FULL SHOW: Beyoncé’s Unreleased Music Stolen, Diddy Enters Rehab & DV Programs in Jail + Malcolm D. Lee Interview

Summary

Podcast Summary: “FULL SHOW: Beyoncé’s Unreleased Music Stolen, Diddy Enters Rehab & DV Programs in Jail + Malcolm D. Lee Interview”

Release Date: July 15, 2025
Podcast: The Breakfast Club
Hosts: DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God
Description: The World's Most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club, With DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, And Charlamagne Tha God!

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1. Front Page News

New Jersey Floods and State of Emergency
Morgan Wood reports on the severe flooding in New Jersey, which led Governor Phil Murphy to declare a state of emergency. Over 7,400 residents lost power, and major cities like Hoboken, Summit, and Rahway experienced significant water damage. The storm also caused flight cancellations at Newark, JFK, and LaGuardia airports.
Morgan Wood (05:40): "President Trump says he will be placing 100% tariff on Russia if there's no peace deal in Ukraine soon."

Presidential Politics and Tariffs
President Trump has announced new tariffs on Russia and a deal to supply NATO with Patriot missiles amidst ongoing tensions in Ukraine. Former President Obama urges Democrats to "toughen up" in response to the current political climate. The hosts express skepticism about Obama’s call, suggesting Democrats have previously shown a lack of resolve.
Jess Hilarious (07:14): "It's just wild to hear President Obama say that now as if Democrats haven't been cowards for the past decade."

Supreme Court Ruling on Department of Education
The Supreme Court ruled to lift a judge's order reinstating employees affected by mass layoffs at the Department of Education. This decision aligns with the Trump administration's goal to devolve education control back to states.
Charlamagne Tha God (30:17): "The Supreme Court got it right."

Epstein Files Investigation
Conservative activist Laura Loomer demands a special counsel to investigate the Epstein files, following the DOJ and FBI's conclusion that Epstein died by suicide without a client list. Texas Congressman Mark Vesey plans to introduce a resolution for the release of these files, amidst allegations of selective prosecution related to Jeffrey Epstein's case.
Morgan Wood (33:54): "This doesn't seem to be going away as of yet."

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2. Beyoncé’s Unreleased Music Stolen (19:45)

DJ Envy (19:45): "There has been unreleased Beyoncé music that was stolen out of a car in Atlanta."

Two of Beyoncé's choreographers reported their Jeep was broken into in an Atlanta parking lot, resulting in the theft of two suitcases containing hard drives with unreleased music and tour footage for her "Cowboy Carter" tour. Police have identified fingerprints and issued an arrest warrant for a suspect, though Beyoncé still performed as scheduled at Mercedes Benz Stadium. The hosts emphasize the importance of retrieving the stolen material to prevent potential legal actions.

Jess Hilarious (21:07): "That person going to jail. Get it back to Beyoncé expeditiously."

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3. Diddy Enters Rehab & DV Programs in Jail (62:00)

DJ Envy (62:00): "Diddy has entered into two treatment programs while behind bars—one for domestic violence and another for drug-related issues."

Diddy faces serious legal challenges as he prepares for sentencing on October 3rd. Prosecutors seek 51 to 63 months, citing Diddy’s ongoing struggles with drugs and domestic violence, while his defense argues for a lesser sentence of 21 to 27 months. Additionally, there's speculation that Diddy may be viewed as a target for selective prosecution, especially given his high-profile status.

Charlamagne Tha God (66:15): "He was guilty, but he should not be getting 10 years for those wrong choices."

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4. Supreme Court Ruling on Department of Education Layoffs (31:24)

Morgan Wood (31:24): "The Supreme Court lifted the judge's order, allowing the Trump administration to proceed with layoffs at the Department of Education."

Secretary of Education Lyn McMahon hailed the ruling as a victory for returning educational control to the states. However, there is debate over whether eliminating the Department entirely aligns with McMahon's stance, given that her position is still impacted by the layoffs.

Jess Hilarious (31:55): "56% of adults said they would be dissatisfied if Trump is the GOP nominee."

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5. Epstein Files and Special Counsel Calls (33:54)

Morgan Wood (33:54): "Laura Loomer is calling for a special counsel to investigate the Epstein files."

Following the DOJ and FBI's report denying foul play in Jeffrey Epstein's death and stating there was no client list, Loomer and Texas Congressman Mark Vesey push for further investigation. They argue that the existing findings do not quell suspicions and emphasize the need for transparency.

Jess Hilarious (34:16): "Democrats should never stop talking about the Epstein files."

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6. Interview with Malcolm D. Lee (35:47 - 60:36)

Introduction to Malcolm D. Lee
Malcolm D. Lee, writer, director, and producer of acclaimed films such as The Best Man, Girls Trip, Undercover Brother, and Roll Bounce, joins the show to discuss his new book, The Best Man: Unfinished Business.

Continuation of The Best Man Series
Lee explains his decision to continue the Best Man storyline through a novel instead of immediately pursuing a movie or TV adaptation. He cites the challenges of coordinating with established actors and network constraints, opting instead to explore the characters' deeper psyches and personal growth through the written word.

Malcolm D. Lee (36:13): "I've always loved the written word. Number one, I'm a storyteller at heart."

Challenges in Hollywood
Lee discusses the difficulties in securing funding and support for diverse, character-driven stories within Hollywood. He highlights the importance of integrity in storytelling and balancing commercial success with artistic vision.

Malcolm D. Lee (49:49): "I always have one eye on commerce and one eye on artistry, and try to meld them."

Future Projects and Legacy
Lee expresses his desire to expand the Best Man universe, potentially exploring spin-offs and additional character arcs. He reflects on the success of his films in elevating black narratives in mainstream media and the ongoing struggle for representation and respect within the industry.

Jess Hilarious (60:33): "Black content can have tremendous success, but still not get respect from whatever platform or our industry."

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7. Community and Personal Stories

Ray Dijon Tribute
The hosts honor Ray Dijon, former host of Video Music Box and a beloved figure in the comedy and entertainment community, acknowledging his contributions and celebrating his birthday posthumously.

Charlamagne Tha God (95:47): "Rest in peace to Ray Dijon."

Upcoming Events and Promotions
DJ Envy promotes his upcoming car show, detailing activities such as old and new car displays, games for kids, food trucks, and opportunities for vendors. Jess Hilarious announces her performances at the Improv in Milwaukee, while Lauren LaRosa shares her involvement in expanding Crystal franchises in South Carolina.

Charlamagne Tha God (97:07): "If you haven't got your tickets, get your tickets. It's going to be a fun day."

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8. Controversial Discussions and Listener Calls

Pastor John Gibson Incident
The hosts discuss the arrest of Pastor John Gibson from Alabama for leaving a five-year-old child unattended in a vehicle while he dined at a 24-hour restaurant. Jess Hilarious delivers a critical monologue outlining six biblical sins Gibson committed, condemning his actions and the hypocrisy of his position as a pastor.

Jess Hilarious (71:28): "Pastor Gibson, you are expected to model righteous behavior. Your actions contrast sharply with your religious role."

Rich vs. Broke Men Treating Women
A recurring segment invites listeners to call in and discuss whether broke men treat women better than rich men. The conversation highlights societal and economic pressures, struggles with authenticity on social media, and the impact of financial status on relationships.

Charlamagne Tha God (80:31): "Do broke men treat you better than rich men?"

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9. Light-Hearted Segments

Stevie Wonder’s Vision Rumors
The hosts humorously address and debunk rumors about Stevie Wonder regaining partial sight, with playful banter highlighting their acquaintanceship and misconceptions about the legendary artist's capabilities.

Unknown (Stevie Wonder) (67:20): "Shortly after my birth, I became blind. That was a blessing because it's the vision of truth."

Uno Casino Rumors
Discussion revolves around false rumors of Uno game tables being introduced to Las Vegas casinos. Uno clarifies that while social clubs are expanding to various cities, official casino table games are not being implemented.

DJ Envy (90:00): "While they get this sorted out, the UNO Social Club is rolling out in bars in Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, Atlanta, and Austin this August."

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10. Positive Notes and Closing Remarks

Positive Messages and Community Support
The show concludes with uplifting messages encouraging humility, community support, and personal growth. Jess Hilarious emphasizes the importance of humility, while Charlamagne Tha God reminds listeners of upcoming events and promotes ongoing community engagement.

Jess Hilarious (97:34): "Be humble and never think that you are better than anybody else."

AT&T Advertisement
The episode wraps up with a seamless promotion for AT&T's network guarantee, aligning with the show's theme of reliable support and community backing.

Charlamagne Tha God (97:34): "If there's ever a network interruption, they make it right by giving you a credit for a full day of service."

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Notable Quotes:

• Jess Hilarious (07:14): "Democrats should never stop talking about the Epstein files."

• Malcolm D. Lee (36:13): "I've always loved the written word. Number one, I'm a storyteller at heart."

• Jess Hilarious (71:28): "Pastor Gibson, you are expected to model righteous behavior. Your actions contrast sharply with your religious role."

• Jess Hilarious (97:34): "Be humble and never think that you are better than anybody else."

This episode of The Breakfast Club delivers a blend of serious news coverage, in-depth interviews, community discussions, and light-hearted banter, providing listeners with a comprehensive overview of current events and cultural conversations.

Transcript

[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Jess Hilarious]

Good morning, USA.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Jess Hilarious]

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, yo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jess, hilarious. Is downstairs stuck in traffic. Charlamagne to be here in a second. Good morning. How you feeling? What's up, Rhett? What up, Envy? The sad thing about Jess being stuck is Jess actually got to work before anybody this morning. But there's two trucks double parked doing deliveries downstairs, and her truck is parked behind those two trucks, and she can't get through the street. The two trucks block the whole street off, so she can't even get through. But she's been down here about 20 minutes. And the truck drivers are just taking their time. You know, they're doing their morning deliveries, but they blocked the whole road. So Jess has been downstairs for 20 minutes. So I'm sure Jess is listening in the car. Good morning, Jess. I'm sure Jess is lighting one up right. Right now, this morning, because I'm sure she's like, f this, but Jess will be here in a second and Charlemagne will be here in a second as well. Now, hopefully you guys are doing well out there. There's been. Hey, I was just. I was just talking about you. I was saying you probably lighting one up right now in the car because you were in that car for about.

[Lauren LaRosa]

20 minutes, stuck behind the tractor. Yo. And they know that these low ass streets in New York are not big enough for both of them to be double parked in the middle of the street. That's so stupid.

[DJ Envy]

Yo, you already know I up.

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yo, that was.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So did you see me doing jumping.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Jacks in the street, Yo, I'm like, why you. Why you playing like you recording, smiling, jumping up and down way too much.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I seen you. But yeah. So if you live in A Tri State. Not even. Only the Tri State. People have been hitting me all over the country and saying these rainstorms and floods have been ridiculous. Yesterday was nasty.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nasty, nasty, nasty.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Last night. And then I live, like in a building, so you can just see. And we're far up, like, you can just see, like. Yo, the rain was slapping the window so hard. It was wild, yo. And it's winds. It's mixed with winds, too, so it was real windy. You seen the traffic backed up? Cars were pulling over like we couldn't even drive through it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, the amount of people I'm sure last night that. That got water in their basement that lost their cars last night. I mean, the rain was. The water was so damn high in certain areas. And I was driving around grabbing merch for the car show this weekend, and just to see the amount.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Damn. He was out there in it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I was out there in it. I was out there in it. Yeah. So. All right, well, let's get the show cracking. Malcolm D. Lee will be joining us this morning. Now, he is the writer, director, producer for some of the films like the Best Man Girls Trip, Undercover Brother, oh, Bounce. Yes. And he has a new book, the Best Man Unfinished Business, out now. So we're going to talk to him. And he's also Spike Lee's cousin. Yeah, okay. He's related to Spike Lee. Yeah. So let's get the show cracking. We got front page news. Charlamagne just walked in on what? Charlotte? Why?

[Jess Hilarious]

Why?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We start the show at six o' clock every morning so early. No, we start on time.

[Jess Hilarious]

This show starts so early every morning. That's kind of crazy, both of y'.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All. Y', all. Y' all the ones that made the time for.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess. Hilarious Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. What's up, Morgan?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Hey, y'.

[Jess Hilarious]

All. Hey.

[Morgan]

Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning.

[Morgan]

How we feeling on a Tuesday?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good, April.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We good. How you doing, Envy?

[Morgan]

How you doing, Envy? Because, you know, first on front page is the state of emergency that's going on in New Jersey. I know. I saw your video. Flooding is crazy up there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. I mean, yesterday, driving around, like I said, I had to pick up my car, show merch to shipping down to Virginia. And when I say waters were like 2, 3ft and people were stuck on the road, and it happened so damn fast. Like, it was. It was crazy.

[Morgan]

Yeah. So New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has declared a state of emergency across the state after heavy rains dumped several inches in many parts of the state. Now, the rain caused roads closures, power outages and damages around the state, especially in central New Jersey. Now, more than 7,400 customers lost power at the storm's peak. Flash flood warnings have been issued or were issued throughout the state. Flooding was reported in Hoboken, Summit, Rahway and elsewhere. And of course, there was also a ground stop issued at Newark and JFK International and LaGuardia airports last night. New Jersey Transit says the rain was expected to affect train and light rail service as well. Now, 50 million people were under flood warnings yesterday in major cities such as New York city, here in D.C. and Baltimore as well, facing flash floods. So I just want to make sure that you guys are safe and you guys are paying attention and heeding to those warnings when they come up. You know, you don't want to end up in a devastating situation. Elsewhere, President Trump says he will be placing 100% tariff on Russia if there's no peace deal in Ukraine soon. Now, he met with NATO Secretary General Mark Rudda yesterday. And Trump also announced a new deal to sell top of the line weaponry to NATO, including defensive Patriot missiles meant for distribution in Ukraine. Let's take a listen to the president's comments regarding that.

[Unknown]

We're going to be doing very severe tariffs. If we don't have a deal in 50 days, billions of dollars worth of military equipment is going to be purchased from the United states, going to NATO, etc. And that's going to be quickly distributed to the battlefield.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

Trump went on to say this wasn't his initial focus, this particular war, calling it a Biden war. And he had been blaming both sides for the continued war in Ukraine, but lately has been putting most the blame on Putin, saying he's not happy with Putin, adding that he had, he thought he had a deal in place about four times. But it appears that basically he said, you know, one minute they think there's a deal in place and the next minute there's bombs and whatever else in Kiev. So the president is looking to, you know, get this particular situation settled and resolved between Ukraine and Russia. Elsewhere in presidential news, former President Obama is telling Democrats to toughen up, given the political landscape under the administration. President Trump, the former president's comments come after he attended a private fundraising event in New Jersey on Friday. Now, during his speech, Obama said, don't tell me you're a Democrat, but you're kind of disappointed right now. So you're not doing anything. No now is the exact time that we need you to get up there and basically get in there and do something. So the event marked Obama's first fundraising appearance since Democrats Democrats lost the 2024 election. What do you guys make of the president's or the former president's comments?

[Jess Hilarious]

President Obama, it's mind boggling to me when I hear people like President Obama say things that regular, everyday people been saying for years. We've been saying Democrats were cowards for a decade. We've been saying Democrats need to toughen up and that cowardice is, you know, why we're in the position that we're in now. And I can give countless examples of Democrats needing to show a spine. Like for example, they should have told Biden that he was going to be a one term president. It wasn't up to him. So it's just wild to hear President Obama say that now as if Democrats haven't been cowards for the past decade.

[Morgan]

Ooh, not the decade. Okay, well talk your talk then. All right, so that's your opinion. You certainly entitled to it. What do you make of that's not my opinion.

[Jess Hilarious]

That President Obama's opinion too?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think that's everybody's opinion that we should have toughened up. And then when you ask questions and it's like, oh, you're going against us, you're this, you're that, you're liars. It's been the same thing.

[Jess Hilarious]

Google it. The language has been the same for at least eight, nine years. Democrats are cowards. Democrats don't show. Democrats don't have no spine. We've been saying this.

[Morgan]

Can I ask you one more question? What does toughen up look like in the landscape of politics?

[Jess Hilarious]

What do you think toughen up looks like, hey Biden, you're going to be a one term president. Toughen up looks like, hey, rbg, you're going to step down because you're too old. Like, that's what toughening up looks like. Stuff like that should have been happening.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, toughen up to me means handle and do your core like you said you were going to do. One thing you could say about Trump, whether you like him, love him or hate him, he does what he wants to do for his core, for his people that ride for him.

[Jess Hilarious]

Toughen up looks like, hey, if Donald Trump is the essential threat that y' all tell us he is, how come y' all aren't going after him that way while y' all are in office? That's what toughening up looks like.

[Morgan]

Toughen up means Match that energy. All right, y', all, so that's your front page news for 6am At 7am, we'll talk about the auto pin and a recent Supreme Court ruling that impacts education. So stick around at seven.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, everybody, get it off your chest. 800-800-585-1051. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open. 800-585-1051. Before we get it for each. I got 20 seconds. I just want to say one thing. If you're out there, right, A friend of mine, yesterday, a couple days ago, found out he had cancer. The reason he found out he had cancer is because when Trump did this, the big whatever bill, he knew that they were going to take his. His health insurance away from him. So he was like, yo, I'm gonna get every check ASAP before they take it away. And because of that happened, he was able to find cancer and they was able to remove the tumor. So I just want to tell you guys, if you're out there, get your doctor's appointments out there right now, your dentist, this is a sign, a sign to call your doctor and get your physicals done. You never know because if you find out early, you can save your life. So I just want to tell everybody out there. All right, well, get it off your chest. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

[Jess Hilarious]

Ray.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ray.

[Jess Hilarious]

Ray.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yo, Charlamagne Envy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What up?

[Unknown]

Are we live?

This is your time to get it off your chest.

I got an indoor pool, outdoor pool.

We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We can get on the phone right now. Here.

[Jess Hilarious]

Tell you what it is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello? Who's this?

[Unknown]

Britney.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, Brittany. Good morning.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning.

[Unknown]

How's everybody?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's black and highly favored. How are you, Brittany?

[Unknown]

I am good.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good.

[Unknown]

All right, so I wanted to talk about. Okay, so I'm an instacart worker, right? I've been doing this for the past. And I wanna talk about these rich people that place $400 orders but only tipped $2.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, okay.

[Unknown]

I literally drive up to these half a million dollar homes. Beautiful, beautiful big mansions. And y' all really had the nerve to tip $2? Like, what's up with that?

[Jess Hilarious]

I want you to know that where you live at, that these mansions cost half a million dollars.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I was ready to say how much you.

[Unknown]

I'm in Virginia.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, okay, okay, that makes sense. Maybe in Virginia.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm in Virginia.

[Jess Hilarious]

Half a million dollars for the big mansion.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I will say this, Brittany, you know, a lot of Times. And I'm know because when you order stuff, sometimes it says delivery fees, then.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It says processing fees.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So a lot of time these people probably think you already get your money on the side anyway. The $2 is just a little extra.

[Unknown]

We don't, we, it don't work like that. Instacart gets a lot of that money and offer a lot of them orders. We are basically getting like a few dollars under $10 for a lot of these orders. And a lot of the money we are making off of tips.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah. And if, and if somebody takes the time to tip $2, they knew they was tipping $2, they could tip more.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But a lot of times people don't know. The only reason I know about Uber is a friend of mine drives for Uber and he says, you know, on a hundred dollar, let's say the Uber ride is a hundred dollars, he'll get like $25. Yeah, but most people assume that you'll get a lot more.

[Jess Hilarious]

But Uber tells you, Uber gives you like six or seven different options. And they'd be like, thank you, you're my hero. Depending on how much you tip.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, no, meaning if you're, if you, if your thing is $100, they only get like 25% of it.

[Jess Hilarious]

The, the, no, but I'm saying the tip thing pops up with Uber.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It tells me the point that everybody, I think here is Ms. Needs to pay these people like more money. They do, right? Because even if you drive up to a half a million dollar house or whatever, you don't even know what type, what type of financial hardship that person is going through. They could be about to lose that house.

[Unknown]

These people was placing like 500 Costco orders. And I'm talking about they getting beach stuff, cool stuff. They got the money.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But imagine how many people live in that house. Imagine how many miles they gotta feed like y', all. You know what I'm saying? Like, you can't just look at what somebody what pull up to like, oh, they rich, they got it. You know what I mean? Like, I get what you saying.

[Unknown]

I get that. But sometimes you could definitely tell.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I, I get you. I, I feel you. I'm not trying to argue down envy.

[Unknown]

Envy. I need Envy. I need your help.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's your name?

[Unknown]

Your car show this weekend in Hampton. So that's on my son's 13th birthday and I want to take him so bad, but I cannot afford the tickets.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, say no. You got $2? How many tickets you need?

[Unknown]

My mom, I just need two just for me and him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I got you. I got you. So it's this Saturday. It starts from 12 to 5, and I absolutely, positively got you. Said he turned to 13.

[Unknown]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, so I'm gonna put you on hold. I'm gonna give you my business manager's information, and we'll make his birthday special for you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, thank you so much.

[Unknown]

Thank you so much.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, hold on, Brittany. Okay.

[Unknown]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right. My call show is this Saturday. If you haven't got your tickets, get your tickets. We're gonna have a lot of fun. Old cars, new cars. There's gonna be rides and games for kids. And if you have a kid that' it's free. So just bring them and have a good time. There's gonna be a food truck. There's gonna be bars. We're gonna have a great time in Virginia. Can't wait to see you guys this Saturday. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club.

[Unknown]

Good morning, the Breakfast Club. This is your time to get it off your chest Whether you're mad or blessed.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I hate the way that you walk.

[Jess Hilarious]

The way that you talk I hate.

[Lauren LaRosa]

The way that you dress Everything with me is blessed.

[Unknown]

Call up next. 800-585-1051.

[Jess Hilarious]

Not just me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm with the culture feeling. Hello? Who's this?

[Jess Hilarious]

Hey, man.

[Unknown]

What's up, MV Trav?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How you be getting through all the time, Trav?

[Jess Hilarious]

The back door.

[Unknown]

Hey, man, I don't know what to tell you. What's up, Jeff?

[Lauren LaRosa]

What's that, boo?

[Unknown]

What's up, Charlamagne?

[Jess Hilarious]

How you doing? What's happening?

[Unknown]

Can I tell you what I don't like? Got to tell you one thing I don't like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What don't you like?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Don't you like?

[Unknown]

I don't like someone. I don't like someone that throws rocks.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Rock.

[Unknown]

And the title of Hiding Hands. You know why? When I throw a rock, I stand right in the middle of the street with five more to throw, baby. And I just want to say sorry. You called that girl sis. Right? And if she didn't like to be cautioned, she could have simply said, hey, sir, I don't like to be called sis. Can you not call me that?

[Jess Hilarious]

I didn't call. I didn't call him sis.

[Unknown]

You did, though. No, that's why you did.

[Jess Hilarious]

No, I didn't. I've never called Stacey.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, no, because remember Stacy? Whole thing is that he's not gay.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, I never Called Stacey.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, I know. He just started saying, so Sean.

[Jess Hilarious]

I don't know. Go.

[Unknown]

Go back and run it back. You called him sis, and he said, oh. Instead of him just saying, I don't like to be called sis, he said, oh, my name is not Trav. Don't be calling me. Don't be calling me, since my name not travel. And so I just simply said, bro. You could have simply not said my name. All these people that you could have said. You could have said, I'm not talking Santana. You could have said, I'm not Jason Lee.

[Jess Hilarious]

Why would you say I'm not trans.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Fighting. I don't like this.

[Jess Hilarious]

The letters shouldn't be fighting.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Jason Lee don't like to be called sis, either.

[Unknown]

That's what I'm saying. You could have said anybody else name, but you want to randomly say my.

[Jess Hilarious]

Name out of all the people?

[Unknown]

Just don't say my name. That's all.

[Jess Hilarious]

And, Charlie, don't be out here putting.

[Unknown]

In the atmosphere that I'm jealous of some boy who calls the radio that big Cupcake, please. I just haven't mentioned that boy.

[Jess Hilarious]

Don't want to say that.

[Unknown]

Charlemagne.

[Jess Hilarious]

No, I don't know what the hell? Travis even talking about.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

A little jealous. What he said, like, make a little cupcakes. When you say little cupcakes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, when you throw the little cupcakes.

[Jess Hilarious]

It sounds like a lovers quarrel that's gonna end in butt sex. No, hot butt sex.

[DJ Envy]

Stop.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cause what if they just.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Same one. Like, what if? What do you mean, two times?

[Unknown]

Like, you can't do that, you stupid.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello? Who's this?

[Jess Hilarious]

Joe Green.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's up? Get it off your chest, brother.

[Unknown]

Hey, good morning, everyone.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Happy Breakfast Club.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning, Charlemagne.

[Unknown]

Charlemagne here talking about everything that the Democrats need. Have you talked to your wife about running for president?

[Jess Hilarious]

Huh?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She said she wants you to run for president. Did you talk to your wife?

[Jess Hilarious]

See the problem. This is the problem. Donald Trump has made the bar so low that y' all think anybody can run for damn president. I don't know what. I don't know why we haven't. Why this administration hasn't shown you that you need people with actual experience in these positions.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I vote for Charlemagne.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No.

[Jess Hilarious]

Well, indeed, you'll be in a worse position than you are right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You do better than Trump. Yes, you would. Hello? Who's this?

[Unknown]

Good morning, guys.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning.

[Unknown]

I called to talk to my cousins. It's Toya.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, Toya.

[Jess Hilarious]

Peace, Toya.

[Unknown]

Hey, DJ Envy, you're absolutely right. God is telling me God has been talking to me, guys. He want everybody to get themselves in order. God is coming back. When you talked about that man going to the doctor, Oh, I didn't say not.

[Jess Hilarious]

What if he was talking about. And he was talking about y' all going to the doctor. Okay, now, we wasn't talking about going to church or finding religion. I believe in God, too. Yes, but y' all need to take your ass to the doctor. That is a tale as old as time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right. Yeah. Just to go to the doctor, hopefully. This I said me telling about my friend, man. Hopefully it's a sign for somebody to go out and get themselves checked up, go to their physical or whatever.

[Unknown]

Correct. And that's what I said. Getting yourself in order. Get everything in line for God's return. I know what you're saying.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay, well, ain't no need to go to the doctor coming back.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Say that. But, yeah, I was like, that's why.

[Unknown]

I love you, man. I'm trying to tell you. I be talking to people about you so much. I'm telling you, like, keep doing your thing, guys. I'm trying to say you guys are really touching people out here.

[Jess Hilarious]

Thank you. I do believe in God, though. But I also believe in going to the doctor. Yes. Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Go to the doctor.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. Now we got the latest with Lauren. Lauren to be here in a second. They broke into the queen bee's car, took some music and some other ish.

[Jess Hilarious]

Not the queen.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, little Kim.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, I was gonna say she be driving.

[Unknown]

No.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, Beyonce. Yes, she be driving.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm sure she was her driver.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, I was gonna say the car.

[Jess Hilarious]

No, you just bring in a Beyonce.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Car and take some CDs.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know what. I don't think it was CDs, but.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Lauren will break it down with the ladies.

[Lauren LaRosa]

How you steal some music of the car if it's not on the CD or a cassette tape, usb.

[Jess Hilarious]

How old?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Computer.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, how old I am.

[Lauren LaRosa]

How you still. I know, but how you steal music on somebody car?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, but you just took the phone, baby.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right, a laptop.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We'll get to it. Next, it's the Breakfast Club.

[Unknown]

Wanted the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Morning, everybody.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's DJ Envy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the latest with Lauren.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Lauren becoming a straight thing.

[Jess Hilarious]

She gets them from somebody that knows somebody. She gets the details.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Jess Hilarious]

She be Having the latest on the piece.

[Unknown]

The Latest with Lauren LaRosa.

[Jess Hilarious]

Sometimes she has facts, sometimes you have details. Sometimes she have a little bit of everything. Oh, it's the latest on the breakfast up.

[DJ Envy]

So there has been unreleased Beyonce music that was stolen out of a car in Atlanta. So on July 8, there are two of Beyonce's choreographers who called the police in Atlanta and said, hey, we parked our. Our jeep in the parking lot of this market. We were in the market for about an hour. When they came back to the car, the trunk window was bust out. So when they went in, they realized that there were two suitcases missing. So in those two suitcases, and when police arrived in those two suitcases, they were that there were hard drives with Beyonce's unreleased watermark music in it set list for her current Cowboy Carter tour as. As well as footage plans for her current Cowboy Carter tour were in the suitcase. Now, the police say that they did start tracking computers and air pods that were in the luggage, and they found two sets of fingerprints on the the rented car. But police did note that there are cameras in the area that recorded the incident, and they've issued an arrest warrant for a suspect. So right now, there's only one suspect. And Beyonce know still went on as playing yesterday in Atlanta at Mercedes Benz Stadium. But, oh, I can't imagine me and those choreographers coming back into work today.

[Jess Hilarious]

That person. Forget the choreographers, the person that stole the stuff, that person going to jail. Okay, you need to find a way to get that music back to blue and roomy expeditiously. And if you get it back in a timely manner, then charges may or may not be pressed against you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But, you know, in Atlanta, that's a. That's a thing.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's the thing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what. That's what they do. They break into cars and take whatever's. I went to Atlanta a couple of weeks ago, and I left my luggage in the car, and I was eating. I went back out and I got my luggage, and I asked lady, I was like, did they break it? She was like, oh, yeah, they just.

[Jess Hilarious]

Broke into a car.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Like, exactly. That's how it. And it's been like that for years.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Said, no, this ain't Texas.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm saying, this is what we do down here. You know what I mean? It's wild.

[Jess Hilarious]

And they say it's. I don't know if this is true, but they'd be like, yo, it's better. I know they're probably being sarcastic. They're like, it's better just to keep your windows down.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They said, yeah, people really do that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

They take everything of value out.

[Jess Hilarious]

Why did the choreographers have Beyonce's unreleased music in the car? Well, why did the choreographers have a.

[DJ Envy]

Lot of times if they're preparing. So for instance, if she is preparing to like preview new music at a show or whatever, you're preparing movement maybe for her. But also you're doing all the choreography for the dances. So you need to know what's going to be played. So you would have music even if it's on a drive full of music that she's currently using. And these are songs that are backup that she planned to potentially drop somewhere.

[Jess Hilarious]

I thought about that, but I'm just like unreleased music. Music.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, but like she said, if they're gonna preview some music and they gotta dance to it, they gotta know it. But they should have went to the hotel, dropped them bags off first and then. Yes. And got to the market.

[DJ Envy]

They probably thought it was gonna be real quick. But that's what I thought. I'm like, if I know I have all this Beyonce, I mean the suitcase on screen, this is Beyonce's choreographer stuff. But still, now they know what they got.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They take everything. But this is Atlanta. Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Yes. Well, in other news, Joy Taylor is out at Fox Sports 1 and there's other, there's three other show. Other shows that were also canceled. So FS1 made a sweeping change. It was announced yesterday on his program lineup, programming lineup that three of its five daily shows are getting canceled in the shakeup. Joy Taylor's, the show that she was on was one of the shows. So her tenure or nine year tenure at the network has now come to an end. So the shows are Breakfast Ball, the Facility and Speak. These will be no more at the network. Now.

[Jess Hilarious]

I never heard of any of those shows except for Speak. Speak, by the way.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I and I only know of Speak just because of the people that are on. I've never watched it, but I didn't know these shows either.

[Jess Hilarious]

But I watch Speak.

[DJ Envy]

I mean you, you watch sports stuff. Yeah. But FOX Sports spokesperson at the time has declined to comment to front office Sports. But when Joy Taylor was here, you guys talked to her and she did mention that she thought her something about her contract. Let's take a listen.

[Lauren LaRosa]

As your contract with Fox Sports 1 been renewed yet? We are in the process of things right now.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

One thing I love about you, Joe, you did not shrink when got hot. Was that intentional? You like, I cannot let them see Me sweat or shrink right now?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, it was intentional to show up as I did. I'm not an unintentional person, particularly when it comes to what people see from me publicly. But when you know yourself, it's easier to continue to show up as you are. And there's always going to be things that happen in life that happen in this business that happen when you're a front facing person. And when you get into the business, that is the risk we take of putting ourselves in front of the camera, of putting yourself out there. That things at some point might not be the best for you.

[Jess Hilarious]

Just want to point out that the contract conversation was like two seconds. Two seconds.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know why they did all that.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, well, I thought that it was a good clip because there's two things here. So in the contract part of it, I thought that the fact that she's saying, hey, we're working it out and then all of a sudden these shows are canceled. We know like behind the scenes she. Because people are speculating what they think was the reasoning for her show being one of the shows that were let go. But if you working out a contract and something comes up, it's like, well, what happened? But you know, that could have just been her answering the question the way she had to.

[Jess Hilarious]

I would say that the reason the shows were let go is because nobody was watching them.

[DJ Envy]

I saw the report that said ratings for sure.

[Jess Hilarious]

I mean, when you think of FS1, I think of Kyler. I. I do watch Speak, but I mean, I. That's Colin Coward's network to me.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good thing Joy does have her. What, her podcast?

[Jess Hilarious]

Yep. Too personal.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's too personal.

[Jess Hilarious]

So congratulations, Instagram. She was on vacation when she got fired too.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, she posted don't fire me on vacation.

[Jess Hilarious]

Wait till I come back. Okay. Give me the hope there's something special.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

About folks who come through without being asked. Like your coworker surprising you with your favorite coffee just because. Or your friend handing you the aux cord the moment you get into the car. No debate, no fight, just positive vibes. That kind of love. It just hits different. And that's exactly the energy AT&T is on with their new guarantee. If there's ever a network interruption, AT&T will proactively credit you for a full day of service. No call, no emails, no jumping through hoops. It's just handled. It's like the universe saying, I got you. Except this time it's not the stars aligning, it's your network. And let's Be real. That connection is everything. Whether you're holding down the group chat, checking in on your parents. Scrolling TikTok. Your network's gotta come through. And if there's a problem, AT&T is on the case. No stress, no drama. Just real backup when it counts. Credit for Fiber downtime lasting 20 minutes or more or wireless downtime lasting 60 minutes or more caused by a single incident impacting 10 or more towers. Restrictions and exclusions apply. See att.com guarantee for full details. @t. Connecting changes everything.

[Jess Hilarious]

Walk with HR and everything. All right. Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let me enjoy my vacation.

[Jess Hilarious]

I won't have a good time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I want to think about it when I get back. But just let me relax. Now I'm on vacation. I'm making phone calls to see what next. I won't do that, man.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. And do they let you know how in advance do they let you know, or is there no. No rules around that?

[Jess Hilarious]

I have no idea.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. So crazy way to end the vacation. But, yeah, she had posted a video on her Instagram and she was, like, working out somewhere by the water, so.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, my God. It's Jim Jones birthday. Yo.

[Jess Hilarious]

We're dropping the clues bomb. For capo.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Salute to Jim Jones and Forest Whitaker.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay. Salute to Forest Whitaker.

[Jess Hilarious]

I didn't know that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Absolutely. And Damian Lillard. Wow.

[DJ Envy]

For Jim Jones cancer. Okay.

[Jess Hilarious]

Charlie, you didn't know Jim Jones was a cancer.

[DJ Envy]

I feel like we he said that when he was here, but it just makes a lot of sense.

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm In June cancer, though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

50S.

[Jess Hilarious]

50S of July cancer.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, all the people that just gone.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. Juju wo left real quick.

[DJ Envy]

Juju Watkins is her birthday, too.

[Unknown]

Oh, word.

[Jess Hilarious]

Juju and cancer.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I know Juju and cancer. Listen, y' all know my birthday girl. I know everybody birthday.

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm gonna include my juju Watkins I got next year.

[DJ Envy]

When my birthday, Jess.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Huh?

[DJ Envy]

When my birthday?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Come on, Lauren. Come on, come on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's not today.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's not today.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not today. All right, when we come back, we got front page news. And then Malcolm D. Lee will be joining us. He's the writer, director, and producer for movies like the Best Man, Girls Trip, Undercover Brother, Road Bounce, just to name a few. So we'll talk to him a little bit. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Unknown]

The Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get back to some front page news. What's up, Morgan?

[Jess Hilarious]

Hey, y'.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All.

[Morgan]

Hey. So Former President Biden is defending his use of an auto pin. Biden says he made every decision on his own in comments from an interview with the New York Times. Now, during his final weeks as president, Biden granted clemency and pardoned over 1500 people. The Times reports Biden didn't individually approve each name of the categorical pardons, but that applied to a large number of people. It comes after President Trump directed Attorney General Pam Bondi in June to investigate the use of auto pen by Biden to see if, if it was connected with a decline in his min mental state. Now, President Trump was asked about Biden's use of the auto pen and here's what he had to say about Biden's use and not only Biden's use, but what the auto pen should be used for. Let's take a listen.

[Unknown]

Look, the auto pen I think is maybe one of the biggest scandals that we've had in 50 to 100 years. This is a tremendous scandal. You know what the auto pen is supposed to do? Sign thousands of letters from young people that write. I get, we get thousands of letters a week, Susie.

[Jess Hilarious]

Right.

[Unknown]

Thousands. I mean tens of thousands. Sometimes I look at a room, there's a room where we have many, many people working, responding and sending letters back. That's what an auto pen is supposed to be, to write to a young 7 year old boy that writes to the president and he wants to be president someday and he loves America. That's what the auto pen's supposed be to, to be. It's not supposed to be for signing major legislation and all of the things.

[Morgan]

What do you guys think the lotto pen should just be for signing letters to the hopeful young Americans that write to the president or you know, is there should there be stipulations on when the auto can should be used as long as the president is in, you know, as to their point, in good mental standing.

[Jess Hilarious]

You know what I think? I think that we should always remember that majority of America did not want a Trump Biden Biden election in 2024. Okay. I just want to remind people, I just want to remind y' all that Democrats, I want to remind y' all that Democrats ignored what their voters wanted and it cost them everything with floods and everything that's going on in the world we talking. I just want y' all to remember that at all times. All right? Nobody wanted any of this.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I feel like obvious in auto hearing.

[Jess Hilarious]

Hearing you talk about Biden and then hearing Trump respond to whatever this conversation is about, just wants me to remind y', all, okay, that 70% of respondents, including half of Democrats, said Biden shouldn't run again. And over 50% of people felt the same way about Trump. Like, what are we talking about?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Makes no sense.

[Jess Hilarious]

We're here because nobody wanted this. Okay? Okay.

[Unknown]

All right.

[Morgan]

Let's bring it back to current events, then. The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to resume layoffs at the Department of Education. US Secretary of Education Lyn McMahon said not being able to fire department personnel was a roadblock to the White House goal of returning education back to the states and out of the hands of the federal government. Now, the court ruled six to three to lift a judge's order that reinstated employees let go in mass layoffs. All three liberal judges dissented and said the ruling is indefensible. Now, McMahon said she's pleased by Monday's ruling, and the Supreme Court got it right. Let's take a listen to her comments. Comments.

[Unknown]

Get education back to the states where the president believes it does belong. The best education is that closest to the student. This is a real. It's a real victory, I think, for the future of American education. And this lifts the handcuffs off of what we've been trying to do, which really is to get education back to the states.

[Morgan]

Now, the Trump administration does want to eliminate the Department of Education entirely. I'm not sure how she views this as a victory when that impacts her job to too. But, you know, I won't get too much into that.

[Jess Hilarious]

Just want to repeat, 56% of adults said they would be dissatisfied if the Trump would have if Trump were the GOP nominee. 56% of respondents believe Trump shouldn't have ran. Again, just want to keep putting that out there, y'. All.

[Morgan]

Somebody says charlamagne for president. Okay. All right. And on the topic of the Epstein files, Laura Loomer, a conservative activist and ally to President Trump, is calling for a special counsel to investigate the Epstein files. Now, the request follows last week's announcement of the Department of Justice and FBI regarding disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, which concluded that he did not have a client list and confirmed he died by suicide rather than foul play, as suspected by some. Now, Loomer has previously bashed Attorney Attorney General Pam Bondi for her handling of the Epstein documents and told Politico a special counsel should be appointed so that people can feel like this issue is being investigated. Palm Bondi has defended the Department of Justice justice handling of the evidence. Elsewhere, a Texas congressman is planning to introduce a resolution demanding files be released in the case involving convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Now Democrat Mark Vesey wrote on X either President Trump and his acolytes fueled the rumors of significance of these Epstein files to help his campaign or something is there. Now Veezy's resolution comes after DOJ released that memo last week also talking about that client list allegedly using used to blackmail high profile people. And there was no evidence of again, a foul play in his death. Now President Trump has stood by the DOJ memo and defended Attorney General Pam Bondi as well. This is to your point Charlemagne yesterday. This is an interesting take and that we will continue to see what happens as a result of what's going on with these Epstein files. I have heard in Washington that Trump is trying to just make it go away type of vibe on that one. One type stuff type stuff. But this doesn't seem to be going away as of, as of, as of yet.

[Jess Hilarious]

So, and, and, and Democrats should make sure it never goes away. Democrats should never, ever stop talking about the Epstein files. It's the only thing that builds a bridge between Democrats and the MAGA base. MAGA hasn't cared about anything else. So if you want to connect with them, then you have to talk about what they care about and this is what they care about. So you should, you should never stop talking about a treatment treated the way MAGA treated the transgender women in sport. Trans women in sport, men's sports. What is it? What was it? I can't even remember that. Trans women, yes.

[Morgan]

Women's sports, yes.

[Jess Hilarious]

They should treat it like that.

[Morgan]

And bringing things home to us in Baltimore. Just you guys remember Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby? Her case, right, the mortgage fraud.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Absolutely.

[Morgan]

Well, the mortgage fraud conviction case against former Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby has been overturned. An appellate court ruled yesterday that the prosecutor's venue instructions to the jury could have led to a different verdict. However, Mosby's perjury conviction is still being upheld. She was sentenced to home confinement, but that is, that sentence ended last month. So.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, great. Go Maryland. Go Maryland. Period.

[Morgan]

Hey, Baltimore. All right, but that's your front page news. I'm Morgan Wood. You guys can follow me on socials at Morgan Media. That's M O R G Y N. And for more, more news coverage, follow at Black Information Network, Download the free iHeartRadio app and visit [e-mail] Thank y' all so much.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, well, thank you, Morgan. Now, when we come back, Malcolm D. Lee will be joining us. He's the writer, director and producer for films like the Best Man Girls Trip, Undercover Brother, Roll, Bounce, and more. He has a new book, the Best Man Unfinished Business out. And we're gonna talk to Malcolm Lee when we come back. Malcolm Deeley is his name. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's DJ Envy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren Rosa is here as well, and we got some. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed we have Malcolm D. Lee.

[Jess Hilarious]

Good morning.

[Unknown]

What's going on now?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Malcolm D. Lee is a writer, director and producer. He's worked on so many different things. The Best Man Girls Trip, Night School, the Best Man Final Chapter. So, so many to name. How are you feeling this morning, brother?

[Unknown]

I'm, I'm fantastic. I'm very glad to be here.

[Jess Hilarious]

Happy to have you, man. You just put out a book called the Best Man Unfinished Business. I need to know, why would you continue the Best man series as a book rather than a movie or TV show?

[Unknown]

Well, I've always loved the written word. Number one, I'm a, I'm a storyteller at heart. It's very difficult to mount a television show in a movie. Getting all those great actors back together, very difficult. And I've fantasized about, about being a novelist. I thought, okay, here's an opportunity to try my hand at novel writing. Do it with characters that are already established, they have backstory already, and let me give it a shot. Plus, it gets the story out faster. I mean, fans said they wanted more. And I thought we were done after final chapters on Peacock. Still number one on Peacock, by the way. But I said, okay, this is a way for me to try my novel writing and get the story out to fans quicker.

[Jess Hilarious]

But if you have another story, why wouldn't Peacock, being that y' all broke records on Peacock? As you said, it was the number one show on Peacock. Still number one on Peacock. Why wouldn't they say, no, no, no, no, no, Malcolm, we need that here?

[Unknown]

Well, listen, I'm not saying that they wouldn't or didn't ask, but I thought at the time it was, I was done. But then the idea came to be, okay, it, let's try it as a, as a book. And I think we can tell more in depth story with the book. You know, there's, you know, you get to use all five senses. We're countering on three different characters in this. Harper, Robin and Jordan.

[Jess Hilarious]

Right.

[Unknown]

And so they're the kind of like the crux of the of the franchise. And I felt like here's an opportunity to not only be more expansive in the storytelling, but also let's get into the psyche of these characters in a, in a more in depth way.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Way.

[Unknown]

Is it possible to get everybody, by everybody back together? Yes, but it's very difficult.

[Jess Hilarious]

Very. Money, time.

[Unknown]

Money.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Keep.

[Unknown]

Yeah, keep going. It's, it's difficult. I mean like those, those are all working actors.

[Jess Hilarious]

Right.

[Unknown]

And it's tough to get them back together. Then you have, you have budget constraints, you had demands of the network in the studio with a book. It's just me and my co author Jane App talent to just say, okay, here's the round that I want to tell.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I want to go back if you don't mind Malcolm D. Lee coming up in this industry.

[Unknown]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You write the Best Man.

[Unknown]

Yep.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So how do you go from here, how do you get it to where it is being young, being first time doing it to getting an opportunity to even do it. So break it down where you from and how you, how you even came up with the concept and idea?

[Unknown]

Okay. So to start, you know, the Best man was my sixth screenplay and I wasn't even trying to direct it at the time. Time at the time I had written another romantic comedy that I was trying to fund. I couldn't find the money for it. I said I'm going to write something so commercial that I'm going to take that money when I sell it and make my, my independent movie. But as in the midst of writing it, it was also called My Homeboy's Wedding at the time. And I was like, I'm never going to use that title.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So it's called My Homeboy.

[Unknown]

It was in the beginning. That's why that's what I named it. But I knew that was never going to be the title. That, that was not a good no, no, but so I knew that wasn't going to be the title, but I was like, oh, okay. So in the midst of writing, I said I could, I could direct this. And I remember giving it to Spike because he had read all my screenplays. I already had an agent by that time as well, but nothing was happening.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And where are you originally from?

[Unknown]

I'm originally from. Well, I was born in Queens, raised in Brooklyn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Unknown]

Yeah, we're first cousin. His, his father, my father who's now deceased. My father's around, he's our brothers. And so yeah, so then I was in my parents basement. I finished the school script and I said if this ain't it, then you know, I don't know what I'm doing. I'm gonna probably be a lawyer or, or, or, or a teacher, okay? And so I, I handed up the, the, the script to Spike and he said, this is the one. And so right after that, we went to Columbia Pictures. We had, he had a deal at the time and, you know, the start of the process. We didn't land anywhere until the, you know, maybe six, eight months later later at Universal. Because Spike was, you know, Spike was the kind of person that, that says if they don't want to do it, we move it on, right? And so. Meaning, meaning, like, we're not listening to any notes. We're not. But this is, here's the script. We're making this movie, right? And Columbia was like, well, let's do.

[Jess Hilarious]

A little bit of work.

[Unknown]

He was like, f that we out of here. And she's like, no. I was like, well, you know, I'm just kind of playing catch with the whole time. I'm kind of like, okay, all right, maybe. And then we went to Disney and then a few other places.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Places.

[Unknown]

And we were getting like, well, we'd like to do a little work. And he was like, we're out of here. And then I was like, can we slow down a little bit, please? So Universal said, hey, we'd like to see the script. Okay, I'll get, I'll get them to pay, pay you to write, to do the rewrite. And then if they don't like it at the end, we go someplace else. I said, all right, fine, we'll just, you know, we'll slow it down. So that's what happened. And, you know, the process started. I, I did a two month rewrite and got to a place where it was the right script at the right time. Time, you know, like if Love Jones or Way into Exhale or Soul Food didn't precede that movie, it wouldn't have gotten made. The acting community was ready for it. Here were eight roles for black actors that can just be people and not, you know, characterizations or caricatures or sidekick or the sassy one or the hood or whatever. You know, it was like, hey, this is like, like just eight postgraduates who were, you know, coming back. And it was, you know, had the right tone also. So, you know, it kind of worked out that way. And I, and certainly my idea was to make a classic movie. It was not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you. No.

[Unknown]

And, and that was, that was, that was the, you know, the, the intention. But beyond that, I wasn't thinking about anything else. Just happened to be, you know, that's been able to like, turn into something more over the years.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And how involved was Spike with. With the first Best man movie?

[Unknown]

You know, Spike, you know, pretty much.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, I go do it on your own.

[Unknown]

Yeah, that's pretty what it was. He said, he said, okay, you know, the script is good. You know, the, the guy greenlit going to. He showed up the day, the first day of shooting. I mean, we had a couple of, you know, disagreements about casting and, you know, music and stuff like that. But, you know, I stuck to my guns about what, who I wanted and what I wanted. And he was like, very supportive of it. He was there for day one of the shoot in the very beginning, in the morning, said good luck, and he was out. And then, you know, I saw him in the edit, you know, he looked at a cut and he was like, change maybe, maybe consider changing this, change that. And that was it. He let me. Spike is very much the person that's like, it's the director's vision. You do your, you make your movie.

[Jess Hilarious]

Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We're still kicking it with Malcolm D. Lee. He is the writer, director and producer for the Best Man Girls Trip, Undercover Brother, Roll, Bounce, and more. Lauren.

[DJ Envy]

I rewatched the Best man final chapters before I started this. And in one of those episodes, Harper hints at. There's supposed to be this spin off about the love story between him and Nia Long. But then this book kind of gives that vibe too. Was that. Did you drop that egg on purpose or that just happened like that?

[Unknown]

Nah, I wish I could say that it was all like part of a master plan, but no, you know, but you write things and then you see what's, what has been established and, you know, try to build off of that.

[DJ Envy]

So in building off of that, because you decide to explore Robin, Harper and Jordan's lives, like, separately, even though they're still intertwined.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right.

[DJ Envy]

How did you decide that? I know you mentioned it was only these three characters. How'd you know, like, this was the story? Because there's so many spin offs that we learned about in Final Chapter and.

[Unknown]

We'Re going to like, right? So, like, this is the book one of a trilogy, right? And so I know that the plan was I'm gonna start with these three because I think these are the three that, that people are most interested or the most kind of polarizing because, you know, Robin had made some decisions in, in the last, in the final chapters that people were very upset about. So I want to give her A chance to, like, explain herself. And I will say, also, let me just back up a little bit. Doing a television show, as you said, it's like, be great to do, but like, it's also very restrictive in terms of budget, in terms of the story. I want to tell.

[Jess Hilarious]

I.

[Unknown]

We wanted to do. Do 10 episodes. Episodes, we're only able to do eight because of, again, many different things scheduled and whatnot. So again, being able to do it in a book is different. So in. In doing these three characters, I wanted to like, kind of like get. Answer those questions about, you know, what's going to. Going on with Robin and. I'm sorry, with Jordan and. And Harper. What's Robin doing? And. Because they're still intertwined because they still share a child. It's been a long time together. And then in book two and three, we get into Lance's pov, we're getting into Quentin's pov, Candace, Shelby, and. And. And expand on the story from there. But, you know, and we were gonna end it with. With these three. With these three characters. We're gonna be like, we're gonna wrap up their story, but they're going to continue because we have a bit of a cliffhanger at the end of Unfinished Business.

[Jess Hilarious]

You know, black content can have tremendous success. Success, but still not get respect from whatever platform or our industry. So how did Peacock react to the success of the Best man final chapters?

[Unknown]

They were ecstatic. You know, they were ecstatic. I mean, it was. I don't, I don't. I don't want to say necessarily that it saved the. The network, but it certainly was a big boost for the network. So they, they want more from me. They, you know, they would love to have another Best man, but again, again, you know, it's very, very tough.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, but saying you. You would love to have something is one thing. Showing improving it through the actual budget is another. Is that the problem?

[Unknown]

I think that's part of. It's a challenge. It's a real challenge. I mean, like, you know, again, in terms of like, what, what they value and what that, like this, this book, for instance, takes place on. In four different cities, two different continents, to. To have that kind of budget to make that movie with all these actors take Avengers type money. Right. You know, I mean, I'm exaggerating, but, like, that's what it would. Would take. Do they think it's worth it? I don't know, because it's like how much I don't know how streaming works versus the subscriptions, versus how much they can, they can afford and how much they're going to be able to expend and how much they want what they value. I, I don't know. But all I know is okay, here's a. Here's an opportunity to tell the story in another way. And listen, the books get turned into television shows and movies all the time. So you know, but that wasn't the intention. He. Here we'll see what happens.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You ever surprised with the success of the Best man and how well it's did since 99? Cuz it's, it's like a never ending story that you know, it's generations and new generations of, of kids watching and listening and viewing.

[Unknown]

Yeah, I, you know, I, I'll say.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That cuz I'm surprised it was 99. I had to look.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm like damn, 99.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah man, I don't know.

[Unknown]

Yeah, it was. I listen, I like I said, said I intended and I thought I could make a classic but I thought that was going to be it like you know, and I didn't want to be, you know, a sequel type thing because like it's like they wanted a sequel right away. And I said no, I want, I want other stories to tell. I want these characters to grow. And I'm glad I waited because you know, there is more story to tell as we as a people get more mature and get you know, different stimuli and different things that enter our brain. It's like, you know, and especially as we get older, right. And the culture changes and shifts and whatnot. I wanted to be able to infuse that with, with, with these characters as well. So you know, the fact that I was able to do it has been great, you know, like and really with Best Man Holiday it was also a very strategic move in terms of like what's the, what's, what's Everything was about branding around 2012.

[Jess Hilarious]

Right.

[Unknown]

You know, 2010.

[Jess Hilarious]

Right.

[Unknown]

And they were like okay, what's my brand? And I needed to knew the work too because I wasn't working a whole bunch. And I said okay, it's time to make another sequel or make another best man movie. Me and because my brand is the best man. So that's what happened. And you know, we met, made it so that the Best Man Holiday had a cliffhanger also that we tell another story. But you know, at the time Universal Pictures was not meeting where I wanted to meet budget wise, you know, and for another movie.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So.

[Unknown]

So I shifted to, to make a series because streaming was so popular. At the time, and I thought, okay, we could tell more story. And I knew I had two more movies that I wanted to tell.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hell, there.

[Unknown]

And then I thought, okay, now we're done. But we're not done.

[DJ Envy]

It's crazy, though, because when you mentioned the Avengers, I was just sitting here thinking about, like, how the universe of, like, those type of characters work. And this is a universe. Like we. I would literally follow storylines and not even just the main characters, but we were introduced to their children. Like, LJ has a story.

[Jess Hilarious]

Right.

[DJ Envy]

You know what I mean? So it kind of is that, but it doesn't seem like from what you're saying, it's getting that vibe when you go to these networks.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I.

[Unknown]

No, mind you, I did not try. I did not try to say, oh, I want to, like, make another show. I didn't say, like, let's make another one. Other things in the works that may or may not have to do with Best man, but I wanted to write the book first. That's. That's what I felt like that was the next logical step. Again, mounting a show is very difficult, and it's cost a lot of money. There's a lot of demands, a lot of compromises that have to happen happen. And again, gathering all that talent, you know, for a span of time is also a challenge. And I'm getting old, you know, I want to do things that, you know, that move me, that motivate me, and I think this is a good way to do it. And again, it can always shift and change. But I got. I have to do promote this book and write two more.

[Jess Hilarious]

How do you navigate the balance between cultural storytelling, selling, and commercial expectations?

[Unknown]

Interesting. I. I try not to worry too much about. About commercial success. I. I have an eye on it always. I mean, when I wrote Best man, that was both commercial and I wanted to write something commercial, but something that I thought would speak to me and the people that I. That audience that. That. That hadn't been. Had been underserved at that point. So I always have one eye on commerce and one eye on artistry, and then just try to hopefully make those meld. And you have to keep an eye on what's. What's happening. You know, like, wedding movies were very popular at that time. There had not been a black wedding movie to. To date. And I said, okay, well, I love ensemble movies. I love the. The dramedy tone of. Of storytelling. So that's what I want to try to do. And again, it was the right script at the right time, and I Just try to make the best movie that I possibly can. And if it's not my job to market it, it's their job to market it. You know, and if I'm giving you a movie that has playability, it's your job to make it marketable.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We're still kicking it with Malcolm D. Lee. He is the writer, director and producer for the Best Man, Girls Trip, Undercover Brother, Roll, Bounce, and more.

[DJ Envy]

Lauren, finding the right movie at the right time was kind of similar to what you guys did with girls trip.

[Unknown]

100% to our.

[DJ Envy]

@ this point, our network's coming to you, trying to find that, like, what's the right movie at the. Because it seems like that's a part of your brand now.

[Unknown]

Well, I think they're always trying to. To copy. It's a copycat industry. Right. Whatever. Successful, they're gonna try to make more of more of that. I think with Girls Trip, both Hangover and Bridesmaids preceded that movie. And Will Packer came to me, and he said, mao, let's take actors from Best man and think like a man, and let's make, you know, the hangover treatment for black women at essence. That's said 100% I'm in.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Right?

[Unknown]

And so, you know, it just kind of. It was, again, another right place, right time type of deal, but it has to be the right script.

[DJ Envy]

Also, did it break your heart when you saw the stuff that was happening with Essence just recently?

[Unknown]

You know, it's funny. I did not. I was there, right. I was promoting the book. I didn't have. I didn't notice, you know, what other folks were noticing because, you know, I was being shifted from this place to that place or whatever. I didn't really, like, get, you know, I wasn't really exploring, and I went, you know, to the concerts and things like that. It's a little bit. The attendance was down. Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I said. I was like, it wasn't as packed as it usually. Right.

[Unknown]

But I think some of that has to do with economics. I mean, folks ain't got broke. Yeah. People don't have the disposable income. You know, it's.

[Jess Hilarious]

It's.

[Unknown]

It's. It's not strictly just because, you know, management has changed. I think that's part of it. Or at least that's. That's the sense I'm getting from people online. I didn't have that experience. I felt like, oh, like this has really changed.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is gonna sound stupid, but you should do a guys trip. I've seen so many guys not stupid. That go to New Orleans because they're looking for women. Right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And they know that they're looking for. Whether it's married women that take their ring off for that weekend or it's single women that's out there. There's so many fellas that put their flyers outfit on and their hat and they go out there looking for it.

[Jess Hilarious]

It's be called the Y N the Young. That's what it's gonna be called. The whole. First of all, if you old, old and you doing that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh yeah. It is like.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well.

[DJ Envy]

It'S an older scale of men that come to us.

[Jess Hilarious]

You shouldn't be no 40, 50 year old bachelor in a pack still chasing women at Essence. Because you should be grown and mature and should have been already a person.

[DJ Envy]

It's the mature rundown. It's not actually that happens at that point. No.

[Unknown]

How old is any women?

[DJ Envy]

The women range in age at Essence.

[Unknown]

Yeah, it's a mature.

[DJ Envy]

Yo, hey, light skin.

[Jess Hilarious]

Like when we think about girls trip. Regina hall was married.

[Unknown]

Yep.

[Jess Hilarious]

Right. Tiffany was the wild. Right one.

[Unknown]

But, but, but, but Jada was divorced and so was.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And.

[Unknown]

And Latifah was. Was free also.

[Jess Hilarious]

So it would have to be. Yeah. So like the guy. The guys have to have a different backstory than just being a bunch of wild.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

By the way, it be like that.

[Unknown]

I'm not saying that we're not doing or we are doing a guys trip movie. Movie. But you're not. You did not plant that idea in my head. Just wanted to make sure, just to be clear.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But it's funny because you go out there and you know the guys that used to be able to drink, they take two shots to pass out now. Guys need naps now. It's funny though.

[Unknown]

But I agree, I agree. I mean, yeah, I think we wouldn't do at Essence for guys. But even though, like, I had a best friend, a really good friend rather, who said like I was telling him I was doing best girls trip. And he was like, oh, Essence, I got. I got a bunch of ESSENCE wives. And I was like, oh, interesting. So like they said the women that you don't have a chance with in regular time, you got. You gotta. You got a shot with this weekend.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

There'd be people that be like, they free. They single that weekend.

[DJ Envy]

I've been.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, you've been.

[DJ Envy]

No, no, no, I ain't. But I've seen, I've seen all the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What you been doing?

[DJ Envy]

I. No, I'm just saying I've seen that. Like, I'VE seen people and there's a lot of stories too. People revisit Essence Fest on their anniversary because they met there and now they married. Like there's a lot of that. It's kind of like homecomin.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, yeah.

[DJ Envy]

So it happens just like homecoming. But I was asking you about that and your branding and networks coming to you because in Best man, one of the things that Harper is trying so hard to do is like not let the networks take too much of him and be like whitewashed. How do you do that? Because you're working with these big platforms but like it's still very much us and we feel it.

[Unknown]

First of all, I try to have as much integrity as possible in this, in the storytelling. I'm trying to tell I'm my mission.

[I]

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[DJ Envy]

Everything.

[Unknown]

On this earth is to tell elevated stories about black people and making sure that our humanity is highlighted and that we normalize black life in America. That's my mission in life, particularly when it comes to black men. That's what I, I've been put on this earth to do. That's my. That's. And that's. And most of the time they respect that. Particularly if they think he's going to make money. You know what I mean? So like that's just part of my, my DNA.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, that's good. Because when you do this best, best guy, whatever it is. When you do this story about the men going to essence, you gotta have every single type of man represented. You gotta have the one man that's there letting these dudes know how stupid.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, chill out. Like, yeah, nah.

[Jess Hilarious]

You know what I'm saying? Like, we should have been past this, like, already.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We need to go back to the room now. We gotta go. One more club, one more ball.

[Jess Hilarious]

Let's go to the show now.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay. You know what I did wish happened after Best man, the Final Chapter, and because of the success of Girls Trip, I thought that was gonna make other platforms say, you know what, there's other shows we can do that with, like Girlfriends. Right. I feel like Girlfriends is just sitting there and Girlfriends is a show that we didn't get no closure on, so it would make all the sense in the world to do something like Girl that. So I don't understand why when we have success with something like the Best man wedding, Hollywood doesn't say that's the new mandate. We need more of that.

[Unknown]

I think, you know, a lot of that has to do with behind the scenes stuff too, you know? You know, you don't know what's going on with, again, with schedules, with the, with the creative process, you know, where, where people's heads are, how much money they're offering to, to, to produce something like that. I think Mara has talked about doing a girlfriend movie. I think Yvette Lee Bowser's talked about, you know, rebooting Living Single. It's in some form or fashion, but I mean, again, it's like, you know, what they're currently doing versus what you know, is on the horizon versus what studios are going to do or pay for. I mean, the business of filmmaking and in studios in Hollywood is contracting. It's shrinking. It's not expanding. You know, it's only getting smaller. So. So, you know, but. And they're only gonna do things that, that have ip and those are great examples of, you know, IP that already exists that, you know, they could build on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But is it difficult to do those positive type of movies? Like, you know, you look at what it costs to do that Best man and how much it made and how much it costs to do Girls Trip and how much it made. I feel like we should get more of that, but we don't see any of that. Like, you don't see a love in basketball. You don't see a best man anymore. You don't see, see a lot of those movies anymore. That's positive.

[DJ Envy]

You don't see them as many forever on Netflix.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I'm talking about movies.

[Unknown]

Oh, well, movies are very. It's very hard to get people to get out of their homes to go to a movie theater nowadays because everything is so easy on streaming. It's like, oh, I'll just turn it on to get people to come out of their homes and buy popcorn or get a babysitter or whatever. That's a. It's increasingly. Yeah, it's got to feel like an event otherwise, like. Or that, you know, I'm going to miss out on something if I don't go see it. And so that's what the students are really struggling with right now is like, what, what? Because it costs so much to not only make a movie, but to market and promote a movie that, like, it's got to be worth the shot.

[Jess Hilarious]

Is there any singular love story in the Best man that's a reflection of your personal views on love?

[Unknown]

My personal views on love. Unlike Harper, even though I've been selfish in my, in my time, I am not divorced and I'm not planning on it. And, you know, there's a balance that has to happen with your career aspirations and your family life and your partner that's going to, you know, either support you or not, you know, and so, you know, I think what, what's important is, you know, the love that not only that the characters have with one another, men and the women, the husbands and the wife, wives, but also amongst the fellas. Right. Like the, the brotherhood, the friendship that support that they have for one another and holding each other accountable as well.

[Jess Hilarious]

Absolutely.

[Unknown]

So that's certainly a, A, a personal thing of mine for sure.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, well, Malcolm D, ladies and gentlemen, appreciate you for joining us.

[Unknown]

Thank you. Thank you very much. Oh.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, you are.

[Jess Hilarious]

Wow.

[Unknown]

How about that Sable bourbon Owned by you?

[Jess Hilarious]

Morris Chestnut? Who else?

[Unknown]

Harold Perrineau and Tay Diggs.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay.

[Unknown]

And so we, we came out last August, and we're getting around the country and, and, and exposing people to disable. It's a great, great poor.

[Jess Hilarious]

What's the title mean? I mean, the name.

[Unknown]

Well, Sable is a. Another name for black. It's, you know, luxurious. It's rich. And I think it's very much emblematic of, you know, what we consider as our friendship and our brotherhood. This bourbon is bottled in brotherhood. And so, you know, it's. We wanted to bring the best man experience because every, every scene where the fellows got together, they were drinking brown a spirit. And we said, okay, like, let's make our own. And so it's. It's emblematic of that experience of brotherhood. And you can take it away with you and have a sip with your fellas. All the ladies.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, Lauren got it up already. Yeah, I see. Malcolm D. Lee, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Let's get right to the latest with Lauren.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Lauren becoming a straight face.

[Jess Hilarious]

She gets them from somebody that knows somebody.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Jess Hilarious]

Be having the latest on the.

[Unknown]

Be the Latest with Lauren LaRosa.

[Jess Hilarious]

Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have a little bit everything.

[Unknown]

Well, it's the latest on the Breakfast Club.

[Jess Hilarious]

Talk to me.

[DJ Envy]

So TMZ is reporting that right now. And. And they say that they haven't confirmed these reports, but from what they are hearing, Diddy has entered into two treatment programs or has enrolled into two treatment programs, one for domestic violence and one for the drug stuff. And he would do these programs separately while behind bar. They say that this is a common program offered to all inmates and that the reason why this matters is because, number one, it's obvious that he needs help in these areas. But number two, with his sentencing coming up on October 3rd, rehabilitation, the attempt to rehabilitate or actually being able to show that you were rehabilitated to a judge looks really good. Even though he wasn't convicted of anything directly drug related or domestic violence, it still looks good. Everything's all about optics. Another conversation that TMZ is having following this report is the fact that from what they are hearing from their same source, prosecutors are having a hard time providing previous cases, cases where the John in a man act situation is prosecuted and then sent to jail for the man act conviction. Now, per their source, it's typically not the Johns that are prosecuted under the man Act. So because of this, the defense is going to argue that this is a selective prosecution. They've already kind of been yelling that by saying that Diddy was triggered by the government. Triggered. Targeted by the government. Allegedly. And they'll try and argue that y' all are just throwing a book at him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what I've been saying. Because usually in this case, the John does not get more time than the prostitute and the pimp. But in this situation, the John, the prostitute was. Was. Got immunity. Pretty much. The pimp got immunity, which is the service, and now the people got immunity. Yes, that's what he was able to speak.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, I didn't know that.

[DJ Envy]

There was a bunch of people on the stand. I got immunity. Yes, yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So he was the only one that got charged, which seems crazy because he, he has the sex problem problem, but he was still able to get the stuff.

[DJ Envy]

Well, well his. If, if. When you get to the sentencing on October 3rd and there will be a pre sentencing report that will be submitted on August 29 that the prosecutors and the defense can weigh in on if they are unable to provide these cases. That's something that his team obviously is going to lean in on because they're trying to figure out the timing. And when October 3rd hits, he'll be at about like a year of time circus. He's arrested back in like September. I believe it was September. And the reason why that's important is because. Because prosecutors are saying, okay, we think that he should be getting anywhere from 51 to 63 months, which is four to five years. Defense is arguing 21 and 27 months. So that's a little bit over two years. But a lot of reports that I've been seeing are predicting that it'll be less than two years. With the time served, it'll be less than two years. And that he could potentially be predicting. What they're predicting is he could be. Be coming home by Thanksgiving or Christmas.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't.

[DJ Envy]

If everything goes the way that the prosecution is trying to line this.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't think I've ever heard of somebody.

[Jess Hilarious]

Everything goes away.

[DJ Envy]

I'm sorry. The way that the defense is to trying.

[Jess Hilarious]

You want them to get the maximum?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. And the maximum carries up to 20 years. It's 10 years per count. But I don't think that there's anybody that believes that that's going to happen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I think they've been trying to find somebody. I don't think we've ever heard of somebody first time purchasing a prostitute and getting 10 years. I don't think that's ever been on any books. For a first time offender to pay for a prostitute and get 10 years. That seems like they're trying to throw the book at Diddy.

[Jess Hilarious]

All I hear is trouble is easy to get into and hard to get out. And did. He has spent a whole bunch of money because he got a habit of prostitutes and drugs. Once again, change your damn habits, people. Okay. Crazy, right? We can sit here and make up all the excuses we want and you know, come up with all the scenarios we want. He would not be in this situation. It wasn't for his own poor choice.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's true. It's absolutely, positively wrong. He was guilty, but he, even though he made the wrong choices, he should not be getting 10 years for those wrong choices. Like, it has to be a fair judicial system. System has to be.

[Jess Hilarious]

Black people have been saying that since the beginning of time.

[DJ Envy]

I was literally about to say what?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Screaming at the Hilltop.

[Jess Hilarious]

I love when y' all sit up here and talk about how things are supposed to be, but don't want to talk about how things are now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're right. But 10 years for hiring a prostitute is. Is crazy when the prostitute and the escort service nothing. And other people that hired the prostitute gets nothing.

[DJ Envy]

But also, how many times just in your household, your mom and dad have talked to you about like the. The government. Government making examples out of people, right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

A lot of.

[DJ Envy]

A lot of people out of us.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Because I'm not a. Oh, so go ahead. You want.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, with an A. But he say er.

[Jess Hilarious]

No, just was right. We shouldn't be using that word. You're so quick to claim the wrong thing. She said, yes, we are. You know what I'm saying? Like, no, I want better for you.

[DJ Envy]

I worked in the. Never mind.

[Jess Hilarious]

You worked with people called you the N word.

[DJ Envy]

No, I did not say that. I did not say that. No, I was going to. Now I got to say it. I was going to say that. Where I worked before, you couldn't even say that word out loud. I just be happy to be able to say it here.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, great.

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm trying not to say it. I'm trying not to say it my whole life. Guess what?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Period.

[Jess Hilarious]

Y' all be out there all the time and you don't want me to say it. Okay. I use the way the white man use it. Anyways. That's why I really need to stop.

[DJ Envy]

That's why I said A. Not er. Cuz he quick to call you one with er.

[Jess Hilarious]

Boy. Man. Man.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What else is in news?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, other news. So Stevie Wonder addressed the rumors that he is not really blind. Let's take a listen.

[Unknown]

You know, there have been rumors about me seeing and all that, but seriously, you know the truth. The truth is, shortly after my birth, I became blind. Now, that was a blessing because it's.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Allowed me to see the world in.

[Unknown]

The vision of truth sight.

[Lauren LaRosa]

See people in the spirit of them.

[Unknown]

And how they look and what color they are.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Are. But what color is their spirit?

[Jess Hilarious]

I hadn't told y' all a million times. Stevie Wonder got better vision than all of us. Okay, can I.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Can I ask. Is it cuz it's blind and legally blind, Right? Legally blind means you can still the.

[Jess Hilarious]

Reason I ask here go envy all Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what? Let me show you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But no, you said that he addressed the rumors of him being able to see what? I mean, like, can he.

[DJ Envy]

A lot of people always have made jokes that he can, but he's telling me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No. I know, but, like, what did he say? Like, I mean, I know I just heard. Heard what he said, but can he see a little bit? Did he say that?

[Unknown]

That's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's my point.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Of great things.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Had a bad chick around him, Right? There's not one person seen him with.

[Jess Hilarious]

A bad chick one night.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

See, that's my point.

[Jess Hilarious]

Nobody ever said they seen Stevie with ugly.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Say it again. Tell what happened.

[Jess Hilarious]

You got.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He was in a hotel. Go ahead, tell me. I love the story. I love this story.

[Jess Hilarious]

I just seen him with a really. I seen him with a baddie one night. Not. No, like. Like. Like creeping a little bit. How he know he creeping?

[Lauren LaRosa]

How he creep when you die?

[Jess Hilarious]

And it's funny. Walk by him. It was just us in the hallway, and it was him and the chick. And I'm like, stevie, in case you got any doubt, you got a bad one with you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thanks, Charlemagne.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He did not say, thanks, Charlemagne.

[Jess Hilarious]

Who the hell was talking to him?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, yo, nobody ever seen Stevie with a. With a. With an ugly chick. He always got a bad chick.

[Jess Hilarious]

I ain't say all that. I ain't never heard that. I'm just saying what I saw.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Jeez. So, yeah, that's what I'm saying.

[DJ Envy]

He said.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He really didn't say.

[DJ Envy]

Truth is, shortly after my birth, I became blind.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay.

[Jess Hilarious]

After his birth, once again, Stevie Wonder got better vision than all of us.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. He said, I see people for them. I know that community is like, see. I know that's right. They seen, honey.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, my God.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That is great.

[Jess Hilarious]

I see they for them.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

You sure? I've seen people they for them.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I know they right now. Why you can't see it, J.

[Jess Hilarious]

Damn, Stevie. Ring him the lgbt. He doing the braille lg. That's. That's lgbtq. I see them for them.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. Yes. Oh, my goodness. You know, like, oh, God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That is the latest.

[Jess Hilarious]

Jesus Christ crazy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Charlamag. We give you a donkey, too, man.

[Jess Hilarious]

Man, this man is going to hell with us. His name is Pastor John. He needs to come to the front of the congregation. He needs to come to the front of the congregation. We like to have a word with him. Okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We'll get to it. Next is the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

[Unknown]

Your mornings will never be the same.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Execution on the donkey of the day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Is something to behold. We'll get a ring.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Gave me donkey of the day and I deserve it. People need to know. Well you need to tell them cuz you have the voice. Tell them, tell them, tell them it's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Time for donkey of the day.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's a read but you're so good.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

At it you're trying to be a fake ass.

[Jess Hilarious]

Charlamagne. There's only one Charlemagne involved.

[DJ Envy]

Damn Charlemagne.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Who you give a dunkey of the day to now?

[Jess Hilarious]

Well, sexy red donkey of the day for Tuesday, July 15th goes to Pastor John Gibson of Alabama. Pastor John Gibson is the associate pastor at First Baptist Church of Dothan, Alabama, Alabama and he is accused of leaving a young child alone in an SUV while he drank at a bar and then went into a 24 hour restaurant to have a bite to eat. I know y' all don't believe me, so let's go to News 4 for the report please.

[Unknown]

A Dothan pasture arrested early Sunday morning.

[Morgan]

Reports from eyewitnesses say John Gibson left a child in his SUV while he.

[Unknown]

Drank at a bar.

[Morgan]

Eyewitnesses also say he drove across the parking lot and went into a 24 hour restaurant.

[Unknown]

Restaurant again, leaving the child in the back seat.

[Morgan]

Police say Gibson was taken into custody when officers arrived and charged with endangering.

[Unknown]

The welfare of a child.

[Morgan]

At this time, Gibson was an associate pastor at First Baptist Church of Dothan. They have since parted ways.

[Jess Hilarious]

Damn.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Damn.

[Jess Hilarious]

Now I'm a believer in God. God speaks to me all the time. I have extensive conversations with God. I speak to God like I speak to my therapist. And fact, I'm lying. I'm way more honest with God because God knows all anyway. But I will be the first to admit I probably don't believe in God as much as much as Pastor John Gibson because it takes an extreme level of faith and extreme trust in a higher power to just leave a five year old in the car while you in a bar having a drink and then going over to a 24 hour restaurant to get a bite to eat and knowing everything going to be all right. Okay? Not to mention it was a Saturday night going into a Sunday morning. Morning. Clearly it wasn't his Sunday to preach. Okay. And he must have thought to himself, I'll go sin on this Saturday night and ask forgiveness. Ask for forgiveness in church on Sunday morning. And yes, he did sin. Okay. Now I'm not the highest grade of weed in the dispensary. I am not the most potent burning bush nor my pastor Sarah Jake Roberts or Pastor Torre? Roberts. But I can still recognize a biblical sin. And I count at least six from Pastor John Gibson in this situation. Would you like to hear him hit him? They go, number one, neglect of parental duty. First, Timothy five, eight says, but if anyone does not provide for his relatives and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. Okay? Leaving a 5 year old in a car to drink and dine violates a core biblical responsibility to protect and care for one's family. Okay? Number two, drunkenness. All right. Okay. Okay. In the book of Ephesians, I can't remember the scripture, but it says, and do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the spirit. Okay? That scripture right there, I do not abide by. Okay? I drink wine. And when I want to be biblically responsible, I drink tequila because the scripture says, do not get drunk with wine. Don't say nothing about no tequila, though. But back to Pastor John, if he was drunk, okay, While supervising a child, that's a clear sin of drunkenness. Which scripture, Lee, which scripture says leads to poor judgment and sin. Pastor John, you are absolutely on the path of poor judgment. Number three, endangering a child. Okay? Matthew 18:6. If anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned. Endangering a child, people physically, emotionally, or spiritually is a grave offense, okay? And leaving a child in a car unattended in Alabama is a form of this, all right? You're supposed to be introducing this young man to heaven. Instead you got him sitting in a hot couch car that feels like eternal hell fire. Number four, hypocrisy. Matthew 23, 25. Woe to you, teachers of the law. Okay, you hypocrites. All right, you clean the outside, but inside they are full of greed and self indulgence. Pastor John Gibson, you are a pastor. You are expected to model righteous behavior. Your actions contrast sharply with your religious role, which is absolute hypocrisy in the biblical sense. Number five, irresponsibility and just plain old foolishness. Okay? Proverbs 25, 26. Like a muddled spring or a polluted well are the righteous who give way to the wicked. Pastor Gibson, your behavior showed poor judgment, okay? Selfishness and foolishness, traits the Bible associates with sin and spiritual weakness. Okay? Last but certainly not least, the number six sin you committed, breaking trust and causing scandal. Leviticus 19:2. You shall be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy. Or you can go. Titus 1:7. Be above reproach as a spiritual leader. Pastor Gibson, you failed the standard of being above reproach. Okay? Harming the church's witness and bringing scandal to the body of Christ. Pastor Gibson, I'm telling you right now, if repentance and accountability follow these actions, forgiveness is possible. But biblically, these are serious offenses, both morally and spiritually. And I hate to be the one to tell you, jail might be the least of your. No worries. You might be going to hell. Okay. This man got fired by the church. I didn't know you could get fired by a church. Okay, First Baptist Church released a statement. They said they have parted ways with him since his arrest. So you committed six biblical sins and got fired by our First Baptist Church. This sounds like a first ballot unanimous. Going to hell of Famer. Okay? And it sounds about right to me. All right. Pastor Gibson left a five year old in a hot car in Alabama while he drank at a bar and then went to go eat at a 24 hour restaurant. And now because of those sins, he's probably headed to a place even hotter. Okay. When you forsake your seed to feed your flesh, you ain't just walking into heaven. No. You might be taking the express elevator downtown. And Satan don't have no ushers. Just heat and regret. Please give Pastor John Gibson the sweet sounds of the Hamiltones. Y' all want to play a game?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No.

[Jess Hilarious]

Y' all don't want to play no game?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sure, why not?

[Jess Hilarious]

Let's play. Play again. Guess what race it is. All right. Pastor John Gibson, he was the Associate pastor at First Baptist Church in Dalton, Alabama. Left the 5 year old in a hot car while he went to go drink in a bar and have a bite to eat at a 24 hour restaurant. DJ Envy, guess what? Racy is black. Why? Your Dominican asset. That's so fast.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I got a hunch.

[Jess Hilarious]

You got a hunch, huh?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right. That's what Diddy says at a free call. I need the hunch right now. Oh, my goodness. Listen. Just hilarious. Pastor John Gibson, he was the associate pastor at First Baptist Church in Alabama. Left a five year old in the car while he went to go drink at a bar and have a bite to eat.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Guess what?

[Jess Hilarious]

Racist. Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That was an er.

[Unknown]

Powerful at work here.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Why do y' all think that last name is Gibson? I know somebody with the last name Gibson.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Me too.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Black. Who would do something like that? Totally do something like that. And all the be in church.

[Jess Hilarious]

Well, Alabama, I want just Hilarious and DJ Envy to know that both of y' all are absolutely, positively wrong. Y' all have no faith in your own people. Back to John Gibson is Caucasian. Oh, my God. Capital riot. White. Look at him. Bald head, Nazi looking. Yes, yes, yes. Y' all should be ashamed of yourself.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I do know a white Gibson. Mel Gibson. Mel Gibson.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I thought he's talking Tyrese Gibson.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's what made me think black. Because I'm like Tyrese Gibson.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Alabama. Alabama, Black. You know what I mean, right?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Alabama. Right.

[Jess Hilarious]

And this is a hillbilly Pastor John Gibson.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I knew it, though.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No black person gonna be there, child. No, no.

[Jess Hilarious]

You ain't know nothing. You said black. Shut your Dominican ass.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Have been left in that car many days. Don't even play.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Allegedly.

[Unknown]

Stop.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Not while I went in the car to bar drinking.

[Jess Hilarious]

I knew it all. No, you didn't. You said black so fat. Black rolled off your little Dominican lips so quick.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But don't be acting like people of all races don't do dumb crack crap like this. Trust me. Yes, to go drink.

[Jess Hilarious]

This is a Caucasian. Can you imagine how musty hell is? You ever think about that?

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, no, no. Because it depends on the circumstances.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What you mean?

[Jess Hilarious]

Of people.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What you told me, like, you know, because black, everybody of all ages, I mean, everybody of all races then left somewhere. Like, for instance, remember that. That boy, that guy, that black guy who said he had a job interview. He left both his kids at the McDonald's playhouse.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. Okay, that was very much black.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're right.

[DJ Envy]

He was black.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, he was black. Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And then, you know, white. White people do way worse to the kids, you know, Sorry for all the whites listening, but I'm just saying, like, they. A lot of people do, you know, and then Hispanics, they do crazy stuff, too, so. I didn't know.

[DJ Envy]

Sorry.

[Jess Hilarious]

What about Mexicans?

[Lauren LaRosa]

What about them?

[Jess Hilarious]

What do they do?

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, no, no. They. They raise their family.

[Jess Hilarious]

They.

[Lauren LaRosa]

They grow. You know, they have farms. They grow their.

[Jess Hilarious]

You know what?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, let's open up the phone lines.

[Jess Hilarious]

How must these as hell?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

800, cuz.

[Jess Hilarious]

Ain't no deodorant in hell. Just funking fire.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But how are we supposed to know?

[Jess Hilarious]

I don't know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

800-585-1051. Here's a question for the ladies out there. Ladies, do broke men treat you better than rich men?

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm so sick of you asking questions for yourself and blaming the ladies.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

5851051. That is the question. It was online. It was trending yesterday. So that's what we're asking.

[Jess Hilarious]

Where does it come from?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Do broke men treat you better than Richmond?

[Jess Hilarious]

How would they know? Majority of the world is broken broke right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right now. So that is the question. 800-585-1051. Let's discuss Charlemagne.

[Jess Hilarious]

I ain't never dated no rich man. How the hell we supposed to do.

[Lauren LaRosa]

They see by example all the time, like the things that rich men put you through.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But maybe not rich, just a guy with some money.

[Jess Hilarious]

One sitting in court right now waiting to be sentenced in October.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Exactly. You know, but because some guys feel like when they have money, they can do more things. They can get away with with things. But broke guys do too. I've been treated the same by both trash, so no. And especially with somebody ugly. You ever been with somebody ugly and they treat you like you the ugly one?

[Jess Hilarious]

Boy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What? So it. It depends. It all depends, Charlie, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How has a. A broke man treated you?

[Jess Hilarious]

I've never been with a rich man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's how I.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So how is the broken treated?

[Jess Hilarious]

You know what?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We'll do that when we come back. 800-585-1051 is the Breakfast Club.

[Unknown]

Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess. Hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren larosa just walked in. We're asking a question. Ladies. Do broken treat you better than Richmond? And Jess just asked Lauren.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, because I know, listen, she had a life before head. She. I asked before she got here.

[DJ Envy]

Because bald people just have a hit.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. So, no. So what have you been treated differently by? You know, what is it?

[DJ Envy]

You gotta have a little coin. Because other than that, you be intimidated, you be angry.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay.

[Jess Hilarious]

What did the man do, Lauren? How did you know he had money? What did he do?

[DJ Envy]

I mean, you spend time with somebody, you see how they living, you see how they've established themselves, you see what they've been doing.

[Jess Hilarious]

But you didn't know what he did.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She is know.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She can tell.

[Jess Hilarious]

What did the rich man you dated do?

[DJ Envy]

I do know what he does. And I don't have to get into all of that.

[Jess Hilarious]

Drug dealer in Delaware. Okay, first of all, you probably in prison right now.

[DJ Envy]

The way you minimize my. My choices.

[Jess Hilarious]

Well, you could if. If you knew what he did and it was an honest profession.

[DJ Envy]

You would just say it is an honest profession.

[Jess Hilarious]

So what is it?

[DJ Envy]

He has a really good job.

[Jess Hilarious]

One of the guys you with now?

[DJ Envy]

One.

[Jess Hilarious]

I got two videos. I Don't know if it's the same person.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow. Hello?

[Jess Hilarious]

Who's this?

[DJ Envy]

I don't even know what you talking about no more. You just be here making stuff up.

[Jess Hilarious]

Hello?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Save Lauren. What happened? Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

Because.

[Unknown]

Good morning. It's Chris.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Chris. Broke men or rich guys? Which one treats you better?

[Unknown]

Mama, I'mma say the brokies because they trying to secure like a safe, secure spot.

[Jess Hilarious]

First of all, I would call us brokies.

[DJ Envy]

Like, okay, you not no brokey.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes. Listen, hush your noise.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You're not no brokey.

[DJ Envy]

Anybody that is laying a pipe for somewhere to live that's only gonna last but so long, the minute you tell him, get up and clean up like the. The amount of money he worth, he met.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello? Who's this?

[Unknown]

Gay now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, Danielle. Who treats you better? The broke.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Gay now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, gay now.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

Yes.

[Jess Hilarious]

Gay now. I'm start calling you.

[Unknown]

Stop.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Gay now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who treat you better? The brokey or. Or the guy with some money?

[Unknown]

The guy with the money.

[Jess Hilarious]

How you know what guy you dated?

[Unknown]

Because I'm dating. I'm not done saying your name, but I lived in Atlanta for 18 years. I've dated guys with money.

[Jess Hilarious]

Was he a rapper, an athlete?

[Unknown]

I've dated rappers, I dated athletes. I've dated lawyers.

[DJ Envy]

Was he an African man that owns some spots that people go eat at? That's how they be in Atlanta?

[Unknown]

No, I've never dated an African man with a spot. No.

[DJ Envy]

You know what I'm talking about.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I know them in Atlanta. Love her name. I know that's right. Gay now. I cannot gay now.

[Jess Hilarious]

And why did. Why did the rich men treat you better?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Their mindset was different, okay?

[Unknown]

They wanted to do the type of things I wanted to do do. And they had the means to do them.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's right. And I got to get back home to my family, so I need to go ahead and get this out the way, treat you good real quick, and get back home to my wife.

[DJ Envy]

That could be the issue a lot of times. The men with the money can afford a lot of different homes.

[Jess Hilarious]

I think men should start raising their standards and stop dating broke women. We don't never have that conversation.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, that's the thing. We've always had that conversation. Because when you broke and a man got money, he definitely can control you.

[Jess Hilarious]

You.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He wants you. You know what I'm saying? Because I was rude, like broke broke before. And they like for you to need them. They like for you to depend on what?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

To control the situation. Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So control me. He just gave me the Money. See, back then, that was. I'm reformed. But I'm just saying, like, that was how I used to think before.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But that's what it is. You find somebody with no money that needs it, they gonna. They're more likely to do whatever it takes to get the money.

[Jess Hilarious]

I'll tell y' all something that y' all may not want to hear.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Diddy.

[Jess Hilarious]

The way the economy is going, y' all better start being with people for love. Okay. Cause this time next year, year, y' all gonna be sitting around acting like y' all got it, but we gonna know y' all don't have it. Okay? Times is about to get really, really, really, really hard. So you better find somebody that loves.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You for you much harder than they are now.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Because they definitely are hard. So ain't about to be no love because people gonna be so mad because they broke.

[Jess Hilarious]

67% of Americans are living paycheck to pay. You know how much 67% is?

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's a lot.

[Jess Hilarious]

Paycheck to paycheck. The 1% is the 1% for a reason. But y' all out here talking about y' all dating rich men. Cut it out, okay? Everybody's just lying.

[DJ Envy]

Rich don't always mean a Bentley. It just mean they got something stable.

[Jess Hilarious]

Rich being rich.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's just say I have money. That's what I'm trying to tell you.

[DJ Envy]

People be so, like, men be lying so much about their money and what they got, and they be having these chains that ain't real. Once you really get in the business, you'll be like, oh, it's nothing there. It's like the Instagram girls with inflatable beds.

[Jess Hilarious]

I agree. Social media is only going to keep people afloat. But so far, and what I mean by that is so many people can get on social media and pretend that's right to be something they're not.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

But I'm telling you, times is about to get so hard. Ain't gonna be no more pretending. People gonna be showing, man, I ain't got it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's gonna be hard, or people ain't gonna be on there no more. You're gonna look up like, oh, where was money up to all the time? What happened to this? Yeah, exactly.

[Jess Hilarious]

Going on a spiritual journey.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Exactly.

[Jess Hilarious]

No, I don't do social media no more. Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, we got the latest with Lauren coming up.

[DJ Envy]

We talking about, yes, Uno is not coming to the casino in Vegas. What we going to get into it. They just burst our bubble.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, we'll talk about it. When we come back, it's the Breakfast Club.

[Unknown]

The Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess. Hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the latest with Lauren.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Lauren becoming a straight fat.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She gets him from somebody that knows somebody.

[Jess Hilarious]

Details.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Jess Hilarious]

She be having the latest on the.

[Unknown]

Latest with Lauren LaRosa.

[Jess Hilarious]

Sometimes she have facts, sometimes she have details. Sometimes she have a little bit everything.

[Unknown]

Who is the latest on the Breakfast Club?

[Jess Hilarious]

Talk to me.

[DJ Envy]

All right, y'. All, you be like, I just had a deep breath. I just felt you staring. And like, what Charlamagne? I don't. Let's not.

[Jess Hilarious]

Why y' all over there drinking liquor?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Who? Why?

[Jess Hilarious]

Who?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, don't say.

[Jess Hilarious]

The funny part is.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Listen.

[Jess Hilarious]

She got the bottle hidden by. By her chair like she. Like she alcoholic sneaking.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Don't say.

[DJ Envy]

Coming to Vegas. Uno's not coming to Vegas, y'. All. Well, technically it. It came to Vegas, but it's not coming. Charlemagne, can you concentrate? This is very disrespectful. I'm trying to do the latest with Lauren. The rose, period.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, go ahead.

[DJ Envy]

So Uno did come to Vegas, right? But it wasn't what people thought it was. So Uno had to come out and clear up a rumor. So they posted a rumor, say, Uno gay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, my God. Okay, go ahead. They made it seem like it was gonna be a table game. I got. Everybody in the hood got excited.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, and what did I tell you when you told me that you said.

[DJ Envy]

How is it going to be in the casino way? You were trying to figure out how it would work in a casino. So look, Uno came out and said, hey, UNO fans, a rumor has come to our attention that there will be UNO tables on the casino floors in Las Vegas. Sounds wild, huh? We hate to be the bearer to bad news, but the casino floor isn't ready for us yet. We've been told that while they do have tight security, it's not robust enough for UNO at this time. This isn't a reverse card. While we get this sorted out, the UNO Social Club is rolling out in bars in Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, Atlanta and Austin this August. Stay wild. The UNO team.

[Jess Hilarious]

Why the hell I'm a pay to play Uno? Like I ain't going nowhere to pay to play no damn Uno. You gamble and you win.

[DJ Envy]

People was excited. I saw people getting their. Their groups to travel, though.

[Jess Hilarious]

Cuz everybody got different rules.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That was my question. What are the rules?

[DJ Envy]

We talked about this on the podcast, the Latest with Lauren LaRosa yesterday. And I said, who make the house.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Rules but the casino? I guarantee you the casino is going to make it so difficult to win. It's to the point where ain't nobody going to want to play it no more because they're gonna.

[Jess Hilarious]

The.

[Lauren LaRosa]

The. The casino rules are going to be so removed from what the actual rules are. I'm telling you, I. I just already know that.

[Jess Hilarious]

I don't think Uno should be at a high stakes place like that. Like, Uno is for like, you know, casual recreational barbecues, cookouts. You know, you get drunk, you talk to with your people. I don't want to see Uno in no casino.

[DJ Envy]

Well, as of right now, it won't be on the casino for. But the reason why people were confused was because they did do this Uno social club that they have that they're going to be taking around to these different, different places. In the first place they took it to was the Palms Casino in Vegas. So when people saw that and then there was this press release that came out talking about it, people just assumed that this was going to be an official casino game. But it will not be.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now when they bring Squid games to the US and they do US games, they could do Uno, they could do dominoes games is deadly.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Envy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, no, I mean for tv, but. Because I heard they're going to bring the next Squid games, hopefully to the US they could do the American games. That'd be dope.

[Jess Hilarious]

Why the hell would they be doing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Have you ever seen Squid games?

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's what I said.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I watched Time. I mean on tv. I'm talking about on tv. I'm not talking about real life.

[Jess Hilarious]

You know what they should do for Squid Games? They need to bring it to the hood. That's what I want to see. What can you imagine Squid game in Newark, Squid game in Baltimore?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. I can imagine how many people would be dead.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's what Netflix should be doing. Netflix should be doing Squid Games in the Hood. It's already.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Squid Games.

[Jess Hilarious]

Would be for. Fantastic. You get the right person to write that.

[DJ Envy]

Okay. Okay. Yeah, I think it's already happening. Well, in other news, completely right turn. There are reports right now, or Trey Songs about Trey Songs. Trey Songs. There's a active police investigation investigating an alleged brutal attack against a photographer. Now, Trey Song's team has come out and said that it didn't go the way that it is being reported. And I'll get into their statement, but the original reports was that Trey Songz was accused of Coming for a cameraman who had just got out of the hospital with serious injuries. And allegedly, this went down in New York early Sunday morning, and the cameraman was trying to shoot a video for the owner of a location where they were. They say that the. The owner told the cameraman to shoot the event as Trey Songs performed. And then they're saying that Trey Songs was aware that the owner had told the photographer to shoot the event. And then I guess there was, like, a dispute that went down between Trey and the photographer. There's actually video. Video. If you watch the video, you can see dispute in the video. And basically, they're. They're saying that Trey got annoyed at people asking him for photos and videos, and this whole dispute went down. The Trey Songz team is saying that it did not go that way. They're saying that the media is unfairly turning this into an unfinished story about clickbait and selling a headline is lazy and unfair. They say that what happened at the location called the Ivy was a result of an increasingly aggressive paparazzi invading Trey Song's personal space. That put everyone at risk. And this is a trend that impacts not only just trace on, but artists everywhere. So he's disputing that the events went down the way that they were reported.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Now, listen, we have seen paparazzi get to the point where it's like, all right, yo, back up. Get out my face. Like, all that.

[DJ Envy]

We.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We didn't seen it. So that's not like something that we've never heard before, right? Yeah. Like, yo, they. They get disrespectful. They get in your face. And then you say, he just had. Just. Just got out the hospital with injuries, and he came in the club camera all in trade face, you know? And then now what?

[DJ Envy]

Now here we are.

[Jess Hilarious]

You sound like he was an eyewitness. You want to testify?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm just saying I'm. I'm off the details from Lola Rosa. You know, she got the latest. I'm. I'm like, if we just listen to it, it just sounds like yo was probably irritated. Like, yo, get out my face.

[Jess Hilarious]

You know, I'm still tripping off the fact that early this morning, you told Lauren she was dressed like Bow Jersey. Cleveland.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cleveland jersey.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And then she got on the air. It was just an air mix because if she would hit on some heels, it would have been given, you know? You know, like, Sierra.

[Jess Hilarious]

I just. I just know. I just. It just just try to keep saying it's been staring at me all morning. I don't what I think you did that on purpose. That's why I'm not biting. Debate.

[Lauren LaRosa]

My hair is art.

[Jess Hilarious]

I don't know what it says, cuz from this angle, all I see is it says my hair is. And I refuse. I think she wore that on purpose. And I refuse to engage.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That is.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, no. All right, so look, I posted a picture with clips, right? Pusha T. My cousins Pusha T and M and M ate us up in that all white. Okay, because the. The picture is now going viral. I know you saw that on your.

[DJ Envy]

Twitter home zaddies, too. The Shade Room posted it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay. Yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes. They called Justin Zaddy.

[DJ Envy]

They call it Malice. They were saying that Malice ate her and put the se up in the photo.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Malice is a Zaddy clown.

[Jess Hilarious]

But she said. Zaddy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Said plural.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Pusha.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, Exactly.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm the mommy.

[Unknown]

All right, all right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

People's choice mixes up next. We get to it. Don't move. It's the Breakfast Club.

[Unknown]

Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Your mornings will never be the same.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Morning, everybody. It's cj, Envy, Jess. Hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Reminding you guys, this Saturday, my car show goes down. I'm super duper excited. If you haven't got your tickets, get your tickets. It's gonna be a fun day, man. Old cars, new cars, kids, games for the. For. For kids and. And rides. And kids five and under are free. It's gonna be a great event. There's gonna be food trucks. It's gonna be all types of things. So if you want to be a vendor or you want to put your car in the show, I think it's over 200 cars gonna be there. You can email me djmvcarshow gmail.com where you@ this weekend?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I am in Milwaukee. I'm in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Milwaukee. Get your tickets, man. I know y' all having a trying week, a trying last two weeks, and y' all need to laugh. So just get your tickets if you have. Not yet. Jessilar.com I'll be at the Improv. Two shows on Friday, two shows this Saturday. Get your tickets. Milwaukee. I love y' all so much. Can't wait to get there. And next week, Arlington, Texas, y' all get y' all tickets if y' all have. Not yet. Jessofficial.com Salute to everybody who listens to.

[Jess Hilarious]

Us on V107 in Milwaukee.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right. When we come back, we got the positive note. And I'm. I want to send a rest in peace to Ray Dijon. Ray Dijon, former host of Video Music Box, comedian, club owner. He's from Queens, New York. He also did a lot of rooms, which broke a lot of comedians out there. Today is his birthday as well. He passed away yesterday and today is his birthday. So I just want to send a rest in peace to Ray Dijon. All right. Salute to Malcolm D. Lee for stopping through. He's the writer, director, and producer for films like the Best Man, Girl, Girls Trip, Undercover Brother, Roll Bounce. He stopped through today. He got a new book.

[Jess Hilarious]

Well, he's got a new book called the Best Man, Unfinished Business. And if you love the stories that are that that the Best man movies have been and the Best Man TV show on Peacock. This is continuing the story. It's continuing the stories of Harper and Jordan and Robin. Yeah, so go check that out. He's doing a trilogy of these that's gonna cover all three of the characters. But this first one is Harper, Robin, and Jordan. So go get that. And I want to salute to everybody in Walterboro, South Carolina. Man. I will be down in Walter on Thursday. We're doing the ribbon cutting for my second crystal location. You know, me and my wife, we invested in some crystal franchises in South Carolina, and we're bringing crystal back to South Carolina. We got one in Orangeburg, but now we're opening up another one in Walterboro, South Carolina. It actually opened yesterday. Man. Salute to everybody who pulled up to the Crystal and Walterboro yesterday. But the ribbon cutting is this Thursday, July 17, at 11am we're gonna have a full food, it's gonna be music, it's gonna be giveaways, and I'll be there cutting the ribbon at 11am Salute to the Southeastern Chamber of Commerce and Walterboro. We'll see you on Thursday.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right. You got a positive note?

[Jess Hilarious]

I do. Be humble and never think that you are better than anybody else, because dust. You are into dust. You will return. Have a great day. Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Morgan]

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