The Breakfast Club Celebrate One Million Subscribers At YouTube Space NYC
By Sam Valorose
February 28, 2017
The Breakfast Club celebrated reaching the milestone of one million subscribers on their official YouTube channel in style - with a platinum plaque and performances from Bibi Bourelly and Wyclef Jean as part of YouTube's #MusicMondays series at their offices in New York City.
While Charlamagne and Angela Yee received their plaque (DJ Envy was in Alabama), C Tha God explained that during the conception of The Breakfast Club, making the digital component just as important as the on-air side of the show was one of their main priorities. Clearly, the process worked - interviews with Beanie Sigel, Young M.A., 21 Savage and Kodak Black all have over 2.5 million views, not to mention the now-infamous Birdman interview that has generated almost 11 million views in under a year. Expanding beyond the typical guests from the hip-hop community, The Breakfast Club's interviews with Hillary Clinton, Minister Louis Farrakhan, the parents of Trayvon Martin, and Dick Gregory have made the show one of the biggest forces in radio.
After receiving their platinum plaque, German native and Def Jam signee Bibi Bourelly, whose anthem about the financial struggle of her early-twenties, "Ballin'", has taken the world by storm, opened up the show with her distinct soulful voice. Wyclef Jean then took the stage, opening his set with "No Woman, No Cry" while simultaneously playing drums and singing. The multi-talented Wyclef performed a career-spanning catalog of songs material by The Fugees and his legendary collaborations before turning the YouTube Space into Carnival with his soca vibes, jumping into the crowd and hanging from the rafters. He then closed the show out with a mix of his 2005 mega-hit, Shakira's "Hips Don't Lie" mixed with Drake's "One Dance".