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Speaker 6: It's Friday, Yes, and we got our special guest host
Speaker 6: Laura la Rossa with us this morning.
Speaker 1: Morning.
Speaker 7: Laura, good morning, what's happening another day to serve man?
Speaker 7: Happy Friday?
Speaker 1: That is right. You get settled in here. I ain't
Speaker 1: light my candles, I see my prayers yet nothing now
Speaker 1: shout to everybody in Alabama.
Speaker 6: I'm in Alabama, you know, each and every year, I
Speaker 6: go on this HBCU tour where I try to touch
Speaker 6: different HBCUs and talk to different people, whether it's the band,
Speaker 6: whether it's the football team, whether it's teachers, professors, whoever
Speaker 6: it may be, just to try to put people on
Speaker 6: a HBCU experience they might have never seen. You know,
Speaker 6: coming from New York, there is no close HBCU in
Speaker 6: the Vicinity. The closest one, I think is you have
Speaker 6: to go to Cheney or Morgan State, which is three
Speaker 6: hours away. So we didn't get that experience. So I'm
Speaker 6: trying to show that experience to a lot of these
Speaker 6: younger students. So we're doing interviews and just trying to
Speaker 6: create awareness to these HBCUs. So this week and I'm
Speaker 6: at Alabama A and M so saluting them, drop a
Speaker 6: bomb for Alabama A and M dropping a.
Speaker 1: Cluse bombs for Alabama A and M. After Dominican who
Speaker 1: grew up in New York, what means you want to
Speaker 1: go to an HBCU.
Speaker 6: Actually it was a different world, watching the different world
Speaker 6: as a kid growing up, just seeing the college life
Speaker 6: was great. Untils I'm not Dominican, I'm black. My parents'
Speaker 6: dream was for me to go to an HBCU. They
Speaker 6: never got an opportunity need to go to college. They
Speaker 6: couldn't afford it. So for their child, they wanted me
Speaker 6: to go to an HBCU. So that was their dream
Speaker 6: for me to go to college, and not just any college,
Speaker 6: but an HBCU.
Speaker 8: And that's why I went to Hampton.
Speaker 1: Well that's good. See that shows the power of entertainment. Correct,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: College here?
Speaker 1: College?
Speaker 4: College? I mean that, Yeah, that'sgageration. But college Hell. I
Speaker 4: even was like, I need to go to the schools
Speaker 4: that they went to, and I didn't end up at
Speaker 4: those schools.
Speaker 1: But college has been around that long?
Speaker 4: Wow, what you mean?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Wow, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: College Hill has been around a long long enough to
Speaker 1: impact somebody wanted to go to college.
Speaker 4: From thirty one thirty one, it's been around what we
Speaker 4: were like, Yeah, we were high school.
Speaker 1: That's I didn't realize college he was going on that long.
Speaker 4: I don't like that you keep saying that that long.
Speaker 1: He'd been stabbing you all week. Now, just got a stab.
Speaker 1: I really didn't think college Hell had been on for
Speaker 1: over a decade. Damn wow.
Speaker 4: Well dj nvy, I'm so happy you're doing that. Let's
Speaker 4: stay positive this and then you could go to HBC.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: I didn't go to college at all. Okay, I graduated
Speaker 1: in night school two years behind schedule. I was supposed
Speaker 1: graduated in nineteen ninety six to graduate in nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 4: Night schooling around that long, No for riding. The night
Speaker 4: school was around in like the ancient Roman nineteen hundred.
Speaker 1: He was around in the nineteen hundreds. And you know
Speaker 1: what's so funny, All my EPs is going to be here.
Speaker 8: This morning joining us this morning.
Speaker 7: He got his second book, Nubia The Reckoning is out,
Speaker 7: and he actually talks about that. He talks about the
Speaker 7: fact of entertainment and the influence and impact it can
Speaker 7: have on people in that way.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I posted a TS yesterday and I forgot that
Speaker 6: All my Epps actually came to my mother's house and
Speaker 6: was rapping. When he used to rap back in the days,
Speaker 6: he used to do a freestyle. And I was just
Speaker 6: thinking to myself, I had all these people come in
Speaker 6: my mama basement and they would be rapping from fabulous.
Speaker 4: I told you, we need the beginning of this week
Speaker 4: to JAMV what we need a series something from you, Like,
Speaker 4: there's a lot of history there.
Speaker 6: So they did the Rap City and Take. He used
Speaker 6: to talk about mama upstairs. That's how my basement really was.
Speaker 6: Like Mama was upstairs cooking, like mama was upstairs cleaning,
Speaker 6: Like that's how it really was.
Speaker 1: So if it's if anybody got any new candles in
Speaker 1: the back, you can bring them. They don't make candles
Speaker 1: like they used to. I feel like I feel like
Speaker 1: my grandma Naven had candles that lasted for years. These
Speaker 1: candles don't even last days.
Speaker 4: My grandmom and them then used to light candles. You
Speaker 4: it just sat in the room that you weren't allowed
Speaker 4: to sit in the room with the plastic in it.
Speaker 6: Lord have mercy, right, let's get the show crack and
Speaker 6: we got front page news. Next Testling figure O will
Speaker 6: be joining us. It's a Friday, and it's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 6: Good morning morning, everybody. It's the dj NV Charlemagne the God.
Speaker 6: We are the Breakfast Club. We got long the Road, sauce,
Speaker 6: special guest hosts in the building. And let's get into
Speaker 6: some front page news.
Speaker 9: What up, Tiars, what's going on? Dj m V Lauren
Speaker 9: and Charlemagne the God Good Morning, Breakfast Club Family.
Speaker 1: Good morning.
Speaker 6: All right, well let's jump right into it. Let's talk
Speaker 6: about Congress down. They got three days to make a deal.
Speaker 9: Three day used to make a deal. Unfortunately, you have
Speaker 9: seen this repeat over and over and over, and they
Speaker 9: still do not have a plan. Now the government funds
Speaker 9: run out at twelve oh one Eastern Sunday. Now Democrats
Speaker 9: are presenting a night of front. But the problem is
Speaker 9: on the Republican side, there's some internal fighting. They're calling
Speaker 9: it a Republican civil war because some conservatives House Republicans
Speaker 9: are pushing for deep spending cuts, even threatening to Speaker
Speaker 9: Kevin McCarthy. You may remember, for those who follow this,
Speaker 9: in the very beginning, when speaking McCarthy was put in
Speaker 9: his seat, they had told him, you know, basically they
Speaker 9: would ask him if he got too cozy with Democrats.
Speaker 9: And so they are definitely making that threat again, saying
Speaker 9: that if he makes a deal, they will certainly be
Speaker 9: trying to remove him from his seat. He was asked
Speaker 9: how he felt about it. Take a listen to his response.
Speaker 4: How much of the fact that if you do cut
Speaker 4: a deal with Democrats there could be a vote to
Speaker 4: push you out.
Speaker 3: How much is that driving your decision making?
Speaker 1: Right? Nothing, he drives my decision. If that was driving
Speaker 1: my decision, when that driven my decision making fifteen times before?
Speaker 9: Mind, you could deal with Democrats and that could be
Speaker 9: the end of it.
Speaker 1: Did I cut a deal?
Speaker 10: Then?
Speaker 1: Did I cut a deal? Then when I went up?
Speaker 1: Fifteen round? I'm talking about right now, but let me
Speaker 1: let me explain them to you. I'm no different than
Speaker 1: I was then or before. My whole focus, what's in
Speaker 1: my mind, what drives me is the American people. Ye're right,
Speaker 1: worried if someone makes emotion. I'm not worried if somebody votes, know,
Speaker 1: it's it damn shame that these folks are willing to
Speaker 1: let the government shut down for political reasons. I don't
Speaker 1: believe they'll let it happen.
Speaker 7: But it's just just the fact they're willing to do
Speaker 7: a show that none of these people are really as
Speaker 7: America first as they claim to be claiming to be
Speaker 7: about the American people.
Speaker 9: Yeah, right, and he's lying talking about you know, I'm
Speaker 9: not going to do anything because I'm worried about the people.
Speaker 9: Because actually the impeachment hearing, I wish you'll talk about
Speaker 9: it in the second hour. Was absolutely done because they
Speaker 9: told him he needed to do it or he would
Speaker 9: lose his position. So uh, you know we always say
Speaker 9: this on the Republican side, they push a hard line.
Speaker 9: So yeah, there's just a few of them and they're
Speaker 9: really really holding the line to say you do this
Speaker 9: or else. So it's gonna be interesting to see. You
Speaker 9: know how I gonna move this weekend?
Speaker 1: All right? Well that is front page news.
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Speaker 1: Get it off your chest. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning,
Speaker 1: it's a new day. Is it your time to get
Speaker 1: it off your chest?
Speaker 2: Play got whether you're mad or blass, time to get
Speaker 2: up and get some.
Speaker 11: Call up now eight hundred five e five one oh
Speaker 11: five one. We want to hear from you on the
Speaker 11: Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Hello this yo.
Speaker 12: DJ Indy was good. It's Coach David Charlamagne and God
Speaker 12: like y'all are doing. And uh to the guests, good morning,
Speaker 12: your love, young lady.
Speaker 1: How you going?
Speaker 4: I'm doing good?
Speaker 1: What I'm coaching? Yo?
Speaker 12: I'm good. I'm good. Hey listen, man. You know, like
Speaker 12: I said, September is a lovely month. Not only did
Speaker 12: I celebrate my first day, but I had my wedding
Speaker 12: anniversary twenty one years and tomorrow is my son's twenty
Speaker 12: fifty first day. Man, you know, I wanted to shout
Speaker 12: my son, Amy and Davis, I love you boy. You know,
Speaker 12: I also wanted to talk about yesterday. I heard y'all
Speaker 12: this morning, you know, before y'all get on air about
Speaker 12: the body count. I really wasn't able to get do yesterday.
Speaker 12: And I want to say this, right when we when
Speaker 12: we deal with you know, sexual acts and things like that,
Speaker 12: that's a spirit true act, right, And to be engaged
Speaker 12: in such behavior from a spiritual emotions, you're dealing with
Speaker 12: a lot of trauma and things that go wrong with that.
Speaker 12: Because we're entering into each other. You understand, especially for men,
Speaker 12: when you're entering into a woman. And I say that
Speaker 12: because as my son, right, my son turned twenty five.
Speaker 12: One of the things, like Charlamagne said, you know, I impressed,
Speaker 12: and I really do. I impressed upon my son. Because you
Speaker 12: can doesn't mean that you have to you understand what
Speaker 12: I'm saying, when you're dating these young ladies, you know,
Speaker 12: if y'all have to have in mind that you're gonna
Speaker 12: smash and take her down, that's not the gold. You know.
Speaker 12: And I you know, I have a daughter as well.
Speaker 12: She's twenty. When she's twenty years old, so canvy. I
Speaker 12: understand you, brother, You know you look at things.
Speaker 10: Like I had.
Speaker 12: It's twenty. I had this conversation with my brother yesterday. Yo.
Speaker 12: I really sat back and I thought about in my
Speaker 12: fifteen years, whether my body count is what my personal
Speaker 12: body count is, and I'm gonna keep it a stack. No,
Speaker 12: I was not a Charlamagne. I'm gonna keep it a
Speaker 12: stack with you in my fifty years. I just say,
Speaker 12: maybe twenty females. I'm gonna keep it a fuck. Maybe
Speaker 12: twenty females in my fifty years. And I'm talking college.
Speaker 12: You understand what I'm saying. Now. I wasn't. I wasn't
Speaker 12: out there like that. Yeah. I got my experience, but
Speaker 12: I always felt, man, this is this thing is like
Speaker 12: you said, it's your body. It's a temple, you know,
Speaker 12: from a male and a few the standpoint. But I
Speaker 12: want to lead y'all with this last time I was
Speaker 12: talking to y'all, I was mentioning about the ABA and
Speaker 12: the Cody Allen thunder Well, I'm the general manager of
Speaker 12: that organization and we got a little quick shout out
Speaker 12: on the drink on the drink Champs when uh no,
Speaker 12: he was talking uh ms bleet and know you alluded
Speaker 12: to it, but prith bleet talking about the next But
Speaker 12: I wanna let y'all know, man on the twenty eighths,
Speaker 12: I will opening day. I would love to invite y'all
Speaker 12: two gentlemen out to come watch history being made in
Speaker 12: Cody Allen, Brooklyn and Kingsburg Community College. Y'all the thunder
Speaker 12: here and we're gonna take Brooklyn and New York by
Speaker 12: spell on man, and I want y'all to have a
Speaker 12: great day. Gentlemen. Thank y'all for allowing me to get
Speaker 12: and talk to y'all.
Speaker 1: Dollars for that commercial you just did.
Speaker 6: Okay, you stupid, but thanks for that invite, brother, and
Speaker 6: good luck for the season. Get it off your chest
Speaker 6: eight hundred and five. I want if you need to
Speaker 6: vent hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning,
Speaker 6: the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 11: This is your time to get it off your chest
Speaker 11: eight hundred five eight five one o five one. We
Speaker 11: want to hear from you on the breakfast club.
Speaker 2: Hello, Who's this is?
Speaker 13: Jay?
Speaker 1: What up?
Speaker 3: MV?
Speaker 12: What Charlot?
Speaker 3: And is god?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 2: I brother?
Speaker 1: Get it off your chest?
Speaker 10: No, I'm telling it your envy this for you, man.
Speaker 10: Please don't clean no fash this morning.
Speaker 12: Man, don't do it. Man.
Speaker 10: No more's punkin Spice, little avil or sexy bony Red
Speaker 10: whatever her name is.
Speaker 9: No more.
Speaker 12: Please we talk.
Speaker 9: Please?
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know what I'm You're talking to Envy.
Speaker 1: I was like, why do you talk me pumpkin spice?
Speaker 10: And second I'm talking to v Charlo. Man, I'm talking
Speaker 10: you're talking.
Speaker 1: To vyund crazy.
Speaker 7: He's like, yo, Envy, Yo you sexy pumpkin Spicey. It
Speaker 7: sounded like you said, no, no, lord, no, no charlist
Speaker 7: the new girl.
Speaker 10: Man a way, can't rap him. Take off the beef,
Speaker 10: do me your favorite take off the beef right and
Speaker 10: just listening with his safe They can't thinking.
Speaker 4: Nothing rapping that ain't sexy raby to be about.
Speaker 10: I hear you what she be rapping about.
Speaker 4: I'm waiting sex and all of that stuff. But she
Speaker 4: be like I could take a beat away from Heart
Speaker 4: and was still listening.
Speaker 1: Kianna changed her dietary habits. I don't know if y'all
Speaker 1: saw that you talking about.
Speaker 10: That question, quick question, would you let would you let
Speaker 10: your listen to sexual red music?
Speaker 1: My daughter fifteen, she probably is listening to sexy red music.
Speaker 1: I walked in her room the other day. She had
Speaker 1: King Vaughan playing, Oh.
Speaker 12: Man, well anyway, have a good day.
Speaker 14: Man.
Speaker 1: Don't talk to me like I felt as a father
Speaker 1: or jay.
Speaker 6: I don't know if you know, but we don't pick
Speaker 6: the records up here, ja. I only pick my mix JA.
Speaker 6: So if you had something that you love or you
Speaker 6: don't like that, that's you know what I mean.
Speaker 7: And by the way, why do us old heads act
Speaker 7: like our generation was any better?
Speaker 1: Like knock it off? Nobody? Well, yeah, some people do.
Speaker 7: We acting like we acting like the little Kims of
Speaker 7: the world and the tree and the five o'clock round
Speaker 7: weren't as ratchet and sexual as them like to cut
Speaker 7: it out.
Speaker 4: What they always trying to do is is minimize it
Speaker 4: by saying, like he said, if you take the beatyway,
Speaker 4: what they can't rap? What are they even talking about?
Speaker 4: And it's like some of them girls who sexy rector
Speaker 4: really flow. I just think it gets overlooked because of
Speaker 4: what she's sucking roup.
Speaker 1: All right, but but I always felt like that about
Speaker 1: people like Kim. Kim can rap her ass off.
Speaker 4: People debated whether she could rap or not in your time,
Speaker 4: I've never heard.
Speaker 7: Yeah, because I don't think debated whether she could rap.
Speaker 7: But I think that because of the content, people didn't
Speaker 7: pay attention to her talent as much as they shot I.
Speaker 4: Could, I can.
Speaker 1: That's what I think.
Speaker 14: Hello, who's this DJ Charlamagne? God Lord? Good morning?
Speaker 4: Good morning?
Speaker 1: Oh Rob? You got some balls for ball time?
Speaker 12: Hoever?
Speaker 14: They know it's Friday, Man, it's ball time. Let's get
Speaker 14: right into it. Check it out. I said, Yo, ain't
Speaker 14: no means for the introduction.
Speaker 15: You feeling urged, just google me zone down a part
Speaker 15: of that triangle philosophy. I put him out for if
Speaker 15: one strike Mama men talent making believers shown. His dedication
Speaker 15: is now stop a profile visitor, shock value. When let
Speaker 15: it popped, we drink big executed for Frank White, Saint James,
Speaker 15: Mafia style weapon, the pen strikes, you know, the drill,
Speaker 15: Brooklyn bomb, calm. It's a takeover heavy shot intended to
Speaker 15: land leaving what's left over in due time. Can't be
Speaker 15: confined stuck in the hoods for long soon it's tall
Speaker 15: budget of manifesting the peerage for them who wants to
Speaker 15: smoke open The deathly strand that I'm rolling with can't
Speaker 15: be passed by any bill.
Speaker 14: Congress is coated with them.
Speaker 15: Soldier Bill ran through the street corners and projects, flipping
Speaker 15: capsules in the process.
Speaker 10: Watch the dialect.
Speaker 14: I'm one of one producing the spect power. It's a
Speaker 14: new day. The main saw some larger my stature. Check
Speaker 14: the professor. Play og.
Speaker 6: G o g row okay okay, okay o g I
Speaker 6: got some.
Speaker 1: Balls, I got some boss.
Speaker 6: Now let's get it all in perspective for all your enjoyment.
Speaker 1: A song you could step.
Speaker 6: With, yell employ to me to bring rap justice, But
Speaker 6: I ain't five Yo, Laurie Loressa.
Speaker 1: You know it's tom Yo Charlamagne. Stop grabbing my ass.
Speaker 6: You better pass because if you're dope, you're trash.
Speaker 1: Boo boo.
Speaker 7: All I do is spark colorism. All I do is
Speaker 7: spark colorism. No rapperture wrapped quite like I can. I
Speaker 7: take a beige man and put his head in the skin.
Speaker 4: No hold on, you wrote that.
Speaker 1: Or that's ll J cool J. That's what that was
Speaker 1: right there? No white like I can I take a
Speaker 1: beige man and put his head in the sand. Dark skin,
Speaker 1: my fiosa, a light skin? Make you boo all light skin?
Speaker 1: They want to be.
Speaker 7: Dark because all I do is spark colorism. All I
Speaker 7: do is spark colorism. Hey, nobody with me?
Speaker 1: Boom.
Speaker 6: So if you put a light skin, dude, his face
Speaker 6: in the sand and his asses up. That's what you're
Speaker 6: trying to say, his face down, ass up.
Speaker 1: This is disgusting.
Speaker 4: Are y'all shot at each other?
Speaker 1: This is disgusting. There was no need for that. Do
Speaker 1: you rob there this morning?
Speaker 4: Get room?
Speaker 14: Hey, hey, hey, listen, this is what we do. Man,
Speaker 14: y'all already do what it is.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 14: I appreciate y'all the time.
Speaker 1: Man, I love it. I love it.
Speaker 14: I love it.
Speaker 1: Y'all.
Speaker 14: Have a good weekend, y'all be starting for you and
Speaker 14: the family.
Speaker 6: Keep them better to you, brother, all right, get it
Speaker 6: off your chest. Eight hundred and five A five one
Speaker 6: O five one. Now when we come back, we got
Speaker 6: your roomor report Laura Ross what we were talking about?
Speaker 4: Yes, we are talking about Genie, Mai and Jeez. They
Speaker 4: are living under the same roof still, according to reports,
Speaker 4: and it is very awkward.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, we'll get into that when we come back.
Speaker 8: Don't move.
Speaker 1: It's to Breakfast Club. Good Morning, the Breakfast Club Morning.
Speaker 6: Everybody is dj n V charlamagnea God. We are the
Speaker 6: Breakfast Club. Laura la Ross, our special guest host is
Speaker 6: here this morning. Yes, and let's get to the rumors.
Speaker 4: I've been here from.
Speaker 1: Doom of report.
Speaker 4: I think a lot of people will recognize the boys
Speaker 4: from the.
Speaker 1: Name on the Breakfast Club came in.
Speaker 4: So GZ and Genie my are still living together even
Speaker 4: amid the divorce, and it is a very uncomfortable situation.
Speaker 4: So TMZ reported this story. All Gz and Genie are
Speaker 4: still living together in Georgia, but there's very little interaction
Speaker 4: going on between them. You guys know that they have
Speaker 4: a one year old daughter together, and sources are saying that,
Speaker 4: you know that right now is their main focus. They
Speaker 4: don't really interact as much, but they do cross paths
Speaker 4: when they go, you know, throughout the house, but that's
Speaker 4: about it now. They also note that the divorce came
Speaker 4: as a complete shock to Genie which have been reported
Speaker 4: prior to so. But because of that, there's a lot
Speaker 4: of like anxiety and tension in the home. And at
Speaker 4: one point Genie my was the center of cheating rumors.
Speaker 4: People thought that she had begun dating Access Hollywood hosts
Speaker 4: Mario Lopez, but a source close to Genie confirmed that
Speaker 4: that was not true.
Speaker 7: So who are the sources that are reporting and why
Speaker 7: do we think it's Jenny March's family.
Speaker 4: I don't know who the sources are that I've reported this,
Speaker 4: and if I knew, I couldn't tell you because as
Speaker 4: a journalist you never out your sources.
Speaker 6: Well, Leska, Well, I will say is the fact that
Speaker 6: they're still in the house together shows a lot, right
Speaker 6: because if they really, if they hated each other and
Speaker 6: really couldn't get along, they wouldn't be in the house
Speaker 6: with you.
Speaker 1: We don't know if they're in the house together. It's
Speaker 1: just sources, it's just rumors.
Speaker 4: I believe laurens La. It's I didn't wreak this story.
Speaker 4: I don't work at TMZ anymore, but I will say that,
Speaker 4: I mean, they wouldn't have ran with this if they
Speaker 4: didn't confirm it in some way. Right, and if it's
Speaker 4: not true, somebody's going to come out and say that
Speaker 4: is not true because it's a major story. Because we
Speaker 4: were trying to figure out what was going on. There
Speaker 4: were some photos though. I think it was like last
Speaker 4: week Gigi still had on the wedding ring and people
Speaker 4: were like, what's going on.
Speaker 7: So the worst thing about situations like this, there's no
Speaker 7: privacy because whoever you got in the house, it could
Speaker 7: be you know, nannies, it could be do.
Speaker 1: Your lawn, whatever it is.
Speaker 7: Whatever they see, they're going to report to outlets if
Speaker 7: there's a little change for it.
Speaker 4: Well as I mean, okay, so.
Speaker 1: You paid for those kind of stories, right, you do?
Speaker 9: Don't?
Speaker 4: They don't pay for information information.
Speaker 1: No, people just doing that the goodness of their heart.
Speaker 4: When you're good at your job. It's not the even
Speaker 4: goodness of the No.
Speaker 7: I'm talking about the people who like, oh, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 7: they got to get some money.
Speaker 4: When I was no, you don't. They don't pay for information.
Speaker 4: Why do people think that? Do you guys understand how?
Speaker 4: That's why we're asking, Like, I don't work there anymore,
Speaker 4: but I do want people to understand that they are
Speaker 4: really good at what they do at that time when
Speaker 4: I was there. No, there's no information being paid for
Speaker 4: at all. You just have people and things and you know,
Speaker 4: relationships and you develop you know, stories from that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just wonder what would be the benefit for
Speaker 1: somebody to tell that, you know what I mean? Right?
Speaker 4: I can't answer that because each person's benefit might be different.
Speaker 4: But you know, sometimes I think people just want to
Speaker 4: feel important maybe.
Speaker 6: But they never mentioned a name though, like if it's
Speaker 6: a cleaning person, if it's a nanny or the landscape,
Speaker 6: but they don't mention the name.
Speaker 8: So it's like, what do you get out of it?
Speaker 8: If it's not finan.
Speaker 7: Probably just get off here in the story, like knowing
Speaker 7: that I'm the person that.
Speaker 4: It could if you never know who this or whether
Speaker 4: it's who the source is though, so who depending on
Speaker 4: who the source is, the what I get from it changes, right,
Speaker 4: because if it is something like that, like a nanny,
Speaker 4: a makeup artist or whatever, maybe they're just wanting to
Speaker 4: be involved. Or if it's someone that like if you know,
Speaker 4: celebrities put stories out too, If it's like that where
Speaker 4: it's it's coming from someone's team, maybe they're trying to
Speaker 4: control a narrative. Like, there's so many different reasons.
Speaker 7: Yeah, some people don't need credit for the drama they
Speaker 7: stir up. They just like to, you know, stir it up,
Speaker 7: set things on fire, and walk away.
Speaker 4: And well, I think this situation was on fire from
Speaker 4: the minute that the voice papers were filed. Like, that's
Speaker 4: a huge story. So at this point, you already in
Speaker 4: the fire, you might as well, like, you know, extinguish
Speaker 4: what's around you.
Speaker 1: You never know.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't know where the story came from,
Speaker 4: but I will say I thought when I read this,
Speaker 4: I thought, like, is their hope then, because they're still
Speaker 4: in the same house, because why would they need to
Speaker 4: still be in the same house outside of their kid?
Speaker 4: But they can both afford to not be in the
Speaker 4: same house.
Speaker 1: It's just okay, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, so on to the next rumor speculation, This
Speaker 4: stuff can is real.
Speaker 1: Young You better not say that. You better say.
Speaker 4: Allegedly according to sources. Yes, So moving on to the
Speaker 4: next story. Ice Spice. Ice Spice sat down with a
Speaker 4: Variety magazine and she talked about the fact that, you know,
Speaker 4: as she's come up, you know, Ice Spice has been
Speaker 4: coined as like one of the princesses a rap and
Speaker 4: she's had like such a big debut that she says,
Speaker 4: behind the scenes, a lot of the rap girls are
Speaker 4: not nice. She says that people always want to come
Speaker 4: off as a girl's girl and that's like the trinity
Speaker 4: thing to do now, but it's not always like that.
Speaker 4: So she says it's a competition. At the end of
Speaker 4: the day, people want to be all, I'm a girl's girl,
Speaker 4: but then behind the scenes are being Can I say
Speaker 4: the word be bitches? Basically, we're here, the girls are
Speaker 4: doing amazing. I'm excited to see I feel like this.
Speaker 1: That word, that word.
Speaker 4: Who's going to be and who's gonna Sorry, I don't
Speaker 4: know what I can and can't say. Can I get
Speaker 4: the paper?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: You know what, you're right because you're right because it's
Speaker 1: not in front of you today.
Speaker 4: Yeah, person, and I normally asked for it, but okay,
Speaker 4: there you go, Thank you.
Speaker 12: Ray.
Speaker 4: She also added that she wanted to be transparent and
Speaker 4: she knows that it's a competition, but she knows that
Speaker 4: sometimes people are checking on her.
Speaker 1: Wait what basically, welcome to the industry, ice spice.
Speaker 4: Okay, She's all over the place with this. It's like
Speaker 4: she's saying people are being like not nice to her
Speaker 4: behind the scenes. But then she's like, but it's okay though,
Speaker 4: I get it this competition. I think it's okay to
Speaker 4: talk about it. It's like, which side are you?
Speaker 1: Like? I get?
Speaker 7: I get, I get exactly what she's saying, because she's
Speaker 7: saying that, you know, you got these people out here
Speaker 7: who act like they they down for you, and they
Speaker 7: down for the culture, and they down for women. When
Speaker 7: you meet them, you realize that's not really the shape.
Speaker 6: She's saying the industry is fake, which people have been
Speaker 6: saying since the beginning of the industry.
Speaker 1: The industry is fake, not just for women, for men too.
Speaker 6: I'm sure this guy's oh yeah, that's my guy, and
Speaker 6: then behind the scenes is I hate that.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 4: She said that too about the guys too. But I
Speaker 4: just feel like, well, if that's the case, like pick Asi, like,
Speaker 4: are you okay with that? Or are you not okay
Speaker 4: with it?
Speaker 8: I don't think you have a choice but to deal
Speaker 8: with it. That's just to understand it.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 7: You're in this you're in this business, in this game,
Speaker 7: and that's just how people lost.
Speaker 1: And now you just got to move accordingly, very.
Speaker 4: Much so, because it gets a little especially when you're
Speaker 4: on top like her. She's huge right now, So moving on.
Speaker 4: Yrese Terrees is back in the room of report as well.
Speaker 1: So home Deeper, y'all, envy handles, just let me sit
Speaker 1: back and watch. Go ahead, Lauren and be you okay,
Speaker 1: I'm great.
Speaker 4: Why did you do that to him?
Speaker 1: Blessed?
Speaker 4: Oh my god? Okay, So you guys, remember home tyres
Speaker 4: came out and said that Home Depot was racist, and
Speaker 4: he filed a one million dollar racial profiling and discrimination lawsuit.
Speaker 4: So Home Depot has now responded in legal docs, and
Speaker 4: Home Depot is saying that Tyrese made a series of
Speaker 4: false and misleading claims in that womanion dollar racial profiling
Speaker 4: and discrimination lawsuit that he felt that month. They're saying
Speaker 4: that the company has surveillance footage from the incident that
Speaker 4: contradicts a number of claims that Tyrese made. So the
Speaker 4: first claim is saying that the footage actually shows him
Speaker 4: at the counter he had, I guess, began to ring
Speaker 4: up his stuff. He then went back to shop for
Speaker 4: more stuff and then returned twenty five minutes later. So
Speaker 4: that's why all of his items were cleared from the
Speaker 4: checkout area, and they also said that the cashier avoided
Speaker 4: the items that were being presented because they wanted to
Speaker 4: help other customers in his absence. You know how that goes,
Speaker 4: Like when you're shopping for stuff, they can't like hold
Speaker 4: the line up for too long. They said that he
Speaker 4: was going for twenty five minutes, so they had to
Speaker 4: do that. They move on. They also say that this
Speaker 4: was that Tyrese was very misleading by this in his
Speaker 4: complaint that a computer glitch caused the transaction to the delay.
Speaker 4: So basically they're saying everything that he claimed was not true.
Speaker 4: So the computer glitch, why the items were clear from
Speaker 4: the front, the I guess the amount of time he
Speaker 4: took to leave and come back to the register.
Speaker 1: Basically home people say, you ain't getting this four hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty million dollars you're suing for. That's what they're
Speaker 1: trying to say.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but with stuff like this, I understand that you
Speaker 4: base it off a fact right when you're trying to
Speaker 4: signe in court. But if he felt that way, how
Speaker 4: do you tell him that, no, you can't feel that.
Speaker 7: I mean, that's why he's following the lossuit. Yeah, that's
Speaker 7: why you got it. They're saying they're signing court, so
Speaker 7: now you got to prove his side in court.
Speaker 2: That's all.
Speaker 4: But one of these people is going to win, right,
Speaker 4: And it doesn't sound like they're fighting back hard. So
Speaker 4: I don't know if it'll be him, but he still
Speaker 4: feels that way. You know, really, you ever walked in
Speaker 4: the store and felt like something happened to you and
Speaker 4: then you're like, did it or did it not?
Speaker 7: You got to make sure it's just not your feelings.
Speaker 7: But you know what, I want to see Tyree with
Speaker 7: four hundred and fifty million dollars. Wouldn't that be amazing?
Speaker 7: Tyrese Gibson with four hundred and fifty million dollars? Wouldn't
Speaker 7: y'all like to see that?
Speaker 4: Why are you smart? Like what you're getting at here?
Speaker 1: I'm not getting that nothing. Wouldn't it be amazing to
Speaker 1: see ty Ree's with four hundred and fifty million dollars?
Speaker 1: It's anything that would be Are.
Speaker 4: You stirring a pot right now?
Speaker 3: With pot?
Speaker 1: Are not stern any pot? I want to see ty
Speaker 1: Reese getting his money if he is deserving upset money.
Speaker 8: I think it'd be nice to see anybody with four
Speaker 8: hundred and fifty million that looked like us.
Speaker 1: Honestly, you don't look like you. You Dominican.
Speaker 8: I'm not Dominican. I'm I'm black, Sir, I'm black. I
Speaker 8: don't know over here.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well I will see. I'm sure his attorneys will
Speaker 4: be filing some responses.
Speaker 1: You got nothing else, No, God blessed her racing.
Speaker 8: You said it's sevailus. Cameras, you said.
Speaker 12: It.
Speaker 1: I just said, God bless. I just said God bless.
Speaker 1: Just ask the questions. We don't need nothing, cameras. I
Speaker 1: just said, God bless you.
Speaker 4: I can't wait till the shoe on the other foot.
Speaker 7: The shoes always on to the foot. Iin'tven got no shoes. Lord,
Speaker 7: the shoe, him the shoe exactly.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, Lord have mercy. Well that that's the
Speaker 4: rumors for right now. God, and we don't let him
Speaker 4: get to you. God bless things you're doing today.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying God bless. I can't say God blessed
Speaker 1: and leave it at that. Now, that's all. I go
Speaker 1: on front page news.
Speaker 8: That's right, front page news, and next I don't want
Speaker 8: to be joining us.
Speaker 6: Oh my goodness. This is a great Friday's Breakfast Club.
Speaker 6: Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be
Speaker 6: the same.
Speaker 2: Good morning everybody.
Speaker 1: It's dj NV, Charllemagne, the God.
Speaker 6: We are to Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front
Speaker 6: page news now. Laura Roast is our special guest host
Speaker 6: this morning and test. TI Morning, Tess, Good.
Speaker 9: Morning, DJ VY, Good morning, Louren, Good morning, Charlemagne and
Speaker 9: the God.
Speaker 4: Good morning.
Speaker 8: Let's jump right into it.
Speaker 6: On my NFL fans, the Trait Lions beat the Package
Speaker 6: last night, thirty four to twenty. All right, well, let's
Speaker 6: jump right into it. Let's talk about the first impeachment.
Speaker 9: Yeah, the first impeachment hearing was no information on President
Speaker 9: Joe Biden. They started this yesterday, the Star Witnesses test
Speaker 9: to find that they lacked proof that he committed an
Speaker 9: impeachable offense. Again, didn't bring any information about his conduct
Speaker 9: or any support for Republicans, accusations that he entered into
Speaker 9: corrupt overseas business deals, and Texas Representative Jasmine Crockett had
Speaker 9: a word about it.
Speaker 3: Let's take a listen.
Speaker 16: When we're talking about somebody that's committed high crimes, it's
Speaker 16: at least indictments. Let's say, thirty two counts related to
Speaker 16: unauthorized retention of national security secrets, seven counts related to
Speaker 16: obstructing the investigation, three false statements, one count of conspiracy
Speaker 16: to the fraud of the United States, falsifying business workers,
Speaker 16: conspiracy to the fraud of the United States, two counts
Speaker 16: related to efforts to obstruct the vote certification proceedings, one
Speaker 16: count of conspiracy to violate civil rights, twenty three counts
Speaker 16: related to forgery or false document statements, eight counts related
Speaker 16: to solictening. And I could go on, because he's got
Speaker 16: ninety one counts depended right now. But I will tell
Speaker 16: you what the president has been guilty of. He has
Speaker 16: unfortunately been guilty of loving his child unconditionally. And that
Speaker 16: is the only evidence that they have brought forward until
Speaker 16: they find some evidence. We need to get back to
Speaker 16: the people's work, which means keeping this government open so
Speaker 16: that people don't go hungry in the streets of the
Speaker 16: United States.
Speaker 1: And I will yield. Charlemagne. I guess you told them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she sounds like, what the hell you're talking about.
Speaker 9: I like her, Well, she told him what time it
Speaker 9: was when she talks about you know, how we need
Speaker 9: to be focused on what is happening in this government shutdown.
Speaker 9: She is absolutely right where the focus should be. I'd
Speaker 9: have mentioned this last hour, but I wanted to just
Speaker 9: kind of throw that in so people can know the
Speaker 9: severity of what we're talking about the shutdown. FEMA is
Speaker 9: actually cutting disaster Aid right now, you know, as they're
Speaker 9: preparing for this shutdown, the cutting about eight billion dollars.
Speaker 9: So there's a disaster and folks need help, you know
Speaker 9: that emergency help. It's going to hit different when you
Speaker 9: don't have the money. We also talked about earlier in
Speaker 9: the week when I covered the story what actually happens
Speaker 9: with the shutdown. So we're talking about furloughing employees, employees
Speaker 9: not being paid, having to get paid on the back end,
Speaker 9: some will never get paid at all if they're not
Speaker 9: essential employees. And we're talking about jobs possibly being cut
Speaker 9: as well. So the shutdown is a real thing. It
Speaker 9: does affect the American people. That trickles down, especially when
Speaker 9: we're talking about removing a lot of those programs. So
Speaker 9: this is a real thing that people shouldn't paying attention
Speaker 9: to this weekend, and I will have an update on Monday.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean nothing about this government. Shutdow says, I
Speaker 7: care about people. You are not saying you care about
Speaker 7: the American people if you are willing to let this
Speaker 7: happen in any way, shape or form, especially.
Speaker 4: Doing right now when every inflation and all that stuff.
Speaker 4: And I have a friend. When we reported this earlier
Speaker 4: this week test we talked about it, one of my
Speaker 4: friends reached out to me and she was talking to
Speaker 4: me about what she's going through. She's preparing for and
Speaker 4: she is not going to be paid. She has a son,
Speaker 4: she has a home, like you know what I mean,
Speaker 4: And she's literally preparing to go without pay and will
Speaker 4: still have to work.
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, And see that's that's the key.
Speaker 9: You'll want people to know, like that some of these
Speaker 9: people will not be paid but still have to work,
Speaker 9: you know. So imagine that. Yeah, imagine that, you know,
Speaker 9: just going in every week and still you know, having
Speaker 9: having to wait on your check.
Speaker 4: So that's that that doesn't feel good at all.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. Well, now let's jump into Donald Trump. What's going
Speaker 1: on with Donald Trump?
Speaker 9: Yeah, just want to give a quick update on the
Speaker 9: Trump racketeering case in Georgia that we've been covering here
Speaker 9: on Front Page News. A decision was made after Mark Meadows,
Speaker 9: his former chief of staff, tried to get his case
Speaker 9: because remember it's several of them that are on trial
Speaker 9: or will be on trial. He tried to get his
Speaker 9: case more to the federal court. So once trump attorney
Speaker 9: seeing that that did not work, then now they said
Speaker 9: they're just going to go ahead and let it stay
Speaker 9: in the state court in Atlanta. A lot of people
Speaker 9: were shocked about this because he was really pushing for
Speaker 9: the federal uh, for this to be a federal case.
Speaker 9: You may wonder why it is because federal probably would
Speaker 9: have again just assumption, would have benefited him more once
Speaker 9: it would won. It would not have been televised. And
Speaker 9: two they believe he would have had a possibility for
Speaker 9: a better jury. But now they're saying, hey, we're going
Speaker 9: to keep it in state court and it will be
Speaker 9: televised unlike in federal court, which I think is a
Speaker 9: good thing. So maybe Trump's folks think is a good
Speaker 9: thing now as well. His attorney said the decision is
Speaker 9: based on his well founded confidence that the Honorable Court
Speaker 9: intends to fulfill and completely protect his constitutional right to
Speaker 9: a fair trial. So Fani Willis will be moving forward
Speaker 9: on that, and I look forward to covering that here
Speaker 9: right on Front page News.
Speaker 2: Keep Fani, you like call.
Speaker 8: The lot is front page News.
Speaker 9: Thank you to let me ask you this before we
Speaker 9: got uh and DJ Nvy and Lauren them televising it.
Speaker 9: You think that's gonna benefit who? Who saide he think
Speaker 9: is gonna benefit or you think Trump is using that,
Speaker 9: you know to get his people turned up, or.
Speaker 4: I think anything with television or any type of microphone whatsoever.
Speaker 4: Because he's the most entertaining they're.
Speaker 1: Gonna put on the show.
Speaker 7: I think y'all forget that Donald Trump is a celebrity.
Speaker 7: He was, He's always been a celebrity. He was the
Speaker 7: executive producer of Celebrity Apprentice. He loves the fact that
Speaker 7: there's gonna be cameras in the courtroom. Of course, it's
Speaker 7: gonna benefit him one hundred percent.
Speaker 9: The Democrats will love it because they said, let's lay
Speaker 9: it out and look at all the evidence to let
Speaker 9: the people decide, you know, if it's a good case
Speaker 9: or not.
Speaker 1: So because nobody cares about facts in this generation. They
Speaker 1: care about feelings.
Speaker 7: There's nothing you're going to say to change people's mind
Speaker 7: about Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: And Donald Trump knows that. He told us that years ago.
Speaker 7: Donald Trump, I can go out in the middle of
Speaker 7: the street shoot somebody in the hand and wouldn't lose
Speaker 7: any supporters or anything of that nature.
Speaker 1: He knows this.
Speaker 7: Nobody cares about the truth and the liars more entertaining,
Speaker 7: y'all putting cameras in that court room, y'all giving Donald
Speaker 7: Trump a chance to entertained.
Speaker 1: And god damnit, he gonna put on the show off.
Speaker 7: Y'all thought Nito Brown testimony was good at the end
Speaker 7: of New Jack City. Y'all wait till Donald Trump get
Speaker 7: in that court room. Okay, I can't wait.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, that is Front Page News.
Speaker 8: Thank you, tans. You have a great weekend.
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Speaker 6: All right, now, when we come back, the legend Omar
Speaker 6: Epps will be joining us. We're gonna kick it with
Speaker 6: Omar EPs. He has a new book. It's called Nubia
Speaker 6: The Reckoning. Yep, We're gonna kick it with him next
Speaker 6: and don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the
Speaker 6: Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Morning everybody. It's DJ n V Charlamagne the guy. We
Speaker 1: are the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 6: We have Lauren la rossa house guest host, and we
Speaker 6: got a special guest in the building, the legend Omar Epps.
Speaker 1: Whatever. Whatever. It's good to be back.
Speaker 7: Good to see you, my brothers. Nubia The Reckoning this
Speaker 7: sequel to Nubia Awakening. Yes did you did you always
Speaker 7: have in your mind to.
Speaker 1: Do a series?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? Okay, absolutely from day one, which you know, the
Speaker 2: first the response to the first book was great and
Speaker 2: we had this in the tuck so just cooking up.
Speaker 1: Well, what is Nubia the Reckoning about Nubia the Recording,
Speaker 1: So basically Nubia the.
Speaker 2: Nubia series is about, you know, it's a dystopian futuristic
Speaker 2: sci fi that follows these three teenagers, these three newbiing
Speaker 2: teenagers and what's a New New York. It's one hundred
Speaker 2: years from now and basically their powers start to sprout
Speaker 2: and it's connected to their heritage, but they don't know
Speaker 2: that because they weren't told by their parents, so they
Speaker 2: you know, adolescence is an awkward It was an awkward
Speaker 2: age for all of us. You're trying to figure stuff out,
Speaker 2: and then you throw that on their table and then
Speaker 2: the reckoning they realize what their abilities are and then
Speaker 2: it's a discussion of what are they going to do
Speaker 2: with them? You know, are they going to use them
Speaker 2: for good or bad?
Speaker 6: Now for people that don't know you up here before
Speaker 6: talking about it, where did this idea even come from?
Speaker 2: It came from me. I had the idea for a
Speaker 2: long time, for about fifteen years. We live in such
Speaker 2: a tumultuous world. Man, it just seems just so chaotic.
Speaker 2: And one day I was just thinking to myself, like,
Speaker 2: what if love itself was illegal? Like what if it
Speaker 2: was illegal to love? And then what if love was
Speaker 2: reborn through this thirteen year old kid who doesn't know
Speaker 2: he's love. So that's sort of the essence of what
Speaker 2: I was trying to capture. And then as I started
Speaker 2: to think more about it and unearthed, you know, it
Speaker 2: became this cast of these three teenagers. You know, I
Speaker 2: was picturing We always think about these cataclysms in the world.
Speaker 2: It's changing, and I'm like, well, there's going to be
Speaker 2: life after that. There's some forms of what does that
Speaker 2: look like? Because for those kids in one hundred years
Speaker 2: from now, whatever's happening for that generation will be normal
Speaker 2: to them because that'll be the only world they know, right,
Speaker 2: so they're dealing with it accordingly. And Okay, so this
Speaker 2: technology is going to be like past what we can fathom. Now,
Speaker 2: what does that look like? And then I think there'll
Speaker 2: be a rudimentary element because the basic necessities of human life.
Speaker 2: It's like food, clothes, and shelter.
Speaker 1: That's never gonna go away.
Speaker 2: So there's always gonna be like, yeah, you're super high tech,
Speaker 2: but I'm over here analoging it and killing it. And
Speaker 2: so what happens when those worlds meet? And then what
Speaker 2: are the human themes that seem to transcend time? So
Speaker 2: though Nubia takes place in the future, a lot of
Speaker 2: the themes that we explore, if you go one hundred
Speaker 2: years prior to now and one hundred years before that,
Speaker 2: you still were dealing with classes and racism, sexist or
Speaker 2: all of them isms they and so what I'm trying
Speaker 2: to do, part of what I'm trying to do with
Speaker 2: the book is leave a breadcrumb trail for the now
Speaker 2: generation to say, hey, we did it for a long
Speaker 2: time a certain way, and we still keep getting the
Speaker 2: same results. So maybe you guys can flip that moving
Speaker 2: forward so that we can progress and get better.
Speaker 4: What isms like? You talk a lot about the isms.
Speaker 4: What is specifically in this book?
Speaker 2: Do you tackle classism? I mean we tackle even immigration
Speaker 2: to a point, definitely racism, sexism. Because the Nubians are
Speaker 2: displaced people. Their island nation was destroyed or so they think,
Speaker 2: stay tuned, and so they're in a new well, what
Speaker 2: I'm calling a new New York and they are sort
Speaker 2: of the have nots, and so the people who were
Speaker 2: here and the color has nothing to do with it.
Speaker 2: They're just sort of native New Yorkers. I guess, you know,
Speaker 2: they feel a way about, well, who are these new people?
Speaker 2: And then as the power starts the spout, they're like,
Speaker 2: who are these new kids? And why do they have
Speaker 2: a seated our table? You know, just how society seems
Speaker 2: to be, which is it's always been perplexing to me
Speaker 2: because I look at life like this. If a rock
Speaker 2: big enough hisses planet, it ain't gonna matter. If you
Speaker 2: got a million dollars or a dollar. Everybody gonna be
Speaker 2: in the same boat about that.
Speaker 1: When we're on planes.
Speaker 2: You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: If you're in first class, first class though, sure, yeah,
Speaker 7: everybody regardless of a.
Speaker 4: Class, honestly, But there's a lot of parallels to real life.
Speaker 4: Like when I'm listening to you talk, I'm like, wow,
Speaker 4: I remember thinking that, like gentrification, for instance, right when
Speaker 4: people come into your neighborhood. You're like, yo, who are
Speaker 4: these people? And how did they just pull up with
Speaker 4: all this power? And like whatever, how did you know
Speaker 4: what from real life you wanted to put in this
Speaker 4: specific book.
Speaker 2: It's what felt natural to me. I didn't set out
Speaker 2: to write a afro futuristic young adult sci fi book.
Speaker 1: I just.
Speaker 2: That I didn't even know that was a genre. I'm creative,
Speaker 2: so I just had an idea and I just started
Speaker 2: digging and digging and writing and writing, and so once
Speaker 2: it was coming to be, you know, as I got
Speaker 2: do publisher and everything like that, they were like, oh,
Speaker 2: it's in this box, and I'm like, I didn't even
Speaker 2: know that was a thing. So to your to your
Speaker 2: question in term of why tackle certain themes, it's what
Speaker 2: felt natural to me. I remember vividly being twelve thirteen,
Speaker 2: fourteen fifteen, and the things that influenced me for better
Speaker 2: and for wards. I mean, I think when you're at
Speaker 2: that age, a lot of what you are is you're
Speaker 2: a product of your environment and programming. Right, So you're
Speaker 2: taught one thing at home, and then you in school
Speaker 2: for eight hours, and then you're in the world and
Speaker 2: you start to see the paradox of life, the contradictions
Speaker 2: of life, and then in those experiences you sort of
Speaker 2: discover who you are. So like for me, growing up,
Speaker 2: I was revolutionary like but those that remember to show
Speaker 2: good times. I was like Michael. I had a conviction
Speaker 2: on what I believe very young, so I wasn't easily
Speaker 2: persuaded or influenced by external forces other than what was
Speaker 2: at home. And the idea of being pride about who
Speaker 2: I am and what I come from meant something to
Speaker 2: me at a really young age, and that's why I
Speaker 2: threw out hopefully not just my life, but in my career.
Speaker 2: Being in a career feel that deals with fame and
Speaker 2: people see you. I was very acutely aware of how
Speaker 2: the images that I portray on screen can be ingested.
Speaker 2: You see what I'm saying, because when I was a kid,
Speaker 2: there was a difference between good times in the Cosby Show.
Speaker 2: Good Times was dope to me because their father was
Speaker 2: in the household and you're talking to a kid that
Speaker 2: was raised by his moms with no pops. So I
Speaker 2: saw that. But then it was always like, but he
Speaker 2: never gets the job. So it was always you left
Speaker 2: like on a down tick. When Cosby Show came along,
Speaker 2: I was like, they were up, like she's a lawyer,
Speaker 2: he's a doctor. They always got food on the tape.
Speaker 2: They always laughing, even when there's a lesson to be learned.
Speaker 2: If they find a fun weaight that. I was like,
Speaker 2: I wanted to do that when I started having kids,
Speaker 2: I want to that's the model. And this is nothing
Speaker 2: against anyone in my family or extended family, but seeing
Speaker 2: that imagery every Thursday meant something to me, absolutely, you know.
Speaker 2: And I didn't really realize it until I became a
Speaker 2: father and was building my own family how much influence
Speaker 2: that had on me. But but I knew a little
Speaker 2: nugget of you know what when I was young, and
Speaker 2: you know, the movies were coming like every other day.
Speaker 2: I was like, I was saying no more than I
Speaker 2: was saying yes.
Speaker 1: Just because of what the script was and you knew
Speaker 1: what it was exactly.
Speaker 2: And it's nothing against those other people who may have
Speaker 2: taken those roles or been involved in those projects. I
Speaker 2: get it. We're all trying to work at the end
Speaker 2: of the day. But I just took the long roll,
Speaker 2: you know, like, nah, I want to do things that
Speaker 2: I connect to that can hopefully transcend time. But that hit,
Speaker 2: you know, that stick. It might not be the big
Speaker 2: shiny thing when it comes out, but it's just gonna stick.
Speaker 2: Like you know, when you think about John Singleton and
Speaker 2: you think about what, you know, what we worked on together,
Speaker 2: it is. It's scary. How if you revisit that project,
Speaker 2: if you if you see how many issues he was
Speaker 2: talking about in it, it's really scary and how many
Speaker 2: things correlate to exactly now. And this was back then,
Speaker 2: so it was going way over a lot of people's heads,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, you're talking about obviously you're
Speaker 2: talking about racism, but you're talking about mass shooting, you're
Speaker 2: talking about protecting women, you know, gender identity, like all
Speaker 2: of these things in that and gated today and we're
Speaker 2: still And that's that's why I say it's scary. It's scary,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. Like and but art has
Speaker 2: that ability. You know a lot of people, you know,
Speaker 2: you always say does art imitate life? Or life imitate art?
Speaker 2: I think the saying sort of is oxymoron. It's it's
Speaker 2: it gives in take it's both. You know, sometimes life
Speaker 2: inspires art, and sometimes art definitely can inspire your life,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: You can.
Speaker 2: That's why you can hear a song, or you can
Speaker 2: see a piece, or there's an art to food. You
Speaker 2: can eat a meal that will bring a tear to
Speaker 2: your eye because it brings you back to an immediate
Speaker 2: place now I was yesterday.
Speaker 4: Tells yes, there you go.
Speaker 6: All right, we got more with Omar Ebbs when we
Speaker 6: come back.
Speaker 7: Don't move.
Speaker 1: It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.
Speaker 6: Also, ebie K Williams will be joining us next hour
Speaker 6: and we're gonna be taking your calls eight hundred five
Speaker 6: five one oh five one. We had a discussion yesterday
Speaker 6: about some comments she made and let's have a discussion,
Speaker 6: all right, So we want you to call in.
Speaker 1: Ebonie K Williams will be joining us eight hundred.
Speaker 8: Five A five one oh five one.
Speaker 6: If you want to chop it up with her, if
Speaker 6: you want to talk to her, And then we got
Speaker 6: more Omar Epps.
Speaker 8: When we come back.
Speaker 6: It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning morning everybody. It's cej Envy, Charlamagne,
Speaker 6: the gud. We are the Breakfast Club. Laura La Ross
Speaker 6: is our special guest, and we have Omar Ebbs said,
Speaker 6: but also Ebonie K Williams will be joining us next hour,
Speaker 6: and we talked about some statements that she said, and
Speaker 6: Laura La Ross was talking about a lot of people
Speaker 6: were very passionate. So she's here to discuss. So if
Speaker 6: you want to talk to Ebonie K Williams, she's gonna
Speaker 6: be joining us. You could get on the phone lines
Speaker 6: right now eight hundred five eight five one oh five
Speaker 6: to one. But right now let's get back into our
Speaker 6: conversation with Omar Epps. All right, Charlomagne, you know, I
Speaker 6: love what.
Speaker 7: You just said about the movies because I think about
Speaker 7: it even with a series like this, because I saw
Speaker 7: you said you wish this book existed when you were
Speaker 7: a child. I don't know when the series is going
Speaker 7: to end, but endings are very important because I think
Speaker 7: a lot of times in this art. We talk about
Speaker 7: the problems, but we never talk about the solutions, and
Speaker 7: there never seems to be a happy ending.
Speaker 1: Whether it's Mine, It's a Society, Boys in the Hood,
Speaker 1: whatever it was, Juice, there's really no happy ending.
Speaker 2: Well I think maybe because they're trying to teach a
Speaker 2: certain lesson, a certain angle of the lesson, you know,
Speaker 2: and then that's making me think about certain songs where like, yeah,
Speaker 2: they're not showing the glamorous part. They showing the other part,
Speaker 2: like we used to seeing the rich and poles and
Speaker 2: all of them and all of that fly stuff, but
Speaker 2: they're not showing you the heartache that comes along. And
Speaker 2: so I think things are necessary with Nubia. I do
Speaker 2: have the ending, but it also is an entry way
Speaker 2: into film, television, animation, everything you could think of. I
Speaker 2: have story points that we want to hit. So it's
Speaker 2: essentially I've created my own universe that hopefully one day
Speaker 2: can be a kin to like Marvel.
Speaker 7: That's what pains me about the Nubia series though, because
Speaker 7: I love science fiction and I do feel like it
Speaker 7: needs to be a film or TV show. I don't
Speaker 7: know if Hollywood will ever make a real investment into
Speaker 7: sci fi led.
Speaker 1: By black people.
Speaker 2: I'm not waiting on Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: If I was waiting on Hollywood, the book would have
Speaker 2: never been written. Absolutely, Son, We're gonna do what we do,
Speaker 2: which is find a way. You know, hey, we made
Speaker 2: a delicacy out of the scraps, meaning they threw us
Speaker 2: pig intestines and we made chilling.
Speaker 1: And we made them so good. Make me a plate.
Speaker 2: This is what we do, so hopefully it is in
Speaker 2: my lifetime. I mean, this is what I'm doing it for.
Speaker 2: But you know, there's when I say there's more of us,
Speaker 2: I'm not talking about a color. I mean like minded.
Speaker 2: They're more like minded people than what we see portrayed
Speaker 2: in the news and the blogs and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: So when people put their money where their mouth is
Speaker 2: and really support one another, then it enables us to
Speaker 2: go to those next levels to where we don't have
Speaker 2: to be fully dependent on other systems.
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
Speaker 4: Now, the three main characters of the book, I don't
Speaker 4: want to say their names wrong, but Chi and ZUBERI
Speaker 4: thank you. So they are of this first generation to
Speaker 4: discover these powers. Yes, when I read about that part
Speaker 4: of it, it made me think about like just being
Speaker 4: first generation coming from certain like you know, like I'm
Speaker 4: first generation college student or whatever, and you realize that
Speaker 4: you really can be put in a dark room and
Speaker 4: find the light. Right. What is the message in this
Speaker 4: book to the first generation of anything, like the students,
Speaker 4: the kids, the you know, I'm first generation to go
Speaker 4: to college and first generation to buy a house?
Speaker 1: What message millionaires?
Speaker 4: Yeah, like I'm what do they take away from this
Speaker 4: from this book?
Speaker 2: I mean, there's a lot of things that it takes.
Speaker 2: I think the one of the main themes for me
Speaker 2: is the idea of unity. You know, cat suspend twenty
Speaker 2: five hundred dollars on a belt because it has a
Speaker 2: certain name on it. But if envy shirt kings or
Speaker 2: like food bing them back in the day, supreme in
Speaker 2: them back in the they they say, Yo, the belts
Speaker 2: five hundred dollars, we like from you brand, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go spend triple over there.
Speaker 1: Same quality, right, And then you elevate and you be like, oh,
Speaker 1: they make all.
Speaker 2: Of these bags and stuff in the same factories, same material,
Speaker 2: same everything. But because we're blinded by a name which
Speaker 2: comes with a perception, we don't know how to stand for.
Speaker 2: I was like, no, we have the spending dollars, So
Speaker 2: we're gonna spend here where it really matters, and let
Speaker 2: as killing. Mike's loop always talks about keeping a dollar
Speaker 2: circulating amongst us first before it goes out right. So
Speaker 2: the theme of unity on every level. And the other
Speaker 2: thing I really want the young reader to take away
Speaker 2: is all the answers are already inside of you. I
Speaker 2: think we're born into this world in perfect harmony and
Speaker 2: in perfect balance. Like if we look at the creation,
Speaker 2: the world as we know it, everything that's alive is
Speaker 2: like an instrument, and it's this magnificent sense need, and
Speaker 2: everything plays apart, from an aunt to an elephant to
Speaker 2: a tree of everything plays apart. The only thing that
Speaker 2: seems to be playing out of tune is human beings.
Speaker 2: We're the ones playing out of tune, playing the wrong notes.
Speaker 2: So I say that to say that the answers are
Speaker 2: already inside right, They already are permeating through you physiologically
Speaker 2: and spiritually. Part of the conundrum of life is to
Speaker 2: then you sort of unlearn what is innately in you
Speaker 2: product of environment, schooling all of these things, and then
Speaker 2: you spend your latter life unlearning that. To get back
Speaker 2: to the source. So I imagine a world where right
Speaker 2: now college is a four year process. What if one
Speaker 2: day college is a year process? What could that person
Speaker 2: do with that other three years in terms of being productive?
Speaker 2: And if you put a bunch of those type of
Speaker 2: people together, I mean we're still modeling over I don't know,
Speaker 2: Twitter and Facebook. It's like I ain't caring cancer though,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, what happened? What do we
Speaker 2: do in a world where like Thailand, on cancer, no
Speaker 2: matter what kind, just go to pharmacy.
Speaker 1: The spots ain't nothing.
Speaker 2: Imagine how much more productive we could be as a species,
Speaker 2: Like the fact that we're in two thy and twenty
Speaker 2: four and people are still hung up on skin color.
Speaker 2: And again I don't mean white black, this light skinned
Speaker 2: dolphin stuff.
Speaker 1: Oh that's some license stuff.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: Me and Molly did with that all the time. You
Speaker 2: call it baby, he'd be here.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But his fault and every time it happens, every time
Speaker 4: we give you are.
Speaker 1: That's the same thing.
Speaker 8: And I say his complexion.
Speaker 1: They attacked me, but he called me beige, rage beige, beige.
Speaker 1: Everything under the suns is because but if I.
Speaker 2: Say black anything to him, Yeah, you can't do it?
Speaker 12: S why?
Speaker 1: But I'm black, but what you are black exactly? So
Speaker 1: what's the problem.
Speaker 2: But this is what I'm talking about, the fact that
Speaker 2: even dominic.
Speaker 8: I'm not Dominican.
Speaker 1: Stop it. You better stop you claim stop it?
Speaker 2: Man, I got here. You look more than me.
Speaker 1: Thank you you end watching the Heights lady. What Omar
Speaker 1: said is so true.
Speaker 7: And it's amazing to me that most things that are
Speaker 7: man made take you out of alignment.
Speaker 2: Yep. And I don't understand that. I mean, it makes
Speaker 2: sense though, right, it does make sense. That's why when
Speaker 2: people get caught up in this AI, I'm like, it is.
Speaker 1: It's been made, so the flaws in it, we.
Speaker 2: Just can't see it.
Speaker 12: Yet.
Speaker 2: It ain't nothing to trip over, you.
Speaker 3: Know what I mean.
Speaker 2: And it's about being in tune with with who we
Speaker 2: are and who we're here to be and what is
Speaker 2: our purpose. And our purpose is to spread love and
Speaker 2: spread positive energy. And you get to a point where
Speaker 2: we all are we still have ambition, we still have drive,
Speaker 2: but we pushing. It's a hell of a thing to
Speaker 2: be pushing for yourself and then push for others. When
Speaker 2: you're pushing for others, now you're really serving your purpose,
Speaker 2: and it's a really it's a fulfillment that no dollar
Speaker 2: amount could fill. When just passing off the information or
Speaker 2: the knowledge to someone and then go and see them walk,
Speaker 2: run and then fly. It's just a feeling that to me,
Speaker 2: this is what life is about. One of the grand
Speaker 2: themes that life is about.
Speaker 7: Oh, I get the less I want. Here you go,
Speaker 7: you know, because the things that I actually want, money
Speaker 7: can't buy it or not superficially, you go away, shape
Speaker 7: or form.
Speaker 12: There you go.
Speaker 1: All right, we got more with Omar Ebbs when we
Speaker 1: come back, don't move.
Speaker 2: It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 6: Good morning morning. Everybody is dj n V Charlamagne the God.
Speaker 6: We are the Breakfast Club. We have Laura La Rosa here,
Speaker 6: our special guest host, still kicking with Omar Epps. But
Speaker 6: you having three kids, would you want your three kids
Speaker 6: to be in the industry acting or music? Would you
Speaker 6: want them seeing what you've seen? Because you've seen behind
Speaker 6: the scenes, you pull the curtain back, so would you
Speaker 6: want them to do that?
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm human, so I think whatever whatever it is,
Speaker 2: I don't care if you race car drive them Mechannon
Speaker 2: must drought like we all want our kids to do
Speaker 2: something other than what be great, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: be great at that thing. But underneath it all, I
Speaker 2: just want them to follow their passion, you know, whatever
Speaker 2: brings them joy. If it's you know, our young his daughter,
Speaker 2: she's a singer songwriter, that's her gift. But she's putting
Speaker 2: in the work for it. And that's the main thing
Speaker 2: is you know, nothing's gonna come to you easy. But
Speaker 2: if you're putting in the work for it and that's
Speaker 2: your passion, I'm behind it.
Speaker 1: See. It's good.
Speaker 6: It's good in a situations like that because mom and
Speaker 6: dad have been there, so you can guid where maybe
Speaker 6: you didn't have that guys, maybe your mom didn't know
Speaker 6: how to look at contracts and look know what to
Speaker 6: look for, you know. I mean, So it's good that
Speaker 6: you're there, but it's just, you know, it's it's a
Speaker 6: difficult thing because you're like, damn distressed that I went
Speaker 6: through dealing with this in the industry.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know what what you're saying is right
Speaker 2: in that sense, but realistically it's a totally different world
Speaker 2: because this is a completely different universe from selling a
Speaker 2: physical record to a stream and the business in between
Speaker 2: that correct it's a whole different world. So it's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: your moms did that, but.
Speaker 4: Not like this is she like are you guys like managing?
Speaker 1: Yeah, like you at Mom's not right here.
Speaker 2: She's a heavy handed advisor.
Speaker 1: That's what's your favorite method of storytelling? Is it TV?
Speaker 1: Films or is it books?
Speaker 2: It depends on the story, you know, Like like when
Speaker 2: I was thinking of Nubia, I saw film, I sot television,
Speaker 2: I saw all these things, but I knew that's not
Speaker 2: the delivery system right now. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: gonna have to crawl through this process, crawl and meaning
Speaker 2: a good thing. Like there's just so much story this
Speaker 2: that the depth of the story can only be done
Speaker 2: in book form in its initial phase. Once that's established
Speaker 2: to an audience and they're familiar with, oh yeah, that's
Speaker 2: the bay, then we can take it other places. And
Speaker 2: so we're still in this is phase one, if you will.
Speaker 2: But other other than that, I just love art, man.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. Like I said earlier, I think there's
Speaker 2: an art to cook, and there's an art to everything.
Speaker 2: There's art to business.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 2: It just depends on you know, what you connect to
Speaker 2: and what makes you happy, and for me, the prime
Speaker 2: goal is to is like, I realize the weight of
Speaker 2: everything that I'm a part of is gonna outlast me.
Speaker 2: So why am I really doing this? Who am I
Speaker 2: doing it with? It's not just a self fulfilling thing anymore,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. Like, the greatest compliments to
Speaker 2: this day, the greatest compliments that I received was when
Speaker 2: people come up to me and say something that I
Speaker 2: was in, you know, helped them through or inspired them
Speaker 2: to I had a young doctor come up to me
Speaker 2: and was talking about a show that I was on
Speaker 2: medical shows on and they were just like the portrayal
Speaker 2: of that character helped them through a tough time while
Speaker 2: they were in med school ready to give up. And
Speaker 2: to me, I was like getting a million dollar check
Speaker 2: because I'm like, this is exactly what I do it for,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean? Like to be able to
Speaker 2: pass on what was passed on to me.
Speaker 7: I really didn't want to know how you wrap your
Speaker 7: mind around what's going on in twenty ninety eight.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's to me, it's simple. I think humans
Speaker 2: are going to human and then geographically, like again, whatever
Speaker 2: happens in the next twenty thirty years, there's going to
Speaker 2: be a world after that, So that's creative license. Well,
Speaker 2: it kind of looking at if we I mean, sadly,
Speaker 2: if we take a cue from what happened with Sandy,
Speaker 2: the lower part of the city will be underwater, and
Speaker 2: then same rules apply. Where's all the money at now uptown?
Speaker 2: All right, let's ramp that up a little bit. More
Speaker 2: humans are fused with technology. Let's you know, you get
Speaker 2: to take creative license. But the more things change, the
Speaker 2: more they stay the same. Man, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Like in the hood, everybody want to talk about new
Speaker 2: world or order. No, it's one world order. That's the
Speaker 2: actual term. And that's been for thousands of years. There's
Speaker 2: always going to be a group of few that try
Speaker 2: to control the many. It ain't nothing new. There's no conspiracy.
Speaker 2: It's right there, dead in front of your face. It's
Speaker 2: just how you perceive it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: But there's something to perceive as well, is that the
Speaker 2: victory has already won. And whether the listeners, whether you
Speaker 2: are believer or not, I'm not you know, putting my
Speaker 2: beliefs on anyone. I'm a believer, and the victory is
Speaker 2: already won. The table of victory with the most beneficent
Speaker 2: is already set. So there's a part of us that
Speaker 2: we're going through the motions. Choose your side, choose wisely,
Speaker 2: and live your life. And your character is determined by
Speaker 2: your actions period, you know what I mean. So you know,
Speaker 2: hopefully when it's my time, my actions will be met
Speaker 2: by the eternal glory.
Speaker 6: You play so many iconic roles, does it ever, Baldy
Speaker 6: with somebody calls you wanted the names from the iconic
Speaker 6: role like I'm.
Speaker 1: Sure you walk down hormes like you. I love it that.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, that doesn't bother me at all. I'm
Speaker 2: when people call me like yo, Mac, I'm like, that's
Speaker 2: my man's and all that. But I know we look
Speaker 2: like they.
Speaker 1: Say real, but come on, Bron like Charlamagne yo Mike
Speaker 1: and like Mike, well.
Speaker 2: I'm like, come on yo, Like that's the.
Speaker 4: Like where is this happenings?
Speaker 2: Just random? Like sometimes I wonder if people are just
Speaker 2: It's like if someone saw you and they're like, oh.
Speaker 8: I know, Maurice, but nobody have heard marks.
Speaker 7: Chesner said that you know what the chess and I said,
Speaker 7: somebody called him Charlamage and jenniferchet So, he said, he
Speaker 7: gets mistaken for me.
Speaker 8: Said, God, damn, Lie, do you see.
Speaker 12: God?
Speaker 1: Why are you upset?
Speaker 4: You signed Dominican in him?
Speaker 2: Do you see it?
Speaker 1: Knock it off?
Speaker 12: Definitely?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotta take him up to Washingtons.
Speaker 12: Gotta go.
Speaker 7: Now about who your favorite? Who the best character was?
Speaker 7: I think your best role with Jay Reed and Too Deep.
Speaker 7: I think that's a very slept on role. How about
Speaker 7: I haven't done it yet?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, well there you have it is Omar absolutely
Speaker 1: appreciate you for joining us.
Speaker 6: Brother books out right now, Nubia the it's the breakfast
Speaker 6: club the morning morning.
Speaker 1: Everybody is cj Envy, Charlomagne, the Goud. We are the
Speaker 1: breakfast club.
Speaker 6: Before we jump into the room, as long the roads,
Speaker 6: our special guest host is here. Evanie K Williams will
Speaker 6: be joining us next hour. Charlamagne is they're taking over
Speaker 6: Charlomagne's donkey.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm not gonna do donkey today because I told
Speaker 1: Lauren yesterday that one day she might have to be
Speaker 1: face to face with Ebanie K. Williams. Okay, and better, it's.
Speaker 4: Excited to do it, I said, I was excited to
Speaker 4: do it. And we was gonna talk through all the
Speaker 4: points I had.
Speaker 6: She want to talk to her, that's right. Ebidy K
Speaker 6: Williams will be joining us, and we're gonna be taking calls.
Speaker 6: So if you want to talk to Evani K Williams,
Speaker 6: you can get on the phone lines eight hundred and
Speaker 6: five A five one oh five to one. You know,
Speaker 6: something that she said went viral yesterday, people were talking
Speaker 6: about it was on all the blocks. We're gonna discuss that,
Speaker 6: and we're gonna allow you guys out there to talk
Speaker 6: to her as well.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 7: We're gonna allow everybody to talk to Avenue this morning,
Speaker 7: except for bus drivers because y'all might still hold up.
Speaker 7: Y'all might still be holding onto something and we're talking
Speaker 7: about something else.
Speaker 4: Y'all got security here though, because people be rolling up
Speaker 4: on you at the radio station.
Speaker 1: That's me. I got yeah, callsing problems.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we do that shoe.
Speaker 6: You are the shoe, and we do have and we
Speaker 6: have security outside, so we're not concerned, all right, But
Speaker 6: let's get to the rooms.
Speaker 4: I think a lot of people will recognize the voice
Speaker 4: to the name from the breakfast club. Lauren came in
Speaker 4: hot you know, now, Suki Hannah. You guys know Suki
Speaker 4: Hannah the rapper, she's been up here. That's my girl.
Speaker 4: And she says she's not sure what made her feel
Speaker 4: like it was okay to eat a man's boud salad.
Speaker 1: Oh, I can't say the whole you can say that basically,
Speaker 1: she changed her diet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she doesn't want to talk to salad anymore. She Yeah,
Speaker 4: the dietary changed, salad lords.
Speaker 7: A lot of people are doing healthier dietary tips. You
Speaker 7: know what I mean, that's a good healthy dietary tip.
Speaker 4: The two pace might not have been getting through all
Speaker 4: of the after effects either, So maybe that's apparted.
Speaker 1: But it's not even about the act. It's about you
Speaker 1: don't just do that to anybody.
Speaker 4: She didn't, Suki always said when she was here, she said,
Speaker 4: when she's with the man, she's in love. So that's her, babe.
Speaker 1: He just wanted sweet one.
Speaker 5: Now, guy, it's no way, it's no way, it's no way.
Speaker 5: They would have like pink eye or something.
Speaker 1: This time she got to the milk, she said, we
Speaker 1: so that's a buffet? Was she stupid?
Speaker 4: I don't, y'all, not all you can eat?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, let me tell you something. I don't
Speaker 4: know the amount of people she was talking about, buffet,
Speaker 4: single plate, one serving or not. But then she followed
Speaker 4: up and said, I'm going to do it again. She's back,
Speaker 4: He's back in the game. That was a quick Yeah,
Speaker 4: she's back in the game.
Speaker 7: Just like it's like it's like not something you should
Speaker 7: do all at the time, Like a cheat mill. That's
Speaker 7: how you used to start treating it. Treat it like
Speaker 7: a cheatment.
Speaker 4: Some people treat their backsides very well, but days and
Speaker 4: all that, and now they cheap. It's a cheat mil.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's cheat me all the time.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right. Well, Britney Spears she recently had fans
Speaker 4: online very scared for her. She'd posts these videos where
Speaker 4: she's dancing in her house. Brittany be doing Brittany, Y'll
Speaker 4: call that dancing. I mean, look, she's right, yeah, that's
Speaker 4: what she does. I don't know, but she posted a
Speaker 4: video this time she was dancing, but she had knives
Speaker 4: in her hand, so fans freaked out. They ended up
Speaker 4: reaching out to police, who went to her home to
Speaker 4: do a wellness check just to make sure she was okay,
Speaker 4: and Britney Spears actually had to come out and speak
Speaker 4: on it. So she said, I know I spooked everyone
Speaker 4: with the last post, but these are fake knives that
Speaker 4: my team rented from the hand pop shop in LA.
Speaker 4: These are notives. No one needs to worry or call
Speaker 4: the police. I'm trying to imitate one of my favorite performers, Shakira,
Speaker 4: a performance I was inspired by. She's talking about Shakira's
Speaker 4: MTV VMA performance earlier this month.
Speaker 7: You know, I have it on good authority, sources told me,
Speaker 7: and you should believe me, even though that, even though
Speaker 7: I'm lying that Britney Spears watches Drink Champs and she
Speaker 7: loves the episode with Tony Yale, and she watched the
Speaker 7: episode over and over. And when Tony Aale was on
Speaker 7: Drink Champs and he talked about members of terror squad,
Speaker 7: you know, dancing with machetes, dancing with knives, it says
Speaker 7: that's what inspired the video that she posted.
Speaker 1: But you're telling the truth, but you're lying.
Speaker 7: No, I'm telling the truth, but I'm lying. But the
Speaker 7: point is this is she watches Drink Champs a lot.
Speaker 7: She loves that episode with Tony Yo. Britney knows she
Speaker 7: loves she wants fat Joe to go to her house
Speaker 7: and deliver her a pair of Terror Squad sneakers because
Speaker 7: she wants to be a member of Terror Squad.
Speaker 1: So that was her way of saying, hey, I can
Speaker 1: be down with ts tsbs. You know you're telling the truth,
Speaker 1: but you're lying.
Speaker 4: So my sources say, I don't want to see Brittany
Speaker 4: in a two piece and some Terror Squad air first
Speaker 4: ones in the video.
Speaker 1: I would love to see that, alright, crazy.
Speaker 4: I don't want to see it. Will go crazy. I'm good.
Speaker 4: I'm good on that. It'll probably metallic too, because she's
Speaker 4: really trying to up the sneak.
Speaker 7: A black two piece with the blackout Fat Joe Terror
Speaker 7: Squad sneakers dancing with knives would be incredible.
Speaker 1: That'd be more incredible than Bill Clinton wearing a Bill
Speaker 1: Clinton had him on.
Speaker 6: They did, all right, well that is your rumor report.
Speaker 6: Now when we come back, Charlemagne is not doing this
Speaker 6: donkey today. That's because Ebony K.
Speaker 8: Williams will be.
Speaker 1: Joining Judge Ebony K.
Speaker 6: Williams, and we're gonna discuss a lot today and we're
Speaker 6: gonna be taking your calls to eight hundred and five
Speaker 6: eight five one on five to one.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 6: Yesterday she made some statements that went viral, and we're
Speaker 6: gonna we're gonna talk about it. We're gonna discuss, So
Speaker 6: get on the phone lines right now. It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 6: Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be
Speaker 6: the same. Good morning, everybody, you steej Envy, Charlomagne, the God.
Speaker 1: We are the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 6: We have Laura Lea Rosa here, our special guest host,
Speaker 6: and we got a special guest with us today. We
Speaker 6: had a topic talking about some statements that she said.
Speaker 6: Ladies and gentlemen, Williams, don't nobody stir it up?
Speaker 3: What's up, Envy?
Speaker 12: What's up?
Speaker 4: Sharp?
Speaker 3: Good morning, NB. I was going to be very very
Speaker 3: pissed and disappointed if you weren't skyping in so why well,
Speaker 3: because I didn't know if I'd ever be back up
Speaker 3: here to be candide.
Speaker 1: Why it was?
Speaker 12: It was?
Speaker 3: It was tight last Yeah, but God is good. I
Speaker 3: came with my God leon you god lyon, We're good.
Speaker 3: It's really God is good.
Speaker 1: I would say this.
Speaker 6: You know, every time we have a conversation, we're always
Speaker 6: not going to agree, but you're always invited up here regardless.
Speaker 6: I mean, we're not going to agree on everything, but
Speaker 6: the best thing about it is just having a conversation.
Speaker 6: So never think that you can't come up here for something.
Speaker 6: You say, No, that's what these conversations and these platforms
Speaker 6: are about.
Speaker 3: I'm half playing, but it's a good point and it's
Speaker 3: it's worth saying out loud. So I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: And I love you, sister. I don't I don't want
Speaker 1: you to think I don't love you. I love you
Speaker 1: for real. I appreciate everything that you do.
Speaker 3: And it's just like anything else. You go hardest in
Speaker 3: the pain with your family.
Speaker 1: So in the paint and in the paint that's on
Speaker 1: your face. And shut up.
Speaker 4: I'm happy here.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 4: Yesterday, I would love to have a conversation with you
Speaker 4: about the video.
Speaker 7: Now, what's the topic of conversation. I feel like this
Speaker 7: is a conversation that men shouldn't even be involved in.
Speaker 7: What is the gist of the conversation.
Speaker 3: It's not for you, Charlomagne. So I'm glad that you
Speaker 3: said that this is a conversation for ladies. And I
Speaker 3: texted my good friend Charlemagne. I said, it's a friend
Speaker 3: of the show. I heard the conversation yesterday. I appreciated
Speaker 3: the critique and the constructive nature of it, and I said,
Speaker 3: you know, said something down the street on the train.
Speaker 3: Let me pull up, and I want to hear from you, Lauren,
Speaker 3: about what you agree with and what you disagree with
Speaker 3: and have a lady's conversation about let's do it.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So I think for me, I start with the what
Speaker 4: I disagree with?
Speaker 6: Well, Kim first, for people that don't know, you want
Speaker 6: to you want to play the clip of of what
Speaker 6: went viral.
Speaker 4: So people understand that clip to bring everybody up this rad.
Speaker 8: You got the clip, let's play the clip.
Speaker 12: Rad.
Speaker 3: The reality is that our marriage and partnership market value
Speaker 3: is depreciating with every passing year. No matter how good
Speaker 3: we look, no matter how fit we are. It are
Speaker 3: still seeing primarily our presumed dwindling fertility as a knock
Speaker 3: against us. So here's my advice. If you are a
Speaker 3: young black woman in college and you know in your
Speaker 3: heart and in your head that you want to prioritize family,
Speaker 3: I suggest that you simultaneously pursue that mrs degree right
Speaker 3: along with that BA or JD. Because a handful of
Speaker 3: black college age men that actually do desire to get
Speaker 3: married soon, and they do share that value system and
Speaker 3: family is a priority for them too.
Speaker 1: Y'all.
Speaker 3: That is an incredibly small pool, and it's shrinking as
Speaker 3: you get older, and by the time you reach my
Speaker 3: age forty, you will be faced with different choices relating
Speaker 3: to life, partnership, and motherhood.
Speaker 4: So I think, all right, so breaking it down into
Speaker 4: what I agree and what I disagree with. So the
Speaker 4: disagreeing for me came with the starting with the infertility
Speaker 4: and the market value they're appreciating. So with the infertility,
Speaker 4: I'm I said this yesterday. Some stuff is science, right,
Speaker 4: you can't get around that. But I feel like when
Speaker 4: you start with that and you lead with that, it
Speaker 4: then makes people get defensive and they don't even hear.
Speaker 3: The rest of it.
Speaker 4: I know, when I first listened to it, I was like,
Speaker 4: oh God, this is going to be another one of
Speaker 4: those conversations where like someone's telling me, as a woman,
Speaker 4: by the time you get this age, your life is over.
Speaker 4: And you know when you're when you're like trying to
Speaker 4: figure things out, and you're like, I'm thirty one years old, right,
Speaker 4: Like I'm recently out of a very long relationship you
Speaker 4: want to feel, not.
Speaker 3: Charla Jesus, but I feel there's life after go ahead.
Speaker 4: But that's my point. It's like for me, I made
Speaker 4: a very conscious decision with a lot of things in
Speaker 4: my life, going to college, being in the relationship that
Speaker 4: I was in, not being in that relationship. Even with
Speaker 4: my like recent you know, back and forth to East
Speaker 4: coast West coast, like, I've always had to be very
Speaker 4: conscious and cognizant of the fact that, like you know,
Speaker 4: as a woman, as a black one, right, especially working
Speaker 4: in the space that I work in, I might not
Speaker 4: get that that other chance, Like I gotta do it
Speaker 4: right the first time. And I think talk about professionally,
Speaker 4: professionally and personally, okay, and only because that's.
Speaker 3: What are your personal goals? Just so we're clear. Do
Speaker 3: you want marriage? I want married, and I want yes,
Speaker 3: family foundation, I want all of that.
Speaker 4: I don't even have a number of kids. Once we start,
Speaker 4: we start just yeah, but yes, I'm going to be
Speaker 4: an amazing mom. But I just feel like when you
Speaker 4: lead with the stuff that you lead with, it instantly
Speaker 4: turns the conversation negative. And for someone like me who
Speaker 4: is watching and learning and listening to you, it makes
Speaker 4: it where now I am defensive. I don't want to watch,
Speaker 4: listen and learn. I don't hear the rest of what
Speaker 4: you're saying. So now I'm not being taught, and I
Speaker 4: should feel like I can listen to you and learn
Speaker 4: from you and not feel like you're the op right.
Speaker 4: And that's how it starts off, when you instantly are
Speaker 4: telling me everything negative about what I already am facing
Speaker 4: every single day. And I think that that's a big
Speaker 4: part of it too. It's like when you put certain
Speaker 4: troops in front of people, it hurts, people don't want
Speaker 4: to hear it. But beyond that, you can't get around
Speaker 4: the infertility. The second thing was the market value. Right.
Speaker 4: I don't agree. Right. I don't know where you were
Speaker 4: at thirty one. But for me, I feel like I'm
Speaker 4: just now getting to the space where like the people
Speaker 4: that I'm able to or not even able to, but
Speaker 4: the people that I'm dating, the life experiences that I'm
Speaker 4: experiencing that are teaching me what I want, what I
Speaker 4: don't want. I'm right now in the best space that
Speaker 4: I've ever been in, and that wasn't me in college.
Speaker 4: I didn't know what I wanted. In college, I didn't
Speaker 4: know who I was in college. I see nothing, haven't
Speaker 4: done anything. I also, I didn't agree with that, but.
Speaker 3: Yea assist because you put two big ones out and
Speaker 3: let's break them down before we get ahead of ourselves. Okay,
Speaker 3: so you're thirty one years old, a college educated woman
Speaker 3: enjoying a very successful career in a high profile space.
Speaker 3: I'm going to put my hands together for all of that.
Speaker 3: Now when I say market value depreciating, Lauren, did you
Speaker 3: hear what I said before that? Did you hear the
Speaker 3: specificity of the particular marketplace I'm speaking about?
Speaker 4: No, which was that?
Speaker 3: Okay, so I want to just go back actually to
Speaker 3: your first point, Lauren, which I think you are conceding
Speaker 3: that you had a reaction to my commentary that was
Speaker 3: so visceral in nature that you actually shut down your
Speaker 3: listening comprehension skills.
Speaker 4: He said that.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So because of that, though, right, I'm not going
Speaker 3: to sit in a posture of ownership because you made
Speaker 3: a choice to be limited in the way in which
Speaker 3: you received, in process the information. Now, you are grown woman,
Speaker 3: and you have a toonomy over what you choose to
Speaker 3: consume and what you choose to not consume. So when
Speaker 3: I was giving the advice, the strategy the game, putting
Speaker 3: you know, certain people up on some game. I'm talking
Speaker 3: to a very limited pool of young black ladies, the
Speaker 3: ones that are currently in school or immediately following school
Speaker 3: or graduate school. And then the other caveat, I'll say,
Speaker 3: the other place this information is in real time relevant
Speaker 3: to are the mothers or even the fathers of those
Speaker 3: young women.
Speaker 4: That's who this is for. So you, this is actually
Speaker 4: not even applicable to you, Lauren. So so you know,
Speaker 4: let me finish waiting before you finish your thoughts. I
Speaker 4: also think to the reason why people also because not
Speaker 4: just me or the people, because even the people it's
Speaker 4: meant for, I'm sure some of them did the same
Speaker 4: exact thing as well. They're not right and some did not.
Speaker 3: Because I's not right because you read all the comments.
Speaker 4: Right, yeah I did. But I think what happens is
Speaker 4: with you and I saying this in the most respectful way.
Speaker 4: I think that the way that you approach things like
Speaker 4: even this conversation right now, it can make it does
Speaker 4: that it dilutes the whole point of like you, for
Speaker 4: you talking to me specifically, I agree with certain parts
Speaker 4: of it, but I think that the my whole point
Speaker 4: is what I'm saying, right, because right now I feel
Speaker 4: like you're taking what I didn't agree with, and the
Speaker 4: fact that I don't remember specific words or whatever.
Speaker 3: I'm not, Lauren, Really, I really think this would be
Speaker 3: better served and more productive if just like I, it's
Speaker 3: kind of like an opening statement in a court of law.
Speaker 3: I gave you a good amount of time to lay
Speaker 3: out two prongs of disagreement, and I respect and appreciate
Speaker 3: both of your positions. I'm not saying they are wrong,
Speaker 3: but I am saying that I don't know how productive
Speaker 3: it is to be the time manner and delivery police. Right.
Speaker 3: So when we talk about and also the nature of
Speaker 3: this work that we all do in this space of
Speaker 3: media and journalists, whatever we want to call it, right,
Speaker 3: it's very subjective in nature. So for everybody, Lauren that
Speaker 3: takes your position, which is very valid, it was visceral
Speaker 3: to me. I found it triggering. It felt hurtful, I
Speaker 3: felt attacked, I felt policed, I felt shut it.
Speaker 1: On whatever it is.
Speaker 3: There's also a whole nother contingency of black women that
Speaker 3: felt seen by that commentary, that felt heard. I had
Speaker 3: sores coming up to me. We had a fundraiser shout
Speaker 3: out to the pi Kapa Maga chapter of Alphakapa Offics
Speaker 3: already incorporated Ski. We had a fundraiser that very night
Speaker 3: that that commentary dropped, and I had sores coming up
Speaker 3: to me, who are more in my age group, right,
Speaker 3: because that's the first thing we need to acknowledge. Lauren
Speaker 3: and I are not the same age. There's a good
Speaker 3: ten years between me and this love of young lady.
Speaker 3: So I'm speaking from a purview of experience that looks
Speaker 3: a bit different, not vastly so, but a bit different.
Speaker 3: I agree, And my peers who are forty ing up
Speaker 3: are like I wish someone would have told me. And
Speaker 3: the fact that you are doing the labor Ebany, you
Speaker 3: are doing the service of letting young girls that are
Speaker 3: currently in position to put themselves in best practices because
Speaker 3: they are currently in school or graduate school or shortly
Speaker 3: thereafter matters. And it's good that somebody is rolling up
Speaker 3: their sleeves and doing the work and having the conversation
Speaker 3: publicly that quiet as kept many pockets of black elite
Speaker 3: culture are having with their children generationally every day.
Speaker 6: We got to take a break, so we'll come back,
Speaker 6: and we also want to take some calls. Eight hundred
Speaker 6: and five five one five one, And if you just
Speaker 6: join us, that's Laura la Rossi. She's our special guest
Speaker 6: host today and Ebony K. Williams is up here.
Speaker 1: And I think it's very important when we've come back,
Speaker 1: let's talk about what we agree with this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I want correct to that too, because I don't
Speaker 4: want you to feel like because what yeah back.
Speaker 6: Okay, all right, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the
Speaker 6: Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Morning.
Speaker 6: Everybody is j env Charlamagne to God. We are the
Speaker 6: Breakfast Club on this Friday. We have laurenla Rosa, our
Speaker 6: special guest hosts that we have Ebanye K. Williams joining
Speaker 6: us this morning, and we're taking your calls as well.
Speaker 6: Eight hundred and five eight five one oh five one.
Speaker 6: Now we're discussing some comments that Ebid K Williams made
Speaker 6: that went viral yesterday. So now right before we left,
Speaker 6: I cut both of you guys off so we can
Speaker 6: pay some bills to get some music on.
Speaker 1: So I know, Ebany K Williams, you were talking.
Speaker 3: I was so I was acknowledging Lauren's right right to
Speaker 3: consume content that she enjoys and feels comfortable with and
Speaker 3: also reject that which she does that because her critique
Speaker 3: at this point, I understand is is a bit about
Speaker 3: my It's about my delivery as much as the substance
Speaker 3: of what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: I think that the disagreement again comes in with how
Speaker 4: you say it, and we don't get that vulnerability right.
Speaker 4: So me sitting here with you right now is like,
Speaker 4: this is what I want to feel when I say
Speaker 4: the content. I might not always get that though, and
Speaker 4: maybe it's not like you said. It wasn't for me
Speaker 4: it was for the girls that's still in college, right,
Speaker 4: But at the same time it's placed on my timeline.
Speaker 4: So I get it and I feel it, and I
Speaker 4: stop and I listen either way.
Speaker 3: But I'm glad you do shout out to the team
Speaker 3: at the grill. Go ahead, but you But I was
Speaker 3: going to get to that.
Speaker 4: But what I did agree with was the fact, like
Speaker 4: when you started talking about the pool of men getting smaller,
Speaker 4: when it comes to those men who men who will
Speaker 4: be honest about what they want when it comes to
Speaker 4: the family a woman, they are actually worth the time,
Speaker 4: the energy. It's it's consistent you're getting the same energy
Speaker 4: that you're putting out. It does get smaller as you
Speaker 4: get older. And like, now that I'm out here in
Speaker 4: the dating world, I'm like.
Speaker 3: Oh, okay, keep in mind, you're only thirty thirty one,
Speaker 3: and it's like as you get to forty that that
Speaker 3: the pole the pool has struck further, fifty even more so.
Speaker 4: And I've dated, I'm having a man from fifty, I'm
Speaker 4: having a man.
Speaker 3: But listen, I'm not even I got I actually believe
Speaker 3: in the power of the talk. So I believe. So
Speaker 3: you speak, so you you have and you will desire.
Speaker 3: I do want to speak to the fertility park because
Speaker 3: it's very important.
Speaker 12: It is.
Speaker 3: As I sit here with y'all today, you know I'm
Speaker 3: literally on some fertility drugs. I am preparing for my
Speaker 3: embryo transfer in the next few weeks. Now, I am
Speaker 3: forty years old. Just turned forty a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3: Y'all know, I've been very transparent about my motherhood journey.
Speaker 3: I'm doing it solo by choice. Y'all know our froze
Speaker 3: eggs at thirty four years old. I'm doing this. I'm
Speaker 3: excited to be a mom. I'm scared as hell. I
Speaker 3: know it's gonna be the hardest thing I've ever done
Speaker 3: in my life, and yet I cannot wait to enter
Speaker 3: this mother era of my life. And also, Lauren, I
Speaker 3: don't think this is how most black women want to
Speaker 3: do it. I don't why solo by choice? Well, several reasons.
Speaker 3: Number one, I'm no longer willing to wait to activate
Speaker 3: my pursuit of motherhood. I'm no longer willing to wait.
Speaker 3: I've been married and divorced in my late twenties. I
Speaker 3: had also a long term relationship many years ago. I
Speaker 3: ended up engagement during the pandemic. I'm ready for my baby.
Speaker 3: I am ready to pour into someone other than me. Finally,
Speaker 3: it took me very long time to get here. But
Speaker 3: when she ready, she ready. Okay. Now, I don't think
Speaker 3: that most women, most black women, desire doing this journey alone.
Speaker 12: I don't.
Speaker 3: It's very important. And I know that you mentioned yesterday
Speaker 3: the egg freezing, So let's talk about that, yeah, because
Speaker 3: I think that that is marketed, not just you, Lauren,
Speaker 3: I think in general that is in a lot of
Speaker 3: these comments. Right, Well, girl, just freeze your eggs and
Speaker 3: don't worry about the rest that that's some bully, because
Speaker 3: I'm here to tell you because I'm living it. Right.
Speaker 3: I froze eggs at thirty four. I never thought in
Speaker 3: a million years I would need to use them, right
Speaker 3: because why I was in a loving, committed relationship. These
Speaker 3: were my spare Have you frozen eggs at this point, dude?
Speaker 4: No, I thought about doing it last year. I thought
Speaker 4: about starting the process.
Speaker 3: Okay, So let me just and this is not investigative,
Speaker 3: this is I'm just trying to see something here. Do
Speaker 3: you know how many eggs on average a woman should
Speaker 3: have on ice on reserve frozen for a probability of
Speaker 3: one live birth? No, I don't about twenty. Then if
Speaker 3: I say, say, okay, how many egg retrievals are required
Speaker 3: to get about twenty eggs and a woman that's say
Speaker 3: thirty five and up, the answer is at least two.
Speaker 3: What's the cost average of an egg retrieval? Amy probably
Speaker 3: knows this, but he knows it's between twelve and fifteen
Speaker 3: thousand dollars per retrieval cycle.
Speaker 1: Diverse insurances don't cover.
Speaker 3: Most insurances do not cover unless you're working at Google
Speaker 3: or Amazon. And by the way, you probably need to
Speaker 3: be married for them to cover it. Otherwise they consider
Speaker 3: it elective. They don't recognize it as infertility in the
Speaker 3: way that married couples that struggle to conceive has. So
Speaker 3: what I'm saying is the egg freezing route, the single
Speaker 3: motherhood by Choice route, the IVF route are amazing technological tools, Lauren,
Speaker 3: but they are wealthy women tools period. Let's be very clear.
Speaker 3: It's just more to it than just freezing it.
Speaker 4: I get you, I think with that part. For me,
Speaker 4: I was speaking from my own personal experience, and I
Speaker 4: think that like hearing you respond to it, I can
Speaker 4: understand your response to what I said, but I think
Speaker 4: maybe I should have been a little bit more clear
Speaker 4: because for me at that I have the money. At
Speaker 4: that time when I was thinking about doing it, it
Speaker 4: was because the insurance that I was getting through my
Speaker 4: employer supported that to a certain extent, where anything like, yes,
Speaker 4: it is expensive, but I would have been able to
Speaker 4: figure it out.
Speaker 3: So it was think you should still do it. I
Speaker 3: want that to I don't want that missed here. I'm
Speaker 3: still encouraging you to do I.
Speaker 4: Will say I got a little bit, I got like
Speaker 4: scared out of it, A little bit only be caused
Speaker 4: out of God, don't do that. But but more so
Speaker 4: because of what like MV shared with me, what you
Speaker 4: talked about, like going through all of that, and then
Speaker 4: I'll go with you to not work, right, I'll go
Speaker 4: with you. We can talk about I'm very serious. Really,
Speaker 4: So I'm saying two things here, and this is important
Speaker 4: this conversation, y'all. People have got I encourage people, I'll say,
Speaker 4: to hold space for more than one thing at one time.
Speaker 1: Now, I feel like whatever you just said now is
Speaker 1: very important.
Speaker 7: All Ebony is saying is this is an ideal and
Speaker 7: you don't want it's not it's not you don't want
Speaker 7: folks to have to necessarily go through that for me.
Speaker 3: Let me just reiterate that, because that's very important because
Speaker 3: this is this is these these stakes are very high Lorn.
Speaker 3: I'm fifty thousand dollars into IVF journey I myself, so
Speaker 3: I don't have a husband splitting that with me, which
Speaker 3: I which there's reasons why that's preferable for me. But
Speaker 3: I really need people to hear that. And I'm taking
Speaker 3: shots and I'm giving them to myself, and I'm doing
Speaker 3: all this to bring life into this world. And I
Speaker 3: don't take it lightly because it's a very serious thing.
Speaker 3: So I think when we were very cavalier, not not
Speaker 3: just you, right, but in general with old just I
Speaker 3: v for oh, just marry outside the race obviously been there,
Speaker 3: done that too. That that well, I heard some snow
Speaker 3: no king commentary.
Speaker 1: Holdo, guys, guys, we got to take some calls, and
Speaker 1: we gotta take some throws. We gotta take some calls.
Speaker 3: You watch if you listen.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's we gotta take some calls when we come back.
Speaker 1: And I just want to say this. I just want
Speaker 1: to say this.
Speaker 6: Most people don't know what what Ebony's going through right
Speaker 6: now with the with the viture fertility.
Speaker 1: Because you know, because most people haven't been through it,
Speaker 1: and the.
Speaker 12: Fact that.
Speaker 3: The people that listen to whole the court, they every day.
Speaker 6: The fact that she has to do it by herself
Speaker 6: is a lot, like she has to put them shots
Speaker 6: in her stomach and all that by herself. Than most
Speaker 6: people don't know it, Like I can't even imagine if
Speaker 6: my wife had to do it by herself, or a
Speaker 6: woman having to do it by herself.
Speaker 8: And goes through this doctor's appointment, so it.
Speaker 3: Is a room by yourself, it's a lot.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine it in a transcript. We'll we'll take
Speaker 1: some calls when we come back.
Speaker 4: Got to talk about this stuff that we agreed with too,
Speaker 4: because a lot of people agree with something.
Speaker 3: That you should have called upon to get to some
Speaker 3: of it.
Speaker 1: But you got all that much time, guys. Eight hundred
Speaker 1: five five one five one. Let's go.
Speaker 6: It's the Breakfast Lub the morning morning. Everybody is DJ
Speaker 6: Envy Charlamagne to God. We are the Breakfast Club on
Speaker 6: this Friday. We have Laurla Rosa our special guest host,
Speaker 6: and we have ebanie K Williams joining us this morning,
Speaker 6: and we're taking your.
Speaker 1: Calls as well. Eight hundred and five A five one
Speaker 1: oh five one.
Speaker 6: Now we're discussing some comments that ebide K Williams made
Speaker 6: that went viral yesterday. So now right before we left,
Speaker 6: I cut both of you guys off so we can
Speaker 6: pay some bills and get some music on.
Speaker 1: So I know, ebidy K Williams, you were talking.
Speaker 3: I was so I was acknowledging Lauren's right right to
Speaker 3: consume content that she enjoys and feels comfortable with and
Speaker 3: also reject that what she does that because her critique
Speaker 3: at this point, I understand is a bit about my
Speaker 3: It's about my delivery as much as the substance of
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. I think that the.
Speaker 4: Disagreement the game comes in with how you say it,
Speaker 4: and we don't get that vulnerability right. So me sitting
Speaker 4: here with you right now is like, this is what
Speaker 4: I want to feel when I see the content. I
Speaker 4: might not always get that though, and maybe it's not
Speaker 4: like you said. It wasn't for me, it was for
Speaker 4: the girls that's still in college, right, But at the
Speaker 4: same time, it's placed on my timeline. So I get
Speaker 4: it and I feel it, and I stop and I
Speaker 4: listen either way.
Speaker 3: But I'm glad you do shout out to the team
Speaker 3: at the griot.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, but you are.
Speaker 4: But I was going to get to that. But what
Speaker 4: I did agree with was the fact, like when you
Speaker 4: started talking about the pool of men getting smaller, when
Speaker 4: it comes to those men who men who will be
Speaker 4: honest about what they want when it comes to the
Speaker 4: family a woman, they are actually worth the time, the energy.
Speaker 4: It's consistent, you're getting the same energy that you're putting out.
Speaker 4: It does get smaller as you get older, and like now,
Speaker 4: that I'm out here in the dating world, I'm like, oh, okay,
Speaker 4: keep in mind, you're only thirty thirty one, So it's
Speaker 4: as you get to forty there that the pulp the
Speaker 4: pool has shrunk further fifty even more so.
Speaker 3: And I've dated.
Speaker 4: Listen, I'm not even I got.
Speaker 3: I actually believe in the power of the tongue.
Speaker 1: So I believe.
Speaker 3: So you speak, so you you have and you will desire.
Speaker 3: I do want to speak to the fertility park because
Speaker 3: it's very important. It is as I sit here with
Speaker 3: y'all today, uh you know, I'm literally on some fertility drugs.
Speaker 3: I am preparing for my embryo transfer in the next
Speaker 3: few weeks. Now. I am forty years old, just turned
Speaker 3: forty a couple of weeks ago. Y'all know, I've been
Speaker 3: very transparent about my motherhood journey. I'm doing it solo
Speaker 3: by choice. Y'all know our froze eggs at thirty four
Speaker 3: years old. I'm doing this. I'm excited to be a mom.
Speaker 3: I'm scared as hell. I know it's gonna be the
Speaker 3: hardest thing I've ever done in my life, and yet
Speaker 3: I cannot wait to enter this, this this mother era
Speaker 3: of my life and also, Lauren, I don't think this
Speaker 3: is how most black.
Speaker 4: Women want to do it, right. I don't why solo
Speaker 4: by choice?
Speaker 3: Well, several reasons. Number one, I'm no longer willing to
Speaker 3: win eight to activate my pursuit of motherhood. I'm no
Speaker 3: longer willing to wait. I've been married and divorced in
Speaker 3: my late twenties. I had also a long term relationship
Speaker 3: many years ago. I ended up engagement during the pandemic.
Speaker 3: I'm ready for my baby. I am ready to pour
Speaker 3: into someone other than me. Finally. It took me a
Speaker 3: very long time to get here. But when she ready,
Speaker 3: she ready. Okay. Now, I don't think that most women,
Speaker 3: most black women, desire doing this journey alone.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 3: It's very important. And I know that you mentioned yesterday
Speaker 3: the egg freezing, So let's talk about that, yeah, because
Speaker 3: I think that that is marketed, not just you, Lauren,
Speaker 3: I think in general that is in a lot of
Speaker 3: these comments. Right, Well, girl, just freeze your eggs and
Speaker 3: don't worry about the rest. Now that's some bully, because
Speaker 3: I'm here to tell you because I'm living it. Right.
Speaker 3: I froze eggs at thirty four. I never thought in
Speaker 3: a million years, I would need to use them, right,
Speaker 3: because why I was in a loving, committed relationship. These
Speaker 3: were my spare Have you frozen eggs at this point, dude.
Speaker 4: No, I thought about doing it last I thought about
Speaker 4: starting the process.
Speaker 3: Okay, So let me just and this is not investigative,
Speaker 3: this is I'm just trying to see something here. Do
Speaker 3: you know how many eggs on average a woman should
Speaker 3: have on ice on reserve frozen for a probability of
Speaker 3: one live birth? No, I don't about twenty. Then if
Speaker 3: I say, okay, how many egg retrievals are required to
Speaker 3: get about twenty eggs and a woman that's say thirty
Speaker 3: five and up, the answer is at least two. What's
Speaker 3: the cost average of an egg retrieval? Amy probably knows this,
Speaker 3: but he knows it's between twelve and fifteen thousand dollars
Speaker 3: per retrieval cycle.
Speaker 1: Dimost insurances don't cover.
Speaker 3: Most insurances do not cover unless you're working at Google
Speaker 3: or Amazon. And by the way, you probably need to
Speaker 3: be married for them to cover it. Otherwise they consider
Speaker 3: it elective. They don't recognize it as infertility in the
Speaker 3: way that married couples that struggle to conceive half. So
Speaker 3: what I'm saying is the egg freezing route, the single
Speaker 3: motherhood by Choice route, the IVF route are amazing technological tools,
Speaker 3: but they are wealthy women tools. Period. Let's be very clear.
Speaker 3: It's just more to it than just freezing it.
Speaker 4: I get you, I think with that part. For me,
Speaker 4: I was speaking from my own personal experience, and I
Speaker 4: think that like hearing you respond to it, I can
Speaker 4: understand your response to what I said, but I think
Speaker 4: maybe I should have been a little bit more clear
Speaker 4: because for me at that the way I have the
Speaker 4: money at that time when I was thinking about doing it,
Speaker 4: it was because the insurance that I was getting through
Speaker 4: my employer supported that to a certain extent, where anything like, yes,
Speaker 4: it is expensive, but I would have been able to
Speaker 4: figure it out. So I would think you should still
Speaker 4: do it. I want that to I don't want that
Speaker 4: missed here. I'm still encouraging you to do I will
Speaker 4: say I got a little bit. I got like scared
Speaker 4: out of it a little bit only because of God,
Speaker 4: don't do that, but but more so because of what
Speaker 4: like MV shared with me, what you talked about, like
Speaker 4: going through all of that and then it I'll go
Speaker 4: with you to not work, right, I'll go with you.
Speaker 4: We can talk about I'm very serious, really, So I'm
Speaker 4: saying two things here, and this is important this conversation, y'all.
Speaker 4: People have got I encourage people, I'll say, to hold
Speaker 4: space for more than one thing in one time.
Speaker 7: Now, I feel like whatever you just said now is
Speaker 7: very important. All Ebony is saying is this is an
Speaker 7: ideal and you don't want it.
Speaker 12: It's not.
Speaker 1: It's not you don't want folks to have to necessarily
Speaker 1: go through.
Speaker 4: That for me.
Speaker 3: Let me just reiterate that, because that's very important, because
Speaker 3: this is this is these these takes are very high lorn.
Speaker 3: I'm fifty thousand dollars into IVF Journey by myself, so
Speaker 3: I don't have a husband splitting that with me, which
Speaker 3: I which there's reasons why that's preferable for me. But
Speaker 3: I really need people to hear that. And I'm taking
Speaker 3: shots and I'm giving them to myself, and I'm doing
Speaker 3: all this to bring life into this world. And I
Speaker 3: don't take it lightly because it's a very serious thing.
Speaker 3: So I think that when we were very cavalier, not
Speaker 3: not just you, right, but in general with oh, just
Speaker 3: IVF for oh, just marry outside the race. Obviously been there,
Speaker 3: done that too. That that well, I heard some snow
Speaker 3: no King commentary.
Speaker 1: You guys. We gotta take some calls. We gotta take
Speaker 1: some calls. We gotta take some calls.
Speaker 3: Because get this, you watch if you listen. Okay, let's go.
Speaker 1: We gotta take some calls when we come back. And
Speaker 1: I just want to say this, I just want to
Speaker 1: say this.
Speaker 6: Most people don't know what what Ebany's going through right
Speaker 6: now with the with the in vitro fertility. You know,
Speaker 6: because you know, because most people haven't been through it.
Speaker 1: And the fact that.
Speaker 3: People that listen to whole the court, they can know
Speaker 3: every day.
Speaker 1: But the fact that she has to do it by
Speaker 1: herself is a lot.
Speaker 6: Like she has to put them shots in her stomach
Speaker 6: and and all that by herself, thank you. Most people
Speaker 6: don't know it, Like I can't even imagine if my
Speaker 6: wife had to do it by herself, or a woman
Speaker 6: having to do it by herself.
Speaker 8: And goes to those doctor's appointment so a.
Speaker 3: Room by yourself, it's a lot.
Speaker 4: I can't imagine that.
Speaker 1: TRANSFER will take some calls when we come back.
Speaker 4: Got to talk about the stuff that we agreed with
Speaker 4: to because a lot of people agree with something that
Speaker 4: you should get to.
Speaker 9: Some of it.
Speaker 6: But got all that much time, guys, five five one
Speaker 6: five one, let's go. It's the Breakfast Club the morning morning.
Speaker 6: Everybody is the Envy Charlemagne.
Speaker 1: Thea Goud.
Speaker 6: We are the Breakfast Club. Our special guest host Laura
Speaker 6: la Rossa is here and Ebony K. Williams is still here.
Speaker 6: We're having a grown up disc USh this morning, and
Speaker 6: we're opening up the phone lines and gonna let h
Speaker 6: you guys out there get a chance to chop it
Speaker 6: up with Ebanie K.
Speaker 1: Williams.
Speaker 6: All right, eight hundred five A five one oh five
Speaker 6: to one, and we just want to say it's a
Speaker 6: respectful conversation.
Speaker 1: So as soon as the disrespect happens, we're banging on
Speaker 1: us right right now. Okay, let's rovigate has happened. We're
Speaker 1: on to something else. Now you stop it.
Speaker 4: Charlemagne.
Speaker 1: Hello, who's this Alicia?
Speaker 2: Hey?
Speaker 1: Alicia?
Speaker 8: Good morning?
Speaker 15: Hey?
Speaker 1: How are you good? Good? Good?
Speaker 2: Evan K.
Speaker 1: Williams to say, hey, you got you got a question comment?
Speaker 13: Oh well, I just kind of wanted to agree with
Speaker 13: her first of all, and she stated that if this
Speaker 13: is what you want and you're like, this is what
Speaker 13: I suggest. So she was not pushing that on anyone.
Speaker 13: But if we're being honest, that's what I counterpartsiach their
Speaker 13: girls so go to college and find a husband. The
Speaker 13: education is almost taking their especially white Silvern women. So
Speaker 13: I don't fee a problem with it.
Speaker 1: Is that true?
Speaker 3: Thank you, sir? Absolutely is true. So you know, I
Speaker 3: went to UNC Chapel Hill, a very predominantly white institution
Speaker 3: in the South, as the good sister just mentioned, and
Speaker 3: that ring before Spring is serious for them what they're
Speaker 3: looking to do. Because our counterparts tend to view marriage
Speaker 3: primarily through a lens of economic stability. Let's be clear,
Speaker 3: and historically we know that is the nature of marriage, correct,
Speaker 3: It's a transaction of sorts. And I know, once again,
Speaker 3: you know, the tears are gonna roll when I say
Speaker 3: that out loud for some because because they they are
Speaker 3: not willing to really stand in the reality of the
Speaker 3: tenets of marriage in America today.
Speaker 4: Pay mortgage, right, So that's.
Speaker 3: That's the reality. And our counterparts do it all the time.
Speaker 3: The difference is they are not shamed when they do it.
Speaker 3: I think that when you see black girls and black
Speaker 3: young women going and making the space for marriage as
Speaker 3: as much of a priority as education. It flies in
Speaker 3: the face of a generation that told me and mine,
Speaker 3: go to school, stay focused, don't get pregnant. Boys are
Speaker 3: a distraction, right, They're gonna throw you off your game.
Speaker 3: Get your education, get your money, get your house, get
Speaker 3: your power, figure out who you are, stand in it,
Speaker 3: and then go partner and get married and live happily
Speaker 3: ever after. The challenge with that, because that's the model
Speaker 3: I took. I'm proud to have taken it. I had
Speaker 3: a little default starting marriage that was not for me,
Speaker 3: so I divorced him. Not a problem, great guy. Here's
Speaker 3: the thing. Here's the thing is most Black women do
Speaker 3: want the traditional marital, nuclear family model. And when you
Speaker 3: get to a certain level of income as black women,
Speaker 3: a certain level of power, a certain level of being
Speaker 3: able to travel the world on your own dime and
Speaker 3: be in the sky lounge without some dusty sun swipe,
Speaker 3: that's okay. The shrinking happens. And also, I'm gonna tell
Speaker 3: you what else you move, differences you move. You think
Speaker 3: your swag is on a thousand today and it's very high,
Speaker 3: and I love seeing it. Wait till you, wait till
Speaker 3: you're over that million dollar a year mark of income,
Speaker 3: Wait till it's like, wait till you own your your
Speaker 3: one point seven million dollar property in your own name
Speaker 3: and only your name is.
Speaker 1: On the deed based on a true story.
Speaker 3: That's it's saying, nobody's gonna be able to tell you
Speaker 3: unless they're coming all the way correct, period, and that's
Speaker 3: going to make that pool rather even smaller.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, Yes, who's this Sophia?
Speaker 8: Hey, Sophia, what's your question for k Williams?
Speaker 17: Not question? Well, that's a question. I have a few things,
Speaker 17: like how were you raised? I was seeing I've seen
Speaker 17: that you were forty I'm forty eight. I'm a black
Speaker 17: woman raised with black women. We were not raised to
Speaker 17: go look for a man. We weren't raised to just
Speaker 17: go look for a ring. Oh my god, I just
Speaker 17: have to have a man. We were raised to respect ourselves,
Speaker 17: to love God, and if God shaw fit for us
Speaker 17: to be married, our husband would find us. Like, it's
Speaker 17: like you put your failures or how that you seem
Speaker 17: like you failed because you didn't get a ring in college,
Speaker 17: but you putting it off on other women, especially black women.
Speaker 17: I don't know any other race. But that's not how
Speaker 17: I was raised.
Speaker 3: Okay response, Yeah, good morning, good sis. So listen, I
Speaker 3: was raised by god fearing, incredible black women named Gloria,
Speaker 3: who raised me to go to school, go to more school,
Speaker 3: get the bag, and stand in my truth and power.
Speaker 3: So that's the first answer to your question. As for failure,
Speaker 3: I don't have any in the space, dear. I actually
Speaker 3: was married. I had a beautiful cushion cut diamond on
Speaker 3: my finger until I decided to give it back because
Speaker 3: I no longer wanted to be married. So I don't
Speaker 3: have failure in the space. The only reason I'm not
Speaker 3: married is because I divorced my husband.
Speaker 12: Now.
Speaker 3: As to putting this on black women, I'm doing no
Speaker 3: such thing. What I know for fact, because I have
Speaker 3: sorority sisters, I have good friends. I have a strong
Speaker 3: global sisterhood of black women who tell me. Some of
Speaker 3: them tell me that despite their success, despite their careers,
Speaker 3: and despite their money, they in their car to hearts
Speaker 3: still desire marriage. It is something that they want. And
Speaker 3: I think we got to get rid of shaming black
Speaker 3: women for wanting what they want. For the black women
Speaker 3: that that is already a desire of their heart to
Speaker 3: be married in a timely fashion. That's who this advice
Speaker 3: is for. If you don't want that, I want nothing
Speaker 3: but what you want for yourself.
Speaker 4: I think a lot of people take the stance that
Speaker 4: she took because you literally like a lot of people
Speaker 4: don't know certain things, right, they don't listen. But I
Speaker 4: also think that say they part one more time, they
Speaker 4: don't know certain things that they don't listen. But another
Speaker 4: important point is I think a lot of people take
Speaker 4: you just as a personality and all that you have
Speaker 4: going on as like you look and speak down on people.
Speaker 4: And I think with black women's instantly triggering because we've
Speaker 4: had that happen so much, right, And that's why that
Speaker 4: happens where she's like, well, how were you raised? Like
Speaker 4: even the way that she came into that call was
Speaker 4: like you think that you're better or do you think
Speaker 4: that you're doing something that other people have not done?
Speaker 12: Right?
Speaker 4: And I think that happens a lot with you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a projection. Yeah, so I'm forty right, So
Speaker 3: none of that's new, Lauren. Just so you know, like
Speaker 3: when you walk through the world carrying yourself the way
Speaker 3: I do, having my aesthetic projections and presumptions about who
Speaker 3: I am and what my values are come with the territory.
Speaker 4: But that's also why I do the work I do.
Speaker 4: I got one hundred episodes of Holding Court. People can watch.
Speaker 3: I'm on every day here locally in New York Channel
Speaker 3: fifty five eleven thirty AM Equal Justice with Judge Ebanie. Yes,
Speaker 3: I'm judging you, and several other things. I got two
Speaker 3: books out ben.
Speaker 1: Back what you said, Annie, I saw Equal Justice in Vegas?
Speaker 3: You saw yeah, Yes, naturally syndicated. I'm in eighty five
Speaker 3: percent of American home. So there's lots of content to consume.
Speaker 8: Well, let's go to another call of Hello.
Speaker 12: Who's saying, ah right?
Speaker 13: My name is.
Speaker 1: Hey, Tish. What's your question for Abane King Williams.
Speaker 13: It's not a really good question.
Speaker 18: I'm just saying I'm well, first of all, good morning
Speaker 18: and everybody. I just want to say that I am
Speaker 18: team Ebane, and I don't see anything that she's saying
Speaker 18: is wrong. She's lessing her platform. Everyone who follows.
Speaker 17: Her knows that.
Speaker 18: As an old woman, I'm just giving you advice. I've
Speaker 18: been there, I've been through college, and this is my
Speaker 18: feelings based on my experiences, and I just feel like
Speaker 18: she should be respected for it.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, thank you for calling Mama.
Speaker 3: Appreciate it.
Speaker 13: Sys, Thank you so much.
Speaker 14: Have a good day.
Speaker 1: So let's put a button on this man, because I
Speaker 1: strapped this up.
Speaker 3: I appreciate listen. I appreciate the platform. I appreciate the conversation.
Speaker 2: I need to.
Speaker 3: I think that as black women in particular, we got
Speaker 3: to hold the space to have the difficult conversation.
Speaker 1: All right, well, we appreciate you joining us and holding
Speaker 1: court podcast.
Speaker 3: We're back with season three soon.
Speaker 4: I mean, did I keep the same energy?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Man, was shrunk a little bit for
Speaker 1: I asked you.
Speaker 6: I don't know why.
Speaker 1: You watch Equal Justice too?
Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you, take your local listings, sending bameback.
Speaker 6: Nyla will be joining us past the auks. It don't
Speaker 6: go anywhere. It's a Friday, Thank you, ladies. It's the
Speaker 6: breakfast club.
Speaker 3: Hilarious, the breakfast club.
Speaker 1: We are stuck in the bigotry of expectations.
Speaker 4: What did she say about me? Because I want to
Speaker 4: put that on the T shirt. Oh my goodness, the mediocrity.
Speaker 1: Morning, everybody. We are the breakfast club. Laura Le Ross
Speaker 1: is our special guest.
Speaker 2: Whole m. D. K.
Speaker 1: Williams just left. Good morning.
Speaker 8: Now it's time for past the Awks.
Speaker 2: It's time for past Yacht with J.
Speaker 1: Yeah, DJ, well, actually without young Man, Yeah without. NILA's
Speaker 1: not here, but we're gonna hold it down for her. Okay,
Speaker 1: So we're all gonna pick a song. You want to
Speaker 1: hear that?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yep, yep, yep, yep. Okay, you want to start? Okay, Yeah, so.
Speaker 6: I will start a little Yachty featuring J Cole that
Speaker 6: released the new record it's called The Secret Recipe.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 6: I love J Cole hopping on everybody's record and giving
Speaker 6: them them features that they need.
Speaker 1: I want to hear how Yachty sound on that with
Speaker 1: J Cole. I want to hear if Yachty snapped him
Speaker 1: that it.
Speaker 4: Sounds good hit a record, he sound good. J Cole's
Speaker 4: versus the verse are like talking about though. He has
Speaker 4: a point in that verse where he says that he
Speaker 4: feels like the activist hope that we stay in oppression
Speaker 4: so they can keep getting rich. There's a lot in
Speaker 4: there people better.
Speaker 7: I'm not gonna say all activists feel that way, but
Speaker 7: I do feel like there's some people who wouldn't know
Speaker 7: what to do if there was actual solutions. It's kind
Speaker 7: of like when Wiley Coyoi finally catches the roll Runner.
Speaker 7: You haven't seen that episode. He finally caught the role
Speaker 7: runner and he held him for one second and didn't.
Speaker 1: Know what to do with him. You've been chasing it
Speaker 1: for so long, chasing so long you even know what
Speaker 1: to do with it when you called him.
Speaker 4: Let them go, like the women that's out here trying
Speaker 4: to find the marriages that Ebony talking about. Once we
Speaker 4: get him talking about you, I'm talking about you, just
Speaker 4: throwing us.
Speaker 1: Well, let's get into another sow. Who get the next pick?
Speaker 12: Ahead?
Speaker 4: Lauren? So the next song? I actually got to preview
Speaker 4: this one yesterday. Shout out to U D d Air
Speaker 4: and say less c MG. The label dropped a compilation
Speaker 4: album and there's a song on there with money Back,
Speaker 4: My Money Back, I'm Sorry with Glover La and Fabio
Speaker 4: and it's called that Fire.
Speaker 2: That's all.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's hard, that's hard, And now what do you got, Charlomte?
Speaker 1: What's your pick? Oh man, somebody country music give me
Speaker 1: that call.
Speaker 7: Let me tell you something, man, I don't know if
Speaker 7: y'all know what's going on in these streets. Broke up,
Speaker 7: but in Sink just dropped the new record man and
Speaker 7: Sink dropped the new records from the Trolls Band Together
Speaker 7: soundtrack and Sink and Justin Timberlake.
Speaker 4: Bro, that's the first colapp in like decades, I'm telling.
Speaker 1: You, from the Trolls Band Together soundtrack. And baby, I'm confused.
Speaker 1: Isn't Justin Timberlake in InSync? Yeah?
Speaker 8: But feature Justin Timberlake.
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't they after all these years it should say that,
Speaker 1: you don't think so, come on now.
Speaker 4: I felt like it was a little shady, but maybe
Speaker 4: they did it for the search reasons.
Speaker 8: True, true, Justin Timberlake.
Speaker 4: Because it's always been said that Justin Timberlake never wanted
Speaker 4: to reunite with them because he likes to keep himself
Speaker 4: separate because he is the breakout star. And now y'all
Speaker 4: finally do a song together and it's the in sync
Speaker 4: and Justin Timberlake in sync was a part of Justin Timberlake.
Speaker 1: I think y'all focused on the wrong things.
Speaker 4: I mean, Sink, I mean Justin Timberlake was a part
Speaker 4: of ensync. That's like if Destiny child does a song
Speaker 4: with a song together and then it says destiny shout
Speaker 4: and Beyonce.
Speaker 7: Y'all would not have a problem with that. I will
Speaker 7: need to cut it out. I will exactly definitely period.
Speaker 7: Let that instinct fly one time for speak. Now you
Speaker 7: named all the members of Ensync? Who are the members?
Speaker 12: Name of them again?
Speaker 1: Justin? Timberlake, j C.
Speaker 7: Chavez, Lance Bass, Joey Futan and Chris Chris Uh, Chris Kilpatrick.
Speaker 1: Patrick, Chris Kirkpatrick.
Speaker 8: Yes, all right, I'm impressed you know the names.
Speaker 12: Man.
Speaker 6: You better stop playing with me, okay, all right, Well
Speaker 6: that was Past the Awks all right. Now you can
Speaker 6: head up Nyla for more of her playlist and everything
Speaker 6: that she gots going on. I'm sure she's gonna do
Speaker 6: another Past the Aucs Live shortly and she will be
Speaker 6: up here next week.
Speaker 1: Alright.
Speaker 6: Well, now it's time to get into the mixing. People's
Speaker 6: Choice mixed and I got a shout out to Poor Patroller.
Speaker 6: Movie por Patrol comes out this weekend as well to
Speaker 6: my kids love it. My kids went to see it
Speaker 6: a couple of weeks ago and they love it. So
Speaker 6: if you get a chance to take your kids to
Speaker 6: go check it out and let's get to the People's
Speaker 6: choice mix. You throw back on a Friday's fist Club.
Speaker 6: Good Morning, the Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be
Speaker 6: the same morning, everybody. It's DJ env Charlamagne the God.
Speaker 6: We are the Breakfast Club. Laura Larossa, our special guest
Speaker 6: host is here and Lauren, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Long day, Long day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a good day, though it was Omar Apps.
Speaker 8: Shout to m y K Williams for joining us. It's
Speaker 8: a great conversation.
Speaker 7: I enjoyed it, you know, And I think that the
Speaker 7: thing about these conversations, nobody's right, nobody's wrong.
Speaker 1: It's just all perspective.
Speaker 7: And I think, you know, when you can have conversations
Speaker 7: with people and listen with the intent to understand and
Speaker 7: not just reply because you're trying to represent for whatever
Speaker 7: team that may exist on social media.
Speaker 1: The conversations are more productive. And I think both of
Speaker 1: y'all did that today.
Speaker 4: And I think I think when you really get to
Speaker 4: hear a person like like I swear, when she started
Speaker 4: talking about the infertility stuff and the like the shots
Speaker 4: and all that stuff, that probably was the first time
Speaker 4: I ever looked at her as a human being.
Speaker 1: Well, she said that in the commentary. The commentary that
Speaker 1: got everybody robbed up.
Speaker 4: She literally said that, no, she didn't talk about her
Speaker 4: personal journey. I didn't know her personal journey. I'm not
Speaker 4: that tuned into her. I just see her clips and
Speaker 4: I know you know what I mean, I know who
Speaker 4: she is and I just see her clips. But when
Speaker 4: I literally have never humanized her. And I think when
Speaker 4: you regardless if you agree with somebody or you don't,
Speaker 4: because we're not always going to agree when you put
Speaker 4: a human in that situation. Now I hear her conversation
Speaker 4: a little bit differently because it's like she's really going
Speaker 4: through something where like this is coming from a place
Speaker 4: of love. It doesn't feel like that when you watch it.
Speaker 4: And that is my whole if I want nobody take
Speaker 4: anything else from this, It's like the how you do
Speaker 4: it and not what you do is important because you
Speaker 4: don't should the love through the content sometimes and I
Speaker 4: know that's purposely done too, because it's sharp, it hits, it'spirral.
Speaker 1: I just think that's how you really feel.
Speaker 6: But I will say this, that's what this platform is about,
Speaker 6: just to be able to discuss and have discussions that
Speaker 6: maybe we all don't agree, whether it's Ebany K. Williams
Speaker 6: or when Tyrese came up here, or when some of
Speaker 6: these politicians come up here.
Speaker 8: That's what it's based upon. We're not going to agree
Speaker 8: with everybody that comes in here.
Speaker 6: You're not gonna agree with everything Charlamagne says, or things
Speaker 6: that I say, or things that Laurence says. But we
Speaker 6: need to be able to have a conversation and try
Speaker 6: to get to a respectable place where we at least
Speaker 6: respect each other's opinions.
Speaker 1: We don't have to agree, but we just gotta respect
Speaker 1: it right.
Speaker 7: And I want I just want us all always even
Speaker 7: if you disagree, to still listen because you still can
Speaker 7: learn something, you know what I mean. I think a
Speaker 7: lot of times we just shut down and we don't
Speaker 7: want to hear what the other person is saying. We
Speaker 7: just automatically think, we write, we automatically think the people
Speaker 7: that agree with us are right, when the reality is like,
Speaker 7: oh shoot, like Lauren, did they Lauren.
Speaker 1: Was like, oh, okay, I will say I had to.
Speaker 4: I think in the beginning of it, I was very defensive,
Speaker 4: but again it was because of how she came into
Speaker 4: the conversation, not what she was saying, but one side
Speaker 4: was like, you know what, this isn't going to get anywhere.
Speaker 4: If I am that way and I actually listen to
Speaker 4: her story, then we could even when I didn't disagree.
Speaker 4: I think that's when the conversation really started. So I
Speaker 4: agree with you're saying, but I also think that there
Speaker 4: has to be accountability on both sides about the approach.
Speaker 4: And if you don't care about the approach, that's fine too,
Speaker 4: Like she said, like, I'm forty years old, I've been
Speaker 4: doing this. I know people say, I know how they feel.
Speaker 3: Whatever.
Speaker 1: I think, I'm responsible. I mean the approach.
Speaker 7: I get what you're saying about the approach, but if
Speaker 7: I don't like what you're saying, I'm gonna feel like
Speaker 7: your approach is off.
Speaker 4: But I didn't dislike she did when she was saying
Speaker 4: that much that.
Speaker 1: That's not true.
Speaker 7: If I can come here nice as possible, I can
Speaker 7: come here nice as possible, I can say it sweet,
Speaker 7: But if you disagree, you're still not going to I.
Speaker 3: Don't believe that.
Speaker 4: I don't believe that because I didn't. I didn't disagree
Speaker 4: with the two points that I disagree with enough to
Speaker 4: feel a way to be like, I don't want to
Speaker 4: hear nothing. The only reason I disagreed because what she
Speaker 4: was saying again, I said, especially the infertility stuff. It's science,
Speaker 4: it's fact. You can't get around it. The why did it?
Speaker 4: Why did it have to be said? Or why do
Speaker 4: we have to keep tolding this when it comes to
Speaker 4: black women, Because even if you're not talking to me,
Speaker 4: when someone sees you saying it, they're gonna throw it
Speaker 4: on me when I need to have that conversation. You
Speaker 4: know what I mean, that's what I disagree with.
Speaker 6: But anyway it was, I will say this though too,
Speaker 6: you know uh, And this is with most attorneys. Ebidy
Speaker 6: K Williams is an attorney. She said that when we talk,
Speaker 6: so she's gonna talk and speak a different way because
Speaker 6: she's coming from a side of facts and everything that
Speaker 6: she delivers is going to be faction when and when
Speaker 6: she comes. She's assertive because when she's in court, she
Speaker 6: has to be assertive. For some people they feel like
Speaker 6: it's it's spicy's being aggressive. But if you have a
Speaker 6: talk to an attorney, most attorneys talk like that. They
Speaker 6: speak like that and for most it's offensive, but it's
Speaker 6: just it's just it's just the environment.
Speaker 8: That's they have to be, you know.
Speaker 4: I also learned too how to stand in my like
Speaker 4: power because people, you know, when you're a strong person
Speaker 4: like that, people do take it away and it can
Speaker 4: be especially like working in media, I get told all
Speaker 4: the time, like, you're so direct, and it started to
Speaker 4: make me feel like, well, should I figured out ho
Speaker 4: should I change it?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 4: But listening to her, when I brought up the point
Speaker 4: of like, yo, people think you boogie. That's why they
Speaker 4: don't really hear you. It's just like, I can't change that.
Speaker 1: But that's their fault though exactly their perception of you
Speaker 1: is their fault. Like you said, people think you're too direct.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, people think Even in the commentary, they'd be like, oh,
Speaker 4: she's cuse she from TMZ And it's like, no, I
Speaker 4: was like this before I got the TMZ. There's nothing
Speaker 4: wrong with it. But I think I'm speaking for myself
Speaker 4: as a black woman in the industry I've been working on.
Speaker 4: Working in we're always sometimes like you put into these
Speaker 4: boxes where like if you're not soft enough, the brands
Speaker 4: won't deal with you. If you are too if you're
Speaker 4: not direct enough, you're going to get ran over if
Speaker 4: you are too direct, you angry, you upset girl and
Speaker 4: you doing the most or it's too much sad, so
Speaker 4: you're boxing to this the black journalist box. So that's
Speaker 4: always been something that's been in the back of my mind.
Speaker 1: So if you try to be anything else, you won't
Speaker 1: be authentic exactly.
Speaker 4: So once I started leaning into that, it's like, everything
Speaker 4: is going well for me, but you do have those
Speaker 4: times where you're like, should I do that a little
Speaker 4: bit differently? But hearing her today, I was like, no,
Speaker 4: I mean, especially if it's working for me, like why
Speaker 4: would I? But more so because this is me? What
Speaker 4: else am I going to do?
Speaker 8: I agree?
Speaker 6: All right, Well, when we come back, we got the
Speaker 6: positive notice to Breakfast Club. Good morning morning. Everybody is
Speaker 6: j NV CHARLAMAGNEA gud We are the Breakfast Club. Laura
Speaker 6: la Rossa, our special guest host is here. And let
Speaker 6: me salute to everybody in Alabama right now. I'm in Alabama, Huntsville, Alabama,
Speaker 6: A and M.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 8: Every year I like to go on an HBCU tour
Speaker 8: and I just I enjoyed.
Speaker 6: I like to talk to the students, answer all the
Speaker 6: questions from communication majors or business and marketing mag It's
Speaker 6: just about what we do. And I try to encourage
Speaker 6: people to take a look at HBCUs when they're thinking
Speaker 6: and talking about schools and colleges. And this is at
Speaker 6: a time when we get a chance to go week
Speaker 6: by week to different schools and to just display what
Speaker 6: their schools are all about. And of course this week
Speaker 6: Alabama A and M is playing Tuskegee for the homecoming game,
Speaker 6: so I'll be out here for that and then Saturday
Speaker 6: night and in Dallas. So let me salute to everybody
Speaker 6: out in Alabama. And that went to Alabama A and M,
Speaker 6: all the alumni and everybody. I can't wait to see
Speaker 6: and talk for you guys some more. But Charlemagne, you
Speaker 6: got a positive note. I do, and it's simple. It
Speaker 6: comes from Gandhi. Honest disagreement is often a good sign
Speaker 6: of progress. Y'all have a great day.
Speaker 1: Breakfast club, bitch
Speaker 2: Is you don'na finish or y'all done it