FULL SHOW: Jay-Z Sues Former Accuser and Lawyer Over Sexual Allegations, Tank Vs Roach Fight Decision Under Investigation, Rematch Confirmed + More

Summary

The Breakfast Club: Episode Summary – March 4, 2025

Hosted by DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, and Charlamagne Tha God, this episode delves into high-profile legal battles, controversial sports decisions, and significant political developments.

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1. Jay-Z Sues Former Accuser and Lawyer Over Sexual Allegations

Timestamp: 22:04 – 30:19

The episode kicks off with a deep dive into Jay-Z's legal battle against his former accuser and her attorney. Jay-Z has filed a lawsuit in Alabama alleging that the woman who accused him of sexual assault in 2000 fabricated her story under pressure from her legal representatives. Charlamagne Tha God raises critical questions about the nature of intimidation involved in the lawsuit:

Charlamagne Tha God [09:05]: "How do you intimidate somebody that's anonymous?"

The accuser's attorney, Tony Busby, vehemently denies the allegations, stating that the lawsuit lacks legal merit and that the woman remains steadfast in her claims. Jess Hilarious highlights the ongoing tension:

Jess Hilarious [17:59]: "Defending yourself is not bullying or harassment."

The hosts discuss the broader implications of the lawsuit, emphasizing the importance of addressing false allegations while safeguarding the rights of accusers.

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2. Tank vs. Roach Fight Decision Under Investigation and Rematch Confirmed

Timestamp: 68:00 – 73:28

The conversation shifts to the boxing world, focusing on the recent bout between Gervonta "Tank" Davis and Lamont Roach, which ended in a controversial draw. Mike Epps provides an overview of the fight's aftermath:

Mike Epps [30:19]: "Jay Z is suing them... This is what the first round of the mess."

Charlamagne Tha God expresses skepticism about the refereeing:

Charlamagne Tha God [34:45]: "I never trust that referee because I don't like his eyes."

The hosts debate whether the decision was fair, with Lil Duvall noting the divide among fans:

Lil Duvall [05:15]: "They got to do the rematch."

Ultimately, it was confirmed that a rematch is being pushed for, potentially by the end of May, as Gervonta Davis's team responds to public demand:

Lil Duvall [30:32]: "We got to do the rematch."

The discussion highlights the intense scrutiny fighters face and the role of public opinion in shaping fight outcomes.

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3. Political and Social News

Timestamp: 05:30 – 73:28

a. President Trump's Address to Congress

Charlamagne Tha God breaks down the upcoming address by President Trump to a joint session of Congress, themed "Renewal of Dream." The focus areas include Trump's accomplishments, the economy, border security, and plans for global peace. A notable quote from the White House official:

Charlamagne Tha God [09:05]: "Trump has accomplished more in a month than any president has in four years."

The hosts discuss the strategic move by Democrats to bring forward federal workers affected by Trump's policies to highlight the administration's impact.

b. Tariffs and Trade Wars

The conversation turns to Trump's implementation of substantial tariffs:

• 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods.
• 10% additional tariffs on Chinese imports.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford retaliates with similar measures, threatening to shut down electricity exports to the U.S.:

Lauren LaRosa [33:44]: "It's going to be an absolute disaster for both countries."

The hosts predict significant consumer price hikes and strained international relations as a result of these trade wars.

c. WNBA Expansion and Serena Williams

Serena Williams is revealed as a new owner of the Toronto Tempo WNBA team, sparking discussions on league expansion and the potential revival of teams like the Carolina Stingrays. Charlamagne Tha God shares his enthusiasm:

Charlamagne Tha God [05:42]: "I am happy that the Toronto's getting the WNBA team."

d. Social Security Administration Changes

Trump and Elon Musk's administration is scrutinized for plans to cut 7,000 employees from the Social Security Administration, with Musk labeling Social Security as a "Ponzi scheme." Senate Democrats, including Chuck Schumer, defend the program's integrity and importance:

Chuck Schumer [35:57]: "Social Security is not a Ponzi scheme. It's how most Americans survive during retirement or disabilities."

e. FBI NY Field Office Head Forced Out

James Dennehy, the head of the FBI's New York field office, resigns after opposing the Trump administration's purge of agents involved in January 6th investigations. The hosts underscore the significance of Dennehy's stance:

Charlamagne Tha God [37:46]: "Salute to all the federal workers out there... keeping our country moving forward."

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4. Promotions and Community Engagement

Timestamp: 38:32 – 65:00

The episode features extensive promotion for the Third Annual Black Effect Podcast Festival set for April 26, 2025, in Atlanta. Hosted by Mandy B and Wheezy from Decisions Decisions, the festival showcases a diverse array of podcasts, including "Cancellation Island" and "Woman Evolved."

Comedians Mike Epps and Lauren LaRosa discuss their ongoing comedy tour, "We The Ones," highlighting their commitment to supporting emerging talent and fostering community through laughter. Lauren LaRosa shares her journey from stand-up to production, emphasizing the importance of representation and opportunity:

Lauren LaRosa [40:17]: "We gotta keep on handing it down to each other."

Mike Epps emphasizes the reciprocal nature of mentorship in comedy:

Mike Epps [41:31]: "Me and Jess were talking about this before... they're teaching you while you're teaching them."

The hosts also touch on personal milestones, such as Lauren LaRosa's daughter being accepted into New York University, celebrating educational achievements within the community.

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5. Closing Remarks and Positive Notes

Timestamp: 97:03 – 108:17

In the latter part of the episode, Charlamagne Tha God imparts a motivational quote to conclude on a positive note:

Charlamagne Tha God [18:29]: "The content of your character is your choice day by day. What you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become."

The hosts reiterate their commitment to uplifting the community through meaningful discussions, entertainment, and support for various initiatives.

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps:

• Charlamagne Tha God [09:05]: "Trump has accomplished more in a month than any president has in four years."
• Jess Hilarious [17:59]: "Defending yourself is not bullying or harassment."
• Lauren LaRosa [33:44]: "It's going to be an absolute disaster for both countries."
• Charlamagne Tha God [18:29]: "The content of your character is your choice day by day."

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This episode of The Breakfast Club offers listeners a comprehensive look into the intersection of celebrity legal battles, professional sports controversies, and significant political maneuvers, all while fostering community engagement and supporting burgeoning talent in the entertainment industry.

Transcript

[DJ Envy]

Hey, what's up, y'all?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is Eric Andre. Well, I made a podcast called Bombing.

[DJ Envy]

About absolutely tanking on stage.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I tell gnarly stories and I talk to friends about their worst moments of bombing in all sorts of ways. Bombing on stage, bombing in public, bombing in life.

[DJ Envy]

I want to know what's the worst.

[Jess Hilarious]

Way they've ever bombed?

[DJ Envy]

Or have they ever performed way too drunk or high?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Or was there ever a time where.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They thought they were going to crush and they stunk it up? Listen to Bombing with Eric Andre on.

[DJ Envy]

Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Jess Hilarious]

This is John Cameron Mitchell and my new fiction podcast series, Cancellation island stars Holly Hunter as Karen, a wellness influencer who launches a rehab for the recently canceled. In the future, we will all be canceled for 15 minutes, but don't worry. Will take you from broke to woke or your money back. Cancellation Island's revolutionary rehab therapies, like bad touch football, anti racism, spin class, and mandatory ayahuasca ceremonies are designed to force the council to confront their worst impulses. But everything starts to fall apart when people start disappearing.

[Mike Epps]

Karen, where have you brought us?

[Jess Hilarious]

Cancellation island, where a second chance might just be your last. Listen to Cancellation island on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Mike Epps]

Hey, sis, it's Dr. Joy from Therapy for Black Girls. We've had 400 episodes of Conversations, Growth and Healing, so we're celebrating. Join us for a special episode with internationally recognized yogi Chelsea Jackson Roberts as she shares wisdom on mindfulness, movement and motherhood. I waited later to have children, and I still have exactly what I knew that I wanted. You don't want to miss this special episod listen to Therapy for black Girls on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, y'all. Nimini here. I'm the host of a brand new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. Executive produced by Questlove, the Story Pirates, and John Glickman, Historical Records brings history to life through hip hop. Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to historical records. Listen to historical records on the iHeartRadio app, app podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning, usa. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo.

[Jess Hilarious]

Jess. Hilarious is Outlaw filling in Hi. I'm just doing my wig. Charlamagne. Tha God. Peace to the planet.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's Tuesday.

[Jess Hilarious]

I guess my co host will be coming in in a second.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They left you alone?

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, they left me alone.

[DJ Envy]

Ah, boy.

[Jess Hilarious]

Well, how you feeling, Red?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm feeling.

[Jess Hilarious]

How you feeling? I'm feeling great. Peace to everybody out there. We have a great show for you today. We have comedian Mike Epps. He'll be joining us, of course. He's on the we the Ones tour featuring country Wayne, Carlos Miller, Tony Roberts, Haha Davis and more. The tickets are on sale right now. They're hitting up a bunch of cities. I know they go into Atlantic City. I know they're hitting the Carolinas. I know they're hitting Virginia. So shout to Mike Epps. He'll be joining us. And he's also here to talk about the final season of the Upshores. What up, Charlemagne?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Peace to the planet. It is Tuesday. Good morning. How y'all feel? Oh, man, I feel blessed. Black and highly favored. Happy to be here to serve another day to serve our beautiful listeners.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And telling them who gonna be on the show today.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, I just said Mike Epps and little Duvall will be joining us this morning as well.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Little Duvall on them. We them ones talk too. Actually. They were supposed to be doing the interview together, but I don't know what the hell happened. Yeah, I think one came. Well, Mike kept came first.

[Jess Hilarious]

Mike kept early.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Duvall came a little bit later. Oh, damn. I'm supposed to be acting like they here today. Oh, yeah, they'll be joining us.

[Jess Hilarious]

I think people know that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You think they know we pre tape. I think everybody know we get new listeners every day. I know we've been on for it'll be 15 years this December.

[Jess Hilarious]

Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But you know, a lot of people don't know all the magic yet.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes, yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I also want to say for everybody that be hitting me up for tickets to the third annual Black Effect Podcast Festival. Don't hit me up and say things like, yeah, I want to come. I want to support. If you want to support, you'll go to black effect.com podcast festival and get your tickets.

[Jess Hilarious]

Absolutely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, we got Sarah J. Roberts is going to be there with her Woman Evolved podcast and Carrie Champion with the Naked Podcast. And who else? A lot of people. The decisions, decisions. Mandy and Weezy are hosting. All I'm simply saying is if you really want to support, you'll go get your tickets to blackffect.com podcast festival. You don't hit me up and say, hey, I want to come support.

[Jess Hilarious]

Can I get some tickets?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's not support. That's not support. Okay.

[Jess Hilarious]

Gotta get a discount.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's not support.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right, well, definitely go. Let's get the show cracking. Lauren LaRosa will be joining us in a second. I tell you, she had to fix her wig. She'll be here in any minute now. It's the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning.

[Jess Hilarious]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy Jess. Hilarious Charlamagne. The guy or the Breakfast Club. La Rosa filling in for Jess. And let's get in some front page.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You said Lauren was fixing her wig.

[Jess Hilarious]

I was just joking.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Lauren's running say her wig ain't never fixed. She said she's not going to get it till she fix her wig.

[Jess Hilarious]

She ain't coming stupid, man. Let's start off with some quick sports. Kyrie Irving last night suffered a left knee sprain Monday night. So that means both Kyrie and Anthony Davis are out on injury reserve. So we'll see how what. How that plays out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nico. What's the dude name? Nico Harrison. He going to get fired, man. Okay.

[Jess Hilarious]

And also salute to Serena Williams. She joins ownership of the WNBA's new Toronto Tempo team.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So drop on a clue box for Serena Williams. I am happy that the Toronto's getting the WNBA team. The reason I'm happy that the Toronto's getting the WNBA team because I'd like to see WNBA expansion because I want to see the Carolinas get a WNBA team again. I want them to bring the Sting back to the Carolinas. Not to Charlotte, though. I want them to bring them to South Carolina. Good morning, Morgan Charleston of Columbia.

[Lil Duvall]

Good morning, DJ Envy, Charlamagne, Tha God and Laura LaRosa. When you get in, girl. How are y'all feeling today?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Blessed, black and highly favored. How you feeling?

[Jess Hilarious]

Amazing. Amazing.

[Lil Duvall]

I'm feeling good. You know, laissez les bonton roulette, which means let the good times roll. It is Mardi Gras. It is carnival season, Carnival day. So, you know, let's. Let's celebrate while we can, because it's giving. It's not gonna last long. So top of the headlines. Let's get into it. The President will address a joint Congress tonight. The theme of the President's address to the joint session of Congress will be the renewal of dream. A White House official told ABC News of the theme, saying Trump will focus on his record so far, the economy, border security, and his plan for global peace. A White House statement says Trump has accomplished more than more in a month than any president has in four years and that the joint address will be a must see TV event. Of course, Trump's speech is set to start at 9pm Eastern time. So some Democrats are inviting federal workers who have lost their job to the joint session. Many of many workers who have lost their job as Elon Musk and Department of Government Efficiency have been calling off mass layoffs. Democratic Congressman Brad Schneider of Illinois said he while some Democrats are opting to skip the speech, others are going to be bringing those fired workers to show the American people who have been hurt by Musk and Trump. Of course, the White House is accusing Democrats of exploiting the American people for political points. Now, elsewhere in presidential news, Trump is ordering a pause to all military aid to Ukraine. In a statement, White House officials said that Trump has been clear that he is focused on peace and that our partners need to be as well. It was, he went on to say that the US Is pausing and reviewing our aid to ensure that it is contributing a solution. Now, Trump has continuously been critical of Ukrainian President Zelensky in recent weeks. And of course, we saw that confrontational meeting that happened in the Oval Office on Friday. Trump said the US stupidly gave away $350 billion to Ukraine. I'm a fact check that in just a second. He made the comments while speaking from the White House, adding, president Biden gave away the funds so Ukraine could fight Russia and we got nothing in return. So despite the rhetoric between himself, President and President Zelensky, their rare earths mineral, mineral deal is still on the table. And as far as that $350 billion to Ukraine, it's more like $174 billion that was appropriated by Congress. And this has been a bipartisan effort. And some of those funds also went to other NATO members as well. So let's take a listen to those comments from President Trump regarding this deal on the table with Ukraine.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Think of it, 350 billion.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We could have rebuilt our US Navy. So he gave it away as fast as the money could be gone. And what we're doing is getting that all back and a lot more than that. And we need, it's very important for this business that we're talking about here with chips and semiconductors and everything else, we need rare earths. And the deal we have is we have the finest rare earths.

[Lil Duvall]

Yeah. Any thoughts on that, guys? I mean, whether we're talking about the joint session of Congress tonight, which I'm sure President Trump will elaborate also on this rare earth steal.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, I can't Wait to watch tonight because, yes, Trump is must see tv, especially when he's live. All right. Sadly, he's the greatest stand up comic on the planet today. The only other person I'm looking forward to seeing do stand up today is Andrew Schultz because his new special to Life comes out today. But yeah, I'm watching tonight and I think it's a great idea to bring the federal workers. Yeah, but I wouldn't bring just any federal workers. I would bring the federal workers who voted for, who voted for Trump because they thought he'd be better for the economy. That's who I would bring.

[Jess Hilarious]

You know what was sad is when people act so surprised about the things he's doing about with Ukraine and the tariffs as he's adding, and people seem surprised, but these are all the things that he said he was going to do.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, the tariffs start the day. The tariffs on Canada and Mexico. Right. 25% start at midnight.

[Lil Duvall]

Yes, it is tariff Tuesday. Tariffs are in effect. I will definitely get into that in the 7 o'clock hour. But back on Ukraine, Zelensky, you know, he's, he entered the chat and he, he had his remarks in regards to what happened on Friday. He says there will be diplomacy for peace after that intense exchange of words with President Trump last week. In a video posted on his website, Zelensky said they are grateful. So he, he's being thankful. He said they are grateful for all the support the US has given Ukraine in its war against Russia. He added that there is clear support for his country's cause from Europe and everyone agrees there needs to be peace. So we will, you know, continue to keep you posted. Very interesting fact that has also come out. The Kremlin, which is like the media for Russia, has said over the weekend that the Trump administration is changing American policy, American foreign policy, rather to put it in line with Russia's vision. So, yeah, let's continue to watch what's going on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They said that.

[Lil Duvall]

Oh, yeah. The Kremlin said over the weekend that American, the Trump administration is changing American foreign policy to put it in line with Russia's vision. So. All right, let's, all we can do is see what the president has to say tonight. Like you said, must see TV and it starts at 9pm Eastern.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And damn, that's late. That is late.

[Jess Hilarious]

Fight was midnight.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And that was late, too.

[Mike Epps]

That was on a weekend, though. Yeah, that's late, everybody.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Trump 8. How old is Trump? 80, right? 78, 79. That's late. 9:00. All right, man, they gotta move These up to about 6 or 7 o'clock.

[Jess Hilarious]

Jesus. All right. Well, that is front page news. Good morning, Lauren. How you feeling?

[Mike Epps]

Don't go morning me if you're live one more time. Talk about she gotta fix her wig. No, I fell asleep yesterday.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We know that's a lie because you know you're not fixing your wig.

[Mike Epps]

First of all, nobody asks you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay? You're right.

[Mike Epps]

Okay. Domino face. Someone asked you.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right. Get it off your chest.

[Mike Epps]

Good morning. Hey, girl. Hey.

[Jess Hilarious]

800-585-1051. If you need to vent, phone lines are wide open. Again, 800-585-1051. Call us up right now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is your time to get it off your chest, Whether you're mad or blessed.

[Jess Hilarious]

I hate the way that you walk.

[Lauren LaRosa]

The way that you talk I hate.

[Jess Hilarious]

The way that you dress.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Everything with me is blessed.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Call up next, 800-585-1051.

[Jess Hilarious]

Not just me, I'm with the culture feeling.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Hello?

[Jess Hilarious]

Who's this?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is Raw Baby Law from Westport, Connecticut.

[Jess Hilarious]

What's up, brother? What's going on with you?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, listen, I just want to say.

[Jess Hilarious]

God bless you, Charlemagne, and just hilarious.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Man, for what you do on a daily basis, man.

[Jess Hilarious]

It's not easy, and you don't get to.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I want to give you your flowers while you're here, man.

[Jess Hilarious]

You guys help me every day, man. You put me in the right direction, you keep me safe, and I just.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Want the positive vibe to come back to you guys on a daily basis, man.

[Jess Hilarious]

I love y'all, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, we love you, too, brother. Thank you. You're welcome.

[Jess Hilarious]

Have a good one, brother.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You, too.

[Jess Hilarious]

Hello? Who's this?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, what's up, y'all? This Replay from Chicago.

[Jess Hilarious]

What up, Chateau Replay?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's happening? What up? What up, man? Look, I gotta give a shout out this morning to Lauren LaRosa, man. She's been holding me down, man. She's been coming with good news, good stacks. Me and her the same age, man, and I just love seeing people my age just go hard and. Man, baby girl, keep doing what you do.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You know, that's what it is.

[Mike Epps]

Thank you. I appreciate that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No doubt, no doubt.

[Mike Epps]

Charlemagne, what were you saying? King? Go ahead, finish.

[Jess Hilarious]

Go ahead, King.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, yeah, man. Look, like I said, I'm Replay. If y'all want to follow me, I'm on Instagram at. Ladies love Replay. Why they call you Replay, bro? Man, that's actually the name they gave me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm an R B singer. And I don't know, one of the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Guys, like, you should call yourself Replay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm like, all right, thanks.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I want everybody to replay my song. Okay? All right, brother.

[Jess Hilarious]

Have a good one. No doubt.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, put a little more sauce on that. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. You got to come up with something better. Why they call you Replay? I don't know. You know what I mean? Because when I put it down, you know, ladies love it so much, they want to see it again, something. You know what I mean? Like this fact. I'm with it.

[Jess Hilarious]

He said facts.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, okay. I didn't know. I thought he was telling me something else. I thought he was telling me he wasn't in the women. I didn't know. I'm like, what? Excuse me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Hello?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who's this? This is Jay Meta. How's it going?

[Jess Hilarious]

Jay Meta, what's up? Get it off your chest. Jay Meta. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, I'm stressed. You know, I'm tired of people always asking you, you know, are you getting old? When are you gonna get married? And I tell them, in a minute, dog. You know, they're always telling you when they gonna get a new job. And I tell them, in a minute, though. You know, everyone has their own pace, and they want to put you to a standard and do things, you know? How old are you? Me? I just turned 30. That's why. I didn't know men get that kind of pressure. I didn't know men get that. That's not. That's usually pressure. That's reserved for women. I'm talking about the marriage part.

[Mike Epps]

Do you have kids yet?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No. That's what I'm saying. They're gonna tell you when you're gonna have a kid. In a minute, dog. You know?

[Mike Epps]

How old are you?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Me? I'm. I'm getting close to the age, you know, 30 is. You know, it's. That is that point when they ask you, you know, when you're gonna get married, just be like, I'm in the men, dog. Just say something like that. You don't think so? Yeah, that's why I told them. That's right, that's right, that's right. That's right.

[Jess Hilarious]

But definitely, if you got older parents, too, because older parents want grandparents, I'm sure. So that's what they ask me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All the parents want grandparents.

[Mike Epps]

Guys by a certain age. If you don't have kids, they'd be like, oh, you're not married. They think something's wrong.

[Jess Hilarious]

All the parents want grandkids that's what I meant.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, you'll meet. You'll meet Mrs. Mr. Right in the. In the. In due time.

[Jess Hilarious]

Mr. Or Mrs.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm sorry, can you say that again? No. Have a good day, brother. Appreciate you. Great day. Yes, sir.

[Jess Hilarious]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wake up. Wake up. Wake your ass. This is your time to get it off your chest. Whether you're mad or blessed, we want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

[Jess Hilarious]

Hello?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who's this?

[Mike Epps]

Hi, this is Cash.

[Jess Hilarious]

Hey, good morning, Cash. Get it off your chest.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning.

[Mike Epps]

I want to get it off my chest. I'm a federal employee and I am.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Back in the office.

[Mike Epps]

I'm also in cancer treatment for breast cancer.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So I'm exhausted, but they're forcing me back, and I need my money. So did you tell Elon Musk what you did last week? I did okay. What'd you tell him? I gave him five bullet points of the work that I did. What were the bullet points, if you don't mind us asking? I don't know off the top of.

[Lauren LaRosa]

My head, but I conducted two meetings, two training sessions.

[Lil Duvall]

I did a FOIA request, which is.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Freedom of Information Act.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Got you. And I want your listeners to know.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We can request information about any government official. All you have to do is send.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

In a Freedom of Information act so.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You can ask, like, how many meetings.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They had with this person or this company. It's really interesting. How do you feel about them asking you all for that? I can't stand it. It's redundant. We do reports to our direct supervisors, and I'm hearing a lot of this.

[Lil Duvall]

Being something that they're using, like with AI to grab certain terms and determine if they need us or not or if we can be replaced by AI.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So it's really nerve wracking.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, listen, man, salute to all the federal workers out there. Hold your head. You know, the ones that are actually, you know, doing their jobs every day and keeping our country moving forward. Salute to you. The ones that aren't y'all are the ones that actually need to be fired.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And the ones that voted for this.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Message need to be fired. The ones that vote need to go first. The ones that voted for him who got fired are the most interesting ones to me because they essentially voted for their own unemployment.

[Mike Epps]

Yeah. They vote against their issues.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yep.

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm sorry.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And now look at it.

[Jess Hilarious]

This sucks. I'm sorry.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you.

[Lil Duvall]

Thank you.

[Mike Epps]

Have a good day.

[Lil Duvall]

I listen to you all every day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And we appreciate it. Thank you very much.

[Jess Hilarious]

Thank you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Hello?

[Jess Hilarious]

Who's this? Yeah, what's up, brother? Get it off your chest.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning, everybody in. In the.

[Lauren LaRosa]

In the Breakfast Club Charlemagne.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Lauren LaRosa, Beast King. I'm a Trump supporter. I just got into it this weekend.

[Lauren LaRosa]

With my peoples in New York.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I definitely feel like he's doing.

[Lauren LaRosa]

A horrible job right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He was mad disrespectful to Zelensky, and so was Daddy Vance. He should have never chosen him to be the vice president. He was saying Zelinsky's beating on his chest. But I felt like Vance was beating his chest in the office that day, you know, and he said he was gonna feel it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And I believe that he just opened.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The door to Russia to make a deal with Ukraine without the US and that's bad business, because when that happens, Taiwan's gonna take a look at that. South Korea is going to take a look at that, and then they. Then people are going to follow suit and they're going to get people. More people on the I hate America bandwagon. Let me tell you why I respect you, my brother. First of all, I don't. I don't. I don't knock anybody for who they chose. Choose to vote for. But you know what I respect. I respect the fact that you are objective, the fact that you still voted for him but can call him out, because that's what I like. I like people who can. You know, if you. If you vote for a person, you got to call it straight down the middle. I'm the same way with Democrats who I vote for. And, you know, I'm the same way. If I was to vote for Republican, I'm just going to call it straight down the middle. So I respect. I respect you, brother. Absolutely.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And the thing about it is this.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

God. Yeah, I watch Fox News a lot, and Jesse Waters, I really ain't feeling him. There's a lot of racist things going on on there. But I watch Caucasian television because I need to see what they talking about. I watch a lot of Fox.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So after the. After the debacle in the office, this dude, they'll come on and say, this is America's world and America runs everything. And I know God is sitting down.

[Lauren LaRosa]

There like, oh, what?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He's like, okay. And the last thing you want to do is make God angry. He likes the incredible heart. Because you won't like me when I'm Angry. You understand what I'm saying? I wish God just peek his head out from. From the I wish God peek his head out from the heavens and just be like, y'all got 30 more days.

[Jess Hilarious]

I hope not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just to see how everybody would act. I just want to see how everybody was straightened up. Y'all got 30 more days.

[Jess Hilarious]

I don't want to be scared. No, I don't want to be scared.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I wouldn't be scared. Why? You're not living right.

[Jess Hilarious]

I am living right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You mean.

[Jess Hilarious]

You mean. You said you got 30 days. Mean everybody got 30 days.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Everybody got 30 days. You got 30 more days. I'm divinely protected, and I believe in God when things are good. I believe in God when things are bad. So whatever God got planned for me, I'm open to it.

[Jess Hilarious]

Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. Now we got the mess coming up.

[Mike Epps]

We do. I'm still getting it together, but I don't know what's more entertaining at this point. Lamont Roach and Javante take Davis going back and forth yesterday or Jay Z and attorney Busby going back and forth yesterday. So one of the two is going to hit the top of the hour. We're going to talk about it.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right, we'll get to that. Next, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, how y'all feeling out there, man?

[Jess Hilarious]

What's today, Tuesday or Wednesday?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Today is Tuesday. Tuesday, yes. Make sure you go get your tickets for the third annual Black Effect Podcast Festival happening Saturday, April 26th in Atlanta at Pullman Yards, baby. Bong, bong. Okay. If you've been there the last two years, you know how we get down. We got decision decisions. Hosting Sarah. Jake Roberts with the woman of all podcast will be there. Tank and Jay Valentine with R B money podcast, just to name a couple of the podcasts that'll be there. But go to black effect.com podcast festival to get your tickets. That's right.

[Jess Hilarious]

Go get your tickets. And morning, everybody. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the Mess with Lauren LaRosa.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Worldwide Mess on the Breakfast Club. The Coaching shoes with Lauren. Lauren LaRosa.

[Mike Epps]

I'm back and I got the mess.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Don't talk to me.

[Mike Epps]

Alrighty, y'all. So Jay Z and attorney Tony Busby back at it again. So a while back in December, Jay Z had began to sue Tony Busby, who was the attorney that accused him of sexually assaulting the third, the woman who claimed she was 13 back in 2000 after VMA party with Diddy right now. Moving forward. Yesterday in Alabama, in a court in Alabama, Jay Z went forward and filed something directly against the Jane Doe and her lawyer. This time it's not just attorney buzzfeed, it's also a man named David Fortney, who was a second attorney. So Jay Z is saying that the woman admitted to his reps that she made the whole story up. The lawsuit says that she made it up because she was pushed toward going forward with the false story against Jay Z by her attorneys. Now Busby is saying that this has no legal merit and that the woman is still standing by her story. He's actually saying that this whole lawsuit that Jay Z just filed in Alabama is basically another, in his terms, another failed attempt in like a desperate attempt to respond to everything that is happening. He says this new case alleges the same claims as the other one they piece together and found in Los Angeles. Like the other one in la, this new case in Alabama has no legal merit. Sean Carter's investigators have repeatedly harassed, threatened in something else, this poor woman for weeks, trying to intimidate her and make her recant her story. She hasn't and she won't and says she has stated that she stands by her claims. The same group of investigators said have been caught on tape offering to pay people sue me and my firm. After speaking with Jane Doe today, it's clear to me that the quotes attributed to her in this lawsuit are completely made up or they spoke to someone who isn't Jane Doe. Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How do you, how do you intimidate somebody that's anonymous? And, and why is, why is fighting for your reputation considered intimidating? A person that you don't even know, just an anonymous person come and make claims about you and then when you, you know, speak out against it and say these claims aren't true and then even if you find out that this person is lying, why is that considered intimidation?

[Jess Hilarious]

It.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You don't even know who the person.

[Jess Hilarious]

Is and the person hasn't released their name. So I wouldn't exactly.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She's anonymous.

[Mike Epps]

Now listen to this. Okay, so then after this Jane Doe on, on behalf of Jane Doe, her attorneys go and they file a response. Their own suit, not their own suit. I'm sorry, they filed response and they're saying that she, in this response filed, she sticks by her story and she's saying that she is intimidated and that she is terrified.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How don't nobody even know who you are.

[Mike Epps]

Well, in this new legal doc that was obtained by tmz, she says that Jay Z was trying to bully her into saying the accusations are bogus. The woman is claiming that she was recently approached outside of her home and cornered by two people who told her they were investigators working for one of Jay's lawyers. She then claims that people tried to get her to sign an affidavit stating that the rape claims against Jay Z were false, but she refused. The woman also claims that the alleged investigators asked her of Tony Busby, sought her out as a client and offered her money to pursue the false claims against Jay Z. Both these allegations she has denied in these documents and she claims the alleged confrontation led her to be intimidated and terrified wondering how they found her and her identity and because she had remained a non anonymous in all of the media reports in the legal proceedings, she's.

[Jess Hilarious]

Saying that they found her.

[Mike Epps]

Yes, the woman even claims her parents were approached by two investigators asking similar questions about Busby in the rape story. Now again, this is the same woman from back in 2000 but this all had this back and forth all went down yesterday.

[Jess Hilarious]

But didn't the same dad say he doesn't remember driving his daughter and he would remember that because the drive is such a long drive?

[Mike Epps]

A hundred percent. But she is claiming that her parents were approached by the two investigators asking similar questions about Busby and the rape story. But to your point, envy back in that that was the NBC interview that this accuser did. Back in that interview she did. Her father did say that that was five hours from the home. He would remember picking her up after that incident and he did not remember. So all of this back and forth and I don't know where this ends because it seems like whoever Jay's team spoke to this woman is completely saying something different when she gets with her attorneys. But I will say that in Jay's filing they also did ask for her to remain anonymous or whatever because of different like mental things that she's dealing with it. Whatever is happening behind the scenes here.

[Jess Hilarious]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Mike Epps]

I'm Hunter, host of Hunting for Answers on the Black Effect Podcast Network. Join me every weekday as I share a bite sized stories stories of missing and murdered black women and girls in America. There are several ways we can all do better at protecting black women. My contribution is shining a light on our missing sisters and amplifying their disregarded stories. Stories like Tameka Anderson. As she drove toward Galvez, she was in contact with several people talking on the phone as she made her way to what should have been a routine transaction. But Tameka never bought the car and she never returned home that day. One podcast, one mission. Save our Girls. Join the search as we explore the chilling cases of missing and murdered black women and girls. Listen to Hunting for Answers every weekday on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast. Me just an opinion. This woman doesn't seem competent to withstand anything legally and stories keep changing and we saw that, we heard her do that in NBC store. So I don't know why anyone wouldn't back off of this.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, these kids. The case has been dismissed already, right?

[Mike Epps]

Yeah, that case has been dismissed and it can't be brought back up. But now because Jay Z is suing them, you know what I mean, for everything that they took him through. Yeah, they're trying to fight back against that. So they. Yeah, yeah, there's that whole thing.

[Jess Hilarious]

I don't think the case can be brought that up as far as assault or sexual assault. But now she's saying something different right now. She's saying it's bullying and harassment, right?

[Mike Epps]

Yeah, two different things. But that's what I'm saying. It's like, it's like an ongoing, like, why doesn't this just end?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Defending yourself is not bullying or harassment. And that's the executive order Trump needs to sign. Okay. If you find out a person lied about allegations like that, whether they are criminal or civil, they should have to face criminal charges. And attorneys who take those bogus cases should have to face some consequences.

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm with you 1000%. If those attorneys know that those cases are BS and know that that person is lying from the facts, from the evidence, yes, they should be brought up on charges, too, because this is getting ridiculous.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I hate that when you. When you're a person of status and you know you got money just because you're defending yourself and using all the resources that you have at your disposal to defend yourself. Now all of a sudden, you're a.

[Jess Hilarious]

Bully and you intimidate, but now you're attacking the victim.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely.

[Jess Hilarious]

After that, you got claimed for something that you didn't do.

[Mike Epps]

Yeah. And I was. So again, attorney Busby is making these claims. Jay Z has claimed before that these private investigators that Busby has said before also approached him. They had nothing to do with him. He don't even. He didn't even know who these people were. His attorney said that.

[Jess Hilarious]

So I love the fact Jay keep fighting to clear his name. Like, I love that, because most people would have just stopped right there and was like, f everybody else. But he. I love the fact that he's like, nah, this is not it. Y'all didn't play with my name. And I'm gonna clear it to the end. And I ain't mad at that.

[Mike Epps]

He got the time, the money. He got the right one today. So.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He got the money. He got the money.

[Mike Epps]

I just.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what that boy. He got the money.

[Jess Hilarious]

He got the money. Most people would've let it go, but he got the money.

[Mike Epps]

Yeah, it's just a lot. It's just a lot of back and forth. But, yes, that is the. The first round of the mess.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right, thank you, Lauren LaRosa. Now, when we come back, we got front page news, and then Mike Epps will be joining us, so don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're checking out the Breakfast Club.

[Jess Hilarious]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess. Hilarious Charlamagne, the guy. We are the breakfast club. Lon LaRosa filling in for Jess. And let's get back in some front page news. What's up?

[Mike Epps]

What's up?

[Lil Duvall]

It is Tariff Tuesday, Envy. But before I get into that, can we just real quick laissez les bon temps, which means let the good times roll.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why you say it's Tariff Tuesday? Like it's $2 Tuesday, like it's something we should be excited about Tuesday. Let's go pay 25% extra on everything.

[Lil Duvall]

Everything. No, but for real, I mean, the people need to know. So, you know, let it be known before I get into the Tariff Tuesday thing again. It is Mardi Gras. And officials in New Orleans say security is being increased as celebrations of course are underway. This comes as one of five people who were shot over the weekend at a Mardi Gras parade in Franklinton was is clinging to life at a hospital. Washington Paris Cops say that the other four have been treated and released. They say the suspected gunman is in custody and a and said in a statement that there could be more arrests made and that particular incident. Now, Mardi Gras parades that the popular Mardi Gras parades that have been famous could also be a washout this year. Forecasters in the Big Easy are predicting some big storms that will roll in on Fat Tuesday. Some parades have already been canceled. Two of the biggest is the Zulu and Rex parade. They will roll on as earlier than normal, although officials are saying it's still possible that they can call those parades. And the Jefferson Parish has has canceled all of their Mardi Gras parades due to threats of high wind. Meanwhile, Customs and Border Protection officer Nathan Wilson, he is leading the security team and he says that's a big challenge. Let's hear comments from him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Several blocks, lots of open spaces.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So we strategically put teams at certain.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Areas so again if we there's a call for us, we can rapidly hit those situations. Yeah.

[Lil Duvall]

So city officials say that security is at unprecedented levels. Of course, this follows the deadly ISIS inspired attack that happened in the French Quarter on New Year's day that killed 14 people. There is a heavy police presence along with significant federal support. Several items have been banned, including of course private drones and. But bead throwing is still allowed. So you know, show me something. Mr. No. Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jesus, Morgan. Gotta go to my freaky ass Morgan. Freaky ass Morgan.

[Lil Duvall]

I'm a 69 guy. Anyways, okay, let's get into the tariff Tuesday then, y'all. President Trump's 25% tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada are now in effect. Now Canada says it will impose retaliatory 25.5percent tariffs on $100 billion of US goods. Trump also imposed another 10% on tariffs. 10% tariffs on Chinese imports in addition to 10% tariffs enacted last month. Now Beijing also respond responded with retaliatory tariffs on US Food and agricultural products. Economists predict American importers will pass along the cost of tariffs to consumers, sending prices higher and higher and higher at the grocery store and the car dealership. We stand plan to see it within a matter of just weeks. So Ontario's premier, which is like the governor of his of Ontario, says that Canada is set to retaliate against the US and plans to the the US's plans to impose on his country. And he also talked about how it's going to hurt our relationship. Let's hear more from Ontario Premier Doug Ford.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I will stop shipments going into the US for nickel. It will shut down manufacturing because 50% of the nickel you use is coming out of Ontario is going to go downhill faster than the American bobsled team. It's going to be an absolute disaster for both countries. We're your largest trading partner. If he wants to destroy our economy and our families, I will shut down the electricity going down to the us.

[Lil Duvall]

And I heard that his comments went on to say he would do it with a smile. So he made those comments to NBC News saying the tariffs will be an absolute disaster for both countries, of course. And he also threatened to shut down electricity that goes to the US. Now again, 25% tariffs on Canadian Mexican goods, 10% out of China. What are your guys thoughts, America?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

If you thought the cost of goods was high before, wait until tonight, you know what I'm saying? Like, like, like groceries, groceries are gonna go up, alcohol is gonna go up, gas prices are gonna go up, lumber is going to go up, cars is going to go up.

[Jess Hilarious]

Things like toys are going to be going up for your kids. They were talking about all the stuff that people order, the clothes and all that's going to be shooting up in prices as well.

[Lil Duvall]

Absolutely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like Mexico, Canada is the largest exporter of meat to the United States and 77% of fresh vegetables are imported from Mexico. So. Yeah, you going to feel it at the grocery store, baby. Yep.

[Lil Duvall]

And them syrup sandwiches is going to get more expensive too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And you tequila drink drinkers, you tequila drinkers, are you crazy? Tequila and Bill.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yep, it's me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's me.

[Lil Duvall]

Okay. As if that wasn't bad enough, guys, Senate Democrats are calling out Elon Musk for saying that Social Security is the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time. Yes, Elon Musk said Social Security is the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time. Now this comes at a time where Musk and Doge are set to cut 7,000 employees from the Social Security Administration this coming Friday. Now, Social Security does pay more in benefits compared to the returns that it gains on taxes. I was on Capitol Hill yesterday and Chuck Schumer spoke more about this situation. It seems like it is just coming out. It seems like we're in the beginning stages of it. So I've got my eyes on it for you. But here's what Chuck Schumer had to say in regards to this. What's happening.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So now we know that something we.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Senate Democrats have feared for a long time time is coming true. Social Security is under attack and at risk.

[DJ Envy]

You don't need to scratch your head.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And wonder what's going on when you see they're decimating the officers and the staff.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And you don't need to ponder what.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Might happen next when Trump and Musk say that the tens of millions of seniors and families and children who depend on these benefits are a part of a scam, it's insulting to them.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Chuck Schumer is 90 years old and he doesn't even sound excited when speaking about Social Security. Okay, Chuck, you are the elderly. That is your time to shine, okay? Because Social Security is not a Ponzi scheme. It's how most Americans survive during retirement or disabilities. You know, Social Security has prevented so many old people from falling into poverty. What is it? What are they talking about? That's why rich people got to stay out of poor people's business.

[Mike Epps]

Not he's a source close. He needs to be more excited.

[Lil Duvall]

Well, there you have that. And just bringing things really close quickly home to wrapping things up. Bringing things home to you guys in New York. Y'all heard about what happened with the FBI field office, right? So the head of the FBI New York's field office was forced out yesterday, a month after he pushed back against Trump administration's purge against agents who worked on the January 6th cases. Now assistant director in charge of the FBI's New York field office, James Dennehy retired from the bureau on Monday, telling his colleagues he was forced out in his announcement email. It was Dennehy's email in February that led to it. He bemoaned. Excuse me. He demands to turn over the names of agents who worked on Capitol riot cases, calling it a battle and writing time for me to dig in. Reports say Dennehy did delay reporting that info and that people within the bureau say that doing so prevented a mass firing. So maybe he was able to save others. But that meant he made you know he was on the chopping block for that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But.

[Lil Duvall]

But we'll continue to keep you posted on what is happening out here in these streets. That's your front page news. I'm Morgan Wood. Follow me on Social Oregon Media for more news coverage, follow Lack Information Network, Download the free iHeartRadio app and visit [e-mail]. thank you.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right.

[Lil Duvall]

Oh, happy birthday to my son.

[Mike Epps]

It's my son birthday.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Happy boy name? Morgan. Son.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How old is he?

[Lil Duvall]

Nine.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Congratulations. I got a nine year old at the house. Congratulations.

[Jess Hilarious]

Congratulations.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You.

[Mike Epps]

Levi.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Love you.

[Jess Hilarious]

You all right, now, when we come back, comedian Mike Eps will be joining us, so don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess. Hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Lauren laros filling in for Jess. We got a special guest in the building, a legend.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

God damn it.

[Jess Hilarious]

The brother Mike.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm serious, Mike. I don't want them introducing you no more if they ain't putting legend on your mother's name.

[Jess Hilarious]

Well, we got the legend, Mike.

[DJ Envy]

How old you gotta get to be a legend?

[Mike Epps]

Social Security age.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, you gotta be in the.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, I'm getting there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't think it's about age. I think it's about what you've done in the game.

[Jess Hilarious]

What you've done.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Thanks, man. I appreciate. I appreciate the, you know, compliment.

[Jess Hilarious]

And Mike Epps, he always supported us early on. He actually did our first skit with the Breakfast Club. Remember that? The first skit. The first skit was with you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And.

[Jess Hilarious]

And you did that for us.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's big.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And he used to put money in my pocket because you used to do the April Fools comedy sham in New York. He used to always get me to host it at the golf.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, man. So, yeah, man. And it feel good to be able to, you know what I mean, turn on the young comics, put them on. Because I was once one at one time. I mean, I used to be standing on the stage trying to get on open up for. For Steve Harvey and D.L. hughley.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So they used to hate on you?

[Lauren LaRosa]

No.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, no, no, no, no. They. They never hated on me. But you could tell, though, you know, when you're an older comic or you're an older artist and somebody new, Come on. You know, it takes time for them to be like, okay, this dude is cool, you know, Or I can work with him because, you know, you don't know how a person gonna turn out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So I. I shouldn't even have said hate, because sometimes I think that people don't realize how much of a fraternity comedy is, and they want to see you earn your dues before they. You know, they do if they share stage with you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But nowadays it's different, man. You know, artists are getting. They just do a little quicker than we did we had to really work for that. We had to go hit them stages and. And now they got the social media thing, which is good and bad. Cause you're getting opportunities. Premature.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Of you working for it. So it can be tricky.

[Jess Hilarious]

Do you respect that or you, you, you feel like they should get their, their dues first to hit them clubs?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, I, I was, I respect the fact that they. It's still a hustle, right? I mean, to be able to be on the Internet. I still ain't figured that out. I still ain't figured out how to really get the money off the Internet. Like these young, like, like they on Snapchat and all this. I really haven't figured it out. But I respect that because that's the new hustle. But like I said, when it's, when it's time for you to get an opportunity and show improve, you ain't really been in the gym. It's kind of like you got muscles, but they didn't come from the gym.

[Jess Hilarious]

Now, do you like going out on tour with so many comedians?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, you know what, Envy? I'm hosting this tour. So these are all young comics that's coming up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Duvall ain't young.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Duvall ain't young.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hell no.

[Mike Epps]

I wanted Duvall.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He didn't start with me, though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, he didn't.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He's young to me. Okay. Because he, you know, he came up after me. But for the most part, all of them are young comics that's trying to get to the next level, which is film and television and whatever that is. But I. Yeah, it's cool, man. You know, I'm secure with myself and I'm secure with my comedy act. I go on tour with anybody.

[Mike Epps]

I think me and Jess were talking about this before and I was telling her like, like, like the way that, like, even with Martin, he brings her on his like, you know, different stages. I think that two way street that you're talking about is really important because they're teaching you while you're teaching them.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Right.

[Mike Epps]

Especially because, like, I feel like sometimes comedians who come up the way you come up when they shut out, like the. Just hilarious is the Desi Banks or whatever, you get so behind the times that you, it, it just doesn't come off well a lot of times. And I think for you guys and what you do, you're trying to figure out social media.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Mike Epps]

If it doesn't come off well, then fans kind of start to look at you a little differently. You got to battle so many different things because they Don't. Yeah, it's what's here right now. So the fact that you're getting that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Is important on Instagram.

[Mike Epps]

Like, you can't get around that because you grow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Who are you talking to?

[Mike Epps]

No, but listen, when you said Duval wasn't young, I looked it up. I thought he was way younger. He's 47.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, duo was younger.

[Mike Epps]

I thought Duvall was like, not too. I thought he was like maybe 40. He gives young energy. But I'm. I just think that it's dope to see people embracing it because they be hating. Like a lot of the old heads be hating. And it's crazy because what you're showing.

[Jess Hilarious]

That old head around that word around a lot.

[Mike Epps]

What's wrong with that? Why are people upset about being called older? That's a gift to age and to have what you have.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We not. It's just how you say.

[Mike Epps]

Well, I don't mean it. I don't mean it. No way. What I'm saying.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, I know what you mean.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Mike Epps]

I think it's fire to see you doing it because a lot of people don't. And you're lied about embracing it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. A lot of older guys, they don't know how to. You know, they don't really don't know how to embrace that, man. But my. Like I said, man, that's what we supposed to do. We gotta keep on handing it down to each other. Cause I'm gonna be in a position one day. I'm gonna need one of the young dudes to put me in.

[Mike Epps]

Right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's what Red Fox and Eddie Murphy put Red Fox in.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He looked out for Red Fox. Gave him money. Yeah. So, yeah. Hell yeah. Now let's get messy. What you want to ask me?

[Mike Epps]

Oh, how you not got something?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Kevin Hart signed on to be the entertainment Zar for the paces and fever. You are from Indiana. Super famous from Indiana.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And then built a whole community in Indiana.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How did that make you feel that they didn't call you for that?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, you know what? I thought about it. I was the ambassador for the men's all Star in Indiana this past All Stars Car and Kev should have called me if he was in Indianapolis, because I. I definitely called him when I was in Philly, but he didn't answer the phone. I wanted to call him and say, hey, man, I'm downtown at the Eagles game. Because I was. We had a show in. In Philly and I was calling him to tell him, man, I'm Downtown Philly, Boy, they going crazy at the parade. But, you know, everybody got their different. Different things about how they feel, man. You know who goes to Indiana. I'm still trying to figure out who the f. Want to go there and do something in Indiana. Other than myself, I'm the only fan they got outside. Outside of. Outside of India, Outside of what they fans are in that city. You know, hey, man, it's. It's politics. And then. And a lot of times, people that are not in a business, like, people are not in comedy. People are not in the rap game that run Entities. They don't know, right? They think me and Kevin sitting in the backyard drinking iced tea together. You know what I'm saying? So you really can't get upset about it, but it's enough for everybody, man. You know what I mean? Kev, he put. He put on. He put on enough young comics and people, so, yeah, I didn't get slighted about that, man. It's cool.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So y'all talking, though, the fact that you called him and he was in Philly.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We.

[DJ Envy]

We.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Me and Kevin talk, man. And again, man, I'm. Everything I do now, I put an age on it. You know what I mean? So I think about it, and I'm like, nope, you too old. Nope, you too old. Nope, you too. Are too old to talk. Too old to be broke. I'm too old for all of that. You know what I mean? You just get to a point in your age where you just, hey, man, I'm just trying to get what I can get out of it. And. And, you know, but knowing Kev, though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know he gonna reach out for you to do something when he put that together.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, yeah, well. Well, that's what I'm saying. We. I was just on the phone with him, telling him that that's what we gotta do. The white boys. You already said look up. All them white boys be together doing movies and television together. Why we can't do it?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I got in the business through Ice Cube. I didn't get into business through. And white people like who they like. And I'm not, you know, I'm not really like that dude that they like.

[Mike Epps]

Ah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Cause you can't rub on my head and pat me on the ass and all. I don't play none of that.

[DJ Envy]

So.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And I think they figured that out. Okay, this is. We can't do that with. Not gonna do it with them. So, you know, hey, but you've had a great Career.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, the Upshaws is killing what they only. What, fifth season?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Fifth season.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Fifth season.

[Mike Epps]

Swear by that show they love.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I appreciate it. And that came from my idea. That came from an idea that's about my hometown and loosely based on my life, you know, so I'm. I can't complain. I'm. I'm grateful. I'm happy. I ain't gonna beef with nobody. I'm just trying to continue to live on and do what I do.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right, we got more with Mike Epps when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's Dej NV J. Hilarious Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Mike Epps. Now, Mike Eps. How many kids do you have?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Seven.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, you got to think about it. You said all the ones you play.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You think you got some kids out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

There you don't know? I hope not.

[DJ Envy]

You hope not?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I hope not.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You ain't that kind of guy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm glad you know that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You ain't that kind of guy, but you're not either.

[Mike Epps]

Don't let him throw down.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm not now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, she has a nap time player. What you talking about?

[Lauren LaRosa]

But I. But back in the day. Look, I could keep my pants up, the way.

[Mike Epps]

The way all the smoke went. Just focus over here. I'm trying to keep you in. In good graces. Yes, yes. So don't lean into what he's saying over there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You can talk about your old days. Them old days.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, they old days. They old days. Slanging it like a pistol. Slanging it, Man. But you know what, though? Hey, man, if you can survive anything and be there to talk about it, it's cash money.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right.

[Mike Epps]

I agree.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't care what it is. If you survived it, you standing there talking about it. It's cash money.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's why we listen to Magic Johnson so heavy now.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right. That man lived the life, Johnson. Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. And you'll forget.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sometimes you forget that he got hiv.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You see what I'm saying?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Some of the women probably do too. They probably like.

[Jess Hilarious]

They not forget now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Y'all are cr.

[Jess Hilarious]

Crazy. You got a young child, too.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

So how. How is being a old head? Cuz we all old heads raising that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Young child, man, I love it. They giving me life. I got a son 4 years old, and I got a daughter 5. And they give me life. And I ain't no old type dude. I can get up and Run right now, fast as I want to, and do whatever I want to do.

[Mike Epps]

So why you look at me when you said that? You looked at me when you said that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What? Which part?

[Mike Epps]

That you're not no old dude. No old type dude.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Cuz you call me older.

[Mike Epps]

I meant it by like iconic legend. Aging. Like you have that. You have it. You know what I mean? Like, you got the. I didn't mean it like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But think about it, though. M. You only. You 54, right? You got a 5 year old. What? How old you say? So think about that. Steve Harvey, 68.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Eddie Murphy and is 60. They look good. That's what I'm saying. How much life we got to live? Arsenio? 69. I think that's right.

[Mike Epps]

Go keep looking over here too. I didn't mean it that way. I mean, that's why she's single.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She's all good.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How old her wig look, Mike?

[Lauren LaRosa]

She ain't got no wig on.

[Mike Epps]

Thank you. I appreciate it. It's grown from the scalp. You hate her. Yeah, he just happy because his. His face surgery is new, so he's still giving one color on the face surgery is young, so he. That's what he.

[Jess Hilarious]

What the Did I just walk into? Talk about how old wig and his old face. That's what I'm walking into.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. All three of y'all, man.

[DJ Envy]

I'll say.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I love that.

[DJ Envy]

That interview.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That was my best interview y'all ever did.

[Jess Hilarious]

It was only 20 seconds.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I love that interview.

[DJ Envy]

It was so hilarious.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All three of y'all. Don't say my name no more. Yeah, man, I loved it, man. But right now, I'm on this tour right now. Shout out. Shout out to BMN Entertainment.

[Mike Epps]

It you done with the mess? Because I did have some other questions you better ask.

[Jess Hilarious]

You got about a couple minutes left. You gotta go.

[Mike Epps]

So shoot. Okay, so I mentioned all the smoke. You had to come out with the apology after sitting on all the smoking. You talked about learning how to finally get right. Yeah. When you sat down all those. All the Smoke podcasts with Matt Barnes, you said that you were. You wanted to get to a point where you were treating women 100 right, or something like that. And I think people took it the wrong way because you've been with your wife for a while.

[DJ Envy]

Right.

[Mike Epps]

I saw y'all at the NAACP Image Awards. Looked amazing. But does that even come back up in conversation in your relationship? Or how does she handle you being able to joke like you just did about things now that that has happened?

[Lauren LaRosa]

No My wife's a grown ass woman. She the truth. She don't pay attention to none of that. Petty. Not petty. She ain't. She ain't no little girl. So, yeah, she can decipher when I'm saying something that. That. That I might not have made meant the right way or whatever. She know when I'm talking, when I'm, you know, she know me. So I didn't say nothing to really offend nobody, you know, but it is the truth. It take men a long time to get this together.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right.

[Mike Epps]

Oh, I know.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And every woman that's with a man, it's got to be a little bit more patient than we are with them because it takes a while. Takes a while for a man to, you know, get a together. It's. I mean, we. We got. We fighting up against so much temptation. It's like, damn. Damn. It's like, whoa. You got to be a certain kind of guy to really survive and navigate through the world.

[Jess Hilarious]

Charlamagne was just talking about Whoopi Goldberg the other day.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Is that who you want?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She looked good at the office. She did look good, you know, because when she on the View, she looked a little. Little fluffy. But she looked.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Her skin was right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Her skin was right, you know, body look right. Giving the OG a compliment. That's so far. That's it. Got nothing to do with nothing. Nothing.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, well, let me find out. But this tour that I'm on.

[Mike Epps]

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Cause this is what I came to promote. This tour.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This tour.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I came to promote this, man, because we got some young bad comedians. And if you in a city and you ain't seen this tour, I mean, probably a lot of y'all probably seen Wild N Out Out. You know, them little. It's all right. Wilding out, you know, don't shot him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wild Out.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm just saying, they do a tour.

[Mike Epps]

But y'all do it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Cannon and them, they doing a tour, but we do it. This tour right here is. This is the best young comics coming up in the game right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How did it become like a staple? Talk. Like I remember, it started a few years ago. Yeah, but like every year since y'all been doing it. So how did it become like, a staple?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, shout out to my man Blake, man, promoter out of Chicago. This young brother has been promoting for a long time. He does a great job. He started out before I started, before I came along. He had D Ray. So many other shows in Chicago for New Year's Eve, and they were selling out sometime two and three shows, man, 10, 20,000 people. So when he put this tour together, you know, I came along. Like I said, man, we. Come on, man, you got Country Wayne, you got. Got Lil Duvall, you got Corey Holcomb, you got Tony Roberts, you got Bubba Dub, man. Carlos Miller, Mojo. Man, these.

[DJ Envy]

These.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Tell me any young comics is better than these young dudes. These young dudes is great.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Some OGs in there now. Corey's OG.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Corey is OG.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But see, I don't think nobody's funnier than a lot of the og. Like, Corey is one of the funniest stage in the world to me. Like, wrong. He don't give up.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, he gonna say what he want to say, how he want to say it. He don't care. And. And that thing, we. It's a nucleus of young dudes, and we throw in a couple old guys in there, but it's still a young, happy, hopping tour, you know what I'm saying? So this tour is good, man. We was in Brooklyn. They messed around and put us the day after the fight, so we didn't get the crowd. Last year we did 10,000 people in Barclays, and this year we only did about 4,000. But, you know, the fight kind of messed us up. But this tour.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And it was weird, it was on a Sunday. I didn't even know y'all was in town.

[Jess Hilarious]

We thought y'all were coming up here to promote.

[DJ Envy]

God.

[Jess Hilarious]

Cuz I didn't even know. I didn't even know I was going to go. But then I seen on Instagram you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Wasn'T going to go.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I never.

[Jess Hilarious]

I always go to comedy show.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You?

[Mike Epps]

Yeah, you pop out my thing all the time.

[Jess Hilarious]

Comedy show. All right, we got more with comedian Mike Eps when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with Mike Eps. Charlamagne.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And congrats to your daughter. Got accepted to New York University. Drama.

[Lauren LaRosa]

NYU University.

[Jess Hilarious]

NYU University it is.

[Lauren LaRosa]

New York University, nyu, nyu.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How'd that make you feel as a father?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, man, this is the thing. I didn't graduate from high school. I was a special ed student. And for my daughter to graduate and go to nyu, it's a compliment. You know, I had to give her mother props as well. Her mother did a great job with her. But my daughter is running around nyu, and that's the same place I ran around doing comedy at in the Village. I used to sit in that Washington Park. Park and with no money. And watch people. And people watch. And now my daughter's running around that same area in college. So, man, I'm grateful. And I just thank God that. That I was able to raise a child, to be able to go get an education, you know, so.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's amazing. That's what it's about. It is because he was a special ed.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Hell, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I had. I was in there for a semester because I failed a class. So I wasn't like. I mean, I failed a standardized test, so they had me in one math class that was special ed. There was just one with the special ed. Because I wasn't in special ed. Special ed.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, you was in there. Hey, man, if you was in there for 30 minutes, man, your ass was in there.

[Mike Epps]

It's okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But special education is not about the short bus. See, a lot of people get it twisted. There are kids that are slow learners. They don't know how to learn as fast as other kids. That's how I was. I could read a whole book and tell you. They couldn't tell you what it was. But you got to get them kids a break, too, because you look at Elon Musk. Yeah, this a dude. You could. Damn. You could tell he wasn't doing in the classroom. You know what I mean? But look who he is. Look where he's at. And not to big him up or to knock him down, but. But you gotta give people a chance. You don't know what a kid gonna turn out to be.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right. That's right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And that's how I am. I mean, man, it's so hard to. I run into people who treated me like. And I still treat em nice because I know they don't know. I'm like, okay, I'm gonna give you a break. Cause I know you didn't know I was gonna be somebody. And I'm gonna still treat you nice. Cause you didn't know. This is We Are the Ones tour, man. I'm your host, Mike Epps, and we gonna be coming to every local city we going to. We'll be in.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let me help you.

[Jess Hilarious]

Let me help you. Let me help. Detroit on the 7th. Come on. Detroit on the 8th.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Come on.

[Jess Hilarious]

Fairfax on the 9th.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Come on.

[Jess Hilarious]

March 14th. New Orleans, Louisiana.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Let's go.

[Jess Hilarious]

15Th, Alabama.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You only got a website, man.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Go get. Yeah, we got a website, but that just did. It's really gonna work.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We got an Envy Shout out on there, man.

[DJ Envy]

You know what I'm saying?

[Jess Hilarious]

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[Mike Epps]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

How long Breakfast Club been going, man?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It'll be 15 years this year.

[Jess Hilarious]

15, 16 years.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Do you know the first time I met him, he was working with Wendy Williams.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Mike Epps]

How was that?

[Jess Hilarious]

Was he sitting on her lap or.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He was sitting in the corner. Quiet.

[Mike Epps]

Really?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. You was on the show but you wasn't saying he's on timeout that day. And then I looked up again and I seen you with. I'm like this dude. That was the dude, this mother who got a show and he ended up with a show.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, want to ask you, we had Jaques up here.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, Jaques, he said, yo, you know Ex.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yo, what's wrong, Mike, man?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Mike can't front. M ain't one of them people front. Mike will front for one second, then he catch himself. Queen said. And I told him. I don't believe this. He said you told him he was the next Marvin Gay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, I, I told him. I said jacques. I told him he could be.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why you lie to that man like that?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Was it a lie?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He can sing to you.

[Mike Epps]

You say he. You look at him like Marvin Gaye. Like he's like our generation's Marvin Gaye. I think people were like, I told.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Him Mike was high, man. Mike wanted to make you feel good that day.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Hey, man, let me tell you something, man. It's probably some little girl out there that think this Marvin Gaye. Sometimes you have to. Hey, man, I, I'm. I'm about empowering the youth.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And I'll tell them that they can be the president, knowing damn well they can't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You ain't going to tell none of these. Look, young comedians, they could be, they, they could be Richard Pryor.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, I done told all of them.

[Jess Hilarious]

Mike Eps, we appreciate you for joining us, brother.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You done told them all, man.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Thank y'all for being nice to me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know y'all cut it out.

[Mike Epps]

Mike Eps, Club Shay coming this year.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Club Shay? No, I ain't going to do no Club Shay. Cause I'm still trying to figure out why. I'm like I told and I told. I was like.

[Mike Epps]

I know y'all had to sit down.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Shannon Sharp, y'all gotta bring some white men on here and grill em. You can't just grill black people. That ain't right. And I know we make money off clickbait, but Clickbait, them white folks get some of your NFL players that you know was up get em on this show because Cat Williams, that he did, it was good, but it was bad. It was good cause we enjoyed it. But damn, man, he hurt them dudes feeling saying all that crazy. So we got, man, we gotta, we gotta balance it out, man. Shannon Sharp, if you're listening, we want to see you interview some of them football players, some of them white football players that was in the NFL that was up just to balance and I don't know race. But you can't just interview black men and let them pour out all they pain on television, on these, on these podcasts, man. That's some bullshit. Cause we more than just problems. We everything, man. We got talent, you know, we got families, we're entrepreneurs. We all of that so we have to keep shedding the light on the positive part of that. We already got enough negative light. We want a podcast. We want to start bringing people on the letter, even though, you know, people don't want to hear that. But, man, let's talk about some positive.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

On these, you know, like Naptown Productions.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Naptown Productions.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You got Good American Family that come out on Hulu this Sunday.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good American Family. Yep. I produced a show, Good American Family with Ellen Pompeo, another Naptown production.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Love, Ellen.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Shout out to my team, tc, my man Niles. Shout out to Big. Shout out to my wife, you know, because that's where it starts. You know, before you leave the house, you got to be all the way, right? So big shout out. Everybody should give my wife a prize because she's the one that's getting me to these TV shows, and you know what I mean?

[DJ Envy]

But.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But I was able to produce that show, man, and it's all white cast, based out of Indianapolis. If you haven't ever seen the movie the Dwarf, that's what it's about. About this young girl who played to be an adult, but she was really a kid and they adopted her. She was trying to kill him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But anyway, has Cube approached you about last Friday?

[Lauren LaRosa]

He called me the other day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Said we doing. Just finished the deal.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, wow.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So we doing the last Friday, man. And big shout out to Q, man. That's another brother that has put so many brothers on, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, sir.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And don't really get the props for it. You know, put me, Chris Tucker, Bernie Mac. I mean, name them dude. Gave dudes opportunities, and that's what I'm doing on the Upshaws, man. I got. I just had Scarface on the show. Acting. I had Petey Pablo on the show. I had so many comics on the show. And, you know, that's what we do. We turn. We turning on black men, putting black men in a position where they can feed their family and build legacies.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Have you seen the script for last Friday?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I haven't seen the script, but I'm pretty sure it's good. And we gonna bring in the new comics. We're gonna put the DC young flies and all of them in with the OGs. It's gonna be a good ass.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Is Chris Tucker gonna be a part of it, too? You Chris, they gonna combine all the world.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Hopefully we can get Chris Tucker in. You know, we need to get Chris Tucker in that because people still love Chris Tucker. He's still smoky. He laid it down. He put. He positioned Me to do it. So. So, Chris, if you listen to it, we need you, baby boy. Come on back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, when y'all start shooting.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We don't know when we start shooting.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But the deal done.

[Lauren LaRosa]

The deal's done. And the Upshaws keep watching the upshot, man. Shout out to Wanda Sykes. Shout out to Kim Fields, the whole cast. I love them people, man. Unfortunately, this is our last season.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I thought it was seven.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Nah, we did five seasons, you know?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But you know why I thought I really was gonna see this?

[Mike Epps]

When I tell you, my grandmama, they swear by loves.

[Lauren LaRosa]

They love the shop. They love the upshot.

[Mike Epps]

Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Last season, the show was changing. The kids are getting older. It's had his run sometime. Those shows do that, man. You know, me and Tiffany haddish have a show now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That we about to do together.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Dope.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's like the Upshaws. It's gonna be about a bar, like Cheers, a black Cheers. It's gonna be off the hood.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, dope.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. Okay, so. So, man, we. We gonna keep the ball rolling. We gonna keep some entertainment in your face.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right. And support everything Mike Eps doing. Right. We didn't want one store.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's right.

[Mike Epps]

I'm going to come to, like, three to tour dates, so. You know, I didn't mean to call you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, come on. Yeah, come on. No, girl, you ain't going to take that serious. It's Mike Epps.

[Jess Hilarious]

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Mike Epps]

Oh, every time I hear that song, you make me want to turn up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Don't make you want to turn up.

[Jess Hilarious]

Me and. Me and Lauren was bonding over here over housewives.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, for real.

[Jess Hilarious]

Housewives of Atlanta. Yeah, we were just. We were just watching an episode, and we were bonding.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's amazing.

[Jess Hilarious]

We were having girl talk until you came in here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, you hold. Carry on.

[Jess Hilarious]

Go ahead.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I ain't stopping y'all. What have to do with me?

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Continue.

[Jess Hilarious]

Morning, everybody. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the mess with Laura Rosa.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

On the Breakfast Club. She's the coaching suit with Lauren. Lauren LaRosa.

[Mike Epps]

I'm back, and I got the mess.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Talk to me.

[Mike Epps]

Why are you looking at me like that? Charlamagne. You right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because that ain't how you looked an hour ago.

[Mike Epps]

I just did my makeup, sitting right here with this.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I was confused, like, who is this person?

[Jess Hilarious]

Who is this new person?

[Mike Epps]

Don't. Don't do me, cuz. A fresh face was given and it was glowing by God. But let's focus on the mess instead of you're messy. So the other day here we were talking about. We were showing some love to Ms. Angie Stone. I mentioned that I saw online the biopic that she mentioned in here was still in development. Let's take a listen to when she was here back in 2019 talking about the biopic.

[Jess Hilarious]

Has any of the new Y artists thanked you?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

City Girls ain't never thank y'all.

[Mike Epps]

No, they don't know.

[Jess Hilarious]

But, but, but I promise you they.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Will know because I'm actually getting ready to do.

[Jess Hilarious]

We're working on a biopic. Ralph Farquhar is who I'm working with, who did Hollywood Husbands on the. On the biopic.

[Mike Epps]

And we're gonna have to cross all these lanes. Yes. So I reached out to her rep, Ms. Deborah Champagne, wanting to know. Because it's still listed as in development on IMDb, which is for people who don't know. It tells you like where shows are as far as production. I said, hey, you know, what's going on? Did this move forward? Where did you know? Where did it leave off? Can we look to see something? And she says that the Angie Stone biopic has not been finished. It is still in the development stage at this moment. All that they can say is that in 2021, Angie Stone was working with literary writers who work for an agency out of London to publish her biopic in book form. But due to schedules, the status of the book was placed on hold to revisit at a later time. But she does insist that the story does need to be told. So this is something that they are going to definitely try and figure out now. But as of right now, that's where it left off. Book. It's a, it's a book form now and she began it, but it's on hold right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I wonder if the book was done or how far along they were.

[Mike Epps]

I did ask that, but she couldn't get into it right now. She just told me that they are going to revisit it soon because it's important for Angie Stone's story to be told.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely. Rest in peace. To Angie Stone. 803 Legends Man, Columbia, South Carolina legend right there. Neo soul icon. Hip hop icon. Well, neo soul pioneer. Hip hop pioneer. R B icon.

[Mike Epps]

And they're also working to put together a really great memorial service for her. And we'll keep you guys updated on like what that will be and when it'll happen and all that stuff as well.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And don't y'all be going to Angie Memorial. Going up there singing, they can't sing. Now y'all pick the right people to go up there and sing the song for real. I hate when they do that, when somebody that can sing, they ass off and then they bring somebody up there that can't sing. Y'all know Angie would have wanted somebody up there that can sing.

[Jess Hilarious]

Now I'm sure they can sing together.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Get the right sangers, they'll get it. Okay.

[Mike Epps]

Well, hopefully they will. Now moving on to other news. Lamont Roach and Gervonta Tank Davis, they fought at the Barclay over the weekend. It was a draw. Some people think Lamont Roach should have won the fight. Others are saying no, the draw was fair. At this point, y'all bullied Javante Tank Davis into announcing a. A tentative time for a rematch. So now Gervonta take Davis is saying that there will likely be a rematch of some sort at the end of May. The rematch can be soon, too. Dot, dot, dot. Like end of May, he tweeted. Now, I say that you guys have bullied him into that because the insults were flying online after this fight, especially yesterday. And you'll remember in the beginning, after the fight, he said, let's take a listen.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Do you want that rematch next? And if so, how likely it is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That we're, you know, we're to see that fight happen again this year?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm not sure, bro. Hopefully we could get it before. Nah, it probably won't be this year.

[DJ Envy]

Is that the one you want next? That's the.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, it's definitely the one I want next, but it's not going to be next.

[Mike Epps]

Yeah. So originally that was right after the fight. He said, nah, I'm not focused on that right now. But now it's like, okay, he's setting a date or at least a month for people to look forward to. So what was happening online yesterday was Lamont Roach has shared a video of Adrien Bronner after his Pacquiao fight, declaring that he won the fight and Roach had added the caption facts. And then Gervonta allegedly responded that basically Lamont Rose should be happy that it didn't get knocked out. He said that his dad was jumping up and down in the corner. We all made it to the 12th round, but the tweet was deleted. So then Lamont Roach responded back to that tweet and he said, y'all, it was a lot of back and forth. He responded back to that tweet and he said he was never, he was never worried about that. I guess talking about getting knocked down, truth be told you, he says Tank hits like a, the B word and that whoever was jumping up and down, oh, his dad was jumping up and down because basically he was going off. So what you talking about? So then Tank said, or Javante Tank David said and say no more, I'm pushing for the remax. Lamont Roach responded to him and made it clear. He said, what you mean you pushing? My contract already is signed and set for immediate rematch. Cuz you put that in there just in case you lost. Only reason we don't finish, we didn't fight is because you're scared.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And that's the one everybody should be focusing on. They should be focusing on that. If there's already, if there already was a rematch clause and Lamont has already signed up for the rematch, you know, yeah, there's be. There would be no reason for Tank not to want to do the rematch asap.

[Jess Hilarious]

They got to do the rematch.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now. I did hear that this is just a rumor that Tank and Jake Paul was going to line up the fight. So that might have been what Tank had planned next.

[Mike Epps]

Yeah, but I feel like the minute that this fight happened and was called the way that it was called, if I'm Tank, I'm instantly like, nah, we gotta, we gotta run that, we got to run that back. And that's not what he did instantly and now it's changing.

[Jess Hilarious]

So it's like if Tank was supposed to fight Jake Paul, that's a way bigger payday and he might be talking about the bigger payday because he keeps talking retiring, he keeps talking about one more year and I'm out of here. So.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But if the fight with Jake Paul is big now because of what happened with.

[Mike Epps]

I want to see this now it's like a left turn. Jake Paul and Jake Paul, I think.

[Jess Hilarious]

It'S going to be big.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not as big as it would have been.

[Jess Hilarious]

No, it would have been bigger. But I think he needs to do that rematch.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think he needs to do the rematch with Roach and they need to do it in the DMV be.

[Jess Hilarious]

Well, that would be amazing.

[Mike Epps]

Another issue with this is that, that, that the knee people are arguing that that should have been a knockout, should.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Have been a knockdown.

[Mike Epps]

So now that controversial non call is under review by the New York State Athletic Commission and they said in a statement a technical issue may have prevented the commission from acting during the fight at the Barclays center in Brooklyn, New York. That's according to their statement because it ended in a draw. Yeah. So this incident occurred in the ninth round when. When. Y'all remember when Davis Javante dropped to the knee and then headed back to his corner. The referee, Steve Willis, started a mandatory 10 count before allowing Davis to resume fighting without penalty. After Davis got his eyes white with a towel, he. And then, you guys remember, Tank also later said that he took the knee and headed to his corner because something was in his eyes. So basically they're going to be reviewing this.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That should have been a knockdown. I never trust that referee because I don't like his eyes. His eye. His eyes are like a fish. His eyes are on the sides of his head. You know how his eyes are on the sides. I never like his eyes. I don't trust. I've never liked that ref. What's that referee? I can't remember his name right now.

[Mike Epps]

His name is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I bet if you Google referee with crazy eyes, it'll be him.

[Mike Epps]

Referee Steve Willis.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Steve Willis, Yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

But let me ask you a question. If you were Roach, would you want that win or would you say, let's keep a draw and fight again? Because I wouldn't want that one.

[Mike Epps]

Keep the draw and fight again.

[Jess Hilarious]

I would keep a draw fight again.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, please give me the win. Let me fight against anyway. Yes.

[Jess Hilarious]

It be too much controversy. It'd be an ass, that win. Yes, it would.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Saw the fight that should have been.

[Jess Hilarious]

Called a knockdown because it wasn't a. A real knockdown. If it was a real knockdown, then I get it. He would want that fight again. I want to take that drawing and give me that fight again.

[Mike Epps]

I want to add more to their statement because it. It makes it make more sense. So basically there was the commission's request to replay video of what happened when the knee was taken. And then there was a technical issue that made it where they couldn't do the replay. I guess in the allotted time for.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Review, you take a knee in a fight, you get deducted points. That's. That's been the rule since the beginning.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's what it should have been.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, that was a clear knee.

[Mike Epps]

We'll see what happens as we wrap up. And now this fight is ranked as the highest grossing event ever at the Blar Clay Center.

[DJ Envy]

Really?

[Mike Epps]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The.

[Mike Epps]

Yeah. Yep.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right, well, congratulations.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Rematch. Let's go.

[Mike Epps]

Second highest.

[Jess Hilarious]

The second highest.

[Mike Epps]

Yes.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right. Well, that was the mess with La Rosa Charlemagne. Who you giving that down to?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Christopher Newton. He's a Florida man. He needs to come to the front of the congregation. We would like to have a word with him. I'm telling y'all, there's a whole group of people like here who think that crime is normal. We'll discuss.

[Jess Hilarious]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're checking out the Breakfast Club. Execution on the Donkey of the Day is something to behold.

[Mike Epps]

He gave me Donkey of the Day and I deserve it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

People need to know.

[Mike Epps]

Well, you need to tell them.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I am.

[Mike Epps]

You have the voice.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Tell them. Tell them it's time for Donkey of the Day.

[Lil Duvall]

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

[Lauren LaRosa]

You trying to be a fake ass Charlemagne. It's only one Charlemagne involved.

[Mike Epps]

Damn Charlemagne. Who you give a dunky of the day to? Now?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Donkey of the day for Tuesday, March 4, goes to a Florida man named Christopher Newton. Now, what does your Uncle Charlotte always say about the great state of Florida? The craziest people in America come from the Bronx and all of Florida, and today is no exception. Now, I have a theory that people don't know right from wrong anymore because of social media. Let me explain. You can go on social media and literally witness any criminal activity you want, and we end up seeing these. We end up seeing these activities so much that some people probably don't even know what they are witnessing. Is criminal. Okay? It's criminal when you watch people get punched in the face on social media. All right? It's criminal when you see folks flashing illegal guns on social media. It's criminal when you see people showing off drugs they are using and selling, okay? Street racing, reckless driving, drifting, animal abuse. It's so many crimes we witness on social media. But because we don't see the consequences of them displaying this criminal behavior as often as we should, a lot of people think this stuff is normal. Well, in the words of the honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, just because something has become the norm doesn't mean it's normal. And committing crime is never going to be normal. And just because you commit crimes and act like it's everyday, you know, regular smeggler activities does not make what you doing not a crime. Okay? Christopher Newton didn't get that memo, though, because he's out here moving like the crimes he's committing are normal. According to Fox 13 Tampa Bay, Christopher Newsome, or Christopher Newton has been arrested on drug charges after deputies say he left a baggie of cocaine in a house he was being trespassed from. Now, I have never heard the phrase he was being trespassed from. I've heard the phrase he was trespassing But I'm also not the highest grade of weed in the dispensary, so maybe that's the proper way to reference that. I don't know. But this is the Florida education system we are talking about. But according to Fox 13 Tampa Bay. Okay. A Florida man was arrested on drug charges after deputies say he left a baggie of cocaine in a home he was trespassed from. Now, what had happened was Christopher Newsome text the homeowner who just asked him to leave about a bag of cocaine left on the nightstand. Okay. And he sent that text while deputies were at the house. Sidebar. The sooner you realize people be on cocaine, the less you take things personally. Back to the story. Now, according to the Holmes County Sheriff's office deputies, they responded to a call on Friday about having Christopher Newton removed from a home he was trespassing in. And while on the scene, Christopher texted the homeowner saying he left a baggie of booger sugar on the nightstand. Deputies got consent to search the room where Christopher had been staying and found a plastic bag of that happy dust, that nostril dancing. So Christopher was arrested and charged with possession of cocaine. Now, listen to me. It's unclear how long Christopher stayed in this house before he was asked to be removed for trespassing, but clearly he was either comfortable, high, or dumb enough to think he shared some type of relationship with this person to say, hey, I left my Bolivian marching powder on the nightstand. Now, I have another hypothetical. Whoever called the police on Christopher was either sniffing with him or fed up that he kept sniffing and wouldn't stop. When they got this text from Christopher, they got paranoid because they thought the cops would find the cocaine and they would go to jail for it. So they showed the police Christopher's text to save their own ass. The moral of the story is this. A crime is a crime because we condemn it. And there are not a lot of crimes being condemned enough in our society so folks don't even know they are crimes. Possession of cocaine is indeed a crime. And to text somebody like you left your wallet when it's a bag of cocaine lets me know that there are people walking amongst us who don't know that sniffing cocaine is actually a crime. Envy. I'm sure you left your laptop or something at somebody's house before, right?

[Jess Hilarious]

Laptop.

[Mike Epps]

Yeah, I thought.

[Jess Hilarious]

I was thinking it was a laptop. Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What you thought?

[Mike Epps]

I said, I thought he was gonna say he left his cocaine.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, I was like this.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I said, yeah. Kickstarter. Stop.

[Jess Hilarious]

I heard you.

[Mike Epps]

Stop.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, Lauren, I'm sure you've left a wig or something on somebody's nightstand. But a bag of cocaine, you wouldn't just text, I left my cocaine on the nightstand. You can say, yo, I left my laptop over there. You could text that. You could text, I left my wig over there. But to say, I, I, I, you know, you left your cocaine, that's not something you just say, hey, I left that. I'm coming back to get it. Okay. But if I had left cocaine at somebody's house, I wouldn't text somebody and say, hey, I left cocaine at your house. I would just say, yo, I just left something. I'm coming back to get it. That's how we talk. Because we were raised in an era where we knew we were committing crimes. We knew right from wrong, but we were trying to not get caught. Either this generation don't know, don't show, or don't give a damn about being arrested for the blatant crimes they are committing. Please give Christopher Newton the biggest he off. Make sure this man lasts. Name Ed is Newton.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I kept saying Newton nome all types of stuff.

[Mike Epps]

For the record, I think it's a worse crime to leave your wig somewhere than your cocaine.

[Jess Hilarious]

How many times have you done it?

[Mike Epps]

Never. I'm not.

[Jess Hilarious]

You never left your wig at somebody else?

[Mike Epps]

No. Why would I just leave my wig? Like, I'm just leaving with the braids.

[Jess Hilarious]

Like, post it up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes. I can see you doing that. I'll be back. I can see you being so confident, thinking you could just walk out the house without a wig on.

[Mike Epps]

I mean, I am beautiful. Thank you. But no, I would never leave my wig just randomly. First of all, they cost a lot of money. Like, these are not cheap, your wigs. Yes.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, why are you saying bundles like that?

[Mike Epps]

You gotta pay to get them made. Okay, stop playing with me.

[Jess Hilarious]

I meant to ask, like, now that Trump is putting the tariffs on, like, China and stuff like that, how does that affect the way.

[Mike Epps]

We gonna build them up? We gonna build up the closet. All the girls are gonna have, you know, I mean, fair has been sitting and waiting. Mahogany is here. Now, this is mahogany brown. So we're gonna build up a few more girls so that way I can rotate, and I'll be good. Okay, well, congratulations to me or the guy who got his cocaine back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, congratulations. Congratulations to you.

[Mike Epps]

Okay.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right. Well, thank you for that donkey today. Now, when we come back, little Duvall will be joining us. We're gonna kick it with Duval. You know, he's on the we the Ones comedy tour. And we gonna talk to him next. All right. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess. Hilarious Charlamagne, the guy we are the Breakfast Club. Lola Roast is here as well. Well, we got a special guest in the building.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right.

[Jess Hilarious]

Ladies and gentlemen, Lou Duvall.

[DJ Envy]

Yep. I ain't gonna be on here too long. Cause I ain't got nothing bad to say.

[Jess Hilarious]

How you feeling?

[DJ Envy]

First and foremost, I'm feeling blessed and highly favored.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We not even that kind of show anymore. We used to be.

[DJ Envy]

But on the rip, y'all act like I don't know y'all.

[Jess Hilarious]

Pause, pause, pause, pause, pause. I be thinking about Lil Duvall a lot, right?

[DJ Envy]

Uh huh.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why you gotta pause that if it ain't gay?

[Jess Hilarious]

Cause I know how you think automatically.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, that's.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes, you fly a lot. And with everything that's been going on with all.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All these.

[Jess Hilarious]

These airlines and airports, what you're feeling when it comes to flying because you.

[DJ Envy]

Fly yourself, I feel like the same way y'all feel. When y'all see a car accident, y'all pass right by. That's how I feel about. With the planes. I've been flying for a while now, so. And you've been flying for a while, so you used to. It's just now it's been on. It's the main topic now. So y'all scared. So it's the same thing to me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But you know, it's funny, those private flights like yours are the ones that usually crash the most, more than anything. So you really.

[DJ Envy]

Well, maybe so. Maybe so. But it's all. It's usually the pilot error. It's us just like the car accident. It's usually the car, the driver.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But the reason I brought that up, because if you was going to be scared, you'd have been scared a long time ago.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, Yeah. I mean, I was scared at first because I was like, y'all, I ain't know no better. And then. And I had a. I bought the first plane I could get, and soon as I landed, that cut off. So just me to cut off it just cut off. The engine cut off. Soon as I landed that. My first plane. As soon as I landed that cut.

[Jess Hilarious]

Off, you can't jump into it. What, you gotta get towed out the way?

[DJ Envy]

No, I landed, so I'm alive.

[Jess Hilarious]

You know what I'm saying?

[DJ Envy]

But just my first plane that cut off. So I learned how I learned about planes and everything just by getting going in head first. So now I'm here to teach our own people.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How many planes you done had so far?

[DJ Envy]

I got three planes now.

[Mike Epps]

What kind?

[DJ Envy]

I got a Cessna Golden Eagle, I got a Baron Beechcraft, and I got a seaplane that you land on water.

[Mike Epps]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think the best thing people can learn about Duvall is that everything is subjective. Like, you know, whatever you want your life to be and, and, and you live that life. If that's making you happy, that's it.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, that's pretty much what it is, man. That's. I'm one of the few that was able to do what I want to do and be successful at it. You know what I'm saying? We created our own.

[Jess Hilarious]

The world is constantly changing. It's up to you to decide how to respond. Choose to be bold. To try something new.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

New.

[Jess Hilarious]

Choose to reinvent yourself. That's what Nissan did with the all new, totally reimagined Kicks. The dynamic new exterior styling immediately announces that Nissan isn't messing around. The interior, a completely redesigned cabin with premium features like wireless Apple CarPlay and a panoramic moonroof make driving a Kicks immersive and exciting. And with new performance and safety features like intelligent all wheel drive, the Kicks is both fun and safer to drive than ever before. It is the dawning of a brand new era for the Nissan Kicks. Only one question remains. Is it a new era for you as well? Drive the all new reimagined Nissan Kicks today.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Available features compatible device service and consumer activation of Nissan Connect Services package required Use only when safe and legal. Subject to third party service availability. For more information, see nissanusa.com connect legal Apple CarPlay is a trademark of Apple Inc. Intelligent all wheel drive cannot prevent collisions or provide enhanced traction in all conditions. Always monitor traffic and weather conditions.

[Mike Epps]

I'm Hunter, host of Hunting for Answers on the Black Effect Podcast Network. Join me every weekday as I share bite sized stories of missing and murdered Black women and girls in America. There are several ways we can all do better at protecting black women. My contribution is shining a light on our missing sisters and amplifying their disregarded stories. Stories like Tameka Anderson. As she drove toward Galvez, she was in contact with several people talking on the phone as she made her way to what should have been a routine transaction. But Tameka never bought the car and she never returned home that day. One podcast, one Mission. Save our Girls. Join the search as we explore the chilling cases of missing and murdered Black women and girls. Listen to Hunting for Answers every weekday on the Black Effect. Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

[DJ Envy]

Blueprint. Especially me and me and him as far as the content and all that. Who's one of the first ones.

[Jess Hilarious]

They don't remember that long time ago.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, but it's true though.

[DJ Envy]

It's true. You know what I'm saying? It's true. We. It wasn't nobody doing skits and all that. Besides, remember that skit we did in the mall with that boy singing and we just cut them off and it went viral. Before they was calling viral, we used to do all type of skit, you know what I'm saying? So just to see how he evolved now is dope now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

State of the Union.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, we was the first podcast for real.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I remember one time I was in New York from South Carolina and I text G Spin, G Spin told me, come to the radio station. Come here. Before I even got the job. And when I walked in, he said, man, this was. Cadillac Jack was there. He said, man, my boss been watching you and Duval Hood State of the Union all day.

[DJ Envy]

Yep. So just to see how content and all that evolved now. It's been beautiful. It's a whole lane that wasn't there for stand up, you know what I'm saying? Like now we call comedians just people that do social content. When I first came up, they used to hate on all this. So that's why I call myself the. I'm. I'm really one of the real. The oldest, young.

[Jess Hilarious]

She thought you was way younger.

[Mike Epps]

Yeah, I thought you were way younger.

[DJ Envy]

You thought I was way younger?

[Mike Epps]

Yeah, I thought you were probably like 40, 41.

[DJ Envy]

I'm 48. I'll be 48 and 47.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You'd be 40 and 40.

[Mike Epps]

Okay. Yeah, yeah.

[DJ Envy]

I mean, that's. Cause I've been around so long, you've been seeing me and it's consistency. That's why I try to teach these young comedians. It's not all that stuff cool, but just staying at it and staying consistent. You gonna be right here. I'm living proof. If you watch me, I'm the blueprint.

[Jess Hilarious]

I want to go back to one more question with the planes.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Jess Hilarious]

Does the wind change at all?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because it seems like the wind.

[DJ Envy]

The wind. That's the scariest part.

[Jess Hilarious]

Recently.

[DJ Envy]

That's the scariest part. It's like you could control everything else but that wind and that, the weather, you never know. So that's really what I pay attention to everything. If I see that red up there on it on my app, I ain't flying.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's the red meat?

[DJ Envy]

The red mean? That's real, real bad weather. It's like you got green, yellow, then red. I fly in the green because that's just rain. Yellow. I ain't flying.

[Jess Hilarious]

What does yellow mean?

[DJ Envy]

Yellow is still. You gonna be bumping and jumping and actually I done had way more turbulence in big planes than my plane. Cause I don't fly in certain. You know what I'm saying? But. But for the most part, it ain't that bad.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because the wind's stronger than it used to be when we was growing up.

[DJ Envy]

And it's safer. It's way more room up there. I ain't finna run. I ain't gonna run into nothing. Cause. And like, you know how you seen like what them planes collided? Yeah, you can see it. You can see them planes and you got the aircraft. Air traffic control.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what I was saying.

[Jess Hilarious]

The helicopter should have seen the big ass plane.

[DJ Envy]

I think he just got so used to it. Like you get. You. You get comfortable after a while, so you just. You just be flying and. And you normalize it and then you forget.

[Mike Epps]

I was told that that's a normal route that that helicopter takes. Even though that was a trainee, that is like very normal.

[DJ Envy]

Same thing with Kobe with the helicopter. I think he did that route so much. He used to it like say, even if I'm flying in the rain, I'm used to flying in the rain. So if something happened, it'd be surprising to me too. You know what I'm saying? So it's just like anything random. Just like your car. We gonna get used to it. Just like deaths. We got used to it after a while and it's normal.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't want to get used to planes crashing.

[Mike Epps]

You fly?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Used to car crash. It's way more car crashes out here. It's normal. You just. It's new to us, just like everything.

[Mike Epps]

Do you fly the planes is what you're saying?

[DJ Envy]

I. I got a pilot. I got a pilot on salary, but.

[Jess Hilarious]

But he can fly.

[DJ Envy]

I can fly. I just don't fly that much now.

[Mike Epps]

You know, I heard you rank the emergencies and I'm like just a able body passenger. Doesn't know the colors of the emergency. I used to be a flight attendant. So when I heard you ranked the colors, I'm like, wait, not. So you do fly the plane?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I know what I'm doing. I know what I'm doing. And the main reason I do this is just because I learned that people don't listen. They follow. So when you do something, they follow. I'm living proof that after y'all see on social media, they follow me, especially with this traveling and all that. So when you understand it, you just do to help us as a community. And that's what I do with whatever I do. I. I look at, I be like, what do we need in the game? We need more pilots. We need more flying. We need them to understand. So what's the best way to do it? Become that you are what you see. So you see me. It makes. Look we having this conversation. He been calling me since he still ain't got a plane yet. I don't know. But he don't fly enough, so he probably don't need it. But if you fly enough, you probably won't do it.

[Mike Epps]

Have you ever had a landing emergency? And if so, like, what rank they laughing back there?

[DJ Envy]

I told he know about it.

[Mike Epps]

I've had a red emergency.

[DJ Envy]

I almost crashed. We almost crashed one time. Like, it was one night, man. The whole instrument panel went out. That's where it all. All this. The. The stuff at, right? It went out. And once that go out, you ain't got no communication or nothing. We couldn't talk to air.

[Mike Epps]

You gotta find manually.

[DJ Envy]

And not only that, the windows froze up like. Like refrigerator.

[Jess Hilarious]

Damn.

[DJ Envy]

So we just flying, like in a ice can. Just float. And just flying.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jesus.

[DJ Envy]

And just flying and flying.

[Jess Hilarious]

Are you by yourself?

[DJ Envy]

No, me and the pilot.

[Jess Hilarious]

Just you and the pilot.

[DJ Envy]

Me and my pilot, we just flying. And they was in there too sleep, though. They didn't know what was going on. They were back in the back sleep. So we flying and flying. So he was like, should we turn around Now? I know we up north and it's colder and you know you can. On the. On the wings, you can get. The wings get frozen, and that's how you stall, right? So he was like, should we turn around? So in my mind I'm like, we should keep going down south.

[Jess Hilarious]

It's warmer.

[DJ Envy]

It's warmer. But it was the middle of the night, so it ain't gonna get warmer no time soon. But I'm like, we get lower. And so we got lower. Only thing we had was the compass. We went by the comic, kept going low and called on the regular phone. Got to where we can get on reception low enough to we could talk on the regular phone. And then we landed. And then once we landed the next day, that's when Kobe. That's when we found out Kobe died.

[Jess Hilarious]

It was the same the same night.

[DJ Envy]

It was the same night. You know what I'm saying? So that was my. That was one of my, my. The scariest moments. I only had a couple scary moments, but that was the scary. I like, oh, this might be it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I asked you this when you told me, but what was you thinking when you. When you was in that moment?

[DJ Envy]

I was like, damn, this time ago.

[Jess Hilarious]

I don't know.

[DJ Envy]

It's just like, it's.

[Mike Epps]

You can't describe it.

[DJ Envy]

I almost had near death experiences a couple times, especially when I got hit by that car. Just. I don't get scared in those type positions because I understand we going to die, but at the same time, I just. I kind of knew. I wasn't. I wasn't tripping. You know what I'm saying? I wasn't tripping, but my pilot was tripping more than me. You know what I'm saying? He hugged me, was crying and everything.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But no, man.

[Mike Epps]

Cause you don't know. I mean, it's literally like when you're in that situation, situation, it's nothing you can do. Like, what are you gonna do? Jump out the plane?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, nah, you can do at that point.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right, we got more with little Duvall when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess. Hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the breakfast club. Lauren LaRosa filling in for Jess. We're still kicking it with Lil Duvall. Music.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Jess Hilarious]

You got a couple of records, a couple of gold records. Do it anymore.

[DJ Envy]

I still do. I put out music all the time. I put out music for the ecosystem. That's what I do. If I feel something that need to be, do I throw it out there? You know, I do it for the love and for the people. That's what my stuff is.

[Mike Epps]

Best Life is my mom's song.

[DJ Envy]

Best Life is everybody's song.

[Mike Epps]

Yeah, it's just.

[DJ Envy]

You admit it when you get old.

[Mike Epps]

Yeah, well, so she was. When this is not to make this dark. It's a good moment.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Mike Epps]

When my mom was going through her cancer battle, she would play that song all the time. She was having a bad day and it would like lift her. She loves.

[DJ Envy]

It's God.

[Mike Epps]

That and Ludacris.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Move.

[Mike Epps]

Get out the way.

[DJ Envy]

It's God, man. The music, that song. There was a blessing used from God through me. It ain't got nothing to do with me. It's all through blessing. Just to see how it's changed people and still changing people and still affect powerful.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Tell them about the Kool Aid story when Kool Aid was passing.

[DJ Envy]

What about.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And you played it for him.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, yeah. When he died, like, right before he died, he had. You know, they had a thing in his mouth, and he was about to pull it out. Like, he was about to pull it out. Like, don't do that in front of me. But he. And I was like, you want me to play something? He wanted me to play Lovely Day and smile. And after I played smile, he pulled it up, and I walked out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

Damn.

[Mike Epps]

Whoa. Okay. What? Oh, you were talking about being the first to do a lot of stuff. Sexyy Red. I know you was bringing her outside a long time ago. I know people bring this up. Charlemagne mentions it a lot of times, too, that you were one of the first to be, like, pushing her and, like, you were booking her for some of the days that you do.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I did.

[Mike Epps]

Now, looking at, like, right now, today, when you see everything you be feeling like to, like, how you be feeling.

[DJ Envy]

I just be proud of. She ain't the first one. I do it all the time. I don't take credit for, like, that, because I feel like that's what we supposed to do. But that's why I say I'm the oldest young. Because people used to look at me like that. They used to say, he too ghetto. He too hood. But I know, like, I could see it. So when I saw her, I was like, nah, she got it. And that's why I was like. And people was like, man, don't bring her to Duval. I was like, she is Duvall Day. And she came there and rocked it, and just to see. And it ain't me. She did it all herself, so, I mean, she deserved everything she got. I like seeing her do it. Even if she fell off tomorrow, she still won.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, yeah. She won that life already.

[DJ Envy]

She came to Duval Day, and we do do all day. We doing Duval Day this year, too. So y'all make. Y'all coming?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, yeah. I mean, what month?

[DJ Envy]

July 11th. That's what we making. It's official. July 11th, Duvall Day. Make sure y'all go watch the contract. That's a movie with me and Gabrielle Dennis. That's. That's, like, one of the first comedy romantic comedies about threesomes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What?

[DJ Envy]

It's a romantic comedy about threesomes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How do you have a romantic comedy about threesome?

[DJ Envy]

Watch it and you'll see it's on all black. You can also watch it on whatever bootleg, you know, like, whatever fire stick you got.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Listen, July 11th DU ball day.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Listen. 93.3 to beat Jacksonville. What's happening? What we doing? We out there.

[DJ Envy]

Come on. We out there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's a Saturday.

[DJ Envy]

Yep.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, Saturday.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, we coming to that. July 11th, Jacksonville.

[DJ Envy]

Make sure y'all come to the we the Ones tour.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We.

[DJ Envy]

We lit out there.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's right.

[DJ Envy]

The second. Second tour. The second season.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm coming for real this time, man. I promise you.

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm coming to this Gemini retreat. That's what I see. You got all the women out there.

[DJ Envy]

Let's move on to the next story. It's a good time.

[Mike Epps]

You talked about the dei. Well, first of all, for me, I feel like when things happen, I want to go to see what you tweet about because you have a take, but you make it funny. But if you read through the funny, you really have a straight, sharp take on things. Do you do that purposely?

[DJ Envy]

You really pay attention to me. Go ahead.

[Mike Epps]

Do you do that purposely? Like, is that like the. You know, I used to do it.

[DJ Envy]

But now I'm programmed into doing. It's just natural. You know what I'm saying? It's like you program yourself to be good, you naturally be good. And that's what I do with my tweets. So anything you see me do, I don't put that much thought in it because I put thought in it early on in my career. So it's just second nature to me.

[Jess Hilarious]

What's one thing on IG you just can't stand or one person that you just can't stand on IG I can.

[DJ Envy]

I can't stand people that complain. That's my pet peeve. People complain, and that's all I see, people complaining about stuff that they can't control. You know what I'm saying? That's my pet peeve in life and everything.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He said the person, though. Who's the person?

[DJ Envy]

Oh, I ain't got no person. I just said personal things that don't work with me. We ain't going to have no type of. No type of clickbait in this interview.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I would never do that. No way.

[Mike Epps]

That's your.

[DJ Envy]

We don't be trying. Yeah, we don't be knowing this going to go click baiting. Three weeks later, it go by.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, Lord, we did not think that.

[DJ Envy]

Was going to rip.

[Mike Epps]

What's your issue with sexy backs?

[DJ Envy]

Huh?

[Mike Epps]

What's your issue with sexy backs?

[Jess Hilarious]

You mean big backs?

[Mike Epps]

No, he got it.

[DJ Envy]

He said sexy back.

[Mike Epps]

You said a woman with a sexy back is dangerous, and you gave an example of a sexy back.

[DJ Envy]

Like, so how's that an issue? That's a blessing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That in a good way.

[Mike Epps]

Well, I took it like, well, dang. We got.

[DJ Envy]

See, that's what your problem. You taking it the wrong way. That's the problem with social media. Y'all interpreted how y'all want to interpret.

[Mike Epps]

Well, you only reading it sexy date.

[DJ Envy]

I said, hi.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Say the tweet again.

[DJ Envy]

Say this tweet again.

[Mike Epps]

A woman with the sexy back is dangerous.

[DJ Envy]

And you explain how you took that.

[Mike Epps]

I was like, well, dang, that could be dangerous.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, we dangerous. That's why we got to be dangerous.

[DJ Envy]

So you saw.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You saw that.

[DJ Envy]

But then if you go to my Instagram, I got a thousand women showing me they sexy backs.

[Mike Epps]

I a see that Instagram.

[DJ Envy]

See, that's the problem. Y'all take it and running. Just. That's. That's the main thing that I get problems with most of people that. That find offensive something they took the wrong way. That's really all.

[Mike Epps]

I wasn't offended. I was just.

[DJ Envy]

I know, but I'm saying, even taking. You didn't take that as offensive, but you took it the wrong way.

[Mike Epps]

I did drop it in a group chat.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm like, dang, he meant dangerous in a good way, though. Like, she can get you caught up type.

[Jess Hilarious]

He wasn't talking about you.

[DJ Envy]

You know how many tweets I done got like that that women that got offended by just from that?

[Mike Epps]

What else?

[DJ Envy]

I ain't gonna say.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The big back women want you to show them some love, too, though.

[Mike Epps]

You posted a wide back. No, that wasn't a wide back. That was like a wide butt or something. You was like, no man should come home to this.

[DJ Envy]

Nah. Yeah, I don't like, no. Yeah, that's that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who was it?

[Mike Epps]

You want to see the picture? Come home to this.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What is this?

[DJ Envy]

It's a flat door.

[Mike Epps]

This is the.

[DJ Envy]

You can't even tell.

[Jess Hilarious]

I don't even know his ass.

[Mike Epps]

Yeah, the butt starts here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn.

[DJ Envy]

That's how you know some. Nobody should come home today.

[Mike Epps]

But people be coming at you, like, in real life. People be running up on you like, yo, why you like.

[DJ Envy]

Nah, that just be on social media. Ain't nobody coming up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think you told that story, though.

[DJ Envy]

No, I did. No, I told it on here. Let's leave it alone.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Leave it alone.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, man. God is good.

[Jess Hilarious]

You all ready to go? You ain't want to be here anywhere. One question.

[DJ Envy]

I've been dei. I was DEI before dei. I've been supporting people That's. That's still coming. Coming up.

[Mike Epps]

When you shot black, you're not worried about all of us.

[DJ Envy]

I shop for. For people that's still trying to come up. It ain't got to be black.

[Mike Epps]

If you feel it.

[DJ Envy]

If you trying to come up and you still, like, everybody can't make it like the. The regular route. You got me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You posted that the DEI blackout happened, and it was easy because you don't buy nothing nowhere.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All y'all invested in boycotting companies that have removed it, huh?

[DJ Envy]

I didn't say all that. That wouldn't sound like me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what I'm reading.

[DJ Envy]

I'm like, you can't find a tweet while I said all that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What you say? Because you don't buy nothing anyway.

[DJ Envy]

I mean, I'm rich, broke. I don't. I buy what I want to buy. I buy. I spend. But I don't spend like how people just spend on random stuff.

[Jess Hilarious]

So we appreciate you for joining us, brother. Ladies and gentlemen, he left without getting in trouble. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Morning, everybody.

[Jess Hilarious]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Worldwide Mess on the Breakfast Club. She's the coaching shoe with Lauren. Lauren LaRosa.

[Mike Epps]

I'm back, and I got the mess.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Talk to me.

[Mike Epps]

Okay, y'all get excited. Woo. New couple alert.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's your problem?

[Mike Epps]

Allegedly.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who's the new couple?

[Mike Epps]

So Teyana Taylor and Aaron Pierre is Mufasa.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Mike Epps]

Have broke the Internet. So yesterday, Tiana Taylor posted a photo of her and Aaron Pierre from Oscars night. And the caption says Oscar night in black and white. No gray area with a white heart. The song that she put to the photos is Sza take you down. And it's just a swipe through. They look amazing. They're. They're in black and white, and the photos are in black and white, and they look amazing. Now, there's no, like, real PDA in this photo, but there's another photo. There's, like, a group photo from Oscar night as well, where they're with, like, a bunch of other people and he's holding her. Now the people are saying that this is her confirming that they have been dating. I had heard a while back. I actually tweeted February 2nd. Am I tripping or. Tiana Taylor, Aaron Pierre is Mufasa matching at the 15 pledge event together. That was like. I think that was during Grammy weekend because they. I'M like, when did they start being hanging out and being friends? So people are taking this as her announcing that you. You know, this is her boo thing and that they are official. So shout out to Tiana Taylor and Aaron Pierre. It's Mufasa.

[Jess Hilarious]

Well, congratulations to them. Salute to Tiana Taylor. She's happy, I'm happy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What'd you say last week about Aaron? Envy?

[Mike Epps]

He's fine.

[Jess Hilarious]

No.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, you did. What'd you say?

[Jess Hilarious]

I just said he has ears.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, that's a wild thing to notice on a man for no reason, just randomly. You was here, right, Lauren?

[Mike Epps]

Yeah, but why is that wild? I mean, ears, y'all was in here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Talking about how fine Aaron was, and then if he just jumps out there. Yeah, he's got his years. Like, wow.

[Jess Hilarious]

It was a longer conversation, but whatever.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, it wasn't a long conversation. That's all it was.

[Jess Hilarious]

You mean to be gay so bad. I'm not gay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm just telling you what you said. You think about them handlebars.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Roar, Mufasa. That's what you want. That's what you want.

[Mike Epps]

What is happening?

[Jess Hilarious]

Go ahead.

[Mike Epps]

Are you coming to Tiana as a woman right now?

[Jess Hilarious]

What is wrong with him?

[Mike Epps]

Yo, stop. You're turning to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We just bonded. He is blushing. You see that?

[Mike Epps]

Yeah, that was true.

[Jess Hilarious]

I am not blushing.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We just bonded.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, my God.

[Mike Epps]

Okay, well, Aaron, come here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's going to be so awkward.

[Jess Hilarious]

No, it's not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, it is, cuz I'mma play back all those things you said about him.

[Jess Hilarious]

You making it awkward, but continue on.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Why?

[Mike Epps]

Cuz you upset over there?

[Jess Hilarious]

He's definitely upset. Jealous ears.

[Mike Epps]

Not you Engaging the full. Sit down. Can you please let me know what's going on? Cuz I'm being left out in the dark. Is that what's happening?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, he needs your wig to cover his ears. That's what it is.

[Mike Epps]

Got you. Okay. All right, now, in other couple news. Ashanti. Ashanti and Nelly. So you know, Ashanti has just been. Ashanti and Nelly have just been glowing and having a good time. New couple alert. But they have been. But Ashanti has been on a press run lately because she is promoting a new. It's like a show or movies that she's acting in. And she stopped by Tamara hall and she was talking about the engagement. We didn't really know too much about how it happened and all that because it kept things so private. But she opened up the Tamron hall about the engagement. Let's take a listen. I had kind of a Feeling. And I was like, hmm, I wonder.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

If this is, you know, I wonder.

[Mike Epps]

If he's thinking about, you know, so it was out there, but it wasn't like a pressure thing. It wasn't, you know, but when he did it, I had on, like, his T shirt and, like, boxers and, like, I was in the bed. You know what I mean? It was so. It was so not cute. Hair in a bun. You know what I mean? But it was us, you know, we were home in St. Louis. My jaw hit the floor. I was just like, you know, I couldn't believe it. He was like, well, are you gonna answer? He literally said, well, yes or no. But it was magical. It was beautiful. And I think everything happens in God's divine timing, you know?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That is true.

[Mike Epps]

So beautiful.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And men, if I can give you one piece of advice, make all ends engagement special. Like, jump out the window with the engagement, because that is a story that's right for her to tell later for.

[Jess Hilarious]

The rest of her life.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

For the rest of her life.

[Mike Epps]

100% into the homegirls of the, you know, going to be engaged woman, Please make sure the nails are done. I always tell my friends that, like, just make sure that my nails are how I want them, and y'all know how I want them. But she was also. What?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So sad.

[Mike Epps]

You playing. You talk about stuff like that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, but the fact that you put yourself in the friend, like, not the person who might.

[Mike Epps]

No, no, no. That's what I told my friend. Friends, like, I know how I want my nails for my engagement because you take pictures of the hand. Make sure that when he comes to you and tells you he's doing it, I have that specific nail.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, you want your. Oh, you want the man to come to your friends?

[Mike Epps]

He's gonna talk to my friends and my family.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I get it. But yeah, I wouldn't go to the friends. Usually the man goes to the dads. But you know what?

[Mike Epps]

But.

[Jess Hilarious]

Watch yourself.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I didn't even say nothing.

[Mike Epps]

Go to my dad, too. He didn't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, yeah, that's usually what. That's us go to the dad. You don't go to the friends.

[Mike Epps]

You go to the dad anyway.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

For.

[Jess Hilarious]

A call back from her dad. Leave her alone.

[Mike Epps]

Yo, I'mma throw this bull egg at you for what?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You got one.

[Mike Epps]

That was strike three.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right.

[Jess Hilarious]

It's a dirty show.

[Mike Epps]

Crazy dirty. Okay, now, what I wanted to get to was Ashanti was also on Angie Martinez last week. And this interview was amazing. Enzy Martinez does in real life. She sat down With Ashanti. And Ashanti, for the first time, talked about everything that has happened with Irv Gotti and his past. And let's take a listen to that. You don't really see this coming, you know what I mean? Like, it really just came out of nowhere, you know? Did you think you'd have the opportunity where you could maybe have some, like, something cordial? I. I really wanted it to happen, you know, because I'm like, yo, like. Like I said, we. We made history together, you know, that is infinite. Like, we're talking about my son. My son is gonna know that we made these records together. You know what I mean? And I'm sad that the last few years, we weren't seeing eye to eye. What I do know is that I tried, you know, I do know that I extended the olive branch, and I do know that, again, I tried to just. I just wanted things to be cold. Yeah. And I. And listening to that, I'm like, oh, wow. Like, I didn't know that she had extended that olive branch. So, you know, I think we were talking about this when he passed away, wondering, like, you know, what conversations might have or might not have been had. So she did. To know she tried. I'm like, I don't know.

[Jess Hilarious]

She just shows she's a bigger person. And the fact that she tried to reach out, she. She's grown, and she was probably like, I moved on. I have a family. I have a husband. Let's. Let's squash this. We're making so much music together. That's pretty big because he said nasty things about it when he was. You know, when he was alive.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And also, too, when you say. When you say f somebody, you better make sure that bridge is completely burnt. Because, you know, while that person's alive, if y'all not rocking with each other, when that person passes, you got to keep that same energy.

[Jess Hilarious]

Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, for. For the most part. So you better make sure that these people that you're not dealing with no more, these people that you cutting off, you really don't want no dealings with them.

[Jess Hilarious]

Correct.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

In life are deaf.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Mike Epps]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So you're gonna have a lot of regrets when that person passed. When you realize you. Y'all just beefing over something petty, something stupid. And salute to the icon, Angie Martinez. Make sure y'all subscribe to the in. Subscribe to the In Real Life podcast. Man, some of the best conversations you're gonna hear anywhere.

[Mike Epps]

That word was kicking your behind. Say, subscribe.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Subscribe.

[Mike Epps]

There's no ch.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Say 50 lace front wig.

[Mike Epps]

I would never say that because that's not what we get into over here.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right.

[Mike Epps]

Okay.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right, girls. All right. That's was the mess with Laura Rosa.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you, Lauren.

[Jess Hilarious]

What? What? What?

[Mike Epps]

His eyebrows.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This.

[Mike Epps]

His whole face. Everything just pisses me. I'm really about to.

[Jess Hilarious]

You don't like the way he walk, the way he talk, the way he look, the way he dressed? None of that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just say that. Say that.

[Mike Epps]

Contour, Mommy, contour.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

There you go. At least you know good skin when you see it.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right, let me come back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you for the compliment.

[Jess Hilarious]

We got the People's choice mix. Don't go anywhere. Where's the Breakfast Club? Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wake up, wake up. You're locked into the Breakfast Club.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Morning, everybody.

[Jess Hilarious]

Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. La Rosa is here as well. We got to salute Mike Epson. Lil Duvall for joining us, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Salute to Mike Epson, the good brother. Lil Duvall for pulling up. Make sure you go check out them we that we them ones tour. Okay. When it comes to a city near you, they just left New York. Y. I don't know where they. I think they're going to Detroit next. Yeah, Detroit, North Carolina.

[Jess Hilarious]

Than Virginia.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. I think I might catch them in Columbia, South Carolina at 803. But yeah, man, go support my guys, man. This is their second year. Maybe during this tour.

[Jess Hilarious]

Second or third year. Yep.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Salute to the good brother Blake Young, promoter out there, man, putting together this good ass comedy tour for us, for us to watch. So make sure you support it when it comes to your city.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right, when we come back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And listen, I want to tell everybody too, man. Speaking of supporting something, when it comes to your city, the third annual Black Effect Podcast Festival is happening. Happening Saturday, April 26th at Pullman Yards in Atlanta, Georgia. You know, we sold out the first two years. We gonna sell out again this year. So make sure you go get your tickets. It's hosted by Mandy B and Wheezy from Decisions Decisions. The Trap nerds podcast will be there for all the gamers. Good mom's bad choices podcast is going to be there. Naked Sports with Carrie Champion is going to be there. The R B money podcast with Tank and Jay Valentine and Sarah Jake's Rock Roberts with the Woman Evolved podcast will be there as well. So make sure you go get your tickets. Black effect.com podcast festival. We got the Black Effect Marketplace. We got the food truck court. We got the pitch your podcast booth presented by Nissan. My man Louis V is providing the Soundtrack. It's a great time. Saturday, April 26th, Atlanta, Georgia. Go get your tickets right [e-mail] podcast festival.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right, now when we come back, we got the positive notice. The Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy.

[Mike Epps]

Jess.

[Jess Hilarious]

Hilarious Charlemagne, the guy. We are the breakfast club. Lauren LaRosa is here. And Charlamagne. You got a positive note?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, I do have a positive note, man. And this is something that I live by. It's a quote that I love. The content of your character is your choice day by day. What you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become. Have a great day.

[Mike Epps]

Take your own advice.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Shut up, Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Bitches.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We don't finish or y'all done.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, what's up, y'all?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is Eric Andre. Well, they made a podcast called Bombing.

[DJ Envy]

About absolutely tanking on stage.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I tell gnarly stories and I talk to friends about their worst moments of bombing in all sorts of ways. Bombing on stage, bombing in public, bombing in life.

[DJ Envy]

I want to know what's the worst.

[Jess Hilarious]

Way they've ever bombed?

[DJ Envy]

Or have they ever performed way too drunk or high?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Or was there ever a time where.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They thought they were going to crush and they stunk it up?

[DJ Envy]

Listen to Bombing with Eric Andre on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Jess Hilarious]

This is John Cameron Mitchell and my new fiction podcast series. Cancellation island stars Holly Hunter as Karen, a wellness influencer who launches a rehab for the recently cancelled. In the future, we will all be cancelled for 15 minutes, but don't worry, we'll take you from broke to woke or your money back. Cancellation Island's revolutionary rehab therapies, like bad touch football, anti racism, spin class, and mandatory ayahuasca ceremonies are designed to force the council to confront their worst impulses. But everything starts to fall apart when people start disappearing.

[Mike Epps]

Karen, where have you brought us us.

[Jess Hilarious]

Cancellation island, where a second chance might just be your last. Listen to Cancellation island on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Mike Epps]

Hey, sis, it's Dr. Joy from Therapy for Black Girls. We've had 400 episodes of Conversations, growth and healing, so we're celebrating. Join us for a special episode with internationally recognized yoga yogi Chelsea Jackson Roberts as she shares wisdom on mindfulness, movement and motherhood. I waited later to have children, and I still have exactly what I knew that I wanted. You don't want to miss this special episode. Listen to therapy for Black Girls on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey y'all, Nimini here. I'm the host of a brand new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. Executive produced by Questlove, the Story Pirates, and John Glickman, Historical Records brings history to life through hip hop. Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records. Listen to Historical records on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.