Q&A Interview with RE Classics
2/6/2025
Since our inception in 1988, RE Classics and RETV has always paid homage to the very best from the world of Hip Hop and Entertainment. That’s always been our mission.
The work and achievements of Terrence Thomas and his Breeze Management is just another example of the rich talent pool that Historic Jersey City, New Jersey has to offer. Check out and share part one of our profile on Breeze Management.
Terrence Thomas
What’s up? My brother.
RE Classics
What’s going on, man, how you.
Terrence Thomas
What’s up with you, man.
RE Classics
Hey Man, hanging tough man.
Terrence Thomas
Oh, man, you! You know I if I had your hand, I’ll trade mine in Bro.
RE Classics
LOL..Yo! I’m calling you breeze man, is that cool?
Thanks for doing this, it’s it’s definitely dope that you are doing this show in our hometown – Jersey City. You know, we we gotta definitely stick together and pool our resources and do lot of lot of positive things, you know?
Terrence Thomas
that’s cool. Bro. That’s what everybody calls me, anyway.
..Absolutely I just had this conversation 2 weeks ago. There’s a project coming up, but I don’t want to spill it yet.
But Cheryl! I had a conversation with Cheryl Underwood. And she was like, T… You know what I’m I’m so glad you doing this because black comedy we really got to stick together and really keep it out there. Because and I have nothing against the Internet dudes at all. think all the Internet dudes that came up. They really doing their thing. The thing about comedy, though back in the day Peppermint Lounge Club 88. You know every those things you used to you. You gotta go up there and grind Bro.
RE Classics
Yes, sir.
Terrence Thomas
You got to go up there and you got to you know…Peppermint will tell you if you good tonight. If you’re not good tonight they are going to tell you are not good tonight. And that’s the type of love that you wanted to get, whether it’s good or not. If that’s the stinger, it is what it is. So my, vision as I get into it… And you ask me questions.. I will tell you my vision and and how it came about. All of this man. You know it’s just you’ve been in Jersey City long enough to know. And and my mantra about Jersey City is Jersey City made me Jersey City raised me, and you know, with my other career I’ve relocated 9 times around this country I lived up in Perrysburg, Ohio. I had all the Michigan I had all the way up to Ypsilanti. I had all that territory. So I know, moving around
in different states. I’ve been blessed enough to feel that culture.
and it is giving me always giving me a great appreciation from Jersey City.
Because if you can make it in Jersey, New York, tri-state area, you can make it anywhere. It’s proven. You can make it anywhere in this country.
RE Classics
No doubt, I agree. Let’s let’s jump right into it!
Terrence Thomas
Let’s roll, Bro. Let’s roll.
RE Classics
Let the people to know how’d you get started, you know, and with with the management company, What do you specializing in, you know, currently.
Terrence Thomas
Right. So how I got started and named it. Breeze management is my nickname – Breeze. One of my good friends back in grammar school. We called chill, chill gave me the name. Cool Breeze, because I was always the fast on the basketball court, track. He’s like we’ll name you cool breeze, so the breeze always stuck, but as I got older I was like I dropped that cool. I just need to have the breeze name.
So I used to always go see Bill Bellamy at the peppermint, and this is when I was still working my regular career job. But I was working nights. So if I had a night off, I was going Thursday nights to the peppermint to check out Bill. So fast forward to I was dating a young lady down
in Atlanta. And she is a film, right? So she told me about this project. I said, what project you working on? She was like, I’m working with Bill Bellamy on this Who’s got jokes?
So one day, I asked her about one of our boys that works with Bill and I asked, I said, Yo is my boy here? You seen him? So she said yeah, he’s here. I said, I’m gonna pull up on y’all.. pulled up on them hung out that night, and God bless
Tommy Ford (R.I.P)! from Martin…So Tommy was on that show. So we all hung out one night.
So we was meeting up, here and there, and Bill was just like, Hey, why don’t you come aboard? I was like Bro. I control a billion dollar corporation every day. I don’t have time to do this. I can’t do it. He was like, it’s really not that difficult. So we had conversation, I got into it a little bit dibbling, dabbling, and being his event manager. So I would..every city we would go to. I would schedule…I would
contact promoters. I would meet promoters. So that kept going. So this was back in 2,000 – 2,001
and at that point, I realized, if I’m gonna do this, I need to eliminate my personal name. I need to establish a company a LLC, so I ended up…You know the young lady I said I was dating, I was like what should I name it. she said. Well, you are always good at management. You’ve been doing management all your life, she said. Why don’t you just call it breeze management?
I said, there it is. Let’s call it Breeze Management.
RE Classics
So now, what’s your current ventures and projects?
Terrence Thomas
You know the comedy show, believe it or not. This is my 1st produced comedy show that I’m producing, and I said that if I was gonna produce a show I wanted to produce it in my hometown. Nothing against, you know, Essex County, The Oranges. I love them all I do.
However, I wanted something, a staple to say… I’m from Jersey City. and I want to do it in my city. So that’s the project I came up with, which you know, we’ll be doing that show next week.
My next venture is I got a Mother’s Day project. That actually, I’m gonna do down here in Jacksonville. And I just I came up with that concept a couple of weeks ago… I don’t want to say too much, because There’s some potent people in this lineup..I’m gonna do for mother’s day down here.
And then quiet as kept. I just talked to the theater in Jersey City, I said, hey! And I know we don’t celebrate Sweetest Day like that in October, up north…it’s more of a Southern thing but I said, listen, I still want to bring it – a Sweetest Day. I want to do it. October 18th Back here. They already gave me the nod to say, Yes, and I know exactly the lineup I want and who I want. It’s still gonna be Jersey based, not Jersey City based. It’s gonna be Jersey based until until I get to a point where I exhaust the talent in Jersey.
RE Classics
Let’s talk more about how JERSEY LOVE got in motion
Terrence Thomas
I want to represent the talent we got in Jersey. I want to represent some more talent out of Jersey City. I want to represent that because it that’s all about me giving back to the community. I feel right coming back and saying, because I will always come home, and my mom, daughters all, all still live there. The thing about it is that I have a humbleness about me. I have where I know where I came from in Jersey City. So my thing is coming back and giving to my community. And if I’m gonna give it, no one’s done a show like this in Jersey city because we never had a venue. We tried to like get into the Lowes, and I know they re-doing the Lowes. But it it’s just that, you know the times we live in.
The last 6 months Jersey City has been going through some traumatic stuff man like they’ve lost people. And these people connected to other people. And the the city just needs a lifting. It needs something to really laugh about. So I said, It’s the perfect time. And that’s why I said It’s Jersey love? It’s like everybody on that ticket, the majority is from Jersey City, including DJ Whiz! So I added, Bill Bellamy in there because he’s my guy. So I said, I want you to headline. I want you to do this. So he had no problem with it. We sat down with the team, worked out the numbers, the numbers worked. I got right on the call on the phone.
I got on the phone with TK. Kirkland, Jersey City born. I want you TK. Got on the phone with my boy Artie Fuqua. Artie Fuqua went to Saint Peters Prep with me. Knew him, knew his sister, knew his parents, cause his parents have a daycare. Oh, shit! and they used to watch my daughter. My daughter used to go there. So it’s that whole small circle right then turned around Monique Latisse. We had Monique on another show in New York, and I always told Monique – Day one I said, You you are really gonna excel. And I said, I will keep my eye on you, and if I do something in Jersey, I’m coming to get you. Sure enough, I came. I circled back to get her, so she’s on it. I didn’t know who Gl Douglas was. But My daughter’s mother was just like, Hey, do you know who Gl is? I was like no, so that’s how I got Gl. And reached out and got her, and then low cash! Whiz told me about low cash, and I didn’t know low cash, and I said, That’s what I want. I want Monique, even though she’s from Patterson.
They embrace her in Jersey City like she lives in Jersey City.
So I didn’t want nobody else. That’s why I was called it – Jersey Love.
because I just want Jersey love – people like TK, and I’ll tell you this,
He’s been doing comedy for 40 years, and has never done a show in Jersey City.
RE Classics
Wow!
Terrence Thomas
So when I called him and told him what I wanted to do, he was like yo Bill hosting it we doing in Jersey City. I’m in. I’m I’m doing it. So that’s how we bought it all together. And then, my boy, wiz is is pretty much. My my brother, my big brother. We grew up together. I’ve been, I carried records, crates of records for him. Different parties. So it was a no brainer. Everybody knows that wiz is gonna do my music. So it it’s really a Jersey city thing, you know. Even my staff, when you meet them, is my family, either my daughters, my niece, my sister. I put them all on my staff to bring it in, so it’s a family thing. But the biggest thing of the family is a Jersey City family thing
– END OF PART ONE.
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Terrence – Breeze – Thomas’ incredible journey – on this platform and our You Tube
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Limited tickets are still available for the JERSEY LOVE COMEDY SHOW –
Saturday February 15 – NJCU CENTER FOR THE ARTS –
MARGARET WILLIAMS THEATRE – 2039 John F Kennedy Blvd, Jersey City NJ, 07305
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