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Speaker 2: I don't think white people know how popular you guys are.
Speaker 2: DJ Infant just hilarious, Charlemagne the guy.
Speaker 1: You guys really are like the hip hop early morning
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Speaker 3: Y'all know what you'all talking about.
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Speaker 6: Hello, this those were growing, man, TA can bless its man.
Speaker 7: Man, Man, I was stuck in the elevator for a
Speaker 7: whole hour.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 7: The main done is really wake up earlier, man, because
Speaker 7: I felt like my life was over.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 7: I made so much promises for gard.
Speaker 1: My mother.
Speaker 6: Man Like, I don't want to wish it on my
Speaker 6: worst enemy. Man, no windows, so escape I'm thinking about
Speaker 6: Bruce Willis, and I'm thinking, I'm pressing the buttons, I'm kicking,
Speaker 6: I'm trying to punch codes, I'm doing everything. I'm like,
Speaker 6: you know what, let me pick you ain't gonna lie.
Speaker 6: I had a little reception, but not too much.
Speaker 7: I was playing.
Speaker 9: I was playing Marvin Saddon never would have made it.
Speaker 6: Were the only reason why I got out, The only
Speaker 6: reason why I got out because the spam's dude. He
Speaker 6: kept pressing the button downstairs, and he kept kicking the door,
Speaker 6: and then all of a sudden opened but it was
Speaker 6: a half of the floor. Then it opped up, and
Speaker 6: then I got out. I don't just tell everybody right now. Man,
Speaker 6: I don't know if I think'm gonna get elevated to
Speaker 6: the game is a lawsuit.
Speaker 9: I don't know if it's a lawsuit. But I wouldn't
Speaker 9: wish that on my worst enemy, because I got a
Speaker 9: daughter who has a very unhealthy fear of elevators.
Speaker 1: And she.
Speaker 6: Hopefully I wasn't one of the Tartans. But it's over
Speaker 6: the story.
Speaker 1: But anyway, book.
Speaker 9: Bronx and Brooklyn, you know, you know everything broken in
Speaker 9: the Bronx. Damn have a blesday.
Speaker 1: I'm glad that you got out of that situation.
Speaker 2: Absolute.
Speaker 9: I'm telling you, my eight year old is definitely afraid
Speaker 9: of elevator. I don't know what she watched that she
Speaker 9: saw somebody get stuck on the elevator, but Lord have mercy,
Speaker 9: she did not like elevators at all, in no way
Speaker 9: shape before Hello.
Speaker 8: Who's this Hi?
Speaker 10: This is Christmas from South Florida.
Speaker 2: Hey, chrystill get it off your chest.
Speaker 10: Yes, I was up earl this morning.
Speaker 8: Tell you guys this.
Speaker 10: So my nephew attends for film cooking in college and
Speaker 10: he's only taken African American studies and they have a
Speaker 10: white professor. She just gave them a group projects to
Speaker 10: do called escape from the Plantation, and and she wants
Speaker 10: them to pretend to be a slave, and she wants
Speaker 10: them to not know how to swim, not know how
Speaker 10: to read and write, and how they were maneuvered trying
Speaker 10: to escape like the underground railroad. She wants them to
Speaker 10: be like, oh, if you try to be a slave
Speaker 10: and try to escape and get your foot cut off,
Speaker 10: and another one of you, I want you to be
Speaker 10: like a mom with a whole bunch of kids that's
Speaker 10: like a literate and I want one of you guys
Speaker 10: to be a houseworker.
Speaker 9: Tell us, you know, you tell your son, tell your
Speaker 9: son to tell the teacher that he want to be
Speaker 9: Nat Turner. Okay, and they want they want to do
Speaker 9: a slave rebellion starting with her right then and there, Jesus, Okay.
Speaker 1: That game.
Speaker 10: They're like they some of the kids in his class,
Speaker 10: like I guess they're green behind the ears. So they're like,
Speaker 10: oh my god, this sounds so cool. So with him,
Speaker 10: he's like, it doesn't sit right. And I'm like, what
Speaker 10: do y'all want to do about it? Because personally me,
Speaker 10: I'm born in the eighties. I'm mohere in the eighties.
Speaker 10: I definitely would have went to the being about that.
Speaker 2: How old is he? Yeah?
Speaker 10: Old is he is?
Speaker 3: Eighteen?
Speaker 2: He's in college?
Speaker 1: Yeah that she said school.
Speaker 10: Yeah, he's in college. He's at Aune Cookman College in Florida.
Speaker 9: Not turning slave rebellion, Okay, eighteen thirty one, that's what
Speaker 9: we need to take it back to. Okay, Stone Over Rebellion, Charleston,
Speaker 9: South Carolina, seventeen thirty nine, that's what we need to
Speaker 9: take it back to. Okay, Hello, who's this yo?
Speaker 11: This is Chris from Folk County, Florida.
Speaker 9: Chris from Florida, what up?
Speaker 2: Get it off your chest?
Speaker 12: Bro?
Speaker 11: Hey man, I want to say congratulations to just you
Speaker 11: know what I'm saying. Welcome for the club, honey, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 11: I gotta keep it really now. I wasn't going for
Speaker 11: you at first.
Speaker 1: But we ain't as you are on me.
Speaker 6: I like you now, I like you now.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 8: Y'all good?
Speaker 1: I like that. All go, Thank you? Chris.
Speaker 8: Keep it real.
Speaker 3: You gotta keep it real.
Speaker 13: Yeah, sometimes you do.
Speaker 14: But you know, I don't give a damn which you
Speaker 14: didn't like before as long as you like me now.
Speaker 14: Sometimes you just don't got to say how you felt
Speaker 14: before if you feel a different way.
Speaker 11: Now, okay, okay, I'm.
Speaker 9: A good one, Christ but no, all right, that's crazy.
Speaker 9: Chris is usually love you.
Speaker 3: Bye, Hello, good morning, baths Club?
Speaker 4: What's up?
Speaker 1: DJ?
Speaker 8: And be Charlotte Mane. What's going on?
Speaker 1: Honey?
Speaker 10: How are you?
Speaker 13: Good morning?
Speaker 8: I'm good?
Speaker 4: Good morning?
Speaker 8: This Cassan from Detroit, jes. I was just Paula. I
Speaker 8: wanted to say to you. My great grandma used to
Speaker 8: tell me you could be anything you want to be
Speaker 8: in life, as long as you put your mind to it,
Speaker 8: and I want you to know that I see so
Speaker 8: much success to you. Just hilarious. I wish you the best.
Speaker 8: I'm glad I was able to talk to you on
Speaker 8: your first day that you're really making it. I see
Speaker 8: so much more for you, and God bless you.
Speaker 14: Okay, thank you so much, baby. I appreciate that you're
Speaker 14: just getting started. I'm a good one, just hilarious, superstuff.
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Speaker 2: Hello, who is Vy?
Speaker 1: What's up?
Speaker 9: Envy?
Speaker 1: What's up?
Speaker 8: Trash shot a Maine?
Speaker 1: So the main you.
Speaker 8: I'm doing good, I'm doing good.
Speaker 1: What's up?
Speaker 8: Jeff?
Speaker 3: Can I tell y'all how I've been giggling at empty
Speaker 3: all weekend? Because envy is so crazy?
Speaker 1: What happened?
Speaker 14: So?
Speaker 6: I don't know if y'all know Mvy's on.
Speaker 4: This show with Tammy Roman.
Speaker 8: I think is that what it's called envy.
Speaker 2: It's called Faithful Paul. Chapter two is this episode that
Speaker 2: is dropped.
Speaker 3: Shout out the Big Sexty.
Speaker 8: I'm actually Big Sexty.
Speaker 3: Is actually on one of my songs. I'm about to drop.
Speaker 8: I love episode.
Speaker 4: Say again, baby, that's what I love Big sexting.
Speaker 3: Oh, shout out the Big Sexty. For Envy has this
Speaker 3: episode where Vy was following him around and he's like
Speaker 3: bus to his boyfriend her Envy with somebody. Vy's talking
Speaker 3: to the girl and she's telling him over.
Speaker 4: And over again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's by sexual. I didn't know he was bisexual.
Speaker 3: I didn't never messed with a bisexual man before. The
Speaker 3: first thing Envy saying is when he talk is, oh
Speaker 3: see he was gay.
Speaker 4: It's envy.
Speaker 8: You cannot be gay like women. Okay, he's by sex.
Speaker 1: Got so stupid.
Speaker 8: Okay, you like women, you.
Speaker 1: Can have to be gay, all right, fifty game, you're
Speaker 1: still gay.
Speaker 3: But no, you're not gay.
Speaker 2: Okay, you you have a woman at all.
Speaker 8: For Dyna, you are by sexual.
Speaker 3: Gay men do not like Batigna.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's true, but you still have a homosexual.
Speaker 13: No, you're bisexual by departments. You're crossing department.
Speaker 9: By Okay, bisexual means too, right.
Speaker 2: I don't know the bisexual game both, but it's both.
Speaker 1: So you fifty percent?
Speaker 14: Would you say, like when you say you gay and straight?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Not yeah?
Speaker 9: All right, track, but the definition of bisexual is sexually
Speaker 9: a romantically attracted to both men and women, are to
Speaker 9: more than one sex, are gentle, and.
Speaker 13: That's why it's called bisexual.
Speaker 9: Not yay, I get it, but you, I mean technically
Speaker 9: you are gay and straight.
Speaker 15: My gosh, technically I just asked the question.
Speaker 2: Alright, Hello, who's this?
Speaker 8: Hey, QC, what's going on?
Speaker 2: What's up?
Speaker 4: Brother?
Speaker 2: Get it off your chest?
Speaker 14: Man.
Speaker 16: I just want to say, shout out all the truck
Speaker 16: job is out there, man, everybody's that jobbing out on
Speaker 16: the rood.
Speaker 1: Be safe, man, Yeah, shout.
Speaker 13: Out to y'all. I love y'all so very much.
Speaker 9: Be safe.
Speaker 2: You're in your truck, bro, Thank you? Yes, sir, there
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Speaker 1: Yes, that have a cool one.
Speaker 2: Get it off your chest.
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Speaker 1: How you feeling about feeling good? Feeling great man? All that.
Speaker 15: I'm glad you put down the joysticks a little bit
Speaker 15: to start up rapping again.
Speaker 1: Making that much money on video games? Yeah, man, wasn't
Speaker 1: it was about it? Damn? Okay, Yeah, it's crazy because
Speaker 1: before I was a rapper, I was a gamer. I
Speaker 1: feel like we all was, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: just growing up playing a game. So, just like music
Speaker 1: and something, I put a lot of passion into how do.
Speaker 9: You make a career that though? Like, that's what I
Speaker 9: always be wanting.
Speaker 1: Honestly, I had to be coach through it because when
Speaker 1: I first started playing like online, I was just meeting
Speaker 1: different people who was already doing and they kind of
Speaker 1: taught me how to do it.
Speaker 15: And it just too I'm surprised that the numbers that
Speaker 15: game is makee So it's this is it gambling or
Speaker 15: is it tournaments or how does it work?
Speaker 1: No, it's just it's just you build a community in
Speaker 1: the audience, you know what I'm saying, and they they
Speaker 1: paying to subscribe to your content. Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, stream and that translate into record sales. I wonder, yeah,
Speaker 9: if you do it right, for sure.
Speaker 1: So if I if I drop an album and I'm
Speaker 1: in GTA and I have a listening party, I'm like,
Speaker 1: all of us got to listen play it at the
Speaker 1: same time on our own and come back and give
Speaker 1: our feedback on the songs and stuff like that. Then
Speaker 1: you get everybody engaged and everybody streaming it.
Speaker 15: What platform is that, because I mean, I'm sure messing
Speaker 15: with the labels because once that's played in a twitch
Speaker 15: or played in one of those streaming platforms, that gotta
Speaker 15: be a spin, right because it's.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure, Twitch YouTube is the year.
Speaker 1: It's the spin for shure. I'm getting everybody to do
Speaker 1: it on their own, you feel, instead of me just
Speaker 1: listening to it for y'all, y'all hearing it with me.
Speaker 1: That's only one stream.
Speaker 9: What's the most If you don't mind us asking because
Speaker 9: your diamonds all shining.
Speaker 1: Brother, I appreciate it. It was a lot, I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know, it was a lot. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: a lot.
Speaker 9: How do regular kids get to do that?
Speaker 1: Try to that now? Yeah?
Speaker 2: And that's what what game? That's playing g T A
Speaker 2: g T A.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well so are you ready for GTA six? Then? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: super ready for that for sure. It took him long enough,
Speaker 1: but shout out the rocks started.
Speaker 15: My people though, Now Tea's Coney Island. You're not from
Speaker 15: from New York, so why is it called teas Corney Island?
Speaker 8: You know?
Speaker 1: It's scared I had this. I don't never have to
Speaker 1: have this conversation in the Middle West.
Speaker 2: You feel, because you don't know is that?
Speaker 8: So?
Speaker 1: Look, so Conney Island, now y'all got y'all Bodega's right,
Speaker 1: We got them in Detroit too, But it's just called
Speaker 1: Conney Island. So it's a bunch of different Corney Islands.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. If you're from them areas,
Speaker 1: you got your own county.
Speaker 9: So it's like a dog a little convenience stuf.
Speaker 1: Like a diner. Okay, you know what I'm saying, where
Speaker 1: you get food. What's the significance of that to you?
Speaker 1: For me? Growing up? You feel me, I ain't always
Speaker 1: like have a home cooking meal. I never ate out,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, stuff like that, So I
Speaker 1: scrape up on a couple of dollars. I know, I
Speaker 1: go to the coney and get some good food, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, a lot of it, but not
Speaker 1: that much money. You know. Can you take a woman there?
Speaker 1: Would she be fine going to Cornell? For sure? Okay?
Speaker 9: Okay, definitely. You know they boogie nowadays. Coney ain't bad though.
Speaker 9: I took my wife. Have you invested in one that's
Speaker 9: why you call it tease cone?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I invested. I invested in the one in my area.
Speaker 1: Okay okay, yea smart s the one I the one
Speaker 1: I grew up walking to, like before school type. You know,
Speaker 1: how do you just approach him?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 9: Yo, man, I want to want to buy a part
Speaker 9: of the business.
Speaker 1: No, like I want to be a part of this.
Speaker 1: Like this, this Coney right here is significant. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying to me and my upbringing, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So I just want to be a
Speaker 1: part of it. You feel me? They was rocking with me.
Speaker 15: You know, the First Day Out was your biggest record, right,
Speaker 15: did you ever think that you would beat the success
Speaker 15: of First Day Out because it's it's a club staple
Speaker 15: radio record, but you did it. So did you ever
Speaker 15: think that you would be that man.
Speaker 1: That's one song I can say, like I performed that
Speaker 1: song that the reaction is like it came out yesterday.
Speaker 1: You feel me. My goal in life, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying when it comes like chasing my dreams with
Speaker 1: this music, it was. It was never to outdo anything.
Speaker 1: It was to get that in the first place, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So I'm just happy to have that,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, and continue to let that
Speaker 1: be the car that drive the other content that I
Speaker 1: put out.
Speaker 9: And did that song put pressure on you, like because
Speaker 9: you know you came out to Gay jay Z tweeting
Speaker 9: about it like they put pressure on you to keep
Speaker 9: making that level of music.
Speaker 1: No, because I don't see I don't look at it.
Speaker 1: I don't look at it like that. I look at
Speaker 1: it as the blessing that it is, and I'm just
Speaker 1: grateful for it. If anything else come, then it come.
Speaker 1: If not that, I'm grateful for it because it's saved
Speaker 1: and changed my life to this day.
Speaker 13: I got a big record move right now.
Speaker 14: I don't give an f With Chris Brown and Mariota scientists,
Speaker 14: how did it come about?
Speaker 2: How y'all income number? One record by the way too,
Speaker 2: number one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure, definitely definitely thank you. So I
Speaker 1: rock with with Chris Brown and I had one to
Speaker 1: his crib. We was in La chilling at his crib
Speaker 1: when we was in the studio just cooking and throwing
Speaker 1: around ideas, and we had came up with that one,
Speaker 1: and we knew we needed a female on it, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And my wife had put me
Speaker 1: hip to Marita Scientists and I've been a fan every since.
Speaker 1: So I had shot it to her and she loved it,
Speaker 1: killed it, did her thing. After that we went number one.
Speaker 9: You got a couple of records with Chris Brown on
Speaker 9: the project What's your Energy?
Speaker 1: Like, I mean, bro, just a genuine dude, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Our energy a lot of times when
Speaker 1: we kick it it don't even be about music, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. We just kick it. Like how
Speaker 1: were talking right now? We just be chopping it up. Now.
Speaker 15: You got married pretty young. Most people say that's pretty young,
Speaker 15: especially in this industry, twenty eight years old. How did
Speaker 15: you know she was the one? You mentioned her twice
Speaker 15: because I know you, I know you love We seen
Speaker 15: on the wedding photos. How did you know she was
Speaker 15: the one?
Speaker 1: It's no such thing as somebody being the one you
Speaker 1: know about to start the social media with that one. Listen,
Speaker 1: It's no such thing as somebody being the one.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 1: This takes effort. There gotta be something you want to do.
Speaker 1: You gotta be the one, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You gotta be the one that want to do it,
Speaker 1: because they don't propose you do? You feel me? This?
Speaker 1: This's gotta be something you want. There's gotta be something
Speaker 1: you want to do. There's gotta be something that you're
Speaker 1: willing to stick with no matter what. And it's got
Speaker 1: to be something you make a choice to put effort into.
Speaker 1: You feel me. I agree with that. I agree with that.
Speaker 9: But she still gotta be special enough for you to
Speaker 9: say this is what I want to spend the rest
Speaker 9: of my life with.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, for sure. I mean everybody special, you
Speaker 1: feel me. It's nobody out here that's that's not special
Speaker 1: in their own way, don't I don't know.
Speaker 13: But I like your take on that though, Like you
Speaker 13: gotta be the one.
Speaker 14: You gotta you know, because a lot of men always
Speaker 14: put it on a woman like you know, she she
Speaker 14: she was the one and she wasn't it. But you're
Speaker 14: talking about the other side of it, which I appreciate
Speaker 14: that we don't.
Speaker 13: We don't hear that.
Speaker 1: For sure. For sure, you gotta you gotta want it,
Speaker 1: You gotta want it, definitely.
Speaker 15: When did you realize what made you want to do
Speaker 15: it at that particular moment, in that particular time.
Speaker 1: So this has always been a dream of mind. I
Speaker 1: always knew I was gonna do this, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, because the household I grew up in was
Speaker 1: it was a lot of dysfunction, you know, and I
Speaker 1: knew that's not what I wanted. I know, I wanted
Speaker 1: to have a two parent household because that's what I
Speaker 1: wish I had, you know what I'm saying. I knew
Speaker 1: I wanted to be married and carry myself a certain
Speaker 1: way because that's what I wish I saw coming up.
Speaker 1: So growing up for me was a kind of like
Speaker 1: a lot of what not to do, and that made
Speaker 1: me want to do this.
Speaker 9: That's breaking generational curses.
Speaker 1: My brother.
Speaker 9: They said, if you come from a broken home, make
Speaker 9: sure a broken home don't come from you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, all.
Speaker 15: Right, we got more with T. Grizzly when we come back,
Speaker 15: don't move. It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 2: Good morning, the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 15: Think everybody is DJ N d jes hilarious, Charlottage the guy.
Speaker 2: We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with T.
Speaker 15: Grizzly And how you dealing with all your trauma with
Speaker 15: all because with p and b Rock was a close
Speaker 15: friend and your manager that passed, Like, how are you
Speaker 15: dealing with that trauma?
Speaker 1: Yeah? So I do a lot of healing things, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I love to hear that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do a lot of healing things for sure. A
Speaker 1: couple of people I want to just shout out with that,
Speaker 1: my sister to her, we do certain things that kind
Speaker 1: of heal traumas, you know, like sit down with certain
Speaker 1: medicines and just get that stuff, release all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Would you do? DMT shrooms.
Speaker 2: Tell us about that experience.
Speaker 1: Man, it was powerful, Man, it was super powerful.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's it's something in us right that already knows what
Speaker 1: to do with the medicine once it's inside you, and
Speaker 1: it does exactly what it's supposed to do, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And it just works perfectly. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. The medicine is perfect for you. It's
Speaker 1: kind of like a facial recognition on your phone. Once
Speaker 1: you get inside your body and it just unlocked things.
Speaker 1: You feel me. And the thing about it is once
Speaker 1: it teach, once you learn what it teaches you, or
Speaker 1: once it show you whatever you need to see. Because
Speaker 1: it works for everybody individually different ways. It's on you
Speaker 1: to remember this stuff.
Speaker 9: You did you de talk beforehand and like, because you
Speaker 9: set your intention and all of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure we did it. It was very
Speaker 1: ceremonial how we did it, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Like it was a room that we was in. You
Speaker 1: couldn't even bring certain technology devices in here. You couldn't
Speaker 1: even step in here if you was in a certain
Speaker 1: frequency light. Be super positive when you step in this room.
Speaker 1: We want to keep this energy a certain way.
Speaker 2: Did you poop envoment on yourself as well?
Speaker 1: They said, that's that's no, that's that's that's what the
Speaker 1: duck flower. I ain't did that one yet.
Speaker 13: It's different kinds, different types to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it turned you onto it?
Speaker 1: Who turned me onto it? My wife turned me onto it? Really? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't do it with you at you No, but
Speaker 1: she knew about it and she was like, we should
Speaker 1: do this together. Did it make you anxious? No, it
Speaker 1: ain't made me anxious at all. It just it just
Speaker 1: it just made me like it just woke me up
Speaker 1: to a lot of stuff. It woke me up to
Speaker 1: not only how powerful we are, but how certain things
Speaker 1: shouldn't even bother us, and how great life can be
Speaker 1: once you see it a certain way. Did you see God? Yeah?
Speaker 9: Everybody doesn't tell.
Speaker 1: Me the Yeah for sure, thousand what it looked like.
Speaker 1: It was just light exact.
Speaker 15: It was just like bro, Yeah, and you did it
Speaker 15: where because a lot of people go overseas. You did
Speaker 15: it in California. I didn't Dominican.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, did the Gosho speak to you? Yeah? It's
Speaker 1: crazy because when it's when when when he spoke, I didn't.
Speaker 1: I couldn't hear it. And it was like it was
Speaker 1: an angeler And I asked like, well I can't hear
Speaker 1: what he's saying. It was like because his voice is
Speaker 1: too powerful, Like you couldn't handle hearing that. Oh you
Speaker 1: was talking to the Sean minis No, I was talking
Speaker 1: to who the other figure and to see that. I
Speaker 1: saw that was there with me, So it was another
Speaker 1: figure with you while you were talking. Yeah, that took
Speaker 1: me up to God like like let's go see him,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: And you were having conversations like this while you were.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I'm asking. I'm a person who asked a
Speaker 1: lot of questions, so I'm asking a lot of questions.
Speaker 2: Where we're going.
Speaker 1: What's that? You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 9: People told me when you do it, it's not you
Speaker 9: don't feel like high. It's like you're fully aware of
Speaker 9: where you are, you someplace else.
Speaker 1: Because it's it's not high. It's not high. It's like
Speaker 1: imagine you going into like a body of water. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, And your purpose of going in
Speaker 1: here is to come out with some u some knowledge,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So you're not getting eye as.
Speaker 13: Long as you can't wait.
Speaker 1: For me like four. But for everybody it's different. Though.
Speaker 1: One thing about Ayawaska, it's not gonna let you go
Speaker 1: into it's ready to let you go like you're gonna
Speaker 1: get everything you need to get. Damn, you're not in
Speaker 1: no type of control.
Speaker 9: You did it for multiple days and just that we
Speaker 9: did two days when you come down and did like okay,
Speaker 9: you know it's just like done.
Speaker 1: Like yeah, you know you out of it, really, you
Speaker 1: know you're out of it?
Speaker 2: Could you do it again?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 2: This is a one time thing. This is something you
Speaker 2: only do once.
Speaker 1: No, you do it again, you do it again.
Speaker 13: But this is nothing that you It is not something
Speaker 13: that you do like like I do shrewms all the time.
Speaker 13: This is not something that you just do like that.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, yeah it ain't. It ain't nothing you
Speaker 1: do recreational. You're not even gonna want to do it recreation,
Speaker 1: right because it's like that was deep, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. You're gonna face some stuff like that was powerful,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But see what with the
Speaker 1: psilocide and like this s rooms and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: With that, do I feel like that's like a heart medicine.
Speaker 1: It just makes you like happy and make you you
Speaker 1: able to smile at things stuff like that.
Speaker 14: Yeah, But like even with my experience on you know,
Speaker 14: the Silo simon, I've had like come to moments as
Speaker 14: well even with that, So I would like to do
Speaker 14: ioas I just don't feel like it's a time for
Speaker 14: me yet because like to Charlomagne's point, you got you'll
Speaker 14: know when you have to do it.
Speaker 13: I'm excited to do it.
Speaker 8: And I hear.
Speaker 14: But I've had like some of the things that you're
Speaker 14: talking about. I've had that with shrims, Like I've been
Speaker 14: on shrooms and I've been my mother. I've been my
Speaker 14: grandmother who's passed. I've been my little sister. I've been
Speaker 14: my dad, and I could see generations and generations before me,
Speaker 14: like stuff like that.
Speaker 13: And that's only on shroms. So I can only imagine
Speaker 13: how the I is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, that's deep. That's deep. Even what they say.
Speaker 1: You go through generations of people and you can heal
Speaker 1: like generational traumas through the medicine. Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you did a therapy too, like any just regular
Speaker 9: therapy sitting down.
Speaker 1: With a psychiatrist or no, I ain't did that. I
Speaker 1: ain't did that. So everything has been plant based you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's dope, man, that's dope. That was the last question.
Speaker 15: So when you when you do go through the ceremony,
Speaker 15: are you sitting down, are you laying down? Are you
Speaker 15: sitting in you know?
Speaker 1: So for me, they made me sit up, like sit down,
Speaker 1: and for the women that was in the room, they
Speaker 1: laid down. They gave me the option to lay down.
Speaker 1: Though have you have you wanted that to reflect in
Speaker 1: your music in any way yet It hasn't yet because
Speaker 1: it ain't really the creat the creativity and music, and
Speaker 1: that hasn't bridged it for me.
Speaker 9: A lot of people tell me when they do it,
Speaker 9: you know, the things that they experience, you may not
Speaker 9: want to share. You know, they tell you to write
Speaker 9: it down in a journal, but you probably wouldn't want
Speaker 9: to share that with the world just yet.
Speaker 1: Maybe yeah, yeah, I mean I ain't really It wasn't
Speaker 1: really nothing that was worth sharing. And one thing I learned,
Speaker 1: like like how you say like people wouldn't want to
Speaker 1: share certain things because they are shamed of it. Shame
Speaker 1: was a big lesson when I was under the medicine,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, because just growing up I
Speaker 1: always cared about like what people think and all that.
Speaker 1: One thing that the medicine talk is like, it is
Speaker 1: nothing to ever be a shame though, because anything about you,
Speaker 1: you didn't ask for it, but it's perfect for you,
Speaker 1: so you should never feel shame.
Speaker 15: Did you see anybody that that passed away. Did you
Speaker 15: see your manager? Did you see pm B at the time.
Speaker 1: I didn't see them too, but I did see some
Speaker 1: other people who passed away though, for sure.
Speaker 13: Damn wow from the album now you'reascar.
Speaker 9: That was good though, because he gave some healing tips.
Speaker 1: But you know what I mean.
Speaker 9: But once again, you got to do it when it
Speaker 9: calls you. That's not something you just say, Oh, I
Speaker 9: need to go out there and heal. Like no, when
Speaker 9: it calls you to it. And you got brought to
Speaker 9: it by people that you trusted love, So that's a
Speaker 9: whole different ball again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2: Well the album Coney Island T's Coney Island is out
Speaker 2: right now, and.
Speaker 15: We appreciate you for joining us. It's been a long time,
Speaker 15: supposed to be a couple of times, but thank you
Speaker 15: for joining us.
Speaker 1: Brother. Yeah, man, I appreciate you off for having me grabs.
Speaker 2: On the number one record again.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
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Speaker 3: We don't kill him.
Speaker 13: I'm all up in your mass.
Speaker 14: I'm gonna fixed it, txt it fixed it, Just gonna
Speaker 14: fix your mess because my advice is real in the
Speaker 14: middle of.
Speaker 15: Just fix my mess, and we have Michelle on the line. Michelle,
Speaker 15: good morning, Good morning. Hey, what's your question for?
Speaker 17: Yes?
Speaker 10: Okay, So I'm really trying to figure out what I do.
Speaker 10: I was so confused. I'm married currently, but I've been
Speaker 10: separated in February of this year, but I have been
Speaker 10: seen this guy since December of last year. The person
Speaker 10: that I've seen, he actually asked somebody, but I've met her.
Speaker 10: So I'm kind of trying to decide what i should do.
Speaker 10: It's like, now my husband's trying to come back, but
Speaker 10: I'm trying to keep them away.
Speaker 2: Wi Ja, God, damn, you sound like, will you shut up?
Speaker 9: Okay, I know it's a lot.
Speaker 14: It's okay, Okay, so you basically okay, oh wow, So damn.
Speaker 14: So you you have a husband that you're trying to
Speaker 14: keep away because you want to date your boyfriend who
Speaker 14: has somebody else here.
Speaker 13: But yeah, yeah, right, girl, write a book.
Speaker 1: He at all.
Speaker 10: I'm in college, so I'm going to school. I'm about
Speaker 10: to graduate.
Speaker 1: So congressating that I was in college.
Speaker 10: I had to basically stop working because it was so demanding.
Speaker 10: It's like my husband he kind of started entertaining other
Speaker 10: people like Okay, then come home. He'll be spending like
Speaker 10: nights out with other people. Now, my boyfriend, he's been there,
Speaker 10: like to stay one financially, I mean mentally everything, he's
Speaker 10: been there.
Speaker 13: Okay. Is he younger than you? All right? Girlfriend?
Speaker 14: I mean you have a husband and okay, so did
Speaker 14: you did your husband ever tell you like, all right,
Speaker 14: this is what I'm gonna do. Or did he just
Speaker 14: start cheating and you found out about it and instead
Speaker 14: of leaving, you just got a boyfriend?
Speaker 13: How did that work?
Speaker 14: Are you open with each other to tell each other?
Speaker 14: Look like, is you and your husband? Is it an
Speaker 14: open relationship?
Speaker 10: I was feeling to be open, but he wasn't.
Speaker 14: Okay, So he wanted to be able to do what
Speaker 14: he wanted to do, and you still had to be
Speaker 14: the devoted wife committed.
Speaker 10: Pretty pretty much. But once I kind of think that
Speaker 10: he was going when he was doing, I kind of
Speaker 10: started doing what I wanted.
Speaker 15: To do too.
Speaker 10: And because of my cash out, Like he caught me
Speaker 10: because of cash.
Speaker 14: Out, he caught you because of cash app He went
Speaker 14: through my cash out.
Speaker 13: Okay, so why don't you just get a divorce?
Speaker 10: I mean I'm working on that. I'm working on that
Speaker 10: I'm fine with.
Speaker 13: That, okay, and then you're quick.
Speaker 10: Like my my graduation is coming up, and I want
Speaker 10: my boyfriend to come because he's been there. But then
Speaker 10: it's like my husband feels.
Speaker 1: Like he should be.
Speaker 13: Damn okay, So so I think I, look, invite them both.
Speaker 13: That's what I think.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 14: Look, you can't you got you can't tell the boyfriend
Speaker 14: stay home. He been your boyfriend, eve been paying bills,
Speaker 14: he and.
Speaker 13: Feeding you financially. You know, its sexually and all of that.
Speaker 14: And then here go your husband on the side, who
Speaker 14: also got it, got his you know, his reservations, Like, look,
Speaker 14: I need to be there because I'm I need to
Speaker 14: see you graduate. I say, invite both of them and
Speaker 14: tell both of them what they up against.
Speaker 13: Period.
Speaker 14: It's gonna be I can't, okay, So what you're gonna
Speaker 14: do booth, I don't know, I don't know who No,
Speaker 14: And I say both, you need to invite both. Talk
Speaker 14: to your husband. Look, my boyfriend gonna be there, and
Speaker 14: then talk to your boyfriend. Look, my husband's gonna be there.
Speaker 14: He ain't gonna not show up.
Speaker 3: So it is what it is.
Speaker 14: Y'all gonna have to just sit come together. And support
Speaker 14: me together and then y'all can fight it out after
Speaker 14: I walk across that stage.
Speaker 9: But that's it, balance all off. I know it is.
Speaker 13: When's the last time you? When's the last time you?
Speaker 13: When's the last time you had sex with your husband?
Speaker 9: Actually like three weeks ago?
Speaker 13: Okay, okay, your boyfriend.
Speaker 10: But it's not, it's not. It's not like that, like
Speaker 10: he's saying, a whole nother state. Now, he came down
Speaker 10: to see the kids.
Speaker 12: We did what we did.
Speaker 13: Yeah, so see, but see, but you feel bad or
Speaker 13: you don't.
Speaker 10: I do feel bad about it, yeah, because like.
Speaker 14: Yeah, because I know that's your husband, that's the father
Speaker 14: get children. But he lived in a whole nother state.
Speaker 14: He going back to doing what he doing, and you
Speaker 14: just go back that. I feel bad for your boyfriend.
Speaker 14: I don't feel bad for you. I feel bad for
Speaker 14: your boyfriend.
Speaker 2: Everybody got somebody.
Speaker 1: Everybody, everybody got back to everybody.
Speaker 2: You know, she said, the boyfriend had somebody. Everybody got somebody.
Speaker 1: Why why can't polygamy just be a thing.
Speaker 9: If everybody doing that and everybody know about it, why
Speaker 9: can't everybody just you know why? Because it's not.
Speaker 13: Polygamy is not the best way to do things. Polygamy
Speaker 13: is just that, I don't care.
Speaker 14: It's just damaged people from different relationships, people with baggage
Speaker 14: from different relationships, who trying to make it work, who
Speaker 14: can't stop cheating. That's what polygamy is from my opinion.
Speaker 14: And sorry, but I know the polygamy community gonna be
Speaker 14: Oh my gosh. She canceled because she coming at the
Speaker 14: way we love.
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Speaker 9: Yes, one of the most dangerous morning short the Breakfast
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's President's Day. But you know we have some
Speaker 9: new content for you because Usher checked in with us
Speaker 9: to talk about all things super Bowl and his marriage,
Speaker 9: his new tour, and We're gonna get into that conversation
Speaker 9: right now on the world's most dangerous morning. So the
Speaker 9: Breakfast Club arsa.
Speaker 4: That wild man over there?
Speaker 8: What's going on?
Speaker 9: I know that domestic terrorists ain't calling nobody a wild man.
Speaker 9: Jessea Larious is here to usher.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 9: She's the new official third co host of the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 4: What's up? Just with all the mess? How you doing?
Speaker 13: I just got this job and you ain't even come
Speaker 13: in here. You ain't been here since twenty seventeen.
Speaker 4: I know, man, I need to come up there to
Speaker 4: here to be more and endures.
Speaker 1: Congratulations on everything.
Speaker 9: No, my brother, an amazing super Bowl performance, a new
Speaker 9: album is out right now, and you are a domestic terrorist.
Speaker 1: You did it again. You're a minister society. Why were
Speaker 1: you so handsy?
Speaker 9: Why are you so handy with miss Alicia Keys?
Speaker 1: Sir?
Speaker 12: No, listen, it's not anyway in any shape, form or
Speaker 12: fashion that unfortunately you gave me to handle.
Speaker 4: But nah, man, it's a celebration. Man. We had an
Speaker 4: amazing time at the super Bowl.
Speaker 12: Most watched super Bowl all time, all the time, Yeah,
Speaker 12: of all time, with more people watch.
Speaker 4: That than the Apollo eleven Landa man, I'm like blown away.
Speaker 12: Since nineteen ninety, nineteen sixty nine, you know, there's not
Speaker 12: been a greater viewing than what happened on Super Bowl Sunday.
Speaker 4: So I'm really happy about that.
Speaker 1: Man. And You've been a superstar for a long long time.
Speaker 9: So what does something like the Super Bowl do for
Speaker 9: you when you perform in front of that many people
Speaker 9: on that stage?
Speaker 1: Is there another level? I don't know.
Speaker 12: It's pretty hard to beat that one, and it's going
Speaker 12: to be pretty hard to beat that number. So man,
Speaker 12: I'm just I'm just really happy, blessed. You know, I
Speaker 12: worked really hard in Las Vegas to tell a story
Speaker 12: about my culture where I come from, and being able
Speaker 12: to share that with the rest of the world, you know,
Speaker 12: was really a monumental moment in my career, in my life.
Speaker 12: You know, I've said many times, you know, I turned
Speaker 12: Vegas to atlant where I was able to introduce the
Speaker 12: entire world to what Atlanta is, to turn the world
Speaker 12: to Atlanta for that moment, for those fifteen minutes. So
Speaker 12: I'm just really happy that everything happened the way that
Speaker 12: it did. I'm happy that jay Z and Dez reached
Speaker 12: out to me to do it. I'm happy that Hamis
Speaker 12: shot it the way that he did, happy that Alkaman,
Speaker 12: Jones and Hamish work together and pass people who put
Speaker 12: all of it together to look like it was. I'm
Speaker 12: happy to out my choreographers and dancers and you know,
Speaker 12: contortionists and tumblers, little John Ludacris, Alicia.
Speaker 4: Keys Her where I am.
Speaker 12: Everybody came through and was able to be a part
Speaker 12: of it, you know, because it's a thirty it's a
Speaker 12: thirty year plus you know, celebration for me, absolutely, and
Speaker 12: it was hard as hell to put all of those
Speaker 12: thirty years into fifteen minutes, but I did it, and
Speaker 12: I was able to introduce people to, you know, the
Speaker 12: culture of the past. You think about everything that Vegas
Speaker 12: has offered over the last two years to me, but
Speaker 12: everything that it represented in the past. You noticed the wardrobe,
Speaker 12: the fact that I kind of took people through what
Speaker 12: I would consider a past, present and future experience just
Speaker 12: in time for me to you know, launch my tour.
Speaker 12: But it was real deliberate, like the wardrobe was selected
Speaker 12: to make you remember our glamours we were in those
Speaker 12: times and how you know, going into you know, segregated
Speaker 12: casinos and being able to not you know, fright, no,
Speaker 12: as with normal people in those times. It was like
Speaker 12: a thing of our pride being taken in that time.
Speaker 12: So that was part of my storytelling. Like yo, I
Speaker 12: really wanted to honor all of the people who had
Speaker 12: had anything to do with us being in Las Vegas
Speaker 12: from the beginning of what Las Vegas experience was, for
Speaker 12: our black experience, bringing eight Spiece of Us into the conversation.
Speaker 12: Cappus came out step with me, skate culture, all of
Speaker 12: those things. It was a past present, future conversation now.
Speaker 13: And then you end your night getting married.
Speaker 14: Yeah, congratulations, Oh my god, what made you do it
Speaker 14: that night?
Speaker 13: What made you get married that night?
Speaker 12: You know, just to put you know, an incredible ending
Speaker 12: on this chapter of Las Vegas.
Speaker 4: We talked about it.
Speaker 12: We am I proposed to her uh last year and
Speaker 12: she been wearing that ring and I ain't want to
Speaker 12: be that guy who just you know, just continue to
Speaker 12: hold on forever to the ring. But you know, we
Speaker 12: talked about the best time to do it. Obviously, around
Speaker 12: the time we started getting ready for Super Bowl, I
Speaker 12: was going back to Las Vegas. It was like, damn,
Speaker 12: I got to play Las Vegas. Do these shows, then
Speaker 12: go get ready for super Bowl and let's do a wedding.
Speaker 12: I was like, that's just too much pressure. What did
Speaker 12: we You know, we do a drive through just for
Speaker 12: our kids and our immediate family. You know, oh Vegas style.
Speaker 12: You know how Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley did it.
Speaker 12: You know what I'm saying. So it's like, yo, let's
Speaker 12: go get officiated by an Elvis impersonator.
Speaker 4: And make it fun. You know, you got all the
Speaker 4: pressures that come with getting married.
Speaker 12: You gotta, you know, get you down together and make
Speaker 12: sure everybody's accommodated, to get the food, make sure you're
Speaker 12: spending hundreds of thousands, millions of dollars on on this
Speaker 12: this moment that really is about the union of two
Speaker 12: people and the love of your family.
Speaker 4: So I was happy to have her family there, my
Speaker 4: family there, my kids there, and we did it.
Speaker 12: We did it without any pressure. And finishing the Super
Speaker 12: Bowl was the hardest part. And then getting dressed to
Speaker 12: get there, but then in time to make it to
Speaker 12: the after party and we went and you know, kicked
Speaker 12: it with Snoop and uh and Doctor Dre and my
Speaker 12: flippers party.
Speaker 4: But it was it was cool.
Speaker 1: Man, it was.
Speaker 4: It was wonderful.
Speaker 9: You know, us are regardless of your reputation. As you know, mister,
Speaker 9: don't leave your girl around me. You you you're a
Speaker 9: family man, like you like being married.
Speaker 4: I'm plural.
Speaker 1: Saying terrorists. You see what I'm saying? Minutes?
Speaker 4: What was the important people think? I guess I'm just plural.
Speaker 9: What was the importance of paying tribute to Michael Jackson
Speaker 9: and your performance?
Speaker 1: Because I don't know if people a lot of people see.
Speaker 12: What you don't realize is that there's so many gyms
Speaker 12: that you have yet to unlock.
Speaker 4: You only call one you called Michael. Did you catch Marvin?
Speaker 4: Did you catch the back leg pop for James Brown?
Speaker 4: Did you catch that one?
Speaker 1: I think I called Marvin when you were shirtless?
Speaker 4: No, that that was Teddy P. See you got it?
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, that.
Speaker 12: Was Bobby Brown and Teddy P. I gave a little
Speaker 12: bit of Luther vand Dress in there. The piano moment
Speaker 12: was a ROBERTA. Flack and uh Donny Hathaway.
Speaker 4: You missing them?
Speaker 1: You got to give up some of these easter eggs?
Speaker 17: Now?
Speaker 4: What was the delivererate in all things that I do?
Speaker 12: When I bring the culture of what I am and
Speaker 12: what has made me who I am everywhere I go,
Speaker 12: even right now, you don't even realize it's happening right now.
Speaker 9: Behind look behind them the picture. I see the picture.
Speaker 9: So you saw the Michael What was the Teddy P
Speaker 9: Bobby Brown tribute?
Speaker 12: Well, I mean coming out of my shirt was obviously
Speaker 12: Bobby Brown moment. Teddy P was the was the tank
Speaker 12: top and just you know, just crooning and being able
Speaker 12: to have that that moment.
Speaker 4: All of it is who I am.
Speaker 12: But in what I've done and who I am, I
Speaker 12: recognize all of the people that really paved the way.
Speaker 4: Far too often, man, do we just forget about the
Speaker 4: people that really made it happen. That was a little bit.
Speaker 4: It was it was it was some Ronley in there.
Speaker 4: It was it was Gap band in there.
Speaker 12: It was you didn't catch the gap band and and
Speaker 12: you didn't get that part? No, man, Yeah, it's all
Speaker 12: of them, was there?
Speaker 4: Man? And then Jackson five was there? You heard that
Speaker 4: one can see?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I we would.
Speaker 4: You didn't catch the zap one.
Speaker 1: I gotta go back and watch you if you go back.
Speaker 12: It's a it's an entire education that's happening right in
Speaker 12: front of your eyes.
Speaker 2: I just think it's all.
Speaker 14: Blown away from everything. It was like a party, and
Speaker 14: it was like it was it was amazing.
Speaker 1: It was so much.
Speaker 4: It was what we do, baby, Yeah, we get out
Speaker 4: when we get out.
Speaker 1: We debated about it.
Speaker 9: A lot of people said I was being a prisoner
Speaker 9: of the moment, but I'm just talking about our first watch.
Speaker 9: My initial reaction was that's the best half super Bowl
Speaker 9: halftime performance I've ever seen. And so then the next
Speaker 9: day I went through them and even with it, I'm like,
Speaker 9: I don't see how you you can't say this isn't
Speaker 9: the best for me? The top five is you, Michael Jackson,
Speaker 9: Beyonce the first, well, I think it was the first
Speaker 9: Beyonce when she brought Deathtney's Child out. Yeah, Prince and doctor.
Speaker 2: Dream Snow, I appreciate that game.
Speaker 9: We got more with us. You're coming up, so don't
Speaker 9: go anywhere. It was the most dangerous morning short of
Speaker 9: Breakfast Club. Yes, he was more dangerous morning to short
Speaker 9: to Breakfast Club. Charlamagne God here, Jessa Larrus is here,
Speaker 9: and Usher checked in with us Man to talk all
Speaker 9: things super Bowl and his marriage and all of that
Speaker 9: Good Stuff is a new album that's right coming home.
Speaker 9: So let's talk to Usher right now on the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1: Why didn't things work out with Justin Bible?
Speaker 4: You know what they did work out with Justin?
Speaker 12: You know, I honored and and and and recognized that
Speaker 12: my brother. You know, I think that it might have
Speaker 12: been the fact that he was just you know, wanting
Speaker 12: to tell a different story right now, and I understand that.
Speaker 12: But we did have a brief conversation, and you know,
Speaker 12: we're gonna do something else in the future. But there's
Speaker 12: no love lost or anything like that. I think that
Speaker 12: it's a lot of pressure for the super Bowl, obviously
Speaker 12: for me to put together the show, so I reached
Speaker 12: out to everybody. Justin wasn't the only person that I
Speaker 12: actually spoke to about doing the super Bowl, but the
Speaker 12: moment was maybe for later, he's gonna play the super Bowl.
Speaker 4: I'll go ahead and give you that in the future.
Speaker 12: I profess that over his life and over his time,
Speaker 12: because he has a career that deserves it.
Speaker 4: But it just didn't happen. But that doesn't mean it's
Speaker 4: not going to What.
Speaker 1: Was Chris Brown ever, for consideration, that was another rumor
Speaker 1: about that.
Speaker 4: No, I didn't. I did not reach out to Chris Brown, Okay, okay.
Speaker 9: Is there anybody else? Is anybody else?
Speaker 8: You know?
Speaker 9: I want that There was always there was a rumor
Speaker 9: that you and Chris had a little kerfuffle.
Speaker 12: It's all good, man, you know, it's it's it's actually,
Speaker 12: you know, always going to be something that you're gonna hear,
Speaker 12: you know, issues between me and that man.
Speaker 4: We're good.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 9: If anyone else you wanted on stage with you but
Speaker 9: things didn't work out.
Speaker 4: I can't give you all of that. Tell me I
Speaker 4: wish I could. I can't give you that exclusive.
Speaker 12: If you hear it, by the way, I will confirm it,
Speaker 12: but I will not. Okay, I'm not going to tell
Speaker 12: you everybody I reached out to. I reached out to
Speaker 12: some hitters. I was listening, I was curating. I was
Speaker 12: curating what would be one of the greatest Super Bowls
Speaker 12: of all time, and it actually turned into that because
Speaker 12: of who I reached out to.
Speaker 4: I felt like her.
Speaker 12: She is an amazing artist, but even more amazing guitarist,
Speaker 12: and I wanted the world to see her as the.
Speaker 4: Rock star or rock and soul star she is.
Speaker 12: And Alicia obviously reached out to because we had, you know,
Speaker 12: my boot, and I wanted the world to see her
Speaker 12: as a glamorous start that she was.
Speaker 4: Dak. I dreamt her vision and I always started flowing
Speaker 4: huge dress that would go over the entire stadium.
Speaker 12: It's like I just got this this very I'm just
Speaker 12: real specific about handling, handling our icons the way that
Speaker 12: they need to be handled, and we need to do
Speaker 12: that more often. We can get into the mess, yes,
Speaker 12: and we can absolutely get into the mess to God,
Speaker 12: you know what I'm saying, But Yo, we got to
Speaker 12: handle our icons the right way.
Speaker 4: We gotta make we lift them up on God. You
Speaker 4: understand what I'm saying. But the way that Jay reached out,
Speaker 4: hold on and say is the way that Jay reached
Speaker 4: out because he.
Speaker 12: Understood, Yo, this is a moment for the culture. We
Speaker 12: have to preserve our icons in the same way. Don't
Speaker 12: let the mess bring our icons down because we don't
Speaker 12: get them back and we don't get a chance. Like
Speaker 12: we all human and we all go through things and
Speaker 12: we all want to experience things. But we gotta handle
Speaker 12: high icons the right way. You know, the rock stars
Speaker 12: they handle each other the right way, you know, they don't.
Speaker 4: We don't get caught up in the boy and we shouldn't.
Speaker 12: Let's stop that. Let's let's let's lift our icons up.
Speaker 12: Let's make certain that we keep them preserved. HI at
Speaker 12: the highest place, in the best wardrobe, on the biggest stage,
Speaker 12: in the biggest moment being seen, because they'll surely.
Speaker 4: Forget about us. And if you helped him, and if
Speaker 4: you help them forget about us, they'll do it quicker,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 13: You know, So I just wanted us say I apologize,
Speaker 13: but you said.
Speaker 1: What I said.
Speaker 14: I apologize for helping out the mess because he's talking
Speaker 14: to him. He's very intentional. He's very intentional about the
Speaker 14: stuff that he's saying, and he keeps saying mass and
Speaker 14: just and I understand. So I apologize, But did you
Speaker 14: know Jermaine Duprie was going well.
Speaker 1: At Yeah, y'all didn't keep Jamae Duprix in the highest.
Speaker 4: Of Absolutely, we did know.
Speaker 12: Jermain knew exactly what he was wearing it and you
Speaker 12: know what he should because that's that's his story and
Speaker 12: that's what's dope. Like the reality is the first time
Speaker 12: we saw Michael n glitterary socks, we laughed the first
Speaker 12: time we start Prince with his cheeks out, we all
Speaker 12: laughed and we thought that it was funny until it
Speaker 12: became his moment. It that's his moment we're just looking
Speaker 12: at That's true, but it's cool. Y'all look at it
Speaker 12: however you want. I see something that's going to continue
Speaker 12: to grow. It's all about how you look at life, man, It's.
Speaker 4: How you look at it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll just know this.
Speaker 12: Just know that you definitely have the influence to determine
Speaker 12: how people choose to look at things.
Speaker 4: So frame in the right direction. Because our icons matter.
Speaker 9: And that's why I say, is an icon who should
Speaker 9: always be treated in touch. I'm telling me and the
Speaker 9: dream had this convo and I don't know why. It
Speaker 9: just stuck with me that night when the dream said,
Speaker 9: I'm like, yo, the dream is right. We have to
Speaker 9: celebrate the legends that we have now. I really think
Speaker 9: it's because y'all still here.
Speaker 12: It's not just that it sure as sure as technology
Speaker 12: becomes obsolete, you know, you could assume that music and
Speaker 12: the spirituality that's inside of it will too, but it won't.
Speaker 12: It'll always be there. But why not celebrate the people,
Speaker 12: not just what they made? Let's celebrate them and let's
Speaker 12: make them feel love because they gave something. They dedicated,
Speaker 12: they made you feel something. They made you fall in love,
Speaker 12: they made you happy, they made you smile, they gave
Speaker 12: you energy, they gave you something that you needed in
Speaker 12: that moment.
Speaker 4: So why not continue to lift them up.
Speaker 12: That's why at every show you see me bringing the
Speaker 12: artists that I know have been influential.
Speaker 8: To my stage.
Speaker 4: I ain't hiding them. I'm not trying to make them
Speaker 4: look bad.
Speaker 12: I'm like, no, let's make them look great. Let's continue
Speaker 12: to lift our own people up. Let's lift each other up.
Speaker 12: Let's continue to push each other up. Just you know,
Speaker 12: I stay on you, leyo, do it better? Come on,
Speaker 12: do it better?
Speaker 13: Yes, lift me up there, I got you.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna keep pushing you. I'm gonna make you great.
Speaker 4: I want you to be great. That's it. That's all
Speaker 4: I want. I want greatness for our people. I won't
Speaker 4: I won't. I want our people to make certain that
Speaker 4: we know we are great.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 9: You know, have you seen some of your old moments,
Speaker 9: like when you was on stage with Nicki Minaj and
Speaker 9: you was head button or ass.
Speaker 1: Why would you saw Why would you sawing hinge?
Speaker 12: In that moment, By the way, it was just making
Speaker 12: you see, you gotta go to you gotta go to Jamaica.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: That was just the moment that was that was fun.
Speaker 12: And by the way, it was me playing my bass,
Speaker 12: so I would have probably bumped my shoulder on my hand,
Speaker 12: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: But I had my base in my hands I was playing,
Speaker 4: so I just kind of bopped off a body a
Speaker 4: little bit.
Speaker 12: And if you go back and look at the video
Speaker 12: you'll understand because I did it there the first time.
Speaker 4: That was a little bit of Jamaican coaching.
Speaker 1: It was all being out like I think.
Speaker 12: I think I was reaching a big when I spacked
Speaker 12: her though I shouldn't spect it, but I shouldn't did that.
Speaker 2: See you gotta lift up man, you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: I was lifting.
Speaker 9: And I always wondered to what was what was your
Speaker 9: reaction to the Boondocks episode about you man?
Speaker 1: That keeps coming up, That's been coming up all week too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I hate Regina about that and they you know,
Speaker 4: they they crazy.
Speaker 12: It was It's funny, but I guess that's that's the
Speaker 12: truth of the other side of what happens.
Speaker 4: That's the Usher effect. I guess I don't know.
Speaker 13: Most talked man, that is who you are.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I appreciate that.
Speaker 12: But hey, in no way anything that was done there
Speaker 12: should have been viewed as bad or in any way
Speaker 12: perverted or anything like that. No, it was literally about,
Speaker 12: you know, having having fun because of a song that
Speaker 12: me and Alisha made many years ago, and we celebrated
Speaker 12: because of the legacy of it, and no disrespect to
Speaker 12: anybody or anything like that.
Speaker 1: Have you in Swiss and Alisha shared a laugh about it.
Speaker 12: All of me absolutely laughed about it. It's crazy how
Speaker 12: people pick they handle. It's all about how you present things, man,
Speaker 12: But it's all of One of my shout outs, shout
Speaker 12: out to the Dean Collection.
Speaker 4: Y'all get out to Brooklyn and check out the check
Speaker 4: out the Dean Collection.
Speaker 9: This year we got more with us are coming up,
Speaker 9: so don't go anywhere. The was the most Dangerous morning
Speaker 9: short of Breakfast Club. Yeah, the onl Mos dangerous morning
Speaker 9: short of Breakfast Club. Charlamagne to God Here, Jessa Larius
Speaker 9: is here and Usher checked in with us man to
Speaker 9: talk all things super Bowl and his marriage and all
Speaker 9: of that good stuff is a new album that's right
Speaker 9: coming home. So let's talk to us right now on
Speaker 9: the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 13: Tell us about your Black Love and Atlanta TV show.
Speaker 4: Oh It's coming.
Speaker 12: I think that we as artists, there's a price that
Speaker 12: we all have to pay in entering this industry. And
Speaker 12: most of the time we either sell off our publishing
Speaker 12: or either we don't we don't retain it because it's
Speaker 12: not an option too, or either we don't value it
Speaker 12: because it doesn't have value in theory.
Speaker 4: But what the value becomes is something that people have
Speaker 4: already recognized. A story, a song.
Speaker 12: Storytelling is something that I've always done. So what I
Speaker 12: did is I've taken the songs of the masters that
Speaker 12: I don't own, and I reframed them into now something
Speaker 12: that is a narrative piece that you'll be able to see.
Speaker 12: So you already know what the story is, and you
Speaker 12: know what the crescendo of the story is. But here's
Speaker 12: just another way of you flipping. You know, a hustler,
Speaker 12: you know what I'm saying, if you want to call
Speaker 12: it a hustle. But the reality is I own the idea,
Speaker 12: but I don't necessarily own the IP, so why not
Speaker 12: go after some other portion of it to use it
Speaker 12: to storytell?
Speaker 4: How does it make sense?
Speaker 9: It makes How does it feel to have coming home
Speaker 9: speaking and out of the field, have coming home on
Speaker 9: your own label?
Speaker 4: That's amazing?
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 12: I'm really hoping that it continues to pave the way
Speaker 12: and show, you know, artists who have been in this
Speaker 12: industry for you know, thirty plus years, that no matter
Speaker 12: you know, how long you may be in it, you know,
Speaker 12: keep going, keep going.
Speaker 4: Keep striving, find great partnerships.
Speaker 12: Because it's really a result of having an amazing partnership
Speaker 12: with La and also to Larry Jackson that makes it
Speaker 12: what it is. But you know, thirty years after signing
Speaker 12: my first deal and having now come back as an
Speaker 12: independent artist and having the type of reaction to my music,
Speaker 12: I don't take that lightly.
Speaker 4: I do appreciate the love.
Speaker 12: I do appreciate the fact that people you know, that
Speaker 12: gravitating towards the music, that they're interested in it, that
Speaker 12: they it connects with their lives as it has connected
Speaker 12: to mine.
Speaker 4: And this is just the next chapter installation of my life.
Speaker 9: Ruin is one of my favorite songs off the album.
Speaker 14: Oh my god, you knew I was going to say
Speaker 14: that because I'm the one to put you on with
Speaker 14: the song us should anyway?
Speaker 13: I love Ruined what Feels? And I was going to
Speaker 13: ask you.
Speaker 14: It is my favorite's one of my favorite songs, but
Speaker 14: it is the one that I do my makeup to
Speaker 14: every morning.
Speaker 4: What was that to give you a whole book of youse?
Speaker 4: I love that. I love your EU.
Speaker 1: Thank you?
Speaker 4: Who did you?
Speaker 13: Who inspired that song? No, he's not, He's just Usher.
Speaker 13: It's Usher that I want to know who inspired ruined?
Speaker 4: Life inspired ruined?
Speaker 12: You know the idea that you know we can be
Speaker 12: in relationships that you know can can change your perspective.
Speaker 4: You know, you can open yourself up, you know, especially
Speaker 4: for men. You know what I'm saying. It's like, you
Speaker 4: know how hard it is to get my heart to open.
Speaker 4: And then when it you know, this one, it killed me.
Speaker 4: It pushed me back. It made me look at every
Speaker 4: woman differently until I met my daughter. And then she
Speaker 4: ruined me in a different.
Speaker 12: Way because she's like spoiled and all the things that
Speaker 12: she should be at her three year old as a
Speaker 12: three major.
Speaker 4: She she ruined me.
Speaker 12: But you know, before that The song ideally is about
Speaker 12: when you're in a relationship with somebody who you know,
Speaker 12: you try to you try to get it right, and
Speaker 12: then you just can't. And it's like you just you
Speaker 12: don't look at it. You don't look at any relationship
Speaker 12: the same because of that one until you meet the
Speaker 12: one who replaces that love in your heart.
Speaker 4: That's why I shot the video the way that I did.
Speaker 13: Yes, and that is I bet you you can see
Speaker 13: the video. It's a really really nice visual.
Speaker 2: I really love it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 12: The completion of that is is the joy, the joy
Speaker 12: that my wife gave me and giving me my first daughter.
Speaker 12: You know, I love my boys, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 12: But every man who has a daughter, he understands what
Speaker 12: I'm saying when I say that daughters change you.
Speaker 2: I got full.
Speaker 4: They replace it, They replace a love that you can't explain.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 9: When you talk about relationships, Ussha and you talk I
Speaker 9: saw when you talk about being in toxic relationships throughout
Speaker 9: your life, can you admit to yourself that you might
Speaker 9: have been toxic once at some point?
Speaker 4: Absolutely?
Speaker 12: Okay, absolutely, you know uh and and it's obviously in
Speaker 12: the music to say so, But I think that We
Speaker 12: all are a product of what experiences we had as
Speaker 12: kids and what our idea of love is and what
Speaker 12: we you know, we perceive to actually be healthy love
Speaker 12: that might not necessarily be access is something that all
Speaker 12: you know people do have.
Speaker 4: But you know, is it better to have a.
Speaker 12: Ton when you really, you know, should really love yourself first?
Speaker 12: You know, all of those I mean, it's I was
Speaker 12: taught to be a player. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 12: Hey player from the him Malayas. You know what I'm
Speaker 12: saying was I was killing them, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: But you know.
Speaker 9: This man is a minute man.
Speaker 12: Yeah, you know what I'm saying and probably turned down
Speaker 12: more than I could ever choose to say. But I'm saying,
Speaker 12: like to be real toxic is something that I think
Speaker 12: we all got to individually work through.
Speaker 1: And I did.
Speaker 4: I did it. You know, in a matter of about
Speaker 4: five to six years of my life.
Speaker 12: Things changed because I changed because at my forty, my
Speaker 12: forty at the year changed my perspective and it made
Speaker 12: me want something more.
Speaker 4: It made me want to love myself more.
Speaker 12: It made me want to be a better person, hopefully
Speaker 12: for my children, so that they didn't have to be
Speaker 12: toxic in their lives.
Speaker 4: You know. But I think that all of it is,
Speaker 4: you know, kind of you know, living and learning.
Speaker 9: That's interesting you say that, because I feel like when
Speaker 9: you made that change, and we didn't even know you
Speaker 9: made that change, that's when it seemed like you started
Speaker 9: to get your flowers in a real way. That's when
Speaker 9: things started to shift, like the residency and everything started.
Speaker 1: Around that time.
Speaker 9: So that says a lot. You did the work on
Speaker 9: yourself and it came back to you in life.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we all can't. We all should.
Speaker 12: And part of it is is wanting to uh that
Speaker 12: belief and unwavering commitment to what you believe in your
Speaker 12: mind no matter what life is presenting you or what
Speaker 12: people may say about you. That doesn't matter what you
Speaker 12: feel about you matters.
Speaker 4: What I say I am is what matters. I'm a
Speaker 4: ruler in my own mind.
Speaker 12: I'm a king and I am building a kingdom in
Speaker 12: my own mind, and that is all that matters, no
Speaker 12: matter what may be said, no matter what anyone could
Speaker 12: choose to say.
Speaker 4: What I say matters.
Speaker 12: What I say goes in my life, and I am
Speaker 12: the architect of my own destiny. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 12: and that's just something you.
Speaker 4: Got to you gotta remember, you gotta you gotta remind
Speaker 4: yourself of that every day, young man.
Speaker 12: Remind yourself that every day, young lady, that you are
Speaker 12: as great as you say you are, and if you
Speaker 12: believe it, it.
Speaker 4: Will be.
Speaker 9: Perfect. Way and man, Usher, make sure y'all go get
Speaker 9: the Coming Home album. Make sure you go check out
Speaker 9: Russia when he hits the roll this year.
Speaker 13: Yes, because I'm definitely going.
Speaker 12: Yeah, Yes, I'll see you out there cause you're coming
Speaker 12: to be more. You coming to Atlanta. We're playing for
Speaker 12: in Brooklyn, just so y'all know. So y'all get over there.
Speaker 14: Well, I gotta come to Baltimore, like I really gotta
Speaker 14: come in in. I gotta you're gonna bring.
Speaker 4: Me DC, Baltimore, Atlanta. I mean you Houston, but I
Speaker 4: got in Miami, but.
Speaker 9: I'm from Baltimore.
Speaker 2: I gotta go.
Speaker 13: I gotta go to the You're gonna bring me on
Speaker 13: stay so I can say I love you or do.
Speaker 4: I got you? All right?
Speaker 1: It's Usher Raymond. Y'all, thank you for checking in. My brother.
Speaker 4: You're bringing your husband with you.
Speaker 2: I should am, I am.
Speaker 13: I'll be married by then. Yes, I'm gonna bring it
Speaker 13: with me.
Speaker 9: He want to make sure you bring your husband so
Speaker 9: he can have something extra special, spicy done to you.
Speaker 2: That's what that's what you want.
Speaker 13: No, you're gonna lift me up, he said, He's gonna
Speaker 13: keep pushing me.
Speaker 9: It's Usher Raymond. It's the breakfast Club.
Speaker 2: If you're like into the breakfast club.
Speaker 1: This time for Donkey of the Day.
Speaker 14: Donkey, I'm a Democrat, so being Donky of the Day
Speaker 14: is a little bit of a mixed so like a
Speaker 14: donkey here today.
Speaker 1: Club.
Speaker 2: Now I've been called a lot of my twenty three
Speaker 2: years that Donkey of.
Speaker 13: The Bay is a new wife.
Speaker 9: Yes, Donkey to day goes to a former where the
Speaker 9: music at Eddie can't. Okay, now we're talking. Go to
Speaker 9: a former target worker from Virginia named by zen Bear
Speaker 9: I think that's his name, who has been sentenced to
Speaker 9: a whole century in prison, one hundred years. I have
Speaker 9: no idea why judges be playing with people like that, Like,
Speaker 9: what is the point? Just sentence me to favil Okay,
Speaker 9: just sentence me to for all of eternity. Matter of fact,
Speaker 9: just let me ask the judge a question. Judge, am
Speaker 9: I ever getting out and the judge can simply say
Speaker 9: no period. Okay, anything sounds better than one hundred years.
Speaker 9: My brain can't even process that. If it judge gives
Speaker 9: you one hundred years, you should automatically be granted permission
Speaker 9: to run and swan dive over the desk at that judge. Okay,
Speaker 9: that's when you're supposed to make those kinds of leaps.
Speaker 9: But once again, as I tell y'all every other day,
Speaker 9: life is about choices. Okay, Destiny is not a matter
Speaker 9: of chance. It's a matter of choice, and Bazin Barr
Speaker 9: made a very poor choice. Now, today's donkey of the
Speaker 9: Day is a teachable moment because so many people have
Speaker 9: been faced with the challenge that Bizin was faced with.
Speaker 9: So many people every day who listen to the Breakfast
Speaker 9: Club have had to deal with what Bizin has had
Speaker 9: to deal with. Okay, but I bet you handled it
Speaker 9: better than he did. What are you talking about, cause Challah? Well,
Speaker 9: let's go to A seven's ABC seven News. ABC seven
Speaker 9: dues on your side for the report polease knew it?
Speaker 16: For a judge's sentence see an Alexandria man to one
Speaker 16: hundred years in prison after he killed his coworker in
Speaker 16: a target parking lot in Bailey's Crossroads. Back in twenty
Speaker 16: twenty one, twenty five year old bos And Berry killed
Speaker 16: Hernan Levia. During the trial, prosecutors argue that Barry planned
Speaker 16: the murder after his coworker took his lunch from the
Speaker 16: office fridge. Days later, Barry attacked the victim and stabbed
Speaker 16: him several times after their work shift. Barry plead guilty
Speaker 16: to first degree murder in October.
Speaker 17: Lunch, bro, you killed someone because they stole your lunch
Speaker 17: out of the fridge at work, because they stole your
Speaker 17: food out of the refrigerator.
Speaker 9: I understand sometime life is about principle. Okay, I get it.
Speaker 9: He thought you was soft. You had to show him otherwise.
Speaker 1: But now what You.
Speaker 9: Killed someone over lunch only to go to prison and
Speaker 9: end up being someone snack And you gave it because
Speaker 9: what else do you have to do over the next
Speaker 9: one hundred years? And he's only twenty five, little young tender. Okay,
Speaker 9: I'm telling you. People are sick out here all right.
Speaker 9: Folks need psychiatric help. So many people that are walking
Speaker 9: amongst us need to be under somebody's care. They need
Speaker 9: to be medical. I don't know what this man was
Speaker 9: dealing with. I don't know what he was going through
Speaker 9: or whatever it was. This situation puts him over the edge.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 9: You don't just go zero to sixty over a sandwich,
Speaker 9: all right. This must have been a meal his grandmother
Speaker 9: or mother cook, and he bought the leftover with him
Speaker 9: to work. This had to be some sort of comfort
Speaker 9: food like this food had to have some sentimental value, okay.
Speaker 9: That he had to be something that this man was
Speaker 9: looking forward to. And you had the audacity to steal it,
Speaker 9: eat it, and then just come back to work like
Speaker 9: it's all good. Called the man to snap.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 9: I can't believe I have to say this, but I
Speaker 9: don't care how disgruntled you are. There is not a
Speaker 9: chicken salad anywhere on this planet that's good enough to
Speaker 9: take somebody's life and get a century in prison. I
Speaker 9: don't even know if he was eating chicken salad, But
Speaker 9: wouldn't it be ironic if he did all of this
Speaker 9: for a toss salad only to end up in prison
Speaker 9: tossing salads for the next one hundred Yes, listen to me, though, man,
Speaker 9: it's a lot of things that's interesting to me about
Speaker 9: this story. But one that stands out is he thought
Speaker 9: about this when you read the report, he thought about this.
Speaker 9: It's a premeditated murder. He didn't look in the fridge
Speaker 9: and see his lunch was stolen. He went home, okay
Speaker 9: and said, well, he didn't just look in the fridge
Speaker 9: and see his lunch was stolen, and then you know,
Speaker 9: confront the man right there. He went home and said
Speaker 9: he spent the next few days plotting his revenge.
Speaker 1: Think about that. He went home for three days.
Speaker 9: And plotted his revenge. And this is why I think
Speaker 9: like meditation is so important, breathing exercises, having someone to
Speaker 9: talk to you.
Speaker 1: Mean to tell me.
Speaker 9: Over the course of three days, he couldn't let go
Speaker 9: of the fact that his tuna sandwich got stolen, his
Speaker 9: homemade pizza peanut butter jelly sandwich got took and he
Speaker 9: couldn't shake that off. This man had severe anger issues
Speaker 9: that he never got the help for. And that is
Speaker 9: the moral of the story. Anger resembles fire, and like
Speaker 9: the fire, if you keep feeding it, it will get
Speaker 9: stronger and harm you. If you stop feeding anger with
Speaker 9: your attention, it will fade away. This man held this
Speaker 9: for three days. Not one of those days did he
Speaker 9: have lunch. One lunch after the lunch that God stolen
Speaker 9: will remind him that lunch goes on.
Speaker 1: He was moving like he only had one.
Speaker 9: Lunch to live, and that's not how lunch works. Listen,
Speaker 9: we must be willing to let go of the lunch
Speaker 9: we planned so as to have the lunch that is
Speaker 9: waiting for us, not you basing, no, no, no. The
Speaker 9: lunch that is waiting for you right now is two
Speaker 9: mixed grain sandwiches, one roast beef relish and salad, our
Speaker 9: tomato mayo and salad, one egg mayonnaise in salad, and
Speaker 9: one serving a fresh fruit. That's what's waiting for you
Speaker 9: for the next hundred years. Dinner gonna go crazy, though,
Speaker 9: one maybe two blue vein sausages. Okay, that beef whistle
Speaker 9: you gotta blow on because it may be too hot. Okay,
Speaker 9: you don't even want to see that custard luncher for dessert. Okay,
Speaker 9: please give bazen Bear the biggest he hull crazy world
Speaker 9: are we living in, y'all? Mister breakfast Club, Good morning.
Speaker 15: The Breakfast Club, owing everybody, It's the j Envy Jess
Speaker 15: Hilariy Isshalla mean the guy we are the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 15: We got a special guest in.
Speaker 1: The building, the legendary Jermaine dupri Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's having up, Jenny going on? Now let's talk
Speaker 2: about Freakney, this Freaknick documentary.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 15: Now, when making this documentary, you had tons of ladies
Speaker 15: and men scared that they were going to see their pictures,
Speaker 15: their asses on the screen. But it was it was
Speaker 15: well done. It wasn't done in a disrespectful way. It
Speaker 15: was it was so explain to it this documentary.
Speaker 18: How it came out, Yeah, I mean it came about
Speaker 18: I think Luke was trying to do this initially, and
Speaker 18: then they started having conversations about it, and Luke said,
Speaker 18: you know, he can't do it if I wasn't involved.
Speaker 2: And then when they came to talk to me about it,
Speaker 2: I said the same thing to them.
Speaker 18: I'm like, well, I wouldn't do this if wasn't involved,
Speaker 18: and they like, well we got Luke, so we got you,
Speaker 18: and I'm like yeah. So it went from there and
Speaker 18: then it just kind of just started moving pretty fast.
Speaker 18: And then I just wanted to make sure that the
Speaker 18: story was told from all perspectives because the people that
Speaker 18: was concerned about the ass is showing and all of that.
Speaker 18: They don't understand how young I was when Freak Nick
Speaker 18: was actually popping. So my perspective of Freaknick wasn't that perspective.
Speaker 18: I ain't see all that because I wasn't able to
Speaker 18: get into the clubs and all of this type of stuff.
Speaker 18: So my perspective was I was part of the street traffic.
Speaker 18: I was out in the streets, I was dancing outside
Speaker 18: the cars. I was on Pea Street. I was that
Speaker 18: was that was a part of freak Nick, and I
Speaker 18: saw other people saw Luke got a different story than
Speaker 18: other people. So it's just really important for me to
Speaker 18: see make sure that we made you see everybody's different perspective.
Speaker 18: How much did y'all have to water to duck down
Speaker 18: because of this laying mass cancel culture.
Speaker 2: Era that none?
Speaker 18: Because I mean you, I feel like, ultimately what people
Speaker 18: don't understand is this is black culture.
Speaker 2: Are you embarrassed by culching?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 18: Are you embarrassed that you went to a HBCU and
Speaker 18: this is how y'all act? If that's how you feel,
Speaker 18: then you should just change your color of your skin,
Speaker 18: because this is that's life. In Atlanta, we got four,
Speaker 18: you know what I mean. Where everywhere else got one,
Speaker 18: y'all got Hampton and one.
Speaker 2: We have four of them.
Speaker 18: So if you put all of that energy in one place,
Speaker 18: it's just what black culture is. Absolutely How did twenty
Speaker 18: one Savage get to be a part of it? I
Speaker 18: know that this was youall, Era, you and Uncle Luke,
Speaker 18: but how did hook up it? Well, twenty one he
Speaker 18: been doing his birthday party and the theme with his
Speaker 18: birthday party is Freaknick, even for the past couple of years.
Speaker 18: So at first I was like no, but then you
Speaker 18: know he lived Atlanta, he from well, I mean, you know,
Speaker 18: he's not from Atlanta, but he's from Base basically from Atlanta.
Speaker 18: So if you're from Atlanta, you felt the repercussions of
Speaker 18: something from Freaknik at some point.
Speaker 15: It's crazy because you know, going to Hampton. Of course,
Speaker 15: Freaknik created so many different gatherings right Philly, Greek Fourth
Speaker 15: of July and Virginia Jones Beach, New York City. It
Speaker 15: all started from Freaknick.
Speaker 2: But I just thought it was a party that a
Speaker 2: party that was created just for people a while out.
Speaker 2: That's what I thought it was. When when you were
Speaker 2: in college what you think it was.
Speaker 15: But the fact that it was created for students that
Speaker 15: didn't have any money was something you want to break
Speaker 15: that down because I thought it was created for a
Speaker 15: whole different reason.
Speaker 18: Well, I mean, that's what I'm saying a lot of people.
Speaker 18: I didn't go to college, so I can't you know
Speaker 18: what I mean. I didn't know that either. So the
Speaker 18: the person that's watching this, that's probably me that didn't
Speaker 18: go to college, that don't know nothing about that lifestyle.
Speaker 18: You don't understand that these kids that come from DC
Speaker 18: or New York or wherever they come, they go all
Speaker 18: the way to Atlanta. You think that they got money
Speaker 18: to just fly back home on spring break and just
Speaker 18: well back then, we didn't fly back. We would drive exactly.
Speaker 18: We didn't know what I'm saying. So it's like that's
Speaker 18: another thing that that this documentary shows of how unmanual
Speaker 18: we are as people. Unmanual, Yeah, unmanual, because we are
Speaker 18: as people because you guys used to drive. Now, when
Speaker 18: you think you're gonna see four girls from New York
Speaker 18: getting a car and drive to Atlanta just to have fun,
Speaker 18: no way, it's never their lines ninety You know what
Speaker 18: I'm saying, so it just shows you that type of stuff.
Speaker 18: And then like you know, so you you should see
Speaker 18: that freak Nick is like, oh, these were some kids
Speaker 18: that couldn't go home. They didn't know what their spring
Speaker 18: break was gonna be. Like they watching all these white
Speaker 18: kids go to go to then the beach and all this,
Speaker 18: and they got money. But these kids are stuck in Lanta.
Speaker 18: It ain't got no money. So they threw a picnic
Speaker 18: that turned into freak Nick. That's a that's an American
Speaker 18: black history story.
Speaker 1: Oh, people weren't afraid to be broke back then.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean you have no trust trust to
Speaker 2: be afraid.
Speaker 9: But no, nowadays, people confront right, so everybody can pretend
Speaker 9: to something that you can pretend to have more than
Speaker 9: you got.
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to.
Speaker 18: I mean they still they, you know they they I mean,
Speaker 18: well you yeah, you know, I'll be saying, these girls
Speaker 18: go to Tuloom and I'm sure they sharing rooms.
Speaker 2: Yeah, didn't matter like that didn't you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 15: It didn't matter like you would go to you know,
Speaker 15: Philly Greek or Fourth of July and Virginia and it'd
Speaker 15: be seven of us in the room, and nobody thought
Speaker 15: about it saying it wasn't we broke and be like,
Speaker 15: oh you got the floor, you got the eye, you
Speaker 15: take your quick shout.
Speaker 2: But that's what it was. It was all hanging out
Speaker 2: as brothers. It didn't matter. That's why I thought it
Speaker 2: was for me.
Speaker 18: That's why as we got into it, that's why I
Speaker 18: was like, this has to come out because people we
Speaker 18: don't see this in black culture. We just keep trying
Speaker 18: to make it seem like everybody got money and everybody
Speaker 18: do this and nothing. No, it was a time when
Speaker 18: none of that mattered, right, And I I liked when
Speaker 18: Jalen Rose was somethingbout how he got to Freaknick. He
Speaker 18: took his cousin car something, and it was just like,
Speaker 18: as long as I get a car, I'm out, we
Speaker 18: get into Freaknick. And that was the same thing with me.
Speaker 18: When I was well six, Chambe, I had just got
Speaker 18: my first car. My first car was a Valari, a
Speaker 18: two door Valori. Probably listening don't even know what that is.
Speaker 18: But it was an ugly ass car that looked like
Speaker 18: a Pacer mixed with something else, right, And I ain't
Speaker 18: care what the car looked like. I just was able
Speaker 18: to drive around Atlanta while this was happening, and that's all.
Speaker 18: That's ultimately what your The goal was, can you get
Speaker 18: into the freaknick, Can you get into traffic? If you're
Speaker 18: sitting at home and you can't get it, that's when
Speaker 18: you're mad. But if you have a car, that's what all.
Speaker 18: That's all it was about.
Speaker 15: It's crazy how how how they easily canceled black events
Speaker 15: right while you look at Daytuna Beach, you look at
Speaker 15: Miami spring Break, you look at where the white kids
Speaker 15: go for their spring break, and they wild out, they
Speaker 15: get drunk, they fight, and all types of stuff. But
Speaker 15: those events never get canceled. It seemed like they tried
Speaker 15: to tame it, but they just totally canceled freaking it,
Speaker 15: which is crazy.
Speaker 2: I mean they had to because it was bad.
Speaker 18: I mean it got to a point now And I'm
Speaker 18: not talking about the misconduct with the guys and the girls.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about just the traffic and how the city
Speaker 2: was dealing with it.
Speaker 18: Because ultimately, these guys that was at they school, they
Speaker 18: started something. They never talked to the people in the city,
Speaker 18: so the city had no idea what was actually happening.
Speaker 2: When it got out of control.
Speaker 18: They just start trying to control it the best way
Speaker 18: they could, but they weren't even talking to the DC
Speaker 18: Metro Club, right, So it's like at that point, it's
Speaker 18: like Frankenstein. You're gonna created a monster and y'all can't
Speaker 18: control this. You got the only thing you can do
Speaker 18: is shut it down at least for a second and
Speaker 18: try to see if y'all can figure out how.
Speaker 2: To make it work. Did it ever come back? We
Speaker 2: tried a couple of years ago. Now I don't think.
Speaker 18: I mean, I think it could come back, you know,
Speaker 18: if people really really sit down and figure out how
Speaker 18: to make it into essence Fest, because that's basically what
Speaker 18: it should have become. It should have become the essence
Speaker 18: Fest of Atlanta, Right. But the traffic part of it
Speaker 18: that was.
Speaker 1: The most of the people who go to others now
Speaker 1: probably used to go to Freaking.
Speaker 2: All them black people was at Freaking.
Speaker 15: You just got to define the name because when people
Speaker 15: hear the name Freaknick, they think it's gonna be a yeah.
Speaker 2: But I'm saying we can get past that. We got
Speaker 2: Slutty Vegan now, I.
Speaker 9: Don't think it's too much cameras now, yeah, that's another thing.
Speaker 2: I think that that's that's the other thing. That's the
Speaker 2: only thing I would say.
Speaker 18: If you go to Freaknick, now, you gotta put your
Speaker 18: phone away because you have missed the girls dancing on
Speaker 18: the cars, like the fact that you was driving down
Speaker 18: the street and you were looking for everything. It's how
Speaker 18: you saw freaking it. If somebody down there doing this,
Speaker 18: you're gonna miss every So that's another thing you gotta
Speaker 18: you know. And maybe the hype of it and people
Speaker 18: saying it might make people want to see it. But
Speaker 18: I just think people are so like attached to their
Speaker 18: phones and they think everything is more important than their phone,
Speaker 18: as opposed and seeing what's happening outside.
Speaker 9: And how come nobody ever focuses on some of the
Speaker 9: women that went down there because they wanted to have
Speaker 9: a good time, Like they wanted to go out there
Speaker 9: and be loose and wild and liberated.
Speaker 2: Because you'reaking out.
Speaker 18: Oh yeah, we talked about that, Okay, we let the
Speaker 18: girls talk about that, the show that they was grabbing
Speaker 18: the dudes.
Speaker 19: You know.
Speaker 1: Ways both ways, we.
Speaker 2: Got more with Jamaine Dupre when we come back. It's
Speaker 2: the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 15: Good morning morning, everybody, it's DJ Envy, Jesse, Hilari Charlamage,
Speaker 15: the guy we are the Breakfast Club is still kicking
Speaker 15: it with Jamaine Dupre.
Speaker 9: You think Uncle Luke's music helped our hurt Freaknick.
Speaker 18: It helped between Uncle Luke and Social Based All Stars.
Speaker 18: That's the soundtrack of Freaknick, you know what I mean.
Speaker 18: And it was like I also think now with Miami
Speaker 18: shutting down spring Break and all that, it's the music.
Speaker 18: Nothing's making you dance, right, nothing making you jump on
Speaker 18: top of the cars. You see people doing it, but
Speaker 18: they doing it to music that don't really have that vibration.
Speaker 18: Right at Freaknick, the girls was dancing so hard and
Speaker 18: the guys was dancing so hard. You ain't had time
Speaker 18: to be worrying about nobody deside, Like the energy level
Speaker 18: was just too high, right, And I just think the
Speaker 18: Loop music, like I said, the social debase. Also, the
Speaker 18: music was making you dance in a different space and
Speaker 18: it made you think about you was like this and
Speaker 18: it wasn't You don't have time to be like hey, no, no,
Speaker 18: you know what I mean. We ain't come down here
Speaker 18: for that. We came down here to see these girls.
Speaker 18: Let's go see these girls. It's almost like the mentality
Speaker 18: of a man when you go to the strip club. Right,
Speaker 18: I go to strip club every week. You go to
Speaker 18: the strip club. Guys don't come in the strip club
Speaker 18: looking for me. They come in the strip club to
Speaker 18: see the girls.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 18: That was the mentality of Freaknick, And for some reason
Speaker 18: that's that's kind of lost in the space that we
Speaker 18: live in now.
Speaker 2: I just want to go see what other is wearing.
Speaker 1: We'll speaking of that.
Speaker 9: Speaking of that, if Freak Nick didn't come back to day,
Speaker 9: would you wear the boss Baby outfit?
Speaker 2: You were the super Bowl boss Baby outfit?
Speaker 1: What was it?
Speaker 9: What was what was the what was the inspiration behind
Speaker 9: that outfit?
Speaker 1: Gey?
Speaker 2: First of all, I had on a tux seed though
Speaker 2: with shorts very similar to what I.
Speaker 1: Have on to day.
Speaker 2: I have on a tie, a regular suit shirt and
Speaker 2: I got on shorts.
Speaker 9: It's very boised men.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean everything.
Speaker 18: And it's Vegas, right, you know what I'm saying. It's
Speaker 18: it's a super Bowl. It's the biggest event in the world.
Speaker 2: I could have went up there with the start jacket
Speaker 2: and started hat How regularly is that?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 18: Like I'm just saying, I think sometimes people don't realize, like,
Speaker 18: I'm in an entertainment business and I'm getting ready to
Speaker 18: do the biggest show of Usher's life, not in my life.
Speaker 18: I guess you want to say, We're going on the
Speaker 18: biggest stage in the world and I should be wearing
Speaker 18: a baseball cap and looking like a regular ass in
Speaker 18: the streets.
Speaker 1: Nah.
Speaker 18: Nah, I mean that's that was the thought behind it, right.
Speaker 18: So it was more or less like a while ago,
Speaker 18: like Enviewoman, we started this thing called the Ocean seven, right,
Speaker 18: and it was me Usher, John ta be Cox All.
Speaker 18: We used to go to Vegas and we got dressed
Speaker 18: and we'd be dressed up. So I wanted to actually
Speaker 18: have a piece of that in what we was doing
Speaker 18: that you know, we in Vegas. Like, you don't go
Speaker 18: to Usher show. I seen you at Usher show. You
Speaker 18: was dressed you and you know what I mean. You
Speaker 18: don't go to Vegas with your football on. You just
Speaker 18: don't do that like you did to get people talking. Basically, No,
Speaker 18: I didn't do it to get people talking. I didn't
Speaker 18: even think nobody was gonna pay no attention to it.
Speaker 18: I had on a tux seed though with a tie
Speaker 18: in a regular shirt. The socks threw people off.
Speaker 2: They were talking about. They't they didn't care about the
Speaker 2: tucks they were about.
Speaker 18: They were talking about the socks, right, and the socks
Speaker 18: once again, the socks. I understand why if I keep
Speaker 18: saying something about the socks because they do look like
Speaker 18: I guess what they say the Bobby socks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but they not did. I don't have nothing to
Speaker 2: do with that. They don't look nothing like that once
Speaker 2: you get up on the socks.
Speaker 18: Like I said, it's just I don't know. It's my
Speaker 18: man's line, right. First of all, that's another thing for relse.
Speaker 2: My man ain't doubts man.
Speaker 18: Right, I don't notice it. So in support of my
Speaker 18: homeboy line. I mean, I wasn't even thinking about it.
Speaker 18: You know, it just happened. But I mean, listen, I
Speaker 18: put my first group out of nineteen ninety two. I
Speaker 18: was trending in twenty twenty four. Yeah, y'all can say
Speaker 18: what you want to say.
Speaker 9: Still got number one records. What did US's Super Bowl
Speaker 9: halftime performance mean to you?
Speaker 2: Everything?
Speaker 9: As the architect, really the architect of us yet we're
Speaker 9: being honest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, everything, It means everything because when we made my way.
Speaker 18: The discussion that he and I had making that record
Speaker 18: was that he wanted to get to that space, and
Speaker 18: once he got to that space, he wanted people to
Speaker 18: realize he did it his way. That's how that whole
Speaker 18: album came about. So for me to be in that
Speaker 18: seat and watch it go from my way to this,
Speaker 18: I probably was the most proud. And then at the
Speaker 18: same time, I mean, you know, he did six of
Speaker 18: my songs on It's you know, it's not a bunch
Speaker 18: of say crazy, They had six of these songs performed
Speaker 18: on Super Bowl. I argue with somebody up here the
Speaker 18: other day when when they heard Confessions, right, younger person
Speaker 18: and they were like, yeah, he wrote confession. I was like,
Speaker 18: you know, confessions about Jamine d that Jamaine the pre
Speaker 18: wrote that that's factual.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so yeah.
Speaker 18: So I mean I wrote you Make Me Want to,
Speaker 18: I wrote My Way, I wrote nice and Slow. I
Speaker 18: wrote Confessions. I wrote you Got It Bad, I wrote
Speaker 18: my Boo. I wrote all these songs. I mean, you know,
Speaker 18: people be like breaking it down when they when they
Speaker 18: talk about it and they say confessions, but nice and slow,
Speaker 18: all these songs I wrote, you know what I mean, Like,
Speaker 18: so it's just the story of Confessions, I think took
Speaker 18: over and it was like I was that guy.
Speaker 2: I was the person that was in that position. But
Speaker 2: it happened right when he broke up with Chili, so
Speaker 2: people were just assumed that he was writing it about Chili.
Speaker 18: Yeah, but that was yeah for something. Yeah, And I
Speaker 18: mean even when writing it, I didn't think about I
Speaker 18: wouldn't even think about that. You know, you just go
Speaker 18: to the studio, you write songs. It's not even about
Speaker 18: I mean, sometimes you have a motive behind it. But
Speaker 18: we was trying to just follow up.
Speaker 12: I know I was.
Speaker 18: I was trying to follow up you got it back.
Speaker 18: It just came off eighty seven to one and it
Speaker 18: was a big album. So it was like, what y'all
Speaker 18: gonna do this time?
Speaker 1: Is us the biggest jewel in your crime?
Speaker 2: Mariah Carey Song of the decade?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that man Pasion was a monster.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I mean, he's definitely Well, let me
Speaker 2: say this.
Speaker 18: Rolling Stone said that Confessions is the R and B
Speaker 18: the number one R and B record of this twentyth
Speaker 18: first century, right or twentieth century or whatever it is,
Speaker 18: twenty first century. So I mean, if that's the if
Speaker 18: that's a true statement, then I guess so, I mean
Speaker 18: that's a big record, that's a big statement.
Speaker 9: Do you think Atlanta as a whole is getting documented properly?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 18: That's why another reason why I want to make sure
Speaker 18: that this documentary gets the stage that is on. Shout
Speaker 18: out to Hulu Disney mass Appeal for actually allowing us
Speaker 18: to finally tell our story on this stage. Because just
Speaker 18: the first story from the South that's ever been told.
Speaker 18: And when I say that, I said that at south
Speaker 18: By Southwest, and people was like what And I'm like, what,
Speaker 18: what's the what's the Atlanta story that you know? What's
Speaker 18: the Southern story that you know? You from the South?
Speaker 18: What stories do we have that people know about the South?
Speaker 18: Besides atl is not a story of the South rise
Speaker 18: and the culture hip hop. This is the first time
Speaker 18: that we get a story about our culture and how
Speaker 18: outcasts popped.
Speaker 2: How why you know, social death?
Speaker 1: Oh damn?
Speaker 2: Why Luke said bank head and scarred? What was the
Speaker 2: reason for that?
Speaker 18: Like you ain't never wondered? Like he from Miami, he
Speaker 18: talking about bank here it bounce like why he was
Speaker 18: saying that?
Speaker 2: Freaknick? You know what I'm saying that?
Speaker 18: And this the first time that, Like I said, the
Speaker 18: South gets set that look, Hollywood never felt like our
Speaker 18: stories was important.
Speaker 15: If Freaknick never happened, would Atlanta music blow up as
Speaker 15: fast as it did, No, Because what's that little thing
Speaker 15: with the you know when when when you put the
Speaker 15: little roach trap down and the roaches get in there
Speaker 15: and they go back to the They yeah, but I'm
Speaker 15: saying the raid.
Speaker 18: But it's a little trap that they show on TV
Speaker 18: and they take the food back to that.
Speaker 2: That's what Freaknick was for the South.
Speaker 18: People from Virginia, people from New York, people from Baltimore,
Speaker 18: people from DC, people from everywhere came to Atlanta. The
Speaker 18: DJs in Atlanta was playing bass music, so so that
Speaker 18: Base All Stars, Luke Skywalker, blah blah blah blah. Kids
Speaker 18: went back to their hoods saying, Yo, we was in Atlanta,
Speaker 18: just they playing Atlanta.
Speaker 2: We was doing in Freaknik or they somebody saw the video.
Speaker 18: That's why the music spread that way, right, That's why
Speaker 18: it spread it in so many places because these people
Speaker 18: took it back home as if they had discovered some
Speaker 18: new thing that wasn't happening in the house in the neighborhoods.
Speaker 18: And at that point, if five hundred people go back
Speaker 18: to Virginia with their same mentality and it spread, then
Speaker 18: Virginia starts sounding like Atlanta, right or whatever that's you know,
Speaker 18: So no, it wouldn't. I think Freaknick was definitely our mixtape,
Speaker 18: you know what I mean. Freaknick was our mixtape that
Speaker 18: made people say, oh, it's going on down there. It's something,
Speaker 18: you know what I mean. So that's definitely it. We
Speaker 18: we I don't know what would have happened if we
Speaker 18: you know, it would have been a slower pace.
Speaker 2: How we got more with JD.
Speaker 15: When we come back, it's the breakfast Club, The breakfast Club. Yeah,
Speaker 15: when back we are the Breakfast Club. NVJS, Hilarius and
Speaker 15: Charlamagne the guy, we're still kicking with Jamine Dupree, he's here.
Speaker 15: I got a question, how bad was it when the
Speaker 15: labels it seemed like, you know, watching the doc I've
Speaker 15: seen Craig mac performing, I've seen Biggie performing. How bad
Speaker 15: was it when the label started touching Freakni? Did it
Speaker 15: commercialize it to make it worse?
Speaker 2: Not at all. No, it was all good.
Speaker 18: The concerts actually was helping because all these black people
Speaker 18: in the park, smoking weed, drinking, doing whatever they want
Speaker 18: to do, because if nobody was governing this, right, it
Speaker 18: was just you know, y'all just want to go do,
Speaker 18: go ahead.
Speaker 2: That's just how the city was open to it.
Speaker 9: And now you're about to turn around and do the
Speaker 9: Magic City docu series, right, Yeah, Magic City in American Fantasy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we know what it's.
Speaker 18: About, Yes, but it's also the same thing as a
Speaker 18: story about Magic City that I don't think people know. Like,
Speaker 18: the story of Magic City is so much more deeper
Speaker 18: than just a strip club, right, and how Magic figured
Speaker 18: out a way to make this one club a worldwide situation,
Speaker 18: you know what I mean. And then people always keep saying,
Speaker 18: they like, why is Drake involved? Because Drake is from
Speaker 18: a different country and he wants to come to a
Speaker 18: little bitty strip club in Atlanta. That's crazy. I don't
Speaker 18: even know how you supposed to think about that, because
Speaker 18: I'm not from a different country, but I'm saying to
Speaker 18: be in a different country, we in the United States,
Speaker 18: I don't want to go to I heard nothing about
Speaker 18: nothing in Canada that make me want to fly there
Speaker 18: on a Monday and be a part of it, right,
Speaker 18: this place. Is that crazy that it's made people in
Speaker 18: Toronto want to come to Atlanta on Monday.
Speaker 2: I think you have to hear about this.
Speaker 18: So it's just like I said, it's just highlighting things
Speaker 18: that happened in the South that we haven't we haven't
Speaker 18: had an opportunity.
Speaker 9: So what helped elevate the Atlanta music seemed more Freaknik
Speaker 9: in Magic City?
Speaker 2: Freaknik really yeah, okay, because.
Speaker 9: You always hear about records breaking in Magic City.
Speaker 2: And that was after the fact that by the way,
Speaker 2: that's me saying that.
Speaker 18: That was that was something that I talked about once again,
Speaker 18: Like I said, you got to remember, I wasn't in
Speaker 18: the clubs in a eighty two, eighty three, eighty four.
Speaker 18: I couldn't get in no club. So I wasn't even
Speaker 18: making music in eighty four. But so even at ninety
Speaker 18: two when Crisscross came out, I still I was only nineteen.
Speaker 18: I still couldn't even get into Magic City. So that
Speaker 18: period where I felt like the strip club became the
Speaker 18: mixtape was a later nineties activity.
Speaker 2: Before that, freak Nick was running the show I saw you.
Speaker 9: I think it was with Gail King and Carrie Champion
Speaker 9: and all them. You was talking about how if a
Speaker 9: woman couldn't understand you being in the script.
Speaker 1: Club, she wasn't the woman for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So if that was a deal breaker off the
Speaker 2: time of really.
Speaker 18: Yeah, because I'm saying like, I'm gonna use you just
Speaker 18: as an example, if me and Jess was talking and
Speaker 18: she came to Atlanta and I said, we're going to
Speaker 18: Magic City tonight and then she was like, well, you know,
Speaker 18: I don't really strip club. At that point, you you
Speaker 18: have broke our synergy. You flew to Atlanta to stay
Speaker 18: at my house while I go party with my homeboys.
Speaker 18: Now when you when I really nice house. But I'm saying,
Speaker 18: but when I go to the strip as a woman,
Speaker 18: her mind's gonna start doing this.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: I asked you to come with me so that your
Speaker 2: mind wouldn't do that. But you want to stay at home.
Speaker 18: And wait till I get back, and then come back
Speaker 18: possibly smelling like a strip club these questions.
Speaker 2: And then we're gonna have a beef.
Speaker 18: You it up from the jump or by allowing you
Speaker 18: to just stay at home, I should have just made
Speaker 18: you come. So I'm just saying, ultimately, if this is
Speaker 18: part of your life, this is part of my life.
Speaker 18: So you got to know that that's happening, that's gonna happen.
Speaker 18: It's interesting because when I was dating Janet, I try
Speaker 18: to not take her. I was going to ask you,
Speaker 18: but I fought it for the longest. I wasn't in
Speaker 18: the space mindset that I'm in right now. Because I didn't.
Speaker 18: I wasn't paying attention to it. Like the way I'm
Speaker 18: telling you. I was thinking like, oh, if I take
Speaker 18: her in, and when of them girls gonna tap me
Speaker 18: on my shoulder that i'dn't been with and she gonna know.
Speaker 18: And then I was thinking about all the bullet Nah,
Speaker 18: if this is what you do, what you did in
Speaker 18: your past is your past.
Speaker 2: I'm with you.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 18: Let me see what's happening. Why you want to go
Speaker 18: there every Monday? That's what her question was.
Speaker 1: Did she understand after she went why you wanted to
Speaker 1: be there every Monday? Yeah? Of course.
Speaker 15: Now what does JD get to tell his story and
Speaker 15: goes through it so people can understand what you've did,
Speaker 15: what you produced, the artists you've broken, and talent that
Speaker 15: you created.
Speaker 18: I mean, I think the freak nick Dot helps that
Speaker 18: helps me get into that space because for the longest
Speaker 18: the South has been ignored. It's just what it is,
Speaker 18: and I'm part of that cloth that's been ignored. You
Speaker 18: gotta think at nineteen, I put out my first group
Speaker 18: that everybody knows. I wrote and produced every line and
Speaker 18: every beat in the music, and they first single a
Speaker 18: top one hundred single.
Speaker 2: Right, how about Chris CRUs Kris Krust.
Speaker 18: If that was sports like football and basketball, they'd call
Speaker 18: me a freaking nature right. But the fact that it
Speaker 18: was the South, they treated us like we weren't even
Speaker 18: hip hop, like that's some gimmick. So then it made
Speaker 18: people ignore the fact that the person who ushered in
Speaker 18: young people rapping, if it wasn't for them as a
Speaker 18: young person, you wouldn't even know that it was possible
Speaker 18: that you could have a record deal. Who else has
Speaker 18: come out since bow Wow that you know? Bow Wow
Speaker 18: was the only other person that did it, and I
Speaker 18: put him out. So I'm just saying, it's the stories
Speaker 18: have been ignored, so somebody, you know, at least we
Speaker 18: get one story, and we got two stories hopefully that
Speaker 18: you know from that, it'll it'll get in test space
Speaker 18: so you can actually see it, and then people won't
Speaker 18: have this misconception about what they have about me.
Speaker 9: And you know, when people talk about you too, JD.
Speaker 9: They got to talk about the fact that Mace thanks
Speaker 9: you for being the first person to pay him is worth.
Speaker 9: You introduced Biggie, you know, to a land in a
Speaker 9: lot of ways, and then so who knows how that
Speaker 9: inspired him and JV with money anything. It was an
Speaker 9: introduction to the South in a lot of ways. So
Speaker 9: you got to get credit for that too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, but that's what I'm saying. It's like,
Speaker 2: like I said, it's been ignored. That's all you can do.
Speaker 18: Like I said, if I was in New York, I'd
Speaker 18: be the kid. I mean, even like today, you don't
Speaker 18: know a person. Y'all don't have a person. They can
Speaker 18: come up here this year that had its first number
Speaker 18: one record in nineteen ninety two and got a record
Speaker 18: that's number one today. You'll never you won't see nobody
Speaker 18: else come up here to this station this year.
Speaker 9: Damn, that's actually true.
Speaker 2: You won't know, not this year.
Speaker 18: I mean I don't probably won't have it next year either,
Speaker 18: But I'm saying no, my first number one record was
Speaker 18: in nineteen ninety two. I have the number one R
Speaker 18: and B record in the country today.
Speaker 2: You relaunch your social death.
Speaker 15: Yeah, as far as label what artists you have or
Speaker 15: you're looking for artists, I know you gotta go, but
Speaker 15: are you looking for artists?
Speaker 2: And are you putting the sign back up in Atlanta?
Speaker 18: And that says, oh yeah, I'm putting a sign back up.
Speaker 18: I'm not if I'm supposed to say this, but anyway
Speaker 18: I can say, I'm gonna say it anyway. You know,
Speaker 18: BMF comes to Atlanta or they're in Atlanta right now.
Speaker 18: You'll see in the BMF series that the sign codes
Speaker 18: back up. And at that point when that happened, I
Speaker 18: was like, okay, you know, as many as watch this,
Speaker 18: I'm I'm gonna have to put this sign back up
Speaker 18: because you know what I mean. So now we're gonna
Speaker 18: put it back up on an artist heep. I'm looking
Speaker 18: for new artists. It's just my you know, That's what
Speaker 18: I wanted. I one of the space for me to
Speaker 18: continue to keep putting out new artists. I love putting
Speaker 18: out new artists. I'm not scared to put out new artists,
Speaker 18: and I don't think nobody else could do it better
Speaker 18: than me.
Speaker 9: When you paid Mace what he was worth.
Speaker 1: Did you do that just the upstate? Did he?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 18: You know, when I pay people, I don't know. I
Speaker 18: don't know that I'm paying them more than you know.
Speaker 18: You know, I don't have that conversation. I just go
Speaker 18: after what I want, like if so, if I wanted
Speaker 18: you know, when I signed Harlem World, I wanted to
Speaker 18: make the deal because Mace kept telling everybody in every
Speaker 18: interview that he did that he came to Atlanta to
Speaker 18: meet with me, right, So I actually felt like I
Speaker 18: felt right. So I felt like when I missed Mason,
Speaker 18: he out here killing it. So I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 18: let's make this deal. And he told me what he
Speaker 18: wanted to do, and I didn't think about it twice.
Speaker 18: I just was like, let's do the deal. I ain't
Speaker 18: know I was giving him more money than he was.
Speaker 2: You know, I never knew that.
Speaker 15: The ladies and gentlemen, if you main't do freak Nick
Speaker 15: this Thursday and appreciate you brother.
Speaker 18: Congratulations money Long. Let me it is seems to be
Speaker 18: watching Congratulations Money Long. Number one record. It's an R
Speaker 18: and B song, no rap, number one urban record in
Speaker 18: the country.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 2: It's Jermaine dupri Yeah, it's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 15: Good morning, you're checking out the Breakfast Club owning everybody.
Speaker 2: It's the j n V.
Speaker 15: Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 15: We got a special guest in the building. We got
Speaker 15: the brother Russell Fletcher.
Speaker 2: Welcome brother. It's a pleasure that found here this morning.
Speaker 2: Founder of Michika Premium Vodka.
Speaker 1: Yes, and I just found a master still.
Speaker 19: Yeah, I am the masters Stiller, Master Stiller of Mishka
Speaker 19: Premium Vodka. The company's name is This Life Forever. Something
Speaker 19: that I've held on to for a very long time.
Speaker 19: It's been kind of kind of my thing as far
Speaker 19: as just the way of life and also just being
Speaker 19: able to make sure that I could just promote good values,
Speaker 19: community based.
Speaker 2: We are alcohol driven, but we make.
Speaker 19: Award winning spirits and we try to figure out the
Speaker 19: best ways to be able to give back to the
Speaker 19: community and work in the community.
Speaker 9: Well, congrats on they say you're the most awarded black
Speaker 9: owned spirits brand in the country.
Speaker 2: That is a fact.
Speaker 1: Break that down.
Speaker 9: What's those awards look like?
Speaker 19: So so, the oldest Wana spirits competition in the world
Speaker 19: is the San Francisco World Spirits Competition. We're the only
Speaker 19: black owned spirit with a double goal double gold, this
Speaker 19: one gold, this one, multiple silvers with these, so, you know,
Speaker 19: and we just continue to get better.
Speaker 2: So you know, you take a.
Speaker 19: Brand like something that's more famous, you know, like an
Speaker 19: Uncle Nearest, our Uncle Nearest.
Speaker 2: They've won multiple awards. They are one of the top,
Speaker 2: you know, awarded whiskeyes.
Speaker 19: But at the same time, we've been getting awards since
Speaker 19: twenty sixteen when I first actually dropped Michia honey.
Speaker 9: What is it about the honey flavor? I you've heard
Speaker 9: about the honey fleet? Was that one in the middle, Yes,
Speaker 9: let me the honey flavor? What about this one that
Speaker 9: makes it stand up?
Speaker 2: There's no honey flavored vodka on the market that has
Speaker 2: the test of time. But that right there is the
Speaker 2: product that I created. First.
Speaker 19: I didn't want to just go all the way on
Speaker 19: the Tito's model, so I went with something that was
Speaker 19: exclusive to me first, and and that's that's been the hit.
Speaker 2: That's our flagship, and then we bought out.
Speaker 19: Then then then I went to the to the unflavored,
Speaker 19: which is also gluten free and kosher, And then I
Speaker 19: went to to Cranberry and now in the spring of
Speaker 19: the summer, we'll be releasing Mango and Passion.
Speaker 1: And y'all you hooked up with the NBA too, right
Speaker 1: in the seventy.
Speaker 19: Six, Yes, seventy six, and I've done multiple spots with
Speaker 19: the seventy six. Is it looks like via Ara Mark
Speaker 19: will be programming in Wells Father Center coming for the
Speaker 19: next season. Out'll be coming, which would be pretty good
Speaker 19: again relationships, you know, doing good in the community.
Speaker 2: We do a bunch of just a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 19: I sit on every single board, diversity board. I just
Speaker 19: try to just do the best thing that I could
Speaker 19: possibly do it from the community standpoint of it.
Speaker 2: Now, is it proble?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 19: Yeah, Like I said, you know, it's just like uh
Speaker 19: owning your masters and being an independent you know, so
Speaker 19: instead of my margins getting chopped out, our own distribution
Speaker 19: and as a company, we owned distribution not only in Pennsylvania,
Speaker 19: but we also owned distribution uh in New Jersey.
Speaker 15: Question, so why was it so difficult for Diddy? Didn't
Speaker 15: and he had his own tequil it and it seems
Speaker 15: like he couldn't get distribution. He couldn't do it himself.
Speaker 15: He was We've seen videos of him going liquor store
Speaker 15: to liquor store, and it seemed like stores really didn't
Speaker 15: want the product, right, because it was no distribution connected
Speaker 15: to it. Why is it so difficult for people to
Speaker 15: get their foot in the door, especially with him, because
Speaker 15: you figured, like with him, it wouldn't be a problem
Speaker 15: because he's Diddy And this was before the as you said,
Speaker 15: car crash.
Speaker 19: Right, So we're legitimately less than one percent of the market, right,
Speaker 19: just being minorities, right, We're legitimately less than one percent
Speaker 19: in the market. So again, it's the difference between what
Speaker 19: baggage your cat, right versus Okay, here's the story of quality, right,
Speaker 19: here's what our lineage is, Here's who our star face is,
Speaker 19: and that's got to be the way people get connected.
Speaker 19: I'm not saying you know, obviously you know that that
Speaker 19: people didn't want to be connected to Diddy, But there's
Speaker 19: the the Diddy angle and then there's the product angle.
Speaker 2: It's you and you got to be able to have
Speaker 2: that separate.
Speaker 19: I always believe that if you're going to take the
Speaker 19: product just because of the fact that I've got a celebrity,
Speaker 19: how many times are you going to buy that after
Speaker 19: the fact, you know, proposed quality. It's always about the
Speaker 19: the you know, the value proposition got you.
Speaker 9: And you're uh, you're you're connected with like music Fest.
Speaker 19: Two music Fest, so we are now so music Fest
Speaker 19: is uh, we need you to come out there and
Speaker 19: should come into Allantown. So we connected with music Fest
Speaker 19: roughly about about two three years ago. Became a small sponsor,
Speaker 19: blew it out of the water. The next year we
Speaker 19: removed another vodka sponsor that was there, got them out
Speaker 19: of there. Then it was us and Jack Dame's for
Speaker 19: the main stage, and then this year will we'll be
Speaker 19: with a partner the I don't think that we can
Speaker 19: say exclusive legally, but we are the partner that's programming
Speaker 19: all of the vodka for North and South Side. MusicFest
Speaker 19: does one point three million people a year, which is
Speaker 19: which is an excellent opportunity.
Speaker 2: Obviously to get liquid slips. That's been our model.
Speaker 19: We want to be able to get liquid slips in
Speaker 19: order to be able for people.
Speaker 2: We feel like we can win hands down all the
Speaker 2: way around by doing that.
Speaker 9: We appreciate and you got a partnership with Lehigh Valley
Speaker 9: Children's Hospital. Yes, how the hell did that work?
Speaker 19: So we're not giving okay, but what we are, but
Speaker 19: we are basically trading the sales for cocktails and it's
Speaker 19: going back into our local children's hospital.
Speaker 2: So that's a blessing.
Speaker 9: Well man, how do how do we support Michigan?
Speaker 19: I mean, look, we've got multiple ways. Our website is
Speaker 19: Musica Premium Vodka dot com. Where still again, like I said,
Speaker 19: we we kind of gave public goal friends just to
Speaker 19: be able to get folks like us involved. But also
Speaker 19: at the same time at drink Mishka is our handles
Speaker 19: across social media, so all those things are good ways
Speaker 19: to be able to kind of plug it and play
Speaker 19: for us.
Speaker 15: All right, well, we appreciate you for joining us. Russell Fletcher, Sir,
Speaker 15: Founder of Mishka Premium Vodka, Thank.
Speaker 2: You, brother, thank you. I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Guys.
Speaker 2: It's the breakfast slogan morning everybody.
Speaker 15: It's dj NV just hilarious charlamage and the guy we
Speaker 15: are the breakfast Club.
Speaker 2: It's time for positive note what we got.
Speaker 9: But it's really simple, man, for everybody out there that's
Speaker 9: always on social media, you know, trying to curate the
Speaker 9: perfect image, putting a filter on everything. I just want
Speaker 9: to tell y'all, y'all be so worried about image. You
Speaker 9: need to clean up your spirit. Okay, some of y'all
Speaker 9: need to clean up your spirit. Go through some damn
Speaker 9: work on yourself. I'm not out here, you know, pushing
Speaker 9: for therapy just because y'all need to go out here
Speaker 9: and find a therapist. Y'all need to find a spiritual leader.
Speaker 9: Y'all need to just really clean up your spirit because
Speaker 9: your spirit is disgusting and nasty. Have a blessed day
Speaker 9: breakfast club.
Speaker 13: You don't finish what y'all done.