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Guaranteed Human. Every day I wake up. Wake your ass up. The breakfast club. You're all finished or y'all is done. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. Jess Hilarious, Sholomaine the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren LaRosa is here with us as well. Now we got a special guest. A legend. A cultural icon. An OG. A legend in this game. Ladies and gentlemen, Arsini O'Hall! Yes, sir. Woo! Woo! Woo! How are you feeling, brother? I'm feeling great. I'm thanking God for the day that Chalemain called me.

Because I wouldn't have done this without the voice of respect on the other end of the phone.

I mean, I'm 70 years old.

I could have written a book many times, but that's adult work.

It's a really hard thing to do.

And he talked me into it, and I'm so glad I did for my son and for my legacy.

Man, I'm so glad you did too because I want to talk about your legacy today, man.

You know, I always say that I got four entertainment icons, right?

Jay-Z, Clarence, Avon, P.D. Green and Arsenio Hall. And I feel like people don't truly understand the risk you took

to put black culture at the forefront at a time when nobody was putting black culture

in the forefront.

Yeah, it was hard.

I was coming along at a time when you go to Paramount and say,

let's book Bobby Brown the first Friday night,

because people won't have to work on Saturday.

And to really show him what show this is, he has this song,

Don't Be Cruel, and my prerogative.

Let's let him break one at the top and one at the bottom.

Well, Johnny Carson only does three minutes of a song

at the end of the show. And I'm like, well, I'm not fucking Johnny. I'm not Johnny Carson. So let's try this. But what was crazier is one of the ladies in the room said, and why would we give a model that much time? And I didn't realize that there was a Bobby Brown in the modeling world.

Oh no, the makeup art.

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