FULL SHOW: Druski To Host 2026 BET Awards, Becoming Youngest Host In Show’s History + Jess & Rome & RZA Interview

Summary

The Breakfast Club Podcast Summary

Date: May 1, 2026
Episode Title: FULL SHOW: Druski To Host 2026 BET Awards, Becoming Youngest Host In Show’s History + Jess & Rome & RZA Interview
Hosts: DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God
Guests: Rome (Jess Hilarious' co-parent & book co-author), RZA (Wu-Tang, filmmaker of "One Spoon of Chocolate")

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Episode Overview

This energetic Friday edition of The Breakfast Club brings listeners a lively blend of personal updates, entertainment news, cultural commentary, and deep conversations about co-parenting, Black excellence, and resilience. Key topics include Jess Hilarious and Rome’s honest interview about their new co-parenting book, RZA’s passionate discussion about his new film, industry news (including Druski making BET Awards history), and the hosts' signature banter.

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Key Segments & Discussion Points

1. Morning Banter & Sports Recap (02:26 – 07:29)

• Light-hearted banter about coming in tired, AI jokes, Knicks basketball victory, and sleeping in fan gear.
• Jess Hilarious shouts out her book signing at Powerhouse Bookstore and the emotional impact it had on attendees.
• DJ Envy and Charlamagne congratulate Jess on her book, with Charla humorously taking credit for inspiring it.

“I don’t always like you, but I love you. Thank you.” – Jess Hilarious to Charlamagne Tha God (05:29)

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2. Front Page & Hot Topics News with Mimi Brown (07:29 – 12:35 / 32:17 – 40:15)

• Federal Shutdown Ends: Trump signs bill funding Homeland Security after a 76-day shutdown—relief for federal workers, concern further issues will arise in September.
• Louisiana Elections Delayed: Supreme Court rules the state’s congressional maps unconstitutional due to heavy use of race; primaries pushed back.
• Attempted Trump Assassination Update: The accused remains in custody, with ongoing investigations.

Additional News (32:17 – 40:15)

• Deed Theft in NYC: Rising crisis of property deed theft targeting seniors, especially in Black communities. NYC launches new Deed Theft Protection Office.
• Travel Alert: American Airlines restricts portable chargers (max two, under 100 watts) on flights due to fire risk; new rules now enforced.
• Airport Spotlight: Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson opens ‘The Village Retail,’ a Black-owned brands store, to connect millions of travelers with Black businesses.

“City government has too often stood idly by while deed theft occurs. Every New Yorker should be able to lead a dignified life in the home that they grew up in, in the city that they love.” – NYC Mayor (33:17)

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3. Listener Call-ins: "Get It Off Your Chest" (13:08 – 19:00)

• Callers congratulate Jess on her book, discuss unemployment challenges, share personal vents, and recite original rap bars.
• Charla and Envy trade freestyles.

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4. The Latest With Lauren: Showbiz Updates (23:02 – 30:59; 69:20 – end)

• Sherri Shepherd Show Ends: Tributes on her last live episode; surprise guests include Kevin Hart and Gayle King. Mixed views on star support and timing.
• Druski Announced as Youngest BET Awards Host: Big cultural moment. Druski’s comedy celebrated; expectations for an unorthodox show.
• Floyd Mayweather Faces IRS Passport Revocation: Owing $7.3 million in taxes, impacting upcoming international fights; insight on commonality of such tax liens.
• Megan Thee Stallion’s Good Deed: Launches a Habitat for Humanity partnership to repair homes for seniors in Dallas.
• Lexi Brown Addresses Backlash: WNBA player discusses unwarranted hate after social media rumors about Meg Thee Stallion and Klay Thompson.

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5. Feature Interview: Jess Hilarious & Rome on "Till Death Do We Parent" (41:26 – 66:14)

Book Origins and Process

• Jess’s desire to create an honest, non-instructional account of co-parenting.
• Rome shares raw reactions to the book’s portrayal of their early years and misperceptions about his character.
• Both reflect on learning, forgiveness, and evolving as co-parents.

Honest Conversation Highlights

• Growth and Healing:

  • “It’s a piece of literature that essentially is a Jess Fix My Mess… but Jess and Rome fixing our mess.” – Jess (04:11)
  • Rome clarifies misconceptions in the book’s first chapter, asserting, “I own up to what I do… but I’m glad she can talk about it now.” (44:10)

• On Breaking Up:

  • “Ashton was the glue… If there had been no kid, we would have gone our separate ways.” – Rome (46:49)

• Cheating, Accountability, and Maturity:

  • Rome and Jess both admit to mistakes, with candid back-and-forth on infidelity, emotional triggers, and why they refused to use their child as a weapon.
  • “I got tired of that hurt. I gave Rome a lot of grace because I was doing my ish, too.” – Jess (56:06)

• Co-Parenting Takeaways:

  • Jess opens up about allowing Rome to be an active father despite their conflicts, highlighting the importance of grace and understanding generational trauma.
  • Rome: “Let a father be a father—not just when it’s convenient for you.” (53:33)

• Charla’s Analysis:

  • Notes Rome’s “very deep mother wound” and Jess’s healing influence.

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6. Donkey of the Day: "People’s Donkey" Edition (79:28 – 87:12)

• Listeners call in to vent and nominate people for “the biggest hee-haw.” Topics range from movie critiques (“Michael Jackson movie didn’t do him justice!”) to perceived insensitivity from Charla toward callers.
• Notable moment: A listener calls out Charla for being insensitive on a previous episode. Engages in playful, reflective back-and-forth.

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7. Feature Interview: RZA on "One Spoon of Chocolate" (88:22 – 101:46)

Movie Details

• RZA discusses his film’s long creation process (writing started in 2011), casting, Paris Jackson’s performance, and his intention to surprise and challenge audiences.
• The film’s title metaphor: “One spoon of chocolate can change the whole glass of milk.”
• Positive reviews from Charlamagne and Envy for the movie’s emotional depth and originality.

“You pull that rubber band right until it’s about to pop—then you let it go. That’s the energy you feel watching this film.” – RZA (92:10)

On Social Change

• RZA articulates the importance of being “prepared or accepting the possibility of change,” hoping his film shakes viewers out of apathy or prejudice.
• Shoutout to Wu-Tang’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction: “The Kool-Aid smile on everybody. Thank you for that.” (100:55)

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8. Music Picks with Nyla Simone (105:02 – 108:45)

• New R&B: Ebony Riley “Too Grown,” Vince Staples “Blackberry Marmalade,” Atlanta hip-hop: Hard Narc “Smack or Die,” RJ the Weirdo “Catch a Body.”
• Songs sparking debate and smiles among the cast.

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9. Closing Thoughts & Positive Note (110:18 – end)

• Thanks to all guests, calls to support Jess’s book, casting “One Spoon of Chocolate” as an instant classic, and emphasizing the healing power of truth.
• Positive Note:

  “The truth will set you free, but not until it is finished with you… Truth works on you, changes your perspective and overcomes your resistance.” – Charlamagne Tha God (114:40)

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• “Every New Yorker should be able to lead a dignified life in the home that they grew up in, in the city that they love.” – NYC mayor on deed theft (33:17)
• “Let a father be a father—not just when it’s convenient for you.” – Rome (53:33)
• “The last 30 minutes is some of the best cinema I ever seen in my life.” – Charlamagne Tha God on RZA’s film (101:37)

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Important Timestamps

• [05:11] Jess on book signing and gratitude to Charlamagne
• [23:27, 25:33] Sherri Shepherd Show farewell & viral tributes
• [28:42] Druski's historic BET Awards hosting announcement
• [41:26] Jess & Rome's in-depth book interview
• [53:33] Rome’s thoughts on co-parenting and fatherhood
• [79:28] Donkey of the Day — People’s Donkey
• [88:22] RZA’s “One Spoon of Chocolate” deep dive
• [110:18] Final shoutouts & reflections

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Tone & Style

The episode balances humor (banter, playful barbs), honest vulnerability (especially in Jess and Rome’s segment), and critical reflection on culture, relationships, and systemic issues. Guests are given space for authentic storytelling, and the hosts blend light, community-driven engagement with “real talk” moments.

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Takeaways for New Listeners

• This episode is for you if: You’re interested in raw conversations about parenting, Black family dynamics, pop culture, and Black artistry, or if you want to hear honest, unscripted moments you won’t find in other interviews.
• Don’t miss: Jess and Rome’s candid co-parenting dialogue; RZA’s film philosophy; cultural news (BET Awards, Sherri Shepherd, deed theft in NYC); the hosts’ camaraderie and signature wit.

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For Further Listening

• Jess Hilarious’ book: Till Death Do We Parent
• RZA's film: One Spoon of Chocolate (in theaters)
• The Breakfast Club’s interviews and recaps available on YouTube and Netflix

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Transcript

[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wake you up.

[DJ Envy]

Wake that ass up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Program your Alarm to Power 105.1 on iHeartradio.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning USA.

[Caller / Listener]

Yo yo yo yo yo yo yo

[Charlamagne Tha God]

yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, Jess.

[DJ Envy]

Hilarious.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Make that ass. Wake that ass up, my man.

[DJ Envy]

Beat that ass up. Tell him to go.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

God damn. Oh, yes. Peace to the planet. It's Friday. How y' all feel out there? I feel blessed. Black and highly favored. Happy to be here another day to serve our beautiful listeners. Good morning. How do you make somebody's ass up, man?

[Jessica Hilarious]

Yo, my bad. I'm so tired. I'm sorry.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nah, you on AI over there trying to create something. That's what you over there doing? You making some ass up.

[Jessica Hilarious]

No, no, I'm not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What does he or she look like over there? Show me your computer right now.

[DJ Envy]

Show me your luck.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Yo, it's nothing. I got my notes up. Shut up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What you do? And you sleep in your next gear last night.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I know.

[Jessica Hilarious]

That's right.

[DJ Envy]

I definitely woke up this morning and had my Knicks gear all day. I mean, drop a bomb for the New York Knicks, please.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Perfect.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, they went crazy last night.

[DJ Envy]

They. It just. They just went stupid. I hope they play like that every game. Blew Atlanta out by 40 something. Oh, my goodness.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They went crazy. Salute to the Knicks.

[DJ Envy]

That was the first time at the second quarter I could actually post because I felt confident enough that we were up by so much that there was no way the Hawks are going to be.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

There's no such thing as no way. But yes, up 40. Stranger things have happened. But no, you're right.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, you're right. But you don't gotta sleep butt naked. Well, you had the jersey and the shirt on with no drawers.

[DJ Envy]

I sure did. So what? So what?

[Jessica Hilarious]

Well, congratulations. Envy on your win. That's what's up.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you so much.

[Jessica Hilarious]

You guys did good.

[DJ Envy]

Well, congratulations to you. Cause this morning, the star, the star of the Jess Hilarious franchise family will be joining us this morning. Baby Daddy Rome will be in the building.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not Big Rome.

[Jessica Hilarious]

I'm looking for, like, who you talking about?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, Rome. The reason you even have a book called Tell Deaf Sweet Parents.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Okay, you are so right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You are so right.

[Rome]

Right?

[Jessica Hilarious]

Yes. And what I want to do is I want shout out to everybody who came out to the book signing last night at Powerhouse Bookstore in Dumbo. Yo. It was a night of liberation. It was. I want to say it was fun, but it was. It was fun, but it was. It was very powerful. Yo. Like to know that this book, it's only been out for a few days and people have read it and a lot of people aren't done reading it. But at the meet and greet, people were Coming up to me and telling me, like, how it touched them, like, our stories, and they understand. And I wanted to make it clear that this is not a how to book. This is not a tutorial, because everybody's co parenting tutorial. I was like, yo, shut up. Everybody's co parenting journey looks different, you know? But I'm glad that people can resonate with my experiences, me and Rome's experiences. He was in the building last night. It was like wet faces in there. People were crying. People. I did, like, a little mini just fix my message. And they said that's what this book is, reminds them of. It's a piece of literature that basically that essentially is a Jess, fix my mess, you know, But Jess in Rome fixing our mess. And Rome got to give perspectives from a father, a father's point of view. I got to speak for the women. Shout out to Simon de Schuster. They were there. The editors, you know, shout out to you, Char, I know you don't like to. You don't really care to speak on, like, the opportunities you give people. Cause that's not what you do it for. But I do. Thank you. I don't always like you, but I love you. Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I love you.

[DJ Envy]

Drop a bomb for Charlamagne.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Even birthing an idea for me to write a book about this story. This is really gonna impact so many people.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Jessica Hilarious]

It was a very emotional night last night.

[DJ Envy]

So dope.

[RZA]

Dope.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're welcome.

[DJ Envy]

Big Rome will be joining us this morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Big Rome?

[DJ Envy]

Romy, not the little home.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Big Rome, by the way, just fix my mess started with her in Rome. She was fixing her own mess and helping Rome fix his.

[Jessica Hilarious]

The whole time. The whole time.

[DJ Envy]

That's right. And also the RZA will be joining us this morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let me tell y' all something I told y' all earlier this week. One spoon of chocolate. The movie is out in theaters today. It's an instant classic for me. It's already one of my favorite movies of all time. I might have put too much sauce on it already, but y' all need to go see it this weekend.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

If you like Michael Jackson, his daughter's in it as well.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But Rizzo will be here to talk about it this morning.

[DJ Envy]

She plays an amazing character. They don't use it. Oh, that's Michael Jackson's daughter. No, actress in the movie.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

That, you know, during watching the movie, Charlemagne was like, you know, that's Michael Jackson's daughter. Like, she gets busy in the movie. I tried to watch it last night, but I couldn't get the mirror screen to work on the laptop and the tv, so me and my wife just fell asleep.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That is a struggle. That's when you call your oldest kid in the room. That's what I had to do to figure that one out.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I couldn't, I couldn't get it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But it's in theaters today, though.

[DJ Envy]

That's in theaters today?

[Jessica Hilarious]

That's great.

[DJ Envy]

All right, well, let's get the show cracking. We got front page news coming up. Mimi will be joining us. What you got? What you got for us this morning? Oh, yeah, that's New York. That's not. Why you looking funny? New York won last night. Yes. Welcome to the Empire State. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, Jay Z, Alicia Keys, let's go.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Morning, everybody.

[DJ Envy]

It's DJ Envy. Jess, Hilarious Charlamagne, the guy we are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some page news now. Last night, some quick sports. The Knicks beat the Hawks, destroyed the horse and many times. As if your cowboys ever won. The KN148,910,98. And last night, the 76s tied the series. They beat the Celtics 10693. What's up, Mimi?

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning, MBJ Charlemagne. How y' all doing this morning? Good morning. So we start this morning with a major development out of Washington. The longest shutdown of a Federal Department in U.S. history is now over. Donald Trump has signed a bill to fund most of the Department of Homeland security, ending a 76 day shutdown that left agencies like TSA, FEMA and the Coast Guard stretched very thin then. So those agencies, they will now be funded through the end of September. This comes after growing pressure on House leaders as officials warn that money was about to run out for those paychecks that those DH workers, they were not about to get paid again. Here is House Speaker Mike Johnson.

[RZA]

This will relieve pressure from the Department of Homeland Security. Secretary Mullen, who I've spoken to in

[Charlamagne Tha God]

the last couple of hours, will be greatly relieved. The president will, the administration will. We are not going to have lines at tsa.

[RZA]

Everybody will get their paychecks now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We'll get moving forward and then we will finish the work and finally get again for three, three years with no crazy Democrat reforms.

[RZA]

We will fund border patrol and immigration enforcement as soon as we return for the work session.

[Rome]

When that bill is finalized.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I am happy for all the federal workers who are finally going to be getting paid and at least they know they don't have to worry about this until, until the fall at least. But sadly, we'll probably be right back here at the end of September.

[Mimi Brown]

I'm sure we will be, yes, for sure. And you notice how Border Patrol and ice, they're working on a bill to fund that for three more years that was not included in this funding bill that just passed. Lawmakers, they're going on another two week break starting today. And when they return, they say that they will tackle that border control and ICE funding without Democratic support. So we will continue to watch that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All I care about is people getting their paychecks, man. That's all I'm happy for.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah. Very, very important. And a major shakeup in Louisiana's elections. The governor has now passed the state's House races. Excuse me. Has now pushed the state's pat. The House races just days before voting was set to take place. So Republican Governor Jeff Landry, he made that call after the U.S. supreme Court, they ruled that the state's current congressional maps are unconstitutional. So that map included two majority black districts. And the court says race may have been used too heavily in drawing those lines. So absentee ballot, absentee voting had actually already started in Louisiana. Early voting was supposed to begin this weekend. But now House races are on hold with primaries pushed back to July. While lawmakers work to redraw those maps, Shreveport Congressman Cleo Fields is calling this a gravesee step back. Let's listen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

People have a right to participate in their democracy. If you tell me that I got to be, I got to jump a certain height, I could probably do that. Tell me I got to run a certain district, I could distance, I could probably do that too. But if you tell me I have to be white to serve in Congress from Louisiana, I can't do nothing about that. I need some help from my government.

[Jessica Hilarious]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And that's why we need to pass as soon as possible the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. This is about democracy for the country, but precisely for southern states in our country, they need to help of the Voting Rights Act.

[Jessica Hilarious]

I love a black woman. Did you all hear that? That part. She was co signing the ad libbing.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah, yeah. So other races on the ballot, including the Senate and statewide offices, those will still move forward. The move is already facing legal challenges, though, with some Democrats arguing that stopping the election now could confuse voters and undermine the process. And really quickly, the man who was accused of trying to assassinate President Trump, he was back in court. He will remain behind bars. Prosecutors say 31 year old Cole Allen spent hours tracking the president's movements online before he showed up at that White House correspondent's dinner. They say that he had multiple weapons. We talked about this. The gun, the pistol, and the knives. And he had been planning the attack for weeks, even sending messages to his family before it happened. Now, Allen did not challenge his detention, so for now, he will stay in custody. His next hearing is set for May 11th.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, I saw another video. Maybe I'm tripping.

[DJ Envy]

I was about to say the same one.

[Rome]

Go ahead.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He ain't fired no shot. He just.

[DJ Envy]

He ran through with the. With the. With the rifle, though. He had the rifle in his hand when he ran through that metal detector.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

Like, all them officers just looked at him at first, but I just don't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't understand how he got out that situation alive. Like, you run in a situation like that with the. With the. With the rifle and the Secret Service only end up shooting each other.

[DJ Envy]

Like, that's crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, that's nuts to me.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, me, too, but. All right, well, thank you, Mimi.

[Mimi Brown]

For sure. Absolutely. Coming up at 11 or, excuse me, at 7. Some airlines are cracking down on a device that many of us bring on each flight. We're going to tell you what it is, and if you packed it this morning, you may want to take it out your bag.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You hear that? Studs. You know your studs. All my studs out there. You hear that? You hear. Hear me be talking about now?

[DJ Envy]

Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, call us up right now. Again, 1-800-585-1051. Get it off your chest. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. This is your time to get it off your chest. Keep calling 800-585-1051.

[Caller / Listener]

We want to hear from you on the breakfast.

[Rome]

Hello?

[Jessica Hilarious]

Who's this?

[Caller / Listener]

Dario.

[DJ Envy]

Dario. What up? Where you going?

[Caller / Listener]

From Jacksonville. What's up? What's up? Guess what's up?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How are you, my brother?

[Caller / Listener]

I'm doing good this morning, man. Hey, I got something to get off my chest. This for about two and a half months.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Caller / Listener]

I remember y' all had that interview with the lady that, like, say.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can't remember her name. What was her name?

[Jessica Hilarious]

Nicole.

[DJ Envy]

Her name.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nicole Curtis.

[Caller / Listener]

Okay. Yeah, check this out, right? She say F word and.

[State Farm Announcer]

And charlaman.

[Caller / Listener]

You say al ker.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I do.

[Caller / Listener]

Ain't that the same?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, I said. I said, whenever I hear one of them reference the nword, I just feel like I'm. I'm a tit for tat. Type of person. I match energies.

[Caller / Listener]

Okay. And the reason I was calling was. Cause I think somewhere at the end

[State Farm Announcer]

of the interview, you were saying something

[Caller / Listener]

about an apology to the leader. You want to apologize to people or something, right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Caller / Listener]

Okay.

[State Farm Announcer]

You need to apologize to them.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, I didn't offend nobody. I'm a tit for tat type of person. I only use cracker when somebody uses the N word. Rr. If you display some like extremely cracker, like, cracker behavior. Like, I mean, you know, white supremacist racist behavior. That's who I call cracker. I just don't call regular everyday white folks cracker.

[Caller / Listener]

Oh, okay, okay. But that's been sitting on for about two and a half months, bro. But I truly appreciate it. Shoot it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

All right, man.

[Caller / Listener]

All right, Jeff. Congratulations on your books, baby girl.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Thank you so much. I appreciate that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Go pick up a copy, man. Get. Download the audio. You sound like an audio book type of person.

[DJ Envy]

Damn.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Hello?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn, man.

[DJ Envy]

Sound like an audio book type of person.

[Jessica Hilarious]

I didn't even know that had a sound.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I enjoy a good audiobook. You sound like he like to listen to. Just tell our story.

[DJ Envy]

Jesus. Hello?

[Jessica Hilarious]

Who's this?

[Caller / Listener]

Jay Holiday.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You taking the bed?

[Caller / Listener]

I'm a first time caller, long time listener. I want to shout out my wife.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, guys.

[Caller / Listener]

Yes. I want to shout out Ayanna for holding it down. They don't talk about the unemployment. I've been unemployed a year and a half and she's been holding it down for me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You what? You was a federal worker?

[Caller / Listener]

No, I wasn't a federal worker, okay. I just got laid off.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, okay. Okay. She's your one. Who's your two? You got a two?

[Caller / Listener]

No, I ain't got no two, only one.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

There you go. That's what I'm.

[Caller / Listener]

Black men don't cheat.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right. That's right. That's right. How y' all guys doing?

[Rome]

Blessed Black and Holly favorite this Friday.

[Caller / Listener]

Congrats on your book.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Yeah, thank you so much.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Go pick up a copy.

[Caller / Listener]

I love you. I love you guys. Well, I ain't got no kids, but I. I'll read. I'll check it out.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Yeah, it's not. It's not only for people with cares. The book basically talks about, you know, relationships as well. It's. It's the basis of. It is co parenting, but it's relationships and how you assess them as well so you can use it.

[Caller / Listener]

That's true.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, that's true. Well, yeah. Appreciate y'.

[RZA]

All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you for calling.

[DJ Envy]

Are you actively looking for work? 800-585-1051. If you need the event, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Caller / Listener]

Yo, Charlemagne.

[Rome]

What up?

[Caller / Listener]

Are we live?

[DJ Envy]

This is your time to get it off your chest.

[Caller - Critic]

I got an indoor pool.

[DJ Envy]

We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. We can get on the phone right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He'll tell you what it is.

[DJ Envy]

Hello? Who's this?

[Caller / Listener]

DJ Envy? Just hilarious, Charlemagne. Good morning. Listen, I've been. All right, listen, listen. They changed. They changed my schedule, man. So it's hard for me to call y', all, man. So y' all know I still got to get that paper, you heard?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, sir.

[Caller / Listener]

Listen, congratulations. God bless y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Rome]

Thank you all y' all in the

[Caller / Listener]

group success, individual success, and collectively, man, I've seen a lot of blessings been going on since we last spoke, and just. May God continue to bless y' all moving forward, man.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Absolutely. Thank you. I received that.

[Caller / Listener]

Yes, yes. Listen, y' all know how we do

[Charlamagne Tha God]

on the Friday, baby, it's bar time, let's get it.

[Caller / Listener]

I said, listen, I told him ain't no such thing as a quick flip shortcut to snatching that fame could get your wig split crashing out not checking them side aims I get you cornered off and stretching that rectangle we chase paper floors later Hustlers made for that I'm repping the style, do a die they should come next to back 50s and honey clips, you double that in the bundles quick show them how to move when they presses Simple, a rip we out in Vegas walking the Strip don't do the politics wrap around sweets in the Cosmo what we dealing with Came a long way from me packing bags and Red Hook to the ice that I placed on my wife Without a show Simply the greatest Whole bar structure with patience Tell them lanes they might dissolve in them paragraphs can use the maintenance I'm in a spaceship in the hood it's just a statement Pull up the mics, grab me a slice, Inspect the basics.

[DJ Envy]

OG I got some bars.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

OG let's do it, baby.

[DJ Envy]

All right, let's go. Now you rep the star the Knicks said bye bye, New York all day we all stay in fly Knicks won last night and Charlotte's sick. The only thing that's gonna make him better is my. All right, all right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hold on. All right, well, since you want to do it like that, let me do it like this. All right, all right. Envy used to be scared of the Knicks now he throw lips to the Knicks. Handle it like a real Jalen Brunson.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Hey, yo, y' all

[DJ Envy]

all right. OG Rob, appreciate you, brother. Have a good weekend.

[Caller / Listener]

Hey, hey, yo, y', all, too. I appreciate y', all, man. Blessings to y' all and the family. Y' all take care, all right.

[DJ Envy]

Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need the vent, hit us up. We got the latest with Lauren coming up. What we talking about Lauren, y'?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All?

[Lauren LaRosa]

We do. So it's the end of the road for one of our favorites, and a lot of people aren't even talking about it or celebrating it. So we gonna take some time to. This morning.

[DJ Envy]

My dad.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, not. No, no one died. We're gonna celebrate a positive ending to an era for someone.

[Jessica Hilarious]

I was ready to say I don't think that would be the tease for somebody to get right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, no, no, no, no. Sorry.

[Jessica Hilarious]

No, not if I even care.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And make sure it is really one of our favorites. Cause you said we.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's one of our favorites.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I promise it'll be you. And you'll be like, yo, Lil Zayn has retired. Salute to Lil Zane, though. But, you know, I'm just saying, that'd be one of Lauren's personal faves. And she'll be like, we.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'll be like, Lil Zane the bir.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, he's stupid. Also, Charlamagne, what you doing today on Friday?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, man, it's the people's donkey. So, you know, today I give people the opportunity to call in and give folks the credit they deserve for being stupid. So you can do that right now. 1-800-585-1051. Call up and you can give somebody donkey of the day.

[DJ Envy]

It's the Breakfast Club.

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[DJ Envy]

We know parents want to feel confident as their teens navigate social media. With Instagram teen accounts, teens get automatic protections by default. Teens between the ages of 13 to 17 are automatically put into a protective experience. That means they get built in content settings for what they see, contact limits on who can contact them, and time management tools like daily time limit reminders, as well as sleep mode, which mutes notifications from 10pm to 7am plus, teens under 16 need a parent's permission to change any of these settings to be less strict. Instagram continues to work on building new safety features to help create age appropriate experiences for teens. Learn more about teen accounts and Instagram's ongoing work to help protect teens [e-mail] teenaccounts yo, what up y'?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All?

[DJ Envy]

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]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

LL Cool bitch.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[Mimi Brown]

Little brown girls look at you and

[Jessica Hilarious]

go, I want to be like you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Take me through that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Take me through there.

[Caller / Listener]

The latest with Laura.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Take me through there on the Breakfast Club. LL Cool B Talk.

[Mimi Brown]

Talk to me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Alrighty, y'.

[Caller - Critic]

All.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So Sher shepherd and the Sherry shepherd show are. Are coming to an end. She filmed her last live show this week, and. Yes, I know. And she had some surprise guests on her show just showing her some love. Let's take a listen to her first surprise guest, Kevin Hart. Have we ever been married to each other?

[RZA]

Not to my memory.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, good. Cause if it was, somebody was about

[Lauren LaRosa]

to get fired, I swear to God. Are you a comic?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Trevor Noah, Bill Burr, comic.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Kevin Hart.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Mr.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Guest, come on out.

[Jessica Hilarious]

I'm about to cry.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I am about to cry. Cause I've been asking you since I

[DJ Envy]

kept saying, kevin, I need you to come on myself.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And you never came.

[DJ Envy]

I didn't come. No, no.

[Jessica Hilarious]

My schedule, of course, is crazy.

[DJ Envy]

And I think, you know, when you've

[Rome]

asked me in the past, it just

[Jessica Hilarious]

didn't line up, and I couldn't.

[Rome]

But I feel like now is more

[Jessica Hilarious]

valuable and more impactful than ever because I know where you are with the show. This was more about me putting a

[DJ Envy]

stamp on, like, the job that you've done. You know, the relationships that you have

[Jessica Hilarious]

in the business are outstanding, but you demand a high level of star power

[DJ Envy]

because of who and what you are.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Kev is an amazing person. I love Kevin, but he's a great bs. Kev was talking like her show wasn't being canceled. Kev, you came to a little too late. You came a couple of seasons earlier. The numbers might have been higher, and she just stayed on the air. We love Sherry, though. But I'm just saying, he was talking like, I know where you are with the show. And, you know, being canceled,

[Lauren LaRosa]

it wasn't RA for Sherry. And, yeah, Kevin be busy. So he popped out now. We appreciate she did anyway. But also, she had another surprise guest. And you guys heard in the beginning how, like, there's, like, the. The voice is kind of, like, hidden. It's because she's literally having to guess on air who the people are talking about. That's dope for the people who are listening that haven't seen it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So I watch Sherry.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, so she had another surprise guest come. They called her to the station to say their goodbyes to Sher on air. Let's take a listen to Gayle King.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Guys, on the way down here, the elevator got stuck. Even the elevator doesn't want you to go.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We were stuck in the elevator.

[Jessica Hilarious]

But I wanted to be here on the last day.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Thank you, Gail.

[Jessica Hilarious]

The last live show. I wanted to be here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I love you so much. Nobody like you.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Nobody.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And thank you for always being there for me and giving me advice and

[Jessica Hilarious]

just showing me how to do this thing by myself.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I appreciate you. I love you.

[Jessica Hilarious]

And I continue on in whatever you do next.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, I'm sorry.

[DJ Envy]

I'm sorry.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm sorry, Sherry.

[Jessica Hilarious]

I'm just not ready.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm not ready. But there's nobody.

[Jessica Hilarious]

There's nobody like this woman on TV today.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nobody. You are going to be missed.

[Jessica Hilarious]

But what I know is I can't

[Charlamagne Tha God]

wait to see what she does next, because we will all be there.

[Jessica Hilarious]

We will all be there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You see the contrast? Gail is fully aware that this is the last live show compared to Kev. Play Kev again, I guarantee you. Listen, Gail knows that this is the last show. Gail knows that Sherry will be missed. Kev was talking like she just getting started.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You wanna play it again?

[RZA]

Listen, listen.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Have we ever been married to each other?

[RZA]

Not to my memory.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, good. Cause if it was, somebody was about

[Lauren LaRosa]

to get fired, I swear to God. Are you a comic?

[Caller / Listener]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Trevor Noah. Bill Burr. Comic.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Kevin Hart.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Mr.

[Caller / Listener]

Guest, come on out.

[Jessica Hilarious]

I'm about to cry.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I am about to cry. Cause I've been asking you so much. I kept saying, kevin, I need you

[Caller / Listener]

to come on myself.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And you never came.

[DJ Envy]

I didn't come.

[Rome]

No, no.

[Jessica Hilarious]

My schedule, of course, is crazy.

[DJ Envy]

And I think, you know, when you've asked me in the past, it just

[Jessica Hilarious]

didn't line up, and I couldn't.

[Rome]

But I feel like now is more

[Jessica Hilarious]

valuable and more impactful than ever because I know where you are with the show.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's the last show.

[Jessica Hilarious]

This was more about me putting a

[DJ Envy]

stamp on, like, the job that you've done. You know, the relationships that you have

[Jessica Hilarious]

in the business are outstanding, but you demand a high level of star power because of who and what you are.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That star power should have been there years earlier.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Right, right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We wouldn't be having this conversation if it was there earlier.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Probably Gail on there crying. You know, she's like, I'm sorry, this is your last show.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Gail wouldn't have to say it's the last show if the star power had been showing up earlier for Sherry.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, sending love to Sherri shepherd as she closes out this chapter. So they filmed that live episode this week, I'm told, But the last episode will actually air next week. Next week. So just in case people see it, like, what the heck?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's gonna be in that time slot?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't know yet. I. I don't know, but we'll see, I guess, because it used to be

[Charlamagne Tha God]

windy, now it's Sherry, so I wonder.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, well, I don't know.

[RZA]

We'll.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We'll try to get some answers to that, but I have no idea right now. But speaking of other talk shows, yesterday it was announced that Drew Ski will be hosting the 2026 BET Awards, making him the youngest. Making him the youngest host in BET Awards history. Kevin Hart previously held that title, and now Drew Ski has come and eclipse that. Let's take a listen to. Listen to the video Drew Ski dropped with BET yesterday.

[RZA]

What's up? It's Drew Ski, your host for the BET Awards 2026. I told BET if I'm hosting, we gonna do this my way. Rule number one, Jamie Foxx, take that big ass hat off. Rule number two, sexy red. No leggings, rompers or bodysuits.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We don't need no wrestlers. No. No wrestlers on the red carpet. Black suit and tie.

[RZA]

Rule number three, yns, take the ski mask off, man. Rule number four, mega Pastors.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Listen, I know y' all on my back right now.

[RZA]

I've been getting the DMs and the threats. Just leave it up to God, Leave

[Caller / Listener]

it up to God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We gonna lock them doors and can't nobody get out.

[RZA]

Welcome to the 2026 BET Awards.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Dropping a coup bombs. I can't wait to see what Drew Ski.

[Jessica Hilarious]

I love that for Drew Ski.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I love that for BET Awards too, man.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Me too. I thought that that was so smart for them. Very, very smart for them. I gotta deserve it. I got a statement from Drew. It says it's an honor to be the youngest host ever for the BET Awards. I grew up watching BET Awards and the comedic legends that hosted before me set the bar so high. So I'm grateful to be a part of history, but I'm still bringing my brand of comedy to the stage. So expect a little chaos, a lot of laughs, and some of your favorite characters to pop out.

[DJ Envy]

Turn mom's phone off.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I need Drew to do Drewi. Okay. You know you're on the radio, boy. Talk about turn mama phone. I need Juicy to do Drew. Okay.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Yeah. I mean, he will.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He will.

[Jessica Hilarious]

I think he's just, you know, doing it his way. So hopefully we. We do see that because, yes, he's funny as hell.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And the BET Awards go down Sunday, June 28th at 8pm and we will be there again this year. The Breakfast Club will be there bringing you guys some content from the media room and other places.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So you always talking about we. I am not gonna be there on June 20th. I already know

[DJ Envy]

that's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

When I say we, I mean I'm gonna be. Right. Bringing it back to the show. We will be discussing it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But say I'll be there representing the Breakfast Club.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But if you invited. You got invited like five times. She gonna not show up. Three of them.

[DJ Envy]

I pull up though.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Envy pop out. Yeah, Charlamagne ain't going nowhere.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, that's the day before my born day. I'm not going. I'll be at home watching it.

[Caller - Critic]

Oh, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. But congratulations to Drew Ski. And you know, congratulations to Sherry too, because she's going to be going into a new era of her life. She said she's not giving up on these on some. So we'll see what happens next.

[DJ Envy]

All right, that is the latest with Lauren. Yes. I'm out of. I'm not. I'm actually not in town. I'm in town. My daughter gets on stage in about another hour. So when, you know, we set all these alarms to make sure we're up on time. So I was like, turn alarm. I thought I turned my mic down, but I guess.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, you didn't. No.

[Lauren LaRosa]

DJ Envy, you didn't hit the mic.

[DJ Envy]

My bad. All right, well, when we come back, we got front page news. And then the star of the Jess Hilarious universe, or one of the stars of Jess Hilarious, her baby dad, the

[Jessica Hilarious]

star of Jess Hilarious co parenting universe,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Big Rome shot the club up. Up first. That's why they got the book. Tell death. Do we parent raising my kid with my dad? He's the dad. He's the papa.

[DJ Envy]

He's gonna be joining us next hour, so don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody.

[Jessica Hilarious]

It's DJ Envy.

[DJ Envy]

Just hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. Start off with some quick sports. Timberwolves with the Nuggets 110. 98 sent the Nuggets home. 76 is tied. The series yesterday they tied it with the Celtics. They won 106. 93 and a Knicks squashed finish sent home the Hawks 140 to 89 last night. Jesus.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Some extra on it Envy. I know. That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Envy. He's slept in his Knicks jersey, in his Knicks hat last night with no pants, no drawers on.

[DJ Envy]

So what? So what? So congratulations to the New York Knicks. What's up, Mimi?

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning, y'.

[Jessica Hilarious]

All.

[Mimi Brown]

How you doing this morning?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, Mimi Brown.

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning. So we start this hour with the story out of New York City, where one arrest has put a growing crime back in the spotlight. It's called deed theft. It's when someone steals the title to your home without you knowing. So the issue is now front and center after a Brooklyn council member was arrested last week defending a longtime black homeowner facing eviction. So that case is now drawing attention to a much larger issue. Scammers targeting homes, often in black neighborhoods, using tactics like forged signatures, fake paperwork, or pressuring family members with partial ownership to force a sale. In some cases, homes that have been in the family for generations are taken and resold for a profit. Now, officials say there have been thousands of complaints over the past decades, with hundreds more reported just last year. And mayor's around me. He is now creating a new mayor's Office of Deed Theft Protection to crack down on the fraud. Let's listen.

[DJ Envy]

City government is too often stood idly by while deed theft occurs. Every New Yorker should be able to lead a dignified life in the home that they grew up in, in the

[Charlamagne Tha God]

city that they love.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah. Have you guys heard about this?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No.

[Jessica Hilarious]

No. This is the first time ever hearing about it.

[DJ Envy]

That's why the congressman, the councilman got arrested about a week ago. But, yeah, it happens a lot in. It's definitely in New York, and it usually happens when a lot of older people own the homes. They don't know what they're signing or the deed is stolen. That actually happened to my grandfather's house. My grandfather owned a town, a big brownstone in Brooklyn, and when he passed, he didn't leave it to anybody. Right. And it was a part of everybody. So it was like, my mom had a part. My mom's sister had a part. Yeah. So it was. And then they were able to actually take. Didn't make sense for fighting. Most people don't fight because they don't actually live in that house. It's a house that's passed down, and we didn't fight for it, so somebody actually took it. But, yeah, it happens a lot in New York City, and I'm glad people are hearing more and more and more about it because people are losing their houses, and we all know that's where a lot of generational wealth has started. From people passing down the homes, from generations to generations to generations.

[Mimi Brown]

Absolutely. That's it in a nutshell. Envy. They said that seniors in Brooklyn and in Queens, they have been hit especially hard by this deep depth problem. Peter White, he's an attorney with the Access Justice Brooklyn. He will be overseeing it for the mayor's office. Let's listen to a little bit of what he said.

[DJ Envy]

Any potential scammers see these people as being the most vulnerable population in New York City and we're going to try

[Charlamagne Tha God]

to help correct that.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah. And so the city, they are putting real money behind it, about 10 million to fund investigations, legal help for homeowners and to crack down on fraudulent property filings, targeting scams that often hit those seniors and just, you know, underserved communities. People who don't know anything other than, you know, what someone shows up at their door and tells them and then ends up taking their property.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's amazing how much people don't care about karma, man. Like, folks just really, really live for the moment. Like they really have like a, such a, a short term way of thinking because that energy definitely comes back to you. You taking advantage of old people like that.

[DJ Envy]

And it's usually white older businessmen and they usually get it for nothing, close to nothing. Or they usually just pay off the water bill, electric bill to get in. And now, you know, a lot of those properties are worth, well, well over millions and millions of dollars. So yeah, it's, they do it a lot. They start off with phone calls. It's, it's a whole process and a whole thing.

[Mimi Brown]

It's a whole scheme that they've been doing for years. And so yes, a shout out to the mayor for doing something about that. And starting today, if you're flying American Airlines, there is a new rule that you need to know about portable chargers. Those power banks that you use for your phone are now restricted. Restricted passengers can bring no more than two and they can't be packed in those overhead bins anymore. So instead they have to be kept with you visible during the flight. There's also a size limit. Chargers must be under 100 watts, which covers most of our standard phone chargers. But they could impact those larger portable chargers that people have. I know I have like two of them and I travel with them often, but airlines say those lithium batteries can overheat, catch fire. And so now keeping them within reach helps crews respond quickly if there was something. So if you're flying today, check your bag because something as small as a portable charger could now hold you up at the airport.

[Jessica Hilarious]

And that's crazy. I didn't even. I didn't even think about that. Everybody has those portable charges, you know, but that's what they actually. When you check your bag, like, is there any lithium batteries or something else they ask you. Don't you know that they ask you that before you check a bag all the time?

[Rome]

Yeah.

[Jessica Hilarious]

So together I'm like, oh, that's why. Because they can catch fire.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. But if it's in your checked luggage, how would they know?

[RZA]

Right.

[DJ Envy]

They don't go through your luggage, especially when you're getting on the plane. You know, if it's connected to your actual roller, they look and say, open your. Open the case to make sure that battery's not there. But, like, how would they know they're not going to people's bags or going in your backpack?

[Jessica Hilarious]

Because they just taking your word for it at this point.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah, yeah. Definitely sounds like the honor system here. But I know, like, with me, if I travel with a lot of equipment, I'm packing all of those things, you know, so.

[Jessica Hilarious]

And honestly, yo, I sometimes, like, I'll be lying because I. I say no. Because if I say, yeah, I think they go and send me home or something.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, the reality is when they say that, I don't even know what the hell are you talking about. You have any lithium batteries? What is a lithium battery? I don't think I have a lithium battery. Okay. As far as to my knowledge, I don't. Okay. Do y' all know what a lithium. Y' all know what lithium is?

[Jessica Hilarious]

No. So that's why I'm glad she is giving us this story, because I didn't know that that's what a lithium battery was.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

See, we've been lying to these people all this time.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Yeah. And I know I'm always. I always, always got them.

[Caller - Critic]

Yeah.

[Mimi Brown]

No, I think a lot of people feel like that. I think they just were just trained to be like, no, I don't have it.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Mimi Brown]

Instead of saying, what is a lithium battery?

[Lauren LaRosa]

So.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And then they ask you, do you have anything flammable? I'm like, no. Yeah, but we probably do. I don't know.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Yep.

[Mimi Brown]

Now you know. So there you have it. If you do have it, either don't bring it, or I think it has to be under a certain size, so you might want to just look it up before you travel nowadays.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Thank you, Mimi.

[Mimi Brown]

As well.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Yep.

[Mimi Brown]

And speaking of airports, if you're traveling through Hartsville, Jackson, Atlanta International Airport, there's something new to check out So a concept store called the Village Retail has just opened a new location in concourse B. It's featuring products from black owned brands. You'll find everything from beauty and wellness to lifestyle and art, all curated for travelers passing through. So the move brings these businesses into one of the busiest airports in the world, putting them in front of millions of people every year. Here's mayor Andre Dickens at the grand opening.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We don't do these kind of grand openings often at Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

[RZA]

I think about Maynard Jackson, first black

[Rome]

mayor of the city of Atlanta and

[Charlamagne Tha God]

he had a vision. We stand in the presence of that vision.

[State Farm Announcer]

I believe that Maynard Jackson would be

[Charlamagne Tha God]

smiling right now at three local minority

[Rome]

owned businesses getting their shot at the

[Charlamagne Tha God]

big leagues here at the world's busiest and most efficient airport. I love it. Dropping the clues bombs for all of those businesses, man. That's incredible.

[Oestra Announcer]

Yeah.

[Mimi Brown]

And shout out to Dr. Key. This is her vision coming to life. Lakeisha Hellman. This is her Village Retail in the Atlanta. So concourse B, I don't know. Is that Delta? That's not Delta. Concourse B is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I feel like everything in Atlanta is Delta. I have no idea.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Mimi Brown]

But if you are in Atlanta, concourse B, the Village Retail is now open and it is highlighting black owned businesses which is very important. We have support in order to keep them in the airport.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I love Atlanta Airport, man. One of my favorite things to do is get to Atlanta airport early because they got every single restaurant you can name in Atlanta Airport. You get caught in the right terminal and you a fat ass boy, it's heaven.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All right, y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, happy Friday. That is your front page news. I am Mimi Brown. Follow me @mimi Brown TV. And for more stories, follow the black Information Network.

[DJ Envy]

All right, thank you, Mimi.

[Mimi Brown]

Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

Now when we come back, the star of Jess hilarious universe will be joining us.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, not his, not.

[DJ Envy]

Not her universe.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Her book.

[DJ Envy]

Her book universe.

[Rome]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

That little room. Big room. Her baby daddy will be joining us. Of course. They. She just wrote a book called to death. Do we parent? And Rome is here to talk about their relationship.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hold on. You gotta say the subtitle. Raising, Raising my kid with his dad.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The dad is Rome and Rome and

[Jessica Hilarious]

Jess is here to talk about it. Yo, you are crazy. The star of my universe is good.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Jessica Hilarious]

So first of all, don't ever play with it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And then what about Chris? What about Ashton?

[Jessica Hilarious]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What about Mama Robin?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

God damn it, clown. Y'.

[Nyla Simone]

All.

[DJ Envy]

Roman's up there, though. Rome is up there and we gonna talk to Rome.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now, he ended up opening credit. You see him in the refrigerator and he just look up.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Exactly.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, and listen, today is Friday. You know, on Friday we do the people's donkey. So if you want to call up and give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid, you want to give somebody the biggest he haw. You can do that right now. 1-800-585-1051.

[DJ Envy]

We're gonna talk the room next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest that's in the building.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And first of all, make sure the door is locked. And I'm glad that her phone is in here because she can't use her phone to get in the room. So make sure the door is locked. Correct. Just hilarious. Can't get in. We got our guy, Rome. Rome here, who is just his baby's father.

[DJ Envy]

That's right, Ashton's dad.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right, Ashton's dad. And you know, just put out her new book this week. Tell Death Do We Parent. It's available everywhere. You buy books now and it talks about how they got to a healthy place of co parenting with each other.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I haven't even talked to Rome. I ain't reach out to Rome. I wanted to talk to Rome face to face. Rome, what did you think of the book Tell? Definitely.

[DJ Envy]

What's your first feeling?

[Rome]

First?

[DJ Envy]

Honest.

[Rome]

Honest, Honest. First when you read the book, first chapter, I feel like some things wasn't explained the correct way.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We're not supposed to let her in.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, you're supposed to let her in.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're supposed to keep her out for a little bit. Okay, Let Rome talk. Rome have the floor. Rome has the floor.

[DJ Envy]

You can sit down, Jess.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Unless you want to leave. You can also leave. Okay. Yes.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Yeah, I'm leave.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, you can leave.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We just asked the first question. All right.

[DJ Envy]

It's too late. It's too late.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, now.

[DJ Envy]

Now back to what you said.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

To be parent. You said first chapter.

[DJ Envy]

You were saying it was Cap.

[Rome]

Honestly, not even Cap. I just think after women read it, they gonna hate me and why? Because of course, you know, men can't go through that. But when women are going through, like postpartum, those stages and stuff like that, if you read this, the first chapter, it's going to be like I was a dog. Like I did everything during those times when I did it. So you weren't.

[DJ Envy]

You weren't a dog?

[Rome]

No, I feel like, she fabricated it for us, putting it too early. It was late. It was later than that. I didn't do any of that during postpartum. But it was a dope book. Interesting. Very transparent. To see that we've grown so much and to share other. To share with other people on, you know, that co parenting is not a bad thing. I think that that's. That's the biggest part and the goal that we always talked about, and that was for years, even when we started co parenting therapy back in. It was Covid. So I want to say, like, 2021, when it was shut down.

[RZA]

Yeah, man.

[DJ Envy]

The book is.

[Rome]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

See, that's what I got from the book. That's why I say I don't think people will hate you if they read past the first chapter. You know what I mean? Because you do get to the growth in the evolution of both of y'.

[Caller / Listener]

All.

[Rome]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

You know what I mean?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not just. Not just you. Both of y'.

[Caller / Listener]

All.

[Rome]

Yeah. And. But you got some people who ain't gonna read through the book.

[DJ Envy]

All right?

[Rome]

Right. They're going. They're gonna pinpoint and take out parts, and they're gonna run with certain narratives.

[DJ Envy]

I see the captions and highlights the

[Rome]

same way they do clips on Instagram or Tick Tock, whatever the case may be. They hate you off of a clip and didn't even let you elaborate or explain yourself.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What chapter hurt your feelings the most? And don't lie, because I know you read it more than one time.

[Rome]

What chapter was it? None of it really hurt me because I'm. I'm. I own up to what I do. I ain't never been ashamed of anything. I'm tell you why, because I always had a choice. I decided to make those choices. But what was heart warming to me was that she's able to talk about it now because a lot of times she wouldn't ever open up about it. And just to share that light on how much I've grown as a man and as a father, I just was, you know, a part. I was not even a part. I was really. Yeah, I was. I was just excited, man. I really was excited.

[DJ Envy]

You could tell she has a lot of love for you regardless, you know,

[Rome]

a lot of love always there. I'm just excited because if anybody who really know me, truly and genuinely know me, that's my dog.

[DJ Envy]

How did you feel when. You know. She recently. Excerpts came out of the book, and she talked about not necessarily wanting your first child, but wanted to keep you more than anything. So to make you happy. She was willing to do anything for you. How did that make you feel as

[Rome]

a father of five? Now? I understand. And I say that because even when I go back to her and I be like, if you gonna leave me alone, don't go get another me. It's one of those things where, okay, well, if you having a child, make sure that, you know that this is gonna be a family. And I never wanted a lot of kids. I always wanted a family. But, you know, I was emotional. I would say dumb, not thinking, vulnerable in those moments, even as a kid. But I think. I don't know, I think it just shaped her to be the wife that she is now.

[DJ Envy]

Do you look back at it and say, I messed this family up? Because she talks about she thought that y' all had a perfect family. Y' all were taking pictures and y' all were doing things as a family and a couple. And then all of a sudden, she got a comment that says, romeo, oh, he here with you. But he play a house in this other house. And matter of fact, he got a baby coming. Did you ever look back that and be like, damn, I effed that up.

[Rome]

I look back sometimes and say, I wish I did things different. I ain't never gonna say, I wish I it up. Because who knows? If I wouldn't have did what I did, then we still would have been together. Because it goes both ways. And a lot of things that I've done, it was out of reactions. You know, it's three sides of every story. Their side, your side, and the truth. Me, I just wasn't that heartless to just go out and do these things I didn't even have access to. So that's why we're gonna dive then. We're gonna dive deeper into those things. But I wouldn't say I. I would say I just wish I'd have did things different just to give us. Just to give us a chance. Because I never even gave us a chance. Gotcha.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's a great question. And just a great framing of it. Like, if there were no kid involved, right, if there was no Ashton, would y' all still choose each other, you

[Rome]

think, at that moment?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Rome]

No.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why?

[Rome]

Because Ashton was the glue. Ashton was the one that kept it around. And me, I'm low tolerance. And Jessica speaks on that. She'll speak again on it. We spoke on that on the podcast. When Women don't do. And it might sound controlling. It might sound like I'm a narcissist, you know, at that moment, not now, because I'm a changed man, you know, at that moment, it may sound like I'm being controlling, but I felt like at the time, younger days, if women wasn't in my, if they weren't in compliance, I, I. It wasn't no benefit to me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So, so just, just, just walk back in the room. I want, I want to expound on the question I just asked you. What was it about Jess that would make you not want to be with her if there was no action? Because he said he wouldn't be with you if there wasn't?

[Rome]

Actually, at that, at that moment. At that, like I said, I'm gonna repeat, at that moment, we was children. So it wasn't really. It wasn't really nothing to be with her own. Especially after all the things I did. And I say that to say at that, at that time. Of course, you know, a lot of men live with women for convenience and stuff like that. I didn't need any of that. I'm living at home, my stepmom. So if there's no child, we'd have went our separate ways. Because it was easy to go separate ways with no time. It's easy to go separate ways when you're not married.

[RZA]

Right?

[Rome]

Marriage and children. Is the towel on. Okay, see, because you don't really want to start over. Like, it's hard starting over. And not even hard, just too much timing. You gotta re. Learn a person, and then you don't even know if that person gonna be the person for you. So it takes time.

[DJ Envy]

Now, you said it was reactional, the fact that, you know, you cheated. Was it reactionable because you didn't want to be in a family at the time or you didn't want to be tied down, or was her. This was, you know, what was reactional?

[Rome]

No, just did.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Okay, now let's get to it.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Oh, Charlemagne

[Rome]

just did things. And it's some. There's some things I said I would never speak on.

[RZA]

Okay.

[Rome]

Not to the grave with me, because. Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's why you believed Ashton might not be yours at one point.

[Rome]

No, I never, I never believed that. Oh, and I seen him. He was mine through the sonogram. At the moment. At the moment, I never really even believed it. It was more so I was upset because of the heat of the moment.

[Caller / Listener]

Boy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, you just said that to piss off. Yeah, okay. Okay.

[Rome]

Yeah, yeah, she said it. I'm emotional.

[DJ Envy]

Damn, Jess.

[Rome]

Yeah, I know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, told him that might not be his, but she had.

[Rome]

And she, but she. And I read that Four or five times again on the train today.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. How did it feel when she said that to you?

[Rome]

Of course, you know, as a man, you hurt in the moment. Oh, and mind you, you Shane in my face. So I think it'll win different if she was in my face that. But I didn't. I never thought Ashton wasn't mine. I just think she of all people, at that moment, even now, know how to get under my skin. There's only two things that really bother me. My children and my mom. It ain't really nothing else you can really say to me that would really move me.

[DJ Envy]

Why didn't you fight for the relationship after? You know, Jess was like, it's over. You know, you had another baby on the way.

[Rome]

Let's clear that up.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Rome]

It was over before I had a baby on the way, Jessica.

[Jessica Hilarious]

That I know Rome. I just was trying to, like, be with you and give my family, like. Because that's what I wanted ultimately. I wanted that family dynamic. I wanted to grow up. I wanted Ash to grow up in a house with me and you together, you know, and yeah, it was over. I had mentally checked out. You was, like, moved. Like, you had moved on and everything, but, like, you were still selfish. Because I couldn't be with nobody. You didn't want me, but I couldn't be with nobody else.

[Rome]

No, we clean it up because in the book, it make it seem like I had a baby on you.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Well, you were dealing with.

[Rome]

Ashton is three.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Number two.

[Rome]

Ashton is 14.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Okay.

[Rome]

Aaliyah is 11.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Rome]

When did we split?

[Jessica Hilarious]

When he was like, about two or three.

[Rome]

No, one.

[Jessica Hilarious]

We split once and. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I took you back. I got back with you. Remember when I met Yo.

[Rome]

Correct.

[Jessica Hilarious]

You know, I can't say his real name, but when I met Emmanuel, why

[DJ Envy]

didn't you say, you know what, I'mma cut the BS out and I'm a fight for myself.

[Rome]

Music.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who wrong? Yo Gotti. Yo Gotti.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, yeah, that's.

[Caller - Critic]

Yeah.

[Rome]

One thing he said.

[Jessica Hilarious]

And you can. You can curse and say it.

[Rome]

One thing he said was do a thousand one things once. That girl, that one person, we can't take it. So at that moment and then even at that time, like, you know, still, it's peer pressure, people around you. Oh. And then at that time, I really cared about what my friends thought. So it was basically. And then it was like a manhood. And, you know, like, my father ain't really say too much negative, but, you know, he said the things he said. But, you know, I think I was more so heartbroken because of, you know, certain things that she did do.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Rome overthinks. Like, he creates these scenarios in his mind, and he overthinks, and he thanks himself out of the relationship.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He's not. He's not wrong for that. Yeah. Even though we shouldn't make assumptions. He's not wrong.

[Rome]

But when I'm right, I'm right. When I'm wrong, I could have been right. But when I'm right, I was wrong, but I wasn't wrong.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay. Okay. Okay.

[Rome]

No.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Rome]

I ain't gonna hold you. But no, she. No, you know, you. You did some things to me too.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Yeah. I believe. Okay, let's. All right. That's fine. Yeah. And I'll take accountability for you.

[Rome]

You did a lot of things in me. I done pulled up on Jessica a couple times.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Pulled up on a way yo in her neighborhood.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Tell me.

[Rome]

And then that's one thing, too. I don't like when you ignore my phone calls.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Control.

[Rome]

Don't ignore my phone calls. And then don't hang up on me when I'm trying to explain because you.

[Jessica Hilarious]

You're not.

[Rome]

Let me get my point across. Because then that means you don't care about how I feel. And that's one thing about this society. Nobody cares about how men actually feel. And then when men try to open up. And I looked at. It's on the same track that Michael Beasley and Shannon Sharp. I felt a lot of things Michael Beasley said, when a man try to open up, y' all laugh at me until it's too late. I'm just glad he was able to get the help he needed to. To be able to tell his story. But it's a lot of other men who ashamed to do it. But this book, I just. And that ties everything to this book. This book is a great book. Because his father's out there is hopeless. Because you got a lot of types of debates. You got dead beats who don't do something the baby mother say they did beat. Yeah. Debbies who just actually don't give up. You got dippies who said, oh, don't get. Don't. Don't have that child. And then you still have the child. It's so many different ones for the men who actually want to be in a kid's life. I just don't understand why women don't want to allow that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let's say that. Stay there for a second. Because I asked Rome, I said, Rome, if you had a title for your book, what would it be called. You had a very interesting title.

[RZA]

I got two.

[Rome]

So I'm with the second one. Let a flower be a father. Not when it's convenient for you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's that not when it's convenient for you is what got me.

[Rome]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Do you feel like she only wanted you to be a father when it

[Rome]

was convenient for her? No.

[RZA]

Okay.

[Rome]

Not with. No, not with her. I got a lot of. Of course, you know, I got a line.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Rome]

But no, with me and Jessica, it was never about. Yeah, I understand, man. This was before this to be. That's why it's most genuine because she didn't keep a child because of her status or some. Some money or whatever the case may be. We just was honestly thought we was in love. And then when I grew up, I didn't grow up on spin your hot blocks and that type of music. I grew up on Bow wow and Lil Romeo and Sammy. So like it was. It was love music and you just. I always just wanted those fairy tales. Like my favorite show growing up was sweet life and Zack and Cody because of the family dynamic. So it's like for a young man to want that. And then you see my life didn't get that. That's one of the things I'd be like, damn. I don't say I up but I'd

[RZA]

be like, well why?

[DJ Envy]

Why I couldn't get what you want.

[Rome]

Those cars. And I used to always A lot of my friends, I used to be jealous of my friends growing up, they had a mom and dad and I didn't. And I told them they bro, like I don't like you. Love you, but I don't like you. Your friend, my friends because they had. They had what I wanted. And then I just used to see how they just never appreciated they mom

[DJ Envy]

was a co parenting way that your co parent. Now was that always there or they had to get there like at first was just not letting you see your son or you didn't want to see yourself. How did it originally start?

[Rome]

So it was always co parenting. It's just I was co parenting with her mother. With my mother, yeah, with mama Robin.

[DJ Envy]

Because Jess didn't want to see you.

[Rome]

Because Jess was.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Jess, I didn't want to see you.

[Rome]

Why didn't she had to see me though? Because she was living at the daycare so she was going to see me. But it's never been a point where I couldn't see my son or he's keeping away from me because she. She has that family dynamic. Who this ain't that?

[DJ Envy]

And why, Jess? Why didn't you? Because most people would have been like, he did me dirty. He cheated on me. He did all these things. I'm gonna use my son to hurt him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

A lot of people do that.

[DJ Envy]

We see that a lot in relationships. Why wasn't your mind framed that as hurt as you are?

[Jessica Hilarious]

Couldn't I just. Yeah, I just couldn't do it. I gave Rome a lot of grace because, you know, I was doing my ish, too. But, you know, it's not about who. Well, actually, it was. It was about who started it, but whatever. But once we started going back and forth, trying to hurt each other and trying to make each other feel the pain that each one of us felt, I got tired of that. And once I wanted to sit down with Rome and just put everything on the table, like, yo, are you. You. Let's admit everything. Things that I did that I was lying to him about. He admitted things to me. Well, he explained things to me, because that's the thing. Rome never really told me. All he did, I would find out. And I'm going, I'm coming to him like, yo, this is what happened. No, AI AI was not. We. It wasn't even at our fingertips back then. So, no. But I was able to give him a lot of grace. And then also, like, his trauma, he went through a lot when he was younger. And I realized I'm like, yo, I'm a lot more mature to see that. And my mother always instilled that in me. Give a person grace. Everybody comes from different walks of life. You don't know what he's gone through. And it's hard to operate in this world without a mother. And then with an absent father, you know, father who you see, but he. Not really. There is no real bond. So I felt the need to, like, be more of a friend and a confidant, you know, because I think I was, like, the only one that you can open up to about a lot of things that happened in your childhood, a lot of things that, you know, you didn't. That you. That you didn't get as a kid after your mom's passing. So I think that's what it was

[DJ Envy]

that against you because you talk about being vulnerable. Did she ever use that?

[Rome]

So that's what I was gonna say next, but the. The big umbrella of with everything she's saying a mother, Ms.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Rob, okay?

[Rome]

Because she wouldn't allow it. You have women, you have men. You have human beings itself who. When don't go their way they got enablers around them. Tell them that. That's right. That's right. When her mother, I loved her mother so much. Imagine me, I'm always gonna go through hell and hot water because I was always rebellious. And then as I got a certain age, I'm already defensive because of what my dad did. So you can't tell me, but I had to take myself step back. She's not trying to hurt you. Wrong. And yeah, she, she just. You wrong, wrong.

[DJ Envy]

You wrong.

[Caller - Critic]

Yeah.

[Rome]

So it wasn't. No. Oh, that's my daughter. I'm gonna take her side.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right.

[Rome]

Because it was it. And honestly, like I think because the co parenting itself, it got, it was, it wasn't bad, but it got great after a while. It didn't just happen overnight.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Right.

[Rome]

It really started happening when I took my feelings out of it. Like I stated in the past, like when that, when that, that narrative, oh, I don't want this around my kid. I don't want this. I don't want that. I allowed it to happen though, because when I decided to hurt that woman or not want to be with that woman, that opens up the door that she can have whoever the she want to have around that child.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Rome]

So the logical part that I went with was okay, as long as they ain't trying to hurt my kid, I'm okay. And I, I respect my child mom enough and I trust them enough and even now all of them to not allow that to happen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I want to ask you something wrong. Because you said what you wanted growing up was a two parent household. Right. And a lot of people would say how can somebody with that mindset end up with five baby mothers? Because it's impossible to give those kids what you wanted growing up. So why would you create the same type of environment?

[Rome]

So let me, let me elaborate and piggyback. So I never really. That two per household now is, is new. I never really cared for a two part household. I just wanted my mother. So mind you, I was fine with going my dad on the weekends, going back to my mother. Until that last weekend, I didn't get to go back to my mom. So the two parent household dynamic come from, like I said, shows and stuff like that and reality and the stigma that society put on you always supposed to be like this when two point household produced some of the most upest people in the world.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But you are not a person.

[Rome]

No.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're a brother with high emotional intelligence. So clearly I know you wanted to be better than you. Yeah, correct.

[Rome]

And like I said, I made. I mean, I made. I made decisions. A lot of decisions I made was out of vulnerability. A lot of decisions I made was out of hurt, you know, And I'm not ashamed to say that people that, oh, that's me.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Can I ask you, and you just tell me if you agree that I feel like you were looking for maybe your mom and these women. And that's why, you know, because you were lost at a very young age. And that nurturing and that, you know, all that nurturing and affection stopped at a very early age. And you went from that household, that's all you knew, love and positivity and just, you know, all of that, to a very different type of household. You know, it wasn't much affection, it wasn't nurturing. And I feel like that actually shaped how you look at women in relationships.

[RZA]

Yeah.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Like it affected your love life in a way. Do you agree with that?

[Rome]

We gonna be very transparent.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Rome]

I never looked in my. I never looked for women and I never looked for my mother in women. I did look for the love and affection. Right. Why I never looked in. I never looked for my mother and women because I'm put on tape. My mother wasn't a saint, like, you know, like.

[Jessica Hilarious]

But who she was to you, who

[Rome]

she was to me was. She was great. But it was like once she left, it was just that, that affection, that love, that holding a person. Because I used to hold my mother every night. She put me out every night, but I used to hold her. It really didn't affect me until I got older and started dealing with women. Because when I'm going through school, I'm. I'm always busy. Maybe that's why it didn't affect me. I'm grades, baseball, basketball. I really had no downtime to really think about. I know my mom and that they're like probably like 13. I'm, you know, I'm washing cars. That's what. That's, you know, my mother love cars, so that's where I get that from. So it's like, I don't think that it. I never really say, oh, I want my mother and this woman, because my mother ain't know how to cook.

[DJ Envy]

But you know, you have five baby moms, right? And of course, Jess had relationships before she recently, recently got married. How did you co parent in that situation?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right?

[DJ Envy]

Because Ashton to be at his house, he has women there, you know, or, you know, just might have a guy like, how did y'.

[Rome]

All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's crazy how you just cut that man off talking about his mom?

[Rome]

No, because it's gonna come back now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, so I can see where you're doing it. Go ahead. So.

[DJ Envy]

So I'm asking. So. So how did you deal with that? Because that's what you seen with your life.

[Rome]

So how did I see with my. My son there with her and her man?

[Jessica Hilarious]

Like, how do we co parent? Like, how did you, you know, like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So we speaking on this.

[Rome]

We're speaking on the husband now.

[DJ Envy]

Before the husband.

[Rome]

Before the husband.

[DJ Envy]

That's totally different.

[Jessica Hilarious]

My relationships and Ash would be home with me, but then he come over here. Yeah. Like, how was the co parenting relationship between you and I? It was when that was going on schedule. You had girlfriends and I ain't gonna hold you.

[Rome]

I took my feelings out of it. A couple men that. One, two. One and a half. You literally only liked one and a half. I didn't like the other one, but.

[Jessica Hilarious]

And you didn't like him first?

[Rome]

No, I didn't. But we going, yeah, yeah, one and a half.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because why the hat?

[Rome]

I ain't really care for him, but he loved her, so he loved my. He loved my son. So like I said, it's times where Rome just take one, take him to the house when they. Them two was, you know, in one household and I would drop them off, no problems or none of that. So that was it. That was the only transaction for us that really wasn't as high about what up None. I ain't really care for him because of what he was saying to the other women who was coming to me, if that makes sense.

[DJ Envy]

I'm confused. We gotta break it down a little bit. Okay.

[Rome]

So he wasn't a saint in this. In that relationship neither.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Rome]

And we didn't came across a couple of the same women. I ain't disclosing anything, but did you

[DJ Envy]

ever tell just that, like, yeah, you're doing.

[Rome]

It's not my business.

[Jessica Hilarious]

That was not your business.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's nice with your Sunday.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, that's my son.

[Rome]

But they wasn't in the household. He was doing what he did on his free time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow.

[DJ Envy]

How I know that?

[Rome]

Because my son was with me majority of the time when he's doing it on his free time.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Well, a cheater would support a cheater anyway.

[Rome]

I'm not supporting the cheetah. You chose him and that's on you.

[Jessica Hilarious]

I didn't know he was cheating.

[Rome]

I didn't even. I didn't even. But it wasn't a problem.

[DJ Envy]

But how did it affect you when she got married? Right. Because they Said it was boundaries. And the reason I asked is if I'm marrying somebody, I know y' all might have a relationship and I know y' all might be tight, but you kind of got to find your own personal lean on because that's mine. You know what I mean? That's my wife now. You know what I mean? But y' all were so tight for so long. How did those new boundaries affect co parenting and your relationship?

[Caller / Listener]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cause somebody had to build the wall.

[Rome]

It ain't affect nothing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Shut the up, man. Guess what?

[Rome]

It wasn't. It wasn't a wall built. I'm a man. So when she leaped and. And mind you, I knew step by step.

[RZA]

But.

[Rome]

And it wasn't even over on my want you meet Chris. It's just a genuine. And it wasn't a wall. I'm a man. I always have respect. How did I deal with not being around them more or talking to her?

[DJ Envy]

It's almost like you're losing your best friend.

[Rome]

But I never thought about that because you're selfish if you don't want your best friend or you get the person that you love to be happy. So if this is what makes her happy, okay. I got one child mom that's happy.

[Caller / Listener]

Go on.

[Rome]

Russell Wilson.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Is what you used to say.

[Rome]

Don't go get me your future.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm like, yo, yeah, you wanted somebody. You wanted her to get somebody better.

[Rome]

I want her to get a Russell Wilson.

[DJ Envy]

I look so forward till death do we parent to someone that you writing.

[Rome]

And honestly, that's what it is. Hopefully I ain't gonna say it. Cause I want nobody try to steal my.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Nobody gonna steal it.

[Rome]

It's not patented yet. Okay, but you have to be parent part. What is it? Part two.

[Jessica Hilarious]

It'll be part two.

[Rome]

No, is two. You have to be parent part two. Let a father be a father.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Yeah. I love it. And I love you too. Yo.

[Rome]

Are you more.

[Jessica Hilarious]

I really do.

[DJ Envy]

The book is out right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Make sure you get it, man. Salute to my guy room sending room healing energy all the time, man.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Rome]

Hey, fellas. Protect your peace, man.

[DJ Envy]

All right. It's the Breakfast Club.

[RZA]

It's big room.

[DJ Envy]

Mr. Breakfast. Oh, good morning.

[Jessica Hilarious]

And just God damn you here.

[DJ Envy]

All right.

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[DJ Envy]

get to the latest with Lauren.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Lauren becoming a free fan.

[DJ Envy]

She gets them from somebody that knows somebody.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She gets the details.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She'd be having the latest on

[Caller / Listener]

the

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have a little bit everything.

[RZA]

Well, it's the latest brought to you by top dog law on the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Talk to me. I think Rome is the top dog. Like guy. Y' all don't think so?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Not the conspiracy theory.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think that's wrong. Yo.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All right, y'.

[Jessica Hilarious]

All.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So getting into the latest surprise of the fugees has turned himself into to begin his 14 year sentence in a federal institution in Arizona. So if you guys don't remember, Prize was convicted of money laundering, illegal lobbying and campaign finance violations that they tied to try to tie to Obama's campaign. But his attorneys are already talking about the fact that he plans to appeal while he's in prison. A spokesperson for Prize, Erica dz she said. Name d u m a s dumas, dumbass.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Dumas.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Her name is dumbass. Dumbass was speaking for pr. They had no business.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She says, yeah, when he turned this up in she says today was a painful day for Prize and his family and for everyone who believes in a fair justice system. She talks about the appeal and then she goes on to say that, you know, that they believe that on appeal the record will show that his rights were violated and that the truth will come to light.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Can I say that I feel like I hear this story every year. Prize turned himself into prison for 14 years. I thought he was in prison already

[Lauren LaRosa]

because the judge said one day and then they kept giving him 30 day extensions. They extended it like two times. But he's actually done it this time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So he's in prison right now?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. He turned himself in 14 years. Yes. Now in other news, so the Ring magazine and MSN right now are reporting that Floyd Mayweather has been notified by the isaac by the IRS as of the end of last month, the end of March that his U.S. passport may be revoked because of the $7.3 million in taxes that he owes for those unpaid taxes in 2018 and 2023. Now, you guys know that this is an issue because he has fights that he's been talking about that are out of the country. Now, according to the irs, they plan, they. They told him at the end of March that they plan to notify the Department of State because of those taxes. And the only way that he can kind of come up out of this and make sure that he, he. The passport is not revoked is if he pays the debt in full, he reaches an installment agreement or settlement with the Department of Justice, or he establishes some sort of financial hardship where he can explain to them that he's not able to pay the taxes or there's been identity theft or if he files for bankruptcy.

[DJ Envy]

That's just protocol. So that's protocol. So when you owe a large sum of money, the first thing they do is they put a lien on all your properties and then they pull your passport. His. His accountant, if he has a good accountant, I'm sure he does. Well, I hope he does. A good accountant will get his passport back because he is actually going there to work to make money. Like they allow you to travel. They just want to make sure you're not a flight risking that you don't come back. But there's no signs of that with Floyd. I mean, he has a house here, he has his family here, and he's going to actually fight to make money. They're just going to tax that money as soon as he gets paid.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. Now here's the thing. So you guys remember that Floyd Tyson fight was supposed to be happening and it's still supposed to be happening according to a rep for Tyson, but there were. It was rumored that it was going to go down April 2025, and then it just went quiet on both sides. And so a lot of the reports are pointing to the fact that maybe that was one of the reasons why. But then he also has a fight that he. The exhibition that he just announced in June. And then he also still has the Pacquiao fight. So we'll see what happens.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know how you end up in that type of financial situation. I don't know why the taxes weren't being paid. But that's a horror story.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, it is.100.

[DJ Envy]

It could be above a bunch of different things. It could be bad accounting. It could be. That's probably usually what it is. Bad account.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Lord have mercy.

[DJ Envy]

That's usually.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Wow.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes.

[Jessica Hilarious]

You known from being the money man, like the, the, the, the billionaire. And then now you have these issues. Like, I know that hurts his ego. I know that hurts his pride.

[DJ Envy]

Of course it could be a bunch of things. Bad investments. I know, but a host of things. But Ish happens sometimes.

[Jessica Hilarious]

But, you know, image of it.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, we all know is the person that gets that first check is Earth irs.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

As soon as you get a big check, the first thing you need to do is make sure the IRS cut is put off to the side.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, and more positive news and switching gears. Meg thee Stallion, she, you know, she's always looking for different ways that she can give back. I know people don't normally talk about that, but yesterday it was announced and I thought that this was dope, that she is partnering her Pete and Thomas foundation with Habitat for Humanity, and they're going to be going and repairing homes for senior citizens across Dallas in her hometown of Texas. So this initiative will renovate over 30 homes for senior citizens. It'll help with essential repairs like roofing, weather proofing, ramp installations, and different mobility modifications to make it easier for, you know, people who can't afford to, you know, figure out how to change their homes and they're not as mobile to live. So, you know, shout out to Meg the Stallion for them.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Yeah, that's dope.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Salute the big Meg, man.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. But as we talk about that, do gotta mention yesterday, you remember the WNBA player Lexi Brown?

[Jessica Hilarious]

Yeah. Allegedly cheating.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. She spoke to Fox yesterday and she says that she's receiving death threats behind the fact that people think she broke up the Meg and Clay relationship. Let's take a listen. Me and Clay are do know each other because we both play professional basketball. I would have considered him a friend. I do not know Meg the Stallion at all. I'm still the only person that has denied this entire situation of my involvement and claim that this is 100% false. And the fact that I'm still the only one that is defending my name, I have no idea how to process that.

[Jessica Hilarious]

There is this massive outcry for protecting

[Lauren LaRosa]

black women and nobody has mentioned Lexi

[Jessica Hilarious]

Brown's name in any of those conversations. I was getting threats on my life. I was getting threats on my health.

[Lauren LaRosa]

My family started getting comments and threats from people. I've had to hire security to travel with me places. So it got to a point where

[Jessica Hilarious]

I just was scared for my.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Myself, man.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Yeah, that's just a bunch of mad Meg fans. You know, just turn your phone off, right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You'll be fine.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I feel like people just take things too far because, like, why? Yeah, absolutely. You know what I mean? Like that that's just a bit too far.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But that's what they do in the comments. That's what social media is for. It is that type of cesspool. It's that type of playground. Those people go online to go in your comments just to mess with you. Did they say they was going, let's go to clay comments and jump them?

[Jessica Hilarious]

Yeah, yeah, they were going.

[Lauren LaRosa]

They was in there. They was in there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They're doing the same thing to somebody like Lexi.

[Caller / Listener]

That's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what they do. That's what social media is like.

[Jessica Hilarious]

You said, put your phone down. And I remember you telling, you telling Megan that before too, Charlemagne, when she was like, fighting for her life in the comments. You know, when that beef was going on between her and Nikki was just like, yo, turn. Turn your phone.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You that too, to all the time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, I did tell me that. I told you. I said give yourself a weekend. Like, put the phone down for a weekend.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You pick it up on Monday. And then they. Right there.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Shut up, Envy. Because you don't have to tell me that in a long time because I actually been good. I've been turning my phone off.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I'm not worried about Jess in the comments. I'm worried about just going online, making the comments

[Jessica Hilarious]

in a long time.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, my God. I want to. As we wrap real quick, I just want to say thank you to everybody with the accelerator Accelerate her. Yes, let's hear about program. Yesterday, me and, like, four other ladies received a bossy award, which is like the initiation into kind of the accelerate her family. But it's just been like a dope 48 hours. Like, I've met so many people. Like, yesterday I sat down and had a conversation with a wealth management banker. Then I had another conversation with, like, a group of, like, married women who were figuring out how to also balance their, like, careers. I mean, like, executive level CEOs who also manage their houses, like, their homes, like businesses. And just, just, just seeing the different ways that these black women are living and the money they making and just the. Not even just about the money, but the. The way that they're able to like, just really, like, be like, they're. They're showing up and they're not. They're not afraid to say what they're doing and talk about it and just live fully. I'm like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And you got honored last night.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I said that first. I received the posse award yesterday.

[Jessica Hilarious]

But you glossed over it, baby.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Like, I'm sorry. Well, I, I have honored audio of. Of the. The track that they played. I thought that y'. All.

[Mimi Brown]

Hello.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Let's take a listen. If it's happening, there's a good chance Lauren LaRosa is already on it. Hailed as a rising force in media and a certified Media Maven, Lauren LaRosa has built her voice and brand at the intersection of conversation.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She called you low, Low rent.

[Lauren LaRosa]

A certified brown girl grinding and a proud graduate of Delaware State University. Diversity. From trending topics to interviewing everyone from former president Barack Obama, Loren has become known for asking the real questions the people want answers to. Because low ren understands something early. Your platform matters.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah,

[Lauren LaRosa]

she's brought her distinct. That was it.

[DJ Envy]

That playing with yo stop playing with Lauren.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, that was the intro. The intro to, like, when they gave us the award. And I think that maybe that was like an AI.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Definitely.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I also didn't interview Barack Obama. Y' all did at the Breakfast Club

[Jessica Hilarious]

before he even came along.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But I took it, though. I was like, yeah, you know, but yes, that was. It was.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I got mad videos of you from last night.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Congratulations.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It was amazing. Thank you guys so much. Y' all know I cried, but people

[Charlamagne Tha God]

were sending me videos of you all last night.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I was looking good.

[Jessica Hilarious]

So proud of you. I'm sorry.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Why you didn't post nothing?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm waiting for you to send it. You want me to post something that somebody sent to me? Just spying on you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You be threatening to post anything else? Well, but the positive.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She wasn't tongue kissing nobody this time.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I will be posting it. And we'll also have my speech and just some experiences from the Accelerate her on the podcast. The Latest with Lauren LaRosa and some bonus episodes because I'm gonna go hear Kamala speak today.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Period.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, donkey of the day is up next. It's the people's donkey. So call up right now if you want to give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid. It's the Breakfast Club. It's your time to nominate a donkey

[DJ Envy]

donkey of your own.

[RZA]

Remember now, that is how they choose. Call in now.

[DJ Envy]

800-585-1051.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Donkey of the Day for Friday, May 1 is the People's donkey. You know, we give y' all the chance to call in and give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid. You can give somebody the biggest hee haw. So good morning. Who's this?

[DJ Envy]

What's up?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is Bon Irene Bonairine, who you want to get a biggest he haw to Bonarine.

[Caller / Listener]

I want to give the donkey to everybody who was saying the Michael Jackson film was great. Donkey. Donkey.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All of them. All of them. I haven't seen it yet. I'm going this weekend, though.

[DJ Envy]

It is great. I loved it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's not. It's not great. It's like y' all forgot who Michael was. Yo, y'.

[Nyla Simone]

All.

[Caller / Listener]

Y' all was here when Michael was here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who was. My film was not great. Tell me what you mean. Nobody. What do you mean? What do you mean we forgot who Michael was?

[Caller / Listener]

I mean, like, the film just didn't do him justice. It did not do him justice at all.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, I heard when Laura.

[Caller / Listener]

Yeah, my bad. Lauren. Lauren LaRosa, when she was saying that, you know, there was some trials and tribulations that they couldn't do some stuff, which makes sense. That's probably why the movie was whack.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They had to, you know, get rid

[Caller / Listener]

of a lot of stuff. But I feel like it was a montage of like a music video or someone in reenacting his music videos. That's what it felt like. Well, it was burying superficials.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, I'm gonna go this weekend. I haven't seen it yet. I'm gonna go this weekend, though. But I mean, yo. It. Everybody that I know that has seen the movie, they thoroughly enjoyed it. But I mean, I. I think it is hard to capture a larger than life character like that on screen.

[Rome]

It was.

[DJ Envy]

I don't think it was a montage. I think it showed his life to a certain aspect. It showed to the 1988. It showed him as a kid growing up how his father used to beat him. That had nothing to do with videos. It also showed why he loved animals and why he moved the way that he moved, what he did, the moment where he stood up to his dad. It did show a lot of his performances and a lot of his music, how he created the beat.

[Caller / Listener]

It.

[DJ Envy]

How he created and got the ideas for some of the songs. So I wouldn't saying is whack and trash. That's a stretch.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Isn't that how he invented the moonwalk? He stood up to his dad, and then Joe really got buckets that I'll beat your ass. And then he moonwalked behind. Is that. That's not true, yo.

[DJ Envy]

No, that is not. Are you serious?

[Jessica Hilarious]

He was about to get beaten and just started sliding, yo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what somebody told me. I don't know. I didn't see the movie. I'm going this weekend.

[DJ Envy]

That is not true.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Michael was really a clown, yo.

[RZA]

He played too much.

[Jessica Hilarious]

What are you doing?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

My bad, dad. You know, Homer Simpson was moonwalking too. When he walked back into them bushes, you remember?

[DJ Envy]

Shut up, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning. Who's this?

[Caller - Critic]

This is Catherine.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, Catherine. Who you want to get the biggest. He hauled to.

[Caller - Critic]

I want to give the biggest donkey to you, Charlemagne.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, Lord, what I do?

[Caller - Critic]

Yesterday, when the lady called about Zepbound, you really dogged her out. And, you know, you asked her. You know about her. Well, one of you guys asked her about her height and her weight, and you always talk about mental health and all of that. And this lady could have been. She could have gone through trauma when she was younger. She could have been teased when she was younger about her weight, and she called to talk about not getting the help that she needed from her insurance company. Charlemagne. And you really go in on people. I don't know if you guys have people call in and, you know, make crank calls so you guys can dog them out, but Charlamagne, come on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't think she had a problem with it. We were going back. It wasn't even.

[Caller - Critic]

I think she had a problem with it because she didn't want to get embarrassed on the phone. But when she got off that phone call, you don't know what she could have went through. Charlemagne.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We talk. We talked to the people before, you know, we. We go live with them, man. And. Oh, you might not have been worth talking to. And I'm just playing. I just said that. I just said that because you say I'll be dogging people out. That's all.

[Caller - Critic]

Go all in on you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, ma'. Am. I do, actually.

[Caller - Critic]

Okay, look, you talk about people saying act or ask. You write books, and you say library.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I do.

[Caller - Critic]

Library has an R in it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, you're correct.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Come on, girl.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You got to get.

[Caller - Critic]

You haven't seen the Michael movie, but the pastor just came on this morning and talked about change and being forced to. To change. And so when you go to see the Michael movie, I think you need to get your little. Get your little step stool, and when you go to the bathroom in the morning, get up on it and look in the mirror and make that change.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, you're right.

[DJ Envy]

That was a good one.

[Jessica Hilarious]

It was a little stumbling.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But here's the thing. None of this. None of this

[Caller - Critic]

morning show, and I have gone all this time and never called in because I love listening to Jeff Mimi mv. I love it. You. I. Not so much. You're a semi celebrity. You know, you. You just go all in on people, and it's difficult for me sometimes to listen because of you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But you know what?

[Caller - Critic]

Tolerate it. But I don't like it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, listen.

[Caller - Critic]

And I do have a choice not to listen, but I still listen anyway and support, because I Love the show.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you.

[Caller - Critic]

You need to make that change, Charlemagne.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, listen, none of this offends me because it's true. You said I'm short. Okay, she said ugly. You said what else? You said, what else? Tell me what else you said about.

[Caller - Critic]

You say library.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Library.

[Caller - Critic]

I mean, I would order one of your books just to read it for the content, to see if there's typos in it. Not really for the content because I'm not really interested in it, but I'd love to read it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But this is my thing. None of this offends me because it's true. Just like if somebody calls up here and tells us that they're on a weight loss medication and then we ask them they height and weight and they tell us that's true. Truth or.

[Caller - Critic]

I mean, why would you do that? Why aren't you all in on Blue Cross Blue Shield? I work in corrections and Blue Cross Blue Shield just made a huge change that affected a lot of people's lives. So you ought to be a little more careful and, you know, super all of that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But the gist of the phone call yesterday was literally about us dog and Blue Cross Blue Shield. But your ears decided to focus on just the aspect of the call you didn't like.

[Caller - Critic]

No, it wasn't. Yes, it wasn't for that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You.

[Caller - Critic]

You, you on the butt end of the phone call said, oh, Blue Cross Blue Shield. No, you were all in on what's your height, what's your weight. Oh, and Envy, you said, oh, there is the gym and yes, there is the gym. But some people need help on the beginning part of that to temper crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So why you not mad at Envy? You ain't got no. You don't got no criticism for anything.

[Jessica Hilarious]

She love us.

[DJ Envy]

This is donkey of the day, sir.

[Caller - Critic]

This is your donkey criticism for you because you. If it was just a sprinkle here and there, like Envy, you know, that would be. I. I could tolerate that. But you are. You even go in all in on your employees and that might be yalls relationship and yalls yours, but you little man, you got a problem.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're right.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nothing you said is wrong.

[Caller - Critic]

Napoleon syndrome.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nothing you said is wrong, and I'm not offended.

[DJ Envy]

I will say this, though. Yes, I think a lot of people do use Ozempic and that a Z pound as alternative to actually going to the gym. I think for a lot of people, it is an easy way out. A lot of people will not go to the gym. And because that shot is available, they'll Take that shot even when they don't necessarily need to lose that much of weight. So I do feel like the. Those shots for a lot of people. Not everybody is a cop out. And Charlemagne doesn't know what he's talking about. Yes, we do screen the calls. The today you got through without us screening because our producer and another one woke up late. So that's the reason why. But yes, we do screen the calls and speak to the people before you just got through because two producers weren't here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I also would like to say that yesterday we actually told the woman she wasn't fat when she told us her heightener.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I just want to throw that out there as well. We actually told her she was not fat.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Right. She was just trying to get snatched the whole time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right. All right. That was the people's donkey. We do that every Friday. You can call in and get. Give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid, even if it's me. Okay? So 1-800-585-1051. Remember that for next Friday.

[DJ Envy]

And you got to watch Charlemagne, Jess, because when the lady says something about me, he goes, why you ain't going in on Envy?

[Jessica Hilarious]

Just me?

[DJ Envy]

How you don't be in it?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because she said it. She said that an Envy going to say that that girl need to go to the gym. So I'm just trying to figure out why you ain't got no smoke Envy then.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Cuz you miss the mental health, she said.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And jokes are about a part of having healthy mental health.

[Jessica Hilarious]

That's true.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay. The people that call into this show the same way that woman could, could give it to me. Right? I can dish it. I can take it. That's the beauty of the Breakfast Club. That's the. That's the relationship we have with our listeners. Okay?

[DJ Envy]

You can take it. That's right. All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We clown each other in the street. You gotta see, you know, people walk with me at the Black Effect Festival with jokes.

[DJ Envy]

Me too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You see what I'm saying?

[DJ Envy]

I'm not Dominican, by the way. Everybody else, well, you hear, You Dominican. No, I'm not Dominican, by the way.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You think it hurts me to hear, Man, I thought you were six feet tall. You sound six feet tall on the radio. I'm short. I don't care.

[DJ Envy]

It's all right. When we come back, RZA will be joining us. He has a new movie called A Spoon of Chocolate. We'll talk to him about it when we come back. So don't go anywhere. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, indeed.

[DJ Envy]

He has a new movie that comes out this Friday, ladies and gentlemen, RZA in the Building.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How you feeling?

[DJ Envy]

The name of the movie is One

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Spoon of Chocolate Man. One Spoon of Chocolate. This is my personal opinion. Instant Classic.

[RZA]

Respect.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Instant Classic. I already got it as one of the best movies I've ever seen. And to me for what I like and the type of movies I like, it's one of my all time personal favorites. I watched it twice yesterday.

[RZA]

Oh, man, thank you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Literally, I'm on Instagram yelling in all caps.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Yeah, they watched another place, folks.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Like, all right, y', all, I calm down now.

[DJ Envy]

Ah, man, I'm 62 minutes in. 62 minutes in. And I would just say I'm. I'm highly impressed, you know? You know, it's funny. I'm watching it and I'm watching the characters play out, right? And I'm talking to Charlemagne because, you know, he got a loud mouth because he's seen it, right? So I'm watching it and he's telling me, yo, Paris, I'm like, that's Michael Jackson's daughter as one of the stars. But you don't look at her as Paris Jackson. You just look at her as a good actress. And I was highly impressed, brother.

[RZA]

Yeah, she definitely did a thing. Out of all the actors that's in the film, she's. She don't need to be there, right? Most people that. That do acting or music, whatever, they do it for. They need a bag or they do it for popularity. She's already one of the most popular persons in the world.

[DJ Envy]

Correct.

[RZA]

Living on, sitting on a, you know, a bag of accolades and economics. So she came there, she came as an artist, and she got up every morning or six in the morning, got in that makeup chair, came on set and actually had something that I noticed. But you notice act different actresses or actors got a special quality. Like Shamik Moore. He's a sponge.

[DJ Envy]

Absolutely.

[RZA]

But she's like a motor memory. Like, you know, I mean, like, I seen that in Lucy Liu. I've seen that in Uma Thurman. Like, people that. That could do it 20 times exactly the same way because they already did it in their minds. So she definitely has. She wants to do this. She can go as far as she wants.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jackson must want us in the theaters because, you know, last week his movie came out, and then this week comes out, Right? His daughter.

[RZA]

Yeah. Which I. Which I think in the. Culturally is. It's a good one two punch. In all reality, one is very. You know, the Jackson movies uplift and bring us our childhood and bring children into that world, right? And then once more, it's like for the adults to go, wait a minute.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's very uplifting to me. I'm not black. I didn't get to that one yet. I didn't get to that one. I'm still mad.

[DJ Envy]

I'm still mad right now. How do you get to that point?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You do a range of emotions, but that last 30 minutes, you like, I'm mad now.

[DJ Envy]

I'm still mad. So let's talk about it for people that haven't seen it or explain what spoon of Chocolate is.

[RZA]

Well, at the end of the day, the title itself says a lot, right? Because one spoon of chocolate could change the whole glass of milk. You know what I mean? And sometimes you got to put that in there. Sometimes you got to be like, yo, change the. Change the chemistry. Change your outcome as an artist. For me, I put a spoonful of different things into this film, like, even from different genres. You watch it. One moment you feeling, like, angry. Next moment you feel like, wait, is this a romantic comedy going on? Like, because there's both. There's a vibe of that. Then. Then, of course, there's the. There's the action satisfaction. And then, to be quite honest, bro, and since he saw it, he could vouch for this.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

There's.

[RZA]

You get you scared for a moment in that moment.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely.

[RZA]

You, like, hold on, bro, what's gonna happen? You. You grabbing your seat like, yo, is that gonna happen?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And so I was ready to be mad at you. I'm like, yo, don't. Don't let that happen. Right? No, no, Something happened. And I'm like, oh, no, he did it. Then I'm like, yes. Try not to give it away, man.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I was very interested to see how you guys would have the conversation because y was so excited about it without giving the movie away.

[RZA]

Well, you know what? I learned something about. About. About filmmaking, right? It took me touch my. My fourth film. So, you know, and I feel proud of all my work, but I don't think I ever understood the rubber band effect. So the rubber band effect is. You pull that right to. It's about the pop, then you let it go. Just keep doing that. You know what I mean? So now that I. I understand that that's the energy you're feeling when you're watching this film. You're like, oh, okay, okay, let me chill Then you know, you're looking at the other people in the audience. It's definitely an audience film. So you saw it by yourself, right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, I watched it on the plane twice, and my wife kept tapping me because I was yo. And then people looking at me on the plane. And then I watched it again at home when I got home last night. So when you.

[RZA]

So when you see it with the audience, it's even. It's. It's. It like. It's even another thing, because now you fill the room. You know what I mean? Like, when I first saw it in New York City, you know how New Yorkers are. We like, yo was yelling at the screen, yo, that son, yo do this, do that. But then in la, it seemed like everybody was nervous, yo, you know what I mean? Then in San Francisco, I did a Q A afterwards. It was intellectual, you know? I mean, everybody took it intellectually. But in Chicago, at the Beyond Fest, cheering, standing ovation. So it gives you. It has the ability to shake you in different directions.

[DJ Envy]

Now, I know you're an EP and director. Did you write the movie as well?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Now, break down your mind frame with writing through that. Are these past experiences? Of course, that's exaggerated a lot, but express the mind frame.

[RZA]

Definitely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean.

[RZA]

Well, first of all, I started writing it in 2011.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Somebody told me that.

[Caller / Listener]

Wow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. That's what, 13 years?

[RZA]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Wow.

[RZA]

14 years ago. And I tried to, but I got stuck, bro. Like, writer's block. Like, nothing would come out. Like, I just. Page 40. Nothing. Five years later. Nothing, really. But then when we was doing the New York State of Mind tour, on the back of the tour bus, me and my wife just, you know, you got the star coach, but they're still bouncing. I'm back there on my computer, and it just came out like water. Every. Every city, every truck stop. Like, I get out to the truck stop sometimes, you know, you get off the bus, and you might go in there, whatever, and I get back on the bus, like, and all this just came out. So. So as far as the mindset of it, you know, it's like, it's really taken. You know, we from New York, right? So I know if you. We all close to the same age. Do you remember going to the first White Castles in Bay Ridge, bro?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. Yeah. My mom was in Queens Village, but I know what you mean.

[RZA]

Yo, bro, you couldn't. So if you live on Staten island, you want to go to White Castle, you had to go across the Verzano, right? Bensonhurst, Bay Ridge, bro. And you'll do it for.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

For a White Castle Burger.

[RZA]

Back in those days. Nah, bro. Homies was lined up, you know, I mean, you know, I mean, me and Dirty got chased out of that White Castle, you know, I mean, I don't know if, you know, Lefis Boulevard or that side of, you know, back. That side of Queens. Back in those days, on Staten island, there was a place called Rosebank, you know, and, you know, they had a. It's like once you go onto that bridge, you in Rosebank. But it said on the bridge. No, don't come in here, bro. I mean, you go and you go, though, because, you know, amp was there, so you might go to pack bags or try to get your hustle on.

[DJ Envy]

And.

[RZA]

Yeah, homies. Homies. Homies with a pickup truck with bats is sending you up out of there. So. So that's just a childhood thing that happened in. In New York City. In all reality.

[DJ Envy]

The crazy thing is, even with Staten island, until Wu Tang came out, that's what we imagined. Staten island was nothing but white boys and bats. And you better not go over there.

[RZA]

Exactly.

[DJ Envy]

Parts of Brooklyn were like that. You better not go. And even in Queens, where John Gotti and them live, like, there were areas where you just, like, you're not going over on that side of town because you're gonna get up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Exactly.

[RZA]

And then. Then it evolved, right? Some of those, like, I go to Rose. It's called Rose Bank. I go to Rose bank now, bro. Drinks is on a house. Partying in the pubs. And.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But.

[RZA]

But that evolution may have happened in New York City. It may have happened, you know, in Los Angeles. It may have happened in Philadelphia, but there's places in the country where it has not happened yet. There's places in our country where people are stuck in the. Stuck in the past. It's almost like. And I'm gonna say this without trying to be political, I'm gonna say, you got the. You got the Obama generation. You know what I mean? And then you got the opposite generation.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, the movie feels very personal. What pain were you channeling when you. When you wrote this?

[RZA]

Like. Like, be honest, Charlama. I don't think I was channeling my pain. I think I was trying to. Channeling pain that people are feeling.

[Rome]

Like.

[RZA]

Like I said it. It came out like. Like two. Two watery. Like. Like, I'm like, all praises. Do you know I've been blessed? Yeah, I mean, you know, we. We all been blessed. We, you know, you know, you waking up, you know, your problems is our Problems are small, but people problems ain't small.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[RZA]

And people problems, it's probably, you know, so much fear, so much different things in their hearts and so much miscommunication. You know, my. My capo, my composer, Tyler Bates, who does big Hollywood movies like John Wick and Guardian of the Galaxy, etc, and it's a producer, Marilyn Manson. I needed somebody to help me with the music. And so my buddy Mark Abraham was like, I got a friend who can help. I didn't know Tyler. And so he called Tyler and Tyler watched the film and then he came and said, yo, I'm going to help you with this, bro. Right? Because I couldn't afford this guy. So I'm going to help you because I want people to see this. He said, the characters in there, that's on the villain side, we him as a white man, basically hoping that none of those qualities exist in him or his peers, right? So it's the same way like in Django, when you saw Sam Jackson play what they call the. I could say, yeah, I don't like to even. Actually, I don't even say that much. Like two or three times a day.

[Rome]

I got it.

[RZA]

I don't contain my.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

With a cool role. Samuel Jackson was the cool world. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[RZA]

He played the Uncle Tom joint, right? But when he played it, you didn't want none of that to be in you. In fact, Minister Farrakhan once said, I seen him get interviewed about Django and it was like, minister Farrakhan, Spike Lee is boycotting Django. What do you think? You know, Minister Farrakhan, I'm paraphrasing. He said, did he see it? He said, no, he won't see it. So what did you think about that? What do you think about the movie? And Minister Farrakhan said, well, I haven't seen it, you know, so I can't speak on it. But if the brother Spike, who's a very intelligent brother, if he wants to boycott it, that's his right. About two weeks later, they interviewed him again. Said Minister Farrakhan, now that you've seen Django, what do you think? It was a marvelous movie. He said, the way they played it, the. The depiction, Leonardo, Sam Jackson. Sam Jackson played the Uncle Tom so well that if there was any Tom in you, you felt uncomfortable. That to me, is the characters of Jimmy in the Sheriff in our movie. If anybody is watching this and days Go, that's me. They hopefully something shakes them up a little bit and they get some passion out of them and let go of that.

[Caller / Listener]

Wow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What does one spoon of chocolate teach people about life in 2026? What do you hope it teaches people?

[RZA]

Well, the biggest thing, like I said, is preparation, yo. You gotta, you know, and also be prepared or accept the change, the chance of change. You know, the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The.

[DJ Envy]

The.

[RZA]

The title came in 2011, and I was writing a dart, and I don't know if this dart ever came out. I keep saying it. I can't remember if I said it on a song or not, but it was like, you want a spoonful of dope or a spoonful of hope? You know what I mean? And so it's like, okay, that led to a spoonful of chocolate, because one spoon of chocolate could change the whole glass of milk.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And can I say something, man? Avon has never steered me wrong. I don't care if it's Clarence. I don't care if it's Nicole. Alex was on me about watching this movie, bro.

[RZA]

Yeah, the brother, Alex Avon, and the whole CAA team. But Alex Avon, he. He saw it early, like, even before it was finished, and he was like, yo, I want to help you spread the word on this. You know, I mean, so I know he shouted you out to watch it. So I just want to say thank you, Alex. You know, I mean, continue to be that. That spirit that.

[Rome]

That.

[RZA]

That helps the culture and keep rocking the world.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Yo, congratulations on being inducted into the hall of Fame. Congratulations.

[RZA]

Let's turn that up a little bit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Word. Congratulations to Wu Tang Clan.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[RZA]

Inducted into the Rock and Roll hall of Fame, Period.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Congratulations right there.

[RZA]

You know, I'm good with that. Shout out to the Wu Tang Brothers, man. I appreciate all of us. And this is no. Out of all accolades. Everybody had the Kool Aid smile.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Yeah.

[RZA]

You know, I mean, so thank you for that.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, that was fun.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Was that. Was that a gold level?

[RZA]

Unexpected.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow.

[DJ Envy]

Wow, man.

[RZA]

Unexpected. And we'll talk about it again one day. But definitely the most recent thing that made me feel like a child again. Giddy, giddy, giddy, bong, bong, bong.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

And I don't want to end on a sad note. We also gotta say rest in peace to the power. So, you know, I know. Brother, family member, one of the founding fathers. So we just wanted to say, you know, our condolences are always with every member of the Woo for that rest in peace.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Pete, one spoon of chocolate in theaters today.

[DJ Envy]

That's right. Make sure you go check it out. One sport of chocolate. I'm 62 minutes in, but now after talking, I gotta start because now there's different things that I seen that I collected that I didn't get before.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The last 30 minutes is some of the best cinema I ever seen in my Life. The last 30 minutes is like chefs, kiss me.

[DJ Envy]

Ah man, I can't wait. All right, well, there you have it.

[RZA]

It's RZA in the building.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning.

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[DJ Envy]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast club. Let's get to Pastor A.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, DJ, come spin now. Come spin. Big Nyla Young 1990 now. Hey, girl on.

[Nyla Simone]

You know, you know. Thank you, thank you.

[Jessica Hilarious]

All right, all right, all right. That's it.

[Caller - Critic]

Oh, no.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Because, you know, he always come with something else.

[Nyla Simone]

You do usually throw a jab in between the nicknames, but at the end,

[Jessica Hilarious]

at the very end. Yeah. We did get to break you down, huh?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You hot this morning?

[DJ Envy]

No, I'm tired.

[Nyla Simone]

I was DJing last night.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm a little scared.

[Nyla Simone]

Every Thursday, Saint Lounge, pull up on me if you're in the city. Why you say scared?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Frightened. You look at the side, you look.

[Nyla Simone]

Guys, guys.

[DJ Envy]

The hair was standing up a little bit, too.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, thank you.

[Rome]

Yes.

[Nyla Simone]

All right, let's get into these songs. I want to start with Ebony Riley. I don't know if you guys are familiar with her, but really dope R B artist. Oh, you are tapped in. Yeah. She's gorgeous, by the way, but also very talented. This record is called too grown.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I like that. Fire.

[Rome]

I like that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I didn't. Yeah, it's fire. I went to Google her when you said she fine. I'm like, she got the right complexion. She got the right complexion. You know that. You listen, you know, I have. I like melanin. She got that. She got it. Salute to avenue. You got the right first name, too. Ebony.

[Jessica Hilarious]

I messed with her. Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She got the whole project, huh?

[Nyla Simone]

Oh, wow. She's from Detroit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, I didn't know that.

[Nyla Simone]

I feel like we haven't had an R B artist from Detroit. So I think.

[Jessica Hilarious]

No, I Didn't know that.

[Nyla Simone]

Yes. So make sure you guys tap in with Ebony Riley now. Also, Isaiah Rashad did drop his project today too. I'm not gonna play a song, but it's out there. Make sure you guys tune in next. I'm gonna get with this Vince staple record. This is the first record, first single off of his project that's dropping June 5th. It's called BlackBerry Marmalade.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I like that.

[Jessica Hilarious]

This always got a message.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I love it.

[DJ Envy]

As soon as Charlamagne heard Cracker, he stopped smiling.

[Jessica Hilarious]

If the rest of the song was trash. As soon as he had Cracker, he

[Charlamagne Tha God]

left cracker 15 times in 35 seconds.

[Caller / Listener]

I love it.

[Rome]

I love it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think it's fantastic. It is amazing. It's incredible. I need to be in rotation all over the world. All right. Salute to Vince.

[Nyla Simone]

Yes. Salute to Vince. Album drops June 5th. We're definitely looking forward to that. Now, y' all know I've been Atlanta a lot now, and this is the hardest record in the A right now. It's called Smack or Die, and it's by Hard Narc.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think that's one I gotta see in the club.

[Nyla Simone]

Okay, you know what? The clean version really don't help it either.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nah, not at all. Because I'm sure you've seen that record outside already.

[Nyla Simone]

Yes.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Yeah, I was gonna say it sound like something that I've heard before. It sound like something my son listened to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I got. I gotta see it outside. Okay. Yay.

[Nyla Simone]

N. Okay, real quick. His name is RJ the Weirdo. He's actually signed a Ty Dollar Sign. You know, he just came with Leon Thomas. Now he got another one, RJ the Weirdo. And this song is called I gotta Google him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because if you calling yourself a weirdo in this era, you really must be a weirdo.

[Nyla Simone]

And the song title don't help, but it's called Catch a Body.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Nyla Simone]

Tough.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But Salute to Ty Dollar Sign.

[Nyla Simone]

Well, you know, high.

[RZA]

Two for two.

[Nyla Simone]

Wait, I think he signed the Tide, but they're definitely affiliated. Like, he's on the project.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ties all over his page.

[Nyla Simone]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Jessica Hilarious]

And he's all over, like, the. The cadence of the music, too. Like, you kind of hear from that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yep.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Like you're from that family.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, well, that's Ty part it's tied to For Two, because Ty gave us Leon Thomas as well.

[Nyla Simone]

Yeah, I know.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Nyla Simone]

Yeah. So lots of good music on the way. I mean, excited about it. Make sure you guys follow me at Nyla Simone. N Y L A S Y M O N E E E on the gram so you can stay up to date in music and events and all

[Charlamagne Tha God]

that good stuff by esm the Y Records, Easy M NY Records label supported by Ty Dollar Sign and Leon Thomas.

[Caller - Critic]

Fire.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Always putting us on, honey.

[Nyla Simone]

Yeah, thanks for having me.

[DJ Envy]

All right, well, thank you, Nyla.

[Nyla Simone]

Thank you, Envy.

[DJ Envy]

And on Friday, you know, we throw it back, so. Oh, my goodness.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You do it on your own.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Throw it back, boys.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my goodness. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a salute to the RZA for joining us this morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Man, go see One Spoon of Chocolate. I'm not even joking, y'.

[Caller / Listener]

All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I watched that movie twice in the same day. It is an instant classic for me. I can't speak for everybody. Everybody got different tastes. For me, it was an instant classic. Is one of my favorite movies of all time already. I love One Spoon of Chocolate, man. Which go salute to Shamik Moore. Salute to the Rizza Killed it. Paris Jackson. Who else in that movie?

[DJ Envy]

Blair Underwood.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Blair Underwood in the movie?

[Jessica Hilarious]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes. Great young cast too, man. Salute to everybody that's in One Spoon of Chocolate. Go check that out. This weekend. Michael Jackson wants you to be in the theaters. Okay, Absolutely. His biopic is out last weekend. His daughter in One Spoon of Chocolate this weekend. Go see it. Unique is one of my favorite new black superheroes. Really, really dope. I'm trying to tell you. You. You finished the whole thing in me.

[DJ Envy]

I didn't. I tried to tell you. I tried to watch it earlier. The mirror screening to work.

[Jessica Hilarious]

So we got to see it this weekend. Cuz Charlotte, somebody about it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He ain't even get see cuz Envy only saw the first 62 minutes. The last 30 minutes is everything.

[DJ Envy]

I'm gonna see that today. As soon as my daughter gets off stage. We're gonna go check the matinee.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I'm going to see the Michael Jackson movie this weekend because I haven't seen it. I gotta go see One Spoon of Chocolate in the theaters, man. Cause I had a screening for it. I gotta go see it in the theaters.

[DJ Envy]

Absolutely. And also salute to Big Rome for joining us this morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Listen, there would be no tell death to we parent it wasn't for Rome.

[Caller / Listener]

Whoa, okay, whoa.

[Jessica Hilarious]

As right as y' all don't like just cancel me out. If it wasn't for me in Rome, there would not be a till death of do we parent.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That is true. And you know, like I said, I was Saying during the interview, man, I was always trying to figure out I didn't have the language for the energy between Rome and Jess, but I see it now, like Rome has a very, very deep mother wound. And. And. And. And Jess has. Has. Has done her best to help heal that wound.

[DJ Envy]

Correct.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, not saying that she's playing the role of his mother in any way, shape, or form, but you could just tell, as he said in the interview, there's been people who's tried to put salt in that mother wound, but Jess has been the person to try to heal it. And I think that brings some type of comfort, you know, and you do it effortlessly. Jess, it don't seem like it's draining for you.

[DJ Envy]

It's not forceful. Nah. She does it because she cares.

[RZA]

Absolutely.

[DJ Envy]

So pick up Jess's book if you're out and about this weekend. Till Death Do We Parent.

[Jessica Hilarious]

It's in stores, it's online. It's a great read. And shout out to everybody that came out to the book signing last night in Dumbo Powerhouse Bookstores. Yo, what I realized last night is, yo, a lot of people are hurt. Like, it's so many moms and dads going through things, right? And, yo, if. If my book can be a beacon of light or if me and Rome can be a beacon of light for people like, yo, that's. You got to think about the impact that that gives, because the hardest thing to do is to co parent with somebody that you despise or you, you know, who don't see you and don't see all the hard work you putting in to do it by yourself. And that's. That's what I was getting a lot. So I appreciate everybody who came out. I appreciate everybody who's bought the book so far. It's a great piece of literature. Till Death Do We Parent is in bookstores online. Get it, get it, get it. Do a review. Don't just. Don't just get it. Because you support me and you. You're a fan of me. Get it. Actually read it it. And then do your own review. Tell me how it impacted you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, one of the reviews I've been seeing is Mad People Want Roman to write a book now.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And he was walking around power bookstores. That's like, yeah, I'm gonna do that. I'm working on Charlemagne already gave me the green light. I'm like, yo, don't yell at.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Like, stop yelling that out. Yo, we working on my book right now. No, y' all not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I can't give the green light. Just gotta get a green light.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

If Jeff say he, he. He can write one, that I, you know, try to make it happen, but.

[Jessica Hilarious]

But I do see that in his future, he wants to tell his story, you know, from his perspective. And I want him to do that, so.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. And Charlamagne, the guy we are the Breakfast Club. I know we've been talking a lot about movies, but if you're looking for a new series to watch, Netflix has a brand new action series called man on Fire, which is out right now. It stars Yahya Abdul Mateen the second as John Creasy. He's a former special forces mercenary who tries to rebuild his life after a failed mission. The problem is danger keeps pulling him right back in. In man on Fire, Creasy ends up having to protect the young woman from the relentless assassins. Trust me, if you like action, this one's for you. Take a listen to this. Regina's always telling me that I worry

[Charlamagne Tha God]

about you too much.

[Jessica Hilarious]

Stop.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Something's got to hold.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, look, why don't you come back with me?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We could use you on the team. I'm pretty much a solo act at this point. How's that working out for you? I've lost everything.

[Jessica Hilarious]

My family, my home.

[DJ Envy]

I'm falling apart right in front of you.

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If the people who brought down that building find her,

[Charlamagne Tha God]

she will suffer all over again.

[DJ Envy]

Make sure you watch man on Fire right now only on Netflix. Now it's time to get up out of here. Charlamagne, you got a positive note?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes. I want to also tell people, make sure you go watch the Breakfast Club interviews on Netflix. Today's interview with rza, and today's interview with Rome and just hilarious. And please go see one spoon of chocolate, because I need somebody to talk to. Okay? Because I. There's nobody that has seen it other than the people that have been involved. And I mean, they've had screenings and stuff for it, but I ain't spoke to none of the people. I need the people that I know to go see it so I can talk to them about it.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, we're gonna chop it up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But the positive note is this. The truth will set you free, but not until it is finished with you. What does that mean? Truth is not just a polite realization. It is a force that dismantles every illusion and misconception that you have about yourself. When I say finished with you, that aspect implies that truth works on you, and it changes your perspective. And overcomes your resistance to it. So stop resisting the truth, man. It'll set you free, but not until it's finished with you. Have a great weekend. Breakfast Club Wake you up.

[DJ Envy]

Wake that ass up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Rome]

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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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