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JD Sports forward. Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up. You guys really are like the hip hop, hip hop. Early morning, late night talk to the Breakfast Club is the most powerful, popular urban radio show. Live from the black mothership in New York City. DJ Envy, Charlemagne, the God, and Jess. Hilarious. Thank y' all for being cultural leaders, man. I appreciate what y' all do for the culture collectively known as Breakfast Club. I'm always nervous when I do the Breakfast Club because sometimes you say stuff and it's just gonna get you in trouble. Everybody wait. Coming. Good morning, usa. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. We actually not here. We on vacation. Listen, man, it's Thanksgiving. That's right. Okay. We gotta take a break too. We want to eat too. But we have an amazing best of show for you today because the Breakfast Club has been around for 15 years. We got a lot of classic conversations, a lot of classic moments that we can play for y'. All. And two of them actually are from this year. That's right. Because it's all about family today, right? At Thanksgiving. That's right. So one is about a great union, Gucci Mane and Keisha Ko. Gucci Mane and Keisha Ko. An amazing husband and amazing wife who are there for each other. And they are both each other's crutches. And what I love about this conversation is that it talks about the importance of mental health. Yes. If you've read Gucci Mane's new book, Episodes, which you absolutely should, he talks about his battles with bipolar as well as schizophrenia. And you know, what he did to contain what he's been. What he does to contain it. And Keisha plays a big part in that, man. So can't wait to replay that conversation this morning. Yep. Also, and two brothers who are nominated for Grammy of the year, they got the best rap album of the year to me. I think so. And it's not even close. I think so. So we're gonna be talking to them in a little bit as well. All right, well, let's get the show cracking. Get on the calls. 800-585-114. For what? We're not even here to answer the phone. You so used to lying to people about the people's Choice mix that you talking about? Get on the phones for what? Well, people call and get it off their chest. We ain't got to be here for that. They can call. We can open up the phone lines. Red can handle that. All right. If that's what we doing, they can talk to Red. Okay. Call up. Talk to Red is the Breakfast Club. Good morning, Ray. Ray. Ray. Yo, Charlemagne. What up? Are we live? This is your time to get it off your chest. I got an indoor pool, a outdoor pool. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. We can get on the phone right now. He'll tell you what it is. Hello? Who's this? Hello? Hey, good morning. Get it off your chest. Holy crap. This is Z in Florida. I am just getting off my chest. I broke up with my boyfriend over the weekend. I found out he was cheating on me with this ugly stripper with brown teeth. Like, it was crazy. But I lowered my standards to be with that man completely. Like, went against my type. And if I'm going to deal with the same type anyway, I'm going back to my taller Dr. Hansen. So you're a stripper, and he cheated with you with another stripper? No, I'm not a stripper. Oh, okay. No, he cheated with a stripper. I found out about the stripper over the weekend, and her teeth were brown. What her body looked like, though. You should. You ain't telling us what them cheeks look like. And that's what made it worse. That's what made it worse. It was bad, though. Like, horrible. Leave. Like, it was. I didn't even argue with the man. I just. I just took all my stuff in the middle of the night and left. What's her Instagram? Cause you might. You a little. You might be a little bit jaded. You need to let us judge whether or not, you know, if he's trash or not. What's her Instagram? I don't have her Instagram. I give you my Instagram. But you're not. I'm not interested in seeing you. You got cheated on. Like, you don't want to see. I want to see. I want to see what he cheated with. Well, I'm sorry you had to go. What is your Instagram, though? Trust me. Not even worth me if you trash. What's your Instagram? Let me look. What's your Instagram? My Instagram is pineapple at the store. Joya. V O Y A. Oh, let's see. It's not coming up. Yeah, for me, either. Nope, it's not coming Up. I'm sorry you got cheated on, though. I really am. It's okay. It was only. It was a smart relationship. Are you really sorry? He's up here smirking. Pineapple Voya. Don't believe him. I'm sorry. I'm sorry you got cheated on. How old is your boyfriend? He was 46. Oh, my God. Too old to be cheating. How old are you? Tell me about it. Tell me about it. How old are you? 32. Oh, Lord have mercy. Well, I'm sorry, Mama. It's okay. The water under the bread, we don't even fight over them no more. Not even a big deal. It ain't worth it. How old the scribble, yo, Shut up. I don't know, but she looks about 50 in the face how she looked 50 in the face. Jesus. Amen. I'm sorry. Pineapple Goya. You a key fan? My name, what is Z? Last letter of. That was good. All right. I don't know what she said, just. Me neither. Well, have a good week. Have a Good week, though. 43 years old is too. Too old to be cheating. Hello? Who's this? Hey, what's going on, man? This cat, man from nc. Your name is Cap? Yeah, man. Cap. No, Cap. Nobody believes you. Good morning. How are you, sir? Hey, listen. Hey, yo, listen. No, I believe this. I'm. I really gotta get this off my chest, man. Okay, so look, all right, so look, man, my child's mother set me up for child support. And you know, it's kind of crazy because I just co. Signed for on a. On a vehicle. What kind of vehicle? A 20, 22 honest CRV. Okay. Okay. I ain't no Kanye west or nothing. It don't matter, bro. She got some nice wheels to get around. That's all. That's all she need. Yeah, but I mean, she still came around to put me on child support. Well, clearly she needs and I take care of my child. Yeah, that's the thing. That's the thing. I don't be understanding though. I want to. When a. When a person is actually taking care of their child and providing for the mother of child, I don't think they should be getting put on child support. But for whatever reason, the courts don't recognize that. What's your communication like? Like y' all relationship is good? I don't know. It could be a little bit better, I guess. Okay, so does the mediate, like the person in the middle with the child support just like. Does that make it easier? Is, like, that a reason? Why is she just Being petty? Nah, because I own my own business. So it's like when I had my child. I doubt shout out to cash app. When I had my child out, got her to get cash app. So it shows that I was sitting there like $20,000. Now I own my own little landscaping business and whatnot down here. And she was like, yo, she just needs the invoices for X amount. And she just assumes that she won't. You know that. But I gotta pay people, you know, So I got overhead expenses, insurance, audits, and all type of stuff. Stuff I don't even know about. I feel you. What time you gotta be to work this morning? Oh, man, I'm out here working right now, man. Damn. Well, I'm glad you at work because you need to. You need to get off the phone with us. You. You vented. Now you gotta get back to work so you can pay that child support, sir. Okay. Hey, you ain't lying. Have a great day. Hello? Who's this? It's Randy. Randy from Virginia. Randy from seven five seven. What's up, Randy? What's up with y'? All? Good morning, Breakfast club. Good morning, Charlamagne. Peace. Good morning, Jess. Good morning, Good morning, good morning. I'm so excited. I listen to y' all every morning. Oh, thank you. We appreciate you. Well, what I wanted to get off my chest today was there's nothing bad. Nothing bad at all. Just I want people to be mindful of the fact that it is flu season, the fact that it is the season for people to spread illnesses and infections. I'm a nurse here in Virginia, and I see a lot of preventable situations in our hospitals that could be prevented by people just washing their hands, keeping their kids home when they're sick, just being mindful of the climate and what's going on. People, take care of yourself so we can take care of each other. That's all I wanted to say. Well, Randy, Jess is the flu police up here. She's the cold police. If you have. You already know if you have a flu if your hands are dirty. Nah, she ain't even the flu and cold police. She just sneeze and cough police. Like. Like people don't be having allergies and cold and Covid, they are symptoms. So, yes, absolutely. You got a brand new baby. You can't be playing out here at all. She's quarantining right now with the baby, period. Yes. Now, Randy, let me ask you a question. In your personal opinion. I'm just asking your personal opinion. What is your thoughts on the flu shots. Because some people say, take it, some people say, don't. What's your personal opinion? Just curious. Okay. It just totally depends on. A lot of times people don't believe in the flu shots because of religious preference. So I will not touch that at all. Because if that's your religious preference, I totally understand. However, for preventative measures, the flu shot is effective. So as a nurse, I do advocate for the flu shot. Absolutely. 100%. Thank you, Randy. Thank you. Y' all have a good morning. You too, babe. Get it off your chest. 800-5-5, 10, 5 1. If you need the vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. This is your time to get it off your chest Whether you're mad or blessed I hate the way that you walk the way that you talk I hate the way that you dress Everything with me is blessed. Call up next. 800-585-1051. Not just me, I'm what the culture feeling. Hello? Who's this? Hey, yo, what's going on? Brightest Club DJ Envy. What up? How you get it off your chest, brother? Hey, Charlotte. I'm a brilliant idiot listener. Love it. Thank you, brother. Thank you. But I gotta call you out. That agrees just gay thing you said, bro. What I said which? Which time? You said that you like to do tricks on your bidet. You like to what? I'll be gay for the bidet. I don't care what y' all say. That's one of the best investments I ever made in my life. I don't flex too often, but that new toilet, bruh. How can you do tricks on a bidet? The same way. Get you a bidet and you'll find out. I don't need a bidet. I got a. You see. Yeah, I got my husband. The bidet is when the water. You know, I'm saying in your butt. Yes, you know, we know. Whatever day is. What you mean, tricks? You just gotta adjust yourself the right way so the water hits the right spots. That's all. You just got one, you know, they got the one that the water spins. They could do the water twirling the heated sea. Listen, if you invest in anything, invest in a nice bed and a nice toilet. That's all I'm gonna tell y', all, okay? Y' all money the wrong way, y' all be buying the jewelry and the cars. Not nice bed, nice sheets, nice toilet, okay? That's what you're gonna care about when you get older. Salute to Nori. Nori, call me about a year ago. Yo, eat. You know, like two years ago. Yo eat. What's up? I gotta ask you about your bidet. I'm like, my bouquet. Damn. Yeah, but, yeah, my bidet. Fire. Mine is fine. I got, like, 16 different things. I didn't even press all the buttons. Sound like a rose, honey. Okay. Sounds like you got a little rose. I'm gonna take a picture and just show you what my settings like. I got the eco flush. I got the eco flush, too. I got the dry. I got the sanitizing. Oh, my God. Eat up the seeds, man. Let me tell y' all something. Nice bed, nice toilet. Those are the important things, kids. All right? That sounds crazy. Y' all want to be, right? Why that sounds crazy? Get it off your chest. You should be investing your money in 5851051. You buy a new pair design or something that you can't even pronounce. That ain't even gonna be in next season. Y' all want to be so bad. Y' all act like y' all so old. Y' all not. I don't. I just act like the bidet. I'm grown, okay? I'm just telling you what's important. Y' all gonna get one one day now. Y' all gonna be like. Y' all were right. The bidet was the best thing ever. I had mine for five years. Now I enjoy it. Anniversary, I'm about to name mine. It sound like a toy. It is. Like, now I'm talking about, like, a vibrator or something. And then the beautiful thing about Mama Day, it gives you time, right? So you press the button, and they give you a few seconds to adjust that butthole just right. Let that water hit that spot. You see what I'm saying? And they got temperature control on the water, too, so don't burn cold. It's just night anyway. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need the vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We're taking your calls. 800-5851-051. We were talking about this woman who hosted Thanksgiving dinner at her crib. She said last year it cost her over 500 and she couldn't afford it. So this year she did spaghetti. So we're asking 800-585-1051. What are your thoughts on that? What you think, Jeff? I know Some people probably got there, like, is this a baby shower? Like, you know, because spaghetti and spaghetti is. People were mad because I expected a spread. I get it. This the thing. I would have been mad. She could have told them before they got there, to be honest with you. I mean, because maybe she did not have it. Yo, like, to be honest, spaghetti, that's a struggle. That was a struggle meal, like, growing up for around my way, you know what I'm saying? And. And I think. I feel like if she didn't have it, she just didn't have it. Why didn't y' all bring food? Or she could, but she could have told them that before they got there. Only thing y' all gonna be eating is spaghetti. Like, if y' all can pitch in and help me cook or help me buy stuff, that's better. But I never looked at spaghetti as a struggle meal. I looked at it as a delicacy. Nice. That was a gourmet meal with two pieces of white bread and some corn. Mm. Then it's not spaghetti no more. That sounds. No like spaghetti. And there's some corn on the side. You know what I'm saying? There's corn on the side of some white bread. But we were struggling, so we didn't have the corn. We just had corn and spaghetti. We just had the noodles, and we didn't have ground beef. Now, noodles and butter. This noodles and butter is a struggle meal. But if you got the noodles with the ground beef and the sauce and some white bread and corn, oh, that's a full course meal. I don't eat red sauce, so I eat spaghetti with butter. That's what I like. That's what I like. I don't eat spaghetti. I don't eat lasagna. So with no butter, I'm good. Okay. As a kid, y' all was struggling hard. No, we wasn't struggling. I just didn't like recipes. Oh, that's just what y' all like. You keep forgetting that he's black. I am black. It's funny. I post a picture of my dad. They was like, you must be adopted. No, I'm black. That's messed up. No, you might be adopted. I'm not adopted. I'm black. They ain't telling you I'm black. He's not like us. He's not like us. Defamation. Hello? Who's this? Hello? Good morning. Hey, what's up, man? What's going on? Oh, I didn't know y' all had connected, man. Good morning. Going to. Peace to the God. What's going on. King. Peace. King, how are you? How you feeling? Please. I'm good, bro. But look, right. What's up, light skin? Peace. Peace. Peace. But tell them keep their ass home now. They're not grateful and they're not thankful. Keep their ass on. You're not. Keep your ass home, man. That's how I look at it, man. Family is everything. I thank you. Coming over to celebrate family give thanks. All praises, you know, I mean, you can't contribute. You don't like spaghetti. Keep your ass on, man. That's something. I'm with you. It's about family. Forget all the food stuff. The fact that you got family alive and healthy and together, that's the most important thing. Not only giving. The most important thing is the food, but, you know, it's family together. That ain't true. Y'. All. Y' all don't. Y' all don't want to sit around standing in each other's face, starving. All right, Y' all don't like each other that much, but I do feel like you should cook what you can afford. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? You don't got to jump out the window. And in this case, that's what she did. That's right, Britney, at least use turkey ground beef for Thanksgiving. Good morning. Turkey ground meat. Jesus, I hate that. Good morning, Brittany. What's your thoughts? My thoughts is to walk in on Thanksgiving and to Steve spaghetti. That's kind of disrespectful. If she needed help, she could have asked someone to bring a dish. Everybody understand that times is hard, but to sit up there and to just serve spaghetti and to not even give the option to offer to help. Yeah. If I walk in and start spaghetti on Thanksgiving, I'm knocking it over because what is this? So now we fighting in the house. You know, my mama. My mama's spaghetti. We not fighting nothing. I'm knocking it over because you should have asked for help. It's about being thankful. It's a family thing. We all could have contributed and came together. Don't just take it upon yourself to ruin everyone's Thanksgiving because you broke shit stunt. Damn. Yeah, she definitely a stud. You a stud. I'm definitely not. I have a hole. My voice look deep and raspy. Y' all got a lot of nerves trying to sip for me. Do you see them? You see them just identifying you as a stud for no damn reason? Just exactly nobody. Nope. Y' all just don't try to sit for me. I live in Detroit. We got Snow. It's like 23 degrees. I got a cold. I'm not a. I'm not a stud. I'm just a stick with a little raspy voice. It's hot. My bad. Yo, you right. You're right. You get for profiling people. I know. You're right. I'm in Detroit labeling people. My bad. Okay. She was just so aggressive. You just assumed she got in her bag. I was gay and they said I was the man. When Thanksgiving. I'm naturally aggressive, but Thanksgiving is my favorite. So to disrespect one of my favorites. It's gotta go there. I feel you. The phone ain't even hang up on it. You see how aggressive? Thanksgiving is one of our favorites. Cause we like food and we like fellowship. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? That's the reason. It ain't because of. I don't even know what the hell Thanksgiving. I don't know what the meaning of Thanksgiving. I don't know either. I love the fact the family come over, we watch the game, we play cards, we play board games. That's what it's about with us. Who cares about the food? Yeah, 800. No, the food is the most important thing next to the family. Stop saying who cares about the food? Cuz if you didn't care about the food, you'd have your family. Yeah. You wouldn't go. Hell Is you talking about 800-585-105-105 what? Imagine going to Thanksgiving dinner, and when you get there, it's only spaghetti. How you feeling? Let's talk. Is the Breakfast Club. Good morning. I don't know if it's turkey in the spaghetti. Turkey. Ground turkey. Ground ground turkey. I don't know. It just look like spaghetti. Spaghetti. We'll talk. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Are you getting to the yams this Thanksgiving? We got more coming up with the best of the Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess. Hilarious Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now, if you're just joining us, we're talking about this woman who said she wasn't paying for Thanksgiving dinner anymore. She said last year was over 500, she couldn't afford it, so this year she did spaghetti. So we're asking 800-585-1051. What are your thoughts? We got the pre on the line. Dupree. Good morning. What up, Breakfast Club? Good morning, man. This is the PR from 100 basket. Man. We is not doing spaghetti at the Thanksgiving dinner table. The Pilgrims was not eating spaghetti, man. We Throwing it away. Damn. Not damn. You just going to wait. She already broke. You going to waste the food that she struggled to buy? No, we. We. We can help out now. We can help out. You just got to say something. We can help out, but we is not baked beans and spaghetti, I think, did it. No, bro, you messing up the whole menu, bro. We need the ham, we need the collard greens. We need the yam. The candy and the thing. You better put some marshmallows. Love candy. Yeah, I agree with you. Yeah. No, they messing up the whole. You should have said something. Yeah, she just should have said something. Now, if. If she. Do, you have at least a little bit of understanding toward the fact that that's the only thing that she could afford. Ford. Yeah. And I mean. And she can afford something different, you know? I mean, bring some fruit. You know what I mean? Yeah, you still need some fruit, but. But the spaghetti. Yeah. Nah, nah. You try to do something quick and easy. We need you to get the kitchen. Okay. Get the kitchen. I appreciate y', all, though. Thank you. Thank you. Hello? Who's this? Hey, this was Bobby from South Carolina. How are you? Hey, Bobby. South Carolina. Good morning. What part of South Carolina are you calling from? Most corner three. What's happening? I was there last week. So what you think? Talk to us. So I'm just applying to her for bringing the family together. Had we known, I would have brought the dollar bread. Somebody could have brought meatballs or something. I don't know. But the fact that she did that and her family was together, that's all that counts. Yeah, but like, y' all say nobody eating turkey, nobody eating ham, so too many leftovers. Yeah. What she had to do now, see, you absolutely right. Why they just didn't do a potluck? Yeah, why we ain't. I just thought about that. Why they ain't do a pot. Look, everybody. Everybody bring a little dish. I literally said that the 10 minutes. You did. Oh, you said potluck. Yeah. Well, no, I didn't say those words. And I'm like, why? You said, like, 10 minutes ago, right? Like, why they just all bring food? Like, that's dumb. Hello? Who's this? This is Lamar. Lamar, what's up? Where you calling from? I'm calling from Jersey. All right, talk to us. Yeah. I'll be honest with you. Like, if there's no food, it's different ways. You can look at this. If she cooked the spaghetti from scratch, I'm kind of good with that, you know? I mean, if she gave me like raviolis or anything like that. Then I'm gonna have to ask questions like, are you being funny? Yeah. You know, I mean, or maybe you're being creative. I don't know. You know, I don't know. You know what I'm saying? But at the end of the day, she got some food on the table. That's right. That's right. And it's. And it's about being thankful for the fact that she got food on the table. That's right. I'm with you. You know, I'm saying, and Christmas is coming up so that, like, you know, November things give us, like, the buffer. You want to spend too money on that holiday. We gotta save all that for Christmas. You gotta get the gifts for Christmas for the kids. You're right. I do. You feel me? So it's like, I'm good. I'm not spending that bread. I'm spending the bread for Christmas. I do wonder why she didn't tell the rest of the family, though. She spent 500 the previous year and she didn't have it to spend this year. Why not just say that? Yeah, why not just tell the folks, like, hey, man, you know, things tight. The cost of everything is up. That's the only thing. So y' all gonna have to chip in or y' all gonna have to bring your own dishes if we're gonna have Thanksgiving dinner. She should have said something, because I ain't gonna lie. If I walk in the house and I only see spaghetti, I'm like, yo, damn, I had my mouth set on turkey wings and all that, like, and you only got spaghetti. So. And. And they must go to her house every year, right? Like, she must be the one that always hosts. But she ain't have it this year. Imagine if that's a mother in law, though. You go to your mother in law's house, you walk in and just spaghetti. Damn. And also, too, now you're realizing why those turkey drives and those food drives that people be knowing, that's why they mean so much during this time of year, because people don't be happy. All right, well, let's go to one more caller. Hello, who's this? Aisha from Greensaw, North Carolina. Hey, Aisha from North Carolina. How you feeling? I'm great. I just got for work. Good. Now what's your thoughts? Now you get to. You get to the house, and there's only spaghetti there. How you feeling? So, yes, I'll be upset, but at the same time, yes, groceries do cost money. And at the end, if you really want me to cook that bad, then just pitch in. Everybody, you know, family coming over. Give me about 30, 50 bucks plus family, and I'll make something happen. That's right. All right, well, thank you. You're welcome. Y' all have a good morning. You too. Now, what's the moral of the story, man? Do what you can, but definitely look out for your family. Help your family. You feel me? Don't. Don't. Don't be upset about. Don't get too upset about it. Like you said, in my opinion, Thanksgiving is about coming together. You know, like you said, the fellowship. I take both of which I said and put it together. Yeah. It's about food. It's about the fellowship. It's about the family and what you're most grateful and thankful for. You feel me? And if you don't have gratitude, like, if you go to somebody's house and you like, oh, so you got a spaghetti. Yeah. And you're turning your nose up at it, you missing the whole reason for the season. Isn't it about gratitude and giving thanks? And not only that. And that's why, you know, in this time of the season, it's always a blessing to be able to give back. And that's why those turkey drives, those food drives where people get those foods, I know a lot of times they'd be like, oh, they're just doing a turkey drive. But as you can see, that is well needed at times where people can't afford it. So. So if you can make sure you do give back, or even if you just can just go to those events and be a volunteer as well. And we got just the mess coming up. And Salute to ebt, too, man. Yeah. Nah, for real. But also, no, the moral of the story is they could have went to Golden Corral. Yeah. This year they did. It's their first time doing that, where they had Thanksgiving dinner, and it was like discounted crazy turkey yams, everything. Like traditional Thanksgiving soul food. They had that. So if somebody come in my house. Oh, yeah, you only got spaghetti here. Take your ass down the street, because how much you think of. Yeah, but they got everything there. They got the yams, they got ham, they got Mac, and you can take it to go. You could have took it to go. You don't have to sit there. I mean, you didn't have to sit there if you didn't want to, but you could have took it to go. Yep. Commercials was all over the place for that. Wow. Yeah. So this is the Breakfast Club Aborted Morning Everybody, it's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lon Laros is here as well. Now you know, Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays because I get to spend it with my whole family. Now I tell a Gia that one of my favorite memories growing up was my mom cooking Thanksgiving dinner and playing some of her favorite records on her old record player. Now, as a family, my family would come over, we would listen to Motown, the Gap Band. My dad would be dancing. Now this year my parents are coming over to my house, so I want to recreate that old family nostalgia. So I went to their house last week and got some of their favorite records from the basement. Now, Gia thought it would be a great idea to find our family record player. So I went on ebay and found the exact model. It's a vintage Sears AMF Turkey, touchdowns and takes. It's Thanksgiving. 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Ebay is the place for unique, hard to find items and I can't wait to see my mother's reaction when she opens it. Shop ebay for millions of finds, each with a story. Ebay Things people love the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now, this of conversation is when Gucci Mane and his wife, Kisha K all stopped through talk about his new book, Episodes. They talk marriage, mental health and. And everything. So we're gonna get into that. Let's go. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess. Hilarious Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren Laros is here as well. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed. We got Gucci Mane and his wife. Welcome. How y' all feeling? Y' all look amazing. Thank you. New book out Episodes. Yes, man. I. I thoroughly enjoyed your book, Gucci, man, because, you know, we give people props when we were younger for being real. A lot of things that we say is real is like when somebody gangster. When somebody, you know, we call them tough. But to me, the most realistic you can do as you get older, just be vulnerable, you know, I mean, and go on a journey of healing and share that journey with people. And you definitely did that in this book. Thank you. I appreciate that. I always see you talking about mental health. I've been listening to y'. All, you always championing mental health, you know what I'm saying? So that's my. I said, make sure y' all get that book to Charlemagne before I come up there. Absolutely. Because I knew he was gonna read it. Absolutely. Yeah. So what got you to the point where you said, this is the time to share the story? Because most people will say, like, you know, I don't want to share that story. It might be embarrassing, it might make me look this way. But you were open and completely open about it. What got you to that point was like, this is the time when I had an episode in like, 2019 or 2020 around covet. And that was just like. Like, after that, I was like, man, I gotta really just hold myself accountable and take care of my health. I don't never want to have an episode again. I'm like, I'm. See a therapist. If I had to take medicine, I just. I kind of, like threw the towel in, like, you know what I need to do to get better. I just didn't never want to have that happen again. And then my wife was pregnant with my little boy. I'm like, I don't never want this. I don't want to raise a family. And then my mental health, gone. What if I have an episode I can't come back from? You know what I'm saying? So I just, like, starting to do the work and, like, start seeking the help. And, Keisha, I'm glad you here, because we always have conversations about the people who have to deal with the individuals with the mental. Mental health issues. Nope. It feels like nobody ever speaks to y'. All. It's tough. What made you not run? Cause you could have ran. You could have been like, I'm out. Nah, this ain't for me. But you stood 10 toes down and said, I'm gone. I experienced him going through episodes, but before we were married, and I was like, man, somebody got to help this guy. It was really, really bad. It's really sad because you're seeing someone you don't know. They're saying things to you that are disrespectful, so mean. And you have to just like, but I'm not talking to Gucci. Who is this person? So I felt like if I left, he wouldn't have been the same. He needed someone to help him. And then when we were supposed to get married, someone said to me, you know, you're going to have to deal with this. This through your marriage. Right? And I'm like, I'm cool with it. I'm gonna fix him. You know? How heavy was that for you, though? Because the fixing isn't like an overnight thing. No, I saw Gucci. You did Big Facts, and you were talking about how one time you said to him, I should record this so that you can see, because he wouldn't even remember some of the things he was doing, but it would, like, you'd be like, oh, my God, like, what's happening right now? How heavy was it in the process of trying to help him get better? It was one point I had to just go on my knees and pray because it's like, he's like, I don't like you. I mean, the things he would say are really, really bad. And I just have to, like, take a deep breath. Like I said, I'm not talking to you right now. You want to sit here and be crazy alone? I'm not gonna allow you to be crazy alone. Yeah. So, like, I have to, like, set a plan up. Like, at one point, I called his attorney, I called some bodyguards, and I just planned a whole kidnap. And we kidnapped him, him and took him to the hospital because we could not get him to the hospital, but he was trying to fight them and everything, but it was six of them. He couldn't handle it. And we threw him in the car. He would try to jump out the car. So we put him in the center of the car. You know, and that was, like, his last episode. That's a 5150, right? That's what they call it when you go to the. Like. Yeah, yeah. But they. They try to do things where he could sign himself out. And I'm like, he's not signed. Like, I'm stern with them. He's not signing himself out. I'm his wife, and I'm his power of attorney. He ain't going nowhere. Like, I have to be strict. It's kind like you have to go in mother mode, you know, and. And put your foot down. Were you ever scared? I wasn't never scared. He would hurt me. People were scared for me. But it's a scary moment because I asked her that, was she scared? She was like, I'm not scared of you. I tell him all the time during, I'm not scared of you. So you. We gonna figure this out. Like, I have to get gangster with him because he. And I'm like, all right, we gonna see. Let's do this. You know, in the Ice Cream Fever Dreams chapter, Gooch, you said that the only. Only. You said, when you need help, the only person you can rely on is yourself. Yes. Why did you feel that way in that moment? Because that's how I felt, especially with, like, you really only person you can do. Like, you got to do the work yourself. You know what I'm saying? If you want to, like, really get better, people can want it for you, but you still got to want it more than they do. You know what I'm saying? You got to want. You got to do the work. You got to live with it. You know what I'm saying? So that's probably why I said that. The reason I asked is because you start the book off talking about Big Scar, and, you know, you and Keisha definitely helped Big Scar in that moment when he was having an episode. Yes. I mean, you did help somebody. Nah, I was trying my best to say Scar. I was trying my best to say Scott. And, like, even he was a big inspiration for the book as well. But what was like when I reached out to my. The writing. The co writer Kathy, on writing the book, I was telling her about, you know, like, how I helped Scar, and, you know, I was. My wife was talking to me, but she was on. Like, I wouldn't even let Scott know that she was telling me the stuff to tell him. It, like, while we writing the book, like, discussing the book and just going over how we're gonna make it, Scott died. So I hit her like, you know, Scott and passed away. It was all. It went for him being the inspiration. Before I can even finish the book, he passed away. So that was just super deep. And it made me like, I gotta do this. I gotta even be more vulnerable because I'm gonna help people that I don't even know because I was trying to help somebody who was so close to me. You know what I'm saying? He. And I didn't even. And I didn't succeed. You know when you break down in the book, that September 13th episode. Right? Yeah. And you said you don't even remember a lot of the things that you said. Did you have to go back and say, you know what? Let me fix some of those situations? Yes. And. And who did you call first to say, let me fix that? Because we. We were on air that morning. Yeah. And we just remember. It's like, damn Gucci just going crazy on everybody. And the sad tweeting. Yeah, yeah. The sad thing about it is for media press, it's like, that's gold at first. Like, oh, this, that. And the other day, when you sit back and look at it, be like, damn, Like. Like, maybe we shouldn't have went that hard and promoted because we can see now he was going through episodes. So the first question that in the book about the media's role in that. Yeah. But the answer, envy. I was super embarrassed and hurt by the things I said because, like, I wasn't well then. Right. So then I got locked up. So a lot of those people who I was saying stuff to, they were like, I ain't never. They never gonna mess with me no more. So even when I got out three years later, I still was like, I apologize to Ross, Drake, Nikki. Like, all them people accepting my apologies, they just don't know. It's like a weight off my shoulders because I had been like. Because I was wrong. Like, Ross ain't did nothing but help me. You know what I'm saying? And I said something about him. Birdman did all this stuff for me. Why would I say something about him? So I felt bad. You know what I'm saying? I felt terribly bad. And it was just eating. It was like. It was super heavy on me. You know what I'm saying? So I apologize to everybody. Everybody that would accept my apology. I apologize. Everybody who will accept my call. I apologize to you. Just thank anybody who I was dissing. I apologize to. When you see artists doing that now, do you know exactly what they going through? Yes, I do. We were like, we success going through episode. I can see it because I'd have been through it. Then I'd be like, I be feeling sorry for him. You know what I'm saying? But because I see the media, they just go with it, like, this person, like, mad or they being mean or whatever, but they be going through something really mental. It'd be some mental health stuff going on. Do you reach out to any of those artists? Us? I. I'm trying to think, did I reach out? Now? I don't do a lot of reaching out because some of them, like, I feel like they wouldn't be accepting of it. You know what I'm saying? But because, you know, you wouldn't be accepted at the point. At that time. Yeah. At that point, you can't. You can't really talk to them like that. But like my wife say, I wish I could talk to the people that know them to tell them how to help them. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I tried to reach out to Kim when Kanye was going through an episode. It bothered me so much, but I don't know her, and I didn't want to feel like a groupie. Yeah. So I tried to send messages to people. I never succeeded. But this was during their marriage. I'm like, damn, I want to talk to her so bad. Like, I can help you. But I never was successful. We talked about that on air the other day because she sat down and call her daddy and talked about what it was like in, like, on the inside. By also trying to protect their public image and the way she thought people would look at her if she decided to leave. For you, what was it like? I mean, because we're talking about Kim. What was it like? Like, just trying to protect the business that you guys have built. Wow. I have assistant personally. I take his apps off his phone. First thing I do, I delete Instagram. I delete everything. Even if I got to change his password, I'm changing it because I don't need the public to know he's having an episode. And now before the episodes come, I catch it. So that's why he hasn't had another one. And how you catch that is he doesn't speak to you. He wants to be left alone. He don't eat. He does not sleep. Deep text messages. There's a period after each word, and I'm like, you're going through an episode. You're sick. No, I'm not. Ain't nothing wrong with me. Why do you think that you're not speaking to me? Well, there's nothing to talk about. I said, well, that's not how you speak to your wife. And I'm like, you're sick. And we snap out of it right then. Wow. Wow. All right, we got more with Gucci Mane when we come back. And Keisha K, y', all, so don't move us to Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the best. Breakfast Club. Lola Rose is here as well. We're still kicking it with Gucci Mane and Keisha. Kr. Keisha, do you wish you were around when. When. You know, I look at Gucci, and if you really think about all the artists that he has touched and could have signed, he could have been bigger than any label out there. If you go through them, we can go from. From Thug to Waka to the Migos to. The list goes on and on and on. Do you think we had Waka? Waka was signed? Yeah. Do you think if. If I was there, I could have helped him build that empire? Because he could have been really like an Atlanta Def Chair, a thousand percent even. Like, we had the. Cut this conversation many years ago. I said, gucci, you just have to accept that you are not well and fix it. Just accept it. I said, people take Tylenol every day. Just take your medication every day. You'll be fine. Just accept that you're sick. Fix it, and you'll be okay. And absolutely. He had so many artists from back in the day, and because of this, you know, he. They resigned with other people or whatever the situation is. And it pisses me off because none of them respects him. I don't. Or give him the credit. Like, Gucci signed me. Gucci's the one that got me out the slum. Gucci's the one that changed my life. None of them talks about that. Not one of them. Does that bother you? Because it's a. It's a lot of artists that are multi platinum, that are still selling records that you were the first person to give an opportunity to. We could. We could name the list. The list goes on and on. Yeah, I feel like, you know, I had to hold myself accountable. I got locked up. I messed up the opportunity. You know what I'm saying? But I'm not saying that they don't have to pay me homage. I appreciate it. You know what I'm saying? But it's like, that's part of how I was raised and just who I am. I get fulfillment out of helping artists. You know what I'm saying I was reaching out to them, trying to help them, because I saw talent in them. And not just Southern artists. No, not just Southern artists. DJs, producers, whatever. That's just, like, who I am, you know what I'm saying? Like, I'm an open door studio. I'm gonna bring people in. I'm gonna work with the up and coming. That's what I like to do. You get what I'm saying? If it didn't work out the way it did because I got locked up, I got to say, hey, I got myself locked up. You know, I messed that up. But since then, I've been doing. I've been doing well since I got out. I've been on a, you know, I'm saying, been a whole different. Everything been going good. I always wondered, did any of those artists reach out when you were locked up and said, let me help. Yeah. Let me say this, though. Keisha said, no, let me say this. It is still kind of like paying it forward. Because when I got out, all those artists did come back and do songs with me. You know what I'm saying? But when you were down, did they help? They did. They don't acknowledge him. He's. He. He doesn't care or feel that way. But from the outside looking in, they should acknowledge him. You know, I feel like Gucci gets looked at as a hip hop pillar, though. I. I feel like he's like, they look. Nah, I feel like Gucci gets his just do as an iconic figure in hip hop and all the artists he put on. No, but it ain't. What would you like to see, Keisha? Like, I would like them, all of them, to acknowledge him. Even if they win an award, acknowledge him because he gave you the stomping ground. Most people don't know Nicki Minaj came out of that camp. French Montana, half those people we know. But most people don't know that Migos Amigos thug like most people, because they don't say it. I love. I love the chapter Pills and Potion too, because I. You said you feel guilty for making the song pills because you made a whole generation start getting high on pills. How do you rectify that guilt? I can live with it now because it's like, it is what it is. You know what I'm saying? But back then, I know that I like, made a lot of people use drugs. I talked about drugs, drugs, drugs, drugs all through my music because that's what I was on back then. And I'm just like, damn, I know I made A whole bunch of people think pills was cool. I know that for a fact. You know what I'm saying? And ain't nothing I'm just super proud of, you know? But what can I do? It's in the past now. And at the same time, it was. I was also a user, too, so I was going through it with them. Yeah, the interesting thing about that chapter, too. You said that your whole team didn't like that, so. They didn't. Because I'm sure some of them was on pills, too. So what was it? Just. They just didn't. Like when I first. Like, when I had, like, one foot in, one foot out, a lot of my guys who were hustling, we used to think I was like, my crew are hustling buddies. They used to think, like, pills and stuff. Like, that was like, jacket stuff. You know what I'm saying? They think, like, if you do coat, you like a janky. You take pills, you a janky. They only was cool with. With smoking weed, even taking. Drinking lane they thought was some jacket stuff, right? So they really. They said, take away from the money. You see what I'm saying? So it's like, if you doing. If you taking pills, you're supposed to be selling the pills. So when I came out with pills, they went with that. They was like, bro, what you making a song about taking pills for? Then the song ended up blowing up. But they was like, they didn't like that song. Yeah, yeah. When you did versus, right? What was your mind frame during verses? And Keisha, when he. You knew he was doing verses against somebody that was his arch enemy at the time, right? What was your mind frame? Because you knew at any moment it could have went back. Did you want him to do it? I told him not to. I said, you're not doing that. I said, I will pay you a million dollars not to do this. She told me that. Swear to God, she's like, I pay you a million dollars not to do the verses. I'm like, I'm gonna do the verses. So how did. For people that don't know, how did that versus come about? And what was your mind to do the songs that you did in that moment? Because, I mean, I think everybody felt it watching. And people that were there were like, oh, this is gonna end up nasty. Nasty. Yeah, well, I'm trying to think. I heard. I seen an interview where Jesus saying, like, if I do a versus, I want to do it with Gucci, right? So after that, P. Had hit me, like, bro, you heard Jesus Said he wanted to do a verse with you. Would you do it? And I was like, I don't know if I do. No. I don't know if I want to do no verse. I ain't really, really there yet. Then he came back like, bro, I think this would be big if you do it. So next thing you know, Swiss and Larry Jackson end up hitting me, and we end up doing. Say we're going to do the verses. Right? Right. And my mind frame going into it was like, it's going. It was. I was excited about it, like, because all the previous verses were so big. So I'm like, man, it's dope. You know what I'm saying? This is gonna be big for me. Everybody gonna be like, my catalog gonna go up. People gonna just so out looking. I was excited about it, actually. Jeezy said he. He said here on Breakfast Club he wanted to do it with you, but you turned it down. I mean, I meant to be honest with you. Like, from what I hear, he did respectfully decline, which I respect. You know what I'm saying? No. No disrespect. And, you know, I guess he looked at it the way I looked at it. Just like, yo, bro, like, there ain't nobody else they wanna see us with. And for once, at least mentally, it can be about the music. And, you know, instead of it just being me and him and our personal feelings, like, now you got the world watching. So as a man, I wasn't gonna not do it because of what happened, because that's what the platform is for. That's what that conversation was. That was back in 2020. I don't think I turned it down. I don't think. I think I turned down doing versus period. But. But I was open to do the verses. When they finally, like, broke it down to me, like, okay, this. The business about it. This how you gonna. All this good can come out of it. I'm like, okay, I'm gonna do it. Keisha, you didn't want to do it because you knew he could potentially have an episode or. No, I just don't trust it. I don't know. God forbid Jesus go say the wrong thing and. And. And things pop off. I ain't got time Night. Yeah. Where were you when he was doing the first? I was pregnant at home. No, he didn't want me there. So you were watching it? Yeah, my hands was wet, sweating. I'm nervous. I'm like, lord Jesus, help me. So when he did that song, what were you thinking? When he did that song. What do you think that that's all like, oh, my God. I'm just like this, like every. Like any normal person. I'm in the bed watching it like everybody else scared. And Jesus, you said you were lucky that. I'm sorry. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Gucci, you said that you were happy that. Jeezy, he took the moment to kind of, like, kind of shift the energy, I would say. In hindsight, I'm like, I respect the way he did what he said, you know what I'm saying? And I, you know, you know what he said made sense. You know what I'm saying? But at that moment, in the moment, like, in the heat of the moment, I wasn't thinking, like, I'm happy he said that. And he. The moment I was just like, man, what is he talking about? You know what I'm saying? Let's get on to the. To what we're doing. I ain't and. But when I look back on, I'm like, that was smart. You know what I'm saying? That was small and it was deep. Did y' all speak before y' all did the verses personally? Oh, y' all did speak beforehand. How was that conversation? Was that the first time y' all spoke throughout the years or. Man 1 It was funny because we seen each other on the app. Whoa, what a vibe we've got, y'. All. As always, it's classic HBCU energy. Nonstop action. The band is rocking and the crowd lit. 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If there would have been anybody else, you probably been like, go ahead, sit down. I got. You got to get up. You got to get up. And he don't want to get up, cuz my pride. I can't. My pride won't let me say that. You and my seat. And I just. Okay, I'm gonna sit over here. Yeah, no, dog, get up. What was that? His pride won't allow him to be like, man, Gucci man told me to get up. Oh, he got up and moved. Yeah. That's funny, because I remember 50 and Josh said the first time they seen each other was on a flight. They were both. It's like, you can't wild out in there going to jail, so you got to be easy. But, no, in your first book, you said y' all had dinner somewhere before. No, we. We. We met up at a. A restaurant. Yeah. Yeah. So we had met before, but I'm saying this since I got out. That was like. We met at that restaurant way, way back. That was like, 2010 or something like that. What is it like now? Like, have you guys spoken since Versus? And, you know, both of y' all are so evolved at this point. I did an interview on Big Fats, and I'm like, it ain't really been no disrespect since then. Everybody everything cool, but, you know, they okay. We okay. All right. We got more with Gucci Mane and Kisha Ko when we come back. His new book Episodes, is out today. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne the Good. We are the breakfast club. Lauren LaRose is here as well. We're still kicking it with Gucci Mane and Keisha. Kr, Lauren, I saw you say that. Going to East Atlanta sometimes, like, triggers different episodes for you and. Right. Well, you can talk about that. Were you about to say something? No, I'm saying it does trigger me, going to East Atlanta. What, in writing this book, what other things from your upbringing did you realize, like, oh, that was one of my triggers, these episodes, And I didn't even know, like, family stuff or just, you know, stuff from like young. Yeah. Like stuff with my mom triggers me. We had like a strange relationship. Stuff from my youth triggered me. You know, old friendships, you know, that went sour. There's a lot of stuff can be triggers I get. You know, some songs even trigger me. You know, just from like. Like you said, like I restrained relationships. Like even hands so icy. I don't like handsome icy. Wow. You know, it's kind of like a trigger trigger. Stay scrapped would be a trigger. You know what I'm saying? Hearing that, like I got 10k on your boundary like that. I said I probably couldn't have took that. Yeah. You know, like that would have triggered me. You don't do those songs and you don't do them songs. What triggers you more? East Atlanta or what is it? Burma, Alabama? Birmingham. Birmingham. I would say East Atlanta, but I don't wanna. I don't wanna dust my. Kind of depresses me because it's like when you go down there, it's so like. It's like, damn. You know what I'm saying? It's like, damn. It's a tough place to grow up at. And when I go back there, it's like it down there made me cry just looking at the buildings and the hot. Because you from a small town. So you know how like I'm from a. It's so small and rural and like, you know, it's no money down there. You know what I'm saying? So it just looked. It feel dark. Yeah. And East Atlanta, just dangerous. It's still dangerous. It's always gonna be dangerous. It just. Just when I go there just make me change. It made me like, I just. It. I almost turned to a different person. Like the corners, the blocks just. I just. Just reliving all the stuff I did on those blocks, you know, the people there. It's just. I try to still stay away from triggers. And you say you're even reading the book and seeing the effects that like systemic racism had on you. Like watching the kkk, you know, march, march through your time. Is that still a trigger nut? It kinda is. It is. It is. I still like hold some of that stuff in me, you know what I'm saying? That I seen when I was young from Vessel. That's why I kept my label 1017, because I'm like. I'll never want to forget. Even though I was raised in Atlanta, people always associate me with Atlanta. I never want to forget, you know, the life I led there. And I never want to forget, like my family then what they do, what they going through you. You said during the Big Facts interview that. That the police. You feel like they still have it out for you in Atlanta? I feel like they did. They did back in. When I first got them, I feel like. Like. Cause they used to do stuff like. You know what I'm saying? Like, I would be. When I first had got out of jail, I would go places, and the police would just run my name. You know what I'm saying? And then I was on probation, so my probation officer was like, hey, did you go to such and such? Because the police ran your name there? Like, they were just trying to see if I could. They just. They just. It's just too much. So what do you tell artists, like, your thugs and your little babies that probably feel the same way as you? You say it might be time to get out of Atlanta? I told the baby that. I've been told the baby, hey, man, he might be too big for the city. Might need to move. You know what I'm saying? I never got a chance to tell Thug that, but I definitely told Baby that before because he used to be there. That baby used to be there. Just walking around, like, regular, like, in grocery stores and everything. Because he's so comfortable, though. I got a comfort that, like, even time I went, if I'm in Atlanta and I have an episode, I. I go straight to my block, because I know that block like the back of my hand. I'm always, like. I always go there. It's like. Like, then the familiar. It's like. It's too familiar for me. You know what I'm saying? It's two for me. Sometimes something too familiar for you, you got to get away from that because it's too much comfort there. It ain't no growth in comfort. I need to be well. Like, I'm held accountable. You can get held accountable. If I go to East Atlanta, lean coming, weed coming. All I got to do is just stand on the block. I want to ask you, Keisha, how do you. How do you define recovery? Because you've seen him at his worst, and now you're seeing him at his best. So how. How would you define recovery for somebody that. That is dealing with somebody who's trying to recover from their mental health issues? The first thing you need is medication. You cannot. It cannot go unmedicated. And the quicker the better, because once they're medicated, they usually get better in, like, two weeks. It's not. It's not overnight. It's literally like 14 days for them to be back to normal. So for him, like, let's say he started his medication after an episode. He started his medication today, Right? Right. Three days later, he'd be like, oh, my wife, you're so beautiful. I could tell by his words that he's getting better. And then tomorrow he might say. And I'm like, oh, he's not better yet. Like, I could just tell by his tone. Who do you talk to, Keesh? Like, who? Do you have a therapist? No, I'm. I'm. I'm the therapist. I'm. He'll tell you. I'm like, a real therapist. I know how to speak to him. You have to speak calm. You cannot scream. Sometimes you have to agree with what he's saying. Like, he'll say, give me 500 grand. And I'm like, okay, I don't do it. But I. I say, okay. Whatever he asks for, I say, yes, but I don't do it. But you can't go against them. So he'll text somebody and cuss them out, and I'll go back to his phone and I'll say, block him. He's having an episode. So I just. I'm just a cleanup lady. Listen, I gotta say this. Remember Julie Greenwald used to be the head of Atlanta? I had an episode and said so much bad stuff to Judah that I said that when I came from the episode, I said, listen, Judah, from now on, if I text you anything crazy, block me for. Block me and call my wife. Don't call me for two days and call my wife. Because this episode coming. Because I ain't want to lose my position at the label going through episode. And she was like. I'm like, if you just see. Like, if you see, like, the Texas getting crazy, just block me. Cause I don't want to say. I'm telling you. I start saying stuff so bad, it's like, you can't come back from. From Gucci. We've seen it before. But how do you protect your piece, though? Yeah. Like, you. Because there has to be times where you feel like the. The walls are just caving in because it's so much. And it's so personal for you. Honestly, I. During the moment, I'm kind of, like, stressed out. I'm. I'm a prayer warrior. I just pray. And once he starts getting better, honestly, I'm okay. And he doesn't. Doesn't stay sick long. Like I said, it takes 14 days to get him back. And after, like, day three, he's already coming to his senses. But those deep episodes Won't happen ever again. We're in 25. So the last one was five years ago. He had a mild one coming maybe two years ago, and I caught it. So now I catch them before they come. And, like, people be saying stuff about him like, oh, he's soft. He's this. He. That. That. The madman is still there. So I try my best. I don't want them to provoke him. It will come back. Yeah. And he's very dangerous. So y' all listen, please leave him alone, because the Mad Max is still in the head. Yeah. When I. When I saw Young Thug say that, I was just like, man, you know, Thug is just young. Yeah. They don't understand. Gucci ain't soft. He just. He grown. He's grown. He's evolved. I thought it was hearing you talk about why you called Young Thug so quick when he dropped the Miss My Dogs, because you understood with that apology, like, you were there. I thought that was, like, really. It was really great to hear. What was your conversation like? I didn't call them. I just forget. I just. I'm saying I forgive him. Oh, so y' all didn't actually never talk? Oh, wow. So he found out you forgave him on that interview? Yeah. Has he reached out to you since the interview? To be honest, he was like. He hit me, like, let's. Let's talk, but I ain't really want to talk. But I do forgive him. I just didn't want to talk. Yeah, I. I understand. I'm the same way. I could forgive you, but I still. At certain times, I just. Just, just don't. Yeah. Do you mind being the og? And the reason I say that is, is you look at Atlanta, you see everything that Atlanta's going through. Gucci's that one person that could stop it all. I. I think because every artist in Atlanta respects you. Do you. Do you mind that. That label as the OG that can do that? Or you just say, you know what? I've been og. I do. You know what I'm saying? Like, I've been in the game 20 years now, so, like, I embraced it. That, you know, I'm not the hot artist trying to drop off, you know, the hottest single every year and do all that. You know, I want to be the person that they can come to and talk to. Would you want to do that with everything that's going on in Atlanta? I would. I would. I feel like, if they would come to me, but they don't want to come. I feel like people don't Come to me for advice because it's like, even with my own artists, it's like a lot of them, you know, don't come to me because it's like talking to your dad. I ain't got nothing but positive to say. I'm trying to lead by example. And I'm gonna tell you, like, you shouldn't do this. You shouldn't. So they don't even want to talk to me. They'd have loved to talk to old Gucci, but no Gucci. They don't want to talk to me. I want to talk to new Gucci, because new Gucci ain't really got nothing going on. He go to sleep at 8:30, like, ain't on that morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne, the guy we are the breakfast club. Lauren LaRose is here as well. We're still kicking it with Gucci Mane and Keisha. Kr Charlamagne. What emotional release did writing this book give you that music couldn't. I'm so. I'm more proud of this book than I'm proud in the album I ever put out. Because like you said, it's kind of like talking about stuff that I used to be kind of like, had a stigma of. You know what I'm saying? You got mental health. You crazy. It's like, I used to be embarrassed about some of these situations, and I didn't used to want to talk about it, but now I'm confident in talking about it because I know that I can help somebody else. And it's like, I don't even feel. I don't feel no shame no more. The conversations that you've been having recently, you know, have you begin to help people in that space where you're like, yo, I did it. Like, everybody. I did a book signing in. In Atlanta, and a lot of folks are coming up to me saying, hey, you know, thank you for this book. I've been sober eight years. Or, thank you for this book. You know, I got bipolar. Thank you for this book. My. My friend, you know, saying, be going through episodes. Like, I was getting a lot of that, and it felt good to feel that love. You know what I'm saying? It really did. Are you still surprised about the love? I heard you say something. You were in Miami doing a book signing, and you were surprised about how many people came up to me and ask for an autograph for your book. But then I'm thinking about. I'm like, you just did South Carolina Homecoming. That was sold out. You just did this show that was sold out. So I tell them that all the time. Yeah. Like, it's different when they come up, like, with that book. I don't know why, but it's like the book signing saying. When they're saying, you, I bought your book. You know, I've been rocking with you since I was in junior high. You know, you got me through college. Like, it just. The energy was, like, it made me feel good. I ain't felt that in a long time. You know, like. Like touching the people, shaking their hand, taking a selfie with them. It's. It's. It's like when you do that, it's about two, 300 people, and they telling you that you can't do nothing but feel good. But as I said, you. You're like a mythical figure to a whole generation. You got Sexy Red calling herself the female Gucci Man. South Carolina State. Them kids asked for you. Yeah, like, I seen the list. They was asking. I'm like. I said, I don't even know who that is. It was about five. I'm like, I don't even know who these people are. But it was like, oh, Gucci, man. I know Gucci. Like, they wanted you at South Carolina State. How did that make you feel? Knowing a whole generation feel good? They feel good when I go through this. I've been doing a lot of college. I do Norfolk State on Tuesday. But, like, every time I go to the college in there, like, the kids know all the words. You know what I'm saying? They 19 years old. It's like, bro, you still touching people. 19 years old, they know this song. They singing songs that came out in 2005, 2006, how old we all then. Don't that feel good? How you make you feel Keisha, when you see Sexy Red call herself the female Gucci? I love it. I love when younger artists pay homage to him. Like, I be in the background. Like, when people don't pay homage to him or treat him with respect, I'll be mad. He don't get mad or whatever. But I watch everything online and I analyze it. And if and anybody go against him, I'm going against them, too. I was going to ask, does the book. Because you said, you know, seeing people come up to you with the book is like, a great feeling for you. Does the book make you feel like a. A superhero versus, like, music didn't. Because we talked about, like, our og, like, rappers being, like, superhero size, which. Which a lot of people. I feel like they look at you that way. I'm super proud of being an author. You know what I'm saying? I read a lot of books. I read people. Judges don't know that about me, but I read a ton of books. You know what I'm saying? I probably read two, three books a month. You know what I'm saying? Big Malcolm Gladwell fan. You are huge. Big Malcolm Gladwell fan. You know what I'm saying? He just did a book range of the Tipping point that I read that I love, you know? But I'm proud to be an author because I love books. And so it's like. It's a different thing than being a writer. I want to make some more books. I like being a prolific author. I'm trying to have more books than Charlemagne. I got 3Y. I want to see Keisha write a book. I really do, because I'm telling you, man, people who have to deal with those of us with mental health issues don't tell their stories enough. I think it's harder being me than him going through an episode because it's scary. Like. Like. Like we had a condo. We were on, like, the penthouse. And I'm like, is he gonna jump? Is the voice gonna tell him to jump? Like, that's the scary part. Not me being scared of him hurting me. So, like, during episodes, I make sure no one is around him with guns, knives, high buildings. But he wouldn't leave that. That's where I had to kidnap him from. He would not leave there. He wouldn't come to the house. And I'm like, I had to get, like, a babysitter for him because he hated me. Different episodes. He hate different people. That. That. If you have an episode where he hates me, that's a problem. He hated me. He wouldn't come home. He got the damn balcony. And I'm like, is the voice gonna tell him I can't sleep at night? Right? I have to. What is he doing now? Did he eat today? Like, I have to play games with his friends from Atlanta who he want to be with, And. And then I'm like, don't give him any weed. Throw it in the garbage. They call me back, oh, he needs weed. I gave him weed today. I said, no, you didn't. You know, like, stuff like that. It's hard. It's. It's so. So, so, so stressful. Like, you want to cry. Yeah. And I cannot read that book. It's too sad. It's too much for me. It's too. I don't read it. I read probably, like, Three pages and I had to quit. Is that much? What about. What about you, Gooch? When you got to relive all of that? It almost made me cry, too. My autobiography almost made me cry. And this book almost made me cry. Cry. That almost made him cry. That book was putting him through an episode, and I caught it about day one. So. Revisiting the trauma. Yeah, they do, bro. I can't lie. Especially the best from Alabama part. It's like, damn, that take me back down. Yeah. You know, it's like, then I started thinking about, you know, when I was young, my granddad and my mom, like, damn, we was poor. Damn. Like, I don't. I don't think about that no more. You know what I'm saying? That was like, I know we were poor, but it ain't like nothing I dwell on when you go back to things about it. Damn, man, we're in the racist ass town, poor as hell. You know, Stand with my granddad, me and my mom, my brothers. Like, we have. Yeah, we have. So how do you protect yourself while revisiting that trauma? And on a press run. Yeah, how do you protect them, Keisha? Well, the press run doesn't bother him. It's just like when he was writing the book because he has to keep saying these things over and over and over. And actually, this was my idea. I was like, you need to do a movie called Episode and let people know what's going on. I said, I can tell you everything you've done through your episodes because he doesn't remember. And I was telling him how to make the movie, and that's how. That's how we started with the book, because she told me to make a movie. As soon as he had the episode, I was like, this. People need to see this. We all married the beautiful black women. But I want Gucci. You tell me, how important is it to have a good woman, man? It's the most important thing you can have. It's the best decision you can make. My best decision ever was to marry her if you were her, bro. Like, I got somebody to, you know, help me, hold me accountable, and I got somebody, you know, watch TV with. Sometimes that's all you want to do. I'm kind of like, I don't really need a lot. We like. We just like best friends. And we just home just chilling. And we. Everything we do, we have it in common. We like the same food, the same shows. We both boring. Travel. Like, we like to travel. We like to just go to bed, stay at the House. If you could redefine what it means to be real in hip hop culture, what new code would you give that this new generation. Oh, man, I let them know, like, they talking about their hood. But the best hood is fatherhood. That's what I'm most proud of. You know what I'm saying? I love. I love being called dad, you know, I love being a prison dad. That's like, I didn't even know that it was so much joy in raising kids that it is. But you know what I'm saying? Like. Like raising the family has changed me. It has changed for the better. I just want to say the biggest thing that made me so happy is when you see Gucci talk about his kids. I don't know if you see the smile on his. Oh, my God, he's in love with them. Oh, my God. He start smiling, he start grinning. He like, I can't wait to get back and get to my. My son's this my daughter. Like, that is the biggest thing. And I love him right now. He'll leave. Do you feel like a generational curse break? Yes. Yes. I know my little boy. He gonna inherit all this. He got so much. He's so turned up, he'll trust fund baby. Ain't nothing wrong with it. Ain't nothing wrong. You know, he said it with a smile. That's right, man. Go get episodes right now, man. The Diary of a Recovering Madman. There's some books that are good. This is good, but it's also important, man. It is important. And my album out today too. Shauna, man. That's right. Episode. I didn't even get that. It's Gucci, man. Keisha. Ko. Thank you so much for joining us. You used to listen to the Breakfast Club in the morning when you worked out. I don't know if you still do, but you gotta come back. I listen to y' all every day before I go to the gym, and my favorite part is the positive note of the day. There we go. No, Charlemagne, he loves that. He listens to all your positives. As soon as I'm going to the gym, we're on the gym. We listen to y', all, but it's like the positive day. Hey, stop. Let me hear what he say. That's what it is, brother. All right. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. It's time for Donkey of the Day. It's a read, but you're so good at. You trying to be a fake ass. Charlamagne. Only one Charlemagne. Damn Charlemagne. Who you give a Donkey of the day to now. Well, sexy red donkey of the day going to a 65 year old man named Richard Lombardi. Also, fun fact, Dick is a common nickname for the name Richard. Why? I don't know, but Richard or Dick Lombardi is absolutely living up to his name. See, there are people among us who judge you for doing simple things like coughing, sneezing. Okay, now I don't know if this judgment started during COVID Remember when Covet had folks scared to cough around other people? We was treating coughs like farts. I personally don't fart around people because I don't fart in my clothes. Yeah, right. And when a man fought around another man, that's flirting because why are you bringing attention to your ass in my presence? Why do you want me to know what your ass may or may not smell like? My point is, there are people amongst us who are so judgmental. When you sneeze, when you blow your nose, I mean, they look at you crazy. They run and grab hand sanitizer. They start screaming for you not to touch nothing. It's a whole production. And I'm like, why are you being a Richard about this? And always remember, Dick is a common nickname for Richard. Why are you like this? Just hilarious. Because germs. Germs is crazy. He don't cover his mouth. He will blow his nose and pick a tissue right next to his eye head. Do we cover his mouth? No, he don't cover his mouth. That's a damn lie. I do. No, you cover your eyes. I keep telling you that he sneezing to my elbow. You sneeze into the inside of your elbow. You don't sneeze into your hand. No, but it goes under and it crawls around your elbow. Just finish your donkey of the day. See what I'm saying? I simply blew my nose this morning. Just makes such a production about it that people around here asking me if I'm sick. I'm like, damn, all I do is blow my nose, okay? And the reason I need Jess to relax is because I don't want her to end up like Richard Lombardi. See, Richard, 65 years old and he had a roommate. His roommate name is Frank Griswold. And Frank is 80 years old. Now, I know what you're thinking. Why the hell are a 65 year old man and an 80 year old man roommates? Why are Dick and Frank shacking up? I think I know the answer to that. Ain't nothing wrong with being a little gay. Everybody's a little gay. That's not what I was thinking. Okay, I was reading this story in the New York Post this morning and these two men have been friends for three decades and they've been living together for more than 20 years. They probably was just trying to save money. 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It has to be a condition. And that condition caused Richard to land in jail. Hell, let's go to ABC 5 for the report, please. 65 year old Richard Lombardi in court, accused of killing his 80 year old roommate, Frank Griswold. It happened Wednesday at the home they shared on Main street in Marshfield. He was cooking Thanksgiving dinner, got into an argument with Mr. Griswold, the victim, that he did not want him in the kitchen touching the food. Prosecutors say the two argued. And when Lombardi saw Griswold in the kitchen, he shoved him. He did see the victim, Mr. Griswold, near that food, doing dishes. Said that he went over and grabbed Mr. Griswold from behind, grabbed his back and threw Mr. Griswold to the right, tossing him to the side. Lombardi called 91 1. Prosecutors say he told police Griswold's feet became Tangled. And he fell and hit his head. He was seen laying face up on the floor of the kitchen there in a pool of blood. Griswold was later pronounced dead. Court documents show he also had cuts on his face. Lombardi is being held without bail. He's back in court next week for a dangerousness hearing. I bet he did grab him by the back. Had that man laying face down, ass up in blood, for no damn reasons. It ain't that deep, okay? It's never that deep because he sneezed over some trash ass. Things giving food. Things giving food is trash. First of all, if you such a germaphobe, why come near me after I sneeze? Also, why put hands on me after I sneeze? If you're a real germaphobe, you should be avoiding me like the plague because I might have habit. Also, you've been living with this man for 20 years. There's not a germ he has that you don't have, okay? If he sneezed on some food, so what? He's probably put worse bodily fluids and stranger places all around that residence, all right? Not to mention this 80 year old man came in the kitchen to wash the dishes. So they had a nice couple thing going on. Somebody handled the food, somebody handled the cleanup. He was washing dishes before he got to eat. That's a keeper. And one little sneeze caused you to throw this man to the floor and kill him? Especially when you said the police. He said to police that he often sneezes. Y' all been living together 20 years. You know this man often sneezes. And this one time he sneezes, you throw him to the floor and cause him to die face down, ass up in a pool of blood. Always remember, kids, one wrong move and you're done for, okay? Life is all about choices, decisions, decisions. And one wrong decision may destroy your life. So you should think before you make decisions. And you don't realize how important decisions are until you make the wrong one. And you're facing charges of assault and battery and involuntary manslaughter simply because somebody sneezed. And all you had to do was say God bless you, but instead you let it stress you. Please let Remy Ma give Richard Dick Lombardi the biggest hee haw. Hee haw. Hee haw. You stupid mother. Are you dumb? Okay, let's just start here. He should have covered his nose. Like, that's the thing. Yeah, okay. You washing dishes, you can cover your mouth. His reflexes don't work like they used to, okay? So why you washing dishes? Sneezes are abrupt. Washing dishes is more of a premeditated thing you prepare for yo. You wait till you turn 80 and you just sneezing and farting and don't know when. Yo. But I'm not going to be in the kitchen, yo. He sneezed over the food. They've been living together for 20 years. That don't mean nothing. Listen, if your wife is cooking and you come in that kitchen and you sneeze over the food just going, what? She gonna go off? That would be ridiculous. I've sweated on her. But won't she go off? Yeah, but that's different. You're not the food that the whole family eat. We don't want you germs on the food. Them babies eating that. Yeah, that makes sense to you. I miss the plague. You said the flag. It's a plague. You come in. You shouldn't correct nobody about nothing. I'm correct. Okay? I'm correcting. You show. It just don't make no sense. Especially if you didn't each other ass. How do you know that's with Dick and. And Rich? What else it sound like they doing, yo? Well, now, at least he'd be happy in jail then. If this is all. This is all. You know what it is then. You know, you can't say that. He ain't got a problem going, all right? No, what he said. Oh, yeah? What Eat we eating something? You can't eat just. You can't say Thanksgiving dinner, huh? You can't say eat the groceries the way you said it. Yeah, I don't know what you're talking about. Good. All right. Well, thank you for that donkey today. What he talking about, baby? Are you getting to the yams this Thanksgiving? We got more coming up with the best of the Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess. Hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Fist Club. We got some special guests in the building. The legendary the Clips. What's up, fellas? What's up? What's up? Is it the clips or is it Clips? Clips. Okay. Because I say the clips, too. Nah, it's just clips. You call that shot? I want to ask y'. All. So it's just Clips. What's the origins of the name for people who don't know? So that came from Full Eclipse. I came up with it. And at the time, Fat Joe had the Full Eclipse crew, so we just shortened it to Clip. Okay, Now I wanna go back, right? Cause you guys haven't been In a long time. What got you into rapping and to form the group Clips for people that don't know. Always, always been a fan of hip hop like anybody else. You know, my older brother was into the whole cardboard box, breakdancing, boombox rapping. When you had to push play and record and rap directly into the box. Absolutely. And yeah, man, just coming up under that. And we went to Chad's house one time, and Pusha, he wrote his first rap, and Pharrell was like, y' all should, you know, be a group. His first rap was incredible. But before that, it was just me rapping over there. Now, when y' all first met Chad and Pharrell, right? Yep. Y' all are totally opposite. So how did y' all even meet and even learn each other? Cause growing up in Norfolk and Virginia, like, it's totally two different sides. So what made y' all even say, you know what? Let's connect with these guys who were wearing tight shirts at the time and tight pants that look like skateboarders. That look nothing like y'. All. They might have been serving them. No, they were serving them. So what made y' all say, you know what? Let's link with them and start this whole rapper, you know, actually, so I was a dj, DJ Alex in Virginia beach, lived down the street from me, and we went out and we rented a drum machine, and we got the drum machine, but we couldn't work it. And, you know, we had to turn it back in. Soon we had paid for it, but, you know, we was gonna have to turn it back in before we even had a chance to use it. And he was like, you know, let's take it to my homie's house. And we went over there, and it happened to be Chad, and he knew how to work it. And, you know, that's just stuff that we was doing before clips, and that's where it started. Yeah. So when did y' all take it serious? When did you say, you know what? This rap thing is something I'm gonna take serious. I'm gonna get off the streets and say, this is what it is. I have to say, that was in meeting Pharrell. It was the Teddy Riley coming to Virginia. You know, we began to see that it was a real thing, that music was actually attainable in arm's reach. I mean, we seeing the cars, we seeing the Ferraris, we seeing Michael Jackson in Virginia beach. We're seeing MCs. HOV. Everybody was coming down. And then at the same time, we had Timbaland and Missy, they was doing they thing. They had left home and went to Jersey and was working with Jodeci. But these are all our childhood, you know, high school, school friends. So we got to see it from a lot of different angles that, you know, music was possible. Why Virginia don't get the. Like, the credit for being a hip hop hotbed or just a black music hotbed? Well, I think a lot of people have. Everybody who's made it in Virginia actually had to leave Virginia to. To make it. I don't think any one particular artist of any of us. None of us broke in Virginia, so we always broke, like, Clips broke in Philly, you know? You know, everybody. Everybody broke somewhere else. And clips broke in Philly. I never heard that one. Oh, no. Yeah. Clips broke in Philly, man. Really? Yeah. Shout out, Cosmic Kev. Wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Clips broke in Philly. I didn't know what record was it the funeral or grinding? Grinding. Okay. Yeah. Grinding, Broken Philly. Got you. Now, do you remember the. When Pharrell gave you that beat for grinding? I remember the first time I heard it. It was confusing. Yeah, it was confused. I was confused. So when he first gave it, how did you know that was the beat? You probably got the CD I was handing out. Yes, I did. Yeah, I believe you did. It was. It kind of took us back because you got to think, at that time, Pharrell was singing on every hook. It was whether it was mystical and whoever, right? So, you know, this is our first joint. And he like, yo, this the one. And we, like. We want you singing, like, sing. You better tap or do something. And, you know, he was like, nah, I'm telling you, this is. This the future. This is what it is. And he was right. And it was confusing because we actually wrote to it twice. Three times. I think I. I think I got three joints on that joint. I still can't blend it to this day because I don't know what. Where the beat and the snare go at the same time to actually blend on it. You just gotta go. That's crazy. That's crazy for you to say that. Yeah. To this day, I mean, he's not the greatest dj. Y' all know that. Envy up there. Envy up there. I just left Vegas with Envy rocking that joint. He was smoking that. Thanks. Thanks. But, you know, on the album, Alice, you said you've been both Mason Bethes. Yeah, man. For people who don't know what that line means. Expound. Yeah. I just feel like I understood and walked a similar path. Like Mace you know, to be in this industry and then to have a real live revelation of God and who he is, you know, and then have to navigate your way as far as navigating, not so much, because I knew that I had to chill, take a step back. And I also want to give you y' all flowers too, because y' all were still messing with me, me during that time. You let me come in here and, you know, promote the documentary and, you know, my solo projects and everything. So. Yeah, I appreciate that. But, yeah, I feel like I understand seeing a lot of the same things that. That Mace. I brought that up because, you know, that's. They actually called me Mason at club. We was in a club in D.C. and they was like, we got Pusha T and Mason. Damn. But you ain't been around for a while, though. Hell no. I'm cool with it all. Yeah, I'm cool with it all. I mean, that's why I brought it up, because that's what ultimately caused the clips to, you know, end for that. That fifth last period of time. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. So what got y' all back? What was the call that said, I want to do this again? There were a few baby steps going out to Wyoming and, you know, working on Use this gospel with ye. With my brother. I always knew that we could do it it, but I just knew I needed a sit down period, you know what I'm saying? What else did we do? We did push his album. I pray for you. Yeah, we did a Nego album. The Nego album. Punch bowl. Yeah. So those were things I could ask for that I knew weren't, you know, just solid nos, man. From there, it was just like, what we gonna do? Well, what was the exact moment, though? Cause y' all were on two completely different life paths. So what was the exact moment that said, okay, it's time to do another album? You know, when. When we were doing the use this gospel and punch bowl and push his album or whatever, I had asked my dad, I was like, you know, what do you think about me rapping again? And he said. He said, son, I think you've been too hard on yourself. And my dad's a deacon, you know, like, he was a deacon. So to hear him say that, I am like, word. That's how you feel like, you know, just answer one of my questions. I was gonna ask you about that because you talk about that on Birds Don't Sing, Right? And I just thought that was such a powerful thing just to explain, like, you was going through his dresser drawers, seeing his notes. But then y' all had conversations about you rapping again. I was gonna ask you, what were those conversations? Yeah, yeah, we. Everything was the way it lined up. It told the whole story, and it let me know that God is intentional. These things don't just be happening to us the way, you know, we think. God is very gracious, and he sets you up. He knows what you can take. He knows how much to put on you. He knows the order in which to put, you know, things in for you. So I just know that he's in control all the time. And the conversations with that record, you know, Pusha talking to my mom and me talking to my dad, and being able to document those last conversations, even those conversations, was a type of preparation, you know, getting you ready for what was about to take place. So. So, like, I'm cool with it all. Well, condolences, first and foremost. Thank you, thank you, thank you. When I was in Vegas, you know, I was with family members of Yalls, and what I like to do is pull them to the side and just have conversations. I knew y' all was coming up for an interview and trying to get tea. Yeah, of course. And one of them was like, now we were talking about the album. This is before I heard the album. And he was like. He was like, yo, the best thing about it, he was like, I had their mom in the car. And he was like, the greatest thing that ever happened is the two boys are back together rapping. So. So how was that feeling of knowing that mom was just super duper happy that her two sons were back rapping? Man, you know, she. That was. That was always a big thing, you know, for me as a soloist. She would always be like, I want you with him. Yeah, I want your brother with you. I want him back out there with you. You probably just to, you know, look over me, watch over me. But that was. That was always her thing. She was huge on, like, us just being together. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne, the guy we are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with the clips. Lauren Larose is here as well. Charlamagne. How did y' all know y' all had to start the album with a dedication to your parents? Cause it was the hardest record to make. Like, it was the hardest record to make, so felt that one the most on the album. Yeah, so finally, like, when we cracked that code, you know, we were. You know, we put in the order, and we was like, man, nah, this. This this has to start. Like, this has to start. The album, it was, it was polarizing the, the response, you know, just in the creation of it, man. Everybody who heard it, there were people in there, like, you know, we recorded it in, in the LV headquarters. So it's a room and it's, you know, it's open. The mics are like, this ain't no booth. You record like this, you look outside, you look through that window right there. And it's not a window, it's just a open space. 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And I want to see how it, like, really touches people. People, you know, from. From the jump and then get into everything else. Will we get a visual for this video? I mean, it's already shot. Okay. It's already shot. Look at you. You smiling like you already knew. You talked to the family. But I think I pulled everybody to the side. Definitely ask. The other day, they said I was glazing the clips. Right? Right. What I said was. I said. I said something to this fact. I said, push has. If he hears anybody go at him, he has five records on the side or five verses, just in case. I said, I just know because I know who he is and what he is. Is that true? No, man, that's not what he said. You know, he said. No, he said now he looks good. Like the skin. I like skin compliments. I do like skin compliments. I'm gonna tell you, To rappers, and sometimes they throw stones at you. Do you have something in the stash for each and every one of them? Man? I. I mean, I think, you know, just me being a. A rap artist and me being an emcee, it's. That's just second nature. And usually most. Most people who. Who throw stones, man, I mean, no, nobody's perfect. So I. I mean, I can dissect anybody just like they could dissect me, but I try not to engage too much. Like, I've done that. Like, I've done a lot of it. You know what I'm saying? I've done it with the best in the biggest. Like, I've done it. So it's like, you. You can't just entertain everything because everybody and everybody's not good. This is a new day in a new era where, like, you know, just clicks and, And. And. And click bait and people just say things for. For attention. And it's like, you just can't entertain everything, man. You just can't. I feel like you've been trying to catch a body since the Story of Aden. I really. I've been trying to catch a body. Well, you caught one. I'm thinking. I think those would shock. Watch directly at you. But you. You were surgical with it. Yeah. You said at the end. I'm. Peel back the layers real slow. So I feel like you really wanted to go there with somebody for the longest. Nah, man, nah, nah. I mean, you know, it's. It's never a man. I got. I got. For real. I have a lot to. To. To rap about. I got a lot to rap about. I got a lot. A lot of content. The creativity is. Is. Is ever flowing, and it. It don't ever have to be about an individual. It don't have to be like. Not for me. Like, I mean, like, I feel like this album is incredible, and I don't think it's really dialed anywhere. You could get an accessory to murder charge, though, because when you listen to Euphoria, there's a lot of pressure in Euphoria. There's a lot of things that you laid, you know, you laid down that Kendrick used for Euphoria and I think just used in the battle too, period. Man. You know, I. I think I think, you know, great, great lyricist. Just, you know, tune into the obvious. Did y' all ever speak during that battle? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, I did speak during the battle. My guy. Accessory. Accessory. I knew it. I knew it. I knew it. When do you pick and choose when to say something about something, though? Because you sit on a lot of stuff for a long time. Yeah, I mean, I'm. I'm. I'm always like that. That just comes with my position in the game and, like, just what. Where I am as an artist. Like, man, I don't. You know, it's not always a radio record that I have. It's not always, you know. You know, I'm not putting out music constantly. You know, I'm saying every five minutes, a new record. I feel like, you know, things happen. You got to store it. You got to store it. You got to craft. You got to make it right. You got to set the platform, set the stage. Now break down the. Hit it. This. The situation with Def Jam. You guys were on Def Jam? Yes. Decided to leave. Yeah, you crazy, too, man. You can sit up here and tell some. Def Jam. You was like, yo, Def Jam. Def Jam. Don't care about your project. Honest, man. Do that to her. Like, what is you. If you're not afraid to talk about your music, what are we gonna be talking about? Right? And I actually left that thing because they didn't send out. He still wanted to do it, but I was pushing for her because I love Coco. Yeah. Yeah. If we being honest, though, because listening to the project now and knowing the background with y' all on Def Jam, you. I don't understand why they would let a project like this go. Well, listen, so what was the call when. When you handed in the album and they called and said, we can't put this out. We can't clear this record. What was that call like? I mean, it was. You know what it was. It was something that I wasn't really dealing with it firsthand. They were, like, speaking to my management, you know, Then it got. It got a little dicey. To where? To the point they weren't. They wouldn't text or email. Send these things in email. They would. They would, like, only talk on the phone. And, you know, they would instruct not to email us back and forth these. You know, that type of correspondence. I can only assume that it was just the optics with everything they got going on, with litigation, lawsuits, and all of that. The optics of clips Kendrick together, because that's. That's when it all happened. We don't really deal with the label that much anyway, outside of nothing. Actually, yeah, we don't deal with the label. Like, we. We go make our album, and then we come and bring the album back. Right. But y'. All. You and Kendrick have worked together before. Y' all got a classic together, if you ask me. Nostalgia. So what's the difference? Oh, it's a different day. It wasn't. That was back then. But y' all wasn't even shooting that. Dude. It does. It doesn't matter. That's crazy. When you wanted to leave, you call HOV, and then the first rumor was they just let you go for free. We was like, that can't be true. No, no, no, no, no, no. He had to pay. Had to pay. So you reached out to Hov and Hove said absolutely positive. Steven did shout out to Steven. Yeah, Steven. Steven reached out to him. There were other. Other labels in the. In the. In the bidding, and he just called HOV like, yo, I think there was a. There was a. There was a. An approval process between one of the labels or something. Took a little long. And he went and asked Hov, and Hov was like, look, yeah, let's do this now. Like, 24 hours. Maybe. Maybe 48 hours. I never seen lawyer work like this that fast. Yeah, I didn't know it even happened like that. And what record was Hov supposed to be on? On this project? He was sent chains and whips. He was Mike Tyson. Mike Tyson. Blow to the face. You know, HOV had the album, so, you know, so be it. Yeah, it was. It was all for him to. Whatever he wanted to do. Are you supposed to be on? So be it. Yeah, that was one of the options. Yeah. Yeah. And nothing moved the spirit. Hey, man, I don't know, man. I don't know, man. You know? All right, we got more with the clips when we come back. Don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Along the road. Roses here as well. We're still kicking it with the clips. Jess, how do you feel when people leak music? Like when people release your music prematurely, yo, you know, the game goes how it goes, and that's how we maneuver, we navigate everything. I'm not going to sit up and be upset about anything. You know, that happens when we get in there and we create and we make our music and we do what we do. What else you gonna do? What else can you do other than that? You know what I'm saying? And. And I stand on our product, and I love it. And it's good for fans to get things sometimes, so it's cool. Like, as long as they enjoy it, it's good. Yeah. Did y' all ever think about trying to get another Kendrick first? Once that leaked before the album actually, like, dropped? Man, we try to get all Kendrick verses. Why not? Well, y' all kind of looked. Y' all knew playing that song in Paris, everybody's phone out, it was going. Y' all had to know that. Yeah. Now this is part of it. Going back to what you said about when you went to Wyoming to do use this gospel, by the way, the hardest song on. On that album. How do y' all feel about Kanye now? Do y' all feel sadness or sympathy for him? We all see him now. No. No to your brother. No, no, no, no, no, no. All I'm gonna say in. In, in. And. And I'm gonna say that I think this goes for. For anybody. It's crazy. When you have a true revelation of God, it is radical, because when the scales fall off your eyes, you. Do you want to run and tell everybody what you. What you witness or, yo, we've been missing it this whole time. Yeah, you know, it's. It's how. It's. It's how I felt. But once you get that, you gotta sit down for a minute. You can't get the revelation and then try to keep going. In this world, the epitome of the gospel is denying yourself. That's why Christ got on the cross and gave up his flesh. So you have to be willing to give it up so you can learn and then let God restore you and rebuild you. You know, correctly. Doesn't mean anybody is a perfect person or you can't even try to have the facade of, okay, I'm saved now. Now I'm perfect. Nah, it just doesn't work like that. So how do you deal with it? Push. Cause deal with Kanye because, you know, you're not a type of person to hold your tongue. You know, you don't hold your word. So when some of the stuff that he did that might not have aligned what you. You thought. Did y' all have those conversations? Well, I mean, you know, I spoke on it. I feel like that's. That was the beginning of our fallout. He sits on a lot. Lot of miscarriages of justice. I've seen it. You know what I'm saying? I. I hear things and things being said. Yeah. And I see, you know, his his reserve, you know, I, I admire his restraint. People by the time he jumps out the window, you think he's going overboard. But I, I'm telling you as knowing my brother, he sits on a lot. I saw you say you hate Kanye's leadership and, and you got away from that because. Got away from that community that he built because of the feeling over there, right? What was that, like last straw of like, nah, I can't no more. I think for me it was somewhere around the Atlanta, the, The dome, the. Locked in. When everybody was locked in the dome and we squad and we working and we doing what we doing. It's just all about the squad. And I kind of just felt like, you know, I would, you know, I would have to leave and go do things, shows, whatever the case may be. I would come back and the energy would just be different. Different. You know, there were conversations being had. You know, this is, this is after Adidon and everything else. And you know, it was like, man, I was doing self serving things and it was just crazy. It was just a lot of like, you know, back biting and things like that. And I'm like, damn, this is, this is for the squad, I thought. But, you know, it ended up not being. Talk publicly negative about you. We heard him say about Sean, we heard him say John Legend, yay. Oh, no, for sure. He had, for sure. He has. He put on, remember he put on a little mask. He was like screaming in the. Define what is culturally inappropriate. Oh, man. Yeah. No, listen, man. Okay, so during, during just the sessions, whether it was a beat, whether it was, you know, just the freestyles before and making the songs, whatever the case may be, you know, we would get hype about just like man, hard or whatever. Whatever it was at the time. And I forgot who said it, but was Mike. Mike? Yeah, Mike was like, man, this is culturally inappropriate. And Mike also worked on It's Almost Dry. So you know how that had a common thread of like the joker laugh through the whole album. He was like, yo, say that on the mic and let me run that through a filter. Because, you know, we just felt like we just kept running that back. It's culturally inappropriate. He was like, say it through a filter. Let's find a voice and let's just see how it sounds. Sounds on records. And it actually just worked just to have that, you know, just another thread to keep it, you know, cohesive, keep the album cohesive. But. Well, I appreciate you brothers for joining us, man. Thanks for having us. Thank you. Thank you very much. But are we gonna have to wait another 15 years or. Nah, nah, nah. I don't think so. Okay. Malice didn't say it. I don't know. Y' all are just so happy. I love seeing y' all together. I know. That's why when I said the safe space thing, like, I can really see that. I can see how this is like a divine protection when y' all together. Wow. Having an individual. But when y' all together, you can really, really. I'm with that. I'm with that. I feel that. I see that. Yeah. One last thing. Is there ever a. A problem you say, like, I'm not going there with Pusha. Like, if Push is going to a. A. A spot a strip club to host or he's going to strip club, like, that's. I'm not doing that. Yo. Everybody keeps putting you in a strip club for some reason, every interview, they're putting them in the. In the. I usually don't. I mean, book, but yeah, man. Work is work. Work is work. It's clips. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Salute. Morning, everybody. It's ej, Envy, Jess, Hilarious Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. And happy Thanksgiving to everybody out there. Salute to Red, who's running the boards today. He's the only one here, so happy Thanksgiving. Why does Red got to work on Thanksgiving? That's a goddamn shame. You know what I mean? Means what? He taking next week off, so when we come back, he ain't gonna be here. Oh. Huh. I don't blame him. Yeah. So good luck to us. I don't know who gonna be running the boys, but we're gonna figure it out. But salute to everybody traveling. If you're heading to Thanksgiving, if you're. If you're at the airport right now, if you're on the road, get to your destination safe. Yeah. Definitely sending you positive energy, love, and light. Hope your plane isn't delayed. I hope that, you know, the airports are cool. I hope everybody gets the way they're going to. Going safely, whether you're flying, whether you driving, whether you're taking a train, whatever it is, man. We hope we get to your destination safely. That's right. And don't let your family piss you off too bad. That's right. When we come back. Oh, you got a positive note for the people on Thanksgiving, bro. You know what? I do. And it's simple. You're gonna be sitting around the dinner table today, probably with people that you may enjoy, probably with some people that you don't. 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