Speaker 1: The breakfast club.
Speaker 2: Breakfast clubs very very very very amed you like hating.
Speaker 3: The entire scene was like where y'all came a long way.
Speaker 4: They might have got the news, but you know they're listening.
Speaker 2: To the back of the brother.
Speaker 5: DJ MFY just hilarious and Charlamagne's a god. Y'all are
Speaker 5: like a mega rest club.
Speaker 6: That's how we get out this.
Speaker 5: Morning, us saying.
Speaker 7: Yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo
Speaker 7: yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo
Speaker 7: yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo.
Speaker 3: Just hilarious.
Speaker 2: What's up?
Speaker 5: I go by the name of CHARLOA.
Speaker 2: Maade.
Speaker 4: The god DJ Envy is not here with us today,
Speaker 4: but his President's day, we all off, you know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying.
Speaker 5: We just acting like we here in the moment.
Speaker 4: So actually we recorded this on Friday when then he
Speaker 4: wasn't here and it's playing back up.
Speaker 5: Are you telling them all that you got like lying
Speaker 5: to people with the point you used to lie all
Speaker 5: the time.
Speaker 4: I do, but when I lie, I let them know
Speaker 4: I'm lying, and I always tell them you should believe
Speaker 4: me even when I'm lying, because I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 4: when I'm lying.
Speaker 5: We'll be hyper y'all, it's President's Day. That gonna mean
Speaker 5: nothing to her.
Speaker 4: The hell you're so excited about that for We're just
Speaker 4: happy to have the day off for the moment. We'll
Speaker 4: be back tomorrow, but today we do have a lot
Speaker 4: of new content for you because us you're checked in
Speaker 4: with us, yes, you know, to talk about everything that
Speaker 4: happened at the Super Bowl. Who was supposed to be
Speaker 4: on stage. He talks to us about his marriage and
Speaker 4: why he hasn't been up here.
Speaker 8: Yep, and he also dropped some easter eggs that we
Speaker 8: didn't see, y'all. So y'all gotta go back and watch
Speaker 8: the halftime show.
Speaker 5: That's right.
Speaker 4: So we're gonna talk to Usher later on in the show,
Speaker 4: and Michael Harriet will be joining us. Michael Harriet is
Speaker 4: the author of a book called Black af History, The
Speaker 4: Unwhite Squashed Story of America, which retails American history from
Speaker 4: the experiences of black people. And he's a South Carolina
Speaker 4: native and this book is a New York Times bestseller
Speaker 4: and it's a great read, and I want y'all to
Speaker 4: read it. So he'll be here this morning. Jess hates
Speaker 4: when I have authors up him.
Speaker 8: All the time, and no disrespect. But you can write
Speaker 8: a comic book and he how long we gotta get
Speaker 8: him on the show.
Speaker 5: What Jesus I like reading?
Speaker 4: Okay, uh, but we'll be here, well, no, we won't
Speaker 4: be here, but you can listen to that new content
Speaker 4: that we just talked about it you lie, we'll be here.
Speaker 4: You know we'll be here them all because I'm so
Speaker 4: used to hearing everybody else lives. I'm just mimicking what
Speaker 4: they be doing. It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 7: Ray right, Ray yo, Charla man Nancy?
Speaker 9: What up are we lying?
Speaker 5: This is your time to get it off your chest?
Speaker 7: I got an indoor pool, outdoor pool.
Speaker 5: We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 5: Get on the phone right now here, tell you.
Speaker 2: What it is. We lie?
Speaker 5: Hello, who's this? How you doing this?
Speaker 10: Lamar the boiler that road?
Speaker 6: Lamar, what's up?
Speaker 5: Get off your chest?
Speaker 4: Brother?
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 10: I've been listening to one O five one since I
Speaker 10: was a kid, y'all.
Speaker 5: I just want to show love to y'all because I've
Speaker 5: been calling in and I've always.
Speaker 6: Gotten through since at least s Dre since back then.
Speaker 4: I've been getting through Andre and Lisa absolutely, Lisa Gez.
Speaker 10: Yeah, since back then this day might as well throw
Speaker 10: it up, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: I just appreciate y'all.
Speaker 10: You know, and and y'all show a lot of love
Speaker 10: to the community.
Speaker 11: So I just appreciate y'all.
Speaker 3: Man, I appreciate the radio station.
Speaker 11: I appreciate everything y'all do.
Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you, and.
Speaker 6: Again yes, salute to uh doctor Dre and Ed Lovell.
Speaker 6: And like I said, growing up in Queens, I would
Speaker 6: see Ed Level all the time in How Listen and
Speaker 6: their big inspirations and I always appreciate what they did, man,
Speaker 6: So salute to that.
Speaker 5: Oh absolutely.
Speaker 4: I mean Ed Lovel was one of the first first
Speaker 4: radio personalities I saw really getting it because you know,
Speaker 4: he was hosting your MTV raps to the movie movie man,
Speaker 4: like those are those are things that you know, I've
Speaker 4: always aspired to do.
Speaker 5: So salute that Lovel. That's what's up. Actually hosted Asence
Speaker 5: Festival with him on Hulu. Yeah, amazing.
Speaker 6: He's so funny.
Speaker 10: Hello, good morning guys, Hey, good morning Envy, good morning Jun.
Speaker 10: How you're doing today and d I want to congratulate
Speaker 10: you on the job. I wish you nothing but success
Speaker 10: and I wish you month success success in the future. Oh,
Speaker 10: and I got a question for drugs and beat y.
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, you guys could.
Speaker 10: Acting classes, right, I did.
Speaker 5: I did not know you did.
Speaker 10: Oh because good things. But that's something I want to
Speaker 10: get into in the future. I'm thirty buckt me thirty
Speaker 10: two this month, and I feel like my life is
Speaker 10: going nowhere. I mean, I'm an assistant manager, but I
Speaker 10: want my life to go better and higher.
Speaker 6: Okay, I mean, I mean there's a lot of acting
Speaker 6: classes online if you can afford. Some of these colleges
Speaker 6: actually have it. My wife went to acting class at
Speaker 6: I can't remember the school in the city, but they
Speaker 6: had and I went to Tracy Moore Marrable. She was
Speaker 6: she still I think she still does it. She's a
Speaker 6: black woman out of New York. She she did Bust
Speaker 6: the Rhymes, she did me, she did a host of people.
Speaker 6: She did Yandy, she did a couple of people back
Speaker 6: in the day, and you know, just it's just you know,
Speaker 6: doing reps and teaching us the art of acting. So
Speaker 6: it was pretty cool.
Speaker 8: You actually don't always need acting classes, I would say.
Speaker 8: Is that something that you've always been interested in?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I've been thinking about it since twenty thirteen. But
Speaker 10: I'm I'm just honestly, I'm just I'm just scared to
Speaker 10: feeling that I might fail.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, no, don't ever that.
Speaker 8: So what you can do is you can get some
Speaker 8: monologues and you can practice until you're able to even
Speaker 8: afford if you can, you know, acting classes, because they
Speaker 8: do get expensive.
Speaker 5: They are some, there are some that are affordable.
Speaker 8: But just start practicing monologues and then put yourself on camera,
Speaker 8: put yourself on tape, and then put yourself out there,
Speaker 8: you know, like to see to get feedback, because that's
Speaker 8: that's honestly what people do on YouTube and stuff like that,
Speaker 8: and that's how a lot of people they get discovered
Speaker 8: just like that.
Speaker 10: Well, I'll live in Massachusets, so I might how much
Speaker 10: of the class.
Speaker 6: Bro I went to classes fifteen years ago, seventeen years ago,
Speaker 6: so I'm sure what they were like fifty dollars a
Speaker 6: class back then, so I don't know what they are now.
Speaker 5: They would not not today.
Speaker 6: I mean, it was a long time ago. But you know,
Speaker 6: they also have free classes. You just got to google
Speaker 6: and check there. There's all types of workshops that you
Speaker 6: can do, and they have that thing that's like I'm
Speaker 6: trying to think what it is where you could actually
Speaker 6: go to comedy shows and you could be a part
Speaker 6: of it.
Speaker 5: It is, but you just got to do your googles, bro.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, and put yourself out there.
Speaker 6: Improv improv shows, have improp shows. We could actually be
Speaker 6: a part of it and do it weekly that that
Speaker 6: are usually not expensive for free.
Speaker 10: Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 4: I like how fake professional y'all got when he called,
Speaker 4: like y'all turned on y'all trying to get an apartment voice.
Speaker 2: You know, I literally you.
Speaker 8: Made because you didn't take acting or anything because he
Speaker 8: didn't say anything to you.
Speaker 4: Oh no, I'm gonna I like the executive produced. I'm
Speaker 4: not really just and every time every time they put
Speaker 4: me on, I'm playing myself.
Speaker 5: But y'all really did turn Your voice is changed complete,
Speaker 5: But because you can't play nobody else, that's what I really.
Speaker 6: Did it Like I thought that's where I was gonna
Speaker 6: go before when when I was DJ, I was like,
Speaker 6: I'm going to be an actor. Yeah, I was gonna say,
Speaker 6: you did nobody ever thought. I swear to god, I'm
Speaker 6: in a couple of movies I did. I just did
Speaker 6: East New York last year the.
Speaker 4: Movie Never Thought You was Gonna be Now, I swear
Speaker 4: I ain't now I did.
Speaker 5: But what's the movie you played a real estate agent.
Speaker 6: I didn't do that movie.
Speaker 5: Oh hey look, charl mate, Blood of a Champion King.
Speaker 2: We're buying.
Speaker 5: In a movie with Bocaneki.
Speaker 8: Oh my god, you're on cmzquarter outside said, what's up
Speaker 8: with Jesse's great?
Speaker 2: Huh kill it?
Speaker 6: Get it off your chest eight hundred and five eight
Speaker 6: five one oh five one. If you need to vin,
Speaker 6: hit us up now it's the breakfast Club.
Speaker 12: Good morning, the breakfast Club. Wait, this is your time
Speaker 12: to get it off your chest. Eight hundred and five
Speaker 12: eight five one o five one. We want to hear
Speaker 12: from you on the breakfast Club.
Speaker 3: Hello, who's this morning?
Speaker 1: Goes?
Speaker 7: We're going Man's blesses?
Speaker 10: Man, Yeah, get it off your chest, man, Man, I.
Speaker 7: Was stuck in the elevator for a whole hour, Man,
Speaker 7: and the name needs to be done.
Speaker 10: A man needs to really wake up earlier, man, because.
Speaker 7: I felt like my life is over.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 7: I made so much promises for garden.
Speaker 1: Mother, Man like, oh.
Speaker 7: What's your so my worst edity?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 7: No windows so escape I'm thinking about Bruce Willis and died.
Speaker 7: I'm pressing the buttons, I'm kicking, I'm trying to punch codes,
Speaker 7: I'm doing everything. I'm like, you know what, let me
Speaker 7: think you. I ain't gonna lie. I had a little bit,
Speaker 7: but not too much. I was playing. I was playing.
Speaker 7: Marvis Sack never would have made it, damn.
Speaker 2: You.
Speaker 7: The only reason why I got out, The only reason
Speaker 7: why I got out because of the spams.
Speaker 2: Dude.
Speaker 7: He kept pushing the button downstairs, and he kept kicking
Speaker 7: the door, and then all of a sudden opened but
Speaker 7: it was a half of the floor. Then it popped up,
Speaker 7: and then I got out. And let's just tell everybody
Speaker 7: right now, man, I don't know if I'm gonna get
Speaker 7: elevated the game. You think it's a lawsuit.
Speaker 5: I don't know if it's a lawsuit.
Speaker 4: But I wouldn't wish that all my words, enemy, because
Speaker 4: I got a daughter who has a very unhealthy fear
Speaker 4: of elevators, and she like the walls are clothing.
Speaker 7: Then, like you just feel like every im playing. I
Speaker 7: was in one of the Titanic several reasons, man, but
Speaker 7: I thought was up the story.
Speaker 6: But anyway, Booklyn Bronx of Brooklyn you know it's the Bronx.
Speaker 5: Everything broken in the Bronx.
Speaker 7: Damn, he's clean.
Speaker 5: Have a blessing. I'm glad that you got out of
Speaker 5: that situation. Absolutely. I'm telling you my eight year old
Speaker 5: is definitely afraid of elevator.
Speaker 4: I don't know what she watched that she saw somebody
Speaker 4: get stuck on the elevator, but Lord have mercy. She
Speaker 4: not like elevators at all, in no way shape before Hello,
Speaker 4: Who's this?
Speaker 9: Hellos?
Speaker 6: Launched from New Jersey, Launch from New Jersey. But bro
Speaker 6: get it off your chest man, Yo, SI A my.
Speaker 7: Album up?
Speaker 4: Yes, I've been telling y'all that since the album came out.
Speaker 4: I told y'all he was gonna win rap album, but
Speaker 4: he had the Grammy.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but I didn't know what. I didn't know what
Speaker 7: album came out.
Speaker 5: That that's your fault, But that's everybody's fault. Everybody.
Speaker 7: Everybody is shocked that he got I got.
Speaker 4: I've been on I've been on his radio saying that
Speaker 4: for months since he came out.
Speaker 7: Why would he get album? His album?
Speaker 8: So I think what he's trying to say is the
Speaker 8: promotion wasn't really there for it, Like because.
Speaker 7: I'm not trying to say that. I'm saying I heard
Speaker 7: the album and it sounds like a bunch of appreciations.
Speaker 11: And I don't like that.
Speaker 4: I don't want to be.
Speaker 7: I want to thank, I want to have some fun.
Speaker 7: I don't want to hear over that Martin Luther King's stuff.
Speaker 4: It's not full of the Martin Luther King's But listen,
Speaker 4: what album should have got?
Speaker 5: Rap album? But he is in to you.
Speaker 9: I can't think off my head, but I know, I
Speaker 9: know that's a lot of rappers out to some young
Speaker 9: kings out there.
Speaker 7: They should have got Album.
Speaker 2: Of the Years.
Speaker 5: Wow, this nobody take serious.
Speaker 6: He's just following people saying one, yeah, no, I've not
Speaker 6: heard that.
Speaker 4: I'm not a problem with you never heard the album.
Speaker 4: You never heard the album, and you don't know any
Speaker 4: other album that should have got Album of the Year.
Speaker 5: We love to talk about problems but never have solutions.
Speaker 3: But let me ask you a question.
Speaker 7: Yes, why I wasn't a TEBB.
Speaker 4: Now that's a whole different conversation. I see that's a
Speaker 4: conspiracy we're not talking about. Not only was it not
Speaker 4: telling me he got arrested.
Speaker 7: Because that's the worst televised people are going who's dead.
Speaker 5: That's not true.
Speaker 7: Listen because my son, my son is thirteen. He was like,
Speaker 7: who's dead?
Speaker 5: Every time? It's thirteen though that thirteen my son said,
Speaker 5: who's that too?
Speaker 7: Jamaine bro That son doesn't know Killer mikey, do you.
Speaker 6: Have any white people who performed at the Grammy did?
Speaker 6: I said, who's that? And I'm grown ass?
Speaker 4: What first?
Speaker 7: Last night?
Speaker 5: Let you do so exactly a lot of them.
Speaker 4: But I tell you want to say, I'll tell you
Speaker 4: some songs. That Miley Syren song that kept winning, I
Speaker 4: ain't never heard that song in.
Speaker 2: My last time that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I heard it this morning. I'm like, I've never
Speaker 6: heard the song.
Speaker 2: Ever in a year.
Speaker 4: A Taylor Swift and Scissor. I ain't here no conversations
Speaker 4: about no Miley Syris Man. She won so many award
Speaker 4: last night.
Speaker 6: So the Billy Eila song on the Bobbie soundtrack I
Speaker 6: never heard.
Speaker 5: So congrats to Killer Mike.
Speaker 6: Yes, absolutely, get it off your chest eight hundred five
Speaker 6: eight five one oh five one. If you need to vent,
Speaker 6: hit us up now with the Breakfast Club. Good Morning,
Speaker 6: the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 4: Yep, Charlamagne the God just hilarious. Dj V had to
Speaker 4: step out for a second. But we got some special guests,
Speaker 4: doctor leandrews La Bird and Twer Robinson. Leandre is the
Speaker 4: director of CDC's Office of Health Equity, and Tara is
Speaker 4: the founder and CEO of the Black Heart Association, And
Speaker 4: since February is Heart Health Month, we had to have
Speaker 4: them up here today.
Speaker 5: How are you?
Speaker 2: Good morning, good running.
Speaker 11: Glad to be able to talk about black women's heart health.
Speaker 5: Today with you. Absolutely share a little bit of data.
Speaker 11: Data's not new, but we really are here to talk
Speaker 11: more about what black women can do and how our
Speaker 11: whole community can support Black women in having healthier hearts
Speaker 11: and healthier lives.
Speaker 4: Well, what is the CDC Foundations Lived to the Beat
Speaker 4: campaign For those that don't know.
Speaker 11: Yeah, so, the Live to the Beat campaign is a
Speaker 11: web based campaign that really targets African Americans with things
Speaker 11: that we can do in order to protect our health
Speaker 11: and our heart health. It has lots of resources, lots
Speaker 11: of videos, it's very culture really based, very much the
Speaker 11: things that we can relate to in our own communities
Speaker 11: and so it's been around for three years. We just
Speaker 11: invite all of your your listeners and your viewers to
Speaker 11: go to Live to theb dot Org forward slash Heart
Speaker 11: to Heart. We're gonna talk today a lot about the
Speaker 11: Heart to Heart Challenge, Lee.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So the Heart to Heart.
Speaker 11: Challenge focuses on particularly Black women. Even though heart disease
Speaker 11: is the leading cause of death for all black people,
Speaker 11: and heart disease is the leading cause of death.
Speaker 2: For all women.
Speaker 11: It kills more women than all forms of cancer combined.
Speaker 11: And so what we want to be able to do
Speaker 11: is to encourage black women to get involved with the
Speaker 11: campaign and the challenge follows simple steps and really start
Speaker 11: to just be more empowered to take care of themselves. Yeah,
Speaker 11: and to prioritize self care. That's a big theme. So
Speaker 11: we say that self care is healthcare.
Speaker 8: One of y'all survived three heart attacks. Power it was
Speaker 8: you girl, that has to be well, it's amazing that
Speaker 8: you're still here in front of me. But like, did
Speaker 8: you know something was wrong before I hit them?
Speaker 11: I didn't.
Speaker 13: My symptoms started in twenty thirteen, my left arm with
Speaker 13: numb and my neck, And you would think based on
Speaker 13: those two symptoms that I would say, oh, it's my heart,
Speaker 13: But no, I'm always in touch with the healthcare system,
Speaker 13: you know, going to the doctor when I'm supposed to.
Speaker 13: And so me and my husband said, well, maybe I
Speaker 13: just sleep on this side too much, you know, to
Speaker 13: start self diagnosing, and so I did that, and then
Speaker 13: so I said, well, I'll wait till January to follow
Speaker 13: up with my primary care and think I had time,
Speaker 13: not knowing then that someone was dying every eighty seconds
Speaker 13: from a heart attack. And so I went to my
Speaker 13: doctor and I said, hey, you know, these things are
Speaker 13: happening to me. My left arms going on, my feet
Speaker 13: are darker, tired, my neck. And she said, well, maybe
Speaker 13: you're just stressed, your doctor. My doctor said that yes,
Speaker 13: and so I said, well maybe I am. Because I'm
Speaker 13: a mother, I'm a wife. I were all these many hats,
Speaker 13: as many women do. And so I left there thinking
Speaker 13: I was just stressed. She made no connection to my
Speaker 13: heart being a possible issue. So God kept me from
Speaker 13: January to April. April tenth, I woke up at two
Speaker 13: o'clock in the morning, I still had all those symptoms
Speaker 13: times ten, and then went to the er. By the
Speaker 13: time I arrived that I felt much better. Was dismissed
Speaker 13: and told them to follow my primary care. And then
Speaker 13: the next day in my classroom, had another one. Then
Speaker 13: I'm going back and forth with the cardiovascular doctor that
Speaker 13: I should stay because they wasn't finding anything on their test.
Speaker 13: But then I was released at eleven at four o'clock
Speaker 13: the next day going back having a massive heart attack.
Speaker 13: So were they not doing the right test?
Speaker 5: They weren't.
Speaker 13: I believe that they were doing the test that they
Speaker 13: know to do. That's what I have to believe to
Speaker 13: be okay. But I think as data shows that most
Speaker 13: women don't show like men, present like men that with
Speaker 13: heart attacks. But for me, I have to textbook symptoms.
Speaker 13: And so we know as black women, we face other
Speaker 13: issues with healthcare as far as bias and racism. So
Speaker 13: I face those two things that's going through my ordeals.
Speaker 13: So we have to know where we stand and we
Speaker 13: have to know what our risk factors are. And that's
Speaker 13: why this campaign is so important.
Speaker 4: I've done like a million different I've done every single
Speaker 4: heart test that you can possibly do right. So even
Speaker 4: when they did I don't know the technical term for,
Speaker 4: but when they put the ink inside of you and
Speaker 4: they can look inside your arteries, no, I did discress tests.
Speaker 4: But this is when they put the like the dye
Speaker 4: in it and it makes you warm and then they
Speaker 4: can look inside your heart vibes and see if there's
Speaker 4: any blockage and like you will make it.
Speaker 5: They didn't do that for you.
Speaker 13: Through the calf lab during my massive heart attack. They
Speaker 13: didn't do that before because I guess maybe they were
Speaker 13: coming back to back and I feel like they didn't
Speaker 13: do enough. I'm sure it was other things they could
Speaker 13: have done, but I didn't have that done until I
Speaker 13: went through Well, I didn't do that part, but I
Speaker 13: went through the calf lab and then that's when I
Speaker 13: went into sudden depth. I ended up dying that day,
Speaker 13: losing my life on to heaven coming back here, and
Speaker 13: so none of that happened because at that point it
Speaker 13: was too late. This I'm in crisis at this moment.
Speaker 13: And so they did the basic test, your EKG, your
Speaker 13: CAT scan, your heart and ZIME tests. That's what was
Speaker 13: done when I went through ER, not the more that
Speaker 13: you would see at a cardiovascular doctors SORR.
Speaker 4: I forgive me, I'm stupid. I just realized I thought
Speaker 4: you had three separate heart attacks. It was all at
Speaker 4: one time.
Speaker 13: No, I had one April tenth April, eleventh April until.
Speaker 2: The next day.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Hey, yeah, and you said you died and went
Speaker 5: to heaven. Yeah, yeah, you saw heaven.
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 5: Please elaborate if you.
Speaker 13: Don't lease, I don't want to take the interview from
Speaker 13: Liz to the v. But so what happened was I
Speaker 13: thank god it was a sister in there that may
Speaker 13: help me be very comfortable. So it's important, No in
Speaker 13: the emergency, in the I'm glad you. So the nurse
Speaker 13: I remember her because you're up during the entire procedure,
Speaker 13: and so she was like, he's gonna tamper with your heart.
Speaker 13: You're gonna feel a little discomfort, but it's gonna be okay.
Speaker 13: She was from New Orleans, so she had that thick accent.
Speaker 13: But it made me feel very comfortable. And when she
Speaker 13: said that, I was just gone. And so how I
Speaker 13: knew where I was. I could see myself and it
Speaker 13: was a perfect day if you could think of the
Speaker 13: perfect day with the perfect green garass, perfect temperature, perfect,
Speaker 13: you know, and so vibrant everything. And I could see
Speaker 13: myself like walking, and I had this peace. And that's
Speaker 13: how I knew where I was because my mind was
Speaker 13: white clear. I wasn't worried about my children here and
Speaker 13: my husband. Nothing here was a factor for me, and
Speaker 13: so I could hear my name being called. It was
Speaker 13: called three times, and it was the nurse, and then
Speaker 13: I was I knew where I was because I was
Speaker 13: on my way. I could feel that like a knowing.
Speaker 13: And then I was back here after she called my
Speaker 13: name and I didn't realize. She was like, oh, you
Speaker 13: fell asleep on us for a second. And then when
Speaker 13: the doctor came in and said you had ninety nine
Speaker 13: percent block as you're known as the widowmaker, he said,
Speaker 13: but when you died on us, I stopped and prayed
Speaker 13: for you. And so I was lucky enough to have
Speaker 13: a doctor at that moment that.
Speaker 4: Wow, doctor Delandris, what's the sign that something maybe wrong
Speaker 4: with our hearts?
Speaker 11: Well, terror you know, she certainly shared some of the
Speaker 11: classic symptoms, but the other things we need to always
Speaker 11: be aware of is our numbers. What is our blood
Speaker 11: pressure level, what is our cholesterol level, what are our
Speaker 11: blood sugars. I would even say, you know, what's our weight?
Speaker 11: And we need to check in with our physician regularly
Speaker 11: around these things.
Speaker 13: For women, it's totally different from men. You know, I
Speaker 13: was lucky enough to have the textbook symptoms, which only
Speaker 13: twenty percent of women show up at the er with
Speaker 13: the textbook symptoms, So imagine what happens to the rest
Speaker 13: of us who don't have those and see what I
Speaker 13: got with them. With men, you usually have the textbook symptoms,
Speaker 13: but with women it can be a belly ache. You
Speaker 13: hear women complaining of both either arm being numb, You
Speaker 13: can hear fatigue, you can hear no symptoms at all.
Speaker 13: And the danger with heart disease is that it doesn't
Speaker 13: have a look, you know, and no shot to my
Speaker 13: counselor survivors, sisters, but heart disease is dangerous because it
Speaker 13: looks okay, it looks like me and you dressed up
Speaker 13: in makeup, it looks like us in clothes, and that
Speaker 13: we have to, you know, change that narrative so in
Speaker 13: order to save our lives. And that's why these campaigns
Speaker 13: are lived to the beat is important because when we
Speaker 13: talk about small steps, small steps is looking at your
Speaker 13: plate and saying what can I do to better manage
Speaker 13: my health because yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: My doctors told me that I'm just fighting against genetics
Speaker 4: because he's like, my arteries just are aging faster or
Speaker 4: aging faster than I am, but heart did these runs
Speaker 4: in my family, Like my dad had.
Speaker 5: Whatever's after four.
Speaker 4: Quadrubules four so whatever after that quintumple, he had that
Speaker 4: bypass surgery and my uncle's had like three or four
Speaker 4: different bypass surgery.
Speaker 11: So yeah, and a black heart.
Speaker 13: We do genetic to what we do of licoprotein A,
Speaker 13: so we can tell our community if their risk of
Speaker 13: ever having a heart attack or stroke. So we do
Speaker 13: a lot of things on that bus and we're trying
Speaker 13: to be national with it so we can take this
Speaker 13: We take this campaign to our community as well, encouraging
Speaker 13: them to take those small steps.
Speaker 4: Well, how can people reach out to y'all for you know,
Speaker 4: more questions, you know if they got more oh for
Speaker 4: questions and more info.
Speaker 11: So certainly go to the website Live to Thebeat dot
Speaker 11: org forward slash Heart to Heart. That's where you can
Speaker 11: get more and more information about Live to the Beat
Speaker 11: and all of the many more strategies than we've been
Speaker 11: able to cover today. And and also you can reach
Speaker 11: us through through that website. Someone will follow up. I'm
Speaker 11: with you, yeah for sure.
Speaker 5: What about Black Heart Association?
Speaker 13: So we're Black Heart Association dot org and we're about
Speaker 13: to get two more buses, one in Houston, one of
Speaker 13: San Antonio and hopefully we'll be in nationals.
Speaker 2: Amazing.
Speaker 5: Thank you, doctor Leandrews Libert. Did I pronounce that right? No,
Speaker 5: it's not fine. You can't be messing. That's going, that's
Speaker 5: going to contribute to the heart.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and Tyl Robinson, thank you for joining us this morning.
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Speaker 2: ARSA.
Speaker 3: That wild man over there, what's going on?
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Speaker 4: Jessea Larius is here to us, and you know she's
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Speaker 3: What's Upgests with all the mess? How you doing?
Speaker 8: I just got this job and you ain't even come
Speaker 8: in here. You ain't been here since twenty seventeen.
Speaker 3: I know, man, I need to come up there to
Speaker 3: here here, to be more and endures.
Speaker 4: Congratulations on everything, No, my brother, an amazing super Bowl performance,
Speaker 4: a new album is out right now, and you are
Speaker 4: a domestic terrorist.
Speaker 5: You did it again.
Speaker 4: You're a minister society. Why were you so handsy? Why
Speaker 4: are you so handy with miss Alicia Keys? Sir?
Speaker 1: No, listen, it's not anyway in any shape, form or
Speaker 1: fashion that Unfortunately you gave me the handle.
Speaker 3: But nah, man, it's a celebration. Man. We had an
Speaker 3: amazing time at the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Most watched super Bowl all time time, Yeah, of all time,
Speaker 1: with more people.
Speaker 3: Watch that than the Apollo eleven Landa Man, I'm like
Speaker 3: blown away.
Speaker 1: Since nineteen ninety, nineteen sixty nine, you know, there's not
Speaker 1: been a greater viewing than what happened on Super Bowl Sunday.
Speaker 3: So I'm really happy about.
Speaker 2: That, man.
Speaker 4: And you've been a superstar for a long long time.
Speaker 4: So what does something like the super Bowl do for
Speaker 4: you when you perform in front of that many people
Speaker 4: on that stage?
Speaker 5: Is there another level?
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's pretty hard to beat that one,
Speaker 1: and it's going to be pretty hard to beat that number.
Speaker 1: So man, I'm just I'm just really happy, blessed. You know,
Speaker 1: I worked really hard in Las Vegas to tell a
Speaker 1: story about my culture where I come from, and being
Speaker 1: able to share that with the rest of the world,
Speaker 1: you know, was really a monumental moment in my career,
Speaker 1: in my life. You know, I've said many times, you know,
Speaker 1: I turned Vegas to Atlanta, where I was able to
Speaker 1: introduce the entire world to what Atlanta is, to turn
Speaker 1: the world to Atlanta for that moment, for those fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: So I'm just really happy that everything happened the way
Speaker 1: that it did. I'm happy that jay Z ANDZ reached
Speaker 1: out to me to do it. I'm happy that Hamis
Speaker 1: shot it the way that he did. Happy that Akaman
Speaker 1: Jones and Hamish worked together and pass people who put
Speaker 1: all of it together to look like it was.
Speaker 3: I'm happy to out my choreographers.
Speaker 1: And dancers and you know, contortionists and tumblers, little John Ludacris,
Speaker 1: Alicia Keys Her where I am, everybody came through and
Speaker 1: was able to be a part of it, you know,
Speaker 1: because it's a thirty. It's a thirty year plus you know,
Speaker 1: celebration for me, and it was hard as hell to
Speaker 1: put all of those thirty years into fifteen minutes, but
Speaker 1: I did it, and I was able to introduce people to,
Speaker 1: you know, the culture of the past. You think about
Speaker 1: everything that Vegas has offered over the last two years
Speaker 1: to me, but everything that it represented in the past.
Speaker 1: You noticed the wardrobe and the fact that I kind
Speaker 1: of took people through what I would consider a past,
Speaker 1: present and future experience just in time for me to
Speaker 1: you know, launch my tour. But it was real deliberate,
Speaker 1: like the wardrobe was selected to make you remember our
Speaker 1: glamours we were in those times and how you know,
Speaker 1: going into you know, segregated casinos and being able to
Speaker 1: not you know, right now as with normal people in
Speaker 1: those times. It was like a thing of our pride
Speaker 1: being taken in that time. So that was part of
Speaker 1: my storytelling, Like Yo, I really wanted to honor all
Speaker 1: of the people who had had anything to do with
Speaker 1: us being in Las Vegas from the beginning of what
Speaker 1: Las Vegas experience was for our black experience. Bringing eight
Speaker 1: Spiece us into the conversation, Cappus came out step with me,
Speaker 1: skate culture, all of those things. It was a past present,
Speaker 1: future conversation now.
Speaker 5: And then you in your night getting married.
Speaker 8: Yeah, congratulations, Oh my god, what made you do it
Speaker 8: that night?
Speaker 5: What made you get married that night?
Speaker 1: You know, just to put you know, an incredible ending
Speaker 1: on this chapter of Las Vegas.
Speaker 3: We talked about it.
Speaker 1: We am I proposed to her, uh last year and
Speaker 1: she been wearing that ring and I ain't want to
Speaker 1: be that guy who just you know, just continue to
Speaker 1: hold on forever to the ring. But you know, we
Speaker 1: talked about the best time to do it. Obviously, around
Speaker 1: the time we started getting ready for Super Bawl, I
Speaker 1: was going back to Las Vegas. It's like, damn, I
Speaker 1: got to play Las Vegas, do these shows, then go
Speaker 1: get ready for Super Bowl and let's do a wedding.
Speaker 3: I's like, that's just too much pressure. What did we
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 1: We do a drive through just for our kids and
Speaker 1: our immediate family. Yeah, you know, oh Vegas style. You
Speaker 1: know how Frank Sinatra and Elvis Preston did it.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So it's like, yo, let's go get officiated by an
Speaker 1: Elvis impersonator.
Speaker 3: And make it fun. You know, you got all the
Speaker 3: pressures that come with getting married.
Speaker 1: You gotta, you know, get your down together and make
Speaker 1: sure everybody's accommodated to get the food, make sure you're
Speaker 1: spending hundreds of thousands, millions of dollars on on this
Speaker 1: this moment that really is about the union of two
Speaker 1: people and the love of your family.
Speaker 3: So I was happy to have her family there, my
Speaker 3: family there, my kids there, and.
Speaker 11: We did it.
Speaker 3: We did it without any pressure.
Speaker 1: And finishing the Super Bowl was the hardest part, and
Speaker 1: then getting dressed to get there, but then in time
Speaker 1: to make it to the after party and we went
Speaker 1: and you know, kicked it with Snoop and uh and
Speaker 1: doctor Dre and my flippers party.
Speaker 3: But it was it was cool, man, it was. It
Speaker 3: was wonderful.
Speaker 4: You know, us are regardless of your reputation. As you know, mister,
Speaker 4: don't leave your girl around me. You you you're a
Speaker 4: family man, like you like being married. I'm plural, I'm saying, Terris.
Speaker 5: You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 14: Minutes What was the important people think?
Speaker 3: I guess I'm just plural.
Speaker 4: What was the importance of paying tribute to Michael Jackson
Speaker 4: and your performance because I don't know if people.
Speaker 5: A lot of people see.
Speaker 1: What you don't realize is that there's so many gyms
Speaker 1: that you have yet to unlock it. You only called one,
Speaker 1: you called Michael. Did you catch Marvin? Did you catch
Speaker 1: the back leg pop for James Brown?
Speaker 3: Did you catch that one?
Speaker 5: I think I called Marvin when you were shirtless?
Speaker 3: No, that that was Teddy P. See you got it?
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, okay, that.
Speaker 1: Was Bob Brown and Teddy P. I gave a little
Speaker 1: bit of Luther Vandross in there. The piano moment was
Speaker 1: a ROBERTA. Flack and Donny Hathaway.
Speaker 3: You missed them.
Speaker 5: You got to give up some of these Easter eggs?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 5: What was the delivered in all things that I do?
Speaker 1: When I bring the culture of what I am and
Speaker 1: what has made me who I am everywhere I go,
Speaker 1: even right now, you don't even realize it's happening right now.
Speaker 5: Behind look behind.
Speaker 4: Them the picture. I see the picture. So you saw
Speaker 4: the Michael. What was the Teddy P Bobby Brown tribute?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean coming out of my shirt was obviously
Speaker 3: Bobby Brown moment.
Speaker 1: Teddy P was the was the the taktop and just
Speaker 1: you know, just crooning and being able to have at
Speaker 1: that moment, all of it is.
Speaker 3: Who I am.
Speaker 1: But in what I've done and who I am, I
Speaker 1: recognize all of the people that have really paved the way.
Speaker 1: Far too often, man, do we just forget about the
Speaker 1: people that really made it happen. There was a little
Speaker 1: bit it was it was it was some Ron Eyesley
Speaker 1: in there.
Speaker 6: It was it was Gap Band in there.
Speaker 3: It was you didn't catch the Gap Band and earth
Speaker 3: Fire you didn't get that part? No, man, it's all
Speaker 3: of them, was there?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 3: And then Jackson five was there? You heard that one?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I we would.
Speaker 3: You didn't catch the zap one.
Speaker 5: I gotta go back and watch.
Speaker 1: If you go back, it's a it's an entire education
Speaker 1: that's happening right in front of your eyes.
Speaker 8: I just think it's all blown away from everything. It
Speaker 8: was like a party and it was like it was
Speaker 8: it was amazing.
Speaker 2: It was so much.
Speaker 3: It was what we do, baby, Yeah, we get out
Speaker 3: when we get out.
Speaker 5: We debated about it.
Speaker 4: A lot of people said I was being a prisoner
Speaker 4: of the moment, but I'm just talking about our first watch.
Speaker 4: My initial reaction was, that's the best half super Bowl
Speaker 4: halftime performance I've ever seen. And so then the next
Speaker 4: day I went through them and even with it, I'm like,
Speaker 4: I don't see how you you can't say this isn't
Speaker 4: the best for me? The top five is you, Michael Jackson,
Speaker 4: Beyonce the first. I think it was the first beyond
Speaker 4: when she brought Dathane's child out. Yeah, and Doctor Dreams knew.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that game.
Speaker 4: We got more with us. You're coming up, so don't
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Speaker 5: Charlamagne to God.
Speaker 4: Here, Jessa Larius is here, and Usher checked in with
Speaker 4: us man to talk all things super Bowl and his
Speaker 4: marriage and all of that good stuff. Is a new
Speaker 4: album that's right coming home. So let's talk to us
Speaker 4: right now on the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 5: Why didn't things work out with Justin Biber?
Speaker 3: You know what they did work out with Justin?
Speaker 1: You know, I honored and and and and recognized that
Speaker 1: my brother. You know, I think that it might have
Speaker 1: been the fact that he was just you know, wanting
Speaker 1: to tell a different story right now. And I understand
Speaker 1: that but we did have a brief conversation, and you know,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do something else in the future. But they're
Speaker 1: no love Lost or anything like that. I think that
Speaker 1: it's a lot of pressure for the super Bowl, obviously
Speaker 1: for me to put together the show, so I reached
Speaker 1: out to everybody. Justin wasn't the only person that I
Speaker 1: actually spoke to about doing the super Bowl, but the
Speaker 1: moment was maybe for later.
Speaker 3: He's gonna play the super Bowl. I'll go ahead and
Speaker 3: give you that in the future.
Speaker 1: I profess that over his life and over his time,
Speaker 1: because he has a career that deserves it.
Speaker 3: But it just didn't happen. But that doesn't mean it's
Speaker 3: not going to.
Speaker 5: What was Chris Brown?
Speaker 2: Ever?
Speaker 5: For consideration, that was another rumor out that.
Speaker 3: No, I didn't I did not reach out to Chris Brown.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, is there anybody? Is anybody else?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 5: I want to There was always there was a rumor
Speaker 5: that you and Chris had a little kerk fuffle.
Speaker 1: It's all good, man, you know, it's it's it's actually,
Speaker 1: you know, always going to be something that you're gonna hear,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, issues between.
Speaker 3: Me and that man. We're good.
Speaker 5: Okay, if anyone else you wanted on stage with you
Speaker 5: but things didn't work out.
Speaker 1: I can't hear you all of that I wish, I
Speaker 1: wish I could. Well, I can't give you that exclusive.
Speaker 1: If you hear it, by the way, I will confirm it,
Speaker 1: but I will not. Okay, I'm not going to tell
Speaker 1: you everybody I reached out to. I reached out to
Speaker 1: some hitters I was curating. I was curating what would
Speaker 1: be one of the greatest Super Bowls of all time,
Speaker 1: and it actually turned into that because of who I
Speaker 1: reached out to.
Speaker 3: I felt like her.
Speaker 1: She is an amazing artist, but even more amazing guitarist,
Speaker 1: and I wanted the world to see her as the
Speaker 1: rock star or rock and soul star she is. And
Speaker 1: Alicia obviously reached out to because we had, you know,
Speaker 1: my boot, and I wanted the world to see her
Speaker 1: as a glamorous start that she was.
Speaker 3: I dak.
Speaker 1: I dreamt her vision and I always started flowing huge
Speaker 1: dress that would go over the entire stadium. It's like
Speaker 1: I just got this this very I'm just real specific
Speaker 1: about handling, handling our icons the way that they need
Speaker 1: to be handled, and we need to do that more
Speaker 1: often we can get into the mess. Yes, and we
Speaker 1: can absolutely get into the mess to God, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. But Yo, we got to handle our
Speaker 1: icons the right way. We got to make certain we
Speaker 1: lift them up on God, you understand what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But the way that Jay reached out home and say,
Speaker 1: this is the way that Jay reached out because he understood. Yo,
Speaker 1: this is a moment for the culture. We have to
Speaker 1: preserve our icons in the same way. Don't let the
Speaker 1: mess bring our icons down because we don't get them back,
Speaker 1: and we don't get a chance. Like we all human
Speaker 1: and we all go through things and we all want
Speaker 1: to experience things. But we gotta handle higher icons the
Speaker 1: right way. You know, the rock stars they handle each
Speaker 1: other the right way.
Speaker 5: You know they do.
Speaker 3: We don't get caught up in the boy and we shouldn't.
Speaker 3: Let's stop that. Let's let's let's lift our icons up.
Speaker 1: Let's make certain that we keep them preserved high at
Speaker 1: the highest place in the best wardrobe, on the biggest stage,
Speaker 1: in the biggest moment being seen, because they'll surely forget
Speaker 1: about us and if you helped him, and if you
Speaker 1: helped him, forget about us, sty'll do it quicker.
Speaker 5: So you know, you know, so I just wanted us
Speaker 5: say I apologize, but you said.
Speaker 4: What I said.
Speaker 8: I apologize for helping out the mess because he talking
Speaker 8: to him. He's very intentional. He's very intentional about the
Speaker 8: stuff that he's saying, and he keeps saying that and
Speaker 8: just and I understand.
Speaker 5: So I apologize. But did you know Jermaine dupri was
Speaker 5: gona wear that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, y'all didn't keep Jermaine Dupris. In the highest of absolutely,
Speaker 4: we did know.
Speaker 1: Jermaine knew exactly what he was wearing, and and and
Speaker 1: you know what he should because that's that's his story,
Speaker 1: and that's what's dope. Like the reality is the first
Speaker 1: time we start Michael ling literary socks, we laughed. The
Speaker 1: first time we start Prince with his cheeks out, we
Speaker 1: all laughed, and we thought that it.
Speaker 3: Was funny until it became his moment. That's his moment.
Speaker 3: We're just looking at that.
Speaker 1: True, But it's cool, y'all look at however you want.
Speaker 1: I see something that's going to continue to grow. It's
Speaker 1: all about how you look at life, man, It's.
Speaker 3: How you look at it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll tell you just this.
Speaker 10: Just know that you definitely have the.
Speaker 1: Influence to determine how people choose to look at things,
Speaker 1: so frankly in the right direction, because our icons matter.
Speaker 4: And that's why I think is an icon who should
Speaker 4: always be treated in touch. I'm telling me and the
Speaker 4: dream had this convo, and I don't know why. It
Speaker 4: just stuck with me that night when the dream said,
Speaker 4: I'm like, yo, the dream is right. We have to
Speaker 4: celebrate the legends that we have now. I really think
Speaker 4: it's because y'all still here.
Speaker 11: It's not just that it.
Speaker 1: Sure as sure as technology becomes obsolete, you know, you
Speaker 1: could assume that music and the spirituality that's inside of
Speaker 1: it will too, but it won't.
Speaker 3: It'll always be there. But why not celebrate the people,
Speaker 3: not just what they made.
Speaker 1: Let's celebrate them and let's make them feel loved because
Speaker 1: they gave something, They dedicated, they made you feel something,
Speaker 1: They made you fall in love, they made you happy,
Speaker 1: they made you smile, they gave you energy, they gave
Speaker 1: you something thing that you needed into that moment.
Speaker 3: So why not continue to lift them up.
Speaker 1: That's why at every show you see me bringing the
Speaker 1: artists that I know have been influential.
Speaker 10: To my stage.
Speaker 1: I ain't hiding them. I'm not trying to make them
Speaker 1: look bad. I'm like, no, let's make them look great.
Speaker 1: Let's continue to lift our own people up. Let's lift
Speaker 1: each other up. Let's continue to push each other up.
Speaker 1: Just you know, I stay on, le yo, do it better?
Speaker 3: Come on, do it better?
Speaker 5: Yes, lift me up.
Speaker 6: There, I got you.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna keep pushing you. I'm gonna make you great.
Speaker 1: I want you to be great. That's it, That's all
Speaker 1: I want. I want greatness for our people.
Speaker 5: I won't.
Speaker 3: I won't. I want our people to make certain that
Speaker 3: we know we are great. Absolutely, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: You know, have you seen some of your old moments,
Speaker 4: like when you was on stage with Nicki Minaj and
Speaker 4: you was head button or ass Why would you sawing?
Speaker 5: Why would you sawing hinge?
Speaker 1: In that moment, By the way, it was Jamaican culture,
Speaker 1: see you gotta go to you gotta go to Jamaica.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 10: That was just the moment that was that was fun.
Speaker 1: And by the way, it was me playing my bass,
Speaker 1: so I would have probably bumped my shoulder on my hand.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, but I had my base
Speaker 1: in my hands. I was playing, so I just kind
Speaker 1: of bopped off a body.
Speaker 3: A little bit.
Speaker 1: If you go back and look at the video, you'll
Speaker 1: understand because I did it there the first time.
Speaker 3: That was a little bit of Jamaican coaching.
Speaker 1: It was all being I was like, man, I think
Speaker 1: I think I was reaching a bit when I was
Speaker 1: factored though I shouldn't expected, but I shouldn't did that.
Speaker 5: See you gotta lift up, man, I was lifting.
Speaker 4: And I always wondered to what was what was your
Speaker 4: reaction to the Boondocks episode about you, man, because that
Speaker 4: keeps coming up.
Speaker 5: That's been coming up all week too.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I hate Regiena about that, and then you know
Speaker 3: they they crazy.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: It's funny. But I guess this's that's the truth of
Speaker 1: the other side of what happens. That's the usher effect.
Speaker 3: I guess.
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Most talked, but man, never that is who you are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I appreciate that, but hey, in no way anything
Speaker 1: that was done there ship have been viewed as bad
Speaker 1: or in any way perverted or anything like that. No,
Speaker 1: it was literally about, you know, having having fun because
Speaker 1: of a song that me and Alisha made many years
Speaker 1: ago and we celebrated because of the legacy of it
Speaker 1: and no disrespect to anybody or anything like that.
Speaker 5: Have you in Swiss and Alisha shared a laugh about it.
Speaker 3: All of me absolutely laughed about it. It's crazy how
Speaker 3: people pick they handle.
Speaker 1: It's all about how you present things, man, but it's
Speaker 1: all of one of my shout outs, shout out to
Speaker 1: the Dean Collection. Y'all get out to Brooklyn and check
Speaker 1: out the check out the Dean Collection.
Speaker 4: This year we got more with us. You're coming up,
Speaker 4: so don't go anywhere with the world. The Most Dangerous
Speaker 4: Mornings for the Breakfast Club. Yere Dangerous Morning Short the
Speaker 4: Breakfast Club. Charlamagnea God here, Jessa Larious is here, and
Speaker 4: Usher checked in with us man to talk all things
Speaker 4: super Bowl and his marriage and all of that good stuff.
Speaker 4: It's a new album that's right coming home. So let's
Speaker 4: talk to Usher right now on the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 5: Tell us about your Black Love and Atlanta TV.
Speaker 3: Oh it's coming.
Speaker 1: I think that we as artists, there's a price that
Speaker 1: we all have to pay in entering this industry, and
Speaker 1: most of the time we either sell off our publishing
Speaker 1: or either we don't we don't retain it because it's
Speaker 1: not an option too, or either we don't value it
Speaker 1: because it doesn't have value in theory. But what the
Speaker 1: value becomes is something that people have already recognized.
Speaker 3: A story or song.
Speaker 1: Storytelling is something that I've always done. So what I
Speaker 1: did is I've taken the songs of the masters that
Speaker 1: I don't own, and I reframed them into now something
Speaker 1: that is a narrative piece that you'll be able to see.
Speaker 1: So you already know what the story is, and you
Speaker 1: know what the crescendo of the story is. But here's
Speaker 1: just another way of you flipping. You know, a hustler,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, if you want to call
Speaker 1: it a hustle. But the reality is I own the idea,
Speaker 1: but I don't necessarily own the ipiece, So why not
Speaker 1: go after some other portion of it to use it
Speaker 1: to storytell?
Speaker 3: How does it make sense?
Speaker 4: It makes How does it feel to have coming home
Speaker 4: speaking in out of the field, have coming home on
Speaker 4: your own label?
Speaker 3: That's amazing, you know.
Speaker 1: I'm really hoping that it continues to pave the way
Speaker 1: and show, you know, artists who have been in this
Speaker 1: industry for you know, thirty plus years that no matter
Speaker 1: you know, how long you may be in it, you know,
Speaker 1: keep going, keep going, keep striving, find great partnerships. Because
Speaker 1: it's really a result of having an amazing partnership with
Speaker 1: La and also to Larry Jackson.
Speaker 3: That makes it what it is.
Speaker 1: But you know, thirty years after signing my first deal
Speaker 1: and having now come back as an independent artist and
Speaker 1: having the type of reaction to my music, I don't
Speaker 1: take that lightly.
Speaker 3: I do appreciate the love.
Speaker 1: I do appreciate the fact that people, you know, that
Speaker 1: gravitating towards the music, that they're interested in it, that
Speaker 1: it connects with their lives as it has connected to mine.
Speaker 3: And this is just the next chapter in installation of
Speaker 3: my life.
Speaker 5: Ruin is one of my favorite songs off the album
Speaker 5: Oh my God.
Speaker 8: You knew I was going to say that because I'm
Speaker 8: the one to put you on with the song I
Speaker 8: should anyway, I love Ruined what Feels, and I was
Speaker 8: going to ask you it is my favor It's one
Speaker 8: of my favorite songs, but it is the one that
Speaker 8: I do my makeup to every morning.
Speaker 3: What was that to give you a whole book of youse?
Speaker 3: I love that I love your eu.
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 3: Who did?
Speaker 5: Who inspired that song? No, he not, He's just Usher,
Speaker 5: it's Usher. I want to know who inspired Ruined?
Speaker 3: Life inspired Ruined?
Speaker 1: You know the idea that you know we can be
Speaker 1: in relationships that you know can can change your perspective.
Speaker 3: You know, you can open yourself up, you know, especially
Speaker 3: for men. You know what I'm saying. It's like, you
Speaker 3: know how hard it is to get my heart to open,
Speaker 3: and then when it does, you know, this one it
Speaker 3: killed me. It pushed me back.
Speaker 1: It made me look at every woman differently until I
Speaker 1: met my daughter, and then she ruined me in a
Speaker 1: different way because she's like spoiled and all the things
Speaker 1: that she should be at her three year old as
Speaker 1: a three major.
Speaker 3: She she ruined me.
Speaker 1: But you know before that, the song ideally is about
Speaker 1: when you're in a relationship with somebody who you know,
Speaker 1: you try to, you try to get it right, and
Speaker 1: then you just can't, and it's like you just you
Speaker 1: don't look at it. You don't look at any relationship
Speaker 1: the same because of that one, until you meet the
Speaker 1: one who replaces.
Speaker 3: That love in your heart. That's why I shot the.
Speaker 8: Video the way that I did yes, and that is
Speaker 8: I bet you you can see the video. It's a
Speaker 8: really really nice visual.
Speaker 14: I really love it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The completion of that is is the joy, the joy
Speaker 1: that my wife gave me and giving me my first daughter.
Speaker 1: You know, I love my boys, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1: But every man who has a daughter, he understands what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. When I say that daughter's changed.
Speaker 5: You, I got full.
Speaker 3: They replace it, They replace a love that you can't explain.
Speaker 5: That's right.
Speaker 4: When you talk about relationships, Ussher and you talk, I
Speaker 4: saw when you talk about being in toxic relationships throughout
Speaker 4: your life, can you admit to yourself that you might
Speaker 4: have been toxic once at some point?
Speaker 3: Absolutely? Okay, absolutely, you know, uh and and it's obviously
Speaker 3: in the music to say so.
Speaker 1: But I think that we all are a product of
Speaker 1: what experiences we had as kids, and what our idea
Speaker 1: of love is and what we you know, we perceived
Speaker 1: to actually be healthy love that might not necessarily be
Speaker 1: access is something that all you know, people do have.
Speaker 1: But you know, is it better to have a ton
Speaker 1: when you really, you know, should really love yourself first?
Speaker 1: You know, all all of those I mean, there's I
Speaker 1: was taught to be a player. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Hey player from the him Malayas. You know what I'm
Speaker 1: saying was I was killing them, you know.
Speaker 3: What I'm saying.
Speaker 5: But this man is a minus man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I'm saying, and probably turned down
Speaker 1: more than I could ever choose to say. But I'm saying, like,
Speaker 1: to be real, toxic is something that I think we
Speaker 1: all got to individually work through and I did.
Speaker 3: I did it. You know, in a matter of about
Speaker 3: five to six years of my life.
Speaker 1: Things changed because I changed because at my forty, my
Speaker 1: forty at the year, changed my perspective and it made
Speaker 1: me want something more.
Speaker 3: It made me want to love myself more.
Speaker 1: It made me want to be a better person, hopefully
Speaker 1: for my children so that they didn't have to be
Speaker 1: toxic in their lives.
Speaker 3: You know. But I think that all of it is,
Speaker 3: you know, kind of you know, living and learning.
Speaker 4: That's interesting you say that, because I feel like when
Speaker 4: you made that change, and we didn't even know you
Speaker 4: made that change, that's when it seemed like you started
Speaker 4: to get your flowers in a real way. That's when
Speaker 4: things started to shift, Like the residency and everything started
Speaker 4: around that time.
Speaker 5: So that says a lot. You did the work on
Speaker 5: yourself and came back to you in life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we all can, We all should. And part of
Speaker 1: it is is wanting to uh that belief and unwavering
Speaker 1: commitment to what you believe in your mind no matter
Speaker 1: what life is presenting you or what people may say
Speaker 1: about you. That doesn't matter. What you feel about you matters.
Speaker 1: What I say I am is what matters.
Speaker 3: I'm a ruler in my own mind.
Speaker 1: I'm a king and I am building a kingdom in
Speaker 1: my own mind, and that is all that matters, no
Speaker 1: matter what may be said, No matter what anyone could
Speaker 1: choose to say.
Speaker 3: What I say matters. What I say goes in my life,
Speaker 3: and I am the architect of my own destiny. You
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. And that's just something you got to.
Speaker 3: You gotta remember.
Speaker 10: You got to.
Speaker 3: You gotta remind yourself of that every day, young man.
Speaker 1: Remind yourself of that every day, young lady, that you
Speaker 1: are as great as you say you are, and if
Speaker 1: you believe it, it will.
Speaker 5: Be perfect way to end.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: Make sure y'all go get the Coming Home album. Make
Speaker 4: sure you go check out Rushia when he hitched the
Speaker 4: roll this year.
Speaker 5: Yes, because I'm definitely going.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yes, I see you out there cause you're coming
Speaker 1: to be more. You're coming to Atlanta. We're playing for
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn, just so y'all know. So y'all get over there.
Speaker 8: Well, I gotta come to Baltimore, like I really gotta
Speaker 8: come in in. I gotta You're gonna bring.
Speaker 3: Me DC, Baltimore, Atlanta. I mean you Houston, but I
Speaker 3: got in Miami, but.
Speaker 5: I'm from Baltimore. I gotta go. I gotta go to
Speaker 5: the You're gonna bring me on stay so I can
Speaker 5: say I love you or.
Speaker 1: I got you.
Speaker 4: All right, it's Usher Raymond.
Speaker 5: Y'all, thank you for checking in my brother.
Speaker 3: You're bringing your husband with you?
Speaker 5: I should, am, I am. I'll be right by then. Yes,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna bring it with me.
Speaker 4: He want to make sure you bring your husband so
Speaker 4: he can have something extra special, spicy done to that's
Speaker 4: what that's what you want.
Speaker 5: No, you're gonna lift me up, he said. He's gonna
Speaker 5: keep pushing me. It's Usher Raymond's the breakfast club, damn.
Speaker 5: But he ages it's time for donkey as a kid
Speaker 5: who got the donkey out of the day today.
Speaker 4: Well, Jeff Larian's Donkey today goes to an unidentified grubhub
Speaker 4: driver and the man who ordered from grubhub named Khalib Woods,
Speaker 4: and I let the record show I don't believe grubhub
Speaker 4: was responsible for this.
Speaker 5: In fact, Grubhub.
Speaker 4: Released the statement and said we took commediate action with
Speaker 4: the driver and ended his contract with us. Were following
Speaker 4: up with the customer to apologize, and are coaching the
Speaker 4: representative who was previously in touch with the customer. And
Speaker 4: now why am I leading with grubhub statement?
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I just felt like it would make the story more intriguing.
Speaker 4: You can't make you wonder what did the driver do?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 5: Khalid Woods?
Speaker 2: What did he?
Speaker 5: What did the driver do to Khaleib Woods? All right?
Speaker 4: That grubhub would release a statement like this, well, if
Speaker 4: you want to know.
Speaker 5: Let's go to ABC four for the report police.
Speaker 15: And also we are hearing from a man who claims
Speaker 15: he ordered a milkshake on grub hub but got a
Speaker 15: cup full of urine instead. Caleb Wood saying that he
Speaker 15: ordered a Chick fil A sandwich, fries and a milkshake
Speaker 15: through grub Hub. Well, when he started eating his meal,
Speaker 15: he put the straw in his cup and says he
Speaker 15: took a sip immediately realized he had gotten a cup
Speaker 15: of warm urine.
Speaker 14: Wow, did you use the cups?
Speaker 5: Because like this is it's half full of me? What
Speaker 5: going on to say?
Speaker 15: The driver admitted that he works long hours and doesn't
Speaker 15: take bathroom breaks, so he urinates in a cup. ABC
Speaker 15: four reached out to grub Hub as well for a response,
Speaker 15: and in a statement, they responded with saying, in part,
Speaker 15: this is unacceptable and we have absolutely no tolerance for
Speaker 15: this or any type of misconduct on grub Hub. We
Speaker 15: took immediate action with the driver and ended his contract
Speaker 15: with us.
Speaker 5: So much donepack here? Wow. First of all, let this
Speaker 5: be a lesson to all of y'all. This is why
Speaker 5: you must tip.
Speaker 4: Okay, even though it was an honest mistake I believe
Speaker 4: by the driver, this definitely shows the amount of power
Speaker 4: these food delivery people have. So y'all should be tipping,
Speaker 4: all right. You know the model if you're not tipping me,
Speaker 4: you end up sipping pea. Okay, Now, I've never heard
Speaker 4: of that mode. If they don't ever drip drip, like
Speaker 4: don't you never heard your motto? Well, since we don't
Speaker 4: know this driver's name, you should give him one that's hilarious.
Speaker 5: You're good with this type of stuff. What are you thinking?
Speaker 5: What's this driver who peed in the cup's name?
Speaker 2: P Diddy?
Speaker 4: Pistol Pete pistol.
Speaker 5: Pete pete popla?
Speaker 11: That was?
Speaker 14: And what should we go with?
Speaker 5: I like all of them?
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, Now, I'm not the highest greed weed in
Speaker 4: the dispensary, know, am I the strongest avenger? But the
Speaker 4: reason Khalid has to get some of this heat hard too,
Speaker 4: is because Khalid, you ordered a milkshake. Now, I'm lactose
Speaker 4: in tolerance, so I can't enjoy chickpil A milkshakes like
Speaker 4: I used to. But I've had the cookies and cream
Speaker 4: milkshake from Chick.
Speaker 5: Fil A, I've had the peach now.
Speaker 4: The one I would risk uncontrollable diarrhea for was that
Speaker 4: banana pudding milkshake Yellow. I had that one that was
Speaker 4: on the menu for just a limited time. But look
Speaker 4: at God, that thing was something serious.
Speaker 2: You hear me.
Speaker 4: Now, I'm saying all this about milkshakes for one reason,
Speaker 4: and one reason only milkshakes are thicking in kindergarten pencils. Okay,
Speaker 4: milkshakes are thicker in saucy santana in a skim's body suit.
Speaker 5: There is no reason for you.
Speaker 4: To be sipping a yellowish colored what I would assume
Speaker 4: warm beverage from Chick fil A. You know you didn't
Speaker 4: know how to elimonde. So for you to even sip
Speaker 4: that and think it was a milkshake and not know
Speaker 4: it was pee, did you not smell it first? Like
Speaker 4: this uber driver must drink nothing but water. Okay, he
Speaker 4: must have never had no asparagus in his life. The
Speaker 4: only other explanation for you mistaken pea for a milkshake
Speaker 4: was maybe just maybe that wasn't pea. This driver clean
Speaker 4: used to have to take bathroom bricks, so he just
Speaker 4: peas and cups, which I think is bs because when
Speaker 4: you a man in the world, is your tilet we
Speaker 4: can whip out in p Anywhay, if you looked in
Speaker 4: that cup and you saw something that was whitish in
Speaker 4: color and reminded you of a milkshake, then that might
Speaker 4: have been some cocksknop. Okay, that might have been some
Speaker 4: high fruit toast porn. If you hit me pearl jam
Speaker 4: all right, because there ain't no way. I don't even
Speaker 4: know if this was anymous honest mistake. All right, p
Speaker 4: Diddy a p d Pablo or Pitts Brown or whatever
Speaker 4: just called him. He just happened to be peeing in
Speaker 4: the Chick fil a cup all day?
Speaker 5: Like, don't don't these drivers deliver for more than one restaurant?
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, do right, yes, So you just happened to
Speaker 4: be peeing in the Chick fil A cup on the
Speaker 4: same day you was lading in the Chick fil A somebody.
Speaker 5: I don't know if this might have been an honest mistake.
Speaker 5: It feels pe meditated.
Speaker 4: All right, please give this form of grub Hub driver
Speaker 4: and Khalieve Woods the sweet sounds of the Hamilton's police.
Speaker 2: You all, oh the day, oh the day.
Speaker 4: Ye Jimmy was disgusted.
Speaker 5: He the color of your They stop it.
Speaker 6: I just got one question that is so rude. I
Speaker 6: just got one question. How do you know what Saucy
Speaker 6: Santana looks like?
Speaker 4: Y'all don't have an imagination. I mean, come on, you
Speaker 4: don't have an imagination you see Saucy Santana. I have
Speaker 4: a vivid imagination. I was having the things that.
Speaker 5: Were pick now come on now, saucy Satan in the
Speaker 5: skims bodysuit.
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, doctor, doctor who why had to be saucy?
Speaker 8: Why we couldn't say nobody else like Gaby, Like we
Speaker 8: can't say that. Why we gotta go to the street
Speaker 8: to saucy.
Speaker 4: I don't like objectifying women, objectified men in my old age.
Speaker 6: All right, well, thank you for that, donkey. Today it's
Speaker 6: the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 2: Morning everybody.
Speaker 6: It's DJ Envy, Jesse, Larius Charlamage the guy. We are
Speaker 6: the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed,
Speaker 6: journalist Michael Harriet and author.
Speaker 4: Welcome brother, Nice to meet you, medical commentator, a little
Speaker 4: bit of everything, Yeah, a little bit of everything on
Speaker 4: there on his belt.
Speaker 5: Native of South Carolina, of course.
Speaker 4: Of course he's got a phenomenal book out man called
Speaker 4: a Black af History, The Unwhitewashed Story of America. I
Speaker 4: started reading it over the holidays when I was on vacation,
Speaker 4: and it's one of those books that I've gotten a
Speaker 4: lot through it, but you keep going back because you're
Speaker 4: gonna have your highlighter.
Speaker 5: And you know what I'm saying. Constantly going through it
Speaker 5: tell her first of all, telling them what the book
Speaker 5: is about.
Speaker 9: The book is a look at America through black people's eyes.
Speaker 9: So we've seen books about black people through black people's eyes,
Speaker 9: and history books about America through white through the white lens.
Speaker 9: But this is about America through black people's eyes. And
Speaker 9: it's funny, you know, because I talk to people talk.
Speaker 9: I wrote the book like how we talk to each other.
Speaker 9: So you know, we could be at a funeral and
Speaker 9: be like, oh God, I can't believe she what that
Speaker 9: had so and so you know, it uses humor, it
Speaker 9: uses the way we talk to each other, and it
Speaker 9: shows and it pulls no punches and unwhite watches the
Speaker 9: mythology that we always been taught to believe since we
Speaker 9: got into social studies class.
Speaker 4: You know, I've always followed you on social media a
Speaker 4: teen writing on the grill, and of course you're very funny.
Speaker 4: But when you read the book, you realize, damn you
Speaker 4: had to go through a lot of trauma to get
Speaker 4: that sense of humor.
Speaker 9: Yeah, man, yeah, I mean I think I think that's
Speaker 9: how we all got our sense of humor, right, Like
Speaker 9: it's a it's a coping mechanism in a way man.
Speaker 9: And that's how a lot of why black people, you know,
Speaker 9: we relate to each other like that, because we deal
Speaker 9: with trauma in those ways and it's always been like that,
Speaker 9: I mean, since like you know, that's kind of how
Speaker 9: we created. Charlie Kase was the first stand up comedian
Speaker 9: and I write about it in the book, and his
Speaker 9: creating a stand up comedy was an effort to like
Speaker 9: get close to his father, who was.
Speaker 14: An albino man, an albino black man, and his.
Speaker 9: He was a mixed he was a mixed race and
Speaker 9: his mom, Erace told him that you got to live
Speaker 9: his wife and he his hero was his father. So
Speaker 9: that was a way to get close to his father
Speaker 9: because his father was a performer, and he invented stand
Speaker 9: up comedy to kind of connect himself to his community
Speaker 9: after he was removed from it.
Speaker 4: Such an interesting concept, right, because like when you think
Speaker 4: about black people in America, you know, certain people Jewish
Speaker 4: people have been able to assimilate by being able to
Speaker 4: change their last name.
Speaker 5: To read the story about the albino.
Speaker 4: Man who was able to assimilate, I'm like, that's it's
Speaker 4: an act of survival, Like why wouldn't you in that
Speaker 4: day and age.
Speaker 9: Yeah, man, that's what I talk a lot about that
Speaker 9: in the book, because we like when we talk about,
Speaker 9: for instance, slave revotes, we always like to talk about
Speaker 9: like how black people.
Speaker 14: Grab machetes and burn out plantation.
Speaker 9: But there were other ways of survival, like I called
Speaker 9: the chapter is called survival and resistance. So a lot
Speaker 9: of what we did was just for survival, right, like
Speaker 9: like for instance, slowing down your work. You might be
Speaker 9: mad at that slave on it, but you know what's
Speaker 9: gonna happen if you don't work, so you might just
Speaker 9: slow down. You might just run away for a few days,
Speaker 9: knowing you're gonna get caught. But like it was like
Speaker 9: what we would call it self care now, Like I
Speaker 9: know I'm going to get caught, but I'm going to
Speaker 9: die if I stay on this plantation one more date
Speaker 9: in a row.
Speaker 14: And so that notion of survival is a lot on
Speaker 14: how we deal with trauma.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 9: Like a lot of times when I see like black
Speaker 9: people assimilating into like what we call popular culture or
Speaker 9: like that conservative mindset, I know, like some of some
Speaker 9: of the time it's a way of survival. Now other
Speaker 9: times you see people buy all into it. Like I
Speaker 9: used to think Tim Scott, it was survival taken for
Speaker 9: Tim Scott. And then I realized, oh nah, he's starting
Speaker 9: to believe in right like he I mean, there was
Speaker 9: a shift because because I've talked to him before, right
Speaker 9: and and it was it was you always got the
Speaker 9: feeling that he was a conservative, a real conservative who
Speaker 9: was in the Republican Party. But like lately he just
Speaker 9: shift to shift it to like Maga Duke, like mag
Speaker 9: a black dude.
Speaker 5: You said he was embarrassing himself.
Speaker 6: He said, if I think you posted a clip on
Speaker 6: your Twitter said, if I send you a picture of
Speaker 6: Tim Scott, that means you're embarrassing yourself.
Speaker 9: Yeah, right right now, I mean, And then like I'm
Speaker 9: not one to always like perpetuate like what they call
Speaker 9: a democratic mindset, so I would always point out that
Speaker 9: Tim Scott, for instance, was the first, the only person
Speaker 9: for years pushing for police before him, like he heep
Speaker 9: tried to get Republicans to pass the Tim Scott uh
Speaker 9: the Walter Scott Notification Act for years and then something
Speaker 9: happened and then he like he they were on the
Speaker 9: doorstep passing police reform and Tim Scott sabotaged it because
Speaker 9: of like the most powerful man in South Carolina, this
Speaker 9: sheriff called Leon Lott in the police Reform, like one
Speaker 9: powerful white dude that nobody knows in the police reform
Speaker 9: and Tim Scott through Tim Scott White and lately he's
Speaker 9: just like stopped being that old Tim Scott and become
Speaker 9: Maga dude.
Speaker 5: I wonder about that, right, I agree with everything you
Speaker 5: just said, but I wonder if that is.
Speaker 4: Him trying to survive in a Republican party that is
Speaker 4: clearly being taken over by magat.
Speaker 9: But here's the thing that would make sense if Tim
Speaker 9: Scott was somewhere Like Tim Scott is a senator from
Speaker 9: South Carolina.
Speaker 5: There is no way he's at the country now.
Speaker 9: Yeah, but he's never going to lose if he keeps running,
Speaker 9: like ninety eight percent of one thing, people are like
Speaker 9: eight percent of all senators. When they leave the Senate,
Speaker 9: they retire. Like it's almost impossible for a sitting, sitting
Speaker 9: senator to lose. And Tim Scott is in a Republican stronghold.
Speaker 9: He's never going to be.
Speaker 4: Child if he got future aspirations though, if he has
Speaker 4: a future political aspiration.
Speaker 9: Yeah, but are there is there a political future after
Speaker 9: Donald Trump. Like, none of it makes sense, right, because
Speaker 9: he could be Tim Scott, the same Tim Scott he
Speaker 9: was before Donald Trump and still have political aspirations, right, Like,
Speaker 9: he might even be more popular with his party if
Speaker 9: he wasn't that maga dude. Right, he bought into a
Speaker 9: specific kind of anti black conservative ideology when he didn't
Speaker 9: have to, and that like, and you can see the shift, right,
Speaker 9: he's not even making sense anymore.
Speaker 4: He was a.
Speaker 9: Quiet conservative dude, and now he is a Donald Trump magamuffin,
Speaker 9: an acolyte of that anti black wing of the Republican Party.
Speaker 4: I agree with you, It just it just feels like
Speaker 4: if you're a traditional conservative like he was, the maga
Speaker 4: people make you look almost like you're leaning left. So
Speaker 4: I don't think he wants to look like he's leaning
Speaker 4: left in any way, shape or form.
Speaker 14: Yeah, but I don't.
Speaker 9: I don't think that's necessarily true because we you know,
Speaker 9: we hear that thing about like the traditional Republicans versus
Speaker 9: the maga Republican in truth right, right, But but that
Speaker 9: Maga thing, like it's just a little bit more anti black,
Speaker 9: a little bit more vocally xenophobic. But it's no policy difference,
Speaker 9: and Tim Scott didn't have to buy into all of
Speaker 9: that to like Tim Scott threw his granddaddy.
Speaker 14: My grandfather was an illiterate, poor tim daddy.
Speaker 2: And he wasn't.
Speaker 9: It was a lie, right, and and he did that
Speaker 9: to buy into that Republican not just the Republican ideology,
Speaker 9: but that Maga anti black version of black people that
Speaker 9: is necessary to perpetuate the myth of the Maga wing
Speaker 9: of the party.
Speaker 4: We are more with Michael Harriet talking to his new book,
Speaker 4: Black af History, which is a New York Times bestseller.
Speaker 4: We got more with him when we come back as
Speaker 4: the Breakfast Club, Yester World w Dangerous Morning Show, The
Speaker 4: Breakfast Charlamagne to God here, Jesse Hilarious is here, dj
Speaker 4: Vy is.
Speaker 5: Off to day.
Speaker 4: We're actually all off the days President's Day. But we
Speaker 4: have some conversations that you haven't heard, like this one
Speaker 4: right here, my man, Michael Harriet. Michael Harriet put out
Speaker 4: a book called Black af History. It is a New
Speaker 4: York Times bestseller. It tells the unwhitewashed story of America
Speaker 4: through the black experience, and he's here to talk about it.
Speaker 5: Michael Harriet.
Speaker 4: You know when I get on these platforms, I've been
Speaker 4: saying the same thing, like the whole electorate is dissatisfied, right,
Speaker 4: like you got you know, last yesterday I saw a
Speaker 4: poel said Biden would lose by I think forty points
Speaker 4: in a general election to Trump, and the polls are
Speaker 4: down for him with younger voters and independence and Latinos
Speaker 4: and Asians and black people.
Speaker 5: Why do you think it's just focused.
Speaker 9: On because you can't talk about like it turns white
Speaker 9: people off to even say the words white people.
Speaker 14: You can't talk about what white people are gonna do
Speaker 14: and like.
Speaker 9: And then again you have to realize this goes back
Speaker 9: to the original premise of the argument is that the
Speaker 9: Noakes News rules are ninety two to ninety four percent white.
Speaker 9: Those white people don't that's not a narrative. They don't
Speaker 9: even see things through that lens. Just like for instance,
Speaker 9: the New York Times doing that thing on Travis Kelsey's haircut.
Speaker 9: Right now, we as absurd as in all the jokes
Speaker 9: were right. What it really was about is that entire
Speaker 9: chain of command was given was was filtered through a
Speaker 9: white lens, Like there couldn't have been any black person
Speaker 9: as an editor in that newsroom, who said, what do
Speaker 9: you mean popular? Like like this care cult have been
Speaker 9: popular for a while. You now that lens is it's
Speaker 9: popular now for white people.
Speaker 6: I can just tell from that that, like we said
Speaker 6: this oneer, that they don't see us right, Like they
Speaker 6: don't open their eyes to see that we've had phades for.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but Mike, you make all skinfolk game canfolk right?
Speaker 5: They don't know about that fade but doing.
Speaker 9: But what I'm saying is I don't even care about
Speaker 9: what the white people in the news black people in
Speaker 9: the newsroom did, right. It is a white lens to
Speaker 9: think that something is popular now because white people see
Speaker 9: it all of this time from a white perspective.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, I want to ask you something you was talking about.
Speaker 4: You know, when do you talk about Tim Scott do
Speaker 4: you think black people period right when it comes to
Speaker 4: Democrats are Republicans? Is there ever any reason for us
Speaker 4: to be acting the way he acts over politicians because
Speaker 4: black democrats. I'll be seeing the way these black Democrats
Speaker 4: act over the Democratic Party to it it all look
Speaker 4: the same, It's all the same energy of the I
Speaker 4: love you, like, do you think there's any reason for
Speaker 4: black people to be acting like that over any politician
Speaker 4: regardless of party.
Speaker 9: Nah, No, there isn't because but I think, like what
Speaker 9: Tim that little dance that Scott. First of all, I've
Speaker 9: seen black people do that over Democratic politicis. Like, I
Speaker 9: want to be clear, but the thing about black or
Speaker 9: I mean about black people in politics general, man, is
Speaker 9: a lot of times we don't realize, like black people
Speaker 9: have been through what like twenty elections in the history
Speaker 9: of black Like we were just able to vote like
Speaker 9: twenty presidential elections ago, right, Like wet.
Speaker 14: We did this twenty times in the history of black people.
Speaker 11: Right.
Speaker 9: And the other thing is, though that a lot of
Speaker 9: that criticism is premised on the fact that the black
Speaker 9: people in the Democratic Party are cool with how the
Speaker 9: Democratic Party has worked, like we criticize it internally and
Speaker 9: amongst each other, Like we know that the white Democrats
Speaker 9: in the Democratic Party are racist too, Like they ain't
Speaker 9: less racist than the white people in the Republican Party, right,
Speaker 9: Like we know that and we have the same criticisms. Right,
Speaker 9: But I don't think you have to shuck and jive.
Speaker 9: What Tim Scott is doing is shucking in jibing.
Speaker 4: For Tim Scott, I agree with you, but I feel
Speaker 4: like so many black people have done that too. I'll
Speaker 4: give you some examples. Bill Clinton the first black president,
Speaker 4: uncle Joe by Like, God, damn, what have these men
Speaker 4: done for you that you called him uncle Joe and
Speaker 4: said that he's the first black president.
Speaker 9: Well, first of all, I think there's a difference, right,
Speaker 9: I don't I do in this sense, right, even though
Speaker 9: I kind of agree with you, but calling Bill Clinton
Speaker 9: the first black president don't do nothing right.
Speaker 6: But think about why they used to call him that,
Speaker 6: because he played the saxophone, and.
Speaker 4: Because he used to he was he was he used
Speaker 4: to smoke weeds, to smoke weeds.
Speaker 5: Like he was good with women. It wasn't even nothing positive.
Speaker 9: Well yeah, but I think a part of that was too,
Speaker 9: like he was a southern poor dude from the from
Speaker 9: Arkansas too.
Speaker 14: But I agree with you, like I don't.
Speaker 9: I don't think it was good to call him the
Speaker 9: first black president, but Tim, but Bill Clinton didn't win
Speaker 9: because black people were calling him the first black president.
Speaker 14: Bill Clinton.
Speaker 9: Joe Biden didn't win because people calling him uncle Joe.
Speaker 9: Tim Scott is trying to help a xenophobic, racist, anti
Speaker 9: black man win by dancing.
Speaker 4: He's not gonna win because Tim Scott was dancing them.
Speaker 9: But the attempt is and the fact that he is
Speaker 9: positioning himself, because Tim Scott really is positioning himself to
Speaker 9: be the black to be the VP pick I think
Speaker 9: had a hood but regardless of what it is, right
Speaker 9: like to be a bigger part of that anti black machine.
Speaker 9: Right Like the person who said to Bill Clinton is
Speaker 9: the first black president wasn't part of it. Didn't get
Speaker 9: a lollipop from the Democratic Party for it. They didn't
Speaker 9: get become part of the machine. Same thing with Joe Biden.
Speaker 9: It was just some dumb stuff that people were saying,
Speaker 9: you know, amongst each other and barbershops and everything. But
Speaker 9: it was congress people who said this to It was people, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 9: I mean, and I again, I agree with the premise.
Speaker 9: But Tim Scott is a single person, right, It's not
Speaker 9: we're not talking about like an etho. Tim Scott is
Speaker 9: a single person who is trying to use his blackness
Speaker 9: as a culture against black people by verifying and validating
Speaker 9: the most racist political machine in the country.
Speaker 6: Do you think people, do you think black people are
Speaker 6: politically fatigued, tied, tired of the selling the dreams, tired
Speaker 6: of the car sales people feel. Do you think that's
Speaker 6: going to stop a lot of people from going out?
Speaker 14: I think it might.
Speaker 9: Like one of the things that might is that at
Speaker 9: some point there is going to have to be a
Speaker 9: uh reckoning with the Democratic Party and saying you have
Speaker 9: to start giving us, stop giving us lip service, and
Speaker 9: start doing the stuff that you say. But one of
Speaker 9: the things that people said, well, we can't do it
Speaker 9: this year because what if Trump wins?
Speaker 5: They do they do that. That's what I'm tell us now.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 9: The second part of that sentence is that the difference
Speaker 9: in this time is a lot of black felks are
Speaker 9: gonna say, I ain't scared. He's already been Yeah, I
Speaker 9: lived through him once. Right, That's what might attract people
Speaker 9: to the college because we live through a Trump presidency.
Speaker 9: I agree that we're going to have to have a
Speaker 9: reckoning with the Democratic Party too, right, because it ain't
Speaker 9: nothing we can do. But I think it's wrong to
Speaker 9: equate the racism of inside the Democratic Party with the
Speaker 9: points of the Republican Party. Is white supremacy, right, Like,
Speaker 9: that's the goal is to keep power among white people,
Speaker 9: and they weaponize it with their policies and who they
Speaker 9: attract to their coalition.
Speaker 5: We got more with Michael Harriet.
Speaker 4: He's talking to his new book Black af History, which
Speaker 4: is a New York Times bestseller. We got more with
Speaker 4: him when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club, The
Speaker 4: Breakfast Club. Yester through Almost Dangerous Morning showed the Breakfast Club,
Speaker 4: Charlamagne to God. Here we're talking to Michael Harriet, the
Speaker 4: author of Black af History, The Unwhitewashed Story of America.
Speaker 5: I agree with you.
Speaker 4: I think that democratic fault though, because you know, they
Speaker 4: have demonized, they demonized every single Republican candidate every time
Speaker 4: it's an election. And now that there's an actual, real
Speaker 4: threat to democrat, real demon, we're like, ah, please, we
Speaker 4: didn't heard that story before.
Speaker 10: Right.
Speaker 9: And then the other side of that, though, is they
Speaker 9: might can they might be able to fight that better
Speaker 9: if they said, hey, you know that demon, we got
Speaker 9: the answer to kill that demon.
Speaker 10: Right.
Speaker 9: But the policies that we put forth, because it's not
Speaker 9: like black people have a new agenda. We've been pushing
Speaker 9: the same agenda for since, like the nineteen seventy nine
Speaker 9: Indiana Summit, Right, we were pushing the same agenda. Like
Speaker 9: that's why we kind of dismissed ice Cube, right because
Speaker 9: we knew that what he was saying was nothing. Why
Speaker 9: we want to rap a going to plead our case
Speaker 9: in the White House, Like we don't even want to
Speaker 9: vote for nobody who would even talk to a rapper
Speaker 9: versus somebody who would know our agenda policy wise.
Speaker 5: But you wouldn't want vote for somebody who spoke to
Speaker 5: a rapper.
Speaker 9: No, what I'm saying is, if you are going to
Speaker 9: make time to address black people's knees and you're going
Speaker 9: to invite someone to speak to you and see what
Speaker 9: you might be missing.
Speaker 14: If you invite ice Cube.
Speaker 9: And say like, that's the one who I need to
Speaker 9: talk to about what black people want, then you probably
Speaker 9: just a performative person who just trying to get votes
Speaker 9: and pander to black people.
Speaker 5: Whatever ice Cube got to bring the right people with them.
Speaker 4: I mean, I feel like that's where the entertainment and
Speaker 4: the experts go hand in hand, right, Like, if I
Speaker 4: get that invite, take somebody.
Speaker 5: With you who knows what they're talking about.
Speaker 9: Well, but here's the thing, right, if you are an
Speaker 9: expert who could really talk to ice Cube, wouldn't you
Speaker 9: have told him that, Hey, this tend already exists, Like
Speaker 9: they know about this stuff, like it was in the
Speaker 9: Tavis Smiley wrote about it, it was in the nineteen
Speaker 9: seventy nine political Black Slimmit. It's the same, like literally
Speaker 9: the same stuff, like the same bullet points, the same policy.
Speaker 14: Goals, everything.
Speaker 9: And if he had the right people around him, he
Speaker 9: would have been he would have known like, Oh, I
Speaker 9: what I'll do is I'll get behind the experts who
Speaker 9: have already been pushing this agenda then trying to make
Speaker 9: it about not just about himself but being mad when
Speaker 9: we didn't recognize the absolute unique genius of ice Cube.
Speaker 5: Right, I think we're saying the same thing though.
Speaker 4: It's just like, yes, these agendas have already been out there,
Speaker 4: but I think we got we gotta.
Speaker 5: Keep them in these people's facing because these people.
Speaker 9: Have every reason to ignore us, right, Right, But that's
Speaker 9: what ice why ice Cube should be saying, I am
Speaker 9: going to get behind these smart black people, right.
Speaker 5: Because instead of saying this is my agenda that I wrote.
Speaker 9: Or not even just saying that it is mine and right, like,
Speaker 9: just like ice Cube has a lot of capital in
Speaker 9: Black America, right, he could be uplifting some of the
Speaker 9: people who have been who are scholars, who are the
Speaker 9: people who have been doing the work for years and years.
Speaker 14: But Ice Cube said, I want to be in that room,
Speaker 14: and you need to talk to me.
Speaker 9: Ice Cube, right, And I think there's there's a bit
Speaker 9: of ego in that that it's to the detriment of
Speaker 9: black people, because let's say they did invite Ice Cube there,
Speaker 9: and Ice Cube said all the right things, like, don't
Speaker 9: just perpetuate the same myth that these stupid rappers and
Speaker 9: these stupid entertainers and many of them who haven't done
Speaker 9: the work, but they have good intentions, or the representatives
Speaker 9: for black people.
Speaker 6: What if Cube actually gets it done, like Kim Kardashian
Speaker 6: gets things that people say, she gets things done when
Speaker 6: it comes.
Speaker 5: I just saw something come out right.
Speaker 2: People have said that.
Speaker 6: People have said Donald Trump listened to Kim Gardashi.
Speaker 4: Before he listened to But there's women behind Kim that
Speaker 4: have actually done the work. But black women behind him.
Speaker 4: I can't remember since name we had him up here
Speaker 4: to sorry, two black females, Yeah, lawyer.
Speaker 9: And that is the point, right, Like, if ice Cube
Speaker 9: can get you into the room, I ain't got no
Speaker 9: problem with that.
Speaker 14: But when Ice Cube was told, Hey, you can't be
Speaker 14: in the room.
Speaker 9: He switched up and said, well, I can go talk
Speaker 9: to Donald Trump, and then he elevated the purveyor of
Speaker 9: the white genocide, the white replacement theory, Tucker Carta, went
Speaker 9: on his show when Tucker Castle didn't even have a
Speaker 9: toe holding media ice Cube helped him get that, help
Speaker 9: him gain the audience.
Speaker 14: Validated his belief.
Speaker 9: By saying, he gnave me racist because he's sitting here
Speaker 9: talking to this dude who is pushing an agenda for
Speaker 9: black people, right, Like that is why you don't want
Speaker 9: the people who are driven by ego in the room,
Speaker 9: because if they don't get in the room, right, he
Speaker 9: switched to.
Speaker 14: The enemy side.
Speaker 6: VILLI, So let me ask you a question. Right, So
Speaker 6: the Breakfast Club here has had hold.
Speaker 5: On I got to say their names, Brittany kboard Net
Speaker 5: and me Angel Cody.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 6: Yes, So the Breakfast Club has had politicians up here
Speaker 6: that necessarily weren't on outside right, Republicans here. So what
Speaker 6: your thought on that? Because a lot of people have said,
Speaker 6: why do you give those Republicans the platform?
Speaker 4: And if they don't already have a huge platform, why
Speaker 4: do you allow them up there?
Speaker 6: And have the MSNBC, Fox all why I'm up here,
Speaker 6: and have them few things that are not necessarily best
Speaker 6: for our community.
Speaker 9: So it's two sides of that, right Like, I think
Speaker 9: if you're going to have those people on, you have
Speaker 9: to be equipped to counter the narrative that you know
Speaker 9: they're going to push, right Like a lot of times
Speaker 9: again because the ego we think that I'm equipped, I'm
Speaker 9: smart enough to and it ends up being that person
Speaker 9: promoting the ideology. You're giving a person a platform to
Speaker 9: promote anti black ideology or anti black narrative. The other
Speaker 9: thing is that just like you said, they got enough platforms, right, Like,
Speaker 9: I don't necessarily disagree with the intellectual curiosity or the
Speaker 9: ability to say, look, I am probably what a lot
Speaker 9: of people will call progressive, pro black or whatever, and
Speaker 9: my viewpoint can stand up in the face of somebody
Speaker 9: like Nikki Haley or Republican, and I'm gonna show you
Speaker 9: that it can because I'm gonna have them in this space,
Speaker 9: right I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
Speaker 4: I think in this era, people like confrontation over conversation
Speaker 4: because what's the point of platform And democrats because when
Speaker 4: we have democrats up here. It's the same thing, just
Speaker 4: from a whole other side. It's people that say all
Speaker 4: they did was lie about this. All they did was
Speaker 4: lie about that. You didn't challenge them enough on this.
Speaker 4: You didn't challenge them enough on that. Literally the same thing.
Speaker 4: If you have Democrats on, you have some people that
Speaker 4: are mad. You have Republicans on, you will have people
Speaker 4: that are mad. There's not one politician I've ever seen
Speaker 4: come on, maybe like maybe one or two that actually
Speaker 4: made people.
Speaker 9: Be like, h what they said was actually, that's kind
Speaker 9: of how you know you on the right path if
Speaker 9: you in media right, like if you if both sides
Speaker 9: are upset by something you did, then you probably kind
Speaker 9: of were feir right. Like it's it's that I call it,
Speaker 9: like by doctor Umar. Thing like doctor Umar don't like
Speaker 9: me because I've been critical of him.
Speaker 6: Your wife, huh no, I'm sorry.
Speaker 9: But doctor Umar was because was mad at me because
Speaker 9: I was critical of him, like how he raised money
Speaker 9: and some of the stuff he said about gay people.
Speaker 9: And the reason people know that doctor Umar is doctor
Speaker 9: Umar is because I did the journalism and actually validated
Speaker 9: his PhD.
Speaker 5: So and people got mad at you for that and
Speaker 5: people was mad at me.
Speaker 9: The doctor Umar Haters was mad at me because you
Speaker 9: validating him. And what I'm what I'm trying to do
Speaker 9: is be fair right, and so if both sides are
Speaker 9: kind of mad at you, you probably know you.
Speaker 14: Were doing the right thing and you were at least fear.
Speaker 5: We appreciate it.
Speaker 14: I'm on all social media as m I C h
Speaker 14: A E l h A R R I O T.
Speaker 9: I write weekly, well three times a week for the
Speaker 9: Grio and have the Greeo Daily Podcast where I talk
Speaker 9: about the same stuff we're talking about here, not with guests,
Speaker 9: it's just me explaining stuff. So the Greo Daily Podcast
Speaker 9: you can find me on social media under my name
Speaker 9: on all platforms.
Speaker 6: Michael, and gentlemen, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, you're
Speaker 6: checking out the Breakfast Club owning everybody. It's j n
Speaker 6: V Jess Hilarius Charlamage the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 6: It's time for positive note.
Speaker 4: What we got I do, Man, I have a positive note,
Speaker 4: and it's really simple, normalized talking highly about yourself.
Speaker 5: I rate no small talk to self.
Speaker 4: Okay, normalize talking highly about yourself.
Speaker 5: You deserve it. Breakfast Club bites you y'all finished or
Speaker 5: y'all done.