FULL SHOW: Nelly & Ashanti Interview, Diddy Says He Will Not Testify; Asks For Case To Be Dismissed + More

Summary

The Breakfast Club Podcast Episode Summary
Title: FULL SHOW: Nelly & Ashanti Interview, Diddy Says He Will Not Testify; Asks For Case To Be Dismissed + More
Host/Authors: DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God
Release Date: June 25, 2025

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Introduction and Guest Announcement

At the beginning of the episode ([02:31]), the hosts warmly welcome their special guests, Nelly and Ashanti, highlighting their achievements and teasing their new reality show, "We Belong Together," set to premiere on Peacock.

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Front Page News Segment

Diddy’s Legal Proceedings ([06:44] - [07:14])

DJ Envy provides an overview of Sean "Diddy" Combs' recent court appearances. Diddy announced his decision not to testify on his own behalf, prompting concern and speculation among listeners.

• Notable Quote:
  DJ Envy ([21:26]): "I am so confused. I feel like I missed something."

Political Tensions: Iran and Israel Ceasefire ([07:14] - [12:54])

Lauren LaRosa breaks down the current fragile ceasefire between Iran and Israel, highlighting President Trump's frustrations with both nations. The discussion touches on Trump's controversial claims about successful strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, contrasted by new intelligence reports disputing those claims.

• Notable Quotes:
  Lauren LaRosa ([07:58]): "I'm not happy with Israel... you have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard."
  Ashanti ([10:19]): "The President of the United States has committed an impeachable act."

Impeachment Efforts Against Trump ([10:19] - [12:54])

The hosts delve into Congressman Al Green's articles of impeachment against President Trump, accusing him of abusing presidential powers by initiating military actions without Congressional approval. The conversation critiques the inconsistency in impeachment efforts, noting that previous presidents have similarly bypassed Congress.

• Notable Quotes:
  Charlamagne Tha God ([12:25]): "Trump broke another campaign promise... he didn't lead us into another one."

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Main Interview: Nelly & Ashanti

Career Highlights and New Projects ([26:06] - [53:29])

Nelly and Ashanti discuss their careers, recent achievements, and personal lives. They highlight their upcoming reality show on Peacock, emphasizing authenticity and showcasing their relationship dynamics. Nelly shares insights into his parenting and experiences with his daughter and pet, while Ashanti talks about balancing her career with motherhood.

• Notable Quotes:
  Ashanti ([26:04]): "It feels amazing. It feels like godsent."
  Nelly ([37:07]): "London and Brooklyn, not Paris and Manhattan."

Relationship Insights ([85:00] - [95:50])

The conversation shifts to relationships, where the hosts and guests explore what it means to be in a relationship one deserves. They discuss personal growth, healing from past traumas, and the importance of self-awareness in fostering healthy relationships.

• Notable Quotes:
  Charlamagne Tha God ([84:07]): "Sometimes, you need to do the work on yourself so you can attract the person that reflects that."
  Nelly ([94:06]): "I treat everybody right."

Industry News and Personal Anecdotes ([50:00] - [75:00])

Nelly and Ashanti share stories from their personal lives, including experiences at award shows and their journeys in the music industry. They reflect on past performances, challenges faced, and the evolution of their artistry.

• Notable Quotes:
  Nelly ([50:14]): "I'm talking about dance moves... You're not lip singing."
  Ashanti ([53:19]): "Listen, it's crazy because we have so much going on outside with our careers."

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Diddy’s Court Case Update ([21:35] - [34:10])

DJ Envy offers a detailed analysis of Diddy's courtroom demeanor, highlighting his team's request to dismiss the case due to insufficient evidence. The hosts speculate on possible outcomes, discussing the intricacies of legal procedures and the potential for a guilty verdict.

• Notable Quotes:
  Charlamagne Tha God ([31:46]): "None of us really know what's going to happen, but no outcome would surprise me except one: Guilty on all counts."
  DJ Envy ([30:55]): "It felt like Diddy's team was saying, y'all got us effed up and y'all did our job for us."

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Positive Closing Notes and Announcements ([72:14] - [84:19])

The episode concludes with personal stories from Nelly and Ashanti, celebrating their relationship and discussing their new ventures. They encourage listeners to pursue healthy relationships and personal growth.

• Notable Quotes:
  Charlamagne Tha God ([72:14]): "The amount of effort you put in determines the amount of joy that you will receive."
  Ashanti ([76:12]): "Books that validated our identity."

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Conclusion

Throughout the episode, "The Breakfast Club" balances hard-hitting news discussions with intimate conversations with music icons Nelly and Ashanti. The hosts provide insightful commentary on current events, legal battles, and personal development, while the guests offer a glimpse into their lives and upcoming projects. This episode is a blend of political discourse, celebrity interviews, and relatable life experiences, making it a comprehensive listen for fans and newcomers alike.

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Note: Timestamps are based on the provided transcript excerpts and may not represent the complete episode timeline.

Transcript

[DJ Envy]

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[Jess Hilarious]

Great shoes, Great books take you places through unforgettable love stories and into conversations with characters you'll never forget.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I think any good romance, it gives.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Me this feeling of like butterflies.

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm Danielle Roubais and this is bookmarked by Reese's Book Club, the new podcast from hello Sunshine and I Heart Podcast where we dive into the stories that shape us on the page and off. Each week I'm joined by authors, celebs, book talk stars and more for conversations that will make you laugh, cry and add way too many books to your TBR pile. Listen to Bookmarked by Reese's Book Club on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Joseph Reeves]

Show me how good it can get today, God, and show the rest of the world what we already know it can't get. No better than being hella black, hella queer and hella Christian. My name is Joseph Reeves. I am the creator and host of Hella Black, Hella Queer, Hella Christian. A fully black, fully queer, fully human, fully divine podcast. From iHeartMedia to Hella Black, Hella Queer, Hella Christian on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast. I know a lot of cops and they get asked all the time, have you ever had to shoot your gun? Sometimes the answer is yes. But there's a company dedicated to a.

[Jess Hilarious]

Future where the answer will always be no.

[Joseph Reeves]

This is Absolute Season one, Taser Incorporated.

[DJ Envy]

I get right back there and it's bad.

[Mimi Brown]

Listen to Absolute Season 1 Taser Incorporated on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or.

[Jess Hilarious]

Wherever you get your podcasts.

[Joseph Reeves]

Good morning usa.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Joseph Reeves]

Just Hilarious.

[Nelly]

Wake that ass up.

[Joseph Reeves]

Charlemagne the guy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Peace to the planet. Guess what day it is. Guess what day it is. 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.

[Joseph Reeves]

Yes, good morning. How you feeling? How you feeling, Jess?

[Nelly]

I feel good. I feel really, really good. I went to the pool yesterday and in my building for the first time because, you know, I got my pool at my state in Maryland, but I. I live here.

[Joseph Reeves]

Okay, baller, how was it?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Estate in Maryland.

[Nelly]

Let me read the room. Let me read the room. I'm not about to be another B Simone.

[Mimi Brown]

I'm not.

[Nelly]

I'm not.

[Joseph Reeves]

Did you have your H and M.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

On when you went to the pool?

[Nelly]

I did. My bathing suit actually comes from Sheen.

[Joseph Reeves]

Okay.

[Nelly]

So. Yeah. But it was nice though. And it was good to go swimming with Ash and see what he's learned at swim school because, like, he be really trying to like, swim me in circles now. Like is. It's wild. I love that. So shout out to British swim School. Like, they. They really been doing their thing. And my daughter. My daughter is getting. Yo, she about to be a little sharp shorty. Like, it's crazy. She.

[Joseph Reeves]

Your daughter's taller than Charlemagne now. You know that, right? Your daughter is taller than Charlemagne now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, I gotta learn how to swim too my damn self.

[Nelly]

You know how to swim?

[Joseph Reeves]

You from the country don't know how to swim.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I do, but not like that. Like, I. I don't know how to like. I guess I can thread water when I do starfish.

[Joseph Reeves]

It's tread, not thread.

[Mimi Brown]

It's tread water.

[Joseph Reeves]

Tread water, not thread water.

[Nelly]

I can.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I can tread water when I do starfish, but that' it. You know what I mean?

[Joseph Reeves]

What the hell is starfish?

[Nelly]

That is crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But. And I. I can only do it like under the water. I can't do it on top of the water. And it's weird, cuz you be in the pool with your dog. Like, my daughters can swim because, you know, they swim a lot, so they can swim, swim. And so it's like they can swim to the deep end. And I'm sitting there like, don't y' all go out there. Like, no, don't you go out there.

[Nelly]

They can swim back. You can't save them.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely.

[Joseph Reeves]

Jess, he said he could tread water underwater. That means you were drowning, sir. Treading water means you're above the water.

[Nelly]

No, he actually said thread water.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

One thing y' all don't realize is I Can actually breathe underwater. And I've told y' all this a million times, like, I can actually breathe underwater. Anybody can. Y' all just don't try.

[Joseph Reeves]

No, y' all listen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Y' all go in the water and naturally hold your breath, but you can breathe underwater. You can breathe through your ears. You can breathe through your butthole. You can breathe through the pores in your skin.

[Nelly]

If you were a dose, you could.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We can do that as humans. I ain't never try.

[Joseph Reeves]

And somebody's gonna go try today, and they gonna damn near drown listening to you. No, you cannot. You cannot drown.

[Nelly]

I'm shocked that he don't like the southerners. They be the ones that be swimming, swimming early on.

[Joseph Reeves]

Absolutely.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

If you think you're going to drown, you're going to drown. But if you're going there with the mindset of, you know what? I can actually breathe underwater. You'll breathe underwater. You go underwater and hold your breath every time, don't you?

[Nelly]

Every time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But you don't.

[Joseph Reeves]

As you should.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You don't have to.

[Joseph Reeves]

Oh, my God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You can breathe underwater.

[Nelly]

If you want to commit suicide, you don't have to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's not suicide.

[Joseph Reeves]

Oh, my goodness. And salute to all the girl dads. The season is officially over.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

To be a girl dad. God damn. You just going to be a deadbeat for the rest of the summer. No, I'm talking about damn Crazy dead. Season is official.

[Joseph Reeves]

Officially over.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Dance season.

[Nelly]

Like, damn, I just missed it again.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, it's always down. I'm always.

[Joseph Reeves]

Dance season is officially over. Yesterday, London did her last dance, which was amazing. She killed it. Yesterday. She picked up about five awards. Yesterday. She came highest score on contemporary, Highest score in jazz. She got the judges award. She got best costume.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And over.

[Joseph Reeves]

I think it was like over 200 girls. She came in second place yesterday. So she picked up about six awards yesterday. I'm super duper proud. My girls are having an amazing time. And it's over until next year.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Congratulations.

[Nelly]

Paris been killing it, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, they've been killing it.

[Joseph Reeves]

Our dad's so proud. And I've been out there yelling and screaming and running around acting a monkey. So congratulations to them, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Can we appreciate what Lil Paris is out there doing, man? Listen, we got. Not Paris, London and Brooklyn.

[Joseph Reeves]

London and Brooklyn. Not Paris and Manhattan. London and Brooklyn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We got two great guests on today, too, by the way. The king and the queen are spinning the block.

[Joseph Reeves]

Yes.

[Nelly]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They got a new reality show called we belong together that starts on Peacock tomorrow. So they'll be here to Talk about it.

[Nelly]

I love it.

[Joseph Reeves]

All right, and we got front page news, so let's start the show. Morgan is out today, so Mimi will be joining us. So don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning.

[Joseph Reeves]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious Charlemagne, the guy we order breakfast. Fist Club. Let's get in some front page news now. Let's start with some Quick Sports. The 2025 NBA Draft will be tonight at 8:00pm all right, so the draft is going to be televised on espn. And some more basketball news. Porzingis is traded to the Hawks. You know, Porzingis used to be with the Knicks, then he was traded to the Celtics, and now he's on the Hawks. All right, what's up, Mimi?

[Lauren LaRosa]

What's up, y' all? Jump right into it. Good morning. Good morning. So that fragile ceasefire between Iran and Israel, it appears to be holding strong this morning despite nearly falling apart just yesterday. So before leaving the White House for a NATO summit, President Trump expressed frustration with both countries, saying neither side seems to be sticking to the agreement. And this comes after Israel accused Iran of violating its terms by launching more missiles after agreeing to the ceasefire. Now, Iran, they are denying that claim. But when pressed by reporters yesterday about the status of the ceasefire, Trump used some colorful language when answering their questions. Let's listen to what he had to say.

[Joseph Reeves]

I'm not happy with Israel.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know, when I say, okay, now you have 12 hours.

[Joseph Reeves]

You don't go out in the first.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hour, just drop everything you have on them.

[Joseph Reeves]

So I'm not happy with them. I'm not happy with Iran either. You know what we have?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard.

[Joseph Reeves]

That they don't know what the they're doing. You understand that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He was absolutely right. Like he said, nothing wrong. And you know, Trump, Trump, like, I'm out here trying to get the Nobel Peace Prize and y' all stepping on my headline. Okay, the headline is supposed to BE Trump stops 12 day war. That was the headlines. That was what the headline was supposed to be yesterday. But, you know, Israel and had. Had other. Had other plans. Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

So, you know, and then over the weekend, Trump said the US they completely or they completed very successful attacks on three nuclear sites in Iran. But there's a new report that's out this morning, a new US Intelligence report that is now casting doubt on those claims. The report, which came from inside the Pentagon, now says the operation only set the program back a few months, but it did not completely destroy the nuclear Facilities like Trump claimed. And so Trump is of course pushing back on that report and he's calling the strike, quote, one of the most successful military strikes in history. And then he wrote in all caps on truth social, the nuclear sites in Iran are completely destroyed. And the White House, they also issued a statement calling the report flat out wrong. And they say it was leaked by an anonymous low level loser in the intelligence community. Now, according to CNN, U.S. officials believe Iran still maintains secret nuclear facilities that were not targeted in the strike and remain operational. So there is. Go ahead.

[Nelly]

No, no, but your brows are definitely fleeky. I wanted to tell you.

[Jess Hilarious]

Thank you.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you, Jess.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I appreciate that. No, that's a, that needed to hear that. Thank you. So meanwhile, Texas Congressman Al Green, he filed articles of impeachment against President Trump, accusing him of abusing his power by sidestepping Congress and by launching military action without approval. He had a lot to say on the House floor yesterday. Let's listen to some of it.

[Ashanti]

The President of the United States has committed an impeachable act. No one person should have the power to take over 300 million people to war without consulting with the Congress of the United States of America.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I believe that if we do not.

[Ashanti]

Take immediate action, this authoritarian president will not only devolve the country into authoritarianism.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I believe he is a would be.

[Ashanti]

Dictator who would become a dictator.

[Joseph Reeves]

Every time they do that. Yeah. Is that a waste of time? Do they got to spend money to do that? Because it's just, this doesn't make sense.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know if they have to spend money, but I mean, they've definitely tried to impeach him twice already. But, you know, I don't understand. And we talked about this with Joanne Reed yesterday, and I've been saying it all week. I don't understand the whole. Donald Trump didn't get congressional approval to do military action when you can point to other presidents who have also done that. It's damn near become routine for presidents not to get congressional approval to take military action. From Obama to Biden to Clinton to George W. Bush. So what's the problem?

[Joseph Reeves]

Yeah, why is it a problem?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why is it such an issue now? I don't know.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Well, I think, I think it's because they feel like Trump is a little unhinged. And so yesterday though, you, you, you touched on this yesterday, too. And Joy touched on it yesterday. A lot of Democrats are secretly wanting the war to, or wanting what happened in Iran, the strikes to happen, because 344 to 79 was the vote, with the House overwhelmingly rejecting Greene's resolution. So more than 120 Democrats joined Republicans in voting to table those articles of impeachment for not getting congressional approval. Of course, Green has been one of Trump's most vocal critics. He introduced multiple impeachment efforts, including one just last month. But meanwhile, a meeting that was scheduled for yesterday to brief the House and the Senate have been rescheduled for later this week. And Democrats, they are very upset about that because they want to see evidence to back up Trump's claim that the strikes were necessary, and they say that they deserve answers, and that's where we are.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think they should just be focusing on the fact that Trump broke another campaign promise. Trump said that there would be no war. He said that he would stop the wars that were going on, and he damn sure didn't say he was going to lead us into another one. So they should be focusing on that. Like he's wasting your taxpayer dollars on bombing Iran. Like that should be the conversation. Not that he didn't get congressional approval. That's just hypocrisy to say he didn't get congressional approval when, you know, other presidents didn't either.

[Joseph Reeves]

Right? All right, well, that is front page news, Mimi. We'll see you next hour.

[Lauren LaRosa]

All right, talk next hour.

[Joseph Reeves]

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

[Mimi Brown]

It's a new day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is your time to get it off your chest.

[Nelly]

Wait.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wake up. Whether you're mad or blessed, it's time to get up and get something. Call up now. 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello? Who's this? Joe Green.

[Joseph Reeves]

I get it off your chest, brother.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, buddy, if anything can Charlemagne talk to his wife about Grand Prix? You don't shut up.

[Joseph Reeves]

What are you talking.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, he know. He knows everything about it. That is not true. No, no, I don't. I know I do not. In no way are you rehearsing it real good on the radio. No.

[Joseph Reeves]

You rehearsing it. I think that's what he's trying to do, too, you know, I think his Charlemagne's real plan is to become president.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what I really think. Yeah, you out your damn mind. Thanks. We need somebody there, you know, always talking about what's going on, what we need and everything, you know? Who we need to run for president. John Stewart. Jon Stewart needed to run for president. Jon Stewart that hosts the Daily Show. That's who needs to run for president.

[Joseph Reeves]

But thank you, brother.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello? Who's this? Hey, this. How you doing?

[Joseph Reeves]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, I want to talk about, you know, this Iran and Israel thing. You know, a lot of people are saying we going to war. But as a former veteran, the people that support this war probably won't ever go to war. Probably never been to war. Talk to me, brother. This is not what we want. Talk to me, talk to me. Tell us something you know better than everybody. No. Well, see, the thing is, like, I've been to Iraq and I've been to Afghanistan. Half the time we go to war, it's like people, what they already say we either going for a purpose of oil or some minerals. Just like he want to invade Greenland. We don't want to go to war with these countries. You see Russia and North Korea speaking. But we took the ball left. Yeah. Why? Why? Why you say those countries in particular, though, like, in the Middle East? Why, why? We don't want to go to war. The war with them. I mean, I don't want war, period. But I'm just asking why? Because those countries in the Middle east, they'll come together. All else. If you look at how many wars have been in the Middle east and look how many times we've gone, and then all of a sudden we got hepa, look, we got other countries, churches speaking out. We don't want to go in the Middle east and start messing with these countries. Cause eventually they gonna gang up on us. Got you, Got you. Well, let's. Let's hope that this ceasefire, you know, stays put. Well, and the other thing is military capability. No matter how much they keep saying it, we are not ready personnel wise. The. The military as a whole is on personnel right now. A lot of people are signing up for the military. So we have to go back to what they tried before this draft, and we don't want that either. Well, what about AI? They want AI to replace everything else. Why can't. They need to get some AI soldiers. Like, how about AI? Well, if you look, if you look at the wars today, they either drones or airstrikes anyway. Yeah. Or cyber attacks and stuff like that. Right. And you know, and the things that we don't want. We don't want nobody to go to war. I agree. You know, but you got this president that's trying to be big and tough and bully people. And it's we the ones that's going to fight. And he the one that draft before. Yeah. I mean, it's interesting, though, we keep saying this president as if war is not the American way. Like, what president? Well, we know that, and that's. Yeah. Presidents on both sides love launching military action. Like, why do we just say this president like this not the American way. Well, and that's why, you know, a lot of these Middle Eastern countries look at us and say, we the bullies. But we always try to go to these other countries. But then here we go asking China to have them cut off the straight of hormones because of oil. Yeah, right, partner. And say, let's not go to war and then do nukes. But we talking about, oh, let's not make the oil go up. Right? Absolutely.

[Joseph Reeves]

Well, thank you for checking in, brother.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, sir.

[Joseph Reeves]

Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. If you need to vet hit us up now, it's the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning, the Breakfast Club. This is your time to get it off your chest Whether you're mad or blessed.

[Joseph Reeves]

I hate the way that you walk.

[Nelly]

The way that you talk I hate.

[Joseph Reeves]

The way that you dress Everything with me is blessed.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Call up now. 800-585-1051.

[Joseph Reeves]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello, who's this? This is Q from the loo. What's up, Breakfast Club?

[Joseph Reeves]

What's up, Q? You know your brother Nelly. Stopping through in a little bit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hey, that's what's up, man. Shouts out to Nelly. Hometown favorite. I just want to get off my chest first of all. Good morning, DJ Envy.

[Joseph Reeves]

Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What up, Char Peace king? Is Jess there?

[Nelly]

I am.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's up, Jess? What the mess? I love you.

[Nelly]

Thank you. Love you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Just give flowers. I was a weekend in the loo in St. Louis and a blind guy got up and gave a motivational speech, dance and song. He was phenomenal. I've been listening and my wife been.

[Ashanti]

Listening to his music since Father's Day weekend.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I just want to show him some light. His name is Sinful. S, Y, N, G, F, O. He's out of St. Louis. He's phenomenal. He gives you an inspirational feel and motivate, I believe. I don't want to say a story. He lost his vision the second week of the pandemic. And what. How you did that, how that happened. When the story came, he said that he got stabbed in the eye. He used to be a Y N and he didn't take care of his health. And something like, he didn't come out the house until 2023. And I'm telling you, if you was to see this man's show, you first wouldn't know he was blind. And his. His vibe, his passion is just infectious. And I just want to shout that brother out. We've been listening to his music since. Since Father's Day weekend, and we've been jamming out, like, again, his name is Sing Fo. He don't even know me. I don't even know him. But I'm inspired to share his story. S, Y, N G, F O. On any social platform. Check him out. You know what's crazy? We got call id and it says, this is Sing Soul calling. Is this you? No, it's not. My name is Q for the Lou. I wish it was me.

[Ashanti]

And I'll be calling your chair, y'.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All to do something for me. Okay.

[Joseph Reeves]

He'S just joking.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I was lying anyway out there, that's all.

[Joseph Reeves]

But thank you, brother, for checking in. And thank you for giving that brother his flowers, man.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Nah, I'm check out his music, though.

[Joseph Reeves]

Thank you, brother.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello? Who's this? Hey, how you doing? This is Andre.

[Joseph Reeves]

Andre, what up? Get it off your chest.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, sir. Man, I'm telling you, the problem with Donald Trump now, he's just a thug, man. He's a thug. Don't nobody want to call it. Don't nobody want to say what it is, but Donald Trump is a thug. What? Why. Why do you say that? He don't care about nothing, man. You. You hear how he talking to people? He going against what he said he was going to do.

[Joseph Reeves]

He just lying and he.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He doing whatever he want to do in that office, man. I'm at work right now. But Donald Trump, he a thug, man. Sound like a politician to me. Made a whole. I mean, made a whole bunch of promises and re. Nicked on him. Exactly. And that's what I'm saying, man. He's just a liar. And. And excuse my language, but the white folks don't want to call him. He a thug. He a white thug. I like that. I like that language you're using this morning.

[Joseph Reeves]

Okay?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I just gotta be honest, man. I gotta be. Because if it was up there, say it about us. I'm just being honest. It was funny yesterday. Not funny, but he told aoc, he said, go ahead, make my day. He said much. Come on. He got on his class, he said, go ahead, make my day. Impeach me. Go ahead, make my Day.

[Joseph Reeves]

Thank you, bro. He watches too much movies. Get it off your chest. 800-585-1051. We got the latest for Lauren coming up.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

LL Cool B.

[DJ Envy]

Yes. Good morning, y' all. In less than 30 minutes yesterday, Diddy decided or stood on the fact that he wasn't going to testify. And his team sat back and said, we are done. The government did not prove their case. We good. They didn't say that, but they gave it. We're gonna get into it. Like the impression that they gave yesterday because they only took about that time to get through what they presented as their defense.

[Joseph Reeves]

Oh, so this might be over this week.

[DJ Envy]

Damn, y' all. I am so. I'm confused. Like, I feel like I missed something.

[Nelly]

So you might be able to give him that party, Envy.

[Joseph Reeves]

I am not giving Diddy no party.

[Nelly]

With the 4th of July party.

[Joseph Reeves]

I said he might be out by 4th of July, though.

[Nelly]

Oh, wow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Definitely might. I mean, Envy gonna be a party favor. That's what Envy gon.

[Nelly]

Favor.

[Joseph Reeves]

I am not being a party favorite.

[Jess Hilarious]

Oh, my God.

[DJ Envy]

A party favor.

[Joseph Reeves]

I am not white chocolate. I'm in Vegas for 4th of July DJing. I am not DJing.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The Diddy. Diddy loves Vegas.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my God. There's so many words, mentions of Vegas in this trial.

[Joseph Reeves]

Oh, my God.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What happens in Vegas goes on Diddy's nipples.

[Joseph Reeves]

The latest one, Lauren is next is the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

[Nelly]

Morning, everybody.

[Joseph Reeves]

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

[Nelly]

Lauren becoming a straight face.

[Joseph Reeves]

She gets them from somebody that knows somebody.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She'd be having the latest on you.

[Joseph Reeves]

Hey, what up, y' all? It's DJ Envy. The first few months of 2025 have been quite a year. Work deadlines, group chats you can't escape, and your weird cousin's latest overshare. It's a lot, but here's some good news. You don't have to bring that stress into your car. The all new Nissan Murano is your piece on wheels, thanks to its available features. Imagine sliding into the relaxing, massaging seats that feel like they were made to melt your tensions. Take in the skyline views that let sunlight pour in and watch as your day brightens. I have a special playlist that always gets me right. And with the Bose premium sound system, you too can vibe like you're at your own private concert. Plus, with your 64 color personalized lighting option, you can set the mood any way you want, be it romantic, chill or in a straight up do not disturb mode. Let the Nissan Murano be your oasis in a chaotic world because sometimes the greatest rush isn't rushing at all. Drive the all new Nissan Murano today.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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[Joseph Reeves]

Leather appointed seats are optional features People.

[Ashanti]

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[Jess Hilarious]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

I think any good romance, it gives me this feeling of like butterflies.

[Jess Hilarious]

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[Joseph Reeves]

Show me how good it can get today. God and show the rest of the world what we already know it can't get. No better than being hella black, hella queer and hella Christian. My name is Joseph Rees I am the creator and host of Hella Black, hello Queer, hello Christian, a fully black, fully queer, fully human, fully divine podcast that explores society, culture and the intersections of faith and identity. Listen to hello Black, hello Queer, hello Christian to hear conversations about what it means to sound the way you look.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think what I've had to make peace with is that every iteration of.

[Joseph Reeves]

My voice is given to me by God and I love it. Books that validated our identity.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The library now for me me is a safe space as someone who is writing books that they're trying to take.

[Joseph Reeves]

Off of shelves and how we as black queer folks relate to our Christianity. Listen to Hella Black, Hella Queer, Hella Christian on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.

[Mimi Brown]

With Lauren LaRosa.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details. Sometimes you have a little bit of everything. Fullest the meat is on the Breakfast Club. Talk to me.

[DJ Envy]

LL Cool Bay yes. So yesterday in court, you guys, Diddy on his own spoke up to the judge and told the judge that he is not going to be testifying on his own behalf in court. So yesterday, as we talked about before court yesterday, both sides were able to arrest the prosecution and the defense. Now the big thing here with Diddy saying I'm not going to testify is number one, it's the first. That's the longest amount of time that we've heard him talk in court. This whole time when he stood up, the judge is asking him a series of questions just to make sure he understands what he's about to do, whether he says yes or no to testifying. And did he saying yes to him that he does understand that he's talked to his attorneys but that he's made his decision on his own and he will not be testifying. He also then took time to tell the judge that the judge was doing an excellent job and he thanked the judge for doing an excellent job. Now people were on like when I say yesterday court wasn't the most exciting because all they were doing were going was going through evidence. People started to leave and everything prior to that. But when Diddy stood up, literally people were on the edge of their seats because prior to him standing up, the judge had asked his attorney if they had spoken and they decided what they were going to do. And he asked him twice and the attorney second answer of like, let me double check my client to make sure I know what's going on. Made us all think like, wait, is something about to happen here? Is he going to say he's going to testify. So people were waiting to see what did he said and he answered the question. But one of the biggest things that came out of court yesterday was the fact that his team asked for an acquittal. They are basically. Not even. Basically, they are saying that the government did not do what they needed to do to prove everything that is being alleged of Diddy. So they're asking a court to dismiss Diddy's case.

[Joseph Reeves]

But isn't that up to the jury?

[DJ Envy]

Well, so first they're asked. They talk to a judge first. Because what they're saying is it's like, okay, either we want you to dismiss this because they haven't proven, or we want you to at least remove some of the charges. Like, let's have a conversation about what the charges should be before we even present to the jury what charges they're going to be considering when they start deliberating. So they present this to the judge and Diddy. One of Diddy's attorneys, she took. They took more time breaking down this acquittal request than they did presenting their defense. She went through various charges. I can't do them all here. We literally don't have the time. But what they leaned into is room rule 29, which is when you're asking for the acquittal. And what they're saying is that even when it comes down to things as simple as the rico, the government hasn't shown that Diddy agreeingly got together with these. This group of people that they keep pointing out and they. Everyone decided, okay, we're going to do these crimes together. They're saying that there's various elements of, like, the RICO and the different counts that they're throwing at Diddy that the government has completely missed when it come comes to evidence. Now, they're also saying here that, you know, there are certain parts of a RICO where it requires for everyone involved or that you're alleging are like key players to be in some point of contact. And there were times where, like, they. They talked about, like, KK not even knowing that certain things were happening or, or, you know, some of the crimes were happening, or they were showing text messages where they would say, okay, this specific incident, KK was purposely left out of the conversation. She didn't know anything until the damage had already been done. So she was doing damage control, but she wasn't a part of a conspiracy to commit this crime.

[Joseph Reeves]

They said they were doing that so the jurors could hear it, so the jurors, so they could break down everything that they feel that the government didn't prove. So when the jurors are thinking, they're also thinking about this acquittal that they tried to do, that, hey, you didn't prove this, and you didn't prove that, and you didn't prove this. And a lot of times they put all these trumped up charges so that somebody cannot get a bond. So you can't get a bond. Right. If you have 12 charges, it's harder to get a bond than if you have one. So that's. That's where a lot of those. Those extra charges came from, as well.

[DJ Envy]

Well, you're saying that they said all this in front of the jurors?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Joseph Reeves]

Did they? That's.

[DJ Envy]

No, no, no. The jurors were on a break. So that's what I was saying. They talked to the judge first, because what's going to happen today is the jurors are off. They'll have a charging conference. So that's basically where they get together and they talk about, like, how they're going to give jurors instruction, but they need to have a conversation about what he's actually going to be still charged with. So that when they talk to the jurors, the jurors know what they're doing. Like, they know what they're considering.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What did it feel like in court yesterday, Lauren? What did it feel like?

[DJ Envy]

It felt like Diddy's team was saying, y' all got us effed up and y' all did our job for us, and we ain't got to do nothing else. Y' all brought this man here. Y' all wasted his time, his family's time, his energy. Now we about to let him walk out of this courtroom. Thank you for doing our job. Good night.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, the reality is that's the confidence his lawyer is supposed to have, man.

[DJ Envy]

But I was. I'm not gonna lie to you guys. I've never thought that he was gonna walk clean away from this, but I didn't think that they would come with that confidence at the end of this. I did.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, no. They would have to. I'd be mad as hell if I'm paying on paying them all this money. And they have no confidence.

[DJ Envy]

I mean, but even presenting, like, when they stood up to present their defense, they entered in, you know, some transcripts from witness testimony from, like, dawn, from Jane, from Mia, all these different people of, like, the times that they basically were caught up on the stand and inconsistent. And they showed text messages from Cassie saying she's so in love with Diddy, like that was it like, I thought that there was at least going to be more on that side of like. Let us put this narrative in the juror's mind because that's in front of the jury. They ain't really do much on that side either.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

None of us really know what's going to happen, but no outcome would surprise me except one. And that's, that's guilty on all counts. Guilty on all counts.

[Joseph Reeves]

Yeah, I can't see that.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I don't think that would be a surprise.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But you know, I, you know, we keep talking about the rico. I thought racketeering, you only have to prove at least two predicates.

[DJ Envy]

I'm not an attorney, but the way that this woman broke it down yesterday, her main point about all of the, the charges that they're throwing at him is that there are multiple different elements that you have to satisfy and that if one is not satisfied out of the many, there's a, there's room for them to come in and say, you didn't do your job here. He shouldn't have to be looking at this charge.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But he got three charges. Right, so transportation to engage in prostitution. Yes, I think they proved that. Sex trafficking for force, fraud or coercion. I'm not sure about that one. Racketeering, like I said, you know, you only got to prove two predicates, the bribery and the kidnapping. That, that looked pretty strong. But I just don't know if there will be a unanimous jury verdict on any of these things because the general consensus from people is that Diddy is just a five star freak, basically.

[Joseph Reeves]

What's the schedule now? When is the ending, the closing remarks and when, when did a juror start deliberating? Do we know?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. So today, Wednesday is going to be that charging conversation. So we'll know exactly what the charges will be for the jury. Thursday is when the closing remarks will. That'll be between the defense and the prosecution. That might go until Friday. They set Thursday and Friday, 9 to 5pm for that to happen. And then after that the jury deliberation starts. So if that closes early, the closing remarks, the jury can start deliberating by Friday. But more than likely the jury will begin deliberating Monday.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, don't come back with a verdict until after the 4th of July. Let us enjoy our vacation and stuff next week. And then when everybody get back to work, come back with the razzle.

[Joseph Reeves]

It's going to be before that. That's gonna be before that. Didn't the judge say he wanted the decision before 4th of July and did he'll probably be having a 4th of July party if. If.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You keep talking about this, you want to be a party favorite party.

[DJ Envy]

So bad, the judge has to give the jury the time that they need. So even though he's been saying it would be nice for all of us to get out of here before the holiday, if they need more time, that's just what will have to happen. But what people think is going to happen, what we are speculating is that by like Wednesday, Thursday, there will be a verdict. It really all depends. And it'll also be based on too, like what comes out of this whole rule asking for the acquittal too, like what the charges are and how they're thinking about the charges.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, don't none of us know. Like I said.

[Joseph Reeves]

Nope.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Everybody just gotta sit back and see what the the outcome is going to be. We have no idea what's gonna happen in this situation. The only thing we know is that, you know, did he like to take other men's semen and rub it on his nipples?

[Joseph Reeves]

What are you talking about? That's the only thing you got out of it. That's what you got out of everything.

[Nelly]

We know a little bit more than that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That is true. That is awesome.

[Joseph Reeves]

All right, well, that is the latest with Lauren. Thank you, Lauren. You going to court today?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I'm gonna go to the conferencing, but that's not. It starts later today in the afternoon.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You. Are you giving court clerk vibes today?

[DJ Envy]

You see me, I was so hot yesterday. I'm like, yo, yes. I gotta get some summer court clothes.

[Nelly]

Yes, Lord girl.

[Joseph Reeves]

All right, when we come back, we got front page news. Mimi's filling in for Morgan. And then Nelly and Ashanti will be joining us. So don't go anywhere. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Joseph Reeves]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

What's up, y' all?

[Jess Hilarious]

So, good morning.

[Lauren LaRosa]

A political upset in the race for New York City mayor. Duran Mandani has won the Democratic primary, defeating former Governor Andrew Cuomo. Now, Mandani ran on a bold progressive platform, calling for a rent freeze, free public buses, affordable childcare, and higher taxes on the wealthy. Cuomo, on the other hand, he was backed by a $24 million super PAC funded by billionaires, Trump donors, and former Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Voters clearly embraced the grassroots message. Cuomo conceded less than two hours after the polls closed. Let's listen to part of Mandami's victory speech from last night.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

In the words of Nelson Mandela, it always seems impossible until it is done, my friends, we have done it. I will be your Democratic nominee for the mayor of New York City.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Oh, yeah. It's a big deal. Yeah, no, it's a really big deal. The official results won't be confirmed until July 1st. That's when new York City releases its ranked choice vote tally. But many see his win. He went from zero in the polls last October to a primary win as a wake up call, you know, for political establishments on both sides. So if he wins, he's 33 years old. He will become the first Democratic socialist in New York City history. He'll be the first Muslim and Asian American mayor.

[Nelly]

Wow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right.

[Joseph Reeves]

And the crazy thing is, is, like he said, he did it from boots on the ground. He really went out, knocked on people's doors, and actually spoke to people. So the fact that he won without having as much money as Cuomo and some of these other people is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's crazy. Yeah. It's going to be interesting to see if he can win in the general because, you know, he's going against Mayor Adams, who's running as an independent, is rumors that Cuomo may run as an independent. And you know, Cuomo, like you said, Mimi, he had the. What, the largest super PAC ever created for a New York city mayor race. $25 million. I think that was the most money ever spent in the mayor's primary. So I expect that to increase significantly for the general.

[Joseph Reeves]

You could lose and then say, you know what? I'm not Democrat anymore. I'm independent, and run again.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's. Yeah. From what I was seeing last night. Yeah.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You can enter as an independent. Yeah.

[Joseph Reeves]

After you lose and you run the.

[Mimi Brown]

That's.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Wow.

[Nelly]

And he repped Too right.

[Joseph Reeves]

Go.

[Nelly]

Wrong.

[Joseph Reeves]

Don't.

[Nelly]

Don't. He right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We don't want him to do that.

[Joseph Reeves]

No, no.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We don't know.

[Joseph Reeves]

He does rap. He does rap. But now.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, I'm not mad at that. All right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's gonna be a lot, though. He's gonna be up. He's gonna have a very, very tough task ahead of. Ahead of him for the general. But, you know, I mean, you know, like he just said, no, everybody believes you can't do it until it gets done, so.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Exactly. Exactly. So. All right, y' all. So there are new numbers out this morning. That show. I just. That show just how much ice is how many people they're actually holding. So 59,000 people are in immigration detention centers across the country at an average cost of $165 per day. ICE is spending about $10 million every day just to house people in custody. That's. Yeah, that's far above what Congress, they currently fund, which is about 41,000 people. So this data is also revealing who is being detained. So nearly 4, 47 people. 47% of people being detained have no criminal record, and fewer than 30% have been convicted of a crime. Now, critics are saying that this reflects a broader crackdown about how longtime residents and workers are now being targeted. And to handle the overflow, ICE is looking to convert military bases in Texas. One is called Fort Bliss into a temporary holding center. And in Florida, officials have provoked. Have proposed several new sites, including one in the Everglades that is nicknamed Alligator Alcatraz. So the White House is expected to go before Congress and ask for billions of money in additional funding to detain, to be able to house all the tens of thousands of people that they are continuing to detain.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is what pisses off everyday Americans. You got 10. You said $10 million a day.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah, nearly $10 million a day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You got $10 million a day to detain people. That's over 3 billion a year. How you got money for that? But you don't got money to feed the poor. You don't got money to house the homeless. You know, you. You. You don't got money to give people affordable health care? Like what that. Like that's what pisses people off.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yep. And the proposed cuts to Medicaid and Social Security and all of those things. But you can come up, you know, man, 10 million. Yeah. For this. So. And lastly, this is a warning to those who use those buy now, pay later apps to split up your payments. There's some changes coming that could affect your credit score. So fico, the company behind the credit scores used by most US Lenders, they say they will now start including Buy Now Pay later loans in its scoring models. So up until now, these installment style loans haven't shown up on your credit reports, leaving lenders in the dark about how much debt people are really in. So now apparently Americans are spending $116 billion through paid later services. They spent that just last year alone. And so FICO is saying now it's time for some checks and balances. So starting this fall, your history with services like Affirm, afterpay, Klarna, it could either help you or hurt you depending on how you manage those payments. So Michael is, is, is giving everybody the warning now, but they're saying to the biggest users of those Buy now pay later services are lower income households which earn less than 50,000 a year. Because many people are now using those options not for just big purchases anymore, but because of the economy. They're using them for everyday essentials, like to buy groceries and to pay their utilities. So that's where we are. So, so that's your front page news. I'm Mimi Brown. Follow me on social @mimi Brown TV. And for more news coverage, follow the Black Information network or Download the free iHeartRadio app and visit bin news.com thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Mimi, how the documentary doing?

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's doing really well. Oh my goodness, it's doing so well. I can't wait to show tell you some more where it's really impacting the community and you know, we're able to tell a lot of stories. So thank you for asking.

[Joseph Reeves]

If they don't know, tell them where they can watch a documentary.

[Lauren LaRosa]

The documentary you can go to twoaltadenawithlove.com.

[Joseph Reeves]

All right, well, thank you, Mimi.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Thank you so much. I'll see y' all later. Thanks for having me.

[Joseph Reeves]

Alrighty. When we come back, Nelly and Ashanti will be joining us. They have a new show on Peacock. We belong together and we're going to talk to them next. It's the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning. The Breakfast Club.

[Mimi Brown]

I thought that that would be a dope situation because we have so many other great things that we have going on and you understand, you know, you guys, you very business minded, so you get the, the platform usage.

[Joseph Reeves]

Gotcha.

[Mimi Brown]

You know what I mean? And again, we got this beautiful growing family that I, that I thought people who have been supporting us, not just career wise, but kind of been invested in our relationship since the beginning, you know, they get a chance to take a Little bit of a ride and just see, we just regular too, man, you know what I mean? It ain't complicated like that other than same everybody else going through.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what's so interesting about y' all. Like, both of y' all provided the soundtrack for, like, the 2000s, right? But what does it feel like now to be in a relationship? Goals for the same fans, you and your music.

[I]

I mean, hopefully it's inspirational, you know what I mean? That just says when you love somebody and things are meant to be, it will be. You know, I definitely feel like you put that positive energy out there, it comes back, and what's meant for you will be for you, regardless, regardless of the time.

[DJ Envy]

You know what I mean?

[I]

And we just try to stay positive.

[Mimi Brown]

And laugh, yo, I mean, you know, again, like she said, just having people in your life that bring more good than bad, period, on any level, man, like I said, I don't care if they, your cousin, auntie, uncle, mom, dad, kid. Do they bring more good to your life than bad. And if not, you need to remove yourself immediately, you know what I'm saying? Or have a situation where you can create the barrier. Like you said, we not perfect. We just everything else. And we just try to be everything.

[Joseph Reeves]

Now, how is it for you, Ashanta, because you are. Nobody knows anything about your life. You come out and perform and then you go back home.

[DJ Envy]

She go on her vacations, too, and.

[I]

Then she go home.

[Joseph Reeves]

So how was it for you opening up and showing that side?

[I]

I mean, it's very different for me. You know, in the beginning, I was just like, huh. You know, but once you become married in the team, I was just like, okay, I'm on board. And just, you know, having the cameras around, it's. It's crazy because we have so much going on outside, like with our careers, it was like fitting the cameras into. On top of becoming newlyweds and, you know, new parents and career stuff. And then now it's the camera. So it's kind of like we got to fit them almost into our schedule, you know, so it's. It was a little time consuming, you know, but I think just getting the opportunity to show just authenticity, like, we're real, you know, our is organic. So getting a chance to show that, I think is a dope thing.

[Joseph Reeves]

Now your mom just pulled me to the side, right? And she was just like. She's like, I got something for you. So I thought she was going to tell me some advice about raising kids and dancers. She goes, boots on the ground. I'm like, huh? She was like, I'll teach you how to do it. Thank you. She was like, I'll actually show you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm like, did I look that bad, Mama?

[Nelly]

Yes.

[Joseph Reeves]

She was like, I teach a class where I can actually show you how to do it.

[I]

Listen, Father's Day weekend. My mom and my other mom, Ms. Mack, Mama Mac was out there doing boots on the ground in the house. I said, oh, God. With the fans and everything. I said, oh, God, they had it. Crack it.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah, I just walked out.

[I]

She got you now.

[Joseph Reeves]

How is Momma Juh with the mama manager with the baby now? Cause she's very protective.

[I]

Listen, she walks right past me when she comes to the house. It's T, Ma. It's all about kk, you know what I'm saying? She's like, where's the baby? Well, hi, Ma. She's amazing. She's so in love.

[Mimi Brown]

You get that with everybody around us, though. Everybody shoot past us. I'm telling you, bro, I'm a doormat. No, I am. I mean, it's all good. You know, you love it, but it's just like, okay, yeah, I'm here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How did mama feel when you decided to spin the block?

[I]

I ain't gonna hold you in the beginning.

[Joseph Reeves]

Let me talk to him first.

[I]

Not gonna hold you in the beginning. Mama's like, like, what?

[Joseph Reeves]

You know, she was.

[I]

She was definitely not, you know, supportive of it. She's like, I don't know. You know, she talking to the breast. Mom do a lot of cursing. I ain't gonna lie. But.

[Joseph Reeves]

But I love him now.

[I]

It came from a hurt place, cuz, obviously, with me having a child now, you never want to see your child hurt. So going through that, you know, my mom's my best friend, so going through that time. I was hurt, obviously, and she was hurt. So we, you know, you carry that hurt a little bit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, let's be clear.

[Mimi Brown]

I was hurt.

[Nelly]

Everybody was hurt.

[Mimi Brown]

I think this narrative of that Nelly just broke Ashanti's heart. Shanti broke Nelly's heart. Because I feel like that's be put. That be put out there a lot. Like. Like, let's be clear.

[Joseph Reeves]

You broke Ashanti.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I didn't think who. Yeah, I know.

[Mimi Brown]

You walk a thin line. No, but, I mean, you know, we were young, but it was a lot. It just wasn't one way or another. It was. It was. It was a mutual. Yo, I don't like her. I don't like him. You know what I'm saying? She had her reasons. I Had my reasons, but it was never one sided. Like everybody, you know, putting this thing out there. Let's just be clear.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How did you win Mama over serious?

[Mimi Brown]

Listen, first of all, me and Mama Ja have always had a great relationship from the very beginning. And I think with the way her heart and the way the mom is in front of the momager works, she's always protecting hers. And that's what I love about her. That's the, the love that I look forward to having on my side now. You know what I'm saying? To have somebody that steps out regardless.

[Nelly]

Yeah.

[Mimi Brown]

You know what I'm saying? And our families are totally different. I didn't, I didn't have that, you know what I'm saying? My parents went through what they went through. My mom had me at a, at a young age. I didn't live with neither one of my parents at a certain time. I lived in family, friends, and they've always had this family nucleus, you know what I'm saying? So my family, we love each other, but we see each other when we see each other. They are very, very well connected. And I looked forward to having that connection and being able to implement that in, in my life. And it spilled over into our lives, so it worked.

[Joseph Reeves]

All right, we got more with Nelly and Ashanti when we come back, so don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the breakfast club. Lauren LaRosa is here as well. We're still kicking in with Nelly and Ashanti. You were missing at the BET Awards, right? When they did that whole 106 and park, we were talking about it behind the scenes. It was like that was one artist that should have been there. Was there a reason you weren't there?

[Mimi Brown]

I was overseas. I was on tour. We literally just got back maybe what, last week? Last week, a week and a half. I was overseas. We had finished that leg of the tour. And yeah, it's crazy, man. You know, we wanted to be. And I'm always thankful of everybody. Steven, everybody over there, bet, Bob, Johnson, Jesse. Like, we were the, we were the first number one video. When the day 106 in park aired, Country Grammar was the number one video the day that it aired. So that's growth, man. That's home. I'm. I'm so thankful for everything that BET invested in. Not just Nelly, but in my city because that helped open the gate for, you know, a part of the country that get overlooked, I feel get overlooked.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

A lot I think about all the time how Nelly snuck a gangster rap record into the pop chop. Country Grammar is a gangster rap record, okay? It is about doing the drive by, bro.

[Mimi Brown]

I never heard. I never heard the radio edit until it was like, literally on the radio. And I damn near cried. I was like, they trying to ruin me. I never heard boom boom.

[DJ Envy]

I never heard that.

[Mimi Brown]

I never heard it, bro. And I. I was hot. She tell you zero to a thousand, I was hot. I was calling up everybody. Yeah, this is hot. And it worked. I mean, I'm thankful. I mean, universal knew what the hell they were doing. You know what I mean? But I never heard it, man. I just was like, they trying to kill me.

[Nelly]

Congratulations on baby boy, first of all. Right, but how was that? Because you worked your whole pregnancy from what we've seen, and then was right back at it in the gym breastfeeding. You were.

[DJ Envy]

You were.

[Nelly]

Or pumping. Get up.

[Mimi Brown]

I got these tools.

[DJ Envy]

Listen, she only got but so much time. She got things.

[Joseph Reeves]

She was hiding the baby for the longest time.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Anybody asking, she's ignoring.

[Nelly]

I'm talking about dance moves. You got choreography going on on stage. You like. You're not lip singing. You're really singing. The mic is on all of that. Did you ever have a moment where you were just able to just this.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, I didn't reach over. I didn't want Nelly to think I was.

[Mimi Brown]

By the way, I got the ring now, Chad.

[Joseph Reeves]

And by the way, you the only one that ever saw me say n. That's the one person that's been in this breakfast club that I knew that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He was going to up. Who's anybody ever had you? I said, nah.

[Mimi Brown]

Only.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I said only Nelly. I'm like, nah. I'm saying. I'm saying Nelly. Nelly said something so calm. Nelly said, I keep retainers for people like you.

[Mimi Brown]

He had me hot. I did not understand that. He gets that opinion. You see what I'm saying? And you know, blunt ashtray for the album.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I was hot.

[Mimi Brown]

Okay? I said, yeah, I know what it is.

[DJ Envy]

I know what it is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cause it ain't never the rah rah person. It ain't the rah rah person that come in here with 50 people. It's the calm, athletic looking person. You know what I'm saying?

[Mimi Brown]

Now she'll tell me, babe, just get in the car, please.

[Nelly]

I love.

[Mimi Brown]

Just get in the car, please. I'll be back.

[Nelly]

But what I was saying, yes. When did you have a time, you know, a chance to just release and relax just as Ashanti at home.

[I]

Honestly, after the baby was born, I said I was taking off. I didn't want to bring him anywhere in the public. The only reason that we traveled was for his birthday. So the baby was born in July and the first time we moved was in November. You know, if we didn't have birthdays, I would have kept them in the house even longer, you know. And then I was like, okay. Obviously stuff was coming in. I did one show, Motown and the Christmas thing, and that was it. I was like, I ain't doing nothing else, you know. So I cleared the calendar to the top of the year. So I tried to keep it very light. Cause, you know, I wanted to be with my baby.

[Nelly]

That's right.

[I]

You know what I mean? I'm breastfeeding, I'm pumping. I'm all kind of stuff. At bet, I had to pump in between red carpets, send the milk with the driver, you know, bring the pumps back.

[DJ Envy]

I ain't wanna say it, but that's what they told me. They was like, listen, she got a pump. So like, extra questions. And I was like, okay, BET got you.

[Mimi Brown]

She got the boob juice on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Joseph Reeves]

Justin pumping between breaks.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

See, you didn't say it.

[Nelly]

You already know it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Which one do you use?

[I]

You use the spectrum. Yeah, me too.

[Nelly]

If I saw you working out with that in the gym, like, you can.

[I]

Put it right, exactly right here.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She's like, enough.

[Mimi Brown]

No, she got these ones. I don't know what to do, man. But I saw it functioning. Like, I saw it working.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You saw it going. And I was like that.

[Joseph Reeves]

I was like, what is that? It's my nipple.

[I]

It said, is that your nipple?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You act like you've never seen the way the machine.

[I]

It's like it goes.

[Mimi Brown]

I haven't. I haven't seen that happen like that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

My wife was overseas in London. The machine broke. And you know when your wife is complaining about, you know, her breasts hurting, you gotta do what you gotta do. So now you gotta become the punk. So I was.

[I]

Remember I told you about that.

[DJ Envy]

To, you know.

[Nelly]

Cuz we got money to buy another one.

[I]

I had to order another one from Amazon. Came next day.

[DJ Envy]

What's the craziest thing, though? What's the crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Breaking the pump.

[Nelly]

His pumps.

[Mimi Brown]

Charlemagne wanted his jugs back.

[Joseph Reeves]

Me.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, man.

[Joseph Reeves]

What we say?

[Nelly]

She messed up.

[Joseph Reeves]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She could be thinking about it.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I am.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She like, damn, do I want to get pregnant now?

[DJ Envy]

I got to get it out the way.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Get you a couple.

[Mimi Brown]

A couple of.

[Joseph Reeves]

She got to find a man first. That's the first process. You got to find somebody first.

[DJ Envy]

We're moving on. What's the craziest, like, mom first time mom experience that you've had? Cuz that is crazy. I can't even imagine that. But what's the crazy first time mom experience for you?

[I]

Oh, his first blowout. I changed him. His first blowout. Oh, my God. What was worse than the blowout was the pee. I ain't gonna hold you.

[Mimi Brown]

But see, I warned her about this.

[I]

She did warn me about the pee. And I had the TP Pee pee. You know, the things you put over there.

[DJ Envy]

Pee pe.

[I]

It's like a teepee. So I had it. I ain't use it. It's a little teepee. It's like, it looks like a teepee. And you put it on top of his pee pee so he don't pee.

[Nelly]

So he don't pee on you, right?

[DJ Envy]

Don't pee on me.

[Mimi Brown]

I got peed on.

[I]

So I'm sitting there, I'm changing them.

[Jess Hilarious]

Hi, baby.

[I]

After all this warm, I was like, what is that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right?

[I]

He got me in my mouth, on the side of my face, all here. And I'm just like, oh, my God.

[Nelly]

You all smiles, happy.

[Mimi Brown]

No, because I told her it was going to happen because I was like, yo, I'm about to be 50. Like, I got so many diaper changes left.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You know what I mean?

[Mimi Brown]

Like, I already been peed on by my. My oldest son, like back in the day. I already knew what that was. I said, yo, he gonna get you. Ah, nah, it's gonna be great. I said, nah, he gonna get you. I said, I already know what it is. And shot in his. Her purse first.

[I]

Oh, yeah. His first doctor's appointment in the Chanel.

[Mimi Brown]

Right in there.

[Ashanti]

That boy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I couldn't even believe it.

[I]

My mom's bag was open on the chair, the Chanel bag. The pee went right in her purse.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I couldn't believe it.

[I]

Yes.

[Joseph Reeves]

All right, we got more with Nelly and Ashanti when we come back, so don't move. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne, the guy. We are the breakfast club. Lauren LaRosa is here as well. We're still kicking in with Nelly and Ashanti. Charlemagne.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What's the pettiest argument y' all had since y' all got back together? And who won it?

[Mimi Brown]

I don't know. You know, they don't seem petty at the time.

[I]

It usually be about the temperature.

[Mimi Brown]

Oh, yeah, she likes it.

[I]

I like it. Like this. I like it nice and hot.

[Mimi Brown]

You like it cold.

[I]

He likes to see your breath in the room. That's how cold.

[Mimi Brown]

But she like you sweating. She will have it 80 degrees and be up underneath the covers. But luckily, I got a partner in this war. My son, he likes it cold like his dad.

[I]

I'm so mad.

[Mimi Brown]

He kicks the covers off.

[Nelly]

He kicks the covers off.

[I]

I'm like, what you doing?

[Mimi Brown]

I try to tell you, I say, his ball sticking to his leg. No man in their right mind can sleep like that.

[I]

Hey, sleep.

[Joseph Reeves]

You know how uncomfortable that is?

[Mimi Brown]

You know what I'm saying? You sleeping, I say, look at him kick it off.

[Joseph Reeves]

I figured the biggest argument would be lateness. Is Ashanti always late?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No.

[Mimi Brown]

Let's talk my wife.

[Joseph Reeves]

I got you.

[Mimi Brown]

I got.

[I]

I've been on time, babe.

[DJ Envy]

I.

[Mimi Brown]

When you can count how many times you've been on time, Damn, that. That goes. But no, she tries. It's never, never anything intentional. I mean, I'm not always on time, but I'm way.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How is everything coming back to your music?

[Mimi Brown]

Flip the paper over. What songs we need now. Gotcha, gotcha.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But it is so interesting watching y' all because they say, if you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, is yours. So obviously, y' all never stopped loving each other.

[Joseph Reeves]

That's right.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah. I don't think you could spend that much time with and invest that much of yourself into anything and especially someone and not still have love. Because if, again, we have invested so much of each other into each other that you still want to see each other win at the end of the day, even if it's not all the way with you, Like, I still wanted her, that she deserves to be happy. It's just. May not have been with me, you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Know what I mean?

[Mimi Brown]

Like, but because I don't hold that ill wills like that, man. I'm a positive person. I just, again, when you hold that in, it feel like it affects you more.

[Nelly]

Yeah.

[Mimi Brown]

You know what I mean? So. And you go around and with that anger, that's just not good.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

As a man, how did you know? If I get this opportunity again, I'm a lock.

[Joseph Reeves]

I didn't.

[Mimi Brown]

Charlemagne. I swear to God, I wasn't looking for it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow.

[Joseph Reeves]

You just seen. It was like, let me go out.

[Mimi Brown]

We knew the verses, right? So I knew she was going to be there. And we tell her story all the time. When I went to Versus, though, I had somebody else with me and I.

[I]

Was in a relationship.

[Joseph Reeves]

Jesus.

[Mimi Brown]

You see what I'M saying I had somebody else with me when we got there. So it wasn't like that. And I saw mama first when I.

[DJ Envy]

Came down the steps.

[Mimi Brown]

You know what I'm saying? You cut that. She was on the phone doing the mom.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She looked.

[Mimi Brown]

Hey, ma, what's up? We can get it on the night. But again, you just. We were there to celebrate two people who we have fond respect for and was celebrating their music. And we was there to support them. I never wanted it to be, you know, anger or confliction or nothing like that. So yeah, the walk across stage was hilarious.

[Joseph Reeves]

What was that conversation in the car? Cause you said you was with somebody. What was that conversation like? Or did she Uber before?

[Mimi Brown]

Like, I'm out.

[DJ Envy]

You weren't even in the car.

[Mimi Brown]

No, it wasn't. It was. No, she had no conversation. Wasn't that what you gonna say?

[Nelly]

Right, right.

[Mimi Brown]

Questioning. What was that question? I wasn't in a relationship with nobody. That. That was with me. You know what I'm saying?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It was. We was hanging out.

[DJ Envy]

That's why it's more so for Shawn conversation for you, Ashanti, cuz the world went crazy.

[Nelly]

Well, she didn't indulge though. But sh was flirty, but there still.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hold on.

[Mimi Brown]

Did you see how you did that?

[Joseph Reeves]

We got the proof.

[DJ Envy]

That was just.

[I]

A positive, like, you know, a little.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let me tell you something.

[Mimi Brown]

You rub any other in the back while you got that ring?

[Joseph Reeves]

Now how was that called out? That was like, yo, did you just rub his back? Did I just see that on?

[Mimi Brown]

Goddamn right he did. You saw that.

[Nelly]

I got a better question. So what was the rekindling moment? Like? What was it A hey, big head, you was looking good at the verses or you know what, what was that?

[I]

It was crazy. Cuz the crazy thing is we had no conversation at the hug. After the hug, like some time went by. We had some shows together, you know, and I think we kind of did body on me a few times, but we still didn't even speak. We didn't even have each other's number. You know what I mean?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't.

[I]

I have it, but I don't even.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The.

[I]

The first text that came in was the high emoji.

[DJ Envy]

And I was like, is this 31 4?

[Joseph Reeves]

You tested the water?

[Mimi Brown]

You know what 3, 14 is?

[DJ Envy]

Wait, when you started, your heart dropped.

[I]

I was like, oh my God, who.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Gave him my number? You know what I'm saying?

[I]

But the rekindle moves. Our first date was Valentine's Day Vegas, and I don't Even think we planned it to be Valentine's Day, you know, it was just like, yo, come out. We was in Vegas.

[Mimi Brown]

Yeah, but I got the draws before that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What you mean her last name? Haynes.

[Joseph Reeves]

Her last name, Haynes.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Mimi Brown]

I bought the cow to milk the dirt. But I said I do, so I can't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Cool, guys. So I do want to ask Shanti one last question. You. You've written some fantastic iconic heartbreak songs. So how does it feel now to be in like a healed public love story? Cuz it is a true love story.

[I]

It is a true love story. Honestly, it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It.

[I]

It feels amazing. It feels like godsent. Like when something. I keep saying, when something is for you, it will be for you. No matter the time, no matter what you go through, no matter the obstacles.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Or the people that.

[I]

That come in between, when it's for you, it will be. So I'm just so grateful. I'm super blessed. And I feel like I manifested a lot too, you know, so I'm just.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm.

[I]

I'm so happy. I'm content all the way.

[Nelly]

What would you say to people, right? Because y' all the reason that people. Other people trying to spend a block and it's not really working for everybody else. So what would y' all say to that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Quit.

[Mimi Brown]

Well, listen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But.

[Mimi Brown]

But they gotta stop looking at it like that. Because the thing about it is that if you're putting so much emphasis on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Mimi Brown]

On what other people are feeling about your thing, you have to understand that does the good outweigh the bad? Does that person bring more good to your life than bad? Because what seemed like deal breakers then, it ain't deal breakers now. You know what? That wasn't that bad. I can deal with that. What I can't deal with is this. And what I thought was a deal breaker ain't even a deal breaker. You know what I mean? And you know, you spin the block, but you don't have to stop slow roll, see if it's worth pulling into the parking spot or the garage. But I mean, that's the best thing I think that I got is that. And I don't want to just narrow it down, but I got a chance to test drive the car, to know, yo, this is the car. You see what I'm saying? Like, no, this is the vehicle. I'm tripping this guy everything I want on it. You know what I'm saying? They got them big rims on it, you know?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. I was going to say, speaking of shooting the club, but y' all are so positive. How do y' all deal with people?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Keep.

[DJ Envy]

Everybody thinks y' all are having another baby right now. And there's so many other things out there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How do did you get with that?

[Nelly]

Wait, this is a better one. What did you think? What went through your head when you heard Keisha Cole up here say that Ashanti's pregnant again?

[Joseph Reeves]

Congratulations.

[Nelly]

Who was going through your head about that?

[I]

She was so stupid.

[Nelly]

Who was going through.

[DJ Envy]

I don't know.

[I]

I guess maybe she thought she heard it.

[Mimi Brown]

I said, by who? I was overseas.

[I]

No, I just. I don't know. I don't know where she got it from. I think she said she might have heard it somewhere or whatever, but.

[Nelly]

Yeah, okay. All right. Because it's like once you have a baby, they all they want you to do is keep popping them out.

[I]

Keep popping them out.

[Nelly]

Your own pace. I'm happy to see y' all. That's what I had to ask y' all.

[Mimi Brown]

As long as we get as many nannies as we want, we could. We could pop them. Chasing toddlers at 50, ain't it? I decided tell you.

[Joseph Reeves]

We belong together. It's on Peacock this Thursday.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thursday.

[Joseph Reeves]

And thank y' all for joining us. Appreciate both of y' all.

[I]

Thank you.

[Joseph Reeves]

Breakfast Club, good morning. Morning, everybody. It's Dej, Envy, Jess, Hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club again. Salute to Nelly and Ashanti for joining us. You can check out the full in full interview on our YouTube page and.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Watch their reality show We Belong Together. It's available on Peacock starting tomorrow. Man, I love, love, man. Seeing that let Shanti together other is. Is incredible.

[Nelly]

Yeah, they were the. They were happy the whole interview.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The whole interview.

[Nelly]

Laughing. I. I just thought it was nice.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Love is absolutely.

[Joseph Reeves]

Well, let's get to the latest with Lauren.

[Nelly]

Lauren becoming a straight fan.

[Joseph Reeves]

She gets into somebody that knows somebody.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She gets the details.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[DJ Envy]

So before we get into our next story, I do want to say it is 7:54am Eastern Standard Time here in New York, and there are reports circulating that charges have been dropped against Sean Diddy combs. That is 100% false at this time. No charges have been dropped. I just want to clear that up because those. Those reports are starting to circulate, and I literally just made a Phone call to confirm that it is not correct. And it is.

[Joseph Reeves]

Who the hell did you call?

[Nelly]

I know that's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But where did they circulate? I ain't heard that.

[DJ Envy]

That's the first time I'm hearing someone just tagged me in a document that is not a real document. They're. They're there. It's there to the point where they're even commenting on our Diddy report that we just posted asking why we're not commenting on the charges that were dropped. Someone shot me a text as well too. Okay. All right, so let's move on now. So Brandi and Monica are going on their first ever co headlining tour.

[Joseph Reeves]

Wow.

[DJ Envy]

It is happening. We need a bomb, a clap or something for that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Joseph Reeves]

Is Ray J opening up for them though?

[Nelly]

Drop a clues bomb for Ray J. Because he spoke this into existence even though you know he didn't do it the right way and people got mad at him. This is really what he said was gonna happen.

[DJ Envy]

Yes. So Ray J was actually here on the Breakfast Club when he spoke about Brandi and Monica going on this co headlining tour. And we have that audio.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Are you really pushing for Brandy and Monica to go on tour together?

[Mimi Brown]

That's all I want.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What made you wake up one day and say this is what I need?

[Nelly]

Well, I've been saying it since the.

[Mimi Brown]

Since they did the rehearsals. Yeah. Like I got the jet for B. We got.

[Nelly]

We flew out there.

[Mimi Brown]

It was this vibe. They were going back and forth. It wasn't like a competition, but it was. Yeah, it was like a mosh pit for in a ballot. Like it was a ballot plan and you look to the side and we giving her all our support. And I just think Brandy and Monica is an undeniable tour.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right.

[Mimi Brown]

It's like you, you both win last run. No matter what you feel or whatever. Like, how can you not take that opportunity?

[Nelly]

Yeah.

[Mimi Brown]

I love why. If you know it's there, why do anything else first?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Rodney Jerkins told us that last week too, though. He told us that they was going on too.

[DJ Envy]

Yes. So the tour is going to be a 24 city arena tour kicking off in Cincinnati on October 16th. Now, a lot of people, because, you know, it's been since the 90s that people have wanted to see this, but they, they've had their, you know, their ups and downs or so people's thoughts. Right. But they came out and actually talked about it in more detail on CBS this morning. Let's take a listen to Brandi Monaco on their feud.

[Nelly]

Was there A feud back in the day that was either media created or.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Started as nothing and then turned into something.

[Nelly]

It started nothing, though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It started as nothing.

[Joseph Reeves]

It started as nothing. And it really did turn into something.

[Nelly]

Because also the reason that I was so insistent that we communicate directly is that you take all of the peanut gallery out of the conversation. Other people's opinions. Yes. Yes.

[Joseph Reeves]

Because that makes it more difficult. So if there's something to discuss, we discuss it amongst each other and then.

[Nelly]

We say what happens together. And that just eliminates any confusion.

[Joseph Reeves]

There was a lot of confusion and.

[Nelly]

Conflict and there was a lot of people around. So most often the song didn't help either.

[DJ Envy]

We were fighting over a boy and.

[Nelly]

We don't even like the same type of boy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, there was a lot of that.

[Joseph Reeves]

There was a lot of. There could never have been a boy.

[Nelly]

Like, there was a lot of what had happened was right here in 2025.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It is all good between the two of us. Yes, it is. And they was young, man. You know how young they was back then?

[DJ Envy]

17 and 18. They talked about that too. They were 17 and 18 years old.

[Joseph Reeves]

You didn't answer my question. Is Ray J opening up for this tour?

[DJ Envy]

Ray J is not listed on this tour at all.

[Nelly]

Let's not ask him. Cause he will lie and say yes. And then they'd be mad at his ass all over again.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. As of right now, the special guests include Kelly Rowland, Money Long, and American Idol winner Jamal Roberts. No Ray J at this time.

[Nelly]

Yes. Kelly Rowland.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Kelly Rowland. Yes.

[DJ Envy]

Kelly.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes. Kelly's definitely another person that's worth the price of admission. And Ray wouldn't lie. He would just put it on the dead homies.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. But I think everyone is excited for this. So make sure you guys go and and grab your tickets. The presale tickets for the Boy Is Mine Tour start on June 21st, 26th, and then general tickets go on sale on June 26th. Yes, tomorrow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Tomorrow.

[Joseph Reeves]

Yes, tomorrow.

[DJ Envy]

Tomorrow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, you said they're going sale.

[DJ Envy]

Pre sale.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, I thought, like, what is it? I thought the show started tomorrow.

[DJ Envy]

No, pre sale tickets for the Boys mind tour on June 26th starting at 10am and then general tickets go on sale on June 27th. And then. Yeah, they kick it off in Cincinnati and they will end their tour in Houston, Texas. Of course. They're hitting Atlanta. They're coming here to New York. They're gonna be everywhere. That's it. That's all I got.

[Joseph Reeves]

All right, well, that is the latest with Lauren Charlemagne. Who you giving that donkey to?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Man. For after the hour, I'm gonna tell y' all why it is imperative. Okay? It's a matter of life and death in this heat to drink your water and mind your damn business. We'll discuss. There's a man named Michael Crowley who needs to come to the front of the congregation. We'd like to have a word with him, please.

[Joseph Reeves]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Joseph Reeves]

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[Ashanti]

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[Jess Hilarious]

Books take you places through unforgettable love stories and into conversations with characters you'll never forget.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I think any good romance, it gives me this feeling of like butterflies.

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm Danielle Roubaix and this is bookmarked by Reese's Book Club, the new podcast from hello Sunshine and I Heart Podcasts. Every week I sit down with your favorite book lovers, authors, celebrities, book talkers and more to explore the stories that shape us on the page and off. I've been reading every Reese's Book Club pick, deep diving book talk theories and obsessing over book to screen casts for years. And now I get to talk to the people making the magic. So if you've ever fallen in love with a fictional character, or cried at the last chapter, or passed a book to a friend saying you have to read this, this podcast is for you. Listen to Bookmarked by Reese's Book Club on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Joseph Reeves]

Show me how good it can get today, God, and show the rest of the world what we already know it can't get. No better than being Hella Black, Hella Queer and Hella Christian. My name is Joseph Rees. I am the creator and host of Hella Black, Hella Queer, Hella Christian, a fully black, fully queer, fully human, fully divine podcast that explores society, culture and the intersections of faith and identity. Listen to Hella Black hello Queer, hello Christian. To hear conversations about what it means to sound the way you look. I think what I've had to make.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Peace with is that every iteration of.

[Joseph Reeves]

My voice is given to me by God and I love it. Books that validated our identity.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The library now for me is a safe space. As someone who is writing books that they're trying to trying to take off.

[Joseph Reeves]

Of shelves and how we as black queer folks relate to our Christianity. Listen to Hella Black, Hella Queer, Hella Christian on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.

[Mimi Brown]

With the donkey.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's time for Donkey of the Day. A bunch of donkeys around here. Yes, you are a donkey what the hell? Some donkey today's just saw themselves. Oh, man, Charlemagne, who you giving don't get a boot tonight? Well, rob for nine donkey today for Wednesday, June 25th, goes to a 29 year old young man named Michael Crowley. Now listen, yesterday there was a heat wave forecast across much of America, okay? It was record highs everywhere, all right? 100 plus all across the map. I think it was 103 in Chicago, 102 in New York. I think I saw 105 in Pittsburgh, 104 in Columbus, Ohio. Meteorologists, please, just put hell on the forecast, okay? What's the point of showing us the temperature when it's that hot, all right? It's like when a judge gives you 200 years. For what? Just tell me. Life, all right? Just tell me. Forever. And the reason I'm telling you the forecast is because in this heat you really need to drink your water and mind your business, okay? See, we say that as if those two things aren't a matter of life and death, okay? Those two things are survival tactics. When the forecast is that hot, drink water to stay hydrated and mind your business. Because it is a scientific fact that hot temperatures cause people to bug the F out, okay? Increased irritability, anger, aggressive behavior due to a combination of psychological factors, physiological factors, the body's stress response to heat, coupled with discomfort, potential sleep disruption, it makes it harder to regulate emotions and impulses, which makes people prone to snap. This is not hyperbole, okay? This is science, fool. And Michael Crowley is the latest example of that. What are you talking about? Uncle Charlotte. Well, let's go to 11 Alive for the report, please.

[Joseph Reeves]

Right now, a 29 year old man is behind bars accused of killing his.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Uncle over a pastry.

[Joseph Reeves]

So this is the breaking news at 11Alive, first brought to you last Thursday when DeKalb County Police swarmed a home on Loveless Drive in Ellenwood. Now, a new arrest report shows that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Michael Crowley shot his uncle, 48 year.

[Ashanti]

Old Roderick Crowley, because he ate his honey bun.

[Joseph Reeves]

The warrant says that Michael called 911 and told police what he did. When officers got there, they say they found him in the woods nearby and took him into custody, charging him with malice murder. How?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Mental illness, unhealed trauma, the heat and a honey bun that led to Michael Crowley shooting and killing his uncle. Now, I told you about the heat portion of this, but it is men's mental health month, so I have to acknowledge how unhealed trauma can significantly increase the risk of violence. Okay?

[Mimi Brown]

Both.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Both towards you and other people. Okay? See, this man didn't shoot and kill his uncle. Over no damn honey bun. There's something else there that had been building up some type of hurt, some type of trauma that has been unresolved, and that often leads. Leads to behavioral issues, okay? That may manifest as aggressive or violent behavior. I hurt people. Hurt people. I tell you all that all the time. That's why you got to leave people alone, okay? Rest in peace to Roger Crowley. You should not be dead today. Over no damn honey bun. But clearly your nephew had other issues going on that maybe you didn't know about, okay? Or maybe you did. I don't know. Sometimes we see people tripping over something and we say, hey, it's not that serious. A honey bun is definitely not that serious. But whatever issues he's dealing with in his head and in his heart, those issues are okay. That's why I be on y' all about going to therapy. Because as I always say, if you don't deal with your trauma, your trauma gonna deal with you. Now let's talk God's gift to snacks. Honey buns, okay? One of the greatest joys God put here for us to indulge in. Whoever invented the honey bun had a direct line to God, okay? When you hide and you get the munchies and you take that honey bun, warm it up in the microwave for about 25, 32 seconds. My God. Hot. That pastry feels like a hug. Okay? It's the ultimate comfort dessert, and we don't even know what brand it was. Might have been Lil Debbie. Okay? When I was in high school, that Sunbeam Honey bun used to hit. But there is nothing that slaps more than a Duchess Jumbo Glaze Honey Bun. My God. My God. That Duchess Jumbo Glaze Honey bun will make a diabetic Risk it off. But it shouldn't, okay? I hate that I have to come on the radio and tell you young men and women that you should not be taking anybody's life over a damn honey bun. Now, I know as a man, Michael Crowley had some other things going on in his life. I know as a man, Michael Crowley had some mental health issues. There might have been underlying issues between him and the uncle, and Michael just was all the way fed up. But when somebody tells you to calm down, because that's what happened in this situation. Somebody told Michael to calm down and told him to leave the house, and he did. But if you leave a situation, okay, if you go do that, but still come to the conclusion to grab your pistol and come back and shoot somebody four Times. Something's wrong. Okay? You gonna spend the rest of your life in prison over a situation a fist fight could have solved? If you would have swung on him over eating your honey bun, I would understand. Because it's not about the fact he ate your honey bun. It's the principle. Because somebody will do something like that to you, then look at you and say, why are you tripping, bro? It's just a funky ass honey bun. What you mean, a funky ass honey bun? It wasn't a funky ass honey bun when you was eating it. Icing all around your mouth, crumbs in your bed, talking about it's just a funky ass honey bun. If it's just a funky ass honey bun, then give me a kiss and let me taste the glaze on your lips.

[Mimi Brown]

What?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is crazy. Listen, kids. Michael has been charged with malice murder. Okay? Conviction for malice murder carries one of three sentences. Life in prison with the possibility of parole, Life in prison without the possibility of parole and the death penalty. The moral of the story is, a moment of anger can ruin a lifetime of peace. Don't ever let petty choices lead to permanent consequences. If you lose your temper, you may lose everything else with it. Okay? You can't take a bullet back. Okay? Our decision made in the heat of pride or in the heat of 100 degree temperatures all over this country. Please let Remy Ma give Michael Crowley the biggest hee haw.

[Nelly]

Hee haw hee.

[I]

Hawk, you stupid.

[DJ Envy]

Are you dumb?

[Nelly]

That is crazy, though, honey bun.

[Joseph Reeves]

Come on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Crazy.

[Nelly]

Come on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Crazy.

[Joseph Reeves]

It's not right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Crazy like. But ain't no butt. Come on. No, no, no, no. Ain't no. But somebody died. Cut it out. You about to say something stupid. Don't you know. See you all look at you? You want to hear. You want him to jump off, be stupid, knowing he can't help himself instead of just putting the helmet on your little cousin and letting him before he leaves, you know. You know, little red. Riri, silly. Okay. Make sure you got his helmet on. Ain't no butt. Move on.

[Joseph Reeves]

All right, well, let's open up the phone lines. 800-585-1051. Now, Wheezy and Mandy was on the show Decision Decisions the other day.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, they were here. Hold on. They were here promoting their new book, no Holds Barred, a dual manifesto of sexual exploration and power, available everywhere. You buy books now?

[Joseph Reeves]

Yes. And they were talking about being in a relationship you deserve. Can we play the audio?

[Nelly]

And this is gonna sound bad. I do think everyone is with who they deserve.

[DJ Envy]

What do you Mean, if you're with.

[Nelly]

Someone who isn't that great to you.

[DJ Envy]

It'S because you don't believe you deserve better.

[Nelly]

Everyone in certain relationships, I feel like.

[DJ Envy]

They deserve it because it's like if.

[Nelly]

You don't want better for yourself, no one can. No one can lead you out of it. You could take a horse to water, but you can't make them drink. And so I do think that.

[DJ Envy]

What if you're in a bad relationship or not?

[Nelly]

You don't feel like you deserve more.

[DJ Envy]

You're in a relationship you deserve.

[Joseph Reeves]

All right, well, let's discuss 800-585-1051. Let's talk about being in a relationship you deserve.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Do you feel like you're in the relationship you deserve?

[Joseph Reeves]

Let's talk about it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hell of a question.

[Joseph Reeves]

It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. If you're just joining us, we're talking about being in a relationship you deserve. Now this comes out of the conversation of Wheezy and Mandy from Decision Decisions. They were up here promoting a new book that's out right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes. No holds barred. A dual manifesto of sexual exploration and power. It's available everywhere. You buy books now.

[Joseph Reeves]

Let's hear what they said.

[Nelly]

And this is gonna sound bad. I do think everyone is with who they deserve.

[DJ Envy]

What do you mean?

[Nelly]

If you're with someone who isn't that great to you, it's because you don't believe you deserve better. Everyone in certain relationships, I feel like they deserve it because it's like if you don't want better for yourself.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No.

[Nelly]

One can lead you out of it. You could take a horse to water, but you can't make him drink it. And so I do think, what if.

[DJ Envy]

You'Re in a bad relationship or not?

[Nelly]

You don't feel like you deserve more. You're in a relationship you deserve.

[Joseph Reeves]

So we're asking 800-585-1051. Are you in a relationship you deserve? I guess that's the question. Let's start with you, Jess.

[Nelly]

Yes, I am. I'm in a relationship that I deserve.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because you're a hard working woman.

[Nelly]

I am.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You got a hard working Mexican?

[Nelly]

Absolutely.

[Joseph Reeves]

Wow.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Wow.

[Joseph Reeves]

Wow.

[Nelly]

Absolutely. Yes, I have a half marriage Mexican husband. And yes, I feel like he deserves me as I deserve him. So, yes, I'm in, finally in a relationship where I feel like, yes, I deserve to be in Charlemagne.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely. Well, you know what? It's funny Right. Sometimes I feel like I'm not, because I just feel like, you know, she's so much better than me, But I feel like over the years, I've definitely become the man that I should be for her, you know? But that. That took, you know, doing a lot of work on myself, and I think that's what, you know, Mandy was saying to me. That's what I took from it. Like, I think there's a lot of factors that go into people being in bad relationships or being with bad people. But I do understand what. What Mandy was saying. If you don't love yourself, if you have insecurities, you could find yourself in relationships with people who will exploit that. And until you decide you want to be better and deserve better, you probably won't get better. So, you know, I mean, it's. It. It's hard with me and with me and my wife, because me and my wife, it's been together 27 years, so we've been together since we was kids, so I've evolved as a man. But I always felt like I was. I definitely always felt like I was punching above my. My weight class by being with her. But my goal was to always continue to better myself, to be the man that I feel like she deserved.

[Nelly]

Yeah.

[Joseph Reeves]

Yeah. And. And me the same. I've been my wife for 31 years, and I felt the same way, especially early on. I felt like she was so much mature and so much better than me that. That I had insecurities that I had to get through. I didn't know what it was at the time. I wasn't trying to break down what I was dealing with. But as you start evolving and you start growing in life, you realize, damn, I have to work on myself. Which I finally did, you know, years ago. And now I feel like, you know, I'm in a deserving relationship. But before, I felt like she was way over my level.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely. Absolutely.

[Joseph Reeves]

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

[Lauren LaRosa]

This?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, relax, bro.

[Nelly]

Damn. He can say he could be hyped.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They call him just on that pink cocaine early in the morning jazz.

[Nelly]

That's what he's A relationship that he deserves to be in.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I was flipping that real white I was still flipping that real white See who I told you? I know. I know a cocaine voice when I hear it. Damn.

[Nelly]

Slow down, all right?

[Joseph Reeves]

Or answer the question. Sir, we're not talking about. Not talking about what? Your drugs. We're talking about with your lady.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now, listen, I think I'm gonna go back To Cassie, I think season, it was in a relationship that she deserved and that she wanted. And there's nothing wrong with that. We're looking at it like it's something wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with that. Well, I've been in the relationship. I'm sorry. I've been in a relationship. I've been married for 30 years. It's a beautiful relationship and work. We. We fight, we argue. We. We do everything together. But that's. That's the relationship I deserve. But. But another woman might want a more exciting relationship like she had. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. But, you know, I think that's a good example because, you know, from what we have seen, or at least from what we know, because none of us know all the intimate details. You know, Diddy and Cassie had a trauma bond, and it seemed like one of them moved on to get some healing, which was Cassie, and the other kept, you know, indulging in the same behavior that he was when he was with her.

[Joseph Reeves]

We don't. Well, we don't know if she did get to get help or what it is. We just know that it seemed like they were trying to bond.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It. It seemed like. But it seemed like she moved on and got some help. To me. I don't know.

[Joseph Reeves]

I don't know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And by the way, she. She seemed like she did the work on herself and she ended up getting the man that she actually deserves. That's right.

[Joseph Reeves]

Hello?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who's this?

[Nelly]

This is B.

[Joseph Reeves]

Hey, good morning, mama. We're asking, are you in a relationship you deserve?

[Lauren LaRosa]

Good morning.

[DJ Envy]

I don't think people are necessarily in a relationship that they deserve because some people are in relationships that are really bad. They're sexually assaulted, you know, physically, and.

[Joseph Reeves]

No one deserves that.

[DJ Envy]

But I think that we're all in a relationship that we need.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We're either in a relationship that's showing.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Us how we behave, so we're being mirrored, or it's showing us something that needs work in ourselves that allows us to stay in a situation that we don't deserve.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I like that Words matter. So maybe it's not deserved. Maybe it's need. Man, I like that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right. Thank you for calling.

[Joseph Reeves]

Well, thank you. Let's go to another caller.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Hello, who's this? Hello, this is Ryan from Columbus, Ohio. How you doing this morning? Breakfast club. Peace.

[Joseph Reeves]

We're talking about being in relationship you deserve. What's your thoughts?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Look, man, you know, sometimes, you know, she's right to a certain degree. Right. But, man, some half of these dudes will kill these woman for that. You know what I mean? They feel as if, you know, if I can't have you, nobody else can. You know what I mean? Somebody else is coward. So, you know, that's how, you know somebody's just think, yeah, okay.

[Joseph Reeves]

All right. Well, thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I do understand what people are saying. Like, you know, you don't deserve to be in an abusive relationship. But I. Not at all. I do think you can.

[Joseph Reeves]

You.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You meet people where they are a lot of times because you might be there. And that's where I think the trauma. I think we're talking about trauma bonds in a lot of situations. But then it's the flip side, right? When you start doing the work on yourself and, you know, you. You start loving yourself a different way and you start dealing with those insecurities, and you start going on your healing journey. I think you'll meet people on that journey too.

[Nelly]

Yeah. Some people do that when they get in relationships. When they meet each other, they are both very, you know, damaged goods from previous relationships. And then one person may start doing the work, but the other person not. And that's when you're not catching up. You're not. That's right on the same page. And so people. That's how a lot of people outgrow each other as well.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And some people. And some people don't realize that there's something better out there because you're so used to dealing with one person. Yeah, Yeah.

[Joseph Reeves]

A lot of people are comfortable in their situation, and they don't want to try another situation because they don't know if they're going to get worse.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right.

[Nelly]

And a lot of people think that they can change, like, they can help people, too. It's like. Like, say, for instance, if I get with somebody and he's like, really, really damaged, do I give up on him because he is damaged, or is it like, can I help him?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, you try to turn it into a project.

[Nelly]

You know what I mean? Yeah. A lot of people do that.

[Joseph Reeves]

A lot of times that can happen, though. I think that happens with growth.

[Nelly]

I know.

[Joseph Reeves]

And I don't know Charlamagne's situation, but I was so young when I met GI.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I was 16. Me too.

[Joseph Reeves]

You know, So I had a lot.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Of growing to do, you know, and we grew together.

[Joseph Reeves]

Yeah, that's right. We grew together. But. 800-585-1051. Are you in a relationship you deserve? Let's discuss. It's the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning, steady co. It's topic time. Call 800-585-1051 to join into the discussion with the Breakfast Club.

[Joseph Reeves]

Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. If you're just joining us, we're asking, are you in a relationship you deserve? Now, this conversation comes from Mandy and Wheezy. They were here promoting their new book, no Holes Barred, and we're asking, are you in that relationship? Let's listen to the conversation.

[Nelly]

And this is gonna sound bad. I do think everyone is with who they deserve.

[DJ Envy]

What do you mean?

[Nelly]

If you're with someone who isn't that great to you, it's because you don't.

[DJ Envy]

Believe you deserve better.

[Nelly]

Everyone in certain relationships, I feel like they deserve it because it's like if you don't want better for yourself, no one can lead you out of it. You could take a horse to water, but you can't make them drink it. And so I do think that.

[DJ Envy]

What if you're in a bad relationship or not?

[Nelly]

You don't feel like you deserve more. You're in a relationship you deserve.

[Joseph Reeves]

All right, well, let's take some calls. Hello?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who's this? Deedee.

[Joseph Reeves]

Hey, Dee Dee. Are you in a relationship you deserve?

[Nelly]

I'm single right now, so.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You deserve to be single.

[Joseph Reeves]

You deserve to be single right now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, I deserve to be single until I can find somebody to treat me right. R R, come on, let's look in the mirror, too. Are until you are a person that can treat somebody else right. Right.

[Nelly]

I treat everybody right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, Yeah. I hear a little giggling in your voice. I heard you snickering in your voice. You know, you done did a couple guys out here dirty.

[I]

No, guys do women dirty.

[Joseph Reeves]

So it's best to be single.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Now, come on, now. You got to tell the unit. I want you to tell the universe what you want right now. Is it either best to be single or do you want somebody claim it right now? Which one?

[DJ Envy]

I'd rather be single right now. I'm happier.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

All right.

[Nelly]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Forever. Nope. She just told the universe forever. Hello?

[Joseph Reeves]

Who's this?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let us pass.

[Joseph Reeves]

Hey, good morning, Cash. We're asking, do you deserve. Let's talk about your relationship. Are you in a relationship you deserve right now?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, I'm the single friend with all the advice.

[Joseph Reeves]

You said you what?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'm the single friend with all the advice.

[Joseph Reeves]

Oh, you're the single friend. So you're in a relationship you deserve. You deserve to be single.

[Nelly]

I mean, for now, you know, I.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Mean, it was best for everybody that, you know, I continue to grow and.

[Nelly]

Be the better I can be. So I can attract what I need to attract.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And see, now I agree. Now, see, I like awareness and accountability. Because that's what Mandy was saying. That's what you saying. Awareness and accountability. Let's grow, let's evolve, let's do the work on each other so we can attract the person that, you know, reflects that.

[Joseph Reeves]

Yeah. Because, you know, some of the best relationships right now are the people who.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Aren'T willing to do the work. You said some of the best relationships are the people who. What.

[Nelly]

Who are willing to.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who aren't willing to do the work. You know, they.

[Nelly]

They happy with their trauma.

[Joseph Reeves]

You know, they.

[Nelly]

They good, which is why it's a lot going on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. I got homegirls that tell me all the time they're not even dating nobody if they're not in therapy.

[Nelly]

Yeah, exactly. But see, the thing is, I don't even necessarily believe that they. They like the trauma. You know what I mean? They just may not know how to come up out of it. You know, a lot of people don't know how to move past it, and a lot of people don't even know that they're carrying trauma until you show that person that. You know what I mean?

[Joseph Reeves]

All right, well, thank you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I mean, the moral of the story is, I think, you know what, what everybody is saying is true. Like, you know, just. Just. Just do the work on yourself. Yeah. You know, so you can attract, you know, the. The. The healed person that you're looking for, but you're not going to attract a healed person until you. A healed version. A more healed version of yourself anyway. So.

[Nelly]

Yeah, and then I don't think healing is ever done. You know what I mean?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Never.

[Nelly]

Life is going to keep life. And, you know, you run into situations all the time. It's always going to be something to heal from. It's just knowing how to do that and how to properly assess yourself.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right. But. But if, you know, if you want more conversations like that to be sparked, then go pick up Mandy and Weezy's book, no Holds Barred, a dual manifesto of sexual exploration and power. I guarantee you it's a whole bunch of stuff in the book just like that to debate.

[Joseph Reeves]

All right, now we got the latest with Lauren coming up, so don't move.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, damn.

[Nelly]

We ain't even get Lauren in on this. Did she feel like she in a relationship she deserves?

[Joseph Reeves]

She don't know. All right, the latest will learn when we come back it's the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Good morning the Breakfast Club.

[Joseph Reeves]

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[Jess Hilarious]

Books take you places through unforgettable love stories and into conversations with characters you'll never forget.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I think any good romance it gives.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Gives me this feeling of like butterflies.

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm Danielle Robaix and this is bookmarked by Reese's Book Club, the new podcast from hello Sunshine and I Heart Podcasts. Every week I sit down with your favorite book lovers, authors, celebrities, book talkers and more to explore the stories that shape us on the page and off. I've been reading every Reese's Book Club pick, deep diving book talk theories and obsessing over book to screen casts for years. And now I get to talk to the people making the magic. So if you've ever fallen in love with a fictional character or cried at the last chapter or passed a book to a friend saying you have to read this, this podcast is for you. Listen to Bookmarked by Reese's Book Club on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Joseph Reeves]

Show me how good it can get today, God, and show the rest of the world what we already know it can't get. No better than being hella black, Hella queer and hella Christian. My name is Joseph Reeves. I am the creator and host of Hella Black, Hella Queer. Hello Christian, a fully black, fully queer, fully human, fully divine podcast that explores society, culture, and the intersections of faith and identity. Listen to Hella Black, Hella Queer, hello Christian to hear conversations about what it means to sound the way you look.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I think what I've had to make.

[Joseph Reeves]

Peace with is that every iteration of my voice is given to me by God and I love it. Books that validated our identity.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The library now for me is a safe space as someone who is writing books that they're trying to take off.

[Joseph Reeves]

Of shelves and how we as black queer folks relate to our Christianity. Listen to Hella Black, Hella Queer, Hella Christian on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Good morning everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the latest with Lauren.

[Nelly]

Lauren becoming a straight fan.

[Joseph Reeves]

She gets them from somebody that knows somebody.

[DJ Envy]

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

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Ashanti]

On the Breakfast Club.

[DJ Envy]

So Stefan Diggs has our girl Cardi B over in France.

[Nelly]

Girl living like a royal highness, literally in a castle.

[DJ Envy]

Let's take a listen.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This man got me in a castle.

[Joseph Reeves]

I took in a real castle. Why this man got to stand in.

[Lauren LaRosa]

A castle, I wonder.

[Joseph Reeves]

Marie Ant when it was getting old.

[Nelly]

Down here, there's real crocodiles in there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Mind you, I've been told, like every.

[DJ Envy]

Time I go to Europe, I can.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Never go to Visa.

[Nelly]

I Can never go see in England.

[DJ Envy]

He said, you want castle?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I'll give you all the castle. Look how beautiful this man is. So adventurous. He got us in a castle. Like, I can't believe we staying in.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Some place like this.

[DJ Envy]

When she was talking about the alligators, Cardi shows you in her video. The. The mo. I believe that's what it's called outside of the castle, where. Yep. She shows you that and she says, there's real alligators in the castle. It's huge.

[Nelly]

Yes. Like, it's just for them, too.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. For their vacation.

[Joseph Reeves]

Crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Been the white castles in the Bronx before, though. It ain't like she ain't never been in the castle.

[Nelly]

Oh, you're funny.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not like she ain't never been in a castle.

[Joseph Reeves]

This is a different type of castle, sir.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, man.

[Nelly]

Oh, my God, I love that.

[DJ Envy]

Yes. Well, shout out to Cart. I was gonna say shout out to castle. Cardi, Cardi and Stephon Diggs. Now, in other news, wanted to send a congratulations to cam' Ron. So yesterday, cam' Ron posted via his Instagram an announcement that he has inked a $750,000 book deal with Simon and Schuster, one of the big five publishers. I know, Charlamagne, you have a footprint with them as well, too, right?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Black Privilege Publishing. They published all my books, but then I have a book in print over there. Dropping a clues. Bombs for Cameron.

[DJ Envy]

Yes. So he says in his announcement that at the end of this, this could potentially get him to seven figures with this deal. And that at the time, he doesn't have an actual release date for an autobiography, but he is aiming to do something in February of 2026. So he's looking to tell his story through books. So shout out to him.

[Joseph Reeves]

Dope.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

If you can write a rap, you can write a book.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Joseph Reeves]

And the dope thing about Cameron, he has such a history that a lot of people don't know how he started, and his relationship with Mason and Biggie signing him and all the things that he went through, and Rock Rockefeller, so. And then all his personal stuff and how he was a. A. A great basketball player and him and Mace was actually supposed to go to college and they were talking about going to the league at one time. So his history is long and.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And these people be having stories that we don't know anything about. And the thing about a book, a book, you know, allows you to really, really talk, Talk about those intimate details of your life. So I hope it's. I hope it's a memoir that he's.

[DJ Envy]

Right Yeah, I was excited when I saw the announcement for that reason. I felt like he is going to be. He's such a good storyteller that the book is going to be full of that as well too, Too. I love watching those interviews.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So.

[DJ Envy]

And then lastly, I wanted to send another congratulations to some of the people who made the 2025 XXL freshman cover. Now we. I feel like the only two people you guys would know is Jello.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Who is you guys?

[DJ Envy]

Who you know from the XXL Freshman cover? Charlie.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, you talking to us specifically?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I'm talking to you and Envy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, okay. Okay. We gotta say that you talking to millions of people.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, sorry. I be talking like. I'm just talking to y' all in the room. I'm so used to talking to you. To y' all. But yes. So from the XXL Freshman cover. When I looked at it, I was like, man, I want to send a congratulations to everybody, but I feel like Envy and Charlamagne will probably only know Jello Ball and Rayon.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why is Jello on there? Jello got one record.

[Joseph Reeves]

He got two records. He got the record with Gorilla.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right.

[Joseph Reeves]

The one with Glorilla.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The other one came everybody love. But that came.

[Joseph Reeves]

They both came and went.

[Jess Hilarious]

They both came.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That makes you. That gets you on the double XL list.

[Nelly]

I don't know nobody on there either, you know. Okay, 33.

[DJ Envy]

I'm 33 too.

[Nelly]

Oh, jello and Rayvon. They're the only two I know.

[DJ Envy]

I feel like you would know YTB Fat. You would know him by his song.

[Nelly]

Probably.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. Because his song was circulating on Socials. Samara Sin. A lot of people are playing her music right now. Little shimmy. I'm gonna be honest with y' all. There was like four. Four on here where I was like.

[Nelly]

Dang, am I getting hunted, Rugrat?

[DJ Envy]

Who is that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't know any of those people. And I'm fine not knowing. Because the reality is when you end up on those magazine because covers, that should serve as a. That should serve as a place of discovery.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, correct. 100.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

If I. If I'm interested in going to see any.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, there. If I'm being honest, there were people in here that I was like, I don't know these names. Let me hear the songs. And some of the songs I knew because of like, Tick Tock or Instagram, but I didn't know the artists themselves.

[Nelly]

But I thought a lot of times you hear these songs on Tik Tok and you don't even know they're a Whole song until later. Right. But I need to hear what 1900 rugrat got going on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's really the name?

[Joseph Reeves]

Yes, yes.

[DJ Envy]

Do you have one? No, not from. Okay, well, yeah, so I would shout out to them, especially Rayvon. I met him in the. The BET media room.

[Nelly]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

And when I sat down and talked to him, we did an interview. I was so surprised by how big his and friendly his personality is. Like his music is so like battle rap. A lot of times Ray Vaughn been around though.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Right on like y' all age.

[DJ Envy]

I didn't know about him though until all the back and forth and forth with Joey Badass. Or Joey.

[Nelly]

Okay, you can say Joey Badass.

[Joseph Reeves]

That's Joey Badass.

[DJ Envy]

Okay. Yeah. I didn't know about him, honestly, until that back and forth. It made me be like, who is this? And then when we talked to him in the media room, I was like, your personality is so bigger than. Not that nothing's wrong with just rapping, but he has a really big personality. It was great conversation with him.

[Joseph Reeves]

And for people that don't know, he signed the TDE.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah. Ray Vaughan is actually 29. He had the good, the bad and the dollar menu is a great, great product project.

[Nelly]

Yeah, I've been heard of him. Who is laser dim 700? I know that's right.

[DJ Envy]

He someone on the XXL freshman cover.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And I just want you to know 33 is just young in this room. Okay. Cuz this the 1900 rugrat. He's saying ma' am to you. Okay. I just want you to know that Lauren. Okay, he's 22.

[Nelly]

All right. That's what I'm saying. I need his stuff. These names, they got some names on them. For real.

[DJ Envy]

We had some of the songs to play. But we don't got 1900 rugrat though.

[Nelly]

Oh man. What about Little Shimmy? We got a little Shimmy?

[DJ Envy]

No, we have. We have some Rayvon. We got Jello, of course. Samara Sin. We got this stuff before by Rayvon. Yeah, he said he was coming up here. Charlie. He said that you was gonna figure that out for him.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I did, I did. Hit him up and say whenever he ready, pull up because I really like that. The Good, the Bad, the Dollar Menu album.

[Nelly]

And who is Little Chef? Do it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What?

[Nelly]

Oh, that's another one.

[DJ Envy]

You know, when I know you know some of his songs from Social. I'll pay for you when we are finished.

[Joseph Reeves]

We gotta go. That is the latest with Laura. I'm sure Nyla will be putting us up to more of these artists when she comes tomorrow. All right.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Joseph Reeves]

Everybody else, the People's Choice mixes up. Next, it's the Breakfast Club.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

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

[Joseph Reeves]

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[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, indeed. Salute to Nelly and Ashanti. Make sure you watch their show, We Belong Together. Starts on Peacock tomorrow.

[Nelly]

Love that.

[Joseph Reeves]

That's right. And also, you're gonna be out of town this weekend, right?

[Nelly]

I am. I'm gonna be in Virginia Beach Friday and Saturday. We got two shows at the Funny Bone Comedy Club on Friday and then two shows at the Funny Bone Comedy Club on Saturday. So make sure you get your [e-mail] then Arizona, July 12th. I will be there. So get your tickets. I'll be at the Wild Horse Casino and. Yeah, that's it, man. Just get your tickets. Virginia beach is ready to be a hot weekend.

[Joseph Reeves]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Weigh deodorant. When you had just shows, man. No, for real. It'd be hot. I'm telling you. People be mucky.

[Nelly]

It's not hot in the venue.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo, I don't think that deodorant, and I mean this sincerely, I don't know if deodorants have changed their formula over the years. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Because some, like, things are different. People's bodies are different. Climate change got the heat a little different. Some of the. Some of the way people be smelling sometimes.

[Nelly]

I know, the body odors. It's crazy.

[Mimi Brown]

Yes.

[Nelly]

And the underarms don't even smell like regular underarms no more.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Nelly]

It's different. Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Jesus.

[Joseph Reeves]

Where the hell are y' all at where these people smell like this?

[Nelly]

I don't know. I don't know where Charlemagne be at, because he'll need to be outside. So I don't even know how he's smelling these people.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, dang, he smell hot. She smell hot.

[Joseph Reeves]

He smell hot. All right, well, when we come back, we got the positive notice. The Breakfast Club. Good morning, everybody. Is DJ Envy. Just Hilarious Charlemagne, the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. And salute to everybody that's been supporting the car shows. You know, we're doing one in Virginia, Hampton, Virginia, July 19th and then August 16th in New Jersey. I mean, we sold thousands of tickets. I want to say thank you so much. If you haven't got your ticket, it will sell out. So get your ticket. Kids 5 and under are free. So if you want a safe event and fun event for the kids, but something that you can enjoy as adults, make sure you check out my car show, whether it's in Hampton, Virginia or the Meadowlands Expo center in New Jersey. I appreciate you guys. Guys, kids five and under are free, so just bring the kids. All right. Now, Charlotte, you got a positive note.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I do, man. You know, we've been having all these conversations about, you know, what you deserve this morning. The reality is, in the end, you do get what you deserve. Okay. The amount of effort you put in determines the amount of joy that you will receive. Have a blessed day. Breakfast Club.

[Ashanti]

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[Jess Hilarious]

Books take you places through unforgettable love stories and into conversations with characters you'll never forget.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I think any good romance, it gives me this feeling of like butterflies.

[Jess Hilarious]

I'm Danielle Robaix and this is bookmarked by Reese's Book Club, the new podcast from hello Sunshine and I Heart Podcast where we dive into the stories that shape us on the page and off. Each week I'm joined by authors, celebs, book talk, stars and more. For conversations that will make you laugh, cry and add way too many books to your TBR pile, listen to bookmarked by Reese's Book Club on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Joseph Reeves]

Show me how good it can get today, God, and show the rest of the world what we already know it can't get. No better than being hella black, hella queer, and hella Christian. My name is Jose Joseph Reeves. I am the creator and host of Hella Black, Hella Queer, Hella Christian, a fully black, fully queer, fully human, fully divine podcast. From iHeartMedia to Hella Black, Hella Queer, Hella Christian on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. I think everything that might have dropped.

[Mimi Brown]

In 95 has been labeled the golden years of hip hop.

[DJ Envy]

It's Black Music Month, and We need to Talk is tapping in. I'm Naila Simone. Breaking down lyrics, amplifying voices, and digging.

[Jess Hilarious]

Into the culture that shapes the soundtrack of our lives.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Like, that's what's really important and that's.

[Mimi Brown]

What stands out, is that our music.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Changes people's lives for the better.

[DJ Envy]

Let's talk about the music that moves us to hear this and more on how music and culture collide. Listen to we need the Talk from.

[Jess Hilarious]

The Black Effect Podcast Network on the.

[DJ Envy]

Iheartradio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. This is an iHeart podcast.