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Charlamagne Tha God
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DJ Envy
I'm here on a job site with Tim, who owns his own electrical contracting business.
Charlamagne Tha God
Three employees and two work trucks.
DJ Envy
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Charlamagne Tha God
Shockingly low, huh?
DJ Envy
Just a little bit of electrician humor.
Lauren LaRosa
Do you get it?
Charlamagne Tha God
I got it.
DJ Envy
You know, it feels like we have a real connection. Alright, I'll stop.
Charlamagne Tha God
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DJ Envy
Wake that ass up.
Charlamagne Tha God
Program your Alarm to Power 105.1 on iHeartradio. Good morning, USA. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo.
DJ Envy
Just hilarious.
Angela Yee
Wake that ass up.
Charlamagne Tha God
Charlemagne the God peace to the planet is Tuesday. Good morning. 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.
DJ Envy
Good morning.
Angela Yee
Good morning.
DJ Envy
How you feeling, Jess?
Angela Yee
I feel good. The streets look better. I had a nice smooth. I had a much smoother ride than I did yesterday.
DJ Envy
Yeah.
Angela Yee
Coming in here. Yeah.
Charlamagne Tha God
This is the most disgusting to me.
DJ Envy
Yeah, I know.
Charlamagne Tha God
But.
Angela Yee
But it was. It was a lot more slippery pause than it was.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yes.
Angela Yee
This morning. Yesterday. Yeah, it was a lot.
DJ Envy
It was. They cleared it out a lot. It's still. Trying to cross streets is difficult. Yeah, that's like Olympics. Like Winter Olympics.
Angela Yee
Exactly. And then there's no entryway to get into, no type of building. And then the little side streets. I feel sorry for anybody that had to go down the side streets yesterday. It was wild getting out of New York back into Jersey.
DJ Envy
I feel bad if anybody that got plowed in pause. And their car was stuck.
Angela Yee
Yeah. Oh, my God.
DJ Envy
Digging their car out. And then the plow comes right back.
Charlamagne Tha God
I feel bad for all you punk ass kids who don't know how to get no money. Man, I was out there yesterday, you know what I'm saying? Because I had to clear up around the garage, and so I'm clearing up around the garage, and all I kept thinking to myself was, this is money, okay? And y' all got more, you know, better tools than we had. My dumb ass is just out there with a regular show. I saw Jim Jones on Instagram with, like, some type of electric show.
Angela Yee
And it go up, you know.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah. You hit it and it snap and it was just moving. You know, you can go get you a snowblower for an affordable price. Y' all kids is out there not making no money. You see how we talked about how the streets is all like, the snow is piled up high and there's no pathway. You can make a couple dollars doing that.
DJ Envy
Well, that's that. As a kid, that's what we used to do in Queens, because everybody's car would be stuck. So we wouldn't give, like, hundreds of dollars. But somebody give you $20, dig me out. You do about 10 of those, that's $200.
Charlamagne Tha God
Y' all should look at that snow the way Jeezy used to look at cocaine. Okay? When you see them mounds and mounds of that white stuff, that's money, okay? Go move it.
DJ Envy
And all you got to do is really just walk around with a shovel. Somebody just walk around with a shovel, it's gonna come right to you. Hey, hey, how much you charge?
Charlamagne Tha God
How much you want?
DJ Envy
And they can.
Charlamagne Tha God
They definitely can move that dope. All right? That snow is Dope out there. Y' all out here in these streets. Y' all out here in these streets with all this snow, and y' all ain't getting to the paper, but in.
Angela Yee
New York City, it's kind of crazy, because what do y' all do with all that snow? I see the big containers that. The. That the plow. The plow people keep putting in the big ass.
DJ Envy
But we usually just wait for it to melt.
Angela Yee
Yeah, we just stack it up high.
DJ Envy
And just wait for it to melt. And then you just watch it just. Just slowly melt.
Angela Yee
Too much snow. It's too many people in New York City for all of this snow.
Charlamagne Tha God
I'll tell you one thing, after I was out there and my back started hurting, and I was like, look, that's the best I can do. Hey, man, some. Some Mexicans pulled up in the plow truck, and they hopped out with the shovels. I was about to tell you. I got some people. That's what's up. I say something Donald Trump never say, welcome on in. Okay. Welcome on in. I got people. They pulled up in the plow truck and they had the shovels. I said, y' all can do that for me?
Lauren LaRosa
Of course.
Charlamagne Tha God
That's it. Okay. Of course they got to it. You hear me?
DJ Envy
I don't even think I got a shovel anymore.
Charlamagne Tha God
They.
DJ Envy
They know my number, not me. They come immediately.
Angela Yee
They your people?
Charlamagne Tha God
Huh? What?
Angela Yee
Huh?
Charlamagne Tha God
What you say? They your peoples, your cousins. They my peoples by.
DJ Envy
By marriage. But they your peoples.
Angela Yee
They your family.
Charlamagne Tha God
You know what?
DJ Envy
Let's get the show cracking. We got front page news. Mimi's actually here. I don't know why Mimi would leave Californ. Nice 70 degrees weather.
Charlamagne Tha God
Well, you know, Mimi originally from Alaska, so she. She want to feel like she. Yeah, she heard it was cold in Alaska. Here in New York, she was like, oh, I got to get.
DJ Envy
She got on a tank top in the lunch.
Charlamagne Tha God
I ain't wore this coat in a long time.
DJ Envy
All right, we got front page dudes when we come back. Don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. We ain't got no Jeezy. No, man.
Charlamagne Tha God
It's John with the spoon.
Lauren LaRosa
Birthday.
Charlamagne Tha God
Happy birthday. Just connected the dots, Cube.
Angela Yee
Today was a good day.
DJ Envy
All right, morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get some front page news. What's up, Mimi?
Charlamagne Tha God
Mimi Brown. Hey, girl.
Mimi Brown
Morning, everyone. Jess. Mv Charlamagne. How y' all doing this morning? Good morning. Okay, so we start this morning in Minnesota, where New Developments are unfolding in Minneapolis after that deadly weekend shooting involving federal agents. Now the response from federal officials appears to be shifting after growing scrutiny and legal challenges. The focus remains on that fatal shooting, though, of Alex Preddy, a 37 year old Minneapolis resident, an ICU nurse who worked at a VA hospital. Freddy, he was shot and killed Saturday during a federal immigration operation. He was seen recording agents on his phone. Bystander video, we've all seen it shows him helping a woman who had been pushed to the ground. He's then pepper sprayed and shot within seconds. Now, federal officials now confirmed the agents involved were wearing body cameras and. And video from multiple angles is being reviewed by investigators. And there's also changes on the ground. So Greg Lovino, the border control commander overseeing the Minneapolis operation, he has now been demoted and is expected to leave the city today. And several of those, roughly 2,000 agents deployed under him are also expected to withdraw today. Now, as the video continues to circulate, the political fallout is growing, including among Republicans, at least 29 GOP members of Congress are now calling for a full investigation. And Texas Senator Ted Cruz, he is warning that rushing to label incidents like this can hurt credibility. Let's listen to what he had to say.
Charlamagne Tha God
What I think the administration could do better is, is the tone with which they're describing this, that immediately when an incident like this happens, they come out guns blazing. That. That we took out a violent terrorist. Hooray. Escalating the rhetoric doesn't help and it actually loses credibility. And so I would encourage the administration to be more measured, to recognize the tragedy and to say we don't want anyone. Anyone's lives to be lost. And the politicians who are pouring gasoline onto this fire, they need to stop. Yeah. And investigate the situation and fire and hold accountable to ICE agents who are out here beating and killing people.
Mimi Brown
And speaking of people who are pouring gasoline on fires, there are also growing calls to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, of course. Yep. Over how her department, they describe the shooting laying, critics say, does not line up with the video. She's now scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 3. And when asked about the criticism, White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt, she tried to distance the president from the rhetoric. Let's listen to what she had to say. In that exchange, Secretary Noem said Alex.
Lauren LaRosa
Preddy committed an act of domestic terrorism.
Mimi Brown
Stephen Miller labeled Preddy a domestic terrorist. Does the president agree with them?
Charlamagne Tha God
Look, as I've said, I have not heard the President characterize Mr. Preddy in that way. However, I have heard the president say he wants to let the facts and.
Lauren LaRosa
The investigation lead itself.
Mimi Brown
Was he alarmed to hear his top officials referring to him in that way? Rushing to that judge, Trump said, nope.
DJ Envy
I'm not with this situation.
Charlamagne Tha God
Authoritarian regimes are not loyal to anybody. Christi Noem. They getting you outta here because somebody gonna be the fall guy for all this blood in the streets, and it's gonna be you.
Mimi Brown
Yeah. And speaking of President Trump, he has spoken with Minnesota Governor Tim Walsh, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry. They reportedly had a great conversation, according to Trump, and they are agreeing. Trump agreed that the situation cannot continue, and the White House says that now with Bovino out the border. Czar Tim. Tom Homan is headed to Minneapolis today to manage operations and continue talks with local leaders.
Charlamagne Tha God
Listen, political movements that normalize anti Democratic behavior will eventually always face pushback. Okay? Legal, cultural, institutional. It never fails. Yeah.
DJ Envy
All right. Well, that is front page news.
Mimi Brown
All right, really quick. Coming up at 7, there's a trial that begins today that's going to change the rules or could change the rules of social media. We'll. We'll break down what's at stake in some of your favorite apps, all right?
DJ Envy
And everybody else, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open. Again, 800-585-1051. Call us up right now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Wake up, wake up.
Charlamagne Tha God
This is your time to get it off your chest.
DJ Envy
Whether you're mad or blessed, we want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.
Caller/Guest
Hello?
Charlamagne Tha God
Who's this?
Caller/Listener
Hey, what's up, Envy?
DJ Envy
What's up, Trav?
Caller/Guest
What's up, J, baby?
Charlamagne Tha God
Hey.
Angela Yee
Hey, boy. My bad. I was ready to say, hey, girl, but I'm so sorry.
Charlamagne Tha God
Same difference.
Caller/Guest
Listen, I didn't sh. You about to say something? Hey, girl. Hey, Car.
Charlamagne Tha God
What's up, sis? How are you?
Caller/Guest
Hey, first of all, on Netflix. Now, don't be calling me sis.
Charlamagne Tha God
I'm DL I'm DL about you, bro. Okay? You are internationally known booty snatcher.
Caller/Guest
My mama might be listening. Don't be telling her my business, okay?
Charlamagne Tha God
I'm DL Your mama don't know you gave her dress?
DJ Envy
Yes, his mama know he gay.
Angela Yee
Yeah, he can't hide. Yeah.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah. Okay.
Caller/Guest
But, y', all, I'm just gonna sing real quick instead of a public service announcement. Stop coming to the gym if you must be.
Charlamagne Tha God
And if you're gonna be musty, don't.
Caller/Guest
Be standing next to me because some of my thing is me. Ain't nothing worse than working out and you over here lifting up dumbbells arms to smell. You got an onion in the headlock, Trav.
Charlamagne Tha God
I'll tell you something. If you're in the gym and somebody comes in there, musty in this winter weather, you should call the proper authorities. Like, you really just gotta call law enforcement.
Angela Yee
Something ain dirty.
Caller/Guest
Disney was so musty yesterday. But y', all. I'm proud of y'.
Caller/Listener
All.
Caller/Guest
I mean, we made it to Netflix. I made sure I went, you know, watched a couple episodes. I definitely dropped 20 episodes already.
Charlamagne Tha God
It was a lot. And. And they put out. They put it out a little too late, too. It came out late. But we working on all of that. Getting all. We working all the kinks out.
Caller/Guest
It's good. All right. We're on Netflix, y'.
Charlamagne Tha God
All.
Caller/Guest
Bye.
Angela Yee
Bye.
DJ Envy
Hello?
Charlamagne Tha God
Who's this?
Caller/Guest
This is a security. Security officer. Manuel Paseco.
DJ Envy
Security officer.
Caller/Guest
I mean, he's.
Charlamagne Tha God
You said your last name is Prosecco? I mean, he's Prosecco, like the wine, champagne.
Caller/Guest
Pacheco, like the football player.
Charlamagne Tha God
I don't know who that is.
Caller/Guest
Pacheco, Kansas City, chief.
DJ Envy
All right. Get it off your chest, brother.
Charlamagne Tha God
Not familiar.
Caller/Guest
Okay, so I want to call. I want to call in about the. All the negative press ICE agents are getting. You know, it's been an unfortunate thing in our. In our. In our society, what's happening just throughout the country. You know, I don't. I don't condone people being killed, murdered, but I do want to say that there is something called the use of force continuum, okay? And I don't know if people are aware of that, but when someone is in a vehicle, okay, they are considered to be in operating a deadly weapon. Now, if an agent is in front of that vehicle, moving to the side, and the vehicle moves, okay, the use of force continuum allows and permits an ICE agent or a security officer to use deadly force.
Charlamagne Tha God
I thought that's only if the vehicle was coming towards them.
Caller/Guest
Well, if it moves.
Charlamagne Tha God
I didn't know if it was. If it moved. I thought it had to move in that direction.
Caller/Guest
No, no, I have to be in there. It has to be in their direction, not dead on, but it could be at an angle. If the person is not cooperating with an ICE agent or a security officer or a police officer, then that. That agent or that officer can use force and use deadly force.
Charlamagne Tha God
Listen, in the case of Renee, Good, she was going the opposite direction. And in the case of Alex Purdy, he wasn't Even being ag. So I don't know what point. I don't know what point you're trying to make. Right.
DJ Envy
And I never heard a security officer been added to the cops and agents. But also the suspect will have to pose an immediate credible threat or serious injury. Meaning if that officer who did not get hit after shooting was. Could have stepped one inch to the side.
Charlamagne Tha God
Right.
Caller/Guest
But they were in a residential area. Okay, and he's operating a deadly weapon. She was already indicated.
Charlamagne Tha God
You're giving me a headache, man. Listen, listen.
Caller/Guest
She was already indicated to me.
Charlamagne Tha God
Stop. You're giving me a headache, bro. She was actually told to leave. I mean, she was actually told to leave, to be honest with you. And that's why, like, you know, listen, man, we can argue about values, we can argue about policies, but we can't. Oh, I thought she was getting told to leave.
DJ Envy
No, at first she was told to leave. She started moving, and then they told her to stop.
Charlamagne Tha God
But we can argue.
DJ Envy
If you read your book, it says if an officer is allowed to shoot. Well, you know, because he's an officer. Well, he's a security guard, and he's putting security guard offices. Right. With which you can't. But anyway, if a police officer is allowed to shoot when they have the option to. If the option to get out the way does not happen, and if the officer has the option to get out of the way, meaning the suspect poses an immediate credible threat, then you can shoot and that officer wasn't in any immediate danger.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, we can argue about values and we can argue about policies, but we can't argue about shared facts, bro. We all got the same eyes.
DJ Envy
Sounds like he wants to be an agent, but get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.
Charlamagne Tha God
It's a new day. This is your time to get it off your chest. Wait. Wake up. Whether you're mad or blessed, it's time to get up and get something.
DJ Envy
Call up now. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello?
Charlamagne Tha God
Who's this?
DJ Envy
Chief Lee.
Caller/Listener
Tiffany.
DJ Envy
Hey, Tiffany.
Charlamagne Tha God
Good morning, Tiffany. How are you?
Caller/Listener
Good morning. So I'm from Minneapolis, Minnesota, and I think trying to call just to. You guys have such a big platform that Minneapolis is doing really good at being peaceful here. There's so much more that's going on here that's not shown on the news, that's not shown online. You have a lot of people online Giving you, like, snippets of stuff, right? But like, that night that was killed, I actually was a block away and got stuck in the madness time. Get out. Because I live two blocks down the street from that.
Angela Yee
Right.
Caller/Listener
Go back the other way where Ms. Good was killed. I worked four blocks from there. So for me, I see this all day. I can look out my office window, and you see them taking people down and looking at you looking at them out the window. You know, it's very intimidating. It's very aggressive. But I just want to call and put it out here. Doing an amazing job at being peaceful and staying clear of these people we're avoiding. And we're going left because they want you to engage. And I just want to say for other states, because, like I witnessed yesterday, we're having a conversation in that the bottle or whatever his name is leaving. But that doesn't mean that they're not going to go to another state. And so it's essential that in every space that you follow kind of what they're doing here, because if you choose to get violent, then it's going to be a problem.
Charlamagne Tha God
Okay.
Caller/Listener
You don't want him to insurrect. Do the Insurrection act, because that calls for civil war. And those are, like, kind of big ones. At first I was like, oh, that's too much. But experiencing this, it's not too much.
Charlamagne Tha God
Well, thank you, Tiffany. And we appreciate you being out there in the streets, too. Absolutely. And I want to salute the Native Land podcast. Angela Rai and Andre Gilliam and Bakari Sellers. They're gonna be in Minnesota today doing a live town hall from the Capri Theater. And they'll be broadcasting that on their YouTube page at 7pm CST. What's CST? Central Standard Time. So what time is that? Eastern. That's two hours behind.
Angela Yee
That's two hours behind.
DJ Envy
Yeah.
Charlamagne Tha God
Boy, I don't ever come to this room for mad.
DJ Envy
Hello? Who's this?
Caller/Listener
Good morning. This is Tony.
DJ Envy
What's up, Tony?
Angela Yee
Good morning, Tony.
Caller/Listener
I'm calling from Philly. I just wanted to call and tell y'. All, I've been listening to y' all for, like, nine, ten months. Me, I. And I just love y'. All.
DJ Envy
We love you.
Angela Yee
We love you back.
Charlamagne Tha God
Why you only been listening for nine to ten months?
DJ Envy
We only been around for about 15 years.
Caller/Listener
I know. Listen, Charlamagne, man, don't do that.
Caller/Guest
It's early in the morning.
Charlamagne Tha God
That's the reason you keep listening. Because we do stuff like this early in the morning. But we're happy that you all been listening the last 10 months? Absolutely.
DJ Envy
Thank you so much.
Charlamagne Tha God
Appreciate it.
Caller/Listener
I'll be at work. They be like, what you listening to? I feel like the Breakfast Club that I get on point.
Charlamagne Tha God
Philly.
DJ Envy
Oh, Philly. She said Philly.
Angela Yee
Shout out to Philly.
Charlamagne Tha God
Philly. Man got mad love for Philly.
Angela Yee
Wait a minute.
Caller/Listener
I got one more thing to say. Can I say one more thing?
Charlamagne Tha God
Yes, ma'. Am.
Caller/Listener
Did y' all see that Courtney unfaithful with envy on there yet?
Charlamagne Tha God
Listen.
Angela Yee
Yes, The Courtney act episode. That was a good one.
DJ Envy
That's the classic one. Yes, that was a good one.
Charlamagne Tha God
Oh, that's the one. Wendy Williams thought.
Caller/Listener
I've been on there, like, two times.
DJ Envy
Which one you talking about? With Big Sexy?
Angela Yee
That's the one I thought, oh, my goodness.
DJ Envy
And his dye kept coming off. Coming off a shirt.
Caller/Listener
That was so freaking funny.
Charlamagne Tha God
Y' all rubbing dye on each other's shirts.
DJ Envy
It was not rubbing dye. Going through. He lost his. His man, and he was hurt, and I was trying to help the brother out. He almost there, had a heart attack.
Charlamagne Tha God
That's not what Wendy Williams told me. Wendy Williams, look, this why I love.
Caller/Listener
Y' all right here.
Charlamagne Tha God
Wendy Williams told me. She said, what's up with Envy? I saw him on a show, and his boyfriend was leaving him, and he was trying to catch his boyfriend cheating. And I was like, what? I said, yeah, that sound about right?
DJ Envy
Yeah, that's not true. But you know, I love that show. Everybody. You know what the weirdest people will stop me and say, yo, I see.
Charlamagne Tha God
Seen you on that, trying to get your boyfriend.
DJ Envy
It was not.
Charlamagne Tha God
Tony, if you wear them boots that you got on today, they definitely like my boots, man. Laura like my boots.
Lauren LaRosa
Let me see. Yes, actually, Envy, they a little saucy and sassy, but I love them red bottoms. Hey, always dress like me. He like enforced ghost.
Charlamagne Tha God
You look like you want to. You look like you want to skip down the highway with Big Sexy.
Lauren LaRosa
No, you look like one of the tahadas.
Charlamagne Tha God
No, he look like you want to sit down.
Lauren LaRosa
You related to the Tejada?
Charlamagne Tha God
Yes.
Lauren LaRosa
You definitely.
DJ Envy
Fashion. This is what you wear when it's cold outside.
Lauren LaRosa
Okay.
Angela Yee
He got them same boots.
Charlamagne Tha God
Fashion replace the S. What's up? Get it off your chest.
DJ Envy
We got ladies with Laura coming up.
Lauren LaRosa
We do. There's a lot of people that do not believe Kanye west, his apology. And I got some exclusive details. I didn't talk to some people. I might be able to convince y'. All.
Charlamagne Tha God
You got some sources.
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah, I got some sources.
Charlamagne Tha God
All Right.
DJ Envy
We'll get to that.
Charlamagne Tha God
Next.
DJ Envy
It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah. I'm not dumbing myself down. I'm being myself. I'm the home girl that knows a little bit about everything and everything.
Angela Yee
Little brown girls look at you and.
Lauren LaRosa
Go, I want to be like you.
Angela Yee
Take me through that.
Lauren LaRosa
Take me through. There she going.
Charlamagne Tha God
The latest with Laurio, Breakfast Club. LL Cool Baby, talk to me. Come on, LL Cool Bay.
Angela Yee
All right, y'.
Lauren LaRosa
All. So yesterday we. As we were on air, it was breaking that Kanye west had paid for an ad or, you know, took up some space in the world. The Wall Street Journal. And he wrote a letter apologizing to the black and Jewish communities. Talked a lot about his mental health and, you know, the things that he's been going through and how he, you know, has been through these manic episodes now.
Charlamagne Tha God
And I'm the only one that believed it. I'm me the cursion, and I got something negative to say about Kanye. I'm the only one that believed it.
Lauren LaRosa
I believed it. Y' all don't believe it. I. He so Bully.
Angela Yee
I do believe it.
Lauren LaRosa
Bully. His. His music.
DJ Envy
I believed it until I heard that, allegedly, that he got an album coming out.
Lauren LaRosa
Well, okay, it's not true, but, yes. So Bully was supposed to drop Friday. But, I mean, I know you guys, you said that you heard something different.
Charlamagne Tha God
That was coming out in March.
Lauren LaRosa
Okay. Yeah. But also, too, you know, Kanye west. And we've talked about this. It's supposed to be going back out on the road soon. So a lot of the conversation around this apology is he's only doing this because he wants some money from us now. Now, I reached out to Kanye West's team. I spoke to Peter, who is on Kanye West's management team yesterday, and I asked him, plain and simple, like, you know, people don't believe this because of the timing. Is this a part of a rollout? Because of what I was told. And he said to me, this letter is something that Yay. Has been crafting for a while. It comes from a genuine statement that he has been working on for a long time. Not weeks, but months. So he's saying that Kanye west has been working on this apology for months. I had also heard yesterday that. That Kanye west was in a situation right now where he is shopping himself in. In, you know, the project to release under a major record label. And I asked about that, and in response to that, they said they wouldn't confirm or deny that, but they said that it's not a part of a rollout with a major label in reference to what I asked. But my source is really good. And from what I was told, it's going to be a distribution situation, that Kanye west is basically at the finish line. Like, it's basically done that he's doing to release Bully whenever it comes out, and all his music moving forward, which, you know, is a thing for Kanye because he's talked about going against the majors. And even though it's distribution, so it's a bit different. The company I'm told he's doing it with, they compete very well. I heard it's gamma with the major labels.
Charlamagne Tha God
And it's not his first apology number one. And the reason that I looked at it as sincere was the fact you ain't heard from Kanye in about a year, you ain't heard nothing from Kanye. Not peep, no tweets, no nothing. So that led me to believe, hey, you know, maybe he's really doing some real work.
DJ Envy
I mean, I hope so. And. And don't tell us. Show us like, we. We want to see the change, right?
Charlamagne Tha God
Absolutely.
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah.
Charlamagne Tha God
And we got to happens in the next couple of weeks too, right? Like, you know, the Grammys is. Is soon.
Lauren LaRosa
The Grammys is on. On the.
Angela Yee
On Sunday.
Charlamagne Tha God
It's on Sunday, so let's see if the clips win. How does he react?
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Charlamagne Tha God
Hollywood is buzzing. Legendary director Von Kovach has come out of retirement to remake Wonder man, promising to redefine the superhero genre at a time when fatigue is everywhere. At the center of it all is Simon Williams, a man desperate to be a star but hiding a secret that could end his career. He has superpowers outlawed in Hollywood. Enter Trevor Slattery, the notorious actor From Iron Man 3, and Shang Chi, who take Simon under his wing. Their friendship is hilarious, heartfelt, and the perfect lens for Marvel to comment on Hollywood itself. Starring Emmy award winner Yaya Abdul Mateen II and Oscar winner Ben Kingsley, this eight episode event drops all at once. Don't miss Marvel Television's Wonder man screaming Tuesday. Only on Disney plus wins. Let's see how he reacts. No, I'm just saying let's just see what, you know, like the best apology has changed behavior. Let's see.
DJ Envy
And who is Paul? Is that a new management?
Lauren LaRosa
Peter. Peter, yeah. So Peter. Yeah, so Peter. You know, he, I've worked with him before on, on other people. He did a lot with Juice World. He Lil Durk. Like he's, you know, been doing this for some time. So I don't know how new he is the Ye's team, but I know that he is now in place place on Ye's team as they figure this thing out.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, I mean, I think that's what Kanye is going to realize. Like the words don't matter. The best apology is change behavior.
DJ Envy
That's right.
Lauren LaRosa
Show us now another conversation I know we were having was the fact that because in that letter, the opening of the letter, Kanye west talks about the fact that he had got into a car accident, which is how, you know, certain things weren't scanned the right way and all that stuff. The car accident that he's talking about, he also references in the song through the Wire and we were having a conversation about how, you know, there was some conversation last week about the fact that Kanye west doesn't even get Credit. Edited Publishing wise 4 through the wire. Let's take a listen to that conversation.
Angela Yee
You have the sample that defines Kanye's career.
Charlamagne Tha God
He got nothing. We still remain the 100 writers.
Angela Yee
Presumably, that's the biggest sample of your catalog.
Charlamagne Tha God
You know, it's funny story about that. I wrote that song with my friend Tom Keane, and the lyrics were done by Cynthia Wild style. And when Kanye is camp like, hey, we want to use your song all the way through this record, and he wants 50 of the writing or whatever, I was like, okay. And because he was huge at that time, he was getting really huge. Cindy was like that. No, he gets nothing. So he got nothing. It's still. We still remain.
DJ Envy
So that's the guy that actually wrote through the Wire. It was three people that wrote through the.
Lauren LaRosa
It was Foster, Tom Keane, and Cynthia. Well, he's saying Cynthia is the one who was like, no, we're not.
DJ Envy
Sampled the record from them. And when Kanye went to get the clearance, they were going to give him a percentage. And then woman said, nah, we're not giving him nothing. So Kanye got no royalties off of that record.
Charlamagne Tha God
That's why I said we. So I thought. I was like, damn, am I getting old? I remember having that conversation.
Lauren LaRosa
No, me and Envy were having a conversation. I looked at Envy.
DJ Envy
Yes.
Charlamagne Tha God
But that wasn't either you or Envy.
Lauren LaRosa
No, we were just talking about it. So we brought.
Mimi Brown
Oh, my God.
Lauren LaRosa
All right.
DJ Envy
But Kanye gets no royalties or publishing from that record. They own 100% of that record. So every time you hear that record, he does not get paid.
Charlamagne Tha God
He gets paid to perform. Marketing for him, though. That was his breakout single.
DJ Envy
That was his breakout single.
Caller/Guest
He needed that.
Lauren LaRosa
Not. You thought that. You thought that you was old and just didn't remember a conversation. You said.
Charlamagne Tha God
You said we.
Lauren LaRosa
Sorry. Maybe I answered that.
Charlamagne Tha God
We did.
Lauren LaRosa
Now, as we wrap yesterday, news had broke that Quentin Aaron shifting gears that Quentin Aaron, the actor who played Michael Orr, the football player in the Blind side, was on life support and was hospitalized after falling in his home. But there are some positive signs of recovery. So his wife Margarita, who is a nurse who was by his side and, you know, got him upstairs and called the police, updated people. She let TMZ know that he actually opened his eyes yesterday and gave a thumbs up. So he is doing better.
Charlamagne Tha God
Thank God.
Lauren LaRosa
Has anybody that randomly thinking about this? Has anybody. Y' all talked to Ray J? Anybody checked in already?
Charlamagne Tha God
I text him yesterday.
Lauren LaRosa
I did, too. And I didn't hear back from him, but I know he had posted online that he was doing well. He mentioned something about, like, his heart being at 25. Let's take a listen to Ray J.
DJ Envy
What's up, everybody? We're live right now. I want to thank everybody for being praying for me. I was in the hospital. My heart's only beating, like, 25%, but as long as I stay focused and stay on the right path, and everything will be all right. So thank you for all your prayers. I'm going to burp right now, and I'm going say excuse me.
Charlamagne Tha God
All right. Excuse me.
DJ Envy
You know, my health is not okay. I thank everybody for supporting and praying for me through the health and through everything I've been in hospital. Thank you to my mom, Brandy, and my dad and everybody for helping me.
Charlamagne Tha God
It's true.
DJ Envy
Even Sheila, who's been just sitting in the hospital just watching me be sick. Listen, it's a few people that's helped me kind of survive this.
Charlamagne Tha God
Ray J, bring your ass to New York and come see Dr. Puma. But you sped past the other story. Is the brother okay?
Lauren LaRosa
Yes, I said that, yes, he. Because at first it was being reported that he was on life support and that he, like, wasn't, like, breathing and functioning on his own. But his wife got in contact with TMZ and said that even though the machines were there, he was doing well on his own. And they had had some positive, like, you know, feedback. And then she gave a full update saying he woke up and he opened his eyes and he gave a thumbs up.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, it is.
Angela Yee
It is.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah.
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah. His wife is named Margarita.
Charlamagne Tha God
That's the movie about the. The white family who brings in the young black man.
Lauren LaRosa
Yes.
Charlamagne Tha God
And he goes on to play for the Baltimore Ravens. Yeah.
Lauren LaRosa
With Sandra Bullock.
Angela Yee
Michael or.
Charlamagne Tha God
Beautiful, beautiful movie, man. It shows the compassion of people and how people have empathy for others. I just thought it was beautiful that they, you know, open the door and let that, you know, football player come in and smash his wife. And then he became, oh, my God, what the hell?
Angela Yee
That was not the right move. That's not like the TV version of the movie that you're talking about.
DJ Envy
And I think he got mad at one time and said he thought the family was only there for the money. Didn't happen.
Lauren LaRosa
He. Listen, Quinn's. He's doing okay, but that's the latest.
DJ Envy
And I just want to tell everybody out there, just if something is going on with a family member, whether they're sick, sick, take them in, take them to the emergency.
Lauren LaRosa
You know, the fight I had, somebody.
DJ Envy
Just told me yesterday, similar to that.
Lauren LaRosa
Story, my grandma would not go to the hospital healthy.
DJ Envy
Individual, runner, athlete. And then all of a sudden, he got sick. Didn't Know what it was? The doctors told him it was mono and it was way, way, way, way, way worse. So just please take your. Your loved one to the emergency room, get the test that you need. Keep pushing, because sometimes doctors get. They don't always.
Lauren LaRosa
That's what made me think of Ray J, because his came out of, like, nowhere, too. He just was, like, in the hospital one day. But, yeah, my grandma finally went. She's fine. It took me two days in the ambulance to convince my grandma.
Charlamagne Tha God
You going to put that on?
DJ Envy
Just. It didn't come out of nowhere. But we seen Ray J use drugs. He's talked about using drugs before.
Charlamagne Tha God
Let him tell his story. He told his story. You got on them snitch boots and you ready to demonstrate it? Oh, my God.
Angela Yee
Yeah.
Lauren LaRosa
We gotta wrap up. And in the next hour, we're gonna be talking about Nicki Minaj envy. You asked me a question the last time we talked about this whole house thing and her saving that $20 million mansion about. She paid. I talked to an attorney in the situation. So we're going to bring you guys some more exclusive updates in the next latest.
DJ Envy
All right? When we come back, we got the front page news. So don't go anywhere. Mimi says the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get in some front page news. Mimi's here. What's up, Mimi?
Mimi Brown
Good morning, Envy. Jeff, Charlemagne. How y' all doing?
Angela Yee
Hey.
Mimi Brown
All right, so we start this hour still watching that massive winter storm. The worst of the snow has moved out, but the danger is far from over. Speaking of the storm, how was your commute in this morning with the weather?
Angela Yee
It was a lot better yesterday.
DJ Envy
It wasn't. Wasn't bad at all.
Angela Yee
I wasn't slipping and flat.
Mimi Brown
Yeah, well, more than 200 million people are still under that dangerous cold alert this morning. Stretching across most of the country, the storm has already turned deadly. At least 21 people have died across more than a dozen states from hypothermia, carbon monoxide poisoning, and weather related incidents. I saw a story yesterday where a girl died from a sledding incident.
Angela Yee
Damn.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah.
Mimi Brown
Officials say that number could rise more as cases are reviewed. So power is also slowly being restored. Not as fast as it could be. More than half a million customers are still without electricity, including 200,000 people in Tennessee as those temperatures plunge well below freezing. And travel disruptions, they are still continuing. Nearly 6,000 flights were canceled yesterday. A little bit more expected today. Major delays at Airports like Philadelphia and Boston.
DJ Envy
And be careful out there if you're shoveling the snow. I've seen a lot of cases of people catching. Getting heart attacks, sex.
Angela Yee
Wow.
Mimi Brown
From shoveling stuff?
DJ Envy
From shoveling the snow. Cuz they, they don't do the activity, they don't exercise. So you go outside and clear your thing and it's a whole workout. A couple people died I think over the weekend in Jersey.
Charlamagne Tha God
Oh, wow, thanks your sources, man, he just out here giving people freaking anxiety for no damn reason. I can't even go shovel snow now without talking about having a heart attack. God damn. And you already know I'm a hypochondriac. What did you know? You ain't tell me that, that. Where is this from?
DJ Envy
Verona, New Jersey. Man dies while shoveling snow, found with shovel in the hand.
Angela Yee
Oh.
Charlamagne Tha God
Okay.
DJ Envy
He was 67.
Angela Yee
Okay.
DJ Envy
That's still young.
Charlamagne Tha God
That is young. But there was, there's some other issues there, I'm sure.
Angela Yee
Yeah, I mean they just telling everybody.
DJ Envy
Be careful out there because if you shovel the snow you can, you know.
Mimi Brown
Yeah.
Charlamagne Tha God
Is it true that there might be another coming this weekend?
Mimi Brown
This weekend in New York?
Angela Yee
I don't know.
Charlamagne Tha God
What?
Mimi Brown
Yeah, there's more snow expected in the New York area this weekend. But in Atlanta, Mayor Andre Dickens, he is warning people about black ice. So let's listen to what he had to say and how they're keeping the city safe.
Charlamagne Tha God
But you really do a good job of communicating, telling people, don't take unnecessary trips. Black ice, you can't see it. You just need to be prepared for it and to know that it's best to stay off the road. The thing that we're doing is making sure we opened up a lot of warming centers so we have about 400 residents staying overnight. That's our unsheltered populations. And we've been able to make sure people have power generators and batteries in the event that power goes out. So we've been in our jock, which is our joint operations center where all of government works together to make sure people are safe. That's racist. Of course the ice in Atlanta is black. Okay. And also why does the black ice have to be the ice? We have hate. Okay, all right. Nobody ever says the white snow.
Mimi Brown
Okay. Ice, you can't see the black ice. Okay, all right. I see where you're going with that. Oh, come on.
Angela Yee
They saying black ice cuz they blend.
DJ Envy
In with the streets. Yes, absolutely.
Charlamagne Tha God
Just call it ice.
Lauren LaRosa
You know, why can't we just say.
Charlamagne Tha God
We slipped on ice? Why got Me Black ice.
Mimi Brown
And also, of course, authorities are saying to limit travel if you can check on your neighbors, especially seniors and anyone without reliable heat. And schools still are being affected. So several districts across several states have announced closures. Officials say check directly with your local school districts as condition conditions and decisions can change hour by hour. I know in New York, they're going back to school today.
DJ Envy
Yep.
Angela Yee
Wow.
Mimi Brown
And parents across the country, they are watching a major trial that begins today in California. And this is where a jury will hear claims that social media apps were built in ways that harm children.
Charlamagne Tha God
Children.
Mimi Brown
So at the center of this case is a 19 year old woman who says social media platforms were designed in a way that left her addicted and it harmed her mental health. So she's suing Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, along with Tick Tock. She's also suing Google, which owns YouTube. Now Snapchat. It was also named, but they settled out of court last week. Now, this trial is the first of its kind to reach a jury and it could set the tone for similar lawsuits that are now lining up across the country. Country. So the companies say that there's no proof that their platforms cause harm like depression or eating disorders. And they've argued that they are not responsible for what users post. But this case is not about what people post. It's about the design, like algorithms, notifications, and features that keep people scrolling. Jurors are expected to see internal documents and hear testimonies from top executives, including Mark Zuckerberg. He's scheduled to testify. But legal experts say this is a turning point. If company, if the social media companies lose, it could change social, social media as we know it and open the door for even more lawsuits. So what do you guys think? Are media, social media companies responsible for young people and how they affect or is that parents?
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, I remember reading this book back in the day. I think it was a digital minimalism by Cal Newport. And he talked about how people compared what was going on in the social media tech world now to how it was back in the day with tobacco industry. So this lawsuit feels like that because, you know, there was lawsuits that were bought against the tobacco industry back in the day. And it feels the same, same, feels the same as those to me.
Angela Yee
Do people win those, though?
Charlamagne Tha God
That I don't remember. Okay.
DJ Envy
Yeah. No, I think it's, it's all of the parents. I mean, they're telling you what it does. We see what it does. And if you still allow your child to do it and be addicted to it, you Got to kind of blame that on the parents. Just like a smoker like you, if it says sign on it, on that package that says smoking gives you cancer and you get cancer, you can't sue the company.
Charlamagne Tha God
But social media don't come with a warning.
Angela Yee
Yeah.
Charlamagne Tha God
Tobacco industry comes with a warning. Yeah.
Angela Yee
And then the fact that Snapchat settled with her already outside, of course, like, yeah, that's gonna open up the. Yeah, open up the doors. Yeah.
Mimi Brown
And then really quickly I looked, she said that she's been addicted since she was 10 years old, basically.
Angela Yee
How old is she now?
Mimi Brown
She's 19.
Angela Yee
Oh, my God. That's why I be. That's why I'd be going through all of this stuff because of social media.
Charlamagne Tha God
Everybody in this room was addicted and don't know it.
DJ Envy
You're about to sue.
Charlamagne Tha God
Oh, my God.
Angela Yee
I might envy because I got the shake sometimes from when I read stuff and then oh my God, them long post when it be the big progress and I'd be trying to read it and you know, make sure everything is going on right in my life in. In the world.
Charlamagne Tha God
Don't. Do not blame the anxiety to get from reading on social media. Okay. I'm sure we can trace that back to Baltimore Elementary School.
Lauren LaRosa
Hey, yo. Oh, my goodness.
Mimi Brown
Okay, y'.
Charlamagne Tha God
All.
Mimi Brown
Well, that is your front page news. I'm Mimi Brown. Follow me at Mimi Brown tv. For more stories, follow the Black Information Network, Download the free iHeartRadio app or visit bin news.com.
DJ Envy
Thank you, Mimi. So I just want to add this. You know, they're saying approximately over 100 people die yearly from trying to shovel snow. So nearly all deaths are due to heart attacks. Individuals over 45. Come on, use the shovel to push snow rather than lifting snow.
Charlamagne Tha God
Okay, but what I want to do.
DJ Envy
Is open up the phone lines. We were talking about this earlier.
Charlamagne Tha God
How many people done died of a heart attack? If you died from shoveling snow, call us right now. Is that what you want to do?
DJ Envy
800-58-51051. We were talking about this early. What are some hustles you did as a kid that these kids don't do anymore? And we were talking about that. There should be a lot of kids out there shoveling snow.
Charlamagne Tha God
Shoveling snow.
DJ Envy
Right?
Charlamagne Tha God
When I was out there trying to shovel snow yesterday, you know, my big. I was born in 1978.
DJ Envy
You could have had a heart attack.
Charlamagne Tha God
No, I couldn't have because I just went and got checked last week from Dr. Pullmo. Okay, I am good. My cardiovascular is great. But I was just thinking, where are the kids? You know? And you know who pulled up? The Mexicans. I don't know how old they were either, because they all look young, but they pulled up and they pulled up in that plow truck with them shovels and they got bit.
Angela Yee
And they saved your damn life, didn't they?
Charlamagne Tha God
I was gonna live regardless, okay? But they saved me some time. My point is, why y' all kids ain't out there in the streets? The kids in the neighborhood, why y' all ain't out there with y' all shovels getting to this money?
DJ Envy
So the question is, 800-585-1051, what are some hustles you did as a kid that these kids don't do? Paper route? I be seeing grown ass people do paper routes.
Charlamagne Tha God
Now, listen, do they still got paper routes?
DJ Envy
They don't throw papers for the house.
Angela Yee
No, I've been. I haven't seen a newspaper boy in a long ass time. Envy not on the bikes. Unless that's what J. Cole be doing. But no, I haven't seen nobody delivering newspapers in a long time. But mowing lawn, even in the summer, right? Like the lemonade stands and all of that stuff, Right?
DJ Envy
Well, let's. Let's talk about it when we come back. 800-585-1105.
Lauren LaRosa
Y' all remember lemonade stands?
Charlamagne Tha God
You don't either. I saw them on tv. A wasn't nobody.
DJ Envy
Listen to that in.
Charlamagne Tha God
Florida all the time.
DJ Envy
We seen her on tv, but nobody had no lemonade stand.
Charlamagne Tha God
Lemonade stand. I mean, I know what you're talking about, but I never saw one for real. All right.
DJ Envy
It's the breakfast level.
Charlamagne Tha God
It's topic time.
DJ Envy
Call 800-585-1051 to join into the discussion.
Charlamagne Tha God
With the Breakfast Club.
DJ Envy
Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now, if you're just joining us, we're asking, 800-585-1051, what are some hustles you did as a kid that kids these days don't do? Now, this came from. Of course. Course, we got a little blizzard, and I ain't see too many kids out.
Charlamagne Tha God
There shoveling snow, I'm telling you.
Angela Yee
Why y' all kids ain't shoveling no snow.
Charlamagne Tha God
You got four of them. You got six got four daughters.
DJ Envy
My four daughters ain't shoveling nothing.
Charlamagne Tha God
My four daughters ain't shoveling no snow.
DJ Envy
And Logan and them ain't shoveling. Logan ain't doing.
Charlamagne Tha God
Logan should be out there shoveling snow. His big D's the last day, but he in Miami.
Angela Yee
He ain't got no damn snow.
Charlamagne Tha God
But I really was thinking about that yesterday, because I'm like, man, this is a. This is a day to come up. It was like 16, 17 inches of snow. But we live at. In New Jersey, New York City area. It's like, yo, go out there, get a shovel, and these kids, you can get the electric shovel that when you hit the snow, it just, yeah, damn near disappears. You can go get, you know, snow blowers for the cheap. There's all type of ways that you can go out here and make some money. I don't know why these kids ain't out here getting it. And by the way, y' all want to complain about, you know, you know, people from other countries taking jobs. Them Mexicans was on it. Now, I got scared when they pulled up.
Angela Yee
Why did you get scared?
Charlamagne Tha God
Cuz? I don't know. I'm like, you know, y' all pull up, then ice come follow. But clearly they. Clearly they were legal. But they pulled up in the plow truck and they had the shovels and they got busy. Yeah. And they. I was like, damn. I ain't. You know, when they made some bread. They made some bread.
Angela Yee
That's right.
Charlamagne Tha God
But.
DJ Envy
But one of the things that I would do as a kid, especially when my grandmother went to the grocery store and went shopping, I would help people carry their groceries to the car. Yeah, that would pay me a lot of money. That would give me $5 here, $4 here, $10 here.
Angela Yee
Helping people pump gas, all of that.
Charlamagne Tha God
Washing cars.
Angela Yee
Washing cars.
DJ Envy
Y. Rick leaves.
Charlamagne Tha God
I'll tell y' all one what. Collecting cans, see?
Angela Yee
Oh, yeah.
Charlamagne Tha God
I was raised on the dirt road in Moscow, South Carolina. We would walk up and down that dirt road, picking up them aluminum cans, putting them in a plastic bag, and taking them, you know, wherever you took them.
DJ Envy
Now, I ain't go that far. I didn't go in the trash cans and go through the trash cans, pick up.
Charlamagne Tha God
Where'd you get cans from?
DJ Envy
Like, I would just. If I went to school, I went grandma's house, mom house. But I wasn't going to the garbage. You went in the garbage can to get cans?
Charlamagne Tha God
I just said we was walking down the dirt road. Road. And we would find collecting cans just on the ground. All the cans of Budweiser and cores and all of that. I tell you, another hustle. People ain't doing no more selling crack.
DJ Envy
What I'm telling you.
Angela Yee
And look, I was raised. Ain't boosting he went to drugs. I was talking about stealing.
Charlamagne Tha God
Crack cocaine is still sold in a lot of parts of America, but it's not the booming business it once was. You got. You got heroin, you got meth, you got cocaine. Those are big drugs now.
Angela Yee
But the crack is not like it used to be because the crackheads changed. When you can see the. The crackhead behavior these days, it doesn't compare to we used to have some really, really good crackheads out here.
Charlamagne Tha God
Y.
Angela Yee
And the drugs changed. That's why the behavior changed.
Charlamagne Tha God
You know what else you could get a crackhead to do? Shovel.
Angela Yee
Shovel the damn snow. These crackheads is lazy.
Lauren LaRosa
They.
Angela Yee
They're very entitled these days.
Charlamagne Tha God
No, because they're not on crack. They want these pills, and these pills just make them zombies. Yeah, them opioids and that heroin, they just.
Angela Yee
No, you right, you right.
DJ Envy
The water boys, you see them in Atlanta.
Angela Yee
Water boys.
Charlamagne Tha God
Candy.
DJ Envy
Candy flipping candy as well, too.
Lauren LaRosa
Let's clean it.
Charlamagne Tha God
Just don't know how to hustle no more. Because all y' all hustlers on social media, y' all too busy trying to get likes and engagement, and then social.
Angela Yee
Media make you make it seem like anything that it's corny like it. They don't. They don't want you to do that now. That's not cool to do now.
DJ Envy
Hello?
Charlamagne Tha God
Who's this?
Caller/Listener
Hello, my name is Joy, and I'm calling from Houston.
DJ Envy
Hey, Joy. Good morning.
Angela Yee
Talk to us.
DJ Envy
What's some hustles you did as a kid that these kids don't do anymore?
Caller/Listener
As a kid, I remember going to school to sell candy. We used to sell whatever it is we need to sell just to make a little bit money. But just yesterday, though, my daughter watching TikTok, came up with this cheesecake recipe, and she sent me everything she needed. And today she made little packages of those cheesecake till there, no doubt. And she's taking it to school to sale.
Charlamagne Tha God
Oh, that's dope. I like that.
Caller/Listener
Oh, yeah, she made her some o cheesecake last night. She made some disco with the strawberries, and she has about 10 of each this morning. I'm like, you know, that's a little. Just yesterday, actually, she posted on Instagram and made some sales before she would take it to school this morning.
Angela Yee
Yeah, Selling bait goods. Yeah, people used to do that, too.
DJ Envy
You know what? My daughters did these beads, right? They did these wrist beads, and I brought them a pair to try to sell a Charlemagne. They wouldn't even buy one.
Angela Yee
The little bracelets.
Charlamagne Tha God
Really?
Angela Yee
You could have bought something for Your.
DJ Envy
Daughters, He told them they too privileged or something like that.
Caller/Guest
Oh, my God.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah. I would rather spend some money with some kids that need it.
Mimi Brown
Right?
Angela Yee
Yeah, yeah, that's true.
Charlamagne Tha God
Red bottom boots with wings.
Lauren LaRosa
Literally.
Angela Yee
Literally, yes.
DJ Envy
He wouldn't even buy some beads for my dog. That's all right.
Charlamagne Tha God
Hello? Who's this?
Caller/Guest
Top of the morning, it's d'.
Charlamagne Tha God
Angelo.
Caller/Guest
How y' all doing this morning?
DJ Envy
What's up, d'? Angelo?
Charlamagne Tha God
Talk to us.
DJ Envy
What's some hustles you did as a kid that you know, you talking about.
Caller/Guest
Them accidents dealing with bad snow, man.
Charlamagne Tha God
I ain't got no fingers on my hand.
Caller/Guest
Being told to go outside and get that snow removed in a snow blower. Been dealing with no fingers on my hand for 40 years, though.
Charlamagne Tha God
Damn. You ain't got no fingers, man. No fingers, man.
Caller/Guest
The One hand bandit.
DJ Envy
You know what I mean?
Angela Yee
How you call us?
Charlamagne Tha God
Shut up.
Angela Yee
Oh, I thought he was saying he don't have no fingers.
Caller/Guest
Oh, oh, Jess, you got choke your.
Angela Yee
Nah, nah, man. I just thought that's one of them.
DJ Envy
I know you ain't laughing.
Angela Yee
N. Yo, N N.
Caller/Guest
Listen, don't do that.
Charlamagne Tha God
To the discussion with the Breakfast Club. Talk about it.
DJ Envy
Morning, everybody.
Lauren LaRosa
It's DJ Envy.
DJ Envy
Just hilarious Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. If you're just joining us, we're talking about some of the hustles you did as a kid that these kids don't do. Like I reported a. A little a couple of minutes ago about people having heart attacks shoveling snow.
Charlamagne Tha God
I don't know why you keep telling that statistic. It does.
DJ Envy
It happens.
Angela Yee
It. That was one 67 year old man, Envy, who died mid shovel.
DJ Envy
But he had to. But they found he had to shovel in his hand.
Angela Yee
I know.
Charlamagne Tha God
I mean, shovingless, slow is strenuous. I was out there yesterday and I'm like, God damn, man. Anybody got time for this? I did. I did make two good paths, though.
DJ Envy
That's good.
Charlamagne Tha God
I made two good paths.
Angela Yee
Which are covered right now, probably.
Charlamagne Tha God
No. Well, actually the Mexicans came through and finished the job.
Angela Yee
Oh, nice.
Charlamagne Tha God
So salute to them. But once again, they out here getting the money that these kids in these neighborhoods should be getting. But these kids are too busy on social media and these kids are too busy, you know, trying to make a dollar virtually that they don't know how to pick up a shovel or go get a snowblower or go get the electric shovel and go out here and make some money.
DJ Envy
Yeah, it was. It was so many things to do as a kids. We talked about Washing cars. We talked about if kids could swim, they would be lifeguards flipping candy. See, you keep cutting grass.
Charlamagne Tha God
You said cutting grass, right?
DJ Envy
Cutting grass.
Charlamagne Tha God
Mowing lawns, collecting cans.
DJ Envy
Hello?
Charlamagne Tha God
Who's this?
Caller/Guest
Hey, what's up, Braves Club? What's up, y'? All, Boy? This is Lamar calling from Charleston, South Carolina.
Charlamagne Tha God
843.
Angela Yee
What's happening?
DJ Envy
What's up, brother? Talk to us, man.
Caller/Guest
I just want to say, man, these kids nowadays stumble in like us. Some boy, lazy. I used to. We still meet my homeboy, matter of fact, we used to go around the neighborhood knocking door to door, cutting grass, making leaves and all that. You know, the more analogy is all they want to do is stay in the house and they want to get out. You got to force them, boy, to.
Charlamagne Tha God
Get out the house.
Caller/Guest
Somebody like how we were growing up. So, yeah, man, that's all I want to see.
Charlamagne Tha God
And it's a lack of respect for elders, right? And what I mean by that is, sometimes we don't even see our elders, because those are the ones who actually need help. When you talk about rigging people's leaves, you talk about cutting people's grass. Even simple things like, you know, taking somebody's trash out, maybe. Yeah, it's usually older people who need that done. But because you don't see the older people in your neighborhood. Neighborhood, you don't even know where to go.
DJ Envy
Yeah, but that was the thing that.
Charlamagne Tha God
Was big for us.
DJ Envy
The grocery store was huge. Like, we go to the grocery store for a couple hours. It just helped people get their groceries to the cars. And we didn't really. We didn't care at that time. We got a $2. It didn't really matter. They just gave us a little bit of, you know, whatever they had in their pocket.
Charlamagne Tha God
And, you know the biggest thing that we forgetting why a lot of this stuff is stopped? The lack of trust. You can't just walk up to somebody's door and knock on it and ask to help, because people aren't going to believe you're really there to help. Imagine walking up to somebody in the grocery store and be like, hey, yo, you need help with them bags? Like, if you don't get the.
Angela Yee
I'm not even coming out the market now. I don't even know what you got.
DJ Envy
Planned, but if it was. Yeah, you're right, you're right, you're right. Because even if a young kid coming to me, I'm like, hey, man, if you don't get out of here, I think you won't take him and run.
Charlamagne Tha God
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DJ Envy
That's what we did.
Angela Yee
And even when you pull up to the stop lights and the kids that be trying to wash your windows and you ain't ask them to, they get mad and throw something at your car when you don't pay them for cleaning your windows.
DJ Envy
Hello? Who's this?
Caller/Guest
Good morning, good morning. It's tr.
DJ Envy
What's up? Good morning to us.
Caller/Guest
Hey. Peace and blessings. God is almighty.
DJ Envy
Peace.
Caller/Guest
Hey, real quick. I remember growing up, man, I used to go to neighbors. Each door, ask the lady or the old head, man. I can't take a trash out for a few dollars. They just give me five, ten dollars, man. By the end of the week, I have enough to go give me a video game, man. Nice, man.
DJ Envy
Well, thank you.
Charlamagne Tha God
That's true.
Angela Yee
Yo, what about burning CDs? I made a living stealing and burning CDs.
DJ Envy
So he's bootlegging?
Angela Yee
Yes, bootlegging and boosting. That's why they used to call me Boo.
Charlamagne Tha God
Boo.
DJ Envy
You show your name with crack and then you like. I. I think you meant legal. Like legal.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah.
Angela Yee
No, no, but drugs is way worse than stealing. No, for real. Because somebody can die, right?
Charlamagne Tha God
What about services? Remember Tim? Services? Y' all never used to go to temple.
Angela Yee
What's that?
Charlamagne Tha God
Well, you would go and, like, they would have, like, work for the day. They'll send you places. They'll send you somewhere to go have work.
DJ Envy
You'd have to go somewhere every day. And every day would be a different job.
Charlamagne Tha God
You have to go.
DJ Envy
One day, it might be cleaning up stuff at the park.
Angela Yee
Oh, like the little temp agencies. Yeah. Okay.
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah.
Angela Yee
No, I never did that.
DJ Envy
Hello? Who's this?
Caller/Guest
My name is Jonathan. I'm from Florida.
DJ Envy
What are some hustles you did as a kid that these kids don't do anymore?
Caller/Guest
The first thing is a couple of them, but the first thing I'm gonna say is shoveling snow. When I used to live up north, when I used to live in Philly, it ain't nobody out there selling snow. These kids don't got no hustle in them because they want to sit around and play video games all day every time they get day off.
Charlamagne Tha God
You're right.
Caller/Guest
They all. We organized football games we got out in these streets.
Charlamagne Tha God
That's right. Yeah, right.
Caller/Guest
Like, it was fun from the morning from. From the time. From the time we did go out the house at the end of the day. But real quick, I want to shout out my wife's business. That's cool.
DJ Envy
Go ahead.
Caller/Guest
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DJ Envy
All right, brother.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah.
DJ Envy
I mean, my biggest poppy job was telemarketing. I did telemarketing. I worked at the US Open.
Charlamagne Tha God
I definitely worked. I definitely did telemarketing. I was the person that would call your house and try to sell you 20 CDs for a penny or 10 CDs for a PIN.
DJ Envy
Yeah, I was trying to sell you home heating oil. Hi, this is Sean from Pelco Fuel. How are you doing today?
Angela Yee
Yo, I used to do the knives. Like, remember them little companies that. That. That they would. They would have you selling knives, like, in groups. Yes. I never sold any, but I literally was doing that for, like, two years.
DJ Envy
Really? And it would teach you how to listen, though, because I would listen to the background. I hear a baby, I'm like, oh, is that a baby in the background? Would you like to save money on this College coming out? 18 years. If you start saving right now, and I can help you like that.
Charlamagne Tha God
That's got a shovel out here. Do you want to die of a heart attack because you're shoveling snow? You know, Listen, you know what else? I. I do want to say something to these kids, though. These kids do, do have new hustles.
DJ Envy
Yes.
Charlamagne Tha God
So, like, you might have a kid that, like, that'll make candles. You know what I'm saying? Like, these kids do different things that may not necessarily be the. The blue collar work we used to do, but some of them is out here, you know, creative, being creative with their hustle.
DJ Envy
Yes, absolutely.
Angela Yee
No, that's true. But you're not gonna tell me you didn't burn CDs.
DJ Envy
No, I didn't burn CDs.
Angela Yee
You lime wire? Come on.
DJ Envy
No, I was a DJ. I made my own CDs.
Charlamagne Tha God
Oh, I definitely mixtapes. I definitely did that. Salute to my guy, DJ Chuck T, man. DJ Chuck T had had, like, 20 CD burners. And Chuck T used to make so much money off selling CDs, I'm like, I want in on that. So I used to do the same thing. I had every mixtape. The G, the G units, the Big mics, the who kids, all of them. D block dipset. Yes, we made a lot of money off selling mixtapes back in the day.
DJ Envy
Jesus Christ.
Charlamagne Tha God
This was after the crack, sir. Oh, after crack, yes.
DJ Envy
All right, well, we got the latest with Laura coming up. Don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club.
Charlamagne Tha God
Good morning. Your talk. LL Cool.
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah, I'm not dumbing myself down. I'm being myself. I'm a home girl that knows a little bit about everything and everything.
Angela Yee
Little brown girls look at you and.
Mimi Brown
Go, I want to be like you.
Charlamagne Tha God
Take me through that.
Lauren LaRosa
Take me through there.
DJ Envy
She going.
Charlamagne Tha God
The latest with Laura.
Lauren LaRosa
Take me through there.
Charlamagne Tha God
On the Breakfast Club llc. Talk to me.
Angela Yee
Take us through there.
DJ Envy
Hello.
Lauren LaRosa
All right, y'. All. So a quick update from the last latest. So the ADL has responded to Kanye West's apology.
Charlamagne Tha God
Oh, what they say?
Lauren LaRosa
So they say ye's apology to the Jewish people is long overdue and doesn't automatically undo his long history of anti Semitism, the anti Semitic Hell Hitler song he created, the hundreds of tweets, the swastikas, the Holocaust references, and all of the feelings of hurt and betrayal it could cause. The truest apology would be for him to not engage in anti Semitic behavior in the future. We wish him well on the road to recovery. They ain't buying it.
Charlamagne Tha God
Why you say that?
Lauren LaRosa
It does not sound like there. It doesn't sound like a thank you. We're open for.
DJ Envy
Sounds like a show us.
Charlamagne Tha God
That's exactly what we said last. They literally just said the best apology is change behavior.
Lauren LaRosa
They don't feel like the tone. I mean, they're listen. Rightfully so.
Charlamagne Tha God
Breakfast Club can't speak for all of the black community, but it's the same thing. Like the best apologies. Change behavior. Behavior.
DJ Envy
Say whatever you want to say, but show us that. That's pretty much what it sounds like they're saying to me.
Angela Yee
Yeah.
Lauren LaRosa
Okay.
Charlamagne Tha God
So Kanye will be kissing the wall soon. He'll be over there.
Lauren LaRosa
What is.
DJ Envy
What do you mean, kissing the wall? You think you Israel go kiss?
Lauren LaRosa
No. Yesterday, my grandma called me and was like. I was trying to explain to her what you meant.
Charlamagne Tha God
So I'm not Jewish. I'm not explaining.
Lauren LaRosa
I left it alone, too. I was like, my mind is just one of them things that you got to do.
Charlamagne Tha God
They are correct in their statement. The best apology is change behavior.
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah.
Charlamagne Tha God
And that's how we all should feel.
Lauren LaRosa
I agree. And I did reach out to Derek Johnson, who was up here, the head of the naacp as well, to see if they'll be issuing any statements or sending things, since he did apologize to the black community as well.
Charlamagne Tha God
But, yes, we're gonna take him to Howard University, and he got to kiss the basketball court. Georgia, he got a kissing statue of Martin Luther King Jr. That's better. You getting close. I like that one.
Lauren LaRosa
Okay.
Angela Yee
I do like that. That sounds better than kissing.
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah.
Charlamagne Tha God
Well, Let me take him to the International African American American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina. And he got to kiss the ground that some of our first ancestors came through on.
Angela Yee
Oh, no, I like that. That is. I like. That's the one.
Charlamagne Tha God
I like that.
DJ Envy
No donation. Cuz usually they give. You get donations.
Charlamagne Tha God
Definitely. He going, he definitely have to make some donations now.
DJ Envy
He got. Got to give it to the black community first.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yes.
Lauren LaRosa
And all of this. And I feel like a lot of people still aren't going to like, you're never going to forget all the things that was said and done after. So he's gonna go through all this. There's still going to be, by the.
Charlamagne Tha God
Way, I'm wishing him the best.
DJ Envy
Yes.
Charlamagne Tha God
You know what I'm saying? Because like I said, I feel like Kanye's been quiet for the past year. And so that leads me to believe that he's been doing some work on himself. And that story you reported about how him and Kim are like co parenting space right now. Yo, I hope the best for the brother. Yeah, yeah, I really do.
Lauren LaRosa
Well, we'll see what happens. But speaking of other artists that, you know, rubbing people the wrong way a bit, Nicki Minaj. So yesterday, Nicki Minaj had tweeted, tweeted out an event that she's doing with Trump. This event is supposed to be something that will help the youth when it comes to financial literacy. And she tweeted a, like a, I guess like a flyer for the summit. It's a Trump. It's the Trump Accounts Summit happening on tomorrow, January 28th. And her tweet says the true meaning of paying it forward early. Financial literacy and financial support for our children will give them a major head start in life. In some cases, they will end up teaching their very own parents how to invest and what to invest. And this makes me very happy. So even though she's trying to do some good, of course people are upset that she's doing it alongside the Trump administration.
DJ Envy
But she knows what she's doing.
Lauren LaRosa
I do too, because she's turning a.
DJ Envy
Lot of people against her. And I hope it's for a reason that she really feels for and not just doing it for press or not doing it for any other reason. Because I see a lot of the barbs really turning on her.
Angela Yee
Yeah, well, you know, we all, we've always seen Nikki March to the beat of her own drum. So I mean, I feel like she know what she's doing that'll make it right. I feel like she know exactly what she doing.
Charlamagne Tha God
What's she gonna have to do when it's all said and done to get back in people? Good grace. I'm think thinking it's going to have to start with an exorcism.
DJ Envy
Oh, my God.
Charlamagne Tha God
What y' all think? I don't think.
Angela Yee
I don't think an exorcism is needed.
Lauren LaRosa
I thought maybe a benefit concert. I also donation.
DJ Envy
Definitely donations. Yeah.
Lauren LaRosa
That's the foundation of the start. And then you got to double King HBCUish.
DJ Envy
Like donate to the HBCUs. They're about to close the Coliseum. All in Queens. Where she from, like maybe Satan.
Charlamagne Tha God
That. It's gonna be rough. It's gonna be rough, Nikki.
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah, that's.
Charlamagne Tha God
I really have a hard roll back. I'm telling y' all that right now.
DJ Envy
Being a zesty bestie right now. I just want to let you know.
Lauren LaRosa
Well, yesterday an attorney in that Nicki Minaj case where she settled the judgment for the. The $500,000 so that she could keep her million dollar home in LA reached out to me over a conversation we were having up here. So we. When we talked about Nicki Mina Shell and that debt, I mentioned that one of the questions that I had was how much did she settle it for? And like, could she negotiate that? And I know you mentioned that normally you can't. So he reached out because he wanted to clarify. His name is Paul Sasso and this is the attorney to let us know that minutes before the judgment was about to happen where they were going to sell that home in. In LA of hers. She paid the debt, he tells me, even though he can't. He didn't tell me exact numbers. He just said she settled the. The full debt. And he said that the full debt was $500,000. There was over $90,000 in judgment interest and over $5,000 in post judgment, which includes filing fees and all that stuff as well, too.
Charlamagne Tha God
So you can't tell you the full number, but he gave you all the numbers. All I got to do.
Lauren LaRosa
He was throwing me a bone. He was doing as much as he could.
Charlamagne Tha God
I can't tell you the full numbers, but she paid this amount for this, this amount for that, and this amount for that.
Angela Yee
Did you add him up?
Lauren LaRosa
$595,000 in. In some, because this is a bit over, but yeah, he just wanted us to clarify that next. Now, lastly, and all of the rubbing of the wrong ways. So y' all know how we've been talking about Wicked and Wicked for good and Cynthia Revo and Ariana Grande, right? So Billboard Just dropped a list that they do of the highest grossing films. And Wicked for Good is now Billboard's number three highest grossing film. Right.
Angela Yee
Nice.
Lauren LaRosa
Great.
Charlamagne Tha God
Of what last year. Of all time.
Lauren LaRosa
Of. I believe it's of last year. Let me look up what it is. Yes. Of last year. But the conversation though that has been happening around Wicked for Good is the reason is why didn't Wicked for Good get nominated for an Oscar Oscar. So the first movie was nominated. Right. Second movie got nothing. Like they got no mentions.
Angela Yee
Oh my God.
Lauren LaRosa
You saw y didn't do it.
Angela Yee
Oh, damn.
Lauren LaRosa
I mean, y' all didn't like it.
Charlamagne Tha God
No.
Angela Yee
And you sat through all of it.
Charlamagne Tha God
Too was long one. I seen the first Wicked. The second Wicked. I seen Wicked on Broadway. That was absolutely, positively the worst presentation of Wicked the part two.
DJ Envy
I fell asleep. I slept in that one.
Angela Yee
Yeah.
DJ Envy
So why, why, why why didn't get.
Lauren LaRosa
So according to that's why.
Angela Yee
Well, no.
Lauren LaRosa
News Nation did a. Did an article where they had these anonymous Oscar voters give comments and one of the Oscar voters said that basically people were. They were turned off by their performances on red carpets and people didn't want to go through seeing Cynthia Revo. Ariana. I swear that's what they said. I read.
DJ Envy
So their relationship with them being a little creepy is. Is the reason why.
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah.
Angela Yee
I mean, I will say there was. Was an awfully strange togetherness about them, but I know I still can't believe that they weren't even.
Lauren LaRosa
You know, it says this is what the Oscar voter quote, the anonymous person says. I was also completely turned off by their promotional performances. The Academy member added, they creeped out a lot of people in their rush to feel authentic. Came off as cosplaying. And I did reach out to the Academy on this and they would not give me a comment, but I asked, I'm like, well, if it's not true, just let me debunk it for you guys. And they wouldn't give me a comment either way.
DJ Envy
I mean, it was creepy, but I ain't.
Angela Yee
It was. I mean, they just seem like two lesbian newlyweds on shrooms. Like, literally, they just, you know, just in every interview. You know, Cynthia. I've seen in interviews. Like, Cynthia even was damn near breastfeeding at one one of the damn interviews. She was fixing stuff that didn't give fix me like, you know what I mean?
Charlamagne Tha God
Security.
Angela Yee
And they say yes all the time. And they always. They seem like they do like their best friends. They do everything together. You know, red carpets, cry, gym fast. Hey, let's not eat for a long time together.
DJ Envy
Like they do everything together on the same cycle.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yes.
Angela Yee
They're synced up. They're.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah.
Lauren LaRosa
So. Well, the list, just to clarify, is a full list of top grossing films, film adaptions of Broadway musicals. And it landed number three on that list.
Charlamagne Tha God
Nice. I just thought the movie sucked.
Angela Yee
Okay, well, maybe a lot of other people felt like that.
DJ Envy
But it was for you though. It was for your kids.
Charlamagne Tha God
It sure wasn't.
DJ Envy
I got a good nap in that movie.
Charlamagne Tha God
It's a good melatonin movie.
Lauren LaRosa
I will say they're not helping them for anything else.
Angela Yee
I will say maybe that is true because we heard when the first one drop. We heard about it.
Charlamagne Tha God
We.
Angela Yee
I wouldn't stop hearing about it. My little sister, my little cousin, even my son liked it.
Lauren LaRosa
This one scored 10 nomination. Yeah. This one made 524, $524.7 million worldwide in his first 10 weeks at the box office. But I did it at number three.
Angela Yee
I did not hear anything about the storyline or the movie this time around. I heard everything about it the first time. So I mean, maybe it just wasn't a good.
Charlamagne Tha God
Good. It's a second movie. Jesus.
Lauren LaRosa
All right, well, in the next latest we gonna get into, you know, OG on stage, who you're gon learn not to play with when you come to one of his shows.
Angela Yee
Speaking of og, rest in peace and happy birthday to John Witherspoon.
DJ Envy
Yes. Salute to John Peace.
Angela Yee
It's his birthday.
DJ Envy
All right, Charlamagne, who you giving that donkey too, man?
Charlamagne Tha God
For after the hour. Let's talk 2A all day, man. I need a White House press secretary, Caroline Levitt, and you know, a whole bunch of the conservatives to come to the front of the congregation. We like to have a word. You stay in that White House.
Angela Yee
Don't he.
Lauren LaRosa
He need to be there right now.
Charlamagne Tha God
A lot of things going on in the world.
DJ Envy
All right, made it.
Charlamagne Tha God
This is Americ.
Lauren LaRosa
There is no question that there are.
Charlamagne Tha God
Problems in this country between police and community. Yes, you are a donkey. To the latest on that police killing of a black man.
Mimi Brown
Now to new developments in the deadly spa shooting rampage.
Caller/Guest
It was a really bad day for.
Charlamagne Tha God
Him and this is what he did.
Lauren LaRosa
And so we are in a state of emergency.
Charlamagne Tha God
Okay. White supremacist violence is. It always has been the number one threat to our society.
DJ Envy
But.
Caller/Guest
But I'm also very proud that my wife is white.
Charlamagne Tha God
The Breakfast Club. All right, Charlene, please tell me, why was I your donkey of the day? Well, donkey today for Tuesday January 27th. Go. The White House. Press Secretary Caroline Levitt. FBI Director Cash Battal. U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, Bill Asali. I think you pronounce his name. And every single conservative who all of a sudden seems like they don't believe in this, the Second Amendment. Okay, what is the Second Amendment? Well, it's in that document nobody seems to care about anymore, called the U.S. constitution. And the Second Amendment protects the rights of the people to keep and bear arms. I am too a All day. I absolutely believe in my right to keep and bear arms, but I also believe in common sense gun reform, Okay? I don't feel that anyone in America needs guns the size of little Duvall. Okay? And I think that's a rational way to look at this situation. But since the tragic murder of Alex Preddy, conservatives have not been being rational about this situation. In fact, critics yesterday were saying that the right is betraying their base on gun rights. Now, I was watching the Daily show last night, and they had an amazing collage they put together of all of the conservatives just betraying their base on gun rights. Let's listen. When you are bearing arms and you are confronted by law enforcement, you are.
Lauren LaRosa
Raising the risk of force being used against you.
DJ Envy
You cannot bring a firearm loaded with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want.
Mimi Brown
I don't know of any peaceful protester that shows up with a gun and ammunition rather than a sign.
Charlamagne Tha God
Don't let the left kid you with this. That this is just a normal protest. Peaceful protesters don't have nine millimeter weapons with two extra magazines.
Caller/Guest
I am sorry that this gentleman is.
DJ Envy
Dead, but he did bring a 9 millimeter semiautomatic automatic weapon with two cartridges.
Lauren LaRosa
To what was supposed to be a peaceful protest.
Charlamagne Tha God
Lord have mercy. That was a Treasury Secretary Scott Besant. Listen, in a world where Kyle Rittenhouse was held as a hero after bringing a gun to a protest and ended up killing two people, now conservatives are asking, who brings the gun to a protest? Caroline Levitt said yesterday that any gun owner knows that carrying a gun raises the assumption of risk and the risk of force being used against. Against you during interactions with law enforcement gun owners. Did y' all know that? Envy. Did you know that? I didn't know that. Okay. I didn't know that having a legal firearm that you know you have all your paperwork for raises the risk of law enforcement using force against you. By the way, Kyle Rittenhouse yesterday tweeted, and I quote, okay, Kyle Rittenhouse, okay? Tweeted yesterday, and I Quote, carry everyone everywhere, period. It is your right shall not be infringed. Listen, gun right groups blasted the Trump administration. Yesterday. The NRA had something to say. Let's go to CBS News for the report, please.
DJ Envy
The killing of Alex Preddy has raised.
Charlamagne Tha God
Concerns among a group of Americans not.
DJ Envy
Known for criticizing the Trump administration.
Charlamagne Tha God
Advocates for the Second Amendment. The federal government says part of the reason he was killed is because he had a gun. But Preddy was licensed to carry and the video shows that the weapon stayed in his waistband.
DJ Envy
One Trump administration official said online, quote.
Charlamagne Tha God
If you approach law enforcement with a gun, there is a high likelihood they.
DJ Envy
Will be legally justified in shooting you. Here is the NRA's response.
Charlamagne Tha God
Responsible public voices should be awaiting a.
DJ Envy
Full investigation, not making generalizations and demonizing law abiding citizens.
Charlamagne Tha God
The NRA said responsible public voices should be awaiting a full investigation, not making generalizations and demonizing law abiding citizens. That was the nra, and I agree with them. Okay? Gun Owners for America said in a statement that its leaders condemn the untoward comments by people like Bill Aceli. I think I'm pronouncing that right. Who put on X? No, I know I'm not pronouncing that right, but he put on X. If you, if you approach law enforcement with a gun, there is a high likelihood they will be legally justified in shooting you. No. Okay? Having a gun on your person in an open carry state and having a permit for it doesn't mean you should be killed. Stop this madness, all right? Gun Owners of America said in response. Response to him. Federal agents are not highly likely to be legally justified in shooting concealed carry licensees who approach while lawfully carrying a firearm. The Second Amendment protects Americans right to bear arms while protesting a right the federal government must not infringe upon. This goes back to what I said to you all yesterday. Authoritarian regimes are not sustainable, okay? The people will always revolt, Especially, especially in a country like America. The land of the free. All right? They call it the land of the free because of the values that this country upholds. Now we know all freedom hasn't been created equal in this country, but the freedoms we do have, we don't want them infringed upon by the government. And yesterday I told you, I told you the Nazis ultimately lost. What I was simply saying in a very me way was political movements that normalize anti democratic behavior eventually face legal, cultural and institutional pushback. Okay? That's just a historically accurate statement, okay? I don't care if it was McCarthyism that collapsed and became toxic. Segregationist politics became socially radioactive. Nixon era abuses reshaped ethic laws and oversight. The demagification of America is upon us. I repeat, the demag ification of America is upon us. And it's going to be forced. Fun to watch. So please give all those conservatives who have betrayed their base on gun rights the biggest he haw.
DJ Envy
All right.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yes, indeed.
DJ Envy
Well, thank you for that donkey today.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yes, ma'. Am.
DJ Envy
Now let's open up the phone lines. We were talking behind this behind the scenes. I don't know where Lauren just went, but we were talking about Kanye apologized to the black community and the Jewish community. What does forgiveness look.
Charlamagne Tha God
Look like, man? Well, I mean, nothing we can give. We not God.
DJ Envy
I mean, I'm just saying. But should people forgive? Should he just, you know, write this letter and say thank you and should.
Charlamagne Tha God
Who are people? There's no Jewish people in the room.
DJ Envy
Black people.
Charlamagne Tha God
We just speak for ourselves.
DJ Envy
Black people as well. And I'm sure Jewish people do listen.
Angela Yee
A lot of black people mad at him. But, like, when you say forgiveness, right? Like, what does that mean? What, buying his albums again or streaming.
DJ Envy
His albums or going to his shows or. I don't know what that means. Do we? Public support stops.
Charlamagne Tha God
Who stopped, though?
Angela Yee
I never stopped listening to Kanye.
Charlamagne Tha God
Had a number one album the last time he dropped.
Angela Yee
People still wear sneakers. Yep, I do. I. Yeah, I still listen to his music.
Charlamagne Tha God
So what are y' all talking about?
Angela Yee
I openly love Kanye. Publicly support.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah. I want Kanye to be mentally and emotionally healthy. That's what I want. I don't care about anything else. You know what I'm saying? When I see a brother that clearly we all watched, you know, struggling with some type of mental and emotional issues, when I see. See him, you know, get quiet for a year. Yep. And then, you know, pop out. And people that have seen him and have talked to him have said he's in a better space, a better headspace. That's what I hope for the brother. So I'm never gonna be against that.
DJ Envy
Yeah. Well, let's open up the phone line. Let's discuss 800-585-1051. You heard his apology, and I. I guess what the ADL came back with pretty much saying, show us the best.
Charlamagne Tha God
Apology is change behavior.
DJ Envy
Absolutely. Don't just tell us. Show us. We want to see you do better. And let's. Let's discuss 800-585-1051 is the breakfast Club. Come on now. If you're just joining us, we're Talking about Kanye's apology. Right. And we have a lot of people on the line that want to discuss. But you said you ain't you.
Charlamagne Tha God
You.
DJ Envy
You still rocking with him regardless.
Angela Yee
Yeah, I'm. I just got a soft spot for our people all the time.
DJ Envy
So, you know, a bunch of my Jewish friends, they do not rock with him. Like, do the sneakers away. Do not play his music. Don't want to be anyone way associated listening to or anything with Kanye.
Charlamagne Tha God
Well, I gotta know what kind of sneakers they were first, because you know what I'm saying?
DJ Envy
But easy ones.
Charlamagne Tha God
But which ones, though? Because some of them were from 350s. Oh, they should have kept those pretty penny off the 350s.
Angela Yee
Right now they don't need them damn shoes.
DJ Envy
So we're asking, you know, I don't know. For me, I just want to see change behavior. I just want to see the brother change. It looks like, like Charlemagne said earlier, it looks like he is getting the help.
Angela Yee
Yeah.
DJ Envy
We haven't heard from him in a long time. And what made me co parenting again.
Angela Yee
Yeah, that's what made me think that, you know, it was serious because we actually heard out of Kim's mouth that things have been better. You know, that was. That was like a strain, a public strain that they had on their co parenting relationship in the media not too long ago. But when I heard. When Lauren reported that, she said the opposite. Like, things are doing better. He's approving certain things that he wasn't approving before. North can be on social media. And then they bonded through her making music, through their daughter making music. I think that's good. That's what made me think it was real.
Charlamagne Tha God
Like, he's really trying, but he is a genius.
Angela Yee
He's a genius.
DJ Envy
He's an amazing producer. He's amazing songwriter. So I would love to hear more music. He's an artist when it comes to clothes, so I would love to see him.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, I don't subscribe to throwing people away because if that was the case, my black ass would have been thrown away a long time ago. Okay. I was disappointed in Kanye. I felt sorry for Kanye because I saw a human that was hurting. I saw a human that was clearly dealing with some mental health issues, and he was projecting that hurt and pain onto everybody. So the best thing that I've seen Kanye do over the last, you know, year is shut the F up. Okay? We ain't heard nothing from Kanye. We ain't seen no tweets from Kanye. You ain't seen no erratic behavior. You haven't even seen him. Correct. So clearly in my mind, I'm like, yo, maybe he's away doing some work on himself. And by the way, this isn't his first apology.
DJ Envy
Right.
Charlamagne Tha God
That he's issued. Yeah. You know, so he's issued quite a few apologies. We've seen him sitting with different, you know, people, so.
DJ Envy
But what he said did hurt a lot of people. Not just Jewish people, but black people.
Charlamagne Tha God
The hurt was coming because you all.
Lauren LaRosa
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Charlamagne Tha God
Hollywood is buzzing. Legendary director Von Kovach has come out of retirement to remake Wonder man, promising to redefine the superhero genre at a time when fatigue is everywhere. At the center of it all is Simon Williams, a man desperate to be a star but hiding a secret that could end in his career. He has superpowers outlawed in Hollywood. Enter Trevor Slattery, the notorious actor From Iron Man 3 and Shang Chi, who take Simon under his wing. Their friendship is hilarious, heartfelt, and the perfect lens for Marvel to comment on Hollywood itself. Starring Emmy award winner Yaya Abdul Mateen II and Oscar winner Ben Kingsley, this eight episode event drops all at once. Don't miss Marvel Television's wonder man screaming Tuesday, only on Disney. He was clearly dealing with something like it was. Kanye's been dealing with something for a long time. And when you don't deal with your trauma, your trauma will ultimately deal with you. And you end up trauma dumping on everybody. And that's what I saw Kanye west doing. And that's why it was always so saddening to me to watch him crash and burn down this whole empire he built simply because he don't want to go do the work on himself. And that's why I be telling you, go do the work on yourself. Go sit down with somebody, deal with that trauma that's inside of you, man, before you end up projecting that pain on other people.
DJ Envy
And if it's mentally related, then you understand and you just hope that he gets the.
Lauren LaRosa
The.
DJ Envy
The.
Charlamagne Tha God
The.
DJ Envy
I guess, the fixing that he needs. Whether it's medicine, whether it's. It's like you said, speaking to a therapist, my whole problem is, is I just want him to get help. Forget everything else. Forget the music, forget the money, forget the fact that you're a genius. I just want him to get help, get to his family, and then we could continue from there.
Charlamagne Tha God
I read that letter yesterday. I'm like, why wouldn't I be rooting for somebody to be mentally and emotionally healthy? Do you want this person to continue to be, you know, dealing with whatever pain and trauma they dealing with and continue to hurt people? No. We need folks to break the cycle. So, yes, I am always going to root for that man to break the cycle.
DJ Envy
We have Auntie Kim on the line. Auntie Kim, Good morning.
Caller/Listener
Hey, babies. How y' all doing this morning?
Charlamagne Tha God
Good morning, Auntie Kim.
Caller/Listener
And I just. I just put this on my Facebook page. Kim Dawson. I just put this on my Facebook page. I don't care if. I don't care what Kanye do. I don't care what he say. I don't care who forgive him. I am not doing that. He can't come back from this. He can come back. He can come back with Jesus, because you know Jesus. Yeah, he can come back now, Auntie Kim. He done.
Charlamagne Tha God
Auntie Kim, you, not God. So you can't say who deserves forgiveness or not. And I. And I.
Caller/Listener
Got. See, he don't have nothing. I don't have nothing. To forgive him.
Charlamagne Tha God
That's true.
Caller/Listener
I just know I ain't rocking with him no more. I ain't got nothing to forgive him for.
Charlamagne Tha God
I'm wishing him the best.
Caller/Listener
You know, cuz, right?
Charlamagne Tha God
That's all you know, cuz.
Caller/Listener
I'm not like you say, I'm not God. I don't judge you.
Caller/Guest
Jewelry, nothing.
Caller/Listener
I ain't got nothing to forgive him, folks. So my heart clean with the forgiveness part. I just know he done. He can't say nothing. He can't pray nothing. He can't produce nothing. He can't. He listen. He can come and drink the water from behind the African American Museum. He can't get nothing from me.
Charlamagne Tha God
Damn.
DJ Envy
Thank you, Mama.
Angela Yee
She is not playing.
Charlamagne Tha God
Hello? Kim said you drink the water behind African Americans. Hello? Who's this? Damn.
Caller/Guest
This is Pac from Fort Wayne, Brooklyn.
DJ Envy
Hey, talk to us, Pop.
Charlamagne Tha God
Morning, man.
Caller/Guest
As far as apology goes with Kanye west, man, he offered one and we gotta accept it. Because forgiveness is the fragrance of flower leaves on the hill that crushes it. So if the man has gone through some little psycho for the and had committed a crime, he cannot even be charged by the rule of thumb as a sane person. So the fact that he just merely said a couple words and we, and we are all bent over about him giving an apology or not giving apology puts us at a strange. Maybe it's something wrong with us because if he's crazy or has some mental issues, how, how we sold and blog.
Charlamagne Tha God
And what he's saying, listen, I'm with you, my brother. That's why I said the best apology is change behavior. And another thing that I used to always get upset about. Kanye has talked about dealing with mental health issues for the longest. It's not like Kanye west hasn't been on meds before. So constantly do the work on yourself to where you don't project whatever you going through on the other people.
DJ Envy
But I wonder, I wonder if he's.
Charlamagne Tha God
Got all the resources to do that.
DJ Envy
I wonder if he realizes what he's doing when he's not on the meds. Or does he only realize when he doesn't get something or something doesn't go his way and be like, damn, why are they looking at me like that?
Angela Yee
It's hard to tell.
Charlamagne Tha God
The best apology is change behavior. I'm not here to say whether or not Kanye west deserves forgiveness tonight. I don't that I'm not God.
DJ Envy
Now, if he is just joining us, we're talking about Kanye West. He just issued an apology to the Jewish community and Black community. And we're asking, are we forgiving him? And what does forgiveness look like? Hello? Who's this?
Caller/Guest
Tonio.
DJ Envy
Hey, what's your thought? He's. I think he said Antonio.
Charlamagne Tha God
Antonio.
Caller/Guest
Yeah. I was just saying that Kanye. Kanye ain't got ever do nothing but put out some new Yeezys or some more music, and he'll be good.
Charlamagne Tha God
He ain't never put down no more easy. Ain't nobody, unless he put nobody with.
Caller/Guest
Black men, they can get away with it. But like you say, how y' all crucify Nikki? She's supposed to be gone for a long time ago. That's like, we used to that. But with men, we can. They can just say, whatever Kanye did good.
Charlamagne Tha God
We're not. Listen, the reality is people not gonna throw Nikki away either. It's just that when you come back, you gonna have to, you know, make amends. Like, that's all. Like, Kanye is starting to make amends now. Whatever that looks like.
DJ Envy
Hello? Who's this?
Caller/Guest
This is Bolari.
DJ Envy
Bolari, what's up? Talk to us. What's your thoughts on?
Caller/Guest
Just want to say I've been a fan of Kanye since late registration. My favorite artist, but even back then, something about it, I just knew. I was like, I'm a fan of his music, but not who he is. I just kind. You know, like, a lot of people always thought. It seemed like they thought he just became crazy. But if you look back, he was always that same person when he was saying, george Bush don't like black people, when Ashton Cushy was trying to prank him and take away his film for his music video, he was going crazy.
Angela Yee
Yeah, I forgot about that.
DJ Envy
Yeah.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, he was going a while.
Caller/Guest
He got real mad when. I think he didn't get to perform or he didn't get an award for. What was it, MTV awards for good music? Something like that. He was bugging out. So nothing new, but I'm glad that it seems like he's getting that help that he needs.
Charlamagne Tha God
That's it, you know?
Caller/Guest
And I hope it don't turn around, because I'm not gonna lie in the.
Charlamagne Tha God
Back of my head.
Caller/Guest
I'm like, he might be good for, like, six months. And then, boom, he right there, back at it. I'm yay again, going crazy, saying.
Charlamagne Tha God
But my brother, we got to stop saying going crazy. If we know that the brother is clearly dealing with bipolar or whatever manic issues he's dealing with. Like, yo, you have episodes if you don't do the work, that's Why? I love Gucci man's book episodes, and I love Gucci man talking about dealing with anxiety and bipolar and schizophrenia because he's also showing you how to contain it.
DJ Envy
But. Yeah, but, but there's difference, right? And it's difference is Gucci man has a wife, Kisha Ko, that makes sure he stays on that journey.
Charlamagne Tha God
Kanye got a wife. She just ain't black.
DJ Envy
Well, I don't know if Kanye's wife is making sure he stays on that journey.
Angela Yee
Well, he did. He. And his apology. Now she probably can't. She don't even look like she. She just started getting dressed.
Charlamagne Tha God
What?
Angela Yee
But she. He did say in his apology that his wife has been helping him. She's been by his side helping him do this work.
DJ Envy
But some of these, these things where we. We see him do these outbursts. His wife has been by his side for the last couple of years. He stays on that journey.
Charlamagne Tha God
To make to the brother's point that just called, we've been watching this Kanye for 20, damn near 30 plus years. We clearly know that he needs help and probably constant help at all times. I've heard Kanye say, I don't want to take my medication because it messes up my creativity.
DJ Envy
Correct.
Charlamagne Tha God
So, so think about that. We. We keep talking about the artist and the person making sneakers and music. But what about the man? What about if the human knows? I know need help, but I feel like this medication and stuff messes with my creativity, so I'm not able to feed the artist side. But at some point, you got to make a choice. And I'm glad he's choosing the human side of him right now. I hope he still continues to choose the human side of him. Right.
DJ Envy
Well, what's the moral of the story?
Charlamagne Tha God
I'm not Jewish, so I can't forgive him.
Angela Yee
Guys.
Charlamagne Tha God
I don't speak for all of the black community.
DJ Envy
Would you speak for yourself?
Charlamagne Tha God
And I'm not God, so I can't even talk about whether somebody or not deserves forgiveness. All I can simply say is I hope the best for Kanye west and I hope that he mentally and emotionally elite. Hills.
DJ Envy
I agree.
Angela Yee
We have to lift our people up.
DJ Envy
All right, we got the latest with Lauren coming up. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah, I'm not dumbing myself down. I'm being myself. I'm the home girl that knows a little bit about everything and everything.
Angela Yee
Little brown girls look at you and.
Lauren LaRosa
Go, I want to be like you.
Charlamagne Tha God
Take me through that.
Lauren LaRosa
Take me through there she gone.
Charlamagne Tha God
The latest with Lauren on the Breakfast Club. LL Cool. Talk to me. Lauren LaRosa. LL Cool Bay.
Lauren LaRosa
Yes. So we're going to start the hour. I want to say congratulations to Mario and his girlfriend Esmeralda. Mario and yes, singer Mario. He posted yesterday that he welcomed his baby boy.
Charlamagne Tha God
That's one of the. Mario.
Lauren LaRosa
He just said Mario, Mario.
DJ Envy
That's what he says.
Lauren LaRosa
It's cuz you kept your coat on for your outfit and you got them boots on. That's why he playing with you.
DJ Envy
Go ahead, put them.
Lauren LaRosa
Bisexual.
Charlamagne Tha God
Them boots definitely bisexual. Like this definitely go both ways. A man or woman can wear those strong enough for a man with page balance for a woman guy.
DJ Envy
And the mega church, we don't do that here.
Lauren LaRosa
Well, Mario posted. He posted like his feet in the delivery room with the little covers over his sneakers. And then he posted a photo himself in all of the gear because, you know, he helped the baby be delivered. And he says, Dr. Barrett, welcome. Women are God's greatest creation. Because what I witnessed today was only God's work. Healthy baby boy.
Charlamagne Tha God
Nothing like watching a baby coming to the world, man. Congrats.
Lauren LaRosa
Really. I heard people be like passing out and stuff.
Angela Yee
Well, some. Some people did. Some people did.
DJ Envy
You have a smell? No, that's not true.
Angela Yee
Some people do pass out. My first child, Rome, his. His father, Rome passed out.
DJ Envy
But you said your first child.
Angela Yee
My bad. My first child, he. He does act like my child sometimes. But my baby father, he passed out. But my husband delivered our daughter, so yes.
Charlamagne Tha God
God damn you having that Mexican working. He's delivered the baby. That's crazy as hell you just said that. I didn't know he delivered the baby.
Angela Yee
Oh, my God.
Charlamagne Tha God
No, he did.
Angela Yee
He delivered the baby in the hospital.
Charlamagne Tha God
That's crazy.
Lauren LaRosa
That's great.
Charlamagne Tha God
J. The doula too. Shut up.
Angela Yee
Congratulations, Mario.
Charlamagne Tha God
Crib immediately. Wow. He said he limited and built the.
DJ Envy
Crib the same time.
Lauren LaRosa
Okay, so Martin Lawrence moving on. Martin Lawrence was on stage in Illinois and he was at the Hard Rock Casino there because he's on his tour. Y' all know what it is. And he had to remind the crowd, like, he is not one to play with when it comes to this heckling. Let's take a listen this real quick.
Charlamagne Tha God
Ain't nobody come and see you.
Angela Yee
They came to see me.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yes.
Lauren LaRosa
That's all. That's all that we could find. Yes, yes. But the crowd, when you're watching the video, so if you watch it online, when you watch it and even if you heard it really quick, the crowd reacts. Like, even a person recording, like, oh, shoot, like, because he says the B word. But I think anybody knows when you go to a comedy show, there's some rules.
Charlamagne Tha God
You shocked that Martin said the B word?
Lauren LaRosa
I'm not shocked. That's what I was going to get to. I'm not shocked that. I think they're, they're shocked at the way he came for the heckler. But he don't play around like that. Like he's.
Charlamagne Tha God
Y' all never seen any of his stand up.
DJ Envy
They've never seen. They've never seen Martin.
Lauren LaRosa
You know, this a new generation, generation of people headed to these comedy shows.
Angela Yee
He's still the same Martin.
Lauren LaRosa
Because the way people was shocked in that video, I was like, why are y' all shocked? It's Martin.
Charlamagne Tha God
Go on YouTube and watch Old episodes of Deaf Comedy Jam.
DJ Envy
When did Martin go at what's his name, Ed Lover's friend?
Charlamagne Tha God
That was at Deaf Comedy? I can't remember when, though.
DJ Envy
Yeah, but Martin is crazy.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah.
Lauren LaRosa
You don't go there playing with him.
DJ Envy
Don't play with mine at all.
Lauren LaRosa
At all. And I think that's why it was so quick, too. They probably didn't even expect it to happen, but yeah. Now moving on, in other news. So speaking of people on stage, Christian Combs was on. On stage. He came out during Total Set. They've been performing and he was trying to get the crowd hyping. It didn't really go his way. Let's take a listen.
Charlamagne Tha God
Not right now.
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah, why, why is that?
Angela Yee
The chat, yo, just come out, say hi. I go back in the back.
Charlamagne Tha God
Damn.
DJ Envy
Did he perform with him?
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah. So they, he brought Keisha and the girl. They brought him out on the stage and like they were having so much fun backstage too before they went on. So I felt bad when I saw this video because, you know, he's just excited and, you know, the bad boy family. But.
Angela Yee
But they still could have just, you know, lived it up in the back, like with Nephew, you know what I'm saying?
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah, well, there was really no reason to bring him out.
Angela Yee
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Charlamagne Tha God
What did he do a song? Did he do a ver?
Lauren LaRosa
So from what I could tell, he performed a bit and then ended it that way. They basically just kind of brought him out. The stable was up to the crowd. Like, it was really quick. It wasn't like a whole set, but from what this looks like the crowd wasn't feeling him. But 50 Cent commented on it and said his timing was just a little bit off. And Christian Combs responded back to him and said the real reason why the senior citizen Curtis is angry and keeps posting me is because his BM talking about the mother of one of his children who was dealing with Diddy when he was here. So there's that speaking people you don't mess with. Yeah. And as we end the hour. So y' all remember we were talking a lot about the Late show with Stephen Colbert and the cancellation, and we knew that it was coming May 2026. So there are reports right now that tonight on Late Night with Steph Meyers, he's actually going to make the announcement of the actual end date. So the date that they're saying is May 21, 2026. And that's supposed to be announced tonight on Late Night with Seth Meyers. So it's the end of an era for that. And you can watch that on NBC.
Charlamagne Tha God
And Peacock, salute to my South Carolina brethren, Stephen Colbert. That's my guy right there, man.
Lauren LaRosa
Yes.
Charlamagne Tha God
I'm gonna close. Bombs to Stephen Colbert, please.
DJ Envy
Okay, well, thank you. That's the latest with Lauren. You done?
Lauren LaRosa
I had some. I mean, we can end it.
Charlamagne Tha God
Is it good?
Lauren LaRosa
I was just gonna talk about because with the late. The Late show with Stephen Colbert, a lot of the conversation was like CBS saying it was money. People saying, no, it's because of the Trump administration, all that stuff.
Charlamagne Tha God
Right.
Lauren LaRosa
There was a story that happened over the weekend because there was one of the girls from Hacks came out and said that TikTok was, like, banning all of her, like, anti ICE, like, stuff that she was posting. TikTok had to come out and respond. And they said, oh, no, it's just like technical glitches or whatever. But there are a lot of celebrities online right now that are feeling the same way. Like, as they're posting things, things are getting minimalized by the social media accounts. And I saw Kerry Washington, she posted a video and she's trying to basically beat that. She's telling people how to go about protesting. Even if, like, your social content is being pushed back. Let's take a listen. You are not powerless over what's happening in Minnesota. One of the most effective things that you can do right now today is calling your representative. Every call is logged. Every voice adds weight. We're calling the Senate switchboard. I speak to senators from California. Please say the name of the United.
Caller/Listener
States senator or representative that you are trying to reach.
Lauren LaRosa
Senator Padilla.
Caller/Listener
Connecting you to the office of Senator Alex Padilla.
Lauren LaRosa
Hi, my name is Kerry Washington.
Mimi Brown
I'm a constituent from Los Angeles.
Lauren LaRosa
ICE murdered our neighbors in Minneapolis and is terrorizing communities across the country. You are elected to protect us, not fund this violence. Please block future ICE funding now. Thank you.
Charlamagne Tha God
I completely believe that they're manipulating the TikTok algorithm and suppressing things over there that probably speak out against the Trump administration or anything to do with ice. I saw Burn Bernie Sanders tweet yesterday. He said, thanks to Trump, right wing multi billionaire Larry Ellison will now control the Tick Tock algorithm along with CBS, MTV, the Free Press, BET, CMT, Simon Schuster, Nickelodeon, Paramount plus Pluto TV and more. This is what oligarchy looks like.
Lauren LaRosa
Yeah, I saw Jimmy Kimmel like crying on his show yesterday just about the ICE stuff. And he's been having conversations about that new FCC rules and what they're making them do with the fair time. This is a whole different world that we're in right now as far as like, media and stuff. But we'll be back with more.
DJ Envy
TikTok has been glitchy, has been down for the last couple days. There's been a lot of creative people out there, creative content people that basically saying that their views have been zero and the algorithm is bad. But I think they fix it.
Charlamagne Tha God
I ain't never been on TikTok. Tik Tok.
Lauren LaRosa
Oh, you all over there. They be posting you all over.
Angela Yee
Yeah, you got.
Lauren LaRosa
I'm just saying, like you on there. You ain't on there too. Especially when you be dropping it. That video was crazy on.
Charlamagne Tha God
I'm never dropping nowhere.
Lauren LaRosa
You want me to repost dropping it.
Charlamagne Tha God
You pick it up.
Angela Yee
But you dropping.
Charlamagne Tha God
I picked it up though, right?
Angela Yee
You did.
Charlamagne Tha God
Hey, y. Don't talk. Don't forget to pick up.
DJ Envy
That's my zesty bestie right there. All right, that's the latest with Lauren. Now when we come back, we got the mix. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess. Hilarious Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. You asked you something this weekend?
Angela Yee
No, I'm actually celebrate your birthday. Yes, I'm.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yep.
Angela Yee
I'm actually going to be in Lagos, Nigeria, February 5th through the 11th. Yes. So this will be my first time in Africa, y'.
Charlamagne Tha God
All.
Angela Yee
And I'm going natural with my little act S curl.
Charlamagne Tha God
Okay. You know, it's not natural if it's an S curl. I don't want to be. What?
Angela Yee
Yes, it is.
Charlamagne Tha God
It's.
Lauren LaRosa
No.
Charlamagne Tha God
What?
DJ Envy
What are you talking about?
Charlamagne Tha God
That's curling. It's not natural.
DJ Envy
Afro is natural. Like Afro. Put a pck in the back.
Charlamagne Tha God
Any type of chemicals or anything in there. It's not natural.
Angela Yee
Moisturizer like a jelly curls.
Charlamagne Tha God
It changes the texture of it.
DJ Envy
Yeah, you should go like blue then.
Angela Yee
No, I don't have a natural. No, I don't have a S curl then.
Charlamagne Tha God
No.
Angela Yee
This is literally just fruits and berries.
Charlamagne Tha God
No, it's not.
DJ Envy
Curl and escrow.
Angela Yee
No, it's not.
Charlamagne Tha God
It's not.
DJ Envy
Between Jerry curl and escrow.
Charlamagne Tha God
A few letters, I guess. I don't know. I don't know.
Angela Yee
This is not a S curl, y'.
Charlamagne Tha God
All.
Angela Yee
This is literally just mousse and moisturizer.
Lauren LaRosa
That's it. It's.
Angela Yee
It's not. No, it's not. It definitely give that but no, it's not y'.
Charlamagne Tha God
All.
Angela Yee
This is my, my real curl pattern.
DJ Envy
When you get up the back of your truck, do you. Is there a spot in the back?
Angela Yee
No, cuz I don't put my head in the back. All the way in the back like that. I don't, I don't even lay my head my head on my seats. So go ahead.
DJ Envy
You got a positive note.
Charlamagne Tha God
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Date: January 27, 2026
Hosts: DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God
Guest Contributors: Lauren LaRosa, Mimi Brown
This episode of The Breakfast Club delves into a mix of current events, pop culture controversies, and community call-ins. The major topics include public reaction to Kanye West’s (Ye’s) recent apology letter, Nicki Minaj’s controversial Trump event appearance, a heated discussion about side hustles and generational change, updates on the deadly ICE shooting in Minneapolis, and pop culture news including Mario’s new baby and Martin Lawrence’s onstage moment. The show blends humor, commentary, and audience participation, with hosts maintaining their signature banter and energy.
This episode is a dynamic snapshot of current Black culture, news, and opinion as filtered through the unmistakable lens of The Breakfast Club. Listeners gain insight into how celebrities’ moves (Ye, Nicki Minaj) are seen on the street level, the political temperature post-ICE shooting, and a strong sense of nostalgia versus reality in youth culture and entrepreneurship. The hosts’ personalities come through vividly, providing both comedic relief and pointed analysis—a must-listen for fans seeking both laughs and a pulse on contemporary issues.