FULL SHOW: Angie Stone Passes Away After Fatal Car Accident, Oscars Recap: Zoe Saldaña Makes History, Conan Shades Drake + More

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Breakfast Club – March 3, 2025

Host: DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God
Episode Title: FULL SHOW: Angie Stone Passes Away After Fatal Car Accident, Oscars Recap: Zoe Saldaña Makes History, Conan Shades Drake + More

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1. Introduction and Announcements

The episode begins with the hosts briefly catching up on personal matters, such as weekend activities and book promotions. Jess Hilarious shares about celebrating her grandmother's birthday and gifting a book to Charlamagne Tha God, showcasing the camaraderie among the hosts.

2. News Segments

a. Tragic Loss: Angie Stone Passes Away

At [05:25], DJ Envy announces the heartbreaking news of Angie Stone's passing due to a fatal car accident in Columbia, South Carolina. The hosts express their condolences and reflect on Angie Stone's influential career in hip-hop, neo-soul, and R&B. Charlamagne Tha God shares a touching anecdote from a past interview with Angie Stone, highlighting her aspirations to create a documentary about her life.

Notable Quote:

Jess Hilarious [05:48]: "Grammy-nominated and Soul Train Award-winning singer, songwriter, actress, producer, mother, just a trailblazer in everything that she did."

b. Boxing Controversy: Javante Davis vs. Lamont Roach Jr.

The discussion shifts to the recent boxing match between Javante Davis and Lamont Roach Jr., which ended in a controversial draw. Charlamagne argues that the fight should have been ruled in favor of Roach due to a contested knockdown by Davis.

Notable Quote:

Charlamagne Tha God [05:05]: "But they should have counted that knee as a knockdown."

c. Political Tensions: Trump's Exchange with Zelensky

The hosts delve into the heated exchange between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a recent meeting in the Oval Office. Vice President J.D. Vance's confrontational remarks are also discussed, with Charlamagne emphasizing the disrespect shown towards the Ukrainian leader.

Notable Quotes:

DJ Envy [07:52]: "You don't have the cards right now with us."

Charlamagne Tha God [07:57]: "You’re gambling with the lives of millions of people. You’re gambling with World War Three."

3. Awards Recap

a. Zoe Saldaña Makes History at the Oscars

The hosts celebrate Zoe Saldaña's historic win at the 97th Academy Awards, where she became the first Dominican American actress to win an Oscar in a supporting role. They commend her groundbreaking achievement in representation.

Notable Quote:

Jess Hilarious [67:48]: "She made history as the first Dominican American actress to win an Oscar for a supporting role."

b. Paul Tazewell's Landmark Win

Paul Tazewell is recognized as the first Black man to win an Oscar for Best Costume Design for his work on "Wicked." The hosts express pride in this significant milestone for diversity in the film industry.

Notable Quote:

Charlamagne Tha God [68:23]: "Thank you Academy for this very significant honor."

4. Celebrity Interviews

a. RZA and the Wu Tang Clan's Final Tour

RZA, representing the iconic Wu Tang Clan, joins the show to discuss their final tour, "Wu Tang Forever: The Final Chapter." He shares insights into organizing the tour, the challenges faced, and the legacy they aim to leave behind. The conversation touches on the group's impact on hip-hop culture and their plans to inspire future generations.

Notable Quote:

RZA [37:52]: "We represent community unity. So many of us were inspired by, like, the Wu is like your whole neighborhood on stage."

b. Replaying Angie Stone's 2019 Interview

The hosts replay a poignant interview with Angie Stone from 2019, where she discusses her career, aspirations, and the desire to document her life through a documentary. This segment serves as a tribute to her legacy and provides listeners with deeper insights into her personal and professional journey.

5. Other Discussions

a. Conan O’Brien’s Oscars Joke on Drake and Kendrick Lamar

Conan O’Brien, hosting the Oscars, made headlines with a joke implying that Kendrick Lamar might accuse Drake of inappropriate behavior. The hosts analyze the humor and its reception among fans and celebrities.

Notable Quote:

Conan O’Brien [67:38]: "Well, we're halfway through the show, which means it's time for Kendrick Lamar to come out and call Drake a pedophile."

b. Snoop Dogg and Tom Brady’s Anti-Hate Commercial

DJ Envy highlights a new commercial featuring Snoop Dogg and Tom Brady engaging in a heated exchange, which ultimately underscores the absurdity of hate in society. The hosts advocate for standing up against hate and promoting unity.

Notable Quote:

DJ Envy [59:37]: "There’s so much hate in this country and it's got to stop. So join us at the Breakfast Club in standing up to it."

6. Conclusion and Final Notes

The episode wraps up with positive messages from the hosts, encouraging listeners to take control of their careers, emphasize community impact, and stay protected with the support of organizations like State Farm. They also promote upcoming events, such as the Wu Tang Clan's final tour and the third annual Black Effect Podcast Festival.

Notable Quote:

Charlamagne Tha God [110:03]: "Do your best because you want to do it, not because you have to do it."

The hosts express their ongoing commitment to highlighting significant cultural moments, honoring influential figures like Angie Stone, and fostering a community of support and positivity.

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps:

• Jess Hilarious [05:48]: "Grammy-nominated and Soul Train Award-winning singer, songwriter, actress, producer, mother, just a trailblazer in everything that she did."

• Charlamagne Tha God [05:05]: "But they should have counted that knee as a knockdown."

• DJ Envy [07:52]: "You don't have the cards right now with us."

• Charlamagne Tha God [07:57]: "You’re gambling with the lives of millions of people. You’re gambling with World War Three."

• Jess Hilarious [67:48]: "She made history as the first Dominican American actress to win an Oscar for a supporting role."

• Charlamagne Tha God [68:23]: "Thank you Academy for this very significant honor."

• RZA [37:52]: "We represent community unity. So many of us were inspired by, like, the Wu is like your whole neighborhood on stage."

• Conan O’Brien [67:38]: "Well, we're halfway through the show, which means it's time for Kendrick Lamar to come out and call Drake a pedophile."

• DJ Envy [59:37]: "There’s so much hate in this country and it's got to stop. So join us at the Breakfast Club in standing up to it."

• Charlamagne Tha God [110:03]: "Do your best because you want to do it, not because you have to do it."

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This comprehensive summary captures the essence of the episode, focusing on the major topics discussed, key insights, and emotional tributes, while omitting promotional content and advertisements as per the instructions.

Transcript

[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Jess Hilarious]

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[DJ Envy]

Note, I'm still thinking about that one commercial with Tom Brady and Snoop Dogg, the one where they're hating on each other. But when you actually hear them, the reasons for hating someone or something are just stupid. That commercial stuck with me. There's so much hate in this country and it's got to stop. So join us at iHeart in standing up to it. If you see hate, speak up. Call it out. You can learn more by following at what's up with Hate? 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 yo yo yo yo.

[DJ Envy]

Jess is on vacay Lorna Rosa is here.

[Jess Hilarious]

Good morning, y'all.

[DJ Envy]

Charlamagne, the God, peace to the planet.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's Monday. Good morning. How y'all feel out there? I feel blessed, Black and highly favored. Happy to be here another day to serve our beautiful listeners. What's happening, man?

[DJ Envy]

That's right. It's a Monday. How was your weekend, Lauren?

[Jess Hilarious]

My weekend was great. I celebrated my grandmother's birthday. Wrote a book. Book. She also loves you. She gave me a book to give to Charlemagne, and we played spades and had a good time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's a beautiful thing. Where the book at?

[Jess Hilarious]

It's in the. It's out there. I got it for you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh. See, she don't even know how to promote her onto book, right, man. She wants to have the book. This is the book. It's called Blah, Blah, Blah, and it's on Amazon right now.

[Jess Hilarious]

To the motherland. It's about her going to Ghana and all the enlightening that happened when she went. It's by Phyllis Tucker Saunders. It's available on Amazon right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

There you go.

[DJ Envy]

There you go.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, there it goes. Boom. And she signed it on the inside for you, Charlemagne.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You are so handsome. I would love for you to journey with me through Ghana. Enjoy. I don't know what that says. Something. Oh, something, something Lawrence on it.

[Jess Hilarious]

Never said you were so handsome. No, it does say that. It does not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It says two. What is it?

[Jess Hilarious]

This? That's my. That's my grandma. Younger sister. She can see. Ain't no way to say that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm just telling you what is what it says, ma'am. Okay. I'm just reading what it says right there.

[DJ Envy]

That definitely doesn't say that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I know.

[Jess Hilarious]

It's like three words over there.

[DJ Envy]

Definitely not. You know, I went to. I went to topgolf over the weekend. I took the family to topgolf. Had such a great time at topgolf. If you get a chance to get, you know, go out there with. Bring the whole family. My kids loved it. I know. I don't know how to golf, though. I know that much. I was hitting balls left, right, like it was baseball. Didn't know what I was doing.

[Jess Hilarious]

I saw you and Giga with the video of you teaching her how to swing.

[DJ Envy]

I was trying. Oh, my God.

[Jess Hilarious]

It's so cute.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You got to teach your wife how to hit balls, man. Times have changed, boy. Ladies, I know y'all got it hard out here, man. God damn. Lord have mercy. What you did this weekend, that is crazy.

[Morgan]

It's golf ball.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

A man has to teach the woman how to hit balls. Life has really changed.

[DJ Envy]

It's golf course.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay. What you did this weekend, not a damn thing. My favorite thing to do, drop one of kluz bombs for doing nothing. Absolutely nothing. I watched a fight this weekend.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh my God, that fight.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Listen, like I, I said last week to Lamar Roach, just in here having a conversation with him when he was up here, when AKA Barack was up here, I was just like, yo, your confidence makes me want to put a couple dollars on you. And I mean, his confidence showed in the ring.

[Jess Hilarious]

Did you?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nah, I didn't put no money on him. But he would have won.

[DJ Envy]

It was a draw.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, dang.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I actually think he won the fight.

[Jess Hilarious]

I feel like he won the fight too. That's why I forgot the draw thing. But we are going to talk about that today.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

As I said in the group chat over the weekend, I, I said the judges either gonna call it a draw or a split decision for Roach. And he called it a draw. But I mean, I think, no, I think he won the fight. He won the fight just because he landed more punches. Tank landed more power punches.

[DJ Envy]

Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But they should have counted that knee as a knockdown.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, if they would have counted that knee as a knockdown, he definitely would have won. I don't understand how you could pause a fight.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't even think Tank was hurt. But just the fact you took a knee, that should have counted as a knockdown.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, you can't pause a fight. Like, hold on, let me wipe this sweater. Like, I've never seen that before.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You got punched in the face and you weren't hurt, but you did take a knee and that should have counted as a knockback and Rose should have won the fight.

[DJ Envy]

All right, well, we'll talk about.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It was a great squad.

[DJ Envy]

It was a great fight. All right, well, RZA will be joining us this morning. Rza, of course, Wu Tang is going on the final chamber tour right now.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Run the Jewels will be cohort headlining with them. So we're going to talk to RZA this morning and we have to send a rest in peace to Angie Stone. She passed away over the weekend.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Columbia, South Carolina is on, man. Rest in peace to Angie Stone.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, we got a chance to interview her in 2019 and you know, it's so crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I watched that conversation over the weekend. She's on there, you know, she's talking about a movie she wanted to do, a documentary she wanted to do about her life because, you know, Angie was, you know, a hip hop pioneer. A neo soul pioneer, R and B icon. Like she had a. She lived a full life.

[DJ Envy]

That's right. Yeah. We're gonna replay that interview this morning when she stopped through. All right, well, let's get the show cracking. We got front page news when we come back, so don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy Jess. Hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Along the roads are filling in for Jess. And let's get in some front page news. Start off quick in some sports. As we were just talking, Javante Davis, Lamont Roach Jr. It was a draw Saturday night.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Great squabble, man.

[DJ Envy]

It was a great fight.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, I like, you know, we were watching the fight and I was in the group chat, I'm like, yo, they either gonna call it a draw or it's gonna be a real close decision for Roach.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But ended up being a draw, which I think was the right call.

[DJ Envy]

I think a draw was the right call. Only thing I just didn't like is once you knee, that is a. That is a down, right? That is a knockout.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It should have been, right?

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, I didn' think it was a draw. Not again. I'm not like the business. I don't know all the technical stuff, but I didn't think. I thought that Lamont Roach won or.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Roach was the busier fighter, you know what I'm saying? He threw 112 total punches, 112 total punches landed in Davis. I think tank was like 103 or something like that. But Roach was just a busier fighter. Tank landed more power punches. Roach landed more jabs, more total punches. It was just a good squabble, man.

[DJ Envy]

It was a good fight, but that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Should have been counted as a knockdown. You take a knee in the middle of a fight.

[DJ Envy]

I think so. I would love to see him run it back quickly. Sooner than later. But anyway. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's not happening this year.

[DJ Envy]

No, I know. He said it's not gonna happen. He said he. I guess he got another fight planned. What's up, Morgan?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning.

[RZA]

DJ Envy, Charlamagne, the God, and Lauren LaRosa. Happy Monday. How y'all feeling?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good, good, good. Less black and highly favorite.

[RZA]

All right, y'all. Well, speaking of fights, did y'all see what happened on Friday? We wasn't talking about the bout, but President Trump, he says his meeting with Ukrainian President Zelinsky, it did not go well. So the two had a heated exchange during a meeting in the Oval Office on Friday. Trump told Zelensky, he is in no position to negotiate with Russia, adding that without the US you don't have the cards. Now, Trump told Zelensky to make a deal or we're out. Let's take a listen to the exchange between President Trump, Ukrainian President Zelensky and Vice President J.D. vance was also there, but I'll get into his comments in a second.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

From the very beginning of the war.

[DJ Envy]

You'Re not in a good position.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You don't have the cards right now with us.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You start having cards right now.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You don't have your playing cards. You're gambling with the lives of millions of people. You're gambling with World War Three.

[DJ Envy]

Gambling with World War Three.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And what you're doing is very disrespectful to the country, this country, far more.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Than a lot of people said they should have.

[RZA]

So Vice President J.D. vance also entered the chat and told Zelensky to use his manners, saying that he hasn't been grateful for the aid that his country has received from the U.S. let's hear those comments from J.D. vance. Vice President J.D.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Vance, have you said thank you once the entire meeting?

[DJ Envy]

No. In this entire meeting, have you said thank you? You went to Pennsylvania and campaigned for the opposition in October. Offer some words of appreciation for the United States of America and the president who's trying to save your country, please.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're saying that if you will speak very loudly about the war. He's not speaking loudly. He's not speaking loudly. Your country is in big trouble.

[DJ Envy]

Can I wait a minute?

[Morgan]

No.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No.

[DJ Envy]

You've done a lot of talk.

[RZA]

What do you guys think about that exchange? I'm sure you saw the video.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What I didn't understand is they was talking to Zelinsky like he invaded Russia and not the other way around. Like, I literally for a second forgot who started all this.

[Morgan]

Like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like they spoke to Zelinsky the way they should be speaking to Putin, but Putin is their guy, so, you know, I guess they riding with their homie.

[DJ Envy]

I mean, I think they spoke to him like he was a child. They didn't speak to him like he was a president. They. They spoke to him like he was beneath them. It just sounded crazy to see somebody. And you didn't even say thank you when it walked in office. They didn't even let that man speak. They didn't even let him have a conversation. I thought it was totally disrespectful. Talk to another president like that. I think that one. I don't think it should have been filmed. I think they should have did that behind the doors where they were able to squash out and get everything out on the table. I just thought that was really disrespectful.

[RZA]

So Zelensky ended up leaving the White House in a hurry without signing that planned minerals deal, you know, for the rare earths.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I thought the uncle filled him. I thought the Uncle Phil, Jazzy Justin.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, they kicked him out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That was the word.

[RZA]

They kicked him out to an extent, but he did. He supposedly Zelensky was interested in coming back to try to do the deal to which Trump was like, nah, you can't come back now. So Zelensky has since released a statement on social media thanking America. He did, you know, issue his. His thanks and his gratitude express his gratitude for the visit. And of course, last week marked three years since that full scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. So I'll keep you posted in the next hour as to what some of the other leaders around the world are saying about this and what we need to do probably moving forward. And then I will also get into the comments, those post fight comments from Tank Davis and Lamont Roach.

[DJ Envy]

All right, well, thank you. That is front page news. Everybody else, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, call. Phone lines are wide open again. 800-585-1051 is the breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

[Morgan]

This is your time to get it off your chest.

[DJ Envy]

800-585-1051.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Hello? Who's this?

[Angie Stone]

Nicole.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, Nicole.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

Where you calling from?

[Angie Stone]

Good morning, DJ Evie. I'm calling from Montgomery, Alabama.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, how you feeling this morning?

[Angie Stone]

I'm feeling pretty good. How you?

[DJ Envy]

I'm good, I'm good. Get it off your chest.

[Angie Stone]

Oh, I want to say good morning to Jess and Charlemagne. Are they there?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Peace. How are you? Jeff's not here, but I'm here. How you doing?

[Angie Stone]

I'm good, Charlemagne. I'm good. I want to give my condolences to Angie Stone. That was just so terrible to hear. And I actually live in the area, so the hospitals and everything was flooded. Everybody was trying to go to them. And it's just such a sad situation. And I hate to hear all the little conspiracy theories. I feel like when it's your time, it's your time. That's a very dangerous and rugged dark highway that they were on. And at that time of morning, those type of things can happen. It's a lot of 18 wheelers in our Area, you know, Alabama was small, so I could totally understand the accident. And I just had a cousin who actually lost her mate in an accident the same way.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's horrible, man. I mean, car accident accidents, when you. They're the worst. Because, like, when you hear somebody die of, like, health issues, you kind of like, okay, they had health issues, but when it's a car accident, you feel like, you know, their time got cut short. But like you said, man, when it's your time, it's your time.

[Angie Stone]

Yes, exactly. What is your time? It's your time. And she was actually coming from a Mardi Gras venom mobile. And I had a friend who was there as well, so it was just all drastic to hear. And I personally just love ingestion because I'm like Q. Chardon. I love girlfriends. So, you know, every time I hear girlfriends, I think they're easy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right. She did the theme song for Girlfriends.

[DJ Envy]

But thank you.

[Angie Stone]

Thank you. Y'all have a good day.

[DJ Envy]

You have a great morning.

[Angie Stone]

You, too.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Bye.

[Morgan]

Bye. Hello?

[DJ Envy]

Who's this?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yo.

[Morgan]

Good morning. Good morning. DJ Envy, Charlemagne the Guard. This is Coach Davis. How y'all doing?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning, Coach Davis.

[Morgan]

How are you?

[DJ Envy]

Good morning, man.

[Morgan]

It's been a minute. I've talked to y'all gentlemen, but listen, I like to talk about President Zelensky, man, and. And 47, and his puppet that he had next to him. You know, I'm 51 years old, right? I've seen a lot of presidential meetings in the Oval, you know, that they. They put on the news. I've never in my life seen a vice president in a meeting when we had two world leaders going on, right? And he talked to that man like he was a kindergartner, which was crazy to me. But, you know, there's a saying that kings talk to kings and justice stand in place. And J.D. vance is the jester that needed to stay in his place. Accident telling this man he should apologize or be thankful. The nerve of this fool. But you know what I. What I what?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Caught.

[Morgan]

What I caught? President Trump. I hate to call his name, but he said in that meeting this would make for great tv, and that's what he wants. He wants tv. He's not a president. I don't know how these people voted them in, but you know what? They gonna f around and find out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, you're right. He is the president, but he also was the executive producer of Celebrity Apprentice. But, you know, it is interesting with J.D. vance, because I was sitting back thinking, like, damn, I ain't even seen JD Vance since they've been in office.

[Jess Hilarious]

But.

[DJ Envy]

I didn't even see that. The cabinet meeting and the cabinet meeting. I didn't even see jd.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm sure he was there, but I just haven't seen him. Like, this was the first time I could even remember hearing.

[Jess Hilarious]

I don't even know where he be at.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Morgan]

Ray, Ray, Ray. Yo, Charlamagne Envy.

[Jess Hilarious]

What up? Are we live?

[Morgan]

This is your time to get it off your chest. I got an indoor pool, an outdoor pool.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We can get on the phone right now.

[DJ Envy]

He'll tell you what it is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We live.

[Morgan]

Hello?

[DJ Envy]

Who's this?

[Angie Stone]

Good morning. This is Lashey from Brooklyn.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, good morning, mama. Get it off your chest.

[Angie Stone]

I'm super excited. I want to give a shout out to you all. I listen to you all every morning. I am a school bus driver from Brooklyn, New York, and I do mobile notary on the side. So I just wanted to say good morning. And I wanted to get off my test how much they taxed in New York City. I just woke up yesterday morning and they freaking towed my car and they are trying to charge me like 800 just to get my car back. And it's like completely ridiculous because they charge you to. They charge you a towing fee, they charge you a storage fee even when they're cold. And it's just ridiculous. And it's so sad because, you know, we really are here trying to make ends meet. And they just find just the taxes and practice and tactics to everything.

[DJ Envy]

So why they tow your car?

[Jess Hilarious]

You guys don't mind?

[Angie Stone]

They told my car because I have to renew my registration.

[DJ Envy]

That's fair.

[Angie Stone]

Yeah. So exactly. And they just. I woke up yesterday morning, I checked my airbag and my car was gone. So.

[DJ Envy]

And registration was 70. $71, something like that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

$50?

[Angie Stone]

Yeah, it's. And then also it also depends on how long it has been expired for, but they usually give you up to a year to renew it. But I just wasn't expecting them to, like, you know, just up until the car over there, like, that's ridiculous.

[Morgan]

Yeah. That's crazy.

[DJ Envy]

So now you got to pay 850 for a 50 registration?

[Morgan]

Yes.

[Angie Stone]

And then they charge you every day for storage. Exactly. So I did want to see if I could throw my cash out there because, like, it's really hard.

[DJ Envy]

Go ahead, Mama.

[Angie Stone]

My cash app is Shout. A Y A A J A Y Y. If anyone wants to help me, because I'm really out here trying. And, you know, I have a lot of side hustles, but it's like a really hard time to stay afloat out here.

[DJ Envy]

Alrighty, Mama. Good luck.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Thank you.

[Angie Stone]

Oh, and I want to say hi to Trav. I listen to you guys every morning, and Trav has me cracking up, ready to call to speak to you guys. So keep it up, and I love you all and have a great day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Peace.

[Morgan]

Bye.

[DJ Envy]

Bye now.

[Angie Stone]

Thank you.

[Morgan]

Hello?

[DJ Envy]

Who's this?

[Lauren LaRosa]

What's going on?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Envy.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, what's up? Get it off your chest, D. Hey.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I just want to say good morning to the Breakfast Club. I listen to y'all Every morning. Lauren, LaRosa, you be killing it.

[Jess Hilarious]

Charlamagne, I love you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Envy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I love you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I just want to comment on the front page, though, the news about with Zelensky and Trump and everything. It's 45 minutes worth of conversation. And actually, Trump was very nice and very quiet for a lot of the time until Zelensky threatened us and said, we ain't gonna feel it, but you'll feel it later because we got this big, beautiful ocean that's protecting us. And then that's when Trump went off. So I just want y'all to. I love y'all, and I agree and disagree with everything. I mean, people have a right to agree and disagree on everything. But if you go and get a news, get a whole story and not just. And I know we don't have necessarily time for it, but we always focus in on the negative, and it's always like an attack. It's like, stand up for America, because this is where we are. If people don't like where America, love America as a country, and that's where they're born and where their roots are, people can leave. I don't want that. Nobody wants that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But don't you think it's like, don't you think that what it stands for, America? Don't you think the representation of America matters, though, especially, you know, when imagine.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, I agree, Charlamagne, 100%.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Imagine if he was an American ally and you saw that. Could you. Would you trust America at this point? Would you trust America?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Would I trust America for walking us into a war that they couldn't win?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What are you talking about?

[Lauren LaRosa]

That is horrible. People's lives are being lost, and it's like, that's more important than anything than land. You can't replace lives. And people are going in on him for wanting people to stop being killed.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, I don't think that's the reason people are going in on him. I think we all want the war to be stopped, but we also have to remember who started the war. You do know Russia started the war, right?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, yeah. But who provoked the war? Let's keep going back to where did all of that. It was a cold war before there was actually a war.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I have no idea what you're talking about anymore, okay? I just don't. I'm not.

[DJ Envy]

Well, thank you for checking in and thank you for listening.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I love y'all, though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Love you, too.

[DJ Envy]

Love you back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I have no idea what you're talking about.

[Morgan]

I'm not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I can't do it. I'm not gonna have a conversation with somebody if I don't know what you're talking about.

[DJ Envy]

Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. We got the mess coming up.

[Jess Hilarious]

We do. We are gonna, you know, take some time to send some love to the family of Angie Stone who passed away over the weekend and just, you know, talk through just some of her big moments and things to remember. Show her some love.

[DJ Envy]

All right, we'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Morning, everybody.

[DJ Envy]

It's DJ Envy. Jess. Hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the breakfast club. Lauren LaRosa filling in for Jess. Let's get to the mess.

[Morgan]

Worldwide match on the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She's the coach with Lauren.

[Morgan]

Lauren LaRosa.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And I got the mess.

[Morgan]

Talk to me.

[Jess Hilarious]

So we do want to take the time to send a rest in Peace to Ms. Angie Stone. Man, that is a crazy like that this weekend, when that happened. This really, really, really caught me off guard. Grammy nominated and Soul Train award winning singer, songwriter, actress, producer, mother, just a trailblazer in everything that she did. One of the pioneers female rap. And so let's first talk about, like, what happened. So over the weekend, things started circulating on online because her, I believe it was her daughter, had posted like, my mother is gone. So people are like, wait, what's happening right now? Then? There have been some conversation about a possible car accident. When I got the call, I reached out to her publicist. Her name is Ms. Deborah Champagne. She's been a publicist and a friend for over 14 years to Angie Stone, who then, you know, confirmed to me that Angie Stone had passed away in a tragic car accident. It was actually a sprinter that she was in. She was One of nine people in a Sprinter in Alabama. They were traveling from a show that she had done in Alabama to Baltimore, ciaa weekend. Cause she had some stuff that she was gonna do there as well. And she was the only person, as of now, she was the only person in this Sprinter that passed away.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And how many people were in the Sprinter do we know?

[Jess Hilarious]

Nine people.

[DJ Envy]

Wow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Tragic, man.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, nine people. Now, when I talked to Ms. Deborah, of course it was very emotional for her. And she. What she told me was that, you know, she had just talked to Angie Stone the night prior, right before Angie Stone was about to go on stage. She said she talked to her around like a little bit after 8 or 9 o'clock. And Angie had told her, you know, I'm about to go on stage, I gotta call you back, but I'll see you tomorrow in Baltimore. She was literally getting her rep, was literally getting ready to head to Baltimore to meet Angie and then got her phone started ringing crazy. So she was in tears when she was talking to me. And she just. She wanted to make sure that we took the time to, you know, just go through all of her career accolades and just lead the light on the world the way that Angie Stone would want to. She specifically said to me, the Breakfast Club does a great job of what they do, so we can call her for anything when it comes to this. So let's take the time to do that. So.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, you can't do it in 10 minutes.

[Jess Hilarious]

I can't do it in 10 minutes. But I'm gonna try to do. Her career spanned across so much, but I'm gonna try to do the best that I can right now.

[DJ Envy]

And not to cut you off, just telling people that we are gonna be playing her interview that we did with her in 2019 when she came up here and she broke down a lot of her history.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We're playing that. She broke down a lot of her history. I watched it, I rewatched it this weekend, you know, just because. And literally, like she talks about wanting to do a movie about her life and the documentary. And it was a lot of things she didn't even want to fully get into because she was like, this is going to be for the movie. This is going to be the movie for the movie.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yep.

[DJ Envy]

So we're going to do that in the. In the 8 o'clock hour.

[Jess Hilarious]

Got you. And I did look up that what she was talking about. God, watch that interview too. It says that it was still in development. So I'm going to try and figure out like, where that left off, too, and see if there's anything that we could talk about there eventually. But yeah. So Angie Stone, she was born in Columbia, South Carolina. Carolina. She was nominated for three Grammys. She won two Soul Train Awards. Like I mentioned, one of the pioneers of female rap. She started her career in the hip hop group the sequence in the 70s with the song Funk youk Up, where she was Angie B. On that record.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

First female hip hop group of all time. First female hip hop group to go gold.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah. And I think a lot of when I watched the interview, I was like, oh, shoot, I didn't know that.

[DJ Envy]

I didn't know during the interview. You see, I was surprised if you watched the interview.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yep, you were. She leaves behind. Angie Stone, leaves behind her two children, diamond and Michael. Diamond is her daughter and the mother of her two grandchildren, and then Michael is her son. Now, her songs. Let's get into her catalog again. We can't do everything, but if we're talking catalog, there's so many big songs that she had no More Rain, which was off of her debut album, Black diamond, in 1999. This album went gold as well, too. Wish I didn't miss you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

My favorite one right there.

[Jess Hilarious]

From her second album, Mahogany Soul. She has a brother. She also is the voice of the Girlfriend's theme song, which I watched a lot of people learn in real time over this weekend as well, too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, God.

[Jess Hilarious]

Which is good. Yeah, I knew, but I forget.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm old.

[Jess Hilarious]

I knew that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And a girlfriend's finesse. And Angie's from Columbia, South Carolina. So I'm not knocking anybody who didn't know that.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, there was a lot of people who didn't know. I think I only knew because I. Because I'm so into the interview. Exactly. I mean, he's a big fan of the show as well, too, but he's a girlfriend. She talks about it all the time. And I remember watching Interview where she talked about they. They literally told her when they didn't play her Rift, the. The ratings on the show would go down for that episode. So whenever they did play the rift, they called it the good luck charm for the Girlfriends show. So she's talked about that as well. So, yeah, I just wanted to take that time. And we do have some of her music that, you know, I want to make sure that we get to. To play.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow.

[DJ Envy]

Tragic, tragic, tragic.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

God bless the soul of Angie Stone. It's just a reminder that when it's your time, it's your time, because, you know, you. You in a vehicle, would you say, hey, what, eight other people.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And you're the only one who passed. You can't question God when it's your time. You know, literally you can be here with somebody today and they're gone tomorrow. So don't take anybody or any moment for granted at all.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

And God Bless her family, man.

[Jess Hilarious]

100. She was 63 years old. I'm not for sure if I said that at the beginning, but I wanted to make sure I said that as well too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Imagine how all the folks that was in the vehicle with her feel.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jesus Christ. You know what I'm saying? You. You grateful that your life was. Your life was spared, but then you grieving because you. Angie. Angie's gone. My God, man. Just. God bless the soul of Angie Stone, man.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah. Sending some prayers for the other people that were in that vehicle. Cause the. The accident looked pretty horrible.

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[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hip hop pioneer. Neo soul pioneer. R and B icon. South Carolina Lex legend. Drop on the clues. Bonds for Angie Stone.

[Morgan]

Absolutely.

[DJ Envy]

All right, well, that is the mess.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And at 8am we will be playing back our conversation that we had with angie stone in 2019. 2019.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Jess Hilarious]

Some people are just like fairy tales. I feel like she's one of them. It's. It's really crazy to be saying rip to, you know, even though she's lived a very full life, it's just, I still am. Like, that's so crazy.

[DJ Envy]

Still young, though.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, 63 is young, but it's just like you don't. I would never. I thought it was a lie. I just knew this was like something Twitter created until I called a rep.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because any type of accident is always so abrupt.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I mean? And I'm not saying, like when you, when you die of Health issues. It can be abrupt too. But like, you know, when you feel, when you hear like a car accident.

[DJ Envy]

Or, you know, nothing was planned.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, it just, it just feel like. It just, it just feels like things were cut short. But no, when it's your time, it's your time.

[DJ Envy]

All right, all right. When we come back, we got front page news, so don't go anywhere. And again, we're gonna be replaying our Angie stone interview from 2019 in the 8:00 hours. So don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's DJ Envy.

[DJ Envy]

Jess. Hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the breakfast club. Lauren LaRosa filling in for Jess. Let's get in some front page news now over the weekend. The fight, Javante Davis, Lamont Roach Jr. Ended in a draw.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good squabble. I mean, I think, I think draw was the right call.

[DJ Envy]

I think so too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, when, when I immediately, when the fight was over, you know, I was thinking to myself, okay, they either gonna call it a draw draw or it's going to be a split decision that leans towards Roach. So, you know, when they called draw, I thought that was the right call. Even though they should have counted Tank taking that knee as a knockdown. They do that. Roach wins the fight.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, he definitely wins the fight. And you know, I'm a casual boxing fan. Like, I'm not a boxer, boxer, boxer, fan. But when I seen it, I thought that, you know, when you take a knee, That's a knockdown.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

100 as a knockdown, it should have been counted as a knockdown.

[DJ Envy]

Can't call a timeout.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He actually could. The ref actually could have called the fight. Because if you take a knee and then you run to your corner like that. Yeah, that's like quitting.

[Jess Hilarious]

Most people thought that that was what was going to happen after, like, when he went to the corner, I thought it was over too.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, well, he did say that it was. He got his hair braided and the grease was in his eye and he wanted to wipe that out of his eye.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

There was a lack of focus from Tank the whole fight that I saw though. Like, even the way he was chatting with the referee and everything, like, like it was just. I don't know, he didn't look, he didn't look like himself.

[Jess Hilarious]

And he always be running to the side looking for his people. But I felt like he, like when he was doing that as well, I'm like, damn. Did he, Is he, like, did he. I think he underestimated it a Little bit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I was very impressed at the way Roach was able to take Tank's power. The Tank was landing some shots, and Roach was eating them like.

[DJ Envy]

Well, good morning, Morgan.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning.

[RZA]

I'm like, dang, can I get in this conversation just a little bit? If for anything, they should bring it back to the dmv, you know what I'm saying? We got mgm, we got convention centers, we got. You know what I'm saying? So Barclays was cool, but everything. Yeah. So the reigning WNWBA lightweight champion, Javante Davis and Lamont Roach, they clashed in the bout ending in a controversial draw. And as previously mentioned, as you guys.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Talked about, it wasn't controversial. You see the DMV bias. It wasn't controversial.

[Jess Hilarious]

It is controversial. People are people. There's so many people that, like, what the heck happened? People feel like. Because they feel like he was able to get back up and that fight went on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

It was controversial.

[RZA]

I'm like, dang, let me get into it. Okay, so as previously mentioned, y'all. Y'all talked about the knee that Tank took in the ninth round. That was not ruled a knockout by referee Steve Willis. But to your point, Envy. Let's take a listen to Tank's reason why he took that knee.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I just got my hand done two.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Days ago, and she picked grease in my.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So this was like, you know, like.

[DJ Envy]

When you sweating and things like that and the grease come in my.

[Lauren LaRosa]

My face, it burnt my eyes type down.

[DJ Envy]

Why y'all doing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, I'm saying, like, this is real facts. Come on, man. Look at my hair. I just got me some gun, but.

[Morgan]

It'S all cool, man.

[DJ Envy]

You know?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, I get.

[Lauren LaRosa]

They.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They. They love you and then they hate you. Excuses like that always sound weak in boxing. You know what I mean? Like, the only excuses that work in boxing is if you actually get hurt. Like, if your hand gets hurt in the ring or it's like. Like there's an actual injury. When you say things like, grease fell in my eye. When Deontay Wilder said his. His. His. His outfit that he wore to the ring was too heavy, so his legs was tight. Like, stuff like that be sounding crazy.

[DJ Envy]

I will say this, though. He didn't. He wasn't phased. It's not like he ran to the corner to get some extra help. He looked fine. Time.

[Jess Hilarious]

You don't feel like a little bit. A little bit in that fight. He gave a little bit of daze a little bit, like he was a little shaky a little bit.

[DJ Envy]

Not during that point. Not when he took that also to.

[Jess Hilarious]

The hairstylist said that that's not what happened. She did his hair Wednesday, and she posted that the. He's done so much stuff since Wednesday. Wednesday, she said the grease in question, it literally says, no grease, no alcohol, no flaking, no wax.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So something happened. Like, I don't know how hard that punch was. Roach hit him with it. Didn't seem like it was that hard, but it. It did something.

[RZA]

Well, let's hear from Lamont Roach. He also spoke after the fight, saying he put belt to butt. Let's hear those comments from Lamont Roach.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm him. I'm telling you that I'm one of.

[DJ Envy]

The best fighters in the world, man. And it showed tonight.

[Morgan]

I don't. He probably wasn't welling when he said that grease got in his eye.

[DJ Envy]

But if you voluntarily take a knee.

[Jess Hilarious]

And the rest are counting, it should be a knockdown.

[DJ Envy]

If that's a knockdown, I win the fight. So, I mean, it is what it is. I'm not. I'm not banking on that knockdown to win.

[Brian Steiner]

I just, you know, just.

[DJ Envy]

I just thought I pulled it up. What happens next? I want to run it back for show.

[RZA]

So as a fight, as a result of this fight now, Tank D, Tank's record is no longer Perfect. It was 30 and 0, but now he has that one draw, and. But at least he gets to hold on to his title. So to y'all guys, point and to the point of the. The fighters, they want to run it back and we'll see what happens again. And I'm sure it'll be highly, highly anticipated. If it's not going to be in the dmv, it got to be in Vegas. So I don't know. But speaking of fights, let's get back on the topic of Zelensky and Trump. European leaders are pledging billions in support to Ukraine following the emergency summit in London on Sunday. Now, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, he said uk, France and others will work to figure out a plan to stop the fighting and present it to President Trump. He also rejected a suggestion by a reporter that the U.S. is not a reliable ally after President Trump's heated exchange with Ukrainian President Zelensky in the OVA office. So let's hear more from UK Prime Minister Keir Stock, together with others.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Europe must do the heavy listing.

[DJ Envy]

But to support peace in our continent.

[Morgan]

And to succeed, this effort must have strong US Backing.

[DJ Envy]

Nobody wanted to see what happened last Friday, but I do not accept that the US Is an Unreliable ally. The US has been a reliable ally to the UK for many, many decades and continues to be.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, that's good. That's good. He still has faith in the US to be a good ally because, you know, I can see, you know, people all over the country, I mean, people all over the world, you know, stocking up on nuclear weapons, are creating, you know, new nuclear weapons just because they may not feel safe. They may not feel like the US Is a reliable ally. So I'm glad that they still do.

[RZA]

Well, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, he also entered the chat. You know, there's a lot of reaction to all of this. He said that a message was sent and he's proud of how the president handled it. Meanwhile, Arizona Democratic Senator Mark Kelly, he said, this is not good and said the exchange was performative. Let's hear the comments from them.

[DJ Envy]

I've never been more proud of President Trump for showing the American people in the world you don't trifle with this man.

[Morgan]

You know, saying thank you in the Oval Office. Being put on the spot like that is, you know, it seemed to me that it was just, you know, JD Van saying, hey, look what I can do, dad.

[RZA]

Well, look, you guys, it's a lot going on, so let me just try to wrap this thing up with a bow. There's other news going on in South Carolina. The state is currently under a state of emergency as wildfires ravage the state. Governor Henry McMaster, he made the declaration on Sunday as one of the largest fires threatens residents in the Myrtle beach area. Now, the fire in the Carolina forest has burned over a thousand acres and is 0% contained as of last check. Meanwhile, the North Carolina Fire Service says wildfire in Polk county has destroyed at least 400 acres and is also 0% contained as of last checkup. More than 170 wildfires have erupted across both states, blackening a combined 4,200 acres, enforcing mass evacuations. It's crazy because usually, you know, South Carolina, North Carolina doesn't deal with these type of situations. We were just seeming to wrap up what was going on. The devastating wildfires that impacted la. So do you guys have any thoughts on this Charlemagne? I know that's where you're from.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I've never heard of South Carolina wildfires in my life. But, you know, definitely sending prayers and positive energy out there. Everybody in Myrtle beach that has to deal with that at this moment.

[RZA]

Absolutely. All right, you guys, there's so much more to talk about, but at the end of the day today, gon End. That's your front page news. I'm Morgan Wood. Follow me at morganmedia. For more news coverage, follow LACInformation Network, download the free iHeartRadio app and visit [e-mail]. let's make it a great week.

[DJ Envy]

All right. Thank you, Morgan.

[RZA]

Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

Now, when we come back, RZA will be joining us. Of course, RZA from Wu Tang. They're going on the final tour. Wu Tang Forever. The Final chapter. Tickets are on sale right now and we're going to talk to Rizzen when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess. Hilarious Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The legend rza.

[DJ Envy]

He's here back.

[Morgan]

Welcome back in the building.

[DJ Envy]

How you feeling, brother?

[Morgan]

I feel super good.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, yeah, Everything is lovely. I see you guys are back on tour.

[Morgan]

Yes, indeed. Wu Tang Clan, the final Change Chamber.

[DJ Envy]

How difficult was that to put together?

[Morgan]

Not as difficult as it used to be, you know what I mean? But nah, this is our last chance to run around the globe together. And it kind of was. Everybody, you know, agreed that it was the time we started thinking of a name. Everybody's like this one, that, that. The Final Chamber. Sorry, let's end with that. Bong, bong.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Here we are. Why the Final Chamber, though? Like, how do you know you putting the period on this on? Is it just for the tour or just Wu Tang in general?

[Morgan]

Oh, no, I mean, Wu Tang's forever.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Forever.

[Morgan]

That's why. That's why we see we put that Wu Tang Forever in there. Because this, you know, Wu Tang is beyond just our physical presence of it, you know, I mean, but as far as us coming together and coming to your city, all nine members on stage, you know, I mean, you know, when you get your ticket, you get in order. You get in that. You know what I mean? Because sometimes you go to a Wu show, you might get four, five, you know, I mean, so this is like not here we all are. Clear your schedule for this, you know, I mean, let's run around the globe one more time together. So we'll start right here in America, you know, then shoot, shoot across the water, you know, I mean, show some love and just kind of, best way I could say it is take off, that it's kind of a burden to all come together, you know, I mean, because everybody got a life, a job, something going on in their lives. And so. But we said when that, that sign go up we all come and the sign went up and everybody's here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Did the residency make it easier for everybody to say, yo, we can do this?

[Morgan]

The residency helped, but even at the residency, we had some absentees, you know what I mean?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So.

[Morgan]

But it really helped because it really helped. Just that consistency of coming together, the consistency of our brotherhood, Our brotherhood really never, never diminished over the years. And I think for Wu Tang, we represent community unity. You know, so many of us was inspired by, like, yo, the Woo is like your whole neighborhood on stage. You know what I mean? And I think that we could use that right now. I think, you know, I mean, like, even artistically, for. For the. For the culture, we could come in and look at the example of the Woo. Yeah. So the time is now, you know what I mean?

[DJ Envy]

Now, I seen in an interview that you said, you went to each member and said, what do you want to be on this tour? What do you need? And you was able to give everybody that. How difficult was that? And was there anybody that you couldn't give what they wanted?

[Morgan]

Nah. At the end of the day, you know, you gotta be satisfied, right? So we know, we deal with mathematics, right? And we know that when there's dissatisfaction, it breeds confusion, right? They say, you know, even when 70 of the people were satisfied, the other 30 was dissatisfied. And that other 30 went and started their own. And now you got competition, so you got to strive to reach satisfaction. And satisfaction is when someone can say, yo, for me, you know, I don't care if it's just like, yo, I just want bananas every night, my. In my dressing room. That's what you want, you know? I mean, just accommodate that. Just accommodate the comfortability. Because I know I see it different. My brother Devon see it different. Our whole management team, we know that when you are going out on the road, you're leaving your family, you know what I mean? You're leaving what you. Your routine of life. And so we want to make you as comfortable as possible so this becomes a moment of joy versus a moment of work.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Are you confident that every single member is going to show up for the show?

[Morgan]

I mean, I'm confident for confidence sake. And I mean, of course I'm confident, you know what I mean? But, you know, this is life, you know what I mean? You can make a long turn on the 95, end up in a small town for the night, but now, I mean, far as the intention, it's all about intention. And then. And the intention, everybody is intending to be here. So if there's A glitch in the Matrix. You know, we'll deal with it.

[DJ Envy]

Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And there's a album to come with this too. No, no, no.

[Morgan]

I mean, a Lot of Mathematics has a new album that he's. He's. He put together called Black Samsum. He got a new song called Mandingo. He took all, like the black exploitation and kung fu movies and did an album and got the entire wu Tang clan MCs on it. Got Benny the Butcher, Cool G. Just one of those. A Lot of Mathematics albums. We. It's. That's dope. And he. So that's ironically, is coming out around the same time. But it wasn't like a strategy plan. It was just like he finished it at the time when the. When the. When the tour is about to happen. So that's a blessing for him. And then I did hear. I could say this on the air. I did hear some of Raekwon on this new album too.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, one of those. Yeah, I'm excited.

[Morgan]

So hopefully he gets that out before the tour drops. And Bong, bong.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Are you involved in raising the album?

[Morgan]

Just, you know, I'm the habit, you know, I mean, they come to the temple and see if the habit, you know, want to add some flavor to it or give some wisdom or advice. You know what I mean? But he's the foundation of it. He came to me right before the. Right. Like during the holidays when he felt like he had a nice. I just call it a body of work. Yeah, body of work. I was gonna call it dough. Like piece of dough. You gotta mold that. You know what I mean? But, yeah, and we vibed out, listened to it twice, and they'll say, ah, yeah, I had some vision and get shared my vision. But, you know, that's. It's him doing it. Raekwon's always, you know, he's a general. Always, you know, know how to lead himself. But then also as a general, you know, it's wise to check in with the Abbott and be like, yo, yo, what's your two cents on this?

[DJ Envy]

Who was the most difficult to get to do this? And not because of them being difficult, but maybe because of scheduling, right? You got meth. That's acting. You're acting and producing. You got Raekwon that owns a bunch of businesses and these brothers leaving their families. Who was the most difficult to get? It was like, this is gonna be.

[Morgan]

A little tough, you know, I won't say difficult, but, you know, who does the most shows out of all of us?

[DJ Envy]

Who's that ghost, right?

[Morgan]

No, the juzza. Or Word. Listen, the juzza is. He's like a jazz musician. Yo, it's like you call him yo, gonna do the resonance. So I got 40 shows. I'm going to Europe or, yo, I'm going to 20 shows in Canada. Wow. He just. I mean, he stays. That Liquid Sword album, arguably one of the best hip hop albums of all time, too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely.

[Morgan]

It just. Go, go. So you got to check his schedule because he definitely is knocking 100, 150 shows out a year. And so we actually had to pay face and wait for him. And I personally had to wait for.

[DJ Envy]

David because he was on tour.

[Morgan]

Yeah, I gave him a call. I was like, like, how's your schedule for this year? Like, you know what I mean? He was like, I'm good. I. I didn't. I need this much time right here. And Bong Bong. Yeah, gave me his word.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I want to get back to the tour. I want to ask you about Liquid Source, since we on it. Because we was having a whole debate last night in the group chat just about Wu Tang songs, Wu Tang music. Because, you know, my guy, B Dot put out a top 10 greatest Wu Tang Records. And on Liquid Swords, Cold World. World. It goes Cold World labels, Fourth Chamber in the Shadow Boxing. That's probably one of the greatest sequences on an album. Do you remember arranging that?

[Morgan]

Yeah, definitely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Morgan]

Definitely. That was my. That's. That's one of my specialties, I think, not knowing then. Right. The natural ability of editing or having a through line of storytelling. But it was always been my personality. And at that time, it was only expressed through music. Now it's being expressed and I direct films and TV shows and all that. But it was. It was a. It was the same type of energy. Like, I could feel the way it go. I could feel when the listener is listening, it's like, oh, yo, I want your emotion to rise up. Get them up. Because by the time you got the fourth chamber, you. You driving.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You, You.

[Morgan]

You might get a ticket. You know what I mean? And I. And I. I wanted, you know. You know. You feel that right here? Yeah. I always strive to get that feeling, to have your spine feel it. I said the lyrics. I said, March of the Wooden Soldier See cyberpunks try to hold us A thousand men watching I want us per to the square we stand through like flare Escape from the dragon's lair in particular. My beats travel like a vortex up your spine to the top of your cerebral cortex. That's. That's My. That's. My goal is to hit you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Bam.

[Morgan]

Then I'm good.

[DJ Envy]

All right, we got more with Rizza when we come back. Don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody. Is DJ Envy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Jess.

[DJ Envy]

Hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Laura Rosa filling in for Jess. And we're still kicking it with Riz. Rza. The final tour. The final Wu Tang Forever tour. The final chapter. Tickets are on sale right now, and we're still kicking it with rza. Charlemagne, when the last time you listen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

To your verse on Fourth Chamber. Because it's so relevant to the day. That's why.

[Morgan]

I mean, nah. I mean, I've been. I'm. I'm back into the study. Of what? Of everything. Of right now. You know, this tour. First of all, we got special guest run the joints. And so it's like this is going to be a lyrical tour tour, you know, I mean, it's going to be one of those tours that, you know you're gonna get your sweat off, guarantee you're gonna get your jumps, you're gonna get your. Your classics, but it's gonna be those moments you're gonna be like, I needed that, you know, I mean, because, you know, words in the beginning was the word and the word became flesh. And so those words are healing. You know, we need it. I had something I was gonna say to y'all this morning. A law. Segregation and discrimination is a sickness to any nation. When you deny a portion of the population a chance to experience the elevated, it will only lead to the decimation of your system. And the next generation will pay for the mistake that will result in economic inflation. Ghetto living Innocent black Latinos and European immigrants stuffed inside housing tenements. Low income recipients they gotta choose between the food or the rent. Neighborhoods are cramped like POW camps and X marked the spot where the insidious policies were stamped Bad health increase and bad police increase. And his gentrification. And Michael and Brad is leasing. At night they feel fright from the dimly lit street lights My man G, he could beef and fight but he couldn't eat right Loud sounds ECHOING GUNSHOTS he couldn't sleep right wow, what a life when your life ain't worth a loaf of bread Or a box of white rice yeah, blessed be the meek it said turn the other cheek But Jay Born just knocked him out with a sneaky right and put him off his feet it could come last it could come fast in the blast Knock your senses back to the past it's like old popping sounds A big brass section you hear from old jazz. Me, I stick to a piano key, speak from a low, A minor to a soprano, E, B, O, B. It's the Abbott mc.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, you getting back in the booth then? Because it sounds like you. You ready.

[Morgan]

It ain't, you know, whether it's in the booth or not, this tour, like I said, this is like, this is that moment for. For the woo, that w. That wisdom that you. That unpredictability. Like, let's. Let's get that back into the system, you know, I honestly feel that woo is like a part of hip hop culture that's needed, you know, I mean, and whether we could be the ones that continued do it, or some young brothers are listening and they pick it up and they come and bring that wave. Like there's a. There's some young brothers I know coast contra. Y'all been seeing them? Yeah. You know, I mean, good flows, good style, good everything. If they. Once they start injecting a little more wisdom into that, you know, hip hop needs that, you know, I mean, it ain't all just about all our money, guns and. And sex and drugs, you know, I mean, that's a portion of it. Not. But it's not the. It's not all of it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I saw you say something recently where you said Hot 97 band and Wu Tang's music contributed to, I guess, not just the decline of the group, but just the decline of New York sound and everything.

[Morgan]

I mean, you know, we could date that. You know, I mean, we could look at it and see it happening. Because when you're dealing with business, like all of us, you know, we. We got jobs, right? And so we got to come in and do our job. If the dude said paint it blue and you the painter, you got painted blue, right? Even though, you know, like, man, this blue is going to really turn everybody away or is really the paint got lead in it or whatever, you still got to stick to the job. And I think, like, at that time, and even maybe that's. People were scared to fight for each other. You know what I mean? That's been one of our issues, I think as. As our culture. There was a point when the culture, because of money we did started accepting each other. I remember when. When, like Master P and them would come to New York and we accepted that, you know what I mean? When Dre and Snoop and Ice Cube, we accepted it, you know, first we accepted from the music, right? And that'd be. That's price private. But then when the money. When Somebody's blowing money, then you accept it because of the money. And so now you admire him because of his money, but not because of his skill, because of the culture. You know what I mean? So when that starts happening, it's almost like you're diminishing the culture because of the money. So, yeah, dude can make a hit. At the end of the day, we talk about hip hop hits. Hammer. Hammer had hits, baby.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hell yeah. Okay?

[Morgan]

He was. He was going diamond.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And people didn't accept that as hip hop for some reason.

[Morgan]

But like, that, even worse than that, right? And I know I was pretty hard on him, on myself, so I'm gonna act like I wasn't, you know, because I was on some. Woo, right? But we don't even give him his accolades, yo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He.

[Morgan]

He opened the door. At the end of the day, I.

[DJ Envy]

Made fun of me for commercial success.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We did all that.

[Morgan]

But yeah, yeah, yeah. See, that's why I say Allah is merciful. He takes a flaw. Let me give you a quick metaphor. I won't go too deep, but let's look at two of our greatest. Our greatest artists, right? 50 Cent, and I'm gonna say yay. Both. Both caught a flaw in their jaw, right? One from a car crash and one from a tragic street incident. But both now develop a tone that attracts the world. So from a floor in the jaw, Allah blesses them more. It's like, it's like. It's like, nah. Now you come back and. And it's like this whole swag, this whole everything is sharpened without even knowing. So hip hop itself, they say the dj, the dude was like. Like, he said he was in his crib, one of the old DJs, right? He's in the crib and his mom's coming and he holds the record, huh? And she's like, no, turn it down. Blah, blah, blah. He's like holding it. Now the scratch is invented.

[DJ Envy]

That's crazy.

[Morgan]

You know what I mean? From a floor.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You ever had one of those?

[Morgan]

So many, to be quite frank. It's just like sometimes you could go to your. To your. To your beat machine and it just glitches out, you know? I mean, I feel like Method man, man, the original drum, where it happened was almost like a glitch out. But I liked it then. I just immolated it. I immolated the mistake, I think. No, not that. The pop put the pat to the pat. It's like, that's the. That's the bounce of it. So then. So when a guy like him Got the, got it on the mic.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He.

[Morgan]

He saw riding his, riding his horse, you know what I mean? But there's others. It just happens like that, you know when it will flaw. I mean even if you think about shame, right? I mean Dirty, he came in late to the studio, but he did that verse, right? One take and then he's like same pow. That was like. He just.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He says.

[Morgan]

I said, nah, nah, nah, go do it over. Said nah. God, they gonna love it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow.

[Morgan]

I said all right.

[DJ Envy]

He was right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Exactly.

[Morgan]

I mean I actually, actually I learned from that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like that was a one take and.

[Morgan]

One take one, hut two, hut three. I threw that but got through all of that, man. That's one thing about Dirty. If we could talk about him for a moment, shout out to ydb. He'll be on the tour with us. He'll be. That's his son, his first born son, Bosson. He'll be on the tour doing his father verses for us. He's been doing it for years and he's been doing a great job. But one thing about Dirty, he almost never say the lyric the same way twice if he did it. Shimmy, shimmy, y'all, Shimmy yam shimmy yay. Next time he do it, he's not gonna do it like that. He's almost like a. Once again like a jazz musician. He just, just goes with the spirit, you know, I mean, and he'll tell, he'll. He'll say a rhyme that we wrote when we was 14 years old and then he was saying it during the Woo era and eating up because how. Grab the mic. Canal damage. Like you listen to his album. That lyric is on the album twice.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, yeah, right.

[Morgan]

Because it was more of a performance, more of a energy that he would bring versus just the lyrical content. But he was very special and I think he helped bring free freedom. The hip hop is blessing.

[DJ Envy]

Do you, do you ever remember those records that you lost in the flood? Did you ever get any of that or were able to produce that over or any of that at all?

[Morgan]

Nothing ever came back like it. Like it was actually. I'm glad you mentioned that. Envy. We're building this time capsule for the tour and we're going to invite our fans, you know, to come out and somebody will win every night where they. You could take something from your Woo nostalgia, your Woo history and put it in this time capsule. And we don't know we're going to put it at. I may bury it somewhere, I may put it in a museum, but I'm going to collect something from every, you know, city from somebody. But the first thing we're going to put in there, I'm kind of telling you for the first time, because I was going to surprise. I'm going to take those discs that had Inspector Deck's album, and I'm going to put it in that time capsule.

[DJ Envy]

Wow.

[Morgan]

And if somebody find it years later and open it up and figure out that, you know, if technology could get all that or whatever is on, on it. Bong, bong. I'm shocked.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We don't have that now. There's no technology that can get that now.

[Morgan]

Hasn't happened. We took Text man, you know, they Deck, they. They snuck a few out and tried to do it, you know what I mean? Because it's on floppy dis. Yo. They took it to the NASA people and then get it out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I mean? Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

All right. We got more with Rizza when we come back. The Wu Tang Tour, the Final Chapter. Tickets are on sale right now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Morning, everybody.

[DJ Envy]

It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious Charlamagne. The guy we are the Breakfast Club, the RZA is here.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Now.

[DJ Envy]

That one album, I can't remember his name, that the gentleman bought.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Martin Shkreli. Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Mark Shelley. Did you ever get that album back? Because I know there was a fight to get it back. Did you ever get it back?

[Morgan]

Not personally, but it's owned by a group of people called Please the Dial. It continues to increase in value and have his own life. I mean, they bought it for like 4 million, and now there's people talking about like a whole nother thing of what it could be be. So it's kind of one of those things that have a life of his own.

[DJ Envy]

Are we ever going to hear that or that's part of the deal that they can never play it publicly.

[Morgan]

Actually, I'm striving now at this phase since. Since we're, you know, at this age and kind of figure out something. I mean, the. The thing was. Yeah, it was like not to be. It can't be commercialized. Right. For 88 years, you know, I mean, so.

[DJ Envy]

So it can't be sold. It can't be on.

[Morgan]

It can't be commercial. It can't be commercialized.

[DJ Envy]

Streaming services.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You could give it away.

[Morgan]

Way I told Mr. S.C. that in the beginning, I was like, yo, especially just to give you a little backstory on that. I met him before he became the most evilest man in the world. Remember, they had like, the most Evilest man in the world. So I met him before he became Lex Luther, you know what I mean? Straight up. And you know we sat down and he was telling me, you know, he, you know, I'm a Woo fan. I love 50 Cent, I love Hip hop of Raquan. Some of his lyrics, lyrics has made me do business things. And he had a whole plan. He was gonna buy this Enigma machine. I don't know if you know what the Enigma machines.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't.

[Morgan]

Those are the decoding machines they use to make in World War II when they had to figure out, in fact it led to the computer. So he wants and all the turning papers. Who's the guy who basically invented the computer? He was, he was in the Woo album. He was like, I'm gonna get all these things and he gonna do something. I said okay. But he had a plan like whatever he was going to do, boom. And then when he, when it went negative on him like maybe a few months later, I saw it on tv, I saw him on the news, I said I was telling my wife, yo, that's the guy that we selling the album to. Say oh, I wouldn't sell it to him. I said oh no, it's already like a deal. Even though it wasn't. The money didn't exchange hands. It was already a deal and was in contract form. So I was like, nah, I mean I sat down with him, I told him yes. So now we, it's at the day that he gets it and you know he got, he got a lot of security, everything, you know and they kind of. He has some, some big dudes with him. And I just said let me talk to him.

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[Morgan]

Oh, come here kid. You're still a kid to me. So I'm like, yo, listen, if I was you, I would just give this away to the world. Like do something good. Good. Because if people were saying like you bad right now, he was like, just smiled at me and went worse. Yeah. So. But I think that that would be a beautiful thing if it, if it Was a way to give it or. Yeah, I just think it would be nice to share it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what? B Dot did these. So I'm read you these top ten best Wu Tang songs. Yeah. Number ten, Wu Tang ain't nothing with. Number nine, win awards. Number eight, Mystery of chess boxing. Number seven, Reunited. Number six is yours. Number five, protect your neck. Number four, can it be also simple? Number three, Ice cream. Number two, Triumph. Number one cream. We started flaming them in the group chat. We just, just. I'm like, it's not a good list.

[Morgan]

That's his list.

[DJ Envy]

That's his list. But then like very commercialized.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, let's be that right there. What up, yo? But we saying Impossible is one of those songs that should be on there.

[Morgan]

What do you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What do you think of that list, first of all?

[Morgan]

Well, no, the list is up to the talk to the list maker. You know what I mean?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But.

[DJ Envy]

But he gets that list from online. There's people that go on his online and hit him while he's doing the live thing.

[Morgan]

Not just that. And also that list might be the top 10 streamers. At the end of the day, you go and check the top streamers, but.

[DJ Envy]

Those are the commercialized list. Those are the ones that are casual Woo fans. Those are the ones that they are.

[Morgan]

Yeah, yeah. Those are the ones you better perform.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Morgan]

You know what I mean? We come in, you better hit us. Hit us with. And y'all are Cap. Look, the beautiful thing is Winter Wars Cap came out of nowhere, right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, my God.

[Morgan]

Remember that? I mean, that's some time ago, but once again, talent. Nobody knew this guy, you know, I mean, we knew him. I mean, I knew that. Yo. He's one of the dopest MCs on Staten Island. While we was growing up, me and him always had tapes together. Like we had. Our tapes were circulating before. Who had tapes? That's why he's like me and Reservoir name printed in the tablet under vets. We paid our debts for mad years. He was like, we was already having tapes before the other brothers was doing that thing. But he comes out of the. Out of the now and you got. Brings them to the crib and boom. I was just happy to see him, you know, because Capadonna, his name at first was original, legit. I mean, original, right? So I was like, original, you know, I mean, he was like, yeah, you know, he. His slang is ridiculous. I mean, he's like, nah, Donna J. Burt. I said, what's that? And Capadonna. It wasn't no Capadonna street on Staten island yet, like maybe five years later, there's like a Capadonna named after the. I didn't. I didn't know what capodonna was.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who's your favorite MC in Wu Tang?

[Morgan]

I mean, the Jizza is the head. I mean, I argue with people if you want to argue. And especially at that time, if you go and check the Jizza's lyrics and his catalog of lyrics, I don't think you're going to find no other mc, you know that. That have given that compared to him lyrically. I mean, I put Jizza as my favorite mc and. And the way that he approached the mic and the things that he. He's done. Gun, you think about labels back then, he's using every label, but he's telling you a cohesive, clear story, you know what I mean? With metaphors and wit and. Yeah, and then he goes on to do it again with Fame, and then he goes on and do it with Animal Planet. You know when he did it with Animal Planet, which was crazy because he just used all the football teams and was talking about how the Jaguars against the Lions. And I was. I was like, yo, that's like just us. He's deep, but it might take him like a year to write a verse like that. He won't write it like. Like Raya hit you hit. Hit the pen and be done in an hour and it be fly. The Jizza is like. He's still working on, like. I mean, he got songs he's still been working on for 10 years. Cuz he. He won't say it if he doesn't. If he does something quick, he'll do it just cuz he has to do it. But that's not his best intention as an emcee. His intention as an emcee is. Is to. To make it almost biblical or something. Almost like everything is. There's no filler, filler, no words of filling the ideas, you know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's the most underrated wuang song that you think deserves more love? And that when y'all perform on tour, everybody just goes crazy.

[Morgan]

Well, depending where you at. Right. But I know one Wu Tang song that definitely seemed like. I don't think New York has ever even heard it? Gravel Pit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Of course, that was with the video. Y'all dressed like the Flintstones and all that.

[Morgan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. All the fur coats and all that. But, man, overseas, you could play it twice in the concert.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They love it.

[Morgan]

Yeah. But in New York, I don't Play that. I mean, somebody get mad that come on like goes to somebody and start frowning at you like, yo, God, your math method. I ain't doing my verse.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What was it the video or just.

[Morgan]

If you know what I think I'm was reaching. I was like. I attempted to make a song in a r a way that was like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Poppy commercial for radio.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

But I never needed that.

[Morgan]

I know. But I did. You know, here go the backstory of that song. If I could share real quick. No, that song was meant for Aaliyah. Yeah. We was in the studio me how we talked about it and I said, I want. I have this whole Flintstone concept. I'm gonna have you dressed up like. Like Betty. Yeah, like Pebbles.

[DJ Envy]

But Pebbles.

[Morgan]

But you know, cuz AO is, you know, such in great shape and all that. And I just had this whole plan and she was be like, yeah, we agreed. And it just, you know, things went.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Went.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So she was going to sing over that beat and everything or just.

[Morgan]

Wow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

Now imagine her on it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Cuz it was more dancy. And I get what you're saying.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, well, we thank you. Appreciate you for joining us. The tickets are on sale right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

For the final Table tour with Run the Jewels.

[DJ Envy]

Get your T tickets. And we appreciate you. Rza.

[Morgan]

Appreciate you too, brother.

[DJ Envy]

All right. It's the Breakfast Club.

[Morgan]

It's Rizza.

[DJ Envy]

Well, let's get to the mess.

[Morgan]

Worldwide match on the Breakfast Club.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And I got the mess.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Talk to me.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay, so y'all remember the whole legal back and forth that Drake had happening in Texas with like I Heart and he was a legend that that Universal Music group was paying money to iheart over. Not like a Universal Music group was paying money to the radio stations. Iheartradio stations over Not Like Us and boosting. Boosting the streams. So there have been reports that there was an alleged settlement between Drake and UMG when it came to that whole, like airplay radio play Not Like Us situation.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Umg.

[Jess Hilarious]

So you originally he was alleging that UMG was paying iheartrading part to play Not Like Us more paola. Now, there have been these reports that there has been a settlement so that this is all over now. Right. And that's all that was out there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But oh, settlement with I Heart.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes, there's a settlement with I Heart. Yes. Now UMG with I Heart. But that is not what happened.

[DJ Envy]

What happened?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, we know nobody cares about the truth and the lies. More entertainment entertaining. But I need dj, academics and all the Drake fan pages to gather around to get the truth. Regardless, it's simple. What Drake filed against iheart wasn't a lawsuit. What he filed was a petition. Petition?

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And it was a petition to try to make I heart give a deposition. So Drake wasn't asking for money, he was asking for information. So I heart could not have made a payment. I Heart couldn't negotiate to give Drake documents or something else showing they didn't do anything wrong. And once Drake received those documents and saw that there was nothing there, he could agree to drop his petition. And that's exactly what happened. Okay, that's simple. He simply dropped his petition because after he saw what he needed to see, he realized iheart was not engaged in any of the actions that he was accusing them of in the story. And. And I know Drake fan pages won't run with that because it's not as entertaining as saying, you know, I Heart centered with Drake for money and Drake was right all along. But, you know, no, your guy Drake simply dropped the lawsuit or dropped the petition because there was nothing there.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes, that is what happened. Now, speaking of not like us, the Oscars went down last night. The 97th Oscars. They happened. Academy Awards. I'm sorry, they happened in Hollywood at the Dolby Theater. Conan O'Brien was the host and he is currently trending right now because of a Drake Kendrick Lamar related joke that he dropped halfway through the show. So let's take a listen to that joke real quick.

[DJ Envy]

Well, we're halfway through the show, which means it's time for Kendrick Lamar to come out and call Drake a pedophile.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Don't worry, I'm lawyered up. Well, how soon is he going to get him a petition or a letter? How soon is Conan gonna get one?

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay, now the show went down with over 23 different categories being announced. The most awarded films last night were Honora. They took home five Oscars. The brutalist took home three, but wicked took home two. They were actually nominated for 10 Oscars but only won two. They won one for best costume design, which was Paul Tazewell. He is now the first black man to win an Oscar for costume design. Let's take a listen to him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is absolutely astounding.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you Academy for this very significant honor. I'm the first black man to receive costume design award for my work on Wicked. I'm so proud of this.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Thank you mom and Emma so much.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you everyone in the UK for.

[DJ Envy]

All of your beautiful work. I could not have done this without you. My Ozzie and muses, Cynthia and Ariana.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I love you so much.

[DJ Envy]

All the other cast.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you. Thank you for trusting me with bringing your characters to life.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah. So he joins Ruthie Carter, who was also a black woman, to win.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Jess Hilarious]

An Oscar for Black Panther.

[DJ Envy]

Panther, Yep.

[Jess Hilarious]

And they also won. Wicked. Also won for Best Production Design. Now, if Cynthia Erivo would have won the category she was nominated for specifically, she would have been. She would have unseated a few people for the youngest egot like that, you know, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar. What's the T?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Tony Awards.

[Jess Hilarious]

Tony Award. Yes. But she didn't win last night. So she. So she didn't get that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm so stupid. When she said, what's the tea? I was like, you supposed to be telling us. I thought you meant, like, the tea, like spilling the tea.

[Jess Hilarious]

I know what you meant, girl. But she didn't get that. But so. But let me just tell y'all.

[DJ Envy]

They were supposed to sweep. They made it seem like Wicked was going to sweep this year.

[Jess Hilarious]

They were supposed to. Nori came in and took it, though. But they did have such big moments. Ariana Grande and Cynthia Rivo opened the show performing some of the songs from Wicked. And I'm gonna just tell y'all right now when I tell y'all, say the mic is on or not. Cynthia Revo, she invented the mic at this point because she sounded so great live last night.

[DJ Envy]

Killed it, killed it, killed it.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yo, she sounded amazing. Ariana Grande had to, like, sit back like, it was. It just was, like, such her moment. I was like, yo, she sounds amazing live. That is very hard to do. They also did a tribute to Quincy Jones. Whoopi and Oprah came out and kicked off the tribute. We don't have time to play the audio for them, but, hey, yo, Whoopi.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Looked good last night. Yo, I would look. I was looking at her. No, no disrespect. I was looking at her body. Her body looked good. She looked very in shape.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Am I tripping? Maybe I'm bugging.

[Jess Hilarious]

I don't know.

[DJ Envy]

Looking at Wolfie like that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The way the dress was great, great. Yesterday, Whoopi looked great on the top.

[Jess Hilarious]

It was fitting. The way.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm talking about her shoulders. Like, she just looked good.

[Jess Hilarious]

I. I like the dress, too. I didn't. That didn't even cross my mind. Whoopi.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't know.

[DJ Envy]

Me neither. Healthy okay anymore.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah. She was out there with Oprah.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

I saw what they saw. Huh?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They did.

[DJ Envy]

You have to salute Zoe Zan.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes. I was trying to get to it. But then we got distracted because he saw Whoopy. Yes. Zoe Zania. She also won she home best actress in a supporting role. And she made history as the. What is the actual title? She made history as the.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I seen.

[DJ Envy]

I seen Whoopi last night, bro. Jesus.

[Jess Hilarious]

I can't even get Zoe's.

[DJ Envy]

Well, salute to Zoe. She's from Queens, New Jersey. You know, she's Dominican and Puerto Rican.

[Jess Hilarious]

I think she's the best.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She's your cousin.

[Jess Hilarious]

First Dominican. I gotta get this right. I can't.

[DJ Envy]

So she won last night, so congratulations to her. Her mom. Mother was in the building, so she was happy to do that in front of her mother.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah. She's the first Dominican American actress to win a Oscars award. Her mom was in the building and she cried out for her mom. She came up and was looking for her mom. I thought that. That, like, tear jerked me a little bit. You. You good. Did you see Zoe Zeldana last night?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No.

[Jess Hilarious]

He did next week.

[DJ Envy]

Zoe's story is crazy. Her pops passed away when she was younger in a car accident, and her mother had to send her back to Dr. To. To put her in school while she worked and then brought her back over here. And it was. It was a tough in her life. So the fact that she called out for her mom was amazing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So y'all learned that during Dominican history month in school?

[Jess Hilarious]

No, we just learned that just now, last night. It made us go look her up. I didn't know she was Dominican.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

To the Dominican. I'm not talking. See, this is your problem. Representation matters. And when the Dominican talking, you won't let him finish the story.

[Jess Hilarious]

Last night, you only saw representation because.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I see Black women. Drop one. Include bomb for Whoopi Goldberg, 69 years old.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, sir, there's no Dominican in here. Brent's Puerto Rican.

[Morgan]

I'm black.

[DJ Envy]

Black. You're black. She's black.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Dominican.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yep. And Zoe Saldana is as well. Dominica. She says she's the first. She's the child of immigrant parents and first American of Dominican descent to win an Oscar. So shout out to them as we wrap this on up.

[DJ Envy]

Salute to her. All right, Charlotte. Man, who you giving a donkey to?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Man 4 After the hour, there is a perverted ass optometrist. That's what you call them, right? The people that give you glasses.

[DJ Envy]

Did he mean guy in the colleges?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm like, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He needs to come to the front of the congregation. We would like to have a word with him. Freaky ass human.

[DJ Envy]

How can you be perfect with that? All right, we'll find out when we come back. It's a Breakfast Club. Come on. Don't be out here acting like a donkey.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He high he. It's time for donkey of the day. I'm a big boy. I could take it if he feel I deserve it. Ain't no big deal. I know. Guy gonna have some funny say out his mouth. Gotta say something you may not agree with. Doesn't mean I'm mean.

[DJ Envy]

Who's getting that donkey?

[Morgan]

That donkey.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That donkey. Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't. Donkey of the day right here, the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

You can call me the donkey of.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The Day, but like I mean no harm. Yes. Donkey of the day for Monday, March 3rd goes to a man named Brian Steiner. Brian is from Pennsylvania and he's a freaky ass human 2020 vision God. What do you mean he's a 2020 vision God, uncle Charlotte. Well, apparently times are very hard in the slums of Delaware County, Pennsylvania because this man, Brian Steiner was offering free glasses. Glasses in exchange for sexual acts. Yes, glasses. Face readers, I spiers, magnifying marbles. Okay, vision vanquishers. This man was bartering optical for oral. I can't make this kind of stuff up. Let's go to 6abc News for the report, please.

[DJ Envy]

A Delaware county optician faces some serious charges.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Police say he offered customers free eyeglasses in exchange for sex.

[Jess Hilarious]

Investigators say that 40 year old Brian.

[DJ Envy]

Steiner, who worked at Philip Television, Karen.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Falcroft, solicited sex from his customers.

[Jess Hilarious]

They say in return he would give.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Out free glasses and waive charges and co pays. Steiner admitted to police he had received.

[DJ Envy]

Or performed sexual acts inside the business.

[Lauren LaRosa]

At least 30 different times.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He wants asses for glasses. Now. I was born in 1978, so I've heard of a lot of discounts in my day. Buy one, get one free percentage sales, early payment discounts, seasonal discounts, referral discounts. But what I've never heard of is the busted open for some bifocals discount. You want to get Frankie for some frames? Brian, you supposed to have a vision care plan, not a perverted rewards program. This is predatory on so many levels because you have to know who this will work on. You have to know that there are people who can't afford glasses. And the fact that you are preying on the financially challenged amongst us is what really makes me want to see you buried under the jail. Okay. We are in an era where we should be attempting to Help people if they aren't in the best position financially. But no, you out here taking advantage of people. And the irony of this situation is you work in an eyeglass store. Your whole job is helping people see clearly. But you couldn't even see that this wouldn't end well. Do you know how financially desperate you have to be to want to give up sex for specs? And for Brian to know these people were desperate and take advantage of that desperation? I don't even believe in heaven or hell, but damn it, if there is a hell, please give this guy the hottest seat in the house. Okay, I have a rule. And my rule is never trust people who will take advantage of others for their own benefit. Especially when the person actually could use your kindness. Proverbs, chapter 22, verses 22 and 23 says, don't take advantage of the poor just because you can. I repeat, repeat. Don't take advantage of the poor just because you can. Self explanatory. Okay, if you believe in hell, Brian, you go into it, okay? And I'm going to tell you the sickest part of this story. After the patients agreed to do the sexual favors for the glasses, when he would give these visually impaired people the glasses, he would play this song. Sick, sick.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, my God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sick, sick world. Right? That's how I feel. Please let Remy Ma give Brian Steiner the biggest Hee Haw Hea.

[Jess Hilarious]

You stupid?

[DJ Envy]

Are you dumb?

[Jess Hilarious]

You crazy?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is sick.

[Jess Hilarious]

That song with that story is crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what happened.

[Jess Hilarious]

I know, but it's just insane.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I didn't make. That's what happened. I didn't make that up. I'm just reading this news. What? Mac. Why is Mac in here? Mac, why did you walk in?

[DJ Envy]

They didn't say nothing about no food.

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm not.

[DJ Envy]

I just.

[Morgan]

Mack.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's the problem?

[DJ Envy]

I was back there talking to Eddie.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I was just like.

[DJ Envy]

Could you imagine the eye test? You cover one eye up and it's like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Read the first line and it's like, d I. Bye. Bye. Get out of here. What's the second line say? Go right now. Leave, exit, exit. Stage left, please. B, B, stop. Could you go? Could you leave now? Thank you very much. Much.

[Jess Hilarious]

The longer the eye test, the longer the duration. Like, how did this.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is crazy. Y'all need to stop.

[DJ Envy]

All right. Well, thank you for that donkey today.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, indeed. All right.

[Jess Hilarious]

Can you imagine the people that couldn't still see after they got the glasses? Didn't know what was going on.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you again for the donkey of the day. Let's reset, guys. Come on, Come on.

[Morgan]

Woo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

These immature people in here. Musa, it's all you immature people.

[Morgan]

I.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right, now.

[DJ Envy]

Now when we come back, we got to send a rest in peace to Angie Stone and condolences to her family.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Neo soul pioneer, hip hop pioneer, R B icon, South Carolina legend, man. The good sister Angie Stone came up here in 2019. And what I found so interesting about that conversation is she was talking about just how she wanted her life to be documented, you know, and she was talking about a movie that she was gonna be working on, a movie and documentary.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

So we're gonna. We're gonna replay that interview next. All right, this is Angie Stone when she was on a breakfast club in 2019. We're gonna get that on next, so don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Morning, everybody.

[DJ Envy]

It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lorna Rosa is here as well now. We're about to get on an interview we did with angie stone in 2019.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, this was 2019. The good sister Angie Stone came up here to build with us, man. And, you know, this is the reason I love having conversations with people, because it documents.

[DJ Envy]

We document.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It documents their life, and they get to tell their own stories. And, you know, she's no longer here with us, but she told a lot about her life. She told a lot about her career, and, you know, she talked about basically how she wanted her movie to play out. You know, that's what she was working on.

[DJ Envy]

Well, let's jump into it now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Morgan]

How are you?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm good. I can't complain. You know, Been blessed for a long time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

40 plus years in this business.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You already know.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

People. I don't think people realize that Angie's one of the pioneers of rap. The Sequence, the first to go gold. Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

The first female group, period, to do an original rap record, to do a rap record that garnered the world. We had our neighborhood rappers, we had our New York City rappers, but sequence was the world's rappers. And I think. Think people get it twisted.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Funk it up was the song funk you up. Funk you up.

[Lauren LaRosa]

See, you got that mixed up with Bruno Mars. I ain't going to go there, though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Didn't he sample it?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, what he did, he did an interpolation of it. Oh. You know, like when he did Uptown funk it up, we going uptown funkus. Funk you right on up we going to funk you right on up. Same thing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You got to pay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We getting paid no attention right now. But guess what? It's all great.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You never thought it's.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. Well, my attorney went in and we tried to do some stuff. And of course, because it's three group members and I've been doing my thing for a minute, it kind of pulled the seams at who's who's with who and who's down with who. I just said, you know what? Let it rest. Because we're getting a lot of negative slack because a lot of people that don't know about the sequence or that song, we get a lot of negative flack because they're like, that don't sound nothing like it. I'm like, they don't understand the interpolation process and how. You know, the reason we were upset because Bruno admitted that he. It was influenced by the sequence.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And he did that on Instagram, and then somebody snatched it down.

[Morgan]

Right.

[Jess Hilarious]

And people do interpolation, so they don't sample. So then they.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, Dr. Dre did keep your heads ringing. That was a direct rip from funk you up. They. They did. I mean, we wrote the song, we wrote the melody, wrote the chant, we added singing to hip, and now everybody's doing it. It's okay. And I think it's wrong for them to try to overlook us because we're from South Carolina.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I mean, what'd they go with?

[Jess Hilarious]

Right?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Nothing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So y'all didn't get paid from Dr. Dre either?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, we did get paid.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, okay, okay.

[Jess Hilarious]

They did the right thing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And. And Bruno admitted it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, we had. He admitted it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He had kept that post up. Boy, you got paid.

[Jess Hilarious]

But, you know, it's still there. Everything that's been on the Internet.

[Lauren LaRosa]

The beauty of it is they admitted it. But the minute the l elephant is brought out of the closet, everybody runs, because nobody wants to be labeled a thief. And we just say that. I'm very honored. And I got my girl blinded from the sequence here. Just back up.

[DJ Envy]

Snoop was so excited.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, well, you know Snoop. I've worked with Snoop. He did. I want to thank you along with me and Jazzy Fay back in the day, but he wants me to work with his daughter. He wants to work with my son. So we. We have a kindred spirit. And. And LA hip hop was reminiscent to sequence funk, the whole funk era. So I just think, overall, people need to respect the fact that it is what it is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think that you should be getting credit as a pioneer in female rap. Like, I don't think. Didn't y'all go gold?

[Lauren LaRosa]

We went gold. We were the first group to go gold, sell 12 inch records. That many 12 inch records, along with the Sugar Hill Gang, toured the world pretty much. We never get the recognition, of course, you know, that's probably platinum 10 times over by now, but we don't get the recognition because I think the New Yorkers got a little salty because, you know, we made it at the starting gates. I mean, it's like a race, a marathon race. You're doing a 440 relay, you pass the time, whoever you end up at the finish line, hey, it's fair game.

[DJ Envy]

You know what? Nobody knows the story. Cause, well, I'm a New Yorker and as deep in Miami as in hip hop.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Maybe I know because I'm from soccer. I had no clue.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You know, I really had no.

[DJ Envy]

I had no clue.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What funk you up?

[DJ Envy]

No, I knew funk you up, but I didn't know that sequence. The sequence was the first group that pretty much go gold as a girl.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But who did you think went gold first?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Salt and pepper.

[DJ Envy]

Salt and pepper.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Ooh. And we were 10, what, 10, 15 years before them. There used to be a thing you probably wouldn't know to see the in Cashbox, called Cash Box and Billboard. If you do your research, it's there. We were the first female group, hip hop group, period, to make Cashbox. And Rolling Stone just did a big article on us because a lot of people that were back then, they knew why they getting any attention. And, you know, I just think it's sad because a lot of the females, hip hoppers, and I, trust me, I love them all. Oh, big respect, props. But Lauryn Hill loves Angie Stone because it's reminiscent of what she did with her group, Rap Sing. And that's what we did.

[Jess Hilarious]

And you guys are all still cool with each other?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's good. So it was never like a falling out with the group. Broke up with Sequins.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, no. You know, your girl group, you have your Rat Pack moments, but we are sisters. And at the end of the day, we love each other. We look out for each other. We got each other. We don't always agree. I mean, nobody always agrees. But I decided to leave the group early on because I moved to New York. I learned a lot of stuff about songwriting. I was a songwriter and a brother named Craig Derry, who used to be with the Sugar Hill clique, said you need to get out and go to New York. Your adventurous, blah, blah, blah. And I moved to New York, and I learned a lot of stuff. Well, let's, let's.

[DJ Envy]

I wanna start. Cause this is a history lesson for a lot of myself. So you signed to Sugar Hill Gang. How did you get signed? How did the, how did you. First of all, how did you get into hip hop? How did you get signed, and how did you get your deal? Because it wasn't like before, where it. Now where it's Internet, it's TV that's playing hip hop. Radio wasn't playing hip hop back then.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Right.

[DJ Envy]

How did you get into it?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Especially coming from Columbia.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, coming from Columbia, South Carolina. We were 16, 17, 18 years old. So we had a group that was doing rap back then. Kington the third was out, and we wrote a song called Funk U Up. I think Sylvia Robinson came to South Carolina. It was the first leg of the first Sugar Hill Gang tour, the first show, the first city. We happened to be in the concert. The road manager from Sugar Hill Gang saw me and thought I was just pretty chocolate chick. Hey, you want to come backstage? And so I said, well, I. If you let me in, you got to let my friends in.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So we all came in, got backstage. Sylvia was backstage. We was literally on the stage, and we said, hey, we rap. And she said, well, let me hear what you got.

[DJ Envy]

Right there on the side of the stage.

[Lauren LaRosa]

On the side of the stage. And we went, funk you right on up. We're going to funk you right up. And she flipped. She said, oh, my God. Oh, my God. The next thing I know, we were sitting in the dressing room giving out phone number. She says, I'm gonna make you girl star.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Now, we had already been a group, I mean, and, you know, being a cheerleader, Sierra Johnson writing Cheers and creating stuff like that was what we did. And she called us the very next week.

[Morgan]

Wow.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Flew us to New Jersey. And we cut the record. Funk you up. And a couple of weeks later. Thank you. Three weeks. The record went golden.

[Jess Hilarious]

Three.

[DJ Envy]

Wow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So was it a fair deal or was they, did they take advantage of y'all?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Of course they took advantage.

[Jess Hilarious]

Did you have a lawyer?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, we did have a lawyer, but he was a South Carolina lawyer. We thought we were doing the right thing, but, you know, one thing I've learned in life is you have to have experience. Yes. Sylvie Robinson, I give her map props because quite contrary to what a lot of people think, you know, when you're the first at anything, you're going to make mistakes. So I, I, I lean heavily to that because she did something phenomenal that turned out to be great for a lot of people, but you had to have some crash test done it right.

[DJ Envy]

All right, that's part one of our interview with Angie Stone. If you want to see the full interview, you can hit up our YouTube page. Rest in peace Angie Stone. Condolences to her family. We're just getting on the interview we did with her in 2019. We'll get into part two when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess, Hilarious Charlemagne, the guy. We are the breakfast club. Lon LaRosa is here as well. Now we are getting on our interview we did with angie stone in 2019. Rest in peace to Angie Stone. And again, condolences to her family. And let's get it back on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What has the stand Power been like? Like transitioning from a hip hop artist to a R and B trio to a legendary soul singer?

[DJ Envy]

Like the world is constantly changing. It's up to you to decide how to respond.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Choose to be bold.

[Morgan]

Try something new.

[DJ Envy]

Choose to reinvent yourself.

[Morgan]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Morgan]

That Nissan isn't messing around.

[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

And with new performance and safety features like intelligent all wheel drive, the Kicks is both more fun and safer to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Drive than ever before.

[DJ Envy]

It's the dawning of a brand new.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Era for the Nissan Kicks. Only one question remains.

[DJ Envy]

Is it a new era for you as well?

[Morgan]

Drive the all new reimagined Nissan Kicks.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

New commercial from Stand up to All Hate? It's Snoop Dogg and Tom Brady spewing hate at each other. But when you really listen to them, the reasons are just so stupid. This one really stopped me. It's a strong reminder that hate in our country continues to be out of control. So join us at the Breakfast Club and standing up to it. If you see hate, speak up, Call it out and learn more by following up with hate.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

A writer.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, I tell you the the blessing for me, I'm a SAG and I think out the box. One of the things I always hated was when I saw groups that were from the 50s and 60s, in the 70s and 80s, still in the same uniform doing a old hit. I said, I want that. So what I did was I learned to be a chameleon and I wanted to change with the times. So what I did was I kept myself around fresh hotness. And I learned everything in life is a learning process. The moment we think we know everything, we absolutely know nothing.

[Morgan]

That's right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So I learned to be a chameleon and change with the time. So to stay in power has been number one. My faith is unshakable in Christ. I love the Lord and that's my rock, my salvation. So I decided when the music change, you change too. But you can't stray too far away from who you are.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But it seems like you're such a great singer that it's like I can't see you ever doing anything other. I can't believe you even used to rap.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, the beauty of that was when we got discovered as rappers. The first question I asked Sylvie Robinson is, Robinson, is it okay if I sing too? Because I wanted to put up hook, you know, I wanted to sing. So when you said hey, you said no, that I was begging to do that because I knew one day in life I wanted to sing from the church. So I mean, I love rap, but I can sing too. So can, can we combine the two? And she's so excited about the rap, she said, oh, honey, do what you want to do.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And that, that, that is what kind of set the segue up for me to make the transition from. After being 30 years old, you want to transition from hip hop to hooray. So I just went ahead and started singing and you know, kind of juggling. Now when I did my deal with Arista, the one reason you don't know a lot about the hip hop is one of the things that Clive Davis and Peter Edge wanted to do was say, okay, look, we don't want to date you. I'm like, I'm still young. What are you talking about? Well, we don't want to talk about all that stuff at Sugar Hill. So they kind of gag ordered me not to talk about.

[Jess Hilarious]

So they wanted to be just a random artists coming out.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Right, right.

[DJ Envy]

Got you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And because I'm a singer now and they want to focus on that and I'm like, I don't have a telescope into the future not knowing what it was going to be, how it was going to be. All I know is I'm in this game for survival.

[Morgan]

Gotcha.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So what happens when people recognize you? You pull up to a radio station, you're like, hey, oh, I rap on.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Stage all the time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, okay, okay.

[Jess Hilarious]

Right. She just wasn't talking about it in interviews.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Like I couldn't talk about it in interview interviews. Not that I didn't want to.

[Jess Hilarious]

I never heard of anything like that that they put a gag on.

[Morgan]

I didn't even know.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, I'm using that word gag. But when your boss tells you it.

[DJ Envy]

Was a gag order, who told you how to make the music? Like how to do a 16 and do a hook and all that? Cuz you said you. Wow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I, I was hungry, I was thirsty, I was ambitious and I went, I started. It's like now I'm developing film and you know, reality shows and stuff. It's just having that bug to say, I'm a rubber band, you can stretch me, but I won't pop. I'm always do me. So, you know, being a Rapper is a life lesson for me. But it hurts when you've put over 40 years in the game and the people that are now eating off of the foundation that you created don't look back and say, yo, good looking at. That's why Snoop shows us love. That's why Dr. Dream show us love. The people in LA embrace us. Because Yo yo can say, hey. MC Light can say, yo, hey. It's because of y'all that we're doing this. She thanked me. Yo yo thanked me. We got a show, our first show coming up with MC Light and salt and pepper, Andrew Stone. I said, oh, you know, I got to bring girls. We can't just go, go like that rather in Philly. So that's coming up and I'm excited about that.

[DJ Envy]

Has any of the new yard artists thanked you?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

City girls ain't never thank y'all.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, they don't know.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But, but, but, but I, I promise you they will know because I'm actually getting ready to do working on a biopic.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's what I was gonna ask, but I saw you said, is Jamie Foxx working on that too?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Or was that, you know, Jamie and our work? Jamie wants to do another film with me, but Ralph Aquas, who I'm working with, who did Hollywood Husbands on the, on the biopic, and we're going to have to cross all these lanes. So I'm very excited about my journey and my career, my life. Coming from hip hop through neoso, all the way up through my vertical whole days and just having a bird's eye view. Like I'm going to, I'm going to blow your mind. You ready for this? One of the things that I can't wait for the world to see is hip hop was in the Bronx before it ever came downtown. It was something in the Bronx. It was myself and Lil Rodney C that introduced hip hop to downtown. We did the first party of the show in the club that was called the Roxy. It used to be a skating ring. We made it into a club. It was Andre Harrell, myself with the sequence, the Funky four, plus one more, Africa Bambada. This was a show that my money paid for, made the flyers for, put together. And henceforth hip hop moved from uptown to downtown single handedly. And it never changed. Madonna used to serve us drinks at Dance Interior. That's how real it gets.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Dance Interior.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I can't dance. Okay. That was a club. And she was a waitress at.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How do you remember her?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Because she served me drinks.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow. And you remember like you You. She had that type of presence.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She was a waitress. I was a performer there.

[DJ Envy]

Wow.

[Jess Hilarious]

Did she say, you know, I'm an aspiring singer also?

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, she didn't have to say that. She was working. She was just.

[Jess Hilarious]

You know how sometimes people will do that?

[Lauren LaRosa]

They'll be like, but I'm just giving you shedding a little light on some stuff. Because a lot of people, when they disrespect the sequence, they disrespect the culture of. Of hip hop because they don't even know how they got from uptown to downtown. And when you overlook the fact that, hey, little ride and seeing Angie P Booked, this show paid everybody for the show. And henceforth, the wild style movie, Fab 5 Freddie, he'll tell you all these people know. So when you overlook that, you overlook a movement. It's not just about the one song. You have to look at the left legacy of what hip hop really stood for back then and the sacrifices that were made. And I can't wait for the story.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. When I think of, like, Sugar Hill Gang, I'm like, there's no reason for anybody to ever mention Sugar Hill Records and not mention sequence.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. I don't understand why we were the Sugar Hill girl.

[Lauren LaRosa]

They called us that. But we wrote all the hits.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Apache, 8th wonder. All those songs. We wrote those songs.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Really.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We were the West Street Mob. That last dance. I know you got the fever. That's the same sequence.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Were y'all getting paid?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good money. Okay.

[Jess Hilarious]

Is the movie gonna be. Do you know where it's going to be? Is it gonna be on like a. Like a BET series or is it gonna be in the theater?

[Lauren LaRosa]

It will be. It will be. It won't be just one episode. It'll be a series, a miniseries. That's what we're working on. Because it expands too far. Talking about 1979 up until today.

[Jess Hilarious]

Dang.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And then. And just releasing the album. Album. That's already. My single dropped and it went straight to number two.

[Jess Hilarious]

Full circle, baby.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So. My, my. It's a reason for everything. I think God preserved this time for us to get the story right. So, you know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Have you found somebody to play you yet for the biopic?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I got some ideas. I got some ideas. A couple of people that I really, really am interested in. I know one segment of Angie Stone.

[Jess Hilarious]

Is your daughter got to be in it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Of course. But the young lady that used to be Bernie Mac's daughter.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, yeah.

[DJ Envy]

We appreciate you for joining us.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes, thank you.

[DJ Envy]

Well, Angie Stone. Thank you for joining us.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

It's Angie Stone. It's the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody.

[DJ Envy]

It's DJ Envy Jess. Hilarious Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast. This club La Rosa filling in for Jess. And let's get to the mess.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

On the Breakfast Club. She's the coach with Lauren.

[Morgan]

Lauren LaRosa.

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm back, and I got the mess.

[Morgan]

Talk to me.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay, so there's some more happening now because of the interview that Jim Jones did when he was up here at the Breakfast Club. Cameron has actually responded to Jim Jones. Now, Jim Jones talk talked about a couple things. He talked about wanting to fight Kim for $10 million, and then he also talked about the versus situation with Kim and the rest of Dipset. Let's take a listen to Jim Jones on Versus.

[Morgan]

I need triple what I had last time. The way we put that versus on fire, too. We had that thing looking like a championship game. Yeah, Swiss holl at me and you backdoored me. Gave that man some business that you ain't give all of us. You definitely got to give me triple Swiss and you got to give me some real business this time. Yeah, I wanted the backdoor bag, but we got the bag. But boy still went back door like, yo, for us, for me to do the verses, you got to give me part of this business that had nothing to do with us. You heard? But he said, that's me being a businessman now. That's you being a sucker doing back door.

[Jess Hilarious]

When you went to Cam about that, he said that like, it's just me being a businessman.

[Morgan]

No, Swiss told me how to tell.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Swiss I know what was going on.

[Morgan]

Jack call Swiss on the line. He'd tell you I did bad, you know.

[DJ Envy]

How did you find out about it then?

[Morgan]

Because I found out about a lot.

[Jess Hilarious]

So Kim has responded. He responded two ways. He posted to Instagram. He posted some text messages between him and Jim. And the text message basically are to sum it up, it's Jim saying that, you know, versus was on his bucket list and that essentially he would do it for free just to touch the stage because it's. It does so much for the artists that touch the stage. Right? So Cam's caption says, I don't pay half of the stuff that people say no mind, but, you know, I keep the files. You wanted to do verses for free. So if you made a dollar, be happy talking about it was on your bucket list. Stop trying to replace write history. Now you got a lost in the garden in the the Barclays with the laughing emojis and y'all not eat and your homies not eating unless they came with their own bread. The boy Sugar Digger got more money than you. And let's bet 10M's on that. Go get Handsome a car in a crib in Jersey or something. I'm done for now. So then it is what it is. Aired this morning. This actually aired about, I would say, like 20, 30 minutes ago. And Cam indirectly or kind of directly, but just doesn't say Jim's name. Throw some more shots their way. Let's take a listen to that.

[Morgan]

I had a tour for us locked up for the locks. Mace always says, yo, don't bring this out with you, because they're not gonna win if you bring this out with you. Talking about football games, basketball games. And I'll be sitting here like, I don't really know. But then I got it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When the fight went on.

[Morgan]

When you got that type of energy and you breathing that energy. When everybody's sad and mad and depressed and. And try to look happy, but they.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not really happy happy.

[Morgan]

It gets into you. The people you with could possibly your energy up for some that you post to do. You can't come out with that energy, man. It's bad energy, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You gotta have greatness with you. I remember we was talking about the Eagle game. And I said, if Meek Mill walked them out, they're not gonna win a championship. Meek didn't walk them out. They end up winning that championship.

[Morgan]

This is what the Lions up. When you bring out Jello. Jello not from Brooklyn and them wasn't from Brooklyn. Brooklyn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, I mean, catch a straight crazy straight, right?

[Jess Hilarious]

Because G3 performed at the Lions the. The game. Yeah. They tried to blame it and say that's why he lost. So what?

[DJ Envy]

That's how the Lions lost.

[Jess Hilarious]

They said, yeah, that's how the Lions lost. What Cameron is alluding to is the fact that Ju Wells, Santana and Jim Jones walk Gervontae Tank Davis out. The fight that just happened with Lamont Roach over the weekend at the Barclays center. And a lot of people online were set saying, hey, you lost because you walked out with such and such jokingly. But Cam brought that to it is what it is. So that's what he's talking about now.

[DJ Envy]

I hate them brothers fight, man. I hate seeing them brothers fight.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I hope Jimmy Cam finds some.

[DJ Envy]

Peace entertaining, but I hate it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I hope Jimmy Cam finds some peace with some closure. Meaning they either find a way to be, you know, at peace with each Other or they find some closure on their relationship. Because I hate it.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, like they were brothers. Like they were cruel clips.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We watched it.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, we seen it. I. I. Like I said, it's entertaining, but I hate seeing this for them. For them, too.

[Jess Hilarious]

I agree. And I did want to play this. This other audio that we have of Cameron. He sat down with Steve Stout and he talked about exactly what he did when it came to negotiating the versus deal. I just want to play this because it's kind of like clearing that up a little bit. Let's take a listen to that.

[Morgan]

I had a tour for us locked up for the Locks and Dipset literally lined up, and it was about, at the time, maybe like two and a half million dollars, if I'm not mistaken. I noticed a few years years ago, Jim really wanted to do the verses. And I'm like, bro, we can do the verses after the tour. Yeah, y'all. And I got two and a half million dollars waiting. And that was just for, like, 10 cities. It could have ballooned up to, like, $6 million. I got out voted Steve. Nobody was listening to me about the tour. So what I said to myself was, I told Swiss and Timberland. I said, everybody. I get at least six digits that's an artist got everybody their money that started Polyamorous, my own.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I want the door money.

[Morgan]

I want stocks and Trilla. I want beats from Timberland and Swiss for free. I want percentage of the views that's gonna go on. And I got all that, too.

[Jess Hilarious]

So basically, he. The way that it sounds to me is like, you know, they missed the tour, so that he was just trying to make what he could off of them doing the versus the situation or whatever. But, yeah, to y'all point, the back and forth with them is kind of crazy, especially the shots at the Barclays thing. I'm like, damn, dang.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Does this still happen if Dipset wins against the Locks on that fateful versus night?

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes. I don't think so.

[DJ Envy]

I think so.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You think so?

[Jess Hilarious]

I don't know.

[DJ Envy]

I think so.

[Jess Hilarious]

Why you think so?

[DJ Envy]

I don't. I don't. I don't think they were seeing eye to eye even during that night.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But you realize the versus story has a lot to do with all of this. You do realize that, like, we played three clips just now, and two of them were about verses, but, you know.

[DJ Envy]

This happened before that. They, like, they weren't seeing eye to eye. Four verses.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I feel like something else happened that night. Night that really. That really set it up, set it off forever.

[Jess Hilarious]

We talked about that in the interview, too. I asked him, like, yo, it seems like y'all at least cordial publicly before the verses a little bit. Then versus happened. And it was like shots is just everywhere coming from each side.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, Jim also said that in our conversation, he said. And I'm paraphrasing here, he was like, he can't get over getting booed at the Camron.

[Jess Hilarious]

Couldn't get over that. But it got to be more than that.

[DJ Envy]

I thought it was the conversation when Cam interview 50. And that's. That's what I thought reunited it. Because before. Before that, you know, they weren't seeing eye to eye, but it was quiet. But after that interview, fireworks.

[Jess Hilarious]

I mean, big fireworks.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You meant reignited?

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, Public. The fireworks were happening so much. I just. You. I don't know.

[Morgan]

The.

[Lauren LaRosa]

The.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, man, I wish them brothers peace, man. Our closure. One of the two.

[DJ Envy]

And leave me. Leave Meek alone.

[Jess Hilarious]

Poor Meek.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I need to know the backstory about the Meek. Really nasty backstory. What happened with me?

[Jess Hilarious]

I don't know. I don't know.

[DJ Envy]

Meek minded his business. This is no, yo, it's uncalled for me on Twitter.

[Jess Hilarious]

Let me see. Did he tweet already?

[DJ Envy]

Can't hear that yet.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right, that's it.

[DJ Envy]

All right. Well, that was the mess. All right, well, let's get to the People's Choice mix. Get your request in 800-585-1051. And also this hour or last hour, I should say, we played our interview with Angie Stone. Rest in peace, Angie Stone. If you haven't heard it, go to our YouTube page. Definitely check it out. It's a great interview. It details her life, how she started, what she wanted to do. It's a lot of history in that interview. Definitely check it out. All right. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're checking out the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess. Hilarious Charlamagne, the guy. We are the breakfast club. Lauren LaRosa, filling in for Jess. Now, I know you're heading to Dr.

[Morgan]

Right?

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, yes, I am. March. Not March, thing. May 22nd through the 20th, 7th. I'm not. Can you stop saying that? Because. Because you know people gonna really believe you, and it's not true. Okay?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He projecting whenever he goes out of the country. That's what he does.

[Jess Hilarious]

Lauren, he ain't touched that body at all.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You see, he got a nose job. He ain't get that in the state.

[Jess Hilarious]

You went all the way to doctor for a nose job? Yeah, I feel Bad for you.

[DJ Envy]

Well, I better stop talking about my legs and my arms, too.

[Jess Hilarious]

Why?

[DJ Envy]

I don't know. People say they stay real skinny.

[Jess Hilarious]

Well, Envy, if you would like to join me, I could find you a doctor. My homegirls know where to go in order to recover. Recovery houses. So just let me know.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But.

[Jess Hilarious]

But, you know, while you're there healing, I can check in on you. I'm gonna be over at the Memorial Day getaway May 27th, 22nd through the 27th. It's a five night, six days. It's a HBCU Black alumni weekend. I'll be hosting a bunch of different events out there. We're gonna have a good time. Visit memorialday getaway.com and at checkout, tell them Lauren LaRosa sent you, because I'm gonna see y'all there.

[DJ Envy]

All right, now when we come back, we got a positive note, so don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Morning, everybody.

[DJ Envy]

It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. La Rosa is here, and we got a salute to the Rizza for joining us this morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Salute to them. Make sure you go get your tickets. I'm definitely going to that show because, you know, I got a top seven favorite rappers of all time, and Ghost Face Killer is my favorite rapper of all time. And Killer Mike is also on my top seven favorite rappers of all time list. Wu Tang is my favorite group. So I'm definitely going to see Wu Tang and run the Jews. You hear me?

[Jess Hilarious]

It kicks off on June 6th in Baltimore. And it. Then they'll be. They'll be in New York at the. @ msg.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When?

[DJ Envy]

16Th of. Of July, and then prudential, 17th of July.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, I'll be at one of those. Definitely be at one of those. And listen, I want to tell everybody too, man. The third annual Black Effect Podcast Festival is happening Saturday, April 6th. April 26th, at Pullman Yards in Atlanta, Georgia. Okay. Saturday, April 26th at Pullman Yards in Atlanta, Georgia. We got Mandy and Wheezy from Decisions Decisions hosting. We have the Trap Nerds podcast for all the gamers out there. We got Good Mom's Bad Choices podcast gonna be out there. Naked Sports with Carrie Champion. The R B Money podcast with Tank and J. Valentine. And we got the Woman Evolved podcast with Sarah Jake Roberts. Yes, Sarah Jake's Roberts. All of them will be at the third annual Black Effect Podcast Festival. You know, we got the food trucks. We got the picture podcast booth presented by Nissan. We got the Black Effect Marketplace all types of good stuff. So see y'all Saturday, April 26th. You can go get your tickets right now at blackffect.com podcast festival. Okay?

[Morgan]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

You got a positive note.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I do have a positive note. And it's simple, man. Do your best because you want to. Okay? You do your best when you are enjoying the action or doing it in a way that will not have negative repercussions for you. You do your best because you want to do it, not because you have to do it, not because you are trying to please the judge and not because you are trying to please other people. People. Do your best because you want to have a great day. Breakfast Club, Peace of the planet, Charlemagne, the God here. And I want you to know from Curtis, 50 Cent Jackson and the executive producers of Power comes the explosive new season of the Stars original series Raising Canaan. In the riveting fourth season, slates have seemingly been wiped clean for Kanan Rock and the rest of the Thomas family. However, in the eye of the storm, one very dangerous obstacle looms large. Unique is a Unique makes a volatile and violent return as he hunts to upend the lives of the Thomas family. Don't miss the season premiere raising Canaan March 7th only on Starz and the Starz app.

[Morgan]

Taking control of your career is empowering. Just don't tell my boss I said that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just kidding.

[Morgan]

I am the boss.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is Carlos Miller from the 85 South Show.

[Morgan]

And building a career isn't just about a job. It's about creating a path that impacts our community and future generations. Whether you're starting out or even making.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Morgan]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

The way because like a good neighbor.

[Morgan]

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[Jess Hilarious]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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