FULL SHOW: Lil Nas X Still Jailed After Wandering LA Streets Naked, Bryson Tiller Says He’s Tired of the Industry, Offset Talks Relationship with Drake + Ghostface Killah Interview

Summary

The Breakfast Club – August 25, 2025

Hosts: DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God
Episode Title: Lil Nas X Still Jailed After Wandering LA Streets Naked, Bryson Tiller Says He’s Tired of the Industry, Offset Talks Relationship with Drake + Ghostface Killah Interview

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Episode Overview

Today's episode dives into hip-hop’s cultural currents with major headlines, lively debate, and in-depth artist interviews. The crew unpacks viral news about Lil Nas X’s LA arrest; contemplates crime, data, and the deployment of the National Guard; explores Offset’s relationship with Drake and Bryson Tiller’s candid fatigue with the industry; and honors hip-hop’s golden era through a rich conversation with Ghostface Killah, who discusses the release of “Supreme Clientele 2.” Throughout, listeners are treated to signature banter, listener calls, and fresh takes on music and society.

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Key Discussion Points & Segments

1. Weekend & Recap Highlights (02:17–07:00)

• DJ Envy attended Invest Fest in Atlanta, sharing insights on Black financial literacy and a panel with Steve Harvey.
• Charlamagne recaps an eventful trip to South Carolina, highlighting community gatherings and lighthearted hotel anecdotes.

“They are there because they are, you know, getting an education.” – DJ Envy (03:08)

2. Front Page News with Morgan (08:00–11:39, 30:41–34:54)

• Politics: President Trump threatens to send troops to Baltimore; Governors Wes Moore (MD) and J.B. Pritzker (IL) respond, citing constitutional concerns and accusing Trump of politicizing public safety.
• National Guard News: D.C. Guard authorized to carry weapons—hosts debate if feelings about crime match the data.
• Redistricting Battles: Texas and California redraw congressional maps, intensifying political gerrymandering debates.
• Listener Take: Callers weigh in on solutions to police reform and the idea of ex-military personnel as law enforcement.

“It's unconstitutional. It's a direct violation of the 10th Amendment.” – Governor Wes Moore (from CBS, 08:43)

“What matters more, data or how people feel?” – DJ Envy (10:41)

3. Get It Off Your Chest: Listener Calls (11:57–18:34, 87:16–91:01)

• Callers weigh in on the National Guard carrying arms, draw on military and policing experience, and analyze documentary TV mysteries and viral stories.

4. Entertainment News: Lil Nas X, Offset, Bryson Tiller (18:44–26:16, 65:33–71:46)

Lil Nas X’s Arrest

• New video surfaces of Lil Nas X walking naked in LA, singing Nicki Minaj at 4am.
• He remains in jail on a charge of battery on an officer—debate swirls over whether this is a publicity stunt.
• His boots from the incident are listed on eBay for $10,000.

“He's slanging. Was it hanging? What?” – DJ Envy (20:01)

“If you buy them boots, then you are doing very well in life.” – Charlamagne (21:17)

Offset Talks Drake

• Offset, on the "Full Send" podcast, praises Drake for his ongoing generosity and refusal to exploit artists on collaborations.
• The crew reflects on Drake’s supportive role in breaking Migos and other acts.

“Don't be charging, even we was looking like didn't charge, didn't like. Because a lot of artists his size will bully the record. … He ain't do none.” – Offset (66:15)

Bryson Tiller’s Industry Fatigue

• Bryson Tiller expresses exhaustion with artistry, saying he would gladly quit being a performer if he could support his family otherwise (game design is his next ambition).
• Hosts discuss the emotional toll of music careers.

“If Drake called me tomorrow and said, hey, bro, like, just write for me for the rest of, you know, whatever ... I would stop being an artist right away.” – Bryson Tiller (68:30)

5. Feature Interview: Ghostface Killah (35:11–64:45)

Supreme Clientele 2 & The Creative Process

• Ghostface returns with the long-awaited sequel, revealing that fan demand pushed him to revisit the classic.
• About five songs date back nearly 20 years—he stashed records that felt right for this project.

“It was the fans. They kept calling for it... I got like, maybe like five songs from, like, 20 years ago, 17 and better on it.” – Ghostface Killah (35:55)

Reflections on Wu-Tang, Competition, and Emotion

• Explains the camaraderie and rivalry within Wu-Tang.
• Discusses his emotional depth in writing – tracks like “All That I Got Is You” moved listeners and himself to tears.

“I never really performed that [All That I Got Is You]... it just bring back too much emotion.” – Ghostface Killah (43:03)

Hip-Hop’s Landscape & R&B Influence

• Shares that today’s rap no longer inspires him like in the 90s—prefers R&B for creative sparks.
• Recalls competition for best verse within Wu-Tang as key to greatness.

“When I create albums, I create vibes. So if I could get ahead and hear it, like, all the way through. Then I know I'm good.” – Ghostface Killah (37:19)

Industry Stories and Myths

• Confirms the rumor that Puff Daddy (Diddy) once banned Wu-Tang from radio—a calculated strategic "chess move."
• Shares the story behind his classic “Freakin’ You (Remix)” verse.

“Yeah, they banned us. I guess we should have just stayed on Race against the Machine.” – Ghostface Killah (61:23)

Legacy & Perspective

• Reflects on Wu-Tang’s global impact: from street kids to cultural icons with fans around the world, including Australia.
• Admits his life would’ve been starkly different—possibly in jail or worse—if not for hip-hop.

“I know there's people that went to the grave with that W. ... I'm just grateful. I'm just humbled to be a part of something that's living when they said it was forever.” – Ghostface Killah (52:01)

6. Social Issues: National Guard and Crime Debate (79:02–95:13)

• Deep discussion: Would you want Trump to deploy the National Guard to your city?
• Hosts and listeners overwhelmingly say “no,” advocating for investments in communities, jobs, and mental health support over militarization.

“No, I do not want the military in our communities ... If you really, really want to fix crime in these cities, then go to the root cause of that crime, which is poverty, which is lack of opportunity, which is lack of resources.” – DJ Envy (94:34)

7. Viral/Weird News: Serial Seat Sniffer (73:10–78:49)

• Donkey of the Day goes to Khalees Crowder, arrested again for being a “serial butt sniffer” in California stores.
• Charlamagne riffs with hilarious metaphors.

“This man allegedly was sniffing a woman's bunky at a Walgreens in Burbank ... The butt snip butt sniffing bandit has once again been arrested for smelling that rump roast that was cooking in the oven.” – Charlamagne Tha God (75:19)

8. Updates: Positive News & Culture

• Jeezy partners with Uber to offer 101 free rides to people in need, following his viral driver experience in Baltimore (97:07–98:16).
• Shoutouts to Invest Fest and Earn Your Leisure for their role in fostering Black financial empowerment.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Crime & Data:
  "Data only works when you actually feel it." – DJ Envy (79:55)

• On Legacy:
  "If you got a baby, you can't create the same baby... These producers now, they're not making the same beats and stuff that they did before. They caught up in, like, right now." – Ghostface Killah (39:06)

• On Hip-Hop Camaraderie:
  "If we all get in there, oh, it's a challenge... we all trying to be better than what we... We want the best verse. I want it. He wants it." – Ghostface Killah (45:24)

• On Drake’s Industry Role:
  "Even we was looking like didn't charge, didn't like. Lot of artists his size will bully the record…he ain't do none." – Offset, Full Send via Lauren (66:15)

• On Artist Burnout:
  "If Drake called me tomorrow and said, hey... just write for me ... I would stop being an artist right away." – Bryson Tiller (68:30)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Segment | Timestamp | |--------------------------------------------|--------------| | Invest Fest Weekend Recaps | 02:17–07:00 | | National Guard & Crime Data Discussion | 08:00–11:39 | | Listener Calls: Policing & Docs | 12:10–18:34 | | Lil Nas X’s Arrest, Offset, Bryson Tiller | 18:51–26:16, 65:33–71:46 | | Ghostface Killah Interview | 35:11–64:45 | | Donkey of the Day: Serial Seat Sniffer | 73:10–78:49 | | National Guard Debate & Caller Insights | 79:02–95:13 | | Positive News/Jeezy x Uber | 97:07–98:16 |

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Tone & Takeaways

The episode embodies the Breakfast Club’s signature blend of humor, streetwise insight, and hip-hop culture, rooted in genuine community engagement. From defending the roots of rap’s competitive spirit, exposing systemic challenges in American cities, to dissecting viral moments for both fun and critique, it’s a full-circle discussion about music, society, and resilience. Ghostface’s appearance is both nostalgic and inspirational, bridging eras through authenticity and wisdom.

Final Word:
"I don't like stupid people. And you know what a stupid person is to me? Somebody who has the facts, who has the proper information and still makes the wrong decision... Don't be stupid." – DJ Envy (107:30)

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Transcript

[Morgan Wood]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Hunter]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[DJ Envy]

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[Ghostface Killah]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jess will be here in a second.

[Ghostface Killah]

What up, Charlemagne?

[DJ Envy]

Peace to the planet. It's Monday. 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. Good Morning. What is happening, man?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, that's right. Good morning. Back to the work week. What's up, Charlie? You was. I seen you was in Atlanta for a sec.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I was in Atlanta this weekend. You know what I mean? Invest Fest dropping the Kuz bombs for Invest Fest, man. Salute to Rashad and Troy, the good brothers, to earn your leisure. What they have built with Invest Fest is absolutely incredible. Three days of black people coming together to discuss financial literacy, to discuss business. And when you talk to people about why, you know, they want to be there, like, you know, just people that are in attendance, it's simply because they learn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right.

[DJ Envy]

Nothing more, nothing less. They are there because they are, you know, getting an education. So I was there on Saturday, me and Unk dropping the Kluz bombs for Steve Harvey. Me and my man Steve Harvey, we had a panel together. And, you know, that was just a great conversation because Steve is somebody who's given me a lot of game, you know, throughout my journey, throughout my career. And I just. I really like just spending time with Steve. It was just interesting, us being on, you know, stage together. Because, you know, sometimes when you are around a person and y' all have, like, you know, casual private conversations, sometimes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That private conversation goes to the public.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. You know, and he don't like that because, you know, I talk like this all the time. Right. You know, and then sometimes I got to slow him down. Cause I know where he might be going with it because he getting a little too loose. Yeah. So I love Unk, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Salute to Steve Harvey. Salute to earn your legion. Invest Fest. Now also salute to everybody in the Carolinas. I was in Columbia, South Carolina, metro. I was all over through there. Yeah. So salute to everybody that came out. We had over a thousand people. It was just a great event, having a good time. I don't know the name of the spot. It felt like a government building. Like maybe they rented out a government building. Right behind was a huge library. Huge library was like a huge library, Like a modern library. It's beautiful on the outside. They had red lights outside. It was very beautiful. Okay, but it was very beautiful. It was grown and sexy. 25 plus, everybody dressed up in all white. I ate at a restaurant called Champagne. Really, really nice. Everybody showed me so much love in South Carolina. So salute to everybody in South Carolina. I had an amazing time to the point. I don't want to get in now. I'm getting.

[DJ Envy]

What? Tell me what.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I ain't gonna tell you where it was, but I pulled up at A hotel. And lady was like, you tell Charlamagne everybody from Florida ain't crazy. Now, I've been living here for 15 years, and we look out for our own. You know what she said?

[Hilarious]

She was like.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She said, all the rooms are free for me. Don't even worry about it. Gave me all the hotel rooms for free.

[DJ Envy]

That's why. That's why everybody from Florida crazy. She don't even own that hotel. That ain't even her hotel. But she giving you all the rooms free. Why I matter, okay. And, yes, I'm glad you did not say the name of the hotel. I mad at her because she doing something she ain't got no business doing. I met her and then wonder why we call the people in Florida crazy. You don't even need no free room. All you got money and she giving away free rooms to you. Why do people.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

By the way, she said, we gotta look out for our own. So I said, okay.

[DJ Envy]

Why do we do that? I always wonder about that. We all. They always want to give people that don't need to get nothing free, free stuff.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's all right.

[DJ Envy]

You know what I mean? But then the people who actually need it gotta pay top dollar. That makes no sense.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I took it, though. I took it.

[DJ Envy]

I'm sure you did.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I took it. Pause and salute to my friend, DJ Mono. DJ Mono was. He called me this morning at 4am he was drunk. He cursed me out and said I didn't check up on him enough. And he was right. I need to check up on my friends enough. Sometimes life be life. And. And you.

[Ghostface Killah]

You.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You always say, I'm gonna get around to it, and sometimes you don't want that. I'm gonna get around to it when something bad happens. So salute to dj.

[DJ Envy]

Remember, it was your birthday one time back in the day, DJ Mono walked in the club and he smacked you on the ass. And then when you turned around, he smashed some cake in your face. That was crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's not what happened.

[DJ Envy]

Smashed the cake.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's not what happened.

[DJ Envy]

And when he smashed the cake in every face, Envy, like, like, did his tongue and licked the cake from around his face. Almost lick Mono. That was wild.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm gonna tell y'.

[Hilarious]

All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm gonna tell y', all right? Quickly, what happened? We were in the club.

[Ghostface Killah]

Charlemagne was there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Charlemagne told him to do that.

[DJ Envy]

Charlamagne smacked you on the ass and put cake in your face.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He didn't smack me on my ass. I did not smack me in my ass. Charlemagne said, yo, it'll Be funny if you smack him in the face with cake. And that's what he did.

[DJ Envy]

That was New York, remember? Paid in full. When Cam was like, I smashed a cake in his face. And then they was like, why you be doing stuff like that? I don't know. It's his birthday. I'm. I just thought that was something y' all did here in New York. He did that on his own.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ghostface will be joining us this morning. His new album, Supreme Clientele 2 is out, and we going to be kicking with Ghostface in a little bit, but we got front page news when we come back, so don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Now, some quick sports. Tampa pay. Buccaneers first waved. Well, waved Shiloh Sanders. This is. They're saying after he got into a fight on the field.

[DJ Envy]

And that's why. Is that why they waved him? They waved him because of that fight.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what they were saying, that that's the reason why he was waved. But we honestly, the team said that.

[DJ Envy]

I saw people on social media.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Social media said that and speculated it.

[DJ Envy]

But he was, you know, them niggas don't know nothing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He was waived after swinging on another player in the game the other night. So he was waived.

[DJ Envy]

So I, I mean, that would look like regular football to me, the way that they was, you know, not the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Punch at the end, though, right?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, even the punch. I seen football players throw punches at each other. I mean, first of all, I think that's stupid to me. Swinging at a T ho. It's the same thing as lesbians with the scrap on. What you mean when a lesbian got the scrap on and, you know, the other lesbians sucking on it or something, and then the person wearing the scrap is moaning? Right. It's the same thing when you throw a punch at somebody. How y' all fist fighting with helmets on?

[Hilarious]

That's stupid.

[DJ Envy]

I know.

[Hilarious]

No, no. What you just said. Don't do that.

[DJ Envy]

That's all stupid.

[Hilarious]

I agree.

[DJ Envy]

Just thank. Just. It's all stupid. I agree.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's up, Morgan?

[Ghostface Killah]

Hey, y'.

[DJ Envy]

All.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Hey.

[Morgan Wood]

How y' all feeling on a Monday?

[DJ Envy]

Goodness.

[Morgan Wood]

All right, let's get into it. So President Trump is threatening to send troops to Baltimore now as part of his national crackdown on crime. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said that Maryland Governor Wes Moore asked him, in a rather nasty and provocative tone, to walk the streets of Maryland with him and called Governor Moore's record on crime a very bad one and said he'll send troops to the city if he thinks he needs help. Now, Moore responded during a appearance on CBS's Face the Nation, saying, while the president is spending his time from the Oval Office making jabs at attacks at us, there are people on the ground already doing the work to actually bring crime down. Let's take a listen to Maryland Governor Westmore.

[DJ Envy]

It is not sustainable. You cannot continue this type of pace of operations, particularly when you're, when it's costing over a million dollars a day in order to do this. The second, it's not scalable, you're not going to be able to do this in every single major American city, particularly when many of the cities that have the highest crime rate are the places that have actually deployed their national guards to Washington, D.C. so who's going to go do the work in their cities? The third, it's unconstitutional. It's a direct violation of the 10th Amendment. And for a party that talks about state rights, it's amazing how they're having such a big government approach in the way they're conducting public safety. The fourth reason is because it's deeply disrespectful to the members of the National Guard. You know, as someone who actually deployed overseas and served my country in combat, to ask these men and women to do a job that they're not trained for is just deeply disrespectful. Yeah.

[Morgan Wood]

So elsewhere, the Washington Post also reported Saturday that the Pentagon has been planning a military deployment to Chicago for weeks and that National Guard members could arrive as soon as next month. Now, Illinois Governor J.B. pritzker responded with a statement saying that Trump is attempting to manufacture a crisis and politicize Americans who serve in uniform to distract from the pain he is causing working families.

[DJ Envy]

And, and the Epstein files. See, that's where they messing up at because none of these people are leading with all of this as a distraction from the Epstein files. You know, even when Governor Westmore was on yesterday, he didn't bring that up. You know, JB Prince is not bringing it up. No, more like don't stop talking about what caused him to be rattled.

[Morgan Wood]

Well, National Guard troops in Washington, D.C. are. Well, let's take it up a notch because National Guard troops in Washington D.C. are now authorized to carry firearms. NBC News reports the Guard members will carry service issues M17 pistols while they're will be a small number armed with M4 rifles. Now, on Friday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth authorized 2,000 troops in D.C. to begin carrying weapons. Although Guard members will continue to focus on their work on protecting federal assets. And providing a so called safe environment.

[DJ Envy]

So you know what I was thinking about? What matters more? Data or how people feel? And what I mean by that is the data showed crime how people feel. Yeah, yeah. The data showed how crime was going down in D.C. crime has been going down in Baltimore. They had a significant drop in murders, according to the data. But then you have some people who say things are still bad in these places. So what matters more, how people feel are the actual data. The data.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And then also, I guess.

[DJ Envy]

So you think that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm sorry, what people feel. And also the news. Right. Because even here in New York City, they said crime and all this is down. But I just heard five people got shot over the weekend. Then I heard last weekend that shooting in the club. Then the weekend before that, it was another three people. Somebody got shot in Times Square. So it feels like it's bull, the database.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I think it's like when you £500 and you lose 200. Yeah, it's cool. But you're still fat.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You still big.

[Hilarious]

Why do you keep coming up with these metaphors like this? Picking on communities?

[DJ Envy]

I'm not picking on anybody, yo. I'm just trying to break it down in ways people understand.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I get it. Well, that is front page news. Thank you, Morgan.

[Morgan Wood]

All right, see y' all at seven.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Ghostface Killah]

It's a new day.

[DJ Envy]

This is your time to get it off your chest.

[Ghostface Killah]

Wait.

[DJ Envy]

Wake up. Whether you're mad or blessed, it's time to get up and get something.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Call up now. 800-585-1051.

[Ghostface Killah]

We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello? Who's this?

[Caller]

Yeah, hey, this is Demetrius out of Louisiana.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, Demetrius.

[Ghostface Killah]

Without.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Get it off your chest, brother.

[Caller]

All right, then. Hey, good morning, y'.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All.

[Caller]

The Breakfast Club. I listen to you guys every morning. I just want to make a point in regards to the point that was just made about the National Guard being authorized to, you know, carry firearms. Nobody's really putting it together as far as the narrative. And I want to go back just real quickly about Black Lives Matter, okay? So police brutality, all right, Carried on by local law enforcement that are allowed to carry arms and bear arms, like, every day in the streets of America. They don't even have to have permission to carry firearms. And they, you know, shoot at will. They're shooting 20, 30, 40 rounds, you know, to, you know, assailants or whatever you want to call them. And then look at the National Guard. These are our cousins, our relatives, our uncles, aunts, daughters, right? They're out there in the streets protecting our so called government, you know, political stances and they don't even have weapons. Okay, now, so, okay, no problem with that. But what I wanted to say was the way you get these police to get their mind right is to have military personnel after they serve their four years, their two years inactive reserve time should be that they go to their home of record and serve as local police officer. Case in point though, okay? So the guys that have been to war, a lot of people don't know that. I'm ex military. I was in the marine Corps for 12 years. When we go over to Afghanistan, you know, Iraq and all that type of stuff, we have to have permission to fire one round to lock and load. We have to have permission by our commanding officers or NCOs or whatever, what have you to fire where local law enforcement over here. Most of which could not even pass the asvab or couldn't even pass the physical examination for flat foot or incompetency or whatever. And then most of those guys, sorry, I'm driving. And most of those guys probably were bullied in school and they have a hang up, you know, personal or otherwise. Or they come from some little small town where they don't like black people or what have you or brown skinned folks, you know what I mean? And then they just kind of take advantage of it anyway. I know I was speaking fast and all that. I appreciate y' all listen y' all, every morning, y' all doing a great job.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you for the good work. I appreciate you. Yeah, I like that idea. If they want to do that, I don't want it to be something that they have to do because I feel like, you know, if you go over and you do like a tour of duty, I think when you come home, one of the first things that they should do is, you know, give you proper mental evaluations, you know what I'm saying? Make sure that you have, you know, decompressed from all the trauma that you've seen, you know, over there before, they just put you back out in the street.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right.

[DJ Envy]

But I do kind of like that idea.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Ghostface Killah]

This is your time to get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello?

[DJ Envy]

Who's this?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning, Mrs. Lynn from Columbus.

[Caller]

Good morning, y'.

[DJ Envy]

All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's up, Lynn?

[DJ Envy]

Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Get off your chest, Lynn.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Listen, Jay, you there today, right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes. Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay. I had to make sure. So I watched the Amy Bradley documentary this weekend. Child. Yes. Let me tell you something. That hoe is alive.

[Hilarious]

Yeah, exactly. Why she gotta be old, though? Why she gotta be a ho?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Listen, y'.

[Ghostface Killah]

All.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You know what I meant. It's a term of endearment.

[Hilarious]

I got you.

[Ghostface Killah]

I got you.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay? Because it went from stud, right? To hoe.

[Hilarious]

Right?

[Lauren LaRosa]

But listen, if she's forced against her will.

[DJ Envy]

Right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

But here's the thing that's bugging me out, though. It's the letter. What was it, two months before she.

[Caller]

Went on the boat to her girlfriend.

[Hilarious]

Yes. Yes. Right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That creeped me out.

[Hilarious]

People are trying to forget that part that she gave it a little message in a bottle and she was on a ship and, you know, you only sent a message on a bottle when you on the water somewhere.

[DJ Envy]

What did she say exactly?

[Lauren LaRosa]

But here's the biggest part, though. I knew it was the bass player.

[Hilarious]

Everybody knows him, even his own daughter.

[DJ Envy]

Even his own daughter.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And it's the fact that she tried to set him up on the Netflix documentary.

[Ghostface Killah]

Girl.

[Hilarious]

Yes. He was not falling for it. He almost. He, you know, he was getting upset with her. But I. I thank God for her because she, like, something ain't right. My father, he being a whole clown out here. He'd be learning. Girls to the wood.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She got Barbados kids.

[Hilarious]

Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

We gotta put a PBB out. She got y'.

[Ghostface Killah]

All.

[DJ Envy]

She got kids from Barbados.

[Ghostface Killah]

Yes.

[Hilarious]

No, see, they. They doing a lot right now. They trying to put it together. All they do is watch the documentary. But the.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But talk about the Amy Bradley documentary.

[Hilarious]

Yes. On Netflix. Y' all can still watch it right now, y'.

[Ghostface Killah]

All.

[Hilarious]

It's the number one documentary on there right now. She wrote a letter to her girlfriend two months before she went on this cruise with her parents. And basically what it was, she cheated on her girlfriend. I ain't worried. They ain't say that. But she was a letter to our girlfriend, like, I can't live without you. Like, basically, it was kind of like a suicide note. It gave a suicide feel. But if you looking at it another way, it could be, oh, she just loved her girlfriend so much. But she Definitely was like, I don't want to be with anybody if I can't be with you. And the girl was mad at her.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She put the message in a bottle.

[Hilarious]

In the bottle? Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And threw it overboard.

[Hilarious]

No. And she left it with the girlfriend. It was just in the bottle. And then she was like, I'm going on this cruise, and if you never see me again, I don't know what to tell you.

[DJ Envy]

Why did she. She. She had used a scrap on another girl.

[Hilarious]

She did not. I don't know how gay she was. I just noticed she was gay.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Hilarious]

So I don't even know if she was a bottom or what. What is what they do, what they call that.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, no, not lesbian.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's for men.

[DJ Envy]

Okay?

[Hilarious]

See, all of that wasn't out when I was gay. It was just regular. You kiss and you scissor and you go home. It wasn't all this extra stuff when I was gay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's just like film.

[DJ Envy]

There y' all go having conversations that y' all don't know nothing about.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I know it's film.

[DJ Envy]

I don't know what the other word. Stud. Mad at y'. Jess and Lauren was on the radio talking about rock, paper, scissors. See, that's how lesbians. That's how lesbians decide what they gonna do.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Shut up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Lauren LaRosa]

We do. Y' all were talking about needing a naked video. Lil Nas X to show that this thing really happened. And now there is one and a lot more because he is still in jail at this very moment. We are gonna get into some things.

[DJ Envy]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, all right. We'll get into that. Next is the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

Morning, everybody.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's Dej Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne. The guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the latest with Lauren.

[Hilarious]

Lauren becoming a straight face.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She gets them from somebody that knows somebody.

[DJ Envy]

She gets the details.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[DJ Envy]

She'd be having the latest on the bees. The Latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes you have facts. Sometimes you have details. Sometimes she have a little bit everything. What was the latest on the Breakfast Club?

[Ghostface Killah]

Talk to me.

[Lauren LaRosa]

While Lil Nas X is waiting in jail right now, there is a new video that is waiting for what? He's waiting to see a judge because the charge, which was the. He was arrested on suspicion of battery on an officer. They consider it violent because he charged at the officer so he has to see a judge. He couldn't just get cited and go home. So he had to wait over the weekend to see a judge today and hopefully he'll be released on bail. But there's a video that surfaced, and this is from the original video or original night where he was walking around at 4am in LA, but now lil Nas X is naked in this video. So the story in the beginning you did, you asked for it in the surface, they heard you and they released it.

[DJ Envy]

He's slanging. Was it hanging? What?

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's blurred. We couldn't see it.

[DJ Envy]

How big was the blur?

[Lauren LaRosa]

The blur was pretty heavy. Pretty big, yes. And so, yeah, so the video was released. He's naked now. Now this is the part of the video where of course he's removed the tighty whities and he is singing Nicki Minaj, let's take a listen because my money ain't.

[DJ Envy]

Let me get this straight, Wait, I'm.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The rookie but my features and my.

[DJ Envy]

Shows 10 times to pay 50k for a first note album out. Come on. That's it.

[Hilarious]

They finish it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

They loop the same video. So yes, it's short. Yeah, you.

[Hilarious]

That's that. That's the jam. Find it.

[DJ Envy]

So he did the whole verse.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So he just did that one little clip. He did the whole.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm assuming he went for longer. But the video that was released by TMZ just loops that part of it. Now I will say in this video, he no longer has the boots on anymore, right? Yes, now those boots. The man who was recording says that yes, he got the boots and he is now selling them on eBay for $10,000.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What kind of boots are they?

[Lauren LaRosa]

They' cowboy boots. The white boots that were in the original video. Right. So little Nas X is walking around naked with no boots and now this man is selling.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who's selling underwear.

[DJ Envy]

If you buy them boots, then you are doing very well in life.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who's selling a tidy white? I'm sure they're gonna sell the tidy whitey too.

[Lauren LaRosa]

No, he doesn't have the tidy bodies. It's just the boots as of now. And they did ask him. Like, you don't think that that price is a bit like steep for just a random pair of white boots, even though little Nas X had them on. And he says that people have already been reaching out to him via social media to give him offers for the boot. So he's gonna be fine. They're starting at 10k on eBay.

[DJ Envy]

That butt sniffing bandit from California might buy Them draws. He just got caught again.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I thought he likes sniffing women's butts.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, well, good luck to Lunas X today.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And the guy who was recording the video says that when he walked. So he recorded the first part of the video. He rode off a bit and kind of like lost little Nas X. Like, he could see him. He said he was like, rolling on the ground, but he was too far to record it. So when they caught back up with each other, the man said he was playing Old Town Road. He catches back up with Lil Nas X who doesn't have any boots on her. And he's. He asked him, like, where are your boots? And he was. And he says that Lil Nas X told him, girl, I don't need them boots anymore.

[DJ Envy]

And then I'm still screaming up publicity stunt cast. Your question, Lawrence? I was reading on tmz, TMZ had a headline that says, Lil Nas X is on his best behavior in jail.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

And then when you read the article, it says, police haven't had any issues with Lil Nas. We're told the Old Town rapper hasn't tried to put on any shows are sung for those also at the jail.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's a part of the story because normally when you have like R. Kelly or like even. Remember we were having a conversation about Tory Lanez and what he. He was singing in jail the one day. I mean, I guess they just wanted to make a story. They wanted to get. Because people cared about Lil Nas X being locked up.

[DJ Envy]

So they asked the question and no R. Kelly and Tory Lanez. I would want to hit him before. What the hell could Lil Nas X perform in jail that I would want to hit?

[Lauren LaRosa]

He got. Well, first of all, you think this is a publicity stunt, right?

[DJ Envy]

Very much.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And he has. He has Panani. He has. I was about to say something else. He has really good songs.

[DJ Envy]

What is Punani Panini.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's a Pani Panini. It's an old song that he had, but his.

[DJ Envy]

Shouldn't it be.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I was gonna say what he could be performing in there. There's a song Kimbo that you. He was teasing with Little John that hasn't released yet. That he. He did post to his Instagram a few weeks ago and he did post on some of his videos. Now.

[Hilarious]

He's been promoting music up until this point.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. But for a long time, though, to be fair, it wasn't just recently because.

[DJ Envy]

He'S been saying that he was. He cleared his Instagram.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He did. But prior to clearing his Instagram, he's been saying he was going to make a return with music. He was going to make a return. He was going to make a return. But he did clear his Instagram. He did post a snippet of this song. But I have the song, because this one might go where he has.

[DJ Envy]

Big, big publicity stunt.

[Hilarious]

Somebody on his best behavior.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I always wanted to know where. How did he get to where he was at? Did he drive to that location and started walking, or did he just start it? Like, did he. How do you get to that location? Yeah, somebody drive him there.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Like, I don't know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just pop up in the street and just start walking.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't know the answer to that. But there is a video now that is circulating with him, and, like, a random fan that happened to run into him, and they're. They're posing to take a picture. We have the. The little snippet from that video, too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He seemed fine.

[DJ Envy]

Can you do this dance with me? No.

[Ghostface Killah]

Let's take this picture.

[DJ Envy]

All right.

[Caller]

Where's the parties?

[Hilarious]

Can you just dance with me?

[Ghostface Killah]

No.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. That's the only other person that I've seen interact with him.

[Hilarious]

Two homeboys, allegedly. This is sounding like a Smollett story.

[DJ Envy]

God bless him, though. I wish him the best, you know? Are you doing all of this to sell 5,000 records?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn.

[Hilarious]

I mean, this is like, come on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Y' all came to give him 10,000 already.

[Hilarious]

At what point do we just sell our music the good way? You know, not going through all these drastic measures, like. But I bet his ass ain't mean to get put in jail for this long if he's still in there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Definitely not to get caught before Friday.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And still have to wait over the weekend is crazy. And I did. So I was. I was talking.

[Hilarious]

Okay, I gave you. Is you don't want to be in jail this long.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, he's in an arraignment area of the jail, so he not really interacting with too many, like, people. He just waiting to go see a judge.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

There's people there. They probably got him in a holding cell with a bunch of people.

[Hilarious]

With a bunch of them.

[Lauren LaRosa]

According to the story that he got his own cell. He doesn't have his own cell, but it's not too many. Like, he's not inter. With like, a whole jail. He's not on, like, a pod and all those things.

[DJ Envy]

So that he's in prearrangement.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, it's a pre. Arrangement, just like. Like a holding stuff, like you said. But they also. So I spoke to a public information officer because normally LAPD doesn't release mug shots. But I just wanted to confirm there will be no mug shot here either. So. I mean, no mug shot merch. If he gets through this. When he gets through.

[DJ Envy]

We spent too much time on this story. But this is exactly what he wanted.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right.

[Hilarious]

Yeah, it is.

[Ghostface Killah]

All right.

[Hilarious]

He definitely was talking about it.

[DJ Envy]

Can we. Can we. Can we talk about somebody who put out some good music with no goddamn gimmicks, man? Drop on the clues. Bombs for offset delivered.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You hear me? What's your favorite on the album?

[DJ Envy]

Oh, I got a lot. Right now. Right now at this moment, it's probably running up with Key Glock.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay.

[Hilarious]

Yeah, that was lit.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, I was listening to that again all weekend as well. And he dropped the full visual for the Different Species song with Gunna directed by my homegirl, Shishi. Shout out to Shishi.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, well, that is the latest with Lauren. Now when we come back, we got front page news. Can we get an offset joint on? Can we play?

[DJ Envy]

Let's play. Run it up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Hey, everybody, it's DJ Envy. Just hilarious charlamagne tha guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get back in some front page news. Just to let you know, people have been asking. Shiloh Sanders has been waived by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. There's something special about folks who come through without being asked. Like your co worker surprising you with your favorite coffee just because. Or your friend handing you the aux cord the moment you get into the car. No debate, no fight. Just positive vibes. That kind of love. It just hits different. And that's exactly the energy. AT&T is on with their new guarantee. If there's ever a network interruption, AT&T will proactively credit you for a full day of service. No calls, no emails, no jumping through hoops. It's just handled. It's like the universe saying, I got you. Except this time it's not the stars aligning. It's your network. And let's be real, that connection is everything. Whether you're holding down the group chat, checking in on your parents. Scrolling TikTok. Your network's gotta come through. And if there's a problem, AT&T is on the case. No stress, no drama, just real backup when it counts. Credit for Fiber downtime lasting 20 minutes or more or wireless downtime lasting 60 minutes or more caused by a single incident impacting 10 or more towers. Restrictions and exclusions apply. See att.com guaranty for full details. AT&T connecting changes everything.

[Hunter]

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

[Lauren LaRosa]

We all know right Genius is evenly distributed.

[Morgan Wood]

Opportunity is not.

[DJ Envy]

It's Black Business Month and Black tech green money is tapping in. I'm Will Lucas, spotlighting black founders, investors and innovators building the future one idea at a time. Let's talk legacy tech and generational wealth. I don't think any person of any gender, race, ethnicity should alter who they are, especially on an intellectual level or a talent level, to make someone else feel comfortable just because they are the majority in this situation and they need employment. So for me, I'm always going to be honest in saying that we need to be unapologetically ourselves. If that makes me a vocal CEO and people consider that rocking the boat, so be it. To hear this and more on the power of Black innovation and ownership, listen to Black Tech Green Money from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Hilarious]

Have you ever wished for a change but weren't sure how to make it? Maybe you felt stuck in a job, a place or even a relationship. I'm Emily Tish Sussman and on she pivots, I dive into the inspiring pivots of women who have taken big leaps in their lives and careers.

[DJ Envy]

I'm Gretchen Whitmer.

[Ghostface Killah]

Jody Sweetin.

[DJ Envy]

Monica Patton.

[Hilarious]

Elaine Welteroth. I'm Jessica Voss.

[Morgan Wood]

And that's when I was like, I gotta go. I don't know how, but that kicked off the pivot of of how to make the transition.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Learn how to get comfortable pivoting because your life is gonna be full of them.

[Hilarious]

Every episode gets real about the why behind these changes and gives you the inspiration and maybe the push to make your next pivot. Listen to these women and more on she pivots now on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not saying why. People are assuming that's because he threw a punch at another player on the field the other night during the preseason game. But there's no, you know, I don't.

[DJ Envy]

I doubt that's the reason, but who knows?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, what's up, Morgan?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Hey, y'.

[DJ Envy]

All.

[Ghostface Killah]

Hey.

[Morgan Wood]

Okay, in case you missed it, on Friday morning, the FBI raided former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton's home and office, and it's not exactly clear why. Now, the former president, the former National Security advisor became a strong critic of President Trump after he left the administration back in 2019 and had been previously accused of leaking classified material. But a previous investigation into that didn't go anywhere. Now, Trump spoke on it on Friday afternoon, saying he didn't know about the raid in advance, but also added that he has the right to know in advance. Let's hear more from President Trump.

[Ghostface Killah]

I don't want to know, but just, you have to do what you have to do.

[DJ Envy]

I don't want to know about it.

[Ghostface Killah]

It's not necessary. I could know about it. I could be the one starting it. I'm actually the chief law enforcement officer, so.

[Morgan Wood]

In an interview with NBC's Meet the Press, Vice President J.D. vance denied the FBI raids were a result of Bolton's previous criticism of the president. And the vice president also said that the investigation of Bolton is in its early stages. Let's take a listen to those comments.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Classified documents are certainly part of it, but I think that there's a broad concern about, about Ambassador Bolton. They're going to look into it. And like I said, if there's no crime here, we're not going to prosecute it.

[DJ Envy]

Also, I want to say something, Morgan, because we just be, you know, sometimes people just be letting the president speak, but he's not the chief law enforcement officer of the United States. Like, that title belongs to the US Attorney General, if I'm, if I'm not mistaken.

[Morgan Wood]

Yeah, but you know how Trump talks. But you're right. Clear.

[DJ Envy]

It's a lie. We know how Trump lies. Like, that's a lot.

[Morgan Wood]

He's over that. But he, you know, I guess he feels like because he's over that person, you know, that's why he says what he says. And that's just speculation from my end. But Vance went on to say whether Bolton has been or would be taken into custody remains to be seen. Bolton also served as the U.S. ambassador to the United nations under President George W. Bush. In other news, Vice President Vance is defending the new congressional map recently approved by Texas Senate, saying it was Democratic gerrymandering that made these redistricting efforts necessary. Let's take a listen to J.D.

[Hilarious]

Vance.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All we're doing, frankly, is trying to make the situation a little bit more fair on a national scale. The Democrats have gerrymandered their states really aggressively. We think there are opportunities to push back against that and that's really all we're doing.

[Morgan Wood]

So the Texas Tribune says the map was adopted early Saturday along party line votes over fierce Democratic opposition. President Trump, of course, had called for a new map to increase the House majority ahead of the midterm elections. Meanwhile, House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, he's hinting at possibility of mobilizing redistricting efforts and more blue states. In an interview with CNN's State of the Union, Jeffries criticized congressional maps in Texas and said Democrats would be ready if more Republican led states aimed to redraw maps in their favor. Let's take a listen to House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries in Texas.

[DJ Envy]

This is a racial partisan gerrymander ordered.

[Ghostface Killah]

By Donald Trump as part of an.

[DJ Envy]

Effort to rig the midterm elections.

[Ghostface Killah]

And we're not going to let it happen.

[DJ Envy]

We will continue to respond when necessary across the country. Right now, this has happened in Texas.

[Ghostface Killah]

California has responded. Let's see what comes next.

[Morgan Wood]

Of course, Jeffrey's comments come again as the Texas Senate approved a new congressional map that will likely give the GOP five more seats in the House. Just days before that approval, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a measure that calls for a special election aiming to redraw state maps in California. And that will most likely give Democrats an additional five House seats in California. So the statewide vote will be held in California in November. So we'll continue to keep you guys posted on all of this redistricting and make sure you pay attention to what happens in your state as it tends to affect, you know, the people. So I'm not going to get too much into that. That's your front page news. I'm Morgan Wood. Y' all can follow me on socials at morganmedia. That's M O R G Y N M E D I A and for more news coverage, follow at Black Information Network. Download the free iHeartRadio app and visit [e-mail] that's for more news coverage, y'.

[Caller]

All.

[Morgan Wood]

Cause y' all be Getting mad at me. Why you ain't cover this? Y' all can go ahead and listen to Black Information Network for more news coverage.

[DJ Envy]

Breakfast.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right. Well, that is front page news.

[DJ Envy]

Now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

When we come back, Ghost Face Killer will be joining us. Is out now, and we gonna talk to Ghostface, all right? So don't move. It's the Breakfast Club.

[Ghostface Killah]

Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Morning, everybody.

[Hilarious]

It's DJ Envy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building.

[DJ Envy]

My favorite MC of all time, legend.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The icon, ladies and gentlemen, Ghost Face Killer.

[Ghostface Killah]

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. What up, what up?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How you feeling, man?

[Ghostface Killah]

Nah, we cooling. We cooling. King. Glad to be here right now, man. Like three times, right?

[DJ Envy]

I think once, Twice. Twice.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It was twice.

[Ghostface Killah]

Twice.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

All right.

[Ghostface Killah]

I told you I was friend at the Wildness.

[DJ Envy]

You know, I ain't gonna lie.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I told you the man was telling.

[Ghostface Killah]

Me that he saw you had. You had that face on, like, yo, you know what I mean?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Downstairs, I was like, come up here, man.

[DJ Envy]

Everything happens what God wanted to happen.

[Ghostface Killah]

That's what I'm saying.

[DJ Envy]

You said you would never do a sequel to Supreme Clientele. So what changed your mind?

[Ghostface Killah]

Nah, it was. It was. It was the fans. It was. It was the fans. They kept calling for it. So I'm like, yo, for years they was calling for it. So, you know, gradually, I was just. I started back then, like, you know, I saved a couple of joints every time I get a joint, and I felt like, could be supreme, I just put it in the vault. Stash, the stashes. So look, on this album right here, I got like, maybe like five songs from, like, 20 years ago, 17 and better on it, you know?

[DJ Envy]

How do you know this body of work was it, though? This body of work should be Supreme Clientele, too, because I. I kind of.

[Ghostface Killah]

Felt good about it, you know? I mean, besides the skits. Remember last time, I had like, a few Iron man skits on it and stuff like that. But now they really. They own you now. You really can't really do it, so you gotta. You gotta just think of, like, okay, which way I'm gonna go. And that was the. One of the hardest parts I had. Just trying to find, like, a theme behind it, you know what I mean? So, you know, it took me. It took a while. It took a while, but I. I got it. I feel. I feel I got it, you know? I mean. But. And it's a vibe, you know, When I create albums, I create vibes. So if I Could get ahead and hear it, like, all the way through. Then I know I'm good. Then I got my. Got my. My man's and my player for, you know, I don't got no yes brothers around me, you know? I mean, so if they, like, yo, nah tone, like, you know what I mean? Then I weigh and judge it and feel like I. You know what? Maybe he's right. I'll tell them, like, yo, what I feel about it, you know, But I made the end decision at the end of the day. So on this project, I. I just think that we got a good vibe.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, now. Now, how do you. How do you navigate the landscape today? How do you like the landscape of music and musicians today? Because you're the guy that drops and it gets out the way. We don't see you, like, literally ghost face, like, get gone for years, but. But on tour. So. So how do you feel about the landscape today? Of music.

[Ghostface Killah]

Of music.

[DJ Envy]

Rap.

[Ghostface Killah]

Rap music. I mean, you know, I mean, it kind of shifted, you know, me to another region. And I get it, you know, I mean, because nothing stays the same. You just sometimes just got to adapt to it. But I realized that you just got to do. You. You just got to stay in your lane. Just stay right in your lane or whatever, you know, I mean, because for the people I came up with, you know, I mean, it's like they still there. They still out there, even though they probably got grandkids and, you know, I mean, whatever the case may be, but, you know, this real music still exists out there, you know, I mean, not trying to take away from what else was it, what else is going on, but you just got to do you, man.

[DJ Envy]

I feel like with this supreme clientele too. It's not even like you channeling your era. This feel like 86 to 88.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Ghostface Killah]

Because I'm. I'm from. I'm from that era, you know what I mean? So I love that era, you know? I mean, you know, I'm an R B dude first, you know what I'm saying? So it's like just to try to go back and get. If that's what I was telling you, like, trying to just get a feeling, get a feeling. Then I found it. Then I'm like, yo, you know what? Let me call Ty Boogie, you know what I mean, and get him on. Just. Just to more create that feeling, you know? I mean, because I was thinking, like, damn, what I'm gonna go with. Like, I was thinking about a lot of rappers. I'm even Lauryn Hill. I'm like, damn, she got miseducation to Lauryn Hill. And this one got that one. You know, I'm looking at 3ft high and rising and all that other stuff. And, you know, 25 years from the last time we did Supreme Clientele, it's like, yo, some brothers is dead. You know, I mean, and it was a vibe. It was like, you know, people don't understand. Like, if you got a baby, you can't create the same baby.

[DJ Envy]

Right?

[Ghostface Killah]

You know what I'm saying? So fans be thinking that, Joe, you gotta really do it. You know, I mean, like this. But it's, you know, you first of all, these producers now, they're not making the same beats and stuff that they did before. They caught up in, like, right now. So is I. You know, I had to find a way, like. And, you know, like you said, God's time is the best time, so. And that's. That's why we're here now.

[DJ Envy]

Were you afraid to call it supreme? Well, not fair. Fear is not the right word. But did you have any hesitation about calling it supreme clientele, too? Because that gives a different expectation to the body of work.

[Ghostface Killah]

Not really. You know, with me, it's. It's like if I got the beats and I'm focused and I got time, I could do those all day. It just. It's just a matter of the. Really. The beats that could just drag me in there. Because the beats is everything. Every. Every verse I ever thrown, whatever I have to set on the beat, it's like the beat talked to me. You know what I mean? I don't know if that makes sense, but it's just music. It just talk like, it. Like when I did all I got is you. It just dragged me there. Like, I know what I was gonna do when I got it, you know? I mean, I told Rizzio I want that. Boom. I took it home and. And just went another way with it. Just what I felt. And. And that's what a lot of tracks I make. So. Yeah, but I'm confident in myself that I know that I could do those. I could do those over and over and over again. Just give me some time. And that's it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You said you sat on records foot 19, 20 years.

[Ghostface Killah]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I can't hear that in the album, though. It doesn't sound dated. It sounds hard, right?

[Ghostface Killah]

Like metaphysics, Right? Like the other one I did. That was like, 20 years ago.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's crazy.

[Ghostface Killah]

It was. It was that. It was 20 years ago. The whole three verses was 20 years. Then I got a joint called Candyland that was the same. I just wrote the second verse on that. You know what I mean? And me, and me and Meth got one called you my friend. That, that's, that's, that's one of them tear jerker joints. So it's like, that's from back then. It's a, it's a few of them fourth disciple like, you know. Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

When you, you said that when you hear beat, it takes you there. So the first time you heard impossible beat, right? What, what was your energy like, what was going on in your, your world that you just pinned that classic verse?

[Ghostface Killah]

It was the beat. It was the beat. It sounded like it was theatrical. So I'm like, I'm in the studio, we doing, we doing forever. So you know, I get up in there and I just hear. Heard that beat and I'm, I'm one of them guys that I don't just like a regular beat for the most. When I'm doing that. I like for the beat to go ahead and just take me what within the beat, like break down, just break down on certain points so I can just go ahead and just glide with it and just go with that, go right into that pocket, then slip out and then, you know, we go here, we go here like. And that's what it just did to me. But it felt like it talked to me like, call the ambulance. Jamie been shot. Work the Kimmy don't go so you my heart like, like it just, it just, it just, it just had me there and I, I think I might have came back the next day and finished it because I just wrote a chunk and then I had to leave it alone. Like, don't touch it no more. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like you come back and just. And get it again. Why?

[DJ Envy]

Because it was too emotional or.

[Ghostface Killah]

It was all that. Yeah, it was all it. But you don't want it. When you're dealing with something great and you could feel it, you don't want to just it up. You know what I mean? You just gotta like, yo, hold on, just chill. You ain't gotta force it. Came back and just, and just finished it off.

[DJ Envy]

Was that based on the true story?

[Ghostface Killah]

Some of it.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Ghostface Killah]

Some of it. My son's uncle had got shot I think on a, on around the fourth of July when I was like, mother came down holding the breast with a gown on and all that. It was like, it was like when I was in that pocket, it was like that one was. Was real, like, you know what I mean? A lot of other stuff I just added behind it, like, you know what I mean? But the cop was real Officer low and all this other. Yeah. So, you know, I just like to go places.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ghostface is here. Charlamagne.

[DJ Envy]

Did you always feel like being emotional was, like, your superpower? Cause especially in hip hop, you know, people often glorify being, like, cold and detached and emotionless.

[Ghostface Killah]

Right.

[DJ Envy]

Did you feel like that was a.

[Ghostface Killah]

Superpower for you later on? Like, even when I hear all I got is you, and I spilled that into that, like, that a lot of times it just. I don't even like that. I never really performed that. Like, I did it for Ja Rule one time, and it was like I had to. Like, I told him no, like, you know me, but he was like, yeah, come on, yo, yo, yo. You know, I mean. And I. And I did it though, like, but. Because it just bring back too much emotion. Yeah. Of that. But I think I. But later on, because even God bless the dead fat man Scoop, he was like, yo, man. He said, yo, when you did that, he said, yo, go show or to my. I cried. I cried because that's me, and I'm like, mad. People told me that they cried when they heard that record. So I'm like, it freaked. Not freaked me out, but it was like I had to look and be like, yo, you making these people out here. Like, a tear is literally falling out your face over something that I. I went like this. Then I start recognizing, like. Like, what it was, like, the gift or what, what, you know, Like, I don't, I don't. I don't know, like, you know what I mean? And, you know, I, I, I. It just gets deep after a while. Like, when you think about it, like.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, you always thought about. I always wondered, how did your family feel about all that I got, man.

[Ghostface Killah]

I don't even know.

[DJ Envy]

You never.

[Ghostface Killah]

Yeah, you know what I mean? Never ask. Never asked them. I just did it because I'm the type that just do music and like, this album, I might even listen to it. No more. Like, I don't listen to them. I just do it and get it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Out the way I feel. Like I feel like sometimes you get there, you. You mad, you're emotional, the angry, you do it and be like, I'm done with this. That's how I feel when I listen to your music.

[Ghostface Killah]

I'm done with it. Yeah, I'm done with it. I'm done with it. Like, like, you've Got. I gotta hear it over and over and over anyway. But yeah, man, it was, it just, it just, it just be that, that emotion, man. Like, I don't know, like, you know, I mean, the things I said, especially on that record, it felt like I gave people too much, you know what I mean? Like, too much. But it just came like that, you know what I mean? So you. It's there, it's out in the world. You can't do nothing about it. Like, yo. But, but, you know, people take it, though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Do you miss the competitive nature of the group? Right when Wu Tang was, was rocking and tight, right? You know, if ODB comes with a verse, like, I gotta eat his verse. Or meth come with a verse, you gotta eat that verse. Do you miss that element of it?

[Ghostface Killah]

Of course. Cause even to right now, it's like, if we all get in there, oh, it's. It's a challenge, you know what I mean? It's competitive. We all trying to be better than what we. We want the best verse. I want it. He wants it. He wants it. So you're around a bunch of dogs in there that just want the same thing, you know what I mean? And, and I remember back in those days, like, yo, if you couldn't make it, oh, yo, you wasn't getting on, you know what I mean? Brothers say like, nah, that's, that's, that's not it. You know what I mean? So we haven't did that in a minute, you know what I mean? Even if it was right now, I, I, I know a few brothers will get emotional on some, like, dude, you mean you telling me I can't get on that? You know what I'm saying? But that's just what it was like back then. Like, yo, like, even myself, if Genius was on there like that, and he and him and decking them, and it was crazy. I can't touch it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who was that one? Who was the one that you was like, I gotta eat here. That was always just coming from boss man.

[DJ Envy]

My God.

[Ghostface Killah]

Nah, I know what you mean. If I could do it, it was everybody. Because you want that number one spot. Like, you know, I mean, but I knew with not the touch too. Like, no, Tone, you ain't got it right now. Let that go. And that was it.

[DJ Envy]

What record did you hear that on?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, yeah, what's the one you missed?

[DJ Envy]

I felt like crayon. I always felt like Ghost should have been on Cream.

[Ghostface Killah]

Not at that time. Not at that time, no. They was just him and Deck had two verses Mighty ones. And, you know, other one to me was even better than that one, but.

[DJ Envy]

Really?

[Ghostface Killah]

Yeah, yeah. He was saying something. He was. He was really inspected. For real?

[DJ Envy]

Real. So what happened with that other person?

[Ghostface Killah]

I don't know. I don't think he put it out yet. Wow. I mean. I mean, yet. But I don't even think he gonna do it, you know, I mean, something with some rubber bands, like, wrapped in rubber bands. He. I gotta ask him about that again. Like, you know, I mean, but what was it again?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What record did you miss that you feel like, damn, I missed that one?

[Ghostface Killah]

I mean, even when I did Cuban, I. I. You know, But I was on too much. So when Ray did Scarface, when I heard Scarface, that beat, I was like, it comes on chunky, like. Yeah. And I was like. Because I wasn't there. So I'm like, yo, when did he do that one? Like. Like, yeah. But then Rizza was like, yo, nah, you just too much. You want too much stuff like that. He needs some solo ones. So that one. And, you know, I was there. We need to spot rushes, whatever the case may be. But, yeah, like. Like that. But I know. It was mega. More tracks, though, like, you know what I mean?

[DJ Envy]

What made y' all want to remix? Can it be also simple? Always think about that.

[Ghostface Killah]

I don't know if it was the. If it was a label or whatever that called for the remix or. Or maybe Riz. I'm not too sure. But, yeah. So, yeah, I like. I like that. That track right there, too.

[DJ Envy]

I used to run around just screaming, baggy jeans, wallaby clothes, pretty women. I put it in them. Shot up in them deadly venom. Yeah.

[Ghostface Killah]

I'm telling you, that it. And those was the days, though. Those was the. See, I missed those days because when I used to hear, like, Biggie Nines and, like, it made me want to go right. And I can't even run home to go right no more. You know what I mean? Unless I'm hearing the locks. Somebody that I really like that. Of my peers that I could. You know, that's getting busy, you know, I mean, but nowadays it's really not like that. So a lot of times I don't even listen. I listen to more R B than I do rap, you know, me. Because it's really not there for me. Like. Like, yo, you just do it because you want to do it like brothers back like the Mob, Mob albums or NAS Album Drop. It was like, yo, I gotta go right? Gotta go right? I miss those days.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I was just gonna Ask even when we were talking about the song from 20 years ago, like, what does inspire you now? Because you don't really get with a lot of the music now, rat wise and R B wise, though, what do you listen to where you're like, oh, I want to go. Now that you want to go right after R B. Yeah. Like, what R B songs?

[Ghostface Killah]

I mean, you know, you got. I love Stevie. You know what I mean?

[Lauren LaRosa]

So it's still the older R B. It's nothing older.

[Ghostface Killah]

RB and. No.

[DJ Envy]

And.

[Ghostface Killah]

And the Darnell Joneses and all that. The Jaheems and all that. Like, I. I'll catch a few bars. When I'm hearing that. I'll just catch bars like. Like. Like, yo. And be like, yo, you know what? I'm gonna do one of these kind of tapes or whatever the case may be and just get it. Like. Like, you know, because that's. That's. I love that. Especially 90s.

[DJ Envy]

What's your favorite feature on an R B record? Your. Your personal favorite verse? You spit on an R B record.

[Ghostface Killah]

I never even looked at it like that before.

[DJ Envy]

You never thought about what's your favorite?

[Ghostface Killah]

I don't be doing that because people ask me that all the time. Like, yo, what's your favorite, man, I got mad records.

[DJ Envy]

Mine is freaking. You remix with Jodeci.

[Ghostface Killah]

All right. Yeah, all right. That was.

[DJ Envy]

That was a minute ridiculous, man.

[Ghostface Killah]

You know what? You might be right now that you said it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That was.

[Ghostface Killah]

That was. I'll take that one.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That was a hard record.

[Ghostface Killah]

I'll pick that one. But the best one out that I. That, that. That. That I had, like, was the one I did with Beyonce.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He made Summertime sound grimy.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, yeah, Summertime is cool, but that freaking is different, man.

[Ghostface Killah]

No, that one might. That's number one, then. Yeah, that's number one. That's more than Shay Shay to me. You know what I mean? But, yeah, now he was in pocket with that.

[DJ Envy]

Tell me how that record happened.

[Ghostface Killah]

He was in the studio with those guys International. Yeah, we was in there.

[DJ Envy]

Like, y' all knew y' all was gonna do a record up.

[Ghostface Killah]

Yeah, we was coming in there to do the remix, whatever, you know, I mean, but I know that beat was that chunky, though. You don't mean when we got in there and then they just put it on and it was just crazy in there. They was in here drinking that. Some red, some aftershock. Yeah, aftershock. Yeah. That's what I'm trying to tell you.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Ghostface Killah]

So. So I'm like. But they was bent. Ray caught his lines. While he's catching his lines, I'm catching my lines. Long story short, we just went and did it like he did. He laid his. I laid mines. And it just came out the way it just came out.

[DJ Envy]

Hey, yo, sit back, kick your feet up on the glass table. Grab the remote, baby, check my on cable. I got the hey Love album. Plus Jody said roll it up. The easy ride is in the ashtray. Full moons concrete up all up in the room. You got the munchies, ice cold milk and launda dunes. How you like it, baby? I like it on the sink. You freak me butt naked in the long mini. Oh my God, man, what power you want? Study Islam, play it off if my wife calls. You're my cousin, Don Crazy man. Yeah.

[Ghostface Killah]

Yo, is it. Those were those days.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, do you ever look back and. And really think about and take it all in? The success of Wu Tang, the biggest group, that logo. I mean, we have Pete Davis in here. He has. He has a tattooed on him, right?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, like superhero.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But it's not only that. It transcends through generations. Like, it's not just 50, 60. You got 30, 20 year old teens that still know that logo and still know y'.

[DJ Envy]

All. That's super T shirts like, y' all look.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You ever look back and be like, Jesus just. Yeah, some kids from Staten island is.

[Ghostface Killah]

Just like, we're gonna find a way older hit you. You know what I mean? I started seeing it like that when I. When I got older. When I was young, you just in the mix. But when you look be. When you try to put yourself on the outside looking in, it's like, yo. Because I didn't know it was gonna be like that. I just knew that we was coming in to do damage. I said, yo, ain't nobody playing with us. Ain't nobody anybody. We just too ill. Like, boom. But then after a while, it just turned into some cold. You know what I mean? And. And then you still hear like. Like, I seen a lot of my favorite. Like, like not. Oh, I like saying old school rappers. But you know that you. Once you look up to, it's like, yo, we still selling out like, like right now. And then my best year with these guys was like the tour that we just did, you know, I mean, it's mad 30 some years later, so. But yeah, nah, it's a. It's an amazing yo man. And I say to myself, I'm like, yo, like, I know there's people that went to the grave with that W. Yeah, you know what I mean? Like I'll be in Australia. One kid pooped down his pants. It was like, yo. So thigh was old Dirty Bass's face. Like, yo. You know what I mean? Like, yo. And I'm like, yo, wow. Like, I'm just grateful. I'm just. I'm just humbled to be a part of something that. That's living when they said it was forever. And you know, I guess the universe took it like that because I'm seeing like 7 year old kids in the. In the stands, you know, I mean, little ones even little one in that with shirts on. So I'm like, damn. Like it's. It's still going like, you know what I mean? So I don't know. I'm just here to keep that flag, to raise whatever flag I could raise and just keep it, the movement going like.

[DJ Envy]

That's why it's so interesting that you drop a supreme clientele too at a time like this. Because back in 2000, when you drop supreme clientele, it was a lot of people that was like, yo. That saved the Wu Tang brand in a lot of ways. Like, I really kept that flag held high. Did you feel that pressure when you were making it back then or you just were in a.

[Ghostface Killah]

We were just zoning out because you know what happened. Remember how I be saying like, yo, Iron man was like, they only gave me like a few months to get ahead and to do that.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, you bug. Every time I hear you say that, I'm like, are you bugging? You'll be like, yo, you didn't like that album?

[Ghostface Killah]

You know why? I just rolled it over. Cuba Links, I just wrote. I just skated on it. And they get ahead and, you know, I got rushed with a contract and I'm young like, you know, I mean, so it's like when you're gonna hit me with like four or five hundred thousand dollars, but I gotta hurry up and do it in like, like two months, like 60 days, something like that. It's like I had to make a decision, you know, right then, you know, you'll be like, hold on, G. But that's that. Yeah, I took that. You know me, but I was under pressed under the gun. And my best friend just. He done got caught for something that a body that he even commit. It was dark. Diabetes is on you. You know what I mean? So it was just. It wasn't, you know, it was just. It was gloomy for me. Then I'm shooting it out with the Delphonics. It's just bad things going on, you know what I'm saying? It was just mad. It was just crazy. But I gotta sit there and try to get this thing done. So it was like. Only thing I really liked about it, it was a couple of songs I put all I got is you. You know, I mean, but the album cover was the probably Fly7 album cover ever did.

[DJ Envy]

Iron man was classic.

[Ghostface Killah]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

I don't care what you say. I've heard you say it. I heard, I heard you on Drink Champs. Yeah. I'm like, what? Yeah, man, it's a classic record. Wildflower can made Daytona 500, but God.

[Ghostface Killah]

Dang, I get it. But it was just, it was just. Maybe because it was just a spirit. It was, it was.

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[DJ Envy]

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[Morgan Wood]

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[Ghostface Killah]

Jodie Sweetin.

[DJ Envy]

Monica Padme.

[Hilarious]

Elaine Welteroth. I'm Jessica Voss.

[Morgan Wood]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jeopardy.

[Hilarious]

Truthers who say that you are given all the answers believe in.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I guess they would be conspiracy theorists.

[Hilarious]

That's right. Are there Jeopardy. Truthers? Are there people who say that it. It was rigged?

[Ghostface Killah]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ever since I was first on, people.

[DJ Envy]

Are like, they gave you the answers. Right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And then there's the other ones which.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Are like, they gave you the answers.

[Ghostface Killah]

And you still blew it.

[Hilarious]

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[Ghostface Killah]

Kind of like dark and. And cloudy to me. Like even rap wise. I wasn't really like, like there with it. I had to hurry up and I don't like being rushed. So that's why I don't get deadlines no more. If I'm doing music, I don't want no deadline. Like, let me go.

[DJ Envy]

You know, the first time I met Ghost, I was drunk as hell at a party, some party Wendy Williams was throwing. And I ran up on him outside and started rapping wildflowers.

[Ghostface Killah]

I remember that. I remember that somewhere.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. Yo, your friend. Yeah, he stink hoe. I seen her on the elevator. Honey, grab my kango.

[Ghostface Killah]

Word. Yeah. And you did tell me back then, like, yo, yo, you.

[DJ Envy]

You my favorite rapper ever, man.

[Ghostface Killah]

Exactly. Now I respect that. Respect that.

[DJ Envy]

Kidding. Nah, Absolutely.

[Ghostface Killah]

Words. Because sometimes I write a couple of bars, couple of songs. And I might think, like, I might think of you. Like, you know what I mean? Like, I wonder what he gonna think about this. You know what I mean? Like, yo, like. You know what I'm saying? So. Nah, that's love right there, though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

During the recent interview, there was always a rumor in New York that Puff banned y' all from radio. That was like, a big rumor for years and years and years, right? And you kind of confirmed that, so that was true.

[Ghostface Killah]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[DJ Envy]

How you acting like you don't know. You was a dj.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I didn't work during that time. I was doing mixtapes.

[Ghostface Killah]

Okay. Yo. Nah. Cause, yeah, Rizza was telling us. He was like, yo. He said, yeah, Puff admitted to it. Like, he was talking. And I think Riz asked him a question, and Puff agreed to it. You know what I'm saying? And I'm like. Because it was just like after that Hot 97 thing, it just went haywire. It just went. Things just went down. Like, it. It was. It aim it feel right no more. And. And if Puff did that, that was a nice chess move, you know what I mean? Because he told Rizzy, he said, yo, but y' all was just too, like, coming up, you know? Hold on. Did Dirty. Did that. Did Dirty do that before that or. That was after Dirty did. They had the Grammys.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He did it.

[Ghostface Killah]

That was after.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

After, after.

[DJ Envy]

He did after that. Had to be like, 98. So when Dirty did that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I think.

[Ghostface Killah]

Was that. All right, so we did forever in 97. Right? Right.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. Y' all were nominated for album of the year. It was a rap. No Way Out, Life After Death, Wu Tang Forever. I forgot what else was in that category, right?

[Ghostface Killah]

So, yeah, so he was like, yo. He said something like, yo. Puff is like, saying, like, yo, y' all was. I guess we was his competition, you know what I mean? And, yeah, and it just was on that. That time right there. So we. Yeah, they. They banned us. I guess we should have just stayed on Race against the Machine.

[DJ Envy]

How did that make y' all feel back then when you saw, like, even now? But when you saw all of those white people embrace Wu Tang, Y' all was so pro black still now, though, so military white people loved Wu Tang.

[Ghostface Killah]

They started coming. I don't know. I always think. I think about that, and I just think that that might have been the knowledge we was. I mean, first of all, you got non members. We up there like Earth, Wind and Fire, man. Everybody is just different, unique in their own way. And I don't think I don't think they probably ever seen nothing like that. It didn't. Especially when you got brothers speaking the truth and, you know, like. Like, Like. Like. Like, people, when you hear the truth, you become attracted to that, like, you know what I mean? And everything else. So I. It's. I think it's a few things that got the whole world just to. Just to come in. Not just blacks, Latinos and stuff like that. So. Yeah, man. And it's funny because when we go overseas, it's like. It's like mania. Oh. Like, you get more. I say more love, but it's. It just feels like they just on it. Well, Ghost.

[DJ Envy]

Ghost gotta go. Hold on. If Ghost never picked up a microphone, where do you think Dennis Coles would be right now?

[Ghostface Killah]

Don't say that. It probably wouldn't be good. It wouldn't be good. It wouldn't be good because we was out there doing it. We was out there still, you know? I mean, I was. I mean, Richard had to tell me, like, yo, listen, man, you can't really. You can't mix pork with beef, bro. You know? I mean, I'm hearing what you're doing at this. Whatever, whatever, whatever, whatever. And I had to make a decision, you know? I mean, so that route that I was in, it was. Yeah. It was even in jail, dead somewhere or whatever. Whatever the streets would have been calling for. That's what it would have been.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let's get into a joint off the album. What you want to hear?

[DJ Envy]

Go. You want to do the joint with meth?

[Ghostface Killah]

I gotta do. Do that then. You know, Join me. Do that then.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, well, let's get into it now.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, you gotta hit a pause skip, too, on go south.

[Ghostface Killah]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hold on now, because. Yeah, man, the pauses. The pauses is like, yo, yo, I be getting hit with the pause. Like, hey, by pausing me, you know, this is. You know what I'm saying? Like, this how I talk, bro. You know what I mean? Like, yo, like I said when I told y', all, blow your head off. Yeah. Serious.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Ghostface Killah]

You know what I mean? But, yo, it got. You know, the pause game is too much right now. I don't even think I ever told somebody, pause like, pause. No. You know what I mean? But. But I'll be doing that all the time with the. I'll be like, yo, you crazy, man. Yeah, man. I can't write my rhymes, like, you.

[DJ Envy]

Know what I mean, without the engineer.

[Ghostface Killah]

Telling me because he's younger than me. Yo, yo, yo. I don't think that's a good. You know what I mean? I mean, what you talking about? You don't mean. That's. That's good. This is my. I'm talking like this. This, yo, but you know, this. Then he got me thinking, you know what I mean? So now I gotta change it up. Like, I'm not used to that. Yo.

[DJ Envy]

Not a dude on the skit said, nah, we let you live for a long time. You know, back in the day, you said, yo, we eat fish and toss salads.

[Ghostface Killah]

Make rap balance. He's like, yo, what the. I said, yo, you know what I mean? That's a fresh salad. It's a fresh salad. You know, we call tor salads back then. Fresh, but still, I mean, I'm a jam. This and that and the third. What does salad got do with ass? What you gotta do with ass? What you gotta do with ass? And just continue from right there. Know, but yo, man, yo, nah, it's. It's. The game is crazy, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We appreciate you, brother.

[DJ Envy]

Absolutely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Album is out right now.

[Ghostface Killah]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

Supreme clientele too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ghost Face Killer. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

That's right, Eli. You ain't never heard rap like this in your mother effing life. Drake could never. Eli talking to O. Eli.

[Hilarious]

And this is your favorite rapper. You was having so much fun in that interview. I just heard the smiling through the brick radio.

[Ghostface Killah]

Bricked up.

[Hilarious]

I could tell.

[DJ Envy]

Why you gotta be bricked up? Why can't you just celebrate a person, man? Like, yes, that's a rap superhero.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He was bricked up. Let's get to the latest with Laura.

[DJ Envy]

That's just disgusting.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She gets it from somebody that knows somebody.

[Lauren LaRosa]

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

[DJ Envy]

She be having the latest on.

[Ghostface Killah]

The.

[DJ Envy]

Latest with Lauren LaRosa. Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details. Sometimes she have a little bit of everything. Oh, it's the latest on the Breakfast Club. Talk to me, LL Cool Bay.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Hey, good morning again. So Offset talking about Drake. You were just talking about Drake. Offset was on the Full Sin podcast, which is the podcast by the Nook Boys, and he was talking about a lot of things, cuz, you know, K just dropped his new album and he was talking about the relationship with Drake because Drake supported the Migos so much in the early days of their career.

[Ghostface Killah]

Sure did.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Let's take a listen to Offset.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You've done a few other songs with Drake, right? No complaints.

[Ghostface Killah]

No complaints.

[Hilarious]

That's a banger.

[DJ Envy]

Came through for me on that one.

[Ghostface Killah]

I just wound out.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Have you been in the studio with him?

[Ghostface Killah]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How many songs did like Migos. And you have a Drake total?

[Lauren LaRosa]

So many.

[Ghostface Killah]

Right. Five or six.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Has he always showed love to you guys?

[DJ Envy]

Always pull up to video shoes.

[Ghostface Killah]

All this don't make it a hassle. Don't be charging. Even we was looking like didn't charge, didn't like. Because a lot of artists his. His size will bully the record.

[DJ Envy]

Be like, I'm gonna do it, but.

[Ghostface Killah]

I want all the publishing, all that. He ain't do none.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's a.

[DJ Envy]

That.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's love that.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, absolutely. I mean, Drake's been one of his best verses ever on Amigos record. That the Versace.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely.

[Lauren LaRosa]

After you got walking. Like I talk.

[Hilarious]

Like I talk.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. Like. But to know that, you know, I.

[Hilarious]

Mean, I think that's pretty dope.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. I was gonna say decided to do that in front of this on like, on the scene. It looks like Drake supports the artist especially. He did that with Little Baby too. Remember he took Little Baby on the show.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Baby, he does that with a lot of artists.

[Ghostface Killah]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

But then, yeah, with the Migos, they had the Aubrey and the Three Migos tour.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes. And they had the tour as well. But to know behind the scenes, he's also supportive as well because, you know, the business is where it matters is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Versace was early on. It was one of the reasons why it crossed over like it did.

[Hilarious]

And you never hear of somebody like that big, as big as Drake not charging for features.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Hilarious]

Or just so the fact that he's never charged them, then also they're entitled to 50% of whatever, you know, what is whatever they. Oh, publishing, you know, from the records. I think that's pretty dope.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. Inspire.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And Drake does that with a lot of artists. So, like, he did that with Fetty Wap. He did that with a lot of artists that's just coming out. He takes their career and gives it a boost.

[DJ Envy]

He runs to Atlanta when he needs a check balance. That's what Kendrick said.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Kendrick came out with the clips in LA on their tour stop in la. Yes. We have audio from it. Let's take a listen to Kendrick. Just the crowd reaction to Kendrick coming out with the glass in la.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's all.

[Hilarious]

That's crazy. You do hear all that love out there.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And it was. Wow. It was a surprise too. No one knew that he was coming out. And then he ended his part of the song by saying he was gonna go back out into the stands to watch the show as well. So, you know, it's a Good little surprise if you in la.

[Hilarious]

And that's one of the best songs on that. On the Clips album for me. I love that. I love the whole album. I'm still listening to it, actually.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I love the whole album too. Now, last little Drake thing here. So you guys know Bryson Taylor has been releasing music as well. Yes. So Bryson Taylor, to me, I think he's an amazing artist, but I think that the industry, he is tired of it. And he sat down for interview. He talked a bit about not wanting to do this anymore. Let's take a listen to Bryson.

[DJ Envy]

I really only do it to. To feed my family and take care of people, bro.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, like being an artist right now.

[DJ Envy]

And it took me a long time to really get my money right and figure. Figure out and how now I'm straight and my family's straight. Before, for a minute I was like, really struggling there, like, trying to get it back and figure out what the hell I was gonna do, you know, if I could, you know, somebody called me if Drake called me tomorrow and said, hey, bro, like, just write for me for the rest of, you know, whatever, whoever. Chris, yo, just write for me or all these people, like, I would stop being an artist right away, you know what I mean? Like, I'm working on the game right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I've been studying game design for, like, five years.

[DJ Envy]

Granted, I'm not doing it really for the money, but, like, the moment I have some success in something else that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Can feed my family the same way.

[DJ Envy]

I'm feeding my family right now and take care of the people, I'm done being an artist, you know, just because, like, why?

[Hilarious]

Yeah, I'm not shocked that he felt that way and spoke on it because when he was up here not too long ago, I think it was, what, beginning of the year.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, he.

[Hilarious]

Yeah, he sounded the same.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I just hate to hear artists that are so talented, I know, sound like that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He doesn't. He doesn't. Like, if you talk to him, you see him, you could tell he really necessarily doesn't want to be a star very much. So he doesn't really want to perform. He just likes doing his music and going back in the hole and chilling.

[Ghostface Killah]

But.

[DJ Envy]

And there's also nothing wrong with having an end game, you know what I'm saying? Like, you can't do this forever, right? I mean. I mean, you can, but that doesn't mean you necessarily want to. And you know, he wants to make video games. I believe it is. Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

He said he talked about that up.

[Hilarious]

Here too, when he Was up here.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, he's been talking a lot about that. He said he's going through the process of learning how to design them, and that might be his exit strategy, which I'm not mad at, but I just think he's so talented. It just seemed.

[Hilarious]

I know, right?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. I just. I feel like sometimes when you want something and when you get it, it's like it exhausts you so much. Because he also talked about, like, wanting to work with people and reaching out to them and people just not responding and him feeling like, yo, what the heck is going on? But people were supportive when he was on his way up now.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Hilarious]

No, no. I was gonna make mention when he was up here, like, his first album, the one.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Right.

[Hilarious]

But he hearing him sit in my face and say he like it. Like, he. He was. He was down about it, and he. His whole thing. He never said he enjoyed doing music at all. And he just said to his point, when he was up here at the Breakfast Club, that he was doing it for his family. Now he. He got his bread up. He's treat his family good. He. He all right. He'd be all right if he never had to make another album.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Another Drake mentioned, though, the. The. I love. No, we're done. I'm just saying. Bryson mentioned Drake.

[Hilarious]

I was trying to say.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, no, just make sure we play not like us.

[Hilarious]

Oblo.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Did you ever find out what happened? Why he shoot at Rob Markman like that? Drake?

[DJ Envy]

Oh, I have no idea.

[Lauren LaRosa]

There was a clip going around of Rob Markman and Tory Lanez, and they're like, in the interview, and Tory Lanez is rapping Lil Wayne, and he actually asked Rob Markman to finish it, and Rob Markman doesn't finish it. And Drake came under and was like, of course he wasn't going to finish it, and called him a goof. And I'm like, oh, my God. And Rob Markman said, well, I would respond back, but you would sue. What is happening right now shut you down so much back and forth in.

[DJ Envy]

Hip hop social media shots. You know how people do.

[Hilarious]

And good news, though, y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All.

[Hilarious]

Messy Vision has sold out of four collections, thanks to the Breakfast Club listeners. We got a few more.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's that? What you got on now?

[Hilarious]

These are called the Joey. These are the ones that I gave Sierra and Russell Wilson last week. You have the. His and hers. They actually dropped this Wednesday. So make sure you have your promo code ready, because they're also going to be 20 off using the. The code CC. Okay. CICI also download that album because it's definitely dope.

[DJ Envy]

I want the roller coasters. When you going to bring me. What is that? What is that?

[Hilarious]

They call it the Infinities. And Cynthia Arivo wore those in the movie Wicked too, y'.

[Ghostface Killah]

All.

[DJ Envy]

So she handle glasses on?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She did. She had the round glasses. She didn't have those on.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She didn't see her with the glass.

[Hilarious]

Exactly.

[DJ Envy]

I got the roller coaster.

[Hilarious]

They 20 off too, y'.

[DJ Envy]

All.

[Hilarious]

So make sure you use your promo code. What's the promo code, Charlemagne?

[DJ Envy]

If you know wake 20 off.

[Hilarious]

No, that's what you get. 20 off if you use the promo code. W a K E awake. Messy vision eyewear.com. thank y'.

[DJ Envy]

All.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

These are CC those awake.

[Hilarious]

Yeah, these are the Joeys.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The Joey promo code for these when.

[Hilarious]

They drop Wednesday, it's is Cece, because Sierra was the first one with.

[Lauren LaRosa]

These are horrible students, period.

[Hilarious]

I'm gonna talk to you after because he's sitting there looking stupid. I can't understand.

[DJ Envy]

First of all, I'm not looking. He's heard that before.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He's heard that before class.

[Hilarious]

Put your hand down.

[DJ Envy]

We'll talk to you after class. I'm listening. I'm taking it all in.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We give you the donkey too, man.

[DJ Envy]

Listen. Four after the hour, man. The serial seat sniffer is back at it, man. We need Khalid's crowder to come to the front of the congregation. This man is still out here sniffing asses. He ain't got no business sniffing.

[Hilarious]

I bet he can't say that quick. What you say?

[DJ Envy]

The serial sniff sniffer.

[Ghostface Killah]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

We will discuss. That's how it sound when your way be slip slipping off. Right? The breakfast with the donkey.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's time for donkey of the day.

[DJ Envy]

There's a bunch of donkeys around here with the he. Yes, you are a donkey. What the hell? What the hell? You need some donkey. Today's just sell himself.

[Ghostface Killah]

All day. Give it to him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, man, Charlemagne. Who you giving donkey to do tonight?

[DJ Envy]

Well, Rob 49, Donkey of the Day for Monday, August 25th, goes to a 38 year old California man named Khalees Karen Crowder. Now, you might remember that name because I just gave him donkey of the day a couple of weeks ago for being a serial sniffer of seats. Okay? By the way, when I say sneak seats, I mean actual asses, okay? Buttocks, the butt, behind, rear end, the backside, the doo doo maker. See, the reason I'm stressing that is because y' all get online and say charlamagne. I know you not talking you sniffed someone's seat? Yes, I did. An actual seat. Okay. Jennifer Lopez came to the Breakfast Club once, way, way, way, way, way back in the day. And I sniffed the chair she was sitting in. And people think that's the same as Khalees Karen Crowder walking up behind women and sticking his nose in. And Chick fil a on a Sunday. You think that's the same thing until you realize Dr. Umar and Jennifer Lopez sat in that chair on the same day. But let's stick to the matter at hand. Exactly. Let's stick to the matter at hand. Okay. Khalees Crowder. All right. The butt snip butt sniffing bandit has once again been arrested for smelling that rump roast that was cooking in the oven. Okay. This man was arrested for the same crime less than a month ago. I can't make this kind of stuff up. Let's go to ABC 7 Eyewitness News for the report.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Please, to a disturbing story of a registered sex offender who has been arrested again. He made headlines for sniffing women in the past. 38 year old Kelise Crowder was re arrested Wednesday after reports of yet another sniffing incident at a Walgreens in Burbank. This is video of prior incidents. You can see him coming up behind that woman. Crowder was already on parole and has a documented history of similar arrests for lewd conduct in both Glendale and Burbank dating back to 2021. Crowder has been charged with a felony and is now being held without bail.

[DJ Envy]

This man was allegedly caught inhaling the aroma of anus again. Okay. This man allegedly was sniffing a woman's bunky at a Walgreens in Burbank. And then this man got arrested for the exact same thing. On July 22nd. He was in Nordstrom's indulging in the fragrance of dookie and Gabbana. Light brown, too, by the way. Okay, what's funny about this story is the way police describe it, okay? They say while in the woman's section, the suspect was observed following a female customer, crouching near her and engaging in lewd behavior by inappropriately sniffing her buttocks. Now, I could be wrong, but is there an appropriate way to do it that I don't know about? I don't think there is an appropriate way to walk up to women in the department store and sniff their cake factory. Now, he's already a registered sex offender with a documented history of similar arrests for lewd conduct dating back to 2021. You just heard that in the news. He's been charged with one count of loitering with intent to commit a crime. And his bail has been set at 100 grand. So at some point, he gonna get out. We have to decide as a society who we keeping and who we deporting. Okay? This man clearly needs some form of rehabilitation. But how do you rehabilitate someone for being the lord of the centerings? Okay, how do you get someone help for being the Duke of Dingleberry's, okay? He is the prince of poochniffers. Is there a class you can take for that that? I want doctors to start examining his brain Now. Why is he wired like this? Okay, in France, they say he likes to smell of all the ass. Well, that translates to fragrance of feces. Okay?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All the ass.

[DJ Envy]

Yes. Cologne the cologne. Okay. Cologne the calling. Yes. How do you rehabilitate a man for that? Okay, you don't. This is a different type of crack addiction, all right? There's plenty of rehabs for fried cocaine, but there's no rehab for colonel crack with. So I really don't know what you do with this person other than maybe try the mirror effect law 44 and the 48 laws of power disarm and infuriate with the mirror effect, okay? That's what Gavin Newsom is currently doing to Trump. You can neutralize an opponent's impact by doing what they do. So maybe law enforcement needs to hire some of those freaky ass inmates to start coming up behind Khalees while he's locked up and have them sniff his musty muffler, okay? How would you like it when someone got their nose in your funk trunk? Okay? It's all fun and games until people are sticking their nose in your business. And by business, I mean your fecal fragrance factory, AKA your boonki. Please give Khalees Crowder the sweet sounds of the Hamiltones.

[Ghostface Killah]

Of the day.

[Hilarious]

You are the.

[Ghostface Killah]

The doy of the day.

[Hilarious]

Hey, yo, dookie and cabana is funny light, bro. Yo, people don't really understand. Like, people be sleeping on the hilarity of that word dookie. Dookie is crazy.

[DJ Envy]

Telling somebody they smell like dookie is like, damn, yes.

[Hilarious]

Oh, my God.

[DJ Envy]

Yo, dookie's a different stench.

[Hilarious]

And what was that accent? That was not French.

[DJ Envy]

What was it?

[Hilarious]

You sounded like you was trying to.

[DJ Envy]

Be African, but that's only because I had just finished watching Family Feud. Ghana.

[Hilarious]

No, because that was far from French. I'm like, how you go straight to Ghana? This man was French.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's crazy. All right, well, thank you for that.

[DJ Envy]

Donkey of the day. Oh, dear. Us.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, now let's open up the phone lines. 800-585-1051. Now, this morning during Front Page News, we talked about Trump sending out out the National Guard to different cities.

[DJ Envy]

Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And we were talking about data and we were talking about feeling.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. And I was asking a question, I was asking, you know, you know, what, what, what, what, what matters more? Data. Our feelings. Because the data says that crime was dropping in D.C. the data says crime has been dropping in Baltimore. Murders are significantly down in Baltimore, according to the data. But then you talk to some people on the street and they'd be like, no, things are bad here. Right, right. So what matters more feelings of data.

[Ghostface Killah]

Right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And the same thing with here in New York City, they say crime is bad, but you hear about, like, five people got.

[DJ Envy]

No, no, you mean crime is down.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Crime is down. Right. Classic. Crime is bad. Crime is down. But here in New York City, five people got shot over the weekend, and we hear about that, that deadly club shooting a couple days ago, then there was a shooting in Times Square. It seems like it's not down. I don't know where. The data doesn't feel right because here it doesn't feel safe.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, yeah. And that is never going to work for people if they don't feel it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Correct.

[DJ Envy]

You know, data only works when you actually feel it. Like, you can tell people, like, like I said earlier, you can be £500 and lose 200, but you're still fat.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You'Re still big, you're still obese. Yes. So 800-585-1051.

[Hilarious]

That's why I just got in trouble with a fat girl.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, yeah, you did.

[Hilarious]

Oh, you're saying. Stop using communities for metaphors.

[DJ Envy]

Go ahead.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Would you want Trump to send the National Guard to your city to clean your city up?

[DJ Envy]

No.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That is the question. 800-585-1051. A lot of people feel like, yeah, my city's effed up, we need to clean it up. There's too much crime. There's stolen cars, they're running in people's houses. There's too many robberies. I can't go to the local pharmacy because everything's behind a box or a glass and I gotta find somebody in the front to open up the glass just to get deodorant. So we're asking 800-585-1051. Would you want Trump to send the National Guard to your city? Let's discuss this. The Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

It's topic time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Call 800-585-1051 to join into the discussion.

[DJ Envy]

With the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Now, if you're just joining us, we were having this conversation during front page news where Trump is deploying some of the National Guards to different cities. And we're asking 800-585-1051, would you want this to happen to your city? Is your city bad? Do you not feel like your city's cleaned up? Is it too much crime? Do you feel like this will help?

[DJ Envy]

No, I would not. And I'm tired of governments not giving communities the resources they need to thrive. And then when those communities resort to crime because poverty and crime go hand in hand, they get tough on the crime. And when you have these private prisons and prison being the big business, it is. You realize why there is no real incentive to actually help these communities because, you know, these folks. Folks need to fill these prisons up. But if you really cared about stopping crime, you would make targeted investments into youth mentorship and development programs, job training and employment opportunities. You'd provide mental health and trauma support. You would have after school and academic support. You would actually try to help these people. So, no, I wouldn't want. I would not want the National Guard in my city.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What do you think?

[Hilarious]

Well, see, I don't live in Baltimore. I'm from there, so I can't really speak to what the people do feel versus the data you found me. But I would not want Trump to do it the way he's doing it. I think, you know, for crime to be. Any city will want, you know, somebody to come in and clean up their city, you know, as it relates to crime and homelessness and things like that. However, the way he's doing it is horrendous. You know what I mean?

[DJ Envy]

So, no, and it's not. And it's not actually cleaning anything up. It's literally like putting deodorant on after you just finished playing basketball or just finished working out. But, no, you need to go wash your ass. You gotta get to the root cause of the problem. The root cause of the problem is these people have nothing to do in these communities. Like, they're not investing in each other. They're not making strategic, targeted investments into actually fixing up the community.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I'm with you. The National Guard, it just doesn't feel right. Even when you see military out on the street, it makes you feel. Makes you more fearful and scared.

[Hunter]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Morgan Wood]

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[DJ Envy]

It's Black Business Month and Black Tech green money is tapping in. I'm Will Lucas spotlighting Black founders, investors and innovators building the future one idea at a time. Let's talk legacy tech and generational wealth. I don't think any person of any gender, race, ethnicity should alter who they are, especially on an intellectual level or a talent level, to make someone else feel comfortable just because they are the majority in this situation and they need employment. So for me, I'm always going to be honest in saying that we need to be unapologetically, apologetically ourselves. If that makes me a vocal CEO and people consider that rocking the boat, so be it. To hear this and more on the power of Black innovation and ownership, listen to Black Tech Green Money from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Hilarious]

Have you ever wished for a change but weren't sure how to make it? Maybe you felt stuck in a job, a place, or even a relationship. I'm Emily Tish Sussman and on she Pivots, I dive into the inspiring pivots of women who have taken big leaps in their lives and careers.

[DJ Envy]

I'm Gretchen Whitmer. Jody Sweeten, Monica Patton.

[Hilarious]

Elaine Welteroth. I'm Jessica Voss.

[Morgan Wood]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

Learn how to get comfortable pivoting because your life is gonna be full of them.

[Hilarious]

Every episode gets real about the why behind these changes and gives you the inspiration and maybe the push to make your next pivot. Listen to these Women. And more on she pivots now on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, puzzlers. Let's start with a quick puzzle. The answer is Ken Jennings appearance on the puzzler with A.J. jacobs. The question is, what is the most entertaining listening experience in podcast land?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jeopardy.

[Hilarious]

Truthers who say that you were given all the answers believe in.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I guess they would be conspiracy theorists.

[Hilarious]

That's right. Are there Jeopardy. Truthers, Are there people who say that it. It was rigged?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ever since I was first on, people.

[DJ Envy]

Are like, they gave you the answers. Right.

[Lauren LaRosa]

And then there's the other ones which.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Are like they gave you the answers.

[Ghostface Killah]

And you still blew it.

[Hilarious]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

Anything else? Like you said, we need to get to the root of the problem and find out what's going on in these cities. And if it means we have to do more programs, let's do more programs. If it means we have to do more this or more that. But having the National Guard out there with machine guns and things like that and tanks driving through. Nah.

[Hilarious]

Cause that's not their job, right? They don't do that National Guard. They don't clean up homelessness and crime and stuff like that. That's like what they not. No, I'm asking y'.

[DJ Envy]

All.

[Hilarious]

That's not what they supposed to do, right?

[Ghostface Killah]

No.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hell no.

[Hilarious]

Yeah, that's okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, they are called when things get out of hand.

[Hilarious]

Right? That's what I thought.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But not for just to do straight up and down police work. No. Hello, who's this?

[Caller]

Yo, this Rico from Hollywood.

[DJ Envy]

Rico from Florida. Rico, what's up?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Talk to us. What's your thoughts?

[Caller]

I don't mind them bringing, bringing in the National Guard or whatever, but they need to also focus on the police organizations too, because they talk about all the data with the crime up and down in the, in the streets. What about the. Within the police organizations? They have crime all the time. And you got these police officers abusing a power. The people see that and you know, one thing leads to another and nobody cares about anybody. So they gonna go rob, they gonna go, you know, do something supposed to do. They see the people that's supposed to be protecting them doing that to them.

[DJ Envy]

And you know what's so crazy? I always talk about all of this money, we. All of this billions of dollars that goes to some of these police departments, put that money into the actual police officer's pockets. You know what I mean? Put that into actually, you know, making sure the police officers got their proper, you know, mental health care as well. Right. Because I think that's one of the issues, too. Like, this dude said, number one, you can be a police officer that got some mental health issues, right? And you got to go into the community and deal with, you know, people telling you to suck they d all day long and blah, blah, blah, and you got a gun, at some point, you're gonna be. Get frustrated, take out that pain you feeling on somebody else.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But like you said, you know, it's kind of like civil servants, right? You look at teachers, you look at police officers. Most police officers want, once they get to that age where they can retire, they out because they're not making a lot of money. And like you said to. To get people screaming in your face all day long and giving you the middle finger and all these things. Nah, you want to be out. And then what do they usually do? They usually do private security when they. When they leave.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And they get paid triple than what they paid on the job, so.

[Ghostface Killah]

Yeah, I get it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello? Who's this?

[Ghostface Killah]

Hello?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, what's your name, Mama?

[Caller]

Hey, it's Cheese.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, Chi. Talk to us, Chief.

[Caller]

It's Cheese. Hey, y'.

[DJ Envy]

All.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, my God. I love when I'm make it through. I don't always make it through, but I'm glad I made it through.

[DJ Envy]

Are we happy when you get through, Boo?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning. Talk to us, Chief.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Thank you. I love hearing y' all boys look at that. But I know in the beginning, you know, you guys were talking about the data and everything, and I want to make sure I stay to your topic, but I'm a financial analyst, but I come from a data analyst background, so I always lean on data. But I also know that data is the only. It's only as strong as, like, the process behind it. So it has to be clean, it has to be consistent and collected the right way to really be trustworthy. Now, when it comes to the president that's stepping in to regulate the state, I personally think that's an overstep. Just like in any job or organization, there's a hierarchy in place for a reason. And when you bypass that, you create confusion and tension.

[Hilarious]

And obviously, we know that God is.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Not the author of confusion.

[Caller]

So it's the.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So, yeah, I believe in the data, but I also believe in respecting the structure of power that keeps everything balanced.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The only thing with the data chi is sometimes they mess with that data, right? So they'll be like, okay, well, murders are down. You know, I mean, but shooting's up, you know, I mean. Or they'll be like, well, you know, manslaughter's down. Like, they play with it a lot of times when you hear certain. When they're very, very particular with things.

[DJ Envy]

And by the way, two things can be true. Like, you know, crime can be down, but that don't mean it's safe. Right?

[Hilarious]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

And I think that's the problem. Like, they. When they. When they scream these crime statistics to us, they tell us crime is down. That don't mean it's safe, my brother.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, right.

[DJ Envy]

That's all.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now, if you're just joining us, we're asking about cleaning up different cities. Now, this conversation came from Donald Trump sending the national guard out to D.C. and said he's gonna send it out to a couple of cities. And we're asking, do you feel comfortable out about this? Do you feel like it's cleaning up your city? What is your thoughts? Hello, who's this?

[Caller]

What's up? My name, baseball.

[DJ Envy]

Ain't nobody calling you that. Ain't no grown man ever gonna call you. Everybody don't nobody call you babe.

[Caller]

Everybody.

[DJ Envy]

Where at? Where you at? Where you live at right now?

[Caller]

I live in Colorado. I'm originally from Denmark, South Carolina. My dad from North Charleston all day.

[DJ Envy]

But you telling me that there's grown men that be saying, babe, what's up, baby?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Bass. He's a baseball.

[DJ Envy]

My bad. My bad, bro. My bad.

[Caller]

I know. I ain't no power. I ain't no power bottom like Envy.

[DJ Envy]

Damn.

[Hilarious]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I am not a power bottom.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, you are.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And if I was gay, I'd be.

[Hilarious]

A power top, period. Doing it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Charlamagne's the only bottom up in here. But talk to his brother.

[Caller]

South Carolina, we've been having bad water. Like, he can't come into the city for real and do anything. Just send us some new pipes.

[Hilarious]

Send them some.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, but you know what's so crazy? Denmark has had that. That water for years, brother. So like that.

[Ghostface Killah]

Yeah, yeah.

[Caller]

I've been in elementary school.

[DJ Envy]

That's what I'm saying.

[Caller]

I'm 29 years old now.

[DJ Envy]

We be having these conversations about the people who be having dirty water, whether it's Flint, Michigan, or, you know, Denmark, South Carolina, Alabama. Like, that has been going on through the Republican administrations, Democrat administrations. Like, they Just don't be caring about us.

[Caller]

Yeah, yeah. I just every weekend go get just the water and everything because we got to boil our water on the stovetop.

[DJ Envy]

Come on.

[Caller]

Now it comes out. It come out the same problem.

[DJ Envy]

Damn. Now think about that, right? Yeah.

[Ghostface Killah]

What's up?

[DJ Envy]

A brother like, you grew up with dirty water, right? So that's like. That's. That's. That. That's. That's infrastructure issues. And you probably came from, you know, porn. Porn. Disenfranchised area. How easy is it for. How easy is it to resort to crime when you're in those conditions?

[Hilarious]

Of course.

[Caller]

Oh, very, very Denmark. It's nothing going on in South Carolina. There's not a lot of programs for, like, people, like, coming up, like, to do and whatnot. Like, a lot of us kind of resort to, like, I read your book, sitting up under the tree, like, becoming one of those guys sitting up. That's pretty much the same thing people resort to.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Caller]

You got like, 20 warehouse in Orangeburg, South Carolina, that everybody that I went to high school were working together. So it's like. It's nothing. There's nothing in place to help nobody, for nobody to get ahead. You know what I'm saying?

[DJ Envy]

Absolutely.

[Ghostface Killah]

Right.

[Caller]

So people still struggling, making, like nine to twelve dollars an hour and trying to take care of their kids in their household.

[DJ Envy]

And this what I be. This, thank you, brother. And this what I'm talking about. There's no real incentive to actually help these communities because they know that prisons are big business, especially when they're private prisons. And if they really cared about stopping crime, you would make targeted investment into job training and employment opportunities. You would make targeted investments into mental health and trauma support. You would have youth mentorship programs and development programs. They don't really want to fix the problem.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We got Eric on the line. Eric, good morning.

[Caller]

Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Talk to us, Eric. What's your thoughts?

[Caller]

I definitely think people want the military to come into a city to help. The military doesn't have the same rules as regular police. So when they do things that people don't want, then the complaint will be, now get the military just as it is in D.C. right now. What we should be scared of is definitely no rules are being followed, None. Constitution is thrown to the side, and police are doing whatever they want right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you, brother.

[Hilarious]

Thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, well, what's the moral of the Story of Days and More?

[DJ Envy]

The moral of the story is, no, I do not want the military in our communities. Okay. I'm tired of governments not giving communities the resources they need to thrive. Simple as that. Like, they don't want to fix the problem. They want to weaponize the military against poverty. If you really, really want to fix crime in these cities, then go to the root cause of that crime, which is poverty, which is lack of opportunity, which is lack of resources. Make targeted investments into things that matter. Youth mentorship and development programs, trade schools, job training, employment opportunities, mental health and trauma support, after school programs, academic support, community centers. Give people something to do. That's how you reduce crime.

[Hilarious]

And you can do that with the money, some of the money that they're paying the National Guard, Aren't they paying like a million dollars a day? I think I just heard something like, that's like over a million a day for them to go to these cities and do what they did.

[DJ Envy]

That's right. And that's why, you know, that's why I hate the term defund the police, because they demonize it so much. But all they're simply saying is reallocate some of those resources, those billions of dollars you giving these police departments, and put them back in the communities. I think you should put them back in the communities, and you should put them back in the police officers pockets. Pay police officers more money. Can you imagine if officers were making $250,000 a year, the level of officer you would have now, you know how serious they would take their jobs.

[Hilarious]

You would start seeing them walk around communities again. Remember? I don't know if y', all, but in Baltimore, we used to see that. Like. Like officers used to walk around the communities asking was everything okay? Or you. You know, we would have friendly officers that did that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, they didn't walk around in Queens. They would drive around in Queens, but you would see more officers.

[Hilarious]

You ain't gonna catch no cops.

[DJ Envy]

Nah, nah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They walking around in Queens, but they would drive around all the time. You know, the 103rd and 105th Precinct.

[Hilarious]

I remember that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, you're right. I mean, I'm with you. I think officers should get paid a lot more money. And I don't like the term defund the police either. But what I would say is, if they got so much money, put money into these different programs, make sure the officers are. Are feeling like they can feed their families and like they want to go to work. All right, well, we got the latest with Lauren coming up, so don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Ghostface Killah]

The Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Hilarious]

Lauren becoming a straight face.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She gets him from somebody that knows.

[DJ Envy]

Somebody gets the details.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Homegirl that knows a little bit about everything.

[DJ Envy]

She be having the latest on.

[Ghostface Killah]

The.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Lauren LaRosa]

All right, y'. All. So this actually happened a few a few days ago, but I haven't seen anybody talking about it. So I want to make sure that we did cuz we did the story up here about Jeezy and the Uber driver.

[Hilarious]

Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So Jeezy actually move forward with that and there was a partnership that he did with Uber following that viral moment. Let's take a listen to Jeezy.

[Ghostface Killah]

I just had an interesting call with Uber. I know you guys heard about my adventure to Baltimore the other week for my tour date. Shout out to be more. Tanner, you a legend. With that being said, I'm teaming up with Uber and we're giving away rise to 101 people in need to be single mothers, college kids, young entrepreneurs, what have you. I'm teaming up with Uber so we're going to give 101 people in need rides. So y' all look out for that. Shout out to Uber. Shout out to Tanner. You a legend, baby. God is good, baby.

[Hilarious]

Period.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's dope.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, really, really smart.

[DJ Envy]

Dropping the clues bomb for Jeezy as well.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Really dope for seeing what happened. Yeah. And being and. And no one kind of went to come in on the moment and doing the 101. 101. I thought that that was fire.

[Hilarious]

Hell yeah. Cuz you know, we get callers that call up here all the time about how expensive Lyft and Uber is and all that. Yeah, I just paid 533 to come up here yesterday.

[DJ Envy]

533.

[Hilarious]

$533 to come up here in Uber yesterday.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. And when you do, I wanted.

[Hilarious]

I had to be in studio.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah. And when you do the longer distances, you got to call certain cars cuz they won't go certain distance. Especially when you going state to state, even Jersey to New York.

[Hilarious]

And listen, not Uber lift. I wrote and Lyft black. It was 1065. I said I won't. Me and a regular person gonna be chilling.

[DJ Envy]

Why they got segregated cars.

[Hilarious]

No, it's not black car. Black car is just like, you know, you ride presidential style. It's more space, there's more amenities he tried it segregated a clown.

[DJ Envy]

If lift white, cheaper you would have got lift white. But they left your black ass on that curve as soon as they saw. Hi, this is Jessica.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, my God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's a lot of money. $535.

[Hilarious]

It is, man. It is.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She had to get back here, though, to get.

[Hilarious]

You had to get up here to be with y', all, cuz.

[Lauren LaRosa]

To be hon, with the train. Everything's expensive now because if you did the train, sometimes the train tickets just coming one way, be like 200.

[Hilarious]

Yeah, yeah, but I. I like to ride a seller, the bullet train. A hundred extra dollars so that they'd be 339, 3/4, 40.

[DJ Envy]

They. Yeah, things are expensive. You know, tariffs got the price of everything up. You see, Lauren don't even wear wigs no more.

[Lauren LaRosa]

First of all. Yeah, because just. I just took out my sewing like, three days ago.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Continue on, Lauren. My hair looks good.

[Hilarious]

Like, ignore him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Ignore him.

[Hilarious]

Ignore him. Yes.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Like, he just love me. You. Where am I going next?

[Hilarious]

The people love the bob on her, and that's why she got it and don't come for her. You even like the bob. You said it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn, Lauren. Continue on.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I will continue now. You want to read. You done read that before Times. Read it before Times. Okay. Okay. Yes. So in other music news, I actually. I was really sad to see that this happened. So Big X, the Plug, he's been on such a great rollout for his new music. You laughing at him reading.

[Hilarious]

Yeah, yo, he really did not shut the book yet. But anyway, big extra plug.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So he's been on such a great rollout because he has his new project, I Hope youe're Happy, which dropped. And he's been everywhere. He's been talking a lot about his life, and you've been getting to know him as an artist. Last Friday, there was a story that broke that he had been arrested. He was pulled over in a car because it didn't have, like, a front license plate, and they found, like, a weed in the car. And there was a firearm found in the car as well. Now, he was bailed out later that day, and there was, like, reporters outside of the court. Not court, outside of the. The jail, trying to get just a comment from him. And he just plugging the album, plugging the project or whatever. But when I saw this news, I was so upset because I'm like, yeah, he's been on such a good. Like, I, like, feel like people are finally getting to know him.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I never heard you mention Big X. The plug up here until just now talking about that man getting caught with a gun.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's a lie. And I have text because I've been trying to get him up here for months. He actually reached out a long time ago. His album dropped last week. I believe it was last Friday.

[DJ Envy]

Why you a talk about it?

[Lauren LaRosa]

I was trying to get him up here, but we go. He.

[DJ Envy]

I reached out again, talk about him getting.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I reached out again to get him back up here. And I will say when he did reach out to come up here, it didn't work out. And I was brought in to try and make it work out. I've been a big extra plug supporter. I don't know he gonna say drop. I like him. I like his story.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We was on vacation when he tried to come up here because I remember when you tried to come up here because I think he was doing things in the city.

[Ghostface Killah]

We were on vacation.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But I seen an interview that he did where he said he didn't even. He didn't write the biggest. He said one of his artists wrote it and he didn't even like it and it just took off.

[Hilarious]

Crazy.

[Lauren LaRosa]

One of the reasons too why I was so sad is because he did. I saw an interview did with popcast and he was talking about how like he's been, you know, going through things in his life like this. And one of the biggest things that motivated him to stay away from all the trouble was his son and being away from his son. His son has autism and being a dad, you know, taking care of his son with autism has motivated him or whatever. So, yes, I was sad to see this, but shout out to Brandon, my homeboy. Cuz we have been trying to figure it out since that time when he was trying to come up here. You got something else to say?

[DJ Envy]

No, you need to have something else to say when it comes to these artists and stop just bringing up their stuff when they do something wrong.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I don't just bring up people's stuff when they do something wrong.

[DJ Envy]

I didn't even know his album came out last week.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I didn't know either.

[DJ Envy]

But if Lauren would have put it in the latest, I might have known. But now I know he got a gun charge.

[Hilarious]

Oh, my God.

[DJ Envy]

I know that because that's.

[Hilarious]

That's the latest news.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Exactly. Like, I don't know what you want me to do. The news is out there. I gotta talk about it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right, well, that is the latest.

[DJ Envy]

For Lauren and I want to salute the good brothers Rashad and Troy from Earn your Leisure, man. Dropping the clues bombs for Rashad and Troy. Earn your leisure. I was at Invest Fest this weekend. I think everybody black person should go to Invest Fest at least once. Okay? What they have built with Invest Fest should be celebrated. A weekend of black people coming together to discuss financial literacy and business. Myself and the good brother, Steve Harvey. Salute to Unk. We had a panel together and I. I just love what earn your leisure has created, man. A safe space for people to come together and just learn.

[Hilarious]

Absolutely.

[DJ Envy]

And it's a whole weekend. I don't know why I didn't realize it was a whole weekend.

[Ghostface Killah]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This their fourth year. 50th.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Fifth year.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Fourth year.

[DJ Envy]

Fourth or fifth.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I think this is the fifth year.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Fifth year. So salute to Invest Fest.

[DJ Envy]

It was a really, really, really, really special event.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right.

[Hilarious]

That's what's up. Every time I see those guys, see those guys, they drop some knowledge about investments and stuff. So that's what's up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right. All right, well, People's Choice mixes up next. It's the Breakfast logo.

[Ghostface Killah]

Morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Morning, everybody. It's AJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Salute to everybody in Virginia. The 757 this weekend. I'm gonna be out there for Pusha T and Famlaze and Antonio's cousins festival, which goes down this Saturday. So I will see you. They got Jeezy performing. They got T. Pain performing. A little Kim. I'll be DJing, so it's gonna be a lot of fun. That's my fam. So I gotta go support fam. And I'll be there Friday and Saturday. Friday if you're around.

[Hilarious]

I'm gonna be there the whole weekend. It's only two hours away from the house.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm doing Juan's Mexican Cafe Friday.

[Hilarious]

Why are you telling me that? That's not gonna be at the cousins festival. You just wanna chill with some Mexicans. Outside of that.

[DJ Envy]

This is disgusting. He want Chris and his family to come hold him down.

[Hilarious]

All he gotta do is ask. Yo, why is he trying to throw the subliminals show?

[DJ Envy]

Crystal no one. You know what I'm saying?

[Hilarious]

You're a clown. Yo, But I will be at the cousins festival as well, okay? And I just wanna give a big shout out to FTK Events, man. FTK Connect. That is my Nigerian event planner.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I love her.

[Hilarious]

She.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She.

[Hilarious]

She did Marley's first birthday party.

[DJ Envy]

What was that?

[Hilarious]

Don't do that. She did. She's responsible for all the decorations and everything. I Want to give a big shout out to Candy Carnival? They had the ice cream, the popcorn, like snow cones, all of that for my daughter's birthday party. But it was a lit time. My photographer, Photomatic and videography, Tia Reed, everybody. Man, they just came. It was so lit. My family, my husband's family came out. Marley, man, she survived the whole party. You know, I have a baby, a one year old. They got that nap time. My baby was up the whole time. It was lit. We had the music. I was on the music. I did my music.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Hilarious]

So it was a. It was a great first birthday party. It also reminded me, like, when you have events at your house, people think they can stay past the time that the party posted. I put so many people about that damn house to sleep, man. That's what my husband did. That's what Chris was like.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All right.

[Hilarious]

That. That was his warning. All right. I'm about to put my baby to sleep here.

[DJ Envy]

Go Rome.

[Hilarious]

All right. We be down here when you get back. Yeah, go ahead, put her up, cuz we about to watch. No, get out with all the kids.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, I know. Marley be so confused. Marley's like, look here, man. Marley. Marley. Like, over here, they doing the Electric Slide and pulling out. Fans talking about boots on the ground. Over here, they.

[Hilarious]

Shut up. But it was fun.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't think lamba is Mexican.

[Hilarious]

No, it's not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, it's not. I don't think that's Mexican.

[Hilarious]

Oh, no, they did not do that clown. But either way, it was fun. It was a nice mix. And mingle of black and Mexican family was just beautiful.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What was the food choice?

[DJ Envy]

It was Platinos and collard greens.

[Hilarious]

No, it was not. It was actually Caribbean.

[DJ Envy]

Shut up. Oh, yes.

[Hilarious]

Now, cuz that's what we like. Both of us agreed on that, so shut up. But I want to also say Baltimore, September 5th, 6th and 7th, your girl Jess. Hilarious. Will be at the Baltimore Comedy Factory. Me and my brother, Desi Alexander will be there. Yes. We'll have merch. We're gonna have bad parents and hoodies, jackets, all of that. Also Messy Vision. A Messy Vision stand will be there. Get your tickets. If you show your tickets, you will get 15% off of the Messy Vision eyewear. It's gonna be set up. Me and Desi will be there Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Baltimore, y' all know I'm coming home. And y' all know how y' all treat me every time I get there. So the 41 0. I will be there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's Time to get up out of here, Charlemagne. Before we do, salute to Ghostface for joining us this morning, man.

[DJ Envy]

Salute to Ghostface Killer. My favorite rapper of all time, man. Make sure you go check out Supreme Clientele too. Very dope project. But I mean, Ghosts don't miss with albums, you know, I mean, but I'm a Ghost fan, so I'll buy it, so don't listen to me. Okay? But I think it's very dope. Fourth Disciple, man. Chef's Kid.

[Hilarious]

Now that's the only rapper I ever saw you get excited for.

[Ghostface Killah]

Ever.

[Hilarious]

Yes. You really, really love him. I think that's really dope.

[DJ Envy]

My favorite rappers of all time are Ghostface, Killer, Killer Mike, Scarface, Young Jeezy, TI Nas and Sean Cardiffer.

[Hilarious]

Matter of fact, yeah, Killer Mike, you did get excited. His last album, the one he won a Grammy for, you did get very excited because I told him he was.

[DJ Envy]

Gonna win a Grammy way before it came out. Yes, I got my Compensate with Killer Mike shirt. I salute to Mike. I saw Mike when I was in Atlanta. Stop by his, his studio and garage and everything, man. Salute to my guy, Mike, man. Love that. Love that. Good brother. The positive note is simply this. I don't like stupid people. And you know what a stupid person is to me? Somebody who has the facts, who has the proper information and still makes the wrong decision. So don't be stupid. Have a great, great day. Breakfast Club.

[Ghostface Killah]

You don't finish or y' all done?

[Hunter]

I'm Hunter, host of Hunting for Answers on the Black Effect Podcast Network. Join me every weekday as bite sized stories of missing and murdered black women and girls in America. Stories like Erica Hunt, a young mother vanished without a trace after a family gathering on 4th of July weekend, 2016. No goodbyes, no clues, just gone. Listen to Hunting for Answers every weekday on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[DJ Envy]

Tune in to all the Smoke podcast.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Where Matt and Stack sit down with.

[DJ Envy]

Former first lady Michelle Obama.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Folks find it hard to hate up close. And when you get to know people and you're sitting in their kitchen tables and they're talking like we're talking, you know, you hear our story, how we grew up, how Barack grew up, and you get a chance for people to unpack and get beyond race.

[DJ Envy]

All the Smoke featuring Michelle Obama. To hear this podcast and more, open.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Your free iHeartRadio app, search all the.

[DJ Envy]

Smoke and listen now. I always had to be so good, no one could ignore me. Carve my path with data and drive. But some people only see who I am on paper. The paper ceiling the limitations from degree screens to stereotypes that are holding back over 70 million stars workers skilled through alternative routes Rather than a bachelor's degree, it's time for skills to speak for themselves.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Find resources for breaking through [e-mail] brought.

[DJ Envy]

To you by opportunity at work and.

[Hilarious]

The ad council the US open is.

[Morgan Wood]

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[Hilarious]

I'm breaking down the players, the predictions, the pressure and of course, the honey deuces, the signature cocktail of the U.S. open.

[DJ Envy]

The U.S. open has gotten to be a very wonderfully experiential sporting event.

[Hilarious]

To hear this and more, listen to Good Game with Sarah Spain, an iHeart.

[DJ Envy]

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[Morgan Wood]

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[Hilarious]

App, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[DJ Envy]

Brought to you by Novartis, founding partner.

[Hilarious]

Of iHeart Women's Sports Network.

[Morgan Wood]

This is an iHeart podcast.