FULL SHOW: Cardi B Claps Back at BIA’s Stefon Diggs Comment During Sold Out KIA Forum Show + Dr. Jamal Bryant & MAJOR Interview

Summary

The Breakfast Club – February 17, 2026

Episode: FULL SHOW: Cardi B Claps Back at BIA’s Stefon Diggs Comment During Sold Out KIA Forum Show + Dr. Jamal Bryant & MAJOR Interview
Hosts: DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God, Lauren LaRosa
Key Guests: Dr. Jamal Bryant, MAJOR (artist), Mimi Brown (news)

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Episode Overview

This episode starts with the trio’s signature blend of humor, life updates, and cultural commentary before diving deep into breaking news, music culture, and insightful interviews. The main themes include the loss of civil rights icon Reverend Jesse Jackson, Cardi B’s headline-making tour moment, discussions about youth safety, social justice, Black church and activism with Dr. Jamal Bryant, Top Model exposé, and music’s role in uplifting hope with guest MAJOR.

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Highlights & Key Segments

1. Weekend Recaps and Banter (02:29–08:52)

• Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne, and DJ Envy share stories about birthday/Valentine’s celebrations, concerts, and family moments.
• Quote (Charlamagne Tha God, 05:15):
  "Some people just got a gift … God put an anointing on them and an anointing on their voice and on their messaging, and that is Jill Scott."

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2. Front Page News: Loss of Rev. Jesse Jackson (08:52–13:03)

• Mimi Brown reports the passing of civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson at 84, recounting his achievements and legacy.
• Clip is played of Jackson reflecting on his life, struggle, and the passing of the torch from Dr. King’s generation.
• Quote (Jesse Jackson, 10:55):
  “I was born to a teenage mother, who was born to a teenage mother… I know suffering.”
• Discussion: The hosts stress the importance of cherishing elders’ wisdom ("build with the elders while they’re still here”).

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3. Callers: Safety & Community Concerns (13:25–21:55)

a. E-bike Accident Caller (13:30–18:59)

• A father calls in from his son’s hospital bedside after an e-bike accident left his son in a coma. He stresses helmet use and parental vigilance.
• The crew discuss accident responsibility, victim blaming, and street safety for youth.
• Quote (Caller, 17:06):
  "I just want every parent… I don’t give a damn how hard it is to get that kid to put on his helmet, man. Strap it on."

b. Valentine’s Day Letdown (20:00–22:22)

• Dre calls about not receiving a gift from her boyfriend on Valentine’s, leading the hosts into a light-hearted debate over relationship expectations.

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4. Latest in Music & Culture

a. Cardi B’s Sold-Out LA Shows & BIA Beef (23:02–26:10)

• Cardi B sells out two back-to-back nights at the KIA Forum, making history as the first female rapper to do so.
• Her on-stage response to BIA’s comments about Stefon Diggs and their relationship status goes viral.
• Quote (Lauren LaRosa, 24:17):
  "[Cardi] tweeted… 'it's time for hoes to gag.'"

b. New Edition/Boyz II Men/Toni Braxton Review (26:24–28:53)

• Lauren recaps a major R&B concert night, complete with behind-the-scenes moments and honest appraisal.
• Banter over whether Boyz II Men’s harmony held up, affirming Toni Braxton’s “flawlessness.”

c. America’s Next Top Model Documentary (69:23–78:44)

• Lauren reviews the new Netflix documentary highlighting the show’s controversies, including Ms. J. Alexander’s health, an alleged in-house sexual assault, and evolving industry ethics.
• Quote (Shandy, Top Model contestant, 73:29):
  "Afterwards, I’m just, like, laying on the floor in a fetal position, just crying. And they just get up to leave.”

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5. Front Page & Political News: Voter Suppression Fears (33:38–38:03)

• Mimi Brown deep dives into the Save America Act, which could disenfranchise millions by requiring matching birth certificates/passports for voting.
• Discussion highlights the disproportionate impact on Black and women voters.
• Quote (Lauren Underwood, 35:45):
  “Nearly 69 million women in America have a birth certificate that does not match their current name… wouldn’t be eligible to vote.”

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6. Special Interview: Dr. Jamal Bryant (42:06–67:42)

Key Topics:

• Church activism, white Christian nationalism, leadership failures in the Trump era, and the need for spiritual leaders to address real-world issues.
• Advocacy for continued Target boycott until commitments to HBCUs and Black communities are met.
• The intersection between personal imperfection and leadership.

Notable Quotes:

• On Jesus’ radicalism (44:03):
  "People want to make Jesus weak… He kicked over tables and pulled out whips. He cursed people and said you were out of order."
• On preachers and activism (45:20):
  “Otherwise, you’re not a preacher. You’re just a TED Talk speaker.”
• On leadership and legacy (50:07):
  “The leadership lesson that’s the hardest is every decision you make impacts people beyond you.”
• On flawed leadership (55:12):
  “Had I lived a perfect life, how would I learn how to preach to people who live through divorce?”

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7. Donkey of the Day: Nursing Home Theft (79:18–84:15)

• Charlamagne calls out Christina Williams, a nursing home office manager accused of stealing $300,000 from elderly residents.
• Moral commentary: “I really think people who take advantage of the elderly and kids, they get VIP sections in hell.”
• Studio banter about petty theft turns into jokes about morality and karma.

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8. Artist Interview: MAJOR (85:30–104:55)

• MAJOR discusses staying positive and spiritually grounded in a tough music industry.
• Tells behind-the-scenes stories, including meeting Beyoncé, Prince, and Oprah and feeling starstruck.
• Reaffirms the importance of hope and giving back.
• Quote (MAJOR, 103:24):
  "I want my legacy to be: He gives what he lives, he lives what he gives."

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9. Pop Culture & Mini News Updates (105:11–111:47)

• Wiz Khalifa mourns his father's passing: "He went out like a true yogi, at peace and on his own time."
• Ray J worries fans with a visible chest medical patch during a Valentine’s concert.
• Jada Pinkett Smith seeks dismissal of $3M lawsuit over comments about Will Smith rumors.

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10. Cardi B Tour Recap & Viral Moments (111:48–113:12)

• Cardi falls backward on stage but laughs it off; adds comic commentary with Kehlani.
• Guest performers at both LA shows (Glorilla, Kehlani, etc.), star-studded audience.

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11. Black History Month Segment: I Didn’t Know, Maybe You Didn’t Either (113:30–117:25)

• B.Dot honors Marie Van Britten Brown, Black woman inventor of the modern home security system.
• Hosts reflect on Black innovation often hidden in plain sight.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• DJ Envy, on Jesse Jackson’s funeral: “When they go, libraries go with them.” (12:09)
• Charlamagne Tha God, on NBA All-Star Weekend: "As long as the slam dunk contest is whack, then you will always feel like NBA All Star Weekend is whack." (09:10)
• Jess Hilarious, on Target boycott efforts: “This is the largest boycott for Black people since the Montgomery bus boycott 70 years ago.” (61:07)
• Dr. Jamal Bryant, on activism and faith:
  • "You got to have a newspaper in one hand and a Bible in another." (44:40)
  • “If what you’re building only benefits you… it’s not big enough.” (implied in activist commentary)

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Key Timestamps

• 02:29 – Show open, weekend recaps
• 08:52 – Announcement of Jesse Jackson’s death
• 13:25 – “Get it off your chest” call: e-bike accident
• 23:02 – Cardi B’s LA tour triumph/BIA clapback
• 26:24 – R&B concert review
• 33:38 – Voter suppression: Save America Act
• 42:06 – Dr. Jamal Bryant interview
• 69:23 – America’s Next Top Model doc discussion
• 79:18 – Donkey of the Day (nursing home theft)
• 85:30 – MAJOR (artist) interview
• 105:11 – Lauren’s pop culture/news roundup
• 111:48 – Cardi B’s viral stage fall
• 113:30 – Black History Month segment: Marie Van Britten Brown

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Takeaway

This episode is a blend of real-life emotion, culture-shaping stories, policy issues, and affirming perspectives. Whether addressing loss and legacy, uplifting hope through music, shining a light on Black women innovators, or calling out systemic injustice, the crew’s signature humor and honesty make for a compelling and meaningful listen.

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Positive Note (119:39)

Charlamagne closes with a message from Rev. Jesse Jackson:

“We must all learn a good lesson; how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world—learning to coexist and not co-annihilate.”

Transcript

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wake you up.

[DJ Envy]

Wake that ass up.

[Just Hilarious]

Program your Alarm to Power 105.1 on iHeartradio.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning USA.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Just Hilarious]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[DJ Envy]

Jess, Hilarious.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Wake that ass up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Charlamagne, the gone beast of the planet.

[DJ Envy]

It's Tuesday.

[Jessica]

Hey.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[DJ Envy]

Yes. Three day weekend. How you feeling, Jess? How was your birthday weekend in Valentine's?

[Jessica]

Oh, my God, it was great. Now, y' all know I didn't feel good, but my husband still managed to let me have a lot of fun. He made me a lot of fun. He planned a whole weekend. So I had. We had dinner at the Roxy Friday night. That live jazz, it was lit. You ever been there? I know y', all. You ain't get probably Mr. Roxy. No, it's really, really good. It's really nice too. It's like a. A five star Michelin restaurant, but it's inside of a hotel.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Jessica]

And then they have like live jazz bands. Every week they come and do that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You've never been to the Rocks? We used to work right next door to it.

[DJ Envy]

I've never been there for that night.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, okay.

[DJ Envy]

Have you been there for that night?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, yeah, because they always.

[DJ Envy]

I didn't go there for dinner. I've been there for. I've been there. We used to go there for lunch, used to go there for dinner, but not when the live band was there. We went to the movie theater, did all that.

[Jessica]

Yeah, that's what. So we went downstairs and went to the movie after. So dinner and the movie and some live music.

[DJ Envy]

That was dope.

[Jessica]

And Saturday we. We went to this dinner gala, this Valentine's Day dinner gala in Baltimore. And then Sunday, I took him to go see Miguelito. And it was so fun. Miguel.

[DJ Envy]

I was like, who was Miguel? Okay, okay, okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Where was Miguel?

[Jessica]

At the anthem in D.C. at the Music Hall. It was so lit, yo. That was my first time seeing him perform. Yo, he's really a rock star. Yes, absolutely. Mike was on, like, he sing. You know how people lip sync sometimes? No, he was singing to the top of his lungs. He did not get hoarse. He was not tired. He was dancing and all this heavy ass leather. So I know he was hot, but like, the production, the. The theatrics, the transitions, everything was so lit, yo. Like four people passed out in this man's crowd.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Really?

[Jessica]

Yes. He stopped the show every time. And look, by the fourth person, he.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Was getting sick of hell, like on some Michael Jackson.

[Jessica]

Yes, he was sick of it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He was like, all right, look, can.

[Jessica]

Y' all just drink some water, please? I'm tired of stopping the show. Yeah, he got tired of stopping the show because every time he stopped, like, the lights had to come on, and he was, like, trying to get the paramedics in to get, like, people were passing out. And it was a standing. It was a music hall, so it was no seats. It was all standing. And, like, when he came out, it was amazing. The person that opened up for him, Gene Dawson, he did great, too. That was my first time ever seeing him. He was like a rock star as well, but, like, it was lit, so I had a lot of fun.

[DJ Envy]

Well, glad you had a great weekend, gentleman.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

You had a good weekend.

[DJ Envy]

Did you go out and see?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I went out. I went out Saturday night, went to go see Jill Scott at the Blue Note.

[DJ Envy]

How was that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It was fantastic, man. Blue Note only holds, like, 200 people. And so it felt like Love Jones in there, man, up close and personal, you know what I mean? And that's my Jill Scott. And Erica Badu's my wife's favorite artist, man. So, you know, it felt like. It felt like the dance scene from Sinners.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Caller with son injured on e-bike]

Oh, wow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And it felt like Darius Love hall doing an old to Nina on Love Jones. And it felt like a hug from Jill Scott. If you ever, you know, you know, you've ever had the pleasure of hugging Jill Scott, that's how the room felt. It felt so intimate. And some people just got a gift. Like, some of y' all just singing because y', all, you know, want to, right? Some people have no choice. God put an anointing on them and an anointing on their voice and on their messaging, and that is Jill Scott. So, yeah, Saturday. Saturday at the Blue Note was fantastic. And it was. Oh, it started at 8 and was over at, like, 905.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

So you love that.

[Jessica]

That is so funny. She said there was a video going around of her, right? And she was explaining, like, all right, this my last song. And so people was like, boo.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

No.

[Jessica]

She was like, well, Damn, my son's 16 songs already.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She did.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She did her. And the band was fantast. The fact that it was just like a. Because she had a. I went to the 8 o' clock show, then she had a 10:30 show. So it was an hour long. I was back home in time to watch the rest of the South Carolina LSU game. Oh, that was fantastic.

[Jessica]

That's what she was saying, like, once I'm done, I'm done.

[DJ Envy]

She's finished.

[Jessica]

I love it.

[DJ Envy]

All right, well, let's get the show cracking. Salute to all the dance dads. I was out for Valentine's. I was out in. My daughter's had a dance competition in Boston. And, you know, we didn't get a chance because dance competitions, if you ever been or chair dad or whatever, you know, it's. It's rigorous. It's all day long. It's 8am so we try to get a little, little fun time in between that. But it was a dope.

[Jessica]

Brooklyn killed it again.

[DJ Envy]

Out of 300 girls. 400 girls, number one, like without a.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Doubt, like big Brooklyn.

[DJ Envy]

Very big, big Brooklyn. London came 10th out of 300 girls, which is still good. One is a Mini, one is a junior. But yeah, I mean, it's just, it's different when you. When you walking around those places and people know your kids and they want to see your kids performance. It was pretty dope.

[Jessica]

You'll be an old man with a cane cheering them on because they're gonna be doing this for the rest of their life.

[DJ Envy]

I don't care. I enjoy every bit of it. And I just love sitting in the back seeing people's expressions when they dance because they don't know what to expect. Here comes this little girl that comes up and she just. Oh, my God, they get powerful. So salute to all the dance dads out there. All right, let's get the show cracking now. Dr. Jamal Bryant will be joining us this morning.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Absolutely.

[Jessica]

Dr. Pastor, Rev. Jamal Bryant.

[DJ Envy]

Dr. Pastor, Rev, Jamal Bryant. He'll be joining us this morning. We'll be kicking it with him. And then we got front page news next. Mimi's up next. Now. We got to send a rest in peace to Reverend Jesse Jackson. He passed away.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

South Carolina Giants.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Morning.

[Just Hilarious]

That's right.

[DJ Envy]

I'm sure Mimi will be breaking everything down. Can we play some positivity this morning, please?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Play some positivity. How do you play positivity? You mean play some positive music? You know what I meant. Play positivity.

[DJ Envy]

You know what I meant.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

You know what I mean.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You definitely cosplaying positivity by saying something like that. Play some positive music. Let's cosplay some positivity.

[DJ Envy]

You know what I meant.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Keep hope alive. You know what I mean? I am somebody. I am somebody.

[Just Hilarious]

Christ.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The Breakfast Club.

[Jessica]

Morning.

[DJ Envy]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess. Hilarious Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news now. By any chance, any of y' all see in anything all Star Weekend at all NBA All Weekend.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Watch the game.

[DJ Envy]

You watch the game? How was the game?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The game was actually good.

[DJ Envy]

Really?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I thought so.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It was competitive.

[DJ Envy]

All right. Now the slam dunk contest. Kashad Johnson won from the Miami Heat. Did y' all watch the slam dunk contest?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, I was at Jill Scott show.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

Damian Lillard won the three point contest. And the Shooting Stars, the Knicks one. Team Knicks won that all.

[Jessica]

Oh, nice envy. Team Knicks.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Team Knicks, yeah. They won the Shooting Stars. And Anthony Edwards, he scored 32 points across three games and he received the Kobe Bryant trophy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

For everybody who thinks All Star weekend is whack, the reason y' all think it's whack is because the slam dunk contest is whack. And so goes the slam dunk contest, so goes NBA All Star Weekend. That Saturday night is very important. That's. That's what we used to tune into growing up as kids. That slam dunk contest, that was not.

[Jessica]

Like it used to be.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, it hasn't been for years. But as long as the slam dunk contest is whack, then you will always feel like NBA All Star Weekend. His wife, regardless of how good the game is now.

[DJ Envy]

What's up, Mimi?

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning, Ev. Josh, Charlemagne. How y' all doing this morning?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good. That's black and highly favored.

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning. So we start this morning with some sad breaking news. Civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson has died. He was 84 years old. So far, no cause of death has been given but more than five decades. Jesse Jackson was one of the most recognizable voices in the fight for civil rights and economic justice. He marched alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In the 1960s and was the present day. He was present the day Dr. King was assassinated in Memphis. After King's death, Jackson. He carried out that movement. He carried it forward. He founded Operation Breadbasket and later Rainbow Push Coalition, pushing corporations to hire more black workers and fighting for voter rights, jobs and education. As we know, in 1984 and 1988, he ran for president, becoming one of the first black candidates in to mount a serious national campaign at a time when many said a black candidate could not win. But he built a multiracial coalition and energized millions of voters. And years later, President Obama would credit Jackson for helping pave the way. Jackson, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of freedom in 2000 for his decades of work, expanding opportunity and fighting inequality. And even in recent years, as he battled serious health issues, he continued to see speak out about racial disparities and injustices. Now, Reverend Jesse Jackson. He was a preacher, an organizer, a presidential candidate and for many, a symbol of persistence and hope. Here's Reverend Jesse Jackson reflecting on his life and the journey he never expected to see. Let's listen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

My great grandfather was the sheriff of Greenville county who raped my great grandmother. And of that relationship, my grandmother who was stolen from the plantation by my grandfather. And then my father came out of that relationship. I know suffering. I was born to a teenage mother. Who was born to a teenage mother. July 17, 1960. I went to jail in Greenville, South Carolina, trying to use a library. July 17, 1984. I was speaking before the Democratic Convention in San Francisco without the aid of government. Spark. I'm affirming it. I never thought I would make 50. So many people with whom I worked. Frontline people. I have preached at funerals, attended them. What it was Dr. King and Malcolm who only made it to 38. Medgar Evers who didn't make it that far. A generation of fighters, Fred Hampton and others of them. South Carolina Giant right there. We losing recipes, man. If you ever get the opportunity to, you know, have conversations, if you've had the opportunity to have conversations like with Reverend Jesse Jackson or, you know, you gotta appreciate people like Andrew Young while they're still here, man. Because when. When they go libraries, go with them.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah, for sure. And his family put out a statement. It just says it's with profound sadness that we announced the passing the civil rights leader and founder of Rainbow Push Coalition, the Honorable Reverend Jesse Lewis Jackson Sr. He died peacefully on Tuesday morning surrounded by his family. They also say that public service will be held in Chicago. Final arrangements for him will be including all public events will be released by the Rainbow Push Coalition. And you can go to their website, which is rainbow push.org or jessejacksonlegacy.com for more information.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Build with the elders while they still here. Whether it's Andrew young, whether it's Dr. Claude Anderson, Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. Build with them while they still here, man. They still have so much information to share.

[Jessica]

All right.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah, for sure.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you.

[Mimi Brown]

I'm coming up at. Of course, coming up at 7, we're going to talk about a major shift that's happening over voter rights and voter rules. We'll get into that at seven.

[DJ Envy]

All right, everybody else, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need the vent, phone lines are wide open again. 1-800-585-1051. Mr. Breakfast Club, good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, what you doing, man?

[Just Hilarious]

This is your time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed.

[DJ Envy]

800-585-1051.

[Just Hilarious]

We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

[B Dot]

Hello?

[DJ Envy]

Who's this?

[Caller with son injured on e-bike]

Good morning, how are you?

[DJ Envy]

Hey, what's your name, brother?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why are you calling up here? Why you calling up here? Talking deep dust, bro. Don't call up here with the sexy quiet.

[Jessica]

He just sounds so sad.

[DJ Envy]

What's the matter, Paul?

[State Farm Announcer]

I be.

[Caller with son injured on e-bike]

Oh, I mean, I'm not the happiest right now, but I am also sitting in the hospital at three o' clock in the morning, California.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

What happened?

[Caller with son injured on e-bike]

Well, let me stop by this. I've been a long time listening, so. Good morning, Envy. Morning, beautiful.

[Jessica]

Jeff. Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

What's going on?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why can't I be beautiful?

[Jessica]

Oh my God, please.

[Caller with son injured on e-bike]

Well, I heard you talk about a while back your kid wanted the E bike.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. I didn't get it though.

[Caller with son injured on e-bike]

And I know you did think, because I know you talked about the danger of the helmet. So today is 32 of me sitting in the hospital, that my kid's been in a coma.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Damn.

[Caller with son injured on e-bike]

Coming home. Yes, from school. A block away from school on his electric scooter. He was hit by a car.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's horrible.

[Jessica]

I'm so sorry.

[DJ Envy]

He didn't have a helmet on, he.

[Caller with son injured on e-bike]

Didn'T have a hammer on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That ain't the E bike's fault though.

[Caller with son injured on e-bike]

No, but also is the dangers of the. The drivers don't look at these kids on these bikes. They look at them as a nuisance. They don't look at them as pedestrians.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Damn.

[Caller with son injured on e-bike]

They don't care for them like they should. So I just. And then I feel bad also for the driver. It was a 17 year old chair that hit my kids. So it was two tears of the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn.

[DJ Envy]

I'm so sorry.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sorry to hear that, brother.

[DJ Envy]

And you know you right, you know, I fought with that E bike thing because that's the new thing for kids. How old is your son, sir?

[Just Hilarious]

14.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, that's the new thing for these kids. They all want these bikes and those bikes go up to 35 miles an hour. So you a kid riding those bike and you don't have a helmet. And you know me and my wife decided against it not to get him an E bike. He was mad about him. I got him a regular bike. But we didn't get him an E bike.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

I got him.

[DJ Envy]

That's why I got him a little quad where he could drive with a helmet. But nah, we didn't Get. I'm so sorry, sir.

[Jessica]

Yeah, that's sad.

[Caller with son injured on e-bike]

No, you're good now. And I walked everything with him. I drove around, I went through, you know, safeties of it. Showed him to stay in the bike.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right.

[Caller with son injured on e-bike]

And he was turning into a bike lane when he got hit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So. Yeah, that's not his fault. That's not his fault of the E ball. E bike's fault. That's a 17 year old kid who don't know how to drive.

[DJ Envy]

But yeah, but also, I mean it was an accident. Accidents happened. But he didn't have his helmet on as well. That's why they tell you to wear a helmet just in case.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But that could be happening on anything is what I'm saying. You could be on a regular bike with no helmet on.

[DJ Envy]

But you were supposed to law says you're supposed to wear a helmet as a regular bike or E bike anybody.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I never did that as a kid. None of us used to wear 22.

[DJ Envy]

Look at us now.

[Caller with son injured on e-bike]

Catch 22. Two weeks later a friend of his is two doors down from the same accident.

[Jessica]

Damn, damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Your friend of his, what now?

[Caller with son injured on e-bike]

15 year old kid that he goes to school with and plays football with. It's two doors down from us. Same type of accent.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What else could somebody hit him while he was riding the E bike?

[Caller with son injured on e-bike]

Somebody hit him off while he was riding E bike in Costco parking lot.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why people don't like ebike. Like what's going on here? Like why people look.

[DJ Envy]

But people. It's hard to see K kids and, and sometimes in those bike lanes and, and people ride in and out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He said that people don't look at the kids on ebikes as pedestrians.

[Jessica]

Why look at them as a nuisance? Well, well, I can treat them as nuisance.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Jessica]

Like sometimes like bike riders. They, they are, sometimes they are nuisance.

[Lauren LaRosa]

They.

[Jessica]

But they don't be in their bike lane all the time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hold on. Bike riders and E bike ride. So y' all confusing me.

[DJ Envy]

A bike is a bike.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Same thing.

[DJ Envy]

You know what E bike is?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hold on.

[DJ Envy]

E bike is a bike with a electric bike. Electric bike. So you can pedal or you can.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Go faster without pedal to ride bikes no more.

[Just Hilarious]

Period.

[Jessica]

I, I, I don't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But we want to bring some.

[Caller with son injured on e-bike]

We wanted to put on the helmets.

[DJ Envy]

That's it. We want everybody wear their helmets.

[Caller with son injured on e-bike]

You know, I don't care how cool you think you gotta look with it or without it. My son had a double crane like me. They don't even do that no more. Those are very rare. Procedures that they do and they pushes.

[DJ Envy]

I'm so sorry again, bro.

[Caller with son injured on e-bike]

32 days, he's still here. But I mean, realistically, I just want everybody, every parent, I don't give a damn how hard it is to get that kid to put on his helmet, man. Strap it on, right?

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Yeah.

[Caller with son injured on e-bike]

I don't care if you got a glue it on his head, strap it on his head. I mean, this has been the hardest thing I ever had to battle with.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

In my life, man. We are sending you nothing but healing, brother, and prayers up for you, your son, man.

[Caller with son injured on e-bike]

I appreciate it. We appreciate if anybody's name is Drake Parker, if y' all want to include him in your prayers.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Ray Parker.

[Caller with son injured on e-bike]

Like I said, definitely the R K E. I know you don't like Drake Charlemagne, but is that Drake Parker?

[DJ Envy]

Oh, Drake Parker.

[Caller with son injured on e-bike]

If you want to see a story, you can find him on GoFundMe. You just gotta search his name and you'll see his story, the date it happened, in time.

[DJ Envy]

All right.

[Jessica]

And don't beat yourself up. You sound like you are so disappointed in yourself. I hear the guilt in your voice. Don't beat yourself up. You know you was trying to do the right thing by your kid.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm sorry, Drake.

[DJ Envy]

Paul. All right, brother, and just one last question. What did the doctor say?

[Caller with son injured on e-bike]

Well, I mean, like I said, he's had, what was his rare procedure, which is a double cranectomy. He had a double frontal craniectomy. So he has severe brain damage to the left and right side of his brain.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's horrible.

[Caller with son injured on e-bike]

His brain shifted a total of 47 millimeters, which is a centimeter and a half. Normally at 18 millimeters that's fatal, but he's beat the odds.

[State Farm Announcer]

Step forward.

[Caller with son injured on e-bike]

As we're talking right now. He's actually coming back up from CT as they roll him back in the room. So he's gonna be nice. He's been fighting, so everything they said that he wasn't gonna do, God is showing me to keep my faith over my fear.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right. All right, brother, that's right. I know that. I know that 17 year old kid is probably beating himself up too.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, well, thank you for calling in, man, and if you can please give us an update, brother.

[Caller with son injured on e-bike]

Yeah, I'll keep you guys posted. Yeah, like I said, I hope I better call you guys back in another 30 days. And he's gave us some consciousness and woken up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, sir.

[Caller with son injured on e-bike]

All right, brother, I appreciate your time this morning again. Parents drop some kids in the helmets, man.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you so much. Damn, Damn. Get it off your chest. 800-5851. Yeah, but now it's law. You have to. It's not even an option. You have to.

[Just Hilarious]

As a law.

[DJ Envy]

If you're a child, you have to wear a helmet on a bike. I have to wear a helmet on an E bike. And those E bikes are dangerous. But like they. The fan now. And you don't have to pedal. You just kind of. You could just go. And they go up to like 30 miles an hour. And it's very scary. And I almost got Jackson one for Christmas. Me and my wife decided not to. But like, because like he said, pedestrians is like, where do you ride it? You have to ride it in the street. Now you're racing cars and people.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He said this song's in the bike lane.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, but in Jersey there's no bike. There's not that many bike lanes. You riding in the street where I'm.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

From, I think we still taking. We taking. We kind of still victim blaming here, though, because he's got hit by a 17 year old.

[Jessica]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, clearly wasn't paying attention.

[DJ Envy]

But the amount of accidents that happen on these bikes with. With just regular kids and teens is. Is a lot.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Accident is one thing. Getting hit by a car is another.

[DJ Envy]

But that's an accident.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, but he got hit by somebody.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, accident. That's what most of these things happen. The accident, they get hit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You sound like we victim blame and acting like it's the E bike fault. It's just doodle. Only reason I'm. I'm passionate about this because I was riding with somebody who was one of them heads.

[Jessica]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who was. Who don't like bike riders. And he hit the gas and hit somebody. I told you this story before and that pissed me off. I'm like, why would you do that?

[Jessica]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, so I was just like, yo, something. We blaming these bike riders when they be doing what they supposed to do. And like the guy said, we. They don't treat the people on the E bike like a pedestrian. Why wouldn't you?

[Jessica]

Yeah, hello?

[State Farm Announcer]

Who's this?

[Lauren LaRosa]

This is Dre.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Lauren LaRosa]

Hey, how are you?

[DJ Envy]

How you feeling, mama?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm good.

[DJ Envy]

Talk to us.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I just was calling because I had a bad Valentine's Day.

[DJ Envy]

All right, we gotta help you out now. It says here that your boyfriend didn't get you anything for Valentine's Day.

[Jessica]

Are you crying?

[Lauren LaRosa]

No. Oh, all right.

[Jessica]

All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's not your boyfriend, huh? That's not your Boyfriend?

[DJ Envy]

But why didn't he. Was he broke? Did he not have no money? Talk to us. You got to talk Now. I'm starting to understand why.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Now I'm not sure, honestly.

[Jessica]

Dre, are you smoking?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Jessica]

All right, then.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Damn.

[Jessica]

Put the blunt out and talk to us.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Maybe she need the blunt to talk.

[Jessica]

Damn. Now what happened?

[DJ Envy]

What did you do?

[Jessica]

Why didn't you get anything?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I didn't do nothing.

[Jessica]

You just was smoking, and he just said he wasn't gonna get you nothing.

[Caller with son injured on e-bike]

A good girlfriend.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay. How old are you, girl?

[Caller with son injured on e-bike]

I'm 30.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Lord have mercy. How old your boyfriend.

[Jessica]

Huh?

[Lauren LaRosa]

29.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How long y' all been together?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Not a year.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Did y' all even spend Valentine's together on Valentine's Day?

[DJ Envy]

I wouldn't get enough either. She'll even talk.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Was y' all together on Valentine's Day?

[Lauren LaRosa]

No.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He's not your boyfriend. Hang up on her. He's not your boyfriend. You was never his boyfriend.

[DJ Envy]

I don't need.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's her.

[State Farm Announcer]

I don't think she.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's the hell? What's going on here?

[Jessica]

She didn't expect to get through. She was lighting her blunt, was like, let me just try.

[DJ Envy]

But I wouldn't, like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Come on.

[DJ Envy]

You can't even talk to me? Like, I'm gonna buy you a gift.

[Jessica]

Yeah, he's not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He wasn't with her on Valentine's Day. That was not his girlfriend. He was with his girl. He was like, valentine's Day.

[Jessica]

He's been knocking Shorty down.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's it.

[Jessica]

This is what it is. Come on.

[DJ Envy]

All right, well, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. What's up, Lauren?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning, y'.

[Jessica]

All.

[DJ Envy]

We got the ladies coming.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You 24 hours pregnant and don't know it.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Oh, boy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You got nothing to worry about.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I ain't ask you all that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, I'm just letting it be known that you keep speaking it over me. I need to speak other things. Not yet.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm just saying.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Not right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It was Valentine's this weekend.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Valentine's Day weekend.

[DJ Envy]

Well, we have the ladies coming up.

[Just Hilarious]

What we talking about?

[Lauren LaRosa]

We do. We going to talk about. Speaking of Valentine's Day weekend, Cardi B. This weekend, she's finally addressing all the Stephon Dig stuff, but also, she's proven a lot of people wrong with this tour. Listen, we going to get into some of the details. I had a friend that was there, so we got some things from on the ground. We're gonna talk about it.

[B Dot]

All right?

[DJ Envy]

We'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. I'm not dumbing myself down. I'm being myself. I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything and everything.

[Jessica]

Little brown girls look at you and.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Go, I want to be like you. Take me through that. Take me through there. She gone.

[Just Hilarious]

The latest with Lauren.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

On the Breakfast Club. Ll Kube, talk to me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So Cardi B is on the Little Miss Drama tour. And Imma just tell y' all now. I think a lot of people were trying to figure out how she was going to pull it off because she recently just had a baby. She was talking about potentially getting her body done and all these things in the time period that she had to get ready for the tour. But she is pulling it off and doing it very well. She sold out two nights at the Kia Forum in LA over the weekend. In the Forum? Well, not the form, but Cardi B tweeted or retweeted a tweet that posted a stat about the fact that she sold it out. So they said that. That now Cardi B is the first female rapper to sell out the Kia Forum two nights in a row, consecutively. And she tweeted it and said, it's time for hoes to gag. She sold out both of those shows. Yeah. The big, big deal for her. And that's what's up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

People still doubting cardi in 2026.

[Jessica]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

After everything that Cardi has shown us and everything she's accomplished people. Yes, people insane.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. No, they are like a lot of people were.

[Jessica]

But she. Her show is popping.

[Just Hilarious]

It's.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Get into a little bit of the show stuff. I want to play because on the first night in LA before Cardi B performed Pretty and Petty, which is a song where she goes at Bia, she addressed her drama or her breakup. I don't know which one it is. With us at Fin Dicks, let's take a listen. Cardi B responding to be. So Cardi does this thing at her show because that song, you know, she asked for people to name the five songs be A songs, and they kind of tried to make it like the Mute Challenge where nobody names anything. Bia saw this online earlier a few days ago and she responded and said, can you name someone with more BMs than receiving yards? I can and I know that. And then she said, you know what? Never mind. And that was her response. Yeah, Bia said that before that. And then Cardi B responded via the stage. And this. But this is the first time that We've heard her address the fact that we all knew that there was an issue or something happening with her and Stephen Diggs since the Super Bowl.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What did she just say? If beer coming here tonight, we're gonna jump her.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, but.

[Jessica]

Yes, but that's what she said about Stefan Diggs. Like, don't talk about baby dad. What'd she say?

[Lauren LaRosa]

She said I might. I might not be effing fooling with him right now, but that don't mean you can talk about it. So she. Yeah, but because, I mean, we didn't see her mention anything about his super bowl time. Even though he didn't win. We haven't seen him post or support anything about the tour. And they normally. I mean, he got a lot going on right now. He was just in court last week. But, you know, they're normally really supportive of each other. So we all knew something was going on, but no one could confirm anything. And she just confirmed it by responding to beer. Yes, but speaking of concerts, I did want to mention that I. I did. Well, we talked about this a bit earlier. I went to the New Edition Boys to Men and Tony Braxton tour over.

[DJ Envy]

The weekend in Jersey.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, I. So I actually ended up having to go to Delaware last minute Friday, so I had to reroute.

[DJ Envy]

They didn't go to Delaware.

[Lauren LaRosa]

They were in Baltimore. Yeah. First of all, people do come to Delaware. They go to the World Live Cafe. When they come, we got like one theater, but they go there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, but no, they were in Baltimore. Shout out to the black promoters collective because it was so last minute, the change of plans and they just accommodated. But Bobby Brown does dance, people.

[Jessica]

Amazing.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. People make it seem like he doesn't dance because he does the end of the tour. I mean, the end of his set where he's like, don't ask me about this. Let's take a listen to Bobby Brown on stage.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, y' all want to see me dance? Google me. It's a lot of it on there.

[Just Hilarious]

Thank you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But by the time he gets to that, he didn't came on stage like four or five times. He does take breaks. He's not there all the time, but everybody did an amazing job. Like new, they put on a show.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

If y' all expecting Bobby Brown to dance like he did in 88.

[Jessica]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

In 2026, you are an idiot.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I love that he was taking breaks because I'd be needing naps. I know. He probably be needing a break too.

[DJ Envy]

That's the group I've seen the most times. On tour. I probably seen him about six, seven times on tour. I just love this. I just love their music. It's just a vibe. Me and my wife enjoy it. It's like a great day.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. Boys to Men was great as well too. Tony Braxton was amazing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That is not what you said when the mics.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I said you couldn't hear them. I said you could not hear them.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not like when people do that. You tell the people exactly what you told us.

[Lauren LaRosa]

When the mic was off, I'll say it. They performed, but I could hear them. I feel like when you go to listen to Boys, the Men, you are trying to hear the harmony and you couldn't hear them. Like the music was louder than she said.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I love Boys Men. When the mic was off, she said Boys and Men was not it. She said New Edition was great, but Boys. She said one of them wasn't dead.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

I'm like, what?

[DJ Envy]

She did say one of them wasn't dead.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But I had a wrong member. I had the wrong.

[DJ Envy]

He came out in the LA show.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. So Mike Michael came out as a surprise at the LA show and I was told that he might do a few more stops, but it wasn't this one. But Toni Braxton was fire. Like, she was flawless. And I saw Birdman backstage and it was so crazy.

[DJ Envy]

You were backstage?

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So I was. Thank you, Jess. We came in from backstage, right? So when we were walking in some, he like walked by real fast. I was like, hey, what's up? He had a hood on and he had a full gray beard. And I was like, oh, wow. I was like, is that Birmingham? And the girl that was walking us in from Black Promoters Collective, she was like, yeah. I'm like, did he just have a full gray beard? Like, I've never seen him.

[Jessica]

Yeah, like that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So I was like, oh, shoot. He's just there walking around, chilling, supporting wifey.

[Jessica]

So gray beard and still a ball head.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He had his hood on so I couldn't see his hair, but I saw the beard and I was like, wow, look at him. I love to see, you know, them aging. Yeah, but it was a great show though. Shout out to the black promoters collection.

[Jessica]

Did you get some crabs? You was in Baltimore two days. Everybody loves brunch. Did you get what you get?

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, I didn't do it. I went to Angie's. Oh, okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You want her to get crabs on Valentine's Day?

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's because crabs and bottom one. She wanted it.

[Just Hilarious]

Wow.

[Jessica]

Cuz.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Shut up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They got creams for that now, though. You don't got a number, all right?

[Lauren LaRosa]

You may be pregnant. Like.

[DJ Envy]

That is the latest with Lauren.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you, Lauren.

[Lauren LaRosa]

In the next hour, did y' all watch the America's Next Top Model documentary?

[Jessica]

No, I did not watch it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, the next hour, we gonna get into it. Cause Tyra crazy for bringing another cycle back. I wouldn't even want the drama.

[Jessica]

Exactly.

[DJ Envy]

All right, we'll get to that next. So don't go anywhere. Front page news is coming up.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

It's the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news now.

[Jessica]

Jess, what's up?

[DJ Envy]

You've been watching the Olympics?

[Just Hilarious]

No.

[DJ Envy]

You're watching the Winter Olympics. You know, ish.

[Jessica]

Oh, my God. I know. I gotta get into it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I just.

[Jessica]

I was sick. It was my.

[DJ Envy]

We joke all the time on our show. People may think we hate on each other when we go back and forth, but the truth is that's the way we show love. That's respect, that's knowing where the line is. And that's why this message from the Blue Square Alliance Against Hate really sticks. Because real hate isn't playful. It's not jokes, it's not entertainment. The commercial during the Big Game showed a kid being targeted at school quietly, but in a way that happens way too often. And what really hit was the response. Someone chose to step in and show support instead of looking the other way. We talk a lot about culture, about community and having each other's backs. And this is what that looks like. So if you saw the Blue Square commercial during the Big Game, take a second and really think about it. And if you want to show support, go to bluesquarealliance.org to learn more.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Uncle Joe has stolen scenes in movie after movie, and now he's finally getting a wild ride all of his own. In Tyler Perry's Joe's College Road Trip, Joe sets out to teach BJ about the real world. Joe style. That means no sugar coating, no filters, and absolutely no holding back as the two hit the road. The trip quickly turns into a hilarious, over the top adventure filled with Joe's signature tough love, unforgettable one liners, and the kind of outrageous comedy fans crave. But beneath the chaos lies something deeper. Lessons about growing up, understanding where you come from, and the moments that shape who you become. And along the way, Joe uses his journey to school BJ on black history, music and culture. A perfect fit for its February 13th release date during Black History Month. This is the first ever Uncle Joe led film in the Madea universe. And yes, he really goes for it. Streaming globally on Netflix February 13th. Buckle up. Cause Uncle Joe goes for it.

[State Farm Announcer]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Jessica]

Envy. I'm sorry.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

All right. Well, the. The USA is in third place right now with the gold. With the metal count, we in third place right now. Hey, it's Winter Olympics, everybody. So I love it.

[Jessica]

Let me get into it.

[DJ Envy]

I just love competition.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now.

[DJ Envy]

All Star weekend was this weekend. I didn't watch anything this weekend because I was. Dance daddy, show them. You watched this weekend?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I watched the All Star game.

[DJ Envy]

You didn't watch the slam dunk contest.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I was watching Jill Scott when the slam dunk contest was going on, and everything came on super early. So I think everything was over by like seven o'. Clock.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Oh, wow.

[DJ Envy]

Well, Kashad Johnson, he. He won the slam dunk contest. Three point contest. Damian Lillard, shooting stars was the team Knicks and All Star game. Anthony Edwards got 32 points. He received the Kobe Bryant trophy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The slam dunk contest is trash. And the reason that everybody will always think NBA All Star weekend is trash is because if the slam dunk contest is whack, it feels like the whole weekend is whack. So what they need to do is they just need to get the stars back competing in the slam dunk contest. Lebron James ruined the slam dunk contest by not competing in it because being that he didn't compete in it, he set a new precedent to where stars don't have to be in it no more. So you don't see Zion Williamson. He didn't. Never saw John Moran, Anthony Edwards. All of these high flyers feel like they don't have to compete in the same slam dunk contest because LeBron James never did it.

[Jessica]

Well, how you know it was trash if you was watching Jill Scott, it was horrible. Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And it's been trash for the last decade.

[Jessica]

Somebody got injured, he got injured.

[DJ Envy]

I think he had a concussion. He hit his head.

[Jessica]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jason has actually one slam dunk contest before now.

[DJ Envy]

Also, the Mike Tyson, Floyd Mayweather fight will happen is set for April 25 in the Congo, My Lord. And Tyreek Hill has been released from the Dolphins. What's up, Mimi?

[Mimi Brown]

Hey, good morning, M.V. josh Charlemagne. How y' all doing? We start this hour with a story we've been following closely. But over the weekend, it took a new turn, you guys. So last week, we told you about the Save America Act. That's the bill that would require proof of US Citizenship, like a passport or a birth certificate to register to vote. Well, now, President Trump, he is renewing his push. In a series of posts over the weekend, he made it clear that he wants this bill to pass before midterms. He said, quote, there will be voter ID for the midterm elections, whether approved by Congress or not. He added that if lawmakers can't get it done, he is prepared to do so by executive order. Now, the Save act, again, it has already passed the House. It would require Americans to show proof of citizenship when registering to vote. A driver's license alone would no longer do it. A real ID alone would no longer do it. The bill would also tighten rules around mail in ballots. Now, supporters say it's about election security and ensuring that only citizens can vote. But opponents say it goes further than that and could make it harder for millions of eligible Americans to cast a ballot. Congresswoman Lauren Underwood of Illinois is calling it a voter suppression bill. Let's listen to her.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Republicans are trying to make it harder for you to vote. Let me tell you how. The Save America act would require your passport or your birth certificate to match your current name in order to be able to vote. If y' all got married and changed your name, your birth certificate would not match your current name. Nearly 69 million women in America have a birth certificate that does not match their current name. And therefore 69 million American women would no longer be eligible to vote. These guys say that the Save America act is needed to prevent undocumented immigrants from voting. But y' all already know that that is not a thing. What this really is is it's a voter suppression bill to keep lawfully voting American citizens from being able to exercise their foundational right to vote.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I just want you guys to.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Know that this is serious, and it's happening right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The amount of people, Mimi, that was hitting us up because, you know, you've been reporting this story saying all you have to do is have your ID of. Why can't people just have their ID and show their id? I don't think they listening to the fine print of this story.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah, because the fine print is where the details are. You cannot vote with your ID. You cannot vote with even a real ID. And there are literally 21 million Americans, many black and brown, who do not have easy access to a passport or a birth certificate. And only one in three black Americans have a valid passport. And nearly half of black Americans under the age of 30 have their ID that matches their current address and their current name. So if you've moved, you haven't gone back to update your address, it could disqualify you. You've gotten married. It could disqualify you. Like it is. You're not proving that you have an ID that you. You know, that you can just show. You have to prove that you are a citizen, which requires original birth certificates and a passport, which is, you know, within itself, not easy to get if you don't start the process, like, now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's crazy.

[Jessica]

Yeah. Like you said, they just trying to make it hard purposely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

21 million black and brown people could lose voting access. That should tell you all you need to know.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Yeah.

[Mimi Brown]

And as Congressman Underwood. Congresswoman Underwood just said, 69 million women have not changed their ID to their married name.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Right.

[Mimi Brown]

That could just disqualify you right there if you've gotten married and you just haven't changed your id. So it is just very important to pay attention. Again, it has not passed the Senate. It's expected to face an uphill battle. Battle in the Senate. But still, like, I know none of.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jessica id say Vasquez on it.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Wow.

[Jessica]

No, because that's not my last name. Oh. Yo, just please continue.

[Mimi Brown]

Thank you, girl. And envy. Now to the latest disappearance of Nancy Guthrie. I know we've been following this. It's entering its third week. Authorities say there is still no leading theory about why she was taken. Investigators are looking at all possible motives, but they're also making it clear this morning that every member of the Guthrie family, including siblings, spouses, they have been officially cleared. Law enforcement says that the family has been cooperative and should not be the target of online speculation and stress that they are the victims in this case. Investigators, though, they are now focused on new evidence. So that glove that was found near Tucson appears to have some DNA that they're testing right now. They're going to run it through codis, which is that federal system that the FBI uses. Investigators say that it could turn. If that does not turn anything up, they expect to use those genealogy, the kind that people use for family tree testing.

[Jessica]

Oh, yeah.

[State Farm Announcer]

Yep.

[Mimi Brown]

And they said that they'll look for a relative. So whether you've, you know, entered the. The killer or. I'm sorry, not the killer. Excuse me. Whether the. The suspect has taken, you know, who has taken Nancy Guthrie. Even if he has never been in the DNA system, if a family member has, they can find him.

[DJ Envy]

That is crazy. I never heard of that.

[State Farm Announcer]

That's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow.

[DJ Envy]

That is.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Wow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, that's.

[DJ Envy]

It's a great thing, but.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Whoo.

[DJ Envy]

Let me ask you a question. Now, I heard them also say that now they believe it might have been a robbery gone wrong. Maybe they went to burglarize her, seen her in there, and then took it. That's what they're saying, too. I thought I saw.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, there are so many theories. Envy. I haven't. I have not heard that.

[Jessica]

I want an 84 year old woman, like, who needs to take medicine every day. Like, if I got. If you're a burglar and there's things to take in the house, I'm not gonna take nobody, mother. I'm not gonna take this old ass lady. Like, I'm not doing that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, TMZ is now reporting that they've received multiple letters from someone claiming to have more information about the disappearance and that she may be in Mexico. Let's listen to Harvey Levin on that.

[Just Hilarious]

Okay, I'm quoting from the letter now. He said, I know what I saw 5 days ago south of the border. And I was told to shut up. So I know who he is. And that was definitely Nancy with them. So this is the second time he sent a letter where he's suggesting there's more than one person. But there is a main kidnapper, by the way, in my social media post, I said to him, look, if you are faking this, you're committing a federal crime, and I will Say this much, he responded to that and said, I am aware of that. I am telling you the truth.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Every letter. Don't gotta make the news, Harvey. Okay, some of that stuff just sounds. That sounded very foolish. Sounded like some. Just some crazy guy who probably happy they got TMZ's attention and just saying anything.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, he seems to believe. Believe it's the same guy. And all this is the fourth letter. He received it yesterday. He seems to think it is the same person who's written him all four letters. Now, the FBI says the person seen on that surveillance video again is between 59 and 5 10. And he's wearing that black Ozark Trail backpack that sold exclusively at Walmart. Agents are looking for. For that and working with Walmart to see if they can find any potential leads. And now President Trump is also weighing in saying that if she is found dead, those responsible would face the death penalty. Well, that is it. I'm Mimi Brown. That's your front page news. Follow me at Mimi Brown tv. For more stories, follow the Black Information Network and visit bin news dot com.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you, Mimi.

[Jessica]

Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

All right, when we come back, Dr. Jamal Bryant will be joining us. We're gonna talk to him next, so don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How you doing, man?

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

I'm doing great. Good to see you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I love that sweater, you guys.

[Jessica]

I do.

[State Farm Announcer]

Thank you.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What does MLK Jr mean to you, brother man?

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

He means don't fight people. I gotta remind myself sometimes you. You just gotta have peace.

[State Farm Announcer]

It's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

It's a difficult thing. It's easy to say. It's hard to do.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, we was having a conversation that just got in trouble for. Because what? When. When the guy came into your church?

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And you. You said he should be arrested.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right. Jess was saying that y' all should just beat his ass. Cuz she said when she in the church she used to grow up in, in Baltimore, they used to beat people.

[DJ Envy]

Dang.

[Jessica]

No, don't call me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And her mama said, no, that is not true.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

No, but I. I've raised it. Not even he should be arrested. What's crazy is he's a pastor who left his church in Alabama and drove an hour and a half to disrupt somebody else's church.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, wow.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

But the catch to me, Charmaine, is don't arrest him. Arrest his wife who filmed it, and do it on the same principle that y' all arrested Don Lemon and Georgia Forte. So if you're not going to deal with the protester, deal with the journalists who captured it. That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Has there been any movement on that?

[Just Hilarious]

Nothing.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Nothing. Now, do you know how fast we would have been arrested if we beat them old white people up? I'd have a GoFundMe right now. Please release Pastor Bryant.

[Just Hilarious]

No.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

It's inequitable in America, what justice is supposed to look like. Justice for white evangelicals is who agrees with me. And if you don't agree with me, then you have to hit to pay a penalty and a cost to it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How do you. How do you personally balance righteous anger. Right. With spiritual peace in this world that is constantly on edge and constantly trying you? Yeah.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Well, you got to remember, people just want to make Jesus weak. And absent of testosterone, he kicked over tables and pulled out whips. He cursed people and said that you were out of order. He said to pedophiles off Epstein island, it's better for you to put a rock around your neck and jump into an ocean. Yeah. People want to pick and choose the lane that Jesus was in, but I think that we've got a responsibility to speak truth to power.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, what's the difference between being a loud pastor and a listening pastor? Because I feel like you do both.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Yeah, I think that you have to do both. Theologians said you got to have a newspaper in one hand and a Bible and another. Who I am concerned about is preachers who say nothing about nothing. They don't speak to it, speak to a different lane. So if you can't say anything about the Epstein files, are you gonna say something about immigration? If you ain't gonna say nothing about immigration, are you gonna say something about affordable health care? If you ain't gonna say nothing about affordable health care, you're gonna say something about the defunding of HBCUs. If you ain't gonna say nothing about that, are you going to say something about the endangerment on Voting Rights Act? So find something. Otherwise, you're not a preacher. You're just a TED Talk speaker.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. I feel like it's your duty in a way, because you are a leader.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And you're. You're a community leader. Yes. So how do you sit in front of these people every Sunday knowing that they got all these things on their mind and not talk about it?

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

And that's what I say to white evangelical preachers who can find Righteousness until it deals with Trump. I'm waiting on record for one white evangelical preacher to call out Trump and his minions on pedophilia. You're very quick to talk about everything else. We went from black lives matter to all lives matter, but nobody is saying anything about how do we protect and cover our children. It's been signs of the lambs with absolutely no redress. They're quick to talk about righteousness. Us talk about they couldn't support Kamala Harris because she was pro life. But what about the people who are alive? Are you gonna do anything to safeguard and protect them?

[Jessica]

How do you respond to critics that say church folks should stay out of politics? Yeah.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Then they don't understand the Bible. The reality is 87% of what Jesus did was outside of the church. What the present American church does is speak to 87% of what's inside. And I think that's why a lot of young people don't go to church anymore, because they're not hearing anything Dick Gregory said. I don't want to hear about pie in the sky. I want to talk about a pound on the ground. So if you're not dealing with what I'm dealing with in my contemporary life, then it really is not speaking to anything.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. And you can't keep politics out of church when they bringing the church into politics.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Absolutely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What is white Christian nationalism?

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

They claim that we are a Christian nation, but we don't see it in the values and in the virtues. How it is that this administration has dishonored and disrespected black women time and time again. The way that Pam Bondi went out, really like she was absent of the law, absent of conscience, that her responsibility seemingly is to protect the president and not the United States citizenry. So I think that we gotta do a whole evaluation. She said, if everything in the Epstein list comes out is going to destroy a whole system, then destroy the system and let's. Let's rebuild.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We don't talk about that enough. We don't talk about destroying and rebuilding enough. The Bible's full of those type of stories.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Oh, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why is it so important to destroy and rebuild?

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Because I think that people like being safe and that's why a lot of people don't change. A lot of people don't stretch is they get comfortable in what they know. Just it is. Baskin and Robbins has 31 flavors. All of us know we from South Carolina, we from Baltimore. Everybody knows 31 flavors. The number one selling ice cream is vanilla because people don't want anything outside of that which is regular and that's which is normal. So whenever God is coming to disrupt your life, he gonna put some sprinkles in it, he gonna add something in it so that you can't just keep going on with the way that things use.

[Jessica]

How do you balance being a spiritual leader and an activist?

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Yeah, for me, it's one in the same. I'm not able to pick and choose. You are a radio commentator and you are a comedian. So when people listen to you, you able to operate in both. It is only church people that want you to pick one gift. They only want you to stay in one lane. People who have more than one gift have the greatest level of frustration because people put you in a box. When we grew up as children in church, we were told about three wise men that brought gold, frankincense and myrrh. Charlemagne. There's nowhere in the Bible that says there were three wise men. We assume it's three wise men because it's three gifts. What if it was just two and one of them had two gifts?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hold on now, you messing me up. There was no three wise men in the Bible.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

I can't find that. It just says that wise men can't bringing gold, frankincense and myrrh. We just assume each person only got one gift.

[Just Hilarious]

Wow.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Whenever you got more than one gift, people who are normal will have a problem with you. The people who deal with depression the most are the people who are the most gifted. Because when you got to deal with all of your gift, all of your talent, all of your anointing, and you got to adjust to normal people, it becomes frustrating because they trying to figure out why are you doing all of that. It don't take all of that. And so you got to to second guess yourself. Am I doing too much? Why am I not normal? Why do I not think like everybody else? But greatness is never left to normalcy. It's always put you on the outliers and that's why you're gonna be condemned.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's the leadership lesson you learned the hard way? Like something you wish somebody had told you earlier?

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

The leadership lesson that's the hardest is every decision you make impacts people beyond you. When you are making decisions for other people, it's very critical and it's backfired on me a whole lot. The worst thing in the world is to be a selfish leader. And that's what you are seeing in Trump. All he cares about is what he feels. Can you imagine Jess for the first time in 44 years, the Gallup polls can no longer report what is the approval rating of the President.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's crazy.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

He said, I don't even want to hear how bad of a job that I'm doing. So I'm no longer going to give the employment records. I'm no longer going to give unemployment records. I'm no longer going to give approval. I only want to hear what makes me feel good. He said last week he now wants to tax churches that speak against him. So the only people who will do well are people who bow down to Pharaoh. Anybody who stands up for themselves is gonna find themselves in a lot of fire.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why do you think so many people are willing to bow down?

[Jessica]

Right.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Again. For everybody who's listening who graduated from vacation Bible school, you remember Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego? Everybody bowed down but the three.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Talk to the heathens, man.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We all know what the hell he's talking about.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

So it's three Hebrew boys, and they had this terrible president named Nebuchadnezzar. And Nebuchadnezzar knew how to get black votes. This is what Nebuchadnezzar did. He said, let me bring in good music, because I know Negroes bow down to good music. He said, let me give them gold. They're gonna put it in their teeth, they're gonna put it around their neck, they're gonna put rims on their car. And they will bow down. Everybody bow down. This is in the Book of Daniel, except for three boys. And the three boys were Gen Z. All of the boomers, all the millennials, all the ex, is the newest generation. That's always going to be the revolutionaries. The young generation is always going to be the ones that kick against the pricks. And so young people who are listening don't wait for your mother, your father, your grandmother. They now safe. There's no revolution in the history of the world that doesn't take place at the feet of young people.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Pharaoh was ultimately defeated.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Yes, Trump gonna be defeated.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Talk to us. Talk.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Yeah. When you look at dementia is serious, delusion is serious, narcissism is serious. And James Baldwin said so eloquently, evil always goes too far. The evil never knows what his limits or his boundaries are. And so as a consequence, ICE is now pulling out of Minneapolis, they pulling out of Chicago ago because they're seeing that the people are pushing back. And all over the country, there's a groundswell. Can you imagine me and Jess, Governors Westmore, he wasn't invited to the governor's crazy as the only black. But here's what's significant that y' all can't miss is even the white Republican governor said, we ain't going.

[State Farm Announcer]

Yeah.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

So there's a revolution that is taking place that the system didn't bank on. That I think, is getting ready to arise. And you can already see it in these midterm elections when they try to tamper with those results.

[Jessica]

One thing I always loved about you, Pastor Jamal Brown, is like, you never try to act like you're perfect. And a lot of people, just people who don't even go to church, they have a problem with pastors. Oh, they did this. They did. How somebody gonna tell me how to do this and how to build a relationship with the Lord if they're not perfect? What are some things that you're still working on even in your own life, with your own self?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Bishop Noel Jones out of la, one of my mentors said God will use a preacher's life just so they'll have something to preach. You can't get it out of a book. And so had I lived a perfect life, how would I learn how to preach to people who live through divorce? How do I learn how to talk to young people about failing the 11th grade and getting kicked out, out? How do you talk about being sad eyed from people in the church and living through embarrassment and shame? And so I think if we believe that the gospel is true and redemption is available and transformation is accessible, then use exhibit A. And I think that a lot of preachers mess up because they want to live in witness protection and act like they ain't never done nothing, like they ain't never drank nothing, ain't never slept with nobody, ain't never smoked. Then how do I know God is real and you giving me 1985 testimonies? So God has got to bring exhibit A, that, you know, God will use a murderer to free all of his children. He'll use somebody who got a speech impediment to be a spokesperson. And so I think that the flaws that are in men and women of God exemplified that it ain't them, but it's really God that's working through or something.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

God had the script from before he could elevate you.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

God had to strip from me pride. And that's hard for a black man. My successes, Charlemagne, are always the size of my failures in order to keep me balanced. Otherwise. James Weldon Johnson Drunk with the world of the wine we forget thee and so I failed the 11th grade, got a GED, but went to Morehouse, went to dinner. Duke went to Oxford. And so most churches I go to only talk about Morehouse and Duke. They don't talk about my ged.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

So I. I gotta remind them of that. And so I think it's important for us to talk about the Old Testament and the New Testament on what your journey is. Not that you've just arrived, but it takes you some time and some space. And sometimes you get it right, sometimes you don't. The Bible says, all have sinned falling short of his glory. People believe it until it come to their pastor.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

We said we sinned every day by thought. Word.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Indeed not.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Reverend Jones. Reverend Jones ain't never gonna do that. We do so many people sending their thoughts so they think that they're better than people who sin in their deed.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What did you think of Drew Ski skit?

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

I thought it was funny. No, really, I. I thought it was funny. And the reason why people could identify with it is because we gave him the material. So we couldn't say none of this has ever happened in church. Andy Warhol said, art imitates life. And so those who are offended, let's do a better job of representing the church. Let's do a better job of packaging it. And just, you know this. There's some truth in all jokes. So sometimes we gotta look in the mirror and not look out the window. And so I think it was a great time for the church to reevaluate weight. What we do, how we represent it and how it is that people take what it is that we do. It's amazing that you will never see the house of an imam. You'll never see. Nobody talks about the car that a rabbi is driving because they not posting it right. We are posting it. Some wealthy rabbis out here that got a whole lot of money, they own three jewelry stores five blocks from here. But we're not looking for. They are not looking for fame or notoriety or popularity or affirmation. They doing the work. And I think that the church has got to do a better job of doing the work. It's okay for you to have money. I say to people, don't tell people to tithe if you never taught them how to invest. If the only time I hear about money in church is about giving it it, but not on multiplying it. My job as a pastor is not just to talk about you giving the tithe, but to show you how to multiply the 90. And if I'm not showing you how to be a good steward, then I'm doing a bad job. Desmond Tutu said, at the end of every year, the poor people in the community should vote to see if the church should be open another year. And if the poor people voted in the community, where your church is, is, would they stay open? And I think that we got a responsibility to serve our people.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. How do you navigate social media? Because you're on it a lot, but the devil is busy. Yeah, Right. There's a lot of things that aren't real. So how do you have the capacity to know what's what before you comment on it or share? Because I'm sure people be sending you stuff all the time. Like, look at this path. Look at this. Well, how does your discernment work in the digital?

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Is. I got to figure out how do I advance the kingdom, the gospel in the message. Our sanctuary in Atlanta holds a couple of thousand people, but online on Sunday morning is 50,000.

[Jessica]

Wow.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

So I can't preach against social media when social media is how people are getting the gospel. The reality is more people go to church online than go in person. And so we got to figure out how do we use it towards our good and really amplify the message. Message. Our people, regrettably, have an appetite for bad news.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, we do.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

So more people are going to go find out what happened with Cardi b than what happened to the Haitians who are unprotected. And so we got to figure out how do we advance it. And so we've got to really safeguard our platform so that those positive messages still come through.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's up with the target boy? Cut any. Any movement?

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Man, I'm so glad you asked. Let. Let me first say, a year ago I came here, you wasn't here. Yeah, I know you wasn't here.

[Jessica]

I was. I was at the Lord's house. Shut up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You just started. Now you got them church members that you know they church, but they don't.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Oh, yeah, she come for communion.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right. She.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Friends and family day. I got it.

[State Farm Announcer]

So let.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Let me first thank you because when we first started, Breakfast club brought us on and was our biggest platform to announce it. So let me thank the family because of the black community coming together, Target has lost $12 billion because the community came together. Their stock dropped from $145 a share to $93 a share. I want to thank the community because foot traffic has gone down by 9.3% and online spending has dropped at that same number so I want to first thank you because this is the largest boycott for black people since the Montgomery bus boycott 70 years ago. And it wouldn't have happened without the Breakfast Club partnering with us. I'm excited because we Target has a new CEO. They started just recently and so we're in active conversation to try to come to a resolve. I'm excited about his leadership that he wants it resolved and wants to know how he can partner better with the community. So not too soon I'm gonna be coming back to you to tell you where it is that we are. But I think it won't be long before we able to come to a close.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Do you have a resolution plan in mind? Like do you know what you're after?

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Oh yeah, I'm after those same four things I told you about is that they got a partner with some HBCUs they've got to give an account to investing 2 billion.

[DJ Envy]

We joke all the time on our show. People may think we hate on each other when we go back and forth, but the truth is that's the way we show love. That's respect, that's knowing where the line is. And that's why this message from the Blue Square Alliance Against Hate really sticks. Because real hate isn't playful. It's not jokes, it's not entertainment. The commercial during the Big Game showed a kid being targeted at school quietly, but in a way that happens way too often. And what really hit was the response. Someone chose to step in and show support instead of looking the other way. We talk a lot about culture, about community and having each other's backs. And this is what that looks like. So if you saw the Blue Square commercial during the Big Game, take a second and really think about it. And if you want to show support, go to bluesquarealliance.org to learn more.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Uncle Joe has stolen scenes in movie after movie after, and now he's finally getting a wild ride all of his own. In Tyler Perry's Joe's College Road Trip, Joe sets out to teach BJ about the real world. Joestyle. That means no sugar coating, no filters, and absolutely no holding back as the two hit the road. The trip quickly turns into a hilarious over the top adventure filled with Joe's signature tough love, unforgettable one liners and the kind of outrageous comedy fans crave. But beneath the chaos lies something deeper. Lessons about growing up, understanding where you come from and the moments that shape who you become. And along the way, Joe uses this journey to school BJ on Black History, music and culture. A perfect fit for its February 13th release date during Black History Month. This is the first ever Uncle Joe led film in the Madea universe. And yes, he really goes for it. Streaming globally on Netflix February 13th. Buckle up. Cause Uncle Joe goes for it.

[State Farm Announcer]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Edu in dollars Back into the black community. They've got to reimagine. If DEI is now illegal, how do minorities have access to get to C suites in the company? And four is to make good to what they said to George Floyd's family.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's amazing to me that all of these corporations want to shun DEI initiatives, but diversity is the only thing moving. Diversity is what's cool. Diversity is what got people showing up. Bad bunny had 135 million people watching. That other thing they did, that Donald.

[DJ Envy]

Trump watch didn't even matter. I gotta add that.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

That Donald Trump watched. Listen, that the Candace just dropped that they pre taped two weeks before the Super Bowl. It was only 200 people in there and they paid him 200 a piece in order to be there.

[Jessica]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And fake the bots to put a view.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

There we are. Yes, all of that. Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't get it. If a young person's listening this morning, it's my last question. And they. They feel called, but they feel unqualified.

[Jessica]

Why?

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What would you tell them then?

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

You're probably called God Very rarely calls you to do something that you're trained to do. Very rarely called you to do something that you got experience or background in. He called you to do something to see where you trust him. There's a guy by the name of Peter who saw Jesus walking on the water and said, God, if that's you, let me come to where you are. He wasn't gifted to do it. He didn't have any talent to do it. He asked for it. And God said, because you had enough audacity to ask for it, come walk. And so I would say to people, ask God for something dangerous. Ask God for something that if he don't get involved, you going to fail at it. Ask God for something that will put your entire name on the line. And that's where God will show up. God has no patience for people who dream safe dream in a capacity to say, hey, God, if you don't get in this, then I'm going to have egg on my face.

[Jessica]

What is the difference? Now this may seem like a dumb question.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Yes.

[Jessica]

But what is the difference between a reverend and a pastor? I've never known that. But you are both correct.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Yes.

[Jessica]

What is the difference?

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Yeah. So a pastor has a church. A reverend may just be preaching, but he's. He doesn't have a congregation that he's over. So Reverend Al Sharpton is a preacher, but he's not over a church.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Yeah.

[Jessica]

Okay. I really did not know that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I didn't know that either. I never knew that either. I just thought it was like the same. The like two words to say the same thing.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

It means that you are ordained, but you're not necessarily over a flop.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Gotcha.

[Jessica]

Okay. So do people have to say, Reverend, Pastor, doctor, Jamal, Br.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

No.

[Jessica]

Okay.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Choose one.

[Jessica]

That would mess me up.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Yeah. No, don't do it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Where'd you go to high school and ball? Baltimore.

[Jessica]

I didn't go to high school in Baltimore. My mother, she. She made me so mad.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She.

[Jessica]

I was getting in trouble when I was a teenager, right? So she moved me up 83 to go to high school in York, Pennsylvania. Damn high school.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, she did.

[Jessica]

And I wanted to go to msn.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Never represent your Pennsylvania. You've been on here saying just all Baltimore.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Give your damn, dude.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now she do what? She talking about how she got hooked on drugs.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Oh, Lord.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, my God.

[Jessica]

But I'm not hooked no more Pastor, Reverend, Dr. I know it no more, yo. The witness of Jehovah's be trialing I'mma.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Tell you not the witnesses of Jehovah.

[Jessica]

Because that's what him and his wife is. They witnesses of Jehovah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

My mother was a Jehovah Witness. Oh, My mother grew up with Jehovah Witness.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Really?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

My mother is a Witness now, so I grew up Jehovah Witness.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

I didn't know that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, sir. Yes, sir. You still a witness to God's great glory? Yes, I am.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Let me ask you a question.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, sir.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Jehovah Witnesses don't believe in Christmas.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They don't celebrate holidays.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Yes. How did the Jackson 5 do a Christmas album? And y' all are Jehovah Witness?

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, my God.

[Jessica]

The Jack. If I was Jehovah's Witnesses.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, they were.

[Jessica]

Oh, my God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, they were.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Mama K is still knocking on doors.

[Jessica]

Listen, they was getting that money.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Seriously, how did they do that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I have no idea. That's a good question.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Go ask. Go ask them.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You just told us God doesn't call to qualify.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Hey, listen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Qualifies call.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

I got.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jack was called.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

I got it. Thank you. All right, I. So Mommy kissing Santa Claus, Right?

[Jessica]

How Witnesses of Jehovah, how his path.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jamal Brian is the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Let's get right to the latest with Lauren.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Your talk.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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.

[Jessica]

Little brown girls look at you and.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Go, I want to be like you.

[Just Hilarious]

The latest with Laura on the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

LL Cool talk to me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So the America's Next Top Model doc, I know we talked about it briefly last week because there were some promos has actually aired on Netflix and I watched it last night. It is three parts and you learn a lot. It really takes you back a bit.

[DJ Envy]

Who EP it? Did Tyra EP it or she had nothing to do with it?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm not for sure she eped it, but she's. And I can verify that for you in a second. But I know for a fact that she is. When you watch it, she is there. She is talking. She's taking accountability or trying to as much as she can. She tried. I mean, there were moments I was surprised how involved she was, but, I mean, I think she had to be because some of the stuff that they talk about, without her, her narrative would have been all over the place. But one of the things that we learned out of the documentary that I'm gonna start with is that Ms. J. Alexander is now paralyzed in a wheelchair from a massive stroke. Let's take a listen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The person who taught Miles how To walk. I taught Miles how to walk, and now I can't walk.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Not yet.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm determined to walk. I'm sure you're going to see me again. I'm sure. Is that all for me yet?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Did Taro come and visit you?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, not yet. She just sent me a text. She wants to come and visit me. But no, not yet.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So for those who may not know, Ms. J. Alexander was. I mean, like, he is, like, Runway legend, icon. Yeah. When Tyra Banks got into the game, he was one of the people that helped her, you know, perfect her craft. So when she created the show, she went and got him and brought him on the show. Yes. And then one of the other things that they talked about during this documentary was the fact that. And we talked about this a bit like how times are so different then. So there's always been a conversation around a woman. Her name is Shandy Sullivan. She was on season two of America's next top model, and they aired a scene with her. It was like a drunk shower situation that is now being named as, like, an alleged sexual assault. So let's take a listen to America's next top model. On filming the sexual assault on day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

One, when they would show up, we.

[DJ Envy]

Would go over the rules with them. There's going to be cameras with you.

[Jessica]

24 7, day in and day out. I know the girls, they were doing their evening, hanging with the guys. And then we got word Shandy's having sex in the shower with a guy. And the rule on top of the model was if you went into a bathroom alone, a camera could not follow you in. But of course, when she went into the shower, she was technically not alone. So the cameras went in and they captured it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. So.

[DJ Envy]

But that is crazy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So having sex with the guy in the shower. Yes. So in the episode, there's like a. They bring. There's a bunch of guys in the house. They're drinking. They're drinking. She decides Shandy to go into the shower with one of the guys, and they went in and filmed it. Now. Now they aired this episode on television. Everything from her waking up and regretting it the next day and basically saying she didn't remember anything that happened to her. Having to call her boyfriend and tell her boyfriend what happened. Right. They aired everything. But now in this documentary, they're saying, well, we held a lot of it back, so we did as much as we could to protect the situation. Let's take a listen.

[Jessica]

So crazy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Let's take a listen to. On. Let's take A listen to them on what they scaled back.

[Jessica]

There was just a sound guy and the guy filming.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I will tell you this.

[DJ Envy]

When I went into post and saw the footage, we scaled back that scene.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

In a significant way.

[Jessica]

I'm not head of story, that's Ken Mock, but I did become a master editor. It's important for people to know that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We didn't put everything on tv.

[Jessica]

Do you know what happened? Super Bowl, Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake. When that happened, regulations clamped down on.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What you could show.

[Jessica]

Then they had to rush re edit that scene.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That was, for good or bad, one of the most memorable moments in Top Model.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, so they did it not because of. They were trying to save the young lady's life or save her confidence or her mental health. They did it because of Super Bowl.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

That's crazy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. Now, Shandy, who is the young woman, the alleged victim in the situation, she talked about more of just, like, everything they filmed and how uncomfortable she was. Let's take a listen to the victim on the assault.

[Jessica]

It was just a sound guy and the guy filming. Afterwards, I'm just, like, laying on the floor in a fetal position, just crying. And they just get up to leave. And they both came up to me and they said, we're really, really sorry.

[DJ Envy]

That we had to film that.

[Jessica]

After that, they took her to the doctor. I mean, production was responsible for her. Now, could they have sent her to the doctor in privacy? But it's reality, so now we're gonna cover it.

[DJ Envy]

Poor girl.

[Jessica]

After I, like, talked to Eric again on the phone, they actually filmed me talking to the guy and asking him myself, did you wear any protection? Do you have any STDs? Like, I felt like, why?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Can you just ask them yourself?

[Jessica]

Why do you have to film this? Like, you already got me on the phone of Eric calling me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So why would they film an assault but not stop it?

[Lauren LaRosa]

So that is the conversation about was.

[DJ Envy]

It an assault where they both dreamed drunk.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So, okay, so she was. She was very drunk. She was very drunk. And she admits that. But what she feels like is even if. So that it got to a point where if y' all had to take things out, somebody should have said, no, let's stop filming this. Let's stop this right now. And that didn't happen. And now in. In the documentary, the conversation is like, you know, how times are different, right? And then what happened then wouldn't have been allowed now, because there's another time in the documentary where Tyra is talking about one of the girls who is doing a Photo shoot, and there was a man that was like, touching her and. And she stopped the photo shoot and said, not Tyra, but the woman. She stopped the photo shoot. I get the model's name. And she says, I'm not comfortable. And they made her continue. And Tyree even says, then if I knew then what I know now, I would have stopped it. So I don't know why they didn't stop it.

[DJ Envy]

But if there was a sexual assault, like, if this girl was drunk and they knew that there was a sexual assault, that's wow.

[Jessica]

Well, she was really, really drunk. They were like, partying and it was. And you can, like, if it's an actual episode, you can go back and watch because you can tell even the next day, because they did film her talking to a boy, boyfriend, she was like, she did not know.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She didn't remember a lot of the things.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So clearly, clearly what they saw in that moment when they was taping, they didn't think was assault.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I mean, that's up for. According to the young woman. She feels like there was enough that from what she can remember, you know what I mean? How she felt like she was taking advantage. She feels like she should have been protected better by production. Production is saying we let them know from the beginning we would film everything. And anything we thought crossed the line, we took out. But.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But then get taken out. If you see, like, if you see somebody getting assaulted or humanity killed or you should stop and yeah, your humanity should kick in.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But that's the whole echo come up.

[Jessica]

You come up after y' all wrapped up for the night and you say, I'm sorry we had to film it. Like, so y' all already felt bad anyway to do it.

[DJ Envy]

I do know that in some of these reality shows, they have to tape and they.

[Jessica]

They.

[DJ Envy]

That's their job.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not when you see a crime.

[DJ Envy]

Now, I know a lot of times they say that we have to film and we can't stop anything from happening, even a crime. I hear that all the time. As a human being. I could not, not see somebody get assaulted and not stop.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It was K. Hill from Cycle four that I was talking about earlier with the photo shoot. But the point of the documentary, the point of it is supposed to be, like, she trying to bring accountability. But yes, it's at the end of it, right? She just promotes the fact that there's going to be another cycle. And I'm like, tyra, it's crazy to promote that.

[Jessica]

Watch. I ain't going to hold you. I'm going to watch it's not going to be. It's not going to do them girls like she would do them back in the day. Because somebody going to whip Tyra's ass these days.

[State Farm Announcer]

Days.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And that's good tv clearly rolling guys.

[Jessica]

See if they keep going with that. But I'm telling you.

[DJ Envy]

But let me ask you a question.

[Jessica]

Can't be like it was.

[DJ Envy]

None of those girls have a lawsuit. The fact that they were on a TV show, a reality show, this happened under their watch and they did not sign them contracts.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't. I'm guaranteeing them contracts clear for crimes probably clearly if they keeping the cameras rolling.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't know how a lot of this works but I mean I was thinking that too. Like what is going to be the legal fallout behind all of this? Right.

[Jessica]

But.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But we'll see. But Tyra, as we wrap up, Tyra did, you know, talk about the fact that she knew people were going to call her out following this documentary because it's been happening. Let's take a listen to that as we wrap.

[Jessica]

Looking at that show through the lens of today. It's like woo. Why did you do that? Why did you do that? Okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Tyra said, yeah, she made some.

[Jessica]

She did some.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You know, she said some.

[Mimi Brown]

And I thank you for that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That is the only way you change that is the only way you get.

[Mimi Brown]

Better is by somebody calling you, you out on your.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And I want to let you know that I want you guys to be.

[Mimi Brown]

Just as open as I am now.

[Lauren LaRosa]

About getting called on my. For when somebody calls you out on yours because that day will come and.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Continue to evolve cuz that's what we're all doing. Girl.

[Jessica]

That is absolutely ridiculous. Absolutely.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That was one of the models at the end and I will say that.

[Jessica]

Was the one who had the gap in her mouth that she was like. They basically roasted her basically about having a gap cuz she didn't want to close it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, that was, that was Danny Evans at the end of it. But yeah. So I've reached to out out to Eva. Y' all know I talked to Takara on the latest with Lauren. The rose of the podcast, Eva has not made a comment yet. I've also reached out to Yaya. I know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Are they on the dock, Eva?

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, no they're not. Winnie was supposed to be coming up here. That's not happening. I think a lot of them are trying to figure out what they want to say about this because it definitely pulled the veil back more than we already knew. But yeah, There's a cycle 25 supposed to be coming, so we'll see what happens. And then the next latest, shifting gears a bit. We're going to send some love, love to Wiz Khalifa. He announced that he lasted. He lost his dad over the weekend. So we're gonna take some time to do that in the next latest coming up.

[DJ Envy]

All right, everybody else, donkey today.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Shamala.

[DJ Envy]

Who give me a donkey, too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Man 4 After the hour, a woman named Christina Williams needs to come to the front of the congregation. If you steal from old people, you should go to hell.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

We'll discuss.

[DJ Envy]

We'll get to that next.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. You are a donkey. It's time for Donkey of the Day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Donkey of the Day does not discriminate.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

I might not have the on me.

[DJ Envy]

Today, but I got the Donkey Day.

[Just Hilarious]

So if you ever feel I need.

[DJ Envy]

To be a dog, hit it with the hero.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Who's donkey of the day today?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Donkey Today for Tuesday, February 17th goes to an Ohio woman named Christina Williams. Okay. Christina is the former office manager at Venetian Gardens Nursing Home. And the reason she is the former office manager because she is being accused of stealing more than $300,000 from residents. Let's go to Local 12 News for the report, please.

[DJ Envy]

It's despicable behavior to steal from the. The weak, the. The people in society we're supposed to protect.

[Just Hilarious]

Claremont county prosecutor Mark Tacolvi is speaking.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

About what Christina Williams of Coleraine is.

[Just Hilarious]

Accused of doing while being employed as the business manager at Venetian Gardens, a 99 bed nursing facility in Loveland.

[DJ Envy]

She would get into the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The individual residence accounts.

[DJ Envy]

She would write checks to herself and deposit or cash them, typically, and deposit the cash into her bank account. We know that There was approximately $262,000 in fraudulent checks issued over this period from 2001 to 2025.

[Just Hilarious]

The document shows in April, a $7,000 check was written for petty cash after a resident gave Williams the money to deposit in her facility account. Another check was written for $12,000. In all, the facility's own investigation showed $93,000 was stolen directly from Venetian Gardens and $126,000 from residents themselves.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I really think people who take advantage of the elderly and kids, they get VIP sections in hell. I mean, they get to skip the line. Leviticus 19:32 says, Rise in the presence of the aged. Show respect for the elderly and revere your God. That scripture equates honoring elders with fearing God. Okay. Instructs believers to treat older men as fathers and Older women as mothers, never speak harshly to them and damn sure don't steal from them. Look, I understand times are hard, okay? But there's a whole lot of other people you can steal from, right, Jess?

[Jessica]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nope. Nope.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

No.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, no, you shouldn't be stealing at all. But if you must be like Robin Hood, okay, Steal from the hoarders of wealth and give to the poor, not the elderly. No, you really shouldn't steal it, all right, Jess?

[Jessica]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes. Especially from old people. Okay, Christina, let's put this in perspective. Number one, you already got a job. And it's a job that I don't know if it pays well, but I know you are being of service because you are tasked with caring for those amongst us who can no longer care for themselves. Two, Christina, it's some tests I just feel like are too easy to fail. Okay? You know, you're not supposed to be taking advantage of these elderly people, all right? In fact, it's actually one of the easiest things not to do. Okay? Unless, of course, you've never had a grandmother you cared about, a grandfather or older parent. I would think that every single person on this planet has an older person they care about in some way, shape or form. So do unto others as you would have them do unto yours. Okay? I would hope you wouldn't steal from your grandmother or grandfather. So why would you steal. Steal from someone who's old enough to be your grandmother or grandfather? Especially when you are tasked with looking over them. Okay? Caring for seniors is perhaps the greatest responsibility we have. I truly believe that when you provide care for the people who once cared for you, that's one of life's greatest honors. Especially when they treated you right. Now, if they did you wrong, then you're gonna end up treating them the way Helen treated Charles and Diary of a Mad Black Woman. But why do people like Christina act like they don't have a Future? You, Christina, 51 now, okay? You eligible for most benefits with AR AARP right now, okay, as we speak. And you out here stealing from the elderly, don't you want someone to honor you when you're old? Don't you want someone to maintain your dignity when you become an elder? We complicate this thing called life because we try to take shortcuts. Stealing from the elderly is a shortcut, and there are no shortcuts to any place worth going. But I guarantee you, Steve, stealing from old people is a shortcut to a place you don't want to go in. That place, that venue, it's called hell Please let Remy Ma give Christina Williams the biggest.

[DJ Envy]

He haw he haw hee haw.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You stupid.

[Jessica]

Are you dumb?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When the last time you stole something, Jess? Don't lie either, because lying is a sin as well.

[Jessica]

From the dollar tree the other day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn.

[DJ Envy]

Other day.

[Jessica]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What'd you take?

[Jessica]

Gloss.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You going to hell.

[Jessica]

No, I'm not going out. Not over no lip gloss. There's so many other things to go down for.

[DJ Envy]

Not.

[Jessica]

Not still no lip gloss. That don't nobody even care.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just.

[Jessica]

Yeah, like sometimes. Yo. No, for real.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

For real.

[Jessica]

Sometimes you just know you can do it, and so you just do it.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. She gonna look so stupid.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That is. You got a mug shot face. Yeah, right now. What?

[Jessica]

What is that supposed to mean?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You just can't.

[Jessica]

Don't play with me. But yeah, sometimes you just keep stealing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And see what happens.

[Jessica]

I don't say like I used. I'm not clap though. But that lady 50 years old. your big ass age, you stealing from old people. Oh, my God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, hello, technically, you were stealing from old people, too.

[Jessica]

No, I was not. I never stole. No, I never stole from an old person.

[DJ Envy]

You told. You told you was dealing with.

[Jessica]

That was a sugar daddy. He was giving it up.

[DJ Envy]

What are you talking about?

[Jessica]

I wasn't stealing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What if an old person came in that dollar tree and that was the last lip gloss and they really needed it because they had a hot date with Mr. Charles and they couldn't get it because you stole it?

[Jessica]

That's not me stealing it from them. That's me stealing it from the store. You're a clown. I would. I wouldn't be like, what's her name? Christina Williamson.

[DJ Envy]

If they lock you up and send you the central bucket over something. Oh, my goodness.

[Jessica]

Y' all better bail me out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Y on your head because you just said it over the radio. So now when you walk into these.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, they watching you immediately.

[Jessica]

Okay, what's up?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just text me when y' all get up. Okay? Yeah, me first. Before y' all call me.

[DJ Envy]

All right, now, when we come back, the artist major will be joining us. Major. You know, R B artist. He had the huge record.

[Just Hilarious]

Why I love you.

[Jessica]

Of course.

[DJ Envy]

It's a wedding song. If you've been to a wedding.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The wedding song.

[Jessica]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's been the wedding song for the last decade.

[DJ Envy]

So he's gonna be joining us next. We're gonna talk to him next. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy guy. We are the breakfast club. Lauren LaRosa is here. We got A special guest in the building.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, indeed.

[DJ Envy]

We got the brother Major here. Welcome, man.

[Just Hilarious]

This is an honor.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank y' all for having me.

[Just Hilarious]

Listen, I'm, I'm, I'm on cloud three milli.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning to you. I didn't know that Lauren used to be a youth pastor at your church.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, listen, A youth pastor. Listen, I was not a youth. How are you lying about God?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I thought that's what you made.

[Just Hilarious]

No, no, no, I, I. When I saw, When I said, I saw her face and when I said, started seeing her rise, I'm like, I've seen her before. And she did indeed go to the church. I used to be the worship leader at one church in la. Pastor Tori Roberts and Sir J. Roberts.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's when they actually used to be at the church preaching like, like now they're like all these different places, but.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They are not all these different places. They are at the Potter's house on Sunday. All these different places.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You know what I mean, though? Like, I mean, like, they were. It was, it was, it was. I mean, there still had a lot. They said a lot going on. Because I remember he did Gucci's wedding at that time too. And I was like, oh, shoot, that's the pastor from the church. I just started going.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

That's right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, but Pastor, to write that key. Sometimes when you go there now, it's other pastors that will step in. Yeah, it used to. You would never miss him if you went to church on Sunday.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, yeah, there was. There was a time. But it's grown. So, you know, when you build and grow, you gotta kind of have folks standing in.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They right there. To Potter's house every Sunday.

[Just Hilarious]

Absolutely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Bedside.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, absolutely. Absolutely there. I'm. I'm loving seeing what's happening there. Potter's house has been really supportive of my movement. So.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I was gonna ask you that. The last time I saw you, you were singing at Bakari Sellers wedding.

[Just Hilarious]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And Bishop Jakes was. He, he. What do you call that? I'm about to say Pastor Dwight.

[Just Hilarious]

He officiated. Listen, same difference.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He officiated the wedding. So what's the relationship?

[Just Hilarious]

Well, Bakari is a brother of mine that I. He's our mutual brother. We actually, I met years ago on a panel for the naacp. Shout out to the naacp. They're still relevant, doing the good work for our people. But we were on a panel. It was me, him, Jotaka Eady and Brittany Packnett Cunningham. And we just connected and we literally just said, yo, we're gonna help each Other along the way. He had his vow renewal. He invited me. I also know Bishop, you know, from, you know, a lot of the work that I've done, but it was a really beautiful time, man. And he, He. He pulled out all his stops. Shout out to. Shout out to the family.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He definitely did. I actually was talking about, what's the connection between you and Bishop?

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, Bishop.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[B Dot]

Oh.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I wasn't gonna step on that.

[Just Hilarious]

Okay. Well, I, I. Well, Bishop has supported me. I actually saw, you remember, at the. The birthday party, his 65th. Diddy was there. Diddy was there.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What was Charlamagne doing with Diddy?

[Just Hilarious]

Listen, I will say this. I will say this. It was no funny business. And so it sucks that a picture can lead to all that crazy. But, like, I mean, it was great energy. Diddy clearly sees him as a father. And, and it was. You see the respect in real time, but it was. It was wild. Cause I'm like, lord, I of those pictures come looking like I done did something. But. Nah, it's. It's love, Bishop. I had to sing for CIS Tyson tribute before she passed away at the Mega Fest. And Bishop just said, yo, there's a. There's something on your life. There's an anointing on your life. Stay locked. I got you. I'll support you. His family has supported me, and it's just. It's just been consistent. So. Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

To get from a great person.

[Just Hilarious]

I know. Yeah, it's. He's really a legit good person. And I think because we've had so many experiences seeing the church from the humanity side of things, mishandle a lot of things, we just automatically just assume his success must be a scheme. But he's a really sincere, like, he shows up for people. He respects people. It's. It's real. And I think you know that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely. I love the Bishop. I love all of them. Bishop, you know, Bishop Jakes and Pastor Torre.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Pastor Sarah. Like, I call them the first family of faith.

[Just Hilarious]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, first family.

[Just Hilarious]

I get it. I get it. Yes, absolutely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, one thing I like about your music, it always centers purpose and positivity.

[Just Hilarious]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How intentional. Hope.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, exactly.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The last project was Hope dealer. How intentional have you had to be about protecting your spirit and message in an industry that just seems like it rewards the bull, man.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

It's.

[Just Hilarious]

It's. I. I live in an anomaly. Like, I studied music. You know, I've, I've. I'm really studied. I've been to performing arts schools, the shout out to the hspva that's the same high school as Beyonce. Robert Glasper, Brian Michael Cox. I did an intensive at Juilliard. I did Berkeley College of Music. So I'm versatile in what I've studied. But I have found success in the most peculiar ways because his journey, it does celebrate the salacious. It celebrates the negative. It celebrates, like just a disrespectful specific to our culture, what they allow thrive in our culture, which is really wild how that works. But I've just kind of just been committed to the assignment that I think on my life is to amplify who hope. I define hope as. Hope is not the denial of reality. It's the commitment to believe greater is on the other side of it. Hope is not pretending struggle and circumstance aren't real. Because one thing life is going to do is life with or without our permission. And so what hope does is it keeps us anchored in this thing called the Promise from the Promise Keeper. And it delivers every time. And so that's just what I've been committed to. It's been difficult to stay on that because people, like, want to put people against each other. I remember when why I Love youe. My song. This is why I love you. Just in case you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, no.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

I know.

[Jessica]

I love you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You ain't black.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I know the song.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jessica]

Yes.

[Just Hilarious]

No, listen. But that song changed my life. And I was just singing my producer harmony. We made this love letter to God. It's a love letter to God. And love wrote me back to help people really understand how to do this love thing on earth. But they started saying I was bringing back classic R B. And so then it was like this responsibility to try to keep up with R B. But I don't have the typical R B language. I'm choir boy. I'm a church boy, you know? So it was. It's been interesting, but I stayed steady with it, and I'm living better than I've ever.

[DJ Envy]

We joke all the time on our show. People may think we hate on each other when we go back and forth, but the truth is, that's the way we show love. That's respect, that's knowing where the line is. And that's why this message from the Blue Square Alliance Against Hate really sticks. Because real hate isn't playful. It's not jokes. It's not entertainment. The commercial during the big game showed a kid being targeted at school quietly, but in a way that happens way too often. And what really hit was the response. Someone chose to step in and show support instead of looking the other way. We talk a lot about culture, about community and having each other's backs and this is what that looks like. So if you saw the Blue Square commercial during the Big Game, take a second and really think about it. And if you want to show support, go to bluesquarealliance.org to learn more.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Uncle Joe has stolen scenes in movie after movie and now he's finally getting a wild ride all of his own. In Tyler Perry's Joe's College Road Trip, Joe sets out to teach BJ about the real world. World Joe style. That means no sugar coating, no filters, and absolutely no holding back as the two hit the road. The trip quickly turns into a hilarious over the top adventure filled with Joe's signature tough love, unforgettable one liners and the kind of outrageous comedy fans crave. But beneath the chaos lies something deeper. Lessons about growing up, understanding where you come from and the moments that shape who you become. And along the way, Joe uses his journey to school BJ on Black History, Music and Culture. A perfect fit for its February 13th release date during Black History Month, this is the first ever Uncle Joe led film in the Madea universe. And yes, he really goes for it. Streaming globally on Netflix February 13th. Buckle up cause Uncle Joe goes for it.

[State Farm Announcer]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

So you didn't go to high school with Beyonce, right?

[Just Hilarious]

No, no, no. She's a. She's a few years ahead of me. I went to the same middle and high school. Welch Middle School and. And high school. Latoya Luckett. Shout out to all of them. But, yeah, they're. They're. They're a little older than me, but killing it nonetheless. Beyonce. Remember Major From Six Flags AstroWorld? I'mma say it on air. I went to the Grammys, and it was two. Two Grammys ago. And I told. I. It took a lot for me to go up to say hey to her because everybody, even Meryl Streep, was trying to get her attention. I'm like, beyonce is literally Beyonce. Beyonce. I went up to tour and shout out to Johnny Nunez. He was gonna take pictures of the moment. And, you know those in between the segments, they're quick, so you got to talk fast. So I'm like, hey, Beyonce, I don't know if you remember a major from Houston.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

I.

[Just Hilarious]

And she's like, looking at me, okay. And I'm like, okay. So I got the song. This is why everybody. The places. I didn't even get to finish the song. She looked at me like, okay. And so I go back and sit down. I'm sitting with Stevie Wonder's wife, Tamika, and she's like, how did it go? I said, beyonce don't know me. And so I called Angie bn saying, I'm like, yo, tell B I'm not crazy. I'm the same. I'm Lil Major from, you know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know Angie.

[Just Hilarious]

I know Angie, Mama Tina. I know all of them. I just haven't seen Beyonce in person since then. So maybe this moment.

[State Farm Announcer]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why'd you just say Houston? Why you ain't name this you?

[Just Hilarious]

And I forgot, like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You forgot what school you went?

[Just Hilarious]

Listen, listen, listen, listen. It's Beyonce. Beyonce. I was. I would. I'm good with words.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Exactly.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I should have started first.

[Just Hilarious]

School would have done diff. But it was. It was, bro. My mind was like, I gotta say the right thing. So I'm like, you know, I'm. I'm major from. From Houston. I'm thinking Houston.

[DJ Envy]

Like, you're major in Houston.

[Just Hilarious]

Exactly.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

And I.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Man, man, she probably thinks she met Mims. She's like, I didn't know. This is why I'm hot. And she was like, okay.

[Just Hilarious]

The Places, everybody. And I'm like, I'll be back, Johnny over somewhere else. You know how fast Johnny moves. He like, he'll call your name. And I'm like, johnny, nowhere to be found. And so.

[DJ Envy]

But he made a picture.

[Just Hilarious]

I didn't even get the picture. But, bro, how about this? I did get an optic that looked like we were really talking. Somebody, some Stan posted the footage between us as we were talking. And it looks like she's having a serious conversation about three seconds long, right? And it looked like we're having a deep conversation. People like, I see you, major. And I'm like, yeah, but they don't know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They don't know that. They don't know. She was looking for Julie, Julia, Juliet.

[Just Hilarious]

You'll see him in the picture looking.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

At me like, who?

[DJ Envy]

This may make it funny. He did the same thing when he met Prince. The same exact thing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Prince is different.

[Just Hilarious]

It stutters.

[Jessica]

You.

[Just Hilarious]

No, it's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I love Beyonce too.

[Just Hilarious]

But Prince is different for you because of the, the. Because of what he said to Prince. What you say to Prince.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, first of all, let me tell you this.

[DJ Envy]

We gotta say, first of all, when.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We were at the old radio station.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, we were doing radio. And somebody just randomly, mind you, at six o' clock in the morning's, like, Prince is in the building. Like Prince. Yeah, like Prince. Prince.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why would. There's no way Prince is up here. So we put this, put everything in automation.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And as soon as we opened the door to go walk in the hall, he walks by with two random white women.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Old white women.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, yo, Prince. He was the nicest guy. He came over, he shook everybody's hand. But I was just like, I grew up Jehovah Witness, too.

[DJ Envy]

That's all he said.

[Just Hilarious]

Not, hey, what's up?

[DJ Envy]

How you doing?

[Just Hilarious]

I grew up Jehovah's Witness. It wasn't like that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wasn't that.

[Just Hilarious]

I'm telling you, people think I can't stand these, these, these couch and. And keyboard bullies that say, well, if I was, I would do this. You don't know what you'll do in a moment. What.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what? Yo, Prince didn't. He really didn't seem real.

[Just Hilarious]

It's very surreal. The first time I met. Met Oprah. Oprah. Shout out to Oprah, who, by the way, ended up calling me on my phone. It's wild. Just stay ready, beautiful people. Just stay ready. Because life just comes at you. And literally the opportunity you've been praying for will unfold in the way God chooses. But like, I remember meeting Oprah and there Arnold the photographer was like, oprah, meet Grammy nominated major. And she's like, she comes up to me and she wasn't doing any more interviews, but she was willing to, to, you know, have the moment with me. And she, she stands there and the only thing I could say, I said, you're Oprah, damn it, man. And she said, I am. I said, I'm major. And she said, you are. So I just flipped it and said, oprah said you are major. So when you see that quoted, just know that's how I really went.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But.

[Just Hilarious]

But fast forward, you just. You get stumped, you stop acting like you. You don't get nervous.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not like that.

[DJ Envy]

Like you did it twice.

[Just Hilarious]

Who have you gotten it? Who have. Nobody.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

There's only been two for me that I can remember.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That literally just happened with me and Jill Scott.

[Just Hilarious]

Well, Jill has an aura.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes.

[Just Hilarious]

That will leave you stuck.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She was.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Because I was going to be like, hi, nice to meet you, I'm Lauren.

[Just Hilarious]

Before I could say, life is dope, by the way.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you, brother.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Artists is Jill Scott and Erica Badu.

[Jessica]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

First time we ever met Jill, she was like, oh, my God, that's Jill Scott. And when, you know, when they're. They're talking and my wife is telling her what her music means to her, so my wife cried. Right? Yeah, but that's. That's different than just being starstruck. You know what I mean?

[Just Hilarious]

It's. It's both.

[B Dot]

It's.

[Just Hilarious]

It is star. It's. It's both of it. It's like you meet your heroes in real time. When you do the work, you eventually become a part of the company. And the thing is, it's dope to revere them and to honor them and respect them, but also know that you're occupying the space too. Because that section of the Grammys, that wasn't just, you know, you. Y' all been, right? Have you been before?

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

No.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No. Oh, well, you know what? I. I went once, but I was sitting like up in a suite. And the second time I gave my tickets to.

[Just Hilarious]

Kids suites suck. They're so freaking far away. It's. You get all the good food, but it's like it. You're so far away from the. The feeling. But with that section is a special section. I was, you know, Stevie's. Stevie's wife had me at her table. And it's just. It's like, we just gotta understand. Occupy the space life puts you in. You know what I mean, you in the room.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cause you're supposed to be in the room. That's right.

[Just Hilarious]

That's it. I said thank. Thank you for making. Yeah, I said it all poetically, like, you in the room. Cuz you're supposed to be in the room. I'm like, I occupy the space. Life has. Life has settled you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Life has given you.

[Just Hilarious]

Yes, life has given you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

God has put you in the.

[DJ Envy]

You in the space.

[State Farm Announcer]

You belong.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You belong. Word up. This is my final question, right? When you look forward, not just musically, but personally, what kind of man do you want the next chapter of Major to reflect?

[Just Hilarious]

I want my legacy to be? He gives what he lives. He lives what he gives. It's enough of just talking and saying all this stuff for the clicks and all this stuff. Live it. If you're about it, be about it. I want to help as many people as I can. That's why when you said, if what you're building only benefits you, it's not big enough. I want to help as many people as I can.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I have.

[Just Hilarious]

You'd be surprised how many careers I've supported. I've. I've helped so many people. I would love for people to give back. So when you kept your word on I got you, that meant everything to me. I'm just, I'm, I'm, I'm. I'm not perfect. I'm a good hearted person. I love everybody and I want everybody to know hope ain't ever canceled. I, I'm seeing the visual now. I, I spent some time with Reverend Jackson, blessed to have some time with Reverend Jackson a couple months ago. And I was holding his hand in the hospital room and he wasn't saying much, but I said, said, rev, I'm. I'm keeping this hope alive. I'm. I'm locked in on this hope thing. And the first words that he said, non stop, and he stood up. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive. And he's saying his gasping over and over and over. Gigi Dixon was there, his wife was there, and. And I'm like, God, this moment. You set this up. Because this work is not in vain, man. This work is not in vain. I know sometimes I'm by myself trying to amplify this hope, looking like the cornball that wants to push this thing. But I know it works. People are hurting. I'm an empath. Too many people need this stuff. And so I'm gonna give it and I'm gonna live it to the best of my ability. Thank y' all for making time for me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

Major.

[State Farm Announcer]

For real.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Go get the Hope Sessions, man. The Hope Sessions are out right now by my guy, Major, man.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Follow him at now that's major. And go to now that's major.com.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, sir, it's Major.

[Just Hilarious]

Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

The Breakfast Club, good morning. Let's get to the latest with Lauren.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Lauren.

[DJ Envy]

She gets them from somebody that knows somebody.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She gets the details.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She be having the latest on the.

[Just Hilarious]

Latest with Lauren LaRosa.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sometimes she has to fact. Sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have a little bit of everything.

[Jessica]

Oh, it's the leader.

[Just Hilarious]

Brought to you by Top Dog Law on the Breakfast Club. Talk to me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So was Khalifa over the weekend. He had posted via his ex account that his dad had passed away. He said today my father decided to not wake up. I will always love him, miss him and be grateful for the things he taught me. He went out like a true, a true yogi at peace and on his own time. I love you forever. Lawrence W. Thomas. So then everybody, you know, of course started sending him love and, you know, posting photos and he just thanked people for just taking the time because he shared that so publicly with people. So I just wanted to send him some love right now, you know, just because he shared it with us. Absolutely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wasn't his family healing energy, man?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. Now in other news. So Jada Pinkett Smith, she is asking a court in California to dismiss a three million dollar lawsuit that was filed against her by a former friend of Will Smith's. So this man, his name is Bil Salaam, he filed this lawsuit some time ago and he alleged back in 2023. Okay. So backing up. So first, before the lawsuit was filed, this man was the same guy who was a former friend of Will Smith's that alleged in an interview that he walked in on Will Smith and Dwayne Martin engaging in sexual acts. Allegedly. Right. So following that, Jada Pinkett Smith, including here at the Breakfast Club, she sat down and did a lot of interviews and talked about the fact that it was all BS and that this was was what she alleged then and is saying now. And her request for this lawsuit to be to be dismissed was just something that was made up to target her family because of who they are and basically a shakedown. Let's take a listen to Jada Pinket Smith on the Breakfast club back in 2023 talking about this lawsuit.

[Jessica]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How does it feel in 2023 to still have those same rumors out about people you love, like Will and Dwayne.

[Mimi Brown]

It's ridiculous and it's nonsense. And this is a person that tried a shakedown, a money shakedown that didn't work. We're going to take legal action. Action, because it's one thing to have your opinion about somebody versus just making.

[Jessica]

Up salacious, malicious stories that's actionable. So we gonna roll with that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She's right. You can't just accuse people of hot butt sex without any proof of hot butt sex.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, well, she's great. That sums it up pretty much. But he's saying that because of the interviews that she did, the interview she did here at the Breakfast Club, the interview she did at TMZ when she was leaving the Breakfast. Just the fact that he says that she walked up on him and threatened him. At one point, he alleges that she told him, you keep talking about my personal business, you gonna catch a bullet or end up missing. So he's saying the combination of all of that has caused him emotional drama and reputable harm. And she's saying it's bs, so she wants it thrown out. So we'll see what happens there as it develops.

[DJ Envy]

Sad thing is, you can sue anybody for anything. There's no proof. There's no nothing. But you could just say it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, you don't even have proof that she's allegedly walked up on him. Like, there's no pictures, no videos in 2026. And you know that you pursuing leg against these people. Like, wouldn't you, if you was in the same vicinity as them, wouldn't you tell somebody, keep the cameras rolling. Keep the cameras just in case.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And it wasn't just her, too. I mean, Jada been get Smith, so she ain't just walking around alone. But he said that it was. He says that she was about. With like 6 or 7 of people where the video.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, nothing.

[Jessica]

He just want people to lean on the fact that she from Baltimore. She a real. No, you're not doing that. No, don't believe it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, my gosh. Well, in other news.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I am biased because I'm a Pinket Smith Winfrey knows Carter. I just want y' all to know that, period.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You're welcome to your bias. You know, in other news, is a great person.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Phenomenal human.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, all the. The names together. Okay. I'm like, how do we get there? Okay. So in other news, Ray J. So over the weekend, Ray J had a performance in Shreveport, and he's on stage, and you can visibly see the patch that is like holding like the pacemaker that we talked about, he had to get.

[Jessica]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You know what I mean? Like all the work that he's had done on his whole heart. But then there as he's passing out roses because it's a Valentine's Day weekend show, there's like a. Supposed to be blood coming from his clown out.

[Jessica]

Clowned out.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's. When I saw the video, it scared the heck out of me. I'm like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cuz there's blood coming from his.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I called him because, I mean, I'm like, what is happening? And then I saw another video of him backstage and he's like jokingly like flipping up and down glasses, like, I'm getting better. I'm getting. I'm like, why would you do that?

[Jessica]

That's what I'm saying. Saying you, you still get scared at Ray J Post.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I mean, I think it's just.

[Just Hilarious]

I want.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I mean I want everybody to be okay. But I did hear from people that were at the show that, you know, he did have to take it a bit slow. Like at one point he had to like lay down like where the DJ was and to be.

[DJ Envy]

Lay down. This was a concert. This wasn't a club performance.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, but I mean in between, from what I was told, from someone that was there in between his performances and him on stage, he had to take some time.

[Jessica]

He took a nap.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Not a nap, take a break. Like he. Even when he's handing out the roses, he's a bit careful. I mean, he has to be a bit careful now.

[DJ Envy]

And that was a pacemaker on the chest.

[Lauren LaRosa]

From what I. Via the reports. I. I can't. Ray J doesn't answer the phone.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What makes us think. What makes us think that Ray J may not be going through something health wise, but he's just trying to make the best out of it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's ra.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like this would be so Ray. You know what I mean?

[Jessica]

Yeah, but the blood coming from the eyes. Come on now.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That scared the heck out of me. You weren't scared when you saw that, Lauren?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, I didn't even see it. I just read the headline.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, I was nervous.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I'm not. When I read certain headlines, I don't need to see the video. Like if you tell me I don't need to see the blood coming from his eyes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, I was on. I mean, I saw the video, so. And it was there before I saw the headline. It just scared me because I know Ray J. No, I saw it on live bites. Live bites don't do Headlines. But it scared me because I know Ray J will push himself to the point where he shouldn't. And I thought that that's what that was. And then I saw more video, and I'm like, is this a. Like, what's happening?

[Jessica]

Sit down. Sit your ass down. That's what you need to do.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Chill out. And I think the.

[Jessica]

The theatrics is crazy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And I think that you wouldn't see the pacemaker is inside of you. So that would just be, like, the patch. That's, like, holding it.

[Jessica]

Correct.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm not a doctor, but I don't think.

[DJ Envy]

I have no idea.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Don't you gotta have a whole surgery for pacemakers?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, he. He said that that would potentially have to happen. I don't know if that's what happened yet, but we did see some patches.

[DJ Envy]

It looked like a small Ziploc on his.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So we don't know exactly what it.

[DJ Envy]

Is, but we know because it was, like, flapping that one time as he was performing it. It looked great.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Salute to my guy. I'm sending him him healing energy. For sure. For sure.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. And as we wrap, I do want to mention we didn't mention this earlier, but did y' all see Cardi B. Send it to Government? Mick took over her tour over the weekend.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, when she fell off the chair.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. So she. I wanted to play this audio. She felt backwards out of a chair on stage, but she. She held it down, though.

[Jessica]

She can make fun of herself. She do not care. And the audience didn't care either.

[DJ Envy]

The dancers came and just. And cleaned it right up.

[Jessica]

So much ass.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Mimi Brown]

That was the most ass I ever.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Taken some out after the store.

[Mimi Brown]

I don't want to hear nobody for three months.

[Jessica]

I'm taking my.

[DJ Envy]

I'm going to Colombia.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Nobody hit me up. Nobody knocked me nothing. I'm taking this ass out. So that was Cardi B. And Kehlani backstage at the tour. After the second night of the performance, she brought Kehlani out for ring, but she fell backwards in the chair. So they're joking about her getting some of her butt removed because baby is there. It's all there.

[DJ Envy]

She brought Glorilla out one of the shows, too.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Glorilla out the first night in la, Kine in the second. I saw Tyler on stage as well, too. I saw Tiana Taylor just there, like, supporting her. Like, just, you know, it was a ton of people that popped out.

[Jessica]

Cardi worked hard.

[DJ Envy]

Yo.

[Jessica]

Cardi is a great performer, too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. I saw a list of all the people who Came out the last. She had two nights in LA, right?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, two nights. Two sold out nights in LA. There were reports too, that she made like over $2.3 million just in the first night alone. But I couldn't confirm it, but, I mean, I could. With merch and tickets. Yeah, right. And J. Cole's going on tour. That's it. I just wanted to mention that, too.

[Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant]

All right.

[Jessica]

You know, happy birthday to Jim Brown, y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Jessica]

Y' all know Jim Brown? Brownies. He would have been 92 today. He was a Cleveland Brown and he was a civil rights activist back in the day. I don't know if everybody know, but you know.

[DJ Envy]

All right, that's the latest with Lauren Mix up next.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, and shout out to Top Dog Law and the accident, big or small, called Top Dog Law.

[DJ Envy]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now it's Black History Month. What we doing, Shawna?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Man, Every day during Black History Month, my guy, B. Dot, does a podcast on the Black Effect Podcast network called I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either. And today he's going to tell you about Marie Van Britten. Now, who is Marie Van Britton? In 1966, Marie invented the world's first home security system, creating a blueprint for every modern system that followed. Let's listen.

[B Dot]

The first home security system wasn't a company, it was a black woman. Welcome back, know it all, to another episode of the most anticipated podcast podcast on the Black Effect Podcast Network, especially in February, entitled I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either. I'm your host, B Dots. And one of my biggest fears is being home alone and somebody breaking in while I'm on the toilet taking a number two. Because what do you do? Initially, you say you gotta wipe and pull your pants up. But do you have time to wipe? But if you don't wipe and just pull your pants up and you run out there, God forbid, and get shot and killed, by the time somebody finds you, my God, you're gonna be smelling. How embarrassing is that? Ah, well, to kick off today's episode, I got three of the most useless facts you'll never need. Not a day in life. Up first, the modern home security system didn't start with ADT or Ring. Your second useless fact. It was invented in 1966 by Marie Van Britten Brown, a black nurse in Queens, New York. And your third useless fact is her system included cameras, remote controlled door locks and an alarm. Basically, your smart home. Before smart homes, even Existed. So my question for you is, did you know about this black nurse from Queens, New York? Because I didn't.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I didn't know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Maybe you didn't know.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I didn't know. Maybe you didn't. I didn't know.

[Jessica]

Maybe you didn't know.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I didn't know.

[Jessica]

I didn't know. I didn't know.

[B Dot]

Imagine living in 1960s Queens where Eddie Murphy came to find a wife. And coming to America, the crime rates were sky high. Police response was snail slow. People's homes was food. Marie Van Britten Brown, a nurse, she just wanted a way to protect her family without waiting for somebody else to have to come save.

[Jessica]

Save her.

[B Dot]

So she invented the first home security system. Here's what she built. A camera system that could see who was at the door. Remote control locks to prevent unwanted entry. A panic button to alert the police, and an additional alarm that will warn neighbors and family. Sound familiar? Your ring, Nest, adt. All of it traces right back to a black nurse named Marie Van Britton Brown. In 1966, before smartphones, before Wi Fi, before Amazon bought Ring for over a billion dollars, a black woman in Queens designed the system. And yet, how many people are today years old? When you learned her name, how many security companies acknowledge her origin story? Hardly any. Hidden in plain sight, this is the same energy as the marching 100. Excellence. Don't wait for permission.

[Jessica]

Mission.

[B Dot]

You build it, you operate it. And then the world eventually copies it. Credit. Yeah, that's optional. Marie didn't invent home security to make headlines. She did it because she needed solutions. And now, decades later, families everywhere live safer lives. Because one black woman designed the first system is right in line. With Carter G. Woodson's century long vision, Brown designed a system that safeguarded homes.

[Just Hilarious]

Homes.

[B Dot]

A blueprint of black innovation quietly embedded in everyday life. But every time you check your doorbell camera, every time you lock your door remotely, every time you feel safe at home, remember, a black woman made that possible. And I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either.

[DJ Envy]

Before we get to the positive note, is there anything that we should know? Just hilarious.

[Jessica]

Yes, absolutely. When you pull up to McDonald's and they say the ice cream machine is broke, y' all know that it's never broke. It's just not cleaned, bro. It's dirty. And the people who close up on the last shift the night before don't ever want to clean it. That's why you never realize, like, damn, all the American McDonald's ice cream machines broke. No, they're dirty. And I know it's because I was a manager before, and I never. Well, I didn't clean it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You just gave up today. You ain't even tried today, huh? You just like, man, what? You just.

[Jessica]

No, that's something that we all been dealing with since we were younger, right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, but how many times did you.

[Jessica]

Open up the McDonald's and they said you can't get no ice cream because the ice cream machine is broken?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That is like a old. That's something that everybody really, really does.

[Jessica]

Know what that is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not four hours to clean.

[Jessica]

Yes, it does.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And they tell you that it's broken because in that four hours, they're cleaning it.

[Jessica]

Well, if he asked me, did I have something to say, I didn't. But I'm on radio.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So when he asked me, do I.

[Jessica]

Have something to say, I have to say something. So get your tickets. Richmond, Virginia, this weekend, I will be at the Richmond Funny bone Comedy Club February 20th and February 21st, this Friday and Saturday. So get your tickets. And next weekend, Greenville, South Carolina. I'll be at the Comedy Zone in Greenville. That's February 27th and February 28th.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Just hilarious.

[Jessica]

Official dot com.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What if. What if somebody come to the show and be like, man, you saying a bunch of stuff we already heard before. Just like on the radio when you get them goddamn Black History Special.

[DJ Envy]

You know, Wendy's is closing hundreds of.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know.

[DJ Envy]

Locations across the country.

[Jessica]

Oh, my God.

[DJ Envy]

You didn't know that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's messed up. That's why y' all should eat Crystal. Salute to Crystal, man.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Wow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Make sure that you go support Crystal in Orangeburg. Go support Crystal and Walterboro. New location coming soon, man.

[DJ Envy]

300 locations. Wendy's is closed. That's horrible.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I love when. Man, I have such fond memories of Wendy's, even though I do invest in Crystal franchises. I have such fond memories of Wendy's because my grandmother used to always. When I used to take her into town in Mount's Co Corner, she used to always want to go to Wendy's and she wanted her French fries hot.

[Jessica]

Oh, and the burgers, too. Wendy's, they will never give you a hot burger, but I do love their burger.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Amazing comfort food Wendy's got, man.

[Jessica]

They grab them lettuce right out the freezer and slap it on your burger and be like, here you go. Always cold.

[DJ Envy]

But positive note, Charlotte.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I do have a positive note, man. And it comes from the great Reverend Jesse Jackson. Rest in peace. To Reverend Jesse Jackson, South Carolina's own civil rights icon. Reverend Jesse Jackson once said, we must all learn a good lesson. Lesson how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world. Learning to coexist and not co annihilate. Rest in peace Reverend Breakfast Club Wake you up.

[DJ Envy]

Wake that ass up.

[Just Hilarious]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Mimi Brown]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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