Is it Big Enough ( Dawn Dickson)

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It's time. It's time, time to wake up. Taking Fancy
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listening to the Breakfast Brother hit your ass a good
mood in Usa yo yo yo yo yo yo yo
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yo yo yo Good morning angela Ye, good morning jamby
Charlomagne the Guy Peece to the Up Planet is Friday, Yes,

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it's Friday. The weekend is hell, Yes it is. It's hell.
What's happening, y'all? I was just riding into mister DJ
Kalick's new album Kyli Kali. Yeah. I heard it last night. Well,
I would say most of it last night. I heard it.
I heard all of it except for the last song.
I ain't into the last song. Yeah, but what song
by Calid are we playing every hour on hour? This morning.
I know we got one or you know kalidas doing

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every at different song every hour, a different song every hour.
That's what they said, a different song every hour, dropping
on a clues bonds with DJ Kalid also dropped on
a clues bond for I heart for being so predictable.
But nobody has that heart stimulus package like DJ Kalid does.
That's right, okay, nobody, nobody that is, I do like

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that Justin Bieber featuring Twit I mean, I like, I
like a lot of songs on the album, but I
really like that Justin Bieber featuring twenty one Savage let
it go. That record is hard. That's a tough two.
Tough tough two. Yeah, So shout to DJ Kali. Stream
this album, pick it up. You got a bunch of
dope joints on man, you know what I mean. I
love the NAS and jay Z joined at the Sorry
sorry not sorry, That's what I mean. That's that's that's

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a given though. I mean paying this morning. I mean
I'd rather do sorry now sorry because you forty five,
but you know I'm not forty five. But it's a
great record. Jay Z is my favorite artist. Nas is
from Queen so Yeah, that's that's I like that Justin
if from for radio purposes. I like that Justin Bieber
featuring twenty one Savage. Uh let it go though, but
it would feel it's you know, coming in here saying

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the nas Jayz record is dope as a given. If
we don't really do records together. That two of hip
hop's elite. So the fact that they do records. Anytime
that they do record, they probably did about three or
four of them. It's always a movie. They did success,
they did Black Republicans, they did um what else success,
Black Republicans, the old joint from back in the day,

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Lord Toree, what they was on the Lord three Cracord.
I don't know they did that together, but that was
that was it. So they don't really do record together.
And you know what, you know what, somebody hit me
and I'm so upset. We have Big Daddy Kane on yesterday.
That is a freestyle. Let's out there. If you're an
old school hip hop head of Tupac and Biggie and
There Live and Maddison Square guarded. I don't know how

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true that is, but people say that was Big Daddy
Kane set. He was performing and he brought all of
them out. But I love to ask him about Biggie said,
I got seven macat about eight thirty eight nine ten. Yeah, absolutely,
I would love to ask him about that. How that
came about? How was that backstage? But we I totally forgot,
totally totally forgotten. Damn it. Man, all right, you'll get

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another time. Yeah, all right, Well, Dawn Dixon will be
joining us this morning, Big Don, big entrepreneurgro Don. Yes,
she's an entrepreneur and she gets money and she helps
other people get money. And we're gonna talk to her
later on today. Uh in some sad news. Why don't
we need sad news? Why all you right, let's not

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do that. We'll do it later. I'm sure you do
it in the room. Is not nothing, we'll do it later.
All right. Well, let's get into a joint off Kalid's album,
of course, Every Hour on hour? What record is this?
Let's do let's do a little baby, a little Dirk. Oh,
that's tough. It's called every chance. I get this by
snapping on this. They snapping on this, Dirk snapping on this. Yeah,
So let's get into it right now. Get your ass up.

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It's a Friday. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning to
tune that beat has that's very hard morning everybody, stej
Envy Angela yee, Charlomagne, the guy. We are to breakfast Club.
Let's getting some front page news. Now, last night was
the NFL draft. I didn't watch the Charlomagne, did you No,
I did not watch the NFL Draft last night. Now

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I wasn't into it. All right, Well, what else we got? Easy?
He Lukedalla brothers that got drafted them absolutely. Well, let's
start in North Carolina with Andrew Brown Junior. He was
shot and killed while he was in his car, and
four of the officers who were on the scene had
been reinstated. They were at the scene of the shooting,
but according to the sheriff, they said they had not
used their weapons, so they are being reinstated. To reinstated

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to active duty. They said they looked at body camera
footage and other evidence. Sheriff Tommy Routon said it is
obvious for the deputies never fired their weapons and deserved
to be reinstated to active duty. More investigation, it's necessary
into the three deputies who did fire their weapons, and
they will remain on administrative leave. Now. They are also
asking people not to rush to judge and pushing back

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with their own check the facts narrative. This is North
Carolina Andrew Brown Junior who was shy and killed while
he was in his car. He backed up, went forward,
and remember the family was allowed to see just a
few seconds of that footage and they haven't released that
footage yet. So the family, though, is pushing back against

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what the sheriff is saying, and they're saying that there
was no contact made because what the police are trying
to say is that he backed up, moved forward and
make contact with them with the police, and that's when
they started shooting. But a relative of Andrew Brown Junior
has offered a different account of what happens. He does
not want to be identified, but he told CNN that
Andrew Brown Junior started backing up his car and they

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started shooting. The front wind showed up his car, he said,
and then he took off to go across the yard
and they started shooting the back window of his car.
And there's also a photo that was shared by the
relative that appears to show the sheriff Department's truck and
Brown's driveway They also took pictures of Brown's car after
the shooting that shows at least one bullet hole in
the front windshield. So we are waiting for them to
release that body camera footage, but a judge did rule

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the family was able to watch it, but it would
not be made public for thirty days. Yeah, it's insane
for anybody to think that if you shoot in my car,
I'm not My first reaction is not going to be
the drive off like I'm supposed to just sit there
like the bullets hit the car because you're the police, Like, no,
I'm getting the hell out of here. See now. What
the police are trying to say, right, is that he
was in his car moving backward and then forward each

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time making contact with deputies and that's when they opened fire.
That's what the police are saying. The family member is
saying that it is not true. Put out the full video. Then, yeah,
put out put out the full video. You're telling the truth.
Put out the full video. There's no way I'll tell you,
even in towns would he steal your car. So for instance,
you know my car got stole it a couple of
months ago, and the police seen him. But they couldn't

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give chase because they would it would drive us so reckless.
So they say they gotta let it go. They can't chase,
They can't just shoot that cars like that. You're not
supposed to be able to do that. And if that's
probably the reason why they don't want to at least
to be exactly, and if they didn't do that, then
just put out the video on shows that y'all didn't
do that. All right, now we telled you go ahead.
Sh I was moving on to talk about the FDA. Now,

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we were talking about this band on menthol cigarettes that
the FDA was contemplating, and they have decided yesterday to
move forward with that band. Eighty five percent of black
smokers use menthol cigarettes. It's flavors and those cigarettes, and
some people were concerned that band could empower local law
enforcement to target black people. But they do have a
new directive that attempts to address that concern. So what

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they are saying, if implemented, the FDA's enforcement of any
band on menthol cigarettes and all flavored ciguards will only
address manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, importers in a retail It's not individuals.
I don't know what menthol doesn't. I don't know what
menthol is. I know it's flavoring, so they just won't.
They rather have a regular flavored cigarette. But if you
put flavor on a cigarette, it makes it bad. That's

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what they're saying. Season a little boy on it. Because
I want all cigarettes to be banded. How about that?
Get rid of all cancer sticks. Sorry smokers, And we've
probably got a lot of smokers that are listening. But
y'all don't need that. Y'all been trying to quit father anyway,
but you can't. That's nothing. Sometimes you got to save
people from themselves. I want all cancer sticks to be bad.

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Menthol be doled red flavor, grape flavor, rang flavor. Yeah. So,
and mentho, like I said, it cools down your throat
someone you're smoking it does. It makes it less irritating,
and so that's why people like it too. All right,
But that is your front page news. Sounds like hooka,
that's what it sounds like. Okay. Our producer Dan says,

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menthol is what makes the cigarette minty. I believe that
ingredient is highly more unhealthy. If you want something that
tastes like mint, buy some gum. All right, I just
suck on a mint, all right. Most cigarettes are just
the ORL fixation anyway. You just like something in your mouth. Okay,
So just had a little mint flavor the things that
you like in your mouth and it'll give you the
same sensation. All right, stroll with you, man, It's Friday, bro,

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like you gotta stop that. I'm talking about another cac
No on the hour, not every minute on the minute. Yeah,
I know it feels like that, but no, eight hundred
five eighty five, one on five one. Get it off
your chest. Call us up right now. It's the breakfast
club the morning, the breakfast club. Wake up, wake up,

(09:24):
wake y'all your time to get it off your chest,
your man or blast. We want to hear from you
on the breakfast block. Hello, who's this? Yeah? This struck
some jersey and hell a dingy y'all hunk up on me, bro,
Well you are now. Can't make the most of it.
I was trying to get the real estate and from
in full from energy. Oh well, hold on, they never

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sent your information over, bro. I'm sorry. I don't ask question. Yeah, bro,
what i's like hard drugs or something? Do you do
hard drugs. He said, it's wax on hard drugs, like
hard drugs or something. Wax. Uh No, just weak. He
showed as much. Just weak because he shared a lot
of him and like when you look at him, it

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really makes sense to him, but it don't make sense
to nobody else. Well, some people the whole silverlware thing,
well that's his trauma. That's because he used to work
in a restaurant where he didn't want to work that
so he would take the silverware and rub it on
his genital So he's afraid of his own karma in
that situation. Yeah, yeah, but you yeah, but you saw
how when you tried to get fired, you did stuff
for them to see you so you could get fired. Well,

(10:29):
I never tried to get fired, sir. You said you
didn't show up to work. He started coming like you
wanted to get fired. I never said that. No, not,
he doesn't want to like Taco Bell. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
that was different. Yes, that's true, the silverware on his genitals.
But that's the thing, right, But that's the thing about
your your karma, right, we know what we do when

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nobody's looking. So you can't lie to yourself, you know,
what I mean, that's all. He scared his own karma.
That's it. And now hell you don't civil with because
you think it's gounk. I kind of get it, But
hold on, hold on, brother, because I'll get you that
information you need. All Right, Hello, who's this? Hello? What's
going on? Man? Good morning? Get it off your chest. Well,
you know, I'm gonna tell you this whole pandemic thing

(11:13):
has really got me upset about as far as this
shot is concerned. You know, they're forcing people to get
this shots in order to get certain jobs or order
to hurt so to get certain activities mean that you
can't even go to us a supporting event if you
don't have the shot. You can't apply for this certain job.

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If you don't have the shot, you can't go into
this certain restaurant if you don't have this shot. I
don't understand why they're forcing people to get this shot.
Was the shoe is not being tested? Was percent face?
You know they actually have people that actually gotten sick
after getting the shot. So I take it you're not
getting the shot, not until you know, I find out

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the one percent that you side face got you. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
But because people are getting sick over the shot. I mean,
I'm not you know, I'm not going to be a dupe.
Oh yeah, I didn't get sick for a day. Um,
you didn't get her second shot, so she won't experience
that for a while if she does get sick. But
it's one of those things you don't know what it
happened if if you get the shot, and how it

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affects your body, And we don't know if you get
COVID how it affects your body. So it's kind of
one of those things you did if you do your
damn if you don't. But for myself, I'd rather just be,
you know, safe. I know most most people who I
know who are saying they got the shot are saying
they'd rather do that than potentially get really sick from
COVID and die. And that's why I know a lot
of people are telling me I decided to get it,
and you're right, though they're making it more difficult to

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move around and do things without it. Get it off
your chests. Eight hundred five eight five one O five one.
If you need to vent, hit this up now. It's
the Breakfast Club coming. The Breakfast Club is your time
to get it off your chests, whether you're man or blessed,
so you better have the same in we want to

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hear from you on the breakfast club. Hello. Who's this Hey,
good morning. It's Jade in Virginia. Ja, get it off
your chess. I'm just calling to wish everybody happy Friday. Um.
I got a new job a couple of months ago,
and I'm gonna tell this to you. It's not an hour,
but I plenty time to listen to you guys in
the morning, laughing along with you guys, and then catching

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an after show every now and then on Instagram with
dramas um part of the Quarantine crew from last year.
So drama showy hold on Dramas does an after show
that we don't know about. You're on it, you've been
doing it. Oh okay, well that's what happens live. Yeah,
that's not an after show. That's Dramas's Instagram. Uh I

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see live talk show. Yes, but threw those pictures up
there for you guys. I spent one for Charlomagne last
last week. Oh thank you with the anxiety shirt on. Yes,
we are glad you shark. That's me. Oh okay, thank you. Yeah,
thank you. I appreciate. I mean, you got me looking
like an extraterrestrial. But hey, maybe you see me in
that way. I'm not upset. That's how it looks regardless.

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Thank you, Mama. Yes, you're welcome. Thank you you too. Hello.
Who's this? Hey? This is that a good Hey? I'm
calling right here from at L. Thank you time, like
I tried calling it. Thank you, Edgar, love you back.
So I just wanted to do, like, what do you
guys think about all the street vendors getting attacked and

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stuff like that, all the street vendors. I mean, nobody
should just be getting randomly attacked. I mean, like, what
do you why? Why why do people ask that question?
Like somebody's gonna say, I think it's a great thing,
that street vendors and getting attacked like it's horrible. No, well,
I just mentioned I haven't really heard you guys talk
about it. You know what I'm saying. And I'm from here,
I stand myself. So I just I haven't seen like

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a lot of light. A lot of people talk about that.
You know, you guys are very influential. Yeah, I've only
seen one though I saw one one last year. I
saw it, but but I you know, I followed Letty Martinez,
so I saw a Letty post about it. I saw
her post about was an older woman getting she got
attack last year. Right, there's been a bunch of a
lot of Mexican streetvendors being attacked around. It's been a
very consistent thing. What's this? What's this that? When they

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getting attacked that? La? Yeah, la, mostly you know Orange
County are well, yeah, that's horrible, and you know, somebody
needs to hold that down. I hope. I want them
screet vendors to be able to protect themselves. All they
need is a hammer, y'all can't carry in California, right, No, no,
they can't. I mean I've been seeing some like there's
some couple of pages or make sure pages that supposedly,

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you know, you got guys walking around with the street
venders and stuff like that, But I mean that'sn't really doing.
You know, I would just like people have power to
talk about it or something, you know. Yeah, and what
did they get out of that? It's not like street
vendors got a whole bunch of money on them, man,
That's what I'm thinking. You know, the violence, well, craism,
I hope the next person that runs up on a
screet vendor, especially an older person, old lady, old man,

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get shot man. I just wanted to play it. Really
appreciate you guys. You guys done, but I'm sure that
work right now he does motivate men all that man crazy, well,
thank you so much. Now we're gonna be on that
lally soon too. So have a good week and probably
get it off your chess eight on drink five eight

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five one oh five one if you need to vent
and you can hit this up now you we got
rumors on the way, yes, and let's talk about Big
Sean and his mom. They're launching a video series. Will
tell you what that's about, all right, we'll get into
that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

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This is the rumor report, Angela needs fund the Breakfast Club. Well.
Big Sean and his mother Myra Anderson have announced that
they are doing a weekly video series dedicated to wellness
and that's from Mental Health Awareness Month. According to page six,
the episodes will be between ten to fifteen minutes each
and it will feature both of them discussing for your

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low cost techniques that will help you attain and maintain
emotional balance. So you can see that every Saturday throughout
Mental Health Awareness Month on the Sean Anderson Foundation website
and on his Instagram and on their Instagram page. I
love it. The only way we're going to eradicate the
stigma around mental health is to continue to tell our stories.
So saloot to my guy, Big Sean and his mother
trumping a clue bump for Big Sean Demi. So that

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first episode is tomorrow again if you want to tune
in and check that out all right now. T Payne
was on TikTok and he explained that he just found
out that he had all these dms on Instagram when
when the request folder actually first happened, I went there
before I actually knew about it. I went there before
and it was just all thousands and thousands of messages,

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just like you know, a dream. So immediately I was like, okay,
never going back there again. And then I hired my
I hired my social media manager, and then a couple
of days ago he was like, yo, you ever check
your request folder? And I was like, I mean, I've
been there before, but it's just like all cornered by
your drinking Barton Jomps, I'm not going back in that,

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and he was like, dude, no, it's not what am
I laughing? I just didn't. I have never. I just
didn't not seen all the people that are hitting me too.
I just I just don't. I don't ever check on purpose.
But it's mad people in there. But I just like
I'm looking down. I'm like, damn, I should have hit
them back. Oh day, and they hit me, but I
just don't go. My assistant goes in there get business,

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but I don't. Yeah, there could be some good things
in there. And his folder we saw that was Fergy Viola,
Davis Diplo, Carrie Helston By being my mare. So he
is hitting people back. Now my request my requests on
Instagram say ninety nine plus because I don't ever check them.
But I mean that's what you have a business email
email for in your bio, right, People want to do businesses.

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You didn't hit the business here. Yeah, but sometimes it's
easier to go on DM. Like let's say artists don't
have your number, but like you know, let me just
hit Charloman. You Charloman, I need you for something. But
that's it's a lot of that oh yo, Charlotte heard this. Yeah,
but don't assume. Don't assume that I check my DMS.
I don't for my own mental health. I don't be
all of my dms. Plus this is most people do. Well. Yeah,
I mean a lot of collapse have come about because

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of DM. You know people oh, such as hit me
up in a DM. I couldn't believe it was them.
So I think that's good and it's a good way
to verify too. If the person is you know, obviously
that coming from their account, you can see the check
and you're like, okay, that's a real one. You'd be
there all day going through thousands and thousands dms. Anybody
got time for it? Yeah, I mean I don't think
you get thousands every day, but if you keep up

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on it, you can just go through it every day.
All right. Now, Doctor Dre has been ordered to pay
five hundred thousand dollars to his estranged wife for her
legal fees. It's only ten percent of the five million
that she is demanding from him. And they also right
now are officially single. So what that means is while
they are trying to work through this divorce, they can
actually if they have the option to remarry in the

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future while this divorce process goes on. So legally they
are now single. Why do I got to pay your
legal fees in a divorce? If you file for divorce
against me, Why do I gotta pay for your legal fees?
You don't one wanting to divorce me. Pay for your
own your own weight? What is it? Pay your own way?
You gotta be pay your own way. She wasn't working,
and she was holding down the kids while he was working.

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So she had a job, and her job was maintaining
the house and maintaining the kids. So it feels like
you're paying somebody to shoot you. It feels like it's both.
It's both your money. Honestly, No, I feel like I
feel like they both money. You said, all right, now,
I said, I feel like they both want to divorce.
Right that she just wanted pay for yours. I'll pay
for mine anyway. Joe Rogan is walking back some of

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his COVID nineteen comments that he made. If y'all recall,
he said this about getting vaccinated. Hmm, we don't have that,
all right, We don't have it. We don't have it,
all right. Well, forget that, Uh now, every hour, we
are going to be doing some DJ Khaled stories and
so yes we are every hour on the hour stories.

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You're doing songs and stories. Yes, that's a new one
to the iHeart Studilas package. I never heard the stories part.
Go well, I made this one up today this morning
to go along with us playing the songs every hour.
And since we are about to get into this song,
DJ Khalid announced to via Twitter and Instagram that Cardi
B did send her vocals for the new album, So
of course everybody was excited about that Cardi b vocals

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is in one hundred one percent. And then he said, Jamie,
update the track list now, Kali Khalid, tonight midnight, I'm
gonna give you a light show. And here's what happened.
I've didn't thought I was gonna make the record, to
be honest with you, Like I got the beat before yesterday. Hey, yes,
I wrote the record, and I was just like brainstorm
and brainstorm and brainstorm, and like what the because one

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thing I've been really insecure ball is my accent. So
I was making sure that everything is mixed right, literally,
like I think Kali got the song today at seventy
and my time, so it's a little something something to
hold you out and soil I release my next projects
and my next anything that I'm doing. I'm doing a
whole bunch of things. Why is Cardi ME insecure about

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her accent? People love her accent. Millions and millions of
people are gravitated towards Cardi B because of who Cardi
B is. Why is she insecure about her accent? Now, Cardi,
you have no reason being skilled about your accent. Do
not let these digital d heads on social media get
to you, Okay Jesus, all right, well let's get into sound.
DJ Khaleed, Yeah, this is my joint. This is you're

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not gonna tell you it's not part of the package.
I don't believe you'all just did this paper featuring Cardi B.
Right now, because y'all just did this, because y'all want
to do this, which one y'are doing, I'm doing that.
We're doing it. We'll play top of the Hours into
big paper Cardi B. All right, let's get into it.
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enter where we're starting well. I Rudy Giuliani. They raided
his home and his office, and he went on his
radio show to talk about what led the FBI to

(23:09):
conduct this raid and what happened. Here's what he said
happened during the raid about six o'clock in the morning,
there was a big bang bang bang on the door,
and outside were seven FBI agents. What they warn't and
I said, you know, this is extraordinary because I've offered
to give these to the government and talk it over
with the other for two years. The agent seemed somewhat apologetic.

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I might say they were very, very professional and very gentlemanly.
The only time they got perturbed is at the end
of the surge, when they had taken about i'd say
seven or eight electronic items of mind, which is what
they took. They weren't taking the three hard drives. I said, well,
don't you want these? And they said, what are they?
I said, those are Hunter Biden's hard drives, and they said, no, no, no, no,

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we don't even know what they are looking for. With
Rudy Giuliani. If Rudy was any other race other than white,
we would know exactly why he was there, like we would.
He's gonna don't worry. We're gonna get to that. And
he also said that the warrant was illegal. That warrant
is completely illegal. The only way you can get a
search warrant is if you can show that there's some

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evidence that the person is going to destroy the evidence
or is going to run away with the evidence. Well,
I've had it for two years and I haven't destroyed it.
And they also got it from the YE cloud. So
there is no justification for that warrant. It is an illegal,
unconstitutional warrant. And why does Rudy have run a Biden's
hard drive? He was joking, he was joking. Oh, he

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keeps saying, stopped looking at my hard drive, go to
Hunter Biden. And in addition to that, this is what
the basis of the warrant is. According to Rudy Giuliani,
the search warrant is purportably based on one single failure
to file for representing a Ukrainian national or official that

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I never represented. So he's saying he didn't file as
a foreign age agent prior to dealing with Ukraine, and
he said that is false. So why hasn't the FBI
made made it public while they raided rooted Giuliani's house
though I really feel like if he was any other race,
we wouldn't know exactly why they were in there, I'm sure.

(25:16):
All right. Well, in addition to that, by the way,
since you know this was in Manhattan, you know New
York is back open on July first. They're gonna fully reopen,
just giving y'all that it was. But what does that mean?
Like fully open? Does that mean a one hundred percent
capacity at restaurants? One hundred percent capacity at venues, bars
and clubs open? Like what does fully open mean? Like?

(25:39):
What does it mean? But the stars, businesses, um, you know, offices, theaters,
they're gonna be able to operate at full strength. So
full capacity we open, we we we lit, we back
open and popping. Everything's open a hundred percent. I'm gonna
be honest with you, I'm anna cancer, So I'm on first.
Though it's not telled your life first, So it's not
right now, I won't even notice. I won't even notice

(26:03):
if the city's open or not, because i'd be home. Well,
formerly it was the COVID nineteen episenter. So right now
they're on track to reopening. But there's still time because
think about it, it's only isn't May yet, it's made tomorrow. Yeah,
so we still have a Yeah, we still got a
couple of months. So if anything crazy happens, I'm sure
they'll shut it back down again. But now if we
keep on going on track like we are, we'll be

(26:23):
back open July first. Now you can go back to Broadway,
go to the theaters, tourism, So that's a big deal.
I mean, I love the fact that people are going
to be able to get back to work, especially Broadway
and entertainment in New York City, because they've been shut in.
New York is kind of built off of entertainment, you know,
So the fact that they can get back to work,
I'm happy for that. Yeah. But just because you open,
no mean that people gonna you know, start frequenting your

(26:45):
functions and your venues. People still gonna be a little leary,
you know. I think they're gonna come out. Like you
look at some of those towns like Atlanta, like your Texas,
like those towns, people are coming out. They never closed,
they did close, so they were they were in the
beginning closed. I don't think Florida ever close. But that
is your front page news. All right, thank you, miss Ye.

(27:06):
Now when we come back, Don Dixon will be joining us.
She's an entrepreneur she h. She works in tech, but
she also helps other women and other minorities in tech
get the money that they need. So we're gonna talk
to her. And if you're in tech or you're curious
about tech, this is a conversation for you, so don't
move during Dixon. When we come back, it's the Breakfast Club.

(27:26):
Good morning, the Breakfast Club Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy,
Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.
We have a special guest in the building. That's right,
Don Dixon, welcome back, Good morning, Good morning. Done. You
know how hot you got us among all our entrepreneurs.
I know, it's like, how many people who hit me

(27:47):
up with that had startups after you was on the
first time. I wasn't. I don't know what happened. I
wasn't paying no attention. What happened? Man? The viral effect
your audience is amazing. And after I came on and
talked about my crowdfunding campaign, what two years ago, it
went viral and I became the first female founder to
raise over a million dollars. That's really just your whole audience.

(28:11):
That is so amazing, because I want to say, when
I first met doing, she was no joke. She was listening.
I was on and I said this before I was
at a restaurant. You popped up because I said I
was there. You would like, here's some of my flat
out hills and look at you, like, that's just amazing
because I love when I see people who are so
passionate about a product that they have and it might
take a while to get to where you got to, Like,

(28:32):
how long ago did you start that flat out? It's
ten years old this month, so that was probably eight
years ago when I first met you. So how long
did it take for you to turn a profit from that? Well,
let's see, it took about two years to break even.
You know, I had to put a lot into research
and development. Of course, getting a product made. I was
making them China. So it took about two years, but

(28:53):
we've been profitable for eight years now and now I
was just really trying to scale it and grow it
with the vending machines. Now, that was the original idea.
It took me forever. I started a popcom because it
flat out. And now our second flat out machines went
live last night in Dallas and the big day for
entrepreneurs today. Yeah, you're good luck to me too. So

(29:15):
I just want to thank you for coming up here.
But let's talk about the vending machines and if you
can explain to people the idea that you had and
how it's been flourishing since. Yeah. So the original idea was,
you know, ten years ago, I'm in the club, my
feet hurt from wearing hills. I said, we need, you know,
a way to rescue our feet, and so I said,
I'm gonna put some flats in vending machines. But after

(29:35):
I did that in Club Live in Atlanta Airport and
MGM Casino, I realized that in order to really grow
this business, I needed software. I needed technology, and so
I started Popcom, which was the business that I came
on and talked about before as well to really build
the software and the technology to drive the machines, make
them smarter, make them more intelligent, use facial recognition, blockchain,

(29:59):
and really now anybody can sell anything in these machines.
So it's flat out, flat out has two machines live now,
but we have an alcohol customer, a cannabis customer. We
have twenty customers selling everything from you know, food to
jewelry to T shirts to alcohol. Pandemic affected you, it's
been good or bad because a lot of the venues

(30:19):
have been closed. Yeah, you know what. The pandemic really
we had to pivot, but that gave us an opportunity
to go back and re engineer the product to make
it better. So we didn't launch last year like we
were supposed to as far as having them out in
twenty venues, but we did some important things like bring
our supply chain from China to the United States, which
was a big deal. We re engineered the machines and

(30:40):
the materials so now you can use them with gloves
or a pin or a stylish You don't have to
touch the machines, you know, So that's like a COVID protection.
But we really added a new business model too. We
had we added a leasing model, so now retailers are
signing up so fast because they don't have to buy
the machine anymore. So Covid did set us back, but
it really set us back for the for the you know,
it gave us time to not have to rush and

(31:03):
to really meet the demand of the public better. Do
you think that's where it's always going to stay in
the vending machines or do you think it ever be
like its own product? So flatouts they're sold online and
in stores and invending machines. But for Popcom, we're a
software company, so we're really here for all retail I
was just telling that informations. It's so valuable right too,
for any company to have to be able to get

(31:24):
all of that. That's what's really valuable too, not just
having the machines, but having your customer profiles that's available.
And yes, I have my press juices during fest Juice,
and the first thing I thought when we relaunched the
juices was I gotta talk to Don when I get
to that point about getting these machines them, because I
think that would be great for like sporting venues and
places like that in malls to be able to put

(31:45):
that in those machines, and your machines look different too.
They do, so they count traffic, they tell how many
people walk by, they tell your conversion rates, if the
person is male or female, how long they spin there,
and then that goes all into the dashboard. It's kind
of like Google Analytics does. But for the consumer, it's
the same experience. I go up to it, it's very fast,
they shop, the product comes out and delivers ads and

(32:07):
really a customized, targeted experience. Now what do you do
if you get something from a vendor machine and you
would need to bring it back because you can't put
it back in the vindo machine the same thing as
e commerce you send it back. But we are building
and they do have some coming to market return machine,
so you literally can just put the product and deposit
it back in there. So that's coming. But automation is growing.
People are gonna be just be turning it empty. Stuff

(32:31):
don't say. But that's the thing. When you do things
like that, you have to calibrate it for weight, So
like when you return, you have to know the weight.
And of course people are always coming up with some
type of but the thing about having the machine is,
we know who you are. You have to put your
card in, so if you try it and try to
scale us from somebody swipe your cards. Now, it was
still a big year for you last year because you

(32:51):
got married. I'm a newly way. I got married on
March sixteenth, the day the world shut down. We were like, hey,
we're just gonna ride this out. We don't know it's
about to happen, but we're getting married. And congrats on
your daughter too. I see she's graduating at sixty daughter. Yeah,
she finished high school at sixteen. She's homeschooled. So I'm
really an outlier. I took my kid out of schools

(33:13):
in second grade and homeschooler, and wow, she graduated early
and now she's headed to art schools. What made you
do that? Because I think I think about that all
the time. I always think about do I want white
folks teaching my kids? You know, honestly, it's the system.
What triggered me was I said, I don't want my
daughter going to any school that celebrates Columbus Day because
they're lying to her. And you know, a lot of
our kids, their identity is taken away in these schools.

(33:36):
I mean, I really feel like schools and even though
I'm a public school graduate and all that, I feel
like schools are just factories for workers. They don't really
encourage entrepreneurship, independent thinking. They don't share history. And I
just said, you don't let me try something different and
take her out and unschooled her. And so I'm also
writing an ebook about this too, because when I posted
that post, it just went viral also, and everybody's asking

(33:57):
me how can they go about homeschool And now you
see everyone's home anyway because of COVID, and so parents
are realizing like, okay, I can do this. But again,
I'm a busy entrepreneur. She was not home every day
all day. She went to co ops, you know, private
teachers and tutors and programs. But she's so well rounded
and I'm very grateful that I stuck with it. She's

(34:19):
very social. Again, she went to co ops, so every
day she would go with other homeschool kids. It'd be
like fifty or more kids, girl scouts and camps and
after school programs at YMCA. I just made sure that she,
you know, wasn't that awkward at home kid that the
stereotype tells us. But she learns everything. She was balancing

(34:41):
a checkbook at six years old. She knows how to
you know, the things that we don't learn in school,
the things that we need to know how to function
in this world. She can do those things. And I
feel really um. It was a chance, you know, I
was taking a risk. It could have went either way,
and it worked out. We got more with doing Dixon.
When we come back, Dope move. It's the Breakfast Club.
Good morning morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee. Charlomagne,

(35:06):
the guy we are to Breakfast Club was still kicking
it with Dawn Dixon. Charlomagne. I want to ask you
something about entrepreneurship. How do you how do you figure
out if an idea is worth pursuing and launching. I
do market research. I say, you know, can this make money?
Because the point of being in Business week if you
just want to do a hobby that's a hobby. Is
this gonna make money? Is it scalable? How much do
I have to put into it as far as money

(35:27):
and time. I've loved being independent and being remote and traveling,
So if I got to be there in person, I
don't think that's for me. So it has to just
really make sense. It has to be a market for
the demand, and I have to be able to differentiate
my product or service from everybody else's. And once I
find that mix, I run with it. When it comes
to investing, there's a lot of people who are like, Okay,

(35:47):
I want to invest in something. How do you determine
whether there's something's a good investment. So I am an
angel investor myself. I've invested in fifteen companies over the
past couple of years, and it goes back to just
what I think about when I'm starting a business is scalable,
How's it going to make money? How are they going
to return my money? You know? So people sometimes think, oh, investors,
that they're helping me and this is not a favor.

(36:10):
They want it back. So if I can be sure
how I'm going to get this money back. Do they
have a solid founder or solid plane go to market strategy,
do they have a customer base? And then then I'll
invest Because it's a numbers game. You know, I put
out a lot of money. It's not going to all
come back, but a couple of things are gonna hit
really big, and then it'll balance it out, and that's
we can't be scared to let that money go. We

(36:30):
gotta put it to work. The banks aren't going to
make money for us right sitting it in the bank,
So I just take my money and spread it out
and see work. I always say that too, if there's
too much money in the bank, I'm not doing something
right because you have to have your money out working
or after just sitting there making three dollars a month.
What are your thoughts on like crowdfunding, Like when I
think your crowdfund it always think it's a one time thing,
but you said you constantly do it. Yeah. So after

(36:51):
I came here and we broke the record and oversubscribe,
so I did another round. So I raised a million
again in twenty twenty, and that oversubscribe, so now I'm
raising again. It just keeps carrying over. So we're we
have active rounds open for Popcom now and then Flat
Out of Hills has a round open on start Engine.
So crowdfunding is a way to continue to capitalize your business.

(37:12):
You don't have to go to banks, you don't have
to go to venture capital if you don't want to.
I mean, I do have a mix I have venture
capital dollars and I have now three point five million
from crowdfunding. When I came here that day, I had
like two hundred thousand. So I mean, again, thank you
for your using your platform. But as you see, since
I did that, so many other people have been able

(37:33):
to raise money. And I think it's because this platform here,
the Breakfast Club, increase awareness to people that you can
invest in things outside of New York Stock Exchange, outside
of the Nazadeck that are early stage companies. And you know,
my friend Isaac was on here and they're killing it.
You know, how do you determine if you have a company,
if you want to take money from a venture capitalists?

(37:54):
Are there times when you're willing to give up a
percentage of your company? Because I know ownership is really
important to us. But when do you say, Okay, I
don't mind giving up twenty percent for this investment. It
has to be what they're bringing to the table. If
they're gonna if you give up twenty percent and they're
going to get you business, they're going to help you
grow your team, they're gonna give you money, it makes sense.
I would never give up twenty percent of my business

(38:16):
in one in one take. It just doesn't make sense
for me. But I think you have to always weigh
what are you going to get for that and what
are the terms? Terms are very important. You know, people
often confuse equity with control, and you always have to
make sure you keep control. Even if you sell equity
and you get people have shares in it, you can't

(38:36):
give up the control where you make the ultimate decisions.
So that comes in the kind of shares that you issue.
So a lot of black people are scared, like I
don't want anybody to take off my company. You can
still have people on fifty percent of your business, but
if you have majority control, like a Mark Zuckerberg, he'll
never get voted out of Facebook. He has all of
the control. They can't kick him out. If you build

(38:56):
your operating agreement to where you maintain control when your shares,
then you can still take money. So that's the important part,
equity versus control. What if Cardi B was like, Okay,
I love Flat Hill and you know I'm always wearing
my heels and I love these and I want you know,
I want to invest, but and I'll also be an ambassador,
but I want twenty percent. Would that be something you

(39:17):
would entertain party. Yes, you can understand that. Blow it up, yeah,
blow it up. So it's like if it'll turn the business.
I mean, you know, like she said, they got something
to sell, they say my name, say my name. Yes,
I got something to sell, so people will buy it
and it will increase the brand value. So if someone
can come in your brand and increase the value of

(39:37):
your business quickly, again having ten percent or you know,
one hundred percent of one thing versus ten percent of
a big value. So if you're increasing the overall value
of my business, I still don't lose. Do you ever
start a company with the intent to sell it. I'm
selling all of my business, okay, you know. I feel
like my greater impact is creating generational wealth, being able

(39:58):
to exit and be able to read invest in the
communities into people, and I need liquid to do that,
so I'm selling all of it. That's the part people
don't talk about because they always want to have conversations
about equity. But then when somebody sell the portion of
their business, sell it. But you need the capital. You
need the capital to do more things. The matter who
you sell it to. It does matter who I sell
it to. I definitely will sell it to someone that

(40:20):
will continue the vision and definitely be able to represent
what I've built, But at the same time, you can't
control it once you give it up. What's more important
to me is my now five thousand investors seeing liquidity
for them. And my dream is to have the largest
black wealth creation event in history, because when I exit

(40:41):
my company, all of these people that invest it will
exit along with me, and that'll be an influx of
capital into the community. And that's more important to me
than having a business that I'm holding onto that's worth
a billion dollars but no one else is making money.
How the business is qualified if you feature in pop
Shop vending machine, it's a program called pop Shop Local
on our website popcom dot shop and they can apply,

(41:02):
and we're looking for retailers in twelve markets right now,
and they lease it. It's five hundred dollars a month.
It's we place it, We do all the work for them.
And our goal is really to help the retailers that
we're hurting last year to get back out there and
get into new places, to get more exposure and really
be a pipeline to help smaller brands expand and grow

(41:23):
nationally internationally using our vending machines. You say you got
five thousand investors, so do you get people equity in Yes,
and see that's why Isaac does. And I think that's
so smart, and I think that's why people support y'all
so much. I think that's the difference between what y'all
do as opposed to some people who just say, hey,
you give me some money so I can get my
business gone. Yeah, that's the key. People want something for it.

(41:44):
Everybody is always looking out for their best interests first,
so why not make it an offer they can't refuse. So, yes,
we definitely give equity. But I have the control I have.
I have one hundred percent of the voting shares. I
have a board, so we you know, I don't abuse
my power, but I have the control, and um, you know,
I do monthly updates. My investors are very happy. But yeah,

(42:04):
we're out about five thousand right now and three point
five million raids and we're still raising. We're raising another
two million right now. Do you put a cap on
it at some point? Yes, I'm stopping at that four million,
So it's at one point three million today. Last time
I checked. So I'm stopping at that four million. And
you know, it's important for me to open up my
business for the community because, like I said, it's early

(42:24):
stage investment. When I came here the first time, my
company was worth eight million dollars. Now it's worth thirty
two million. So all those people that invested then, they
already are growing, they're gaining and we are only have
two machines in the market. We have twenty more coming out.
So if anyone understands business valuation, as your revenue grows,
the value of the company increases, the value of your

(42:45):
shares increases. The shareholders, you know, they they walk away happy.
So that's my goal. Let me buy some shares before
we editing. I told you that last time. You know,
you would have double triple your investment by now. For
how can people donate if they wounded up, not donate
but invest, How can they invest? What site can they go? Definitely,

(43:07):
so they can go to start engine dot com, Forward
slash popcom to invest in the technology side, the vending
machine side, and if they're interested in fashion and flat out.
Flatout has a campaign to start Engine dot Com, Forward
Slash flat Out. Their minimum lenimum investment for popcom is
two hundred and fifty in the minimum for flat out
as one hundred and sixty. So easy, you know, pair
of nikes, you can have some equity dollars, sixty dollars dollars.

(43:38):
And next time you come, we're gonna have our drink
fast juice and we have the coveting machine. I'm already
thinking about where we're gonna put. It's gonna be amazing
and we'll help you. We could put. I think hotels
will love it too. Um. Hotels are letting us have
free placement because they see it as an amenity. As
of course, the hotel gift shops are closed, the restaurants
are closed. So if anyone has like a really good
juice or a good snack that you can put in

(43:59):
a machine, hotel else need these things. Absolutely. Thank you
for joining us this morning. Always a pleasure and I'm
going good. Yes, please invest All right, Well, it's Dawn
Dixon is the breakfast club for morning carry everybody is
DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are to
breakfast club. Good morning that morning, Happy Friday, Happy Friday. Man.

(44:24):
What y'all got planned for the weekend. Anything good. I'm
gonna be in Detroit because I have my wholesale day
at my store, Private Label Extensions on eight milin de Quinder.
So you are in Detroit and you want to come
out and buy some bundle, some wigs, some extensions, some lashes,
whatever we got you. Okay, you'll be in the D.
I'm sure envy will beyond one what you got playing
this weekend and no, no D this weekend. Actually, I'm

(44:46):
gonna be in Tampa. Shout to everybody out in Tampa.
Bucks Seventh in Groves. It's a club, a restaurant that
I'm gonna be at. This one of the only black
owned restaurant and bars out there, So I'll be out
there supporting them Seventh to grow this weekend. Then, of
course Sunday in New Jersey is my real estate seminar
where we try to teach our community how to get
into the real estate game, whether it's purchasing their first

(45:08):
crib or purchasing an investment property. And we bring everybody there,
so we bring credit repair lenders, real estate agents, hard
money lenders. Everything that you need to purchase the first crib,
we bring it to you. So that way you have
to look for it. You don't have to pay ridiculous costs.
They're there to talk to you. So that's what we
do in a weekend. What about you. I don't have
anything that exciting, man. I'm just excited that we're about

(45:30):
twelve days away from Tamika Mallory State of Emergency, how
to Win in the Country We Built. It is her
first book. It's the first book released on my book imprint,
Black Privilege Publishing on Atriassignment and shust So I'm just
excited about that. Man. I'm excited for everybody that's been
pre ordering her book and I just can't wait for
it to hitch stares. I can't wait for you know,

(45:51):
y'all to get this information that Amica Mallory has put
in these pages of a State of Emergency, how to
Win in the Country We Built. So make sure y'all
go pre order that. She's gonna I know she's gonna
come on the Breakfast Club, right, she will be on
the Breakfast Club the date, Oh yes she is. That's
all right. Well, we got rumors on the way. What
we're talking about, Well, let's talk about the city girls.

(46:14):
They were unrespectfully justin and let's talk about how much
of a man spend on the first date. All right,
we'll get into high after this interview. The bar is
high after this interview. Guys, it's the Breakfast Clogal model.
She's filling the team. This is the rumor report with
Angela Yee on the Breakfast Club. Well, the City girls

(46:38):
were on, respectfully Justin and one of the things that
they talked about Young Miami was discussing how when she
first started south Side, he took her furniture shopping. Listen
to this, I ain't gonna I want a home now
yards the first day, like me shopping, Give me some
ones and we're not me forever. Crest me. That's the

(47:01):
first day. And on the first date. What you cause? Well,
when I first down my baby Dady, he took me
to the furniture Stowe and my appurniture and this time
cament like sixty thou because I had like a little townhouse.
What's the problem south Side, south Side of the thousand
on the first day, let's go south Side acting his wage.
You can't say, let's go because everybody got to act
in a wage. South Side got that kind of money.

(47:21):
If you're a person that don't have fifty thousand dollars.
You know, you act your wage. You spend what you
can spend. South Side was acting his wage. That's not.
That's not a generalization for all men. Now okay, that's
south Side high Now you know it's not. That's for
south Side's rich, for people who got money, not not
not the regular joke. So what do you think is
an average amount of money you should spend on the
first day? Whatever you can afford, a way you can afford.

(47:42):
Absolutely all right? And now JT is dating little USI
ver as you know. And here's what you had to
say about her boot. I have a good man, like
I didn't even know he was a good man. I
was hi for like almost two years before you thought
he wasn't before you and I have a good with
me and like he bringing down he remember one? What's

(48:03):
it son here? Leo? Don't look at my men. Don
I don't know much about Leo's but I'm saying you
might want to get you a leal, might want to
get you a leout. They might test you at first.
What does the test with a leal look like? Um? Hey,
my patience, why are you smiling while are you about
you really love that? Man? Yeah, I'm ka city girls.

(48:27):
You know what I was thinking about too, Man, I
was thinking about like when I lived in Columbia, South Carolina,
and I had to h I bought a furniture set
from this furniture store and it was a thousand dollars
and I had to make and I had to make
payments on it on hundred. So I'm just simply saying,
everybody act their wage because a thousand dollar furntitures says
I am. I feel like I feel like you shame

(48:49):
people with regular pockets just a little bit, just to
tad you know, fifty thousand, that's what it should be. No,
it's not. What are you talking about. Some people make
that a year. I'm just saying this to get you upset.
Just calm down, Okay, my first he's really upset. Its
head is shining. You know, we don't want a regular

(49:10):
pocket ching all right now. Tianna Taylor is talking about
why she retired. She was on Cam newton Sip and
Smoke interview series and she was saying, and of course
it was shocking to us when she said she wanted
to retire because she's a really dope artist and when
it comes to everything, when it comes to acting, dancing, performing,

(49:32):
saying all of that. So here's what you had to
say about why she felt like she needed to retire.
I put in a lot of work. So if you
feel on her and unseen, I take that serious everything
that I do. So if you're my husband or I'm
signed to do that. Everybody that I'm aligned which should
see me, they should hear me, they should feel me.
And if you don't see me, hear me or feel

(49:54):
me's a dope for you. And I felt like, you know,
the label wasn't really hearing me and seeing me. I
felt underappreciated. It's not that I retired permanently. Is more like,
you know, I just don't feel like I want to
move another inch for a company that ain't pulling in
your same direction. That's what I'm saying now. It's that

(50:15):
good music or deaf damn are both probably both. Look
I think you know at some point you have to
appreciate what what what God has given you do. I
feel like labels have dropped the ball on Tiana Taylor. Absolutely,
it's Tiana Taylor is still a star. Tiana Taylor has
a great career, she makes a great living. We know
she's super talented. You know, it just it just hasn't

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happened yet for whatever reason. But even that sounds crazy
to say it hasn't happened yet. She's achieved, she has
achieved a lot more success than the average person exactly
in the music business. So I want to say that
at least she said she's not retired permanently. Yeah, I
wonder who she's comparing herself to, you know what I mean,
Because if you're if she's comparing herself to other people,
you're comparing yourself to the Rihanna's and the Beyonce. He's like,
there's only two of them. But Tiana has a great career.

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She does. But you know what it is that she
puts out these songs and these videos that should be
bigger than what they do become right like they get
the buzz, but it feels like it should be and
then you're like, where's the disconnect? All right? Now, now
let's talk about fifty cent and Jah Rule. Of course,
fifty cent has something to say about this. There was

(51:21):
a story saying that jar Rule and his wife are
being sued by the irs. Reportedly for three million dollars
and that is for a tax debt that's spanning twelve
years of cost. Fifty cent posted and said, you gotta
pay your taxes full. He just can't. I was, and
you know what's crazy, and it's sad. Every time you
see something like that, you know, fifties gonna have something
to say. Like you see the jar Rule story and

(51:41):
you're like, what's fifty about to say? I'll be feeling
fifty because fifties a cancer like me and something had
fifty triggers yesterday. I don't know what fifty saw yesterday
that had him thinking of f murder ink, but he
posted about Ja Rule and EARV Gotti yesterday. Something triggered him.
I'm not the same way. You know, you just be
cooling out and then all of a sudden you just
see something from one of your enemy and you're like, oh,
then you know, you just feel like jabbing a little bit.

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Who you jab at? Bubble? I don't have no enemies.
Well I have enemies. They don't like me. Okay, all right,
now let's talk about every single hour. DJ Khalid, you know,
his album Khalid Khalid is out today and in a
tribute to the collaboration with jay Z and Nas. Sorry

(52:26):
not Sorry. Jay Z went on title and did a
playlist filled with his favorite NAS songs as a salute
to NAS. So that's pretty dope, and we're about to
play that now. This this is a new a component
of the heart stimulus package for chal never heard the
angel stories into the song. This is new. I like
it because it sounds organic. I like it. It is

(52:48):
a it actually is organic. I decided to do it
this morning. Come on it stop it is. We're playing
them every hour, and there are stories that go with
some of the songs we're playing. So I figured it
just makes sense. Let's get it on. It's Khalid's featuring
Nas and jay Z off that album. You could stream

(53:08):
it right now. We're gonna play top of the album
and then and then Charlotage, who are giving that donkey
you we need South Carolina said that Tim Scott and
Madam Vice President Kamala Harris to come to the front
of the congregation. We like to have a world war Harris.
Really yes, indeed, all right, anybody could get it up here.
It's the Breakfast slogal morning, So Breakfast Club, your morning's
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(53:51):
if you feel I'll deserve it. Ain't no big deal.
I know Charlotmagny got grow out funny. You gotta say
something you may not agree with. Doesn't mean I'm needing.
He's getting that donkey don't that, don't don't don't, don't
don't donkey other day right there the breakfast club bitches,
you can call me the donkey of the day, but
like well, donkey today for Friday, April thirty, off goes

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the South Carolina Senator Tim Scott and Miam Madam Vice
President Kamala Harris. Let the record show I know both
these individuals. I actually enjoy both these individuals. I've done
a couple of events with Tim Scott, sat up in
his office on Capitol Hill, chopping it up with him.
We've done lunch in at eight for three, Charleston dropping
a Clues, bond Ford aight for three. Okay, I've done.

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I did several events with Vice President Harris when she
was running for president. I've been with Vice President Harris
and Goose Creek, South Carolina, assisted her and unveiling her
mental health plan. I've been with her at South Calina
State quite a few places. Okay. I've had on air,
off air conversations with both of them. I actually would
call both of them homies. Okay. I enjoy both of them.
Don't agree with all their politics, but as humans, the

(54:54):
exchanges of energy I've had with them, I liked them,
and that's why I'm so disappointed there, I say, disgusted
with both of them on this fine Friday morning. Now
to other night, President Joe Biden delivered his first address
before a joint session of Congress. After that was over
sended attempt, Scott, the only black person in the Senate,
gave a rebuttal on behalf of the GOP and he

(55:16):
got put on the social media skewer. I mean they
grilled and sauteed his ass rightfully. So for these comments
he made about racing America. Listening, I get called uncle
Tom and the inn word by progressives, by liberals. Believe me,
I know firsthand our healing is not finished. A hundred
years ago, kids in classrooms were taught the color of

(55:38):
their skin was their most important characteristic, and if they
looked a certain way, they were inferior. Today, shoes are
being taught that the color of their skin defines them again,
and if they look a certain way, they're an oppressor.
From colleges, to corporations to our culture, people are making
money and gaining power by pretending we haven't made any

(56:00):
progress at all. Hear me. Clearly, America is not a
racist country. I disagree. Okay, but here's the interesting thing
about Tim Scott's rebuttle. Clearly Tim didn't get ahold of
Joe Biden's speech beforehand, because Biden didn't really focus on
a race. He didn't say America was a racist country.
I mean, Biden is the same person that whenever there

(56:20):
is blatant racism, he says, this is not America. I mean,
but he didn't really focus on racing his speech. About
an hour and some change into his speech, he spoke
briefly about the death of George Floyd and how he
wanted to rebuild trust between law enforcement and the people
they served. And Biden did say he wants to root
out systemic racism and our criminal justice system. But that's
about it. So for Tim Scott to take his ass

(56:43):
on TV and tell all these white people that America
is not a racist country is a slap in the
face to all of us in the lower cast system. Tim,
your West African ancestants who came through gapsins Wolf and Chawton,
South Carolina are rolling over in their shallow graves. Tim
Scott said, kids are being taught that the color of
their skin defines them. Again, Tim, when did it stop? Okay,

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when has there been a time in America when people
have not been defined by the color of their skin? Tim,
you said, progressives call you the N word. You know
how they call you the N word for no other
reason than the color of your skin. I mean, it
almost feels like discussing slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, mass incarceration,
the War on drugs, all the data and research that
have extensively documented the ways in which black people are underrepresented,

(57:27):
and everything that matters and overrepresented, and everything that's wrong
are the extensive data that documents the different treatment blacks experience,
you know, than white's. You know, it feels like even
saying that it's silly because you know that, Okay, it's
racial disparities in America and wealth, education, employment, homeownership, healthcare, incarceration,
and it's all because of America's original racist sin, slavery.

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But Tim, you know that you're just on TV trying
to appease Republican white voters. And that is exactly what
our Madam Vice President Kamala Harris did yesterday too when
she said virtually the same thing when she was asked
about Tim Scott's comments on Good Morning America. Listen, first
of all, no, I don't think America is a racist country,
but we also do have to speak truth about the

(58:11):
history of racism in our country and its existence today.
And I applaud the President for always having the ability
and the courage, frankly, to speak the truth about it.
He spoke what we know from the intelligence community, one
of the greatest threats to our national security is domestic
terrorism manifested by white supremacist and so these are issues

(58:32):
that we must confront and it does not help to
heal our country, to unify us as a people, to
ignore the realities of that. And the idea is that
we want to unify the country, but not without speaking
truth and requiring accountability as appropriate. Well, if you speak
in truth, if you can't start off by seeing America
is not a racist country, Vice President Harris. In my mind,

(58:52):
I'm like, who on Vice President Harris is comms team
is asleep at the will. I mean, you saw Tim
Scott get barbecued for those same comments on social media.
So if the VP, who is a woman of color,
is doing interviews the next day, you know she's probably
gonna be asked about this. The one thing a comms
team should have prepped her on is VP Harris, whatever
you do, don't say America is not a racist country.
But I can't even really blame the comms team for this,

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because no black person, no person of color, who is
not a tool for white supremacy, should fail this question.
When you black, the answer too, is America a racist country?
Should be one win, be one answer, and you should
channel your inner little John when you say it. That's it.
And this is what discussed me about this I've had

(59:34):
conversations with Vice President Harris. Oh not Vice President Harris,
Senator Harris and Tim Scott. They both know systemic racism exists. Okay,
they both know America is a racist country, and they
are choosing not to speak truth to power because they
are playing politics. Vice President of Harris, I know you're
thinking about the future, but you're trying to appease a

(59:54):
bunch of white voters who would never vote for you anyway.
I will never understand why Democrats continue to seek to
support a group of people who would rather vote to
keep their hierarchy in the cast system than to vote
for what's right. Okay, trust me, Democrats, there are enough
good white people in this country who are not racist,
who are not biggest, who are not white nationalists, who
will support y'all in every election. And if you do

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right by the oppressed and marginalized and stop voting suppression,
you will always have a big enough take to win elections. Okay.
Did we not prove that with President Barack Obama? Did
we not prove that with President Joe Biden. These comments
that America is not a racist country make zero sense
because both you and Tim, out of one side of
your mouth say America is not a racist country. But then, Tim,

(01:00:37):
you say this in twenty fifteen, after the shooting of
Walter Scott, I wrote a bill to fund body cameras.
Last year, after the deaths of Brianna Taylor and George Floyd,
I built an even bigger police reform proposal, but my
Democratic colleagues blocked it. Okay, Tim, why is your police
reform named after a black person, Walter Scott? Why did

(01:01:00):
name to other black people? You know in your speech
it's because black people are three times more likely than
white people to be killed by police in some places
in this country. Five times, Kamala, you said America is
not a racist country, but then you're going to say,
we have to explain the history of racism in this country. Listen,
because I know both of y'all stop the bs. Okay,
now is not the time for politics. People are dying.
Tell the truth. Shame the white devil. I repeat the

(01:01:22):
Zora Neil Hurston quote all the time because it's true.
If you're silent about your pain, they will kill you
and say you enjoyed it. Okay, Kamala, After Tim's rebuttal,
you had an opportunity to be load load about the
pain black people are currently feeling and have felt in
this country. But you chose to be silent. Okay, you
could have said everything you said after saying America is

(01:01:43):
not a racist country, and that would have been supersilid.
But when you say America is not a racist country,
you make everything else null and void after that. Here's
the moral of the story. The rhetoric y'all spewed this
week has been getting us killed for years. This is
why white folks think we'll be making stuff up in
regards the racism. This is why some white folks don't
think systemic racism is real because our leaders in the

(01:02:05):
highest seats in the land are telling them things like
America is not a racist country. Nobody has to fix anything.
If our leaders are telling them it's not broken. If
America is not a racist country, then what are we
complaining about? What are we fighting to change? If America
is not a racist country, And if America is not
a racist country, then why are all these negative things
disproportionately happening to black people? Find out next time on

(01:02:26):
Dragon Harvey. Please give standard to Tim Scott and Vice
President Kamala Harris. The biggest he hall and the liberal hypocrisy.
It is deafening because you have to keep the same
energy from Stintar to Tim Scott that you keep a
vice president Kamala Harris. You have to they said the
same thing. All right, well, thank you for that donkey

(01:02:48):
of the day. Now when we come back the city, girls,
they had some interesting to some things to say about
guys with small packages. Let's hear and you finally, really
he isn't packing the way you thought he was. He
loved you here, good, He really just got the shrimp

(01:03:09):
rowing them back. Good lawyer, just not man need to
be sexually it's the first day. No, I mean, I'm
been environing. He treating like a spoiling might have put
you on them jets you're talking about. And you find
out the other shrimp of the end what you're gonna
lock in with him, but still just cheat on him

(01:03:29):
because he ain't doing time. All right, Well, let's open
the phone up. Eight hundred five eight five, one oh
five one. What's the question? Ye you're gonna get me
to ask this one, you know you ask it? All right, ladies,
what do you do if your man's or your boyfriend's
package is too small? Do you cheat? Fellas? Let's say
you you know, what do you do if you're man's

(01:03:50):
package is too small? We'll talk to Charlemagne as well
when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club, Go Morning.
It's freaky Friday. Goddamn, the Breakfast Club Morning. Everybody is
DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the
Breakfast Club. It's Friday, so you know what that means.
It's freaky, freaky, freaky Friday. Today's freaky, freaky freaky Friday

(01:04:13):
question comes from the City Girls. They were with Justin
Leboy on his show with Justin as well. It's called
what's it called? Respectfully? Respectfully Justin with Justin and Justin Colmes,
and this is what they said. And you finally realize
he isn't packing the way you thought he was. He
loved you here, good night, he really he just got

(01:04:36):
the shrimp growing them back, good lawyer, just not need
to be sexually. It's the first day. No, I mean,
I'm been environing. He treating like a spoiling might have
put you on them jets. You talk about and you
find out the other shrimp of the end. What you're
gonna lock in with him, but still just cheat on

(01:04:57):
him because he ain't doing time. So we're asking eight
hundred five eight five one on five one, what do
you do if you're the person that you're talking to
their package is too small? Let's start with you. Ye um, Well,
first of all, I wouldn't be with somebody if I
didn't want to write. So if if they were small,
that means I made a decision to make that person
my man. And if we're together, I guess I gotta

(01:05:18):
deal with it. He's got to be able to do
other things, you know, And there's certain positions you can
get into where you can actually make it more pleasurable
for yourself. Because I have, at one point in my
life dated somebody who was really small and it didn't last,
but I didn't cheat. M what about you, Drama? And
so you would kind of be really mad if somebody
cheats on you and they're small. You're like, how dare

(01:05:39):
you right? What about you? Charlemagne or Drama? You agree?
You agree emby He said, right, that's right, right, you
know that's right. It's up and it's stuck. I know
that's right, and I do I do find them ben smaller.
I do find that men with mother penises like they

(01:06:01):
kind of wait to have sex with you. They want
to really befriend you first and like be real cool,
and then that way you feel like a little bit
more empathetic. Well, let the record show this is your
uncle Charlotte talking. I think this is so unfair. See,
men can't do anything about having a small penis. You know,
you can get Magna r X pills or whatever whatever
penis enhancement pills you can get. You can do scratching exercises,

(01:06:23):
but you can't do anything about the size of your penis. Okay.
Women can go out and get enhancements to make themselves bigger.
Guys cannot. Also simply, don't marry me if you don't
like the size of my penis. If if the size
of my penis is that much of a deal breaker
where you're going to go out and do something that's
gonna cause me to divorce you anyway, don't marry me.

(01:06:43):
Oh my goodness, you ain't talking about trigger Okay, sorry,
because you don't. Don't you gotta crush on trade songs? No,
you're a lot. Let just say that he has a
crush on Maxwell, Oh, Maxwell, Okay, just make stuff up.
You have a crush on trade songs. But let's go

(01:07:04):
to the phone lines. You don't want to answer, Amy.
They used to call you shrimp back in the day. Yeah,
you nicknamed DJ shrimp Envy because I was shorter than you. No, no, no, no, no, no, no,
you change your wording any other time. I asked you
why they call you shrimp. You say it's because I
was small. I say it, You say it you I

(01:07:29):
was short. They called me shrimp because I was smaller
than shot cut it and then called shrimp small. He
said it. No, I did not. All right, let's get
let's get your phone line for loving you in spite
of shut up. Hello, who's this hey, Jeffrey. Yeah, I

(01:07:53):
want to say I have a brick, but your boyfriend
has a small package. No, no, no, Charlomann said, what's
your ig? Let them talk? I just I just I
just messed with women. But what I'm saying is what
if I and and my leg gets cut off in

(01:08:13):
the cars? Does she say? Then? You mean you mean
if your penis gets cut off in a car accident? Leg,
what's your leg got to do with your penis? So
she's saying she's smashing me by the by the length
of my penis, but my legs get cut off in
the cars. Is she gonna cheat off? I think I
probably not, because then we can really maneuver you to

(01:08:34):
get in a different positions with you. You probably got
a big package because God didn't give you much brains.
Because you sound you sound crazy. Thank you for calling, sir, Yeah,
funding a wheelchair? Goodness, gracious. Hello, who's this? Yeah, this
is Terrence Festal from Miami. All these guys you're talking

(01:08:55):
about your penis size. Hey, hey, yo, but it's not
about my penis size, about communicating, man. So if you're
not happy with the penis side, then I hearing in
your voice you got a small penis, bro, It's okay
if you agree the penis whisper If you want to

(01:09:15):
you know, you know what I'm saying, So you just
tell them. I like you. I think you're a great person.
But this not don't work. You don't have to cheat.
It time to communicate. It's a polyamous world, right now.
I agree with you, King, because the truth is, if
I got a small penis and we get married and
then you cheat on me, I'm a divorce you so
you're gonna lose you know the rest of the good
man that I am. So we don't even put me
in that position. Okay, all right? Eight undread five eight

(01:09:38):
five one oh five one. Uh. We got this topic
from the City Girls. They were saying if they dated
a man with a small penis, they would probably cheat.
So we're asking what would you do? It is the
breakfast club, Good morning morning. Everybody is cej Envy, Angela
Schelomin the guy. We are to breakfast club now if
you just join us. We're talking about an interview that
City Girls did with respectfully Justin and they talked about

(01:10:00):
if their man had a small pack. Well, let's listen,
and you finally realize he isn't packing the way you
thought he was. He loved you here, good he really
he just got the shrimp growing them back. Good lawyer,
just not man need to be sexually it's the first day. No,
I mean, I'm been environment. He treated like a spoiling

(01:10:23):
might have put you on them jets you talk about
and you find out the other shrimp of the what
you're gonna lock in with him? But still just cheat
on him because he ain't doing eight hundred five eight
five one oh five one. If the person you would
dating had a small package, what would you do? Now?
This trigger Charlemagne. He was stumbling. My penis is seven

(01:10:45):
inches three fourth eight when it's warm out, So that
mean when it gets I'm about to be packing that
eight inches and about another month when it is consistently hot.
I'm so solid out here. Oh my godness. Let's go
to the phone lines. Hello, who's this? Hey? This is
your Hey, Hey tree morning, Hey, how are you guys doing?
Good morning? Good morning? Good morning? What that so? What's

(01:11:07):
your what's your thoughts on this? Have you ever been
with somebody with a small penis? Okay, listen, guys, I'm
actually from pa Um, but I live right now in Dealing,
South Carolina, Dealing and the penis trot want to close
bombs four four three? That's right, um, period, the penis
down here huge, um to the point where it's to

(01:11:29):
day thing. That's right baby here. Let's tell you that's
why Scharlomie was to go back so bad. No, that's
why I know, because I got a night Bowl game
at home grown penis. Let's talk about continue continue home. Listen,
I believe Honestly, I kind of believe it's where where

(01:11:51):
you're at in your age, where you're at in your life. Um,
I'm in my mid thirties right now, and I probably
would cheat. I probably would cheat Mike Random, my best friends,
she's from PA. If she tries to get me out
of the situation, like you need to find love, you're
gonna be forty soon, you know, things like that. But
this South Carolina, the South Carolina cucumber, it's like the

(01:12:12):
best South of Arden. You hear you, you heard it,
You hear her. You'll see y'all south here, you'll see it. Okay, Well,
thank you Mama, thank you Trees. I just want everybody
to know that Charlemagne the guy will be in South
Carolina looking for you guys, Friday, May seventh. First of all,
I'm South Carolina University campus. He's gonna be South Carolina State.

(01:12:32):
But yes, I will be finished doing his commencement. He's
looking for you. No, first of all, I don't have
to look for nobody. I am South Carolina. It would
sound like me. Okay, you heard her. Don't get jealous.
You ain't never heard nobody call up and say, dudes
and queen's got the biggest packages. All right, South Carolina,
we're out here. You think for three is an area? Calle? No,
that's our inches. What take that clip? Dudes and queens

(01:12:56):
have the biggest package. That's right. This guy, this guy's
going to South Carolina looking for all you guys. All right,
let's go to another caller. Hello, who's this? Hi? This
is full Hey CHRISTI what are you calling from? From Houston? Texas?
All right? Everything big in Texas? Hell? Yeah? All right?

(01:13:20):
All right? So what would you do if you started
eating a guy and he had a small package. Mama,
I wouldn't immediately cheat on him because me being a
fun size woman, I used to be that girl. It
gotta be figged. It ain't gonna work. Guy that actually
had a really small package, But this stroke was real. Okay,

(01:13:40):
you can have a package. Yeah, you just can't put
back to me to believe it or not, Charlemagne. You can.
You can actually have a decent stroke with a small
package where if they try to like move to far
back and slides out a look at you. I'm not
gonna lie if I if I had a small penis,

(01:14:01):
I would like probably like rub like a shirt on it,
so like when I stick it in and be like
some static energy. So at least she jumped once. These
are things you thought of before, and these are things
you did before, like nobody would think about that good
and that mouth all point out. I didn't know you
could have a scroll with a small Penis you learned
something new every day? All right? Well, thank you. What's

(01:14:23):
the more of the story, guys. The more of the
story is brothers in South Carolina is packing. You heard
trees dropping the clues bombs from treats out here in
these streets. All right, I'm just trying to be humbled
on the radio all these years. But whatever, now, whatever
cat out the back, Okay, Samos, just know that Charlemagne
told me he's building a house of South Carolina. He's
building businesses, He's moving back, and he's doing a commencement

(01:14:46):
next week. Why do y'all keep saying I'm moving back?
I never left. No, we obviously you know because now
we know why you never left. And yes, I am
doing the commencement. I'm doing the commencement speech at South
Carolina State University next Friday, May seventh, which is big
because that's my mother's alma mater. And you know it's
also Mother's Day weekend, so you know, God, God is
the best divine planners. The southing, the state University, the Bulldogs. Baby, no,

(01:15:10):
that's stalking. That's when my wife graduated from Gold Cox. Okay,
so whenever you think about Gold, think about the big
penisman in South Carolina tries put you on drama. Okay, weird?
All right? All right? Ye well you got roomors on
the way. Um, yeah, let's talk about shock on the
all the smoker, I'm not a big one. What what

(01:15:34):
what you want? I am so sorry, Shack. I know
she had this conversation. I don't know why he just
screened that out while we were talking about penises. Gracious,
but we'll be back with that on the room of
a play good. It's gracious. The breakfast club going on it?
The breakfast club. Oh god, it's a romp all right now.

(01:16:06):
Sierra and Russell Wilson have surprised some students in Seattle.
They donated more than thirty five thousand dollars so that
each student can start with forty dollars and their own
personal savings account. And that's from middle school students. I
think that's really dope because they've done all these studies
right the show that when kids have bank accounts at
an early age, it means that they'll be end up
being better with money as they get older. Russell Wilson

(01:16:29):
love at its dope. It's Financial Literacy Month, and Russell
Wilson said, financial literacy and building wealth is so important.
Sierra and I really wanted to talk to you all
because we didn't come from much, and we had big
visions and we had big goals and big dreams. So amazing.
All right, now, let's talk about the twenty twenty one
Billboard Music Award nominees and guests. Who is leading all

(01:16:51):
the finalists in these awards? That would be The Weekend.
So he's a finalist in sixteen different categories, followed by
the Base Baby. He has eleven nominations. And yeah, that's why,
that's that's why artists should never care about any awards
shows validation, salute to the Weekend. Remember the Grammy snub
the Weekend, which I was gonna say, yeah, but we

(01:17:13):
all thought that was crazy because we know that the
Weekend should have gotten a bunch of bunch of awards.
But look at Billboard. They got it right. So you
shouldn't put stock in any of that stuff. Just create. Man,
that's it all right. So what's the top rap album? Okay,
if you have to choose the Baby, blame it on
Baby Juice, World Legends, Never Die, Little Baby My Turn,
Little Usie verd Eternal or Take and pop Smoke, Shoot

(01:17:35):
for the Stars, Aimed for the Moon, Little Baby My Turn.
I think Pop Smoke, you're you're a New York bias
and you're just being ridiculous. Little Baby in My Turn?
How many records pop Smoke on the charts? This ship,
with all the records that he did, he had about
at least five or six number one records, four or five, No,
five or six number one? I said, four or five
number one records? Have four or five? Yeah, the one

(01:17:56):
with the one with the baby, A little Baby, I
believe little babying that that was the number one, Yes,
that was. It was a number one record. I know
the number one. And there was another one, the girl record,
I think with TJ. I don't know, but I'm still
going on a Little Baby My Turn A little it
was incredible. I think the little Baby, Little Babies My
Turn was twenty twenty. Listen, you know My Turn was

(01:18:19):
twenty twenties most popular album of any musical genre period. Movid,
Taylor Swift and Everybody sold more Everybody, but forget that.
The record was just better. I'm going a Little Baby,
my Turn. We'll see. Yes, of course, I listen to
popible album. You think pole album is better a little Baby.
This is all subjective for you all. You guys have

(01:18:40):
different opinions, so it's fine. Okay, they all got nominated,
so they're all worthy of winning. It's all a matter
of opinion too. By the way, all right, now, let's
talk about Shack. He was on the All the Smoke podcast,
and amongst the things that he spoke about was joining
in Miami Heat with Dwayne Wade. Here's what he said.
When I got to d Wade, I was like, I
know you heard all the stories. Sure the team. Well,

(01:19:00):
I shouldn't have did in LA now that I'm thinking
about it, so we ain't have any problem. You're the man,
You're the CEO. I'll be the consultant. I didn't even
know who he was, so while we're in the playoffs,
I'm watching him go at Baron Davis I'm like, who
is this? So then when the Lakers talking about playing
with me, I was like, I know where I want
to go. Yeah, I want to go play with him.
So as soon as we got to the first day,

(01:19:21):
I said, look, man, you heard this, You heard that
me and you ain't gonna have no problem. You're the
man now. He also talked about learning about Kobe passing,
and here's what I had to say about that. One
damn down stairs working out with my youngest son, Shaquiera,
and one of my other son comes in in the gyman.
He's crying, so I'm like, my mom, okay, your mom, okay,
my kids okay, And then I see the Kobe thing.

(01:19:43):
So now I'm like, it got to be a hoax.
And then the coach just kept coming in and then
you go watch TV and just hit it put me in.
I should have mowed. I should have spent more time
with my sister. I should have reached out the young fellow.
I should have just called to just check on, and
you know, things like that you can never get back. Listen.
I love the All the Smoke podcast. I'm not being

(01:20:05):
biased because they're on the Black Effect. I heart radio
podcast network. I loved them before. They get some great
conversations out of people. And it's interesting that he said
he wished he would have said that to Kobe as
far as like, this is your team, this is your CEO.
Like I wonder what made him. I wonder what made
him get to Miami and realize he had to check
his ego, Like, I wonder why he felt to do
that to Dwayne Wade but not not Kobe at the time.

(01:20:26):
That's what I would want to know, all right. Well,
if you listen to the fold episode, you can also
hear him talk about his top five rappers, top five
basketball players, and top five at dinner guests. I'm ana
like yee and that is your rumor report, all right,
thank you, miss Yea. Also, I want to say pop
Smoke has the longest running number one on top R
and B and Hip Hop albums charts nineteen ninety Bro

(01:20:46):
Little Baby, Little Baby had the most popular album of
twenty twenty of any musical genre. You know how big
that is in a year when Taylor Swift came out.
He has the longest running number one since nineteen ninety.
Nineteen ninety, the long number one R and B and
you guys, one last thing before we get out of this.
Shout out to DJ khalid As promises new album is Alice,

(01:21:08):
and I make sure you check out that new video
for his single Sorry Not Sorry, featuring Nuys James and
jay Z. And I don't know who's right or wrong,
but Billboard says Pop Smoke has zero number one hits
and one top ten hit. Billboard dot Com says, see,
I don't know, but I love both their albums and
I'll be happy for either one of those who, guys win.
So shout to Pop Well, rest in peace, Pop Smoker,

(01:21:29):
shout the little Baby. All right, well let's get into
the mix. It's the breakfast Club, Go Morning Now. In
case you missed it, last night, Mountain Dew announced the
winners of the Real Change Opportunity Fun Pitch Competition Now.
It's a competition designed to give a platform to up
and coming black entrepreneurs in an effort to discover, challenge,
and uplift this next generation of black innovators that Mountain

(01:21:50):
Dew believes entrepreneurs are the keys to building up black
owned businesses and shrinking the historic wealth gap. Mountain Dew
partner with HBCUs across the country to create the Real
Change Opportunity Fund pitch competition focused on providing resources, programming,
and funding for black entrepreneurs. Now I had the pleasure
of serving on the panel and hearing these pitches. So

(01:22:11):
I'm excited to introduce Jeff, Josh, and Fammy, who were
announced as the grand prize winners last night with their
business Event No Air. So congratulations fellas, thank you, thank you.
I'm happy for you, guys. I was. I really loved
your pitch and I believe in your product. Jeff, why

(01:22:31):
why event No Air? Man? You know, we've been doing
events over fifteen years. Josh was doing Howard's home coming.
I was in Chicago bis a law school at DC,
and we saw it was over fifty billion dollars market
event ticketing industry. Now, with us doing events, we also
realized we didn't own anything in that value chain from
the clubs, the brands that we were helping make millions

(01:22:53):
of dollars. And so one year we hosted over seventy
five events and we paid a popular event taking platform
over fifty thousand dollars they collected in ticket fees, and
we didn't where that money went. We didn't get any
support from them, and so we just knew it was
a better way and that we had to launch a
ticketing platform that gave back to our community and couple
of dollars within our community. So we're very big on

(01:23:15):
in attention, on point business with black vendors, black brands,
and we started to hire an engineer and build a
ven war from scratch. So since then, we've parted over
eight hundred of partners and organizations such Black Alumni, ball
Jack and Jail by Bright, Lifestyle Brand and all all
individuals who were able to recycle ticket fees back to

(01:23:37):
and keep that money within the community. So that was
really important to us. No, Josh, how did you experience
at Howard shape you went to the men that you
are today and what does HBCU mean to to entrepreneurs
and people like yourself? Well, Ivy, I mean, for one,
it just reconfirmed that, you know, black people, we're not
a monolith. For me, you know, my time at Howard

(01:23:59):
it was probably the most diverse experience that I've ever
been in coming from Chicago, especially the South Side, we
don't really see all the positive images that we would
like to, especially in the media and even in the street.
So just being at Howard. It was it was just
black excellence at every level. I mean I was at
Howard when Chadwick was there, I got to interact with Diddy.
I mean, Thirdgood Marshall went to Howard. I mean, I'm

(01:24:20):
sure you know from from your time at Hampton. But
ultimately it was just a huge, huge confidence boost for me.
And it also proved that we do how the talent
despite what Wall Street may think. You know, we read
the headlines and we see that CEOs are saying, well,
we want to hire black folks, but where's the black talent.
So ultimately it taught me to give back, but also

(01:24:41):
tonother settle and uh, you know that excellence, the leadership,
the service, you know, those are the core values that
I learned at Howard. All Right, the FEMI, what do
you think about a vetting the war that made it
stand out from hundreds of submissions? I mean, you guys
went against some of the some some great companies, but
your companies, you know, tested the time. So what do

(01:25:03):
you think the reason was? I think the unique advantage
that Van Noir has that we're able to generate revenue
via ticket fees and repurpose a portion of those ticket
fees and invest directly into the Black community, whether it's
supporting black organizations, black nonprofits, black entrepreneurs, and black causes.

(01:25:24):
So vnor is not just a ticketing platform or a
tech platform, and two means for us to build up
our communities and support our communities and organizations. Then let
me ask you what did this competition mean for you guys?
And how was the process? Man? So it was over
two hundred startups that Black startups that were a part

(01:25:45):
of this competition. So we got a chance to hear
from some amazing startups and just confirmed for us just
a power and talent and influence within our community. So
we had multiple pitch rounds, We had a chance to
pitch in front of yourself, a lot of of anthony,
more of it from blavity and others who really challenge us,
you know, ask us hard hitting questions, but also kind

(01:26:07):
of let us know that we had a sustainable idea.
You know, we had traction and we have an idea
and company that can really have an impact on a
Black community. So you may or may not know, but
you know, the Black dollars states within the Black community
for about six hours compared to twenty eight days with
some communities. So we know that if we're able to
just help contribute by keeping that dollar within the community

(01:26:30):
for a couple more hours, a couple more days, we
have a solution is going to have some great impact.
So we want to thank Mountain do Real Change the
Opportunity Fund for the opportunity we know. But thus us
being around for five years, if this is a marathon.
We've talked to a lot of investors and black founders
tend to be over advised and underfunded, and for us
to have opportunity to be able to get resources to

(01:26:52):
build our hard technology is amazing and so it's confirms
for us our mission which is to recycle a million
dollars back in to organizations annually within our community. Now
now that you guys have won, guys got some money,
some bread, some some some green. Now now what's next?
Where does Eventnall go from here? Um? I think one

(01:27:15):
of our next steps will be to scale nationally. The
plan forward immediately is to build partnerships and go on
a city to city tour with hosting a different couple
different event organizers and building brand partnerships and also scaling
and internationally. We have plans to expand to Africa and

(01:27:36):
other black communities in diaspora, and in addition to that,
we are building on our third iteration of the platform
to kind of accommodate the influx of new event organizers
that we're going to be having on our platform. Definitely
depty so we're seeing is as the vaccines are wrong,
gay cities are opening up, there's going to be an

(01:27:56):
influx of events, and we just want to be prepared
to be the premier central marketplace for black events. So
a lot of the certain things going on. We're speaking
to a number of investors launching our seed round. We're
excited about putting new partnerships, so we'll be going to
city of city celebrating and engaging with curators, creators and organizations.
So please get in tune follow ups at a vent

(01:28:18):
Moore HQ on Instagram and for partnerships please email infore
dot com. But super excited and super thankful, Well Jeff,
Josh and form me. I want to say congratulations and
thank you. I love your product. I love Event in
the War. I think it's going to go pretty far.
I love the fact that not only you know, will
it put some money in your pockets and allow you

(01:28:38):
to employ some people. But it also is giving back
to the community and that's what we need. So I
just want to say thank you in congratulations and I
look forward to seeing y'all in the future. Thank you well.
Shout out to Mountain Do, and we appreciate what you've done,
Mountain Do, and I can't wait to do this next
year with some more black entrepreneurs. Now shout everybody again,

(01:29:03):
world to learn more about Melton Dew's commitment to real
change for the black community. Now you out in Detroit, right, Yes,
I'm actually headed to Detroit today and I have my
private labeled Extensions wholesale day, so you can come by
and get some really amazing deals and some great quality
here to make sure y'all come and check us out.
And that's an eight mile and de quinder and I'll

(01:29:23):
be there on Sunday. Yes, and listen, man, I just
want to tell y'all to make sure y'all check out.
We've got answers on Audible this weekend. It's an audiobook
I put out a couple of weeks ago. It's free
if you have an Audible membership, and I think that
you will absolutely learn something if you check that out.
So make sure you do that. And the positive notice
coming from Salute the Mo mo posted. Once you realize

(01:29:46):
the power of your tongue, you won't say just anything.
When you realize the power of your thoughts, you won't
entertain just anything. And once you realize the power of
your presence, you won't be just anywhere. What up, Y'allice,
dj MV And we're back and we're kicking it with
Mountain Dewing. We're talking about their Real Change Opportunity Fund. Now,

(01:30:06):
the real Change Opportunity Fund is uplifting Black entrepreneurs. And
here we have our second place winner, Candice black Nole.
Did I say your name right? Yes? Well, congratulations you
created a business called Gabba. Yes. Now you're from Morehouse
School of Medicine, so explain to us what Gabba is. Yeah,

(01:30:27):
absolutely so. Gabba is a career development platform and community
that helps match students that are aspiring to health careers
to study tools and mentors, tutors and coaches. The idea
is to combat the physician shortage by increasing the pool
of diverse candidates that are ready to matriculate successfully. Now,
what was your inspiration for GABBA. You must have been

(01:30:47):
studying them and like, I need to help somebody, Please
help me. What was your inspiration point? That's actually exactly it.
So I'm a first generation medical student and I had
to navigate that whole process myself. And I know this
through my own experience and figuring out solutions to my
own problem that I wasn't the only one. I looked
around and there were mostly minorities, women, non traditional students

(01:31:08):
that were having the same challenge, and I thought that
was unfortunate that we're missing out on all of this
talent that could potentially be going into our health systems
and having an impact, and all we need is a
better support mechanism, and so we decided to create GAPA. Now,
how difficult is it to get into the health care
I guess business or yeah, how difficult it is with
testing because you don't necessarily think about it unless you're

(01:31:31):
actually in that field. So how difficult is it? Extremely?
So the statistic now is that anywhere between fifty two
and sixty seven percent of students that start off coming
from high school ready to go into these pipeline programs
actually don't make it. Somewhere in the neighborhood of one
percent of students making into medical school. But that's not
accounting for the difference of students that don't make it

(01:31:53):
into nursing programs, PA programs and all of that. So
it's extremely competitive, and if you have maybe a diverse
background where you're already at a disadvantage, it's even harder
to make those connections and get access to those tools
that will help you be successful. Now with your business,
your business stood out, I mean compared to hundreds of submissions.
Why do you think your business stood out between I

(01:32:15):
mean so many different people, and yeah, Wells was one
of the ones that people said, No, I like this,
I think this can work. I think this can change
our community, which is what we wanted to do. Yeah.
I think it's very easy to relate to wanting and
meeting connections to get to that next level. Everyone has
that experience, whether you're in medical school or aspiring to

(01:32:35):
a medical career or not. So the story of a
company is very relatable. And I think that we already
are talking about how the educational system is not really
well equipped to support our diverse candidates, and there's a
lot of movements to really change that. And Gabba fits
in very perfectly with that change in the sense that
we're really creating an ecosystem of support and empowerment for

(01:32:57):
our learners which is going to help them be successful
over the long term. So I think the story is
something people resonate with, and certainly the impact that we
could have its definitely something everyone looks forward to. Now,
what made you jump into this competition? What said? You
know what? This is something for me? Yeah? One, it's
the real Change Opportunity Fund, and so who's what better

(01:33:17):
way to change anything than through education, through empowering our
young learners. So the messaging and the mission of the
competition really resonated with me. And then, of course, as
an underrepresented founder, a female founder, it is tough to
find capital for your business. So having an opportunity to compete,
to share Gabba with a larger audience and potentially would

(01:33:38):
win capital that will help us get to those next milestones,
that was an amazing opportunity that I just couldn't pass up.
So now that you wanted to win us and you're
getting this money, what's next? What are you thinking about?
What are you gonna do with the money? What are
you thinking? We are already doing the planning. So we
just hired a new developer and a new designer. We
are doing quite a bit of new design improvements based

(01:34:02):
on what our customers and our users have told us.
We're working to build those recruitment dashboards that our institutional
partners are really excited about getting. So we're already in
the works and doing those development hours and doing that
marketing that will take us to the next level. Bro,
can this congratulations? I will success with Gabba and I

(01:34:22):
can't wait to tell the world about it because the
world needs to know about this because if I had
anything like this when I was in business management school,
the marketing when I was in college, it would have
helped me out a lot. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, thank you,
thank you, thank you. Glad to be here now. If
you have more information about anybody that we speak to,
you can hit up the website www dot Mountain dew

(01:34:44):
dot com slash world to learn more about Mountain Dew's
commitment to real change for the black community and Candis.
Thank you again, Thank you,

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