Generational Wealth ( Jim Jones and Cheryl Mckissack Interview)

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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the solid holding down the bay rage let me agitator,
the breakfast club. Everyone just kept ling the one word
to describe the breakfast club. Who impacting the culture? People
watch the breakfast Club for like news and really be
tuned in. Man, I don't even know what to call it.
The breakfast club. It's like brunch, NB Yea and Cholomagne.

(00:24):
Wake that ass up, get out of bed and listen
to the breakfast Club. I'm wasting. Good morning Usa yo
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(00:45):
yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo,
Good morning Angela ye good money, Damni Cholo Migne, the
guy peace to the plane. It is Tunda, Yes, yes, Tuesday.
It's definitely too that morning. I gotta walk in and

(01:05):
deal with Drake's number one fan, DJ Drammo's first thing,
first thing in the morning. Lord ha Mercy, it's funny.
I'm listening to y'all argument. I had the same argument
with Dogan last night, the same that's all. Just listening
to y'all is it a generational thing, what it might be? Argument? Well,
for me, it was Logan told me that Drake is

(01:26):
the best artist ever, and I told that it was
jay Z. And we went back and forth about records,
We went back and forth about influence, We went back
and forth about time out. You gotta be specific. You
can't just say artists, because when y'all start talking like that,
then that's when I tell everybody to shut the f
up forever because you discredited in The Princess and the

(01:47):
Michael Jackings when I yes, yeah, yeah, So I had
that argument last night. So hey, you guys argue about that.
I just thought it was a larus because I just
had that argument with Logan last night. Listen. One thing
I will not say is that you can't you can't
not have Drake in that conversation. And I'm not gonna
sit here and say he shouldn't even belong in the conversation.

(02:07):
It's definitely in the conversation, right. But Luka didn't grow
up listening to jay Z like in the era that. No,
he didn't, but he knows whole Yeah, he knows whole songs.
He knows he knows Drake songs. He knows the impact.
We talk about it all the time. And no disrespect
to Drake, but it's I can't put jay Z in
Drake's category or in Kanye's category. That is me. Once
you have a writer, it's totally Drake. Drake is definitely

(02:32):
you can put definitely argue Drake and Kanye because Kanye
got writers too, like you put them in the same category,
but somebody who doesn't have it. And also I also
tell my son, like jay Z was from a hustler's mentality,
it's from I came from Queens. I wanted to get
out of Queens, and he kind of felt like he
wrapped my life. You know. Drake is he doesn't wrap
from that that that place. He wraps from his own

(02:54):
personal experiences. My son relates to my son relates to
Drake more than he relates to Jake. That's listen. Drake
is great, Okay, the number two, the number three songs
in the country, which I'm sure we'll talk about later
on in the show. Correct he can still gets busy.
But it just I don't know that you really here
the two of them. I don't know that you could

(03:14):
really compare them who I don't know because I just
felt like it's the music has evolved so much, how
we listen to music has evolved, streaming, numbers, all of it.
So what are we talking about? We're talking about music?
Are we talking about numbers? See? That's what that's where
the lines get blurred. I's it's our perspective. It's who
you personally like. If Logan grew up listening to Drake,

(03:35):
that's personally who he likes. That's what he relates to.
Then to him, that's the best. Yeah, yeah, I because
because one thing I'm tired of y'all doing also too,
is discrediting that young man from La named Kung Fu
Kenny okay, who's been dominant for the past decade, but
just because he takes breaks and sometimes it's out of sight,

(03:56):
out of mind. That's why I can't wait till he drops.
So we can everybody can start the West Coast licking again,
because it's going to happen. It's a different category. It's
not rap rap rapp. This is what we do. We
are We just bait rappers. Okay, there was the time
where you argued about who the best them see was
Biggie jay Z and nah, you argue Biggi in Biggie

(04:16):
in poc. Now you're arguing that Drakes and still talking
about Jay in the conversation and the Kendricks. Okay, it happens. Correct. Well,
last night was last Name was dating that. I know
you don't care, but last night was the season finale
of The Bachelor. How's your So you watched that? Over
the Brooklyn Nets versus the New York Knicks. I went
back and forth and Nets, what what we're crushing the Knicks.

(04:36):
So I was able to go back and forth. But
the game got very closer to n seventeen one twelve. Yes, yeah,
the third quarter they were up by like so many
house like they cut it too, like three at one
point if I'm not oh no, I left that game.
I was like, Knicks lost this one. So I went
back to Matt James. Okay, all right, well, ratchlin Nation.

(05:00):
It was a good one. But I'm sure we'll talk
about it in rumors now. Jim Jones will be joining
us this morning. We'll kick it with Jim Jones. Copple
be in the building, and not only Jim Jones. We
got a very good show. This is one of those
shows this morning that I love because it's a very
informative and you're guaranteed to learn something from somebody. So yes,
Jim Jones will be here. But also we have Cheryl mckissic. Yes,

(05:23):
she is the CEO of mckissic and the Kiss, an
architectural and construction management firm, the largest architectural and construction
management firm. Yes, owned by a black person and black woman. Yes,
she's fifth generations to all these conversations we have about
generational wealth and you know, passing things on to your kids. Oh,

(05:43):
this family did it for real. We're gonna have a
great conversation. It is Women's History Month, right right, all right,
yes it is. Let's talk to a woman that's making history.
All right. The front page news is next what we're
talking about. Yes, and let's talk about this vaccine. Everybody's
talking about how you gonna get it? Is it safe? Well?
The White House is a lot ching a campaign, and
I'll tell you all about it. All right. We'll get
into that. Nextus to Breakfast Club, Go Morning wanting. Everybody

(06:05):
is j Envy, Angela, Guie Charlomagne the guy. We are
to Breakfast Club. Let's getting some front page news where
were starting me, Well, let's start with the Biden administration.
They're planning to launch a COVID nineteen vaccine promotion campaign,
a two hundred and fifty million dollar ad campaign, and
that's aimed at people here who are hesitant to get

(06:26):
the vaccine. So they said, the government is going to
be doing advertising on TV, radio, billboards, print and digital media.
They're also doing a podcast posted by a well known
person outside of the government as well, in order to
encourage people to get the vaccine, because, according to a
new CNN Paul they said, more than twenty five percent
of Americans don't intend to get a COVID vaccine. Well,

(06:47):
I'm not knocking anyone who was taking the vaccine. I'm
not an anti vaxer at all. But you know, no advertising,
a podcast is going to be able to build up,
you know, a trust in a matter of months, because
this is sent treason injuries of years of distrust, especially
when it comes to the institution in the medicals, through
racism in the medical institution. Well, according to health officials,

(07:07):
eighty percent of Americans need to be vaccinated to keep
the virus from spreading. So that's why it's important and
right now it's spring break and US air travel has
had a pandemic high as a lot of people are
going to sunny features. It's trying a party, they said.
On both Friday and Sunday, more than one point three
million people were screened at airports by the TSA, and
that's the most since coronavirus has hit travel a year ago.

(07:30):
And they be acting like black people don't have valid reasons,
you know, and not to trust the vaccine. And then
when you ask them, okay, well why should I trusted
based on all the years and years of racism in
the medical system towards black people, watch it I trusted.
They just look at you stupid, like, oh, there's a
crap shoot, Like you said, it is a crap shoot.
We just don't know. I mean, you heard people die.
And the first thing they say is they took the

(07:51):
vaccine shot. And it could be true. It can't be.
We just don't know how anything affects the body. We
don't know if you catch COVID, how it affects your body.
I know people who were fine and didn't even know
when I know people that were damn neil and ventilators.
You know, same thing with the vaccine. You just don't know,
you know, you just don't know. I took the crap
shoot me personally because I move around, I travel, so
I'd rather have, you know, be more protective. But you

(08:12):
just don't know, all right. A family in Indianapolis says
an argument over stimulus check is what led to four
people getting killed a quadruple murder, and called her a child. Yes,
the shooting took place, yeah, on Saturday. So the suspect,
Malik Halfacre, he approached giannetris More about his belief that
he should get half of her stimulus check. She has

(08:34):
two young daughters, one of them is with Malik, and
a cousin of Moore said that he wanted some of
her tax money and stimulus money. She said, according to
a conversation that she heard, she said, you don't deserve
any of this. I work, I take care of our child.
You don't do anything. He said, I really want half.
She said, I'll give you four fifty take it or
leave it. And he said, I'm gonna get that money.
So then he waited outside of her home, and he

(08:56):
said Jennetris said, he gave her an evil look and
then he walked off and then he came back and
demanded to know where the money was. He went through
her purse and then they said at that point he
shot and killed four people. The dead people were identified
by the family as Genetus's seven year old daughter Eve,
her twenty three year old brother de Quan, her forty
four year old mother to Mika Brown, and her thirty

(09:17):
five year old cousin, Anthony Johnson's Genius. Herself was also
wounded in her other who she shares with Malik, has
been reported missing, and now Malik is on the run. Well,
prayers up for that family, sending the remaining surviving members
of that family healing energy. But I'm gonna tell y'all something, Man,
if you're killing people over the fourteen hundred dollars stimulus check,

(09:37):
you can't afford to go to jail. Now you in
jail with a bond, that's crazy if you get one
at all, like you can't like, well, you got to
think about these things before you make these these permanent
decisions based off temporary feelings. Yeah, he killed four people.
I don't think he can get even fourteen hundred, right,
I guess he wanted the whole thing, but over fourteen

(09:57):
hundred hours. He would a part of it. I think
he just would part. I don't think he wanted to
hold I've been in four fifty. She offered him four fifty,
and he said, no way. She takes care of the child.
Why would I give you the whole stimulus check You
can't even afford to go to jail. All right, well
that's your front page news. So again, arrest in peace
to those family members and our condolences. All right, get
it off your chest? Eight hundred five eight five one

(10:18):
on five one phone lines, a wide open talk to
us as a breakfast local morning, the breakfast club. Wake up,
wake up, wake y'all, you're time to get it off
your chest? Is a man or blass. We want to
hear from you on the breakfast blocks. Hello, who's this?
You know Black? What's up? She know Black? Get it

(10:40):
off your chess? Peace, King page page, Peace to the piece,
to the kings, Peace to the queens. Hi, y'all doing
this morning? Hope y'all bless blessed Black and holly favored brother.
That's a blessing. I just heard. I just heard him,
Misgie talk about miss talk about the guy killing killing
that family over that money man that's sad. Sad man sad,

(11:02):
It's sad. Bro. And in the words my uncle longl
my uncle pych dog Man, I just wish all is
like that would die. Like like if you if you
want ray piss, you die, my god, you will tell
you die my god. You do something like that, youh
my god. Yeah you got you got stop Curson. I

(11:23):
feel you. If you're gonna care if you kill four
people over fourteen hundred, you don't. You don't deserve to
be amongst us in society, bro, Man, that sucks. That's
that's sacks a right. I said, it's crazy. It's just crazy,
you know what I'm saying. Like he had no he
had all the reason. You can't really go ahead and
go get some money. There's plenty of people out here
that's hustling every day to go get it. Master P

(11:46):
got it out of his trunk. That's right. And that's
just and and that's just real, you know what I'm saying.
So all I wanted. Yeah, prisons were made for guys
like that, bro, Like I mean, I don't. There's no rehabilitation,
no nothing. You kill four people over fourteen hundred dollars,
you gotta go not nothing to talk about. Hello, who's this?
This is a nick you calling from Florida. How are

(12:08):
y'all the morning? Trying to sound sane when you know
you're crazy as hell from Florida. Listen, I'm much big
because today is my birthday and I just wanted to
call y'all and let y'all know I listen to y'all
every morning. Birthday, Happy birthday. What you're doing for your birthday?
All right? I'm feeling you know, it's Florida. I work

(12:29):
in the medical I don't even play about that mask off,
so I'm killing. I took myself out. I kind of
foiled myself this weekend, went out with a whole girl.
But honestly, I'm just gonna killing the house. That's right,
all right, Well, thank you mama, not a problem, Thank you, y'all.
Jo your birthday. Thank you guys again. Get it off
your chest eight hundred five eight five one on five one.

(12:50):
If you need to vent, hit this up now. It's
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time to get it off your chest? Whether you're man
or bless, so we better have the same inn we
want to hear from you. On the breakfast last Hello,
who's this? What's going on? MV? Charlotagne and what's going on? Brother?

(13:13):
Get it off your chests. I'm having a blessed wo man.
I can't, I can't complain. I did have word for
MV though, Evy, I've been listening to you saying since
I was a kid, man like my dad would go
to New York and get mixtape, the dud de Store mixtape.
So I've listened to him knowing I'm my whole life
for my man. There's a bad that you put out
and you say the word ideas. I know you know

(13:35):
how to say the word idea that I know there
with no arm. Man, you can't say it right. You
know somewhere you just can't pronounce. You said you'd be
saying idea. No, I said idea, Bro, listen to he
said it again. I ain't look nobody's perfect, bro, Like
almost every day I listened. I understand I'm not perfect

(13:58):
much right, But what I'm saying is that is a
reported as you had time to look at. Yeah no, no, no.
The real problem whoever whoever edited that as should have
caught it. Yeah, thank you whoever, Yeah, whoever put that out.
They don't like you very much. My mom happens to
bees like that, so that you know, as you can see,

(14:19):
it's levels of stupidity here at the breakfast club. Okay,
doesn't just start, it doesn't just stop with the host.
That's right, right. We all have a where we can't
We all have a where we can't pronounce, though I
don't be trying. I say scrat screech, scrong because I'm
from South Carolina. That's how I talk. Hello, Who's this
this is j Hey, j get off your chest. I'm

(14:42):
getting off my kids. Black peak bringing black people down
talking about when do we But first of all, Salomine girl,
that's right, that's a lot. But continue what other way around? Mama?
Did I hit one Wendy William and I ain't talking
about it in the stage. How we get to this

(15:04):
conversation anyway? Jesus, you'll be a good interviewer. What you
want to love you, but I'm not on your side.
I love her too. She got better taste than her. Mama. Well,
me and you cowboys answer, we got there, you go,

(15:25):
there you go. Mama? What made you answer that ask
that question? Was it depiction? Where Charlomagne is sitting on
Wendy Williams lap. Yeah, I know he hid it. What
is wrong with you? Lady? You hid? How old are you?
I'm old enough to say what I'm saying. Tell your daughter?

(15:51):
I said, hello, okay, can you see my son and all?
Happy birthday to day? Yes? What's his name? Happy born day?
Jesse Ryder? Are you guys? How did he feel about
a rod and j Low breaking up? Who? Rogue? I
thought right? Last name Rodriguez came about? Thank you, mommy,
you have a great day. Jesus love her? All right?

(16:15):
Get it off your chest eight hundred five eight five,
one oh five one. If you need to vent, hit
this up now. We got rumors on the way. Yes,
and let's talk about Drake this morning and his historic
debut with scary hours too. Pretty sure you cheated. We're
talking about it enough that hey, Charlottage just hey, congratulations
to that man. All right, we'll get to the next

(16:38):
The breakfast club aboarding Geese, the breakfast club morning. Everybody
is DJ Envy Angela, Ye, Charlomagne, the guy we are
the breakfast club. Let's get to the rumors. Let's go right,
I like is the Rumor Report with Angela Ye on

(17:00):
Breakfast Club. Well, Drake's the latest Scary Hours installing Scary
Hours two has made chart history. He is the first
artist to ever debut three tracks simultaneously in the top three.
So congratulations to him. Okay, let's get to Drake. Let's
stay here for a second. I have thoughts. I have

(17:23):
three thoughts, Okay, one of them number one. First off,
congrats to Drake dropping a clue box with Drake that
as an incredible feat. I asked the question a few
months ago, and the question was simply, are we still
in a Drake era when you're number one, two and
three on the charts. I think that answers your question
when it comes to screaming, When it comes to radio,
he's still the guy that top three may not reflect
what's happening in the clubs are in a slightly younger demo,

(17:46):
but he's still the guy in regard to the radio
and screaming. Yeah. Did you ask the question or did
you make a statement? No question? No, I didn't. Okay,
I ask the question. I never made that statement. The
internet is a liar. I never said Drake fell off. Okay,
I actually said Drake is Drake, so I expect numbers
on the board one, two, and three is unreal. This
is my second thought, by the way, but uh, you know,
screaming and radio manipulate the game in ways we've never seen.

(18:06):
But we forget all that, all right, Believe this is
a statement. The pressure is really on for Drake right
now because the three pack is dope, and I like
the energy at the three pack. Okay, the energy Drake
had on Lemon Pepper when he was killing that talk.
These days famous disconnected from excellence Half the time, I

(18:26):
gotta ask in words what their profession is usher in
a generation and these are way my confessions. Live bars
dropped on a clues bomp for those bars. That was incredible.
But the pressure is on because with certified love a boy,
I'm expecting an undeniable body of work. When I think
of the greats like the Holes and the Nazis and
the little ways these guys were giving us classics much
later in their career, whether it was the Blueprint, still

(18:48):
Mad at Card to three, I'm expecting the level of
project from Drake at this I'm expecting that level of
project from Drake at this point. This I think we'll
get that. I think we'll get that this time around.
What I've been hearing from Drake in the last couple
of songs but releasing is I've enjoyed these last three,
these last three and even when with Dirk, even one
with Dirt particular, it's cool, it's cool, but those four.

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But it's a new decade. He had a decade of
dominance in the twenty tens. Now it's time to plan
a flag for a new decade. Make a real statement.
That's my second thought and my third point since nine points.
My third point on Drake's storage feet being number one,
two and three in the country is simply this. He cheated.
He cheated something, all right. Don't let the hard cut

(19:34):
in his head fool you. Aubrey Graham is a demon
who doesn't play fair. He cheated. I can't prove it.
I have nothing to back this. No, it might just
be pure I hate no, No, I'm not standing on
nothing with this. I just think he cheated him Baca,
not nice pop con. They cheated. Don't let the nice
Canadian ting fool you. Okay, I recognize the demon when
I see one, excellent. I want him drug tested for

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performance enhancing. I need to see Drake's bur certificates. Drake, well,
congrats and the song he did once He Needs with
a Little Baby is Little Baby's highest charting song yet.
It's a six top ten on the Hot one hundred
drop on a clue bums for Drake Levin Pepper Freestyle
is woman Pepper freestyle, but all jokes aside. The pressures

(20:18):
offer certified love a boy only only because he's Drake,
he set, he set the ball for himself. So I'm
expecting an undeniable classic which certified love a boy. That's
what I That's what I want, and I'm sure that's
what he's aiming for right he has no choice. And
as this news broke, Drake was hanging out with bow Wow,
and that is somebody who has really opened doors for him.

(20:40):
Here is Drake and bow Wow. I didn't know how
it's to bring in one, two three. I had you know,
we don't come on man, we Georgia. I want to
call into your local station as I want to thank
you man. I love it. Thank y'all, I love it.
That's what I'm talking about. When you make history and
you got the number one, number two three song in
the country. You go and you pay homage to your oldgs,

(21:02):
dropping the clues bombs with Drake paying homage bow with you?
Now you know what I was partying with bout Wow
last two weeks ago and I was in the landing
to grow up the battle. You need to grow up, Wow,
you need to grow up. But I don't know what
you No. It was you know Mono, the guy that
taught me how the DJ was spending. And when I
was in the land, I went to go visit him.

(21:23):
It was bow Wow's birthday party. You need to up, Drake,
and you're like, Wow, he was you just need to
grow up. Mono's my guy. He told me how the
DJ he could be whatever. But yeah, I love the
fact that he paid homage though, slut respect your oldgs. Now,
you just need to connect with soldier boy, that's your
old gut up. Is really showing more respect to bow Wow? Yeah, No,

(21:46):
I had to link with Whistle. Everybody everybody wants to
have drinks and everybody wants to celebrate and turn up. Well,
I just had to see Whistle. That's that's why it
wasn't for you. That wouldn't be no me, And that's
why I'm a more dropped on the cluth bomb from Drake.
That's what I'm talking about. Pay homage to your old cheese.

(22:08):
You know when I worked at UP, when I worked
at Serious and I had that don't quit your day job,
and Drake was on before he got signed, people were
calling in telling him he sounded like bow wow, and
he was like, man, thank you, thank you. So I
guess early on, I don't think that ever happened. I
would never disrespect I'm not disrespecting Bawa. I just don't
think that ever happened. The audio is on the internet. Yeah,

(22:30):
I've gotta hear that. That's it. Yeah, you can hear
it all right now. Twenty one. Savage just starring in
a Louis Vaton Men's summer capsule collection campaign, so congratulations
to him. Looks good and Virgil posted breaking news twenty one.
Sabbathe and Code thinking Different and moving assets Louis Vaton
Material twenty twenty one. I love what these brands are doing.

(22:51):
I mean, I love that. I wish that we would
own more of our own lines, but the fact that
these brands are finally breaking bread with with the people
that are influenced, whether it's Dapper Day and whether it's Gucci,
whether it's Louis Vatton, whether it's Virgil or what he's doing,
I love it. Yeah, twenty one does more for Lloyd
than Louis does for twenty one. That's my opinion, I think.
So check the word though. Harry just got a Grammy's

(23:16):
Oscars Twofer and she says it changed her life. So
she picked up an Oscar nomination for her song fight
for You from Judas in The Black Messiah, only hours
after winning one of the top Grammys for her song
I Can't Breathe, the Song of the Year. So congratulations
to her. That's huge. She said it's been life changing.
Not to mention, she performed at the Super Bowl, so

(23:36):
she's been having an amazing year so far. So I
just want to give a big shout out to her.
And she said that if the Oscars asked her to perform,
she would definitely be there. All right, well that is
your rumor report. I'm Angela yee. All right, thank you,
miss e. Now we got from Page News what we're
talking about. Yes, and don't relax just yet. They're talking
about this variant when it comes to coronavirus so people

(23:59):
still got to be careful because this ain't This could
be dominant soon. Oh my goodness. All right, we'll get
into that next keeping locked this to Breakfast Club. Good morning,
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Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are to Breakfast Club.
Let's get into some front page news. Where we starting you, Well,
let's start with Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury. They are

(24:41):
set to face each other in the ring, according to
multiple media outlets, and according to ESPN, they have signed
a contract to meet in a pair of matches expected
to take place in twenty twenty one. I'm believing when
it hapnis. They still are looking for a site and
they're still looking for the money, said. According to WAS
promoter Eddie Herney said that our parties have now put

(25:03):
pen to paper and we will be working hard over
the next few weeks to confirm the site and date
for the biggest fight in boxes. Yeah, they're looking for
one hundred million dollars plus site. I don't know where
they're going to find that during this pandemic. I really don't.
They say the Middle East point. I mean, I don't
know all right now, speaking of this pandemic, a concerning

(25:25):
variant is about to become dominant in the United States,
according to experts, and they are also saying how we
act now could help fuel or curb assert So some
people are worried. Experts are worried that some Americans are
letting up too early. And it's a very critical time
as people are easing COVID nineteen restrictions in different states
because of improving trends and growing vaccination numbers. But at

(25:48):
the same time, a lot of people are traveling right now.
We already told you earlier for spring break, a lot
of people have been going to Florida and other sunny regions.
All of this while cases of a dangerous variant are
on the right, and that is a variant that was
first identified in the UK. So they said safety measures
will be especially crucial. Right now. They're saying that this

(26:08):
particular variant is highly transmissible, so it is a lot
more transmissible than other ones, and it's also more deadly
than other coronavirus variants, So people cannot ease up on
wearing their masks and social distancing and not gathering indoors.
So just giving y'all that morning, I don't know what
that means. Yeah, they don't think going to shut the

(26:29):
country back down though, But I don't know what it means. Like,
what is that? So is the virus is here? You
said it's here? What did they say? They've identified it
in forty eight different states already, So when they say
it's about to be dominant, what does that mean? Like,
I mean, it looks like it's spreading pretty quickly because
it's highly transmissible. So they're saying by the end of
this month or early April, they are projecting the way

(26:51):
that it's spreading, because it's highly contagious, it will become
the dominant variant. Is it deadlier? Because I know that
there was there was other variants that were super contagious.
What they not as dead one as deadly? Is it
is it deadlier or as deadly or what is it?
They said, the overall increased risk of death may be
somewhat higher, around sixty one percent more than the strings.
What about the vaccine is the vaccine does that fight

(27:12):
it off? The good news is that vaccinations are ramping up.
Experts are hoping that we'll be able to see some
normality by the summertime. And so, yes, the vaccine is effective,
and that's important. But what they're saying is, right now,
just make sure you're still wearing your mask, You're still
social distancing, still trying to remain outdoors and all of
those things. You got the vaccine in your book bag.

(27:34):
I got two different types of sea moss, you know
what I'm saying. One is the gold that's for sexual
in of course. The other one is just the regular
one that I take every morning, just you know, wanted
to pull that out. I gotta take next. Little reminded
to take sea moss. You'd be careful in their dramas,
you're gonna take the gold. Michael Ramos and Gammraman Nick

(27:55):
who hot morning, hot boy, morning your mind not to
gutter bro. I hate this place, I do too, disgusting
all right well, lad is your front page news. Now
when we come back, Coppo will be joining us. Jim Jones,
Jim Jim Jones. Listen, He's one of the mornings that
I love, man, You know what I mean, because it's
a very informative morning. Jim Jones is gonna be up

(28:17):
here giving out a lot of free jury because Jim
Jones got his hand and a lot of different things
right now, Crypto currency and you know that, fitness, quarantine, quarantiness, marijuana. Yeah,
he's got NFTs. Yes, Jim, Jim, Jim gonna put us
onto a lot of game. And then next hour we
have Cheryl McKissick, who is the CEO of mckinstican mckintic,

(28:38):
the largest black owned woman on construction company. So a
free jewelry morning here on the Breakfast Club, all right,
So don't move. It's to Breakfast Club the morning, the
Breakfast Club Morning. Everybody in Steve j Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne,
the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a
special guest in the building. Jim Jones. Come o, what's

(29:00):
up with your What are you not doing nowadays? Couple?
I see everything I see cryptocurrency. I see athletics, I
see studios that see you doing weather, Like, what are
you not doing? Barrojuana quarantine studios. There's a whole lot.
You gotta name a whole lot more. You got football team,
you gotta name a whole lot getting Jimmy do it
a lot. I've been I've been trying to trying to

(29:21):
figure out my hustle. I mean, you know, to be rich,
you gotta do more than one thing. So I'm just
trying to following the footsteps of those that came before me.
Absolutely tell us about the cryptocurrency thing. I saw the coin,
I was like, I feel not him to the cryptocurrency game. Um,
cryptocurrency is dope. UM, the space just for uh, for

(29:42):
the culture is dope. It's it's definitely like the wild
Wild West when it comes to making money. UM. You know,
you got the big coin and then you that's on
his own thing, and then you have coins that they
have on a theory and basis is like the next
biggest platform for the cryptocurrency. UM. I was fortun enough
to create my own coin, which is the capital coin

(30:03):
on zap Theory platform. And zap Theory is actually on
a theory m platform. So if you have ether right now,
you can purchase the capital coin. Um, but in a
few weeks you'll be able to purchase the capital coin.
What's your actual credit card? And I've been doing like
these little uh these little virtual parties and showing people

(30:24):
how to get invested in the capital coin. And then
you know, there's the other thing people have been talking
about is NFTs, which is non fungible tokens, which is
another big thing. Um, that's pretty much I call it
like a digital baseball card if to make so people
can understand it a little bit more gets a little
bit more intricate than that, but the money is definitely

(30:46):
for real, definitely serious. Um, It's probably the next biggest
way you can make some money since the marijuana started
becoming legal, and before that, I guess it was the
dot com and before that like prohibition and with all
the goal in America. So now cryptocurrency is the next
thing up to for people to get rich and create
a wealth word Jim NBC Like, I mean, you know

(31:15):
what I mean. I've been studying, well, I've been learning
about it. Usually when I get into something and I
learned to understand it, I could flip it in a
lot of different ways as anybody else. So these spaces
and spaces I would like to be in. Plus, I
always like to be at the custom of everything, or
step ahead of everything, especially when it comes to the culture,
because once the culture gets involved and it gets it
comes commercializing is a good thing because it's a flood

(31:36):
of money that comes o the way that we get
to circulate. I have no idea what you're talking about,
but I need to learn. Well, right now, you can
take because you're the owner of your books, right you
could take a picture of your book and sell as
an NFT and somebody would have the only digital copy
of the cover of your books and they're going to
buy it for some change. Maybe we should do that together.

(31:57):
You give me a chance. I can help you out
with I'm with that hanging on your I phone. You
take a picture of this book right here on your
I phone. You did, and then they do they give
it to the people with the zap zap theory that
helps us out with doing all of and they put
it up for sell of NFT. Charlemagne has a picture
of us. And even though you can take a picture

(32:18):
of every page on this motherfu sell it as a
whole group and make it and then the whole book
will go out all whatever pages to be out with
different people. When people can start to try to acquire
the whole book and out, then pretty soon the whole
book of somebody have the whole book as an NFT
that they own. That's like just as powerful as you
being an author of the book. Then that would probably
be worth all type of money. So so many things

(32:40):
that you could do. Is no rules inside of this
space as long as you understand how to be creative
with making money and selling whatever it is. Yet you're
selling from artists to music to you know what I mean.
There's no like the owner of Scott Tissue could take
a picture of the first Scott tissue and probably make
a slow money and that. So it just depends to
who you are. The more impressionable you are, the more

(33:02):
success you have. Nine times to intend it's better for
the sale of that NFT. Wow, So hey, we could
take this interview and they get an NF and then
just sell it like that and somebody we could cut
it up a few different ways. So you don't just
want to sell a whole thing as one NFT. You
want to sell it a feud as a five different NFT.
So then when you put it out in the space,
somebody actually wants to acquire the whole thing as they

(33:23):
own NFT and that becomes a money maker in itself,
and then we'll get paid five different ways for splicing
this UH interview up. Maybe we should do that too,
since we're talking about it, what is Quarantine Studio? Explain
to people a quarantine studio and how you maximize that.
I actually I think I met one of your partners
this weekend in UH Atlanta. Yes, yes, the virtue. It

(33:46):
was trying to tell me how to do the interactive seminar.
The virtual reality. Yes, we have a virtual reality company,
you know with the goggles or you could just put
it on your phone where you could go actually space. Um.
But Quarantine Studios is made up of two parts. The
first part was services for artists, I mean artists and
people all alike him and I say services, I mean

(34:06):
whatever a record label can offer to to anybody as well,
we can offer to anybody from touch as DJs as
dj VY was one of the few first few people
who understood what I was trying to do and That's
why I appreciate them for this helping me out. I
think every dope too, man, because I was trying to
get them trying to get a crib and I'm at
your envy. I'm trying to get this crib right now.
I need you to. He gave me some good people

(34:28):
to help me out, so I appreciate that. But back
to Quarantine Studios. So, whether you need a entertainment lawyer,
a publicist, public administration, you need some DJ's to give
you a drop, or you need some features from an artist,
graphic design, whatever it is that your heart desire that
you need something a service from out of this industry
is where we could provide. Now on the flip side,

(34:49):
there's a techie type platform that we created where I
figured out how how to record music in real time
in the virtual space with Danny zero latency, which is
almost impossible for right now for people to pull off
in the capacity that we do it. Now, there's people
out there that do record like that, and shout outs
to Drake and forty and the way they do they

(35:12):
recording process. But this is a little bit iller um,
not to say knocking anybody, but I figured out a
dope way to really pull us off and would people
be able to pay to watch come in the studio
with me? Um Like he said, we got the virtual
reality component where people could actually come into the space
that we actually are recording the music out or whatever.
Man um and it's dope. I recorded five albums. Shouts

(35:35):
to Heat Made, Shout the hit Makers, Young Bird, shous
the heat Maker's awesomeess. Shouts to Scram Jones, h souths
to Harry Freud, the project of that dis trap. I
still haven't met Harry Faud. Yes, I still haven't met
Harry Fraud in person yet. Mean yes, Harry Freud and
Harry Freud and John Sparks we were the collective group
to create the tech, the techie component of Quaunching Studios

(36:00):
to help me figure out that whole loop and how
to record it and virtually so that we could create
the album. And that was the first album that I
did on Quarantine Studios. All right. We got on with
Jim Jones when we come back, Don't Move. It's the
Breakfast Club Come Morning Morning, Everybody's DJ. Envy Angela Yee,
Charlemagne the guy we are. The Breakfast Club was still
kicking it with Jim Jones Charlomagne May. I'll be sitting

(36:21):
back thinking, I wonder, if you think about it, how
much money do you think y'all would have made? Like
when y'all when dip set was putting out diplomats vaul
On one at vaumb two three, if y'all had all
these resources that y'all had on social media, yeah, oh man,
we probably we'd probably be two. We've probably been bugged
out already, he said, filthy rich. I mean, just no
kids have now. I only wish I wish we had

(36:43):
back then. I mean, you know, they got their pros
and cons to everything, because the way we were living
was definitely not to be recorded at that time. But
for the entertainment purposes and the business purposes here this
this where the catapulted us into iconic levels at at
an early age, you know what I mean, because of
the access that you have when it comes to the
incident and social media. So are we getting are y'all

(37:06):
working there? Because y'all, I see cam running around or
we're gonna get another dip Set out and we were
waiting for this tour. Is this the time to do
it now? Yes, it's definitely the time to do it now.
You know, Dwells not too far from me. Some all's
over there. Bucking Jewell's has some incredible music right now.
I've just been on his back to actually drop some
of it. Some of the music shouts to Cam. Cam
is at a great space in life right now. It's like,

(37:28):
you know, and I don't know what's how they explain it,
but just to see him being happy and being doing
the things that he want to do and I following
the crowd, and you know, it's just dope. And he say,
you're ready to do music anytime, I'm ready, and you know,
so as a collective effort, we definitely gonna come together
and put this music together very soon. We got a
couple of concerts coming up next month and a couple

(37:49):
of the states that are opened up them spicy states.
So that's pretty dope. They gotta let you control everything, though, Jim,
because I've been saying that Jim has been making the
best music out of New York's city for the past
few years. That's a big statement, bro. I don't want
these little trying to jump me damn by that. Why

(38:09):
do you think you're not getting recognized for that though. Um,
if I was worried about getting recognized for that, then
I would be I'll be a dude during a disservice
to myself. All of that's gonna come the same way
that you recognize that trust and belief. Everybody else recognizes
it too also. But to actually give a person its
accolades out loud and and have to succumb to those

(38:31):
facts that, Man, maybe this is the one. Maybe it
takes a little bit more time, but I'm not gonna
stop digging until that happens. I'm gonna keep making this
incredible music. I don't I'm in the very dope spot
in my life when it comes to making music. Um,
probably one of the few they say that got better
with time as a fan, and I'm loving it. Um
got some more tricks up my sleeve. Um, I would

(38:52):
listen to the radio show, and I appreciate everything that
you've been saying when it comes to who I am
as an artist and a businessman and the accumen that
I put out there, Like that's dope. Like a lot
of people wouldn't do that, especially not in your position,
you know what I mean. Like it's a very powerful
position that you'll have up here as a collective. And
just to even mention my name in a positive way,
I mean it means that's big for you, know what

(39:14):
I mean. But truth, But to mention my name in
the way inside this business with people would have to
start to do they due diligence something. Really, what I
do is even bigger for me. So just a little
comments like that soon or later gonna come around full circle. Well,
I do believe somebody put me in a position so
I could show the industry really what I could do.
Would you ever take another job in the building? One

(39:36):
hundred percent? When I took the job at the building,
shouts to Kevin Lyle, shouts to Leo Cohen. They gave
me one of the biggest opportunities I've had in my
life when they came to being UM executive UM. And
at that time, I was very young and didn't have
nobody to show me exactly what I should be doing
in my position as far as the responsible the responsibility

(39:56):
I had. Yeah, I was creative and I knew how
to pull talent, but to need to be in a
full executive I didn't have it back then. And now
where I'm at now, knowing that I had to get
another opportunity as that one. I would smoke it like
smoke the boots over because I know what I can
I can do, and I know what I want to do,
and I got my strength. Restrain is much different, my

(40:16):
focal point is much different. So you know, we'll see
what happens. What do you think you did wrong when
you was an executive in that building? Uh, I would say,
I guess I had a problem with authority and they
put me in a position of a boss. But at
that time, I was still kind of fresh out the

(40:36):
street and I kind of did what I wanted to
do and put me in a building. It was like
taking an animal out the cage and put them in
the middle of New York City. Um, so I didn't
know how to gauge that. Yeah, I was bringing my
outside into side the office and it wasn't mixing, and

(40:57):
I didn't know how to separate the two. And now
I got that, you know what I mean, where I'm not,
I'm not in the same space I was before, and
I definitely don't do the things that I've done when
I was younger. So it's a perfect time for me
to expand who I am as far as an executive
using my mind in this industry to help make other
people some stars out here, which I know I could
do with some of the artists that that came through
you that you knew could have been stars and if

(41:18):
you had that opportunity, that opportunity with a sign them
because so many had no artists passed through you. Let's see,
Jay Cole used to be in my studio every day
for the whole making a prey for rain and things
like that, so you know I had access to him.
I remember Alan calling me years and years ago, putting,
let me hear this uh guy that sound like a nerd,

(41:41):
but he was wrapping his ass off. His name was Drake,
and he was asking me exactly what I should do
with this kid. And then he told me the kid
was an actor and he's on TV. And I ended
up seeing the show he did. I was like, I
don't know what the hell are we gonna do with
this kid? But he can't he can wrap his ass
off and shouts to Bobby and Rowdy and them boys.
TRAVI used to bring them to the studio. So I

(42:02):
had my hands in the mix of a lot of
different things, not saying that I was trying to sign them,
but just being able to be there at those pivotal
moments for them, artists right before they who signed to
dealing things like that. I know, I was able to
help them understand a little bit more what this game
is gonna be about and things like that, And that's
what I'm here for. I always like to give people
knowledge because they saying this games to be so not told.

(42:23):
And I'm one of the few that put people up
on game. How you how are you gonna make money?
You did, like if there was only one person that
kept the secrets to cooking up, then how was the
rest of the hood gonna make money? You know what
I mean? Like somebody had to tell it, and I
just wanted to make sure that I'm the person that
telling some of these jumps is some some goal, you
know what I mean? I to get cash in. How

(42:44):
did you did Jim smooth about his temperament um? Time?
First question should be it has Jim smoothed out a
temperament um? Yeah? I have, I mean, you know, I
mean I wouldn't I wouldn't suggest anybody to to you know,
trying to cross that line because I'm trying to do
better for myself and you know what I mean, and

(43:05):
trying to put my energy in the right spot and
things like that. My son and my family has a
lot to do with it. As my son got older
than I got older, and the thing the decisions that
were making whether making sense, and their embarrassment that I
was bringing home for a lot of decisions that I
was making wasn't making sense. Um, I had to learn

(43:25):
to move smoother if I wanted to continue to do
the same things, and then moving smooth turns and then
maybe these things you might not need to be doing
anymore as you're getting older. And it's a lot, it's
a lot. It's you know, I mean, I've been through
a lot, bro Like I've been through a whole lot,
not just even this industry, in life period, just coming
up as a man. And at this point in time,
I'm tired, you know what I mean. Like you not

(43:46):
to say it like that, but I'm going to come
to the streets and all that type. I'm tired, and
I'm tired period. I wouldn't want nobody to to make
me have to feel like I got to do something
out of my character. This point in time to make
me feel like I got to dip back into who
I once was because it's not needed. I do believe
I proved myself in that sense. When it comes to

(44:08):
the streets, quote unquote, you could google me, baby, They're
gonna they're gonna tell you all about it. You know
what I mean. I'd love to see the group. I
love to see you and French Montana making records, you
and Mayo having conversations. Those are Those are a couple
of things if you're in New York, you thought you
would never see. So I'm glad to see the growth.
Shouts the French man shouts the French dope brother mall.
You never never know man. You know, as of too recently,

(44:31):
I didn't know who he was, didn't didn't ever have
a conversation short him, didn't know how was his personality
wasn't But he's a dope brother, man. Tip my hats
on French real stup um. You know. May know me
and Mayo been partners in Crowns for years, but we didn't.
We kind of met on. We met on a very
real circumstances. That's why I love Maine on the Deaf
and things like that, but shout out to the lobby

(44:51):
boy man. You know what I mean. I'm just happy, man.
I appreciate everything that's been going on right now, and
and I can't explain it. Um, and it's not over,
it's just getting started. Actually, that's what it feels like.
That's the scary part. And I'm tired. Jim. We appreciate you.
You're coming through, man, and I'm sure i'll see you

(45:12):
soon somewhere on whatever. Y'all need me full, hit me up.
I appreciate y'all man, very y'all. Keep doing what you're doing.
Man Like y'all, y'all a very big platform for people
like us. I'm really disappointed in you guys, wanting everybody
is DJ Envy, Angela, Yee, Charlomagne, the guy. We are

(45:32):
the breakfast club. I don't know how you guys don't
watch The Bachelor and shut up, trash trash. I'm having
my own issue. But you're staying in the hotel room
if somebody had died in it, somebody died in your
hotel room. I'm sure, mad, I'm sure we've all stayed
in the hotel that somebody. Do you feel like they
should tell you that. No, how do you know? How

(45:53):
do you know that? Though? Like, how do you know
somebody died there? Did you go someone had died in
the house? Yeah, I bought a couple living in. I mean,
you don't know, you don't know where we're living in
could have passed away. Like what what are you talking about?

(46:14):
How do you know somebody died in your hotel rooms?
I was stupid, you just realizing that it started. Now
you're talking about dead people in hotels, not just talking
about you don't watch that shows? What is it the
Cisi hotel or whatever? Yeah, I've seen that. Yeah, I
was pretty entertaining, just stayed in the hotel somebody died
in before when we was in Milwaukee, Slue to Milwaukee

(46:36):
dropping a clue bumps in Milwaukee. I love Milwaukee. Everybody
that listens to some view one hundred point seven. And
we were staying in this hotel on the outskirts of
Milwaukee when we um when I filmed Catfish and I
was actually sleeping and I saw this shadowy figure on
the wall. Listen to me, It's why nobody talked to y'all. Okay,
how do we figure on the wall? And it looked

(46:56):
like a guy holding a gun to somebody. And you know,
I've been seeing things my whole life. So I just
said a little prayer and went to sleep. And then
the next morning they told me somebody had got shot
and killed in the room. Was a guy naked? Man?
Shut up? It wasn't there for you. You know what
I'm saying? What what? What? What's fantasy to me? That

(47:20):
sounds like to me that dramas only black people were temps.
I don't know, but I just felt like it was racist. Okay, goodness,
all right, Well we got rumors on the way. What
we're talking about, boy, let's talk about these Grammy ratings.

(47:42):
The numbers are in, all right, we'll get to that
nextus to Breakfast Club. Comoris listen, Oh gosh, got Breakfast Club. Well,
the Grammy ratings hit all time loads and viewership and
key demo. So the final numbers are out and they're

(48:04):
saying that right now, the eight point eight million that
the Grammy scored is fifty three percent down from last
year's results. Too much Bad Bunny. So when his Bad
Bunny came on, man, people turned down. Always stop it.
I just I just don't think people were excited about it.
I didn't really hit much about it. It was not
too much talk. I just wasn't I tell you what

(48:25):
they miss thought, because this is an amazing Grammys I thought.
I think part of it was, Yeah, people weren't doing
like you know how they always have all these specials beforehand,
the red carpet, and because a lot of people couldn't go,
you know, it was just probably difficult. Grammys was great
this year. I don't know what to tell people. Performances
were great. I really, I really enjoyed the Grammys this year.

(48:45):
The only thing is pop Smoke Pop Smoked want a Grammy,
though as much as his contribution in his rookie year,
he didn't. He shouldn't. Gotta listen. A lot of listen.
A lot of people have issues with the Grammys, but
Roddy Rich in particular is not excited about the fact
that so many people actually dista Grammys. And he talks
about Kanye West because remember Kanye urinated on his on

(49:07):
a Grammy. Listened to this like the olderness, maybe hating
on all the young nuns. And this is the reason
why you don't see me with none of your favorite rappers.
I get the Grammy show. We can talk about the
Grammy Show all day long, like I don't want to
be like older than is to be politick, and I
feel like that's more so it should be the thing
or where if I get nominated for six Grammys? And

(49:28):
the guy looked to that that had twenty two, twenty
twenty five of these months and I come in here,
I want to get nominated for six this year, this year.
This just piss on that show, Like how you think
that made the world? Look at my accomplishment? That's real
dropping a clues moms, Roddy Rich, Roddy Rich. You know
he really is not getting the credit he deserves out
here if you're asking me, because he had a monster,

(49:50):
monster year last year. But but I understand what he's
saying because he's like, yo, he wants to win a Grammy,
so imagine he wined one. But then you got og
like Kanye who's done one several, just peeing on one,
like the value in the air, Like not get what
he's saying, right, And Little Wayne tweeted up the Grammy's
money bag. Yeld said, I used to want to gram
me so bad till I realize it and nothing but

(50:10):
a trophy that don't determine who you is or what
you're doing to accomplish. Stay focused. Money bag yields absolutely correct.
I mean, listen, none of these guys are wrong. You know,
if you want one, cool, but it does not define you.
You're still gonna wake up Roddy Rich today regardless. All right, now,
let's talk about the Oscars. The Academy is liminating the
Oscars to nominees and their guests. They've also canceled the

(50:31):
Governor's Ball and the nominees lunch, so it will be
in front of an in person audience that will consist
only of the nominees and their guests and the show's presenters.
So they're still planning to do it. And they did
say that Oscar Week events from public screening to private receptions,
the Governor's Ball that always follows the Oscar Show will
not be held, and that was all schedule for the

(50:53):
luncheon schedule for April fifteen, So they're not doing any
of those things the week of because of the health
and safety of the members. So we're not sure how
the show's two venues, Adobe Theater and the Union Station
in downtown LA would be used on the show, but
it did say that the attendance at the show would
be restricted. I mean, it makes sense they you know,
and even at the Grammys you saw how empty it

(51:15):
was there. So there you have it. Now, Envy, this
story is for you. So I'm gonna need you to
really talk about what happened on The Bachelor. Okay, all right,
so break it down for us, because you know none
of us watch it. But Matt James did pick a winner,
and then he ended up having to speak out on
the Rachel's racism controversy and the finale. So can you

(51:36):
tell us what happened? Yeah, So Matt James, of course
is the black Bachelor, the first black Bachelor, and it
was down to two girls. He picked the white woman.
Her name is Rachel, and that was the woman he picked.
It was between Rachel and Michelle. I believe her name
was a black woman of white when he picked the
white woman. And then it came out about all these
things about Rachel, her liking allegedly Confederate flag pictures, her

(51:59):
liking I would say, allegedly pro Trump pictures, and then
going to an Antebellum party, and after hearing all that,
he decided to break up with her and not continue
on this journey with her. He uh, he told Emmanuel
why he broke up with Rachel. As Rachel acknowledged in
her apology, there's a lot of work that needs to

(52:20):
be done. I have to take a step back and
allow her to put in that work. And I'm looking
forward to seeing her put in that work. So you
all no longer together? And what was that breakup conversation? Like?
It was as tough as you can imagine, and it's
it's heartbreaking if you don't understand that something like that
is problematic in twenty and eighteen, there's a lot of

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me that you won't understand. And it's except it's as
simple as that. What the hell is this? I'm sure
more people watched this in the Grammys, but it was,
it was, it was entertaining. He definitely dead at her,
and he decided to move on and said he couldn't
move on with us. She was hurt, she was crying.
She said she was sorry, m but it is it is.
I mean, he picked her and it was a wrong

(53:02):
pick for him. But the girl that he picked Rachel
over Michelle, she's going to be the next contestant. She's
gonna be a bachelorette and another girl. She's the one
that when they first met, she brought the dial though
she's also the one that told him that all the
girls it was a toxic house. So she's going to
be a bad at the party. Shut up. So this
is the first time it's gonna be two bachelorette So

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it starts off with her season seventeen and then Michelle
the Black Teacher season eighteen. So I'm excited about But
here's Matt confronting Rachel about about the post and everything.
The most disappointing thing for me was having to explain
to you why what I saw was problematic and why
I was so upset. When I'm in a relationship, that

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means that I'm committed to that person. And so when
I questioned our relationship, it was in the context of
you not fully understanding my blackness and what it means
to be a black man in America. Nigga with me,
fire kids. When I saw those things that were floating
around the internet and then broke my heart. Who that prince?
Who talk? No, that's Matt James bachelor, first black bachelor.

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I mean he you know, he picked he made the wrong,
wrong pick. His mother is white, his dad is African,
and I'm just talking and he picked the wrong one.
And let me shout out to the host and Manuel
Usa shout, we did a good job. Maybe it's a manual.
Acho did a great job yesterday. Who it's not yours?

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What're not you got to do? Manual man? That's his name. Man.
He did a good job, all right, Well that is
your rumor. Thanks was petitioning for that job? Didn't work out?
I wasn't petition and I just threw it out there.
I threw it on the wall. But it's okay. You
definitely petition. It's okay, not petitioning. You campaign campaign campaign, bro.

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You threw a little campaign campaign campaign. You did a
whole little audition tape you did. You showed a little
legs and you did a post about it. That was
a joke. You stood on the corner and you showed
a little leg. Nobody showed any interest, and you went
back in the house. That's what happened. You had a
rose and you remember, get the rose in your teeth.
That's right. You went out there, you showed a little
leg on the corner, like who want to buy some booty.

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Nobody wanted to buy none. You went back in the house.
If that's everything about booty with you? Like? Did never
stop the booty back? Say nothing about booty? I say legs.
You did, say, well, who are you giving you? Who
are you giving your donkey to? Speaking of booty? Four asses?
All right, Doctor Ben Carson and four Republican senators need

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to come to the front of the congregation. We'd like
to have a word with you. Let's talk slavery this morning.
Guys and gals. All right, we'll get to that next,
so don't move. It's to breakfast, Clougal Morning, the Breakfast Club.
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dop the day. Donkey of the day is a new wife,
heavy on the mayonnaise and the crackers this morning. Okay,
donkey to day for Tuesday, March sixteenth goes to doctor
Ben Carson and Memphis Senator Brian Kelsey, along with three

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other Republicans Senators. Oh, the mayonnaise is heavy on this one.
In the case of doctor Ben Carson, there is mayonnaise
in the tower. My brothers, my sisters. As much as
we dislike government, local and federal here in America, we
can't afford take no what's going on in this country. Okay,
we cannot afford it. Know what's going on in our government,
local and federal. We have to be involved, We have

(57:03):
to be engaged. We have to really really pay attention
to who we're putting in office. Now. I know doctor
Ben Carston isn't a politician, but I'm giving out a
lot of heat haws this morning. Because I wake up
every day, I pray, I meditate, I read my daily Affirmations.
I love the Daily Stores by Ryan Holliday dropping a
clues bomps, b Ryan Holiday, that's my guy. Today's affirmation
from March six teams spoke on appreciating the sacred part

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of you. Okay, what are the sacred parts of you?
Or the fact that you have been blessed with the
ability to reason and use logic. The Daily Store ex
says verbatim this morning, seriously, what you take for granted?
Others wouldn't even think the dream of something as simple
as the ability to reason and use logic. We take
that for granted, and we shouldn't because there's people like

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doctor Ben Carston amongst us. There are people like Senator
Brian Kelsey amongst us. I don't care what degrees they have,
how much education they have. I don't want to hear
anything about being an academic because when you are making
statements like the one doctor Ben Carston made, and I'm
gonna tie it in with what Senator b and Kelsey
said and the other three Republican senators in Tennessee, because
it's all wanted the same to me, all right. Doctor
Ben Carson, the former secretary of HUD was on the

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podcast Out Loud with Giano Cardwell and they were discussing
the perception of black Republicans and doctor Ben Carson said this,
I just remember, this is not anything that's any different
than many many years ago during slavery. She ran away
and you got caught. They didn't just kill you, then
brought you back, and that they tormented you in front

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of everybody else so that they would get the lesson,
do not run away. And it's the same lesson. Now,
do not depart from what we told you. Do not
think for yourself, and if you do, we're going to
try to make an example of you so that other
people won't do it. What the hell, doctor, Ben Carson?

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Have you ever eaten season chicken? I'm serious? Have you
ever bitten to a piece of good ass Chrisprey Southern
fried chicken? I can't hell, I hear you talk, and
I can't even believe you're married to a black woman.
God bless your wife, Candy Carson, but she cannot possibly
sleep with a silk bonnet on her head. Okay, no, man, Okay,

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talking like that, it's impossible. Man, Now, you talk crazy,
not you see. I have a problem with people equating
anything to slavery. Okay, I'm sure I've made that mistake
at some point in my life. But let's be clear.
There is nothing that remotely compares the slavery except for prison.

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But that's only because prison is slavery. Thirteenth Amendment. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
do your Google's Okay, Google is your friend. Thirteenth Amendment
abolished slavery and involuntary servitude except as punishment for a crime. Okay,
there is no correlation between slavery and anything you are
going through, doctor Ben Carson. Okay, being a black Conservative
is not like escaping the plantation. I really want someone

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to make a virtual reality experience. Notice I didn't say game,
because slavery is not and has never never been a game, Okay,
but an experience, because sometimes I wonder if y'all really
understand what slavery was, Doctor Ben Carson. You know how
you know you are far from a slave. It's because
you're a neurosurgeon who went to the University of Michigan

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and Yale University, Doctor Ben. Slaves couldn't even read or write. Okay.
Anti literacy laws in certain slaves states prevented that. I'm
from one of them, South Carolina. You would get six
months in prison and find a hundred pounds if you
got caught teaching your slaves how to reading. Right, doctor Ben,
your net worth is twenty six million dollars. Show me
a slave that had twenty six million dollars. Okay, we
must stop with these false equivalencis you're a black conservative.

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You have the freedom keyword freedom to choose to be
a black conservative. Slaves slave did not freedom to do anything. Okay,
doctor Ben Carson, I can't wait until you get your
nigga wake up call. You hear me, Doctor Ben Old Listen,
all negroes like doctor Ben eventually get that call from
that phone that says any word on it, and when

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it rings, you got no choice but to pick up. Now,
let's get to these cracker ass cracker senators. Okay, I
dare you to get mad at me for calling these
devils exactly what they are cracker ass. Cracker is not
a slur. It's an adjective used to describe racist, bigoted, prejudiced, oppressive,
evil people who want to kill me, your mama, and
your cousin too, unless we licked their boots and sucked

(01:01:25):
their kneecaps like the doctor Ben causes of the world.
See Brian Kelsey, Frank Nesley, Janice Bowling, and Joey Hensley.
Who are these people? They are four Republican centers senators
centers to who voted against abolishing slavery. There go Uncle Charlotte,
just talking out his Ass's twenty twenty one. What do
you mean they voted against abolishing slavery? Slavery been abolished? Oh?

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Has it not? Everywhere? You better read the fine print
of your state constitutions if you know what I know.
Let's go to wm Let's go to WMC NBC five
for the report place Tennessee is one step closer to
abolishing slavery, which is still allowed in the state constitution.
Memphis Senator Ramesh at Berry sponsored the bill to prohibit
slavery under all circumstances. German Town Senator Brian Kelsey was

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one of four Republican senators who voted against removing the
article from the constitution that allows slavery and involuntary servitude
as punishment for people convicted of a quant The State
House of Representatives will vote on the bill that passed Tuesday.
Slavery is still allowed in the state constitution in Tennessee.

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Would you like to hear why Brian Kelsey is voting
no on abolishing slavery. Listen, because it doesn't do anything
one way or the other. I would urge my colleagues
to blue light this resolution. I'll be voting no. I
just think it's ultimately fake history that the eighteen seventy
Constitution allowed slavery. Fake history. But tell you talking about Brian,

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if it's so faked, and why wouldn't you abolish it?
Why would you want something fake into constitution? And your
speak constitution? Frank nicely, would you like to hear why
he is not abolishing slavery. Listen, now, I'm a non
lawyer and most of my voters are non lawyers, and
I can't explain this amendment and words they can understand.
I don't understand it in the Constitution to too sacred,
to clutter up with a lot of stuff that non

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lawyers can't explain to other non lawyers. So I guess
I'll be voting no on this. Nobody plays dumb like
a white man who doesn't want to give you justice. Okay, Frank,
acting like he don't understand. I tell you, Frankie, state
constitution says slavery is still legal. We want to remove that.
What's so complicated? Frank? Come on, dramas make me feel good?
You know what I want to hear. Come on, come on,
I ask, come on, come on, I am losing my

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mind in this country. Remember what I said earlier about
my daily story affirmation, and we should feel blessed and
grateful that we are able to reason and use logic.
It is a gift, but woe was also a crush
when you hit stuff like this. These are elected officials.
These people are in charge of legislation. If I was
black in Tendensee, I would migrate no off and let
the doctor Bins of the world moved to Tendessee. I mean, hell,

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if you acquainting being a black conservative to being a slave,
might as well go live where actual slavery is still allowed.
How y'all colors feel no in tendency is not legally
abolished slavery? Okay? The State House of Representatives is voting
on the bill today. There's a queen name of ramus Akbari.
I think is how you pronounce her name? If I
pronounce your name wrong, I'm sorry. She is sponsoring the

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build a prohibit slavery under all circumstances. How crazy is
that in twenty twenty one, even here listen to her.
This does do something because there's a difference between the
word working and slavery. I've worked, I have never been
a slave. That's a clear distinction. I'm proposing to close
a loophole that has an exception for slavery for those
who are duly convicted of a crime. And that's a

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strong message we can send as a state. What we
are proposing is slavery and involuntary servitude are forever prohibited.
Those are who were incarcerated can still have a job,
like in the kitchen or the library. I would really
ask that we he has a Senate as a body,
close this loophole removes. You shouldn't even have to ask.
This shouldn't even be a thing in twenty twenty one,

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but it is. Why, because this is America. A M
E R I K k K A okay, please let
m boy give doctor Ben Carson and Republican Senators Brian Kelsey,
Frank Nicely, Janie Bowling, and Joey Hensley the biggest. He
haw he haw he haw you stupid motherfuck? Are you

(01:05:28):
let Chelsea Handler get in on this? To a drum?
Hehaw hee haw. That is way too much. Dan manna
give me four crackers, crack, I asked, cracker, give me
another one. Crack asked crack, give me in another one.
Crack asked crack one more for Joey asked cracking. All right,
all right, all right, now, when we come back, Cheryl mckissak,

(01:05:49):
will oh man, let's talk about it. You talk about
black excellent. Cheryl mckiszick is the CEO of McKissick and mckinzic,
the largest black owned woman on construction company in the country. Uh,
mckiss McKissick is a fifth generation company. And you have
these conversations about generational wealth and generational black owned businesses.
What does that look like? Charyl McKissick is coming to
tell us. All right, we'll do it when we come back.
It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, It's the Breakfast Club,

(01:06:19):
the world's most dangerous morning show. Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy,
Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.
We have a special guest joining us this morning. That's right.
Charyl mckissacks is the president in CEO of mckissack and mckissak. Welcome,
good morning, Good morning. You know, we have these conversations
all the time about generational wealth and black ownership, but

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a lot of us, you know, really haven't seen what
that truly looks like. Mckissack and mckissack Construction firm founded
in nineteen oh five. Nineteen oh five, but we actually
go back two hundred and thirty years. Fifth generation, your
fifth generation. Yes, and it's the oldest minority and woman
owned design firm in this country. Yes. Wow, Yes, what

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does that mean for you? Oh? Wow, that means everything
to me. Um. You know, I have been this has
been in my blood ever since I can't remember. You know,
the best way to combat systemic racism is through entrepreneurship,
Black ownership, Latino ownership. That's where it is. Um. There's

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not too many white owned companies that are six generations,
and that's what's coming next. The sixth generation had a
company start. For people that don't know, let's break down
how this construction family created and you know, and how
so many and how your generations of family members are
continuing to push it off because sometimes you get people

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are like, you know what I've seen so much. I
don't want to do construction. I want to do something else.
So let's talk about how this company was created. Hey,
And that's a real feeling right there, because when you
have it, you don't appreciate it. So I get what
you're saying. But when I begin to understand the story
that my great great grandfather was a slave and topped

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the trade of making bricks, and that at some point
he received his freedom and he gave three hundred and
sixty five thousand bricks to a very wealthy family in
Tennessee and they built the Cheers Mansion which is still
standing owned by the Saturn Corporation. His son was known

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for his construction as well. He was a master builder.
He built the Maxwell House Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee, where
six presidents state and then his son, Moses mckinzick the third,
My grandfather and great uncle are the first black license
architects in the country with license one seventeen and one
eighteen in the state of Tennessee. Wow, but if you

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can think about the fact that they incorporated in nineteen
oh five, there were no architectural licensing laws at that time,
so they had to old to school through correspondence and
then show up in the deep prejudiced South in Tennessee
to go take their license as two black men, their
license exams and they were denied over and over again.

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They were denied. Um eventually they lobbied the board and
found one board member who went to bat for them
and said, you know, these two black men, let them
take the test. They're not gonna pass or did anythink
they could pass? And of course they passed. Uh. And
then they didn't want to give them their license, but

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they did. And what's so interesting it's after they got
their license and they were the first black license architects
in the country, the board gained a lot of notoriety
and so they went to bat for them to get
their license in twenty two other states. Wow. And so
they built black HBCUs, black collegists throughout the South, throughout

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the Northeast. They built at least six thousand black churches.
Did you realize you had to carry on tradition? So
I decided when I got out of college, I went
to Howard. I have a master's degree in engineering that
I didn't want to work for him because of company.
And it goes back to what you were saying earlier.
You know, you just take it for granted. I wanted

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to work for a large firm, large you know, majority
construction firm, and that's exactly what I did. I worked
for a national firm. But then my mother. After my
father became ill, had to take over the business. And
she called up my boss one day as she says,
Chryl's quitting today. You got me on the phone and

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she says, Chryl, I need for you to come to Nashville.
Pack your bags. You're gonna come here and help me
run this business. So that's what I did. I mean,
at the time, I was a little frustrated, but you know,
it was the best thing that ever happened to me. Now,
the true your mom had no background in the business, none.
She only knew the telephone number. However, she had a

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master's degree in psychology, which helped her with the manias
and phobias around men who didn't think a woman could
run a business. Let's couple that would being a black woman. Yeah,
she sued the city of Nashville, and she took over
the business in nineteen eighty three. So in nineteen eighty three,

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women could not borrow money from banks. That did not
happen until nineteen eighty eight with the Women's Business Act.
So that's not even that long ago. Hey, Spike Lee
was doing she had she's got to have it. Okay,
the internet was just becoming, you know, public, if you
could imagine, she couldn't borrow money. She was denied work

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at the airport in Nashville, Tennessee. So she sued the
state and she opened up the doors for other black
firms to get work. But she was black ball. So
she was pretty tough, pretty powerful, and she was my mentor.
She taught me a lot. She taught me about, you know,
how to sell my business, how to do my elevator

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pitch way back then, how to do my ted talk,
how do people treat you as a black woman. Well
that's the story I'm getting to. So we are down
in Alabama. We're going to the Board of Education, and
my mom says, Cheryl, today you're doing a pitch. I'm
not doing it, You're doing it. I'm like, oh my god,
I'm scared to death. So we go into this man's office.

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I swear as the oldest white man I've ever seen,
and he just holds his head down and I am
just talking away. I mean, you know, like I'm telling
them all about our history and who we are. And
he doesn't do anything. He just has his head down.
When I get done, he stands up and he says,
come here, little lady, and I go over to him

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and he shakes my hand and he finally lifts up
his head. He said, I absolutely want to do business
with you. Oh yeah, and your mom um twenty five, no,
thirty like thirty thirty one, thirty two. And you know what,
I learned a lot that day. You know, I learned
you cannot judge a book by its cover. Also, you
can't be afraid to speak your truth. You got to

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say it whether people here it or not. And so
I have done that my entire life. I don't care
who you are. If I want to tell you what
I want to tell you, I'm gonna tell you. I'm
gonna do myselfs pitch on mckissic and mckissic because let's
face it, every opportunity we've all had has come through somebody.
That's right, all right, we have more with Cheryl mckissic
when we come back, don't move. It's the Breakfast Club

(01:13:41):
goal morning morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee. Charlomagne,
the guy we are the Breakfast Club was still kicking
it with Cheryl McKissick. Charlomagne. How much pressure is it
to run a family business, especially one that has so
much history. You know what, I think the history is
what gives me the strength when I meet the pressure. Okay,
and I think back. You know, sure, you know we

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we built iconic projects. You know James Terminal, Now, you
know UM the World Trade Center. We oversee the MTA
capital program for the last ten years. I mean the
budget right now is about fifty four billion. Our last
budget was thirty two billion. Mckissic oversees every project. That's
one hundred million dollars more. Wow. Okay, So we had

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light flex on this little light flex on this fine
Tuesday morning. Wow, little light flex. Okay, we're program managers.
This is a great one. We're program managers for Terminal
one JFK. And the owners are Carlisle, Magic, Johnson Enterprises
and Loop Capital was involved in the Magic is involved

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in now. Wow. And that's why McKissick is involved with that.
And that's the whole point of black entren entrepreneurship. It's
about equity. It's Wall Street already of them African American
Because I know sometimes when I drive around these sites,
I can tell that a lot of people hire a
cheaper labor, and I don't really see too many Brothers
assistants working at somebody sites, sometimes not at our sites.

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I can't speak about other sites. But since two thousand
and five, we have put in place a workforce program
and it's started actually at Harlem Hospital and it's really
like intake for people that want to get into construction,
and we refer our candidates not only to mckissic projects,

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but to any project in the Parlem area. Most of
our jobs mckissic jobs. We are like forty five percent
minority women owned businesses, and our workforce is up in
that forty percent range as well. We want to make
sure that the people in the community that we build,

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you know, feed in and have a part of the
economic wealth that comes from construction, because construction does build wealth,
you know, So on usual cases, I don't want to
go in your pockets. But what is usually a profit
margin for construction companies what they actually make, So it
all depends on the project and what your role is
on a project. So you know, if you are you know,

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doing construction management services program management services, which means you're
not holding contractors contracts directly with subcontractors, then the percentages
are around you know, ten percent. If you are a
contractor holding subcontractors contracts like you know, excavation, concrete, all

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of that, then it's more in the three to five percent.
So it just all depends on the type of contract
that you're holding. But when you think about New York
numbers and you think about those percentages, it still ends
up being a very lucrative business. Oh we can tell
I can. I can see the wealth on you. Okay,

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I see the wealth on on you. Now I could
smell it through the zoom. I I know wealth when
I see wealth. Okay, I'm looking at it myself. Is
there anything else you ever wanted to do? U? Yeah,
there are other things I wanted to do. I mean

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growing up with silly stuff. And then you know my
passion right now is black entrepreneurship. So last year, well
actually it's been two years, I started a firm called
Legacy Engineers with a really good friend of mine who's
an engineer UM and it's a mechanical, electrical, plumbing, engineering
design firm. And we're bringing in black engineers, teaching them

(01:17:43):
how to be owners, and then we're gonna build a
company and give it to them. Wow. Wow. But about
the importance of mwbs because I know people we need
to stress that more as far as we amber to
get these contracts with the city and building wealth that way,
the MWBE program is needed. I mean, just like the
story I just told you about my grandfather who couldn't

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get their license, we still have those same type of
bureaucrats that are in the system who are going to
stop people just because of the color of their skin.
And so we have to have MWBE programs. That's the
only way to break through. But we just need to
make them even, We need to make them more rooted,
and we make we need to make them larger. Right now,

(01:18:29):
under the Blasio and under Como, the MWBE percentages around
thirty percent. You know, we just need to increase it
because to me, that's where the rubber hits the road,
and we're back to that ecosystem that we know about.
If a black person owns a business, they're gonna hire
black people, and you know that's going to change a community.

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What better way to fight systemic racism and to close
the gap between black and white income and wealth. Do
you This was fueling the desire to let people know
the story of your family more. But really fueled it
was we need more black women, We need more black
men in stem and engineering and architecture and in construction,

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and we need to put a face on that. And
so that's when I started trying to expand my brand
so I could put a face on it, just to say.
You know, people when they think about construction, they think
about a hard hat and some boots of mud. Well, construction,
do I look like I'm out of some hard fresh
off white track suit, very expensive shoes. I don't know

(01:19:37):
what they are, but if you click them, you're going
head back to Canadas. I know that much. I know
that much. You're getting that money. But I would put
my boots on and I will go out there and um,
you know, it's it's important to do that, but that's
not what the whole profession is. It's so much more
that you can do in um, in construction. I mean,

(01:19:58):
there's hr, there's finance, say's operations, there's business, there's marketing,
so much, so much, and so we need more people
that look like us in this profession. If you care,
you can be it. And that's why it's importing for
you to come up here and talk about your experience,
because I can imagine right now that thousands of people
that might not ever have considered this like I actually

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can do that. This is interesting. Let me do some
more research and be inspired. And let me tell you
what if someone that's black gets in this and you know,
they qualify themselves and they're good, they will be sought
after and they will get paid top dollar. So how
should they start, like, you know, because everybody's not as
mckissic ways passed down, how do they start if they
want to get into this space? Well, um, I say,

(01:20:43):
if you're in high school, you want to make sure
you're in STEM. You know, you gotta do STEM and
now STEAM which includes the architecture, okay, um, And then
you go to college and then you want to work
in over the summer and get internships at these organizations

(01:21:03):
so that you can see, um, all the opportunity that's
there and which opportunity you want to take advantage of.
But you know, if you can work for mckenzic and mckinzick,
you might end up on the breakfast club in turn.
That's right, How can they get in touch with you

(01:21:24):
if they want to take advantage of these uh, these
the few dollars that you're willing to give up the
few a few dollars that you're willing to give up
on young entrepreneurs. Well, I don't know if it's reaching
out to changer McQueen, my PR person would probably be
the best way to do it. Um and um. You

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can just go to our website and that's www dot
mckenzick dot com. That's right. Appreciate you for joining us
and sharing your story. We're so grateful and thankful and
keep busting ass out there. We're glad you exist. Man.
They need to see eight figure black women out here
in these streets that own their own companies. Thank you,
thank you, I appreciate it. Thanks for hiving sold When

(01:22:06):
I said eight figures, right, is it more? It was
a little more. Look at you like nigga, please disrespect.
Thank you for coming. Thank you to Breakfast Club. This

(01:22:27):
is the rule of report with Angela. Yet So Trade
the Truth has opened up a store. It's called bump
Box in Houston. It's a small electronics business and it
has the world's loudest Bluetooth boombox speaker. So Trade the
Truth has been friendly with the company since they launched

(01:22:50):
five years ago after reaching out early on to help
them free of charge. And now he has his own store,
so let's make sure that we support that store. And
he also got another day by the Mayor of Houston
Sevested Turner, so that's the third time that he has
received this distinction. They had the grand opening of his
store on Saturday, March thirteenth, and that day was to
clear Trade the Truth and bump Box Day as well,

(01:23:12):
traveling a clue bomb from my guy Trade the Truth.
I am happy that that brother exists, Yes, the good
Man Truth. That's one thing. I wonder if they're gonna
do the Trade Day, you know, this year, because Texas
is wide open and he does so much for the community,
gives back and he helps those kids so much. I
wonder if they're gonna do it this year. I don't
think trade that irresponsible. I don't think he would do

(01:23:33):
that just because Texas is wide open. I don't think
he would. I don't know. But it helps me, helps
the kids eat, It helps you know with backpacks. That
was with a lot not just parties, you know what
I mean. It really gives back those kids maybe get
the parties. And I know he does the outdoor stuff,
so maybe it's something maybe you know, wear your mask
but come outdoors. I can see that Sup Portray and

(01:23:54):
whatever he does, lue to trade the truth. Him and
mister Rodgers great people. All right, So that bump box
is open in the Houston Gallery. I'm are located on
Level three across from Agenda. If anybody out there wants
to go all right on the Jasmine brand. D Ray
Davis did an exclusive interview where he was talking about
playing Lauren London's husband and Snowfall and the pilot for

(01:24:15):
the show. Here's what he had to say. It's really
crazy about the casting because John Singleton loved Lauren, he
loved me and the chemistry he wanted. I think on
screen we we were cool because we like Buddy Buddy,
But as far as us being the husband and wife,
it would have taken probably by season three for me
to feel comfortable because although she's beyond beautiful and beyond fine,
that was as Nipsy's girl, you know what I'm saying.

(01:24:35):
One I'm very respected too. We had his brother's talking
things all the time, so I don't see like it's
affectionate as you see Angela and Aim and play and
that passion they could just get into and the characters
that we would have gotten to that now what is
this now? Movie? Is this? No? You know Snowfall on
FX and the pilot. Originally, yeah, he was originally playing

(01:24:57):
a different role. He was originally, I said, in that role.
But now he's playing against the name Peaches on the series.
But originally he was in the pilot, playing opposite Lauren London.
He talks about a lot of different things in this interview.
He also talks about John Singleton and how the first
time he met John Singleton he thought he was ignoring him,
but I guess he couldn't see that well without his glasses,

(01:25:18):
so you know, yeah, it's a good interview, all right, Bridgeton.
The cast for Bridgeton is getting ready for season two
and now they are in London and ready to film.
So they did announce that they were picking it up
for a second season last month, which I'm super excited about.
So shout out again to um, yes I am. I
love Bridgeton. I wish it was out right now and

(01:25:39):
so shout out to Shandon Rhymes for that. And you know, um,
the guy Luke Thompton who plays the Benedit Bridgeton. He
actually is dyslexic, so he said that it was hard
for him learning his lines. He get to struggle with
his dyslexia. The lead, he's the brother, so I guess

(01:26:01):
I think he's gonna be the lead in the second season,
but I'm not sure. All Right, now, let's talk about
Snoop Dogg. After launching his wine, his red wine with
nineteen Crimes, now he's launching a new rose. By the way,
my mom loves that wine. That wine is good. My
mom came over my house and took at two of them,
and she took him. Yeah, I drink a bottle of

(01:26:21):
that nineteen Crimes. I did that with some mediables one night,
great Saturday. All right, well, now you can actually get
the rose as well, So shout out to my guide
to Eclectic Wine and Liquors in Brooklyn. He always has
that like front and center in his store, to black
owned liquor store. All right, well that is your rumor reports.
Now it's Women's History month. Will we repen today? Well,

(01:26:42):
today we are talking about Stacy Abrams. Now she is
warning about these racist election laws. This is something that
everybody needs to pay attention to. The work that she's
been doing is one of the main reasons why Georgia
actually became help President Joe Biden become the first Democrat
in nearly three decadids to carry the state. She's been
out there in the trenches. She's been making sure that

(01:27:03):
people get out exercise their right to vote. Once again,
that right is under threat. Here she is talking on CNN.
It's Woman's History Month and we're celebrating the most influential
women in history. Check out this phenomenal woman. Well, first
of all, I do absolutely agree that it's racist. It
is the reduct of Jim Crow in a suit and tie.

(01:27:24):
We know that the only thing that precipitated these changes,
It's not that there was a question of security. In fact,
the Secretary of State and the Governor went to great
pains to assure America that George's elections were secure. And
so the only connection that we can find is that
more people of color voted and it changed the outcome
of elections in a direction that Republicans do not like.

(01:27:44):
And so instead of celebrating better access and more participation,
their response is to try to eliminate access to voting
for primarily communities. Of color, and there's a direct correlation
between the usage of drop boxes, the usage of in
person early voting, especially on Sundays, and the use of
vote by mail and the direct increase in the number
of people of color voting. And that was another phenomenal

(01:28:11):
woman in history. All right, Well, that is Stacy Abrams
for Women's History Month. Make sure you guys go to
fairfight dot com. That is her organization, if you want
to find out more, if you want to support. She
is a political leader, she is a voting rights activist,
and her work is super important. So I just want
to make sure that we keep on highlighting her and
that we keep on making sure that we get out
there and exercise our rights to vote, and that that

(01:28:33):
right does not get taken away from us. All right,
all right, when we come back, we got the positive
notice to Breakfast Club. Morning morning. Everybody is dj enjy Angela, Yee,
Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now. We
got a shout out to Jim Jones Copple for joining us.
Man Jim Jones for pulling up and giving us so

(01:28:54):
much free jewelry this morning. The hustle are gonna hustle,
you know what I mean. And Jim Jones got a
million of them, and I really like how he's got
his you know, fingers on the pulse of how to
make these digital dollars. So salute to Jim Jones, all right,
and also Cheryl mckissak for joining us this morning. Man.
Cheryl mckissac was such a pleasure to have up here,
you know, simply because you know, she has the largest

(01:29:15):
black owned minority no, largest black owned woman owned construction
company in the country. Okay, mckissac and mkissac fifth generation,
and we have all these conversations about generational wealth and
generational black owned businesses. You know, Cheryl mckissack is showing
us what that looks like. So salute to her, all right.
A lot of information was given out this morning on

(01:29:37):
this here radio. And I want to send some love too, man,
I want to send some positive energy, some love and
light the Tamika Mallory, you know what I mean, Tomka,
she's running around doing a lot of press today because
she crushes at the Grammys on Sunday, and you know
her her work is very thankless, you know what I mean.
The things that Tamika does on the front line for
us as a people all the time is very thankless.

(01:29:59):
So I just want to send her some love this
morning just because, and make sure y'all go pre order
her book, State of Emergency, How to Win in the
Country We Built. It'll be out May eleven for this
available for pre order everywhere you buy books. Now, All right,
well you got a positive note, yeah, man, I want
to salute everybody out there that maybe going through a
little misfortune. Okay, think about it like this. You know,

(01:30:20):
some people judge you unfortunate because you have never lived
through misfortune. You have passed through life without an opponent.
No one can ever know what you are capable of
when you've never had an opponent, not even you. So
sometimes embrace a little bit misfortune. That's what a Characters
Built Breakfast Club is all finish or y'all dub

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