FULL SHOW: Fetty Wap Released, Anthony Joshua Speaks After Car Accident, Salt-N-Pepa Lawsuit Dismissed + Keith Sweat Interview

Summary

The Breakfast Club – January 9, 2026

Hosts: DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha God, Jess Hilarious (with Lauren LaRosa, Mimi Brown, Nyla Simone)
Episode Highlights: Fetty Wap Released, Anthony Joshua Speaks After Car Accident, Salt-N-Pepa Lawsuit Dismissed, Keith Sweat Interview

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Main Theme and Purpose

This episode is a quintessential, lively Breakfast Club morning show, mixing pop culture, hard-hitting news, audience call-ins, and a marquee interview with R&B legend Keith Sweat. The hosts cover breaking news on national protests, criminal justice stories, and health and financial updates, while also diving into the latest in music, legal dramas in the industry, and candid conversations about relationships and celebrity responsibility.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Front Page News: Protests, Police Shootings, and Student Loan Garnishments

• Nationwide Protests:

  • Demonstrations continue across the U.S. following the deadly ICE shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis.
  • Controversy centers around the federal government blocking the state of Minnesota from investigating the shooting, triggering calls for transparency and fairness.
  • Notable Quote: "How do you just dismiss any wrongdoing without an investigation?" — Charlamagne (13:39)

• Federal vs. State Jurisdiction:

  • The officer, Jonathan Ross, is defended by federal immunity. Vice President J.D. Vance comments it would be "unprecedented" for state officials to prosecute a federal agent.
  • Notable Quote: "He was doing his job. The idea that a bunch of radicals in Minneapolis are going to make this guy's life miserable because he was doing the job is preposterous." — J.D. Vance (09:32)

• Other Related Incidents:

  • A similar ICE-involved shooting in Portland; increased scrutiny on ICE operations.
  • Community anger at law enforcement disrespecting vigils for shooting victims.

• Wage Garnishment for Student Loans Returns:

  • The Dept. of Education reinstates wage garnishment for student loan default, affecting millions, with notices starting Jan 7, 2026.
  • 15% of take-home pay can be seized without a court order.
  • Tip: "Go to studentaid.gov and make sure that you are not [in default]..." — Mimi Brown (36:31)

• Healthcare & ACA Premiums:

  • After ACA subsidies expired end of 2025, premiums have doubled; millions dropped coverage. New legislation to restore some credits has passed the House but faces a Senate battle.

• Flu Season Crisis:

  • The U.S. faces the worst flu outbreak in years, with record hospitalizations, especially in New York.
  • "The CDC says the U.S. is seeing its highest flu activity in nearly 30 years." — Mimi (39:27)

2. Celebrity & Music Industry News

• Fetty Wap Released from Prison (22:18)

  • Fetty Wap is out after serving half his six-year sentence for drug trafficking, expresses desire to give back to the community and focus on at-risk youth.
  • "Right now my focus is on giving back to my community... supporting at-risk youth..." — Fetty Wap statement read by Lauren LaRosa (23:00)

• Salt-N-Pepa Lawsuit Dismissed (75:18)

  • Salt-N-Pepa's bid to reclaim their masters from Universal dismissed; legal technicalities over contract ownership and outdated industry practices at play.
  • Lauren LaRosa speaks with Herbie Love Bug, who hints at complications stemming from the original contract signings.

• Diddy Seeking Trump Pardon (30:32)

  • Trump claims Diddy has asked for a pardon, which he has "no plans to grant." 50 Cent chimes in on social media.
  • "That means add a couple more zeros." — Charlamagne (30:34) on Trump's negotiation style.

3. Sports Story: Anthony Joshua's Car Accident (31:31)

• Boxing heavyweight Anthony Joshua survives a tragic car crash in Nigeria that killed two team members.
• He posts an emotional message honoring his lost friends.
• Hosts reflect on the trauma and the possibility of Joshua's retirement from boxing.

4. Call-In Segments: Community Sound-Off

• Listeners discuss everything from student loan stress to community events and supportive shout-outs.
• A passionate call addresses celebrity responsibility for social change (94:12).
  • "We need to start going to y'all, taking y'all. We can't fight the military, but... we can go and steal y'all." — Kim, caller (85:45)
• The conversation turns into a soulful roundtable about wealth inequality, government responsibility vs. celebrity philanthropy, and policy solutions.
  • “America can reduce poverty and wealth inequality…but they choose not to.” — Charlamagne (93:32)

5. Keith Sweat Interview (43:02)

Main Topics:

• Tour Life:
  • Kickoff of the R&B Lovers tour with Joe, Drew Hill, Genuine, Kut Klose.
• Career Longevity & Music:
  • On what makes true R&B: "R&B is foreplay...y’all done killed the game." — Keith Sweat (47:56)
  • Explains how his biggest hits were inspired by real heartbreak:
    • "My best songs came from being hurt." — Keith Sweat (52:31)
    • Tells the story of heartbreak behind “Make It Last Forever” (53:42)
• Legacy, Awards & Recognition:
  • Never won a Grammy or BET Award; focuses on audience love and owning his story: “I give you my own documentary.”
• Personal Reflections:
  • On handling pain and writing: "It's like me getting counseling."
  • Relationship philosophy: “If you want to be in an open relationship, just say...Don’t play with people's feelings and emotions. That’s a dangerous game.” (62:18)
• Business Moves:
  • Discusses his candle line, radio show, and executive producing films.
  • “I got my own doc...I own it. That's how you do things today.” (69:39)
• Memorable banter:
  • Hosts tease Keith about never dancing onstage, his candles, and past loves.
  • “If you didn’t give me my flowers when I deserve, don’t give them to me when I’m not here.” — Keith Sweat (68:48)

6. Music Culture Talk & New Drops

• Nyla Simone spotlights new music from Jill Scott, Reason, Trey Loaded, IDK x Pusha T.
• Debate over J. Cole’s place in the rap “big three” after the Kendrick/Drake battle—sparks playful arguments about rankings.
• Insights on rising stars and what it takes to “connect the dots” for new artists.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments—With Timestamps

• On Protest & Justice:
  • “How do you just dismiss any wrongdoing without an investigation?” — Charlamagne (13:39)
• On R&B’s Evolution:
  • “R&B is foreplay…y’all took the whole foreplay game out the rap.” — Keith Sweat (47:56)
• On Making Great R&B:
  • “I’ve never been happy making a love song. My best songs came from being hurt.” — Keith Sweat (52:31)
• On Legacy:
  • “If you don’t give it to me when I deserve, don’t give it to me when I’m not here.” — Keith Sweat (68:48)
• On Money and Poverty in America:
  • “This capitalistic society, where the rich keep getting richer and the poor don’t get a goddamn thing, eventually it’s going to collapse.” — Charlamagne (93:02)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

| Topic | Start Time (MM:SS) | |-----------------------------------------|------------------------| | Show Starts, Keith Sweat Talk | 02:28 | | Front Page News – Protests, ICE | 06:53 | | Front Page News – Student Loans | 33:17 | | Callers/Venting | 14:42, 17:11, etc. | | Fetty Wap Release, Latest w/ Lauren | 22:17 | | Anthony Joshua Car Accident | 31:31 | | Keith Sweat Interview | 43:02 | | Salt-N-Pepa Lawsuit Update | 75:18 | | Community Call — “Eat the Rich” Debate | 85:05, 94:44 | | “Pastor Aux” / New Music w/ Nyla | 106:56 |

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Tone and Show Dynamics

• Authentic, candid, humorous, and insightful. The hosts balance levity with substance, going from banter to deeply personal stories and urgent social commentary.
• Conversational—frequently referencing pop culture, inside jokes, and each other’s experiences.
• Keith Sweat brings a nostalgic but unfiltered energy: warm, self-aware, direct, and playful.
• Audience/callers add real-world perspectives, making the show communal and interactive.

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For Listeners Who Missed the Episode

This episode presents a multifaceted Breakfast Club session—part urgent social forum, part music industry roundtable, part R&B masterclass with Keith Sweat, blended with neighborhood energy from listeners and hosts alike. Get updates on protest movements, financial realities, and hard-earned wisdom from one of R&B’s most enduring voices, while still enjoying music drops, cultural debates, and big laughs.

Don’t miss:

• Keith Sweat’s honest take on heartbreak, musical legacy, and business moves
• Lively call-in conversations on celebrity responsibility vs. systemic inequality
• Frontline reporting on justice, health, and student loan crisis
• Fresh new music and friendly squabbles about hip hop’s GOATs

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Final Positive Note (117:29):
"It's normal to feel like you’re breaking apart when you’re outgrowing something. Trust the process and surrender the destruction of the old. Make space for the new." — Charlamagne

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End of Summary

Transcript

[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Jessica]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Julian Edelman]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

Jess. Hilarious. Good morning, Charlamagne Nicole.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Peace to the planet. It's Friday. How y' all feeling out there? I feel blessed, black and highly favored. Happy to be here another day to serve our beauty. Beautiful listeners. Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

It's Friday already?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And that is beautiful.

[DJ Envy]

That is amazing, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's been a long work week, hasn't it?

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, y' all crazy. It's been a long work week.

[DJ Envy]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's been a long work week, man. But we made it through.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And it's the weekend now.

[DJ Envy]

That's right. The weekend is there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. I'm happy to be here, man. Happy to be here.

[DJ Envy]

That's right. Well, today on the show, Keith Sweat will be joining us.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

R B legend, RB icon, our first guest of 2026. You know, you asked me. Couldn't ask for a better guest. Keith Sweat is always an entertaining conversation.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Keith Sweat will be joining us. He's on a new tour called the R B Lovers Tour.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

By the way, it is a lot of tours going out, a lot of tours going on, and they're very nostalgic. But the thing I like about guys like Keith Sweat and even New Edition, they understand that they got to make these prices reasonable.

[Keith Sweat]

Yes, yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So it's like, you know, folks are looking for an escape. You know what I mean? Because there's a lot going on in the world. It's very heavy. It's very dark out here. People are looking for an escape. And people like Keith Sweat, they understand that, you know, we got to go out on these toes. We got to make these tickets affordable. So it's not just him. It's him, Drew Hill, Joe and genuine. And Cut Close.

[Keith Sweat]

And cut Close.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Come on, now. Don't forget about Cut close.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. So Keith Sweater be going out on tour. He'll be talking about tour and everything that he has that he's working on. And like you said. Yes. I gotta get my tickets this week to go see New Edition in Boyz II Men.

[Jessica]

Oh, I thought you were.

[DJ Envy]

And Tony Braxton and Toni Braxton. No, it just started.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It didn't start yet. Oh, damn.

[Jessica]

They came up here earlier.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, they came up here early.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They got to do routines.

[DJ Envy]

They got to do rehearsal. They got to get back in shape. They got to do a lot.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I got one of Keith sweats candles lit in here right now, too. He has this set of candles called Candles by Keith, and he's got one called make it last forever. I give all my love to you and twist it. And I asked the room, you know, what candle did y' all want me to light to set the mood? And y' all said, make it last forever. Yes, yes, yes.

[DJ Envy]

Why you got your sandals on the table?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

First of all. You got new ones? Yes. First of all, these donkey today sandals were given to me by Islide long time ago, about. Yeah, absolutely. A long time ago. 13, 14 years ago. And I wore them to mine. I wore them religiously every day in here. A lot of magic happened in these sneakers. But my homegirl, Beezy Baby, Salute to Beezy baby. She went to Islide and got me some more made. You know, I have some new ones made. Okay, okay. Because she was like, I'm tired of seeing you wear them, you know, But I don't care. I'm a cancer. I like comfortability. Right? So. But these are great. So I'm wearing these now.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Jessica]

Okay, good.

[DJ Envy]

You should put those in a box.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

If you retire them, like. No, I'm gonna take. I'm gonna put them up and hang them on the lights right here. I'm gonna get the string and hang them on the lights. I'm gonna hang them on the lights like they used to do on the hood.

[DJ Envy]

Nobody want to do no show with your tennis shoes over their head.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They gonna do the show however we present the show, because this is the Breakfast Club. God damn it.

[DJ Envy]

I say put them in a box and put them in. You know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Watch. Hey, I'm just trying to figure out how to do it, because, you know, they ain't got no shoe strings. I'm gonna get me some strings, and I'm gonna hang them up from the lights.

[Jessica]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes. I'm gonna hang them up from the lights. Both people that come in here, they come from the same circumstances that we do, so they'll understand.

[DJ Envy]

I don't even know if that light is strong enough.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You blew that. A couple pair of slides. Cut it out. Yes. I'm gonna get Kiki Palmer and Scissor to put them up on the. Oh, no. They went and got him down. That was a mov. But they was going to get them down. Don't worry about that. But, yes, I'm gonna hang these up on the lights in here.

[DJ Envy]

All right, well, let's get the show cracking. When we come back, we got front page News. Mimi's here, should be breaking it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Brown is here.

[DJ Envy]

And let's what we start on Friday.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

With, man, let's start with some two chains. The reason I want to start with two chains, man, because it is 2026, man. My guy 2Chainz has a book coming out called the Voice in My Head is God on March 3, 2026, via my book imprint, Black Privilege Publishing. So let's start off with some two chains.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, classic.

[DJ Envy]

All right, we'll be right back with Front page News. Don't move us to Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

All right, well, morning everybody. Let's get right in the front page news. What's up, Mimi?

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning, M.V. jazz Charlemagne. How y' all doing?

[DJ Envy]

What we start with today.

[Mimi Brown]

So we starting this morning with those growing protests. So demonstrators, they are spreading nationwide over that deadly ice shooting in Minneapolis with protests now reported in Atlanta, Dallas, Washington, D.C. philadelphia, and even here in New York City. Now, 37 year old Renee Good, she was shot and killed during an ICE encounter as she tried to leave the scene. The ICE officer who fired the shots, he has now been identified as Jonathan Ross. Now, records show Ross is the same officer who he was dragged about 50 yards during a separate ice incident last June. And that incident is now under reviewed scrutiny. But the outrage is not just about the shooting itself. It is now about who is in charge of investigating it. So Minnesota officials, they say the federal government has shut the state out. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, that's the Tate's, the state's top investigative unit, they say they have now been blocked from the case. A state official say they initially agreed to conduct a joint investigation with the FBI. But they say federal authorities, they later reverse course and cut the state from access to interviews, evidence and case materials. Now because of that, the state said it has reluctantly withdrawn from the investigation. Governor Tim Walls, he says the move is raising serious concerns about fairness and transparency. Let's listen to what he had to say.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That it feels now that Minnesota has been taken out of the investigation, people.

[DJ Envy]

In positions of power have already passed judgment from the President to the Vice.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

President to Kristi Noem have stood and told you things that are verifiably false, verifiably inaccurate. They have determined the character of a.

[DJ Envy]

37 year old mom that they didn't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Even know, don't know. So when he says the state is withdrawn from the investigation, does he mean for the moment? Because if the feds don't find anything, does that mean the state can't go after it after that?

[Mimi Brown]

Well, this is essentially a state case, right? Because it's, it happened. But the feds are saying that. And I'm going to get to that because J.D. vance, he came out and he spoke about that. So the state is saying, you know, we want to investigate this. And the feds are saying, no, this was a federal officer, this was shot. So this is our jurisdiction, right? Vice President J.D. vance, he told reporters it would go against precedent for state officials to be involved in prosecuting a federal agent. And he's arguing that the op, the officer has absolute immunity under federal law. Let's listen to what he had to say.

[DJ Envy]

Jesus.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

First of all, I wish the state.

[Julian Edelman]

Officials in Minnesota would investigate why you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Have so many people who are using.

[Julian Edelman]

Their vehicles and other means to actually.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Interfere with a legitimate law enforcement operation.

[Julian Edelman]

The precedent here is very simple.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You have a federal law enforcement official engaging in federal law enforcement action. That's a federal issue. That guy is protected by absolute immunity.

[Julian Edelman]

He was doing his job. The idea that Tim Walsh and a bunch of radicals in Minneapolis are going to go after and make this guy's life miserable because he was doing the job that he was asked to do is preposterous. The unprecedented thing is the idea that a local official can actually prosecute a.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Federal official with absolute immunity. I've never seen anything like that.

[Julian Edelman]

It would get tossed out by a judge.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nobody cares if his life is miserable when he took a life. But does he have qualified immunity?

[Mimi Brown]

Not in this case.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Mimi Brown]

Not in this case. And the DOJ's own handbook goes against every way that shooting happened. It happened every way it went down. The doj, their own guidelines say that he was absolutely wrong in this shooting.

[Jessica]

So it's also real sad. I saw a video yesterday. They had a candlelight visual for Renee and agents was kicking her candles, not caring, you know, threatening, like the, the people like back up, leave. You know what I mean?

[Mimi Brown]

The disrespect, right?

[Jessica]

Yeah, very disrespectful.

[DJ Envy]

So what happens from here? So what could happen to him?

[Mimi Brown]

So if anything, who knows? Right? Because he's being protected. He's being protected. But, you know, President Trump has come out, the vice president has come out, Kristi Noem, they're all protecting him right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So.

[Mimi Brown]

And with the state backing off, you know, we have to wait and see what is exactly going to happen. And did you guys hear about the shooting in Portland? Because there was another.

[DJ Envy]

I heard about a shooting yesterday in Portland.

[Mimi Brown]

There was another shooting in Portland. Two people, a married couple, they were shot yesterday by an ICE officer during a targeted traffic stop. And the Department of Homeland Security said they were conducting that targeted traffic stop when the driver tried to run them over with their vehicle and it prompted the agent to fire a defensive shot. Now, local officials, they say they don't know if that account is accurate because Portland's mayor, he says the city can no longer take the federal explanation at face value anymore and he wants ice, all ICE operations halted outside of Portland right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Were those American citizens too, in Portland?

[Mimi Brown]

They were. I don't know if they were American citizens, but they, they, they said they were believed to be a part of the. What's that gang? The Tri Trade Centennials? No, the tri.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know you're talking about.

[Mimi Brown]

You know what I'm talking about, that gang. So they believe they were part of that.

[Keith Sweat]

I can't believe.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You can't pronounce it.

[DJ Envy]

I'm not Spanish, so I am black. I am black.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Traits.

[Mimi Brown]

You know what I'm trying to say?

[DJ Envy]

I'm black.

[Mimi Brown]

And then the last shooting, there was another shooting that is flying under the radar this morning just a little bit. This one happened in Los Angeles on New Year's Eve. So there was a federal officer, he was off duty and he killed a black man. Keith Porter Jr. The Department of Homeland Security says the agent was responding to what it described as an active shooter situation. Porter's family says the attorney, they strongly dispute that account. They acknowledged that Porter was armed. So basically he went outside on New Year's Eve and he shot a gun, he shot his gun into the air to celebrate New Year's Eve. The officer lived in the same building that he lived in. He came out and there was some sort of like back and forth and the officer, the off duty federal agent, ended up shooting the man there. There was no body camera footage. There's no camera. Louisiana Officials say the case is under investigation, but they say charging an officer, especially a federal officer involving those case, it can take years. Local leaders and especially his family in L. A, they are speaking out this morning. Let's listen to what they had to say.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Were this Anyone else, there would have been an arrest. You don't get to just murder people because you don't like what they're doing or how they're celebrating. We want him named, we want him arrested, and we want him prosecuted. We also want ICE out of L. A. And this man was never even taken into the station. He went back into his home after murdering my little cousin.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Lord have mercy. It's a lot going on. I don't even know where to begin. But I want to go back to the Renee Good situation for a second. The lack of empathy from Republicans on that issue is not surprising because those guys are one band, one sound in regards to their talking points. But I believe the most valid question is simply how do you just dismiss any wrongdoing without an investigation?

[Julian Edelman]

Right?

[Mimi Brown]

And that's what state officials are trying to say. They're just saying, you know, this man is. He's innocent. She was guilty. But all the video evidence. I know. We've all seen the video evidence.

[DJ Envy]

It shows exactly what happened with our eyes.

[Mimi Brown]

What happened.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How are Republicans telling people they didn't see what we all saw? That should be crazy. And I don't give a damn about Republicans or Democrats. I care about what's right and what's wrong. And what happened to Renee Good was wrong, period. And like Martin Luther King Jr. Said, An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. And as you could just feel, as you can tell from what Mimi Brown just reported, there's a lot of justice being threatened right now.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay. All right.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, coming up at 7, we're going to get into something that's going to affect your paycheck, and we'll tell you how it works.

[Jessica]

God damn.

[Mimi Brown]

I know, I know, I know. It's affecting millions of people. We got to talk about it. Coming up at 7.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is your time to get it off your chest.

[DJ Envy]

Keep calling 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello? Who's this?

[Caller/Listener]

Hey, this is Drea again.

[Keith Sweat]

Hey, Dre.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning again.

[Caller/Listener]

Hey, whatever, Charlemagne. I heard that tone.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What?

[Caller/Listener]

Y', all, I want to say congratulations, DJ Indy. I just read about your newest accomplishment.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you so much.

[Caller/Listener]

You're welcome. And, J, do not be mad at me, but I had a dream that you were pregnant with a girl and you named Her. Troy with an I?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You pregnant with an I. Oh, my God.

[DJ Envy]

No, I'm not pregnant. Yo, you sure? Take a shot. Let me see.

[Jessica]

I'm not stupid.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You name your kid Troy with an I?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Shut up. That was her dream.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I wouldn't do that.

[Jessica]

Yo, I appreciate that.

[DJ Envy]

But thank you so much.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Drea, come here. I can hear. Just trying to make it sound all sophisticated. Troy with an I. Troy with an I, please.

[Caller/Listener]

Beautiful name.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Thank you.

[Caller/Listener]

But also, too, I just wanted to say that I didn't receive the box just yet, and I was wondering, could I give my.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh.

[Caller/Listener]

In regards to the NAACP of Chesterfield?

[Julian Edelman]

What?

[Caller/Listener]

Okay, so about two weeks ago, I called in because I'm throwing a sneaker ball for the Mommy and Me. And you was like, yo, Eddie, put her on hold.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Get her address. Sounds like something you would say for a sneaker ball.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You don't remember?

[Caller/Listener]

I'm planning my own sneaker ball. Jeffield of the naacp, and you and DJ Envy said that y' all were gonna get some books.

[DJ Envy]

I remember. I remember. Eddie, Eddie, put her on hold.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Eddie, put her on hold. Get her address. I got some stuff up here right now. I got a bunch of comic books and all type of stuff up here for you right now.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, we'll get you. Absolutely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I got 2 Chainz book up here right now. I got some stuff for you.

[Caller/Listener]

Okay. And, Jazz, I made it to your show. It was fabulous, but my mom also had the flu, so I left, like, 15 minutes before it ended, so I didn't collect the box that you had for me.

[Jessica]

Oh, man. Is she okay?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, yeah, she's good.

[Caller/Listener]

She just didn't answer the phone when I tried to text her, so I was like, oh, let me step out.

[Jessica]

Okay, as long as mom is okay, yes.

[Caller/Listener]

But I appreciate y'.

[Mimi Brown]

All.

[Caller/Listener]

And again, congratulations, DJ Envy. And just go.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Congratulations to Jessica.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you so much.

[Jessica]

No, I'm not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How do you know?

[DJ Envy]

Pregnant with a.

[Keith Sweat]

Troy.

[Jessica]

Don'T play with me.

[DJ Envy]

Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need the vent, hit us up right now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is your time to get it off your chest.

[DJ Envy]

Keep calling 800-585-1051.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Hello? Who's this?

[Caller/Listener]

Hey, good morning, Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

What's your name?

[Caller/Listener]

This is Nicole calling from St. Louis.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, Nicole from Saint. Hello.

[Caller/Listener]

Happy New Year.

[DJ Envy]

Happy New Year.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Happy New Year. What part of St. Louis you from? East St. Louis or what part of St. Louis?

[Caller/Listener]

No, actually, I stay in a small town in Illinois. It's called Caseyville. But St. Louis is just a mess. Big town, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Rep your hood, man. Caseyville in the house. Caseyville. What's happening? Caseyville, St. Louis Rep. Caseyville.

[Caller/Listener]

Okay, well, you know, Caseyville is my house then.

[Nyla Simone]

Thank you.

[Caller/Listener]

Thank you, Shonda Murray.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely.

[Caller/Listener]

Okay. DJ Envy, I heard you say that you was bringing your car show to Dallas. Is that still true?

[DJ Envy]

Yes, I am bringing it to Dallas. We're working out the details now, finding a venue. So, yes, we are bringing it to Dallas this year.

[Caller/Listener]

So you don't have a date, then?

[DJ Envy]

Not as of yet. The problem is, we're. It's the venues. It's all up to the venues, because we need three full days. So getting three full days and over a hundred thousand square feet of space in the time that we want to do it is something. It's a little difficult. But, yeah, we got a bunch of markets coming up this year. I'm excited to announce in probably the next couple of weeks. But, yeah, we are definitely coming to Dallas this year.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

I know.

[Caller/Listener]

I've been calling about my. My sister Katie Odie and her books and everything, and I'm really trying to get her to be a vendor, so I'm trying to jump on it, just figure out what we need to do.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I love pre planning.

[DJ Envy]

I know. I love it, too. As soon as you know what, we'll put you on hold. I'll shoot you. Mercedes, email my assistant, and then she'll get you on board with everything. But, yeah, we should be announcing in the next couple of weeks.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Give it to her now. Mercedes email.

[Caller/Listener]

I have one more favorite.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Mercedes email is Bigfoot, size 1286.

[DJ Envy]

Mercedes Low. What's your last thing, Mama?

[Caller/Listener]

One more favor. My husband, Davian, he's from Shreveport and he. Soon as you figure out when you guys are doing something in Shreveport again, please let us know, because we go to Shreveport all the time, but we don't want to miss it.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, 50 is definitely coming back to Shreveport. He told me today. But he's gonna announce that, and he has a whole lineup of things that he's gonna be doing in Shreveport this year with. With shows and concerts and all types of things, but he'll announce it when he's ready.

[Caller/Listener]

Okay, so just in case, after he announces, you announce it, too, because I don't want to miss it.

[DJ Envy]

I definitely work with you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you for listening.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you so much.

[Caller/Listener]

Thank you, guys.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Have a good one.

[Keith Sweat]

Hello?

[DJ Envy]

Who's this.

[Julian Edelman]

Yo, yo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning. Good morning, people.

[Caller/Listener]

It's Coach Davis.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why your phone sound like that? Sounds like you're on a drop top.

[Caller/Listener]

Hold on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I got you. How about now? I sound better? Yeah, you sound a lot better. I'm glad you put the top up. What's happening? Hey, listen. So, hey, listen, man. First off, happy New Year to y', all, man. I'm glad y' all back.

[Julian Edelman]

Thank you.

[Jessica]

Happy New Year.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But, you know, I want to talk about the sister, Renee. Good, man. You know, they.

[Caller/Listener]

I think they got.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That definition of domestic terror is screwed up. You know, back in the days, we had a gentleman by the name of Ted Kaczynski, and, you know, the January 6thers and the. And Timothy McVeigh. Those were real domestic terrorists. Absolutely.

[Caller/Listener]

You know, and to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

To label her as. As such is crazy, but we see what we trying to do, man. They're trying to get us into martial law. They're trying to get people to react, you know, in a way that they can just come down with the full weight of law enforcement. And, you know, we got to be smarter than that, man. And. And it's just sad that they have to go this way.

[Jessica]

Yeah, right.

[DJ Envy]

Very sad situation.

[Keith Sweat]

Very, very.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well. Listen, you know what? I really. Hey, listen, this is crazy. Ms. Jones off the air, Ebro off the air, and Steve Harvey's trash. Y' all gotta bring it, man. We don't gotta do all of that. You know, we don't have.

[DJ Envy]

He's trash, but I don't gotta hang up on you, but Steve Harvey's not trash. I ain't gonna let you disrespect OG like that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, we're not gonna do that. We're not gonna disrespect any of those. No, we didn't Know what I'm saying.

[DJ Envy]

He just said they were all fair, which is true. But Steve Harvey is not trash.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I wish everybody success, even if they wish me the opposite.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, absolutely. Salute to Ms. Jones. I know she's doing her thing on YouTube right now. She's doing YouTube in the morning stops.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Salute to Ms. Jones.

[DJ Envy]

We got the ladies with Laura coming up.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning. Yes, we do.

[Jessica]

On my nerves, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Always sh.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Process, you know, it takes time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who the hell are you supposed to be this morning? Tony Braxton, Houston? No, man, she's the girl from.

[DJ Envy]

Boomerang. Remember the one for Boomerang?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I thought y' all was going to say y' all remember the episode Martin when he went to go see the monks?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, wow.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I was anticipating the giant Rich auntie.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

From somebody's rom com who everybody know got a coke habit, but they don't say nothing.

[Jessica]

Yes, I love that. The rich auntie coke habit.

[DJ Envy]

You remind me of Grace Jones.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I got that in Ghana.

[Jessica]

You look nice, though.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She ain't it high again.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Got a hoodie on back with you.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my goodness.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, we got.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning, guys. Yes, the latest is is here. Fetty Wap is home, y'. All. So after serving three years of a six year sentence, he is home, and I have all the details. We're going to break it on down.

[DJ Envy]

All right, so we'll get into that next. Salute to Fetty. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're talking Uber.

[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.

[Jessica]

The little brown girls look at you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And go, I want to be like you.

[Caller/Listener]

Take me through that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Take me through there. The latest with Laura on the Breakfast Club. Ll talk to me. Ll cool bay. Lauren LaRosa.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning. Okay, so yesterday, Fetty Wap was seen for the first time because he was released after serving three years of a six year sentence. And I received the first statement that he sent out to the media. So he says, I want to thank my family, friends and fans for the love, prayers, and continued support. It truly means everything to me. Right now my focus is on giving back to my community initiatives and my foundation supporting at risk youth children by expanding access to education, early tech schools, and vision care for young kids and students so they can show up as their best selves. I'm committed to moving forward with purpose and making a meaningful impact where it matters most.

[Jessica]

Yeah, it looks good too.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He does. I also saw a video of him at his label and they were, like, excited for him to, you know, be there as well, too.

[Jessica]

Yeah, I forgot it was the Jennifer Hudson show. You know, the long.

[Lauren LaRosa]

They had the tunnel.

[Jessica]

I was like, damn, they had a.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Tunnel for first day out Jennifer Hudson show.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right. I forgot what he was even in prison for.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So he was in prison for his role in a alleged, like, I guess I don't have to say alleged because.

[DJ Envy]

He was convicted trafficking cocaine, heroin, fentanyl, crack ring.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. So when he was busted way back when, it was some years ago, he was locked up with over 500 grams or more of cocaine and thousands of dollars in cash. So the court decided to let him go a bit early, which is a good sign because that means that he's been doing well while he was locked up and showed the court that. But now that he's out, he will have like strict guidelines because that was a part of his sentencing too for the next five years. So drug testing. He can't open bank accounts without approval from the feds. He also has to keep probation in the loop of like his earnings and his tax. You all know this time of year is my recess season. New energy, new plans, new ways to grow my brand. And if you're trying to start 2026 ahead of the game, like really ahead, now is the time to get moving. For me, Shopify has been the platform that keeps my whole merch business tight. As a creator, as a businesswoman, I need my tools to work hard. And Shopify is like having a chief of staff, a personal assistant and a co founder all in one. And look, I always tell other women building their own brands, especially small, independent black creators. Don't overcomplicate it. Whether you're running a side hustle or you're trying to run a full storefront, selling to your community or around the world, Shopify takes the guesswork out of everything. Shopify also like, my favorite thing about it is they teach you as you grow, you can look up anything, get information on anything, and it's simple. They give you, like, easy one, two, three steps. I used to juggle 10 different logins and apps. Now one platform I manage, my store, sell online, sell on social, even tag products right from my phone, wherever I am. And Shopify Sidekick. Listen, you keep hearing all about AI. Let me tell y' all, this AI is a lifesaver. It gives me reports, content, ideas, helps me edit images. It's literally like having a smart assistant in my back pocket guiding me to my next move. So let's be real. It's time to stop thinking and start doing. And there is no better way to do that than Shopify. Use our link shopify.com B E N Now to start getting serious about building your future.

[DJ Envy]

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[Julian Edelman]

You this is Julian Edelman from Games With Names. Now let's get into the serious stuff. We're talking football food, specifically Daisy French.

[DJ Envy]

Onion dip that Is serious.

[Julian Edelman]

Gotta try these delicious new dips from Daisy. These are so delicious. They're like homemade dips made with real herb and spices and other ingredients you'll find in your kitchen. Also made with some Daisy sour cream. Daisy sour cream is a long standing staple for taco Tuesday.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I do when I.

[DJ Envy]

Get my street burrito? I get the squirt Daisy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. And every bite.

[Keith Sweat]

I know you.

[DJ Envy]

I know you.

[Julian Edelman]

I'm a huge sour cream guy. I love sour cream. So I think burritos can't live without sour cream.

[DJ Envy]

I completely agree with that.

[Julian Edelman]

They also have daisy ranch dip. I love ranch dip.

[Jessica]

That's great.

[Julian Edelman]

I love it with crackers, wings, plain potato chip, the ones with the little crinkles, maybe some bell peppers. So get out there and give Daisy French onion dip a try. You will not regret it.

[DJ Envy]

On ebay, every find has a story. Like, if you're looking for a vintage band tee. Not just a tee. The band tee from the last show your favorite band ever played. You wore it everywhere. Then your girlfriend started wearing it, which was cool until she dumped you and took it with her, which was not so cool. Anyway, now you're on ebay. And there it is. Same tee from the same tour, still living in your memory. Rent free forever. See, the things you love have a way of finding their way back to you. But ebay isn't just for getting what your ex stole back. It's also for that rare championship foul ball you caught, then heroically gave it to the kid next to you. And where else are you going to find your first car? The one you wish you never sold, but now finally get the chance to take back home for good this time. You know, I'm a collector of cars. And sometimes I'm looking for the right rim that I had when I was a kid. Yeah, it might have been 20 years ago, but I want that same feeling. And the only way I can find it is on ebay. Shop ebay for millions of fines, each with a story. Ebay. Things people love.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Information. No alcohol or drugs, of course, unless prescribed. And the court can even make it where, like, he has to do, like, an outpatient, like, drug program and then continue testing just because. Because they're trying to make sure he's gonna stay focused.

[Jessica]

Like a halfway house.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Not even really like a halfway house, Just more of like a check in. Like, well, we have to. Well, where he will have to continually be tested every day.

[Jessica]

He just gotta go.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, it'll just be a program that he'll have to Go to whenever they.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I can't wait to see him have some conversations though, because, you know, he can make this a teachable moment because Fetty Wap had a run. I know he made a whole lot of money. And I remember an interview he did with DJ academics where he talked about blowing a lot of money. I just want to know how you go from the run to blowing the money to back to I, I guess being involved with something.

[DJ Envy]

He was hot as fire when he came out. And remember he was making so much money. Red hot. What he had.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not hood hot either.

[Keith Sweat]

Like mainstream.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Even today you walk into like some stores. Like, I remember I walked in like a Target and one of his songs was playing as like the commercial. Yeah, like even in the still. But I know at the time when he was going through everything, that was what one of the judges had said to him. Like, you had this great opportunity and you, you didn't. Obviously you sitting here in front of me. So definitely this was a teachable time in his life. So those conversations will be ones to listen to. Okay, now as we move on, Diddy is still asking Trump for pardon. So Trump sat down with the New York Times with a, with several different reporters from the New York Times, did a wide ranging interview about a bunch of different stuff. Now in that interview, they begin to ask him about different people he would pardon. Diddy's name came up and he said that he received a letter, an additional letter from Diddy talking about a pardon. And he says that he has no plan plans to pardon him as of now. 50 Cent did respond to that. He says that he's, you know, he's telling Diddy, I told you to stop asking for a part of. I've already told him what you said because remember, there were reports that Trump considered to not consider it because of things that Didier said about him. And he said that in an interview as well.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, that means add a couple more zeros. Okay. Had a couple more.

[Lauren LaRosa]

My mom said the same thing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

A couple more zeros.

[Lauren LaRosa]

My mom said that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She said, I wonder what Trump is saying. It's going to cost you a little. It's going to cost you a lot more.

[Keith Sweat]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. Now switching gears a bit. Anthony Joshua. So over the break, while we were not here, you guys will know or probably know that Anthony Joshua was involved in a very serious car crash that killed two members of his team. So yesterday he posted. Very sad. Uh, yesterday he posted on his Instagram just thanking people for all the love. He says thank you for all the Love and care. You have shown my brothers, uh, latitude and cena. I didn't even realize how special they are. I'll just be walking with them and cracking jokes with them. Not even knowing God kept me in the presence of great men, 100%. It's tough for me, but I know it's even tougher for their parents. I have a strong mind, and I believe God knows their hearts. May God have mercy on my brothers. With the prayer hand emojis. Yes.

[DJ Envy]

And that happened in Nigeria.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, yeah. Over the holiday. That happened in Nigeria.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Definitely send a healing energy to AJ and to the family, the two families of the individuals that were killed. If AJ never fights again, I'll completely understand. Oh, yeah, I will completely. I know there was rumors people were speculating that he might retire if he never fought again. I could completely understand because how do you witness something like that and then emotionally and mentally prepare yourself to get back in the ring?

[DJ Envy]

I was his training brother. Yes. Yeah, I totally agree.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It was the scrimp and conditioning coach and his personal trainer and not to mention his friends.

[Keith Sweat]

Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And you were in the car with them. Like, you probably watched them take their last breath. That's. That's traumatic beyond traumatic.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Very much so. Very much so. As we, you know, wrap. You know, just want to mention in the next hour, we are going to be, you know, talking about some more court things because us and this is switching gears. But Salt and Pepper, they remember that lawsuit that they filed saying that they should have their masters back and all.

[DJ Envy]

That they spoke about at the. The hall of Fame, Right?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. There was a lot of big conversation around that. A judge has decided to dismiss that lawsuit, and we're going to talk about what that means for them. And I also got a chance to speak to Herbie Love Bug yesterday, who is, you know, responsible for their careers and who was also mentioned in the dismissal. So we're going to talk about that.

[DJ Envy]

All right, we'll get to that next now, coming up in a little bit. Well, coming up next, actually, we have front page news, and then Keith Sweat will be joining us. So don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Morning, everybody.

[DJ Envy]

It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Such a long work week. Oh, my gosh, it's a friend.

[DJ Envy]

It's a Friday too. I know sometimes you might be stressed out. Don't think about doing the donkey. So you wanna open it up for the people.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Today. You know, we've been gone for a couple of Weeks, man. So, you know, on Fridays we do the people's donkey. So call us right now, 1-800-585-1051 and you can give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid. Call right now.

[DJ Envy]

That's right. Well, let's get into some front page news. What's up, Mimi?

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning, Emby. Jess.

[Jessica]

Hey, girl.

[Mimi Brown]

Charlamagne.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Mimi, how you doing?

[Mimi Brown]

All right, so we start this hour with a major federal move that could affect millions of Americans. So this week the federal government, they started re. They started. Let me do that again.

[Jessica]

Wait, we live.

[Mimi Brown]

We live. We live.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, that's cool.

[Mimi Brown]

So we start this hour with a major federal move that could affect millions of Americans. So that move is the federal government, they have restarted wage garnishment for people who are behind on their federal student loans. The Department of Education says borrowers who are already in default, they should have began receiving notices on January 7 warning that money could soon be taken directly out of their paycheck. So more notices, they're going out every month. So this marks the first major return of forced collection since the pandemic paused. That ended right after the. When the pandemic ended in 2021ish. So now what's happening and many families are already under major financial pressure. You know, we've got rising health care costs, affordability crisis, all of those things. And now the federal government says they want their money for your federal student loans. So the White House says that it is restarting those collections and it is about accountability and it is about returning to normal enforcement. Let's remind ourselves what the White House had to say about collecting student loan debt.

[Caller/Listener]

The student loan portfolio controlled by the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Federal government is nearly $1.6 trillion.

[Caller/Listener]

But fewer than four out of 10.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Borrowers are in repayment.

[Caller/Listener]

This is unsustainable, unfair, and and a.

[Mimi Brown]

Huge liability for American taxpayers.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Borrowers will now be clearly expected to repay their loans and those who default.

[Caller/Listener]

On their loan obligations will face involuntary collections.

[Mimi Brown]

Okay, so here's how that process will work. So once a federal student loan is in default, the government does not need a court order to collect money. So employers, your employer can be instructed to withhold money directly from your PayCheck, up to 15% of your take home pay. So you're supposed to receive a 30 day notice before that garnishment begins. But if you ignore that letter, that does not stop the process. And with this fast paced news cycle a lot of people have missed, this information is flying under the radar. So if you have a federal student Loan, you would want to go to studentaid.gov. check your loan status, make sure your contact information is current. And if you get any mail from the Department of education, you want to open it, or from your loan services, you want to open it. There are options to get out of default, but you have to act.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So school me, right? Because I didn't go to college. So if you get a check for, like, let's just say 1200, how much do they garnish?

[Mimi Brown]

15. So what's that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know.

[DJ Envy]

1200 is about calculator 80. 200.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now we got calculators right here on the phone now.

[Jessica]

1400. What'd you say, like 14, 1500. I mean, damn, my bad. 150 or like, because 10 would be 120. 140.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All you gotta do is ask the phone, huh? What is 15 of 1200?

[Jessica]

They gonna be like, she can't read or do, man. 120.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes. 180.

[DJ Envy]

That's what said 180.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

180.

[Mimi Brown]

But for a lot of people, that's a lot of money, especially now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right?

[Mimi Brown]

So you really want to make sure that you go to. What did I say? Federal studentloan.gov and make sure that you are not.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So.

[Mimi Brown]

Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Is it.

[Mimi Brown]

It's studentloan.gov and check your status, because those notices started on January 7th. Check your mail, check your email, and just make sure that they are not coming for your paycheck.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

See? Jess, aren't you glad you didn't go to college?

[Jessica]

I am a little bit now, yeah.

[DJ Envy]

You would have paid off your college by now.

[Jessica]

No, I still owe.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, what.

[Jessica]

What's the next story?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You still owe what?

[Jessica]

Cause I went to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know you don't owe Baltimore City Community College no money.

[Jessica]

That's not it.

[DJ Envy]

It's ccbc.

[Jessica]

It's community college in Baltimore City. So shout out, but go ahead, go ahead.

[Mimi Brown]

All right, all right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How much you owe this?

[DJ Envy]

It gotta be like 100, right?

[Jessica]

Yo, stop playing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, all right, all right. Let me get this.

[Mimi Brown]

Okay, so wait. There may be a small glimmer of hope y' all on the healthcare front this morning. So after months of fallout from the higher insurance costs, those in for those Affordable Healthcare act subsidies, they expired at the end of 2025. We've been talking about that a lot. So now in 2026, the impact is being felt. So for millions of Americans who buy their insurance on the ACA Marketplace, premiums have doubled. Some people have been dropped from their insurance because they couldn't afford those new monthly costs. And others were, you know, they just simply were kicked off. And others, they voluntarily just said, okay, I can't afford these premiums. So now the House is trying to reverse some of that damage. Yesterday the House voted to extend those ACA credits for three years, passing the bill 230 to 196. Seventeen Republicans, they joined Democrats to approve the measurement. Supporters say that it's they're trying to restore those lower monthly premiums and help people who lost their coverage to get back on insurance. But the deal is not done yet. It now will head to the Senate where it will face an uphill battle. Battle lawmakers on the Senate, they are split, you know, a similar three year extension, it already failed. And Republicans, they are demanding changes including tighter eligibility rules, minimum monthly premiums and a new anti fraud fraud measure.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I believe they'll cut some type of deal to make it happen. And I think part of that deal is going to be calling it Trump Care officially, but I'll change the name to some type of something with Trump in the name.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, but I would also tell people to call your insurance company because what they were doing is if the contract ended December 31st. Yeah, you couldn't go back to your same doctor. But there's certain things called post op. So like if you had a procedure or something that only your doctor would know, the insurance company has to cover it. They have to cover it. So and they give you three months to do that coverage. So if you had a surgery, let's say December and you have to go back to that doctor, it has to be covered because it makes no sense to go to a new doctor when this is the doctor that treated you. He's the doctor that did the surgery, he's the doctor that did the breakdown. So call your insurance company because they give you, I think it's a three month grace period.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Did they do post op after your nose job envy continue?

[DJ Envy]

I didn't get no nose job.

[Mimi Brown]

And speaking of that envy, you know.

[DJ Envy]

This is not nose jobs. Thinking about something else.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, yes.

[Mimi Brown]

We're gonna move on to flu season because you know, the flu season this, this year has been very, very wild. Yeah.

[Jessica]

Crazy.

[Mimi Brown]

It's been a rough flu season. It's been driven by a new strain that doctors are calling a super flu. The CDC says the U.S. is seeing its highest flu activity in nearly 30 years. Nearly every state is reporting rising cases and hospitalizations are climbing fast. And New York has bit has been hit especially hard between December 26 and January 2, more than 4, 500 people were hospitalized with the flu in a single week. Now that's the highest number the state has ever recorded. Doctors say that hospitals are under strain and they warn that we have not even reached the peak yet.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's crazy.

[DJ Envy]

And like I told you guys, for my littles, I tell you, my littles, which is, which is London, Brooklyn, Jackson and Peyton, they all got the flu and it affected them in different ways. Like I tell you, Peyton was in the hospital for 10 days. Brooklyn was in the hospital for two days. London and Jackson, it just went right through their system. So it affects the bodies differently, but it is very serious. Take it serious. If your kids have fever, make sure you stay on top of their fever. Ice rags to make sure that fever drops. I know the physicians and the doctors and if you go to urgent care, they'll say it just has to go through the system. That is true. But keep an eye on your kids. You know best, you know your kids better than anybody out there, any doctor out there. So if you feel anything, you rush them to the emergency room fast.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Do you still get the flu shot every year?

[Mimi Brown]

Doctors are saying to get the flu shot. They say that, you know, this, the strain is, is, is, is, isn't perfect, it isn't a match for it. But it will help, it'll help lessen the symptoms. That's what they're saying.

[Jessica]

Yeah, but one of the symptoms are you lose feeling in your legs.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah.

[Jessica]

So like are they upgrading the flute.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Flu shot or what? A variant changes every year. Flu shots every year. I remember they used to do them up here at I heart every year.

[Keith Sweat]

Right?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, but they also said that not enough people are taking the flu shot. And because not enough people are taking the actual flu shot, it's not covering people the way that it should. It's not covering the community the way that it should because people are not getting the flu shot like they should. So it's almost in some parts ineffective like it should be.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You remember that time? It was, it was years ago. Like we was probably two years in and you went and got the flu shot and you was like, did you go get your chip in your arm? They got the chip in the arm around the corner. I just went and got my chip. You should go get the chip in your arm. And I said to myself, everything Wendy Williams said about him and Clue is true. That is, that's what I thought to.

[Jessica]

Myself, what you thought about him?

[DJ Envy]

It was a joke. Cuz they were saying that if you get the Flu shot. They're actually putting a chip in you and they're following you. So I was making a joke of it.

[Julian Edelman]

He's.

[DJ Envy]

This guy's crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, yo, this guy's crazy.

[Mimi Brown]

All right, y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, that is your front page news, Mimi. Uhhuh. 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 dot com.

[DJ Envy]

All right, thank you. Mimi, how can they follow you and all that good stuff? Because you're out of here, right?

[Mimi Brown]

I'm out of here. I will be back virtually Monday, but I'll still be here with y'.

[DJ Envy]

All.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, just through the screen, I just.

[Jessica]

Found out that this girl is from the south projects of Alaska.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You didn't know that?

[Mimi Brown]

There are projects in Alex. Alaska.

[Jessica]

But you're not from the projects down in Alaska. I was going to say.

[DJ Envy]

Really?

[Mimi Brown]

Projects. It's just what they consider.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But they got hoods down in.

[Jessica]

They got hoods in Alaska.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Mountain View. Fairview.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Mountain View.

[Caller/Listener]

That's what they say.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We gonna ski on your ass.

[Mimi Brown]

That's what they say it.

[DJ Envy]

All right, when we come back, Keith Swift Sweat will be joining us. We're gonna chop it up with Keith Sweat. So don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody.

[Jessica]

It's DJ Envy.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The legendary. The icon.

[DJ Envy]

That's right. Ladies and gentlemen, Keem Sweat.

[Keith Sweat]

What up, baby?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning.

[Keith Sweat]

How y' all doing? How y' all doing?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Happy New Year, my brother.

[Keith Sweat]

Same New year.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Same New Year, my brother. You ain't. You ain't missing no checks. I know that much.

[Jessica]

Go ahead.

[Keith Sweat]

I don't know. I might be missing a few, but I'm whatever. Wherever they at, I'm gonna go get them.

[DJ Envy]

That's right. Now, Keith popped out at our jingle ball in Atlanta.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, I know. He shut it down.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, man, at the R B set, man, he had ladies going crazy out there always.

[Jessica]

Do you ever get tired of it?

[Keith Sweat]

Nah, I love that. You know, I love going on after some people. I gotta make my statement. It's still the same. Ain't nothing change. Make it last forever, baby.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But your music has last through so many different generations, though. Like, it don't even matter what crowd Chief Sweat pop up at all about. They know the word.

[DJ Envy]

They know, right?

[Jessica]

You be up there with that cup.

[Keith Sweat]

Smt.

[DJ Envy]

Now you're going out on tour with you Joe Drew Hill and Genuine Man.

[Keith Sweat]

I just had to cut close on my set.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, really?

[Mimi Brown]

Oh, my God.

[Jessica]

Oh, that's dope.

[DJ Envy]

So where does. Does it matter who closes out a show like that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Do you care?

[DJ Envy]

I mean. Cause you got the hits, you got the legacy. Do you care where you perform?

[Keith Sweat]

I really, I really don't care. But nobody really wants to go on after me, you know what I'm saying? But I don't really care because the sweet spot normally is 9, 30, 10, 10 o' clock at a show. That's the sweet spot. So, you know, sometimes people cry about, you know, but I. Nowadays when people come to a show, they, they're more concerned about what kind of show you put on. They don't really care who headline it because, you know, it's like, as long as you rock the joint, you know, they gonna talk about you. So that's what I do. I say, you want to close, you close.

[Jessica]

I don't care who put together the lineup.

[Keith Sweat]

Well, you know, you can't get me on my show unless. And I agree to it. I gotta agree to it. So you know any, any deals I do, it's like you gotta tell me who's on the show before I agree to it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who all over there.

[Keith Sweat]

Who all.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who all over coming? Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Are we gonna see you and cut close on the stage together? Doing some of the songs together?

[Keith Sweat]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Fire.

[Jessica]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is crazy.

[Jessica]

Joe Drew Hill, Genuine. You gonna try to dance? Because you, you gotta compete with Genuine. You gotta compete.

[Keith Sweat]

I don't need to dance. I. I mean, I don'. I got, I got dancers.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't need to dance.

[Keith Sweat]

You got my dad. I got 812 dancers, so I don't need to dance.

[Jessica]

I got you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, when people talk about R B, Keith, like, your name is, like, foundational when it comes to R B. At what point did you realize you weren't just making songs, you were, like, shaping a whole sound?

[Keith Sweat]

I mean, when I came in, I knew I could do up temple and slow and they all had the same effect. So, like, there's nothing I can, you know, like, I do afrobeat, R and B, slow or fast, it doesn't matter. So, I mean, I knew at that point, once I knew I could do whatever, you know, I knew I would, I would captivate, you know, that R and B audience because of the fact, you know, everybody in the R and B game can't do everything. But you sound crazy if you're doing a slow. So if you're a balladeer, you sound crazy. Trying to do an up temple joint. It don't work for everybody.

[Lauren LaRosa]

How do you feel when, like, some of your songs, like, like, I know I won't be here for long. It's like the Tick Tock and even now Instagram, like, it's like the go to for a lot of the videos that people use for the means when that happens. Like, as an artist, like, when you're watching it, how do you feel when you see people using your sounds across Tick Tock and Instagram, like, all these years later?

[Keith Sweat]

I feel good about it because I felt like I did what I needed to do. I accomplished what I needed to accomplish. I made an effect on. On a whole generation, you know, So I feel like, you know, it makes me feel good. It makes me feel proud about. Yo, I created this because I, you know, I write and produce all my joints. So, you know, me writing and producing my joints and people still loving it to this day makes me feel like, yo, I am that dude.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I saw you post. Can somebody please explain to me how Merry Go Round ended up on Roblox.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Pops up everywhere?

[Keith Sweat]

No, I. I was. I looked at that joint. I was like, damn. What. What the hell is this? Nah, I don't. I don't even know, man. It's just, I. I look at Instagram and. And Facebook and YouTube and I like, what the hell is this?

[DJ Envy]

But how did you hear he was on Roblox?

[Keith Sweat]

I just happened to look and see.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It just happened to be on. No, damn.

[DJ Envy]

He was at some. Some chick house that got a little kid.

[Keith Sweat]

I'm younger than you. I'm on Roblox and whatever blocks my block.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Your block?

[Caller/Listener]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's interesting to know how you got a whole generation that's rediscovering, like, real grown R B. So what do you think, like, modern R B is getting right? And what do you think that they're missing that they keep coming back to the OG stuff?

[Keith Sweat]

Well, like, I had a conversation with pleasure and all, some of them young brothers, and I said, man, y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Keith Sweat]

Y' all keep saying R B is dead. Y' all kill R B. Cause y' all want to curse in songs. Y' all want to act like R B is a rap record. You know what I'm saying? I mean, R B is foreplay. R and B is, you know, y' all took the whole foreplay game out the rap. If you cursing and you trying to make up with your girl or whatever, and you playing a R B song, you cursing how you Gonna make up. Y' all been arguing. So now the record arguing with y', all. Know what I'm saying? They joined the argument, you know what I'm saying? So I'm like, so, yo, that's not what R B was about. That's what now R B is to mellow out. Mellow, you know what I'm saying? For y' all to sit down, talk it out, talk it out, talk it out. Y' all done kill the game. So that's why they keep sampling my. Because they like omega last. Who can lay you like me? Nobody. You know you got me twisted, girl. You know, I said, that's what everybody's going back to. That's why they resample in my. My songs.

[DJ Envy]

I got into a argument with this guy at Starbucks yesterday, right? Two days ago, he works there. And he was talking about hip hop and R B. And he was saying that people are making R and B hip hop. And I'm like, that's not true. I'm like, there are some R B artists that are hip hop, like Mary J. Blige. I say Chris Brown. I said, there are R and B artists that are not hip hop. And I'm like, keith Sweat is an R and B artist. So do you think that when you talk about the cursed in the music, do you think there's different levels of doing it, different ways of doing it? Like the hip hop version to R and B and then just. Just R B?

[Keith Sweat]

Well, back in the day, R B was just R B. Even when Mary did it back in the day, she still did it R B, you know. So I think sometimes we as R B artists have a tendency to do is we try to be recreate ourselves and, you know, follow the trend of what everybody else is doing, which doesn't work for everybody and it shouldn't work for everybody. I'm not trying to follow what everybody else is doing. That's why. Why I'm in this lane by myself or certain lanes by myself. Because I don't care what he doing on the right or he doing on the left. Because for so long people have talked about Keith Sweat. But he don't do this, he don't do that, he don't do that. So now my point is I'm just laughing 30 odd years later and say, y' all thought I couldn't do this. And I did. I didn't do that because I didn't want to do this.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What did they say?

[Lauren LaRosa]

You couldn't do that?

[DJ Envy]

What did they say?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You dance?

[DJ Envy]

That's it. That's the only thing I heard.

[Keith Sweat]

I could dance. You seen me on something. Go back and look at some of the Instagram dancing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely.

[Keith Sweat]

No, not. But, you know, like, for instance, like, I never won a BET Award.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's BET part.

[Keith Sweat]

I never won a Grammy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's the Grammy.

[Keith Sweat]

You know what I'm saying? But when I get on stage, I always say, y' all are my Grammys. Because, look, you know, everybody that has done that, they not even still relevant. You know, I'm still headlining, I'm still doing what I do, so I'm still able to do tours and, you know, do six, seven thousand or more people. So. So, you know, Africa been trying to get me over there for the longest. You know what I'm saying? They trying to go up on the money more and more.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Please.

[Keith Sweat]

Misty Sweat coming to see me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, why you won't go?

[Nyla Simone]

Why you ain't been there yet?

[Keith Sweat]

I've been to Africa. I've been all over Africa. I've been to Cape Town, Durban, you know, Johannesburg, Nigeria. I've been to Africa before. But, you know, I mean, you know, last time I went to Africa, it was funny money because they got me. Because, you know, he said, you playing in Africa? I said, okay, so I'm in Africa, right? I'm. We in the car driving. So I said, what is sugar? I said, oh, man, they having a game over there.

[DJ Envy]

It's packed out.

[Keith Sweat]

It's a soccer stadium. He said, my brother, that's where you perform me tonight. I said, hold up, wait a minute. Let me get this person on the phone. You sound like. He said, it's sold out. Soccer stadium, standing room on. Damn, man. I called back to America. I said, man, if you don't put.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Some more money in my.

[Jessica]

Oh, wow.

[Keith Sweat]

I'm coming home. So that's the last time I've been South Africa when it was soccer stadium, you know, I did it. It was packed out. It was. Damn, man. And so.

[Jessica]

So you thought she was doing a smaller venue?

[Keith Sweat]

Oh, my God, yes, I did. And then I seen. I said, man, is there a game there? No. That's what you. So. So now they're getting it all together. So. So, you know, they sent me some stuff. They want me, Ghana, Zambia, you know, Kenya, all, you know, they trying to put the whole thing together. But I said, before I go, I.

[DJ Envy]

Want to make sure what stadiums you doing?

[Keith Sweat]

The stadiums and the money got to be what it gotta be.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Do you think pain is necessary to make great R and B? Or can Joy Be just as powerful in these love songs.

[Keith Sweat]

I've never been happy making the love song.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn.

[Jessica]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Never.

[Keith Sweat]

No, I mean, you know, like my best songs came from being hurt, make it last forever or that first album was a hurt was a. All pain. And nobody was, I think, was all pain, you know, like, we all go through things in our life, you know what I'm saying? And some people, you know, and it doesn't necessarily a female, you know what I'm saying? Things hit you at, you know, where you least expect it. You know, you could be like one day and be like, what the. Going on the next, you know what I'm saying? Saying so, you know, that's when I think I get my best ideas when I run the studio after, you know, I'm going through something because that. That's like, for me, therapeutic. I can write songs and be. And it's. They're very therapeutic for me. And I'm like, oh, my God. Because I've written songs in two hours, three songs in two hours, and they were hit, you know, and it was therapeutic for me. It was like me, you know, getting counseling, you know what I'm saying? That type of stuff.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's interesting you said, because a lot of your records do feel like conversations people were afraid to have in real life. So you are writing from personal experience, right?

[Keith Sweat]

Definitely. Definitely.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't know if you want to share, but during the make it last forever time, like, what was it that you were experiencing?

[Keith Sweat]

This girl cheated on me.

[DJ Envy]

Damn.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So. Oh, go ahead.

[Keith Sweat]

So I was like, yo. So I went through a whole. It was like what I really went through. Something just ain't right was really something. Just staying right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right.

[Keith Sweat]

Make it last was really make it last. Don't stop your love was really don't stop your love. How deep is your love was really. Yo, you don't really love me like you say you love me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, that was one girl.

[Jessica]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

So make it last forever. She cheated on you with a. Another celebrity, A ball player, Just a.

[Keith Sweat]

Regular, you know what I mean? She came. She came to one of her school reunions and got a guy with one old. You know, actually I was in New York. She came to Atlanta where I live. And then her girlfriend, man told Lana.

[DJ Envy]

Damn.

[Jessica]

Oh, damn. Did you get with the girlfriend.

[Keith Sweat]

Man? I a want a girlfriend. Use a snitch.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That is hilarious. So that's how you felt? You wasn't happy that the girl came to you and told you what was up?

[Keith Sweat]

Nah, that made me hurt more.

[DJ Envy]

Damn.

[Jessica]

So you rather Be cheated on in peace, you might not even know about.

[Keith Sweat]

I want to know what I do. You don't want to know. You know, it's kind of like you want to know, but you. Some things are better said unsaid. You know what I'm saying? You know how that is. You want to know, but you don't want to know. You know what I'm saying? So it's like I'm like, damn, do I really want to know? Because some things will hit you harder.

[Jessica]

Knowing getting that confirmation.

[Keith Sweat]

Yeah. So? So sometimes you would always have that little bit of you say, well, maybe that didn't happen, you know, but once you know it did happen, you'll be on a whole nother level, man.

[Jessica]

So you thought she was cheating like you already had.

[Keith Sweat]

I had it in my mind. But she put that confirmation, gave you that clarity, and I was like, damn.

[DJ Envy]

Girl, you ever go back to check out she doing. Be like, I hope she doing bad.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now you check on Facebook.

[Keith Sweat]

I'm a funny. I want everybody cheating on me to do bad.

[DJ Envy]

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[Julian Edelman]

This is Julian Edelman from Games With Names. Now let's get into the serious stuff. We're talking football food. Specifically Daisy French onion dip.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That is serious.

[Julian Edelman]

Gotta try these delicious new dips from Daisy. These are so delicious. They're like homemade dips made with real herb and spices and other ingredients you'll find in your kitchen. Also made with some Daisy sour cream. Daisy sour cream is a long standing staple for Taco Tuesday.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I do when I.

[DJ Envy]

Get my street burrito? I get the squirt Daisy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. And every bite. I know you.

[DJ Envy]

I know you.

[Julian Edelman]

I'm a huge sour cream guy. I love sour cream on top. So I think burritos can't live without sour cream.

[DJ Envy]

I completely agree with that.

[Julian Edelman]

They also have daisy ranch dip. I love ranch dip. I love it with crackers, wings, plain potato chip, the ones with the little crinkles, maybe some bell peppers. So get out there and give Daisy French onion dip a try. You will not regret it.

[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, I love a fresh start. And the end of the year, that's when the kings and queens of entrepreneurship laid the foundation for what's next. I've been doing the same thing with my own Shopify store, reviewing what worked this year and mapping out. I'm leveling up in 2026. Shopify is the best place to start and grow your business. Which is exactly why I chose it for mine. Whether you're running a side hustle or building an empire selling locally or globally, Shopify takes the guesswork out of all of it. With Shopify, everything lives in one place. I can run my store from my phone, tag and sell across my socials and stay connected. Whether my team is down the street or across the country, Shopify has thousands of templates ready to go. All you gotta do is pick one that matches your vibe and then you're off running. Plus Shopify Sidekick. In their AI tools, those two are total game changers. It's like having your own personal assistant, okay? Giving you direction, helping with reports, content, ideas, baby, everything. So here's my question for you.

[Julian Edelman]

What's one big move you want to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Make in the new year? If you're ready to build something in 2026, Shopify's ready to make that next move with you. Whether you're just wanting to test an idea out or you're getting serious about launching your own brand, it's never been easier to get started it on shopify.combn it's time to see what you can do with Shopify by your side.

[Lauren LaRosa]

How many people was it?

[Keith Sweat]

Anybody? Now that's the, that's the. That's people mentality. Because if you, if, if they do, if, if they. They cheated on you and they. And they. And you doing good, they hate. That's the worst.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They. They look at you.

[Keith Sweat]

Oh, God, the wrong man. You know what I'm saying? But if you're doing bad, they'd be, oh, I thank God I left that one. So you be one. It's kind of like that's. It's selfish. Yeah, but it's real. And if somebody say that's not true, they lying. I don't care what nobody say.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what's interesting? Keep it. People would think that you a player and you out here sleeping with a bunch of different girlfriends and stuff, but you seem like you was a one woman man.

[Jessica]

Loyal dude.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Look at you.

[Keith Sweat]

What's that?

[Lauren LaRosa]

You were in that whole situation before you found out she cheated.

[Keith Sweat]

I think I was. No, I think I was.

[Jessica]

So she wasn't cheating back?

[Keith Sweat]

No, no, no. I think because I was into her. You know what I'm saying? If I'm into somebody, I ain't trying.

[DJ Envy]

To mess it up.

[Keith Sweat]

Mess it up. But if I ain't really into you, because, you know, sometimes you think you into somebody, you ain't into somebody, then you see something else walking by, you be, oh, you know what I'm saying? I guess I wasn't into what I.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thought I was into. You got. You can be in with love, but you still got eyes, right?

[Keith Sweat]

But them eyes don't know. Can't be open. But. So I'm funny, man. Cause you know, you know the one. If I'm into you, I'm into you. But if you, If I, If I see the slightest little bit of, you know, something that you ain't doing, man, I'm. Then, then I'm like that right now. I'm going through that. You know what I mean? I'm going through that. They think they slick, but they ain't slick. And I'm putting them out there for y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[DJ Envy]

Okay?

[Nyla Simone]

All right, hold on.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, explain. They think they slip. What they doing, what's happening when you.

[Keith Sweat]

When you, when you, when you don't wrote songs about bangs, when you're on the spirit thing, you know, when somebody being slick, you know what I'm saying? When somebody doing. Banging somebody else too, you know what I'm saying? So you know what I'm saying. And they. You know, they have a tendency to play that, oh, I'm a good girl role. Don't play it like, yo, my attitude is this, right? To anybody, right? And this is the truth. If you want to open a relationship, just say, yo, I want to do my thing. You do your thing. When we back together, we together. You know, you take care of things with me when I'm with you. And if you want to be with the next man, let him do what he do when he with you. Because if that's what you want, there's nothing wrong with that. Because now you've been up. Because now nowadays, you don't want to play with people's feelings and emotions. It's a dangerous game out here when you're playing with people feelings and emotions. So it's like, I tell people all day long, that's not something to toy with.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Keith Sweat]

You know what I'm saying? Because if you ever been hurt, that joint ain't no joke. For real. And some people can't handle pain. That kind of pain. I can handle it. You know what I'm saying? Because I go in student, start singing. You know what I'm saying? Everybody can't handle it. So it's like, it's better for people to say, yo, this is what I want to do. You do you. When you. You do you. I do me. And then when we want to be together, we do. Yeah. But you cannot keep make somebody or you can't ask somebody to do certain things that your only your real significant other should do. And playing games with them, that is not something to toy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You got to make a real commitment, though.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Are you in a relationship right now? Are you in a relationship right now?

[Keith Sweat]

Sometimes I think I am. Sometimes I think I'm not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Man, you got to stop with this. You think you are. What are you talking about?

[Lauren LaRosa]

How does she know when she's playing games? If, like, what are y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Y' all have, like, boundaries or, like, a certain situation set up. Like, there's like. Like, are you exclusive? Like, what is she playing?

[Keith Sweat]

You supposed to be.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, so y' all are supposed to.

[Keith Sweat]

Be exclusive right now, but it doesn't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Work like she wearing a wire. Keith, don't talk. Ready to go back and tell the girl? Don't tell her.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, I'm just trying to figure it out because I just wanted to know where you coming from.

[Keith Sweat]

Okay. That you. You got it. I know. You know.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, exactly.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He backed up from the mic. What's the closest you to get ever Been to getting married.

[Keith Sweat]

I've been married before.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, I know you married.

[Keith Sweat]

Yeah, long time ago. Don't bring it up though.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yo.

[Jessica]

Damn, what era of beef was this?

[Keith Sweat]

If you are crazy, man, don't bring it up. We got to move on to another subject.

[DJ Envy]

Like that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who do you listen to when you going through a heartbreak? People listen to your music when they go sweat. You just go in there and write something.

[Keith Sweat]

You think I'm playing?

[Mimi Brown]

Playing?

[Keith Sweat]

No, I'm not playing. I don't want to hear nobody else singing to me when I'm going to a heartbreak. I want to hear me think to me say, yo, this is how you fix your situation. I promise you, I do not listen to nobody else when I'm going to heartbreak because I've written too many songs to heal myself, you know what I'm saying? I go back and listen, you know, because I've been for Drew Hill, Ron Isley, immature, everybody, right? So I can listen to some of them songs if you know what I'm saying, say, okay, this. Because like I said, every time I've been through a situation, I've been able to write. So I can go to maybe the second, third album and listen to something that be like, damn, that and it. And it might heal me. I feel good, you know, I feel good about it.

[DJ Envy]

But can an R B singer have a night off? Right? And what I mean by that is you guys sing to these. These ladies and you guys, these ladies desire you. When y' all get into the bedroom, y' all can't have a night off cuz it's over.

[Julian Edelman]

Why?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's over because you can't have it.

[DJ Envy]

Cuz you are R and B.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sing what you're trying to say. Like, you mean like you got to put it down. Yeah, like if you, if you don't, you always.

[DJ Envy]

Is the pressure there for you?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know why he asking you.

[Keith Sweat]

That, but ain't no pressure for me, man. You talk about there's pressure for you, your goddamn life.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That lady gave you some chicken wings.

[DJ Envy]

And sent you on your way that.

[Keith Sweat]

Hold up, hold up. Let me ask you something. You, you not. You are not R and B art. But you, you a celebrity. So is there pressure for you?

[DJ Envy]

It's my wife.

[Keith Sweat]

Oh, there's still pressure on wife and husband that ain't that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm glad you bought that. In his first book, he talks about how he didn't make his wife orgasm for 10 years.

[Keith Sweat]

Get the out of here.

[DJ Envy]

Keith.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We met each other when we were.

[Keith Sweat]

15 and 16, I don't matter you 10 years.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What was wrong with the job, right?

[Keith Sweat]

What was wrong with the joy?

[DJ Envy]

I used to think sex was porn. You just go bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. I was 16 years old, 15, and I made a. My mouth, just not for my.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I had to learn. Get at the sock. It wasn't working.

[Keith Sweat]

That's hard.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Continue on, man.

[Jessica]

A decade.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Man. Listen, is there anything you understand now about relationships that you wish you knew when you was writing them Heartbreak Records?

[Keith Sweat]

Nah, I think I understand everything. I understood stuff back then, but, you know, like, it's always wishful thinking, you know. You know what you know, but, you know, we just have wishful thinking. We hope that when we get into something, it's going to be. Be, you know, perfect, but ain't nothing perfect. So you know what I'm saying? So the things I felt that it could be ends up being that way, you know what I'm saying? So we all have wishful things. We all want certain things to be amazing and, and, and, and great. That's why I said make it last forever, because that's wishful thinking. That's what make it last forever was about, wishful thinking. We want everything to last forever, but those. It's just not that way. You know, I'm saying things just gonna, you know, you gonna have bumps in the road, and anything you do in life, it's gonna be some bumps in the road.

[DJ Envy]

Is there anything you. You're still trying to prove, right? You mentioned you didn't get a BET Award, no Grammy. Is there anything that you want or you just. Right now, it's all like, I'm just having a good time at 4.

[Keith Sweat]

God is good. And I'm just happy that I, like, like when I grew, I grew up in the Grand. You know, I grew up in the projects. Harlem Grand Prix, 125th Street, Mourns Island, Namsa. Like, for me to even be where I'm somewhere where I never thought I would ever be, never had an idea, you know, all my dreams from me walking down the street, watching OJ's on the. Like the Apollo, on the Apollo, Glad at night, the marquee, all them people Teddy saying, damn, maybe one day I'll be there. You know what I'm saying? And to have accomplished that and more than ever I thought I would ever accomplish accomplished, you know, to me, you know, I've gotten my heart's desire and you know, I'm saying I got more than what, because there's a lot of people that will Never ever get their heart desire, things they dream about in life. So I think we are blessed, you know, for all those that have gotten certain things in life. We're definitely blessed to have been able to get, build and get what a lot of things out of life that most people will never.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, but you know, I think about, like, habit honored Teddy Riley, like, that was maybe 10 years ago now, right? They got to do that for you. Because if you want to do a new Jack Swing tribute, definitely salute.

[Keith Sweat]

I don't want it.

[Julian Edelman]

What?

[Lauren LaRosa]

What?

[Keith Sweat]

First of all, if you don't give it to me when I deserve, like I told my daughter, if God forbid, I leave here today, tomorrow, you better not take no award they try to give you now, you know, don't try to give me my flowers when I'm not here. And then like, I'd be seeing them do that to people and I'm like, yo, you never really acknowledged them like that when they come on. I don't want that. You know what I'm saying? It's like I'm the man that I am. You know, I teach my kids to be the same way. You know, be proud men. Don't be. Take a hand out, you know what I'm saying? Don't give it to me. Because now you want to make this big thing and you want people to come and acknowledge, man, that's for the, the networks and that's not me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But you don't think that it adds, like just education around your legacy because there are a lot of people who don't know your role in the New Jackson.

[Keith Sweat]

I give you my own documentary and put my own. There you go.

[DJ Envy]

You influenced, though.

[Keith Sweat]

I don't need to do. You know, because I can. I got my money to do my own doc. Eight, nine, ten episodes. If I want to do it, put it all together and that's what I do now. You know what I'm saying? And you won't buy this. You won't buy this.

[Jessica]

And then I own the car.

[Keith Sweat]

I own it. Yeah, that's how you do things today. I'm not going to do that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That.

[Keith Sweat]

That's why I never did Armstrong and none of that other stuff. Right? Because I'm not going to let you have my thing and show it at any time you want to show me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is.

[Keith Sweat]

No, you can't do that to me. So I'll do mine, sell it to you, and then I tell you when I want you to show it and when I want you to stop showing.

[Jessica]

And you don't Want nobody else to tell you a story.

[Keith Sweat]

Yeah. Because half the people, the stories that I told are not real stories. They're not. They're not true. And no, they leave a lot of tape on the floor. And we want to show. The networks want to show what they.

[Jessica]

Want to show they can fabricate things.

[Keith Sweat]

Fabricate things. And I don't to want. Want that, you know, you can't fabricate things. You know, I mean, it's just like everybody say the new Jack Swing started on my first album. No, it did not start on my first album. I was with Suture Records. Mars Levy, Adam Levy, when they had the Fat Boys. I was producing for Suture Records back in the day, you know what I'm saying? I got two records on the end of that. All I wanted my baby, My mind is waiting. I was with Tony Lopez with gq, you know what I'm saying? Back in the day on 165th street and Woody crap Woody Crest Avenue in the Bronx, you know what I'm saying?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So.

[Keith Sweat]

So my legacy extended, y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Keith Sweat]

Y' all just know the make it last forever part, you know what I'm saying? With people thinking Don't Stop youp Love was my first song. That's what I got my deal on Don't Stop youp Love. It wasn't on. I wanted. It was on Don't Stop it love. So, you know, and Benson Davis gave me the deal with Entertainment and that's where it all started.

[Jessica]

What made you want to do radio? And you got your radio show.

[Keith Sweat]

That was so long ago.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Been doing that forever. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jessica]

But what made you want to. To do radio?

[Keith Sweat]

I don't know. Doc Winners. No, it's like he's just like he said, yo, let. I said let's do radio. And I just did radio because it was like the next thing that my next move. Everything is the next move. Like you know, like executive producing movies. All do is my next move. My next move. What's my next move? You know what I'm saying? That type of stuff. So I'll be on that next move thing, you know what I'm saying?

[Jessica]

Got a candle line. Platinum back platinum.

[Keith Sweat]

You want to smell that freak me. You can put it on. You won't smell like make it last. Put it on. Nah, cuz the candle lining is a different scent. What do I got my candles bring.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Me my came in here with all kind of bags. Don't worry about it.

[Keith Sweat]

Don't worry about sleep.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sleep? What you mean?

[Keith Sweat]

Don't nothing come to Sleep up a dreams.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hold on. Candles by Keith. Oh, this smell good. I ain't even open the box and it smell good. Oh, this fire. I'm a candle guy.

[Jessica]

You just going to come get the candles. Just one. One side.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Keith Sweat]

What that candle say?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This one says Candles by Keith. Make it last forever. This one is I give all my love to you. This one is twisted.

[Lauren LaRosa]

God damn, they smell amazing.

[Jessica]

Damn, I want one. Y' all got three candles a piece. I want one, but they gave me one.

[Keith Sweat]

Baby, I don't know what kind of bag you special cuz I was going.

[DJ Envy]

To tell y gave all the brown skin and DK people in here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's wrong with that?

[Keith Sweat]

Because you no, they told me you always in Atlanta. I can over night your bag.

[DJ Envy]

I'm just messing with you.

[Keith Sweat]

I'm older or you better bring in your ass Atlanta come to my house and you can pick whatever one you want.

[Jessica]

That's fine.

[DJ Envy]

Don't worry. I'm calling you later on for something else.

[Keith Sweat]

Well, you calling me for.

[DJ Envy]

I see you leave a comment on my daughter. It's a page that she get married me last forever.

[Keith Sweat]

I left a comment.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, you did.

[Keith Sweat]

No, I didn't leave no.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We need you to sing.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Not like you acted like.

[Caller/Listener]

Like you went to the scene. Oh no.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, that is funny. Yo, ke square is going out on tour.

[DJ Envy]

30 city tour kick it off on the 13th of February.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's Valentine's Day.

[Keith Sweat]

Dot com for the candles dot com.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Everything on keep sweat dot com.

[DJ Envy]

Appreciate you Keith man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Always a pleasure.

[DJ Envy]

That's right. Make sure you get your tickets, your candles and your bags. It's the Breakfast Club.

[Keith Sweat]

And when. When he come to my house, he'll get his. And I ain't. I didn't hit up on Mega Las Vegas. Boy, that was scary to me, you know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning. Salute to Keith Sweat again. Keith Sweat actually called me and said he likes my light skinned ass and he gonna send me everything next.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The way you talk. I don't like the way you talk. I just don't even like the way you speak.

[Jessica]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He called me and said he liked my light skin ass. So he gonna send me.

[Jessica]

How you know he wanted you to say it like that or you know how many listeners we got.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's just nasty.

[DJ Envy]

Let's get to the latest with Lauren.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're talking LL Cool, babe.

[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 Every little.

[Jessica]

Brown girls look at you and go.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I want to be like you.

[Caller/Listener]

Take me through that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Take me through that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

On the Breakfast Club.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All right, guys. So Salt and Pepper. So back In May of 2025, they filed a suit against Universal Music Group. And they alleged that Universal Music Group was holding their music hostage by not allowing them to reclaim control of the music's intellectual property. So what they were arguing was that law that 35, 35 years after the music's release, they're supposed to be able to file to terminate their contracts and then own the massive recordings of their music put out on this deal. Now, Universal Music Release Group pushed back and they said, no, that is, you can't do that because you guys didn't originally sign the contract. So you don't have the power to then ask to terminate the contract to then own the master recordings. So Universal Music Group asked for that lawsuit to be dismissed. A judge has granted that dismissal. And the dismissal after being after being reviewed, the judge granted it because the judge says that Salt and Pepper had ownership, that Salt and Pepper had granted ownership of their first to their first label, which was Noise in the Attic, Nita Productions. And that contract for the recordings was between Next Plateau Records and nita. So in the latter of which. So Nita was owned by Herbie Lovebug, who you know, is like manager responsible for a lot of Salt and Pepper's career and putting them on. So basically what the judge is saying is that. That they weren't the ones who signed the contract, so they can't terminate the contract. It's not UMG's issue. Um, now, I reached out to Salt from Salt and Pepper, who did not get back to me. I also reached out to Herbie Love Bug, and his only response to me was, he says, my comment.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Mind your business.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, he says my comment, he says, my comment is this question, why didn't need a file for termination. And basically what they are. Basically what he's leaning in on is if that is true. True, we would have just went about it that way. So there will be some more arguing here, because one of the things that Salt and Pepper has been saying for a while, even when they did a sit down with Good Morning America before they did the Rock and Roll hall of Fame, is that this contract is from like 40 plus years ago, and they're being held to things that make no sense at this point. So, you know, I haven't heard from Salt and Pepper directly, but I. I mean, I can only assume that this fight isn't going to stop here.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Jessica]

So there's what they deserve.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. And Universal Music Group has run on the record to say, and even after this, they released another statement saying that they've tried to mediate this behind the scenes outside of this suit. They want Salt and Pepper to be paid. They want their legacy to, you know, be amplified and all the things. And they were trying to figure out a way to pay them directly, but obviously that wasn't enough for Salt and Pepper, so they decided to, you know, take means or matters into their own.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I just don't understand why everybody wants to exploit everybody. Like that production company shouldn't want to exploit Salt and Pepper. They didn't make so much money off of them. Like, why not at this point, you know, do something that is fair and equitable for everybody across the board.

[Jessica]

Right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. I think the issue is, though, everybody definitely.

[DJ Envy]

Because they got their money back. Back, I'm sure, times 100.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely.

[DJ Envy]

You know, I mean, yeah, they should do what's right. Salt and Pepper shouldn't have to fight like this to be a legacy group like that. They shouldn't have to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How much more seasoning do you need? Yeah.

[Jessica]

Hey, yo.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm glad you left Jess. Cuz he needed. I mean, so in other news, speaking of potential exploitations. So there was a story that DMX was going to be ordained as a minister. And this story, I mean, to me it came out of nowhere.

[DJ Envy]

They keep saying Envy said it, but I think we reported it. You weren't here.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I wasn't here.

[DJ Envy]

Jess wasn't here. And I think you gave me a bunch of stories to report, so I reported it. Well, it had nothing to do with.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Me, so I don't remember that story. I don't.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, you did.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't know where this. I don't remember you reporting that story.

[Jessica]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Did you?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I think I did.

[DJ Envy]

I.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, well, look, let me want to.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

If you want to be the one that said TMX administer as death. I don't.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm not throwing it on Envy because they're.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm not. Take that from you. Envy.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, go ahead, continue on. Just ignore him.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I was trying to help you. I don't know what you're doing here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm ignoring him.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, so there's a church, Foster Memorial AME Zion Church, who wanted to honor DMX by giving him a minister title, and his estate is rejecting it. So the state, the estate gave a statement. And you know, what they're saying is that, you know, the planned ceremony that was Announced for DMX acts is not sanctioned or approved by the estate. I was trying to figure out what the connection between him and the church might have been. And what they're saying is that there's no direct connection to the people that are, you know, planning this ceremony. So they're rejecting it. They don't. They're not in support of it. Brief update there. I also talked to. I didn't talk to him, but Ray J text me back yesterday too.

[Jessica]

Come on now. Come on, Lauren, please.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Went too far. Lauren, Okay, I know you got sauces, but come on. Did not text you from heaven. You know that did not happen. That was wild. Lauren even say that I talked.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I. I reached out to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Was crazy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm sorry. Let me separate that. Because I reached out to the state. Don't say that. Oh, my God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's crazy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I had text Ray J to check on him. Remember I told y' all that he texted me back yesterday. He said, of course he's not all the way better. He's said his. His lungs are tripping, but.

[DJ Envy]

His lungs are tripping.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, he sent the emoji. He sent the emoji. Lungs, emojis. He said he sent the emoji and said they're tripping. And I said, you'll be back to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think he meant his heart. Okay, well, yeah, cuz I talked to him yesterday too. He said his heart. He said this is. He said his heart is tripping.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He said. He. He said.

[DJ Envy]

Trying to say message.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No. I mean, no, he.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, his is longer.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He gave.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He gave Charlemagne more words. He just put the emojis in tripping with me. This is a lung emoji. And I said, are you good? He said, he's not good yet, but, you know, he's still fighting to get better, so just wanted to give you guys that brief update because you already know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When he told me about his heart, you know who I told him he need to come see. You gotta come see our guy. Dr. Puma, right? I'm gonna be. See. I'm seeing Dr. Puma next week.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I thought she was about to say Dr. Umar.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my goodness. I want to shout out to Dr. Puma too, so if, you know, explain to people what Dr. Puma does.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Dr. Puma has something called the Soren heart scan. And I'm telling you, man, it's like a four minute procedure. And, you know, you go inside this machine and he can look at your heart from a 3D perspective, right? And see everything that's in the arteries you can see blockages, all types of stuff. It will really put your mind at ease if you're a person who, you know, just always is dealing with some type of feel like you're dealing with some type of heart issue.

[DJ Envy]

And not only that, when I was dealing with the stuff with my daughter, I called Dr. Puma because we were transferring her from Jersey to the city.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And advocates are important.

[DJ Envy]

And he called like a bunch of specialists and had waiting for, like, when they pulled up, they had the specialist waiting for my daughter to get out of that ambulance. And salute to you, Dr. Puma. I really appreciate you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Great guy, Dr. Puma.

[DJ Envy]

They're really, really good.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

For real.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I told you. Well, yeah, I didn't tell the audience, but yesterday I found out that my mom's health insurance was canceled. We didn't know that. So she can't get her cancer skin like her checkups.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So I've been calling everybody I can to see what we can do in the meantime, because you shouldn't let stuff like that lapse.

[DJ Envy]

Did you talk to Mimi? Because some of it has been.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I talked to Mimi yesterday. And today on the podcast, the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. Mimi Brown is going to be a GU. Because I want to have a conversation about what people can do in the interim because we're dealing with this and my mom still needs her skins and we need some advocates. So let me know what y' all are doing out there if you guys are experiencing this.

[DJ Envy]

All right, now, Charlamagne donkey today. Who you going to donkey do?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, it's the people's donkey today. So all you got to do is call up 1-800-585-1051, and you can give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid this morning.

[DJ Envy]

All right, we'll do that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's your time to nominate a donkey of your own. Remember, Remember now, that's is how they choose. Call in now.

[DJ Envy]

800-585-1051.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Donkey of the Day for Friday, January 9th. You know how we do on Fridays, man, We haven't been here in a couple of weeks because we was away for holiday vacation. But every Friday, we do the people's donkey. So that gives you the opportunity to call in and give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid. So good morning. Who's this?

[DJ Envy]

Hello?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning. Good morning. This is Dr. Avery representing 757 Virginia. What's happening? Who you want to get a biggest hee haw to, sir? I want to get the Biggest he haw for people who vote against their own best interest. You know, I'm part Latino, I love Donald Trump, and now my grandma gets deported, and I don't know what to say or do. That is a great people who say, oh, I loved Ozipic, but now my premiums just went up and now, oh my God, my weight loss shot is now $500 a month. Yeah, I don't give a damn about those people who taking Olympics to lose weight. But I will say this right. I wonder about those Latinos. I really was thinking about that over the holidays, randomly, one day when I was high, I'm like, what? What are you thinking right now? If you voted for Donald Trump and your grandma or somebody you love did get deported? Like, what are you. What is your community saying, sir? Yeah, yeah. What are you thinking? As Charlamagne, I want to say, man, congratulations to you. I really love what you do. I'm so glad that you have that conscious. I'm just proud of you, brother. I've been listening to your show a long time. I've been through divorce. I earned a doctorate degree. You brothers picked me up on times when I was down, brother. And I really wanted to say I love you all to death for what you do. Thank you, King. Appreciate it. Here's a quick question. I wrote a book. If I have some talent and I want to give you my book, is there a way I can reach out to you? It's currently on Amazon, but I was like, I would love for you to read it if you got a free book. What's the name of it? I'll go look at it on Amazon. Amazon. What's the name of it? You can just pull it up by my name.

[Caller/Listener]

See so Avery.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And the title of the book is Not Broken, Just Building. See so. Oh, I like that title. Cecil Avery. Not broken, Just Building. All right, I'm gonna go look. I'm go look early on Amazon, and if you like it or if you.

[Caller/Listener]

Think it's trash, just tell me what you think, brother.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I would love to get your opinion. I'm looking at it. A real life guy to thriving after betrayal, breakup, and heartbreak. Yes, sir. Okay. Yes, sir.

[Keith Sweat]

Sir.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is him on the front with his hands. No hello. Not that big. I hope that's not that big. Head man. That look like an alien. That look like that don't look like nothing from this planet. Cecil. That ain't your head on the COVID of your book. Anyway. Good morning. Who's this?

[Caller/Listener]

Hi, this is Kim.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Peace, Kim, who you Want to get a biggest hee haw to.

[Caller/Listener]

Okay, so I want to give dunkey of the day to a couple of you celebrities like you famous people, you, Beyonce, all y'.

[Julian Edelman]

All.

[Caller/Listener]

Cause y' all see us dying out here, and y' all don't expect. Y' all keep asking us to go to y' all concert. Y' all keep asking us to buy y' all book, promote y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Caller/Listener]

But y' all see us dying and y' all don't say anything. So where is your open reference, people? Why y' all not talking? Because these people is killing us. So what's gonna happen is I'm gonna encourage them to start robbing y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Caller/Listener]

We need to start going to y' all, taking y'. All. We can't fight the military because they gonna both wash them off, but we can go and steal y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Caller/Listener]

Cause y' all don't give a cause. If y' all gave a, y' all would do more than what y' all do. Besides sitting on y'.

[Nyla Simone]

All.

[DJ Envy]

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[Julian Edelman]

This is Julian Edelman from Games With Names. Now let's get into the serious stuff. We're talking football food, specifically Daisy French onion dip.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That is serious.

[Julian Edelman]

Gotta try these delicious new dips from Daisy. These are so delicious. They're like homemade dips made with real herb and spices and other ingredients you'll find in your kitchen. Also made. Made with some Daisy sour cream. Daisy sour cream is a longstanding staple for Taco Tuesday.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I do when I.

[DJ Envy]

Get my street burrito? I get the squirt Daisy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. And every bite. I know you.

[DJ Envy]

I know you.

[Julian Edelman]

I'm a huge sour cream guy. I love sour cream top. So I think burritos can't live without sour cream.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I completely agree with that.

[Julian Edelman]

They also have daisy ranch dip. I love ranch dip.

[Jessica]

That's great.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I love it.

[Julian Edelman]

With crackers, wings, plain potato chip, the ones with the little crinkles, maybe some bell peppers. So get out there and give Daisy French onion dip a try. You will not regret it.

[DJ Envy]

On ebay, every find has a story. Like, if you're looking for a vintage band tee. Not just a tee. The Band tee from the last show your favorite band ever played. You wore it everywhere. Then your girlfriend started wearing, which was cool until she dumped you and took it with her, which was not so cool. Anyway, now you're on ebay. And there it is. Same tea from the same tour, still living in your memory, rent free forever. See, the things you love have a way of finding their way back to you. But ebay isn't just for getting what your ex stole back. It's also for that rare championship foul ball you caught, then heroically gave it to the kid next to you. And where else are you going to find your first car? The one you wish you never sold. But now, now finally get the chance to take back home for good this time. You know, I'm a collector of cars. And sometimes I'm looking for the right rim that I had when I was a kid. Yeah, it might have been 20 years ago, but I want that same feeling. And the only way I can find it is on ebay. Shop ebay for millions of fines, each with a story. EBay. Things people love.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Peace to the planet. Charlamagne Tha God here now. You know the end of the year is when, like a lot of business owners, owners, I really lock in. All right? This is the time to set the foundation for next year. You got new ideas, new product drops, new goals. And when I'm building anything meaningful, I need the right tools. That's why I always tell folks, especially black entrepreneurs and small black owned businesses, Shopify is the move, okay? We use it at the Black Effect Podcast network. And I've seen firsthand how it helps creators and business owners grow with confidence. Entrepreneurship is very important to me, okay? There's nothing wrong with working for people. There's nothing wrong with partnering people, people. But you should scribe to own your own as well. And Shopify can help others grow into entrepreneurs. It's like having a whole team behind you. Your chief of staff, your personal assistant, your co founder, all in one platform. Whether you're running a side hustle or a full storefront selling locally or worldwide, Shopify takes all the guesswork out. Shopify brings everything into one place. You can sell on your website, on social media, and even in the real world. Like some of our partners at our Black Effect Festival coming up in April. Wherever your people are, Shopify makes sure your business can meet them where they're at. Plus, you got Shopify Sidekick and their AI tools. Total game changers. I love how it's like having an assistant giving you insights, content, ideas, edits, Shopify's got your next move covered. So let me ask you this. If you're ready to take the next step in your life, whether it's merch products or anything in between, get on shopify.comBen. that's shopify.comBen. and make it happen. It is time to stop putting off your future and start your new role as your own boss.

[Caller/Listener]

Today we are at this. Dying, dying. Y' all don't care. They taking our money. They not targeting you. They taking our. Y' all not being from that. Y' all benefit from us. We make y' all great. Y' all don't give a about us.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I agree with everything that you said, except for I don't give. We don't give a about y'. All. But I agree 100% with everything else you said. Like, you know, if this society does not do something to help the least of us, the least of us is going to eventually eat the rich. That's just the reality of the situation. So I. I agree with you. Like, by the way, that is. That is the inevitable of all of this. Like, you know what I mean? You can. You can sit around and act like you don't see what's going on with the porn disenfranchised. And if you think that the porn disenfranchise is just gonna sit around and be poor while you out here fat, you bugging.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, but to think that. That. And I don't know what celebrities are doing, but she mentioned Oprah and Beyonce. But to think that Oprah and Beyonce are not helping and not giving back. When we see it time and time and time again, like, you know, I mean. I mean, we've seen Oprah do things.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm not looking at them as individuals.

[DJ Envy]

We've seen Beyonce do things. So we've seen that before.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I would take. I'm not. I'm taking it out of celebrity. I'm taking. I'm talking about society.

[DJ Envy]

Society.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This capitalistic society cannot sustain. It's not sustainable. We're seeing it right now. I'm not even thinking about the celebrity aspect of it, of what she's saying, but what she's saying is absolutely right. This capitalistic society, where the rich keep getting richer and the poor don't get a goddamn thing, eventually it's going to collapse. Yeah, Tupac told us this. There's a fantastic interview that Tupac did for MTV years ago, and he said, eventually, this is what is going to happen.

[DJ Envy]

You have to be logical. You know, if I know that in this hotel room, they have food every day. And I'm knocking on the door every day to eat. And they tell. And they open the door, let me see the party.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let me see, like, them throwing salami all over the.

[DJ Envy]

I mean, just like throwing food around where they're telling me there's no food in here, you know what I'm saying? Every day I'm standing outside trying to sing my way in, you know what I'm saying?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We are hungry, please let us in we are hungry, please let us in.

[DJ Envy]

After about a week, that song is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Going to change the.

[Keith Sweat]

We hungry, we need some food.

[DJ Envy]

After two, three weeks, it's like, you.

[Keith Sweat]

Know, give me all the food breaking out the door.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And after a year, just like, you.

[DJ Envy]

Know what I'm saying?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm picking the lock, coming through the.

[DJ Envy]

Door blasting, you know.

[Nyla Simone]

You know what I'm saying?

[Keith Sweat]

It's like, you hungry?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You reached your level. You don't want any more.

[DJ Envy]

We asked 10 years ago, we was asking with the Panthers, we was asking with them, you know, the civil rights movement. We was asking, you know, now those people that were asking, they're all dead and in jail. So now what do you think we're gonna do?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What do you think those individuals are gonna do? Okay. Like, that caller who called, she's not wrong, but the energy is misplaced. Cause to me, it's not about celebrity. Celebrities are just, you know, a symbol of capitalism in this country. But the reality is, in America, there should be nobody missing meals. There should be nobody homeless in America. The wealth inequ is ridiculous. 50 to 65% of all Americans live paycheck to paycheck. And when you see 935 billionaires in America, and they control 8.1 trillion in wealth, nearly double the amount of wealth held by the bottom 50% of Americans. Over 170 million people, that's gonna piss you off.

[Keith Sweat]

Yeah, I agree.

[DJ Envy]

I just. I feel like her energy is towards the.

[Keith Sweat]

It's just misplaced, people.

[DJ Envy]

Right, because you can't. I mean, she mentioned.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What?

[DJ Envy]

Oprah. She mentioned Beyonce. And both of those individuals we know of, they do a lot for the community, whether it's Oprah building schools and some of the stuff that Beyonce always talks about that she does or her foundations. But, yeah, she's absolutely right.

[Jessica]

Yeah, she hurts.

[DJ Envy]

There's no way in hell that the government should be doing a lot of the things that they're doing. And people can't eat, people can't pay their bills, they can't pay their light bill. They can't pay for health coverage. They can't pay for schooling. They can't pay for none of the little things. It's very spread.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And guess what? They could if they wanted to. America can reduce poverty and wealth inequality. You can raise the work wages and higher high cost regions. You can make necessities like housing and health care affordable. America can do those things, but they choose not to. So, you know, when you think about slogans like eat the rich, that came from the French Revolution. That slogan came from the fact that when people are desperate from exploitation by the wealthy, they will rise up to overthrow a. Seize resources from the rich.

[Keith Sweat]

That.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That woman's anger is not wrong. I just. I just think it's misplaced.

[DJ Envy]

Well, let's, let's. Well, thank you for that donkey today.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, indeed, we do that every Friday. You can call, call up 1-800-585-1051 and give people the credit they deserve for being stupid.

[DJ Envy]

Let's discuss if you heard what this lady said. Let me get her name. Kim. Kim was a name. If you heard what Kim said. Let's open up the phone lines. Let's discuss.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And Kim, you hung up too fast because, well, you had me ready to put something in your collection plate. Yeah, you hung up way too fast.

[DJ Envy]

800-585-1051. Let's discuss. All right. A lot of people on Twitch are talking about the government has all this money to pay for all these foreign wars and lend all these foreign countries money and help all these foreign lands out. But when it comes to home, people can't eat, people can't survive, they can't pay for milk, they can't pay for their child. Let's discuss. 800-585-1051. It's the breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What was the sister name?

[DJ Envy]

Kim.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Kim. As I said earlier, man, Kim is not wrong. You know, I just feel like the energy is misplaced. Like that energy should be towards the American government, okay? Not celebrities. Celebrities is just a symbol of capitalism in this country, okay? Like you should be focused on America because America could fix a lot of those problems. Problems if they wanted to. They could reduce, you know, poverty and wealth inequality. And as I said earlier, you raise the work wages in high cost regions. You make necessities like housing and healthcare affordable. America can do those things, but they choose not to.

[DJ Envy]

And I do understand what she's saying. I always feel like when a celebrity or artist makes money in a city, they should give back to that city somehow, some way. And that was the whole thing with Trade, the Truth and Trick, Trick was doing years ago when they're saying artists came to town and we do it with every car show, and I think that's the thing that you should do. But the celebrity she named, we know, we see Oprah Winfrey building schools and help us.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't even think it's fair.

[Jessica]

Yeah, and it's a lot more. It's a lot more celebrities and influencers doing. You know what I'm saying? It's just a lot more people struggling. You know what I'm saying?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So it's not fair to, you know, talk about the celebrities in this situation, because what needs to happen to reduce poverty and inequality? Reality is a lot of policies from the government, like, celebrities don't have any control over that. And then when you even talk about wealth, 935 billionaires in America that control $8.1 trillion in wealth. How many old people are actual celebrities, y'?

[Jessica]

All?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right, what are we talking about?

[Keith Sweat]

Right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, how many of those people actual celebrities? By the way, there's 12 billionaires in the Trump administration.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I'm saying?

[DJ Envy]

But not only that, it's when you hear, like, crisis and things that go wrong. Like, you look at when, you know, the. What was it? The. When all the air airlines went bad, right? We bailed them out. When the car manufacturers went down and went bad, we bailed them out. But now when people are down bad, we don't bail them out. We don't bail at the normal people that help those airlines and that help those car manufacturers and that help this, you know, this community grow. We don't bail no people out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why do you think people get upset? Well, for two things. Number one, why do you think messaging like America from purse works? Because people see, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars going to all of these other countries. Meanwhile, people right here in our own backyard is starving. Stuff like that will piss people like Kim off. And once again, America can reduce poverty and wealth inequality a lot. If they wanted to, they could implement a bunch of policies that impact wages, housing, health costs, education, but they choose not to. So I'm not mad at people like him. I understand the frustration.

[DJ Envy]

We got Jay online. Jay, good morning.

[Caller/Listener]

Good morning, y'.

[Keith Sweat]

All.

[Caller/Listener]

Good morning.

[Keith Sweat]

Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

What's your thoughts?

[Caller/Listener]

I think that her anger is. Her anger is right, But I think a lot of people support these celebrities like they should be supporting these on these elections. So instead of putting all your trust and money into people that have to live their Life. And so you need to be putting that money and that concentration into people that could change certain things within our community.

[DJ Envy]

Community.

[Caller/Listener]

You know, I understand we don't trust politicians like that, but you have to give them a chance. There's really people there that can help us, but we're not, we don't want to vote.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what's so interesting though? Once again, you're not wrong in this situation, but you're talking about the money you give to celebrities. What about the money we give to our government through taxes? We spend so much money in taxes that they should be implementing these policies that can, you know, living.

[Caller/Listener]

But we got to vote for those. We got to put certain people in place. We don't even look at Kamala. We didn't even come out and vote. We don't go and vote.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I, I, I, I don't agree with that because even regardless of who's in office, we spend money in taxes. So the same way Kim is yelling and screaming at us about celebrity, we should be at our local elected officials offices yelling and screaming about them to implement policies that can increase, increase that can help our cost of living in this country.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you, Jay. Q. What's up, Q?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

What's up, brother? Talk to us.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I agree with everything that lady was saying.

[Caller/Listener]

I feel like more celebrities should come back to their hometown, not pass out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Money, but at least sit down with young black men and women that own, like, small businesses and see what they.

[Caller/Listener]

Plan is and offer them funds.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

A lot of young people that made mistakes in the past and have small.

[Caller/Listener]

Business businesses, and they trying to run a small business as well as navigate to a bad economy, but they just need that little push that, that push of extra fund. They can't get approved for business loans.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Listen, my brother, I agree, I agree with you too. Much is given, much is required. But man, y' all cannot put more pressure on these celebrities than you do the government. The government is the one that is screwing us every single day.

[Jessica]

And then another thing, like, you know what? Celebrities, you know, went back to Kim saying like, we, they want us to buy their tickets and stuff. That's the choice, though. We don't gotta buy what the celebrities are selling, but we gotta pay taxes like we have to. That's forced. So like you said, Charlamagne go scream and shout, you know, to these politicians.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oprah can't raise the work wages in these high cost regions. Beyonce can't make necessities like housing and healthcare affordable. No American, American government has to do These things, your elected officials have to do these things. Like, that's who we need to be putting pressure on. Democrat or Republican.

[DJ Envy]

Celebrities are not your elected officials. Now Mimi is here, of course. You know Mimi from Front Page News. What's your thoughts, Mimi?

[Mimi Brown]

I mean, I think everyone's right. You can't put more on celebrities. We see we have money for wars. We see, you know, Trump is sending money to. What is it? Was it Argentina?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, yeah, they gave Argentina a big bag number.

[Mimi Brown]

I forgot it was like something like 8, 80 million or million. Something like that. But right here at home, we have people who are losing their health care.

[Jessica]

Right. Homeless, not able to even go to the doctor if they're sick.

[Mimi Brown]

Exactly. So she's. She's right. I mean, the anger is misplaced with celebrities, but she's absolutely right here at home. We have a crisis right here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Argentina got 20 billion.

[Mimi Brown]

$20 billion.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So, so, so once again, I, I agree. Too much is given, much is required. Like, if you are a person with means, I absolutely feel like you should take care of your, you know, community the best way you know how. But you cannot put more, you know, on celebrities than you do the actual government because we need policies to decrease this wealth inequality and this poverty in this country, man.

[DJ Envy]

Well, let's go to. We got Monty on the line. Monty, good morning, Monty.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, what's up, man?

[DJ Envy]

What's your thoughts, bro?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's up, Monty? Hey, what's going on with you, man? Yeah, old girl, she got a. Got a real valid point because we.

[Caller/Listener]

Talk about this in the barbershop all the time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Especially these rappers, they, you know, come bleed the community out and DNA, talk.

[Caller/Listener]

About you on the song, talking about how broke everybody.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So, you know, I get, I get what she's saying. You don't think her energy is misplaced, though? I mean, come on, my brother, like, you know, she was, she was hyper as hell. Yeah, I thought somebody was gonna hang up. No, but because I, I agree with her for the. I agree with her. Her, for the most part, and I understand the anger. All I'm simply saying is, man, when you talk about reducing poverty and wealth inequality in this country, that is something that the American government has to do. We, we, we're talking about, we need, you know, work, wages raised. We need necessities like housing and health care to be affordable. Like, America can do those things, but they choose not to. You can, but it's also a mindset.

[Caller/Listener]

You can give all these people whatever.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You want if they gonna really do what they supposed to be honest with you, I don't care. Yeah. I'm not even joking. I really don't care. As long as this country provides. I did it. I could care less.

[DJ Envy]

But to what Monty's saying too, some of this stuff has to be taught as well, Right. We. We have to teach. We have to make sure that when a celebrity or when somebody gets out of where they from, they go back and teach the community how to do it. Little things that we didn't know that we lost on. We need to go back and teach. Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now. Now you're talking about another aspect of it. You talk about making wealth building accessible. So you. Like you said we should teach people about ownership. But then also then you got to have fair taxes. People can't save what they don't have.

[Mimi Brown]

They can't save what they don't have.

[Nyla Simone]

Have.

[Mimi Brown]

And the federal minimum wage is 7.25.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Come on, man.

[Mimi Brown]

It has not been raised in 16 years.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How do people. How many years?

[Mimi Brown]

16 years.

[DJ Envy]

But also, you got to think about it like this. And I agree with you, the federal. The wages have to come up. But you look at a mom and pop store and they're paying somebody wages, right.

[Keith Sweat]

And they.

[DJ Envy]

And they have to pay higher wages. They can't afford that. That store really now. So that means their prices have to go up.

[Jessica]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

That means people are going to stop shopping at their store because it's unaffordable for me now. You know, I mean, so it's. You got to figure a way to help people out somehow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So that's what I was talking about with fair taxes. But once again, American government, local and federal, they could implement a bunch of policies that impact wages and housing and health. Health costs and education if they wanted to.

[Jessica]

Now what. Like, I. I agree that her anger is misplaced, but what some celebrities can do is like team up with local government or something like that and, and create like, I guess, you know, programs or something that, that you can fund your city or whatever through, you know, your money or. You know what I'm just saying, like, like, like local government. Like. Cause everything ain't gonna get to the president, you know, like say for instance, we go. We. I live in. Well, I don't live in Baltimore, but I'm from Baltimore. Like if Mario or myself or whatever, like meet with the mayor and the governor of Maryland and I guess we.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Basically raise the wind. Yeah.

[Jessica]

To figure out how to help people.

[DJ Envy]

Like all together people do it. Nobody ever talks about it or they just forget it so fast. Like we seen killer Mike and T.I. doing in Atlanta.

[Julian Edelman]

Right.

[DJ Envy]

We seen Jay do it with Barack Obama. We've seen Jay do it in Philly with that thing that he created to get brothers out of jail early reform thing. So we've seen artists do it, but.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It feels like I'm not putting more pressure on celebrities. We've seen artists do it like Salute to Zahran Mandani. Zahran Mandani just got a new childcare program without any new taxes. Like, what is it? They announced free child care for 2 year olds in New York City with no new taxes. That's what elected officials can do to, you know, relieve people's financial issues, man. I'm not putting more pressure on celebrities than I do our elected officials when we know the wealth inequality in this country is ridiculous.

[DJ Envy]

I don't like how New York does people too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, but like what New York does is like regular people are coming to the city to work and you're charging them more to come to the city where they can't afford to come to the city. Yeah. And people are complaining that they can't afford it and they're talking about in years it's going to go even higher like Charlemagne said. Yeah, I want to see what this, where this money is going. Where is it helping? Are these schools looking better? Are the roads looking better? New York looks trashy, looks disgusting. You just came from Africa. How did Africa look?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, if you don't leave me, what the hell is your problem? I don't like your Segways. I don't like the way that you other nations look. I really don't like when you do stuff. Stuff like it. But yes, Cape Town does look beautiful. Cape Town is a rich area, but.

[DJ Envy]

It doesn't go anywhere. If I go to China, if I go to a lot of these different places, especially islands, it looks way cool. Say they don't have the amount of money that the US has, but these other areas look amazing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Listen, man, once again, yeah. America could raise incomes for the bottom half of America. Like you could have higher minimum wages in high cost regions. You could make housing affordable. You could, you know, make health care affordable if you wanted to.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah, but there was 30 states, I think just raised their minimum wage. So shout out to those states. Yeah, but the federal, the overall, I.

[Jessica]

Remember, baby, it hasn't been. Yeah, it hasn't been increased in 2009. Yeah, because I remember when I was working at McDonald's, they were talking about increasing. They will always say they're going to increase It. But then it never. It never went up. Damn, that's crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, the more I'll say this, man, you know that Kim, you weren't wrong. I just feel like you're energy was misplaced. You're talking about Beyonce and Oprah. I mean, black people tend to shoot and target other black people. It's not celebrities who created the wealth, inequality and poverty in America, y'. All. It's not. It's the American government who could fix a lot of these issues if they wanted to. They could implement a bunch of policies that impact wages, housing, health care costs, education if they wanted to. That's all I'm saying.

[DJ Envy]

All right, well. Well, when we come back, we got pastor aux with Nyla. She'll be joining us, so don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Big Nyla. Nyla Simone.

[Nyla Simone]

What's up, guys?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What you channeling today? Duck Dynasty? Are you dressed for war? Just in case J. Cole to fall off, come out and you gotta fight for your life. Life with people fronting on your guy.

[Nyla Simone]

First of all. First of all, when. When the followup drops, I'm not going to have to fight for my life. All the chatter will be silent and I can't wait for that project to drop, so you can leave me alone.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I. I hope so. I'm. I'm. I'm anticipating it. I want to hear what JCole got to talk about.

[Nyla Simone]

Do you really?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, because I don't know what the angle is going to be. Because, you know, he's. He's clearly not gunning for the number one spot no more. Right. Because he had an opportunity to. To prove that in the battle with Kendrick and Drake, but he bowed out. So I just want to know what. What it. You know, what. What energy he's on. That's all.

[Nyla Simone]

That don't make him not number one.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, it does.

[Nyla Simone]

No, it doesn't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hendrik is the definitive number one of the generation. No need to see. That's why you want him. Fatigue. You ready to fight? You ready to go to war?

[Nyla Simone]

You know what? Not today. Not today. It's a lot of good music dropping this year. I'm really excited about, obviously. We've been seeing Jill Scott do a press run for her album that's dropping on the 13th of February. So I'm gonna start with her second.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Single for the prize birthday too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, is it really?

[Jessica]

Yes.

[Nyla Simone]

Yeah, that's going to be great, man. Shout out to Jill. This is pressure.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you, Jill Scott. Man, screaming like that again. No, right after massage talk.

[Nyla Simone]

That was crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm just saying, Jill, about doing my wife's two favorite artists. They two of my favorite artists, too. I knock all this for Jill. You hear me? Damn it. That didn't feel good. That felt good. And the thing about Jill and Erica, they don't drop music all the time. When the last time Jill dropped album.

[Nyla Simone]

It'S been over a decade.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what I'm saying. They. They. They just take their time, and it just feels right, man. Oh, salute to Jill.

[DJ Envy]

Sky over there bricked up. What else you got?

[Nyla Simone]

Oh, my God, y'.

[Caller/Listener]

All.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You know what?

[Nyla Simone]

It is? Freaky Friday. I came in here, but y' all was on a serious tip. I said, wow, I'm just not used to this dynamic because we had a.

[Jessica]

Caller named Kim that tore us a new one, so.

[Nyla Simone]

Yeah, okay, I see. Well, I liked it, though. Informative. But anyway, next, let me get into a new record from Reason. He's coming in Hot. 20, 2076. This record is called Don't Play with My Heart.

[Jessica]

Damn. Yeah, I like it.

[DJ Envy]

I like that you can rap.

[Jessica]

I even like the sample.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The dots don't ever connect for a reason. I don't know why, but he can rap like he's dope, but the dots don't connect for him for some reason.

[Jessica]

But to get him out there more.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I mean, he was with tde, and I just. I don't know. Reasons. It's dope, but he just.

[DJ Envy]

He gets busy.

[Nyla Simone]

It's not like every artist on tde, the dots connect for it. Plus, I don't think. I don't think it's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, over. Like he can. No, I don't think it's over. I think it'd be able to connect at some point. Yeah, I don't mean that literally. I'm just talking about in general.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, you know, figuratively, not yet.

[DJ Envy]

Hasn't connected yet.

[Nyla Simone]

Make it sound like it's severe.

[Keith Sweat]

Yeah, like it's over.

[DJ Envy]

Like, he's done now.

[Nyla Simone]

He hasn't connect yet. Like, okay, fine. Anyway, looking forward to whatever he drops. Hopefully we get a tape from him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But if I like to hear artists talking about gatekeepers. Ain't no gates, bro. You know what I'm saying? And if people ain't standing at your gate, ain't because of no gate. There's no gates. There's no more gates.

[Nyla Simone]

Well, if you're on a label, there is a gatekeeper.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why are you still on a label?

[Nyla Simone]

You just say he was with tde. TDE is A label.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, that is true. Don't listen to me. I'm just talking.

[Jessica]

All right.

[Nyla Simone]

Yes. Finally, he admits it. All right, next, let's get into. This artist is actually new. He's from Memphis. His name is Trey Loaded. And his record is called Upgrade.

[DJ Envy]

He not sign.

[Jessica]

Yeah, I like that.

[Nyla Simone]

No, he didn't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He's dope. You from Memphis?

[Nyla Simone]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Fire.

[DJ Envy]

You don't.

[Jessica]

Yeah, I love it. No, I don't like. I don't watch on the tray.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Loaded.

[DJ Envy]

Tray Load. He.

[Jessica]

Yeah, he's fire. I don't want to rain on the parade, but I can hear the baby going in on it. That's. That's like the baby. But no, Trey. You say Trey. Trey Loaded is fire.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I love Memphis rappers, too. Like, every. Like that is that. That can go. I can hear that and be like, yo, that can go.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That can.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not only can he rap, that can go. His beard is connected. You don't think it's being connected?

[Nyla Simone]

I think his beard is connected.

[Jessica]

I gotta see.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Nyla Simone]

Now. And he's young, 22, so I feel like. Yeah, A R is tapping next. I'm gonna go with this new. And this is my last one, actually. But it's idk, Pusha T K Trinada. And I heard the who kid drop in the beginning, so I'm not really sure who necessarily produced it. But Push's verse was crazy. And I do like what IDK IDK did. But this is called Life Force Life.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Even being on a record with this.

[Nyla Simone]

I'm not going to lie. That's why.

[Jessica]

Giving on my past out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Come on, man. Pusha T Beard been connecting for 40 years.

[DJ Envy]

Full three way Philly Beard moved to Pusha T, man. And buying Pusha T that car.

[Julian Edelman]

Oh.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What happened now?

[Nyla Simone]

Pharrell got Push a car for Christmas.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What kind? I don't got no car money.

[Jessica]

What kind?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What kind? What kind? Where's the Forbes cover? I know that's right.

[Jessica]

But no, you four for four now.

[Mimi Brown]

Okay.

[Keith Sweat]

Good day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Was a good day. That massage in Cape Town got you, right?

[Nyla Simone]

I think it did do something. I'm not going to lie. And I will say I do think that, you know, J. Cole's beard is fully connected. And I can't wait for the drop one last time because this man was arguing me down in Africa about him. And I'm just like, why?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why? Because y' all think I don't like J. Cole for some reason. That is not true.

[Nyla Simone]

It's what you give off.

[Jessica]

It just don't think he's Number one.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not number one. What I simply said was there was a big three, and a couple of years ago, we all saw the big three circle each other and decide to go to war. One of them tapped out, so therefore it was left with two. And Kendrick won that decisively. So Kendrick is number one.

[Nyla Simone]

Okay, I'll say this.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So I. With the fall off, I just want to know what JCole's going to be talking about because it's clearly not to be number one anymore. And everything leading up to the fall off was him saying, I'm that guy. I'm that guy. I'm that guy. Guy.

[Nyla Simone]

I don't know. I. I have friends over in Dreamville. They said the project is crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What else they going to say. If they say anything else?

[Nyla Simone]

I also think that every. All of them in the big three are great.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay?

[Nyla Simone]

So I don't think. I think it just comes down to one is greater. I think it just comes down to let it go.

[DJ Envy]

Let it go.

[Jessica]

We do have to admit he brings.

[Caller/Listener]

It up every day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But we do do have to admit there was a battle and all three of them engaged in. One backed out. So he's not in the competition no more. 11 and 1 1. I don't know why this is even an argument.

[Jessica]

He just in his own lane now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And it's a bike lane. City bike.

[Nyla Simone]

In their own lane.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We gotta go, guys.

[Nyla Simone]

Okay. I'm tired of y'.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All.

[Nyla Simone]

But if y' all like those records, make sure y' all follow me on the gram at Nyla Simone. You can go to certifiedvibe.com to get the playlist where all those songs are updated, plus more. There's a few other drops that I wasn't able to get to, but they're all on there. And yeah, I'm having a party on the 18th.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Nyla Simone]

Hey, pull up is gonna be. I'm a piano. Afro B hip hop.

[Jessica]

Oh, nice. Rap.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Nyla Simone]

It's the day before MLK day, so you guys got the day off, so.

[Mimi Brown]

Come pull up on me.

[Nyla Simone]

It's in Brooklyn, but that's also on the website.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who's your homie that looked out for us in Cape Town?

[Nyla Simone]

Oh, yeah. Shout out to aq. She's a dj.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Aq?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Nyla Simone]

So she's a big. I'm a piano DJ from Harlem, but also from South Africa. But, man, we had a time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know. I wish I knew homie's name in the bucket hat, too, man. I can't remember. I think. I think he was a promoter or something.

[Nyla Simone]

Oh, who Gave us a seat.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I'm gonna get his name. I'm gonna shout you out. But salute to. Salute to everybody that showed us loving. What was that club? Gypsy Supper.

[Nyla Simone]

Gypsy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Gypsy Supper. I think it was called Gypsy something in Cape Town. Salute to y'.

[Julian Edelman]

All.

[Nyla Simone]

It was fire. Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you very much.

[DJ Envy]

All right, when we come back, we got the People's Choice mixer. Don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne, the G guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Salute to keep sweat for joining us this morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Salute to the O.G. keith Sweat, man. RB lovers tour starts on Jess's birthday.

[Jessica]

Yes. February 13th, period.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So, Joe, Drew Hill, genuine cut close.

[Jessica]

Yes. Drew Hill, you know Cisco, My Baltimore Bren. So, you know, I. I gotta go see the show. I'm gonna go see the show for everybody. The whole lineup is fire.

[DJ Envy]

You know, Drew Hill got like seven members now.

[Jessica]

You told me.

[DJ Envy]

Drew Hill. And then who was the group that was filling in for Drew Hill at one time, like, was filling in for J.

[Keith Sweat]

Ain't no Way.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And Keith SW was up here complaining about having to pay Silk. And they. Drew Hill got seven members. Ain't no goddamn way. So it's all the original members must be back, and they kept the new ones.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, but the new ones were. Were a group before. I can't remember the name.

[Jessica]

Merged groups. Oh, no, no, no. Yeah. No, I only know Cisco Jazz.

[DJ Envy]

So player joined you, Hill, and now all the original members back. So it was like eight of them on stage.

[Jessica]

Oh, no, no, man.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, so they all. I think they all going out on that show as well.

[Jessica]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know Silk mad as hell. Silk going to see that and be like you said, keep using Breakfast Club, saying you can't pay all of us. And it's only four bucks. But it's seven of them.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, it's like seven, eight of them.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

God damn, man.

[DJ Envy]

Seven to eight of them. All right, well, when we come back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Positive, we about to play Jill Scott new record. Pressure, Man. Jill Scott's album comes out. What's the date Joe Scott album come out? I know it's in February. Something sometime. February. February 13th.

[DJ Envy]

God damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's on Valentine's weekend. Y. Damn. I wish my wife wanted more children. February. No, you don't.

[Jessica]

No, you don't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

February 13th, Jill Scott's new album will be out. So let's play that new record, Pressure, Man. I gotta go check out her conversation with Angie Martinez. I watched her. A million dollars worth of game With Gillian Wallow. I got it. And I watched her on R and B money podcast with 10 thanking JJ Valentine. So I gotta watch on Angie.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Jessica]

All nine interviews.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You watch.

[DJ Envy]

All right.

[Jessica]

Oh, I just want to tell you all real quick because I know all y' all would go see Taylor baby. And you know, he was probably so scared because it was so many of y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Jessica]

You bright, you dog. Lawrence tall. So. But I saw him the other night and his mother couldn't handle him. So we all. We went out to dinner. So I was like. Let me just. You know, he was all.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Jessica]

And so I took him from her and I put him to sleep like five minutes. Is I have the touch.

[DJ Envy]

He thought she was his pair, so.

[Jessica]

Excuse me.

[DJ Envy]

None.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And so you gave Taylor a pair of size 6 Jordans to give that little boy this morning?

[Caller/Listener]

No, I did not.

[Jessica]

They for Taylor because my feet too fat. Silly ass.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, I just thought I just heard you say something about a baby. Here, take these. Because of the baby?

[DJ Envy]

No.

[Jessica]

No, I didn't know. Take them. After she had the baby, I had my baby. My feet got a little bit more swollen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cool.

[Jessica]

So now I went from a 5 and a half to a 6Y and shoes. So I had to give it a shoes. But yeah, I just wanted to say for the record, I put baby PJ to sleep. Nobody else could ever do it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

Right when we come back, positive. Notice the breakfast.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh. Happy born day to Angie Martinez.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Happy birthday. That's why I said the thing about Jill Scott. I'm lying, but yes.

[DJ Envy]

Time to get up out of here. You guys have a great weekend. I'm at partake today in the city and I'll see y' all tomorrow me self. And I think Nori. So you got a positive notion?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I do, man. The positive note. Remember, we're still in the year of the snake. We're still in the year to snake until February 16th. So we're still shedding. So just know it's normal to feel like you're breaking apart when you're outgrowing something. All right? Trust the process and surrender the destruction of the old. Make space for the new. Have a great day. Breakfast club finish or y' all done? Wake you up. Wake up.

[DJ Envy]

Wake that ass up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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