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The Breakfast Club BEST OF(Jagged Edge, New Edition and Boyz II Men, 112, Total and Case Interview)
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OSA is a serious condition where your airway partially or completely collapses during sleep, which may cause breathing interruptions and oxygen deprivation. Learn more at. Don't sleep on OSA.com this information is provided by Lilly A Medicine company. Wake you up. Wake you up. Wake that ass up. Program your Alarm to Power 105.1 on iHeartRadio. Good morning, USA. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. What's up, Jess? Hilarious. Charlemagne the God. Peace to the planet. It's Friday. That's right. And today's Friday is the best of the 90s. Oh, come on. That's our era right there. You know, I was born in 1978, so the 90s is when, you know, that was our era. That's when we was outside. Outside. I should say the R&B 90s. Cause today on this show, we have 112 total. Case, jagged Edge, New Edition, and Boyz ii men. Now 112total and case are going on tour together. New Edition and Boyz II Men are going on tour together. That's right. And Jagged Ass just got off tour. They just wrapped up their tour with Lloyd and Eric Bellinger. Listen, classic shows from classic artists. Artists who have stood the test of time. All right, so all you uncles and aunties, gather around and listen to the Breakfast Club this morning. That's right. So don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. This is your time to get it off your chest. 800. 5. 8, 5. 10. 5 1. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello? Who's this? Yo, good morning. DJ Envy. What's up? Charlamagne, the guy. Peace King. Hey, hey. Some people got a shot before they enter Ubers, bro. Not even some. Everybody. I'm telling you, Musty ain't no joke, bro. Nah, these two bros, you know, and I understand you got your own separate situation, but you hop in my car, and immediately the car is just filled up with these fumes. And I gotta hold my brother through a car ride. Nah, nothing worse than a stink woman. Man, I'm gonna be honest with you. Men are allowed to, you know, have an odor, even though I don't like it. But, man, When a woman musty. Oh. Is different. But you know what it does up to you. But you can't leave no reviews for the. For the riders. They leave reviews for y'. All. You can't review a drive rider. Some of these cars stink, too, though. Like, sometimes you get an Uber smell, too, though. Yeah, because of the. What I'm say, Cuz the just got out. Like, that's the thing. Now he got to quit the. Well, you know, take a break to go get the car wash now. And the crazy thing is they tried to have a conversation with me, you know? And I played it off. Like, oh, how long you been rolling your dreads? Like, a couple weeks, a couple years. You know what I'm saying? Like, not trying to have a real conversation, you know what I'm saying? You know what it is? You got to keep a podcast on deck. A podcast about bacterial vaginosis. Podcast about, you know, being musty and just be playing it, you know what I'm saying? Just, like, playing loud and hope that they get the hint. Oh, God. Hey, but love y'. All. Y' all have a good morning. Love you, too. Now, brother. Man, ain't nothing. Like, I'm telling you, man. Musty woman is just. I remember last week, it was a room full of people ahead, and I go, it smelled like outside. Somebody smell like outside. Everybody started sniffing. Mind you, ain't nobody was outside. Nobody. I'm like, oh, gosh. I was scared to look around. Like, damn. Hello? Hello. Who's this? Yo, Envy. You know the V is mellow. What? The word, bro. Mellow. What's popping? Where you been? Mellow. Yo, life is amazing. It is what it should be. How y' all doing? Jess, Uncle Charlotte, LL Cool B. Peace. Peace. Peace, peace, peace. All right, so I gotta get this off my chest, and I'm the perfect person to talk about this. So we gotta start shaming these men for getting their body done. Like these bad. Cause I'm tired of it, bro. Like, because let's let the record show I'm on the record talking about the BBOs being booty. Booty and Baby Leg. Honorable mention, the scissors. You thinking of the tension between me and the nypd. Word. But, like, Booty and Baby Legs is a bar. Mellow. That's funny. Yep. I'm telling you. But hear me out. You can't be out here with the stomach of John Cena and the chest of Coilerae. I don't mention her. She beautiful. We love her. But, Drake, stop it, bro. Say some names. Mellow. Say some names. You just said one. I put it Drake, French Montana. Who else? Tiger. I don't know. I don't know. I feel like his stomach used to be his head. I don't know. I'm not doing this. I don't know if it's fake or not, but it do look stupid. £300, bro. Like, now I'm a calm 200. I've really been with y' all through thick and thin. Like, you feel me? Like, nah, you can work it out. Like, you know, I mean, I'm somewhere between dad bod and beanbag chair. I used to be a bag of dirty laundry. You know what I mean? You feel me? God don't make no mistakes. I agree. It feel like the abs are going through what bbls went through. Like, bbls used to look really, really stupid, and then they got better over time. That's how abs on men will probably look in the future. Yeah, I understand that. But at the same time, as a man, you should not be wanting to lay on the table unconscious and then get up, act like you put in the work. I'm not with that, but thank you. Mellow. Anytime. All right. Mellow. Hello? Who's this? This is Rico from that town. Rico, we don't want you. How are you, sir? I'm good, man. How are you, Charlotte? Man, I'm blessed, black and highly favored man. Get it off your chest. Hey, I just wanted to call the Dame Dash interview. Okay. Talk to me. I thought. I thought it was hilarious. I did, too. I enjoyed it. When you go through life, you realize that some people you just don't take serious. And Dame Dash is one of the people. I don't disagree with you. I just don't disagree with you. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, call us up right now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. This is your time to get it off your chest. Keep calling 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello? Who's this? This is Monica Wright. Hey, Monica. Hey, guys. Peace, Monica. I cannot believe I'm talking to you guys. I can't believe it. But today is my birthday. I turned 52. And so I just want to say happy birthday to myself. Well, happy birthday. Happy born day. Happy birthday. But thank you, guys. This is a great present for me because I've always tried to get through. And so today I finally got through. Well, thank you, happy boy. What you doing? Anything special? To celebrate or you did this weekend? I did it. Oh, actually, I'm gonna do it this weekend. My husband is flying me to LA to see my stepson perform. Ooh, what's your stepson performing? He is a singo. He's a dj. Okay. That's dope. I'm happy to hear that. Yes. So thank you, guys. Go out to la, enjoy some good weather, get some good weed or something, you know what I mean? Maybe some edibles. Enjoy your birthday, Monica. Let your husband toss your legs in the air one time. You act so bad. Have a good one, Monica. She sounds like she gonna. All right. Thank you, guys. Monica. Hey, Taisha. Hey, how are you? We seen you on hold for two damn hours. I just happen to look at the phone. Why? And I'm like, what the hell? What's going on, Taishi? What's up? Why you on hold, mama? Well, first of all, I'm at the group home with my girl, so I wasn't really. I was on hold, but I still was doing my job. Salute to everybody at the group home. What group home you calling from? I'm not gonna say, but we in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Well, this was New Jersey. Okay. So I would like to get this off my chest today. I just want to say that better days are coming. Today is. Will be the fifth year that my husband has been going, so my grandfather died on the 4th and my husband died on the 9th. They both died from COVID five years ago. Oh, man. Sorry. So, yeah, just praying for better days. And just for those who do have grandparents and parents and husbands, just love them to the best of your ability because life is definitely short. I know before we used to say life is short, but then after Covid, life is really, really shorter than what we expect it to be. Yeah, man. I love your attitude on life. I love your attitude. You calling from a group home. Yeah. You dealt with all of that loss, but you still are telling people and encouraging yourself that, you know, there's gonna be a better tomorrow. That's right. Absolutely. Yeah. And I want to give a big shout out to my mom, which is in. She's in Jersey City right now. She's battling with breast cancer. That's my last parent living. And I do go back and forth because, you know, I gotta maintain my house and stuff here. But my mom comes before any of that. But she knows the situation. And just to go back and forth and having her deal with what she's dealing with is hard because medical center ain't worth nothing. So that was. They could get the donkey of the month. How about that? But other than that, I just want to shout out Cheryl Williams and just tell you, mom, I love you, and I know that you're going through something right now, but we all just praying for better things to come. Absolutely. Well, thank you, Taisha. All right, y' all have a good one. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, call us up right now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the breakfast club. Lauren LaRosa's hanging with us today as well. And we got some special guests in the building. Ladies and gentlemen, Jagged Edge. How y' all brothers doing, man? Good, man. How you doing, man? See y' all in a minute. It's been a minute, man. Growing up a little bit. That's right. I always like to say this. This is one of the groups that y' all guys don't break up at all, huh, Y'? All? Nah, we ain't never broke up. But how we see every RB group, there's always a breakup. There's always a. How do y' all stay so tight, man? We. We like each other. I mean, half the group is us. We love each other. Little easier that way. Brothers is the one that be fighting. We be on the same page. Absolutely, man. I always like to start from the beginning when you guys come here. So how did y' all guys form the group? For people that don't know, how did Jagged Edge form? All right, whoever want to take this? Well, me and my brother was in the womb, But we had this group when we first got to Atlanta, you know, we was about 15 years old. Not when we first got there, but when we first started singing. And it was two other guys and we sang at this church picnic. Kyle was at the church picnic. He came to us at the church, but he said, listen, man, I got a group. Why don't y' all drop the other two and come get with. He didn't have a group, but we didn't know that, though. We used to see Kyle around anyway. Cause me and him was. Was basketball players, and his. His cousin was playing on our team. So we knew each other from that in passing. And then once we actually sat down and talked and we realized he could sing, too, we put it together. It was another member at first, and he fizzled out somewhere along the way. And we picked up Wingo, and, you know, I mean, we've been together Ever since. Since we bought 15 now we've been in this group. Now, what did the name come from? The name came from. If y' all remember. Think back to. I think I want to say, like, 91, 92 was a group came out of Atlanta called A Few Good Men. They were signed to LaFace. Yep. So just the name of their. Their group got me looking at movie titles. And during this time, I was. I happened to be at Candy House, right? And she had all these movies, like, all these just, you know, rolls of movies. And I started looking at the. At the movies, and when I seen the movie Jagged, it's almost like it jumped out, like, hey, yeah. You know what I mean? And so I said to them, and everybody was like, yeah. Like, not one person pushed back. Everybody was like, yeah, that's a dope. That's it. And this was after y' all were already signed to, so. So definitely no. No. So you had a relationship with Candy before? Yes. Only like a year. Like, a year prior to us signing? Yeah. Okay. And what was the relationship? Was it just like, music stuff or. Like, when I went to school. We ain't went to school with Kenny. They was in high school together, graduated the same. So he had took it to Candy House. Just playing it forward, just like, you know, getting her approval. Wasn't even trying to get a deal or nothing. She liked it so much. She was like. She called women one day, like, you still in that group. Y' all still. Y' all still trying to get a deal. He was like, yeah. So we made the deal with Candy. If you get us a deal, you can manage us. That's what it is. She got us a deal. So she was our first manager. Once we got first manager, she get to the money and the business side, though. So how was she as a manager in the early days? I mean, she was getting her feet wet as a manager. But I'll always tell anybody, like, as far as being an active artist and trying to manage, you know, managing somebody is like having kids. Right? You know what I mean? You gotta be up for them. 5, 30 phone calls, and it's just a lot. You know what I mean? And also, too shout out to Tiny, too. Cause she was just as instrumental without Tiny. She was like the direct link to JD on the business side. You know what I mean? So without her, it wouldn't have happened. How instrumental was Jermaine Dupri with y' all now, like, do y' all still, like, call him about music? You know, for all the original parts, volume One. I know. I mean, you know, Jermaine, my man, that's our guy forever. But as much as I love Jermaine, I hit Jermaine about all kind of. But, you know, it's rough to get Jermaine do something right. I'll be honest with you. If he ain't a part of it, you know what I'm saying? I've had a tough time getting his involvement in things that he wasn't really spearheading, honestly. Jermaine is why we are writers and producers. Well, at least producers. We was always writers. But through dealing with him, we not like, you can't just put us on a back burner. We're not, you know, I mean, you can't tie our hands. You can't. So we figured out how to go make beats ourselves, you know what I mean? Learn how to play the keys ourselves, learn how to do this stuff. So he's a big reason why. And I'm not saying in a negative way, just understanding that it takes more than just one man to stop what we trying to do, you know what I'm saying? And one thing about us, man, we're not petty, you know what I'm saying? We kind of respect the blessing. He took a chance with us, man. So respect the blessing and keep it moving. But we was already a self contained group. We was already writing. We was already what we were going to wear on the show. So we really didn't need anything but the money. I guess. We need nothing but everything, but. Yeah, but much love to J.D. it's our family forever. We just know there's a lot of bashing when it comes to. Yeah, nah, nah, yeah, none of that. Yeah, we ain't doing it. When did y' all leave? So. So deaf and why we actually so. So def. Left us. Right? You know, he had a situation with Columbia. They couldn't get on the same page, so he left and went to. Where did he go? Ariston first. Right. So he went to Arista and Columbia. Basically told him, like, if you want them, you don't have to pay for a football team, you know? And JD was like, I don't want them that bad. I done made me some money. Yeah. They wouldn't let him take us and bow. So we wanted to go, but you know what I mean, Wasn't in the cars at the time. So when y' all left at that time, that's when it completely stopped. He never said, I'm not writing for y' all producing because y' all weren't on the label at that time? No, we got back together with Jermaine two different times. We went to Def Jam with Jermaine and then we did an album with E2 with Jermaine. So, yeah, I mean, we've. We've. You know, the music game in itself is a complicated business. And I think, you know, keeping your relationships tight is something that you have to do. But at the same time, if you can't get on this on the same page with somebody, you have your own goals, your own dreams, and that's what you got to follow. You know what I mean? And that's what we did. Yeah. Knowing that y' all still got hits like let's Get Married and Promise and all that, like, how does that feel to know that I just saw a video that went viral where somebody had proposed to their girl and they had. What are y' all reactions from that other than it being funny and they should have picked somebody else? Like. Like knowing that that still hit. Like, it's love, man. Yeah, right. I love it. It's an amazing feeling. Like, you know, we saw this the other day. Like, we definitely didn't get this to be a one hit wonder, right. And we definitely wanted to have a career that was filled with longevity. So when you see things like that, you realize you done hit your mark a little bit. You know what I mean? But we ain't done, though. But yeah, it feels good, though. So in an interview, Beyonce, dad, like, threw y' all off of a tour. What happened with that? You know, it's so amazing. Like, when it happened, somebod y' all gonna be talking about this for the whole the rest and then you damn right. Like, y' all still be talking about. I know what happened. So basically, we was on tour with Destiny Child, and at the time, Matthew was our manager. So we were sharing a tour bus, us and Desi Child, we all on one tour bus. How big was that bus? It was in his 21 bus. And so, you know, I think it's probably well documented that latoya has had different issues. Peace to the planet. Charlamagne, the God here now, you know, the end of the year is when, like a lot of business owners, I really lock in, all right, this is the time to set the foundation for next year. You got new ideas, new product drops new goals. And when I'm building anything meaningful, I need the right tools. That's why I always tell folks, especially black entrepreneurs and small black owned businesses, Shopify is the move, okay? 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And you could score $100 or other instant prizes just for opening it. Or save even faster with mobile coupons you can use right now@valpak.com Valpak there's definitely something in it for you. You know the crew this particular night, Latoya's mom was on the road. Ms. Pam. Shout out Ms. Pam. And Ms. Pam obviously had issues with the crew. So Matthew called even though he wasn't in the city. He called back to the road manager like, you know Ms. Pam ain't getting on that bus, right? And we was like, well, we not leaving her out in the middle of Louisiana three in the morning, right? So she is gonna get on the bus. That dude had the police called on us, had us remove us. So yeah, I mean, but you know, we just felt like whatever the issue is, it can't be that serious that you're gonna leave somebody out here, right? And you're not even here. And you're not even here. It was somebody if it was your mom, you know what I'm saying? The same way. Come on man. Ex deal was right. Hey man, you know, we from the south and you know what I'm saying? So we kind of felt that like, man, we mama's boy. So we had a obligation. But we want to whoop Matthew by the bathroom at one of your concert, we gonna have your ass out. So shouts out to Matthew for not going by that bathroom. The story goes. So cuz you were dating Latavia at the time, Brandon. And then. So she told the story on a radio station. She was saying that you stuck up for the group. Like you were the one about to go off. So you was at the bathroom. Well, we all did. But I mean, I definitely. I went in the room with the girls, you know, I just seen it like. Like I said, like, if it was my mother, it would have been worse than that. Like I would have turned. It would have. It would have got nasty and ugly. So I didn't want it to go that far. So I tried to have a conversation with the girls. I couldn't talk to Matthew. He didn't. He didn't make himself available. But, you know, I tried to make the other girls who, you know was in the group with Latoya, you know, support her. And they all just kind of let me know that they had different issues with latoya and her mother, and that's why it was this bad. And even to be fair to them, because I talked to Kelly about this after that, and it got to a point where she even felt like, well, at this point, it's out of my hands. Once Matthew took control of it, they didn't feel like they even had much of a say anyway. So, you know what I mean? It is what it is. I did want to ask too. They used to put 112 against you guys, right? Absolutely. And it was a thing. Was it ever a beef or was it just always fun? It was Charlemagne did it, man. You know what, man? It was never a real beef. Like, I don't know how many people noticed, but them guys like brothers, though. Like, out of all the male groups we've been on shows with or just been around or in our era, I should say, 112 is our closest friend. Wow. So, yes, it was never a real beef, but it got a little testy, right? At what point it will happen? What was the reason? When we was coming back from a tour we was on and we was pulling into the city, me and Kyle was together and we heard y' all kicked him out the bus. This time we just heard them on the radio talking some trash. And me and Kyle just made a beeline of where they was at. I was taking my braves. I'm like, it was just me and him. We knew how far we was there. We didn't even care. Right. We was ready to do whatever had to be done. They say I was that bad. They was doing something. They was doing something. They was doing something. And a live remote. But Q said something like, how could Jackie be the best group? They got two. They only got two lead singers, a cheerleader, and a rah rah man. And I said, hey, wow. I'm the rah rah guy. Nothing happened. Like, nothing happened, man. It was a winger, bro. I guess. And I honestly think, like, Ryan, because they was trying to. They was really trying to put us on tour together. So Ryan was trying to create something to make. To drop drive the traffic, but nobody was taking a piss to everything they was doing. We could talk back really good. You know what I mean? But y' all wouldn't say that. We in the room no way. So that's the issue, too. We ain't doing that. How often do people bring up the. The Cisco, he spared that. That time. He trying to do some flips in there. He was trying to do something about, how you say, up top. I had to sun them. It wasn't about nothing. It was just messing around. Yeah, right. Ended up getting, you know, I guess he end up getting serious. He said he. Yeah, yeah, he was getting. I was chilling, right? And I ain't gonna do all I know, I wasn't the aggressor, okay? But I went with the bull either. Like, hey, man, chill out. And if you can. It's on the video, right? Chill out if you can see, I'm like, yo, man, chill out. And he was trying to like, oh, man, I'm losing this. You're gonna lose. He didn't throw that one. I said he spared him. He wasn't really doing them dirty or nothing. I was like, y', all, if I'm gonna walk out. I left their ass in there by themselves. Hey, me and him was already gone. So y' all squash all y'. All. Y. Quiet as it's kept. We all the groups now. Some of them have had issues with us. Everybody straight up. I got respect for all of them. So what is going to be. What can we expect different from all original parts? Like, where did that title come from? You. And just for the record, y' all know they not bumping this in no trans disco. All original parts. Yo, you stupid. I don't know who made that. Crazy. No doubt. That's too funny. That was a good. I know. Yo, it just signifies the fact that since groups have been a thing, right, They've all broken up, right? You know what I mean? And Jackson's broke up even though Jackson's broken, right? So, you know, us being the one group who's never broken up, we wanted to kind of capitalize on that. That's why it's called all original. Part about that. Do you remember when y' all made some of those classic records? And did y' all know they were gonna be smashes as soon as you made it? Like, when you made let's Get Married or you made promise, did y' all know, like, oh, this is gonna be it? We did kinda. I ain't gonna lie. Like, you know, even when you look at songs like, he can't love you, right? Every song we ever put out, we understood what it should be doing. Like, we understood the only reason to drop he came before let's Get Married was cause he came. Sounded like nothing on the rad. We knew let's Get Married was gonna be the biggest song, but we knew if you come with a song like this, it sounds like nothing. It's gonna make that role for let's Get Married even bigger and easier. Let's Get Married is gonna be that legacy song that when y' all going, your kids going. Your kids kids going. This man was mad that we dropped he can't love you first. Let's get Married. It just did something to me, you know, I'm like, like, what? Marry us. And the record label, man, y' all want to drop this on? But that's why I never put my opinion on a record like that again. You know what I'm saying? Because at the end of the day, I knew he Can't Love youe was super dope. It was a smash. But let's get married, and I'm, you know, again, I'm one of them anxious guys, you know what I mean? It's the setup. It's about the setup and promise. Brandon, you wrote that for Tavia, huh? No, he wrote it for me. He wrote it for me. She said something about different. I mean, he said wrote it for me because I've been feeling this question since she did that interview. Listen, we are. We're a team song. We're a songwriting team, right? No matter what my piece of the song may be about, that don't mean the whole song is about that. You know what I'm saying? Because I think when you're a songwriter, it's not always an exact story. Sometimes it's pieces of a story that you're turning into one story. So, yeah, there was a piece in there about Latavi. Yeah, okay. Absolutely. All Right. We got more with Jagged Edge when we come back. Let's get into their new joint. It's called Just Might Get It. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Now I feel like nowadays brothers don't beg for the vagina no more. They don't got to. We never did. The girls don't make them. There you go. The girls don't make them. It's not even that they don't. It's that the girls don't make them. No, he can't love you was outside her house. It was Forest play back then, you know, had to lead up and just like, you know, it's going to take about an hour and a half. You had to work for it. So you was like hell pressed to not let it go. So it's a lot different now. I think that's, you know, it's too much homeboy love out there, man. Like, it's all good to have your homeboy love. Homeboy love. The music be about the guys loving their homies. Necessary. Like, you need your team, right? That's a necessary thing. But you don't want to put too much attention there. And then your girl feeling some type of woman. I ain't. Not to cut you off. I mean, but you sit in the club, I mean, VIP section for the girls. Like back in the day used to be you see like everything. Cuz. Cuz like sometime I see them talking, they be like, man, I'mma kill you when I hit the streets. And then we used to be like, I'mma kill them. Y' all used to dress. Back in the day, they used to dress like. When you think of like a R and B group, you know, it's nice and, you know, silk shirts and all that. Silk shirts, you know, you see top of me coming out the side, used to dress like they about to shoot a dice game. Like some thug love type. I used to love seeing them outfits in the videos. Like, all right, now, you mean you got into a car rack. So we broke your neck? Neck. Well, I was in two. Two car accidents inside of like nine months. Damn. The first one, I just broke my leg in two places. I had some wrist contusions and a knot on my head. And in the second one, what happened in the car? Did you fall asleep or did it cut you off? No, I was coming down the street, right? You know how Atlanta, we got all those, you know, do a U turn to turn right. So I'm coming this way. There's a car sitting right here, and I'm And I'm. I'm knowing he see me. I see him. And as I get this close, then he wants it to turn. So even though I stopped my brakes as hard as I could, I still hit him. He was at fault, like I said. Just told my car up to me up. But the next one was really. That's what really messed me up. Got jackknife t to call it T bone when it's somebody right in the middle of your car. I was sitting at a light, and on that accident, I'm sitting at a light, right? And I hear these shots ring out. Next thing you know, I guess the person who got hit, he lost control of his vehicle, and he just swerved right into my vehicle, so. And on the driver's side, his side. I broke my neck. I had five broken ribs on this side, one on this side. I got a scalp laceration right here. A lot. It was a lot with that one. I know it was pretty emotional for. I saw you on Tamara hall when you talked about it, you got emotional for the rest of you guys. When y' all heard about the second car accident, like, what were you guys reaction and, like, kind of. What was that like for y' all as well? I was. I was scared. Cause I didn't know what to expect. Me, too. You know what I'm saying? And I'm. Keep it real. I don't have my license, but don't worry about that. This man never had a license. But. But, I mean, you know, my wife was like, you know, once I heard, I'm like, baby, I got to get out of here. I'm damn near falling down the steps to get in my Uber. And. But in my mind, I'm just praying. I'm like, lord, please don't come. I mean, it's such a cliche, like I say, to hear about artists. Plane accident, motorcycle accident, car wreck. So I'm like. And then it's like, this is the second one, you know? And so we got up in. When I got there, because I know the other guys were showing up. I seen them, and I was like, okay, okay. He's not. What. It's still him. Because he won't take his neck brace off, right? He, like. He cried a couple jokes when I got there. So I'm like, well, he was in pain, though, you know? And like, for me, you know, it was the worst day of my life. I ain't going to lie to you. Because the way I heard the car, somebody told me he. First they told me he got shot. Cuz they heard the gunshots, right? They said he got shot, then he got hit. So you know, this my guy, you know what I mean? Like, yeah, you know what I mean? I can't talk about it either. And for me, I mean, you know, again, I'm always say this man, a family that prays together stays together, you know what I mean? So I immediately just dropped on my knees, man, and sent one up, you know what I mean? God fixed this. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? That's how I leave it and put it in your hands. Do you look at life differently as a group and just people? Because it has to change the way you look and the way you move. Absolutely. When you say goodbye to your girl and your wife and your kids, it has to change all of that for all of us. You just never know when it's that time. And thank God it wasn't, man. Let me tell you something, man. We, we so blessed to be here, man. You gotta think like 15. We met each other at 15, you know, we had our little fights and gripes, but we understood the, the mission and that's to keep God first, stay together first again after that. And we love what we do, but we love each other. There you go. And we knew our mission was, like you said, a lot of songs back then, R and B was a little bit. It was still good songs, but still it was kind of soft. And then you had something that was kind of freaky. And so we definitely came up with the concept of where we want to speak on the behalf of brothers like DJ Envy, Jagged Edge, who wear Timbos, who wear Jordans, you know what I'm saying? We know we just not throwing on the suit. Be more relatable, man, and be more relatable about, hey, I'm hurt. You hurt me, baby. And we didn't talk about this, you know, I promise to stay there with you, although, you know, you may be going, I want to learn what I need to do better. So we knew that the message was more powerful. Powerful coming from something real instead of something that the label or the audience kind of expect. But no, it's a little deeper than that. You know, Music has a message behind it. Yeah, I'm super glad of the route we, we took, man. We never wanted, wanted to exclude anybody from, from our music or you know what I mean? Like this certain sale to this certain our block or this certain type of people, you know what I mean? One thing about we all have in common is we have love somebody or wanted to love somebody, you know what I mean? And that's a universal language for us, you know what I mean? Love. So that's what we're gonna promote now. Y' all got some. Some songs that people love that I don't know y' all gonna be able to do on the tour or not. Like the Nasty Girl, the Trade it all. Songs. And if I come, I just need to know, like that is it. I love old music. Now. You took the words right out of my mouth. We've got like a lot of. A bunch of new records on shows along with what we already. But that's not what she was alluding to, and I know she was allud. I'm asking the question because I think you know, people. I know for me, if I come out intimate night with you guys, I do want to hear Trade it all is my song. Nasty Girl is my song. Let me just say this too, right? Diddy, that's. You know, that's my brother. That's our brother. Like we've had a good relationship with. I can't speak on nobody else's. You know, it ain't my business, right? But at the end of that, could only deal with my interactions with the man. And I'm talking about plenty of them. After being around them 30, 40 times, I never seen nothing that offended me. Me. He's never offended me. He always made sure if we was in his space, we felt welcome. Absolutely. And like I said, all the other things that other people, they can have that now. I had an uncle went to jail for 11 years. Let me shout out, my Uncle Larry. I had an uncle went to jail for 11 years. He was always still just my Uncle Larry. Then changed to the point where he's some different guy, cuz he did some. Some messed up stuff. He's still my Uncle Larry. And it's the same with Diddy to me at this point, you know, I don't know if he's innocent, if he's guilty, but that's my uncle brother. And that's. That's all I can say about. Pray for him, man. Pray for him. Damn right. But I do want to ask Trade It All. Y' all surprised he called y' all and not him? Not one. Because really, it's jazz. We got more songs with him than they do. We got like three, four songs, bro. You know what I'm saying? So it's like, that's why he said the chair leading in the rah rah. The album definitely pick it up right now. And we appreciate you guys, when did tour start? March 26th. March 2016. Well, ladies and gentlemen, there you have it. It is Jagged Edge. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lon laros is here as well, and we got some icons, legends in the building today. Ladies and gentlemen, we have New Edition and Boyz II Men. Wow. They going on tour together. I feel like this should have been happening, right? Why did it take so long? Who wants to start? I think that there's a lot of logistics that go with having two groups. Two groups with such great success in order to get that together. Scheduling has to be right also. The. You know what I mean? The energy has to be right. The climate has to be right. And I just believe that this is the time. God put this time as the time to show the world what this. This whole vibe is all about. New addition, Boys to Men, Tony Braxton. It's a real thing. And this is the moment. God placed it right here. Now, how does Boys to Men feel? I gotta ask, because you guys, they were your idols, right? Yeah, from the start and still are. Still. Are you seeing them? You know, when y' all had a show in Philly, y' all coming to the bus and y' all singing, and that's how y' all would be here with our new addition. Let's be clear on that. Yes. Well, you know, that's not actually how it went. You know what I'm saying? No, no, no. I. I don't mean to. I don't mean to, but, you know, but, you know, like, in order. In order for the story to. To actually be told in a movie, sometimes you have to, you know, make it all go together in sequence, you know, for people that didn't see the story. So there's truth to that. But it was Michael Bibbins, Ricky and Ron. They were actually coming off stage at the Powerhouse, and they were Philly in Philly. And they were introducing that you guys were going to be dvd. And we had just. By the time they came off stage, we had just snuck backstage. We passed passes back and forth. We got backstage. Soon as we got there, they were coming off stage. And I guess Nate asked Ricky, can we sing for him? You know what I'm saying? And Ricky was like, y' all got it. Tape. You know what I'm saying, Y', all. He said. He said. He said, y'. All. Y' all got. I got a tape. And we was like, no, we ain't got no tape. And he was like, ah, well, y' all need a tape. You know what I'm saying? He started writing down the address, but then Nate was like, hey, yo, I'm gonna go to Biv. So he's like, biv, can we sing for you? He was like, can y' all do it right now? Boom. We bust into can youn Stand the Rain? A cappella. So it was backstage. It wasn't at a tour bus, but you know what I mean. The story, nonetheless, it definitely resonated. Wow. The tour bus was more exciting. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right, right. It was a lot more sexy. The tour. I do want to ask, you know, every. Every artist manager or artist executive relationship has its highs and lows. When you look back, what were some of the biggest misunderstandings or lessons y' all learned from, you know, each other, I guess you could say, like, with any relationship, I mean, in a group, because even when Bib signed his years ago, it was almost like him being the fifth member at the time. And I think it was more like a dynamic type thing. You know, we learned a lot about each other as personalities, as well as just understanding, you know, how the business went. So, you know, you had your share of highs and lows and ups and downs, but at the end of the day, it's all about the. It's better is the end of a thing than the beginning of a thing. Absolutely. So it's one of those things where it's like, here we are. Look at this. You know what I'm saying? A lot of people didn't think that this situation would even happen. But as you mentioned, boys, I. Men owe a lot to New Edition. But this is what succession looks like. Like, you understand what I'm saying? So. So it's one of those things where it's like, these guys did what they did, and they gave us the ball, and we ran with it, so. So that now we can roll with it together. So now we can roll with it together. Can we expound on the brotherhood, you know, between all of y', all, man, you know, I love seeing all of y' all together after all these years. What have y' all learned about forgiveness and just staying together as brothers? I could say, go ahead. Go ahead. You said. I've said it before in the future interviews, talking about the fact that when you're talking about true brotherhood, it's a real, true brotherhood, and we're like, real siblings. And I've said that. That's why, you see, we go through our ups and downs, our battles. We don't had some ups and downs and all of the above, but at this stage of our lives when we come together, man, it's like, it's just nothing but laughter. It's like at this point of our lives, we didn't been through a lot and I'm sure there's more to deal with as far as challenges go. So. But we've come full circles just as grown men, just as human beings, and we have fun when we come together. I was gonna say, do y' all need to talk or y' all just like, look, we brought. Let's just do this. Well, this, this is the deal again. We, this is the first time that we've even come together in this circumstance. You know what I mean? Other times it's been, you know, we've been on shows with bbd, we've done a few shows with Johnny and Bobby and, you know, and I think we did one gig that we all were together. But I feel like in order for the energy to actually get to the place where it's supposed to be something like that, a brick bread moment has to happen, you know, some things, you know, some things that we might have on our hearts may need to come out, you know what I'm saying? I mean, that's what brotherhood is about, you know, And I'm a big fan of atonement, guys. You know what I'm saying? I'm a big fan of letting it go. Did you know Microsoft has officially ended Support for Windows 10? 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It's one of those things where because we're on the road and because we, we have the time, it's going to be one of those organic things. Yeah, we don't want to make this a melodrama and it ain't no negativity, ain't no mess. Like, like, you know, saying none of that, you know, excuse me, none of that stuff. Like it's, it's. It's really just about understanding how important this meant or this was to not only to the fans, but to us. So this is what we're doing. We're celebrating. We're going to have a good time. We're going to go on the road and we're going to sing and dance our asses off. Absolutely. And we're going to give people the greatest show they've ever seen in their life and have fun doing it. That's right. Have fun doing it. Now, what do you think there's missing in the R and B game right now? Why don't you think there's more. More R B groups? Honestly, I think it start at the record label. I think people that are hired now, some of them don't have an eye for talent. They have an eye for their computer. Word. Sometimes you have to go in the street like we met in the street, you know, the singing to be close. And I think they look at it as the hits of the computer. Makes them a hit group. But it's so much more to. And back in the day, like, for myself as a CEO, I stayed to 2 in the morning and kept looking at the pitches, listening to the music, the A and R and the people at the office, now they're on the red carpet before the artists get there. So the responsibility and the care, the detail is missing. And if someone would just slow down and say, yo, how many times we gotta look at the Grammys and not one R and B group is on the show. Right, right, right, right, right, right. And the first time we see in an R B group in the last five years, well, you know, we saw what Bruno and them did, but that was a different thing. I'm talking about someone from the hood, like a Jodeci, New Edition, Boyzam. And Jagged Edge is when Juan's Sons was on there and Jesse gave them the shot. That's the first time we seen black kids on the Grammys ever in a long time. And that's where it starts. It starts younger. It starts at the office, or it's gonna have to come from us. Now with Bobby, with so many hits, how many hits are you gonna do on stage? Oh, man. To the mic. And then. Because this is the. That's the time where everybody can take a break. You have so many hit records single up, right? Like, how. How are you gonna give us a break, Bob? No, no, give me a break. All right? I don't. I don't know. It's up. It's up to Brooke and it's up to, you know, the guys, how much they want me on the stage. I don't. I don't plan to do no more than the next man. I know that. Trust me. All right. Okay. So for Boys to Men, how long did it take y' all to complete a whole song in the studio? Because you. When I say when the songs be going off, you'd be like, no, no, no. I got some more that's back. Seven minute songs back in. I even be specific with it. The Christmas album that I bump all year round to this day. Christmas interpretations. Wow. Thank you so much. My favorite Christmas album. I play. I play all year round. How long did it take y' all to complete a single song? Well, I'll tell you this. It took us two weeks to do the Christmas album. What? That's all the time we had. Two weeks. That's all we had. And we recorded it. And you're Europe. London. In London? Yes. With Brian McKnight. We sat there because we were on tour. We were on tour in London, right? Yeah. We had to meet a deadline, and we sat in there. Of course, we wrote songs on the road. You know, like, Sean would call me to his room. He had Joyous song. I came up with Wild Christmas. Nate had cold December nights. Mike did. No, no. Mike was cold December nights. Nate had. What was the record? Share Love. Share Love. Say no. Yeah. So the idea, like, literally, to. To do a new standard Christmas album was. It was grueling because we didn't have much time, but we wrote the hell out of that. Like, every aspect of it was straight from the. You know, the soul. You know what I mean? It was real. Real moments. So we. And we didn't want to make it all like, you know, jingle bells Jingle. You know what I mean? We wanted to make it. We wanted to make it so that's. That. So that we. So that we can feel it. You know what I'm saying? So that you could actually play that joint straight. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. You know, once you. You know, once the standards come and play, you know, you, of course, you can make choices, but when you have new Christmas records that people fall in love with, that's the only choice. That's why we decided not to make another one. Yeah, please. But, yeah, if y' all don't need to. Because that. That's one of my favorite albums. Thank you. Appreciate it. Johnny Gill, why did you kill Give love on Christmas Day? Because that's my favorite Christmas song. Like, y' all were singing these Christmas songs like women were leaving y'. All. Cause they were all on. That's all I had to give. I didn't have money back then. All I had was love to offer. Is there a song that you guys hate to do that? Like? I just don't want to do that song. Song. Oh, boy. Y' all looking at each other. See, I know it was one this in the still of the night. I hate that song. You hate that song. I'll tell you why you hate it. So. So. So we in Salt Lake City, we were on Utah, and. And the record label. I'm sure B has something to do with this. The record label called and was like, yo, we need a record for the Jackson's miniseries. And we wanted to be in the still of the night. Now, we could think of so many other records that we would have been excited to do, you know what I mean? But they wanted in the still of the Night, so. Okay. It's a very easy record, guys. You know what I mean? Of course, with our harmony structures, we kind of do it a little bit different. Cause it's not the regular triad. The issue is, is nobody wanted to sing the lead. It was a day off, and we wanted to go snowmobiling. Exactly. Right, Exactly. So nobody wanted to sing the lead. So any. Right, right, right. No, no, no. Hell no, we don't want to sing the lead. Cause it's in the other night. Right. So we flipped the coin. That's how we did every. That's how we. That's how we cleared every altercation, every situation. We would just flip a coin and Nate won and we left. How long did you keep recording Nate? I don't even remember, bro. I was so pissed off that day, bro. I'm looking out the window to the snow capped mountains and. Hilarious. Still traumatized. Is there a song that New Edition hates to do? Yeah, I want to know that. Yeah. What song y' all hate to do for me would probably be. You're not my kind of girl. What? Yeah. Walking to the lyrics and it leans in on the dance side. There's this one move that we do. What I already know. And later on, my ass hurts every night because of that. Are y' all reinventing dance moves then? Like, things y' all not gonna touch this time around on the stage? We are definitely gonna. We do want to give people a different experience, like Envy said. Some of the classic stuff that people have come to know us for. If it isn't love, maybe even. You're not my kind of girl. Some of those things we're gonna keep in place. Place. We might add some variances, but I think people want to See us do something new and fresh. So we definitely want to give people a different experience. This, but you can't do everything. As ball players get older, they even got to adjust their game. Thank you. Listen, you got to tell. You got to tell Brook that. Cuz he ain't. He ain't not trying to hear that. Don't expect that. They want the same look from 21. He'd be like, you try. That's what you should tell him. You try. Sometimes the running man just ran out. The walking man, right? Are y' all helping Boys and men develop their biopic? Cause I remember there was rumors of a Boys and men biopic at one time. No, it's not a rumor. It's happening. It's good to see that happening. I mean, we're still in the embryonic stages of it, still trying to get things together because we want to make sure that the story is told the right way. Because there are a lot of things, things that, by design, we have not said. You know, there's been a lot of things that's been mentioned about the group and said about the group and things of that nature that we just kind of watched a lot kept quiet, you know what I'm saying? Because when you see the people that are actually saying it, you gotta always consider the source. And when you see their positions and the lives they're living and things of that nature, outside of all of the shock value of, oh, somebody said this is. If you look a little deeper, you say, oh, okay. That's why they said that. Now, you know, the thing about the industry, though, is that everybody knows everything about everybody. Yeah. If I wanted to come on this radio show and talk about certain people, I know I could, because I know exactly what happened, who did it, the whole nine yards. The issue is, it's not us, though. You know what I mean? Mean, it's. It's the people. You know what I'm saying? Everyone has an opinion. You know what I mean? They call it social media, but there's nothing social about it at all. You know what I mean? The thought process about it is when someone says something about you, it's fine, especially if it's true. I don't care. But I'm tired of people lying about us. They lie about us, and we never say nothing. Well, so I got a. A messed up knee. I got three screws in it. And. And. And I'm. I'm. I'm getting myself together. Before you go there, I want to give them an example of how we don't say anything like people been talking about our fourth member forever. Oh, y' all did this to him. Y' all kicked him out. He was sick. Y' all ain't give a about him. Y' all don't know the story. And that's okay because we keep that in. But I tell you one thing we've never done. We've never said anything about him until the latter year years to make sure that man, if he's not here, he can have a career. Absolutely stomp on him. You don't do that. So we don't, we don't do that. That's not. I mean, I'm the least social media guy on the planet. Yes, yes. There's no need for. I don't live in that space, so there's no need to go in there and deal with all the craziness because we going to handle ourselves. So when someone is. Is doing that and telling stories, like literally fabricated stories, I feel like. Like it's. It's just felt like time, you know, Time to defend the integrity of my group, of my fellas, myself, you know what I mean? And look, I'm not gonna say boys to men, we. The. We was the cleanest on planet Earth, you know what I'm saying? We did some stuff, you know what I'm saying? A lot of people, you know, I'm pretty sure we pissed some people off, you know what I mean? Right. But at the end of the day, we were trying to protect our brand. We were trying to protect it. We didn't have Michael B. Livings on over us anymore to protect us. We didn't have Kyle Roundtree. He got murdered, you know what I'm saying? We was trying to figure out all kinds of things managerial. We had Michael Jackson and Prince telling us to know your worth and don't let nobody get over on you, you know? So we, we developed a chip. A chip. We started looking at everybody and like, oh, no, you're not going to do this to us. You're not going to do this to us. So when they hear our voices, because we were so silent because everybody else was doing it for us, now we're. You understand? Just because we're in the studio and we're working on a project does not mean that we're going to be consorting. That's not what Boyz II Men do. When we're in the studio, we work. We don't have time to play games, you know what I'm saying? Because we have a. We have to please these Fans, you know, so when someone is saying, you know, that we said something as specific about a friend of ours, we don't need baby face. Yes. Who I just talked to two days ago. Come on, man. I saw you jump in the comments of the clip, too, and say maybe what you said. But so why now even address that if you know it's not true? Because I got time. I got a broke, messed up knee. I was sitting on the damn couch. I was sitting on the damn couch. I couldn't get up. I couldn't drive. I was watching cartoons and playing PlayStation. And I saw that and I said, hmm, this will be fun. Yeah. And guess what? It was. It was very fun. Because I got a chance to let the people who really cared on that page know that it was a lie. Now, you could choose to take it forever, you want? I'm just trying to figure out where it came from. I never said anything derogatory about Chili. If you read the comments, I said, I love those girls. I said, we have history together. I'm just trying to figure out what happened. I mean, we heard that Tion said after the. The Pastor Mike thing, I ain't stand for this corny ass. Corny ass show. That's what. You know what I'm saying? And I'm like, why I love you. We love y'. All. Like the nostalgia. When we walk into the room, they jump into our. I mean, Chili used to jump into our arms. Yeah. It's like, what's good? At the end of the day, we. We just gonna sell some tickets. All right? Because that. Because. Because to be honest with you, this where we are and what we trying to do. We. We trying to inspire. Absolutely. That's right. Absolutely. And you guys, this movie is gonna be a good, great movie. It's gonna be from your point of view. Your fans are gonna love it. And we just want them to come to this. Absolutely. They can see us together. Cuz we've never done this. Absolutely. You know, and this. This is really our first interview. So the Breakfast Club is really the first interview of us all together. Can I just say to you guys, to boys and men, let me just say this and I'll shut up. But I'm glad that you guys are telling your story, because in a world that we're living in now with social media and everybody can get on here and say what they want. Want ruin people's lives, ruin your reputation. They can do a number of things. It is important. No, you can't fight the whole world. No, we'll never be able to change. Sometimes people view no matter whether it's the truth or not. But when it comes from the horse's mouth and it's written in stone, it can't be erased. It can't be telling the story. So nothing else at the end of the day with your legacy. Anybody want to believe whatever they want to believe. That's all. It's all well and fine, but it has become from the horse's mouth that remains directly in this room. Amen, Johnny. But yeah, so. So the answer yes, we're working on the biopic. Bib is definitely going to put his input into it and work it out. Mike McCary is going to have his input. You know what I'm saying? Because it's everybody's story. It's everybody. It's everybody's story. But the stuff that one and everybody was touching on, man. And people that were saying they corny, they cornball. I can't wait. Get your tickets if you haven't got your tickets yet. Talking about 30. I'm sure it's going to be more than that. Cuz they're going have to ask. Sell out so fast. I'm just happy grown folks got something to do, man. It's going to be a great day. Night, man. New edition. Boys to man. Thank y' all for joining us. That's what I meant. Why Tony? Why. Why did y' all decide to get Tony? We needed a queen. And I thought that honestly she was, to me I thought was a. A group. A great, great part. Could be a great part of this, this the whole movie. Because it's about when you're doing a show like this, you want catalog, you want everything to be able to fit perfectly. And I think that she just fits for these. Was your first choice? Yes, she was my first choice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That conference call was different. But she's there. Yeah, yeah. So y' all made the call to her personally? Oh, yeah, I did. You did. You've done good. I talked to her directly. Yeah. Thank you, Johnny Gill. Because I'm happy I'm gonna be seeing her too. Boys to men, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning. The Florida man attacked an ATM for a very strange reason. It gave him too much money. Florida man is arrested after deputies say he rigged the door to his home in an attempt to electrocute his pregnant wife. Police arrested an Orlando man for attacking a flamingo with the Breakfast Club. Donkey of the day with Charlemagne, the guy. I don't know why y' all keep letting him get y' all like this. It ain't, it ain't, it ain't me. Duvall is them okay, Florida Donkey of the Day goes to a young woman named Akina Sampson. Okay, akina is a 31 year old woman from St. Petersburg, Florida who works at one of did you know? Microsoft has officially ended Support for Windows 10 upgrade to Windows 11 with an LG Gram laptop, voted PC Mag's Reader's Choice top laptop brand for 2024. 5. Thin and ultra lightweight, the LG Gram keeps you productive anywhere and Windows 11 gives you access to free security updates and ongoing feature upgrades. Visit lgusa.com iheart for great seasonal savings on LG Gram laptops with Windows 11. PCMag reader's choice used with permission. All rights reserved. This is Sophie Cunningham from Show Me Something do you know the symptoms of moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea, or OSA in adults with obesity? They may be happening to you without you knowing. 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Okay, I am not about to sit here and do a commercial for McDonald's, okay? You can say what you want about McDonald's, but they have been around since 1940. It has 36,000 restaurants in over 100 countries and they serve 69 million customers daily. Drop one of clues bombs at McDonald's. If that's not an institution, I don't know what is. Okay? Super size me ain't stop nothing. At some point, we have all had a love affair with McDonald's. Okay? My go to was the two cheeseburger meal with an orange drink. And I'm old enough to remember when it was 299. 314/tax. What was your go to, Jess? The same thing. The two cheeseburger meal. 314. What about you, baby? Mine was the same, but it was 3.24 in New York. $3.24 sense. Okay? McDonald's was the place that we would all hang out after the football games. Drop on the clues bombs for the Berkeley stacks. Monks Corner, South Carolina all day. I have a lot of love and great memories connected to McDonald's. And there was nothing like, you know, having a homie working at Mickey D's because they would always bless you with free food. That's what it was, a blessing. Okay? That's what it was, a blessing. All right? But Akina Sampson didn't have that giving spirit. Okay? Akina is clearly not the homie you want working at McDonald's. If you're looking to get some something free. No. Okay? Akina is there to protect McDonald's at all costs, all right? She, a 17 year old customer got choked out by Akina after she stepped behind the counter to take some ranch dipping sauce after not being helped by employees. Now, we have all been at a fast food restaurant and been frustrated by the service. But that doesn't mean you can take matters into your own hands and go behind the counter and do their job for them, okay? This little entitled ass teenager, Asia took their ass behind the counter to get some ranch dipping sauce. And Akina, according to police reports, grabbed her arm when the teen Tried to break free. Akina allegedly grabbed her by the neck and took the girl to the ground. Sounds to me like the Big Show's finishing move. Remember that showstopper chokeslam Big show used to do? That's what seemed like happened in this situation. Now I know what you're thinking. How many ranch packets did the victim secure? Well, the police reports does not reveal that information. But it did reveal that the victim had visible injuries to her neck and left elbow. The incident was also captured on video. Akina was charged with child abuse. Now you're probably saying to yourself, damn Akina, did you have to do all that for some McDonald's ranch sauce? I don't know if McDonald's ranch sauce slaps. I've never had it. Anybody ever had McDonald's ranch sauce? It slaps. Definitely slaps. Okay, okay. Now if it was Polynesian sauce, Chick fil a sauce we probably could understand. But McDonald's ranch, I'm not sure. Just says it slaps. I'll take her word for it. But it's not about what the team did kid that got her choke slammed. It's the principle. As much as I have to give Akina this he haw because there is a part of me. I mean as much as I have to give Akina this hee haw, there is a part of me that's like purr. That's it. What is it? What is it? Per. What is per. Per. What's that? That's. That's. Just clock it like that's the thing. Okay. He wants to be a woman so bad. Yes, honey, someone has to teach these Y N Z lesson. Okay? Where was this 17 year old's home training? There is cause and effect. The 17 year old was the cause and effect is Akina choke. Slamming her and being arrested and charged with child abuse. And now she's about to lose her job at McDonald's. Okay, she is clearly missing her calling as nightclub security. But I digress. Look, Customer Service 101. If a customer breaches protocol, especially a minor, throw hot fried grease on them. No, the appropriate response is to call management. Our security. Our security. Okay? Don't resort to physical violence because McDonald's wouldn't frontline for you like that. And you should never under any circumstance risk your job, freedom and a young person's safety over a condiment. I know, I know. That 17 year old was risking it all too. But. Day 17 you31, you should know better. Now once again you got a child abuse charge which is going to look nasty. On your record. And you lost your job at Ronald McDonald's house. This situation makes the ice cream machine always being broken seem like good customer service. Please give Akina Sampson the biggest. He Haw McDonald's ain't dying for you, bro. Yeah, that's a lot. That's extra. Just call the police. I will. I will say this, though. A lot of people that work at fast food jobs take their job way too serious. Yeah, definitely. If I want an extra packet of ketchup, please give me an extra packet of ketchup. Ketchup. I agree. You know, if I say, hey, can I have extra ketchup? That doesn't mean one packet. Give me four or five if I ask for an additional, you know, sweet and sour sauce. Yeah, give me one or two. Give me two, three. I'm telling you, you know, McDonald's, I used to give them packets away like testers on the corner. Yeah. Because it's not. It's just hoarding Them ketchup packets probably sit there for months at a time. Just take it. Take it too serious. If I want my. My fries to overflow. Right. The fried container. Right. You know, like, give me a little extra. And it's not coming out of our money. Is like we not buying as employees. Like, we're not buying the sauces out of. Out of our money. So it's crazy. Be a cheerful giver when you work at these fast food establishments. I'm just saying you look like Jennifer Lewis. Thank you. Yes. Fantasia on American Idol. That's when she. That when. That's before she started. You know what just told me off? She told me I look like a broke transgender. I did not say. I did not say you like a book transgender. Because I don't know how the Brooklyns look. That's what you said. As opposed to the richness. But no, I said you look like an old ass trans woman. That's what I said. Same difference. Looks like you was marching in the 60s. That's what it looks like. That's what that wig is given right now. Well, did you know we had to go through in the 60s? If you had dogs sicked on you and hoses sprayed on you and marching in 100 degree weather, you would look like this too. You think your wig supposed to look prim and proper while you're marching? I just said just look like. Why you Dominicans don't know us struggle. Dominicans do not know how people struggle. Don't let gonna cast you tonight. If you see this wig on you. All right. I mean tomorrow. Tomorrow morning. What is wrong? I didn't mean to say tonight. He cash you. He gonna cash you tomorrow afternoon. Sorry. What is wrong with y'? All? All right. Thank you for that doy of the day. He looked just like a. When I said he. Excuse me. He gonna what to watch at night. Like, watch at night. Why I gotta be doing classrooms at night? I am a lady. Yeah. How dare you? Oh, my God. Talk to me during regular office. Want to be a woman so bad. All right, now we're all part woman. 50%. It took 50% woman, 50% man to make us also this woman in you. Yes. This wig really has him feeling himself. All right, all right, guys, can we focus? Can we focus? Classroom, can we focus? Okay, okay. All right. What in the tree are you talking? That is crazy. I wish y' all could see his wig, cuz a lot of y. Like, what are y' all laughing about? He has a wig right now that looks like he's an old lady in church. That's exactly what it looks like. Like, they just finished frying some fried chicken and just ready for. Where did the wig come from? Tell the whole context. It came from a wig store. Nope. Lauren. Lauren's stylist, her wig maker went to go buy you away from the store because she said you are not worth the bundle. So everything that y' all are saying about my wig this morning is exactly what y' all should be saying to her. But y' all leave me on this island all to myself. All right. Morning, everybody. It's the Janelle Jess, hilarious Charlamagne de Gal. We are the Breakfast Club. Rose is here as well. We got special guests in the building. Come on. Now. We have 112. We have total, and we have Case. Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. How are y' all doing? Great. Guys. This is not a random link up. Y' all going on tour together. That's right, man. This is the 112, room 112 30th anniversary tour. We're so excited. Brought our brother Case and our sisters Total with us, so we know. Time to have a good time, man. First. First show is when? November 5th. 5th. November 12th. Stanford, Connecticut, Brooklyn is November 13th. So there's some members missing. So are the members going to be on tour or. This is the tour. This tour. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. My other members coming. You by yourself, Jason, you by yourself. What made now the right time for all of y' all to come together for this tour? Oh, that's a great question, bro. Honestly, man, it Just felt right, it being 30 years, you know, us being in the game. So it just. It just made sense for us to just get out there and just show the fans that we really appreciate what they've been doing, you know, been rocking out with us for the last 30 years, man. So, you know, we're really excited about it, man. Like, we're managed total, and 112 were managed by the same, you know, crew. So, of course, that was an easy, you know, decision to make with that. And then Case, you know, being. Being, you know, the bro. Yeah, that's the bro. You know, I mean, and all of us having that catalog is. Is definitely. We wanted to bring back that 90 nostalgia. You feel me? Absolutely. And all y' all can still sing. Thank you. Thank you. That's, you know, not everybody doing it, but y' all can still sing. That's important. That's good. Yes, ma'. Am. How did y' all find that balance back in the day between. Between being, like, sexy but strong, but still street with it? Like, how did y' all find that balance? It was just natural. Like, that's just who we are growing up, Jersey. Like, how we were. And that's what made us. To me, that's what made us who we were. Total. The name started out as total opposites because we were all individuals in our own way, you know, so it was. It wasn't like you had to buy the brand. We came as we were. Yeah. And how was the Bad Boy ever back then, growing up, right? Because There was a time, 90s, 2000, it was nothing but bad boy on the radio. Radio. Nothing but bad boy on the streets. Mixtapes, the clubs. How was that era where it just. It felt like anything y' all did hit, It's a beautiful thing. It was fun. It was. Yeah, that's. That's where we learned a lot of our grind from that whole era just grinding just out there. It was going to the tunnel, like, it was just fun. It was just like a big old party. Yep. Yeah, that tunnel, that's crazy, right? I was coming from Atlanta. You know what I'm saying? It, like. It was a different. Different. It was like a different culture. So, you know. You know, you can imagine how that felt. He's coming. I know he's from the south side. You know what I'm saying? So he coming to New York. Culture was a shot, you know, so, you know, but. But it was so much fun because it was just like, okay, club's smaller, but you know what I mean? But it was like, in your face. So you know what I'm saying? So we. But we learned a lot musically here. What about for you, Case? Now, you weren't on Bad Boy. You were on Def Jam. Def Jam. You a songwriter. You had. You have the. I always say you have that one wedding song that you will get paid for for the rest of your life. Happily ever after. Like. Yeah, let's hope so. How was. How was it coming up for you in that. In the. During that time? Because at that time, you were Def Jam. Def Jam was heavy hip hop. And you was probably one of the only R B singers at the time. I mean, it was. It was cool for me, except for the only problem was they was learning on the fly how to do R and B. And so I get caught up in that sometime. But. But yeah, I mean, you know how big they was then. So that part was cool. It was just a lot of times they had a lot of hip hop sensibilities because it's hip hop label. But one of the things that helped me was that I was the last artist that Russell personally signed to Def Jam. So I could always call him and be like, yo, I can snitch. Did you know them records was gonna be so timeless? Like, touch me, tease me, happily ever? I didn't know, but that's what I always wanted to do. Like, I never wanted to make. Make like, trendy stuff. I always wanted to make music. Like, my parents would listen to stuff from like 20, 30 years earlier, and it would have me doing it. And so my thing was, like, if I could do that, then I'd be happy and then everything else would fall in line. You worked with Mary J, Beyonce, Foxy Brown, Usher. Usher, Usher. Who else? There's a bunch of people. Ll, Ghostface, Ghostface, Genuine Tyrese. Genuine Tyrese, Jamon Lewis. I felt like Def Jam didn't treat you like a regular artist, right? With total and 112. I. I would see them out in the club. Like, Bad Boy would have them out. Def Jam, all this. Def Jam would have them out. I didn't see you. Def Jam put you out as much like that. Was it because you didn't want to go out or probably didn't know what to do with him because he was R B. I think a lot of it. Yeah. First of all, I hate going out. Okay. So if I didn't have to be there, that's why you always be like, yo, you hear a lot of stuff about you. Because I know how to. Yeah, I'll be over Here. So if you. Yeah, I mean I wasn't really big on going out or when I did, it'd be. I'd be somewhere else. Unless I had to be, you know, somewhere with them. Gotcha. Did you guys. Well, Mike, I saw you say that you feel like, you know, you guys first album without that, you don't think that R and B would be as prevalent or as worldwide as it is right now. So yeah, the mind frame was. We started that whole trend. It's like the way music sounds now. 112 had a lot to do with that because no one can really give us a group that did it the way that we did it before. 112 like as far as singing over hip hop beats and stuff like that. Like you. I challenged him. But find me a group that did it. Because back in the day, what you had the A side and you had the B side, right? Right. And then on the B side. So the records, right, they. They had the record. You had the up tempo records where they were singing, but they were always all that singing over up tempo beats and stuff. It was like, it was confusing. Puff one. One thing that Puff told us was like when you're in the club, when you, when you're recording a record, right, Sing the song as if you're in the club drinking and you're trying to holla at a girl, you ain't gonna be in this girl talking about, yeah, you gonna. Girl, I want to be with you. No one else. You know what I mean? It's gonna be something smoothing. So when we wrote records, when we wrote the up timber records and then Slim having the voice, being able to just lay on the tracks the way that we did, like, like that started a whole era where people now like when you hear R B, it has a hip hop element to it as well. It's not just R B, it's a hip hop element. But isn't that the bad boy formula though? Wasn't that Diddy? Like, I feel like Diddy did that like with Jodeci. I feel like he did that with Mary J. Blige. I feel like he did that with Total. I'll give you that. I'll give you Mary J. Blige because yeah, she, she helped. Because we always say that Mary is between Mary and 112, but 112, really? And then yeah, Puff did, you know, he did contributed because we came in just. Man, we R B, we R and B, bro. Like, forget all this stuff, man. Like hip hop, that's going to cheapen our sound and all this other stuff. And he's had the vision was like, yo, this is what's going to separate y' all from the Drew Hills, from the Jagged, from the, you know, the agits and all these other groups that were coming out at the same time. And you know what that is? That didn't make perfect sense. Right. Instead, all I would love you to come up to me in a club. Let me tell you what you want to do, right? What you want. You. Exactly. That's exactly what it was. You know what I'm saying? Nine times out of ten, ain't gonna be able to sing. So he's like, bro, all of that in my ear. Like, I don't want to hear all that, you know? So that's. That's. Do y' all agree with Mike's assessment? Not to start any arguments here, but Case, do you agree with that? Yeah, I mean, they was. It was part of it. I mean that during that era, that's when hip hop and R and B was coming. Yeah. Yeah. So pretty much. And I feel like Bad Boy was at the forefront. Definitely. Yeah. His total was hip hop hop with that touch of R B. We R B group, but I think we were more based hip hop with the touch of R and B. And Mary definitely was the pioneer of that sound when Puff did the remixes with Jodeci. Cuz Jodecy was just the R B. And then he brought the hip hop element. Yeah. Ghostface and Raekwon on the freaking you remix. You know, like I can't even. I don't want to hear. Can't you see without Biggie Part. Like, I hate hated when some of the urban AC stations back in the day didn't play rap, so they would just play R B. Oh, I hated that. I was like, Really? Right. Yes. Because they didn't want a lot of urban ac. Didn't play the rest. Truth. Yeah. You gotta play the record. Wow. Yeah. How do y' all balance egos, you know? You know, when you're dealing with three legendary acts who all had their individual moments. Yes. You know, it's. It's a respect level. Yeah. You know, I mean, it's like. Because I'm. I'm actually fan. Yeah. Actually fans. I love that. And I know it sounds cliche or whatever, but it's the truth. And you know, so often we don't tell the truth. You know, we get in this type of form or whatever, but we are genuinely like, Total was our first pick to be on this room 112 tour. Case was our first pick to be on this, because Case, his catalog. We just spoke about his catalog. Ridiculous. Total ridiculous. 112. Ridiculous. And we wanted to bring back that 90s nostalgia, you know, and just bring back that whole era of, I knew where I was when I heard only you for the first time, you know, I knew I was. When I heard Cupid, when I heard I'm missing you, or when I heard can't you see for the first time, like, I remember where I was when I heard these rappers. I was supposed to be where I was at. I think that ego is healthy on the tour, especially like this, because you have to. You, if you use it the right way, like, for me, it's like a, okay, I'mma try to kill everybody. And then they going to feel the same way. And then the fans, the one that win, as opposed to people who just go up there, don't care, with no ego. Like, I just got to check. We come from that. Yeah, you got it. That's what I'm saying. We come from that camp. Total 112. Just killed, y'. All. And that's how. That's how you got to do it. That's how you got to do it. Friendly competition. And that's. That's the only people that win is the fans. Was there ever a low time for you, y'? All? Yeah. Yeah, it definitely was. I think for us, the resurgence of the 90s, you know, was. Was something that was what we appreciated more than anything. And that happened about what, maybe almost like six, seven years ago. Yeah, it was like, where the pandemic. You didn't know when you didn't. You didn't know what the state of music and how the industry and how we were going to perform was going to be. Remember, everybody started experimenting with the whole whole, you know, taping, you know, and then video. It was just. Yeah, I thought we were gonna just. It's gonna be that, you know, so. So much gratitude now to, you know, I mean, see it for where it is. And. And we feel like it's a blessing that of all the errors they chose to pick, they picked the 90s, right? You know what I'm saying? So thank you. And I would want to go back. Just. I really want to experience it in New York. Like, oh, man, I think that one time you laughed at me. I just feel like the. The time that you guys were like. Like the top, it was such a good time. Here, it doesn't seem real. Like, when we hear the stories or, like, I'VE been just sitting here listening to y' all talk about just walking in the studio. Big Biggie's just there and, like, you know, I can't love these stories. Young and just being, like, on top. Yeah. Like, in that time. But you. You're working so hard that you don't even realize it, you know? Like, you don't even realize what it took us to step away from it, you know, and. And, okay, we can use it as our downtime, you know, and say that that was a time for us to go back and. And look at it and say, man, we. We did more than just sing, you know, we contributed to a culture. Like, we. We are part of history, you know, we're part. Defined the culture in a way. Yes. So it's. So that's. That was amazing. It's looking at it now, being older. Like, you're looking at it now. Because my kids, now they're. They're going back and they googling like, dad, y'. All. Y' all did pieces of cream. Look at the video, bro. That's me. My kid. No, because I don't go around. I don't. I don't go around. Hey, look at Mike, you know, I don't. I don't do that. You know, I like. Yeah, they. They just. They grew up as normal as I. I hoped I could because I could teach them to be. Because it's such a mental, you know, strain that the industry takes, like, it gives, but it also takes. One of the things is, you know, the. The lack of, you know, the mental health that comes along, you know, saying with that. Because you're. You're inundated with all of this, you know, you have to be perfect every time that you see you. You're out. You all. Your face has always got to be right. Right? Your clothes got to always be right, or. Oh, man, they don't fell off, bro. Like, I just came from the gym, you know, But I think a camera messed that up. The camera messed it up because when, like, the reason I asked him if he was out is I would see everybody out, right? I was a kid growing up, so I would go to Grants Tomb and see y' all on 125th Street. I would go to the tunnel and see y' all in the tunnel and different things. And there was no VIP area. That's what it was. And it gave you a connection with an artist, but there was no phone, so it was no, I'm taking a picture. Right? The only thing that you would possibly do if you want. And nobody wanted to look corny, but you might ask for an autograph. But nobody wanted to come in club and do that. So it gave you. You enjoyed the moment. And I feel like people are not enjoying the moment now. Yeah, I did that. I'm like, beyonce tour. And I'm like, I've never went live, ever went live on Instagram. And I wasn't expecting this. Beyonce came out and she just started speaking. I'm on live. I'm like, I'm on live, y'. All. This is b. And she started speaking, and I started crying. I was not expecting. I was like, okay, guys, I gotta go. Literally, I might have been filming for. For like, 10 seconds. You've got to be in the moment because it's an experience. You know what I mean? Watching it back is not the same. No, it's not. I just gotta ask one more. I'm sorry. Did no one else beat. Were y' all confused when y' all first heard that beat? No. No. Because there was snares all over that place. You. We did not know what was gonna be put over it. Okay. Because that was Terry. Once again, Terry Robinson. It's like, how are you going to write over this? That's what I said when I heard the gadget. We went crazy. Yeah, it's one of our favorites. It hit so hard. If we could just get all of those acts on the stage one day, we're gonna stay hopeful. Yeah, that joke was crazy. All right, well, thank you guys for joining us. 112 total tickets for tour. Get them tickets. And it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. It's time to get up out of here. The positive note comes from Maya Angelou. She said, if you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude about it. Have a blessed day. Breakfast Club. Wake you up. Wake that ass up. 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