FULL SHOW: Jess Hilarious Announces Her Book About Co-Parenting, 50 Cent Reacts To ‘BMF’ Cancellation + New Edition & Boyz II Men

Summary

The Breakfast Club (iHeartPodcasts)

Episode: Full Show – Jess Hilarious Announces Her Book About Co-Parenting, 50 Cent Reacts To ‘BMF’ Cancellation + New Edition & Boyz II Men

Date: October 30, 2025
Hosts: DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God
Special Guests: New Edition, Boyz II Men

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Episode Overview

This lively episode features a major announcement from co-host Jess Hilarious about her new co-parenting book, discussions about the state of R&B with music legends New Edition and Boyz II Men, commentary on 50 Cent’s reaction to the cancellation of “BMF,” updates on key news stories (including the ongoing government shutdown and a devastating hurricane in Jamaica), and signature audience call-ins for “Get It Off Your Chest” and “Jess Fix My Mess.” The show combines music industry nostalgia, social commentary, and plenty of humor—staying true to the Breakfast Club’s style.

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Key Discussion Points

1. Jess Hilarious Announces Her Book on Co-Parenting

Timestamp: 109:01

• Jess reveals she’s officially an author, announcing her upcoming memoir, “Till Death Do We Parent.”
  • The book dives into her journey co-parenting with her son’s father, Rome, and addresses the real challenges and growth required to build a healthy arrangement.
  • “A lot of people want to know how we're so close, like we are... and it did not happen overnight, but that’s what this book entails.” (Jess Hilarious, 109:44)
• The book will be out in early Spring 2026 and is available for preorder.

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2. New Edition & Boyz II Men In-Studio: A Legacy of R&B

Timestamp: 41:51 – 76:51

• Tour Announcement: Both groups are joining Toni Braxton for “The New Edition Way Tour.” All members of both iconic groups are present.
  • The hosts probe why such a landmark tour took so long—the consensus: logistics, timing, and respecting everyone’s journeys.
  • “God put this time as the time to show the world what this whole vibe is all about.” (New Edition member, 42:41)
• Group Origins & History:
  • Boyz II Men clarify the myth about singing for New Edition on a tour bus—“It was backstage after a show, not actually on a bus.” (43:13)
  • They credit Michael Bivins for giving them a shot and highlight the mentor-protégé dynamic.
• Brotherhood and Longevity: Both groups reflect on maintaining unity and resolving differences over decades.
  • “It's better is the end of a thing than the beginning of a thing... these guys did what they did, and they gave us the ball, and we ran with it. Now we can roll with it together.” (Ralph Tresvant, 45:24)
  • “When we come together, man, it’s just nothing but laughter.” (Ralph Tresvant, 46:14)
• Insights About the Music Business:
  • The decline of R&B groups is partly blamed on changing priorities at record labels: “People hired now, some of them don’t have an eye for talent. They have an eye for their computer... the care to detail is missing.” (Mike Slott, 48:14)
• “Biopic” and Social Media:
  • Boyz II Men confirm a biopic is in development and stress the importance of controlling their own narrative amid social media rumors and misinformation. “When it comes from the horse's mouth and it's written in stone, it can't be erased.” (Ralph Tresvant, 76:07)
• Emotional Reflection and Support: Members give each other flowers live on air.
  • “If it wasn’t for Nate Morris, I would have never been a CEO… He helped me see something I didn’t see.” (Mike Slott, 64:21)
  • “Don’t be that way… you guys are our heroes, our mentors.” (Boyz II Men, 68:20)
• Fun Moments & Old Hits:
  • The groups joke about which songs they secretly dislike performing—New Edition’s “You're Not My Kind of Girl” and Boyz II Men’s “In the Still of the Night.”
  • “Sometimes the running man just ran out. The walking man.” (Charlamagne, 55:22)

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3. 50 Cent Reacts to “BMF” Cancellation

Timestamp: 26:00

• The popular crime series “BMF” is officially canceled after four seasons; spin-offs are allegedly in the pipeline.
• 50 Cent responds sarcastically on Instagram: “I am deeply concerned by the widespread assumption that I had involvement in the recent cancellation of BMF…” (Lauren LaRosa, 26:00)
• Speculation swirls regarding the real reasons for cancellation, but development of spinoffs is confirmed.

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4. Morning News and Social Commentary

A. Government Shutdown and SNAP Benefits

Timestamp: 07:27–16:33

• The government shutdown has stretched to day 30, threatening SNAP (food stamp) benefits for 42+ million Americans.
  • “SNAP benefits will stop flowing to all those who need it...” (Mimi Brown quoting Speaker Mike Johnson, 08:11)
  • “Why don’t they put some policy or law in place that if the government shuts down, people still get their benefits?” (DJ Envy, 10:04)
• Hosts emphasize the everyday impact on real families and urge community support.
  • “It actually frustrates you... when you realize how little it takes to take care of these people. And that our government won't do it.” (Charlamagne, 15:56)

B. Hurricane Melissa’s Devastation in Jamaica

Timestamp: 35:51–39:22

• Hurricane Melissa, the worst storm in Jamaica’s recorded history, leaves catastrophic damage, 80% without power, and 4 confirmed deaths.
• Relief efforts are underway, but infrastructure challenges loom.
  • “Melissa slammed into Jamaica on Tuesday as a category 5 hurricane, the strongest storm in the island's history...” (Mimi Brown, 35:55)

C. National "Text Your Ex" Day

Timestamp: 39:22–41:13

• October 30th is “National Text Your Ex Day,” prompting some humorous and cautionary reflections from the team.

D. HBCU Football Hype: Delaware State vs. Norfolk State

Timestamp: 103:23

• Big game at Lincoln Financial Field between teams coached by DeSean Jackson and Mike Vick; over 42,000 tickets sold.
• Discussion on how high-profile coaches are boosting HBCU visibility.
  • “Your presence matters in them spaces.” (Charlamagne Tha God, 108:06)

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5. Call-In Segments & Listener Interaction

“Get It Off Your Chest”

Timestamp: 13:11, 16:53

• Listeners vent about personal issues, social challenges, and community needs.
• Touching call from a single parent highlights he’s losing SNAP benefits and hopes churches and artists step up to help; hosts pledge local fundraising and food bank support.

“Jess Fix My Mess”

Timestamp: 85:33, 98:22

• Listeners seek Jess Hilarious’s advice on relationships and co-parenting:
  • A caller breaks up with her boyfriend for not wanting to take her child to school; Jess validates her decision—"You don't want to be in a relationship with somebody who does not honor the package that you came with." (Jess, 87:28)
  • Another caller asks if he should still help his ex financially after breaking up over an OnlyFans dispute; Jess advises: “Let that little girl be a little internet hoe… you need to go and find somebody on your level.” (Jess, 100:53)

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6. Donkey of the Day: Detroit Cop on Zoom… With No Pants

Timestamp: 77:29

• Charlamagne roasts Detroit officer Matthew Jackson for appearing at a Zoom court hearing in full uniform—except for his pants.
  • “You can’t be business up top, OnlyFans below!” (Charlamagne, 80:09)
• Notable moment:
  • “The only thing that should be swinging in court is the judge's gavel.” (Charlamagne, 81:36)

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7. Humor, Camaraderie, and Notable Quotes

• Charlamagne on group unity: “At this stage of our lives, when we come together, man, it’s just nothing but laughter.” (46:14)
• New Edition on industry legacy: “There’s never been a group alive, past, present, or probably future… that broke up, all went platinum, came back…” (Ralph Tresvant, 57:05)
• Jess Hilarious on her book: “I never thought I would be writing a book, but I think this is really the…” (Jess, 110:14)

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Notable Quotes by Timestamp

• Brotherhood & Success:
  • “Don’t be that way… you guys are our heroes, our mentors.” (Boyz II Men, 68:20)
• Industry Commentary:
  • “People hired now, some don’t have an eye for talent. They have an eye for their computer…” (Mike Slott, 48:14)
• Reflection on Forgiveness:
  • “It’s better is the end of a thing than the beginning of a thing.” (Ralph Tresvant, 45:02)
• Jess’s Literary Debut:
  • “I am officially an author... this is so dope. So I'm pleased to announce that I'm dropping my first book. It's called Till Death Do We Parent.” (Jess Hilarious, 109:01)
• On SNAP Crisis:
  • “It actually frustrates you... when you realize how little it takes to take care of these people. And that our government won't do it.” (Charlamagne, 15:56)
• "Donkey of the Day":
  • “You can’t be business up top, OnlyFans below!” (Charlamagne Tha God, 80:09)

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• [02:42] Morning roll call and Jess’s hint at a big announcement
• [41:51] New Edition & Boyz II Men interview starts
• [76:51] End of interview segment with R&B legends
• [85:35] Start of "Jess Fix My Mess" segment
• [77:29] "Donkey of the Day" by Charlamagne Tha God
• [109:01] Jess Hilarious formally announces her book
• [35:51] Front Page News: Hurricane Melissa
• [07:27] Front Page News: Government shutdown update
• [103:23] Delaware State vs. Norfolk State HBCU game preview

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Tone and Style

The episode balances playful banter with real talk—mixing R&B legacy nostalgia, current events analysis, and candid listener advice. The guests and hosts are upbeat, authentic, and warm, with moments of emotional depth and plenty of inside jokes.

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Summary for New Listeners

This episode showcases The Breakfast Club’s signature blend of hip-hop nostalgia, candid cultural discussion, and everyday advice. Whether you’re here to hear industry legends reminisce about their journeys, catch up on major news, or laugh at wild stories (like a cop losing his pants on Zoom), you’ll find both entertainment and substance in an episode packed with big personalities and heartfelt moments.

Transcript

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Ralph Tresvant]

Put another way, are you high?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Jess Hilarious]

Good morning, usa.

[DJ Envy]

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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]

Charlamagne.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo. Good morning, Jess.

[DJ Envy]

Hilarious.

[Lauren LaRosa]

How are you?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let me see how I do this. Oh, peace to the planet. It's Thursday. Good morning. How y' all feel out there? I feel blessed, black and highly favored. Happy to be here another day to serve our beautiful listeners. What is happening? How you feeling, Jess? Hilarious.

[Jess Hilarious]

I feel good. I did not know that I was gonna have to drive through a bunch of rain this morning. I thought it was supposed to start later.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, I.

[Jess Hilarious]

But it's supposed to get worse throughout the day. It was raining tomorrow. Yo, you came in after me with a wet hoodie on.

[Caller/Listener]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know it's raining. It wasn't paying no attention. Yes, I wasn't paying attention.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay, what's on?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I was just going through, like, TI Greatest hits, listening to, like, ASAP and motivation. Okay, top back. What else came on? What else came on? When I was riding. Oh, ain't I remix?

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All right. So you did that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's it.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right, cool. I'm telling you right now, though, if it rained real hard tomorrow, I can't dress. I'm not dressing up. I'm not going to feel like being a character in the rain.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You look like you go to Hillman right now. What's up?

[Jess Hilarious]

Shut up. I got a big announcement later. Don't play with me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You got a sweater vest on and glasses and a collar.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes, but what's going on? It's giving very studious. And I have a big announcement later in the show, so I dress off me. Damn Envy. Yo, listen, how you doing? You can't just come in and surprise him hugging him from the bed. You can't do that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He gay. He be in his bed waiting to get in the morning to hug me. Hug your wife from the back. Go spoon with your wife. Don't spoon with me, bro. He liked it. Damn.

[Ralph Tresvant]

He loved it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jesus Christ. Good morning, guys.

[Jess Hilarious]

What's up?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know who you dress like today?

[Jess Hilarious]

What?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Boys, the men in the 90s. They going to be joining us today. Only thing you missing is the tie.

[Jess Hilarious]

Dress like this in the 90s.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The only thing you missing is the tie. You dress just like Nate. You got the glasses. Wow, the round glasses. Yes. You got the glasses and everything.

[Jess Hilarious]

I appreciate that. Envy. Like I was just saying, I have a big announcement later. So you've Been saying that all week. I know, but I have, I have. I have a big announcement today. I'm. I'm for sure going to announce today.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Jess Hilarious]

Later in the show.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right.

[DJ Envy]

All right.

You said New Edition. Boyz I Men gonna be here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, I said Boyz I Men.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my bad.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes. New Edition. New Edition gonna be Jimin.

[DJ Envy]

I'm so excited, man.

[Jess Hilarious]

Absolutely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The New Edition way tour with Toni Braxton and Boyz II Men is about to kick off shortly. So everybody gonna be here this morning. Every member, a New Edition and all three members of Boyz II Men.

[DJ Envy]

You know what's crazy? When we posted the promo yesterday, mad people hit me about Boyz II Men. I guess Boyz II Men don't really do interviews.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, they don't.

[DJ Envy]

I had no clue. They were like, boys to Men. They're really gonna be there. I'm like, yeah, they were like the three members. I know the fourth member is not there no more, but the three members, Mike.

Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yep. Mike.

[DJ Envy]

People excited. So I can't wait to. I'm excited too, you know, Kick it with New Edition. And I don't conversation.

[Jess Hilarious]

I was made to their music. I was made to boys to Men.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I thought it was New Edition. No, you made.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, I made Ashton to New Edition.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Got you.

[Jess Hilarious]

But I was made to Boyz II Men.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The interesting thing about Boyz I Men, they would not be here if it wasn't for New Addition. I don't think. I don't even know how many people of this era understand that. That was Michael Biven's group.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's crazy.

[DJ Envy]

Can we start off with some New Edition? Can you pull some New Edition up? You got something.

[Mike Slott]

All right.

[DJ Envy]

Also, we got front page news. Mimi will be joining us. A lot to break down nuclear weapons. Trump saying we gotta start testing. So I don't know where we gonna start testing. We'll find out. And also Jamaica, Hurricane, we gotta fill you in with everything that's going on in the next couple of hours.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, let's start with TI though. Cause we was talking about TI before you walked in and hugged me from the back.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, yes. Well, let's do TI Yeah, you can.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Do a new edition of Boys Mini Mix later.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, when they come. All right. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Morning, everybody.

[DJ Envy]

It's DJ Envy. Jess. Hilarious Charlamagne, the guy. Breakfast Club. What's up?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

TI Needs a versus, okay? Because you got a whole era of people who think they know, but they have no idea. And the young man, Marco. Plus was up here this week talking about T.I. one of his favorite rappers, but gonna say J. Cole is the king of the South. J. Cole.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, but who does TI Do a verse against?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know. I just don't TI need to do.

[DJ Envy]

A versus there's nobody that's in the same realm of tip.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not realm, but I mean, there's people that could do verses against him.

[DJ Envy]

It's just like, who?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Rick Ross could do it versus Against.

[DJ Envy]

He did one already.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know. That's what I'm saying. Like, he already did one. I don't know.

[Jess Hilarious]

Who did he do it versus against?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Two chains. Gucci and Jeezy already did it.

[DJ Envy]

What about Wayne?

[Jess Hilarious]

Did Wayne do one?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wayne hasn't done one. TI And Wayne would be great.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, that be good.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That'd be fantastic, actually.

[DJ Envy]

All right, well, let's start off with some quick sports. Now, last night, the Blue Jays beat the Dodgers six to one. They lead the series three, two. Now on Thursday Night Football, first time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Toronto been up on LA all year on anything. Okay. Toronto ain't been up on LA in a year. A two on anything.

[Jess Hilarious]

Well, congratulations to Toronto.

[DJ Envy]

It's not over yet. It's not over yet. Not over yet.

[Jess Hilarious]

Finally.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, now, Thursday Night Football. The Ravens take on the dolphins 8 prime video at 8:15. What's up, Mimi?

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning, NV, Josh. How y' all doing this morning?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Morning.

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All right.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, we start this morning on day 30 of the government shutdown. And what began as a fight in Washington over health care subsidies has now spiraled into one of the longest and most painful shutdowns in modern history. Federal workers are missing paychecks. Air traffic controllers are working without pay. And now millions of families are preparing to lose access to basic needs like food assistance and child care. The snap, which helps more than 42 million Americans buy groceries each month, it is set to run out of funding starting Saturday. That means children, seniors, just everyday Americans could soon go without help to put food on the table. Now, Republicans say they want to fund the program, but they are blaming Democrats for holding it up. Let's listen to Speaker Mike Johnson on Saturday.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This gets very real. SNAP benefits will stop flowing to all.

[DJ Envy]

Those who need it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're talking about tens of millions of.

[Caller/Listener]

Americans at risk of going hungry if.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The Senate Democrats continue the scam it instead of taking simple vote to fund the government, which Senate Democrats have now.

[Caller/Listener]

Had more than a dozen opportunities to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Do, Democrat attorneys general are suing the federal government to try to compel SNAP benefits to flow.

[Caller/Listener]

Despite the government being closed. And despite the fact that there is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No money to do that, Congress hasn't authorized that. The contingency fund for that was something.

[Caller/Listener]

They batted down when the Democrats decided.

[DJ Envy]

To vote against the criminal and shut the government.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, Democrats, they say that's not true. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says there is an emergency fund that the administration could tap into if they wanted to, but they are refusing to do that. Let's listen to what he has to say.

[DJ Envy]

Johnson just lies, plain and simple. It does not cost 5 or 6 billion to administer. There's enough money to start feeding people right away. Six billion is a lot of money. And they're using it for other things. 20 billion for Argentina, hundreds of millions for Kristi Noem's plane.

[Mike Slott]

Who are we kidding here?

[DJ Envy]

The bottom line is they can fund.

It just as in 2019, just as in other shutdowns for a long period of time.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And they also, if the contingency fund, which is $6 billion, which gets you nearly a month, three weeks, runs out, then they can pass Senator Lujan or Senator Hawley's bill, both of which we support. We know that there'll be 60 votes for that. They're not calling it up because the House isn't here to pass it.

[DJ Envy]

That's the way it works.

[Lauren LaRosa]

The House would have to come here. They probably would have to vote on the Epstein files. But they're choosing to let kids go hungry instead of having to vote on the Epstein files. There's no doubt about it. They have been out for six weeks on vacation.

[DJ Envy]

I don't understand why, you know, when we had a Democratic president, why they don't put some type of policy or law in play that if the government shuts down, people still get their benefits.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right.

[DJ Envy]

Cause they could have done that years and years and years ago.

[Mike Slott]

Correct.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, this is never happened.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm not sure.

[DJ Envy]

But people are not getting paid. They're saying people are not going to get the benefits.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's not just what it's about. That's not what they're arguing about, the emergency fund. Isn't that what that.

[Mimi Brown]

Is that exactly what they're arguing about, the emergency fund?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Because this even.

[Mimi Brown]

What they're saying is in 2019, this, there was a government shutdown. People still got their benefits. It's never stopped. They're saying that Trump is doing this on purpose to, you know, to impact Democrats and to make them want to cave, basically.

[DJ Envy]

No, I get that. But if it was a law or policy, they would.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Are you talking about Laws with Donald Trump. Right. You don't follow law. You talk about law. You right.

[Jess Hilarious]

That's crazy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Mimi Brown]

Like, yeah. So you're right. There's no such thing when it comes to this administration, it seems like. But when we're talking about paying the military, apparently Trump, the Trump administration says that they will pay the military. I believe their paychecks are supposed to come tomorrow. So there's some emergency funding that they were able to find for them. And we spoke about that $130 million donation earlier this week. Charlemagne. That is from longtime Trump donor named Tim Dunn. He says that according to Trump, he stepped up to help with payroll costs, but that is still all a short term fix, not a long term solution. So we'll see whether the military will still get paid after next month. They say that is still up in the air, but they should still receive a paycheck tomorrow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's crazy. Yeah.

[Mimi Brown]

And as the shutdown continues here at home, President Trump is making global headlines overseas. Now, just before, or just hours before, sitting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Trump announced that he's restarting the US Nuclear weapons testing, something the United States has not done since 1992. And a post on social media, the president said he has redirected the Pentagon to immediately begin testing nuclear weapons on an equal basis with other countries, specifically naming Russia and China. Now, Trump wrote the United States has more nuclear weapons than any other country, adding that much of America's arsenal was modernized during his first term. He said Russia ranks second, China ranks third, but predicted that China could catch up within five years. Now, if this follows through, if the US Follows through, it would mark the first nuclear test in more than three decades, a move analysts say would likely be viewed as a major show of power and could heighten global tensions. So that is something definitely to continue watching. All right, well, coming up at 7, why your phone might get you in trouble before the day is over. We'll tell you about the unexpected text you might get today and why it's pretty, why it's best you should probably ignore it.

[DJ Envy]

All right, everybody else, get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent some things on your mind, call us up right now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

This is your time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad or blessed. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

Hello, who's this?

[Caller/Listener]

Good morning, my Breakfast Club family. It's Your boy Lovey from the Bronx.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's up, Love? Hey, what's up, brother Love?

[DJ Envy]

I'll be seeing you on the. On the Twitch, too, Lovey.

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah, yeah, I'm outside. You know, I'm holding y' all up. I want to say this, and before I get into mine, congratulations on baby girl getting engaged. Did you. Did you guys coordinate a synchronized dance going down the aisle yet?

[DJ Envy]

Not yet.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We got it.

[DJ Envy]

We got to 2027. She gonna get married in 2027. But now we're gonna do something. I don't know what to what song, but we're gonna figure something out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, that's dope. That's dope.

[Caller/Listener]

I told you I had the privilege of being the best man at my oldest son's wedding. So that's like a Super bowl winning Super Bowl. But anyway, I want to get into this. If we don't hold these local churches and our local artists accountable right now, you know, I'm one of the single parents that's losing the SNAP benefit and the local churches that take from us all day, every day with these nonprofits, these artists that go and spend make it rain in the clubs, we need to hold them accountable.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I agree wholeheartedly.

[Caller/Listener]

Wholeheartedly as a single parent, you know, it's gonna be tough for us single parents out here. I mean, I'm fortunate where I can get up and make mine, but some parents can't do that. We got veterans that's gonna be losing they snap, you know, and if you look at it, I know Trump think it's affecting us, but 30%, 36% of the people on SNAP are white Americans.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

36. No, it's way higher than that, brother. The majority of people that receive SNAP benefits in this country are low, low income white people. Gotta be more than 36%.

[DJ Envy]

But you know what, Lovey? I know most, you know, a lot of the churches, the good churches, they already helping people regardless. And you see the work that they're doing in the community. I just wonder if the churches can afford to float, you know what I mean? Because a lot of people are not actually giving to the church because they can't afford to. And, you know, the church got bills, too. The church got electric bills and mortgage and rent and all that other stuff as well. I wonder if that will affect the church as well, you know, hey, Lovey.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Was right about his number, though. But I guess that is the largest group of people. 37%. Yes. But, yes, Love, you is absolutely right, man. I told y', all, I've donated this week to the Broad River Business alliance in Columbia, South Carolina. I've donated to the Food bank of New York City. I'm already an ambassador for them. I donated to the Community Resource center in North Charleston, South Carolina. I donated the Harvest Hope in Columbia, South Carolina. And I'm donating to two more. Yes.

[DJ Envy]

I haven't done it yet, but I will. I need to do something in Queens. I gotta find some. Some places in Queensland.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You'll be like, a dollar can provide like five meals for people like you don't like this.

[DJ Envy]

I just gotta find. Find a couple.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes. Like so. Man, this. This you. It actually frustrates you and infuriates you when you realize how little it takes to take care of these people.

[DJ Envy]

Absolutely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And that our government won't do it. Like, you know the Hope center in Charleston, South Carolina. I provided them breakfast for a whole year still. That's still going on right now. Not gonna tell the number, but.

[Jess Hilarious]

Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It ain't what you think.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I mean?

[DJ Envy]

I'm gonna do that this weekend.

Yeah.

I gotta find some. It's. I know the one that you do in Harlem, but I want to do one in Queens. I'm from Queens. I want to do some Queens. A lot of old folk oaks in Queens.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I got a full bank.

[Jess Hilarious]

And I did not know that it was so inexpensive to, you know. Don't you know what I'm saying? To feed a bunch of families through that food is very expensive. So.

[DJ Envy]

Absolutely. And if you could do it from where you from, regardless of who you are, like, do it from the neighborhood you from, and I'm sure it could.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Help a lot of people 100%.

[DJ Envy]

Get it off your chest. Call us up right now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

The Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's a new day.

[DJ Envy]

This is your time to get it off your chest.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wait. Wake up.

[DJ Envy]

Whether you're mad or blessed, time to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Get up and get something.

[DJ Envy]

Call up now.

800-585-1051.

We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

Hello? Who's this?

[Caller/Listener]

Bear from West Philly. Bear like grizzly bear.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Bear.

[DJ Envy]

What up, man?

[Jess Hilarious]

Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn. A man named Bear. You scared the hell out of women. Well, no. Women feel safer. Not at all.

[Caller/Listener]

I'm really actually feeling.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm a ladies man. Got.

[Caller/Listener]

Got T shirts named lover boy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You right. Women say they feel safer with the bear, so. You right.

[Jess Hilarious]

So you're a teddy bear.

[Caller/Listener]

All right. Yeah, exactly.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Teddy bears. Shut up.

[DJ Envy]

Stop.

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm sorry.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Go ahead.

[Jess Hilarious]

Go ahead, Bear.

[Caller/Listener]

I. I called them because I was hearing y' all talking about how men react to other men. Honestly, I think it's only our culture that really respond like that. You feel me?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And it came to me to realize.

[Caller/Listener]

In my adult phase that growing up as a black male in America or in any city, that we really was tricked in life that we got to act in and carry ourselves a certain way. Feel me? So if a man is hitting on you or is attracted to you, at.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The end of the day, as long.

[Caller/Listener]

As it is compromising your integrity and your morals and your sexuality, I. It really don't bother me no more.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You feel me? Yeah. Just don't disrespect me the same way. You know, if you try to holler at a woman, be respectful about it, and, you know, if she let you down, you know, you. You be respectful about getting turned down. You do the same thing with a gay man.

[Caller/Listener]

Exactly. But that's. That's just our toxic masculinity, and it's kind of a little bit in our culture because if you. If you see a white guy and.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

A gay man, whatever culture, whatever race.

[Caller/Listener]

Or whatever, could work all day. They joke all day. This and that.

[Mike Slott]

Boom, boom, boom.

[Caller/Listener]

Interact with each other and it'll be fine, you know, but us as black males, we won't want to be in the same room as a gay man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Or look at him at a gay.

[Caller/Listener]

Man or even smelling them.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You feel me?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I joke.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hold on now. Hold on.

[Caller/Listener]

Hey, D.J.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Every.

[Caller/Listener]

You don't count.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But why you smell them, though, bro? Like, you went a little too far just now. You being a little too descriptive with it, bro. You said smell them? Yeah. You didn't felt them?

[Caller/Listener]

You know, I'm just saying.

[Mike Slott]

Just.

[Caller/Listener]

I'm just saying.

[Mimi Brown]

You feel me?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's crazy. You feel me?

[Caller/Listener]

As you mean men black male. I'm just saying.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just being.

[Caller/Listener]

You mean, I give an example.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And who gonna really smell another man.

[Caller/Listener]

Unless you got some good ass alone on? And it's okay to compliment a man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

On the cologne because I'm a man that work cologne. But I get my St. Bird said every month. I will say how they try to paint all black men as homophobic. I don't like that. And the reason I don't like that. Because whenever.

[Caller/Listener]

Exactly.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because it's the white men in office that's creating legislation, you know, that is really oppressing the LGBTQ community. So I don't like when that's so homophobic. I don't like that. Thank you bear. Yeah, I was thinking yesterday, too. I was like, I think a lot of these dudes be upset because what if this gay dude got game? He wasn't even gay. But you was like, damn, I like the way this dude talking. That's how it be sometimes. Sometime, you know, the ugly guy hollered the pretty girl, he's spitting some game.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He got her laughing, he got her thinking. And she like, damn. I never even looked at him like that.

[Jess Hilarious]

Hey, yo, please.

[DJ Envy]

Gay guy got him smitten over, like, damn.

[Jess Hilarious]

I never thought about in that way, like, you know what I'm saying?

[Ralph Tresvant]

Hello?

[DJ Envy]

Who's this?

[Caller/Listener]

This is Ramen calling from Louisiana.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How you doing this morning, Ramen like noodles.

[Caller/Listener]

Good morning, Robert.

[DJ Envy]

He said, Robert, Louisiana. What's up, Robert?

[Caller/Listener]

Hey, I got a quick question for you before I actually get off my chair. Have you guys ever been in the grocery line or in a bank line? Peace. Inquiring. You got somebody right behind you on the phone. This is loud enough without you just can't shut up. And can be little quieter than it should be.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, I got one worse than that all the time this week on the plane. My wife can't stand that. Bro, if you on the plane and you listening to something like this, this woman was in front of us sitting down and she was listening to her computer without no headphones. Oh, Lord have mercy.

[DJ Envy]

That happened too. My wife told my wife Cola called crazy. It was like, look, come on, this is ridiculous.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Can you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And yeah, because I'd be telling my wife, mind your business. Put them headphones. Put your headphones on so you can't hear her now.

[DJ Envy]

Because sometimes, like your wife said, they got the laptop, they're watching a movie, and you can't get your rest on.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Caller/Listener]

I'm telling you with no disrespect of any kind of way. And I love listening for you guys, but I hate in a world all my strength just to hear when y' all first get on, when you come on in the morning time with that yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, clown. Oh, my God, man. That just runs you straight up the wall. That early in the morning with that Holland and screaming like, you gotta wake your ass, right?

[Jess Hilarious]

Like what?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We ain't gonna do that. As we get older now, as we get older, we ain't gonna be complaining about each other's noises. Okay? You know what I'm saying? The airplane noise make me mad. The yo, yo, yo make me noise. As we get older, as this show gets old, then we get older, we not gonna Be doing that to each other now. Okay. Calling a pity. Tell me. Yo, you calling all that? Yo, yo, yo, in the morning, man.

[DJ Envy]

Been doing it for 15 years now he upset about it.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. We got the ladies for Lauren coming up.

[Caller/Listener]

We do.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning, y'.

[DJ Envy]

All.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning, ll. Good morning. So look, the verses went down last weekend. A lot of people had questions about Wayne, about location. We got some answers for the people, so we're gonna get into it.

[DJ Envy]

All right, we'll get into that. Next. It's the Breakfast club.

Good morning, The Breakfast Club.

[Jess Hilarious]

Lauren becoming a straight fan.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She'll be having the latest on the.

[DJ Envy]

Bees, the latest with Lauren larosa.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details. Sometimes she have a little bit of everything.

[DJ Envy]

Well, it's the latest on the breakfast club.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Alrighty, guys. So versus went down last weekend and there was a lot of questions following the verses. The biggest question, of course, was Lil Wayne and his absence because people have pointed out that Dreus, the nightclub in Vegas, had been promoting the fact that Lil Wayne would be at their venue that night following the verses. But I was told by a source, it was verified to me, that Lil Wayne did not show up to Dreus. Now, from what I was told, everything in Vegas related to him that night was canceled. So he didn't actually make it. People tried to make the conversation as if he chose to go to Dreus and didn't choose versus. He didn't go anywhere that night. So whatever the issue is, and there's still more to be found out here, he. He wasn't anywhere in Vegas that night. So that puts that to rest a bit. And I know another one of the questions was on why the verses were so short in the format. Because we're used to it going way longer. So I spoke to a source who told me that the 10 songs format that we watch with no limited cash money is going to be the format of versus moving because more artists want to do it at that point because it's 10 songs a lot easier for.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Artists that don't have the artists don't got 20 slacks.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. And, you know, it's easy to pick through as well, too. Before we were watching them do like 20ish songs, which could be like three and a half hours long show wise. It's a lot to put out as well, too. So they're not going to do that no more. And finally, on the location now, people want another versus and they want it to happen again with no limited cash money in New Orleans. From what I was told, the reason why it didn't happen in New Orleans in the first place and it happened in Vegas was because when you bring those two locations together, like the two projects that both, you know, no limit and Cash money are from, it's not even about just like the artists or the entourages, but the people that come or, you know, just the surrounding people. There's a lot of back and forth there still between people, and they want to keep everybody safe. So they felt like Vegas was like a neutral ground. The artists were comfortable with coming if it was happening in Vegas as well.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So that's where it's not the artist, it's the entourage.

[DJ Envy]

Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And all that, all of that history that all them projects in New Orleans and stuff got amongst each other.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Still, I think a lot of people would have loved to see it in Louisiana. New Orleans, just like when. With Jeezy and Gucci. That happened in Atlanta.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right.

[DJ Envy]

It felt like it should happen in Atlanta.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You know, when that happened in Atlanta, you remember seeing. And not to put like a negative, like, you know, whatever over this, but just being honest about it with the Jeezy and Gucci versus, you remember seeing autumn. Big, huge, like police trucks. And like, they had to do so much complex con is a lot easier because it's already. You have infrastructure that you're a part of. Vegas is neutral. It just takes a lot more to keep people.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I heard people on both sides, no limit and cash money, just behind the scenes say, no, we couldn't have did it in New Orleans.

[DJ Envy]

I think it made. Well, if they said it, then I thought it would have been big for the city. They shook hands at the end of it. Like, it just seemed like they ain't about them, though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ain't about the artists. You know what I mean?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, I think it's more about. Cause I mean, of course the artists, it would feel good because when I went to go see the hot boys in New Orleans, it was a great feeling to be there, but you do got to worry about the people, People that are coming out to see you, you know what I'm saying? And, like, what that means for venues that are going to book you after that.

[DJ Envy]

I also want people that. That go to north that actually know the songs that they performing. You know, I mean, like, some of those songs, you seen the crowd and it wasn't as live as it should have been. But I felt like if it would have been home, it would have been.

[Jess Hilarious]

A big part in, you know, a concert like that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I think, I mean, I can understand that. I think age is a thing too, but I think location matters. But you, I think too, if you promote it with enough time for people to like actually get there and make the do what they need to do. Because we knew about this, like how many weeks? I feel like it was like maybe a month if that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But you put no limit cash money on tomorrow. I'm singing word for word what's happening.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, but I mean, it's different. You're from the south also. Age differences, my era. Yeah, it's different for you. So, yes, answering some of the questions as I can. We'll be back with more there, hopefully. Now in other news, other music related news, bmf, the show BMF with little Meech and Da Vinci is officially canceled. There was an announcement yesterday and deadline that the show is now done after four seasons. But there are spin offs reported to be coming. Now. Y' all remember 50 Cent, when he was going back and forth with Big Meech a while ago, said that after season four, the show was going to be done, but it wasn't an official cancellation announcement. So people have been trying to figure out, is this the power of 50 Cent because of all the things that we've seen or was the, you know, did the show just run its course and the cancellation has happened? Now 50 Cent has posted on Instagram in response to these speculations and he says, well, first of all, the photo that he posted is a for I need money for food sign with little Meech sitting on a corner. And he says, I am deeply concerned by the widespread assumption that I had involvement in the recent cancellation of bmf. I intend to thoroughly investigate this matter to understand exactly how and why it occurred. Thank you. So he doesn't really answer the question. He just continues to throw. I did reach out to reps that I saw listed for the show and tried to get more information on the background of it. But I think something like this, he.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Said it's gonna be spin offs, though in the last episode of bmf, it was Meech going to jail, right?

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The last episode of bmf, it was Meech going to little me going. Yeah. And so 50 said it's gonna be spin offs. Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yep. And even in the story that broke when it said the cancellations, it said that there will be spinoffs.

[DJ Envy]

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[Caller/Listener]

All I know is what I've been.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Told and that to have truth is a whole lie.

[Mimi Brown]

For almost a decade, the murder of an 18 year old girl from a small town in Graves County, Kentucky went unsolved until a local homemaker, a journalist and a handful of girls came forward with a story.

[Caller/Listener]

I'm telling you. We know Quincy killed her.

[Mimi Brown]

We know a story that law enforcement used to convict six people and that got the citizen investigator on national tv.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Through sheer persistence and nerve, this Kentucky housewife helped give justice to Jessica Kerr.

[Mimi Brown]

My name is Maggie Freeling. I'm a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist producer and I wouldn't be here if the truth were that easy to find.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I did not know her and I did not kill her or rape or burn or any of that other stuff.

[DJ Envy]

That y' all said.

[Jess Hilarious]

They literally made me say that I took a match and struck and threw it on her. They made me say that I poured gas on her.

[Mimi Brown]

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[DJ Envy]

America. Y' all better wake the hell up. Bad things happens to good people and small towns.

[Mimi Brown]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Mimi Brown]

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[Jess Hilarious]

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[Mimi Brown]

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[Caller/Listener]

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[Mimi Brown]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

You don't necessarily need Little Meech to do the spin offs. I guess I think we should start a landscaping business. I have no idea. But I thought. I'm telling you, I had that vision yesterday. Yeah, I say him cutting grass, but as soon as I saw 50 Cent posting that, that just popped in my mind. Little me should start a landscaping business. So I don't know why that popped in my mind, so I'm sharing it. So if he's out there listening, maybe that is a vision. Maybe that's something you're working on. You know I'm clairvoyant Avot. I'm just telling you I think she started landscape.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I thought she was gonna go somewhere more near groceries like maybe like partners.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You trying to be funny?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm being serious at this point. Summer Walker's still talking about them groceries. Instacart should have been called.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm saying I think you should start a landscaping business. I don't Know why? As soon as I saw 50 Cent posting that, that is what popped in my mind. That is what I'm sharing. I don't know him personally to share.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What do God be telling you about us?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You don't even want to know.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I know. It's part of my ministry. That I know.

[Jess Hilarious]

Does he have a landscaping, like, face?

[DJ Envy]

Like.

[Jess Hilarious]

Like, I don't know what he got landscaping.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's just mad weird. No, no, no, no. Y' all say it's weird until y' all see him out in Atlanta with a booming ass landscaping business.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, I mean, some of the things you've said about other things we've seen come, you know, so that's why I'm.

[Jess Hilarious]

Like, he probably got that landscaping look to him.

[Lauren LaRosa]

What's the landscaping look, Jess?

[Jess Hilarious]

I don't know. You know, it's real out of this country, you know, not from this country. Like, okay, all right. Cut my grass, you know? But it's great. He owns. He will own the company. Is what Charlamagne sees.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm definitely.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, no, no.

[Jess Hilarious]

I can see it too now, but I see it in ways that you don't. Like, he does. He looks like he's gonna be on the mower for me. Like, it's like, okay if he is, so what?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I'm just telling you what I saw. Yeah, that was the vision I got yesterday.

[Mike Slott]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He should start a landscaping business.

[DJ Envy]

Okay. All right.

[Caller/Listener]

Yep.

[Jess Hilarious]

Well, you should help him out with it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, I'm just putting it. This is my job. I get to download, give it to the atmosphere, somebody who know little Meech, let them know Charlemagne had a vision that he should start a landscaping business. I ain't even trying to be funny. I'm just telling you. That's what God showed me yesterday.

[Jess Hilarious]

I know you're not, but it was just random. That's what you saw when we.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And can you tell me what God be saying for me?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'll tell you that now.

[Jess Hilarious]

No, Lauren. Cause you setting yourself up. Stop.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I do. No.

[Lauren LaRosa]

When we off air, he's a lot nicer. That's what I said when we end. So let's wrap it up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He did tell me that that ball spot you got ain't gonna never grow in, but it's gonna be part of your future. No, I'm serious.

[DJ Envy]

So you asked.

[Jess Hilarious]

Stop. Because she could have died.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, and I've been told you it's not gonna grow back. The guy didn't tell you that.

[Jess Hilarious]

I did.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We gotta go.

[Jess Hilarious]

And I love shortcuts Speaking of shortcuts, Happy birthday. Me along.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, shortcut like me along period.

[Jess Hilarious]

Looks so good, Queen.

[DJ Envy]

That was the latest with Lauren. Now when we.

What come.

Now when we come back, we got front page news. A new addition of Boys to Mental be joining us. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get back to some front page news. Now some quick sports. Last night the Blue Jays beat the Dodgers 6 to 1. They lead the series 3, 2. And in Thursday night football, the Baltimore Ravens take on the Miami Dolphins. Also Tonight in Philly, Delaware State, coached by DeSean Jackson, ex Philadelphia Eagles is playing Norfolk State. Of course, Michael Vick is the head coach for that. That's gonna be in the Eagle Stadium.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But how much Eagle Stadium hold? A lot. That place gonna look empty tonight.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh my God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn. Hold like 80,000 people, right?

[DJ Envy]

I think like 50,000.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, gotta be more than that. All I'm saying is, you know, they should, you should go out there and you know, make it look, look bigger. You know, make it look big like, you know, saying, I hate when I watch these HBCU games and they play in these big ass stadiums and people don't show up the way they supposed to.

[Jess Hilarious]

43, 000.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm looking at it now. It says 69, 000.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, like really?

[Jess Hilarious]

Citizens bank capacity?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No. Lincoln Financial. Yeah, a little bit over 69. 69, 596 to be exact. Fill that field up, man. They're not gonna fill that Delaware State.

[DJ Envy]

But it might do first tier, second T tier, like and then, you know, shade off the third and fourth tier.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

God. You'll see tonight. I hope it's packed, you know what I'm saying? Delaware right there by Philly. That's what I'm saying. But make it look packed, man. Make these HBCU games look packed especially. It's going to be on. It's going to be on tv.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I think that's what I'm saying.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I hate that when you look at it on TV and it don't look packed at hbcu. Go out there and support, yo.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I hope it is packed, but I'll be there tonight though. I'm going tonight, but.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's up?

[DJ Envy]

Mimi?

[Mimi Brown]

Good morning, Envy, Josh Alame. How y' all doing?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Mimi, good morning.

[Mimi Brown]

All right, well, we start this hour in Jamaica where Hurricane Melissa has left catastrophic damage and heartbreak in its wake. Now part of the storm system now blamed for at least 30 deaths across the Caribbean as it moved towards the Bahamas and Bermuda this morning. Now, Melissa slammed into Jamaica on Tuesday as a Category 5 hurricane, the strongest storm in the island's history, with winds reaching up to 185 miles per hour. Entire neighborhoods were torn apart, roofs ripped off of homes and power lines down nearly across the entire island. Now this morning, more than 25,000 Jamaicans are sheltering in schools and churches, turned into emergency shelters. And roughly 80% of the island still remains without power. At least four people have died in Jamaica. That's according to officials. Prime Minister Andrew Holness has declared a national disaster, saying the government is fully mobilized to rescue residents and deliver food and supplies. But communication blackouts and flooding have made that nearly impossible in some areas. In St Elizabeth Parish, the town of Black river, one of the hardest hit areas, local officials are still shocked by the damage. Let's listen to some of that.

[DJ Envy]

Jamaica has gone through what I can.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Call one of its worst period.

[DJ Envy]

Our infrastructure has been severely compromised. St. Elizabeth is the breadbasket of the country, and that has taken a beating. The entire Jamaica has felt the brunt of. Melissa?

[Mimi Brown]

Well, the government says it it hopes to reopen airports today to speed up those relief efforts. The United States is sending rescue and response teams. That's according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. And yesterday afternoon, Melissa, it weakened into a Category 1 storm with sustained winds around 90 miles per hour, moving northeast. It went to Cuba and then the Bahamas. And from there it's expected to move to Bermuda sometime late today.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So, yeah, salute to everybody in Jamaica. Man, them relief efforts gonna be real, they gonna need it.

[Mimi Brown]

Absolutely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I talked to people that say it's like it's only 1 1/2 of the island, though. Is that true?

[Mimi Brown]

They said it's in. It's in spots, but majority they said it touched every part of the island. Of course, some places are worse than others, but it definitely to every part of the island.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Gotcha.

[DJ Envy]

And they said hurricane season lasts till mid November.

Right.

So they can get some more. So, yeah, pray for definitely everybody in Jamaica.

[Mimi Brown]

Absolutely. But after some of these heavier headlines this morning, let's lighten things up for a minute. So today is national text your ex day.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes, please.

[Mimi Brown]

That is a real thing. Yes. So every October 30th, it's a day meant to reach out to your ex and say what's been left of unsaid. But let's be honest. So for most folks, that's probably a terrible idea. But it started as a day of closure. A chance to apologize, make peace, or even reconnect. But experts say before you hit send, ask yourself, is this really about healing or are you looking for trouble? Online reactions, they're split. Some people say they are. They're proudly posting their screenshots saying, I did it. Others are saying, don't do it because it's a trap. So whether you are team text them foreclosure or team delete their number forever, today's the day that you'll probably find out if a lot of that therapy you've been taking, it's really working.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And this is like adult relationships, right, Mimi? Because it's not like, you know, like I've been with the same woman for 27 years. So any ex I got is from high school or something like that. So it's not like you would even worry about nothing like that, right?

[Mimi Brown]

No, no, no. This is just like if you're boyfriend, girlfriend, y' all broke up a couple years ago, you know, you wondering how they're doing, that sort of thing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I had an ex say something wild to my mama named Piggly Wiggly. I'm so pissed off about that right now.

[DJ Envy]

Piggly Wig.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm like, why are you talking about Something that happened 30 plus years ago? You ain't got nothing else.

[Jess Hilarious]

When was this?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Over the summer.

[Jess Hilarious]

Damn. Well, that's because you, you're not the same Lennon McKelvie that she was in school.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So she like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And that person is not the same person that they was. So don't be telling nobody that we used to have relations, okay? People still use stuff like that against you now, man, that's crazy. People go to people Facebook and be posting pictures, man. Be sending pictures to you. Be like, boy, you used to be with me.

[DJ Envy]

I used to.

[Jess Hilarious]

Hey, yo.

[Mimi Brown]

All right, y'.

[Caller/Listener]

All.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, that is your front page news. I'm Mimi Brown. Follow me at Mimi Brown tv. For more stories, follow the Black Information Network and Download the free iHeartRadio app, visit bin news.com.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you, Mimi.

[DJ Envy]

All right, now, when we come back, New Edition and Boys to Men will be joining us. They are going on tour, the New Edition Way tour with Tony Braxton. And we're gonna talk to them next.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right?

[DJ Envy]

So don't go anywhere. And all the members are here, by the way.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Way.

[DJ Envy]

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 Long. And Rose is here as well. And we got some icons.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Legends, man. Legends in the building.

[DJ Envy]

Today, ladies and gentlemen, we have New Edition and Boys to Men. Wow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They going on tour together. I feel like this should have been happening, right? Why did it take so long? Who wants to start?

[DJ Envy]

I think that there's a lot of logistics that go with having two groups. Two groups with such great success. In order to get that together, scheduling has to be right. Also. The. You know what I mean? The energy has to be right, the climate has to be right. And I just believe that this is the time. God put this time as the time to show the world what. What this. This whole vibe is all about. New addition, Boyz II Men, Toni Braxton. It's a real thing. And this is the moment. God placed it right here.

Now, how does Boyz II Men feel? I gotta ask, because you guys, they were your idols, right?

Yeah, from the start and still are still.

Are you seeing them? You know, when y' all had a show in Philly, y' all come up to the bus and y' all singing, and that's how y' all wouldn't be.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Here with our new addition. Let's be clear on that.

[DJ Envy]

Yes. Well, you know, that's not actually how it went. You know what I'm saying?

Oh, the story wasn't how it went.

Nah, nah, nah. I don't mean to. I don't mean to, but, you know, but, you know, like, in order, in order for the story to actually be told in a movie, sometimes you have to, you know, make it all go together in sequence. Well, tell us the truth, you know.

For people that didn't see the story.

So there's truth to that. But it was Michael Bivens, Ricky and Ron. They were actually coming off stage at the Powerhouse, and they were in Philly, and they were introducing that you guys were going to be bbd. And we had just. By the time they came off stage, we had just snuck backstage. We passed passes back and forth. We got backstage, stage. As soon as we got there, they were coming off stage, and I guess Nate asked Ricky, can we sing for him? You know what I'm saying? And Ricky was like, y' all got a tape? He said, y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[DJ Envy]

Y' all got a tape? And we was like, no, we ain't got no tape. And he was like, ah, well, y' all need a tape, you know what I'm saying? He started writing down the address. But then Nate was like, hey, yo, let me go to Biv. So he's like, biv, can we sing for you? He was like, can y' all do it right now?

[Jess Hilarious]

Boom.

[DJ Envy]

We bust into can youn Stand the Rain a cappella. So it was backstage. It wasn't at a tour bus, but you know what I mean? The story, nonetheless, it definitely resonated.

Wow. The tour bus was more exciting.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mike Slott]

Right, right.

[DJ Envy]

It was a lot more sexy. The two of us were sexy. Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I do want to ask, you know, every artist manager, artist executive relationship has its highs and lows. When you look back, what were some of the biggest misunderstandings or lessons y' all learned from, you know, each other.

[Ralph Tresvant]

I guess you could say, like, with any relationship, I mean, in a group, because even when Bib signed his years ago, it was almost like him being the fifth member at the time. And I think it was more like a dynamic type thing. You know, we learned a lot about each other's personalities as well as just understanding, you know, how the business went. So, you know, you had your share of highs and lows and ups and downs, but at the end of the day, it's all about that. It's better is the end of a thing than the beginning of a thing.

[DJ Envy]

Absolutely.

[Ralph Tresvant]

So it's one of those things where it's like, here we are. Look at this. You know what I'm saying? A lot of people didn't think that this situation would even happen, but as you mentioned, boys and men owe a lot to New Edition. But this is what succession looks like. You understand what I'm saying? So it's one of those things where it's like, these guys did what they did, and they gave us the ball, and we ran with it.

[DJ Envy]

Now we can roll with it together.

[Ralph Tresvant]

So now we can roll with it together.

[DJ Envy]

Together.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Can we expound on the brotherhood, you know, between all of y', all, man, you know, I love seeing all of y' all together after all these years. What have y' all learned about forgiveness and just staying together as brothers? New Edition.

[DJ Envy]

And, boy, I could say, go ahead. Go ahead, you said.

[Ralph Tresvant]

I've said it before in a few interviews, talking about the fact that when you're talking about true brotherhood, it's a real, true brotherhood, and we're like real siblings. And I've said that. That's why you see you. We go through our ups and downs, our battles. We done had some ups and downs and. And all of the above, but at this stage of our lives, when we come together, man, it's like. It's just nothing but laughter. It's like, at this point in our lives, we've been through a lot, and I'm sure, there's more to deal with as far as challenges go, but we've come full circles just as grown men, just as human beings and, and we have fun when we come together.

[Mike Slott]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

I was gonna say, do y' all need to talk or y' all just like, look, we broke. Let's just do this.

Well, this, this is the deal again. We, this is the first time that we've even come together in this circumstance. You know what I mean? Other times it's been, you know, we've been on shows with, with bbd, we done a few shows with, with Johnny and Bobby and you know, and we, I think we did one gig that we all were together, but I feel like in order for the energy to actually get to the place where it's supposed to be something like that, a break bread moment has to happen. You know, some things, you know, some things that we might have on our hearts may need to come out. You know what I'm saying? I mean, that's, that's what brotherhood is about, you know, and, and I'm a big fan of atonement, guys. You know what I'm saying? I'm a big fan of, of, of, of letting it go, especially at the age that we're all at, you know, I'm trying, I'm trying. Yeah, man, I'm trying. I'm trying. I'm. I'm in coast mode. This is the time. Let's go out, let's make some money and let's entertain these people people and be on coast mode.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's all that initial conversation, like, what was that initial conversation?

[Ralph Tresvant]

What he was saying was it's, it's. It's one of those things where because we're on the road and because we, we have the time, it's going to be one of those organic things. Yeah. We don't want to make this a mellow drama and it ain't no negativity, ain't no mess. Like, like, you know what I'm saying? None of that, you know, excuse me. None of that stuff. Like, it's, it's really just about, about understanding how important this meant or this was to not only to the fans, but to us.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Ralph Tresvant]

So this is what we're doing. We're celebrating. We're going to have a good time. We're going to go on the road and we're going to sing and dance our asses off.

[DJ Envy]

Absolutely.

[Ralph Tresvant]

We're going to give people the greatest show they've ever seen in their life.

[DJ Envy]

You have fun doing it. That's right. That's right. Have fun doing it now.

What do you think there's missing in the R B game right now? Why don't you think there's more R B groups?

[Mike Slott]

Honestly, I think it start at the the rest of record label. I think people that are hired now, some of them don't have an eye for talent. They have an eye for their computer.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Word.

[Mike Slott]

Sometimes you have to go in the street like we met in the street, you know, the singing to be close. And I think they look at it as the hits of the computer makes them a hit group, but it's so much more to it. And back in the day, like for myself as a CEO, I stayed at 2 in the morning and kept looking at the pitches, listening to the music, the A R and the people at the office, now they're on the red carpet before the artists get there. So the responsibility and the care to detail is missing. And if someone would just slow down and say, yo, how many times we gotta look at the Grammys? And not one R and B group is on the show.

[DJ Envy]

Right, right, right, right, right.

[Mike Slott]

And the first time we see an R B group in the last five years, well, you know, we saw what Bruno and them did, but that was a different thing. I'm talking about someone from the hood, like a Jodeci, New Edition, Boys to me. And Jagged Edge is when Juan Sons was on there and Jesse gave them the shot. That's the first time we've seen black kids on the Grammys ever in a long time. And that's where it starts. It starts younger. It starts at the office or it's gonna have to come from us.

[DJ Envy]

Now with Bobby, with so many hits, how many hits are you gonna do on stage?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, man.

[DJ Envy]

To the mic. And then, because this is. That's the time where everybody could take a break. You have so many hit record singles, right? Like, how.

[Ralph Tresvant]

How are you gonna give us a break, Bob?

[DJ Envy]

Give me a break. I don't. I don't know. It's up. It's up to Brooke and it's up to, you know, the guys, how much they want me on the stage.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't.

[DJ Envy]

I don't plan to do no more than the next man. I know that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Trust me.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right. Okay, so for Boys to Men, how long did it take y' all to complete a whole song in the studio? Because you. When I say when the songs be going off, you'd be like, no, no, I got some more.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That was back in the day, seven.

[DJ Envy]

Minute songs back then.

[Jess Hilarious]

I even specifically specific with it, the Christmas album that I bump all year round to this day. Christmas interpretations.

[DJ Envy]

Wow. Thank you so much.

[Jess Hilarious]

My favorite.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Appreciate this album.

[Mike Slott]

I play.

[Jess Hilarious]

I play it all year round. How long did it take y' all to complete a single song?

[DJ Envy]

Well, I'll tell you this. It took us two weeks to do the Christmas album.

[Caller/Listener]

What?

[Ralph Tresvant]

That's all the time we had.

[DJ Envy]

Two weeks. That's all we had. And we recorded it in Europe.

[Ralph Tresvant]

London.

[DJ Envy]

In London? Yes, with Brian McKnight. We sat there because we were on tour. We were on tour in London. Right.

[Ralph Tresvant]

We had to meet a deadline.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, we had to meet a deadline. And we sat in there. Of course we wrote songs on the road. You know, like, Sean would call me to his room. He had joyous song. I came up with Wild Christmas. Nate had cold December nights. Mike did. No, no, Mike was cold December nights. Nate had. What was the record?

[Ralph Tresvant]

Share Love.

[DJ Envy]

Share Love.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

So the idea, like, literally to do a new standard Christmas album was. It was grueling because we didn't have much time, but we wrote the hell out of that. Like, every aspect of it was straight from the, you know, the soul. You know what I mean? It was real, real moments. So we. And we didn't want to make it all like, you know, jingle bells, jingle. You know what I mean? We wanted to make it. We wanted to make it so that. So that we. So that we could feel it. You know what I'm saying? So that you could actually play that john straight.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

You know what I'm saying?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

You know, once the standards come and play, you know, you, of course you can make choices, but when you have new Christmas records that people fall in love with, with, that's the only choice. That's why we decided not to make another one.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah. I want to, please. But yeah, if y' all don't need to. Cuz that. That's one of my favorite albums.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you. Appreciate it.

[Jess Hilarious]

Johnny. Gil, why did you kill Give love on Christmas Day? Cuz that's my favorite Christmas song. Like, y' all were singing these Christmas songs. Like women were leaving y' all something like.

[Ralph Tresvant]

Cuz they. That's all I had to give. I didn't have money back then. All I had was loved offer.

[DJ Envy]

Is there a song that you guys hate to do that? Like, I just don't want to do that song.

[Ralph Tresvant]

Oh, boy.

[DJ Envy]

Y' all looking at each other. So y' all know it was one.

[Ralph Tresvant]

This one.

[DJ Envy]

In the still of the night.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I hate that song.

[Jess Hilarious]

You hate that Song, I'll tell you.

[DJ Envy]

Why you hate it. So, so, so we in Salt Lake City, we were on Utah and. And the record label, I'm sure Biv has something to do with this. The record label called and was like, yo, we need a record for the Jackson's miniseries. And we wanted to be in the still of the night. Now we could think of so many other records that we would have been excited to do, you know what I mean? But they wanted in the still of the night, so. Okay. It's a very easy record, guys. You know what I mean? Of course, with our harmony structures, we kind of do it a little bit different. Cause it's not the regular triad. The issue is, is nobody wanted to sing the lead. It was a day off and we.

[Ralph Tresvant]

Wanted to go snowmobiling.

[DJ Envy]

Exactly, right, Exactly. So nobody wanted to sing the lead. So any.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right, right, right.

[DJ Envy]

No, no, no. Hell no. We didn't want to sing the lead because it's in this. The other night. Right. So we flipped the coin. That's how we did every. That's how we. That's how we cleared every altercation, every situation. We would just flip a coin and he left. I don't even remember, bro. I was so pissed off that day, bro. I'm looking out the window at snow capped mountains and.

[Ralph Tresvant]

Hilarious.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Still traumatized.

[DJ Envy]

Is there something that new addition hates to do?

[Ralph Tresvant]

Yeah, I want to know that.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Ralph Tresvant]

What song y' all hate to do for me?

[DJ Envy]

It would probably be you're not my kind of girl.

What?

[Ralph Tresvant]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

And it leans in on the dance side. There's this one move that we do without.

[Jess Hilarious]

And later on, my ass hurts everyone.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Are y' all reinventing dance moves then, like, things y' all not going to touch this time around on stage.

[DJ Envy]

We are definitely gonna. We do want to give people a different experience, like Envy said.

Some of the classic stuff that people.

Have come to know us for. If it isn't love, maybe even. You're not my kind of girl. Some things we're going to keep in place. We might add some variances, but I.

Think people want to see us do.

Something new and fresh. So we definitely want to give people a different experience.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But you can't do everything. As ball players get older, they even got to adjust their game.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you.

You got to tell them, expect that they want the same look from 21. He'd be like, yeah, you tried. That's what you tell them.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You tried.

[DJ Envy]

Sometimes the running man just ran out. The walking man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right when everybody broke off and had Success. Outside of the audition, did y' all ever look at each other and be like, nah, I didn't know they could do that. Like, I didn't know BBD could do that. I ain't know Bobby could do that.

[DJ Envy]

Not me. I was ecstatic.

Every time something blew up and somebody was winning, I was ecstatic.

I was at home like, there you go. That's.

Bobby was the dance entertainer mastering our project.

Absolutely.

Yeah. When we grew up, I just knew.

He was better than all of us.

At dancing and entertaining and just. Just being live.

You know what I'm saying?

He was that dude.

[Ralph Tresvant]

And so not the world.

[DJ Envy]

The world not being able to see that as a part of our group.

That was a big dynamic missing to me. So when he. When he stepped out and he did it, it's like, yes, they get to.

[Mike Slott]

See that we have that in us too.

[DJ Envy]

Cuz there was a lot of stuff.

That was becoming real.

[Mike Slott]

Candy girl.

[DJ Envy]

Real.

Them boys was real soft. Or this bubble gum. And we don't. Yeah, bubblegum is so.

[Jess Hilarious]

You don't.

[DJ Envy]

You don't hate it, but you don't like it either.

So having another box.

When BBD started representing and Bobby started representing, Johnny's in the group now, and.

He'S doing his thing with his grown man.

He's just turning everything to what we.

I really knew what we had and.

Letting the world see it. So for me, it was just, finally, the world's getting a chance to see what we're really made out of.

[Ralph Tresvant]

Ralph, let me give y', all y' all flowers and say that there's been no group, white or black, that has done what New Edition has done ever.

[DJ Envy]

Not to me, not for us.

[Ralph Tresvant]

There's never been a group alive, past, present, or probably future. Come on, man. That has been a group. Broke up all them, went platinum, came back again and went platinum again.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wuang the only one.

[DJ Envy]

Literally, that's it.

[Ralph Tresvant]

So I just to want to just put that out there like they've done something that is unprecedented.

[DJ Envy]

Exactly.

[Mike Slott]

I would just say this and. And Rizzo, you know, he. He's always going to say it so eloquently because that's how he speaks. But, you know, Ralph's important when he shows up to do the show, it gives us a sense of strength. When he walks through the door, it's like Brady coming through the door.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Mike Slott]

It is what it is. And you know when Bob is hurting or his leg and he's just like, let's go. I'll just stand over here. He's like basically I can't do that. But I'm a rock this microphone and that means everything to the audience, right when we're trying to make a decision. You know, big bro Johnny Gill, he's a heavy voice in our group. You know, he's older, he's wiser, he's not just a singer, but he's a leader by conversation and he keeps us at a high standard. This is some we not accepting and that's just that. And in prayer, that's Mr. Ricky Bell. Whenever we need to hear a good kind word, he'll close the call. And that's so powerful to keep us together. And of course, you know, bro over there, when he was speaking about the dance moves, it's because he makes us reach for excellence. And that's Ronnie, you know what I'm saying? When we want to just go sit down, grab some water. Nah, nah, let's go two more times. And you see that in his performance on stage. So I was just gonna.

[Caller/Listener]

All I know is what I've been.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Told and that's a half truth is a whole lie.

[Mimi Brown]

For almost a decade, the murder of an 18 year old girl from a small town in Graves County, Kentucky went unsolved until a local homemaker, a journalist and a handful of girls came forward with a story.

[Caller/Listener]

I'm telling you, we know Quincy killed her.

[Mimi Brown]

We know a story that law enforcement used to convict six people and that got the citizen investigator on national tv.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Through sheer persistence and nerve, this Kentucky housewife helped give justice to Jessica Curran.

[Mimi Brown]

My name is Maggie Freeling. I'm a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist producer and I wouldn't be here if the truth were that easy to find.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I did not know her and I did not kill her or rape or burn or any of that other stuff.

[DJ Envy]

That y' all said.

[Jess Hilarious]

They literally made me say that I took a match and struck and threw it on her. They made me say that I poured gas on her.

[Mimi Brown]

From Lava for good. This is Graves County, a show about just how far our legal system will go go in order to find someone to blame.

[DJ Envy]

America, y' all better wake the hell up. Bad things happens to good people and small towns.

[Mimi Brown]

Listen to Graves county in the Bone Valley feed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts and to binge the entire season ad free. Subscribe to Lava for Good plus on Apple Podcast podcasts. 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 disrespect, 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.

[Jess Hilarious]

One podcast, one mission. Save our girl.

[Mimi Brown]

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 podcasts.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Welcome to Decoding Women's Health. I'm Dr. Elizabeth Poynter, Chair of Women's health and gynecology at the Atria Health Institute in New York City. On this show, I'll be talking to top researchers and top clinicians, asking them your burning questions and bringing that information about women's health and midlife directly to you. 100% of women go through menopause.

[Mimi Brown]

It can be such a struggle for.

[Jess Hilarious]

Our quality of life. But even if it's natural, why should.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We suffer through it?

[Mimi Brown]

The types of symptoms that people talk about is forgetting everything. I never used to forget things. They, they're concerned that one, they have dementia and the other one is do I have adhd?

[Jess Hilarious]

There is unprecedented promise with regard to cannabis and cannabinoids to sleep better, to.

[Mimi Brown]

Have less pain, to have better mood.

[Jess Hilarious]

And also to have better day to day life.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Listen to Decoding Women's Health with Dr. Elizabeth Poynter on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever. You're listening now. Sami Gente.

[Jess Hilarious]

It's Ana Ortiz.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I'm Markin Delicato.

[Mimi Brown]

You might know us, Hilda and Justin from Ugly Betty.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We played mother and son on the show, but in real life we're best friends and I'm all grown up now.

[Jess Hilarious]

Welcome to our new podcast, Viva Betty.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yay.

[Jess Hilarious]

Can you believe it has been almost 20 years?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's not even possible. Well, you're the only one that looks that much different.

[Jess Hilarious]

I look exactly the same.

[Mimi Brown]

We're re watching the series from start to finish and getting into all the.

[Jess Hilarious]

Fashions, the drama, drama and the behind the scenes moments that you've never heard before.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You're gonna hear from guests like America Ferreira, Vanessa Williams, Michael Urie, Becky Newton, Tony Plana, and so many more icons. Each and every one, all of A.

[Jess Hilarious]

Sudden, like, someone, like, comes running up to me, and it's Salma Hayek. And she's like, you are my Ugly Betty.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And I was like, what is she even talking about?

[Jess Hilarious]

Listen to Viva Betty Betty.

[Lauren LaRosa]

As part of the My Cultura podcast.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Network, available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple.

[Mimi Brown]

Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

[Mike Slott]

Say what makes us tight. What Ralph said is everyone brings something to the table, and I want to say it on Breakfast Club because I don't know when we'll all be back here together.

[DJ Envy]

Hold on, Mike, before you.

Let me get to your slot. Before you finish. And Mike Slott is the point guard.

[Mike Slott]

Thanks.

[DJ Envy]

He hands the ball to everybody. He carries the ball.

He knows the next play to make.

He's thinking of the next play to make, and he knows who to deliver the ball to to make sure that we get. We score the basket.

[Caller/Listener]

You know what I'm saying?

[Mike Slott]

We win the game. Yep. Thanks, bro.

[DJ Envy]

That's Bill.

[Mike Slott]

And I want to say this because it ain't over, but because of this guy, you know, he's matured. When I met him, he was just ready to sponge, get all the information. But if it wasn't for Nate Morris, I would have never been a CEO.

[DJ Envy]

Really.

[Mike Slott]

He seen something in me that I didn't see in myself. So I always wanted to tell him. I tell him in Texas. I tell him on the phone. But I'm gonna say it to the world. Thank you. You changed my life. He helped me see something I didn't see. I was 19. I know my words and cursing was heavy, but that's cause I loved y', all, and I wanted y' all to be the best. And I just want y'.

[Jess Hilarious]

All.

[DJ Envy]

Can't dance. Juan, stop.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What did you see, Nate? What did you see? In be?

[DJ Envy]

He was a guy that kind of held the group together. He had, you know, put everybody in different positions. And at that point, I felt like, you know, it's a group that we look up to. I mean, honestly. And I mean, I. I've never. Never told Mike, but, I mean, he was. He was my first hero in the music industry. I mean, that's pretty much what it was. So for me, it was like, if he can do that for them, you got to be able to do it for us. So. Man, that's crazy. Like, I just.

Right there, I thought they was going to be at blows.

How about this.

[Ralph Tresvant]

Real quick?

[DJ Envy]

But I'll tell you this.

We might be able to make it real.

Here's the deal. We going to have our conversation. We ain't straight, but we know we ain't straight.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I got you.

[DJ Envy]

And.

[Mike Slott]

And.

[DJ Envy]

But we all know we gonna go get this money, we gonna please these fans, and we gonna figure out what we gotta do. Either we gonna fix it or we not. But we all gonna go out here and do what we. I feel you, Nate, and that's. That's a smarter move to do that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, let me ask a question, Biff. If you could go back and renegotiate that first deal with Boys and Men, with everything you know now, what would you do differently?

[DJ Envy]

That's a good question, I think, honestly.

Yeah, that's a good question.

[Mike Slott]

No, honestly, I think some of those deals was something that Gerald suggested. See, he's the one that said, be an executive. He said, do a production, do, publishing, do. I didn't even think like that. You know what I mean? And at the same token, he was totally against it. He didn't really like Boyz II Men, you know? So I'm fighting for them to be heard and to be seen. He sells him be structured stuff. And I thought that it was a gamble. And the thing is, like, we never had a lawyer sit in the room with us when we signed. It was just us. And we went through the paperwork and we just did it. The good thing about it is it was successful.

[Ralph Tresvant]

That's it.

[Mike Slott]

Right. And the record label, honestly, the record label needed a hit to keep the lights on, and we kept the lights on.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, we did all right.

[Mike Slott]

Even in all of that, what was the easier way to do? It was 50. 50. Now, remember, in their 50s. Four them. In my 50, there's one. And so a lot of the stuff that might, you know, look a little different later is through success. So a lot of that stuff there might have been the things that made it look a little crazy, made it feel a little different. I love it. Crazy. Yeah. But at the end of the day, what was able to come out of it and what was able to dig? We didn't fail or we wouldn't be here.

[Ralph Tresvant]

I was going to say Mike and follow. That was. Gerald was your mentor. And just like, what. You know, we were talking about earlier about the guys talking about us being their mentors. And it's so funny, because when you influence or you're being taught the game, you rocking with the game, you're rocking with it, and you're learning as you go. But I can say this in a nutshell. Listen. We all have been through a journey, been through some ups and downs, some Changes and turnarounds in our lives. And when you look at where we are today day, we're blessed. Yeah, we're all blessed. And guess what? So what we had to go through to get here. Yeah. At the end of the day here, I'm not mad at anybody. Because this is like looking at God and smacking him in the face. Because you're saying, I'm mad that you took me through this to get here to where I am today. I'm grateful. That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm grateful.

[Ralph Tresvant]

And nobody has walked a road. And that has been easy. And that has been just that simple. It doesn't work like that.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I agree. I agree totally. I agree, Johnny. But, you know, under the circumstances, as human beings, you know what I mean? Emotions, emotions mean everything. As human beings, you know, you. You have thought process. We have to respect the human in each other because it might be easier for some people to get over things than others. You know what I'm saying? Like, for me, you know, my getting over it is very simple. I was the youngest and I lived in the projects. This man saved my life, you understand? He gave me an opportunity by the grace of God. God saved my life through biv. He gave us the opportunity. So in my mind, he did what he was supposed to do for me. It was up to me to go the next to the next place. It was up to us to do that. And we did. You know what I mean? Under the circumstance of forgiveness and all of those things, a communication is. Is everything, you know what I mean? And it does not take away from the fact that you guys are our heroes, our mentors. Don't be that way. And again, like I said, I don't. I don't speak much because I only want to speak about stuff that matters. But in this case, like I said, you know, we've been able to be where. Be in the nucleus that we've been for the last few years. And like Juan said, we all just got into the room together for the first time in a long time, and that's a feat in itself. I would say. Even with. With whatever might be, whatever we'll handle or deal with whatever, it's a feat in itself. There's a lot of groups out there out here today that, you know, get emotional about things and don't know how to handle business correctly. Right? And the key is you handle business first and then you handle your family stuff in the back room and not on the Internet, in the media. So that being said, again, it ain't Nothing but love in this room. Whatever else we gonna deal with, we'll deal with it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Are y' all helping Boys and Men develop their biopic? I remember there was rumors of a Boys and Men biopic at one time.

[Ralph Tresvant]

No, it's not a rumor. I mean, we're still in the embryonic stages of it, still trying to get things together because we want to make sure that the story is told the right way. Because there are a lot of things that, by design, we have not said. You know, there's been a lot of things that's been mentioned about the group and said about the group and things of that nature that we just kind of watched it, like, kept quiet, you know what I'm saying? Because when you see the people that are actually saying it, you gotta always consider the song yours. And when you see their positions and the lives they're living and things of that nature, outside of all of the shock value of, oh, somebody said this, if you look a little deeper, you say, oh, okay. That's why they said that.

[DJ Envy]

Now.

[Ralph Tresvant]

You know, the thing about the industry, though, is that everybody knows everything about everybody.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

If I wanted to come on.

[Ralph Tresvant]

On this radio show and talk about certain people, I know I could, because.

[DJ Envy]

I know exactly what happened, who did.

[Ralph Tresvant]

It, the whole nine yards.

[DJ Envy]

The issue is not us, though. You know what I mean? It's the people. You know what I'm saying? Everyone has an opinion. You know what I mean? They call it social media, but there's nothing social about it at all. You know what I mean? The thought process about it is when someone says something about you, it's fine. Especially if it's true. True, I don't care. But I'm tired of people lying. Yeah, about us. They lie about us, and we never say nothing. Well, I got a. A messed up knee. I got three screws in it, and. And. And I'm. I'm getting myself together. Before you go there, I want to give him an example of how we don't say anything. Like, people been talking about our fourth member forever. Oh, y' all did this to him. Y' all kicked him out. He was sick. Y' all ain't give a. About him. Y' all don't know the story, and that's okay because we keep that in. But I tell you one thing we've never done. We've never said anything about him until the latter years to make sure that, man, if he's not here, he can have a career. Absolutely stomp on him. You don't do that. So we don't, we don't do that. That's not. I mean, I'm the least social media guy on the planet. Yes, yes. There's no need for, I don't live in that space. So there's no need to go in there and deal with all the craziness because we gonna handle our. So when someone is, is doing that and telling stories, like literally fabricated stories, I feel like it's, it's just felt like time, you know, time to, to defend the integrity of, of my group, of my fellas, myself, you know what I mean? And look, I'm not gonna say boys to men, we, the, we was the cleanest on planet earth, you know what I'm saying? We, we did some stuff, you know what I'm saying? A lot of people, you know, I'm pretty sure we piss some people off, you know what I mean?

[Ralph Tresvant]

Right.

[DJ Envy]

But at the end of the day, we were trying to protect our brand. We were trying to protect it. We didn't have Michael Bivens on over us anymore to protect us. We didn't have Khalil Roundtree, he got murdered, you know what I'm saying? We was trying to figure out all kinds of things managerial. We had Michael Jackson and Prince telling us to know your worth and don't let nobody get over on you, you know, so we, we developed a chip. A chip. We started looking at everybody and like, oh, no, you're not gonna do this, this to us. You're not going to do this to us. So when they hear our voices, because we were so silent, because everybody else was doing it for us, now we're. You understand? Just because we're in the studio and we're working on a project does not mean that we're going to be consorting. That's not what boys to men do. When we're in the studio, we work. We don't have time to play games, you know what I'm saying? Because we have a. We have to please these fans, you know? So when someone is saying, you know, that we said something as specific about a friend of ours, we don't need Baby face.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

Who I just talked to two days ago. Come on, man.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I saw you jump in the comments and say maybe what you said, but so why now even address that if you know it's not true?

[DJ Envy]

Because I got time. I got a broke, messed up knee. I was sitting on the damn cop. I was sitting. I was sitting on the damn couch. I couldn't get up, I couldn't drive. I was Watching cartoons and playing PlayStation. And I saw that, and I said, hmm, this will be fun.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

And guess what? It was. It was very fun because I got a chance to let the people who really cared on that page know that it was a lie. Now, you could choose to take it forever, you want. I'm just trying to figure out where it came from. I never said anything derogatory about Chili. If you read the comments, I said, I love those girls. I said, we have history together. I'm just trying to figure out what happened. I mean, we heard that Tion said after the. The Pastor Mike thing, I ain't stand for this corny ass. Corny ass show. That's what you know what I'm saying? And I'm like, why? I love you. We love y'. All. Like the nostalgia. When we walk into the room, they jump into our. I mean, Chili used to jump into our arms.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

It's like, what's good?

[Mike Slott]

At the end of the day? We. We just gonna sell some tickets. All right? Because that. Because. Because to be honest with you, this where we are and what we trying to do, we trying to inspire.

[DJ Envy]

Absolutely.

[Ralph Tresvant]

That's right.

[DJ Envy]

Absolutely.

[Mike Slott]

And you guys, movie is gonna be a great movie. It's gonna be from your point of view. Your fans are gonna love it. And we just want them to come to this.

[DJ Envy]

Absolutely.

[Mike Slott]

So they can see us together, because we've never done this.

[DJ Envy]

Absolutely.

[Mike Slott]

You know, and this. This is really our first interview. So the Breakfast Club is really the first interview of us all together.

[Ralph Tresvant]

Can I just say to you guys, to boys and men, let me just say this, and I'll shut up, but I'm glad that you guys are telling your story, because in a world that we're living in now, with social media and everybody can get on here and say what they want, ruin people's lives, ruin your reputation, they can do a number of things. It is important. No, you can't fight the whole world.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No.

[Ralph Tresvant]

We'll never be able to change sometimes people's view, no matter whether it's the truth or not. But when it comes from the horse's mouth and it's written in stone, it can't be erased.

[DJ Envy]

It can't be erased.

[Ralph Tresvant]

Tell your story. That's it. So nothing else at the end of the day, with your legacy, see, anybody want to believe whatever they want to believe. That's all. It's all well and fine, but it has come from the horse's mouth directly in his room. Amen, Johnny.

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah.

[Ralph Tresvant]

So. So the answer. Yes, we're working on the biopic. Bib is definitely going to put his input into it and work it out.

[DJ Envy]

Mike McCary is going to have his input. You know what I'm saying?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So.

[DJ Envy]

Because it's everybody's story. It's everybody.

[Ralph Tresvant]

It's everybody's story. But the stuff they won and everybody was touching on, man. And people that were saying they corny, they cornball.

[DJ Envy]

I can't wait. Get your tickets if you haven't got your tickets yet. Talking about 30 cities. I'm sure it's gonna be more than that because they're gonna have to ask. It's gonna sell out so fast.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm just happy grown folks got something to do, man.

[DJ Envy]

It's gonna be a great date night, man. New edition. Boys to Men. Thank y' all for joining us. It's the Breakfast Club.

Good morning. Good morning.

Don't be out here acting like a dog.

[Caller/Listener]

He ha key haw.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's time for Donkey of the Day. I'm a big boy. I could take it if he feel I deserve it. Ain't no big deal. I know Charlamagne guy gonna have some.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Funny sleep out his mouth if you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Guys say something you may not agree with. Doesn't mean I'm mean.

[DJ Envy]

Who's getting that donkey?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That donkey that don't, don't, don't, don't. Donkey. Donkey of the day right there. The Breakfast Club, bitches.

[Ralph Tresvant]

You can call me the donkey of the day, but, like, I mean no harm.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes. Donkey Today for Thursday, October 30th goes to a Detroit police officer named Matthew D. Jackson. Okay, Good morning, Matthew. All right, salute to everybody who listens to us on WJLB 97.9 in Detroit, dropping the clues bombs for WJLB. What up, Doe? Detroit, what up, Doe? Now, I don't know about y', all, but that Covet era, when everything was on zoom, it seemed like it was just yesterday, but that was like six years ago, you know what I'm saying? Right, right. But that time period is such a part of our existence, okay? The way humans did everything changed. Changed, all right? The way we communicated with each other changed. The way we interacted with each other changed. And some things did change for the better, but some things actually change for the worse. And I want some of those things that change for the worst to change back. All right? Case in point, court, right? Court is a serious situation. I personally believe if I have a court appearance, if it's required for me to be there in person, then I want to be there in Person. If it's not required for me to be there, then I won't go. But what I won't do do is ever do it virtually. No, no, no, no, no. It's too much room for error, okay? We've seen people virtually being caught for having a suspended driver's license, and then they pop up on the Zoom driving. Okay? That's the level of idiocracy. Me no like. And Officer Matthew Jackson has decided to write his own chapter in the Book of Idiocracy because he had a hearing for a reckless driving and public intoxication case. Now, this is a police officer. Or he identified himself as a police officer. He might be trans police. I'm not sure. Okay, he had a uniform, but it is not lost on me that Halloween is Friday, so he could have been in costume. But even if he was in costume, he left a very important part of the costume at Spirit. What? What do you mean? Uncle Charlotte? He left a very important part of the costume match. Period. Well, let's go to NBC4 for the report, please. We've all had this nightmare.

[Ralph Tresvant]

A Detroit police officer showed up in.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Car court without pants.

[DJ Envy]

Number 3919 out of 12 precinct.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You got.

[Caller/Listener]

You got some pants on, Officer?

[DJ Envy]

No, sir.

[Ralph Tresvant]

The officer appeared in the 36th District Court over Zoom regarding a public intoxication case. When he appeared on camera, he was in uniform from the waist up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He was wearing boxers.

[Ralph Tresvant]

The judge proceeded with the case without mention.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The clothing situation.

[Ralph Tresvant]

According to the 36th District Court's policy, business attire is preferred or really any clothing at all.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We're on Twitch right now. Breakfast Club. Am. I hope that y' all saw the way Envy looked at me when he heard that officer didn't have pants on.

[DJ Envy]

Okay?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, Envy always says he loves a man in uniform, so for him, that's the best of both worlds.

[DJ Envy]

I never said that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

A man with a uniform at the top and boxes at the bottom. Drop on the clues. Bombs for Envy's preferences. Don't you drop a bomb.

[DJ Envy]

Pull that bomb back.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You pull it out. You nasty. This man showed up to the Zoom hearing with no pants on. Okay, you do know that you can see yourself on Zoom, Officer Jackson? Okay, you looked into the camera, saw you didn't have pants on, and still decided to continue about your day. All right? A police officer at that. All right? A police officer. Well, apparently, protect and serve doesn't extend to protecting the camera angle. Okay? What happened happened to professionalism, Officer Jackson. All right? Police officers require dignified and professional Attire. You can't half ass that, Officer Jackson. And you half asked it literally. Okay, you was dignified and professional up top because you had your uniform on, but you had half your ass out at the bottom. You can't be business up top, but only fans below. Okay? The judge supposed to be asking you legal questions.

[Caller/Listener]

Questions.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Instead he had to ask you if you got some pants on, sir. Do we have that clip? Was it in? Oh, dang. He had to ask if you got some pants on, sir. Oh, we do have. Oh, good morning to you.

[Caller/Listener]

Can you put your appearance on the record, please?

[Mike Slott]

Yes, Officer Jackson Bass, number 39.

[DJ Envy]

19 out of the 12 precinct.

[Ralph Tresvant]

You got.

[Caller/Listener]

You got your pants on, Officer is there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They end the.

[Mike Slott]

No, sir.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's something your mom yells at you before she walks into your bedroom. Okay, you got some pants on, right? This is ridiculous. I'm just glad you had on boxes because the only thing that should be swinging in the court is the judges gavel. And I don't even know if you have any hang time because I don't. So I hope you don't, because I have hater tendencies. This is what I mean when I say Zoom changed everything. Because on the 36th District Court website it says casual business attire is preferred. How does that apply to Z. Zoom? Okay, have those rules been defined? Is what this man doing a crime? Probably not, but I just want him to know and want better for himself.

[DJ Envy]

That's what I want.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I want him to know and want better for himself. You have to know that you got to show up with your full uniform on, okay? You should know that you got to do better. He saw himself. He know he had no business looking like that on Zoom. He wouldn't walk out the house with his uniform top on and some boxy bracelet briefs down below. So don't do it on Zoom. Okay? I will say though, the Zoom hearings have done something the police department never could and that's they finally caught an officer with his pants down. Okay, the only thing that could have made this incident more ridiculous is if the officer was being charged with indecent exposure and his defense is literally more indecent exposure. Please give author Officer Matthew Jackson the sweet sounds of the Hamilton songs.

[DJ Envy]

You want to play a game?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why? You want to play a game for what though? Hey, sure, let's play a game of Guess what Races.

[Jess Hilarious]

All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

DJ Envy about the truth, right? I don't like. I don't like how you so quick to do that, bro. I'm not even gonna lie to you. Yeah, like, that's the Dominican in you. I don't know why you so quick to always want to think the worst of black people.

[Jess Hilarious]

Crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why?

[DJ Envy]

Cuz I do the same.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I like you do the same. What?

[DJ Envy]

When I'm on Zoom, I usually don't have pants on.

[Jess Hilarious]

And he just.

[DJ Envy]

He just didn't adjust the camera angle the right way.

[Jess Hilarious]

You should be doing a lot of zooms with other DJs. Sometimes. Why don't you have pants on when.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You'Re doing chicken, chicken, chicken.

[DJ Envy]

I'm just waking up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Waking up.

[DJ Envy]

So if I'm just waking up, you just put on the top and keep it moving. And y' all lying if y' all think y' all do zooms and y' all fully clothed.

[Ralph Tresvant]

I know y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All. I'm always fully clothed with Zoom. I might have on some basketball shorts. I ain't sitting there with no boxes boxes on.

[Jess Hilarious]

Cuz when you get up, they still see you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I think about stuff like this. You just never know what could happen. I always do a Zoom with at least some basketball shorts on.

[Jess Hilarious]

Well, he said I don't.

[DJ Envy]

I don't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just hilarious.

[Jess Hilarious]

What?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Officer Matthew Jackson from Detroit got on a Zoom. Had his uniform on at the top, but had his boxes on at the bottom. Guess what? Racy is black.

[Jess Hilarious]

Why Matthew Jackson.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, okay.

[Jess Hilarious]

Like, come on, Jackson.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, okay, okay, okay.

[Jess Hilarious]

The Tre Cop.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, I want DJ Envy and Jesse Laris to know that they are both absolutely correct. Oh, Officer Badging Balls is absolutely black. All right. He's absolutely a black man. Hey, yo.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, man, that was obvious, though.

[DJ Envy]

All right, well, thank you for that. Donkey of the day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, indeed.

[DJ Envy]

All right, when we come back, Jess, fix my mess. 800-585-1051. If you need. If you're having problems with your relationship and you need some help from Jess, you can call us up. 800-585-1051.

[Mike Slott]

All over.

[DJ Envy]

Also the chat Twitch. You can follow us at Breakfast Club am. You could ask your questions for Jess on that chat. And Jess will be answering that as well. All right? So don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

The Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's the real deal.

[DJ Envy]

Help me.

[Jess Hilarious]

Help me. Oh, my God. I'm all up in your mess. I'mma fix it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Fix it, fix it.

[Jess Hilarious]

Just go fix your mess. Cause my advice is real.

[DJ Envy]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Jess. Hilarious Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. It's time for Jess Fix My Mess. Hello? Who's this?

[Caller/Listener]

Hey, this is Kayla from Detroit.

[DJ Envy]

What's up, Kayla?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What up, dog?

[Caller/Listener]

Hey. So my problem is that I'm dealing with somebody who I was with for six months, and everything was going good. I started dealing with custody battles with my son's dad. So he offered to, you know, take my kids to school. He only did it for about a week and a half, and I would ask him every single day, you know, just to still confirm that he was okay with doing it. And just one particular day, I asked him, and he was just like, you know, I don't like the way you asked me. You know, I text him like, can you take the kids to school? And he's like, you need to reword that. I don't like the way you asked me. It's about the respect and the clarity of things. So I was just like, you know, what if I have to act a certain way, then I'll just take him to school myself. So I took him to school that day, but the next day, it was kind of tension, and he's just like, you know, you're overreacting. I just wanted you to ask me a certain way. That's not my kid anyway. She's really not my responsibility. And, you know, you're making it feel like a job and an obligation by the way you asked me that question. I literally said verbatim, can you. Well, not can you. I just said, you're taking the kids to school, question mark. So I never assumed that he was taking them. You know, I asked them still, but I guess I didn't ask him the way he wanted me to ask him. So I felt like it was very petty. So I sat on my feelings for a few, like, 24 hours. And the next day, I decided to part ways with him because I was like, you know, I didn't really like the fact that you kept saying, you know, that's not my kid. That's not my responsibility.

[Mimi Brown]

When.

[Caller/Listener]

If you have longevity plans with me and my child, you know, eventually it would be, you know, but I kind of feel bad about doing it. So I'm like, you know, did I make the right decision, or was I overreacting?

[Jess Hilarious]

No, I don't think you overreacted. I do think you. Your first reaction was that of a. You know what I mean? Because you don't want to be in a relationship with somebody who does not honor the package that you came with. And your package in this case would be your child. Like, you don't.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

I mean, your children, you know. Right. Your child or Children.

[Caller/Listener]

I just had one kid, so I. Yeah.

[Jess Hilarious]

So your child.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yep.

[Jess Hilarious]

And you knew this prior to dating me and you know, prior to making it official, I'm assuming you know, you know this. And then you said he offered to take of care him and then only.

[Caller/Listener]

For like a week offer and I would still ask every day, you know, just to make sure that he was up to do it. Cuz I didn't want to just assume like just because you said you would take him that week that you were going to be taking him every day up until then.

[Jess Hilarious]

No, I totally understand. I don't think you should feel bad about what you did. He should feel bad the way that he blew up and then it sounds like it was like built up. Right. So. Because if you say that like he. Not even my child anyway, that's something that you've been wanting to say.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Say.

[Caller/Listener]

All I know is what I've.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Been told and that's a half truth.

[DJ Envy]

Is a whole lie.

[Mimi Brown]

For almost a decade, the murder of an 18 year old girl from a small town in Graves County, Kentucky went unsolved until a local homemaker, a journalist and a handful of girls came forward with a story.

[Caller/Listener]

I'm telling you, we know Quincy, he killed her.

[Mimi Brown]

We know a story that law enforcement used to convict six people and that got the citizen investigator on national tv.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Through sheer persistence and nerve, this Kentucky housewife helped give justice to Jessica Curran.

[Mimi Brown]

My name is Maggie Freeling. I'm a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist producer and I wouldn't be here if the truth were that easy to find.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I did not know her and I did not kill her or rape or.

[Mike Slott]

Burn or any of that other stuff.

[DJ Envy]

That y' all said.

[Jess Hilarious]

They literally made me say that I took a match and struck and threw it on her. They made me say that I poured gas on her.

[Mimi Brown]

From Lava for good. This is Graves County, a show about just how far our legal system will go in order to find someone to.

[DJ Envy]

Blame America, y' all better work the hell up. Bad things happens to to good people and small towns.

[Mimi Brown]

Listen to Graves county in the Bone Valley. Feed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts and to binge the entire season ad free. Subscribe to Lava for Good plus on Apple Podcasts. I'm Hunter, host of Hunting for Answers on the Black Effect Podcast Network. Join me every weekday as I 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.

[Jess Hilarious]

One podcast, One Mission. Save our Girls.

[Mimi Brown]

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 podcasts. I'm Eva Longoria.

[Caller/Listener]

And I'm Maite Gomez Jejon.

[Mimi Brown]

And on our podcast Hungry for History, we mix two of our favorite things, food and history.

[Caller/Listener]

Ancient Athenians used to scratch names onto.

[Mimi Brown]

Oyster shells and they called these ostracon to vote politicians into exile. So our word ostracize is related to the word oyster.

[Caller/Listener]

No.

[DJ Envy]

No way.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Bring back the ostricon.

[Mimi Brown]

And because we've got a very mi casa es su casa kind of vibe on our show, friends always stop by.

[Mike Slott]

Pretty much every entry into this side.

[DJ Envy]

Of the planet was through the El Golfo de Mexico.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, the America.

[Jess Hilarious]

No, the America.

[DJ Envy]

El Golfo de Mexico continuing forever and ever.

[Mimi Brown]

It blows me away how progressive Mexico.

[Caller/Listener]

Was in this moment. They had land reform, they had labor.

[Mimi Brown]

Rights, they had education rights. Mustard seeds were so valuable to the ancient Egyptians that they used to place them in their tombs for the afterlife. Listen to Hungry for History as part of the My Cultura Podcast network, available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Welcome to Decoding Women's Health. I'm Dr. Elizabeth Poynter, Chair of Women's Health and Gynecology at the Atria Health Institute in New York City. On this show I'll be talking to top researchers and top clinicians, asking them your burning questions and bringing that information about women's health and midlife directly to you. 100% of women go through menopause.

[Mimi Brown]

It can be such a struggle for.

[Jess Hilarious]

Our quality of life. But even if it's natural, why should.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We suffer through it?

[Mimi Brown]

The types of symptoms that people talk about is forgetting everything. I never used to forget things. They're concerned that one, they have dementia and the other one is do I have adhd?

[Jess Hilarious]

There is unprecedented promise with regard to cannabis and cannabinoids to sleep better, to.

[Mimi Brown]

Have less pain, to have better mood.

[Jess Hilarious]

And also to have better day to day life.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Listen to Decoding Women's Health with Dr. Elizabeth Poynter. On the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you're listening.

[Jess Hilarious]

You know what I'm saying?

[Caller/Listener]

He doesn't have any kids.

[Mike Slott]

He's older.

[Caller/Listener]

He's 39 with no kids. So, okay, I'm 27 and my son is 8. So I'm not dealing with a baby. You know, I have a well aware child and he was just around him for a short amount of time and I really wasn't comfortable with that. But it was just because of, you.

[DJ Envy]

Know, Let me ask you a question, Jess. And young lady. But it could be since he doesn't have any kids, he doesn't know what responsibility is for having a child. Because if you don't have kids, yeah, taking a kid once or twice is like, yeah, I, I'll take. But then it's like, all right, this ain't. Well, slow down. Like, where's this relationship going? This ain't my kid. This ain't my responsibility. Are we taking it that serious? Or this is just a fling and.

[Jess Hilarious]

We just have a fling, but that's my thing. They're not just a fling. They're together. Correct?

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah, we were together.

[Jess Hilarious]

Same relationship, same house situation, right?

[Ralph Tresvant]

No.

[Caller/Listener]

Well, I had my house, he had his house. But I would stay at his house.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Nice.

[Caller/Listener]

And he told me, he's like, you know, if I'm going to work those days and I'm going to his school's direction, I'll take him to school. And then whatever other day, you know, you could take. Take him. It was a very.

[Jess Hilarious]

So it just sound like he was down to assist you, like down to help you not take on the job of being the full time driver to take him to school, you know what I'm saying? Like to commit in that.

[Caller/Listener]

And I was okay with that. That's why I asked every day just to make sure, you know, hey, are you taking him or am I taking him? But that's not really how he made it seem.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay, so. All right. So now. Okay, thank you, Envy, for interjecting because now I kind of see it. Okay, so he should have been clear. And y', all, y' all should have have like a, a real conversation about it. And he should have just said, I'm not going to do this every day, but I'll help you out when you really need it. You know what I mean? Because I am your boyfriend. We are together. Your child is, you know, like, is my child too, you know, you know, in a relationship, respectfully, that's how you supposed to treat somebody's child. That you. With like your own. But, yeah, I think it's worth the conversation. I still don't think you should feel bad about breaking up with him. You know what I mean? Because, like I said, I felt like it was built up. I felt he couldn't wait to say that, you know what I'm saying? Or it wouldn't have come out that way.

[Caller/Listener]

Just look at how I feel as a parent, because it's like, I understand you don't have kids, but, you know, you can still at least make me feel valid about it. Like, you know, hey, why didn't he make him feel like that?

[DJ Envy]

Or.

[Caller/Listener]

I wasn't saying it like that. That was never the case when I tried to double back and break down how I felt. And, you know, before I. Even after the breakup, he like, basically I said what I said.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay, so listen, listen. You say you only been together for six months, right? Okay, well, look, if he said what he said, nine times out of ten, he's 39 with no kids. He don't want any. You know what I'm saying?

[Caller/Listener]

Right.

[Jess Hilarious]

I don't know. I'm not gonna go into the issues of not being able to have any. He probably don't want any. You know, But y' all can be friends, and you can focus on parenting and focus on dating somebody that will actually accept you and your child together and wouldn't have a problem with, you know, helping you out from time to time, taking them to school, you know, but that. That's. Yeah, I think you made the right decision.

[DJ Envy]

And also, think about it, Mama.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's a lot like, you just fixed my mess.

[DJ Envy]

I know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I'm gonna say.

[DJ Envy]

I'm gonna say one thing. I know Jess asked to.

[Mike Slott]

To.

[DJ Envy]

To Chip, but I would say it's a lot because I have kids.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

And taking my kids every day sometimes I'd be tired of this.

[Jess Hilarious]

Well, you got six. She got one. You're right. You know, you're right. So. Yeah. But, yes, I think you made the right decision. It's nothing, but I would say. Say, still, it's. It's worth a conversation because you were with this guy for the last six months. It's a conversation just to have. But to get that closure and conclude that correctly. Like, I. I don't think this is somebody that you should be with, but I do think that it's worth a conversation. Like, you know, I didn't like that. You know, just to get your point across, but do it subtly. You know what I'm saying? It don't have to be a disrespectful conversation.

[Caller/Listener]

Okay, thank you.

[Jess Hilarious]

No problem, love.

[DJ Envy]

Now just if this guy treats her right, does everything he's supposed to do as a companion, but he just doesn't have the fatherhood thing. Cause he. There is no connection. You still say bounce. You see all your. These single women out here that can't find a man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She got a baby together.

[Jess Hilarious]

But no, no, this is the baby from a previous relationship. But look, this is what I'm saying. No, I understand.

[DJ Envy]

Cause she found the right man, but he just don't have that quality.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You wouldn't leave, right? Envy.

[DJ Envy]

Go ahead, talk to me, Jess.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What do you say?

[Jess Hilarious]

My thing is, he knew she had a child. You know what I'm saying? And I felt like. Like you still don't say. You still don't say, oh, this ain't my child anyway. I'm not about to be doing all this like you. It's how you actually need to ask me, right? Cuz it's not my child anyway. Like I ain't about to be doing all that. If you. You had that is backed up like you. You had that was building up you. Ben wanted to say that to me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're not listening to what be saying. Jess is telling you that a good man is hard to find and he want one.

[DJ Envy]

Shut up, man.

Just fix my mess quick. Call us up right now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

X about me.

[Jess Hilarious]

Relationship problems.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

X about me.

[Jess Hilarious]

You need to beat your co workers ass.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ask about me.

[Jess Hilarious]

Your coworker need to beat your ass. Call it up. It's Dr. Jess and I'm here to fix your mess. It's getting very much messy. Let me fix this.

[DJ Envy]

Morning everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We're in the middle of. Just fix my mess. Hello? Who's this screw dandy here? What's up, brother? What's your question for Jess?

[Caller/Listener]

Hey, Jess. All right, I'm gonna keep this short and keep it quick. The girl that I've been dating for a year and a half, right. We recently broke up because I said something disrespectful to her, right? And I. I told her that the thing that she did is just something I didn't agree with, right? So now we're in this weird position like where we still. And stuff, but we're not together now. Here's my question, right? Right. She'll bring certain things up financially and I don't know if I'm supposed to Help her because I care about her, and I do ultimately want to end up back with her. Or I just did that and try and move on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What.

[Jess Hilarious]

What happened? Like, what was it that you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What was it that she did that.

[Jess Hilarious]

You didn't like that made you break up with her?

[Caller/Listener]

All right, so she currently isn't working. Right. And she was talking about how she wanted to start an only fans. Very pretty girl. So I told you, well, if you want to be an Internet ho, go ahead and do that, but I'm not with that.

[Jess Hilarious]

Damn.

[Caller/Listener]

Okay, yeah, she got upset, blocked me, told me she didn't want to talk to me no more. That was about a week ago, but now we're just, like, casually friends right now, talking, facetiming. But we're not together. Let me make that clear for sure.

[Jess Hilarious]

After you called me an Internet hoe.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely.

[Jess Hilarious]

We're not together, but. Okay, go ahead, proceed.

[Caller/Listener]

And now it's like when she says certain things that she needs help with or things that's got to do with her son. I'm not sure. Should I be a man and help her, or I just let her figure that out on her own?

[Jess Hilarious]

I mean, well, you don't want her to be an Internet hoe. And that was the route she was about to take. So she's like, all right, well, if you ain't gonna let me do what I want, do you, then you gonna have to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's up?

[Jess Hilarious]

Like, you're gonna have to send some funds over. But all jokes aside. Okay, listen, so. Because I understand where you're coming from, however, your delivery and what you said was was not the right way to assess that, sir. You could have said so many other things. You could have to put it another way where you didn't offend her. Because only fans is not only for freaky ish. Okay, so you got people on there that's paying $70 a month to watch people play with their feet.

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah, but she wasn't gonna do it for that. It was going to be freaky stuff.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh.

[Jess Hilarious]

So, okay, so, yeah, you don't want to Internet hoe and you say.

[Caller/Listener]

Yeah, and the thing is, before she had this, like, I was taking care of her son, like, anything she needed, needed.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It was a down the way.

[Caller/Listener]

It was no problem. But now we're not together, so I'm not doing that now.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay. All right. So how old are you, if you don't mind me asking?

[Caller/Listener]

I'm 34.

[Jess Hilarious]

How old is she?

[Caller/Listener]

She's 27.

[Jess Hilarious]

Okay. Let that little girl be a Little Internet hoe. Let her go do our thing and you move on. Because I'm gonna tell you something right now. She ain't gonna get it until she's in her 30s or probably 40s or whatever. But what is wrong with another type of, you know, you just go straight from I'm broke to onlyfans or, you know, no, there's so many other things that I'm sure she can do, but she wants to make easy money. And if that is that. That doesn't align with your morals and who you, you know, what you stand for, that ain't the one for you. How long you were dating. How long were you dating her?

[Caller/Listener]

A year and a half.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, I know. I'm sorry. Don't, don't, don't. I think that's a long enough time, you know, to be secure in a relationship with somebody. But. But it's not. It's not five years or three years. You know what I'm saying? So I think you. I think you made the right decision.

[DJ Envy]

You.

[Jess Hilarious]

You didn't have to. You didn't have to address her like that. You didn't have to call her an Internet hoe. But I do think that she is not for you. You are not her person, and she is not yours. That's what she want to do. Go ahead. Go ahead. Because you just seem like the money man. You seem like a, you know, a young sugar dad, if you will, so I appreciate that. Don't you. You need to go and find somebody on your level and who will not be trying to start.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No.

[Jess Hilarious]

Only fans. We ain't doing that.

[DJ Envy]

All right. Just fix my mess.

[Lauren LaRosa]

800.

[DJ Envy]

5, 8, 5, 10, 5, 1. When we come back, we got the latest with Lauren, so don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

The Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Whose song is this?

[Jess Hilarious]

Is it Salute to K right now? My baby.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. I think my wife like this song.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, you don't see all the OG's doing covers to it like Tony Braxton and put her little sauce on.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That was a part of Kaylani's rollout for the song, and it was amazing. She did so many different energy, and she was doing single moms. They were able to come and get laundry done in certain cities as well, too. I saw that in the beginning when she first dropped this song.

[DJ Envy]

That's dope.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That one load. People of clothes.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, my God. You never been. Oh, damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not mind.

[DJ Envy]

Let's get to the ladies.

[Mimi Brown]

Crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She gets him from somebody that knows somebody. She gets the detail.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'M the home girl that knows a little bit about everything.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She be having the latest on say I'm the biggest. The largest.

[DJ Envy]

The Latest with Lauren LaRosa.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details. Sometimes she have a little bit every.

[DJ Envy]

Who is the mest the on the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Talk to me. Brandica. LL Cool B.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, y', all, we got a lot to get to in this hour. All right. But I'm going to start off with Delaware State University and Norfolk State University. DeShawn Jackson vs. Mike Vic happening today at the Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. Yes. So yesterday, Stephen A. Smith and Kim Newton, the the first take team, were at Delaware State, and they spoke to desean Jackson while on camera campus just about, you know, what this whole moment means and why he's chosen to become an HBCU football coach. Let's take a listen to DeShawn Jackson on beating the odds.

[DJ Envy]

For me, I always had defeat. Feet on land.

Feet.

Feet on feet on the ground mentality. You know, it's a lot of obstacles that present yourself at HBCUs, right? You know, the resources and, you know, but at the end of the day, I never got into how hard it may be because, you know, my career was hard. Like, you know, I didn't come in with glimpse and glamour careers, right. I was undersized. I was smaller, so they said I wouldn't make it. So that's the same approach I take here, Right? You know, when we. When we was challenged, right, we was projected to be the last in the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Miac, so be it.

[DJ Envy]

You know, we come in and we got a long schedule ahead of us. But you know, every day, if we want to go one and only, we want to win today, right? We don't want to be 1% better.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We want to be 2% better.

[DJ Envy]

And it's a challenge. But I'm blessed to be here because I know one thing. Them dudes back there, they hungry, man. They ready for the success. And we don't forget the projections.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Did y' all hear that crowd? It was live now. Good morning America also spoke to DeShawn Jackson and Mike Vic with the teams there at Lincoln Financial Field. Let's take a listen to the two coaches on how the game will go today.

[DJ Envy]

What's it like to be facing off against each other as friends and also former teammates? Thought with you, DeShawn? Yeah.

So much surreal.

Honestly, man, who could ever thought we'd have been facing each other where we created a lot of memories and score some legendary plays for us, it's an opportunity, man. It needs more people like us, us in this position to be able to help inspire these young men in their life. So the challenges presented, we. We really supposed to not be close.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

To each other right now, but it's still my brother.

[DJ Envy]

But I'm excited for the night, man. What about you, Michael?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nah, it's amazing, man.

[DJ Envy]

You know, D. John and I talked.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

About this when we first took the.

[DJ Envy]

Job that, you know, we actually have a chance to play against each other for years and years and, you know, who knows how long it's gonna last. So we make. We gonna make it count while we got an opportunity. And man, just to be. Be, you know, across the field from a brother, it's just an honor, man. And I think we're going to enjoy every minute of it. And we definitely gonna talk trash to each other.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know that Michael Vick and DeSean Jackson, man, I love to see those HBCUs. By the way, Deion Sanders set the tone.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I'm saying? Deion Sanders was the blueprint for that. So salute to, you know, Deion Sanders for.

[DJ Envy]

There's been that position other people before.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

What's above his name?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think Eddie George.

[DJ Envy]

Eddie George. Yeah.

Eddie George.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Somebody has a couple other people we missing. Well. And people stay out when they go in Delaware. They stay in Philly.

[Lauren LaRosa]

The game is in Philly.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Games in Philly. Oh, yeah. They didn't stay in Delaware.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, no. So look, then when they first.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm just saying, I'm asking. Do y' all have the infrastructure to.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Get you in Delaware so the people can tell you how they really Holiday.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Inn Express in Middleton. Middletown.

[Lauren LaRosa]

First of all, Middletown is not even in Dover. Stay. Stay in Lane. Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Newcastle.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Don'T project that on us, cuz y' all still figuring out your ouses down there. Where you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They got pictures of you at the roadway in and Milford.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You better cuz it out.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So when this. When the news of this game first dropped, they moved into Lincoln financial field because of that. Because they were projecting so many people. I talked to the president of Delaware State University, Dr. Tony Allen, who told me that they have now sold over 42,000 tickets.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's amazing.

[Lauren LaRosa]

For this game.

[DJ Envy]

I hope they sell out by the end of the day.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, me too. And I asked them too, because you know, you got Deshawn Jackson and Mike Vic doing all of these press hits and the conversations are happening. I remember when DeShawn announced that he was coming to the school, a lot of people thought, oh, this is just a publicity stunt for him as if he needed it. Right. But I also asked Dr. Tony Allen, what are some of the things that have happened at the school just in the time that DeShawn has announced that he would be there that he's been a part of. So he told me that they've broken enrollment records again for the fourth time in the last five years.

[DJ Envy]

Delaware State.

[Lauren LaRosa]

At Delaware State University also there's a. Has been a 15 increase in state funding. They received $35 million total. 20 million of that goes athletics department. The other part will go to just like funding and scholarships. And desean was directly involved in that. He went to the legislators meeting to argue for more money. And because of that, they've been able to give a lot more full scholarships to. It's something called the Inspire Scholarship program. I was an inspired student. So these are students who come. You got to have a certain gpa. You come from like, you know, communities where you need some help. They four years full ride of school. And that means now 75% of the in state population are inspired scholars and going to school.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I love that. I'm telling you, one in individual can change everything. Man, drop on the cool bumps with desean Jackson. That's why your presence matters in them spaces.

[DJ Envy]

And you know, you know what, when we were at Hampton, I was speaking to the athletic director at Hampton and he was saying what these schools are going to start doing is they're going to start asking for a thousand dollars for alumni, for, you know, however, whoever.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Can afford to tell you, but this.

[DJ Envy]

Is what they want to do.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Don't forget your plus one.

[DJ Envy]

But this is what they want to do as much as they can. But the reason they want to do it is so they can give these students nil deals. So instead of having to go to these other big schools, they can still get some money from going to A H and that way their bills will be paid. Their, you know, their family back home will be paid. So they're going to start putting that infrastructure so that, you know, students at HBCUs can get a lot more money, which I love.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes, I love it. I love to see it. And in other big announcements.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, let's get a drum roll. We ain't got no drum roll. We ain't got no drum roll.

[Jess Hilarious]

We need a drum roll, baby.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Today is a celebratory day.

[Jess Hilarious]

We need shots.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, we don't.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Go Jess.

[Jess Hilarious]

Go Jess.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Go Jess.

[Jess Hilarious]

I am officially an author. Guys, drop a ball for Jess. Look at my book. Y' all this is so dope. So I'm pleased to announce that I'm dropping my first book. It's called Till Death Do We Parent. And it basically is a co parenting memoir, Right. That reflects on the journey of my years of raising my son with his father. And it's not. A lot of people ask me how me and Rome got to this point, right? It wasn't even. And it did not happen overnight, but that's what this book entails. Like, it's just stories, you know, multiple attempts of me and Rome trying to be together and not putting Ash first when we should have. It's just a whole bunch, and I'm pretty sure it can really. A lot of people can relate to it, so.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But y' all started young, though. Y' all had.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yeah, we did. I was pregnant at 19, had my son at 20. Rome was 20. And we were just trying to figure out life and live it, you know, and still trying to be turned up and, you know, the death.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Do we pray. I love the subtitle to it.

[Jess Hilarious]

Yes. Raising my kid with his dad.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And that cover is fire.

[Jess Hilarious]

This is actually my real hand, y'.

[DJ Envy]

All.

[Jess Hilarious]

It's my real hand. Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yep.

[Jess Hilarious]

And I just think it's so dope. Like, I never thought that I would be writing a book, but I think this is. This is really the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jess can't read. She can read and write. What's up?

[DJ Envy]

Pre order, pre order now.

[Mike Slott]

Now?

[DJ Envy]

Pre order right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

For real?

[Jess Hilarious]

Yo, Like, I really did that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's like a work through book, too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, it's not. That's not the real book, Lauren. Oh, come on, Lauren. God damn.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I opened it to excited open.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And her book is not that thick.

[Ralph Tresvant]

What?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what?

[DJ Envy]

All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Pre order the book now. Don't come back. We got the People's Choice mix after we pairing right now. Congratulations. Oh, my God.

[DJ Envy]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club now. Salute to New Edition and Boyz II Men for joining us this morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what? I got all excited because I thought that tour was, like, right around the corner. We got to wait till next year, you know what I'm saying?

[Jess Hilarious]

January.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I didn't know that. I thought it was, like, right around the corner. Like, oh, that's something dope to do for the holidays. But I will say the. Is it the Jersey show or New York shows?

[DJ Envy]

February 13th.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jersey shows. February 13th. It's in Newark.

[DJ Envy]

Newark, Yep.

[Ralph Tresvant]

Prudential.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I will be there. That's a great Valentine's Day, weekend.

[Mike Slott]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And make sure y' all go out there and pre order Jeff hilarious. His new book.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, my God. Yes, y'. All. So I'm excited to announce that I am an author. Guys, hold it up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, so go out there and pre order Jess hilarious new book. Tell deaf.

[Jess Hilarious]

Do we parent?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Do we parent?

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Mimi Brown]

Yes.

[Jess Hilarious]

This is. I'm. I'm really excited to announce that I'm officially an author. And I'll be dropping my first book in early spring of 2026, which is right around the corner, y'.

[Ralph Tresvant]

All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right.

[Jess Hilarious]

It's a co parenting memoir, right. It reflects on the journey of me raising my son with his dad, Jerome. So it's dope. Everywhere I go and I talk about, about me and my son's dad, people always want to know how we're so close, like we are, right? Without any intimate feelings involved or anything like that. And it wasn't an easy journey. But I wrote this because a lot of people think, you know, when you're building a family, when you're starting a family, you going, you're going to end up with that person, and you just don't. But it's not the end of the world. You can still create boundaries and a healthy co parenting environment for them. So I'm excited. I'm really excited.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Make sure you go pre order right now, wherever you buy books. Okay? Proud of you, Jess. I'm talking about. She can't read. She can read and write. What's up?

[DJ Envy]

There you go.

Wow.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I wasn't even gonna stay there.

[DJ Envy]

All right, now salute to everybody in Delaware State and Norfolk State. They have the HBCU game tonight. Deshaun Jackson coaching Delaware State and Mike Vick, of course, coaching Norfolk State. So we heading out there, Lauren and myself, we're gonna go to the game and all that other good stuff.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's that Lincoln Field.

[DJ Envy]

Yep, Lincoln Field.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Salute to Lincoln Field. You know Cheryl McKissack, McKissick and McKissack, you know, they. They helped to build Lincoln. Woman helped to build that stadium. Is Delaware gonna show up tonight, Lauren? Because you know what I hate? I hate when I the HBCUs play in these big stadiums and it look empty.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I just talked to the president of Delaware State university. They're at 42. He said 42, 000 tickets sold. Yeah, 42, 000 tickets sold.

[DJ Envy]

That's crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Really?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So 42, 000.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I wrote it down. 42, 000 tickets.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's all in Delaware? No, because it might have been 40, 200, 42,000. That's dope. That's amazing.

[DJ Envy]

That's great.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, they did.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I mean, I think they did. I forget the number. I think I saw like 10k or something like that for the, the last home game or the homecoming game that Mike Vick had for Nerf Oak. It's been a lot of big things happening since desean Jackson and Mike Vic have gotten involved with these schools. And that's why it's important. People think it's just a publicity stunt, but just their presence has done so much for these schools.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What is it? They working.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, but people don't understand saying that, though. Yeah, internally though, it does a lot for the kids, a lot for the schools. It's. It's amazing. So, yes, Delaware is turning out. Virginia coming. Philly gonna be there. It's gonna be a legendary game.

[DJ Envy]

All right, well, you got positive note.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, it's a positive note, man. Always remember that you can have the worst days of your life and a few weeks later, you can have the best day of your life. So don't give up. Keep going. Have a great day. Breakfast club.

[DJ Envy]

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[Mimi Brown]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

Hello, America's sweetheart. Johnny Knoxville here. I want to tell you about my new true crime podcast, Crimeless Hillbilly Heist from Smartless Media, Campside Media, and big money players.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's a wild tale about a gang.

[DJ Envy]

Of high functioning nitwits who somehow pulled off America's third largest cash heist.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Kind of like Robin Hood, except for the part where he steals from the rich and gives to the poor. I'm not that generous.

[DJ Envy]

It's a damn near inspiring true story for anyone out there who's ever shot for the moon, then just totally muffed up the landing.

[Ralph Tresvant]

They stole $17 million and had not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Bought a ticket to help him escape.

[Jess Hilarious]

So we're sitting like, oh God, what do we do? What do we do?

[DJ Envy]

That was dumb.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

People do not follow my example.

[DJ Envy]

Listen to Crimeless Hillbilly Heist on the iHeartRadio app.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.

[Jess Hilarious]

I live below a cult leader and.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I fear I've angered her.

[Jess Hilarious]

Wait a minute, Sophia, how do you.

[Mike Slott]

Know she's a cult leader?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, Dakota, luckily it's I'm Not Afraid.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Of a Scary Story week on the.

[Lauren LaRosa]

OK Storytime Podcast, so we'll find out soon. This person writes, my neighbor has been.

[Jess Hilarious]

Blasting music every day and doing dirt.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Rituals and now my ceiling is collapsing. I tried to report them, but things keep getting weirder. I think they might be part of a cult.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hold up A real life cult? And what is a dirt ritual?

[Lauren LaRosa]

No clue, Dakota. Find out how it ends. Listen to the okay Storytime podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever.

[Jess Hilarious]

You get your podcasts.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's up everybody? It's snacks from the Trap Nerds All October long, we're bringing you the Horror Boogity Boogy Boog.

[DJ Envy]

We kicking off this month with some of my best horror games to keep you terrified. Then we'll be talking about our favorite horror and Halloween movies and figuring out why black people always die first.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And it's the return of Tony's Horror Show I side Quest, written and narrated by yours truly. We'll also be doing a full episode reading with commentary and we'll cap it off with a horror movie Battle Royale.

[DJ Envy]

Open your free iHeartRadio app and search Trap Nerds Podcast and listen Now.

[Lauren LaRosa]

This is an iHeart podcast.