay them, we manage them,
and it's our job to make sure that everything is
delivered properly.

Speaker 4 (45:33):
I'm not gonna sit here.

Speaker 13 (45:34):
And say that if a Solomon Group's foalder is this
group's father as that group.

Speaker 2 (45:37):
Ball, right, richire a nice guy at the end of
the day. Well, if I pay you to do sound,
I'm not a sound guy. It sounds supposed to be right.
I'm paying you a certain amount of money. The sound
supposed to be perfect. That's what you're paying for. You
don't sit there with the mics and it just levels
and stuff like you pay somebody artist.

Speaker 3 (45:50):
Yeah, that was the other thing I kept hearing. I
kept hearing people was, you know late first, let me
take this right. It's not that I'm a nice guy.
Is that I am trying to build something that's last.
If I don't invest in people and I don't have
the patience with.

Speaker 13 (46:03):
Them, plenty people allowed me to fail, right, And because
they allowed me to fail, I'm where I'm at today.

Speaker 4 (46:10):
Right.

Speaker 13 (46:11):
My job and the role that I see myself playing
is to make sure that when somebody fails, I'm there
to pick them up, right, Because that's the other thing
that we don't have the luxury of as black people.
We get one shot, right and then you walk away.
So we're gonna take the hit. We will deal with
our internal partners. Our internal partners will step up and

(46:33):
if they then don't step up to the plate, then
they will be gone. But it will not be because
they made a mistake here. It will be because they
haven't been able to learn from those messas right. You
you you are asking the tardiness.

Speaker 3 (46:49):
And I read the open letter that you know, Stephanie
Mills wrote, and you know, I love God, bless her God.

Speaker 4 (46:57):
And what she said was, you know she's a professional,
this is an o G veteran in the game.

Speaker 3 (47:00):
She said, The challenges I encountered were multifaceted, and then
my view indicative of broader organizational shortcomings. The scheduling and
time management were severely lacking, creating a chaotic and stress
stressful environment backstage, she said, beyond the logistical issues, the
technical difficulties was what we just talked about.

Speaker 4 (47:16):
The sound system, she said, all that was deeply problematic. Yeah,
she said it. There's nothing that, There's nothing to argue there, right,
The I guess the why is what I'm asking.

Speaker 13 (47:25):
Well, I think I think the why is one scale, right,
And when you have when you start with the technical issues,
as you guys are in this business, things have a
way of having domino effects and they impact they impact
other things.

Speaker 4 (47:42):
Right, So we're tracking all of that down.

Speaker 13 (47:45):
Whether it's Smith's Mills, or it's the security guard on
the floor, or whether wherever it is. We're talking to everybody,
and uh, we're making the adjustments that we need that
we need to make.

Speaker 3 (48:00):
Understand what you're saying as far as production, because you
know we deal with that, especially in radio a lot
of times. Right, You're giving people an opportunity. You're giving
people a chance, but they may not have the experience.
And you said you got to train them up. But man,
when you got something that needs to hit the ground running,
I can't teach you how to run. I need you
already know how to run.

Speaker 13 (48:20):
Yeah, yeah, well you know, and a lot of times
too because we don't get the opportunities. We may know
how to run, but we may be rusty. Right, I
may not have done it in a year or a
year and now, so things slip, Right, I may have
I may have new team members that haven't really run
it with me before.

Speaker 4 (48:38):
So I've got it. I've got to figure out how
to do that.

Speaker 13 (48:41):
So this isn't anything new to this business, or to
the to the the music or the festival business, but
I think it is particularly heightened because we care about
the people that we care about, and the people that
we serve.

Speaker 4 (48:58):
Care deeply about what it is we're doing.

Speaker 13 (49:00):
Right, So this this criticism, I don't take it as
criticism to criticize, although there is some of that, right,
there's some piling on this all that, but that's that's
part of the game. But people really care about what
essence means to them and it's a source of pride
for them, right, So we have to deliver that. That's
why I'm here, right, So we have to be able

(49:21):
to deliver that. We have to deliver that excellence every day.
And so you know, five hundred things may go right,
and one thing may go wrong, or two things or
ten things may go wrong. We owe it to ourselves
to say, hey, this isn't working and be.

Speaker 3 (49:37):
For us to correct it. I want to talk to
you about Target. I totally get you need targets dollars
to even do this event. You don't have to explain that.
But was that a tough decision being that you know
the Jamal Bryant, the Tamika Mallory's, the Nina Turners have
you know staged this boycott against Target that a lot
of people are participating the Yeah, so this wasn't a hey,

(50:01):
we decided to go with Target against the boycott, or hey,
we decided to go with the boycott against Target.

Speaker 4 (50:06):
Right.

Speaker 13 (50:07):
The decision, first of all was we already had a
contract prior to all of this four years now, and
they've been good partners, right, They've they've done what they've
told us they were going to do. At festival, Brian Cornell,
their CEO, came on the ground, He's like, look, I
want to see the people.

Speaker 4 (50:25):
I want to talk to the people. I want to understand.

Speaker 13 (50:28):
But he also shared that we haven't stopped doing the
things that we had committed to. We're going to complete
We've made a two billion dollar commitment that was who
the black community, but.

Speaker 3 (50:42):
Isn't at the whole point of the whole point of
the protest is that because they rolled back to DEI initiatives.

Speaker 4 (50:47):
But they haven't you know, done those things from what
I've been told.

Speaker 13 (50:52):
No, So what he shared was that they actually never
stopped those things, right, They're they're two billion dollars commitment.
He said that they are going to complete that two
billion dollar commitment at the by the end of this year.

Speaker 4 (51:06):
They just can't label the DOCIA a Trump I'm not
going to get into the politics of it.

Speaker 13 (51:12):
What I what I can say though, is that they
have shown me and provided evidence that they have continued
that they've continued those programs.

Speaker 4 (51:19):
They've continued their.

Speaker 13 (51:20):
HBCU program and the scholarships, they've continued their their their
their dollar commitments.

Speaker 22 (51:27):
Right.

Speaker 13 (51:27):
So, for our decision making was based on the economic
impact or the or the inadvertent economic impact that we're
seeing in the black businesses. So if that convention center
didn't happen, there's two hundred vendors that would have lost

(51:48):
their income for that weekend, right, which, as I said earlier,
for some of them, is the bulk of their income.
There are retail there are brands that have been preparing
all year to have a showcase to get retail distribution
greater than that is they've already made the investments, right,
Some of these people have not some of the many

(52:12):
of them, Because where do we go to get funding
in our community when we need to build.

Speaker 4 (52:17):
A business today? You go for me? Right.

Speaker 13 (52:20):
Part of what they use this weekend for is to
recoup the investments that they've made.

Speaker 4 (52:26):
So how do they get these investments?

Speaker 13 (52:28):
They're taking our second mortgages on their homes, they're drawing
down on their for one case, they're borring from their
neighbors and their friends and their family. Go for every
single person here, right, right, and if they don't get
these opportunities, what happens to them? So the boycott is

(52:50):
focused on the civil rights platform, I'm focused on the
economic rights platform. That's what I've done my entire career, right,
thirty something years now, almost forty years.

Speaker 4 (52:59):
This is what I've done, right.

Speaker 13 (53:00):
I started when I was nineteen years old, right, so
almost forty years. It's kind of crazy to think, right,
but that's all I've done, right, All I've done is
build businesses that invest back in black communities and develop
new businesses that can then stand on their own. So
I'm looking, I'm faced with this and I'm seeing the

(53:21):
impact that this is not just having here but also
on shelf. So yeah, the boycott, there is no doubt
about it. Our voice has been heard, fantastic, Right.

Speaker 4 (53:33):
My question is what next? Right? And how do we now?

Speaker 13 (53:38):
How do we now protect those businesses that have been
impacted because targets, traffic may be down, right.

Speaker 4 (53:46):
Their revenue may be down, but think about those I
don't know how many there has.

Speaker 13 (53:52):
I know that we're involved with maybe twenty businesses in
that sells to target at other retailers, but we're talking
specifically here. Some of them their businesses are down more
than fifty percent. Some of them their business the average
is around thirty percent.

Speaker 4 (54:08):
Right, the black owned business target right.

Speaker 13 (54:12):
Because the traffic isn't there. The boycott I think has
served its purpose. I think it has been one that
showed our economic might, It showed our voice, It showed
that we can be we can be united.

Speaker 4 (54:27):
I'm all for that right. But what I have to
think about is how I make.

Speaker 13 (54:31):
Sure that these people and these businesses that have made
these investments survive through this.

Speaker 4 (54:37):
Until all of that is the.

Speaker 2 (54:38):
Result, We're still kicking it with the chairman and CEO
of Essence, Rich Dennis Charlamagne.

Speaker 3 (54:43):
Can you move on from a boycott if a demand
hadn't been met them? Again, if you have the whole
point of boycott is because you have demand. The target
hasn't met those demands. Why should we tell people to
move on if they have not met those if they
haven't meant thal demands, why should we tell the protest.

Speaker 10 (54:57):
Is to move on?

Speaker 13 (54:58):
I haven't told anybody, right, sounds like you're saying that
just no, No, that's not what I'm saying. What I'm
saying is that my responsibility, the place that I've lived
my life is in building out that ecosystem.

Speaker 3 (55:12):
Just from your standpoint, Just Essence, right, not the black
owned businesses within Target, Just Essence and Essence Festival. If
you would have said, you know what, I'm listening to
the protesters Target, I don't want you to be a
sponsor this hit.

Speaker 4 (55:23):
How would that have impacted y'all business? Because I know
you had a contract.

Speaker 13 (55:26):
Well, we have a we have a contract, so that
that would that would impact our business? I tell you
something else, Right, There's many others that have either pulled
out of supporting.

Speaker 4 (55:36):
Black media and and and black businesses.

Speaker 13 (55:40):
There are many others that have cut down what they have,
what their commitments had been, or or where they have
where they have invested before. So it's not just this
isn't just an issue that's related just to Target, right,
This is an issue that you know, we've had partners.

Speaker 4 (55:58):
You know that didn't come.

Speaker 13 (56:00):
Ford didn't come back, right, Delta didn't come. There's partners
in it, but we still put on the same, the
same show. We still put on the same, the same event.
So we're gonna ride for our community.

Speaker 4 (56:11):
Right.

Speaker 13 (56:11):
We knew we were going to take a loss going
into this, but it's better to me that we take
a loss and that those those that community, that business community,
the broader community of New Orleans, the broader community that
comes to Essence Festival has an extraordinary experience.

Speaker 4 (56:27):
We did have hiccups. Yeah, why didn't those companies come back?
Some of them have? Have they got rid of they
got rid of the black programs.

Speaker 13 (56:34):
There's no money, there's no there's nobody right, you know,
But this is the new world that we live in,
and I think it's very important that we are that
we're moving forward. Like we can't just we can't just
go to sleep or we're not gonna wake up and
it's gonna be better. We got to work through it, right.

Speaker 3 (56:53):
I agree with you, And you know, yes, there is
going to be criticism for any event, But based on
what you just said, I wonder if people realize that,
let's say next year, these companies that pulled out this
year for DEI initiatives, they want they might want to
come back, but they're not going to come back to
something that is getting so criticized. They're not going to
come back to something that's getting so slammed on social media.

(57:15):
That's when they be like, I want to stay away
from that, like you know, yeah, you know.

Speaker 13 (57:19):
And the thing is, what we did this year was
an extraordinary success. Our vision for this is not for
next year. Our vision for this is one hundred hundred years.
So we're building the infrastructure that allows us, that allows
us to do that will do the work. We'll make
the adjustments from the that we see from the criticisms,

(57:41):
the one that the ones that are that are reasonable
in that work will do that right. But the other
thing is we've also got to be able to the
thing that I'll notice that I'll say, now as I've
gotten on in years, is my community no longer has.

Speaker 4 (57:56):
The grace it once had for each other, not at all. Right,
we go on these platforms and.

Speaker 3 (58:02):
Did we did we?

Speaker 4 (58:04):
I don't know if we know we maybe maybe yeah?
In my day, yes, there was grace.

Speaker 13 (58:11):
You know, if if something went wrong, somebody pulled you
aside and said, hey, you know this is going wrong, if.

Speaker 4 (58:16):
Your kid did something wrong, they're like.

Speaker 3 (58:20):
Community.

Speaker 4 (58:23):
But we've got to bring We've got to bring that back. Right.

Speaker 13 (58:26):
It's like if we run away from these things, it
doesn't come back. If our kids grow up and don't
see they think that this is this is the way
it should be. So where did we get some things wrong?

Speaker 4 (58:37):
Absolutely?

Speaker 13 (58:37):
But I think if you measure us against any festival
that happened this year, I think we we we.

Speaker 4 (58:44):
Rise to the top. Right.

Speaker 13 (58:47):
I don't know of one festival that happened this year
that didn't have some sort of production issue. Right, Ours
is amplified because people care. Right, Ours is amplified because
our community is under a lot of pressure. Ours is
amplified because we have a boycott going. Ours is amplified
for a whole host of reasons. That doesn't mean that
we run away from it, right, It means that we

(59:07):
got to talk.

Speaker 4 (59:07):
Absolutely.

Speaker 3 (59:08):
I think the valid criticisms, and I know you gotta
get out of here. I think the valid criticism are
the production issue, the lateness, the costs for people, And
I do think the target, the target conversation is a
valid conversation to have. It's a valid criticism for people
that are boycotting to bring up. But I think with you,
the way you're explaining it makes sense to me.

Speaker 4 (59:26):
Yeah, But here's here's the other. Here's the other, bigger thing.

Speaker 13 (59:29):
I personally think a lot of this stuff is driven
by bots, right, I don't even think it's.

Speaker 2 (59:34):
Well, not only that a lot of people weren't even there,
like the people that left those they weren't even there,
and they do those type of things. I say this,
and I tell me Charlam may talk about it all
the time. The bad thing is we reward this type
of behavior, right, And the way we reward it is
there's likes, there's views. They get paid for the amount
of views. So if I get a million views for
issue on essence and I get paid one thousand dollars

(59:54):
for it, you know what I'm gonna do tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (59:55):
I'm gonna do it again.

Speaker 3 (59:56):
Well, you're probably right, but let's not dismiss the people.

Speaker 4 (59:58):
Who are there. People there. But there were people there,
and he said they did have some problem.

Speaker 2 (01:00:03):
But what I want you to do, too, Rich is
instead of coming when is fed up to talk about
fixing it, or you want you to come before and
talk about what you're doing so we can get that
good word out to the people.

Speaker 4 (01:00:13):
But you too, busy doing the work.

Speaker 13 (01:00:14):
So that's I was going to say, yes, so let
me let me let me tell you what I.

Speaker 4 (01:00:18):
Grew up by. Right.

Speaker 13 (01:00:20):
My mother would always tell us, let's do the things
we're going to talk about.

Speaker 4 (01:00:25):
Let's not talk about the things we're going to do.
So that's my mentality. Right.

Speaker 13 (01:00:32):
If it's something, if I have something to share that
that I think like this conversation, I'm happy to share it.
But other than that, i'd rather be I'd rather be
working with my team solving these problems.

Speaker 4 (01:00:44):
Right. And now you know I'm executive chairman.

Speaker 13 (01:00:46):
We have CEOs in different roles, you know they're they're
doing that so I can sit here and talk. But
the reality of it is we have to give each
other more grace and we have to build more businesses.

Speaker 4 (01:01:02):
Right, that's our.

Speaker 13 (01:01:03):
Only way out of this, Right, we have to build
more businesses, and we have to treat those things that
allow us to build those businesses.

Speaker 4 (01:01:13):
With that mindset. Right.

Speaker 13 (01:01:14):
So I'll say this, Those sponsor dollars that come in
go into the investments to put on the free experiences
that you get, and they'll allow us to pay for
the talent that we won't.

Speaker 4 (01:01:34):
Be able to pay for it just by ticket sales.
I gotcha, right.

Speaker 13 (01:01:38):
There's nowhere else on this planet that you can go
and get what essence FST gives you. And that's why
I believe people are so protective of it, right, And
so I appreciate that, and I understand that, and we
will continue to do the work to make it continuously better.

Speaker 4 (01:01:57):
But I will say this, what we put on lives
on the world stage.

Speaker 13 (01:02:04):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:02:04):
It's not it's not that's.

Speaker 13 (01:02:07):
Nobody's bigger, right. It's just that a lot of what
we do is free, right.

Speaker 4 (01:02:14):
But nobody's bigger.

Speaker 13 (01:02:15):
So our revenues don't match everybody else's revenues because they
charge it. The other thing is when you go when
you go to Cotella, you go to any one of
these other places, you're just there for the act that's.

Speaker 4 (01:02:29):
On the stage.

Speaker 13 (01:02:30):
When you come the Essence community, you're there for community.

Speaker 4 (01:02:34):
Right.

Speaker 13 (01:02:34):
So I think we did a great job with community.
We didn't do a great job with the production, right,
But I think that just the community of the talent
that was there. And we need to communicate more frequently,
earlier and more frequently, who's here, who's not here, what's happening?

Speaker 4 (01:02:53):
Right?

Speaker 13 (01:02:53):
So those are those are things that those are things
that are fixing when we're here, We're here to do
the work.

Speaker 3 (01:02:58):
All criticisms of validing essence is just gonna try to
do better next year.

Speaker 4 (01:03:02):
There we go. That's it. That's it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:04):
Yeah, all right, well it's Rich Dennis. It's the Breakfast Club.
Good morning, thanks for joining us.

Speaker 4 (01:03:08):
Well, let's thank you guys.

Speaker 8 (01:03:09):
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straight fashion.

Speaker 4 (01:03:14):
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Speaker 9 (01:03:18):
I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything.

Speaker 4 (01:03:21):
She'd be having the latest on it. Just the latest
with Lauren la Rosa.

Speaker 3 (01:03:26):
Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details, sometimes you
have a little bit of everything on.

Speaker 4 (01:03:30):
The Breakfast Club.

Speaker 19 (01:03:33):
Alrighty guys, we have a new couple alert cli Klay
Thompson and Meg the Stallion are dating.

Speaker 8 (01:03:41):
Yeah, she bet.

Speaker 9 (01:03:44):
Where were you when Clay Thompson hard launched Meg thea Sagon?
I know where I was.

Speaker 8 (01:03:50):
I was talking to that for so okay.

Speaker 9 (01:03:54):
So here's how it went down.

Speaker 19 (01:03:54):
So Mega Sigon posted these photos last week of hurting
a bathing suit and in the back ground was Klay Thompson.
But you had to zoom in and kind of see
him a bit, and people were trying to figure out
if it was him or if it was not. It
then came out later that it was confirmed that it
was him, but they the two of them, didn't say anything.
So then following Meg Thee Stallions up.

Speaker 2 (01:04:15):
Little do we know if this is true because she
was just with the soccer players, so yeah, they could
have been at the same resort.

Speaker 9 (01:04:19):
We're going to get there.

Speaker 4 (01:04:23):
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Speaker 9 (01:04:28):
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Speaker 19 (01:04:29):
So following Meg Thee Stallion's post, you then had Klay Thompson.
He uploaded a swipe through and in his swipe through,
Magde Stallion and him sharing a kiss and then they're
holding hands walking, So it is official. I mean, they
haven't said anything, but the photos say all the.

Speaker 9 (01:04:45):
Things that they need to say.

Speaker 17 (01:04:46):
Right.

Speaker 9 (01:04:47):
He actually posted it like it's on his install Yes,
it's on his Instagram. Yes. Now MV you had mentioned
that she was dating the not just.

Speaker 8 (01:04:55):
Thought she was with homie, but and then Boston Tory
Craig guy last year.

Speaker 19 (01:05:01):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, well, Megan has been single, she's
been dating. But I will say people did have a
lot to say about her. Well, once Clay doubled down
on what she had already posted. People, I mean, they
like the drag Megan, but people did have a lot
to say because they felt like she was openly dating
all of these people who are athletes and there were
some jokes flying.

Speaker 9 (01:05:20):
But she's single. What is she supposed to do?

Speaker 8 (01:05:23):
That's the thing. Are they relationships or what was she single?

Speaker 7 (01:05:25):
Like?

Speaker 5 (01:05:25):
Because she was popping out with them like her and
Clay give together, I mean and Tory Craig gave together.

Speaker 8 (01:05:31):
They did a couple of challenge, did a couple of
there's a couple of challenges on TikTok that he did
a couple.

Speaker 4 (01:05:38):
Of challenge or congratulations to them.

Speaker 9 (01:05:41):
Yeah, congratulations, That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (01:05:42):
No, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it, but
I'm saying, like she's not single, like she's getting in
relationships with the you know, these are relationships. He's just
probably not working. But it was a sexual relationship. She's
not just out here.

Speaker 9 (01:05:53):
Because she's going public with them as it takes it
to a different high. I do agree.

Speaker 8 (01:05:57):
Sometimes things don't work, but yeah, these are.

Speaker 19 (01:06:00):
I think that's It's just hard when you're a megda
stallion and you do like somebody enough to be public
with them or whatever.

Speaker 9 (01:06:05):
It's like you got to pick and choose, I guess.

Speaker 4 (01:06:07):
But like when you go public is official when.

Speaker 5 (01:06:11):
Yeah, with somebody not up there posting it because she
she got nice bathing suits, like that's his girl, know
that is it?

Speaker 4 (01:06:21):
For sure?

Speaker 19 (01:06:21):
They give couple together and a couple of challenges on TikTok.
It's a couple okay, So all right, maybe y'all want
to congratulations.

Speaker 5 (01:06:30):
So she just better I heard them. Yeah, oh my god,
like you love real real hard. Yes, they love, they
love yeah lost.

Speaker 3 (01:06:44):
And also I like the fact that she only dates
athletes because I mean she don't like an athlete her
damn absolutely who else you supposed to be?

Speaker 24 (01:06:50):
I got to be with somebody six three better right
to tesling be fun yeah more little we.

Speaker 9 (01:07:03):
No more crazy just a wow.

Speaker 19 (01:07:05):
I like that somebody else's side yeah and none other
congratulations and couples news to Coco Jones and Donovan Mitchell.
Hey that's yes, they shared a photo. They are engaged now.
They posted this to Instagram. Many Donovan Mitchell also posted
like some drone footage.

Speaker 8 (01:07:24):
From him proposing, right, I thought that was so sweet.

Speaker 9 (01:07:27):
Yes, from the proposal. And Sierra and Russell Wilson.

Speaker 10 (01:07:30):
Uh.

Speaker 19 (01:07:30):
You know, there's conversation around our reports with them talking
about the fact that they helped to plan the engagement
as well.

Speaker 9 (01:07:37):
And Coco.

Speaker 19 (01:07:38):
We had talked to her a bit about Donovan when
she was up here and she swerved the question. But
now we know where it's at. Let's say, listen here
we go. Is that the song where you talking about
you try and get over somebody but they won't leave
you along because but you let up with your new boo.
You've been talking about being happy in these interviews and
if people are saying that it's Donovan Mitchell, is this
your bay?

Speaker 9 (01:07:53):
Is that what's happening.

Speaker 4 (01:07:54):
I'm happy.

Speaker 19 (01:07:55):
That's all I gotta say about it. I mean, okay,
so it is and the music gets happy, So I'm
happy for you.

Speaker 8 (01:08:03):
Yes, No, the houses.

Speaker 3 (01:08:08):
I didn't know that.

Speaker 8 (01:08:10):
That's what's up.

Speaker 5 (01:08:10):
Seeing that, you see what happened when you keep your
relationship private like she she kept it private.

Speaker 8 (01:08:15):
No, they engaged and I hope they be together for
a long, long long time.

Speaker 3 (01:08:18):
I'm dropping a clue, honestly, when y'all having these relationship conversations.
Those are the conversations y'all should highlight when when a
man actually makes a real commitment. You know what I mean,
when the man says, hey, I want you to be
my wife.

Speaker 4 (01:08:31):
Get married?

Speaker 9 (01:08:32):
Yeah, k Cuddy, Yeah, Ki Cutty.

Speaker 19 (01:08:35):
I was getting into that. Kit Cuddy also was married
over the weekend as well.

Speaker 3 (01:08:39):
You got all the tea envy your pot and I
love you. Let me see your handle, let me see your.

Speaker 8 (01:08:51):
Even keep up with all the team.

Speaker 4 (01:08:52):
And he was busy this week. Look at the kettle page.
Look at you. You move your neck like that when
you say the tea pot song. Okay, so don't do your.

Speaker 3 (01:09:03):
Hand like that when you are like, yes, not married?

Speaker 9 (01:09:09):
What else is going on?

Speaker 8 (01:09:10):
Who want Loveland?

Speaker 4 (01:09:12):
I see the Spanish couple of love?

Speaker 9 (01:09:17):
You see where where where the kids cut and get married?

Speaker 4 (01:09:24):
And it's poor.

Speaker 9 (01:09:25):
I don't know what a friend?

Speaker 10 (01:09:28):
You know that?

Speaker 9 (01:09:28):
I don't know. They did the whole spread with Vogue.
It was such a vibe.

Speaker 19 (01:09:33):
Is the woman black no here, no no. Her name
is I don't know you pronounce her last name? Her
name is Lola. But they met while she was working
for Virgil ablow.

Speaker 2 (01:09:42):
Oh nice, she's caucasion the doctor Wumar definitely, Doctor Umar
did not. I am totally against it. She white white,
I can't tell.

Speaker 9 (01:09:52):
I don't know what her like.

Speaker 4 (01:09:54):
I mean she was in love is love, but you know,
would you.

Speaker 3 (01:09:59):
Married black? That's why?

Speaker 4 (01:10:00):
Congratulations?

Speaker 3 (01:10:01):
Okay, love if you find somebody that you love regardless
of what they raised, is cool.

Speaker 4 (01:10:06):
But I like seeing black men with black women personally.

Speaker 9 (01:10:11):
Yeah, that's nice. She used to be a fact designer
for Louis and she worked.

Speaker 4 (01:10:23):
I care about football.

Speaker 8 (01:10:24):
Do you like saying black men with black men? Or
do you like says racial? Gee, cobbles happened?

Speaker 13 (01:10:29):
What you said?

Speaker 20 (01:10:30):
I said?

Speaker 5 (01:10:30):
We got to wrap up what you say. No, because
you love black love? Like, do you love seeing black
men with black men? Or is it I'm saying like,
is it any just withration?

Speaker 4 (01:10:41):
No, I don't have discrimination. But man, what put your
mouth on your precious penises?

Speaker 3 (01:10:47):
Crazy?

Speaker 4 (01:10:54):
Who? This is crazy?

Speaker 3 (01:10:58):
We need a Trump administration to come in the front
of the time.

Speaker 4 (01:11:00):
We'd like to have a word with him. Please.

Speaker 5 (01:11:01):
It's crazy that you really be asking who you giving
that ass to. That's crazy to me, responds, all right,
we'll get to that.

Speaker 4 (01:11:09):
Next is the breakfast club in the morning. If you're
liked into the breakfast club.

Speaker 14 (01:11:14):
Don J.

Speaker 15 (01:11:15):
Trump is calling for a total and complete chuckdount of
Muslims entering the United States. Would you love to see
one of these NFL owners when somebody disrespects.

Speaker 13 (01:11:23):
Our flag to say, get that son of up that
you're off the field right now out.

Speaker 4 (01:11:27):
He's fired.

Speaker 8 (01:11:29):
He's fired.

Speaker 4 (01:11:33):
Please step up to the congregation. Yes you are. When
Mexico sends his feet, you're not sending their best. They're
bringing drugs, they're bringing crimes.

Speaker 3 (01:11:49):
Yeah, it's not here today for Monday, July fourteenth, goes
to President Donald J. Trump and the whole Trump administration
because they are doubling and tripling down on the lie
that the Epstein client list does exists. Now, if you
haven't heard, the DOJ said they have no evidence that
convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein blackmailed powerful figures, kept the
client list, are was murdered, even though they were the

(01:12:10):
ones perpetuating that lie in the first place. Okay, Pam Bondy,
the Attorney General, said the files were sitting on her desk.

Speaker 4 (01:12:19):
Let's listen.

Speaker 25 (01:12:20):
The DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients.

Speaker 4 (01:12:25):
Well, that really happened.

Speaker 23 (01:12:26):
It's sitting on my desk right now to review. That's
been a directive by President Trump.

Speaker 8 (01:12:31):
I'm reviewing that.

Speaker 23 (01:12:32):
I'm reviewing JFK files, MLK files. That's all in the
process of being reviewed because that was done at the
directive of the president from all of these agencies.

Speaker 25 (01:12:41):
So so, have you seen anything there? You said, Oh,
my gosh, not yet. Okay, well, we'll check back with
you now. They don't exist allegedly.

Speaker 3 (01:12:52):
Donald Trump himself said on Fox News back in the
day that he would declassify the Epstein files.

Speaker 8 (01:12:56):
Let's listen, declassify the nine to eleven files. Ye, would
you declassify JFK files? Would you declassify the Epstein files?

Speaker 3 (01:13:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (01:13:05):
Yeah, I would.

Speaker 15 (01:13:06):
I guess I would. I think that less so because
you know, you don't know, you don't want to affect
people's lives if it's phony stuff in there, because there's
a lot of phony stuff with that whole world.

Speaker 4 (01:13:17):
But I think I would, or at least do.

Speaker 12 (01:13:18):
You think that would restore trust?

Speaker 8 (01:13:20):
Hope, restore trust.

Speaker 15 (01:13:21):
I don't know about Epstein so much as I do
the other there's certainly about the way he died. It
would be interesting to find out what happened there, because
that was a weird situation and the cameras didn't happen
to be working.

Speaker 3 (01:13:30):
He sounded a little shaky, a little reluctant, But he
never said back then that the files didn't exist, did he. Okay,
you shouldn't have to sound that shaky about releasing something
that doesn't exist.

Speaker 20 (01:13:40):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:13:41):
This weekend, Donald Trump put up a long ass post
on True Social and he blamed the Epstein files on
you guessed it? The Democrats. Yes, he said that the
files were written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, call me me Brennan,
and the luthers and criminals of the Biden administration.

Speaker 4 (01:13:56):
Let's go to MSNBC for the report. Please.

Speaker 26 (01:13:59):
Obviously, this is a story that has riled MAGA world
over the past three four days, and there seems to
be an argument coming out of the White House that
these files don't exist. And at the same time, the
White House is saying this.

Speaker 4 (01:14:16):
Is all a set up.

Speaker 26 (01:14:17):
These files were all set ups by Barack Obama and
Hillary Clinton.

Speaker 4 (01:14:22):
Two things can't those two things can't. We often say
two things can be true at one time. Those two
things cannot be true at one time. You cannot have.

Speaker 26 (01:14:32):
Files that do not exist that were set up by
Barack Obama, when in fact, all of this happened years
after Barack Obama, as far as the Justice Department launching
the investigation happened a few years after Barack Obama was

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already golfing and windsailing and going on cruise ships.

Speaker 4 (01:14:57):
Great points, O Scarborough.

Speaker 3 (01:14:59):
Okay, never mind in fact that Epstein was arrested on
July sixteenth, July six, twenty nineteen, when Trump was in office.
Never mind in fact he killed himself on August tipt
twenty nineteen, while Trump was in office. I don't know
what Democrats have to do with this, but you can't
spend this with some Democratic hopes, not when it was
the MAGA crowd and the Trump administration who endorsed the
Epstein client list to begin with. Now, I personally believe

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the reason that Epstein list didn't come out was because
it would be mutually assured destruction for everybody Democrats, Republicans, politicians.

Speaker 4 (01:15:29):
And israel corporate CEOs, the royal family.

Speaker 3 (01:15:32):
If the Epstein flight logs are any indication, then this
Epstein client list would hurt everybody. That's why Trump doesn't
want to put it out, and that's why you never
heard much about it from a certain class of Democrat. Okay,
Biden was in office for four years. I never heard
them talking about that Epstein list. Why because he probably
had people on there he needed to protect too. Okay,
the powerful protect the powerful people. I feel like if

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they had Trump on the Epstein client list and just
Trump and nobody they needed to protect, they would have
let that list fly. But I am simply here to
tell a lot of Democrats this morning, don't let go
of the Epstein list.

Speaker 4 (01:16:09):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:16:09):
I suspect it will be a lot of flooding of
the zone from Republicans trying to get the Epstein list
out of the headlines, but don't let it go.

Speaker 4 (01:16:19):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:16:19):
Treat the Epstein client list the way MAGA treated the
transgenders in sports issue, all right, don't ever stop talking
about it, because the reality is the transgender in.

Speaker 4 (01:16:28):
Sports issue was one thing we all could agree on.

Speaker 3 (01:16:32):
Okay, MAGA could sound completely crazy about a number of things,
But soon as they say men who have transitioned to
women shouldn't be competing in women's sports. We all like, yeah,
I agree with that, that's true. That's what this Epstein
client list issue is for Democrats now. It's the only
thing that can build a bridge between Democrats and the magabase. Okay,

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dims have been trying to court the MAGA base. That's
why Gavin Newsom will do a corny ass podcast where
he has to talk to both sides. Listen, if you
really want to talk to the other side, then you
have to talk about things the other side cares about.
And you know what MAGA cares about. Conspiracy. The base
of the MAGA movement is not conservatism, it's conspiracy and
white supremacy.

Speaker 4 (01:17:15):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:17:15):
The same way Republicans and conspiracy theorists couldn't let go
of Pizzagate and they demonized Democrats because they thought they
were running a child sex spring out of the back
of a pizza shop in DC. It's the same way
Democrats should demonize any Republican acting like the Epstein list
doesn't exist. Pour gas on the flames, ask questions, why
is paying BONDI lying to us? Why are pieces of

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the footage missing? It's the most impactful thing Democrats could
be talking about. Okay, the magabase didn't budge on the
administration when they let Elon Musk take a chain saw
the government agencies left so many government agencies functioning worse
than they were before. The Magabas don't care about people
getting deported with no due process. They didn't care about
the insurrection. None of that mattered to them. But this
Epstein client let's issue.

Speaker 4 (01:17:58):
Oh it does, and that's why.

Speaker 3 (01:18:01):
Democrats should never stop talking about it. It's the only
thing to lean into. It's no downside, even if it
is powerful Democrats on this list. So what you're not
protecting pedophiles?

Speaker 4 (01:18:12):
I would hope not. I saw a superman this weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:18:15):
In one scene, a guide goes and I'm paraphrasing, Democrats
and Republicans can both agree Lex Luthor is a trader
or something like that. Well, guess what, Democrats and Republicans
can both agree that there is a cover up of
the Epstein list. This is how you make a connection
with the magabase because both parties can agree it's an
obvious cover up. Okay, Democrats, there's nothing else to discuss.

(01:18:36):
Don't blow the layup. I know y'all suck at messaging. Well,
this is the message. Okay, you've been looking for your
transgenders and sports issue.

Speaker 4 (01:18:45):
Well here you have it. Every time Republicans try to
turn the channel, turn it back. Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:18:49):
The only reason you wouldn't is because you trying to
protect the pedophiles and your party are the pedophiles that
from your campaigns are the powerful pedophile politicians.

Speaker 4 (01:18:58):
From other countries. But the moral of the store is
we have no reason to protect pedophiles.

Speaker 3 (01:19:02):
And that should be the constant question to the Trump
administration in regard to the Epstein files. Why are you
protecting the pedophiles by telling us this client list by
these Epstein.

Speaker 4 (01:19:13):
Files don't exist.

Speaker 3 (01:19:15):
Let's discuss.

Speaker 4 (01:19:16):
Please give Donald Trump and the Trump administration the biggest
he hull what all right?

Speaker 2 (01:19:27):
Well, thank you for that donkey of the day, Yes, ma'am.
Now during the Lads, now during the Latest with Lauren,
gotta ignore him. Some times during the Latest with Lauren,
she was talking about Drake and Drake got a tattoo
of Lebron and now he covered it up.

Speaker 8 (01:19:41):
Yeah, as he rightfully.

Speaker 2 (01:19:43):
So we're asking eight five eight five one five one.
Now Drake got Lebron or had Lebron tatted on him?
Do you think that's just a sign of respect for
greatness or do I think that's a little too much?

Speaker 4 (01:19:55):
Oh our respect for gayness? But didn't put that one
in there?

Speaker 2 (01:20:01):
Five going to be because you can't say you only
put it when people passed, because a lot of people
out there with Michael Jordan tattoos.

Speaker 9 (01:20:09):
But he covered it up.

Speaker 8 (01:20:10):
Then he covered up with somebody else's name.

Speaker 4 (01:20:12):
Yes, okay, that's just.

Speaker 3 (01:20:14):
That's by the way, that's big d riding too though.
Shy Ben from Toronto, shy Ben balling. You wait till
you get a championship and now I want to get
his name tattooed on you.

Speaker 22 (01:20:24):
Like that?

Speaker 2 (01:20:25):
That is the questioning what that five one?

Speaker 4 (01:20:31):
Drake had a lebron tattoo and he recently covered it up.

Speaker 2 (01:20:35):
Do you think that's just a sign of respect for
greatness or do you think it's going a little too far.

Speaker 4 (01:20:41):
Too much?

Speaker 9 (01:20:41):
My thing is seamagne.

Speaker 8 (01:20:43):
You still got the windy said.

Speaker 3 (01:20:44):
To got got it?

Speaker 9 (01:20:47):
You know where it is too?

Speaker 3 (01:20:48):
Yeah? Okay, you got dj c's question mark logo right
over your belly button is question button?

Speaker 13 (01:20:54):
Period?

Speaker 4 (01:20:55):
Come you got how you're doing right over your butt crack? Doing?
Not too many letters?

Speaker 11 (01:21:00):
All right?

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More than everybody. It's DJ Envy, just hilarious, Charlamagne the guy.
We are the Breakfast Club now if you're just joining us.
During the Latest with Lauren, Lauren reported that Drake removed
the Lebron tattoo and put sg A on it. And
we're asking eight hundred and five A five one oh
five to one do you think Drake's tattoo of Lebron
is a sign of respect for greatness or do you

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think it's a little too much?

Speaker 5 (01:21:54):
The only you know, like the weird part about it
is like they hung out, like they were hanging out
there like close in age and Lebron is legendary, you
know what I mean, So like, yeah, he you know,
the reason why I say legendary is because I just
feel like you got to have like I don't know,
like I'm not saying that he's not a legend, but
like he's still currently active with It's that's why I

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say legendary.

Speaker 8 (01:22:17):
To me, I'm like, legendary. You know, when he retired,
you can be he's gonna be a legend.

Speaker 5 (01:22:21):
But like I look at Michael Jordan's as like a
legend right now, already not in the make, and you
feel me so like they're like too close in age,
like they're homies. Like that's like getting your homeboy tatted
on you, you know what I mean. So it is
a little weird to me that Drake got uh Lebron's
name tag. I mean jerseys, you know, Oh it's just
a jersey. It was this jersey with it with his

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name on the back of it. Yeah, in this high
school jersey. Okay, I just think it's weird.

Speaker 2 (01:22:47):
I mean, the only people I would get tattooed is
my mom's, my PA's, my wife, and my kids.

Speaker 4 (01:22:50):
Yeah, my grandmother, you know, grandfather.

Speaker 8 (01:22:52):
You wouldn't get like Prince or Michael Jackson or like nah.

Speaker 2 (01:22:55):
But I do like Odell, Odell has O'Dell Beckham, Junr
has a lot of the legends that passed away tattooed
on him, and I think they look it looks guess
Michael Jackson, he he has what else does he have
on there?

Speaker 8 (01:23:08):
But he has like a lot of the legends like that,
And with that, I don't think that's weird, you know
what I mean.

Speaker 5 (01:23:13):
But if we hang out like you know, I don't know,
that's like if I hang out with Tianna Taylor or
I'm gonna go get Shorty name.

Speaker 8 (01:23:19):
On me, like you know, I can't do that now.

Speaker 3 (01:23:22):
Besides, Wendy, what are your thoughts, I've never gotten a
Windy tattooed.

Speaker 4 (01:23:25):
I mean, you know it's interesting, right, I don't think
I don't think he should have ever gotten it simply
because that's not his friend like that now, But maybe
maybe that's the reason why he was so hurt, because
he thought it was his friend like that. But that's
my point.

Speaker 3 (01:23:36):
If you love him as a ballplayer, I get it,
you know what I'm saying, Because you know, people get
teams that they like tatting on them, they get athletes
that they like tatting on them.

Speaker 4 (01:23:45):
Sports fandom brings out something different.

Speaker 3 (01:23:47):
I mean there's guys out there right now that got
tattoos of players that they've never met, right, just because
they love.

Speaker 4 (01:23:52):
Sports so much. Correct.

Speaker 3 (01:23:54):
But if you got that tattoo because he's your friend,
that's conny because that man don't know you like that.
Y'all ain't come up together like you got people around
you that you came up with. Do you have them
tatted on you us have a place on your body.

Speaker 9 (01:24:08):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (01:24:08):
Does Baca? I don't know who is his other friends?
I don't know that. I think he does have a
forty tattoo from what I.

Speaker 3 (01:24:15):
So, yeah for me, if you got the tattoo because
you thought that was your close friend, that's corny because
you don't know that man like that. If you got
it because he was a great ball player, I understand.
But clearly you didn't get it because he was a
great ball player, because you got to cover you up
soon as you lose friendship. And I know one of
his other good friends now, but no, that's d D.
He's from Shy is from Toronto, But you've been new

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Shy was from Toronto. While you wait until that man
win a championship.

Speaker 4 (01:24:42):
That's d riding. That's like, that's like your wipe it off.

Speaker 3 (01:24:46):
You know, it's like your wipe it off. You wait
to this man win a championship to get him tatted
on you. He wasn't good enough to get a tap before.
And then you had Lebron's high school jersey on you.
He got even one nothing when he was in high school,
not knowing bah what.

Speaker 8 (01:25:00):
If he was been following his story.

Speaker 3 (01:25:02):
But that's what I mean.

Speaker 4 (01:25:03):
If it was just about athletics, I get it. You
thought that was your friend. You thought you was cool
like that.

Speaker 2 (01:25:12):
Because there's a lot of people that have Michael Jordan tattoo.
There's a lot of people that have I'm trying to
think of another person, Shaquille O'Neill.

Speaker 4 (01:25:20):
There's a lot of people that have.

Speaker 8 (01:25:26):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:25:27):
I just wouldn't another one. Wayne Gretzky another one.

Speaker 17 (01:25:30):
Hello, Hey the KP from man.

Speaker 4 (01:25:33):
Hey, what's up? Brother? Talk to us?

Speaker 2 (01:25:34):
What's your thoughts about Greg replacing the tattoo, having a
tattooed Lebron James on him and replacing it.

Speaker 3 (01:25:41):
What you think, Well, well, him having its kind of
you know that already with charlone name said him, You
know what I mean?

Speaker 17 (01:25:48):
And yah, I'm sorry that these cars are here. And
then you and then if you don't cover up the tattoo, you.

Speaker 4 (01:25:53):
Might try to cover up the song too, cover up
the what the song?

Speaker 17 (01:25:57):
You might gonna try to get that off the rady
roll and off the wish everybody play with because you
made that fronts Ball will tell you, laway, I mean
what you gonna do about that?

Speaker 3 (01:26:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:26:07):
Yeah, Hello?

Speaker 13 (01:26:07):
Who's this?

Speaker 9 (01:26:08):
Hey?

Speaker 7 (01:26:09):
This cruise from sir, Florida.

Speaker 3 (01:26:10):
What's up cruise?

Speaker 4 (01:26:11):
How you feeling?

Speaker 7 (01:26:12):
I'm doing good doing girl?

Speaker 22 (01:26:14):
About this stuff?

Speaker 4 (01:26:15):
Good and favorite, sir.

Speaker 8 (01:26:16):
When you think about Drake having Lebrother's jersey tattooed on
his arm, in.

Speaker 7 (01:26:21):
My opinion, I thought it was a sign of restake
into the whole, you know, kenjry Lamar beat. For one thing,
I kind of agree with Shalla may is when he
put Shay on there, that's definitely you riding, because one
he never show loved to shave, and two if y'all
peep at the tattoo, he also got thunder on there,
which he never you know, has his association with Oklahoma City.

Speaker 18 (01:26:44):
So it kind of blew my mind.

Speaker 7 (01:26:46):
Putting him on there. Did you get what I'm saying, Like,
it's just crazing me.

Speaker 3 (01:26:50):
It said thunder on it too.

Speaker 4 (01:26:51):
I don't know about that, yeh, Pete, it says thunder
on it, damn. And don't you have Kevin Duran and
Steph Curry on him too? I don't know.

Speaker 7 (01:26:59):
I believe Saw. I'm not too sure, but.

Speaker 2 (01:27:02):
I understand that if he's putting the grapes on him
in because they're all great play.

Speaker 4 (01:27:08):
Like Charlema said, they're not your friends, and obviously they showed.

Speaker 3 (01:27:11):
I tell you one thing, man, You know how they
say money doesn't change you, It just magnifies who you are.

Speaker 4 (01:27:16):
Drake must have been a D rider for a long time.

Speaker 5 (01:27:19):
Some high level D riding going on bro bro or
maybe like he just wasn't like the cool kid before,
you know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (01:27:28):
First of all, yeah, and then.

Speaker 5 (01:27:30):
It's like, yo, now if I'm good at he found
something he was really great at rapping, and that that
got him bitches that got him like all the greatest
celebrities and rings represented by one of the best rappers
of all time. I mean, yeah, so, but I think
he's getting a harsh lesson now because I really think
he thought these were his friends. Like I really think
you know, when you're up to every when you want
to tee, everybody's your friends.

Speaker 3 (01:27:49):
How could he think that this man made the song
no new friends, You got all those tattoos after making
that song?

Speaker 8 (01:27:55):
Yeah what I'm saying, But they was he thought that
was always friends.

Speaker 3 (01:27:57):
I need to know how many people from your team
you got had it on you. I really want to
know that eight hundred. I want to know who from
his team that he came up with he has on
his body.

Speaker 4 (01:28:05):
I know he got forty.

Speaker 2 (01:28:06):
Besides that, I don't know, but eight hundred five eighty
five one oh five one. During the Latest with Lauren,
we were talking about Drake's tattoo of Lebron's jersey. He
uh tatted over it And what do you think about
Drake having a tattoo of Lebron? Now, I'm not gonna
lie this too. Yes, if I get at tattoo in
charlomn Charlaman got get a tatooed and we.

Speaker 4 (01:28:23):
Gotta go together, right one we got we gotta go
together for sure? Absolutely.

Speaker 3 (01:28:28):
Why the hell would we be getting tattoos of each other.

Speaker 8 (01:28:30):
I'm just saying'all came up.

Speaker 4 (01:28:32):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (01:28:35):
That takes no sense to me whatsoever. My man, red
just said something. Reddy said that he got the Lebron
tattoo in twenty eighteen. Yeah, God damn you know how.

Speaker 4 (01:28:45):
Recent that is.

Speaker 3 (01:28:46):
You are the guy who made the song No New Friends.
You should have took your own advice. Okay, what the hell?

Speaker 4 (01:28:54):
Hello?

Speaker 3 (01:28:54):
Who's this?

Speaker 13 (01:28:55):
Yo?

Speaker 17 (01:28:56):
What's going on?

Speaker 7 (01:28:56):
Man?

Speaker 10 (01:28:57):
That's why from Atlanta?

Speaker 3 (01:28:58):
Bro?

Speaker 4 (01:28:58):
Why from Atlanta? Talk to us your thoughts?

Speaker 20 (01:29:00):
Hey, man, I think the whole thing, uh, even back
to the beef, it's all about Drake needing some sort
of validation. Man, I went, I think he should have
stayed locked in with Wayne, like this generation should know
Wayne how big Wayne was years ago, and I feel
like Drake should have did that so well, Lebron, I
think he wanted to have like a big bro. He

(01:29:22):
wanted to have somebody got validated, and now he ain't
got that, so he just gonna flip flop to the
next person, the same thing that Kendrick was saying.

Speaker 5 (01:29:29):
He always been doing, you know what I mean, But
he got Wayne whole face on him, so he started
with that Hello, who's.

Speaker 17 (01:29:35):
This Yeah, it's by Grill bike man Indyma.

Speaker 4 (01:29:41):
All right that yeahn I'm gonna be Indian.

Speaker 3 (01:29:44):
I think in two weeks. I think you got the
Indy five hundred coming up in two weeks.

Speaker 17 (01:29:47):
Man, yeah, Man, I'm looking for it.

Speaker 3 (01:29:49):
I fee yeah, Man, I'm gonna be out there talk
to us.

Speaker 4 (01:29:52):
What's your thoughts?

Speaker 17 (01:29:52):
Brother best believed man al Mama be jan the thirty
four years. Man, I kind of believed that Drake is suspect,
which I know man well, for one, when he was
with Cash Martin the good a man as A quipped
after something where he's bout he brom Wade said that

(01:30:15):
it was kind of like line I left Braine, you know,
stuff like that. With this Briant tattoo, that's doing too much.

Speaker 3 (01:30:22):
Man, Damn, I just saw that he got a tattoo
a skeptic too. Hell no, yo, that's what it says,
said Skepta and DrAk a tattoo. Buddies now said Drake
has a tattoo that says bb K Big Black King. Yeah,
and I guess Skepta has an overo tattoo as well.

Speaker 8 (01:30:40):
Okay, well they all right, well they did that together.

Speaker 3 (01:30:42):
That's that's what I've b B b k is kept
his label boy better Know and Skeptic got Drake tattooed
on him.

Speaker 8 (01:30:50):
Okay, I mean they did it together, you know what
I mean?

Speaker 4 (01:30:53):
Hello, who's this a car from Maryland?

Speaker 10 (01:30:56):
Uh?

Speaker 22 (01:30:57):
I'm just calling to say I think you got I
was looking at it the wrong way. You just seen
a lot of viral clips with drinking the background courtside.
He just spend a lot of money on games, and
he could tell you what saying. He might even own
the team one day, so he's just invested. So why
not get it pet?

Speaker 3 (01:31:14):
Well, we know I said that a little while ago,
but we know it's not about basketball, because if it
was just about basketball, he would keep the tattoo. You
don't get the tattoo covered up just because you don't
like your friend no more, because that don't take away
Bron's greatness on the court.

Speaker 8 (01:31:27):
And then you got to cover it up with another
basketball player.

Speaker 4 (01:31:29):
That's right.

Speaker 22 (01:31:30):
I mean, But if the other basket, I mean, if
Lebron is like Viral leak this at him by singing
out Kendrick Labar, you might think, Hey, let me do
a different player, because I don't want to assimiate.

Speaker 4 (01:31:40):
One no more.

Speaker 5 (01:31:42):
But damn, I can't go to a concert and dance
to the greatest song that came out of the year
like I like damn Damn.

Speaker 2 (01:31:51):
Yeah, I will say the other day, I will say
I think it's a little crazy when when you get
when you idolize these people like this, right, I would
also say this. I think my father will smack fire
out my ass if I put another man tattooed on mom.
But if you tell your daddy, but Daddy, this man
smacking fire out my ass too.

Speaker 4 (01:32:08):
That's why I got the tattoos, you know, I had
to get the tattoos. Who's smacking fire out? Smacking the fire.

Speaker 9 (01:32:23):
Everything?

Speaker 3 (01:32:23):
Tell you what my dad told me when I got
everyone at one time.

Speaker 4 (01:32:25):
That's right nineties Gaate Sler definitely fragg you know left side.

Speaker 3 (01:32:33):
I guess the only thing I would say the Morlers man,
don't treat your body like it's just some freaking train.

Speaker 13 (01:32:39):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:32:40):
You know you don't just put ink on you for
no reason. It always means something like I want to
get stuff off me. I hate all my tattoos, probably
except for like one. But it should mean something to
It shouldn't be something that you can just easily replace
just because you get mad at the person.

Speaker 8 (01:32:55):
Right, I mean, then you do that when you're young.
I was doing that when I was young.

Speaker 3 (01:32:59):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 5 (01:33:00):
Is like that he just got the tattoos seven years ago,
just covering it up over the weekend, like he's still
doing that type of stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:33:05):
Yeah, I got my kids and my wife name. I
can't get mad at him and take it off like
they always one.

Speaker 3 (01:33:10):
I really need to know who which one of his
day ones did Drake have tattooed on him? You got Skeptic,
you have Lebron James, you got n Ga.

Speaker 8 (01:33:19):
Kepta is from where London? Oh he loved London rattlers.

Speaker 4 (01:33:24):
I can, by the way, I understand little way Little
Wayne put you on.

Speaker 3 (01:33:28):
But but then that's what j Prince Junior tattooed like
where like who are your day one that you got
tatted on you?

Speaker 8 (01:33:36):
Club is his tattoos? Like the Breakfast Club? Wall, Yo, everybody,
it's just like, oh Wall getting us all taded.

Speaker 2 (01:33:44):
All right, Well we got the latest with Lauren coming up,
so don't move. It's the Breakfast Club in morning, the
Breakfast Club. Let's get to the latest.

Speaker 4 (01:33:53):
With Lauren.

Speaker 8 (01:33:54):
Lauren did come on the straight thing.

Speaker 4 (01:33:57):
She gets them somebody that knows somebody to detail.

Speaker 9 (01:34:01):
I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything.

Speaker 3 (01:34:03):
And she'd be having the latest on it sounds the
pas just the latest with Lauren la Rosa. Sometimes you
have facts, sometimes you have details, sometimes you have a
little bit of everything.

Speaker 4 (01:34:12):
The d on the Breakfast Club to me.

Speaker 19 (01:34:16):
So originally t Tiny were awarded seventeen point eight million
dollars in the verdict, and then they were awarded fifty
three point six million dollars in punitive damages. Right, But
they've been to court a couple of times over this
for different reasons. But one of the reasons more recently
is the judge is trying to show more proof or
asking for more proof of the fact that whether or
not MGA did or did not intentionally mean to infringe

(01:34:38):
on the og girls.

Speaker 9 (01:34:40):
So as of right now, the judge a judge has ruled.

Speaker 19 (01:34:44):
Judge Selna has ruled no that the intention wasn't there
on purpose, so he reduced the damages from that fifty
three over that fifty three million to a dollar. But
ti in Tiny's attorney has rejected that of course, and
they will be going back to court for that as well.
So not like a final decision, but that came out
over the weekend and people were like, what the heck

(01:35:04):
is it.

Speaker 2 (01:35:04):
The same judge that awarded them fifty three million or
this is a different judge different.

Speaker 9 (01:35:08):
So the way that I'm reading it here from these docs,
it is the same judge. And they've been to court.
This is now the that was the third time that
they have been to court. There's been.

Speaker 19 (01:35:18):
I guess like the first time they were in court
there was something that was said in the court room
that the joy wasn't supposed to hear. And then the
second time they went to back to court over the ruling,
there was like a case law study that they brought
into court to prove that the money should be awarded
that didn't necessarily line up. So the judges like, we
got to revisit this again. And now they're having a
conversation about the puniti of damages and then they'll be
back in court again over this because of course Tiny

(01:35:40):
are fighting it and their attorney gave a statement Tiny's
and said, this just shows how hard it is for creatives,
especially black artists and young entrepreneurs to protect their intellectual
property from billion dollar corporations just because of all the
like the fighting that they're going to have to do.

Speaker 3 (01:35:55):
So hopefully that is a lot of times these corporations
can weigh you out because they just got more money.
You big bank takes a little bank, they can keep
you in court.

Speaker 9 (01:36:03):
Forever, one hundred percent. But I didn't even know that.

Speaker 19 (01:36:06):
You know, once these rulings come down like that, like
the back and forth. I mean, I guess because MGA
is fighting it. Yea, it makes sense, but it's like
at what point where it's like do we just get
or something and we get going?

Speaker 9 (01:36:17):
Because how long can this go?

Speaker 4 (01:36:18):
I wonder what cases like that?

Speaker 2 (01:36:20):
You remember with I'm just gonna use the rap of
the game, right, the game got sued for like twenty
thirty million and loss, but then he couldn't go back
and fight that. So how can that company go back
and fight their lawsuit when artists like the Game couldn't
go back and fight his And so many different times
you hear artists couldn't go back and fight there. So
that's I guess, Like Charlay said, a big bank take
a little bit and they got the money to do it.

Speaker 19 (01:36:38):
I'm not for sure in the game situation, but in
this one, they they're fighting, they are and so there
will be another hearing on the damages.

Speaker 4 (01:36:44):
I hope t I don't get it. I do too, say,
it's clear that there was some stuff going.

Speaker 9 (01:36:50):
On, one hundred percent like so clear, but then they win.

Speaker 3 (01:36:53):
Seventeen million, but it was the fifty three million.

Speaker 4 (01:36:55):
I was up in there.

Speaker 9 (01:36:56):
Yes, so that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 19 (01:36:57):
They got the seventeen right, Yeah, so the seventeen still stands,
but the wit was reported over the weekend was as
if it was just everything was dropped to a dollar,
and that is not correct.

Speaker 4 (01:37:04):
That's why I was bursting down that way.

Speaker 19 (01:37:05):
The seventeen point eight will still be owed to them.
The fifty three point six, which is the big number,
the punitive damages is what they you know, they want
all that. They're going back and forth about that right
now because the judge is saying, I don't think that
j'all showed enough proof that they did this on purpose, gotcha?

Speaker 9 (01:37:18):
Okay not.

Speaker 19 (01:37:19):
In other news, as we wrap up over the weekend,
boxing star Javonte Tank Davis was arrested for domestic violence.
He was booked early Friday morning, and there was video
of him like leaving the like the precinct where he
was booked at. So this was broken by a reporter
named Andy Slater. So he alleged that there was an

(01:37:39):
altercation between Javonte Tank Davis and his ex girlfriend that
happened a few weeks ago, and that Javonte Tank Davis
was wanted on a warrant because of that by the
police ever since the incident. He was pulled over by
the cops in Miami because his license plate tipped off
authorities and then that's when they took him in. Yeah,
So this alleged altercation went down around Father Day a

(01:38:00):
little bit after nine o'clock apparently or allegedly, Geronte was
picking up his child from the mom one of his
ex girlfriends, and during that exchange, the alleged victim told
police that she got into a very reable argument with
Tank which then turned physical and yeah, led to the
warrant and things of that nature.

Speaker 3 (01:38:19):
So, yes, I wonder what that impact Lamart Roach Tanked
Part two because they're supposed to fight August sixteenth, I
think it was, But.

Speaker 9 (01:38:29):
Why would it he can still would they stop the
fight because of these charges.

Speaker 2 (01:38:32):
And I think boxing is the only one that when
this charges like that, they just keep it moving. If
this would have been any other sport, he would have
been suspended, it would have investigation. If this had been
any other profession, they would have definitely been looking.

Speaker 3 (01:38:44):
But not.

Speaker 4 (01:38:44):
I've never seen that happen in box.

Speaker 8 (01:38:45):
So he's still in jail.

Speaker 19 (01:38:46):
No, no, no, he's really There was a video of
him being released and he was like covering his face
in the video. So yeah, he's released. I mean unless
he I don't know why it would. I don't think
that it would though. In fact the fight.

Speaker 4 (01:38:56):
Well that is the latest with Lauren.

Speaker 9 (01:38:58):
Thank you, Lauren, You're welcome, all.

Speaker 4 (01:39:00):
Right, everybody else.

Speaker 2 (01:39:01):
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Speaker 8 (01:39:06):
You were just talking about tiny birthday.

Speaker 4 (01:39:08):
Oh really yeah, Havy birthday day.

Speaker 8 (01:39:10):
Tiny give her money? Absolutely, yes, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:39:13):
You ain't gonna do no escape mix.

Speaker 4 (01:39:15):
No, we do a skate mix all the time. It's
a breakfast club the morning only.

Speaker 8 (01:39:20):
Everybody is the dj n V Jess Hilarius.

Speaker 3 (01:39:23):
Shall me to goud.

Speaker 4 (01:39:24):
We are the breakfast club.

Speaker 2 (01:39:25):
So look to everybody that's coming down for the seventy
five to seven this Saturday for my car show.

Speaker 4 (01:39:29):
We're gonna have an amazing time.

Speaker 2 (01:39:31):
If you haven't registered your car, you want to be
a vendor of food trucks, you can email me. DJMV
calls you at gmail dot com. I would love to
see what type of cars you have. Kids five and
under are free, so there's gonna be rides, games for
the kids. Uh, face painting. There's gonna be so much
going on. It's gonna be an old school cars, new
school calls, exotics, trucks, bikes.

Speaker 4 (01:39:51):
I can't wait for you guys to pull up on me.
We're gonna have a lot of for my family bed here, so.

Speaker 8 (01:39:55):
I can't wait to see you guys next Saturday.

Speaker 4 (01:39:58):
Hey, Yo, that's dope, and I want to I want
to tell so that's generic. No, it is dope, man, Yo,
go ahead.

Speaker 3 (01:40:11):
No, I want to tell everybody in Walterboro, South Carolina,
that I will be there this Thursday for a ribbon
cutting ceremony at a brand new crystal location. Yes, this Thursday,
July seventeenth, at eleven am, a Crystal is opening up
in walter Borough. It actually opens the day, but we're
having the ribbon cutting ceremony this Thursday at eleven am,

(01:40:32):
twelve twenty two Bell's Highway in Walterboro.

Speaker 4 (01:40:35):
South Carolina.

Speaker 3 (01:40:36):
You know, my wife and I invested in some crystal
franchises in South Carolina.

Speaker 4 (01:40:40):
We opened up one in Orangeburg and we're opening up
our second one in Walterborough.

Speaker 3 (01:40:46):
It opens the day actually, but the ribbon cutting is Thursday, Thursday,
July seventeenth, at eleven am, twelve twenty two Bell's Highway
and Walterborough. So I will be there, Okay, I'll be there.
You know, we're gonna have complimentary prizes and food and
all types of good stuff. So see y'all Thursday.

Speaker 4 (01:41:00):
Walked Bor Yo.

Speaker 8 (01:41:02):
That's dope.

Speaker 4 (01:41:03):
That's right.

Speaker 5 (01:41:05):
This weekend, your girl Just Hilarious and your god Dosie
Alexander will be in Milwaukee at the Improv.

Speaker 8 (01:41:10):
You we got four shows.

Speaker 5 (01:41:11):
That's two shows this Friday and then two shows this
Saturday at the Improv. Get your tickets at Just Hilarious
official dot com. Can't wait to see you Milwaukee. And
then next weekend I'm in Arlington, Texas at the Improv,
So make sure you get your tickets.

Speaker 8 (01:41:23):
For that as well.

Speaker 2 (01:41:24):
Yo yo, come on, come on, s luthor Rich Dennis
for joining us this morning. He's the chairman and CEO
of Essence Ventures. He was talking about everything that happened
with Essence. You know a lot of people were upset
saying that things didn't necessarily go to where that they expected.

Speaker 4 (01:41:40):
So he was there clearing everything up. So from to
the States for joining us, but.

Speaker 3 (01:41:44):
Because you wouldn't give a hot guy man, because it's
hard to talk business with people who don't got none,
you know what I mean. So listen, you listen to
the criticism, which he did, and you just try to
do better next year.

Speaker 4 (01:41:55):
But you know, coming up here they explain it. You know,
if you're a consumer, I'm sure you appreciate it. Right.
That ain't gonna change.

Speaker 3 (01:42:03):
People's mind because some people just want to hate, some
people just want to be negative.

Speaker 4 (01:42:08):
Some people weren't even there. Correct, he ain't got something
negative to stay right about what happened at and I'm
with you, I don't. I don't think I would. I
would do it.

Speaker 2 (01:42:16):
If there was issues and there was problems, I would
release the statement like he did, and if it was
under my control, I would fix it for next year.
Like the sound messing up, that's that's not under his control.
He had a sound company to do it. There was
some you know, mishaps, and it happens.

Speaker 3 (01:42:29):
But valid criticism. But criticisms are cool. Criticism is about
production being late. Criticism is about the sound being messed up.
Criticisms about things costing too much.

Speaker 4 (01:42:39):
That's that's cool.

Speaker 3 (01:42:40):
When you got a bunch of people saying why y'all
doing Joel of Wright context, it's like, come on, man,
it's too African.

Speaker 9 (01:42:48):
Creoles, like is in a creole city, like they have rights?

Speaker 8 (01:42:53):
Not ever that just you know the convention center where
they have fifty thousand people a day, it's free.

Speaker 4 (01:42:59):
Did you know that?

Speaker 22 (01:43:00):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:43:00):
I didn't know that either. It's free for people to
go into the convention Center and see.

Speaker 2 (01:43:04):
All the podcast, the stages, all.

Speaker 3 (01:43:06):
This performing at times it's free.

Speaker 9 (01:43:09):
Wow, you know that damn.

Speaker 3 (01:43:12):
Talking about But it's wild because if you Creole culture
is a blend of a lot of different things, African traditions,
you would honor all of that if you're in essence.
But it just blows my mind and you anybody black
is mad because something is too African.

Speaker 8 (01:43:33):
That is wild and everybody black. What it's like.

Speaker 4 (01:43:40):
Wow, I don't know, man, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:43:42):
Some criticisms are valid, some are just like, all right, man,
don't just don't come next year. And then I guess
we don't say that. Go support what the people that
want to support will support that.

Speaker 2 (01:43:53):
Festivals and things like that where we have and we
have control of and we do so. I like to see,
you know them, when I like to see Sindbad's festival,
him and his brother's festival when they do it. Don't
like to see black people put things together and it's safe.
There's no fights, there's just positivity. And both those festivals
are like that, so smooth to both of those brothers.
All right, well you've got a positive note.

Speaker 4 (01:44:13):
I do, and it's simple. Our character is what we
do when we think no one is looking. Always remember that,
have a blessed day, breakfast club bitches.

Speaker 8 (01:44:23):
You I'm finished for y'all.

Speaker 4 (01:44:24):
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.css-14f5ked{margin:0;word-break:break-word;display:-webkit-box;-webkit-box-orient:vertical;box-orient:vertical;-webkit-line-clamp:2;overflow:hidden;}FULL SHOW: Drake Shades LeBron & Shows Love to UK Rap, Travis Scott Responds to Pusha T on JACKBOYS 2 + Richelieu Dennis Interview