Today on The Breakfast Club, Reuben Vincent and 9th Wonder join us to talk about preserving classic hip-hop, balancing vocabulary versus virality, and their new album. Lanny Smith, Cecil Williams, Fredrika Newton, and Fred Hampton Jr. also stop by to discuss Actively Black apparel and its cultural impact. Plus, we open the phone lines for listeners to give their own Donkey of the Day. Listen for more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning Usa.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Yea yea yea yea yea yea yeah, yea yeah, yea
yea yea yeah, yea yeah, yea yeah, yea yeah, yea
yea yea.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Yeah yeah yoh YOA just hilarious weekday.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
As Charlamagne, please did up playing.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
It is Friday.
Speaker 5 (00:14):
How y'all feel out there? I feel blessed, black and
highly favored. Happy to be here another day to serve
about beautiful listeners.
Speaker 6 (00:19):
Good morning, Yes, good morning. It's a homecoming weekend Friday.
Salute to all the HBCUs. I know, I think it's
Howard's home coming. It's my school's homecoming, which is Hampton University,
Norfolk State's homecoming. It's a lot of homecomings this weekend,
so it's homecoming weekend. So salute to all the alum. Now, Charlamagne,
you missed Jess. She came in mad mysterious this morning.
Whatever y'all mad mysterious trench coach had looked like a expector.
Speaker 7 (00:43):
Gadget Hey, yo, your you is really playing with me.
I'm gonna tell you a picture. Shaw I look real good.
But my husband definitely played with me. He was like, okay,
Jeep is creeper. First of all, he's just that hat yo.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
You on zim Canz.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
The host that haven't let me in yet?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Oh right, yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 7 (00:59):
So I head on the head and the code is given, inspected,
goody holds you. But when I think the coat off
is like theam it is it is, there is no
further inspection like it's good. So where you going today?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I know you ain't doing something to see us?
Speaker 7 (01:11):
I know I got a few meetings, she said, Yeah,
got a few meeting and I got.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
To be in Philly today. So y'all got an event
that I'm doing tonight.
Speaker 6 (01:18):
So okay, all right, well we got a crazy show
for you today. Ruben Vincent and Knights Wonder will be
joining us. They have a new album called Welcome Home,
so we're gonna be told.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
That came out today. Ruben is very, very dope. He's
from Charlotte, North Carolina. He's I think he's from Kenya
originally when he was raised in Charlotte, North Carolina. Man,
So you know, whatever knife one that puts his arm
around somebody from North Carolina, you know it's gonna be special.
I mean, you know Rhapsody, Little Brother, and you know
now the likes of Ruben Vincent.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (01:45):
And also we have a great legendary cast, legendary bloodline.
We have Lanny Smith, who is the owner of Actively
Black Apparel.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
But you got you got to tell him what Actively
Black just did.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Actively Black just had a fashion show during New York
Fashion Week and they had a bunch of a bunch
of these legendary figures walk in their Clovid that's right.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
They had Martin Luther King Junior's daughter. They also had
Malcolm X's daughter. They had Cecil Williams. Who is Cecil
Williams is if you remember that famous picture where there's
a brother standing at a white at a water fountain
and it says whites only and he's drinking that water.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
That was back in nineteen six fifty six.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Yes, yeah, Orangeburg, South Carolina icon right there.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
Frederica Newton will be joining us.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
White has a book, and fred Hampton Junior will be.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Joining Fred Hampton okay with him.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
Right, Chairman, Fred Hampton Junior will be joining us as well.
So there's a lot to talk about today, a lot
to discuss not going on all right, Charlamne, Now you're
going to South Carolina after this too, Right.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Yes, I will be in South Carolina today in Columbia
Metro because today at four thirty pm, I will be
moderating a conversation with Don Staley. You know, her book
Uncommon Favor came out earlier this year.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
It's been on the New York Times bestsellers list for weeks.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
So I've been moderating a conversation with her about that
and w NBA MVP full time MVP, three time champion
Asia Wilson will be joining us during that conversation as
well at the Colonial Life Arena four thirty pm today.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
All right, let's join us.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Well, let's get the show crack.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
And we got front page News saluted Ovio Eli overo Eli.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Did not come to work today. He's feeling under the weather.
I think he's lying.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
He's lying.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Yes, he was early. It's Drake's birthday. Yeah, but he was.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
He was sick early in the earlier parts of the week.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
He's probably in Toronto right now at Drake's front door.
He already texted me with what he wanted to hear
this morning.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
He told me he had a rose with an owl
on it. And I'm like, bro, what are you talking
him saying? You're a grown ass man? Got roses for men?
Speaker 7 (03:56):
Yo, he's a stand like he loves Drake, leave him alone,
and he just so happens to be sick.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
He is sick.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, he's sick at Drake's house right now. Well, let's
play the record.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
He wanted to even put it rolls And why did
it have an owl on it? That's crazy?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Well, this is what he wanted to hear. Best to
have had.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Oh okay, that role changes.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Damn Records Club. Good morning, meet me's up next front.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Page, next morning, everybody, it's DJ n V Jess hilarious,
Charlamagne the guy. We are the breakfast club. Let's get
in some front Paul jokes aside.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Drake came a long way, bro. When you think about
that record right there, and you know, think about how
he grew in the game. He did come a long way.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
You gotta give him absolutely, absolutely, there's no doubt man,
just you.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Yeah, even though even though you got to ask busted
last year. You know by Kendrick he.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Can't stay positive.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
That came a long way.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
All right, Well, let's get in some front page news.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Let's start off with Thursday Night Football, all the Chargers
beat the Vikings thirty seven to ten, and tonight is
Game one of the World Series Blue Jays versus Dodges
at eight pm.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Damn, see what I'm saying. That's exactly what I be
talking about right there.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
What's up meeting?
Speaker 8 (05:02):
Good morning, MV josh aall the man, how y'all doing?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Hey girl, pease me me?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Good morning?
Speaker 4 (05:07):
All right?
Speaker 8 (05:08):
When we start this morning in Washington, where today was
supposed to be payday for federal workers, but with congress
seal deadlock, those checks are not coming. Meanwhile, frustration is
mounting as the pay fight hits another roadblock on Capitol
Hill and the Senate. They blocked three different bills yesterday,
one from Republicans and two from Democrats, all aimed at
(05:29):
making sure federal employees get paid while the shutdown drags
on in its fourth week, and Republican Senator Ron Johnson
of Wisconsin he pushed a bill to pay only essential
workers still required to work, so your air traffic controllers,
your TSA agents, your military personnel. That bill failled fifty
four to forty five. Democrats they blocked that plan, saying
(05:50):
it gave too much power to the White House Budget Office,
letting them decide who gets paid and who doesn't. Instead,
Democrats they offered two separate bills that would pay all
federal workers, including the seven hundred and fifty thousand who
have been furloughed and sent home without pay since October one.
That bill was introduced by Maryland Senator Chris ben Holland,
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and it included a provision to stop the layoffs during
the shutdown. Then the second bill from Michigan Senator Gary
Peters would cover back pay from the start of the
shutdown through the day it would take effect. But Republicans
block those bills. Still, some lawmakers say they're working to
find a compromise. A few Democrats, including Senator John Offseth, Offseth,
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Rafael Warnock and John Fetterman, they voted to advance the
Republican bill, saying that essential workers needed to be paid
even as negotiations continued. And while that debate continues over
who gets paid and who doesn't get paid, Trump says
he's found another way.
Speaker 9 (06:47):
To make sure some workers get a pay check. Let's
listen to that.
Speaker 10 (06:51):
Friend of mine talking about donors. A friend of mine,
a man that's great. I'm not going to use his
name unless he lets me do it.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
He was.
Speaker 10 (06:58):
He called us the other day and he said, I'd
like to contribute any short for you have because of
the Democrat shutdown. I'd like to contribute personally, contribute any
short for you have with the military, because I love
the military and I love the country. And today he
sent us a check for one hundred and thirty million
dollars and that's going to go to the military.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Yeah, so where's the money like that? Where's the money?
I need my money now, I ain't you know, they
ain't got paid in weeks. Where's the money?
Speaker 9 (07:28):
Yeah, well, we'll see what happens with that. He just
said that it was a personal donor. He did not
say any names.
Speaker 8 (07:33):
There's been no word yet on if the military has
received that, so we'll continue to follow that. But today
mark's day twenty four of the government shutdown. Either side
has been able to reach a deal, and it's hundreds
of thousands of workers wait for their next paycheck. President
Trump is preparing to leave for Asia with no compromise
in sight.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
So that's a great headline to follow though, Mimi, because
he announced that somebody gave him a check one hundred
and thirty million dollars in the military. Let's follow it
and see if he actually gives to the military, because
you know, he'll say something and then become a headline
and everybody will say, well, you know, Trump got one
hundred and thirty million dollars and gave it to the military.
I bet you they never get that money.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
M h.
Speaker 8 (08:11):
We'll see, We'll see what happens with that. We will
definitely continue to follow that. And President Trump says his
next move in his next move in on the war
on drugs could target people on land, not just at sea.
So he's calling the recent US military strikes on drug
smuggling boats a big success, saying that traffickers are now
moving more drugs on land and no longer on sea.
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So he says that his team will brief Congress about
the plan. He doesn't think that they will need permission
to move forward on a formal declaration of war. So
President Trump, he's promising a tougher approach on the drug trade.
Speaker 9 (08:47):
And let's listen to what he had to say.
Speaker 10 (08:49):
Well, I don't think we're gonna necessarily ask for a
declaration of war. I think we're just gonna kill people
that are bringing drugs into our country.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
We're going to kill them.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
You know, they're gonna be like dead dead.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
But you know what they were saying, I mean, I
don't know how true this is because you know, people
are conspiracy theorists and all that other stuff. They were
saying that a lot of the boats that he was
actually hitting was fishermen boats, that they weren't actually.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Drugging a conspiracy.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
That's true, though they said a bunch of them.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
It just wasn't one about two. I don't know about
a bunch of them.
Speaker 9 (09:21):
I heard about a couple too, but they're just saying.
Speaker 8 (09:23):
And then there were two survivors, and so they were
sent to what I think it was Ecuador, Columbia, and
you know, so there's just there's a lot of there's
a lot going on. There was a one a woman
who said that her husband, who was a fisherman on
his way to work, was killed.
Speaker 9 (09:36):
Until you know, Defense Secretary peithe Headseth.
Speaker 8 (09:39):
He he's backing Trump up, saying that the military will
go after drug cartels the same way that we went
after terrorist groups.
Speaker 9 (09:46):
Like al Qaeda. But not everyone is on board.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
Lawmakers on both parties say they haven't been given clear
information on exactly what's happening, and leaders in Latin America
are calling the US strikes illegal and murder.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Now.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
Trump also he's taking aim at Columbia and Mexico, claiming
that both countries are run by drug cartels, something their
government strongly denies. And right now, it's it's really unclear
whether these land strikes could happen and what they will
look like. And so we'll see if Congress steps in
before things escalate any further.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
All right, well, thank you, Mimi.
Speaker 9 (10:19):
Absolutely.
Speaker 8 (10:20):
Coming up at seven, a familiar name from your childhood
is making a surprise return, just in time for the holidays.
We'll tell you where it's popping up and how it
could affect your wallet.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
Okay, everybody else, get it off your chest. Eight hundred
five eight five one oh five one. If you need
the Vent phone lines wide open, call us up now.
It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Wait,
this is your time to get it off your chest.
Eight hundred five eight five one five one. We want
to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Who's this?
Speaker 11 (10:53):
What morning?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
My name is Ay Janeil Good morning, Gail, Good morning.
Speaker 12 (10:59):
From all over morning both. So tey y'all doing this morning.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Blessed Black and Holly, it's good through it.
Speaker 12 (11:08):
I was just given a shout out, so I'm from
the play for this morning. Oh well, this weekend we'll
celebrate homecoming for od my Ima Mama, my daughter graduated
twenty two from Old to Youth and also in.
Speaker 13 (11:24):
University.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
It's gonna be a crazy weekend.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
All three schools of less than what thirty minutes away
from each other, so it's gonna be it's gonna be
a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I'll be out there.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
My wife actually graduated from More Dominion, so that that's
her alma mater. But yeah, it's gonna be a lot
of fun.
Speaker 12 (11:37):
Yes, yes, yeah, yeah. And also I finally saw.
Speaker 14 (11:43):
That in July a book release Chilly such was the
book dedicated to children that's gone through Greek. But the
book was dedicated to my grandmother school all the way
three years ago. I told us the children's book and
exactly off on Amazon.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Okay, so what's the name of the book again.
Speaker 12 (12:07):
Kelly sometime was dedicated to my Grandma's name was Mattelda.
Speaker 14 (12:13):
But we called it Tilly.
Speaker 15 (12:15):
What's her nickname?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
All right? Well, thank you so much.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Thank you all.
Speaker 12 (12:19):
You have a wonderful home.
Speaker 16 (12:20):
One in and thank you all you have.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
A great home.
Speaker 17 (12:23):
Follow you all to thank you.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Hello, who's this envy? What's what's up?
Speaker 16 (12:30):
What's the baby boom?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Sorry piece bloody boots.
Speaker 18 (12:33):
Wow?
Speaker 16 (12:36):
You know, I'm so glad that you started off like that.
Charlotte Mane. I'm tired of defending your sexuality. I was
just gonna say, if you gain to come out the.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Closets, why do you defend my sexuality?
Speaker 16 (12:46):
I don't because I'm past. Every time I talk about something,
I'm telling my cousins like, oh you know, we ain't
sorry for us to do something, And they're the only
reason that you're even trying to help me is because
you want my butt.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
I'm trying to get some cheese.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
That's true.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
That's crazy, that is the truth. That's the old school industry. Wait,
don't nobody do that no more.
Speaker 16 (13:07):
That's what that's what they think.
Speaker 19 (13:08):
They like.
Speaker 16 (13:09):
If you he needs to come out the closet and
he just trying to get something from you, I'm like,
charlamg ain't trying to get nothing from me. But if
you here, chlomage this, let this let.
Speaker 20 (13:17):
Me know.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
He said, he said he's a willing participant. Damn no,
I'm not a willing participant.
Speaker 16 (13:29):
But something actually my mom actually saying that. You know,
I told her that, you know, we had some things
going on, and she just asked me about it, and
I told her, I don't.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Know what's happened. Well listen, why you lie to your
mama like that?
Speaker 21 (13:44):
No?
Speaker 16 (13:44):
No, no, not not things going on like that.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
I'm talking about with music.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Okay, I'm like, wait, what else.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
You may get your mind?
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Let me take Let me tell you something about trav
Travi is an amazing song writer. And you know, whenever
I get the opportunity, I do pass trave stuff along
to people.
Speaker 16 (14:08):
Yes he does, and then and then you kind of
disappear on me. I don't know what happens after.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
That's the game. And we'll tell you.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
You know, these people will take your stuff, but that
you know something, they'll be like, oh that's dope, and
then that's all you hear.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
You know what the funny thing is, That's why I
stopped doing that, because people like they'll be like, yo,
did this songs hit my record?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I'm like, I passed it on. I don't I don't
know what else you want.
Speaker 13 (14:27):
Me to do.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
All I could do, That's what I could do.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
That's all I could do.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
And and I definitely truly appreciate that.
Speaker 16 (14:34):
I definitely truly appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Don't worry, trave Good things come to those who wait, man,
be patient. I believe even what you do. But do
you believe in yourself?
Speaker 22 (14:43):
Yes?
Speaker 16 (14:43):
I do, And I ask you just out another record.
Speaker 23 (14:46):
You have to go check it out and ask you
wrote it about my ex and how he cheated on
me with a girl and got her pregnant, wrote a
song about it.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Damn the crazy thing about trave Man.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
If this was the nineties or early two thousands, he'd
be on already because he's talent then then gay.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
That's really I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Are you talk about the cheating part?
Speaker 16 (15:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 22 (15:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Now the.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Hey yo, No, I'm sorry that your asks did that?
See you hey yo?
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Caller Grant check it out?
Speaker 7 (15:21):
Okay, the baby looks like my god, bahut.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
It off your chest five eight five one o five one.
If you need to ben call us up now. It's
the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Ray right
ray yo, Charla man, damfy, what up are we lost.
This is your time to get it off your chest.
Speaker 17 (15:44):
I got an indoor pool pool.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
We want to hear from you on the breakfast club.
Speaker 17 (15:49):
Get on the phone right now, He'll tell you what
it is.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
We lie. Hello, who's this?
Speaker 4 (15:54):
He did you?
Speaker 13 (15:55):
Brother? Muhammads from Baton Rouge.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
What's up? Brother? Get it off your chest?
Speaker 23 (15:58):
Hey man, I just won't let everybody note with all
a fear of mongrant going on about this food and
being able to afford food for your houses. The moslay
Elijah Muhammad and all the miss Lewis fog Con told
us beans and rice every day. That's a very cheap meal,
but guess what, it's a very healthy meal, especially that
native beans. So if you got to go buy food
for your family, you might not be able to buy
(16:19):
meat or focus on the basis the beans, the rice
and the water and everything will be okay.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
You're absolutely right, bro, you thank you?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Hello? Who's this?
Speaker 13 (16:30):
Good morning?
Speaker 4 (16:31):
This is k Hey, k hey ky. Every kiss begins
with K.
Speaker 15 (16:36):
I know that's right, Hey, dj MV Charlemagne And where's
my girl chest?
Speaker 8 (16:41):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Baby?
Speaker 17 (16:42):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Jess?
Speaker 15 (16:43):
I love you so much girl. You coming on my
last till.
Speaker 14 (16:45):
Like two or three weeks ago.
Speaker 15 (16:47):
You made my baby.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Oh, I appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Very mysterious today, very mysterious today.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
They always got time to stay by my house. Figures.
Speaker 7 (16:54):
I came in here with a nice what is it
called a yeah, a fedora, and like I inspect to
get you.
Speaker 15 (17:04):
That's okay, but yeah, I just wanted to just I
ain't got really nothing off my chest. I just want
to spread a little positive today, you know what I'm saying,
Like I want to say, my thw machine broke. I'm
actually pulling up the work late with a spicy mask on,
but I woke up, so you know what I'm saying.
I really don't even care. So I just want to
motivate everybody else to day say out to me. You know,
so you might be going through something, but as long
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as you show.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Up, hey, don't you walk into white people establishment with
that damn shasty masks.
Speaker 15 (17:33):
It's pink and I got some last so they'll be
a right.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Okay, looking like a yb Okay, we'll have a good one.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
Mama, you get it off your chest. Eight hundred and
five eighty five one on five one.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
If you need to vent, hit us up now, what's up,
good morning? What kind of outfit is that?
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Let me get my zoom that sweat suit get up.
I can't even see her. They don't even got the
camera on her.
Speaker 11 (18:03):
It's where I worked on Brilliant idiots.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Okay, that got your head did.
Speaker 11 (18:11):
Yeah, we're going to homecoming, going to Norfolk tonight today.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Yesterday Lauren was like, man, I want to grow out
an afro, but I got a bass spot.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Now I got no edges.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
That was so.
Speaker 24 (18:24):
That about what I said was, I said, I want
to when my hair grows back out. That's why I
cut it so it could grow. I want to be
able to work it like curly and not put heat
to it.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
I ain't got no edges.
Speaker 24 (18:36):
And then I said, the wigs made my edges thin,
so I had to cut them down side. Need everything
to grow back and health dance. I don't got no edges.
Speaker 11 (18:44):
They're here.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Can a boss?
Speaker 11 (18:47):
You told me? Why you asked me how I get
a boss? I told you almost die?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Can I ask you?
Speaker 22 (18:52):
I was so sad?
Speaker 24 (18:53):
How you almost from bust my head open on the
back of Oh my god, I almost died.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
That's your course. Oh god, your struggles and your strikes.
Why do you tell him? Why do you tell him
your struggle? Because tell him that she would have told
just that you could have.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Said it to me, nod.
Speaker 11 (19:13):
You tell him that it's not safe with any of y'all.
All y'all funny, so I just yeah, you're throwing up.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Y'all.
Speaker 7 (19:20):
Don't make fun of your father because I know you
really love him, but you don't even want you and
I don't.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Good morning coming in with their.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Dads at homecoming, Grandma, Grandma were the ladiest of Lauren
coming up?
Speaker 24 (19:34):
We do got the lads with Lauren coming up. We
got more details on you know, all those arrests that
went down that big n b A. You know, the
Feds sweeping in on that alleged gambling, all the allegations
with uh, you know, all the guys Chauncey, Billups, Terry Roger,
Damon Jones.
Speaker 11 (19:48):
We're gonna talk about it, all right.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
We'll get into that. Next door moves to Breakfast Club
of Warre the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Lamie coming with straight fast.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
She gets some new somebody that knows somebody.
Speaker 11 (20:02):
I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
She'd be having the latest on the.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Large the latest with Lauren La Rosa.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details, sometimes you
have a little bit of everything.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Well it's the Ladies on the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 24 (20:18):
So yesterday there was a press conference held here in
New York City where the FEDS were able to break down.
FBI Director Cash Hotel along with the United States Attorney
broke down what this whole you know, big arrest around
some huge names in NBA, what it is and why
it's happening. And when I mentioned the names, I'm mentioning
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Chauncey Billups, Terry Roger, and Damon Jones. Let's take a
listen to cash hotaeil on the background of this case
and what's actually happening.
Speaker 20 (20:46):
Individuals such as Chauncey Billups, Damon Jones, and Terry Rozier
were taking into custody today. This is an illegal gambling
operation and sports rigging operation that spanned the.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Course of years.
Speaker 20 (20:57):
The FBI let a coordinative takedown RUSS eleven States to
arrest over thirty individuals today responsible for this case, which
is very much ongoing. We also entered and executed a
system of justice against La Casinoshra to include the Bonano, Gambino,
Genevesi and Luchas crime families, chargers, and the arrests that
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were taken down across this country range from wire fraud,
money laundering, extortion, robbery, illegal gambling. This work is also
representative of a colossal portion of the FBI's mandate to
keep America safe and to keep our entertainment industry fair
and secure. We're talking about tens of millions of dollars
in fraud and theft and robbery across a multi year investigation.
Speaker 24 (21:41):
So what they're alleging is that the names that we
just mentioned allegedly teamed up with a bunch of other
individuals and different mafia families in two separate things that
they're indining for. So there is the sports betting side
of it, which has six defendants, and then there's the
illegal gambling or the rig poker game side of it,
which has thirty one defendants. Now they cross over because
they're alleging that Damon Jones, Eric Ernest and Shane Hennon
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overlapped and charges somewhere within these two indictments that they have,
and what they're saying is that there would be these
on the power game side, there would be these illegal games,
they alleged that would be set up and you would
have these big names from the NBA and they would
be used as almost like something flashy to get these
people to come in and want to sit down and
play poker. And when the people would sit down, the
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games would be super rigged, I mean like high tech
technology type of rigged. And we have audio about them
talking about the technology and how in depth that technology
was at those poker table.
Speaker 11 (22:39):
Let's take a listen to number two.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
The defendants used a variety of very sophisticated cheating technologies,
some of which were provided by other defendants in exchange
for a share of the profits from the scheme. For example,
they used off the shelf shuffling machines that had been
secretly altered in order to read the cards in the deck,
predict which player at the table had the best poker hands,
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and relay that information to an off site operator. The
off site operator sent the information via cell phone back
to a co conspirator at the table, and that person
at the table was.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Known as the quarterback. The quarterback then.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Signaled secretly the information he had received from others to
others at the table and together they used that information
in order to win their games and to cheat the victims.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
That's crazy.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
I guess what I was reading that Allegedly they was
saying that Chauncey Billips was using his influence to bring
people to play some of these games. And they said
through the cards they had some sunglasses that you could
actually see the what they had. So it's like if
you had a King King, you could see through the
sunglasses that that person had a King King.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Glasses to see the car.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yeah, it was like, I guess how they did it.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
It was whatever, if you had a King on the
back of a card, you could only see it through
the glass.
Speaker 11 (24:03):
And even the shuffler. So we have that breakdown to
less's than a number. Faber, No, it was. It is extensive.
Let's take a listen.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
These defendants perpetrated a scheme to defraud by betting on inside,
non public information about NBA athletes and teams. The non
public information included when specific players would be sitting out
future games or when they would pull themselves out early
for purported injuries or illnesses. They relied on corrupt individuals,
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including Jones and Rosier. They also misused information to obtained
through long standing friendships that they had with NBA players
and coaches, and in at least one instance, they got
their information by threatening a current player porter because of
his pre existing gambling debts. Defendants used this non public
information to place hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraudulentfects,
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mostly in the form of prop bets on individual player performance.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
It's two different cases because I hear the mafia involved
in one of them, and then the other one sounds
like it's just NBA players.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Like that one just heard sound like it's just NBA players.
Speaker 24 (25:08):
Yeah, So it's two different cases set, That's what I'm
saying in the beginning. So you have the sports betting
side of it, which is where they're alleging that, you know,
certain people would use inside information that wouldn't be public
information to help people go and bet and win the money. So,
for example, according to docs, they list co conspirator number eight,
and that is Billups. They say that one time he
mentioned to a better that they were he alleged that
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he was going to rest some of his key players
in the matchup against the Chicago Bulls. The Better they say,
then allegedly took the information to another better and had
them place a wager on the Blazers losing, and Portland
did go on to lose to Chicago in that game.
And they say, although the fest didn't say in the
press conference, that Billips was involved in inside sports betting
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conspiracies that resulted in certain wins.
Speaker 11 (25:54):
Basically, like they can't connect it to together.
Speaker 24 (25:56):
So Roger and the things that he was doing on
the sports betting side and billups, they're not connecting them,
but they're saying that they were happening, like both of
them were doing alleging both of them were doing these things.
Speaker 6 (26:05):
But you said something that's that's very important too. I
don't think people remember, but you know, a couple of
years ago, you remember Porter was banned for doing that.
But they're saying that the crime families allegedly threatened Porter
to continue on.
Speaker 11 (26:17):
Yeah, so they threatened him and Porter, you know.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
Is Porter's brother from the New Jersey in place for
the Brooklyn Nets. Now it's his brother that has been
banned from the league for a while now.
Speaker 24 (26:25):
Yeah, and they talk about They talked about that for
a little bit in a press conference too, because they
said that there were not even just with him. They
said that with other people, like some of the people
that lost their money they were they used intimidation these families,
intimidation and violence and different things to keep it concealed,
but also to keep people playing, because once you're in,
they want you in and they want you to keep
going because they're trying to win all this money.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
I didn't know that Mafia still existed, like I was
thinking of, And is this a situation where they was
after the Mafia and the NBA players just happened to
be there, or were they all in cahoots together.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
I don't.
Speaker 11 (27:00):
I don't know. I can't really determine that from what
I saw.
Speaker 24 (27:03):
I feel like certain things I read make me feel like, yes,
they were after the Mafia, and then the NBA players
came in, and then other stuff I read, it's like
this has been going on for a long time, allegedly
around the NBA, so there's always been eyes on this
and then this came up.
Speaker 11 (27:15):
So I can't answer that indefinitely.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
Nowin' front, if you ever been to a casino, I'll
be feeling like the casino be knowing on my car
sometimes too.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
That's why I don't play games anymore.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Like sometimes you have a.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
Black jacket and all of a sudden, I feel like
they push a button and now, all of a sudden
they got a black jack too.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
No, no, I'm gonna tell you something, but I want
those glasses, okay, because I got a homegirl named Dion
and she be busting my ass and spade and I'm
sick of it.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Okay, one of the best salute to Dion.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
She's one of the best spas players I've ever seen
in those glasses of what I need to finally get
get over on her ass.
Speaker 25 (27:44):
Damn.
Speaker 11 (27:44):
Okay, Well listen, yeah, I read something.
Speaker 7 (27:48):
Because you don't wear glasses regularly, niggas, time you play
take them glasses.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
Why you got them glass that's crazy.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
We got to think about the whenever you're playing uno
a spage from here on out, somebody wearing some glasses
that don't normally wear glasses, make them take them goddamn
glasses get.
Speaker 7 (28:08):
Deep, especially especially stop playing we playing on them house
like be at the casino.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
No crazy, remember that this homecoming weekend.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
If you all had homecoming and all of a sudden
somebody got own glasses that ain't never had on. No, glasses, okay,
and they went all of a sudden, they got a
super hot head start winning.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
I mean right, all right, well that is the latest
with Lauren. Now charlamage donkey to day, but we're doing
on Fridays, we do the people's donkey.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
You can call us right now one one hundred and
five A five one oh five one and give somebody
the credit they deserve for being stupid.
Speaker 6 (28:36):
So hit us up, all right if you want to
give somebody downy day, like you said, eight hundred and
five eight five one five one, get on their phone lines.
Speaker 18 (28:42):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Front page news is next morning, everybody.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
It's the DJ n v J.
Speaker 6 (28:47):
Just hiliarties, Charlamagni, god, we are the breakfast club. Let's
get back in some front page news to quick sports
and Thursday night for all the Chargers beat the bike
Ins thirty seven ten and tonight is Game one of
the of the Major League Baseball World Series, the Dodges
versus the Blue Jays.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
Man, what game is Kendrick walking out to perform? That?
Like us, man, that's what inquiring minds.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Want to know.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
It might be game one, that's what you would think, right,
LA is game one in la oh Toronto today.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Oh yeah, it's Toronto. Nice about the game thrinker? What's that?
Speaker 13 (29:18):
Me?
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Me?
Speaker 8 (29:18):
Good morning, NB, Josh ch Aldamage, how y'all doing?
Speaker 5 (29:20):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Girls?
Speaker 9 (29:21):
Me me good morning.
Speaker 8 (29:23):
Well we start this hour with talk that is raising
eyebrows and a few constitutional questions. This morning, a former
Trump advisor Seve Bannon says the president's inner circle is
already planning for a third term in the White House now.
Bannon made the claim during an interview with The Economists
this week, saying he's certain that Trump will be president
in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 9 (29:43):
Let's listen to some of that exchange.
Speaker 26 (29:45):
He's going to get a third term, so Trump twenty eight.
Trump is going to be president of twenty eight.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
And people just sort to get accommodated with that.
Speaker 26 (29:51):
So what about the twenty second of Edmund There's many
different alternatives. At the appropriate time will lay out what
the plan is. But there's a plan, and the country
needs him to be president.
Speaker 17 (29:59):
Nice.
Speaker 26 (30:00):
We have to finish what we started. Trump is a
vehicle of divine prophetence.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
He's an instrument.
Speaker 26 (30:05):
He's very imperfect, he's not churchy, not particularly religious, but
he's an instrument of divine well, and you could tell
this of how he's pulled this off. We need him
for at least one more term, right, and he'll get
that in twenty eight.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
I hate that this conversation has been normalized.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
I mean every time they have this conversation, I'm just like,
so just nobody cares about democracy anymore. And for everybody
who says things like what means Barack Obama can one
can run? I keep trying to tell y'all, if Trump
gets to run again for a third term, it doesn't
matter who he's running against.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
The fight is already fixed.
Speaker 9 (30:41):
Okay, definitely already fixed.
Speaker 8 (30:44):
Constitutional experts say there's no real path for this to happen.
They say changing the constitution would take two thirds of
a vote in Congress or approval from two thirds of
US states, something that they say that is nearly impossible.
And another theory that's been floated having the vice president
in eight step down so that Trump could take over,
but that's also seen as legally shaky. You know, two terms,
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like you said, Charlottage should mean two terms, but anything
else would be unconstitutional and could spark a major political crisis.
But we are in several major political crisis right now,
So who knows what the end will look like?
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Well, what if he just refuses to leave in twenty
and twenty eight, you know, if he just refuses to
leave and then we find out how many of those
generals and admirals actually did pledge their loyalty to him
when they had that meeting with Pete hexf a couple
of weeks ago.
Speaker 9 (31:39):
Yeah, for sure, there's so many different possibilities.
Speaker 8 (31:42):
So again, you're right, it's being normalized. But I think
that Trump, when he says he's going to do something
people should really pay attention, we tend to lop it off, like, oh,
that's impossible, but is it?
Speaker 9 (31:52):
You know, So we'll continue to see what that looks like.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
All right.
Speaker 8 (31:56):
Well, Target is cutting jobs in what is being called
the big bus shake up the company has ever seen
in a decade now. The retailer announced its plans to
eliminate eighteen hundred corporate positions as it tries to jumpstart
growth after four years of sluggish sales. The cuts will
include about one thousand layoffs and another eight hundred jobs
that will not be filled, and that's roughly eight percent
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of its reduction in workforce now affected employees will be
notified next week, and the layoffs come as Target faces
mounting challenges from declining store traffic and inventory issues to
a trop in stock value. Now shares have fallen about
sixty five percent since twenty twenty one, while competitors like
Walmart they have surged ahead and beyond pressures.
Speaker 9 (32:38):
The business.
Speaker 8 (32:39):
Target has also faced public boycotts we know that one
led by pastor Jamal.
Speaker 9 (32:45):
Bryant, a forty day fast, which.
Speaker 8 (32:47):
Happened earlier this year after the company scaled back diversity,
equity and inclusion programs. Now Target says that the job cuts,
though they will not affect store employees or workers in
its warehouse. The layoffs are only limited to Corforit positions,
they say. Those that will be losing their jobs, though,
will receive pay and benefits through January third, along with
several packages. So there's a lot of shakeups happening there. Yes,
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But while one retailer is cutting back, another one is
making a comeback. Toys r Uss is reopening more than
thirty stores.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Across the seat.
Speaker 9 (33:23):
Yes, yes, yes, just in time for the holidays.
Speaker 8 (33:27):
This will include eight permanent flagship locations and more than
twenty temporary holiday locations. It's the latest revival for the
once dominant toy retailer, which filed for bankruptcy back in
twenty seventeen. They closed more than seven hundred stores nationwide
back there back then, but the brand has been slowly
rebuilding under a new ownership.
Speaker 13 (33:47):
Now.
Speaker 8 (33:47):
At his peak, back in the eighties and nineties, Toys
r Uss was the destination for kids inherents? Do you
guys remember this famous for its giant stores aisles.
Speaker 7 (33:57):
Of toyses was so said when that store out of business,
I was so saying, my son was three years old. Yeah,
now I got a one year old, So now I
got a reason to go back.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
I'm so everybody.
Speaker 9 (34:06):
Absolutely, And what's that famous jingle?
Speaker 11 (34:08):
Do y'all remember it?
Speaker 9 (34:09):
I don't want to I want to grow up? Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (34:14):
So the company is trying to bring back all that
nostalgia for kids these days. And so not only is
the nostalgia they said that the company will bring back,
it's gonna be the stores opening will bring seasonal jobs
and more full time positions.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
So I don't know how that's gonna work.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
I mean, they would almost have to make themselves like
a destination of bench space like it would have to
be things for the kids to do inside the store.
I don't know if just walking in the store and
walking down the aisle looksite kids anymore.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
I don't know. You don't think so seated. That's what
I was thinking. I was like, kids always want something
to do.
Speaker 6 (34:46):
It's to the point now where kids be like, take
me to Target because that's where they have childs. But now,
like you said, they need places for kids to go
where kids can say, I want this, I see the
new toy, I want anurth thing, I want video games,
I want.
Speaker 5 (34:58):
Arts to play pain And there's got to be something
for them to do, like when you take them to
like the American Dream Mall is stuff for kids to do.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
That's what Toys r US needs.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
But it's a toys the rust in American dream All
though it is no it is.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Yeah, okay, yeah I didn't know that.
Speaker 18 (35:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (35:13):
So I think you're right. I think both of you're right.
Speaker 8 (35:15):
I know when I take my son to the store,
being able to walk down the aisle and try everything out,
because now you just order something from Amazon.
Speaker 9 (35:21):
And it's there, but now you get to play with
each little thing. Yeah, I think they'll like that too,
you know. So all right, y'all, well that is your
front page news.
Speaker 8 (35:31):
I want to say, oh yeah really quickly shout out
to Howard University. I'm a proud Bison, So sorry, not sorry,
yeah sorry.
Speaker 9 (35:40):
I will now be there.
Speaker 8 (35:41):
I will be at my TED Talk by the way,
which is the website is Tedxalsadina dot com. You can
find all the information there on how to stream it
if you want to take a look this weekend tonight
it is wins excuse me, Sunday at ten am is
when it starts. I know TED has really strict rules,
so I don't know if they're gonna be able to
live stream all of it, but some of the information
(36:03):
will be on the website and be able to see
what's available.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Okay, thank you, Mimi, I have a great thank.
Speaker 9 (36:09):
You absolutely, So that is your front pation news. I'm
Mimi Brown.
Speaker 8 (36:12):
Follow me at Memi Brown TV for more stories for
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Speaker 6 (36:20):
All right, now, when we come back, Ruben Vincent and
Ninth Wonder will be joining us.
Speaker 5 (36:25):
Hold on, hold on you one more thing. Today's Friday,
so we do the people's donkey. So you can call
us right now one one hundred and five A five
one oh five to one and give somebody the credit
they deserve for being stupid.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
You get to deliver the biggest he hear today. So
call us right now.
Speaker 6 (36:39):
That's right, And when we come back, Ruben Vincent in
Ninth Wonder we'll be joining us. His new album Welcome Home.
It's out now.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
It's the Breakfast Club. Good Morning, the Breakfast Club when
everybody is.
Speaker 6 (36:51):
DJ NV Jess Hilarious, Charlamage NaKaT. We are the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
We got some special guest in the Villain.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
Yes, indeed got the brother ninth Wonder he's back and
Ruben Vincent, what's up guys?
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Feeling all as well?
Speaker 18 (37:02):
Man?
Speaker 5 (37:03):
I love seeing this because I always feel like the young,
younger lyricists need to get with the o G veteran producers,
like somebody like Knife and create magic. I don't think that,
and I could be wrong, but I don't think that
there's anybody that can, you know, do for a Ruben
what a knife could sound?
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Wise? What you think, Rube? I agree?
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Just being real, I mean, I don't think it's been
done on this level, you know what I mean.
Speaker 27 (37:27):
I feel like, you know, there's been few folks that
might have deer records, but it's either sending the beats
off and then they over there. Like we really sat
in the studio with each other, you know what I mean.
It was I moved in the studio for six months,
sleeping on the couch. So it was like, you know,
he going to his crib, but I'll wake up, go
to the gym. He pull up at twelve o'clock and
we just really the synergy was there, you know what
I mean. So I think this is the first of
(37:48):
his conference.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Do you what do you have the time?
Speaker 6 (37:52):
Because you're also a professor, Like when do you have
the time? I've seen nine so many times, and it
really never has to do with music. It's always I
matter speaking like.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
That old basketball that's one two. Yeah, when do you
have the time?
Speaker 20 (38:03):
Bro?
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Man?
Speaker 5 (38:05):
That's the beauty about living in North Carolina, dog Like
there's no rat race to run really, and so I
kind of you know, I teach twice a week. I
teach at Duke on Wednesdays and Wake Forest University on Thursdays,
and with outside of that, the rest of the week
is either comprised of doing stuff with basketball or just
making music, and so that's how I deal with it.
(38:25):
But I think the biggest thing between me and him
is what teaching has helped me do that too. Teaching
has helped me understand the next generation way more than
anybody else. Most people only deal with like seventeen eighteen
or eighteen nineteen, twenty year olds. That's like family members,
blah blah blah, and they use those people to like
put a blanket on how every eighteen year old acts me.
(38:47):
I've been looking at eighteen year olds and twenty two
year olds since what nineteen years now, this is my
nineteen year teacher. So an eighteen year old in two
thousand and six and an eighteen year old in twenty sixteen,
an eighteen year old twenty twenty five, them three different
eighteen year old of course, so I kind of look
at it that way. But the thing about me and
him is a lot of people don't think that this.
(39:10):
These two generations can't communicate well fact, and that's kind
of we debunked that with this. I mean even when
I first met him. That's how it's been. But we
kind of, you know, getting away as far as time. Yeah, man,
I just I'm just real focused la main No, I'm
just real focus on what I do, what I need
to do. I like serving the culture all the time.
(39:31):
And yeah, man, if I'm not helping the culture, then
I'm taking away from it. I feel like with hip
hop though, you know, young men like Ruben are trying
to do what y'all already did, So they got to
come to you for that sound.
Speaker 4 (39:45):
You can't treat that.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Man.
Speaker 5 (39:46):
I want to make an illmatic I want to make
something that sound like reasonable doubt.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
I want to make something that sound like the First
Little Brother. I like, you got to come to the
people who did that then.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
Yeah, man, I think it's each one's teach one, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 27 (39:57):
And you know they talk about you know, they say
it didn't exist but the Willie Lynch letter. But you
know what I'm saying, it's real common to what really happens.
You know what I'm saying from breaking generations apart and
you know, separating us. But you know, I had my father.
We didn't live in the same house, but you know
he always used to pick me up on weekends. So
I know how to take a person's counsel, you know
(40:19):
what I mean. And I also too, is like I'm
a sponge, you know what I mean. So it's like
I'm willing to learn, you know what I mean where
I feel like you know, people, some people my age,
they'll be turned off and try to like, you know, cool,
but I think for me, it's just like I want
to know. And then also too, they were our age
when they were making the illmatics. They were our age
when they was making the reasonable doubts, you know what
I mean. They make it seem like now me being
(40:40):
twenty four and me being like having debt to my
lyrics or wisdom is like like whoa, you know what
I mean?
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Like, oh you you sound like oh, but it's like yeah,
it's that right, yeah, right.
Speaker 27 (40:52):
So it's like yo, like it's not uncommon, you know
what I mean, And it's only right that, you know,
you go tapping with the pioneers who've been there before,
because they the only ones they can tell you, you.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Know what I mean, You sitting and listen to somebody
who ain't never done it don't make no sense to me.
Speaker 6 (41:05):
Is there a place for lyricists in this game to
be at the top of the game right. And the
reason I say that is you mentioned you mentioned Jay,
you mentioned Nows. You know, you could talk Park, you
can talk Big. They were lyricists, but they were top
and people respected them as being the top. You can
look at outcasts and even TI like they were top.
But now it seems like that lyricists they put in
a box.
Speaker 5 (41:26):
You know, with our casts, man, we have to understand
what our casts. It took a couple of albums for
everybody to truly respect our cast.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
Correct.
Speaker 5 (41:34):
It wasn't from the South, I mean, Southern playerlistic Okay, okay,
you know what, having a source awards. Then at Aliens,
it wasn't until they got to a Quemini and stank
Conia that everybody was like, okay, you know what I mean.
But even with Big and JA, that's kind of where
hip hop was taking a turn. You know, before that
hip hop wasn't as commercial everywhere like whatever. But when
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Big and J came, especially when Jay came along them
DMX and now we're looking at hip hop more people
that don't look like us as listening to hip hop
way more than ever, you know what I mean. So
that's kind of what that was. But I think it's
and I'm gonna say this, man, I just love and
I remember, I know we all do. Remember when the
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culture was ours, we had our own validation points. If
you were on Rap City, you're on TV raps our
Senior Hall Show, Soul Trained, in the back of the
jet magazine, the albums, the singles they showed your house
in ebony if you were on those, the cover the
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sauces Essence magazine. If you were in the hair salons,
the barbershop, the music, if you went outside with your
homies after church and played whatever you was listening to
the car. If you were in all those places one time,
that's validation enough.
Speaker 4 (42:54):
You made it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (42:57):
And it's not trying to say I'm here. This is
one of the few last rites of patches, passages for
people y'all look like us. You know what I mean,
and you gotta come through here to be validated. We
need more of that, you know what I'm saying. Like
so when we say mainstream top of the game, this
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is part of the top of the game right.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
Here to me.
Speaker 27 (43:21):
And I also feel like when you talk about lyricists,
I also feel like when you talk about lyricists, you
got to know how to make a song, you know
what I mean. And I think that's the biggest thing
with this album that people want to see from me.
Like we were just talking about it where it was like,
what was the turning point for you? Where a lot
of people we did listening on Friday and everybody was like, yo,
you really like showed your songwriting, you know on here,
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like you have choruses and it's like now you could
tell you a lot of time it was just me
in the studio, you know what I mean by myself.
Speaker 1 (43:49):
So I feel like a lot of the lyricists at
this time is still proving.
Speaker 27 (43:54):
They trying to rap on their records and they're not
giving nothing that people can relate to or people can feel.
It's always I'm just trying to show you I can
do this crazy word play, like nah, I want to
make records that you're going to play Monday through Friday,
when you on the way to work, when you on
the way to school, you getting ready, you know what
I mean, or even for the before the party, you
know what I'm saying, or at the party, you.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 27 (44:13):
And I think this album that was the example and
I feel like that's the only way lyricists can really
reach them heights is if they know how to make
a record.
Speaker 6 (44:19):
They gotta be taught, right, Yeah, if you watch Nas
and Nas and tell you, I don't know if it's tragedy,
but taught them how to make a song like this
is the components to make a song. I love Big Biggest,
probably my favorite artist ever, him and Jay, But I
don't know. If Puff wasn't there, I don't know. If
Big knew how to make those type of songs and
how to break it would have been partying ball. But
(44:39):
Puff taught them like, no, you need to make a
song like this. You need a hook, you need this.
And I feel like that's what's missing a lot of
times in this game.
Speaker 27 (44:46):
Kobe Bryant needed to Phil Jackson and that's my Phil
jack Dre Snoop needed Drake fact.
Speaker 3 (44:52):
What is the creative process? Like, you know what's making
this project?
Speaker 5 (44:56):
Making this project? Well, welcome home, Welcome home. I called
Ruben in a special place. Ruben came to me and said, man,
you seen the Lego movie. I said, I saw one
Forrad said yeah, for real and he said, man, I
ain't no Farrel was close to tribe like that that
he revered tribe called quest. I'm like, yeah, he said,
that's who I am. I come from that. I'm like yeah,
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like I knew this whole time. I'm just letting him realize.
Like I you know, sometimes you have to step out
the way and let you figure it out on your own.
But then while we're recording it, we're recording, we thought
we was done. Rubu started following for somebody. Okay, okay,
all right, and so I'm coming in the studio. I'm
(45:39):
coming in the studio. You always got a kitchen where
they are, I'm coming in the studio.
Speaker 4 (45:43):
He on the phone. He facetied me on the phone.
Speaker 5 (45:47):
Comea at work, And I'm like, you know, but I
have to catch him where he is. So now all
my beats started to turn a certain way for him
to talk about what he wanted to talk about. That
he found somebody, and I thought that was amazing, which
something we talked about. There's nothing wrong with talking about
embracing black women on your project.
Speaker 1 (46:07):
Yeah, young men, young men don't do that a lot.
Speaker 27 (46:09):
And I think even the routine again, like right before,
like he said, he let me figure it out on
my own when I got when I first got my
deal with Rock and I was moving around, I was
in LA and then you know, I started to see
how weird the industry can get. And then you know
a lot of people was in my ear like you
need to make this type of record and this type
of record that don't necessarily fit who I am. So
(46:30):
when I watched the Lego movie, I was like, oh,
this is my tree. I come from the tree of tribe.
I come from the tree of Kanye West in his
early stages. I come from that tree. Okay, let me
navigate that and you know, study and really figure it out.
But then also too, my mom and like living in Charlotte.
You know my mom, she's an African mother. You know,
she's from Liberia. So she was always supportive of me.
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But the industry started to change, money started to slow
up at a little bit, and she's like, yo, you
either got to go back to school or get a job.
And I was like, I ain't doing none of that,
you know what I mean. So our call Ninfe we
talked about it. He was like, yo, just come down
the Raleigh sleeping on sleeping on the couch for six months,
My routine was, I'll wake up, say my prayers, go
to the gym. By the time I get back from
the gym, I take a shower, cause we have a
shower at the studio, which is a blessing. Like there's
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a lot of artists can't say they have a mentor
who has a whole studio that you don't got to
pay for studio time.
Speaker 1 (47:20):
So I'm gonna take all advantage, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (47:22):
You don't know if you don't have to pay for
it yet.
Speaker 5 (47:35):
Nah.
Speaker 27 (47:35):
But then after that, you know, like he'll probably get
to the studio around twelve o'clock and we will sit there,
we'll discuss talk about you know, what movies remind us
of home, what music videos that we are favorite rap
music videos.
Speaker 1 (47:49):
Then were going through samples, you know what I mean.
Speaker 27 (47:51):
So the way the studio is set up, Knife got
his beat room, and then we got the recording room,
and then we got the living area where I used
to sleep at. But Ninth will come in around twelve clock.
We'll sit there, chop it up, maybe watch some basketball,
watch some videos. He finds some samples, he make the beat.
I'm sitting there. He gonna he's all right, I'm gonna
drop it to the big computer. I'm gonna run to
the other room, accept it on the big computer.
Speaker 1 (48:13):
Record.
Speaker 27 (48:14):
Then he gonna be in there watching basketball. Thirty minutes later,
I come back around. I think I got something. I
got some Yeah, and then he'd come in there, hear
it and then do what he does.
Speaker 4 (48:23):
As a producer and there what made you want to
work with him?
Speaker 5 (48:25):
No, because I mean ninth, Because I'm sure it's a
million artists that come to you, especially.
Speaker 6 (48:32):
I want to get with you.
Speaker 4 (48:33):
I want to do Okay.
Speaker 5 (48:35):
So I was on tour in Germany and had the
day off and somebody on I was doing to ask
the ninth on Twitter, and somebody said to me, So,
I ain't got no question.
Speaker 4 (48:46):
It's this kid you need to listen to. I have
no dog in this fight. I don't know this. I
don't know this kid. And usually you know, I know
how it goes.
Speaker 5 (48:55):
Some people want trying to get their family Mamazona.
Speaker 4 (48:59):
But he did not know the dude was from Oko
and I never had been open.
Speaker 1 (49:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (49:04):
I was thirteen at the thirteen, and he sent me
the Lincoln. I listened to it. I was like, man,
and I think one of the rhymes, he said somethingbout
Coolgie Rapp and I'm like, hold on, bro, like this,
you're thirteen years old. So then I shot him an
inboxes on Twitter and I said, yo is this?
Speaker 4 (49:20):
He's like, yeah, how you doing?
Speaker 25 (49:21):
Man?
Speaker 5 (49:22):
And I was like, hey, what's your parents like? And
so he put his mom on and I was like,
I'll be home in a couple of weeks. I got home,
they showed up with him and his mom showed up
at my studio. I wrapped him up. He's about this tall,
and I said, man, you want something to eat?
Speaker 4 (49:39):
What you say?
Speaker 1 (49:41):
I just want some pop tarts, some strawberry milk, and
some pizza. Thirteen year old diet.
Speaker 4 (49:46):
Thirteen year old diet.
Speaker 1 (49:47):
Literally.
Speaker 5 (49:48):
But it kind of went from there. And the first
song we did was a song called Extraterrestrial. And I
looked at my president Cab, my man cash, I said, mayheir.
I said, man, he ain't breathing. He's just rapping. He's
not breathing.
Speaker 4 (50:00):
And he did.
Speaker 27 (50:01):
You did nine songs that weekend, three days. And later
it may be on a machine that I had never
touched before that it was different.
Speaker 1 (50:08):
What was it that Lego movie?
Speaker 6 (50:10):
No beforehand. So what put you on the tribe and
couji rap in that era of music, because that's to
see you playing fight in a biopicon. Oh yeah about
I would love to. I would love to.
Speaker 27 (50:23):
So my father, you know again, both my parents are
from West Africa, Iberia, and when he came to the States,
he lived in New York for a little bit, and
he moved to North Carolina and met my mom, who
my mom, So to give a little bit of background,
like you're talking, I got to ask you. Yeah, I'm
(50:44):
pretty probably I got yeah, I probably got to ask him.
But he went from my My dad experienced the Library
and Civil War in the nineties, so he was a
refugee came to America still very young, while my mom
she got here when she was sixteen and lived in
the d n V before moving to Charlotte. Her dad
fought in the war, passed away in the war, all
of that. But when he came down a lot of
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he said, in Africa they used to listen to a
lot of Tupac and Biggie during the war, and so
when he had when they had me, granted they had
like separated when I was born. They my dad always
used to pick me up on the weekends, and he
used to have a blue Cadillac and he'll drive me
around playing all lives on me, Ready to die, Blueprint,
get rich of trying. So I that was the way
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me and my dad bonded when I was four years old.
So then by the time I was able to write.
I wrote my first rap when I was five years old,
and so I already had a little bit of knowledge.
And my dad gifted me late Registration when I was
six seven years old. So when those little moments were
like rabbit holes for me, because then by the time
(51:47):
I was like ten eleven, YouTube was available. So now
I'm looking up okay, late Registration, Okay, Blueprint Okay, reasonable
doubt Okay, then the recommended nas ill Madic. Then it's like,
oh Coogi rap, It's like oh Tribe call Quest, Midnight Marauders.
I just started going down a rabbit hole and just
became like super like just like floored with everything, you
(52:09):
know what I mean. So by the time I met Knife,
I was already like so knee deep into like what
I liked. And then also too around the same time
I was eleven twelve years old, Joey badass started emerging
on the scene, you know what I mean, and you
know what he was doing at the time, so you know,
I was just like it was Florida and I just
started to do my deep doves.
Speaker 5 (52:28):
I wanted to ask you what artists I'm glad you said, Joey,
because what artists I guess for you from your generation
reminded you of.
Speaker 27 (52:34):
That obviously, Joey, Kendrick, Lamar Cole, Earl Sweatshirt in the
early in the early times, still still to this time.
Speaker 1 (52:46):
I was big on them, like super early, you.
Speaker 27 (52:48):
Know what I mean, the wallets, like all of them,
like that that era, the blog era was like where
like I really died deep into like who they were.
Speaker 1 (52:56):
Those were like the ones who raised me.
Speaker 27 (52:58):
Outside of like the nineties, I want to see more
peop inspired by what ROBERTA.
Speaker 4 (53:01):
Flack and Donnie had to wait talking about. It's the feeling.
It's called the feeling. It's called the.
Speaker 5 (53:07):
Feeling, and that's where we try to do on this album.
It's create a feeling. It's like a lot of a
lot of music lacks that particular euphoric. The thing about
di Angelo man and which a lot of us was
raising the church. That feeling is not in music now,
and it doesn't mean it can't be there. Hip hop
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and the feeling has got separated over time, which it
used to be like this because in the nineties hip
hop has samples in them that was the feeling, no
matter what the subject matter was on the top in fact,
so I think this just has to you know, that's
got that feel good man, Nothing wrong with that. And
then it's also how do you keep people's legacies alive?
Speaker 18 (53:48):
Right?
Speaker 4 (53:48):
Because I swear.
Speaker 5 (53:49):
Since the Angelo died, you can just be out and
you'll hear somebody humming the d'angels Like I'm talking about humming.
Speaker 4 (53:55):
I'm not talking about this, you hear I've been around
people and they just.
Speaker 18 (54:00):
YO.
Speaker 27 (54:00):
Last night, I was at the Odell show and as
soon as he got off, they played brown shots.
Speaker 5 (54:05):
He said, old deals and yeah, for sure another one.
But my thing is, where is that when these people
are here, Like, how do you keep that alive? Is
it urban ac radio? Like what is it twelve o'clock
throwback mixed?
Speaker 17 (54:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (54:18):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (54:19):
I mean, you know that's a that's a corporate conversation.
Speaker 25 (54:21):
Man.
Speaker 4 (54:21):
We can't hand on it.
Speaker 26 (54:22):
But we can't talk no.
Speaker 4 (54:24):
I mean, I'm saying, man, like, we got to bring
dj V.
Speaker 5 (54:29):
We have to bring DJ's were the spokesman for the hood,
man or for black people on what was good and
what was not. Everybody ain't good, no right, just because
you made it, it ain't everybody's.
Speaker 17 (54:43):
No.
Speaker 5 (54:44):
Music is subjective, alight, cool. Everybody's DJs was supposed to
be the ones that told us what was good and
what was not. We trusted the dj It's been like
that since the beginning of hip hop, and so that's
what we need, man, And we can't. We can't get
a certain age and just say, man, I don't want
to hear that old stuff anymore. Other cultures don't do that, bro.
(55:06):
They don't take a special ed and throw them to
the back burner. Whoever the country version of Special Led is,
whoever the country version of Big Daddy Kane is, they
don't throw them to the back burner. We need to
make sure our legends are great and revered, just like
they do in the Grand Old Opera in Nashville. On
any other genre, the Rolling Stone is still rocking because
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people are still going for us. It's out with the
old end, with the new that's a gene. That's the
thing about black people, because we're so creative. We just
we just onto the neck so fast. We cannot abandon
who got us here and who continues to still do music.
Speaker 4 (55:44):
It's up to us. We cannot wait on anybody else
to do it but us.
Speaker 1 (55:47):
BRO and they starting.
Speaker 6 (55:49):
They're starting with the stations because growing up, no matter
what market you and it was always a classic rock station.
We're always going to have that. And we're starting to
get that now we are with you know, eighties and
nineties or you know, hip hop stations and things like that.
Speaker 5 (56:03):
But the reality all urban adult contemporary stations have to
do is just update the playlist like old school now
is what we came up on in the nineties and
the early two thousands.
Speaker 4 (56:11):
But they still playing and they should, but they playing
earth Wind and Fire and yeah.
Speaker 1 (56:15):
Still That's what.
Speaker 4 (56:16):
I'm glad that we do.
Speaker 7 (56:18):
On Fridays, we do have pasts with Nowlog because Nahlo
Simona's put me on to you like that. She's how
I found you in O'Dell and a lot of other
artists that she has put me on with. So the
DJ's definitely you know, you got DJs with good hairs. Man,
it's like, look, you put your into the music and
these are the things that you feel are like kind
of rare.
Speaker 3 (56:37):
She putting them out there every Friday. Like I said,
she put me on you and a lot of other people.
Speaker 27 (56:41):
That I listen to you now, So you know, y'all
do a great job of that just having her on
Friday doing the past the ocs. And I think it
needs to be more because even like envy'all just saw
a video where you you were the first person to
play hit them.
Speaker 1 (56:52):
Up, you know what I mean, And I feel like
that's just don't get you say that nobody else will
go against accepted it to.
Speaker 6 (57:10):
And I tell you said, I got it from shot
money Excel. I used to put a lot and he
gave it to me, left the study, gave it to
his first Did you played?
Speaker 1 (57:16):
Because I heard it was dirty, Harry, that definitely was.
Speaker 27 (57:21):
Dirty dirty, but not like real talk, Like I just
feel like, you know you like again, she doesn't incredibly
with past the OX, but I feel like, you know,
we need to honor the young DJs and you know,
allowed him to have that space because you know they're
going to be the ones putting us on the music now,
you know what I mean, Just like you were a
(57:41):
who kid? You know, clue like you know, it's it
needs to continue again, each one, teach one, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 5 (57:47):
So it's wild because now when you watch NF you know,
NFL games, you watch NBA games, when they go to commercial,
they playing like nothing but the g thing and Award Tour.
And I remember when Jalen Rose was, you know, the
NBA a commentator like I was. I wonder if Jalen
Rose got influence on what they playing when they go
to commercial, because they played Who Got the Props? One
(58:07):
day and I was like, wait a minute, bro, But
that's we are. I think Jimmy Fallon is a prime
example of where we are in the time continuing because
to have the be the Tonight Show hosts and your
band be the.
Speaker 4 (58:21):
Roots tells you everything.
Speaker 5 (58:23):
And he always says Black Thought's my favorite rapper, Tyler
Qualley is my second favorite rapper, and these were fifty
years old.
Speaker 4 (58:29):
So I mean, I think we just need to do
more of that. Man. We just cannot abandoned our classics
like that. Yeah, I agree. If you don't have to
answer this, if you don't want to Okay, made the
Lord watch.
Speaker 5 (58:39):
Okay, everybody wanted to know why knife One didn't participate
in the Little Brother document That's a long story. I
don't think we got that kind of time. But I
will say this man you talk about in the documentary, Yes, yeah,
that's a long story. But I will say this, and
sometimes people think I say something political reasons.
Speaker 4 (58:55):
Y'all watched me for years. Both of y'all have watched
me for years.
Speaker 5 (58:59):
I have never been a person to go online and
in public to try not to say that they did
that to me, but to deface and talk negative about
another man or woman. That's never been my things. Fact,
and that's their feeling. That's how they respect, and you
(59:20):
have to respect how they feel about everything or whatever.
But as far as their success, as far as that
we being a part of each other's history, I cannot
change that at all. Little Brother has our own children,
Kendrick Drake, Fat Cole, Big Sean Wiley, Ruben Vincent. We
got our own children right again, it's a story behind it,
(59:42):
but that's I believe in family business. Brow This is
how I was raised, that's how I am. And you
know we're at the age now I'm fifty years old. Bro,
y'all know how this goes.
Speaker 25 (59:53):
Man.
Speaker 5 (59:53):
We lose people every day, Bro, We're losing family members. Listen,
God bless them, brothers. Man, keep doing what they're doing.
I think they are on tour right now. They got shows,
They're still doing shows. Fonte is incredibly talented, although we
may have disagreements or whatever, incredibly talented exactly.
Speaker 4 (01:00:13):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (01:00:13):
I've seen Pogo from being one artist, one rapper, to
another rapper to the level that he is without without know,
without know Fante cole may will not be a Drake.
Fact Drake Drake completely one thousand percent. He says it
a million times, studied him, revered him, imitated him. Everything
(01:00:35):
we know about Drake rapping and singing is Fante Coleman Buddenden,
Fante Coman and but as my man. Yeah, but that again,
going back and listen, man, like that's how it is
with me. I got to keep moving, man. I didn't
see the documentary at all. I never watched it. I've
heard about it from everybody. But I got to keep
(01:00:58):
them moving, man. I cannot stay in that. We don't
have the time on this earth to stay in that space.
Speaker 4 (01:01:05):
I got work to do.
Speaker 5 (01:01:06):
This is my work now, I got other work to
do as well as my label Jammler.
Speaker 4 (01:01:11):
That's what it is.
Speaker 5 (01:01:12):
But again, saluting brothers man. God bless them brothers man.
That's how they feel to have they had the right
to express it. I didn't go online and say anything
about it. When it came out, I heard everything about it.
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (01:01:23):
Difference of opinion and we move on.
Speaker 5 (01:01:25):
What message are you too trying to send back to
the culture with welcome home that the feeling is not lost.
You can continue to give the feeling and there's not
a division between a generation. We are twenty five years apart.
This can work and music can be made with this.
That's the biggest thing I want to get across, man.
Speaker 27 (01:01:46):
And I think for me, whether you are a NBA
young Boy, whether you are a Ruben Vincent, whether you
are a any other name that I can name right now,
show up as yourself, show up as your self and
perform at a high level. I ain't rapping to just
drive a Honda a Cord bro you know what I mean. Like,
but I'm gonna do it as myself. I ain't here
(01:02:08):
to compromise, none of that. But I am gonna be
one of the greatest of my generation. I'm gonna say
that that's just a favor, you know what I mean,
And I'm gonna do it being one hundred percent Ruben Vincent.
Speaker 1 (01:02:18):
I'm always Red Africa, I'm always Rep.
Speaker 27 (01:02:21):
Charlotte, and I'm always Rep showing up as yourself and
that's exactly what this album is about.
Speaker 6 (01:02:25):
Hey, Ruben Vincent, ninth Wonder We Appreciate You Brothers album
comes out this Friday.
Speaker 4 (01:02:31):
Is the Breakfast Club?
Speaker 1 (01:02:31):
Good morning, Yeah, you're checking out the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 6 (01:02:34):
Warning, everybody is DJ Envy, Jesse, Hilary, Charlamagne to God.
Speaker 1 (01:02:39):
We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the Latest
with Lauren. Lauren be coming a straight fast. She gets them.
Speaker 4 (01:02:46):
Somebody that knows somebody detail.
Speaker 11 (01:02:49):
I'm a long guard that knows a little bit about everything.
Speaker 4 (01:02:51):
She'd be having the latest on you.
Speaker 1 (01:02:55):
The latest with Lauren la rose up.
Speaker 5 (01:02:57):
Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details, sometimes you
have a little everything.
Speaker 4 (01:03:00):
Well, it's the leader.
Speaker 1 (01:03:01):
They're on the breakfast clubs.
Speaker 24 (01:03:02):
Talk to me now out of this whole big NBA
Fred news that has been breaking over the last twenty
four hours. There's been some interesting conversations coming out of it.
So right now, what's happening is there are a ton
of people that feel like this is a political thing,
that this is Trump getting back at the NBA for
all of the civil rights activism that they did some
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years ago.
Speaker 11 (01:03:24):
One of the people who believe that is Steven A. Smith.
Let's say a listen to Stephen A on First Hit.
Speaker 1 (01:03:29):
How many times have I said Trump is coming? He's coming.
I'm gonna say it on national television again.
Speaker 28 (01:03:34):
Bad Bunny is performing at the Super Bowl and all
of a sudden you hear in Ice is gonna be
there looking to engage in mass deportations. Remember, Trump has
a long, long history connected to the world of sports
because he had those casinos.
Speaker 1 (01:03:47):
Way do you think folks wire coming after time?
Speaker 28 (01:03:50):
Don't be surprised that the WNBA is next, because when
you've got all of these protests that have been going
out there and people that have been protesting against.
Speaker 1 (01:03:58):
Them and what have you, this man it's coming.
Speaker 28 (01:04:00):
Anybody that has been around him from the sports leagues
and the positions that people have taken, they are not
surprised at what's going on today. Are watching a press
conference with the director of the FBI.
Speaker 4 (01:04:13):
Tell me when we've seen that.
Speaker 5 (01:04:15):
Why why can't we just let things play out? Like,
you know, I'm not saying Stephen A is wrong. I
just think that one of our biggest problems is, you know,
we don't let things play out, like we all have
to talk about what we think and add our conspiracies
to things and hot takes like bad Bunny's not committing
the crime, and what the what is the NBA doing?
And I don't even know if the NBA players committed
the crime, but it seems like they're connected at least
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to a crime.
Speaker 4 (01:04:38):
But what what is the NBA got going on?
Speaker 6 (01:04:40):
But not only that, didn't they say they've been they've
been actually watching them since like twenty nineteen, Yes, Trump
was out of office and they were still watching them.
Speaker 1 (01:04:49):
So you know what I mean, it's just weird to say.
Speaker 4 (01:04:51):
That, what have the w NBA players done?
Speaker 5 (01:04:53):
Like you know, always like like like I always say,
you know, you can't go after somebody if they don't
they're not giving you anything, you know, to go after
them for.
Speaker 24 (01:05:02):
True, And I will say too, there's outside of just
a press conference that happened yesterday, there's actual like, there's
documents around this indictment, so you can go in and
read what led to what and why we're here. But
the NBA players are going to push back too, so
we have to wait to hear what their defenses will be.
Like if it's gonna play out, it's gonna take some
months for all the all of this to unfold.
Speaker 11 (01:05:21):
Now, another real quick is Trump petty?
Speaker 4 (01:05:24):
Yes it is Trump on a revenge tour.
Speaker 5 (01:05:26):
Yes, but what that got to do with some of
these sports leagues are bad bunny performing at the Super Bowl?
Speaker 25 (01:05:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 22 (01:05:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 24 (01:05:33):
Now, another person who spoke out about this with Shaq.
Shaq was on inside the NBA and he said that
he is ashamed.
Speaker 18 (01:05:41):
Let's take a listen, unload the letter of the law
when it comes to gambling in sports gambling that I
don't want to sit up here like I'm some perfect
guy like I every now and then when I go
to Vegas, I'll play some crap. Never gambled at anybody's house.
Don't know anything about pokers. I don't know what they're
talking about. When it comes to the to the Chauncy wame.
But I know Chauncey. I know Damon very well, play
with Damon's I don't want to sit up here, but
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I'm ashamed that that those guys will put their families
and their careers in jeopardy. That that's all saying in
the hood. All money ain't good money. So if you're
making nine million dollars and you're dealing a certain thing,
like how much more do you need? Especially if you
know you get caught, you can do jail time, lose
your career.
Speaker 1 (01:06:18):
They dropped the ball.
Speaker 5 (01:06:20):
See once again, when I hear Shaq talk like that,
I think the same thing. Why can't we just let play,
let things play out like it? It just makes me
believe they know something because they're not even giving them
the benefit of the doubt.
Speaker 4 (01:06:31):
Just I'm ashamed of them. They put their families in jeopardy.
Speaker 5 (01:06:34):
You're right, but I thought I thought it was I
thought it was innocent and they'll proven guilty.
Speaker 11 (01:06:38):
Which is what they said most of the times at
the press conference as well.
Speaker 1 (01:06:41):
It's supposed to be innocent and to proven guilty.
Speaker 6 (01:06:43):
But you know, the sad thing about it is, once
something gets depressed, once there's an indictment, whether it's right
or wrong, you start to lose everything, like immediately the
NBA said they suspended Chauncey Billips, suspended Rosia immediately.
Speaker 4 (01:06:54):
Now understand that, though I.
Speaker 1 (01:06:55):
Don't because unless there's proof to say that they are wrong.
Speaker 6 (01:06:58):
Because let's say they did apps litally positively nothing wrong,
nothing at all. I lose my job, I lose my sponsorship,
I lose my endorsements, and I really did nothing wrong.
Speaker 24 (01:07:07):
I don't know, but any indictment though in the documents,
I was mentioning that the you know, the government does
have to like say here is what led us here.
So like they say that they have text messages of
you know, different things happening, and like all of this
is not coming from anywhere, and that's.
Speaker 6 (01:07:22):
What you want could explained something differently, that's how you
got awake, because it's not right.
Speaker 11 (01:07:27):
Now that's appearing it two.
Speaker 24 (01:07:28):
But I will say, we thought a lot was happening
with Diddy in the beginning of his federal and his
federal case, right, and then we got in court.
Speaker 5 (01:07:35):
This is what y'all missing about the Chauncey Terry thing.
They were actually arrested in charge. If you're arrested in charge,
I can see why the corporation would suspend you.
Speaker 6 (01:07:44):
But the sad thing about it is when you're arrested
in charge, you could be arrested in charge falsely, you
know what I mean? And you and I both know
what Like Chauncey Bullups, let's say they suspended him, there's
gonna be another coaching here that takes his job right,
and that the coach if he starts doing a job,
Charles ain't getting that job back, what I'm saying. And
he might know who's five seven million dollars a year
and then he.
Speaker 4 (01:08:03):
Comes back and be like, oh, not guilty.
Speaker 1 (01:08:04):
Sorry.
Speaker 5 (01:08:05):
If he's not guilty, he'll probably still get paid his
contract though, because there's no moral clause.
Speaker 4 (01:08:10):
That by lady, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 24 (01:08:11):
Well, look, they got a lot of claims in this indictment,
and again it'll take some time, but it'll all play
out and we'll see what irons out is. Uh, you
know what the court believes is fact and not fact
and kind of what happens from there.
Speaker 6 (01:08:22):
But also I think we need to have conversations. I
think a lot of people don't know that those backyard
poker games are legal. I think most people don't know
that I didn't know that, See I I don't think
most people do. I don't play pocals, so it's not
in my world, but most people don't know that that's illegal.
Speaker 1 (01:08:36):
Really, no boast.
Speaker 3 (01:08:37):
You only supposed to play pogam in Causino because it's taxes.
Speaker 1 (01:08:41):
Is you know you can you can know people are
not getting over on you with false.
Speaker 24 (01:08:44):
Calls and stuff y'all to the FEDS are saying that
they have text messages and certain things, and they have
actual proof. So if I think people are just depending
on what they what they have right now, and it's
a short maybe it's it's too fast to say certain things,
but they're going off what they have right now.
Speaker 4 (01:08:58):
But I know you don't play Polgrim, but do you
play polkem oh?
Speaker 1 (01:09:03):
We played that last night?
Speaker 3 (01:09:04):
Man Oh, okay, some Pokemon.
Speaker 1 (01:09:07):
That's why.
Speaker 4 (01:09:13):
After the new Generation making said he a Pokemon.
Speaker 24 (01:09:19):
As I did want to take some time to shout
out Asia Wilson. I know you're headed down there. Charlomagne.
She last night was inducted into the Athletic Hall of
Fame in South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (01:09:29):
Congratulation yes, and she.
Speaker 24 (01:09:32):
Gave an amazing speech as she was inducted let's take
a listen to that real quick.
Speaker 6 (01:09:37):
Parents, you've been my.
Speaker 4 (01:09:39):
Big supporters since stay one.
Speaker 1 (01:09:44):
You can't be grounded throughout. So my boyfriend.
Speaker 4 (01:09:59):
W school support home.
Speaker 21 (01:10:08):
So you weren't there for the young Asia, but there
your support is always a sposo. When I seen your stands,
where did they most to know the back of their jerseys?
I hope they c's possible, that's dope.
Speaker 5 (01:10:25):
Get in a conversation with Asia and Asia Wilson and
down Staley to day at the Colonial Life from Rina
at four point thirty pm. And then after that it's
an exhibition game between Anderson South Carolina. So I hope
you got your tickets to see yall this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (01:10:38):
Don't dope though?
Speaker 3 (01:10:38):
All right, No, what is my girl Monica's birthday?
Speaker 7 (01:10:41):
Okay, you'll already know, and I want to hear some Monica,
but I want to do the symmetrics and stuff. Look,
did y'all know that Monica was a Motician. She not
only a singer, but she a Motician at her uncle's
freed home.
Speaker 3 (01:10:51):
I had been yeah, now like like now recently, Yes,
that she takes her career very serious. Not only is
she a singer and all that you know ain't on
tour and everything songwriter, but she's also.
Speaker 4 (01:11:03):
A mortician Monica, Monica, kill.
Speaker 24 (01:11:06):
You and do the Body, kill You and yeah, and
we hear and make up and everything will be laid
because she's always.
Speaker 11 (01:11:15):
About it before. It's her family business.
Speaker 1 (01:11:17):
Yes, wow, that is.
Speaker 4 (01:11:18):
Crazy that Gunaku kill you and do the Body?
Speaker 5 (01:11:21):
What crazy is Lauren been trying to look like Brandy
and Monica all week and she's been looking like a
combination of Brandy, Monica and Jajah Binks.
Speaker 4 (01:11:29):
That's why I've been calling her Brandy kok Binks. That's
her alias Brandon cood Binks.
Speaker 3 (01:11:33):
That is so messed up.
Speaker 1 (01:11:34):
The God don't even do that.
Speaker 11 (01:11:36):
God don't like ugly.
Speaker 3 (01:11:37):
Okay, what's your favorite Monica song?
Speaker 11 (01:11:39):
Probably before you walk out of My Life?
Speaker 7 (01:11:41):
Or Angela Mana so I got, I got four of him,
I got don't take it personal?
Speaker 3 (01:11:45):
Why I love you so much? For you I will
and before you walk out of my life?
Speaker 7 (01:11:49):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know if one of the days
the boys mine, no, just one of them days is
don't take a personal.
Speaker 3 (01:11:55):
That's should I know, that's what we should go on.
We should go on don't take a personal just one
of them days.
Speaker 4 (01:12:01):
Keep it up. There't nothing like that. Never meant to
cause you no pain, walk out. My life hit so hard,
all right, Never meant to call you no pain.
Speaker 11 (01:12:12):
You're not here.
Speaker 3 (01:12:14):
Just one of make things right, only one of.
Speaker 4 (01:12:17):
Me things wrong. Okay, that's flap. That's all right.
Speaker 3 (01:12:23):
Happy birthday Monica.
Speaker 1 (01:12:25):
All right, Well let's get into her joint.
Speaker 22 (01:12:26):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:12:26):
That was the latest with Lauren. When we come back,
Charlamagne's opening up the phone lines.
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Right, yes, sir, it's the people's donkey calls right now.
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Speaker 4 (01:12:54):
Morning. Good KP Mansfield, KP. Who you want to get
the biggest e hard to brother. I want to give
it to the NBA.
Speaker 13 (01:13:01):
I wasn't gonna give it to the Clefland Cavaliers, but
I'm gonna just give it to the NBA everybody that
I was trying not to score them points and blowing
everybody part less, say wrong, we need our money back.
Speaker 5 (01:13:12):
That's gonna be funny when you were doing a class
action lawsuit against NBA and the NBA players.
Speaker 1 (01:13:18):
In the NBA.
Speaker 6 (01:13:19):
But I wonder about that, like if I bet money
on a game, right, and he threw the game on purpose,
how do you make that hole for people?
Speaker 13 (01:13:26):
You know, I think we think my group, thank Gilbert Arena,
snitched on everybody.
Speaker 4 (01:13:30):
Well, Gilbert is kind of leaning into that a little
bit from what I saw yesterday.
Speaker 13 (01:13:34):
Right, We we think we think he snitched on everybody,
and we need to see as matter of fact, give
him donk here to day.
Speaker 5 (01:13:39):
I think everybody needs to stop thinking and just let
everybody have their day in court.
Speaker 4 (01:13:44):
Yeah, absolutely, they should have.
Speaker 13 (01:13:45):
Absolutely, well Rose there, we know he was really throwing
them games, because.
Speaker 4 (01:13:49):
Yeah, I remember that video from him.
Speaker 5 (01:13:51):
I was like, what twenty twenty three, good morning, who's
this Adrian piece?
Speaker 4 (01:13:57):
Adrian? Who you want to get the biggest he hart too?
Speaker 17 (01:13:59):
I have to get the big he.
Speaker 15 (01:14:00):
Haw to my son, Jacob, my nine year old son.
Speaker 4 (01:14:03):
Damn, what do you do?
Speaker 17 (01:14:06):
Because I've been asking him.
Speaker 15 (01:14:08):
For a month what he wanted to be for Halloween
and he didn't know. And then now this morning he
decides that he knows what he wants to be. And
now it's like pull his teeth hoping that the costume
will calms by Halloween.
Speaker 4 (01:14:20):
What does he want to be?
Speaker 15 (01:14:21):
On top of that, he wants to be from inflatable aliens.
Speaker 6 (01:14:25):
Lord, the flavorable airliens are easy to get. You could
go to Spirits or any of those.
Speaker 1 (01:14:31):
They have that.
Speaker 6 (01:14:31):
Even I think Target has that because my kid was
the last year, my daughter did the same thing to me.
She wanted to be a yellow cab bear and they
ain't got that spirit, so I had to order it
next day Amazon.
Speaker 4 (01:14:41):
Damn.
Speaker 17 (01:14:41):
Yeah, so Amazon, it might come after Halloween.
Speaker 15 (01:14:48):
I don't go to Target anymore.
Speaker 3 (01:14:49):
Yeah, Amazon is backed up. It's backed up.
Speaker 4 (01:14:52):
So listen, nobody's going to judge you if you see
the talking matter fact.
Speaker 5 (01:14:58):
Listen, just put on a high lloween costumes so nobody
knows this, you web mask.
Speaker 4 (01:15:04):
You might have to just go there.
Speaker 1 (01:15:05):
Nobody gonna say no. Just just sneaking it right in
and now just get that one thing to promise.
Speaker 4 (01:15:08):
You we won't tell to Mika Mallory. I promise you
you won't turn. I promise you won't tell Jamal Brown.
Speaker 5 (01:15:14):
It's your guys, all right, stick to your conviction, all right,
but we're not judging.
Speaker 17 (01:15:21):
I appreciate y'all.
Speaker 12 (01:15:22):
Oh yeah, and also he lost his school book, so
he's done too much.
Speaker 1 (01:15:26):
You want me damn?
Speaker 5 (01:15:28):
Well, maybe you don't deserve a Halloween pressent. Maybe that's
your excuse. No, you lost your book, you don't get Halloween.
Speaker 3 (01:15:32):
Costume, Halloween president.
Speaker 4 (01:15:35):
All right, thank you, thank you for calling.
Speaker 13 (01:15:37):
All Right, good morning.
Speaker 4 (01:15:39):
Who's this?
Speaker 17 (01:15:40):
Hey? This is Alida, Good morning, he.
Speaker 4 (01:15:42):
Said, Lalita. Yeah, hey, you little lada who want to
get the biggest He.
Speaker 17 (01:15:46):
All to the entire state administration. Wow, athletic department.
Speaker 1 (01:15:53):
What do you do?
Speaker 26 (01:15:54):
What they do?
Speaker 17 (01:15:55):
They are making no for sake homecoming miserable and just
just they're doing too much. They're doing too much this year.
They have senced off the entire campus. They want whole
coming just to be boring. You have to get your tickets.
Then today you got to get your wristbands, because if
you don't have a risk band, you can't do the tailgating.
(01:16:18):
They want the tailgating to be over by eight pm
and the grills and music to be off by six pm.
Speaker 4 (01:16:25):
Why are they doing this? Is it for security reasons?
Speaker 17 (01:16:28):
Honestly, what we've seen is because the Michael Vick, and.
Speaker 1 (01:16:32):
That's exactly what it is.
Speaker 6 (01:16:34):
Norfolk State Home big in years, but now that they
got Mike Vick, everybody outside of just Alum want to come.
Speaker 1 (01:16:41):
So I guess they're trying to try to make it
keep your schedule.
Speaker 4 (01:16:45):
I mean, it's wrong with that.
Speaker 17 (01:16:46):
If you try to keep it organized, you don't make
you don't mean you don't make one person change your
entire relationship.
Speaker 4 (01:16:55):
Well maybe the.
Speaker 17 (01:16:56):
Fans have been there before before Mike Vick.
Speaker 5 (01:16:58):
Right, Yeah, if it's crazy, what if it's times the
size that that it usually is, it is gonna be
crazy with no order.
Speaker 17 (01:17:05):
It's always it's last year for say, ahead of a
thirty thousand without might.
Speaker 1 (01:17:12):
Last year, it's gonna be done. It's gonna be double
at this year. And you know there's Old Dominion homecoming
and Hampton home coming. So the seven five seven Virginia
State and State, so this is gonna be flooded.
Speaker 6 (01:17:24):
The whole seven five seven, That say, the four but
the who seven five seven is gonna be flooded with people,
so that I guess they're trying to control it because
it's police gonna be spread then on in that seven
five seven this weekend.
Speaker 17 (01:17:34):
Man, the police has been crazy since you've got there.
And that's no problem, no problem. But it's like you're
just making an inconvenience for people. You know, you have
to get your tickets and then now you have to
go and get your your risk bands.
Speaker 4 (01:17:47):
Well that's right, you know, that's that's structure.
Speaker 1 (01:17:50):
I see what happened.
Speaker 4 (01:17:51):
Yeah, that's structure and good.
Speaker 13 (01:17:53):
I don't know how deep you posted, all right?
Speaker 4 (01:17:56):
And why do people act like they don't hold these
events just to sit in traffic?
Speaker 5 (01:17:59):
That's what y'all go to, y'all y'all going is to
be able to text everybody be like, boy, it's crazy
out here.
Speaker 4 (01:18:03):
We can't even move.
Speaker 8 (01:18:04):
No.
Speaker 4 (01:18:07):
Yeah, one more personal, Yes, good morning. Who's this?
Speaker 12 (01:18:10):
Hey?
Speaker 25 (01:18:11):
It's a girl Tea from Chelston, South Carolina.
Speaker 4 (01:18:14):
Hey, what's up? Home? Team? Who you want to get
the biggest ya haut team?
Speaker 25 (01:18:17):
I want to give it to all Americans. Right now
we are literally setting back you letting the government play
with us if they're going to shut down. I feel
like we need to shut down as well. Stop going
to work, stop paying bills is getting ridiculous, premiums are
going up and pay wages aren't going up. I feel
like we are the people have the power, and when
we open our eyes and realize that the gobl rate
(01:18:39):
won't have no nothing to do a back to submit
to us. That's just how I feel about it.
Speaker 5 (01:18:44):
I do feel like we're past the point of political
solutions and it's going to take some type of national
strike in order to really, really, really really get this
government to act right I do.
Speaker 4 (01:18:54):
I am starting to feel.
Speaker 25 (01:18:55):
Like that, yes, like it's our everyday American paycheck that
keeps them in power, that keeps their bank account fuls.
If we as Americans literally saying hey, we are not
going to work, they will panic, they will go crazy.
Speaker 17 (01:19:11):
Literally.
Speaker 5 (01:19:12):
I think we got to start caring about the Constitution
the way we care about pop culture, because I think
about like the uproar.
Speaker 4 (01:19:18):
There was when Jimmy Kimmel got removed.
Speaker 5 (01:19:20):
And then everybody decided they was going to cancel their
Disney subscriptions, and then you know, the Disney stock prices
pummelted and all of a Sudden. Disney was like, oh nope,
you got to put them back on air. So maybe
we got to start caring about the Constitution and things
like healthcare and you know, government shut down. We gotta
start caring about things like that the way we care
about pop culture.
Speaker 17 (01:19:39):
Yes, we definitely do.
Speaker 7 (01:19:41):
Thank you guys.
Speaker 17 (01:19:42):
I have a great mourning you too.
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That's right now when we come back, Charlamne. Who we got,
We got Lanny smith.
Speaker 4 (01:20:00):
Man Landy Smith.
Speaker 5 (01:20:01):
Landy Smith is the founder of Actively Black clothing line.
I love Actively Black Clothing. They had a fashion show
during New York Fashion Week and they had so many
amazing black luminarias walk that fashion show. And he's gonna
have some of them in here today with us this morning.
He's got South Carolina's own CEA, Sir Williams. He's got
Frederica Newton, the wife of Huey P. Newton and chairman
(01:20:24):
Fred Hampton Junior.
Speaker 4 (01:20:26):
Fred Hampton Son will be joining us.
Speaker 1 (01:20:27):
All right, we'll get into that next. It don't move.
It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 22 (01:20:34):
Morning.
Speaker 1 (01:20:35):
Everybody is d j n V.
Speaker 6 (01:20:37):
Just larrys Charlamage the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.
Loni Wolves is here as well. We got some special
guests joining us this morning. Yes, indeed, we have a
Landy Smith here. Good morning, good morning, good morning. We
have ce Sir Williams, good morning, good morning. We have
Frederica Newton, good morning. And we have Fred Hampton Jr.
Speaker 1 (01:20:51):
Good morning. How y'all feeling this morning?
Speaker 4 (01:20:54):
Man?
Speaker 29 (01:20:54):
Were blessed man Black and blessed man blessed Black and
Holly favor. Yes, Sir Landy, why we all gathered here
today with all these amazing people?
Speaker 4 (01:21:01):
Brother man.
Speaker 29 (01:21:01):
We we had a New York Fashion Week show about
about a month ago, man, and we were blessed to
have these individuals show up and walk on the fast
on the on the runway with us, along with doctor
Bernice King and Iliosa Shabbaz, the daughters of Malcolm X
and Mamrin Luther King. And the response to it, the
way that black people have responded to seeing these people
(01:21:22):
on the runway, knowing that this history wasn't that long
ago like they tried to tell us that it was.
Has been powerful man so actively black. The company that
I founded, we were built with the intention to uplift
and reinvest back into the black community. And uh, these
incredible legends have been supportive of the brand.
Speaker 4 (01:21:40):
So when you when you, I want you all to
know man Cecid Williams. Right, y'all know this legends picture
right here that the brother drinking out of the white's
only water.
Speaker 1 (01:21:48):
Founder.
Speaker 4 (01:21:48):
I always wanted to ask you.
Speaker 5 (01:21:49):
Mister Williams, was it a spontaneous active rebellion or something
something you plan to do at the.
Speaker 4 (01:21:55):
Statement It was a little bit of both.
Speaker 22 (01:21:57):
I was thirsty, but oh so yeah, there was a
middle of the sunshine of the summer, you know, as
evident for my T shirt. But also this was not
the first time I did this. There were many other
times that I felt.
Speaker 1 (01:22:12):
I wanted to do local.
Speaker 22 (01:22:14):
Really, I was not satisfied with living in the status
quo in segregation. So this was something that I had
done many times and my mother warned me not to
do it anymore. But I did it again, and this time.
Speaker 1 (01:22:25):
It was photographed.
Speaker 4 (01:22:26):
Did you feel fear in that moment? I was your
fame stronger than your field? None what soever.
Speaker 22 (01:22:30):
This is about fifteen twenty miles from Orangeburg and on
Highway twenty one and coming back from an assignment for
Jet magazine.
Speaker 4 (01:22:37):
But I never sent this picture to Jet.
Speaker 22 (01:22:38):
It was something that I held in the family, and
I knew I would get chewed out had I, you know,
given it.
Speaker 4 (01:22:46):
To my mother and father to see. So I hid
it from them and never sent it to Jet either. Wow,
try they hit it. Maybe three or four years later.
Speaker 22 (01:22:55):
I showed it to them conversation one Sunday afternoon, doing
at dinner. It kind of came out and then I
got chewed out.
Speaker 5 (01:23:03):
What did that single act teach you about the power
of defiance in the faith of injustice?
Speaker 22 (01:23:09):
Well, living in South Carolina, being a child of segregation,
it was something that we encountered all day long, from
birth to death. We in South Carolina during that period
of time felt again we were treated as subclass human beings,
not being able to go to a store and go
into a restroom, or go or drink get a drink
(01:23:31):
of water out of a fountain, or having to go
to a side window, or go into a movie theater
and having to sit in a separate place or not
at all. So but again one thing that I would
like to that's maybe out of characteristic of many southerns
There were many good white people at.
Speaker 4 (01:23:49):
The time as well.
Speaker 22 (01:23:50):
You can't just put a blanket statement against that all
people treated this. There were many good hearted white people
at the time, and they were friends with my family
and they helped support our family.
Speaker 4 (01:24:03):
But it was some people in.
Speaker 22 (01:24:04):
South Carolina again who lived by, who treated us as
a status quot not being able to do this or that.
Speaker 6 (01:24:10):
So crazy to think about it, Like, you know, when
you have these conversations, we're really not that far removed
from that whole, right, That's what I'm saying, Like you
don't you don't really think about it, like you said earlier,
Like we're not far removed from racism, and even the
stories that my dad told me.
Speaker 1 (01:24:24):
I'm like, this is crazy. This is what fifty years ago,
sixty years.
Speaker 5 (01:24:27):
I got got one of my aunts. She said, I
don't know nothing about no I don't know nothing about
no integration. Yeah she knew was segregating school, you know. Yeah,
we had we had ruby bridges, walked the wrong way
as well. And it was a powerful moment because everybody
remembers that picture six year old little girl being escorted
into school by federal marshals and Ruby just turned seventy one,
(01:24:48):
but you know, black on cracks, so she looks forty
five and she walks out on the runway. It made
it real to people like that same little girl in
that black and white photo is walking right here in
front of me. So that's that's the power of how
and having these individuals here with me, showing you know
how close we are to everything that we still fighting
to this day.
Speaker 1 (01:25:06):
Do y'all hate you? I'm sorry, do y'all hate white people?
And I'm gonna tell you why.
Speaker 6 (01:25:13):
When I talked to my dad, my dad has a
feeling towards white people, right, and I always joke and
I laugh about it. But then when he tells me
his history of him being in the military, and you know,
they're in the same barracks, but then when they go
get some food, it's white only, and his people in
the barracks they go get food, he can't. He talks
about the water fountain in the bathroom and all this
other stuff, and why he looks at white people the
way that he does, I understand it.
Speaker 1 (01:25:35):
So that's why I ask you the same.
Speaker 22 (01:25:37):
Well that's brought to the forefront by Landy Smith, and
again the fashion show, in fact he labels a fashion show,
This is not a fashion show. Pictures like this are
just evidence of time and period we lived in America
that seemingly in today's society. Some people want to bring
it back, but it's long gone. But people like me
(01:25:58):
who would experienced this, and people that were on the
show that was put together by this amazing brother who
has brought forth to apparel that again has criss crossed
across America and being put into the hands of today's generation.
T shirts and other things that he makes, we're not
going to stand for again. Resegregating America is going to
(01:26:20):
be something that is long gone. And to answer your question,
there are again many many good white people. And again
there's a myth I think that all white people are bad.
Speaker 5 (01:26:30):
Of course, I was think growing up in South Carolina
was such a mine because to your point, I grew
up around a lot of good white people, But then
we were also aware of the white people who treated
us like that is cool, like there's a certain places
you knew you weren't supposed to go. But then I
also had my white friend and Thomas and his family
who lived right by me, so it was a class thing.
So it's just it's just, I don't know, it's top kind.
Speaker 19 (01:26:49):
Of different, but a tag team. But you first chairman,
friend Anton Junr. Honored to be here again. Count first
salute to his brother and his wife, his team. You
know what I'm saying, everything's political clue in the fashion
able to get this peel and the apple sauce, we
least type of discussions. It's a revolutionary. It's a misnomer
about like it's motivated how your moves, how we move.
It's a hatred for someone else, commandante uh or this
(01:27:13):
though Chakovar said, you know, a revolutionary no matter how
preposterous it may sound, it's got a boy the most
sincerereous sentiments of love. And I'm not saying this sort
of abstracts sort of way, but we're talking about the
work such organizations, the Black Panther Party. The motivation for
getting up with the first free breakfast programs, free busting programs,
survival programs was not directly at a hatred for anyone,
you know what I'm saying, But again, motivate for love
for people. But let me say this though, I think
(01:27:35):
all black people should get like a mass no Bel
Peace Prize, all of us. You know what I'm saying.
The fact that we ain't this on masks snapped out.
You know what I'm saying, you know, not to this iran,
that we ain't motivated at a hatred. But again, and
sometimes even though it's a reactionary response, it's kind of justified.
Speaker 1 (01:27:49):
But again, for the record, it's a motive got a
love for the people? You like to echo off.
Speaker 30 (01:27:55):
I could Hi, I'm Frederica and hearing who was my husband?
And what came to mind when you even asked that
question was a quote from Hughie that said what motivates
people is not hatred, but.
Speaker 3 (01:28:09):
It's love for other people.
Speaker 30 (01:28:11):
So my mother was white, and she introduced me to
Hue because she was doing work with the Black Panther
Party and she was the only one that they trusted
to do the real estate work.
Speaker 5 (01:28:21):
So I couldn't.
Speaker 30 (01:28:22):
I did not grow up hating anyone, but what I
do hate is white supremacy and the impact on black community.
I actually hate that and the impacts of an impact
that has had on us. So again, as my brother
said so eloquently, as he always does, as he always does,
(01:28:43):
is that the Black Panther Party service was out of love,
out of love for black people, out of love for
oppressed people, and it wasn't it wasn't guided by hate.
So it's impossible for me to hate anybody.
Speaker 5 (01:28:57):
Landy, why was it important to have these historical BLO
figures walk into Actively Black fashion show?
Speaker 13 (01:29:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 29 (01:29:03):
So one the tagline for Actively Black is there's greatness
in our DNA and very intentional about that because I
think over the centuries of oppression, subconsciously our people have accepted,
not I won't say accepted. Sometimes it seeks into our
subconscious that we are less than, not as good as
this is what has been told to us, this is
what has been preached to us for centuries.
Speaker 4 (01:29:25):
I'm trying to rewrite that narrative.
Speaker 29 (01:29:26):
I'm trying to deprogram and reprogram our own people to
understand that there's greatness in our DNA. There's literal greatness
in the DNA that walked on that runway. When you
see Malcolm and Martin's daughters walk on that runway together.
That DNA is something that has moved mountains, that has
changed lives, you know what I'm saying, And that exists
(01:29:47):
within all of us. So it was important for our
people to see that, to know that we are more
than just our trauma, you know what I mean. We
have so much greatness inside of us, and if we
start acting out of that greatness, that's how we can
change the for our community.
Speaker 1 (01:30:00):
How difficult was it getting everybody in and how how
long did it take.
Speaker 8 (01:30:06):
It?
Speaker 4 (01:30:08):
It was stressful.
Speaker 29 (01:30:09):
One there was a white supremacist who was killed by
another white man about a week before our show, and yeah, yeah,
and it sent some shockwaves through our plans because you're
talking about children of people who were assassinated, real political violence,
(01:30:31):
and so I had to reconvince Iliosa Shavaz and Doctor
King to still be a part of this show.
Speaker 4 (01:30:37):
There was some safety concerns.
Speaker 29 (01:30:38):
We had to bring in three extra teams of security
just to make sure that they were secure because the
rhetoric was that there was going to be payback, which
never made sense to me because there was a white
man that killed them, you know what I mean. But
I think the reason why I was able to execute on.
That was the respect that I had paid to these
individuals before everyone you see up here, Doctor King, doctor
(01:31:00):
Iliosta Shabbaz. I went to them and asked them for
permission to put their family members on this gear. I
have licensing agreements with them so that when we sell apparel,
the Black Panther Party Museum gets money, Fred Hampton, the
Hampton House gets money.
Speaker 4 (01:31:15):
Cecil Williams Museum gets.
Speaker 29 (01:31:17):
Money, right the Sabbaz Center, the King Center actively black
pays them when we sell this merch. And so you know,
you can go on any market or any weekend and
you'll see a lot of us selling this stuff, not
realizing these people actually lost people in this struggle and
they weren't compensated right, And so I think I earned
a level of respect with them that when I made
(01:31:38):
that call and I asked them, can you walk on
this wrongway for me?
Speaker 4 (01:31:41):
They answered the call. And I feel so humbled. I mean,
Doctor King.
Speaker 29 (01:31:45):
When she arrived, she gave me a signed speech from
her father and she prayed with me, and I broke
down and cried, you know what I mean, Like her
schedule is crazy for her to move around her travel
schedule to be there for this show. It's something I'm
forever grateful to.
Speaker 1 (01:31:59):
Did you have any concerns, security concerns at.
Speaker 29 (01:32:00):
All, My man Cainan make sure we were we were
we were, we were, We were good with the security.
We weren't gonna let nobody even get close to touching
you know this royalty.
Speaker 4 (01:32:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (01:32:11):
What does it mean to be actively black?
Speaker 29 (01:32:14):
Oh that's such a layer question. And there's there's a
reason why I named it that you got to understand.
When I was starting to actively black. By the way,
we'll celebrate five years this Black Friday. We launched on
Black Friday twenty twenty. I had a lot of black
people tell me, don't name the company actively black. I
had black executives tell me, if you put black in
(01:32:34):
this name, it will not be successful.
Speaker 4 (01:32:38):
And I realized that a lot of.
Speaker 29 (01:32:40):
Them were speaking from a place of a fear of
working in corporate environments where they had to minimize who
they were and their identity. And so there's nothing passive
about what we have to do to uplift our people, right,
So it's a double entendre.
Speaker 4 (01:32:55):
I want our people to be more healthy.
Speaker 29 (01:32:58):
We do free mental health events, we do physical activations
where We're having people do yoga, sound back, meditation. We're
getting our people access to the things that they need
so that we can keep moving. That's the only way
the movement can keep going is if we're healthy enough
to keep moving. Right, So it's a double on time
where we're active, we're brand. You know, there's no reason
(01:33:19):
why we shouldn't have our own Nike. That's what actively
Black is when we build this multi billion dollar brand.
It's not for my personal wealth. It's for us to
uplift our people. Actively black dot com.
Speaker 5 (01:33:31):
Hell I want, I want, I want a brother and
sister Fredericka give them the museum websites.
Speaker 4 (01:33:36):
Yes, so people can donate, Well, you can.
Speaker 22 (01:33:37):
Go to Cecil Williams Music. I'm sorry South Carolina Civil
Rights Museum. But we also have a way of like
PayPal and the email address there and several other ways.
But we easily find we're again in the college town
of Orange Break, South Carolina, and we need your support.
Speaker 4 (01:33:56):
Even dollars one dollar helps. So forld us as if
you part.
Speaker 29 (01:34:02):
Gifts, I want to make sure you get this and
then and then so Fredie could close us out, make
sure you got that.
Speaker 30 (01:34:08):
What's the what's the Museum on Instagram is at the
Black Panther Party Museum and the Doctor Huey P. Newton
Foundation celebrating thirty years this year. Please come visit us
in Oakland, California, Black Panther Party Museum. We're open, I
mean we're and we're packed. So this month celebrates the
Black Panther Party History Month and we're full of celebrations.
Speaker 11 (01:34:31):
So please visit us there.
Speaker 1 (01:34:33):
Thank you wellka uh.
Speaker 19 (01:34:35):
Also, I'm thank you for having us here. Finsfiite Saluta,
our fellow palentis Clint Fisalut is actively black the SI
fourth International Revolutionary Day. Come to Chicago, al So the
Hampton House dot org. We get programs going to childhood
Homer Chamber of Fred Hampton and maybe Illinois being the
Heampton House dot org. On the close off this quo
by Minister Doctor ue P. Newton pictures worth a thousand words,
(01:34:56):
but action is supreme.
Speaker 1 (01:35:00):
It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, Thank you guys.
Speaker 3 (01:35:01):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (01:35:03):
The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 4 (01:35:07):
Morning everybody.
Speaker 1 (01:35:08):
It's DJ Envy, just hilarious. Charlamagne the guy. We are
the Breakfast Club. It's time for past the oaks. Yeah, DJ,
(01:35:29):
what's up.
Speaker 3 (01:35:30):
Nala l a girl. How are you good?
Speaker 4 (01:35:34):
Good?
Speaker 11 (01:35:34):
All is well?
Speaker 1 (01:35:35):
Yep? Absolutely?
Speaker 4 (01:35:36):
How you doing, Dallas? You got the certified fresh Okay?
Speaker 11 (01:35:40):
You know we got some new merk.
Speaker 31 (01:35:41):
Okay, I gonna started telling you, I'm gonna give it
to my friends.
Speaker 3 (01:35:45):
But about where?
Speaker 5 (01:35:48):
Where? Mind?
Speaker 3 (01:35:48):
So you're gonna give it to your friends.
Speaker 11 (01:35:49):
Right here in the bank?
Speaker 17 (01:35:52):
Nice?
Speaker 3 (01:35:53):
I know you are.
Speaker 31 (01:35:54):
You did bring it all right, I know we just
didn't want to layout and you guys just had her
up here. But this other unless she put out called
putting you Down.
Speaker 11 (01:36:01):
It's really growing social media.
Speaker 3 (01:36:04):
Okay, yeah, let's get into it.
Speaker 5 (01:36:05):
I saw her performing that record in front of a
big ass crowd and they knew the words word for word,
and this song just came up.
Speaker 3 (01:36:12):
That's her fan base is definitely they love her.
Speaker 5 (01:36:16):
I could.
Speaker 3 (01:36:16):
I don't know why I hear why. I could hear
a guy on the remix.
Speaker 7 (01:36:19):
I don't know who voice I'm hearing, but it's like
he could be somebody could come and do a remix
to that, Like a guy could jump on that.
Speaker 3 (01:36:26):
It's somebody deep rasty crazy.
Speaker 11 (01:36:29):
You're a guy.
Speaker 31 (01:36:29):
A guy doesn't come to mind, but I definitely hear gorillafinitely, definitely.
Speaker 7 (01:36:34):
Yeah, somebody with a deep voice. Yeah, like just somebody
but I heard a guy, but somebody like that or
what's up rob for somebody, Like somebody with a deep
voice could come and kill that remix. But yeah, I
love Mona and the new project she got up.
Speaker 31 (01:36:49):
Yeah and she to mix you guys check her out next.
Speaker 11 (01:36:52):
I'm gonna go with Josh Levy.
Speaker 31 (01:36:54):
He just dropped his debut album, which has been anticipated
for a long time.
Speaker 11 (01:36:57):
This record is called to the Base.
Speaker 4 (01:36:59):
I like that, like that like that ad.
Speaker 1 (01:37:03):
Yeah, it does sound like some old Travis Scott the
sound effects and all that. That still sounds good.
Speaker 4 (01:37:08):
It's like a little bit of Fenhoe.
Speaker 1 (01:37:10):
That's it sounds like.
Speaker 18 (01:37:13):
Like it is.
Speaker 4 (01:37:14):
It's a cool record. It just sounds like it should
have been out three.
Speaker 31 (01:37:16):
But you know, he's an R and B singer and
it's called Hydraulics, so it's all in seam to sounds
a little.
Speaker 26 (01:37:23):
Robotic like yeah, he's.
Speaker 11 (01:37:32):
White clean like okay cool and he.
Speaker 31 (01:37:40):
Also has a record on there with Flow that's really good.
But if you're a fan of like R and B,
he dances, you know, and he's from Houston to he
went to the same school, high school with Beon. You know,
maybe it's something in the water over there. But you know,
Leon Thomas just dropped the project today and it's a
little more funky than the last one. But let's get
into just.
Speaker 4 (01:37:58):
How you are, boy Leon. I love it that boy Leon.
Speaker 7 (01:38:01):
It don't even sound like nothing that he already got out.
Sean is giving Bruno Mars a little bit different. I
love that, boy Leon. Different, That like.
Speaker 31 (01:38:13):
Different, okayous different.
Speaker 4 (01:38:17):
That's hard, that's tough, tough, all right.
Speaker 11 (01:38:18):
This is my last one.
Speaker 31 (01:38:20):
This is a smaller group. They're from Canada. They call
Planet Giza and they drop it a new project. This
song is called mine in My Business.
Speaker 3 (01:38:28):
See I'm a stoner and a viber So I love.
Speaker 4 (01:38:30):
That you felt that all day tender. It's like light
snow on a care be you know what I'm saying,
what what what some little things that the kids was
carrying on another day.
Speaker 5 (01:38:41):
Okay, It's like a little little bit like a little
boo boo in the snow and it just start to
start the snow a little bit like the little booo
just sitting out there and the snows on it, light
snow on a like no.
Speaker 4 (01:38:54):
Like snow on a little booo.
Speaker 3 (01:38:56):
You feel like also, I don't only like the music.
I like what he's saying to.
Speaker 6 (01:39:00):
Maybe for the first record, I didn't want to hear
that for the first record. Maybe I want to hear
something else for the first record.
Speaker 1 (01:39:04):
The first time.
Speaker 7 (01:39:05):
Introduced us to us playing before you put me on
You're not gizzards give oh g.
Speaker 3 (01:39:15):
I z okay.
Speaker 30 (01:39:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:39:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 31 (01:39:18):
This whole project is kind of mellow like that. So
that's probably their most ugly record.
Speaker 30 (01:39:21):
I like that.
Speaker 5 (01:39:22):
That's your big cover. The couple should be a la
boobo with light snow, just light snow just coming.
Speaker 11 (01:39:28):
Down on the well.
Speaker 31 (01:39:29):
If you like what you heard, make sure you guys
follow me on Instagram at Nilis Simone N Y l
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Speaker 11 (01:39:36):
Click the link in bio.
Speaker 31 (01:39:38):
There's multiple playlists there, but the ones for breakfast Club
picture called Certified to makes you guys check that out
and then yeah, certified Merchant on the way.
Speaker 1 (01:39:46):
All right, thank you. Now before we get to the mix,
I'm about to get to the mix. No limit or
cash money. Who are you going with?
Speaker 8 (01:39:55):
I gotta go cash money, cash money, but it's not
going to be like a blow.
Speaker 1 (01:39:59):
Wait, I don't be great.
Speaker 5 (01:40:00):
It's gonna be a great nostalgic thing. But it's I mean,
it's cash money, and I love No Limit, but it's
cash money.
Speaker 1 (01:40:06):
I love the gym.
Speaker 5 (01:40:07):
I was in the gym yesterday working out, playing the
records back to back, and I love cash money.
Speaker 4 (01:40:10):
Got some joints. I was doing amazing. No Limit got
some joints. But it's cash money.
Speaker 6 (01:40:14):
And you know the problem is no disrespect. But No
Limit is more our era than a lot of everybody else.
Speaker 1 (01:40:19):
Absolutely a little older like the man right here, absolutely
style down.
Speaker 4 (01:40:29):
You know, mystical got about three you can play shake
that ass. The man right.
Speaker 5 (01:40:36):
Danger like they like they got joint my fault shock
they got joint with that.
Speaker 4 (01:40:42):
I can. I can play six juvenile record.
Speaker 1 (01:40:45):
Yes, yeah, yeah, that's my emotion.
Speaker 3 (01:40:48):
Then, I mean, there's so many For me, it's not
even gonna be a versus gonna be a concert.
Speaker 7 (01:40:51):
It's gonna be It's like, yo, I think that's what
it is gonna be for most people, like especially my
agent up, it's like, yo, this is gonna be more
of a concert.
Speaker 3 (01:41:00):
I love all of them.
Speaker 4 (01:41:00):
I don't really have no dog in the fight.
Speaker 1 (01:41:02):
Well, let's get to the mix. It's the Breakfast Club
of morning. Everybody is DJ, MVNJ, hilarious.
Speaker 6 (01:41:07):
Charlamaine the guy we are the breakfast Club is to
look again to all of HBCU homecomings. This is my
homecoming week in Hampton University. I know Howard has a
homecoming Norfolk State, Old Dominion a bunch of HBCUs. Old
Dominion's not HBCU, but a bunch of colleges. So salute
to everybody. You guys, enjoy the weekend. And then I'm
going to Dominica. I know that's right, the island of
Dominique in the Caribbean Island. I'm excited. I can't wait
(01:41:30):
to see all my Dominiquans.
Speaker 4 (01:41:32):
Said. By the time you embrace your Dominiquan roots.
Speaker 1 (01:41:34):
Yeah, So I'm going out there.
Speaker 6 (01:41:36):
I got all names of my dad's dads, my dad's
dad's brother, my dad's dad, my dad's family. My dad
re really messed with his dad because it kind of
was Rolling Stone. But I'm gonna go down there and
see what's up.
Speaker 4 (01:41:46):
So I'm just created how all of a sudden you
want to be.
Speaker 1 (01:41:48):
Dominican, Bro, I'm not Dominican from I bring it.
Speaker 4 (01:41:51):
Up any other time. I bring it up that Dominic
go Dominican.
Speaker 5 (01:41:55):
But when it comes to a paycheck, are you being
at some parade getting an award for pretending to be Dominican.
Speaker 6 (01:42:00):
Yeah, it's Dominica. It's Dominica, so salute. And I'm going
to where where you said go.
Speaker 3 (01:42:03):
The Indian River where they filmed The Pirates of the Caribbean.
Speaker 1 (01:42:06):
That's right, that's what I'm going.
Speaker 3 (01:42:07):
Do you know, y'all? Most popular sport over there.
Speaker 1 (01:42:09):
You need to know cricket.
Speaker 3 (01:42:10):
Yes, I'll do that.
Speaker 1 (01:42:12):
Cricket.
Speaker 3 (01:42:13):
That's what's up.
Speaker 4 (01:42:13):
And be all right.
Speaker 1 (01:42:14):
You're almost there, all right, all right? And what are
you doing this weekend?
Speaker 7 (01:42:18):
I'm gonna be in Philly, but for Halloween that's next weekend,
North Carolina. I will be there, Charlotte. Get your tickets.
We got four shows next weekend at the Comedy Zone.
Jesselrisofficial dot com. I will be giving away a cash
prize to the person who wins the Halloween costume contest. Lord,
my voice is so shy today, but I can't wait
to get there. Two shows Friday, two shows Saturday. Jesslisofficial
(01:42:41):
dot com. Do not forget to get your tickets because
y'all got seven more days.
Speaker 1 (01:42:45):
I'm no Charlamane. You head in South Carolina, yes man.
Speaker 5 (01:42:49):
Today I will be in the Metro. It is the
University of South Carolina's homecoming. That's my wife, Saulma Mata,
and they play Alabama tomorrow. But today we will be
at the Colonial Life Arena at four thirty pm. Don Staley,
the Icon Living. She put out her book earlier this year,
Uncommon Favor on my book in print. Black Privileged Publishing
with Simon and Schuster has been on the New York
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Times Bestsellers list for weeks. So I am moderating a
book conversation with her today at the Colonial Life Arena.
Speaker 4 (01:43:18):
And the four time MVP, three time WNBA.
Speaker 5 (01:43:21):
Champion greatest women's basketball player in the world, just got
inducted into the South Carolina Hall of Fame last night,
Asia Wilson. She will be joining us, so I will
be in conversation with both of them today at the
Colonial Life Arena. Salute to everybody who's already gotten their tickets.
If you haven't gotten your tickets, I think there's some
tickets left, so we'll see you this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (01:43:41):
All right, you got a positive note I do.
Speaker 4 (01:43:43):
The positive note is simple. It comes from the Great
Michelle Obama.
Speaker 5 (01:43:47):
Michelle Obama once said, success isn't about how your life
looks to others, It's about how it feels to you.
Always remember that success is subjective. Okay, Success isn't about
how your life looks to others. It's about how how
it feels to you. If you are happy doing what
you are doing, then you are successful.
Speaker 1 (01:44:04):
Have a great day, breakfast club Bitches, you don't
Speaker 3 (01:44:07):
Finish the je
Good morning Usa.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Yea yea yea yea yea yea yeah, yea yeah, yea
yea yea yeah, yea yeah, yea yeah, yea yeah, yea
yea yea.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Yeah yeah yoh YOA just hilarious weekday.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
As Charlamagne, please did up playing.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
It is Friday.
Speaker 5 (00:14):
How y'all feel out there? I feel blessed, black and
highly favored. Happy to be here another day to serve
about beautiful listeners.
Speaker 6 (00:19):
Good morning, Yes, good morning. It's a homecoming weekend Friday.
Salute to all the HBCUs. I know, I think it's
Howard's home coming. It's my school's homecoming, which is Hampton University,
Norfolk State's homecoming. It's a lot of homecomings this weekend,
so it's homecoming weekend. So salute to all the alum. Now, Charlamagne,
you missed Jess. She came in mad mysterious this morning.
Whatever y'all mad mysterious trench coach had looked like a expector.
Speaker 7 (00:43):
Gadget Hey, yo, your you is really playing with me.
I'm gonna tell you a picture. Shaw I look real good.
But my husband definitely played with me. He was like, okay,
Jeep is creeper. First of all, he's just that hat yo.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
You on zim Canz.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
The host that haven't let me in yet?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Oh right, yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 7 (00:59):
So I head on the head and the code is given, inspected,
goody holds you. But when I think the coat off
is like theam it is it is, there is no
further inspection like it's good. So where you going today?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I know you ain't doing something to see us?
Speaker 7 (01:11):
I know I got a few meetings, she said, Yeah,
got a few meeting and I got.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
To be in Philly today. So y'all got an event
that I'm doing tonight.
Speaker 6 (01:18):
So okay, all right, well we got a crazy show
for you today. Ruben Vincent and Knights Wonder will be
joining us. They have a new album called Welcome Home,
so we're gonna be told.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
That came out today. Ruben is very, very dope. He's
from Charlotte, North Carolina. He's I think he's from Kenya
originally when he was raised in Charlotte, North Carolina. Man,
So you know, whatever knife one that puts his arm
around somebody from North Carolina, you know it's gonna be special.
I mean, you know Rhapsody, Little Brother, and you know
now the likes of Ruben Vincent.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (01:45):
And also we have a great legendary cast, legendary bloodline.
We have Lanny Smith, who is the owner of Actively
Black Apparel.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
But you got you got to tell him what Actively
Black just did.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Actively Black just had a fashion show during New York
Fashion Week and they had a bunch of a bunch
of these legendary figures walk in their Clovid that's right.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
They had Martin Luther King Junior's daughter. They also had
Malcolm X's daughter. They had Cecil Williams. Who is Cecil
Williams is if you remember that famous picture where there's
a brother standing at a white at a water fountain
and it says whites only and he's drinking that water.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
That was back in nineteen six fifty six.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Yes, yeah, Orangeburg, South Carolina icon right there.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
Frederica Newton will be joining us.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
White has a book, and fred Hampton Junior will be.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Joining Fred Hampton okay with him.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
Right, Chairman, Fred Hampton Junior will be joining us as well.
So there's a lot to talk about today, a lot
to discuss not going on all right, Charlamne, Now you're
going to South Carolina after this too, Right.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Yes, I will be in South Carolina today in Columbia
Metro because today at four thirty pm, I will be
moderating a conversation with Don Staley. You know, her book
Uncommon Favor came out earlier this year.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
It's been on the New York Times bestsellers list for weeks.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
So I've been moderating a conversation with her about that
and w NBA MVP full time MVP, three time champion
Asia Wilson will be joining us during that conversation as
well at the Colonial Life Arena four thirty pm today.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
All right, let's join us.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Well, let's get the show crack.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
And we got front page News saluted Ovio Eli overo Eli.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Did not come to work today. He's feeling under the weather.
I think he's lying.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
He's lying.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Yes, he was early. It's Drake's birthday. Yeah, but he was.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
He was sick early in the earlier parts of the week.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
He's probably in Toronto right now at Drake's front door.
He already texted me with what he wanted to hear
this morning.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
He told me he had a rose with an owl
on it. And I'm like, bro, what are you talking
him saying? You're a grown ass man? Got roses for men?
Speaker 7 (03:56):
Yo, he's a stand like he loves Drake, leave him alone,
and he just so happens to be sick.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
He is sick.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, he's sick at Drake's house right now. Well, let's
play the record.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
He wanted to even put it rolls And why did
it have an owl on it? That's crazy?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Well, this is what he wanted to hear. Best to
have had.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Oh okay, that role changes.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Damn Records Club. Good morning, meet me's up next front.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Page, next morning, everybody, it's DJ n V Jess hilarious,
Charlamagne the guy. We are the breakfast club. Let's get
in some front Paul jokes aside.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Drake came a long way, bro. When you think about
that record right there, and you know, think about how
he grew in the game. He did come a long way.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
You gotta give him absolutely, absolutely, there's no doubt man,
just you.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Yeah, even though even though you got to ask busted
last year. You know by Kendrick he.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Can't stay positive.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
That came a long way.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
All right, Well, let's get in some front page news.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Let's start off with Thursday Night Football, all the Chargers
beat the Vikings thirty seven to ten, and tonight is
Game one of the World Series Blue Jays versus Dodges
at eight pm.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Damn, see what I'm saying. That's exactly what I be
talking about right there.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
What's up meeting?
Speaker 8 (05:02):
Good morning, MV josh aall the man, how y'all doing?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Hey girl, pease me me?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Good morning?
Speaker 4 (05:07):
All right?
Speaker 8 (05:08):
When we start this morning in Washington, where today was
supposed to be payday for federal workers, but with congress
seal deadlock, those checks are not coming. Meanwhile, frustration is
mounting as the pay fight hits another roadblock on Capitol
Hill and the Senate. They blocked three different bills yesterday,
one from Republicans and two from Democrats, all aimed at
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making sure federal employees get paid while the shutdown drags
on in its fourth week, and Republican Senator Ron Johnson
of Wisconsin he pushed a bill to pay only essential
workers still required to work, so your air traffic controllers,
your TSA agents, your military personnel. That bill failled fifty
four to forty five. Democrats they blocked that plan, saying
(05:50):
it gave too much power to the White House Budget Office,
letting them decide who gets paid and who doesn't. Instead,
Democrats they offered two separate bills that would pay all
federal workers, including the seven hundred and fifty thousand who
have been furloughed and sent home without pay since October one.
That bill was introduced by Maryland Senator Chris ben Holland,
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and it included a provision to stop the layoffs during
the shutdown. Then the second bill from Michigan Senator Gary
Peters would cover back pay from the start of the
shutdown through the day it would take effect. But Republicans
block those bills. Still, some lawmakers say they're working to
find a compromise. A few Democrats, including Senator John Offseth, Offseth,
(06:32):
Rafael Warnock and John Fetterman, they voted to advance the
Republican bill, saying that essential workers needed to be paid
even as negotiations continued. And while that debate continues over
who gets paid and who doesn't get paid, Trump says
he's found another way.
Speaker 9 (06:47):
To make sure some workers get a pay check. Let's
listen to that.
Speaker 10 (06:51):
Friend of mine talking about donors. A friend of mine,
a man that's great. I'm not going to use his
name unless he lets me do it.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
He was.
Speaker 10 (06:58):
He called us the other day and he said, I'd
like to contribute any short for you have because of
the Democrat shutdown. I'd like to contribute personally, contribute any
short for you have with the military, because I love
the military and I love the country. And today he
sent us a check for one hundred and thirty million
dollars and that's going to go to the military.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Yeah, so where's the money like that? Where's the money?
I need my money now, I ain't you know, they
ain't got paid in weeks. Where's the money?
Speaker 9 (07:28):
Yeah, well, we'll see what happens with that. He just
said that it was a personal donor. He did not
say any names.
Speaker 8 (07:33):
There's been no word yet on if the military has
received that, so we'll continue to follow that. But today
mark's day twenty four of the government shutdown. Either side
has been able to reach a deal, and it's hundreds
of thousands of workers wait for their next paycheck. President
Trump is preparing to leave for Asia with no compromise
in sight.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
So that's a great headline to follow though, Mimi, because
he announced that somebody gave him a check one hundred
and thirty million dollars in the military. Let's follow it
and see if he actually gives to the military, because
you know, he'll say something and then become a headline
and everybody will say, well, you know, Trump got one
hundred and thirty million dollars and gave it to the military.
I bet you they never get that money.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
M h.
Speaker 8 (08:11):
We'll see, We'll see what happens with that. We will
definitely continue to follow that. And President Trump says his
next move in his next move in on the war
on drugs could target people on land, not just at sea.
So he's calling the recent US military strikes on drug
smuggling boats a big success, saying that traffickers are now
moving more drugs on land and no longer on sea.
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So he says that his team will brief Congress about
the plan. He doesn't think that they will need permission
to move forward on a formal declaration of war. So
President Trump, he's promising a tougher approach on the drug trade.
Speaker 9 (08:47):
And let's listen to what he had to say.
Speaker 10 (08:49):
Well, I don't think we're gonna necessarily ask for a
declaration of war. I think we're just gonna kill people
that are bringing drugs into our country.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
We're going to kill them.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
You know, they're gonna be like dead dead.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
But you know what they were saying, I mean, I
don't know how true this is because you know, people
are conspiracy theorists and all that other stuff. They were
saying that a lot of the boats that he was
actually hitting was fishermen boats, that they weren't actually.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Drugging a conspiracy.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
That's true, though they said a bunch of them.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
It just wasn't one about two. I don't know about
a bunch of them.
Speaker 9 (09:21):
I heard about a couple too, but they're just saying.
Speaker 8 (09:23):
And then there were two survivors, and so they were
sent to what I think it was Ecuador, Columbia, and
you know, so there's just there's a lot of there's
a lot going on. There was a one a woman
who said that her husband, who was a fisherman on
his way to work, was killed.
Speaker 9 (09:36):
Until you know, Defense Secretary peithe Headseth.
Speaker 8 (09:39):
He he's backing Trump up, saying that the military will
go after drug cartels the same way that we went
after terrorist groups.
Speaker 9 (09:46):
Like al Qaeda. But not everyone is on board.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
Lawmakers on both parties say they haven't been given clear
information on exactly what's happening, and leaders in Latin America
are calling the US strikes illegal and murder.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Now.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
Trump also he's taking aim at Columbia and Mexico, claiming
that both countries are run by drug cartels, something their
government strongly denies. And right now, it's it's really unclear
whether these land strikes could happen and what they will
look like. And so we'll see if Congress steps in
before things escalate any further.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
All right, well, thank you, Mimi.
Speaker 9 (10:19):
Absolutely.
Speaker 8 (10:20):
Coming up at seven, a familiar name from your childhood
is making a surprise return, just in time for the holidays.
We'll tell you where it's popping up and how it
could affect your wallet.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
Okay, everybody else, get it off your chest. Eight hundred
five eight five one oh five one. If you need
the Vent phone lines wide open, call us up now.
It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Wait,
this is your time to get it off your chest.
Eight hundred five eight five one five one. We want
to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Who's this?
Speaker 11 (10:53):
What morning?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
My name is Ay Janeil Good morning, Gail, Good morning.
Speaker 12 (10:59):
From all over morning both. So tey y'all doing this morning.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Blessed Black and Holly, it's good through it.
Speaker 12 (11:08):
I was just given a shout out, so I'm from
the play for this morning. Oh well, this weekend we'll
celebrate homecoming for od my Ima Mama, my daughter graduated
twenty two from Old to Youth and also in.
Speaker 13 (11:24):
University.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
It's gonna be a crazy weekend.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
All three schools of less than what thirty minutes away
from each other, so it's gonna be it's gonna be
a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I'll be out there.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
My wife actually graduated from More Dominion, so that that's
her alma mater. But yeah, it's gonna be a lot
of fun.
Speaker 12 (11:37):
Yes, yes, yeah, yeah. And also I finally saw.
Speaker 14 (11:43):
That in July a book release Chilly such was the
book dedicated to children that's gone through Greek. But the
book was dedicated to my grandmother school all the way
three years ago. I told us the children's book and
exactly off on Amazon.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Okay, so what's the name of the book again.
Speaker 12 (12:07):
Kelly sometime was dedicated to my Grandma's name was Mattelda.
Speaker 14 (12:13):
But we called it Tilly.
Speaker 15 (12:15):
What's her nickname?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
All right? Well, thank you so much.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Thank you all.
Speaker 12 (12:19):
You have a wonderful home.
Speaker 16 (12:20):
One in and thank you all you have.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
A great home.
Speaker 17 (12:23):
Follow you all to thank you.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Hello, who's this envy? What's what's up?
Speaker 16 (12:30):
What's the baby boom?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Sorry piece bloody boots.
Speaker 18 (12:33):
Wow?
Speaker 16 (12:36):
You know, I'm so glad that you started off like that.
Charlotte Mane. I'm tired of defending your sexuality. I was
just gonna say, if you gain to come out the.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Closets, why do you defend my sexuality?
Speaker 16 (12:46):
I don't because I'm past. Every time I talk about something,
I'm telling my cousins like, oh you know, we ain't
sorry for us to do something, And they're the only
reason that you're even trying to help me is because
you want my butt.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
I'm trying to get some cheese.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
That's true.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
That's crazy, that is the truth. That's the old school industry. Wait,
don't nobody do that no more.
Speaker 16 (13:07):
That's what that's what they think.
Speaker 19 (13:08):
They like.
Speaker 16 (13:09):
If you he needs to come out the closet and
he just trying to get something from you, I'm like,
charlamg ain't trying to get nothing from me. But if
you here, chlomage this, let this let.
Speaker 20 (13:17):
Me know.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
He said, he said he's a willing participant. Damn no,
I'm not a willing participant.
Speaker 16 (13:29):
But something actually my mom actually saying that. You know,
I told her that, you know, we had some things
going on, and she just asked me about it, and
I told her, I don't.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Know what's happened. Well listen, why you lie to your
mama like that?
Speaker 21 (13:44):
No?
Speaker 16 (13:44):
No, no, not not things going on like that.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
I'm talking about with music.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Okay, I'm like, wait, what else.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
You may get your mind?
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Let me take Let me tell you something about trav
Travi is an amazing song writer. And you know, whenever
I get the opportunity, I do pass trave stuff along
to people.
Speaker 16 (14:08):
Yes he does, and then and then you kind of
disappear on me. I don't know what happens after.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
That's the game. And we'll tell you.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
You know, these people will take your stuff, but that
you know something, they'll be like, oh that's dope, and
then that's all you hear.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
You know what the funny thing is, That's why I
stopped doing that, because people like they'll be like, yo,
did this songs hit my record?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I'm like, I passed it on. I don't I don't
know what else you want.
Speaker 13 (14:27):
Me to do.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
All I could do, That's what I could do.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
That's all I could do.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
And and I definitely truly appreciate that.
Speaker 16 (14:34):
I definitely truly appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Don't worry, trave Good things come to those who wait, man,
be patient. I believe even what you do. But do
you believe in yourself?
Speaker 22 (14:43):
Yes?
Speaker 16 (14:43):
I do, And I ask you just out another record.
Speaker 23 (14:46):
You have to go check it out and ask you
wrote it about my ex and how he cheated on
me with a girl and got her pregnant, wrote a
song about it.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Damn the crazy thing about trave Man.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
If this was the nineties or early two thousands, he'd
be on already because he's talent then then gay.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
That's really I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Are you talk about the cheating part?
Speaker 16 (15:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 22 (15:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Now the.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Hey yo, No, I'm sorry that your asks did that?
See you hey yo?
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Caller Grant check it out?
Speaker 7 (15:21):
Okay, the baby looks like my god, bahut.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
It off your chest five eight five one o five one.
If you need to ben call us up now. It's
the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Ray right
ray yo, Charla man, damfy, what up are we lost.
This is your time to get it off your chest.
Speaker 17 (15:44):
I got an indoor pool pool.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
We want to hear from you on the breakfast club.
Speaker 17 (15:49):
Get on the phone right now, He'll tell you what
it is.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
We lie. Hello, who's this?
Speaker 4 (15:54):
He did you?
Speaker 13 (15:55):
Brother? Muhammads from Baton Rouge.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
What's up? Brother? Get it off your chest?
Speaker 23 (15:58):
Hey man, I just won't let everybody note with all
a fear of mongrant going on about this food and
being able to afford food for your houses. The moslay
Elijah Muhammad and all the miss Lewis fog Con told
us beans and rice every day. That's a very cheap meal,
but guess what, it's a very healthy meal, especially that
native beans. So if you got to go buy food
for your family, you might not be able to buy
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meat or focus on the basis the beans, the rice
and the water and everything will be okay.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
You're absolutely right, bro, you thank you?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Hello? Who's this?
Speaker 13 (16:30):
Good morning?
Speaker 4 (16:31):
This is k Hey, k hey ky. Every kiss begins
with K.
Speaker 15 (16:36):
I know that's right, Hey, dj MV Charlemagne And where's
my girl chest?
Speaker 8 (16:41):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Baby?
Speaker 17 (16:42):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Jess?
Speaker 15 (16:43):
I love you so much girl. You coming on my
last till.
Speaker 14 (16:45):
Like two or three weeks ago.
Speaker 15 (16:47):
You made my baby.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Oh, I appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Very mysterious today, very mysterious today.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
They always got time to stay by my house. Figures.
Speaker 7 (16:54):
I came in here with a nice what is it
called a yeah, a fedora, and like I inspect to
get you.
Speaker 15 (17:04):
That's okay, but yeah, I just wanted to just I
ain't got really nothing off my chest. I just want
to spread a little positive today, you know what I'm saying,
Like I want to say, my thw machine broke. I'm
actually pulling up the work late with a spicy mask on,
but I woke up, so you know what I'm saying.
I really don't even care. So I just want to
motivate everybody else to day say out to me. You know,
so you might be going through something, but as long
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as you show.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Up, hey, don't you walk into white people establishment with
that damn shasty masks.
Speaker 15 (17:33):
It's pink and I got some last so they'll be
a right.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Okay, looking like a yb Okay, we'll have a good one.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
Mama, you get it off your chest. Eight hundred and
five eighty five one on five one.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
If you need to vent, hit us up now, what's up,
good morning? What kind of outfit is that?
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Let me get my zoom that sweat suit get up.
I can't even see her. They don't even got the
camera on her.
Speaker 11 (18:03):
It's where I worked on Brilliant idiots.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Okay, that got your head did.
Speaker 11 (18:11):
Yeah, we're going to homecoming, going to Norfolk tonight today.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Yesterday Lauren was like, man, I want to grow out
an afro, but I got a bass spot.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Now I got no edges.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
That was so.
Speaker 24 (18:24):
That about what I said was, I said, I want
to when my hair grows back out. That's why I
cut it so it could grow. I want to be
able to work it like curly and not put heat
to it.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
I ain't got no edges.
Speaker 24 (18:36):
And then I said, the wigs made my edges thin,
so I had to cut them down side. Need everything
to grow back and health dance. I don't got no edges.
Speaker 11 (18:44):
They're here.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Can a boss?
Speaker 11 (18:47):
You told me? Why you asked me how I get
a boss? I told you almost die?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Can I ask you?
Speaker 22 (18:52):
I was so sad?
Speaker 24 (18:53):
How you almost from bust my head open on the
back of Oh my god, I almost died.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
That's your course. Oh god, your struggles and your strikes.
Why do you tell him? Why do you tell him
your struggle? Because tell him that she would have told
just that you could have.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Said it to me, nod.
Speaker 11 (19:13):
You tell him that it's not safe with any of y'all.
All y'all funny, so I just yeah, you're throwing up.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Y'all.
Speaker 7 (19:20):
Don't make fun of your father because I know you
really love him, but you don't even want you and
I don't.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Good morning coming in with their.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Dads at homecoming, Grandma, Grandma were the ladiest of Lauren
coming up?
Speaker 24 (19:34):
We do got the lads with Lauren coming up. We
got more details on you know, all those arrests that
went down that big n b A. You know, the
Feds sweeping in on that alleged gambling, all the allegations
with uh, you know, all the guys Chauncey, Billups, Terry Roger,
Damon Jones.
Speaker 11 (19:48):
We're gonna talk about it, all right.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
We'll get into that. Next door moves to Breakfast Club
of Warre the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Lamie coming with straight fast.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
She gets some new somebody that knows somebody.
Speaker 11 (20:02):
I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
She'd be having the latest on the.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Large the latest with Lauren La Rosa.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details, sometimes you
have a little bit of everything.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Well it's the Ladies on the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 24 (20:18):
So yesterday there was a press conference held here in
New York City where the FEDS were able to break down.
FBI Director Cash Hotel along with the United States Attorney
broke down what this whole you know, big arrest around
some huge names in NBA, what it is and why
it's happening. And when I mentioned the names, I'm mentioning
(20:39):
Chauncey Billups, Terry Roger, and Damon Jones. Let's take a
listen to cash hotaeil on the background of this case
and what's actually happening.
Speaker 20 (20:46):
Individuals such as Chauncey Billups, Damon Jones, and Terry Rozier
were taking into custody today. This is an illegal gambling
operation and sports rigging operation that spanned the.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Course of years.
Speaker 20 (20:57):
The FBI let a coordinative takedown RUSS eleven States to
arrest over thirty individuals today responsible for this case, which
is very much ongoing. We also entered and executed a
system of justice against La Casinoshra to include the Bonano, Gambino,
Genevesi and Luchas crime families, chargers, and the arrests that
(21:18):
were taken down across this country range from wire fraud,
money laundering, extortion, robbery, illegal gambling. This work is also
representative of a colossal portion of the FBI's mandate to
keep America safe and to keep our entertainment industry fair
and secure. We're talking about tens of millions of dollars
in fraud and theft and robbery across a multi year investigation.
Speaker 24 (21:41):
So what they're alleging is that the names that we
just mentioned allegedly teamed up with a bunch of other
individuals and different mafia families in two separate things that
they're indining for. So there is the sports betting side
of it, which has six defendants, and then there's the
illegal gambling or the rig poker game side of it,
which has thirty one defendants. Now they cross over because
they're alleging that Damon Jones, Eric Ernest and Shane Hennon
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overlapped and charges somewhere within these two indictments that they have,
and what they're saying is that there would be these
on the power game side, there would be these illegal games,
they alleged that would be set up and you would
have these big names from the NBA and they would
be used as almost like something flashy to get these
people to come in and want to sit down and
play poker. And when the people would sit down, the
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games would be super rigged, I mean like high tech
technology type of rigged. And we have audio about them
talking about the technology and how in depth that technology
was at those poker table.
Speaker 11 (22:39):
Let's take a listen to number two.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
The defendants used a variety of very sophisticated cheating technologies,
some of which were provided by other defendants in exchange
for a share of the profits from the scheme. For example,
they used off the shelf shuffling machines that had been
secretly altered in order to read the cards in the deck,
predict which player at the table had the best poker hands,
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and relay that information to an off site operator. The
off site operator sent the information via cell phone back
to a co conspirator at the table, and that person
at the table was.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Known as the quarterback. The quarterback then.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Signaled secretly the information he had received from others to
others at the table and together they used that information
in order to win their games and to cheat the victims.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
That's crazy.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
I guess what I was reading that Allegedly they was
saying that Chauncey Billips was using his influence to bring
people to play some of these games. And they said
through the cards they had some sunglasses that you could
actually see the what they had. So it's like if
you had a King King, you could see through the
sunglasses that that person had a King King.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Glasses to see the car.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yeah, it was like, I guess how they did it.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
It was whatever, if you had a King on the
back of a card, you could only see it through
the glass.
Speaker 11 (24:03):
And even the shuffler. So we have that breakdown to
less's than a number. Faber, No, it was. It is extensive.
Let's take a listen.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
These defendants perpetrated a scheme to defraud by betting on inside,
non public information about NBA athletes and teams. The non
public information included when specific players would be sitting out
future games or when they would pull themselves out early
for purported injuries or illnesses. They relied on corrupt individuals,
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including Jones and Rosier. They also misused information to obtained
through long standing friendships that they had with NBA players
and coaches, and in at least one instance, they got
their information by threatening a current player porter because of
his pre existing gambling debts. Defendants used this non public
information to place hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraudulentfects,
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mostly in the form of prop bets on individual player performance.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
It's two different cases because I hear the mafia involved
in one of them, and then the other one sounds
like it's just NBA players.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Like that one just heard sound like it's just NBA players.
Speaker 24 (25:08):
Yeah, So it's two different cases set, That's what I'm
saying in the beginning. So you have the sports betting
side of it, which is where they're alleging that, you know,
certain people would use inside information that wouldn't be public
information to help people go and bet and win the money. So,
for example, according to docs, they list co conspirator number eight,
and that is Billups. They say that one time he
mentioned to a better that they were he alleged that
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he was going to rest some of his key players
in the matchup against the Chicago Bulls. The Better they say,
then allegedly took the information to another better and had
them place a wager on the Blazers losing, and Portland
did go on to lose to Chicago in that game.
And they say, although the fest didn't say in the
press conference, that Billips was involved in inside sports betting
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conspiracies that resulted in certain wins.
Speaker 11 (25:54):
Basically, like they can't connect it to together.
Speaker 24 (25:56):
So Roger and the things that he was doing on
the sports betting side and billups, they're not connecting them,
but they're saying that they were happening, like both of
them were doing alleging both of them were doing these things.
Speaker 6 (26:05):
But you said something that's that's very important too. I
don't think people remember, but you know, a couple of
years ago, you remember Porter was banned for doing that.
But they're saying that the crime families allegedly threatened Porter
to continue on.
Speaker 11 (26:17):
Yeah, so they threatened him and Porter, you know.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
Is Porter's brother from the New Jersey in place for
the Brooklyn Nets. Now it's his brother that has been
banned from the league for a while now.
Speaker 24 (26:25):
Yeah, and they talk about They talked about that for
a little bit in a press conference too, because they
said that there were not even just with him. They
said that with other people, like some of the people
that lost their money they were they used intimidation these families,
intimidation and violence and different things to keep it concealed,
but also to keep people playing, because once you're in,
they want you in and they want you to keep
going because they're trying to win all this money.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
I didn't know that Mafia still existed, like I was
thinking of, And is this a situation where they was
after the Mafia and the NBA players just happened to
be there, or were they all in cahoots together.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
I don't.
Speaker 11 (27:00):
I don't know. I can't really determine that from what
I saw.
Speaker 24 (27:03):
I feel like certain things I read make me feel like, yes,
they were after the Mafia, and then the NBA players
came in, and then other stuff I read, it's like
this has been going on for a long time, allegedly
around the NBA, so there's always been eyes on this
and then this came up.
Speaker 11 (27:15):
So I can't answer that indefinitely.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
Nowin' front, if you ever been to a casino, I'll
be feeling like the casino be knowing on my car
sometimes too.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
That's why I don't play games anymore.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Like sometimes you have a.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
Black jacket and all of a sudden, I feel like
they push a button and now, all of a sudden
they got a black jack too.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
No, no, I'm gonna tell you something, but I want
those glasses, okay, because I got a homegirl named Dion
and she be busting my ass and spade and I'm
sick of it.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Okay, one of the best salute to Dion.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
She's one of the best spas players I've ever seen
in those glasses of what I need to finally get
get over on her ass.
Speaker 25 (27:44):
Damn.
Speaker 11 (27:44):
Okay, Well listen, yeah, I read something.
Speaker 7 (27:48):
Because you don't wear glasses regularly, niggas, time you play
take them glasses.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
Why you got them glass that's crazy.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
We got to think about the whenever you're playing uno
a spage from here on out, somebody wearing some glasses
that don't normally wear glasses, make them take them goddamn
glasses get.
Speaker 7 (28:08):
Deep, especially especially stop playing we playing on them house
like be at the casino.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
No crazy, remember that this homecoming weekend.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
If you all had homecoming and all of a sudden
somebody got own glasses that ain't never had on. No, glasses, okay,
and they went all of a sudden, they got a
super hot head start winning.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
I mean right, all right, well that is the latest
with Lauren. Now charlamage donkey to day, but we're doing
on Fridays, we do the people's donkey.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
You can call us right now one one hundred and
five A five one oh five one and give somebody
the credit they deserve for being stupid.
Speaker 6 (28:36):
So hit us up, all right if you want to
give somebody downy day, like you said, eight hundred and
five eight five one five one, get on their phone lines.
Speaker 18 (28:42):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Front page news is next morning, everybody.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
It's the DJ n v J.
Speaker 6 (28:47):
Just hiliarties, Charlamagni, god, we are the breakfast club. Let's
get back in some front page news to quick sports
and Thursday night for all the Chargers beat the bike
Ins thirty seven ten and tonight is Game one of
the of the Major League Baseball World Series, the Dodges
versus the Blue Jays.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
Man, what game is Kendrick walking out to perform? That?
Like us, man, that's what inquiring minds.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Want to know.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
It might be game one, that's what you would think, right,
LA is game one in la oh Toronto today.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Oh yeah, it's Toronto. Nice about the game thrinker? What's that?
Speaker 13 (29:18):
Me?
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Me?
Speaker 8 (29:18):
Good morning, NB, Josh ch Aldamage, how y'all doing?
Speaker 5 (29:20):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Girls?
Speaker 9 (29:21):
Me me good morning.
Speaker 8 (29:23):
Well we start this hour with talk that is raising
eyebrows and a few constitutional questions. This morning, a former
Trump advisor Seve Bannon says the president's inner circle is
already planning for a third term in the White House now.
Bannon made the claim during an interview with The Economists
this week, saying he's certain that Trump will be president
in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 9 (29:43):
Let's listen to some of that exchange.
Speaker 26 (29:45):
He's going to get a third term, so Trump twenty eight.
Trump is going to be president of twenty eight.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
And people just sort to get accommodated with that.
Speaker 26 (29:51):
So what about the twenty second of Edmund There's many
different alternatives. At the appropriate time will lay out what
the plan is. But there's a plan, and the country
needs him to be president.
Speaker 17 (29:59):
Nice.
Speaker 26 (30:00):
We have to finish what we started. Trump is a
vehicle of divine prophetence.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
He's an instrument.
Speaker 26 (30:05):
He's very imperfect, he's not churchy, not particularly religious, but
he's an instrument of divine well, and you could tell
this of how he's pulled this off. We need him
for at least one more term, right, and he'll get
that in twenty eight.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
I hate that this conversation has been normalized.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
I mean every time they have this conversation, I'm just like,
so just nobody cares about democracy anymore. And for everybody
who says things like what means Barack Obama can one
can run? I keep trying to tell y'all, if Trump
gets to run again for a third term, it doesn't
matter who he's running against.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
The fight is already fixed.
Speaker 9 (30:41):
Okay, definitely already fixed.
Speaker 8 (30:44):
Constitutional experts say there's no real path for this to happen.
They say changing the constitution would take two thirds of
a vote in Congress or approval from two thirds of
US states, something that they say that is nearly impossible.
And another theory that's been floated having the vice president
in eight step down so that Trump could take over,
but that's also seen as legally shaky. You know, two terms,
(31:07):
like you said, Charlottage should mean two terms, but anything
else would be unconstitutional and could spark a major political crisis.
But we are in several major political crisis right now,
So who knows what the end will look like?
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Well, what if he just refuses to leave in twenty
and twenty eight, you know, if he just refuses to
leave and then we find out how many of those
generals and admirals actually did pledge their loyalty to him
when they had that meeting with Pete hexf a couple
of weeks ago.
Speaker 9 (31:39):
Yeah, for sure, there's so many different possibilities.
Speaker 8 (31:42):
So again, you're right, it's being normalized. But I think
that Trump, when he says he's going to do something
people should really pay attention, we tend to lop it off, like, oh,
that's impossible, but is it?
Speaker 9 (31:52):
You know, So we'll continue to see what that looks like.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
All right.
Speaker 8 (31:56):
Well, Target is cutting jobs in what is being called
the big bus shake up the company has ever seen
in a decade now. The retailer announced its plans to
eliminate eighteen hundred corporate positions as it tries to jumpstart
growth after four years of sluggish sales. The cuts will
include about one thousand layoffs and another eight hundred jobs
that will not be filled, and that's roughly eight percent
(32:17):
of its reduction in workforce now affected employees will be
notified next week, and the layoffs come as Target faces
mounting challenges from declining store traffic and inventory issues to
a trop in stock value. Now shares have fallen about
sixty five percent since twenty twenty one, while competitors like
Walmart they have surged ahead and beyond pressures.
Speaker 9 (32:38):
The business.
Speaker 8 (32:39):
Target has also faced public boycotts we know that one
led by pastor Jamal.
Speaker 9 (32:45):
Bryant, a forty day fast, which.
Speaker 8 (32:47):
Happened earlier this year after the company scaled back diversity,
equity and inclusion programs. Now Target says that the job cuts,
though they will not affect store employees or workers in
its warehouse. The layoffs are only limited to Corforit positions,
they say. Those that will be losing their jobs, though,
will receive pay and benefits through January third, along with
several packages. So there's a lot of shakeups happening there. Yes,
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But while one retailer is cutting back, another one is
making a comeback. Toys r Uss is reopening more than
thirty stores.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Across the seat.
Speaker 9 (33:23):
Yes, yes, yes, just in time for the holidays.
Speaker 8 (33:27):
This will include eight permanent flagship locations and more than
twenty temporary holiday locations. It's the latest revival for the
once dominant toy retailer, which filed for bankruptcy back in
twenty seventeen. They closed more than seven hundred stores nationwide
back there back then, but the brand has been slowly
rebuilding under a new ownership.
Speaker 13 (33:47):
Now.
Speaker 8 (33:47):
At his peak, back in the eighties and nineties, Toys
r Uss was the destination for kids inherents? Do you
guys remember this famous for its giant stores aisles.
Speaker 7 (33:57):
Of toyses was so said when that store out of business,
I was so saying, my son was three years old. Yeah,
now I got a one year old, So now I
got a reason to go back.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
I'm so everybody.
Speaker 9 (34:06):
Absolutely, And what's that famous jingle?
Speaker 11 (34:08):
Do y'all remember it?
Speaker 9 (34:09):
I don't want to I want to grow up? Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (34:14):
So the company is trying to bring back all that
nostalgia for kids these days. And so not only is
the nostalgia they said that the company will bring back,
it's gonna be the stores opening will bring seasonal jobs
and more full time positions.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
So I don't know how that's gonna work.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
I mean, they would almost have to make themselves like
a destination of bench space like it would have to
be things for the kids to do inside the store.
I don't know if just walking in the store and
walking down the aisle looksite kids anymore.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
I don't know. You don't think so seated. That's what
I was thinking. I was like, kids always want something
to do.
Speaker 6 (34:46):
It's to the point now where kids be like, take
me to Target because that's where they have childs. But now,
like you said, they need places for kids to go
where kids can say, I want this, I see the
new toy, I want anurth thing, I want video games,
I want.
Speaker 5 (34:58):
Arts to play pain And there's got to be something
for them to do, like when you take them to
like the American Dream Mall is stuff for kids to do.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
That's what Toys r US needs.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
But it's a toys the rust in American dream All
though it is no it is.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Yeah, okay, yeah I didn't know that.
Speaker 18 (35:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (35:13):
So I think you're right. I think both of you're right.
Speaker 8 (35:15):
I know when I take my son to the store,
being able to walk down the aisle and try everything out,
because now you just order something from Amazon.
Speaker 9 (35:21):
And it's there, but now you get to play with
each little thing. Yeah, I think they'll like that too,
you know. So all right, y'all, well that is your
front page news.
Speaker 8 (35:31):
I want to say, oh yeah really quickly shout out
to Howard University. I'm a proud Bison, So sorry, not sorry,
yeah sorry.
Speaker 9 (35:40):
I will now be there.
Speaker 8 (35:41):
I will be at my TED Talk by the way,
which is the website is Tedxalsadina dot com. You can
find all the information there on how to stream it
if you want to take a look this weekend tonight
it is wins excuse me, Sunday at ten am is
when it starts. I know TED has really strict rules,
so I don't know if they're gonna be able to
live stream all of it, but some of the information
(36:03):
will be on the website and be able to see
what's available.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Okay, thank you, Mimi, I have a great thank.
Speaker 9 (36:09):
You absolutely, So that is your front pation news. I'm
Mimi Brown.
Speaker 8 (36:12):
Follow me at Memi Brown TV for more stories for
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Speaker 6 (36:20):
All right, now, when we come back, Ruben Vincent and
Ninth Wonder will be joining us.
Speaker 5 (36:25):
Hold on, hold on you one more thing. Today's Friday,
so we do the people's donkey. So you can call
us right now one one hundred and five A five
one oh five to one and give somebody the credit
they deserve for being stupid.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
You get to deliver the biggest he hear today. So
call us right now.
Speaker 6 (36:39):
That's right, And when we come back, Ruben Vincent in
Ninth Wonder we'll be joining us. His new album Welcome Home.
It's out now.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
It's the Breakfast Club. Good Morning, the Breakfast Club when
everybody is.
Speaker 6 (36:51):
DJ NV Jess Hilarious, Charlamage NaKaT. We are the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
We got some special guest in the Villain.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
Yes, indeed got the brother ninth Wonder he's back and
Ruben Vincent, what's up guys?
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Feeling all as well?
Speaker 18 (37:02):
Man?
Speaker 5 (37:03):
I love seeing this because I always feel like the young,
younger lyricists need to get with the o G veteran producers,
like somebody like Knife and create magic. I don't think that,
and I could be wrong, but I don't think that
there's anybody that can, you know, do for a Ruben
what a knife could sound?
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Wise? What you think, Rube? I agree?
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Just being real, I mean, I don't think it's been
done on this level, you know what I mean.
Speaker 27 (37:27):
I feel like, you know, there's been few folks that
might have deer records, but it's either sending the beats
off and then they over there. Like we really sat
in the studio with each other, you know what I mean.
It was I moved in the studio for six months,
sleeping on the couch. So it was like, you know,
he going to his crib, but I'll wake up, go
to the gym. He pull up at twelve o'clock and
we just really the synergy was there, you know what
I mean. So I think this is the first of
(37:48):
his conference.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Do you what do you have the time?
Speaker 6 (37:52):
Because you're also a professor, Like when do you have
the time? I've seen nine so many times, and it
really never has to do with music. It's always I
matter speaking like.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
That old basketball that's one two. Yeah, when do you
have the time?
Speaker 20 (38:03):
Bro?
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Man?
Speaker 5 (38:05):
That's the beauty about living in North Carolina, dog Like
there's no rat race to run really, and so I
kind of you know, I teach twice a week. I
teach at Duke on Wednesdays and Wake Forest University on Thursdays,
and with outside of that, the rest of the week
is either comprised of doing stuff with basketball or just
making music, and so that's how I deal with it.
(38:25):
But I think the biggest thing between me and him
is what teaching has helped me do that too. Teaching
has helped me understand the next generation way more than
anybody else. Most people only deal with like seventeen eighteen
or eighteen nineteen, twenty year olds. That's like family members,
blah blah blah, and they use those people to like
put a blanket on how every eighteen year old acts me.
(38:47):
I've been looking at eighteen year olds and twenty two
year olds since what nineteen years now, this is my
nineteen year teacher. So an eighteen year old in two
thousand and six and an eighteen year old in twenty sixteen,
an eighteen year old twenty twenty five, them three different
eighteen year old of course, so I kind of look
at it that way. But the thing about me and
him is a lot of people don't think that this.
(39:10):
These two generations can't communicate well fact, and that's kind
of we debunked that with this. I mean even when
I first met him. That's how it's been. But we
kind of, you know, getting away as far as time. Yeah, man,
I just I'm just real focused la main No, I'm
just real focus on what I do, what I need
to do. I like serving the culture all the time.
(39:31):
And yeah, man, if I'm not helping the culture, then
I'm taking away from it. I feel like with hip
hop though, you know, young men like Ruben are trying
to do what y'all already did, So they got to
come to you for that sound.
Speaker 4 (39:45):
You can't treat that.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Man.
Speaker 5 (39:46):
I want to make an illmatic I want to make
something that sound like reasonable doubt.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
I want to make something that sound like the First
Little Brother. I like, you got to come to the
people who did that then.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
Yeah, man, I think it's each one's teach one, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 27 (39:57):
And you know they talk about you know, they say
it didn't exist but the Willie Lynch letter. But you
know what I'm saying, it's real common to what really happens.
You know what I'm saying from breaking generations apart and
you know, separating us. But you know, I had my father.
We didn't live in the same house, but you know
he always used to pick me up on weekends. So
I know how to take a person's counsel, you know
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what I mean. And I also too, is like I'm
a sponge, you know what I mean. So it's like
I'm willing to learn, you know what I mean where
I feel like you know, people, some people my age,
they'll be turned off and try to like, you know, cool,
but I think for me, it's just like I want
to know. And then also too, they were our age
when they were making the illmatics. They were our age
when they was making the reasonable doubts, you know what
I mean. They make it seem like now me being
(40:40):
twenty four and me being like having debt to my
lyrics or wisdom is like like whoa, you know what
I mean?
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Like, oh you you sound like oh, but it's like yeah,
it's that right, yeah, right.
Speaker 27 (40:52):
So it's like yo, like it's not uncommon, you know
what I mean, And it's only right that, you know,
you go tapping with the pioneers who've been there before,
because they the only ones they can tell you, you.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Know what I mean, You sitting and listen to somebody
who ain't never done it don't make no sense to me.
Speaker 6 (41:05):
Is there a place for lyricists in this game to
be at the top of the game right. And the
reason I say that is you mentioned you mentioned Jay,
you mentioned Nows. You know, you could talk Park, you
can talk Big. They were lyricists, but they were top
and people respected them as being the top. You can
look at outcasts and even TI like they were top.
But now it seems like that lyricists they put in
a box.
Speaker 5 (41:26):
You know, with our casts, man, we have to understand
what our casts. It took a couple of albums for
everybody to truly respect our cast.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
Correct.
Speaker 5 (41:34):
It wasn't from the South, I mean, Southern playerlistic Okay, okay,
you know what, having a source awards. Then at Aliens,
it wasn't until they got to a Quemini and stank
Conia that everybody was like, okay, you know what I mean.
But even with Big and JA, that's kind of where
hip hop was taking a turn. You know, before that
hip hop wasn't as commercial everywhere like whatever. But when
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Big and J came, especially when Jay came along them
DMX and now we're looking at hip hop more people
that don't look like us as listening to hip hop
way more than ever, you know what I mean. So
that's kind of what that was. But I think it's
and I'm gonna say this, man, I just love and
I remember, I know we all do. Remember when the
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culture was ours, we had our own validation points. If
you were on Rap City, you're on TV raps our
Senior Hall Show, Soul Trained, in the back of the
jet magazine, the albums, the singles they showed your house
in ebony if you were on those, the cover the
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sauces Essence magazine. If you were in the hair salons,
the barbershop, the music, if you went outside with your
homies after church and played whatever you was listening to
the car. If you were in all those places one time,
that's validation enough.
Speaker 4 (42:54):
You made it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (42:57):
And it's not trying to say I'm here. This is
one of the few last rites of patches, passages for
people y'all look like us. You know what I mean,
and you gotta come through here to be validated. We
need more of that, you know what I'm saying. Like
so when we say mainstream top of the game, this
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is part of the top of the game right.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
Here to me.
Speaker 27 (43:21):
And I also feel like when you talk about lyricists,
I also feel like when you talk about lyricists, you
got to know how to make a song, you know
what I mean. And I think that's the biggest thing
with this album that people want to see from me.
Like we were just talking about it where it was like,
what was the turning point for you? Where a lot
of people we did listening on Friday and everybody was like, yo,
you really like showed your songwriting, you know on here,
(43:43):
like you have choruses and it's like now you could
tell you a lot of time it was just me
in the studio, you know what I mean by myself.
Speaker 1 (43:49):
So I feel like a lot of the lyricists at
this time is still proving.
Speaker 27 (43:54):
They trying to rap on their records and they're not
giving nothing that people can relate to or people can feel.
It's always I'm just trying to show you I can
do this crazy word play, like nah, I want to
make records that you're going to play Monday through Friday,
when you on the way to work, when you on
the way to school, you getting ready, you know what
I mean, or even for the before the party, you
know what I'm saying, or at the party, you.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 27 (44:13):
And I think this album that was the example and
I feel like that's the only way lyricists can really
reach them heights is if they know how to make
a record.
Speaker 6 (44:19):
They gotta be taught, right, Yeah, if you watch Nas
and Nas and tell you, I don't know if it's tragedy,
but taught them how to make a song like this
is the components to make a song. I love Big Biggest,
probably my favorite artist ever, him and Jay, But I
don't know. If Puff wasn't there, I don't know. If
Big knew how to make those type of songs and
how to break it would have been partying ball. But
(44:39):
Puff taught them like, no, you need to make a
song like this. You need a hook, you need this.
And I feel like that's what's missing a lot of
times in this game.
Speaker 27 (44:46):
Kobe Bryant needed to Phil Jackson and that's my Phil
jack Dre Snoop needed Drake fact.
Speaker 3 (44:52):
What is the creative process? Like, you know what's making
this project?
Speaker 5 (44:56):
Making this project? Well, welcome home, Welcome home. I called
Ruben in a special place. Ruben came to me and said, man,
you seen the Lego movie. I said, I saw one
Forrad said yeah, for real and he said, man, I
ain't no Farrel was close to tribe like that that
he revered tribe called quest. I'm like, yeah, he said,
that's who I am. I come from that. I'm like yeah,
(45:18):
like I knew this whole time. I'm just letting him realize.
Like I you know, sometimes you have to step out
the way and let you figure it out on your own.
But then while we're recording it, we're recording, we thought
we was done. Rubu started following for somebody. Okay, okay,
all right, and so I'm coming in the studio. I'm
(45:39):
coming in the studio. You always got a kitchen where
they are, I'm coming in the studio.
Speaker 4 (45:43):
He on the phone. He facetied me on the phone.
Speaker 5 (45:47):
Comea at work, And I'm like, you know, but I
have to catch him where he is. So now all
my beats started to turn a certain way for him
to talk about what he wanted to talk about. That
he found somebody, and I thought that was amazing, which
something we talked about. There's nothing wrong with talking about
embracing black women on your project.
Speaker 1 (46:07):
Yeah, young men, young men don't do that a lot.
Speaker 27 (46:09):
And I think even the routine again, like right before,
like he said, he let me figure it out on
my own when I got when I first got my
deal with Rock and I was moving around, I was
in LA and then you know, I started to see
how weird the industry can get. And then you know
a lot of people was in my ear like you
need to make this type of record and this type
of record that don't necessarily fit who I am. So
(46:30):
when I watched the Lego movie, I was like, oh,
this is my tree. I come from the tree of tribe.
I come from the tree of Kanye West in his
early stages. I come from that tree. Okay, let me
navigate that and you know, study and really figure it out.
But then also too, my mom and like living in Charlotte.
You know my mom, she's an African mother. You know,
she's from Liberia. So she was always supportive of me.
(46:51):
But the industry started to change, money started to slow
up at a little bit, and she's like, yo, you
either got to go back to school or get a job.
And I was like, I ain't doing none of that,
you know what I mean. So our call Ninfe we
talked about it. He was like, yo, just come down
the Raleigh sleeping on sleeping on the couch for six months,
My routine was, I'll wake up, say my prayers, go
to the gym. By the time I get back from
the gym, I take a shower, cause we have a
shower at the studio, which is a blessing. Like there's
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a lot of artists can't say they have a mentor
who has a whole studio that you don't got to
pay for studio time.
Speaker 1 (47:20):
So I'm gonna take all advantage, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (47:22):
You don't know if you don't have to pay for
it yet.
Speaker 5 (47:35):
Nah.
Speaker 27 (47:35):
But then after that, you know, like he'll probably get
to the studio around twelve o'clock and we will sit there,
we'll discuss talk about you know, what movies remind us
of home, what music videos that we are favorite rap
music videos.
Speaker 1 (47:49):
Then were going through samples, you know what I mean.
Speaker 27 (47:51):
So the way the studio is set up, Knife got
his beat room, and then we got the recording room,
and then we got the living area where I used
to sleep at. But Ninth will come in around twelve clock.
We'll sit there, chop it up, maybe watch some basketball,
watch some videos. He finds some samples, he make the beat.
I'm sitting there. He gonna he's all right, I'm gonna
drop it to the big computer. I'm gonna run to
the other room, accept it on the big computer.
Speaker 1 (48:13):
Record.
Speaker 27 (48:14):
Then he gonna be in there watching basketball. Thirty minutes later,
I come back around. I think I got something. I
got some Yeah, and then he'd come in there, hear
it and then do what he does.
Speaker 4 (48:23):
As a producer and there what made you want to
work with him?
Speaker 5 (48:25):
No, because I mean ninth, Because I'm sure it's a
million artists that come to you, especially.
Speaker 6 (48:32):
I want to get with you.
Speaker 4 (48:33):
I want to do Okay.
Speaker 5 (48:35):
So I was on tour in Germany and had the
day off and somebody on I was doing to ask
the ninth on Twitter, and somebody said to me, So,
I ain't got no question.
Speaker 4 (48:46):
It's this kid you need to listen to. I have
no dog in this fight. I don't know this. I
don't know this kid. And usually you know, I know
how it goes.
Speaker 5 (48:55):
Some people want trying to get their family Mamazona.
Speaker 4 (48:59):
But he did not know the dude was from Oko
and I never had been open.
Speaker 1 (49:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (49:04):
I was thirteen at the thirteen, and he sent me
the Lincoln. I listened to it. I was like, man,
and I think one of the rhymes, he said somethingbout
Coolgie Rapp and I'm like, hold on, bro, like this,
you're thirteen years old. So then I shot him an
inboxes on Twitter and I said, yo is this?
Speaker 4 (49:20):
He's like, yeah, how you doing?
Speaker 25 (49:21):
Man?
Speaker 5 (49:22):
And I was like, hey, what's your parents like? And
so he put his mom on and I was like,
I'll be home in a couple of weeks. I got home,
they showed up with him and his mom showed up
at my studio. I wrapped him up. He's about this tall,
and I said, man, you want something to eat?
Speaker 4 (49:39):
What you say?
Speaker 1 (49:41):
I just want some pop tarts, some strawberry milk, and
some pizza. Thirteen year old diet.
Speaker 4 (49:46):
Thirteen year old diet.
Speaker 1 (49:47):
Literally.
Speaker 5 (49:48):
But it kind of went from there. And the first
song we did was a song called Extraterrestrial. And I
looked at my president Cab, my man cash, I said, mayheir.
I said, man, he ain't breathing. He's just rapping. He's
not breathing.
Speaker 4 (50:00):
And he did.
Speaker 27 (50:01):
You did nine songs that weekend, three days. And later
it may be on a machine that I had never
touched before that it was different.
Speaker 1 (50:08):
What was it that Lego movie?
Speaker 6 (50:10):
No beforehand. So what put you on the tribe and
couji rap in that era of music, because that's to
see you playing fight in a biopicon. Oh yeah about
I would love to. I would love to.
Speaker 27 (50:23):
So my father, you know again, both my parents are
from West Africa, Iberia, and when he came to the States,
he lived in New York for a little bit, and
he moved to North Carolina and met my mom, who
my mom, So to give a little bit of background,
like you're talking, I got to ask you. Yeah, I'm
(50:44):
pretty probably I got yeah, I probably got to ask him.
But he went from my My dad experienced the Library
and Civil War in the nineties, so he was a
refugee came to America still very young, while my mom
she got here when she was sixteen and lived in
the d n V before moving to Charlotte. Her dad
fought in the war, passed away in the war, all
of that. But when he came down a lot of
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he said, in Africa they used to listen to a
lot of Tupac and Biggie during the war, and so
when he had when they had me, granted they had
like separated when I was born. They my dad always
used to pick me up on the weekends, and he
used to have a blue Cadillac and he'll drive me
around playing all lives on me, Ready to die, Blueprint,
get rich of trying. So I that was the way
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me and my dad bonded when I was four years old.
So then by the time I was able to write.
I wrote my first rap when I was five years old,
and so I already had a little bit of knowledge.
And my dad gifted me late Registration when I was
six seven years old. So when those little moments were
like rabbit holes for me, because then by the time
(51:47):
I was like ten eleven, YouTube was available. So now
I'm looking up okay, late Registration, Okay, Blueprint Okay, reasonable
doubt Okay, then the recommended nas ill Madic. Then it's like,
oh Coogi rap, It's like oh Tribe call Quest, Midnight Marauders.
I just started going down a rabbit hole and just
became like super like just like floored with everything, you
(52:09):
know what I mean. So by the time I met Knife,
I was already like so knee deep into like what
I liked. And then also too around the same time
I was eleven twelve years old, Joey badass started emerging
on the scene, you know what I mean, and you
know what he was doing at the time, so you know,
I was just like it was Florida and I just
started to do my deep doves.
Speaker 5 (52:28):
I wanted to ask you what artists I'm glad you said, Joey,
because what artists I guess for you from your generation
reminded you of.
Speaker 27 (52:34):
That obviously, Joey, Kendrick, Lamar Cole, Earl Sweatshirt in the
early in the early times, still still to this time.
Speaker 1 (52:46):
I was big on them, like super early, you.
Speaker 27 (52:48):
Know what I mean, the wallets, like all of them,
like that that era, the blog era was like where
like I really died deep into like who they were.
Speaker 1 (52:56):
Those were like the ones who raised me.
Speaker 27 (52:58):
Outside of like the nineties, I want to see more
peop inspired by what ROBERTA.
Speaker 4 (53:01):
Flack and Donnie had to wait talking about. It's the feeling.
It's called the feeling. It's called the.
Speaker 5 (53:07):
Feeling, and that's where we try to do on this album.
It's create a feeling. It's like a lot of a
lot of music lacks that particular euphoric. The thing about
di Angelo man and which a lot of us was
raising the church. That feeling is not in music now,
and it doesn't mean it can't be there. Hip hop
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and the feeling has got separated over time, which it
used to be like this because in the nineties hip
hop has samples in them that was the feeling, no
matter what the subject matter was on the top in fact,
so I think this just has to you know, that's
got that feel good man, Nothing wrong with that. And
then it's also how do you keep people's legacies alive?
Speaker 18 (53:48):
Right?
Speaker 4 (53:48):
Because I swear.
Speaker 5 (53:49):
Since the Angelo died, you can just be out and
you'll hear somebody humming the d'angels Like I'm talking about humming.
Speaker 4 (53:55):
I'm not talking about this, you hear I've been around
people and they just.
Speaker 18 (54:00):
YO.
Speaker 27 (54:00):
Last night, I was at the Odell show and as
soon as he got off, they played brown shots.
Speaker 5 (54:05):
He said, old deals and yeah, for sure another one.
But my thing is, where is that when these people
are here, Like, how do you keep that alive? Is
it urban ac radio? Like what is it twelve o'clock
throwback mixed?
Speaker 17 (54:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (54:18):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (54:19):
I mean, you know that's a that's a corporate conversation.
Speaker 25 (54:21):
Man.
Speaker 4 (54:21):
We can't hand on it.
Speaker 26 (54:22):
But we can't talk no.
Speaker 4 (54:24):
I mean, I'm saying, man, like, we got to bring
dj V.
Speaker 5 (54:29):
We have to bring DJ's were the spokesman for the hood,
man or for black people on what was good and
what was not. Everybody ain't good, no right, just because
you made it, it ain't everybody's.
Speaker 17 (54:43):
No.
Speaker 5 (54:44):
Music is subjective, alight, cool. Everybody's DJs was supposed to
be the ones that told us what was good and
what was not. We trusted the dj It's been like
that since the beginning of hip hop, and so that's
what we need, man, And we can't. We can't get
a certain age and just say, man, I don't want
to hear that old stuff anymore. Other cultures don't do that, bro.
(55:06):
They don't take a special ed and throw them to
the back burner. Whoever the country version of Special Led is,
whoever the country version of Big Daddy Kane is, they
don't throw them to the back burner. We need to
make sure our legends are great and revered, just like
they do in the Grand Old Opera in Nashville. On
any other genre, the Rolling Stone is still rocking because
(55:28):
people are still going for us. It's out with the
old end, with the new that's a gene. That's the
thing about black people, because we're so creative. We just
we just onto the neck so fast. We cannot abandon
who got us here and who continues to still do music.
Speaker 4 (55:44):
It's up to us. We cannot wait on anybody else
to do it but us.
Speaker 1 (55:47):
BRO and they starting.
Speaker 6 (55:49):
They're starting with the stations because growing up, no matter
what market you and it was always a classic rock station.
We're always going to have that. And we're starting to
get that now we are with you know, eighties and
nineties or you know, hip hop stations and things like that.
Speaker 5 (56:03):
But the reality all urban adult contemporary stations have to
do is just update the playlist like old school now
is what we came up on in the nineties and
the early two thousands.
Speaker 4 (56:11):
But they still playing and they should, but they playing
earth Wind and Fire and yeah.
Speaker 1 (56:15):
Still That's what.
Speaker 4 (56:16):
I'm glad that we do.
Speaker 7 (56:18):
On Fridays, we do have pasts with Nowlog because Nahlo
Simona's put me on to you like that. She's how
I found you in O'Dell and a lot of other
artists that she has put me on with. So the
DJ's definitely you know, you got DJs with good hairs. Man,
it's like, look, you put your into the music and
these are the things that you feel are like kind
of rare.
Speaker 3 (56:37):
She putting them out there every Friday. Like I said,
she put me on you and a lot of other people.
Speaker 27 (56:41):
That I listen to you now, So you know, y'all
do a great job of that just having her on
Friday doing the past the ocs. And I think it
needs to be more because even like envy'all just saw
a video where you you were the first person to
play hit them.
Speaker 1 (56:52):
Up, you know what I mean, And I feel like
that's just don't get you say that nobody else will
go against accepted it to.
Speaker 6 (57:10):
And I tell you said, I got it from shot
money Excel. I used to put a lot and he
gave it to me, left the study, gave it to
his first Did you played?
Speaker 1 (57:16):
Because I heard it was dirty, Harry, that definitely was.
Speaker 27 (57:21):
Dirty dirty, but not like real talk, Like I just
feel like, you know you like again, she doesn't incredibly
with past the OX, but I feel like, you know,
we need to honor the young DJs and you know,
allowed him to have that space because you know they're
going to be the ones putting us on the music now,
you know what I mean, Just like you were a
(57:41):
who kid? You know, clue like you know, it's it
needs to continue again, each one, teach one, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 5 (57:47):
So it's wild because now when you watch NF you know,
NFL games, you watch NBA games, when they go to commercial,
they playing like nothing but the g thing and Award Tour.
And I remember when Jalen Rose was, you know, the
NBA a commentator like I was. I wonder if Jalen
Rose got influence on what they playing when they go
to commercial, because they played Who Got the Props? One
(58:07):
day and I was like, wait a minute, bro, But
that's we are. I think Jimmy Fallon is a prime
example of where we are in the time continuing because
to have the be the Tonight Show hosts and your
band be the.
Speaker 4 (58:21):
Roots tells you everything.
Speaker 5 (58:23):
And he always says Black Thought's my favorite rapper, Tyler
Qualley is my second favorite rapper, and these were fifty
years old.
Speaker 4 (58:29):
So I mean, I think we just need to do
more of that. Man. We just cannot abandoned our classics
like that. Yeah, I agree. If you don't have to
answer this, if you don't want to Okay, made the
Lord watch.
Speaker 5 (58:39):
Okay, everybody wanted to know why knife One didn't participate
in the Little Brother document That's a long story. I
don't think we got that kind of time. But I
will say this man you talk about in the documentary, Yes, yeah,
that's a long story. But I will say this, and
sometimes people think I say something political reasons.
Speaker 4 (58:55):
Y'all watched me for years. Both of y'all have watched
me for years.
Speaker 5 (58:59):
I have never been a person to go online and
in public to try not to say that they did
that to me, but to deface and talk negative about
another man or woman. That's never been my things. Fact,
and that's their feeling. That's how they respect, and you
(59:20):
have to respect how they feel about everything or whatever.
But as far as their success, as far as that
we being a part of each other's history, I cannot
change that at all. Little Brother has our own children,
Kendrick Drake, Fat Cole, Big Sean Wiley, Ruben Vincent. We
got our own children right again, it's a story behind it,
(59:42):
but that's I believe in family business. Brow This is
how I was raised, that's how I am. And you
know we're at the age now I'm fifty years old. Bro,
y'all know how this goes.
Speaker 25 (59:53):
Man.
Speaker 5 (59:53):
We lose people every day, Bro, We're losing family members. Listen,
God bless them, brothers. Man, keep doing what they're doing.
I think they are on tour right now. They got shows,
They're still doing shows. Fonte is incredibly talented, although we
may have disagreements or whatever, incredibly talented exactly.
Speaker 4 (01:00:13):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (01:00:13):
I've seen Pogo from being one artist, one rapper, to
another rapper to the level that he is without without know,
without know Fante cole may will not be a Drake.
Fact Drake Drake completely one thousand percent. He says it
a million times, studied him, revered him, imitated him. Everything
(01:00:35):
we know about Drake rapping and singing is Fante Coleman Buddenden,
Fante Coman and but as my man. Yeah, but that again,
going back and listen, man, like that's how it is
with me. I got to keep moving, man. I didn't
see the documentary at all. I never watched it. I've
heard about it from everybody. But I got to keep
(01:00:58):
them moving, man. I cannot stay in that. We don't
have the time on this earth to stay in that space.
Speaker 4 (01:01:05):
I got work to do.
Speaker 5 (01:01:06):
This is my work now, I got other work to
do as well as my label Jammler.
Speaker 4 (01:01:11):
That's what it is.
Speaker 5 (01:01:12):
But again, saluting brothers man. God bless them brothers man.
That's how they feel to have they had the right
to express it. I didn't go online and say anything
about it. When it came out, I heard everything about it.
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (01:01:23):
Difference of opinion and we move on.
Speaker 5 (01:01:25):
What message are you too trying to send back to
the culture with welcome home that the feeling is not lost.
You can continue to give the feeling and there's not
a division between a generation. We are twenty five years apart.
This can work and music can be made with this.
That's the biggest thing I want to get across, man.
Speaker 27 (01:01:46):
And I think for me, whether you are a NBA
young Boy, whether you are a Ruben Vincent, whether you
are a any other name that I can name right now,
show up as yourself, show up as your self and
perform at a high level. I ain't rapping to just
drive a Honda a Cord bro you know what I mean. Like,
but I'm gonna do it as myself. I ain't here
(01:02:08):
to compromise, none of that. But I am gonna be
one of the greatest of my generation. I'm gonna say
that that's just a favor, you know what I mean,
And I'm gonna do it being one hundred percent Ruben Vincent.
Speaker 1 (01:02:18):
I'm always Red Africa, I'm always Rep.
Speaker 27 (01:02:21):
Charlotte, and I'm always Rep showing up as yourself and
that's exactly what this album is about.
Speaker 6 (01:02:25):
Hey, Ruben Vincent, ninth Wonder We Appreciate You Brothers album
comes out this Friday.
Speaker 4 (01:02:31):
Is the Breakfast Club?
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Warning, everybody is DJ Envy, Jesse, Hilary, Charlamagne to God.
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Somebody that knows somebody detail.
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I'm a long guard that knows a little bit about everything.
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She'd be having the latest on you.
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The latest with Lauren la rose up.
Speaker 5 (01:02:57):
Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details, sometimes you
have a little everything.
Speaker 4 (01:03:00):
Well, it's the leader.
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They're on the breakfast clubs.
Speaker 24 (01:03:02):
Talk to me now out of this whole big NBA
Fred news that has been breaking over the last twenty
four hours. There's been some interesting conversations coming out of it.
So right now, what's happening is there are a ton
of people that feel like this is a political thing,
that this is Trump getting back at the NBA for
all of the civil rights activism that they did some
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years ago.
Speaker 11 (01:03:24):
One of the people who believe that is Steven A. Smith.
Let's say a listen to Stephen A on First Hit.
Speaker 1 (01:03:29):
How many times have I said Trump is coming? He's coming.
I'm gonna say it on national television again.
Speaker 28 (01:03:34):
Bad Bunny is performing at the Super Bowl and all
of a sudden you hear in Ice is gonna be
there looking to engage in mass deportations. Remember, Trump has
a long, long history connected to the world of sports
because he had those casinos.
Speaker 1 (01:03:47):
Way do you think folks wire coming after time?
Speaker 28 (01:03:50):
Don't be surprised that the WNBA is next, because when
you've got all of these protests that have been going
out there and people that have been protesting against.
Speaker 1 (01:03:58):
Them and what have you, this man it's coming.
Speaker 28 (01:04:00):
Anybody that has been around him from the sports leagues
and the positions that people have taken, they are not
surprised at what's going on today. Are watching a press
conference with the director of the FBI.
Speaker 4 (01:04:13):
Tell me when we've seen that.
Speaker 5 (01:04:15):
Why why can't we just let things play out? Like,
you know, I'm not saying Stephen A is wrong. I
just think that one of our biggest problems is, you know,
we don't let things play out, like we all have
to talk about what we think and add our conspiracies
to things and hot takes like bad Bunny's not committing
the crime, and what the what is the NBA doing?
And I don't even know if the NBA players committed
the crime, but it seems like they're connected at least
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to a crime.
Speaker 4 (01:04:38):
But what what is the NBA got going on?
Speaker 6 (01:04:40):
But not only that, didn't they say they've been they've
been actually watching them since like twenty nineteen, Yes, Trump
was out of office and they were still watching them.
Speaker 1 (01:04:49):
So you know what I mean, it's just weird to say.
Speaker 4 (01:04:51):
That, what have the w NBA players done?
Speaker 5 (01:04:53):
Like you know, always like like like I always say,
you know, you can't go after somebody if they don't
they're not giving you anything, you know, to go after
them for.
Speaker 24 (01:05:02):
True, And I will say too, there's outside of just
a press conference that happened yesterday, there's actual like, there's
documents around this indictment, so you can go in and
read what led to what and why we're here. But
the NBA players are going to push back too, so
we have to wait to hear what their defenses will be.
Like if it's gonna play out, it's gonna take some
months for all the all of this to unfold.
Speaker 11 (01:05:21):
Now, another real quick is Trump petty?
Speaker 4 (01:05:24):
Yes it is Trump on a revenge tour.
Speaker 5 (01:05:26):
Yes, but what that got to do with some of
these sports leagues are bad bunny performing at the Super Bowl?
Speaker 25 (01:05:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 22 (01:05:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 24 (01:05:33):
Now, another person who spoke out about this with Shaq.
Shaq was on inside the NBA and he said that
he is ashamed.
Speaker 18 (01:05:41):
Let's take a listen, unload the letter of the law
when it comes to gambling in sports gambling that I
don't want to sit up here like I'm some perfect
guy like I every now and then when I go
to Vegas, I'll play some crap. Never gambled at anybody's house.
Don't know anything about pokers. I don't know what they're
talking about. When it comes to the to the Chauncy wame.
But I know Chauncey. I know Damon very well, play
with Damon's I don't want to sit up here, but
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I'm ashamed that that those guys will put their families
and their careers in jeopardy. That that's all saying in
the hood. All money ain't good money. So if you're
making nine million dollars and you're dealing a certain thing,
like how much more do you need? Especially if you
know you get caught, you can do jail time, lose
your career.
Speaker 1 (01:06:18):
They dropped the ball.
Speaker 5 (01:06:20):
See once again, when I hear Shaq talk like that,
I think the same thing. Why can't we just let play,
let things play out like it? It just makes me
believe they know something because they're not even giving them
the benefit of the doubt.
Speaker 4 (01:06:31):
Just I'm ashamed of them. They put their families in jeopardy.
Speaker 5 (01:06:34):
You're right, but I thought I thought it was I
thought it was innocent and they'll proven guilty.
Speaker 11 (01:06:38):
Which is what they said most of the times at
the press conference as well.
Speaker 1 (01:06:41):
It's supposed to be innocent and to proven guilty.
Speaker 6 (01:06:43):
But you know, the sad thing about it is, once
something gets depressed, once there's an indictment, whether it's right
or wrong, you start to lose everything, like immediately the
NBA said they suspended Chauncey Billips, suspended Rosia immediately.
Speaker 4 (01:06:54):
Now understand that, though I.
Speaker 1 (01:06:55):
Don't because unless there's proof to say that they are wrong.
Speaker 6 (01:06:58):
Because let's say they did apps litally positively nothing wrong,
nothing at all. I lose my job, I lose my sponsorship,
I lose my endorsements, and I really did nothing wrong.
Speaker 24 (01:07:07):
I don't know, but any indictment though in the documents,
I was mentioning that the you know, the government does
have to like say here is what led us here.
So like they say that they have text messages of
you know, different things happening, and like all of this
is not coming from anywhere, and that's.
Speaker 6 (01:07:22):
What you want could explained something differently, that's how you
got awake, because it's not right.
Speaker 11 (01:07:27):
Now that's appearing it two.
Speaker 24 (01:07:28):
But I will say, we thought a lot was happening
with Diddy in the beginning of his federal and his
federal case, right, and then we got in court.
Speaker 5 (01:07:35):
This is what y'all missing about the Chauncey Terry thing.
They were actually arrested in charge. If you're arrested in charge,
I can see why the corporation would suspend you.
Speaker 6 (01:07:44):
But the sad thing about it is when you're arrested
in charge, you could be arrested in charge falsely, you
know what I mean? And you and I both know
what Like Chauncey Bullups, let's say they suspended him, there's
gonna be another coaching here that takes his job right,
and that the coach if he starts doing a job,
Charles ain't getting that job back, what I'm saying. And
he might know who's five seven million dollars a year
and then he.
Speaker 4 (01:08:03):
Comes back and be like, oh, not guilty.
Speaker 1 (01:08:04):
Sorry.
Speaker 5 (01:08:05):
If he's not guilty, he'll probably still get paid his
contract though, because there's no moral clause.
Speaker 4 (01:08:10):
That by lady, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 24 (01:08:11):
Well, look, they got a lot of claims in this indictment,
and again it'll take some time, but it'll all play
out and we'll see what irons out is. Uh, you
know what the court believes is fact and not fact
and kind of what happens from there.
Speaker 6 (01:08:22):
But also I think we need to have conversations. I
think a lot of people don't know that those backyard
poker games are legal. I think most people don't know
that I didn't know that, See I I don't think
most people do. I don't play pocals, so it's not
in my world, but most people don't know that that's illegal.
Speaker 1 (01:08:36):
Really, no boast.
Speaker 3 (01:08:37):
You only supposed to play pogam in Causino because it's taxes.
Speaker 1 (01:08:41):
Is you know you can you can know people are
not getting over on you with false.
Speaker 24 (01:08:44):
Calls and stuff y'all to the FEDS are saying that
they have text messages and certain things, and they have
actual proof. So if I think people are just depending
on what they what they have right now, and it's
a short maybe it's it's too fast to say certain things,
but they're going off what they have right now.
Speaker 4 (01:08:58):
But I know you don't play Polgrim, but do you
play polkem oh?
Speaker 1 (01:09:03):
We played that last night?
Speaker 3 (01:09:04):
Man Oh, okay, some Pokemon.
Speaker 1 (01:09:07):
That's why.
Speaker 4 (01:09:13):
After the new Generation making said he a Pokemon.
Speaker 24 (01:09:19):
As I did want to take some time to shout
out Asia Wilson. I know you're headed down there. Charlomagne.
She last night was inducted into the Athletic Hall of
Fame in South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (01:09:29):
Congratulation yes, and she.
Speaker 24 (01:09:32):
Gave an amazing speech as she was inducted let's take
a listen to that real quick.
Speaker 6 (01:09:37):
Parents, you've been my.
Speaker 4 (01:09:39):
Big supporters since stay one.
Speaker 1 (01:09:44):
You can't be grounded throughout. So my boyfriend.
Speaker 4 (01:09:59):
W school support home.
Speaker 21 (01:10:08):
So you weren't there for the young Asia, but there
your support is always a sposo. When I seen your stands,
where did they most to know the back of their jerseys?
I hope they c's possible, that's dope.
Speaker 5 (01:10:25):
Get in a conversation with Asia and Asia Wilson and
down Staley to day at the Colonial Life from Rina
at four point thirty pm. And then after that it's
an exhibition game between Anderson South Carolina. So I hope
you got your tickets to see yall this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (01:10:38):
Don't dope though?
Speaker 3 (01:10:38):
All right, No, what is my girl Monica's birthday?
Speaker 7 (01:10:41):
Okay, you'll already know, and I want to hear some Monica,
but I want to do the symmetrics and stuff. Look,
did y'all know that Monica was a Motician. She not
only a singer, but she a Motician at her uncle's
freed home.
Speaker 3 (01:10:51):
I had been yeah, now like like now recently, Yes,
that she takes her career very serious. Not only is
she a singer and all that you know ain't on
tour and everything songwriter, but she's also.
Speaker 4 (01:11:03):
A mortician Monica, Monica, kill.
Speaker 24 (01:11:06):
You and do the Body, kill You and yeah, and
we hear and make up and everything will be laid
because she's always.
Speaker 11 (01:11:15):
About it before. It's her family business.
Speaker 1 (01:11:17):
Yes, wow, that is.
Speaker 4 (01:11:18):
Crazy that Gunaku kill you and do the Body?
Speaker 5 (01:11:21):
What crazy is Lauren been trying to look like Brandy
and Monica all week and she's been looking like a
combination of Brandy, Monica and Jajah Binks.
Speaker 4 (01:11:29):
That's why I've been calling her Brandy kok Binks. That's
her alias Brandon cood Binks.
Speaker 3 (01:11:33):
That is so messed up.
Speaker 1 (01:11:34):
The God don't even do that.
Speaker 11 (01:11:36):
God don't like ugly.
Speaker 3 (01:11:37):
Okay, what's your favorite Monica song?
Speaker 11 (01:11:39):
Probably before you walk out of My Life?
Speaker 7 (01:11:41):
Or Angela Mana so I got, I got four of him,
I got don't take it personal?
Speaker 3 (01:11:45):
Why I love you so much? For you I will
and before you walk out of my life?
Speaker 7 (01:11:49):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know if one of the days
the boys mine, no, just one of them days is
don't take a personal.
Speaker 3 (01:11:55):
That's should I know, that's what we should go on.
We should go on don't take a personal just one
of them days.
Speaker 4 (01:12:01):
Keep it up. There't nothing like that. Never meant to
cause you no pain, walk out. My life hit so hard,
all right, Never meant to call you no pain.
Speaker 11 (01:12:12):
You're not here.
Speaker 3 (01:12:14):
Just one of make things right, only one of.
Speaker 4 (01:12:17):
Me things wrong. Okay, that's flap. That's all right.
Speaker 3 (01:12:23):
Happy birthday Monica.
Speaker 1 (01:12:25):
All right, Well let's get into her joint.
Speaker 22 (01:12:26):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:12:26):
That was the latest with Lauren. When we come back,
Charlamagne's opening up the phone lines.
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Right, yes, sir, it's the people's donkey calls right now.
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Speaker 4 (01:12:54):
Morning. Good KP Mansfield, KP. Who you want to get
the biggest e hard to brother. I want to give
it to the NBA.
Speaker 13 (01:13:01):
I wasn't gonna give it to the Clefland Cavaliers, but
I'm gonna just give it to the NBA everybody that
I was trying not to score them points and blowing
everybody part less, say wrong, we need our money back.
Speaker 5 (01:13:12):
That's gonna be funny when you were doing a class
action lawsuit against NBA and the NBA players.
Speaker 1 (01:13:18):
In the NBA.
Speaker 6 (01:13:19):
But I wonder about that, like if I bet money
on a game, right, and he threw the game on purpose,
how do you make that hole for people?
Speaker 13 (01:13:26):
You know, I think we think my group, thank Gilbert Arena,
snitched on everybody.
Speaker 4 (01:13:30):
Well, Gilbert is kind of leaning into that a little
bit from what I saw yesterday.
Speaker 13 (01:13:34):
Right, We we think we think he snitched on everybody,
and we need to see as matter of fact, give
him donk here to day.
Speaker 5 (01:13:39):
I think everybody needs to stop thinking and just let
everybody have their day in court.
Speaker 4 (01:13:44):
Yeah, absolutely, they should have.
Speaker 13 (01:13:45):
Absolutely, well Rose there, we know he was really throwing
them games, because.
Speaker 4 (01:13:49):
Yeah, I remember that video from him.
Speaker 5 (01:13:51):
I was like, what twenty twenty three, good morning, who's
this Adrian piece?
Speaker 4 (01:13:57):
Adrian? Who you want to get the biggest he hart too?
Speaker 17 (01:13:59):
I have to get the big he.
Speaker 15 (01:14:00):
Haw to my son, Jacob, my nine year old son.
Speaker 4 (01:14:03):
Damn, what do you do?
Speaker 17 (01:14:06):
Because I've been asking him.
Speaker 15 (01:14:08):
For a month what he wanted to be for Halloween
and he didn't know. And then now this morning he
decides that he knows what he wants to be. And
now it's like pull his teeth hoping that the costume
will calms by Halloween.
Speaker 4 (01:14:20):
What does he want to be?
Speaker 15 (01:14:21):
On top of that, he wants to be from inflatable aliens.
Speaker 6 (01:14:25):
Lord, the flavorable airliens are easy to get. You could
go to Spirits or any of those.
Speaker 1 (01:14:31):
They have that.
Speaker 6 (01:14:31):
Even I think Target has that because my kid was
the last year, my daughter did the same thing to me.
She wanted to be a yellow cab bear and they
ain't got that spirit, so I had to order it
next day Amazon.
Speaker 4 (01:14:41):
Damn.
Speaker 17 (01:14:41):
Yeah, so Amazon, it might come after Halloween.
Speaker 15 (01:14:48):
I don't go to Target anymore.
Speaker 3 (01:14:49):
Yeah, Amazon is backed up. It's backed up.
Speaker 4 (01:14:52):
So listen, nobody's going to judge you if you see
the talking matter fact.
Speaker 5 (01:14:58):
Listen, just put on a high lloween costumes so nobody
knows this, you web mask.
Speaker 4 (01:15:04):
You might have to just go there.
Speaker 1 (01:15:05):
Nobody gonna say no. Just just sneaking it right in
and now just get that one thing to promise.
Speaker 4 (01:15:08):
You we won't tell to Mika Mallory. I promise you
you won't turn. I promise you won't tell Jamal Brown.
Speaker 5 (01:15:14):
It's your guys, all right, stick to your conviction, all right,
but we're not judging.
Speaker 17 (01:15:21):
I appreciate y'all.
Speaker 12 (01:15:22):
Oh yeah, and also he lost his school book, so
he's done too much.
Speaker 1 (01:15:26):
You want me damn?
Speaker 5 (01:15:28):
Well, maybe you don't deserve a Halloween pressent. Maybe that's
your excuse. No, you lost your book, you don't get Halloween.
Speaker 3 (01:15:32):
Costume, Halloween president.
Speaker 4 (01:15:35):
All right, thank you, thank you for calling.
Speaker 13 (01:15:37):
All Right, good morning.
Speaker 4 (01:15:39):
Who's this?
Speaker 17 (01:15:40):
Hey? This is Alida, Good morning, he.
Speaker 4 (01:15:42):
Said, Lalita. Yeah, hey, you little lada who want to
get the biggest He.
Speaker 17 (01:15:46):
All to the entire state administration. Wow, athletic department.
Speaker 1 (01:15:53):
What do you do?
Speaker 26 (01:15:54):
What they do?
Speaker 17 (01:15:55):
They are making no for sake homecoming miserable and just
just they're doing too much. They're doing too much this year.
They have senced off the entire campus. They want whole
coming just to be boring. You have to get your tickets.
Then today you got to get your wristbands, because if
you don't have a risk band, you can't do the tailgating.
(01:16:18):
They want the tailgating to be over by eight pm
and the grills and music to be off by six pm.
Speaker 4 (01:16:25):
Why are they doing this? Is it for security reasons?
Speaker 17 (01:16:28):
Honestly, what we've seen is because the Michael Vick, and.
Speaker 1 (01:16:32):
That's exactly what it is.
Speaker 6 (01:16:34):
Norfolk State Home big in years, but now that they
got Mike Vick, everybody outside of just Alum want to come.
Speaker 1 (01:16:41):
So I guess they're trying to try to make it
keep your schedule.
Speaker 4 (01:16:45):
I mean, it's wrong with that.
Speaker 17 (01:16:46):
If you try to keep it organized, you don't make
you don't mean you don't make one person change your
entire relationship.
Speaker 4 (01:16:55):
Well maybe the.
Speaker 17 (01:16:56):
Fans have been there before before Mike Vick.
Speaker 5 (01:16:58):
Right, Yeah, if it's crazy, what if it's times the
size that that it usually is, it is gonna be
crazy with no order.
Speaker 17 (01:17:05):
It's always it's last year for say, ahead of a
thirty thousand without might.
Speaker 1 (01:17:12):
Last year, it's gonna be done. It's gonna be double
at this year. And you know there's Old Dominion homecoming
and Hampton home coming. So the seven five seven Virginia
State and State, so this is gonna be flooded.
Speaker 6 (01:17:24):
The whole seven five seven, That say, the four but
the who seven five seven is gonna be flooded with people,
so that I guess they're trying to control it because
it's police gonna be spread then on in that seven
five seven this weekend.
Speaker 17 (01:17:34):
Man, the police has been crazy since you've got there.
And that's no problem, no problem. But it's like you're
just making an inconvenience for people. You know, you have
to get your tickets and then now you have to
go and get your your risk bands.
Speaker 4 (01:17:47):
Well that's right, you know, that's that's structure.
Speaker 1 (01:17:50):
I see what happened.
Speaker 4 (01:17:51):
Yeah, that's structure and good.
Speaker 13 (01:17:53):
I don't know how deep you posted, all right?
Speaker 4 (01:17:56):
And why do people act like they don't hold these
events just to sit in traffic?
Speaker 5 (01:17:59):
That's what y'all go to, y'all y'all going is to
be able to text everybody be like, boy, it's crazy
out here.
Speaker 4 (01:18:03):
We can't even move.
Speaker 8 (01:18:04):
No.
Speaker 4 (01:18:07):
Yeah, one more personal, Yes, good morning. Who's this?
Speaker 12 (01:18:10):
Hey?
Speaker 25 (01:18:11):
It's a girl Tea from Chelston, South Carolina.
Speaker 4 (01:18:14):
Hey, what's up? Home? Team? Who you want to get
the biggest ya haut team?
Speaker 25 (01:18:17):
I want to give it to all Americans. Right now
we are literally setting back you letting the government play
with us if they're going to shut down. I feel
like we need to shut down as well. Stop going
to work, stop paying bills is getting ridiculous, premiums are
going up and pay wages aren't going up. I feel
like we are the people have the power, and when
we open our eyes and realize that the gobl rate
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won't have no nothing to do a back to submit
to us. That's just how I feel about it.
Speaker 5 (01:18:44):
I do feel like we're past the point of political
solutions and it's going to take some type of national
strike in order to really, really, really really get this
government to act right I do.
Speaker 4 (01:18:54):
I am starting to feel.
Speaker 25 (01:18:55):
Like that, yes, like it's our everyday American paycheck that
keeps them in power, that keeps their bank account fuls.
If we as Americans literally saying hey, we are not
going to work, they will panic, they will go crazy.
Speaker 17 (01:19:11):
Literally.
Speaker 5 (01:19:12):
I think we got to start caring about the Constitution
the way we care about pop culture, because I think
about like the uproar.
Speaker 4 (01:19:18):
There was when Jimmy Kimmel got removed.
Speaker 5 (01:19:20):
And then everybody decided they was going to cancel their
Disney subscriptions, and then you know, the Disney stock prices
pummelted and all of a Sudden. Disney was like, oh nope,
you got to put them back on air. So maybe
we got to start caring about the Constitution and things
like healthcare and you know, government shut down. We gotta
start caring about things like that the way we care
about pop culture.
Speaker 17 (01:19:39):
Yes, we definitely do.
Speaker 7 (01:19:41):
Thank you guys.
Speaker 17 (01:19:42):
I have a great mourning you too.
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That's right now when we come back, Charlamne. Who we got,
We got Lanny smith.
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Man Landy Smith.
Speaker 5 (01:20:01):
Landy Smith is the founder of Actively Black clothing line.
I love Actively Black Clothing. They had a fashion show
during New York Fashion Week and they had so many
amazing black luminarias walk that fashion show. And he's gonna
have some of them in here today with us this morning.
He's got South Carolina's own CEA, Sir Williams. He's got
Frederica Newton, the wife of Huey P. Newton and chairman
(01:20:24):
Fred Hampton Junior.
Speaker 4 (01:20:26):
Fred Hampton Son will be joining us.
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All right, we'll get into that next. It don't move.
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Morning.
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Everybody is d j n V.
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Just larrys Charlamage the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.
Loni Wolves is here as well. We got some special
guests joining us this morning. Yes, indeed, we have a
Landy Smith here. Good morning, good morning, good morning. We
have ce Sir Williams, good morning, good morning. We have
Frederica Newton, good morning. And we have Fred Hampton Jr.
Speaker 1 (01:20:51):
Good morning. How y'all feeling this morning?
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Man?
Speaker 29 (01:20:54):
Were blessed man Black and blessed man blessed Black and
Holly favor. Yes, Sir Landy, why we all gathered here
today with all these amazing people?
Speaker 4 (01:21:01):
Brother man.
Speaker 29 (01:21:01):
We we had a New York Fashion Week show about
about a month ago, man, and we were blessed to
have these individuals show up and walk on the fast
on the on the runway with us, along with doctor
Bernice King and Iliosa Shabbaz, the daughters of Malcolm X
and Mamrin Luther King. And the response to it, the
way that black people have responded to seeing these people
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on the runway, knowing that this history wasn't that long
ago like they tried to tell us that it was.
Has been powerful man so actively black. The company that
I founded, we were built with the intention to uplift
and reinvest back into the black community. And uh, these
incredible legends have been supportive of the brand.
Speaker 4 (01:21:40):
So when you when you, I want you all to
know man Cecid Williams. Right, y'all know this legends picture
right here that the brother drinking out of the white's
only water.
Speaker 1 (01:21:48):
Founder.
Speaker 4 (01:21:48):
I always wanted to ask you.
Speaker 5 (01:21:49):
Mister Williams, was it a spontaneous active rebellion or something
something you plan to do at the.
Speaker 4 (01:21:55):
Statement It was a little bit of both.
Speaker 22 (01:21:57):
I was thirsty, but oh so yeah, there was a
middle of the sunshine of the summer, you know, as
evident for my T shirt. But also this was not
the first time I did this. There were many other
times that I felt.
Speaker 1 (01:22:12):
I wanted to do local.
Speaker 22 (01:22:14):
Really, I was not satisfied with living in the status
quo in segregation. So this was something that I had
done many times and my mother warned me not to
do it anymore. But I did it again, and this time.
Speaker 1 (01:22:25):
It was photographed.
Speaker 4 (01:22:26):
Did you feel fear in that moment? I was your
fame stronger than your field? None what soever.
Speaker 22 (01:22:30):
This is about fifteen twenty miles from Orangeburg and on
Highway twenty one and coming back from an assignment for
Jet magazine.
Speaker 4 (01:22:37):
But I never sent this picture to Jet.
Speaker 22 (01:22:38):
It was something that I held in the family, and
I knew I would get chewed out had I, you know,
given it.
Speaker 4 (01:22:46):
To my mother and father to see. So I hid
it from them and never sent it to Jet either. Wow,
try they hit it. Maybe three or four years later.
Speaker 22 (01:22:55):
I showed it to them conversation one Sunday afternoon, doing
at dinner. It kind of came out and then I
got chewed out.
Speaker 5 (01:23:03):
What did that single act teach you about the power
of defiance in the faith of injustice?
Speaker 22 (01:23:09):
Well, living in South Carolina, being a child of segregation,
it was something that we encountered all day long, from
birth to death. We in South Carolina during that period
of time felt again we were treated as subclass human beings,
not being able to go to a store and go
into a restroom, or go or drink get a drink
(01:23:31):
of water out of a fountain, or having to go
to a side window, or go into a movie theater
and having to sit in a separate place or not
at all. So but again one thing that I would
like to that's maybe out of characteristic of many southerns
There were many good white people at.
Speaker 4 (01:23:49):
The time as well.
Speaker 22 (01:23:50):
You can't just put a blanket statement against that all
people treated this. There were many good hearted white people
at the time, and they were friends with my family
and they helped support our family.
Speaker 4 (01:24:03):
But it was some people in.
Speaker 22 (01:24:04):
South Carolina again who lived by, who treated us as
a status quot not being able to do this or that.
Speaker 6 (01:24:10):
So crazy to think about it, Like, you know, when
you have these conversations, we're really not that far removed
from that whole, right, That's what I'm saying, Like you
don't you don't really think about it, like you said earlier,
Like we're not far removed from racism, and even the
stories that my dad told me.
Speaker 1 (01:24:24):
I'm like, this is crazy. This is what fifty years ago,
sixty years.
Speaker 5 (01:24:27):
I got got one of my aunts. She said, I
don't know nothing about no I don't know nothing about
no integration. Yeah she knew was segregating school, you know. Yeah,
we had we had ruby bridges, walked the wrong way
as well. And it was a powerful moment because everybody
remembers that picture six year old little girl being escorted
into school by federal marshals and Ruby just turned seventy one,
(01:24:48):
but you know, black on cracks, so she looks forty
five and she walks out on the runway. It made
it real to people like that same little girl in
that black and white photo is walking right here in
front of me. So that's that's the power of how
and having these individuals here with me, showing you know
how close we are to everything that we still fighting
to this day.
Speaker 1 (01:25:06):
Do y'all hate you? I'm sorry, do y'all hate white people?
And I'm gonna tell you why.
Speaker 6 (01:25:13):
When I talked to my dad, my dad has a
feeling towards white people, right, and I always joke and
I laugh about it. But then when he tells me
his history of him being in the military, and you know,
they're in the same barracks, but then when they go
get some food, it's white only, and his people in
the barracks they go get food, he can't. He talks
about the water fountain in the bathroom and all this
other stuff, and why he looks at white people the
way that he does, I understand it.
Speaker 1 (01:25:35):
So that's why I ask you the same.
Speaker 22 (01:25:37):
Well that's brought to the forefront by Landy Smith, and
again the fashion show, in fact he labels a fashion show,
This is not a fashion show. Pictures like this are
just evidence of time and period we lived in America
that seemingly in today's society. Some people want to bring
it back, but it's long gone. But people like me
(01:25:58):
who would experienced this, and people that were on the
show that was put together by this amazing brother who
has brought forth to apparel that again has criss crossed
across America and being put into the hands of today's generation.
T shirts and other things that he makes, we're not
going to stand for again. Resegregating America is going to
(01:26:20):
be something that is long gone. And to answer your question,
there are again many many good white people. And again
there's a myth I think that all white people are bad.
Speaker 5 (01:26:30):
Of course, I was think growing up in South Carolina
was such a mine because to your point, I grew
up around a lot of good white people, But then
we were also aware of the white people who treated
us like that is cool, like there's a certain places
you knew you weren't supposed to go. But then I
also had my white friend and Thomas and his family
who lived right by me, so it was a class thing.
So it's just it's just, I don't know, it's top kind.
Speaker 19 (01:26:49):
Of different, but a tag team. But you first chairman,
friend Anton Junr. Honored to be here again. Count first
salute to his brother and his wife, his team. You
know what I'm saying, everything's political clue in the fashion
able to get this peel and the apple sauce, we
least type of discussions. It's a revolutionary. It's a misnomer
about like it's motivated how your moves, how we move.
It's a hatred for someone else, commandante uh or this
(01:27:13):
though Chakovar said, you know, a revolutionary no matter how
preposterous it may sound, it's got a boy the most
sincerereous sentiments of love. And I'm not saying this sort
of abstracts sort of way, but we're talking about the
work such organizations, the Black Panther Party. The motivation for
getting up with the first free breakfast programs, free busting programs,
survival programs was not directly at a hatred for anyone,
you know what I'm saying, But again, motivate for love
for people. But let me say this though, I think
(01:27:35):
all black people should get like a mass no Bel
Peace Prize, all of us. You know what I'm saying.
The fact that we ain't this on masks snapped out.
You know what I'm saying, you know, not to this iran,
that we ain't motivated at a hatred. But again, and
sometimes even though it's a reactionary response, it's kind of justified.
Speaker 1 (01:27:49):
But again, for the record, it's a motive got a
love for the people? You like to echo off.
Speaker 30 (01:27:55):
I could Hi, I'm Frederica and hearing who was my husband?
And what came to mind when you even asked that
question was a quote from Hughie that said what motivates
people is not hatred, but.
Speaker 3 (01:28:09):
It's love for other people.
Speaker 30 (01:28:11):
So my mother was white, and she introduced me to
Hue because she was doing work with the Black Panther
Party and she was the only one that they trusted
to do the real estate work.
Speaker 5 (01:28:21):
So I couldn't.
Speaker 30 (01:28:22):
I did not grow up hating anyone, but what I
do hate is white supremacy and the impact on black community.
I actually hate that and the impacts of an impact
that has had on us. So again, as my brother
said so eloquently, as he always does, as he always does,
(01:28:43):
is that the Black Panther Party service was out of love,
out of love for black people, out of love for
oppressed people, and it wasn't it wasn't guided by hate.
So it's impossible for me to hate anybody.
Speaker 5 (01:28:57):
Landy, why was it important to have these historical BLO
figures walk into Actively Black fashion show?
Speaker 13 (01:29:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 29 (01:29:03):
So one the tagline for Actively Black is there's greatness
in our DNA and very intentional about that because I
think over the centuries of oppression, subconsciously our people have accepted,
not I won't say accepted. Sometimes it seeks into our
subconscious that we are less than, not as good as
this is what has been told to us, this is
what has been preached to us for centuries.
Speaker 4 (01:29:25):
I'm trying to rewrite that narrative.
Speaker 29 (01:29:26):
I'm trying to deprogram and reprogram our own people to
understand that there's greatness in our DNA. There's literal greatness
in the DNA that walked on that runway. When you
see Malcolm and Martin's daughters walk on that runway together.
That DNA is something that has moved mountains, that has
changed lives, you know what I'm saying, And that exists
(01:29:47):
within all of us. So it was important for our
people to see that, to know that we are more
than just our trauma, you know what I mean. We
have so much greatness inside of us, and if we
start acting out of that greatness, that's how we can
change the for our community.
Speaker 1 (01:30:00):
How difficult was it getting everybody in and how how
long did it take.
Speaker 8 (01:30:06):
It?
Speaker 4 (01:30:08):
It was stressful.
Speaker 29 (01:30:09):
One there was a white supremacist who was killed by
another white man about a week before our show, and yeah, yeah,
and it sent some shockwaves through our plans because you're
talking about children of people who were assassinated, real political violence,
(01:30:31):
and so I had to reconvince Iliosa Shavaz and Doctor
King to still be a part of this show.
Speaker 4 (01:30:37):
There was some safety concerns.
Speaker 29 (01:30:38):
We had to bring in three extra teams of security
just to make sure that they were secure because the
rhetoric was that there was going to be payback, which
never made sense to me because there was a white
man that killed them, you know what I mean. But
I think the reason why I was able to execute on.
That was the respect that I had paid to these
individuals before everyone you see up here, Doctor King, doctor
(01:31:00):
Iliosta Shabbaz. I went to them and asked them for
permission to put their family members on this gear. I
have licensing agreements with them so that when we sell apparel,
the Black Panther Party Museum gets money, Fred Hampton, the
Hampton House gets money.
Speaker 4 (01:31:15):
Cecil Williams Museum gets.
Speaker 29 (01:31:17):
Money, right the Sabbaz Center, the King Center actively black
pays them when we sell this merch. And so you know,
you can go on any market or any weekend and
you'll see a lot of us selling this stuff, not
realizing these people actually lost people in this struggle and
they weren't compensated right, And so I think I earned
a level of respect with them that when I made
(01:31:38):
that call and I asked them, can you walk on
this wrongway for me?
Speaker 4 (01:31:41):
They answered the call. And I feel so humbled. I mean,
Doctor King.
Speaker 29 (01:31:45):
When she arrived, she gave me a signed speech from
her father and she prayed with me, and I broke
down and cried, you know what I mean, Like her
schedule is crazy for her to move around her travel
schedule to be there for this show. It's something I'm
forever grateful to.
Speaker 1 (01:31:59):
Did you have any concerns, security concerns at.
Speaker 29 (01:32:00):
All, My man Cainan make sure we were we were
we were, we were, We were good with the security.
We weren't gonna let nobody even get close to touching
you know this royalty.
Speaker 4 (01:32:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (01:32:11):
What does it mean to be actively black?
Speaker 29 (01:32:14):
Oh that's such a layer question. And there's there's a
reason why I named it that you got to understand.
When I was starting to actively black. By the way,
we'll celebrate five years this Black Friday. We launched on
Black Friday twenty twenty. I had a lot of black
people tell me, don't name the company actively black. I
had black executives tell me, if you put black in
(01:32:34):
this name, it will not be successful.
Speaker 4 (01:32:38):
And I realized that a lot of.
Speaker 29 (01:32:40):
Them were speaking from a place of a fear of
working in corporate environments where they had to minimize who
they were and their identity. And so there's nothing passive
about what we have to do to uplift our people, right,
So it's a double entendre.
Speaker 4 (01:32:55):
I want our people to be more healthy.
Speaker 29 (01:32:58):
We do free mental health events, we do physical activations
where We're having people do yoga, sound back, meditation. We're
getting our people access to the things that they need
so that we can keep moving. That's the only way
the movement can keep going is if we're healthy enough
to keep moving. Right, So it's a double on time
where we're active, we're brand. You know, there's no reason
(01:33:19):
why we shouldn't have our own Nike. That's what actively
Black is when we build this multi billion dollar brand.
It's not for my personal wealth. It's for us to
uplift our people. Actively black dot com.
Speaker 5 (01:33:31):
Hell I want, I want, I want a brother and
sister Fredericka give them the museum websites.
Speaker 4 (01:33:36):
Yes, so people can donate, Well, you can.
Speaker 22 (01:33:37):
Go to Cecil Williams Music. I'm sorry South Carolina Civil
Rights Museum. But we also have a way of like
PayPal and the email address there and several other ways.
But we easily find we're again in the college town
of Orange Break, South Carolina, and we need your support.
Speaker 4 (01:33:56):
Even dollars one dollar helps. So forld us as if
you part.
Speaker 29 (01:34:02):
Gifts, I want to make sure you get this and
then and then so Fredie could close us out, make
sure you got that.
Speaker 30 (01:34:08):
What's the what's the Museum on Instagram is at the
Black Panther Party Museum and the Doctor Huey P. Newton
Foundation celebrating thirty years this year. Please come visit us
in Oakland, California, Black Panther Party Museum. We're open, I
mean we're and we're packed. So this month celebrates the
Black Panther Party History Month and we're full of celebrations.
Speaker 11 (01:34:31):
So please visit us there.
Speaker 1 (01:34:33):
Thank you wellka uh.
Speaker 19 (01:34:35):
Also, I'm thank you for having us here. Finsfiite Saluta,
our fellow palentis Clint Fisalut is actively black the SI
fourth International Revolutionary Day. Come to Chicago, al So the
Hampton House dot org. We get programs going to childhood
Homer Chamber of Fred Hampton and maybe Illinois being the
Heampton House dot org. On the close off this quo
by Minister Doctor ue P. Newton pictures worth a thousand words,
(01:34:56):
but action is supreme.
Speaker 1 (01:35:00):
It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, Thank you guys.
Speaker 3 (01:35:01):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (01:35:03):
The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 4 (01:35:07):
Morning everybody.
Speaker 1 (01:35:08):
It's DJ Envy, just hilarious. Charlamagne the guy. We are
the Breakfast Club. It's time for past the oaks. Yeah, DJ,
(01:35:29):
what's up.
Speaker 3 (01:35:30):
Nala l a girl. How are you good?
Speaker 4 (01:35:34):
Good?
Speaker 11 (01:35:34):
All is well?
Speaker 1 (01:35:35):
Yep? Absolutely?
Speaker 4 (01:35:36):
How you doing, Dallas? You got the certified fresh Okay?
Speaker 11 (01:35:40):
You know we got some new merk.
Speaker 31 (01:35:41):
Okay, I gonna started telling you, I'm gonna give it
to my friends.
Speaker 3 (01:35:45):
But about where?
Speaker 5 (01:35:48):
Where? Mind?
Speaker 3 (01:35:48):
So you're gonna give it to your friends.
Speaker 11 (01:35:49):
Right here in the bank?
Speaker 17 (01:35:52):
Nice?
Speaker 3 (01:35:53):
I know you are.
Speaker 31 (01:35:54):
You did bring it all right, I know we just
didn't want to layout and you guys just had her
up here. But this other unless she put out called
putting you Down.
Speaker 11 (01:36:01):
It's really growing social media.
Speaker 3 (01:36:04):
Okay, yeah, let's get into it.
Speaker 5 (01:36:05):
I saw her performing that record in front of a
big ass crowd and they knew the words word for word,
and this song just came up.
Speaker 3 (01:36:12):
That's her fan base is definitely they love her.
Speaker 5 (01:36:16):
I could.
Speaker 3 (01:36:16):
I don't know why I hear why. I could hear
a guy on the remix.
Speaker 7 (01:36:19):
I don't know who voice I'm hearing, but it's like
he could be somebody could come and do a remix
to that, Like a guy could jump on that.
Speaker 3 (01:36:26):
It's somebody deep rasty crazy.
Speaker 11 (01:36:29):
You're a guy.
Speaker 31 (01:36:29):
A guy doesn't come to mind, but I definitely hear gorillafinitely, definitely.
Speaker 7 (01:36:34):
Yeah, somebody with a deep voice. Yeah, like just somebody
but I heard a guy, but somebody like that or
what's up rob for somebody, Like somebody with a deep
voice could come and kill that remix. But yeah, I
love Mona and the new project she got up.
Speaker 31 (01:36:49):
Yeah and she to mix you guys check her out next.
Speaker 11 (01:36:52):
I'm gonna go with Josh Levy.
Speaker 31 (01:36:54):
He just dropped his debut album, which has been anticipated
for a long time.
Speaker 11 (01:36:57):
This record is called to the Base.
Speaker 4 (01:36:59):
I like that, like that like that ad.
Speaker 1 (01:37:03):
Yeah, it does sound like some old Travis Scott the
sound effects and all that. That still sounds good.
Speaker 4 (01:37:08):
It's like a little bit of Fenhoe.
Speaker 1 (01:37:10):
That's it sounds like.
Speaker 18 (01:37:13):
Like it is.
Speaker 4 (01:37:14):
It's a cool record. It just sounds like it should
have been out three.
Speaker 31 (01:37:16):
But you know, he's an R and B singer and
it's called Hydraulics, so it's all in seam to sounds
a little.
Speaker 26 (01:37:23):
Robotic like yeah, he's.
Speaker 11 (01:37:32):
White clean like okay cool and he.
Speaker 31 (01:37:40):
Also has a record on there with Flow that's really good.
But if you're a fan of like R and B,
he dances, you know, and he's from Houston to he
went to the same school, high school with Beon. You know,
maybe it's something in the water over there. But you know,
Leon Thomas just dropped the project today and it's a
little more funky than the last one. But let's get
into just.
Speaker 4 (01:37:58):
How you are, boy Leon. I love it that boy Leon.
Speaker 7 (01:38:01):
It don't even sound like nothing that he already got out.
Sean is giving Bruno Mars a little bit different. I
love that, boy Leon. Different, That like.
Speaker 31 (01:38:13):
Different, okayous different.
Speaker 4 (01:38:17):
That's hard, that's tough, tough, all right.
Speaker 11 (01:38:18):
This is my last one.
Speaker 31 (01:38:20):
This is a smaller group. They're from Canada. They call
Planet Giza and they drop it a new project. This
song is called mine in My Business.
Speaker 3 (01:38:28):
See I'm a stoner and a viber So I love.
Speaker 4 (01:38:30):
That you felt that all day tender. It's like light
snow on a care be you know what I'm saying,
what what what some little things that the kids was
carrying on another day.
Speaker 5 (01:38:41):
Okay, It's like a little little bit like a little
boo boo in the snow and it just start to
start the snow a little bit like the little booo
just sitting out there and the snows on it, light
snow on a like no.
Speaker 4 (01:38:54):
Like snow on a little booo.
Speaker 3 (01:38:56):
You feel like also, I don't only like the music.
I like what he's saying to.
Speaker 6 (01:39:00):
Maybe for the first record, I didn't want to hear
that for the first record. Maybe I want to hear
something else for the first record.
Speaker 1 (01:39:04):
The first time.
Speaker 7 (01:39:05):
Introduced us to us playing before you put me on
You're not gizzards give oh g.
Speaker 3 (01:39:15):
I z okay.
Speaker 30 (01:39:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:39:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 31 (01:39:18):
This whole project is kind of mellow like that. So
that's probably their most ugly record.
Speaker 30 (01:39:21):
I like that.
Speaker 5 (01:39:22):
That's your big cover. The couple should be a la
boobo with light snow, just light snow just coming.
Speaker 11 (01:39:28):
Down on the well.
Speaker 31 (01:39:29):
If you like what you heard, make sure you guys
follow me on Instagram at Nilis Simone N Y l
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Speaker 11 (01:39:36):
Click the link in bio.
Speaker 31 (01:39:38):
There's multiple playlists there, but the ones for breakfast Club
picture called Certified to makes you guys check that out
and then yeah, certified Merchant on the way.
Speaker 1 (01:39:46):
All right, thank you. Now before we get to the mix,
I'm about to get to the mix. No limit or
cash money. Who are you going with?
Speaker 8 (01:39:55):
I gotta go cash money, cash money, but it's not
going to be like a blow.
Speaker 1 (01:39:59):
Wait, I don't be great.
Speaker 5 (01:40:00):
It's gonna be a great nostalgic thing. But it's I mean,
it's cash money, and I love No Limit, but it's
cash money.
Speaker 1 (01:40:06):
I love the gym.
Speaker 5 (01:40:07):
I was in the gym yesterday working out, playing the
records back to back, and I love cash money.
Speaker 4 (01:40:10):
Got some joints. I was doing amazing. No Limit got
some joints. But it's cash money.
Speaker 6 (01:40:14):
And you know the problem is no disrespect. But No
Limit is more our era than a lot of everybody else.
Speaker 1 (01:40:19):
Absolutely a little older like the man right here, absolutely
style down.
Speaker 4 (01:40:29):
You know, mystical got about three you can play shake
that ass. The man right.
Speaker 5 (01:40:36):
Danger like they like they got joint my fault shock
they got joint with that.
Speaker 4 (01:40:42):
I can. I can play six juvenile record.
Speaker 1 (01:40:45):
Yes, yeah, yeah, that's my emotion.
Speaker 3 (01:40:48):
Then, I mean, there's so many For me, it's not
even gonna be a versus gonna be a concert.
Speaker 7 (01:40:51):
It's gonna be It's like, yo, I think that's what
it is gonna be for most people, like especially my
agent up, it's like, yo, this is gonna be more
of a concert.
Speaker 3 (01:41:00):
I love all of them.
Speaker 4 (01:41:00):
I don't really have no dog in the fight.
Speaker 1 (01:41:02):
Well, let's get to the mix. It's the Breakfast Club
of morning. Everybody is DJ, MVNJ, hilarious.
Speaker 6 (01:41:07):
Charlamaine the guy we are the breakfast Club is to
look again to all of HBCU homecomings. This is my
homecoming week in Hampton University. I know Howard has a
homecoming Norfolk State, Old Dominion a bunch of HBCUs. Old
Dominion's not HBCU, but a bunch of colleges. So salute
to everybody. You guys, enjoy the weekend. And then I'm
going to Dominica. I know that's right, the island of
Dominique in the Caribbean Island. I'm excited. I can't wait
(01:41:30):
to see all my Dominiquans.
Speaker 4 (01:41:32):
Said. By the time you embrace your Dominiquan roots.
Speaker 1 (01:41:34):
Yeah, So I'm going out there.
Speaker 6 (01:41:36):
I got all names of my dad's dads, my dad's
dad's brother, my dad's dad, my dad's family. My dad
re really messed with his dad because it kind of
was Rolling Stone. But I'm gonna go down there and
see what's up.
Speaker 4 (01:41:46):
So I'm just created how all of a sudden you
want to be.
Speaker 1 (01:41:48):
Dominican, Bro, I'm not Dominican from I bring it.
Speaker 4 (01:41:51):
Up any other time. I bring it up that Dominic
go Dominican.
Speaker 5 (01:41:55):
But when it comes to a paycheck, are you being
at some parade getting an award for pretending to be Dominican.
Speaker 6 (01:42:00):
Yeah, it's Dominica. It's Dominica, so salute. And I'm going
to where where you said go.
Speaker 3 (01:42:03):
The Indian River where they filmed The Pirates of the Caribbean.
Speaker 1 (01:42:06):
That's right, that's what I'm going.
Speaker 3 (01:42:07):
Do you know, y'all? Most popular sport over there.
Speaker 1 (01:42:09):
You need to know cricket.
Speaker 3 (01:42:10):
Yes, I'll do that.
Speaker 1 (01:42:12):
Cricket.
Speaker 3 (01:42:13):
That's what's up.
Speaker 4 (01:42:13):
And be all right.
Speaker 1 (01:42:14):
You're almost there, all right, all right? And what are
you doing this weekend?
Speaker 7 (01:42:18):
I'm gonna be in Philly, but for Halloween that's next weekend,
North Carolina. I will be there, Charlotte. Get your tickets.
We got four shows next weekend at the Comedy Zone.
Jesselrisofficial dot com. I will be giving away a cash
prize to the person who wins the Halloween costume contest. Lord,
my voice is so shy today, but I can't wait
to get there. Two shows Friday, two shows Saturday. Jesslisofficial
(01:42:41):
dot com. Do not forget to get your tickets because
y'all got seven more days.
Speaker 1 (01:42:45):
I'm no Charlamane. You head in South Carolina, yes man.
Speaker 5 (01:42:49):
Today I will be in the Metro. It is the
University of South Carolina's homecoming. That's my wife, Saulma Mata,
and they play Alabama tomorrow. But today we will be
at the Colonial Life Arena at four thirty pm. Don Staley,
the Icon Living. She put out her book earlier this year,
Uncommon Favor on my book in print. Black Privileged Publishing
with Simon and Schuster has been on the New York
(01:43:10):
Times Bestsellers list for weeks. So I am moderating a
book conversation with her today at the Colonial Life Arena.
Speaker 4 (01:43:18):
And the four time MVP, three time WNBA.
Speaker 5 (01:43:21):
Champion greatest women's basketball player in the world, just got
inducted into the South Carolina Hall of Fame last night,
Asia Wilson. She will be joining us, so I will
be in conversation with both of them today at the
Colonial Life Arena. Salute to everybody who's already gotten their tickets.
If you haven't gotten your tickets, I think there's some
tickets left, so we'll see you this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (01:43:41):
All right, you got a positive note I do.
Speaker 4 (01:43:43):
The positive note is simple. It comes from the Great
Michelle Obama.
Speaker 5 (01:43:47):
Michelle Obama once said, success isn't about how your life
looks to others, It's about how it feels to you.
Always remember that success is subjective. Okay, Success isn't about
how your life looks to others. It's about how how
it feels to you. If you are happy doing what
you are doing, then you are successful.
Speaker 1 (01:44:04):
Have a great day, breakfast club Bitches, you don't
Speaker 3 (01:44:07):
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