FULL SHOW: Ja Rule Apologizes After Plane Incident, Tyra Banks Teases ANTM Reboot + Jill Scott Interview

Summary

Podcast Summary

Podcast: The Breakfast Club
Episode: Ja Rule Apologizes After Plane Incident, Tyra Banks Teases ANTM Reboot + Jill Scott Interview
Date: February 13, 2026
Hosts: DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God, Lauren LaRosa, Mimi Brown

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Episode Overview

This dynamic episode spans trending hip hop controversies, political debates, a heartfelt and humorous interview with Jill Scott, cultural commentary, and candid audience participation. The hosts discuss Ja Rule's apology following an airplane incident, dig into the ongoing immigration and voter ID debates, examine the legacy and potential reboot of America’s Next Top Model, and celebrate the release of Jill Scott’s new album with an in-depth interview. Centered around themes of accountability, authenticity, Black excellence, and self-love, it’s an episode that mixes sharp news, laughs, and real talk.

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Key Segments and Discussion Points

1. Show Opening & Valentine's Day Banter

[02:37–06:00]

• DJ Envy and Charlamagne joke about Valentine's traditions and Jess Hilarious’s birthday tardiness.
• Jill Scott's album release is a celebrated event.
  Memorable Quote:
  • DJ Envy: “Jill Scott makes me happy. Unlike you.” [05:04]
• Charlamagne shares he’s in Boston for his daughter’s dance performance.

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2. Front Page News

[05:16–13:40, 27:24–36:58]

• Mimi Brown discusses political fighting over Department of Homeland Security funding and the use of immigration enforcement as a wedge in Congress.
• Emotional moments from MN Governor Tim Walz about the trauma left after federal immigration operations.
  Quote:
  • “The fact of the matter is, they left us with deep damage, generational trauma... economic ruin... many unanswered questions." – Governor Tim Waltz [07:38]
• A fiery exchange between Senator Josh Hawley and Attorney General Keith Ellison over fraud allegations. Quote:
  • Hawley: “I was thinking the same thing about you. Resign.” [09:18]
• Discussion of Save America Act and controversial voter ID laws:
  • Nicki Minaj uses her platform to urge fans to support the bill.
  • Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley strongly criticizes the law. Quote:
  • Pressley: "This is Jim Crow voter suppression, full stop. And that is why I voted. Hell no." [32:28]

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3. Get It Off Your Chest (Audience Calls)

[12:32–15:11, 15:20–19:36]

• Emotional calls from listeners, including a teacher retiring (“Teachers teach for the outcome, never the income.”), people sending birthday shout-outs (including Jess Hilarious’s), and listeners venting about personal struggles and losses.
• A call highlighting pain after a family member’s medical tragedy, leading Envy and Charlamagne to express condolences and empathy.

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4. The Latest With Lauren

[19:46–24:46, 70:54–77:44]

• A Cardi B and ICE social media spat after Cardi’s joke about “jumping ICE” at her concert leads to a serious Homeland Security response and a Twitter clash. Quote:
  • Cardi B tweet: “If we’re talking about drugs, let’s talk about Epstein and friends drugging underage girls…” [20:35]
• Hosts dissect ICE’s chilling impact on immigrant communities (mariachi band anecdote, neighborhood corner stores suffering).
• Ja Rule issues a public apology for behaving immaturely in an airplane dispute. Quote:
  • Ja Rule (via Lauren): “I’m not proud of my behavior. It’s goofy to me. I’m a grown man…” [24:07]
• Tony Yayo and Uncle Murda’s response, reflecting on hip hop beef, maturity, and money (“Beef is never dead, it just gets old…” – Tony Yayo [25:07])
• FBI ups reward for information in the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping case. Hosts get animated speculating about the case ("It's an inside job." – DJ Envy [37:20])
• V-Day is the single biggest flower delivery day – also the day people get caught cheating due to delivery slip-ups.

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5. Jill Scott In-Studio Interview

[41:36–69:15]

Album Release & Creative Process

• Jill Scott drops her first album in a decade, To Whom It May Concern.
• She discusses creating music with intention, listening to her son’s suggestions, and only releasing when the project feels complete. Quote:
  • “When it’s done, it leaves me alone. And then I can just listen… I could just listen to.” – Jill Scott [42:11]
• Her 16-year-old son actively participates in artistic and business choices, suggesting collaborators like JID and Tierra Whack.

Motherhood & Family

• On raising her son: “He loves me, whether I do well or… what I have or don’t have, he loves me.” [43:30]
• Scott reflects on supporting her child's dreams without imposing expectations (“I just want him to be a good person, happy, and financially stable.”)

Collaboration, Inspiration, and Boundaries

• On why she chose to collaborate with Ab-Soul on an ode to Nikki Giovanni: she sees in him the same poetic depth and social awareness.
• Advice on financial boundaries, family help, and generational trauma. Quote:
  • “If someone wants to borrow something from you, you give them a job… If you’re not consistent, you never have to worry about me again.” – Jill Scott [54:03]
• Hits on themes of financial literacy, abundance, joy, and breaking poverty mindsets in the Black community. Quote:
  • “I save properly. I invest. I really want to switch out of this poverty mindset or the lacking mindset of some, you know, my family, break away from these things.” [52:24]

Album Themes and Reception

• On sensuality and public reactions:
  • Jill puzzles at why people find her lyric "Squeeze my meat" so scandalous, contrasting it with current rap lyrics (“What’s so radical about that?” [61:08])
• Discusses Black joy, self-worth, gratitude, and spiritual protection. Quote:
  • “I have a force field... I walk through my life. We’re superheroes. We can do really anything we want, anything we can imagine, just need the power to do it.” [66:51]
• Scott gets emotional about feeling she has everything she wished for.

Legacy and Impact

• The hosts repeatedly praise her personal and musical impact. Quote:
  • “Some people put out music, I can take it or leave it. Some people put out music — the world stops for me. That is what you’re doing.” – DJ Envy [68:40]

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6. Audience Accountability and Relationship Topics – Valentine’s Day Special

[78:01–87:28, 87:28–101:07]

• Listeners call in for “The People's Donkey” to put their exes or themselves on blast for bad relationship behavior ahead of Valentine’s Day — covering cheating, deadbeat dads, and self-sabotage.
• Extended segment encourages self-reflection and the importance of self-love, with hosts giving advice and tough love, especially about accountability and patterns in relationships. Quote:
  • “We accept the love we think we deserve. Your first, last and best love is self-love.” – DJ Envy [101:07]
• Emotional moments in callers admitting their faults and growth, some citing therapy and personal breakthroughs.

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7. Cultural Segment: America’s Next Top Model Documentary & Tyra Banks

[71:03–77:44]

• Lauren discusses the upcoming ANTM documentary, its problematic legacy, and whether it could exist in today’s climate.
• Lively debate about body shaming, changing standards in the fashion industry, and reality TV evolution.

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8. Music & Black History Month Feature

[101:31–109:23]

• “Pastor Aux” Nyla Simone recommends new R&B including Jill Scott, Brent Faiyaz, and Ella Mai.
• Black History Month segment by B Dot highlights Richard Spikes, Black inventor of the modern gear shift. Quote:
  • “Black folk make the world go round. Then the world forget who fixed it.” – B Dot [108:16]

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Notable Quotes & Highlights

• Jill Scott on releasing music:
  • “When it’s done, it leaves me alone. And then I can just listen.” [42:11]
• Governor Tim Walz on immigration enforcement:
  • “They left us with deep damage, generational trauma… economic ruin… many unanswered questions.” [07:38]
• Congresswoman Pressley on voter ID law:
  • "This is Jim Crow voter suppression, full stop. And that is why I voted. Hell no." [32:28]
• Ja Rule (via Lauren):
  • “I’m not proud of my behavior. It’s goofy to me. I’m a grown man…” [24:07]
• Listeners on accountability:
  • “I recognize I’m the problem and I’m working on me.” [95:20, paraphrased from multiple callers]
• B Dot on Black innovation:
  • “Black folk make the world go round. Then the world forget who fixed it.” [108:16]

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Episode Timestamps for Key Segments

• 02:37–06:00 – Show intro, Jill Scott celebration, Valentine’s banter
• 05:16–13:40; 27:24–36:58 – Front Page News (immigration, DHS, voter ID)
• 19:46–24:46; 70:54–77:44 – The Latest with Lauren (Cardi B v. ICE, Ja Rule, ANTM)
• 41:36–69:15 – Jill Scott Interview
• 78:01–87:28; 87:28–101:07 – People’s Donkey/Accountability/Relationship topic
• 101:31–109:23 – Music recs & Black History Month feature

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Overall Tone & Takeaways

The episode is warm, lively, honest, and occasionally irreverent — blending news, social comedy, and musical celebration with moments of real vulnerability. Jill Scott’s presence lends depth, wisdom, and affirmation, while the hosts’ banter keeps the mood light. At its heart, the show centers on accountability—personal, political, and communal—punctuated by laughter, love, and the urgency of Black experiences and progress.

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Useful For:
Anyone wanting a snapshot of Black pop culture, insights on current affairs, Jill Scott fans, or those seeking inspiration and engagement around self-love, boundaries, and community issues.

Transcript

[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[DJ Envy]

Wake you up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wake that ass up.

[DJ Envy]

Program your Alarm to Power 105.1 on iHeartRadio.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning, USA.

[DJ Envy]

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, yo, yo, yo, yo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jess is late on her birthday. Charlamagne the guy.

[DJ Envy]

Peace to the planet. It's Friday. Hey, good morning. How y' all feel out there? I feel blessed. Black and highly favored. Happy to be here another day to serve our beautiful listeners. What an incredible weekend, man. First of all, it's Valentine's weekend. Drop on a closed box for all the lovers out there. I want to tell every man out there, you don't have to wish another man Happy Valentine's Day. Okay. I walked in the building this morning and the African guy at the front desk was like, happy Valentine's Day. And it just. Oh, it was crazy. I didn't even. I didn't even know what to say back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's a flirt.

[DJ Envy]

I didn't even know what to say back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Says, happy Valentine's Day.

[DJ Envy]

I've never had that happen to me. I've never had that happen. He's flirting with you, but he's also not from here. He doesn't know any better.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, he probably listens to you too on the radio. And he's flirting with you.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, shut up. And first, second of all, Jill Scott's album is out today. Dropping the clues bombs. But to whom it may concern. Okay, I rolled in here this morning listening to Jill Scott's new album, and she will be joining us today. You heard me?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely. And you know, I'm a dance dad, so my daughters are actually dancing today in Boston. So I'm in Boston this morning. They get on stage in a little bit. So I'm excited about that. So it's a lot going on this weekend.

[DJ Envy]

I'm happy. I'm super excited. It is definitely a lot going on today. Today is Jess. Hilarious born day. She's late. Shock. She's coming in at all. She wasn't here yesterday.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, she wasn't here yesterday.

[DJ Envy]

She should have been late yesterday and not come in today since her birthday.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It made more sense.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, that would have made way more sense.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She said she was sick yesterday, so, yeah, she should have thugged it out yesterday and took off Today.

[DJ Envy]

Yes. That would have made more sense.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes. But it's Jess. So it's Jess. You just let Jess do Jess sometimes.

[DJ Envy]

Do we have some Jill Scott to start the show? It don't even have to be new. Jill Scott.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I wanted Jill Scott. I was gonna do Happy birthday to Jess.

[DJ Envy]

Uncle Luke. She not even here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She can listen in the way in.

[DJ Envy]

You don't even know if she listening. You right, exactly.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You right.

[DJ Envy]

She play some. Play a birthday song when she get here. What do we got in there from Jill Scott? What we got?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We got Living my best life like it's golden.

[DJ Envy]

I'm sure. What's the name of that? We got pressure the way. Oh, what else? What else?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What else Y' all want to go?

[DJ Envy]

Getting in the way. Golden. Let's start off with golden. We get into the new stuff. When she get here. She'll be here next hour. Let's start off with golden. We don't got blessed in there, right? Blessed. Not even. Oh, there you go. Now we talking. Start off with blessed. Jill's Scott blessed. That's how we gonna start the show, guys.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Look at you. You so happy. You so excited. Look at you.

[DJ Envy]

Jill Scott makes me happy. Unlike you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Happy Valentine's Day, Charlemagne. It's the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Front page news. Next morning, Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Tell me how you feeling? Envy. Blessed. Beige and highly favored. I'm blessed. Black and highly favored. Okay. I don't care what's going on in your life this morning. If you woke up, God gave you another opportunity. You are blessed. You hear me? You hear me?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm black. You don't beige. I am getting some front page news. Good morning, Mimi.

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning, M.V. charlemagne. How are you doing this morning?

[DJ Envy]

Good morning, Mimi Brown.

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning. Okay, so we start this morning with a possible shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security lawmakers. They are leaving Washington without a funding deal, putting DHS on track for a partial shutdown tomorrow. At the fight, it centers on immigration enforcement. This comes after two US Citizens, they were shot and killed by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis. And Democrats, they are demanding changes to how ICE operates. They want immigration agents to wear body cameras, require judicial warrants and give local officials more authority to investigate federal actions made by those immigration authorities. Now, Republicans, they offered two proposals this week. One would have funded the DHS through September without any of those policy changes. And the second, it was another short term, two week extension to allow more time for negotiations. As Senate Democrats, they blocked both, saying they will not approve funding unless immigration enforcement policies are addressed. Let's quickly listen to Hakeem Jeffries.

[B. Dot]

Funding for ICE in the Department of.

[DJ Envy]

Homeland Security should not move forward in the absence of dramatic changes that are.

[B. Dot]

Bold, meaningful and transformational. Period, full stop. That's the House Democratic caucus position. And that's the Senate Democratic caucus position.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah. So that's the position that both the House and the Senate Democrats have taken. Meanwhile, in Minnesota, federal immigration officials say a major enforcement operation is winding down. Orders are Tom Holman. He announced yesterday that Operation Metro Surge, it is coming to an end, with federal immigration officers set to begin pulling out as early as next week. So Homan says the decision, though, it was based on two factors. The number of arrests made during the operation and what he describes as a sharp drop in confrontations between officers and protests. Now, at its peak, the state had roughly 3,500 federal officers deployed there, about 150 from when it first began. And Minnesota leaders, they quickly responded. Let's listen to Governor Tim Waltz.

[DJ Envy]

I guess they'll go wherever they're going to go.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But the fact of the matter is.

[DJ Envy]

They left us with deep damage, generational trauma. They left us with economic ruin.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

In some cases, they left us with many unanswered questions.

[DJ Envy]

Where are our children? Where and what is the process of.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The investigations into those that were responsible.

[DJ Envy]

For the deaths of Renee and Alex? So while the federal government may move on to whatever next thing they want to do, the state of Minnesota and our administration is unwaveringly focused on the recovery of what they did.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah, very, very moving right there.

[DJ Envy]

You know what I want to be mean when, when these politicians have these funding fights and they, I wonder, do they go in representing themselves or do they go in representing the people? And what I mean by that is there are a lot of people who want immigration enforcement policies. I think I saw a poll Yesterday that said 60% of Americans disapprove of how Trump is handling immigration.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah, well, they do want, you know, common sense federal immigration policies. They just don't want it the way we've been getting it. Right. Like treating people as decent and human beings is number one on everyone's list according to every poll. But we've been seeing the opposite of that. And as all this has been unfolding, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, he was testifying on Capitol Hill about the same Operation Metro Surge. Now, one of the most intense moments from that hearing came when Senator Josh Hawley accused Ellison of being complicit in a fraud scheme involving millions of dollars in federal Funds meant for Minnesota social service programs. Ellison, of course, he denies those allegations. Let's listen to part of that exchange.

[DJ Envy]

You know, the other thing is whistleblowers came to you as early as 2019. Let's look as early as 2019. Whistleblower. Don't talk over me. As early as 2019. It's my hearing, pal. As early as 2019. Don't call me whistleblowers came. Well, I should call you a prisoner because you ought to be in jail. Well, we'll see what you can. They did not come to my office. They gave false statement. It's not the sequence of enabled it. And sir, the false. You should resign. And sir, you should resign. I was thinking the same thing about you. Resign. I mean, two things can be true. We do want to know what. What happened with the child care fraud in Minnesota.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, so with the child care fraud in Minnesota, of course, those billions of dollars, you know, they were used. People bought personal items. It was a. It was a whole ring.

[Just Hilarious]

Right.

[Mimi Brown]

So they acknowledged that that did happen. But because I asked attorney general last week about that, and if you listen to the interview, which is on YouTube right now, the front news. YouTube page.

[Commercial Announcer]

Front page.

[Mimi Brown]

YouTube page. But he said that the Trump administration, they have used this fraud scheme to repeatedly justify their operations for Metro Surge. It's part of their. Their talking points because the state of Minnesota says that the fraud did happen, but they were already investigating it. They were already prosecuting people. They were already recovering or working to recover those funds. But Holly suggesting that Ellison was complicit in that scheme is a whole new allegation, one that he flatly denied during that hearing there, which of course, as you just heard, got really loud and really contentious.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, it feels like they always. Everybody wants to deflect. Nobody wants to talk about the actual matter at hand.

[Mimi Brown]

Right. Which is the two lives that were lost, the total of immigration officers that were in the state, the damage that has been done. Where does the investigation stand with the two people who were killed and what happens now? You know what I mean? Where are the children? Where are the people who were deported? There are so many more questions. So still going back into where that fraud or what happened to that money when Minnesota officials were already investigating. It seems like a theatrical gold. Political theatrics.

[DJ Envy]

That's right. And make sure y' all go to Breakfast Club YouTube page. Mimi Brown was boots on the ground in Minnesota talking to Attorney General Keith Ellison and seeing what was going on front row in Minnesota. So go on Breakfast Club YouTube page and check that out.

[Mimi Brown]

Absolutely. Thank you. All right, y'.

[Just Hilarious]

All.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, coming up at 7, as you guys mentioned earlier, it is Valentine's Day, so millions of flowers are expected to be delivered today.

[Just Hilarious]

But why?

[Mimi Brown]

Experts say double checking those details, those addresses, they matter. We'll talk about it.

[DJ Envy]

Man, I remember there used to be some really lonely women up here who used to send flowers and balloons and stuff to themselves. But I don't think they're gonna be doing that this year because, you know, one of them is engaged now and another one. Another one. Is. Is she married? Oh, yeah. Well, no, this is married. Yes. But then. And then another one got a boo. Right, right. Allegedly.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But there's a bunch. There's a bunch of other women that work up here.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, but they not. They not as silly as those three I just named. So I don't think that they would stoop so Lotus and any gifted themselves today. I don't think so. Hey, I don't think Sim would do that. I ain't say. I'm sorry. Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open. Hit us up right now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

This is your time to get it off your chest.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

800-585-1051.

[DJ Envy]

We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello, who's this?

[Just Hilarious]

DJ Envy Charlemagne. The D. That's hilarious. This is Ms. B, the concert lady.

[DJ Envy]

Peace.

[Just Hilarious]

Ms. B, thank you for waking me up for 15 of the 25 years that I've been teaching with the Department of Education.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, thank you. That's a blessing. That's a blessing for both of us, jb.

[Just Hilarious]

Today is my retirement day. I am going to turn up with the fam at Radio City, okay? Say one thing. Exposure is everything teachers teach for the outcome and never the income. I have exposed my kids so much. I've mentored doctors and lawyers. And it warms my heart to see all the teachers that put in so much effort. I want to thank you all. The marathon continues. I'm sending love and light to the world. We made it. I made it. I am planted.

[DJ Envy]

Happy retirement, man. That's beautiful what you said. Teachers do it for the outcome, not the income. That's a damn shame, though. Y' all should be some of the highest paid people on the planet.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, absolutely. Well, enjoy your retirement.

[Just Hilarious]

Thank you. I'm turning up tonight. I'm gonna do a little bit of everything with the fam.

[DJ Envy]

You better not cocaine, though. Don't. You can't. Don't try to do a little bit of cocaine. A little bit of cocaine will kill you. That fentanyl all in it. Yes, ma'. Am. Yes. Hello? Hello.

[B. Dot]

Who's this?

[DJ Envy]

How you doing?

[Just Hilarious]

It's Lamar.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Get it off your chest.

[Just Hilarious]

What's going on? Today's my daughter's birthday. I just wanted to wish her a happy birthday.

[DJ Envy]

Happy born day.

[Jess Hilarious]

It's my birthday, too.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

Her name is Emily Camel.

[DJ Envy]

Damn. Henny Kim.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

And I just wanted to say Daddy loves you and I'm always thinking about you. Happy born day to your daughter. Happy born day. Thank you, guys. Happy born day, Jess. Hilarious.

[Jill Scott]

Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cause you get it off your chest.

[DJ Envy]

Chest. It's my birthday, too. I did not call up here for that. Happy boy. To my daughter Emma.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, Charlemagne. What boy Just took off work yesterday because she was sick. Yeah, but her hair is done.

[DJ Envy]

Damn.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, it's a wig. I had to go back in the stash, right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You ain't got your head.

[Jess Hilarious]

I can literally snatch this off right now. Envy, shut up.

[DJ Envy]

Let's do that now. Please do that. Yeah, let's do that. For real, though it into your roots.

[Jess Hilarious]

Well, thank you. I appreciate that. That's what happens when you have a good stylist.

[DJ Envy]

Damn. Lord.

[Jess Hilarious]

I did.

[DJ Envy]

That was crazy.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yester to get my head done. Envy, shut up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sorry, Lauren. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need the vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

Yo, Charlamagne.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Envy, what up?

[Just Hilarious]

Are we live?

[DJ Envy]

This is your time to get it off your chest.

[Just Hilarious]

I got an indoor pool, outdoor pool.

[DJ Envy]

We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We can get on the phone right now. He'll tell you what it is.

[Jess Hilarious]

We lie.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello?

[DJ Envy]

Who's this? Good morning, my brother.

[Jill Scott]

How are you?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Show Money, what's up?

[DJ Envy]

Good morning, Mr. Show Money. Peace, King.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What up, brother?

[Just Hilarious]

Hey, is Jeff there yet?

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes, I am. How are you?

[Just Hilarious]

Happy birthday, baby girl. How are you?

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm good. Thank you so much.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, listen, I don't like the order y' all say y' all names, man. I think you know Netflix got y'. All.

[Just Hilarious]

Listen, listen.

[DJ Envy]

If DJ Envy jets, Hilarious Charlemagne to God, brother.

[Just Hilarious]

Yo, that is so illegal. I was just saying.

[DJ Envy]

Yo, why the hell you sound like that this morning?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, you sound crazy.

[Just Hilarious]

Morning, brother.

[DJ Envy]

Why do you sound like you've been sucking on a helium balloon?

[Just Hilarious]

Yo, What? This is a family views me so money.

[DJ Envy]

What the hell are you doing? With your voice this morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This morning, bro.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Really?

[Just Hilarious]

Chill, bro. Charlamagne.

[DJ Envy]

Show Money. You scare me. I know. Mr. Show Money. And so the fact that he's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He calls all the time.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, he's about 5, 7, you know, about 2:40, 250. You know what I'm saying? So for his voice to sound like that is scary. When I'm picturing him in my head, I'm like, why you sound like that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, he don't sound right.

[DJ Envy]

Hello?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who's this?

[Just Hilarious]

Hi, this is lawanda.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello?

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, my God. I'm so shocked to be in the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

How are you? Good morning.

[Just Hilarious]

I'm doing fine. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Get it off your chest, Mama.

[Just Hilarious]

Well, I wanted to call in because I was concerned about how the black community is going to handle the Epstein files.

[DJ Envy]

Talk to me.

[Just Hilarious]

We're all communities, actually. Well, I know right now we're making an effort not to really get involved in any of the protests for our safety and just to not escalate things. But I'm concerned that we kind of hit a point in this whole thing where we also have to decide to be on the right side of history when protests come up regarding the escape files and these people going to jail for the heinous act that they did. Mainly because, of course, this is against women and children. I'm not sure how many black people that were involved, but I definitely know there were many minorities involved and also their children.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I don't think people feel like. Yeah, I don't think people minding their business when it comes to the Epstein files. I want to see every single one of them pedophiles burn. I don't give a damn what side of the aisle they on. I don't care, you know, what position of power they in. They all need to burn. If you ask me what race they.

[Jess Hilarious]

Are, it don't matter.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I don't think nobody minding their business when it comes to Epstein files, man.

[Just Hilarious]

Well, that's. That's all I wanted to get off my chest. I just want to make sure that when the protests come out, that we're all getting out there to protect children.

[DJ Envy]

Absolutely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right. Thank you, Mama.

[DJ Envy]

Hello?

[Jess Hilarious]

Who's this?

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, how you doing? This is Brad.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, Brad.

[DJ Envy]

What up?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Get it off your chest.

[Just Hilarious]

Good morning. Just hilarious. Charlotte, man. The God DDA Envy.

[DJ Envy]

Peace.

[Just Hilarious]

I want to give a. I just want to give a shout out to my brother, man. Want everybody to pray for him. His. His wife passed on Monday, and he's burying her on the Valentine's Day.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my God.

[Jess Hilarious]

Sorry.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, she was. He was going through an illness, and she went to do a procedure on this past Saturday, and everything just went downhill from there. So.

[DJ Envy]

So what? It was. What happened? It was a malpractice by the doctors or it just. I don't know. Just no happenstance. I'm not.

[Just Hilarious]

I'm not exactly sure.

[DJ Envy]

I don't.

[B. Dot]

I don't know.

[DJ Envy]

I know.

[Just Hilarious]

When she went to get a procedure done, she went into cardiac arrest.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my God.

[Just Hilarious]

And on Sunday, he was put in icu, and on Monday, she passed.

[DJ Envy]

Man, that is horrible, man. What's your brother's name, man?

[Just Hilarious]

His name is Kevin MacArthur, man.

[DJ Envy]

Kevin MacArthur. Definitely send the healing energy to you and your family, my brother. That is. That is horrible, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So sorry, man.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, I appreciate it, man. Thank you so much.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, sir.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Alrighty, brother.

[DJ Envy]

Damn, that's hard.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. We got the latest with Lauren coming up, so don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, I'm not dumbing myself down. I'm being myself. I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything and everything. The little brown girls look at you.

[Mimi Brown]

And go, I want to be like you.

[Just Hilarious]

Take me through that, baby. Through that.

[DJ Envy]

The latest with Lauren on the Breakfast Club. LL Cool B, talk to me. Good morning, Brown girl grinding.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. So yesterday, let's get right on into it. Cardi B&ice set it off on X. Okay? So everybody yesterday was reporting about the fact that Cardi B jokingly threatened ICE or to jump ICE at her first night of her concert in palm springs. Now, ICE responded to this on X. They retweeted one of TMZ's headlines about it and said, as long as she doesn't drug and rob, our agents will consider that an improvement over her past behavior. Now, this is the official Homeland Security account. So then Cardi B tweets back at them, and she says, if we're talking about drugs, let's talk about Epstein and friends drugging underage girls to rape them. Why y' all don't want to talk about the Epstein files?

[DJ Envy]

Valid question. You know, the reality is, though, there is no jokingly joking. Joking. Jokingly, yeah. But there is no way to joke about. About doing something like that. That's like yelling. You know, there's a bomb on the plane. And saying it's saying, yes, it is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But joking like that, nobody took it as serious.

[DJ Envy]

What you talking about? Yes, DHS absolutely took it. Serious. And that's my point. Like, you know, you gotta be careful when you're having those type of conversations, especially being somebody like Cardi.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right.

[Jess Hilarious]

And they could target her and her family and her shows.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Target her fans. Her fans.

[Jess Hilarious]

But you know how petty they are, her family and all them.

[DJ Envy]

That's what I said yesterday.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Now, her speaking of her next two shows. So she goes back on stage today, she's headed to Vegas. And then after Vegas, she's doing LA on Valentine's Day. So. And those are both, like, I looked up just the numbers in Vegas just to kind of see where immigration falls there. And back in 2023, according to the Nevada Independent, the state's undocumented population there grew from 30%. Grew by 30. I'm sorry. Grew by 30,000. From up. Grew by 30,000 from 2021. From 2019 to 2023. Yes. A word was cut off. So from 2019 and 2023, their population of undocumented people grew by 30,000 people. And it. It's hit a peak since 2007. That's just in Nevada alone. And then she's headed to la. So one of the things I was thinking about is, like, yeah, I would fear that, like, now they're going to try to be funny. Like, they're going to try to make a. Prove a point.

[DJ Envy]

They're not going to try to be funny. They just going make her life miserable. And ICE is not playing. Like, for example, we wanted to get a mariachi band up here. This is a true story. We wanted to get a mariachi band up here today because Jess's birthday, and Jess is part Mexican.

[Jess Hilarious]

So my husband.

[DJ Envy]

There you go. Yes. So we wanted to get a mariachi band up here. The mariachi band was afraid to come. They wanted to. Like, they would. They were.

[Jess Hilarious]

Are you for real?

[DJ Envy]

I'm dead.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's true.

[DJ Envy]

Serious.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's true. They want to come. They were very nervous.

[DJ Envy]

People are really shook about ice.

[Lauren LaRosa]

The. The corner store that I go to in my neighborhood. I was talking to him last week.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And he was telling, bodega.

[B. Dot]

Bodega.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's not a bodega in the neighborhood I live in. It's like, it's just like a little convenience store. It's not. But he saying that his business has been, like, heavily impacted, like, to the point where he's thinking about shutting down for a bit because of ICE in the neighborhood. And people don't come to the store anymore. And it's a big immigrant population in the neighborhood. Yeah, like, they not Playing around.

[DJ Envy]

So imagine I saying, you know, we're gonna start disrupting Cardi shows and just show up and be outside, you know?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Just because.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I mean, I hope. I hope not. But that is something that could happen now because the conversation has started.

[DJ Envy]

I'm glad. You know, you should speak out against the injustice you see Ice doing. You just gotta be, I guess, careful about the way you say it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But what's a safe way to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Safe way?

[DJ Envy]

Yes, there is safe way.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She speaks about it regardless. They're gonna be on her show.

[DJ Envy]

No, no, no, no. Yeah. You can't say, I'm gonna. We're gonna jump if they come in.

[Jess Hilarious]

No, that's a threat.

[DJ Envy]

That is a threat. But what.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What was it? What's the safe way? Just say f ice.

[DJ Envy]

Ice out.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

I think that's fine. I saw it works.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Whatever she says, they're gonna be on her ass regardless.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I think so. Because it's Cardi and.

[Jess Hilarious]

But they haven't responded to our last tweet, have they?

[Lauren LaRosa]

No. Nope. Not that I said.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, Envy's right. They'll be on your ass regardless. But there's a difference between them being on your ass, but them saying, hey, you're making criminal threats against us. Yeah, that's the difference.

[Jess Hilarious]

They're killing people for nothing. So imagine.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

You know.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, in. In other news, Transition. And speaking of keeping the peace, yesterday, Ja Rule issued an apology to just his family, his friends, and just everybody that saw that plane incident that went down between him and Tony Ayo and Uncle Murder. So he says, I'm not proud of my behavior. It's goofy to me. I'm a grown man about to be a proud grandfather. And I wish that video me wasn't out there either. I don't like people taking me out of my character. So for that, I apologize to my wife, my family, my fans, my businesses and investment partners. I want people to know that at the end of the day, I'm still a man and I'm not going. And I'm going to stand my ground. I don't start trouble. Thought that was very grown up of Ja Rule to do.

[Just Hilarious]

That's what's up.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. But in the meantime, Tony Yayo and Uncle Murder are still, you know, they're talking about it. They have the real report that is out and they're talking about things not ending, but also admitting that it was a bit immature. Let's take a listen.

[DJ Envy]

We from New York City, right? G Unit is one of the toughest groups in the world. Most dangerous we went through the most things. We was down with 50 Cent and it's prime. Everybody wanted to do something. Everybody wanted to kill us. This is just another day at the office. We're not advocating violence, but to me, beef is. Is never dead. It just gets old. That's how we think in New York City, and I think every New Yorker feels like that.

[Just Hilarious]

Facts.

[DJ Envy]

If your enemy was behind you, I think you would have got off the plane too. Yeah, absolutely.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I mean, like you said, that's true, but you got to get to a point where you're grown up, right? Because you're ruining money. You're not as young and do stupid ish anymore. But like he said, if my enemy was behind me, I'm not getting on that plane. I'm not gonna let you stand. If I'm behind you, I'm on that plane. But if you behind me. Nah.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. And knowing all three of those individuals, I know they all look at that video and think they look ridiculous.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

You know what I mean? I know all three of them know. Okay, this looks immature. And all three of them doing big business.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

So. So when you're doing big business, nobody wants to be next to that. Exactly.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They're doing stuff outside of music. Like, you know, Ja has his own liquor brand. You know, Murder and Yale got a dispensary. They got a podcast. They're doing a bunch of businesses. So you don't want to ruin that, especially when it comes to advertisers or whatever.

[Jess Hilarious]

And just don't jeopardize your freedom. That was on plane.

[DJ Envy]

That's could be a federal charge. And you don't want to end up on a no fly zone because I know somebody sent that to Delta. I know Delta sent out a few emails.

[Jess Hilarious]

Uncle Murder be on them flights out the country and all that. Y' all fly too much to be on the no fly list.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I was thinking that's the reason why Job as well, because you know what? He flies a lot. He's always traveling, he's always touring. So you don't want those problems where they look at you like. Like you said, no fly list. So I figured that was partly of it, too.

[Lauren LaRosa]

100%. Yes. Now, we gotta wrap up, but in the next latest, we're gonna talk a bit about Nancy Guthrie, who is Savannah Guth of the Today Show's mom. Because the FBI has just upped the reward for her and anybody with information for her.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let me guess, 100,000.

[Lauren LaRosa]

$100,000. Now, if you have information that leads to them finding Nancy Guthrie. So we'll get into the details because there's also a new description of a person that potentially was a suspect in the kidnapping.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, we'll get to that next. Everybody else, when we come back, we got front page news. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. Is DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Happy birthday, Jess.

[DJ Envy]

Jess, hilarious is bor.

[Jess Hilarious]

Hey, I'm 34. I'm Tre y C.

[DJ Envy]

Hit the Dominican blowout. Now she want to talk. Ain't no Dominican blowout.

[Jess Hilarious]

Shut up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let's get some front page news. What's up, Mimi?

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning, MB Charlamagne. Happy birthday, Jess.

[Jess Hilarious]

Thank you, Mimi.

[DJ Envy]

Peace, Mimi.

[Mimi Brown]

You're welcome. All right, so we start this hour with more on the Save America Act. So we told you about this yesterday. The House passed it, but now the messaging around the bill is expanding, and the Trump administration is amplifying rapper Nicki Minaj who is urging her fans to call their senators and support the legislation. Let's listen to her encourage her followers to take action.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So I knew that when I, you know, was out there asking for stuff today. Yes, I was asking for y. I was asking y' all to help me today. Okay. Anyway. And still am.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

With the Instagram, teen accounts have automatic protections on, by default, built in content settings for the content teens can see, contact limits for who can contact them, and time management tools like daily time limits and sleep mode. Teens are automatically placed placed into teen accounts, and teens under 16 will need a parent's permission to change any of these settings to be less strict. Instagram will continue adding built in safety features to help create age appropriate experiences. Learn more about teen accounts and Instagram's ongoing work to protect teens [e-mail] teenaccounts.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

We joke all the time on our show. People may think we hate on each other when we go back and forth, but the truth is that's the way we show love. That's respect. That's knowing where the line is. And that's why this message from the Blue Square Alliance Against Hate really sticks. Because real hate isn't playful. It's not jokes. It's not entertainment. The commercial during the Big Game showed a kid being targeted at school quietly, but in a way that happens way too often. And what really hit was the response. Someone chose to step in and show support instead of looking the other way. We talk a lot about culture, about community and having each other's backs. And this is what that looks like. So if you saw the Blue Square commercial during the Big Game, take a second and really think about it. And if you want to show support, go to bluesquarealliance.org to learn more.

[Commercial Announcer]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

Act, which is the Common Sense act. I would say this is the common sense party too. First of all, do you know how many people don't even know and didn't.

[Commercial Announcer]

Know until now that millions and millions.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Of people have been voting with no photo id, with no id, like so many people, y' all did not know that.

[DJ Envy]

Well, they making Nikki earn every dollar, ain't she, boy? They making Nicki earn every goddamn dollar, boy. Lord have mercy. Not dollar citizenship. I don't know what it is, boy. What do they got on Nicki Minaj? Like, God damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Mimi Brown]

Because the SAVE act, it's very controversial. It would require proof of U.S. citizenship, such as a passport or birth certificate to register to vote. A driver's license alone would no longer be enough. So according to reports, More than 21 million Americans, they do not have easy access to a passport or birth certificate or the money to even pay to get that, or the Internet access, or even the Internet to fill out the necessary forms. Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, she voted against the bill and says it could. Could create new barriers for voters. Let's listen to what she had to say.

[Just Hilarious]

This is a bill that is a solution in search of a problem that does not exist. Non citizens already can't vote. So to create a bill that requires proof of citizenship and denies forms of ID like state IDs and real IDs as being a sufficient way to prove that you are a citizen so that you can vote, this is going to disenfranchise millions of voters. It'll be costly, It'll be inconvenient. This will disenfranchise rural voters, military voters. This is Jim Crow voter suppression, full stop. And that is why I voted. Hell no. But who's shocked by this? This is exactly what a dictator wants.

[DJ Envy]

So, Mimi, what exactly do we have to use? Because I am a stern believer in using less ID in regards to certain things. Like I hate having to bring a passport to the airport just because I don't have real id. So what do we. What would people need to vote?

[Just Hilarious]

Vote.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And before you say that he was wrong, you have to have identification. It's just the type of identification, correct?

[Mimi Brown]

Well, yes, envy. And also too, though, remember, it depends on what state that you live in. Some states, you know, when you go there, if you've already registered to vote, your name is in the system, you've already passed all the checks, you can vote. Some states do require you to show your ID once you get there. It literally depends on what state you're in.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

36 states have law requiring you to have an ID. 36 states, so I guess yes. Others, you could just say it's your name.

[DJ Envy]

And I've never not shown my id? Yeah, I always show my license.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah, well, it, it varies. It definitely varies by state, but to answer your question, Charlotte, right now it hasn't passed the Senate, so it's not law. And we need to make that clear. It's. It's just past the House. The Republicans, President Trump, they are pushing it really, really hard because midterms are coming up. And so as. As Congresswoman. Congresswoman Presley just said, you know, they want to. They want to take your power. They're trying to basically rig the system because they feel like they can't win fair or square. So we've, We've seen them taking voter rolls, we've seen them enacting new legislation. And so this is just something else that they're trying to put in place before midterm elections actually come up.

[DJ Envy]

Got you. So what would we need? What ID would we need?

[Mimi Brown]

So if you. So basically, they're saying that you would need to prove that you are a US Citizen, and that would be your birth certificate, and that would be your passport. Now, it gets a little confusing because to fly, right, you only need a real id, but in this case, you. That real ID will do you no good because you can't use it to vote, but you can use it to fly.

[Jess Hilarious]

All that noise they made for us to get the real id, and we can't even use it to vote.

[DJ Envy]

That's crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, that's crazy.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So.

[Mimi Brown]

So, you know, it's, It's, It's. It's meant to be confusing. Jess, to your point. Right, it's meant to be confusing.

[DJ Envy]

And I think it's good, Mimi, that you clarified that it's not law yet, because I think that's going to be a narrative. If they don't get it passed. Passed, it's going to be a narrative that they put out there so much that people are just going to assume that it passed, and they might just be discouraged to go vote because they don't have all their ID come midterms.

[Mimi Brown]

Exactly. So we'll, we'll continue to update people, but as of right now, it has just passed the House. It still hasn't go to the Senate. And then, of course, the President has to sign it, which he is definitely expected to do, but we will keep following that. And now to a really quick update on the Nancy Guthrie case. So the FBI.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is getting good, by the way. Mimi. This is really getting good. I'm totally in right now with this. Right?

[Mimi Brown]

Are you.

[Commercial Announcer]

Are you in it?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because it's so made with two backpacks I'm in.

[DJ Envy]

Go.

[Mimi Brown]

Okay, so here we go. This is what we know so far, right? The FBI, they have increased the reward to a hundred thousand dollars for any information leading to her location or the arrests of anyone involved. Of course we're talking about, you know, the 84 year old mother of Today show co host Savannah Guthrie. She was kidnapped from her to Tucson Arizona home on February 1st. On the FBI, the Phoenix office, they've released an updated details about the possible suspect. They say he's between 59 to 510 with an average build. He was seen on that doorbell video wearing that 25 liter Ozark Trail backpack. That's what you're talking about, Envy?

[B. Dot]

Yes.

[Mimi Brown]

It was a black backpack, I believe.

[Nyla Simone]

Right.

[Mimi Brown]

Did you see?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They said they could get it at Walmart. So it's a common backpack in that area. But he had two backpacks and it was video of him possibly found a couple of blocks away. Go, tell me more.

[Mimi Brown]

Yes. So authorities also say they received, authorities also say they received more than 13,000 tips so far. And multiple black gloves were also recovered and they are now testing those for DNA. And of course her children, they, they posted a video on social media and they're writing that they will never give up. And they continue to ask for proof of life.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So tell me who you think did it. This is, this is, this is crazy. I'm all the way in.

[DJ Envy]

Like how you just gonna guess who you think did it? You can't just be randomly guessing in a situation like this. You don't even know who suspects are.

[Jess Hilarious]

He act like he watching a movie.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It feels like a movie, but it.

[Mimi Brown]

Feels like a movie. Just when you think you, you know they got someone, it's like, nope, sorry, wrong person. And then the surveillance videos is, I don't know, Envy, who do you think did it? Because I can't.

[DJ Envy]

It's an inside job.

[Mimi Brown]

Inside. I was getting ready to say it's an inside job.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I will say this. I, I feel like they should have caught them already.

[DJ Envy]

Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But all the cameras around, they found the blood, they found the, the, the, the type of backpack, they found a glove like this is. They should know who it is already. They should be getting pretty close.

[Mimi Brown]

They got cameras. The neighbors, it was in the neighborhood. So the, they, they're looking at the neighbors. Cameras. I mean we all know like throughout the streets, there's cameras everywhere. I, I don't, I don't know. I don't know. And then the Trump administration has, has said that they were putting all the federal Resources behind it. So you got local for authorities, you got federal authorities. I don't know.

[B. Dot]

I don't know.

[Mimi Brown]

Very interesting. And lastly, before you head into the weekend, Valentine's Day is technically tomorrow, but today is the single biggest flower delivery of the entire year. It's even bigger than Mother's Day when it comes to total sales. So because it falls on a Friday this year, most of those deliveries, they are going out right now straight to offices Flores. They call this their super bowl. More than 250 million roses are produced just for this holiday. But here's the twist. Valentine's Day is also one of the top days that people find out they are being cheated on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Mimi Brown]

Not because someone confesses it though, but because logistics expose it. So experts say when you have that many deliveries moving at once, mistakes happen. Wrong address, wrong office, suite two bookcase. They show up at the same workplace. A card with the wrong name, a wrong receipt left in the wrong bag. So private investigators and relationship experts say Valentine's Day consistently brings in a spike in calls, often from people who notice a second reservation, a duplicate charge, or a delivery that wasn't meant for them. They say that this is the one holiday where everything has a paper trail.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, you doing too much anyway. You're doing too much if you know you, you cheating and you buying, you know your side chicken. Take a whole bunch of stuff on Valentine's Day.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, yes, I do. You know, girls do that too.

[DJ Envy]

That is true.

[Jess Hilarious]

Women do that too.

[DJ Envy]

They have to suck two on and Valentine's is crazy.

[Jess Hilarious]

On the 14th.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, okay. But I mean the same thing with guys. Too much. You're doing too much.

[Mimi Brown]

I don't know how this shifted from gifts.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You are welcome.

[Mimi Brown]

That is your front page news. I'm Mimi Brown. Follow me at Mimi Brown TV for more stories, follow the black information work or visit B news dot com.

[DJ Envy]

Did you wish Jess a happy birthday, Mimi?

[Mimi Brown]

I sure did.

[Lauren LaRosa]

As soon as I woke up this.

[Mimi Brown]

Morning, I text her. I was like, jess, happy birthday.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes. Thank you, Mimi.

[Mimi Brown]

You are welcome.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, wow. Somebody just bought Jess flowers. I know the name from Chris. So let me look at y'.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, it is Chris. Oh, wow.

[Jess Hilarious]

Who else is going to be?

[DJ Envy]

Yo, shout out to Chris. Oh, yeah, I forgot it is Jeff's birthday. So Chris got those for Jeff's birthday. Birthday.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, Chris groomed himself, picked him himself. He put the floral arrangement together himself. Shout out to Chris, man. Hard working Mexican man.

[Jess Hilarious]

Thank you so much. He decorated the house with flowers and stuff too. So this is amazing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, he did?

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, he did. He did.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Salute to Chris.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right. When we come back, Jill Scott.

[DJ Envy]

Jilly from Philly, man, Us new album. The Whom this May Concern will be out right now. Thank you for Jill Scott blessing us with her presence this morning. I can't wait. And listen, man, it's Friday, okay? It's actually Friday the 13th. That don't mean nothing no more. Remember when we used to be scared of Friday the 13th when we was young?

[Jess Hilarious]

Absolutely.

[DJ Envy]

Like a dummy. Don't nobody give a damn now. But also, It's Friday the 13th. Tomorrow is Valentine's Day, but we do the people's donkey on Fridays, and that's when you can call in and give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid. I'm not going to tell y' all what to do, but I would encourage y' all to call up here and give donkey of the Day to people who don't know that tomorrow is Valentine's Day. If there's a man out there that you know has been doing you wrong, there's a man out there that you know has been doing you dirty. Or there's a man out there that you want to do right by you tomorrow, but you don't think he is, feel free to call up here and give him the biggest hee Haw. Okay? Okay. It's the world's most dangerous morning show, the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. La Rosa's here, and we got a special guest in the building.

[DJ Envy]

The legend, the icon has returned to bless us with our presence once again.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ladies and gentlemen, Jill Scott is back.

[Just Hilarious]

Welcome.

[DJ Envy]

How you feeling? Thank you.

[Jill Scott]

Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

How do you feel, Ms. Jill?

[Jill Scott]

Excited. Excited.

[DJ Envy]

First album in a decade.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ten years.

[Jill Scott]

That's what I hear.

[DJ Envy]

To whom it may concern.

[Jill Scott]

Yes, sir.

[DJ Envy]

By the way, I love the way you release music because it feels like you release music when you feel like you want to. When the spirit moves you, how do you know when is the right time to release music?

[Jill Scott]

Because I have too much. And then I. It lets me relax. When it's not finished, I keep tweaking, touching, touching, tweaking, finding new flavors, seasonings, musicians, producers. And when it's done, it leaves me alone. And then I can just listen. And I have so much that I could just listen to. I knew I was done. I was like, okay, now I can create.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I saw you talking about when you took the time off and how intentional you are with just being a mom in that time that you took off and then explaining to your son about, like, why you got to get back to work and teaching him that. How has it been now that you're back out on the road and you're doing all these things and getting back into the swing of things?

[Jill Scott]

Well, he's 16 now, and I didn't have to explain anything to him. He knew he was in the studio with me. You know, he's the one that suggested Jid. He's the one that suggested Tara Wack. You know, he's been a part of the whole process.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So you got him working.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So he. And R. He is.

[Jill Scott]

He is an A. R, Absolutely. We'll see what else he can do. Right now he's a scuba diving, cross country, singing, writing person.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thus all of that.

[Jill Scott]

Yeah. Thus far. I'm just watching to see, you know, what I could do, you know, how I can help out with the thing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Does he know how special his mom is and how powerful his mom is?

[Jill Scott]

Well, he loves me, you know, like, whether I do well or. Or if I, you know, what I have or don't have, he. He loves me. You know, we love each other.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. You're special and powerful to him in ways that we would never understand. You, his mom.

[Jill Scott]

I love him. I appreciate him. I respect him. Try to help him in any dream that he has.

[DJ Envy]

And.

[Jill Scott]

And I. I don't even know what it. That'll even mean. I don't know. I don't care. As long as he's happy and he can take care of himself financially. That matters to us. I'm. I'm straight. Like, he's a good person. He's so funny. He's cool. So I'm glad he suggested Jid. I. I was. We listened to him, you know, like, this is our music in the kitchen. This is what Jet and I do when we have time together. And he said, mom, why don't you call Jid? And I was like, I don't know him, Jet. And he's like, just DM him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And that's what you did? Yeah.

[Jill Scott]

And it's like minutes later, he texted back, like, what's up, queen? What you want now? What you want to do? And I was like, huh? Well, he said, send it. And within 24 hours, he sent his verse back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow.

[Jill Scott]

And when I tell you, I asked him specifically, I said, I need you to paint a picture. Picture with words. This is what I require of the MCS that I love and the MCS that I put on my projects. I need you to paint pictures less than 24 hours bars. You can see it. You could taste it. He. He painted brilliant. So proud of him and so happy that he's on my project.

[DJ Envy]

So what made you put Absol on Old to Nikki? Because I feel like Old to Nikki would have been such a personal record to you that you would want to keep that to yourself or made you. You reach out to Absol?

[Jill Scott]

Because Nikki Giovanni inspired writers, she inspired her inspired poets. And Absol is an ill mc.

[DJ Envy]

Absolutely. He's.

[Jill Scott]

He's so thought provoking. I have to go back and listen again and again, and then I pull out books and, you know, I pick up Wikipedia or whatever, you know, to find out exactly what he's talking about. Because he's. He's that thoughtful, he's that prolific. He's had quite a life experience, and it represents in his writing deeply. So when I did Ode to Nikki, she's the first poet that I ever found out about at school. Black poet, black woman. And it was just awesome to see myself on paper like that. My people, my neighborhood, you know, my love on page paper. So when I did O to Nikki, she had just passed Absol seemed like the right guy to me.

[DJ Envy]

I mean, no, he sounds great on it.

[Jill Scott]

He does sound great.

[DJ Envy]

I just wanted to know the meaning because I'm like, you know, that's. That's a big compliment for Absol, because.

[Jill Scott]

We spent a lot of time talking. We clicked really easily. So we talked about the Celestine prophecy, like, within minutes of just talking to each other and moved on from. From there. So, yeah, he was the right person for me to choose.

[DJ Envy]

So.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You look so happy. Like, you look so glowing. I've been watching your rollout, right. I seen you with Ademu and I seen you doing a lot of pressing. You just look and feel like a positive vibe.

[Jill Scott]

I feel good. I did something that I really wanted to do, and it means a lot to me, and I have an opportunity to share it and perform it in front of people that will be looking at me like, I look at them and I get a chance to travel some more and make some money, you know?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But you even, like, even when I see you do these interviews, you're blushing. It's like you're overly loving. I love it.

[DJ Envy]

I love it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Even when you got here this morning, you said, what time do you guys get here in the morning? But you was smiling and happy about it. Like, I love it. And I love to see artists like that, that love to craft. You can tell when an artist has to do Something for money or when an artist has to do something because a label is requiring it or management requiring it, then you can tell when.

[DJ Envy]

Somebody just loves putting out albums every 10 years. She doesn't do anything because the label wants her to do it. I know. That's what I'm the difference.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Even your rollout felt like a hug. Like I saw you, you went from Gillian Wallow. Then I saw you on Angie Martinez. Then eventually you started doing like you were posting like the letters on your Instagram and kind of explaining the project. And I'm like, this just feels like I'm being ushered into like a whole new like world of things.

[Jill Scott]

That was the plan. I have a new publicist. I think she's absolutely wonderful. Her name is Erica Trucker Tucker. Forgive me. I think she's fantastic.

[Just Hilarious]

Sick.

[Jill Scott]

But we had a whole other idea. Like two days before we started doing the roll out. Two days before. I just was like, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. We're talking about beautiful people. If we're going to put beautiful people out as an introduction to the album. Cuz really I. That's who I'm calling. I'm calling the people that, that light up from the inside, you know, that, that, that Love. Love. Yeah, love.

[Just Hilarious]

Love.

[Jill Scott]

That are again, financially respectful to their lives. Make sense.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay.

[Jill Scott]

And so if that's the, if that's the intention is this is the call out. Well, let me represent the people that have been so beautiful in helping me with this project. You know, it's all been organic. I met a guy at a party, he was like, I'm Two Shorts engineer. And I was like, I believe you.

[DJ Envy]

That record, that the church gonna be mad at you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh yeah, possibly.

[DJ Envy]

That's like part two of Drew Ski skit.

[Jill Scott]

Possibly.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's a church in the education system too though, right? Because you mentioned education in there as well.

[Jill Scott]

Yes. And the pharmaceutical.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. Big pharma.

[Jill Scott]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

You ain't lied though.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I know you didn't lie.

[DJ Envy]

And even just the choice to go get too short to come on in and describe pimping.

[Jill Scott]

The mentality of a pimp. What is it? So, so we're clear, I'm not saying anything. I'm not trying to be mean to you. What I want to be mean to somebody for. That's not it. This is what it is, right? This is what it is. And I have a thoroughbred pimp to tell you. So it feels like like the players ball. It feels like it's pimpy. It's. It's Fela. It's like, revolutionary at the same time. And I was like, yeah, okay, what am I gonna talk about? This is what I want to say. I say, preacher man, what you trying to do? Trying to get this money? Is that all you do when my man got squat? But you take that toe when you ain't good for the people. I ain't moved. Where's the universities? Where's all the food for free? People can't pay the bills, but you're still riding around in the coop. De Ville. Biggest pimp of the year, huh?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So if everything's a sign, do you ever feel. See a sign that says, I'm not going in that direction or I'm not going there, or management, let's not do that, because that does not feel right.

[DJ Envy]

It's.

[Jill Scott]

It's not as easy. It's abrupt. It's harsh. It's a. It's a jerk back. And I haven't really. No, I don't know how to, like, navigate that part yet, but I will. I will get. I will get away. I will get away. I've learned that too. Then when the spirit says no, when your whole energy says no.

[Just Hilarious]

That's right.

[Jill Scott]

What are you doing? Don't talk to this person. I remember talking to somebody at a party, and I was like, why?

[Jess Hilarious]

I.

[Jill Scott]

Got Covid all in my face now. The got covet. I was like, see, girl.

[DJ Envy]

Everything makes so much sense now. Because, you know, one of my favorite records on the album is pay you on Tuesday, right? And it's so funny because my niece had put out a tweet yesterday, and she put, if you're young, black, and gifted, get away from asap.

[Jill Scott]

Right?

[DJ Envy]

And I just thought that was hilarious. And then I heard, pay you on Tuesday, but now I'm like, oh, she's staying away from the. The poor me energy type. I mean, now that I hear you talk about the book so much, I'm like, oh, that's why she wrote that record.

[Jill Scott]

Part of it.

[DJ Envy]

Part of it.

[Jill Scott]

Yeah, part of it. And I know I keep saying financial, but I am really over us spending and buying things that we can't afford. For who? For what? It's so many things to do, to taste, to see, places to be. Hey, I just. I. I'm.

[DJ Envy]

What?

[Jill Scott]

I just don't see how it profits us to. You know, I like nice stuff, too. I really do, but I buy the stuff that I can afford, and somebody else like you can afford. You don't know what I could afford. And you don't know What I want.

[DJ Envy]

But you act your wage.

[Jill Scott]

I do, I do, I do. I think it's a wise decision. I save properly. I invest. I really want to switch out of this poverty mindset or the lacking mindset of some, you know, my family, break away from these things. I'm not interested in doing that anymore. I want to grow and I want to make a whole lot of money. Like a whole lot. And I'm going to do great things with it. Enjoy it. I already do. Enjoy the money I have. I do dope on the regular. I really do. It's been. It's been so nice. Oh, my God. You know, my son went to Tanzania to. To get his scuba certification.

[DJ Envy]

Wow, that's amazing.

[Jill Scott]

That's so fly. I've never been.

[DJ Envy]

I went to Zanba and tan beautiful.

[Jill Scott]

I've never been. But he has, like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, but that's the most important thing, right? When we get to a place where it's like, none of this matters. You just want your kids to be happy. Whatever it takes to be happy. Like I tell my daughter, my son, I don't care what you do. If you want to do nails, if you want to do hair, if you want to do sanitation, as long as you're happy. Life is too short.

[Jill Scott]

Joyful. Happy is fleeting. Joyful, joyful. Look for it. That's an insight as well, to constantly look for the joy. Taste the food. Taste it. Feel the water. It's nice. And it sparks creativity.

[DJ Envy]

But I can't afford to eat that, Jill. And I can't afford to go there to swim in that water. So can you loan me something? 10,000 real quick.

[Jill Scott]

I've learned this. If someone wants to borrow something from you, you give them a job. If they do the job and do the job well, then that you showing me something.

[Just Hilarious]

Something.

[Jill Scott]

I'm going to give you a. A small reimbursement contract. I'm going to say 25amonth. Fair? Yes. You don't pay the 25. I don't know how. When it's going to stop. It's going to stop. If you're consistent. If you're consistent. If you're not consistent, you never have to worry about me again. You never have to ask me anything again. Because this was. This was a contract. It didn't have any interest. This was respect. So I enjoy helping people. But I have to see what they want. I have to see what they're doing. I gotta see something. You gotta show me something. Can't just tell me a dream. Okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

When did you get to that point in your life, because I saw you talking to Angie Martinez about that. Right. And setting these boundaries. But then I also hear you talk a lot about, like, you carry so much for your family for a long time, because you were trying to, like, y' all were trying to get out of the situations that you guys were in. And I think that there's like a. Sometimes there's like this tug of war of, like, I'm able to help, so I want to help, but at the same time, I gotta set these boundaries. When did Jill Scott say, I done did enough. I gotta stop this now.

[Jill Scott]

Now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Something had to happen.

[Jill Scott]

I turned 50 and the light popped on again. Yeah, that's what happened. Time creates wisdom, you know, if you're paying attention, if. If you're not paying attention, it just creates age. But, yeah, I've been paying attention, and I know that, that. That doesn't make me feel good to watch people do things that are outside of their. Their particular space, financial space, like going on a cruise. Okay, you're going on a cruise, but you didn't pay the mortgage. I can't help you with that. I can't. And the fact that you would ask me to is ridiculous. You made a choice. That is your choice. It wasn't like something happened like, you know, the car broke down or, you know, the. The tuition is behind or it's not. It's nothing like that. And even if tuition is behind Adam grades, how they doing? What activities are they in? Because it's mine and I can share with you as I seen fit and deemed fit. It might seem harsh, but I. I don't know. It feels right to me. I feel better. I don't feel weighed down by people's stuff.

[DJ Envy]

I don't think that's harsh. And then also, what about when you give somebody money for mortgage, but then you go see them on a cruise after you. After they just ask you for.

[Jill Scott]

I didn't get invited.

[Just Hilarious]

The crew.

[DJ Envy]

What is blues to you?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's his favorite song, by the way.

[Jill Scott]

One of his favorite songs.

[DJ Envy]

No, I got a lot of favorite record, but that record was hitting. Was hit for me yesterday in a real way. I got a lot of favorite record on that, but that one really was okay.

[Jill Scott]

Music is medicinal. It'll hit you when you need it. So what. What do you mean by like, what. What does it do for you, man?

[DJ Envy]

For me, it. It just put things in perspective based off what you're saying. Because you're saying a lot of that throughout the song as you're singing, but it's also. It's like, I don't want no more blues. Stop putting your problems on me. I can wake up in the morning and be good. And then by the end of the week, I'm feeling way down. And then when you realize why you're way down, it's because you're trying to help everybody else with they. I don't want no more.

[Jill Scott]

It's exhausting. Yes, it's exhausting. I love to inspire. I want people to do better. But if they don't want it, what am I supposed to do? Just keep pouring into an empty well. I can't do it. The things that you do don't benefit you, so why do I have to?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Damn, that's a bar.

[DJ Envy]

You know, I wonder when you do records like Pressure, when you do records like Me 4, is that when you do the actual record? Is that when the closure comes or do you have closure before more in order to do the record?

[Jill Scott]

I've never thought about it. I don't know if that I'm looking for closure necessarily. I need to say it. I need. I need it. I need to say it. It is true. I need to get it out. I think that's how I feel about that. Yeah. And then when I listen to it, it becomes an affirmation for me because I've said it. And I was like, yeah, you said that. Because that's. That's what it is. Is. That's exactly what it is.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You ever went too far and was like, let me take this out, man.

[Jill Scott]

Many, many times. Really many times. Many times. I. I typically write the thing before I get into the studio so I can find how it feels when I get in there. Or I already know how it feels. It wasn't something I. I don't know if I necessarily went too far. Let me clear. I just said some. I probably shouldn't have said that might be too far. I don't know. It was the right thing. And when I listened to it, I'm like, yep, that's right. You know, that was. That was real there. But I probably shouldn't have shared it.

[DJ Envy]

You went hard on this album. Oh, yeah, I Did you say you married a. Yeah. Pretty self explanatory.

[Jill Scott]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think I just needed to get. To get stuff out too. You know, music is healing for. For the artist as well. Supposed to be.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's the moral compass with that? Is it yourself saying now, is it your son? Is it your homies?

[Jill Scott]

But like, I haven't had that. It didn't come up. Nobody said anything. You know, and my son listens to everything and we talk about every.

[Just Hilarious]

Everything.

[Jill Scott]

Yeah. So it didn't come. Nobody said, hey, you probably shouldn't say that.

[DJ Envy]

Right?

[Jill Scott]

Nobody did not. I don't know if I would agree or disagree about it. Did you see how everybody's going crazy about Squeezing My Meat? It's a song called Don't Play.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, right. But I didn't see. I didn't see people going crazy about it.

[Jill Scott]

Oh boy. I did. They were like, squeeze my meat.

[Just Hilarious]

And I was like.

[DJ Envy]

She said, squeeze my meat.

[Just Hilarious]

She said, squeeze my beat.

[Jill Scott]

And I was like, I did.

[DJ Envy]

You're not used to that from you yet at this point.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's a new generation of people who just be on Twitter.

[Jill Scott]

I'm just. I'm just confused. Maybe you all can help me out here because I would love to know. I've heard lyrics that.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, way worse. Slob on my. Like corn on the cob. They singing about eating now. Jill.

[Jill Scott]

I heard.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, I heard.

[Jill Scott]

I heard. I listened to a lot of music and because I listened to a lot of music, I was just like, what exactly is so radical about Squeeze My Meat?

[DJ Envy]

They're not real Joe Scott fans then.

[Jill Scott]

No, but what. But beside being a fan or not, like, what's radical about that? I just don't. I'm missing something.

[DJ Envy]

Probably the way you sung it when you sing it with yes. You know, because it sounds amazing. So you might be just randomly finding yourself singing it even as a guy. You know what I mean?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I also think it's. I think it's too like with the new generation, they. They get it different way ways. Like.

[DJ Envy]

I'm sure I will at some point the end, the spirit will move me and I'll just be coming around the corner. Squeeze my meat.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You better never sing that if you in the bathroom with me, bro.

[DJ Envy]

I'm just telling you that right. Can happen. That's all.

[Jill Scott]

It's. I think it's the fact that you got to say squeeze. Like they said it was.

[Lauren LaRosa]

They was demon. The big Areola music.

[Jill Scott]

I heard that too.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I was like, big Ar.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, they. They said. Cuz basically if you don't know what to do with it, don't come over here. That's the conversation. And I think it's just right now in music, you either get stuff like that very straight forward to the point where it's not sensual. And that has always been you to be able to communicate those type of things in A very unique way. Right. But there is a new generation of like creators and artists who are listening to this and discovering your ability for the first time. And they, they just think it's so powerful and forward. And I'm like, welcome.

[DJ Envy]

That's people though. Like people like that. It's like, like I hate people that I don't want to have to don't. I don't want to catch up with you. Okay. Like we over here celebrating Jill Scott because of who Joe Scott always has been. I don't have time to explain. They'll get there. The greatness of Jill Scott, you know, catch up in your own time.

[Jill Scott]

Fair enough.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They'll get there.

[DJ Envy]

Catch up in your own time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

Right?

[DJ Envy]

Great.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I gotta explain it.

[DJ Envy]

They'll get there.

[Jill Scott]

Life will happen. And then there I'll be. You're loving Auntie with so many stories to tell, so many life experiences to share, so many lessons learned, so much music.

[DJ Envy]

My last question, when it's all said and done, what does peace look like for Jill Scott? And did this album bring you closer to whatever that is?

[Jill Scott]

Life is bringing me closer to. To my peace and my kid doing well for himself and my mother living so comfortably and she's happy. My. My private. My personal life is solid. I love my home. I love my friends. I have beautiful friendship, y'.

[Just Hilarious]

All.

[Jill Scott]

You will with them. Anybody would like. They're so dope. So many levels of it. It's not a lot of them, but they're powerful. I'm. I'm. I'm. You know, I'd say. You say you're happy. You say it joyful. And people get upset about it. I feel sorry for that. For you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

People get upset about you saying that.

[Jill Scott]

People are upset about other people feeling joy and being happy. Yes. Yes. They do it all the time. I see it. Yes. Yeah. I don't know what it is. I don't care what it is. It's not my bag to carry. I'm going to let this little light of mine shine.

[DJ Envy]

And that light going to irritate some demons and others.

[Jill Scott]

You see what I'm. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. I have a force field. I put it on. It goes under my feet, above my head, anytime I think about it, or I just put my force field on and I walk through my life. We're superheroes. We can do really anything we want, anything we can imagine, just need the power to do it. The power is. Is love. The power is sincere friendships. The power is guidance. My mentor is outside somewhere. Like, having that is is. And anybody can attain it. Anybody at any time, in any state of their life can get all of the things. My mentor. Sometimes life will be a little stressy. Stressful. She'll come in swinging. Swinging like. Like boys in the hood swinging. She'll kick. It's a physical manifestation of a spiritual thing. She's fighting off whatever can't happen. And then she says, whoa. And I love that. I wanna. You know, I'm like, damn. I really like everything I asked for. I got everything.

[DJ Envy]

Praise God. Amen.

[Jill Scott]

Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, my God.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Everything.

[Jess Hilarious]

Wow.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's okay. Feel that. That's what I've been feeling all interview. I'm like, something. She. There's a feeling here. I just don't know what it is. But I'm so glad that you, in this space, you deserve it. You worked hard, ma', am, for a long time.

[Jill Scott]

Ma'.

[DJ Envy]

Am.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You've been literally like the Jill Scott my whole life. I'm 34.

[DJ Envy]

I just want you to know what you mean to so many people. Like, I hope you know that we really love you and we value you. We appreciate it. We appreciate you. And even you putting out new music means so much. Like, this is an event like, oh, my God. Jill Scott putting out new music, like, that matters. Like a lot of people that put out music. I can take it or leave it. Some people put out music. The world stops for me. That's right. And that. That is what you're doing. To whom it may concern.

[Jill Scott]

I might have to take a nap.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ladies and gentlemen, Jill Scott. I'm is out today.

[DJ Envy]

Make sure you buy. We appreciate you so much. I hope you get that nap. No, that's. That's divine. Go get that nap. You deserve it. Your soul deserves it.

[Jill Scott]

Oh, my goodness.

[Commercial Announcer]

You.

[Jill Scott]

All you got to do is stay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Scott, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Let's get right to the latest.

[DJ Envy]

That wasn't even good. She gets them from somebody that makes it. Why she gets the details.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything.

[DJ Envy]

She be having the latest on the latest with Lauren laroso. Sometimes you have details. Sometimes she have a little bit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Brought to you by Top Dog Law.

[DJ Envy]

On the Breakfast Club. I like that fit. Lauren with the trucker hat.

[Jess Hilarious]

I know. I do like that. I told her she looks really nice today.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Trucker hat is from brown girlgrinding.com and@choker is fire sheen. I like your outfit from Instagram.

[DJ Envy]

I'm wearing your hoodie right now, too.

[Jill Scott]

Yes. Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

How is the quality of the hoodie? I worked hard on that this second.

[DJ Envy]

I like that you have, like, you know, the what I'm wearing says black women are freaking gorgeous. Right? And that's dope. And then I like that you representing for the Latinos with the brown girl grinding. You're very all inclusive with your merch.

[Jess Hilarious]

I love it.

[DJ Envy]

You know, I don't know if you were before bad bunny's performance last Sunday.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But, you know, brown girl grinding has been around since 2016. Remember you took me to breakfast club court over it in my early haz?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, cuz Carrie champion got brown girl dreaming. Yeah, you stole it from her.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Originally. Brown girl grinding was created because of color in my skin. All brown women have joined the movement, so, you know, love a brown girl grinding somewhere. And black women are effing gorgeous. Shut up. Let's get into the latest. What we got? Oh, it d already play. Oh, shoot. I'm late, y'.

[Mimi Brown]

All.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Today has been a day Friday.

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm good.

[DJ Envy]

No, she's not. She frazzled. She finding out that somebody got another family. I feel it. But continue.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, my God.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, my God.

[DJ Envy]

Go ahead. Keep going.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That is not in my ministry. I'm having a. My Valentine's Day is about to be amazing. I actually was running late this morning, and that kind of threw me off a bit. But I'm good. I'm here, and I'm blessed. I'm alive. Okay, so let's start at the top. So America's Next top Model, there has. There is a documentary that'll be dropping on the 16th, recapping some of America's next top models, like, craziest moments and just digging into the show itself. Right. But in new news from this document documentary, we found out that Tyra Bay Banks potentially wants the show to return with the cycle 25. Now, the conversation, I mean, some people are excited about that, but the conversation that I thought about when I saw this was, would America's next top model even be able to exist in 2026.

[Jess Hilarious]

The way that it used to like the way that it used to judge the women.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. Speaking of hazing.

[Jess Hilarious]

Wow.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. Envy. I like how you, you know, brought.

[DJ Envy]

That all together, how it could easily exist. They just have to not care about the opinions of other people. And what's going to be funny is everybody on social media Will act so outrageous rage, but they'll be entertained every.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Week and be watching every day, every episode. But like, they did. I remember they did the blackface episode, but they. It was supposed to just be switching ethnicities. They had the fat shaming episode. A couple fat shaming moments. Hilarious.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now they won't do the fat shaming, though. They'll do all that, but they're not gonna do the fat shaming.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I actually talked to Takar on the podcast, the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. And I mean, she. I, I think the models today would have to come with the same energy that the models back then did, where they were like, we hear, we know what goes down in the industry. We don'. Takara actually talked about the drama that she went through because the stylist was literally, like, poking her skin and telling her, like, you need to lose this. And then also telling her, oh, Takara was so fire. But that's why we were so upset, because she was our favorite. But they made her weight a thing that she wasn't even trying to be stopped by. Let's take a listen to her on the drama and how she handled it. I didn't really have drama. I mean, I did have my little. My thing with the stylist, you know, that pinched me and couldn't find any clothes for me. And, I mean, I guess I did have my share of obstacles, but I come from that world. Like, I was smiling when I was 14, so we're used to the drama. It wasn't all peaches and cream. You had to do things like, I think Tyra was doing what she said she was doing. Showing the industry how it was back then. Yeah. So different. Different type of attitude. If you guys want to go take a listen to that interview, it is in full on the latest with Lauren.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The rose of the podcast changed a lot, though, too.

[Lauren LaRosa]

100. Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, absolutely.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I wouldn't say 100. Let me take that back.

[Just Hilarious]

Back.

[Lauren LaRosa]

They have to try now because people get online and tell you when they're not trying. So I think that there's a difference.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Plus size models all the time now.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, but it's still.

[DJ Envy]

They had plus thousand models back then. Lane, Brian been around for a long time.

[Jess Hilarious]

Ashley Stewart.

[DJ Envy]

You see what I'm saying?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It was. It was far a few back then, but now you see more and more of it.

[DJ Envy]

What did you just call?

[Commercial Announcer]

Did?

[DJ Envy]

He said we said far and fat.

[Jess Hilarious]

And what Full figured, oh, my gosh.

[DJ Envy]

This boy is crazy to call.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But even some of the things they would say Like, I remember they called.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Far and few away.

[DJ Envy]

The call a f person far is crazy. Yo, remember when big girl used to.

[Jess Hilarious]

Be like, I'm big bone. Like, your bones are not big. Like, everybody bone the same size.

[Lauren LaRosa]

They used to use that all the time.

[Jess Hilarious]

We big.

[Jill Scott]

We not bad.

[DJ Envy]

We.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We'll see what happens. And if that can work out. I had a whole list of all the bad moments. I. I don't. We don't got him go through.

[DJ Envy]

I want to hear him. Because I don't remember. I never used to watch.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I remember Winnie Harlo got in trouble because some.

[DJ Envy]

You got some.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We don't have it cut. No, but Winnie Harlow got in trouble because they called her. They were trying to be nice about it. They called her lovable, a lovable panda because of her vitilago. And she went to the photographer and was like, I don't like this. And he was like, if you don't like the nickname, I don't have to call you that. But basically, like, it was her. She was the problem.

[DJ Envy]

But see, that's different, though. If the person in real time was saying they don't like it, then you got to respect how that person.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It didn't go down like that. There was like. There was a.

[Just Hilarious]

The.

[Lauren LaRosa]

The first openly trans model on the show. That was a thing as well, too. And the questions they were asking her at the time would not fly today.

[DJ Envy]

Fat one.

[Jess Hilarious]

Well, when he was a. She was mean as hell anyway.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You want to hear more fat stuff?

[DJ Envy]

No, I'm saying what was what was considered fat shaming back then?

[Lauren LaRosa]

They were literally poking to cars like. Like they were not poking her.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What?

[Jess Hilarious]

Nobody going up to her. Poking her.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Sorry. Squeezing. They were squeezing her. They told her that they didn't have clothes for her because of her sizes. And she was a visit. Like, she was upset. And they were like.

[Jess Hilarious]

I did not know. People was actually really poking her skin, like, squeezing her.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, it was. Listen, it was a whole thing.

[DJ Envy]

What kind of question did they have, the trans person?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Stop it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

They were asking.

[DJ Envy]

I don't know.

[Lauren LaRosa]

They were asking her questions about her ident. About her identity and how that whole thing worked because of the transition.

[Jess Hilarious]

But did she eat on them pictures, though? That's what mattered.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But listen, it just couldn't last today, I don't think. But we'll see what happens.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You can ask people those questions now.

[Lauren LaRosa]

This is a long time ago. Like, these cycles were, what, like almost a decade still at.

[DJ Envy]

So the documentary is not gonna be no good then. Because the documentary is probably gonna be watered down because they're gonna be afraid to offend people.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't think so.

[DJ Envy]

I hope not.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Tyra Banks said in the documentary she's questioning did she go too far? Which has always been the question. I think they gonna get into it coming out on Netflix.

[DJ Envy]

Like when Breakfast Club do their documentary. I can't wait to go back. Back? Back in the day.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You could never.

[DJ Envy]

Why can't I?

[Lauren LaRosa]

What? You. You want to bring up all those moments?

[DJ Envy]

Why not? That's the whole point of growth.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Absolutely positive.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You were horrible. Horrible.

[DJ Envy]

And look at me now.

[Jess Hilarious]

No, baby.

[DJ Envy]

God took me through the journey, the exact journey that he wanted me to go through to get to the point that I'm at right now. So I have no problem exploring that and revisiting that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Did you see that? The. The fart N word girl had to apologize yesterday.

[DJ Envy]

Really?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[B. Dot]

That's crazy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She apologized. She said she was unaware that they were going to pull the plug on her show. And now she wants to focus on the people who truly know her character and fixing her relationships. And she's sorry. That word has never been a part of her vocabulary.

[DJ Envy]

I can't tell.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I had so many people yesterday about that and nobody has ever heard that term ever.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, I was gonna say, what is a fart?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't fart.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's crazy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, we have the rest. Who you was asking Envy. What white friends you got that just be talking to you about the N word.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm just saying it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You let them say it.

[DJ Envy]

White and black.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm just asking, have you ever heard the term phonic?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Never.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, nobody's ever heard that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Never.

[Jess Hilarious]

But you act like your white friends is gonna be like, yeah, dude, I hear it all the time. Them, like, they wouldn't tell you that they heard.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They would have said, yeah, I've heard somebody say it before, but I've never heard it. I've never, you know, tried to screw in a like it or socket or whatever and say, hey, fart.

[Jess Hilarious]

Why would that come to your mind?

[DJ Envy]

Correct.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, we have to wrap the latest, but if you guys check out the podcast, the latest, we'll learn La Rosa. Not if. When you check it out today, we'll be talking about Kelly Rowland and some of the things that have been. She was asked about Beyonce and Beyonce giving her notes on her tour, and she handled it so well. So we'll cover that over on the podcast side. Side. And I'm gonna let you know that this has been sponsored by Top dog law. So any accident, big or small, y' all call top dog law.

[Jess Hilarious]

Happy birthday, Jerry Springer.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You look cold.

[DJ Envy]

You. You all right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

You look cold.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm so warm, I have on layers today. I put stockings under this.

[DJ Envy]

You saying that because you got holes in your clothes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I know, but I put layers on under.

[DJ Envy]

Don't listen to him, he's ridiculous.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Donkey, who you? What you doing?

[DJ Envy]

Listen for after the hour. You know, Friday is the people's donkey. So we allow people to call up and give credit. Give people the credit they deserve for being stupid. But tomorrow is Valentine's Day. So I really want to give you women the opportunity to call up here and put these no good Negroes on blast. Just no good humans, period. On blast. Okay?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. Cuz last year blamed us.

[DJ Envy]

It's your time to nominate a donkey of your own. Remember now, that's is how they choose. Yes, call in now, 800-585-1051. Listen, Donkey of the Day for Friday, February 13th is the People's donkey. This is where we allow people to call in and give folks the credit they deserve for being stupid. And I'm letting you know right now, tomorrow is Valentine's Day. Now, historically, I've given people who don't got nobody donkey of the day. And that's not right because there's various reasons that folks don't have anybody, okay? Honestly, some of y' all don't got nobody because some people ain't hitting on nothing. Okay? There's just some terrible humans on this planet. All right? For example, there's a young man walking around this office right now. Now, okay, he's from Ghana. He works here on the Breakfast Club. And he is dressed like he's going to cheat after work because he knows tomorrow he got to be with his main sugar stain. So he probably told his man he got to work late today. And I just want her to know that's a lie. It's Friday. None of us are working late, okay? There are people out here who just don't love themselves also, okay? And I just want you to know they could never truly love you. And today is your opportunity to give them the biggest he haw. So, good morning.

[Just Hilarious]

Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning. Who's this?

[Just Hilarious]

The star.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, Star, who you want to get the biggest hee haw to?

[Just Hilarious]

Star, I want to give the biggest hee haw to this guy who was leading me on for six months just to find out that he was living with his girlfriend the whole time. He had a whole girlfriend. He had me falling for him. So I think he deserved the biggest hee haw today.

[Jess Hilarious]

And do.

[DJ Envy]

When did you find out? This week, because Valentine's Day is tomorrow. So he had to cut you off?

[Just Hilarious]

No, I didn't find out this week. I found out like a couple months ago.

[DJ Envy]

Wow.

[Just Hilarious]

But I just never said nothing. I just kind of kept to myself and cut him off. But I was like, you know what? Today he deserves it, cuz he has been sending me stuff, flowers, and just kind of leading up to Valentine's Day, and I just been throwing everything in the trash, so.

[DJ Envy]

Well, what's his name? Yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

Aj.

[DJ Envy]

Aj, where you calling from?

[Just Hilarious]

I'm calling from Florida.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, man.

[Just Hilarious]

And it's true what you say?

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's true what you say?

[Just Hilarious]

Charlemagne. I use that all the time. The dumbest people come from Florida and all of the Bronx. That's for sure. I'm originally from New York.

[DJ Envy]

Wow.

[Just Hilarious]

And. And I have never met the most dumbest people. But, like, here in Florida.

[DJ Envy]

Well, craziest. I don't say dumb. I say craziest. I. You. I said craziest. You said what? I say craziest people.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Right?

[Jess Hilarious]

Not dumb.

[Just Hilarious]

I like to say dumbest, though, cuz they really dumb.

[DJ Envy]

Got you. Well, salute. Well, I'm happy that you got that off your chest, man. But, you know, I do have to salute AJ cuz it ain't nothing worse than having to eat 2 pom poms on Valentine's Day. Have a nice day.

[Just Hilarious]

See that? That's messed up.

[DJ Envy]

What? I know it is. That is messed up.

[Jess Hilarious]

One for morning and one for the night.

[DJ Envy]

Damn. Good morning. Who's this?

[B. Dot]

Good morning.

[Just Hilarious]

This car's calling out of Newark.

[DJ Envy]

What's happening, my brother? Who you want to get the biggest he haw to?

[Just Hilarious]

I want to get the biggest he haw to the economy. The price is going up and the pay is going down.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

You know, when you're a truck driver and you're complaining about getting that money, it's got to be bad out here.

[DJ Envy]

Well, that's not the. That's the. It's not the economy fault. It's the current administration.

[Just Hilarious]

You ain't lying about that, bro.

[DJ Envy]

Brother.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh. I want to say happy birthday to Jess, man.

[DJ Envy]

Happy birthday.

[Jess Hilarious]

Thank you so much.

[DJ Envy]

You're very welcome. Hey, Jess. Love a truck driver, too.

[Jess Hilarious]

Hey, you know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know.

[Just Hilarious]

She married the one.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Just Hilarious]

I ain't Mexican, though.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Jess Hilarious]

It's all right.

[DJ Envy]

Don't worry about it.

[Just Hilarious]

But I still work hard. I'm out here.

[DJ Envy]

That's right. My brother I love it. Thank you for calling. Good morning. Who's this?

[Just Hilarious]

Alicia. Alicia.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, Alicia. Who you want to get the biggest he haw to?

[Just Hilarious]

I want to get the biggest he hawk of both my baby daddies, but they need the Remy Donkey.

[DJ Envy]

The Remy Donkey. Okay, what's your baby daddy name?

[Just Hilarious]

Big C and Squirrel.

[DJ Envy]

Big C and Squirrel.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You from Baltimore?

[Just Hilarious]

I'm from Michigan.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, all right, all right. I was ready to say girl, I know what I'm saying.

[DJ Envy]

Go ahead. Go ahead what? Big C. What did Big C and Squirrel do?

[Just Hilarious]

Well, Big C been trash since the beginning. I get myself donkey too for even giving us any of me to even have a kids. But my daughter's dad has been ignoring us because he's supposed to go half on his prom dress.

[DJ Envy]

Damn. Oh, wow.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah. So he won't even answer my daughter phone calls or text. You can ignore me, but don't ignore your child.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, don't ignore your child. She should, you know what she should do? She should just text dad to say Happy Valentine's Day, dad tomorrow and see what he do.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, I'mma tell her she. She mad though. She's in her feelings about it because how dare you ignore me and I'm just trying to have a conversation with you. I don't. You don't owe me money.

[DJ Envy]

And I'll tell you something else. Her. What father is that? What's his name? That's Big C or Squirrel.

[Just Hilarious]

Big C. No, that's Squirrel.

[DJ Envy]

Squirrel. Squirrel. You should be ashamed of yourself. If you buying any woman anything tomorrow for Valentine's Day or taking a woman out. And you know that you need to go half on your daughter's prom dress. That's trifling.

[Jess Hilarious]

Hey, now what if. What if Squirrel show up the mall with the. With the prom dress in the plastic like ha ha, y' all thought I ain't get it.

[Just Hilarious]

We getting it custom made. So he could just pay that 450 for that payment tomorrow if he really want to help.

[DJ Envy]

Damn. I know you mad you let Squirrel get that. I know you mad you let Squirrel get that. But listen, what about Big C? What Big C do?

[Just Hilarious]

Big C? He hasn't been present in my son's life for 15 years. He got out of jail. Didn't even call and let my son know about his great grandma funeral preparations or anything.

[Jess Hilarious]

Jesus.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, I'm gonna tell you something, man. You know how to pick them, okay? I hope you don't.

[Just Hilarious]

I know, right?

[DJ Envy]

Damn.

[Jill Scott]

This was her.

[Jess Hilarious]

This was this back in the day. This was you back in the day.

[DJ Envy]

I hope you. I. I hope you don't have no Valentine tomorrow. You don't deserve one.

[Jess Hilarious]

Do you have a Valentine's tomorrow?

[Just Hilarious]

My kids is my Valentine.

[DJ Envy]

There you go.

[Commercial Announcer]

See?

[DJ Envy]

Finally. Finally, finally.

[Just Hilarious]

By myself, you know.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, the weed in one store. Coming to Detroit, Coming to Michigan tomorrow.

[Just Hilarious]

No, that's gonna be in Indianapolis. I live in Indy now.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, okay. Okay, okay.

[Just Hilarious]

That's.

[Jess Hilarious]

What's up, babe. Well, you enjoy.

[Just Hilarious]

I'm go there with my cousins. I don't need no man.

[DJ Envy]

I'm good.

[Just Hilarious]

Because I don't know how to pick them. So until God put who I'm supposed to be with in my life.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's right.

[DJ Envy]

Now, hold on now. See, I love a woman that can take some accountability. I started to hit you with a. With the Bobby Womack. If you think you lonely now, wait until the night. But I like a woman with some accountability.

[Just Hilarious]

I know I can be the problem, too. So I just been praying that God put. Who was supposed to be in my life, in my life.

[DJ Envy]

How many women can admit that, Especially on Valentine's weekend. It's a lot of women right now lying to their self, saying they ain't got no body because ain't nobody out there on their level. Your level is in hell. You the problem. You need to raise your vibration, ma'.

[Just Hilarious]

Am. Yeah, no, I know, I know. Oh, and I'm a cancer, too. July 18th.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my God, you trouble. I know. I'm a cancer. I know, I know. Listen, I'm sending you nothing but healing energy. I want you to heal, man.

[Just Hilarious]

Thank you. I appreciate it.

[DJ Envy]

I really do.

[Just Hilarious]

And I got all your books.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you very much, man.

[Just Hilarious]

I'm definitely gonna be buying yours too, of course.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, absolutely. Because you need. You especially need mine.

[DJ Envy]

No, you really do. Her book is all about co parenting. It's called Tell Death. Do we parent?

[Just Hilarious]

13 years in the game. I've been trying, but.

[Jess Hilarious]

But trust me, it's okay. It's going to get better. Just pre order the book. You can actually pre order it now.

[DJ Envy]

I'm not going to lie. You sound. You sound like a war veteran. I'm 17 years. I've been fighting all my life.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's what it make you feel like, huh?

[DJ Envy]

God damn. Thank you.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Well, we hope Big C and Squirrel get it together, man.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, yeah, me too. For them kids. They ain't got to do nothing for me but do right by your kids.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, indeed. Thank you for coming calling.

[Just Hilarious]

Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

All right, have a great day, man. God bless that woman, man. Can we have a conversation about accountability this morning.

[Jess Hilarious]

Absolutely.

[DJ Envy]

Because there's a lot of women who feel, you know, like they the prize and they the catch, and they don't have nobody tomorrow because, you know, ain't no man on their level when it's really. They're the problem. Yeah, their level is in hell. Okay? That's what your bar is for yourself. You, as a person. You ain't did no work on yourself. Yourself, okay? You ain't. You ain't went out there and took the time to heal and become the woman you need to be, but you looking for a man.

[Jess Hilarious]

Absolutely.

[DJ Envy]

That woman had accountability. That woman said she knows she the problem. How many of you ladies out there know you the problem?

[Jess Hilarious]

We ain't gonna get many calls.

[DJ Envy]

Why not?

[Jess Hilarious]

Because ladies don't like to admit that they're the problem. Especially on Valentine's Day Eve. Ain't nobody trying to admit they the problem.

[DJ Envy]

I believe in our Breakfast Club listeners. I believe that, you know, y' all are self aware, like we're self aware. And I believe. Believe that y' all take accountability like we take accountability. And I believe that y' all want to use this moment to call in and make the world a better place by looking at yourself in the mirror and making a goddamn change. Call us right now and tell us. Let us know if you the problem.

[Jess Hilarious]

Come on, Luther King. They not gonna do that.

[Just Hilarious]

Don't.

[Jess Hilarious]

Just calm down. Nobody's gonna call up and say that a day before Valentine's Day.

[DJ Envy]

NB texting right now saying, we did this last year. Well, guess what? We're gonna do it again this year, guys.

[Jess Hilarious]

No, no, no, no. You was getting on the women last year. No, you was, like, getting on them real bad. You made everybody call up and tell them why they don't have a Valentine.

[DJ Envy]

Damn.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, don't do that this year. Do something for the.

[DJ Envy]

No, let's do it for the ladies. Since y' all want Valentine's Day to be all about y', all, call up right now, 1-800-585-1051, and tell us. Ladies, if you're the problem, it's the Breakfast Club. It's topic time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Call 800 at 585-1051, to join into.

[DJ Envy]

The discussion with the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy Jess. Hilarious Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now, if you're just joining us, of course, Valentine's Day is this Saturday, and we're asking 800-585-1051, are you the problem in Your relationship. Let's open up the phone lines. Hello? Who's this?

[Just Hilarious]

Good Beamer?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why you start off with all the smoke? You must be the problem in your relationship.

[Just Hilarious]

I ain't in a relationship no more. But I was the problem. Problem.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, we can hear it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, we can hear all of your voice. Why were you the problem?

[Just Hilarious]

Why y' all say y' all can't hear it?

[Lauren LaRosa]

It just sound like you ain't listen. There ain't no working on nothing with you. You come with the smoke every minute you can get.

[Just Hilarious]

No, I'm not gonna lie to y'.

[Jill Scott]

All.

[Just Hilarious]

After when I went through, I became a whole different person and look at stuff a whole lot different.

[DJ Envy]

What you been through?

[Just Hilarious]

I had my boy, he's four now. And I went in a coma and was paralyzed. And when I woke up up, I saw how his dad really was. And I separated myself and I learned to love myself more and put me first.

[DJ Envy]

There you go.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How were you in a coma?

[DJ Envy]

I'm happy for you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Was it abuse or what? What happened?

[Just Hilarious]

No, no, no. When I gave birth to our son, I slipped in a coma.

[Jess Hilarious]

Damn. I'm so sorry.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now he was out doing his thing while you were in a coma.

[Just Hilarious]

I'mma stay here cause I got females calling me and I was only home two weeks still paralyzed.

[DJ Envy]

Well, listen, you don't know that for sure, okay? I do know Women be lying because they be wanting to steal your joke.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

And they knew that that was the opportunity to steal your joy because you was feeling down already.

[Jess Hilarious]

She's in a coma.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She was in a coma.

[Just Hilarious]

No, he told he can touch to it.

[DJ Envy]

I'm just trying to make the best of a bad situation that you just walked in on. I just walked in on. I don't even know what the hell I'm talking about.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She said she was the problem and she has reason to be the problem. Well, I'm sorry, hold on.

[DJ Envy]

How was she the problem if she was in the coma? Fasca, y' all don't be asking the right question. Good morning. Who's this?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They hung up on her so fast.

[DJ Envy]

That should have been the first question. If the topic is you the problem. Problem. And she called in and said she was in a coma.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She said the problem first and then she said the coma stuff. Then she went in the story. Then y' all walked in. We didn't get she went to a.

[DJ Envy]

Coma because she was the problem?

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, she said. She said we asked where you the problem.

[DJ Envy]

Okay. Good morning. Who's this Good morning. Who's this? Hello.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning.

[Just Hilarious]

My name's Amanda.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, Amanda. So you're the problem.

[Just Hilarious]

Yes, I'm out.

[DJ Envy]

Tell me, Amanda, what happened?

[Just Hilarious]

So, like, I've been in my relationship for five years. We had some issues about three years ago. I agreed to forgive and move past. Past. But the issue is, is when I get insecure or I have a moment of doubt, I'm out drunk.

[DJ Envy]

You what?

[Just Hilarious]

So it's just like, my mouth runs. I just. I just go. I agree. The full path, but the insecurities sometimes get the best of me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And that's.

[Just Hilarious]

That's something I got to work on.

[DJ Envy]

So why don't you go to therapy? And I'm glad that you know that, because a lot of people love to project their insecurities onto others. Just go. Go to therapy and figure that out.

[Just Hilarious]

So I've been. I've been looking into it, and I've been. But right now, we're. We're working on communicating with each other, and. And just. He's taking accountability, and he's like, okay, when you feel that way, come to me. We'll work it out together, you know? And so far, every time I've done it, he's been making me feel secure. But it's just. Still, that insecurity sometimes gets the best of you.

[DJ Envy]

I need to call that king and tell him that he might deserve better. Just not stop it right now.

[Just Hilarious]

Absolutely not.

[DJ Envy]

Huh?

[Just Hilarious]

I'm gonna be the best for him that he needs.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's me. I know that's right.

[Jess Hilarious]

Don't try to take a man away from her.

[DJ Envy]

No.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Why would you say that?

[Just Hilarious]

No, absolutely not. I'm very territorial. That is mine.

[DJ Envy]

Whoa. Yeah. I just want to make sure she doing the right work, though. I don't want her projecting them insecurities on other people. Good morning. Who's this?

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, my goodness. It's Dee.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, D. So you're the. Good morning, D. So you. You can admit you're the problem.

[Just Hilarious]

I. I can.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, this is warming my heart this morning. All of these stuff away. Women. Tell us more.

[Just Hilarious]

Charlie May. I love you, Rusty.

[DJ Envy]

I love you, too, De. Now tell us why you're the problem.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

D. He loves the D. Go ahead, De.

[Just Hilarious]

Honestly, I really think it's more like my. My I don't take no crap kind of attitude. You know, a lot of people can't handle that. I try to be in my soft girl era, but, I mean, it's like, you got to be me. You gotta, you know, make me want to be in My feminine.

[DJ Envy]

You don't have to be mean. That's the wrong approach. Like, you know what's crazy? You would never take that approach to work. If. If you would not walk in your office and say, I gotta be me.

[Just Hilarious]

You ain't wrong, cuz I. I'm nice and spy at work. I am the sweetest person. My customers love me.

[DJ Envy]

See what I'm saying? So why you do that to the people you love? You know that when you. If you treat the people you love like crap, but then you, like, go to work and be smiling at people's face like, that's not being real. That's just pr. Like, you just know that's just PR you doing at work.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, most people take out their. Whatever their frustration is through their loved ones, right? Even if they're at work and they're having a bad day, they take out their frustration back at home. So that's usually what happens.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's because I think the love over there is normally a lot more unconditional than if you come at work and get crazy. You can be put out of there.

[DJ Envy]

But so. So why are you treating white people better than you treat your spouse or your significant other? Exactly. Amanda. Amanda, how are you gonna fix this, Amanda? Oh, God. See? Poor.

[Jill Scott]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Call us right now, 1-800-585-1051. We're talking to people who can admit that they are the problem. Problem. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Who's this?

[Just Hilarious]

Hi, y'. All, this is Shonda.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, Shonda.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You don't sound like a problem at all, baby.

[Just Hilarious]

Hey, I'm. I'm calling from Jersey. Shout out, Camden.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my God. I know you the problem.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Camden is crazy.

[DJ Envy]

Like, okay, tell us, why you the problem, Camden?

[Just Hilarious]

I know I'm the problem. Like I said, I'm a therapy girl, so I know that I'm the problem. I'm working on my. It's mainly because of my upbringing. I never really had good men in my life growing up, so I don't really know what a good man is, but I feel like I might have got one. And I know I shut them out.

[DJ Envy]

How do you shut them out?

[Jess Hilarious]

And does she stress them out?

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, my gosh, guys.

[Commercial Announcer]

Of course.

[Just Hilarious]

My alarm want to go off for work.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Are you crying?

[DJ Envy]

No, she's not crying.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She's taking her alarm off.

[Just Hilarious]

Okay. Can you hear me?

[DJ Envy]

She lives in Camden. Can hear you. Good morning.

[Just Hilarious]

Yes, I'm sorry about that, but I am a problem. I'm working on myself. I love my man and I just want to let him know that. And, ladies, taking accountability to get you far. Because where I started off at, I'm so far than where I started.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And that's. That's.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, exactly. So I just wanted to call in and shout out to my man Dre.

[DJ Envy]

Salute to Dre.

[Just Hilarious]

I'm working on it. I'm getting it together.

[DJ Envy]

And she said she's in therapy. I want y' all to understand that.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's amazing.

[Just Hilarious]

Yes. Two therapies. Two. Two times a week.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my God. Thank you. That's beautiful, man. Congratulations. What's the one breakthrough? What's the one breakthrough you had that, you know, really made you realize I. I am the problem? Jesus.

[Just Hilarious]

I would have to say it's in a therapy session. My therapist was listing things for me to look out for abusers, and the things that she was listing actually was me.

[DJ Envy]

Wow.

[Just Hilarious]

And I was like, oh, wow. I need to work on myself.

[DJ Envy]

Wow. Thank you for. Thank you for sharing, man. Thank you. I work with two women who probably got a lot of things on that list as well. Good morning. Who's this?

[Just Hilarious]

My name is Kiki.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, Kiki. Are you the problem?

[Just Hilarious]

Yes, I'm the problem.

[DJ Envy]

Let's unpack this.

[Commercial Announcer]

What you do.

[DJ Envy]

Let's unpack this, Kiki.

[Just Hilarious]

What you mean, what I do?

[DJ Envy]

People say, g, relax. Don't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Don't call me.

[DJ Envy]

They projecting. This morning, all Jess asked you was, what did you do?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She was definitely the problem.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Maybe rephrase the question. Maybe ask her what happened.

[DJ Envy]

What happened, Kiki?

[Just Hilarious]

I fell for a man that's incarcerated.

[DJ Envy]

Wow.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, wow. Okay.

[DJ Envy]

That's. How much time you got?

[Just Hilarious]

You got three more years left.

[DJ Envy]

How long have. Did y' all fall in love? How long ago?

[Just Hilarious]

We're not. We not in love. I just like him really bad, and I feel sorry for her.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Did you meet him when he was locked up or before?

[Just Hilarious]

I knew him before he was locked up.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay, so you knew that he would be locked. Was he doing anything to get locked up when you met him?

[Just Hilarious]

We were kids. We were, like, in high school.

[DJ Envy]

How old are you now?

[Just Hilarious]

I'm 40.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah. So I'm saying, did you know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How long was he locked up there?

[Jess Hilarious]

Did you know that he would get locked up? Was he doing anything to get him locked up?

[Just Hilarious]

Yes, he was.

[DJ Envy]

Oh.

[Just Hilarious]

What?

[Jess Hilarious]

So that's why I asked you, what did you do?

[Just Hilarious]

I just tried to be his friend, and it's just complicated.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know when you call the radio, you're supposed to explain the story.

[DJ Envy]

Biggie, how big are you? Be honest with me and don't you lie to me on this fine Friday. How big are you? Tell the truth.

[Just Hilarious]

I weigh like 385.

[DJ Envy]

I'm so sorry about.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, man.

[DJ Envy]

God. God damn. And listen, man, don't clown me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, girl, it's okay.

[DJ Envy]

I'm not clowning you. I'm here to help you.

[Jess Hilarious]

This morning, pictures of him in jail, you know, pictures of yourself to him in jail.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

And you be hitting all your angles. Does he know? I'm gonna tell you something, man. Forget him. We need to. We need you to work on yourself, okay? Like, you need to worry about you, focus on you. We want you to unlock that hidden character that exists within you. You know what I'm saying? Like, we need you to start working out, you know, going to the gym. Because the reality of the situation is true love starts with self love. And you don't love yourself. You can't truly love nobody else. You are accepted, accepting what God has given you. And you wouldn't do that at a restaurant. So don't do that in relationships.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not only that, if you watch the super bowl, they got this new pill, it's like Ozempic. You could take a pill now and it helps with the.

[DJ Envy]

No, I don't know about that. Because Khaled was in that commercial.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're right.

[DJ Envy]

True. Yeah, but.

[Jess Hilarious]

And you wouldn't say. You don't supposed to take Ozem. You can't just start taking Ozemp. She gotta start doing some other stuff before she can get on those.

[Just Hilarious]

My insurance won't improve a lot of stuff.

[DJ Envy]

For real. Okay.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Go with the gym like Charlamagne said. Maybe the gym will work. Eat better and then work on yourself and.

[DJ Envy]

And Justin Lawrence saying that to you while they eating some golden wings right now.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Finished my chicken because I just felt.

[Jess Hilarious]

Like I ain't even 185. So I'm all right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm going back out there for more. But listen, you'll be.

[DJ Envy]

Thoughts and prayers, Kiki.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, absolutely.

[DJ Envy]

Kiki. Thoughts and prayers, Kiki.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He locked up. You got time to figure it out.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. You got three years to get your life together. Don't worry about that, man.

[Jess Hilarious]

No, see, no, don't, don't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And don't worry about Charlamagne.

[DJ Envy]

Put Kiki on hold, man. However we can help Kiki. We gonna help Kiki.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let's do it. Charlamagne. Let me ask you a question. Usually when people call you, you compare them to a vehicle. What vehicle would.

[DJ Envy]

Don't do that. Why you doing. Why Are you doing that to that girl? You are so disrespectful. You do it to everybody. I'm just asking that to people. And that's so rude to you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Why would they do that?

[DJ Envy]

That is so messed up for you. Envy. You want. You grow up for once. Leave people alone. That woman weighed 385 pounds on. Okay, that is so. The hell is wrong with you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But I know you got.

[DJ Envy]

You do it all the time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But now when I ask I'm foul, I'm wrong.

[DJ Envy]

You know what vehicle I got in mind? The vehicle you used to ride when you was in high school, that little short bus. Okay, all right. That's what you. Because you just. You just ridiculous. You're just a ridiculous human. Okay, you know what?

[B. Dot]

Forget it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's the moral of the story?

[DJ Envy]

The moral of the story is you.

[B. Dot]

You.

[DJ Envy]

You get the love. We accept the love we think we deserve. So I want everybody out there to love themselves more. Your first, last, and best love is self love. That's the whole point of this. This topic this morning. I want people to be aware that what they're really missing is self love. When you start loving yourself more, you'll go out there, do the work on yourself to be a better person, and you'll project that strong love on the other people. That good love on the other people.

[Jess Hilarious]

I love it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, well, when we come back, we got Pastor Aux. Nala will be joining us, so don't go anywhere as the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning, Nyla Simone. Big Nyla. Okay, Punky Brewster.

[Nyla Simone]

Can we please retire that?

[DJ Envy]

I said Punky today. I didn't say.

[Jess Hilarious]

He didn't say Punky today.

[Jill Scott]

Oh, either.

[Nyla Simone]

I don't know who either one are.

[Mimi Brown]

And I don't dress young.

[DJ Envy]

1990.

[Nyla Simone]

Now, that one's cool. That one's. I. I like that.

[DJ Envy]

God damn, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Shut up.

[Nyla Simone]

That chicken look good, man.

[Jess Hilarious]

So good.

[Nyla Simone]

Happy birthday.

[Jess Hilarious]

Thank you so much.

[Nyla Simone]

Happy, happy birthday. It's all. It's Jess's birthday, but it's also about to be Valentine's Day, so there's a lot of R B projects that have dropped or are dropping. Salute to Raheem Devon. He dropped his project on even. But the songs that you can find on the playlist today are, of course, I'm going to start with Jill Scott. Pay you on Tuesday.

[DJ Envy]

I don't want no more than blues. You heard me.

[Nyla Simone]

Yeah, me too.

[DJ Envy]

Salute to Jill Scott. Man, the H Concern is out right now.

[Mimi Brown]

Yes.

[Nyla Simone]

You've been loving it.

[DJ Envy]

I love it. When I say I Love that album. Oh, my God.

[Nyla Simone]

No, I've been loving it too, but. Okay, next is Brent F. He just dropped his project icon, and the record I'm going to play is Other side.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay, Brent.

[Just Hilarious]

All right.

[Jess Hilarious]

This a little different.

[DJ Envy]

Sound like the weekend karaoke.

[Jess Hilarious]

No, it doesn't sound like you're doing the weekend karaoke. I don't know.

[B. Dot]

Really?

[DJ Envy]

Definitely sound like he doing some mic, some weekend carryover.

[Nyla Simone]

Well, you know, it's produced by Raphael Sadiq and Chad Hugo, and I did. I felt a little frelish, like, in vocal delivery. That's what I got. But it's jamming, though.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, it is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I like it.

[Jess Hilarious]

I just didn't expect to hear that.

[Nyla Simone]

Yeah, I saw your face. You're like.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, hold up. All right, all right.

[Nyla Simone]

You was expecting that.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, he cut that hair, you know? You know he cut his hair, so now he. He has a whole change of everything.

[Nyla Simone]

Yeah, I'm here for it.

[DJ Envy]

What else we got?

[Nyla Simone]

There you are.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, you should do a segment called Study hall, but what else we got? Wow. Keep going.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Keep going now. Keep going.

[DJ Envy]

Ignore them. Ignore.

[Nyla Simone]

My last record is off the LMA project that dropped last week. Salute to Ella made. This project is definitely for the. The girlies who are in love, but this record is calling my mind.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay, Ella, did you. You listen to the whole project?

[Jill Scott]

She.

[Jess Hilarious]

She's still talking in between them songs.

[Nyla Simone]

You didn't like that? I like this one because of the boy boom bap ish beats.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, no, no, I like.

[Nyla Simone]

I like that was just on that ep.

[Jess Hilarious]

She used to do that. Yeah, like talking between everyone. Just so we know that she got the accent. Like, girl, we know.

[DJ Envy]

You know what I mean?

[Jess Hilarious]

But I ain't know. But yeah, I like elements.

[DJ Envy]

I saw a lot of women saying how good LMA album was. I haven't heard it yet.

[Nyla Simone]

Yeah, you should definitely tap in this weekend. Y' all should have her up here, actually. But those are my three this week.

[DJ Envy]

But she rescheduled.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She rescheduled.

[Just Hilarious]

I don't know.

[Nyla Simone]

I see some interviews from her.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She.

[Just Hilarious]

She be.

[DJ Envy]

No. Maybe she just a one to come to Breakfast Club then.

[Nyla Simone]

Well, if you guys like those records, make sure you guys follow me on Instagram at Nyla Simone. Nyla S Y M O N E E E. You can click the link in bio. It's the certified playlist. I update it every week. And then I have an event going on this Tuesday in New York City. It's going to be me 9th wonder static selector, Rob Markman. The eco is Going to be a night of hip hop and rap tap in.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what it is. All right.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you, Nyla N. Simone.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right. Oh, and you had a dope event last week. The J. Cole event. J. Cole listening party was dope. I've seen all the photos and videos. Dope, dope, dope. Congrats.

[Mimi Brown]

Thank you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Thank you.

[Nyla Simone]

Yeah, if you guys want to watch it back, it's on the Breakfast Club, Twitch live stream, Twitch channel.

[DJ Envy]

How do you like the jcole album?

[Nyla Simone]

I still have to listen.

[DJ Envy]

What you mean you still have to Listen? You a JCole fan?

[Nyla Simone]

I've been working.

[DJ Envy]

You need to respect that mulatto, man. Wow.

[Nyla Simone]

I've been working.

[DJ Envy]

That's jcole word. Jcole said that on the album. Say, he said we gonna respect that.

[Nyla Simone]

Mulatto because I saw, you know. Well, I've been reading like substacks on coast project, I think because there's so much noise around it. I don't want to listen to it with all the noise. Like, I just want to listen to it on my own time when I'm cleaning my crib. Because I. I actually want to enjoy the project. I don't want to go in critique album.

[DJ Envy]

I think it's a cool J. Cole album.

[Just Hilarious]

That's it.

[Jill Scott]

It's cool.

[DJ Envy]

It's calm. It's a cool J. Cole album.

[Nyla Simone]

It's two albums.

[DJ Envy]

It's cool. Both of them are cool. Both projects are cool. I like this. I like 39 better than 29, but they cool.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, guys.

[Nyla Simone]

Well, that's probably because it's more relatable in age.

[DJ Envy]

Probably.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, probably. All right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So we'll see you next week. Everybody else, let's get to the mix. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

It's Black History Month. So you know, every day during Black History Month, my guy B. Dot does a podcast called I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either. And today he's going to tell you about Richard Spikes, who invented the modern gear shift. Yeah, when somebody ask you if you can drive stick, it's because of a black man.

[B. Dot]

A gear shift shift that changed driving forever. Welcome back Know it alls to another episode of the most anticipated podcast on the Black Effect podcast network, especially in February, entitled I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either. I'm your host, B. Dot, and I drive an electric vehicle. And let me tell you something, and I'll probably never in my life life return to gas fueled vehicles again. The ev just so clean and it's so smooth. Just like a cheetah in the wild. Fast, but still, I love it. And you don't get that gasoline smell on your hands from charging your vehicle. Anywho, to kick off today's episode, I've got three of the most useless facts you'll never need, not a day in life. Your first useless fact, the very first speeding ticket in history was issued in 1896.

[DJ Envy]

Yep.

[B. Dot]

A man named Walter Arnold was fined for driving 8 mph in a 2 mile per hour zone.

[DJ Envy]

Yep, 8 and a 2.

[B. Dot]

Your second useless fact, the early cars, they didn't have steering wheels. Now, the first cars were steered with a tiller like a box boat. And your third useless fact, gas stations didn't even exist when cars were invented. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, car drivers bought their gas at pharmacies and hardware stores and even bakeries, usually in glass containers. Now for today's episode, do you have any idea who the black man Richard Spikes was and what he did to revolutionize the car industry? Cause I didn't.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I didn't know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Maybe you didn't know.

[Jill Scott]

I didn't know.

[Just Hilarious]

Maybe you didn't.

[DJ Envy]

I didn't know.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I didn't know.

[DJ Envy]

Maybe you didn't know.

[Jess Hilarious]

I didn't know.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I didn't know.

[B. Dot]

Before, driving was as normal as it is today. It was terrifying. Early cars was hard to control, harder to stop, just dangerous to operate, period. Transmission systems were clunky, turns were unpredictable. Signals didn't exist. Then came Richard Spikes, a black inventor who didn't just improve car cars, he civilized them. Spikes made an improvement to the gear shift that made changing speed smoother and safer. And he patented an automatic transmission improvement that took away the need for constant manual adjustments. And if that wasn't enough, he invented an early version of the turn signal. You think about that every safe turn you've ever made, every smooth gear change, every time you signal before switching lanes. That's all Richard Spike's influence. Not a brand name, not a logo, not a commercial infrastructure which ties back to the marching 100 and what they represent. Excellence so deeply embedded into the system, you just stop noticing it. Richard Spikes didn't chase fame. He solved problems and his solutions became permanent. And that's the story of so much black innovation. We make this world functional, man. Black folk make the world go round. Then the world forget who fixed it. A whole century after Carter G. Woodson argued for documenting ourselves systems, Richard Spikes engineered the mechanisms we use to move through the world safely. Today, a black built infrastructure that most people never even acknowledge. Every time you shift gears without thinking, every time you signal a turn without struggle, every time you drive somewhere safely, I need you to remember that a black inventor made that possible. And I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either.

[DJ Envy]

I didn't know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Salute to B Dot.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, Salute to my guy, B Dot. Man. Make sure you go subscribe to the I didn't know. Maybe you didn't need the podcast on the Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now, Valentine's Day is this Saturday. So if you have kids, the best thing to do is get a gift, of course, from your kids to your spouse to your wife. Now, I love going to Macy's. And the reason I love going to Macy's is Macy's has things that are affordable that I don't have to worry about costing me a lot of money where I got to play layaway to get it paid off.

[Just Hilarious]

Right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Whether I'm looking for something cute like some Godiva Valentine's Day chocolates, or I'm looking for the heart shaped La Crusette, whatever I need, Macy's has it. All right? Now, Valentine's Day is this Saturday, and Macy's is the destination for getting everything you need for Valentine's Day. Get to your local Valentine's Day. Get to your local Macy's today. Make sure you got Valentine's Day for your mama, for your wife, your baby mama, your auntie, your assistant, your co workers. Just give them a little something, something nice just to say that you care for salute to the DMV area. I'm gonna be in D.C. this Saturday at the roll socials. Out to Quicksilver. We're gonna be doing something for Valentine's Day for all the couples and single people out there. So join us at Throw Social this Saturday.

[Jess Hilarious]

Now shout out to my brother, DJ Quicksilver.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's up, Quicksilver? What you doing this weekend?

[Jess Hilarious]

So my husband has a lovely weekend planned for me. I don't know everything that's happening, so.

[DJ Envy]

I dare not say they're hitting the pinatas.

[Jess Hilarious]

Anyway, my birthday, I got my chef here, Chef K. For real. He came and he made me brunch this morning.

[DJ Envy]

But thank you, Chef Kev. Absolutely, man. Appreciate y' all for having me. How long you know Jess? See, 2018. Yeah, 2018. Okay. You met her in Charlotte? Yeah, it was. She was on the Little Rail show, and I went in and was like, yo, let me come cook for you. And I started touring with her and working with all the different different celebs and stuff. So at what point did you notice she was a young big back, right? What?

[Just Hilarious]

Wow.

[Jess Hilarious]

I changed my diet, though, haven't I can't.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. Hey, her diet used to be trash. What changed about it?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Shut up.

[Jess Hilarious]

No, I. I used to eat a lot of pork, a lot of, like, greasy stuff.

[DJ Envy]

And now you married to a whole Mexican. What has changed? Why would you.

[Jess Hilarious]

I ate a lot more rice, beans.

[DJ Envy]

Yo, every Wednesday, she come in here, stomach be messed up, cuz. Taco Tuesday be killing it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, she does whatever.

[Jess Hilarious]

What did you make for me today, Kev? What did you.

[DJ Envy]

I made chicken and waffles and I also made some home fries. I was going to do some shrimp and grits, but I didn't want to smoke the pl place up, so. I ain't going to lie. Them wings look so golden. Hey, we call them gbd Golden Brown Delicious. Okay.

[Jess Hilarious]

Was singing about.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, did you see what cabinets like? We call them GVD golden brown. That's crazy. I came. It was gonna be a pause moment with charlamagne.

[Jess Hilarious]

He had to look at the next light skinned bonehead brother.

[DJ Envy]

How did they follow you, Kev? You can follow me on Instagram @Chef Kev4Real. And I also have a mobile app coming out for chefs that is called yes, Chef. And it's similar to Yelp meets Uber. You can find a chef anywhere in the country. So that will be coming out soon. Thank you, Kev.

[Jill Scott]

Thank you, Kev.

[DJ Envy]

Everybody out there saying we don't have breakfast. Big breakfast. Okay. Big back breakfast in the morning. Big back breakfast. Happy born day, Jess.

[Jill Scott]

Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Elbow ass. Come on, give us a positive note.

[DJ Envy]

The positive note is simple, man. You know, it's Valentine's Day weekend. I just want y' all to remember this weekend. We accept the love we think we deserve. Have a great day. Breakfast club finish or y' all done woke up. Wake you up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wake that ass up.

[DJ Envy]

Program your alarm to Power 105.1 on iHeartradio.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

Well, almost. Almost anything.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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