FULL SHOW: Britney Spears Arrested For DUI + Ari Lennox & Trick Williams Interview

Summary

The Breakfast Club – March 6, 2026

Episode: FULL SHOW: Britney Spears Arrested For DUI + Ari Lennox & Trick Williams Interview
Hosts: DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God, Angela Yee, Lauren LaRosa, Mimi Brown
Podcast Network: The Black Effect Podcast Network & iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

This episode covers a wild and wide-ranging batch of current events, culture talk, and celebrity interviews. The hosts discuss breaking news—most notably Britney Spears’ recent DUI arrest—along with major political shakeups, escalating global conflicts, celebrity rumors, and the aftermath of viral social media hoaxes.
Featured are in-depth interviews with R&B star Ari Lennox (discussing her album "Vacancy," personal growth, and music industry journey) and WWE star Trick Williams (on his wrestling career and representing for South Carolina). Listeners call in for the "Get It Off Your Chest" segment, giving voice to everyday wins and frustrations.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Morning Headlines & Lively Banter (02:45–06:49)

• Hosts check in: Catch up, jokes, and Charlemagne's signature affirmation:
  • "I feel blessed, black and highly favored. Happy to be here another day to serve our beautiful listeners." (03:01, Charlemagne)
• Lauren LaRosa’s new book: Lauren mentions her new book, excitement about press tour, and how her partner wants to write his own perspective.
• Ari Lennox’s new project intro: Announcement of Ari’s appearance and anticipation for her interview.
• Teasing Trick Williams’ guest spot: The hosts banter about his South Carolina roots and college football history.

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2. Front Page News

Trump Administration Shakeup (07:11–12:47)

• Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s removal:
  • Under fire for leadership and a costly $220 million campaign telling migrants to self-deport.
  • Drama as Trump claims ignorance of the campaign:
    • "Apparently President Trump didn't see them either...he said that he had no idea what she was talking about and that he never signed off on that campaign." (09:08, Mimi Brown)
• Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin nominated as replacement:
  • Notoriety from a near-brawl in a Senate hearing, clip played:
    • "'Quit the tough guy act in these Senate hearings! ...You want to run your mouth, we can be two consenting adults...Let's finish it here.'" (09:49, Markwayne Mullin)

Iran/US Conflict Escalations and Gas Prices (11:12–13:32)

• Trump warns about ‘new realities of war’ amid Iran conflict:
  • "No, we are waiting for them." (12:06, Iranian FM)
  • Gas prices and flights rising rapidly—a roundtrip to Atlanta now $1000.

Pop Culture Fact Check: Queen Latifah Hoax (22:42–25:43)

• Queen Latifah confirms she’s not ill after fake AI rumors spread.
  • "She posted a video...‘Hey, it’s Queen Latifah. I’m okay. Just showing y’all I’m okay.’" (24:33, Angela Yee)

Britney Spears Arrested for DUI (25:54–34:47)

• Britney pulled over for erratic driving.
  • Audio played of police call; possible .06 BAC, “potentially facing jail time or rehab.”
• Social media weighs conservatorship:
  • Debate with conservatorship expert Gina Lisa Monteroso:
    • "'No.' And that could be very controversial." (32:40, Gina Lisa)
    • "The point of a conservatorship, right, is to protect the person. As long as it's the right person, it shouldn't be a problem." (33:23, Lauren LaRosa)
  • “Dancing, the stupid stuff online, but when you’re driving...that’s a problem.” (34:06, Charlemagne)
  • Upcoming court date: May 4.

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3. Audience Interaction — "Get It Off Your Chest" Calls (13:47–21:01)

• Bodybuilding and discipline:
  • Listener Big O shares his weight loss journey and asks if women would date a bodybuilder.
    • "I don't see why a woman would not want to date a bodybuilder who's trying to get their body right." (16:20, Lauren LaRosa)
• Gas prices and small business shout-outs, struggles with Etsy trademark enforcement.
• Veteran’s perspective on going to war:
  • "This is getting ridiculous, man...we better get rid to the flower appointments and you want to start another war." (19:50, Big O)
• Emotional call: Listener who’s gone through struggles and appreciates the show’s positive impact.

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4. In-Depth Interview: Ari Lennox (43:53–70:15)

Creative Process, Self-Growth & Industry Independence

• Album "Vacancy":
  • Themes of loneliness, seeking fulfillment:
    • "The album encompasses a void that needs to be filled...romantic, platonic, business." (44:16, Ari Lennox)
• Personal life vulnerability:
  • "I'd rather be by myself than in anything toxic." (45:27, Ari Lennox)
  • Open talk on dating, past heartbreaks, and learning from cycles in her love life.
  • Therapy, self-love and learning to look in the mirror:
    • "My therapist...has me doing these exercises every morning where I have to look at myself. That's like, so hard, but I'm getting closer." (50:36, Ari Lennox)
• Leaving Dreamville/Interscope:
  • Honest regrets about airing frustrations on social media:
    • “I feel like I should have never taken it to the internet. I do want to apologize to J. Cole.” (57:05, Ari Lennox)

Celebrity & Social Media Controversies

• Martin sitcom remarks & impact
  • "It was heartbreaking...I felt like I isolated myself from every Black person in the world." (67:50, Ari Lennox)
• Standout Quotes:
  • On relationships: “I think it's like trauma or a kink...I'll be quick to be like, 'oh yeah, I love you,' but it's like, of course, I do—right now. It's nice. The sex is really nice.” (48:58, Ari Lennox)
  • On creative freedom: “That's the beauty about Dreamville, they've always created that atmosphere...it's always been beautiful.” (54:33, Ari Lennox)

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5. Interview: Trick Williams, WWE Star (86:14–100:37)

• From football to wrestling:
  • “They reached out to me...I tried out and they said 'yo, you got charisma, you got a good look.'” (87:05, Trick Williams)
• Learning the ropes:
  • “Wrestling's everything...we grab microphones, we talk trash...you gotta be the ultimate showman.” (89:26, Trick Williams)
• Defining a Black presence in WWE:
  • “I can't be anything else than Black. I can't change my skin, you know what I mean? The better I do, the better it is for people who look like me.” (89:03, Trick Williams)
• His relationship with fellow wrestler Lash Legend:
  • “It helps, I mean, like you have double the reason to be invested into both of us now.” (96:54, Trick Williams)
• Wrestlemania buzz:
  • “60,000 fans, night one, 60,000 fans, night two...that’s what it’s all about, the biggest lights possible, the biggest production.” (99:08, Trick Williams)

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6. Latest Pop Culture & Music (70:22–103:47)

• Terrence Howard reflects on being fired from Iron Man franchise and his tumultuous career. Denzel Washington once counseled him:
  • “If you keep your hands all tight like this, producers can't put money in it.” (72:59, Terrence Howard as quoted)
• Fun fact: Queen Latifah’s Cosby Show character was almost Dominican (Lauren LaRosa segment, 106:07).
• Music recommendations: Nyla Simone brings new tracks and album drops, with strong discussion on how the industry treats unique talents vs. trends.

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7. Community Participation – "People’s Donkey" (78:48–85:40)

• Listeners nominate their own “donkey of the day”:
  • Multiple calls venting about bad bosses, unpaid wages, and frustrations with political leaders.
• Charlemagne amplifies: the value of listening in leadership and how crucial worker voices are in any successful organization:
  • “The most important thing...is listen to your team. Don’t let yourself get disconnected and only listen to the suits.”

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8. Uplifting Outro & Positive Note (109:50–End)

• Lauren LaRosa salutes Claire Huxtable for Women’s History Month.
• Charlemagne’s Parting Words:
  • "Don't let your circumstances hold you back. The first step towards success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself." (109:50)

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Notable & Memorable Quotes

• “I feel blessed, black and highly favored.” (03:01, Charlamagne)
• "The album encompasses a void that needs to be filled...it's a metaphor for whatever that means to you." (44:16, Ari Lennox)
• "Do you love fast? ...I do, but I don't think it's love. I think it's like trauma or something." (48:58, Ari Lennox)
• "I'd rather be by myself than in anything toxic or unhealthy." (45:27, Ari Lennox)
• “You gotta be the ultimate showman to be good at the craft.” (89:26, Trick Williams)
• "I can't be anything else than Black…The better I do in this field, the better it is for people who look like me." (89:03, Trick Williams)
• "Don't let your circumstances hold you back." (109:50, Charlamagne)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Front Page News: Trump/Noem/Mullin shakeup: 07:11–09:08
• Iran Conflict & Gas Prices: 11:12–13:32
• Queen Latifah Denies Health Hoax: 22:42–25:43
• Britney Spears DUI: 25:54–34:47
• Ari Lennox Interview: 43:53–70:15
• Trick Williams Interview: 86:14–100:37
• People’s Donkey calls: 78:48–85:40

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Tone & Flow

The episode moves seamlessly between serious current affairs, raw honesty, ribbing among friends, and intimate celebrity conversations. The hosts maintain their signature sometimes-unfiltered, humorous, and candid tone, balancing headline news with culture, personal stories, and audience inclusion.

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This summary captures the rich variety and layered conversation of The Breakfast Club’s March 6, 2026 show—making it easy to jump into the day’s hottest topics, whether you missed a segment or the whole thing.

Transcript

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[DJ Envy]

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[Big O]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Ari Lennox]

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[Mimi Brown]

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[Ari Lennox]

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Wake you up. Wake you up.

Wake that ass up.

[DJ Envy]

Program your alarm to power 105.1 on iheartradio.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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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.

[Angela Yee]

Wake that ass up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Charlamagne nigga.

Peace to the planet. It's Friday. How y' all feel out there? I feel blessed, black and highly favored. Happy to be here another day to serve our beautiful listeners. Good morning, man. Man, Jehovah is good, ain't he?

Yes, absolutely.

So good.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, he is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's going on?

What's up, Jess? How you feeling?

Feel good.

[Angela Yee]

I feel good.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm excited.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yep. First day of press today for my book.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's coming out April 28, so pre order right now. I'm excited. I've been talking more about it. Y' all been putting it in my comedy. Me and Rome been going back and forth about it. Cause he just read it. He just read the whole thing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How's he feel about it?

[Lauren LaRosa]

He. He loves it, but he want to write his own.

[Angela Yee]

He wanted.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He wanted to come from his perspective, you know, because it was a journey between both of us. But this is more so from my perspective, you know what I mean? So he can't wait to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That'd be dope.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But at first he was calling. Yeah, at first he was like, acting like, oh, yeah, yeah, I'm a right mind. Like, he amped up like it's a

[Charlamagne Tha God]

battle rap, you know, Charlamagne signing.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, he wouldn't do that without talking, without telling me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Disreg this, without telling us.

Oh, my God.

What are you talking about? Oh, my God.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Never mind. What we got on the show.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ari Lennox will be joining us this morning. R Sing, of course. She has a new album, Vacancy, out right now.

I love the Vacancy album and she got the Vacancy Store or starting in April. But I just enjoy talking to Ari because Ari's one of those people that, you know, folks will see online and they might have a. A perception of her, Right. Because of the things that she posts online or when she goes off on certain individuals and when she. Or when she shares certain. Certain thoughts.

[DJ Envy]

Exactly.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When you sit down and have a conversation with her, she's a very pleasant person.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's what I'm saying. So I relate to her. That's what I be saying about me. Like when I go up and I. You know, certain things online. And when you sit down, talk to me, be like, oh, damn. Like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But you know what's so crazy? Ari always regrets it after she does it. So at some point. At some point, stop doing. You got to stop doing it.

[Mimi Brown]

All right?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yo, you learning. Yeah, I'm really. I'm in therapy and I.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Trick Williams.

Trick Williams will be joining us. You know him from the wwe?

Yes, sir.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He'll be here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I didn't know.

Well, South Carolina zone.

Hampton University zone.

[DJ Envy]

Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

First of all, stop, stop, stop. You stop, stop. The man is from Columbia, South Carolina, the 803. He went to Hampton for a couple of years, then he went home to play.

His first two years was at hu. The real husband.

His first whole life was in Columbia.

Doesn't matter.

South Carolina. What are you talking about?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Ironic is that his own South Carolina and Virginia.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right. Salute to the 757. So, yeah, he'll be joining us this morning. Trick Williams. All right, well, let's get the show cracking. We got front page news. Mimi is here. What you want to start off?

This is the last song that came on my playlist when I was driving in this morning. So I was like, you know what? Why not throw it back? Okay. Trillville. Never ever. And then when I pulled up, it was some craziness going on.

I was like, damn.

Okay. All right. Feel very appropriate.

Let's get to it.

[Big O]

Let me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let me hear it. There we go.

We used to do cardio in the club for no reason. It's the Breakfast Club.

Morning, man.

The illness thing about this song, at the end of the song, Lil John says, just run around the mother effing club. And we used to literally just run around the mother effing club doing cardio in the club,

looking stupid.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But I bet it was a time. I bet it was a. I really

[Charlamagne Tha God]

want to get into a fist fight with a person who runs around the club. Okay.

[DJ Envy]

Why?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Are he on drugs? Drinking? Yeah.

He used to be a mosh pit in college. We just running into each other.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So stupid.

That's great. No, it wasn't. It was amazing. I would never lie to these kids. It was amazing.

And then as a dj, if you wanted to end the club and you tired of DJ and you play that or I don't give a F and it's the club right away. Those three records right there.

Yeah. Lights on. Everybody go home. Three six Mafia. I bet you won't hit a mother effort.

Oh, my goodness.

Such great times. I'll do it again right now.

So stupid. All right, getting some front page news. Quick sports. Jason Tatum is expected to make his season debut with the Celtics tonight.

Why is he rushing back? I don't get it.

Now, this is just 10 months after tearing his right Achilles, so he will be playing tonight. Also, salute to LeBron James. He passes Kareem Abdul Jabal for most made field goals in NBA history.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Nice.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Congrats and salute to the South Carolina women's basketball team. Man, they start the SEC tournament today at 12. New it against the Kentucky Wildcats.

Yes. Good luck to them in Greenville.

All right.

What's up, Mimi?

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning, M.V. jess Charlemagne. How y' all doing this morning? Good morning. So we start this morning with a major shakeup in the Trump administration. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, she is out now. President Trump, he is removing her from one of the most powerful jobs in the federal government, the agency responsible for border security, immigration enforcement, and disaster response. Now, Noem, she had been under growing scrutiny in recent weeks, facing tough questions from lawmakers during congressional hearings and criticism over how parts of the department were being run. Behind the scenes, though, current and former officials say frustration inside the Homeland Security Department had been building for months with complaints about leadership decisions, internal disputes, and the influence of some of Noem's top advisors. But officials say there may have been one moment this week that may have helped seal her fate. So during the testimony before Congress this week, Noem told lawmakers that President Trump knew and approved the a $220 million advertising campaign that encouraged migrants to self deport. Let's listen to that, sir.

[Ari Lennox]

The president tasked me with getting the message out to the country and to other countries where we were seeing the invasion come from with putting commercials out that told them that if they were in this country illegally that they needed to leave or we would detain them

[Angela Yee]

and remove them and they'd not get

[Ari Lennox]

the chance to come back to America the right way.

[Mimi Brown]

That has been extremely effective.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ask you to run these advertisements, is that right?

[Mimi Brown]

We had that conversation.

[Ari Lennox]

Yes. Before I was put in this position

[Angela Yee]

and sworn in and confirmed.

[Ari Lennox]

And since then as well.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

$220 million in ads. Where the hell did those ads run? I missed all of those.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah, I think I saw a few. But, like, online, I don't think they. I don't know where they played, but I just.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's a lot of breath.

$20 million in ads.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Everybody should be. Should have seen that if that's a lot of money.

[Mimi Brown]

Right? Right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, apparently President Trump didn't see him either because he said that he had no idea what she was talking about and that he never signed off on that campaign. And so he says that now he plans to nominate Oklahoma Senator Mark Wayne Mullen to take over the Department of Homeland Security. Trump made the announcement on social media. He thanked Kristi Noem for her service, saying she will now move to a new role that's focused on security across Americas. Mullen, though he is a Trump ally, he was elected to the Senate in 2022, and he is also a former MMA fighter. Now, during one of the more tense moments in Washington, he nearly got into a fight with a person who was there to testify. Let's listen to some of the moments

[Charlamagne Tha God]

from that quit the tough guy act in these Senate hearings. You know where to find me.

Any place.

Anytime, cowboy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Damn.

[Angela Yee]

Sir, this is a time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is a place you want to run your mouth. We can be two consenting adults.

We can finish it here.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, that's fine.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Perfect.

You want to do it now? I'd love to do it right now. Well, stand your butt up, then.

[DJ Envy]

You stand your butt up. Oh, hold up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Stop it.

Is that your solution?

Every.

[Big O]

You know, you're a United States senator. Okay, sit down, please.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Why did this sound like end scene? This sounded like stand your butt up.

[Mimi Brown]

Right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Stand your butt up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But let's do it.

They should have let him go like in hockey. Should have let him squabble, see what happen.

[Lauren LaRosa]

They would have really fought.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Maybe.

[DJ Envy]

Why not?

[Mimi Brown]

I don't know. Senator Bernie Sanders hadn't been there. Who knows what would have happened to that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, right. Jesus.

How old were those individuals?

[Ari Lennox]

Pretty old.

[Mimi Brown]

I would say somewhere mid age.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Even though when I used to fight, be MMA fight, you know, somewhere over there.

[Mimi Brown]

Mullen, though, he would still need to be confirmed by the Senate. And so we'll continue to watch that. And if he confir. If he is confirmed, he would take over, of course, for Kristi Noem. Her final day on the job is expected to be March 31.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I told y' all Kristi Noem was gonna be the sacrificial land, man. Authoritarian regimes are not loyal to anyone. Anyone.

Yeah, well, she didn't. She didn't get fired. They just move around so. They'll never get fired. They just move them around into other spots. That's it.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, part of that, to me, seems like saving face a little bit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah. You know, And President Donald Trump is warning Americans to prepare for the new realities of war as the conflict of. In Iran continues to grow. In a new interview with Time magazine, Trump was asked, people in the United States should be concerned about possible retaliation here at home. And his response was, I guess. Trump said the government plans for that possibility, but acknowledges that when a country goes to war, there are risks and people can die. Those comments come as a conflict in Iran escalates following that joint attack with US And Israel, which continues to spread across the region. Meanwhile, Iran's foreign minister, he told NBC yesterday that his country is what is ready for whatever comes next. Let's listen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

President Trump has not ruled out boots on the ground in Iran. Are you afraid of a US Invasion in your country? No, we are waiting for them. You are waiting for the US Military to invade the ground troops?

Yes, because we are confident that we

can confront them, and that would be a big disaster for them. Well, we were ready for this war even more than the previous war, and we are prepared for any other eventuality,

even, you know, a ground invasion, and

we know that we can handle that.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, he also. Yeah, he also refused negotiations with the United States, said Iran has not asked for a ceasefire in America. We, we may already be feeling the impact. Remember earlier this week, we talked about the gas prices going up to about 30 cents? Well, I checked, and as of right now, as of yesterday, They've gone up 27 cents since Monday.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So I don't know about gas prices, but I, I know them flights going up, like, flights going up like crazy

[Charlamagne Tha God]

because the gas goes up because it got.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, yeah, man, that's just wild.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Planes got a gas up.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, like, flights that used to be at least like 400. I was looking for a round trip to Atlanta. That would be like 4 or 500. It's like a thousand dollars right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Flight prices are going up. Gas in the house is going up. I know a lot of people are seeing high gas bills right now. So, yeah, it's.

And when it comes to, you know, Trump's talking about the realities of war and saying that, you know, Iran could strike on US Oil, a lot of people feel like Trump wants something to happen on American soil because he's been on the hunt for some sort of emergency to exploit so he could try to federalize the midterm elections in November.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah, a lot going on there. Too much, too much, too much. So we'll continue to watch that. And then the next hour, we're going to talk. Jeffrey Epstein and new release of documents that came out just yesterday.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, now, everybody else, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open. Call us up right now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

It's a new day.

[Big O]

This is your time to get it off your chest.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wait, wake up.

[DJ Envy]

Whether you're mad or blessed, it's time

[Charlamagne Tha God]

to get up and get something.

[DJ Envy]

Call up now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

800-585-1051.

[DJ Envy]

We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello, who this is?

[Big O]

Good morning, good morning. Big old, big old entertainment. How you doing?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's up? Eat it off your chest, man.

[Big O]

I can't call it. I haven't heard from you in a while. MD Charlemagne, everybody. Good morning. Listen, I got a quick question real quick. Yes, sir.

[DJ Envy]

Why.

[Big O]

Why do. Why do our melanated brothers wait to wait, wait last minute to get their body right? Why do they wait till they get sick to start working out? I'm almost 40, I'm approaching 40 currently, and I'll be competing in my first bodybuilding show. I was 240 pounds. I'm down 187 pounds now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't want to put that on just melanated brothers, though, man. I mean, I think that, you know, you, you know better and you do better, and that's just the human thing. Like a lot of people grow up in certain environments and, you know, we don't have the best habits like it, it ain't just a black thing, but, you know, as you get older, you, you learn better habits, so you do better for sure.

[Big O]

And yeah, I haven't called in in a while, but y' all know me as Big O, especially Envy. You know, we work together. But also, if it's okay, I would love to give a shout out to the team at 803 Fitness in Columbia, South Carolina. Coach Justin, the whole team, Metro, thank you for making this a reality.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, man, stay with it too, man. That's another thing we do. We work out and then we get lazy or something happens and we don't get back with it. So definitely stay with it, brother.

[Big O]

Yeah, real quick, last question for you guys. I want to know is as far as the ladies, could y' all date a man that's a bodybuilder, that's disciplined? Because it's a lot, you know, we can't eat certain stuff, you know what I'm saying? We can't go out to the restaurants, can't drink. You know, we at the table eating broccoli and chicken breast all night.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So, nah, you could go out. You just gotta watch what you eat? Like, I know people that actually took their pre prepped meals to restaurants while everybody's eating.

They still had a good time to be crazy. You know, y' all have done that

[Big O]

and they think I'm crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This man asked the ladies the question, oh, I could definitely date a bodybuilder. I couldn't wait to answer. Dan, literally, I got a question about ladies and you couldn't wait to answer.

[Lauren LaRosa]

None of these questions was for him because the first question was for the Melanated brothers, and then the second question was for the women.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, they stabbing me up big old.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But let me answer yes. I don't see why a woman would not want to date a bodybuilder who's trying to, you know, get their body right. I mean, those diets are good too. She can learn something from that.

[Big O]

Yeah, for sure. Then I also say, like, when you. When you're eating that stuff or whatever, you know, with a. With a women specifically, I'm like, look, you know, to keep this body, this is what I gotta do. I ain't see my ass in the last 20 years.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, cool.

[Big O]

Look, it's so good to be able to look down and see everything.

[Lauren LaRosa]

As long as you her. You know what I'm saying?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You are.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She shouldn't. Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why does she get all that? You got stamina like she should be good.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's amazing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Big O]

But I appreciate y'. All. I hope you have a great weekend. All right, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

800-585-1105. Well, you very aggressive today, Yo.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, you said, hi, big man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I said I big.

Oh, said you said key. You said, oh, they stabbing me up big from the back. Big old say.

They stabbing me from the back. You're staying your butt up, man.

This guy is crazy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Stay in your butt up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Stay in your butt up, man.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Get it off your chest. It's the Breakfast Club of the morning.

[Big O]

It's a new day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is your time to get it off your chest.

Wait. Wake up.

[DJ Envy]

Whether you're mad or blessed, it's time

[Charlamagne Tha God]

to get up and get something.

[DJ Envy]

Call up now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

800-585-1051.

[DJ Envy]

We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello?

Who's this?

[Big O]

Yo, what's up? This DJ Envy. What's up? Charlamagne.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Peace.

Get it off your chest.

[Big O]

Yo, man, these gas prices crazy. I got two things that I won't get on my chest real quick. But the first thing is the gas price. I dropped trucks for a living. Let me hit the horn for you. Yeah, Hey, I just everybody off this morning. Second thing is, I called in a couple weeks ago and I had shot at my wife's business out right? That day when I shot it out, we did like 350 in sales, right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what I'm talking about.

[Big O]

Trying to get the hell off this road full time. And the second thing that came along with that is we got kicked off the Etsy because my wife sell pop sockets, which we're not allowed to call them. No more Pop sockets. The company owns that and they had us removed from Etsy. So in order to get to it, you gotta go straight to our website. Is it cool? One more time. The website is www wild pedals. W L I D, P E-T-A-L-.com www.wildpedals P E T A L D com. And I really appreciate y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Big O]

Like I said, y', all, y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Big O]

Y' all sent our numbers through the hoops.

[Angela Yee]

Okay, real quick.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I appreciate that. Yo, real quick.

[Ari Lennox]

You.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You spell wild wrong, is it W, I, L, D or W L, I D? Y' all spell it different.

[Big O]

No, no, I'm sorry. W, W, I, L, D. Yes, Pedals with a Z, T, A L, Z.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'll make sure you get. Give people the right website. Okay?

[Big O]

Yeah, I really appreciate that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No problem.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good luck with it, brother.

[Big O]

Y' all have a good day and be safe. All right?

[Ari Lennox]

Go.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Honks for you truck drivers.

Never mind. Hello?

Who's this?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Truck drivers do it all the time for me.

[Big O]

It's Taco from Vietnam.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Taco from where?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Vietnam.

[Big O]

Vietnam?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How old are you, sir? Good morning. How old are you?

[Big O]

I'm 46.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, stop. Stop talking like a rapper, bro. It's over, okay? You wanted to be around.

[Big O]

I'm originally. I'm really from Baltimore, though. That's why I talk like I talk.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just don't be talking like that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He put the tea in Baltimore.

[Big O]

Yes, sir.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How can we help you, sir?

[Big O]

I'm just. No, I'm really confused with. No, with this president, man. I'm a U.S. veteran. I'm going through just as much as what the next veteran is going through. Now you're trying to bring a new wave of veterans in and we're already struggling. This is getting ridiculous, man. We better get rid to the flower appointments. And you want to start another war.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Crazy. In a war that he's starting because somebody else wants him to. Bibi Netanyahu.

[Big O]

No, it's about money, man. It's about this money. All he wants to do is put these hotels in these different spots and build his money back up. Because, look, like I found out he's in charge of Black Water.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, I don't know anything about that, but I do think it's about a little bit more than that, man. I just think that we have a president who's compromised in ways that we don't even understand. Mimi Brown will be talking about talking about it next time, man.

[Big O]

I just want to say, man, I appreciate y', all and I was listening to y' all when I was in the hospital. And y' all keep doing what y' all doing and God bless y'.

[DJ Envy]

All.

[Big O]

Y' all keep doing y' all things.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you. All right, brother. YouTube.

Be safe out there, brother. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. Now we got the ladies coming up.

[Angela Yee]

Good morning. Yes, we.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Do you want to cardi b concert

[Angela Yee]

next week or a couple weeks?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because that's the outfit you gotta wear.

[Angela Yee]

Like, I'm going to a funeral today.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, yeah.

[Angela Yee]

Wow. I'm going to a funeral today.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Wow. Wow.

[Angela Yee]

This is not giving to a girl,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

but you put a little pop. You little pop.

[Lauren LaRosa]

With the star giving Stewart a little bit.

[Angela Yee]

I didn't want to do a tie, so, you know.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I like it, though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know.

Delta.

Or if you was going, but yeah,

[Lauren LaRosa]

that's what I'm saying. She's giving. Stewardess. Yes.

[Angela Yee]

I just wanted to be real clean. My best friend's father passed away. RP Carmen passing out peanuts. Senior.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Don't.

What? You going to make sure I do

[Angela Yee]

not look like a flight attendant?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Definitely.

I can't help.

[Angela Yee]

I don't know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Water.

[Angela Yee]

Peanuts is crazy. Maybe I'll hand out tissue. Shut up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

If you tell people to put their seat on before the funeral. Put your on before the funeral. Start, please. Please put your seat belt on before the funeral.

[Angela Yee]

Guys, what we got?

[DJ Envy]

Y.

[Angela Yee]

The queen has to. Let's get to the latest. The queen has to spoken. Okay. She's clearing up rumors. We going to get into it in the latest.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

There's a bunch of. All right, we'll get to it later. All right. Don't go anywhere. It's a breakfast.

T. Good morning. You'll talk.

[Angela Yee]

LL Cool B. Yeah. I'm not dumbing myself down. I'm being myself. I'm the home girl that knows a little bit about everything and everything.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Little brown girls look at you and

[Angela Yee]

go, I want to be like you. Take me through that. Take me through there.

[DJ Envy]

The latest with l' Oreal

[Charlamagne Tha God]

on the Breakfast Club. Ll Cool. Talk to me.

[Angela Yee]

All right, guys. So yesterday, Queen Latifah had to get online and post several videos. She posted two to let people know that she is not dying, that she is okay. Down. So, yes. So first of all, I didn't see the, like, speculation, rumors, whatever, either. I saw her video, and it made me go look to see what was happening. So apparently, there had been a hoax happening for about, like, two weeks. Now that there's a conversation about whether or not Queen Latifah had, like, this very rare type of, like, blood cancer. And it was supposed to be, like, I saw, like, fake AI photos of her in a hospital bed holding a sign like, this is letting you guys know that I have this cancer. And then there were, like, these prayer lines and prayer streams and hashtags that were going on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It was like, your algorithm is wild.

[Angela Yee]

Well, I actually. I didn't see it. I went to go find it when Queen Latifah posted the video, because I wanted to know, like, why is she having to post this? Normally when celebrities do that, it's because outlets are reaching out to them. Hey, we saw this. Are you okay?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So that's why, you know, you ever heard that statement of the.

[DJ Envy]

The.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The. The dog barks at the moon, it's nothing. But if the moon walks back at the dog, 100%. Because I didn't even hear none of this until right now.

[Angela Yee]

Yes. Well, let's take a listen to the video that Queen Latifah posted yesterday morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

Can't believe what you read on the Internet or see.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Can't believe nothing now. Right. Why it sound like that?

[Angela Yee]

Because she had music playing in the background. She was in a car. She had music playing in the background kind of loud. But she basically says, I gotta teach

[Charlamagne Tha God]

her how to take the music out the back where you just hear her voice. I told you before, we could do that here, because we could. You could definitely be able to just hear her voice take the music out.

I watched that video yesterday, and I thought she was listening to Breakfast Club. I was like, oh, shoot, let me hear. And I listened for that. I didn't even hear none of that about.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, she's talking so low and the music is loud.

[Angela Yee]

She posted the video and she says in the video, hey, it's Queen Latifah. I'm a. Okay. Just showing y' all I'm a. Okay. And then she's like, you know, dancing a bit to the music. Second video she posted, she's smiling and she's like, I'm good, y'.

[Mimi Brown]

All.

[Angela Yee]

Like, I guess people were really concerned and maybe because sometimes, like, I've done stories in the past where you see a hoax, you reach out to the team and they leave it alone. But when their family members start picking up the phone and calling them, they clear it up so that everybody can calm down, because it's affecting them, like, on the behind the scenes as well, too. So maybe that was one of the reasons she posted as well.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So was she sick or was she dealing with something? Because I remember, like, a few months ago, somebody called up. We had a caller during. Get it off your chest. And he was asking, like. Like, yo, what's up with Queen? Like, what's up with Queen Latifah? We need to make sure she okay. She in the hospital. We, like. I remember he said he's from Baltimore, from D.C. or something like that. And we was confused. Like, what do you mean?

[Angela Yee]

I don't know if any. I don't know if any conversation.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She was just at the All Star

[Angela Yee]

Game, but I remember the call. So remember that day? Yeah, but when that caller, when that happened, remember, we all were like, what? And then I think he corrected something and we were like, yo, why would you do. Like, it freaked us out. But it was. It wasn't real.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't even remember what y' all talking about.

[Angela Yee]

We weren't here that day. It was just us three hosting. But it wasn't real, though. But, yeah, I don't know anything of her being sick was. I know she's a big health advocate.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like I said, she was just at the All Star Game with her child and watching the game. So maybe that was a hoax, too.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But I remember that she's fine.

[Angela Yee]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay. Salute to Queen Latifah. Queen, we sending you nothing but positive energy as always.

Love you, Queen Latifah.

[Angela Yee]

Well, somebody who is not so fine right now and is going through some things. Britney Spears. So yesterday, Britney Spears. It was. The news broke that Britney Spears was arrested in California for a dui. Police say that they pulled her over after her car was elected, allegedly, like, swerving. And she was driving without a tail light. And when they pulled her over, she was. They. They alleged that she was under the influence. They took her to a hospital to do some blood testing to get, you know, an accurate number on her breath, on her blood.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Her and Justin Timberlake, really soul mates. That's crazy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

When they gave us the bridey test, she started dancing.

[Angela Yee]

Well, no, they didn't. They didn't do the because, well, they did try to get someone to come to the scene to do all that stuff. But I don't know if it. Because it was Britney Spears or just the blood test is normal a lot. It gives you more accurate details on what is in the system. So they took her right to the hospital. Now, I do have the police audio. Page Six dropped the police audio yesterday of when they first pulled her over. And they say that they also found control substances in the car, which is a big issue for Britney Spears, especially because she recently got out of that conservatorship a few years ago. Let's take a listen to the police audio.

[Big O]

Black sedans, erratic braking, swerving and driving

[Mimi Brown]

with no tail light.

[DJ Envy]

Copy.

[Big O]

I'm in the area eastbound and attach me, please. In the Area 101 from Rancho Road. A black BMW sedan in and out of lanes and near TC's. Now speeding. Clear on the 2016 convertible out of LA.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, so you hear them talk about how she was swerving to the point where they put a couple cars on her. It wasn't just police. One police car when they took her to the hospital, they took her blood alcohol levels. Now, it's reported that the blood alcohol level may have come in at.06 within the legal limit is 0.08, but you can still be charged at some limits under that. 0.08, but that's not confirmed yet. But you know, Britney Spears right now could potentially, could be potentially facing a jail time behind this or rehabilitation. And you guys remember back in 2021 when she got out of her conservatorship, the big thing was should she or should she not still have some type of like, guardrails on her? And after this, I think that conversation is definitely going to happen again. I talked to Gina Lisa Gina. I always get her last name wrong.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm sorry, No, I can't pronounce it.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, I talked to Ms. Gina Lisa yesterday. And Gina Lisa, you guys will remember,

[Big O]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Angela Yee]

She is a conservatorship expert. She was help Wendy Williams, when all of the movement was happening with Wendy Williams, tried to figure out her conservatorship issue. And I asked her, you know, do you think Wendy or Britney Spears should be let out, should have been let out of her conservatorship. Let's take a listen to Gina. In your line of work, do you think that at this point with all these instances, Britney Spears should be completely out of a conservatorship?

[Mimi Brown]

No.

[Ari Lennox]

And that could be very controversial.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Right?

[Angela Yee]

Only because we kind of see her

[Charlamagne Tha God]

maybe quote unquote, spiraling.

[Angela Yee]

But how many people get pulled over for a dui, right? It's not uncommon. Right. We shouldn't think about restricting her and keeping her in this box just because she had this dui. But this is a person who obviously is dealing maybe with some mental issues. And I think when we talk about conservatorship and someone who needs help, you don't wanna run to the conservative part because I'm sure that conservative has traumatized Britney and as we.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But the point of a conservatorship, right, Is to protect the person.

[Angela Yee]

Yes. From themselves, basically.

[Lauren LaRosa]

As long as it's the right person, you know, with the right group of people, it shouldn't be a problem.

[Angela Yee]

But the issue with Britney was that she had, I feel like there was too much constraints. Like she couldn't. She didn't have control over whether she could have kids or not, whether she could ever do music again. She was taking a bunch of medicines that she said that she didn't wanna take take. Her dad had control. She had like. She was like worth $60 million at the time. Her dad, Jamie was in control of the money and she was claiming that things were being done wrong with the money. So I think she did have some claims that I understood why they kind of released her a bit but I don't think she should have just been let free. And there's been a lot of incidents since she's been out of the conservatorship but like just a lot of different things.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Dancing the stupid stuff online. Yeah, but. But when you're driving a vehicle and you're intoxicated. Allegedly. I guess we could say allegedly. Maybe not. But when you're driving a vehicle like that. Yes, you should be watching Problem.

We used to watch her dance online. I knew she was drunk. I knew. Yes, man. She.

I think it was alcohol.

I dance just like that when I'm drunk. Do absolutely. Between it's a combination of Britney Spears, Bobby Smurda and Bobby Brown. When I get it when I'm that only take me much baby Bobby Brown. A younger Bobby Brown.

That's a lie.

Well, at least in my mind. That's at least in my mind. I take one shot at the killer. The whole world turned into every little. You hear me?

[Angela Yee]

Well, Brittany has to go to court on May 4, so there will be more developing here. We'll see what happens.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And salute to Gina Lisa. Gina Lisa.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Monteroso.

[Angela Yee]

Monteroso.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Angela Yee]

Gina Lisa Monteroso. Shout out to her and go listen to the Latest with Lauren LaRosa the podcast. We did a full conversation about what probably will happen next with Britney Spears after all of this DUI conversation.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, that's the latest. Now Charlamagne.

Yes, it's Friday. Yes, we do the people's donkey but you know we got Mimi Brown's front page news coming up next. But we do the people's donkey so you get the opportunity to call up and give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid. 1-800-585-1051. It's the Breakfast Club.

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 some front page news now. Some quick sports. Jason Tatum is expected to make his season debut tonight with the Celtics. They be playing the Mavericks now. This is just 10 months after tearing his right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm asking why?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cuz he tore his acl. Like I mean I know he's out

for a year at least.

At least. I mean I know, you know surgeries and technology and everything is better now.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But why rush rushing?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, I guess they, they know what he's doing. He's been practicing with the team and,

and he's light skinned so they their muscles are naturally more tender.

Watch your mouth. That's not true. Cite Your sources.

Me too.

This guy's kinky.

You don't have a high threshold for pain, sir.

What are you talking.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Why is the ACL so weak, though? That part of the body need to be studied. The Achilles and the hamstring.

[Angela Yee]

Why they so weak?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

These kids have been play. They've been playing is four or five years old on. On Achilles.

You know, your body is a lot of amazing things.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's the first thing to get messed up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Also, LeBron James passed Kareem Abdul Jabbar for most made field goals in NBA history. So salute to LeBron. What's up, Mimi?

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning, M.V. jeff Charlemagne. How y' all doing this morning? Good morning. So we're following new developments this morning in the case involving Jeffrey Epstein. So the Justice Department, it has now released three FBI interview memos that had not been made public before they were missing from that large collection of Epstein documents released earlier this year. You hour, we actually talked about this with ref Rona earlier this week. The newly released memos, they summarize the interviews with a woman who told investigators that Epstein repeatedly abused her when she was a teenager starting at around age 13. Now, in those later interviews, the woman also accuses Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her for decades or decades ago. Excuse me. According to the FBI summary, she said that Epstein once brought her to a tall building either in New York or New Jersey, while he introduced her to Trump. And she told investigators that Trump asked others to leave the room and he assaulted her. She said she fought back by biting him before she was removed from the room. She also told agents that she later overheard Trump and Epstein discussing blackmailing people and she heard him mentioning washing money through casinos. Now, in a third interview, the woman said she told investigators that she later received threatening phone calls and she believes that they had may be connected to Epstein or Trump. And she described the incidents where she said that she was nearly run off the road. And in a fourth interview, she told agents she was uncomfortable continuing this line of questioning. And she asked, you know, what was the point of coming forward if statute of limitations had already passed. Now, these documents are known as FBI 302 Memos, which summarize what witnesses tell investigators. They do not confirm whether the allegations are true.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Lord have mercy, man. Listen, how compromised is our president? Because every time stuff like this leaks, it's because someone wants it out and they leak it to let Trump know, we got a lot on you, so do what we say. And I saw Alistair Crook, I think you pronounced his name. He's a former British diplomat, he was speaking on that yesterday. We got that clip. There's a former Israeli Mossad intelligence officer who now lives in Canada and was saying in a television interview just in the last day or so, and he was saying, he was warning that if Trump does not bend to Netanyahu's views, he expects there to be more revelations from Epstein in these coming days. He said that like two days ago.

[Mimi Brown]

Now look, and we have more.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Does that not tell you everything you need to know? Like the only question everybody should be asking is how do we stop this knowing that he's compromised? We have a president that is clearly compromised. So why, what are we going to do about it?

[Mimi Brown]

Well, the White House is calling the accusations complete, completely basis and they Trump says that he has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing connected to Jeffrey Epstein.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What is going to happen this weekend? Cuz we know whenever something from the Epstein files drops, he does some crazy, crazy, right? I wouldn't even call it a distraction. He does what he's told to do. So what's going to happen this weekend?

[Mimi Brown]

Well, let's brace ourselves. But today at the White House, envy. This is something we've been talking about. Some of the most powerful voices in college sports are going to sit down and talk about one thing, money. So President Trump is hosting what is being called a college sports roundtable, bringing together conference commissioners, university leaders, former coaches, big names from sports world. Tiger woods is on the list. Adam Silver, Nick Saban is on the list. The conversation, it will center around nil, which is name, image and likeness. And the system, that's a system that allows college athletes to get paid for endorsements for sponsorships. Now the issue has exploded in recent years with star players landing deals worth millions of dollars. But the president has made it clear that he believes that that system is out of control, saying last year he said that he was gonna. Or he signed an executive order called Saving College Sports and among other things thinks it banned universities and boosters from paying athletes directly and called for new rules to limit what is known as pay for play deals. Administration officials, they say the concern is that without guardrails, college sports could turn into an arms race where schools pour more and more money into recruiting star players. Let's listen to what Trump had to say on this.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think the NIL is a disaster for sports. It's horrible for the illness Olympics and it's, I think it's actually horrible for the players. And you're losing all of these great sports.

They're not college football, even basketball is

[Big O]

Being affected basketball second, and I know

[Charlamagne Tha God]

something about it, they will not be able to stop.

[Big O]

You're going to have a college president.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm telling you, sir, we give a

guard $7 million, we're going to win

[Big O]

the national championship, and they'll give them seven. And they won't win it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And even if they do win it, colleges cannot afford to be paying the

[Big O]

kind of salaries that you're hearing about.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, they can. If their program is making all that money. Right. Because for years colleges have been making all that goddamn money.

Right.

And if they're making that money, they should be paying the players. They're selling jersey, they're selling tickets based off the players that are playing. And yes, if they can afford it and a player can get it, yes, they should be able to make money. Now, the betting part, I don't like the betting part on college games. That bothers me. But nil deals, yes. If they're worth it, they should be able to get it. They shouldn't just get a free education. Free education is nice. But if they're bringing in millions and hundreds of millions of dollars to those universities a year, those colleges should be getting those. Those players should be getting all.

All the top schools can definitely afford to pay their players. Y', all, these schools make billions of dollars.

Yes.

What are we talking about?

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah, for sure. So it's still unclear what could actually come out of today's meetings. But lawmakers on Capitol Hill, they've been debating and nil deals for years. But so far, Congress has not passed a national law to regulate. So we will continue to watch that. And today in Chicago, thousands of people are expected to gather to honor civil rights icon Jesse Jackson. A public celebration of life will be held at the House of Hope on Chicago's far South side, a massive church that can hold about 10,000 people. Now, several major leaders will be there. Former President Barack Obama, Joe Biden, they're all expected to speak. Also in attendance, First Lady Jill Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Among civil rights leaders, clergy, public officials, including Al Sharpton, Maxine Waters. They will also take part in the celebration of life today. That service will begin at 11. And gospel tributes from artists like B.B. winans and Marvin Sapp. And there will be a private homegoing service for the Jackson family that will be held tomorrow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Rest in peace, Reverend Jesse Jackson.

[Mimi Brown]

Absolutely. And really quickly before we go, heads up for your sleep schedule. This weekend, daylight saving time is Sunday, so the clocks will spring forward at 2am so, yes, we will lose an hour of sleep, but we will gain an extra hour of sunshine, all right?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Don't worry.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you, Mimi.

I know your dark ass don't want no sunshine. Don't nobody want no sunshine. I don't want no sunshine.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I just don't want to lose an hour of sleep.

[DJ Envy]

Like what?

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's crazy.

[DJ Envy]

Jesus.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, when we come back, Ari Lennox will joining us. Our album Vacancy is out right now. We're going to be kicking it with Ari when we come back, so don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren Laros is here as well, and we got a special guest in the building. Ladies and gentlemen, Ari Lennox. Welcome back. How you feeling?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Feeling good.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How's your energy this morning?

[Lauren LaRosa]

You good?

[Ari Lennox]

Amazing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. I love you. How are you? Blessed, black and highly favored.

[Ari Lennox]

Yes, yes, me too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes. Vacancy is out right now.

That's right.

[Ari Lennox]

Yes. Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Vacancy can mean a lot of things, Right.

[Ari Lennox]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It can mean emptiness. Yep. It can mean opportunity. What exactly became vacant in your life that allowed this version of Ari Lennox to exist, to create this project?

[Ari Lennox]

I think it's just the repetitiveness of my dating life. Yeah. The album encompasses a void that needs to be filled. And that can be romantic. It can be platonic. It can be, you know, in a business way. It's just a metaphor for whatever that means to you, you know?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Is it platonic? We gotta. Let's figure this out. I thought it was platonic my whole life.

[Angela Yee]

Biopic by be. Biopic. I think those are words that. It's like, depending on how you.

[DJ Envy]

Tomato.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Tomato.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You can't. I can be having us out here saying the wrong word.

[Ari Lennox]

Wait, but how is it supposed to be platonic?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Platonic.

Platonic, yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, and you're the second person that we heard.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wait a minute.

[Angela Yee]

Well, I.

[Ari Lennox]

All right, thanks, camera. A lot, a lot.

[Angela Yee]

That's lovely. So on this project, you go in and out of your space, whether it's your heart, your physical space, your mind, your energy being vacant, then being occupied, then not. Yeah, it's all over the place. But it's a good journey.

[Ari Lennox]

Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Angela Yee]

So.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But.

[Angela Yee]

So where are you in real life after this album? In the dating world? Like what? Like.

[Ari Lennox]

I mean, I'm just alone, but. No, it is. It is 34 years of, like, romantic loneliness. But it's cool. No, it's all right. I'm doing great. I. I'd rather be by myself than in anything toxic or unhealthy. So it is what it is, you know, I'm okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I seen you had a club turning up, though.

[Ari Lennox]

I do turn up sometime.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What you think?

[Ari Lennox]

Oh, my tea.

[Angela Yee]

You told on house cats. You said you be. You be wanting your chamomile in the club.

[Ari Lennox]

And right here I have this hot water. It's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know if you had no damn tea in the club that night. Boy, he be turning up.

[Ari Lennox]

When? Oh, when you saw me. Years ago.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Ari Lennox]

Yeah, years ago.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, that was like, when?

Two years ago, Year ago.

[Ari Lennox]

Last year.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Last year.

It was recent.

[DJ Envy]

Aren't you.

[Ari Lennox]

Oh, yeah. I had my hookah. Yeah, I stopped. I had to stop, though. Yeah. I made a pack. No, it's okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You took a picture.

[Ari Lennox]

It's okay. I mean, last year I wasn't singing, but this year I am. So we got a tour coming up, you know, the vacancy tour starts April 12th, so. Yeah, I want to be vocally prepared for it. So no more hookah for me.

[Angela Yee]

But. So. But you're still on your sobriety journey, right?

[Ari Lennox]

Absolutely.

[Angela Yee]

Drinking wise. But you said you made a pact with a man. That's what made you stop the hookah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Angela Yee]

What happened to that man? You said he was horrible.

[Ari Lennox]

He was trifling. He had a secret girlfriend. Or he had a girlfriend. I guess I was the secret. And I had no idea. And I haven't spoke to him since. Once he told me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So. So you don't like. You never like the Escape song? You're my little secret. You couldn't be a secret.

[Ari Lennox]

I do love that song. I love Escape. So, yeah, I. I could not be a secret. No. But I do love that song they were singing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why would somebody want to keep you a secret?

[Angela Yee]

I didn't know who the main.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know who the main girl is.

[Ari Lennox]

I think it just speaks to the state of dating out here. It's just incredibly depressing, I feel like for everybody, you know? So it is what it is.

[Angela Yee]

Are there songs on this project about him? I know that you've been working on this for some time.

[Ari Lennox]

From. From him?

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[Ari Lennox]

Hell no.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Angela Yee]

Because under the Moon talks about somebody that's a big. Could be a big. Toxic.

[Ari Lennox]

Yeah, that was someone else.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh.

[Ari Lennox]

That was one of my exes. And I don't even know if he counts as an ex. It was like a month long relationship, so it counts really well. Well, it depends.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All right, now.

[Big O]

Do you feel.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Do you feel that you had a connection? Oh, my God.

[Ari Lennox]

Jesus.

[Angela Yee]

Like, thank you.

[Ari Lennox]

Fresh face. Thank you. Beautiful. And your hair.

[Angela Yee]

Thank you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Don't look confused.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Don't do that.

[Ari Lennox]

Why are you hating on her?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I didn't say anything.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, he was just looking at me like he was kind of confused. But thank you so much. No, that depends, right? Did you have a strong connection with him? Do you feel like you loved him? Cause a month can mean, you know, a month can be short to some people, but that could mean a long time. It's not about the time. It's about how you connected with him, how he made you feel.

[Ari Lennox]

Yeah, no, I don't feel like I loved him. I don't think it was.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Was.

[Ari Lennox]

Because I think in order to love someone, you have to accept them for all that they are. And I feel like we did not accept each other for our truest selves. And for that reason, I don't believe it was love at all. Probably just infatuation, which I said. It's just that repetitive theme. I think there were a lot of secure energies that entered my life that I wasn't ready for. And now they're getting married. All these secure people that I like. I didn't under. I didn't recognize that safety, like, in them then, I think, because there's so much chaos inside of me. But I'm working through it. I have my therapist, and I'm a lot more aware of it now, those red flags and things of that nature.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Do you love fast? I'm sorry? Do you love fast? Do you, like, trust fast?

[Ari Lennox]

When it comes to dating, I. I do. I do. But I don't think it's love. I think it's like trauma or something, I think. Or a kink, Some type of, like, love kink. I think I have that because I'll be quick to be like, oh, yeah, I love you. But it's like, we're so. It's like. Like, of course I do right now. It's nice. The sex is really nice. And sometimes that can be just a little misleading, a little confusing. The emotions are high. And I think, just in general, my emotions run extremely high, so I tend to romanticize and exaggerate things.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why can't you just love sex, though? Like, if somebody flips you and folds you and puts you in a pressure

[Angela Yee]

child, that song is a song.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I love it.

[Ari Lennox]

Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why can't you just love the physical act? Like, why does it have to be anything else?

[Ari Lennox]

Yeah, you're right. I. I can love it, but I think a part of sex for me is a very passionate thing. And it's just ironic because a lot of the times it isn't or it hasn't been in my past. Very passionate and like, Like. Yeah, Yeah, I think.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Ari Lennox]

All my relationships were kind of just surfaced. For real? Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Do you want to be in love? Clearly, right?

[Ari Lennox]

I do, I do.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Do you think you've ever been?

[Ari Lennox]

No. No. I thought so, but no, I don't think I have now that I know what it means to be. Because it's a choice every day. I don't think I ever made that choice every day in those relationships.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're in therapy, right? And I go to therapy a lot as well. And your therapist will often tell you that your first, last and best love is self love. Like you can't love anybody else.

[Ari Lennox]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Until you truly love yourself. Do you think that has been part of the reason?

[Ari Lennox]

Absolutely. My therapist is amazing. She has me doing these exercises every morning where I have to look at myself in the mirror and that's like so hard. Like I'm speaking to myself and I like, who am I? And so it's been helpful, but. But it's definitely been an exercise that I avoid. I think it's just, it's hard honestly to face myself, but I'm getting closer and it's amazing how long therapy has happened. She's been telling me that I need to read this book called the Courage to Trust. And I've been avoiding it. And it's just. I know I could be so much farther in my journey. It's funny that I'm just prolonging healing in that way. But, yeah, one day I'll read it. One day I'll be able to breeze through that mirror exercise. But yeah, so those are ways that I'm like practicing self love, slowly facing myself and learning who I am.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Do you feel like you learned something new about yourself in every relationship that you were in?

[Ari Lennox]

Yes, yes. My last one definitely taught me to figure out what the hell is going on inside of me. Like, I realized, oh, okay, I. I have an anxious attachment style. And then I realized, oh, I'm also avoidant. Like this is. This has been this battle that I've been facing and I think until I heal that more, I don't think I'll be able to dig deeper in a relationship. I think that's always going to be that block. Yeah. Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So that's so interesting because when I listen to your music, I hear a self awareness. I, you know, I mean, at least, at least, at least that you're comfortable with what it is that you're doing. You know what I mean? And who you're doing it with. That's what I get from it.

[Ari Lennox]

Yes. Well, what you mean, like. And so you're confused about me having trust issues. Are you saying yeah?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because I feel like you got to trust yourself enough to even be as bold as you are to be able to even move like that.

[Ari Lennox]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, the music that you make, it's easy. We re we. The music that you make, it like, like it resonates with women, like, navigating self worth and growth and love. So it is kind of hard to hear you sit here and say, like the opposite. Like, no, I. Like it's hard for you to find love or, you know, something like that or just everything that you feel like you said is inside of you. I don't feel that in your music.

[Ari Lennox]

Oh, wow.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I feel like, oh, you got it all together. This girl is. You make me want to go tell her.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You know what I'm saying? Cause you know your worth, you know

[Ari Lennox]

what you want, and you know what

[Lauren LaRosa]

you will stand for and what you want in a relationship.

[Ari Lennox]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's what I get from your music.

[Ari Lennox]

That's why that's me too. I know my worth. And when it's time to go, I'm definitely, you know, I. I block and I, you know, delete that thread and cut people off. But. But yeah, I mean, yeah, I'm doing all right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

In your press release for Vacancy, one of the lines I wrote down was, Ari's new album. Vacancy signals a sophisticated new chapter defined by creative autonomy, confidence, and growth.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Growth.

[Angela Yee]

And I feel like shea butter, baby, was that. I feel like, like all of the projects are that so. And this process took you three. It was three years before making.

[Ari Lennox]

Three years. Yeah. And I, I didn't feel like it was done, so I'm sure I stressed out the label, my management, shout out to Jaha and Justin. I know I stressed them out, but I knew the album wasn't done and thank God everyone dragged me for, like, my singles. It kind of encouraged me to let me get back to the studio, make some more soul music, make some more pop leaning music and just. Yeah. And then I knew I was. I felt relief. I knew it was time. Okay, it's done and I'm really proud. It's a good album.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's a great album. And it does feel like a. It feels like a reset, you know, musically and personally. Yeah. So. So did leaving Dreamville create that freedom or were you already evolving and just, you know, the space to show it?

[Ari Lennox]

Let me see. No, I, I Feel like I've. That's the beauty about Dreamville. They've always created that atmosphere of just like, follow your heart, do what you want to do. And. And so it was. It's always been beautiful. Like, I've always had that creative freedom. And then Interscope is really amazing with supporting me in that too. Like, they've never pushed me to do anything that I didn't want to do. Same thing with Dreamville. So it's always been like, beautiful, really healthy, you know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When did you know it was time to leave Dreamville? We've heard you complaining for years and how you wanted to be independent and what you wanted to do on yourself. When did you know it was the right time?

[Ari Lennox]

I think, you know, it's just a feeling. I think after when my song Smoke Dropped, it just felt like we weren't aligned. And it's not their fault. I don't know what happened. I think. I think perhaps they didn't know, like, the date of it or something. And I think as it dropped, it was just. I could feel like there was no marketing behind it. And I. And I mean, that wasn't a feeling.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You were right. I vocally said that. I never felt like they supported you.

[Ari Lennox]

Oh, I do feel like they supported me overall. Like, I don't believe that I would have gotten this far without them. J. Cole was the greatest cosign I could have ever had as a neo soul artist. People sleep on our genre so incredibly. So he changed my life and introduced me to people that probably might not have received me the same if they heard me outside of, you know, his camp. So the marketing overall I like is incredible. But honestly, I think they were in the middle of a deal separating Dreamville from Interscope. And I think that's what I was feeling at the time. And that's why they were unable to. To really hone in on what's going on. And I think over the years also, I have to take accountability with a lot of just my little things on the Internet with just speaking up about different things. I think probably created some tension for sure.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When you asked me, guys, about the label.

[Ari Lennox]

No, not even the label. Just like, just little things like, well,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

somebody over there is a Martin fan and they didn't like your opinion.

[Ari Lennox]

No, not. Not even Martin. I don't. I don't even.

[Angela Yee]

So around the time that Smoke Dropped, you had posted online that you were exhausted by Dreamville, that you were tired of people treating you like you were the face of mental health. You're okay. You're happy, but they're not. They're not marketing you well. They're not protecting you. You wish labels knew how to do that.

[Ari Lennox]

I felt that way about Interscope too. It wasn't just all Dreamville and Interscope has really. They've really shown me a lot of love and support and things of that nature. And I think it just was a really emotional time for me and I. I think I was a. I regret it. Honestly. I feel like I should have never taken it to the Internet. Internet. But like, you know, I'm. I do want to apologize to J. Cole.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I've.

[Ari Lennox]

I've been. I sent him a message on Instagram, I sent him a voice note. I'm a little afraid to give him a call, but I do apologize. Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

Wow.

[Ari Lennox]

Yeah, I love them.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

J. Cole got something that none of those exes.

[Ari Lennox]

Well, you know, well, they don't deserve apology. But it was never Cole. Cole was never the issue. I think it just was literally like a marketing thing in it. But it is what it is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

See for me. And I'm sure you, you know, so you're right. So I guess just on the outside looking in, you're like, well, damn, Cole, why don't you stand next to. Next to somebody like that more often?

[Ari Lennox]

Well, regarding you as an artist.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cuz that can help with marketing a lot.

[Ari Lennox]

He. This man flew all the way to London for me. I. I was performing. I mean it was beautiful. Time sold out two nights. I forgot the venue, but it was beautiful and it was massive. This man surprised me as I'm performing Shea Butter Baby and I cried like a baby. I sounded like a walrus. I could not get the words out. Cause I was so shocked. Like that's how loving and selfless he is. So. So Cole himself, like I will always care and respect him. Cause London across the pond for little old me is like what?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, like he just like to ride bikes and stuff.

Well, he didn't ride his bike that

[Ari Lennox]

far, but did he fly? Spirit?

[Lauren LaRosa]

You know, he hung.

[Ari Lennox]

Oh my God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, I don't think Spirit goes there, Jess. I don't think Spirit. I was gonna say. What was the call like? How did you call him and tell him you wanted to be released? Do you remember that call? Did you speak to him directly?

[Ari Lennox]

I. Sadly with my avoidant N. I. I sent him a voice note about it and it's sad. I should have called him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You should have called?

[Ari Lennox]

Yeah, for sure.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Actually probably should have had a face to face.

[Ari Lennox]

I. We should have.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Did he respond?

[Ari Lennox]

I was I wasn't ready to face

[DJ Envy]

like this past weekend. Like every other Sunday, you were on the court with the guys playing ball. Just a pickup game, living out your hoop dreams. No triple doubles, but a mean set

[Big O]

of three threes in between buckets. One of the homies mentions he closed on a new crib. This is big.

[DJ Envy]

And while everyone's asking about the housewarming and making plans to celebrate, you're asking the real questions.

[Big O]

Like has he spoke to his State Farm agent yet about coverage? See, home ownership is one thing, but

[DJ Envy]

the right coverage is the real game changer. Even more than your last hot streak is how you protect your legacy. Dropping buckets and bars on the court. A State Farm agent can more than assist you with finding the right coverage

[Big O]

for your new place.

[DJ Envy]

If you have a claim, your local

[Big O]

agent can help you file it. Yep, that's right. Over the phone, in person, online or

[DJ Envy]

on the app, they're ready to help you and they don't drop the ball, if you know what I mean.

[Big O]

Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Ari Lennox]

Pressure has a way of revealing what remains steady.

[Angela Yee]

In the latest Nissan campaign, the Nissan

[Ari Lennox]

Rogue was tested to the extreme to demonstrate that it's built to last through durability and reliability challenges inspired by real tests conducted by Nissan engineers.

[Angela Yee]

Brutal potholes, a steady force of water,

[Ari Lennox]

even a jet powered sandstorm. Each challenge inviting a deeper look at how quality, durability and reliability hold their ground in real world conditions. Every test was 100% real. No CG, no AI.

[Angela Yee]

To see how the Rogue held up,

[Ari Lennox]

visit nissan-duordability.com My own. My own ways. I wasn't ready to be accountable for myself. And then I don't believe I. I was just scared about. Like, there's a lot of things that I wish I just talked to him about before taking it to the Internet. So I. I really feel like those things created that tension.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Didn't respond.

Yeah.

Did he respond to the.

[Ari Lennox]

He did respond. He did respond.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And you still didn't call.

Come on.

Last episode.

[Ari Lennox]

That's why. That's why I apologize.

[Angela Yee]

If you want to share. What did. When he responded, what did he say? Because he's normally very like, warm and comforting when he talks about you.

[Ari Lennox]

Yeah, he said he wished I called him. So. Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You feel like an artist personality is just as important as their talent.

[Ari Lennox]

Ah, I do. And I feel like it can be damaging if you're too honest, too open, too opinionated. Yeah, There are things I wish I never opened up about online, but, you know, you get one life and I hate to regret anything at 80. Like, I should have said this, should have did this, this person should have.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No.

[Ari Lennox]

Because they can see my album is sexy as hell. Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

And good sex, bad sex is all

[Ari Lennox]

a Part of that we're manifesting we love. Cuz I ain't having sex. It's been three years.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, so you're selling.

[Angela Yee]

So you're on a journey. You celebrate as well.

[DJ Envy]

It's good.

[Ari Lennox]

Yeah. Well, actually, I did have a. Ah, I shouldn't have said. I didn't want to lie. Well, it was almost three years. Okay, well, no, it was three years. It was. It could have been longer, but yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, you're a liar.

[Ari Lennox]

No, I'm not a liar. That's why I had to clean that up. I don't want my mom to know.

[Angela Yee]

Oh, shoot.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn.

[Ari Lennox]

Yeah, it was just a little moment,

[Angela Yee]

so I won't ask you no more questions about it.

[Ari Lennox]

Actually, it was. All right. Too late, huh?

[Lauren LaRosa]

She said she won't ask you no more questions about.

[Ari Lennox]

It's too late.

[Angela Yee]

I'm not gonna rehearse it. Okay, great. So what, like. Cause when people say that they've been celibate for, like, three years, five years, I'm like, how do you not run into, like, instances of just, like, the feeling of like, wanting to masturbate at all?

[Ari Lennox]

Oh, no, I do that every night.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But she's talking about penetrating.

[Angela Yee]

But I thought. But because there are certain levels of celibacy. Like, I know people are celibate to the point where they're not even trying to do.

[Ari Lennox]

No, I could never go that long without doing that. And I feel like my whole down there would completely change, like, it would completely collapse, like, if I didn't make sure she was good.

[Angela Yee]

So what was the running you had that almost like, messed it all up or kind of set you back. You said it was.

[Ari Lennox]

Oh, I don't think it set me back. I feel like I needed to get that energy off me. I feel like I was really becoming decrepit a bit. And like. And just. I just was too. I. I just felt in my energy. My energy was exuding prudence. And honestly, there's nothing wrong with that. And I. I feel like celibacy is a beautiful thing, but me, personally, I just needed a nice restart of. And so, yeah, now we back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So, yeah, where's the clock at now?

[Ari Lennox]

What do you mean in general now?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, once you reset.

[Ari Lennox]

Oh, mama's watching.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Your mama's watching.

[Ari Lennox]

Why do you want to know? It's been, I don't know, last.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You don't have to answer that. I'm just.

[Ari Lennox]

Clearly, I do.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now, listen, every time that we've had conversations, you know, on this air, I'm like, yo, she's such A nice person. Like, she got such a dope personality. Right. But if you just see what you do online, you think all she does is complain. Like, we can't even watch Martin without her complaining.

[Ari Lennox]

Please watch Martin.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You can watch Martin.

[Angela Yee]

She's got to be in the kitchen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, I can't break down the Martin thing because people were upset about it.

Martin responded to that.

[Ari Lennox]

I. I know. And it. It meant the world to me because he was so gentle in his response and. Oh, I. I didn't expect that. I actually told her, no.

[Angela Yee]

Dashina Arnold responded too.

[Ari Lennox]

She did.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She did respond.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, you cried when Martin responded.

[Ari Lennox]

I did cry, yeah. Yeah. Because, you know, he didn't have to respond so beautifully the way that he did. And I. I didn't feel it was invalidating, you know what I'm saying? But he was also, you know, true to himself, and I respect that completely as. As a big fan of him. It meant the world to me because he's a legendary comedian. He could have dragged me to hell, so.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Along with the world from down the street from us.

[Ari Lennox]

Exactly. It was. It was heartbreaking. It was a heavy time for me because I felt like I isolated myself from every black person in the world. So, like, I was ruminating heavy. But luckily, the album, like, pulled me out of the dumps and therapy and things of that nature.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Did you talk to your therapist about it?

[Big O]

Oh, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Is she culturally competent enough to understand Martin?

[Ari Lennox]

Oh, yeah, I'm sure she. She loves it. Yeah. Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Do you have a black therapist?

[DJ Envy]

Who.

[Ari Lennox]

Yeah, I have a black therapist. She's lovely. Beautiful, beautiful natural hair there. She's great. Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The most interesting thing that we're going to witness about you is how you get better with time. Like, I can see it. Like, your music is going to get better with time. Plus, just you as a person. Like, your levels of I don't give a. Are going to get better as you get older. Like, you going to be that rich auntie, you know what I mean? Who may decide to get married, may not decide to get married, may get married once or twice, get divorced, but

[Ari Lennox]

you going, oh, my God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm just saying.

I can just see it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

This right in your face, trying.

[Ari Lennox]

I just see it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You going get married six times, have 10 kids.

[Ari Lennox]

My freaky husband is going to have a beautiful, freaky wife, and we are going to be together forever.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They're going to be driving pickup trucks.

[Ari Lennox]

We going to have a farm.

[Lauren LaRosa]

34.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What?

[Ari Lennox]

Cows and llamas and camels.

[DJ Envy]

I know that.

[Ari Lennox]

And kangaroo. Really Girl.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. Old farm life with the. Her husband's Mexican and black at the same time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, my. Thank you.

[Angela Yee]

Right? It's like a little.

[Ari Lennox]

She has a love today.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, you're tall. He's like six three.

[Ari Lennox]

That's amazing. Are you being trifling?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Both of them very much are being trifling.

[Angela Yee]

Oh, yes, girl.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm so happy about it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I can't wait to see 44 year old art.

[Ari Lennox]

Oh, thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not with a Mexican man, though.

[Ari Lennox]

I want you to have a black man. I would love a Mexican man. Or Mexican and black.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Mexican and black. Or black men. I mean.

[Ari Lennox]

But I'm down for it all. I. I think Bad Bunny is very handsome. I know he's Puerto Rican. He's Puerto Rican, but, you know. No, not a butt. But I. I love Puerto Ricans as well. I just. Latino people are very attractive.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So you enjoyed the super bowl is

[Ari Lennox]

what you're trying to tell me. I did enjoy.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Have you met him?

[Ari Lennox]

Honestly, I didn't watch it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I lied.

[Angela Yee]

I'm sorry.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why do y' all do that? It's the dmv. They love the.

[Ari Lennox]

Exactly. You know, she waiting for the end.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Get.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning. Let's get right to the latest.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Lauren becoming a straight thing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She gets him from somebody that knows somebody.

[Angela Yee]

I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything she be having to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Latest on this,

[DJ Envy]

the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. Brought to you by Top Dog on the Breakfast Club.

[Angela Yee]

All right, guys, so Terence Howard is making headlines again around Iron Man. So you guys remember a few months ago, it was some time ago now, we talked about this because he had Taryn Tower sat down with Joe Rogan and he had talked about how he felt like Robert Downey Jr. Did. It didn't help him when he was losing out on Iron Man 2. He said he called him 27 times and there was like money issues and it feels like he was pushed out of the franchise. But now he sat down on a pb PBD podcast and he talked about his potential temper being a reason why he feels like he lost out on Iron man as well. Let's take a listen.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm doing the Brave One and we're at the Venice Film Festival and some reporter out of nowhere gaslights me. It's like, why isn't your name above the titles with Jody? So I started making calls and then Joel Silver came and had a conversation with me. He's like, the reason your name isn't above the titles is because you're not the star of this thing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's Jody. And if you win, if you get

[Lauren LaRosa]

nominated for an Oscar, it's going to be for Supporting actor. It's not going to be for Best Actor. And I was like, okay, thank you for telling me that. Now I understand. But you have to remember, I'm a man just like you. And if you ever talk to me in that way again, I'm gonna knock your teeth out your mouth.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You said that, What I said. And then I have to fly back

[Lauren LaRosa]

on the private flight with him. And Susan Downey is his producing partner on that. And then maybe eight months later, I lose Iron Man.

[Angela Yee]

Now this is being reported, you know, as, like, you know, his temper, his anger. This is the reason why he lost out. And he talks about Denzel Washington having a conversation with him about some of the things that he was losing out on. But that listing on the call sheet in Supporting Actor versus Best Actor actor, when you're having a conversation with black male leads, that's going to trigger him. Not that I'm saying that he was right, but it's going to trigger him. Because that's always been a conversation about supporting versus just best male when it comes to black female and male actors.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

But let's take a listen, because he talks about how he got some advice from Denzel Washington on some of the issues he was having when it came to losing out on Rose.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I had a meeting with Denzel once, and he told me. He was like, look at your hands, man. You're always like this fist.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Your fists all balled up. Is it?

[Lauren LaRosa]

And all these producers want to do is they try to open your hand and so they can put money in it, but you won't do it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You keep your hands all tight like

[Lauren LaRosa]

this, and you're blowing it. And this is 20 years ago.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

So, I mean, there's always been a conversation. I mean, because Terrence Howard has done some big things. But I. I've had her conversations where people feel like there should have been more Terrence Howard everywhere. And now people are pointing to this like, okay, here's the reason why.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, I haven't heard the whole conversation. Is he having this conversation because he To. Wants. Wants to have. He's having accountability or like, what is it?

[Angela Yee]

I feel like it was accountability. Like, when I was watching it, I felt like there was accountability in it. I felt like he was providing more insight because the Iron Man 2 conversation, it goes with him everywhere, but he's just talking about his life and some of the things he's experienced.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And they say he didn't get two because he threatened the producer.

[DJ Envy]

Right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what they're saying.

Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

He told him he's gonna. Because.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But that wasn't the producer of Iron Man.

[Angela Yee]

That was.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That was the producer of the Brave One, Joe Civil. Joe Silver. Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

But he brings it. But he mentions Robert Downey's. Robert Downey Jr's wife, again, who did work on Iron Man, I believe her name is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, she said. He said they were production partners.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

So they were all together somewhere. And then he had a conversation with that man and, and told him if, you know, if you ever say this to me again.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He did threaten, but just because Joel

[Charlamagne Tha God]

told him that you're not the star of the film.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But I think, like, you threatened to knock his teeth the out of.

[Angela Yee]

All I'm saying is that, you know, I think, you know, there's a slippery slope of him. I think he felt like he was being, like, played with a little bit. Yeah. Tried a little bit. And, and he obviously, he must have been already feeling away about whatever was happening in that Iron man universe, because, remember, he was trying to say a while ago that he feels like he helped Robert Downey Jr. And then when he was asking for the same money, or at least close to the same money, he got pushed out of the franchise. And then they brought John.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

John, about Iron man, this is about the movie, the Brave One, that they were from Mode.

[Angela Yee]

I'm not for sure.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It could have been a guy's tone, you know what I'm saying? We, I, I. This is my first time ever.

[Angela Yee]

Not for sure, but there were other parts of the conversation that I thought were really good as well too. So you guys remember conversation? Yeah, it's, it's, it's pretty long, but it's a good one. You guys remember when the Beyonce did the cater to you moment and he was on stage? So he reveals in this interview that him and Beyonce used to date, and he thinks that that's why she brought him on stage. Let's take a listen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I had a chance to date Beyonce,

[Lauren LaRosa]

you know, early on, and we had a conversation, and I ended up talking to the other girl inside of, you know, Destiny, the girl with the blue eyes. And I remember Beyonce looking over at me, and I think that's why she picked me to do that dance when she did this, you know, the kind

[Charlamagne Tha God]

of striptease dance that we did at

[Lauren LaRosa]

Bets or whatever, to show me what I had lost. But I had, I was attracted there Was a moment in which I felt something there.

[DJ Envy]

But with Beyonce.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, but that was long before she was with Jay Z.

[DJ Envy]

That was very, very long ago.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who had blue eyes?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I went and looked.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, because I went and looked and I don't know. It was Latoya, latavia, Kelly and Beyonce. I don't know.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Sarah never made it that far unless

[Angela Yee]

somebody had on contacts one day. I don't know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't remember none of the children of destiny with blue eyes.

What year was this, cuz? You mean he's a lot older. He's 12, 13 years older than me.

[Angela Yee]

What year was it that he had the dating situation? Yeah, I don't know.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He didn't clarify. But it was obviously before she put him on stage because before the BET Awards.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What year was that? Usually you have all these numbers ready.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, he is a real fan. Wonder when somebody dating want to know?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I was curious.

I said a fed.

[Big O]

Oh yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What are we.

[Angela Yee]

So that was 2005.

[DJ Envy]

Whoa.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So that was what, 20 years ago?

[Angela Yee]

I mean that was a cater to

[Charlamagne Tha God]

you building a case over the year.

[Angela Yee]

Maybe I shouldn't have played that one.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Crazy.

All right, you played. I'm just asking the question. That's the question that everybody else is asking.

[Angela Yee]

All right, sorry.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I didn't even know that happened. I know they had a chance to date.

[Angela Yee]

I didn't know they dated. I remember the cater to you moment, but I didn't know they did it either. But listen, I also don't know a member of Dustin shot with blue Eyes. But as we wrap, I want to mention so earlier today I told you guys that we did a full deep dive interview on the Latest with Lauren LaRosa, the podcast with Gina Lisa Monterio, who is Monteroso, who is a conservative expert. Now we talked about Britney Spears here and we talked about like safeguards, right? So I want you guys to go take a listen to that interview. Another thing we talk about is the fact that Britney Spears, right after she got all that money for selling her masters, she fired a ton of people around her including sobriety coaches, security. So now the conversation is what is going to be the punishment? Should it be jail? Should it be rehabilitation like a mental wellness place or drug rehab? So we get into all of that on the podcast. So make sure you guys go a take, take a listen. Wanted to remind you of that and that top dog law, no accident, big or small, sponsors this segment. So.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And also happy birthday to Harriet Summer. She would have been 106. And also happy birthday to Shaquille O'.

[DJ Envy]

Neal.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Shaq. What up, Shaq?

54.

And just to put it out there, Jay and Terence Howard, the same age.

[DJ Envy]

So just put out there.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I did not know Harriet was a Pisces.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm not doing that.

I just want to clear it up.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, I'm saying Happy birthday.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Was 23 in 2000.

[DJ Envy]

2005.

[Angela Yee]

That's what I was confused about. You're putting two moments together.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I was just asking.

[Angela Yee]

He said he dated her way before. Beyond Jay Z. But that BET moment.

[Big O]

Question.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm just asking moment.

The bet.

[Angela Yee]

Am I confused?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No. No.

He's Lauren.

[Angela Yee]

I tried. That was the latest.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right. It's not you.

It's not me.

It's definitely. It's.

[DJ Envy]

It's not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who you giving your butt hours to? People's donkey, man. It's Friday, you know, on Fridays, we open up the phone lines and we let people call in and give folks the credit they deserve for being stupid. You can do that. Right now, it's the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

It's your time to nominate a donkey of your own.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Remember now, that is how they choose.

Call in now, 800-585-1051.

Donkey of the Day for Friday, March 6, is the People's donkey. You know, every Friday, I open up the phone lines and I let y' all give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid. You can give out the biggest Hee Haw. So good morning. Who's this?

[Big O]

Christian Peace.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Christian, how are you? Good.

[Big O]

How are you?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm blessed, black and highly favored. Who you want to get a biggest HE haul to?

[Big O]

Uncle Charlotte. I gotta give it to you what I do now. I am so tired of you doing Lauren segment. Cutting her off. Talking about your algorithm is crazy. Or nobody heard of that. Sir, are you even on social media like that to know us being discussed in these social media streets? Leave my distance alone and let her do her thing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I didn't say nobody heard it. I said I ain't heard of that.

[Big O]

Me. Well, we know you ain't heard it because you ain't on social media like that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But there's a lot of people who aren't on social media. Ma', am, I know that you think the world revolves around you and your algorithm, but that's not the way the world works. There's people like me out here, and

[Big O]

then you be cutting my girl off, and her words be getting all mixed up. Let her do her thing. Sit back and be quiet a little bit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She gonna mix them words up regardless, man. Damn. Okay.

Come on, Christian.

Go harder.

You gotta go harder, Christian.

Thank you, Christian. I appreciate you though.

[Big O]

Whatever. Lauren.

[Angela Yee]

Don't listen to him.

[Big O]

Do your thing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

See?

[DJ Envy]

Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who's this?

[Angela Yee]

Good morning.

[Big O]

Hey, how you doing?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm blessed, black and highly favored. How are you? Who you want to get a bigger sea heart to?

[Big O]

I want to get a biggie heart to Ms. Ash, who I used to work for because I left her company and she hasn't paid me in two months.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn. And you need your money.

[Big O]

I'm talking about the struggle between us. She, she just. Because she has her own independent company, so I worked for her. And because, because I didn't, I guess, blow the whistle. I just, I told her I was. Because it was a lady who failed. And I told her if she don't get her hurry up and fix on, I'm going to tell them that you need to hurry up and get these, get these folks up out your house. So she let me go. I literally went from making a thousand every week to I had to hurry up and get a job and get back on my feet when I said the struggle was real. The struggle is freed up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn. So why you giving her a donkey today again? Just cause she fired you?

[Big O]

No, I, I, no, I left. She hasn't paid me. It's been two months now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, you left cause she hasn't paid you? Okay, okay, I get it. I get it. Okay. All right. Damn. You need to call Top Dog Law.

[Big O]

I even called, but they made me feel so small of a person. They was just like, this is a small case because she only owe me a thousand. Well, a thousand and some change.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nah, you need your money. You need your money. Bro, Bro, there ain't no such thing as small. A thousand dollars is a thousand dollars. Hell yeah.

[Big O]

It's big to me, but in their world, you know, they make a person feel so small if you don't have no crash and burn. A whole million dollar case. No, I was just trying to get into my livelihood and I didn't even want to sue her because she was a lovely black woman. But when I say I, I have to go through the most right now. I went to the Department of Labor. They shut the shift, they shut the government down. I had to go through that again. And I was like, like, it was like they still, you know, at the end of the day, the Department of Labor can't make them pay you. All they can do is tell them

[Charlamagne Tha God]

to pay you, man. Listen, topdog law.com. you have been injured, okay? You've been injured in an accident. You should go get your money and tell them the Breakfast Club sent you. Good morning. Who's this?

[Ari Lennox]

Hey, this is Denise.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, Denise. I will. Are you. I'm good.

[Big O]

How are you? I'm so excited.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I got for who you want to get a biggest. He haw to Denise.

[Big O]

Ah, yeah, he haw, man, that go to a lot of people. Trump. These damn liberals don't like black people, but flower votes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now, Denise, I need you to get focused, okay? You have to have somebody you want to give it to. You're right. It can go to a lot of people. But who do you want to give it to, Denise?

[Big O]

I definitely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Honestly.

[Big O]

Please, Trump.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay. Okay. The floor is yours.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Big O]

My son. My son just made the decision to go to the military.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, Lord.

[Big O]

You know, just, you know, be clear. I'm military brat born and raised in all three of my kids are. So the last thing as a parent you want to hear is don't let your child go to the military right now. Last thing I want to hear because he's going to do what he's going to do. Smart young man. He's going in from Mafia. I'm happy with that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But it's scary 100%.

[Big O]

And this man is 100%.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And then the fact that, you know you're going to fight for a war that you really don't even know what you're fighting for. You know what I mean?

[Big O]

Exactly. We know what you fight for. You're fighting for the land that they want over there so he can keep on building the way he wants to build. That's what reality.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, listen, we praying for your son, man. I hope that him or any other troops don't need to be deployed. I don't want to see none of our boots on the ground ground over there. But we definitely praying for him and all the troops.

[Big O]

Absolutely. Absolutely. Thank you. I love you guys.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let's take one more. Good morning. Who's this?

[Big O]

This is Josh from Ohio.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Josh from Ohio. Who you want to get the biggest? He hard to man. You the last one for the day. Who you want to get the biggest? He haw to, man?

[Big O]

I want to give it to my gm, man. For months and months, he. He wasn't listening to it. He did surveys. They even brought HR in there trying to. To bring the morale up and see why the morale was so down because of the surveys. And she just wasn't listening, listening. And after, you know, so many months, they end up firing her about a week ago because we had the lowest score in our company for morale.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's her name?

[Big O]

Tried to tell her her name was Annette, man. That's all. I'm gonna give up Annette.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So Annette got fired because she wasn't listening to her team, basically.

[Big O]

Basically, yeah. Her whole team. And, you know, it's a good company. We do good things, but she just was running as crazy. She was working us long hours, and we were just letting her know that that's my cool, even on the weekend. And after, you know, about two, three surveys and scored me down, they was like, yeah, you got to get up out of here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The most important thing that you can do when you're in a leadership position in a company is listen to your team. Like, you can never, you know. You know, feel so high up or. Or feel so disconnected from your team that all you listen to is the suits, because the suits gonna steal you wrong every single time. The people on the ground that are actually doing the work can tell you exactly what you need to be doing to keep the ship afloat.

[DJ Envy]

Absolutely.

[Big O]

I totally agree, man. That's pretty much what happened. She wasn't listening, and the numbers was doing good, but she wasn't listening to her team at all.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn. Well, sorry to hear that, Annette. Hope you're doing okay out there in New Orleans. Thank you for calling, Brother. Brother. All right, listen, that was the people's donkey. We do that every Friday, 1-800-585-1051. You can call up and give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid, or you can go to the Talk Back feature on the iHeartRadio app and leave a message, but don't nobody ever check the message. Oh, my goodness.

All right.

But when we come back, full. Right now, it is full.

WWE wrestler Trick Williams will be joining us. We gonna kick it with him next, so don't move. It's the Breakfast Club.

[Big O]

Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Long. The rose is here as well. We got a special guest in the building from the wwe. Trick Williams, ladies and gentlemen, welcome.

[DJ Envy]

Let's talk about it. Let's talk about it. What's going on, everybody? How I'm doing? Good man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Blessed South Carolina Gamecock wide receiver.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, sir.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, sir.

Shout out to the CR From Hampton University.

Sir, I didn't know about the Hampton thing. That true?

[DJ Envy]

It is. It is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow.

[DJ Envy]

It is. I went to Hampton my first two years.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Wow.

[DJ Envy]

Back to the crib.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's interesting.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, sir.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So, you know. You know, he's he went to him.

[DJ Envy]

Absolutely. Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm from South Carolina. Of course you already know.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You never stop past Baltimore?

[DJ Envy]

Nah, man, I never been, but I did. I got some seafood. Hey, I got some seafood.

[Angela Yee]

I know you ain't been in Delaware.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So how you getting a wrestling man? How did this, this wrestling thing come about? Because you started with football. So how'd you get into wrestling?

[DJ Envy]

Right, man, it was actually. So like you said, I started at Hampton University, transferred to South Carolina, and had a brief stint with the Philadelphia Eagles, where I went to camp. Then, long story short, I got cut from the Philadelphia Eagles and trying to figure out what was next for my life. I had an agent who actually got me trying to give me some more tryouts and everything, then got me hooked up with the xfl. I think it was just a blessing because I never played for the xfl. As soon as they sent my information there, WWE reached to out. Reach out to me and say, are you interested in coming in for a tryout?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, so they reached out to you. So did you have wrestling background or did you ever do anything with wrestling?

[DJ Envy]

Never wrestled in my life. I was a fan. You know, at three years old, I opened a can of whoop ass watching Stone Cold Steve Austin. So, like, I was always a fan. I watched it, but I never thought about actually wrestling. Like, just didn't know it was opportunity.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So then you had to learn how to wrestle, right? Because it's not just one of the things you just go slap somebody, just open up a can of whoop ass over. So when they reached out to you, was it a training process? It was a program break down. What happened? What got you into your first bout, exactly?

[DJ Envy]

They brought me to Orlando. I tried out and they said, yo, you got charisma, you got a good look and everything. But how do you try out if

[Charlamagne Tha God]

you never wrestled before?

[DJ Envy]

I mean, that's a good question. DJ, let me tell you. So for 20 years, I played football, where if you're good at football, you stay on your feet.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Very physical sport.

[DJ Envy]

A very physical sport. My first day of becoming a WWE superstition, you learn how to fall, bump, cartwheel, flip, all this other stuff. So it wasn't natural to me. Like, I wasn't a gymnast. I'm still not a gymnast. So they didn't sign me. So I had to move to Philadelphia. Back to Philadelphia. I stayed with my uncle and I trained, I wrestled. Covid broke out. I stayed on the independent scene. You know, you could think about something similar to comedy or something like that, you know, before you make it big and, you know, you got your own shows and you on Wild N Out and stuff like that. You know, you're on the Indies. You make a name for yourself. So I had to do that first.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Do you feel pressure to represent, like, black culture in wrestling? Or do you just show up and be yourself and let everything play out?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, man, I can't be anything else than black. You know what I mean? I can't change my skin, you know what I mean? I'm raised how I was raised. And I feel like the better I do in this field, the better it is for people who look like me. People, period. But, you know, this is who I am. I can't change it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How difficult was it to learn wrestling and to fall and whatever wrestling is, how difficult was that?

[DJ Envy]

It takes years. It takes years. Cause, you know, playing football is about getting the job done, catching the touchdown, making the tackle, et cetera. Wrestling's everything, you know, I mean, we grab microphones, we talk trash. You know, we gotta look good, we gotta know our camera angles, we gotta feed to the cameras. We gotta do this, we gotta do. Do that. You gotta be the ultimate showman to be good at the craft.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And a lot of people think that it's. It's fake, you know, obviously, whatever, but, like, it's. It's real. Like, y' all really getting hurt?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, yeah.

[DJ Envy]

I mean, my neck hurt right now, but, you know, the way. The way I got pictures like this. Okay, yes, there's a script attached to it. You know, it's predetermined, but, you know, y' all got scripts right now in front of your computer screen. If I had a football Questions, not scripts, you know, but we do. You know, we prepare. You know, if it's football, you. You got, you know, a playbook. Basketball, you got place. The beauty is not in the script. It's in the execution. And Trey Williams is the best executor. So that's why I'm glad you said

[Charlamagne Tha God]

that, because I always wonder, what's the psychology behind getting 10,000 people to chant your name? Because it might be a little scripted, but the crowd reaction got to be real. Right?

[DJ Envy]

Right, right. And that's the beauty of it, because some people do their job so well. You know, I mean, there's something about him. The way he walks out and he just got that swag, that aura or something about her. You know what I mean? They like the way she looked. It could be her smile. It could be the way you Know, the wind blow that day. Like, you never know what it is. Some people are just that good at the craft.

[Angela Yee]

And they yelling, whoop that Trick when you coming out. And, like, they having a party when you walk out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's a movement. You created a whole movement with this.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, man, it was. It was a blessing, you know what I mean? I started NXT where the crowd just adopted that. You know, my name being Trick Williams, my birth name being Mattrick, you know, Trick was a nickname. So it just. It fit and whooped that Trick fit with Trick and it took off.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Clarissa Shields does that too.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She comes out to whoop that trick.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She does.

[DJ Envy]

She does. That's what she does, too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When did you know it was gonna work? Like, when was that time? He was like, oh, they really catching on. You remember that match?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I would say so. At nxt, we're in front of a set audience in Orlando, and we barely lead the house. House, like 400, 500 fans. And they started chanting, whoop that Trick there. Which is cool. It's like, are we in the same crowd? You know what I mean? You don't really know how the world feels about you. Then we went all the way to California, and in front of 5,000, and the whoop that Trick chants was crazy. And I won my first title. I beat Dominique Mysterio Rey. Mysterio, son. And that's when we knew, like, okay, this movement is something crazy. And it hasn't slowed down since the

[Charlamagne Tha God]

WWE call you at that time. Be like, hey, we gotta talk. We. You gotta get some things in. Do they call you when they start hearing it?

[DJ Envy]

Nah, nah, that's not how Shawn Michaels operate. You know? Shoot, when you start succeeding, all right, now you in the hot seat, you know what I mean? It's like once you get your first album, you know, and it hit, you know, now the pressure's on because now you gotta follow up. You gotta be able to. You know what I mean? You gotta meet that pressure to everything that comes with that. So once the people get behind you, that's when the hard work really start. You in the hot seat.

[Lauren LaRosa]

How different is. How different is the wrestler man metric? I mean. No, your metric. From the wrestler Trick Williams.

[DJ Envy]

It depends who you ask. Like, people from high school, they'd be like, oh, that's who he is. Like, he always been like that. But I just turn it up when the red light's on, you know, I mean, I talk more trash. I mean, you don't walk around life, just pimp Slapping people and talking trash. You know what I'm saying? It has to be a reason for it. You know what I mean? But, like, you gotta be able to feel these true emotions on the inside somewhere to, you know, make it feel real. Real when it's. When. When the camera.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What I call.

[DJ Envy]

You went to Keena.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, you went to Keenan. Okay, okay. High school. All right. So you really grew up in Columbia?

[DJ Envy]

I'm right there.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Right there.

[DJ Envy]

My family from Saint Matthews. We low country.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, you and your fiance, last legend, both of you guys made it to the main roster. And I saw you talking about how, like, that was, like, a cheat code. Cause y' all get to travel the world and do all these things. So what's that been like?

[DJ Envy]

It's been amazing, man. You know, she's with me all the time. When I say all the time. All the time. So, you know, and. And, you know, it just. It help you feel a little bit more supported, you know, when you in these foreign rooms, when you dealing with people who are different than yourself. You know what I'm saying? Like, I know my lady rock with me, you know, regardless of how I go, regardless, you know, I debut on Smackdown, I'm good. My lady, you know, she here. So we make sure that we confident and we prepared to go put on the best show.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Anybody running to your house, that's the worst house.

[DJ Envy]

And look, man. And people say, like, oh, they be nervous. They want to make sure that their partner does well when they perform and everything. My fiance, she's six foot. You know what I'm saying? 195, 200. Like, basketball, you know, MVP, you know, Seattle Storm, all that. So I'll be nervous for her. I'd be nervous for everybody she in the ring with. You know, I mean, she like to fight.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Even Jade.

[DJ Envy]

Jade don't want that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jade.

[DJ Envy]

Look, I respect Jade, and, you know, she from. You know, she cool people, but there's only one lash.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Is it challenging working with your fiance, too? Do you find any challenges with it? I know y' all are supportive of each other, but, you know, you still together.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. I would take these challenges over the other challenges I got you. Yeah. Of not seeing each other, because, shoot, we never home. So, like, if she was at the crib and was doing something else, then it'd be difficult.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How did y' all meet?

[DJ Envy]

In the business.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

In the business.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. A lot of wrestlers, date ratio, you know, that's just how it is. Like, you date where you at, you know? You know, that's a long Another story. I don't know. We got time for that. You know what I mean?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So.

[DJ Envy]

All right, let's talk about it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

You know, so, you know, we had the PC. That's what we call where we trained, the performance center. And, you know, it's just people from college, people from different backgrounds, people from, you know, what we call the indies. Like I said before, football players, basketball players, all this sort. I'll say 90 of people come in in a relationship two months in. I'll say there's about 5% of them still in that relationship, because that's just how the business is. Like, once you in it, it's like a whole nother world. And if you're not in it, a lot of people just don't understand, like, what you mean. You gotta stay in train with, you know, women who barely dress and everything, or why, you know, guys don't. Never got their shirt on. It's a lot for people, you know, who. Who not in it. Yeah. Long story short, you know, I was in a little relationship, but, you know, me and Lash, we was cool. We was friends. And, you know, that didn't work out. So I saw Lash, you know, and people thought we was talking different stuff like that. But no, we was just cool. We was just friends. I tried to, you know, press some game on her, cut a promo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What'd you say?

[DJ Envy]

Nothing. I was stumbling. I was stuttering all over the place.

[Ari Lennox]

Damn.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She wasn't.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. And I'm a promo guy. Like, I like to talk.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

And, you know, I went to talk to her. You and me together.

[Angela Yee]

She wasn't with it at first, though, right?

[DJ Envy]

Nah, she friends on me. Quit. Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How do you know when you and the friend zone?

[DJ Envy]

I mean, she was like, nah, you my homie friend dat me up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's friend zone.

[Lauren LaRosa]

How did you feel in that moment?

[DJ Envy]

But I felt, you know what I'm saying, it was a friend zone, like, because, you know. All right, here's the truth about the matter, you know, she wasn't single neither.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I'm saying?

[DJ Envy]

So she did what she had cause to do. But, you know, we never crossed that line then and there, but, like, we just grew as friends. And then one day, man, you know, it is what it is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So how'd you get out to friends, though, man?

[DJ Envy]

Just being me. Had to. Baby steps.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Work your way up.

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Once you get your big toe in, the rest, you know. Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He was our best friend.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

How does it help you guys? Brands? Just because I know you have your Singular brands, but together. Because now they're calling you like one of the wwe, these like power couples.

[Ari Lennox]

Straight up.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. I mean, that was never the goal. Like, who wasn't trying to be a power couple, per se, you know, I just rot with her. But it definitely helps, you know, I mean, like, you have double the reason to be invested into both of us now. Because, like, if you're a Trip Williams fan, then you rob with Lash. You rob Lash. You rob a trick and, you know, it just works like that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Do y' all hit each other with wrestling moves around the house? Just randomly, like.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, man, she abusive. Damn, she abusive, man. Like, I to need clothesline.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You want to boom.

Sometimes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Do you wish you stayed a friend?

[DJ Envy]

The funny thing is, you know, like, bro, she like the strongest girl in wwe. No cap, you know what I'm saying?

[Angela Yee]

She no joke.

[DJ Envy]

She no joke. But in the house, she just so. Oh, help me. You know what I mean? Oh, no. We got lizard in the house. We stay in Florida. You know what I mean? I hate lizards. I'm like, but you did body slam with 300 pound man last week.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I mean?

[Angela Yee]

But that means you put her in a really safe space because she's very successful. And I watched you guys on the sports bible to agree to disagree. I watched that and I was. I loved how you guys interact because I can tell for her to be so successful, you're so successful as well. Normally there's this like, thing when you're a successful woman where you have to always, like, you're on guard and you're always protecting what you built. She just be fully like my man's hair when you're. You know what I mean? That's a great thing to see.

[DJ Envy]

That's right, Lauren. I had to put my foot down sometimes you got a body slam and let her know, you know what I mean? Safely.

[Angela Yee]

We don't know if this is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think she can beat you, though.

[DJ Envy]

I ain't a front man. A lot of people think that

[Charlamagne Tha God]

took

[Lauren LaRosa]

off a coat and got on another coat.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let me tell you something about New York.

[DJ Envy]

Like she say, normally I don't got no shirt on, but today I was prepared.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Man, last night, you from Sam Liner in Florida. This weather ain't no job. You never get used to it.

[DJ Envy]

Nah, man. No, I don't play that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know WrestleMania 42. WrestleMania 42 is happening in April. How does WrestleMania feel? Because to me on the outside looking in, I always look at that as wrestling Super Bowl.

[DJ Envy]

It is okay. Yeah, it is. Super Bowl. It's right back in Las Vegas again this year. Las Vegas is full of shows, entertainment, magic shows, but we are the show to come and see the 18th and 19th April, and your boy's gonna have a match, I guarantee you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Is it pretty pressure?

[DJ Envy]

It's a lot of pressure. Like you said, it's a Super bowl, and, like, that's what everybody. That's what it's all about. You know what I mean? Like, you want to. You want a main event, WrestleMania. You want to have a match on the biggest stage of them all. 60,000 fans, night one, 60,000 fans, night two. 120,000 different people there chant your name, going crazy. Like, that's what it's all about. The biggest lights possible, the biggest production. All the stars come out. It's a good feeling. Yeah, man. It's about to go down.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Who is your ideal opponent for WrestleMania 42?

[DJ Envy]

Whoever want it, man. You know, I ain't trying to brag, but you know what I'm saying? Like, Trick is the hottest new talent on the roster right now. So, I mean, anybody who's trying to get a little jump back into their deal, they want to take on Trick Williams for WrestleMania.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely.

We appreciate you for joining us, man.

Trick Williams, good luck.

WrestleMania goes down to 18th.

Your name supposed to be Matric? Or was it supposed to be something else like Matrix or something?

[DJ Envy]

My name is Magic Man. My dad's name is Patrick. My mom named Monica, and you know how we do. You know what I'm saying? You're from South Carolina. You know how it go.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, okay, okay.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, yeah. Matric Mandre. My mama's middle name is Monique.

[Angela Yee]

Name Rosa. Rosa, yeah.

[DJ Envy]

You know how we do, man? We creative like that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's crazy, because I thought you was a little Spanish until I. Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Lauren LaRosa.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I didn't know my mom.

[Angela Yee]

Mom is Patrick, his mom. I mean, his dad is Patrick, his mom's mom. It's the same thing. Black people just love putting names together.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

Well, there you have it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's Trick Williams from the wwe.

Yes.

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. It's time for Past the O.

Dj, come spin now. Come spin. What's up, Big Nyla? Nyla Simone.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Hey, girl.

[Ari Lennox]

Hey, guys.

[Angela Yee]

Nyla Man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Young, 1990. Now study Brewster.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay.

[Angela Yee]

Not too much. You was on a roll.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Had to throw that in there, man.

[Angela Yee]

I'm excited, man. I think this new. I think they call themselves the Psych. You know? Denzel Curry put together a collective. Tia Karan asap. Ferg, BK the Ruler and they dropped their project today. And it's really, really tough. And sure, I think you're really gonna like it because I know how much you love the Crunk era and it kind of reminds me of it. Maybe not this song in particular, but there's some songs on there that I think will really be it. But I like this one the most. It's hoopty. It got Smido on there. You guys know I love Smino and Tia Karim.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I like that energy.

I had a crump in it. But not this record. Was the crunch.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah, not this record. But he has or.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I like that though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's all

[Ari Lennox]

so too.

[Angela Yee]

They just. They came together as a collective. They're really not a crew.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Angela Yee]

I'm. I'm team Love collective. So that. I think that was dope. Then I'm gonna go into this. Mike Will made it. Travis Porter and Mona Leo.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, yeah. It's a crazy combination, but I'm excited.

[Angela Yee]

I'm excited too. Especially Mike Will bodied that versus obviously, look what they wanted.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Charlamagne to drop it low.

But you see that they talking to me so reckless right now. Like Charlemagne almost like started twerking. Like I wanted Char to throw it. Don't disrespect me.

[Angela Yee]

I'm a lady, man. Let's get into this new. Mike Will made it. It's called Standing O.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who that is Mon. Okay, okay, okay, okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't know if I'm feeling that.

[Ari Lennox]

Oh, really?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what Travis for.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I was expecting something

[Charlamagne Tha God]

that sound like Travis Porter.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I like all three of them. Mike Will made it. Travis Porter and Mona Leo. But I. I don't know if I like that.

[Angela Yee]

I think maybe you got here from the beginning. You know, it's hard with these snippets to really catch it. Like even the last record, those verses that Tia did and SME. No, they were fire. All you guys heard was the hook. The verses are dope.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Gives people just a little bit to go check it out for themselves.

[Angela Yee]

Yes, yes. And then the last one is a rap record from Deontay Hitchcock. You know, he dropped a little three piece Deontay. And the record is called Gotta be More, which he actually just posted this tweet that was like, yo, I'm.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm a great rapper.

[Angela Yee]

I just don't like the post content. And I was like, dang. It's like that's like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's most rappers.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, but that's cool though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I've been watching Deontay since He just used to be sitting in his car freestyling. Just felt like it probably was like 15 years ago.

[Ari Lennox]

Not 15, at least.

[Angela Yee]

I probably like 10.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, 10.

[Angela Yee]

I give it 10. But this called. Gotta be more.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I would smoke a blunt at a cafe and sit down and do work on the laptop. That's fine. I like that whole picture you just

[Angela Yee]

painted, by the way.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I wonder if they. Dante gets discouraged just because, you know, he might not feel like he's where he's supposed to be because he's very talented. And when you that talented and you see everybody else, you know, prospering, and you like, I'm doping in all of them guys. He gets busy, but he's nice.

I feel like that's what a lot of rappers. And you deal with a lot of the rappers now. Don't you feel like they don't put out music because they're scared, because they get busy? But I feel like they scared that people won't accept it the way that they want it to be received.

[Angela Yee]

I don't know if it's because they scared. I think a lot of times they sign with labels that don't know what to do with them, and I think labels give them bad advice. Like, you should be doing a record like this. Like, there's some rappers who I work with who are phenomenal with the pen, who labels are telling them to make Drill records.

[DJ Envy]

Gotcha.

[Angela Yee]

Like, when Drill is hot. I feel that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I feel like the people are too into numbers.

[Big O]

Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They want to see how well the record spins or how record, how well it does, how well it streams, how well a YouTube. Like, if you like good music, go rock with good music.

[Angela Yee]

Yeah. And I also think that I don't want to blame this on Cole, but I think Cole being like, an ordinary.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What? Why does it always have to come back to Jake Hole?

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's the vibe that he kind of gave me, though.

[Ari Lennox]

Yeah.

[Angela Yee]

In the sense of, like, ordinary rappers. Like, I'm lit, I'm famous, but then I'm still doing regular stuff. Like, I feel like people just don't want to do all the things it takes to. To necessarily.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, we got a whole generation of regular rappers. J. Cole, Chance the Rapper, Kendrick, like, Drake. Like, none of them are Drake and Kendrick give regular. They're all big. Like those cold. Kendrick and Drake are all big superstars, but their boots are very much on the ground compared to the people that we grew up with.

Opposed to a dmx, opposed to a Nas, opposed to a ti.

That's what you're saying, think about all of the big, gaudy jewelry. Yes. You know, like, there was a. There was a. The rappers used to look and present drug dealer.

[Angela Yee]

Like, they were trying to be like the drug dealer.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, because even Kanye used to give off superstar aesthetic, and he wasn't no drug dealer. He was walking around Fonzer, Bentley, and them guys. So, no, I don't.

[Angela Yee]

I don't know what it is. But if you guys like those records, make sure you guys check them out. You can get them by following me at Nyla Simone. Nyla with a Y. Simone with a Y, N, Y, L, A, S, Y, M, O, N, E, E, E. While you're there, make sure you guys follow. It's a certified vibe. And, yeah, more tunes on the way.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, well, let's get to the mix. We throw back on a Friday. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious show Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. It's Women's History Month. Who we are saluting today?

[Lauren LaRosa]

We are saluting Claire Huxtable from the filmed series Cosby show, played by Phylicia Rashad. She was the matriarch of the family. She is what I consider, like, all of my aunts and my mother to be. That was, like, the most relatable mother on TV that I had watched growing up. And so I just want to give her a big shout out. Claire Huxton, who was supposed to be Dominican at first. Did y' all know that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, I did not.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, she.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, they.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Y' all ain't know that the black family.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The Cosby show, was gonna put a Dominican woman in. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She was supposed to be. Yo, they was casting for a Dominican mom, and she went in the audition to Ate it up. She spoke fluid Spanish, yo. Like, and she ate it up like that. Her and her sister both speaks fluent Spanish. But, yeah, man, they were trying to cast a Dominican woman for that first injury.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And then they switched it. Yeah. Bill Cosby switched and was like, okay. Yeah. Like, she bleed regular black.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. It wouldn't have been the same, the fact that black family is what made. I mean, the Cosby show was a great show regardless. But seeing that black family was very powerful.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes. Because black love is revolutionary. Nothing wrong with, you know, being black for sure. Being with a Latino.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I know, I know. Yo, but, yo, I'm so hyped.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cause y'. All.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Y' all ain't know that, like. And I did not make that up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what I say. It says, originally the character was supposed to speak Spanish, which explains why she occasionally spoke Spanish on the Cosby Show. Bill Cosby initially wanted her to to be a Spanish speaking character who would revert to her native language when frustrated the plan was dropped before the pilot was taped.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, but. But specifically Dominican is what they want her to be like. That's for real. I literally, literally read the that in a newspaper.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So you didn't read that. I believed you up until you said, you're right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, yeah, I was doing something, but I didn't read it in the newspaper. But I did. I did hear Malcolm Jamal want to say that on a podcast before, like a year, a year and a half ago, that would.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It would have been whack. I think it would have. It would have destroyed.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It was not. Because the whole thing, it was showing black lovely Black family.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And it's still one of my favorite shoes shows to this day. So, yeah, shout out to Claire Huxtable and Phylicia Rashad.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

All right. What happened?

This is funny. All right, when we come back, just says she reads. That's when everybody knows. Oh, Cap.

Now, a couple of weeks ago, Lauren announced that Mary J. Blige will be doing her first Vegas residency titled Mary J. Blige, My Life, My Story. Now, you and Jess only know a couple of Mary so songs, and that's very, very frustrating.

[Angela Yee]

Why do you keep telling the people this? That is not true. I know so many Mary J. Blige songs. I just didn't know the name of one song, but I knew the song word for word.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, I'm gonna help you guys out because I was looking on ebay and shout out to ebay because they have everything, including mary's my life, CDs and vinyl. So I'm gonna get you guys some vinyl so you guys could actually know the song title. Know the songs. And that way when we all go, because we're gonna all go as a clown class to Mary's residency, Charlemagne, Spain. You will know all the songs, so visit eBay.com, shop your favorite finds, and find what you love. All right, ebay. Things people love. Salute to a good partner of mine. His name is Danny. Danny Francis. Salute to Danny. Danny's getting married this weekend, so salute to Danny.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Man, that's what's up. Congratulations.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Salute to him. Enjoy your wedding, brother.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Also, Greensboro, North Carolina, your girl was gonna be there March 20th and March 21st. We got four shows at the Comedy Zone on that Friday and then two on that Saturday I will be coming with Merch. I will be doing meet and greet. You guys will have a chance to hear about my book and also pre order it because it comes out April 28th. Can't wait to get there. Greensboro, North Carolina okay Charlemagne, you got a positive note.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I do have a positive note and it's simple man. Don't let your circumstances hold you back. Okay? The first step towards success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. That is a quote from Mark Kane that I love man. Don't let your circumstances hold you back. Y' all have a great week. Weekend Breakfast Club Wake you up.

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[Ari Lennox]

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[Ari Lennox]

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