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Guaranteed Human. Hold up. Every day I wake up. Wake your ass up. The Breakfast Club. Are you all finished or y'all's done? Yes, it's the world. The Most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club. DJ Envy, Just Hilarious, Charlemagne, the God. Envy is not here today, but Lauren LaRosa is here. Mimi Brown is sitting in as well. And we got the cast of the shy.

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What's the word? is Charlemagne the guard. Envy is not here today but Lauren LaRosa is here. Mimi Brown is sitting

in as well and we got the cast of the shy. You what's the words? It's happening, man. Everybody introduce themselves like y'all a group. Boy, man. My mom, Nicholas Ferguson. I'm Michael V. Upps, Cortez Smith. Zaria, E. Money Primer. And Alex R. Hibber. I feel like we watched y'all grow up. I know.

I was so high.

This final show was coming up.

Oh, my God.

Look, man. I know. I was so high. Find out that y'all was coming up. Oh my God. Look, so y'all here, eighth season. Shows don't live that long. We saw y'all, y'all were like little, little kids. When you're little ass, I was so mad at you. I feel like he was my real little brother and shit.

How does it feel to be doing the final season of this long living show?

It feels great just to be able to start this and end with it and to be able to be a part of something that's bigger than myself and work alongside amazing people and be able to call them family now. It's just an amazing journey to be a part of. Yeah, it's definitely a surreal moment because you gotta think about, like, we from Chicago, so to walk the streets, like I filmed on some of the parts where I went to school at, you know what I mean? So I was like, bro, I was 24 years old, having my first scene around the corner from my high school, I was like I was 24 years old having my first scene around the

corner from my high school I was like damn this is this is crazy bro did the show accurately reflect

Chicago to y'all be yeah yeah but it's like politically correct though it's like we can't go too

indebt in it you know I mean they're getting too controversy we don't want to put a bad light on us

we already got a stigma on us like we so dangerous you know I mean? They get two controversy. We don't want to put a bad light on us. We already got a stigma on us. Like, we're so dangerous. You know what I mean? Every city got a hood. Do you feel like the show really helped change that narrative? Yeah, it showed black love, right? It shows love, community, family. We are more than just violent. Like, I feel like a lot of people think Chicago and think just violence and guns and

things like that. But it just showed that we have such positivity. I think you can see,

like, it's a character for each person on this show. Like, our ensemble is so, we got so many

characters. And I feel like anybody watching can relate to anybody. And I feel like the shy, to your point, Zaria, right? To your point, I feel like it shows how the trauma starts. You know what I mean? Like it shows how the trauma even gets inherited, you know, in black communities a lot of the time. Yeah, it's environmental. And it also shows how to come up out of it. I like that because a lot of TV and movie just shows the trauma. And that's it and that's where it ends. And you know what it shows? It shows like family. Like we all congregate and come together to get ourselves out of that trauma. And it really glorified the black woman in our show. Like we need to keep pushing that because it's like we put the stigma on like black women like they not need it we bro that's our backbone you know i mean we come from a woman so we got to get more respect to him for sure character development is very important in this show because yo i remember first seeing no his role i went from hating him to his like, damn, I love him because how you changed like, at first,

he was working for Duda and that's what she wanted to do.

You know, Nook was like, all right, bad, killer, kill him up, bang, bang.

But then you changed the perspective, like the mindset of the business or even with like

Bacari he want to get out now you know what I mean and it's it's just wow like

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