Charlamagne Responds To The Alleged Jokes About K.Michelle &Idris Elba’s Past Relationship + Keke Palmer & Boots Riley, Drea Nicole & Lex P Interview

Summary

The Breakfast Club – May 22, 2026

Charlamagne Responds To Alleged Jokes About K. Michelle & Idris Elba + Keke Palmer & Boots Riley, Drea Nicole & Lex P Interviews

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Episode Overview

This lively episode of The Breakfast Club, hosted by DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, and Charlamagne Tha God, delivers its trademark mixture of celebrity interviews, listener call-ins, and spirited panel discussions. The show dives into everything from mental health in the Black community and shifting media landscapes, to blockbuster interviews with Keke Palmer and Boots Riley (on their new film "I Love Boosters"), and Drea Nicole & Lex P from the "Poor Minds" podcast. Key trending issues, such as Diddy’s ongoing legal controversies and how AI is affecting mental health support, make for headline-grabbing discussion.

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Key Segments & Insights

1. Show Kickoff & Behind the Scenes: Kingston & Cruises

• [03:40] DJ Envy reports in live from Kingston, Jamaica, where he's supporting a new adult dancehall cruise ("Vibes Crew" with Vybz Kartel). The crew jokes about Envy adapting to local cultures, with Charlamagne ribbing him for always trying to blend in.
• Quote [04:42] Charlamagne: "Don’t be out there speaking in patois…you chameleon!"

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2. What's On the Agenda: Celebrity Guests & Tours

• [05:04] DJ Envy previews the day’s guests: Keke Palmer and Boots Riley (for "I Love Boosters"), Drea Nicole & Lex P of Poor Minds (they’re in NYC for the "Still Sippin Tour"), and comedian Nate Jackson.
• Brief, hilarious discussion about the history of “boosting” (shoplifting for resale), with Jess Hilarious and Angela Yee swapping stories.

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3. Front Page News: Politics, Justice, and Eric Adams

• [07:44] Mimi delivers political updates:
  • Congressional infighting over a $1.8B “weaponization” fund tied to Trump-era lawsuits and concerns payouts could reach Jan 6 affiliates.
  • Republican leaders dodge a vote to limit presidential war powers regarding Iran, fearing bipartisan passage.
  • Controversy over dropped charges against NYC Mayor Eric Adams sparks allegations of political interference.
• [12:30] Charlamagne (Joking on Adams): "Turkey is where Envy went to get his hairline. It was Albania. Eric Adams is a citizen of Albania!"

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4. Call-ins: Mental Health, Relationships, and Real Talk

• [13:53] Charlamagne encourages couple’s therapy and emotional transparency, acknowledging stigma among Black men.
• Caller T [14:09 – 16:25]: Shares frustration about black men bottling up feelings, receives advice on proactive communication and seeking therapy.
  • [16:25] Charlamagne advice: "Relieve each other's stress, make things lighter for each other. It is okay to not be okay."
• Listener Doogie [18:13]: Offers tongue-in-cheek advice about “not self-snitching” on the radio.

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5. Media Shifts: Sherri Shepherd & Colbert Finales

• [23:21] Lauren LaRosa:
  • Farewell to Sherri Shepherd’s talk show: Emotional goodbyes, Oprah & Tyler Perry send support; reruns until September, then possibly replaced with news programming.
  • Stephen Colbert says goodbye at the Ed Sullivan Theater, reflecting humorously on late night’s changing guard.
  • Discussion: Media landscapes change, but as Charlamagne says, "You’re only gone if you choose to be gone."

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6. AI & Mental Health: Cure or Crisis?

• [36:13] Mimi: Rise in people using AI/chatbots for mental health support due to cost, accessibility, and lack of judgment—not replacement for real therapy.
• [37:38] Charlamagne: "The only reason you chatting with ChatGPT and AI is because you actually do want to talk to somebody."
• [38:11] Angela Yee: Notes ChatGPT as a tool to “articulate what they’re thinking” to others, not a therapist.

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7. Interview: Keke Palmer & Boots Riley – I Love Boosters

[41:09 – 69:55] In-depth Conversation

• Origins of the Movie
  • Boots Riley explains the “community service” aspect of boosting in marginalized communities, and how capitalism shapes morality and survival.
  • [43:11] Boots: "Yes, it's illegal, but the morality is the same as what's happening in capitalism anyway, right?"
• Shoplifting Stories
  • Keke Palmer and Angela Yee share childhood stories about stealing small items; contrast between “boosting” (resale) versus shoplifting.
• Social Commentary
  • Boots connects media narratives about “crime waves” to historic and institutional racism, and how police unions use fear to control the cycle.
  • On organizing and change: "Power...comes from capital. The working class can have a say over what happens...with a movement where we control the capital collectively." ([43:26])
• Art, Identity, and Authenticity
  • [63:13] Keke Palmer: Explains her “Keke Palmer persona” as a protective, performative tool she created to survive poverty and childhood fame.
  • [68:32] On surviving child stardom: "Honestly, God...I grew up in a church...the foundation of what I believe...when I had to go underground, I knew I had God with me."
  • Boots praises Keke: "I think over the years people are going to start talking about her as a philosopher."
• Movements & Activism
  • [55:11] Keke: "If we can get outside of just ours, we can actually see the people around us all dealing with the same thing in their own fashion."
  • Discussion on the "fear of organizing" in today's world; what it means to protect each other and push for collective change.

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8. The Latest with Lauren – Diddy & Charlamagne Drama

• [70:22] Diddy Legal Update: Diddy’s lawyers argue a “bear hug and butt grab” on a NYC street isn’t a crime—sparking outraged, hilarious debate.
  • Charlamagne [73:02]: "If you was a man running down on a woman, giving up bear hugs and squeezing her ass, you going to jail."
• [74:01] K. Michelle/Charlamagne Controversy: K. Michelle claims an old Charlamagne joke (about her relationship with Idris Elba) was hurtful and dismissive; clip cannot be verified, and Charlamagne doesn't recall saying it.
  • Charlamagne: "I've said a lot of crazy stuff...I can't say if I did say that or I didn’t."

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9. Interview: Poor Minds Podcast – Drea Nicole & Lex P

[87:45 – 103:32] Entertaining and Candid

• Viral Growth & Authenticity
  • They attribute success to being “unapologetically real,” tackling topics other shows avoid; “people are tired of clickbait.”
  • [94:01] Lex P: "Anyone who wants to date me...you see what I do, you have to ask yourself, are you ok with that?"
• Dating & Online Personas
  • Honest talk about handling inappropriate DMs, the impact their pod has on dating, and being misjudged by outsiders.
  • Hilarious conversation about “twerk wind,” gray sweatpants, and “uncle baddy” culture.
  • They address viral interviews, especially with Savannah James, and what happens when the public twists innocent conversations.

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10. New Music Spotlight with DJ Nyla Simone

[104:43 – 108:39]

• Highlights: Kai Cash (“Make Them Pay”), 6lack (“Love is the New Gangsta”), Leon Thomas (with praise for his hooks), and Sean Weathers (“Everything”).

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11. Comedian Nate Jackson: Life, Growth, and Navigating Hollywood

[109:10 – 122:39]

• Nate, performing two weekends at the Brooklyn Improv, discusses his career, his Netflix success, and the importance of live audience connections.
• Reflects on being accepted by Hollywood, finding joy in the journey, and shares candid roast stories (esp. Tony Hinchcliffe’s controversial George Floyd joke).
  • Charlamagne [118:54]: "You free to say the joke, but boy, you got to deal with the consequences."
• Celebrates comics like Cheryl Underwood, suggests others who would excel at a major roast, and reiterates the legacy of Black stand-up.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Charlamagne on NY Celeb Fan Energy:
  "It was like Annie Up was playing, and they was just beating on each other, but it was with joy." [07:35]

• Caller on Black Men & Therapy:
  "The problem is getting them to the therapy, though." — T, [14:38]

• Boots Riley on Capitalism & Morality:
  "It's illegal, but the morality is the same as what's happening in capitalism anyway." [43:11]

• Keke Palmer on Fame & Survival:
  "One of my most popular characters is Keke Palmer. But that is a character I constructed and created...[to] be able to move through the world." [63:13]

• Charlamagne on AI & Mental Health:
  "The only reason you chatting with ChatGPT and AI is because you actually do want to talk to somebody." [37:38]

• On Diddy Lawsuit:
  "If you was a man running down on a woman, giving up bear hugs and squeezing her ass, you going to jail." — Charlamagne [73:02]

• Drea Nicole on Poor Minds’ Success:
  "We talk about relatable topics people are afraid to touch on – we've always just been true to ourselves." [91:41]

• Nate Jackson on Comedy’s Evolution:
  "There's a part of Hollywood that's like 'we just don't [get it]' and there can be a part that's like, 'we get it...' When they connect those dots, that's the thing." [115:00]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 03:40 — DJ Envy live from Jamaica
• 05:04 — Show guest lineup
• 07:44 — Front page news: Politics & Eric Adams
• 13:53 — Callers: Mental health, relationships
• 23:21 — Media landscape changes: Sherri Shepherd & Colbert
• 36:13 — AI & mental wellness
• 41:09 — Keke Palmer & Boots Riley interview (start)
• 70:22 — Diddy legal update
• 74:01 — K. Michelle & Charlamagne controversy
• 87:45 — Poor Minds Podcast interview
• 104:43 — DJ Nyla Simone’s music picks
• 109:10 — Nate Jackson interview

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Final Thought

Charlamagne:
"Stand up to an obstacle, just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it... Something has to break and it won't be you. It will be the obstacle." [124:07]

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Transcript

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[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne tha God]

wake you up.

[DJ Envy]

Wake that ass up.

[Charlamagne tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

Good morning USA.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo.

[DJ Envy]

Just hilarious.

[Angela Yee]

Yo. Wake that ass up.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Charlemagne the God peace to the planet is Friday. How y' all feel out there? I feel blessed. Black and highly favored. Happy to be here. Another day to serve our beautiful listeners. Good morning, man. Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

How you feeling, Jess?

[Angela Yee]

I feel good. Just got here. I'm up. I'm ready.

[Charlamagne tha God]

She don't know what day it is?

[DJ Envy]

No, she don't.

[Charlamagne tha God]

We just, we got a, a nice three day weekend this weekend. Okay.

[Angela Yee]

Yes, we do.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I know that.

[Charlamagne tha God]

But it starts today.

[DJ Envy]

Starts. Yeah, start. Starts today. I'm. I'm actually in Kingston, Jamaica right now. Hey, yeah. Salute everybody out in Jamaica that, that watches us on Netflix and that really, really rides out with us. I'm here because this, this brother, I want to say he's a Jamaican brother, he's doing the first luxury dance hall cruise and he's doing it with I Heart. Now the cruise is called a Vibes crew. So it's done with Vibes Cartel. So his whole thing is, is they have all these nice cruises for reggaeton. They have these nice cruises for R B. So he wanted to do an adult cruise cruise for dance hall and reggae music. So he launched it yesterday. It's. They already got like, I think like 9,000 RSVPs. And it's just going to be totally us on a boat.

[Angela Yee]

So what you mean Dominicans now?

[Charlamagne tha God]

You the Dominican cruise. When you say us. Exactly.

[DJ Envy]

Us black people on the cruise.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Okay. Got you, got you, got you.

[DJ Envy]

So Vibes Cartel be performing this. He got a host of performances.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Don't be out there speaking in patois this weekend, all right? Because you, cuz. You, you, you chameleon. You show up wherever you at and start acting like you, you.

[DJ Envy]

That n. You know my name is.

[Charlamagne tha God]

All right. N. Okay.

[Angela Yee]

I like that. You got a little bit.

[Charlamagne tha God]

They say, oh, boy. That's what they going to say to you. Okay.

[DJ Envy]

Right.

[Charlamagne tha God]

That's what they going to say to you this weekend. We got a packed show today, by the way.

[DJ Envy]

Get the show crack. We got a lot of people joining us this morning. First and foremost, we have Kiki Palmer and Boots Riley. They have a new movie. I love Boosters and just loves this movie. Hasn't even seen it yet.

[Angela Yee]

Absolutely. That was my first job. Boosting. Boosting in the hood for niggas, baby mothers.

[Charlamagne tha God]

That was your first crime, actually.

[Angela Yee]

Well, I didn't get caught, so it wasn't a crime. Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. The crazy thing about Jess is she boosted a couple of weeks ago just. Just to make sure she didn't.

[Charlamagne tha God]

She didn't boost. She shoplifted.

[Angela Yee]

Shoplifted? Yeah. And I just wanted to see if I still had it, you know, when you had like a notorious past for, you know, getting away with boosting and scamming and all that, sometimes you just want to see if you still got it. Just like a married man. Later on, he take off.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Remember that episode of Martin?

[Angela Yee]

Not y' all too. Okay.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Hell no, we don't.

[Angela Yee]

But you, you.

[DJ Envy]

You boosted chapstick. Like, if you would have got a

[Charlamagne tha God]

lot of those things.

[Angela Yee]

I didn't have intentions on selling it. I just wanted to see if I still had it. To see if I still had it.

[DJ Envy]

If they would have locked your dumb ass up for chapstick.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Oh, my God. They actually call that petty theft. That's what that would have been. And also Dre and Nicole and Lex P of the Poor Minds podcast will be joining us. They're in town this weekend because they have their still sipping tour going on and they'll be at the town hall tomorrow night in New York City. So they'll be here talking to us this morning.

[Angela Yee]

I love those girls.

[DJ Envy]

And also Nate Jackson, comedian Nate Jackson, he's going to be performing at the Brooklyn Improv this weekend. So we're going to be kicking it with Nate Full pack show. And let's get the show cracking. We got front page news up next with Mimi and we starting to show it.

[Angela Yee]

It's Johnny gil birthday. He's 60. So we should start with Give love on Christmas Day.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Give what? Oh, hell no, girl.

[DJ Envy]

Forget it. Chris, play what you was playing. Red Peter, play what you was Playing club.

[Boots Riley]

Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news now. Yesterday, the conference finals, game two, the Knicks beat the Cavaliers 109, 93.

[Charlamagne tha God]

All right.

[DJ Envy]

What an amazing game. Did you watch the game last night?

[Charlamagne tha God]

No, I was out with my guy, Stephen Colbert. He had his last show party last night, but leaving, trying to get out of New York City because, like, the party was a couple blocks away. Oh, my God, Yes.

[DJ Envy]

Man, what a game. Brunson only had 19 points. Everybody chipped in and showed that we need Brunson to score. 30, 40. We still looked amazing. Hart scored, I think, 24, 26 points. The Knicks looked great last night.

[Charlamagne tha God]

So New York is an interesting place when the Knicks win because you like, you know, like I said, you'll be out and you'll be trying to, you know, leave somewhere, but it'd be so much traffic. And then you'll see people and you don't know if they fighting or not. So you'll be like, yo, they fighting. But then they really just be joyful. Celebrating.

[DJ Envy]

Celebration.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yes. It was like Annie up was playing and they was just beating on each other, but it was with joy.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, it was joy. Yes, absolutely. What's up, Mimi?

[Mimi]

Good morning, M.V. jess Charlemagne. How y' all doing this morning?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning.

[Mimi]

Good morning. So we start this hour on Capitol Hill, where angry Republicans in both the House and the Senate, they abruptly left Washington for the Memorial Day break instead of taking votes on two politically explosive issues tied directly to President Trump. So lawmakers are now accusing Republican leadership of sending members home to avoid votes they did not want to take. So let me explain. The first fight centers around that nearly $1.8 billion Justice Department anti weaponization fund that was created after Trump settled a lawsuit with the IRS over the leaking of his tax returns. And the fund would allow people who said that they were unfairly targeted by the Biden administration to apply for taxpayer funded compensation. While several Republicans are reportedly furious over concerns that people connected to January 6th could potentially qualify for a payout, Republican Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania says lawmakers are now trying to kill the fund altogether. Let's listen to an exchange between him and a reporter.

[DJ Envy]

Congressman, what do you make of this

[Charlamagne tha God]

$1.7 billion fund for bad news?

[DJ Envy]

We're gonna try to kill it.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You're gonna try and kill it. Wow.

[Nate Jackson]

Okay. And how.

[DJ Envy]

Well, we're considering legislative options. We're gonna write a letter to the AG to start, but we're considering a legislative option.

[Angela Yee]

We're trying to unpack exactly what the legal machinations are, but can't do that.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Have you ever heard of any other

[Nate Jackson]

Americans, like, other than.

[Boots Riley]

So Trump is an associate.

[DJ Envy]

I haven't. We're unauditable by the irs. I've never heard that before.

[Nate Jackson]

So would that be part of the legislation?

[Charlamagne tha God]

Of course.

[DJ Envy]

Of course.

[Caller]

Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

You can't do that.

[Charlamagne tha God]

That's what I'm talking about.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah. I'm actually shocked. But that's dope. That's good.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Mimi]

There was a few other Republicans who are wanting to take a stand. And the second showdown, it came shortly after that. So the House was expected to vote yesterday on whether Congress could force President Trump to to end the war in Iran unless lawmakers formally authorize that conflict. But Republican leaders, they pulled that vote at the last minute and sent lawmakers home. Democrats say they did that because the measure actually had enough bipartisan support to pass. Here's New York Congressman Gregory Meeks.

[Nate Jackson]

Another game that the Republicans are playing.

[Boots Riley]

They knew this vote would pass had the boat survived.

[Nate Jackson]

Instead of allowing the voice of the

[Boots Riley]

people to be heard, everyone you look

[Nate Jackson]

at every go across America, everyone knows

[DJ Envy]

it's a war of choice and it should stop.

[Mimi]

Yeah. So back to the that Justice Department fund for a moment. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch, he actually went to Capitol Hill yesterday to try and calm some angry senators down behind closed doors. And so lawmakers, they are gone for the weekend, Memorial Day weekend, they are expected Tuesday. And they will try and see if they can take up that vote again and continue with trying to also take up that bill to stop the president from being able to launch that weaponization fund. Well, it's already launched, but being able to kill the weaponization fund. And another Justice Department decision tied to President Trump is now facing new scrutiny, this time in New York. A government watchdog group is asking Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to investigate how federal corruption case against former Eric. Mayor Eric Adams. Mayor Eric Adams was suddenly dropped earlier this year. So Adams, he had been facing bribery, fraud, campaign finance charges before the Justice Department ordered prosecutors to dismiss the case earlier this year. Now, the group Citizens Union says that that move may have been politically motivated, pointing to allegations that Adams cooperated with President Trump's immigration agenda and that may have helped that case disappear. So the Manhattan DA's office, they say they've already reviewed possible options after that federal case was dismissed and they've decided not to move forward. And a lot of in lock and step with that. Adams continues to say that he denies any wrongdoing there, so we'll continue to watch.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Eric Adams said, man, I went to Turkey, and y' all still talking about me. Okay. Didn't you go to Turkey where I went now he went to Dubai.

[DJ Envy]

I think he went to Dubai.

[Charlamagne tha God]

A citizen of somewhere now. Yeah. All I know is he's skedaddled. Okay. He doesn't want his name mentioned right now. Okay. He can't believe that they still talking about him. Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

But also, that's going against what Trump wants, and nobody's going to go honestly against what Trump has decided to do with that case. Right. Nobody's going to go against Trump.

[Mimi]

Yeah. So a lot happening this morning coming up at 7. Before you hit the road this Memorial Day weekend, there are a few hours you absolutely do not want to be on the road. I'll tell you what traffic experts are saying when they expect things to get ugly this weekend.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Oh, and it wasn't Turkey. That Turkey is where Envy went to get his headline. It was Albania. Eric Adamson. Eric Adams is a citizen of Albania.

[DJ Envy]

I haven't.

[Boots Riley]

I haven't gone to Turkey.

[Angela Yee]

I do good on his headline if that's what he wearing.

[DJ Envy]

I did not go to no damn Turkey. No, I did not. What are y' all talking. You know what you're doing.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Hush. Bhatti Beige. Yeah, you in Jamaica. I just want you to be careful out there, man. We already getting the text, man. They keep saying that. I don't know what that means. What does that mean?

[Angela Yee]

You need follow up.

[DJ Envy]

I did not get. You know. Thank you.

[Charlamagne tha God]

It means booty it.

[DJ Envy]

Everybody else, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need the vent, hit us up right now. Again, 800-585-1051 is the breakfast Club. Good morning, Ray.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Ray. Ray. Yo, Charlemagne.

[DJ Envy]

Envy, what up?

[Caller]

Are we live?

[Show Announcer]

This is your time to get it off your chest.

[Caller]

I got an indoor pool. Pool.

[DJ Envy]

Outdoor pool.

[Show Announcer]

We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

We can get on the phone right now.

[Charlamagne tha God]

He'll tell you what it is. Hello?

[Angela Yee]

Who's this?

[Caller]

Hey, this is T. How you guys doing?

[Charlamagne tha God]

Hey, good morning, T. How you doing, T?

[Caller]

I'm good. I'm doing good, man. I'm happy I got through. I, you know, kind of shocked.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Well, we happy that you got through, T. Where you calling from?

[Caller]

Say again, hon?

[Charlamagne tha God]

Where you calling from?

[Caller]

Columbus, Ohio.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Okay, who's in Columbus, Ohio?

[DJ Envy]

I'm so sorry for your Cavaliers, Mama.

[Angela Yee]

That's Cleveland.

[Caller]

Oh, that ain't my problem.

[Charlamagne tha God]

What's up.

[Caller]

So I just want to say this. Everybody always say, you know, black man's mental health. But if you, a black woman, dating a black man, our mental health needs to be checked, too. Because when I tell you, they be stressing you out. Oh, my Lord.

[DJ Envy]

What happened?

[Caller]

Listen, first and foremost, if you dating a black man. And of course, they like to keep everything bottled up. You know, it's the new movement, you know, black mental health.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Woo.

[Caller]

The woo. But it don't work if you don't tell me.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah, that's true. But you're not the therapist.

[Caller]

And the whole time you stretched out about the world.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yes, but that's why therapy is good. Because therapy, you know, teaches black men how to open up and properly process their emotions and their feelings, and then they can be more open with you.

[Caller]

But the problem is getting them to the therapy, though.

[Charlamagne tha God]

That's true.

[Angela Yee]

I understand.

[Caller]

So it's like, I don't know what's going on with you because you're bobbling it up. So I don't even know that I should be trying to get you to therapy.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Are you leading by example? Does he see you go to therapy?

[Caller]

Yes.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Okay, so why don't y' all go together as a couple? Yeah, so go. Why don't y' all go as a couple? Couple. And then just to get him used to it, and then maybe he'll start going by himself.

[Caller]

I ain't gonna hold you, Charlotte. I don't have nothing to talk about. I feel like I'm good. So that's probably where my lead by example is. Not example. You know what I mean?

[Charlamagne tha God]

Exactly what you mean? You telling me that I'm all messed up, you know what I'm saying? But then you telling me I'm messing up your mental health. But then you telling me that you good. So which one is it? See, that right there is crazy within itself.

[Angela Yee]

So you in therapy, but you good?

[Caller]

Well, I really went to therapy, you know, as a way to be like, look, there's nothing wrong with it, like, going to therapy and so. But I really didn't feel like I had anything bottled up. I ain't going. I ain't going to hold you. I feel like I was cool, but it's like with men, I say, how was your day? Cool. Then you. Some time later, all this stuff falls out, and I'm just like, where that come from?

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Let me ask you a question. First of all, you start this conversation off by saying that men, women who date black men need to have their mental health Check. But then you say, they good. And then you say. When you ask him how his day is, you know, and he says, good, you just leave it at that. Why don't you continue to. Why don't you continue to have more conversations with him or just say, hey, I could tell something's bothering you, what's up? Instead of asking him, yo, you good?

[Angela Yee]

Like, dig a little bit.

[Caller]

Yeah, but that's what I'm learning. And that's what I mean, like, well, we need our mental health check too, but not us. They need. We need to be checked on too. Excuse me. Because we don't know. I don't know to do follow up. Like, if you. If I say to you, hey, Charlotte, how your day going? And you say, good, I'll leave it at good.

[Angela Yee]

I'm gonna take your word for good.

[Charlamagne tha God]

No, it ain't good, though. Go fix me some food and give me some.

[Angela Yee]

Damn.

[DJ Envy]

You can't say that. You can't say that on there. You can't say that. Jesus.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Okay, you know I'm stressed out, but you already know, so why don't you go ahead and relieve my stress and then we can talk you.

[Caller]

Well, then say that you got me in the sandwich. Say I need sl in the sandwich.

[Charlamagne tha God]

When do we not need that? Not need that. You know, that's what we need all the time.

[Angela Yee]

Take initiative. Just take initiative to do that.

[Caller]

You know what? I'mma take a little bit more initiative today.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Today. Just do it out the blue. Don't even let them ask. Just give it to them both. Make him some food and, you know, make him some food, Jesus. Meaning eat it.

[Caller]

Maybe that's what I need to do. Yeah, you open it up a little bit more.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[Caller]

Because I'm thinking. I'm. I'm thinking I'm just going crazy. Because if you say one thing, I take your word for it.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah.

[Caller]

Maybe I need to put a little bit more into it.

[Charlamagne tha God]

That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. It is mental health awareness month, man. You know what I mean? So I. I encourage everybody to go out there and seek some type of therapy because it is okay to not be okay. All right? And by the way, we all know that something is going on with each other, so why don't we just all try to help each other, you know, relieve each other's stress, right? Make things lighter for each other.

[Angela Yee]

Don't let them tell you good. If you know it's not good, you

[Charlamagne tha God]

know it ain't good. You Know what we need?

[Boots Riley]

That's right.

[DJ Envy]

Well, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need the event, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Show Announcer]

This is your time to get it

[Nate Jackson]

off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed.

[DJ Envy]

I hate the way that you walk,

[Charlamagne tha God]

the way that you talk I hate the way that you dress.

[Keke Palmer]

Everything with me is blessed.

[DJ Envy]

Call up next.

[Nate Jackson]

800-585-1051.

[DJ Envy]

Not just me, I'm with the culture feeling. Hello? Who's this?

[Caller]

What's good? Is Doogie in Chicago?

[Charlamagne tha God]

What's up, Doogie?

[DJ Envy]

Dookie. What up, Dookie?

[Charlamagne tha God]

This man name is not Dookie. He said Doogie. You always want to think about something in somebody's butt.

[Angela Yee]

What's going on, D?

[DJ Envy]

I'm bad. What's up, Doogie?

[Caller]

How's your nose job doing? Envy.

[Charlamagne tha God]

There you go. Anyway, yeah, Doogie, right, Dookie.

[DJ Envy]

Okay. Get it off your chest, sir.

[Caller]

So I'm just going to keep it light today. Think of I'm an og. Words to live by. And this is kind of directed at, like, the younger Generation, but also Ms. Jess.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Oh.

[Caller]

Never admit to nothing you ain't already been convicted of. Stop talking about dirt on the radio. Don't post nothing dirty online. Don't post, don't film nothing dirty. Do not stop self snitching.

[DJ Envy]

Man, you think they're gonna get it for the chapstick?

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah, she might go to jail.

[Angela Yee]

What are you talking about, sir? Dookie, what you talk about? Yeah.

[Caller]

Now you don't know, but it's not just a chapstick. You've been saying a lot of stuff about things that you might have not have, sort of could have, would have done.

[Angela Yee]

So I ain't say nothing about nothing. I sort of, kind of might have. Whatever I said what I have done.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I've been listening for five years. Wow. Okay.

[Angela Yee]

And I ain't even been here for.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I know.

[Caller]

And that's why I'm saying you've been saying a lot about what you kind of sort of made us should have,

[Charlamagne tha God]

could have, would have done.

[Caller]

Maybe.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You literally just said he trying to keep you out of jail life.

[DJ Envy]

No, exactly, Detective Dookie, sir.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Don't tell her nothing. Let's just learn the hard way.

[Angela Yee]

Detective, do you like?

[DJ Envy]

I'm good.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yo, this is all.

[Angela Yee]

This is stuff back in the dizzle.

[Caller]

Okay, Okay. I hope so. I hope so.

[Angela Yee]

I appreciate you, but mind your business, Doogie.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you, Detective.

[Charlamagne tha God]

All right. You gonna be. They put you in handcuffs, you can be like, man, Doogie was mumbling. Chris gonna be like, who the hell is Doogie?

[DJ Envy]

Hello.

[Nate Jackson]

Who's this?

[Charlamagne tha God]

Damn DJ Envy? Just hilarious Charlamagne. Good morning, OG Rob. What's happening, sir?

[Caller]

What's going on? Hey, listen, man, all is well. God is great. First and foremost, I want to say congratulations on the Netflix deal.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Thank you, sir.

[Angela Yee]

Thank you.

[Caller]

Thank you. Listen, God is truly amazing.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Y' all keep on doing great. Keep on being great.

[Caller]

Continue on inspiring and being a vessel

[Charlamagne tha God]

for the Lord, man. You know what I mean? Yes, sir.

[Caller]

Y' all know how we doing the Friday, right?

[Charlamagne tha God]

What you got?

[Caller]

I said.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I said listen.

[Caller]

They said money is the root of all evil oh. So I'm cautious on how it brings power to respect gains and losses I set the tone early clip full gotta eat to leave my legacy imprint so all the concrete they can't compete and took the game straight out the trap house from moving 20s to 16 just off a word mouth of Red Gym all timing diamond in the rough getting money Stacking them chips shining in the clutch they ain't ready for high stakes of this magnitude Simply ravishing Richard Irwin. Call me Rick Rule. Welcome to the bar where we train It's a thug workout and build off juices for lifeless shots Ring out living the life Marble floors, three kitchens with flat screens when you push the button full from the ceiling room stressing haters got no time for day rooms with no motion and self promotion I'm worse feeling and some underrated denim Good chain smoking aces cat team hustle hard for life Thanks, y' all for that. We ain't playing no games with it. Write a whole ticket, cash it in Marking a genius off a label visit.

[DJ Envy]

OG OG I got some bars.

[Caller]

OG let's do it, baby.

[DJ Envy]

You ready?

[Charlamagne tha God]

You ready?

[Angela Yee]

Here I go.

[DJ Envy]

You want to see? You want to see Charlotte Gay ass or Lauren Ball head ass Just a shoplifter but never disrespect the hive. Now you can see us on Netflix Live.

[Angela Yee]

You gay

[Charlamagne tha God]

envy in Jamaica going on stage he's yellow, some say beige caddy in Jamaica they say baddy.

[Angela Yee]

Oh.

[Charlamagne tha God]

What? That's all I got. Hey, yo.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you, OG Rob. Have a good weekend.

[Caller]

Hey, listen. Appreciate y'.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All.

[Caller]

Y' all have a blessed weekend.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Man, Y' all the family.

[Caller]

Be safe.

[DJ Envy]

All right, brother. Get it off your chest. 805, 851. All right.

[Charlamagne tha God]

He want a man's body. What is wrong with you?

[DJ Envy]

We have the ladies with Lauren coming up. What we talking about Lauren?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, we do. So yesterday was the end of an era for two major talk shows that we all know and we all love. The landscape is changing, but, you know, they're celebrating at the end of it, so we gonna celebrate too.

[DJ Envy]

All right, we'll get to that. Next, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Your talk.

[Lauren LaRosa]

LL Cool B. Yeah, I'm not dumbing myself down. I'm being myself.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Source is

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything and everything. The little brown girls look at you and go, I want to be like you.

[Keke Palmer]

Take me through that. Take me through there.

[Nate Jackson]

The latest with Lauren

[Boots Riley]

on the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne tha God]

LL Cool baby talk.

[DJ Envy]

Talk to me.

[Angela Yee]

All right, y'.

[Caller]

All.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So the Colbert show and Sherri shepherd shows have officially ended. Now, I know we talked about the end of the Sherri shepherd some weeks ago, and I told you guys that that was her last live show that she was taping. That was where Kevin Hart and Gayle King were a guest. But yesterday she aired her final episode and she said her goodbyes. And she did that with the help of Oprah, Tyler Perry, her bestie Niecy Nash, Melba's of Melba's in Harlem. DJ Suss1, of course. But she said her final goodbyes. It was very emotional for her. Let's take a listen to Sheri final monologue. Hey, family.

[Caller]

Hey, Sherry.

[Charlamagne tha God]

This is it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

This is the last episode of Sherry. When I say, hey, family, I don't take it lightly because for one hour every day, I really felt like everybody here and at home was my family. Now what am I gonna do with

[Angela Yee]

all this time I have on my hands?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I've been so busy, I haven't had time to focus on the important things like stalking Lenny Kravitz. I finally have the time to stand outside his house with my binoculars and I'm gonna do more stand up comedy. I'll be. Yes, I'll be doing shows at 7 and 10 every night at this new venue. It's called Sherry's Brownstone because I am a comedian and that is what I love.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Sherry's Brownstone. What's that gonna be now?

[Lauren LaRosa]

She's being funny about crazy?

[Charlamagne tha God]

No, that could be dope. That could be a podcast or something that she does on YouTube.

[Angela Yee]

She was announced in a comedy club that she was actually

[Lauren LaRosa]

about to start.

[Angela Yee]

About to start?

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, I mean, so that could be something. I. I'm told up next she's gonna. And she talked about this on the show as well, too. She's headed to South Africa. She's gonna be Shooting and executive producing a film with Robin Roberts called Angel in the Rubble. It's about the last surviving person that was pulled out of rebel of 911. She also has a podcast that she announced yesterday and she has a K drama that she wrote that she has more information about on her website that she talked about in her show yesterday as well, too.

[Charlamagne tha God]

And I think her and Kim Whitley have a podcast now, if I'm not mistaken.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, I mean, she's working like she has other things lined up, but it

[Charlamagne tha God]

was very funny, mamas.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, it was very emotional for her to see yesterday. And I know we've been trying to figure out what would happen in her time slot. So I was told exclusively by a source that her time slot, she. They'll be airing reruns of her show until September and then after that. It's supposed to be a news hour. It may be local news, but that might change. And it, and I'm not for sure how to happen it or work in every market because the show was national, so that's what you'll see there. But Tyler Perry, you know, sent over a video in support of her, Oprah as well, sending her some encouraging words. So it was, you know, a good send off for Sherri Shepherd.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Sherry can do whatever she want to do. Man, we live in a new media world. There's so many ways to start your own platform. Like, you know, you're. You're only gone if you choose to be gone.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. And then Colbert last night as well, he did one of his final, you know, openings and greetings to his audience. Let's take a listen.

[Show Announcer]

Welcome, welcome one and all to the Late Show.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I'm your host, Stephen Colbert. Tonight is our final broadcast from the Ed Sullivan Theater where. No, no.

[DJ Envy]

We were lucky enough to be here for the last 11 years. All right, that was.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Can't take this for granted, though, actually,

[DJ Envy]

technically, our first show back in July of 2015 was from a public access station in Monroe, Michigan, for an audience of 12 people. And show business being what it is these days, it's probably where you'll see me next. So much history here in the Ed Sullivan Theater. And we've been honored to have been

[Show Announcer]

just a small part of it.

[DJ Envy]

We've had so much fun in the city Theater. This isn't goodbye, it's see you later. Now, a lot of people been asking me what I plan to do after tonight. And the answer is drugs

[Charlamagne tha God]

drop on the clues bombs with my guy, Stephen Cole. I saw him last night, man.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You went to the Fired and festive party yet?

[Charlamagne tha God]

I did. Fired and festive party. I pulled up. It's called the. It was. That was the attire. Fired and festive. The party was actually called the last show party. You see my hat?

[Keke Palmer]

Oh, okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. How do you dress?

[Caller]

Fire. Pray at fire.

[Angela Yee]

Infested.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Fired.

[Boots Riley]

Fired.

[DJ Envy]

Like I got fired, not fired.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, but you said that was the dress.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

How do you dress like that?

[DJ Envy]

Like how you dress now?

[Charlamagne tha God]

Damn.

[Angela Yee]

Oh, my God.

[Keke Palmer]

No, no, no.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You get over there and feel some sun and you think that hairline came back and now you look confident.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Damn.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Pipe down.

[Angela Yee]

Crazy.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Okay, yeah, but. All right, but everybody did look.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And yeah, I saw him dancing.

[Charlamagne tha God]

He was. He was enjoying it. Him and Tiffany Haddish was wilding on the dance floor, but not salute to my guy, Stephen Colbert. Salute to his beautiful wife, Evie. I got to see my seventh grade social studies teacher.

[DJ Envy]

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[Caller]

All?

[DJ Envy]

It's DJ Envy from the Breakfast Club. Now check this out. The first phone call that ever happened happened over 150 years ago. 150 years. That's before any of this. Before radio, before social media, before all the ways we stay connected. Today, that one call really started everything. And fast forward to now. It's springtime, the weather's breaking, people outside vibes are right again. Thank God. And it got me thinking. Who haven't you talked to in a minute? And you know, through all these years and all these conversations, AT&T has been there, connecting people in meaningful ways. This is more than a story of technological innovation. It's really a story about human connection, real people, real moments and real relationships. So we celebrate over 150 years of connection. Let this be your reminder. Don't wait. Make that call. Send that text. Pull up on somebody you care about. Because at the end of the day, those connections, that's what really matters.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Nate Jackson]

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[Keke Palmer]

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[Mimi]

answers to my cold sore problem? Now I'm stuck down a rabbit hole filled with images of alarmingly graphic sores in various stages of ooze. I can clear my search history, but I can never unsee that.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Don't go down the rabbit hole.

[Show Announcer]

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[Charlamagne tha God]

Health care just got less painful. Last night, his brother, Mr. John Colbert. Okay. Haven't seen him in years. It felt good to watch him and my wife discuss the story of the big mouth bullfrog. That was something he used to teach us in seventh grade.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, Byron Allen will be taking over that time slot of the Colbert show tonight at 11:35pm so make sure you guys tune in and support Comics Unleashed with Comics Unleashed. Yes. Yep. And that's the latest for that.

[Charlamagne tha God]

It's just a new era, man. Like, you know, the media landscape is, is. Is completely changing, but, you know, it's not. It's not going anywhere. All of these people, Stephen Colbert, Colbert, Sherry shepherd, they can do whatever they want to do, right? Like, literally, like, there's so many ways to start your own platforms and create your own entities. Like, you can create so many different outlets nowadays. Like, it's. They. You're only not gonna hear from them if they don't want to be heard from.

[Keke Palmer]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

All right, well, that is the latest with Lauren. Thank you, Lauren.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You're welcome.

[DJ Envy]

Now when we come back, we got front page news. Mimi will be joining us. She'll be breaking down everything. And then I gotta tell you, if you haven't heard the Knicks one last night, I'll tell you all about it.

[Angela Yee]

I'm sure people worried.

[DJ Envy]

Yo, it's the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Good morning.

[Angela Yee]

Morning, everybody.

[DJ Envy]

It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. Start off with sports. Now, last night the Knicks beat the Cavaliers 109.93. They lead the series two nothing. Ohio. Cleveland. Looks like this is going to be a sweep. And I ain't mad at it.

[Angela Yee]

I just want to put that out

[DJ Envy]

there, look like it's going to be a sweep.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I think it's going to be very fun to see the New York Knicks in the NBA Finals. That's something I've never thought, I've never thought I would see in my lifetime.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, it's going to be great. On fire.

[Charlamagne tha God]

That means Cowboys is next, baby. Let's go, Dallas Cowboys. If the Knicks make it to the finals, the Cowboys can make it to the Super Bowl.

[DJ Envy]

Everything doesn't go back to your Cowboys, by the way.

[Charlamagne tha God]

But I'm just saying that means that, you know, everything changes. Everything has its seasons. Right. Like how long, how long you've been watching the Knicks up? A long time. Exactly. And I mean, now they ball.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. All right. What's up, Mimi?

[Mimi]

Good morning. Invija Charlamagne. How y' all doing this morning?

[Angela Yee]

Good. All right.

[Mimi]

So we start this hour with a complete and dramatic twist in the Virginia elementary school shooting case that we've been following all this week. So the criminal case against former assistant principal Dr. Ebony Parker is officially over. And it ended before the defense really even presented its case. The Newport News judge dismissed all eight felony charges against Parker yesterday, ruling prosecutors had not proven that she committed a crime under Virginia law. Parker had been accused of ignoring warnings that a six year old student may have had a loaded gun before he shot his first grade teacher back inside a classroom in January of 2023. Now, prosecutors argued multiple staff members warned Parker about the child's behavior and concerns about a weapon that day. And she faced up to 40 years in prison if convicted. But after hearing testimony from teachers, parents, investigators, the judge sided with defense and called the prosecution's case a, quote, mashup of legal theory. Let's listen to the moment that the judge dismissed the case and the raw emotion coming from Dr. Parker.

[Angela Yee]

All eight counts of felony child abuse

[Lauren LaRosa]

and endangerment under indictment CR with indictment

[Keke Palmer]

number 249-995-4101 through 08.

[Angela Yee]

So those matters are dismissed.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Oh, wow.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I still, I still didn't think the fact that she possibly could have got 40 years in prison or jail because of what happened? I mean, it was foul. It was wrong. And, yeah, she should get a. Some type of punishment, but the fact that she could have got 40 years, I mean, she. She didn't want the child to shoot anybody. She wasn't, you know, saying that. Yeah, it could have happened.

[Nate Jackson]

Yeah, she.

[DJ Envy]

She missed them. But 40 years in prison, I don't

[Charlamagne tha God]

think that that's what she was facing, though. That don't mean she was going to get it. I mean, now I don't think she

[DJ Envy]

should have got any prison time.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I can't. I mean, listen, I can't say that

[Angela Yee]

she was big wrong.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I didn't say not.

[DJ Envy]

She wasn't wrong. I just don't think she should have got. Went to jail for.

[Charlamagne tha God]

So what's the consequence?

[Angela Yee]

What's she gonna get?

[DJ Envy]

Like, yeah, I mean, losing your job is a huge consequence. The fact that you can't be a vice principal anymore is a huge consequence.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Is that what happened? I don't know that what happened, Mimi.

[Mimi]

I don't know if she lost her job, but I'm sure. Think about it, though. Her career, who's gonna hire her?

[Keke Palmer]

Right?

[Mimi]

This story made national attention. Her. The charges were dismissed with prejudice, meaning prosecutors cannot bring the criminal case back toward her to her again. So.

[DJ Envy]

And everybody's saying she was a great principal. She was a great person. They said they loved to work with us, that she was nice with the kids. That's what saying. But she made a mistake. And, you know, people make mistakes, and it was a. A horrible mistake. Thank God the teacher didn't die. But her getting jail time, I just thought that that was a lot.

[Angela Yee]

It's just wild. Like, I. I don't know. Like, kids could have got killed.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Exactly.

[DJ Envy]

Like.

[Angela Yee]

And it's. What could have happened. Like, what are we talking about?

[Charlamagne tha God]

We all got too many kids in school. You know, let principals and teachers be that negligent. Like, they're. There should be some consequences.

[DJ Envy]

I agree with consequence. I just don't think jail time.

[Mimi]

Yeah, to your point, though, Charlotte, when you just said principals and teachers, they said the teachers also, they let the little boy go to recess. They let him play with other kids, even after they felt that he may have a gun. And so they were like, where's their responsibility? About. Because what her defense was saying.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah, my kid wouldn't be in that school no more. Yeah, I wouldn't.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, that's it.

[Charlamagne tha God]

She trust none of them.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[Keke Palmer]

Yeah.

[Mimi]

And also, May is mental health awareness month, as we've been saying. And according to recent data, More and more people are now turning to AI for emotional support and mental health advice. People say that they are using tools like chat GPT for relationship advice, stress, anxiety, grief, even major life decisions. They say the biggest reason behind it is the economy. Some people say that therapy is simply too expensive right now. Others say, you know, mental health care can be hard to get to access even with because you don't have insurance. And some people just say that it feels easier talking to AI because there's no judgment, embarrassment or pressure. And mental health experts are divided on this. Some say that AI can help fill a gap for people who may feel isolated. But others are warning that AI is not a licensed therapist and cannot truly understand trauma, crisis situations or serious mental health conditions the way trained professionals can.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah, I mean, that's what we do. Well, that's what we do at the Mental Health alliance. You know, that's one of our pillars, providing people food free therapy. You know, because of the fact that we know that therapy is so expensive and a lot of folks want to go. But I think with the AI thing, I really think that's why communication is important and that's why I keep talking about what I feel is going to be the great disconnect where people start disconnecting from social media and just start doing things in real life again, like just looking somebody in the eye and having a conversation. The only reason you chatting with chat GPT and AI is because you actually do want to talk to somebody.

[Angela Yee]

Right?

[Charlamagne tha God]

You want to communicate with somebody.

[DJ Envy]

But the problem is, like what you said, that chat GPT is not right all the time. Right. Because all they're really doing is getting information that's already out there and giving it to you faster than you can Google it. But chat GPT is not right 100 times. So if you're asking for, you know, chat GPT to, to diagnose something that you're going through, that doesn't necessarily mean it's gonna be right. It's not necessarily gonna help your relationship. Like, it's not right.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I agree with that.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

But I'm just saying that people are talking to chat GBT just because they want to talk to somebody, right? They need some type of companionship, they need some type of communication. Find somebody to talk to, man.

[Angela Yee]

Exactly. And a lot of times some people use chat GBT to articulate what they thinking. Like, you know what I mean? If you hit chat GBT up like, yo, I gotta talk to my baby father about this, but I don't want to come at them all crazy. I don't want to seem bitter. They'll put it in a form where it's. It's not dismissive, but it's also not too.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

You know, negative as well.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Like when you type in like a dummy. I really need to talk to you about.

[Angela Yee]

I don't call my Chat GPT dummy.

[Charlamagne tha God]

No, but you. You're putting what you would text to Rome. You send the chat.

[Angela Yee]

Right. Right.

[Charlamagne tha God]

To make it sound.

[Angela Yee]

Right.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Articulate.

[DJ Envy]

Exactly.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Got you guys.

[DJ Envy]

And then.

[Angela Yee]

And then Rome receives it better.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yes.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

But Chat GPT is not going to judge you. So it's easy to talk to Chat GPT because you're not going to feel like somebody's judging you or looking down on you. So that's why I'm sure people will go to Chat GPT than a therapist or a friend, because nobody's there to look down on you.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Well, that's your fault for, you know, not letting people joke about stuff.

[Angela Yee]

Stuff.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Okay. Because seriously, man, because when it's a traumatic, serious situation and you take it to a certain person and you have a conversation, there's gonna be jokes.

[Boots Riley]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

There's a range of emotions that help you get through. Okay. But no, y' all don't want nobody to joke about certain things no more.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Okay.

[Angela Yee]

Exactly.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Right. And be. It can't and be scared to say things to me because you think I'm a clown. Him about it.

[Angela Yee]

You are.

[DJ Envy]

That's why I never will.

[Angela Yee]

It is things anymore. Talk about things in it that happened in his past.

[Charlamagne tha God]

But do I not make y' all feel better? Be honest now, after the jokes and stuff, do I not make you feel better?

[Angela Yee]

Huh? So it depends on what it is.

[DJ Envy]

It depends.

[Show Announcer]

It depends.

[Charlamagne tha God]

It depends.

[DJ Envy]

After I get through it, it's funny. But when I'm going through it.

[Angela Yee]

Right. Yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

What you mean?

[Mimi]

All right, y'.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All.

[Mimi]

Well, that is your front page news. Before I go, I want to say if you're driving anywhere this Memorial Day weekend, the key is to leave early, fill up early, and expect traffic almost everywhere. They say that's going to be a record breaking 39 million people traveling. And they say the best time to travel or the worst time should I say to travel is this afternoon between 11am and 8pm that's when everybody's going to be on the road. And tomorrow afternoon and then Monday afternoon when everyone is headed home, will also be one of the worst times to be on the road. So travel safely and fill up because gas is up A$57 cents I want to say, wow. So.

[DJ Envy]

Well, thank you, Mimi. Have a good weekend.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Thanks, y'.

[Charlamagne tha God]

All. And listen, man, today is Friday, so, you know, we do the people's donkey. So you can call me right now, 1-800-585-1051, and you can give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid. You can give somebody the biggest he haw. You can call us right now.

[DJ Envy]

That's right. And when we come back, Kiki Palmer and Boots Riley will be joining us. They have a new movie. New movie, I Love Boosters, which is out today. We're gonna talk to them next.

[Angela Yee]

Now, that look like he do magic.

[DJ Envy]

It's the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lon laros is here as well. We got some special guests in the building.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yes, indeed.

[DJ Envy]

We have Kiki Palmer and Boots Riley. Welcome.

[Angela Yee]

Good morning.

[Boots Riley]

How y' all feeling?

[Keke Palmer]

I'm good, man.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What's up, Corvette? Whatever you.

[Charlamagne tha God]

It's cold in here.

[Keke Palmer]

I don't know why y' all had

[Angela Yee]

it so cold like that. I know.

[Keke Palmer]

Tripping. But, you know, I tried to be cute. That's what happened when you try to be cute before you think about being warm.

[Angela Yee]

Well, you look nice.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Thanks.

[DJ Envy]

New movie. I love Boosters.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah.

[Keke Palmer]

It's so exciting.

[DJ Envy]

Jess gonna love this movie.

[Angela Yee]

Oh, yeah. That was my first job, y'.

[Charlamagne tha God]

All.

[Caller]

I know.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's right.

[Boots Riley]

It's my best work.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, your best work.

[Boots Riley]

My best work.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You feel like that about every film?

[Boots Riley]

I've only done three things. Yeah. I'm a Virgo. And this one.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Oh, I missed.

[Angela Yee]

I'm a Virgo.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Damn.

[Boots Riley]

Yeah, It's a TV show.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Okay, okay, okay.

[Show Announcer]

Okay.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Got you.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Boots Riley]

Y' all didn't have a song.

[Charlamagne tha God]

What?

[Lauren LaRosa]

You.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Always have, so.

[DJ Envy]

So why I love Boosters. Were you a booster back in the day and you was like, this is something that.

[Boots Riley]

Nah, I was a broke rapper trying to stay fly.

[DJ Envy]

Okay?

[Boots Riley]

And so, yeah, so you. You gotta. You gotta know some boosters, you know what I'm saying? And. And. And also seeing the fact that they do provide a community service, like, you know, the. You know, the. The culture that black folks have and other communities of color have influences. You know, a lot of the big fashion houses, and then it gets sold back to us. So that's with a lot of culture and right now. And actually, for a long time, people have not been getting paid enough. So these are services, you know, back to school clothes to just whatever, you know. And so, yeah, it's illegal, but the morality is the same as what's happening in capitalism anyway. Right?

[Charlamagne tha God]

That's what I love about your film. Your films always try to expose how capitalism psychologically reshapes people. Like, is that. Is that the thing that scares you the most in society?

[Boots Riley]

I don't know.

[State Farm Ad Voice]

It's.

[Boots Riley]

I'm. I'm not as scared as I am hopeful.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Oh, okay.

[Boots Riley]

Because, you know, I do see a path to where we can change things. And that's like, what my art has always been about is the fact that, you know, we know how power works, right? Power doesn't come just from popularity or whatever. It comes from capital. You know, that's what the. You know, that's what moves the. The needle. And the working class can have a say over what happens with that capital. We can have a movement where you. Where, where you con, where we control the capital collectively. Right? And so that's strikes, work stoppages, things like that, you know.

[DJ Envy]

Have you seen Boosters Crazy recently? Right? Growing up as a kid, boosters used to go to Macy's, right? And they put some stuff under and they run out, right? It was one or two, but now it seems like they're getting ridiculous. Like they're. It's like teams of people running in stores, kicking down doors and.

[Angela Yee]

See, I don't. See, I wouldn't consider that boosting. See, like, I like how. I like how it's presented in the movie. Cause although, yes, it is illegal and, you know. Yeah, but I love. I did say illegal, but what I was doing when I did it, because I grew up in the hood, you know, a lot of people couldn't afford the luxury, you know, the luxurious things for their kids going back to school. Moms couldn't even buy school supplies, anything like that. So I wasn't just stealing clothes just to put them on. I was stealing them and I was selling them at a cheaper price. Like even, you know, notebooks, dividers, everything that, that the mom needed. You know what I mean? To me, you can't, you know, yeah,

[Boots Riley]

we focus on clothes in the movie, but it's household good that people have somebody with a laptop.

[DJ Envy]

She did it a couple of months ago.

[Angela Yee]

I didn't.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I.

[DJ Envy]

You said you did it.

[Angela Yee]

You ever said chapstick Just to see if I could steal, you know, see if I still have it, you know, I mean, just a little.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Did you have any experience with stealing boosting before this movie?

[Keke Palmer]

I only had tried to steal something once when I was like five, I tried to steal Reese cup oh, yeah. And my sister told on me. She was a snitch.

[Boots Riley]

That's cute.

[Charlamagne tha God]

My sister was a snitch.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. I couldn't believe that.

[Keke Palmer]

I was like, look where I am.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I think that's boosting. I think that's shoplifting.

[Angela Yee]

You know what I mean?

[Charlamagne tha God]

Boosting is different.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Have you ever bought from boosters before?

[Keke Palmer]

Like, as a kid, I didn't know they were boosters, but, you know, that's all my.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I was a kid, so that's all

[Keke Palmer]

my family could afford, you know. So you go through the little neighborhood sales, basically, you know what I mean? But I wasn't like knowing that it was a booster. I never knew the name of a booster until I watched Baby Boy and I was like, oh, that's who those people are, you know? But my aunties at the nails, at their hair salons and stuff. I mean, I didn't know there was a name for that. I thought those people just selling us stuff.

[Boots Riley]

And, you know, recently it's been in the news a lot like you just talked about. But if you check out the Intercept, which is an investigative journalist site with award winning investigative journalists, they expose that all of these police unions came together in the wake of the George Floyd protests and hired publicists and said, hey, we're gonna stop talking about police murder and all of that, and we're just gonna hype up the idea that crime is rising. And in a lot of the places where they're saying it is, it actually wasn't. But there were more news stories. And then you started seeing Instagram sites hyping those things up. And a lot of those Instagram sites had T shirt sales. I don't see people wearing the T shirts, but they tell me that they're wearing a lot of the. They're selling a lot of shirts. So they, they kept this news cycle going. And it's the same thing that's been going on in the early 1900s. You always had these things come that, that said, like, Negro crime wave. And that's what led to the, those first Atlanta race massacres. And that's what led to the, the. The black Wall Street Tulsa race massacre. They kept being Negro crime wave. Negro crime wave.

[Charlamagne tha God]

They always demonize us.

[Nate Jackson]

Yeah.

[Boots Riley]

And it's part. And obviously crime happens. That's what we're saying in the, in the movie. I mean, because poverty is necessitated by capitalism. So you're gonna have illegal business. However, you know, however they use it as the scapegoat for what's wrong with.

[Keke Palmer]

Yes.

[Boots Riley]

With the world Instead of talking about the boosting that's happening every day, the boosting that. That's happened when you go to work.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You know, you have a background in organizing and activism, right?

[Boots Riley]

Yeah, yeah. I started when I was 14 and 15. I joined the progressive Labor Party, which is a disciplined communist party. And I, you know, I decided I should get good at rapping. I was not good when I decided to like people like. You sure, you know, you sure

[Nate Jackson]

that's

[Charlamagne tha God]

worse than somebody saying you whack.

[DJ Envy]

You sure? Yeah.

[Boots Riley]

No, no. I mean, I knew and I knew I was not good. Right.

[Charlamagne tha God]

So.

[Boots Riley]

But, but, you know, I knew that you could figure out how to do stuff and figure that out, and I studied it and, you know, pat myself on the back. I did get known as a lyricist. So, you know that it was with this idea of putting these ideas out there.

[Angela Yee]

Yes.

[Boots Riley]

That we could have a different world. One where the people democratically control the wealth that we create with our labor. So that's the goal. But just also put in into context where we're at right now.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I love the fact that you put, you know, these messages in the art, but the success in Hollywood ever conflict with like, anti establishment values.

[Boots Riley]

You know, everything is a contradiction. That. And, and so, but, but the, the thing is, is like, that's where we at. We're in this world, right? So. So we can't. We can't get out of it. Right. Without working together. And. And so I need to get. Put the stuff out there on, On a platform. And that platform is created by the world that we're in. And I'm not, I'm not trying to go out in the woods and be like, I'm free from society, you know, because even if I could do that, which I don't think you can, that's. That's not the point. You know, I want. I want to help change the world, not just be free of it.

[DJ Envy]

Now, Keke, what was your first thought when you read the script?

[Keke Palmer]

Man, this dude got a lot going on in his head. You know what I mean? I already was a fan, you know, and I was just really excited that I was gonna have the opportunity to work with him. So I remember just being like, I really want to talk to him and see, you know, get to know him and everything. So I read the script, loved it. And then I remember we met up, we had quick phone conversation, and then we met up for lunch and we talked for like four hours. Because he was just. I mean, you see him, you know what I'm Saying. And I was just immediately, just blown away. He was, it was like I was in school with a professor. This is my favorite professor, you know what I'm saying? Learning about life. We was talking about everything and I knew that I had to do the movie, so it was pretty easy.

[Boots Riley]

And she's giving me a lot of credit. But if you sit and talk to Kiki, she's like a professor, I'm always like, damn, I need to just be quiet, let her talk about the movie, you know, because, yeah, you know, she has a way of condensing ideas into something that, where you, you're looking at the main contradiction and the main conflict and it's, it's understandable. And I think over the years people are going to start talking about her as a philosopher, you know, because, you know, because I do think, think that, you know, she's one of our, our, our. She's one of the most loved beings on the, on the planet right now, obviously, like Kiki, everybody wants you to see all these things, people, but, but she is really putting herself out there and looking to do good work. So I, I love being able to work with her. Now what I will say about this, we're talking a lot about a lot of secrets, serious things. But this movie is, is a, you know, the whole thing is there's optimism connected to these ideas. So it comes with joy, it comes with hilarity. And I, I played this movie 35 times. I've watched this movie 35 times on tour. I took the old school independent music route and going college to God college, community screenings, all this kind of stuff. And you know, it's like people laughing too much over the next line, that sort of a thing. And you know, just, just it. That's one of the reasons I say,

[DJ Envy]

I think that's always missing it and I tell it to everybody, right? I don't want to say back in the day, but back in the day people were more hand in hand, right? They were going to colleges, they were going to high school. They were going to see people touch people. Not just worried about, because we didn't have the Internet, you know, I mean, they were worried about, let me see somebody, let me get a reaction. They were going hand in hand, still handing out flyers. And I feel like we miss that so much. We're so used to this and the algorithm and what hits. But I think when you go to meet people where they at, it's so true. It's better than anything else. I just remember being in Hampton and seeing the from big to Jay Z coming on campus and what that means to me to now, it's like everybody's asking, is there a check involved? If new check, I ain't coming. And I think that that means more to people than anything else.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I remember this. You got to do that, though. Like you got to touch the people, people with something like this.

[Keke Palmer]

Yeah, I felt like that when we boosted the gas in la. Oh, yeah, yeah, we boosted some gas for people. Like we're giving out free gas. And it was just so dope to be out there with the people. We was just really out there talking and kicking in people getting some gas, you know, because gas was $7.

[DJ Envy]

They tripping in LA.

[Keke Palmer]

Yes.

[Angela Yee]

So, yeah, that's tripping to boost the gas.

[Keke Palmer]

Yeah, we needed that. We needed that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

How did you choose which groups, like, which people you were going to have a conversation with? Like, you have like black community and our things, and then you talk about like Asian community, and then there's like an intersection.

[Boots Riley]

Are you talk about when we did the tour?

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, no.

[Boots Riley]

You know, I mean, it's hard to break down when it started. But I was thinking about, you know, the production of things and the distribution of things, because, you know, boosting is not outside of capitalism. It's part of capitalism. Right. And so it's just a certain distribution network. So while I was thinking about the services that, that, that boosters provide, I was started thinking about how things are, are made of other things and really are made of people's time. Right. Like all this stuff we got, somebody made it, somebody spent time on it. And that time they might have been rather you know, hanging out with their family. So that's usually what we're selling is the, is the time that we would be doing something else. So I, I started thinking about that and so I started thinking about, you know, the factories that make it.

[Angela Yee]

Right.

[Boots Riley]

Obviously you could go back to when people are, you know, harvesting the fibers and that, but. But, you know, the factories that make it. And I was thinking about how to put these groups together and, and there's

[Keke Palmer]

a thing that we talk about in the movie where it's like we're all on one side of the same contradiction. So I think it's easy, wherever your collective group is, to just be focused on how things are affecting you. But I love what, I love what the movie does is it actually showcases how everybody's being affected in their own different way by the same thing. And how are we actually being activated together? You know, you have the Demi Moore's character where we have Christie Smee, she's the big bad villain. But then when you see Corvette, my character with the Velvet Gang, and you see how quick she is to be like, yo, give me the thing from Poppy Liu come from China. And she like, yo, I got the teleporter. And she like, yo, give me this. So we can get what we get done. And you already can see that the same mechanism is happening. You know what I'm saying?

[Charlamagne tha God]

When you say the same side, or would you say the same one side

[Keke Palmer]

of it, the same contradiction is that contradiction.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Capitalism, the system. Okay, gotcha, gotcha.

[Keke Palmer]

And it's affecting us all absolutely in our own way. And it make us think, because we're in our own problems, that it's, that this is, this is, this is just me. But really it's the same issue affecting us all. And I think that ties back to the whole thing Boots is saying is that if we can get outside of just ours, you know, then we can actually see that the people around us all dealing with the same thing in their own fashion.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Ours eventually going to impact you. Ours eventually going to impact you. I was having this conversation yesterday and I was talking about how like, like, you know, middle class white people are the ones that should be speaking out the most right now because the, the America that they've loved their whole life is going to be completely different in five to 10 years if we don't figure out, you know, how to take care of the least of us.

[Keke Palmer]

A country is only as good as their, as their worst person.

[Boots Riley]

And mind you, some of those middle class white people are making like 22,000 a year or something like that, right? And, but like, they're able to say they're middle class by looking at black folks in communities of color and being like, oh, I'm different, right? There is a, that middle class is act. The real middle class is actually smaller and they're really just the working class. Right.

[Charlamagne tha God]

But those are the people who should be able to say, you know what? America would be better if billionaires paid their face.

[Boots Riley]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And, and you know, a lot of the way that, that they ended up electing, that people ended up electing Trump was that group thought, oh, he's like a class traitor, he's in the ruling class, but he's going to help us out. You know, so even a lot of the ideas that I talk about, people agree with already, like, but they just don't use the same terms maybe or whatever. And you know, everybody knows that everybody knows the idea that. That. That, okay, quote, unquote, power is money is power, Right? And they know they don't have power. And so we know all of these ideas, but we haven't seen. A lot of us haven't seen a movement that we think could win.

[Angela Yee]

Right?

[Boots Riley]

And that's the. That's. That's the big difference.

[Keke Palmer]

And I think there's so much fear around what it looks like to actually create a movement, especially when you think about the different leaders. You know, usually there's a leader, there's a group, there's somebody that's stretching the past. And I think there's a lot of fear behind that. You know, the end of the day, you see so much stuff. I know with the millennial, we don't see so much dis. You know, so it gets to a point where you're like, well, if I'm just gonna stand out there, am I just gonna get got? And that's it. And then y' all gonna just name a holiday after me. Like, what does it actually mean for us all to be on the front line, especially in this day and age? Because I get to the point where it's like, I don't want any more of my friends dying. I don't want to say, let's go out there now, you in jail, or you separated from your family because ice came and got you. You know what I mean? So it gets to a point of, how do you think the way that we think about organizing in community, we. You know, it has to be evolved more than just being out there, standing out there. It's like, how do we actually get together? How do we plan?

[Charlamagne tha God]

I was gonna ask you, Keke, did I love boosters challenge your worldview? But it sounds like it reinforced it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

See, I feel like we've been watching you arrive here for, like, the last, like, year. And I realized that in your conversation with Michelle Obama, like, I think you're in an era right now.

[Keke Palmer]

Yeah, well, you know, I've been working in the industry for so long, and, you know, it's the difference between when institutions give you respect or acknowledge you and your community. And I think for me, I've always been defined by my community. As early as I can remember what a Keeling to be. They have always been the ones who said, we see you. We. We see what you're doing. And I think at this place in my life, that's all I want to make sure that I can continue to uplift those voices. You know what I mean? That's what matters most to me, if I've been able to continue to expand and get better resources, how can I bring that back to key tv? How can I bring that back to the kids? How can I create a project that can inspire? And I do think it's a. It's a blessing because, you know, this kind of work isn't always around, you know what I'm saying? Like this, this project, if you don't. If I don't write it myself, I'm gonna be hopefully lucky enough that somebody like Boots Riley writes it. That allows me to have conversations like the ones I want to have, you know, in order to have the conversations and to even make the waves or get people to get into your head like this. You have the opportunity to do something other than in the gang. You know what I mean? Which I live for that. You know, it's like I live for that. But that's only one note of it.

[Boots Riley]

And I will say this. I feel like it's Keke's best performance in the sense that. Yeah, like she does.

[DJ Envy]

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[Mimi]

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[Boots Riley]

some stuff on there that I've never seen her do, right? I saw it in things like Pimp and a few things. I saw it there but we went for, you know, just from talking to her I could see that she's a comedic genius and there's parts of that comedic genius that hadn't been on film yet and that, that, you know, she gives like a performance that's more from, you know, know. It's, it's how she talks. It's not the, the cadence like where you.

[Keke Palmer]

It's not my character.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah.

[Boots Riley]

You know, it's, it's, it, it feels, I don't know. I say like it feels real. Right. It feels grounded.

[Keke Palmer]

Well, Kiki Palmer, I did a tech talk that actually comes out today and talk about adaptive intelligence and performance as a tool that I've used to be able to survive my, my own life. And so one of my most popular characters is Keke Palmer. It is, you know it's your girl and the guy, you know, but that is only. That's a character that I constructed, that I created for my ability to be able to move through the world, to be able to do the things I want to do. And so, yeah, when you give me the opportunity to say, let's go, let. Let me actually explore the other parts of my performance, my ability, I'm able to show something different.

[Boots Riley]

And I. You had said something to me at one point. I don't remember when it was. You're like, yeah, boots. Everybody says that they want this other thing, but then when we get on set, they want the boom, boom, boom, you know, because there's a lot of pressures where they're like, okay, how we gonna make the money? Blah, blah, blah, you know? And so for me, I always want everybody, the whole cast, to be doing something that they've never done before, so that we feel them as a. As a character. We fall into them.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You know, Kiki, that you. That you. You think you playing a character yourself. I was thinking the same thing. Kiki's the character. And what, Lauren is only human?

[Keke Palmer]

Yeah, come on.

[Angela Yee]

Lauren is only human.

[Keke Palmer]

I mean, it's just like how we all show up at work, you know what I'm saying? At the end of the day, it, of course, is me, because I'm doing it, but it's. It's a. It's a character. It's also a performance. A performance. To a certain degree, I'm not. I know. I mean, maybe people do. But, you know, I'm not in my house talking about some, you know, every now and then. You know, every now and then. But it's just like. It's what you. It's what we do as. As performers. I'm an artist, so that's my point of it is, is that it's an intelligence to be able to perform, to be able to pick up patterns, to know when the room needs to shift, to know when people need you to pull up more and to pull back more. But that is you servicing the room. So you're not being yourself. You're trying to make sure that the vibe is riding head up through the rope. And Kiki Palmer is. That was me in my neighborhood. You know, I grew up in a very rural part of Illinois. We didn't have a lot, and so I was the one that was. Get out on the floor and dance, Kiki.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You know what I mean?

[Lauren LaRosa]

You gotta do. You know what I mean?

[Keke Palmer]

Because that's what was needed.

[DJ Envy]

Do you hate that character?

[Keke Palmer]

I love that character. But that character, what I think is, is this state, this era that she was talking about that's opening up. Even when I came and did just Kiki and I talked about the. It's about integration. I don't. It's not being fragmented in this space where people don't understand what that has also meant to me, what that's cost me and what embodiment is for me today where I. It takes a long time for you to realize poverty's not around over your shoulder, you know, so that's where. That's where.

[Angela Yee]

Where I'm at.

[Keke Palmer]

You know what I mean? I've been supporting my family since I was 12 years old. And I have no shame about that. I really, you know, it's like. But that's the way it had to be. They wasn't gonna let my parents through, so the nine year old had to be able to get out there, tap dance and move. But what once was something fun that I did for my family became a character that I'm doing and living in the world. And I'm. No, I'm not. I'm not constantly embodied in it. And so then it becomes the question of what does all this mean to me? How do I also honor what that has given me, but also make sure that the person that just gets to be and that's not constantly making sure that the room is right is able to just exist? And it's funny because that's this character, Corvette. She's experiencing in a lot of ways, her own version of that where she's trying to figure out how to maintain value, how to survive, who she has to be, what she has to become, what it's what she's up against. And I remember we had a conversation when Boots, we were talking and having conversations like I'm having with you guys, and he was like, I want you to go back to that place before you reached where you are now. And I want you to be that. Be the. Be the you that was on that journey. Because Corvette hasn't figured out what you figured out yet.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah. When do you get. I'm sorry. So when do you actually get to be Lauren? Like, when you. Does it ever get tiresome to be. Have to show up?

[Keke Palmer]

Well, luckily, because I'm talking about it and I'm able to actually start articulating and sharing that experience. I'm able to be right now. Yeah, you guys are meeting me there because I'm allowing you to. Because I'm actually, you know, I'm telling You and we're sharing the conversation and we're able to understand it. I think in the generation we're in, it is time to start talking about what that every entertainer is not the same or celebrity, I should say. But as an artist, like, we have to start talking about what it is to be an artist, what it is to be a person, and what really happens in that in between space.

[DJ Envy]

But are you tired of sharing that part of yourself? Like, are you tired of sharing who you are? Personally, Like, I'm an actress, I do this part. I do this part. But now it seems like they're diving more into your personal.

[Keke Palmer]

Yeah, I'm excited to be able. I think that's why I love doing my podcast. I love being able to talk and really share who I am outside of just the glit, the clips and the moments that people get to see that are performed that are usually performance based or me making sure, you know, I run. I'm ready to. I really want to have more conversations because I feel like I also have. Have so much to share from what I've been through as a creator, as an entrepreneur. I don't want these people to go through the same things I went through.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Oh, wow, they wrapping us up. But I do want to ask one thing, because you, you survived child stardom, right, without having a public breakdown. Even though you've been taking care of your family forever. What protected your spirit?

[Keke Palmer]

I mean, I hate to say this is going to sound cliche, but I think in many ways that, you know, if people don't believe, then that's what they will feel. But honestly, God, Honestly, God, my. I grew up in a church, you know, my father's a deacon. The foundation of what I believe, the conversations that I've had with myself, the rituals that my grandmother gave me, God rest her soul, my grandma Mildred, my grandma Birdetta. So I never felt like even when I had to go underground, I knew I had. I knew I had God with me, you know, and so there were. I remember the moment when I was 17 and I was like, I'm. I'm. Nobody can know me because it was unsafe. Because I was constantly under scrutiny and working as an adult as a kid, and I couldn't be sad on set or I couldn't be angry. I couldn't show any of those emotions. So I told myself, I'm going to just be, yes, let's do it. And I just said, the real me, she gonna go low key because they can't handle her. They can't handle the Questions they can't handle the awareness. They can't handle what the conversations that I have with Boots. They couldn't handle that. Me trying to talk about that kind of stuff in my position as true Jackson vp. And so I just continued to survive my life. And then at some point I said, she, she can come. She's safe now. She can come up for air. I can talk about this and share this.

[Angela Yee]

And your mom are executive producers of the Congratulations. Amazing.

[Caller]

Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

And I Love Boozers is out today, so make sure you go check it out. Kiki Palmer.

[Keke Palmer]

Appreciate y'.

[Mimi]

All.

[Boots Riley]

Thank you for having us.

[DJ Envy]

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Let's get right to the latest.

[Angela Yee]

Lauren be coming with.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Straight fat made it.

[DJ Envy]

She gets them from somebody that knows somebody boxing details.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm the home girl that knows a little bit about everything.

[Charlamagne tha God]

She be having the latest on the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have a little bit of everything.

[DJ Envy]

Well, it's the latest brought to you

[Charlamagne tha God]

by Top Dog Law on the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Talk to me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So according to Diddy's lawyers, a bear hug and a butt grab on a New York City street is not.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You got to prepare me for stuff.

[DJ Envy]

Say that again.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Came in too hot.

[DJ Envy]

Just say that again.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Say that again. Say it slowly. What happened?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Now, according to Diddy's attorneys, if you bear hug or you grab somebody's butt on a New York City street, it isn't a crime. Let me explain.

[DJ Envy]

Explain that.

[Charlamagne tha God]

So that is a crime.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, it's not. They're saying it's not. I'm gonna explain.

[Angela Yee]

Okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So y' all know Kirk Burrows. He was in the 50 Cent documentary that happened with Diddy. Right. So he had a lawsuit that he filed back in 2025, and now that lawsuit is back again. And he says, and he's claiming that Diddy has had these, like, string of, like, disturbing patterns of abusive behavior towards him. One of them that he mentions is something that happened in 2013. He says that he was staying in a hotel in Manhattan and he was walking on the street. Diddy found him on the street. He bear hugged him and grabbed his behind while one of Diddy's associates stood nearby. Did not stop it, but instead threatened to take his life. All this happened during whatever their altercation was on the street in broad daylight.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Well, you know, 50 Cent said that Diddy was a serial butt grabber. He would always say, I heard Diddy touched your butt.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Wait a minute.

[Charlamagne tha God]

He Was an inquiring mind.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, somebody very. Go ahead and. Because I feel like you about to say what I want to say.

[DJ Envy]

So somebody could bear hug you from the back and grab your ass. And that's not a crime. There's no penalty for it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So. Okay, so Diddy's attorneys are saying that the encounter doesn't meet the legal definition of a crime of violence under New York City. It's called the GMV A. I believe it's called. It is called, yes. The GMVA is the Gender Motivated Crimes Act. So this is the act that has been. Has enabled a lot of people who say that they've been sexually assaulted or allegedly raped to bring old cases that have been. Would have been thrown out because of time back into court. Now, there are certain stipulations under this act, Right. They say that it has to be gender motivated. And they say even though Kirk Borough alleges all these things that happens, he never alleges that this happened because of his gender. And what. Yes. And they also did his team, Diddy's.

[Angela Yee]

It's a bad hug and a butt grab.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Diddy's team is also saying that this was nothing but a single chance meeting on a New York City street in broad daylight. And they're making it clear that it has nothing to do with the gender. Now, I reached out to a rep for Diddy's attorneys because I'm like, okay, so you're saying that it did happen, but it just wasn't a crime time. And he's like, diddy was never officially charged with anything. This is just a lawsuit that they're trying to get thrown out. Anything that did occur was just a misconstrued, silly incident.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I'm telling you right now, this is a double standard. Because if you was a man running down on a woman, giving up bear hugs and squeezing her ass, you going to jail.

[Nate Jackson]

That's right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And another thing, another thing that these attorneys are alleging is that even though. Even if it did happen, that the complaint doesn't allege that the conduct happened for the person purpose of sexual gratification. They argue that Burroughs is arguing something different, that Diddy only did this. According to Kirk Burrows, allegedly, he only did. He only touched him because he was trying to assert his dominance and control over him and his ability to control how Burrows move throughout the music industry. Allegedly.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Oh, you just thought he was cute.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, like, I. I feel like they, you know, they. They going too deep into it.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Complicated right now. I just thought she was cute with a fat ass

[Angela Yee]

real quick well, don't act funny cuz we outside.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You know what I'm saying?

[Angela Yee]

That's what it. It kind of gave. Don't act funny cuz we outside like

[Charlamagne tha God]

this cuz all these people around. Oh, okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's crazy.

[Boots Riley]

We.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We'll. We'll see what happens. They're in court arguing there's no new updates though, to that. So we'll keep you guys updated on what happens on people acting funny because they outside.

[Keke Palmer]

Now.

[Lauren LaRosa]

In other news, speaking of.

[Charlamagne tha God]

But that. See, see, that's funny. How can you hear that story and not laugh? Read the headline again. Laura, just read the hurt. Just read the headline.

[Lauren LaRosa]

According to Diddy's lawyers, a bear hug and a butt grab on a New York City street is not a crime.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I was doing that, so that was crazy, right?

[Lauren LaRosa]

All right, well do. Which one do I go to bed hug?

[Mimi]

Come on.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Continue.

[DJ Envy]

Continue on. Come on.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, Michelle. K. Michelle was on Shannon Sharp's club Shay Shay. And she sat down to have a conversation about a lot of different things that are going on in her life right now. But she remembered an incident that she says happened with Charlamagne the God. Let's take a listen.

[Angela Yee]

Oh, my God.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You spoke about having a relationship with Idris Elba. Did people believe you?

[Keke Palmer]

Yeah, and I think they were disappointed.

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Why?

[Keke Palmer]

To hear Charlamagne the God say when y' all found out that Idris loved K. Michelle, it was like turning wine into Arbo mist. That's hilarious. Go ahead, Leia. No, it was hilarious. But you gotta understand, for a young black girl, for y' all to do this, that man have never dimined Diamond. We don't play them games together. Idris was amazing. He was an amazing man.

[Charlamagne tha God]

In other words, he made it seem

[State Farm Ad Voice]

like you were not worthy to be with Idris Elba.

[Caller]

That's what you did.

[Keke Palmer]

Charlamagne.

[Nate Jackson]

What would Idris want with her?

[Charlamagne tha God]

We could have anybody.

[Keke Palmer]

It was a whole hood. I am so sick of y'.

[Caller]

All.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Because Idris could put on a suit.

[Keke Palmer]

Idris would do fine in Memphis. But people thought that I was not good enough.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So every time you would see me and Idris, you never would even put that Charlamagne.

[Angela Yee]

I know he got hood in him. Idris was on the wire. We were talking about. He was living in Baltimore for a while.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I went back, I had me plus three other people try to find the clip of you saying that, and we could not find it at all.

[Charlamagne tha God]

What did you do? See, here's the thing. Scrubbed it. Here's the thing. I don't remember saying any of this. Okay. I've always thought Kate Michelle was a beautiful woman, and I. I don't know, man, because I've said a lot of crazy stuff, so I can't say if I did say that or I didn't say that or not. I really don't feel like you would be able to find that. That.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, that would be an easy find.

[Angela Yee]

And I'll be honest, it's wild.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I don't even know what all this is. What's that?

[DJ Envy]

We said a lot of things. I just don't remember saying that.

[Angela Yee]

Cigarettes, all that.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Like Thunderbird.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's like your uncle, like Bernie. I don't know what that is either.

[Angela Yee]

But still reserve.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, still reserve. Or ice the silver can, but your aunts go get the arbor, Miss.

[Charlamagne tha God]

My aunts don't drink no goddamn arbor, Miss.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, they do.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Shoot,

[Lauren LaRosa]

they might bring it in their

[Angela Yee]

own, but all that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. And that's the latest for the hours, brought to you guys by Top Dog Law. Any accident, big or small, called Top Dog Law.

[Charlamagne tha God]

If you find that clip, don't send it to me, though. I do.

[DJ Envy]

I've been looking.

[Angela Yee]

I ain't see it.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I like hearing the old work sometimes. Damn, I said that.

[Angela Yee]

Speaking of old work,

[Lauren LaRosa]

when I heard arbor, Miss. I'm like, dang, incredible. Hawkish.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I don't even sound that. Like nothing I would say, though.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What?

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, it does.

[DJ Envy]

That definitely sounds like something you would say, but I just don't remember this.

[Angela Yee]

Yes, yes. And speaking of old Langston Hughes, is his birthday. Well, no, it's his death anniversary. He would have been 125.

[Charlamagne tha God]

No, he wouldn't have. God bless Langston Hughes. He would not have been 125. People been.

[Angela Yee]

How Sicily Tyson looked. And she was like, 119.

[Charlamagne tha God]

What was it? All right, man. Donkey of the Day is up next. It's the people's donkey. No, no, ask her.

[DJ Envy]

Who's Langston? Who? Hughes.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Come on, come on. Say he did minister society. He produced society. And dead president. That's what she gonna say. Okay, who you giving your dog? The people's donkey. You can call in right now, 1-800-585-1051. And give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid. It's the Breakfast Club. It's your time to nominate a donkey of your own.

[Nate Jackson]

Remember now, that is how they choose.

[DJ Envy]

Call in now, 800-585-1051.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yes. Donkey Today for Friday, May 22, is the People's donkey. This is why I give you our beautiful Listeners the opportunity to give someone the credit they deserve for being stupid. You get to give someone the biggest. He also. Who's this?

[Caller]

Yo, this A.

[Charlamagne tha God]

B out of Mrs. A.B. out of Memphis. Who you want to get the biggest? He hauled to AB out of Memphis.

[Keke Palmer]

9 Waste Management.

[Charlamagne tha God]

My job. Oh, wow. What they do to you, man?

[Angela Yee]

Look, it's raining thunder and lightning. We are here.

[Charlamagne tha God]

They should let us be at home.

[Caller]

Defense.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Garbage is not that important. What you mean? You gotta clean the garbage up, man. So how the mailman is raised, huh?

[Caller]

That's a mailman. You might have a chick in the mirror. Ain't no chicken no garbage.

[Charlamagne tha God]

God damn. But then if you don't get the garbage now, when you gonna get. Hey, yo, hey. That's what. When a black person really fed up this. Damn, man. I feel you, though.

[DJ Envy]

Stop cursing.

[Angela Yee]

I know the books for Memphis. I'm trying. Y' all ain't really got a lot of venues. I used to perform at Chuckles, but that's gone now, ain't it?

[Caller]

Well, I don't think so.

[Angela Yee]

You don't think so?

[Caller]

Nah.

[Angela Yee]

I missed you last time.

[Caller]

Okay.

[Charlamagne tha God]

That was a while ago, though.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, I heard.

[Angela Yee]

I know. I used to perform at Chuckles all the time, but I heard that.

[Caller]

I don't know.

[Angela Yee]

I think, like, management sold it or something. I. I heard that Chuckles wasn't around anymore, but I' ma see. I' ma see.

[Caller]

Hey, and that dude who called you yesterday for six. My message, man, you should have told that. Get off your phone.

[Angela Yee]

I know, right?

[Caller]

The. With the baby.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Dad.

[Caller]

I said, women do this every day, right?

[Angela Yee]

Right. We go through it all the time, you know, And. And he didn't even really have a real problem, like, you got a wife, you know what I'm saying? Your daughter got a mother figure. Let her mother be a deadbeat.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's all right.

[Charlamagne tha God]

What's your name again? I'm out of music. Hey, Jess. Yes. I'm a stud.

[Caller]

Hey, Lauren.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I love her.

[Caller]

Okay.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Okay, Lauren. AB want to put her strap on you.

[Boots Riley]

Wow.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Listen, hey, hey, Jess, give Ab some tickets to your next show, because she's not about to have no job, so she ain't gonna be able to. Damn, A.B.

[Angela Yee]

yeah. Thank you, everybody, to come to the show for free when I get the Memphis show together.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Good morning. Who's this?

[Caller]

This is Yashima.

[Angela Yee]

Yashima who?

[Charlamagne tha God]

You want to get a biggest he hi to Yashima?

[Caller]

Well, unfortunately, I got to give it to myself. Breakfast Club.

[Boots Riley]

Oh, boy.

[Charlamagne tha God]

What happened?

[Caller]

So I met this girl, named. Her name is B. Chef B. She's a celebrity chef. I met her in my church. We became friends. XYZ Long story short, I was in her wedding and she asked to borrow $50,000.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Damn.

[Caller]

At the time I did it, I didn't think she was scamming me because I looked at her as a friend. But my homegirls was like, you know, Africans are scammer. She's scamming you.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Damn. What kind of African is a big continent now? What country from Africa?

[Caller]

Liberia.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Damn.

[Caller]

Okay, so long story short, I'm in the wedding and everything. She borrows the money. Friend, I'mma pay you back. I'm going to pay you back, I promise. She sent me a bogus wire transfer stating that, oh, the bank sent the money to the wrong account for the wedding venue. Look at it. So I looked at it. I didn't think it was fake because that was a friend. I talked to my friend. Lo and behold, I was faith. Then I let her use my credit card. She spent like $30,000 on one of my credit cards.

[Boots Riley]

Wow.

[Caller]

Never paid me back. So that was last year in March. The wedding was in Key Largo. It was Dr. Beatrice Saloni. She lives in Richmond now, but she's from Brooklyn. Jeff, you might have met her before because she was the chef at Wilding Out.

[Angela Yee]

Oh, for real?

[DJ Envy]

So you just like, I don't know

[Charlamagne tha God]

nothing about this, so you $80,000 that down?

[Angela Yee]

That's wild.

[Caller]

Currently the judge ruled in my favor, so I'm 50 something thousand dollars down with 9.9% interest rate. But the crazy thing was I'm in Jersey, she's in Virginia. So I have to go back and forth to court, right? The judge tells me, you got your judgment, now get your money. So now I'm at a loop because I can't help. I can't find nobody that does Virginia law in Jersey that can help me retrieve my money. So I had to do my own due diligence. So I did a garnishment, flew down there, had to stay in a hotel, did garnishments and all that stuff, right? This scamming ass chick closed up all her bank accounts.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Damn. What the hell do you do?

[Angela Yee]

Damn. That's why she want to be a friend.

[Caller]

Exactly. So I'm a little bit about me. Been on my own since 17 years old, since my mom died. And I'm just a go getter. I got two degrees, Rutgers in JIT. And I work hard. I mean, I'm in the IT field. I've been working in IT for 20 something years. I'm a cyber security engineer and I also flip homes. One chick, one hammer. So if you know somebody need remodeled rehab, I'm. I'm one chick, one hammer. Just like it says, one chick, one hammer.

[Charlamagne tha God]

But why did you like Chef B so much that you just wanted to give her all this money? Like, was. It was. What else?

[Angela Yee]

Damn. She was about to say that y' all was together.

[Caller]

Okay, great question. So at the time, me and my husband for 17 years was going through a bit of divorce, right?

[Charlamagne tha God]

God damn.

[Caller]

And I was in a. And I was in a dark, stinking place. And when I called her, she was there. Really? You gonna be okay? You gonna be there? Because she was there for me. So she picked me up. Cause I was in my house, like in a room for months. She picked up, couldn't move, couldn't eat. And so I felt as though she was there for me. So she picked me up and took me to her house. Now, mind you do. She's sitting on a spread in Chesterfield, okay? So I didn't think in a million years that she would try to scam me, rob me, because her house is bigger than mine.

[Angela Yee]

That's how she got the house.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah, that's how she got the house. Let me ask you a question. Did she put that 10 speed vibrating mini wand on you though?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Wow.

[Caller]

You know what she did? She put that boob on me. How about that?

[Charlamagne tha God]

Damn. She hit you with the root.

[Caller]

Let me tell you something, Charlamagne. She had to hit me with something because you talking about a chick that came up from nothing. And my money is my power. My money on my credit. And she. And she effed it all up. My credit score went from 850 to 600.

[Angela Yee]

Damn.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Well, listen, I hope you go find another root doctor to get that off you. I hope you already got it off you. And man, I hope that you, you know, get everything that you're supposed to get in court. Man, that's a horrible story.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, it is.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Damn. Good morning. Who's this?

[Angela Yee]

They was doing something else.

[Charlamagne tha God]

She just said yay. She got hit with root and the 10 speed vibrating mini one. Good morning. This Jay. Jay. What up, Jay? What up?

[Caller]

What up?

[Charlamagne tha God]

How are you, sir? Who you want to get the biggest he haul to the biggest he ha goes to everybody in the world who thought the boy didn't have any more slaps.

[Boots Riley]

Iceman is where it said everybody who

[Charlamagne tha God]

said Drake was done.

[Angela Yee]

Let's go.

[Caller]

Biggest hee haw.

[Angela Yee]

It's going down.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Who said. Why did. Who said Drake Was done, sir. I mean, you've been on the Internet.

[Caller]

Charlemagne, cut the jokes, bro.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I think that what y' all don't realize is he just lost a rap battle. He was done in regards to getting his ass kicked by Kendrick. Nobody ever thought Drake wasn't going to continue to be Drake, except for Drake. Drake. Drake was holding himself back, so nobody was saying they didn't want to hear the boy no more or nothing. And then we had one of the greatest albums probably in the last five to ten years.

[Nate Jackson]

Just now.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Let's slow down now. But just because. Just because there was people who didn't want to hear Drake anymore doesn't mean he. He don't have a loyal cult like following a OV hoes.

[Angela Yee]

Oh, my God.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I want to say to you, Charlemagne,

[Caller]

because I'm a brilliant idiot stand, too.

[Charlamagne tha God]

After all this heat.

[Caller]

What you going to do now?

[Charlamagne tha God]

What you going to do now? I ain't got no problem with Drake, man. You know what I'm saying? I don't. I think it's. I actually think it's dope that, you know, he had a great rollout and he got a group of. Of fans that were willing to cover themselves and throw frozen semen and then post the album and say Iceman King. I think that's really dope. Yo, the music is great. You can't deny it. I sure can, because I only listen to it one time. I told y', all, Drake is a mood that I'm never in.

[Angela Yee]

Hey, yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Drake is a movie. And let me hear you say that. I ain't got that kind of time.

[Angela Yee]

He got three of them.

[DJ Envy]

He a Drake hater.

[Charlamagne tha God]

It's all good. I'm not a Drake hater. I listen. Music is. Yeah, no, go back.

[Caller]

Go back to listening to your Bing

[Charlamagne tha God]

bop boom boom bam. He can rap, though. That boy can rap.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah. What you mean? Bean bop boom boom bam. You know that. That was one of them ones don't drink.

[Charlamagne tha God]

That song called Bean Bop Boom Boom

[Angela Yee]

Bam got it from Kendrick.

[Charlamagne tha God]

That's Peekaboo.

[Angela Yee]

Shout out to Az Check Shebang.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Have a great day.

[DJ Envy]

Have a good one, brother.

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[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah. I don't have a. Listen, once again, I don't have a problem with Drake. I think it's really dope that he got people out here with towels on their left ass cheek. I was on their left ass cheek.

[Angela Yee]

Oh, my God.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You know how dope you got to be to have men tattooing owls on their left ass cheek?

[DJ Envy]

I don't know what Drake did to you.

[Angela Yee]

I don't know if he slid.

[DJ Envy]

Slid in somebody's DMs or I don't know what.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You got a OV tramp stamp. I do not have his lower back right over his. On his lower back, it's the O, the V. And then when he bend over, it's the other O, other vaginal action.

[DJ Envy]

How you know? How you know?

[Charlamagne tha God]

You saw it now. Kobe telling Everybody from the 90s, he got pictures from the 90s. Are you finished?

[DJ Envy]

Are you done? Man, that's crazy.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Listen, we do the People's donkey every Friday, 1-800-585-1051. You can call up and give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid, man.

[DJ Envy]

That's right. And when we come back, Dre and Nicole and Lex P will be joining us. They're the host of the Poor Minds podcast. They're actually gonna be in New York City this weekend. So if you haven't got your tickets, get your tickets.

[Charlamagne tha God]

There'll be a town hall tomorrow. Tomorrow.

[DJ Envy]

That's right. We'll talk to them next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren Laros is here as well. We got some special guests in the building.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yes, indeed.

[DJ Envy]

From the Poor Mods podcast, we have Dre, Nicole, and Lex. Welcome, ladies. How y' all feeling?

[Keke Palmer]

Great.

[DJ Envy]

No, you're not. You talking all that ish that you thought it could be warm. It's cold here.

[Angela Yee]

You gotta change your clothes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's raining, it's cold, it's windy.

[Keke Palmer]

All of the things.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But I love New York, though, so I'm happy to be here.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Lexi, you say you had whole clothes.

[Angela Yee]

I only pack my whole clothes.

[DJ Envy]

What I got on.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Why they gotta be whole clothes?

[Caller]

Cause that's what I am.

[Angela Yee]

It's summertime.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You're not a hoe man. Stop saying that.

[Angela Yee]

I'm a young queen.

[Charlamagne tha God]

She walk in with the grand rising van. Rising king.

[Keke Palmer]

Oh.

[Angela Yee]

Oh, yeah. We the old ones. Yeah, we're old.

[Lauren LaRosa]

They was telling me they put me up on Young Ho. I was like, wow.

[Caller]

Oh, no.

[Angela Yee]

That's for, like, 25 and under. Yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Asian dude say that the other day. Crazy New York is wild.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm telling you, do stuff like that. Only pack certain clothes, knowing it's going to be cold.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, I thought it was going to be warm and outside, so I'm all right, though.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Y' all look beautiful. Thank you.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Y' all on tour? They're still sipping tour. I'm looking at all These sold out dates, man. Y' all getting money and y' all going to be in New York on the 23rd. What's the difference between the live show and the PO M podcast?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I feel like with the live show, it's a lot more interactive, so obviously the audience is going to be able to interact with us more. It's not going to be us just sitting down talking about topics. We are going to have some guests come on stage and stuff, but we're going to be playing games.

[Mimi]

Games.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We got a twerk contest.

[Caller]

It's.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It gets a little crazy at the

[DJ Envy]

last jumping into that twerk contest.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay. That's what they was bringing you out for. You gonna be a part of the twerk content.

[Charlamagne tha God]

He want me so he want to see it

[Lauren LaRosa]

remix.

[Angela Yee]

His name as Uncle Baddy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It took me a minute. I was like up here front and he be letting him call him that. He started name and he be up here twerking.

[Charlamagne tha God]

My torque win would be so stink.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Why you drinking your probiotic?

[Charlamagne tha God]

I am. I am.

[Caller]

You right.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You're right. And water. What makes twerk wings think?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I think they don't be getting in there enough when they be cleaning. They probably just be cleaning the surface.

[Angela Yee]

The twerk window be funky sometimes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You know when he clap.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Oh, yeah.

[Angela Yee]

And that wind come up and it don't smell too fresh. Uhhuh. You got to get in between them cheeks. You do.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And see, a lot of times they

[Angela Yee]

be afraid to put that soap on your hand.

[DJ Envy]

You got to use your hand and

[Lauren LaRosa]

get in your hand. Yeah, you got to use your hand and get in a. And then you got to use ph balance washes down there. You can't just be using just regular body wash and regular soap.

[DJ Envy]

I'm laughing cuz y' all explain it to him. Like, his twerk wind is horrible when

[Charlamagne tha God]

they talking to everybody.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Getting warm outside. Nothing wrong with you know what I mean? We are helping a whole demographic.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Have y' all ever smelt twin when y' all been on stage?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I on stage.

[Angela Yee]

I have. I'm sorry. I did that one.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That one time. We not gonna say who it was. It was bad. We looked at each other and we was like. And she probably thought we was doing that because she was doing a good job twerking, but that wouldn't work.

[DJ Envy]

What city? What city?

[Lauren LaRosa]

You know what, Envy? I don't even remember what city it was, but I do remember it was bad because we had to look at each other and we had a whole debriefing session after the show it was crazy.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Why y give it that Watch y' all be promoting on the show now

[Angela Yee]

we bringing it with us. Cuz we know better now. Shout out to saltx up gonna be

[Lauren LaRosa]

a part of that care package.

[Angela Yee]

Yep.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You know y' all got one of the biggest podcasts out right now, right? Not just for. Well, definitely for black women, but just for black people. Why do you think authenticity is. Is winning for y' all right now?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Because I think people are tired of seeing people on the Internet being performative all the time. Like, I think one thing about licks and I, we keep it real. We talk about relatable topics. We talk about things that people are afraid to touch on. And throughout the process, we've still always just been true to who we are and true to ourselves. And people can see the growth. And I think they like the fact that it's been a documented process that you could see from. From 2017, 18, when we were like 27 and 28 to now.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I feel like it scares traditional media sometimes, too, because I'll be. I'll look at people in the comments and they'd be like, why are they talking like that? It's like they talking like regular people.

[Caller]

Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

And I think it scares a lot of the, like, bigger celebrities who kind of do want to sit down with us, but I think their teams are afraid. But I think they don't understand that we're balanced as well. Like, of course, the conversations that we have on solo episodes. We're not going to talk to, like, a Sierra with or something or a woman that's married. Like, we are very respectable when they come sit on the couch. So I think we're definitely changing media and how it looks because, you know, you used to have to not go on podcast if you're doing a press run. But we have direct contact with the consumer, like, directly. You know, our YouTube page gets 1.7 million hits a month. So, yeah, like, directly to them. So. People are also tired of clickbait stuff. Like, y' all are having conversations and saying stuff you don't even believe just because you want people to click on it. People's.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Their.

[Angela Yee]

Their actual clips will be amazing, hilarious, entertaining. Then you go watch the actual show and it's boring and it's not good. So I think we just really just be ourselves and actually just make good content.

[DJ Envy]

How does it affect your love life, though? Right? Because y' all talk some crazy ish sometimes.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Alex got hoes. Dre is the pure angel.

[DJ Envy]

Somebody thought he was special.

[Nate Jackson]

Somebody thought he was special.

[DJ Envy]

And they don't feel special anymore in real life.

[Angela Yee]

I'm really a lover girl.

[Keke Palmer]

I am.

[DJ Envy]

Why he just said that?

[Charlamagne tha God]

What?

[Angela Yee]

Cause Charlemagne is messy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I love y', all, but I realized something. When y' all went on your recent vacations, I ain't really see who you was with too much. Oh, you. I saw you and your homegirls.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, I was with my sister.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So that means you probably. You dated and figuring it out and you locked in. Is that what the dynamic dynamic is giving? No, I'm not locked into anything.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, dang.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I was actually. Because I was like, the way she posted, she would. Yeah. Now we ain't pay for it, but I was there with her period. But do you guys feel like. Because, I mean, y' all talk about everything, right? Like, do you feel like it actually impacts your dating life? Or, like, do they get to know y' all separately than the podcast, even though y' all are keeping it from the podcast? Has to. To be honest, at this point, I don't think it affects my dating life, cuz I don't allow it to because I just feel like anybody who wants to date me at this point, you see what I do. Like, the show is pretty big at this point. Like, I don't think it's something that I have to tell somebody if they're trying to get to know me. So you see what's going on and you have to ask yourself, are you okay with that? I'm okay with what I do for a living and I'm okay with the things we talk about, and I'm comfortable in who I am. So I think I need to be with a man and who's very secure. I only feel like it will bother somebody that's insecure.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

How many times do you have to check dudes in your DMs and whose job is it to check it? Cuz I could feel dudes listen to a podcast and feel like they could get disrespectful. So how many times did that happen?

[Keke Palmer]

Or you know what?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't really get too many disrespectful messages in my DM from me, and I be just getting inappropriate messages, like them trying to holler, them sending, like, pics, that type of stuff.

[Angela Yee]

They want to smell that twerk them

[Lauren LaRosa]

asking for old P panties, like, stuff like that. Are there ever episodes that y' all put out and then like, when they go viral, y' all are like, dang, we wish that we could have, like, not put that person in that situation I'm specifically speaking about when y' all did the crossover episode with Savannah James.

[Angela Yee]

Oh.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And she talked about being the strip club being her favorite place. And it was such a light hearted, girl on girl, like girlfriends conversation. But the way that they took it, they took start talking about NBA families and what people should and shouldn't talk about and all this stuff, I didn't even see it.

[Keke Palmer]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I got a different algorithm than everybody else.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. Yes, they did. And I feel like even on her podcast, I think she does the same thing where she gets really up close to personal because she's talking to her best friend.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But it picked up a lot when it was with y' all four, like, people were surprised that she just has a life. Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

I think honestly with us, like I said, we're very careful and we always are aware of who we're talking to. So I think that's just. That comes with the territory because people assume certain things about me and Draya and that like, oh my gosh, Savannah James is talking to these. You know what I'm saying? So I think things always get blown out of context. But I feel like the people who support us, that's who matters because they know what the conversation is and the same thing with their listeners. They know what she meant and how it was being said. These people that are always trying to drag us, cancel us, these are the people that aren't buying tickets. They're not watching the show. They just want to clip something and go viral themselves so that stuff don't matter. And y' all know whores.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We're not. I don't know why she be saying that,

[Angela Yee]

but I'm saying that's what the people be saying about us. You know what I'm saying? But like I said, I'll make a joke about it because call them like I've been called.

[Boots Riley]

Worse.

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[Charlamagne tha God]

educated

[Angela Yee]

we bossies and I think that the proof is in the pudding. Like we're definitely more than what people try to say we are. And that's why they're mad, because they want to put us in this box and they can't.

[Charlamagne tha God]

And what's crazy when you meet, you know, I guess these women who have a different image, they talk just like y' all just not publicly.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, they could.

[Caller]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And that's what I was gonna say. Like, I think I would probably feel bad if somebody said. If somebody came on the show and then they said something to about a clip that went viral. But I feel like Savannah, she used to it. She know people on the Internet is going to create their own narrative. And she's so cool and she's so down to earth. Like Charlamagne said. I think a lot of time people fail to realize like, these people are normal people. Yes, she goes to the strip club just like everybody else do. And people be determined to misunderstand too. Cuz she was talking about going to like Area 29, which is a girl. Like, women are in the strip club. But people thought she was talking about being in a male strip strip club. And like, they who goes to see Uncle. Yeah, he would never make it any. So tired and ready to go home. They be calling you name. He be like, he went home two hours ago.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Y' all ever saw when Lauren was

[Lauren LaRosa]

on the pole, baby?

[DJ Envy]

Yo, that was hilarious. I don't even know why she posted it.

[Caller]

Girl.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't like that they so mad that it be given made you a baddie.

[Charlamagne tha God]

That's why nobody in there. She not a dollar throw.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It was just me and my boyfriend there.

[Charlamagne tha God]

We at least throw the dollar.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, you got to dance for your man. I know that's right. No, we don't like male strip clubs.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, we don't. Not at all.

[Angela Yee]

I'm not a fiend.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I was about to say something else, but I love. Yes. It's not a thing people don't. I don't know anybody that just wants to go to me. Well, I feel like it's like maybe older women, they like to go to mealstrip club, especially like in Vegas and stuff. Do they still have the Magic Mike show?

[Angela Yee]

I don't know.

[Charlamagne tha God]

They got it in me.

[DJ Envy]

What should we expect from. From the New York show? Of course you're gonna be in New York this weekend. What should we expect?

[Angela Yee]

It's gonna be just a good time. I always say it's like a slumber party, but, like, me and Dre are there. So it's like a girls night out. Of course, date night, whatever you want to do. And you get a chance to really party with us, talk with us. Like, a lot of people watch the show and they're like, oh, my gosh, I want to sit on the couch and talk with y'. All. So it's like, this is your chance to do that. So it's really a turn up good time. Sometimes with shows, we cry, we laugh. It's just a ball of fun. So it's not like your typical podcast show where we're just sitting on the couch and talking the whole time. It's very interactive and it's very, very fun.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I've been trying to read y' all dates. I can't see. UNC cannot see.

[DJ Envy]

So they're in New York this weekend in Charlotte, Houston, Dallas. 29 for 30. June 6th, Nashville, Tennessee. Yeah, June 7th. Y' all suck. It's sold out already. All right. June 12th, Detroit, Michigan. What up, Doe?

[Charlamagne tha God]

Get your tickets.

[Mimi]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

Chicago, Illinois. Sold out. Birmingham, Sold out.

[State Farm Ad Voice]

New Orleans.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Sold out.

[DJ Envy]

Atlanta, sold out. Fort Lauderdale. July 24th.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, you can go to www.poorminds.com and get your TV. We outside this weekend. We'll be there.

[Caller]

Yes.

[Angela Yee]

So we're excited.

[DJ Envy]

I'll be in Houston. I'm sorry.

[Charlamagne tha God]

No, I'm definitely going.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm going there next weekend so you can come to the show.

[DJ Envy]

But it's Memorial weekend, you know.

[Keke Palmer]

It is.

[Charlamagne tha God]

It is. Yeah. I'm going to see my nieces, Drea and Alex.

[Keke Palmer]

Thank you.

[Caller]

This weekend.

[DJ Envy]

Now, if you tell them you twerk, you get more people coming out because they definitely want to see your ass hurt.

[Charlamagne tha God]

What's up with you? He got on great sweatpants today, too. He nasty. How do y' all feel about men when they wear gray sweatpants? Whores, right?

[Caller]

I don't know. I kind of like.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Like the gray sweats.

[DJ Envy]

I think it's okay.

[Angela Yee]

But don't be taking pictures of it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Show you that print. I don't like that. If it's your man outside in the gray sweats and the fresh haircut, how y' all feel about that?

[DJ Envy]

You kinky.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I like that, cuz. He be looking fine.

[Charlamagne tha God]

What? Gray sweatpants and a fresh dye job. Dy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't like that.

[Charlamagne tha God]

This corner right here.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's not there.

[DJ Envy]

They don't die.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You see?

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, I'm talking about your hairline. It's.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Oh, a little.

[Angela Yee]

What?

[Lauren LaRosa]

He had a whole shape up earlier this week.

[Angela Yee]

Earlier this week.

[Charlamagne tha God]

And then he took a shower.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Not in fading.

[Angela Yee]

It still look nice.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It looks nice on me.

[DJ Envy]

You know what? Forget it. It's Dre Nicole Lexpie is the Breakfast slow. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to past the.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Dj, come spin now. Come spin. Big Nyla. Nyla Simone Young, 1990. Now my niece. What's happening?

[Keke Palmer]

I love 1999. What's up, Jess? What's up, Char?

[Lauren LaRosa]

What's up, Envy?

[DJ Envy]

What's up, Nyla?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay.

[Keke Palmer]

I got some records I want to play for you guys. I feel like this was low key, a slow week, but I found the best. Best of the best. But I want to start with this freestyle. It's from Kai Cash. Kai is from Brooklyn. Really, really dope mc. I think people be sleeping on him, but he really started to make a name for himself during that Joy Badass

[Lauren LaRosa]

West Coast, east coast beef last year.

[Keke Palmer]

I almost forgot that that happened. Anyway, let's get into it. This is called Make Them Pay.

[Angela Yee]

You put me on him a while ago, though.

[Charlamagne tha God]

But Nyla put me on K Cash last year, man. I came keep Kai Cash in heavy rotation. I love his project he dropped last year called Cash Rules. Kai Cash is the dopest new lyricist out of New York City, and it's not even close.

[DJ Envy]

He signed the generation now.

[Keke Palmer]

Yeah, he is.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I think he's the dopest new rapper from New York City. Kai gets busy, busy, busy.

[Keke Palmer]

All right, I'm gonna get into this next one. So Black just dropped the project 6. Black. Whatever you guys want to call him. Black is Black, right? Yeah, I don't know. I just. The spelling is what.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, I know.

[Keke Palmer]

Messes with my dyslexia.

[Charlamagne tha God]

That's.

[Angela Yee]

The six is just his favorite number. It's like his favorite number. Yeah,

[Charlamagne tha God]

you6 flack.

[Keke Palmer]

He got the project just dropped today. Love is the new gangsta. And this joint is with A cheek and Leon Thomas. All that Matters.

[Angela Yee]

You already know that.

[DJ Envy]

That's my.

[Angela Yee]

That's my. That's. That's my favorite song on the album so far.

[Keke Palmer]

Really?

[Angela Yee]

That and the song Bad oh, Fire. Yeah. You know, and Leon never missed, so I love him on the feature. I love him on the end, you know what I mean? I love Black's voice show. Yeah, Super Fire and Az is cheek, girl. I thought it was Chike.

[Keke Palmer]

Oh, I think it is. Shake.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

Az did his thing on there, too.

[Keke Palmer]

Did I say cheek?

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, you said az.

[Nate Jackson]

Cheeks.

[Caller]

My fault.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, all right.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Just one cheek.

[DJ Envy]

All right.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Any mention of cheeks.

[DJ Envy]

Shut up.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Now he googling AG's cheeks right now. Tell me the truth. Tell the truth. You just googled AG's cheeks, didn't you?

[DJ Envy]

I did not.

[Charlamagne tha God]

This guy's nasty. Nasty man, Nyla, I did not.

[Keke Palmer]

Man. Between the two of you, I can't

[Lauren LaRosa]

keep up, but I feel like Leon

[Keke Palmer]

Thomas is the new Chris Brown. I I feel like.

[Angela Yee]

Like he knew something. I mean, he's just a classic art. Like, he putting out straight classics.

[Caller]

Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

Crazy.

[Caller]

I agree.

[Keke Palmer]

What you guys think?

[Charlamagne tha God]

I think black is dope. I don't buy no new Thomas. I'm just saying, everybody ain't no new Chris Brown. Man, Chris Brown got a lot of different skill sets.

[Keke Palmer]

Okay, maybe not Chris Brown in the sense of, like, Chris Brown, but, I

[Charlamagne tha God]

mean, why can't he be the first Leon Thomas?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I don't get the comparison. Chris dances, he gets busy.

[Angela Yee]

Okay?

[Keke Palmer]

All I'm saying is everybody uses him for a hook right now. Like, everybody.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Okay, I get what you're saying. All right.

[DJ Envy]

A feature, you mean?

[Keke Palmer]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry. I don't want no smoke. I.

[Angela Yee]

He would be like the new T. Pain.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Remember, he was, you know, or the new N Dog. New Pharrell.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's perfect.

[Keke Palmer]

Don't mind my comparisons. I'm going get into this last one. It's from a new artist named Sean Weathers. And his record is called Everything.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, I. I like that.

[Keke Palmer]

You like that?

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, I like the sample.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I'm not mad at it.

[Angela Yee]

Like, his voice.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I'm not mad at him.

[DJ Envy]

He's.

[Caller]

All right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay. All right, cool. Well, if you guys like those records,

[Keke Palmer]

make sure you guys follow me on Instagram. Nyla Simone. Actually, my friend Sydney put me on to that last one, Sean Weathers, but I've had it in repeat. I really like the production.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I like the flip.

[Keke Palmer]

But, yeah, follow me on the gram. I'll be DJing at Ladies Love R B in Atlanta on June 10, so make sure you guys pull up on me there. I'm really excited about it. This is gonna be, like, my first. Actually, this is my second set in Atlanta. Really? Sorry.

[Angela Yee]

Atlanta loves you, girl.

[Keke Palmer]

I love Atlanta. But if you guys are in Atlanta, pull up on me there. Or pull up on me on coffee break next Saturday. I'll be DJing.

[DJ Envy]

Now, when we come back, we got the People's Choice mix. Of course, we starting the Memorial Day mix weekend. I'll be mixing on Memphis. I'll be mixing in Miami and a bunch of other stations. So, you know, just listen to your local radio. I will be on. And don't forget, of course, that car show, July 25th, Hampton, Virginia, kid friendly kid family reunion. It's gonna be a lot of fun, man. All types of cars, kids five and under. A free. So if you haven't got your tickets, get your tickets. Let's get to it. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's the dj Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. I know. Usually we replay the donkey, but we got comedian Nate Jackson in the building. He's performing in the city this weekend.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah, he'll be at the Brooklyn Improv all weekend.

[Boots Riley]

That's right.

[DJ Envy]

Well, let's get into the interview.

[Charlamagne tha God]

What's up, y'?

[State Farm Ad Voice]

All?

[DJ Envy]

How you feeling, man?

[Charlamagne tha God]

Too much money, man.

[DJ Envy]

A lot of money.

[Nate Jackson]

What are you looking at that's making you talk like that?

[Charlamagne tha God]

You getting some money, man? I hear your name everywhere.

[Angela Yee]

Amazing, amazing rooms.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I don't like that.

[Nate Jackson]

That's not how I like to get my money. I don't like to give my money loud. I like to be quiet. This a write off. Internal Revenue Service. I'm not getting no grade.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Let me rephrase, man. Nate, you out here making moves, man.

[Nate Jackson]

There you go.

[Charlamagne tha God]

How are you, though, man?

[Nate Jackson]

Man, things are good. And I'm like, really good. Like, really good. Like, I'm really good. Like, I've had people tell me, like, I'd be on shows complaining and stuff, and that was where I was at. I'm like, this.

[DJ Envy]

I'm.

[Nate Jackson]

I'm not complaining. This my truth right now. I am one of the. I got to be the happiest comic in on earth right as we speak.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Like, why? Why?

[Nate Jackson]

Just too many, like, too many, like, storylines.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Too much money, too. I'm getting too much.

[Nate Jackson]

Too many. No, too many. Too many storylines are all just, like, coming together and making sense. Like, you saw that interaction right there. Like, yeah. Byron Allen's like, oh, man, you're so. You're so fun.

[Angela Yee]

I'm like, yeah, he did.

[Nate Jackson]

Yeah. I mean, but like, the week of Netflix is a joke. Like, a lot of stuff came to its own culmination. Like, probably like 19 different things that were just like, I wonder what. I think. I want, like, all the answers. I'm so happy. So, Brooklyn Improv. I've never been big on New York because I don't, like. It's so many people here, and I think that's an acquired taste. It's a lot. It's a lot of people here, man.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Like, absolutely.

[Nate Jackson]

You're always like, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me. You know what I mean?

[Angela Yee]

Like, they don't say, excuse me, excuse me.

[Nate Jackson]

No, they stand on you like, you're like, it's an international trip. I'm like, y' all don't see me and they don't. There's too many people. But. But I'm starting to. Like, I like, I kind of get like, I get it like I went and checked out the seller and all. So I didn't. I'm not just doing book and improv for one week. I have two back to back weekend.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Oh, wow.

[Nate Jackson]

So we've already sold out seven shows was last weekend. And then we're going into the next weekend with. I think it might already be a wrap. But I've been having fun out there. It's a nice club.

[Angela Yee]

I love it.

[Nate Jackson]

And so I mean even that like the opportunity to not headline one weekend, but to just lock in. That's different.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nate Jackson]

I'm, I'm taking, I'm. Yeah, yeah. Embracing all that. That you know, I mean and I, I had been, I went from, you know, hard working west coast comic to like finding some success and traction on the Internet to basically theaters, which is you got what you do one night and then you gone. You don't get to eat nothing, meet nobody, see the city or not. So for me to be like, I'm about to be in Brooklyn for 15 days.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Wow.

[Nate Jackson]

When I get home, I'm gonna have an accent. We're eating everywhere, checking out everything, seeing stuff. So you really get like, you just got. Get exposed to more culture and stuff. So I'm, I'm in a very happy, very happy place right now.

[Charlamagne tha God]

What's your motivation? Is it just to be better than Gary Owen at everything or.

[DJ Envy]

Wow.

[Nate Jackson]

I love it because I, I on the way over was like, I wonder how long before he brings up Gary.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Four minutes.

[DJ Envy]

Four minutes.

[Nate Jackson]

I don't, I don't even think that. No, I'm not motivated by being better than the next person. Gary had a beautiful wedding. I thought you were gonna be there. Out in Texas.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I thought he was gonna be there.

[Angela Yee]

He's not his real friend. Charlemagne's not Gary's girlfriend.

[Nate Jackson]

I think we, I think that might be like the angle.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[Nate Jackson]

To just like be cool but not too close.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You were there.

[Nate Jackson]

I went. But you wouldn't know because I had it around you in pictures, so. No, but he had a beautiful wedding. Brie looked amazing. The whole family was there and all that. So that's dope. I'm proud of Gary. He's doing.

[Angela Yee]

That's amazing.

[Nate Jackson]

That's. That's gonna be.

[DJ Envy]

That's it.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Nothing.

[DJ Envy]

That was it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What photos did you take that you were edited out of or which one did they not post of you that you were looking forward to?

[Nate Jackson]

I was at the wedding.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

We said okay.

[Angela Yee]

He was there.

[DJ Envy]

I was in the cast. We a see no pictures of you keep looking.

[Nate Jackson]

They. They cut people off each side.

[Boots Riley]

Damn.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Damn.

[Nate Jackson]

It doesn't matter though. I didn't go for to be seen.

[Boots Riley]

No.

[Nate Jackson]

I went to just be like, all right, Gary's in love. Like, I feel like there's like the game and then there's like, this is our personal life. And so I went and I was a part of that. I was like, that's what the. This is going to be. The fact that People magazine was snapping pictures was an afterthought till I start seeing. I was like, oh, yeah, the cast really is here.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

Cuz when he told us about it, I. I thought he was joking. Like he was really going to have the cast of Think like groomsmen.

[Nate Jackson]

It was. It was the hottest wedding I've ever been to in my life, though.

[Charlamagne tha God]

What do you mean?

[Angela Yee]

Hot air off. Oh, wow.

[Nate Jackson]

Gary was literally, like dripping wet. They were like, trying to keep him dry and it was.

[Caller]

Was.

[Nate Jackson]

It was sweltering. Lunel was like, man, God damn, it was so hot. It was so hot. I was like, gary, you guys going to hell for your honeymoon? Why is it so hot?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Where was it again?

[Nate Jackson]

Texas. We were in Dallas.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So why would they turn the air off?

[Nate Jackson]

Got me.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I'll be honest with you. I don't give a damn about this wedding I wasn't invited to.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Was super viral.

[Nate Jackson]

You would have had a good time.

[Angela Yee]

Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He invited me.

[DJ Envy]

Invited you?

[Angela Yee]

When he came up here to do the interview.

[DJ Envy]

When he talked about it, it wasn't a real invite. No, that was like, I got to tell you about the wedding, but I invite you. Like, a real invite comes with invitation. Crazy.

[Angela Yee]

Oh, yeah. Well, he didn't give an invitation, but he did tell. He did tell Charlamagne he wanted him.

[DJ Envy]

I bet Nate got an invitation.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Anyway. Back to Comedians with Netflix Specials. Wow. Wow, wow, wow, wow. I feel like Hollywood is. Is. Is kind of co signing you now because you came up without any co signs from Hollywood. Do you feel like they're buying in? It doesn't matter.

[Nate Jackson]

All more than one thing can be true at once.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yes.

[Nate Jackson]

Like, there can be a part of Hollywood that is rocking with me that's like, oh, I get it. And he translates. And there can be a part that's like, we just don't. And then at the same time, it's like, who doesn't and who does? Maybe so late. It's like, we already are going direct. So I think that. I think that. And that's the next. The next level of whatever is when somebody connects all the Dots and goes, let's harness all of this that he built on his own and put that into this, right? Like, if I got 7 million, 8 million followers, world, like, on all my stuff, and if they all go watch whatever movie I'm in, you just had a hell of an opening weekend just off me. And I don't even got to be the main character. So when they connect those dots, I think that that's the thing, you know? I mean, I have some stuff coming out where it's going to put a lot of perspective. Like, I did Bad Monkey season two, and I was supposed to only get two episodes, ended up getting 10. And I'm legit in scenes almost the entire season with John Malkovich. We're, like, friends now. Love that. And.

[Charlamagne tha God]

And.

[Nate Jackson]

And I had to. I had to. That's Malkovich. I'm across a coffee table from him, having to hold my own. So when that comes out, it's going to be fantastic where people can, like, oh, he got chops. And so, again, that, like, this past week of Netflix is a joke. Like, I. I used to be in LA going to stuff, and my name ain't on the list. I'm like, God, I'm. I'm like, jess, Jess.

[Angela Yee]

Hey, yo.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I don't know him right now, son.

[Nate Jackson]

But that's. You know how that is now. It's like, yeah, I'm. I'm good. Everywhere. I was like, oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, okay. Finally.

[Angela Yee]

Because I was there at the roast on the red car, people calling your name. They know you. They see you. People love Nate Jackson.

[Nate Jackson]

And that's. I hadn't seen that love before.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[Nate Jackson]

And I don't know what changed. I don't know if what turned.

[DJ Envy]

What changed.

[Nate Jackson]

What made me got me. I think they're just like, we ain't stopping him.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Right?

[Nate Jackson]

You think so?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

And like Charlemagne said when you came in, like, your name is not only everywhere, but people are seeing you everywhere now. You know?

[Nate Jackson]

That's why. And I can only be where I'm at. And don't nobody tell you where they saw you.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Don't nobody tell you where they saw you. You know what I'm saying?

[Nate Jackson]

I don't know what happens to the room when I walk in. I just walked in it.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You know what I mean?

[DJ Envy]

How was the roast?

[Nate Jackson]

I thought. I thought the rose was. I had a ball, man.

[Caller]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Anything uncomfortable? Because, you know, everybody, of course, talks about.

[Nate Jackson]

No, I'm a comic first. Like, you got to separate your sensibility. Like, don't be sensitive at all. You already know going into a rose, someone's gonna. It is someone's responsibility to be wild as hell.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[Nate Jackson]

If not everybody on the day is like, everyone should be going nuts. Like, if you look at the history of roast and some of the stuff that was. Look up what Richard Pryor said about Paul Mooney at his birthday roast.

[Charlamagne tha God]

But you know the difference between that? What? But you know the difference. It was close. It was actual friends. Like.

[Nate Jackson]

Like, I'll give you that.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah. Whatever you say amongst friends is one thing, but I think that when you bring in, like the George Floyd's of it all.

[Nate Jackson]

No, sorry. What I was saying outside, I literally was like, you know what? Tony H. Had the best roast out of everybody.

[Angela Yee]

He was.

[Nate Jackson]

He had five times more jokes than anyone. He had way more laughs per minute. He was on fire. He was killing everybody in the crowd. Not just like one side was laughing, you know, because it was. You could see it was not bipartisan. And then when he got up, like, he just started. You saw him win by the third or fourth, they're like, oh, he's on fire. His last joke, I turned to Deon Cole and was like, man, he had

[Boots Riley]

to do that, man.

[Nate Jackson]

Because my thing, to me personally, I'll write whatever. Like, my pen is strong enough to be like, let's do it. But I only want to talk about people who are there alive that are. You know what I'm saying?

[Angela Yee]

Right.

[Nate Jackson]

And I get that it was so relevant that it's in the zeitgeist. Like it's. It's a part of the culture. Like the George Floyd thing should have shaken the world, you know? So I get it. But I don't like, just no humor in it to whip it into the back half of a metaphor to just say that you're funny. I was like, yeah, that was unnecessary. Yeah, but I just thought. I was like. I said, what? What's it, Stephen Jackson? I said, yeah, you got to see him.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I said.

[Nate Jackson]

I was like, yeah, you ain't going to take that joke very.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Like, Jeff told me Matt Bones was there. So imagine if Stephen was in that crowd. But that's what I'm saying. Imagine if somebody that loves George Floyd on that level is in that crowd.

[Caller]

You can.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You free to say the joke, but boy, you got to deal with the consequences.

[Nate Jackson]

Oh, yeah, you got freedom of speech.

[Charlamagne tha God]

That's right.

[Nate Jackson]

But people got freedom of bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing.

[Caller]

You know what I'm saying?

[DJ Envy]

Say what you want.

[Nate Jackson]

Jail don't scare everybody.

[Charlamagne tha God]

No, you know what I'm saying something

[Nate Jackson]

like, I go right back. That's the person who's going to do it.

[Charlamagne tha God]

And some people do their jail math. They like, okay, how much is this going to cost me? Exactly how much time I'm going to do for this? It's worth it.

[Nate Jackson]

What's a body shot going?

[Boots Riley]

Run me.

[Nate Jackson]

What's a chin shot going?

[State Farm Ad Voice]

Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

That's why the highlight of the night for me was Cheryl Cat. And it was Tony until he said the joke that I said that. Hey. I was like, yo, he was going. Going wasn't coming up. He was like, yo, it was. Was crazy. But his ending was wild. And it just made me like, it made everybody cringe, you know, for the

[Nate Jackson]

most part it was like a. A sailboat with hella wind. And then that last one was like, oh, they ain't gonna make it short.

[Angela Yee]

Damn.

[Nate Jackson]

Like they.

[DJ Envy]

He had.

[Nate Jackson]

And then Naim Lynn had an amazing. And he kind of set the tone because he was much. He was early on.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[Nate Jackson]

And he was on fire. And then like. But Cheryl again, everyone. Everyone watching was like crazy. She was. She was. You got to like exhale. Like, finally somebody.

[Charlamagne tha God]

What were we doing?

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[Nate Jackson]

Because Kevin was laughing and Cheryl was like, what's like at this mic, I

[Charlamagne tha God]

don't feel like nothing beats black Def Comedy Jam era energy. If you come from that era where you was in the Def Comedy Jam, like the Cats Cheryl's. If you come from that style of comedy. Yeah, that's top tier to me, period.

[Angela Yee]

What are some of the other women that you thought would have killed at the roast? Not just Cheryl. Cause we. We just had Cheryl sitting up there. There. But Tiffany ain't come out swinging. I mean, she ain't say nothing. She ain't get a chance to go up there in Rose, but just up there to go after the follow the Tony Radcliffe's and the J's and you know.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, so I mean, my bad.

[Angela Yee]

What I call him.

[Nate Jackson]

No, Radcliffe.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, my bad.

[Nate Jackson]

Like Daniel Radcliffe. I understand the mix up, but I'm saying like what I said out there, that I'll say again. And I want to make sure I don't miss my words because I am like, I love what Cheryl did it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Nate Jackson]

Fan of Cheryl.

[Angela Yee]

Sure.

[Nate Jackson]

I want to put a pin in that. Cheryl's awesome.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Bam.

[Nate Jackson]

Got that in that spot though. Who else could have probably hit a home run, in my opinion? I think some more would have hit that, you know, I mean, at least a triple. Adele Gibbons.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yep.

[Nate Jackson]

Ms. Laura Leslie Jones would have ate in that spot. Coco Brown would have flipped the entire building on its back. You would have cooked in that spot.

[Caller]

Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

You know what I'm saying, Chef? It.

[Nate Jackson]

Yeah. In the little chocolate. You had a little. You look. Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Did you see what you wearing?

[Charlamagne tha God]

Oh, I did. On the red. On the carpet. Yeah.

[Nate Jackson]

But some look like some little. What were them shoes?

[Angela Yee]

They were. Oh, my God. Yeah. Yeah, they were nice.

[Nate Jackson]

The ones from Leprechaun.

[Angela Yee]

I don't want to say that to my face.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Wow.

[Angela Yee]

I looked really nice.

[Nate Jackson]

You looked amazing.

[Angela Yee]

Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

That was.

[Angela Yee]

Do Jeffrey Campbell's.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Those are Jeff.

[Angela Yee]

Jeffrey Campbell's.

[Boots Riley]

Yeah.

[Caller]

Okay.

[Angela Yee]

But, yeah, no, I'm totally with you. With Adele and Leslie, Like.

[Nate Jackson]

Yeah, but I think that they would have rocked that spot.

[Angela Yee]

I think. Yeah, I think.

[Nate Jackson]

But I wouldn't even just say, like, oh, it needed to be a female either. Like, I would have liked to see, like, some, like, Quake would have went crazy right there.

[Angela Yee]

He was there. He was just in the audience.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Nate Jackson]

And I mean, we were all just there.

[State Farm Ad Voice]

That was.

[Nate Jackson]

That was our super bowl, be honest with you. So it was. I thought it was fun, but. But, yeah, I think people just have to separate, like, jokes from, like, true sentiment.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

I mean, Nate Jackson, he's gonna be at the Brooklyn Improv again. And where else can people follow you and all that good stuff?

[Nate Jackson]

Superfunnycomedyclub.com natejacksoncomedy.com superfunny comedyjam.com and then on social media, just Mr. Nate Jackson or just Nate Jackson. Just if you type Nate Jackson in something within two clicks, you'll be there.

[DJ Envy]

It's Nate Jackson. Ladies and gentlemen, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Nate Jackson]

Thank you. Guys.

[Caller]

Guys.

[DJ Envy]

All right, well, salute to Nate Jackson for joining us now. Salute to everybody out in Houston. I'll be in Houston this weekend for, of course, Memorial weekend. They're saying the weather's not gonna be the best, but we still gonna have a great time. So pull up to me at ball 50 15. I seen juvenile was there yesterday. It was crazy.

[Charlamagne tha God]

All white party.

[DJ Envy]

I'm doing the all white R B party, so it's gonna be nothing but vibes.

[Charlamagne tha God]

So you imagine she wasn't there to back that ass up.

[Angela Yee]

I know.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Bbb, that's what you wanted to do.

[Angela Yee]

Bad booty.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I know. Beige booty. I know. I know how you get.

[Angela Yee]

You call him BTI Beige.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah. Little BTI beige. Yeah, we know how you get down. Shut up, you waffle colored whore. What?

[Angela Yee]

All right, come on. You be going too far.

[DJ Envy]

Always Too far.

[Charlamagne tha God]

We know how you get down.

[DJ Envy]

All right. Wait till I hug you from the back. Cause this is not a crime anymore. I'll hug you from the back. And I'mma grab your ass. Watch. Where you gonna be this weekend?

[Charlamagne tha God]

Not with you, but how you like that segue? I'm a hug you from. I'm a bear. Hug you, then grab your ass. Where you gonna be this weekend? Crazy.

[Angela Yee]

God, don't act funny when you get outside neither. I'm gonna be in East Providence, Rhode island. That comedy connection tonight and tomorrow, y'.

[Charlamagne tha God]

All.

[Angela Yee]

I got shows there. We got two tonight and two tomorrow. I also will be at riff raff and bars, the bookstore, talking all things co parenting following the release of my book Till Death Do We Parent. It's a co parenting memoir. So pull up on me one from 1pm to 2pm tomorrow. And then the shows, of course. I'll be doing meet and greet. I'll have merch and books on hand as well. Well, can't wait to get there. East Providence.

[DJ Envy]

All right, Charlotte, man, you got a positive note.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I do have a positive note, man. And it comes from the power of positive thinking. Okay? From Norman Vincent Peel. I want y' all out there to remember, man, stand up to an obstacle, okay? Just stand up to it, that's all. And don't give way under it. And I promise you it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break and it won't be you. It will be the obstacle. Stand up to your obstacle, man. Have a great day. Breakfast Club, wake you up.

[DJ Envy]

Wake that ass up.

[Charlamagne tha God]

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[Nate Jackson]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[DJ Envy]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Keke Palmer]

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