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FULL SHOW: Kendrick Sweeps The Grammys In All Categories Nominated, Beyonce Wins Album Of The Year, Doechii Puts Her Stamp On The Grammys + More
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Get ready for Greatest Escapes, a new comedy podcast about the wildest true escape stories in history. Each week I'll be sitting down with some of the most hilarious actors and writers and comedians. People like Ed Helms, Diane Guerrero and Joseph Gordon Levitt. I love storytelling and I love you. So I can't wait. Listen and subscribe to Greatest escapes on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. We want to speak out and we want this to stop. Wow. Very powerful. I'm Ellie Flynn, an investigative journalist and this is my journey deep the adult entertainment industry. I really wanted to be a Playboy model. He was like, I'll Take you to the top. I'll make you a star. To expose an alleged predator and the rotten industry he works in. It's honestly so much worse than I had anticipated. We're an army in comparison to him. From Novel. Listen to the Bunny trap on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Good morning, usa. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. Jess. Hilarious. Good morning, Charlamagne the G. Peace to the planet. It's Monday. Good morning. How y'all feel out there? That's right. Back to the work week. How you feeling? I feel blessed, black and highly favored. Happy to be here for another day to serve our beautiful listeners. Man. What's up, Jess? How you feeling? How was your weekend? I feel good. I feel, feel, feel really good. I got a lot of stuff done over the weekend, but I just chilled out with my family. Yeah, yeah, that's good. Good, good, good. I was at my daughter's dance competition Friday. I actually broadcasted from the hotel and shout to all. Salute to all the dance dads out there and the dance parents out there. You know how crazy it is. So her first performance was Friday at 7am so she was up at 4am Getting ready. Cause, you know, it's a whole routine. Makeup and getting the hair right and her costumes right so early. So it was pretty dope. So my one daughter won first. And this is over like a thousand kids. So she was first, first place. That was little Brooklyn. And London was fifth and ninth because they performed two solos. They performed two. So one solo, she was in ninth place. One solo was in. Fif is still great because it's like thousands of kids. So we were super duper excited. We spent Gia's birthday in dance mode. So it was fun, a lot of fun. Just with the kids, it was a lot of fun. Do you know the choreography? Did you know? Do I know it? Yeah, of course, of course. I'm like, yo hand, pointy toe, flip. Turn around. Okay. Oh, yeah. What the titi want? No, no, no, no, no. Doing it for fun in the mirror for no reason. Not even with your baby. So just doing it because you like to do it. So. Damn. What about you? What you did all weekend, Charlotte? I was in. I was in Houston for a little bit. I went to a wedding. Salute to Enyo and Derek. They got married. Well, I'm saying that, like, people know them, but those are my Peoples. Okay. Yes, yes, yes. Well, congratulations to them. I'm sure you cry congratulations in you and Derek. Nah, I didn't cry. I like weddings. I just like, I enjoy weddings. And you know, Inyo is from Ghana, so he would never cry on my wedding. It's a very long, long ceremony, actually. A couple of them. Really? Yeah. And then the food and then the dancing. Like. No, no. Nobody does anything like people from Ghana do. Wow. It's always dance. Oh, my God. Music. What? High energy, everything. It don't come down to those. So I know some of the coaches, I don't know if it's the Ghana coach, but when they get married, they. They throw money on the people getting married. They definitely did that. Absolutely. Wow. How much did you throw? I don't know. How much my wife. Do she do something? Yeah, she did. That's what's up. Yeah. So you have to do that. Yeah. Do they tell you beforehand to get ready? Like, hey, just know this is the culture, so make sure you have your money. That's a good question. I just know that everybody had the ones and it was on that is miss out. I can't wait to go to. What is it? Ghanaian wedding. I don't know if that's what you call it. But yes, that is. She was definitely practicing her customs. That's what's happened. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's dope. All right, well, let's get the show cracking. Jason Wilson will be joining us today, man. Jason has a new book called Demand the Moment Demands out right now. Fantastic, fantastic read, man. Jason's one of my favorite people on the planet. You see him at the Mental Wealth Expo all the time. You probably watched his documentary on ESPN called the Cave of Adam. I know I'm pronouncing that wrong. Definitely sounds wrong, but Jesus, I know I'm pronouncing. We'll figure it out. But Jason is a great brother, man. He'll be here this morning. All right, well, let's get to front page news when we come back. So I know we going to talk Grammys. It's only right. Go ahead. I mean, Kendrick might have put light skinned people out forever last night. All y'all got is Steph Curry. I wouldn't say at this point. And Chris Brown won a Grammy last night too. Thank you. But boy, man, I didn't think it could be lights out. We'll talk about Dan, the Super bowl this weekend. Oh, my God. Start it over one more time. You're not supposed to do that as a beige person. You are never supposed to restart this record. Hey, ever. You're supposed to act like this. Not even happening. You gotta congratulate that, brother. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Five Grammy wins last night for Kendrick. Yes. Five. Yeah. Congratulations to Kendrick Drake. You think Drake cried himself to sleep last night? I don't think Drake turned it on. He probably had his fist balled up. Like, I mean, he stayed on social media. I think you knew he already knew that. Like, he knew it was gonna happen, so he probably didn't even watch. He gonna sue the Grammys, left. He definitely gonna be in that loss. Let's get into front page news now over the weekend. Sports. The Lakers traded Luka for Anthony Davis. I don't even know what that was about. I'm confused about that trade. I mean, if you really think about it, the Mavericks made it to the finals last year. So why would you leave your biggest piece? Well, that's the reason they saying he was £270. But, you know, for me, you don't trade a generational franchise player just because they gain weight. You go get him a trainer and a nutritionist, right? They just went to the finals last year. Since when has his weight been a problem? Yeah, that, that, that's, that's. That's my whole thing. Some people were saying that this way they don't have to pay the max contract. But like you said, he was the face of the Mavericks, man. Makes no sense. 25 years old, knocked off one of them top executives. Girl, man, that's what I. Ain't no way in hell. Like, that's what I think. They know something about Luka we don't know. But I don't understand this trade at all. But now the Lakers have a face to the Lakers for the next, what, 10 years? He's only 25 years old. I'm sure LeBron will be retiring in the next couple of years. So now they got a new face. I mean, that'll be the good part of it. LeBron can teach him some discipline. You know what I mean? LeBron can possibly teach him how to train and eat right and all of that good stuff. So he'll be a good teacher for Duke. Luca. It's not like Luca needs it, other than, you know, learning how to be disciplined, I guess. Right? But you know, the sad thing about it, what people don't think about is they got to uproot their families. Like, you know, Luke has been in, what, Dallas for the last six, seven years? That man ain't even from here. That man has uprooted his family. That man is from Russia somewhere, but he lives there. He's been living there for six years. And Anthony Dave has been living. Trust me, coming from wherever he come from is nothing. It's way worse. Worse than what he's doing now over his last seven years? All his family's in a whole other country somewhere. Yes. And also Clarissa Shields. She won over the weekend. I watched it last night. The undisputed heavyweight title. Did you say it? Yeah. How was the fight? It was good. She cracked that chick so hard at the end. She was fighting Danielle Perkins. I think her name was Daniel Perkins looked bigger during the weigh in. I was like, Daniel. I was like, Jesus. Clarissa was breaking it down, and at the end, she cracked her with her right hand to the jaw. Jesus dropped it to her knees. All right, well, good morning, Morgan. Good morning. Good morning, DJ Envy, Charlemagne, the God and just hilarious. Y'all doing good on it Monday. All right, well, let's get into it. First and foremost, happy Black History Month. I don't know if we mentioned that, but happy, happy, yeah. Quick history lesson. Dr. Carter G. Woodson. He is credited with bringing Black History Month to prominence in the 1920s. Woodson launched Negro History Week in February to promote the diversity of black achievements in America. He chose the month of February because it included the civil rights. The birthdays of civil rights activist educator Frederick Douglass and President Abraham Lincoln, who signed the Emancipation Proclamation to free black people from slavery. So you know how everybody be like, why is February it's the shortest month? Well, that's why. And understand that we graduated from a week to a month. So in 1976, President Gerald Ford issued a proclamation to reflect on both the history of and teachings of African Americans whose contributions to society were left out of history books. Looks like we've come so far. And so, yeah, we continue to celebrate Black History Month in schools, communities across the nation. Or do we? Meanwhile, President Trump, he also issued a proclamation that February 2025 is national black History Month. It reads in part that every year nation National Black History Month is an occasion to celebrate the contributions of so many black Americans, patriots who have indelibly shaped our nation's history. You can read more of his proclamation@whitehouse.gov and while we're here, did they cancel it or something? We didn't know. Why did he have to do a proclamation and remind us that February. So that's the part we don't necessarily know, but just a suggestion to the current administration. When you reference black people, make sure. You use the big B, not the little B. And I know we love to add an S on the black on the back of things, but you know, blacks. Yeah, let's highly advised against. I'm not going to get too much into that. Let's get more into what the is coming from the latest administration. President Trump, he's imposing 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico. They went into effect on Saturday. But Trump made his case to reporters saying the US is going to have nearly a 200 billion dollar deficit with Canada and a $250 billion deficit with Mexico. Not to mention he blamed them for sending illegal immigrants over the southern border. Yesterday he was on boarding Marine One when he said he will be speaking with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum later today. So let's hear those comments from President Trump. I'm speaking with Prime Minister Trudeau tomorrow morning and I'm also speaking with Mexico tomorrow morning and I don't expect anything very dramat. We put tariffs on. They owe us a lot of money and I'm sure they're going to pay. I love the people of Canada. I disagree with the leadership of Canada and something's going to happen there. But if they want to play the game, I don't mind. We can play the game. All they want is not why people voted for Trump. They voted for Trump because they want financial relief, not more financial hardship. Well, in reference to playing the game, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has already announced retaliatory tariffs on US Products in response to Trump imposing tariffs. Tariffs on Canadian imports. And just to give you insight, here are some of the things you can expect to go up from Canada and Mexico. I'm just going to group them all in maple syrup, beer, whiskey, lobster, eggs, beef, pork, salmon, wheat, cheese, and that's just to name a few on the cakes, tequila, everything. Corn, mangoes, it's a lot. And then of course, the auto industry, oil industry and energy industry also stand to be impacted. Yeah, Canadian. Oh, looks like we're run running out of time. Okay, so I'll get a little bit more into that in the next hour and we'll also talk about we'll get caught up with what's going on with the plane crash and it seems as though we've tragedy has struck again in terms of the airlines or not so much the airlines, but air traffic, if you would. So we'll talk more about that in the next hour. But these tariffs is. Yeah. You expect to see it. You going? Yes, in the Next few weeks, within a. Within a month. They say we should see and feel it. So we'll get more into that in the next hour, though. All right, everybody else, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need the vent, hit us up right now. Again, 800-585-1051. Get it off your chest. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. This is your time to get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello? Who's this? Hey, DJ Envy. This is Devin from Sacramento, California. Hey, what's up, Devin? Good morning. Get it off your chest. Mama. Good morning. I have a couple things to get off my desk. Oh, first of all, good morning, Uncle Sharla. Is Jess there? Yep. Good morning. How are you? Good morning, Jess, baby. I am good. I have a few things. Get on my chest. 1. Uncle Charlotte, I wrote a poetry book that I want you to read. But second of all, I have a problem. I've been trying to get in for weeks since the fire started. I live in Sacramento, and I worked for the government and water resources previously. And just what you. I feel like what you guys have been saying on the radio is not correct. I've heard a few listeners from SoCal saying that, oh, they restrict our water and da, da, da, da, da. California has been in a drought for years. We experienced that in Northern California. I can't water my grass on certain days. I wasn't able to water my grass for years. Damn. Yeah. And then let's talk about how Trump just ordered federally to release dam water without notifying the residents or the counties who would have to be affected by that. And that creates extreme problems for those residencies in those counties. That is wild. We listening. We don't know anything about this. We listening. Well, I'm telling you, this happened. I believe it was Thursday night of last week. He did an executive order to open the dams in three counties in California, and those counties were not ready. Homes and neighborhoods were flooded. Damn. Because of the. On education and his. Whatever. You know what I don't understand about stuff like that? I don't. I can't even call it government. What I don't understand about stuff like that is where are the checks and balances? Like, because even if the president orders something, there was no checks and balances, Uncle Charlotte, because he said, I'm the president. I'm doing a federal order. Open the dam. Yeah, but my. My thing is, if You're. If you're somebody who actually, our Senator Padilla did say this, this is not okay. You did not give accurate time for the residents or the counties to respond or for the appropriate agencies to respond. Yeah, and that's what I don't understand. What do federal officials. If federal officials know that what he's about to do is going to cause harm to people, why do they still do it? Why would they be complicit in knowing that what he's doing is wrong? Like, I don't. That. That's. So what I heard is they got a two hours notice, two hours off during non office times. You cannot alert everybody. That's great. That's why I'm saying. And I understand you blame Democrats for a lot of what's going on, but a lot of what's going on is unprecedented. And you cannot blame the officials for wanting to go through the proper channels. Oh, no, I definitely. No, I definitely blame Democrats for what's going on because it's Democrats cowardice that got us in this situation to begin with. No, I understand that, but it's govern. It's now government officials who don't have the power. We're not in the presidency. Our Senate representatives who, for example, represent these counties, they didn't have a response time. Okay, yes, Senator Padilla was very vocal about this. This is what I heard on my local news for the past four days. Absolutely. Well, thank you for checking in and give us a call, Mama. And again, you know, we hope that you guys are getting the water and they can figure that situation out because it just seems nasty that you guys have not been able to water grass for over a year and you're having such a water problem. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need the vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. The Breakfast Club. Ray. Ray, Ray. Yo, Charlamagne, Envy. What up? Are we live? This is your time to get it off your chest. I got an indoor pool, outdoor pool. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. We can get on the phone right now. Here. Tell you what it is. We live. Hello? Who's this? Hey, this is Shamai from North Carolina. How you doing, DJ? Sh h. What's up? Sh. Get it off your chest. Today is my 21st birthday. I'm glad. I'm glad to be in the number today. Congratulations, brother. A lot of people woke up dead, man. So I'm happy that you woke up. Jesus. Yeah, I'm grateful to Be in the number. You know, I'm a communication student at Fayetteville State University. That's right. You know, I'm glad to see another year. Word. What you want to do when you graduate? I want to be a sports or entertainment reporter. Okay. That's my ultimate goal. Yeah. Either on radio or television. Charlamagne. We met before. I. I met you over the summer. I remember, In New York. Yeah. I remember because you came up to me and you told me exactly what you just said on there. Every time he calls, he says, so, we know who you are. That's what I rem. Remember. Yeah. Yep. Yep. So I really appreciate it. How's. Hi, Jess. How you doing? How's your baby? I'm good. She's great. Thank you for asking. Happy birthday, love. Thank you so much. I appreciate y'all. All right, have a good one. Keep working, bro. Keep growing. Hello? Who's this? Kenya. Hey, can you get it off your chest? I'm just. I'm calling and hi to you guys. I'm glad they finally giving Chris Brown his flowers. Yes, girl, speak on it. Falling for a long time. Yes, they're happy about it, too. They're just not saying anything. But thank you now. We happy Chris won a Grammy. I think it's been 12 years, so congratulations. I'm happy Chris won a Grammy. I'm sitting there trying to figure out, you know, where was Chris, you know, for that Quincy Jones performance, he should have been doing the Michael Jackson part. All love the Janelle Monae, but, you know, I ain't seen Michael Jackson do 90% of that stuff she was doing, you know what I'm saying? And plus, my thing was, when I saw his documentary, I felt like if you pass a week, you get one back. So a lot of people didn't sit well with that. But you know what? You say if she passed the lick, she. She deserved one back. No. If What? No, see, if you pass the lick, she. If she passed the lick, then she deserved one back. No, I highly disagree with that. If she passed the lick, you should run as a man, take off in the other direction, go the opposite way. Well, Jonathan May just tried that. That ain't worked for me. That ain't working. You're right. But I still would take that over the most definitely alternative. Hello, who's this? D from Charleston. What's up, D? What up, D? What's going on in the 843 this morning? Ain't that much to get my daughter ready for school. About to take her to the Bus stop. But I gotta. I got something to say to America. The left lane is the fast lane, guys. Okay, okay. Left lane is the fast lane. You had to blow them horn at. You had to blow the horn at somebody this morning, man. Every day, I don't know what's going on in America, but the left lane is the fast lane. Yes, sir. Take it easy. All right, brother. Have a good one. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, you can hit us up now. We got rumors on the way. Absolutely. Yo, we got to talk about Kendrick. Sweet. We got to talk about Taylor screaming a minor. We got to talk about Beyonce winning. Kanye west wife was. It's a lot. This is the best Grammys I've seen in a long time. Very entertaining. Yes. All right, we'll get into all that. Friendly. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. All right. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess. Hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to Jess with the mess. News is real whether it's Jessica Robin Moore just don't do no lies. She don't spare nobody worldwide. Jess Worldwide message on the Breakfast Club. She's a culture shooter. She was able to get y'all to. To see something and understand something that nobody could get you to see. It's time to set it off. So there's a lot going on last night, but the Grammys was like the biggest talk, right? And it was a lot. You gonna break this down for us, Lauren? Yes, yes, yes, yes. So, okay, we gonna start with the carpet first, right? So people started pulling up to the Grammys. Last night, Kanye west and his wife Bianca made an appearance. She was naked. She had on sheer, but it was completely naked, completely see through, with nothing under it whatsoever. He did not go into the show. There were reports that he into the show and then because of her outfit, they were escorted out. But those reports were debunked. That is not true. He just walked the carpet. They got in their car and they dipped. You can see a snatch like you. The snatch is coming. She was naked like it was. It was nothing. There another moment that it's interesting. Kanye claims to be so anti industry, but damn, he loves to be around. I'm talking about what he about to drive bul things. He knew what he was doing. Cuz that was for a moment, because he didn't plan even going. He knew he wasn't going to make it in. She had on a fur coat and Then she turned around, dropped the coat. It was like, oh, okay. Hello, welcome. Another moment that happened on the carpet. Baby Face. So Baby Face was doing an interview. Oh, it's crazy. Baby Face was doing an interview with the AP Associated Press. And let's take a listen to the moment where they completely cut him off in the interview. Can you talk about just this new trend that we're seeing in R B where we're seeing more of a fusion? We're seeing people blend the genre with pop, Blend the genre with hip hop and. And rock as well? Well, yes, I think it's interesting. Ch. Ch. You guys want to do that? Go through that? Jesus. No, he's still Baby Face. He still woke up Baby Face this morning, period. And she a kid, you feel me? Obviously, like, she's not. Not a kid, but like, she's so disconnect. Like, she not connected to that culture. She. She saw that. That star. Cuz I think that star that she called the. What. What was the name of the Chapel Room. Yeah, that person won a Grammy too. Know that's somebody popping this, but it's Baby Face. She know that person. Yeah, I know it's Baby Face. Like, she don't know Baby Face like that. Hold up, by the way. But wait, when she apologized, she was like. When she came back and she was like, I'm a fan of Baby Face. We got the audio. I was trying to get there. I think she lied about. Take a listen. We got the audio. First. I wanted to say that I'm really sorry about interrupting Baby Face earlier. Chapel roan had come up and there was a lot of commotion, as there is on these carpets. But I'm a big Baby Face fan and as are we all. And so I just wanted to say that. That I really apologize, but thank you so much for having me, you guys. It's been great. DEI Highest, both of them had to say a big. Now here's the thing, too. So it was. It was three of them. So there was another girl, and it was the girl who cut off Babyface. The girl. The second girl in the midst of that apology was like, I'm so sorry I had to be a part of that. But yeah, things happened. Like, basically, girl, I tried to tell you, that was Baby Face. Like, and you were just so hyped. But someone whispered in her ear, she should have walked around Babyface and went and got. I will say this, when you do those red carpets, right, they. If a bigger artist does come up, or artists that they think is bigger, they try to get that biggest artist in before they walk past you. It happens all the time. But as. But as you as somebody doing the interview, you have to know to wrap it up and close it. Like, thank you so much, Baby Face. Good luck. And let them wrangle the other one. Happens all the time. That was the issue. But you don't disrespect nobody like that and then know who you. I'm telling you, I just don't think that she knew how big he is. Like, because she's a dei, at least train these. I mean, you know, train these people. Who was going to be at the car? But she looked young. She probably wasn't that young, but. So Baby Face did make a statement. Baby Face said the. The best part of the night was reconnecting with old friends and meeting new artists and feeling all the love in the room. That's what I remember. That's what it's really about. Music is bigger than any moment. Much love to everyone who won and everyone out there making great music. Basically, I'm still Baby Face at the end of the day, but can I just say, last day thing. If I'm interviewing the Chappelle girl, whatever her name is, right. And I see Baby Face walking, I'm gonna grab Baby Face. Yeah, as you should. But culturally it's different for you. That's true. Yeah. Thank you so much, Baby Face. It is what it is. Now moving on over to the show. So big night. Trevor Noah hosted the 67th annual Grammy Awards. Billie Eilish opened the show. Kendrick Lamar took it home. When I say sweep, I mean sweep. He even had Taylor Swift in there doing the sweep as well, too. Like, it was a huge night for him. He took home five Grammys. Song of the Year, Record of the Year, Best Rap Performance, Best Rap Song, Best Music Video. Let's take a listen to him accepting one of those awards. Somebody get the broom out. Part 2 Not Like Us Whitney in the video Crit Walking. We go dedicate that one Jay like them walk. All the west coast artists, man. Early, early on. G Malone, Legend, Problem, Bad Luck. K Boy, Daylight Mike show. These the cats that inspired me to be the MC I am today. Schoolboy J Rock. Absol. This is. This is what it's about, man. Because at the end of the day, nothing more powerful than rap music. I don't care what it is. We are the culture. It's gonna always stay here and live forever until the young artists like my man Punch say, I just hope you respect the art form. That's all. Respect art form. Get you where you need to go. All right. Salute. I appreciate y'all. I love y'all. Travel to clues. Monster Kinder Club. Absolutely. He shouted out glasses Malone at the Grammys. Problem at the Grammys. The thing I like about Kendrick in this moment is like he's having a career year, but he's just brought it back to the soil. He just brought it back to the soil, to the roots. That's it. To what inspired him. Come on, man. You get it. Come on, man. Now, another big part of the Kendrick Lamar acceptance speeches was the way that the crowd reacted. So when he won his first award and they dropped not like us as he was walking up, there's a video and they pinned the crowd. You see Beyonce turning up. 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I tell you, the little boy from Compton played different. Didn't I tell you that boy, that's what you get. You ain't laying there, listen to your dad. That's crazy. We got some more. We got some more history and big moments. We do got to get to Beyonce because she finally won her album of the year. So we'll bring that back at the top of the next album. And then Chr. Chris Brown won best r b album. 1111. And then my girl Dolce won best Rap album. Rhapsody won a Grammy. We're gonna come on back. We got. We got some more stuff here for y'all. Yeah. All right. All right, we'll get to that next. All right, now, when we come back, we got front page news. And then Jason Wilson will be joining us. He has a new book, right, Shadow? Yes, he does. It's called Demand the Moment demands master the 10 characteristics of the Comprehensive Man. All right, we'll get to that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Come on, you're checking out the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's EJ Envy, Jess, Hilarious Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news, all right, Starting with some quick sports. Now, the Pro Bowl, NFL 76, 63, the NFC one. Also, we got to congratulate Clarissa Shields. She won over the weekend. Great fight. I love watching Clarissa get busy, man. She was fighting Danielle Perkins, I think. Yeah, Danielle Perkins. And Danielle is not no little girl and she's not no young woman. She's like 42 years old. Show these to her knees. Last minute, Danielle was brawling. She looked Diesel. Brawling. Diesel. Diesel. And Clarissa broke her down, cracked it at the end, bought it her and dropped it to her knees. Yeah. All right. And also, if you haven't heard, the Lakers and the Mavs did a deal which put Luka on the Lakers and Anthony Davis to Dallas. I just want to know what do the Mavericks know about Luka that we have not found out yet? I don't know. Like, they know something about Luka that we don't know. Cuz there is no reason to trade a once in a lifetime generation, generational talent like Luka. And he just took y'all to the finals last year. Just took it to the final. It makes no sense, but I mean, we'll find out more. What's up Morgan? What's up Envy, Charlemagne and Jess? You know, there's a lot of things that don't make sense, but you know we're going to get into that. Speaking of which, Trump is putting tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, 25% on Canada and Mexico and 10% on China. Canada's ambassador to the US Kirsten Hillman, she told ABC's this Week if the two countries are unable to reach an agreement, Canada will place a 25% tariff on US goods. She also expressed that the Canadian people are confused by President Trump's actions. Let's hear more from Canadian ambassador to the U.S. kirsten Hillman. This is not something that Canada wants to do. This is not a path that we are interested in going down. We are actually interested in being and continuing to be your best customer. We will be implementing 25% tariffs on US products. We will go up to 100 billion worth of products. Canadians are perplexed, I think disappointed. We view ourselves as your neighbor, your closest friend, your ally. You know, just from Canada alone. Morgan, you got your eggs, your beef, your pork, your salmon, your cheese, your potatoes, your syrup, your whiskey, your beer, canola oil. Yes. Lobsters, we love lobsters, love salmon. And that's it. Because I use that every day. You see what I'm saying? Shoot, I don't know. All of this stuff going up 25% in price. Effective immediately on, on those things. Everything from China, excuse me, China, Canada and Mexico already in effect with more tariffs on the way later this month. Keeping in mind that domestic and foreign automakers will also feel the impact. They're talking about that at the Detroit Regional Chamber and its Mitch Auto affiliate saying tariffs will have a detrimental effect on our automotive industry in Michigan and the Great Lakes region. Moving on, we're learning more about the crash out of Washington, D.C. federal officials say they're analyzing the black boxes recovered from the mid air collision near D.C. last week. Bryce Banning with the National Transportation Safety Board says they're working to transcribe the entirety of the data to get a clearer picture of the crash after hearing the audio from the black box. Now this comes as there was another plane crash that happened over the weekend in Philadelphia on Friday night. Seven people are dead and 19 others were injured after a medical Transportation jet plummeted to the ground shortly after takeoff. All of those on board the plane were Mexican nationals. Now, Todd Inman with the NTSB says both black boxes were recovered from both of those accidents and they're working hard to find the cause of the DC Crash in addition to what happened in Philadelphia on Friday night. He went on to say the tower was well staffed as well at the time of the crash at Reagan National Airport. Let's hear more from Todd Inman with the ntsb. Know this. We will find out what happened in both those accidents. We will make recommendations and we will attempt to never have to deal with those type of accidents again. At the time of the accident, there were five controllers in the air traffic control tower cab at DCA. So at last check, I believe 55 of the 67 victims have been recovered from the Potomac River. Officials are confident they will be able to locate the remaining victims. Now the Transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, he's calling for changes in air traffic control following these disasters. Now speaking to CNN State of the Union, Duffy said the country's air traffic control practices are outdated and need to be updated, saying they haven't been updated since World War II. Now, he said officials haven't determined the causes of the Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia plane crashes as of yet, but the FAA will work to see what's happening with those incidents. He also addressed the shortage of air traffic controllers that's plagued the country in recent years, pinning much of the blame on the COVID 19 pandemic. Despite all that rhetoric, though, he again admitted that we won't know the full story until the National Transportation Safety Board finishes their investigation. He does want Americans to feel safe when flying. And he also spoke to the members, family members of those who lost loved ones. Those family members also toured the wreckage, which is more than I could say for what our president has done. Moving on. I think this will be really interesting for you, Charlemagne, because you have been calling out the Democratic, Democratic Party. Well, the Democratic Party has a new leader. On Saturday, the party members elected Ken Martin as the next chair of the Democratic National Committee. In his victory speech, Martin called for unity among Democrats in the fight against the other side of the aisle. And his victory speech. Oh, yeah, I just said that. So let's hear more from newly appointed DNC Chair Ken Martin. To my fellow Democrats, we, we got punched in the mouth in November. There's no two ways about it. I'm running for DNC chairman because it's time to get off the mat, to dust ourselves off and to get Back in this fight. A lot of people in this country right now are going to need us to walk and chew gum at the same time, meaning we're going to have to fight the extremes of Donald Trump while we make a sharp case to families in both red states and blue states about why they should trust us with their votes. The thing is this. When the Trump agenda fails Americans, which it most certainly will and already has, as we have to be there with a legitimate alternative to this chaos. He's right. But, you know, Republicans are going to fumble and Democrats don't have the team to recover it. I read so many great articles yesterday. The New York Times had an article called we have no Coherent message. Democrats Struggle to Oppose Trump. There was another article in the Guardian called why are the Democrats so Spineless? There's a lot of great reads about the Democratic Party right now, and there's their choice for the DNC leader. Doesn't make me confident that they're going to assemble the team that they need to assemble to recover the inevitable fumble that Republicans are going to. Going to make. What would, what would what make you confident? Something outside of the party. Like, I don't feel like any of these establishment Democrats. I don't think. I don't think neoliberalism is the answer to what we're seeing now. To me, neoliberalism. We've got to find our own. Well, we Democrats need to find their own Donald Trump of sorts. Someone out, our young Bernie Sanders or somebody that, you know is delivering that type of energy that AOC is delivering. I think I like, I like those kind. I like the messaging that both of them are delivering. Like right now, people like Nina Turner, you know, that's what, that's what I'm, that's what I'm interested in right now. Okay. Okay. Interesting. All right, all right. You know, hey, y'all have. Y'all start having the conversations. We got four years. I don't know. Well, that's your front page news, Morgan Wood. Follow me on social at Morgan Media. And for more news coverage, follow at Black Information Network. Download the free iHeartRadio app and visit us@binnews.com have a wonderful week. Happy Monday, y'all. Thank you. All right, thank you. Now, when we come back, Jason Wilson will be joining us. He has a new book, right, Charlotte? Yes, he does. It's called the man the Moment demands master the 10 characteristics of the Comprehensive Man. I think every brother out there should go buy it. If you got a man in your life that you love, you need to buy it for him so you can read it. It is a fantastic, fantastic book, man. All right, and we'll get to that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building, One of my favorite brothers on the planet, man, Brother Jason Wilson. Welcome, brother. Welcome back. I should say I'm doing well. Fought the flu and sinus infection. I was bedridden, like for six or seven days at the beginning of the year. Couldn't work out, couldn't do anything and just had to allow my body to heal and practice what I preach and just rest and stop allowing my life to be centered around what I got to do, you know? Well, that's interesting. Your new book is called the man the Moment demands master the 10 characteristics of the Comprehensive Man. So the start of the year, right? Start of the year, you know, that's a reset for a lot of people, but you started the year sick. Yeah. Six, seven days. So in that moment, Reset, yeah. You had to be completely still. What did you realize in that moment? I realized, you know, that, you know, as men, you know, we can't keep our foot to the throne throttle. You know, we stay in first gear of manhood, which I call just a masculine mode, which gets us from stop to start. But if we stay in that gear, we're gonna burn the clutch out in the process. I believe I was burning my life clutch out, just working really hard on this book and other things. And so it gave me a lot of time to sit with the most high and just meditate on allowing myself to just be instead of performing. And that's what so many men struggle with, just living performance based lives. And it's taking us out, you know, but they gave me time to reflect. And then you know what's crazy? I had to beat Sister B. Simone, which I call like my daughter now. I had to do her podcast and the Holy Spirit was like, I need you. You're going to be weak, but you got to go. I got something you got to tell them. And so I barely could make the flight. I wanted to make sure I wasn't contagious. Went down to the podcast brother and my sister. Within a matter of maybe 20 minutes, the interview shifted from that to her. And I was able to answer one of her prayers. But if I wasn't weak because I'm like, man, why would I get sick in this time when I need to Promote this message. Most High was like, I needed you weak for my daughter, because if you're strong, you may not be broken enough for me to speak to you and to speak the words I need to say to her. The episode ended with us praying, and it was very powerful. But that weakness allowed me to be the man in that moment for her. You know, and a lot of times as men, we miss those moments because we feel we have to be perpetually strong, which we know by now with research that is killing us. And so that weakness in that moment was needed, and I'm thankful that I surrendered to that so I can be the man in the moment for V. Simone, you got the book broken down into three parts. Dynamic, Deeper and devotion. Can you explain the different. For sure. The dynamic is what we as men are used to fighting. You know, of course we're used to that, and at least in us, to protect. The problem is, many of us are fighting the wrong way. I mean, think of how many intellectually gifted men who are incarcerated because they couldn't rule their emotions in the moment. The next one, of course, is number two, which we tend to just gravitate to, is the provider, you know, providing for our families, making sure they have the care they need, not just the money. Because as we know, once you get it, it's not really fulfilling. It's what you do. What is. Is your presence? Is your presence really present? You know, are you really active with your children, your wife and your family and your community? Then I go to the leader. Like many of us want to be leaders. All right, but a lot of us don't lead by example. We lead by intimidation. So I unpack that. And then we go to the deeper, which is the lover. I start with the lover characteristic, because many men, we believe love is sex only. And I share an intimate moment with my wife when she had. We actually. My wife had five miscarriages. And as a result of our last one, they had to make an incision vertically on her stomach. And she, you know, as a woman, you become self conscious of that girl. And so one evening while we were, you know, intimate, the Holy Spirit said, I want you to kiss that scar from the top of it to the bottom. And I allowed myself because I'm emotionally intelligent and I'm a comprehensive man. Sex, to me, isn't A lot of men, we think about the ground and pound, like mma, like it's about force, but it's not always about that. It's about sensitivity and connecting. And so when I started kissing the scar. My wife started weeping and crying and in that moment I was able to allow her to release this self consciousness, was self conscious feeling about this scar. And I just share where she's always beautiful. But those kisses confirmed that, you know, it wasn't just words in that moment. Then I moved from the lover characteristic to the nurturer. Many of us as men, we believe that being a nurturer is a feminine attribute. First and foremost, we are supposed to be human. Masculine and feminine are just adjectives. All right? Being masculine means you exude strength, boldness and aggression, which we have to have have. And so if I'm a nurturer, does that mean I'm feminine? No. The goal for us as humans is to be human, to exercise humanity. Many of the greatest coaches are nurturers. Cattle herders, farmers are nurturers. Any teacher, mentor, you're a nurturer. You have to nurture to develop anything. And then from the nurturer, I go to the gentleman. When I discovered I unpacked chivalry. We have been misled to believe that that's a system to pander to one women. It's not. It was actually a code of honor for medieval knights, warriors. And so how do we relinquish that? Then I go to unpack the alpha male myth. Like there is no battle between two wolves to see who will lead the wolf pack first and foremost. That study was done on wolves in captivity. What they come to realize is that the leaders or the alphas in this pack were the male and female wolf. So in essence, in a human sense, the alphas are the husband and wife, wife leading a family. So I tell my brothers, look, if you really want to be an alpha, get married, lead your family, build a community. And that's what it's about. So from the gentleman, I go to the friend. Many of us, we say we're friends, but we don't understand really what that mean. Like you say, how be Simone? She sacrifices her life for you guys, you know, her time. And I give an example of the Winnie the Pooh series, you know, where you'll see Eeyore clearly depressed or always in the bad mood or in the funk. Sex bad. Did his friends say you toxic? I'm gonna put up a boundary here. You, you, you ruining my energy. No, they always accepted him for who he was because they knew he was their friend. And that's what we need now in times like this is a friend who will endure all adversity and challenge. So from those characteristics, I go to the Devotion. The first is the husband. What does it look like to sacrificially love your wife and honor her the way that you want to be honored? And that's why I really take time to help men. Men unpack their emotions and how we allow the way we were raised to prevent us from truly living from our hearts and giving it our all to our wives. You know, we stay guarded and often say, brothers, there's no freedom in the facade. And as a man been married 26 years, because of the way I grew up, I still have to fight to hold my wife's hand in public or to be romantic, because it was like I'm dropping my guard. And so that's something I'm still working towards to improve on. And the last two, of course, is the father. You know, I can't tell you how many times as a father I passed down the harshness of my dad onto my own daughter. And as a result of that, you know, we had to go through a lot of therapy, prayer, and a lot of I'm sorrys for me to say, hey, Lex, I apologize for passing on to you what I got from my dad, and I'll make it better. And so the father is helping men learn how to parent. Parent not from what we didn't get from my father, but give our children what we long for. And the last one, I close with the son characteristic because that's the one that made me into a comprehensive man. I tell men all the time, if you want to become comprehensive, run to the areas in your life that make you feel what they would say is our unmasculine emotions. This world, this society, is in dire need of a man's nurturing love, our patience. What does long suffering look like from a man? So when I had to care for my mother, she needed more than a protecting provider. She needed someone who would nurture her, who would file her nails when the caregiver couldn't paint her nails, wash her hair, wash her. And I couldn't do that the way I was. And so I end with that one because it puts men in positions where we have to be transparent. All right, we got more with Jason Wilson when we come back. His new book, the man the Moment Demands out right now is the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess. Hilarious Charlamagne, the guy we are the Breakfast kicking in with. Jason Wilson, author. He has a new book, the man the Moment Demands. Out right Now. Jess. Very intentional, like a very intentional person about what you wrote. I imagine that A lot of this was written from your personal experience. Absolutely. Right. Okay. And would you feel like the husband part, did all of that transpire within, like, the 26 years, or were you ever married before or. That's a good question. I wasn't married before, thankfully, but 2015, I think we got married in 1998. So in 2015, my wife and I were considering separation. Because I was only a masculine male, I could only express my emotions through hitting the table, hitting the refrigerator, raising my voice, lacking the control needed to really communicate with her. And so that's when I realized that I needed some help, that I was holding onto a lot of trauma, unresolved anger from my father wound, the death of my. My both of my brothers, my best friend. I could go down the line. And I got tired of allowing that trauma to time travel and ruin my present blessings. And so the husband chapter, basically, it. It shares how I evolved, but even who I am now that it's constantly a fight. We married. You know what I mean? You got to. You got to make sure your heart is there. I keep a picture of my wife in my phone when she was young, during a time when she was very, very vulnerable, when she didn't feel things were stable in her own life. And that keeps my heart tender towards her in the moments when we may not get along. And so I also share an analogy of the crayons for men. So we can be practice, have a practical understanding of how so. We're so limited in who we are as men. We've allowed society to define us. So I use a 64 box of crayons, and the amount of emotions women have access to will actually choose to express because we both have access to both of them. But we as men, we lock ourselves in the eight box of crayons, and we probably only express four. Then we get frustrated when we're communicating with our women. Like, why don't you understand me? Well, my brother, she's expressing violet. All you got is purple. She's expressing lime. Now you gotta grab a green and a yellow to try to meet the most. And so I'm encouraging men, like, look, I'm not telling you to relinquish your masculine attributes because then now you'll be deficient in that area. You got to be the lion and the lamb. And so what I'm telling men is to be human. Express what you feel. All of us as men want to be more available, want to be more transparent, want to be more emotionally open, but we fear being admonished or impassively dismissed by those that we love. So then we go into suffering inside violence, and then that leads to emotional incarceration, then that leads to suicidal ideations. And then our wives don't even know what we were dealing with until they planted our funerals. And so that's why I pour my heart into this book. Because I mean, heck, just recently, brother, my best close friend called me and said, you know, for the first time, he looked at his gun and thought about it. And so this is what a lot of men are going through. But when you meet him, he's smart, smiling, he's jovial, he's happy. And so what's the saying? Don't miss the forest for the trees. I'm telling people, not just our wives, but the brothers who have friends, don't miss the struggle for the smile. Just cause the brother says, I'm good, I'm all right, doesn't mean that he's good. And we should check on each other. I do have two questions. Something you said. One was you talked about your relationship with your daughter and you said, not sure the term you used. I guess you had to apologize or change, but because what you learned from your father, you were teaching your daughter and you realized it was wrong. What was that? My father, I had no idea at the time that he had a lot of unresolved anger from the way he was raised in the south, had to deal with a lot of racism, and he carried that back to Detroit. And I mean, I remember one time, brother, he asked me, he ran a barbershop, he asked me just simply to cut the arrow on. I accidentally cut the heat on. I think I may have been 10 years old. He cursed me out in front of everybody in the barbershop shop. That right there shattered my confidence as a man. It demeaned me and it. It didn't stop there. He loved me, but he thought giving me gifts would suffice, and it didn't. I needed him to be active in my life, but he couldn't because of all the pain that he'd been through. And so what the. It's called intergenerational trauma where you pass down what you've received. So before I knew it, this anger that he even had toward my mother, he told my mother one day they had gotten divorced, and she accidentally opened one of his letters. Well, mailed it came to the house and here it is. I'm going to middle school. And my mother shows me her gun and her purse. And she says, your father just called and Said he's gonna do something to me because I opened his letter. So here it is as a young boy trying to focus in class. I gotta think about my mother's life. But that's how much anger my father had. And brother. I hope my transparency free some brothers listening or watching. It's like, like, you know, you don't want to create a legacy of wounds. You want to fight and do whatever you can to get healed. Because if not now you're going to see that same behavior in your children, then you're mad at them and all they did was become who you were. That's why I think apologizing to your kids is so important, because that's something that, you know, I feel like I never got from my father. And I always say my father raised me out of fear and not love. And I think that's what we got to avoid doing. We got to raise our kids out of love and not, not fear. The fear of that they might end up, you know, falling victim to the street. I end up, if we were in the street doing the same things that we were doing, like, we got to relinquish that. That's true. I call it fear based parenting. You know, my mother was that way, which is, I understand why she was, because she just lost a son, you know, and then my other brother from my father, he was murdered. So she was terrified that I would die the same way. And because of that fear, she had checked out, you know, meaning the affirmation that you typically get from your mother, the nurturing. I didn't get that my mother loved me. Like everyone who knew my mother knew she loved me. But I realized in therapy one session when the therapist asked me who would get the band aid when you got hurt, and I said, I will, my mother would just tell me where it was. And in that moment I realized, man, this is why I'm misusing women. Because I never understood the importance of having my mother, the understanding of what nurturing is, the value with the affirmation. And I unpacked the mother wound as well in that book, because many of us, what we're seeking is the love from our mothers and women. And they'll never be able to match what we didn't get. And it's unfair to them. And so I had to unpack all of that, brother, because I didn't want to transfer that onto my children. And so I've allowed myself to be more tender in that area. My son by far has the best father because I've become The embodiment of what I teach. And so to your point, yeah, it's absolutely important for us as parents to not be fear based. Especially my son's about, he's driving now. Why do I have to teach him how to get pulled over by the police? Why am I focused on that? What is that teaching him? Is that really making it better or is it making it worse when he gets pulled over? But those are the things, you know, we have to teach in our community. But at the end of the day, making sure you balance that with some positive reinforcement and to teach them how to live in the moment. Because when we teach our children, we gotta understand we're also teaching them how to miss the moment. Because they're programming themselves like, okay, if this happened, this probably gonna happen. Because that happened to dad, that happened to mom, it's probably gonna happen to me. And so in that moment, if they're not open to be able to meet the moment, to do what's necessary, they may fail in that moment. All right, we got more with Jason Wilson when we come back. His new book, the man the Moment Demands, out right now is the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybo. Everybody. Is TJ envy, Jess. Hilarious. Charlamagne McDowell. We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Jason Wilson. His new book, the man the Moment Demands, is out right now. Earlier, we were talking about how much we work, but how do you turn it off? For me, you know, I remember the concept of balanced life. We hear that a lot. You know, for me, envy. I live an imbalanced life, so the things that hold the greatest importance must always tip the scale. So when you live a balanced life, nothing truly claims peril. So for me, it's my, of course, the most high, my family, my calling, my health. See, when it's leveled, everything gets the same attention. So I tell people, make sure that scale always tips in favor of what matters the most. When I started living that way and stopped living from what I do, stop living from fear, again, not having, I understand that, brother. I stopped worrying about those things and realizing I could only do so much, man. And then what's most important is to ask yourself, why am I doing this? You know, so many of us, especially in the era of social media and how everything is broadcast and content creation, it's like our lives are becoming that instead of, you know, really being authentic. And it's like, no, I'm. I'm in a. I'm pregnant. I don't have time to do this. And just Let people know that. But when we allow society to say, hey, Envy, I need you to do this, you demand. You got to do this and promote this. Can you go here, man? Your life feels like it's not worth living, you know? And I often tell men, you're not tired of living, you're tired of not living. And the same thing with our women. So many of our sisters have to be so strong that they can't even be human either. They can't cry. They gotta work. Am I right? Yeah. And so as even for them, I'm like, man, I hope we never lose a woman's empathy and love. This world is over. When she has to to become stoic and hide behind a facade, we can forget about it. And so, you know, my freedom started when I started prioritizing what mattered the most. Everything else. I let it, you know, end where it may. But my identity is first in the most high in Christ. After that, man, my affirmation come from my home, man. And so if I could. If I could shut down now, I'm cool. I was. I was sad when Covid was over because that meant I had to go back to the norm. I couldn't be with my family all day. You see what I'm saying? And so I just tell people to live from that. Make sure that don't live a balanced life. Make sure the skill always tips in favor of what you love and matters the most. You seem like you've done the self work to play all of these roles. The husband, the son, the father. But you're still not perfect and you still can fall short at times as well. What happens when if you're mad as a dad one day and you react the wrong way? Is it ever a point where the husband has to talk to the. The husband you are have to speak to the father, or you have to relate to your kids on a son level because you're somebody's son. Do you ever merge the roles to. You know what I'm saying? Like, pull from different places? Absolutely. You can't always operate in the move. Yeah, I agree with you. No, absolutely. I morph between all of them again. I remember the mental wealth expo when the brother asked me, how do you. You define a man? I say, you can't. And so I have to be anything and everything at any given moment. And so to your point, Charlemagne, you know, I always reconcile. I tell brothers we can always make mistakes. Mistakes are great teachers. 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I don't want to invade his space because he has his own life, but I want to let him know that I'm here for him. So some days I just walk to his room door and I see him laying there, maybe on his phone, and I say, son, do you mind if I just lay down in the room and read, ask for his permission? He typically always says, sure, dad. And I lay down. And that opens the door to a conversation. It lets him know that he's very important to me. Not what I do, not who I am in society, but who I am in at home. And I prioritize that. And being the son in that moment to him is giving him what I Wanted as a son. If my father would have gave me that attention, that affirmation probably would be even further in life than I am now. And so I make sure I'm there for him in all aspects that I can. You removed the word vulnerable from the book completely? Yes. What words can we use? Number one. Why did you do that? What words can we use instead of vulnerable? When I discovered that when I read the dictionary, the word itself means susceptible to harm, danger, or even death. And so when you think about being in a vulnerable situation or you hear it on the news, vulnerable citizens were defenseless against a gunman. No good man ever wants to be vulnerable. I don't want my wife, my children, or anyone I love in a vulnerable position. So we're trying to tell men is to be emotionally open, to be transparent with how you feel. And in that way, it's a doorway to you becoming more human, becoming more of a verbal process and emotionally, emotionally intelligent. And that's why I took the word out. That's why it's so hard for us as brothers to say it, because it goes against the way we were created as men. We don't want anyone that we love to be in a vulnerable position. However, what is hindering us as men is that we're not emotionally open with those who love us. And so as a result of that, we. The suffering and silence piece is really taking us down. And so I just encourage, by being the example of being transparent and emotionally open and showing my men that just because you can express how you feel doesn't mean you'll be taken advantage of. And if someone misuses your emotions, be thankful. Now you know who's in front of you, and you got a decision to make. My last question, because I love. I love when you talk about, you know, your relationship with your wife. And I saw a video where you said, happy wife, happy life isn't about love. What is it about? Well, you know, it never was a term of endearment. We know that as men. It was a way, you know, what was it saying, you know, give her what she want, keep her mouth shut so you can have peace. All right? And now women are realizing this is not a happy life for neither of us. And so I call it a misleading mantra, brother. And there's another one, too, if you're out with your wife. This happened to me a few times. Times I'm addressed as the lesser half, and she's the better half. So I had no idea until I was meeting with a psychologist. Well, no, a psychotherapist of what that does to a man's mind, that you are the lesser half and the resentment that silently builds within your heart. And so I. My wife and I vowed not to use that mantra ever. So instead, Nicole and I say, happy houses, happy spouses. And it takes for both of us to meet the moment in marriage together every moment. We're always willing to cross the line if she's not doing well, mentally and emotionally. I have to cross the line if I'm falling short, like you were saying, Jess, she crosses the line. And that's why our marriage is. We call it a beautiful struggle. We're pushing through. We won't give up on each other. And the biggest game changer was when we both decided that we know where, not intentionally hurting each other. There has to be just some miscommunication, and let's be patient and work through it. And we're going on 27 years this year and 33 years together. Wow. Yeah. Thank you, brother. Well, there you have it. Pick up the new book out now. Jason. Cat. Daddy Wilson. The man. The moment demands. Okay, Daddy. The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's tj Envy, Jess. Hilarious. Charlemagne. The guy Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to just with the mess. The news is real. Jessica Robin Moore Just don't do no lies. She don't spare nobody on the Breakfast Club. She's a culture. She was able to get y'all to see something and understand something that nobody could get you to see. It's time to set it off. So it was a lot of things that we didn't get to because this is. This was the most entertaining Grammys that I've seen. What didn't you get to Beyonce number one? It was a lot, but Beyonce number one. I'm so happy for her, y'all. She finally took home album of the year for Cowboy Carter. She's the first black woman to win that in the 20th century. The last person was Lauryn Hill 26 years ago. And, you know, she's been up for album of the year four times and didn't win this category, so it was like a big deal. And she thanked Linda Martell. Let's take a listen to Beyonce. Wow. I really was not expecting this. I want to thank God. Oh, my God. That I'm able to still do what I love after so many years. I'd like to thank all of the incredible country artists that accepted this album. We worked so hard on it. I think sometimes genre is. Is a cold word to Keep us in our place as artists. And I just want to encourage people to do what they're passionate about. To say, stay persistent. I know all the anti de. Oh, go ahead. I was just saying she's so graceful. Yeah, I know. I know. All the Anti DEI folks lost their damn mind last night watching it. Watching that black woman win the best country album of the year and album of the year. Yes. Twice. Yes. Anti DEI guys is hilarious. She just announced her Cowboy Carter tour, too. Yep. Cowboy Carter tour. She announced it prior to the show, so people been getting their coins ready. But she was like. She was genuinely shocked. You said she's so graceful. Like, honestly, last night, I felt like she could. You know, people say, oh, they know. That's why they go. I don't think she knew. Even Blue Ivy in the video when she won the first award, she was like, get up, get up. Like Beyonce. She didn't even know what to do. Yeah, she looked real surprised. Not fake surprised, like Taylor Swift you looking. And I love the fact that Taylor Swift had to give her the award. That was amazing. I loved it. Loved it. Also last night, Doi won best rap album. She's the third woman ever to win behind Lauryn Hill and Cardi B. Let's take a listen to Dochi. This category was introduced in 1989, and two women have won. Three women have won. Lauryn Hill, Cardi B and Dochi. I put my heart and my soul into this mixtape. I went through so much. I dedicated myself to sobriety, and God told me that I would be rewarded and that he would show me just how good it can get. Thank you so much to my label, TDE and everybody that helped put this together. All the producers on the project. I thank you. I know that there is some black girl out there, so many black women out there that watching me right now, and I want to tell you, you can do it. Anything is possible. Congratulations. TDE is the best west coast record label of all time. Who want to argue? I'm down for the debate. I don't think nobody can argue with that right now. I know folks will want to say Death Row, but TDE is more diverse than death Row. And you think about the artist J Rock. He's been platinum a few times and he got a Grammy. Kendrick Lamar is a superstar, and at this point, you got him in the greatest rapper of all time conversation. SZ is a bonafide superst star. SOS was number one for 10 weeks, grossed over 100 million on her tour, multiple Grammys, hit movie. Then you got the gold artists like schoolboy Q&SIR. You got artists like Absol and Isaiah Rashad. And they 20 years in, still creating new stars like do okay, I love that. Like they had to take a moment just to pin to the crowd to see people's reaction to her performance. Billie Odish couldn't believe it. She was like, oh my gosh, she killed it so good. Yeah, she killed it. And TDE's run has been longer. Death Row's run was only four years. Really? Yeah, it was just very impactful. It was just very impactful. Celebrated 20 last year. Greatest west coast record label of all time. Who want to argue though? I mean that's, that's a win for them. Well, next, Chris Brown, period Talk that Talk. Chris Brown won best R B album. This is his second Grammy win in 20 years. He took that home for 11. 11. Yep. Should be more shoulder, shouldn't it? But you know, we're happy with what we got, people. There were some people upside excited. There were some people that, you know, it was whatever. He won the Grammy. Yeah, he won Rhapsody. Also took home a Grammy for the best melodic rap performance for 3am with Erykah Badu. Big rap. I was so excited to see that for her. I was excited to see her on the carpet as well too. She looked amazing. Alicia keys accepted the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award presented by Queen Latifah. And she actually talked about DEI on the stage. Let's take a listen. Alicia. Alicia Keys. This is not the time to shut down. The diversity of voices we've seen on this stage, talented, hard working people from different backgrounds with different points of view and it changes the game. DEI is not a threat, it's a gift. And the more voices, the more powerful the sound. When destructive forces try to burn us down, we rise from the ashes like a phoenix. And as you see tonight, music is the unstoppable language that connects us all. It's so beautiful. And then speaking of like diversity and you know, the grimace has had some issues in the past. One of them being the weekend. Remember the weekend called out the Grammys back in 2021 because he said that like the voting process and things like that don't make any sense and, and don't represent real artists. Well. Last night the Weeknd made his return to the Grammy stage after saying he was boycotting and he performed. They actually intro'd him and addressed the beef and said, look, we figured it out. So they trying to move forward now. And he also did a tribute to Quincy Jones, hosted by Will Smith last night. And the whole show itself was dedicated to the LA fires, of course, because they had to make that shift after everything happened. So where was it? It was in LA at the Crypto Arena. And they raised money in real time. Like corporations were giving money. The people that were attending the celebrities you watching could give money. They also took some commercial space, which is very exp buy during something like the Grammys, and, and gave time to local LA businesses to showcase their businesses, like, and they put them with celebrities. So like Dolce was lined up with like a floral company. Charlie Poof was lined up with a martial arts company. Yeah. Like, it was dope, it was fire. It was a great night. That was a good Grammy. Good way to get back that Mustard commercial was fire too. Heinz ain't waste no time. Yo, I didn't know. Very smart. I was like, yo, is this newer? Did he been have this? Because they should have been did this, but the timing was epic. You mean Ben did this? The album just came out in December. Yeah, but Mustard, Dijon, the branding should have been there. But I get it. Now's the time. Takes time. Yeah. When did that, when the Kendrick album come out? November. December. No. And then we'll probably see some more of those. Something coming up. Yeah. I think what we learned from the Grammys this year is just do you like truly do you? Don't do what's popular. Don't do what people think you should be doing. Don't make the art the label wants you to make. Don't do things for radio. Just do what you want to do. That's it. Yeah. And you will be rewarded for it because everybody you saw did, did only does them 100%. GNX came out my birthday November 22nd. November. Yeah. It was a great show the first time I, I, I enjoyed a Grammy award show in a long time. Me too. I watched it to the end. I've been watching people I ain't know. I still enjoy angle front. I fell asleep close to the end. But I did, I did enjoy it. I, I enjoyed all the artists too. The pop artists and, and the new artists. I love seeing, of course, our artist. But Teddy Swims killed it last night. Do killed it last night. Shaboozi killed it last night. Bruno Mar. It was just a dope emotion. Show me the, the Grammys are boring. Yes, Very boring. So you, you'll tune and then you find yourself doing something else. You know, I mean, but it was, it was entertaining. It was entertaining. You know why it was so good. Because of us, all of the diversity and all of the inclusion. You stop, Trump gonna sign something where they can't do the Grammys no more. All right, well, that was just with the mess. If you seen the Grammys last night. Let's discuss 800-585-1051. Let's talk about it, what you thought, but we got donkey today coming up next. Yes, and this is the reason, you know, this is a reason. Trump might use this as a. A reason why DEI is terrible. We need Nico Harrison, the general manager of the Dallas Mavericks, to come to the front of the congregation. We'd like to have a word with him, please. All right. And when we come back, like I said, we're going to open up the phone lines. You seen the Grammys last night? What were your thoughts? The performances, the winners? Let's discuss. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. You're checking out the Breakfast Club. Don't be out here acting like a dog, Donkey. It's time for donkey of the day. I'm a big boy. I could take it if he feel I deserve it. Ain't no big deal. I know Charlemagne guy gonna have some funny sweet say out of his mouth. Just gonna say something you may not agree with. Doesn't mean I'm mean. Who's getting that donkey? That donkey. That donkey. Donkey. Donkey of the day right there. The Breakfast Club. You can call me the donkey of the day, but like, I mean no harm. Yes. Donkey of the day for Monday, February 3rd goes to Dallas Mavericks general manager Nico Harrison. Now, if you haven't heard, the Dallas Mavericks traded Luca Donchic. How you pronounce his name? Donage Don. Luca. Okay, Luca. Luca is 25 years old. He was rookie of the year. He's been to the all star game five times. He led the league in scoring last year, averaging over 33 a game. And he took the Mavs to the NBA Finals last year. He's a franchise player, okay? The type of player you build around. But Nico Harrison doesn't seem to think so. So Luca was traded to the Dallas Mavericks. I mean, to the. To the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis, who's no slouch as Dan damn self, okay? He's got a career average of 24. 10, 9 time all star, 4 time all NBA first team, 2 time all NBA defensive team. But he gets hurts a lot. And he's 31 years old. Okay, look, I could be totally premature with this Hee haw because I believe Anthony Davis and Kyrie Irvin are going to be great in Dallas. But some things make sense and some things don't make sense to me. And Luca being traded from Dallas to the Lakers doesn't make sense to me. Let's go to ESPN News for the report, please. This is maybe the most stunning trade, definitely, that I've been a part of in recent NBA history as far as it was never clearly out there. And I'm told Luka Doncic, Anthony Davis, LeBron James, the players, coaches, a lot of people on both sides with the Mavericks and Lakers had no idea. I can assuredly tell you It's a fact. LeBron James had no idea this was coming. Anthony Davis had no idea this was coming. I'm told Luka Doncic is still stunned about this trade. But when you look at the totality of what just occurred, Luka Doncic is a 25 year old, like you said, mega star, you know, perennial all NBA player. He's someone that you think of as untouchable as a guy that's never going to be traded. I'm told that the Mavericks actually approached the Lakers and offered Luka Doncic a few days ago in a trade trade. Very recently, the Mavericks went out. They knew exactly who they wanted. They wanted Anthony Davis. That's the player that if they were ever going to trade Luka Doncic, if this was even a thought that was going to cross their mind, it was 4 AD. Just when I thought no sports organization in Dallas could make worse decisions than my Cowboys, here come the math. Okay? Now, Dallas must know something about Luca that we know. Reports are that Luca's weight went up to £270. So you mean to tell me that Luca got traded because he gained too much, much weight, But Zion Vandross is still a pelican. Now I got nothing, love. I got nothing but love for Zion Williamson. Okay, South Carolina all day. But nobody's weight has fluctuated more since the architect endeavor Too much. So you're not gonna make me believe that Luca got traded because of his weight. When a generational player like Luca gains weight, you don't trade him. You get him a trainer and a nutritionist. Simple. How do you go from 33 a game in an NBA Finals appearance last year to 28, 8 and 7 this year? That all of a sudden your team saying they don't want you because you're. In fact, Nico Harrison said the reason they made the trade was because they want to win now. And we're thinking about 10 years from now. Listen, I think the long term is the time frame. I Think he fits our time frame? If you pair him with. With Kyrie and the rest of the guys, he fits right along with our time frame to win now and win in the future. And in the future, to me, is three, four years from now, the future, ten years from now. I don't know. I don't think they probably bury me and jb or we bury ourselves. Yes, I think you might have buried yourself, Nico. He went to the NBA Finals last year, okay? He's 25. Give him and Kyrie some time to cook. Surround them with more talent. Okay? How is the GM are you not thinking 10 years down the road, this guy Luka is going to be a superstar for a long, long time. Unless you know something we don't. Okay. Nico said the contract was a factor, too. Let's listen. Yeah, I. I think it wasn't really like, a point. I think it was. Was how do we make our team better? You know, there's some unique things about his. His contract that we had to pay attention to. You know, there's. There's other teams that were loading up, you know, that he was going to have. He was going to be able to decide. Make his own decision at some point of whether he wants to be here or not, whether we want to supermax him or not, or whether he wants to opt out. So I think we had to take all that into consideration and feel like we got out in front of what could have been a tumultuous summer. So you're telling me Jokic not gonna get a super max when it's his time? Jason Tatum signed a supermax, okay? You surround Luca with the right talent, so he doesn't want to leave. I don't know, man. I think that this boy to this story. Okay, Whose lady in the Mavericks organization did Luca knock off? All right? Did you find out he's a serial killer in Slovenia? All right, somebody tell me something that makes sense, because I refuse to believe the basketball guy Odds. Love the Lakers this much. Okay? Or maybe they do. I've been alive a long. A long time. Long enough to see the Lakers do this quite a few times. From Kareem Abdul jabbar to Shaquille O'Neal to Paul Gasol to LeBron James. The trades that have been vetoed, like Chris Paul, they always tend to get one that makes you scratch your head. Like, how they pull that off. And really, I would like to know, how did they pull that off? Okay, Nico, you got a piece like Luca and you didn't even think to shop it you want us to buy that you are thinking about winning a championship in the next three to four years. But you didn't even put put Luca on the open market to see what other deals were available. I'm sure that there was better deals out there. Okay, I'm telling you right now, if this don't work, Donald Trump is going to use you, Nico, as an example as to why DEI is ruining corporate America. I've never seen anything like this. And now because Luca has been traded, he is ineligible for the 345 million dollar supermax contract that he was sure to sign. By the way. I don't think that's fair because it's not performance based. Luca earned that money because of what he does on the basketball court. He shouldn't have to leave hundreds, millions of dollars on the table because executives made what I believe to be a poor decision. But I only feel it's poor because I don't have all the information. If it is because of his weight, then Luca needs to sue for weight discrimination. Okay. If Big Dank can sue Lyft, then Big Dunk should be able to sue the maths. That's all I got. Please give general manager Nico Harrison the biggest he ha stop playing with Big D. What you mean? It's a big date? That's for real. If Big D can sue lift for weight discrimination, how come Big Dunk can't sue the maps? Got to be more to that story. Knocks off somebody girl or something in the organization, man. Oh, he was acting frustrated like he didn't want to resign. So they figured they trade him before he just opt out. It got to be more to that situation a year from now, right? Next year I though right. Got to be more to that. It's got to be. You get rid of no Luca donkey like that. And. And people always ask about the no trade clause. I think there's only 10 NBA players with a no trade clause ever in their contract. And just a number. It was David Robinson, John Stockton, Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett, Dirk, Dwayne Wade, LeBron, Carmelo and Bradley. Kevin still ended up getting trader. Who? Kevin Garnett. Kevin Garnet got traded a few times. Yeah. But he had a approve it. You get traded, but you just gotta approve the truth. I just refuse to believe that they got rid of Luca because he like chocolate cupcakes and oatmeal cream pies. I just don't. I don't believe that. So wait, you can do that? You can approve like you can go against them? If they try, you just. You can sign a new trade clause where you. You won't get traded unless you have to approve the trade. So if you don't want to leave, you ain't gotta leave. But they don't give that to too many plays. Okay, wow. So it's just like slaves, like, you wouldn't know. You take this. The fact that they come together and pick their own teams and people like, well, that's not fair. Yeah, well, the coaches and management could trade him at any. Any given point and they have to go wherever they. And the fact that hundreds of millions of dollars he's going to lose now because he's ineligible for the supermax because he got traded. As if it's his fault he got troll. That's right. Wow. All right, well, thank you for that donkey today. Now when we come back, let's open up the phone lines. 800-585-1051. Last night was the Grammys. Did you see it? This was the first time I was entertained and I really enjoyed it in years. What did. What were your thoughts about performing performances? What we. What? Top to bottom. I enjoyed it. You. You gotta drop this. 585105. Trump signed an executive order about this. But why would you. What do you mean, top? The bottom. Bottom. I enjoyed it from the pre show to the end when Beyonce won album of the year. I enjoyed the pre show watching the homie Zuri hall on the red carpet interviewing people. Right? Stay from beginning to end, from the rooter to the two. Hey, yo, you. See? You kinky, bro. You kinky. All right, call us up now. As the Breakfast Club go. Morning. The Breakfast Club. It's topic time. Call 800-585-1051 to join into the discussion with the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. If you're just joining us, we're talking about the Grammys last night, the 2025 Grammar Grammys. We're asking, what were your thoughts? Did you see it? Did you see the clips? Did you see any of it? I seen. Yeah, I like that. I honestly, I ain't gonna lie. It was emotional. Doi, like, because, yo, when somebody tell you, like, they give their testimony, like, yo, she quit her job. She did, like, and she been grinding. I know she won, like, then she win best new Artist, too. No, no, no. She was nominated for best new Artist. Yeah, she won best Rap Album. Yeah. But, like, I know some people look at her as a new artist, but, like, shorty really been grinding and doing this for years and years, you feel me? So it was just good to see her. Of course Chris Brown was like the highlight cuz I feel like he, oh he, he needs so much more. He's old, so much more Grammys. But it's like at the end of the day that's. That can't measure your amount of success. You know what I mean? How many Grammys you got? But he's definitely, he should have been got that. I was so happy for him. And the thing I love about artists like Dochi winning those awards, I hope now every. Everything else catches up. Cuz radio don't play doi like they should play. Do you know what I mean? I feel like doi should be celebrated at a much higher level. She like, I think I, I checked last night. The Alligator bites. What's it called? Alligator Bites don't heal. I think it's only sold like over 100,000 copies, you know what I mean? She sold 11,000 the first week. So to just his point, she's been around for a while. She's been on Breakfast. He was on Breakfast cup three years ago. Yeah, right. So it's like I hope next everything catches up. I hope a day like today. Black radio says, you know what, we should be playing that little black girl for sure. In heavy rotation. Right. I don't remember the last couple of Grammys. I just don't. I just don't. I remember not enjoying them, but I love the fact that our artists are there. I love to see Beyonce there. I love to see Kendrick there. I love to see Teddy Swims, Shibuzzi and those artists, Dolce there and performing, it was just a dope event. It happened fast. And the reason they did it and the fact that they, they put so much effort into giving back to LA after dealing with the fires. The fact that they gave a lot of commercial time to local businesses to get back on their feet. I just thought, I just thought the whole Grammy Awards was pretty, pretty dope. Yeah, it was dope. I thought it was a good show and this is going to be for sure memorable because like you said, I don't even remember it. Like none of that. I don't. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? The last couple years. Yeah. I don't. Rhapsody won a Grammy. Rhapsody won a Grammy. My Carolina Bret turn. I love Rhapsody. Rhapsody has been, you know, the best lyricist of the last decade. Who's not. Whose name is not Kendrick Lamar to me. And for her to see her win a Grammy, she's been nominated before for rap album of the year. She didn't win, but to see her win last night for that 3am record with Erykah Badu. Yeah, come on, man. And I love the fact that they break. They broke down the Grammys last night and explained how the Grammys are picked and how people win. And they talked about how the Weeknd said he wasn't doing the Grammys no more. And it made them change the way they did the Grammys. They got more people, more women, more black women to pick, you know, the winners and more black people. And. And before, it was just like, I think, like 8%, and now it's like 40. So I love the way that that was done as well. I also wonder how much Jay Z's speech last year influenced. Oh, yeah. To give Beyonce that award. You know what I mean? Because what he said is true. How you. How you got the most Grammys in history but never won an album of the year? That makes no logical sense. You got the most Grammys ever, but have never won an album of the year. Yeah, and I thought she got robbed the year of lemonade. And Beyonce is known for her body of work. Absolutely. Of work. And nobody. Now, I'm not saying nobody's really doing it, but you find that that artist is very, very seldom that she will see somebody, like, work hard to produce a body of work versus just hits and just, you know, dope visuals. But, yeah, so, yeah, that. That. I think what you said, to your point, Jay Z definitely hit something when he said that. Absolutely. Let's go to the phone. Hello? Who's this? Hi, this is Desmond. All right, man. What you thought about the Grammys last night, brother? Is this DJ stuff? No, this is DJ Envy. What did you think about the Grammys last night, brother? DJ DJ Envy. First, I'm a big fan of Houston. I watched you and your wife's podcast on Facebook. Thank you. What I thought about the Grammys was it was, I like, Chris Brown winning R and B album of the year. And it was kind of surprising about Beyonce went into country album of the year because it's never been done over, like, 50 years. So I was happy that. That it was. That it was given to Queen Bee. Yes, sir. Thank you, brother. Hello? Who's this? Good morning. Good morning. This is Portia G from 803. Hey, Portia, what you think about the Grammys? Yeah, so first off, I just want to say I love you. Birth Club is amazing to be able to get into this line. Charlamagne you know, you are such a king of media to South Carolina folks, so we love you. Thank you. You love y'all back, but I thank you. But what I want to say is that I really would have loved to see Shabuzi take on something. I. I wasn't really had high expectations that he was going to take home the best new artist, but even if it was like the best country song, because white people bump that song just as hard as they bump Darius Ruckus, Wagon Wheel. Right. You know, that's when. When Kendrick was in the category for record of the year and song of the year, I actually think thought Shaboz. I think it was song record. I forgot which category it was Shabuzi was in with him. I thought Shabuzi was actually going to be Kendrick's only close competition. Yeah. Remember, Shabuzi was on the charts. They said, what, 19 weeks? Yeah, it was on the charts. And that was a song that transcended because country people sang it, pop people sang it. Regular people sing it. Like, you just know that song. So. You know what I do like, though? Last last night, and I. Maybe I never noticed, but they kept saying, as voted by the 13,000. Whatever, whatever, whatever. So people were voting. Yeah. On who they wanted to win. But that's what I said. They broke it down. I don't know if you seen it, but there was a part where they broke it down and said they added more people to it. And the. And the. The. You know, the. The ethnic group of the people that actually voted. So I thought real time. That was happening in real time. All right. Hello. Who's this? Good morning. Good morning. I want to say good morning first to the beautiful Jess. I'm from pg. Good morning. What's up, dmv? What's up, brother? Good morning, Envy. What's up? You know what I'm saying? Light skinned brother. What's good, brother? Salute. And I want to say good morning to Charlamagne. I ain't into delusional cowboy fan, but I want to say about the Grammys, I do feel as if that, you know, I'm not. Not taking nothing away from Kendrick, but I think BLOW should have got something, you know what I'm saying? Like, GLOW had an amazing year. Charlamagne Houston is himself. He feels that she damn near had one of the best albums out. So I just, you know, they're not taking nothing away from Kendrick. Kendrick had a great year, whatever. But I do feel as if BLOW should have got signed something like, you know, I'm happy that Chris Brown got one and all that, but I do feel the not in all that. The world is constantly changing. It's up to you to decide how to respond. Choose to be bold to try something new. Choose to reinvent yourself. That's what Nissan did with the all new, totally reimagined Kicks. 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It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. If y'all talking about it, you know we talking about it. It's topic time. Call 800-585-1051 to join into the discussion with the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now, if you're just joining us, we're talking about the Grammy Awards last night. I think it was one of the. The most entertaining Grammys that I've seen in a long time. I loved everything that I've seen from artists. You know what? Usually when I watch the Grammys, I only watch the genres that I know, and I turn for anything else. But last night, I actually watched all the performances. Even, like, I don't know her name. Sorry. If you're listening. But, like, the Pink Pony lady, right? The performance was dope. With. With them clowns. It was just a dope performance. That was the first time I ever seen the clowns, though. Like, I cuz. But a lot of people know, like, who they are. My kids knew, especially younger. Yeah, that's something. Yo, look, do y'all. Y'all think Kanye about to drop something? Yeah. No, he's dropping what album? A bully. Oh, yeah. Okay, okay, okay. Just. Just him showing up like that because you. You knew you wasn't gonna be able to make it inside of there, like, but it had to be something. Like it, you know, he. He calculated, so he do stuff like that to distract people, you know, and get. I just think it's corny that he acts so anti industry, but then he be loving to be at these industry events, you know what I'm saying? Like, anti industry at all. He pre. Exactly, exactly. He just. He preaches that he anti industry, but he don't act anti industry. I like seeing K. Not too on the red carpet. He was having the time all night. Yo, he met. He met Kanye west last night. Kanye act like he didn't know who he was at first, which was stupid. K is on the front of Billboard magazine this year. This month. Yes. Okay. Drop on the clues bomb for K. I'm telling you, KAD is everything that is right with hip hop. Like, literally all he's doing is having fun. His. His show is like when you watch his show on YouTube. Because that's what it is. It's a show. It's just like a variety show. It's like watching Soul Train back in the day. They dancing, they having a good time, listening, smiling the whole time, you find yourself smiling just watching them have fun. Yes, man. Yes. Yes. Salute to K. Not. I don't know how anybody can hate on K. Not. Not. At all. Hello? Who's this? Hey, this is Dominique from 757 Virginia. Hey, 757. What up, Dominique? What you think of the awards? Oh, man, it was amazing. I was so happy for Dochi. I've been following her for years. But I have to give my biggest up to Chris Brown. I'm from Virginia, so I might be a little biased, but I love him. It's been long overdue and so well deserved. I'm so happy. I agree. I wish he would have been there, though. I wish you would have been there to get that award, though. He probably. I ain't think he was going to get it because, you know, they been playing with him for years. I wish he would have been there to do that damn Michael Jackson tribute. I love Janelle Monae, but I ain't never seen Michael Jackson do 95% of them dance moves. Janelle Monae was doing okay. Michael, like, Michael ain't did none of that. I was watching that. Like, Michael did none of that. Okay, yeah, like, like, like I. That should have been Chris Brown. Now, not for nothing, they got to give Chris Brown that one time, cuz Chris Brown been practicing. It was a couple times. He was supposed to do it. He already had a whole choreograph, like a whole Chris Duke minute performance that he was rehearsing for. They could have called Chris Brown Saturday night, say, hey, man, we need you Sunday to do this Michael Jackson performance. Come on, man, stop playing. I got mad love for Janelle Monae, but Michael Jackson didn't do none of those moves. She did the moonwalk. She did the moon. Yeah, she did the moonwalk. All right, well, what's the moral of the story, guys? The moral of the story is, man, like I said earlier, do you, you know, I mean, everybody that had super success last night at the Grammys is somebody that. That is really in their own lane. And ain't no traffic in none of their lanes, okay? Don't do what's popular. Don't do what people think you should be doing. Don't make the art the label wants you to make. Don't make things for radio. Just do what you want to do. Yeah. When you are in your own lane, there's no traffic. I don't care if it's Beyonce, doi, Kendrick, Rhapsody. Who else had a big night last night? It was. It was Beyonce, Chris Brown. Chris Brown. All of these people are in their own. Like, definitely. Yo. And Diana Ross presented Kendrick. She's so fun. Yeah, she is. At 80 years old, still to this diet. You like them old ones? Yeah. Yes, I do. Old and bony. You like. I'm just saying, you like the old bony. No, and then. And then you gotta. You gotta relax because you also like Stephanie Mills. And you know, them two ain't dang wow. But you know what's so crazy? Diana Ross is so much. Stephanie Mills Senior. Diana Ross, 80. Stephanie Mills is like her 60s. Yeah. What that mean? They still don't really get along? Do they not get along? Now? Who said they don't get along? Oh, no, I think that was the. Up there. My bad, My bad. All right. I mean, they ain't listening right now. You don't know. You think they not up. Oh, yeah. You know what? We got just with the mess coming up. When we talk about. Yes. Wendy is able to go see how Godfather. Okay. All right. Well, we'll talk about that when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to just with the mess. Jessica Robin Moore. Just don't do no lines. My magic on the Breakfast Club. She's a culture Shoot. She was able to get y'all to see something and understand something that nobody could get you to see. It's time to set it off. So, Lauren, it is true that Wendy can see her pops before he leaves his earth. Yes. Okay. Y. What? I'm sorry. No, no. That man is 94, and that's ex. That's what she wanted to go do. Because it's like. That's how she put it. Yes, 100%. Yeah. She did put it like that. I want to see my father before. Yeah, that's what. So that was Wendy. She said before he told. So. So she going get to see. Yeah. So officially, Wendy Williams is allowed to fly to Miami for her dad's 94th birthday. What you were referencing was actually what she talked about when she was here on the Breakfast Club. She wanted to go see her dad. She didn't know if the conservatorship situation would allow her to do so. And she's gotten the. Yes. So TMZ was actually told that Wendy's going to go with private security from New York to Miami. She'll be there for two days. And that at this point now, Wendy can have no contact with media. And they've actually been talking to her because they have a dot coming out on February 12th on Tubi called Saving Wendy, and they posted a clip of her. I was Going to print out just a photo. I didn't even want to show it, though. I hate the way she looked. She was in the window. Remember I told you when I went to go see her, she could see me from the window. She's literally crying on the window. But I like it because it shows that she's actually trapped in a conservative. It hurt my heart to see it, but basically, she talked about the same thing. And I have our clip from when she was up here about not being able to see her dad and why. Let's take a listen. Your dad's gonna be 94 next week. I mean, next month, right? Listen, my dad. That's a whole nother conversation. 94. That. That's a whole nother thing. Like, I don't know whether I'm allowed to fly to Miami to say happy birthday to my dad. To get him. I want to get him. Look, look, look, look. Well, well, that person that you talked about who's holding me hostage, Sabrina Morrissey, your guardian. We got to say her name. We got to put. I don't know that she's going to let me because she already said to see my dad for his birthday. Like, I'm. I'm exhausted thinking about what if I can't see my dad for his birthday, you know, at 94, you know, the day after that is not promised. It's not promised. So to just to your point, the day before that is. Yeah, yeah. Well, she will get to see her dad. And she did mention that she, you know, she wants her family to be all in one accord. So I guess in this document, anyway, they're gonna be talking about, like, the family situation as well, too. They kind of alluded to that, but yeah. So congratulations. When I was told that when she got the news, of course, she was so happy, so excited, and she just can't wait to shop. She said she wanted to go shop at Sephora and get her things to be able to go see her dad and buy him gifts and stuff like that. So, yeah. Now, Clarissa Shields. Yes. Yo, she said she. Pat walked out and he was rapping. He was. Any mean he might. So what Jess is talking about is Clarissa Shields. She actually won last night. She was crowned the first undisputed women's heavyweight champion. And yes, Pat poos her man. Her man, her man walked her out. They were arm in arm. And on top of him walking her out, he also was performing let's Drop One of Clues Bomb for Pap Man. That's real love and hip hop right there. That's stupid, man. What song was the first one? That was the remix to the Busta Rhymes joint. I feel like the first song was like a freestyle or something. When he does the. I don't know. Oh, he started off with the whole whatchamacallit. He started off and she knew the words. That's why I was like, that was a freestyle. How she know that? She was. That's her. I thought that was a freestyle. I don't know what it was. But he was doing. He was rapping. Okay. And Pap a lot. Yeah, Papoose does his thing. I'm gonna watch the replay. I watched it last night. I didn't see that. When he walked out. Watch the replay and put it on closed caption. You can tell that they love each other. She love her. He walked her into the weigh in too and like lacing up her tims cuz her tims wasn't laced, you know, the way I guess they were supposed to be laced. But let's get to the fight because. Because, you know, she actually was injured going into this fight. Yeah, she had a shoulder injury. Yes, she had a shoulder injury. But she still was able to drop Perkins 5 to 1.2Kos with the right hook in the final seconds of the tenth round. Clarissa actually talked about the shoulder injury and the fact that this fight almost didn't happen. I actually have to. I think I'm gonna have to have surgery on my. On my left arm. I tore my labrum last week. So the fight almost didn't. Didn't happen. So shout out to Denise, Paulina, Heather and Jenny at the UFC center. They. Listen, they did me out the shock treatment. I wasn't able to lift my arm for two or three days. So for this fight to even be able to happen, I just always give. I always give my highest praise and my highest thanks to God because I didn't want to let Flint down. I've been a fan of Clarissa Shields for a long time, so, you know, she's had a lot of good momentum going into this fight because, you know, her movie came out, the Fire Inside. And then, you know, she had all of this drama going on with Pap and Remy and everything else. So I was just like, it's gonna be a lot of eyes on her on Sunday night. Deliver like you always do. And she absolutely did. She did. Because Perkins was not a little woman. You hear me? Listen. And Clarissa actually connected 29% of her punches, 36% of her power punches. Perkins only connected 19% of her punches. So Yo, I was scared at the way, and I was like, you seen it, right? Dang. Who is this? She's big, and she was strong. You could tell she was strong. It wasn't like she was. She was. She was. She was. She was moving Clarissa around the ring, but Clarissa was backing her off with that right jab. Now, ladies, let me ask your question. Now, if your man got in the beef with one of those women, would y'all fight? What are you talking about? They built like gladiators. Like, no. Perkins or Clarissa. Yes. Oh, no, baby. You got him to that on your own. Act like I'm gay. You want a threesome? I'm happy. I don't got no man. I don't got nothing to worry about. And I did grab that. Going back real quick. I did grab the photo of Wendy for you guys to see. I. I hate to see her like this, though. And Danielle Perkins. Oh, my God, that. Yo, the men that came down when I went there, she might need that. I'm telling you. Yeah. Thank you, Lauren. Of course. All right, that was Jess with the mess. Now let's get to the People's choice mix. Of course. We got to start the mix off with Kendrick. Congratulations to Kendrick last night. How many grams he won? 4 or 5. Listen, he won 5. And look, I ain't. Look, for the record, I ain't even realize how sexy Kendrick was until, like, you know what I'm saying? He walked up there in that all day denim. What you had to say about the denim, y'all, it was a Canadian conspiracy. Like, the all denim. I feel like he was throwing shots like, Canada. What's up? I'm here. You know what's interesting? Kendrick did look good last night. I'm a little jealous. Can I finish? It was because you can tell he's been doing the internal work on himself, and he just had that glow. Like, his aura was like, man, that's a brother right there that you can tell has been doing the work. So when I say he look good. Yes. He was glowing last night. Internal work. And you don't be glowing like that. I glow all the time. He do. He do. Your head has to be doing internal and external work on that Bob. And that Bob don't do nothing. My body be moving. All right, all right. Let's get to the mix. He still look better than you. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. You're checking out the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's tv. DJ Envy. Just hilarious Charlamagne. The guy. We are the Breakfast Club. It's Black History Month. What we doing? Charlamagne, man. Black History Month. Salute to my guy, B. Dot. You know, every February for Black History Month, my guy B. Dot does a podcast called I Didn't Know. Maybe youe didn't either on the Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network, where he just tells you some things about black history, some black facts that you may or may not have known. Today, B Dot deep dives into the NFL's not so subtle plantation vibe. He flips the script on football slavery and why the combine feels like an auction block with better lighting. Let's listen. On today's episode, if I didn't know, maybe you didn't either. I have a question. You ever notice how football feel like slavery but with a halftime show? I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. I mean, think about it. The NFL combine, that's just a fancy slave auction with Wi fi. They measuring wingspans, 40 yard dash times hand sizes. Oh, yep. This one here can carry a whole plantation's worth of footballs down the field in 4.3 seconds, bruh. They got grown men in spandex doing shoulder drills while old white dudes whisper, it looks strong, doesn't he? I'm like, where's Django when you need him? Unless even start on college football before nil. These kids is out there getting hit like they owe somebody money. Bringing in billions for universities and what? They get a cafeteria meal plan and a good luck handshake? What, no paychecks? What, no health benefits? Just a coach yelling, you gotta play for the love of the game. Meanwhile, that coach driving a Lamborghini and wearing a visor in the winter, bruh. This ain't modern sharecropping. I don't know what is. And what about the NFL? Owner Owners. I mean, let's just start right there. You notice how we have to call them owners? Not managers, not CEOs, owners. Just something about that word don't sit right in my spirit. They up in luxury boxes like, yeah, run faster, my boy. And the players? 75 black coaches, mostly white owners. Whiter than unseasoned chicken. I'm just saying, how you gonna have a league full of black folks and not one team called the Atlanta Wakanda Wakandas? Where's the representation? And don't get me started on the physical toll. They out there breaking their bodies up, getting concussions, and then the league's like, here's a 50 gift card to Applebee's. Thanks for your service. They even added an extra game this year for the NFL. I'm telling you, the NFL treats players like old cell phones. Oh, it's broken. Trade it in for a newer model. Only difference is the NFL don't charge a restocking fee. But here's the twist. Players starting to fight back. Colin Kaepernick kneeled and the world lost his damn mind. Like, y'all cool with the injuries, the exploitation, the CTE and the fact that my Dallas Cowboys ain't won a Super bowl since the Clinton administration. But a brother taking a knee? Oh, that's where we draw the line. I mean, slavery had rebellions too. Nat Turner and Cleats, y'all. We out here flipping the system one touchdown at a time. Here's what I'm proposing. NFL players need reparations. Forget super bowl rings. Start handing out 40 acres and a Bentley. And let's diversify ownership. I want to see Jay Z and Snoop running teams. Imagine the halftime shows. Then hell, put me in charge of the Panthers. First move, we changing the name to the Carolina Black Panthers. Huey Newton jerseys for everybody. Ha. So, yeah, football and slavery, not the same. But let's be real, they could be second cousins. Now, if you excuse me, I gotta go submit my 40 yard dash to the NFL Conference Combine. Trying to pay off these student loans. Okay, bye. I salute to B Dot. Salute to my guy. B Dot man. And make sure you subscribe that I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either. On the Black Effect I Heart radio podcast network. All right, when we come back, we got the positive note and more. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Salute to all our dance dads and all the parents I've seen out there this weekend. My daughter had a three day competition where they started early in the morning. Friday, she had to be on that stage at 7am so salute to all the parents out there and the dance dads and I mean, it's just. It's just crazy running from room to room and this to this. And ah, man, salute to all y'all. I know the pain, I know the struggle. But you love it though. I do love it. Amp to talk about it. We could be talking about anything, like congestion pricing. And you'd be like, so my daughters are in dance, right? And we'd be like, how is that connected? But we know that you are a proud dance dad. Yes, I am. No matter, matter what, you're gonna take the opportunity. I'm there. I'll be the only dad there sometime, but I'll be there. Like, go, baby. You gotta put your hip a little, boy point your toe, anything. He really just wants an excuse to be able to do those dances. Jess, that's what this is about. You don't know your daughter's chairs? No, but I act like I do them. How do you act like you do in the mirror? Just name and I don't. Not in the mirror, but I just name a couple of them, you know, I mean, like a couple of the chants, stuff like that. Okay. The other day I was explaining to her because one of the other day dance teams had make it Rain as their song. Excuse me? Yeah, the fat Joe. To make it rain. And I was explaining to her what that was. She had no idea. And you were happy about that? Of course. No, absolutely. His daughter only know what Sprite is. They'd be like, you don't drink Sprite. Not mineral water. Like, no, I don't drink mineral water. The hell, yo. Believe us, on a positive note, listen. The positive note is simple. It comes from the great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And Martin Luther King Jr. Once said, the time is always right to do what is right. Oh, my God. Anyway, I already see the type of month this about to be. Breakfast Club. You finish or y'all done? Hi, I'm Arturo Castro, and I've been lucky enough to do stuff like Broad City and narcos and Roadhouse. And now I'm starting a podcast because honestly, guys, I don't feel the space is crappy. It enough. Get ready for Greatest Escapes, a new comedy podcast about the wildest true escape stories in history. 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