FULL SHOW: Jay-Z Opens Up About Dismissed Lawsuit, Drake vs Kendrick + More + Claressa Shields Interview

Summary

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The Breakfast Club – Episode Summary

Podcast: The Breakfast Club
Hosts: DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne tha God
Date: March 25, 2026
Episode: Jay-Z Opens Up About Dismissed Lawsuit, Drake vs Kendrick + More + Claressa Shields Interview

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Episode Overview

This lively, wide-ranging episode explores current events, music news, and cultural debates, featuring special segments on Jay-Z’s first in-depth interview since his dismissed 2025 lawsuit, commentary on the ongoing Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar beef, landmark social media lawsuits, and an in-studio interview with champion boxer Claressa Shields. The hosts—DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, and Charlamagne tha God—blend playful banter with serious discussions, providing a nuanced look at headlines and personal stories.

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Key Segments and Discussion Points

1. Front Page News: Shutdowns, Voting Laws, and Airport Chaos

• [06:21 – 11:49]
• Government Shutdown in Washington: Progress is reported, but the President is not yet committed to a deal. Senate Republicans aim to fund most DHS agencies, excluding ICE, while Democrats demand ICE reforms.
• The SAVE Act and Voting Rights: Senator Jeff Merkley strongly opposes the bill, arguing it would disenfranchise voters by requiring burdensome ID checks. He calls it “the best strategy to rig the November election.”
  • Quote: "You can't register to vote under this law with just a birth certificate... getting a passport takes six months." – Sen. Merkley [07:48]
• ICE at Airports: ICE agents are “just standing around” in airports, not helping TSA as long lines persist. Delta suspends special services for Congress members due to the TSA staffing crisis.
• TSA Worker Support: Listeners learn how to donate gift cards for TSA staff, but only for food or gas—not regular Visa cards.
• Airport Humor: The crew laughs about the Oregon Trail video game, with Charlemagne reminiscing:
  • "Growing up, playing it in school, y'all never did that? Killing buffaloes and stuff like that?" – Charlamagne [09:01]

2. Jay-Z’s GQ Interview: Lawsuit, Super Bowl, and Hip Hop Beef

• [21:00 – 35:42; 102:34 – 109:13]
• Jay-Z’s lawsuit & dismissals: Jay opens up about the toll of recent allegations, expressing anger and heartbreak.
  • "I was really heartbroken by, like, everything that occurred... That took a lot out of me. I was angry. I haven't been that angry in a long time." – Jay-Z [23:04]
• Defending His Integrity: On why he refused to settle the lawsuit:
  • "I can't take a settlement. It ain't in my DNA. First, I had to tell my wife... it would have been cheaper, quicker. But I would die." – Jay-Z [24:27]
• Super Bowl Controversy: Jay picked Kendrick Lamar for the Super Bowl purely for his “monster year,” not to shade Drake.
  • "People made it a personal thing that you chose Kendrick for the Super Bowl... I chose the guy that was having a monster year." – Jay-Z [26:06]
• Hip Hop Beef: Jay-Z questions if battling still needs to be part of the culture, noting that social media fuels negativity.
  • "It's so much negative stuff that comes with it that you almost wish it didn't happen... I don't know if it's helpful to our growth." – Jay-Z [27:04]
  • Reflection: Hosts debate the value of competition and beef in hip hop, referencing the Jay-Nas feud.
  • "Battling is part of hip hop. I enjoy that part. As long as nobody gets hurt." – DJ Envy [33:02]

3. Social Media Lawsuits & Youth Protection

• [36:17 – 42:17, 52:59, 89:40, throughout]
• Landmark Case: A New Mexico jury orders Meta to pay $375 million for misleading families about kids’ safety on Instagram and Facebook.
• Testimony Highlights: One juror, a former Meta engineer, revealed his own young daughter was approached for sex on Instagram.
  • "These platforms need to respond to survivors... it's facilitated by platforms ... they choose profits." – Caitlyn (survivor) [40:57]
• LA Case: Focuses on platforms intentionally designing for addictiveness. This is called a “bellwether” trial that could signal thousands more.
• Instagram Safety Features: Hosts frequently mention auto-protections for teens (time limits, sleep mode, parental permission).

4. Interview: Claressa Shields In-Studio

• [42:43 – 71:36]
• Addressing Rumors: Shields sets the record straight on personal controversies, including a spat with 50 Cent and rumors about another boxer.
  • "I am the algorithm... Beyonce’s internet is Clarissa Shields’ internet. I’m trending every day—old stuff, new stuff, fake stuff." – Claressa [57:17]
• On Handling Fame & Negativity: Shields describes balancing gratitude for her supporters with coping with online hate.
  • "Real life, I have a lot of supporters, a lot of love... Social media doesn't overshadow what happens in real life." [47:02]
  • "Greatness can never feel like a burden. Ever." – Claressa [53:30]
• On Trash Talk: She distinguishes between normal fight hype and disrespect:
  • "It’s trash talk, and then it’s disrespect. When you talking about family and mamas and breaking jaws, spitting on people... that’s too far." [50:15]
• Her Financial Success: Shields shares her earning power in the sport as a leading ticket seller—$5 million in her last fight.
  • "Women’s boxing is not doing this. I'm top 3 ticket sellers in boxing right now, male or female." [47:31]
• Rapping & New Ventures: Discusses musical aspirations and dual career as “Russ the Gupap” (Pap talks, she raps as ClaShields).
• Life Off the Road: “Peace is at home with Pap, watching boxing matches at the hookah lounge, or teaching my niece to box.” [68:05]
• Legal Action: She confirms sending legal notices to 50 Cent to stop rumor-mongering about her.

5. Call-In Segment: “Can You Fund a Romance?”

• [84:17 – 101:26]
• Donkey of the Day: Charlamagne details the case of Brian McKenna, a real estate attorney, jailed for stealing $4.4 million meant for COVID gear to “fund a romance.”
  • "Romance can't be funded. You can't buy love, fool." – Charlamagne [81:49]
• Hilarious Listener Stories: Listeners and Jess share tales of transactional relationships, “sugar daddy” experiences, and the illusion of romance.
  • "You can't fund a romance. You can fund the illusion, though." – Caller [98:38]
• Hosts’ Verdict: True love is reciprocal and can’t be bought, although attention, gifts, and “illusion” sometimes provide temporary satisfaction.

6. The Latest with Lauren

• [102:08 – 110:00]
• Jay-Z & J. Cole Relationship: Jay addresses rumors of tension, clarifying there’s respect and business is just business, including audits.
  • "We believed in him enough to let him find his journey... He found his path." – Jay-Z [102:56]
• On Blue Ivy’s Growth: Jay-Z reflects warmly on watching his daughter grow on tour and at home.
• Clips Album: Jay explains why he didn’t appear on Clipse’s album, emphasizing artistic integrity—“At that moment... to move forward, I got to get this out.” [108:03]

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• Jay-Z, on false allegations:
  "I can’t take a settlement. It ain’t in my DNA. It would have been cheaper. Yes, cheaper, quicker. Move on with your life. It was like a testament because people know me. Not only we standing by you. What do you need?" – [24:27]

• Charlemagne on competition:
  "There's a reason that battling is still probably the last standing element of hip hop. Because the MC still matters." – [33:02]

• Claressa Shields, on her haters:
  "Some people literally lie for a living. It's like the lie Olympics – and they're winning." – [53:24]

• DJ Envy, on romance:
  "You could buy things people love, but you cannot buy the actual feeling of a connection." – [87:19]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Time | Segment | |--------------|----------------------------------------------| | 03:08–11:49 | Intro, Front Page News | | 21:00–35:42 | Jay-Z’s GQ Interview (Lawsuit, Super Bowl) | | 36:17–42:17 | Social Media Lawsuits | | 42:43–71:36 | Claressa Shields Interview | | 84:17–101:26 | Donkey of the Day & “Fund a Romance” Calls | | 102:08–110:00| The Latest with Lauren (Jay-Z, J. Cole, Blue Ivy, Clipse) |

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Overall Tone and Style

The hosts maintain a trademark Breakfast Club blend: irreverent, honest, and comedic, with moments of vulnerability and sharp social commentary. The episode bounces from serious policy discussion to friendly roast sessions and audience call-ins, keeping an energetic pace that ensures both entertainment and substance for listeners.

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Useful For...

• Fans seeking Jay-Z’s direct commentary on his lawsuit, Super Bowl choices, and hip hop culture
• Boxing and female empowerment enthusiasts interested in Claressa Shields’ rise and her transparency about handling fame, money, and rumors
• Listeners tracking the ongoing drama between music icons (Drake vs. Kendrick)
• Anyone wanting an unfiltered look at social media’s impact on youth and the law
• Breakfast Club fans enjoying the unique humor and chemistry of Envy, Jess, and Charlamagne

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Transcript

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[Charlamagne tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

Jess. Hilarious. Hey, Charlemagne the God. Yo, yo.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Guess what day it is. Guess what day it is.

[DJ Envy]

That's right. It's Wednesday. It's hump day. It's middle of the week. Jess is on her way in. I'm sure Charlemagne is on his way in as well. How you guys feeling this morning? How y' all feeling out there? What's up, Mimi? Mimi's here. What's up, Mimi? Come to the mic, Mimi. Need somebody to talk to my co host in here. How you feeling, Mimi?

[Clarissa Shields]

I'm good.

[Mimi Brown]

Trying to get used to this east coast time, but I'm good. How you doing?

[DJ Envy]

I'm doing pretty good. So salute to everybody that has been checking in. I mean, everybody that has been flying has been hitting me on a DM to tell me how each and every airport is. They've been telling me that the delays have been a lot, say at least two hours. So if you're flying, give yourself a lot of extra time. And it doesn't look like there's going to be any change in a while, right?

[Mimi Brown]

No, we're going to talk about that this morning. Ice. Even with ice, it's still backed up real crazy at, like, almost all of

[DJ Envy]

the major airports now is ice. Well, I guess we'll ask because I wonder if is ICE really helping tsa, or are they just trying to keep people in order? Because if they just trying to keep people in order, they're just making it absolutely, positively worse.

[Mimi Brown]

Exactly. You've seen the pictures, right? Of ICE just kind of standing around,

[DJ Envy]

just standing around, just walking around doesn't seem like they're actually helping. It doesn't seem like they're checking our IDs in line. It just seems like they're actually just adding more of a mess to the airports.

[Mimi Brown]

Exactly. So that's what we're going to talk about a little bit this morning. I feel like ice is just there to be there. I don't know. They're actually helping out with what we're seeing with the long lines and all of that, so.

[Clarissa Shields]

I don't know.

[Mimi Brown]

You're right. Give yourself some extra time if you are heading out this morning, because it is just. It's nasty.

[DJ Envy]

That's right. We'll get more into that in front page news. Also, Clarissa Shields will be joining us this morning. Two time gold Olympic medalist and champion will be joining us. She got a lot to talk about. She wants to clear up everything that you've been hearing about in the last couple of weeks. So Clarissa Shields will be joining us.

[Charlamagne tha God]

And she don't be here every day like people think. She who?

[Senator Jeff Merkley]

What?

[Charlamagne tha God]

You mean Clarissa Shield?

[DJ Envy]

No, no, no.

[Charlamagne tha God]

She gonna be here every day like she just left. She was up here 10 months ago.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, she was up here a while ago. So she's coming up here to clear up some things and tell us what she's working on in the next couple of months as far as her boxing career.

[Jessica]

All right.

[DJ Envy]

All right. Well, let's get the show cracking big. Hey, don't touch me. Jesus Christ. Today is Big Sean's birthday. Since. Let's start off with some Big Sean. I don't f with you. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Front page news is next, y'.

[Charlamagne tha God]

All.

[DJ Envy]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let' some front page news. Start off with some quick sports. Today is a baseball. Baseball is starting its opening day and I just want to let y' all know, all you Yankee fans, if you want to see opening day today, you can only see it on Netflix. So the Yankees are on Netflix today. So if you want to watch Yankees today, you are on Netflix today. They're playing San Francisco, so you can only watch it on Netflix.

[Charlamagne tha God]

That's interesting. I didn't know that. Who had the TV rights before?

[DJ Envy]

I'm not sure.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Gotta be a station in New York, right? Was it the yes network? Probably. Yes.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Yankees a yes. It was yes network. But today you could watch it on Netflix. What's up, Mimi?

[Mimi Brown]

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

[Charlamagne tha God]

Peace. Mimi Brown.

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning. So we start this morning with the shutdown standoff in Washington. That's where lawmakers say progress is being made. But the president says he's not committed to a deal just yet. So Senate Republicans, they are proposing a plan to fund most of the Department of homeland security, about 94% of it. That would fund agencies like TSA, FEMA and the Coast Guard, which would help end the shutdown for most workers. Now, this plan does not include ICE funding because ICE was already funded in the big beautiful bill last year. And this is what Democrats have been asking for to fund the rest of Homeland Security separately, but now say if they agree, they also want changes and reforms to ICE included in the negotiations. Now, Trump is acknowledging that lawmakers are getting close to a deal, but he's giving no indication that of whether he would sign that bill. Let's listen.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Well, I don't want to comment until I see the deal, but as you know, they're negotiating a deal. I guess they're getting fairly close, but I think any deal they make, I'm pretty much not happy with it.

[Mimi Brown]

So at the same time, yeah, we'll see what happens with that. But at the same time, Trump is also pushing for a completely separate bill. We've been talking about the SAVE act, which would change voting laws. And as he has suggested, that bill would be tied to the shutdown fight as well. But there's a lot of pushback from Democrats on the SAVE act act and what that would mean for our elections. Here's Senator Jeff Merkley on that.

[Senator Jeff Merkley]

It's not about stopping noncitizens from voting. It's about stopping citizens from voting. The citizens. Trump doesn't want to cast a ballot. Trump is going to push this as hard as he can because this is the best strategy to rig the November election. It's the third point which says all of your voter rolls will be submitted to the president. Then the president's team can proceed, what, run it through a process where they will say, hey, folks whose last name are different than their birth certificate, you have to re register to vote. Folks who fit this category, your name's replicated, you're kicked off. And you could do that right before the election. You can't register to vote under this law with just a birth certificate. You have a birth certificate and another piece of id. The only thing that stands on its own is a passport. Most Americans don't have passports, and getting one takes six months. So if he proceeds to have this power before the November election, tons of people will never be Able to re. Register.

[Charlamagne tha God]

It's just that simple. All of this is directed midterms. Who was that man? Speaking quite plain just now, that was

[Mimi Brown]

Jeff Merkley of Oregon.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Drop on the clues Bombs for Jeff Merkley.

[Mimi Brown]

Merky Merkley.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Every time I think of Oregon, I think of Oregon Trail. So it holds a nice soft spot in my heart. Okay? Remember Oregon Trails. Growing up, playing it in school, y' all never did that?

[DJ Envy]

No.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Killing buffaloes and stuff like that?

[DJ Envy]

No.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Oh, y' all didn't have a childhood?

[DJ Envy]

Man, Killing buffaloes? I have no idea what you're talking about.

[Charlamagne tha God]

None of y' all played Oregon Trail? No. Boy, you grew up on a dirt road. No, it had nothing to do with that row. People out there know what I'm talking about. If you played Oregon Trail, call up right now.

[Jessica]

Killing buffaloes.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yes. You had to kill buffaloes. What else you had to do on Oregon Trail?

[Mimi Brown]

I've heard of it, but I never.

[DJ Envy]

We did basketball, baseball, Scully.

[Jessica]

But yeah, like, you know, regular stuff.

[Charlamagne tha God]

But Oregon Trail, it was in the library. And y' all didn't read, so I understand.

[Clarissa Shields]

Shut up.

[Jessica]

I did read before when I was young.

[Clarissa Shields]

Come on, man.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Damn right. Nobody. But, yo, the whole world stopped this. Now, nobody believed that.

[Mimi Brown]

Meanwhile. Meanwhile, you guys. Long lines, they persist at airports nationwide, even with ICE agents now helping tsa. So thousands of TSA officers, they are still calling out sick. They're quitting after weeks without pay. Travelers are waiting in long lines just to get through security. And now the shutdown is prompting a major move from one airline. So Delta Airlines says it is suspending special airport services for members of Congress and their staff because of this shutdown. So that includes things like airport escorts, special assistance services that help lawmakers move through the airport more quickly. Delta says because TSA agents are working without pay, staffing is stretched. The airline needs to focus its resources on safety and its regular passengers.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I respect that.

[DJ Envy]

So what?

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah. So if you work for Congress and their staff.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, just work for Congress.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Well, you don't listen.

[DJ Envy]

I just want to make sure.

[Charlamagne tha God]

That's literally the first thing.

[DJ Envy]

I didn't hear that part.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Well, you don't need that.

[DJ Envy]

Because everybody. I see a lot of airports, they already took away the pre checks.

[Charlamagne tha God]

They took away the Tesla.

[DJ Envy]

They took away Clear and all that.

[Mimi Brown]

And this is just Delta Airlines. So may. Maybe other airlines will follow behind them. But right now, this is just Delta Airlines. You have to get in line like everyone else if you are a member of Congress.

[Charlamagne tha God]

And I think all airlines should do that. Because they should have to feel it. Just like everyday working class people got to feel it.

[DJ Envy]

I feel. I agree. Absolutely.

[State Farm Announcer]

I agree.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah. And lastly, really quick, if you're thinking about helping TSA workers with a shutdown, you can donate a gift card, but it has to be specific. It has to be a gas card or food card. They cannot accept Visa or mastercards. Most airports will have a Dropbox, but you have to ask a supervisor or an airport staff. If you don't see one, you cannot give it directly to a TSA agency. They are federal workers, and they're not allowed to take them.

[DJ Envy]

I did see yesterday a spot in Philly. They were doing, like, a Philly cheesesteak, Guinness Book of World Records. And you could have had. You had to either donate the food or eat the food for the amount of people that were there. And they donated, like, over a thousand Philly cheesesteaks to the TSA workers. So I thought that was dope.

[Jessica]

I also saw Duran the chef. I don't know if he's from New York or not, but he was at the LaGuardia Airport and he fed the TSA workers. He sent them, like, so many boxes of pizza. Like, they let him come in there and feed them.

[DJ Envy]

That's dope.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I think that was cuts and slices

[Jessica]

or am I tripping a Durana chef? If he works there, then that's what that is. But he bought. Yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah, he did. He team double cuts and slice.

[Jessica]

Okay, shout out to them. That was good. That was nice.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Wow.

[DJ Envy]

All right. Well, that is front page news. What we got next hour, Mimi.

[Mimi Brown]

Coming up next hour, we have a verdict in those social media cases that we've been talking about, those landmark social media cases, one out of New Mexico and one out of Los Angeles. We'll talk about it.

[DJ Envy]

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

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[DJ Envy]

800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Hello? Who's this? This Spider Man.

[DJ Envy]

803.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Columbia, South Carolina. Spider Man, Metro. What's happening? What's happening, man? You know, I've been telling me what's good, baby. You know, I play Oregon Trail, baby. I don't know who did it. I thought everybody played Oregon Trail growing up. You know that up north in places they went, too, they think they faster than us, but they wouldn't very slow. I agree.

[Clarissa Shields]

Yeah.

[Jessica]

I think it's way we ain't never hear of it. Well, I never heard of on Oregon Trail.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You just have to kill your food. Yep. It's like an Amish. It's an Amish family, and they drop. They. They going across the. Like across the desert, and they pulling up.

[State Farm Announcer]

Pulling up.

[Charlamagne tha God]

It was a white. It's a wagon. They was on a wagon. Yeah, they was on a wagon. Yep.

[DJ Envy]

I didn't play no Orchid Trail.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You lose your wheel. You got the kid, you got the key. You had to fix your wheel.

[Jay Z (audio clips)]

Yep.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yep. I wanted to go to elementary. Listen, I wanted to go to elementary school just to play football on that old computer. Play the Oregon Trail.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, we played double. Double dribble.

[Jessica]

We played more physical games.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah, but that's why y' all don't know nothing. See, in Oregon Trail, right? Like, you had to travel across this. Across, like, these states, and, like, people would catch diseases, and you would have to get medicine for them. Your will would broke, and you would have to figure out what to do when your will breaks. You have to kill your own life. Right now. It's like you were. It was like an Amish family, and they were traveling across the United States. Yep.

[DJ Envy]

Nah, we didn't play that one, but thank you, brother. Yeah, we definitely play that game.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I don't know. Oregon Trail was huge.

[Jessica]

Maybe it just wasn't in my school,

[DJ Envy]

but I'm looking at it came out in 2011, right? That's what it said. 2011.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Hell, no.

[DJ Envy]

It says initial release date February 27th.

[Charlamagne tha God]

This game came out in the 70s, bro.

[Jessica]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Hello?

[DJ Envy]

Who's this?

[Charlamagne tha God]

Hey, this story. North Carolina.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Charlamagne tha God]

Hey, y', all. Y'. All. You know, I heard Charlemagne talking about Oregon Trail Classic. Classic. I can't believe they never played Oregon Trail. And the Oregon Trail is actually a real thing. They call it the nation's longest graveyard. Like, 65,000 people died along this trail because of disease and all types of stuff.

[DJ Envy]

You see, nobody on the east coast played it. Red never played it. Red never heard of it. I never played it.

[Charlamagne tha God]

And there's only two people in the room from the East Coast.

[DJ Envy]

There's three. Can you count? Can you count? Like, there's three. There's three.

[Charlamagne tha God]

How many people on the East Coast? Envy me.

[DJ Envy]

Jess and Red.

[Charlamagne tha God]

That's it. On the whole East Coast.

[DJ Envy]

No, I mean in the room. I'm talking.

[Charlamagne tha God]

No, you said nobody on the east coast played it. Oh, I Hate you niggas. This is why we gotta have a little bit of deportation.

[Jessica]

Oh, my God.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Just a little.

[DJ Envy]

I'm from here, sir. I'm from here, sir. Yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Deep play or nobody on the East Coast. Oregon Trail.

[DJ Envy]

I never heard of Oregon.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Nobody on the whole. As if the south ain't the East Coast. This is crazy. This is crazy. I look at the South, I look

[DJ Envy]

at the east coast as New York, New Jersey.

[Charlamagne tha God]

This is why the kid at Oregon

[DJ Envy]

Trail in your school and D.C. that's how I.

[Jessica]

That's how I look at Virginia right there.

[DJ Envy]

That's Virginia's where the. Where the south start, man. That's how we always say. It's funny.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Somebody says we there.

[DJ Envy]

Somebody's like, yo, you know, we on the East Coast. I'm like, we don't look at it like that. We look at the East Coast, New

[Jessica]

York, New Jersey, Philly, Maryland, and boom, Connecticut. Exactly, you know.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, that's how we always looked at it. But get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need the vent, hit us up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, Ray. Ray.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Ray. Yo, Charlemagne.

[DJ Envy]

Envy, what up?

[Clarissa Shields]

Are we live?

[DJ Envy]

This is your time to get it off your chest.

[Clarissa Shields]

I got an indoor pool.

[Charlamagne tha God]

We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

We can get on the phone right now.

[Charlamagne tha God]

He'll tell you what it is. Hello?

[DJ Envy]

Who's this?

[Charlamagne tha God]

What up, though? It's Jimmy.

[DJ Envy]

Jimmy.

[Charlamagne tha God]

What up? Where you calling from, Jimmy?

[DJ Envy]

Detroit.

[Charlamagne tha God]

What up, though? Yes, sir. What up, though? Hey, yo, I remember Oregon Trail. I know you do. I work with.

[DJ Envy]

I. I never played Oregon.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Talk to me about Oregon Trail. Sir,

[Caller from Brooklyn]

you should be.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Oh, you old enough, man. You should definitely remember that joint, man. Remember when the. The wagon would break down, you had to fix that joint?

[State Farm Announcer (alternate)]

No.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Envy told a 41 year old yesterday that they're gonna. They gonna give somebody worms. He. He refused to believe he. 48.

[DJ Envy]

I was joking yesterday.

[Charlamagne tha God]

But no, we didn't play.

[DJ Envy]

We didn't play Oregon Trail. We just didn't.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah, y'.

[Jay Z (audio clips)]

All.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Wildly. Yeah, it used to be on the. On the original, the og, The Max, the big Mac computers. That. And what was the other game?

[DJ Envy]

Carmen?

[Charlamagne tha God]

San Diego. Oh, my God. Where in the world is Common? San Diego. I forgot that. That. That game taught you about world geography. Yes.

[Jessica]

I feel like my age, it was probably already gone, so I'm. I'm not in.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I didn't really play games on the Mac. I played on Atari, Coleco, Nintendo. Yeah, all that. I Didn't play no games on the map.

[Charlamagne tha God]

These were educational games, though. The games you talking about were recreational. These were games they actually played. They gave you in school.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, no.

[Jay Z (audio clips)]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Carmen. San Diego. Yes.

[Jessica]

They may have been gone Rocket jail when I got to school.

[Lauren LaRosa]

School that.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You should know if your school had the library with the computers. Yeah, that was the type of time we was on work.

[Jessica]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Y' all be blessed, though, man. Yes, sir.

[DJ Envy]

We didn't.

[Jessica]

Damn it. He was in the Midwest, so it's not just a Southern thing.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Salute to Ms. Nicole Brevard. I love her to death. She was the school librarian at Berkeley High School. So we would sit there playing Oregon Trail. Okay.

[DJ Envy]

Hello?

[Charlamagne tha God]

Who's this?

[Caller from Brooklyn]

Hey, this matter? What's up?

[DJ Envy]

What's up? Where you calling from?

[Caller from Brooklyn]

I'm coming from Columbia, but I'm from New York.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Charlamagne tha God]

803 Metro.

[Caller from Brooklyn]

Yes, yes, yes, yes. And guess what? I got all three nights. The Jay Z concert.

[State Farm Announcer (alternate)]

Did you?

[Jessica]

Damn, girl.

[Caller from Brooklyn]

Wow.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I'm interested to see what he do on the third night. He's calling it Extra Inning, so I'm interested to see what he do. I'm not gonna be there for the third night, though. I'm doing the first two nights.

[Clarissa Shields]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Caller from Brooklyn]

But I want to call and talk about Oregon Trail.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Talk to me about Oregon Trail.

[Caller from Brooklyn]

Y' all don't remember when playing Oregon Trail, and you died of dysentery.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yes. You died of mad diseases. Because on the real Oregon Trail, it was like 30 to 60,000 people who died of mad diseases. That's literally what the game was about.

[DJ Envy]

What part of New York you from? My mom.

[Jessica]

What kind of game was it?

[Caller from Brooklyn]

You had to have grown up in the 80s to know about Oregon Trail.

[Charlamagne tha God]

MB grew up in the 60s.

[DJ Envy]

I did not grow up in no goddamn 60s.

[Charlamagne tha God]

What you mean you did mixtapes on actual tapes.

[DJ Envy]

Yo, what. What. What borough are you from, man?

[Caller from Brooklyn]

I'm from Brooklyn.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, y' all played it in Brooklyn? I didn't.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I never played. I mean, honestly, Brooklyn people have always been the smartest people from New York City to me, so that makes sense.

[DJ Envy]

I don't think so.

[Caller from Brooklyn]

This is true. This is true. And we come Queen.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, I am from Queen.

[Jessica]

Hey. She had to put it out there.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, I am. We didn't play Oregon Trail. I'm sorry, Mama. All right.

[Jessica]

I didn't.

[Caller from Brooklyn]

Y' all have a good one, y'.

[Charlamagne tha God]

All.

[Jessica]

I love y'.

[Charlamagne tha God]

All. And on the Oregon Trail, the animals were more dangerous than the people. And that's why you had to kill the oxtail. Because you would have food. That's how you get food.

[Jessica]

What kind of game was it that everybody was catching diseases, dying?

[Charlamagne tha God]

It was a game based off real life. In the Real life Oregon Trail, people died. So many people died on that route. So the game was literally about trying to make it through that route without dying.

[Jessica]

Oh, God. What about the people in Oregon who is probably upset that it's a game made after their life, like that, like dying?

[Charlamagne tha God]

And I. I don't know is that.

[Jessica]

I don't care. It's a game, and we played.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Was educational.

[Jessica]

Okay.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Okay.

[Clarissa Shields]

Nice.

[DJ Envy]

All right, well, salute to all you guys. Get it off your chest. 8005851.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I just want you to. I want.

[Jay Z (audio clips)]

Hey, hey, hey.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I want you to know all those people that called in are from the East Coast. I want you to know that. Okay? I don't know. Maybe you don't know. I've been correct. Okay. You didn't play wearing the world's Prom in San Diego because you don't even know your geography.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

I never played Oregon Trail. I'm sorry. We just never played. Boo you to my teachers. All right. I'm sorry.

[Clarissa Shields]

Right?

[Charlamagne tha God]

Jesus.

[DJ Envy]

We didn't have a library of computers.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Sorry. I didn't know y' all didn't have a library. We didn't have that.

[DJ Envy]

Computers like that. No.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Oh, boy. Shut up. Your mama called you the other day when you made that comment about church.

[DJ Envy]

We didn't have that. We didn't have. We didn't.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Y' all didn't have computers?

[DJ Envy]

I just said we can't. We didn't have computers like that.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Just said we didn't have. I said, we have computers like that. Did you hear me say like that?

[DJ Envy]

Did you hear me say like that?

[Charlamagne tha God]

He's just trying to scratch me out this morning. I know what this is. Falling for it. I shouldn't be falling for this. I'm a brief. I'm just going to brief. I'm just going to brief.

[DJ Envy]

When we come back, we got the latest with Lauren. Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You're talking LL Cool?

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[Charlamagne tha God]

Source of struggle.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[Jessica]

Little brown girls look at you and

[Lauren LaRosa]

go, I want to be like you.

[Clarissa Shields]

Take me through that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Take me through.

[Jessica]

There she going.

[Charlamagne tha God]

The latest with Lauren on the Breakfast Club. LL Cool B, talk to me. The latest with Lauren is going to sound a little different today because Lauren is late.

[DJ Envy]

That's right. Yeah. Lauren is not here. Last I spoke to Lauren yesterday, she was getting her hair done. She was under the dryer.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah, I called her too. She was like, yeah, I'm under the dryer. And I was like, for what? I was like, just get you a church fan and wave the church. That little bit of stuff you got

[Jessica]

up there, girl, you are hell.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I didn't say that to her.

[DJ Envy]

Jesus.

[Charlamagne tha God]

But she overslept. She'll be here. It happens in morning.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, it does. So Lauren sent me some stories to do. So we starting off with Jay Z first. We got to congratulate, by the way.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Just let the record show. We don't need Lauren to talk about Jay Z. Un's got this one.

[DJ Envy]

So salute to Jay Z. Yesterday he sold out three shows at Yankee Stadium Stadium.

[Charlamagne tha God]

In seconds.

[DJ Envy]

In seconds. The first two shows. And he added an extra show called, I guess Extra Innings and that sold out just as fast. Now, according to a source, Lauren told me there was 1.2 million in the queue trying to find Jay Z tickets. They said it's the biggest queue that Live Nation has ever seen for a show.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Well, the day before it was 1.6 million. And by the way, why does this. Why does Lauren need a source for that? The Source is the 1.6 million people that were in the queue.

[Jessica]

Yeah, that's crazy.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You see that for yourself.

[Jessica]

And what's the capacity of the Yankee Stadium?

[Charlamagne tha God]

I don't know, But I know 1.2, 1.6 million people. You could do like 40 shows. What is the capacity?

[Jessica]

47. 46,537.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Damn.

[DJ Envy]

Well, they gotta take off some seats. Cause the way the stage will be. But it's still a lot of. 46,000. Is 40,000 people. Yeah, yeah, 40,000 people. And I think he'll add another show like so many people want to see.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Hov.

[DJ Envy]

I don't see why not.

[Charlamagne tha God]

But I mean, that's a hell of a weekend. Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I mean, the reason I respect it so much. Cause how old is Jay Z? 57, 58 years old?

[DJ Envy]

50 something.

[Charlamagne tha God]

56 years old. We've never seen this in hip hop. Like we've seen it in so many other genres. You see the Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen and all their veteran artists can go out there and. And sell these stadiums. We haven't seen this in our culture yet. This is the first of its kind.

[Jessica]

When's the last time he actually did a headlining show? His own self, not collaborating with his wife on tour, but like his self

[DJ Envy]

Is a long time ago.

[Jessica]

Wow.

[DJ Envy]

A long time.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Maybe the 444 Tour. Nah, it definitely had to be the 444 Tour. That was like, what, 2017, 2016? 2017.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, like nine, 10 years ago. Yeah. Salute to Hov. He also did an interview with GQ, and he got really open. He talked about a lot of things. If you haven't seen the interview, one of the biggest things or the first thing he discussed was about his allegations in all of 2025 and how that put him in a place.

[Charlamagne tha God]

How would you rate your 2025?

[Jay Z (audio clips)]

It was hard. Like, I was really heartbroken by, like, everything that occurred. We in the space now where it's just like, almost like, consequence is not thought about enough. That whole Busby, it's a lawsuit that was dropped, dismissed. That took a lot out of me. I was angry. I haven't been that angry in a long time. Like, if you don't put that on someone, that's the thing that you better be super sure. Like, even when we were doing worse things, we were doing bad. We had those kind of rules. There was a line. No women, no kids. You know, you hear those sayings, but those are things that I took from the street. Morals, integrity. I took that really hard. And I knew that we was gonna walk through that because, you know, first of all, it's not true. And the truth is, at the end of the day, it still reigns supreme. It was just like, all right, man, we played enough defense. 2026 is all offense, you know, and

[DJ Envy]

listening to Jay with that, you know, you hear how angry he was, how upset he was. Right. And you gotta think, I know a lot of people have been attacking Jay in the last year, which is crazy to me.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Last couple years, really.

[DJ Envy]

But if you really look back at some of the things that he's done for the culture, and not just the bottles and the this and that, but, like, how he's bailed people out, how he's given money for so many things, how he's gotten people out of jail, how he's giving back, and then he gets attacked. Philanthropy, the fact that he still is willing to help, it means a lot. He also talks about who helped him during this time.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah.

[Jay Z (audio clips)]

I needed the people around me more than ever, because usually when I have that feeling, I would just make music and just be therapeutic. I had to sit in that. Yeah. For a long time. And luckily I had that. I built this. This circle that's really safe for me of people that really love me, not using me. And, like, really care for my best interests. You know, when those type of things happen, people run. They don't care what happened. So I have partners, you know, I've had big deals with. I called my guy from lvmh. Hey, man, this is coming. And I can't take a settlement. It ain't in my DNA. First I had to tell my wife, do I know what this is going to? The weight that this is going to bring on our family? I can't do it. I would die. It would have been cheaper. Yes, cheaper, quicker. Move on with your life. It was like a testament because people know me. Not only we standing by you. What do you need? What did you do to come back from that? Personally, I'm still dealing with that.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Listen, man, his honesty about the adversity he faced was powerful, you know, but the most powerful thing about it to me was that he accepted it all, he embraced it all. You know, he said, you know, things don't happen to you, they happen for you. And I think we don't understand that about life. Sometimes. Sometimes in life we just want.

[DJ Envy]

Right.

[Charlamagne tha God]

All of the good. Right. And we only want to, you know, praise God and, you know, embrace the good. But no, you got to embrace it all. Like, when you look up, when you tell God you want to. Everything, everything that you pray for, you gotta take everything that comes with it.

[DJ Envy]

But when you're in it, that feeling feels like this is some.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Ish.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, that feeling. Now he also talks about the super bowl and the reason why Jay Z picked Kendrick Lamar for the super bowl that year.

[Jay Z (audio clips)]

People made it a personal thing that you chose Kendrick for the Super Bowl.

[Charlamagne tha God]

It's like, oh, man, he's choosing the side.

[Jay Z (audio clips)]

What do I have to do with that? I chose the guy that was having a monster year. I think it was the right choice. What I care about them two guys battling. Like, what that got to do with me? Have at it. Not on just me. By the way they drag everybody in there. Like, everyone's part of this conspiracy to undermine Drake, I guess.

[Charlamagne tha God]

But, like, don't Jay Z or do respect him?

[Jay Z (audio clips)]

Like, for what? To what end? Yeah, it couldn't be that. These guys just don't like each other. Yeah. And I think they haven't liked each other for a long time.

[Jessica]

Yeah, I like that he tapped Jay Z. What do I care about it?

[DJ Envy]

He also talks about beef. And is beef good for hip hop? Right? Is it a thing that. That flourishes in hip hop, bro?

[Charlamagne tha God]

When you say beef, I don't know what you talking about. You know what I'm saying? They say battling is battling good for hip hop because I know you think beef is good for hip hop.

[DJ Envy]

Don't you play the audio?

[Jay Z (audio clips)]

We love the excitement and I love the sparring and the music you get. But in this day and age, it's so much negative stuff that comes with it that you almost wish it didn't happen. It's almost like it's a final thing now. People that like Kendrick hate Drake no matter what he makes. And it goes far too. It's like attack on his character and his. And it's like, I don't know if I love that. Yeah, I don't know if it's helpful to our growth. It's like bringing people kids in it. I don't like that. You know, I sound like the old guy wagging the thing. I think we can achieve the same thing as far as like sparring with music, with collaborations, more so than breaking the whole thing apart. It could stand it before because there was no social media and there was no thing and you know, you had the battle, it was fun and then you moved on. It was like trying to tear down people life again. I love the idea that we got so much music and such.

[DJ Envy]

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[Jessica]

Connecting changes everything.

[Charlamagne tha God]

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[Jay Z (audio clips)]

Just a short period of time, I guess I'm gonna say it. I don't know if battling needs to be part of the culture anymore.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah, well, that's a 56 year old perspective and I respect it. You know what I'm saying? It's an adult perspective and I respect it. And I also respect that he, that he addressed his own hypocrisy in saying that because it's not like him and Nas didn't go to hell on each other, right?

[DJ Envy]

And he said he felt bad for it because he said him and Nas are friends and they're cool now. But he said he felt bad for it. But.

[Charlamagne tha God]

And I feel like you gotta address the, like he talked about the four elements of hip hop, right? There's a reason that battling is still probably the last standing element of hip hop. Because the MC still matters. And every now and then MCs are going to have a clash of wits. Like they're going to have a, you know, they're going to, they're going to trade bars. I don't think that's ever going to change, change. And I don't want it to change. And I'm not. We do talk about social media, right? And how social media, I, I guess puts a lot of fuel on these fires. That's gonna happen regardless, Stan. Culture is going to exist with or without rappers going back and forth, battling.

[DJ Envy]

But as long as nobody gets hurt though, that, that's the main thing. Because he also talked about people's families. But like you talk about hypocrite or hypocrisy, remember he. I don't want, can I say ski Skeeted.

[Jessica]

Yeah, skeet it.

[DJ Envy]

He skeeted on. On Nas's baby.

[Charlamagne tha God]

He addressed that.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, but he talked about it. But it's one of those things. He was younger and I think battling is a part of hip hop. I enjoy that part. As long as nobody gets hurt. As long as we don't take it to the level of pocket.

[Jessica]

Now, how long did it take for him and Nas to get back cool again after that?

[Charlamagne tha God]

I don't even remember. I can't remember the timeline.

[DJ Envy]

Couple years later. A couple years later.

[Charlamagne tha God]

But you can't put more on the stand culture of it all than you do the actual artist too, because the artists are going to hell on each other. Right? Right. And so the artists are going to go to hell on each other regardless in music. And fans are going to put fuel on the fire. But even if these artists aren't even battle rapping, fans are going to get online and say, my guy is better than your guys.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Charlamagne tha God]

And your guy does this and my guy doesn't. That's going to happen regardless of if MCS are battling it.

[DJ Envy]

Right.

[Charlamagne tha God]

The stand culture online is something completely different. And one more thing. The Stan culture existed long before the Internet. The Internet is just the latest tool. This is how they get Stan culture out. When Eminem wrote Stan, there was no damn Internet.

[DJ Envy]

Correct.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You know, Stans have been showing up to people's houses, you know, wilding and stuff. Like stands are going to be stands regardless of if people are battle rapping each other.

[DJ Envy]

But I think in anything that you do, I think you want to be the best. If you're an emcee, you want to be the best mc. If you're a basketball player, you want to be the best. If you're a baseball player, you want to have the most home runs. It's competition. And I don't say anything wrong with competition.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I don't have a problem with that.

[DJ Envy]

But salute to Hov. He sat down with GQ's Frasier Th for that interview. It was two interviews, actually. They released 30, I think, like 35 minutes of those interviews. Great conversation, I'm sure. Next hour, Lauren, give us more about it.

[Charlamagne tha God]

And Jay didn't say he he battle rap should be done from the culture. He said he doesn't know if it should still be part of the culture. So it's open for discussion. I saw everybody running with it yesterday saying, see, Jay Z even said that it shouldn't be. That's not what he said. Said.

[DJ Envy]

Right.

[Charlamagne tha God]

He said he doesn't know. So it's open for discussion.

[DJ Envy]

All right. Well, that is the latest. When we come back, we got front page news. And don't forget, Clarissa Shields will be joining us this morning. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get some front page news. And quickly in sports, today is opening day for Major League Baseball. And if you are a Yankee fan, you are going to watch the Yankees on Netflix. Right? The Yankees will be seen on Netflix today. So super cool for everybody out there.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah. Let's see if y' all complain about the Yankees being on Netflix the way y' all do about the breakfast.

[DJ Envy]

You can see the Yankees today on Netflix as well as the Breakfast Club. Right. Just want to put that out there. What's up, Mimi?

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning, y'.

[Caller from Brooklyn]

All.

[Mimi Brown]

How y' all doing this morning? Good morning. So we start this hour in Florida where a Democrat has flipped a Republican seat in a district that includes Donald Trump's Mar A Lago resort. Now this is a race that's getting national attention. Emily Gregory, she won a special election by default, just two points beating a Republican candidate that Trump personally endorsed. Let's listen to some of her victory speech.

[Clarissa Shields]

This was a group effort.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It took every single one of us.

[Clarissa Shields]

Knocking doors in the heat, talking to neighbors, raising money, giving the dollars, our

[Lauren LaRosa]

hard earned dollars at this important cause.

[Clarissa Shields]

We did this together and I'm so grateful.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Why does she sound like she's either crying or in a porno?

[Jessica]

Yeah, in a porno. I literally thought porn. Damn.

[Mimi Brown]

She was really excited.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Everybody in here is going to get their. I'm so happy.

[DJ Envy]

Jesus.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, Trump actually won that same district by 11 points in 2024. But what's also making national headlines this morning is records show that Trump voted in this election by mayor. So this is the same melon voting. Yeah. That he is trying to block and the same mail in voting that he has called cheating. That is what he used to, to voice his or to use his, to extend his, his right to vote. Right.

[Charlamagne tha God]

People question him about this stuff. Like, like, like when he gets, you know, when he's out doing his little press conferences, does he get asked about this blatant hypocrisy?

[Mimi Brown]

I haven't heard it yet. I'm sure today someone will ask him, you know, how he was able to use mail in voting when he's literally trying to block the rest of the world from doing it. So this is the 10th Republican held seat Democrats have flipped in special elections since Trump returned to office. Something Democrats say could be A warning sign for the midterms. And this morning, a federal judge is deciding whether to drop charges against two former Louisville police officers connected to the raid that killed Breonna Taylor. So those officers, Joshua Janes and Kyle, meaning they were charged with putting false information on a search warrant that led police to Breonna Taylor's apartment back in 2020. During that raid, officers broke down the door. Breonna Taylor's boyfriend, who thought someone was breaking in, he fired one shot, and officers fired back, shooting more than 30 rounds into the apartment, killing her. Now, the Department of Justice, though, they are asking a judge to dismiss those charges, saying after reviewing the case, case, that they believe those charges should be dropped, Quote, in the interest of justice. Breonna Taylor's mother says that makes no sense to her. And she says someone should still be held accountable for what happened to her daughter. Let's listen.

[Jessica]

They committed a crime, so there's no getting it behind you. Brianna doesn't get to come back.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She doesn't get to put it behind her. She was killed because of their lies and negligence, and somebody should be held accountable for that.

[Jessica]

And for me, every day since that day has been March 13th. There's no putting it behind me. Absolutely not. I understand. Yeah.

[Mimi Brown]

So a judge has not ruled in this case, but for now, it's still in the court's hands. And so far, only one former officer involved in that raid has been convicted in connection to the case. Brett Hankinson. He was sentenced to about three years in prison.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Well, it's not going to be no peace for any of them until Breonna Taylor gets justice. I hope she haunts them forever.

[Jessica]

Absolutely.

[Mimi Brown]

For sure. And switching gears a bit, we've been talking for a while now about those two major social media cases, one happening in New Mexico and one happening in la. Well, we have updates on both those cases this morning. So a jury in New Mexico has ordered Meta, the parent company that owns Facebook and Instagram, to pay $375 million after jurors found the company misled families about half how safe their platforms were for children. So during the trial, juror saw internal company documents and her testimony that Meta knew child predators were using its platforms to contact minors and that underage users were being shown sexual content and sometimes contacted by adults. One former Meta engineer, he even testified, and his own underage daughter was approached by a stranger on Instagram for sex. Sex. The jury, they rule that Meta violated consumer protection laws by misleading the public about how safe their platforms were, and that that's how they reached that $375 million penalty. And one woman who only wants to be identified as Caitlyn says she was a victim of sex trafficking that started on Meta's platform. And she's speaking out about the the verdict this morning. Let's listen.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I think this verdict shows a message and creates some urgency that these platforms need to respond to survivors. They need to believe survivors and they need to respect that. When people want harmful images taken down, they need to move swiftly to do so. Exploitation of humans and children doesn't happen in the shadows. It's facilitated by platforms, people, systems that choose to look away even when they have a responsibility to protect. They choose profits.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Meta better change something quick because if this case sets precedent, they about to lose a lot of money.

[DJ Envy]

Everybody gonna be suing them.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Lord have mercy. Absolutely.

[Mimi Brown]

That's not even the half of it. So Meta says that it disagrees with the verdict and they plan to appeal. And they say they have added more safety features for teens over the years. But the case in Los Angeles, there's another major social media case happening there. That case is about whether social media companies intentionally design their platforms to be addictive for young users. So there they say, yeah, the 20 year old woman says that she became addicted when she was a child, led to anxiety, depression, and so in her body images. Yeah, that's the one that Snapchat and that tick tock they were originally a part of and then they settled with her. And so this is the case that legal experts say is a bellwether case, meaning it could be the first of a thousand of similar cases against social media.

[DJ Envy]

Wow.

[Mimi Brown]

So, well, that is your front page news, guys. I'm Mimi Brown. Follow me @mimi Brown TV. And for more, more stories, follow the black information.

[DJ Envy]

All right, thank you, Mimi. Now when we come back, Clarissa Shields will be joining us. So don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. La Rose is here as well. We got a special guest in the building, the quote, ladies and gentlemen, Clarissa.

[Jessica]

She. What's up, girl? How you doing?

[Charlamagne tha God]

Keep that close to you. Keep that purse close to you. Remember what happened last time you was here?

[Clarissa Shields]

Yeah, yeah. And I got some money in here too, so I'm definitely keeping it close.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You see what I'm saying?

[Jessica]

You got money, you just leaving bags around. That's crazy.

[Clarissa Shields]

That bag was.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Man, you still think about that bag, huh?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Wasn't it a Chanel? You gonna still Think about that.

[Clarissa Shields]

Damn. Well, I got more Chanels than Lou's now, but God, it was like, you know, it was my first Chanel ever.

[Jay Z (audio clips)]

Damn.

[Jessica]

Damn.

[DJ Envy]

What was in that bag?

[Clarissa Shields]

Probably some lip gloss.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Some lip gloss? Yeah.

[Jessica]

But it was just the fact that it was her first designer bag that she had bought.

[DJ Envy]

Crazy. She left a bag up here and

[Charlamagne tha God]

I don't know if it was here.

[Clarissa Shields]

I left it somewhere because when I went, went looked on my. Where I go, I looked at my footage, I'm like, yo, I had this bag in LA too. So I did LA and then I came here. So I think I left it in la.

[Charlamagne tha God]

But either or just give it a bag back.

[Jessica]

No, I don't have.

[Clarissa Shields]

I wouldn't still.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Why are you feeling Clarissa?

[Clarissa Shields]

I feel good.

[DJ Envy]

You feel good?

[Lauren LaRosa]

You said you got more bags now. We were seeing you popping out in all the shop things.

[Clarissa Shields]

You know, I got enough money to get stylists now.

[DJ Envy]

So

[Jessica]

you trying to be the artist. You're doing music.

[Clarissa Shields]

What am I gonna do in my free time? You know, listen, I train, I work out, but I want a different way to express myself and I really can't. You know, trying to get million dollar endorsements, you have to have a certain look and have to speak a certain way. But there is like a little cheat code because you can say whatever you want to say in your music. So I'm like, I want to rap, I want to talk my stuff a little bit, I want to sing, I want to show my soft side. But I'm just not boxing right now. I just won. What was that?

[Lauren LaRosa]

February.

[Clarissa Shields]

What the hell is not even February 22. February 22.

[DJ Envy]

February 22.

[Clarissa Shields]

Yeah, y'.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All.

[Clarissa Shields]

I'm sick of y' all too.

[Charlamagne tha God]

What happened?

[Lauren LaRosa]

That was my grandma's birthday weekend.

[Jessica]

What I do.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It was the weekend of the 27th.

[Clarissa Shields]

7% of 18,000 in the building was women. I only seen.

[DJ Envy]

They don't support black women.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That is not true.

[Charlamagne tha God]

They just started supporting each other.

[Clarissa Shields]

I think you did have the show. Now, Laura, I don't know about you, but I know you had.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That week was my grandma's birthday week. So I. I was here.

[Clarissa Shields]

It's one day.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, but she. My grandma don't play about her birthday.

[Clarissa Shields]

That week.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That day.

[Jessica]

On her.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, on her actual birthday, you got do certain things. I didn't do nothing. Like, I took the whole. Like, it was all for her.

[Jessica]

She could have put her grandmother to see you fight.

[Lauren LaRosa]

My grandma don't fly.

[Jessica]

Damn.

[Charlamagne tha God]

What's your excuse?

[Clarissa Shields]

I was her and Y had a show.

[Jessica]

Show, huh?

[Clarissa Shields]

Yunti had a show, too.

[Charlamagne tha God]

She don't even have shows on Sunday. She's a liar.

[Jay Z (audio clips)]

What?

[DJ Envy]

That's facts.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You don't have no shows.

[DJ Envy]

You could have said. You could have made it back here.

[Jessica]

I don't want to lie to her, yo. Yeah, I, I.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So you was free.

[Clarissa Shields]

You just retired from your show on Saturday?

[Jessica]

Yes, that was my. Yeah, that's my travel day because I got to be in here.

[Clarissa Shields]

Look, I want y' all to come watch me whoop some ass.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I wanna. I've been to. I haven't been to any of your fights. I've been to a male fight.

[Charlamagne tha God]

That's not the point.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, but I'm saying I didn't realize how. Yes, and I want to come because I talk so much about your fighting and different things that you do. And what I realized when I went was that in person, it's like, so much more graphic and, like. Yeah, and it's like, it's way better in person, basically.

[Clarissa Shields]

I mean, you wanted somebody get their ass kicked real bad. You come to my fight.

[Jessica]

And that's what I wanted to do. Ain't before the girl from Baltimore.

[DJ Envy]

And so, you know, that's another reason, because she was on the Baltimore side.

[Jessica]

But look, when a girl came, When a girl called up here and was like, you repping for the home team or Clarissa? I was like, I'm repping for the home team, cuz I got to. But I know Clarissa going to win. You know what I'm saying? So.

[Clarissa Shields]

But what does that mean? Like, I. I fought the Olympics twice. I'm like America's golden girl. People everywhere support me. People from the UK support me. You know what I'm saying? Like, we had 18,000, and they were all not from America. We had some Africans in the building. We had some Britons in the building shout out like, it was. It was crazy. Crazy. I mean, I got in the ring, I looked around, I said, this is a. I saw so many first, it was crazy.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Why did it hit you like that? In that moment, I saw when you got in the ring, you looked around you like, wow, like, why? Because you've done it before. Why in that moment?

[Clarissa Shields]

Well, my last fight before that one was 16,000, so then this fight was 18,000. But I looked around, I said, oh, y' all really in this?

[Jessica]

Yeah. Were you shocked?

[Clarissa Shields]

Yeah, I mean, I'm always shocked because I'm just so humble about it. Like, I'm so grateful for my fans. You know, everything that goes on social Media wise, it doesn't overshadow what happens in real life. Like, real life, I have a lot of supporters, a lot of love, a lot of people who believe in me, who I inspire. And when I was able to just look at that, because a lot of times I don't take that in. I just kind of look at, you know, social media or look at the bad stuff. It's like, this is actually really good.

[Jessica]

Yeah, this is really good.

[Clarissa Shields]

Women's boxing is not doing this. I, I'm. I'm top three ticket sellers in boxing right now, male or female. The males can't even sell tickets the way that I sell tickets.

[Charlamagne tha God]

So it puts life in perspective for you when you see that you got real support in the real world.

[Clarissa Shields]

Yeah. Because you see 1.7 million fans. Well, up on Instagram, preferably. And then you. But it's like you got like these hate trains or whatever, all these narratives you got to see every day, all this bull crap, mean stuff. And then you go to an arena and it's nothing but loving and building. 18,000 real people who really there to cheer for me. I think Frank John probably had about 10, 10 people there cheering for me. And that's all right because I did it before I went to the UK and fought against Savannah Marshall with 20k fans and about 100 folks was there cheering for me, I think. But either way, go. I still won though.

[Jessica]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

How do you look at the competition in the pulpit? Right. Because now you're the person everybody wants, right? They want to fight you. You bring in the number, you got the belts. So how do you look at competition or how you pick your next fight? Like, who do you want to fight? Who's talking the most ish that you like? I just want to beat the ish out of Shadesia.

[Clarissa Shields]

It's not really about who talking the most stuff. It's about who's the most competitive. When you look at my record and my resume, I fought against girls who've been undefeated my entire career. Girls who got two or three losses. I don't fight girls who got like a bunch of losses and don't got no resume. Like, I fight against the best. So that's what I'm going to continue to do. Do you know franchise who they thought supposed to give me a. Give me a fight? High school beat down. Beat her down. Now we got Michaela Mayer saying that if I was to go down to 60, she'd fight me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Whoop.

[Clarissa Shields]

Michaela asked too. She Daisha at 168 we supposed to be next, but she fighting the girl that I beat, Lonnie, which don't make no sense because I thought I was scared of Shadisha and just speak on that. Me and, me and Shadesha are cool now. Record you now. But we haven't been cordial for a while. And when I. I wouldn't say I ran down on her, but when you

[DJ Envy]

ran down on her,

[Clarissa Shields]

it was when

[Jessica]

you walked down on her.

[Clarissa Shields]

Yeah. What was it? She was so Twitter. She was saying stuff about when she see me, about what she was gonna do and this and that to my breaking jaws and spitting and all. A bunch of other stuff. So when I seen her, she was staring at me. She was walking past me and I was like, what the you looking at? Cause I'm. I'm already on tip.

[DJ Envy]

You're on go time.

[Clarissa Shields]

Yeah. Because you said when you online, when you. When you see me, you're gonna put your hands on me, gonna break my little jaw so that I'm not intimidated. But I'm like, I'm gonna start to fight before you started now. So she was staring at me too hard. And I said, what you looking at? And she like, I'm just walking by. I said, that's what you better be doing.

[DJ Envy]

Jesus.

[Jessica]

But you don't feel like that's just like for the theatrics. That's how boxes talk is online.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You know what I'm saying?

[Clarissa Shields]

Nah. No, no, no. Some of that stuff is too far.

[Jessica]

Yeah.

[Clarissa Shields]

You know what I'm saying? Some of that stuff is too far. You know, I think that. That it's trash talk. And then it's like disrespect. When you talking about family and mamas and breaking jaws and spitting on people, like, that's, that's, that's just too far.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Shoving Franon too far.

[Clarissa Shields]

Yeah, Fran went too far.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I'm talking about when you shoved her. You think you went too far.

[Clarissa Shields]

That's boxing. You see shoving all the time. Guys hit each other and face off, push each other, slap each other. I've seen Terence do it. You see it at a lot of these weigh ins. That's not abnormal.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Normal.

[DJ Envy]

Does it bother you with all the stuff that goes around online? Because I feel. I feel like sometimes you'd be answering. I'm like, why even answering?

[Clarissa Shields]

I'm trying to get better, which I want. You.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You have.

[Clarissa Shields]

I've gotten a lot better in the last year. I can say that. But it'd be like, some of this stuff just be pissing me off. I'D be like, oh, my God.

[Charlamagne tha God]

It's kind of the price of greatness, though, right?

[Clarissa Shields]

Yeah. You know what some. Somebody said, you know, looking at my life? They said, if God told you he can give you everything that you want, like, your heart desires. You want to be undefeated. You want to be in good health. You want to have good man. You want to have millions of dollars, you want to have a house, cars, help take care of your family. You can have all that, but you have to deal with people lying on you, deal with them creating narratives and playing on your name and discrediting you. Which one would you choose? And I said, I would definitely choose.

[Charlamagne tha God]

That's right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I. I think what it is, though, too, is, like, some of the stuff when you put your energy and your time and your, like, voice and stuff on it. Like, we. We talked about the whole, like, radio thing when you called the she show.

[Clarissa Shields]

Yeah, they pissed me off, too, but.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But even that. It's like, that was you.

[Jessica]

She makes it bigger when she does respond.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And even that. I told you, I'm like, well, it's not a story. Until now. Clarissa Shields is calling the radio station because there have been things that I've reached out to you about, and you're like, why are we even putting light on this? And I'm like, girl, you called. Like, you know what I mean? You make it where I now have to.

[Clarissa Shields]

It just was annoying to be somebody to send me this link, which I tell my friends, don't send me,

[Jessica]

but

[Clarissa Shields]

three days, three nights in a row, they sent me this link, and there's people live calling me into this channel, and their owner just lying. I'm like, I can. I can strangle somebody right now. They're on there lying like, oh, her tickets aren't selling for her fight. We heard the fight's gonna be canceled. Have not allowed in Detroit. Just. Oh, my. It was so many things on this call, and I was like, let me just call in and just not.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Why not wait till the night of and show everybody sold out? You know what I mean?

[Clarissa Shields]

Because it was in that moment, I was like, why y' all lying? Like, I know the feeling.

[DJ Envy]

You know the feeling.

[Clarissa Shields]

Say what you want. Just tell the truth. Like, even if it's bad, some stuff they say, that's. Listen, if it's anything bad about me, everybody believe it. It's something good. They. It's made up.

[DJ Envy]

They was like, is that you, Clarissa? She like, no, that's not me.

[Jessica]

No, that's not me.

[DJ Envy]

That was you, Clarissa, right?

[Clarissa Shields]

I Should have changed my voice a little bit more. But at the end of the day, at the end of the day I'm actually happy that that happened because what I realized was he just got back on there. Lying again. Yeah, it was, it. It was one of those moments I was like, yeah, you got.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You got to understand. Some people literally lie for a living.

[Clarissa Shields]

Yeah. It's like the lie Olympics.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yes.

[Clarissa Shields]

And they're winning.

[Charlamagne tha God]

When does greatness start to feel like a burden instead of a blessing?

[Clarissa Shields]

Well, one greatness can never feel like a burden.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Okay.

[Clarissa Shields]

Ever.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I would rather be.

[Clarissa Shields]

I'd rather be great than be. Be then. Then be a failure. Be a loser. No, no, no. But I would say that it has its moments where it was like, I don't want to be a celebrity no more, man. This is too much like they.

[Jessica]

You.

[Clarissa Shields]

You can't do nothing. Nothing's good enough. I've. I've accomplished everything in boxing. I don't even need to come up here and speak about boxing no more. It's like, who gonna beat me? Who gonna check me in boxing? It's not gonna happen. But then you have this real life stuff and like to have people lying on your cat. Crazy. Well, you don't have a cat.

[Jessica]

Yes, yes, absolutely.

[Clarissa Shields]

That's one like the thing that's like,

[DJ Envy]

why are you looking at it like that?

[Clarissa Shields]

Wow. To me. No, but it's like I get what you're saying and deal people just, just saying stuff about you. That's not true. It's like that is where I'd be like, you know what? People having a perspective about you. That's not true. Listen, you don't have to like my Persona. You don't have to like how I look, how I dress. Dress. That's your opinion. But now when you start putting your mouth on my character, putting your mouth on my life. That's where I got an issue at. That's times I'm like, man, I really wish that I wasn't a celebrity. But you really can't take it back. I'm never going to stop posting on social media.

[Jessica]

Yeah.

[Clarissa Shields]

Make money off there.

[Jessica]

How did that even come about though? Like the guy lying on the cat and all that lying on you. How did that even have. Where would he have even gotten anything like that?

[Clarissa Shields]

I'm not, I'm not here to get body a platform but. But myself. But I've never had a sexual or romantic relationship with that dude. 50 got this. Let me rewind. New Year's Day. Do you guys remember what were you Guys doing New Year's, I was in

[Charlamagne tha God]

Cape Town, South Africa.

[Jessica]

I was getting lead by my husband, period.

[Clarissa Shields]

Husband.

[Jessica]

Yeah, okay, but go ahead.

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Mexican.

[Clarissa Shields]

Shut up.

[DJ Envy]

Anyway, she married to him.

[Jessica]

He black too, though. Okay?

[Clarissa Shields]

She. She like. She made him black.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, I'm sorry.

[Clarissa Shields]

No, but. So, all right.

[Jessica]

Boom.

[Clarissa Shields]

So New Year's, I went to sleep. I had won some money at the casino, and then we went to sleep, right? I wake up New Year's, you like, breath of fresh air. It's time to be new. It's time to be forget who you was last year. It's new. It's New Year, new me, new everything, right? I get up at 6 in the morning, I read my Jesus calling. I look at the Bible verse of the day, and then I get online, and then 50 is trolling 50 Cent, the mogul trailing me. First thing I thought to myself, well, he told me and Pap what the hell I ever did to 50 Cent. So I'm thinking. I'm thinking in my mind, did I do maybe I trigger 50 in some way? I've never done nothing to 50. Nothing.

[Jessica]

From.

[Clarissa Shields]

From what I know, he's a fan, right?

[Jessica]

Boom.

[Clarissa Shields]

So from that, Pap got to going back and forth with him and whatever. But y' all know me, I can't keep my mouth shut.

[Jessica]

Yeah.

[Clarissa Shields]

50, why you come messing with me? It's New Years. You don't want to be a new. A New Year new, you be better. Elevate, right? Stop being petty and stop being a troll. He 51, when he gonna stop? So from there, they got the going back and forth. And then Pat told me after the fight, he like, Pap already had the discs already locked and loaded. He like, I'm gonna diss this man. And when Pap said he gonna dish you, he gonna dish you. The lyrics and the bars came.

[Charlamagne tha God]

So this he just put out.

[Clarissa Shields]

He been had since he had it for a minute. He said he wasn't gonna drop it till after my fight because he didn't want me to be off focused on my fight.

[DJ Envy]

Because first this. Not. Not this one.

[Charlamagne tha God]

The first one, I don't remember.

[DJ Envy]

Only Pat released, I think two or three.

[Clarissa Shields]

And then he got Agent Provocateur treatment on all. Treatment on all platforms, period.

[Jessica]

That's right.

[Clarissa Shields]

But no. So from there, you know, he did his thing. But I also was like, really? I was really confused, and I just had to call it what it was. I am, you know, I am the algorithm. I hate to say it, but how it was. Beyonce's Internet is Clarissa shields Internet. I'm trending every day. Old stuff, new stuff, fake stuff. So I think that 50 just want to tie his name to mine and he that's why he trolled me and Pep that morning. So he got dissed and I have to got dissed. Instead of him responding like the mogul that he is and getting in the booth he decided to lie on my cat and try to paint out this narrative that I slept with this guy and and that never happened. That's why now my lawyers has been in contact with his lawyers and we sent them a cease and said stop lying on my case. Say call me ugly, call me handsome, say I'm strong, whatever you want to say but we not going to do that.

[DJ Envy]

How did you get my character there? Cuz I think the first or second time I met you was at the car show in in Street Folk with fifth So I was like well how did y' all go from being cool to totally that way?

[Clarissa Shields]

That's 50. Why why we here acting like 50 need a reason?

[DJ Envy]

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[Clarissa Shields]

They mess with somebody because usually there's

[DJ Envy]

a reason there's something.

[Clarissa Shields]

He going to troll you tomorrow.

[DJ Envy]

Now, I've known him for a long time, but how did you all get there? Like it just, you know.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Oh, that be fire.

[Clarissa Shields]

I want to send a message today. Hey, I hit men. That's what I wanted the say.

[DJ Envy]

So you don't know how it got there?

[Clarissa Shields]

No, I'm telling you, nothing's ever happened between me and me. Me and 50. He invite. He actually invited me to Shreveport. Pay for my flight, pay for my hotel, everything. So to wake up to this on New Year's, it was like, bro, nah, dog. That's, that's. That's wild to me. So he started that whole stuff with me. I've never started nothing with 50, but, you know, I'm a person where it's like, look, don't start with me if you don't want to. You don't really want to go there. You don't want to go there. Just don't start. And the only reason I didn't really go super back hard at him, it was because when I was in camp and two pap told me not to too. That's it. Pap always tell me not to do something. He always telling me I got it.

[Jessica]

And sometimes you listen, sometimes you don't.

[Clarissa Shields]

I. I'm trying.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Why you ain't going to boo against 50?

[Lauren LaRosa]

What I got.

[Clarissa Shields]

I got a me to do that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

When you got online in response to the claims that you were dealing with the guy and you were showing the text messages or whatever, do you feel like that cleared it up? Cuz I feel like that made us more confused. Like it showed us that you didn't sleep with him, but there was some sort of like y' all were like in conversation of. Of some sort.

[Clarissa Shields]

Please stop. Lauren, you. You confusing me.

[Jessica]

I'm not.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I'm told you to stop. Come over here.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, because the conversation that you.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I was.

[Clarissa Shields]

I was cool with him, right? That's somebody who I would would have considered a friend at the time. We wasn't no best friends. We wasn't super close. But all that. What he talking about, Trying to paint a nerve that never existed. It never. Kiss, laid in the bed, sex. Flirted like, flirted like it's nothing. I don't even know what that is. He's just trying to make something that is not. And that's it.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You know, it's crazy though. You got to be careful and stuff like that. Even not even talking about dude. But now that you got. Because you do have a newfound level of celebrity, right?

[Clarissa Shields]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

So it'll be people from your past that'll just pop up all of a sudden with all types of messages and all these.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And that's why. That's why what I was saying by like being confused. Cuz I thought when he was posting everything 50, I'm like, okay, if she going live to clear it up, it's about to be like, she don't even know this man. He's just like a. Like a. A fan. And then the conversation, I'm like, wait, what the hell? Like, who is this person? Where did he come from and why?

[Clarissa Shields]

Well, like I said, Shreveport. That's the first time I ever seen him. And then he started showing up everywhere where I was at. Like, I'm very out there. I'm outside. I was hosting the stripper party.

[Jessica]

That's where he.

[Clarissa Shields]

He came to and got. I. I didn't know him then. So to have a whole montage video and I don't know you, that speaks kind of for itself. But now he keeps wanting to establish we was cool. I knew you, bro. Who gives a. We never had sex. We never was romantic. So why do you want to make everybody know? But we were cool.

[Jessica]

So what?

[Clarissa Shields]

You and your man's lied. It's okay. Let it go. Y' all lie. It's cool.

[DJ Envy]

Did that affect your relationship with Pap or he understood from the door?

[Clarissa Shields]

First of all, I've always been transparent with Pap about everything I've been told him him last year. So I'm like, yo, this dude on this. This dude I'm cool with been kind of acting kind of strange. He like, what you mean? I'm like, yo, he telling my best friend that I hurt his feelings and he feel led on or something like that. And I'm like, yo, how could he feel that way? That's not. That's not possible. But I don't know if y' all ever experienced it, but somebody you cool with.

[Jessica]

Yeah.

[Clarissa Shields]

Who's your friend who you think is cool? Now all of a sudden, they like, no, we more than that. That.

[Jessica]

Listen, absolutely.

[Clarissa Shields]

Me and you more than just friends.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And even you don't know.

[DJ Envy]

So you've seen this happen. You've seen. You've seen the making of this. So you seen where it was.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She was telling them in the combo. Like, we. I got somebody. Like, she was trying to tell him in the combo.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Same guy.

[Clarissa Shields]

Yeah, but it's like he just. He wants to. 50 paid this man to just lie, and he want to keep lying. And it's like he's embarrassing himself. He looks a mess. He looks a mess just up there, and it's just like, he needs to just stop.

[Caller from Brooklyn]

Yeah.

[Clarissa Shields]

You know, I don't even want to be up here talking about him because it's gonna bring light to the bull crap again. But it's more of a thing like, y'.

[Mimi Brown]

All.

[Clarissa Shields]

Y' all said I slept with him. That's disrespectful to me. Why? I'm in a committed relationship. And then two, why would I sleep with you?

[Charlamagne tha God]

I know you don't want to talk about it, but Lauren got three more questions about it. Go ahead, Lauren.

[Clarissa Shields]

Hey, yo. I'm just saying, though, like, Lauren be doing her job.

[Lauren LaRosa]

The only thing for me is I

[DJ Envy]

near felt like, oh, yeah, I thought you really knew. You was just

[Lauren LaRosa]

like, why even show all of this like it was.

[Clarissa Shields]

No, I just wanted to.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's been times where I've hit you. Like, Clarissa, you don't even have to do all that.

[Clarissa Shields]

I'm getting better. I don't know what y' all want me to do.

[Jessica]

Yeah, look, all I.

[Clarissa Shields]

All I can do is try. And when I try to get better, like I said, I'm getting better at ignoring a whole lot of stuff, like YouTube. Oh, my God. I see some of this stuff. I'd be like, jesus, please.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Oh, no. You got people that have whole accounts just for you.

[Clarissa Shields]

Just in me. Yep. I feel. And by the way, I feel honored.

[Jessica]

I was going to say. How does that make you feel?

[Clarissa Shields]

You should feel.

[Jessica]

I feel.

[Clarissa Shields]

I feel honored. They've been using some of my good pictures. They be. But they be like, oh, this one Ugly. I'm like, no, not that one, baby.

[Charlamagne tha God]

What does. What does peace even look like for you nowadays, Clarissa?

[Clarissa Shields]

Peace?

[Jessica]

Yes.

[Clarissa Shields]

At home with pap. Watching the boxing matches at the hookah lounge, listening to loud music, you know, eating some food the girls love.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Say less.

[Clarissa Shields]

We love Brooklyn Chopping Pops.

[Caller from Brooklyn]

Okay.

[Clarissa Shields]

Shout out to them, Popeyes. I'm talking about food and everything because I have to refrain from eating so much food when I'm in camp. So when I'm out of camp, I get to eat food. Fried chicken. Teaching my niece how to box. My. My little nuki, you know what I'm saying? Spending time with them. You know what I'm saying? And when I get to go on social media and just post and make money, I don't have to deal with. With, like, I made my account now to where it's like, a lot of stuff can't get to my account. Like, I used to have it open to where anybody could DM me because it was fans and people that really needed inspiration and help. I. I've talked people from killing they. I've talked people out of killing theirelf. Talked them through fighting cancer. So I kept it open. But now it's like, you know, I hate to be the bougie one, but this is why Beyonce don't. Beyonce don't talk to y'.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All.

[Clarissa Shields]

This is why. Because in order for you to keep elevating, you have to to block all of that stuff out. The Sally is the good stuff and the best stuff, but majority of the best stuff because people for them to come trolling me every day, I think they just be mad that I still be sitting there just laughing, happy, still flourishing in my relationship, flourishing in my career. You know. The last fight made four and a half, five million dollars. What we talking about? Then I got paid three million for a signing bonus. That eight million that we was talking about. That minimum been made back already. Not my next fight. We could talk about that. Which I'm gonna go down to 160. I'm go down to 160 because 175. I don't. I don't clean that out.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Why did she. I'm wonder why she Shedeza chose another fight. When your fight is the money fight, that's the fight that's gonna bring attention.

[Clarissa Shields]

That's the fight you need. That's an accudation. I can't answer that for you.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Like, wow, that's crazy.

[Clarissa Shields]

But I think her wanted to fight against the girl that I fought against. She was. Wants to see is she really ready. I don't think she knows.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She really.

[Clarissa Shields]

After that performance I put up on cuz the seat. Hold on. Had to give like the Franchine. But franchise beat Shadasha, right?

[Jessica]

Okay.

[Clarissa Shields]

So it's like for Jacia to be saying she can beat me. It's like. But I beat her. And I didn't only just beat Franchine. I beat the French. Like it wasn't just a, you know it. It was a. I enjoyed that fight. I love watching the highlights.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah.

[Clarissa Shields]

Just. She ran up with two punters. I hit her with 10. It's crazy.

[DJ Envy]

We look forward to seeing you on your next fight.

[Clarissa Shields]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

Kicking some ass.

[Clarissa Shields]

Y' all come. I don't really care if y' all two come.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And you got the new music out too.

[Clarissa Shields]

Yeah. So listen, stream, first of all, Pap is like really mad about this, but my rap name is Russa the Gu Pap talk I changed to cla Shields.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Why is it Russell Russ. Oh, r. Oh, he say she changed.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Clarissa.

[Clarissa Shields]

Cla Shields. He like, everybody know you as Clarissa Shields.

[Jessica]

Yeah, Brand, I mean, but it's just two different people.

[Clarissa Shields]

I got you like, Clarissa Shields is like the boxer, the champion, the two time Olympic gold Mel Legs like, you know, the girl with the fat ass.

[DJ Envy]

Well, Clarissa, she gotta go.

[Charlamagne tha God]

She got things.

[Clarissa Shields]

Yeah, I gotta go. Thank y' all so much for having me. I got another interview.

[DJ Envy]

All right, but.

[Clarissa Shields]

But bad guy, I had. I had some bars on there, and I got bars on killer, too. Hey, but the Love song faithful is coming out out this week, period. So stay, pay attention. Stream it on all platforms.

[DJ Envy]

All right, There you have it. It's Clarissa Shields, ladies and gentlemen. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Let's get to the latest with Lauren, period.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[Jessica]

Little brown girls look at you and

[Charlamagne tha God]

be like, you take me through that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Take me through there.

[Charlamagne tha God]

She going.

[Senator Jeff Merkley]

The latest with Lauren.

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Take me through there on the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Ll Talk to me. Was supposed to be here.

[DJ Envy]

I thought Lauren was too.

[Charlamagne tha God]

She was texting like she was about to walk in the building.

[DJ Envy]

She's not here yet. She's. She's in a little bit of traffic. Lauren woke up late this morning, so we holding down for her. So. All right, now the latest with Lauren. Lauren was supposed to text me, but she didn't. But. All right. She talked about the conversation Usher had with Forbes, and during that conversation, and Usher spoke about his relationship with Diddy and how that. How he looks at Diddy. At this time.

[Jabari Young (interviewee)]

I don't have anything negative to say about Sean Combs because my experience was not what the world has seen and how he's been, you know, misrepresented. I can't, with any sense of humanity not recognize the valuable contributions that this man made for us as black entrepreneurs, for us as businessmen, for us as people who transition, you know, culture and ideas into something that's tangible. So many people benefited from what he created. And I acknowledge that. And that's why I see him, his legacy. Puff was a mentor, Bump, but he was, you know, you had that really, really hard teacher, but you're watching something in real time now. You can't turn on the television and not see the influence of hip hop. But the people who actually made that appropriate and are the forefathers are people like Sean Combs. That's who I see that man as. And that's what I choose to remember. What I learned as a businessman came as a result of seeing the incredible things that he was able to do.

[DJ Envy]

And that was from jabari young interviews.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You can't say that usher is wrong because that's his experience. You know, just like young Miami. When I had my sit down with her, she had a similar sentiment. And I mean, sentiment. Yeah, sentiment. And I mean, you know, they actually knew him. Like, their experiences with him was different. If you ask a person their personal, individual experience about a person, they can only tell you their personal, individual experience. Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

That clip actually went viral yesterday. Yung Miami talking about how she looked at diddy.

[Jabari Young (interviewee)]

We have the clip.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You wrote a letter vouching for diddy's character, and a lot of people were upset because they was like, you know, how could she do that? After seeing the video with Cassie, a lot of people wanted to know why you decided to still write that letter.

[Clarissa Shields]

I think I wrote a letter for a change, man. I think that the man that I

[Lauren LaRosa]

met and that I experienced was changed.

[Clarissa Shields]

I'm not gon justify somebody or, like, support some.

[Lauren LaRosa]

If I felt like that person was a change and I felt like the person that I met was changed, it was a different experience. So that's why I wrote a letter.

[Charlamagne tha God]

How do you. How do you reconcile supporting someone publicly when the court of public opinion is saying something completely different?

[Lauren LaRosa]

If my time that I experienced with

[Clarissa Shields]

you is one way, I can only judge that person that way. I can't speak to nothing that I don't know of.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I can only speak to the person that I met. And if I met this person that

[Clarissa Shields]

changed my life, that helped me grow,

[Jessica]

that treated me like a queen, that

[Clarissa Shields]

made me believe in myself.

[Jessica]

That's what I know.

[Charlamagne tha God]

And they're not justifying anything that he's accused of. They're not justifying anything that we saw him do. They're just simply saying, you asking me about my personal experience with him.

[DJ Envy]

Correct.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I can only tell you about my personal experience.

[DJ Envy]

Like, for instance, Lauren. Lauren's finally here. You've been to diddy parties. Turn her mic on. You've been to diddy parties. You didn't see any of the things that people say. I'm not joking. But you worked at diddy parties.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, I've worked at some of the parties because I was working for serata.

[DJ Envy]

But same.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, it's completely different.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I don't know.

[DJ Envy]

Some people say different things, and when

[Charlamagne tha God]

people see things, oh, but that's not the same. Going attending a party and actually having personal experiences with a person is totally different.

[Jessica]

Yeah, yeah, they were. And then they did business together, and they were also in a relationship, you know, whatever. So, like, people were getting upset at her for sharing her experience, but that's who she experienced. A changed man. That's why she wrote. You know what I'm saying? You.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She.

[Jessica]

You can't get mad at her. She didn't witness. Oh, yeah.

[DJ Envy]

This is what they witnessed, what they seen, what they've been around. Absolutely positive.

[Jessica]

Get mad at them.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I just think one of the. The. The reasons why I thought that these things are correlated. And I saw yesterday when it picked up so big, I was like, the conversation and how people are having it around Diddy, like the people who personally knew him. It's changing so much versus what we were seeing in the beginning, because I feel like people were, like, quiet and kind of just waiting.

[DJ Envy]

But it's crazy. Nobody had nothing in the beginning. Everybody was quiet.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Everybody.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Is it crazy or is it one of them?

[DJ Envy]

Things like that. You feel like that. Regardless. You feel like that if he's. If he got 10 years, if he was on trial, if he just don't

[Jessica]

want the feedback correct.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't know if I blame people

[Charlamagne tha God]

or they weren't doing interviews. Like, they weren't getting interviewed around that time. Not that I remember.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, I mean, that was a whole conversation with young Miami people at the instant that it happened. Wanted her to, like, come out and do all these things. And I think that's a thing, too, of, like, you actually kind of like, gathering to see what's going on or whatever.

[Jessica]

But, like, people were quiet. Like, you didn't want to jump out there, be the first to jump out there and say nothing, and everybody on your ass.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, update in the Diddy situation. I was talking to his attorneys yesterday because a few days ago, there was a. A civil lawsuit that people were reporting on about Diddy and Cassie. He allegedly giving one of the escorts ass words.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I seen that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, you saw that.

[Charlamagne tha God]

See, this is the thing about the Diddy situation. You know what I mean? People think that you'd be kicking Diddy back. And it's not that you kick Diddy back in. It's just, how can you not chuckle when you hear something like that?

[DJ Envy]

Ass wars.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah, I've never even heard that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I've never experienced it.

[Clarissa Shields]

Right.

[DJ Envy]

I've never heard of that.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Shut up.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, I called the attorney and I asked about those.

[DJ Envy]

You asked about ass?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, I just asked like, what are y' all about to do? It's all these civil cases. There's over like 18.

[Jessica]

I mean, it's just the words on your ass, y'.

[Charlamagne tha God]

All.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I just wanted to know how they about to figure out all this money on the civil side.

[Jessica]

Words on your butt, like, that's just what it is. I mean, I didn't know you can get them there, but you know what award is.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But how do you know that's not what I asked the attorney? You know, not his lane of business. But yeah, it wrapping up.

[DJ Envy]

See this way it turns funny. But like just.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I just get questions.

[DJ Envy]

I'm sorry.

[Lauren LaRosa]

This is why I can't take nothing. This why people weren't doing interviews in the beginning. Cuz who wants to go through this?

[Jessica]

Exactly.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But in. In wrapping up, the attorney said, y' all know he's waiting on the appeal to. To start to kick off in April. They're waiting for everything on the criminal side to finish and that appeal to potentially happen. And they really believe that he has a strong chance on the appeal because it'll make things easier on the civil side to get rid of some of those cases. So they've been like putting in these motions to make everything like kind of stop as much as they can until the criminal side goes through. So.

[Charlamagne tha God]

All right, that's cool. But as on are small flesh colored pinkish growths caused by specific strains of hpv and they are contagious, typically spread through sexual contact, including cause itching, bleeding, or discomfort. Treatments include prescription creams, freezing burning, or surgical removal.

[DJ Envy]

So the male escort got ass war. So how would he act?

[Charlamagne tha God]

This is all alleged, man, I don't know. I. I'm just talking about the anal. I like. What do we.

[Jessica]

Because it has to come from like some type of butt sex, don't it? It got to come from that. I mean, I'm just saying.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm trying to bring up. I didn't expect to get so much

[DJ Envy]

in the angel of penetration.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Right?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Hold on. So hold on. In order to get it, do you got to put your butt to the other person's butt and rub it?

[DJ Envy]

Don't do that.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You got to go cheek to cheek. I want to see you do that.

[Jessica]

Stupid. Yo.

[DJ Envy]

All right, that is the latest. She's finally here. Charlamagne, who you giving your ass words to?

[Charlamagne tha God]

Oh, my God. Listen, we need a man named Brian McKinnon to come to the front of the congregation. We would like to have a word with him, please.

[DJ Envy]

All right.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

We'll get to that next it's the breakfast love.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Morning.

[DJ Envy]

Your execution on the donkey of the

[Charlamagne tha God]

day is something to behold.

[DJ Envy]

Is it a read?

[Lauren LaRosa]

He gave me donkey of the day

[Jessica]

and I deserve the. People need to know.

[Clarissa Shields]

Well, you need to tell them I am.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You have the voice. Tell them it's time for donkey of the day.

[Jessica]

It's a read. But you're so good at it, you're

[Charlamagne tha God]

trying to be a fake ass. Charlamagne. There's only one char

[Clarissa Shields]

Damn Charlemagne.

[Jessica]

Who you giving dusty of the day to?

[Charlamagne tha God]

Well, sexy red donkey of the day for Wednesday, March 25th goes to a Manhattan real estate attorney named Brian McKenna. Now, Brian is going to prison, ladies and gentlemen, okay? That's why the New York Post referred to him as disgraced real estate attorney Brian McKenna. He's 62 years old and he's going to prison for up to six years. Why? What do men usually risk it all for? That poom poom. Okay? That kitty, that undercarriage, that cook, that penis. Fly trap. Yes. Brian McKenna is being accused of stealing $4.4 million intended for Covid protective gear, Allegedly to fund a romance with his then girlfriend. Oh, the power of the P. U. S. I can't spell the rest. Would you like to hear his reaction in the court? Let's listen. I did these crimes. I deserve to go to jail. I don't know what else to say for myself.

[Clarissa Shields]

I understand and I really appreciate you taking full responsibility.

[Charlamagne tha God]

But ultimately, sir.

[DJ Envy]

All right,

[Charlamagne tha God]

now, there's so many things that disgust me about this story. Number one, you stole all this money from people who needed it. Okay? Folks needed that Covid protective gear during COVID and you just stole it, okay? You just stole the money for it, all right? A man who didn't need it, okay?

[Lauren LaRosa]

You're a lawyer.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You 62 years old, Brian. So you were in your 50s when you came up with this scam. Because what Kobe was cold coven was six years ago, Okay? I don't understand people who literally have the world in their hand. You have worked hard to become an attorney in this country, okay? You, more than a lot of people understand the process of life. You understand life is a process, okay? Becoming a lawyer takes at least seven years of full time higher education in this country, all right? Four years for a bachelor's degree. Three years of law school. You have to pass the bar exam. They got a baby bar and the big bar. My point is, is it's not easy. And nothing in life worth having ever is. But for some reason, you thought you could cut the line. You Thought you could take a $4.4 million shortcut. All to impress a woman who already has her own money. He was dating the then CEO of Aston's Group. Her name was Dooney Zanae. Okay? That's according to the New York Post. I don't know how much she was making, but if she was the CEO of a company, she was touching paper. So I don't know why you went out of your way, Brian. To impress her. And I don't even like that phrase, fund a romance. You don't fund a romance. Romance happens because of physical attraction, emotional connection, situational factors. Okay? Y' all might just match energies, all right? You like the same things, share the same beliefs. And let's not forget the most important part. Reciprocal liking. Okay? You like me, I like you. Romance can't be fun. Funded. Now, you can go buy some pink taco with some money, all right? Go to Nevada. Pull up in certain counties at a brothel, and you can purchase as much as that Harry Potter as you want. But funding a romance? I don't even want no romance. That's funded because there's no such thing. You can't buy love, fool. Now, Brian was in the courtroom crying his ass off. I want y' all to hear this again, man, just listen. I did these crimes, and I deserve to go to jail. I don't know what else to say. Well, I.

[Clarissa Shields]

Sir. All right, Mr. McKenna, I understand, and

[DJ Envy]

I really appreciate you taking full responsibility.

[Charlamagne tha God]

But ultimately, sir. All right, Ultimately what? Ultimately what? He is going to jail for six years. I respect that. He's holding himself accountable, okay? He said he did these crimes. He said he deserves to go to jail. Now, his defense lawyer, Eric Franz, claimed to the court that Brian had run into financial struggle struggles. And that he was just trying to help his family with the stolen funds. But Assistant D. A Jonathan Borrow, alleged that Brian stole the money to spend on himself and his gal pal. Dooney's a. Nate, Listen, neither one of those are valid reasons. So many people are having financial struggles. And sadly, they don't have the luxury of resorting to crime to get it. Okay? And you, Brian, were in a privileged position already. Not just a privileged position to get money because you were a lawyer, you know what I'm saying? But also a Manhattan real estate attorney. Should be able to get his hands on some happy clam. But nope, instead, you gotta guard your balloon. Not for the next six years in somebody's prison, okay? Probably get ass watched. And for what? The moral of the story is, life is a matter of choices. And every choice you make makes you. Please give Brian McKenna the sweetest. He the big, the sweet, the sweet sounds of the Hamiltones. That's what I want. Had to think about it

[DJ Envy]

of the day. Of the day.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I started to say, give Brian McKenna a Swedish hee Haw, but that sounds like something you can purchase a lot of Brothel in Nevada.

[DJ Envy]

All right, well, let's open up the phone lines. Right? Let's talk about funding around romance.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I don't think there's no such thing.

[DJ Envy]

800-585-1051. Is there such thing as funga romance? Now, I looked this up. Meaning chat. GPT says usually means financially supporting a romantic relationship, paying for trips, gifts, dinners, lifestyle. Someone live a certain way.

[Jessica]

That is.

[DJ Envy]

That's the definition. Why have you been in a funded romance?

[Charlamagne tha God]

I don't believe you can fund a romance.

[Jessica]

It's not even. You can find the experience of Roman romance. You know what I mean? But no, no, not, not, no.

[DJ Envy]

Has somebody funded your romance before?

[Jessica]

Absolutely. Big sugar daddy back in the day.

[Charlamagne tha God]

But that don't mean it was romance.

[Jessica]

I get it. I get it.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Like, you and Chris are in love.

[Jessica]

Absolutely.

[Charlamagne tha God]

That's your husband. Y' all got a child. Y' all could pull up to a pizza place and it's romantic because y' all two are in love.

[Jessica]

Yes. You have to make the other person feel valued and wanted and showing up consistently there. Those are things. You cannot put a price.

[DJ Envy]

But how has somebody funded your romance before experience?

[Jessica]

You know, surprise trips, flowers, gifts, a car, house.

[DJ Envy]

You got a car.

[Jessica]

You know, things I said, it's the sugar daddy days.

[Charlamagne tha God]

But those aren't. Those are just experiences. They're not romantic experiences. Romantic experiences. If you actually had a physical attraction to this person, if you liked him, he liked you. You know, Jess and sugar daddy sitting in the tree.

[Jessica]

Well, he can't get no damn tree. But listen. No, no, no.

[Charlamagne tha God]

All right, all right.

[Jessica]

Well, then, yeah, that was me acting romantic like I was.

[DJ Envy]

So you acted like that to get more gifts?

[Jessica]

Yes, exactly.

[DJ Envy]

But you didn't really love the guy.

[Jessica]

Okay, that's what that is.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Jessica]

Yeah, pretty much, yeah. And I was the trick key, right?

[Charlamagne tha God]

Oh, hoe.

[DJ Envy]

I wasn't gonna say that. I wasn't gonna say that.

[Jessica]

More than one sugar daddy. So I wasn't no hoe.

[DJ Envy]

Okay. All right. Well, let's open up the phone lines. Can you fund the romance? 800-585-1051. Is that a thing?

[Charlamagne tha God]

No.

[DJ Envy]

Let's discuss. It's the Breakfast Club. Good Morning.

[Charlamagne tha God]

It's topic time.

[DJ Envy]

Call 800-585-1051 to join into the discussion

[Charlamagne tha God]

with the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now, if you're just joining us, we're opening up the phone lines. 800-585-1051. And we're talking about. Can you fund a romance? Now this comes from Charlemagne's donkey.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yes, man. A Manhattan real estate attorney named Brian McKenna was found guilty for. Was found guilty of stealing Covid relief funds. Did I say that right? Let me make sure I did that right. Yes. He stole $4.4 million that was needed for Covid protective gear. And they said he did it to fund a romance. And I say romance can't be funded. You know what I'm saying? Romance happens because you actually like a person. There's a physical attraction. There's an emotional connection. You know, you and that person match energies. You know, you like that person, that person likes you. That's what makes something romantic.

[Clarissa Shields]

For sure.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I agree. You can't buy love, right? You could buy things that people enjoy and love, but you cannot buy the actual feeling of a connection that. That can't be purchased. Even though, Jess, you have said that.

[Jessica]

I realized that the sugar daddy relationship, that definitely when he bought your car,

[DJ Envy]

you said I love you Most definitely.

[Jessica]

I told him I love him before. That's why I got the car.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Jessica]

But that, you know, I didn't realize that.

[Clarissa Shields]

Yo.

[Jessica]

No, that wasn't real romance. I was just act to get what I wanted.

[DJ Envy]

And why didn't it work? Because the money ran out or.

[Jessica]

I think he just got tired of me. Like, keep asking for. Yeah, because he ain't worked from the waist down. He was like.

[Charlamagne tha God]

What?

[Jessica]

He was like.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah, he.

[Jessica]

He just really liked to be kissed. He liked. He stripped in front of things like that.

[DJ Envy]

He was shitting that into a paraplegic.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yes, I listen, not a paraplegic, man.

[Jessica]

No, he wasn't. All his limbs. It's just that nothing worked. Waist down. It didn't work.

[Charlamagne tha God]

He was in a wheelchair.

[Jessica]

Yes, he's in a wheelchair, but he wasn't paraplegic, though. He didn't have anything.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You are a funny.

[Jessica]

What happened? Wait, wait.

[DJ Envy]

How did you meet him? I'm just curious.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You buried the lead. Okay, he was in a wheelchair.

[Jessica]

No, it didn't. He could get around and stuff.

[DJ Envy]

How'd you meet him?

[Jessica]

I don't even remember.

[Charlamagne tha God]

So you had this man tricking his disability.

[DJ Envy]

Did he die.

[Jessica]

He no he did. Oh now. But no, he had just told me, like this has to come to an end. Like he feels like I'm not in love with him anymore. Like I feel like just using your

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[Jessica]

constantly taking, taking, taking.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You were. She told me about it. She said his name was Hank, and she used to have called him Hank on wheels. So if you did and you said in your phone it said how? When he would call, that is so.

[DJ Envy]

No, let's. Let's go to the phone lines.

[Jessica]

Hello?

[DJ Envy]

Who's this?

[Caller from Brooklyn]

This is Jacal from Chicago.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, Nicole from the shower. Can you fund a romance? Can somebody fund a romance?

[Caller from Brooklyn]

Yes. Oh, my. My love language is gifts. Me and my husband been together for eight years with money that's.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Don't count. That's your. That's your husband. You felt you grew to love him first.

[DJ Envy]

Maybe not.

[Jessica]

You gotta ask, did he buy you?

[Caller from Brooklyn]

No, this is my love language. It's gifts I like. You know, you buy me things that might be like a gift card. The Chipotle. It might be all right, but look,

[Jessica]

let me ask you this. If he stops buying you gifts, would you divorce him? He. Everything else is the same. He just stopped with the gifts. He slowed down with the gifts. Exactly.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You love him.

[Jessica]

Other ways to be romantic than him buying gifts for you.

[Charlamagne tha God]

What's the other way?

[DJ Envy]

Hello? Who's this?

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yo, the g from Charleston. 843. What's happening?

[DJ Envy]

Can you fund romance, G?

[Charlamagne tha God]

Cool. No. I mean, ain't no such thing, bruh. That's. That's. That's a. That's a sugar coat for prostitution, bro. Word.

[DJ Envy]

Yep.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Like, because you pretty much just you know, trying to fast track to what you really want. I agree. Thank you. Romance happens because you like a person. Physical attraction, emotional connection. Yeah.

[Jessica]

Now.

[DJ Envy]

Hello. Who's this?

[Caller from Brooklyn]

Hi. This is Uniqua. Hi, Andy J. Uniqua.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Guess what race she is.

[DJ Envy]

Black.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Uniqua. Uniqua. Talk to us black people. Add something, won't they?

[Jessica]

What if she was like. No, my name is Boriqua Clown.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yes. Uniqua. Can you. Can you find a romance?

[DJ Envy]

Turn your radio down first. Turn your radio down first, mama. Turn your radio down first.

[Caller from Brooklyn]

Hello. Can you hear me now?

[DJ Envy]

We can hear you. Go ahead.

[Jay Z (audio clips)]

Okay.

[Caller from Brooklyn]

Yeah. So I'm like, best you. You can find the fun, the experience, but it's a. You don't find, you know, romance. But I did have a relationship where I was dealing with somebody, like, doing business with them, and he was ping me a large amount of money or, you know, giving me money and gifts and stuff and helping me out a lot. They did make. Make me feel more romantically kind to him. So we. I ended up trying to have a relationship with him.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I don't believe you, man. That man was giving you money, and you felt like you needed to give him sex and stuff in return for that money. That wasn't no damn romance.

[Jessica]

You probably right.

[Charlamagne tha God]

That was not normal. But that's the other part of romance. It's reciprocal liking of a person. I like you, you like me not. I give you this, and then you give me poom. Poom. That's. Yeah.

[Jessica]

Prostitute.

[DJ Envy]

If the guy kept buying you. The guy in the wheelchair, that his waist.

[Jessica]

His name is Hank.

[DJ Envy]

If Hank didn't stop buying you stuff.

[Charlamagne tha God]

He was a garbage pail kid. I'm sorry.

[DJ Envy]

Would you still be with Hank now if he kept buying you stuff? Would you have left Hank if he

[Jessica]

kept buying me stuff? No. No. I wasn't ever, like, I wasn't in a relationship with Hank. Nobody knew about Hank but Hank. Like, that was it, like it wasn't none of that. And a couple months sometimes, like around the house. I would never go outside with Hank. Like, I would just come to the house, you know, spend a little bit. I don't know how I met him.

[Charlamagne tha God]

He pull up behind and move.

[Jessica]

I do not remember how I met him. I do not know. I know I used to work at future care. No, at manor care. I don't know. I think I met him at like some place I was working at. And like, he had came to see like a family member or something like that. I don't remember. But either way, yeah, he was. He wasn't as mobile and he didn't work down there. So I was like, this is easy. Like easy breezy, whatever. Give you a couple kisses, strip for you. I now and then. And I'll get money he gave me.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I'm going tell you why. I knew you liked Hank. Cuz if you met him and he was in a wheelchair, there's something he said to you.

[Jessica]

Oh, he was very charming. Oh, yes, he was.

[Charlamagne tha God]

He attracted you in some way.

[Jessica]

Yes, yes.

[DJ Envy]

Did he leave with money?

[Jessica]

Did he leave with money?

[DJ Envy]

Lead.

[Jessica]

Yeah, absolutely, he led with money.

[DJ Envy]

But that's what he did.

[Charlamagne tha God]

He was like, how much that cost the first time?

[Jessica]

No, no, no. He was flirting and then like, I'm telling you, yo, this is so long ago. So I don't remember exactly how it happened, but he was very charming. And I knew he had money because I.

[Jay Z (audio clips)]

The wheel.

[Jessica]

Judging by the wheels on the wheelchair. Wheelchair, Yo, I'm telling you, like, it was. It was like a new one. It was shiny. Like, it was really dope.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Okay.

[Jessica]

And like, he was even. He could dress his ass off too. Like, for real. You know, them legs ain't work, but them pants was fresh. Always like, nice and pressed.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Ew.

[Jessica]

Bless you.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Thank you.

[Jessica]

Like, you know, salute to Hank, man. Yes, for real. He wasn't old shrively, you know,

[Clarissa Shields]

he

[Jessica]

gotta be like, oh, my God. He'll bless you. He gotta be at least like 74 now.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Oh, wow, wow, wow.

[Jessica]

I'm telling you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Jessica]

Like, it was real bad.

[DJ Envy]

So y'. All 40 years apart.

[Clarissa Shields]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

So Hank probably killing him on Zoom. Then you say he charming.

[Jessica]

He wasn't balding or nothing yet. Like, if he was in his 50s. Like this, like. No, he wasn't his 30s. This wasn't 20 years ago. This was like. Yeah, he was. He was old, but he was fresh. Fly need to be like, I'm all in. What's up? I ain't got to Even like Penetra Beach P. Absolutely.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You might be going to hell, man. I think you should repent.

[DJ Envy]

We're asking, can you fund romance? Now, this comes from Charlemagne's donkey today.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yes, indeed, Brian. What's Brian's name? Brian McKenna. He was a Manhattan real estate attorney who's going to prison for six years. Years. Because he stole $4.4 million intended for Covid protective gear because he was trying to fund a romance.

[DJ Envy]

Hello?

[Charlamagne tha God]

Who's this? Allegedly.

[Clarissa Shields]

Hello?

[Caller from Brooklyn]

It's mommy.

[Jessica]

Hey, Mommy.

[Mimi Brown]

Hi, Mom.

[DJ Envy]

Good morning.

[Caller from Brooklyn]

Good.

[Clarissa Shields]

How are you?

[DJ Envy]

Good, good, good. Can you fund a romance, Mama?

[Caller from Brooklyn]

No, you cannot fund a romance. You can't fund the illusion, though. The individuals who are involved in this understand that this is an illusion for one spy. And so the one that is doing the acting, like Jess said earlier, you act like it's a romance. They understand their part that they're playing, and then the one that's funding the illusion understand that they're funding the illusion and they're okay with it. Because people like to live in delusion, especially if you can afford it.

[Clarissa Shields]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

But you prove it on point. You can't fund a romance. You're funding an illusion.

[Caller from Brooklyn]

No, you can't. Yeah, I agree with that. I can't. You can't fund a romance.

[Jessica]

Yeah, I agree.

[Caller from Brooklyn]

But listen, before you guys get me off the. Off the phone, I wanted to get on for the longest because I wrote you guys a time long, and I don't know if you received, but I had written it and I send it to you all to the address that I found online. And I don't know if you got it, but I just want to quickly summarize it. I just wanted to let you guys know. I grew up in New York and now I live in Florida, and times are very hard. And I appreciate you guys. I listen to you guys on my way to work. And I really appreciate that you talk about topics that people are going through in the midst of making it fun. And so I just wanted to let you guys know that as things are hard, you guys are doing a lot for people, even with the little segment of comedy.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you so much.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Appreciate you so much. Thank you very much.

[Caller from Brooklyn]

Sorry, I didn't like to cry. Like, one of the things that we're doing right now, like my mom with all this stuff that this thing happened, we're rational, rationing her medicine, like every other month. Things are rough. But again, I appreciate the. The 30 minutes that I hear you guys on the way to work and continue doing what you Guys are doing.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Thank you very much.

[Jessica]

Appreciate you.

[Charlamagne tha God]

That is horrible. She has to ration her mom's medicine. That's how. That's how hard times are, right?

[Jessica]

Very sad.

[Clarissa Shields]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Well, thank you so much.

[Clarissa Shields]

Thank you, guys.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

All right, what's the moral of the story, guys?

[Charlamagne tha God]

Moral of the story is you cannot fund the romance. Okay, good.

[Jessica]

But you can't.

[Charlamagne tha God]

No, romance is physical attraction. It's a moral, emotional connection. It's situational factors that bring people together. Sometimes you just match energies with a person. Y' all might share the same beliefs, but the most important thing is reciprocal. Like, yeah, I like you, you like me. Okay.

[DJ Envy]

All right.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I'll trick on you all day if we got some real romance, period. Well, I mean, not me, but you

[DJ Envy]

know what I mean? Well, duh.

[Jessica]

But I'm saying, period. Trick on that girl if you love her.

[Charlamagne tha God]

It ain't tricking if she's worth it. I always say that. They used to be like, it ain't tricking if you got it, you know? It ain't tricking if she's worth.

[DJ Envy]

It ain't tricking if you period.

[Jessica]

I like that.

[DJ Envy]

Salute to Hank, too, man. I wonder what Hank's doing right now.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Man, Hank might be dead. God.

[Jessica]

Oh, my God.

[Charlamagne tha God]

No, he only.

[Jessica]

He only be, like, 75. He was very much handsome up top. He was very much built. Like, he would go in the gym and, like, pump that upper body up. Do you snatch off them sweatpants?

[Charlamagne tha God]

No.

[Jay Z (audio clips)]

What?

[Charlamagne tha God]

I'm just asking.

[DJ Envy]

I don't know. Can you.

[Clarissa Shields]

What?

[DJ Envy]

No.

[Jessica]

Why would somebody want to be in a wheelchair? A dead person be in a wheelchair? Charlemagne.

[Charlamagne tha God]

We don't know what happens after this. We really don't.

[Jessica]

You can't take the. The wheelchair to heaven or hell. Like, you can't do that.

[Charlamagne tha God]

We don't know.

[DJ Envy]

It won't fit in the casket.

[Jessica]

Well, we don't know.

[Charlamagne tha God]

We don't know.

[Jessica]

You should.

[Senator Jeff Merkley]

You should.

[DJ Envy]

You should shout out, hank, no.

[Jessica]

Yo, I am married. Like, I'm not shouting out Hank.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Hank pop up on Instagram live later. He be. You know what I'm saying? Telling his side of the story. Stop your camera. I need to say something.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my goodness.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Something to say.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my goodness. All right.

[Jessica]

Yo, please stop.

[DJ Envy]

Yo, we got the latest with Lauren coming up. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, Lauren becoming a straight fan.

[Charlamagne tha God]

She gets it from somebody that knows somebody. She gets the details.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[Charlamagne tha God]

She'd be having the latest on this. The Latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have a little bit of everything.

[DJ Envy]

Well, it's the new brought to you

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[Charlamagne tha God]

Talk to me. You made it for that Top Dog Law sponsored lady.

[DJ Envy]

Sure did.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You missed the other ones, but you made it for that Top Dog Law sponsored one, didn't you?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Shout out to Top Dog Law. All right, well, I want to go back to the Jay Z GQ conversation that you guys were having earlier this morning, because there were some things that we didn't get a chance to get to in the interview, you know, which is 35 minutes long, so we don't get to any Everything. Jay Z does touch on his current relationship with J. Cole as well. Let's take a listen.

[Jay Z (audio clips)]

An artist's expression should be their expression. I'm really much fall back. That's. I think what happened with Cole. Like, just the narrative around Cole is that we didn't love Cole. No. We believed in him enough to let him find his journey, and he found his path. It took him a minute, but he found his way.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Cole will tell the story about how,

[Jay Z (audio clips)]

like, you wanted to send him with

[Charlamagne tha God]

Stargate and maybe think about that single. Yeah.

[Jay Z (audio clips)]

I was giving him a chance to take his talent and show it to the most people possible. But his way, I mean, we made big records with Stargate on Rihanna and blah, blah, blah. And even I think they made the Wiz Khalifa black and yellow.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yep. Yeah.

[Jay Z (audio clips)]

Biggest songs in the world you don't want to go see.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Fine.

[Jay Z (audio clips)]

What is your relationship with Cole like these days? Obviously, there's things behind the scenes, like, you know, audits and like, that. That gets complicated. But I don't have any negative feelings for him. I'm actually super proud of him and what he done.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. So, I mean, him addressing that, I think was a big deal because I know when the falloff dropped, a lot of people felt like J. Cole was, like, taking shots at Jay Z. And there's been other conversations that J. Cole has had where people feel like the relationship with Jay Z and J. Cole is just so tormented and like, you know, and it seems like regardless of what's going on, Jay Z is still going to be taking shots.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You're referencing that line from Rewind where he said something like, I forgot what the line was. Like, so called king or something like that.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And then there's also a line on the fall off where he mentions being let off of, like, the. Something about, like, fresh off of a. Fresh out by the slave, like he's fresh out of a contract. Like a slave type of contract. And people felt like that was something. References his old. Referencing his old situation with Jay Z. Roc Nation. So. And in that audio, we hear Jay Z mention something about like an audit. And then later in the interview, in that same moment, he talks about there's nothing wrong with an artist wanting to show that they're above board. Right. Which happens in business. So seems like, you know, they're still love that regardless of what happens.

[DJ Envy]

And it's any artist's right to do an audit. Right. If you feel like you didn't get the money that you were supposed to get, or they used the money not like the way it was supposed to use the money, you can audit any company.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Audits are not bad. Audits are business.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Okay. Audits are part of business. It's just an independent examination of financial records. Not even all the time financial records. Sometimes just operations of the business. You want to make sure everything is

[DJ Envy]

accurate, that your money and your budgets are being spent the correct way.

[Charlamagne tha God]

It's just business.

[DJ Envy]

People do it all the time.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Same way Cam suing Cole was just business, business. If there is an audit, it's just business.

[DJ Envy]

Now, corporations don't want to do it usually, but yes, if you're an artist, you have the right to audit whatever company you work.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I mean, but Jay Z knows that, and he's done it before too, with his own business. But it sounds like he understands that, you know what I mean?

[Charlamagne tha God]

So he actually said that it's a good opportunity to show that everything is a bubble. That's what he said in the interview.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. Now, Jay Z also got into the conversation of Blue Ivy because we did watch Blue Ivy coming to her own on stage, on tour with her mom, Beyonce. And JC reflects on that moment, those moments. Let's take a listen.

[Jay Z (audio clips)]

What was it like watching Blue come

[Charlamagne tha God]

into her own even more on this most recent tour?

[Jay Z (audio clips)]

That was amazing, you know? Cause on the first tour, you know, there was like a lot of, like, conversation around her first performance. And she worked really hard to get to that point, but she still wasn't going for it. She still was, like going through the motions. And then after that, like, she started fighting back. I saw her fight maybe for the first time in her life, you know, like, not everything is just given to her and everything is equal. She's almost on every number. I had to take her off physically or something. I'm like, man, you can't be on that stage where she's singing, you know, six inch heels. You crazy. She was 13 at the time. That's a lot. And she was nailing and she was going crazy. Jack Blue was a crazy pianist, but she won't let us get her like a teacher. She don't want to be mentored in that way. Cause she wants it to feel just like fun. She don't want it to be a job. But she has a perfect pitch. If she hears a song, she'll be like, play it again. And then she'll play. Play it.

[Clarissa Shields]

Yeah, right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I mean, we. Right. But we expected that for Blue Ivy. But on the written interview for the GQ side, because there's some things in the written interview that didn't make it into the video part. They talk about Jay Z joining Blue Ivy on the red carpet when she did the premiere of the Lion King in la. And that was literally the day after, like, all the allegations or whatever. And he asked Jay Z if he thought about not joining her on the red carpet carpet as staying home. And he says, of course he thought about that. But because their family is such a tight unit. It's not a. No, that's not in the audio. It's in the written. Because their family is such a tight unit. He says that, you know, he wanted to show up for her. He says that there was one day where Blue Ivy put on a jersey that has Jay Z on the back. And he was like, just seeing that, it kind of brought him to tears. And he says, you know, seriously, to have that is priceless. People can say that they'll always be there for you, but it's very rare that you're going to see people go out and exercise it. And in the darkest moment, for me, I got to see those sort of things. So he's just, you know, reflecting on kind of like just community in that moment. But I remember that being such a big thing because it was the first time that people had saw him after he had pushed back against all those allegations that were happening at the time. And lastly, clips album. So remember, there was all those rumors about Jay Z supposed to be on the clips album. The clips were here and they talked about that as well, too. Jay Z addressed one, why he decided to not get on the album. Let's take a listen.

[Charlamagne tha God]

The streets really wanted you on that clips album.

[Jay Z (audio clips)]

Yeah, I was close. I think that the first thing that I say, it has to be said from me, it can't be like, I don't want to be so rigid with it, though. I'M going to keep that open. I'm going to take that back. But at that moment, at that moment, I was like, yeah, I want to do something, but in order for me to move forward, I got to get this out. I got to get it out. Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And I mean, we have the, the audio, the clips here talking about what songs Jay Z would have potentially been on when the rumor was happening as well, too. Let's take a listen.

[Charlamagne tha God]

What record was all supposed to be on? On this project?

[Jessica]

He was sent chains and whips.

[Charlamagne tha God]

He was Mike Tyson.

[Jessica]

Mike Tyson blow to the face. You know, Hov had the album, so,

[Charlamagne tha God]

you know, so be it.

[Jessica]

Yeah, it was, it was all for him to.

[DJ Envy]

Whatever he wanted to do.

[Jessica]

Oh, he's supposed to be on. So be it.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah.

[Jessica]

That was one of the options.

[Clarissa Shields]

Yeah.

[Jay Z (audio clips)]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

And nothing moved his SP spirit.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, man, I don't know, man.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I wouldn't have mind hearing Angry Hov.

[Jessica]

It would have been Angry Hov.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Go ahead.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I don't even want to talk no more. That would have been Jigga Jigger. God damn.

[DJ Envy]

Why are you bringing her to Yankee Stadium?

[Charlamagne tha God]

I don't know why she should not. She deserve to be there.

[Jessica]

She.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I don't even want to finish my thought. I don't even want to have this conversation.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Envy, can you say what I was trying to say?

[Charlamagne tha God]

I'm going do it.

[DJ Envy]

I don't know what you was trying to say.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I have no idea.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It would have been angry hoe. And that's why he didn't do it.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You don't even know what angry Hov is because you just said news talked

[Lauren LaRosa]

about it in the interview.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my goodness.

[Charlamagne tha God]

All right.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I thought it was nice that he took a beat and didn't hop on there, though.

[DJ Envy]

All right, thank you. Ankles. Come on. That's the latest with all my.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I have on socks. Oh, yeah.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Could you put one in your mouth right now? Could you. Could you put a sock in it?

[Jessica]

This is.

[Lauren LaRosa]

This is the latest for today. Shout out to Top Dog Law for sponsoring the segment. Any accident, big or small, please call Top Dog Law.

[Jessica]

And happy birthday, Aretha Franklin and Elton John. It's recipes to Aretha Franklin too, but Elton John is still alive and he is 79 today.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Happy birthday. What?

[Jessica]

Anything I say?

[DJ Envy]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy we are. The Breakfast Club is women's history month. Who we repping today?

[Jessica]

We are repping Monica Wright from the movie Love and Basketball, played by Sanaa Lethan, of course. I want to recognize her for breaking gender norms, showcasing elite athletic ambition as a black woman, and challenging the need to choose between career success and love.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Love.

[Jessica]

She embodies resilience, emotional growth and authenticity, representing a groundbreaking multi dimensional role model in sports cinema. Also, I want to honor her for redefining love and power. She proved that a woman can be passionate about her career, command respect and still be deserving of love without compromising her ambition. So shout out to Monica Wright from Loving Basketball. Because it's a lot of Monica rights out there, y'.

[Clarissa Shields]

All.

[Jessica]

We only got like a few more days of this, but yes, this is shout out to Monica Wright.

[DJ Envy]

Thank God. Okay. All right. When we come back, positive.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Thank God.

[Jessica]

Yeah, he did. That's really messed up.

[DJ Envy]

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You don't have nothing nice to say.

[DJ Envy]

I mean, I didn't. That came out out loud.

[Charlamagne tha God]

You see, I don't be saying nothing,

[Jessica]

but nothing at all.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Crazy.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, sorry. All right, shuttle man, you got a positive note.

[Charlamagne tha God]

I do, but I just want to remind people, man. The four fan annual Black Effect Podcast Festival is right around the corner. April 25th in Atlanta, Georgia at Pullman Yards is hosted by DJ Envy and Lauren LaRosa, Devonte, Kyle and Big Ice Cup Cat. The Gritson Eggs podcast will be there. Carlos King will be there with his Reality with the King podcast. Jeff Teague will be there with his Club 520 podcast. The Keep It Positive Sweetie podcast with Crystal Renee Haslett will be there as well. Mona will be on that stage doing the Don't Call Me White Girl podcast podcast. And my guys, Nore DJ efn, they'll be there with the Drink Chance podcast. So go get your tickets. Blackffect.com podcast festival. I'm sorry, the fan tickets are already sold out, but the general. I mean, yeah, the fan. The fan Experience tickets are already sold out, but the general admission and student tickets, there's still some available. So go to black effect.com podcast festival and get your tickets, man. If you've never been, it is just a full day of fun. Okay? We got food trucks out there. We got the Black Effect Marketplace. We got.

[Jay Z (audio clips)]

Damn.

[Charlamagne tha God]

What else we got out there?

[Jessica]

Oh, the picture podcast simulator.

[Charlamagne tha God]

Yeah, the NASCAR simulator. My guy, Raja Kuf Raf, he'll be there with his nascar. I don't know if he's gonna be there, but the NASCAR simulator will be there. But we got some other guests. See, Clarissa Shield said she's gonna be there this morning, so. Yes, Pull up on us. April 25, Atlanta, Georgia. Pullman Yards Black Effect Podcast Festival. And my positive note is simply this man. A man's worth is measured by his character. Character, not his currency. Have a great day. Breakfast Club Wake you up.

[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne tha God]

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