FULL SHOW: Hov Bets $1M on OKC for NBA Finals, Kenya Moore RHOA Rumors, Diddy’s Courtroom Behavior Draws Judge’s Warning + Taraji P. Henson Interview

Summary

The Breakfast Club Podcast Summary Episode: FULL SHOW: Hov Bets $1M on OKC for NBA Finals, Kenya Moore RHOA Rumors, Diddy’s Courtroom Behavior Draws Judge’s Warning + Taraji P. Henson Interview
Release Date: June 6, 2025

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1. Personal News Jess Hilarious opens the episode by sharing exciting yet stressful news about her mother's upcoming wedding. She describes her role as the maid of honor and the preparations involved, highlighting the emotional and logistical challenges of organizing such a significant family event.

Jess Hilarious [03:03]: "She's gonna be the flower girl on the 20th. But, yes, I am the maid of honor."

2. NBA Finals and Jay Z's $1M Bet The hosts dive into the excitement of the NBA Finals, focusing on Game One where the Indiana Pacers narrowly defeated the Oklahoma City Thunder with a score of 111-110. A major highlight is Jay Z's bold $1 million bet on OKC to win the finals, placed through Fanatics Sportsbook.

DJ Envy [22:18]: "If you haven't seen the Indiana paces pulled off one last night, I went to sleep and I thought OKC had it."

Charlamagne Tha God expresses skepticism about Jay Z's bet, questioning the sustainability of OKC's performance throughout the series.

Charlamagne Tha God [04:55]: "You got to have more than 14 points in the NBA Finals game. That's all I'm saying."

3. Presidential News: Trump and Elon Musk Feud A significant segment covers the escalating tension between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk. The fallout stems from disagreements over electric vehicle (EV) mandates and the implications of the so-called "big beautiful bill." Trump threatens to revoke government contracts and subsidies, while Musk responds with controversial statements linking Trump to Jeffrey Epstein's files.

Charlamagne Tha God [08:56]: "I don't particularly believe this right now. I think it's all wrestling."

The discussion highlights the potential impact on Musk's businesses and the broader political ramifications.

Stacy [10:12]: "A lot of these manufacturers changed to EV. If you look at all these lots, nobody wants to buy EV. These cars are not selling."

4. Diddy's Courtroom Behavior Diddy’s courtroom appearance becomes a topic of discussion after the judge warns him about his behavior. During cross-examination, Diddy was observed nodding vigorously and making motions towards jurors, prompting the judge to caution him against such actions.

DJ Envy [70:08]: "The judge threatened to kick him out of the courtroom for the remainder of the trial because the judge alleges that Diddy was nodding to the jurors."

5. Real Housewives of Atlanta: Kenya Moore Rumors Kenya Moore's status on "Real Housewives of Atlanta" is questioned following her suspension over alleged photo controversies. Brittany Edie later claims she wasn't in the photos, stirring debates about Kenya's future on the show.

DJ Envy [29:00]: "The person I spoke to said, I mean it rightfully so. And there's also stories out there that she was supposed to be doing a sit-down conversation separate of the reunion."

6. Listener Interactions and Relationship Advice Throughout the episode, listeners call in to discuss various personal issues, including relationship troubles and social misunderstandings. For instance, Kathy shares her frustrations with men who claim they want commitment but end up being game players.

Listener Kathy [12:02]: "Nobody stood me up, but it's been happening over and over where men claim they want to be in a relationship."

7. Interview with Taraji P. Henson Taraji P. Henson joins the show for an in-depth interview, discussing her role in Tyler Perry’s movie "Straw," her approach to portraying complex characters, and her advocacy for mental health. She emphasizes the importance of grace and genuine human connection.

Taraji P. Henson [49:28]: "We should move with grace at all times, because you never know what somebody's going through."

She reflects on her personal journey, dealing with burnout, and the significance of creating impactful work that resonates with audiences.

Taraji P. Henson [57:48]: "That's what I always wanted. And that's what I asked. God, I said, I want longevity, and I want the work that's going to affect lives in a positive way."

8. Donkey of the Day Adding a humorous twist, the hosts engage in their "Donkey of the Day" segment, where listeners nominate individuals deserving of the title for various misdeeds or foolish actions. This segment brings a lighter, comedic element to the episode.

Charlotte [80:23]: "I'm putting Zaquan Barkley as donkey of the century. He's Uncle Tom kissing up to that white racist double Donald Trump."

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Notable Quotes:

• Charlamagne Tha God [04:55]: "You got to have more than 14 points in the NBA Finals game. That's all I'm saying."
• Jess Hilarious [03:03]: "She's gonna be the flower girl on the 20th. But, yes, I am the maid of honor."
• Taraji P. Henson [49:28]: "We should move with grace at all times, because you never know what somebody's going through."
• DJ Envy [22:18]: "If you haven't seen the Indiana paces pulled off one last night, I went to sleep and I thought OKC had it."

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This episode of The Breakfast Club masterfully blends personal stories, high-stakes sports discussions, intense political debates, and engaging interviews, all while maintaining its signature mix of humor and insightful commentary. For those who missed it, this summary encapsulates the dynamic range of topics covered, providing an insightful overview of the day's most pressing conversations.

Transcript

[DJ Envy]

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[Just Hilarious]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Morgan]

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[Nyla Simone]

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[Just Hilarious]

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[Stacy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo.

[Stacy]

Yo yo yo yo Yo Just hilarious yo. Good morning Charlemagne. To God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Stacy]

That is right. It's Friday. I'm excited. I'm happy. How you feeling, Jess?

[Jess]

I feel good. I'm excited. I'm even more excited that it's Friday now.

[Stacy]

Your mom is getting married this weekend, right?

[Jess]

What part is getting married?

[Stacy]

Are you part of the wedding?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like you.

[Stacy]

Because you can't be a flower girl.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like.

[Jess]

Yes, I'm the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're the best man.

[Jess]

I would.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What?

[Jess]

No, my daughter is actually a flower girl. She's gonna be this our first wedding, obviously, but she walks.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She walking now, right?

[Jess]

No, no, no. She's trying to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, okay, okay.

[Jess]

She's nine months. She will be the flower girl on the 20th. But, yes, I am the maid of honor.

[Stacy]

Okay.

[Jess]

I've never been the maid of honor in a wedding. It is. It's stressful. My mom is like, brzilla, ready, kill everybody.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So.

[Jess]

So I just can't wait for it to be over. I'm happy for her, you know, though. I am.

[Stacy]

Who's walking her down the aisle?

[Jess]

Her father.

[Stacy]

Oh, father. Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know why I feel like Molly, two years old, boy. God.

[Jess]

I know, I know. Well, she look one already, you know, Chris. Tall.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So.

[Jess]

She tall. She a long baby for sure. Yes, she is a big nine months like my daughter is. Cause she fat, too. And then she's tall, so.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And salute to everybody who went to bed too early last night and missed a great finish. That was game one in the NBA Finals.

[Stacy]

I was one of them.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

My God.

[Stacy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jesus.

[Stacy]

Oh, man. Well, like Charlemagne said, if you haven't seen the Indiana paces pulled off one last night, I went to sleep and I thought OKC had it. OKC was up the whole game.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I was like, about 14. Yeah.

[Stacy]

I was like, I'm going to sleep.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, J A from Indy salute to you.

[Stacy]

I'm sure he'll be calling in, man. I still got OKC in five, but, man, I will say that. That Holly Burton. What the. Holly. I mean, he.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He had 14 points last night, everybody.

[Stacy]

But he did what he was supposed to do.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know. I know what y' all. He closed out, but he had 14 last night. But he closes out. Salute to the Pacers team. They had like, six or seven players in double figures last night. That's what wins ball games.

[Stacy]

But Hallie Burton closes out. He knows how to close out a game. He closed out on the Knicks a couple of times, but he does it best. There's a lot of. There's a lot of stars in the NBA. There's a lot of stars in the NBA that doesn't want that club shot. He takes that clutch shot.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He does look good in the clutch. But if you're going to be the the league and have people putting you in that conversation, that's what some idiots are saying, that he could be the face of the league. You got to have more than 14 points in the NBA Finals game. That's all I'm saying. Okay.

[Jess]

Is it really ever just one face of the league, like, because there's so many players?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, it depends. It depends. It's been, you know, you had Magic Bird, you had Jordan in his era.

[Stacy]

Kobe for a little James.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

James who?

[Stacy]

LeBron James.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, LeBron James. Yes. You got to say LeBron. You don't start with James.

[Stacy]

I'm saying everybody's last name.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jordan. Brian. No way.

[Stacy]

All right, well, let's get the show cracking. Taraji P. Henson will be joining us.

[Jess]

Oh, my God.

[Stacy]

She's in the new movie straw. Tyler Perry Straw, which is out today.

[Jess]

And it's good, y' all. I need to get it. I need to watch it.

[Stacy]

No, Eddie, it's crazy.

[Jess]

It's a mind bender.

[Stacy]

All right, what now? Glorilla released her record today. I thought we would have it, but we don't have it yet.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's called type of.

[Stacy]

Nah, we'll have it in a little bit. We'll get it in the system in a little bit. But we do have Mariah Carey's new single.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's because she's performing at the iHeartRadio Festival. Yes. Yes. IHeartRadio Music Festival.

[Stacy]

Why you say oh yeah like that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Shut up, man. Play Mariah Carey. Don't follow him up. Cause he's silly. She play. She performing at the iHeartradio Music Festival this year. Mariah Carey. We got a new record. What is called Type Dangerous? Yes. It's the Breakfast Club.

[Stacy]

Well, let's get in some front page news. Good morning. Let's go. Hold on one second. Morgan, make paces beat the thunder last night. If you went to sleep early like Charlamagne said a bit, you missed it. OKC was up 14 at one point. They were up 6 with 2 minutes left. But the paces came back and won last night. 111, 110 to lead the NBA Finals game one. What's up, Morgan?

[Morgan]

What's up is this bromance breakup that appears to be happening between President Trump and Elon Musk, snatching wigs and edges and all types of stuff.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But so maybe we can get a.

[Morgan]

Little bit of writing. Yes, the girls are fighting. So President Trump says he doesn't know if he and Elon Musk will continue to have a great relationship. His comments in the Oval Office came days after Musk criticized Trump's so called one big beautiful bill. Now it's important to note that the President's comments came early in the day and the drama between him and Elon Musk progressed as the day went on. But Trump initially had, here's what Trump initially had to say yesterday regarding Elon Musk and those comments that came out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You saw the words he had for.

[I]

Me, the words and he hasn't said anything about me. That's bad. I'd rather have him criticize me than.

[Stacy]

The bill because the bill is incredible.

[I]

Elon's upset because we took the EV.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Mandate date and you know, which was.

[I]

A lot of money for electric vehicles. Elon and I had a great relationship. I don't know if we will anymore.

[Morgan]

Yeah, Charlemagne, you called it, you called it about those EV vehicles. You said he's. What is he going to be mad at? It's going to be to one of two things. Now Trump said he and Musk or Trump said he asked must to leave his administration. Trump said Musk was upset that he was ending the EV mandate which will cost Musk billions of dollars. Now Trump also said the Tesla CEO was disappointed Trump did not or he decided not to go with his preferred head of NASA and the president threatened to terminate, as we said, Elon's government tool subsidies and contracts. Now Musk said Trump so called big beautiful bill was never shown to him and passed in the House in a deal in the dead of night. He also reposted an image showing old tweets from Trump that appeared to contradict his spending bill, saying where's this guy today? Musk has been highly critical of this beautiful bill since his time ending as a special government employee for Doge.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The.

[Morgan]

Now the Tesla CEO also made a post claiming the reason the Jeffrey Epstein files haven't been made public is because Trump is in them. Musk posted time to drop the really big bomb before saying Trump is in the files. Now the financier and convicted sex offender died back in 2019 by suicide and the public has long called for the release of the documents, including a contact list of names. Now the Tesla CEO Elon Musk also claims that Trump would not have won the election without him. Musk responded to a post calling for President Trump to be impeached, saying yes. Yeah. So what do you guys think about all of this drama?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, even though I said this is going to happen months ago, I don't particularly believe this right now. I think it's all wrestling. Like, Elon has lost like $100 billion since December. He lost like 26 billion yesterday. I think that a lot of this is just to try to rehabilitate Elon's image to get his companies back on track. But I think that's a wrap. Elon's gonna have to step down as a CEO. I won't believe this. Until some of those government contracts actually get pulled. Like threatening the government contracts to get pulled is one thing. Actually pulling them is another. That's when I believe like some of this is real. That Epstein files thing to me is a nothing burger.

[Stacy]

Yeah, yeah, that was just a shot. But the problem is, is like Elon Musk, you know, he gave Trump what, $277 million for his campaign. The problem is with a lot of what a lot of those EV companies. And this is the effed up part. Joe Biden put it into play that a majority of your fleet or the majority of the cars that you sell have to be EV, I think by 2026. So a lot of these manufacturers changed to EV. We're trying to sell EV and if you look at all these lots, nobody wants to buy ev. These cars are not selling. They're practically giving them away. To the fact where a Hummer during COVID was like $1,500 a month. If you wanted to lease it now you. That same home I've seen yesterday for 400 and change like pair just trying to give these cars away. Nobody wants them. And these people are going to be losing billions and billions of dollars.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, but, but Trump said Elon knew that that was going to be in the bill. So he said, he said Elon knew that was going to be in the bill the whole time.

[Stacy]

Elon said he never seen the bill.

[Morgan]

Yeah, that's.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

People need to start reading. That's, that's what I think. And you know, that Epstein files thing is really a nothing burger because you know, the flight logs of Epstein's plane came out and Trump was on those. So it was a lot of other.

[Stacy]

What he seen pictures on like Bill Clinton.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Trump and Epstein have been in. They got video of them in than picking out. Picking out girls. And plus Trump is already president, so what is Trump in the Epstein files going to do?

[Morgan]

I don't know. Make him worse than what he already does.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What Donald Trump. Donald what? Listen, Donald Trump is Teflon. Come on, stop. Like when he said, I can walk in the middle of whatever street and shoot somebody in the head and nobody will care. He was absolutely, positively right. He wanted a whole. He won a whole election. Nobody is going to care that Donald Trump is in the Epstein file.

[Morgan]

All right, y' all, well, that's your front page news for 6am Stick around at 7. We'll talk trade and China and immigration.

[Stacy]

Everybody else, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open. Again, 800-585-1051 is the breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's a new day. This is your time to get it off your chest. Wait. Wake up.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Whether you're mad or blessed, it's time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

To get up and get something.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Call up now.

[Stacy]

800-585-1051.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

[Stacy]

Hello? Who's this?

[I]

Hi, this is Kathy.

[Stacy]

Hey, Kathy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning, Kathy.

[Stacy]

Get it off your chest.

[I]

Yes, I want to know why these.

[Nyla Simone]

Grown ass men like to play games.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What happened? Who. Who stood you up?

[I]

Nobody stood me up, but it's been happening over and over where men claim they want to be in a relationship. Relationship and get ready to settle down. Then we get into a relationship. All we want to do is play games.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So once again, who stood you up, man? What happened? So who you talking about? You talking about somebody in particular?

[Jess]

This happened to a home girl?

[I]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, okay, sure. Yeah. You gonna call up early in the morning to speak up for your home girl? Huh? What happened? Tell us what happened to her friends.

[Stacy]

Dude, what's his name knocking get his way.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So what? So what happened?

[I]

So they got together and he claims he wants to settle down, he want to marry her. Then all of a sudden, he's not ready for it. Right now. There's too much going on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Did she let him hit? She let him hit, of course. Oh, okay. Well, listen, man, let that man, you know, go back home to his family, man, stop disturbing that man and his family's peace.

[I]

He's disturbing her, if anything.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, you should have known. You know, you probably knew he had a family from the start, or maybe he lied to you, but either. Or let that man go back home with his family.

[Stacy]

I'm sorry you're going through that, Mama.

[Jess]

It's not her.

[Stacy]

Okay.

[I]

Thank you.

[Stacy]

All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I would say I'm a prayer for you, but I'm not because you had no Business. Sleeping with that lady husband.

[Stacy]

Hello? Hello? Who's this?

[I]

This is pay.

[Stacy]

You know what? Get it off your chest.

[I]

Oh, Pacer, I am so excited that.

[Jess]

Elon Musk told on Trump.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What are you telling Trump about?

[I]

Because, well, he said that he wouldn't have won the election without him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now, see, that's a bigger conversation because, you remember, everybody was saying that, you know, and I'm just throwing this out. This was a conspiracy theory that, you know, the election might have been rigged, and, you know, Elon had something to do with it. That right there is a little bit more of a telling statement than the Epstein files.

[I]

1. It is, because I wish Kamala had had requested for a recount, a reboot or whatever you call it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, but even. But you know what, though? Even if he bragged.

[I]

He bragged on CNN about sending Elon Musk to Pennsylvania and how he's such an awesome guy, and he checked out the voting machines, and three seconds later, he said, did you see how fast those votes came in and the whole country, like, turned red overnight?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. And you remember when Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan was saying that Elon Musk had developed some type of custom app and he knew the results of the election before. Before. Yeah. You know, so, I mean, to me, that's a bigger thing than, you know, the. The Epstein files. You know, we get so caught up in foolishness, we don't actually pay attention to what people be talking about.

[I]

But even when he ran against Hillary, there was interruption from Russia, so he didn't win that election either. Well, he rigged it, but that's his history. He always steals stuff.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh. We can't say for sure that it was rigged.

[Stacy]

Thank you, mama. You know, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

[Lauren LaRosa]

This is your time to get it off your chest.

[Stacy]

800-585-1051.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who's this?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning, God.

[Stacy]

Good morning. Good morning.

[I]

Hey, everybody, listen to this. You know, my garbage truck got a horn, too, bro.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, get out people way. Yo, how about that? How about y' all garbage trucks get out people way in the morning? Stop blocking streets. Stop blocking streets. Get to work.

[I]

You can't say you rock with the garbage people and then talking bad about the garbage people. Make up your mind, Charlie.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Man, that's not talking bad about the guard people. That's. That's telling me that's telling the garbage people that's telling the garbage people to have some respect for that long line they be having behind them. You ain't got to block the whole street.

[I]

They are doing their job.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Don't block the whole street.

[I]

We gotta block the street.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, you don't.

[I]

The safety of the guys on the back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, you don't.

[I]

So they don't get run over and killed.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nobody gonna run the garbage truck over. The garbage truck is huge.

[Jess]

Off the back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How would we do that? How would we hit the guys on the back, bro?

[I]

Hey, yo, hey. Shout out. Go to YouTube and type garbage. The garbage business is the most dangerous job in. In America, bro.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm not. I'm not disputing that, but I want y' all to stop blocking the street.

[I]

But anyway, anyway, just shout out to your mother getting married, man.

[Jess]

Thank you so much, Sean.

[I]

And also, I want people to go check out my new single. It's called Good Loving on my IG Story page. Yes. You need to go check that out, please.

[Jess]

Okay.

[I]

Showstone tv.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Do you singing on there?

[I]

Yeah, Jeff, you never know. I could sing this.

[Jess]

Okay, I did not know that.

[DJ Envy]

I didn't know.

[I]

I want all Caribbean people to go support a Jamaican because some people on. On the YouTube page session is a ph. Jamaica. I can never be a fiat Jamaican. I lived there for 18 years. I was born there. People.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What am I talking about, Sean? Do you get offended when people say your music garbage, or do you take it as like a. You know, they paying homage to your day job?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well.

[I]

Well, at the same time, people don't listen to my music. They say it's garbage. They gotta go listen first and then give me a critique, you know? I mean, but you not listening it. You just saying it's garbage without even listening it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And that's why. What's your YouTube page again, Sean? I'm gonna send everybody there to put trash cans in there, man. No, no. Garbage man.

[Stacy]

TV on.

[I]

You on ig.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, Go.

[Jess]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Leave a trash can in Sean's comments for respect to the garbage man. Respect to the garbage man.

[Stacy]

We gotta go. Hopefully go listen to Sean's record this week and give him some support.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right? Salute to all the sanitation workers out there, all the garbage man. We do appreciate your service. Just stop blocking the street.

[Stacy]

Hello?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who's this?

[I]

Yo, this from the port.

[Stacy]

What up, smooth jazz? What up? Get it off your chest.

[I]

Hey, man, I want to talk to these brothers out here that ain't got no hand in here but myself. Yo, I just want to tell y' all, embrace that man. Don't even got down. Worry about what these women say, how they feel.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You better embrace that man.

[I]

And, like, I'm.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm.

[I]

I really took a minute to really embrace mine, but once I did, yo, like, the women like crazy because they like a confident man. You feel me? So I just want to let y' all know, don't be out here putting these markers on your head looking crazy. I feel like Charlemagne. I'm wild qualified. You feel me?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm 90s Rom Com. Fine, baby. Salute to everybody in the multiverse of baldness. You know what I'm saying? Like, we've been embraced being bald. Okay.

[Jess]

That's right.

[Stacy]

All right, well, whatever.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello?

[Stacy]

Who's this, man?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's happening?

[Stacy]

What up, baby boy 904? Get it off your chest, bro.

[I]

But I want to talk about the local promoters, man. And all them people be gatekeeping in the city, man. Let them know, stop, soldier.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We gonna make it one way or another.

[I]

You heard me? Was that.

[Stacy]

I said they hating on you.

[I]

Yeah, they sold the hating, man. They sold you hating. But I got a single call outside. It's gonna be the biggest thing popping this summer, man. I got it for the ladies. And guess what? Tell them say we outside. If you say the sunshine girl, it's your time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You hear me, man?

[I]

Y' all tap in, man. Google Me, baby. 4900 post.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know where you calling from? You can hear. You can hear the accent.

[Jess]

Yes.

[Stacy]

Hello?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who's this?

[I]

All right.

[Stacy]

What up, bro? Get it off your chest, woman.

[I]

Adjust. Charlemagne.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Peace. Peace.

[I]

What you call? Yeah, I'm calling because a friend of mine by Sean Best from Bridgeport, Connecticut. He was shot by the Bridgeport police. I want y' all to look it up to see. To see the situation. Right? Yeah. He's basically shot for running, and the Bridgeport police are sweeping it under the rug.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's horrible.

[I]

I just. Yeah, I just wanted to put some light to it so everybody can look it up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's his name again?

[I]

Connecticut. Die. Sean Beth.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sean Beth.

[I]

Die.

[Stacy]

Sean D Y S H A N. Yes. He was 38 years old. He had a vape pen.

[I]

Yeah. Yes.

[Stacy]

But no gun.

[I]

Yeah. Yeah. If you look at the videos, you'll see that when he pulled him over, he had a vape in his hand. And then when they. When he got to the alley, they said they didn't know what it was.

[Stacy]

Wow.

[I]

Didn't they try to say it was. It was a gun in his hand. Then they proved it wasn't right under the rug.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They said he was a truck driver. A father?

[Stacy]

Yeah. CDL driver.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. A member of the city's North End community.

[I]

Yes.

[Stacy]

Wow.

[I]

I just want to put some light to that. I appreciate y' all.

[Stacy]

All right, brother.

[I]

To get through.

[Stacy]

Well, thank you for calling and keep us updated. And if you want to look him up, his name is Daishon D Y S H A N and his last name is Best B E S T. You Google it, it'll come right up in Connecticut. Bridgeport, Connecticut. Thank you, brother. I'm sorry for your loss, too.

[I]

Yeah, Thank y' all.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's crazy how situations like this happen and you don't hear anything about them whatsoever at all.

[Stacy]

Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, you can hit us up now. We got the latest with Lauren coming up.

[DJ Envy]

Yes. So I heard y' all talking about the finals last night and I know y' all said people went to sleep, but somebody stayed up because he put a million dollars on the series. We gonna find out who it is and how that money is looking after game one.

[Stacy]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Morning, everybody.

[Stacy]

It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the latest with Lauren.

[Jess]

Lauren becoming a straight fat.

[Stacy]

She gets them from somebody that knows somebody.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She gets the details.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Be having the latest on you. The the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have a little bit everything. Well, it's the latest on the Breakfast Club. Talk to me.

[DJ Envy]

Well, I know you guys know game one went down. The Indiana Pacers won 111 over Oklahoma City Thunder 110. But Jay Z has reportedly bet a million dollars that the Oklahoma City Thunder will win the finals. In game. Will win the finals. Now here's the issue. So he placed his million dollar bet with the fanatic sports book, which is we know, Michael Rubin's company. And if he wins, company too was. Oh, I didn't know that Jay Z owned part of it. Yeah. So while he placed the bet with their company. And if he wins, he will profit $2.3 million. But he'll also.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, so he'll probably like 3.3.

[DJ Envy]

Listen. So he'll profit $2.3 million on top of what he already bet. So it'll be a total of $3.3 million.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, gotcha.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Stacy]

Now he'll win 2.3. He'll get his million dollars back.

[Jess]

Yes.

[Stacy]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. So total will be 3.3, but the profit will be the 23. Yes. So this. But this means that the Thunder can't lose more than one game of the seven game series. Huh?

[Stacy]

He won that. The OKC will win in five.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Stacy]

So, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So yeah, like you said, great promotion for fanatics. You know what I'm saying?

[Jess]

If a company. You can do that.

[DJ Envy]

That's why I was a little confused. I didn't. And maybe that's why I was reported that way. Because in the reports it all runs back to Michael Rubin. But.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, Jay Z places bets with the gambling side he owns. I mean, it's good business. Like, you know, like. I mean it's public knowledge that he invested in fanatics. Not like it's a secret.

[Jess]

Well, it is, but what I'm asking. I mean. Well, I guess I'm not asking, but I did. I didn't know that you can do that. Like if you own something, isn't that. What would that be? Complex adventures. He can. I mean, he owned the company.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know.

[Stacy]

I don't know if that's cop. Because he doesn't own the team.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, it's not like you. It's not like. It's not like you control whether or not the teams win or lose.

[Stacy]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Gotcha.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know if he's how that bet is going to turn out though. OKC would have to win four games in a row straight. I don't know if that's going to.

[Stacy]

Happen after last night.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Indiana's a very solid, deep, balanced team like that. I don't know.

[DJ Envy]

Charlamagne, you said on Brilliant Idiots that Hallie Burton would never be the face of the league.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, he won't.

[DJ Envy]

You still feel like that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Stacy]

The face of the league.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, no. He's been in the league for six years already.

[Stacy]

He's one of the nicest players in the league, but he's not.

[DJ Envy]

Let's take a listen to Charlotte Brilliant Idiots.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't have a problem with Tyrese. I just have somebody who loves Tyrese and thinks he's the face of the league. And I'm like, there's no, he's not. Tyrese can win the next two championships and wouldn't be the face of the league. Okay. Why do you think? Because he just don't have the here's the thing about the face of the league conversation. Face of the league already is anointed upon you on your first day. It Just Balancing work, family and education isn't easy, but American Public University makes it possible with online courses, monthly start dates, and flexible schedules. APU was designed for busy professionals who need education that fits their lives. And Affordability matters too. APU offers the opportunity grant, giving students 10% off undergraduate and master's level tuition, helping you reach your goals without breaking the bank. Plus, they provide career services and 24. 7 mental health support at no extra cost. Visit Apu Apus Edu to learn more. That's Apu Apus Edu if you're not.

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[Stacy]

Hey, what up y' all?

[Nyla Simone]

It's DJ Envy.

[Stacy]

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[Morgan]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

If you're coming out of high school. I don't care if you're coming out of college. There's a light on you that it's really just yours to fumble. It's a fact. Tyree. He's not even the most famous Tyrese. Now you people heard me saying that the first 30 seconds. I probably thought I was talking about Tyrese Gibson from Fast and Furious.

[Stacy]

Yeah, I mean, you got Joker, you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Got Luca, you got none of those guys that we face the league. They're not from here, they're not from America.

[Stacy]

They still can be face ar got.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

A better chance of being because face of league is. He's from America. Florida will never be face league. What are you.

[Stacy]

No, it would already have happened with Bama. Well, LeBron's still in the league.

[Nyla Simone]

He's American.

[Stacy]

Steph Curry, still in the league, but American. But they're about to retire in the next couple of years and then there has to be a new face of the league.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

A four, and never be face of the league. If that was the case, Joker would have been face of the league. Giannis would have been face of the league. Like, these guys have already won championships.

[Stacy]

MVPs still not bigger than Braun and.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Stephen because Brian and Steph are American.

[DJ Envy]

Well, I saw people yesterday reposting Paul George's comments when he said this was a couple days, this was a couple days ago, though. He said that he, he thinks that he is the face of the NBA. He is number one. He's the number one option.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, we shouldn't be listening to Paul George.

[Jess]

I mean, I don't know who we.

[DJ Envy]

Should be listening to. I'm just telling y' all what I thought.

[Stacy]

These are all opinions. Opinions like buttholes. Everybody got him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I just, I mean, listen, I just don't see like Tyrese is a great player. He does super, super in the clutch. He's just not gonna be facing the league. Face of the league. You think LeBron, Steph Curry, you know, historically, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Tyrese's not gonna be there. He's gonna be a good player, though.

[Stacy]

I think a foreigner can be the face of the league.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No.

[DJ Envy]

Well, game two is set for Sunday, this Sunday at 8pm so it'll keep going. In other news, I broke a story yesterday, Portia Williams, I'm sorry, Kenya Moore, you remember Kenya, got that suspension off of Real Housewives of Atlanta for the remainder of this current season. So yesterday, Kenya posted a statement to her Twitter and she basically was taking accountability for, you know, the whole showing the photos thing, not showing the photos thing on Real Housewives of Atlanta. But it made people start asking if she is going to return back to the show. And I was told by a source close to Real Housewives of Atlanta production that Kenya Moore is not going anywhere anytime soon. The statement that she actually posted, she took accountability. But the last line of it, it said, I will see you guys back on Bravo very soon. So that got fans going. And the person I spoke to said, I mean it rightfully so. And there's also stories out there that she, Kenya Moore, was supposed to be doing like a sit down conversation separate of the reunion because she wasn't allowed to film the reunion with Andy Cohen, but that didn't end up happening. But for the people that are wondering, you will see our girl back on Bravo. I don't know how she'll be brought back in because she missed majority of the season, but she will be back on the show. Okay, how you feel about that? Because also Brittany Edie posted yesterday too, that's the girl who alleged or they were alleging that Kenya posted those photos about during the season that she wasn't even in the photo. She just found out that she Was not even in the photos that Kenya got suspended for.

[Jess]

She wasn't over.

[Stacy]

But if she wasn't in the photos, then why she gets suspended?

[DJ Envy]

So this is now the conversation that.

[Jess]

Had to take and then had to make a statement apologizing so she can come back.

[DJ Envy]

I mean, there were photos shown, but now Brittany is saying that it was not her in the photos. Brittany also was reportedly and mentioned not being at the reunion, the filming of the reunion yesterday. But I don't know what Bravo now will have to do and what they will have to say because there wasn't a whole investigation that happened. And for all of this time, we believe that those photos were of Britney and that, you know, it was alleged revenge porn type of thing and that's why she was. Kenya was removed from the show. So. Yeah. And this statement that Kenya actually made, I'm also told she made that statement prior to her even finding out about the whole Britney not being in the photo thing and Britney making her statement.

[Jess]

Right. Because then what would my apology be for?

[DJ Envy]

Then we'll find out. But I. We will definitely find out because she's. She ain't going nowhere anytime soon from what I'm told.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right.

[Jess]

The baby sleep just need to bring back Nini.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Is the baby sleep just because you're doing that. The baby sleep. Are you doing that Janet Jackson whisper thing again?

[Jess]

I'm definitely not doing the Janet Jackson. I'm definitely not. But they need to bring back Nene. That's just what it is. I mean, so it can be interesting again. It's really not interesting. This is Caddy, the new girl. It's like the new girls are such fans. They want to be down so bad and is played.

[DJ Envy]

So it's like that's the conversation right now. Is Nene, Portia, Kenya back for the next season?

[Jess]

Yeah. Like, yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Yep.

[Stacy]

Yeah. I don't know if that works, but it seems like it's structured. It seems like these new.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The.

[Stacy]

The newer girls and the newer people that's on these shows are trying to do things to stay relevant. That's how it goes instead of letting it happen. A lot of the older shows, things just happen and it seemed natural. Now it just seems like it's forced.

[DJ Envy]

But that's how it goes. You take a shot at whoever got the peach.

[Jess]

Right. And it seemed like everything is fake and everything like letting like just for storylines.

[DJ Envy]

Well, I did see Nene comment on our report yesterday. She put some hearts under our report and we talked about the fact that she said that her relationship is Good with the network. So I don't know. We'll see. But I'll tell y' all one thing. If it does happen, you guys might hear here first. Not even might. You'll hear it here first.

[Stacy]

All right, well, that is the latest with Lauren. Thank you, Lauren.

[DJ Envy]

You're welcome. Charlotte. Don't watch none of the housewives. No, no.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm letting y' all ladies have. Y' all have. Y' all talk.

[Stacy]

Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I'm saying? When ladies is talking, sometimes you just shut up and hush. Appreciate it. So you envy Jess, Y' all get to it.

[DJ Envy]

And we got broke up with yesterday. He needed this. Housewives talk. Sending you some love, boo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I will say though, the only person that can determine whether or not Nene comes back is Andy Cohen. That's what she got to make it right with. Yeah, they can have all the conversations she want amongst them young ladies and on social media, but Andy Cohen got to be the one to build the bridge.

[DJ Envy]

But she said she. She said she worked with the network, though. She thought. I mean, I said we've seen it. She's done little things with the network since then. You don't really care. You care.

[Jess]

You said all that and then I don't really care.

[DJ Envy]

You care if Nene came back, Girl, you'll be watching. You'll be up here seeing her one liners. Yes, you would.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I would not. I'll be in here acting like I watched the show with y' all.

[Stacy]

Can't Undercover watch it right now?

[DJ Envy]

Give me indeco energy.

[Stacy]

All right, we got front page news. And then Taraji P. Henson will be joining us. Also on Friday, Charlemagne does. He opens up the phone lines and allows everybody to give anybody you want donkey of the day. So if you want to give somebody donkey today, you can get on them phone lines right now. 800-585-1051. You got the glowrilla in. All right, let's get to that glowrilla. We play top of the hour. Then we got glowrilla's new join us called Typer. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're checking out the Breakfast Club.

[Stacy]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get some front page news. Now last night, the Paces beat the thunder. 111, 110. Now the thunder was up pretty much the whole game. They were up 14 at one point. Up six, I think with two minutes left. And the Paces came back and won last night. 111 110. Halliburton had the last shot, which got him over that hump.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The paces really just don't quit. I mean, they're one of those teams that just refuse to die. It's like herpes, like they do. They never go away. And they just keep flaring up, flaring up, flaring up. And they played great team ball. Like, you know, Hallie Burton only had 14 points last night, but they had like seven figures in double digits. Seven.

[Stacy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Seven players, like six to seven players had like double figures. Like, and, and one of, if not, if not six to seven, one of them had close to double digits. But they're a very, very deep team.

[Stacy]

Yeah. And also Aaron Rodgers, he signed with the Steelers. He did a one year deal with the Steelers. What's up, Morgan?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, y' all.

[I]

Hey.

[Morgan]

Let's get back into this presidential news. So Trump says he feels like trade talks with China are in very good shape. Speaking from the Oval Office as he welcomed German Chancellor Friedrich Mertz, Trump confirmed he spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday morning. Let's take a listen to Trump's comments regarding that conversation.

[I]

In a very good talk. And we've straightened out any complexity. It's very complex stuff and we straighten it out. We're going to have Scott and Howard and Jamison will be going and meeting with their top people and continue it forward. But no, I think we have everything.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think we're in very good shape.

[I]

With China and the trade deal.

[Morgan]

So Trump described trade talks between the two countries as having a lot of complexities. And the president also said teams from China and the US Will meet soon, referencing Treasury Secretary Scott Benson and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick. He added that Xi, President Xi, Chinese President Xi, invited him and the first lady to come to China, and he also extended the same invite to President Xi to come here. Meanwhile, President Trump is banning travelers from dozens of countries, citing security risks. The proclamation signed on Wednesday evening, fully restricts and limits the entry of nationals from 12 countries. That at least includes Afghanistan, Iran, Haiti, Somalia, Sudan and others. Now, people from seven countries will have partial restrictions, including Cuba and Venezuela. The president said there's different levels of restrictions. Let's take a listen to his comments.

[I]

The list is subject to revision based on whether material improvements are made. And likewise, new countries can be added as threats emerge around the world. The strength of the restrictions we're applying depends on the severity of the threat posed.

[Morgan]

So, as previously reported, Trump was back and forth on the decision with Sunday's anti Semitic attack in Boulder, Colorado, putting things into quicker motion now. That suspect was in the, in the US Illegally from Egypt. But Egypt is not one of the countries included on the travel ban. Elsewhere, immigration advocates are speaking out after President Trump signed an order banning travelers from those dozen countries. Florida Immigration Coalition Thomas Kennedy calls this un American restrictive and racist. Let's take a listen to his comments.

[I]

I think this is highly disruptive to the family life of thousands and thousands and thousands of people who live in our community, particularly here in South Florida, but really across the country. I would suspect that this would get ultimately enjoined by a court because of its broad scope, because it's likely to be found discriminatory.

[Morgan]

Florida Immigration Coalition's Thomas Kennedy. He says many people are literal, literal life lifeliness to their family in their home country. So, you know, the move is expected, as he said, to face dozens of legal challenges. And the Congressional Hispanic Caucus is calling for ICE detention oversight after migrants at a Miami detention center sent out an SOS message yesterday. Now, CHC Chair Representative Adriano Espila Espera of New York says they are going to hold the for profit prison detention centers accountable. And Representative Sylvia Garcia of Houston, Texas says she's deeply concerned about the conditions at detention centers like Chrome. Let's take a listen to their comments.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So this is a crisis where we must determine whether these centers are motivated.

[Lauren LaRosa]

By the profit margins that they make and whether due process is being dramatically and vulgarly violated.

[Nyla Simone]

And making sure that we use the powers of oversight to protect the rights of all this is not happening at the moment. What is happening, in my view, is just sinister, cruel and inhumane.

[Morgan]

So CHC members, that's the Congressional Hispanic Caucus members, say they refuse to allow the Trump administration to tear families apart by locking up parents married to American citizens. Chrome, which is one of those detention centers, ICE detention centers operated by a private contractor, has faced long scrutiny of overcrowding and poor conditions. So it's amazing how a lot of these stories are starting to be relative. Whether it's, you know, the, the Howard, excuse me, not Howard, but the Harvard immigration students and the ban on them and, and then the judge blocking that ban and how that affects immigration and how immigration then turns around and impacts what's happening with ICE and the travel ban. It's a, it's just a lot. So, you know, I would just say, you know, happy Friday and enjoy your weekend if you can. I know you give a donkey of the day or you allow people to give a donkey of the day. If I had an opportunity to do that, I would just go ahead and give it to the whole government donkey Hee haw.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Morgan]

But that's your front page news. Follow me on socials at Morgan Media, and for more news coverage, follow at Black Information Network, Download the free iHeartRadio app and visit us at binnews.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Com.

[Morgan]

Because they supposed to be working for the people and what is going on?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But Morgan put her bid in, so, you know, we do that every Friday. Every Friday is the people's donkey. So 1-800-585-1051. You can call up and give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid today.

[Stacy]

That's right. Thank you, Morgan.

[Morgan]

Thank you.

[Stacy]

Now, when we come back, Taraji P. Henson will be joining us. And don't forget, like Charlemagne said, if you want to give somebody donkey of the day, you can. 800-585-1051. Taraji B. Hinton is next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The Breakfast Club.

[Stacy]

Good morning, everybody. It's Dej Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the breakfast club. Lauren LaRosa is here as well. And we got a special guest in the building.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, indeed, the icon, the legend, Taraji P. Henson.

[Stacy]

Welcome back.

[Nyla Simone]

Thank you. I can't tell that I'm a legend because I'm not on this wall. Can you get the wall?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We got something special for you. It just wasn't done yet.

[Nyla Simone]

I'm telling you, I need to be on the wall.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's gonna be bigger than the wall, and it's gonna be something that's in the studio. Cause you know, we love you, Angie. Love you. Watch, you'll see. Watch. Just watch. It's gonna be worth it.

[Jess]

Since, you know, I've been, I've been told them put you up there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I'm saying?

[Nyla Simone]

What he said to me as soon as I walk in here.

[Jess]

The legend.

[Nyla Simone]

Bull. You sound like a Hollywood exec right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello, legend. But y' all know we looking for somebody else, right? Nobody says that to me no more, though. What are they looking for somebody else?

[Nyla Simone]

It's just the whole Hollywood of it all. We love her. We love her. Well, where is my check?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

One thing I noticed about you and OGs like Mary J. Blige, y' all over it, y' all.

[DJ Envy]

I can't be.

[Nyla Simone]

I just, I. You know, the thing is, the older you get, I just can't do the beat. Like, just be real with me, that's all. I'm a grown woman. I can take it. Just be real. Don't be blowing Smoke.

[Stacy]

How are you feeling? We didn't even ask how you feeling. How are you feeling? We didn't ask.

[Nyla Simone]

Feeling great. I am feeling amazing, to be quite honest, because I'm not dealing with nobody's unhealed son or daughter. I can't. You're not on your healing journey. I can't help you, baby, because I can't take on your trauma while I'm trying to get over mine.

[Jess]

Yeah.

[Nyla Simone]

And you not trying to heal yours. I can't help you. I'm not qualified.

[Jess]

So now you loving on yourself.

[Nyla Simone]

Oh, my God. The peace that I found, like, you know, even somebody asking me to come out, the first question I ask is, is it gonna disturb my peace?

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right.

[Nyla Simone]

Because you know, when you're young, you just. You gotta have FOMO a little bit. It's like, I gotta go. And then you find yourself going, why did not. Why did I just stay home? You know, no more of those moments because I'd rather be home with my fat Frenchies.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I always wanted to ask you? Has being an advocate for mental health ever made you feel more exposed than being just a public figure in Hollywood?

[Nyla Simone]

More exposed?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Because you tell. You tell more of yourself being a mental health advocate because you probably. If you was just Karaji in Hollywood who wasn't that, you wouldn't have to probably give up so much.

[Nyla Simone]

That's true. But I kind of always been that. So I wear my heart on my sleeve. So I just. I don't know if I feel any different. I'm still looking at this wall, but go ahead.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I got something better. We got something better.

[Stacy]

But I want to ask, when did you get to the point where you don't have to come out for the bs, Right? It's weird. We just had this conversation the other day where it was like, I got to a place a couple of years ago where I just say no. Before, it was like, I felt like I had to do it. I had to show up, I had to go. And sometimes things f up your piece. But now it's to the point where if I feel like the energy's gonna be off or I just don't.

[Nyla Simone]

Nah, I'm not going. No is my favorite word. I love saying that word. No. And that's it. I don't owe you explanation. Like, when I was with our forever first lady Michelle Obama doing her show, she was like, no, It's a complete sentence, and it absolutely is.

[Stacy]

When did you get there? When did it click?

[DJ Envy]

Which Bali Trip was it.

[Nyla Simone]

I had a first one. The first one when I went alone. The first one. Cause that. That refocused me, recentered me. I was. I didn't. I felt outside of myself before I went to Bali. That was a well needed trip because I was literally losing myself. I didn't even know who I was. The joy. I'm a. I'm the one that brings the life to the party, you know, And I become. I was like tight all the time and not happy and complaining a lot. That's just not me. Even my team noticed. They were like, is everything okay?

[DJ Envy]

You don't.

[Nyla Simone]

You seem a little, you know. And that's just not in my DNA. So I had to unplug and just go away and be with myself. And in the middle of a rice field.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What made you want to share that with the world? Because I saw the CNN because I.

[Nyla Simone]

Feel like people need to hear that. I think sometimes when they see public figures, they think we have it all together because we've, you know, we've found some money or whatever. You know, people think that money heals and money will bring you more problems than you had when you were bro. I often find myself saying, damn, I missed when I was broke and dreaming because everything seemed possible, you know. But then when you. You make it and you. You get behind the wizard of Oz curtain and it's like, oh, this ain't what it seems.

[Jess]

You here for straw?

[Nyla Simone]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Girl.

[Jess]

Very moving film.

[Nyla Simone]

Thank you. You saw it?

[Jess]

Yes. Listen, what did you channel? Because you, you are healing you in your healing journey. But to put yourself in a role like that, you had to go back. That was a trying day. So the movie was like it took place one day to deal with all that in a day and to have to embody that much trauma because I don't want to give away the ending.

[DJ Envy]

Right?

[Jess]

You know, the ending is gonna you up. What did you pull from? Did you have to go put yourself back where you were, where you were going through everything?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hollywood executives.

[Nyla Simone]

I am a single mother. You know, I moved to Hollywood with my son, who was a toddler at the time of $700 in my pocket and just a pocket full of dreams and Jesus. You know, humans, we all have can have a moment where we can snap, you know, I think what made me different from Janiyah is that I've always had a support system. So I have a sister circle where they'll talk me off the ledge. You know what I mean? But have I ever got to the point where I wanted to snap. Yes. That's why I went to Bali, you know what I mean? So. But she didn't have the resources, she didn't have the support. So all she had was the voices in her head. And she literally reached her point where she just couldn't take it anymore and things just got out of control. And she, God bless her heart, she was just trying to do the best she could with what she had, you know, And I in particular, I am drawn to characters who are voiceless and need a voice because I am such a big personality. I like to breathe light into those characters because I feel like those characters are real. You know, Tyler Perry didn't just pull this out of the sky. These women exist. These people exist and they need to see themselves and they need to know that they're not alone and that people do see them.

[DJ Envy]

Does it make you mad when people tell Tyler Perry to stop showing those women on camera?

[Nyla Simone]

I think that's their own traumas triggered because in the community, black community, we don't deal with it. You know what I mean? So if you're forced to look at it often, you will be triggered. So the first thing you're going to want to say is, I don't want to see it. But there are people out there that need to see it. He's forcing real conversations in the community. That's why I'll never stop working with him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So for a person that does the work on themselves the way you do when you got to go on a intense emotional journey for a four day shoot, what is your approach to that? How do you prepare for, like those inevitable triggers?

[Nyla Simone]

I have trained well, I think out of necessity. I've trained my instrument. My body is my instrument. Just like, you know, a musician has a guitar, they know how to hit the notes. I have an on and off switch. And I think that's because I was a mother very young and when I would work and come home, I didn't have time to process and deal with the character that I portrayed because now it's homework. He got to eat. I got a science fair project, you know what I mean? So I had had to turn it off. So I'm just trying. I literally, you ask anybody that I've worked with, I could be in the middle of a scene bawling my eyes out and they'll yell cut. And I'll be like, where the fried chicken? Or I have these games that I play on my iPad to. Because I have to separate myself from the character. I cannot stay again. That is that character's trauma. I can't take that on.

[DJ Envy]

Right?

[Nyla Simone]

I just can't, because I have my own to deal with. So, literally, when they yell cut, I'm back to Taraji just like that.

[Stacy]

We're still kicking it with Taraji. P. Henson. Lola Rosa's here with us as well. Jess.

[Jess]

Somebody in the movie said, it's more expensive to be poor.

[Nyla Simone]

Oh, my God. Okay, so prime example, Tyler said when he was homeless, he called his mother and was like, can you send me $20? She said, you need to bring your black home, because it's gonna cost me 15 dol just to send you $20.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn.

[Nyla Simone]

And I don't think people really understand that.

[Stacy]

I wanted to know, without giving too much away, what's the message? And straw that you hope sticks with people after the credits roll? So there was women unity. There was so much about it. What's that one message that you want people to get?

[Nyla Simone]

And understand that we should move with grace at all times, because you never know what somebody's going through. Never judge a book by its cover, because you never know what battles a person is. Are fighting. You just don't. And really see people really don't just throw, how you doing? And, you know, really wait for a response and really ask the question to want to know, connect with people, say, hi, how are you? And really mean it, because that could save a human's life. Just that human interaction, especially for people who feel unseen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I wonder when Tyler even was casting you for that role, did he even know what you had went through? Because if I write a role about somebody getting to their breaking point, knowing somebody already had got one, it feels kind of.

[Nyla Simone]

Tyler and I are friends of hers, and so we talk all the time about personal things. And so he knows a lot about me. But he said when he started writing, he just had to. He was going through his own thing, and he had to get it out and on the page. And then he said as he was writing, he saw me, and he'll bring me a lot of projects, and I'll be like, you know what, Tyler? I don't think this is for me. I think this is somebody else's blessing, you know? And then he'll just keep writing. And when he got straw, he said, he hit me. He said, I got one for you. And he sent it to me, and I read it. I said, this is it. This is the one. So that's kind of how we operate.

[Stacy]

How do you not fight somebody over Tyler?

[Nyla Simone]

How do I not.

[Stacy]

How do you not fight because they attack. Tyler got security. No, I mean, not like that. Not like that, but because he does so much for people and he's so good to. Especially our community. And I think a lot of times people don't see that. And even people that he doesn't know. He helps so much. He talks to, he guides, he mentors. And you guys are so close. How do you not just say, you know what? Sometimes I gotta black out on?

[Nyla Simone]

Because his action speaks louder than the haters. Because this man owns a studio. What you got? Every raise that I've gotten, and whenever I'm treated the best in this industry, it's always by him. Every raise that I've gotten has come from a black man. Tyler Perry. He doubled my quote in Straw Four.

[DJ Envy]

Days of Work, which is so important for when you go on to that next.

[Nyla Simone]

He understands that that man has helped. He does so much that we don't even know because he's not even talking about it.

[Jess]

Yeah. You filmed two movies at the same time. Fight Night and Strong. Right? Did you find the two characters bleeding into each other?

[Nyla Simone]

Not at all. Totally different. He was the first director to challenge me in that way because I was in the throes of Empire when he called with acrimony. And I was like, tyler, I don't know. I was being a thespian. I don't know if I can get into this character. He was like, girl, with your instrument, you can do it. He was like, you gonna come down here, we gonna shoot it in five. I was like, five days? He said, you can do it. If anybody can do it, Taraji, you can do it. And he. He challenged me. He knows I love a good challenge. That's. I lean into roles that scare the out of me because I have to grow in some way or change or be transcended or something. And that's what I want from my audience. And if I'm not doing it as the artist, then how is the audience going to transform? So I lean into challenges, and he knows that about me because he's a Virgo as well. And so now I'm a pro at it because of Tyler. So when he called this time, I didn't even think about it. I was like, great. Four days in and out. Okay, let's go.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You think the industry is finally catching up to your range? Are you still underestimated in certain rooms, just as an actress?

[Nyla Simone]

No, I think they get it. I think I'm at a really particular point in my. A special place in my career where I've done so much that I can't just do anything anymore. Cause y' all will be like, why she do that? You know what I mean? And so, you know, it's just looking for that right Material, and it doesn't come like that. So that my fans are frustrated because I'll post a pretty picture they like, that's cute. When your next movie coming out. It's like, I have to be very particular about what I'm choosing now. And some of this stuff doesn't exist, and I have to create it. And so that takes a little longer.

[DJ Envy]

What age were you when you did Empire?

[Nyla Simone]

I. That was 10 years. It was, I was 45. It was 2015.

[DJ Envy]

The reason why I asked you that is because I saw your interview where you talked about you were overseas and how people received you overseas. And you, you realized then how big, like, us overseas were, like, that whole thing. And I'm wondering right now, in your career, you just said you can't do anything. And you get into these different levels so early in your career. Even though you've been our Taraji forever, what are new experiences that you're having just in your celebrity life at where you are right now in your career that we might have thought that you've already experienced before?

[Nyla Simone]

I don't know. I guess for me, it's always because I People always go, do you not know who you are? Like, I went to the, I still like to go to the grocery store, buy my own damn produce.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, like, by Empire, you were iconic to us already.

[Nyla Simone]

I, I, okay, thank you. But, you know, after so many years of being told by the industry, oh, no one knows you overseas. And then I get overseas and they're.

[DJ Envy]

Like, please, please, picture, picture.

[Nyla Simone]

That still throws me. Like, I just came back from can. And it's the age range for me. It's like the grandma all the way down sometimes to the great grandchildren. And I'm leaving kind. And I forget, you know, I'm overseas. I'm like, don't nobody know me. All of a sudden, I get crowded by this group of people, and then over in the corner, I see these young boys, and it's like a soccer team or something. And they're standing there with their camera.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I just, hey, Ms. Henson.

[Nyla Simone]

I don't even think they spoke fluent English, but they knew exactly who I was. Cause one of them said, that's tadushi. And I was like, babies, come on. And they all gathered around. I'm telling I'm like, maybe 10. But that always throws me when the babies know who I am, you know, I'm just like, dang, I'm still relevant.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

A round of applause for Taraji. Being 54 years old, why would you ever want a young girl when black women age like this?

[DJ Envy]

I hope you didn't mind me asking you that. The only reason I asked that is because I tell people my age because.

[Nyla Simone]

I hate that women. We feel ashamed of aging when men can have beer bellies. You balding? Sorry.

[DJ Envy]

Put your head down. We can kind of see where the hairline used to say, I got a haircut yesterday, but you understand what I mean?

[Nyla Simone]

And then they can have a young thing on their arm, and we let that pass, and we have to be ashamed of our age. No, I'm not doing it.

[Stacy]

We're still kicking it with Taraji P. Henson. Lola Rose is here with us as well. You feel appreciated more.

[Nyla Simone]

I do. I do. I don't. Look, you know, it's like. It's interesting because you go, I didn't get it nominated for this award. Again, that's. Did you see the powerful talk that Denzel did about how he got bitter? I mean, that was me. That was me. And it particularly happened after Hidden Figures. I was like, what? What do I have to do? Like, you know, y' all didn't see the range there. Yeah, I'm still playing cookie. And then I gave you a rocket scientist. Like, what? And that hurt a little bit. But again, it hurt because of the power I placed in man's hand. But if you step back from that and take that power back, look how many black girls are coding now. Not even black girls. Young kids.

[DJ Envy]

Kids, period.

[Nyla Simone]

Like, so that's what I always wanted. And that's what I asked. God, I said, I want longevity, and I want the work that's going to affect lives in a positive way. I want the work that people are going to study long after I'm gone. Like, I did the greats that came before me, you know? And when you ask that, that's. That's specific. It may not be the awards. You know, I figure if I keep working that it'll come. But what's rewarding to me are when fans come up to me and go, babe, whatever that last, it touched me. It made me change the way I, you know, think about things. Like, that's rewarding to me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, it's funny because we were talking about yesterday. We was on the phone yesterday, and she was just saying how much of a fan of you she is. I mean, just as well, right? But but I'm just like, there's nothing wrong with expressing that. Share that with her because you just existing provides that inspiration. And then she shamed me because I was just like. Like I was like, you damn right. We saw Taraji. I saw Taraji in the theaters for Baby Boy and she was like, you saw Baby Boy in theaters? Balancing work, family and education isn't easy, but American Public University makes it possible with online courses, monthly start dates, and flexible schedules. APU was designed for busy professionals who need education that fits their lives. And Affordability matters too. APU offers the opportunity grant, giving students 10% off undergraduate and master's level tuition, helping you reach your goals without breaking the bank. Plus, they provide career services and 24. 7 mental health support at no extra cost. Visit Apu Apus Edu to learn more. That's Apu Apus Edu if you're not.

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[Nyla Simone]

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[Nyla Simone]

She made you feel old.

[DJ Envy]

I've never thought about baby boy in a movie theater.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Which is crazy.

[Nyla Simone]

How old are you? Are you even lean? 33. 33 years older than my son.

[DJ Envy]

But I don't know just how you feel, but I feel like wanting to be in entertainment, be in television. Like it's you think of you because you're able to be. It always seemed like you've been able to be yourself. So when we, like. I know for myself when I heard you talk about that before that first Bali trip, not feeling like enough. I'm like, wait, what? Like she's been the. This is how you can be the girl from where you. From around the way, whatever you want to call it. But like you're in Hollywood and you're graceful and you're beautiful and your career impacts. So I. I'm glad you're out of that. Because I was like, what? This is the Taraji P. Henson.

[Nyla Simone]

Like, it was actual burnout because of the work. I. You know, people go, you work a lot. I too, because the. The math ain't math and the zeros ain't adding up, you know? And so because you see somebody working a lot, a lot of times when it's us, it's because that one job is not gonna cover you for the year.

[Jess]

Yeah.

[Nyla Simone]

I wish I could just do two films and be like, I mean, I'm kind of to that point now. You know what I mean? But there are actors out there that just one job a year because that's how they get paid. And I don't think people really understand the breakdown of the math. Have, you know, 50 Cent. If somebody get goes. They made $10 million. Right. You got to remember Uncle Sam is coming to take half of that off the top.

[DJ Envy]

Right.

[Nyla Simone]

And then you have to pay your 30 or 40, whatever. You're paying your team off your gross. So you're not taking home $10 million. I know it sounds amazing, but you're not taking it home. Somebody gets paid 1 million for a film, they not seeing that 1 million in their bank account. Do the math, you know? So that's why. So I think a lot of it was burnout and frustration because once I lifted my head and was like, why do I have to work so much? You know, I just got burned out. I became bitter.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, a lot of people thought you were kicking Thailand. Oprah's back in during the Color Purple.

[Nyla Simone]

Oh, my God. Why would they think that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I guess because they were the producers of the film and they thought that when you were complaining about the pay.

[Nyla Simone]

You know, they have bosses. Right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what I was.

[Nyla Simone]

Thank you. And when have you ever seen me drag another woman, particularly a black woman, ever? I'm ten toes down for us, Never. And then the fact that blogs and I think it was just a campaign so that this black movie wouldn't do well. Right. Because to stay. I even saw some bits about it was my fault that the film didn't do well.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, yeah, I saw that as well. What.

[Nyla Simone]

How did. How did.

[DJ Envy]

How say that you. Because of the conversation you raised about the money and things that weren't right. It pivoted the focus to. People aren't going to go see the film they care more about. What is Taraji saying? Is it true or not?

[Nyla Simone]

That's. You know that's total bs, right?

[DJ Envy]

No, I know it is, but I'm just telling you what, the conversation? What you're referring to or telling Jess with the conversation.

[Nyla Simone]

And me and Oprah, I have such a love and a fondness for her. She just texted me the other day, commending me on a job well done in straw. So that was all fiction, like, and to draw a wedge between us. But, see, I'm not gonna let you do that. Cause I went to her defense right away. Y' all not gonna do that to this woman. All of this, what she does. I mean, like, stop it. Stop that. It's so respectful.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Even with Tyler. You know, Tyler's the person that pays you the most.

[Nyla Simone]

What? I'm never gonna not work with Tyler. That just. That's insane to me. I enjoy working with him. I really, really do. We have fun on that set. I love that he challenges me. I understand. I'm never gonna turn my back on us. You know, people that go to the Tyler Perry films is a huge population of us.

[DJ Envy]

Right.

[Nyla Simone]

Like, so for me to say, I'm not gonna do a talk about. That's me turning my back on us. I would never.

[DJ Envy]

Speaking of black women in relationships, your character astrology and I, during her, like, worst moment, Black women in the movie still, like, yeah, get around her and huddle around her, even, almost, like, forcibly, but, like, not really, because they identify with her.

[Nyla Simone]

Absolutely.

[DJ Envy]

What is. You know, not even the importance, but, like, when people watch those moments throughout the movie, what do you want them to take from that?

[Nyla Simone]

That we. We need each other, and we're more powerful when we support each other. I'm a. You know how I am with the sister girls, you know, And I told this to the Spellman lady, graduating class of 2025. The last thing I said to them was, like, ladies, like, we. We are more powerful in numbers. We need to support each other. Do not air your grievances with another sister in public. You got a problem with her, pull it to the side. That's between you and her. To fix that is not for the public to weigh in with their shallow opinions. I said, as black women, we take too many bullets from society.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why.

[Nyla Simone]

Why would I be another obstacle for another sister to get over? I'm just not gonna do it.

[Jess]

My bad.

[DJ Envy]

You know, how bad.

[Jess]

You know.

[DJ Envy]

We had a moment earlier today. I needed to depend on her.

[Nyla Simone]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

How we've had, you know, I'm glad.

[Nyla Simone]

That's beautiful. And that's growth and. And more of that. But it breaks my heart when I see sisters go at it in public. It does something to me because we have Enough to overcome. Why should it be another sister? Like, we got the same struggle.

[Jess]

Yeah. This is my last question. Are you happy?

[Nyla Simone]

I'm so happy. I can't explain. People go, you're glowing. Yes. Because I am not dealing with nobody's unhealed child. I am at peace. The peace that I have been fighting for.

[DJ Envy]

I have it.

[Nyla Simone]

And it has nothing to do with anybody. No other human. It's all in me.

[Jess]

I love you.

[Nyla Simone]

I love you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Do you even tell the unhealed people anything anymore?

[Nyla Simone]

No. No. Because sometimes they ain't ready to hear it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I will say I hope you heal. I do say that.

[Nyla Simone]

You know, I just. Because sometimes they take that. They're offended by what you mean.

[Stacy]

I don't need.

[Nyla Simone]

It's like, all right, baby. She hope I heal right? You know? So this is for you to discover, sweetie.

[DJ Envy]

Well, thank you.

[Stacy]

Thank you so much. Is out this Friday. Netflix, definitely check it out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And wait till you see what we do for you in this building. You'll see.

[Nyla Simone]

Is it a bust?

[DJ Envy]

What does that mean?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, it is a bust.

[Nyla Simone]

Like a sculpture.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, it is.

[Nyla Simone]

Is it?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Nyla Simone]

Don't put no bad wig on it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, oh, my God. Yes, there will be a bus.

[Nyla Simone]

Oh, okay. Where? In the center of this table in the hall.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because people will see it whenever they walk by. So you have to go buy Angie studio and come in, please.

[Nyla Simone]

Can it look like me don't like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, let's go. You'll see.

[Stacy]

Oh, you haven't seen the way Wade's When Dwayne Wade statue.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That. Don't. No, no, no.

[Nyla Simone]

Please don't do that. Yeah. Cause that. Okay, never mind.

[DJ Envy]

And I meant thank you for your career. Not into the interview yet. I thank you for that.

[Nyla Simone]

Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you for you.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not just your career. You the person that you are, because your career has given you the platform to be out here being the mental health advocate that you are. And I think that that work is going out. Outlive probably anything you're doing.

[Nyla Simone]

I hope so.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Nyla Simone]

That to me, feels like probably why God set me up to be a public figure. To get to that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Nyla Simone]

So grateful. Thank you so much, guys. This was beautiful.

[Stacy]

Ladies and gentlemen, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Let's get to the latest with Lauren.

[Jess]

Lauren becoming a straight fan.

[Stacy]

She gets into somebody that knows somebody.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She'd be having the latest on it. The Latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes you have facts. Sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have a little bit of everything. Well, it's the latest on the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Well, y' all, yesterday in court with Diddy, they finished up the testimony from a woman named Brianna Bungalow. I don't know if that's how you say her last name. Probably not, but she's a stylist that was a friend of Cassie's that I told you guys about. She's the woman who alleged that Diddy hung her over a 17 story balcony and threatened her. Right.

[Jess]

Now, we love hanging people. Remember they said it was speculation that he hung wildly over a balcony, too?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yep. Yeah, well, they said that wasn't true. He said that recently.

[Jess]

Actually, I. I don't think he ever told us whether he was dangled or not. He said he was.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, recently. He was on. He was on l' Oreal show.

[Stacy]

He's on l' Oreal Morning Hustle. He said it wasn't true.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yep.

[Jess]

Well, my bad. Lauren, go ahead.

[DJ Envy]

No, well, I mean, because of that testimony and her cross examination on the stand, which is where Diddy's attorneys are asking her questions, Diddy got in trouble yesterday in court. The judge threatened to kick him out of the courtroom for the remainder of the trial because the judge alleges that Diddy was nodding to the jurors and just making motion to the jurors with his head while her cross examination was happening. Now, here's what.

[Jess]

He was nodding vigorously. I don't even know how you do that.

[DJ Envy]

He has this thing that he does. I've seen him do it where he's like. It's kind of like a. Like he's turned around to his family. When I've been in court and did like a.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You can't look at jurors. I didn't know that.

[DJ Envy]

So you can look at jurors, but I'm gonna read the judge's exact words.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Judge, like, I want to make sure you're not flirting. Okay. You're in here making eye contact with people bricked up. Y.

[Stacy]

Somebody must. Somebody must have complained beforehand and said they feel like it was intimidation. I get. I bet you that's what it was.

[DJ Envy]

Well, so here. Here's the transcript. So the judge at the judge put the jurors on the brick so they're not in the courtroom. And then the judge acts for a minute with Diddy's attorney, Mark Agnila.

[Morgan]

Right.

[DJ Envy]

So he says. The judge says, I was very clear this morning that there were were not to be any facial expressions or other attempts to have any interaction with the jury. Whatsoever, any influence on the jury whatsoever. And I could not have been more. More clear in terms of what I said. You heard me, right? And his attorney says, I did. So then the judge says, well, there was a line of questioning where your client was nodding vigorously and looking at the jury. And there was a subsequent moment, we had a sidebar. And I looked and I saw your client looking at the jury and nodding vigorously during that line of questioning. This is absolutely unacceptable. Is it going to happen again, Mr. Agnifilio? And then he says, it's not going to happen again. And then the judge says, if it does happen again, he won't be allowed in this courtroom for the remainder of the trial.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why do they make jurors public? Like, why did they even let anybody see the jury? I feel like jurors should have some type of.

[Nyla Simone]

Places.

[DJ Envy]

I don't know. I will say too, during the jury selection, it was one day, we were all in line getting our cell phones together. And I'm like, if any of these people is picked, I'm just right. Like, we just all. We're media, we're right here with them.

[Stacy]

But not only that, think about this. Some of the actual people that are testifying don't have to put their stuff out there, right? You don't know who they are. They're anonymous. But the jurors. You know who the jurors are through the whole trial. That's crazy.

[DJ Envy]

I mean, we don't know they're like names and like all that stuff, but.

[Stacy]

You see it hard to find.

[DJ Envy]

But if you're a person of the media, there's a. There's a certain trust between the attorneys in the court.

[Stacy]

Anybody in that courtroom.

[Jess]

People, like regular people just be in it.

[DJ Envy]

They do, but the judge doesn't. They. They have these whole things that they go through before they start. Like, here's what we, the court, expect of you while you're here. And this is what we ask you to uphold. They say the same thing to the jury as well. So there's just like a. I ain't gonna go front.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Diddy. Try to do look like a bus station.

[Nyla Simone]

Oh, my God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They do look like the model bus station. Bus station, baby. Anybody can see anybody.

[Stacy]

Somebody got kicked out the other day.

[DJ Envy]

I heard, yes, that's my girl, though I don't know her name. But when they. When old girl tried to run down on me, she. She called me in the elevator after that and was like. Cause I was ready to. She be going off.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She.

[DJ Envy]

She's actually a sweetheart But I don't know what that outburst was about.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Even the Jane Doe thing, right?

[Morgan]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's the point of letting somebody be a Jane Doe if everybody in the courtroom sees who it is online and tells everybody who it is?

[DJ Envy]

I have no idea. Because that happened yesterday with Jane Doe, who testified she was, you know, one of Diddy's most recent ex girlfriends. And she barely even got through a lot of her testimony. But she talked about some things. And by the time she started test going through her testimony, I'm watching live tweets and then I start seeing photos and I'm like, you're not supposed to do that.

[Stacy]

So what did she say? Did she say anything?

[DJ Envy]

She just talked about the fact that they were really in love. She was madly in love with him and with Diddy. And she said that they had nicknames for each other. Bert and Ernie. She was Bert nickname.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why can't take me an Envy nickname?

[DJ Envy]

Y' all got nicknames.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Burton Ernie.

[Nyla Simone]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

Did you know that?

[Jess]

I know that, but. But in the Diddy situation, who was Burton? Who was Ernie?

[DJ Envy]

She was Burton. Diddy was ernie.

[Stacy]

That's why 50 post today, yesterday he posted a picture of Burton Ernie yesterday.

[DJ Envy]

I don't know what you're talking about.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I did. Rubber Ducky with Diddy is nasty. I mean, that is just crazy.

[Stacy]

Rober Ducky baby oil. So much fun. I'm sorry.

[DJ Envy]

Y' all have done this before, huh? Look at you all tickled and pink over there. Charlemagne Envy. Why you just juice out now? You act like you're not.

[Stacy]

Stop. What?

[DJ Envy]

Diddy. Back to Diddy goes too far. All right, so Jane Doe on the stand and her testimony is actually going to speak to, or it's supposed to be speaking to, sex trafficking force, coercion, all those things. But they, you know, they have to prove that all this was done under threat. So far, everything she said is that she was super in love with Diddy at the time. She didn't know anything about freak offs. But one day they were. They were together and he. They were talking about fantasies and he talked about bringing another person in. And she was like, okay, cool, I'll try that. She said she got up, went to the bathroom. She alleged by the time she came out the bathroom, Diddy was on a phone call making it happen. So she's like, okay, well, here we go. It's happening sooner than I thought.

[Jess]

Wait, he already had the people on standby?

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Just Hilarious]

Period.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

And then they, they talked about, you know, like her career and stuff, because at one point she says that she was, you know, thinking about making the only fans, and he encouraged her not to, allegedly. There have been some talk because she's an influencer. Wow, that's funny.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's hilarious. Okay, I want to talk to you about my career. I'm thinking about starting the only fans. Girl, if you don't go get a train, go learn to trade. Goddamn trade.

[DJ Envy]

Well, there was one. There was one point that a lot of people were bringing up of, like, you know, when they first went on, like, their first away trip or whatever. You know how guys be like, well, how much you making at work? Don't go to work for these couple days, whatever. So she alleged that she didn't go on this, didn't go to work, and she. Their first date lasted like, five days, and Diddy allegedly gave her, like, $10,000 to make up for what she had missed at work. People start breaking it down like, yo, that's like seven to 800 a day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, five day date.

[Stacy]

It's 2,000.

[DJ Envy]

That's my. A five day date, okay? Removing Diddy out the situation.

[Jess]

Five days with you for $10,000.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's a Coke binge, by the way, guys. Okay? I know a coke binge when I hear one.

[DJ Envy]

I would. Okay, I wouldn't. I wouldn't do coke, but I would do five days like you just taking me away, and we just having a good time. Yeah, no coke, no Diddy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You the person that's been to these trials every damn day, and you know what comes with that. But you still want to go do it?

[DJ Envy]

It depends on the man that you're going with, I'm. I'm sure. Okay, Jazz, you ain't never met somebody just, like, going with the win.

[Jess]

Oh, yeah, most definitely. Chris, absolutely.

[DJ Envy]

Your husband. Why? Charlemagne, don't look at her.

[Jess]

Back into my day. You talking about my girl? No.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, wait, you said your freak off days.

[Jess]

Yeah. Not these kinds.

[I]

No.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ain't no such thing as. There's no levels to freak off, if you going to use that term.

[Nyla Simone]

No, no, no.

[Jess]

Diddy gave freak off a whole new meaning, yo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I've never heard it.

[Jess]

Tell Diddy.

[Stacy]

No.

[Jess]

I've been here about freak offs. Baltimore freak offs all the time.

[Stacy]

Oh, Baltimore freak offs.

[Jess]

But not like that. See, now, y' all been. So y' all ears are conditioned right now.

[DJ Envy]

They probably got a good seafood menu with those type.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

A lot of fish.

[Stacy]

A lot of fish.

[DJ Envy]

But she also talked about, too, that, you know, being with Diddy, she was happy. She wanted to make him happy. So she did a lot of things. And she alleges a $20,000 a month allowance while she was his girl. So they're going to get that. That was the beginning of her testimony.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She was the Internet. Right. About who that person was yesterday, I.

[DJ Envy]

Cannot confirm nor deny that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I just think it's silly if, you know, you let somebody be a Jane, though, but everybody in the courtroom can see that person. And then they run the social media. Like, I don't. It's just. It's. It's weird to me. What's the point of being Jane, though?

[Stacy]

Yeah. Put them behind a wall or something so nobody can at least see them or something.

[DJ Envy]

But then the jury wants to see. I mean, I guess the jury would be different. They could see it then because you want to see facial. Facial expressions. You want to see body language. You want to know. Attorneys want to see that, too, because, you know the line of questioning and you can tell where people are going or not going and all. There's so much different art to this stuff. But yeah.

[Nyla Simone]

Oh, yeah, wait.

[DJ Envy]

I want to say we're headed to LA for the BET Awards, guys. We'll be bringing you content from la. We're doing the Radio Room Saturday.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

Sunday with the Breakfast Club and the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. And. Yeah. So we're gonna be talking a lot to some people.

[Jess]

Yes. That's what's up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good job.

[Stacy]

Yes, Lauren will be out there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

There.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you. He said, good job. Did you hear that?

[Stacy]

Yeah.

[Jess]

Oh, could you stop?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cut it out, Jess.

[DJ Envy]

What? Jess, you were supposed to be on your way out there with me, but I know your mom's getting married this weekend, right?

[Jess]

I know. Yeah, she's getting married, so.

[Stacy]

Don'T like people like that. Jess was not going out there sitting in nobody's radio room.

[Jess]

I know. No, I hate that. But that is definitely for Lauren. Like Lauren, right up her alley.

[Stacy]

That's right.

[DJ Envy]

The words will be Monday night at 8pm Eastern Standard Time on BET.

[Jess]

Are you styling and profiling? I know you're gonna be out there when you know.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, we got some outfits, so we got some things. I'm excited.

[Jess]

I can't wait. And I told you, you're not ashy, so don't act like you.

[DJ Envy]

I appreciate it's been so much love this week, Jess. I appreciate that. You know, I had a hard day and she texted me, said, you're not ashy. I was like, I know. That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

If somebody gotta text me and tell you that you're not asking that Mean that you are usually. Ashley.

[DJ Envy]

That'S cold language first. Don't let Dark Charlemagne stress you out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Somebody got you not ashy. That mean that usually on the regular, most of the time, no.

[Jess]

You tell her she's ashy every day, and I'm like, I have to remind her that she is not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, man.

[Stacy]

Tough place. All right, well, that is the latest with Lauren. Donkey Today's up next. Charlemagne.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's the people's donkeys. That's right.

[Stacy]

800-585-1051. If you want to give somebody donkey today, call us up right now. We got you. It's the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Morning. You're checking out the Breakfast Club. It's your time to nominate a donkey of your own. Remember now, that is how they choose.

[Stacy]

Call in now, 800-585-1051.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, donkey today for Friday, June 6th is the People's donkey. On Fridays, we like to open up the phone lines and allow you, the listeners, to give people the credit they deserve for being stupid. So. Hello, good morning.

[I]

This is Princess calling from bk. I'm putting Zaquan Barkley as donkey of the century. He's Uncle Tom kissing up to that white racist double Donald Trump by playing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Golf with him and flying on the.

[I]

Air Force One, where the other team members reneged for meeting with that white racist double that's in the office. Jesus.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, okay. That's what donkey of the day is for. But I'm obligated to pass this phone call over to Cash Patel with your name and phone number. Okay?

[Stacy]

Good luck. Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, have a great day.

[I]

You too.

[Stacy]

Wow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning. Who's this?

[I]

Who's the deadbeat?

[Stacy]

I'm back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is who's the deadbeat? It's Rod, man, from Confidence. I was on here last Friday, man. Oh, how are you, sir? Who you want to give. Who you want to give the donkey today to?

[I]

This morning, I wanted to give Donkey of the day since the spot for sweeping parental alienation under the rug.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

For who now? Your phone was breaking up a little bit. Oh, your phone's breaking up. What'd you say?

[I]

Parental alienation.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What is that? That's when one parent uses their kid, the parents, to make them dislike them. Okay, so I'm giving. I'm giving the duck here today to society under the rug. I've never even heard of that. I'm never even. I'm about to look it up right now. Parental alienation. Yes. You need to educate yourself, man. Women target fathers a lot. Not. You know what I'm Saying and keep that because a lot of them make them dislike them. Okay, I'm looking at Psychology Today right now. Parental alienation occurs when a child refuses to have a relationship with a parent due to manipulation, such as the conveying of exaggerated or false information by the other parent. I never heard of that ever. Yes, it's a lot of parents, and.

[I]

That'S out here Stuff in the silence, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So if we can change that. Mostly dead got to be the people that's not affected by it. Got to understand what it is the world. Thank you for calling. I. I got more questions now. I want to do people like. Like, what do you do? Like, do you go to therapy for that? Because it's on Psychology Today. Like, you know, I mean, that can be a. A tough thing when you want to see your child, but your. The other parent isn't letting you. Isn't letting your child see you because of, you know, lies. Good morning. Who's this?

[I]

William Clay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hi, William Clay. Who do you want to give donkey today to this morning, sir?

[I]

To my wife.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jesus. You gotta say her name. Don't be a sucker. Say her name.

[I]

I'm gonna say yes. Yodi.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yodi.

[I]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay. Why are you giving it to her?

[I]

For being such a narcissist and leaving me and my kids to be homeless.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jesus Christ. I didn't expect that. You still calling a woman? You still calling a woman your wife when she left you and your kids to be homeless?

[I]

I'm still married to her legally, so.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let me ask you a question.

[I]

I love that woman.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're the man. The man is supposed to protect and provide. How does the woman leave you and the kids homeless?

[I]

I don't know, man. I've been trying my whole Miami. Haven't heard for 13 years, I've been busting myself trying to take care of her and my five kids. And it's just. I don't have no help. I mean, I'm just lost in his own. And I caught a cheating and took her back and just trying to do the best for my family, and it's just not working.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And she left the kids too.

[I]

Left the kids, too, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm sorry to hear that, my brother. I can't even sit here and act like I even know what to tell you right now, man. I understand that. All right, so we going to give Yodi the biggest he haw. I do want to hear the other side of the story. So if Yodi calls up here to give her side, you got to let her talk.

[I]

Yes, sir.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right. My brother.

[Stacy]

All right, now.

[I]

All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, people be going through it. Good morning. Who's this? Hello. Good morning.

[I]

Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How are you? Peace, beloved. Who this?

[I]

How are you?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm blessed black and highly favorite Nikki from Neptune. What's up, Nikki? Who you want to get the biggest? He haw to that government. What government?

[Nyla Simone]

And then whoever our government.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The American government, the federal government, or the. The state government that you live in.

[I]

All of them.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[I]

They. They don't come out and see you, but they want you to vote for them. This orange man, he running monks around people. He want to cut the PBA money. But how about whoever is coloring him his hair fake? They need to cut their money.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That is interesting. So you think that the person who colors Donald Trump's hair, that's wasteful spending. You think government tax. You think taxpayer dollars are paying for that?

[I]

Could be. He's doing everything else. And they. They talking about all the cut and how come they not cutting that parade?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cutting that what?

[I]

The parade. His birthday parade.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, I thought they were cut. I thought they were cutting that. They're doing that. I didn't. I didn't hear them that they were doing that. I heard no confirmation they were doing that. That.

[I]

I ain't hear no confirmation that they wanted.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, they are. Oh, no. They are doing the army's birthday bash. You're right. What's for the army? I don't freaking know what's going on. Thank you for calling. It's so much going on that I didn't even know that they were actually doing the military parade. Good morning. Who's this?

[I]

It's Dominique, man. What's up with y' all?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Dominique, what's happening? Where you calling from?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm calling from Columbus, Ohio.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, man. Who you want to get a bigger sea haw to, man?

[I]

I want to get a donkey of the day to this dude.

[DJ Envy]

I'm.

[I]

I'm just calling Aw one of my managers. I'm looking right at him right now, matter of fact, sitting up there hating on me, man, messing up my money and whatnot. So I asked him when I messed up. He couldn't even show me. They just try to brush everything under the rug and everything, so.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Aw, you are the dunk here today, bro. What are you hating on you for? Let me talk to Aw, man. Give him the phone.

[I]

That man in management mode right now. I ain't gonna bother.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nah, you're scared. Cause you know you're gonna lose your job, but go file a formal complaint. Sir, don't call donkey Today day.

[I]

No, we gonna do both.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, okay, okay. Thank you for calling, sir. All right, listen. We do that every Friday, man. It's the people's donkey. You can just call up, give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid. Every Friday, we do that here on the Breakfast Club.

[Stacy]

All right, thank you for that donkey today for everybody that called.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. This is what we going to do, okay? We have to take Envy to Breakfast Club Court. Switch the music grade. We gotta take Envy to breakfast.

[Stacy]

I don't know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Envy did something so out of pocket, Jess. Now, I've heard people say congratulations to folks when they aren't even pregnant. They just fat are bloated because it's their period or something.

[Stacy]

I don't do that no more.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You've done it. I've heard people, you know, do your mama jokes. The people whose mamas are dead. We didn't know. You know what I'm saying? You just let one fly, and they let my mama dead. My bad.

[Stacy]

Elementary.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, Those are all want to get away moments. Moments. But I heard a new one this week. When Envy said Happy Pride to someone who's not gay when he just assumed they were because they might have a little zest to him. To him, they might have a little zest. Listen to. Listen, listen, listen. Hello?

[Stacy]

Who's this?

[I]

I'm DJ Envy. This is Stacy, the one who brought up the cupcakes for y' all.

[Stacy]

Hey, Happy Pride. What?

[I]

Wait, why you said that to me?

[Stacy]

I'm just saying. Just say the Happy Pride. The craziest sayings, like swallow right now, cupcake. And.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, got it.

[Stacy]

And eat it from the back right now cupcake.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right.

[I]

So, wait, DJ Envy, I have one question.

[Stacy]

Yes?

[I]

How did y' all like it? I didn't get any feedback from y' all.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, that's enough. Salute to my guy, Stacy.

[Stacy]

What's up, Stacey?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Dropping the clues bombs with Stacey. You remember Stacy, right? Jess, he came up here, he baked.

[Jess]

This cupcake because y' all ate my cupcakes. Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Stacy's just a cool dude. Regular dude. Never even thought about what he was into. And here go Envy, talking about Happy Pride. American Public University. With service members like you can access high quality, affordable education built for your lifestyle. With online programs that fit around deployments, training and unpredictable schedules, APU makes it possible to earn your degree no matter where duty takes you. Their preferred military rate keeps tuition at just $250 per credit hour for undergraduate and master's tuition. And with 247 mental health support, plus career coaching and other services. APU is committed to your success during and after your service. Learn more at Apu Apus eDumilitary. That's Apu Apus eDUmilitary.

[Just Hilarious]

If you're not watching BMF on Stars, you're seriously missing out from executive producer Curtis 50 Cent Jackson. The highly anticipated new season is here and Meech and Terry are leveling up. They're expanding their empire, launching a music label and making major moves in hip hop culture, even hitting the 1995 Source Awards. Oh, and did I mention Lamar is back. You already know that means trouble. The rest of the Flannery family is also feeling the pressure. Charles and Lucille are facing the consequences of Meech and Terry's actions, and Nicole is caught in the middle, dealing with her own growing pains. This season brings more drama, more heat and more star power. Get ready for guest stars like Kofi Cerebo, Skai Jackson, Tyler Lepley, Clifton Powell, Rockman Dunbar, Saweetie Miles Truett and more. The cast is stacked and the storylines next level. BMF is where drama, hustle and hip hop collide and this season the stakes are higher than ever. Believe me, this is the season everyone's going to be talking about. Watch the season premiere of BMF now only on Starz and the Starz app.

[Stacy]

Hey, what up y' all?

[Nyla Simone]

It's DJ Envy.

[Stacy]

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[Morgan]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

So my question is, has this ever happened to you? Has this ever happened to you, Jeff? Have you ever mistaken someone for being gay?

[I]

Gay?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because in your eyes, they had a little zest to them.

[Jess]

Yeah. Yeah. And. And I get mistaken for gay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But you were at one point, though. That's different.

[Jess]

Yeah, but. But I get mistaken more now than ever.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. All right, well, maybe I'm not talking to you, but for everybody else. For everybody else, because y' all. I see y' all doing this with Carl Anthony Towns. Now, how you just gonna tell a man? Happy pride for no reason. And he and Stacy had the right answer. What you telling me that for? My bad.

[Jess]

Stacy, why did you eat the names of the cupcake show? Like he said, SW. He really do got cupcakes. Swallow it up and eat it from the back.

[Stacy]

But you're right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're right.

[Stacy]

And his voice was just mad. Listen to his voice.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just listen to the first part of his voice.

[Jess]

Okay, okay. So the voice.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The voice didn't have no Stacy. You met Stacy, bro. My bad.

[Stacy]

Stacy. But can you at least shout out his cupcakes so people can order some cupcakes? Or the cupcakes are good. Pause.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know the name of the cupcake.

[Jess]

Now you in court, bro.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Don't worry about you. Call us right now. 1-800-585-1051. Have you ever done what envy did? Have you ever mistook somebody for being gay just because they. Because in your eyes, they had a little Zesty, because you got a queer eye. You looking at everybody else, huh? Call us right now. It's the Breakfast Club.

[Stacy]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The Breakfast Club.

[Nyla Simone]

Morning, everybody.

[Stacy]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, indeed. And we got Envy and Breakfast Club court this morning, because he just did something out of pocket. Now, we've all had our want to get away moments, you know what I'm saying, where you. A woman might be a little bloated on her period, and you say congratulations to her as if she's pregnant. You know, I did that one time. It's happened. You know what I mean? We've all had that moment in school where you let your mama joke fly. And that person be like, man, my mama dead. And you be like, damn, I happened.

[Stacy]

To be one time, too.

[Jess]

You ain't know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You didn't know. But this one, I ain't never heard. This one Envy told a man Happy Pride. Damn. And the man wasn't even gay. Let's play the call. Hello?

[Stacy]

Who's this?

[I]

I'm DJ Envy. This is Stacy, the one who brung up the cupcakes for y' all.

[Stacy]

Hey, Happy Pride.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What?

[I]

Wait, why you said that to me?

[Stacy]

I'm just saying. Just a Happy Pride. And your cupcakes are the craziest. The craziest things, like, first of all.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Stacy came up here a few weeks ago. Stacy, you know they bake cupcakes for us. Somebody find me the name of Stacy's cupcake company. Oh, you texted to me? Yeah, Stacy came up here, man. Oh, what's the name of Stacy Cupcake Company? Eddie sent it to me just now. It's called.

[Jess]

That's crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, what's the name of this cupcake company? Company? He came up here, all he did was bring us cupcakes. And the cupcakes got, like, sexual names to them, right? Y. Stacy's Famous Cupcakes. There is nothing. First of all, I don't even know what gay looks like. I guess I do sometimes, but. Shut up. But there is nothing about Stacy that gives off zesty. Why would you tell this man Happy Pride?

[Stacy]

His voice was just mad light, and then he had the weird names. I was wrong. I could be wrong people.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because of the name of his company.

[Morgan]

He was.

[Stacy]

Say you gay all the time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't care.

[Stacy]

Me neither.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But that don't have nothing to do with you saying Happy Pride to this man that you barely even know. I think that's disrespectful. I've been seeing Them do that to Cat. Call Anthony Towns, too. What'd you say, Jeff?

[Jess]

And then he tried to play it off like. I'm just saying, Happy pride.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, you know good and damn well you don't say happy pride to nobody. That's not celebrating Pride Month.

[Jess]

Oh, my.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why, y' all?

[Jess]

Why that man got a wife, kids, sons. Who gonna hear this?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I'm saying, man?

[Stacy]

Let's. Let's go to the phone lines. Hello? Who's this?

[I]

This is Na.

[Stacy]

Hey, what's up, Na? Help me out.

[I]

All right? I was confused a little a couple days ago when you had Ricky Smiley up there and he brought his son, because I always thought he was gay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

First of all, Ricky Smiley is not Ricky Smiley's son, and that's not his son. So you just wrong all across the board. Chris is not his son. Oh, why would you think that?

[I]

Cause he was talking about his kids, wasn't he?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, I'm saying, why would you think Ricky was gay?

[I]

She seemed like one of the old school gays when you, like, you was raised in religious homes, so you're not.

[Stacy]

Ever gonna come out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But everybody know I hate people, man. Salute to Ricky Smiley, man. Y' all. You know, y' all. Y' all just being ridiculous. Good morning. Who's this?

[I]

Hi, my name is Ashley.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, Ashley, have you ever mistaken somebody for being gay because they had a little zest to them?

[I]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[I]

Yeah. So there was this guy when I was in high school for freshman year. He used to hang out with all the girls, and he never hung up with none of the boys, and he always was putting on lip gloss. So I went up to him and was like, hey, how come you don't say that you gay? And stuff? Like, I never seen you talk to any boys. And he was like, I'm not gay. But when we graduated high school, he ended up transitioning. So I wasn't wrong. I just shouted him out too early.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, no, he transitioned. To what? A girl.

[I]

So female.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So he was transgender. He wasn't.

[Jess]

Yeah, he wasn't gay.

[I]

So in high school, he was a boy going by his boy name.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[I]

Putting on lip glosses, saying that he was not gay. And I saw that he was out and open.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But you can transition and still like women.

[Jess]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[I]

No, he transitioned in like men and changed his government name.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, got you different names.

[I]

He's like, he peaches. You know, he's not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So maybe he wasn't gay in high school. Maybe he, you know, he figured out what he liked later in life.

[Stacy]

I'm not doing this with y' all.

[I]

His lip gloss. You would have known he was in.

[Jess]

The closet with anything.

[I]

But.

[DJ Envy]

All right, so.

[Jess]

So look, you saying he with a man now, right? Like, he with a man, right?

[I]

No, no, no, no. He. He's a. He's a female.

[Stacy]

Like, nobody.

[Jess]

He is a female, but he's with a man. Man, though.

[I]

Yes.

[Jess]

Right. Yeah. So he wasn't gay because he. He just wanted to be a woman. Like, he wasn't attracted to men as a.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let's go to. Let's go to the next call. That math problem just messed me up. That felt like that new math my kids be bringing home. I don't know what the hell. Go ask your mama. Good morning. Good morning.

[I]

DJ Envy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good.

[I]

Flair, Charlemagne. How y' all doing?

[Stacy]

How are you, sir?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Have you ever mistaken somebody for being gay just because they was a little zesty?

[I]

Yeah, I kind of knew that all the time, especially with my guy friends. Like, you know, sometimes some guys may talk flamboyant, but they're not really gay. They just talk that way, and then it's like, you can't really ask because it's offensive. So it's kind of, like, busy. Or is he not? And if you ask, it can go either way. So I usually just keep it in my mind and try to find out another way. But it happens often based on how you carry your tight talk, how you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Take care of yourself, I actually don't mind you keeping it to yourself. The problem I have is when people like Envy be like Happy Pride, the people. You don't know what these people's sexuality are. Leave people alone.

[Jess]

And a man. A man is not about to be flamboyant if you're not gay.

[Stacy]

Well, 800-585-1051, if you're just joining us.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Have you ever mistaken somebody for being gay because they're a little zesty? And we come back, we're gonna play some calls. We'll play some Moments from Carl Anthony Town. Because I'm tired of y' all wishing him Happy Pride for no damn reason, too.

[Jess]

Now, see, it's a little. I need to see who this person is. It's the. Now, a little zesty is different from flamboyant. He just said some of his friends talk flamboyantly, but they're not gay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I gotta hear. Yeah, I gotta hear. I gotta hear it. I gotta hear what he mean.

[Stacy]

Now, if you're just joining us, Charlamagne is giving me hell this morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, I'm not. I got you in Breakfast Club court. Because, you know, you called. You. You had the nerve, our guy. Stacy. Stacy from Stacy's Famous Cupcake. All Stacy did was bring us some dope cupcakes up here. Tasty cupcakes that had, like, sexual names to them, like, swallow it up. Yeah.

[Jess]

From the back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Which is fine. But for whatever reason you decided to tell this man Happy Pride.

[Stacy]

I'm sorry, Stacy, I. My bad.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Play the call real quick, Red. For those who just joining us, just.

[Stacy]

Hello? Who's this?

[I]

I'm DJ Envy. This is Stacy, the one who brung up the cupcakes for y' all.

[Stacy]

Hey, Happy Pride. What?

[I]

Wait. Why you said that to me?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why you said that to me? Exactly why you said that to me. And I'm going tell you why El staff has messed up. Because a lot of these people, and I'm not saying this about Stacy, some people may just not want anybody to know because it's nobody's business. And here you go outing them for no damn reason.

[Jess]

Happy Pride.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I'm saying? Now let's play some of Call Anthony Tom Town's moments, because for some reason, y' all want to wish him Happy Pride all the damn time. Damn time, too now, cuz.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Outside looking in like, we was like, damn. It's total chaos in episode right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, oh, for sure. You ever seen that? Just like a train ran over.

[I]

No, Grace.

[Stacy]

I was like, oh, my God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I was like, why did I do that, bro? They asked me in media about you.

[Stacy]

What?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What they really did. Better basketball conference than SEC or the biggies. SEC football. It's crazy, cuz after all that, they took him off the court to put him even closer to the line locker. First of all, salute to Cat.

[Stacy]

I spoke to Cat.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That man's name is Cat.

[Stacy]

I suppose the Cat a couple times. And you could say he has light voice. He has a light voice, but he's not gay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

His nickname is Cat. That man's engaged to Jordan Woods. Cat out here living his best life. Okay? And y' all probably walking up to him wishing him Happy Pride just because of the damn Internet.

[Stacy]

Don't do that to Cat.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Go to the phones, man.

[Stacy]

Yo. Hello.

[Nyla Simone]

Who's this?

[I]

This is Aaron.

[Stacy]

Hey, Erin, come on and talk to us.

[I]

So I work in a barbershop in Birmingham, Michigan. This guy kept saying, my partner, my partner, my partner. And I was like, I'm accidentally saying, oh, so your husband? And he was like, no, my wife and I never Been so embarrassed. But why would you just not say my wife? And I just called him.

[Nyla Simone]

I'm like.

[I]

And he was. It was just a stale appointment after that. I was like, I'm so embarrassed.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, you can. You don't have to be. First of all, a partner don't mean just a wife.

[Jess]

Yo, but I get what she said.

[I]

But mentally, I'm in the areas, too, where it's like, very, you know. I don't know if you know, Michigan, but, like, we're very, like, you know, Ferndale, all that. We're very open, and we have a bunch of flags around our shop.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He can't use that word on the radio.

[Stacy]

He said flags.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, oh, oh.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I was like, okay, my bad. Damn.

[Nyla Simone]

I would never.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, Just making sure. God damn. I'm like, see, y' all just going crazy for Trump back in office.

[Jess]

Hey, yo, no, I would never discuss.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, yes, I understand, but partner is a gender neutral term.

[Stacy]

Not really. When you say partner, you automatically assume same sex.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, I don't automatic. See, that's your problem. You keep automatically assuming you. You keep making an ass out of yourself because you want somebody in yours.

[Stacy]

Nobody, yo, whoever watching them. But nobody ever says, my partner. You say my wife. Like, do you say your partner, Jess? Or you say your husband?

[Jess]

I say my husband. But, look, usually gay guys do say my partner. They don't say husband. They don't say. They usually say that when I was at the hospital, I had a nurse and whatever, he kept saying his partner, his partner. And that's how I knew he was gay. Other than that, I wouldn't have known he was gay. He was like, yeah. And then he was like, I'm very spoiled by my partner. And I was like, oh, yeah, he gay. But before that, I couldn't detect the zone possess.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But what about, you know, if you're in Atlanta and somebody like, that's my partner, you know what I'm saying? My partner, you know?

[Jess]

Oh, yeah, I've heard.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, they do. They say that in the street. That's my partner, then. Listen, man, the moral of the story is stop doing that to people. Don't be assuming that people are anything. Okay? Mind your damn business. All right? If you don't got to say Happy pride just because you feel that way, because you might be outing somebody that don't want to be outed, or you just might be offending somebody because they not gay. Like, why are you calling me? Watching me Happy Pride.

[Stacy]

Sorry, Stacy. What's the go, go support Stacy? He makes cupcakes Dope Cupcakes. What's it. What's his cupcake line and everything?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Stacy's.

[Jess]

Stacy's famous cupcake.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Stacy's famous cupcake.

[Stacy]

Stacy's famous cupcake. Salute to you, Stacy. All right, when we come back, we got past the orcs. Nyla will be joining us, so don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Completely morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The Breakfast Club.

[Stacy]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. It's time for Pastor Oaks. What's up, Nyla?

[J]

What's up, guys?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nyla Simone, Big Nyla. What's happening?

[J]

Yeah, yeah.

[DJ Envy]

All that.

[J]

All that good stuff. What's up, guys? I want to start with honorable mentions of songs we're not going to get into, but dropped today. Glorilla Drive. Typa, which samples Keyshia Cole.

[Nyla Simone]

Love Gorilla Type is hard.

[J]

Yes. Lil Sims dropped the album. One of my favorite spitters from the UK is called Lotus. Sexyy Red dropped the track. And Ty Dolla Sign also dropped the song called all in that samples a few different rhythms.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why you ain't play Lil Sims? I want to get into Lil Sims. Cause I saw somebody I know don't know. It's funny you've said that, because randomly I saw a video yesterday of a bunch of people bigging up Lil Sims. Like Lil Kim. I mean, Lil Kendrick Lamar, Busta R. Oh, really? Doi. It was just a bunch of artists bigging her up, saying how that's like their new favorite rapper.

[J]

Now just now, I'm finally glad everybody.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, the videos were old, though, because Kendrick hair was even short.

[J]

Okay, okay. Nah. Sim's really been that girl over there, she spits crazy. But the album just came out today, so I got to listen to it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But.

[J]

But honorable mention, it dropped today. Make sure you guys check that out. I'm gonna start in Atlanta with some R B. It's a new artist named Destiny Brianna. And the song is called Special.

[Jess]

I like that. That's real Vibby. It's cool. I like it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's cool. I feel like I've heard it before.

[J]

Okay. Okay. Keeping it in Atlanta. Suave dropped a new tape called Billy 2 on May 9, and Billy 1 was an R&B tape. Billy 2 is a rap tape for all of the fellas. Personally, I love Billy 1, but Billy 2 has been actually going up in Atlanta. The song Bishop is doing really well, followed by the song Destiny that samples Destiny Childs. But the one that Jermaine Dupree reposted is called off the Leash. Which is a play off of Gucci Mane, off the Leash, and is doing really well.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He's snapping. He's snapping.

[Jess]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Snapping.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's cool, though. You know what I'm saying? Off the Leash is such a classic record.

[J]

It is a classic.

[DJ Envy]

That's a classic record.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So it's like, you know, when you said it, I'm listening, so I'm waiting for that energy. I. I get what he was doing as an interpretation. Interpret. What do you call it? An interpolation. You know what I mean? But it was cool. It's cool.

[J]

Yes. Okay. But the whole tape is fire, so definitely check it out. And Jermaine Dupree liked it so much that he invited him to the studio. So I'm looking forward to see what they cook up because I've really been enjoying these producer tapes that's been going.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

On, especially when it's the OGs and the young Odds. I like that.

[J]

Yeah. Yeah. It's a good way to bridge, because.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The OGs know how to make records. A lot of times the younger artists don't necessarily know how to make records.

[J]

Yeah. Well, if the OGs want to train some of the younger producers, we were more than willing to leave.

[Stacy]

It's totally different now, though. Before it was, you know, 16 hook. 16 hook. 16 hook. Now it's a lot less than that. Now. Some of these songs only be two minutes long. A minute and 40 long. So it's totally different.

[J]

This is true. Well, another producer artist tape that's gonna be dropping on the 20th is Kenyon Dixon and Terrace Martin. It's called See youe Later, and it features Rhapsody and one of my favorite upcoming singers, OG the song that I'm gonna say today is called See youe Later.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ooh. So you saved the best for last, huh?

[I]

Huh?

[J]

That ain't even last. Yeah, I did, though.

[Jess]

Hit us up for that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now I gotta look that up. That's.

[Jess]

Who is that you said?

[J]

That's Kenyon Dixon and Terrace Martin. So. But that's just the singles. They got a tape that's coming. They have a crazy record on there called not like that and another one called Only Real Ones Survive. They sent me the tape.

[Jess]

I'll see you later, you said yes, girl. Downloading now.

[Nyla Simone]

Period.

[J]

Okay, good.

[DJ Envy]

All right.

[J]

We're gonna keep it R B, since you guys are feeling that. I was gonna hit this Little Wayne drop joint because, you know, he dropped Carter six. But let's keep it R B. This last one is a R B artist named Akia. She signed to since the 80s with Zeke and Barry. And I'm actually going to be DJing their showcase this weekend, BET Weekend in LA. But this song is called Pajamas. I love this song.

[Jess]

She giving Normani.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I've heard that one too. I feel like that same formula that they do with a lot of the girls. Fine. She ended with the Terrence Martin.

[J]

Okay, okay. I ended it with that one because of the segues. It goes based on what y' all said. Y' all like joint tapes.

[DJ Envy]

All right, cool.

[J]

I got one for joint tapes. Anyway, if you guys like what y' all hear, and if you guys want to actually tap into some of those other records I mentioned, Glorilla, Sexy Red. Make sure you guys follow me on the Gram at Nylasimone. That's N Y L A S Y M O N E eee. Click the link in bio. I have all the songs in there on the certified playlist. Certified Vibe is also having a battle of the Beats next week in partnership with 24Seven Artists and Timberlands Beat Club. So tap in producer community. We had so many submissions, but we narrowed it down to a good bunch, so I'm excited for that. And yeah, if you guys are in LA for BET weekend, I'll be out there doing the since the 80s showcase. So pull up on me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Where is that at?

[J]

I don't. I don't remember the venue in la, but. Okay, yeah, it's somewhere out there.

[Stacy]

All right, we'll be safe out in la.

[J]

Thank you.

[Stacy]

All right, when we come back, we got the People's Choice mix. You know, we throw it back on a Friday, so let me know what you want to hear. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wake up. Wake up. You're like to enter the Breakfast Club.

[Stacy]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, indeed. Man salute to everybody that's headed out out to BET awards weekend in LA.

[Stacy]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Lauren, LaRosa, Nyla, Simone. I look at y' all and I say to myselves, go, young people. Go. Okay. I didn't live that life. I don't. I'm so happy that I don't want to do it, but it's gonna be fun, though. You're gonna love it.

[DJ Envy]

I've done BET awards a couple years, but I was talking about on the podcast. This year is different because I'm doing it with the show with you guys.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So you're in the radio room. You never done a radio room.

[DJ Envy]

I've. I'VE been in a ready room with talent, but not actually doing it. And they got, you know, we got our whole Breakfast Club set up in the radio room, and I'm doing something on the pre show carpet. So it's just a different level of doing it this year.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Dope.

[DJ Envy]

I won't be tired, but I'm definitely gonna have a good time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, the beauty of it is all the artists that you've spoken about may or may not be there. You know what I'm saying? So just, you know, be ready. Just stand 10 toes down, because all you're doing is your job and reporting the news.

[Stacy]

And it's the first time we ever been in the radio room. We've never been in the radio room before.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, that's not true, is it?

[DJ Envy]

That's what I was told.

[Stacy]

We've never been there. You've ever been in the radio room?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No.

[Stacy]

Me. Me neither.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay. All right.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Jess]

Yeah.

[Stacy]

It's the first time the Breakfast Club will be in the radio room. So you'll be representing us?

[DJ Envy]

Yes. I'm excited. I feel like everybody's gonna be really excited to see the Breakfast Club set up, because, you know, they walk through, like a cafeteria. They gonna be so excited.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Got your natural hair?

[DJ Envy]

No, I actually have my hairstylist. She lands in about a couple hours. We have a couple things we're doing. Okay, I will do. I will do this for a day, but it's gonna. The Bob's gonna look a little different.

[Stacy]

Okay. We'll rep us.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right. Okay. When we come back, rep us.

[Nyla Simone]

Depending on what you wear, I feel.

[DJ Envy]

Like your rep us was a little shady. And here you come.

[Nyla Simone]

What's up?

[Jess]

Nah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You repping us? Nah. Lauren gonna do a good job. Just be prepared. That's all true, truth be told. Forget the outfits, forget the hair, because they're gonna look terrible anyway. Focus on what you do best, which is your craft. That's the number one thing to think about in that radio room, because everybody in that radio room is really going to be focused on their craft, and they really going to be in their button. I remember being in the radio room one time. Time. This is way, way, way back in the day. Actually, I was working with Wendy Williams at the time. And you know, of course, Wendy. Wendy been. Had done her radio room days, right. But she sent me to do the radio room. And you got to think about this. This is like 07. So I remember Janet Jackson came and they made every other artist get out and they cleared everything just for Janet Jackson. Like, that's what. That's what type of error. That was the type of era with Kim Kardashian could just walk around by herself because people.

[DJ Envy]

Nobody didn't really know her at all.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I remember I had a. I had Ray J. It was some. Some Ray J single that was sitting. You know, he had the CDs. It was some CD single sitting on the booth that I was in, and Kim grabbed it and threw it. Those were good times, man. Oh, different era. Different era.

[DJ Envy]

Well, I don't know who I'll be talking to, but I'm excited to be in conversation. We get a pre list, but, you know, Radio Rome get crazy. Anybody.

[Stacy]

Anybody can walk through it anytime.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Get a lot of content. Content. Get a lot of content for your podcast, the latest with Lauren. Get a lot of content for Breakfast Club.

[Stacy]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's gonna be a good time. You're gonna enjoy it.

[Stacy]

Like we tell our kids, though, don't be embarrassing us out there now.

[DJ Envy]

I don't ever embarrass y' all outside.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She already is. She said she bringing her wig. Ladies, you already know where that's going.

[DJ Envy]

My hairstylist does natural hair as well.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, okay. Well, that's what she needs to do. Damn it.

[Stacy]

It's time to get up out of here. But before we do, make sure you check out Straw. Tyler Perry, Straw. It's out today starring Taraji P. Henson, who was here earlier. Earlier today.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, it is, man. Make sure you go support Scrawl. My guy Tyler Perry. And it's another movie I want y' all to support, man. Ballerina, okay? From the world of John Wick is in theaters today. It's that it stars Anna de Armas and Lance Reddick, and Keanu Reeves is in it as well. Salute to my guy, Basil. Basil. I wantic. Okay. Uh, that's my production partner, but, uh, his movie Ballerina is coming out out today. It's a spin off of the John Wick films, man. So, you know, if you. If you're in theaters, you can go see Straw, you can go see Ballerina, one of the two. No, it's crawling. Theaters cross. Not in theater. Scrolls on Netflix. So you can watch something on Netflix, then go to the theater. If you feel like a movie going experience, you can go check out Ballerina in theaters today. From the world of John Wick.

[Stacy]

All right, you got a positive note?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, man, I do have a positive note, and it comes from Albert Einstein. And this is something that I think everybody needs to remember. People try not to become a person of success. Listen to what I said. Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value. If you become a person of value, then the success will come. Have a great day. Breakfast Club.

[Just Hilarious]

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[Stacy]

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[Morgan]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Morgan]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

You get your podcasts.

[DJ Envy]

This is an iHeart podcast.