Say her name "Breonna Taylor"

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Allow me to introduce myself, Angel and Charlomagne. The guy, Well,
y'all look him a long way. I think that y'all
have a certain amount of respect for you know what
everybody else does, and y'all are just the best of
what y'all doing this platform to reach y'all hat that
you earned make space for somebody like me. You guys

(00:23):
have a direct line to the coaches. Oh my god,
I'm on the red end on dolamine and all I
do is read about the Breakfast Club every morning. Good
you guys are trending every you know. I dragged my
ass out of that. I'm like, uh, what happened on
the Breakfast Club to that? Yeah? My bad started over

(00:56):
my bad. I just try this again. Mike fell on
the floor pretty much. Good morning, USA, A fam, Hey,
good morning, It's Thursday. Good morning guys. Who Jolomne. I'm

(01:23):
not sure all right? Yeo? Hello? Hello? What's going on
over there? I don't know what's going on? Even know
what that was? What you do yesterday? Anything fun? Me? Yesterday?
I worked, I had to do my Lift Service podcast,
and then I had a coffee Uplifts people meeting, and

(01:43):
then I was just depressed yesterday after the Brianna Taylor
after the results were in. Yeah, in court. It was
very depressing, very depressing. A lot to talk about today
and shout out to Toronto, Toronto. Now, why don't want
to see anybody else? Will revolt? I don't see. Can
you hear me either? Oh? Okay, good morning, good morning?

(02:07):
What's going on? Little test going on? I don't know.
I guess we got a show to do. Oh you
mean like I don't Yeah, what happened? Man? I don't know. Man,
My sister ain't never all the way correct. I'm tired
of being here, tired of being Uh. I told you
that's what tired is doing. I can't take it no more.
Look at I had to wait and see if the
Wi fi works. Can't do nothing without your wi fi?

(02:30):
Feel like a damn robot. Yeah, well, let's get the
show cracking front page news. What we're talking about. Well,
of course we are going to talk about Brianna Taylor
this morning and how she still hasn't received justice. Will
tell you what's going on in Louisville. Will tell you
people's responses uh to the grand jury's indictment of former

(02:51):
Louisville police officer A. Brake Hankinson will tell you what
that indictment means and what's going on with the other officers.
All right, we'll get into that next. Keep a lot
this to this club. Good morning morning. Everybody is dj
Envy Angela, Ye, Charlomagne the guy. We all to breakfast club.
Let's getting some front page news. What we're starting you Well,

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let's start, of course with Brianna Taylor and a Kentucky
grand jury did indict former Louisville police officer Brett Hankinson
that was on three counts of wanton endangerment in the
first degree, and neither he nor the other two officers
who were involved in that encounter were charged in her death. So,
just to be clear, none of the charges that Brett

(03:34):
Hankinson faced have anything to do with killing Brianna Taylor.
This all has to do with the bullets that penetrated
the wall of the residence and entered a neighboring apartment
that was occupied by a child, a man, and a
pregnant woman. So Brianna Taylor, there's no charges regarding her killing. Now,
even when you know, even when you know that you

(03:55):
know it's not gonna no justice is gonna be served.
It doesn't doesn't hurt any less, I'll tell you that.
And you could tell just by the way they were
setting up Louisville and shutting down the courts and making
sure everything was protected, they knew what was coming down yesterday.
Now Here is the Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, at

(04:17):
a news conference following the Grand Jerry's announcements where he
talked about the no knock. Evidence shows that officers both
knocked and announced their presence at the apartment. The officers
statements about their announcement are corroborated by an independent witness
who was near in a proximity to Apartment four. In

(04:39):
other words, the warrant was not served as a no
knock warrant. What officers were unable to get anyone to
answer or open the door to Apartment four. Decision was
made to breach the door. But the boyfriend is not
The boyfriends not considered. The witness wasn't the boyfriend was
in the Kenneth walking Kenneth Kenneth. If Kenneth says, if

(05:03):
Kenneth says nobody knocked, his word doesn't mean anything. Yeah,
but you know what bothers me is is who signed
off on that warrd? Like, who was the one that
sent him to the wrong house. Who's the one that
didn't know that the gentleman was already in custody. Who
signed off on that, who allowed him to go into
that house? That's that's what That's why I don't like.
I don't know how he's not charged. That person's not

(05:24):
charged because he made a mistake. It was It's clearly
a mistake. It was clearly he was. It was clearly
they didn't do the product work. No, they didn't send
him to the wrong house. He was. He was signed
off on a search one for Rihanna's department. They didn't
do it something to the wrong house. Wasn't the guy?
He was already in custody. He was already in custody.

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So a little communication, all right. Now Here is a
Kentucky Attorney General, Daniel Cameron, talking about the investigation. He
says it was fair and so the length of the
investigation was a reflection of how important it was that
we got this right. We didn't want to rush it,
and we did not. These are prosecutors and investigators who

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don't care about political distinctions, don't care about influence in
any particular regard. What they care about is the truth,
and we presented that to the grand jury, all right.
He also talks about the claims to injustice to the
black community. He responds to those claims, what do you

(06:28):
say to people who say, this is just another example
of the black community not getting full of justice. I
certainly understand the pain that has been brought about by
the tragic loss of miss Taylor. I understand that as
an attorney general who is responsible for all one hundred
and twenty counties in terms of being the chief legal officer,

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I understand that I understand that as a black man,
how painful this is, which is why it was so
incredibly important for make sure that we did everything we
possibly could to uncover every fact. Here's the thing for me, man,
when officers, you know, I guess, make a mistake, I'm
putting mistaken air quotes. When you are a victim of

(07:11):
mild practice, like you know, Brianna Taylor was, what's the
punishment for the officers if it's not an arrest? What
is it if I'm make a mistake here on the radio.
There's some type of consequences, Like what are the consequences
they like they still get to keep their job. They
don't get suspended without pay, Like what happens? Like nothing?
Just a life is gone and it's just whatever. And
I want to skip ahead to Donald Trump now because

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everybody was talking about his quote response, and here's what
he had to say. His message to the black community.
What is your message to the black community who believed
that perhaps justice was not served? Well, my messages that
I love the black community and I've done more for
the black community than any other president with a possible
exception of Abraham Lincoln. And I mean, man, I don't

(07:56):
know enough about it. I heard the decision was just made.
We've been together here and so we haven't discussed it.
But after I see what the decision is, I will
have a commentary. Okay. Wow. And here he is talking
about the Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, who you just heard,
and he thinks he's great, really brilliant. Kentucky Attorney General

(08:18):
Daniel Cameron is doing a fantastic job. I think he's
a star. All right. That is your president, and that
is your front page news. All right, get it off
your chest. Eight hundred five eight five one oh five one.
If you need to vent four lines of wide open.
This up right now is the Breakfast Club. Good morning,

(08:38):
the Breakfast Club. I'm telling, I'm telling what's doing. This
is your time to get it off your chest, whether
you're mad or blessed. Eight hundred five eight five one
oh five one. We want to hear from you on
the Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this? It's really I got

(09:00):
gonna get it off, man. I just I just want
a man coming on this brown a Taylor situation, man,
like once an endangerment, it's to basically the same thing
as reckless murder. I mean, just reckless shooting. Right, So
if you're shooting recklessly and you kill somebody, how to hell,
that's not a reckless murder, man. I mean, I mean,
I'm I'm so sticking tired of this, bro. Like, we're

(09:22):
not asking for nothing, bro, We're just asking to be
treated like regular people. I'm sorry, I apologize like we
just asked me. You don't gotta you don't gotta apologize,
my brother, you don't gotta folo job, bron man. You
know what I'm saying. I have a little girl, bro,
you know and not gonna. I got two balls and
a little girl, man, and I'd be sad for them
in And I don't know how. I don't know how

(09:42):
do you put them in a position, you know, for
you to brutalize my kids and you expect me just
to spit them. That's not like, man, That's not right, man,
bron Man. And it's hard man. I s what a guy.
I understand, man. I know you just say you have
good white people out there and not honors the guy,
but the But to be so hard, I don't know
when you going older bird. My girl was in a

(10:05):
sleeper and I did m worried. Don't that's real. It's
not right man, And I'm just I'm just hold the
blisses of all. I'll be upon feminly man. You know,
appreciate you, King, Love you King? Hello? Who's this are you? Guys? Um?

(10:28):
I would like to pick it off, um, Angeline Charlomagne,
I would like to pick it off my chest. I
have one daughter just graduated from Spellman last year. The
hurt that I feel for her mother is just unbearable.
And at this point in time, they're asking for us.
And I don't promote violence, but I honestly feel like

(10:49):
it's just something to my child, you kill her. I
think you get to list how am I supposed to
John's Earth without my daughter? So I want a Maratha
to know how they're creating the Christ Turners, the new
Nat Turners by consistently giving us in justice when it
comes to the school system, when it comes to the
criminal system, like at this point, they're leaving us no

(11:12):
choice but to protect ourselves. And I agree with Charlomagne, um,
it is time that we get our own guns because
it's going to go down, not the president that's saying
he's not going to leave office. As if people stug
when it's confidentially, Um, we have to stand up. We
have to be strong. And I again I feel so
bad for Starna Taylor's MoMA, considering I have one daughter,

(11:33):
and I'm telling you, if he hid anything to my baby,
your kid will not be able to live in Your
mom's not gonna be able to live it. I'm sorry,
but this is what we are they're asking us to.
They're now I'm telling us, you have no choice, you
get no justice. So the only justice that I see
is if we saw it raising up like Nats in
the system turns in this blob because they're not going
to give it to us. Top of the day, guys.

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You that's the best thing I thought about was to
make up Palmer Brianna Taylor's There's so much love and
prayers out to her because this is such a difficult
time to have to go through this. Yeah. Absolutely, And America,
this is the energy that you're creating because you're not
you know, you're simply not giving folks no justice and
you're leaving folks no choice. All right, And every black person,

(12:16):
every black person in America absolutely needs to own a
legal firearm. That is a form of self care. Every
black person in America needs to own a legal firearm
that is a form of self care when you are
black in this country. Get it off your chest. Eight
hundred five eight five one oh five one. If you
need to vent, hit us up now with the Breakfast Club.

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Good morning, the Breakfast Club. This is your time to
get it off your chest. Whether you're man here from
you on the Breakfast Club. You got something on your
mont Hello, who's this? Good morning? Hatred should get it
off your chest? Hi, good morning, guys. I'm gonna say

(12:59):
stop by thing Bless you guys on the beautiful day.
Bless you too, Queen. I just want to talk about
this situation with Brianna Taylor. It's just very disheart and
as a black mom, it's just so disappointed to see
that her mom is not going to get justice for
her daughter. And it's just like, we don't have no
trust in our system. We're raising kids and very hard time.

(13:23):
It's like you don't know which way to turn. You
don't know what to tell your children about what's going on,
especially if they're young. It's very hard to sit down
and have these hard conversations with them. But us as
the black community needs to have these hard conversations. We
need to expand and let our black children know that
the way they're being treated and the things that are
happening to them are not okay and it's not right.

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It's because, you know, I feel like none of us
were surprised by the verdict, but a lot of us
did still feel disappointed, and we also kind of was like, okay,
maybe this time, maybe this time. Absolutely, I didn't think
that none of us were surprised. I didn't have anything,
but I still I still was praying for the family.

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And hoping that something good would come out of all this.
You know, there were people who were very active in Louisville,
occupying Louisville and protesting, and a lot of things were happening.
The twelve million dollars sentlement, you feel like, Okay, maybe
they do realize something. Maybe this is an indication that
there will be some justice following that. And once again nothing.

(14:28):
I didn't think that all week on this radio all
week or then't no justice gonna be served in no way,
shape or form. And I really don't understand how people
can use this to tell us to vote, Like, these
types of injustices happen under democrats too, doesn't matter who's
in office locally nationally, We've been watching police and damn
there everyone else get away with these type of injustice
towards black people forever. So how was voting going to

(14:52):
help that? Somebody got to explain that one to me too, Like,
I just don't think using in a moment like this
to say we'll go vote like it's been happening under
every administrat happens locally, happened nationally. How is voting gonna
change the way white people perceive black people in America.
Please tell me that get it off your chest. Eight
hundred five eight five one o five one. Now we

(15:13):
got rumors on the way. Yes, and we'll talk more
about Brianna Taylor because we just have to do that
this morning. And we'll tell you what some people have
been saying. We'll read you some of Lebron's tweets as well.
All right, we'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club.
Good morning, the Breakfast Club Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy,

(15:34):
Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the guy. We are to Breakfast Club.
Let's get to the rumors. Let's tell Brianna Taylor, she's
filling the team. This is the rumor report with Angela
Yee on the Breakfast Club. Yes, and because we don't
have enough front page news, I want to make sure
we address Brianna Taylor all morning. Attorney Ben Crump hosted

(15:56):
Jefferson Grand County Jerry and DT's former officer Brett Hankinson
with three counts of wanton endangerment and first degree for
bullets that went into other apartments, but nothing for the
murder of Brianna Taylor. This is outrageous and offensive. If
Bret Hankinson's behavior was wanton endangerment to people in neighboring apartments,
then it should have been wanting endangerment in Brianna Taylor's
apartment too. In fact, it should have been wanted murder.

(16:18):
Joe Biden tweeted out, even amidst the profound grief and anger,
today's decision generated. Violence is never and can never be
the answer. Those who engage in it must be held accountable.
Jill and I are keeping the officers shot tonight in
Louisville and our prayers. We wished them both the swift
and full recovery because, as you know, there were two
officers who were shot yesterday during the protests. Kamala Harris

(16:40):
tweeted out tonight, I'm thinking of Brianna Taylor's family, who
was still grieving the loss of a daughter and sister.
We must never stop speaking Brianna's name as we work
to reform our justice system, including overhauling no knock warrents.
She goes on to say, Joe Biden and I are
keeping the police officers who were shot in Louisville in
our hearts, wishing them a swift and speedy recovery. Violence
is not the answer, and we must find a way

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to express our grief, anger, and demands in ways that
reflect the world we wish to see. Bernie Sanders tweeted
out Brianna Taylor's life matter. The result is a disgrace
and an abdication of justice. Our criminal justice system is racist.
The time for fundamental change is now. Colin Kaepernick tweeted
out the white supremacist institution of policing that stole Brianna

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Taylor's life from us must be abolished for the safety
and well being of our people. And Lebron said, I've
been lost for words today. I'm devastated, hurt, sad, mad.
We want justice for Brianna, Yet justice was met for
her neighbor's apartment walls and not her beautiful life. Was
I surprised that the verdict absolutely not, but damn it,
I was and still am hurt and heavy hearted. I

(17:42):
said my love to Brianna's mother, family and friends. I'm sorry,
I'm sorry. The most disrespected person on earth is the
black woman. I promise you I'll do my best to
change this as much as I can, and even more.
Love to you queens all over this country and beyond.
So Those are just some of the tweets that was
sent out yesterday. All right now, Chance the Rapper is

(18:04):
telling people to vote for whoever your mom is voting for.
He said this a couple of days ago, and people
went in on him on Twitter, and he said, ask
your mom who to vote for? Vote for who she say.
Your mom had been through a lot, Ask them and
trust them. What do y'all think about that? I'll be
honest with ya. I mean, you vote for you woman.
My mom got some good choices, you know what I mean.
Ain't never is anohing wrong to go with mama's opinion,

(18:26):
especially if you don't necessarily know about politics and you
haven't been paying attention. I don't have a problem with that.
I don't know who your mom's mama good money. Yeah,
it depends on who your mom is. I would say.
I think, you know, you encourage people really to vote
for whoever you want to vote for. It might be
different than which but they were going in on him,
and then they went on him for this. He was
talking about Justin Bieber's new album and here here's what

(18:50):
he had to say. This album is really some of
the best music I've made. Would you agree this is
no cap at all. I said, some of the best
music I've ever heard period. It reminds me of when
Michael Jackson made Off the Wall. Everybody that's listening, I
am merging it right now. I promise you it is
literally groundbreaking music. So of course the headline was Chance

(19:12):
the Rapper says that Justin Bieber's album is like Michael
Jackson's Off the Wall. But Chance the Rapper was quick
to point out he was saying it reminds me of
don't do that. Don't do that, Chance. You know what
I'm saying. Just say the music is fired. Just say
the music is dope. Don't compare it to anything. And
if you're going to compare it to something, please don't
compare it to Michael Jackson Off the Wall, because now

(19:33):
I am hoping to hear something as good as Off
the Wall. But it's not even about how the record sounds.
It's about how the music makes you feel. Off the
Wall gives us a feeling, and it's a feeling that
is unmatched because we can all remember what we were
doing as kids when we first heard Off the Wall,
and we've all got different moments, you know, hearing Off
the wall throughout the years that music Justin Bie was
putting out doesn't have that kind of cachier behind the chests.

(19:54):
I don't do that to him, okay. And Michelle Obama
was on Conan O'Brien and she was talking about the
beginning of the pan demic, how things were really cool.
They were organized with the girls. They would just have
all kinds of a little fun things and watercolor paintings,
and they learned how to play spades. But then she said,
things went left, and now towards the end of the pandemic,

(20:14):
everybody's kind of sick, and the kids are sick of
being around them. Listen to this. We've kind of had
phases of COVID. There was sort of the early stages
where we were all excited to be together and we
were being all organized. That went away, and it started
as the first our kids down a little sick of us.
I will say, in the beginning of this, I was
a lot more gung ho about being productive about things

(20:38):
in my home. And since then things have fallen apart.
All right, Well, I'm Angela Yee and that is your
rumor report. All right, thank you, miss ye. Now when
we come back front page news. What we're talking about,
you know what we're talking about. We got to talk
more about, Brianna Taylor. I want to discuss this verdict
that came down and you know, just people being really

(20:58):
disappointed and what's happening in Louisville and what's happening all
over the United States. They were protests here in Brooklyn
yesterday that we're at the Barclays and we'll discuss the aftermath.
All right, we'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club.
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the guy. We all the Breakfast Club. Let's get in
some front page news. The last night it sports the

(21:43):
heat beat of the Celtics. They lead the series three
one one one twelve, one oh nine. Let's get right
into it easy. Yes. Brianna Taylor, Kentucky Grand Jerry and
died in former Louisville police officer Brett Higginson, but there
were no charges brought up on the other two officers
involved in the encounter that killed Brianna Taylor. So the

(22:03):
charges against Hankinson are basically he's facing a maximum of
five years in jail, and it specifically states that, under
circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to human life, he wantonly shot
a gun into the apartment. So this has nothing to
do with Brianna Taylor getting killed. This has to do
with him shooting and the bullets penetrating a wall of

(22:25):
the residents entering a neighboring apartment that occupied. So not
even the person who was killed in her own home
while she was sleeping in bed. These charges are for
a neighboring apartment where no one was injured. That's crazy,
all right. Now, Let's listen to the Kentucky Attorney General
Cameron is talking about these charges in talking about homicide

(22:49):
being considered. Did the prenury ever consider the charges of
manslaughter reckless homicide? I will get into the specifics again
of the proceedings themselves are secret, but what I will
say is that our team walked in through every homicide offense,
and it also presented all of the information that was
available to the grand jury, and then the grand jury

(23:12):
was ultimately the one that made the decision about indicting
Detective Hankinson. I don't see how you don't at least
get a manslaughter charge, Like like doctors commitmental practice. There's
consequences I say something on this radio, you know, even
if it's by accident that I didn't mean to, there's
consequences to it. Like how is there no consequences killing
a young woman in her apartment while she's sleeping. Of course,

(23:38):
once this happened, there was a protests across the United States,
and in Louisville there were actually two police officers who
were shot during the protests. Shortly before the curfew began,
there were reports of gunfire near one of the marches.
Two of the responding officers were shot. They have non
life threatening wounds, and there is a suspect in custody.

(24:01):
The way that a lot of people feel right now,
they should be happy that it's not more. And what
do you expect, seriously, like, you know, if there's if
there's no if there's no order, you know, what I mean,
because people don't feel like there's getting getting justice. That's
the justice system fault, the so called justices. Yeah, but
we can't. People can't run around to start shooting random people.

(24:22):
That's the whole point. People and people. That's what we're
trying to tell. The political that's what that's what we're
trying to tell the police officers point. But we just
can't start shooting random people back all right, listen, I
agree with you, but what do you expect, Like, I mean, seriously,
how do you keep putting this kind of energy y'all
keep not giving people justice and then expect people not
to be upset. I'm not gonna tell somebody how they

(24:43):
should express their pain. People are hurt. Hurt, people hurt people,
People are upset, people are angry, people are venting, people
are frustrated. People the end of day wrote now. Donald
Trump tweeted out praying for the two police officers that
were shot tonight in Louisville, Kentucky. The federal government stan
behind you and it is ready to help. And then
he also said law and order, but he didn't say

(25:05):
nothing about prays to the family of or nothing, you
know what I mean, Like Come on, man, nobody needs
to be hurting anybody at a time like this, all
right now. Donald Trump also was questioned during a press
conference yesterday about whether he will leave the White House
peacefully if he loses the election, and here's what happened.
Will you commit to making sure that there is a

(25:27):
peaceful transfer poll of power after the election? Cool, We're
gonna have to see what happens. You know that I've
been complaining very strongly about the ballots and the ballots
or a disaster and that, but people are rioting. Do
you commit to making sure that there's a peaceful want
to get rid of the ballots and you'll have a
very trans We'll have a very peaceful there won't be

(25:47):
a transfer. Frankly, there'll be a continuation. I mean, I've
been telling y'all. I've been telling y'all on his radio
for about a year and a half that the fastest
in the White House was not leaving that man. Who's
going to retain power through voter suppression. They're going to voters,
especially in inner cities. They're gonna suppress mail in voting.
You already see them suppressing registration roles. They're gonna limit
physical polling locations, especially in areas with a high black population.

(26:09):
The man is telling you he's not leaving peacefully, and
he's telling you just throw away the absentee ballots, don't
count the ballots, that we won't have to worry about
whether or not there'll be a peaceful transition of power.
By the way, he benefits from the chaos, all of
this recklessness in the screech right now, everything out of order.
Now he can really say, oh, I'm the law nor
the president. I'm going to maintain order. Now. You actually

(26:31):
caused the chaos by not giving Americans what they deserve,
which is justice in a situation like Brianna Taylor. But
he's gonna benefit from it because now they're gonna run
these images on Fox News over and over and over.
They're gonna be in Donald Trump added Donald Trump commercial
saying oh, this is Joe Biden's America. No, this is
just America, period, and it's gonna be America. As long
as this crooked system is in place. He doesn't need

(26:54):
to be reformed, it needs to be overhauled. Since Ruth
Bader Ginsburg died, they said there was a surge in
voter register. They said that vote dot org saw more
than forty thousand new voter registrations on Saturday and Satnday,
which is a sixty eight percent increase from the prior weekend.
That's good. Once again, I really don't understand how you

(27:16):
how you use this situation to tell people to vote,
because these type of injustices happen under Democrats too, doesn't
matter who's in office locally. Naturally, we've been watching police
and damn there everybody else get away with these type
of injustice towards the black people forever. So you got
to explain to me how voting is going to change.
In most places, you vote for your attorney general, and
you vote for local officials, and then you have to

(27:38):
hold them accountable. It's not just voting but also being involved.
And so it is important who you vote for, hopefully
your governor, who might appoint the attorney general in some states.
Some states you vote for your attorney general. So it
is important to make sure you tell people to vote
because who you want to represent you and I'm not
saying that that person has to be a Democrat or
a Republican, but at least know who you're voting for

(27:59):
and who has your edge. Absolutely, yeah, we should an
register vote and people should be voting, not just for
the presidency, like you said, for all places, for mayors,
for district attorneys for like, yeah, absolutely, we should be so.
Throughout the history of America, how can we always see
this this this type of scenario played out over and
over and over and over again. A lot of times,
I don't think don't vote. A lot of we do

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need more people to register to vote and to participate
in the process. And we also need more people to
be encouraged to run for these offices. A lot of
times you don't even know who's our local offices, Like like,
I think, be honest, a lot of times we don't
know who's in our local offices, you know. I mean
we need to start we need to start doing ours.
And I think we need people that are in these
local offices that are willing to overhaul the system, not

(28:40):
reform it, because this system is not for us. When
they do when when they defined justice for all, black
people were not included. And that's why encourage people to
run for office. And if you know somebody who you
think would being an incredible mayor or chief of a
city police Department, encourage them to run for our office.
Let them know that you'll support them and strategize. It's

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not just always the processes. These are our candidates, but
maybe you know people who you think that person would
be a great candidate. Be involved. All right, a lot
of your front page news. Now when we come back,
the author of Open Mike, Mike Hill, will be joining us.
All right. You've probably seen him on Fox Sports and
the host of other platforms, but he'll be joining us
next an. He's engaged to Cynthia Bailey on Real Housewives

(29:22):
of Atlanta, so we'll see him, we'll talk to him.
Next is to Breakfast Club. Go Morning, the Breakfast Club Morning.
Everybody's dh Envy Angela yee, Charlomagne the guy we are
the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest on the
line right now, the author of Open Mike, which is
available right now, Mike Hill. Ladies and gentlemen, all right,

(29:42):
what's up, King, how's it go? That's black and Holly Favor. Yes, yes, yes, hey, yeah,
I see you. Thank you for representing many appreciate that.
What's up, Mike, man, I'm you know, reading this book.
I'm like you've really come a long way I have.
I had to. You know, people are gonna look at
a lot of transgressions that I had in my life,
but hopefully they look at the transformation the things I

(30:04):
went through in my life, seeing domestic violence, growing up,
finding out that my stepfather was a contracted killer, going
through my marriages and all this stuff that I went
through when I was at ESPN Fast Sports. That led
me to actually where I am right now when it
comes to being involved with the lady on with right now.
So it's been a journey, but I'm happy I took

(30:24):
that journey in Alabama. Correct. Yeah, I was born in
the Bronx. I'm always going to be a New York dude,
but Alabama was where my roots are. You know, that's
where my former two years of my life. So I
called myself a kind of a country boy, kind of
like Charlemagne and Monk's Corner down in South Carolina, the
same kind of background and whatnot. But you know, it

(30:46):
was it was. It was kind of crazy for me
because you know, people think you grew up in the Bronx,
that's where you're going to find a lot of trouble whatnot.
But I found more trouble when I was in Alabama,
because you gotta understand, when I grew up down there,
it was the start of the crack era, and so
a lot of the country boys down there was doing
a lot of crazy stuff, and a lot of my
friends got caught up in a lot of the drugs whatnot.
One of my best friends got killed in the drive

(31:07):
by shooting. One of my other friends was you know,
on roeryp In twenty seven years of his life in
prison and all that type of stuff. So a lot
of the things that they grew up with I grew
up with. I just had some of the better decisions.
I had some people in my life to kind of
put me on the right track. Or I could have
been doing the same thing that they're doing right now
or what they were doing. You know, Mike, you did

(31:28):
something that I did, and I think all men eventually
have to be intentional about doing. You went and you
you started doing the work on yourself to get some
healing and some wholeness. When were you able to identify
that you had traumas you needed to deal with and
and and that you needed to go get help. You know,
it's crazy, is it wasn't until I actually started writing
this book. This book was my therapy. I didn't even

(31:49):
realize that I had so many traumas and pains and
anger and depression that was built up inside me until
I started writing this book. Then it became my therapy.
I just know that at the age of forty seven,
when I started writing this book, that I see him
on the outside that I was happy. I was living
a great life. My job was wonderful, you know. I
was telling everybody I was happy, the happies I had
ever been in my life, professionally and personally. But I

(32:12):
would find myself at home just crying uncontrollably for no
reason whatsoever. I'd be on the road with the clippers
when I was working with them, and I would just have,
you know, just tears was coming out of my eyes
for whatever reason. And something told me I needed to
write this book. So when I started writing this book,
it felt like I was regurgitating. It just felt like
everything started coming out of me at once, and I
realized that I had all this stuff, all this trauma

(32:35):
and all this pain that I had suppressed for so
many years. And I think that's what we do as
black men, you know, we suppressed those the anger and
all that depression and all that pain, and I had
to let it go. When I finally was able to
let it go, I always called that like my surgery.
And when I had the surgery, of course, you know
how it is that I got to be real abilitation
after the surgery, and that was when my therapy came in.
So I realized that, you know, for forty seven years,

(32:57):
I was a boy acting like a man, and it
wasn't until I actually wrote this book that I stepped
into my manhood. And now I'm still kind of continuing
that journey. Yeah, it's interesting when you put everything together
all at once because obviously, you know, as long as
you've been on this earth, we're reading this book, and
then we're going through all these experiences that you went through.

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You know, you're joined the military, which that was something
about you. I didn't even know, you know, prior to
meeting you, and that's quite an experience already. And then
you got married at a pretty young age, just and
it was kind of for selfish reasons, right, Yeah, everything
was for selfish reasons for me growing up, you know,
like I didn't know I didn't have any male role
models in my life. I didn't know how I lived

(33:38):
my life. I just had to kind of go day
by day seeing other people doing what they were doing,
and I figured out they could do it, I could
do it somebody at my age whatnot. And then getting
married at an early age because I saw one of
my best friends in the military who was married with
a kid and he was making more money. So all
the other stuff that I went through, it was because
I saw other people doing or whatnot, and I didn't
have the right people in my life. Page basically kind

(34:01):
of guide me along the way, giving me that guidance
that I need. And that's why I wanted to put
this out there, because if you can find yourself a
positive male role model or just a positive role model period,
somebody that can take you under their wings would not
give you the direction to give you some of the
advice that I never received when I was younger. I
hope that you can understand and look at my life
and say, you know what he made some of the

(34:23):
mistakes that I'm still making right now, and I can
go and get the health and the therapy of Charlemagne
we was talking about that I need, so that you
can turn your life around at an earlier age and
stop affecting your life, because when you affect your life,
you also affect the others around you too. And that's
what people don't realize, is that you're not only hurting yourself,
but you're hurting a lot of the other trips that
are living. Yep, a contract and your stepdad was a

(34:47):
contract to kill them. Yeah, yeah, I found How did
you find that out? Yeah? I found that out when
I came back from the military. I was just saying
it out with him. I knew we had done some
things in the past whatnot. Obviously when I was in
the middle of here, there was a story I wrote
about when I got a call when I was in
the Philippines and he got he had killed somebody and
they came and raided at the house. Whatever. I'maware around

(35:08):
the world, I can't do anything about it whatnot. He
got off on that because of self defense, so they say,
but everybody kind of know what the real story was,
to be honest with you. And then when I got home,
he was kind of at his lower's point, and my
mom had left him, and I'm sitting on the porch
and I'm basically trying to save this man, and I'm
talking to him and he's telling me all the things
that he had done, and he just basically kind of

(35:29):
infested and then followed up talking to a lot of
his friends whatever. I found out all that type of
stuff was true. But you know, even my dad, my stepdad,
I don't want to kind of come down on him
or whatever. He was a loving man, cared about me.
He took me. I got his last name because he
adopted me when I was fifteen years old, and he
loved me. He just had issues. So this is the
main things I want to get people to understand about

(35:49):
this book is that we as black men need help
and we can't be afraid to ask for that help.
You know, it's okay to the emotion when so kay
To cries, It's okay to say, you know what, my
life right now ain't it ain't. It ain't going to
where it's supposed to go. So I need somebody to
reach out to and understand, and somebody to reach back

(36:09):
to me to give me the help that I needed.
So I wish that my father would have gotten the
help that he needed at an earlier age. Somebody would
have pulled him in and basically told him, you know what,
the path you're going down right now isn't gonna lead
you anywhere. It's gonna lead you to devastation, destruction. You're
gonna hurt a lot of people around you, just like
he did. And maybe he would have worked out okay,

(36:30):
but unfortunately it didn't because he spent the last nine
years of his life in prison for murder for hire.
And you'll see why. And it was a terrible story
why he did that too as well. All right, we
got more with Mike Hill when we come back, don't move.
It's to Breakfast Club. Good morning morning. Everybody is DJ
Envy Angela yee. Charlomagne, the guy we all to Breakfast Club.
We're kicking him with Mike kill. Charlemagne, did you receive

(36:51):
any backlash from anybody when you decided to go to therapy?
Because you know, every if you if you go on
YouTube right now, you see it's all Charlomagne talks about
his mental health and going to therapy. Every thing isn't
about therapy. You know, I don't give, I don't care,
you know, I mean, it's my life, you know, And
y'all understand ch'arallo man I got I got to be
honest with you. Reading your book actually helped me out
a lot too, because when I see you use your

(37:12):
platform and basically admit that you had some mental health
issues or whatnot, and that you aren't afraid to go
and get the help that you needed, that was huge
to use your platform that way. And I encourage anybody
with a platform, don't care if you got ten followers,
you got ten million followers. If you know you need
some kind of health in any kind of way, please
ask for so the people that do come out and
basically say, you know, oh you emotional when you're crying,

(37:33):
you you know, calling your little names what I want
to call you, whatever, I don't care. I'm at a
point in my life where my mind, my life, and
the people around me matter more than anything in the world.
So if you don't want to get the help that
you need and you want to kind of dog me
out for it, I pray for you, and I pray
that you get the help, because I think when you
do do things like that, when you troll or you
trying to throw some kind of hate or disparaging remarks,

(37:55):
that somebody that's trying to get mental health. Those are
the main ones that actually needed. So are here to
help you out. I'm here to make you a better person.
So all I can do is use my platform and
use whatever NOTORID y'all have to basically set myself as
an example and hopefully somebody can follow suit. Now, Mike,
I got to ask you a couple of questions because
you were very transparent about some things in this book. Okay, So,

(38:18):
and I know that wasn't easy because there's some stories
that you told that I'm like, wow, so there's something
in here that you said because you said when somebody
asked you doing a Q and A, maybe you'll answer
that question. So let's ask you that question right now.
There was an incident with your ex wife, Camille, where
you stayed out all night. She was trying to call you,

(38:38):
and you told her you were in the hospital. You
know how men lie, Either they're in the hospital or
they got arrested. That's how they excuse things. And she
couldn't reach you. You actually because you told her that
you actually checked into the hospital and intended to have
an asthma attack. And then you fax there's some proof
over but you had to change the time and everything

(38:59):
that you checked in. Now you said, I bet you
want to know where I really was. Maybe I'll answer
this as part of a Q and A after the
book comes out, if someone brings it up, but we're
bringing it up here. Where were you that night when
you told your ex that you were in the hospital. Yeah,
he's supposed to be my girl. Man, I've been loving
That's okay, I get it. I'm glad you read that part.
You know. And this was before we were actually married,

(39:21):
So I was actually still technically single, but you know, um, yeah,
but in a relationship. Oh yeah, I was across the
street hanging out with somebody I shouldn't have been hanging
out with whatnot. And when I got back home, my
phone was ringing off the hook. My ex was like
a detective. She was one of those women like if
you were missing for like five minutes, she was gonna
call you or whatever. And when I got back home,

(39:41):
I had like twelve missed calls and thirteen messages. To
be quite honest with you, so I was, Yeah, I
was doing dirt. I was doing a lot. But because
I liked her enough and we had gotten that deep
into the relationship. I went to the extent of acting
like I was thick, which once again I am not
proud of acting like acting like I was in the hospital,

(40:03):
like I had just gone to the hospital or whatever,
and that I had to go to the emergency room.
And she said, prove it, so you had to go.
It's how you know you really care? That is that
effective when a woman is on you like that, when
you know that you had a tendency you know previously
to stray right? Does that work when women are constantly
on you? And like, havn't you check in? You think

(40:25):
that's an effective way? Nah? It not for me. It
because the person i'm were right now and like I've
gotten past all that stuff that I used to do
them my life. That's Cynthia. Yes, Cynthia and I finally
settled down, and I'm I want to do it the
right way. Like I said, I stepped into my manhood.
But for me, when I want to do right and
when I've told you about my pasts, like obviously everybody

(40:47):
knows about my past, and I just want you to
give me an opportunity. I don't need you on top
of me all the time, you know, basically, telling me,
you know, or asking where I am whatnot, checking my DMS,
checking my phone and things like that. I think for me,
for my personality, I think that pushes me away. I
can understand why somebody would do it. But if you
say you trust me, trust me, you know what I mean,
give me an opportunity to prove that I'm doing something wrong.

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Now if you give you a reason for you not
to trust me, then I understand being on probation or
being checked up on. But you know, I need a wife.
I need somebody that's gonna be with me. I don't
need a CEO. I don't need I don't need a
correction officer. I don't need that, you know so. And
I definitely don't need a parole officer because you know what,
I've never gone to your prison, you know what I mean.
So I'm coming out. I'm not on probation for you.

(41:32):
We're supposed to being in a relationship. Just trust me
like you said you are. I'm not gonna lie. I
think I kind of need to see you just a
little bit, you know what I'm saying. Little, I don't
need a little bit of direction, that's all. That's it.
Nothing crazy. Well, if you know that, I mean, but
it is. If you know that, that's that's cool. You know,
I understanding. You know, if you got a woman that's
you know, doesn't mind checking up on you and your
mind showing her where you've been, that's fine. But here's

(41:54):
the thing. What I've learned also is that it is
also our job to make sure that they are secure.
So if I don't want to feel like that, Bob
or ten minutes or whatnot, I am the type of
person that you know what, let me get on the phone.
If I'm hanging out with there's a woman with me,
I'm gonna FaceTime my girl and let her know who
I'm hanging out with, how many people I'm hanging out with,

(42:15):
and I don't leave out details. That's the growth that
I've had over the years. Now. Like that said, I
was doing my dirt back in the day, the infidelities
or whatever. I admit all that. You know, that's just
you know, me drawing up. But at the same time,
I'll come a long way and now I want to
make my girl secure as possible. Yeah, we don't want
to feel we don't want to feel that way. We
don't want to feel like I gotta chat, make sure
he checks in. Where is he. I don't want to

(42:36):
call my man and be like, Okay, he's not answering
the phone. He must be doing something. I want to
call him. And if he doesn't answer, but hey, hit
me when you get this and feel comfortable. Yeah. But
at the same time, if I'm at work, or if
I tell you I'm on an interview and I don't
answer the phone right away because I'm on the air,
I'm doing television, I'm doing a radio show, and you
kind of know that, and you're blowing me up, and
you blow me up five or six times, and I
finally answering the first thing. You say, what f you've been? What?

(42:59):
You know? React tota way because you know what, I'm
doing my job. I'm not doing somebody else. So you
got to give me a little bit of leeway. That's all,
you know. Men, we don't even know our habits. Man.
I remember back in the day when I used to
be used to have my in the dirt. My wife
would always say to me, when I know you're when
I know you're messing around with a woman? Is women

(43:20):
that I don't know, meaning like like all a lot
of my most of my all my female friends, she knows,
so she's never met her. I've never introduced her to
introduce her to the person. Yeah yeah, yeah, But see,
I think that's important. So I got a lot of
female friends, the majority of my friends and females. I
just always got along better with females that than me.
That I'm out there, you know, being them down or whatnot,

(43:41):
just means that we got a ton of friends with her.
They look at me like an uncle, they look at
me like a big brother. I give them advice a
lot of times. But one thing that's for sure. If
I got a female friend, my fiance Cynthia has that
female friend as well. If I'm hanging out with her,
she knows I'm hanging out with it. So once again
that pons were part of just making your g feel secure,
especially if you have that pass, because you want to

(44:04):
make sure that you build up that trust whatnot. And
a lot of times some people do it, and I'll
be honest with you, some people do it because they
want to. You know, they might have somebody still doing
dirt or whatever. But I'm at a point in my life,
like I said, I've done all this stuff. Man, I
don't don't judge me for the transgressions, look at me
for my transformation. I've grown up and I realized all
the mistakes I made in the past on lead those

(44:25):
in the past because I want to have a black
future with somebody I can grow with. I have a
don't move. We got more with Mike Kill when we
come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning morning. Everybody
is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are
the Breakfast Club. We're kicking it with Mike Kill. Charlomagne,
your fiance said, you probably never would have proposed and
she wouldn't have said yes if you didn't get the

(44:46):
help you needed. So so what traumas do you think
we're holding you back from being the man you are now? Yeah?
I was. I didn't trust anybody. I mean, there was
something that happened to me, and you read the book.
There was something that happened to me. I was fifteen
years old with a young lady and a lot of
people's like man, you held on to that for thirty years, yes,
told me, and you understand we as men sometime hold
on to traumas for a long period of time. And

(45:08):
because when you told her you loved her and she
didn't say it back, that yeah, tell me that that
was it? I mean like she and she well, she
did not only did she not say it back, she
looked at me like I was freaking crazy, you know
what I mean? And that else, the first time I
told a woman that I loved her and she tells me,
she looks at me and like, let's go. And then

(45:29):
two days later she's with somebody else who happened to
actually be a friend of mine or whatnot. And I
didn't even realize we had broken up. I felt that
her pain and and I didn't want to feel that again.
So for a long time, I could not trust women,
and after a while, I couldn't trust myself. So until
I started loving myself, I could never fall in love
with another woman. I could love somebody. I loved the
women that I married before, the mother of my children.

(45:50):
Don't get me wrong, but there's a difference in loving
somebody and falling in love. I could never completely fall
in love because I couldn't trust them. But more importantly,
I couldn't trus myself until I actually wrote this book. Mike,
I'm sorry giving away some spoilers also, but I just
want to there's a lot to this book, so I
just I do want to, you know, give away little
bits and pieces, but I think that is important. You know,

(46:12):
she's fifteen years old, I love you, and she's you
know at that age. Was there anybody to tool us?
Was there people to talk to him during that time
when you said I love you and she didn't say
it back. Was anybody even saying, let you know what,
let me because we don't have these conversations. We're just
starting to have these conversations now. But was there anybody
that you could speak with? You just talked through them?
Mike saying, she looked at me like she farted in

(46:32):
my mouth. Yeah, she looked at me like, yeah, like
I farted, like I farted in her mouth. Like that's old.
Charlemaine heard he was. I heard everything. I'm like, how
do you mean how you talk over that? Like I
didn't hear that. That was the reaction, you know what
I mean? So when you imagine the first time you
pure in the way I described it, man, I felt

(46:53):
like I was in the moment, like Luke. I don't
even know who was playing in the background, but it
was just like this was like something out of a
love story. I'm like, you know of what looking at her.
She's beautiful, she's two years old. She's a saying y'am
the sophomore and like, I love you. I did it
just like that real school right there. I mean that's
where I said, I read a real school. And she
looked at me like, so I remember that now he

(47:15):
ain't or whatever. So, like you said, there was nobody
for me to talk to. There was nobody I could
go to. My biological father wasn't around my stepfather. I
couldn't talk to him about loving anybody because I never
saw him love my mom. I never saw them. I
never saw love in a household. So I didn't have
anybody that was a positive male role model that could
actually talk to about that. And if I talk to him,

(47:36):
they would say things like emptem holes. Seriously, man, you
you ain't supposed to love him anyway. That's exactly what
end that I got, Mike. I swear I was about
to say that to you. What's interesting about that? And
she broke your heart? And when the other options are
bitches ain't beholds in tricks, money over holes. When the
option is disrespect you adopt that, Yeah, exactly, that's what

(47:58):
you see growing up as a kid. It man. And
so that's why I once again, I wanted people to
see my pain and see the things that I've gone
through in my life, a lot of things, like Angela
just said, some embarrassing moments that you know, it's hard
for me to talk about or whatever at the same time,
but I wanted to put that out there because if
you can heal from my pain, then then that's my journey.

(48:18):
Then that's what I'm supposed to be doing on this earth.
That's my purpose in life. One more teas I want
to give it. I'm not gonna give this theory because
I want to make sure everybody reads this book. You're
gonna love this, Charlottagne. There was even an incident that
you talk about where you got hit on the face
or in the head with a penis why Charlemagne gonna
love that? That That that happened to you too, Charlemagne, But
explain mic ahead. So that's the tease. When I was

(48:41):
starting my broadcasting career and I was an intern and
we was just say, we was in a tight locker room.
I was holding the microphone talking to somebody while I
was on my knees because the locker room was real tight,
and when I turned around, let's just say, I turned
around and another microphone hit me on my forehead right there,
because you know, because the players were so close to

(49:01):
each other. And the guy said, well, I'm sorry, excuse me.
You know me so but you know, yeah, that that
that was a really thank you answer. I appreciate you,
but that was that wasn't want for me to say too,
because that was part of my broadcasting career. That was
my introduction. I probably was. I was about to quit. You. Hey,

(49:22):
you won't be the first person to start a broadcasting
career because they got it on their head. So what
do you saff He says, I'm sorry, what do you say?
All right? Get up? I mean you know this well
he was. He was a superstar in the NBA. All
I can do is like was was damn at least
it was his? All right? Who were talking about? We

(49:45):
talking about? He wouldn't say that. I'm pretty sure he en.
You know, a lot of faith has been slapped by
that pigs. I'm been saying, a superstar or scribe man?
Is it a hull of things? He's a Hall of Famer, obviously,
I'll leave it at that. Yeah, all of thing. Yeah,

(50:07):
But you know, Mike, what you're doing with your book
is a great man, because we have to create space
for each other to discuss our brokenness and discuss our
traumas without being canceled. You know, yes, the person you
probably heard people and you know, we got to create
these spaces to have these conversations. We have to give
each other the grace you want God to give us. Yeah,
And I appreciate you guys giving me the platform to
be able to talk about that because, like you said,

(50:29):
Charlo Man, I appreciate you using your platform to basically
get that word out that we can't be ashamed. We
gotta stop manning up. If we continue to man up,
soon or later, it's gonna be manned down. Man, I
mean six feet down, because I keep telling people, had
I not written this book, I would be dead right now.
Think about this as black people, every single person in
this country has had to deal with some kind of trauma.

(50:51):
We're dealing with trauma right now. Basically, when you're afraid
to get in your car get stopped by the police,
that's trauma. That's paint. Feel free to talk about that
type of stuff and not be ashamed of it, because
being a man is admitting that you have problems and
you need help with those problems. And that's why I'm
here for man, That's what I'm gonna trying to do.
I'm gonna keep on using my platform for that regard.

(51:13):
Another takeaway from this book is a lot of people
see you as a successful Mike Hill now, but they
don't know how long it took for you to get there,
and all the trials and tribulations that you had to have,
even getting fired, having to dumb yourself down to be
on a network and not show your real personality, feeling betrayal,
all of those things at work, and how hard it
is to just keep going when things aren't working out.

(51:37):
And I think that's a really huge valuable takeaway for people.
It's not an overnight thing. Yeah, I appreciate you saying that,
because part of the book is about my professional growth
and my development and things like you said that I
had to go through and having to basically I lost myself,
I mean, to get a dream job at ESPN and
then basically be told you know at one time that
I was being too ghetto, you know, and run of

(51:58):
the reasons why I wasn't moving up being too ghetto.
And you know, I was talking about NVY the other
day when Ivy came out and he was talking about
what somebody at a network basically told him that he
wasn't black enough. So I've been that that guy that
in a lot of places that I've been. I've been
too black for some people. I've been too ghetto so
to speak to some people, and I've been too white
for other people. I've been corny or whatnot. So I'm

(52:20):
kind of in between, and it's kind of hard. So
once you realize who you are and you step into
who you are and you don't care what other people think,
it's so liberating. But going through what I went through
in my life, being fired, like you said, for whatever reasons,
I got fired and you'll see it in the book
or whatever, the ups and downs at ESPN, and been
losing my personality and losing who I was. Can't look
myself in a mirror and realize that I lost who

(52:43):
Mike kill was. I mean, that was tough and I
finally got that back. So you'll see the transgressions and
the transformation that I had with my professional career as well.
Absolutely appreciate you brother for checking in. Man, we really
do it. Definitely showing the bookie, Michael. We'll be doing
Angela Gue's book Club, the Well Read book Club, so
I appreciate you for that. We'll be announcing that date shortly.

(53:06):
I got one more question though, because I know you've
been doing the work on yourself, so your ego isn't
as fragile as it used to be. But when you
saw the headline a couple of weeks ago that your
fiance says she's been having horrible quarantine sex with you,
how did that? How did that? How did that hit
for you? You know it didn't. It didn't affect you
whatsoever because I know what I'm doing in the bedroom

(53:27):
for us, so I know I know I'm putting it down. Dog.
I mean, look, hey, bro, the reviews the okay, to
be quite honest with you, so late. You know how
clickbait is it if you're read. Yeah, that's not what
she was saying. He was talking. She was talking about
more the circumstance, the environment. R Yeah, because our kids
were in the house, so man, she couldn't you know
she couldn't get a scream on man, my girl, like

(53:49):
you know, you know, you come a long way from
from the beginning of this book when you were hunting
and releasing just from that, so grat's on that great?
All right, Well, thank you for joining us. Just Mike

(54:09):
killed us the Breakfast Club in the morning. So Breakfast Club,
your morning's will never be the same morning. Everybody is
DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne, guy, we all the Breakfast Club.
Let's get to the rumors. Let's talk Mariah carry listen,
oh Gosh reports Breakfast Club. Well, Mariah did a sit

(54:33):
down with Oprah and this is all about her new book.
She did an interview for the Oprah Conversation and she
talked about some of the stories that she is sharing
in her memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey, that is
coming out on September twenty ninth. It's a lot going
on September twenty ninth. By the way, that's the first
debates between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. It's awesome my
brother's birthday. And she discussed as many things, including growing

(54:56):
up by racial and what that experience was like. It
wasn't that I didn't like my hair when it was behaving,
but as I grew up a little bit, it went
from baby hair to like matted, unruly hair that nobody
was combing through or understanding that you can't have a
little girl running around with matt in her head. Feel
like I was hated on by certain people in my

(55:17):
family for having the lighter hair, and but then if
they only realized, like, no, actually, I have like matted
hair which is frizzy and curly, and like it could
look good if we had some conditioner. So your mother,
did you know what to do with it? And many
times she just let it go. She also discusses dating
Derk Jeter and how that helped her get over her
relationship and get out of her relationship with Tammy Motola.

(55:40):
He was a catalyst that helped me get out of
that relationship, and I think that it was beautiful and
his family was a healthy family, and they changed my
viewpoint that, oh, it's because of the biracial situation that
my family so screwed up, as opposed to it's them,
you know. And yes, those things did play a huge
part in their dysfunction, but it was healthy for me

(56:03):
to see a functional family that basically kind of looked
like mine but didn't feel like mine. And then she
talked about her twins, the kids, and how they help her.
They helped to heal me every day, every time we
have a moment that feels real and authentic and genuine,
and it's them loving me unconditionally. The only other time

(56:25):
my fably got it, got it. You know, I am
actually interested in reading Mariah Carry's book. I really am. Yeah,
ever since the time Mariah Carry came into the Breakfast
Club studios and she was in full diva mode and
she had her own lighting team and she made us
turn our lights down and set hers up. And when
we said to her, well, you're not going to be

(56:45):
able to see us, she said, that's the point, darling.
I've always liked her. I like people who are unapologetically themselves,
even if themselves is a total diva. Now it isn't
DJs one. Mariah is DJ also. Yes, he just such
one belongs to Windy Williams. And now you must not
know how this works. See, okay, how does this work?
Wendy has a leash around sus one, all right, okay,

(57:07):
until that leash is off, he belongs to Wendy. That's
how this works. Suss Will realized that what he tries,
he's getting all the money. All right, Well better he
better hope Maria and Wendy have a good relationship. Because
Maria don't come to Wendy's show to promote that book.
Wendy will be quick to say, f Mariah and sus
you better not go on the road with her. Wow,

(57:28):
So is that how it works? Is that how you
sat on her lap? She has a leash on you.
And that's right. You see that little talk, sit down,
come down, sit down, tame puppet all right now. John
Legend says that he and Chrissy t can go to therapy,
and he also said that therapy and communication are some
of the factors that has helped their marriage. Last he said,

(57:52):
it sounds obvious, but being with someone you really care about,
respect and enjoy being around. I think that's the crucial
foundation than communicating, being concern are listening to your partner
and making sure their needs are met. And we go
to therapy sometimes. I think every couple who's been together
for a long time could use time to talk with
the third party to help with whatever concerns they have
and this was with Cosmopolitan UK. I agree with you.

(58:13):
I'll go to therapy with your other half. I've been
in therapy before. I've been before a long time ago.
But we still this people that we speak with when
we have conversations or is this a disagreement, but nah,
I mean we have a you know, you know what
helps us a lot, not be honest, taping the podcast
with each other. Yep. That podcast does everything because every
week we talk about what's going on in all relationship

(58:35):
or things that happen, and we just sit down and
talk to each other. There's no arguments, it's just discussion
and communication. So that podcast helps a lot. I love it.
I do want to add a couple of therapy to
the repertoire. I mean I've been before, and you know
I go individually every week, but yeah, I think a
couple of therapy is great. Felicia Rashad has joined social media.
She put up a video and told her fans that

(58:58):
she's there. I told my sister Debbie, there are so
many Twitter, Facebook, Instagram accounts with my name already on it.
Why should I do this? She said, yeah, this, but
they're not the real you. So this is the real
me talking to the real you, and I'm looking forward
to posting about things that matter. Was the video upside down?

(59:21):
She added together it was good. Why would you try
to play her like that? Let me saying all right,
she said, good morning. I want to give a shout
out to our young people who are navigating education via
the virtual classroom and to the teachers, parents, grandparents, family
members and friends who are helping them to do it.
Bless you all. So she posted that message also, I'll

(59:42):
follow Felicia Rashod is a beautiful woman. By the way,
her Throwback Thursday talented fire shut up man. Today, I'm
telling you, today is the Felicia rashow to day too.
Shine you hear me? I bet you right now if
she throws them about five or six good throwback Thursday
pictures her few crack a million followers to hey, telling
you see what she's up to, because as soon as

(01:00:02):
she posted that she had like forty thousand right away,
she has, oh fifty nine thousand right now. Okay, throw
Back Thursday, I'm telling you it's your time to shine,
mister shot All right, Well, I'm Angela Yee and that
is your rumor report. It's all right, thank you, miss
ye Charlemagne. We're giving that donkey too. I'm gonna give
Donkey to Day to the Jefferson County grand Jury an

(01:00:24):
Attorney Daniel Cameron. I'm gonna be honest with y'all. Have
no answers for y'all this morning. Um, I just feel
like Vinton. All right, we'll get into that next keeping
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It's time for Donkey of the Day. Being dunky of
the day, a little bit of a mc keell, but
like a dope other day. Now I've been called a

(01:01:10):
lot of my twenty three years that Donkey of the
day is a new wife. Donkey Today for Thursday, September
twenty fourth goes to the Jefferson County Grand Jury and
Attorney Daniel Cameron in Kentucky. Whoever else was responsible for
making sure for ensuring that justice was not served in
the shooting death of Brianna Taylor. Is Donkey is for
you too, if you haven't heard a Jefferson County grand

(01:01:33):
jury wednesday and died in One of the officers, Brett Hankinson,
on three counts of first degree wanton endangerment because jurist
said several bullets he fired inside Taylor's apartment. In March thirteenth,
went into a neighboring apartment where a pregnant woman, a man,
and a child were home, but neither him nor Sergeant
Jonathan matten Lee our detective Miles cost Growth were charged

(01:01:55):
with killing Brianna Taylor, an unarmed black woman. Look, I
wasn't expecting any type of justice. This is America, Okay.
When justice is served, I'm shocked, pleasantly, surprised, joyful even
which is why because we should never celebrate people for
doing what they're supposed to do. But when justice isn't served,
I honestly don't know what I am. Each case is different,

(01:02:19):
each case feels different. I was talking to my dear
sister Angela Ry last night and I told her I
just feel bad, Okay, I feel humanly helpless because at
the end of the day, as a black man in America.
I just want to win, that's all we want, you know.
And winning to me isn't being the richest, it's not
being the most successful. Winning to me is just being free.

(01:02:42):
What does that mean? I don't know. Winning to me
is just simply receiving liberty, equality, and justice. You know,
those democratic values they tell us about. Those three words
is supposed to represent basic values of democratic political systems.
At the bare minimum, a human in this country should
be able to get liberty, equal quality, and justice. But
we know that's not the case when you're black. All right.

(01:03:06):
Democratic values are supposed to support the belief that an
orderly society can exist in which freedom is preserved. But
order and freedom must be balanced. Right, So when you
see all this civil unrest in the street right now,
after verdicts like Brianna Taylor happened, and people are acting
out of order, it's because there's no balance, all right.
Order and freedom must be balanced. There will never be

(01:03:26):
ordered when a people are not free. And it's hard
to feel truly free when you don't feel protected, when
you know, at any moment in this country your human
rights can be violated. So we keep talking about our
civil rights being violated. Let me tell y'all something. In
order for one to respect our civil rights, they have
to respect our human rights, which is my right to

(01:03:47):
simply live. Okay, what does this country say? What does
this country say? I think it's my right to life
and liberty that bs. This country says everyone is entitled
to these rights without discrimination. Where That's why I don't
feel that way. I'm a black man. If it wasn't
for my faith in a higher power in my right
to bear arms, I would never feel safe in this country.

(01:04:07):
And that's what I mean when I say I want
black people to win. A win to me, is us
as black people feeling protected. Okay, hard to feel like
that when you live in the United States of anxiety. Okay.
I want black people to feel like we matter. I
want us to be able to deal with our generational
traumas in heal. But we are not ever able to
do that because we keep getting retraumatized over and over

(01:04:30):
in this country. This country will always remind us that
black lives simply don't matter. I got a beautiful black wife,
three beautiful black daughters. I am a black man. I
just you know, think about it today we matter about
Brianna Taylor. We're still mad about George Floyd. You got
Ahmad Aubrey, but all those names are interchangeable with Sandra Blain,

(01:04:51):
Walter Scott, Treyvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Natasha mckenne, Philando cast
still could be you like, it's just too much. And
I know, I know, I know, November look I play
into but police politicians, don't politicize black pain that scared
me in the voting because these injustices happen under Democrats too.
It doesn't matter what party is in power, because once again,

(01:05:11):
this isn't about civil rights, it's about human rights, and
white people in this country have always looked at black
folks as subhuman. So does it matter who's in office
locally nationally when we've been watching police and damn there
everyone else get away with these types of injustice towards
black people forever. Once again, I'm voting, but don't politicize
black pain that scared me to vote. Don't tell me

(01:05:31):
how the justice system needs to be reformed. No, no, no,
because that system was never designed to provide equal justice
across the board. Okay, when they say justice for all,
they were not talking about black folks. Bernie Sanders hit
it on the head yesterday when he said in a tweet,
Rihanna Taylor's life mattered. This result is a disgrace and

(01:05:54):
an abdication of justice. Our criminal justice system is racing. Okay,
the time for fundamental changes now. Keywords and that our
criminal justice system is racist. There is no reforming or
racist system. Okay, you got to overhaul the whole thing
from top to bottom. Throw it out. The criminal justice
system in America is defective. Product, take it off the

(01:06:16):
assembly line. Let's build something new because this is not working.
I don't have the answers, Okay, I'm just telling you
how I feel. I hate when I hear politicians get
asked about these situations and the first thing they say
is make sure you protest peacefully. We don't need any violence.
How about tell that to the cops, tell them the
police peacefully, Tell them we don't need any more violence.

(01:06:37):
Help show improve through actions and deeds, and hold them
accountable when situations like Brianna Taylor happened, and maybe they
will slow down on violence. What are the consequences to
their actions. They don't lose their pensions, they don't go
to prison. What will ensure that situations like Brianna Taylor,
George Floyd and insert black name here don't happen again?

(01:06:58):
All right? These politicians have it more smoke for protesters
than they do the police. You have more smoke for
the people in pain than the people causing the pain.
These politicians love acknowledging the effect, but not the cause.
Is sickness, man, he really is. And I don't know
what to do. I don't know what to say. I
have faith in God, Okay. I go to therapy to

(01:07:19):
avoid going crazy. And I think every black person in
America should own a legal firearm and you should know
how to use it. That's all I got, Black people,
That's all I got. If y'all got some great ideas,
I'm all ears. But at this moment, today, right now,
I got nothing, just like Brianna Taylor's family got nothing
in regards to justice. And if there's no justice, there's

(01:07:41):
no peace in the streets. Okay. And that's the way
karma works in America, Almighty America. No one and I
mean no one can escape the law karma. Please let
remy Ma give the Jefferson County Grand Jury an attorney
Daniel Cameron, the biggest he haw he haw, he haw.

(01:08:02):
You stupid mother? Are you dumb? All right? I'm well,
thank you for that, donkey, or today I wish I
didn't have to do it. Now when we come back,
let's open up the phone lines. Eight hundred five eight
five one oh five one. What you want to Usually yeah,
he does ask you here, right, yeah, this is normally
where I would do ask you. But today I want

(01:08:22):
the women to call after Brianna Taylor's family still has
not gotten justice. They have not gotten justice for Brianna Taylor.
I want to hear what your thoughts are as women,
as black women here in the United States. Please call
up and let's just vent and get it off I
guess get it off our chest. Today we want to
hear from you. All right, eight hundred five eight five

(01:08:43):
one oh five one, call us now, women, it's the
Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club morning. Everybody is
DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We all the
Breakfast Club. Now usually we do ask eye here whatever
and that's going on. We just want to open up
the phone lines and speak to everybody, speak to definitely

(01:09:04):
you women, you mothers, you sisters, you man. We want
to speak to black women in particular because black women's
experience has been really different in this country and around
the world when it comes to police brutality, when it
comes to feminism, when it comes to our rights, when
it comes to being respected, and it's a continuing issue

(01:09:25):
and we see this right now with Brianna Taylor and
no justice for her family. She was killed by police
officers and there were no charges based off of her
getting killed. So we want to talk to black women
and talk about how you feel. As you know, the
most famous quote, the most disrespected person in America is
the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is

(01:09:47):
the black woman. The most neglected person in America is
the black woman. And you can see that when it
comes to finance is what women get paid. Women get
make eighty two cents for every dollar that a white
man makes, but black women may sixty two cents still
in the United States for every dollar that a white
man makes. So we're always still at the bottom of everything.
And I want to get people. I want to get
black women to call and talk about how you're feeling

(01:10:09):
this morning. Black women also face police brutality, sexual assault
at a higher rate than white women. So I just
want to get your your thoughts this morning. Hello, who's
this Hello? My name is Kia from Jersey. I just
want to know where is face to be a black
female in this country because from a young age where

(01:10:30):
it's hard. You know, you're not safe around your family,
You're not safe in your neighborhood. Growing up, you know
you gotta be safe, Like it's one way, be safe, safe, safe,
But where's that police? Because now we're at a point
where you can't even be too sleep in bed. That
is scary, Like I'm feel afraid for black men, like

(01:10:53):
the police and everything I so annoying, But it's us too.
Where's that place? Where's that place of safety? It's not happening,
it's non existing. And I replied, it's disgusting that the
outcome of this piece. It's disgusting. It's disgusting, and I
just want to know how long it's gonna lie. And

(01:11:13):
you know, black women show up for everybody else too,
everybody we don't we get talked about. But where is
a place of safety for a black female? And I'm
not anywhere? Yeah, Um, I agree with everything that that
everybody is saying, But I think we're all in the

(01:11:35):
same boat it comes to racism in America. You know,
it's a system that's against black people. It was never
designed for black people. And we are all in this together,
and that's what I think we all need to understand.
You know that there was a black man in that
house with her who actually defended her and his residence,
and I'm shocked that he's alive. And that's the situation
that as a black man, I pray I'm never in

(01:11:56):
NV I know, you pray you're never in it, you
know what I'm saying, Like, we never, even though we
will defend our families, we don't ever want to be
in that situation. You know. Let's go to another We
do want to talk about black women in particular. This morning.
They have a whole organization called Say Her Name that
started because there's so many black women that were killed
by police officers and people don't talk about it as much. Well,

(01:12:18):
let's go to another cola. Hello, who's this. My name
is Sonny. Hey, Sonny, what are you calling from. I'm
calling from the New Jersey area, but I'm born and
raised in the NLC I'm a bronx red girl. All right,
let's talk about it. What are your thoughts, mama, Well,
my thoughts are you know, I'm a black woman, I
have a black son, I have a black daughter. We

(01:12:39):
have a Taylor could have been could have been my daughter. Um,
I'm a professional. I grew up, you know, in hard times.
I've overcome a lot. But I just feel like as
being a professional, as being a mother, I always have
to I always have to have that guard up. I
always have to go the extra mouth. It's exhausting. And
then just to just to come to be the revelation

(01:13:03):
that it's just not enough, It's just not enough. My
heart goes out to Brianna Taylor's family just, you know,
just the thought that your child's life does not matter
in a country that you help built. Right, Well, thank
you for calling, Mamma. Eight hundred five eight five one
oh five one phone line to wide open call us.

(01:13:25):
Now it's the Breakfast Club, Goal Morning Morning. Everybody is
DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagnicay. We are the Breakfast Usually
this is where we do ask ye, but today we're
doing things a little different, right, Yes, today we have
black women We want you to call in and just
tell us your thoughts. You know, we talk about black
women being neglected, being disrespected in this country, even financially.

(01:13:49):
The Crown Act just recently is about to go to
the Senate now, and even our hair being and I
know it might be something that some people might think
of as small, but being discriminated again because of how
your hair is warned so much that we had to
pass a Crown Act or work on getting something like
that passed. Um. So it's just so many different things. Um.

(01:14:09):
More than eighty percent of black women are heads of
their household too in the United States, and I wanted
to point that out as well. So the fact that
we make sixty two cents on the dollar in comparison
to white men but still have to be the heads
of households, Imagine what that does for an entire family.
So we want to get your thoughts on what's going
on here. All right, Well, let's go to the phone
on Hello. Who's this Hey? This is Nicole, Hey, Nicole,

(01:14:31):
what are you calling from? Nicole? Hey, I'm actually falling
from Kentucky. How are you all? I'm blessed black and
Holly favorite, how are you? How's it out there? What's
the energy? Like right now it's morning time, so it's
the energy. You know, it's kind of still I'm definitely
like hurt. Like I was playing before Heath and came
out and said it because it's kind of like, you know,
everybody pretty much knew, you know, once they took the settlement.

(01:14:54):
But um, you know they're still protesting. They you know,
of course they want them charged, but you know, it's
just it's very sad. And I just wanted to also
say that I do agree with Lebron James tweaked because
it is hard for a black woman. It's like we
have to go out in the world and fight the
world and you know, try to make it and be successful.
You gotta so called fake you to you make it,

(01:15:15):
and then you come in at home. You gotta have
peace in your home. Makes you got peace at home.
So you know, it's just really hard and if we
just stick together, you know. But um, right now, like
I said, they're everything's like kind of people. We gotta
nine o'clock curfew for the next couple of days. Um,
And I mean that's pretty much it at the moment.
I can say that. So day Yep, it's pretty fat. Yes,

(01:15:40):
it is all right. Well, thank you mama. How let
us go to another line. Hello, who's this Hi? This
is India, India, good morning, talk to us now this morning.
It's emotionally dreaming. I found myself to my daughter, good morning.
Did you just you You never know what a hole
it is going to fool you over that day? Um,
our life is let's have in a life. I guess um.

(01:16:06):
I mean granted being for the safety of the family.
You know that was behind the will. But at the
end of the day, I knew what was going to happen. Um.
I have a family member who you know, she kind
of sort of works within the um ga here um
in North Carolina, and you know, we talk about it
every day. I have a friend who's been the healthcare field,

(01:16:27):
so she deals with ancients with mental health, and you know,
we were into trying to talk about it every day.
I'm low key in education, so it's like, as a
black woman, like what what more can we do? This?
This is really drained. It's just really drenking. We just
need them. And I have my way to work now,

(01:16:49):
I work with kids. I meant to out here. I'm
on my way to work. Now I have to get
ready to put the smile on my face for parents.
But I am trying imagine, imagine what Angelie said just now.
It's very important. It is about support. And I just
don't want black women to feel like they're alone, because
that could Brianna Taylor. That could be our wife, our daughter,

(01:17:09):
or still mother. Things like this, Yep, when things like
this happened to Brianna Taylor and impacts us all there
is no Black women have it worse when it comes
to racism. Black men have it worse when it comes
to racism. We have a whole system against us, a
whole system oppressing us, a whole system that isn't providing
justice for any of us. So I don't want systems
to feel like they're alone. Because for every Brianna Taylor,

(01:17:30):
thats a George Floyd, for every Sandra bland As, a
Filando cast deal, for every Natasha mckinned as the Tamir Rice.
So yes, I want this is defense, get it off
their chest. But I need everyone to know black people
we are in this together. The system is against us,
and while y'are fighting, we as black men are here
to defend y'all, because I'm gonna die by mind. And
I don't think America understands the position they are putting

(01:17:50):
us in as black people. I really don't think they
get it, all right. And I want to recommend a
book that I just started reading. It's called Invisible No
More Please. Violence against Black Women and Women of Color
is by Andrew or Richie, So just to get some
more insight into the history of what's going on in
our country. And yeah, that's just the support that we
need for people to pay attention when it's black women. Also,

(01:18:13):
all right, we got rooms on the way. What we're
talking about, Yes, and let's talk about Kanye West. You know,
he's been calling out these labels and he got called
out as well. So here's what he said he's about
to do for good music artists. All right, we'll get
into that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the
Breakfast Club. This is the Ruble Report with Angela, Yes Breast.

(01:18:41):
So Kanye West has promised to return his fifty percent
share of all good music Artists masters, and he actually
challenged Universal to do the same. He said, I'm giving
all good music artists back the fifty percent share. I
have of their masters. Now, let's have Universal match me.
If Kanye doesn't fall through with that, then we know
he's full of it because he didn't tell people that

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he owned the masters to his good music artists when
he initially went on his rant. So all good music
artists need to save that tweet. Not sure, it's not
sure it's good in the court of law, but save
it anyway. Well, he's been talking so crazy, he has
to stay on staying on his word right now. Big
Sear responded, Big Searan responded, thank you, This would help
so much, and Designer said thanks, and he put the

(01:19:25):
one hundred emoji. I hate knowing what I know, but
I wish Kanye West would tell people the whole truth.
Like he's not telling folks that he renegotiated with def
Jam Universal four times and chose the money over his
masters every time. He's also not telling people that he
owns the masters the Jesus and every album after that
he's talking about slavery is a choice. No, signing those

(01:19:46):
record contracts he signed is a choice. That was really it.
He also tweeted out, I'm not releasing nothing on Gap
till I'm on the board, and he said, I'm wearing
Jordan's till I'm on the board of Adidas. I was
confused with that. You have your own sneakers. It's not
like you have a part now. You have your own sneaker.
You're not an in door serve Adidas. You have your
own Adidas, and you want to wear Jordan maybe just

(01:20:07):
like George Better. I don't know, or at least he's
wearing another black man sneak. And I just want the
record to show that I sit on the board of
the Black Effect podcast network and network, and I am
a majority owner of with iHeartRadio. But you know, those
type of things have to be negotiated beforehand. But what
do I know? All right now, Ed Sharon, As you know,
it is being sued and that is for using Marvin
Gays Let's get it on for his twenty fourteen song

(01:20:29):
Thinking out Loud using the harmony, melody and rhythmic components.
So I want to play both songs and I want
to hear if you think that this is official. So honey,
nah take man timing off of the F stop sounds

(01:21:05):
very similar. Oh, I can definitely hear some some what
do you call it an interpolation? That you could definitely
have some Marvin Gaye is shit in it. So so
what are they doing on this norm Well, at Sharon's
at Sharon is responding to the lawsuit, and he responded
when it first was filed. He said that the core
progressions and drum patterns were extremely commonplace in the public
domain and unprotectable. All right, Well, the song Let's Get

(01:21:27):
It On was actually co written by Ted Towns, and
so it's the Towns in the state that is seeking
songwriting credit and they want a portion of the revenue
from the song. Now, Townsend family did file this lawsuit
against Sharon back in twenty sixteen, and a couple of
days ago, Ed Townsend's daughter, Catherine Townsend just spoke out
about this, and she said, theft and bullying has been
the only priority of the record label's agenda. It stopped today,

(01:21:50):
Sony Atlantic and all the rest of them. We're coming
for our forty acres in the mule plus an interest
and know that we're not going to be silent. It
don't stop till my casket dropped. Yeah. Ed is a
great guy. He's not a vulture, he's not a thief.
So I'm sure Ed would rectify that situation if if
there is indeed a problem, all right now, Academics says
he had a conversation with Quavo and Offset, and that's

(01:22:12):
after he was saying that the megos fell off. And
here's what he had to say about their conversation. I
spoke to off Set your suit to my man off Set,
and I'm not gonna lie yo. I want to really
give him credit for being mad or reasonable and understanding
and saying, hey, yo, listen. I listened to the segment
and I felt you were saying something that we needed
to hear. He literally said, I want you to expound

(01:22:34):
on those things. And we had like about thirty minute
conversation where for the most part he was listening. He
was like yeah. He asked me what feels different, what
looks different? Why? Why do you think this is happening?
And for him, it was about gaining information, all right,
y'all nothing to worry about there, y'all putting too much
pressure on artists. Man Mego's been around for damn near

(01:22:55):
a decade. They have changed hip hop, you know, like
like you're not gonna be that red hot artist every year.
You can only hope to be consistent. And I would
think the Megals were consistent. They they put out solo
albums last year. Could just have like a clout with
Cardi B last year, Like I don't. I don't just
say that they fell off. They had. They haven't fell

(01:23:16):
off now, they haven't fell off. And they stayed consistent.
They stay in the clubs, they stay in their lane,
they stay on the radio. They all consistent. Plus there's
a COVID year. We don't know what artists would have
been doing, you know, if they weren't sitting at home.
You know, I'm saying, like, I don't, I think y'all
putting too much pressure on folks man. All right, And
Kodak Black is asking Donald Term for help. He wants
him to commute his prison sentence. His attorneys sent a

(01:23:39):
petition to Trump and they're asking to cut Kodak a
little bit of a break. And so they said that
Kodak was sentence forty six months behind bars in his
federal guncase. They said they average sentence for that is
eighteen months. So they're just asking for some help. And
actually called that Black's attorney was a contestant on The
Apprentice Away back in two thousand and five. Trump probably

(01:23:59):
like black commute blacks all the time. We've commute blacks
through the first step back. I'm not commuting anymore blacks.
All right, Well I'm Angela Yee and that is your
rumor reports. All right, shout to revote. We'll see you tomorrow.
Everybody else to People's Choice mixes up. Next, it's the
Breakfast Club, Good morning morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee,
Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Then we

(01:24:21):
got a shout to Mike Hill for joining us this morning. Yeah.
Michael Hell his book Open Mic, and he is pretty
honest on there. He says some things in that book
that I was like, Wow, Mike, I can't believe you
would like this. But I love all black people, especially
black men, holding themselves accountable for any of our past bs.

(01:24:42):
And I think that we have to create safe spaces
for black men to be able to express their brokenness
without being a quote unquote canceled whatever that means. All right, Well,
when we come back, we got the positive notes, so
don't move. It's to Breakfast Club, Good morning, j Envy,
Angela Yee, charlom I mean the guy we are the
Breakfast Club. Yes, and as always I want to encourage

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people to be involved in the process and to vote.
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well it's time to get up out of here, Charlemagne.
You got a positive note. Yes, it's the positive note.
It is simply this man. I know all of us
are going through something today. But control your emotions. But
controlling your emotions doesn't mean avoiding your emotions. Feel your

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understand you, but don't lose your ship. Breakfast Clubs. You're
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