FULL SHOW: Drake's Dad Says He No Longer Has Cancer After It Was Revealed On 'Iceman' + Lamorne Morris Interview

Summary

The Breakfast Club – Episode Summary (May 18, 2026)

Podcast: The Breakfast Club (iHeartPodcasts & The Black Effect Podcast Network)
Hosts: DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God
Key Guests: Lamorne Morris, Lauren LaRosa, Mimi Brown

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Overview

This vibrant episode of The Breakfast Club centers on breaking music news (notably the latest about Drake and his father's health), hot-button culture and social debates, and a rich interview with Emmy-winning actor Lamorne Morris. The crew, joined by Lauren LaRosa and Mimi Brown, also weigh in on the ever-rising costs and culture around prom season—and bring in listeners for classic, candid call-ins and discussions.

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Episode Highlights & Main Themes

1. DJ Envy’s Anniversary & Vacations for Couples

• DJ Envy opens with stories from his 25th wedding anniversary trip to Puerto Morelos, Mexico.
• Stresses importance of couples taking time alone without kids for relationship health.
  • “Vacations are very important when you got kids, man.” – Charlamagne (03:28)
• The team jokes about Envy’s hair dye and envy’s appearance after the trip.

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2. Drake’s Dad Cancer Rumors & New Album "Iceman"

[26:04–32:00]

• The crew recaps the horseshoe of online drama: On Drake’s new album "Iceman," he raps about his father, Dennis Graham, battling cancer. Media confusion followed when TMZ caught up with Dennis and he stated he is currently cancer-free.
  • Dennis Graham, interviewed by TMZ: “No, that was a while back ... I'm okay now ... fortunately I got a message that it disappeared.” (26:47)
• Headlines ran with “Drake's dad did not have cancer”—prompting Dennis to clarify the situation and call out irresponsible reporting.
• Charlamagne and DJ Envy analyze the media’s hunger for controversy, and how the lyrics may have referenced a past struggle.
• The hosts applaud the album's introspective first song (“Make Them Cry”), noting it's his most personal track in a while.
  • “That’s the best record on the album...very introspective...after that, he did not even try to touch that level anymore.” – Charlamagne (27:53)
• The group discusses Drake’s ongoing battle with perceptions after his rap beef with Kendrick Lamar and others, including the impact of streaming numbers vs. cultural impact.
  • “All he did was lose a rap battle.” – Charlamagne (32:03)

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3. Front Page News: Voting Rights Rally, Book Bans, Economy

[07:36–12:35; 34:22–39:42]

• Mimi Brown covers the major voting rights rally in Montgomery, AL—kicking off a summer of political mobilization after the Supreme Court weakens the Voting Rights Act.
  • Rep. Terry Sewell: “Alabama… is more than 28% African American voters… we deserve more than zero or one [Congressional seats]… two seats in Alabama.” (08:15)
  • Sen. Cory Booker: “There is no liberation without obligation.” (09:27)
• Discussion: How do leaders keep Black voters engaged after repeated deliberate voter suppression and gerrymandering?
  • “How do you let Black people know their vote still matters when maps are being redrawn?” – Charlamagne (10:51)
• New Senate rule to freeze pay for senators during government shutdowns (12:25)
• Jake Paul, Waka Flocka, and the “Blackface vs. Whiteface” comedy debate (see section 4)
• Tennessee school district bans Alex Haley’s "Roots" over a single paragraph (41:42)
  • “That’s the era we live in...Trump administration enacted a broad book ban…they set the stage…” – Charlamagne (41:09)

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4. Jake Paul, Waka Flocka & Blackface vs. Whiteface

[34:22–39:42]

• Debate about a viral skit and Jake Paul’s suggestion that blackface and whiteface should be equivalent forms of satire.
• Waka Flocka attempts to educate Jake Paul on blackface’s painful historical context and why the analogy is false.
  • “You don’t even know the history behind it, behind the comments you made...” – Waka Flocka (35:19)
  • "Ain’t nobody experienced torture with no whiteface but a blackface." – Waka Flocka (35:33)
• Hosts praise the dialogue and stress that historical context matters.
  • “Blackface was used to dehumanize Black people…and mock Black people.” – DJ Envy (36:25)
  • “You can make any joke you want, but you have to deal with the consequences.” – Charlamagne (38:39)

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5. Interview: Lamorne Morris (Emmy-winning Actor & Comedian)

[43:01–63:19]

Life and Career

• Talks about new Marvel series "Spider Noir" (Amazon Prime, May 25), career beginnings at BET, and being known for "New Girl" and "Fargo."
• Balancing acting, comedy, and single fatherhood:
  • “Before I had a kid, I was just free...now, you gotta really pay attention to time spent with your kid.” (43:52)
• On comedic vs. dramatic acting:
  • “I don’t think I get the respect [for serious roles].” (44:41)
• Accepting steady, “Morgan Freeman” style career longevity over chaotic fame.

On Hollywood & Representation

• Industry typecasting and the “burden” of being considered a "safe" Black actor.
• Winning an Emmy for "Fargo" felt validating, but notes the trend of Black actors only being rewarded for roles centered on suffering.

Comedy Philosophy

• Discusses the difference between stand-up comedians, comedic performers, and writers.
  • “I do a little stand up, but I’m also a comedic writer…I’m in the comedy business, but what [stand-ups] do—they are comedians.” (53:28)
• Candidly claims, “Internally, I think I am the greatest stand-up comic of all time—but you’d never know it because I don’t be doing it.” (55:36)
• Challenges and anxieties about stand-up, importance of consistent practice, and why club work is grueling.

Personal Reflections

• Shares a formative story about insecurity and dating as a teen and how those moments shadow adult relationships.
• “The moment I get that billion, you’ll see the unhinged version of me.” (63:02)

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6. Prom Culture: Has Social Media Driven Prom Excess “Over the Top”?

[86:29–100:44]

• Callers and hosts debate the explosion of extravagant prom celebrations—dresses >$4K, luxury rentals, parties bigger than many weddings.
• Some see it as a problem (“Some of these kids go extravagant for prom because they’ll never have a wedding.”). Others say it reflects cultural pride and celebration (“We don’t judge bar mitzvahs...”).
• Consensus: Don’t let comparisons or pressure discourage participation, and “act your wage.”
• “Everybody should act your wage. That’s all I’m getting from this.” – Charlamagne (88:08)
• Suggestion: Schools should invest more in making proms special, so families feel less pressure to “out-do” each other. (100:20)

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7. Reality TV Recap: K. Michelle & Portia drama on RHWOA

[71:36–80:03]

• Lauren breaks down Real Housewives of Atlanta drama: K. Michelle feels “unsafe” and targeted by rumors and ostracization within the cast.
• Twitter beef erupts between K. Michelle and Portia over alleged body-shaming and past comments.
• Panel debates whether K. Michelle is a good fit for RHWOA, with Jess arguing she’d be better with her own show.
• Includes light-hearted but frank conversation about seafood jokes and “oyster vs. vagina” analogies.

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8. Donkey of the Day: Speaker of the House Mike Johnson

[81:11–86:29]

• Charlamagne targets Mike Johnson for his response (or lack thereof) on the Supreme Court’s evisceration of the Voting Rights Act.
• Exposes political hypocrisy in dismissing race-conscious redistricting when it is intended to actually protect Black voting strength.
  • “America has a long history of moving the goal posts anytime Black folks figure out how to play the game they invented.” – Charlamagne (84:44)

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9. News Flashes & Updates

• Young Dolph's murder trial concludes: One of the shooters, Cornelius Smith Jr., accepted a 20-year plea deal—hosts note the pain continues for Dolph's family. (105:52)
• Comedian Cheryl Underwood lands a 2027 Netflix special after viral success at Kevin Hart’s roast.
  “Your dream doesn’t die for somebody else’s dream to live.” – Cheryl Underwood (109:20)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “That’s the best record on the album...very introspective...after that, he did not even try to touch that level anymore.”
  – Charlamagne, on Drake’s “Make Them Cry” (27:53)

• “Ain’t nobody experienced torture with no whiteface but a blackface.”
  – Waka Flocka (35:33)

• “The moment I get that billion, you’ll see the unhinged version of me...now everything is in-house.”
  – Lamorne Morris (63:02)

• “How you do anything is how you do everything.”
  – Charlamagne

• “America has a long history of moving the goal posts anytime Black folks figure out how to play the game they invented.”
  – Charlamagne (84:44)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Drake’s Dad & Cancer Rumor Discussion: 26:04–32:00
• Lamorne Morris Interview: 43:01–63:19
• Jake Paul vs. Waka Flocka Blackface Debate: 34:22–39:42
• Prom Season Debate: 86:29–100:44
• RHWOA Drama Recap: 71:36–80:03
• Donkey of the Day – Mike Johnson: 81:11–86:29
• Young Dolph Murder Case Update: 105:11–106:37
• Cheryl Underwood Netflix Special News: 109:20–110:24

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Overall Tone & Takeaways

The episode covers serious topics—political struggle, media responsibility, racism, violence—balanced with the humor, banter, and lively cultural critique that define The Breakfast Club. The Lamorne Morris interview provides both inspiration and vulnerability, while listener and host debates on prom spending and social trends showcase both generational change and continuity within Black communities.

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For listeners new and returning, this episode offers both entertainment and sharp, relevant insight on culture, politics, and the music industry.

Transcript

[Lauren LaRosa]

This is an iHeart podcast, guaranteed human streaming.

[DJ Envy]

May 22nd on Paramount. The acclaimed series from executive producer Lena Waithe reaches its final chapter. The Chi. For seven seasons, these stories, these streets, this community have stayed with us. Now it all leads to this. As friendships are tested, families evolve, and secrets refuse to stay buried, one thing is certain. The Chi is more than just a series. It's a legacy. Don't miss the final season. May 22 on a paramount premium plan

[Charlamagne Tha God]

this weekend, one of the homies mentioned he closed on a new crib. While everyone's asking about the housewarming, you're asking the real question. Like who is this State Farm agent? See, home ownership is one thing, but the right coverage is the real game changer. It's how you protect your legacy. Estate Farm agent can help you with finding the right coverage for your new place and even help you file a

[Lamorne Morris]

claim over the phone, in person, online

[Charlamagne Tha God]

or on the app. They're ready to help you and they don't drop the ball. You know what I mean? Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.

[Mimi Brown]

Pressure has a way of revealing what remains steady. In the latest Nissan campaign, the Nissan Rogue was tested to the extreme to demonstrate that it's built to last through durability and reliability challenges inspired by real tests conducted by Nissan engineers.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Brutal potholes, a steady force of water,

[Mimi Brown]

even a jet powered sandstorm.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Each challenge inviting a deeper look at how quality, durability and reliability hold their

[Mimi Brown]

ground in real world conditions. Every test was 100% real.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No CG, no AI. To see how the Rogue held up, visit nissan-duordability.com A lot of you ask how I actually run my business behind the scenes. And honestly, Shopify is the reason it exists. For me, Shopify is the place where I took this little idea I had

[Jess Alaris]

and turned it into a real time business.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I still remember the first ever sale I made for my fashion brand.

[Jess Alaris]

Embellished.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It was a huge moment for me and Shopify made it all possible.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Build your store, own your audience and

[Jess Alaris]

create something that lasts.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Start [e-mail] Ben.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wake you up.

[DJ Envy]

Wake that ass up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Program your alarm to power 105.1 on iheartradio. 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.

[DJ Envy]

Guest is running a little late. Charlamagne the God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Peace to the planet. It's Monday. How y' all feel out there? I feel blessed, black and highly favored. Happy to be here Another day to serve Our beautiful with listeners. Good morning. How y' all feeling?

[DJ Envy]

Good morning. That's right. Back to the work week. Oh, man. I want to say salute to everybody that I ran. Me and the wife, we were married 25 years last Wednesday, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Congratulations.

[DJ Envy]

So that was our anniversary. So we went to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What'd you call it?

[DJ Envy]

You say a silver anniversary?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Silver.

[DJ Envy]

Silver, yeah. When you marry 25 years of silver. Gold is 50, platinum is 35.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm talking about what your hair color was before you put all that black dye in it. Cause it was crazy to smoke.

[DJ Envy]

It's silver, but thank you. Yeah. So we went out to Puerto Morales, which is in Mexico. Salute to Ro Marley, which is Bob Marley's son. Of course, he has a resort out there. So we went out there and we just detached.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So y' all had a baycation?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, that's it. Just me and the wife. Just do nothing but just go to the beach every day, just get massages every day, have amazing food and just relax. We didn't do nothing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Vacations are very important when you got kids, man. I know it was y' all anniversary, but even outside of the anniversary, when you have kids, vacations are very important. Oh, my gosh.

[DJ Envy]

You and your wife just get away. Just. Just not having anybody run into the room because they're beefing and fighting. Not everybody. Anybody jumping into the bed. Not having to take anybody to activities, pick anybody up from school. It was just me and the wife just relaxing. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. We got back late last night. Oh, my gosh. Such an amazing time. So salute to everybody I've seen out in Puerto, more or less. I did see a bunch of people out there because we went to get some. We went to a couple of restaurants, we ate, and just want to say salute to everybody that I ran into. We had such an amazing time. And I just love to tat sometimes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely.

[DJ Envy]

Just not on the phone, not on the email, not on the text. She couldn't call. It was just straight up relationship. Just loving on my wife. My wife loving on me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So you need to detach from Just for Men too, though. Cause you used way too much this morning.

[DJ Envy]

Yo, shut up, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Am I lying, Red? This crazy. Shut up, man. That looks like it's in high definition.

[DJ Envy]

That's because I have a tan and

[Charlamagne Tha God]

it pops up a little more.

[DJ Envy]

It's the same. The same as always.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know about that.

[DJ Envy]

It's the same as always.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It kinda looks like your follicles got a tinge.

[DJ Envy]

Yo, shut up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Follicles look darker. You don't.

[DJ Envy]

It's the same as always. And salute to Joseph and the Fives Residences. That really took care of me out there. So appreciate you guys. Let's get the show cracking. Lamorne Morris will be joining us today.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, man. My guy, Lamorne Morris, he is. He's starring in a new TV series or two, New Marvel television series called Spider Noir on Amazon Prime. But you know Lamorne from the new guy. Lamorne's been in all types of stuff, man. You know what's funny is LaMorne started at BET. I don't know if people remember that. No, I don't remember when BET had the whole New Faces campaign and it was. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Roxy, it was Terrence, Terrence J. And Alicia, Renee and Lamorne. Like, they all started together at bet, but, you know, Lamorne is a star now.

[DJ Envy]

That's right. They all stars.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They all stars. Yes, yes, yes, yes.

[DJ Envy]

I forgot. I'm thinking about it now. I'm going back in.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Definitely was a new face.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like the. He was like the new hits on the street for us.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Lamorne Morris]

He was only.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He was only there for, like a

[DJ Envy]

short period of time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Maybe maybe two years.

[Lamorne Morris]

Maybe.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Maybe because it was like, you know, Roxy and Terence had 106. And like Alicia and Lamont, they just, you know, used to basically, like, do the man where they fit in.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

All right, well, let's get the show cracking. What are we starting off with?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I have no idea.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Drake.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, the radio can play Drake now.

[DJ Envy]

Why can't we?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know. I thought he said he was blackballed. He said he. Even though he never, never left rotation over the last.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, he's always had a huge record.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He was always getting played 10 times an hour, you know, every hour for the last two years. But according to him, he was blackballed.

[DJ Envy]

You like the album, didn't you?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No.

[DJ Envy]

Liar. It's the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Come on.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, you asked me did I like the Drake album, and I said, no, no, I'm just indifferent. Because what I realized this weekend is Drake is a mood. He's a mood that I've never been in.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, what mood is that? What?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Drake. Drake is a mood. There's only a couple of artists, you know, ever that you can say are moods. Like sad day is a mood.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, Erykah Badu is a mood.

[DJ Envy]

But Drake has different moves though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, whatever Mood summers up tempo.

[DJ Envy]

Some is party, some is relaxed, some is chill.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I've never been in Drake mood.

[Jess Alaris]

He's a multi mood dude.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I've never been in the mood. Okay. For Drake. Okay. That's just.

[DJ Envy]

He's spitting. He rapping on the album though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Definitely.

[Jess Alaris]

You listen to all three of them?

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No.

[Jess Alaris]

You listen to Habibt?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I listen to the. To everything. I didn't have nothing to do but just relax and listen. I took a four hour flight, so I did get.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Listen, you was on vacation listening to Drake on the.

[DJ Envy]

On the flight back here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jesus Christ. You look all refreshed.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's what's up, baby.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you. I look nice, man. That's it.

[DJ Envy]

Well, let's get into some front page news. Last night the Cavaliers beat the Pistons 125, 94.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sorry, Detroit.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, Detroit's up out of here. And congratulations to Shy Alexander. He won the second straight NBA MVP award. So congratulations to him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sounds about right to me.

[DJ Envy]

Tonight OKC takes on the spurs and tomorrow the Knicks take on the Cavaliers.

[Lamorne Morris]

What's up?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Tonight is the actual NBA championship. Whoever wins the Spurs OKC Western Conference Finals will probably win the championship.

[DJ Envy]

I doubt it, but. Good morning.

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning, Envy. How you doing?

[DJ Envy]

I'm doing good.

[Caller/Listener]

Good.

[Mimi Brown]

You were missed last week. Charlemagne, Jess, how y' all doing? Good morning. Okay, so we start this morning in Montgomery, Alabama, where thousands of people from across the country, they gathered over the weekend for a major voting rights rally following the Supreme Court's decision that we' been talking about that weakens parts of the Voting Rights Act. So the event was called All Roads Lead to the South. And organizers say this was not just a march, it was the beginning of a larger political mobilization heading into the midterms. Let's listen to Congresswoman Terry Sewell. She represents Alabama's largest majority Black Congressional District 8.

[Jess Alaris]

Like Alabama, that is more than 28% African American voters.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And there are seven seats in Congress. We deserve more than zero or one.

[Jess Alaris]

We deserve two seats. Can I hear it? Two seats in Alabama. And we will accept nothing less.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But we have seen before all of this, before the efforts by which these

[Jess Alaris]

extremists are trying to take us back. The people of Alabama know better than anyone that democracy is under attack.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And when we see democracy under attack, we organize, we mobilize, and we fight back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what we do.

[Mimi Brown]

So the day actually started in Selma where participants held a prayer service before walking silently across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. That's the site of Bloody Sunday back in 1965. And throughout the day, speakers warned that voting rights rights protections, they were being steadily rolled back. And they urged people not to just protest, but to also organize and to also vote. Here's Senator Cory Booker and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez.

[Caller/Listener]

This is one of those moments where we understand that our blessings come with obligation. There is no liberation without obligation. Because if we in our generation do not now do our duty, we will lose the gains and the rights and the liberties that our ancestors afforded us.

[Lauren LaRosa]

They think they can draw us out of power.

[Caller/Listener]

They do not know the sleeping giant

[Lauren LaRosa]

that they just awakened.

[Mimi Brown]

Now, Saturday's rally, it comes after the Supreme Court's Louisiana versus decision. That's the ruling that triggered the new wave of redistricting across the South. And following that decision, several Republican led states, they moved quickly to withdraw congressional maps in ways that critics, critics say and it does weaken black voting power. Tennessee and Florida, they have already approved new maps. While Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi are now facing growing redistricting fights. Senator Senator Raphael Warnock, Congressman Congresswoman ayanna Pressley and Reverend Dr. Bernice King, they were also there among the national voices that took the stage. Now, organizers say this was just only the kickoff. More rallies, more voter registration drives and organizing events are already planned through the summer into November. And for more information, organizers are asking people to go to Allroads.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Leadtothesouth.com you know, I wonder what's the messaging here? Because we know that they weaken black voting power with these redistricting, redistricting efforts. But how do you let black people know their vote, you know, still matters? Because I would think that, you know, you know, this messaging that's current you're currently hearing would create a lot of voter apathy. If people feel like, oh, my vote, you know, it does not gonna matter in the midterms. Like how do you simultaneously tell people, yes, your votes were weakened, you know, because of these redistricting, redistricting efforts, but your vote still matters and you need to vote in the midterms.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah, I think because what they're trying to say is they're counting on people, which, you know, they always say this, but this time for real, they're counting on people not to vote. And if everyone does show up to vote, they can counteract some of what's going on. They were giving statistics where they're or large majority of people in the south in certain states, especially I believe in Tennessee who don't go out to vote. And the answer to the backlash. The answer to the redistricting is for every single person who has the ability to vote to come out and do so. And they say that that is the way that they can fight back against some of this. Yeah. And really, really quickly, you know, we've had those government shutdowns, and it just Congress, they may finally be putting themselves on the same payment schedule as the rest of America. So the they just approved a new rule that would temporarily stop senators from getting paid when the government shuts down if Congress fails to pass a budget and parts of the government closes. And senators would now have their paychecks frozen, too, during that shutdown period. Now, that rule will not take not take place until after the midterm elections. But supporters are calling this accountability.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good. Because, you know, these elected officials are government workers, too. So, you know, it shouldn't just be the TSA agents and, you know, other government workers like that who get impacted when the government shuts down. They shouldn't get no paycheck either.

[DJ Envy]

Or not only that, Go on vacation when other people can't get paid. Like that makes no sense. I'm going on vacation for two weeks, and y' all can't get paid. Y' all got to figure it out till I get back. Now, that sound.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But the other sad part is so many of them getting so much money under the table, they wouldn't even care nowhere.

[Mimi Brown]

And they're not living paycheck to paycheck.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Mimi Brown]

So there's that, too. All right, y'.

[Jess Alaris]

All.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, coming up at 7, AI is no longer just helping with homework and emails. It's now. It now wants to help manage your finances. We'll get into that in the next hour.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is your time to get it off your chest, Whether you're mad or blessed. I hate the way that you walk, the way that you talk I hate the way that you dress. Everything with me is blessed.

[DJ Envy]

Call up next, 800-585-1051.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not just me, I'm with the culture.

[Lamorne Morris]

Philly.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello, this yo, Smooth jazz from the port. What up, Breakfast Club?

[DJ Envy]

Get it off your chest.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, man, I wanted to talk about this Drake album. Now, I'm gonna first off by starting by saying I'm not a Drake fan, but I like good hip hop, I like good music. And from what I got from the three albums is that he pretty much gave three different stages of him. And like, I'm, I've always said I like so Far Gone Drake. You feel me? Anything after that, I ain't really too much of a fan of him. He got some hits here and there and stuff. But the only thing I really liked about, you know, these three albums is the club bangers that he had on that last, that last, this last few weeks. That Cheetah print is funny as hell. It's one of my favorite ones, though. I ain't gonna lie. Can I ask you a question? You got any homeboys that rap? That rap?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, for sure. I bet you don't listen to none of their music, but you listen to three Drake albums this weekend, I bet you whenever they send you something, you'll be like, man, I ain't got time for it. You know what? I'm shout out to my dog, Bamboo Body. He got good music out. Okay, okay. Bamboo Body. He from, he from, from Baltimore, I believe. But he grew up in, he grew up, he grew up in the port, yo. He grew up in the port city. Wilmington, North Carolina. You know, I mean, we all stand on that. For real. But it's a lot of, it's a lot of homies.

[Caller/Listener]

4, 4.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Go local. He from the port city. I listen to his music too. I mean, like, I, I, I support. For real. I hope so. Because it's a lot of y' all out there that listen to three Drake albums this weekend, but won't never listen to one song your homeboy sent you.

[DJ Envy]

Why?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why I gotta be that?

[DJ Envy]

Like, if, if, if Kendrick got that, he would be like, yo, why you listening?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He dropped three albums.

[Jess Alaris]

He would have all. Dissected all of them.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I listen to one Drake album.

[DJ Envy]

There's a lot of Drake fans.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I would listen to three Kendrick albums if he dropped. I don't have that kind of time.

[DJ Envy]

There's a lot of Drake fans out there. Like when Chris Brown dropped that double album was like 36, 37.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He just week and you still ain't get through all of it.

[Jess Alaris]

I am, I am because I'm still listening to the 45 track albums, the two ones before that he dropped. So.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, but there's a lot of Drake fans out there. Like, you don't think OVO Eli up here didn't listen?

[Jess Alaris]

He probably know every song on every.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He don't have no kids.

[Jess Alaris]

Yeah, he did. He went to Toronto.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Young man with really no life.

[DJ Envy]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Drake is his life. His Instagram Page is O. Eli. He has no life.

[DJ Envy]

Did he get back from Toronto yet? I don't know.

[Jess Alaris]

But he met Drake, though.

[DJ Envy]

He did meet Drake?

[Jess Alaris]

Yes, he did.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We don't know that for sure.

[Jess Alaris]

He told us. He wouldn't lie.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He actually didn't tell us anything yet. He didn't tell us that. Somebody told me that, and I told y'. All.

[Jess Alaris]

No, somebody. You ain't tell me that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I did tell you that last week. I read you the text verbatim. Crazy girl.

[DJ Envy]

I wonder what he said to Drake. I wonder what happened. Like, no. Anyway, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need the vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

Wake up, wake up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is your time to get it off your chest, man. Or blessed. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello.

[DJ Envy]

Who this?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is Dre.

[Caller/Listener]

Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Breakfast Club family Dre.

[Caller/Listener]

How y' all doing this morning?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good. Black and highly favored. How are you? I am great.

[Caller/Listener]

I am great. I called a few weeks ago because I couldn't get through for over a decade, and so far, I've been able to get through at least three times since.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Caller/Listener]

But I wanted to call y' all

[Charlamagne Tha God]

out a little bit.

[Caller/Listener]

Y' all keep saying shy for Shay Gilders, Alexandra, the MVP in the NBA.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Caller/Listener]

Y' all say shy all the time, but it's. Hey.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like shea butter.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, well, thank you, brother.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Caller/Listener]

Just want to help y' all out a little bit, because y' all been doing it for a while now. She's doing amazing for the culture.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you, brother. Yeah. Yeah. SGA is Wednesday. That's your question real quick. Where you calling from?

[Caller/Listener]

I'm in Duval. I'm in Duval, but I'm from Chicago originally. I was in the Marine Corps, so I traveled all over the place.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

If Shay was from America, how big of a star would he be?

[Caller/Listener]

Oh, he'll be up there, like, put it like this. They've been trying to push Ant man recently, right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Caller/Listener]

Because he's American. Same thing with Cooper. Flag. Yeah, but now we're seeing Wimby take off. We see Shay. They talk about, you know, Giannis and everything, but they trying to push American. But we ain't got no stars that's taking off like that. They ain't took over. Put it like that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But what's crazy is even know that these guys are clearly the best players in the league because they're not from America. It don't hit the same. I don't know why. Imagine if. Yeah. Kansas. You know what I'm saying?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I also think imagine if Shade was from Newark.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. But it's also from their city. Like, you know that area. Like, look, when LeBron, the whole Cleveland, the whole Ohio loves LeBron. Michael Jordan, you know where he's from, they love him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. The whole Toronto, love Shay.

[DJ Envy]

It don't feel the same.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because it's not American.

[DJ Envy]

Because it's not America.

[Lamorne Morris]

Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

If you're in a. It's something when you're an American born and bred NBA star that hit.

[DJ Envy]

But he's the best player in the league, hands down.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, all the best players in the league. Out of the country. Out of the country. Joker.

[DJ Envy]

Luka. Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thanks for calling, sir. Hello?

[DJ Envy]

Who's this?

[Caller/Listener]

Hey, this is Dre. I just want to say thank you to you guys because I called back in, like, April to ask y' all if y' all can hook me up on my mommy and me sneaker ball. And everything was delivered perfectly. Everybody loved the gifts and the books that y' all sent. And also, I was gonna say, today is a bad bitch's birthday. So.

[DJ Envy]

Day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Happy born day. How old are you?

[Caller/Listener]

I'm turning 45.

[Jess Alaris]

Golden Age. Damn. What the hell? You're not going through menopause yet, right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Pre.

[Caller/Listener]

Parent. No, no, no, no, no, no, pre.

[DJ Envy]

He said, no, no, no, no, Pre.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No pre.

[DJ Envy]

Well, enjoy your birthday.

[Caller/Listener]

Thank you, y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Caller/Listener]

And also, I just want to bid you guys up because this year was kind of hectic for me. But, like, I read your book Charlamagne. I read your book DJ Envy, and I took all those mental notes that y' all put in those books, and I was like, yo, do this for yourself, Dre. Like, get up, get active. Do what you gotta do for yourself, because you only live once.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you very much.

[Caller/Listener]

But they really don't, so just do you. So thank you, y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All. Well, have a great birthday, Dre. Happy born day. Enjoy your big 45, man.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Nice, girl.

[Caller/Listener]

Hey, thank y'. All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Have a great one. It's crazy because I had to sit here and think about it, like, damn, I didn't did that, but 45.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'll be 48 this year. That's right. Damn. Wow.

[Jess Alaris]

That's right.

[DJ Envy]

But we still. We still flourish and still feeling good.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It really does get better.

[DJ Envy]

That's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It does. That's why when I be seeing so many young people, you know, dying early, I'm like, yo, y' all have no idea what y' all missed out on,

[DJ Envy]

you know, I even went back to see some of the legends when they passed. Like, when you really think about it, you know. You know what age Michael Jackson died?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

50 something.

[DJ Envy]

No, I think it was like 48. Let me see.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, he was in his 50s. He's like early 50s. Like 51. I would probably. Yeah, he was 50. It was 50. Exactly.

[Caller/Listener]

Wow.

[DJ Envy]

But that's young.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That is very young. I'll be 40 in a couple. In a few weeks.

[DJ Envy]

A lot of these people pass out. Prince, too.

[Lamorne Morris]

Prince was.

[DJ Envy]

I think Prince was pretty young, too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think Prince was early 50s.

[DJ Envy]

But anyway. What's up, Lauren?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ll cool, baby.

[Lamorne Morris]

What's up?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay.

[Jess Alaris]

Look at you.

[Lamorne Morris]

I know.

[Jess Alaris]

Don't he look refreshed and oily and everything?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Nick is seeing something.

[DJ Envy]

The mic wasn't up. What's up, Lauren?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning, Envy.

[Jess Alaris]

Look at you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Hey, Charlotte.

[Caller/Listener]

Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Fat rolls out for the summer.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Shut up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I can't believe you've been in here talking about my rolls hanging out of your freaking velour.

[Lauren LaRosa]

First of all, it's 90 degrees today.

[Jess Alaris]

I either look like a Black and

[Lauren LaRosa]

Mile or a fat roll.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Come on.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I actually. Whatever.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When you open up the biscuit can,

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't mind it. I'm happy for you. I'm actually like 140 now. Okay, okay. Shut up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

40 on your waist.

[Jess Alaris]

All right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I appreciate my happy weight.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, the ladies coming up.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We do. We got some Drake leftovers.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Envy, you've been gone for a little bit, so Drake's dad had to come out and clear up some things. We're gonna talk about it in the latest.

[DJ Envy]

All right, we'll get to that. Next, it's the Breakfast Club. Streaming May 22nd on Paramount. The acclaimed series from executive producer Lena Waithe reaches its final chapter. The Shy. For seven seasons, these stories, these streets, this community have stayed with us. Now it all leads to this. As friendships are tested, families evolve, and secrets refuse to stay buried, one thing is certain. The shy is more than just a series. It's a legacy. Don't miss the final season. May 22nd on the Paramount plus premium plan. Yo, what up, y'? All? It's DJ Envy from the Breakfast Club. Now check this out. The first phone call that ever happened happened over 150 years ago. 150 years. 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]

Connecting changes everything.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

AT&T.

[Caller/Listener]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[DJ Envy]

Good morning.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[Mimi Brown]

brown girls looking you and go.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I want to be like you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Take me through that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Take me through there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The latest with Lauren on the Breakfast Club. LL Cool baby talk to me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So we talked about Iceman and it's dropping at the end of last week, Friday. But since then there's been some conversation because in the opening of the album, Drake talks about his dad, Dennis Graham and having cancer. But they. TMZ caught Dennis out. Literally. I think it was like the night after. I think I know it was right after Iceman dropped. Let's take a listen to Dennis talking about his cancer.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's going on, Dennis? First of all, I want to say

[Lauren LaRosa]

hi to you and I'm concerned. I was listening to the lyrics. Iceman and Drake Rebel reveals that you are buttoning cancer.

[Lamorne Morris]

No, that was a while back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm okay now. Could you reveal.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, what were you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

If.

[DJ Envy]

If it's possible, if not, nothing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It was a lung cancer at first

[DJ Envy]

and fortunately I got a message that it disappeared.

[Caller/Listener]

So here I am.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. And. And so when TMZ had first shot this out on X, they literally like, it said like, he did not have cancer.

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah.

[Jess Alaris]

It's not a headline.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. So a lot of the outlets, I guess before listening to the actual video went and reported it that way. So then people were picking it up as if like Drake was just like capping just for the song. Right. So Dennis Graham then had to get on his Instagram, I'm Drake stat, and basically clear it up. And he called out the pop. The paparazzi that was speaking to him, but basically was saying, like, this is messed up for you to make this controversial. That's not what I said. So, yeah, that was.

[DJ Envy]

But it seemed like he didn't. He just seemed like. I heard Drake's album. He said, you had cancer. You okay? And he just explained it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It wasn't the paparazzi's fault, in my opinion. It was the headline that followed after. But he know he has a relationship. Like, you hear him greet the paparazzi person. So I think he just, just, you know, when whoever he personally knew first.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You also don't know how long ago Drake recorded that record. Yeah, when he recorded that record in the moment, he probably was battling with cancer. By the way, that's the best record on the album, if you ask me. Make them cry.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Very introspective after that, he did not even try to even touch that level anymore.

[Jess Alaris]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

Baby's real personal on make him cry. But I, I what I got through so far, what I enjoyed so far. I like the fact that Drake is rapping and I see a lot of people saying, well, why is he talking

[Charlamagne Tha God]

about all this stuff? Right?

[DJ Envy]

You tell you we've been talking about it for, for years. Don't reply on Instagram, don't reply on social media, Reply to music, then replies the music. Why are you still talking about the stuff?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's been two and a half years, man. He should have been turning the page on this reply to music two years ago. But it's not like he hasn't been putting out music. It hasn't been putting out albums.

[DJ Envy]

Has he been put out solo albums? He hasn't done a solo album. He did the last album.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That they got to you in this way. Kendrick got to him in a way that we haven't seen in a long time. Everybody heard his little waffle colored feelings,

[DJ Envy]

but maybe his feelings were hurt and it took a while to put it, to put his own album back out. And I ain't mad at it. I ain't mad at the shots he took of LeBron. I ain't mad at the shots he took at Khaled.

[Jess Alaris]

He got that. Man said it right.

[DJ Envy]

But that's my point. They were boys. They were hanging out. I'm not mad.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Somebody told him to put a tattoo of another man on his ass, but

[DJ Envy]

that there's no tattoo on his ass.

[Jess Alaris]

No, I don't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You went to the tattoo parlor, got a tattoo of me, and now you mad cause I don't rock with you like that. Grew up together,

[DJ Envy]

they got a different relationship.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But you don't feel like the Kendrick stuff was like just A like that was one thing, a big thing, of course, but it was a lot going on. It seems like in that song, like he dealing with a lot of other things as well too. That sounds like a break. Like he's literally having like a mental break.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'll make them cry and be talking about the whole project.

[DJ Envy]

The whole project.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm talking about just the first song alone.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think that's the best record on the album. It's very introspective and he, like you said, he touched on a lot of things that have nothing to do with what we've been saying. And after that, he just did not do that anymore throughout the album.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, there's been a lot of records that they were mentioning that Drake broke over the weekend, including the song that we are discussing being listed as one of the top five most streamed rap songs in a single day on Spotify's history. And then, yeah, Spotify did something weird. So spot. They didn't. I guess they didn't mean to. They had to correct it. Spotify listed Iceman as the most streamed album of 2026 in a single day. And then they listed that Drake became the most streamed artist in a single day of 2026 so far. Then they had to go back and correct it and they had to apologize because he is not the most streamed. Iceman was not the most streamed album even though he is one of the most streamed artists. So they say. The initial stream review process was completed manually, resulting in streams from two different album tracks being combined. Drake continues to hold the record for most streamed artists an album in a single day in 2026. We apologize for the error and have implemented updated review procedures to prevent similar issues in the in the future. I don't know how like a Spotify makes a counting mistake like that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, go ahead.

[Jess Alaris]

No, I'm just about those things.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I wonder what Drake cares about more. Does he care more about, you know, screaming numbers or does he care about people saying the project is dope?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I think he cares about both. Yeah, because he posted old reviews of one of his old albums. I forget which album it was. And he was basically showing how people were talking bad about that album at the time and then it became one of his, like biggest albums. I'll go back and find.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because the screams don't change anything. And what I mean by that is I saw like a lot of the OV hoes posting about how, you know, this, whatever that song was screamed more than not like us. It don't matter because not like us Culturally was a huge record that put the nail in the coffin for that rap battle.

[Jess Alaris]

Right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, but I mean, so regardless of how many songs you got that scream more than Not Like Us, it still doesn't stop the impact or Not Like

[DJ Envy]

Us, but it's still a huge accomplishment that the fact that this record is streaming more than any record that any hip hop record. So it's still a huge accomplishment.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Probably does care about both, but I. I have a. I personally feel like he cares more about the music as he should.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But I think right now, in this moment, because of what he's trying to, like, be up against, he's going to care about both.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What is he up against?

[Lauren LaRosa]

He's up against people trying to act like he's not him. Like he doesn't care. People were having conversations as if Drake's career was over.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nobody ever said that. That's. That not true? No, that's not true.

[Jess Alaris]

You know, that's what all three of the albums spell. Him.

[Caller/Listener]

Him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I saw that on nobody. Nobody ever thought Drake was over.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Not sensible people.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All he did was lose a rap battle.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. That's all he did was nobo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We were saying that all he did was lose a rap battle. Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

And as he was losing the rap battle, a couple of months later, he's back to number one record with somebody else that he had. So Drake has always been on the

[Lauren LaRosa]

charts, but according to him, he's fighting back at the radio. And I thought that that was confusing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I told y' all already, man, Drake got beat up by one person. Woke up, looked in the mirror, saw his reflection and thought he got jumped. So he just started swinging.

[DJ Envy]

It wasn't just one person. A bunch of different artists jumped on his ass.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

None of them had had any impact on him.

[DJ Envy]

Except for Kendrick.

[Jess Alaris]

I agree with that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

None of them. No, none of them had any impact. One man they did try kicked his ass.

[Lauren LaRosa]

LeBron made a little impact.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't like talking. Hush stuff like that. That just derails the conversation.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That was the latest for the hour.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, what are we talking about?

[DJ Envy]

I don't know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We talking about music.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He been in his feelings.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Taylor Swift didn't do it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I envy. Don't.

[Jess Alaris]

I'm sorry.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Listen, I want to shout out Jinta Omasami.

[DJ Envy]

I know that's not the right name,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

but her mom's name is Yolanda and she wanted us to shout her daughter out because her daughter is 26 and graduated with her doctorate in pharmacy.

[Jess Alaris]

Nice.

[DJ Envy]

Congrats.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She's a proud hbcu. Alumnus.

[Lauren LaRosa]

University of Tennessee.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I don't think University of Tennessee is a hbcu, though.

[Lamorne Morris]

Is it?

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's what that car says.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know.

[DJ Envy]

I mean, if it says.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It says lemoyne Owen College. So maybe she got. Maybe she got her Bachelor's from LeMoyne, but got her doctorate from University of Tennessee. That's what I'm thinking.

[Jess Alaris]

Congratulations.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Congratulations. Yes. Yolanda, your mother wanted to give you a shout out.

[Lamorne Morris]

Salute to you, Jacinto.

[DJ Envy]

All right, now when we come back, we got front page news. Mimi will be joining us. It'll go anywhere, man. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get back to some front page news. Salute to sga. I was calling him Shy. His name is Shay. He won his second straight NBA MVP award. Congratulations to him. Now, last night, the Cavaliers beat the Detroit Pistons 125, 94. So tonight, OKC takes on the spurs and the Pistons. Excuse me. The Cavaliers take on the Knicks tomorrow night. What's up, Mimi?

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning, Envy. Jess, Charlemagne. How y' all doing this morning?

[Lamorne Morris]

Good morning.

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning. So we start this hour with a conversation that's blowing up online involving Jake Paul Waka Flocka in a debate over blackface, comedy and history. So remember the Drew Ski skit that we were joking about that he did about a conservative white women in America? He never came out and said that it was Erica Kirk, but many people assumed that's who he was talking about. Well, Jake Paul said he thought the video was funny, but then argued that if Drew Ski can joke about white people, he should be able to wear blackface and joke about black people too. He said he called the video hilarious and said he was already reaching out to makeup artists to film a response in full on blackface. Well, a few days ago during a live stream, Waka Flocka tried to explain to him why white plate, white face and black face are not the same thing. Let's listen.

[Caller/Listener]

You don't even know the history behind

[Charlamagne Tha God]

it, behind the comments you made. It was just. It's not like I'm being serious. I want to educate you, bro, because

[Caller/Listener]

y' all ever some you making jokes

[Charlamagne Tha God]

about, but folks, Grandmama experienced that torture in it. You know what I'm saying, bro?

[Caller/Listener]

So ain't nobody experienced torture with no

[Charlamagne Tha God]

white face but a black face.

[Lamorne Morris]

Yeah, but I think, but again, we can like, we can go into like all of this. Like people are oppressed, different, you know, races all of this stuff, people should be able to make fun of it. Like, if I. If I'm Jewish, bro. And people should be able to make fun of that no matter what what happened or what people went through.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You guys see how politics are?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, that's not politics.

[DJ Envy]

This.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Education. This how I grew up. Like, when I made jokes, how he did it. The difference between him is I got punished for this. Like, hey, Walker, why you out here running your mouth doing, bro? This happened with this. You don't make fun of white, black, this. Because this, this.

[Caller/Listener]

They educated me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I seem serious because education is serious.

[Jess Alaris]

K. I definitely agree with Waka.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay?

[Jess Alaris]

But like he said and like. Like he said, ain't nobody ever suffer from white face. Like, y' all never.

[DJ Envy]

Like, well, blackface was used to dehumanize black.

[Jess Alaris]

Exactly. That's what I'm saying.

[DJ Envy]

And mock black people. You know that. That's what it was done. White face.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Exactly.

[Jess Alaris]

There's no comparison to that, like, with white face.

[DJ Envy]

What?

[Jess Alaris]

Like, what are you talking about?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, I like that Flocka is trying to educate Jake Paul, but, you know, Waka Flocka is a Trump supporter, and Donald Trump's policies have targeted and hurt black Americans. And one of the things that Donald Trump has done with his policies is an erasure of black history. So it's going to be a lot of people who don't know the history of blackface because, you know, Donald Trump is erasing black history, especially in schools and targeting, you know, African American museums, amongst other.

[DJ Envy]

But two things could be true, right? The fact that he does support Trump, we don't know the reason why he supports Trump. It could be a particular reason. But also what he's saying about blackface is true.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. But what I'm saying is people like Donald Trump are erasing, of course, black history. So there's gonna be a lot of other people who don't know the history of blackface because of Donald Trump's policies.

[Jess Alaris]

So basically, Wyer will be teaching much more.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, to what Envy said in the beginning about mocking. You know, blackface is mocking black people, and white faces is. You know, it's not. Waka tried to make that point as well. And then Jay Paul, he pushed back, arguing that comedy should not have double standards. I think we have that clip as well.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So basically, what I'm telling you is they got history behind it. Like, bro, like, real deal history, bro. Like, like, I'm seeing him because I did some Amsterdam when people made face.

[Caller/Listener]

I never knew what black face was.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I went out the country.

[Caller/Listener]

And I watched people dress up with

[Charlamagne Tha God]

black faces on their face, but made me mad as Amsterdam because there was mocking.

[Lamorne Morris]

Yeah, I think. I think if they're mocking, then that's one thing. If it's like, comedy. That's why I love comedians, is because they can get away with, like, saying and making fun of anyone or anything. And that's where I said, I love drucy skit. And by the way, I'm a Republican and I'm white, and I think you should make fun of white Republicans who are too deep.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What you're doing is gaining traction. Like, are you serious?

[DJ Envy]

Something.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm not doing it.

[DJ Envy]

You're all, boom.

[Mimi Brown]

So a lot of people online is the conversation is exactly what you guys are saying. One, that Walk is also a Trump supporter, and two, that Jake Paul, he completely missed the point that Walker was trying to. To explain to him, and he called it tone deaf. And they were saying that not every joke starts from the same historical context. So therefore it's. You can't look at the two the same.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I get what Jake Paul was saying too, though. Yeah.

[Lamorne Morris]

You.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You can make any joke you want to make, but my thing is you just have to deal with the consequences of it. You know, Do I think that there should be some things that are off limits? Sure. But, you know, some people are willing to take the risk. If you're willing to take the risk, deal with everything that comes with it. Whether it's, you know, you lose things financially, whether you get punched in the mouth, like, you know what I mean? Whether it's backlash on social media, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it.

[Jess Alaris]

Yeah, but I do like that they're having a conversation. I like that they're talking about it. You know, instead of sitting there beefing and going back and forth and throwing racial slurs or whatever. Like, I like that it's a conversation.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I wonder if Waka Flocka would be open to that conversation in regards to his support for Trump. Like, if somebody sat down with him and somebody said, hey, man, you know, these are the reasons I don't think you should be supporting Donald Trump as a black person because of the policies that target and, and, and hurt black Americans. I wonder, would he be receptive to. To that?

[DJ Envy]

I think he would have to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Would he be. Would he be acting like Jake Paul was acting towards him?

[DJ Envy]

Nah, I think he would have to, especially his. His own community asking him a question about it. I think he would have him.

[Lamorne Morris]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, that's a good question.

[Mimi Brown]

And switching gears really quickly. Tennessee school district has officially removed Alex Haley's RA roots from school library shell.

[Jess Alaris]

Okay, Mimi, she said that up too perfect. Like, okay,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

but no, but that's, that's the, that's the era we live in that is there.

[Mimi Brown]

And it goes. They go together, right? Because we're talking about historical context. And then here we go. We have like a classic being removed from library fairy shelves. But the reason is raising a lot of questions. So, you know, if you are unfamiliar, really quick. Roofs is considered one of the most important books in black American history. It tells the story of, you know, Alex Haley's enslaved ancestor, Kunta Kinte, and follows generations of his family through slavery and American racial history. The book won a Pulitzer plot prize and it became a groundbreaking series that many of us watched as we were growing up. So, but school officials, they say the ban was not about the overall history or the message of the book. They say that it was flagged for one paragraph of sexual actual content in chapter 84. But the district will not tell people what that chapter is. They will not publicly release the actual paragraph that led to the ban. So under Tennessee state law review committees, they're required to focus on whether specific passengers are age appropriate, not the overall historical education or the value of the book. So the district said that teachers can still teach about it, but kids can no longer check this book out in the school libraries anymore.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And let the record show it is started because the Trump administration enacted a broad book ban across federally operated institutions. Started in the when, when they targeted, I think 500 titles in the Department of Defense. So they set the stage, they said they set the stage for stuff like this.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah, for sure, for sure. So more of that to come and I think running out of time. So I will leave it there and. But so that is your front page news. I'm Mimi Brown. Follow me @mimi Brown TV. And for more, more stories, follow the

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Black Information Network and make sure you go subscribe to Mimi Brown's front page news podcast on the Black Effect I Heart radio podcast network, available everywhere you listen to podcasts, man. Salute to everybody who already has started subscribing to it. But every day Mimi is updating you with more front page news stories. She has a daily, daily podcast.

[DJ Envy]

And I also want to salute to everybody because I see the calls coming in. Everybody that has to take the Long Island Railroad to get to work, they are actually on strike. Long island Railroad takes 82 million people to New York City and around New York yearly. And they are actually on strike. So I just want to say there's a lot more listeners in the car today, people trying to get to work. So be safe out there. I mean, I think I heart sent out an email that says if you live in Long island affected, stay at home, work from home today. So really, a lot of people affected today.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

All right, now when we come back, Lamorne Morris will be joining us.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right.

[DJ Envy]

You know him from Spider Noir. He was actually on bet. Charlamagne and myself were talking about. He was with the New Faces campaign

[Charlamagne Tha God]

at BET back in the day.

[DJ Envy]

Years and years and years and years ago. That's when they found Terence J. They found Roxy, Alicia, Renee. Alicia Renee. And he'll be joining us next.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He's also an Emmy winning actor. He won an Emmy on I forgot what he went Emmy for. I forgot. But he was also on New Girl.

[DJ Envy]

That's right as well. All right, and we'll talk to him next. So don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren Laros is here as well. We got a special guest in the building.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He will be in the new series spider noir, coming May 25. Lamor, Lamorne Morris is here.

[Lamorne Morris]

Hey.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey. Good morning.

[Lamorne Morris]

Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How are you?

[Lamorne Morris]

I'm good.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm good. Every time I see you, man, I just feel close to you. Because we share a sister.

[Lamorne Morris]

Yes, we do. Alicia, she. She bailed on us today.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know she was here all week. I didn't. I was running around, so I ain't get a chance to see her, man.

[Lamorne Morris]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But she spends way more time with you now because she's on the west coast. Coast. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Lamorne Morris]

And she says you abandoned her.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, I did not.

[Lamorne Morris]

I know. I'm just trying to start.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How are you, though, my brother? Dude, I'm good.

[Lamorne Morris]

You know, it's funny, I used to tell people when people ask me that, I would just go old and tired. And then I started feeling old and tired. Everything started breaking down. And so now I'm like, I'm good. I'm great.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's kicking your ass more? Acting, fatherhood, or just life in general?

[Lamorne Morris]

Trying to try to balance it? To be honest with you, before I had a kid, I was just free. You know what I mean? Like, I could. Oh, you got a job in. In Africa. Let's go do it. You know what I mean? You got a job over here. Let's go do it now. You got to really Pay attention to, you know, time spent with your kid. You still got to make money. You still got to work. So if I could bring her with me, you know, that, that. But that's a stressful situation, trying to handle the logistics of that. You know, she's only five, so, you know, I would say that. That work. Fatherhood, you know, I'm a single dad, so that balance is kind of. It's kind of crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm noticing gray hairs everywhere.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's interesting with you, right, because you. You definitely a comedian, Right. So you built a career where people expect you to be funny, but, yeah, your dramatic work is equally as good. Hey. Right.

[Lamorne Morris]

I don't think they heard you when you said it.

[Jess Alaris]

You got range, brother.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Lamorne Morris]

I feel like I don't get the respect.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Do you find yourself leaning in one direction?

[Lamorne Morris]

No. You know what's cool is that I. I like the. As actors and performers, we like to think that we can do everything. You know what I mean? But it's very rare that you get the opportunity to do it. So for years, you know, I was on comedies and stuff like that and getting that recognition, but I'm an actor, you know, so I can play whatever. Whatever is written, and I could play it honestly and truthfully. When Fargo came around, I won an Emmy for it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right.

[Lamorne Morris]

And people were like, what?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What?

[Lamorne Morris]

You know, I was like, yeah, we. We, as performers, if given the opportunity, can do. Who can do a lot of things. And so now with this show. The cool thing about this show is that, you know, I kind of get to do all of it. You know, there's moments where very passionate, very serious, but it's still a comic book franchise, so. And it's with Nick Cage, so you get to be silly. You get to. You call him Nick.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now it's not Nicholas like the rest of us.

[DJ Envy]

My Nick.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, Nick. Nick.

[Lamorne Morris]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, so I didn't even know that I called.

[Lamorne Morris]

I called him Nick Cage, too, I think, to Alicia, and she was like, oh, we all. We don't just call him Nick. We gotta call him Nicholas.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Still, I never heard nobody refer to him as Nick in my life. Nick.

[Lamorne Morris]

That's my name.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nick. When you won the Emmy for Fargo, did that feel validating or did it make you realize, like, Hollywood only rewards black actors when they suffer in a

[Lamorne Morris]

role doing so crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Listen, I was thinking about it. I was thinking about it. I used to have this bit that

[Lamorne Morris]

it was like, if you want to win an Oscar, you gotta. You gotta be a Slave. And I started writing this. I started writing this movie that I stopped writing called the Porch.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Porch.

[Lamorne Morris]

And it was one. It was like. It was about this actor who was trying to get respect, so he wrote a slave movie called the Porch about one. About one slave's uprising to become a house. And it was like, once he finally became a house, and everybody goes and sees the movie, and black people turn on me, you know, So I was gonna make that. I was gonna make that movie. But when I won the award, it did feel validating. It was just like, you know, Noah Hawley, the creator, he said something. He was like, usually when. When people win these big awards, they. It's because their role was big and glitzy, and they did a weird thing, and they had a lisp, and they did a thing. You know, he was like, the good guy won. He was like, just great acting. You followed the arc. You did the thing, and people appreciated it. You know, he was like, it's about time that that happened. Because a lot of those performances sometimes get overlooked because, you know, somebody got a stutter, you know, and somebody, like you said, is a slave, you know, and then. And then. But there are times where I do feel that way. It's like we do have to suffer in order to get that. To get that recognition. You know what I mean? Because if you look at our performances, like, for the most part, they're pretty damn great, and. And they don't get the. The recognition.

[Caller/Listener]

The point.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sounded like a great concept, didn't it?

[Lamorne Morris]

You want to produce it?

[Caller/Listener]

Sure.

[Lamorne Morris]

Y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Lamorne Morris]

Richard, you doing it?

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, he's doing that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You don't get Illuminati rumors, though. Success as you've had, like, mainstream. You don't get the Illuminati room. But how have you avoided.

[Lamorne Morris]

I don't know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why? Because I'd be sacrificing.

[Lamorne Morris]

No,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Please.

[Lamorne Morris]

No. You know what's interesting is that I like the. The thing I like the most about my career is that I can.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I've been.

[Lamorne Morris]

Like you said, I've been working for a long time, you know, and I do well for myself. Is I. But I can go.

[Mimi Brown]

Cool.

[Lamorne Morris]

I could go to the mall. You know what I mean? And just hang out and kick it. And then people will walk up and people will say, what's up? And people ask for photos. But it's not like. It ain't like the rock. You know what I mean? Like, it ain't that. That level of success.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why would you use the rock? Okay, okay.

[Lamorne Morris]

It ain't Like Brad Pitt. You know what I mean?

[Lauren LaRosa]

One more try. One more time.

[Lamorne Morris]

One more time.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Lamorne Morris]

It ain't like Oprah going to the mall.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I'm saying?

[Lamorne Morris]

Listen, I got.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I feel good about myself today, but

[Lamorne Morris]

it's not like that. I have a steady career. I. I used to tell people all the time, I just want to be Morgan Freeman. I want to be in my 80s and 90s and still working.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, go.

[Lamorne Morris]

And not have to have, like, a burnout, you know what I mean? Because it's such high heights. That seems cool at times, but as long as the money's still good and I can still, you know, provide for my family. Family. I don't need that. I don't need to be Bieber. I don't need to be.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You want longevity and consistency. Yeah, because I like.

[Lamorne Morris]

I like my piece. I like to be able to hang out with people and. And be able to take selfies and. And just. People just respect it and chill. I don't like the people.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, my God. Like, that's wild to me.

[Lamorne Morris]

Yeah. So, you know, when we're talking about

[Lauren LaRosa]

the dramatic roles, right, and you doing these various things, though, earlier you said that you still don't feel like you get the recognition for that. So if you could pick the recognition which would come with a lot of the. Oh, my God. Fame.

[Lamorne Morris]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And consistency, which one would you pick if you honestly had to make a choice?

[Lamorne Morris]

Well, see, that's tough because, you know, there are actors who I consider like goats that can do that, can go to the mall. I think Don Cheadle is top five best actors I've ever seen, and that's a skill that I want to be able to get to. I think everybody knows Don Cheadle, but his personality says, I'm good. You can come up to me and talk to me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, he.

[Lamorne Morris]

People aren't rabid about it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right.

[Lamorne Morris]

That's what I. That's what I'm looking for. You know what I mean? But he gets that. He gets the accolade when he walks in the room. Everybody knows that's an actor. That's an. That's an artist, and they respect it. And you can't disrespect anything about his career. So that's kind of what I'm looking for.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

If that.

[Lamorne Morris]

Listen, if it comes with the craziness and chaos behind it, it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So be it.

[Lamorne Morris]

You can find ways to protect yourself from all that. You know what I mean? I just don't want to have to be guarded by bunch of Security guards all the time. And like, that just. That does. That doesn't feel healthy for. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, because I'd be doing weird, and I don't need everybody to know about it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, what.

[DJ Envy]

What you mean?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, what would you be doing?

[Lauren LaRosa]

What's the weirdest thing you be doing?

[Lamorne Morris]

What do you mean?

[Jess Alaris]

You already be doing weird, don't you?

[Lamorne Morris]

Yeah, yeah. I live a strange lifestyle, but nothing slippery like y' all be talking about. You do got to clarify.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You get syndication checks.

[Lamorne Morris]

Yeah, yeah. I've been lucky, man. New Girl, like, New Girl was weird. It was like a show that almost didn't happen for me, but it ended up being the. The. The best thing that's happened in my career because it set me up to be in people's household so much that I. That I can work. You know what I mean? It's almost. It's. It is a little. A little validation of just being able to get you a job. But the dramatic stuff is what you. You know, you want a mixture of both.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's crazy that the climate of the country has changed so much that you probably couldn't get a show like New Girls right now. Yeah.

[Lamorne Morris]

Some of the stuff we talked about is kind of. You know, what the show used to be called?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm just talking about the diverse. The diverse friendship.

[Lamorne Morris]

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. We had. We had two black series regulars on the show. We had a Indian woman on the show.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

My.

[Lamorne Morris]

The type of guy I had. I dated, like, black women on the show, Asian women on the show. Like, Max. Max's character had. It was like. It was just like everything. Like, every. It didn't.

[DJ Envy]

It didn't.

[Lamorne Morris]

It was interesting. They didn't care. They were just like, oh, let's just. Even my character wasn't supposed to be black. Everybody was auditioning for it. Everybody. I mean, there was Asian cats in the room, Indian cats, Hispanic cats in the room. All. We were all sitting there auditioning, and it was. I mean, I tested against Xzibit at one point. You know what I mean?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Rapper. They.

[Lamorne Morris]

Because they were. They were just trying to find it. They didn't know if they wanted, like, a bigger brother in the loft or if they wanted, like, a younger status. Like, they. They were trying to play with the dynamics, and so it ended up just happening, just going to me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow. Do you think shows like New Girls accidentally prepared America for, like, more diverse friendships?

[Lamorne Morris]

Probably. You know why? Because it's still around. Yeah. New Girl, we stopped taping in 2018, and people still think it's a new show. Show. And I think the reason, I think the reason why is because it translates across all generations. Everybody can identify. I think a lot of times when you see a TV show and it's just predominantly one particular race or one particular thing, it doesn't necessarily, it's not necessarily indicative of what's actually happening in our, in our world. You know, everybody's got diverse groups of friends. You know what I mean? It's just a matter of like, our networks are scared to show it, Are they scared to showcase it? That when you go to other countries, people are like, I love new girl. I love new girl. And you talk about it, they're like, I have a friend like you or, or my cousin is, is Jess or, you know, or we all live together. You know, the one thing we all can agree on is, is. Is community. You know what I mean? We all been broke and we all had roommates and everybody can identify with that. And I think that's why it's, that's why it has that longevity. You know what I mean? And I think that's why it can continue to go. People still, again, people still think we're taping. People are like, when's the new season coming out? I'm like, we about to be up. Bunch of old living together.

[Jess Alaris]

Do you believe that you have to do stand up to be a, A comedian?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think to have that, I think

[Lamorne Morris]

to pay respect to the comedians. You, you. Yeah, because I think there's so many great comedians that have kind of paved the way. Like that is their medium. If you're on stage telling jokes, that is your medium. Medium. Everything else is you're a comedic performer. Like, I, I do a little stand up, but I'm also, I'm a comedic writer and I came up in the improv scene, which is you on stage making stuff up from the top of your head or write comedy and write sketches and stuff like that. So I'm a comedic performer and I'm in the comedy business. But what they do is they're comedians, you know, or comics, if you, if you will. But the comedy business is big. Like, Will Ferrell is not a stand up comedian, but he's one of the greatest funny people of all time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Comedic actors, what they call him, right?

[Lamorne Morris]

Yeah, comedic. He's a comedic actor, you know what I mean? And when he walks in the room, people go, oh, it's gonna be funny. This is the same. But that's the same when you see like a Donnell Rawlings, you Know he's a comic. He's a comedian and a comedic performer. Yeah, shut up, yo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, I know.

[Jess Alaris]

He is well known, household name chef. Hey, yo.

[Lamorne Morris]

Apparently he makes good gumbo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what the street say. That's what they say.

[Lamorne Morris]

I've never had it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He do be cooking.

[Lamorne Morris]

I know he'd be cooking out of an rv.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He be telling jokes.

[Lamorne Morris]

He's. He's hilarious.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, you do got a food truck, but it's, it's like unlicensed.

[Lamorne Morris]

You got.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's why he. That's the rv. No, for real. He got an RV in Ohio. Yeah. And he cooks out of the RV in Ohio.

[Lamorne Morris]

I know. I was in Ohio in Yellow Springs, and he was offering it and I was like, you made it out of an rv.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm not about to eat this. You don't support black business.

[Lamorne Morris]

Not out of an rv.

[Jess Alaris]

Oh, that depends on where it's at.

[Lamorne Morris]

No, I refuse.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I ain't no dick comedy. Interesting. I mean, I just like, I like, I like the, the people you use as examples. Because I never thought about that.

[Lamorne Morris]

Yeah, I mean, yeah, but you, but then you got, I mean, you got some people that are just legendary that do it all, you know, Martin, Eddie Murphy, he hasn't, he hasn't done. He hasn't been on the stage in a long time, but Eddie's the king, you know, Jamie Foxx.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jamie.

[Lamorne Morris]

Jamie Foxx to me is the greatest performer of all time. Greatest performer of all time. Like just overall performance, Jamie, there's nobody better than Jamie Foxx.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why? Because he can do so many things. Are just.

[Lamorne Morris]

He can do so many things at a high level and he's brave enough to do it. You know, there are a lot of people, like, internally. This is a real thought that I have. This is a real thought. I think I am the greatest stand up comic of all time. But you would never like that. But you never know. Know it because I don't be doing it. So everybody can say.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I mean?

[Lamorne Morris]

Everybody can say, I truly inter. And this is not me exaggerating. I'm looking at all these people on this wall and I'm like, yeah, if I took, if I took the time, I'd be better than all of them.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I had some people on this wall.

[Lamorne Morris]

I don't give a who they are.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Dick gr.

[Jess Alaris]

I was going to say Dick gr.

[Lamorne Morris]

It doesn't matter.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Kevin Hart.

[Lamorne Morris]

It doesn't matter.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Martin.

[Lamorne Morris]

It doesn't matter.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Doesn't matter.

[Lamorne Morris]

It doesn't matter.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You should feel like that.

[Lamorne Morris]

I Will. And it's the. And it's a fact. I feel I could be so much better than them. But here's where we differ. They got way more courage. They have way. They're. They're.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They just have it.

[Lamorne Morris]

There's the one thing that we forget about is that to. To be them, you have to not only have. Do you have to be skilled and gifted at what you do, but your drive and that it. Thing has to happen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It has to be there.

[Lamorne Morris]

And I could say all day that I, That I have it, but until I prove it, I gotta shut the up.

[Jess Alaris]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I mean? I'm not even out there.

[Lamorne Morris]

I was just on stage recently for Netflix as a joke. I just did it. It was dope.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It was great. I had.

[Lamorne Morris]

It was. It was fun and people liked it and that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I get that itch.

[Lamorne Morris]

I go on stage and I go, okay, great. They laughed. And I go, yeah, I don't need to do this for another six months.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, my God.

[Lamorne Morris]

Because what y' all do is. It's like, you know how hard that is? You know, you know, we gotta hit

[Charlamagne Tha God]

the stage over and over and over

[Lamorne Morris]

again and test jokes and deal with the. The ones that don't work, you gotta do. That is a. That is people, People forget how much work goes into it, and they don't. And there's sometimes, as much as I'd like to say I'm great at it, I don't have what they have.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think that's the hardest thing to do on stage, stand up comedy.

[Lamorne Morris]

It is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I really do. Like, it's. You by yourself with a whole crowd of people that have the expectation.

[Lamorne Morris]

Yes, yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's. You got to be insane to even go out there, to be honest with you.

[Lamorne Morris]

You know, hardest to change somebody's mood. People walk into comedy Club pit half the time.

[Jess Alaris]

Right.

[Lamorne Morris]

But that's.

[Jess Alaris]

They come there for, you know, comic relief. And you are a genius writer. So I don't understand why that's like the scariest thing for you to do.

[Lamorne Morris]

And I, I came up on the stage. It's just. There's a certain level of anxiety I get that I can't control. And I go, but 2:30 seconds into it, I'm having fun. But it's that panic of the week before where I'm like, okay, I gotta go perform at this stage and do this thing. And I'm just like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And.

[Lamorne Morris]

And people around me will tell me me. They were like, you are annoying to be around when you got a show.

[Jess Alaris]

Right?

[Lamorne Morris]

People Talking to me. I'm like, don't say words in front of me, because then I gotta go say. I might say your words when I get on. Just shut up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And it's.

[Lamorne Morris]

I can't live that way.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I can't.

[Lamorne Morris]

I can't live that way. Maybe it's just a habit that I need to practice more.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But, like, when the last time you

[Lamorne Morris]

did a black, like, black, black, black, black, black.

[Jess Alaris]

Damn, it ain't been Gucci been that long.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's a word I want to say, but you got white people in here with you, so I'm not gonna say it.

[Lamorne Morris]

Go ahead and say it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know the word I'm talking about. Black. You did one of those rooms.

[Lamorne Morris]

Oh, my God. Probably last year. We did. We did a few room. We did probably at the Improv. It was at the Improv. We did a show. I hosted a show. And in between, I would do. I would do sets. I would do like 10 minute sets in between. That was a cool show because I had Arsenio headline in Arsenio Hall. Headliner.

[Jess Alaris]

God damn, what a flex.

[Lamorne Morris]

I mean, yeah, yeah, at Arsenio headline. And so that was. That was a cool moment in my life. It was interesting because Arsenio was even like, hey, man, when you going up next? I was like, a few months.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He was like, what?

[Lamorne Morris]

He was like, what are you talking about? He was like, you just be popping up and then not doing it again. I'm like, yeah, it's fun, man. He's like, you gotta keep doing it. He's like, what are you doing? What's happening with you? I was like, I'm an actor, you know, and I. And I. I know how hard it is to do what you guys do. I'm having fun up there right now. And in this moment, people, there's laughter because I improvise a lot, but, like, to sit down and craft. 45 minutes to an hour. I was talking with Chris Rock about it the other day. Chris Rock was like, before I put a special out, you know, I got like 300 shows that I've done 300 small rooms. He's like the, the average comic when they put their special out, they've done 40 rooms. He was like, me, it's 300. And I was like, that's why he's Chris Rock. But 300 shows is crazy. He. We were at the brunt. The Netflix is a joke brunch. And he was just like, after this, I'm. I'm, I'm. I'm hitting a few Clubs tonight. I was like, jesus Christ.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He was like, yeah, yeah, man.

[Lamorne Morris]

Yeah, man. He was. He was just, like, locked in. Like, that's a different level of locked in.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Do you ever feel like Hollywood typecast you as safe, fun, funny? Yeah.

[Lamorne Morris]

Oh, my God. All the time. And that's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And that's.

[Lamorne Morris]

It started out as a thing that I just. That just happened, and then it was like. Then I started protecting my peace a little bit with, With. With going like, you know, Flip Wilson is one of my favorite performers, and, you know, I read his book, and he talked about being safe, and people considered him being safe, but he was a wild dude off, off camera, and he was like, yeah, I'm gonna keep it though way, because I don't need people knowing what I do is a show. I, I, that's the show. You don't need to know who I really am in my personal life. And so for me, it's kind of the same way. Like, my friends will tell you, people around me will tell you. I, like, on my podcast, I say, probably every day that could get. That could get me canceled. But then I go in the edit, we're like, I don't need it. I don't need it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It.

[Lamorne Morris]

It's a funny joke, but I don't need it because I don't. Like, I don't. There's this certain heat that I don't want. There's certain heat that I don't want. And we all bounce back from it. People who get canceled, they all bounce back from it. But I don't. You know, I got. I don't.

[Jess Alaris]

But is it funny?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, see, it'd be. It'd be fun.

[Lamorne Morris]

Yeah.

[Jess Alaris]

If it's funny, if it's more funny than offensive, it ain't going. It ain't gonna matter.

[Lamorne Morris]

I wish I. I wish. I wish

[Lauren LaRosa]

it'd be like, well, why would we air.

[Lamorne Morris]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We were in conversation with this studio. I think that's a big thing for you, too. Like, you.

[Lamorne Morris]

100% studio work, corporate, you know, corporate sponsors, and even a spokesperson for certain. You know, I go, man, is this joke worth losing? That I got you that platform. You know what I mean? Now, I always said this. I say this all the time. The moment certain things go away, you're about to get the most unhinged version of me you've ever seen in your life. Because then, now, now everything is in house. Like, like, that's, That's. That's the reason why I do love standup comics. Because no matter what you take away from stand up. Comics.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Comics.

[Lamorne Morris]

The audience don't go nowhere.

[Jess Alaris]

Yeah.

[Lamorne Morris]

You know, I could still. You still go on stage and still make your money and still have the fans support you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And now it's podcast as well.

[Lamorne Morris]

Exactly, exactly. But. But what I like, you know, I liked about Kevin Hart special is that he. He kept. Or his roast is that he kept. He kept, like, shouting out his sponsors.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Really?

[Lamorne Morris]

He's like, sorry for what I'm about to say to all my sponsors, blah, blah, blah. This has nothing to do with you guys. And he would go say some wild. You know what I mean? That's the type of energy that I would. That, that, that I'm. That I try to have on my podcast.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Is it a dollar amount? Is it an age to. Where you going to say it? Because I remember Kev, and I'm sure this is on video somewhere. Kev literally said, I'm going to do this, this, this, this, and this. And then I'm going to get to the point where I'm going to turn hill.

[Lamorne Morris]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Everybody's going to hit me and I'm g. Say what the hell I want. I remember him saying this 10 years ago. Yeah.

[Lamorne Morris]

I'd probably say it has to have a B in front of it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay. Right.

[Lamorne Morris]

Billion dollars.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

God. At that point. B. Yeah.

[Lamorne Morris]

Yeah. B, A B. I could run somebody over and get sued for 50 million. There's nothing to me. I could.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You know what I mean?

[Lamorne Morris]

I'm not going to see inside of a jail sale. I own the prison.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn. I got one more question. What insecurity do you still carry from before fame, that success?

[Lamorne Morris]

I'm working on it. This is something I am very much so working on. You know, there were some things that happened to me younger in my dating life. When I'm talking younger, younger, like 14, that I joke about because it's funny. But there are times I find that it pops up in my dating life that. That it makes me feel like I haven't gotten over it. And I have, but it. But telling these jokes on stage about it is very therapeutic.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Judic.

[Lamorne Morris]

There was. There was a. There was. It was. I was about to lose my virginity to someone and she said, should we.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She wanted to.

[Lamorne Morris]

She was like, oh, I was talking to this other cat. He said that you haven't done it before in your life. So maybe I should. Maybe he should have sex with me while you watch. Oh, so then you'll know what you're doing. And after that, I was just like all women trying to be like all of them. I was 14 and I was like, what is she talking about?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So you was cooking early, bro.

[Lamorne Morris]

I didn't do it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I didn't. I didn't this day to day. I didn't.

[Lamorne Morris]

There's no way. There was no chair. There was no chair in my, in my household.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So how did you reply to her?

[Lamorne Morris]

I. I didn't. I just thought that was ridiculous and I just. We stopped talking.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He at 14.

[Lamorne Morris]

14 this.

[Jess Alaris]

How old was he?

[Lamorne Morris]

7.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This.

[Lamorne Morris]

Run up to me and run up to me at school.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn, you missed it, Joe. Where you was at?

[Lamorne Morris]

He went through with it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So what does that do for you in your day in life today?

[Lamorne Morris]

My day in life tonight. When I first look at a woman, I go, this probably just came straight from a gang.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Then I got, then I got, then

[Lamorne Morris]

I got to get into it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Then I got to know. But I love you.

[Lamorne Morris]

I hope you didn't just come straight from a gang. No, it doesn't, it's just like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's just, it's just.

[Lamorne Morris]

It doesn't actually do anything for my dating life now. But it's. It's always a bit that I remember, and it's always a moment in my life that I remember. And it's, it's almost like you was

[Charlamagne Tha God]

thinking what you were thinking back then. That's what stuck with you. And I don't call women that word, but that's what you were thinking back then. But back then, yeah, back then, for sure.

[Lamorne Morris]

I was 14, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I was 14.

[Lamorne Morris]

And I had no real, I had no real reference point. You know what I mean? Like, my, you know, my father wasn't around. I didn't see the romance in the household.

[Jess Alaris]

Gotcha.

[Lamorne Morris]

You know, you thought all women was

[Charlamagne Tha God]

getting down like that.

[Jess Alaris]

I just, you know, I, I was 14. Like, this is the first, like, experience.

[Lamorne Morris]

Yeah. You had all my friends were, were, were, were, were getting laid. I wasn't down.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I was just like, man, so are

[Lauren LaRosa]

you romantic on dates?

[Lamorne Morris]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, 100%. I'm very much so romantic on dates. But I'm also, I have a cynical sense of humor. You know what I mean? And sometimes I'd like to, in conversation,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

do bits and bring up, and then

[Lamorne Morris]

they're just like, that's too much, man. Like, gang first date, I'm like, okay, one, One, are you have a close personal relationship with your parents? Okay, cool. Two, have you been gang?

[Jess Alaris]

God damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What woman made you unlearn that? What woman made you feel like, you know what? All women aren't out Here getting games.

[Lamorne Morris]

Oh, that made probably. This is probably the. The woman, the girl. I lost my virginity too. You know what I mean? Like, I lost that later. I lost that a while ago. But it is something that I keep doing as a. And I can't stop doing it. No, the bit I just can't. I can't stop doing stuck with me. And it's. I'm sure it's annoying.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Are you and Nassim, are y' all really going on a date? Is that gonna actually happen? One of his co stars from New Girl, but he called her on the podcast, which is very awkward.

[Lamorne Morris]

Yeah, I called her the podcast and was like, hey, we should go on a date. And she was like, okay, cool. And then it kind of went everywhere. But I was joking.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But. Oh, so that's not gonna really happen because people really. They want to see y'.

[Jess Alaris]

All. What if she had really, like, had a big crush on you and she was trying to, like, work her way up to asking you, and you call her and you ask her to go on a date with you and. And you playing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, here's the thing.

[Lamorne Morris]

We known each other, so we know. We know each other so well that when she agreed to it, I immediately knew she understood what was happening.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, she's playing.

[Lamorne Morris]

I immediately knew, you know, and we talked about. She called me afterwards. She was like, you know, people are going to really believe that. Right?

[Lauren LaRosa]

You know what y' all do on the show.

[Lamorne Morris]

I know, but we. We're so. We're so close. I used to date one of her best friends. You know what I mean? And like, we. It's not like that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, mean, you probably got a good, good, good recommendation. You said. You said you need to date one of her best friends. You probably got a good recommendation sometimes.

[Lamorne Morris]

I mean, possibly, Possibly. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I got a five star review and

[Lamorne Morris]

don't know it, but she ain't gonna do that. She wouldn't do that to her friend. She wouldn't do. I know some women will. Yeah. You know why?

[Jess Alaris]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's Lamore and Morris. Y' all go check out Spider Noir. May 25th. Man, thank you for joining us.

[Lamorne Morris]

Oh, thank y'.

[Caller/Listener]

All.

[Lamorne Morris]

I appreciate it. I appreciate it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Streaming May 22nd on Paramount. The acclaimed series from executive producer Lena Waithe reaches its final chapter. The shy. For seven seasons, these stories, these streets, this community have stayed with us. Now it all leads to this. As friendships are tested, families evolve, and secrets refuse to stay buried, one thing is certain. The shy is more than just a series, it's a legacy. Don't miss the final season. May 22nd Second on a Paramount plus premium plan.

[Caller/Listener]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Jess Alaris]

Yeah, but I'm not itching to go downtown and tell a receptionist I'm here to talk about my downtown. Some things you'd rather type than say out loud.

[Lamorne Morris]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

Let's get right to the latest.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You'll talk LL Cool Babe.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So source is trust.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She going. The latest with Laurio on the Breakfast Club. LL Cool B. Talk to me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All right, guys. So yesterday, Real Housewives of Atlanta, the episode premiere premiered. And, you know, we've had Portia Williams up here, and we were talking to Portia about just the. The relationship between her and K. Michell. And because it was such a good relationship, and K. Michelle has been staying out of the drama. But things are starting to change. So K. Michelle got very upset on the show on this new episode, and she says she feels unsafe with the women over a oyster conversation. Let's take a listen to Real Housewives of Atlanta. Their oyster comments. Be careful with the oysters, Cynthia. Let me check them for you first. What are you checking for? What is you doing? What are you checking for?

[Jess Alaris]

Okay, Porsche, let me check in it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Your face ain't right. That vagina is clean. This one might be a little tense. This is odd to me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What are you checking for? Does she always smell oysters? I don't know.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So in that audio, you hear Portia Kelly, I mean, all the women are at the table. They're on their trip. They're over in Texas. But you hear in that audio, Portia, who is, like, chucking through the oysters. Kelly, who's questioning why she's even doing that, and Cynthia, that's kind of like trying to figure out what's going on as well. To Cynthia Bailey. Now, this has been, of course, like a. A touchy topic for K. Michelle because of previous conversations that she's had to have on this topic. But it gets to a point where she breaks down. No. The topic of, like, you know, just her conversations that have been happening about her body falsely accusing her of different things. Yeah. Yes.

[DJ Envy]

So she thinks it's a shot at her.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. K. Michelle thinks that this is a shot at her. And even in the episode, you see her looking like, why are we even having this conversation? Like what? Like what is happening right now? Right. And in episodes leading up to this, I will say that there's been other things that have been happening where K. Michelle thinks that Portia Is like, taking shots, but, like, hiding her hand type of thing.

[Jess Alaris]

Like, so, like, the first conversation, like, the first little interaction that they had that K. Michelle didn't like was when Portia was, like, a miscarriage.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. Because K. Michelle had earlier in the season get things removed from her body because they. Some of her surgery work was literally, like, almost about to kill her. So she was talking about that, and K. Michelle's like, wait, you had a misconception? And she didn't like that comment. She's like, you know, you know what's going on. Why would you make that comment? And this situation right here feels like, you know, this was something that was heavily talked about. Why are we even talking about this? So she says she doesn't feel safe. Let's take a listen to K. Michelle on not feeling safe at dinner yesterday.

[Jess Alaris]

Okay. You said you didn't feel safe.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Is that true?

[Caller/Listener]

No.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Y' all can sit here and say you care about people when y' all be sitting there plotting and trying to

[Jess Alaris]

do stuff to people. If I know that a mother is sitting there plotting my hair, I'm not

[Caller/Listener]

gonna smile in your face.

[Jess Alaris]

I know exactly the whole plot. And I want you as a person to know that you are a low

[Lauren LaRosa]

down mother, and that's why you ain't got. Last night, after we left dinner, someone called me and said that there was a plot in the plan this whole time from some of these ladies. One was to imply that I was with your boyfriend or not boyfriend, whatever the moment is. Two to talk about a rumor that a disgruntled ex said:8 years ago. I already know who you contacted, what blogs you called to go read that and want to spread that. I think that is very disheartening. And that shows the character of these women. Yeah. So that with the ex or the boyfriend conversation, she's talking about Drew. Drew has this new, like, little boo thing, and she has been kind of picking at K. Michelle about how they know each other. K. Michelle's like this guy being her dm, but she don't know him. Now, on the other hand, she's having that conversation about, you know, the rumors that, you know, were falsely spread about her body and certain odors. And she's upset about it, especially because she felt like Portia was her friend on the show. Now, this has spiraled to Portia and K. Michelle now going back and forth on X during yesterday's episode as it premiered. So yesterday, K. Michelle tweeted just about somebody being a coward. And, you know, Portia responded back So K. Michelle said, don't sit in my face and play like you don't know what I'm talking about. You want a reaction so you can have it, Say it to my face or be a quiet coward. Coward, Portia says, who is a coward? I would define a coward as a person tweeting from the same house. Tutor is down for me. Next time, let's do our job and bring it to the front door real time. That's how it's done on Real Housewives of Atlanta. And then Portia tweeted, oh, Twitter, fingers shaking the table, hashtag activated, and she added, k. Michelle.

[Jess Alaris]

So I. I do want to just say, in my opinion, I don't think K. Michelle, like, K. Michelle, needs her own show. That's what I feel like. I feel like she don't really need to be on the show. With these group of ladies, it is. This is what they do. This is what they feel like.

[DJ Envy]

It don't fit.

[Jess Alaris]

I feel like it's not a good fit for K. I feel like when we saw her on Love and Hip Hop years ago, she could fit in there because she was still. She still had things to prove, you know what I'm saying? And she. It was following, like, some controversy that happened, you know, with her and one of her exes or whatever. Now, after that, she went on to get her own show where she could write her own narrative, and it was more so centered around her. Is, you know, she. She's of a different stature. She, you know, she didn't won awards, she got successful.

[DJ Envy]

But it's never been Kumbaya. Right? Real Housewives has never been Kumbaya.

[Lauren LaRosa]

TV is never, in my opinion.

[DJ Envy]

Last week, it was taking shots at Pinky Cole.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, but.

[Jess Alaris]

But that's more of, like, I don't know. Something about this is just. It does not feel like she needs to be on this show.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I just think for the last. For the last episode. And y' all know I love Portia, but the last episode with the miscarri thing, I'm like, okay, I don't understand how that was a misconception. But with this. I mean, even if. I mean. Because I think sometimes it's like we don't know what's real and what's not. So producers are, like, throwing in this storyline, throwing in this joke. If that did happen, and, you know, because all of that was in the news, I don't even know if I would even touch that, especially if I'm the person that brought you into the show. But if it was just jokey. Jokey happened to come out because they're sitting there with oysters, and that's the conversation she's having. And she didn't do it perfectly. Seriously, I would just come out and say, I didn't do that.

[Caller/Listener]

You know what I mean?

[Jess Alaris]

And it's not even because of this. I just feel like, well, it did

[DJ Envy]

his job because we've been talking about it for eight minutes because of this.

[Jess Alaris]

I just feel like K. Michelle needs to be on a different type of reality show.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't even know if reality is for her at this season in her life.

[Jess Alaris]

Well, probably not at this point.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I was excited for her, but then I saw this be her own because

[Jess Alaris]

she got so much going on and, you know, it's all about K and K World. So it should be.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She should be on her own, I tell you. Tell you what, I'm still stuck on the fact they compared oysters to vaginas. I've never heard that one.

[Jess Alaris]

You've never heard the oysters being an aphrodisiac?

[Lauren LaRosa]

No.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know it's an aphrodisiac, but I ain't never heard of a oyster actually compared to an actual vagina. I've heard vaginas called clams, but I've never had clams, but I've had oysters. And I don't know if oysters taste like vaginas because I've never put Tabasco on a vagina.

[Jess Alaris]

No.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now I need to eat an oyster without Tabasco to see if they taste the same.

[Jess Alaris]

Some of them be a little fishy, though. You know what I mean?

[DJ Envy]

I think that's vaginas.

[Jess Alaris]

Well, yeah, but oysters, some of them, they smell fishier than others. You know what I mean?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

If it smell like cologne, leave it alone. Smell like fish. Eat all you wish told me that in the 90s. Okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I felt bad watching K. Michelle break down the way she did on this episode.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That makes more sense now than it did in the 90s.

[DJ Envy]

It definitely makes more sense.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That, like, cologne leave. Leave it alone. It smell like fish. Eat all you wish.

[DJ Envy]

Lord, the sad thing is we forget. We forget that K. Michelle's an artist, right?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, I ain't. We don't forget it.

[DJ Envy]

But what's Ms. K. Michelle last record?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The country joint.

[DJ Envy]

The country joint.

[Jess Alaris]

He got older but never grew.

[DJ Envy]

Can we get a K?

[Jess Alaris]

That was the thing you forget.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you, K. Michelle, for coming to the Black Effect Podcast festival this year, being a part of the Drink Chance podcast. Appreciate you.

[DJ Envy]

I think we forget that she's an artist and she's really dope. That's why she was better on Love

[Jess Alaris]

and hip hop because.

[DJ Envy]

Because we talk about all the bs, but we forget about the fact that she's a dope artist.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

K. Michelle ain't been to the Breakfast Club. And yes, K. Michelle, you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I've been reached out. Yes, I've been reached out for her to come up. When they first announced her on Housewives, because I was so excited to see her get back in reality tv. Now I'm like, man, I don't know, maybe she should protect her piece some a little bit longer.

[Jess Alaris]

Well, protecting your peace ain't joining the cast of Real Housewives of Atlanta.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We'll see. They got some more episodes coming. Hopefully they figure it out, man. Because her and Portia, they was giving dynamic duo a little bit in the beginning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, well, her vaginas taste like oysters.

[DJ Envy]

That was the latest.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We wouldn't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, well.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Jess. I know.

[Caller/Listener]

Wow,

[Jess Alaris]

wow, wow, wow, wow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Donkey.

[DJ Envy]

How's it going, Lauren? I like that one.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I like that.

[Jess Alaris]

Okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That hairline.

[DJ Envy]

All right, all right, chubby donkey.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Today we give you donkey, too. Before after the hours going to the speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. He needs to come to the front of the congregation. We'd like to have a word with him, please.

[DJ Envy]

All right, we'll get to that. Next we got a camera shell joint. All right, let's get into it. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is America.

[Caller/Listener]

There is no question that there are

[Charlamagne Tha God]

problems in this country between police and community. Yes, you are a donkey. To the latest on that police killing of a black man.

[Mimi Brown]

Now to new developments in the deadly spa shooting rampage.

[Lamorne Morris]

And yesterday, it was a really bad, bad day for him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And this is what he did.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And so we are in a state of emergency, okay?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

White supremacist violence is always have been the number one threat to our society. But I'm also very proud that my wife is white. Such a Breakfast Club, bitches.

[Jess Alaris]

All right, Charlene, please tell me, why

[Charlamagne Tha God]

was I your donkey of the day? Happy Monday, y'. All. Donkey of the day for Monday, May 18, goes to the speaker of the House of the United States of America, my Mike Johnson. Now, I know it's a lot going on, and you've probably seen the headline on how the Supreme Court has made it harder to protect black voting power by weakening parts of the Voting Rights act of 1965. They've been doing this since 2013, okay? President Barack Obama scared the establishment so much that they Said, we are going to make sure this never happens again. Okay? We cannot let these negroes have any political power. So that rally you saw this weekend in Montgomery, Alabama, the all roads lead to the south, right Rally, that was because the Supreme Court essentially gutted the Voting Rights act and severely limited protections against voting discrimination. And I don't think anybody cares except for black people. Okay? I'm serious. I saw the Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, say Democrats need to be talking more about the gutting of the Voting Rights Act. This is the Governor of California, Gavin Newsom. He posted Democrats need to be talking more about the gunning. And he put gunning in capital letters of the Voting Rights Act. MAGA is silencing voters and carving up black districts all across the south to hold on to power. This is Jim Crow 2.0. Silence is not an option. In, quote, the fact that Gavin Newsom, the Governor of California, big Democrat, had to post that is exactly why people don't like Democrats. Okay? The voting power of your most loyal constituents, the cornerstone of your electoral success, has been weak, weakened, gutted. And one of your most prominent faces, Gavin Newsom, has to tell y' all not to be silent about it. Unbelievable. But like I said, nobody seems to care about this issue except for black people. And that leads me to speaker of the House Mike Johnson. He was on Fox News Sunday with Shannon Beam yesterday and he was asked what his message was to black Americans after the Supreme Court delivered such a severe blow to the Voting Rights Act. Let's listen to what he said. This is a great turnaround and a turn back to Jim Crower of politics in the 50s.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We're looking at losing possibly 19 members of the Congressional Black Caucus because of this, frankly, racist redistricting efforts targeted towards disenfranchising black voters across the country.

[Mimi Brown]

So what is your message to black Americans, black voters, about this redistricting?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The Supreme Court issued a long awaited opinion and I think it was long overdue. And they stated, stated the obvious, that drawing congressional lines must be fair. You cannot draw lines on the basis of race. And that's what was done in Louisiana. So they declared it to be an unconstitutional gerrymander. And it was. This is brings back fairness and certainty, this to the system. And I think a lot of states are looking to make sure that their maps are not unconstitutional like Louisiana's was. Mike, Michael, Mikey, what are we talking about? Counting. Okay. Majority black districts are the real racial gerrymandering. Imagine somebody stealing your car and then getting mad at you because you have a GPS tracker on. Okay, Mother effort. Who told you to steal my car in the first place? Okay? You're the reason I gotta have a GPS tracker. You can't spend decades suppressing black voters, weakening the Voting Rights act every chance you get, slicing up districts like sweet potato pie. Well, for you it's probably pumpkin, maybe apple, but you can't be slicing up the districts. Then all of us of a sudden, just randomly, you discover colorblindness when black people start getting political representation. And this is why black people don't trust politicians, okay? America has a long history of moving the goal post anytime black folks figure out how to play the game they invented.

[Lamorne Morris]

Okay?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

First it was literacy tests, then poll taxes, now it's. Well, actually, protecting black voting power is racist, too. We need protection. Mike Johnson. Okay? I don't trust y' all to go raw even though we've been together a long time. Okay? I know you are no good, dirty hoe. Okay? I would love to be celibate and abstain all together from being in any type of relationship with you, but that's not the way American politics work, okay? I have to engage. And let's be clear. Every district is drawn strategically. Republicans do it, Democrats do it. The difference is when black voters ask for districts where they can actually elect somebody who represents them, people think that's a problem. Okay? I've seen a lot of Republicans say, well, how come Republicans can't represent black people? Easy answer. Because historically, they have shown us they don't and they aren't willing to. Okay, Democrats at least have shown us they're willing to work with us. I guess one party acts like they like us, the other party don't give a damn. Okay? Mike Johnson and other Republicans are basically saying we should stop making districts about race. So, sir, race made the districts in the first place. Okay? Race conscious districts were created because black voters were historically diluted or shut out of representation. That's why they calling it Jim Crow 2.0. Okay? This is just another example of how America loves to celebrate black voting power. Right up until black voters start actually influencing power. And now all of a sudden, they want to start using words like fairness when the reality is, is we needed the Voting Rights act of 1965 because things weren't fair for us to begin with. Please give speaker the House Mike Johnson the biggest he haul.

[DJ Envy]

All right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, ma'. Am.

[DJ Envy]

Well, thank you for that donkey today, sir. Now, when we come back, let's open up the phone lines. 800-585-1051. It's prom season, ladies and gentlemen. I know a lot of your kids are about to head to promote and it's getting a lot, it's getting a little ridiculous. I'm gonna say a lot ridiculous, but it's getting ridiculous. Right? Jess was just showing me some of the prom ideas and outfits and commitment that these parents are really putting effort into doing. Like these girls dresses are like $4,000.

[Jess Alaris]

Yep, $4,000. A parent paid 4,500. I've seen another parent, she paid 9,9000. So like just under a dress, they're creating sets. They're creating sets.

[DJ Envy]

Airbnb mansions.

[Caller/Listener]

Yes.

[Jess Alaris]

They're renting these flowers and balloons like wedding weddings just for send offs. Yes. This is like these are bigger. Like bigger than some weddings.

[DJ Envy]

Written three four hundred thousand dollar cars

[Jess Alaris]

to drive there and back paying sick from six hundred to a thousand dollars per hour for these, these kids proms.

[DJ Envy]

Let's, let's, let's open up the phone lines. 800-585-1051. Is, is social media the reason why this is getting ridiculous?

[Jess Alaris]

Yeah, because the thing is I went through the comments and I saw a lot of other parents like wow, this is why my daughter didn't even want to go to prom. I still, my son didn't want to go to prom because they didn't want to be made fun of because I ain't got it like that for them to be stepping out in Rolls Royces and Bentley's and all of that. So I was like zim, when you

[DJ Envy]

went to the prom it was just a limo.

[Jess Alaris]

Yeah, like I. Yep, because it was a limo.

[DJ Envy]

It was eight of us in the limo.

[Jess Alaris]

Me and my friends had to put up, we had to all put up,

[DJ Envy]

put in 200 each to get the limo.

[Jess Alaris]

And then we would find a diner or like a nice restaurant that stayed open later than you know, the, the after the prom we would go and we had to be in the house.

[DJ Envy]

Did you go to the prom amongst one or they had prom.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'll come punch you in your baby. Oh my God.

[Jess Alaris]

Y' all didn't have prom down there. I could punch you in.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Everybody.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, you just caught that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Everybody should act your wage. That's all I'm getting from this. You know what I mean?

[Jess Alaris]

Yeah, but these are kids.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What you showed me on Instagram, I know everybody not doing that.

[Jess Alaris]

No. Yeah, that was crazy.

[DJ Envy]

But a lot of people are doing that. They're saving for that. Like they are putting money to the side for their baby's prom, which is ridiculous.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I Mean, prom is a once in a lifetime experience, right? Especially for girls.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Junior, then you got senior.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, yeah, my daughter, My daughter went to junior. She's about to go to her senior. Girls, are you going over and beyond

[DJ Envy]

for, for her prom like that?

[Jess Alaris]

That's what she want.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't be involved in none of that type of stuff. Okay.

[Jess Alaris]

You just swipe the card.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They just use your card my wife got going on.

[DJ Envy]

Let's open up the phone lines. 800-585-1051. Is prom getting too ridiculous? Is social media making it where people are spending too much money on a

[Jess Alaris]

damn prom and they're discouraging other kids?

[DJ Envy]

Let's discuss the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning. It's topic time.

[DJ Envy]

Call 800-585-1051 to join into the discussion

[Charlamagne Tha God]

with the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now, if you're just joining us, it's prom season and a lot of people are getting ready to prom. And Jess was showing me all these planned out proms and these people going to the proms. And the amount of money that people were spending was through the roof. I mean, I mean, paying four or $5,000 for dresses, I mean renting four, $500,000 cars, renting Airbnb mansions, and doing like a display, like somebody's getting married. I mean, like a floral display, like a wedding and balloons. And people are spending, they say online, 30, 40,000 for the prom.

[Jess Alaris]

Yeah. So if you doing that and graduation season is right around the corner. What are you, how you gonna top that? How are you even gonna top that?

[Lauren LaRosa]

This is crazy.

[Jess Alaris]

Now, I ain't gonna lie lie. It's beautiful and it's great gestures and I, I honestly feel like a lot of these parents, they, they either got it like that or they're overcompensating for, you know, not. They want to give their kids what they didn't have. And our kids are, all of our teenagers are influenced by what they see online. So I feel like, you know, you trying to keep up.

[DJ Envy]

You know, ours was easy. You, you, you find out what your, your date is wearing. D. What color you wearing? So give me a little of color. I'll go to menswear house, rent a tuxedo, keep it moving.

[Jess Alaris]

Yeah, tux.

[DJ Envy]

And then you.

[Jess Alaris]

We all thought we was doing a damn thing. I'm looking at these kids, they shooting whole tubi movies. Yeah, that's like holds productions for send offs.

[DJ Envy]

That is crazy. Charlamagne you did go to the prom.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I did go to the prom. But actually it don't even matter.

[Jess Alaris]

Like, you know what? You did go to the prom. Cuz your eyebrows was real skinny.

[DJ Envy]

Oh yeah, that's right. He did his eyebrows.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He looked like a babbage in regards to the kids. Now I'm not mad at it. You know what I'm saying? I'm saying everybody act your wage. Like if you can afford to do that for your kids, do it. Plus, I think we forgetting that a lot of these kids be working and they got their own money.

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So a lot of them, especially when it comes to prom and stuff, they be doing this balling on on their own. But if you're a parent and you can afford to do it for your kids, I don't. I don't care.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I think it's a lot though. Hello? Who's this?

[Caller/Listener]

Cherise.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, Sharice. Good morning.

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah, how you doing? Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning. We're talking prom season. What's your thoughts, mama?

[Caller/Listener]

My thoughts on the situation is it's a hard conversation to have and a hard pill to swallow. But I heard a comment that said a lot of these kids are going extravagant for their prom because they won't ever experience a wedding in their life. And I was like, ooh, for the community. That's a hard pill to swallow. But if you look at the facts of it, it is kind of true. But I don't want to see that.

[Jess Alaris]

But.

[Caller/Listener]

But honestly, I've been to more baby showers than I have weddings. So I think it is. I think it is pretty messed up. And I do want to see the culture change, but that's just my opinion.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Jess Alaris]

God damn. I ain't think about it that way. You know, I mean, obviously that's why we have callers, to provide other perspectives. But I didn't think about it that way.

[Lauren LaRosa]

How y' all gonna say these kids

[Jess Alaris]

ain't gonna get married?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what one of our producers came

[Lamorne Morris]

in here and said.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I just paid her no attention cuz I just felt like she's thinking about her own life, Right.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, damn. She'll get married one day. Hello?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who's this?

[DJ Envy]

Hopefully. Hello?

[Caller/Listener]

Hi, Dr. Equation.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, good morning. How you feeling this morning?

[Caller/Listener]

I'm feeling good. I'm load on the railroad is shut down, but I'm on this highway.

[DJ Envy]

Okay. How long does it take you to get to work? They saying you got to take a bus or you got to drive.

[Caller/Listener]

Well, I have to drive to Queens. It's an hour and 15 minutes. But today I have to go to Wall street because then I have to get on the train and go another hour to get to Wall Street.

[DJ Envy]

They said Citi Field is. The parking is $6 today. That's. That's what I heard earlier. So I don't know if that's. That's true.

[Jess Alaris]

Well, that's good.

[Lauren LaRosa]

If so.

[Caller/Listener]

Oh, I don't know. I'm just trying to get to my meeting.

[DJ Envy]

I ain't mad at you. Well, talk to us about crime, mama.

[Caller/Listener]

Okay, so, first of all, I think that today the decisions that parents are making are just irresponsible. I think that the money that's being spent in May of the same children that are crying in August when they try to go to college and they can't pay that full tuition bill. These are the same parents that tell you, oh, they don't have the money to start a family. 529 camp for their children, and they're taking $8,000 to spend on a prom when their money could have been working for them and their child could have a better education. Our priorities aren't straight, period.

[DJ Envy]

I. I will say this. I. I do think it's a lot of money. And, you know, I always encourage even. Even my kids when they turn certain age. Sweet 16, like, Madison didn't have a sweet 16. Right. And I encourage them, you might as well. Let's go on a trip. Let's have an experience. Something that you can look back in life and say, I went here. I went there. I went to South Africa for the first time. I went to where just to have those. Those. Those experiences over a party. And she chose the. The trip, which I was happy about. But, you know, like Charlemagne said, you can't tell people what to do with that money. But I do think it's a lot.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, that's what I'm saying. Neither one of y' all are wrong. But you're assuming, you know, people's financial situation. You know what I'm saying? Now, if you don't have it and you're doing all. All of this, yes, I think it's too much. But if you act in your wage and you. You got it to spin, I. I don't care.

[Jess Alaris]

Yeah, I think it was more so when I saw, like, the con. I went through the comments, and I'm seeing parents, like, oh, they were saying that their kids, some of their kids didn't want to go because they couldn't compete with something like that. And they, you know, they didn't want to look beneath anybody. Or they, you know, just feel like they didn't fit in because they ain't got all the money in the bread. They ain't pulling up in Rolls Royces and stuff.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You can't even hit them with the reason for the season. It ain't like Christmas. You know what I'm saying? What does the prom got to do with anything? Remember the reason for the season. What's the reason for the goddamn season?

[Jess Alaris]

To show up and show up.

[DJ Envy]

But you're right. A lot of parents, especially moms, will be in my DMs, asking, Can they use a car for prom. And we did it a couple of times last year. I wouldn't do it again. Cause if somebody gets into an accident, it's a liability. Yes, Right. But we did it a couple of years ago just to help out. Cause like you said, a lot of people, like, yo, I can't afford it. I don't have it. My whole class, class is doing this, and my daughter can't. And you want to help out as much as possible, so I do get that as well.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But.

[DJ Envy]

800-585-1051. It's prom season. I mean, Jess has been showing me pictures online, and it's a lot people are just. I mean, renting cars, mansions. I mean, the floral arrangements look like a wedding. If you're just joining us, we're talking about his prom season, right? And Jess has been showing me behind the scenes all these different proms and kids about to head to prom. And these parents spending so much damn money. I'm talking about 10,000 thousand, 20,000, 30,000 on prom season.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn. Is that too much, by the way? I'm assuming if you spending that type of money, you have it to spend.

[Jess Alaris]

Yeah. And then you also made me think about it, too. Like, yeah, these kids are working. We got a lot of influence. A lot of them are influences. They. They actually do make money on tick tock and YouTube and a gram. So I ain't even think about that.

[DJ Envy]

A lot of them are using affirm, too, but.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello?

[DJ Envy]

Who's this?

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah, yo, what's good?

This is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is Odds from Lumberton, North Carolina.

[DJ Envy]

Alex. What's up, brother?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Y' all just want to call in about the. About the prom situation, right?

[DJ Envy]

Yes, sir.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How you do anything is like, how you do anything is how you do everything, right? Our people. Our people Worry about the IRS.

[Caller/Listener]

Other people are worried about IRAs, right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So our people are spending 3, 500 on a dress.

[Caller/Listener]

3, 500 to rent a whip and

[Charlamagne Tha God]

then go back to the peas. But you got European Americans who kids go to the prom and a Honda Accord and go to the parents beach house out afterwards there's levels. Hey, can I say something? You know, that was my, that was my daily affirmation today. And I don't know, I can't remember if it was the Daily Stoic. It might have been the Daily Stoic or my, my, my other affirmation book. But how you do anything is how you do everything. I think it was in the Daily Story.

[Jess Alaris]

Wow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, and that's fact. That's facts, brother. Like, you know what I mean? Like these kids don't know nothing about high yield stocks or anything like that. But we worried about a $3,500 customized Dr. Come on man, we're living backwards.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you brother.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I, I just want to say again, we just assuming that we talking about broke people. I, I don't know. I don't know if these people are doing this beyond their means. I, I don't, I don't know. I don't know these people financial situation. Now if you are doing it behind you beyond your means. Yes, this applies to you.

[Caller/Listener]

Hello?

[DJ Envy]

Who's this?

[Caller/Listener]

Good morning, it's Jasmine from Detroit.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, what up doe? Talk to us, mama.

[Caller/Listener]

What up though?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Peace.

[Caller/Listener]

So I think that social media definitely has an influence on the send off that people are having. And I do feel bad when they're children and feel like they don't want to go, but I don't think it's anything wrong with people having these big send offs.

[Jess Alaris]

Right.

[Caller/Listener]

It's part of our culture. It's what we do. We don't judge the Jews when they have, excuse me, when they have bar Mitzvah for their children when they turn 13. So I don't think there's anything wrong with it. It's our celebration. It's a one time thing. It's okay.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Jess Alaris]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

That's a good way to look at it. Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Mama also too, man, y' all keep talking about when we was younger, like proms wasn't about money or anything. When we was younger, you want you get you a nice suit, a nice dress, tuxedo.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And a nice vehicle to take you there. And, and back then the vehicle could have been your mama car, you know what I mean?

[DJ Envy]

Right now we all chipped in and got a limo though. We all chipped in. Like I said, it was eight of us. So we all put in our. Probably about 100 each, 20 each. And we all Got a limo. It wasn't.

[Jess Alaris]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

It wasn't a.

[Jess Alaris]

About who could outdo the other person. The next person. Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Nah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello?

[DJ Envy]

Who's this?

[Caller/Listener]

Hey, good morning. This is Dee from Jersey.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, what's going on? Good morning.

[Caller/Listener]

Morning. Morning. I wanted to call in to talk about the prom subject.

[DJ Envy]

Talk to us.

[Caller/Listener]

All right. So I think that they're absolutely doing way too much with the proms.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now.

[Caller/Listener]

I remember from my prom, I had a group of us, we all pitched in, we got a party bus, and we went to prom on a party bus. The party bus was then the after party. After prom.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Prom. That's dope.

[DJ Envy]

Did y' all go to the show after? Because usually everybody in Jersey goes to New Jersey.

[Caller/Listener]

Sure, Absolutely. Prom weekend. We had a time, boy.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, you had sex that weekend too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn. That's not. I know. I know that. That is something she said.

[DJ Envy]

Whom you heard, you heard it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's something that. That I'm hearing about. I have been hearing about that.

[Jess Alaris]

The party bus situation.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not going to the show for prom week. Okay.

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah, yeah. That's a big thing in Jersey. Everybody does prom weekend down the shore. You rent a house and then you and your crew got the house for the weekend.

[DJ Envy]

Yep. I ain't let my daughter go

[Charlamagne Tha God]

to.

[DJ Envy]

To the shore.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Nah.

[Jess Alaris]

Damn.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you, mama.

[Caller/Listener]

No problem. One more thing. I did see online, they said that one of the reasons why the parents is going so hard with the kids is because they low key know that. That this is the only time that their daughter will be closest to marriage.

[Jess Alaris]

This is crazy. I'm not saying that. You're the third person that said that to us today.

[Caller/Listener]

Yup. That's what they were saying online. That moms is going so hard because they don't really think their daughter ever really make it to a wedding. So this is like the wedding for them.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You got to tell these old holes, stop projecting. God damn. You never got married don't mean your job is not going to get married. Like, cut it out.

[Jess Alaris]

Yeah, I want to hear that from a moment. From a mom who feel that way. That's crazy.

[DJ Envy]

You too now. All right, well, what's the moral of the story? If there's a moral?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

For me, it's everybody act your ways. Do what you can afford to do. Like, that's it. Like, you know what I mean? Like, if you. If you can't afford this huge prom send off, then don't do it. But I do like the idea that everybody keeps talking about yo, unity and group operation. Yeah, go get Four or five of your friends put something together. Go get a party bus.

[DJ Envy]

Get a party bus. Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And have a good, good time.

[Lamorne Morris]

You know what I mean?

[Jess Alaris]

I don't think that kids should be discouraged by seeing what their peers are doing. It's not really about that. You know what I'm saying? Don't let that discourage you so much that you don't go enjoy this once in a lifetime celebration. I promise to celebrate.

[DJ Envy]

You know that's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And also your friends. Don't you think the school, the school should be the ones that's like really spending some money to make sure that these kids got a dope ass party?

[Jess Alaris]

Hell yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like go book a fire dude DJ for the kids, you know, I mean, make sure, make sure the party looks extravagant.

[Jess Alaris]

Right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like the school should be doing that for the kids. Like it shouldn't be up to the kids to create these luxurious experiences before they're leaving. Like they should be going to a luxurious experience.

[Jess Alaris]

That's true. Because we never, we always see the send offs. We'll never see what the problem is.

[DJ Envy]

Like, yeah, my mom would drive it. My mom and dad would drive at everybody's house. Could just take pictures of everybody else because you know, the limo. Pick one person up to the next person and that was a good time. But anyway, we got the latest with Lauren coming up, so don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Streaming May 22nd on Paramount. Plus the acclaimed series from executive producer Lena Waithe reaches its final chapter. The Shy. For seven seasons, these stories, these streets, this community have stayed with us. Now it all leads to this. As friendships are tested, families evolve, and secrets refuse to stay buried. One thing is certain. The shy is more than just a series. It's a legacy. Don't miss the final season. May 26th. Second on a Paramount plus premium plan.

[Caller/Listener]

This past weekend, like every other Sunday, you were on the court with the guys, playing ball. Just a quick pickup game, living out your hoop dreams. No triple doubles, but mean set of threes in between buckets. One of the homies mentioned he calls on a new crib. This is big. And while everyone's asking about housewarming and making plans to celebrate, you're asking the real questions. Like, has he spoken to his State Farm agent yet about coverage? See, homeownership is one thing, but the right coverage is the real game changer. Even more than your last hot streak, it's how you protect your legacy. Dropping buckets and bars on the court. A State Farm agent can more than assist you with finding the right coverage for your new place. If you have a claim, your local agent can help you file it. Yup, that's right. Over the phone, in person, online or on the app, they are ready to help you and they don't drop the box. You know what I mean? Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, so quick behind the scenes moment about my business because people always ask me like, how do I actually run everything? So Shopify is literally the platform where I turned this tiny idea into a business. Before this I was really just like popping up at any in person event, any vending opportunity I could, which I still do. But I wasn't really as focused online. I was like, you know, the websites are going to be too much to build out. I'm not like a super techie person, even though I can make things cute. And I didn't want to put up a website that would run my customers away. I wanted it to be efficient, to be easy. And Shopify helped me build brown girlgrinding.com out. Once I switched to Shopify, it finally clicked like, okay, I can actually do this. It's not about it being tough, it's about using the right platform to make it easy. Shopify takes all of the guesswork out. I build my own store, I manage my community, own my own customer relationships. Plus this is my favorite thing. Shopify gets my products everywhere. I'm able to link stuff through Google, YouTube, TikTok, Shop the Shop app, even ChatGPT and Instagram, which is very important for me. And Shopify's AI co founder sidekick, game changer, let me tell y'. All. Right, so it's helped me not only optimize my site, it helps me look at my sales trends, it updates my product skills. All the stuff I'm absolutely not an expert in, but it's like having a genius business partner that never sleeps. And right now the Bronco grinding storefront and the Black Effect storefront is busy and Shopify is handling all of the heavy lifting. I love that for us. I am pumped, like so pumped that Shopify is going to show up at the Black Effect Podcast festival this year in a big way. And I will be there preaching this platform to all of the small black owned businesses that partner with us. So if you've been sitting on an idea or if you're ready to scale, which you've already started, started, this is your sign. Go to shopify.com Ben if I can do it, you can do it too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Jess Alaris]

Yeah, but I'm not itching to go downtown and tell a receptionist I'm here to talk about my downtown. Some things you'd rather type than say out loud.

[Lamorne Morris]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Lamorne Morris]

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[DJ Envy]

She gets them from somebody that knows somebody.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She'd be having the latest on the latest with Lauren. Love, Rosa. Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have a little bit everything. Well, it's the latest brought to you by Top Dog Law on the Breakfast Club.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So young Dolph's trial, you know, for his shooting death has finally come to an end. Some five years since his murder took place. So Cornelius Smith Jr. Agreed to a plea deal last Friday. On Friday. And this plea deal will now mean that he'll receive 20 years in prison. Prison in exchange, if you guys remember, after the shooting of young Dolph, there were two. There were three men. But there were two men that were in question for this shooting. There was a Julius Johnson and then Cornelius Smith Jr. And now Cornelius has been sentenced. So this marks the conclusion of the trial when it comes to young Dolph. And I saw his wife speak out and basically say, you know, that they deserve to get everything that comes with the years that they will be serving.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And, you know, praying for some closure for her in this situation.

[DJ Envy]

You said how much son got 20 years.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So this is just for Cornelius Smith Jr. He agreed to a plea deal on Friday that will give him now he'll receive a 20 year prison sentence. In exchange, he pled guilty to second degree murder for the shooting death of

[Charlamagne Tha God]

young Dolph in court doesn't bring Dolph back. And, you know, I hate when you call things like that justice because, you know, nothing can ever bring. Bring Dolph back. Right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like that's. But, you know, I'm glad that he's getting that time.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Right.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I feel like it.

[Jess Alaris]

If.

[DJ Envy]

Feel like it should be more than that. 20 years still gives him time to come out. Right. How old is he? 40 years old.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't even think he's that old.

[DJ Envy]

30 years old.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

I mean, look, that's something that's grieving that family would have to deal with forever. Those kids will never see their dad again.

[Lauren LaRosa]

True. And his wife will never be able to see her person or raise her children with their father as well, too. But, yeah, that's the time that he was given. She said, may God have his entire way with him and every coward involved. 20 years plus time served will never be enough. So yes. Now in other news. So comedian Reggie Carroll, this happened some time ago. He was shot at the age of 52 back in August of last year. Now the man in question for the shooting is a man named Tranelle Williams who is a longtime security guard for Cat Williams. And he was just indicted at the end of last week for this shooting and he's been indicted for first degree murder. Now this, it has been like a whole back and forth. So for background on this conversation, the two were roommates at the time. Reggie Carroll was a comedian who was on tour with Cat Williams at one point. He was also.

[Jess Alaris]

Baltimore too.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, from Baltimore. He was also opening for Monique at some time as well. But Tranel says that after he was taken off a Cat Williams tour, he then moved out of the mansion that Cat Williams had, I guess that a bunch of the comedians were sharing and they moved in the house together. Together. This house is leased by a company that Cat Williams owns and that's where the shooting went down. Now Tranel is alleging that this was all in self defense. He has been speaking out to various outlets. He talked to wreg and he talks about, you know, he alleges that there were guns pulled on him multiple times during the three months that they lived together, that he had been threatened with the weapon and he had posted some footage as well too, where. But this wasn't from the night of the incident. It was from a previous incident because he said he's ran from this man about 10 times. Times where you see them in a back and forth exchange and you do see a gun on Reggie Reginald Carroll's hip. But yeah, so now he's going to go back and forth in court and he's actually saying he's ex. Not excited, but he was looking forward to the indictment because he thinks that it'll clear him because he'll be able to prove self defense because hopefully they'll be able to subpoena certain things and he's asking for them to subpoena like drug records and stuff like that to try and prove that what he is saying.

[Jess Alaris]

Yeah, that's crazy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Jess Alaris]

Rest in peace to Reggie Kirk girl. That that actually was somebody who had. I, I did comedy with him in a. On a few shows up and coming. Yeah, hell yeah. He was funny as hell.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, yeah. Very tragic incident. Very sad incident.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Can you do some positive news?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, we're Gonna pick up that. We gonna pick up the. The energy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The sentencing of Dolph's murderer was positive,

[Lauren LaRosa]

but, you know, positive, but it can still. I get what you're saying. So we're gonna pick up the energy a bit. We were talking a lot about Kevin Hart's roast, and now one of the biggest, biggest convos or one of the biggest comedians from the night who caused a lot of conversation, Ms. Cheryl Underwood has announced that following the Netflix roast, she will now be having a comedy special produced by Kevin Hart that will be dropping on Netflix in 2027.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Dropping the clues Bombs for Cheryl Underwood. Dammit.

[Lamorne Morris]

That's what I'm talking about.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And she got that because of the roast?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. Yep. She says that this is a conversation that they directly had with her immediately following the roast. And she sent it a message to, you know, comedians. She says those acts who think that their time has passed, it has not. Your dream doesn't die for somebody else's dream to live. All those old school comments that think, I'm never going to get the shot. Let's develop a process where new comics and old comics can get their shot. Netflix is the key now. So she's going to be, you know, working with them to bring her.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And she signed the CAA as well.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, like, all of that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All of that because of the rose. I was told that, like, after the roast, in the after party that night, they cornered her, like, nope, we gotta get this done now.

[Jess Alaris]

She was also one of the. She was the only standup comedian other than Katt Williams that night to receive a standing ovation. Cause she went off prompter. She came back, clapped back at all the men in the room who was coming at her, like, she the best. And then also she got a book that she's writing as well. Yeah, it's called I'm Fat because of youf.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm Fat because of youf.

[Jess Alaris]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Congratulations.

[Jess Alaris]

Congratulations, Aunt Cheryl.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, that's right.

[DJ Envy]

And as the latest. What's that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Brought to you by?

[Lauren LaRosa]

The latest is brought to you by Top Dog Law. Any accident, big or small, call Top Dog Law.

[DJ Envy]

Okay. All right, now I want to salute OVO Eli. OVO Eli. He went out to Toronto to Drake's listening party, and. And I asked him, well, what are the biggest records? So he told me some of the dopest records that I should be playing at outside.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So he didn't answer his phone all weekend. He was somewhere covered in frozen semen. He was into rock. What Eli? Where Eli at? Eli. What Eli?

[Jess Alaris]

Eli, come in. Here, tell us he didn't post a

[Charlamagne Tha God]

picture of him covered in frozen se heard.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He heard the Al call. Why Drake didn't give you one of his chains?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Eli went to the six out here in New York. If I had a change.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, exactly. That was the six.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It was insane. Eli got bonus. That's okay. Amazing. Exceeded my expectations, man. Shout out Drizzy Drake. Shout out the whole OVO crew.

[DJ Envy]

Did you meet Drake?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I did.

[Jess Alaris]

Oh, my God.

[DJ Envy]

What happened?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Real quick. No, so I'm by the DJ booth. Shout out OVO Noel, OVO Mark. I'm there with Tez, of course. Yo, shout out DJ Nala Simone too. For real. I'm forever grateful, yo, but now I'm. I'm by the DJ booth. I see Drake. Oh, my gosh. I mean, I'm like, oh, crap. He comes up to me, bricked up. You got bricked up? I said, what up To Drake? And then Tez tells him, yo, that's OVO Eli. And I guess he knows me from the streaming.

[Lamorne Morris]

So he's like, oh,

[Lauren LaRosa]

it be two of us on there. The other person be me and it be me and Drake.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He knows it from the show.

[DJ Envy]

He knows it from the show. From the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He's like the Eli's post up here in New York, you know, love, but no.

[DJ Envy]

So he said, yo, that's OVO elite.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Embrace me, man. Show love. We got a picture from a photographer. I need that pic, but I don't got it yet. But where's the pick of you? Covered in Frozen scene.

[DJ Envy]

All right.

[Jess Alaris]

Congratulations.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Congratulations. Congratulations. But no, he's got a picture of him covered in frozen. It said Iceman came.

[Caller/Listener]

Up.

[DJ Envy]

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. I just want to say salute to Ro Marley again. Joseph. I. I appreciate you guys. Last week, Thursday was me and my wife's 25th wedding anniversary.

[Jess Alaris]

Congratulation.

[DJ Envy]

So we went to Puerto Morales out in Mexico.

[Jess Alaris]

That's dope.

[DJ Envy]

I've seen some of your people out there.

[Jess Alaris]

Not my people. My husband's people.

[DJ Envy]

Husband people, husband people. We had a great time. It was just, just. We just, Just reconnected. Like, we just got off the grid. We just got massages, laid by the beach. Just had some great food.

[Jess Alaris]

No kids.

[DJ Envy]

No kids.

[Jess Alaris]

It just.

[DJ Envy]

Just. Just had a great time. Just me and her. We went to a couple of restaurants, had some nice dinners. It was just. Just me and her. We just kind of just stayed away from everything. Had some Dope music, R B playing the whole weekend. It was just.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It was amazing, man. Vacations are very, very, very important.

[DJ Envy]

And they laid everything out. According them before they laid everything out, we had a romantic dinner at the beach with the flowers and everything. It was just dope, man. It was just a time just to get away. We had a, you know, we did every night that was really, really dope, right? We laid out on our.

[Caller/Listener]

We had.

[DJ Envy]

We had the pen out. So we laid out on the balcony every night and we just slept and woke up to the stars. So we woke up with the sun coming out. There was no bugs that we didn't get. No, you know, no mosquitoes, nothing. It was just.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It was just dope.

[DJ Envy]

Like.

[Jess Alaris]

Yeah, it was really cool. Now, a part of y' all on that trip, did y' all feel guilty at all about leaving all the kids home?

[DJ Envy]

No.

[Jess Alaris]

Okay, good.

[DJ Envy]

No, no, no.

[Jess Alaris]

Sometimes that parental guilt can slip in there.

[DJ Envy]

We wasn't going that long. We were going Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

[Jess Alaris]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

We came back last night.

[Jess Alaris]

N. That's a good one.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

A good three days.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, man, that was good. That was good. So appreciate that. All right, so salute to everybody else and also salute to Lamorne Amorous for joining us this morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right. Make sure you check out Lamorne in Spider Noir. Okay? It is a new Marvel television series premiering on Amazon Prime Video Wednesday. Next Wednesday, May 27th.

[DJ Envy]

Where you at this weekend, Jess?

[Jess Alaris]

I'm actually in East Providence, Rhode island, at the Comedy Connection. We got two shows this Friday, two shows this Saturday, and I also will be doing a book signing event at Riff Raff and Bar in East Providence as well. That's from 1 to 2pm you can get your. Your books for that. You can actually get your tickets for that. I'm sorry, I will be signing books. We're going to be having a fireside chat. But the shows, I'll be doing meet and greet there, I'll have books on hand as well as merch. So East Providence, Rhode Island, I can't wait to get there. I can't wait to see y' all this weekend. Get your [e-mail] that's right.

[DJ Envy]

Don't forget my car show, July 25th, if you want to put your car in the show. Virginia, dmv, the Carolinas. We'd love to see what type of cars you got. I think we got over 100 submissions so far. Just dj, envcarshow, gmail.com, food trucks. I mean, we got this one lobster truck I'm so excited about. I'm a lobster king. I love lobster. So if you want to, if you got a food truck or vendors, we'd love to see you. And tickets are on sale. Kids 5 and under are free. If you've never been. It's an experience. So I can't wait to see you guys. Charlamagne, you got a positive note.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I do man. And it's simply this to fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness. Okay? Accept yourself, love yourself and keep moving forward. Self love is the source of all other loves. Have a great day. Breakfast Club finished or y' all done? Woke up. Wake you up. Wake you up.

[DJ Envy]

Wake that ass up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Lamorne Morris]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Lamorne Morris]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Lamorne Morris]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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