FULL SHOW: Shaq & Stephen A. Address Gambling Scandal, + Reuben Vincent, 9th Wonder, Lanny Smith, Cecil Williams, Fredrika Newton & Fred Hampton Jr. Interview

Summary

The Breakfast Club – Episode Summary

Date: October 24, 2025
Hosts: DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God
Podcast: The Breakfast Club by iHeartPodcasts
Headline Guests: Reuben Vincent, 9th Wonder, Lanny Smith, Cecil Williams, Fredrika Newton, Fred Hampton Jr.
Key Theme: Legacy, Black excellence, and high-profile sports & culture headlines—including the NBA gambling scandal and intergenerational connections in hip hop and activism.

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Overview of Episode

This dynamic episode of The Breakfast Club blends breaking news, in-depth interviews, and lively culture commentary. The show delivers a powerful mix of political issues (from government shutdowns to Trump administration controversies), coverage of the shocking NBA illegal gambling scandal, and moving conversations with icons of Black legacy in music, fashion, and activism.

A central highlight is the discussion around legacy—musical, cultural, and historical—with both up-and-coming and legendary voices sharing wisdom and experiences. The show also spotlights the impact of criminal justice stories and economic shifts, while never losing its playful and irreverent spirit.

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Key Segments & Discussion Points

1. Hot Topics & Front Page News (03:05 – 13:14, 36:14 – 43:19)

• Homecoming Season: Celebrations at HBCUs across the country, with personal shout-outs to alumni and upcoming events.

  • “It's homecoming weekend, so salute to all the alum.” (03:05, Angela Yee)

• DJ Envy to Moderate Conversation with Dawn Staley: On her bestselling book, with special guest A’ja Wilson (05:37).

  • “Join us at Colonial Life Arena, 4:30pm.” (06:10, DJ Envy)

• Government Shutdown & Federal Worker Pay Crisis:

  • Senate remains deadlocked over worker pay during the ongoing government shutdown (09:00); various failed bills and Trump’s claim of a $130 million donation are met with skepticism.
    • “Where's the money? I need my money now.” (09:38, DJ Envy)
    • “Today marks day 24 of the government shutdown…” (10:13, Mimi Brown)
  • Trump's New Hardline Policy on Drug Smuggling: Moves to intensify strikes on land, with controversy over civilian casualties.
  • “We're just going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. Okay. We're gonna kill them.” (11:35, Trump audio via DJ Envy)
  • Debate over legality and ethics of such actions both domestically and internationally.

• Steve Bannon’s “Trump 2028/Third Term” Comments: Legal, political, and constitutional implications discussed (36:33).

  • “I hate that this conversation has been normalized...just nobody cares about democracy anymore.” (37:10, DJ Envy)

• Target Job Cuts and Toys R Us Resurgence: Economic shakeups, layoffs at Target, and nostalgia (and jobs) at Toys R Us reopening (40:22).

  • Lighthearted host reactions recalling experiences with the toy giant:
    • “Girl, I was so sad when that store went out of business.” (41:08, Janelle)

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2. NBA Gambling Scandal Breakdown (23:03 – 35:35, 75:25 – 81:04)

• Major Story: Arrest of high-profile NBA players (Chauncey Billups, Terry Rozier, Damon Jones) and Mafia ties in a massive gambling and sports-rigging operation.
  • DOJ and FBI allege two related yet distinct schemes: sports betting using inside info, and rigged high-tech poker games involving Mafia crime families.
  • “Individuals such as Chauncey Billups, Damon Jones and Terry Rozier were taken into custody today. This is an illegal gambling operation and sports rigging operation...” (23:31, Angela Yee quoting FBI)
  • Sophisticated technology was used—marked cards, altered shuffling machines, “quarterbacks” relaying data.
  • “The defendants used a variety of very sophisticated cheating technologies...” (25:27, DJ Envy reading press audio)
  • Host reactions blend astonishment and dark humor (“X-ray glasses for spades!”). (26:39, Angela Yee)
• Discussion on Fallout & Conspiracies:
  • Stephen A. Smith theorizes it’s political retribution (75:25), met with skepticism by hosts who urge waiting for facts.
    • “Bad things happen to good people in small towns,” (122:30, Mimi Brown quoting show promo)
  • Shaq expresses public shame and disappointment.
    • “I'm ashamed that those guys will put their families and their careers in jeopardy. There's an old saying in the hood, all money ain't good money.” (78:04, Shaq via clip)

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3. Legacy, Black Excellence & Activism (98:09 – 112:38)

• Actively Black Fashion Legacy Panel:

  • Lanny Smith (founder of Actively Black) is joined by civil rights and Black Panther icons: Cecil Williams, Fredrika Newton (widow of Huey P. Newton), and Fred Hampton Jr. for a stirring discussion.

  • The segment highlights their involvement in Actively Black’s monumental New York Fashion Week show featuring civil rights leaders’ children as models—emphasizing intergenerational Black greatness.

    • “We were blessed to have these individuals show up and walk on the runway with us, along with Dr. Bernice King and Elias Shabazz, the daughters of Malcolm X and MLK.” (98:36, Lanny Smith)

  • Cecil Williams: Shares the backstory of the famous “whites only” water fountain photo, his personal resistance, and nuanced views on racism and white allies.

    • "It was a little bit of both. I was thirsty, but also...I was not satisfied with living in the status quo in segregation.” (99:20, Cecil Williams)

  • Fred Hampton Jr.: On love motivating revolution, not hate.

    • “Everything's political, including fashion...But again, for the record, it's a motivator. Love for the people.” (104:25, Fred Hampton Jr.)

  • Fredrika Newton: On eradicating white supremacy, growing up biracial, and the Black Panther Party’s foundation in love, not hate.

  • Actively Black’s Mission: Reshaping narratives of Black worth and legacy through economic empowerment and historical reverence.

    • “There's greatness in our DNA... I’m trying to deprogram and reprogram our own people to understand that.” (106:38, Lanny Smith)

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4. Hip Hop Generational Wisdom: Reuben Vincent & 9th Wonder Interview (44:07 – 74:52)

• Collaboration and Mentorship: Young MC Reuben Vincent and producer/professor 9th Wonder discuss their new album “Welcome Home,” exploring generational dialogue, the discipline of songwriting, and the responsibilities of OGs in the culture.
  • “We really sat in the studio with each other... six months, sleeping on the couch… the synergy was there.” (44:33, Reuben Vincent)
• Teaching Lyricism & Songcraft:
  • On learning to balance lyricism and song-building:
    • “A lyricist can really reach them heights if they know how to make a record,” (51:30, Reuben Vincent).
  • 9th Wonder on intergenerational communication:
    • “Teaching has helped me understand the next generation way more than anybody else.” (45:14, 9th Wonder)
  • Reuben’s musical inspiration bridges Tribe Called Quest to Jay-Z, drawing a line from African roots through hip hop greats.
• Legacy & Cultural Continuity:
  • Maintaining respect for “classic” artists and ensuring Black musical icons are revered across generations.
    • “We cannot abandon who got us here and who continues to still do music. It's up to us.” (67:23, 9th Wonder)

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5. Call-In Segments & Listener Engagement (13:29 – ongoing throughout)

• Get It Off Your Chest / People’s Donkey:
  • Listeners call in to vent or nominate their “Donkey of the Day,” ranging from playful gripes to political protest.
  • Standout Callers:
    • Advocate for economic resilience: “Beans and rice every day... it's a very healthy meal.” (18:43, Muhammad from Baton Rouge)
    • On government shutdown and citizen power:
      • “If they're going to shut down, I feel like we need to shut down as well. Stop going to work, stop paying bills. It's getting ridiculous.” (90:40, Keith from Charleston)
    • Parents commiserate about Halloween costume woes.

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6. Music & Culture Picks ("Pass the Aux") (113:01 – 117:20)

• Nyla Simone joins to showcase new music, reinforcing the show’s role as a pipeline for emerging artists (Monaleo, Josh Levi, Leon Thomas, Planet Gizza).
  • “That boy Leon is giving Bruno Mars a little bit. Leon different.” (115:43, Janelle)
  • Lively debate over Cash Money vs. No Limit discographies.

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Notable Quotes / Iconic Moments

• On Black Resilience & Legacy:
  “We are more than just our trauma... we have so much greatness inside of us, and if we start acting out of that greatness, that’s how we can change things.” (106:38, Lanny Smith)

• On Culture & Music:
  “We cannot abandon who got us here and who continues to still do music. It's up to us. We cannot wait on anybody else to do it but us.” (67:23, 9th Wonder)

• On Judgement & Scandal:
  “Why can't we just let things play out? ...I thought it was innocent until proven guilty, which is what they said multiple times at the press conference as well.” (78:42 & 79:00, DJ Envy & Janelle)

• Fred Hampton Jr. on Revolutionary Love:
  “A revolutionary—no matter how preposterous it may sound—is guided by the most sincere sentiments of love... motivated for love for people.” (104:25, Fred Hampton Jr.)

• Cecil Williams on His Iconic Defiance & The Power of Photos:
  “It was a little bit of both. I was thirsty, but also...I was not satisfied with living in the status quo in segregation.” (99:20, Cecil Williams)

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• 03:05 – Homecoming Weekend & Opening Banter
• 09:00 – Federal Worker Pay Crisis/Government Shutdown
• 23:03 – NBA Gambling Scandal: Arrests, Technology, Mafia Link
• 44:07 – Reuben Vincent & 9th Wonder Interview (“Welcome Home”)
• 75:25 – NBA Scandal: Backlash, Conspiracies, Host Analysis
• 98:09 – Actively Black Panel: Black History, Legacy, Museums
• 113:01 – “Pass the Aux,” New Music Segment

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Tone and Style

True to The Breakfast Club’s brand: blunt, irreverent, insightful, and celebratory, balancing humor with cultural seriousness. The hosts offer knowledgeable, intergenerational perspectives—with a focus on Black empowerment, resilience, and maintaining community through music, legacy, and political self-awareness.

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For Further Listening

• Guests’ Socials and Resources:

  • ActivelyBlack.com for more on the fashion legacy project
  • South Carolina Civil Rights Museum for information/support
  • [Black Panther Party Museum, Oakland]

• Follow Mimi Brown and The Black Information Network for more Black news

  • @MimiBrownTV

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Transcript

[Janelle]

This is an iHeart podcast.

[DJ Envy]

Wednesday at.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

10, 9 Central on BET. An all new episode of 106 in Sports from executive producers LeBron James and Maverick Carter. It's a new top five countdown with hosts Ashley Nicole Moss and Cam Newton. They're breaking down the top moments in sports, culture and entertainment and highlighting both established pros and the stars on the come up. Watch the all new series 106 in sports Wednesday at 10, 9 Central on BET or catch up the next day on BET.

[Janelle]

Everybody needs a break and that's why Diet Coke is the perfect reset. The crisp, refreshing taste turns any pause, whether it's after work, running errands or kicking back with your crew into you time. It's that signal to slow down, take a deep breath and enjoy the moment. However you choose to recharge, an ice cold Diet Coke makes that break even better. Make time for a Diet Coke break. Diet Coke. This is my taste.

[Angela Yee]

Hello, America's sweetheart. Johnny Knoxville here. I want to tell you about my new true crime podcast, Crimeless Hillbilly Heist. From Smartless media, Campside media and big money players.

[DJ Envy]

It's a wild tale about a gang.

[Angela Yee]

Of high functioning nitwits who somehow pulled off America's third largest cash heist.

[DJ Envy]

Kind of like Robin Hood, except for the part where he steals from the rich and gives to the poor. I'm not that generous. It's a damn near inspiring true story.

[Angela Yee]

For anyone out there who's ever shot for the moon, then just totally muffed up the landing.

[DJ Envy]

They stole $17 million and had not bought a ticket to help him escape.

[Janelle]

So we're sitting like, oh God, what do we do?

[DJ Envy]

What do we do? That was dumb. People do not follow my example.

[Angela Yee]

Listen to Crimeless Hillbilly Heist on the.

[DJ Envy]

Iheartradio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Mimi Brown]

The murder of an 18 year old girl in Graves County, Kentucky went unsolved for years until a local housewife, a journalist and a handful of girls came forward with a story.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

America, y' all better wake the hell up. Bad things happens to good people in small towns.

[Mimi Brown]

Listen to Graves county on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts and to binge the entire season ad free. Subscribe to Lava for Good plus on Apple Podcasts.

[Angela Yee]

Good morning usa.

[DJ Envy]

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo.

[Angela Yee]

Yo, yo, yo, yo Yo. Jess. Hilarious.

[Janelle]

Wake that ass up.

[Angela Yee]

Charlamagne the God.

[DJ Envy]

Peace to the planet is Friday. How y' all feel out there? I feel blessed. Black and highly favored. Happy to be here another day to serve our beautiful listeners. Good morning.

[Angela Yee]

Yes, good morning. It's homecoming weekend Friday. Salute to all the HBCUs. I know. I think it's Howard's homecoming. It's my school's homecoming. Which is Hampton University. No, Norfolk State's homecoming. There's a lot of homecomings this weekend, so it's homecoming weekend, so salute to all the alum. Now, Charlamagne, you missed Jess. She came in mad mysterious this morning.

[Janelle]

Whatever, y'.

[Mimi Brown]

All.

[Angela Yee]

Mad mysterious. Trench coat.

[DJ Envy]

Yo, what she got on?

[Angela Yee]

Hat look like a Inspector Gadget.

[Janelle]

Hey, yo, you was really playing with me. I'm gonna send you a picture show. I look real good, but my husband deftly played with me. He was like, okay. Jeepers creepers.

[DJ Envy]

First of all, it was just that hat.

[Janelle]

It was just that hat. Yo, you on zoom. Can you see?

[DJ Envy]

The host hasn't let me in yet. Oh, all right.

[Janelle]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I had on the hat and the coat is giving Inspector good to hold you. But when I take the coat off, it's like, damn.

[Angela Yee]

It is. It is.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Janelle]

There's no further inspection. Like, it's good.

[Angela Yee]

So where you going today? I know you ain't dressed up to see us. I know.

[Janelle]

I got a few meetings.

[Angela Yee]

She said, yeah, no, I ain't messing up. I got a few meetings. I ain't messing up.

[Janelle]

And I gotta be in Philly today.

[Lanny Smith]

So.

[Janelle]

Yeah, I got a event that I'm doing tonight, so.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Janelle]

Yes.

[Angela Yee]

All right. Well, we got a crazy show for you today. Reuben Vincent and 9th Wonder will be joining us. They have a new album called welcome Home, so we're gonna be talking.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, that came out. That's right. Ruben is very, very dope. He's from Charlotte, North Carolina. He's. I think he's from Kenya originally when he was raised in Charlotte, North Carolina, man. And so, you know, whenever Knife Wonder puts his arm around somebody from North Carolina, you know it's gonna be special. I mean, you know, Rhapsody, little brother. And, you know, now the likes of Reuben Vincent.

[Angela Yee]

That's right. And also, we have a great legendary cast, legendary bloodline. We have Lanny Smith, who is the owner of Actively Black Apparel.

[DJ Envy]

But you got. You got to tell them what Actively Black just did. Actively Black just had a fashion show during New York Fashion Week. And they had a bunch of. A bunch of these legendary figures walk in their clothing. That's right.

[Angela Yee]

They had Martin Luther King, Jr. S daughter. They also had Malcolm X's daughter. They had Cecil Williams, who is Cecil Williams is if you remember that famous picture where there's a brother standing at a white at a water fountain and it says whites only and he's drinking that water.

[Janelle]

That was back in 1956.

[Angela Yee]

56, yes.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. Orangeburg, South Carolina, icon right there.

[Angela Yee]

That's right. Frederica Newton will be joining us.

[Janelle]

Huey P. Newton's wife.

[Angela Yee]

Yes, Newton's wife.

[Janelle]

She also has a book.

[Angela Yee]

And Fred Hampton Jr. Will be joining us.

[DJ Envy]

Chairman Fred Hampton, Jr. Don't play with him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're right.

[Angela Yee]

Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. Will be joining us as well. So there's a lot to talk about today, a lot to discuss, a lot going on. All right, Charlamagne. Now, you going to South Carolina after this too, right?

[DJ Envy]

Yes. I will be in South Carolina today, in Columbia, the metro, because today at 4:30pm I will be moderating a conversation with Dawn Staley. You know, her book Uncommon Favor came out earlier this year. It's been on the New York Times bestsellers list for weeks. So I'll be moderating a conversation with her about that. And WNBA mvp, four time mvp, three time champion Asia Wilson will be joining us during that conversation as well at the colonial life arena, 4:30pm today.

[Janelle]

Nice.

[DJ Envy]

So join us.

[Angela Yee]

Well, let's get the show cracking. We got front page news. Salute to OVO Eli. OVO Eli did not come to work today. He's feeling under the weather. I think he's lying.

[Janelle]

I think he's lying.

[Angela Yee]

Yes. Cause it's Drake's birthday.

[Janelle]

Yeah, but he was sick early in the earlier parts of the week.

[Angela Yee]

He's probably in Toronto right now at Drake's front door.

[Janelle]

Shut up.

[Angela Yee]

He already texted me with what he wanted to hear this morning.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, he told me he had a rose with an owl on it. And I'm like, bro, what are you talking about? You're a grown ass man. They got roses for men, Yo.

[Janelle]

He's a Stan. Like, he loves Drake. Leave him alone. And he just so happens to be sick.

[DJ Envy]

He is sick.

[Angela Yee]

I don't. Yeah, he's sick at Drake's house right now. Well, let's play the record.

[DJ Envy]

He wanted to make even put a rose. And why does it have an owl on it? That's crazy.

[Angela Yee]

Well, this is what he wanted to hear.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Best I ever had.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, okay. That rose changes life. Damn.

[Angela Yee]

Breakfast Club. Good morning. Mimi's up next. Front page news. Morning, everybody. It's DJ V. Jess. Hilarious Charlamagne, the guy. We are the breakfast club. Let's get in some front, people.

[DJ Envy]

All jokes aside, Drake came a long way, bro. When you think about that record right there and, you know, think about how he, he, he grew in, in the game, he did come a long way. You got to give him that.

[Janelle]

Absolutely.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, Absolutely.

[Angela Yee]

There's no doubt in that. Just you.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. Even though he got his ass, even though he got his ass busted last year, you know, by Kendrick.

[Angela Yee]

Just can't stay positive.

[DJ Envy]

Came a long way.

[Angela Yee]

All right, well, let's get in some front page news. Let's start off with Thursday Night Football. The Chargers beat the Vikings 37, 10. And tonight is game one World Series Blue Jays versus the Dodgers at 8:00pm on damn.

[DJ Envy]

See what I'm saying? That's exactly what I be talking about right there on Drake birthday.

[Angela Yee]

What's up, Mimi?

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning, MB Josh Charlamagne, How y' all doing?

[Janelle]

Hey, girl.

[DJ Envy]

Peace, Mimi.

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, we start this morning in Washington where today was supposed to be payday for federal workers. But with Congress still deadlock, those checks are not coming. Meanwhile, frustration is mounting as the pay fight hits another roadblock on Capitol Hill and the Senate. They blocked three different bills yesterday, one from Republicans and two from Democrats, all aimed at making sure federal employees get paid while the shutdown drags on in its fourth week. Now, Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, he pushed a bill to pay only essential workers still required to work so your air traffic controllers, your TSA agents, your military personnel. That bill failed 54 to 45. Democrats, they blocked that plan, saying it gave too much power to the White House budget office, letting them decide who gets paid and who doesn't. Instead, Democrats, they offered two separate bills that would pay all federal workers, including the 750,000 who have been furloughed and sent home without pay since October 1st. That bill was introduced by Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen, and it included a provision to stop the layoffs during the shutdown. Then the second bill, from Michigan, Senator Gary Peters, would cover back pay from the start of the shutdown through the day. It would take effect, but Republicans blocked those bills. Still, some lawmakers say they're working to find a compromise. A few Democrats, including Senator John Offset offset Raphael Warnock and John Fetterman, they voted to advance the Republican bill, saying that essential workers needed to be paid even as negotiations continued. And while that debate continues over who gets paid and who doesn't get paid, Trump says he's found another way to make sure some workers get a paycheck.

[Angela Yee]

Let's listen to that friend of mine, talking about donors.

[DJ Envy]

A friend of mine, a man. That's great. I'm not going to use his name unless he lets me do it. He was. He called us the other day and he said, I'd like to contribute any shortfall you have because of the Democrat shutdown. I'd like to contribute personally contribute any shortfall you have with the military, because I love the military and I love the country. And today he sent us a check for $130 million, and that's going to go to the military. Yeah. So where's the money? Like, where's the money? I need my money now. You know, they ain't got paid in weeks. Where's the money?

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah, well, we'll see what happens with that. He just said that it was a personal donor. He did not say any names. There's been no word yet on if the military has received that, so we'll continue to follow that. But Today marks day 24 of the government shutdown. Neither side has been able to reach a deal. And as hundreds of thousands of workers wait for their next paycheck, President Trump is preparing to leave for Asia with no compromise in sight.

[DJ Envy]

So that's. That's a great headline to follow, though, Mimi, because he announced that somebody gave him a check, $130 million for the military. Let's follow it and see if he actually gives it to the military, because, you know, he'll say something and then become a headline, and everybody will say, well, you know, Trump got $130 million and gave it to the military. I bet you they never get that money.

[Mimi Brown]

We'll see. We'll see what happens with that. We will definitely continue to follow that. And President Trump says his next move in, or his next move in on the war on drugs could target people on land, not just at sea. So he's calling the recent US Military strikes on drugs smuggling votes a big success, saying that traffickers are now moving more drugs on land and no longer on sea. So he says that his team will brief Congress about the plan. He doesn't think that they will need permission to move forward on a formal declaration of war. So President Trump, he's, he's, he's promising a tougher approach on the drug trade. And let's listen to what he had to say.

[DJ Envy]

Well, I don't think we're going to necessarily ask for a declaration of war. I think we're just going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. Okay. We're gonna kill them. You know, they're gonna be, like, dead.

[Angela Yee]

But you know what they were saying, Mimi? And I don't know how true this is because, you know, people are conspiracy theorists and all that other stuff. They were saying that a lot of the boats that he was actually hitting was fishermen boats that they weren't actually drug conspiracy.

[DJ Envy]

That's true, though.

[Angela Yee]

They said a bunch of them. It just wasn't one.

[DJ Envy]

I heard about two. I don't know about a bunch of.

[Mimi Brown]

I heard about a couple, too, but they're just saying. And then there were two survivors. And so they were sent to what I think it was Ecuador, Colombia. And, you know, so there's just. There's a lot of. There's a lot going on. There was a. One woman who said that her husband, who was a fisherman on his way to work, was killed. And so, you know, Defense Secretary Pete Hetseth, he's backing Trump up, saying that the military will go after drug cartels the same way that we went after terrorist groups like Al Qaeda. But not everyone is on board. Lawmakers on both parties say they haven't been given clear information on exactly what's happening. And leaders in Latin America are calling the US Strikes illegal and murder. Now, Trump also, he's taking aim at Colombia and Mexico, claiming that both countries are run by drug cartels, something their government strongly denies. And right now, it's really unclear whether these land strikes could happen and what they will look like. And so we'll see if Congress steps in before things escalate any further.

[Angela Yee]

All right, well, thank you, Mimi.

[Mimi Brown]

Absolutely. Coming up at 7. A familiar name from your childhood is making a surprise return just in time for the holidays. We'll tell you where it's popping up and how it could affect your wallet.

[Angela Yee]

Okay, everybody else, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need the vent, phone lines are wide open. Call us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is your time to get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Hello?

[Angela Yee]

Who's this?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning.

[Janelle]

My name is Janelle.

[Angela Yee]

Hey, Janelle. Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

Peace, Janelle. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning.

[Janelle]

How y' all doing this morning? Feeling good.

[DJ Envy]

Bless. Black and Holly Fair.

[Janelle]

I was just giving a shout out to. I'm from Virginia for this morning. This weekend, we're celebrating homecoming for ODU. My daughter graduated 2022 from ODU and also NSU in Hampton University.

[Angela Yee]

It's gonna be A crazy week. And all three schools are less than, what, 30 minutes away from each other. So it's gonna be. It's gonna be a lot of fun. I'll be out there. My wife actually graduated from Old Dominion, so that's her alma mater. But, yeah, it's gonna be a lot of fun.

[Janelle]

Yes, yes, yes, yes. And also, I've been trying to recall, too, back in July, my book released. Tilly Starshine is a children's book dedicated to children that's going through Greece. But the book was dedicated to my grandmother who passed away two years ago. And that's why I told her the children's book, so Greece, and definitely broke it up. It's on Amazon.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, nice.

[Angela Yee]

And what's the name of the book again?

[Janelle]

Tilly Sometimes. And like I said, was dedicated to. My grandma's name was Matilda, but we called her Tilly with her nickname.

[Angela Yee]

All right, well, thank you so much.

[Janelle]

Thank you all. You have a wonderful morning, and thank you all.

[Angela Yee]

You have a great home.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right.

[Janelle]

You all, too. Thank you.

[Angela Yee]

Hello. Who's this?

[DJ Envy]

Envy.

[Janelle]

What's up, Emmy?

[DJ Envy]

What's up, Travis? Bloody boots. Wow. You know, I'm so glad that you started off like that, Charlemagne. I'm tired of defending your sexuality.

[Janelle]

If you gay, just come out deposit.

[DJ Envy]

Why do you defend my sexuality? I don't, because I'm taxes that every time I talk about something, I'm telling my cousins, like, oh, you know, I'm waiting on Shar for us to do something. And they say the only reason that you're even trying to help me is because you want my butt. I'm trying to get some cheese. That's the truth. That's crazy.

[Angela Yee]

That is the truth.

[DJ Envy]

That's the old school industry way. Don't nobody do that no more. That's what they think. They'd be like, oh, if you. He need to come out the closet, and he just trying to get something from you. I'm like, charlemagne ain't trying to get nothing from me. But if you hear Charlamagne, just let me know.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

He said. He said he's a willing participant. Damn. No, I'm not a willing participant. But now they actually. My mom actually was saying that, you know, I told her that, you know, we had some things going on. She was asking me about it, and I told her, I don't know what's happening. Well, listen, why you lie to your mama like that? No, no, no.

[Angela Yee]

Not.

[DJ Envy]

Not things going on like that.

[Angela Yee]

I do got some things going on. What are you gonna bring Them home. Are you bringing them home for Thanksgiving?

[DJ Envy]

I'm talking about with music.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, okay. I'm like, wait, what else you talking about, man? Get your mind out there, Gutter this whole conversation. Let me tell you something about. Trav is an amazing story songwriter. And, you know, whenever I get the opportunity, I do pass Trav stuff along to people. Yes, he does. And.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And then.

[DJ Envy]

Then you kind of disappear on me. I don't know what happens afterwards. That's the game. Envy will tell you, you know, these people will take your stuff, but that, you know, sometimes they be like, oh, that's dope. And then that's all you hear.

[Angela Yee]

You know what the funny thing is? That's why I stopped doing that, because people, like, they'd be like, yo, did so and so hit my record. I'm like, I passed it on. I don't. I don't know what else you want me to do.

[DJ Envy]

That's all I could do.

[Angela Yee]

That's all I could do.

[DJ Envy]

I pass it on.

[Angela Yee]

That's it.

[DJ Envy]

That's all I could do.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I said, and I definitely, truly appreciate that.

[DJ Envy]

I definitely, truly appreciate it. Don't worry, Trav. Good things come to those who wait, man. Be patient. I believe. I believe in what you do. But do you believe in yourself? Yes, I do. And I actually just put out another record. You have to go check it out. I actually wrote it about my ex.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And how he cheated on me with.

[DJ Envy]

A girl and got her pregnant, and.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I wrote a song about it. Damn.

[DJ Envy]

The crazy thing about Trav, man, if this was the 90s or early 2000s, he'd be on already because he's talented and gay.

[Janelle]

That's really sad, man. I'm sorry that that happened.

[Angela Yee]

Sorry. Oh, you talking about the cheating part?

[Janelle]

Yeah, like, yeah. Hey, yo, no, I'm sorry that your.

[Angela Yee]

Ex did that to you.

[Janelle]

Hey, yo.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, it's called Congrats. Go check it out. Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Does the baby look like.

[Angela Yee]

Never mind. All right.

[Janelle]

Oh, my God.

[Angela Yee]

Get it off your chest. 5851051. If you need to vent, call us up. Is the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The Breakfast Club.

[Lanny Smith]

Ray.

[Angela Yee]

Ray.

[DJ Envy]

Ray. Yo, Charlamagne, Envy, what up?

[Janelle]

Are we live?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is your time to get it off your chest.

[Janelle]

I got an indoor pool, a outdoor pool.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

[Angela Yee]

We can get on the phone right now.

[DJ Envy]

He'll tell you what it is.

[Janelle]

We live.

[Angela Yee]

Hello?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who's this?

[DJ Envy]

Hey, this your bro Muhammad from Baton Rouge.

[Angela Yee]

What's up, brother? Get it off your chest.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, man, I just want to let everybody know with all the fear mongering going on about this food and being able to afford food for your houses, the most honorable Elijah Muhammad and Honorable Ms. Lewis Farrakhan told us, beans and rice every day. It's a very cheap meal, but guess what? It's a very healthy meal, especially that Navy beans. So if you got to go buy food for your family, you might not be able to buy meat, but focus on the basics. The beans, the rice, and the water and everything will be okay. You're absolutely right, bro.

[Angela Yee]

Thank you, brother. Thank you. Hello? Who's this?

[Janelle]

Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

This is K. Hey, K. Hey, K. Every kiss begins with K. I know.

[Janelle]

That's right. Hey, DJ Envy Charlemagne. And where's my girl Jess? Right here. What's up, baby? Hey, Jess. I love you so much, girl. You coming on my last two to, like two or three weeks ago, girl, you made my day. Oh, I appreciate you.

[Angela Yee]

She's very mysterious today. Very mysterious today.

[Janelle]

Shut up. They always got something to say about my outfit because I came in here with a nice. What is it called? A fedora.

[Angela Yee]

Fedora.

[Janelle]

Yep, a fedora. And like an Inspector Gadget coupe. Okay, then.

[Angela Yee]

What'S up? Kay.

[Janelle]

But, yeah, I didn't want to just. I ain't got really nothing off my chest. I just want to spread a little positivity today, you know what I'm saying? Like, I went through stuff yesterday. My sewing machine broke. I'm actually pulling up to work late with a spicy mask on. But I woke up, so you know what I'm saying? I really don't even care, So I just want to motivate everybody else today. Stay optimistic, you know what I'm saying? You might be going through something, but as long as you show up.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, don't you walk in them white people establishment with that damn shiesty mask on.

[Janelle]

Oh. Oh, it's pink and I got some lashes on, so that'd be all right.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, okay.

[Janelle]

Looking like a yb.

[Angela Yee]

Okay, well, have a good one, mama.

[Janelle]

You too.

[Angela Yee]

Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up now. What's up?

[Janelle]

Good morning.

[Angela Yee]

What kind of outfit is that?

[Janelle]

Alexander Wayne.

[DJ Envy]

Hold on, let me get my zoom on.

[Janelle]

It's a squirrel sweatsuit. Get up on.

[DJ Envy]

I can't even see her. They. They don't even got the camera on her on purpose. What? They trying to keep me from seeing this.

[Janelle]

It's a. I worked before. I worked on brilliant idiots.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, okay. I seen that. Got your head.

[Janelle]

Did homecoming. Yeah, we going to homecoming. Going to north folk tonight. Today.

[DJ Envy]

Yesterday, Lauren was like, man, I want to grow out an Afro, but I got a bald spot and I ain't got no edges. That was. So.

[Janelle]

Why would you repeat that like that?

[DJ Envy]

Why would you say that around me?

[Janelle]

What I said was, you say that around me. I. I want to when my hair grows back out. That's why I cut it, so it could grow. I want to be able to wear it, like, curly and not put heat to it.

[DJ Envy]

Heat. I ain't got no edges and I got a bald spot.

[Angela Yee]

And then you say that.

[Janelle]

I said the wigs made my edges thin, so I had to cut them down. So I need everything to grow back healthy. I say I don't got no edges. They're here.

[DJ Envy]

Can I ask you a real question? You had a bald spot?

[Janelle]

No. You told me why you asked me how I get a ball spot. I told you I almost died.

[Angela Yee]

Can. Can I ask you real quick?

[Janelle]

I was so sad how you almost died from a ball spot.

[DJ Envy]

Real quick.

[Janelle]

I bust my head open on the back of my head.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my God.

[Janelle]

Almost died at 9. I'm so sorry, all.

[Angela Yee]

Can I ask you a question?

[Janelle]

Oh, God, yes.

[Angela Yee]

Your struggles and your stripes. Why do you tell him?

[DJ Envy]

You know what?

[Angela Yee]

Honestly, why do you tell him your struggle? Cuz you should have tell him that. You could have told just that you could have said it to me.

[Janelle]

But you tell him that it's not safe with any of y'. All. All y' all funny. So I just throw it up behind y'. All. Don't make fun of your father, cuz I know you really love him and you want a relationship with him and.

[Angela Yee]

He don't even want you.

[Janelle]

And I don't make fun of that.

[Angela Yee]

You see that? Why you doing that in there?

[Janelle]

Good morning.

[Angela Yee]

People coming in with their dads at homecoming.

[DJ Envy]

Grandma.

[Angela Yee]

Grandma. We have the latest with Lauren coming up.

[Janelle]

We do got the latest with Lauren coming up. We got more details on, you know, all those arrests that went down, that big NBA. You know, the fed sweeping in on that alleged gambling. All of the allegations with, you know, all the guys. Shaunti Billups, Terry Rogera, Damon Jones. We gonna talk about it.

[Angela Yee]

All right. We'll get into that next old move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The Breakfast Club.

[Janelle]

Lauren becoming a straight fat.

[Angela Yee]

She gets them from somebody that knows somebody.

[DJ Envy]

She gets the details.

[Janelle]

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

[DJ Envy]

She be having the latest on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The Latest with Lauren LaRosa.

[DJ Envy]

Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details, sometimes you have a little bit of everything on the Breakfast Club. Talk to me.

[Janelle]

So yesterday there was a press conference held here in New York City where the feds were able to break down FBI Director Cash Patel, along with the United States Attorney, broke down what this whole, you know, big arrest around some huge names in NBA, what it is and why it's happening. And when I mention the names, I'm mentioning Chauncey Billups, Terry Roger and Damon Jones. Let's take a listen to Cash Patel on the background of this case and what's actually happening.

[Angela Yee]

Individuals such as Chauncey Billups, Damon Jones and Terry Rozier were taken into custody today. This is an illegal gambling operation and sports rigging operation that spanned the course of years. The FBI led a coordinated takedown across 11 states to arrest over 30 individuals today responsible for this case, which is very much ongoing. We also entered and executed a system of justice against La Casa Nostra to include the Bonanno, Gambino, Genovese and Luchesi crime families. Charges and the arrests that were taken.

[DJ Envy]

Down across this country range from wire.

[Angela Yee]

Fraud, money laundering, extortion, robbery, illegal gambling. This work is also representative of a colossal portion of the FBI's mandate to keep America safe and to keep our entertainment industry fair and secure. We're talking about tens of millions of dollars in fraud and theft and robbery across a multi year investigation.

[Janelle]

So what they're alleging is that the names that we just mentioned allegedly teamed up with a bunch of other individuals and different mafia families in two separate things that they're indicting for. So there is the sports betting side of it, which has six defendants. And then there's the illegal gambling or the rig poker game side of it which has 31 defendants. Now they cross over because they're alleging that Damon Jones, Eric Ernest, Shane Hennin overlapped in charges somewhere within these two indictments that they have. And what they're saying is that there would be these, on the poker game side, there would be these illegal games they allege that would be set up. And you would have these big names from the NBA and they would be used as almost like something flashy to get these people to come in and want to sit down and play poker. And when the people would sit down, the games would be super rigged. I mean like high tech technology type of rig. And we have, you know, audio about them talking about the technology and how in depth that technology was at those poker tables. Let's Take a listen to number two.

[DJ Envy]

The defendants used a variety of very sophisticated cheating technologies, some of which were provided by other defendants in exchange for a share of the profits from the scheme. For example, they used off the shelf shuffling machines that had been secretly altered in order to read the cards in the deck, predict which player at the table had the best poker hand and relay that information to an off site operator. The off site operator sent the information via cell phone back to a co conspirator at the table. And that person at the table was known as the quarterback. The quarterback then signaled secretly the information he had received from others to others at the table. And together they used that information in order to win their games and to cheat the victims.

[Angela Yee]

That's crazy. Yeah, I guess what I was reading, allegedly it was saying that Chauncey Billups was using his influence to bring people to play some of these games. And they said through the cards they had some sunglasses that you could actually see what the. What they had. So it's like if you had a king. King. You could see through the sunglasses that that person had a king.

[DJ Envy]

King. X ray glasses. X ray glasses to see the card.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, it was like a. I guess how they did it. It was what, Whatever. If you had a king on the back of the card, you could only see it through the glasses.

[Janelle]

Yeah, they can read it and even the shuffler. So we have that breakdown too. Let's listen to number three. No, it was. It's extensive. Let's take a listen.

[DJ Envy]

These defendants perpetrated a screen a scheme to defraud by betting on inside non public information about NBA athletes and teams. The non public information included when. When specific players would be sitting out future games or when they would pull themselves out early for purported injuries or illnesses. They relied on corrupt individuals, including Jones and Rosier. They also misused information obtained through long standing friendships that they had with NBA players and coaches. And in at least one instance they got their information by threatening a current player, Porter, because of his pre existing gambling day. Defendants use this non public information to place hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraudulent bets, mostly in the form of prop bets on individual player performance. So this is two different cases because I hear the mafia involved in one of them and then the other one sounds like it's just NBA players. Like that one we just heard sound like it's just NBA players.

[Janelle]

Yeah, so it's two different cases. So that's what I'm saying at the beginning. So you have the sports betting side of it, which is where they're alleging that, you know, certain people would use inside information that wouldn't be public information to help people go and bet and win the money. So for example, according to docs, they list co conspirator number eight and that is Billups. They say that one time he mentioned to a better that they were. He. They alleged that he was going to rest some of his key players in the matchup against the Chicago Bulls. The better that they say then allegedly took the information to another better and had them place a wager on the Blazers losing. And Portland did go on to lose to Chicago in that game. And they say, although the fest didn't say in the press conference that Billups was involved in inside sports betting conspiracies that resulted in certain wins. Basically like they can't connect the two together. So Roger and the things that he was doing on the sports betting side and Billups, they're not connecting them, but they're saying that they were happening like both of them were alleging both of them were doing these things.

[Angela Yee]

But you said something that's, that's very important too. I don't think people remember but you know, a couple years ago you remember Porter was banned for, for doing that. But they're saying that the crime families allegedly threatened Porter to continue on.

[Janelle]

Yeah. So they, they threatened him.

[Angela Yee]

And Porter, you know, is Porter's brother from the New Jersey. He plays for the Brooklyn Nets now. It's his brother that was. Has been banned from the league for a while now.

[Janelle]

Right. Yeah. And they talk about, they talked about that for a little bit in a press conference too because they said that there were not even just with him, they said that with other people. Like some of the people that lost their money. They were, they used intimidation the, the, these families, intimidation and violence and different things to keep it concealed, but also to keep people playing because once you're in, they want you in and they want you to keep going because they're trying to win all this money.

[DJ Envy]

I didn't, I didn't know the MAF existed.

[Angela Yee]

Like I was thinking the same thing too.

[DJ Envy]

And, and is this a situation where they was after the mafia and the NBA players just happened to be there or were they all in cahoots together? I don't.

[Mimi Brown]

It.

[Janelle]

I don't know. I can't really determine that from what I saw. I feel like certain things I read make me feel like yes, they were after the Mafia and then the NBA players came in and other stuff I read is like this has been going on for a long time. Allegedly around the NBA. So there's always been eyes on this and then this came up. So I can't answer that indefinitely and.

[DJ Envy]

I ain't going front.

[Angela Yee]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ready because sports, culture and entertainment is colliding like never before. Wednesday at 10, 9 Central on BET is BET's all new series 106 in Sports. Hosted by NFL star Cam Newton and sports analyst Ashley Nicole Moss, 106 in Sports is where the biggest plays meet the biggest conversations. Each week, Cam and Ashley are counting.

[DJ Envy]

Down the top five moments everyone's talking about. From the most jaw dropping highlights on the field to the viral clips taken.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Over the feed, to the culture shifts shaping fashion, entertainment and Black excellence, the.

[DJ Envy]

Top 5 countdown dives into all the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Game winning touchdowns, buzzer beaters, red carpet fits and headlines, making stories that define our culture.

[DJ Envy]

With Cam bringing an athlete's perspective and Ashley bringing an analyst's edge, they're breaking down every angle. The wins, the controversies and the unforgettable.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Moments that keep us talking. Whether it's a wild play that broke the Internet or a championship celebration for the ages or the latest trends shaking up culture. If it's big, it's on 106 in sports.

[DJ Envy]

Whether it's stars like LeBron, Steph Giannis.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And Durant making waves on and off the court, you know it's making the countdown. So tune in and join the conversation because it's where sports meets style, competition meets culture, and every moment matters. Don't miss the all new series on Wednesdays at 109 Central on BET's 106 and Sports. If you want to relive the countdown or catch what you missed, stream the next day on BET.

[Mimi Brown]

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[Janelle]

In the new podcast Hell in Heaven Two young Americans move to the Costa Rican jungle to start over. But one will end up dead, the other tried for murder not once. People went wild, not twice, stunned, but three times. John and Anne Bender are rich and attractive and they're devoted to each other. They create a nature reserve and build a spectacular circular home high on the top of a hill. But little by little, their dream dream starts to crumble and our couple retreat from reality.

[Angela Yee]

They lose it. They actually lose it.

[Janelle]

They sort of went nuts until one night everything spins out of control. Listen to Helen Heaven on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Angela Yee]

Sometimes you have a black jacket and all of a sudden I feel like they push a button. And now all of a sudden they got a blackjack too.

[DJ Envy]

No, no, no. I'm gonna tell you something, but I want those glasses, okay? Because I got a homegirl named Dion and she be busting my ass in spades and I'm sick of it. Okay? Salute to Dion. She's one of the best spades players I've ever seen and those glasses are what I need to finally get get over on her ass.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn.

[Janelle]

Okay, well listen, yeah, I know something. Cause you don't wear glasses regularly. So the next time you play. She gonna be like, nah, take them glasses on.

[DJ Envy]

Why you looking dumb? Got them glasses. That's crazy. We got to think about that. Whenever you play an Uno or spades from here on out. That's right. Somebody wearing some glasses that don't normally wear glasses, make them take them goddamn glasses.

[Janelle]

Uno on space, get deep. Especially that plan. We play uno on my house like we at the casino. No crazy.

[DJ Envy]

Remember that this homecoming weekend, if y' all at homecoming and all of a sudden somebody got on some glasses that ain't never had on no glasses, okay? And they went. All of a sudden, they got a super hot head on winning. Something ain't right.

[Angela Yee]

All right, well, that is the latest with Laura. Now, Charlemagne, donkey today.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What we doing?

[DJ Envy]

Yes, on Fridays, we do the people's donkey. You can call us right now, 1-800-585-1051, and give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid. So hit us up.

[Angela Yee]

All right, if you want to give somebody donkey today, like he said, 800-585-1051. Get on them phone lines now. Front page news is next. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne, the guy we are the Breakfast Club. Let's get back to some front page news. So quick, sports and Thursday Night football. The Chargers beat the Vikings 37 10. And tonight is game one of the of the Major League Baseball World Series. The Dodgers versus the Blue Jays.

[DJ Envy]

Man, what game is Kendrick walking out to perform? Not like us, man. That's what inquiring minds want to know.

[Angela Yee]

It might be game one. That's what you would think, right?

[DJ Envy]

Game one is game one in la.

[Angela Yee]

Oh, Toronto tonight. Oh, yeah, it's Toronto night, so probably game three. What's up, Mimi?

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning, M.V. jess. Charlamagne. How y' all doing?

[Janelle]

Hey, girl.

[DJ Envy]

Please, Mimi, Good morning.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, we start this hour with talk that is raising eyebrows and a few constitutional questions. This morning, former Trump advisor Steve Bannon says the president's inner circle is already planning for a third term in the White House. Now, Bannon made the claim during an interview with the Economist this week, saying he's certain that Trump will be president in 2028. Listen to some of that exchange.

[DJ Envy]

He's going to get a third term. So Trump, 28. Trump is going to be president at 28, and people just ought to get accommodated with that. So what about the 22nd Amendment? There's many different alternatives. At the appropriate time, we'll lay out what the plan is. But there's a plan, and the country needs him.

[Janelle]

To be President of the United States.

[DJ Envy]

We have to finish what we started. Trump is a vehicle of divine providence. He's an instrument. He's very imperfect. He's not churchy, not particularly religious, but he's an instrument of divine will. And you can tell this of how we've. How he's pulled this off. We need him for at least one more term. Right? And he'll get that in 28. I hate that this conversation has been normalized. I mean, every time they have this conversation, I'm just like, so just nobody cares about democracy anymore. And for everybody who says things like, well, that means Barack Obama can. One can run. I keep trying to tell y', all, if Trump gets to run again for a third term, it doesn't matter who he's running against. The fight is already fixed. Okay?

[Mimi Brown]

Definitely already fixed. Constitutional experts say there's no real path for this to happen. They say changing the Constitution would take two thirds of a vote in Congress or approval from two thirds of US States, something that they say that is nearly impossible. And another theory that's been floated, having the vice president in 2028 step down so that Trump could take over. But that's also seen as legally shaky. You know, two terms, like you said Charlamagne should mean two terms, but anything else would be unconstitutional and could spark a major political crisis. But we are in several major political crises right now, so who knows what the end will look like?

[DJ Envy]

What if he just refuses to leave in 2028? You know, if he just refuses to leave, and then we find out how many of those generals and admirals actually did pledge their loyalty to him when they had that meeting with Pete Hexef a couple of weeks ago.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah, for sure. There's so many different possibilities. So, again, you're right. It's being normalized. But I think that Trump, when he says he's going to do something, people should really pay attention. We tend to laugh it off like, oh, that's impossible, but is it? You know? So we'll continue to see what that looks like.

[DJ Envy]

All right.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, Target is cutting jobs in what is being called the biggest shake up the company has ever seen in a decade. Now, the retailer announced its plans to eliminate 1800 corporate positions as it tries to jumpstart growth after four years of sluggish sales. The cuts will include about 1000 layoffs and another 800 jobs that will not be filled, and that's roughly 8% of its reduction in workforce. Now, affected employees will be notified next week, and the layoffs come as Target faces mounting challenges from declining store traffic and inventory issues to a drop in stock value now, shares have fallen about 65% since 2021. While competitors like Walmart, they have surged ahead. And beyond pressures of business, Target has also faced public boycotts. We know that one led by Pastor Jamal Bryant. A 40 day fast which happened earlier this year after the company scaled back diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Now, Target says that the job cuts, though they will not affect store employees or workers in its warehouse. The layoffs are only limited to corporate positions. They say those that will be losing their jobs, though, will receive pay and benefits through January 3, along with severance packages. So a lot of shakeups happening there.

[Janelle]

That's crazy.

[Mimi Brown]

But while one retailer is cutting back, another one is making a comeback. Toys R Us is reopening more than 30 stores across the country.

[Janelle]

Yes, yes, yes, yes.

[Mimi Brown]

Just in time for the holidays. This will include eight permanent flagship locations and more than 20 temporary holiday locations. It's the latest revival for the once dominant toy retailer, which filed for bankruptcy back in 2017. They closed more than 700 stores nationwide back there back then. But the brand has been slowly rebuilding under a new ownership. Now, at its peak back in the 80s and 90s, Toys R Us was the destination for kids and parents. Do you guys remember this? Famous for its giant stores aisles of tours.

[Janelle]

Yes. Girl, I was so sad when that store went out of business. I was so sad. My son was three years old.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah.

[Janelle]

Now I got a one year old. So now I got a reason to go back. I'm so happy about it.

[Mimi Brown]

Absolutely. And what's that famous jingle? Do y' all remember it? I don't wanna grow up.

[DJ Envy]

I don't wanna grow up. I'm a Toys R Us kid.

[Mimi Brown]

Absolutely.

[Janelle]

Yeah.

[Mimi Brown]

So the company is trying to bring back all that nostalgia for kids these days. And so. So not only is it nostalgia, they said that the company will bring back the stores opening, will bring seasonal jobs and more full time positions.

[DJ Envy]

So I don't know how that's going to work. I mean, they would almost have to make themselves like a destination event space. Like it would have to be things for the kids to do inside the store. I don't know if just walking in the store and walking down the aisles will excite kids anymore. I don't know.

[Angela Yee]

You don't think so? That's what I was thinking. I was like, kids always want something to do. It's to the point now where kids be like, take me to Target. Because that's where they have Toys. But now, like you said, they need places for kids to go where kids can say, I want this. I see the new toy. I want a Nerf thing. I want video games. I want artists.

[DJ Envy]

Gotta be like a playpen in there. It's gotta be something for them to do. Like when you take them to like the American Dream Mall. It's stuff for kids to do.

[Janelle]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

That's what Toys R Us needs.

[Angela Yee]

But it's a Toys R Us in American Dream, all though.

[Janelle]

It is.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, it is.

[Janelle]

Yeah. Okay.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I didn't know that.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah. So I think you're right. I think both of you're right. I know when I take my son to the store, being able to walk down the aisle and try everything out because now you just order something from Amazon and it's there, but now you can you get to play with each little thing. Yeah, I think they'll like that too, you know, so. All right, y'. All. Well, that is your front page news. I want to say. Oh, yeah, really quickly shout out to Howard University, I'm a proud bison. So sorry.

[Janelle]

Not sorry.

[Mimi Brown]

Yes, sorry. I will not be there. I will be at my TED Talk, by the way, which is the website is tedxalcedina.com you can find all the information there on how to stream it. If you want to take a look this weekend, what time, what day and time it is. Sunday at 10am is when it starts. I know TED has really strict rules, so I don't know if they're going to be able to live stream all of it. But some of the information will be on the website and be able to see what's available.

[Angela Yee]

Okay, thank you, Mimi.

[DJ Envy]

Have a great weekend.

[Janelle]

Thank you.

[Mimi Brown]

Absolutely. So that is your front page news. I'm Mimi Brown. Follow me, Mimi Brown tv. For more stories, follow the Black Information Network, Download the free iHeartRadio app or visit binnews.com all right, thanks, girl.

[Angela Yee]

Now, when we come back, Reuben Vincent and 9th Wonder will be joining us.

[DJ Envy]

Hold on, hold on, Envy. One more thing. Today is Friday, so we do the people's donkey. So you can call us right now, 1-800-585-1051 and give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid. You get to deliver the biggest Hee Haw today. So call us right now.

[Angela Yee]

That's right. And when we come back, REUBEN Vincent the 9th Wonder will be joining us. His new album, welcome Home is out now. Now 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. We got some special guests in the building.

[DJ Envy]

Yes indeed.

[Angela Yee]

We got the brother, ninth Wonder, he's back. And Reuben Vincent back. What's up, guys? How y' all feeling, man?

[DJ Envy]

How's everything?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All is well, man.

[DJ Envy]

I love seeing this because I always feel like the young, younger lyricists need to get with the OG veteran producers, like somebody like Knife and create magic.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely.

[DJ Envy]

I don't think that there's. And I could be wrong, but I don't think that there's anybody that can, you know, do for Reuben what a Knife could sound wise. What you think, Ruby?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I agree. Just being real. I mean, I don't think it's been done on this level, you know what I mean? I feel like, you know, there's been few folks that might have did records, but it's either sending the beats off and then they over there. Like we really sat in the studio with each other, you know what I mean? It was. I moved in the studio for six months, sleeping on the couch. So it was like, you know, he going to his crib, but I wake up, go to the gym, he pull up at 12 o' clock. And we just really. The synergy was there, you know what I mean? So I think this is the first of his kind for sure.

[Angela Yee]

When do you have the time? Because you're also a professor, like, when do you have the time? I've seen Knights so many times and it really never has to do with music. It's always, I'm at a school speaking or something like that.

[DJ Envy]

Or basketball.

[Angela Yee]

Or basketball.

[DJ Envy]

One of the two.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, yeah.

[Angela Yee]

When do you have the time, brother?

[DJ Envy]

Man, that's the beauty about living in North Carolina, dog. Like there's no rat race to run, really. And so I kind of, you know, I teach twice a week. I teach at Duke on Wednesdays and Wake Forest University on Thursdays and. But outside of that, the rest of the week is either comprised of doing stuff with basketball or just making music. And so that's how I deal with it. But I think the biggest thing between me and him is what. Teaching has helped me do that too. Teaching has helped me understand the next generation way more than anybody else. Most people only deal with like 17, 18, well, 18, 19, 20 year olds. That's like family members, blah, blah, blah. And they use those people to like put a blanket on how every 18 year old acts. Me, I've been looking at 18 year olds and 22 year olds since what, 19 years now. This is my 19 year teaching. So an 18 year old in 2006 and an 18 year old in 2016 and an 18 year old in 2025. Them three different 18 year olds, of course. So I kind of look at it that way. But the thing about me and him is a lot of people don't think that this. These two generations can't communicate. Well, facts. And. And that's kind of. We debunked that with this. I mean, even when I first met him, that's how it's been. But we kind of, you know, getting waited as far as time. Yeah, man, I just. I'm just real focused. Charlamagne know, I'm just real focused on what I do, what I need to do. I like serving the culture all the time. And yeah, man, if I'm not helping the culture, then I'm taking away from it. I feel like with hip hop, though, you know, young men like Reuben are trying to do what y' all already did. So they gotta come to you for that sign. You can't say, man, I want to make an ill manning. I want to make something that sound like reasonable doubt. I want to make something that sound like, like the first little brother. I'm like, you gotta come to the people who did that then.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, man, I think it's each one teach one, you know what I mean? And, you know, they talk about, you know, the, the. They say it didn't exist, but the Willie lynch letter. But you know what I'm saying, it's real common to what really happens, you know what I'm saying? From breaking generations apart and separating us. But I had my father. We didn't live in the same house, but he always used to pick me up on weekends. So I know how to take a person's counsel, you know what I mean? And I also too, is like, I'm a sponge, you know what I mean? So it's like I'm willing to learn, you know what I mean? Where I feel like, you know, people might. Some people my age, they'll be turned off and try to like, you know, cool. But I think for me, it's just like, I want to know. And then also too, they were our age when they were making the illmatics. They were our age when they was making the reasonable doubts, you know what I mean? They make it seem like now me being 24 and me being like, having depth to my lyrics or wisdom is like, like, like, whoa. You know what I mean? Like, oh, you. You sound like an old. But it's like, yeah, exactly. So it's like yo, like, it's not uncommon. You know what I mean? And it's only right that, you know, you go tap in with the pioneers who've been there before, because they the only ones that can tell you, you know what I mean? You sitting and listening to somebody who ain't never done it don't make no sense to me.

[Angela Yee]

Is there a place for lyricists in this game to be at the top of the game?

[DJ Envy]

Right?

[Angela Yee]

And the reason I say that, as you mentioned, you mentioned Jay, you mentioned Nas. You know, you could talk Pac, you can talk Big. They were lyricists, but they were top. And people respected them as being the top. You can look at Outkast and even TI like, they were a top. But now it seems like that lyricist they put in a box.

[DJ Envy]

You know what? Outkast, man. We have to understand with outkast, it took a couple of albums for everybody to truly respect outkast.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Correct.

[DJ Envy]

It wasn't from the South. I mean, Southern Playlistic. Okay, okay. You know what happened at Source Awards, then Atlns. It wasn't until they got to Equeminae and Stankonia that everybody was like, okay. You know what I mean? But even with Big and Jay, that's kind of where hip hop was taking a turn. You know, before that, hip hop wasn't as commercial everywhere, like, whatever. But when Big and Jay came, especially when Jay came along, dmx. And now we're looking at hip hop, more people that don't look like us is listening to hip hop way more than ever. You know what I mean? So. So that's kind of what that was. But I think it's. Man, I'm gonna say this, man, I just love. And I remember. I know we all do remember. When the culture was ours, we had our own validation points. If you were on Rap City, you're on tv. Raps, Arsenio Hall Show, Soul Train, in the back of the Jet Magazine. The albums, the singles, they showed your house in Ebony. If you were on those cover, the Source. The COVID the Source, Essence magazine, double xl. If you were in the hair salons, the barbershop, the music. If you went outside with your homies after church and played whatever, you was listening in the car. If you were in all those places one time, that's validation enough. You made it. You know what I mean?

[Angela Yee]

You made it.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, and. And. And not trying to say, cause I'm here. This is one of the few last rites of passages for people. Y' all look like us, you know what I mean? And you Gotta come through here to be validated. We need more of that, you know what I'm saying? Like, so when we say mainstream, top of the game. This is a part of the top of the game right here to me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I also feel like when you talk about lyricists.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you. Too nice.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I also feel like when you talk about lyricists, you got to know how to make a song, you know what I mean? And I think that's the biggest thing with this album that people want to see from me. Like, we was just talking about it where it was like, what was the turning point for you? Where a lot of people, we did a listening on Friday, and everybody was like, yo, you really, like, showed your songwriting, you know, on here, and, like, you have choruses, and it's like, now you could tell you a lot of time it was just me in the studio, you know what I mean? By myself. So I feel like, like, a lot of the lyricists at this time is still proving they trying to rap on they records and they not giving nothing that people can relate to or people can feel. It's always, I'm just trying to show you I can do this crazy word play. Like, nah, I want to make records that you're going to play Monday through Friday, when you on the way to work, when you on the way to school, you getting ready, you know what I mean? Or even before the party, you know what I'm saying? Or at the party, you know what I mean? And I think this album, that was the example, and I feel like that's the only way a lyricist can really reach them heights is if they know how to make a record.

[Angela Yee]

And they gotta be taught, right? You watch Nas, and Nas will tell you, I don't know if it was tragedy, but taught him how to make a song, right? Like, this is the components to making song.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I love Big.

[Angela Yee]

Big is probably my favorite artist ever. Him and Jay. But I don't know if Puff wasn't there, I don't know if Big knew how to make those type of songs.

[DJ Envy]

And how to break, it would have been that.

[Angela Yee]

It would have been partying bull. But Puff taught him, like, no, you need to make a song like this. You need a hook. You need this. And I feel like that's what's missing a lot of times in this game.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Kobe Bryant needed to feel Jackson, and that's my field.

[DJ Envy]

Jackson, Snoop needed Dre.

[Janelle]

So what is the creative process like?

[DJ Envy]

You know what?

[Janelle]

Making this project.

[DJ Envy]

Making this project. Well, welcome home. Welcome home. I called Reuben in a Special place. Reuben came to me and said, man, you seen the lego movie? I said, I saw it one for real. It's like, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Pharrell one, yeah.

[DJ Envy]

He's like, man, I ain't know. Pharrell was close to Tribe like that, that he revered Tribe Called quest. I'm like, yeah. He said, that's who I am. I come from that. I'm not like, yeah. Like, I knew this whole time. I'm just letting him realize, like, you know, sometimes you have to step out the way and let, you know, figure it out on your own. But then while we're recording it, we're recording. We thought we was done. Reuben start falling for somebody. Okay, okay. All right. And so I'm coming in the studio. I'm coming in the studio. You always got to catch them where they are. I'm coming to the studio. He on the phone. He FaceTimed me on the phone.

[Angela Yee]

Oh, you love Jones cupcake.

[DJ Envy]

Cupcake at work. And I'm like, you know, but I have to catch him where he is. So now all my beats started to turn a certain way for him to talk about what he wanted to talk about, that he found somebody, and I thought that was amazing, which something we talked about. There's nothing wrong with talking about embracing black women on your project.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, young men. Young men don't do that a lot. And I think even the routine again, like, right before, like he said, he let me figure it out on my own. When I got my. When I first got my deal with rock and I was moving around, I was in la, and then, you know, I started to see how weird the industry can get. And then, you know, a lot of people was in my ear, like, you need to make this type of record, and this type of record that don't necessarily fit who I am. So when I watched the Lego movie, I was like, oh, this is my tree. I come from the tree of tribe. I come from the tree of Kanye west in his early stages. I come from that tree. Okay, let me navigate that and, you know, study and really figure it out. But then also, too, my mom and, like, living in Charlotte, you know, my mom, she's an African mother. You know, she's from Liberia. So she was always supportive of me. But the industry started to change. Money started to slow up at a little bit, and she's like, yo, you either got to go back to school or get a job. And I was like, I ain't doing none of that. You know what I mean? So I called Knife. We talked about it he was like, yo, just come down to Raleigh. Sleeping on the couch for six months. My routine was I wake up up, say my prayers, go to the gym. By the time I get back from the gym, I take a shower, because we have a shower at the studio, which is a blessing. Like, there's a lot of artists can't say they have a mentor who has a whole studio that you don't got to pay for studio time. So I'm gonna take all advantage, you know what I mean?

[DJ Envy]

You don't know if you don't have to pay for it yet. Might be an invoice.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nah. But then after that, you know, like, he'll probably get to the studio around 12 o' clock and we'll sit there, we'll discuss, talk about, you know, what movies remind us of home, what music videos that we. Our favorite rap music videos. Then we going through samples, you know what I mean? So the way the studio is set up, Knife got his beat room and then we got the recording room and then we got the living area where.

[DJ Envy]

I used to sleep at.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But 9th will come in around 12 o'.

[Janelle]

Clock.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We'll sit there, chop it up, maybe watch some basketball, watch some videos. He finds some samples, he make the beat. I'm sitting there, he gonna air. He's all right. I'll airdrop it to the big computer. I'm gonna run to the other room, accept it on the big computer record. Then he gonna be in there watching basketball. Thirty minutes later, I come back around, I think I got something, I got something.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And then he'll come in there, hear it, and then do what he does as a producer and then.

[DJ Envy]

What made you want to work with him though, Ruben? I mean, Knife? Cause I'm sure are. It's a million artists that come to you, especially in North Carolina. Yo, nice. I want to get with you. I want to do something with you. Okay. So I was on tour in Germany and had the day off. And somebody on. I was doing an ask ninth on Twitter and somebody said to me, so I ain't got no question, it's this kid you need to listen to. I have no dog in this fight.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know this kid.

[DJ Envy]

I don't know this kid. And usually I, you know, I know how it goes. Some people want. They trying to get their family members on. You don't know this kid, that shit, man. But. But he did not know the dude was from Oakland.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oakland. I never had been to Oakland. I was 13 at the time.

[DJ Envy]

13. And he sent me the link. And I listened to it. I was like, man. And I think one of the rhymes, he said something about Cool G rap. And I'm like, hold on, bro. Like this. You're 13 years old. So then I shot him inboxes on Twitter and I said, yo, is this. He's like, yeah, how you doing, man? And I was like, hey, where's your parents? And so he put his mom on. And I was like, I'll be home in a couple of weeks. I got home, they showed up. Him and his mom showed up in my studio. I dapped him up. He's about this tall. And I said, man, you want something to eat? What'd you say?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I just want some Pop Tarts, some strawberry milk and some pizza. 13 year old diet. 13 year old diet, Literally.

[DJ Envy]

But it kind of went from there. And the first song we did was a song called Extraterrestrial. And I looked at my president cat, my man Cash. I said, man, I said, man, he ain't breathing. He's just rapping. He's not breathing. And you did nine songs that weekend?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Three days. Made a beat on a machine that I had never touched before that week.

[Angela Yee]

What got you in the Tribe? Was it that Lego movie?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, beforehand.

[Angela Yee]

So what put you on the Tribe? And Coogee Rap. In that era of music, I see.

[DJ Envy]

You playing fife in a biopic. I ain't never thought about it till y'.

[Janelle]

All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I would love to. I would love to. So my father, you know, again, both my parents are from West Africa, Liberia. And when he came to the States, he lived in New York for a little bit, and he moved to North Carolina and met my mom, who. My mom. So to give a little bit of background, the Queens.

[Angela Yee]

Jesus, you talking farmers.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I gotta ask. Yeah, I gotta ask him. Yeah, I probably gotta ask him. But he went from my. My dad experienced the Liberian Civil war in the 90s, so he was a refugee, came to America still very young. While my mom, she got here when she was 16 and lived in the DMV before moving to Charlotte. But her dad fought in the war, passed away in the war, all of that. But when he came down, a lot of. He said in Africa, they used to listen to a lot of Tupac and Biggie during the war. And so when he had. When they had me, granted, they had, like, separated when I was born, they. My dad always used to pick me up on the weekends, and he used to have a blue Cadillac, and he would drive me around playing, all eyes on me, ready to die. Blueprint, Get Rich or Die Trying.

[DJ Envy]

So I.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That was the way me and my dad bonded when I was 4 years old. So then by the time I was able to write, I wrote my first rap when I was five years old, and so I already had a little bit of knowledge. And my dad gifted me late registration when I was six, seven years old. So when those little moments were like rabbit holes for me, because then by the time I was like 10, 11, YouTube was available. So now I'm looking up, okay, late registration. Okay.

[DJ Envy]

Blueprint.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay. Reasonable Doubt. Okay. Then the recommended Nas Illmatic. Then it's like, oh, cool, G Rap. Then it's like, oh, Tribe Called Quest, Midnight Marauders. I just started going down a rabbit hole and just became like super, like, just like floored with everything, you know what I mean? So by the time I met Knife, I was already like, so knee deep into, like, what I liked. And then also, too, around the same time I was 11, 12 years old, Joey Badass started merging on the scene, you know what I mean? And you know what he was doing at the time. So, you know, I was just like, it was floored and I just started to do my deep dives.

[DJ Envy]

I wanted to ask you what artists. I'm glad you said joy, because what artists, I guess from your generation reminded you of.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Of that, obviously? Joey, Kendrick Lamar, Cole Earl sweatshirt. In the early. In the early times, still to the. Still to this time, I was big on them, like, super early. You know what I mean? The Wale's like all of them like that. That era, the blog era was like, where, like, I really dived deep into, like, who they were. Those are like the ones who raised me outside of, like, the 90s.

[DJ Envy]

I want to see more people inspired by what Roberta Flack and Donnie had to with me. That's what I'm talking about, man. It's called the feeling, y'. All. It's called the Feeling. And that's where we try to do on this album, is create a feeling. It's like a lot of. A lot of music lacks that particular euphoric. The thing about d', Angelo, man, which a lot of us was raised in the church, that feeling is not in music now, and it doesn't mean it can't be there. Hip hop and the Feeling has got separated over time, which it used to be like this because in the 90s, hip hop has samples in them. That was the feeling, no matter what the subject matter was on the top. So I think this just has to, you know, they've got that feel good, man. Nothing wrong with that. And then it's also how do you keep people's legacies alive? Right? Because I swear since d' Angelo died, you can just be out and you'll hear somebody humming a d'. Angelo. I'm talking about humming. I'm not talking about just you hit on real. I've been around people and they just.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, last night I was at the Odell show and as soon as he.

[DJ Envy]

Got off, they played brown sugar shout outs to Odell.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Od. Yeah, for sure.

[DJ Envy]

Another one. But, but my thing is, where is that when these people are here? Like, how do you keep that alive? Is it urban AC radio? Like, what is it? Yeah, the 12 o' clock throwback mix on. Yeah, you know, I mean, you know, that's a, that's a corporate conversation, man. We can head out, but get ready.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

With Cam bringing an athlete's perspective and Ashley bringing an analyst's edge, they're breaking down every angle. The wins, the controversies and the unforgettable.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Janelle]

In the new podcast Hell in Heaven two young Americans move to the Costa Rican jungle to start over. But one will end up dead, the other tried for murder not once. People went wild, not twice, stunned, but three times. John and Anne Bender are rich and attractive and they're devoted to each other. They create a nature reserve and build a spectacular circular home high on the top of a hill. But little by little by little, their dream starts to crumble and our couple retreat from reality.

[DJ Envy]

They lose it.

[Angela Yee]

They actually lose it.

[Janelle]

They sort of went nuts. Until one night, everything spins out of control. Listen to Hell in Heaven on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All I know is what I've been told and that to have truth as.

[Mimi Brown]

A who for almost a decade, the murder of an 18 year old girl from a small town in Graves County, Kentucky went unsolved until a local homemaker, a journalist and a handful of girls came forward with a story.

[Janelle]

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[Mimi Brown]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Mimi Brown]

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[DJ Envy]

I did not know her and I did not kill her or rape or burn or any of that other stuff.

[Angela Yee]

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[Janelle]

They literally made me say that I took a match and struck and threw it on her. They made me say that I poured gas on her.

[Mimi Brown]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Mimi Brown]

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[DJ Envy]

No, I mean, I'm saying, man, like we got to bring DJ Envy. We have to bring DJs were the spokesman for the hood, man. Or for black people. On what was good and what was not. Everybody ain't good, right? Just cause you made it. It ain't. Everybody's not. I know. Music is subjective. All right, cool. Everybody's DJs was supposed to be the ones that told us what was good and what was not. We trusted the dj. It's been like this since the beginning of hip hop. And so that's what we need, man. And we can't. We can't get a certain age and just say, man, I don't want to hear that old stuff anymore. Other cultures don't do that, bro. They don't take a special ed and throw them to the back burner. Whoever the country version of special ed is, whoever the country version of Big Daddy Kane is, they don't throw them to the back burner. We need to make sure our legends are great and revered, just like they do in the grand old Opera in Nashville, on any other genre. The Rolling Stones still rocking because people are still going for us. It's out with the old and with the new. That's a gene. That's the thing about black people. Because we so creative, we just. We just onto the neck so fast. We cannot abandon who got us here and who continues to still do music. It's up to us. We cannot wait on anybody else to do it but us, bro.

[Angela Yee]

And they start. And they're starting with the stations because growing up, no matter what, what market you. And it was always a classic rock station, right? Always going to have that. And we're starting to get that now. We are with, you know, 80s and 90s, you know, hip hop stations and things like that.

[DJ Envy]

But in reality, all urban adult contemporary stations have to do is just update the playlist. Like old school now is what we came up on in the 90s and the early 2000s. But they still playing, and they should. But they playing Earth, Wind and Fire and like.

[Janelle]

Yeah, that's why I'm glad that we do on Fridays. We do have Past the Other with Nyla. Cause Nyla Simone has put me on to you like that. She's how I found you and Odile and a lot of other artists that she has put me on with. So the DJs definitely, you know, you got DJs with good ears, man. That's like, look, you put your ear to the music, and these are the things that you feel are, like, kind of rare. She putting them out there every Friday. Like I said, she put me on you and a lot of other people that I listen to now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So, you know, y' all do a great job of that, just having her on Friday doing the pasta ox. And I think it needs to be more because even, like Envy, I would just saw a video where you. You was the first person to play Hit him up, you know what I mean? And I feel like allegedly, that's his story.

[DJ Envy]

Don't give him that credit.

[Angela Yee]

Nobody else will go against it, too.

[Janelle]

Like, I.

[DJ Envy]

Sure.

[Angela Yee]

And I tell you, I mean, I said I got it from Shot Money xl. I used to produce it to me left the studio and gave it to his first DJ to play.

[DJ Envy]

If I heard it was only Dirty Harry. That definitely wasn't Dirty Harry. Dirty Harry.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But nah, like, real talk. Like, I just feel like, you know, you, like, again, she does it incredibly with Past the Ox. But I feel like, you know, we need to honor the young DJs and, you know, allow them to have that space because, you know, they're going to be the ones putting us on the music now. You know what I mean? Just like. Like, you were who kid, you know, Clue. Like, you know, it's. It needs to continue again. Each one teach one. You know what I mean? So I'm with you.

[DJ Envy]

It's wild because now when you watch NFL games, you watch NBA games, when they go to commercial, they playing, like, nothing but a G thing and a war tour. And I remember when Jalen Rose was, you know, the NBA commentator. Like I said, man, I wonder if Jalen Rose got influence in what they playing when they go to commercial break. Because they play who Got the Props one day. And I was like, wait a minute, bro. But it's. That's. We are. I think Jimmy Fallon is a prime example of where we are in the time continuum, because to have the be the Tonight show host and your band be the Roots tells you everything. And he always says, Black Thought's my favorite rapper. Tyler Kweli is my second favorite rapper, and he's what, 50 years old? So, I mean, I think we just need to do more of that, man. We just cannot abandon our classics like that. Yeah, I agree.

[Mimi Brown]

Agree.

[DJ Envy]

Knife, you don't have to answer this if you don't want to. Okay. May the Lord watch. Okay, everybody wanted to know why Knife Wonder didn't participate in the Little brother documentary. That's a long story. I don't think we got that kind of time. But I will say this, man, you talking about in the documentary. Yes. Why you didn't participate. Yeah, that's a long story. We gotta count. But I will say this. And sometimes people think I say something. Political reasons. Y' all watch me for years. Both of y' all have watched me for years. I have never been a person to go online and in public to try not to say that they did that to me. But to deface and talk negative about another man or woman, that's never been my thing. And that's they feeling. That's how they respect. And you have to respect how they feel about everything or whatever. But as far as their success, as far as their we being a part of each other's history, I cannot change that at all. Little Brother has our own children. Kendrick, Drake, Cole, Big Sean, Wale, Ruben, Vincent. We got our own children. Right? Again, it's a story behind it. But that's. I believe in family business, bro. That's just how. This is how I was raised. That's how I am. And, you know, we're at the age now. I'm 50 years old, bro. Y' all know how this goes, man. We lose people every day, bro. We're losing family members. Listen, listen. God bless them brothers, man. Let them keep doing what they doing. I think they are on tour right now. They got shows. They still doing shows. Fonte is incredibly talented, although we may have disagreements or whatever. Incredibly talented.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

One of the illness pins.

[DJ Envy]

Exactly. You know what I mean? I've seen Pooh go from being one artist, one rapper to another rapper to the level that he is. Without. Without. No. Without. No. Fonte Coleman would not be a Drake.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Facts. That's a fact.

[DJ Envy]

Drake. Drake, completely, 1,000%. He says it a million times. Studied him, revered him, imitated him. Everything we know about Drake rapping and singing is Fonte Coleman. Fonty and Joe Button. Huh? Fonte and Joe Button, Dante Coleman and. But it's my man. You know what? I'm. Yeah, but that. Again, going back. Listen, man, like, that's how it is with me. I got to keep moving, man. I. I didn't see the documentary at all. I never watched it. I've heard about it from everybody, but I gotta keep them moving, man. I cannot stay in that space. We. We don't have the time on this earth to stay in that space. I got work to do. This is my work. Now. I got other work to do as well. This is my label, Jamla. That's what it is. But again, salute them brothers, man. God bless them brothers, man. That's how they feel. They have that had the right to express it. I didn't go online and say anything about it. When it came out. I heard everything about it. Blah, blah, blah, difference of opinion, and we move on. What message are you two trying to send back to the culture with welcome home? That the feeling is not lost. You can continue to give the feeling. And there's not a division between a generation. We are 25 years apart. This can work and music can be made with this. That's the biggest thing I want to get across, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I think for me, whether you are NBA Youngboy or whether you are a Reuben Vincent, whether you are a any other name that I can name right now, show up as yourself. Show up as yourself and perform at a high level. I ain't rapping to just drive a Honda Accord, bruh. You know what I mean? Like, but I'm gonna do it as myself. I ain't here to compromise, none of that, but. But I am gonna be one of the greatest in my generation. I'm gonna say that.

[DJ Envy]

That's just a fact.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I mean? And I'm gonna do it being 100% Ruben Vincent. I' ma always rep Africa, I' ma always rep Charlotte, and I'mma always rep showing up as yourself. And that's exactly what this album is about.

[Angela Yee]

Hey, Reuben Vincent, 9th wonder. We appreciate you, brothers.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, sir.

[Angela Yee]

Album comes out this Friday. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, you're checking out the Breakfast Club.

[Angela Yee]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ and Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the latest with Lauren.

[Janelle]

Lauren becoming a straight face.

[Angela Yee]

She gets them from somebody that knows somebody.

[DJ Envy]

She gets the details.

[Janelle]

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

[DJ Envy]

She'd be having the latest on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The Latest with Lauren LaRosa.

[DJ Envy]

Sometimes you have facts, Sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have a little bit of everything. Well, it's the latest on the Breakfast Club.

[Janelle]

Talk to me now out of this whole big NBA fed news that has been breaking over the last 24 hours. There's been some interesting conversations coming out of it. So right now, what's happening is there are a ton of people that feel like this is a political thing, that this Is Trump getting back at the NBA for all of the, you know, civil rights activism that they did some years ago? One of the people who believe that is Stephen A. Smith. Let's take a listen to Stephen A. On first take.

[DJ Envy]

How many times times have I said, trump is coming, he's coming. We'll say it on national television again. Bad Bunny is, is performing at the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Super bowl, and all of a sudden.

[DJ Envy]

You hear an ICE is going to be there looking to engage in mass deportations. Remember, Trump has a long, long history connected to the world of sports because he had those casinos. Where do you think folks will come in half the time? Don't be surprised that the WNBA is next, because when you've got all of these protests that have been going out there and people that have been protesting against them and what have you, you, this man is coming. Anybody that has been around him from the sports leagues and the positions that people have taken, they are not surprised at what's going on. Today I'm watching a press conference with the director of the FBI.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Tell me when we've seen that.

[DJ Envy]

Why, why can't we just let things play out? Like, you know, I'm, I'm not saying Stephen A. Is wrong. I just think that one of our biggest problems is, you know, we don't let things play out. Like, we all have to talk about what we think and add our conspiracies and hot takes, like Bad Bunny's not committing a crime. And what did they. What is the NBA doing? And I don't even know if the NBA players committed a crime, but it seems like they're connected at least to a crime. But what, what does the NBA got going on?

[Angela Yee]

But not only that, didn't they say they've been, they've been actually watching them since, like, 2019, 2020. So Trump was out of office and they were still watching them. So, you know, I mean, it's just weird to say that.

[DJ Envy]

What have the WNBA players done? Like, you know, like I always say, you know, you can't go after somebody if they don't. They're not giving you anything, you know, to go after them for.

[Janelle]

True. And I will say, too, there's. Outside of just the press conference that happened yesterday, there's actual, like, there's documents around this indictment, so you can go in and read what led to what and why we're here. But the NBA players are going to push back, too. So we have to wait to hear what their defenses will be like. This going to play out. It's going to take some months for all of. All of this to unfold. Now, another real quick.

[DJ Envy]

Is Trump petty? Yes. Is Trump on a revenge tour? Yes. But what that got to do with some of these sports leagues, a bad bunny performing at the Super Bowl?

[Janelle]

I don't know. Yeah. Now, another person who spoke out about this was Shaq. Shaq was on inside the NBA, and he said that he is ashamed. Let's take a listen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know the letter of the law when it comes to gambling and sports gambling. And I don't want to sit up here like I'm some perfect guy. Like I. Every now and then when I go to Vegas, I play some crap. Never gambled at anybody's house. Don't know anything about poker. So I don't know what. What they talking about when it comes to the. To the Chauncy thing, but I know Chauncey. I know Damon. Very well played with Damon. So I don't want to sit up here. But I'm ashamed that those guys will put their families and their careers in jeopardy. There's old saying in the hood, all money ain't good money. So if you're making $9 million and you're dealing in certain things, like, how much more do you need? Especially if, you know, you get caught, you can do jail time, time, lose your career, they drop the ball.

[DJ Envy]

See, once again, when I hear Shaq talk like that, I think the same thing. Why can't we just let play. Let things play out like it. It just makes me believe they know something because they're not even giving them the benefit of the doubt. Just. I'm ashamed of them. They put their families in jeopardy.

[Angela Yee]

Like, you're right.

[DJ Envy]

I thought it was. I thought it was innocent until proven.

[Janelle]

Guilty, which is what they said multiple times at the press conference as well.

[Angela Yee]

It's supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. But, you know, the sad thing about it is, is once something hits the press, once there's an indictment, whether it's right or wrong, you start to lose everything. Like, immediately. The NBA said they suspended Chauncey Billups and suspended Rosier immediately.

[DJ Envy]

I understand that, though I don't.

[Angela Yee]

Because unless there's proof to say that they are wrong, because let's say they did absolutely, positively nothing wrong. Nothing at all. I lose my job, I lose my sponsorship, I lose my endorsements, and I really did nothing wrong. I don't know if that's true.

[Janelle]

But in the indictment, though, in the documents I was making mentioning that the, you know, the government does have to like, say, here is what led us here. So, like, they say that they have text messages of, you know, different things happening. And, like, all of this is not coming from anywhere. And that's what you want.

[Angela Yee]

If it could be explained something differently.

[Janelle]

That's why you gotta wait.

[Angela Yee]

It's not. It's not right.

[Janelle]

Not comparing the two. But I will say we thought a lot was happening with Diddy in the beginning of his federal and his federal case, right? And then we got in court.

[DJ Envy]

This is what y' all missing about the Chauncey Terry thing. Thing. They were actually arrested and charged. If you're arrested and charged, I can see why the corporation would suspend you.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, that's true. But the sad thing about it is when you're arrested and charged, you could be arrested and charged falsely. You know what I mean? And you and I both know with like, Chauncey Billups, let's say they suspended him, there's gonna be another coach in there that takes his job, right? And that another coach, if he starts doing job, Chauncey ain't getting that job back. You see what I'm saying? And he might lose five, seven million dollars a year. And then he comes back and be like, oh, not guilty. Sorry, sorry.

[DJ Envy]

If he's not guilty, he'll probably still get paid his contract, though, because there's no moral clause that was violated. You know what I'm saying?

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[Janelle]

Well, look, they got a lot of claims in this indictment, and again, it'll take some time, but it'll all play out and we'll see. What irons out is, you know, what a court believes is fact and not fact and kind of what happens from there.

[Angela Yee]

But also, I think we need to have conversations. I think a lot of people don't know that those backyard poker games are illegal. I think most people don't know that.

[Janelle]

That. I didn't know that.

[Angela Yee]

See, I don't think most people knew. I don't play poker, so it's not in my world. But most people don't know that. That's illegal. You really not supposed to.

[Janelle]

You only supposed to play poker in a casino.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, because it's taxed. It's.

[Janelle]

It's.

[Angela Yee]

You know, you could. You can know people are not getting over on you with false cards and stuff.

[Janelle]

But also, y', all too.

[DJ Envy]

The.

[Janelle]

The feds are saying that they have text messages of certain things and they have actual proof. So if I think people are just depending on what they. What they have right now. And it's a short. Maybe it's Too fast to say certain things, but they're just going off what they have right now. But yeah, Envy.

[DJ Envy]

I know. Envy, I know you don't play poker, but do you play Pokemon?

[Janelle]

Oh, my God.

[Angela Yee]

We played that last night, me and you. Oh, okay.

[Janelle]

Y' all some Pokemon crazy.

[DJ Envy]

After the new generation of Jamaicans. Say he a Pokemon. Pokemon.

[Janelle]

As we wrap, I did want to take some time to shout out Asia Wilson. I know you're headed down there. Charlam. She last night was inducted into the Athletic hall of Fame in South Carolina. Congratulations. Yes. And she gave an amazing speech as she was inducted. Let's take a listen to that real quick. To my parents, you've been my biggest supporter since day one.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You sacrificed, you cheered me on, and you kept me grounded throughout it all. This honor is for you.

[DJ Envy]

It's school. To my boyfriend. Even though you went to Kaki.

[Janelle]

And.

[DJ Envy]

You, you went to that royal blue school. Thank you for the constant support.

[Lanny Smith]

Always.

[DJ Envy]

You weren't there for the young Asia, but your support is always in my.

[Angela Yee]

Up to this point, when I see.

[Janelle]

Girls in the stands wearing the N bolster on the back of their jerseys.

[DJ Envy]

I hope they carry it with them.

[Janelle]

In the belief of anything is possible.

[DJ Envy]

Shout out to her. Salute to Asia Wilson.

[Janelle]

That is so dope. That's dope.

[DJ Envy]

I'll be in conversation with Asia and Asia Wilson and Don Staley today at the Colonial Life arena at 4:30pm and then after that, it's an exhibition game between Anderson, S.C. so hope you got your tickets. I'll see y' all this afternoon.

[Angela Yee]

Dope, dope, dope. All right.

[Janelle]

Yo, what up? It's my girl Monica birthday. Okay, Y' all already know, and I want to hear some Monica, but I want to do some interesting stuff. Look, did y' all know that Monica was a mortician? She not only a singer, but she a mortician at her uncle's funeral home and has been since 2017.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, like now. Like recently.

[Janelle]

Like now recently. Yes. She takes her career very serious. Not only is she a singer and all that, you know, and on tour and everything, songwriter. But she's also a mortician.

[Angela Yee]

You sure that's the right Monica?

[DJ Envy]

Monica. Monica will kill you and do the body.

[Angela Yee]

She will kill you and do the body. Yes.

[Janelle]

And hair and makeup and everything will be laid. Cuz she's always together. Talked about it before. It's her. It's her family business. Yes.

[Angela Yee]

Wow.

[Janelle]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

That is crazy. That Guna could kill you and do the body.

[Janelle]

You know it.

[DJ Envy]

What's Crazy is Lauren been trying to look like Brandy and Monica all week. And she been looking like a combination of Brandy, Monica and Jaja Binks. That's why I've been calling her Brandica Banks. That's her alias. Brandica Binks.

[Janelle]

That is so messed up. I was going to say the guy don't even do that. God don't like ugly. Okay, what's your favorite Monica song? Probably before you walk out of my life. Or angel of mine. So I got. I got four of them. I got don't take it personal. Why I love you so much. For you I will. And before you walk out of my life.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, yeah.

[Janelle]

I don't know if you One of.

[Angela Yee]

Them days or the boy's mind. No, no, no.

[Janelle]

Just one of them days is don't take it personal. That's what we should go out. I know. That's what we should go out on. We should go out on. Don't take it personal. Just one of them days.

[Angela Yee]

Okay.

[Janelle]

Keep it up.

[DJ Envy]

Ain't nothing like that Never meant to cause you no pain Hurry. Yeah. Before I walk out My life hit.

[Janelle]

So hard that's right.

[DJ Envy]

Never meant you no pain Just always.

[Janelle]

Causing pain in here I get a break when you are not here being the same Just want to make things.

[DJ Envy]

Right Only want to make things wrong okay, that slaps. That's a slap.

[Janelle]

Happy birthday, Monica.

[Angela Yee]

All right, well, let's get into her joint now. That was the latest with Lauren. When we come back, Charlemagne's opening up the phone lines, right?

[DJ Envy]

Yes, sir. It's the people's donkey. Call us right now if you want to give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid. 1-800-585-10511. It's the world's most dangerous morning show, the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's your time to nominate a donkey of your own.

[DJ Envy]

Remember now, that is how they choose. Call in now.

[Angela Yee]

800-585-1051.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning. Who this? It's KP Mansfield. KP who you want to give the biggest he haw to brother man? I want to give it to the NBA. I was just going to give it to the Cleveland Cavaliers, but I'm going to just give it to the NBA. That everybody that was trying not to score them points and blowing everybody parlays, they wrong. We need our money back. That's gonna be funny when people do a class action lawsuit against NBA and NBA players. It ain't the NBA.

[Angela Yee]

But I wonder about that. Like if. If I bet money on a game, right? And he threw the game on purpose.

[DJ Envy]

Right.

[Angela Yee]

How. How do you make that hole for people?

[DJ Envy]

You know, I think we think my group think Gilbert arena snitched on everybody. Everybody. Well, Gilbert is kind of leaning into that a little bit from what I saw yesterday. Right. Yeah, we, we think, we think he snitched on everybody and we need to see a matter of fact get him the other day. I think everybody need to stop thinking and just let everybody have their day in court. Yeah, I think should happen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely.

[DJ Envy]

Well, J. Rose there, we know he was really throwing them games because. Yeah, I remember that video from. That was like what, 20, 23? Good morning. Who's this?

[Janelle]

Adrian.

[DJ Envy]

Peace. Adrian, who you want to get a biggest he haw to?

[Janelle]

I have to give the biggest he haw to my son Jacob, my nine year old son.

[DJ Envy]

Damn. What he do?

[Janelle]

Because I've been asking him for a month what he wanted to be for Halloween and he didn't know. And then now this morning he decides that he knows where he wants to be. And now it's like pulling teeth, hoping that the costume will come by Halloween.

[DJ Envy]

What does he want to be on top of that?

[Janelle]

That he wants to be some inflatable alien?

[DJ Envy]

Lord have mercy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Inflatable?

[Angela Yee]

That's inflatable? Aliens are easy to get. You could go to spirits or any of those they have that. Even I think Target has that cuz my kid was that last year. My daughter did the same thing to me. She wanted to be a yellow Care Bear and they ain't got that at spirit so I had to order it next day. Amazon.

[Janelle]

Damn. Yeah, so Amazon says it might come after Halloween.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, damn. Walmart doesn't have.

[Janelle]

I don't go to Target anymore. Yeah, Amazon is backed up. It's backed up.

[DJ Envy]

So listen, nobody gonna judge you if you sneak and talk. Matter of fact, just put on a Halloween costume so nobody knows it's you. Yeah, wear a mask.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You might have to just go there.

[Angela Yee]

Nobody gonna say nothing. Just sneaking in, right in and out. Just get that one thing.

[DJ Envy]

I promise you we won't tell Tamika.

[Lanny Smith]

Mallory.

[DJ Envy]

I promise you, I promise we won't tell Jamal.

[Janelle]

Right this year, guys.

[DJ Envy]

All right, Stick to your convictions. All right, but we not judging.

[Janelle]

I appreciate y'.

[DJ Envy]

All.

[Janelle]

Oh, yeah, and he also, he lost his school Chromebook, so he's done too much in one week.

[DJ Envy]

Damn, damn, damn. Well, maybe you don't deserve a Halloween present. Maybe that's your excuse. No, you lost your book, you don't get a Halloween. A costume.

[Janelle]

Halloween present is crazy.

[DJ Envy]

All right, thank you thank you for calling.

[Janelle]

All right.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning. Who's this?

[Janelle]

Hi, this is Lita. Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

You said Lolita?

[Janelle]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, Lolita who you want to get.

[Janelle]

A biggest he haw to the entire Northern State administration?

[DJ Envy]

Wow.

[Janelle]

An athletic department.

[DJ Envy]

What they do, what they do.

[Janelle]

They are making Norfolk State homecoming miserable. And just, just. They're doing too much. They're doing too much. This year they have fenced off the entire campus. They want homecoming just to be boring. You have to get your tickets. Then today you gotta get your wristbands because if you don't have a wristband, you can't do the tailgating. They want the tailgating to be over by 8pm and the grills and music to be off by 6pm why are they doing this?

[DJ Envy]

Is it for security reasons?

[Janelle]

Honestly, what we think is because the Michael Vick.

[Angela Yee]

That's exactly what it is. Norfolk State homecoming has been a big thing in years, but now that they got Mike Vick, everybody outside of just alum want to come. So I guess they're trying to try to make sure everything. Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Keep it scheduled. I mean, what's wrong with that? If you try to keep it organized, keep everything on schedule, you don't make. You don't make.

[Janelle]

You don't make one person change your entire relationship.

[DJ Envy]

Well, maybe the fans have been there before.

[Janelle]

Mike Van.

[DJ Envy]

Right. Yeah. But what if it's crazy? What if it's three times the size that it. That it usually is?

[Angela Yee]

It is going to be crazy.

[DJ Envy]

With no order.

[Janelle]

It's. It's always. It's. Last year, north state had over 30,000 without Mike. And this year, this was last year.

[Angela Yee]

It's going to be double that this year. And you know, there's Old Dominion Homecoming and Hampton Homecoming. So the 757.

[Janelle]

And Virginia State.

[Angela Yee]

And Virginia State. This is going to be flooded. The whole 757. That's 804. But the whole 757 is going to be flooded. Flooded with people so that I guess they're trying to control it because police gonna be spread thin on in that 757 this weekend.

[Janelle]

Man, the police has been crazy since he's got there and. And that's no problem. No problem. But it's like you just making an inconvenience for people. You know, you have to get your tickets and then now you have to go and get your. Your wristband.

[DJ Envy]

Well, that's crazy. You know that, that structure.

[Janelle]

Yeah, well, I'm gonna see what happens.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, that structure in that one, it might be good. I don't know.

[Janelle]

I'll keep you posted.

[DJ Envy]

All right. And why do people act like they don't go to these events just to sit in traffic? That's what y' all go to. Y' all go just to be able to text everybody and be like, boy, it's crazy out here. We can't even move. No.

[Angela Yee]

You got one more. One more personal life.

[DJ Envy]

Yes. Good morning. Who's this?

[Janelle]

Hey, this your girl Keith from Charleston, South Carolina.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, what's up, home team? Who you want to get a biggest he haw to?

[Janelle]

I want to give it to all Americans. Right now, we are literally sitting back and letting the government play with us. If they are going to shut down, I feel like we need to shut down as well. Stop going to work, stop paying bills. It's getting ridiculous. Premiums are going up and pay wages aren't going up. I feel like we are. The people have the power. And when we open our eyes and realize that the government won't have nothing to do but to submit to us, that's just how I feel about it.

[DJ Envy]

I do feel like we're past the point of political solutions, and it's going to take some type of national scratch strike in order to really, really, really, really get this government to act right. I do. I am starting to feel like that.

[Janelle]

Yes. Like it's our everyday American paycheck that keeps them in power, that keeps their bank account full. If we as Americans literally say, hey, we are not going to work, they will panic. They will go crazy, literally.

[DJ Envy]

I think we got to start caring about the Constitution the way we care about pop culture. Because I think about, like, like the uproar there was when Jimmy Kimmel got removed, and then everybody decided they was going to cancel their Disney subscriptions. And then, you know, the Disney stock prices pummeled it, and all of a sudden, Disney was like, oh, nope, you got to put him back on air. So maybe we got to start caring about the Constitution and things like health care and, you know, government shutdown. We got to start caring about things like that, the way we care about pop culture.

[Janelle]

Yes, we definitely do. Thank you, guys. Y' all have a great morning. You too.

[DJ Envy]

We. We do that every Friday. It's the people's donkey. You can call us 1-800-585-1051 on Fridays, or you can go to the iHeartRadio app, click the Talkback app on the Breakfast Club page, and leave a message.

[Angela Yee]

That's right. Now when we come back, Charlemagne, who we got? We got Lanny Smith.

[DJ Envy]

Man. Lanny Smith. Lanny Smith is the founder of actively black clothing line. I love actively black clothing. They had a a fashion show during New York Fashion Week week and they had so many amazing black luminaries walk that fashion show and he's going to have some of them in here today. With us this morning. He's got South Carolina's own Cecil Williams. He's got Frederica Newton.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Get ready because sports, culture and entertainment is colliding like never before. Wednesday at 10, 9 Central on BET is BET's all new series 106 in.

[DJ Envy]

Sports, hosted by NFL star Cam Newton.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And sports analyst Ashley Nicole Moss. 106 in Sports is where the biggest plays meet the biggest conversations. Each week, Cam and Ashley are counting.

[DJ Envy]

Down the top five moments everyone's talking about. From the most jaw dropping highlights on the field to the viral clips taken.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Over the feed to the culture shifts shaping fashion, entertainment and black Excellence, the.

[DJ Envy]

Top 5 countdown dives into all the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Game winning touchdowns, buzzer beaters, red carpet fits and headlines making stories that define our culture culture.

[DJ Envy]

With Cam bringing an athlete's perspective and Ashley bringing an analyst edge, they're breaking down every angle. The wins, the controversies and the unforgettable.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Moments that keep us talking. Whether it's a wild play that broke the Internet or a championship celebration for the ages or the latest trends shaking up culture. If it's big, it's on 106 in sports.

[DJ Envy]

Whether it's stars like LeBron, Steph Giannis.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And Durant making waves on and off the court, you know it's making the countdown. So tune in and join the conversation because it's where sports meets style, competition meets culture and every moment matters. Don't miss the all new series on Wednesdays at 109 Central on bets 106 in sports. If you want to relive the countdown or catch what you miss, stream the next day on BET.

[Mimi Brown]

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[Janelle]

In the new podcast Hell in Heaven, two young Americans move to the Costa Rican jungle to start over. But one will end up dead, the other tried for murder not once. People went wild, not twice, stunned, but three times. John and Anne Bender are rich and attractive and they're devoted to each other. They create a nature reserve and build a spectacular circular home high on the top of a hill. But little by little, their dream starts to crumble and our couple retreat from reality.

[Angela Yee]

They lose it. They actually lose it.

[Janelle]

They sort of went nuts until one night, everything spins out of control. Listen to Helen Heaven on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. All I know is what I've been told and that to have truth is a whole lie.

[Mimi Brown]

For almost a decade, the murder of an 18 year old girl from a small town in Graves County, Kentucky went unsolved until a local homemaker, a journalist and a handful of girls came forward with a story.

[Janelle]

I'm telling you, we know Quincy killed her.

[Mimi Brown]

We know a story that law enforcement used to convict six people and that got the citizen investigator on national tv.

[DJ Envy]

Through sheer persistence and nerve, this Kentucky housewife helped give justice to Jessica Curran.

[Mimi Brown]

My name is Maggie Freeling. I'm a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist producer and I wouldn't be here if the truth were that easy to find.

[DJ Envy]

I did not know her and I did not kill her or rape or burn or any of that other stuff.

[Angela Yee]

That y' all said.

[Janelle]

They literally made me say that I took a match and struck and threw it on her. They made me say that I poured gas on her.

[Mimi Brown]

From Lava for Good. This is Graves County, a show about just how far our our legal system will go in order to find someone to blame.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

America, y' all better wake the hell up. Bad things happens to good people and small towns.

[Mimi Brown]

Listen to Graves county in the Bone Valley feed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. And to binge the entire season ad free, subscribe to Lava for Good + + on Apple Podcasts.

[DJ Envy]

The wife of Huey P. Newton and Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. Fred Hampton's son will be joining us.

[Angela Yee]

All right, we'll get into that next. So don't Move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Morning, everybody.

[Angela Yee]

Is DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne. We are the Breakfast Club. Lorna Rose is here as well. We got some special guests joining us this morning.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, indeed.

[Angela Yee]

We have Alani Smith here.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning.

[Lanny Smith]

Good morning. Good morning.

[Angela Yee]

We have Cesar Williams.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning. Good morning.

[Angela Yee]

We have Frederica Newton.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning. Good morning.

[Angela Yee]

And we have Fred Hampton Jr. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Morning.

[Janelle]

Morning.

[Angela Yee]

How y' all feeling this morning?

[Lanny Smith]

Man, we blessed man. Black and blessed man.

[DJ Envy]

Blessed, black and highly favored.

[Lanny Smith]

Yes, sir.

[DJ Envy]

Lanny, why we all gathered here today with all these amazing people?

[Lanny Smith]

Brother, man, we. We had a New York Fashion Week show about. About a month ago, man, and we were blessed to have these individuals show up and walk on the Runway with us, along with Dr. Bernice King and Elias Shabazz, the daughters of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. And the response to it, the way that black people have responded to seeing these people on the Runway, knowing that this history wasn't that long ago, like they try to tell us that it was, has been powerful, man. So actively black. The company that I founded, we were built with the intention to uplift and reinvest back into the black community. And these incredible legends have been supportive of the brand. So.

[DJ Envy]

And when you. When you. I want y' all to know, man. Cecil Williams, right? Y' all know this legendary picture right here.

[Angela Yee]

That's right.

[DJ Envy]

Of the brother drinking out of the. The whites only water fountain. I always wanted to ask you, Mr. Williams, was it a spontaneous act of rebellion or something? Something you plan to do as a statement? It was a little bit of both. I was thirsty, but also it was the middle of the sun. Sh. Of the summer, you know, as evident T shirt. But. But also, this was not the first time I did this. There were many other times that I felt I wanted to. You're local, really? I was not satisfied with living in the status quo in segregation. So this was something that I had done many times, and my mother warned me not to do it anymore. But I did it again, and this time it was photographed. Did you feel fear in that moment, or was your faith stronger than your fear? None whatsoever. This is about 15, 20 miles from Orangeburg and on Highway 21 and coming back from an assignment for Jet magazine. But I never sent this picture to Jet. It was something that I held in the family, and I knew I would get chewed out had I, you know, given it to my mother and father to see. So I hid it from them and never sent it to Jet either. Wow. So How'd they get it? Maybe three or four years later, I showed it to in a conversation one Sunday afternoon during a dinner. It kind of came out and then I got chewed out.

[Angela Yee]

Wow.

[DJ Envy]

What did that single act teach you about the power of defiance in the face of injustice? Well, living in South Carolina, being a child of segregation, it was something that we encountered all day long from birth to death. We in South Carolina during that period of time felt again, we were treated as sub class human beings. Not being able to go to a store and go into a restroom or go or drink, get a drink of water out of a fountain, or having to go to a side window or going to a movie theater and having to sit in a separate place or not at all.

[Lanny Smith]

So.

[DJ Envy]

But again, one thing that I would like to. This may be out of characteristic of many southerners. There were many good white white people at the time as well. You can't just put a blanket statement against that. All people treated us. There were many good hearted white people at the time and they were friends of my family and they helped support our family. So. But it was some people in South Carolina, again, who lived by, treated us as a status quo. Not being able to do this or that.

[Angela Yee]

So crazy to think about it. Like, you know, when you have these conversations, we're really not that far removed from that.

[DJ Envy]

No, he's right here.

[Angela Yee]

That's what I'm saying. Like you, you don't, you don't really think about it. Like you said earlier, like, we're not far removed from racism. And even the stories that my dad tells me, I'm like, this is crazy. This is what, 50 years ago, 60.

[DJ Envy]

Years ago, I got one of my aunts, she said, I don't know nothing about no, I don't know nothing about no integration. Yeah. Because all she knew was segregated schools.

[Lanny Smith]

You know, we had, we had Ruby Bridges walk the Runway as well. And it was a powerful moment because everybody has remembers that picture. Six year old little girl being escorted into school by federal marshals. And Ruby just turned 71. But you know, black don't crack. So she looks 45 and she walks out on the Runway. It made it real to people. Like that same little girl in that black and white photo is walking right here in front of me. So that's, that's the power of having, having these individuals here with me, showing, you know, how close we are to everything that we still fighting to this day.

[Angela Yee]

Do y' all hate, I'm sorry, do y' all hate white people?

[DJ Envy]

God damn. What the hell?

[Angela Yee]

Now I'm gonna tell you why. When I talk to my dad, my dad has a feeling towards white people, right? And I always joke and I laugh about it, but then when he tells me his history of him being in the military and, you know, they're in the same barracks, but then when they go get some food, it's white only. And his people in the barracks, they go get food and he can't. Yeah, he talks about the water fountain and the bathroom and all this other stuff and why he looks at white people the way that he does. I understand it. So that's why I ask you to say.

[DJ Envy]

Well, it's brought to the forefront by Lana Smith and again, the fashion show in Fat car. He labeled the fashion show. This is not a fashion show. Pictures like this are just evidence of a time and period we lived in America that seemingly in today's society. Some people want to bring it back, but it's long gone. But people like me who experienced this and people that were on this show that was put together by this amazing brother who has brought forth this apparel that again, has crisscrossed across America and being put into the hands of today's generation. T shirts and other things that he makes, we're not going to stand for again. Resegregating America is going to be something that is long gone. And to answer your question, there are again, many, many good white people. And again, it's a myth, I think, that all white people are bad. Of course. I think growing up in South Carolina was such a mind because. Because to your point, I grew up around a lot of good white people. But then we were also aware of the white people who treated us like status quo. Like there's certain places you knew you weren't supposed to go. But then I also had my white friend and Thomas and his family who lived right by me. So it was a class thing. So it's just. It's just, I don't know, South Carolina different.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But tag team with you first. I'm Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. I'm honored to be here again. Clinch fit. Salute to this brother and his wife, his team, you know what I'm saying? Because everything's political, including fashion. To get this pill and the applesauce. For these type of discussions, it's revolutionary. It's a misnomer about, like, it's motivated, how your moves, how we move. It's a hatred for someone else. Commandante Ernesto Che Guevara said, you know, a revolutionary. No matter how preposterous it may Sound is guided by the most sincere sentiments of love. And I'm not saying this was sort of abstract sort of way, but talking about the work of such organizations, the Black Panther Party, the motivation for getting up with the first free breakfast programs, free busing programs, survival programs, realms was not directed out of hatred for anyone. You know what I'm saying? But again, motivated for love for people.

[DJ Envy]

But let me say this, though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think all black people should get, like, a Mass Nobel Peace Prize. All of us, you know what I'm saying? The fact that we ain't just on Mass snapped out, you know what I'm saying? A lot of times it's ironic that we ain't motivated out of hatred, but again. And sometimes, even though it's a reactionary response, it's kind of justified. But again, for the record, it's a motivator. Love for the people.

[Janelle]

I'd like to echo if I could. Hi, I'm Frederica, and Huey Newton was my husband. And what came to mind when you even asked that question was a quote from Huey that said, what motivates people is not hatred, but it's love for other people. So my mother was white, and she introduced me to Huey because she was doing work with the Black Panther Party and she was the only one that they trusted to do the real estate work. So I did not grow up hating anyone. But what I do hate is white supremacy and the impact on black community. I actually hate that and the impacts of it, the impact that it's had on us. So, again, as my brother said so eloquently, as he always does. As he always does is that the Black Panther Party service was out of love, out of love for black people, out of love for oppression, oppress people. And it wasn't. It wasn't guided by hate. So it's impossible for me to hate anybody.

[DJ Envy]

Lanny, why was it important to have these historical black figures. Yeah. Walking the actively black fashion show.

[Lanny Smith]

Yeah. So 1. The tagline for actively black is there's greatness in our DNA. And very intentional about that because I think over the centuries of oppression, subconsciously, our people have accepted. I won't say accepted. Sometimes it seeps into our subconscious that we are less than, not as good as. This is what has been told to us. This is what has been preached to us for centuries. I'm trying to rewrite that narrative. I'm trying to deprogram and reprogram our own people to understand that there's greatness in our DNA. It's literal greatness. In the DNA that walked on that Runway. When you see Malcolm and Martin's daughters walk on that Runway together, that DNA is something that has moved mountains, that has changed lives. You know what I'm saying? And that exists within all of us. So. So it was important for our people to see that, to know that we are more than just our trauma. You know what I mean? We have so much greatness inside of us, and if we start acting out of that greatness, that's how we can change things for our community.

[Angela Yee]

How difficult was it getting everybody? And how long did it take?

[Lanny Smith]

Man, it was stressful. 1. There was a white supremacist who was killed by another white man about a week before our show. And.

[DJ Envy]

Hello, Charlie Kirk. Yeah, yeah.

[Lanny Smith]

And. And it sent some shockwaves through our plans, because you're talking about children of people who were assassinated. Real political violence. And so I had to reconvince Eliasa Shabazz and Dr. King to still be a part of this show. There were some safety concerns. We had to bring in three extra teams of security just to make sure that they were secure, because the rhetoric was that there was going to be payback, which never made sense to me because it was a white man that killed him. You know what I mean? But I think the reason why I was able to execute on that was the respect that I had paid to these individuals before. Everyone you see up here, Dr. King, Dr. Elias Shabazz, I went to them and asked them for permission to put their family members on this gear. I have licensing agreements with them so that when we sell apparel, the Black Panther Party Museum gets money. Fred Hampton, the Hampton House gets money. Cecil Williams Museum gets money. Right. The Shabazz center, the King center, actively black pays them when we sell this merch. And so, you know, you can go on any market on any weekend, and you'll see a lot of us selling this stuff, not realizing these people actually lost people in this struggle and they weren't compensated.

[Janelle]

Right?

[Lanny Smith]

And so I think I earned a level of respect with them that when I made that call and I asked them, can you walk on this Runway for me? They answered the call. And I feel so humbled. I mean, Dr. King, when she arrived, she gave me a signed speech from her father, and she prayed with me, and I broke down and cried, you know what I mean? Like, her schedule is crazy for her to move around, her travel schedule to be there for this show is something I'm forever grateful for.

[Angela Yee]

Did y' all have any concerns, any.

[Lanny Smith]

Security concerns at all my man Kanan made sure we were good with the security. We weren't gonna let nobody even get close to touching. You know, this royalty.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Janelle]

What does it mean to be actively black?

[Lanny Smith]

That's such a layered question. And there's a reason why I named it that you gotta understand. When I was starting actively black, by the way, we'll celebrate five years this Black Friday. We launched on Black Friday 2020.

[DJ Envy]

I had a lot of black people.

[Lanny Smith]

Tell me, don't name the company actively black. I had black executives tell me, if you put black in this name, it will not be successful. And I realized that a lot of them were speaking from a place of fear of working in corporate environments where they had to minimize who they were in their identity. And so there's nothing passive about what we have to do to uplift our people. Right. So it's a double entendre. I want our people to be more healthy. We do free mental health events. We do physical activations where we're having people do yoga, sound bath, meditation. We're getting our people access to the things that they need so that we can keep moving. That's the only way the movement can keep going is if we're healthy enough to keep moving.

[Mimi Brown]

Right.

[Lanny Smith]

So it's a double entendre. We're activewear brand, you know, there's no reason why we shouldn't have our own Nike. That's what actively black is. When we build this multi billion dollar brand, it's. It's not for my personal wealth. It's for us to uplift our people.

[DJ Envy]

Activelyblack.com I want, I want a brother, Cecil Sister Frederica. Give him the. The museum websites.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

So people can donate. Well, you can go to Cecil Williams Muse. I'm sorry, South Carolina Civil Rights Museum. But we also have a way of like PayPal and the email address there and several other ways, but we're easy to find. We're again in a college town of Orange Break, South Carolina, and we need your support. Even dollars. One dollar helps. So please support us. That's right. Got a few part gifts.

[Lanny Smith]

I want to make sure you get this and then. And then. So Fred, you could close us out. Make sure you got that.

[DJ Envy]

What's the museum on?

[Janelle]

Instagram is at the Black Panther Party Museum and the Dr. Huey P. Newton foundation celebrating 30 years this year. Please come visit us in Oakland, California Black Panther Party Museum. We're open. I mean we're. And we're packed too. So this month celebrates the Black Panther Party history Month. And we're full of celebrations, so please visit us there. Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Also I'm on. Thank you all for having us here. Salute to our fellow panelists. Clinch fit. Salute to actively black December 4th International Revolutionary Day. Come to Chicago. Also the Hampton House.org we get programs going to childhood home achievement. Fred Hampton, Maywood, IL Again HamptonHouse.org I want to close out this quote by Minister Dr. Uep Newton. A pitch is worth a thousand words, but action is supreme.

[DJ Envy]

There you have it Right.

[Angela Yee]

Well, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you guys.

[Janelle]

Thank you so much.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The Breakfast Club.

[Angela Yee]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Shawl and ain't the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. It's time for pass the oaks.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, dj, come spin now. Come spin.

[Angela Yee]

What's up, Nyla?

[DJ Envy]

Nyla.

[Mimi Brown]

Hey.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, girl.

[Janelle]

How are you? Good, good. All is well?

[Angela Yee]

Yep, absolutely.

[DJ Envy]

How you doing, Nyla Simone?

[Janelle]

Man, I'm good.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, you got the certified fresh. Okay.

[Janelle]

You know we got some new merch.

[Mimi Brown]

Okay.

[Janelle]

I haven't started selling yet. I'm just gonna give it to my friends. But. Yeah, where mine at? Coming soon, huh? Where mine? Since you gonna give it to your friends right here in the bay.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, great.

[Janelle]

She's lying. That's nice. I know you are.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, you did bring it.

[Janelle]

All right, I know we just did Monaleo and you guys just had her up here, but this other song that she put out called putting you down is really growing.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, I see that all over social media.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah, let's get into it.

[DJ Envy]

I, I saw her performing that record in front of a big ass crowd and they knew the words word for word. And this song just came up.

[Angela Yee]

That's dope.

[Janelle]

Her fan base is definitely. They love her. Yeah, I could, I don't know why I hear why I could hear a guy on a remix. I don't know who voice I'm hearing, but it's like it could be somebody could come and do a remix today. Like a guy could jump on that. It's somebody deep, raspy, crazy voice. I couldn't hear a guy. A guy doesn't come to mind. But I definitely hear Glorilla.

[DJ Envy]

I definitely hear Glorilla. I definitely hear big gorilla.

[Janelle]

Somebody with a deep voice. Yeah, like just somebody. But I heard a guy. But boss man, somebody like that.

[Mimi Brown]

Oh, oh.

[Janelle]

What's up, Rob? Somebody, like somebody with a deep voice could come and kill that remix. But yeah, I love Mona Leo and the new project. She got out, so.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Janelle]

And she all tours and make sure you guys Check her out. Next, I'm gonna go with Josh Levi. He just dropped his debut album, which has been anticipated for a long time. This record is called Feel the Bass. I like that.

[DJ Envy]

I like that.

[Janelle]

I do like that. Dated.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. It don't sound like some old Travis.

[Angela Yee]

Scott, all the sound effects and all that. Yeah, I still sound good, though. Well, sound like Fiend a little bit.

[DJ Envy]

Fiend. Fiend.

[Angela Yee]

That's what sound like the song.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, yeah, it's lit. Like, it just. It's a cool record. It just sound like it should have been out three, four.

[Janelle]

Well, you know, he's a R B singer, and it's called Hydraulic, so it's all in theme. So it all supposed to sound a little robotic, like. Yeah, I do like that. He's a car.

[DJ Envy]

He's more than meety. All right.

[Angela Yee]

I don't know why you take him serious.

[DJ Envy]

Autobot or Decepticon? What is he?

[Janelle]

Come on. It's very clean. I do like it, though.

[Angela Yee]

I like it, though.

[Janelle]

Okay, cool. And he also has a record on there with Flo that's really good. But if you're a fan of, like, R B, he dances, you know, and he's from Houston too. He went to the same school, high school, as Beyonce.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Janelle]

You know, maybe it's something in the water over there, but, you know, Leon Thomas just dropped a project today, and it's a little more funky than the last one, but let's get into just how you are.

[DJ Envy]

That boy Leon, I love it. That boy Leon.

[Janelle]

Now, it don't even sound like nothing that he already got out. That boy Leon is giving Bruno Mars a little bit.

[DJ Envy]

Leon different.

[Janelle]

I love that.

[DJ Envy]

That boy Leon different. Now. Leon different.

[Janelle]

Okay, that one was unanimous. I can't do that.

[DJ Envy]

Leon different. That's hard. That's tough. Tough.

[Janelle]

All right, this is my last one. This is a smaller group. They're from Canada. They're called Planet Gizza, and they dropping a new project. This song is called Minding My Business. See, I'm a stoner and a viber, so I love that. So you felt that okay, all day.

[DJ Envy]

It's tender. Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

I didn't.

[DJ Envy]

It's like light snow on a Care Bear. You know what I'm saying?

[Angela Yee]

What?

[DJ Envy]

What? What's them little things that the kids was carrying around the other day? It's not like a little. Like a little boo Boo in the snow and it just start to start to snow a little bit like the little boo Boo just sitting out there in the snows on it. I don't know we don't feel like that.

[Janelle]

Light snow on a camera.

[DJ Envy]

No light snow on a little boo Boo. That's what it feels like.

[Janelle]

I don't only like the music. I like what he's saying too.

[Angela Yee]

Maybe for the first record. I didn't want to hear that for the first record. Maybe I want to hear something else.

[DJ Envy]

For the first record.

[Angela Yee]

Better the first time you're introducing it.

[Janelle]

To us, playing against it before you put me on the plane together before. Yeah, I like them.

[DJ Envy]

I like gizzards, though.

[Angela Yee]

No, not gizzards.

[Janelle]

Is it gza? Oh, G I Z A.

[DJ Envy]

Okay. Yeah, yeah.

[Janelle]

This whole project is kind of mellow like that, so that's probably their most upbeat record. I like that.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

That should be a cover. The COVID should be a Labubu with light snow. Just light snow just coming down on the little.

[Janelle]

Well, if you like what you heard, make sure you guys follow me on Instagram at nylast. Simone. N Y L A S Y M O N E E E Click the link in bio. There's multiple playlists there, but the ones for Breakfast Club picks are called certified. So make sure you guys check that out and then, yeah, Certified merch on the way.

[DJ Envy]

Fire. All right. It is.

[Janelle]

Thank you, girl. I love it.

[Angela Yee]

Now, before we get to the mix, I'm about to get to the mix. No Limit for Cash Money. Who you going with?

[Mimi Brown]

I got to go.

[Janelle]

Cash money.

[Angela Yee]

Cash money.

[Janelle]

But it's not going to be a. Like a blowout, no way.

[DJ Envy]

It's going to be great. It's going to be a great nostalgic thing, but it's. I mean, it's cash money. And I love no limit, but it's cash money. I was in the gym. I was in the gym yesterday, working out, playing the records back to back. And I love cash money. Got some joints. I was doing the no limit. Got some joints, but it's cash money.

[Angela Yee]

And you know, the problem is, no disrespect, but no Limit is more our error than a lot of everybody else a little older. So like the man right here absolutely.

[DJ Envy]

Down for my no limited soldiers. Down.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

No Mystical. Got about three you can play. Shake that ass. The. The man right here. Danger, danger. Like they. Like they got joints. It ain't my fault. Still the shocking. They got joints. But I mean, yo, I can. I can play six juvenile records. Yes. Yeah, yeah, that's cool.

[Angela Yee]

Slow motion, high back that. I mean, there's so many.

[Janelle]

For me, it's not even gonna be a verse. It's gonna Be a concert.

[Angela Yee]

It's gonna be a concert.

[Janelle]

It's like, yo, I think that's what it is gonna be for most people, like, especially my age and up. It's like, yo, it's gonna be more of a concert. Yeah, I love all of them. I don't really have no dog in a fight.

[Angela Yee]

Well, let's get to the mix. It's the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning, everybody.

[Angela Yee]

It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. A salute again to all the HBCU homecomings. This is my homecoming week in Hampton University. I know how Howard has a homecoming. Norfolk State, Old Dominion. A bunch of HBCUs. Old Dominions. Not HBCU, but a bunch of colleges. So salute to everybody. You guys enjoy the weekend, and then I'm going to Dominica.

[Janelle]

I know. That's right.

[Angela Yee]

The island of Dominican. The Caribbean island. I'm excited. I can't wait to see all my Dominicans.

[DJ Envy]

It's the best time you embrace your Dominican roots.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah. So I'm going out there. I got all names of of my dad's dads, my dad's dad's brother, my dad's dad, my dad's family. My dad really messed with his dad because it kind of was Rolling Stone. But, yeah, I'm go down there and see what's up.

[DJ Envy]

So I'm just crazy how all of a sudden you want to be Dominican, bro.

[Angela Yee]

I'm not Dominican.

[DJ Envy]

It's from the island of Dominican. Any other time I bring it up, you're like, I'm not Dominican. I'm a Dominican. But when it comes to a paycheck, are you being at some parade getting an award for pretending to be Dominican? You there, It's Dominica.

[Angela Yee]

It's Dominica. So salute. And I'm going to where you say go.

[Janelle]

The Indian river, where they filmed the Pirates of the Caribbean.

[Angela Yee]

That's right. That's what I'm going.

[Janelle]

Do you know your most popular sport over there? You need to know cricket.

[Angela Yee]

Yes, I knew that.

[DJ Envy]

Cricket.

[Janelle]

That's what's envy. All right, you almost there?

[Angela Yee]

All right, all right. And what are you doing this weekend?

[Janelle]

I'm going to be in Philly, but for Halloween, that's next weekend, North Carolina. I will be there. Charlotte, get your Tickets. We got four shows next weekend at the Comedy Zone. Jessalarisofficial.com I will be giving away a cash prize to the person who wins the Halloween costume contest. Lord, my voice is so shy today, but I can't wait to get there. Two shows Friday, two shows Saturday. Jessalari's official official dot com. Do not forget to get your tickets because y' all got seven more days now.

[Angela Yee]

Charlamagne, you heading to South Carolina?

[DJ Envy]

Yes, man. Today I will be in the metro. It is the University of South Carolina's homecoming. That's my wife's alma mater and they play Alabama tomorrow. But today we will be at the Colonial Life arena at 4:30pm Don Staley, the icon living. She put out her book earlier this year, uncommon Favorite on my book imprint Black Privilege Publishing with Simon and Schuster. It's been on the New York Times bestsellers list for weeks. So I am moderating a book conversation with her today at the Colonial Life Arena. And the four time mvp, three time WNBA champion, greatest women's basketball player in the world, just got inducted into the South Carolina hall of Fame last night. Aja Wilson, she will be joining us. So I will be in conversation with both of them today at the Colonial Life Arena. Salute to everybody who's already gotten their tickets. If you haven't gotten your tickets, I think there's some tickets left. So we'll see you this afternoon.

[Angela Yee]

All right. You got a positive note?

[DJ Envy]

I do. The positive note is simple. It comes from the great Michelle Obama. Michelle Obama once said, success isn't about how your life looks to others, it's about how it feels to you. Always remember that success is subjective. Okay. Success isn't about how your life looks to others others. It's about how it feels to you. If you are happy doing what you are doing, then you are successful. Have a great day. Breakfast Club.

[Angela Yee]

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[DJ Envy]

It's the true story of the almost.

[Angela Yee]

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[DJ Envy]

It was kind of like the perfect storm in a sewer. That was dumb. Do not follow my example.

[Angela Yee]

Listen to Crimeless Hillbilly Heist on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.

[Mimi Brown]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Mimi Brown]

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[Janelle]

Short on time but big on true crime.

[Mimi Brown]

On a recent episode of the podcast Hunting for Answers, I highlighted the story of 19 year old Lachey Dungey.

[Janelle]

But she never knocked on that door. She never made it inside.

[Mimi Brown]

And that text message would be the.

[Janelle]

Last time anyone would ever hear from her.

[Mimi Brown]

Listen to Hunting for Answers from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio.

[Janelle]

App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Sami Gente It's Ana Ortiz and I'm Mark and Delicato. You might know us as Hilda and Justin from Ugly Betty.

[Mimi Brown]

Welcome to our new podcast Be My Betty.

[DJ Envy]

Yay.

[Janelle]

We're re watching the series from start to finish and talking to iconic guests like Betty herself. America for Herrera. There was this moment when the glasses went on and it was like this is our Betty. Listen to Viva Betty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an iHeart podcast.