FULL SHOW: Drake Drops ‘ICEMAN’, ‘MAID OF HONOUR’, & ‘HABIBTI’ Albums At Once, Calls Out Jay-Z, DJ Khaled + Jason Lee & Skeet Carter Interview

Summary

The Breakfast Club – Episode Summary

Episode: FULL SHOW: Drake Drops ‘ICEMAN’, ‘MAID OF HONOUR’, & ‘HABIBTI’ Albums At Once, Calls Out Jay-Z, DJ Khaled + Jason Lee & Skeet Carter Interview
Air Date: May 15, 2026
Hosts: Charlamagne Tha God, Jess Hilarious, Lauren LaRosa (DJ Envy out)
Guests: Jason Lee (Hollywood Unlocked), Skeet Carter (Comedian)

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Episode Overview

This episode dives into a packed cultural moment as Drake releases not one, but three new albums—'ICEMAN', 'MAID OF HONOR', and 'HABIBTI'—all at once, a massive rollout that has everyone from fans to critics weighing in. The panel discusses Drake’s evolving responses amidst ongoing rap beefs and calls out (and shots at) industry figureheads like Jay-Z and DJ Khaled, dissecting the lyrical and personal subtext.

Jason Lee, CEO of Hollywood Unlocked and Vice Mayor of Stockton, sits in for a candid discussion about political transparency, media narratives, and why the intersection of entertainment and politics is changing the game. Comedian Skeet Carter stops by to share hilarious stories from the road, dish out industry observations, and reflect on building a career in comedy.

The show also covers breaking news (Trump settlements, hantavirus scare), listener call-ins, and a “Pass the Aux” spotlight on new music, making for an episode that is fast-paced, wide-ranging, and plugged into all corners of culture.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Drake’s Triple Album Drop & Rap Drama

• Release Facts: Drake surprised fans with three albums: 'ICEMAN', 'MAID OF HONOR', and 'HABIBTI', released close together, kicking off a frenzy of responses online (03:54, 17:42).
• Hosts’ Takes:
  • Charlamagne prevents early “reviews,” joking nobody could properly digest that much music overnight (05:11, 18:15).
  • Lauren and Jess note Drake shifts between reflection and industry beef—especially notable in tracks aimed at Jay-Z and DJ Khaled (23:24–26:49).
  • “[On Jay-Z part] You put yourself in a tough position when you call somebody out like that, though, because people gonna say, well, what have you ever stood for, Drake?” —Charlamagne (25:13)
• Fan and Critic Reactions: Callers debate whether the albums are classic Drake, complain about endless beefs, and poke fun at fan antics—especially the “Iceman” frozen photo memes (15:20, 16:11, 17:47).
  • “It’s three hours! You better look online. The blogs act like they heard it for years now.” —Caller, on fan hype (15:13)
• Memorable Beef Talk: Everyone agrees Kendrick Lamar’s diss tracks have Drake reflecting heavily:
  • “Kendrick beat Drake’s ass so bad he’s been reflecting on his life for three years.” —Charlamagne (26:10)
  • “He made him reflect… Maybe I need to grow, go from a boy to a man.” —Jess Hilarious (26:57)
• Funny Moments: Charlamagne repeatedly jokes about fans posing “covered in frozen semen” for the 'Iceman' persona, ribbing the intensity of Drake’s fanbase (16:20, 17:53, 103:06).

2. Front Page News: Politics, Health, and Social Challenges

• Trump IRS Lawsuit Settlement (28:53–33:14)
  • Mimi Brown covers a pending $1.7 billion taxpayer-funded compensation fund proposed by the Trump administration for those allegedly “unfairly targeted” by the Biden administration.
  • Charlamagne: “This is corruption at the highest level…shook down American taxpayers for 1.7 billion.” (32:20)
• Hantavirus Update (07:14, 33:28–36:20)
  • Updates on the hantavirus outbreak linked to a cruise ship: 41 people monitored, no confirmed U.S. cases yet, but quarantines enacted.
  • Charlamagne and Jess riff on the viral rumor that hantavirus causes “penis shrinkage,” quickly debunked by Lauren (08:32).
    • “No, the claim that the hantavirus can cause penis shrinkage is a false rumor spreading on social media…” —Lauren (09:09)

3. Pop Culture Quick Hits

• Chris Rock Talks Tupac & Comedy:
  Discusses a tense but humorous recounting of his run-ins with Tupac and career behind-the-scenes (65:37).
  • “You should never answer any questions about Tupac when the person asking you pronounces it 'Two-pack.'” —Charlamagne (66:59)
• Kanye West’s Concerts:
  Despite past controversies, Kanye still sells out venues, strategically collaborating with an Israeli businessman (70:27).

4. Powerful Guest Interviews

Jason Lee (Hollywood Unlocked, Vice Mayor Stockton, CA)

• On Politics vs. Entertainment:
  “People have turned politics into entertainment. That’s what Trump did. But I, like you, came from entertainment into politics. Is that dangerous or the future?” —Charlamagne (42:41)
• Media Smears & Accountability:
  “The lie is always louder than the truth.” —Jason Lee, on political attacks and press coverage (48:25)
• Recap: Lee is open about the challenges of public office, including manufactured scandals and canceled opportunities when he refuses to “play along.” He describes leveraging his platform for city initiatives, from supporting youth to mental health programs.

Skeet Carter (Comedian)

• Comedy in the Social Media Era:
  “I take simple things and make it funny, like shower curtains… I don’t want to jump into politics. I might have a joke about it, but I’ll give it to somebody else.” (85:57)
• Industry Game:
  Skeet shares stories about Philly, encounters with Jess Hilarious, and adapting from stage to skit to streaming special. “I just want to be able to prove…I’m a long way from the barbershop.” (94:24)
• Roasts and Representation: On the Kevin Hart roast: “I wanted more of a Def Comedy Jam—blacker, to be honest.” (88:04)

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Most Notable Quotes (with Timestamps)

• “Kendrick beat Drake’s ass so bad he’s been reflecting on his life for three years.” —Charlamagne (26:10)
• “The lie is always louder than the truth.” —Jason Lee (48:25)
• "Sometimes your parents beat you and you got to go sit in your room and you had to really think about your life. It helps you in the long run." —Charlamagne (26:32)
• “I put a million dollars in, you put a million dollars in, together we'll build this program…” —Jason Lee on community investment (46:38)
• “No, the claim that the hantavirus can cause penis shrinkage is a false rumor spreading on social media.” —Lauren (09:09)
• “It’s three hours! …The blogs act like they heard it for years now.” —Caller (15:13)

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Music & Culture Highlights

“Pass the Aux” – New Music Breakdowns (100:41–105:47)

• Drake ft. Future & Molly Santana – “Ran to Atlanta”
• Fergie Baby ft. Cam’ron – “Harlem River Drive”
  “Cam still nice.” —Charlamagne (103:46)
• Lucky ft. Rylo – “No Stars and Maybachs”
• Giveon ft. Leon Thomas – “Fool Me Once”
  “That boy Leon don’t miss, that boy Giveon does not miss.” —Jess Hilarious (105:22)

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Memorable and Funny Moments

• Charlamagne repeatedly jokes about Drake fans’ intense devotion, referencing the “frozen semen” meme for the Iceman album (16:20, 17:53, 103:06).
• The “Donkey of the Day” segment allows listeners to call out absurd behavior, including over-the-top pandemic paranoia and the ongoing Drake–Kendrick saga (73:13–80:14).
• Skeet Carter’s recounting of Philly, nicknames, and “shower curtain” jokes, plus playful roasting of Jess Hilarious for her 30+ security guards (91:40).

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Start of Content/Main Episode Begins: 02:29
• Drake Album Drop Discussion/Initial Reactions: 05:06
• Guest Jason Lee (Hollywood Unlocked): 37:17–54:30
• Comedian Skeet Carter Interview: 81:11–97:11
• Chris Rock on Tupac (Latest Pop Culture): 65:46–69:30
• Pass the Aux (Music Picks): 100:36–105:47
• Donkey of the Day / People's Donkey: 73:13–80:14

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Tone and Style

As always, the tone is candid, irreverent, and unfiltered. Charlamagne cracks jokes but presses for deeper answers; Jess Hilarious brings the humor and authenticity; and Lauren bridges music, news, and culture. Jason Lee and Skeet Carter match the energy, sharing personal journeys, real-world observations, and plenty of laughs.

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Conclusion

This episode is a rapid-fire blend of pop culture criticism, hip hop debate, direct community conversation, and news commentary, made sharper by major guests who aren’t afraid to speak openly about the state of media, politics, and entertainment. For anyone seeking the pulse of hip hop, headline news, comedy, and cultural debate, this is a must-listen—raw, real, and very “Breakfast Club.”

Transcript

[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Jess Hilarious]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wake you up.

[Jason Lee]

Wake that ass up. Program your alarm to power 105.1 on iheartradio.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Jess Hilarious]

Charlamagne. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Jess Hilarious]

Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

LL Cool Bears here as well. Lauren LaRosa. What happening?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning, Y'.

[Jess Hilarious]

All. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

DJ Envy is off today. Could whoever took the Arsenal hall memoir out of here please return it? Okay. I am extremely happy that Negroes up here are evolving. And they're stealing books now, at least.

[Jess Hilarious]

They're stealing books.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They're stealing books and not liquor nowadays.

[Lauren LaRosa]

B Dot borrowed that from you?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, no, no, no.

[Lauren LaRosa]

See, I was supposed to bring in my copy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Don't even work here, so how can y'.

[Jess Hilarious]

All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How can y' all allow somebody to come in the studio and borrow something? They don't even work here. No.

[Jess Hilarious]

Damn.

[Caller]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's up with y'? All?

[Jess Hilarious]

At least when I steal from y', all, I know I work here. So I'm bringing you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

See what I'm saying?

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Come on, man. Damn. And that's a prop? It's part of the set.

[Jess Hilarious]

She let him have it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You just let him take it and say she was.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He said he was gonna bring it back, he'd be back today.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Make Lauren a visitor from now on. I don't know why we ever made her an employee. Make her a visitor from now on. Okay.

[Jess Hilarious]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jesus Christ. How was y' all night last night? Yo, it was good.

[Jess Hilarious]

Look, I know I said I was gonna see A Spoonful of Chocolate, but my husband wanted that in. I pick. But I pick. Was too packed down in Atlanta, so we went to go see Mortal Kombat. Yo, for all the Fighter movie fans, y' all gonna be so flabbergasted. I'm talking about my. Guess that was flabber the whole time. Do you like Mortal Kombat?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay. Yo, go see it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because you.

[Jess Hilarious]

You not hype, yo.

[Lauren LaRosa]

People dressed up at the theater.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's like the fifth Mortal Kombat remake.

[Jess Hilarious]

It. It is, but this one is 10 out of 10. This one better than the first one. Yo, I went.

[Lauren LaRosa]

They was dressed up at the theater when I went. Like, they had, like, the costumes and stuff.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah. I wasn't gonna do movie, yo. And. And the main center of the focus, right? I mean, the movie is the main center. Shut up. The main focus of the movie is. Oh, my God. Katana cuz it tell her story or whatever. How Shao Khan killed her father. And then Johnny Cage cuz y' all know he the actor. So like, like he. He a real fighter, but he acted. He don't know how he uses power until he go to the worlds.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Everybody's familiar with Mortal Realm.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right, go say it. 10 out of 10. Everybody was fine.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I believe you. Like it's more combat. I mean you can't really go wrong. Mortal Kombat so good. I would ask Lauren Howard night is. But I don't care. Especially since she let B Dot come in. Oh my God. Out of the damn studio. Salute to everybody out there. Salute to everybody out there who gonna lie and say they didn't listen to all three Drake albums.

[Jess Hilarious]

It's no way.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay? Even though all three Drake albums came out, what, after midnight?

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ain't no way in hell you don't listen to all three Drake albums. So don't even call up here telling that lie this morning giving your reviews. Okay? I don't want to hear no reviews on any Drake music till at least next Wednesday or Thursday.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay. At least. Well, let's start off. Let's start. Oh, let me tell you who's on the show. Jason Lee will be joining us from Hollywood Unlocked. He's got the Hollywood Unlocked impact awards on June 5th. And also a comedian from Philadelphia, up and coming comedian who's opening for Martin Lawrence tonight in Atlantic City and tomorrow in Brooklyn. His name is Skeet Carter.

[Jess Hilarious]

Ski Carter is so funny. I saw him in New Orleans. I saw him in Houston before and. Yeah, and Dallas. Yeah, he's very funny.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. He told a story about you. I'm gonna see if you still think you're funny after you hear what he said.

[Jess Hilarious]

Damn. See, that's why I don't need to

[Charlamagne Tha God]

be saying I want to see. I really. I want to see if you still think he's funny after you hear what he said about you. That's wild. Okay, let's get into a Drake record. What's the Drake record this morning? Right? Oh, Make Them Pay. Yeah. Khaled ain't gonna like this. Drop on the clues Bombs. Put his for Make Them Pay.

[Jason Lee]

All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's the world's most dangerous morning show, the Breakfast Club. I told. I told y'. All. Khaled. I tried to warn you three days ago that you was getting a big shot.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Khaled ain't gonna respond to that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How can he? By ad libbing.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What are you supposed to do?

[Jess Hilarious]

He don't be rapping.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Khaled even got rappers to respond like,

[Lauren LaRosa]

no, but you know, Khaled get on, make a video, start yelling. And yeah, key, he's positive all that. He ain't doing nothing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's either gonna make Khaled lose more weight or gain stress eating. One of the two.

[Lauren LaRosa]

His name is Slim Jim now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes. Okay. Yes. It's the world's most dangerous morning show at Breakfast Club. DJ Envy, just hilarious. Charlamagne Tha God, Envy is off today. Lauren LaRosa is here. The good sister, Mimi Brown. I don't know where Mimi at.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. Make me a little nervous, but we trying to figure it out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I don't know where Mimi at this morning, but Tonight in the NBA, the Detroit Pistons play the Cleveland Cavaliers at 7pm and the San Antonio spurs play the Minnesota Timberwolves at 9:30. I was looking for basketball last night. I'm actually glad that no games were on last night because that means it's two on tonight. Okay. Well, the top of front page news, what we got, Lauren LaRosa.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So we're going to be continuing to talk about the hantavirus. So the number of people being monitored for the hantavirus in the US is now over 40. So the CDC is reporting that there are now 41 people across the US under monitoring for potential hantavirus exposure linked to the MV Honda, the Cruise ship that Mimi's been talking about. So that includes 16American passengers who have been quarantined at the University of Nebraska. I know she kind of went into this a bit at their medical center. But now more people are being monitored at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta and seven former passengers who left the ship before the outbreak was declared. That includes those people and 16 people exposed during travel and including the flight. So no Americans have been tested positive at this time, but the total confirmed and probable cause count from the ship stands at 10, including two confirmed deaths and one suspected death at at least 11. State health departments are tracking 23 additional people with possible exposure, while France has confirmed that 26 people with close contact to the ship have all been tested and they are negative, but they remain in hospital isolation as a precaution.

[Jess Hilarious]

Now, I know you just reading this or whatever, but like, does this say any, like, what the symptoms are? What are, did they have a like.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, it doesn't say it on the paper, but I can, I can look it up for you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know, I know some fever, muscle aches, respiratory issues, like, you know, difficulty breathing. And I saw something yesterday yo, that says the Hannah virus causes penis shrinkage. They said that? I don't know if this is true. I'm just telling you what I saw pop up on my algorithm. They said the Hannah virus can cause up 3 inches of penis shrinkage. Am I the only person that saw this rumor yesterday? Probably. So it's an unverified rumor.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, but your algorithm only like, it's curated to, like, gay and. Yeah, well, get gay, but, like, penis.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Excuse me?

[Jess Hilarious]

Asks about penis and stuff. She said gay. I just doubled down.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But because why are you searching for.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I googled.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Can the hantavirus cause penis shrinkage? No, the claim that the hantavirus can cause penis shrinkings is. Is a false rumor spreading on social media like the originating parody accounts and Internet memes. There's no scientific basis, so there's no medical research that proves that. Scientific evidence or documented case study.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Are you. Well, don't act like I just made that up. Y. Like I just walk in here with penis on the brain.

[Jason Lee]

Like, I didn't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That came across my algorithm. That's what I saw.

[Jess Hilarious]

Instagram, like, meta did a scrub of

[Charlamagne Tha God]

all of them account for the record. And that record we just played from Drake. He says, y' all boys measuring your penis size in millimeters. I don't know what that was about. I have no idea how Drake knows that people are doing this, but how

[Jess Hilarious]

did you hear that?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Did you hear that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because I listened to music. He says that. He literally says, you boys is measuring your penis size in millimeters. I don't know how Drake knows people are doing that, but get it off your chest. 1-800-585-1051. You can call us right now and tell us why you're blessed, or you can call us right now and tell us why you're stressed. It's the world's most dangerous morning show. The Breakfast Club. It's a new day.

[Jason Lee]

This is your time to get it off your chest.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wait. Wake up.

[Skeet Carter]

You're mad or blessed.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's time to get up and get something.

[Skeet Carter]

Call up now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

800-585-1051.

[Skeet Carter]

We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning. Who's this?

[Caller]

Alicia.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Peace. Alicia. How are you?

[Caller]

Hey, Happy Friday, y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Caller]

How y' all doing this morning?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Get it off your chest.

[Caller]

So I. I caught up a while ago about me applying for food stamps, trying to get it. I got denied because I wouldn't turn in my daughter. Well, I turned it in, but they said that they didn't see my daughter's cash app statement. Why do I have to give my child's cash app statement for me to get food stamps?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, that don't make no sense. I didn't know. Since when is that a qualification?

[Caller]

Yeah, like both my kids have cash apps, but I don't send the money through there. It's more or less for my family to send them money and we got denied because of that. I work two jobs.

[Jess Hilarious]

They even find that out. That's wild.

[Caller]

Like, that's what be from my statement because my daughter every now and again puts money in my account. So

[Charlamagne Tha God]

going in and out, I wonder, I wonder if you got to do that because you have to report all household income.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's something. Like, how old is that kid? Is that kid like 18, 19 or something? Because that still don't. That don't make sense.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But if she, she was saying she found. They found it from her bank statement. Right.

[Jess Hilarious]

Because her daughter sends the money to her account sometimes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You have to explain any income that. I mean, any like, deposits that are coming in outside of your income. But she could have just said that. I mean, what she said should have worked because you can, you can be helping your parent and that not count as a real income.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All I know is the harder y' all make it for people, the harder y' all make it making it for yourself. Government. Good morning. Who's this?

[Caller]

Good morning. This is James calling from North Carolina.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Peace, James. Get it off your chest, sir.

[Caller]

Yeah. Oh, Charlemagne. On Monday when you gave Chud the building the donkey today, right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Uh huh.

[Caller]

Well, he's in jail again, this time on attempted murder.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I heard he shot himself or somebody shot him. What happened?

[Caller]

Yeah, yeah, he shot it. He accidentally shot himself while he was shooting the other guy. But from my understanding, the other guy's doing all right. And he's got a gofundme up and he's. They're raising money for him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why was he shooting? I saw the story. I didn't look at it. But why was he shooting another guy? Do we know?

[Jess Hilarious]

Was that a black guy he was doing.

[Caller]

Yeah, it was a black guy. He was doing the same stuff that he does all the time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And they said, they said he was shooting outside the courthouse.

[Caller]

Yeah, this happened outside the courthouse.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know when we gonna. When we, when we gonna realize that folks like him are really just terrible people?

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, they're just terrible humans all across the board.

[Caller]

Yeah. And when you said the thing about we should call them crackers back, I thought at first I was like, well, that don't seem hardcore enough of an insult. But then I. I thought about it. Crackers are dry, rigid and flavorless

[Charlamagne Tha God]

crackers.

[Caller]

And they can't stand alone. They all. You gotta always have something with a cracker. You never seen somebody eat crackers by themselves.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right. But you got. You, you. I gotta. You gotta use it. When a person is a white supremacist racist. Like Chud the builder. When they call you a racial slur, always hit them with a crack ass cracker back crackers at. Even though they stale, they add season in every word. You know what I mean?

[Caller]

Yeah, but y' all have a good day, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, my brother. Have a great day. Get it off your chest, 1-800-585-1051. You can call us right now and tell us why you're blessed. You can call us and tell us, tell us why you're stressed as well. It's the Breakfast Club.

[Skeet Carter]

This is your time to get it off your chest. Keep calling 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning. Who's this?

[Caller]

Hey, what up? This deontay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Peace. Deontay. Get it off your chest, sir.

[Caller]

Man, I'm trying to talk about these Drake fans. They need to wipe their mouth, man. It's crazy that his narrative changed. Like, usually when he'll drop music, they have, like the blog to post, like the song and have a good song or something. But all they talking about is his dis lyrics. And I'm like, how you still dissing people and you suing somebody on top of that? Why they ain't talking about your music? Why you still, like, going at people? And that been passed. Like, talk about, you know what I'm saying? Substance of what you got going on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, I have.

[Caller]

I haven't thought that was crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I haven't listened.

[Caller]

I ain't heard the album. I just heard the blog happen. All they posting is the negative stuff instead of used to. When Drake used to post, they'll post, you know, Nokia or all the good songs.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's not true. Because the thing. The thing that I do like about Drake, he does put whatever he's going through in his music. So that's where these stories are coming from. It's not like, you know, he's just sitting on an interview blabbling about people. It is coming from his music.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. Cause number I feel like.

[Caller]

Go ahead. The music ain't. The music ain't hitting, though. He got these little yachty bars like he on conscious rap. Like, it ain't no hit, though. I ain't heard no hit. I'm just talking about from the flies.

[Jess Hilarious]

And it just came out, like five hours ago. It is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It is three hours.

[Jess Hilarious]

You know what I mean? It's three, man.

[Caller]

You better look online and see all this on there. The bugs act like they heard it for years now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I haven't heard the whole. I haven't heard all three. But what I think is weird is all of these men, you know, posting these pictures of themselves covered in frozen semen saying, ice cream.

[Caller]

Drake raised the generation with the nails and the confused. If you a man or a woman. Stuff like he raised a generation. Oh, last thing I want to say.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Without future.

[Caller]

Without future. He ain't got no bots, bro. Like, people think Future need him. No, when you in the hood, in the streets or whatever, don't nobody run around listening to Drake. They listen to Drake when he on the song with little baby Future. People like that Rick Ross, them the only time he have hood classes. Other than that, it's just conscious rap, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, I wouldn't say Drake is conscious rap, and I do think Drake can make bops by himself, but we appreciate you calling, sir.

[Caller]

And that LeBron verse was trash.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You ain't got to worry about my man covering himself in semen and posting a picture saying, iceman, shut up. Why everybody doing that? Y' all don't see them pictures? Nobody coming in. Frozen semen.

[Jess Hilarious]

No, it's not frozen semen. It's probably ice

[Lauren LaRosa]

yourself out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ah, they look like they got in an OVO gang. Bang a bunch of owls just all over. Good morning. Who's this?

[Caller]

Sleep from Georgia. What's going on? Uncle Charlotte?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's up, my brother? How are you?

[Jess Hilarious]

Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's happening, sir? Get it off your chest.

[Caller]

Well, my little. My work car, man, put me down this morning. I might need a new motor. So trying to see if I can get a blessing from the university. Can I put my cash app out there, man?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Put your cash app out there, my brother. See what happens, man.

[Caller]

Appreciate it all. Ms. Rich Fatherhood with the one behind it. Rich Fatherhood 1 Make sure the one behind it, y' all appreciate it. It might be four packs or something, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now, I know why you call yourself Rich Fatherhood, but there's a lot of people listening, being like, well, if he rich, why are you putting his cash app out there? But explain to him what you mean

[Caller]

rich, man, as far as our culture and our heritage, man, that's right. It's not about the money. You know what I'm saying, Queen? We should start acting like it's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, man, I appreciate you, my brother. I hope the universe gives you a blessing this morning, man, so you can, you know, get your puppet back on the road, brother.

[Caller]

Thanks a lot. Thanks a lot, y'. All. Appreciate y', all, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Appreciate you, King.

[Jess Hilarious]

Have a good day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn, man. I'm gonna put something in this cash app. All right, let's get it off your chest. We do that every morning. 1-800-585-1051. You can call up and tell us why you blessed to tell us why you stress. But, Lauren, you got the latest coming up.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, Iceman is here. We're gonna talk about it. I was able to listen to the full Iceman album, but not any of the other ones.

[Jess Hilarious]

So is

[Lauren LaRosa]

no. So he got Iceman. He got made up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You got everybody coming in. Why y' all all coming? And semen posting for Drake's album. Yo, that's nasty.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yo, the people are trying to engage in a rollout.

[Jess Hilarious]

Supposed to be Ice, like Sub Zero, y'.

[Jason Lee]

All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, that's what that is. Yeah. Okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, and he. Drake explains Iceman on the Iceman project, too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, I ain't get to that part. Okay, well, he about to sit here and do no Drake reviews. If I see a drink review right now, I'm gonna come. I'm gonna get your page deleted. There's no way y' all listen to all three and a half hours.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Somebody gonna tag me on Twitter and say, I know Lauren ain't gonna sleep tonight. I was like, no, I'm gonna ovo

[Jess Hilarious]

song out right now.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Ovo, Eli. I tried to call him. I couldn't even get a contact.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

OVO is in Toronto right now covering his semen, about to take his picture.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We got a man on the ground. Who is this? He in my head.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You ain't tell us what we talking about? That's it. Oh, okay. All right. It's the Breakfast.

[DJ Envy]

Yo, what up, y'?

[Skeet Carter]

All?

[DJ Envy]

It's DJ Envy from the Breakfast Club. Now, check this out. The first phone call that ever happened happened over 100. That's before any of this. Before radio, before social media, before all the ways we stay connected. Today, that one call really started everything. And fast forward to now. It's springtime, the weather's breaking, people outside vibes are right again. Thank God. And it got me thinking, who haven't you talked to in a minute? And, you know, through all these years and all these conversations at&t has been there, connecting people in meaningful ways. This is more than a story of technological innovation. It's really a story about human connection, real people, real moments and real relationships. So we celebrate over 150 years of connection. Let this be your reminder. Don't wait. Make that call. Send that text. Pull up on somebody you care about. Because at the end of the day, those connections, that's what really matters.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Jason Lee]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, I'm not dumbing myself down. I'm being myself.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Source is trust.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything and everything. The little brown girls look at you and go, I want to be like you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Take me through that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Take me through that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Where's she going?

[Skeet Carter]

The latest on the Breakfast Club.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All right, so Iceman is here, guys. Drake dropped three albums last night. He dropped Iceman, he dropped Maid of Honor and then he also dropped a album called Habibti. I've listened to Iceman once, got through like two or three songs on Maid of Honor.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

There's no way anybody can have an opinion on this music yet. Nobody listen to all three of those albums.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Not enough for it to sink in either. Because I feel like on Iceman that's where he's getting like really reflective and getting into a lot of the things. Again, I haven't heard Habiti, but I think some of the stuff gotta set in a little bit. So let's get to just some of the things people are talking about because Charlamagne, you let us know that a lot of this stuff was going to be happening on this album. I don't know how you know, he said three things.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You said Future was gonna be on it. Yes, Khaled and ASAP Rocky. That's it. And the Carol G. But I ain't seen no Carol G on it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No care. I didn't see Karol G on any other projects, but those were big things to know. Now let's take a listen to let's start with Jay Z, because he thr a couple shots at Jay Z. Let's take a listen to whisper My Name.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

FYI, the. The line at the end about his father, that's very reflective of where he is at personally.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Everything else is very woe is me about the industry.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Jason Lee]

But.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But I think the gist of what I took from it is like, there's so much going on in his life right now. There's a lot of, like, people make it seem like he's making this battle his end all be all.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He's like, no, no, no, no, no, ain't no people. He makes it seem like this battle is the end all be all. But once you hear people.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But when you hear this record. Have you heard the record in. When you hear this record, though? Feel like, okay, that stuff is there in a surface level. No, it's just because he hasn't really gotten into everything else yet.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I hear that if you listen to the record, he's saying how I think 40 or somebody is telling him that he needs to dig deeper.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And at the end is when he mentions his father. Everything else is definitely woe is me. Cry me a river they jump me, mommy But I'm coming back with the chopper on Everybody jump me mommy.

[Jason Lee]

Oh, my God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what I got from that. Right?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, I did. I mean, he got a lot going on, and it seems like he doesn't want to go deeper for some reason. It's probably because. Because this stuff is real deep. He is trying, but it's a hard thing to deal with in real time. Right. But you talked about the caliber. I know. We played that this morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You can play it again.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, we can play it again.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You put yourself in a tough position when you call somebody out like that, though, because people gonna say, well, what have you ever stood for, Drake?

[Jess Hilarious]

Right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What? Cause have you ever stood up for what people have you ever spoken up for, Aubrey?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Damn true. And you can't point to anything.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You've been here eating off the black experience in America for a long time. I ain't never heard you, you know, not publicly say black lives matter. You can say, you know, even though you have black. But, you know, well, you say black lie. Black lie.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, my gosh.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How do you say half a black.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We can have Ally.

[Jess Hilarious]

You can only say, like. You can only say Nick.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He definitely can only say Nick. He can only say.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, some other things to point out. He also mentions Nikki and Cardi on Don't Worry Now. The Future collab that you mentioned. That also happened as well, too. They got a song called Ran to atl, which is a play off of the fact that Kendrick said that, you know, Drake has to run to Atlanta to make songs work.

[Jess Hilarious]

What was that about Cardi and Nikki?

[Caller]

He did.

[Jess Hilarious]

What was the mention?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Let's take a listen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That sound like some he would part with album. That on.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's on Iceman too. That's on Firm Friends.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Boy, Kendrick beat Drake's ass so bad that he's been reflecting on his life the last three years. You heard him say, I'mma become a man.

[Jess Hilarious]

Kendrick definitely told him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, he. I've never seen a man get his ass beat like this and reflect on life in this way.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Life and business.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is crazy, man. Kendrick really gave him a spanking.

[Jess Hilarious]

He made him reflect.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, sometimes your parents beat you and you got to go sit in your room and you had to really think about your life, but it helps you in the long run. Yeah, y' all Drake fans gonna might think

[Jess Hilarious]

he did.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All y' all Drake fans might have to thank Kendrick later. For real.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I mean, look.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I feel like he's on the brink of trying to break through. He's trying to get there. He's trying.

[Jess Hilarious]

I like it, though. He like, maybe I do need to grow. Maybe I need to. To go from a boy to a man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He questioning everything. Even on that 1am in Albany, he's like, what is it? The braids? He's asking himself, what is it? What is this? A braid? Like, he's really questioning his life.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, but Charlamagne, you say you want Drake to dig deeper. We all. A lot of you want more substance, right? Don't you gotta question some things that have been happening?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I did hear. I heard him say on the album

[Caller]

that, you know, he.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He tries to look in his therapist glasses, but it's distracting because she's attractive or something. So he's. I mean, he's trying.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, wow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I just find it funny that it took an ass whipping. Sometimes it takes a half with something. It's hard to reach people unless you put some hands on them. These hands were verbal, but it's made Drake reflect on his life the last couple of years.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, I agree. Well, that is the latest for the hour. And yes, there's a lot of music and a lot of content because he did a whole stream as well too, that you. You still gotta get acting like he

[Charlamagne Tha God]

banned from radio, though. When did radio ever stop playing?

[Jess Hilarious]

Why you can't just do

[Charlamagne Tha God]

for Real, that angle. And it's funny. Clearly his fans don't listen to the radio.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He got this song called Too Hard for the Radio.

[Jess Hilarious]

I like that one. I got it. I really gotta get it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let's play it now. I don't. I don't want to get in the way of, you know, the whole band from radio he got going on.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, Kia was going crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The industry trying to destroy me narrative. He's pushing for this project. But let's play what's it called?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Too Hard for the Radio.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Too hard for the radio. Okay, Mimi Brown will be up next with Front Page News. It's the Breakfast Club. That's exactly the pocket Kendrick told you to be in.

[Caller]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Keep making them dance, waving their hands, and there won't be no threat. Okay, Drake, that's exactly what Kendrick told you to do. You should have listened two years ago.

[Skeet Carter]

Okay.

[Jess Hilarious]

Throwing shots, though. He making us.

[Lauren LaRosa]

The Iceman era is here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's the world's most dangerous morning show. The Breakfast Club. DJ Envy, just hilarious. Charlamagne, the God dj JNB is off today, and it's time for Front Page News with Mimi Brown. Good morning, Mimi.

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning. How's everybody doing?

[Caller]

Hey.

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning. Okay, so we start this hour with a story raising major questions about presidential power, taxpayer money, and whether Americans could end up funding settlements tied to some of President Trump's political allies. So President Trump is expected to drop a massive lawsuit against the irs. But in exchange, the administration is discussing the creation of a $1.7 billion compensation fund for people who claim they were unfairly targeted by the Biden administration. So let me explain. So back in 2019, Trump sued the IRS and the Treasury Department after his tax returns were leaked. Leaked to the media. Now, the former IRS contractor, the man who was accused of leaking the tax returns, he did go to prison. He served like five years. But Trump, he, you know, didn't let it go, right? And. But he's also in this lawsuit. He was pursuing legal claims tied to the FBI search of Mar A Lago, the Russian investigation during his first term. All those things together, they total about $10 billion. Now, instead of continuing those lawsuits in court, sources say the administration is working on a settlement structure that would create a taxpayer funded compensation system. And this would not be the first time that we've heard about this publicly. So months ago, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessick, he was grilled in a committee about how this lawsuit would work and where this money would come from. Let's listen to a little bit about that.

[Skeet Carter]

So you are fully aware that the

[Jason Lee]

president is suing your agency for $10 billion.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We would agree. Would you agree that $10 billion is

[Skeet Carter]

a good sum of money?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, sir.

[Skeet Carter]

Let's say for some reason he actually wins that lawsuit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Where would that $10 billion come from? Again? It would come from.

[Skeet Carter]

It would come from Treasury. It comes from treasury, which comes from the general fund, the treasury general account.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So, taxpayers. Yes.

[Jason Lee]

Have you received.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I didn't ask any more questions.

[Jason Lee]

Have you received any advice from Treasury's legal division about how to handle this potential conflict?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is a Justice Department matter. They represent Treasury.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay.

[Mimi Brown]

So if this settlement actually goes through and taxpayers end up funding this 1.7 billion dollar compensation system, here's how it would reportedly work. People who believe that they were wronged or politically targeted by the Biden administration would reportedly apply for compensation. And this could be anyone. This could be the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, anyone from the January 6th attack on the Capitol. They can claim that they were unfairly targeted, they were unfairly prosecuted. And there would be a fund that they could go. It would be looked over by a five person person commission. They would have broad power to decide who gets paid and how much. And the, The. Here's the thing that I think everybody's just asking so many questions about this morning. The fun and who oversees it. It would be. Be largely private. We would not know where or whom is looking into this. There would be no public oversight or very limited public oversight. Now, critics say this is the administration. They are already. They're already raising ethical concerns because Trump would essentially be settling his lawsuit against the agencies that he oversees within his own agency. It's so convoluted.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is corruption. This is corruption at the highest level. He just shook. Just shook down American taxpayers for 1.7 billion.

[Mimi Brown]

Pretty much.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

$1.7 billion of all money going to people who claim they were harmed by the Biden's admin. Biden administration's weaponization of the legal system.

[Mimi Brown]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like the cost of household goods is through the roof. The cost of gas is through the roof. Folks can't get snap benefits. Federal workers still trying to recover from the damage that was done to them. I have no problem with my taxpayer dollars going to provide relief for any of those people. Instead, we got to pay for insurrection. Folks who actually should be in prison.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah. And it seems like they're trying to pass the buck because Secretary Bessett was like, oh, that's a DOJ problem. But it's still all under the Trump administration.

[Skeet Carter]

Right.

[Mimi Brown]

So it's still him paying himself, no matter the way you look at it,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

is corruption at the highest level. He just shook us down for $1.7 billion because he can.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You remember, you had to sit in class and learn about checks and balances and all that stuff. And you're. And you're. None of. None of that stuff applies.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Donald Trump is the check.

[Caller]

Check.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He is the balance. He's the check. He is about.

[Mimi Brown]

Yes, very true.

[Nyla Simone]

Okay.

[Mimi Brown]

And we have a. A hantavirus update for you this morning. The CDC now says there are 41 people across the US currently being monitored after possible exposure linked to that cruise ship outbreak that we've been following. Now, some people are now in, you know, that quarantine facility in places like. There's one in Nebraska, and some people are in Atlanta. Others have gone home before the outbreak was identified and are being monitored simply because they were on flights with people who later showed symptoms. Now, the CDC says the overall risk to the public remains low, but people are being monitored and have. They have been told to stay home and avoid contact with others for about 42 days while the virus. Because it can take a long time to show up. One of the gentlemen who is been quarantined, he's been, I guess, what do you call that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sick.

[Mimi Brown]

Yes, he's been sick. Documenting his progress. That's the word.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Mimi Brown]

And so let's listen to some of what he's. He's sharing with the world.

[Jess Hilarious]

Jeez.

[Caller]

I am, you know, staying in touch with friends and family, trying to do some.

[Jess Hilarious]

The quarantine. You get through this.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So I'm just.

[Jess Hilarious]

I know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Mean, that's really my only option because

[Jess Hilarious]

I have moments that are hard.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Mean, that's really my only option because

[Jess Hilarious]

I know that I'm going to be

[Lauren LaRosa]

here for another 38 days.

[Jess Hilarious]

And if I don't stay positive, I don't know how I'll get through this. Sorry.

[Jason Lee]

I was supposed to go to my

[Charlamagne Tha God]

cousin's wedding in Italy. And unfortunately I won't be making that,

[Jason Lee]

so I feel terrible, but it's the right decision.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, we at that point where we judging you for sneezing more than twice now. Okay, if you sneezing more than twice, I'm thinking you either want attention or. You got that, Hannah? All right, you get into a coffin fit around me, you better.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Hey, black people. You got that henna?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm just letting you know.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Always gonna do it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just letting you know. We at that stage. You coughing too much. You got that, Hannah? Right? What's up? What's up.

[Jess Hilarious]

You're already looking at people who cough more than once.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm looking at you.

[Jess Hilarious]

You, because Charlamagne, you always blow your nose. You never wash your hands, and you

[Charlamagne Tha God]

always touching the doors right there. Okay. I'm just saying we at that point where we judging. Okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Don't say, don't try to blame it on no allergies, please.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes, yes.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, it's important to say that globally, the World Health Organization says that, you know, there are 11 cases of the outbreak, including three deaths. But right now they are saying there's nothing to stress about. They are saying this is not Covid.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yo, this is crazy.

[Mimi Brown]

I'm just telling you what they're saying. According to them, crazy. The saying the strain connected to this outbreak, the Andes strain, it does not spread easily from person to person like Covid. But there, there are major experts right now who say just, you know, be careful, take all precautions. But they say this is unlikely to become a widespread global emergency. Now, I believe that or not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Let us pray.

[Mimi Brown]

That's what they are saying. So everyone, you know, take that with your own. Take that with caution, however you want to do it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, I say look alive, man. Man. You know what I'm saying? Keep your mask with you, your hand sanitizer, all of that good stuff. Why not? Don't take no chances.

[Mimi Brown]

All right, y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, that is your front page news. I am Mimi Brown. Follow me at Mimi Brown tv. And don't forget to download front page the podcast.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes. Wherever you listen to podcasts.

[Mimi Brown]

Wherever you listen to podcasts.

[Jess Hilarious]

Thank you, Mimi.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now, our guy, Jason Lee is coming up next. He is the CEO of Hollywood Unlocked and he is the vice mayor of Stockton, California. So we'll be talking to him. Plus, don't forget, today is Friday. So it's the people's donkey. So you can call in right now and give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid. 1-800-585-1051. It's the breakfast Club. Yes, it's the world most dangerous morning show. The Breakfast Club. DJ Envy Jess, Hilarious Charlamagne. Tha God, Envy and Jess aren't here, but Lauren LaRosa is and Mimi Brown is sitting in as well. We got our guy, the CEO of Hollywood Unlocked, Mr. Jason Lee is here and vice mayor of Stockton.

[Jason Lee]

I'm happy to be back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How are you, sir?

[Jason Lee]

I'm good. I'm good.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What a question.

[Jason Lee]

Question. I mean, today I'm good. I'm rested, I got some sleep. But yeah, I'm good today I didn't

[Charlamagne Tha God]

know you used to be straight, Jason.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, my God.

[Skeet Carter]

Charlamagne. Let me tell you something.

[Lauren LaRosa]

How you doing today?

[Jason Lee]

I'm doing good. I'm doing good today. I didn't know you. You. You was. No, I mean, you know, I wrote a book. You read my book? No. Okay.

[Skeet Carter]

Yeah.

[Jason Lee]

I mean, I had girlfriends. It was a long time ago. Charlama. I'm about to be 49 years old, so we're going back 30 years now. Was the last time I had a girlfriend.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Was. But I. I don't remember in the book, like, you ever, like, talking like that was a real phase of your life.

[Jason Lee]

There's a whole chapter about my first boyfriend where I talked about him being with his girl, me being with my girl, and then us meeting and then, you know, becoming a thing, you know, the first night we messed around was on. I think it was the night of the Ricki Lake show. Get to it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ooh, yes. Talk about that. This is how, you know, by the way, this is how, you know, your profile continues to grow. When they start digging up stuff like

[Jason Lee]

this, I don't know if it's because I'm elected or because somebody just bored, but I. You know, it's funny, because I saw this. This. I saw this message on Facebook, One post that said, jason Leon, Ricky Lake, question mark. And I go, oh, okay, Some. Somebody may have heard it. Then I saw two comments on Instagram. Then I started getting the text. Then I saw the clip. I said, okay, here we go. So, yeah, they put it out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But the beauty of it is when somebody puts something like that out, you can be like, I already told y' all this, man.

[Jason Lee]

Yeah. I think I may have talked about being on the Ricky Lake show on. On. On the thing, but here's the deal. Here's the deal. I think now that it surfaced. I put a picture of Ricky Lake up on my Instagram last night with the song from hello. From Cardi, because I think now I'm read. Start acting, you know, like, you saw me in there. I was giving trade. I had three girls or whatever.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But you're giving. I was gonna say, you were so straight. But it was. But every now and then, it was. He was like, the. Hold on, hold on. I was like, okay, that's the Jason I hear today. But it was certain points where I'm like, wow. Like, what your trade was like at

[Jason Lee]

the time, is what you're saying, handsome.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Your trade was a little different because I'd be around.

[Jason Lee]

Yeah. You know, when I went to Delaware. Once you know where you're from, I saw a lot of trade from the car all the way down to the party I went to. So I might go back to Delaware at some point. It's not a trade over there.

[Skeet Carter]

Here's the deal.

[Jason Lee]

Like, yeah, you know, I. I will say, like, the interesting part is my one. My first boyfriend that I talk about in my book was on the show with me as my best friend. So, yeah, I. Yeah, we left that show and went. Got it in at the hotel.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn. Yeah, well, there you have it.

[Jason Lee]

But it's like this miraculous thing that's going viral right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know why?

[Jason Lee]

Is it because.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's because your profile continues to grow and people think this is a got you moment. Like, what they're trying to say is, like, I think is that, oh, Jason Lee has been acting for a long time. Like. Like it's a grift.

[Jason Lee]

Yeah, yeah, maybe. Yeah, but maybe. I don't know. I mean, look at the time I was. I. I did see, like, the audio sounds like a little slow. Like, it sounds a little chopped and screwed. I don't know if they put a Louisiana accident. I don't know. That's who I was at 19. This is who I am now. And somewhere in between there, I had a girl and a guy, maybe both at the same time. I don't know. I'm an evolution of everything. Yeah, but that clip is going viral,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

and at 19, you're just trying to figure things out. You don't know.

[Jason Lee]

I was figuring it all out too. You know, crazy part is, I was

[Lauren LaRosa]

all out, too.

[Jason Lee]

Yo, yo, listen, the other day I was at an event for these kids in the city with school district and one my. I had this new camera guy, so he's filming my BTs or whatever, and one of my ex girlfriends walked in. I did not mention who she was at all. In fact, I was distracted. I'm like, can you go get this? Because I didn't want them to have this moment because for what? Like, it's such the past. Me and her don't even talk. Like, for what? You're like, you're the past 30 years ago.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You only say hi to her for what? I mean, you know her. Did it.

[Jason Lee]

Do you. I've seen you talk about your ex boyfriends up here. Do you see your ex boyfriend? But if you did, would you want to go and say hello?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I wouldn't go say hello, but if they say hi to me, I'd be

[Jason Lee]

like, well, she didn't say hi to me. Last time I saw her was at a Red Lobster and I ain't been back there since. So why am I going to speak?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Once again, as Lauren's profile continues to grow, Because I get videos from her ex boyfriend all the time.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You a dang, dang lie. You are a lie. I've had maybe two.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't have one in my phone

[Lauren LaRosa]

right now that I don't know who that person is.

[Jason Lee]

Send it to Hollywood Unlock. Let me tell you something, because I'm gonna tell you something about this one right here. See, you know, she, she know I always say I'm extremely proud of Lauren. I've said it to her privately. I'll say it to her right now because she was one of my interns and before she left me and went to tmz and then now she left TMZ and now she's doing it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She's the beginning of Hollywood Unlock.

[Jason Lee]

And I'm proud of her because you're really doing your thing. But let me tell you about this one. She calls me at 5 in the morning. Get a statement. No, don't call me at 5 in the morning. You're the only person about the regulate thing about anything. Oh, she's the only person to have the courage to, first of all to call me to ask me anything. I'd be like, yo, Lauren, I'mma give you this. But like, I'm sleepy right now.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Why would you show them that?

[Jason Lee]

Wait, what is backing it up on somebody send me that to Hollywood online.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That is so we going to put you.

[Jason Lee]

Matter of fact, send that so I

[Charlamagne Tha God]

can put you on there. Going to pop in the picture too.

[Jason Lee]

There you go. Oh, that's Derek.

[Skeet Carter]

No, I'm just playing.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Y' all are.

[Jason Lee]

But I love it because now that you. Now that you're star is rising and you're growing into your, you know, your thing and you're breaking all these exclusives, baby, they gonna break them on. It's. It's just, it's going to happen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely.

[Jason Lee]

And it's so good. Take it with a grain of salt. I put a picture of Ricky Lake of last night. Come on. I was on Tempest Blood's Bledsoe show too. Twice voted most wanted guests. They brought all these unattractive women from all over the country to meet me. And I was, you know, like, yo, I'm trying to get out in the city and see where, you know, where they at. Not you, but yeah, I have a pass.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, it's interesting, right, because people have Turned politics into entertainment, right? Like, that's what I feel like Trump did. But you literally. And well, I, like you, came from entertainment in the politics. Is that dangerous or is that just the future?

[Jason Lee]

You know, I think back when I came here, when I. When I had won and I came here to the show, and you said, are you worried they're going to try to do something? Do you remember how I was like, they gotta do nothing because I'm gonna do something. They tried. It's just. It's inherently this world where I think that now what I'm seeing is I'm seeing, like, a lot of Republican posts about me, Democrat vice mayor, Democrat vice mayor, Democrat vice mayor, because they see my. My influence is massive. You know, I went into it with millions of followers, my own money, the real. The real intention of building my community, and I brought a lot of value there. So I see what they're trying to do. It's not really wanting anything to stick. It's just wanting people to believe narratives. So that way, if I want to do something more, it's like, not the guy that. That took $50,000 for wild n Out, not the comedian, not the reality star. So I see the game, but what's. What's crazy is I see the impact that all regular, everyday people are feeling because of all these games people are playing. It is wild. You know, Spencer Pratt running for LA mayor, you know, and I was online getting ready to criticize him, but I'm like, yo, that's how probably people saw me. You know, like, who was this reality star podcaster who's now running for. For city government? So I think Trump has changed the game, and I think the thing that you've done has been great, and I wish Democrats would pay attention and listen is you've exposed the vulnerabilities of the Democratic Party trying to play the old rule book. That rulebook is done. It is done. And the reason why Republicans are winning is because they have changed the rules and they are heavily invested in what they're doing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But people think when we. When we criticize the Democratic Party and we say those things, we're literally telling them what they need to do to win. They think we're, you know, trying to on them for the other side. That makes no sense.

[Jason Lee]

I remember we have a friend, Erica Lowe, who. Who opened up the.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I love her.

[Jason Lee]

I love her. What she was trying to do for the Biden administration was literally what we've been trying to do to help people get their narratives out, Right? Like, she was Opening the doors for us to get in. But like I told her in my first meeting, I'm not somebody you called to be happy to be at the cookout. And then I remember calling you, like, what's. And he said, the minute you have an opinion that they don't, like, watch how they switch up. And it happened. And I'm like, yo, hold on. Like, you. You can be mad at Charlemagne because he's telling you the truth, and then invite me because you think I'm gonna be the other person. We all the same. We all have an opinion. And so when I got in and I saw that the fabric was rooted in who was going to go along to get along and push the narrative instead of, like, being the fabric of what we're all trying to build together, I said, no, you're not going to play me like that. And so when you said, watch how they get mad, they did that. And then when I watched them all lose, I'm like, because if you think twerking for votes is going to win, that ain't what's going to stop some mother who's trying to figure out why she has to bury her kid who was killed by this police officer.

[Lauren LaRosa]

When they got mad at you when you said watch them do it, what did they do?

[Jason Lee]

Well, you stop getting certain invitations, or then you start. You won't get the interviews. You don't get the access that you would. You don't get the. They'll go over here and do this conversation. So when you see people popping up on shows that make no sense, because that person's not going to ask the questions that he's going to ask. So when I saw Kamala do the one on one with Charlamagne when it was already too late, it was like, you should have been. Had that conversation all the way through. Because the way that I heard Biden's aides were. Were in her bathroom, you know, treating her like a side piece or whatever, like, disrespecting her. This is the second most powerful person in the world who. Who is lining up with the president to get us to a different place. And y' all are treating her disrespectful. So she. She should have had her allies and her base solidified all the way through. And I feel like that's the reason why a billion dollars later, and even though she was well intentioned and probably the most qualified, she lost in this. Why we are where we are today.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah. You know, I was gonna say this politics space isn't new for you, like, maybe to some people, but for you, you've been talking about that, I mean, 2020, you were speaking about, you know, the black community and what was happening and injustices and everything. Then, like, yeah, you know, talk about how like you transition from literally wanting to be just a voice in the community to running for vice mayor.

[Jason Lee]

Yeah, I didn't want to be an elected official. I'll be honest, most people, they right now the city thinks, oh my God, he's going to be the next mayor, he's gonna be the next mayor. And everybody's asking me to run to be the mayor. I don't, I did not want to be, be the mayor or vice mayor or anything. What I wanted was I wanted to bring a million dollars of my own money to my city that I love to help kids like me who have dreams, who live in disinvested communities and don't have really pathways to do it. I said, I'll put a million dollars in, you put a million dollars in together we'll build this program. I saw the politicking of that opportunity. There's not a lot of people that are saying once they make a million dollars, I want to go give it away to help my community. That's just not something that happens. Right. And so in that process, it became a social experiment to me because like even a well intentioned person who's made it out of the hood where most people still live and are living the same experience I did, you're still fighting that. That went from not wanting to partner to fine, I will change everybody up there to, okay, I will be up there to then still having to fight. But you know, it's been one of those things where I feel like right now I'm just showing people that if you want to see a change in your community, you can either do what we do on this side of it, because this is a very important side too, to have this audience and influence and relationships to drive home a message. Or you can get in the game like I am now or do both like I am now or what I'm thinking now is maybe back up and just, you know, build a pack and just start investing in the right candidates across my state that I want to see. Because at some point, what my point is, is that everybody has to get in the game. We cannot sit on the sidelines, especially right now.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, we, we've talked before when the whole the 50k while NAU thing was happening. We're cleared of. Right?

[Caller]

Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And when all that happened, the way that the headlines came out and framed it versus how people covered it once you were cleared and how you were calling people out. What did that teach you about being in the political space and those type of attacks again?

[Jason Lee]

I think he said it the best. The lie is always louder than the truth. Right. And, and I get it because I did an interview yesterday where like, I think a group brought me on because they thought I was gonna be something different than I am. I think because I'm elected, they think I'm not Jason Lee. And these people had created a narrative before, maybe five, six years ago, and it was time for me to, you know, get on the air and say

[Charlamagne Tha God]

what I had to say about you.

[Jason Lee]

Oh, yeah, it was. Yeah. And so I think that, you know, when the Wild N Out happened, this is what happened. I did the show for five seasons. I asked Nick Cannon along the way, hey, when I make it in, if I make it to city council, will you bring Wild out to Stockton the live show? He said yes. So I put him with staff. Y' all figure it out. They figured it out. And right before the show was going to, I think maybe a Thursday, I was in Mexico and they called the promoter con said, I think we're going to cancel the show because the show, we've. We haven't sold out our tickets and, you know, we're already losing a bunch of money. But we really want, really want to do this to you. I said, we'll call the staff and y' all figure it out. So the staff put in $50,000 from an approved fund to save the show. And they did. Mind you, our facility is underutilized. We're burning $4 million a year to keep them alive. So this new promoter, I'm new to the area, put in 50,000. The city put in 50,000 and the city made 640,000. So from a business standpoint, it was a 12 time multiple. It was a great investment of a fund that was there. But because we were firing the manager on his way out, he just threw this bomb out there. Like, oh, yeah, the vice mayor is involved with this. But what they didn't realize was how viral it would go. And now they're realizing like, okay, we can't talk about you the same way we can talk about them. Yeah, how about you just don't lie? But then they spent $50,000 to prove I didn't take $50,000. Now the taxpayers are mad and they're probably going to lose their election because, you know, they. People back home see me as A hero. And these people attack the hometown hero.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Does that bring you closer to the people you're serving? Or does that. Does that create a conversation where like, they're second guessing things? Like, how does that affect you when you're in the actual community?

[Jason Lee]

I think people in Stockton know that I don't need to be there, that this is a choice. Right? They know that I made the money. They see my lifestyle. They know, you know, I didn't take an oath of poverty to take the job. I don't act like I don't got it. I don't. I got rid of all my jewelry and all that. Cause I just realized, like, I'm at a point in my life where I'm not a rapper. I don't. I know I have have it. I don't need to prove my anything to myself other than be happy, be sober, you know, stay in therapy, stay focused. But I know now the people back home, they know me. If I go to Starbucks, it's not. They. They know what I do for a living, but they don't treat me like. They just treat me like Jason. And they, they appreciate what I'm doing for the community.

[Mimi Brown]

Which one is harder, being a public personality or public office?

[Jason Lee]

Public office for sure. Not. Not because. Only because. Because, you know, if you say, oh, look at this Ricky Lake clip. I can put a picture of Ricky Lake up and laugh at it because it doesn't matter. But I know that kids are watching me. Like when I go to speak at schools, you know, like, these kids are excited to see me. They're like, yo, this guy, we've watched him on the Baddies. I'd be like, why are you watching the baddies? You know? Or they say, oh, how is this person? Or I saw you on the Breakfast Club. You know, like, they love. They're inspired by what I'm doing. And that means a lot to me. I think the thing that bothers me is, is seeing how politics ruins the lives of people. Like, the fact that politics really are a. It's a world where all these people are trying to get their friends money and they're trying to get status. They're already looking. They're forecasting the next move and next seat they want. I'm like, why don't you just do the work that you're elected to do right now? And I think the people see that. That's the part I don't like about it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So the government is messier than Hollywood way, man.

[Jason Lee]

What. What yo y' all talking about? Diddy parties, talk about them Epstein files. We're not even talking about that, because look at. Look at the weapon of mass distraction. This man went kidnapped. Venezuelan president, bombed kids at Iran, tore down the White House, took a plane from a foreign country. He. You know, he made everybody think that immigration is people that are black and brown when his wife is an immigrant. And like, we're not even talking about the fact that the Epstein files are still out there, you know, but that's. That's how politics work. It's a nasty game.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You know, what I appreciate with you, too, is I think even through those moments where things are tense, like when the wild stuff was happening, you are very vulnerable. Vulnerable. And you talk us through it. So we're learning in real time about how a lot of these things work, right? With money trickling into different organizations, lack thereof, whatever. A lot of people don't have those conversations because when the headlines hit, they back away from it. They're like, oh, my God. Oh, my God, my career.

[Jason Lee]

Well, most. Most. Most of these people don't have their own platform, too. So, you know, Stockton, it's a news desert where, you know, I have, in my whole universe, 9 million followers and have relationships with people who have followers. And, you know, when the wild N out things was cleared up to Charlamagne's point, when you all talked about it here, and thank you for clearing it up, because it was important that my friends share it, because my friends that know me, you know, that, you know, just share the truth. But when Charlemagne said, the truth is not as loud as the lie, Nobody

[Charlamagne Tha God]

cares about the truth and the lies more than a king, they don't care.

[Jason Lee]

And that's. That's really sad. And. And I will say that, like, going back to that whole thing, you know, they denied the million dollar program. So I ran, brought the opportunity back to the city, saying, hey, hey, we have this underutilized youth center right here where my brother died. He literally died in that. And we have no plans to revive it. Why don't y' all figure out how we can work together since we're applying for this grant.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We.

[Jason Lee]

We did that. The city council voted it down. Okay, cool. So I went out.

[Skeet Carter]

We.

[Jason Lee]

My nonprofit applied for the grant, and the governor granted us $13 million. Shout to Governor Gra. Gavin Newsom. And now we're building a youth center in my district for kids that now has a mental health component, because thanks to you and friends, I'm in therapy. And I see the value of making sure that we, through not just Generational trauma. But the stuff we're going through every day. And so now there's like a 20 bed respit part to this. So when kids are in crisis, they also have a place to stay while they go through their day daily programming.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

See them trying to build a negative narrative.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's a $58 million conversation.

[Jason Lee]

So now there's this. So now this Democrat vice mayor is getting $58 million from the council that he sits in. It's all lies. But that. But thank God I'm working with Meta. I. I emailed Adam, Adam, and I'm talking to Meta and we're. We're delete. You know, we're having pages removed and, and striking where misinformation lives to protect the truth.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, we got more with Jason Lee when we come back. It's the world's most dangerous morning show, the Breakfast Club.

[Jess Hilarious]

This young lord reporting live from Atlanta, Georgia. Decatur, where it's great.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I want all my sexy ladies

[Jess Hilarious]

to report to the dance floor in ejaculation. We gonna go to glide this one, y'.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let's be greased right off the back.

[Jess Hilarious]

Manipul got dollars a woman come frequent like flight mileage. It ain't no secret I might holler

[Charlamagne Tha God]

but I ain't gonna sweat you, baby. I' ma let you catch up with your game? Run faster, don't let them lose you?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Cause I ain't gonna bless you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Unless you feel a little desperate. Send them a text message. Girl, stop the. Yes, it's the world's most dangerous morning show, the Breakfast Club. We're sitting here with Jason Lee. He is the CEO and founder of Hollywood Unlocked and the vice mayor of Stockton, California. I saw you in St. Lucia with my cousin Chloe. You know she damn near lives there.

[Jason Lee]

I know. Oh, she, she. She's amazing. I love her. And Helly and her Charmaine, they looked out for us. Yeah, we popped. We popped up on Brandy and Monica. It was great. It was. It was a much needed break because my mind right now, it's like. Like there's so much going on. Full time career, all the ambitions, the show I got going on, this new relation with bet, my award show coming up, which all of you are invited.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't know.

[Jason Lee]

You still haven't told me if you're coming. June 5th.

[Lauren LaRosa]

June 5th. I can make that.

[Jason Lee]

Y' all are invited. Yeah, so. So, you know, there's a lot going on, but I had to go out there to.

[Lauren LaRosa]

To take some time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hollywood Unlocked Impact Awards hosted by Tiffany Hadish. Of course, you know, Hollywood Cares foundation, there's a non profit attached to it. And you got a great lineup again this year. We don't give Jason Lee enough credit for this award show that you've created on your own that has better people than regular, than real. I don't even say real award shows. You know, traditional award shows.

[Jason Lee]

Yeah, we haven't even announced, but Chloe's actually opening the show.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, okay. So you just announced it. I don't know if you.

[Jason Lee]

Yeah, I did. Yeah. Right here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Baby Face is the musical director. Tyler Perry is getting awarded with the Innovator award, Kalani with the Fearlessness award, Kirk Franklin the Inspiration award, Megan Goode with the Spirit award, and RZA with the Culture award. Yeah.

[Jason Lee]

And we have a couple more surprises I'm excited about. We're. We're also doing a tribute to. I haven't shared this boss yet here we're doing a tribute to Richard Smallwood. You know, I put gospel in every one of our shows because I do love God. I mean, I have. I know that I'm a testimony of having faith and living by faith and all of the trials and tribulations I've been through. I know that God has had his hand on me. And so. So I've intentionally made sure that I keep that in there. So we're doing a tribute to Richard Smallwood. I'm excited about that.

[Mimi Brown]

How do you guys determine who you're going to honor the winners and everything? You chew.

[Jason Lee]

Well, literally in my interview with the RZA and Wu Tang Clan being so iconic to all of us who love hip hop and just see all of what it's done for music and for our community and stuff over the years and to know they're on their final tour were literally in the interview, I was like, yo, the interview that he had never been a, that they'd never won a Grammy, I put him in a text with Harvey Mason, like, yo, y' all gotta fix that. Like, we have to. We have to do something to continue to like amplify the people that are really doing it. Not to say these TikTok rappers are not doing it, but I do feel like music has gone in a way where, you know, when he said some of the bars on the show, I'm like, yo, we're. That's. That to me is the storytelling that the Tupacs or the biggies or whatever were doing and method mans and so forth. So, so RZA was, It was a no brainer. Tyler Perry, I feel like Tyler, you know, I Remember when me and Kevin Hart had our thing and Charlamagne was like, you know, Kevin actually does a lot for the black community. And I didn't really like, know until I got to know him. With Tyler, I remember when Whitney Houston died, he put her body on the plane to get it to her family. I see how he's moving and supporting a lot of people. Lizzo called me yesterday and then while we're talking, she's like, yeah, I just got off the phone with Tyler. Tyler. I had to call him for advice. And you know, he, you know, that's just who he is. But when you look at what he's been able to do and creating stories and jobs for people to tell those stories, and then now to see the shift in the disinvestment of black media and black entrepreneurs, I'm like, yo, this is an innovator. So, you know, I, I choose who I want to honor. I think Breakfast Club was the first culture award recipient, which over there. And, and, and it's not an ego thing and it's not about me. And it's about literally just lifting up people that I think are really important.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't understand why BET don't add that. Why hasn't Beta Hollywood unlock the wood?

[Jason Lee]

I mean, because we're, we're happily in partnership with Zeus, a black owned network, so we're happy to be the only black owned award show on a black owned network. And, and Lemio, you know, although I moved my show from Zeus to bet, Limio has been my favorite partner to work with with because he is fully invested in any idea I want and he lets me do whatever I want and he trusts me. And so we, we talked the other day. I was giving him updates on who's being honored and he doesn't ask who's being honored because he just really trusts my decisions.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Did you at one point even try to take it to BET though? Like, I wonder if they think it would compete with their awards.

[Jason Lee]

Well, BET used to have BET honors back in the day, and I loved what they, what they created. I think, you know, when I first got in the game, it was Sha Kim and Dana and Shelby Stone who took me over to BET to bring the Jason Lee show to life. But I didn't even have Hollywood unlocked at the time, really. So I wasn't even really ready. But she believed in me. They believed in me, and BET wasn't ready. And so I just kind of did, you know, love and hip hop on BT or VH1 then I did Wild N out on MTV and built a relationship with them. But then I left and just started doing my own thing because for them, they like to own everything. That's why I love the fact that my show's over there now, the Jason Lee Show. I still own it. It's a licensing deal. And I've never had to sell my. My creativity to anybody. So I've gone where I can get the money, get the audience, do some audience jacking, really build and invest in ownership. And that's why I'm happy today. I own 90 of my company, all of my content I've ever shot, and now I'm getting in the acquisition game because I'm getting to age where I want to retire at some point in the not too long future and be able to do it right BC just

[Charlamagne Tha God]

give you the Black and Iconic award to her get.

[Jason Lee]

Yeah. May 23rd, which is the day my. My brother who died is his birthday day. I'll be at DC Pride. Yeah, Getting that award from bt. So they're starting to give me my flowers.

[Caller]

It is.

[Jason Lee]

I do see it now. I mean, the people are reaching out, saying, oh, we like to honor you. Which is cool. But I'm gonna make sure to use every time I get those honors to just continue to remind people that we all out here, you know, like, thank you for giving it to me. But, like, we all out here and we're all important. And that's why I love being here every time I come here, because this is, like, was one of my goals when I was getting it. Like, okay, I get to get to Breakfast Club. And I got here, and I've, you know, been here several times.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I remember when I used to. Well, when things would be exploding back at my old job, and you'd be calling me, and I'd be like, jason, why do you care so much about this? Because you're doing so well. Like, you are such an icon in your own right. And you'll be like, yeah, but it's important for people to respect the work I'm doing now that I'm out here on my own. I understand your explosions a bit. Like, I. I called you and told

[Jason Lee]

you I was going to slap Mike Babcock.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You had some words for Harvey as

[Jason Lee]

well, because Mike Babcock, again, some of these people who prey on our culture and who. Who want to use our material, our creativity, but not give us the credit or the respect that I had a problem with. Obviously, I have a better relationship with TMZ now, and there's mutual respect. And I see that they're a behemoth in what they do. But when you can't launch TMZ Hip hop and talk about this person, this is not even hip hop. It's just TMC Black. It's like let me do Forbes Black. No shout out to Forbes. Just throwing black and culture on it. Don't make it the culture. The reason why this is called the Breakfast Club and it's the biggest culture platform. Why? Because it's, it's not, you know, it's authentically real. And I think that with, with tmz, I was like, yo, if you want to do TMZ unlocked, let's build a collaborative partnership. But then that means you have to invest money, resource platform distribution. And they don't want to do that

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Jess Hilarious]

Lauren be coming with straight fast.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She be having the latest on

[Caller]

the

[Skeet Carter]

Latest with Lauren LaRosa.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details.

[Caller]

Tell.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sometimes you have a little bit of everything. Well, it's the least brought to you

[Jason Lee]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I have no idea why Jason Lee was abruptly cut off like that. But you know, wow. Yeah, Woe is me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. All right, well, let's get into the latest. So Chris Rock, he sat down for an interview with Dana Carvey and David Spade for their show Fly on the Wall and they are just reminiscing through some of the moments. And he talks about Tupac not not liking him. Let's take a listen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What could you and Tupac not get along about? It was, hey, you know, it's always the same, the same girls, right? That's the first time, right. He. He always won that battle. One year at the MTV Awards I presented some award and Suge Knight was in the audience and I Did like some joke about Suge or whatever the. And then there was an afterparty at BR park work and, you know, and I just had that special Bring the Pain. And Tupac was like, what's up with all that? Some black people. And he kind of. Oh, he kind of stepped to me, but I didn't. Was not that big. So a skinny guy can't wait to fight a skinny guy. But nothing happened. I don't think you should answer any questions about Tupac when the person asking you pronounces it too. He didn't even correct him.

[Jess Hilarious]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I. I have trouble pronouncing quite a few words, but we've heard the name Tupac so much last 30 years. Know how to pronounce Tupac.

[Jess Hilarious]

How you still saying Tupac, yo?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, well, the joke that he is referencing from Bring the Pain, we have a snippet of Alyssa. Listen, there's some going on with black people right now. It's like a civil war going on with black people.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And there's two sides. It's black people and there's

[Lauren LaRosa]

have got to go every time black people want to have a good time. Infinite Ass it up. Can't do without some ignorant. Ass it up. Can't do nothing. Can't keep a disco open more than three weeks.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Grand opening, grand closing.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Can't go to a movie the first week it come out.

[Nyla Simone]

Why?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Cause are shooting at the screen. What kind of ignorant is that? Hey, this a good movie. This so good. I gotta bust a cabin here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, I Boy, I wish they let

[Lauren LaRosa]

me join the Klu Klux Klan.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

First of all, this is a bit that you cannot listen to out of context. You need to go listen to it in full. It's one of the greatest social commentaries of all time. And I encourage you to go watch it in full if you haven't.

[Jess Hilarious]

Man, it's so funny. Yo. People, yo. I don't know if y' all ever seen that episode of the Office where Michael Scott actually did it. Steve Carell, he actually did it and said the N word. Crazy comedy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So funny. Listen, there is a difference between N words and black people. And only black people understand the difference. And if you don't know the difference, you're probably an N word word. And you should probably go watch that Chris Rock bit. I'm also shocked that Tupac had a problem with that because Tupac had a similar mindset in regards to women. He would always say there is a difference between women and. And he would explain why he felt there was a difference he's done it in quite a few interviews.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, but there's a lot. There's always been a conversation about how people feel about Chris Rock sometimes like that he allows certain things to fly. Like he's a gateway for white people to disrespect black people.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's been a conversation about the messenger. We're talking about the message. I'm talking about that bit, and I'm talking about that comparison to Tupac. Being mad about that. Tupac, literally. Tupac. But who. I'm talking about the message. Like, I'm. I don't get. I don't get caught up in stuff like that. But I'm just saying Tupac had the same mindset in regards to women. And so I really. I wonder what upset him about the versus black people thing. Because that rhetoric you're talking about right there, people didn't have about. They didn't feel that way about Chris Rock back then. They feel that way because of the I was alive, mother and a grandmother. They feel that way about. Because of the Seinfeld conversation that he had. That bring the pain happened way before that was 94.

[Jess Hilarious]

I remember the Seinfeld conversation.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, well, okay, well, he's also talking to Chris Rock. He's also talking about Shrek and almost doing the movie, but Eddie Murphy stepping in. Let's take a listen for the Shrek guys.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, they made so much money, none of them ever worked again. They all went, like 20 years without working. They made so much money. And now they have two more. They just did.

[Caller]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Eddie has the studio in his house.

[Skeet Carter]

House.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like the recording student in his house.

[Skeet Carter]

So all he has to do is

[Charlamagne Tha God]

go downstairs to do donkey. And to do donkey, he would make them wait for months at a time. And at least twice they negotiated deals with me to play donkey. And then Eddie just went downstairs and pull them out of $30 million. Damn.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I know, right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, that podcast is available in full now. It's listed on our YouTube channel. And as we wrap real quick, I. I just saw this story, and I thought it was interesting. So y' all know how Kanye west has been having all these concerts and some of them are getting canceled. So it's been working out. So Rolling Stone did this article where they announced yesterday that Kanye west is now doing a concert down in Georgia with a guy from Israel or Israeli businessman, a Jewish man. And they're saying that this concert, they were saying that it was being put on by Live Nation Israel, but Live Nation is saying we have not to do with this. And he sold already 70,000 tickets.

[Jess Hilarious]

Damn.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But. But I mean, it's Kanye.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah. No, I mean, I'm not, I'm not shocked, but it's just when you hear it, it's like, damn, y'.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All. I just feel like Kanye's trying so hard to make this pushback, this comeback. Like, he's doing all of these things within the community over there to be forgiven and people are still going to do it. The Jew within the Jewish community.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Like, I mean, even him partner. Like, the fact that people are even picking us up is because of who the business partner is. Right. Because at one time people were saying, who wouldn't stand by Kanye West? I don't know, it's just weird to me that he's doing so much of this. Like, why not just lean into where people are already showing up for you at, like, he had to show in LA and he was fine.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, but isn't he being blocked though? Like, it's not.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He's being blocked within certain communities. Right. So like if he's going out of, out of the country and certain communities don't like some of the anti Semitic things that he said, but he was, he successfully had other shots chose. I feel like this move though, is still him. It's almost like the apology when he sat with the rabbi.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, it's like him, he sold 70, 000 tickets.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, that's. That's motivation.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, but my point is, is like, I, I don't think that it's by chance that he goes and he works with this man from Israel, this Israeli man. Like, I think it's another way to show. Hey, I'm sorry. I'm okay. Can we. Forgive me now, move on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're saying he could sell 70, 000 tickets without the Israeli man? Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm like, why is he doing, like, why do all of that? Like, you're, you're able to make out the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, he probably needs him for the venue.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like, venues are being blocked, but Kanye

[Lauren LaRosa]

west can't find no venue in Georgia.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know. Maybe. Clearly not.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah. And are there black owned venues? You know what I mean? You know what I'm saying? Like, well, well, who would own venues this big that he needs to get into?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I think Kanye west could figure something out with it. I mean, he figured it out that

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sofi in Lauren want Kanye to have a concert outside. Let's just have it outside.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I just don't all of the, like pandering I don't know if it's, if it's actually going to work for him. Yeah, I mean, 70,000 tickets is a thing, reportedly.

[Caller]

Definitely.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. But we'll see how it goes, I guess.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's the latest for the hour. It's brought to you by Top Dog Law. Any accident, big or small, call Top

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Dog Law and Donkey Today is up next. It's the people's Donkey. You can call us 1-800-585-1051 and you can give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid. It's the Breakfast Club.

[Skeet Carter]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Remember now, that's is how they choose. Call in now, 800-585-1051. Hey, Donkey of the Day for Friday, May 15th is the People's Donkey. This is where I open up the phone lines and allow you the people to give folks the credit they deserve for being stupid. I do want to give a donkey of the day update, though, because earlier this week, I gave a donkey to a guy named Dalton Erly, AKA Chud the Builder. He's the racist who runs up on black people in the street and provokes them by calling them racial slaves, slurs, and then threatens them with mace when they attempt to put hands on them. Well, you all will be happy to know he is currently in jail. Okay. With no bond because of a shooting that happened during a confrontation outside of a Montgomery county courthouse in Clarksville, Tennessee. Both men were shot in this situation. They are both in stable condition. The other man was black. We don't know how the shooting unfolded or what led up to it, but Chud the Builder has been charged with employing a firearm during dangerous felony, aggravated assault, reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon, and he has not received a bond. Let Remy Ma give Chud the building the biggest he haw again, please. Hee haw.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Hee haw. You stupid motherfucker.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Are you dumb now? Good morning.

[Jess Hilarious]

Good morning.

[Caller]

This is Janelle.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, Janelle, who you want to get a biggest hee ha to Janelle?

[Caller]

Donkey of the day goes to these two girls. I was walking, minding my own business, and they're laughing and talking to each other, carrying on. And then one of them falls like. And I looked like side eye kind of grinned. I'm like, well. And then the other one, like a second legal.

[Mimi Brown]

I'm like.

[Caller]

After that I was like, you know what? Not today. After I cross the street, I left. I started walking away. Cuz I'm not about to get that H virus or Mess with my.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hold on. So you just walking down the street and you heard a girl cough a little, little. And you thought that was the Hannah I first.

[Caller]

Cuz I left the girl right behind me. Left. Okay. And I started walking into my music. My, My business. I'm not going to my car. And then she's. They get next to me like three feet, like. I was like, it's fake or real. I looked at her, I was like. And then she's. The other one she's talking to was like. And then I was like, okay, I walk. I just got a ski walking. I went.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I was like, no, no, no. I'm not mad at you. Listen, we at that point, we at that point where you judging. We judging you for sneezing more than twice. We judging you for a little coughing fits. We just don't know. We. We got. We got to take precautions. I understand. Thank you for calling, Janelle. Good morning. Who's this?

[Caller]

Hey, it's Haley.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, Haley. Who you want to get a biggest Z haul to? Haley?

[Caller]

I want to give the donkey of the day to Kendrick Lamar.

[Nyla Simone]

Oh, gosh.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What?

[Caller]

Drake ate him off the Iceman.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't. I don't think that's the case, man. I. I listen and see, this is the narrative that we not going to spend. Drake already took his L. It's okay to take his L. Now he just, just, you know, screaming about the L he took. You know who Drake is. You ever seen Minister Society when Chauncey got his ass kicked and Chauncey got the videotape of, you know, Kane and Old Dog, and he ready to go scream and tell it to the police. That's what. That's where Drake is at right now. So don't say he ate Kendrick up.

[Caller]

No, he did. How you gotta listen to Iceman.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I've listened to enough. I don't care what's on. There's nothing on Iceman that's gonna change the outcome of what happened to you years ago. It's not funny.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He called the troll you this morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know. Good morning. Who's this?

[Caller]

Hey, good morning. This is Terrell.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Terrell, how are you, sir? Who you want to get the biggest? He haw to?

[Caller]

I'm doing well. I want to get the biggest. I hate to say this, but I gotta give it to you, Charlemagne.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, why?

[Caller]

Well, you supposed to be a mental health advocate. Every time I listen to this radio show, you always trying to bully my man Drake. And luckily for him, strong enough to take it. But if he wasn't he going through a mental health crisis right now. First of all, you know your disdain for him. Drake, I don't take away from the fact that this is the biggest, most historical thing that has happened in the last 20 years of music.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, my God. See, this. This is why it's a bunch of grown men covered in semen. Covered in frozen semen, posting them on Instagram, talking about Iceman on the way. I don't have a disdain for Drake. Drake is an artist. Drake puts out music, and the music can be critiqued once it's up, once it's out for public consumption, we, the consumer, can critique it. That's what I do, sir.

[Caller]

But what I will say, as someone that has to work in an hour. I spent three hours listening to that last night. I'm probably gonna regret it in a few times. Hell.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why would you do that?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I was just saying it was so. I was trying. I was falling asleep, waking back up, restarting songs. Like, we are getting old.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But what's the point of that, though? Like, the music is gonna be here when you wake up. Like, why do you have to listen to it? Why did you have to binge listen to it?

[Lauren LaRosa]

It just feels good because it's like, everybody.

[Caller]

Yeah, I got caught up in it. Well, it's too much music for you to be critiquing it this early.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I haven't criti. I haven't heard it. I've listened to some of Iceman. I haven't critiqued it at all.

[Caller]

Fair enough. Fair enough. Well. Well, give it. Give it a listen over the weekend. I know you probably got a lot of other things that you consider better to do, but it's music for the ears. It's music for the soul.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm gonna be honest with you. I highly doubt I'm gonna listen to all three Drake albums, bro. Not like. I'm just. I'm just not. I got a life, you know what I mean? I understand for those of you who like to be covered in frozen semen and post and say, iceman coming. Iceman came. What is it now y' all can say Iceman came. See? Oh, my God. Y' all don't even gotta say Iceman coming no more. Now when y' all post, y' all selves covered in the frozen semen put Iceman. Good morning. Who's this?

[Caller]

Yo, what up? This Brandon from Louisiana.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Brandon from Louisiana.

[Caller]

Who?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You want to get a biggest yaw too, man?

[Caller]

Wants to give it to all the people. People who giving Dr. Brian just the smoke and My reason being is, think about it. Like, when people don't get their hair done or don't get their hair cut, are y' all asking them barbers and them hairstylists, hey, let me see your. Your certificate. Like, did you go to school, like, or y' all just going in there because Kiki know how to do, like, a little quick weed? So we're like, oh, let me just go see Kiki.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now I'm gonna tell you.

[Caller]

These people who.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now I'm gonna tell you what. Let me tell you what. Your argument falls apart. When you walk into these barbershops and you walk into these hair salons, one thing that you will see most of the time. Time is these people have their certification plastered on the wall somewhere. Like, literally right behind. They boo for their station. Their certification is right there for the world to see. If you're a licensed barber, licensed hair stylist. It's. It's usually showcased in your facility.

[Caller]

Charlotte, I'm. I'm telling you, you would be some. You would be shocked. If you go in there like, yeah, y' all fools don't really have y' all stuff up. Like, you will be surprised. And same thing. Like, people who do all this catering and stuff, did they go to school for this? Like, hey, let me see your degree or your certificate from cooking school? Culinary school? Like, I think if we gonna give her the smoke, we gotta give everybody the smoke who do not have their certificate, their license, all this. We. Let's keep that energy across the board.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm not saying you're wrong, but if you are in a barber shop, a professional shop, you have to be a licensed barber to legally cut hair and beards. Money you have. You're to.

[Skeet Carter]

Supposed.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Supposed to be. So I'm not saying that you're wrong. I'm just. And I'm also telling you that most of these people, when you walk into these shops, they have their certification up for everybody to see.

[Caller]

You would be shocked. But a lot of people don't do that. They just like this feel this. This boo fee. Let me just try to get. To get this money off this boofy. Like, you would be shocked when you go. But that's all I'm saying.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm. I'm with you, but I don't think that makes it right. Like, just because people are doing it, don't make it right. But have a great day.

[Caller]

Keep doing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, all right. That was the people's donkey. We do that every Friday. Every Friday. I allow you, the people, to call in and give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid. So make sure you take advantage of that next Friday. Or you can go to the iHeartRadio app, go to our Talk, go to the Breakfast Club page, go to the Talk Back feature, and you can leave us a message. All right, now, when we come back, my man Skeet Carter will be joining us. Skeet Carter is an up and coming comedian from Philadelphia. Salute to everybody who listens to. To us on Power 99 in Philadelphia. He's opening up for Martin Lawrence tonight in Atlantic City and tomorrow in Brooklyn. And he'll be joining us next. It's the world's most dangerous morning show, the Breakfast Club. Yes, it's the world's most dangerous morning show, the Breakfast Club. DJ Envy, just hilarious. Charlemagne, the God Envy and Jess on here, but Lauren LaRosa is. And we got a special guest in the building, my guy comedian, Skeet Carter. What up, Sk.

[Skeet Carter]

Good morning. Good morning. What's up, y'?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All? What's happening?

[Skeet Carter]

I'm amazing, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I feel good. Look like you got a couple more dollars in. Last time I seen you, man, I did, man.

[Skeet Carter]

You know, money's gonna change you a little bit. You know, last time I had old teeth, I got the new ones.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay.

[Skeet Carter]

Y. I got the. They asked me what color white. I just, I said bad white. So I got the bad.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, the ill thing about teeth nowadays is, man, I know people who got them early on feel stupid. I know, cuz those were the bad. They got. They got much better.

[Skeet Carter]

Way better. Way better. And these, this is my. These are my first set. I gotta, like, I probably got two more to go.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Skeet Carter]

In life, you know, you want to keep them fresh.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What made you want to get the teeth?

[Skeet Carter]

Oh, I never liked my teeth. I always had big kid teeth, you know, and I was an adult and I felt like I needed adult teeth. Like they were like big and round. So now I got to kind of like, you know, I got steak teeth now. I could always eat whatever type of food I want, but with the steak teeth, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, you look good, brother.

[Caller]

You look good. Thank you, bro.

[Skeet Carter]

You know what I mean? You look good as well, man. Thank you, sir. Last time I saw you, you look, you know, you look better. So you sold a lot more books. I think you was on your. The first book when I first met you and you was trying to figure out the thesis.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I saw you, you could have looked better.

[Skeet Carter]

But you, like, now it's different. We look like each other now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I appreciate that.

[Skeet Carter]

Thank you, man. Laura Last time, you were the best person on the Diddy trial. Like, I. I didn't even watch the news. I just watched you come outside, and it was like he was looking over your shoulder every time, like, so he said and what he said in court. And I think you was, like, scared, but also you was, like, wanted to get us the news and you missed one day. And I was. I was mad. I didn't know what happened.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I had to take a break. It got a lot.

[Skeet Carter]

That's how you know I was watching you. I'm like, where's she at? I kept checking. I kept checking you wasn't there.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It was running me down.

[Skeet Carter]

But you did it. You did your thing.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Speaking of the Diddy trial, how'd you get the name Skeet?

[Skeet Carter]

Oh, I'm black. I'm black. And the nicknames just don't make sense in the black community. So Skeeter was my nickname since the child. So when I got older, I just got tired of the, er, the Skeeter. And I just went by Ski. I just figured, that'll work. And then.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Did it have something to do with my cousin Skeeter?

[Skeet Carter]

No, no, no. Because I had a cousin Skeets when I was a. A child. I met him probably two times, but I don't even think they named me from him. I don't know where it came from, but my great grandma named me Skeeter. And I just. I never let go the name. I've been cut. My mom called me Skeeter to this day, my dad, everybody. So, you know, just. I didn't make the name up.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You never thought about, like, Skeet, like, how people.

[Skeet Carter]

No, because it's like it was already embedded in me. So I just never. If I created it, then it would have been something different, like, nah, I can't be, you know, but, you know,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

how old are you?

[Skeet Carter]

I'm 38.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, yeah. So you predate?

[Skeet Carter]

Yeah, I'm way before that. Yeah, I was really. My. My. My dad nickname is Chu. I don't know what that's about.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, okay.

[Skeet Carter]

And then I'm Skeet. And then my son is Trey. We all got the same. We got the same government name, so.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cheat. Trey.

[Skeet Carter]

There you go. That sound like amigos ad lib.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Do you think comedians nowadays are scared? Skeet are. They're just finally experiencing consequences for saying,

[Skeet Carter]

wow, man, comedy is so different now. I think people are scared to really jump in different lanes and say different things. Cause they're scared of the backlash. Prime example. I think Kevin Hart played it safe for so many years, you know what I'm saying? Like, I ain't gonna mess up my money. I'm gonna play it saf. I mean, I'm welcoming. I could get all the. The money, I could get all the contracts, because I'm gonna just be funny to a certain extent. He didn't care. He kept his ears closed to, like, people in the, like, saying whatever they saying, oh, he ain't Kevin this no more. Nah, he.

[Caller]

He's.

[Skeet Carter]

He's doing what he want to do. The main goal is to make the money and build a name and a brand for himself. So he's doing that. But then you have people that just. Just total opposite, and they want to prove a point. I can say whatever I want, and this is what I'm gonna do. I don't care about opportunities. This is what I'm standing on, you know what I'm saying? So only person I know successful doing it that way is like a Dave Chappelle. But anyone else that's under that, like, you know, you know, like Corey Holcomb, he don't care. He gonna say whatever he wanted to say.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And, you know, it's levels, though, because, like this Dave. But there's a cat, right? Yeah, there's a Chris. I think most comedians, for the most part, can say what they want to say. You just got to deal with the consequences of.

[Skeet Carter]

Yeah, but some people, you say it, you'll touch on it. But you, you don't deep, you know, jump into a. Where it's like, I know I'm gonna get, you know, something gonna happen when I say this. Like, I don't. I don't see them people. I think Chris Rock, he plays it. He plays it in a way where it was like, okay, that was clever. That makes sense.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Skeet Carter]

Dave is like a. I look at Dave like he in his own lane. I don't even consider him a comedian no more. He could talk. He did a speech for two hours, and the punchline was at the end. He'd be like, damn. Okay, so, like, he.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He.

[Skeet Carter]

He different. He's on a different level. Me, I'm. I'm a. I'm a comedian that make. I talk about simple things that make it funny. So I'm. I'm gonna take you something that you live or deal with on your regular day, whether it's a shower curtain. Like, you know, you look at a shower curtain like it's just something in the bathroom. But the way I talk about it and how I experience A shower curtain. Depending on what girl house I'm at or. You know what I'm saying? I remember you like, damn. I ain't think about that. Like, you just think of a shower

[Lauren LaRosa]

curtain, because there is a difference, you

[Skeet Carter]

know what I'm saying? Because you're a grown woman, when you got the shower curtain, they got the inside part, the outside part with the magnets at the bottom.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Supposed to change.

[Skeet Carter]

Yes, it's supposed to change. Every. Every new relationship you get in, you need a new shower curtain.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Also just for your own body health. Because they get a little dirty. Some people be washing them, but you supposed to let them get rid of.

[Skeet Carter]

Go get another one. Because one time I was washing up. I'm a new dude at this girl house, but she got old dude dirt hanging up in there. So that's crazy. Like, I shouldn't. I shouldn't get Charlemagne dirt on me from being at 2.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You ain't gonna get mine. I'm happy, Mac. You got mine. Something wrong?

[Skeet Carter]

I'm just saying, you know, but you'd be at work a lot, so if

[Caller]

you, like,

[Skeet Carter]

Read the room. But yeah, just. I take several things and make it funny, man. I think that that's my lane. I talk about relationships. I deal with all of those things and just make those things funny. So I don't really jump into politics. I might have a joke that's about politics, but I'll give it to somebody. I'm like, I don't want that. That's funny.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What did you think of the. The roast?

[Skeet Carter]

The roast. I look at it from a different perspective.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, because you're a comedian.

[Skeet Carter]

Yeah, I'm a comedian, so I love the.

[Jess Hilarious]

The.

[Skeet Carter]

The lane or the level that. That. That Kev was at. I felt like he was. He tr. He did try to say some stuff this time because Kevin play is so safe. So it's like, okay. Oh, he cursed. I mean, like. Or he said something about somebody, or he did that. And it was dope to. To see that Naim. Naim killed it. I love to see that. Because people don't really. You know, they know Nyan, but they don't know know name. So that was dope for him to step out and be like, oh, damn, he funny. You know what I'm saying? Sure. Underwood did her thing. It was, like, so dope to see a OG because that's what she is in the game to be, to shine like that on that platform.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I wanted more of a deaf comedy jam.

[Skeet Carter]

That's what I want.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I wanted it blacker to be honest with you.

[Skeet Carter]

Name two other. Three other people that you would have loved to see up there. Like, you know,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I got. I got a list because there's people

[Skeet Carter]

that know Kev personally, like, that we on the road with, and we. They, like. They know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, that's what I felt like. I felt like it. Like, I thought Regina was more. Because.

[Skeet Carter]

Some more.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And she was there.

[Skeet Carter]

And she was there.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. Just interviewed her on the carpet.

[Skeet Carter]

Bill Bellamy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes. People that actually came up with him and know him. Yeah.

[Skeet Carter]

You know what I'm saying?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I thought Spank should have been up there.

[Skeet Carter]

Spank. He was up there. They just, you know, I. You know, I guess. Yeah. They. He just. He kept.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think Tiffany should have got some burns.

[Skeet Carter]

Exactly.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm surprised that Tiffany didn't. Oh, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Skeet Carter]

I should have been up there. I know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like. I mean, I know from Chile, but did y'.

[Caller]

All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Cannon should have been up.

[Skeet Carter]

Nick Can Canon. Definitely should have been up there. You know what I'm saying? So. Stuff like that. But I think it served its purpose, and it looked pretty dope. That was, like, a masterful weekend. Just. Netflix is the joke. Being a part of that, as a comedian, that weekend was dope. I just. I filmed Comic View that weekend, so that's about it. Comic View back and Ski card. Yeah. I'm on a new season, baby. Okay, I got that. There's a lot of stuff going on. What else? Bet. I got. I got a new TV show.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Show Lot Patrol.

[Skeet Carter]

Lot Patrol got a new TV show, man. We're about to. That. That airs in June.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So salute to whoever put that cast together, because they gave TK Kirkland an opportunity, man. TK Times have changed.

[Skeet Carter]

TK Talk. He act just like he talk.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's my guy.

[Skeet Carter]

That's my guy. TK He. I said you can say them words a little faster, TK TK he would read them lines like he. Waiting for the words to come by.

[Jason Lee]

Yeah.

[Skeet Carter]

I'm like, that's not in the script, TK but that's my guy, TK D. Raising a lot.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Patrol, too, right?

[Skeet Carter]

D. Ray, he's number one on the call sheet. Carl Payne is number two on the call sheet. And Skeet Carter is number three on the. In the car.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow.

[Skeet Carter]

Yeah, man. Times has changed.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Darius McCrae's in there, too, right?

[Skeet Carter]

Yes, he's in it. I think he had to go to child support court in between when we was filming, but he made it back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You said you think he wants you to put his business out there like it Was on the news.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Talk about it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay. All right.

[Skeet Carter]

Yeah, I talk about everything that's. That's out. I don't talk about. About private stuff. I just talk about everything that's out there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But you got to talk about the private stuff. That's how you go. That's how you really blow.

[Skeet Carter]

Definitely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What happened with Cat and Shannon.

[Skeet Carter]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's all you need. One good one. You can start now if you want.

[Skeet Carter]

All right. Just. Hilarious. What? Jesse? I got something. I got something to say about. I thought she was gonna be here. I love Jess. She. She came to my show when I did the 50 Cent Comedy show out, and it was like, for the super bowl or something like that. So we never. We. We met. Met personal in person one time, but she was in Philly. This was a long time ago. She was beefing with Meek Mills at the time. Just had 39 security guards with her, right? Because, you know, just from her mouth, she'd go crazy. I swear to God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

39.

[Skeet Carter]

It was. It was about 32, so it was like. So it's so many guards in there, right? I just want to come in because, you know, she'll know why. I just want to come and get a little quick picture, say hi, whatever. They. When that door opened and they look back, and I was like, it's me. It's just. I'm just a regular guy. Whatever. Like, it's just Ski Carter. She came. She was like, oh, all right. I was just making sure, you know, I mean, you know, because, you know, I got beef on these streets in Philly, and they crazy about me, and, you know, that happened. I swear, I lied to you.

[Caller]

Not.

[Skeet Carter]

But then she came to the 50 Cent show, man. She left me a dope voicemail on Instagram. She was like, skeet, man, you one of the ones. You real funny, bro. First time seeing you. Da, da, da. You know, she. Don't. She gotta really like you to give you some props.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm already telling you right now. Just gonna say you lying. I got.

[Skeet Carter]

Oh, I got it on my phone.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, not the voice.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, no, not the voice. 39. Security guard.

[Skeet Carter]

Oh, yeah. She'll tell you. She was beefing with Meek at the time.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Was she beefing up with him? It was just.

[Skeet Carter]

She said something about Meek, but she had to have a show in Philly, and when she got there, she was. She.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She.

[Skeet Carter]

Because they was talking crazy in her comments, like, about big, let's talk about me. Because we, Philly, we the only people that could talk about me. Like, we could talk about them.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Y' all are so true to that. That is really good.

[Skeet Carter]

We can talk about me. He from home. Yeah, but you can't. You can't. You know what I'm saying? So she was going in, and then they had a little, you know, a little situation. But it was funny.

[Jason Lee]

It was cool.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn.

[Skeet Carter]

Yep, yep.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You gonna get another voicemail.

[Skeet Carter]

I love jazz. Jazz is dope. I like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jess, what would success look like for you at this level in your career?

[Skeet Carter]

Oh, man, success would. So what happens if you ever come see me? The show and I'm in my zone on. I'm doing my thing, man. You'll walk away as a fan of mine. You're like, bro, you funny. Where did you come from? And it's not where I came from. I've been doing this for 15 years. But it's just now I'm being able to be on those platforms and levels for people to see me. So how I'm doing that one show at a time, one state at a time, touring. I want to be able to be on a platform where the world can see me at one time. That way, now I can. I can create and get the. Get the people to know me. Right now, I'm telling jokes, right? The joke. They're funny. They're hysterical. I write them in a way where you holding your stomach. Yo, that's hilarious. But now I want you to. I want. I want to go talk about my. My life, my family and stuff that I've been through, so that way you can get to know me on a personal level. But I feel like I'm still proving that I'm funny, you know what I'm saying, as doing comedy and stuff like that. You know, I. I started stand up, and now, you know, I. I ventured over into, like. Like the Internet. So I'm doing skits and stuff like that, which I didn't like doing, but why. That's not my first love. I didn't jump into this thinking that, you know, maybe if like, even, like, this is. I'm not sure that we are we in podcasting now. As long with radio. You might have gotten radio to do radio, but things change, and you have to learn how to pivot. So Charlie used to tell me, he said, charlie Mac. Charlie Mack. Charlie Mack. He always say, man, Skeet, you want to get to the next level, you got to do new things. He said, you think? He said, will Smith is Will Smith. He. If he doing social media, what makes you think that you. That. That you can't, or you're not gonna be able to do it. And I was like, are you right? He kept beating that in my head. And then next thing you know, I start doing my little relationship skits. Like, I started doing. Started with relationships, then it became side dude skits. So I'm kind of known for being a side dude online. I was doing that on the phone all the time, doing my skits, talking to the phone, like, hey, baby. And I was getting. All the women was following the skits. I'm giving money out on the. You know, on the videos and doing all this stuff. And then Mojo Brooks, he like, skeet, you popping. You blowing up, man. But you got to get out the car. He said, people got to see you actually act and start moving, show your body and doing stuff like that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Show your body.

[Jason Lee]

Yeah.

[Skeet Carter]

So he like, yo, get out the car. Go do, like. You know what I'm saying? So I start acting them out. I start acting them out, and then I start getting another buzz. And then next thing you know, I'm getting called for movies, and I'm getting called for TV shows and call it. So all these different opportunities. So just putting that out there. But where I see myself, man, I just want to be in the forefront, showing the world how talented I am and being able just to be me on a big platform. Like, I don't want to have to. I don't. It's not about me proving no more. I believe everybody in my team know, anybody that meets me be like, bro, you really have what it takes. So I just want to be able to prove that, man, and enjoy it. I look at things now, like, I already won. I'm a long way from the barbershop. Okay. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, Ski Carter, you have. You already won number one.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Amazon Prime.

[Skeet Carter]

Yeah, number one. But that was like. That was in March, so, you know, that's the third.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

A couple months ago.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, but still, it's Amazon.

[Jason Lee]

Yeah.

[Skeet Carter]

It was prime. Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What?

[Skeet Carter]

Yeah, go check my comedy special out. It's called hey, Baby.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Number one.

[Skeet Carter]

Number one. Number one is number one.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Still can say you did that.

[Skeet Carter]

I did do that. I did do that. I love that. I love that for me, and I'm a. You know, all the accomplishments, I'm gonna take those in and. Yeah, we gotta start celebrating. I'm starting today. Celebrate all of the wins. I'm here at the Breakfast Club. I wanted to do this for a long time.

[Caller]

Yeah.

[Skeet Carter]

Well, at least I got the important people, y' all Too, you know, Envy Hill. I act. He got his little hair transplant. He still got the hair or.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, well, he got cheek fillers and then he got the.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He be dying.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He got the black.

[Skeet Carter]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All in his head.

[Caller]

Yeah.

[Skeet Carter]

Just got her new body. Everybody looking good. Yo, congratulations.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She gonna send you some voicemails.

[Skeet Carter]

I love it. Just. Just had her dress. Was the. Because she did the hosting of the red carpet.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes.

[Skeet Carter]

The carpet wasn't red though, was it?

[Lauren LaRosa]

The background was like brown.

[Skeet Carter]

Yeah, she had the same color background was the same color as her dress. She was like. All you saw was her eyes, like when she was doing the interviews. Cuz she was. I guess she tried to match it too much with the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know, her back.

[Skeet Carter]

Yeah, look at that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Just look at the videos yesterday. Was she matching? She looked good, though.

[Skeet Carter]

She looked amazing. Just look good as hell. Now she look good. Shout out to her husband.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's why you had the. Now like.

[Skeet Carter]

No, no, no. I love.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, you did, man.

[Skeet Carter]

I'm only doing it so she. I come back and we can talk.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Tell them where to follow you. Sk man.

[Skeet Carter]

Follow me at Skeet Carter. Comedian Skeet Carter. Or just go to skeet carter.com and you can just hit all my links, get yourself some popcorn, watch my comedy special. I got TV shows coming out, man. Patrol Lot Patrol. We got Comic View coming out. I just did something else on BET called Chairs to that, so check that out. I'm trying to be Mr. Bet.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm happy for you, man.

[Mimi Brown]

Eat it up.

[Skeet Carter]

Thank you. Eat it up. Yeah. I'll be back. Appreciate y'.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ski Carter, you've been working in the

[Jason Lee]

garage with your dad, everybody, week Monday to Sunday. Trying to get the old school up and running. Today, after all the hard work, y'

[Skeet Carter]

all finally finished it.

[Jason Lee]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Nyla Simone]

1990 now young 1990 now.

[Jess Hilarious]

Poetic justice.

[Nyla Simone]

Yes. What's up guys?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Your braids look fire. You like you went back in time to get those. Yeah, thanks.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Very pretty.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You got in the delight and went to 1996.

[Nyla Simone]

Hey, I'll take that. I'm here for it but hope you guys are here for this new Drake project. Have you guys listened at all? I listened to a lot. If you watch the live stream you

[Lauren LaRosa]

stayed up throughout the Whole live stream.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I watched it.

[Nyla Simone]

Well, I had the dj, so I watched as much as possible. But then because I was watching before I started DJing, I started DJing and then I kind of had it up trying to listen, but then I sounded like a terrible dj, so then I had to turn it off and just lock in.

[Lauren LaRosa]

They said he was emotional.

[Nyla Simone]

Live stream on the live stream.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It was pre recorded, though, wasn't it?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Project Strap.

[Nyla Simone]

Oh, was it? I mean, probably because he's going through all the. The videos, but I thought it was pretty good because I wasn't somebody who had planned on, like, staying up late or even really being excited about it, but I ended up really being excited about it. So, yeah, I thought it was pretty good. So let's get into this record. The Drake future. Molly Santana ran to Atlanta.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, put me on to Molly Santana. Who is that? Why is she on this record? She didn't either. They didn't neither.

[Nyla Simone]

Oh, I really liked her part, but she's just hot. Bubbling out of Atlanta.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Jason Lee]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know

[Nyla Simone]

what you mean.

[Jess Hilarious]

Like, what is he saying? Yo, he been doing this for, like, the past, what, two, what, three? The last project you dropped.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know.

[Jess Hilarious]

He got this gibberish, man. Only. Only, like, him can understand it. I don't. I miss feature on him in the music. On the music. But it's like, what you saying?

[Nyla Simone]

That's all I'm like, You know what?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I think Drake did a is doing a good job of. I mean, it's like a newer version of it. The underground artist, like, you know, he always be hip to people early, but,

[Jess Hilarious]

like, oh, putting them on.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, on the maid of honor. He got a couple people on there, too, that I was like, oh, he, he with the youth culture vibe.

[Nyla Simone]

So he's always. And I think that's cool.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

From Atlanta. She a Japanese American from California.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She live in Atlanta. She living at Atlanta, though, don't she? I feel like she's a part of that.

[Nyla Simone]

From the Atlanta scene.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, she's a part of that. Like.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, okay.

[Nyla Simone]

She's Japanese.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Japanese American.

[Nyla Simone]

Okay. I'm. I'm not familiar with her catalog.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, okay. So he's just helping the artist break, baby.

[Nyla Simone]

Yeah, okay. You know, per usual. But I think it's fun. I. I don't want the fun to be sucked out of just enjoying this project with the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, it's gonna be a lot of sucking this. That's all. It's been sucking all week. You don't see these guys with the Frozen.

[Nyla Simone]

They're frozen. That's not what it is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They're covered in frozen semen and they posting Iceman.

[Nyla Simone]

They can't be excited about.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, no, no, no, no, no. It's the frost covered in se.

[Jess Hilarious]

Nobody said that. Why they can't be excited about this project?

[Nyla Simone]

Why it got to be all that I do?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I like. I like the fact. I like the rollout. I thought it was good. I like the excitement. I like people engaging with music.

[Nyla Simone]

Yes.

[Jess Hilarious]

Nice.

[Nyla Simone]

And I haven't. I haven't been excited to care in a long time, so I'm happy that he created that. That feeling. But speaking of creating that feeling, man, Fergie baby, he's an upcoming artist out of Harlem. Got this record with Cameron, which I think is a really dope full circle moment, and it's called Harlem River Drive. And he just performed it at Rolling Loud this past weekend, and it went up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cam still nice.

[Jess Hilarious]

You sound good,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cam still got it.

[Nyla Simone]

Yes. Again, I love seeing the generation. Generations collapse.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely.

[Nyla Simone]

You know, putting on the next. Especially since they from the same town, so super dope. We got the ticket to the Midwest. This is new project from Lucky. He got a joint on there with Rylo and these called no Stars and Maybachs.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why do people do that? Depressed crying flow like that.

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm telling you, that's for them. How often perks like, I'm telling you, they the only ones that understand Sipping lane.

[Nyla Simone]

It's that slow down.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. You don't sound happy about nothing.

[Jess Hilarious]

No, like, nothing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You can make hakuna matata sound sad. You know what I'm saying?

[DJ Envy]

Like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like why? That's the point of that.

[Jess Hilarious]

They be so high when they be making this music. Yo, I'm telling you, nobody just wakes up and sad sound like that.

[Nyla Simone]

That's true.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, but it is.

[Nyla Simone]

It is a whole movement.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

Like, people love that. People listen to this stuff.

[Nyla Simone]

All right, well, if you're from the Midwest and you're into it, you know, Lucky just dropped. Definitely tap in. And then this last one I want to get into is an R B project from Giveon. Yeah, he just dropped today. I know Drake dropped the RB project too, so you got a lot to pull from. But this one's called Fool Me Once, featuring Leon.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Leon Thomas.

[Jess Hilarious]

Come on, R B. Come on.

[Caller]

Okay.

[Jess Hilarious]

That boy Leon don't miss. That boy Giveon does not miss.

[Nyla Simone]

Yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's a tool I'm waiting for.

[Nyla Simone]

Okay. Yes. No, I'm not playing.

[Jess Hilarious]

I love giving.

[Nyla Simone]

Good.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes.

[Nyla Simone]

All right. That one Got tens across the board.

[Jason Lee]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I mean, they sound good.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, cool.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Nyla Simone]

All right. Yeah. R B is in a great place. And his project also got Kalani slash Akiva. Teddy swims like off the like who Giv. Yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh my God.

[Nyla Simone]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So that's out now.

[Nyla Simone]

Yes. Drop today. I know. Salute to those who dropped the same day that Drake dropped. Especially because he dropped three projects.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Salute to those who dropped the same.

[Nyla Simone]

Who do you listen to first?

[Lauren LaRosa]

You gonna listen to give you RB project, three albums. You gotta go back and watch the stream.

[Jess Hilarious]

It depends on your mood, right? Depends on what you want to hear, what you want to move for. And it's a Friday night. I ain't got to work. I'm gonna be with my husband, no kids. I'm turning on that gift.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Gibbian, if you give on fan. You listening to Givon.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm listening to Iceman.

[Nyla Simone]

I'm listening to both.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I am.

[Jess Hilarious]

Because he Chris listening to the Iceman right now. He was excited for it. He didn't know it was too based

[Charlamagne Tha God]

off what ice has done to all his people.

[Nyla Simone]

He said not the fake police ice.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He said the fake fans ice.

[Nyla Simone]

I thought that was a good. No, no, no.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, I hope.

[Nyla Simone]

If you like those pics, make sure y' all follow me. Ylasimone on the Gram N Y L A S Y M O N E

[Charlamagne Tha God]

E All right, we'll be back with the People's Choice mix. It's the Breakfast Club. Yes, it's the world's most dangerous morning show. The Breakfast Club. DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne, the God, that's me. NB is off today. Lauren LaRosa is here as well. Jess, where you at this weekend?

[Jess Hilarious]

Man, I ain't doing nothing this weekend. I'm relaxing cuz I'm coming off of seven days of traveling non stop. I was in six cities in seven days, yo. And Bicoastal as well. So I'm tired. But next week, Weekend, East Providence, Rhode island, meet me at the Comedy Connection. That's May 2nd. I mean May 22nd and May 23rd. We got four shows all weekend. Two on Friday, two on Saturday, a 7 and a 9:30. Get your tickets. I will have my book Till death we parent on hand. And also some don't play with me Merch for the tour. Can't wait to see y'.

[Caller]

All.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, and I have a book signing event in Rhode island as well. That's Saturday, May 23, from 1pm to 2pm at 60 Valley Street, Suite 107A. Riff Raff Bookstore and bar. So get your drinks, get your book signed, and come talk co parenting with your girl Jess. Hilarious. I see you next weekend. East Providence, Rhode Island.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Lauren, what are you doing this weekend other Other than going to see an unlicensed hairstylist?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, is that who shaves your bald head? That's why your hairline's always fighting for its life to come back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nope. My barber has a license.

[Jess Hilarious]

You just got your hair done. You don't need to. You're not getting it done again.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, I'm not getting my hair done. He just has nothing else to do with his day or his time. I'm actually this weekend gonna be out in the community. I'll be working with some young women entrepreneurs from a high school in Jersey. So we'll be doing like a whole entrepreneur class and business class and, you know, just learning some things from the girls and vice versa. So I'm looking forward to that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, everybody's outside. And that's it, gang.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That.

[Jess Hilarious]

That is it. Do you have a positive note? Because, you know, people do not like to turn off the Breakfast Club until they hear your positive note.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, before that, I want to thank Jason Lee for joining us. Jason Lee, the CEO of Hollywood Unlocked, as well as vice mayor of Stockton, California. Salute to him. The Hollywood Unlocked Impact Awards will be on June 5, hosted by Tiffany Hadish. So make sure you check that out. And Skeet Carter. Skeet Carter pulled up. He'll be opening up for Martin Lawrence tonight in Atlantic City and tomorrow in Brooklyn. He's an upcoming comedian who just said she finds funny. Do you still find him funny after the story he told I?

[Jess Hilarious]

I do.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I.

[Jess Hilarious]

From what I saw on stage at 50 Cent show, yes, he was fun, funny, but he definitely lied. I did not come to Philly with 30 to 39 security guards. It was like 15, but whatever. Philly don't play about me. My mouth was crazy back then on it, so.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, that's pause. God damn.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, my bad. I'm not a boy, so

[Charlamagne Tha God]

my mouth was crazy back then on it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Iceman can't please clip that. Someone can saying, telling you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, I just want to say something else too, man. Since we talking about Iceman Khed, I need you to know that your response video to Drake riding on the horse. That was terrible. That was terrible. When you get dissed by an ex, you don't post a video of you when you was wide and washed, okay? You got to post a video of your new body and let them know you're doing better without him.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The hell's wrong with C?

[Lauren LaRosa]

That was ex that horse was fighting for. I'm glad they made it out the water.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm trying to tell you that wasn't

[Lauren LaRosa]

it C. That that was the old body.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What I'm saying that wasn't it. Khaled. That wasn't it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

In the caption, speaking in tongues.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Lord have mercy.

[Jess Hilarious]

Well, on that note, do you have a positive note?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I do. If someone is not treating you with love and respect, it is a gift if they walk away from you, okay. If that person doesn't walk away, you will surely endure many years of suffering with him or her. Walking away may hurt for a while, but your heart will eventually heal. Then you can choose what you really want. You will find that you don't need to trust others as much as you need to trust yourself. Yourself to make the right choices. That is a quote from Don Miguel. Don Miguel Ruiz and the four Agreements. Okay, you have a great weekend. Breakfast Club Wake you up.

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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