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0:00I know. I know. Because you're particularly bringing the energy to mainstream radio, the black radio, the sources, trust me. You hear that? I'm a little bit about everything. You ask the question that needs a band on the breakfast club. A little brown girl's looking at you and going to be like you. All right, y'all. So I know we just talked to Sherry Shepherd and talked about a lot of things that she was doing. And she mentioned something that she's doing in honor of breast cancer. I wanted to mention last night and give a shout out to Harlem's fashion role. Last night, I attended their event. It's like a big kick off for fashion week here in New York. But I went on behalf of the Susan G Coleman Foundation. They are leaders in breast cancer research and patient health as well too. So we put together this t-shirt with a designer who won a $100,000 last night to invest into her career. Okay. Her name is Stella Jean. I was, it's about protecting the girls, but you were able to scan a t-shirt and donate

1:02to the Susan G Coleman Foundation while we were active in the event toward everything that they're doing. But last night was great. So I just wanted to say thank you guys for having me. I want people to know about the Susan G Coleman Foundation. You can go to their website, find out more about them, how you support them, and the photos that I posted in my, don't play with the girls t-shirt. You guys can go and get them. And they'll be out in time or two you in time for breast cancer awareness months with the witches in October. The last night at the Harlem Fashion Roe event, Erica Baidu was honored. Tracy Ellis Ross spoke. She's like a big proponent of Harlem's Fashion Roe. I saw Gunna there as well too. It was just a good night in honor of community and breast cancer awareness. So I wanted to say thank you guys for having me. Now let's shift gears a bit. Let's take it on over to LA. Now we've been following some of the bigger developments in the dirt case and yesterday the, the, everything arrested. So now the jury is going back into the quarters and they'll be deliberating and trying to figure out what they think. Yes, now it's in deliberations.

2:05So I mean, there's been a ton of back and forth from both sides. And for those of you guys who haven't been following it, this is a murder for higher child. So dirt is on trial because the government is basically saying that he is responsible for organizing the, the shooting that happened in LA where music artist Kwondo Rondles cousin was killed. His team is denying everything that witnesses on the stand, we're not taking a stand against him as well. But yes, the jury is now deliberating. If you've also our protesting, you know, in support of dirt yesterday. So we'll be waiting to see kind of what happens now. And he's facing life. He's facing life and. Yes, he is facing life in prison. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So we'll be back with updates as that happens. Sometimes it could take a week. It could, I mean, we'll just have to. What are they saying? Are they saying anything? I know we're at one time when did he's case they, they all, they assumed that did he was going to have a lot of charges dropped, are they saying the same thing and dirt? So they're saying it looks good for them. I don't know. Because the jury can't say anything. No, no, no, the people has been watching the case because they got all these attorneys that's watching it and. It depends on the side. They didn't bond. King Vaughan, but you might have come up and say something that actually made the case

3:07take a turn or something like that. Yeah. So there's their stuff, their statements with her, their statements from, they had like three cooperating people from Dirk's label. It's been back and forth. It depends on what we, you were watching it because you have his team and then you have the opposing team. I know Dirk's dad though has been saying that they don't have strong evidence against him. If you guys want to take a listen to that, he's been outside of the trial in there every single day as well too. Yeah, but it depends on who you're talking to though, basically. Yeah. So yeah, we'll just have to wait to see what the jury says. That's the only people that matter at this point. Yeah. Yep. So I don't, I can't say that for certain. I don't know that for certain people have different predictions. I don't know. All right. Now let's move on. So still staying over in LA, Chris Rock. So Chris Rock had a conversation with the variety. I think you guys want to enjoy the conversation. So he's talking about kind of like this new of return. I'm a new, but his return to directing. It's been 12 years since he directed something and he's returning with his new film, Misty Green. It's his, it's going to be in theaters via a 24 in October.

4:09And he's actually saying that this is one of the most important things that he's ever done or put out in his career since bringing the pain. Is it a horror? So it's like, it's like a heartbreaking film. It's about this girl who is like an up and coming actor. She's having issues with book and job. She was once on top of the game. And now she's out of it. And she's trying to get back into it. But she was like kind of difficult to work with. So she's going through all these things as she figures it out. And he's also acting in the film as well too. But in this article, he talks a lot about, you know, just the kind of the turn that he's taking with going back to directing and how when he was, you know, doing just comedy and directing a bit, he feels like he was kind of giving a pass. Because of who he was at the time. And he points to some of the things that he's directed previously that did that were not reviewed well. Like what? He says all his prior movies. And even if even in the writing article, they bring up some of the prior movies that he's directed. He's always been honest about how he don't feel like he scored with a movie. I thought top five was good though. Well, he talks about head of state, particularly, right?

5:11And he says when he was going head of state, he was like, he was basically Drake, like he was so big as Chris Robb that he was kind of loud to do whatever he wanted. And he says that if he knew then what he knows now, he would have written it for Denzel Washington. He wouldn't even have put himself in that movie, but he didn't know his power at the time. Did he do an interview? Yeah, but there's a written in his audio. There's not this is not an audio. This is all written. But we do have audio with him talking a bit about him losing the toe. I got to explain it because it's not about what we're talking about. The sensor going to the audio. So Chris Rock was also talking about the fact that everybody hates Chris was supposed to be on Fox. And it wasn't on Fox because Method Man and Red Man show took the slate. Let's take a listen. So I write this show, this family drama, this family comedy. We were initially at Fox. The choice of shows was either my show, everybody hates Chris on the Method Man and Red Man

6:13show. We lost to the Method Man and Red Man show, which put everybody hates Chris. So I didn't air on Fox. It aired on the UPN. If it aired on Fox, I wouldn't be here right now because I would have made so much money. But that's how it is. That's how it is when you make a black family stuff. If I had two rappers smoking weed, well, they didn't last that long. I mean, you know, meth, they're doing fine both of those guys. I love those guys. But how the **** did I lose that one? I don't even remember it. I don't remember it. I don't remember it past the pilot though. I remember the show. I just don't remember it past the pilot. Everybody hates Chris classic. But I still watch that. I think my biggest takeaway from like so the written interview is where like a lot of the stuff is. My biggest takeaway from this written interview was that like now he feels like he has more of like a like a through line or like a like focus. I remember he talked about being diagnosed with ADHD ass burgers. Well, he talked about that back in 2020.

7:15He actually says that now he's been doing extensive therapy. So he has a lot of different level of concentration and empathy that he didn't have back then. So he says he was good at telling jokes, but he didn't have to face a lot of things. His comedic gifts put him in a position where he didn't have to grow up. So he's better equipped now to make movies now. Okay. Isn't Chris Rock is goaded. Okay. Chris Rock is scored way too many times for me to have a count about. I didn't even like the headline of the variety article. His variety right? Well, it was a bunch of people that covered it because they grabbed the Oscar thing. Well, it was the cover of the cover. Variety is. Yeah, it's a comeback. Yeah, I even like that. I like that. I like comeback. But it's because he kind of frames the article as like this is like his second leash on things like lease on things. But that's why when I said it, I kind of corrected myself because it's weird to say that about him, but it is interesting. Well, no, no, no. I don't know. I'm just saying it's like a rebrand or reinvent himself. He never went nowhere. He never went nowhere. He's never went nowhere. He's been directing. He's been on tour. He's been doing a bunch of things. Well, it just sounds like now he has a better hold on with his direction is in business and as a director, God, like he wants to be known as the director guy and that perspective comes

8:17from him. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's what he's literally saying. He's saying it. Yeah. All right, well, that is the latest with Lauren. Now Lauren, that's when I let you know you have, you know who alpha for is. Yes, yes. Yeah. It's not to be like this. Don't do me. Yeah. No, just see it sticking right up. I need you to worry about the arm. I'm like, they're up over there. All right. You're working out for about a year. You don't do no over there looking like a gel pin. I don't know what gel pin me. You remember the glittery gel pins and they like like flubbery and you were getting for back. It's like, you know, you know, you know, you know, gel pin. Yeah. It sounds like she said jail pin. That's what I was like. No, like, gel. You were definitely getting down and gel. She, gel, gel. I know. You can be young, you can be the jail. We can get those. I want to talk to Edward. Okay, God gave me a download this morning. We keep having the same conversation over and over and over in regards to the end words. So, you know, let's discuss. All right. We'll get to that next is the breakfast club. Good morning. This is the D's here poppin' R&B. 979WJLBD-TRO. You're a lesser.

9:17Play my favorite station. Getting 97.9WJLB station from I Heart Radio. You better set a lot, treat you well. I will. It's good I can tell. Come give me it. I'm here. You're a favorite thing. I'm the best thing I am. She gets to know. Oh, well, well, well. I can't sit in R&B. I have chance. Can't keep in and size it. I'm calling you so we can lock in. But you call me size it. You make it easy for me to believe in love. You better believe it. Cause maybe I'm making something. It's better than the good R&B boys. Smiling cause you know what I know. You know what you're better. I treat you well. I will. It's good I can tell. Come give me it. I'm here. You're a favorite thing. I'm the best thing I am. She gets to know. Oh, well, well, well.

10:18I can't sit in R&B. I have chance. Can't keep in and size it. I'm the best thing I am. You need them well. I'll do your nails for real. I hit you through. You sleeping good for real. I beat you up. I beat you up. I'll let you out. I'll ask you right away. I'll ask you right away. I'll ask you like the one that's ever been. I'll ask you right away. Tell me. Tell me. It's time for Donky of the day. You're the bunch of doggies I hate me. I'll be Donky of the day. It really caught me off guard. We live a life where we might art on these bars. Never was a. Give it to me. Give it to me. Give it to me. You are a donkey. That is why I shot a name. It's here. I'm Donky. The day's just starting. I'm the breakfast club. Okay, Shadow Man. We've been given Donky of the day, too. Okay. Listen, Donky of the day for Wednesday, September 9th goes to all of us black and brown people who are sitting around arguing about who can use the N word gather around.

11:19Okay. I'm going to talk to you for a second, man. This weekend, the never ending discussion of who can use the N word and who can't use the N word was sparked because of Fat Joe again. All right. He was on the Joe button podcast and he was defending his use in the N word by pointing to his upbringing and the bronze growing up in black housing projects and his deep roots and hip-hop culture. That's not even the conversation I want to have. Okay. All I've seen that conversation do is lead to a bunch of unsurious arguments. All right. I like to learn. All right. The dialogue reminded me is that even though I know better, I'm not doing better. And there was a time where I said publicly, I wasn't using the N word anymore. And I want to challenge myself to do that again. Okay. See, for years, there's something we've been saying that I don't think I've ever really believed in that statement is we took the power out of the N word. No, you didn't. No, you didn't. Okay. I'm going to tell you something that you all have heard a million times. If we took the power out of the N word, why do we get so mad when somebody else who's not black-sestic, if there's no power in it, what's the problem?

12:21Okay. Clearly, there's still power in that word. Okay. What we actually did was create rules about who gets to use it. And I don't think we should play that game anymore. Okay. I also don't believe it's a term of indemity, all right? I never, ever use it as a term of indemity. Okay. I use it the way the white man and Uncle Ruckus men have to be used. Okay. Folks will be like, when I call my man the N word, it means brother, it means homie, that means family. What call them brother? Okay. Call them homie, call them fam. I say peace black man. I say peace king because those are high vibrational words. Okay. I only use the term n word when I'm talking about low vibrational people with low vibrational actions. Okay. Black people, we create new slang every damn day. Okay. We have no shortage of words. So why is the n word one we can't let go? Okay. The word that was actually created to degrade and dehumanize us, we can't let it go. I don't understand it. Okay. There's a book. I was showing y'all this book early this morning while showing the room.

13:21Well, showing me, showing just hilarious. There's a book that I love. Okay. I'm holding it up in my hand. I grew up reading this book. Okay. Every now and then I pick it up and read it again. It's got two volumes and it's called, and I'm saying the word for title purposes, from niggas to gods. Okay. By a keel. All right. In this book, there's a chapter called Return to Sinda. Let me see if I can see it. You see it right there? It's called Return to Sinda. All right. You see? In that chapter, it talks about all the hell black people have caught in America. And because of the hell, we've caught some of us have become hell raises. And it says in that chapter, we need to give this hell back to whom it is that we caught it from. And it says in particular, to give the n word back. All right. We didn't create that word. White supremacy did. All right. That was that word for us. So why in the hell are we fighting for ownership, Bobby? Okay. Our ancestors fought to not be called the n word. Now their descendants, us, will argue you down about our right to call each other the

14:25n word. How did we get here? How? Imagine explaining that to your great grandparents. Okay. Well, look, I understand. You know, your fought against being called this word because it was used to the grade and dehumanize you. But don't worry. We fixed it. We call each other that now. What? No, that's okay. Grandma, we changed the ER to an A. If that makes sense to you fine. Okay. If it doesn't apply, let it fly. I'm just telling you how I feel this morning and I already know what somebody is saying. We reclaimed it. Reclaimed what? Okay. You reclaim something that belonged to you. That word never belonged to us. Okay. Our dignity belonged to us. Our humanity belonged to us. Reclaim all of that. But the n word, ask them crackers property. Okay. Return to send them. All right. And I think we've confused something. We have confused the finance with liberation. Hmm. I'll say that again. We have confused the finance with liberation. Okay. There's a difference between saying, I'm going to use your insults so you can't hurt me with it.

15:25All right. That's the M&M 8 mile move. And then there is the your insult doesn't have anything to do with me anymore move. Okay. For me, the second one sounds a whole lot freer. All right. I don't need to prove you can't hurt me with a knife by stabbing myself with it. Okay. I could just put the damn knife down. That's how I feel about the n word. Okay. I call it low vibrational because I don't believe there's anything uplifting about speaking a word over ourselves that was created from hatred towards us. And I'm not talking about some scientific measurement of vibrations. I'm talking spiritually. Okay. I'm talking about what I choose to speak over myself and other black and brown people. Words mean something to me. That's why I don't ever use the n word in an affectionate way. Okay. If I love you, why would one of my terms of affection for you be somebody else's term of degradation for both of us? All right. That's what I mean when I say this has to be hilarious to a white supremacist. Okay. A word they created to dehumanize us. A word we used to fight them for using. We are now fighting each other to use.

16:26It don't make no damn sense to me. And I'm not even going to get into the music. All right. That complicates this even more and makes it even more ridiculous. We hand everybody the n word and then get mad when somebody mishandles it. Okay. Here's an idea. Let's just stop handing it out. Okay. And by the way, you don't got to listen to me. I'm not trying to police no grown person's mouth. Okay. Say whatever you want. I'm telling you what I believe and what I think will work for me. Okay. I don't think anybody should use it. Okay. Black people included. I don't think black liberation requires us to preserve the language of black degradation. Okay. That's why I'm mad with it. All right. Some things our ancestors gave us because they wanted us to keep them and some things were done to our ancestors that we inherited anyway. Okay. And the same thing. The n word is not some precious piece of black culture that needs to be protected. Right. It was put on us and we can take it off. All right. We don't need to change the spelling. We don't need to change the pronunciation. We don't need to debate who's allowed to say it. We don't need to take the power out of it.

17:27Power out of it. Okay. Just give the damn thing back. Return the send them as this beautiful book from Niggas the God says. Okay. I don't want the package. Never ordered it. Don't know who signed for it. And I'm damn sure not paying the shipping. Okay. Our ancestors fought to make sure the world knew they weren't that word. I'm not going on of them by fighting for my right to call myself what they fought not to be called. Please give those of us arguing over who can use the n word the biggest he ha. And if you can go order this amazing book from Niggas the God to buy a kill. Okay. I believe it's available on Amazon. I ordered this book in the 90s. You see how I look? Yeah. You see even got water damage. All right. Mm-hmm. Yeah. That's a book for a long time. I just ordered it from Amazon. Oh, it's still on Amazon? Mm-hmm. Okay. 1795. Oh. Yeah. And it's a volume too as well. It's definitely a volume too. Yeah. All right. Well, thank you for that donkey today.

18:28Yes indeed. Now let's open up the phone lines. 800-585-1051. Sherry Shepherd stopped through earlier today. She said something about what one of her friends said to her about her ex at the time. So I got don't I got to go once a month. Yeah, that's my fuck off. You talk about taking a slow but I gotta go with so bad that we broke up and Kim Whitley called me and she said can I have them? Like I know. Oh my friends. That's her age. I'm telling you can do that. Yeah, she was like screw that girl cold. Look, you a good man. When we broke up everybody was saying we got together. I'm telling the driver that I have almost crashed into a tree. They love him because they see how much he loves me and how much he how good he treats me. So the question is 800-585-1051. Have you ever dated one of your friends ex? Why don't drive almost crashing to a tree? Because he was such a good man. No, she was saying that when the driver found that they broke up he was so upset that he almost crashed into a tree because he was such a good dude. Yo, it was crazy. But 800-585-1051 especially ladies, have you ever dated one of your friends exes?

19:34Let's discuss this the breakfast club of one. That's horrible. The Breakfast Club. It's Laura Rosa from the Breakfast Club. Today's show is supported by FX's The Drop, a snowfall saga. Wanda and Leon are back but this time they're chasing a different kind of legacy. As West Coast rap begins to take over 90s Los Angeles, Wanda is betting on a new generation of artists ready to make a name for themselves in hip-hop. But in a city where every opportunity comes with a price, they'll have to decide what there will in a risk to leave their mark. FX is The Drop, a snowfall saga, now streaming on Hulu.