FULL SHOW: DJ Khaled Responds To Weight Loss Critics + Jabari Young Interview

Summary

The Breakfast Club – FULL SHOW: DJ Khaled Responds to Weight Loss Critics + Jabari Young Interview

Date: February 20, 2026
Hosts: DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God
Special Guests: Jabari Young (Forbes), Lauren LaRosa, Mimi Brown, Nyla Simone

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Episode Overview

This lively episode of The Breakfast Club dives into several key cultural topics and trending news stories with its usual blend of candid conversation and humor. The main focus is an in-depth interview with Jabari Young, senior writer and editor at Forbes and creator of the Forbes Black 50 list, as well as a discussion around DJ Khaled's weight loss journey and his response to critics (notably Charlamagne). Other segments include front-page news (from the Jeffrey Epstein-Prince Andrew fallout to US housing trends and UFOs/aliens), a reflection on America’s Next Top Model backlash, mental health talk, music drops with Nyla Simone, and engaging “call-in” segments with listeners sharing real-life struggles and stories.

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Key Segments & Discussion Highlights

1. Warm-up and Morning Banter (00:00 – 03:30)

• Hosts catch up on personal challenges (DJ Envy is pulling "dance dad" duty without knowing how to do his daughters' hair; Jess Hilarious arrives after bold NYC driving).
• Early-morning humor and life talk as the team gears up for the day.

2. Front Page News: Top Stories with Mimi Brown

(04:09 – 11:44 & 30:01 – 37:01)

a) Olympics Update (04:09 – 05:57, 30:01 – 31:16)

• US women’s hockey team beats Canada (2-1) in a dramatic match.
  • “Congratulations to the women’s hockey team. Drop a bomb for them. They won the gold last night.” – DJ Envy, [04:38]
• Layla Edwards becomes the first Black woman to win with the hockey team.
• Medal standings discussed: Norway leads, US catching up.

b) Prince Andrew & Epstein Fallout (05:19 – 11:26)

• Prince Andrew arrested, questioned, and released in the ongoing Epstein investigation. Allegations of sharing confidential government documents with Epstein resurface.
• Emotional clips from Epstein survivor Virginia and her family.
• Discussion of billionaire Leslie Wexner’s ties to Epstein and his dismissive Congressional testimony.

c) US Housing Crisis & Roommate Trends (11:33, 34:47–36:53)

• Rising rents forcing more adults (including those in their 30s, 40s) into roommate situations.
• “Respondents say they’re facing issues they thought they left behind in college...” – Mimi Brown, [34:47]
• Discussion turns to communication, financial agreements, and the return of “college-style” household issues.

d) Aliens, UFOs, and Obama/Trump Comments (31:17–33:31)

• Playful but real take on recent viral Obama comments about aliens and Trump’s claims Obama “gave classified information.”
• “America and the world would not fall apart if they found out extraterrestrials exist.” – Charlamagne, [33:31]

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3. Listener Call-ins: Real Stories & Community Support (11:55–19:07, 68:08–77:53)

• Listeners pour their hearts out:
  • Yolanda calls from Mount Sinai Hospital seeking legal help as she battles disability and a custody fight in a Republican state ([13:32–16:18]).
  • A father shares the pain of losing custody of his children and his job, yet shouts out his wife’s new business ([16:25–18:53]).
• Segment includes support info, humor, and real empathy from hosts.

Notable Quote:
“I feel sorry for you. Because as a father, you gotta really micromanage your situation with your kids.” – Charlamagne, [17:21]

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4. America’s Next Top Model Backlash (20:00 — 29:34)

• Lauren LaRosa recaps Eva Marcille’s (Pickford) reaction (“I was gobsmacked...”) to the new Top Model documentary’s revelations about production abuses.
  • “That environment could not exist without producers aiding and abetting what was going on.” – Eva (on CBS), [21:45]
• Discussion of Tyra Banks’ complex legacy, Ms. J’s medical struggles, and reality TV’s rough past.
• Sherri Shepherd reflects on the era: “The time… was in 2003. Reality TV was a wild, wild west back then…” [27:04]
• Debate on whether Tyra owed Ms. J a hospital visit after years of collaboration.

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5. Jabari Young Interview: Forbes Black 50, Mentorship, Black Wealth (37:20 – 55:45)

[Main Interview: 37:20 – 55:45]

Background & Mentorship

• Jabari shares his journey from North Philly, inspired by Stephen A. Smith and Clarence Avant, calling for mentorship and persistence.
  • “Closed mouths don’t get fed.” – Jabari Young, [39:31]
• Importance of relationship-building: “When a mentor talks to you like that, that’s when you really gotta say, damn, he’s only doing that because he cares.” – Jabari, [45:38]

Forbes Black 50

• Celebrating and amplifying Black asset managers, entrepreneurs, and leaders: “If you see a Black individual managing a billion dollars for someone…that’s big in this country.” – Jabari, [53:13]
• Goal: create networks across Black business leadership, showcase “silver rights over civil rights,” and surface role models for the next generation.

Industry Real Talk

• Jabari explains that despite surface-level smiles, many wealthy people are deeply unhappy: “There are a lot of people behind the scenes with a lot of money that are not happy and so rich in life.” – Jabari, [46:53]
• Story origins come from curiosity, Google Trends, and community pitches (including Black Effect’s 5th anniversary).

Where to Follow Jabari / LinkedIn Pitch

• Forbes.com for articles, JB_Young on social platforms, and championing LinkedIn as a space for “elevated conversation.” ([54:50–55:26])

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6. DJ Khaled Responds to Weight Loss Critics (64:34–67:20)

• DJ Khaled posts a motivational video clapping back at critics (including Charlamagne, who’s called out Khaled’s past weight struggles).
  • “You see, it’s not what haters see. It’s what God sees.” – DJ Khaled, [65:32]
• Charlamagne responds with trademark sarcasm and hope:
  • “I don’t want that man to be fat forever. I want him to lose weight the same.” – Charlamagne, [66:15]
  • “We happy Khaled is losing weight. Khaled, we are happy for you. Keep going.” – Charlamagne, [66:35]

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7. Culture, Music, & Social Issues

• T-Pain on Burnout & Boundaries (61:44–63:57):
  • Candid IG confession about burnout, canceling tour, echoing Andre 3000's withdrawal from public pressure.
    • “I realized I accidentally burnt myself out...I needed peace.” – T-Pain, [61:51]
    • “It’s called boundaries.” – Charlamagne, [62:43]
• New Music Fridays with DJ Nyla Simone (89:59–94:45):
  • Tracks by Nipsey Hussle, Larry June, Baby Rose, and DMV’s Foggy Raw with reviews and reactions.
  • Reflections on mental health following deaths in the hip hop community.

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8. Listener “Donkey of the Day” & Roommates/Polygamy Debate (68:08–88:46)

• The “People’s Donkey”: Listeners nominate individuals for “stupid” behavior (bad dates, messy roommates, Tyra Banks for snubbing Ms. J, jail officials in AL, and more).
• Fun (and slightly wild) debate: Would rising rent push more Americans into polygamy?
  • “I think we’re going to see more polygamy, too...for financial reasons.” – Charlamagne, [35:44]
  • Listeners weigh in with their roommate/house-share stories.
  • Safety, respect, and awkwardness discussed candidly (“Cheeks on the same toilet!”).

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9. Black History Month Highlight: Haiti, “The Black Republic That Terrified the World” (95:26–101:14)

• BDot underscores how Haiti’s successful revolution led to global isolation and poverty as punishment, not failure.
  • “Haiti ain’t the poorest country…because the Haitians failed. Haiti is punished because the Haitians succeeded.” – BDot, [97:04]
• Fascinating, historically rich segment.

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10. Other Notable Quotes & Moments

• "When you ask people how they doing, you better be prepared for the answer." – Charlamagne, [19:07]
• “Closed mouths don’t get fed.” – Jabari Young, [39:31]
• “You can be great or you can be safe, you can’t be both.” – Charlamagne, [28:38]
• “You have to show up and you have to work…There’s no shortcuts to success.” – DJ Khaled, [64:46]
• “[Depression] doesn’t have a face...Check on people.” – Charlamagne, [91:38]

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Timestamps for Notable Segments

| Timestamp | Topic / Segment | |---------------|--------------------------------------------------------------| | 04:09 | Olympics / Medal Count / Women’s Hockey Win | | 05:19 | Jeffrey Epstein – Prince Andrew Arrest | | 13:32 | Listener Yolanda’s Custody & Health Struggles | | 16:25 | Father Loses Custody/Job – Family Shoutout | | 20:00 | America’s Next Top Model Doc Fallout | | 37:20 | Jabari Young Forbes Interview Starts | | 46:53 | Are Wealthy People Actually Happy? | | 53:13 | Forbes Black 50 List – Significance | | 55:45 | Where to Find Jabari & Networking on LinkedIn | | 61:44 | T-Pain on Artistic Burnout | | 64:34 | DJ Khaled Responds to Critics – Weight Loss | | 68:08 | People’s Donkey Call-Ins Begins | | 78:03 | Adult Roommates Housing Survey | | 89:59 | Nyla Simone’s Music Picks (Nipsey, Larry June, Baby Rose) | | 95:26 | Black History: Haiti / BDot Explainer |

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Conclusion

This episode delivers a typical Breakfast Club mix: urgent and timely news, real-life testimonials from listeners, critical pop culture analysis, Black excellence highlights, and a heavy dose of laughs. From the resilience of listeners to the candor of Jabari Young and DJ Khaled’s motivational defense, the show remains dedicated to real conversations about Black culture, the challenges facing everyday people, and the celebration of achievement and progress.

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Listen for:

• Honest talk on mentorship and persistence in Black business
• The latest in culture scandals, reality TV reckonings, and celebrity clapbacks
• Listener calls with humor, empathy, and real-world advice
• Fresh music, mental health candor, and a powerful slice of Black history

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(Summary prepared in the spirit, language, and structure of The Breakfast Club. For full moments and full context, refer to the timestamps.)

Transcript

[Lauren LaRosa]

This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.

[DJ Envy]

That's right. It's DJ Envy.

[Jessica]

It's your girl, Jess.

[Just Hilarious]

Hilarious.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I go by the name of Charlamagne. Tha God. And we are the world's most dangerous morning show at Breakfast Club. You just finished listening to, you know, our podcast for today.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And we want you to go watch the visuals on Netflix. You know, we. We're still on YouTube, but it's the clips on YouTube. But if you want to watch the Breakfast Club in full, if you want to see what you just listened to, go to Netflix.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Just Hilarious]

Find us on Netflix.

[Nyla Simone]

Sure.

[Jabari Young]

Woke up. Wake you up. Wake you up.

[DJ Envy]

Wake that ass up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Program your Alarm to Power 105.1 on iHeartRadio.

[Jessica]

Good morning, USA. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo,

[Jessica]

yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo.

[DJ Envy]

Jess. Hilarious.

[Just Hilarious]

Wake that ass up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Charlamagne. Nagong. Peace to the planet is Friday. How y' all feel out there? I feel blessed. Black and highly favored. Happy to be here another day to serve our beautiful listeners. Good morning.

[Just Hilarious]

Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

How you feeling, Jess?

[Just Hilarious]

I feel good. Yo, somebody blocked the street again, so I drove up the curb.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're not supposed to do that. You know, there's people that walk on the curves here in New York City. You know, we broadcast from New York City, the black Mothership. You can't drive on the sidewalk.

[Just Hilarious]

Yo, yo, in. In the morning, don't nobody know, because there's not a lot of people walking, but it's a lot of people trying. Stuck behind that bus.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And you got to be careful with that, because them guys and girls be having on headphones early in the morning. They having their hoodies on. They not paying attention.

[Just Hilarious]

Okay, well, I'm paying attention. I can drive. I'm a real safe driver. So I made sure wasn't nobody walking down the street or nothing. No bikes was coming. But, yeah, I went right up the street. Yo, I'm here early. I'm here on time.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, sure.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't want you to commit a crime in the process. I mean, I want you to kill anybody every day. You want to be America's Next Top mugshot? I just feel like that every day.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't.

[Just Hilarious]

I don't. Yo, I'm done with that.

[DJ Envy]

All right, well, salute to everybody. Of course, you know, I'm a dance dad, so I'm at another weekend, another competition and convention, but this week is gonna be my toughest weekend. I Already told Jess. And the reason is, is my wife has to leave in a little bit. So she. She's here now getting the girls ready, but then she leaves today. Cause she has to get back to the crib. And the problem is I gotta. I don't know how to do hair. I don't know how to do makeup. I don't know. I know how to get them dressed, but that's about it. So if y' all see pictures of my kids looking like clowns, that's because I did it. I just want to put that out there already.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Mercedes, six, seven, asset.

[Just Hilarious]

She not gonna be there.

[DJ Envy]

Mercedes is going up. We're going with Gia and Madison.

[Just Hilarious]

So I have no female having a girls weekend. And this on daddy duty.

[DJ Envy]

Exactly, exactly.

[Just Hilarious]

Gotta do ponytails and all that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, I don't care.

[DJ Envy]

I mean, I don't know how to do it. I've never had to do it. Do you know how to do your girls.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Your daughter's ponytail? No, I do.

[Just Hilarious]

I'm telling you. YouTube.

[DJ Envy]

YouTube, yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

How do you do your girl's head? Put. How to do ponytails.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I'm sure wherever you at, if you know there's a service for that, I'm sure you can find somebody to come, you know, hook up a ponytail for a DOMINICAN Here in D.C. my

[DJ Envy]

kids are not Dominican, sir. And I don't know if there's a service that somebody could just come and get in.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, no, no.

[Just Hilarious]

They do like black hair.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn.

[DJ Envy]

You know, my kids are. My kids are black. You know what? Let's get the show cracking today. On the show. Who's joining us this morning, sir?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Man. A man named Jabari Young. Jabari Young is the senior writer and editor at Forbes. He does the Forbes blacklist every year. I think it's called the Forbes Black 50. Yeah, Black 50. Yeah. So 50 people that you just need to know in various industries that are black that are making a lot of moves. So Jabari Young will be here to talk about that. He's also the person who did the Forbes story on me as well.

[DJ Envy]

Dope, dope, dope. So we're gonna kick it with him

[Charlamagne Tha God]

in a little bit.

[DJ Envy]

We got front page news when we come back. A lot going on.

[Jessica]

Mimi.

[DJ Envy]

I don't know if Mimi can hear us now, but you know, the, the, the, the Olympics out there is doing it. Them women hockey females did their thing last night.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Women hockey females.

[DJ Envy]

I said women hockey females say that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I meant?

[DJ Envy]

We gonna talk about the Olympics and all that stuff when we Come back. My daughters are laughing at me. Like, damn, dad. All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's the Breakfast Club.

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

Happy birthday, riri. Today is Riri's birthday.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Rihanna.

[DJ Envy]

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What a tough tune, man.

[DJ Envy]

Happy birthday, Riri.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, this song is 14 years old.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, she is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I didn't know that.

[DJ Envy]

She just said it. Yeah, that's crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Went out, made a few BO f y'. All. I'm gonna go make this billions off these makeup.

[Just Hilarious]

And I'm having my babies, my family, man. Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

All right. Well, morning, everybody. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news now. The Olympics. I'm gonna give you the medal count, Jess. I don't know if you've been watching as of yet.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Have you watched yet?

[DJ Envy]

Okay, so we beat Italy. All right, so first place is still Norway. They got 34 medals. We have 27. Italy has 26. But last night, the women's hockey team came from behind and beat Canada. Everybody thought Canada was going to win. Yes, that's right. We won 2 to 1. So congratulations to the women's hockey team. Drop a bomb for them. They won the goal last night.

[Just Hilarious]

And I never saw women play hockey. I never did. It's dope, yo. It's though. It's real sexy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I've never seen that either, now that I think about it.

[Jabari Young]

Yeah, it's real sexy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Are they studs? I like?

[Just Hilarious]

No, yo, they can't see them.

[DJ Envy]

They have masks on. You don't know what they are, but

[Just Hilarious]

you can tell by how some of them be running.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They shoulders. You can always tell.

[Just Hilarious]

They get they built up there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, my gosh.

[DJ Envy]

Now also, Clarissa Shields is fighting this weekend.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right, son?

[Jabari Young]

Sunday.

[DJ Envy]

Sunday. Oh, wow.

[Just Hilarious]

Damn.

[DJ Envy]

She's fighting Sunday. All right. What's up, Mimi?

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning, Envy. I did see that game. It was good, right? The great game. USA beating Canada. I think it was an OT, too. So it was a really good game.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, you tuned in.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She saw ice, so she had to stop. She's from Alaska. Ice on tv, you have to stop when you're from Alaska.

[Mimi Brown]

Anyway, okay, I skate, and so I know hockey. How about that? There we go. All right, so we start this morning in London, you guys, where the fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein case. It's now reaching the British royal family. So the man once known as Prince Andrew has been arrested and released in an investigation tied to Epstein. So Andrew, he is the younger brother of King Charles. He was taken into custody on suspicion of misconduct in public office. Police questioned him, searched his properties and then let him go while the investigation continues. He has not been charged, but the case is active. So police are looking into whether Andrew shared confidence British government trade documents with Jeffrey EPSTEIN Back in 2010, when Andrew, he was serving as the UK's trade envoy. Now, this comes after the DOJ, they released those millions of Epstein related documents. And some of those documents appear to show Andrew forwarding official government briefings to Epstein. Now, in Britain, misconduct in public office, it means abusing your position or mishandling official information. It is a serious crime there and it can carry a lifesaver sentence. So Andrew, he's faced questions about his relationship with Epstein before. The scrutiny began with a young girl named Virginia, and she was 17 years old. She gave an interview back to NBC a few years ago. Let's listen to some of what she had to say in her own words. First time in London, I was so young.

[Jessica]

Ghilan woke me up in the morning

[Mimi Brown]

and said, you're going to meet a prince today. I didn't know at that point that I was going to be trafficked to that prince. That night, Prince Andrew came to her house in London and we went out. Prince Andrew got me alcohol. It was in the VIP section. I'm pretty sure it was vodka.

[Jessica]

Prince Andrew was like, let's dance together. And I was like, okay.

[Mimi Brown]

And we leave Club Tramp and I hop in the car with Ghislaine and Jeffrey, and Ghislaine said, he's coming back to the house and I want you to do for him what you do for Epstein. I just couldn't believe it.

[Jessica]

I couldn't believe that even royalty were involved.

[Nyla Simone]

So.

[Mimi Brown]

Andrew has repeatedly denied the allegations, though in 2022, he did settle a civil lawsuit without admitting any wrongdoing. Sally, Virginia died last year by suicide.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Allegedly.

[Mimi Brown]

Allegedly. This morning, her family is speaking out. Her brother and sister, they spoke to the BBC. Let's. Let's listen to what they had to say.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It was 3am Our time when we got the news.

[Jessica]

A bit of a shock, like, hits you in that moment.

[Jabari Young]

And I think we celebrated in that

[Lauren LaRosa]

mom, and we were just, like, awestruck. And then, you know, the wave of

[Jabari Young]

emotions hit you because, you know, usually we can call her and, you know,

[Lauren LaRosa]

scream with her on the phone and

[Charlamagne Tha God]

jump up and down with her and

[Jabari Young]

just get to tell her, like, how proud we are and of her and her tenacity and her courage. And if it had not been for Virginia, none of this would have been uncovered.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

None of this would have happened.

[Jessica]

And so we are just.

[Jabari Young]

We're all of the emotions right now.

[DJ Envy]

Let me ask you a question right fast. So you could be arrested without being charged. So he was arrested but not charged.

[Mimi Brown]

That's what it said. He was arrested but not charged. Now, you know, of course, this is overseas, so the rules could definitely be different, but they are still investigating. But, yeah, that's.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's.

[Mimi Brown]

I looked at that, too. Envy. Because I was like, oh, okay. But they said while the investigation continues, they did let him go.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think the fallout for the Epstein files is going to be going on for years to come, because I've been reading all these articles. The New York Times actually has a good one up right now. But there's a long list of people who are dealing with consequences over being in the Epstein files. You got all these ambassadors and CEOs who are resigning, and you got people being investigated. So things are happening because of the Epstein files.

[B Dot]

Wow.

[Mimi Brown]

They are, but they don't seem to be happening in our federal government, but in private sectors and across in other countries, they definitely seem to be happening. And to your point, Sharla, the President, he was asked whether anyone in the US Will face arrests connected to Epstein. And this is what he had to say.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, you know, I'm the expert in a way, because I've been totally exonerated. That's very nice. I can actually speak about it very nicely. I think it's a shame. I think it's very sad. I think it's so bad for the royal family. It's very, very sad. It's really interesting because nobody used to speak about Epstein when he was alive, but now they speak. But I'm the one that can talk about it because I've been totally exonerated. I did nothing. In fact, the opposite. He was against me. He was fighting me in the election, which I just found out of the last 3 million pages of documents. There's going to be consequences here in America, just not as long as this administration is in power. But, you know, if there's ever free and fair elections again and another administration comes in power, there will be consequences and repercussions.

[Mimi Brown]

Absolutely. I definitely believe that as well. And really quickly, while all of that was unfolding overseas, here in the US House Democrats, they traveled to Ohio to question billionaire Leslie Wexner. He is the Ohio business man who founded Victoria's Secret. He is known for financially backing Jeffrey Epstein. For years, he, Jeffrey Epstein managed his money. He lived in his properties, and at one point had sweeping power of attorney over his finances. Members of the House. Yeah, Members of the House Committee. They traveled there to talk to him. No Republicans took the trip. And according to several Democrats who attended, they were not convinced by his answers. Let's listen really quickly what they said.

[DJ Envy]

He's claiming that there's basically was no friendship with. With Jeffrey Epstein or no real strong relationship. We know by reporting that's just not true.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He claimed that he was on the

[Lauren LaRosa]

island for one hour and that he

[Just Hilarious]

walked around with his family.

[Mimi Brown]

And I asked him if any other

[Just Hilarious]

individuals were there, and he said no. And that was a kind of a repetitive thing that he said as well. When we asked about if he had been to another property, he said, I was there for one hour.

[DJ Envy]

I'm surprised he remembers because he's, what, like, 90 years old?

[Mimi Brown]

He is 88 years old. Envy. He's 88 years old, and in the FBI files, he's. He's listed as a potential co conspirator. Of course, he denies that. And he told lawmakers that he. He was conned by Jeffrey Epstein and says that he did nothing wrong and he has not been charged of a crime.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And that don't sound like no family island. Why would you take your family to Epstein Island? You take your kids to Epstein Island. That's crazy.

[Jabari Young]

No way.

[Nyla Simone]

Yeah.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah. All right, well, coming up at 7, rising housing costs. They're causing a change in how Americans live. And for some, that financial pressure is creating some tensions at home. We'll talk about it in the next hour.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Jessica]

Yo, Charlemagne.

[Just Hilarious]

Envy, what up?

[Jessica]

Are we live?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is your time to get it off your chest.

[Jessica]

I got an indoor pool, outdoor pool.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

[Jabari Young]

We can get on the phone right now.

[Jessica]

He'll tell you what it is.

[DJ Envy]

Hello? Who's this family?

[Jessica]

What's up, every.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, what's up, Trav?

[Jessica]

That's hilarious. What's up, baby?

[Just Hilarious]

Hey, babe.

[Jessica]

Charlemagne.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Trav, you know, we just said we tied a hand from you.

[Just Hilarious]

No, we did not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, we did. We literally just said that. We literally said we tied a hand from people. Like crap. Same people over and over. And you're the first person. How are you, sis?

[Jessica]

You know what's so crazy? Sorry. You know what's so crazy?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What?

[Jessica]

I'm calling because this girl climbed out the gutter yesterday and came into my DMs. And guess what she told me yesterday?

[Just Hilarious]

No.

[Jessica]

She said she started me calling the Dress Club every day.

[Just Hilarious]

Damn. You called your day to tell us

[Charlamagne Tha God]

who the hell climbed out the gutter.

[Just Hilarious]

That's a reference.

[Jessica]

Because she crying out together. And I just wanted to say to her, first of all, no. Y' all are like my J. Coles. And you need to have people like me. If she being that she don't do nothing in life, and she's never gonna do nothing in life. She don't understand what it is to have some true supporters and genuine supporters.

[DJ Envy]

Jesus, Trav.

[Jessica]

But, yes, I wake up every single day and ask. And I call one of my favorite radio stations, period. The same way, if I could call J. Cole every day and talk to him, I sure will wake up and call him every day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We appreciate you, Trav.

[Jabari Young]

We do appreciate.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We appreciate your supporting, riding with us for a long time.

[DJ Envy]

That's right. Hello. Who's this? What's your name, Mama?

[Jessica]

My name's Yolanda Denise.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How are you Whispering Good morning?

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Jessica]

No, I'm not. I'm calling you from Mount Sinai Hospital. I have been disabled and sick as of COVID I was in a cola for months and in a lot of pain. I have two children. I reached out to the dad who hasn't been in their life over 10 years to try to help out, to see if he can help them. Now he's taking me to court in a few weeks to pay him child support to take custody to a man who's never been in their life. I'm not calling you guys. I don't want money. I don't need anything, but I'm trying to survive. I just had a major surgery, and what I want to know is how can I find a court reporter, a black lawyer, someone to help fight for me? My court case is unfortunately in a Republican state where they loved him, some trucks, and a black female who now needs assistance or state aid. They look at you as low clap and worth nothing.

[DJ Envy]

But why don't you put your. Your email out there, because we have a lot of listeners and hopefully somebody can help you with the assistance that you need. So why don't you put your email out there, Mama?

[Jessica]

My email address is letter y w I n g a t e 37@gmail.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And you can, all you can. You should also try Top Dog Law.

[Jessica]

Right now, though, my finance is very minimal because I had to leave Virginia, come to New York to the hospital for care because I was dying out there. I need Someone who understands raising black children. You notice just raising black children is different from raising white children.

[Just Hilarious]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just knows that, ma', am, for one, but not half of the other.

[DJ Envy]

Please shut up.

[Just Hilarious]

I never raised

[Charlamagne Tha God]

one and a half,

[Just Hilarious]

ma'. Am.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

One and a half percent.

[Just Hilarious]

I never raised the white kids, so. I know, I know. I'm sorry.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But we got Ben Crump coming here next week, too, though, so I'm gonna slip him your email. We're gonna put you on hold. Yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

And say. Yeah, just get your email again. Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Well, the one great thing is Mount Sinai is one of the best hospitals. Like I told you guys about my Mount Sinai, saving my baby. So you are an amazing hospital with some great doctors, and hopefully one of our listeners can help you out. We put your email out there. And like Charlemagne said, Ben Crump will be on the show next week, so he can slide him in email as well.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But get it off. There's a lot of attorneys that listen to us as well.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah. Where'd she say she was at?

[DJ Envy]

She's in New York now. Hello?

[B Dot]

Who's this?

[Jessica]

Yeah, can y' all hear me?

[DJ Envy]

We can hear you, brother. What's up? Get it off your chest.

[Just Hilarious]

Exhale.

[Jessica]

First and foremost, thank you and good morning. How y' all doing?

[Just Hilarious]

Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

Take us off Bluetooth if you can. You sound a little warped.

[Jessica]

So right now, what it is, I just wanted to wish my kids, you know, a good day. And this is going to be the change of a lot for us. I just lost him in a custody battle, and it's just a little wild little rush. And during this whole thing, you know, first of all, to say, you know, Daddy loves you, Noah, Damon, Rosalia, Ava, Gabriel, Jalis. I'm with you always. You guys need that. You always know you can call me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So what's the arrangements? I know what you get them on a certain day.

[DJ Envy]

Sorry for you, brother.

[Jessica]

I'm only getting them on school breaks. What?

[DJ Envy]

Not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That sucks. That sucks, man.

[Jessica]

And every other Christmas, every other Thanksgiving, you know, so it's. It's hard.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I get it. I'm sorry, bro. That's hard because ain't even enough holidays in the year. And, you know, I feel like as a father, you gotta really micromanage your situation with your kids.

[DJ Envy]

Absolutely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I feel sorry for you. I really do. I genuinely appreciate it.

[Jessica]

But when I hit him in all of those. Because that. When I was. When I got the news about this, I got so distraught and I was. I just lost myself on the phone. Like, I was crying. I wasn't in belief in my reality. And that caused me to have my third lateness at my job. It was like 20 minutes. But that 20 minutes was enough for the system to say that he can't be allowed back. So I lost my job, and it's just been one hell of a ride.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, you lost your kids and your job?

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, that's what he said.

[Jessica]

Yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

I was gonna tell him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sorry, brother.

[Just Hilarious]

Got the bread? Damn.

[Jessica]

Yes, sir. We keep it up a lip right now, me and my wife right now. You know what I'm saying? We. We're holding it together. Since this all happened. She actually started her own business. So while I'm in the midst of looking for work, whatnot, I'm. I'm helping out her hustle. She started her own. Her hair and boutique. If y' all don't mind, I'd like to shout out the business.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, please.

[Just Hilarious]

Absolutely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm glad you done moved on, brother.

[Jessica]

Yeah, we'll say we try, man. God don't like when you stand still, do nothing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right.

[Jessica]

So my wife got a business out. It's called JoJo's Boutique. Y' all can find it on Instagram, Spelled J o, j o, s dot, b o, w, t, I, q, u, e. 2025. JoJo's Boutiques. 2025.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, yo, you know what, though, man? Shout out to everybody. This segment is called get it off your chest. Yeah. You know what I mean? This is like, when you ask people how they doing, you better be prepared for the answer.

[DJ Envy]

I thought somebody was gonna say, happy birthday. I'm having a great day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's all good. It's all good.

[Just Hilarious]

All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When you ask. That's. That's why when you ask somebody how they doing, you gotta be prepared for whatever, you know, they say. And this is getting off your chest. People been getting things off their chest, man. So we sending all of y' all positive energy, love, and light. Okay? All right.

[DJ Envy]

800-585-1051. Now, today is Friday. Charlemagne, what are you doing for donkey?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, today is Friday. Yes. It's the people's donkey.

[Jessica]

You all right, man?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what? Shut up, man. It's Friday. It's Friday. It is the people's donkey. So you can call in right now, 1-800-585-1051, and give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid. I'm gonna be honest with you. I'm afraid to answer the phone.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, I was gonna say, man, all the sad stories threw him off.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Y. I am afraid to answer the phone. People are going through it. But please, yes, call up 1-800-585-1051. If you want to give somebody the biggest haul, you can do it right now.

[DJ Envy]

All right, when we come back, we got the latest with Lauren. What we talking, Lauren?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Top Model. Hey, y'.

[Jessica]

All.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning, LL Good morning.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. So Eva Marcel spoke out. She's one of the faces of, like, Top Model success, and she said she was gobsmacked. Y' all know. Wow.

[DJ Envy]

What is gobsmacked?

[Lauren LaRosa]

It can mean a series of things. But she said she was horrified when she watched the documentary.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, got you. Got you.

[DJ Envy]

All right, well, we'll talk about that next, so don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You'll talk. LL Cool bitch.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[Just Hilarious]

Little brown girls look at you and

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The latest with Laurio Rose on the Breakfast Club. LL Cool Bay, talk to me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All right, y'. All. So Eva Pickford. Well, Eva Marcel, now, she was Eva Pickford when she competed on America's Next Top Model and won Cycle three. She has come out and. And now she's talking about her reaction to the America's Next Top Model documentary. And I'm going to tell y', all, I knew that I was locked into America's Next Top Model, but I did not know that this documentary would cause all this fallout. Okay. The girls are coming out with the things to say. So Eva, she's on CBS Mornings, and she's talking to Gayle King and the cast, and she says that she was amazingly horrified. Let's take a listen, Eva. I was gobsmacked.

[Mimi Brown]

I was in awe. I told Jay my mouth was wide open. To be a part of a club and not know what's going on in

[Lauren LaRosa]

the club is crazy.

[Mimi Brown]

And though there is a level of relatability, one would assume someone having walked in the same shoes, I had no idea. I have been asked about Tyra for 21 years.

[Nyla Simone]

Yeah.

[Jabari Young]

Do you think that the judges and

[DJ Envy]

the producers had a role in creating this type of environment even if you never saw it?

[Mimi Brown]

Absolutely. That environment could not exist without producers aiding and abetting what was going on. But what I will say, I will

[Lauren LaRosa]

never fail to thank Tyra.

[Mimi Brown]

What Tyra set out to do in this business, I will always say she set out to change the World to change.

[Just Hilarious]

What the modeling industry looked like, sound

[Mimi Brown]

like, felt like, and expected that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Salute to the good sister Eva going on Good Morning America. Cold switching. Don't nobody say no gobsmack. I know. What the hell?

[Jessica]

God.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Smack was crazy, yo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That was.

[Lauren LaRosa]

King was like, okay, so, you know, it can mean this, it can mean that. So which do you mean? Because I think she knew you would know what it meant either. But I was trying to get Eva for us. I've been on. I've been reaching out to Eva scene for, like, three weeks when I first heard of the documentary, because I knew she was one of the girls that people want to hear from, but, you know, but yes, they don't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They don't want to talk about that doc. I'm gonna be honest with you. I want to watch that doc now. Just because I'm seeing all the drama. Like, Harlow was supposed to be on Breakfast Club this week, but they.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, but she changed her mind.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, they didn't just change their mind. They sent the email and said, we need to put in writing that we're not going to ask her about America's Next Top Model. Oh, no. I was like, what? I ain't never heard 28 years of radio.

[Jessica]

Right.

[Just Hilarious]

What else are we going about?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, she's. She was promoting the show. It's like a. It's a show on Amazon. They got. I think.

[Jessica]

All right.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah. But after that, then what?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She had some other things they didn't want us to ask about too. But it definitely was America's Next Top Model. I was like, really?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. I mean, because if you watch the show back then, you knew that there was a lot of drama, but it was. Yeah, it was normal. It was normal back then. I'm gonna be honest. Like, I did not know that all these years later, people would care so much.

[DJ Envy]

But it makes me want to see that doc, though. I ain't gonna lie.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Y' all need to go.

[Just Hilarious]

I got two more episodes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Trying to get Tyra Banks. Okay. I'm trying to get Tyra Banks for the show.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I want to be gobsmacked.

[Jessica]

What?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, yo.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So. So Ms. J, Nigel Barker, and Jay Manuel, who were the judges. And, like, Tyra's like. When you see Tyra, you see them on the show. They sat down with Sherri. She. And they talked about one of the points in the documentary that we found out. When we found out that Ms. J was at the time paralyzed at the time that they did the documentary. He is now walking, thanks to physical therapy.

[Just Hilarious]

Amazing, right?

[Lauren LaRosa]

But he's on Sherri shepherd talking about the fact that Tyra still hasn't come to see him. Let's take a listen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I couldn't walk, I couldn't talk. I was paralyzed. And then one day, I spent a year and five months in recovery. So I was inside the hospital. They came to visit me as well as Angela Bassett. Just dropped names. And Niecy Nash, George Lopez.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So they all came to visit me and then. But Tara didn't.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Ms. Shay, Tyra has not reached out to you?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, no, she reached out to me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She reached out to you recently. All right, can we ask what she said when she reached out to you?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just, hey, well, I'm in la. Okay.

[Mimi Brown]

And.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But she reached out to me when the first happened.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, so. And people were really upset about that because they were.

[Just Hilarious]

Reached out to him. She was like, I gotta get to you. I gotta get there.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It had to happen.

[Just Hilarious]

She never got there. Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She might be busy. I mean, she reach out.

[DJ Envy]

But how close were they really? Like, if it was just a show, maybe they didn't speak to you. Were they close?

[Lauren LaRosa]

The reason why Ms. J even got to Top Model is because when Tyra Banks was on her rise and figuring out Runway, she was one of, like, the mothers that. Or he was one of the mothers that, like, helped Tyra Banks. Like, yeah, like, she could have went and seen him.

[Just Hilarious]

If we keep hearing him talk about it and he was expecting that bad for her to come. They had to be close in some type of form of fashion. You know what I mean?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, Tyra not as busy as Angela Bassett. That we know.

[Just Hilarious]

Absolutely not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right?

[Just Hilarious]

No.

[DJ Envy]

But their relationship could have been a lot different, though, you know? I mean, her and Angela could have been. Him and Angela could have been a lot tighter than Tyra.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I love Tyra Banks, but there was no excuse for that. I was really disappointed. But let's get to Sherri Shepherd.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You a gobs?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Sherri Shepherd? Yes.

[Jabari Young]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

you need for the season of long weekends full of linen shirts, sweaters, and

[Jabari Young]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Just Hilarious]

For me, the collection's must have are

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Jabari Young]

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[Just Hilarious]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

Mary shepherd watched the documentary. She let's just take a listen to her reaction. Listen, people don't understand when we are in power, the battles we gotta fight that you will never know about to keep a show on the air. People will tell us, if you want to stay on the air, this is what you gotta do. And sometimes we make bad decisions and we look up and we go, in hindsight, maybe I should not have done it. I understand why people are mad. You have to understand. The time that this all Happened was in 2003. Reality TV was a wild, wild west back then. Every show was trying to outdo each other to stay on the air. We had people that were eating rats on Survivor. We had people getting in Nevada spiders on Fear Factor. Simon Cowell was telling people they sucked to their faces. That was a young black woman trying to make it in the reality TV game.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What a great time for reminding us of what we no longer have. What a great time.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And we'll never get back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, you can. You can get up,

[Lauren LaRosa]

y'.

[Jessica]

All.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I could never come back like this.

[Just Hilarious]

I respect the brutal truths of Simon Cobb and Randy Jackson back in the day. Or American Idol or tryouts. Yeah, that was my favorite thing to watch.

[DJ Envy]

Now people are sued. They'll say they're traumat guys, and they say they can't sleep at night. It is. It. It's a lot worse because you can't say weak.

[Just Hilarious]

Yep, you decided to come here.

[Jabari Young]

You can't sing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But you know what's so wild about this, though?

[DJ Envy]

What?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The people that complain they're on platforms that are actually the toxic platforms now. Social media is just like how them shows used to be in the 90s, but they don't. They don't want it to exist on tv, but they can do it all on social media all day long.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Because people also forget that one day I had to get off.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, you took that hair out immediately. But I would say one thing. You could be mad as you wanted these shows, but these shows have created stars. So they knew what they were talking about. Because some of the people that came from American Idol, that came from Tyra's show, created superstars at the time. You know, so America, they knew what they were talking about.

[Lauren LaRosa]

America's Next Top Model is the most successful and longest running fashion reality TV series in history, according to article I was reading on Bravo. So, I mean, and for Tyra Banks, a black woman, to be at the helm of that. I understand what Sherry was getting at, but I also do understand why people were upset. But, you know, for Sherry, this is very personal because her show was just canceled. And I'm sure, you know, she was always behind the scenes fighting, trying to make sure that her show was prevalent and doing all the things so she understands it a different way.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, guess what? You can be great or you can be safe. You can't be both. Rest in peace to my good sister, Jazz Fly. Jasmine Waters, who used to always say that. And yet we still talking about America's Next Top Model all these years later. It's a documentary on right now that everybody's talking about. About. So y' all can act like y' all didn't enjoy that entertainment back in the day. We can. And we can look at it now through a different lens because, you know, people are older and times have changed. But don't act like you didn't enjoy that entertainment and don't act like you're not being entertained by it right now.

[Nyla Simone]

Entertained?

[Just Hilarious]

Girl, what? I was like, I closed my hand, I closed my gate. Whatever. Like, whatever y' all need. What's going on?

[DJ Envy]

You too short.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I. I wanted to.

[Just Hilarious]

No, Eva was the shortest one that Eva kept.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That was her storyline.

[Just Hilarious]

Ate them girls up. Ate them girls up.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But I want to mention, as we rap, we talking about show cancel. Well, we'll talk about it next hour. Jennifer Hudson show is not canceled. She's back for another season.

[Just Hilarious]

So we'll go get on there. Go through the tunnel.

[DJ Envy]

That's the latest with Lauren now when we come back. Oh, also, Charlemagne does this on Friday. He gives the donkey. He lets you guys give whoever you want people's donkey.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You can call me right now and give somebody the biggest he Hall 1-800-585-1051. It's the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

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. You know, I've been watching the Olympics. I know Mimi's watching Olympic because she's from Alaska. It's the Winter Olympics. But let me bust it down.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Stereotyping Mimi.

[Nyla Simone]

What you mean?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I really don't like that.

[DJ Envy]

She's from Alaska.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That means nothing.

[DJ Envy]

It's the Winter Olympics. She says she ice skates. You know how to ice skate?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're from the Dominican Republic. You don't salsa.

[Just Hilarious]

That's crazy.

[DJ Envy]

I'm not from the Dominican Republic. If I was, I would salsa, and

[Just Hilarious]

that's not a part of the Winter Olympics.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, that's right. That's right. Well, anyway, let me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ain't that what everybody taking the lose weight. Just go in.

[Just Hilarious]

Yo, please just go in.

[DJ Envy]

Now Norway is winning a medal count. They have 34. The U.S. is catching up. We have 27 and Italy has 26. Mimi, don't you watch the Olympics?

[Mimi Brown]

I do watch some of the Olympics.

[Just Hilarious]

Yesterday, she really lied to the hockey

[Mimi Brown]

and glued to the hockey. Also. Really quick shout out to Layla Edwards. She becomes the first black woman to win on the hockey team to win that gold medal.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So, you know, see, Mimi says she

[DJ Envy]

used to play hockey.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She said she used to skate.

[Just Hilarious]

Nah, she used to skate.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

Regular skating.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah, I wanted to be a figure skater, actually, back in my day. Yeah. But it didn't work out.

[DJ Envy]

See, that's only Alaska. You from Baltimore. They don't figure skate in Baltimore, right?

[Just Hilarious]

Yes, we do. Oh, right down the harbor. Every year they bring that. They bring the ice skating rink down there. We used to do it down. We used to get it in.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Whenever a black person. We used to get it in, they lying they ass off. That's all we used to get it in.

[DJ Envy]

What's up, Mimi?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, y'.

[Jabari Young]

All.

[Mimi Brown]

Okay, so we start this hour with a conversation about aliens that has suddenly become, yes, very real. And was. So it began with the podcast question to President Obama. He was asked whether aliens are real. He answered, they're real, but I haven't seen them. And that clip, it went viral, prompting Obama to have to later clarify that he was talking about the probability of life somewhere in the universe now that aliens have visited Earth. And he said that there is no evidence that extraterrestrial contact has happened while he was president. But President Trump, he. Someone asked President Trump about it, and he responded, accusing Obama of revealing classified information. Let's listen to what Trump had to say.

[Just Hilarious]

Well, he gave classified information.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He's not supposed to be doing that.

[Jabari Young]

So aliens are real.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, I don't know if they're real or not.

[Just Hilarious]

I can tell you he gave classified information.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He's not supposed to be doing that. He made a big mistake. No, I don't have an opinion on it. I never talk about it. A lot of people do. A lot of people believe it. I may get him out of trouble by declassifying.

[Jessica]

Know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I tell you one thing, Barack Obama better not jaywalk in Donald Trump's America. Donald Trump is looking for a reason to put them handcuffs on Barry. Oh, you hear me?

[DJ Envy]

Yes, he is.

[Mimi Brown]

Damn.

[Nyla Simone]

Yeah.

[Mimi Brown]

So Trump now says the Pentagon and other federal agencies will begin releasing government files related to aliens, UFOs, and what officials call unidentified aerial phenomenon, or UAPs. He made the post on True Social, and he said there's been tremendous interest in the topic. Topic. So we don't know yet what is in those files, but we don't. And we don't know when they'll be released. But the Pentagon, it already has an office dedicated to tracking UFO reports. It's called the All Domain Anonymous Anomaly. I don't know if I'm saying that. Anomaly Resolute. Thank you, Girl Resolution Office. So as of last year, the government, they've logged more than 1600 reports of unidentified sightings. But many have been linked to like weather balloons, birds, even plastic bags. But they say that they will let us know if there's anything happening. And Pentagon officials say they. But they found no verified evidence. But you know, we never know. The government scientists say that they have seen things that they can't fully or don't fully understand yet. And so that's the uncertainty that keeps the conversation alive.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's time. We can handle it. America and the world would not fall apart. They would not lose their mind if they found out extraterrestrials exist. We already do. You know for yourself, do you know how arrogant and self centered you have to be in order to believe that you are the only life form in all of these galaxies? We not even the only life here on Earth. There's a variety of life right here on this planet. So you think the universe, God's universe is not the same. Hundreds of billions of planets? Are you crazy? And I saw Applying Salsa when I was 8 and you ever seen that movie Signs?

[Jabari Young]

Oh boy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I saw that thing from Signs where I was waking up one morning and it was standing over me and as the sun came up, it started to fade away.

[DJ Envy]

That was Wendy Williams. That wasn't no damn alien.

[Just Hilarious]

Man, you look crazy. Shut up, Envy. No, I got a better movie. They live the movie. It came out in the 80s with.

[DJ Envy]

That's.

[Just Hilarious]

That's what I feel like is going on. You ever seen that movie Envy?

[DJ Envy]

No.

[Nyla Simone]

No?

[Just Hilarious]

You never seen it? You never seen it, Mimi?

[Mimi Brown]

No, I remember.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They live.

[Just Hilarious]

Man, it's real good. Y' all need to watch it. They the type of alien things I think is going on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Y' all really think God created all these planets just to be empty though? Like, just think about that for a second.

[DJ Envy]

No, I think it's some aliens where

[Charlamagne Tha God]

aliens do somebody body you, right? I mean technically you are for real because we're not sure about your papers.

[Mimi Brown]

There's a new housing survey that's raising questions this morning about roommate red flags. It says that more adults in their 30s and 40s, they're sharing space again because rent is just simply Too high. So recent data from Zillow, it shows living alone can cost renters more than $10,000. And so people are splitting it because financially, it makes sense. But respondents say. This is what's interesting. Respondents. Respondents to that survey say that they're facing issues that they thought they left behind in college, like dirty dishes stacking up for days, boyfriend or girlfriends that are practically moving in without paying bills and late payments, that in some cases their credit is being affected because someone on the lease isn't keeping their part of the deal. So housing experts say the biggest challenge isn't the rent, it's communication. They recommend setting expectations early, putting financial agreements in writing, and addressing those small issues before war. They turn into major conflict. So.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow, that makes sense to me. You know. You know what I think is also going to happen in the future? I think we're going to see more polygamy, too. Because. Because.

[DJ Envy]

Because people shacking up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, not shacking up. I think that you're going to really see, you know, people with multiple wives in these relationships. Women.

[DJ Envy]

But that's what I mean. Yeah, because they can't afford it.

[Jessica]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, they might learn to love each other, too. But I'm just saying, I think it's going to start.

[Just Hilarious]

It's going to be a lot more of that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because of financial reasons. Yep.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah, for sure.

[Jabari Young]

That's.

[Mimi Brown]

It's. It's prevalent right now. Okay, guys, well, that is your homeless.

[Just Hilarious]

I ain't got time. I will be outside.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You would let Chris get another wife?

[Just Hilarious]

Hell, no. Well, he'd be outside. It'd be better for him to be outside than me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Would y' all at least discuss it?

[Jabari Young]

No, it's no discussion.

[Just Hilarious]

Ain't no less discussed. Please.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What you meant for financial reasons?

[Just Hilarious]

Nah, I'm not with none of that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

People out here hurt.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right.

[Just Hilarious]

I'm gonna be hurting some people, too. Don't ever bring it to me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Another.

[Just Hilarious]

Another wife or a girlfriend.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

All right.

[DJ Envy]

Might be the Mexican culture.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah. It's not my culture.

[DJ Envy]

That's.

[Just Hilarious]

They like to pile up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And that actually, technically, is our culture. That is absolutely. That is African American culture. Well, something rooted in Africa. Yes. In Africa right now, you can have multiple wives in certain countries.

[Just Hilarious]

Well, yeah, yeah. That's different, though. They over there, we over here.

[B Dot]

I'm just saying.

[DJ Envy]

They over there, we over here. All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

Me, me.

[Mimi Brown]

You are welcome, Envy. All right, well, that's your front page news, Mimi Brown. Follow me at Mimi Brown TV for more stories. Follow the Black Information Network and visit B I N news dot com.

[Just Hilarious]

Thank you, Mimi.

[DJ Envy]

Now, when we come back, the senior writer and editor of Forbes, Jabari Young, will be joining us, and we'll talk to him next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody.

[Just Hilarious]

It's DJ Envy.

[DJ Envy]

Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lon Laros is here as well. We got a special guest in the building.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, indeed.

[DJ Envy]

Senior writer and editor at Forbes, Jabari Young.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Welcome, brother.

[Just Hilarious]

Hey, man.

[Jabari Young]

Thank you for having me. This is a nice place. This is dope.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is our new studio. You never been to the old studio?

[Jabari Young]

I haven't been in the old studio. And in spirit, I was, because I watched y' all on YouTube coming up as a kid, so. But this is pretty nice, man.

[DJ Envy]

Well, you are senior writer and editor at Forbes, so let's. Let's start from the story. Well, how'd you get there?

[Jabari Young]

You know, man, you know, we gotta start all the way from the story, right? I'm originally from North Philly.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Jabari Young]

And so it's stop. Appreciate that. Thank you. And it started there, you know, as a kid, understanding I wasn't gonna be in the NBA, right? I didn't have that skill set. It's like, okay, what's next? And I decided that journalism was it for me. And so back then, you know, you pick up the newspaper, and underneath the news, the bylines, they got the numbers. And I'm like, well, who's this dude, Stephen A. And I call up the number, and bam, Stephen A. Picks up. And that changed the trajectory, because learning under him when he was back covering the Sixers and Philadelphia, really, you know, you kind of understand what you can be. And so I'm looking at him on billboards and just following him, and that kind of motivated me. And then in 2013, I get an opportunity to go to San Antonio, cover San Antonio spurs. And that obviously boosts my trajectory. Spent the year in Portland, covered the Blazers in there. And then in 2019, I get a call from CNBC, and they say, hey, you want to cover cover business? And I'm like, I don't want to cover no business. I don't know what those are. The number with the channels, the numbers of the bottom. And it was Stephen A. Who called me and said, man, you don't know what the hell you're doing. You need to really stop and think about it. I was happy in San Antonio covering Kawhi Leonard, covering Tom Duncan and the Spurs. That was great for me. But I was missing the big picture. And he allowed me to see that to his credit. And then that turned into an opportunity in 2022, and Forbes said, hey, you want to come over here and do that? And I said, yeah, but I don't want to just do sports business. I want to do something else. You know, I want to, you know, take this business thing and really expand it. And what better way to do that through the essence and the lens of your community?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, what's important about that story? I mean, number one, you started in sports, but the fact that you called Stephen A. Yeah, Stephen A. Picked up and then decided to offer you mentorship. Yeah, don't do that.

[Jabari Young]

Yeah, they don't do it anymore. I told closed mouths, don't get fed.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Right.

[Jabari Young]

Clarence Avon. Oh, we should say that. Right? And so, you know, so funny being in San Antonio. I met this sister one time, and this is in the middle of me dating. And she came. It's the first time I ever heard of a guy Clarence Avon. And she says, man, I don't know. You remind me of this dude, Clarence Avon. I'm like, who the hell is that? And then the Black Godfather comes up. And then I just started studying him and understanding what made him special. And he just solved people's problems, right? And so that just kind of motivated me to, you know, take my career and take my craft and go to the next level with it. And again, I just. I enjoy telling business stories about people who look like me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What was your spiel to Stephen H. Because I want. I want other people that are watching this right now who might be seeking mentorship from certain individuals. What did you say to him that you think made him be like, all right, you know, pull up to the.

[Jabari Young]

Hey, man, can you teach me? I want to learn under you. Like, can you just, you know. But at that time, Charlemagne, like, it was. It was a different time, right? Stephen A. Wasn't Stephen A then. You know, we knew him in Philly because his name was all over the place and his bill and his face was on the billboards. But we didn't know of him as what y' all see now, he was just a guy in Philly. He was big, so he was more accessible. I had to talk to him on his two way pager, right? Back in the day, that's when two way pages is extreme.

[Jessica]

It.

[Jabari Young]

And so, like, you know, I just was. I just went up to him and say, hey, man, like, can you teach me? But not only that one time. You got to do that over and over. Again, like, I would be in my aunt's basement on Christmas Eve, calling around people who mentored me that year, just saying, hey, I want that, man. Just wish you a merry Christmas. I hope you have a great fan. That stuff builds relationships. And so when you do want to pick up the phone and say, hey, man, you know, where's an opportunity for a job? You got those answers because it was Stephen A. Who introduced you to a guy named Mike Bruton. Mike Bruton knows a guy named Mike Larry. Mike Larry was at the Inquire now in San Antonio. One call gets made on my behalf. Bam, I'm in San Antonio, and my career changes.

[Mimi Brown]

Wow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Charles Barkley would be very, very impressed that you dated a woman from San Antonio.

[Jabari Young]

I mean, listen, every time Barkley said that, I was like, keep saying it, because I get all this gold right down here, right? Because there's some beautiful women in San Antonio. And I'm like, yo, say that. I would retweet it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, he right.

[Jabari Young]

Because I wanted. I wanted it to myself, Right? And so there are beautiful people in San Antonio. Obviously. Yes. There are bigger people everywh. But I. I don't. I have no idea. See what it was that he was always staying downtown.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Jabari Young]

You know, when you go to downtown in any city, that's not the real representation of where you live. And so you gotta go on the outskirts. And when you're on the outskirts, it's a whole different thing out there. But you see a lot of people down there, and they're downtown. And so your perception of San Antonio might be, oh, this is what it is. Like, no, it's not. You got to get on the outskirts, and you gotta know where people are. And so, you know, so funny from. From being from Philly, I met up with Malik Rose, who's always in Philly, and he had a whole bunch of people. People living down there. And so it was like, man, this is a whole bunch of people from Philly down there. So we came like, you know, damn, I'm at a second home now.

[DJ Envy]

You talk about.

[Just Hilarious]

I'm sorry, when you were calling around for mentorship, were you ever told no? And if so, were you discouraged by that?

[Jabari Young]

Yeah, I was. I was told no. Sometimes. A couple of the ones I kept on email, I'm like, I'm gonna remember this one day. I'll call you up and say, you know what? The hell with you. But, yeah, of course, because, you know, you be thinking that everybody has time. But then now being in a position, I coming I realized this false. You don't have the time. Like, I'm sure y' all get hit up all the time. Y' all can't always answer everybody's stuff. You know what I'm saying? It's so, like, it was one of those things where, you know, when I was told no, I just stopped taking it personal. And just like, you know what? I got this crew of mentors over here. I'm gonna just start building with them. And obviously Stephen A. Was a part of that group.

[DJ Envy]

Do you mentor people now?

[Jabari Young]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

I know the mentoring game has changed a lot, right? Because people are more scared now. Because back then you could call anybody, you tell somebody come on the road. But now it seems like. Seems like things are more structured. You have to go through this protocol. You have to have a resume. You have to graduate from here. When before even working at radio, you wanted to be an intern. Come be an intern.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Jabari Young]

The way I do it is. Is that if you show persistence, then that's when I take you seriously. Because that's what I was. I was emailing people left and right. Yo, man, hey, if you missed that email, hey, just wanted to follow up, you know, you got the time, and I would do that, you know, repetitiously. And so what happened is that people start to say, man, he's serious. He wants some of my time, right? And so, like, you know, hip hop artists, you should do that all time, the time. That's where it motivated me from. Like, being from Philly, it's like, man, these dudes, you should show up at the radio station. I need to do what I need to do to make sure my story.

[Jessica]

Yeah.

[Jabari Young]

Went to radio all the time.

[DJ Envy]

Well, I don't know about Charlene, but I didn't get paid at first. It wasn't about the money.

[Jabari Young]

I was in Philly.

[DJ Envy]

I just wanted the knowledge.

[Jabari Young]

Yeah. I was in Philly doing radio updates at 100.3 to beat Stephen E. Stephen Collins, God bless his life, was there at that point, and he will allow me to understand the radio lens of it. And just so watching guys like E. Stephen Collins and Stephen A. And people in Philly, Elmer Smith, those columnists. Like, like, that was. That was. That was it for me. That was. That was powerful.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I worked at 1.3 to beat as well.

[Jabari Young]

Yeah, I know. I was there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I was there. Yeah, yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Got fired, right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, got fired.

[Jabari Young]

I remember that, man. That was a great time, though.

[Just Hilarious]

Remember when he got fired?

[Jessica]

Yeah.

[Jabari Young]

Cuz the Beanie Seagull interview, he played that and everybody was on Philly, like, yo, did you hear that Beanie Seagull interview? It was one of the most interesting times in Philly hip hop, you know, history. And you were part of it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. And they said, jay Z got me fired. Yeah, that was the rumor.

[Jabari Young]

Did you ever confirm if that was true?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That was the first question we asked him. When Jay Z came. I remember that.

[Jabari Young]

He didn't. He didn't say anything.

[DJ Envy]

I don't remember what he said. No.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, he said no.

[Jabari Young]

I thought he just laughed it off.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, he said no.

[Jabari Young]

And.

[DJ Envy]

And.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I remember another time we had a conversation about. He was like, yeah, did I really get you fired?

[Jabari Young]

But it worked out for you, though. I think it worked out.

[Lauren LaRosa]

When Stephen A. Smith first called you and said that you were thinking about things wrong or you were doing it wrong. What was the first conversation after that? Like, what was the breakdown to build back up, like, for you with him?

[Jabari Young]

Well, you know, that was a rough conversation to have. I was pulling into my aunt's house in Dallas, visiting her, and I get the call late at night, and he's like, yo, man, CNBC's calling me up. And they, you know, because I put him as a reference. What's this about? And I'm like, I don't know, man. I'm just, you know, I'm down in San Antonio. I like covering the Spurs. I just broke the Kawhi Leonard joint. And, you know, yeah, you know, all that. You know. And so he says, you know, jabari Young, the hell with that. The spurs ain't gonna do a damn thing for you. And so I'm looking at the phone like, damn, why Stephen ain't talking to me like this? I'm kind of like, you know, talk. Taking it back. And then, you know. But when a mentor talks to you like that, then that's when you really gotta say, damn, he's only doing that because he cares.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Say it again.

[Jabari Young]

He. That's. He's doing it because he cares. Yeah, right. And you gotta hear those things that you don't want to hear. That's true mentorship. Thus, people, that's really in your corner. And so I hung up the phone, and I just was like, damn, let me just step back. And I took a trip to Portland, because up there, great waterfalls, mountains, phenomenal, just to go hiking and just to clear my mind. And at that point, I'm like, man, you know what? This could be big, man, at cnbc. This is business. I could set my daughter up for building networks and wall street like, damn, this is big. And so I'm glad I did because if I don't take that position, I don't meet you. We not at the nasdaq. And I'm not doing that story that was posted publish on you. Absolutely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's dope. Absolutely.

[DJ Envy]

Now, when you talk to a lot of these, I guess, wealthy people, whether they're millionaires, billionaires, people on the Forbes.

[Jabari Young]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Are they happy? The reason I ask is sometimes a lot of people say making all that money, they forget the finer things in life, which is usually family. And you see that a lot with people. So do people seem happy to you?

[Jabari Young]

And are you happy?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Very.

[DJ Envy]

Well, he's happy.

[Jabari Young]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

That's big

[Just Hilarious]

going on over there.

[Jessica]

We gotta stick together, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We'll take your hat off and join us.

[DJ Envy]

Do people seem happy or is it only focused on.

[Jabari Young]

They do envy. They seem happy, man, but it's like, you can't really tell because they could be putting up a front because it's Forbes. So they want to always, you know, make it seem happy, like they're doing great. But I've heard horror stories. John Hope Bryant always says that, like, there are a lot of people behind the scenes with a lot of money that are not happy and so rich in life. Absolutely. And so sometimes I'll call a few of them and I'm real. The day I'll call them is on New Year's Day day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right.

[Jabari Young]

Because New Year's Day is such a calm day. But it's a great day to catch up with people because everybody's home. Yeah, everybody's home. And I'll call around because. Hey, man, thanks for calling me. Nobody's ever heard from anybody. It's like, you know, so you gotta treat them like human beings and check on them from time to time just to show that, you know, this is a relationship. But some of them may probably be unhappy. And I would think because they got so much money. Where you trapped? You can't go nowhere. Like, I took the sub here today. The minute I can stop doing that. I don't know my.

[DJ Envy]

I ain't taking the sub now.

[Jabari Young]

I mean, I can. You can't.

[DJ Envy]

But I don't want to.

[Jessica]

To.

[Jabari Young]

Well, yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Not going to be in no subway.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You don't want to be

[Lauren LaRosa]

just too many people.

[Jabari Young]

But I like to. I want to be. I want to be. Because I like the people watch. I want to see the street.

[DJ Envy]

I don't need to see a rat.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

N. You know. You know what scared me from the subways In New York is when after 9, 11, everybody kept saying the next terrorist attack, it's going to be the train. I was like, hell no. I never got on the subway since that.

[Jabari Young]

It's too easy. Yeah, it's too easy. I, I, I think about it all time. If you see the movie, the Leave the World behind on Netflix, I actually think it's gonna be cyber attack. Like think about that. Like there was planes was coming down. But I, I like taking this up, man. Again, it lets you people watch and it keeps me kind of like, you know, level headed.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Where do you, when you're sourcing, like what you're going to talk about, where do you get most of your leads from? Like what inspires your story?

[Jabari Young]

Just looking around, right? I look at every morning, I usually go on Google's trend and Google trend is great because you get to see, see what America is looking at, what they're searching for. And, and then you know, I look at that and sometimes like, all right, everybody's paying attention to that. Let me see what's on the left. And you know, you, you just kind of look around and just find different things and you know, a lot of time when I find a project, it take me a while, you know, to, to do it. So you know the, we have this list. The next piece I'm writing on is the Usher. But you know, you just, you look around to see what's going on and then people sending you pictures and then you're like, hey, wait a minute. For example, example, they sent me a pitch celebrating Black Effect five year anniversary. And I'm thinking like, oh, there's a bigger story here. Let's dive into this and people know who Charlamagne the God is. I think this is, this is a great business piece here and I hope I was right.

[DJ Envy]

Did they ever send you the picture of Charlemagne sitting on Wendy Williams lap?

[Jabari Young]

No, I didn't see that.

[DJ Envy]

You didn't?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Child, please, come on, Jabari.

[Jabari Young]

I didn't see it.

[Just Hilarious]

Come on.

[Jabari Young]

I didn't see that. Because you didn't do your research. I didn't see that. I didn't see that.

[Just Hilarious]

Say that for peace cuz that.

[Jabari Young]

No, he just, I just remember the Jennifer Lopez thing. Yeah, I was, I kept looking at that one.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Like, man, you know why he wanted

[Charlamagne Tha God]

to know what it smelled like?

[Jabari Young]

I really did. I ain't in front. I like, he never said what it was. Let me, let me find out what it is.

[Just Hilarious]

Right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I want to ask him in the name of journalism, how did this say

[Jabari Young]

smell that's what it is, Right? That's a perfect lead.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right.

[Jabari Young]

If it smells like roses or something like that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What surprised you most when you did the article when you met him about Charlie?

[Jabari Young]

You know, he. He's very protective of his family in his space. Absolutely. I. I've never really saw that of.

[DJ Envy]

Wow, that's a real picture.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That probably surprised me.

[Jabari Young]

And you kind of look like you're smiling a little bit. You see no smile on these.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Top of the world, baby.

[Just Hilarious]

No.

[Jabari Young]

He's hurting.

[DJ Envy]

So we joke up here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Top of the world. On the top of the world.

[Jabari Young]

He's very protective of his family. Charlamagne. Because usually I always ask people if I always want to be invited to your house. I feel like if you're. If Forbes, we should be invited to your house.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He let you go to his house?

[Jabari Young]

No, that's what it was. And so I was trying to figure. I said, man, what does this do? Live in a bat cave or something like that? And so, you know, but that was what it was. But I respect that, though, because me having a daughter, when she was first born, I would always tell my family, if you take a picture, please leave it off the Internet. I don't want my daughter on it. I want her to enjoy her childhood. She's gonna have that opportunity. So when he said it, and I know I'm a girl dad, too, and he has girls, that's when I'm like, yeah, okay. And then it was great. I have a phrase. It's not happening to you. It's happening for you. Right? And so I'm like, all right, what is the opportunity here in the comic book thing was gold for me. And so I'm glad, almost glad, that he rejected me coming to his house. Thank you.

[Just Hilarious]

You said you was about to do something with Usher. What happened with Usher?

[Jabari Young]

Well, he started. They have the Boys and Girls Club in Detroit. He has a foundation out there, and they're doing a lot of work. And Usher's been doing that for 20 plus years now, making the time. And I feel like it's time to tell a great business story around what he's doing and what he's trying to do with his foundation. And again, the fact that it's in Detroit, not in Atlanta, not in. Where he grew up in Dallas and. No, down south. He grew up in Tennessee. Yeah, Tennessee. Not them. But I think.

[DJ Envy]

Because he owns part of the Cavaliers.

[Jabari Young]

No, he sold.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, wow.

[Jabari Young]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He sold his portion of the Cavaliers. Yeah.

[Jabari Young]

Now, y', all, breaking news. Yeah, he has sold that he told me. Yeah, he sold it. He told me at the top of the year.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow. Yeah, he got some cakes. How much?

[Jabari Young]

I can't tell you that now because I'm. I'm. That's gonna be in the story. But I told y' all he sold it, though. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what he told me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's so interesting about that is when you do that interview and that article comes out, it is literally our job to amplify stuff like that, because we will amplify. The bad news happened at the Boys and Girls Club with us. Couldn't wait to come in here and talk about it. So you have to amplify stories like that and charlamagne.

[Jabari Young]

That's exactly why. First of all, I appreciate the opportunity to come here, but that's the reason, you know, I'm so proud of the work that we're doing, because, you know, we can look up negativity around black people. All you gotta do is open Instagram, look on Twitter or X or whatever it is. But you don't see enough of our prominent individuals outside of the space of entertainment and sports, doing great work.

[Just Hilarious]

Right.

[Jabari Young]

Doing great business. Right. And some of them want to be found. But then I guess some of them are. People aren't just paying attention to them, but I am.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let's talk about the Forbes Black 50. Why is a list like the Forbes Black 50 so important in, like, this social climate?

[Jabari Young]

Because it offers you an opportunity to see what's going on in the world of alternate investments, private equity, private credit, venture capital. You're seeing people, people with assets under management, that's controlling money. You know, one comment that was made for me was, is if you see a black individual managing a billion dollars for someone right? White, black, Hispanic, doesn't matter. That's big in this country. A billion dollars.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right.

[Jabari Young]

And so I wanted to just amplify those people who are doing it, right? They have assets under management. They're raising money. You know how hard it is to go out and ask people for millions of dollars, raise money, right? And the fact that these individuals did it and look at the assets and the management that is accumulated. It's like we need to really be talking about these individuals. And not only that, amplifying them.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right.

[Jabari Young]

And putting them on the map so we can create our next wave. As John o' Brien always like to say, silver rights over civil rights.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right?

[Jabari Young]

Our next wave of leaders in the business community. And hopefully this list helps accomplish that. Hopefully, this list helps improve the ecosystem. Because a lot of Times we don't know each other either. We got people doing stuff here, doing over there. And I feel like that's what of the. The bad things about our community.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right.

[Jabari Young]

We're so, you know, spread out and not knowing each other. And hopefully this list improves the ecosystem and it just gives that next generation of an individual that's in black America, you know, say, hey, you know what? I might want to go this route.

[Just Hilarious]

Did you ever. Did you ever experience any pushback for creating a list as such? Like, you know, black leaders and entrepreneurs,

[Jabari Young]

you get them on the X apps of the world. Oh, Forbes crazed this list and black and this and that and this. Like, well, we're not talking to you. So it's like, you know, if you ever also want to train and you're talking to your friend and somebody says,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

well, I would do it.

[Jabari Young]

This is looking at him like, was I talking to you?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why are you in this conversation? Right?

[Jabari Young]

And so you get that type of pushback but you ignore it because I'm not talking to you. We're talking. We talking to some other people. And if there's anything other ethnic groups should look at this list and study from it too. They might find something that they know. It's nobody saying it's in inclusive of. Of you looking at it and learning from it and studying these people. It's just, this is a list for us.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How do we amplify your work, Jabari? Where can they follow you? Where can they get your stuff?

[Jabari Young]

Listen, man, Forbes.com you know, Forbes be okay again, force be okay 50s out and you know, JB underscore Young on Instagram and that's that on LinkedIn too. Y' all need to get back on. Y' all need to get on LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a dope. Is a dope platform. Yeah, LinkedIn is great.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Jabari Young]

I gotta follow you on LinkedIn. Yeah, yeah. LinkedIn is.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Is one of the conversations they have on LinkedIn are. It makes more sense about a lot of things. So it'd be topical, but it's like the deeper dives. But it's just from like a different.

[Jabari Young]

No arguing. It's just. Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't want to sound bougie when I say it, but it's just like an elevated conversation around all the things that you get everywhere else.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I didn't know there was conversations happening on.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It is kind of like that, but it's starting to get a little bit crazy. But threads can be like that as well.

[Jabari Young]

Yeah, I. I'm done with the so I've. I've maxed out my social medias. I'm like, I don't want to go to another platform for him. I said the next one I would go to if I had to do it would be Isaac Hayes and Fan Base. I gotta. I gotta do that with Isaac. Yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

Jabari, did you know that the newspaper is written on a third grade level?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, he is. I know, but I don't.

[B Dot]

I don't.

[Just Hilarious]

Charlemagne told me that. Yeah, but Charlemagne be playing with me so much because I'm very gullible when it comes to him. I be believing things and he'll trick me.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Is Jabari Young? It's the Breakfast Club. Thank you, my brother.

[Jabari Young]

Appreciate it. Good morning.

[Just Hilarious]

It's the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ain't nobody that excited to have sex, man.

[Just Hilarious]

What you talking about?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This song about trying. Ain't nobody that. Y' all be that excited.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You should. I mean, you. You're doing it with someone you love.

[B Dot]

That's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I guess. Yeah, but we. It's the way she said it. Yeah. How many of them is it?

[Just Hilarious]

I don't know. That was gunna, wasn't it?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, man.

[Just Hilarious]

Yes. Got a lot of them.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's the world's most dangerous morning show, the Breakfast Club. It's time for the latest with Laura.

[Just Hilarious]

Lauren be coming with Straight fat made it.

[DJ Envy]

She gets them from somebody that knows somebody.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She gets the details.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She be having the latest on the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes she have facts, sometimes you have details. Sometimes she have a little bit everything.

[DJ Envy]

Who is the latest brought to you

[Charlamagne Tha God]

by Top Dog Law on the Breakfast Club.

[Just Hilarious]

Talk to me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Top Dog Law. Top Dog.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All right, y'. All. So I wanna. First, before we get into the rest of the latest, really quick, I want to mention yesterday, Eric Dane, it was announced that he passed away at 53 years old after a ALS battle. And most people will know him from Grey's Anatomy. I know he also was in Bad Boys as well too. Some people know him from, uh, Euphoria as well. But yeah, he passed away and he was very vocal about his battle with ALS and the journey that he was going through on it as well too. So I just wanted to send some love to his family.

[DJ Envy]

Absolutely.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I saw a bunch of f. I saw Martin post him yesterday and talk about how much of a good person he was and just sending his family some love. So just.

[Just Hilarious]

I'm a big fan of Eric Dane's work.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, y' all know him. From Euphoria. He played the gay father on Euphoria, who live was living the double life.

[Just Hilarious]

Yes, he wasn't out, but yes, he wasn't out on the show.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He was.

[Just Hilarious]

So he was a closeted gay father over there. Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, well. Yes, well, shifting gears make it sound

[Charlamagne Tha God]

like I outed him. It's a TV show.

[Jessica]

Okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It did sound like you outed him.

[Jessica]

That's

[Lauren LaRosa]

all right, y'.

[DJ Envy]

All.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So in other news, speaking of TV shows. So yesterday it was announced that the Jennifer Hudson show was renewed for a fifth season. Daytime TV Talk up Now. I. I had told you guys sometime back when Sherri shepherd show was announced to be good, that it was going to be canceled, that I was told by a source that Jennifer Hudson show would not continue, that they were next on the list of the chopping block right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sometime. It's okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. And I went back to the source and I, I'm like, hey, you were great. Because I knew before Sherry was announced. I knew before Kelly Clarkson was announced. And I'm like, you know, what happened with this one. But what I was told was that from what I'm being told, she probably took a pay cut because the conversation is still there about finances and being able to afford shows and afford teams and all that. But whatever she had to do to keep her show going, I'm not mad at her.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How long is the renewal?

[Lauren LaRosa]

The renewal is for a year. And that's another thing as well, too. So she's renewed for a year. I've seen renewals for shows, but be like two years, three years at some point. But I think, you know, where we are right now. And all of this is just, you gotta play it by season.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I just feel like them shows cost too much to produce now. Like, they cost way too much to produce now. And when you have, like, you know, screaming platforms like Netflix, you know, putting, you know, shows like Breakfast Club on and, you know, other podcasts is just. It's just cheaper to produce. Oh, by the way, we're worldwide on Netflix right now, right? Like, right now, starting today. So, you know, you can listen to us and I mean, you can watch us in other countries on Netflix now. So we might be a daytime show in one country or late night showing another country right now. Yes.

[Just Hilarious]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We're everywhere. Except for. Hold on, there's two places we not. Hold on.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We're in Barbados.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, we in Barbados.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay. Because a lot of people from Barbados have been DMing me saying that they want to see us. Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We're not In Korea, in Vietnam.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, my God. And I got friends over.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Why that's.

[Just Hilarious]

They've been trying to watch it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Not. You got sources over there. Yes, yes. Well, in other news, speaking of sources, I told y' all yesterday that something was coming with Jay Z, and y' all thought I was crazy.

[Just Hilarious]

Yes, we did.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But it happened. It came. So Jay Z. Yesterday, it was announced by Roc Nation.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I feel like I need to pause you just. Because that was just discussing.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, it came.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Continue, though. That was discuss.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yesterday, Roc Nation announced that Jay Z's Dead Presidents, the original Dead Presidents, would. Is now available for streaming. And this is the first time in 30 years that this has happened. And not only is it available for streaming, but you can also purchase vinyls. You can purchase actual CDs as well, too. And for those who don't know, I don't know if everybody knows, but Dead Presidents was the lead single on Jay Z's Reasonable Doubt, and they're celebrating 30 years of that album, which was his breakout album, but that was the breakout song, so it's like a collector's dream if you're a Jay Z fan.

[Just Hilarious]

Amazing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I love that record. And I don't know why I feel like I've been listening to that record my whole life. I never even noticed it wasn't on screaming service.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, well, because Dead Presidents 2 was available, so when it was first released, it was Dead Presidents two. But that was. They, like, rerecorded it a certain way or something like that. But the original one now is dead. Yeah, this is different verses on different verses, different production. Like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, no, it's the same beat.

[DJ Envy]

Well, I.

[Lauren LaRosa]

From what I read via Complex, they said the production was done. Maybe it was like a different type of thing. I don't know.

[Just Hilarious]

Because something was coming down a pipeline, and Lauren LaRosa knew first, but we

[Lauren LaRosa]

thought she was crazy, me and some of the fans. And y' all did think I was crazy, but, I mean, everything was all

[Charlamagne Tha God]

good just a week ago. About to start bitching, ain't you? Ready to start snitching, ain't you? I'll forgive you. Weak ass Hustling just ain't you? Yes, de President.

[Just Hilarious]

I know that's right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Go ahead, go ahead.

[Just Hilarious]

Which was also one of my favorite movies.

[Jessica]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, what else we got? Lauren Girl

[Lauren LaRosa]

T Pain posted something yesterday on his Instagram that I definitely want to play on air. He's talking about Burnout, and he's being really honest about it. Let's take a listen.

[Just Hilarious]

I kind of been just not communicating with a lot of people. If you have texted me and I have not texted you back, I do want you to know that is on purpose. After Super Bowl, I realized that I accidentally burnt myself out. I've been saying yes to everything, Anything, anything that anybody asked of me. I. I just jump to it. I do everything. And for about two years now, I

[DJ Envy]

have not really done anything for myself.

[Just Hilarious]

I was supposed to go on tour this year.

[B Dot]

Year.

[Just Hilarious]

I've canceled the tour. But, yeah, man, I think I just needed peace.

[DJ Envy]

I haven't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I didn't plan this out. It's just been a lot of people texting me, asking me to do for them.

[Just Hilarious]

And I know mother will check Instagram

[Charlamagne Tha God]

before they check on their people. So I just want to chill.

[Just Hilarious]

I don't need show money. You're not going. I don't give a how much you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You.

[Just Hilarious]

You willing to pay. Unless it's. I mean, if it's crazy money, you know, I can't do it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I just don't want to. I get it. You know, it's called boundaries. And sometimes you get tired of people, and I don't like people in all the time. And, you know, people make, you know, their problems, your problems, and like, to make their urgency your urgency. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, he said he sounds that up too, didn't he?

[Just Hilarious]

Like, yeah, he just sounds like, I'm done 100.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And then another part of the video, he was saying how, like, he never understood Andre 3000 more than ever right now. Because, you know, Andre 3000, like, he. He gets away from the people. He's doing the flute thing. Like, he. He's doing what he wants to do for himself. And I totally get it, because Burnout

[Just Hilarious]

doing the flute thing, okay?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And the worst thing, man, is when you sitting around and you don't want a people and somebody texts you and be like, yo, man, hit me. It's important. Yes. Not to me.

[Just Hilarious]

Or like you said yesterday, when somebody sit around you and they go,

[Jessica]

you

[Lauren LaRosa]

huff and puff, he not gonna ask

[Charlamagne Tha God]

you what's wrong, don't come by me. Sign.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And nothing is ever important to him unless it's important to him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm just simply saying, like, don't. If I don't feel like doing anything important in this, this moment, don't bring me into your level of importance, okay? Hit me right now. It's important. I ain't got time for nothing important right now, man. Not. Not right now. I don't feel like doing nothing important at the moment.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You know, people should ask when they hit you about things or anybody, they should say, hey, do you have the capacity for this right now? Or, like, I do that. I'm like, hey, how do you feel about what you're going through right now?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Can you talk?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Like I try to be, you know, empathetic.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Could nobody ever take that into consideration? What? We all got our own individual lives, and we got our own things going on. What if I'm in the middle of my own important importance and now you hitting me, talking about you got something important? I don't have time for your level importance right now. I got to deal with mine.

[DJ Envy]

True.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, speaking of dealing with things that are important, we have an important matter. We need you to come to the front of the congregation. Charlemagne. DJ Khaled. He's tired of you.

[Just Hilarious]

Leave these big people alone.

[Jessica]

Damn.

[Lauren LaRosa]

DJ Khaled responded. Am I. I think he's responding directly to Charlamagne. He doesn't say his name, but let's take a listen. DJ Khaled posted this yesterday. Yesterday.

[Just Hilarious]

You could take this for motivation. You could take this for inspiration. You could take it for whatever you want to take it. But I promise you, there's no shortcuts to success, and there's no shortcuts to more blessings. You have to show up and you have to work. I talk to talk, and I walk the walk. I have new aspirations, and I have new goals, and I want it off. And it's coming off. I'm sitting on a golf course green because I just got done doing 18

[Charlamagne Tha God]

holes with no golf.

[Just Hilarious]

Golf cart. Yeah, you might think that's easy, but I do it every single day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I wake up every morning while you're

[Just Hilarious]

hugging your pillow, putting slob all over it. You know, the pillows with the zippers on it. You're inflicting wounds and cutting your face and your teeth dirty, and you're staining the pillow. You don't act like you don't see it coming off. That's on you. You see, it's not what haters see. It's what God sees.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How's that to be? I'm up early in the morning, radio

[Lauren LaRosa]

you up early in the morning. But you be. You was your child. You was on this radio. See his neck. It don't matter.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All I simply said was, I'm tired of seeing Khaled in these weight loss commercials with these weight loss sponsorships, and he not losing no weight. He had a Weight Watchers deal. He didn't lose a pound. He was on the elliptical Every morning we ain't see him losing no weight. Now he got the wee gub thing. He wasn't. Didn't seem like he was losing no weight, but I guess he is. I hope he does.

[Just Hilarious]

He's saying while we are drooling in our slumber on them old ass pillowcases, he is up walking from hole to hole every morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't want that man to be fat forever. I want him to lose weight the same. Okay?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I know Charlemagne pillowcase is not old. You got $200 million. You got.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know what you're talking about. But I am glad. I am glad Khed is losing weight. I'm glad that he feel like he losing weight in his neck. Next is the titties.

[B Dot]

Okay?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We don't want you running around screaming. We the breast.

[Jabari Young]

We don't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We don't want none of that for you, Khed. We happy you losing weight. Big titties. We happy Khed losing weight. Kh. We are happy for you. Keep. Okay. Yeah, keep going. And like I said yesterday, he got inspiration. In fact, Joe lost weight and kept the weight off. Rick Ross lost weight and kept the weight off. Khaled is the next in line. I'm happy for that, brother. Go ahead, do your thing.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Just Hilarious]

I'm happy for these brothers, man, because I remember I saw. I just saw a video. Rick Ross, I think it was somebody from TMZ walked up on him, was talking to him, and he smelled what kind of sausage that man had just on his breath.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Just Hilarious]

But Rick Ross has come a long way from that. Do that type of stuff. No more.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely. That was the latest.

[Mimi Brown]

Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, wait, hold on. I gotta tell somebody something. All the people listening, for any accident, big or small, you gotta call Top Dog Law. They sponsor this segment. Shout out to Top Dog Law.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah. Oh, and three years ago, we lost a legend. And today is his birthday. Sidney Poitier. Happy birthday. He would have been 98.

[Nyla Simone]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think that both of you are two of the most random people I've ever met in my whole life.

[Just Hilarious]

We have birthdays on the page and I have the same. My job.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Not have to say Top Dog.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That is true. That is. That is absolutely true. Coming up next, we got Donkey of the Day. It's the people's donkey. So you can call up 1-800-585-1051. And give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid. It's the Breakfast Club. It's your time to nominate a donkey of your own.

[Jabari Young]

Remember now, that's is how they choose.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Call in now.

[B Dot]

800-585-1051.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Donkey today for Friday, February 20th. You know, every Friday, we do the people's donkey, man. This is when you get to call up and give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid. All you got to do is dial 1-800-585-1051 and you can give somebody the biggest. The biggest Hee haw. So good morning. Who's this?

[Jessica]

It's Regina. Hey, Regina.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

H town.

[DJ Envy]

H town.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who you want to get the biggest he haw to? Regina.

[Jessica]

Oh, my God. I want to give the biggest he haw. I don't want to say his name, but I went on a date this weekend with this agent.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now, you. You gotta say his name. You. This is donkey. You gotta say his name.

[Jessica]

We don't.

[DJ Envy]

We gonna.

[Jessica]

We don't call him cj.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, cj. CJ from Houston. He's an agent.

[Jessica]

All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What happened?

[Jessica]

He got upset at me because I wanted some coffee. Ego too big. Had me riding around with him. Gave me access to all the celebrity parties, and he thought because of that, that he could treat me like crap.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What was going on in Houston?

[Jessica]

This is not Houston.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I was in la.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

La. All Star weekend, guys.

[Jessica]

Yes. All Star Weekend.

[Mimi Brown]

Yes.

[Jessica]

I actually went to some parties, had a great time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh.

[Jessica]

Was good as long as I stayed in line.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, okay. But you didn't. He thought that, you know, he was just gonna woo you by showing you all of these different parties and being around all of these different people.

[Jessica]

Absolutely. I'm a nurse. I can take care of myself. I don't need him like that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Then he got mad when you ain't want give him nothing. Well, you gave.

[Jessica]

He got mad at me because I wanted coffee.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, after you gave him something, you wanted some coffee? Why he mad? Why he so mad about coffee?

[Jessica]

I don't know why he's mad about coffee. I just wanted some coffee. I don't know what's his problem, but

[Charlamagne Tha God]

this don't sound right. Now, you. You made something missing from the story, and I don't know why you don't want to tell us the whole story.

[Jessica]

Okay, so you understand. Okay, I understand how celebrities move.

[Jabari Young]

You move, move, move. You gotta.

[Jessica]

You have a schedule. Schedule the key.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, ma'.

[Jessica]

Am. Well, this particular. This particular morning, he was. He was late coming downstairs. We were supposed to be ready for 10:30. I was waiting for him for an hour, so I decided to go get coffee. And when I decided to go get coffee, he got upset.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, see? But see, you ain't tell us the whole story. I understand. So he was running late. Because he was running late. He had to be with a client. You already was sitting down there for an hour.

[Jessica]

No, he had me waiting for an hour.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what I'm saying. You was already sitting down there for an hour. So you wait till he come down and say, you want to go.

[Jessica]

Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I got my coffee well before he came down. And then when I was on my way back, it took me literally, literally five minutes, and he got upset at me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So what's. So what's up? You're not gonna call him back no more?

[Jessica]

Absolutely not. I'm not dealing with that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn.

[Jessica]

No, absolutely not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I understand. I got another thought, but I don't. I'm gonna keep it to myself because I'm thinking that, you know, he might have been with you when you had coffee before, and then.

[Jessica]

No, he's never. This was. This was our first meet, okay?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because coffee be making girls poop crazy. So maybe you don't.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, my God. Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, that's what I'm saying.

[Jessica]

I'm not that girl. I'm not lactose intolerant.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, okay, okay. All right. Well, thank you for calling, man. Appreciate you. Good morning. Who's this?

[Jessica]

What's going on? It's Robert. Robert Stewart from Detroit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Robert Stewart from Detroit, man. Salute to everybody who listens to us on. On W. JLP in Detroit, right? J O, B, J O, B. Jlb. WJLB in Detroit.

[Jessica]

Yeah, WJLB for sure.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, sir. Salute to everybody who's listening to us on 97. 9, WJLB in Detroit. Exclude everybody who listens us on 93. 7 to beat in Houston, too, for the last caller, but get it off. Give somebody who you want to get the biggest he haw to, Sir.

[Jessica]

Man, I'm trying to get the biggest. Biggest donkey to this chick name Lorraine. Man, I let her live in my house for three and a half years for rent free, man. She tow my house up. Roaches, rats all in the wall. I asked her, I'm like, how the house get like this? She like, I don't know. The kids just don't listen to me. So the neighbor ended up calling me next door, was like, hey, man, that chick don't even be at the house. He had four years of camera footage showing me her not being at the house for two or three days, leaving the kids at the. At the house, popping up at the house, running in and out the house. I don't know what she was doing. It sound like she was probably prostituting or something, but damn. At the end of the day, I'm just trying to warn anybody who got any type of properties, do not let her rent from y'.

[DJ Envy]

All.

[Jessica]

And she gonna tear y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All and what's her name again?

[Just Hilarious]

Lorraine.

[Jessica]

Lorraine from Detroit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, well, thank you for calling my brother.

[Jessica]

All right. Thanks, Charmaine. Until Envy, I said what up? And Jessica, I said, what up, too, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What up, brother?

[DJ Envy]

What up, bro?

[Jessica]

Hey, and Jessica, I think you know my home girl, Joanna.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Joanna Lewis. Yep, I know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Joey.

[Jessica]

Yep. That's my ex girl, man, from high school.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, damn. That's what's up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what? She don't want you.

[Jessica]

All pictures.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She don't want you claiming her, bro. That was 20 years ago. She do not want you.

[Jessica]

She probably still like me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm that guy.

[Just Hilarious]

She didn't gave her life to the Lord. She different now.

[Jessica]

You know, I gave mine to the Lord, too. Hallelujah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

A dude will say anything to get some food. I gave my life to the Lord, too. You know I'm Muslim now. Hey, yo, he called your whole government.

[DJ Envy]

Name? Jessica.

[Just Hilarious]

Jesus.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning. Who's this?

[Jessica]

From Detroit. What's up, family?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This who from Detroit? Your phone went out a little bit.

[Jabari Young]

My bad.

[Jessica]

This is Jay. Jay from Detroit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jay. What's happening, my brother? Who you want to get the biggest hall, too?

[Jessica]

Everybody in New York, including my homeboy, said the was gonna do something bad to Detroit last night. And we seen what happened, man. Them boys got spanked, bta.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, belt the ass. I'm gonna tell you something. Detroit Pistons look good. You know what I like about y'?

[Nyla Simone]

All?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Y', all? Y'.

[Jessica]

All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Y' all like bullies out there on the court. Like that old school bad boy Pistons

[Jessica]

basketball, man, that's Detroit at its finest, man. That's the city. That's the community. Community. That's the environment. That's the people, man. We greedy, we bullies. We grind it out. And that team is a true testament to every citizen in the city of Detroit, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, let's see if y' all can do it in the playoffs when it counts.

[Jessica]

Sir, is Lauren still in the studio right now?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, she right here. LL Cool Bay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm here.

[Jessica]

Hello, Cool Bay. She the finest thing walking, man. I swear for God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How long you. How long. How long you been blind, brother? When did you lose your.

[Jessica]

As soon as she Came on the Breakfast Club. I guess that's when went blind, sir.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I know that's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I appreciate you, Jay. Good morning. Who's this?

[Jessica]

Good morning, Charlie, man. This is Wendy. How are you all?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, Wendy. How are you? Who you want to get the biggest he haw to one.

[Jessica]

Thank you. I wanted to give the biggest he not just of the day, but of the years to Tyra Banks.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn.

[Just Hilarious]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The floor is yours. Continue.

[Jessica]

Yes. I want to give her donkey of the years because she could have definitely reached out to Ms. J. And the reason why I said I'm not going to ruin it for you and not DJ envy, but there are reasons why she could have reached out to him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, go ahead. Tell me, tell me. Tell.

[Jessica]

I'm.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'mma watch anyway. Tell me, tell us.

[Jessica]

Okay, okay. The main reason is that she herself introduced Ms. J as the one who taught her how to walk when she was 15 years old.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow.

[Jessica]

So if it wasn't. Wasn't for Ms. J, she would not be Tyra Banks.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow. Okay, so see, that's good information.

[Jessica]

Yes. So for you to not even make him. I don't even know. Not even to apologize, Make a video, something to reach out to this man. You can fly back from wherever you're living now, not living in the States anymore. You could fly back and give that man a hug and say, oh, my God, I'm so sorry.

[Just Hilarious]

I agree with you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right. Especially if she taught her how to walk like that. You talk. She taught you how to walk. She taught. He basically gave her the foundation for her career.

[Just Hilarious]

Absolutely.

[Jessica]

Oh, yes.

[Jabari Young]

Definitely.

[Jessica]

Definitely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, thank you for calling. Good morning. Who's this?

[Jessica]

Which guy?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Joe.

[Jessica]

Pull out of your Yonkers, Joe.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You got to turn your radio down a little bit, brother.

[Jessica]

My fault. I'm in my garbage truck right now working.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, we appreciate your service. The only thing I hate is when y' all be blocking the road in the morning, man. Think about the rest of us trying to get to work.

[Jessica]

If y' all get out the way, let us do our job, maybe y' all can get to work.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Y' all the ones in front. We need you to get out the way.

[Jessica]

This is the most dangerous job in the United States right now. Being a garbage man in New York.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why? Tell me why.

[Jessica]

The people's always texting and driving. They don't even pay attention.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, got you guys. I see what you're saying. Who you want to get the biggest, too, for?

[Jessica]

Morgan county jail in Alabama posted a video of John Scott. He had died. Black man Died in the jail last year. Allegedly, they. They trying to fire the man for storing the inmates for honey bun.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn. I ain't see that story. I gotta look that one up.

[Jessica]

It's on my Instagram on Snack Brothers Vendor.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You said they trying to. They trying to fire the brother because he. He had a honey bun he stole.

[Jessica]

He's supposed to supposedly took seven honey buns from inmates, and that's why they're trying to fire him now, allegedly, because he posted a video of a guy getting killed in the facility.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's crazy.

[Jessica]

If you check my Instagram, Snack Brothers Vendor, you will see his posted on my page right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm gonna definitely go check that out, my brother.

[Jessica]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, sir. Thank you for your service too, man. Salute to all the garbage truck drivers out there. The only thing we need y' all to do, though, is when we in the city trying to get to work in the morning, please think about all of them 20 cars that y' all be having backed up because y' all want to be in the middle of the road.

[Just Hilarious]

They not. They not gonna think about it. They don't care. They be riding the line in the middle. Can't nobody get past them.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But we do that every Friday, man. 1-800-585-1051. You can call up and give somebody the biggest he haw. It's the people's donkey. Or you can go to the iHeartRadio app, click on Breakfast Club, and leave a message. Yeah, that's right.

[DJ Envy]

Now let's open up the phone lines. 800-585-1051. During front page news, Mimi reported that it's tough out there and people are, I guess we could say, shacking up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Mimi Brown. Let's listen. Let's listen.

[Mimi Brown]

There's a new housing survey that's raising questions this morning about roommate red flags. It says that more adults in their 30s and 40s, they're sharing space again because rent is just simply too high. So recent data from Zillow, it shows living alone can cost renters more than $10,000. And so people are splitting it because financially it makes sense. But respondents to that survey say that they're facing issues that they thought they left behind in college, like dirty dishes stacking up from for days, boyfriend or girlfriends that are practically moving in without paying bills and late payments, that in some cases their credit is being affected because someone on the lease isn't keeping their part of the deal.

[Jessica]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So how many? I mean, I'm sure there's a lot of people Living that life. You know, I'm sure there's a lot of adults who have had to get roommates because of the economy.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. So that's the question. Would you do that? Are you doing that? 800-585-1051. When I first met Mercedes, who's my business manager, big footy.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, don't say that.

[DJ Envy]

When I first met Ben, she was actually in that situation. She lived in a house in Jersey and it was. She had pretty much five roommates that she didn't know they were renting rooms and they had the same common area, the same kitchen, and the same everything because it was expensive. But, you know, she has her own now, her own crib and everything now. But back then, that's how she survived. It was like she couldn't afford rent. So it was, you know, you break it down with, you know, five, six people and, you know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But makes all the financial sense in the world.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, but that's the thing. It's so dangerous too. It's kind of scary because you don't know who you living with. You know what I mean?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, unless you living with people that, you know, like your, you know, family

[Just Hilarious]

members, none of them. So it's kind of like a situation. You just had to trust that you were safe.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Like, and trust your valuables. Trust that they're not, you know, knocking in your room when you're not there, you know, sneaking in your room or whatever.

[Just Hilarious]

She was pretty big, you know, to your point.

[DJ Envy]

Watch your mouth.

[Just Hilarious]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I love how big she is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, but I'm six seven. Size 13.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, I wouldn't want to knock on

[Charlamagne Tha God]

that beautiful, beautiful, beautiful sister.

[Just Hilarious]

I wouldn't knock on that door, man.

[DJ Envy]

Oh my goodness. 800-58515.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I was thinking too, though, how many people are to going to be forced to practice polygamous lifestyles in the future because of this? Cuz it's not just going to always be movement, you know what I mean? Well, not forced, but you might think about it financial, like, yeah, like, yo, man, you the one guy, you know, he can take care of both of us.

[DJ Envy]

But you know what? There's a lot of women making a lot of money.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Vice versa. No, you're right.

[Just Hilarious]

But what if it's a lot of men? What if it's all dudes living together and they just like, n. Let's give it a whirl, you know what I mean? Just call up.

[DJ Envy]

Just call up. All right, man, let's. Let's open up the phone lines, man. It's a Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

If y' all talking about it, you know we talking about it. It's topic time. Call 800-585-1051 to join into the discussion with the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Morning, everybody. Is DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne.

[Jabari Young]

Tha guy.

[DJ Envy]

We are the Breakfast Club. Now, if you're just joining us, we're talking about a story that Mimi did during front page news about Mimi Brown. Mimi Brown. About pretty much shacking up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This ain't shacking up. These are just people who are roommates.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, just roommates. They're just trying to get it, you know, get it done. Because you look at rent, and rent can go anywhere from about probably about 2,500 to $4,000. And people can't afford it. So what they're doing is they're renting out rooms where it's like you have your own room, but you're sharing a common space, which is usually the kitchen or the living room and areas like that, but people can't afford it. So you're seeing more and more and more of that. And like you said, also people are like, look, you know, if the man can afford it, he might be able to have a couple of different girls. If a woman can afford it, have a couple of different dudes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think that the economy is going to really going force. Not force, but, you know, make people get into more polygamous relationships. I really do. And it might be vice versa. You might have some women that's out here making enough money and, you know, might have to have these two dudes like, yo, we gonna all be one big happy family.

[Jabari Young]

Yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

And they gonna have to be all right with it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You just never know. I never had a roommate. You know what I'm saying? I mean, me and my wife have lived together, you know, even back in the day, but I never had a roommate.

[Just Hilarious]

I never had a roommate either.

[DJ Envy]

Well, y' all didn't go to college, but only in college I had a roommate, but outside of college. No, me neither.

[Just Hilarious]

So what?

[Jabari Young]

It don't matter.

[Just Hilarious]

We ain't never go to college.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How was that? Two men sharing the same toilet?

[Just Hilarious]

It was three of them in there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Two cheeks on.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah.

[Just Hilarious]

It wasn't even just two. I'm so hyped. Talking about, you went to college, you sharing the dorm with all it. Let me, let me spin. Yeah, all right.

[DJ Envy]

I don't know what college you went to, but Hampton University was a two bedroom, two toilet, so we had our own toilet. It wasn't cheeks on the same toilet.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Remember when we had. Remember, remember Dros, our old bored up dramas? Had a roommate and him and the dude was sharing the same.

[Just Hilarious]

He was grown or he was young. He was.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, he was older. He got so mad when I was like, yo, y' all putting the same cheeks on.

[DJ Envy]

It's the truth. Because if you think about it, if he. If he got crabs and then you use the toilet after him, that crab is hanging on to that toilet.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Man, forget the crab. The ass wolf. When you sit on the toilet after another man and you feel that warmth, and then. What if you get bricked up a little bit while you do that every day at work? Never.

[Just Hilarious]

No, y' all don't. Y' all don't know who sit on them to. Before y'.

[Jabari Young]

All.

[DJ Envy]

Nobody sit on my toilet.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That is different, though. It's a little bit more intimate when y' all roommates and y' all two men sharing the same toilet. Man. What did you say? Last hours, Give it a whirl.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, but if it's your roommate, you kind of know his ass a little bit better than you would know a stranger's ass. No, for real.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, you know, living with a person, that's how it starts right there. That's why Biggie said you know two with nope. Find yourself in serious. Okay. All right, let's go to the phone lines.

[DJ Envy]

Hello? Who's this?

[Jessica]

This is real. This is real from the Bronx.

[DJ Envy]

Are you against roommates will or shacking up or having a bunch of men or even a bunch of women living with you?

[Jessica]

All right, now, I'm Be honest with y' all here, man. If it's. If it's like childhood friends as far as men and we grew up together, then, you know, we could work something out.

[DJ Envy]

But, you know, don't take that disrespectfully. I just. I haven't caught.

[Just Hilarious]

This is a woman, yo.

[Jessica]

Sorry you said that. My girl, boy.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, this a girl.

[Jessica]

I'm a dude, man. I'm a dude, yo.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Come on.

[Jessica]

Come.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I understand what J saying, cuz. Yo, studs.

[Jessica]

Studs.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Studs be players, too.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, got the voice on. I'm sorry.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, N. Yeah.

[Jessica]

Don't do me like that, man. Come on. But, you know, I ain't. I ain't against it, man. It's just sometimes when it's with friends, you know, it could be a financial issue that could mess up a relationship, a friendship. You know what I'm saying?

[Just Hilarious]

Definitely.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you.

[Jessica]

What word. So I appreciate y' all for getting me through. I just want to shout out Soundview the Bronx and my Uncle KT. Get well.

[DJ Envy]

All right, all right. Well, 800-585-1051. Mimi was from Front Page News, was talking about people are shacking up. They're living with each other.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, stop saying shacking up. Shacking up is something different to my grandma. Yeah, me and my wife used to shack up because we was a couple. We weren't married. That's what you call shacking up. These are people who are actually roommates because, you know, financially, they can't afford to rent on their own. Like this. Ain't no shacking up. Ain't no loving going on. Now, I'm trying to get the polygamy question going, but ain't nobody biting on the polygamy.

[Just Hilarious]

Nobody want to do that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Now, if you're just joining us, Mimi, during Front Page News, she was talking about how difficult it out there is out there for homeowners. And she said people are having roommates living with each other. So let's listen.

[Mimi Brown]

There's a new housing survey that's raising questions this morning about roommate red flags. It says that more adults in their 30s and 40s, they're sharing space again because rent is just simply too high. So recent data from Zillow, it shows living alone can cost renters more than $10,000. And so people are splitting it because financially it makes sense. But respondents to that survey say that they're facing issues that they thought they left behind in college, like dirty dishes stacking up for days, boyfriend or girlfriends that are practically moving in without paying bills and late payments, that in some cases their credit is being affected because someone on the lease isn't keeping their part of the deal.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Listen, I completely get it. I know that there's a lot of people living that life. You know, I'm sure it's a lot of adults that have to have roommates because of the economy. So, I mean, I. I understand, like, you got to do what you got to do till you get back on your feet, man.

[Jabari Young]

I don't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't see the problem with it.

[DJ Envy]

But if you got four or five roommates, right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Four or five is crazy. I don't even know, like, what kind of place are y' all living in that y' all got four or five roommates.

[DJ Envy]

That's how they got afforded in New York City.

[Just Hilarious]

Y' all be surprised how many people already doing that New York right now.

[DJ Envy]

Does a girl come back to your crib if you got that Many roommates?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Four or five. Crazy. No, probably not.

[Just Hilarious]

N, you can't. You. You shouldn't even want nobody to know you live with four or five people.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right. And them walls too thin. Like, them walls too. You like a girl not going to be able to get loose with four or five roommates. And God forgive forbid you be gay,

[Just Hilarious]

you know, man, you bring a bottom

[Charlamagne Tha God]

back to the crib when they say.

[Mimi Brown]

Hello.

[DJ Envy]

Who's this? Hey, what's up, brother?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Talk to us.

[Jabari Young]

What's your thoughts?

[Jessica]

Man, I tell you this, this stuff is real. Because out here, Long island, depending on where you at, yo, it gotta cost you 50. No, you got to make 51, 000 a year in order to qualify for low income housing.

[Just Hilarious]

In order.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I thought I'd never see the

[Just Hilarious]

day where you come housing. You got to make that?

[Jessica]

Yes. You got to make at least 51,000.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's crazy.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. So you got a roommate, brother.

[Jessica]

Yeah, shoot. We got to rent a room. Shoot. That's the best way to do it.

[DJ Envy]

See, I told you that, like, that's a lot of people do that.

[Just Hilarious]

How many.

[DJ Envy]

How many people live in your house that you live in?

[Jessica]

Pretty much just about three of us.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, but it's your crib. You just rent the other rooms out.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Jessica]

Oh, no, hell no. I'm renting from someone else.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, got you, got you. Do you bring girls back over and stuff like that?

[Jessica]

No, you got to be respectful of the house.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

True, true, true. Wow, you were in a room when you want some cheeks?

[Jessica]

Hotel, Hotel.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, but see, you spending money on hotels. You know what I mean? When you can be.

[DJ Envy]

Because he's too embarrassed to bring the girl back.

[Jessica]

Yeah, but I'm just kicking out, not embarrassed. But you just gotta be respectful of the house rule.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I don't think. There's nothing to be embarrassed about.

[Just Hilarious]

No, no, no. Not to be embarrassed, but that's kicking out more bread. If he already can't afford to live on his own. You getting. You getting hotels for cheap.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, just got a point.

[Just Hilarious]

You gotta upgrade the female.

[Jessica]

Yeah, but if she got home spots, who could go over here too?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sure.

[DJ Envy]

How much is your rent?

[Just Hilarious]

That's what I was already saying. It depends on the type of woman.

[Jessica]

Oh, no, I ain't telling that.

[DJ Envy]

How much his rent is, that's all.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, yeah, yeah. How much it is?

[Jessica]

Bunch of my co workers is listening to this.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right, that's right. Don't let them mess up your situation, bro.

[DJ Envy]

All right, man. Thank you, brother. I ain't telling y'.

[Jessica]

All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ain't nobody on the line that practice a polygamous lifestyle to save money.

[Just Hilarious]

None of the women. I thought we was gonna get at least some women to call out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn.

[Just Hilarious]

Cause they be the first ones with it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, what's the moral of the story, sir?

[DJ Envy]

Cause we don't have that on the line.

[Just Hilarious]

It ain't that.

[DJ Envy]

That is not.

[Just Hilarious]

That's how you know it Ain't that many people out there that's willing to do that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You right. The moral of the story to me is nothing. It's just like, you have people doing what they gotta do to survive. I'm not judging nobody. Like, I think what. You know, that new survey says a lot. It says a lot about where the economy is. And, you know, people are literally doing what they gott to get by. So I. I get it. I understand. Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

I just always worry about the safety issue.

[Mimi Brown]

Right.

[DJ Envy]

Because you don't know who you're living with. You don't know, you know, where they came from or what your intentions are. So. That's the scary part about it, you

[Just Hilarious]

know, Got mental illness and all this type of stuff. You just never know be thieving.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's true.

[Just Hilarious]

I mean, yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Just imagine living with Jess.

[Just Hilarious]

Imagine living with me. It's like living in paradise, baby. Don't play with me. Don't play with me.

[DJ Envy]

All right, when we come back, we come got past the orcs. Nala will be joining us, so don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Big Nyla. Nyla Simone. It's very important to let people know that Nyla is a dj. That's why it says Go DJ in the intro. For people who don't know yet, you

[Nyla Simone]

know the Twitch Channel at the jcole Brooklyn Public Library event, we're like, oh, my God, I didn't know Nyla DJed. I'm like, how do y' all think I got the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, that's our fault. We don't do a good enough job of letting people know you dj. It's all good if you're a dj. That's why she's up here playing new music, because she's an actual dj.

[Just Hilarious]

But at the end of her segment, she always shouts out certified, like, you're all with your stuff.

[Nyla Simone]

Like, you always do events.

[Just Hilarious]

You're a dj.

[Nyla Simone]

It's okay. I'm working on doing like a tour, so going to, like, smaller cities and DJing, so maybe that'll help with explosions, exposure. But I want to get into some Records today. I'm actually going to start with this Nipsey and be no record. I was curious to see how you felt about it, because I actually like it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I haven't heard. I really. I haven't heard it yet.

[Mimi Brown]

Okay. Okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's called Reckless.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, I. I love hearing Nip. You know what I'm saying? But it just makes you sad. It makes you sad because I just feel like. I don't know, man. Nipsey. Nipsey being tragically taken from us just always feels like a glitch in the Matrix. Like I wasn't supposed to happen. You know what I mean? So, yeah, it feels. It's good to hear Nip. But then it's sad too, because it's like, man, so much greatness was stolen from us.

[Nyla Simone]

Yeah, understandable. Understandable. Yeah. I know you really love this. I didn't know if I could play it or not, but it is really sad.

[Mimi Brown]

Also.

[Nyla Simone]

Little Papa's passing is actually really sad too. And Slade, D.J. slade, Little Johnson. That's two. Two people I was cool with in. In one month.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, you knew Slade, too?

[Nyla Simone]

I knew both of them and both of them committed suicide.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, I didn't know Slade committed suicide. Yeah, I heard a little pop up yesterday. Yeah, man. Mental health is real, man. Like, that's why I always be encouraging. Encouraging brothers, you know, to go to therapy and just, you know, if you need somebody to talk to, find somebody to talk to.

[Nyla Simone]

It just makes me feel bad because I. They didn't seem like anything was wrong. Anything was wrong.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay. Depression doesn't have a face.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, it's always good to check on people, too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah.

[Nyla Simone]

See, but okay, to try to up the mood a little bit, let's go into this. Larry June, currency and alchemist. Everything allocated.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I like it mean tough me.

[Just Hilarious]

I like his voice, the tone, everything.

[Nyla Simone]

Larry June also has this record coming out. Well, he's featured on it. It's coming out next Friday that I want to shout out, but I don't know if I'll have the time to. But anyway, Larry's on a run.

[Jabari Young]

But Larry.

[Nyla Simone]

What?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I just like that his name's Larry because that's my dad's name. That's my middle name. Larry.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, you know, name is Lenard.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Larry Lenard. Larry.

[Nyla Simone]

You should use his ad lib on the show. The Good job. Have Larry.

[DJ Envy]

My.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

My name is Lenard, but my middle name is Larry. My daddy's name is actually. Actually Larry. I just like that Larry's are repping Lenar have Larry. Larry. Ll ladies love me.

[Nyla Simone]

All right, don't drag it. If you just ll and it stops. Yeah, like what? All right, we're going to get into our R B bag. This one is from Baby Rose featuring Leon Thomas. And Leon Thomas really did his thing, but Baby Rose Rose's voice is so unique.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I love it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, Baby.

[Just Hilarious]

Hey, I like it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You gonna be named after a sex toy? You better sound like that. Listen, you gotta make them.

[Just Hilarious]

My God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Baby Rose. Wow, wow, wow.

[Just Hilarious]

So stupid.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nah, you sound dope.

[Nyla Simone]

That toy is not. First, Baby Rose is a girl. Second of all, but she does have, like, a.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That was a girl just now.

[Nyla Simone]

Well, no, that was.

[Just Hilarious]

That was Leon Thomas.

[Nyla Simone]

But then they started like a little girl.

[Just Hilarious]

Sound like a strong stud. If he would have been a girl,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I was like, damn.

[Nyla Simone]

First of all, the toy is not called Baby Rose. It's just called Rose.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They have different sizes.

[Just Hilarious]

A Baby Rose to, like, a little.

[Nyla Simone]

You know what? All right, all right, Let me do this last record. It's from Foggy Raw. Now I'm excited. Foggy Raw is actually from the DMV. I've known him for 10 years, and I finally. Finally got the chance to interview him, and he's finally dropping this project. It has Alicia Keys on it, John Legend, Ari Lennox, few other people, but this record is called Boyfriend in youn Brain.

[Just Hilarious]

It gives me. I want to be down, but I don't know if I like his voice. Voice on it. Yeah, okay. I wanna be down. Yeah.

[Nyla Simone]

Yeah, okay. Yeah, it does feel like I want to be down. Foggy does have a very distinct voice, and kind of like his thing is, like, jazz, R B, poetry.

[Just Hilarious]

Yeah, he has that voice that. Yeah, maybe that wasn't the beat for that tone, that.

[Nyla Simone]

That voice, but, yeah, fair enough. I've seen him over the years do, like, poetry slams and, like, he. He dibbles and dabbles. So that's why I think the album is gonna be cool. Something different.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The hook was dope. I didn't really hit. I could understand the verse, what he was saying, though.

[Nyla Simone]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Nyla Simone]

All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what?

[Lauren LaRosa]

That was actually good.

[Nyla Simone]

I can't even hate on that. That was good.

[Mimi Brown]

All right, if you guys like these

[Nyla Simone]

records, make sure you guys tap into the Certified playlist. You can go to certifiedvibe.com or you can follow me on the Gram. Nyla Simone with a Y N Y L A S Y M O N, E, E, E. And yeah, I'm gonna be in Atlanta this weekend, so tap in. I want to Go outside.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Big Nyla, what you doing in Atlanta?

[Nyla Simone]

Oh, you know, a little. A little something.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, shucks.

[Nyla Simone]

A little something? What? No, no, I'm getting in the studio with.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You don't have to say. Oh, like you stop falling the pressure.

[Jabari Young]

Don't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Please don't ever get n interrogation room. Like, my God, we even offer you no chicken wings, no nothing. There's a little bit of pressure, and you ready to fold. All right, all right.

[DJ Envy]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I wasn't gonna say no names.

[Nyla Simone]

I just say I'm getting the studio to work, right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We'll be back with the People's Choice mix, which is DJ Envy's mix, where he doesn't even play what y' all want to hear. You know what I'm saying? No, because he'll. He'll be like, call us right now. 155, 151 for your request mix. Already done. Okay. It's the Breakfast Club.

[Just Hilarious]

Ain't nobody got no secrets up this

[DJ Envy]

morning, everybody is DJ Envy. Just hilarious Charlamagne, the guy we are the Breakfast Club. It's Black History Month. What we doing today, Charlotte?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Man, every day during Black History Month, my guy, B. Dot, does a podcast on the Black Effect Podcast Network called I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either. And today he's talking to you about Haiti, okay? The black republic that terrified the world. The Haitian revolution, okay, it created the first, first free black republic and sent shock waves through every slaveholding nation on earth. But B Dot, the floor is yours.

[B Dot]

The black republic that terrified the world. Introducing Haiti. Know it alls. Welcome back to another episode of the most anticipated podcast, especially in February on the Black Effect Podcast Network, entitled I didn't. No, maybe you didn't either. And these next seven episodes, you need your digital passport. That's right. I told you. Season five, we had some twists and turns and some places you can't even drive. So make sure that digital passport is straighty. We taking off in about 90 seconds, so don't be. Lady, if you got a significant other, please bring a datey. Cause episode 515, we're headed to Haiti. But before we hop on Flight 1619, it is customary that we give you three of the most useless facts you'll never need ever. Not a day in life. Up first, Haiti is the only nation in history founded by formerly enslaved people who defeated their enslavers. Your second useless fact. France forced Haiti to. To pay for its own freedom, and they didn't finish collecting that money until 1947. That independence debt was about 150 million francs. That's the equivalent to $21 billion in today's money when you factor in the interest and the lost economic growth. France literally invoiced freedom for haiti and didn't finish collecting until 1947. That is why wild and your third useless fact. Haiti's revolution scares so many slaveholding nations that they tried to erase it from the history books, which is why we putting it in today's episode. If I didn't know, maybe you didn't either. So let's get your passport scanned and board Flight 1619 to Haiti. And I know one thing I want to know. If haiti is the only nation in history whose enslaved people defeated their enslaved enslavers, Then why are they the poorest country in the western hemisphere? So here's what they don't frame correctly. Haiti ain't the poorest country in the western hemisphere. Because the haitians failed, Haiti is punished. Because the haitians succeeded. In the late 1700s, Haiti, at that point, they was called Saint Domingue. Man, it was the richest colony in the world, not the pride of france. It was the money printer for france. Sugar, coffee, labor stolen through slavery. Then enslaved africans said something that the world just wasn't ready to hear.

[Jabari Young]

Nah.

[B Dot]

Just like that. Nah. Meeting adjourned. And what followed wasn't just a rebellion. It was a full military revolution. It was organized, it was strategic, and above all, it was successful. Man. Enslaved black folk beat the french armies. They put belt to the british forces. They spanked the spanish troops back to back to back, like the 91, 92, and 93 Bulls. And Michael Jordan would have been toussaint leoviture. He was the revolution nation's leader. Grant never lost a major battle. He was 60 in finals. Napoleon Bonaparte sent 40, 000 troops to Haiti. Most of them never made it back home. And in 1804, Haiti became the first black republic. Now, here's the part that terrified the entire world. Haiti didn't just free itself. It proved that enslaved black folk could organize governments, run economies, defeat, impart fires. Well, that broke the law that was holding slavery together. So europe and the united states got on a facetime and said, cool, but we can't let this look normal. France demanded that haiti pay for the loss of enslaved people. Other nations, they refused to trade with haiti. The united states didn't officially recognize Haiti until 1862, damn near 60 years after their independence. Do you know what was happening in the United States in 1860? They were still enslaving Black folk. Haiti wasn't isolated because it failed. Haiti ain't the poorest country in the Western hemisphere because it failed. Haiti ain't destitute because it failed. Haiti is all of those things because it worked. A century after Haiti shocked the world, Carter G. Woodson created Negro History Week. Cause he knew stories like this would be buried. Not because they weren't weren't important, but because they dangerous. Haiti proved that black freedom was possible without approval. And that scared everybody. Look, if Black History month is celebrating its hundredth year. Haiti been celebrating Black freedom since 1804. And I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either.

[Mimi Brown]

Congratulations.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Your passport has been stamped.

[Just Hilarious]

Next stop, Mexico.

[DJ Envy]

I will salute to B dots.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right. Make sure you subscribe to the I didn't know. Maybe you didn't need the podcast on the Black Effect Podcast Podcast network.

[DJ Envy]

Now, every once in a while, Jess, I think during her high time she comes up with these random facts. So she has one today.

[Just Hilarious]

I don't come up with them. These are things that people need to know. All right. Did y' all know in the medieval times people believe sneezing expelled demons, which is why they said bless you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You have to stop. Did you?

[Just Hilarious]

But did you know?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, man.

[Just Hilarious]

No, you didn't.

[Jabari Young]

You didn't know that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You weren't even around in the middle. Medieval times, we always knew that sneezes used to be considered a demonic expulsion. And that is why people said God bless you because they thought it was your soul leaving your body. So they would say God bless you before your soul was snatched away by a demon. I'm from the south, okay. Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

There was the whole fear of losing somebody's soul. So they would say God bless you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It was literally about soul protection.

[Just Hilarious]

Cuz you from the north and you didn't even know that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You just.

[DJ Envy]

No, I didn't.

[Just Hilarious]

Thanks so much.

[DJ Envy]

I'm going to be at this weekend now.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, I'mma be at Richmond, Virginia. I can't wait to get there cuz this job here. Anyway, today and tomorrow y' all can meet me at the Funny Bone Comedy club in Richmond, Virginia. 804. I'll be there. And next weekend, Greenville, South Carolina, I'll be at the Comedy Zone. We got four shows next weekend as well. Get your tickets if you have. Not yet. Just hilarious. Official.com.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

and listen, you know, you know, Jill Scott album is all I've been listening to all week. To whom it's made concern. And it came to my attention this morning that Lauren LaRosa might have gotten a shout out on the Jill Scott album. Now don't get me wrong, it's clearly a double entendre.

[DJ Envy]

Let's hear it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right? But. But it's. This is Tierra Whack on. On north side, off the Jill Scott album. I'm the latest, like, Salute to Tiara Whack, Philly Zone. That's clearly a double entendre. That is.

[B Dot]

That is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And this is how much I don't think about Lauren LaRosa. I've been hearing that song all week and it never dawned on me that she was talking about Lauren.

[Just Hilarious]

That's because you was thinking, he'll be late all the time. Of the late.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's all I was thinking.

[Just Hilarious]

Oh, no, she's talking about Lauren LaRosa. Because Lauren LaRosa always gives us the latest.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

I'm not gonna give that to Lauren. And she probably meant latest because Lauren, whether.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Whether. Whether Tiara. Whether Tierra Whack meant to or not. It's a double entendre. Yes, it is, cuz Lauren Losa does the latest.

[Just Hilarious]

Well, I just reached out to Tiara. I just texted. Apparently she not up this early, but she's going to. I bet you. I bet you any amount of money she talking about Lauren.

[Mimi Brown]

Rosa.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think it's a double entendre. Double entendre.

[DJ Envy]

You want to thank God?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You want to thank.

[Just Hilarious]

Come on, girl.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I want to thank God and my mom and my grandma and the girl who DM me from Philly. I forget her Instagram name right now. She confirmed it for me, cuz I thought so. And then when she DM me, I said, I'm not. Not crazy, period.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Exactly what you meant. That's what you need to think.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And even if you didn't meet me, it's just cool.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's a double. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's a double entendre. Regardless, Tierra Whack is a very witty mc. She knew what she was doing. That was a double entendre.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Telling my kids this was my short hair like me and long moment. I so I know that's right.

[DJ Envy]

All right, yo, leave us on the positive note.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The positive have noticed this, man. Every small unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. Okay? An accumulation of small acts can change the world. So go be nice to somebody today, man. Go do something unselfish for somebody today. Okay? Have a great day.

[DJ Envy]

Breakfast Club finish or y' all done?

[Jabari Young]

Wake you up, wake you up, wake that ass up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Program your Alarm to Power 105.1 on iHeartradio.

[Lauren LaRosa]

This is an iHeart podcast.

[Mimi Brown]

Guaranteed Human.