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Guaranteed Human. Hold on. Every day I wake up. Wake your ass up. The breakfast club. We're all finished or y'all's done. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Sholomey Naga. We are the Breakfast Club. Long La Rosa is here today. We got some special guests in the building from the documentary on Netflix. Songs from the Whole. we have James Jacobs

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We have Long LaRose is here today. We got some special guests in the building from the documentary on Netflix songs from the

whole.

We have James Jacobs, JJ 88. We have Contessa Gales and Richie Reseda. Welcome. How you guys feeling? It's on Netflix right now, by the way. Yes. Mm-hmm. How y'all feeling? Great. Feeling good. I'm happy to be here. Now, for people that haven't seen the documentary, break down what the documentary is about.

Well, it's the documentary is about.

Well, it's a documentary visual album.

We tell the story of my life when I was 15.

I was incarcerated for second-degree murder.

And during that time, I spent 18 years in prison, and during that time, I wrote an album.

I met him.

We produced and recorded that album in prison.

And I wrote the visuals.

We met Contessa and included his film, essentially.

I want to ask you something, Mide.

You know, at 15, you committed a crime.

It was murder.

Three days later, your brother was killed.

So how did those two events so close together, I guess, shape your sense of identity and ultimately give you purpose, I guess?

Oh, yeah.

Well, at first it took me down, like, a really dark, like, mental place.

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