FULL SHOW: Diddy Denied Mistrial As Trial Continues, Cassie Welcomes Third Child With Husband Alex Fine, Larry Hoover Jr. Responds To Backlash Over Commutation Comments + Keyshia Cole Interview

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Breakfast Club – May 29, 2025

Hosts: DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God
Special Guest: Keyshia Cole
Release Date: May 29, 2025
Episode Title: FULL SHOW: Diddy Denied Mistrial As Trial Continues, Cassie Welcomes Third Child With Husband Alex Fine, Larry Hoover Jr. Responds To Backlash Over Commutation Comments + Keyshia Cole Interview

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1. Front Page News

a. Diddy Denied Mistrial

The episode kicks off with a deep dive into the ongoing legal battle involving Diddy. DJ Envy and Charlamagne Tha God discuss the recent court decision where Diddy’s request for a mistrial was denied. The primary contention revolves around fingerprints found on a bottle in Diddy’s car, allegedly linked to an alleged burglary at Kid Cudi’s home.

• Charlamagne Tha God [03:38]: "What a sorry by the Minnesota Timberwolves... Anthony didn’t show up at all."

• DJ Envy [64:00]: "So yesterday, Larry Hoover was commuted on a federal level by President Donald Trump."

The hosts express skepticism over the prosecution's handling of fingerprint evidence, highlighting that crucial records were destroyed, making it impossible to conclusively link Diddy to the alleged crimes. The discussion underscores the complexities of legal proceedings and the challenges faced by high-profile defendants.

b. Cassie Welcomes Third Child

Amidst the legal turmoil, Cassie has welcomed her third child with husband Alex Fine. The hosts congratulate Cassie and discuss the emotional and physical challenges she faced, especially having testified in Diddy’s trial shortly before giving birth.

• Jess Hilarious [66:37]: "That is what matters."

Charlamagne reflects on Cassie’s resilience, noting the emotional rollercoaster she endured during the trial and childbirth, emphasizing the strength required to navigate such life events simultaneously.

c. Larry Hoover Jr. Responds to Commutation Backlash

The conversation shifts to Larry Hoover Jr., who recently received a commutation on a federal level from President Trump. Despite the commutation, Hoover remains incarcerated under a separate 200-year state sentence for a 1973 murder.

• Charlamagne Tha God [07:34]: "I have so many questions, so many thoughts, so many observations..."

Hoover’s son clarifies the distinction between a commutation and a pardon, explaining that while his federal charges are reduced, his state sentence remains untouched. The hosts address the public’s misunderstanding, highlighting misinformation circulating online about Hoover’s release.

• Lauren LaRosa [30:13]: "We really feel that this collaboration gives us an opportunity to tell the stories of great things that are happening in communities all across America..."

This segment underscores the importance of understanding legal terminology and the impact of public perception on high-profile cases.

d. Additional News Highlights

The hosts also touch upon various other topics, including:

• Sports: Discussion about the Minnesota Timberwolves' disappointing performance and the anticipation of the New York Knicks advancing in the playoffs.

• Black Information Network & Obama Foundation Collaboration: Lauren LaRosa provides an update on the multi-year partnership aimed at advancing community engagement, especially among youth.

• Tribute to Sasha Jenkins: DJ Envy honors the late journalist Sasha Jenkins, praising his impactful storytelling and contributions to hip-hop journalism.

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2. Special Guest Interview: Keyshia Cole

Key Highlights:

• 20th Anniversary Tour: Keyshia Cole celebrates the 20th anniversary of her debut album, reflecting on her journey and growth over the past two decades.

  • Charlamagne Tha God [36:09]: "I just, I'm bugging that this is the 20th anniversary of your debut album."

• Personal Reflections: Cole shares intimate details about her personal growth, family life, and her upcoming projects. She discusses overcoming challenges, maintaining authenticity, and her aspirations for future endeavors, including a new album and continued family expansion.

  • Keyshia Cole [38:16]: "I am ready for a little girl."

• Supporting Other Artists: The conversation touches on Cole’s collaborations with other artists like Ashanti and her positive experiences on stage, including heartfelt moments with fans and fellow musicians.

  • Jess Hilarious [43:34]: "She always smells so good. When she came here, she smelled real good."

• Upcoming Projects: Cole hints at new music releases and projects, expressing excitement about her second arena tour and continuing to produce impactful music.

  • Keyshia Cole [45:18]: "I am, I am, hopefully, I am, hopefully..."

Throughout the interview, Keyshia Cole emphasizes her commitment to authenticity, personal growth, and her dedication to her fans, providing a candid look into her life both on and off the stage.

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3. Conclusion

The episode wraps up with the hosts recapping the major headlines and celebrating Keyshia Cole’s achievements. They encourage listeners to support the ongoing legal proceedings surrounding Diddy and Larry Hoover Jr., congratulate Cassie on her new addition to the family, and applaud Keyshia Cole for her enduring influence in the music industry.

• Charlamagne Tha God [99:16]: "This is an I heart podcast."

Listeners are left with a comprehensive overview of significant events impacting prominent figures in the entertainment and legal spheres, underscored by the hosts' characteristic blend of insight, humor, and candid commentary.

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Notable Quotes:

• Charlamagne Tha God [07:34]: "I have so many questions, so many thoughts, so many observations."

• Jess Hilarious [66:37]: "That is what matters."

• Lauren LaRosa [30:13]: "We really feel that this collaboration gives us an opportunity to tell the stories of great things that are happening in communities all across America..."

• Keyshia Cole [38:16]: "I am ready for a little girl."

This detailed summary encapsulates the key discussions, insights, and conclusions from the episode, providing listeners with a comprehensive understanding of the topics covered without needing to tune in.

Transcript

[DJ Envy]

This is an I heart podcast.

[Just Hilarious]

Good morning, usa.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Just Hilarious]

Just hilarious. Good morning, Charlemagne the guy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Just Hilarious]

How you feeling? What's up, Jess?

[Jess Hilarious]

I feel good. How are you?

[Just Hilarious]

I'm doing well, thank you. I'm doing well. You look nice today. Very like mission impossible, you know what I'm saying?

[Jess Hilarious]

Really, really cute. I really like this outfit. I'm not going to court. I know you're waiting for me to say something else, but. No, I really like it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Do going to court outfit like you testifying.

[Jess Hilarious]

No, I feel like. Because with the black like, this is what. What y' all now classify these outfits as like court outfits. No, I don't.

[Morgan]

Nah.

[Jess Hilarious]

I would not go to court with, you know, a little high waisted mini skirt on. Now, the top is cool, but if I had on some suit pants and a blazer.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

O. Okay, look, class.

[Just Hilarious]

I'm telling you, look classy. Mission impossible is.

[Jess Hilarious]

Thank you.

[Just Hilarious]

About to solve.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What is the mission impossible is part like.

[Just Hilarious]

Like she like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I feel you just going along with little red Riri.

[Just Hilarious]

That's what you gotta do.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's the. We all got that cousin that, you know, wear a helmet, you know what I'm saying? So you put the helmet on with him and yeah, whatever he say, it's okay. It's early in the morning. We don't want him to have an episode.

[Just Hilarious]

Well, Keisha Cole will be joining us this morning, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She's on tour the way it is tour. Do you believe. Can you believe that? Her debut album. This is the 20th year anniversary of her debut album.

[Just Hilarious]

That's crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So she's on the 20th anniversary tour for that album.

[Just Hilarious]

That's insane.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So love and what else? I changed my mind.

[Just Hilarious]

Wow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

20 years.

[Just Hilarious]

That's right.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Jess Hilarious]

God, I can't believe it. Generations. And yeah. Yep. I was 13 and I was singing her songs like I knew I was in love. Like I had a. Oh, my gosh. I had like she had a song for each and every relationship problem that she went through. My favorite is I should have cheated and the one with Kanye. I don't love you no more. Crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, I don't love you no more was fire.

[Jess Hilarious]

The one.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, that was fire.

[Jess Hilarious]

But I should have Cheated was the jam.

[Just Hilarious]

Well, she'll be joining us this morning, so we'll kick it with her. And, you know, she's. Her life has been so public, like from the reality shows to. I mean, she was a backup dancer. MC Hammer.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I just want y' all to know.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, she was cool with Pac. It's a lot.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I should have. Cheated is an amazing song, but it is a red flag if a woman loves that song. If a woman says, that's my jam. But you just said, that's your jam.

[Jess Hilarious]

It was.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It was. It was.

[Jess Hilarious]

But I'm. I'm reformed now. But, yes, that used to be the anthem.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's a red flag, my brothers. Okay. Yeah, that's a red flag. All right.

[Just Hilarious]

All right. Well, she's also performing. She got a tour that's going down, so she'll be hitting your city. So, look, you can look that up. We'll give you the dates when she pops up in here. But let's get the show cracking. We got front page news. More going to be breaking everything down. You got any Keisha Cole this morning? Anything we can get into?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know you got Keshia Cole. Keyshia Cole ran radio for years.

[Jess Hilarious]

She'd be like, hey, all the time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's the.

[Jess Hilarious]

You know, everybody got their own note.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, that's like, hey, she still looked good, too.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, she did. I know she was that little, but, yeah, she looked good.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She real short, man. If y' all gotta find Keisha, call. Something wrong. Play the record, man.

[Just Hilarious]

We had to pull it up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Which one you playing?

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, all right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, this ain't from the first one.

[Just Hilarious]

It's a Kishiko.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's a box.

[Just Hilarious]

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Wake your ass up. Morning, everybody. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news now, okay? Seed beats Minnesota timberwolves last night. 124.94. They advance.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What a sorry by the Minnesota Timberwolves. I am disappointed in Anthony. I mean, what a sorry, sorry, sorry ass showing. You know what I mean? Like, you knew are great. Are supposed to be a great. You gotta show up. He didn't show up at all.

[Just Hilarious]

Definitely didn't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not even a little bit.

[Just Hilarious]

Well, the OKC will probably be taking on my Knicks in a couple of games. The Knicks play tonight. They play paces. Paces Lead the series three one.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I'm not gonna lie, if I'm Adam Silva in the NBA. I am trying to rig it to make the Knicks go to the Finals. Because I don't want to see no Indiana Pace as Oklahoma City finals. Okay, that's good. No disrespect to nobody in India.

[Just Hilarious]

That's all this is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okc.

[Just Hilarious]

That's all this is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But that's like, that's gonna be like the COVID bubble. And there's great players on both teams, by the way. Great young players on both teams, the Halliburtons and the Shy's. But I'm just talking about market wise. You gotta find a way to get the New York Knicks into the Finals.

[Just Hilarious]

Knicks are gonna be there. Good morning, Morgan.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, hey. Front page news.

[DJ Envy]

Somebody gotta do it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We're moving on.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What are you talking about?

[Jess Hilarious]

Hey.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All right, y' all. So let's get into it. Yeah, first on the front page. Yeah, that was a sorry game. Sorry. But moving on. So Elon Musk says he's leaving Doge. He posted on X that his time as a special government employee comes to an end and he'd like to thank President Trump for the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending. Now, Musk helped the lead the Department of Government Efficiency since it was established in January. And he concluded his post saying the DOE's mission will only strengthen over time as it becomes a way of life throughout the government. Now, as a special government employee, Musk was allowed to work for the administration for 130 days in a calendar year. And of course, like he mentioned, that time is up. Now, in a stark contrast, as I mentioned yesterday, Musk said he's disappointed in President Trump so called big beautiful bill. In a preview of an interview that's set to air this weekend on CBS Sunday Morning. Now, he criticized the bill, saying it undermines the work that the Doge team is doing. And he also says he's not sure if a bill can be big and beautiful at the same time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He's right. Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So this comes as Tesla investors are demanding Musk work 40 hours a week at the company after steep declines in sales. A group of pension fund leaders claim Tesla's stock price volatility is volatile and declining in sales. And other disconcerting reports are cause for serious concern. Now the issues with the company is facing as a direct. They believe that it's a direct result of Musk role at Doge. Now, no word.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I wonder if Tesla can bounce back or has Elon done irreparable damage to the Tesla brand? I wonder.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's the next thing I was going to say we'll see if Tesla can recover now that Musk is no longer a special government employee and whether or not he'll take on that 40 hour work week.

[Jess Hilarious]

Go ahead.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, I was going to say, I don't, I don't think it is repairable right now. I think it's going to be where it is. And I don't think people want to drive Tesla. Like I have a Tesla and I have to think about where I'm driving to because I know if I drive to certain places, I know somebody might put some dog ish on my car or spit on my car. Because people just don't like anything Elon Musk right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Because all Elon did was come in, fire a bunch of people who shouldn't have been fired. He's the reason there's not enough air traffic controllers at the airport, you know, right now. And you know, you can't just F things up and then leave.

[Just Hilarious]

So if I gotta think about where I wanna drive my car, you know what's gonna make me do it?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Get rid of that car, not drive it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Speaking of effing things up and leaving. No. President Trump says he will con. He will. Oh, actually, let's get into the pardoning. He's on a pardoning run. He pardoned rapper NBA YoungBoy following fraud charges and signed pardons for a variety of people on Tuesday, including New York Representative Michael Grimm, reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley. And a White House official also announced that the POTUS signed off on a commutation of Larry Hoover, sentence of six life terms. Now, Hoover was a Chicago street gang leader and the co founder of Gangster Disciples. It's unclear on how soon he will be released from federal custody, but he still faces the remainder of his 200 year sentence in Illinois for the 1973 murder.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I'mma tell you something, man, I always knew people didn't read, but yesterday just proved to me how much people didn't read. The amount of people that I thought was smart and intelligent who got online and said, welcome home, Larry Hoover, you deserve to be released, blah, blah, blah. Y' all just did not read the fine print. No, because yes, he got a commutation. You know the difference between the commutation and a pardon, right, Morgan, what is it?

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, so the commutation basically means that his sentence is reduced or revoked or. But the pardon means that it's, it's completely erased. That basically that nothing ever existed, essentially. But the commutation, it means it's still on the record, but they've, they've essentially like reduced it or.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Reduced it to your.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And that's. And that's on the federal level. But he still has a 200 year state sentence.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. For a 1973 murder. Yes, it is true.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Whatever reason. It's like nobody read that book.

[Just Hilarious]

No, it's like they just read headlines yesterday.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Maybe not even President Trump, because. What?

[Morgan]

Why? Like, okay, but.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, that's your front page news for six. It continues at seven. And we will get into crypto, and as you mentioned, Envy, transportation, and what's going on with the airports.

[Just Hilarious]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ray, Ray, Ray. Yo, Charlemagne.

[Jess Hilarious]

Envy, what up?

[DJ Envy]

Are we live?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is your time to get it off your chest.

[Just Hilarious]

I got an indoor pool, outdoor pool.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

[Jess Hilarious]

We can get on the phone right now.

[Caller]

He'll tell you what it is.

[Just Hilarious]

Hello? Who's this?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning.

[Caller]

This is Nikki calling from Florida. The OG Jess fan.

[Just Hilarious]

What's up?

[Jess Hilarious]

How are y' all doing this morning?

[Just Hilarious]

Get it off your chest.

[Caller]

I have to tell Jess she gotta chill out.

[Morgan]

She hit that high note.

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm trying to go downstairs, get ready.

[Morgan]

And I'm about to.

[DJ Envy]

My ass, girl.

[Morgan]

I said no.

[Caller]

Cause that's the note that I be hitting, too.

[Morgan]

That's the note that I already.

[Caller]

You know, when it's coming up, you get that roll up and you build it up. Hit it again, Jess.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's what I'm talking about.

[Caller]

I'm just calling because this heavy week. Y' all have a good day, everybody.

[Just Hilarious]

Hello? Who's this?

[Caller]

Well, good morning, Brexit. J A from Indy, J A from Indy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How are you, J A from Indy.

[Just Hilarious]

I don't want to talk to you today, J A.

[Caller]

Well, I'm very well, thank you guys for asking. And it's interesting that you would say that. DJ Envy.

[Just Hilarious]

Nixon seven.

[Caller]

Why don't you want to talk to me?

[Just Hilarious]

Nixon seven? Ja from Indiana.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, Indiana. I thought he said, this is J A from India. I'm like, you cannot be racist. That's crazy. Indiana.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, my.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, my God. Hey, Sorry.

[Caller]

All right, so let me get this off my chest real quick. Please come to work tomorrow. That's all I asked, DJ and me.

[Just Hilarious]

Come to work, J A. I will be here tomorrow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think the Knicks gonna win tonight. I do. I think. I think his paces in six, but I think the Knicks gonna win Tonight, no.

[Jess Hilarious]

Make me wise.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know y' all don't mean that.

[Caller]

So good luck tonight, dj. And if you don't come to work tomorrow, we understand. We're gonna wipe your ass tonight. And good luck with that.

[Just Hilarious]

Goodbye, Jam. How you gonna say good luck at.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The end of that?

[Just Hilarious]

Hello?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who's this? Hey, how you doing? It's Wayne. How y' all guys doing?

[Caller]

Jess. Charlemagne. Jess.

[Jess Hilarious]

How y' all doing?

[Caller]

Just calling to get a couple things. Just get really, one big thing off my chest. Like, what do you do when you have. I have a child that has a real rare disease called San Filippo Syndrome. It gets misdiagnosed as autism, and it, like, you know, debilitates your kid. It messes up his body. But, like, sugar deposits, a rare genetic disease. And my part is I work hard to give my kids everything. And what do you do when you give your kids everything and still something happens? Like, who do you get mad at? Like.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, you can't get mad at anybody, brother.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't think you get mad at nobody, especially if you're a man of faith. I mean, if you believe in a higher power, if you believe in God, and you just got to know it's all part of whatever process, you know, God wants to show you and. And your child. I don't think there's nobody to get mad at in that situation.

[Jess Hilarious]

My brother. Sometimes I know it's OK to be. It's okay to be upset, too, you know, but it don't have to be placed on nobody. It gets hard and it's frustrating, but.

[Just Hilarious]

Definitely, please don't take it out on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That child, because some things is out of your control.

[Caller]

He's my biggest motivation.

[Just Hilarious]

Okay, good.

[Caller]

Keeps a smile on his face. But it's just hard. I started a new job, and it's like I had to get off the road so I could be close to home. And, like, you know, with his medical bills, everything piles up crazy. And it's just like, I. I try to do everything with no help, you know, but, you know, Father, just try to do everything.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You said something that's real just now. You said, he's your motivation, man. So just think about that. Think about the sense of purpose that, you know, raising. Raising your son with that condition gives you. It's a son, right?

[Just Hilarious]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Caller]

Yes.

[Jess Hilarious]

My son.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He's seven years old.

[Just Hilarious]

Where y' all from?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Think about the purpose he gives you, man.

[Caller]

From Pennsylvania, from Bethlehem. And, you know, I'm trying to start a GoFundMe for him, but I. I Mean, it's rough. I mean. I mean, I don't know if I could put it. Cash app out or something.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, give me his cash. I mean, that's. That's the least. That's the least any of us can do, my brother. Absolutely. You know what I'm saying?

[Caller]

Sorry. His cash app is JoJo. Dollar sign JoJo, 92017. His birthday.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Is it Will Blanding? Oh, yeah. Will blank his picture up there. Will Blanding.

[Caller]

Yeah. You see my son's picture up there in the hospital?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But is that the name Will Blanding?

[Caller]

Yeah, yeah. Correct.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay. All right, my brother. I'm gonna send a little something right now, master, at least. Absolutely.

[Just Hilarious]

And hold on. We'll put you on hold too, bro.

[Caller]

All right. Thanks, man.

[Just Hilarious]

All right. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, you can hit us up, call us up right now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. This is your time to get it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Off your chest Whether you're mad or.

[Morgan]

Blessed I hate the way that you walk the way that you talk I hate the way everything with me is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Best call up next, 800-585-1051.

[Morgan]

Not just me, I'm with the culture feeling.

[Just Hilarious]

Hello? Who's this?

[Caller]

Hi, good morning. It's Nick from Brooklyn.

[Just Hilarious]

Nick from Brooklyn. What's up? Get off your chest, Nick.

[Caller]

Hey. I just want to express some positivity and say what's up, guys? Been a long time listener. Just wanted to say I appreciate everything you guys do.

[Just Hilarious]

Okay, Nick. Well, thank you for listening.

[Morgan]

No problem.

[Caller]

You have a great day, guys.

[Just Hilarious]

Hello? Who's this?

[Jess Hilarious]

Hello?

[Just Hilarious]

Hey, good morning.

[Caller]

Good morning. Hi. This is Cassandra from New Jersey.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cassandra.

[Caller]

Hey. And I need for U. S. Attorney Hider. We call her Hannah Montana. I need for her to move Congress McIvor's case from out of north into Camden or Trenton because Paul Sidney, who is the former U.S. attorney in that building, know every judge, you know every prosecutor. He's Lamonica McIvor's attorney, which we know she can't afford him, so.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cassandra, we have no idea what you're talking about. Cassandra. Cassandra, we have no idea what you're talking about.

[Caller]

You know why? You know what you're talking about? No, I know what I'm talking about because you had last Baraka up there last week.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Caller]

Talking about him being detained.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Caller]

Congressman, is the Congress.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, oh, yeah, yeah. You. I didn't hear the name. Got you. Absolutely, absolutely.

[Caller]

She's the one that's accused of assaulting the federal market.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, absolutely.

[Caller]

Now, she used to be the council president for Newark. That she could put residents out and have us exported out by the police just for verbally expressing our opinion, just for talking out loud. So consequences need to be had for her. Need to be made to be resigned, go to jail, or get probate. That plates have to be moved out of Newark.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now, Cassandra, I will say two things can be true. But, you know, I'm not aware of what you're saying in regards to what LaMonica has done to the residents of Newark. But LaMonica should not be getting charged with assault against one of those ICE agents right now, currently, that's like. We all saw the video. There was no assault there.

[Caller]

We all saw the video. We saw how she's locking her arms around Ms. Watson. Locking her arms around Baraka. Why did she not let Mr. Baraka, who understands that he is not to try to fight with the police. He was going to be exported. He has his details there. Nobody was going to bother him. He's a mayor. They were going to take care of him. Why did she behave like that? She don't even let you behave like that. When she was the council president in her chambers, she would not allow that. She had a lady. Right now, Colleen Fields is banned from coming to the council meeting for the whole year because she made a comment that accomplished Lamonica McIvorough when she was the president, council president. She's banned for a whole year. But it was consequences for us. Just talking out loud.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I understand. I get it. I get what you're saying. So what do you want? So you want her to be moved to Camden because you think that. You think Newark system is going look out for her or something? What you saying?

[Caller]

Yes, because Paul Fishman was the U.S. attorney on the Obama administration. Paul was there for, like, eight years. He would get boss in that building.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, if lamonica ever comes up here, we'll. We'll. We're gonna save this call and play it back for her, because I would like to hear her opinion on what you just said. I don't. I mean, I don't know anything about it.

[Just Hilarious]

Absolutely. Hello?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who's this?

[Just Hilarious]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, where's that?

[Jess Hilarious]

Right here. What's up?

[Caller]

Yo, I love you. You're a real one. You keep it real. It's trying to be. I just want to say, hey, so we got this, yo. Don't worry about that, Charlemagne. Y' all have a good Day. I love you, Jesse.

[Jess Hilarious]

I love you, too. Thank you, babe.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, speak up. For what? What'd you do?

[Jess Hilarious]

I didn't do anything.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, okay.

[Jess Hilarious]

Just speak up. Just be like, hey.

[Just Hilarious]

Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. And Keyshia Cole will be joining us next hour. But coming up next, we got the latest with Lauren. What we talking about, Lauren?

[DJ Envy]

We do. Stephan Diggs is in trouble. Him and Cardi B, they started some trouble.

[Jess Hilarious]

You should not be in trouble. That is the most three thirstiest clown groupie crap I ever seen in my life.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, it's not for that. It's for the Altoids.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, my God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

For the Altoids.

[Just Hilarious]

I think it was Altoids. And that's my story. I'm sticking with it.

[DJ Envy]

You didn't see the videos?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No.

[DJ Envy]

We gonna get into it in the latest.

[Just Hilarious]

All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's the Breakfast Club.

[Just Hilarious]

Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the latest with Lauren.

[Jess Hilarious]

Lauren becoming a straight face.

[Just Hilarious]

She gets them from somebody that knows somebody.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She gets the details.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She'd be having the latest on this. The Latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes you have facts. Sometimes you have details. Sometimes she have a little bit every. Well, it's the meeting on the Breakfast Club. Talk to me.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, guys, so before we get into Stefan Diggs, Envy, I know we talked about this yesterday. We wanted to take a minute to just send a rest in peace to. I want to make sure I get his name right. Is it Sasha Jenkins? Sasha Jenkins. So Sasha Jenkins. I'm reading a post from Essence. When I saw this last week, I thought that this one was the most. Most endearing of his legacy. Hold on. It's loading. You want to talk a bit about Sasha Jenkins? While this is loading, I really don't.

[Just Hilarious]

Know much about the brother. I know that he was up here one time. I think he was gonna do the Breakfast Club doc at one time. He's done documentaries. He's done Wu Tang documentaries. He's a journalist. He's written for so many magazines and publications. He was just a good brother. A good brother in hip hop and just wanted to send a rest in peace.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Rest in peace to his family.

[Just Hilarious]

Yes, absolutely.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, in essence. I did a whole piece on him that I'm so mad is not coming up right now because they took time to dive into his pen and why his pen was so important and for today, as a journalist, I think that a lot of people don't understand when people talk about the pen of a journalist, especially in hip hop, why that even matters. And to be When. When. When something happens or even before something happens, to have people speak about you in a way where it's like your storytelling change lives.

[Just Hilarious]

That's right.

[DJ Envy]

That it's really hard to be impactful in that space. So I thought essence, Shout out to them did a really good job of, like, capturing his life, everything that he had done, how his influence came in. So, yeah, just wanted to know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He did some amazing documentaries with mass appeal as well. One of the documentaries I really liked from him, I don't even know if this was mass appeal, but he did the Wu Clan of Mikes and Men documentary that came out in 2019.

[Just Hilarious]

But a lot of times we talk about the artists or we talk about the people that we see, but sometimes it's the people that behind the scenes that's really the architect and all that. So rest in peace to that, brother.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. And that's what I mean, because it's tough as a journalist who's actually a writer and you're not like the up like people think. You got to be on camera, you got to be loud. You got to be seen to make impact the way he did through what he did, coming from the time period that he came from, and still have people want to take the time to talk about how amazing he was. Yeah. So make sure y' all go check that out. I'm sorry that it's not coming out right now, but ESSENCE did an amazing breakdown of his career and his legacy. But as we move on into other news, Stefan Diggs. So we had talked a bit about, you know, in the tease about Stefan Diggs being in some trouble right now.

[Jess Hilarious]

With the three girls.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, yes. Girl was like, 20 girls on that boat.

[Jess Hilarious]

But I seen the three.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Jess Hilarious]

In the video.

[DJ Envy]

Yes. So there are videos circulating from over Memorial Day weekend of Stephon Diggs and Cardi B on a boat in Miami having a good time. Now, the. The issue that, honestly, in my opinion, the Internet created, was that at one point, you see Stefan Diggs with these three with three women. Cardi B is not in the video, and he opens up what looks like an Altoid case, and he hands whatever is in the Altoid case, he hands it to these women, and then, you know, they go off and do whatever they do. So this sparked, and I think it's the time period right now, and if, like, you know, you have so many different things going on. You have this, the Diddy conversation and the pink cocaine conversation. And we don't know what was in that case. We don't even know if there's an investigation into it, honestly. We do know that his team has seen it and that they've had conversations.

[Jess Hilarious]

It's probably gonna help. Go ahead.

[DJ Envy]

Nothing is at this point espn, everybody is covering this in a way that is like, okay, here's what people are singing and here's what people are thinking. But his head coach, Mike Rabel actually had to comment on it prior to one of their their workouts. Let's take a listen. A video of Stefon Diggs has gotten a lot of traction in the last 24 hours or so.

[Jess Hilarious]

He's on a boat having a good time. But the question comes in as to.

[Just Hilarious]

A certain substance that people are guessing.

[Morgan]

What is and is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Morgan]

My parachute did not deploy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I was kidnapped by a drug cartel.

[DJ Envy]

I just remember everything getting dark.

[Morgan]

I'm dying.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When we step beyond the edge of.

[Morgan]

What we know to open our consciousness.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

To something more than just what's in that western box. In return, I clinically died. The heart stopped beating, which I was.

[Morgan]

Dead for 11.5 minutes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

My name is Dan Bush. My mission is simple to find, explore and share these stories.

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm not a victim.

[Just Hilarious]

I'M a survivor.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're strongest when you're the most vulnerable. To remind us what it means to be alive. Not just that I was the guy that cut his arm off, but I'm.

[Caller]

The guy who was smiling when he.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Jess Hilarious]

Is this something that the team has to look into?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, it's something that we're aware of and obviously we want to make great.

[Caller]

Decisions on and off the field. And we're hoping that with our time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Here on the field today and that when we don't have a script and we're on the call periods, that we're making great decisions. And so the message will be the same for other players, that we're trying to make great decisions. And any conversations that I've had with Stefan will remain between him and I and the club. How do you even figure out what the substance was?

[Just Hilarious]

And that's my point. They went to the worst. Maybe their breath was hot and he was giving them out to us.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, people instantly just real.

[Jess Hilarious]

They was trying to ease up, you know, Real close, though.

[DJ Envy]

They didn't ease. They was close. They was all in it. And I thought at first that was. As soon as I saw the video, I didn't even peep the whole little case thing. I just saw the girls and I. But I knew Cardi was on the boat. And I'm like, people gonna have an issue with the fact that these girls are so close. And he's with Cardi now.

[Jess Hilarious]

He was the one that eased in between his legs a little bit.

[DJ Envy]

He moved.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

On the boat too.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, yes. And it was a lot.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She.

[Jess Hilarious]

Was she driving about? What was she doing? Was she steering?

[DJ Envy]

Like, I don't know where she was at that moment. But there's other videos of the boat where you see there's a ton of other women. There's. They did. It was a huge party. So whatever was happening there with him as far as, like, the women just being there, she was there as well, too. Cardi B. Was there as well too. So she has to be okay with video.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cardi on a boat with a bunch of women and just the same, getting laugh.

[DJ Envy]

It was the same boat. That's what I'm saying. They were having a good time.

[Just Hilarious]

They together.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But by the way, Altoid cases are very distinctive. Like, you know, An Altoid case. When you see an out, I do.

[Just Hilarious]

It look like an out. That's why I said that.

[DJ Envy]

You can't really see the top. But the way he had, you know, you got papa out case open a certain that it was given just like an Altoid game. Yeah. And ESPN as of today has said that the. The NFL has declined to comment so far. But I think that this is just. Let me not say what I think. Yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

I think they're just trying to say. I think is it is is. You know, they're making it bigger. The Internet made it bigger than what it is. And, you know, that's just what it is. Even the whole thing about the women, I don't think he did anything. Like I said, they were the three thirstiest women I've ever seen. But if Cardi was okay with it, she was at the front of the boat getting lap dances. He was in the back. He wasn't even getting a lap dance. I just know I seen shorty moving up, you know, in between his legs, and he kindly pushed her away.

[DJ Envy]

Yes. Now I want to make mention, send a congratulations to Dawn Sally.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey.

[DJ Envy]

Who has the number two book in the country right now behind Jake Tappers. What's the title? Jake Tapper's book.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Original Sin.

[DJ Envy]

Original Sin. That's the one about Biden in the whole alleged cover up of his health and all that stuff, Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I finished that over the weekend. But forget all that. Don Stanley, Uncommon favor. Okay. Basketball, North Philly, and my mother and the life lessons I learned from all three is the number two book in the country on the New York Times bestsellers list. Drop on the clues. Bombs for Don Stanley, man.

[Just Hilarious]

Congratulations to dawn.

[Jess Hilarious]

And you are wearing the merch. You wearing it down. I love it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I support my people.

[DJ Envy]

I know.

[Morgan]

I love it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The book came out on my book imprint, Black Family Publishing with Simon and Schuster. So. Yes, absolutely.

[DJ Envy]

Show them your beads.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Show them my beads.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, well, yeah. This is all part of a package Don sent out. So it's like a beads that have my name on it because, you know, Don weighs the bees.

[Jess Hilarious]

She loves the beads.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. And I have her merch with her child picture on the front. Yeah. Salute to Don Stanley, man. She is an icon living a legend of all legends. And, you know, the beautiful thing about books is, like, you realize, like, you know why you've gone through every experience you've gone through in your life because those become the chapters of your book. So when you share that with the world and, you know, it ends up being a bestseller. That's right. Number two selling book in the country, New York Times bestsellers list. Hey, man, that's all God. So salute to Don still.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. In her book, if you guys are not aware, it talks about her impressive basketball career playing for the University of Virginia, winning three Olympic gold medals and solidifying herself as a key figure in the early years of the wnba. So make sure you guys check out that book. And I do want to correct myself. It's Ebony magazine who did the Sasha Jenkins write up that I really enjoyed. And they talk about his pen touching vibe. Rolling Stone and beyond. His his directorial work with Wu Tang of Mics and Men. He did Louis Armstrong's Black and Blues all up in the Biz. They do a really great breakdown. So if you guys are not familiar with this journalist, I mean, it's sad that you're getting to know him now, but please take a look at this Ebony Magazine write up. It was a great write up that they did to honor him. So send another rest in peace to him and some comfort to his family.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right.

[Just Hilarious]

Well, that's the latest with Lauren. Now when we come back, we got front page news. And then Keisha Cole will be joining us. And also today we do just fix my mess.

[Jess Hilarious]

Absolutely.

[Just Hilarious]

So if you want to get on the phone lines right now, we can do that too.

[Jess Hilarious]

Sorry.

[Just Hilarious]

800-585-1051. It's the breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wake up, wake up. You're locked into the Breakfast Club.

[Just Hilarious]

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. Some quick Sports. Last night OKC beat the Timberwolves 124.94. And tonight the Knicks take on the paces at 8:00pm the paces lead the series three one. But don't worry, it's the Knicks in seven. All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's up, Morgan?

[Lauren LaRosa]

All right, child, let's get back into it. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says allocation for the FAA in the House approved spending package will not be enough. He said it won't be enough to support needed upgrades to air traffic operations. Now Duffy has repeatedly said low staffing numbers and outdated technology are the root of various incidents that were require significant funding. Now, speaking to reporters, Duffy said we're going to need to fully fund the project and added that we need it all up front. And that's a big ask for Congress to give the money all up front for that which is necessary. But we're going to. He's basically saying they're going to need all the money up front in order for this project. The overhaul of the ATC systems to be successful. Now, Duffy's overhaul is expected to include brand new telecom, radar and radio equipment, as well as updates to front and back ends of the air traffic control system. Now with this, Duffy also provided an update on problems at Newark Liberty International Airport. Let's take a listen to those comments.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is a safe system and there's redundancies, but again, I'm concerned that we could have more of Newarks. This truly is a moment to look at what kind of system we're using, what kind of equipment we use, what kind of telecom we use. And it's a call to action to make sure we build a brand new air traffic control system. Here's what I don't understand. We know this bill, you know, provides a lot of tax cuts for the rich. Don't the rich fly? Like, don't people in Congress fly? Like, what would be the hold up? What would be keeping you from making sure air traffic control gets the money it needs for upgrades? You don't need the penny when it comes to that. Like, even if you fly private, you are still impacted by the lack of FAA traffic controllers. And, and like I said, people in Congress fly. So what would be the holdup? Like what? Why wouldn't you just make sure they got all the money they need to get the upgrades for air traffic operations?

[Lauren LaRosa]

You're. That is a, that is an amazing question. And you're right. Just, even if you do fly private, you still are subject to, you know, certain rules and regulations in terms of air traffic controllers. I mean, they're definitely necessary and need to be used in that regard. So you're right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sheesh.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't know. But to. But Duffy does say that FAA's TRACON facility in Philadelphia is the one that oversees the Newark airspace. It will get 16 more air traffic controllers by the fall. That number is currently working out of TRACON after five controllers took mental health leave last month saying they were traumatized by the recent events of that going dark. The 90 seconds of the communication systems going dark. I mean, that's a lot of pressure.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, they said they don't want to be responsible for, you know, people getting killed. And something that McDuffie said just now, that's very important. He's. Or Duffy said, that's very important. He said he don't want more Newarks. So you may not be paying attention to it now because it's just Newark, but what about when it's the airport in your area.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, I spoke about that yesterday saying that there are three airports in Texas alone, I believe Austin, Houston and the. I'm thinking San Antonio that are also dealing with shortages in air traffic control systems. So, you know, it's one of the situations is sad, but hopefully, you know, you're proactive on this situation as opposed to reactive. And you know, reactive means that something has happened. So yeah, to your point, Charlemagne, it is, it is a matter of like getting it done and figuring out Congress holds the purse. And is this something that is important enough for Congress to go ahead and, and make a move? But Duffy is asking Congress for billions of dollars to gut aging airport infrastructure around the country and rebuild from south scratch.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And Congress flies. That's. That's what's so mindboggling to me. It's just like why are we just sitting around waiting for something at that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Into DCA where they're Freddie, Ben situation. So yeah, Congress go ahead.

[DJ Envy]

You know what I'm saying? Matter of fact, I'm gonna come up.

[Lauren LaRosa]

There and talk to y' all next week when recess open.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And Morgan, tell us about what's going on with the Black Information Network.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh my gosh. Such an amazing thing. So the Obama foundation is a nonprofit collaborator of the Black Information Network. And yesterday the bin announced a multi year collaboration with the Obama Found too will work to advance community engagement, especially among youth, by providing and promoting civic participation, spotlighting community leaders and amplifying powerful stories of change. All this as the Obama Presidential center is set to open in Chicago on the south side in 2026. So we will bring you the stories as that develops. I spoke exclusively with the Black Information Network President Tony Coles about this collaboration ahead of the announcement and here's what he had to say.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We really feel that this collaboration gives us an opportunity to tell the stories of great things that are happening in communities all across America and certainly things that are happening in Chicago as the Presidential center is being built and will be opened up in 2026. It's just there's a wealth of storytelling that we're looking forward to sharing.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So we're talking about from the contracts to the people who get the jobs, to the people who are part of these, who get to the people who get the jobs, to the contracts, to the people who it impacts in the neighborhood. And of course there are initiatives like My Brother's Keeper alliance, the Leaders Program, Girls Opportunity Alliance, Obama Foundation Scholars, all of these. We aim to support the next generation and continue the BIM commitment to providing nonpartisan fact based news that uplifts our communities. And hopefully, you know, I'm hoping that it creates also a like direct pathway with Obama and, you know, his people as well. And so that's a really exciting partnership or collaboration rather that is happening with the Black Information Network and the Obama Foundation. Now I want to pose a question to you guys, if possible, do you think something like this, like developments like this, these multi use spaces, especially in the south side of Chicago, like the Presidential center, could influence like a new age Harlem style, Harlem Renaissance, but like maybe in the shy, I mean we are entering the late 20s and 30s and that's when the Harlem Renaissance happened. So do you think something like this could influence that type of movement?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, and it's more important now than ever because I feel like a lot of the education that is going to happen for this next generation is going to come through the arts. Like when you think about, you know, how they're stripping away, you know, black history just damn near everywhere and, you know, they're banning certain books everywhere, like I feel like the arts is where people are going to learn, you know, just a lot about our history and just American history in general, world history in general. So, yes, I do think that these centers are going to play amazing role in, in some type of new renaissance.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I definitely look forward to it as well. Well, that's your front page news. Y' all can follow me on social at Morgan Media. And for more news coverage, follow at Black Information Network. You see we doing our big one over here. Download the free iHeartRadio app and visit [e-mail]. thank y' all.

[Just Hilarious]

All right, when we come back, Keisha Cole will be joining us. So don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lola Rosa is here as well. And we got a special guest in the building.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, indeed.

[Just Hilarious]

Keisha Cole. Welcome.

[Caller]

Hi.

[Morgan]

How you doing?

[Just Hilarious]

It's been a long time. How you feeling?

[Morgan]

How's it been a very long time. It's been probably over what, seven years or something like that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I just, I'm bugging that this is the 20th anniversary of your debut album. Yeah, like, God damn.

[Morgan]

It is a long time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How does it feel when you think back? Think about that.

[Morgan]

I'm still processing it. I mean, I'm happy that we're able to do a tour. 20th year anniversary tour is more insane because, I mean, I mean, it's A great album home. So, yeah, I'm appreciative of the fans and them supporting.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So what do you remember about yourself 20 years ago? The woman you were 20 years ago.

[Morgan]

Wrecking rooms, boy, just. Baby, just. Just fighting. Just crazy, Just insane. But I learned a lot, so it's all good.

[Jess Hilarious]

Y' all miss the.

[Morgan]

Slow it down.

[Just Hilarious]

The Keisha Remy Ma era. That was a crazy era.

[Morgan]

That was.

[Jess Hilarious]

That was.

[Morgan]

That was. That was stepping in the steel toes for sure.

[Just Hilarious]

I'm just. I'm thinking back, like, wow. Just imagine if there was, like, heavy social media back then.

[Morgan]

Oh, thank God.

[Just Hilarious]

No, they had these phones back then.

[Morgan]

Yeah. I think soon as I actually was pregnant when. When Twitter first started and Monica was trying to get me on Twitter, and she was on Twitter, and I just. I didn't like it. It's just like, everybody just. They was talking, you know, I'm like, okay, I spelled one word wrong once. It was like, this is not my type of thing. But, yeah, it's been. It's been a minute.

[Jess Hilarious]

20 years. And she was just telling me she wanted a little girl. She ready for a little girl now?

[Morgan]

I am ready for a little girl.

[Just Hilarious]

You want to start over?

[Morgan]

If. God, yes. For the rest of my life. Yep. That would be awesome. I mean, you know, when you accomplish so many things and you set so many goals for yourself and imagine accomplishing those goals, all the goals that you set for yourself. Like, I always wanted to headline my own arena tour. I'm pretty sure I said that when I came up here maybe 10 years ago. And, I mean, just, like, I'm on my second one now for my first album. That is just insane to me, just to kind of process that. But, I mean, I think setting new goals and just wanting new things in my life, I think a girl would be one of them.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah. Cause this version of Keisha would be better, for sure. For a girl.

[Morgan]

Yeah. And a husband.

[Jess Hilarious]

And a husband.

[Morgan]

Yeah. Cause the old one was not taking it. Not having it. No. Actually, you got to go. I think. Yeah. We came up here one time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that was the thing. But, yeah, like, you know, I think this version would be better for.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think the beauty of you, though, Keisha, is that you did grow, at least to me, on your own terms. Good, bad, ugly. You grew on your own terms, and a lot of people don't get to get that opportunity.

[Morgan]

Really?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't think so.

[Morgan]

No.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Especially in music, because, like, like, you grew. You grew out loud.

[Morgan]

Oh, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

In front of people, you know?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, some people gotta. It's an image that they gotta maintain so they don't ever get to do that. And then, you know, they end up slapping somebody on stage. And you like, damn, I didn't even.

[Morgan]

Know that was you.

[Jess Hilarious]

Was.

[Morgan]

You weren't in there like that. Nobody knew that anger was there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Shout out to Will.

[Morgan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that. I thought that was staged. Okay, so, boom. I don't know. Because that's what they show on tv. They say that it would happen before or something. What the heck was that? But, like, yeah, my son, too. I was like, I never seen my oldest son. He's angry at all ever. Like, and I'm scared about that. Like, I'm like, where is it coming? When is it coming? Because I've never seen him yell, get loud, argue. I'm like, never seen him. So that would be scary. But, no, I have. I have. I have lived my life in front of everybody. I don't. Yeah. I just never had a problem with it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You said you never seen your son yellow screen, but that says a lot about the environment you raise him in. Yeah, maybe we just used to that because that's how we came up. So we think that's what normal's supposed to be.

[Morgan]

Oh, yeah. No, but I don't know, because my little one, he cuts everybody out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Morgan]

Yeah, that one is gonna give me all hell that broke loose with me. I hope. I pray not. But it looks as if. So. Because he don't take no.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

Not all. Like, he'd be capping on his brother, like, for real. Big back and all.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, he says that to his brother? Yeah. What his brother do.

[Morgan]

Tobias, that's not nice.

[Jess Hilarious]

So one is MLK and one is Malcolm X. Oh, man.

[Morgan]

Yeah. Yeah, very much so. Oh, it's bad.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Your son a big back, is he?

[Morgan]

No, his brother.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, her little son.

[Morgan]

Cause DJs dad and grandfather, they're six, two, six, nine.

[Just Hilarious]

His.

[Morgan]

You know, his grandmother's tall, all of them. So DJ is big. He's like. He's a big guy, but not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not fat.

[Morgan]

No, he's not fat, but he's a big dude.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, you can play football like athletes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, we don't. We call them. We don't call them big backs. We call.

[Morgan]

Tobias does.

[Just Hilarious]

But as a kid, you call everybody big bags.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He got it wrong. You got to teach them.

[Morgan]

I tell them all the time, that's not cool.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Teach them when it's obese. People that walk by, that's when you use the term.

[Morgan]

That is not when you use the term. No, you never use the term.

[Jess Hilarious]

Tell me where Tobias got that from.

[Morgan]

I don't know. Oh, big back.

[Just Hilarious]

We don't take that big.

[Jess Hilarious]

Lenard.

[DJ Envy]

No. Yeah, you definitely. You and Reese's.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, you saw him right there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No. Yeah, that is.

[Just Hilarious]

You made it a little bigger.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, I did. Definitely did. No, I didn't.

[Jess Hilarious]

But, Keisha, what I've always loved about you is always been relatable with your music and. And even, like, showing your life on TV with your family and everything like that is. Was there ever a point that you said that you regretted doing that?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Hell, yeah.

[Morgan]

Hell, yeah. When everything started going.

[DJ Envy]

Can I say that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Morgan]

Okay. Thank you. Because. Yeah. When everything started, like, when nobody was getting better, I feel like that was the goal for the show. And I remember talking to Mimi Valdez about this. She was the editor of Vibe magazine. And I was like, I don't know if I should do it. She said, well, what is your purpose of doing it? And I said, well, I want to show the girls out there where I come from, and me being able to make it out the hood and, like, really put that work in. She said, well, show that and make sure that the focus is always that. And when it was, like, coming became a point of, like, unhealthy invite. Just, like, really unhealthy. Well, my mom was showing up, and it was like, bro, we cannot film today, bro. Like, that's not cool. Like, I'm not doing this. We gotta stop this. And everybody was, like, really pissed at me. Okay. Because it was a lot of money on the table.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

And I didn't care about that. Like, it was like, no. Every. We need to get some. Seek some counseling, get some good, you know, put my mom in a program. And she was just like, keisha, that's just. It's just not what I want, babe. Like, I'm happy with my life the way I am. And I was just like, stop spending your money. There's no need to do that. I don't want it. And I was like. I just. It was just a point where I was just like, okay, well, it ain't no reason to keep continuing. They know we living.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

You know what I mean? Like, and I'm not showing anything that's growing people anymore, so I prefer to not do that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, I respect that.

[DJ Envy]

How hard was it for you to hear that from your mom and accept that, like, that she wanted to live her life on her turn?

[Morgan]

Well, I just was like, you don't. You sure you don't think it's anything we could do, you know, like, maybe we could try. And she just was like, no, I just prefer. It was, like, maybe a year before she passed, actually, and she came out there, and she actually told me not to put her in a program because she had Obamacare.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's crazy.

[Morgan]

And she wanted to use her Medicare or whatever to go into a program. And I was like, okay, well, that's what you want to do, you know? And she told me, she put to the side. She said, you know, Keisha, you never made me feel unloved. You never judged me. You never cursed at me. You never put your hands on me. She said, God is going to bless you for that. And I'm like, ma, like, come on. She said, no. And I'm just telling you, you know? And I know I want to do things the way I want to do them, but you're going to be all right. And I'm just like, this is just like, I just can't take this, bro. Like, come on. Like, sure, there's nothing we could do? Like, I'm thinking it's something we could do.

[Just Hilarious]

But a year later, we're still kicking it with Keyshia Cole. Now, I want to talk about the verses you did with Ashanti. Was there tension between y' all two?

[Morgan]

No. And in addition to that, I'm so mad. I had got Covid because I was ready to just. I was so mad, and.

[Jess Hilarious]

No, that's what you was mad about, having Covid.

[Morgan]

I was mad that I had Covid in addition to the fact that my mic wasn't working.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

And I was like, get my mic right. Don't do that to me. I don't know who's in cahoots in here, but y' all not about to sabotage my stuff. So that was a. That was. But it came off as like, I was being unappreciative of the moment, which I wasn't, because I was so excited about that moment. And I. I mean, to be up there with such a beautiful, like, artist, like, Ashanti, like, I came up on shots. You like, that's so fire, so. Nah, never. And I hate that people took it that way.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

Nah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

There was some people who thought that was staged, too, though, because they think that that's, like, your Persona, like, a character you portray.

[Morgan]

That. What?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, always with the drama, always angry.

[Morgan]

Damn.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's that misconception.

[DJ Envy]

I think it was, too, when. During the verses, when it was a thing about whose turn it was, people were like, they. I Think. I don't know if she was reminding you it was her turn. You was reminding her. It was your turn. People was like, all right, they doing this to play into the whole.

[Morgan]

Wait, what?

[DJ Envy]

When? During the verses. I think it was Ashanti was telling you that it was her turn. You're about to play another song, but I think you were just excited to play the other song. You don't remember this, really? Yes. But people grabbed that online, too, and they were like, this is them playing into the whole, like, Keisha Cole do her thing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Her.

[DJ Envy]

Her little one, too.

[Morgan]

Oh, no, man. That's too bad. I hate that. I hate that. But I mean, shout out to Ashanti because, I mean, she's amazing. So.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

I mean, just to be up to. Up on that platform with Ashanti. I appreciate that. You know.

[Jess Hilarious]

Did y' all talk after that?

[Morgan]

No.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay.

[Morgan]

No. She got a baby.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

She pregnant again.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes.

[Morgan]

Congratulations.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When you start trusting love again?

[Morgan]

I have you every time. Heartbreak.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So.

[Morgan]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow.

[Jess Hilarious]

What's your love life like today?

[Morgan]

Just with the man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Are you.

[Jess Hilarious]

Are you single?

[Morgan]

Yes.

[Jess Hilarious]

Or is it complicated?

[Morgan]

No, it's not complicated at all. It's very much given. Single.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

Are you dating?

[Morgan]

I haven't decided to date again.

[DJ Envy]

Not yet.

[Morgan]

I. I take compliments. Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

You answered that.

[Morgan]

Thank you for that. And then. No, but am I ready to move on? No, I still got the tattoo here, so I can't, like. I feel like until when I. If I. I don't know.

[Just Hilarious]

You love fast, though.

[DJ Envy]

And hard.

[Morgan]

Wow, that's really. How do you know?

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, no, no.

[Jess Hilarious]

I didn't even know.

[DJ Envy]

You don't. Coming from him, I think.

[Morgan]

Imagine you coming from Angie Martinez sitting over there fixing the.

[Jess Hilarious]

The.

[Morgan]

The.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You love fast.

[Morgan]

That's what you picked up over all these years.

[Just Hilarious]

I've seen you, and you. You seem like you're in love fast. Like you love love.

[Morgan]

There's nothing wrong.

[DJ Envy]

I think he means like you. You're. You're. You're locked into the love. Like, you're. You're loyal to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know how. How long she known these people before.

[Morgan]

She loves love.

[Jess Hilarious]

Ain't nothing wrong with that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No.

[Morgan]

When you see it on Instagram, you see that you think, I'm in love fast, then. But there's definitely something built before I just.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

Like, before I just post somebody, like.

[Just Hilarious]

But you love love.

[Morgan]

I definitely love love, for sure. Like, I'm. I'm a lover girl, for sure, but.

[Jess Hilarious]

And you haven't given up on that?

[Morgan]

I hope not.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

Okay. But right now, I'm not. I'm not. And I'm like, have you ever felt like, why do I feel like this? And I just don't. I. Like, I can't act on it right now. Like, I just can't. It's like I'm going with the flow or whatever that feels like. I'm not. I'm not doing too much calling. It's not. It's like everything is reciprocated right now. Like, you know what I mean? Like, you give me love, I give you love. If it's no love to be given, it ain't no love to be given. And that's just gonna be what?

[DJ Envy]

You mentioned the tattoo, and you might not get rid of the tattoo.

[Morgan]

I don't know yet. I just haven't did it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What is the tattoo?

[DJ Envy]

She's a honcho tattoo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh.

[Jess Hilarious]

I was gonna say she be knowing if we don't.

[DJ Envy]

What? Sorry. She has honcho's name tattoo. But I was wondering if not getting rid of it is because, like, you're hoping to, like, rekindle.

[Morgan]

Well, I just. I'm not dating. And so it's not like, oh, I'm dating some dude and I'm sitting across the table and I got him on my chest.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, it's like.

[Morgan]

You know what I mean? Like, I'm not. I guess I got too much work to do right now, right? Like, I'm going on tour. The BET Awards is coming up.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes, I'll be there.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Stephen Hill. She's not there no more. They don't have no problem inviting you back up. You done tore up dressing rooms.

[Morgan]

I mean, they liked me more.

[Jess Hilarious]

It was real. It was relatable.

[Morgan]

Reality show. Come here. Like, no, don't give Jess no ideas, please.

[Jess Hilarious]

No.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because you know she'll tear up in a minute.

[Morgan]

Will you?

[Jess Hilarious]

No, I do not like you. I'm not like the old yes, I'm not.

[Morgan]

You don't tear down things.

[Jess Hilarious]

No, I don't.

[Just Hilarious]

She just curse people out.

[Morgan]

You got a pickup truck.

[Jess Hilarious]

I feel like I've seen a pickup.

[Morgan]

Truck one time or another. When you pulled up to a house or two.

[Jess Hilarious]

No, girl, no.

[Morgan]

I believe you. I believe you got an F150.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I ain't going to lie.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's so crazy. My husband got one, but I don't.

[Morgan]

With the baby in touch.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I want to rephrase my question then. When did you start trusting love again? Was there ever a period where you didn't trust?

[Morgan]

No, no, no, no, no. I know when someone cares about you. I do. And. But things happen, you know. Like I just feel like some things aren't made to last. And unfortunately my lasting love has. I don't know, maybe it's here, maybe it's not.

[Jess Hilarious]

Has it ever been a point right where you was like where you had to be reminded of who you are though you know people.

[Morgan]

I would love to address that. What do people mean by that? Because people say it all the time. Remember who you are. And I thought me remember.

[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

What happens when we come face to face with death? My truck was blown up by a 20 pound anti tank mine.

[Morgan]

My parachute did not deploy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I was kidnapped by a drug cartel.

[DJ Envy]

I just remember everything getting dark.

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm dying.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When we step beyond the edge of.

[Morgan]

What we know to open our consciousness.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

To something more than just what's in that western box and return. I clinically died. The heart stopped beating which I was.

[Morgan]

Dead for 11.5 minutes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Jess Hilarious]

I'm not a victim.

[Just Hilarious]

I'm a survivor.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're strongest when you're the most vulnerable. To remind me us what it means to be alive. Not just that I was the guy that cut his arm off, but I'm.

[Caller]

The guy who was smiling when he.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cut his arm off. Alive Again. A podcast about the fragility of life, the strength of the human spirit and what it means to truly live. Listen to Alive again on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.

[Morgan]

For who I am, just my personal opinion of myself and love. And when you truly love somebody, you don't just be like, oh, yeah, because I'm Keisha Cole. Now I can go out and I can show him who I really could be with or who I really could be around, who really. My friends who really like. Nah, it's cool. And whatever happens, God is happening because God said it's happening. So how do I. Like, I can't just. I'm just not like that. So.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what's interesting about that? Now that I think about it, when they. If they say, remember who you are, maybe clearly we don't know you, because if you're doing what you want to.

[Jess Hilarious]

Do, like, we think we know that's the problem. Like, you say other people's opinions are, you know, just what they are. They're other people's opinions, but we don't know. Like, they. People don't know.

[Morgan]

So above all of this is what that is. It's like, you're above all of this. You're above. You're greater than everything that's happening in your life right now. So sit above that. Don't deal with nothing, and actually don't even bring nobody to the forefront no more. Actually, we don't even want to see you with nobody, Keisha, until it's.

[DJ Envy]

That's how you feel, like people feel.

[Morgan]

I think so, because I. And I'm not taking it as a way that, like, people feel like they don't want to see me happy. Well, sometimes, but. But, you know, they rather see it, like, if it's gonna be real, then it's gonna be forever. You know what I'm saying? I think my fans are like, we done seen you go through enough.

[Just Hilarious]

That's the thing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what it is. That's what it is.

[Just Hilarious]

We didn't see so much. We want you to be happy.

[DJ Envy]

There was a video that went viral of you. You were performing. It was doing all the honcho stuff, and you were crying, and they try to say, okay, this is because of the honcho stuff. And people were really, really upset, like, online, because people want to protect you so much, but you stay quiet when you see stuff like that. And whether it is or it's not about him. How you feeling?

[Morgan]

It was actually the last show of the last tour. That was my first arena tour that I prayed for, and I was thanking the fans for, like, being there for the whole tour. And, you know, us having a great tour. Like, I was crying, my fans being there for me. Like, I don't know where the honcho thing came from. I don't know. But if they wanted to think I was crying over Huncho, I guess. I don't know. I was like, cool.

[Just Hilarious]

Keisha Cole is here. Lauren.

[Morgan]

Oh.

[DJ Envy]

Anyway, on a happier note, I love to see people giving you your just due because you deserve all of the flowers and the things. I was at Usher's show when he brought you. Brought you on stage. That was great. It was amazing to see that. I was like, what is happening? And it was so pure because you could tell you didn't even want to be up there, but he just made it a point to. He dropped love, and she didn't even have to sing a word.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

He was so sweet for that.

[Jess Hilarious]

He was so sweet. He just wanted you to listen to them. They were screaming at the top of their lungs, the whole arena, my God. Word for word.

[Morgan]

Yeah, I think that's what. I think. We was talking about this the other day. I think when people do that, it makes me feel uncomfortable.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow. Really?

[Morgan]

I don't know. I get real, like. I don't know, like. But maybe that's what y' all mean by remember who you are.

[Jess Hilarious]

That as well.

[Just Hilarious]

Charlemagne on stage and put cherries in Charlemagne mouth, too.

[Jess Hilarious]

That never happened.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Listen, Cash, you. About the diaper. Why? Why don't listen to him.

[Jess Hilarious]

She like it.

[Morgan]

Why are y' all like.

[Jess Hilarious]

And it was cute.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't. I don't care either way. I'm just asking because people be on here.

[Morgan]

I feel like it's really. It's cool. It's another thing, like, my fans are people in general just like to pick at me. I feel like. Because I could have sworn it, like, they were telling me that Dolce wore it to the super bowl or something like that. Yes, she wore it to the super bowl and don't you to the Super Bowl?

[Jess Hilarious]

She wore that.

[Morgan]

She wore the same outfit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Morgan]

And everybody said she did it and it was fashion and it was. And I was like, oh, really? Because I didn't know that. They showed me last night, and I was like, oh, no.

[Jess Hilarious]

I like was cute and they showed you last night.

[Morgan]

Well, maybe because you've been wore it, but okay. So remember who I am and remember. But I can't. So don't do fashion. Okay. Boom. So I'll try to keep that on the list. Remember who you are. Don't do fashion. Don't love until it's time for you to love and be married. And, like, we want to see you happy. I'm trying to satisfy the fans and y' all.

[Jess Hilarious]

And listen, add another one. Don't text AB because he gonna put it out there.

[Morgan]

The nerve to bring that up.

[Jess Hilarious]

The nerve that he did.

[Morgan]

I don't know why this is a thing. Oh, my God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Before we move to ab, I just want to do this shit. Before you move, have you ever used a diaper on stage?

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, it's a diaper.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It wasn't a diaper. It was not a real diaper.

[Just Hilarious]

What is wrong with you?

[Jess Hilarious]

That's what they called it. That's what they was calling it. Trying to be funny. It's an actual outfit, yo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, cuz, I. You know, the rapper, the Baby, used to wear a diaper on stage back in the day. Back in the day. The baby.

[Jess Hilarious]

The baby.

[Morgan]

You need to stop. That's not nice.

[Just Hilarious]

Cuz that was his whole Persona.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It was the baby.

[Just Hilarious]

So he had a pamper on during.

[Morgan]

Weekends when he was like, Attached it to that belt.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, that was before he.

[Morgan]

Like a belt on the side.

[Just Hilarious]

No, it was a pamper.

[Jess Hilarious]

Keisha.

[Just Hilarious]

It was to promote. Promote himself. This is what he got on.

[Morgan]

On the. Over the jeans. No, no, like, he did not have ass out with the diapers. I don't believe that.

[Just Hilarious]

Coming here for another seven years.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I never paid attention. Everybody, they'd be like, keisha. What? I'm not like, I stopped the look.

[Just Hilarious]

So I. I thought it wasn't a pamper.

[Morgan]

Don't do that. You know what you're doing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't be paying nothing.

[Jess Hilarious]

Always been normal. You've been doing since he been with Wendy. But exactly what happened? Did you punch him? Did you want to punch your friend the diaper?

[Morgan]

Adrian.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, my goodness.

[Morgan]

Ab. Oh, Antonio.

[Jess Hilarious]

I mean, Antonio. I'm talking about Adrian. I'm talking about. That's the wrong ab. Not the one that be getting beat up. The one that be beat people up. What? Why?

[Morgan]

I don't know. I don't know. All I know, and I'm gonna try to be as respectful as I could be at this point, because.

[DJ Envy]

I do.

[Morgan]

Think that he said a lot. But in addition to that, he also said that nobody wants me and nobody cares about me. So I just felt. I took that as a. That's like a. Hmm, Cool. Then that means that you shouldn't speak about me. That means that there should be nothing there. There should be. If you. Nobody wants our cares, then it shouldn't be Spoken on anymore. That's what I thought that meant.

[Jess Hilarious]

I just don't like corny. And I just wanted to ask you, did you punch him for that? I didn't know. I didn't know.

[Morgan]

I haven't seen him for years. For years. Since that. Since that was said, I haven't seen him. So I don't even know. I asked him to stop. I asked. I told him I have children and I would prefer to.

[Just Hilarious]

Right.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

And please. And God bless you. And. And. And it persists. So.

[Jess Hilarious]

Got you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Was there ever a point you thought to yourself, I gave the world too much of me? When you think, like, I think about all of this stuff that's coming up in this interview, and you like, damn, all of that has been out there.

[Morgan]

It is. But I guess then. Then I wouldn't be Keisha Cole. Some things I wish I could just erase for sure. Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like what? Like.

[Morgan]

Like the last two minutes of this conversation.

[DJ Envy]

No, wait.

[Jess Hilarious]

Before we raise this, my last question.

[DJ Envy]

You said, Ashanti having another baby.

[Morgan]

Oh, I thought that's what they said. Oh, no.

[Just Hilarious]

You just.

[DJ Envy]

No, no, no, no. The second baby.

[Just Hilarious]

Just announced.

[Morgan]

Rumors.

[DJ Envy]

It has not been confirmed. That's why I'm like, what the heck is happening?

[Jess Hilarious]

I thought that happened when they was on live the other night in Nelly. I thought they said it. I swear. I thought maybe Keisha did break it.

[Morgan]

I don't know.

[Jess Hilarious]

Eight years now.

[DJ Envy]

We can start erasing now. Go ahead. Okay.

[Morgan]

Last two minutes erased. Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know you gotta go. What did fame take from you or take from your inner child that you're still trying to get back? When you think about the last 20 years.

[Morgan]

I was 21 when I made it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

I had lived my little childhood. I didn't miss a beat. Actually. I was bad as hell, running through the streets in Oakland. Trust me. Trust me. I didn't miss a beat. I'm cool now. I'm cool. I'm cool.

[DJ Envy]

Do you feel the love after all the. Do you feel the love today?

[Morgan]

Of course. Heck, yeah. I mean, I haven't made a record in so long. I did. I did Kalani. I did that record with Kehlani. I did do a record with Huncho. I just got in the studio with Trippie Redd. That was. That was. I mean, I did a song with him. Yeah. And this Glorilla thing, this glow. Really?

[Just Hilarious]

Hey, you created a sample for that? For the love.

[Morgan]

I did.

[Just Hilarious]

Okay.

[Morgan]

Yeah. Y' all getting that first here? I thought I would because I love you guys so much. And. Yeah, so that's gonna be super fly. I'm supporting Glow. I like her style.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Love Glow.

[Just Hilarious]

Are you doing another.

[Morgan]

I like her too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Love her. Yeah.

[Morgan]

She's so cute and sweet.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You can make good ass.

[Just Hilarious]

Great music.

[Morgan]

She. I was seeing her on stage, I was like, hey, Coachell. I said, yeah, this time I gotta ask this.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, real quick.

[Jess Hilarious]

If Kanye called you today and say, yo, I want you to do one more song with me right now.

[Morgan]

We're first. We're going to church.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay.

[Morgan]

And, and, and. And, yeah, we're calling. We both gonna call the pastor at this point, because everybody needs a little God. Yes. You know what I mean? And I don't know what's going on, and I'm not here to judge that at all, but I definitely would. I would. I would like to like for my friend to actually, like, really. I mean, I don't know how hard or how bad it hurts. Yeah. To people to say things and do things. And, like, I would. I would really want him to find some love for real. I wish that for all of us.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

To that note, do you feel the way when you performed last night?

[Just Hilarious]

Keisha Cole, ladies and gentlemen.

[Morgan]

What kind of mic is this? This is awesome.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Are you doing another album?

[Morgan]

I am. I am, hopefully. Hopefully.

[Just Hilarious]

You ain't start yet.

[Morgan]

You know, I said, it's like when you feel things like I did. I did a song. I did a song. Yeah. About my last relationship.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what I'm saying. How many toxic relationships have you been in since then?

[Just Hilarious]

No, I'm just saying triggering, traumatizing.

[Jess Hilarious]

I think it was only like two. Like, two.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's enough. That's enough for a whole lot.

[Just Hilarious]

Keisha Cole, seven years and three months.

[DJ Envy]

Since your last house.

[Morgan]

Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I love you, Keisha.

[Just Hilarious]

Kesha, we love you. Thank you so much.

[Morgan]

Thank you.

[Just Hilarious]

The way it is, the 20th anniversary tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of her debut album. And we love you, Keisha.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes.

[Morgan]

I love you guys, too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're gonna be in New York on July 12th too, by the way.

[Morgan]

July 12th, we out ski.

[Just Hilarious]

It's the Breakfast Club. It's Keisha Co. Now let's get to the latest with Lauren.

[Jess Hilarious]

Lauren becoming a straight fan.

[Just Hilarious]

She gets him from somebody that knows somebody.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She gets the details.

[DJ Envy]

The homegirl that knows a little bit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

About everything, she be having the latest on this. The Latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have a little bit of everything. Oh. It's the latest on the Breakfast Club. Talk to Me.

[DJ Envy]

So yesterday, Diddy was denied a mistrial. His team, his defense attorneys, asked for a mistrial because they said that after it was revealed in court yesterday, after they were speaking to a arson investigator, that the fingerprint. So you remember we had the conversation about there was fingerprints found on his bottle in the car when the cocktail was thrown and all those things, right? Allegedly. Well, they're trying to talk about the fingerprints that would have been if they were properly held all of this time from the alleged burglary that happened in Kid Cudi's home. So Kid Cudi says that or alleges that Diddy went in his home. He, you know, went through some of his Chanel Christmas gifts for family. He alleges that Diddy put his dog away in another room and he pulled up. Now, what is happening is yesterday on the stand, it was revealed that those records, those fingerprints from 2012, the evidence was destroyed. Like, and they don't have it. Like, it wasn't kept in a way where you could even look at it right now to be able to see if the fingerprints from that alleged burglary match anything near the fingerprints that were found in the car. There was an argument in general about the fingerprints in the car because, you know, Diddy's team was saying, hey, look, look, I'm sorry. The prosecutors, the government was saying, look, we shouldn't even be able to talk about this because that bottle could have went through so many hands. We don't have a, like, a good expert to break down what this means. The person that we're talking to wasn't even a person who did the actual report on the fingerprints. Basically, it could mislead a jury. Diddy seem is like, no, the DNA evidence that was found is what was found, and it allegedly pointed back to a woman. You can't even match that to anything in the home because there's no fingerprints whatsoever. So Diddy seemed saying, or they were trying to say, hey, look, the government knows that the fact that we don't have these fingerprints, the fact that you can't match it, too, when you guys are trying to say that, you know, our. Our client Diddy did all of this, both the burglary in the car because he's upset at Kid Cudi for dating Cassie. Allegedly, you can't connect the two. And knowing that, that. That's not fair to him because that actually could prove that he doesn't have anything to do with one or the other. And y' all are not trying to have a conversation about that. So it's unfair. So this is a mistrial. The judge denied it.

[Just Hilarious]

Of course.

[DJ Envy]

The judge did not. It was not having it.

[Just Hilarious]

They just. They just try to throw anything against the wall to see what sticks to see if they could possibly get a mistrial. They'll try again, I'm sure.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But no, it's wreaking of desperation at this point.

[DJ Envy]

Oh yeah. You fighting for your life after that Capricorn clerk testimony. You definitely fight for your life after that. But in other news in relation, Cassie had her baby yesterday.

[Jess Hilarious]

Hey, that's what's up.

[DJ Envy]

Congratulations all day.

[Morgan]

Yes, yes.

[DJ Envy]

She welcome. Cassie welcomed her third baby yesterday less than two weeks after testifying in this trial against Diddy. She gave birth in the New York. In a New York hospital like we talked about. And the reports are that she is healthy and she is doing well.

[Jess Hilarious]

That is what matters.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, that's what's up. Yes, yes, yes.

[Jess Hilarious]

Congratulations.

[DJ Envy]

Glad to hear all of that. Yep.

[Jess Hilarious]

Alex, find my bit.

[DJ Envy]

Alex Vaughn. Yes.

[Jess Hilarious]

Her.

[DJ Envy]

Her man. This is her third baby with her husband. Alex Fine. Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Mentally and emotionally. That has to be a lot like. That has to be like the extreme. I don't know if it is. I wonder did she have an extreme down taking that stand? I'm sure because I'm sure she had to relive a lot of trauma. Right.

[DJ Envy]

Watching her.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Then a couple weeks later, now you're having a baby. So I just know she's been on an emotional roller coaster the last few weeks.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

And then she was on a stand contracting right when she was holding her stomach or something.

[DJ Envy]

I don't know what contractions look like, but if I had to guess, I mean she was definitely. She's holding her stomach. She was. Yeah. There was a couple times where she even herself asked for breaks and they of course distractions could have been pain.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

She was pretty close to her. But it's also just a lot of mental pressure as well too. And having it. They made a re. Watch the. The video in the Intercontinental Hotel where she was dragged up and down and it was tough watching her do that because she was so pregnant. So I can't imagine how she felt in it and then her. How her husband felt as well too. So I mean, I mean maybe, I don't know. I had been told that her original due date was the first week of June from a source but I don't know if that had anything to do with it. But the baby is here. She is healthy. Cassie, is she. The baby's healthy. Healthy. And Alex fine is doing well, too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's the most important thing.

[Jess Hilarious]

So she had the baby today or yesterday.

[DJ Envy]

So she. I've been told. It was announced yesterday, but I've been told that she actually had the baby the day before, later in the evening from the source. And I was so mad in her mind.

[Jess Hilarious]

Fine.

[Morgan]

Okay.

[Jess Hilarious]

It's all right.

[DJ Envy]

Well, nothing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She didn't report it for us because she had the information.

[DJ Envy]

Yes. But I was trying to make sure I double, triple confirmed and, you know, and by the time I was doing all that, boom, here go ABC News.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, it's better to be right.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The problem with this. Problem with this area is everybody want to be first.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And they don't be having the right information.

[DJ Envy]

And I also was trying not to be invasive. I text Charlamagne and was like, should I even dig on this? Because if it is a pressure of the case, I don't want to be the person that puts it out there. And she don't want it out there. Yeah. You know what I mean? But.

[Just Hilarious]

But yes, he made the right move.

[DJ Envy]

Shout out to ABC News. They were the first people I saw with it up. But let me tell y' all, I was on y' all. Okay?

[Jess Hilarious]

And while we added happy birthday to a couple real niggas, man. Carmelo Anthony.

[Just Hilarious]

Okay.

[Jess Hilarious]

Melo Laverne Cox, we out here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Morgan]

Yes.

[Jess Hilarious]

Drop a clues one for both, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Morgan]

That's what's up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely.

[Jess Hilarious]

Happy born day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely.

[Jess Hilarious]

Much life.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely.

[Just Hilarious]

Okay.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Time for donkey today.

[Just Hilarious]

Charlamagne, who you giving that donkey to?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Man 4 After the hour. We need to talk fat shaming. We need to talk body shaming. You okay? Hush. There's a woman named Christy Lee Crampton. She needs to come to the front of the congregation. We would like to have a word with her. Okay.

[Just Hilarious]

All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

There are politically correct terms for obesity, and we will. This is a teachable moment.

[Just Hilarious]

I don't think you should be the teacher with this one, but all right. And then after that, Jess fixed my mess. 800-585-1051. You're having relationship issues and problems. Call Jess right now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're checking out the Breakfast Club. Us execution on the doctor. Donkey of the Day is something to behold.

[Jess Hilarious]

He gave me Donkey of the Day and I deserve it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

People need to know.

[DJ Envy]

Well, you need to tell them.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I am.

[Morgan]

You have the voice.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Tell them it's time for Donkey of the Day.

[Jess Hilarious]

It's a read.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But you're so good at it, you're.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Trying to Be a fake ass. Charlamagne. There's only one Charlemagne involved.

[Morgan]

Damn Charlamagne. Who you giving donkey of the day to now?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, donkey of the day for Thursday, May 29 goes to Christy Lee Crampton. Christy is an example of why, when you go to Florida, you should only drink bottled water. Okay? Don't drink the water out the tap. Don't put the water out the tap in your tea, your coffee, nothing. Because soon as you take a sip of that water, you become a Florida fool. Okay? Christy not from Florida, but this situation happened while she was heading back home from her family's Disney World vacation. Okay? She must have drank out the drinking fountains at Disney because she was full of Florida foolishness. Now, I can't even talk about this story the way I want to until. Until I tell you what happened happened. Okay? Now, we had Keisha Cole here last hour, and she was talking about one of her children, and she was talking about her child, calling her other child a big back. But her child isn't fat. He's just brolic. And I was explaining to her that big back should be reserved for the obese amongst us. Okay? God forgive me for being a notorious fat shamer. I don't mean to be, okay? It's something I'm working on. You have to understand that growing up, your mama sold fat jokes was some of the first jokes we learned. And clearly, that cycle is continued. Okay? Fat shaming isn't a race thing. It is an agenda thing. Humans fat shame other humans, and there are some fat folks amongst us. Okay? Let's go to WFTV9 for the report, please.

[DJ Envy]

Kristy Lee Crampton was set to be back home from her family's Disney World vacation. Instead, she made her first appearance in front of a Seminole county judge Tuesday, charged with felony child abuse. Allegiant Flight 2885 to Hagerstown, Maryland, was set to take off from Orlando Sanford International airport just before 2pm Monday. But according to this arrest report, Crampton and witnesses on the plane tell police the child called Crampton fat and Miss Piggy, telling her she couldn't fit in the airplane seat. That's when witnesses say Crampton began hitting the child with her fist and then hit him on the head with a water bottle. Then the report says she slammed the child's head into the airplane window. The child used his arms to cover his head. Airport police haven't said how old the child is, but Crampton told police the child was was very rude and disrespectful during their trip to Disney and that after the child called her fat, she took his phone away. She claims he then pushed her arm off the armrest twice, and that's when she began smacking him. But police and witnesses say she went beyond typical disciplinary actions.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I have so many questions, so many thoughts, so many observations. Okay? First off, Miss Piggy is immortal, okay? A child still calling a high calorie human Miss Piggy in 2025, dropping the clues bombs for Miss Piggy icon. Okay? The irony of it all is Miss Piggy is, in fact, she's actually fabulous. He or she who ate all the pie should take it as a compliment if you get called Miss Piggy. Now, my second thought is, where was this child's parents? You just gonna let this salad dodger put hands on a child? Okay, with the child flying alone? If so, would a flight attendant, you know, too busy to get this pantry pirate off. Off the child? Okay, let me tell you something now. If I was ever in this situation and my child said something about a person being fat, I'm going to apologize to said individual. But you're not putting your hands on my child too lunch, Shakur, okay? I don't care if you're a woman or not, all right? I'll hold your heavy ass and let my wife get her licks off if you ever put your pudgy paws on my child.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Did you hear what she did to this child? Witnesses said Crampton began hitting the child with her fist and hit him on the head with a water bottle. Then she slammed the child's head into airplane window. And I bet it was a bunch of poop butt ass adults recording instead of intervening. Let me tell you something, Cardi B, okay? It would have been some furniture moving on that plane. And when I say furniture moving, I mean, I would have grabbed you and attempted to move your sectional shaped ass, okay? That's why you got to teach your kids how to be creative, okay? There's so many other things you can call a fat person other than a fat or Miss Piggy. For example, I've said too lunch lunch Shakur, right? I've said cardi beef. I'm a hip hop head, so that's why I start with it. Meek meal. Okay? Run DM eat French fry Montana. Oh, wait, Christy was a woman, so I would say Megan the stomach or Doja fat. Oh, those are fat hits. Those are fat hits. But the reality is, none of this is right. None of this is right. Body shaming isn't Right, but that don't give you the right to put your fat fist on a child. Okay, seriously, how did the adults just sit back and allow this to happen? Am I reading this story wrong? I'm really confused. Was it her child? Was this child traveling with her? Because they said Christy Cream took the child's phone after she finished hitting them. Okay, I. I don't. I don't. I don't. I'm really confused about this. Let me tell you something, Christy. Listen to the kids, bro. Okay? If your child calls you fat, don't get offended. Get Ozempic. Don't get mad. Get Manjaro. Okay, there are. Now, I do want to say this is a teachable moment. There are politically correct ways to talk about the obese amongst us. You can say high calorie humans, you can say higher weight humans. You can say people with obesity. You can say wide body. Whoop, whoops. Okay? But the most politically correct term. I don't care what y' all say. The most politically correct term you can use is big back. I don't. I don't. Big back is not malicious. It's a descriptor. And it comes with a nice song. Let's hear it. Big bag, big bag, hey. Big bag, big bag. Hey, yeah.

[DJ Envy]

My back is loaded up with snacks.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And different foods Squeeze into this tiny shirt My big bag has no room. Hey, hey. Big bag, big bag, hey. Big bag, big bag, big bag, big bag, big B. I love that song. Hey, I love that song.

[Just Hilarious]

I know there was a versus.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Y' all see that?

[Jess Hilarious]

That's enough, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Please give Christy Lee Hampton the sweet sounds of the Hamiltones.

[Jess Hilarious]

Where's your problem?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Mac don't usually be sitting there because Eddie not in today. So Mac is sitting where Eddie usually be sitting. I just looked, and he just looking at me with so much disgust. Hey, medium sized Mac. All this fat shaming is crazy. What's your man name that sing that song, huh? I don't know his name. I thought you knew him. Nah, but you. Just because you got community, just because you get all poetic with all these fat names, don't mean you. You not fat.

[Just Hilarious]

He not even that big, homie. Not that. That's. That's. Sing the song.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Imagine if somebody came in here and called you Dark Zuckerberg. Like, oh, my God, that's actually fire. Dark Zuckerberg is fire. Yes, that's fire. Has anybody ever called you fat on the plane? On fat on a plane?

[Just Hilarious]

Come on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He flies cargo. What you talking about, call me fat? It's like a Dr. Seuss book. I've been caught fat on the plane. I've been caught fat on the train. I've been caught fat in the car. I've been caught fat in the bar all the time. He going to call you Dr. Loose. You keep losing that weight, you going to have all that loose skin, Mac. Really losing a lot of weight.

[Jess Hilarious]

Uncircumcised body.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Your skin fat is crazy. All right, enough of this. Don't we up next to fix or something like that? We do. We do actually. How much have you lost though, Mac? Huh? How much have you lost? 162. Drop one of clues with Big Mac. Let's go positive, man. And he did it the right way. He worked out.

[Just Hilarious]

He did his steps.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't believe that. But we. He did it the right way. He did. He came right and did it the right way. Everybody's seen it except for him. Cuz he got them raccoon blacks around his eyes and he can't see nothing. The whole 10,000 step thing. But I don't care how he's doing it. He's doing it. Let's go medium sized ma.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes. I knew I was right.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh man. All right. Up next. Just fix my mess. 800-585-1051. If you're having relationship issues and you need some help and some fixing, you can call Jess right now.

[Jess Hilarious]

Period. Oh, hey, that was a different one, right?

[Just Hilarious]

That was a different one right there.

[Jess Hilarious]

That was the number two.

[Just Hilarious]

It's the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Come on. The Breakfast Club.

[Just Hilarious]

It's the real deal.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Help me. Help me.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh my God. I'm all up in your mess. Imma fix it, fix it, fix it. Jess gonna fix your mess. Cause my advice is real.

[Just Hilarious]

Morning everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. It's time for Jess Fix My Mess.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Just Hilarious]

We have X on the line. X. Good morning. Hello. Hey, bro. What's your question for your.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes. Hey, what's up?

[Caller]

How you doing man?

[Just Hilarious]

Good, brother.

[Caller]

Good. Hey, I just want to ask just two real questions. First off, my wife just gave birth to our firstborn January.

[Jess Hilarious]

Congratulations.

[Caller]

And since. Thank you. I appreciate that. His name's Stylus. He came about three weeks early.

[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

What happens when we come face to face with death? My truck was blown up by a 20 pound anti tank mine.

[Morgan]

My parachute did not deploy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I was kidnapped by a drug cartel.

[DJ Envy]

I just remember everything getting dark.

[Morgan]

I'm dying.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When we step beyond the edge of.

[Morgan]

What we know to open our consciousness.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

To something more than just what's in that western box. In return, I clinically died. The heart stopped beating, which I was.

[Morgan]

Dead for 11.5 minutes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

My name is Dan Bush. My mission is simple. To find, explore and share these stories.

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm not a victim.

[Just Hilarious]

I'm a survivor.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're strongest when you're the most vulnerable. To remind us what it means to be alive. Not just that I was the guy that cut his arm off, but I'm.

[Caller]

The guy who was smiling when he.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cut his arm off. Alive Again, a podcast about the fragility of life, the strength of the human spirit and what it means to truly live. Listen to Alive Again on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your favorite favorite shows.

[Caller]

Incredible. Worst thing about him is he looks exactly like mom. I just wish my jeans paid a little bit more in play. But it is what it is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jess can relate.

[Jess Hilarious]

I was definitely about to say it. Yeah, I can relate because my daughter looks nothing like me. She's nine months going on 10 months and people say the older she gets, she will start growing into the features of her mom. But I don't see it at all. So it's all right.

[Caller]

Hey man, I just one day I hope to see a little bit more of me and him. But we got time. Yeah, but I just really want to ask you two little things. One is sleep training. I mean you can put that to the side. But, like, we are getting no sleep. He just sleeps on us or with us, and it's just terrible. Okay, my second question. I'm sorry. He's four. He's about to turn five months.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay, okay, go ahead.

[Caller]

And then my second. Okay, my bad. I'm sorry. My second question will be just more helpful. Our relationship, you know, she's going through postpartum. Neither of us are getting to sleep, like I kind of mentioned earlier. And then we're on a split shift, so we don't have to pay for daycare. You know what I mean? So she's on first shift, I'm on second. Only time we're both home is from 12am basically until 6am in the morning. And we're not doing any talking, to be honest with you. So I just need help with helping them sleep and then helping us kind of find time and get back together.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay, so the first thing, helping the baby with the sleep. The baby is only four months, right?

[Caller]

Yes, ma' am.

[Jess Hilarious]

Is the baby breastfed?

[Caller]

He's not breastfed. Mom's pumping. I would just twist the formula because that was a lot.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, no, I got you. I resonate. I'm there with you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You.

[Jess Hilarious]

It could be different reasons. I was gonna say, usually the. The baby is much, much more attached to the mom when they're getting that. That bonding with breastfeeding directly. Not just pumping, but, you know, just. Oh, is that the little baby?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

Versus the baby.

[Caller]

Mom's at work.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah. He telling you, don't be on my business to this lady or that. I don't know like that, but no, my bad.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm sorry, but.

[Jess Hilarious]

No, no, no, no, no, it's fine.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It.

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm sorry. That baby, only four months. Y' all got a few more months to go, cuz. Although my daughter has always slept that night, it really could just be the. I'm sorry. It's the little boy.

[Caller]

Yes, ma' am.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah. He could really just be trying to figure out night from day, his sleeping patterns. You know what I'm saying? Do y' all sit around and hold them? Cause y' all. Y' all can't be holding these babies deep, man.

[Caller]

See? Yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

Y' all sit around and hold. See, I was trying to give you a way out. I thought it was because of the breastfeeding. But if you sit around and hold a baby, which is not called spoiling, it's called just loving, then you. You have to. Eventually, the same amount of time you hold him is the same amount of time he has to be Put down, like, you know, he has to start putting him in his bassinet. Don't. Don't have him sleep with you. That was the hardest part of breastfeeding my daughter and just having a newborn. I wanted her to sleep in the bed with me. That's not safe. Not only is it not safe, it's not easy.

[Morgan]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

It's not really good. It's not to get the babies out of the bed, you know. You know, between you and your wife. And then it's nothing that you can do right now other than just be there, because she is more than likely in the thick of it as it relates to postpartum. So it's not really not much that you can do other than just be there. Just keep affirming her, compliment her, let her know she's beautiful, because trust me, listen, take it from me, I did not feel beautiful. I'm just starting to feel beautiful again a few months ago, you know what I mean? So, like.

[Morgan]

But I hear you.

[Jess Hilarious]

These kids suck everything out of you, man. Like, she just gave life, you know, a very beautiful thing. So just love on your woman, you.

[DJ Envy]

Know what I mean?

[Jess Hilarious]

And just stick it through, stick it out. You know, it's only four months.

[Morgan]

Y' all got.

[Jess Hilarious]

Got about four more months to go until she'll probably be feeling. Although it's different for other women. But just give her a break. Just give her some grace, and then I know you get sleep where you can.

[Caller]

All right. We'll do our best. Thank you so much.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Can I give her a shout out real quick?

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes.

[Caller]

All right. Catalina, I love you. I love Cyrus. I hope you have a wonderful day, and we're gonna make it through. And I love you so much. You have a good day.

[Morgan]

You, too.

[Just Hilarious]

All right. Beautiful advice.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah. Thank you.

[Just Hilarious]

800-585-1051 caller now is the Breakfast Club Gama.

[DJ Envy]

Morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ask about me.

[Jess Hilarious]

Relationship problems.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ask about me.

[Jess Hilarious]

You need to beat your co workers ass.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ask about me.

[Jess Hilarious]

Your co worker need to beat your ass. Call it up, Dr. Jess. And I'm here to fix your mess. It's getting very much messy. Let me fix this.

[Just Hilarious]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We're in the middle of. Just fix my mess. Hello?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who's this? Eli, Man.

[Just Hilarious]

Eli, what's your question for Jess?

[Caller]

All right, so I've been trying to get my baby mama back, but I got posted in those groups. Are we dating the same guy?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn.

[Jess Hilarious]

And wait, wait, wait, wait. You've Been trying to get your baby mama back and y' all are dating the same guy?

[Caller]

No, no, I got posted in the, like, Facebook groups. Are we dating the same guy and trying to catch guys cheap?

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, oh, oh, okay, okay. All right, all right.

[Caller]

He didn't post me, but like, it was an old sling that posted me. And then all these girls got on there, like, comment in line. It was two truths on there. Now, me and her been on and off for seven years. And I had some women in in there, but I never cheated on her. But it was women on there saying, like, I cheated on her while I had her pregnant and all this stuff like this. And it just, like, caused an uproar in my life. Now this happened in November, brother. And we kind of getting back good now. But I'm just trying to figure out, like, how can I gain that trust a little faster?

[Jess Hilarious]

But where did the girls get it from? Where did they get it from? Why would they sell? Why would they just start lying on you like that, brother? Let me know. Fill me in.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, the thing about it, you know.

[Caller]

Like, nah, I mean, I'm not too, like, my own horn, but, like, I'm easy to love, you know, like women love. So, like, they wanted to be with me and they still had, like, vendettas against me, I guess.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, okay, I got you. So they all of them just lied and said that you were cheating. They all ganged up, made a.

[Caller]

Not all.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay.

[Caller]

Two of them went lying. The rest of them did salty. And I mean, a lot of them did say, like, we just talked like it never went nowhere. You know what I'm saying? But it was something on there that was exaggerating. It just being salty.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay, well, I feel like put everything out on the table. Know I'm serious. Even things that you think she don't know. Because the fact that women, you know, a few of those women chimed in and was able to quote, unquote, lie because you said it's a lie. I'm just. I can just go off of what you're telling me. It may have been some other things that she don't know about, you know, And. And what I have learned in being in, you know, my past relationships is, listen, if you gonna lay it all out on the table, don't hold back anything because something else will come out out if it was done. You know what I mean?

[Caller]

Oh, I mean, so I mean, I don't laid it all out now in the moment. I lied again about the cheating, but then, like, one girl had Proof. So I had to just go ahead and just put it all out there.

[Jess Hilarious]

But do you get what I'm saying? You can't hold back anything. You cannot do that. You got to show both of your hands, because that's the only way she's going to trust you. It. Sometimes, even if the truth is hard, you have to bring it. It to the forefront. It's okay. And. And complicated conversations are healthy. They make. It makes for healthy relationships. Everything not gonna always be like, you know, great and sunshine and paradise when you wake up. It's okay. It's okay to have. I think y' all should get through these complications now. Like, you should lay it all out. I don't care if you. You smash the girl. You only remember her name. Tell her that. Because I guarantee you she remember yours. And she can remember what. What you look like if you and your girl out one day and she gonna remind you of what happened. So lay it all out, bro. You seem like a little player player. But you don't wanna be a player no more. So lay it all out there.

[Caller]

I stopped. Some days I just want my family back. Even though it's free, safe, you know?

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah. Well, go get it. But you know what you gotta do? Do it the right way. Don't. Don't hold nothing back.

[Caller]

You're right. You're right. I appreciate it.

[DJ Envy]

No problem.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How you, brother man?

[Caller]

I'm good, man. I hear work. Hey, hey.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

There you go. There you go.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, yeah. Truck driver.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Truck driver.

[Morgan]

All right, all right. Yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

Stop pulling up on them lot lizards. Go ahead. I ain't never did that now, right?

[Just Hilarious]

What's that? What you talking about?

[Jess Hilarious]

A lot lizard is pretty much a prostitute that waits at these truck stops for these drivers to come. And they get a little. Get a little something. They get going about their way.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You can't wait to beat the hell out of a lot lizard just in case.

[Jess Hilarious]

I wish one would come slithering up my sweat.

[Just Hilarious]

All right, Right. Yeah, just fix my mess. 800-585-1051. When we come back, we got the latest with Lauren. So don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess. Hilarious Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the latest with Lauren. She gets them from somebody that knows somebody some details.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She be having the latest on this. The Latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes you have facts. Sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have A little bit. Everything. Well, it's the latest on the Breakfast Club. Talk to me.

[DJ Envy]

All right, y' all. So yesterday, Larry Hoover was commuted on a federal level by President Donald Trump. Now, for people who don't understand what that means, that means that basically, and we talked about this in front page news this morning, his charges on the federal level will be, like, excused or overlooked. But anything else you're still dealing with, you still have to deal with. And Larry Hoover is very much so still dealing with a 200 year sentence for murder on the state level.

[Just Hilarious]

State level, right?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, state level.

[Just Hilarious]

So he's not free.

[DJ Envy]

No, he's not.

[Just Hilarious]

People were saying welcome home and all that.

[Jess Hilarious]

He is not free.

[DJ Envy]

He is not coming home. He is not walk. Walking out. Ain't no welcome home, Larry.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's why I text you on the group land, what is commutation or what is commute?

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah. He was moving him from one person to the other.

[DJ Envy]

I didn't know Chance Rapper was one of the people who actually posted online. Now let's take a listen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, before I let y' all politicize this or memify this, I just gotta say I am glad that Larry Hoover is home. And I gotta remind y' all that he was a political prisoner that was set up by the federal government that he created the. The. What was it, Chicago votes.

[Caller]

He did so many things to like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

To really, like, mobilize our people, and he was really targeted for that. And so before get to Kona or doing whatever they're gonna do with this information, I just want to say I'm so glad that he's home and I'm. God bless his family and yeah, thank God Chance aren't my feelings because he. That's just spreading such misinformation. And Chance is way smarter than that.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, he, he. If you just read a little bit more Chance, you would know he's not coming home. But that just lets me know. All Chance did was read the headlines. Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Or saw J. Prince's post.

[Lauren LaRosa]

J.

[DJ Envy]

Prince of Laugh A Lot over in Houston. Rap a lot.

[Morgan]

Sorry.

[DJ Envy]

Rap A Lot. Have to stop. He don't even laugh.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now. This is disgusting. This is crazy.

[DJ Envy]

Rap A Lot. Sorry, y' all. Okay, my bad. Rap A Lot posted yesterday. And when he posted, his caption literally said, larry Hoover has been pardoned by Donald Trump. So even when I posted it and people were upset, I posted it exactly with what J. Prince said because I knew people were going to be upset about it because it doesn't mean that he's walking out of that's not even accurate anywhere today or tomorrow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He wasn't partying, he was commuted.

[DJ Envy]

So to explain a bit really quick, who Larry Hoover was, he was the co founder of the Gangster Disciples, which was a Chicago based gang that according to police engaged in drug trafficking, extortion and murder. Which is why he's going through everything he's going through right now. Right now. We talked to Larry Hoover's son because I was trying to get clarification for you guys on what this actually means and what the state level looks like for Larry Hoover right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I've been speaking on this anytime I was interviewed and I was trying to let people know that he was being held under dual jurisdiction, which is he's been held under state law and he has been held under federal law at the same time. So he still had two cases to fight. So he had to fight the federal case and he still had to fight the state case. So now he's dealing with the state case. I don't really know the law on it. They, I heard that it was illegal to help hold a person under the door jurisdiction, which they don't usually do. But they never uplifted the state case when they took them into federal custody. So now we're dealing with state law now.

[DJ Envy]

And then what? When I posted it online, I knew that the natural pushback would be but this man is responsible for, you know, the like I mentioned there is alleged drug trafficking, extortion and murder. So I access son, like this is how people feel. They feel like you're glory. We're glorifying someone who caused all of these things in the community. What do you say to that? And here's what he said.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

People that say that they don't understand who he is, they listen to the narrative of people that don't know what they're talking about. Can they tell you people that he has caused to be killed or that he has said kill or kill himself? He's been in prison all of this time. Right now we're fighting a state case that happened when he was 22 years old, when he was a baby. And they said that he gave the call for somebody to be murdered and his rationale on the case said that he did the murder and he was released. That's what we're fighting with right now.

[Caller]

Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The stuff that those people are talking about are hearsay rumors. I'm not saying that my father wasn't in leadership at one point and wasn't involved in the streets, but he's had transformation.

[DJ Envy]

Well, I appreciate that. And so what's your call to action? I saw something on the Live yesterday. You guys were tagging. Who's the person you guys are tagging? Is it the governor? Mayor?

[Caller]

Oh, yeah, we was.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's at Governor Pritzker. That's his Instagram. And then his Gmail is governorllinoise.gov. we want to reach out to Governor Pritzker to tell him to ask him to sign the paper to give my father a second chance at life.

[DJ Envy]

So, yeah, I mean, Larry Hoover is not. There's no welcome home Larry Hoover parties today or tomorrow. It's not happening. They're trying to get things handled on a state level. But even if. So what I think and what they're trying to do is they want less. They know that he. There's no way that he's going to walk free 100, but they want less. They feel like it's over. Excessive. And as you heard his son say, they feel like he's a changed person now. He should be looked at as that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, yeah. 200 years. 200 years in prison is crazy. But I can't see it happening. Only because of who the governor is. The governor is jb. JB Pritzer. He's a Democrat. Yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

They trying to put some, I guess, pressure on him, get the public to start writing letters and things like that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

JB don't give a damn.

[DJ Envy]

They were online yesterday on Instagram Live. I was on there. They was on there for about an hour getting people to tag them and tag, saying, call his office. And I'm like, I don't know if that's going to work. Because Larry Hoover was such a big name, the case was such a big thing. Like, I don't know if he cares. And then. Yeah. Okay, so that's it.

[Just Hilarious]

Now, that is the latest with Lauren. You heading to court now?

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Just Hilarious]

All right. All right. Well, she'll give us an update later on to what happened in the DD trial. Everybody else, let's get to the mix. To People's Choice mix, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Morgan]

Wake up, wake up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're locked into the Breakfast Club.

[Just Hilarious]

Morning, everybody. It's Siege J Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We gotta salute to Keisha Cole for joining us this morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey. Yes. The way it is. 20th anniversary tour is happening now, so go check Keisha Cole out in the city near you. Keisha. Dope, man.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, she is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, you don't realize how much she's lived out loud until you, like, sit down and really think about it. Like, you know every. Well, not every. You never know every single detail of a person's life. But, boy, we know a lot.

[Just Hilarious]

We know a lot about Keisha and her family.

[Morgan]

Yep.

[Just Hilarious]

Michelle does, too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Salute to Keisha. And listen. I want to salute to the icon living the legend of all legends, Don Staley. Add another accolade to her long resume. You know, she's a two time national player of the year in college. She's a five time WNBA all star, three time Olympic gold medalist, Women's basketball hall of Fame. She's in that. She's led the University of South Carolina to three national championships. She's been named coach of the year five times. And that's just some of her accolades. But now she has another one. One. She has a New York Times bestseller, Dropping the Clues Bond for Don Stanley.

[Jess Hilarious]

She always smells so good. When she came here, she smelled real good.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I was like, girl, I heard you say that. Yes, you did say that. And she's not just a New York Times bestseller. She has the number two book in the country. Dope. Okay. All right. That damn original Sin by Jake Tapper kept it from being number one. That's okay. Books are a marathon, not a sprint. But congratulations to Don Staley. And if you're in Columbia, South Carolina, listen to us on Hot 1039. You know, Don will be at the 2i2 Conference center in Columbia, South Carolina, at 6pm tonight. The event is sold out. But if you go out there, man, just go out there and love on Don and tell her congratulations for adding another accolade to her resume, being a New York Times bestseller, having the number two book in the damn country. Oh, my God.

[Just Hilarious]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And yes, this is done on my hoodie. Okay. Yes. I don't know if she gonna have merch out there tonight, but if she is, go grab you one and salute to her, man. The book came out on my book imprint, Black Privilege Publishing, with Simon and Schuster, so God is good.

[Just Hilarious]

There you go.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

God is good.

[Just Hilarious]

Love Charlamagne. You got a positive note.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I do have a positive note, man. I just want to tell y' all out there, the vibrate so high that the toxic people in your life fall back. Okay? Because they no longer know how to approach you. Okay, Good vibrations, have a blessed day. Breakfast club.

[DJ Envy]

This is an I heart podcast.